On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 02:00:26PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2008-12-29 20:28:45 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I use Konqueror instead of Iceweasel whenever I can because of the memory
I wouldn't use konqueror or anything using KDE libs. To a less extent,
ditto for some GNOME
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 01:28:47PM +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote:
I am simpler user on laptop, with ssh server running. Ther is no
important data on my laptop!!!
Curious. Why any server running on a laptop? Do you limit the ssh to
rsa/dsa or do you allow passwords? IOW, how have you
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:15:13AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Wed December 31 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Since iceweasel went with GTK-2.0 (along with other gtk apps), the
memory hogging difference between GTK and KDE has pretty much gone out
the window. ?Then when you add
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:44:32AM -0800, Ken Teague wrote:
Most memory leaks in Firefox are due to faulty code in add-ons. I had
this problem a while back, sometimes due to Firefox, other times due to
add-ons. The link you provided was one I referenced while having these
problems and,
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 03:21:02PM -0800, Ken Teague wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
The only add-ons I have are from debian packages. Even without addons I
get memory leaks.
Report the bug. These things don't get fixed until they're addressed.
Well, there are already many memory
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 06:22:29PM -0600, lostson wrote:
On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 01:13 +0100, Frank Lanitz wrote:
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:41:49 -0500
Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote:
Note also that the description of iceweasel is that it is lightweight.
Well, I think this can
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 07:25:25PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second was
added. While X has flaked in the past, I've never had a hard crash
before. I have no other evidence they were related, but I wasn't doing
anything unusual at
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 09:35:40PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2008-12-27 11:02:41 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
True enough. But, sometimes, throwing h/w at an issue does actually
solve (or, at least, hide) the problem. :)
I use several very different machines, such as a personal
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 02:17:34AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/25/08 01:47, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
Also, what other file systems should I use?
Do you need a filesystem at all? What about just writing a tarball to
the drive? Can other OS's tar read in from a raw device? This saves
On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 07:48:15PM -0500, raman narasimhan wrote:
me and a friend of mine had installed debian etch together. i configured my
Internet while installing itself but my friend didn't. both of us have ADSL
broadband connections. i'm now able to browse the net freely but his net
On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 03:23:17PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
Until now, I used latex2html to create html from latex/lyx,
but recently, with the last release ot texlive I tried it but image are not
generated
and we know that developpement latex2html is stopped since 2002, so I need
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 08:28:43PM +0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote:
Dear all
Anyone has an idea what is the release cycle for Debian? I understand
six months is the standard for Ubuntu.
When its ready. Generally every couple of years or so.
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 06:53:20PM +0800, rjubio wrote:
Hi I was wondering if anyone had ever tried traffic shaping in linux? My
boss wants me to use FREEBSD to implement traffic shaping on our network
but I really want to stick on using linux in every machine.
So if anyone know how to do
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:37:34AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 01:10:04PM +0200, Volkan YAZICI wrote:
Are there any compression tools in the official Debian GNU/Linux
repositories that can take the benefit of multiple cores/cpus?
Could you please giva a usage
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:10:27AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
I have an old machine without a working hard disk that I'd like to use
to connect to my main machine and run X.
I believe that I could boot off of knoppix, but is there something
easier I could do with the stuff already on my main
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 01:11:05AM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes:
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes:
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes:
Unbelievable but true!! It seems to work.
Now I tried to `cat' a file with no audio in
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:30:44AM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote:
I have some computers running Debian. It's more than 3. And it's
consume my time, if I have to run
# apt-get update
then
# apt-get upgrade
manually, if there's new patch/update. Is it possible that I run this
on command with
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:57:53PM +0800, rjubio wrote:
I have two ethernet interface in my machine but only one is detected
everytime I load my machine. What could be the cause of this?
Tell us more.
Are they both built-in i.e. use the same hardware, or are they
different? Give us the
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:23:37AM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
* John Hasler jhas...@debian.org [2008 Dec 20 08:07 -0600]:
Those calls were not automated. They were just ordinary con men working
over the phone. Each call used up the con man's time so it had to be
carefully targetted so
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 09:03:33PM -0800, paulalt (via Nabble) wrote:
I'd like to set up Debian (etch) --my VPS (no GUI)-- as a client for X11. My
server is X-Win32 on Vista.
X-Win32 configuration gives me an error when I try to connect:
starnetssh 809 SSH2 key exchange complete.
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:11:01AM -0600, lostson wrote:
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 14:05 +, Sam Kuper wrote:
2008/12/20 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br:
lostson wrote:
Hello
I have perused the docs for exim but cannot seem to find the exim for
dummies section. I want
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 04:05:25PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote:
I want to install debian from usb pen install of CD1.
Is it possible to put the CD1 ( the iso image par exemple ) on the USB pen,
I suppose that usb is bootable. The problem may occur in the path, since
from the cd, the
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:17:20AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Sat December 20 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
Without that explanation, which I knew already, could we safely assume
you live in a church, Ron? ?;-)
Maybe it's because I haven't had my coffee yet, but I don't
understand
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:14:06PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:15:11AM -0800, Rob Starling
debian-u...@robstarling.org was heard to say:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:11:10AM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
By disabling auto-installation in step (a), you avoid that:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 02:36:45PM +0800, rjubio wrote:
How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd?
You could use hdparm testing to get the unbuffered speed and then do the
math.
It also depends if you're doing anything with the other drive on that
IDE channel. I.e. dd from one to the
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:53:44PM +0800, rjubio wrote:
Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2008-12-19 07:36 +0100, rjubio wrote:
How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd?
Not long ago I zeroed out the disk of my old machine because I wanted to
sell it, and that took 80 GB /(53 MiB/s) =
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 04:01:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/19/08 13:09, Nate Duehr wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/17/08 19:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
No, these actually are large systems. A combination of Z/OS
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 01:25:28PM +1100, CaT wrote:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:15:11PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Hmmm. I have a distinct urge to call this 'phlegm'. ;)
Only if the programming was done by hackers.
Doug.
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:09:24PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/17/08 19:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
As far as I know, Debian doesn't have an installer feature like
OpenBSD's where you can boot
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:33:06AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/17/08 22:51, Carl Johnson wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca writes:
I'm not getting after you about this, because I still don't know the
best way to handle this. Most dependencies are a single item, so this
isn't
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 05:16:21PM -0500, Norman Bird wrote:
I'm looking for recommendations that are simply that will allow me to back
up the image of my Debian Etch box. I will store on windows box connected
via samba. i just want to be able to create the image, store on external HD
on
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/17/08 19:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
As far as I know, Debian doesn't have an installer feature like
OpenBSD's where you can boot the installer, set up the disk partitions,
and run restore right from there (from tape
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:50:47PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/17/08 16:40, Ken Teague wrote:
Since Blu-ray burners and media has come down in price (burners are as
low as $150 and media is down to $8 for 25GB media and $13 for 50GB
(dual layer) media), would it be possible for the Debian
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:11:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/16/08 10:38, raghu prabhudeva wrote:
Hi,
Could any one tell me how to create and install debian linux on a
logical partition and boot from there.
Isn't the ability to choose the partition(s) to install to already
part
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 09:31:25AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
If you can't get the thumb drive to work, as for how to get the data
off, try setting up networking. I guess that's what you mean by using
the e-net cable. Its doesn't
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 07:32:43PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:26:37PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote:
I am trying to use an old Thinkpad 309e. (PII, 128M memory). Etch runs
fine (if slow) but I am using it as sound production
(recording/playback) machine
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 09:45:57AM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:11:56PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
Is there any way to install cups without introducing any of the X11
libraries?
I am trying to set this up on a headless box that doesn't have
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:26:37PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote:
I am trying to use an old Thinkpad 309e. (PII, 128M memory). Etch runs
fine (if slow) but I am using it as sound production
(recording/playback) machine.
Only problem is that I can't get the files OFF the laptop to
mix/edit/burn
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 07:10:52AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/11/08 02:02, Adrian Chapela wrote:
Ron Johnson escribi?:
On 12/10/08 20:09, kj wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Large systems (meaning mainframes and traditional minicomputers
running legacy OSs) are never dedicated. They run
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06:26PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
I have encrypted three of the LVs: home, swap and tmp. Home has a LUKS
passphrase. The other two have random keys.
You may want to consider encrypting /var/tmp, depending on what
applications you use and where they may put stuff.
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06:26PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
Have you submitted an installation report as per the installation manual
and subscribed to debian-boot? The debian-boot people wrote the
installer and should know what's up.
No, I have not. Perhaps I should report not only
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:55:25PM +0800, Rod James Bio wrote:
Well that's a problem. I am using a Mac X server that doesnt have a VGA
behind it. What I tried though was to unmount the harddisk manually and
mount it on another X server that I have. I know that a lock file of some
sort has to
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:01:08PM +0800, rjubio wrote:
I found a file in the /etc partition called nologin. I just removed it.
Voila! I got connected.
The root problem really isn't solved. Who put the nologin file that
said powerfail (or whatever) there in the first place? What was its
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:33:09PM -0500, Mag Gam wrote:
At my university we have 10 servers. Each server has 8 cores with 32
GIG of memory running Debian 4.0. We have to give these servers to a
different department, and our Dean would like to consiladate 10
servers into 5 servers. The new
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:11:56PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
Is there any way to install cups without introducing any of the X11
libraries?
I am trying to set this up on a headless box that doesn't have the
resources available for needlessly running X11.
If you have a resource-limited
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:56:06PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
For mv, cp, ln, et. al the path to put the result is determined by the last
argument. It's consistent because it's UNIX.
Well, FWIW 'man ln' tells:
ln [OPTION]... [-T] TARGET
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:40:22PM +0100, Christopher Zimmermann wrote:
On my debian box using linux kernel its not possible to give away files:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% touch foo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% chown otheruser foo
chown: changing ownership of `foo': Operation not permitted
only root
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:14:37PM -0600, lee wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:30:02PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:52:03 lee wrote:
If you can find enough people with the same problems and co-ordinate, you
might be able to reduce the amount of
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 09:25:46PM -0600, Brendan West wrote:
I am needing to find out if there is a default firewall on Etch and
how to control it (change settings, allow ports, programs, ect.). How
can I do this? Thanks for any ideas.
The kernel does the firewalling, and its configuration
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:10:29AM +, Magnus Therning wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:26:31PM +, Magnus Therning wrote:
I wonder about the latest comment on this thread. Examine why you don't
want the secret key on the build server and why you would feel
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 01:03:52AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
I'm trying to do some kernel development remotely which requires reboots and
the occasional kernel panic on start which is very annoying since then I need
to
wait a few days until I get to the computer or someone knowledged enough
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 08:33:27PM +1300, Fred Zinsli wrote:
Hello everyone
I am a real newby to linux, not just debian.
I have an old compaq 6500 with 2 fibre channel arrays insalled.
I have installed deb 4.0R5 on the server.
When I do a lspci the 2 adapters appear on the list of
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 06:23:19PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 10:50:23PM +, T o n g [EMAIL PROTECTED] was
heard to say:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:01:59 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep dvd /etc/fstab
/dev/dvd /media/dvd
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:19:33PM -0200, Patricio Inzaghi wrote:
Is there any possibility of restore the partition? or i have to focus
in data recovering?
I'd just use my backups, that I made just prior to fitzing with my
disks.
Sorry.
Doug.
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On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:26:31PM +, Magnus Therning wrote:
At work I want to add signing to our automatic build system. In
theory it's a simple application of `gpg` at the end of building to
get a detached signature would do, but I'm weary of sticking the
secret key on the build
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 02:36:59PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Friday 05 December 2008, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re:
software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?':
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:40:21PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote:
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 07:10:44PM
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 07:38:47AM +1300, Fred Zinsli wrote:
Current information tells me that support for this card stopped after
either kernel 2.4 or 2.2
I hate it when linux does that.
Looks like I may have to roll my entire install back to a really old
version of deb or simply
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:24:37PM -0700, TW wrote:
Please post the output of 'ls -la'.
-rw--- 1 user user0 2008-11-30 11:32
[snip]
My system doesn't have a username (or a group name) user.
Check your /etc/passwd for such a username.
Doug.
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On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 07:35:48PM +1300, John Batistic wrote:
Following a Sid re-install to a sata drive, Debian does not recognise the XP
pata drive.
Mobo: ASUS P5K SE
Dual boot: gldr on XP
Kernel : 2.6.26-1-686
The previous install was LVM and both drives were recognised. This
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:53:28AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 09:41, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 09:11:11PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 00:36, lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I turn it off? I don't want anything
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To:
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Re: encrypted fs, ensure pw correct
to continue boot?
Date:
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:17:22 -0500
Doug,
I sent this to the list, but I don't see it coming through. I seem to
have issues
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 08:30:01AM -0700, Rick Morneau wrote:
I live in a rural area and have a dialup connection, so it's
not practical for me to download the weekly iso files for
testing. Does anyone know where I can buy a reasonably
recent copy on DVDs? From that point on I can upgrade
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 07:15:53PM -0800, mond wrote:
I have a tiny problem about my debian/sid. When I boot my debian, it
hangs at activating swapfile swap ...done.
Here is what I get from the screen:
Mounting local filesystems ... done
Activating swapfile swap .. done
It just hangs
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:05:00AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Tue,25.Nov.08, 19:54:30, Tom Allison wrote:
Do they *need* to be on the same network?
They don't need to be on the same network, but I only have one for
now.
It's better and simpler to have separate networks for
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:47:36AM -0800, Phillipus Gunawan wrote:
well well well
it works...
then, how can i use 10.1.1.4 for DNS as well?
putting:
DNS/ACCEPT ALL ALLon rules didnt have any effect, cant resolve DNS
is there anyway i can make the debian for local DNS resolver?
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 01:42:04PM -0600, lee wrote:
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:15:41AM -0800, Neil Gunton wrote:
an Adaptec zero channel SmartRaid V card (the drive appears as
/dev/i2o/hda1, so it's using the i2o_block driver).
Begin: Waiting for root file system...
It just hangs
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:54:05PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote:
I lost the password for my router ages ago. As I will move in the
foreseeable future, I need to reconfigure it. Now, I could be boring
and just replace the password/the OS, but I thougt I would try
something a little more fun.
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 05:38:40PM -0600, lee wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:30:03PM +, T o n g wrote:
$ grep dvd /etc/fstab
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
and moreover, I mounted /mnt/dvd as myself, not root.
What could be wrong?
There seems to be a
Hello all,
I have encrypted partitions on my new box (/home, swap, (tmp on tmpfs),
/var/local, /var/tmp). The cryptsetup initscripts prompt for the
passphrase during boot. If you type the wrong passphrase, it says that
it didn't work but the boot continues anyway.
I'd like the boot to stop
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 06:10:34PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote:
Celejar wrote:
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:45:28 -0600
Mark Allums [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Feasibility-wise, it's really anybody's guess whether information can
remain hidden. I see no reason to use steganographic techniques, except
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 06:58:31PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Manuel Gomez:
Hi, i would like to maintain encrypt an archive in all moment, so i
would like to know what software can be this.
You cannot work with encrypted data without decrypting it.
Now i am using Truecrypt, but when
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:09:49PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Tue November 25 2008, Jussi Nurminen wrote:
Now, I thought consolekit was supposed to resolve this by letting hal
know about the active session, but apparently it still does not work.
Is everybody else having the same
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 09:03:59AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Manuel Gomez wrote:
2008/11/25 Manuel Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, i would like to know a tool or software to erase the
cache, clean
the registry...
I am thinking in clean Linux, i don't know how its
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:23:38PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Tue November 25 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Just don't do the auto mount thing. ?Do it the old fashioned way with an
entry in fstab for the device in question and the 'user' option. ?Then
you plug in the stick, open
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:32:07PM -0600, lee wrote:
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:47:23PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 08:04:22PM -0600, lee wrote:
how do I configure lynx to display or to have an option to display
gziped files (like README.Debian.gz) instead
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:33:03PM +0100, mess-mate wrote:
Jeff Soules wrote:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:11 AM, Jochen Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
aptitude is the preferred package manager since sarge.
Preferred by whom, for what reason?
Preferred by whoever authorized the
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:35:56PM +0100, Manuel Gomez wrote:
El lun, 24-11-2008 a las 09:32 -0600, Ron Johnson escribi??:
On 11/24/08 09:25, Manuel Gomez wrote:
I am searching a joiner for Linux. I need to join an document with
another archive, and i want can open the document without
post.
And PLEASE, the respect to the others is essential.
El lun, 24-11-2008 a las 10:44 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??:
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:35:56PM +0100, Manuel Gomez wrote:
El lun, 24-11-2008 a las 09:32 -0600, Ron Johnson escribi??:
On 11/24/08 09:25, Manuel Gomez wrote
hello all,
My P-II wont boot all of a sudden.
I've been in the middle of setting it up. Fresh install, updating,
upgrading packages, etc.
I probably wasn't careful enough to reboot after every little change so
I can't pinpoint when the problem started in relation to what I was
doing, just that
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 02:12:53PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
The problem is in the /etc/rcS.d/S10checkroot.sh script, it gets an
error when it goes to remount the / fs rw (after the filesystem is
declared clean).
Cannot change data mode or remount
mount / not mounted already or bad
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 08:04:22PM -0600, lee wrote:
how do I configure lynx to display or to have an option to display
gziped files (like README.Debian.gz) instead of only offering to
download them?
I'm not sure how you set it _not_ to. I just right-arrow over the link
and read them.
Sorry
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:19:58PM -0700, Jesse Taylor wrote:
I have been trying to convert over to Debian for some time now but I
have a few issues that I cannot fix by myself. I am using Etch and
have used Sarge but I cannot get online media to play. everything is
set up for mediaplayer or a
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 04:00:18AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/20/08 23:13, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
[snip]
I don't have javascript enabled on my normal user account's browsers
(Konq or Iceweasel) yet the advanced search page works just fine. (I
have a separate user for use
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:13:09PM +0100, Arnau wrote:
Yesterday I went to the data center where our servers are hosted.
There I tried to upgrade the kernel of one of our servers. It's a Dell
Poweredge 1950 running a 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem installed via aptitude, no
manual compilation. I
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 03:53:13PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote:
Later I discovered that I could open my user and root from a virtual
terminal. So to test my suspicion I opened root in F1, went back to F7
and entered my user ID and password and immediately went back to F1.
There I opened top.
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 09:24:34PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote:
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If he is wanting to try something other than Debian, OpenBSD will take
far fewer resources (leaving more for his applications) (based on my
experience
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:28:49PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:22:06PM EST, Michael Marsh wrote:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Used to be true of google in general.
Their advanced search page is now regrettably using stuff,
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:13:13PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:20, Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've absolutely no idea what you are trying to do here or why. I'm a little
curious about that.
I want to assign all hosts a unique id that is consistent
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:24:02AM -0600, lee wrote:
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:39:10PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote:
Maybe I even come to like to aptitude if I can figure it out.
If you can't figure it out, that doesn't mean it sucks.
That you can figure it out doesn't mean that it
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:22:48AM +0200, Ashour Malaeb wrote:
I have a HP Proliant ML150 G5 Server. I installed debian server on it but
the debian could not recognize the network card. I was trying to install
it
manually but the problem is that the package in the CD is .src.rpm so I
was
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:46:43PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Its an HP NetServer LPr, Dual P-II 450 MHz, 256 MB ram, 2x9GB SCSI drive
2U server. Its basically $60 CDN (plus tax) and I can drive to pick it
up (no shipping cost). They have 4 available. If there's a chance it
would work
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 04:43:15PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Only old geezers know about floppies nowadays, so not only old geezer
but a lucky one at that.
Geezers have floppies
Young bucks have sticks.
Or,
Young bucks have SAS
Geezers are SCSI.
:)
Doug.
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On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:36:30PM -0600, lee wrote:
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:42:52AM -0700, ghe wrote:
At the time of my misadventure, I was still expecting sda to be the
lowest ID on the lowest SCSI bus -- there were no SATAs at the time, not
around here anyway.
That is what I
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:59:43PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
For about ten years I've been writing my own firewall directives and
today I started setting up a new firewall box. For the past year I've
been using ipcop, but they have some characteristics that I didn't care for.
after this I
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:25:09PM +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam wrote:
hi,
the following are the file names which i downloaded from the debian website.
debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-1.iso
debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-2.iso
debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-3.iso
debian-update-4.0r5-amd64-DVD-1.iso
Did you read the
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 08:54:22AM +0800, ze phyr wrote:
A rouge script created many directories with a file name
you.cant.delete..\(the quote marks are not part of the file name).
Now, I can delete them under pure DOS first by using dir /x to
identify them, and then using rd to
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:48:03AM +0100, Jesus arteche wrote:
I have a problem, i decided to try kubunto 8.10 yesterday...i made it
right in a pc with 2 hd sata...in the installation procces apeared a
question something like if i want to recognaize raid...i answered
yes...cause i'm
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:11:23AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/14/08 06:46, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:27PM +0100, Fran?ois Cerbelle wrote:
[snip]
You should try bc. I'm sure that you can type in everything you can type
in your GUI based calculator.
You can use
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:29:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
[snip]
If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package.
[Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug...
This is the 21st Century. Only
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:23:16PM +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam wrote:
i've downloaded four debian iso installers from debian http website, and
wrote them in four dvd's. however, the installation got completed with the
first dvd itself, and i couldn't install the softwares which are written in
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