Re: Running fsck automatically on boot

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 12:37:08PM -0800, Sergio Padrino wrote: Hi! I have Debian Unstable and sometimes there are some (typical) errors in my partitions: /dev/sda7: Superblock last mount time is in the future /dev/sda7: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY and I was

Re: weird networking issue on lenny!

2009-11-11 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Zachary Uram net...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! I just did fresh install of lenny, I have a DSL modem and run a static IP setup so I manually set up my route (DHCP was enabled by default) by killing the dhclient process and then setting up /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/network/interfaces

Re: deadkeys with openoffice

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Tony Baldwin photodha...@gmail.com wrote: green wrote: Please reply to the list! doh...I hate this list sometimes. Why can't it function normally, like every other list on the gods' green earth? /tony It does. You just need a proper MUA. -- http://fuzzydev.org/~pobega

Re: dependency problem

2009-10-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, graham gra...@theseamans.net wrote: [...] libhdf4-alt-dev: Depends: libhdf4-0-alt (= 4.2r4-6) but 4.2r4-5 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). [...] The first thing to do would be to try a dist-upgrade. If that

Re: NFS or SSHFS?

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Israel Garcia igalva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, Do you know pros and cons of using SSHFS instead NFS to share a lot of debian folders? I know NFS is proven and has good performance with a lot of shares and intensive use. BUT I don't know if SSHFS have been proven to work under this

Re: need help with awk

2009-10-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Guillaume CHARDIN guillaume.char...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, In a backup process of some xen virtual machine, i need to extract in the config file some informations (in fact the disk line) . The line look like this : disk = [ file:/path/to/file,sda1,w ] my goal is to isolate

Re: xorg still locking up for me on testing

2009-09-29 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Frank debianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I had high hopes this morning when xorg-xserver-video-intel got updated but no such luck. Since then my machine has locked up tight (alt-sysreq tight) about 5 times. [...] What kernel are you running? I remember reading that on Intel video cards

Re: dhclient DHCPREQUEST loop

2009-09-29 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Jerome BENOIT jgmben...@mailsnare.net wrote: Hello List, on my Lenny box, the message dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to n.n.n.n port 67 is printed continuously on the syslog file. [...] Thanks in advance, Jerome I get this problem on some networks; it seems to me that some

Re: Can't boot custom compiled 2.6.30 amd64 kernel

2009-09-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Andrew Perrin cli...@perrin.socsci.unc.edu wrote: kernel panic: no init found. Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0). Have you tried actually building an initrd? I always get a problem mounting root until I build my initrd. (man mkinitramfs, or just `mkinitramfs -o

Re: how to generate random negative numbers

2009-08-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Soren Orel soren.o...@gmail.com wrote: I know I could generate numbers like: 0; 1; 2 with: $[ ( $RANDOM % 3 ) + 0 ] But how could I generate numbers like: 0; 1; 2; -1; -2; etc? So negative+positive numbers too + zero thank you echo $[ ($RANDOM % 5 ) -2 ] That would

Re: Building Arora deb

2009-07-31 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Patrick Wiseman pwise...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Sven Joachimsvenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2009-07-30 23:41 +0200, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I just downloaded the source for Arora (a webkit-based browser) because the version available to me through aptitude

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-28 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Javier Barroso javibarr...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Tim Beauregardtim.beaureg...@sky.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently re-subscribed having been off for about four years.  The changes I have noticed are: 1. Much less

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-28 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote: If it's any consolation, I'm a newbie and I actually chose Debian as my first real Linux install even though I heard it was tougher for newbies to learn.� To me it represented one of the purest distros of Linux and I don't mind putting in the

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-28 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote: Good point, maybe I'm in the minority of Debian users as I'm not a programmer.  Anywho, I'm just trying to make the Linux desktop environment as comfortable for my friends as possible, and they've already used my Clearlooks desktop so I try and keep their

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, SteveM newsdeb...@jetcity.org wrote: Fellow Debians, I have seven systems scattered around the house. I thought a NFS and a shared /home would solve my file sharing problems but it doesn't help with desktop app configs. What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Experience, i.e. same

Re: Reinstall packages

2009-07-13 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Tzafrir Cohen tzaf...@cohens.org.il wrote: On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Thomas Kenyon wrote: I am in the process of recovering from having a very damaged filesystem. Is there a method using either dpkg or apt/aptitude to get packages to refresh their files? The

Re: How to improve performance on laptop?

2009-06-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On 0, Michael Yang michael@gmail.com wrote: Hi, [...] fine, although some problems happened and got fixed. (Now is Lenny, 2.6.24, Xfce4). The system has been very stable, but just with performance issues now. The time to start the system is OK (usually about 22secs in

Re: updated Testing and Ekiga segfaults

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:32:25AM -0400, H.S. wrote: Hello, I did an upgdate of my Debian Testing machine earlier today and now when I start Ekiga, it segfaults. The debugging info from Ekiga is: [... $ ekiga -d4 ...] This is on Ekiga version 2.0.12-1+nmu1+b1. Anybody have any idea

Re: Laptop woes - Black background is now pure red.

2009-05-08 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 03:21:18PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote: This happened over the last couple of days. on a laptop that spends all its time on a desk .. didn't drop it, spill fluids or anything. [...] To clarify, I have uploaded a few screenshots at: www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fckw/

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 07:42:36AM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: 2009/5/6 Michael Pobega pob...@fuzzydev.org: On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) Eee PC 901 :D 8.9 screen, 2.1 lbs weight

Re: Wine and itunes

2009-05-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:56:15AM -0400, Christopher Judd wrote: Hi, My son is fed up with Windows and wants to purge it from his system, and run ubuntu or debian. The only thing holding him back at this time is itunes. Like most teenagers, he uses it regularly and has a rather

Re: [OT] netbook recommendation

2009-05-05 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:39:06PM +0200, Leonardo Canducci wrote: 1. cheap, light and small, otherwise no use for a netbook :) Eee PC 901 :D 8.9 screen, 2.1 lbs weight 2. linux friendly I'm running Debian Squeeze on mine right now 3. usable (decent keyboard, 9 screen minimum)

Re: Backing Up CMOS Settings Under Linux

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 03:19:50PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I first thought it was my imagination, but I have had two Dell Dimension computers change their boot drive order. I don't know when it happens because they change to boot the hard drive just after trying the floppy such that the

Re: kernel-package??

2009-04-30 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 09:24:43AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: I'm looking to start using my own custom kernels for various reasons. At this point I'm just researching the various options or ways in going about this and in the process installed kernel-package. I learned the hard way a

Re: Getting the ATL2 kernel module to work with Xen

2009-04-27 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 08:27:04AM +0200, Jeroen Steenbeeke wrote: Yup, that did it! Booted with the regular 2.6.26-2-amd64 kernel, did m-a a-i -l 2.6.26-2-xen-amd64 atl2-source, and then rebooted with the amd64 kernel - and the network worked! Thanks a lot! - Jeroen No problem, glad it

Re: Getting the ATL2 kernel module to work with Xen

2009-04-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:50:05PM +0200, Jeroen Steenbeeke wrote: Hey everyone, I am having some problems with my server setup, and I'm starting to go crazy trying to figure this out. I want to use my computer to host a couple of Xen guests, but no matter what I do, I keep running into

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-25 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 01:12:35PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Check out the FreeBSD handbook at:  http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ It is also available as a pdf which is 1000 pages!  It doesn't cover everything, but it does cover a lot.  They also have other books

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-23 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 07:43:55AM -0400, machiner wrote: I thought I asked you a question. There's no reason to be rude. All we're saying is that instead of running your own site, why not contribute to a pre-existing site? I'm personally hoping that one day I can say that Debian's Wiki

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 05:45:43PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,21.Apr.09, 08:58:13, machiner wrote: Recently I set up a blog for a couple site members and one older fellow in particular is going gang-busters! I would like to expand the site to include any of you that can muster

Re: Is it secure to use testing/backport repos for production server?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:39:25AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20090416152722.ga23...@greedo, Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:50:46PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Is it secure to use testing/backport repos for production server? Realistically, the most 'secure' choice

Re: Is it secure to use testing/backport repos for production server?

2009-04-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:50:46PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. Is it secure to use testing/backport repos for production server? Thank You for Your time. It's really your choice. Backports is probably a lot safer than testing, but personally I haven't had a real problem in my two

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-15 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:28:26AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:59:52AM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: MTAs, afaik, are useful for multiuser systems and/or systems that actually handle mail. (Most (i should say 'most' otherwise some nitpick will say But i do!))

Re: how can i turn /dev/null into an MTA?

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:26:17AM +0200, Dirk wrote: (see subject) i don't want an MTA running on a system... but many programs require it as dependency to spam me with their stuff (which should belong into just a log file (IMO))... Dirk Install nullmailer, I'm pretty sure that's

Re: Can you recommend a game in etch?

2009-04-03 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:38:55AM +0800, Long Wind wrote: I like simple action games Below are the kind of games I like: lbreakout2 tetris wolf3d for DOS from 3drealms raptor for DOS from 3drealms top-down shooters: rrotage torus-trooper gunroar (my favorite) tumiki-fighters first

Re: media player with NFS cacheing?

2009-03-31 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:09:27PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Is there a media player out there that is NFS-aware, and can be configured to cache an entire media file locally before playing? She's running KDE on her desktop but a gnome app would do as well so long as it's easy enough for a

Re: how make my laptop beep when low battery?

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 04:52:52AM -0700, paragasu wrote: i am using openbox , btw, how to do it in KDE? maybe the same can be done on openbox? I know a guy who did it using KPowerSave, I think he set up the rules and then let it run as a daemon. I'm not 100% sure though, so I'll have to ask

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-08 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 03:52:54PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Probably because they want to let us know what in their opinion is wrong. They probably want to hear Oh, thanks for that bug report, I just fixed that for you, now you can return! We should take these messages and put the

Re: need help on shell programming

2009-03-08 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 08:50:25PM +0100, Michael Wagner wrote: * Michael Pobega pob...@gmail.com 08.03.2009 #! /bin/sh if [ $(ps aux | grep script.sh | grep -v grep) ]; then your script here Hello Michael, what about pgrep

Re: Can one install lenny from live cd's ?

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:03:46PM +0100, baldyeti wrote: I must have been looking in the wrong places, but I can't figure out whether this is possible and supported. Beta notes said the release version would include the installer but it certainly isn't prominently featured and easy to

Re: need help on shell programming

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:54:28PM -0500, Long Wind wrote: I want a script. The script run a command, wait one minute, then run the command again, wait one minute again ... again and again ... Thanks! Just to bring this back up, you can use a mix of shell programming and Cronjobs. For

Re: Instaling Debian in netbooks

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:29:26PM -0200, Luis M. A. Ruiz wrote: Hi. I'm wondering about instaling Debian GNU/Linux in a LG X110 netbook (no CD drive). What is the best way to perform this? The netbook specs are: Intel Atom N270 @ 1.6 Ghz 1 Gb RAM 120 Gb HDD 1 SD card RW 3 USB ports

Re: problem with IPTABLEs

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 07:28:35PM -0500, Long Wind wrote: I want to specify a domain name in rules but the domain name often changes IP Is there anything I can do about it? Cronjob, every four hours or so gets the current IP of the domain. Then, in iptables, do something like iptables -arg

Re: Fedora guy byebyes Debian

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 09:22:08AM -0400, Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo wrote: Well, a fun time (one week), sweating it up to make my ATI and Wifi work in Lenny AMD64 but nothing. With old fedora wifi works from the live cd and ATI with the update. No need even to try it with my dell or my

Re: Lenny upgrade: Is there a way to reconfigure video card in lenny?

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:56:20PM -0800, S D wrote: I'm trying to resolve Desktop is not using full screen problem that appeared after upgrade from etch to lenny. More info about the issue can be found at: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515840

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 02:06:29PM -0500, Joe McDonagh wrote: Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can make smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. Actually, bottom posting is common in e-mail etiquette. A: Because it's easier to read Q: Why should I bottom

[OT] Re: top-posting and iTouch

2009-03-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:14:35PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: And it's next to impossible not to with the lame email client on this iTouch... It even top posts your signature? Wow, that's pretty bad. No one's bothered to port any good e-mail clients to the touch yet? --

Re: Will this program run under wine? or Crossover Office?

2009-03-05 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:04:47AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: The program in question is Who do you think You Are? Family Tree Maker. Has anyone got this going successfully? If so, how? And on what hardware? I have successfully installed it on Lenny, but it seems not actually to run.

Re: running gedit as su brings error

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:23:15PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: Hello * Recently I've been getting an error I've not seen before in Gnome: when I run Gedit from a terminal as su, I get the following: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable

Re: netbook for debian

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 10:17:00AM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: Hi all, I am thinking of buying a netbook and would like to ask for opinions about good options for use with debian (preferably, alternatively Ubuntu). At the moment, I have been looking at Samsung NC10-anyNet KA06DE 10,2

Re: How to automount USB disks at boot-up?

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 01:56:12PM +0100, Robert Latest wrote: Hello people, the subject says it all. I (often, but not always) have a portable USB disk connected to the computer that I would like to have automounted on boot. I could just knit some init script for this task, but before I do

Re: I look for a tool to archive mail older than 1 year or other value from imap accout

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:30:51AM +, KLEIN Stéphane wrote: Hi, I wounder if someone know one tool to archive mail older than some date value from imap account ? Thanks for your information, Stephane 'archivemail' is a pretty good program if you want to archive client-side data;

Re: Linux desktop without mouse acceleration. Is it possible?

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:19:36PM +0100, Dirk wrote: Is it possible to permanently(!) disable mouse acceleration without having a cronjob running xset m 0 0 every minute? It would really make Linux a better gaming system if this ^%$!@ mouse acceleration would be permanently(!) disabled by

Re: Linux desktop without mouse acceleration. Is it possible?

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 07:44:58PM +0100, Dirk wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: If you have a problem with trolling... well... let me welcome you to the internet. Well, then please go to the internet. We are not the internet, we are debian-user, a mailing list that just happens to be mirrored to the

Re: need help on shell programming

2009-02-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:54:28PM -0500, Long Wind wrote: I want a script. The script run a command, wait one minute, then run the command again, wait one minute again ... again and again ... Thanks! Sounds like a job for Cron! -- http://pobega.wordpress.com

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-24 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 05:34:09PM -0800, Michael M. Moore wrote: I thought I had this down by now, but I'm lost. I am in the process of removing much of GNOME, so I removed gnome-desktop-environment, which also removed gnome-core, and a whole bunch of other things. I also removed

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-24 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 05:17:50PM +, Graham wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:14:37 -0500 Michael Pobega pob...@gmail.com wrote: aptitude search ~A I think you meant: aptitude search ~M aptitude search ~A is used to search within an archive, like unstable, testing, etc. Info below

Re: Java in Debian 5

2009-02-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 04:07:05PM +0900, Bret Busby wrote: On the web page at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html#id2794519 is stated: 2.7. Java now in Debian The OpenJDK Java Runtime Environment openjdk-6-jre and Development Kit

Re: New Debian Wiki online with lot of working howtos

2009-02-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:48:34PM -0800, Christoph Pilka wrote: Hi folks, I am working for several weeks on a new wiki containing lot lof interesting and _working_ howtos. You can find it at http://debian.asconix.com. The howtos explain step-by-step the setup of server or desktop

Re: Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 02:29:06PM +0700, Cahaya Lilin wrote: Hello all.. I want to know is there Debian linux can install by copy the entire files in the hard disk to another hard disk ?? Because i already install linux in my computer and now i want to install linux in another computer

Re: ALSA devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG

2009-02-15 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:25:19PM +, T o n g wrote: [warning, long post] Hi, My recent upgrade caused my sound card not working any more. Checking back at my packages version log, the only related upgrade is that alsa-base_1.0.17.dfsg-2 is upgraded to alsa-base_1.0.17.dfsg-4. The

Re: Orphaned packages libs removal question

2009-02-15 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:24:50AM -0600, John W Foster wrote: I want to clean up my system as best I can. I have installed the gtkorphan and deborphan for this purpose. My question is will these ONLY remove .deb installed libs. I have several non-debian apps that I use and do NOT want to

Re: On battery power, so skipping file system check when in AC power

2009-02-14 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 07:15:46AM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: Does anyone else also receives On battery power, so skipping file system check warning, when starting up a laptop with AC power connected? Especially in Lenny. Is your ACPI working properly? There may be an ACPI problem that causes

Re: Upgrading kernel on a system that won't boot

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:39:18PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: I have a system running etch. I believe it has this kernel installed: linux-image-2.6.18-5-k7 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch2 The motherboard failed a few days ago, and I've just got a new motherboard and cpu. However, the

Re: Upgrade Debian testing to stable at Sunday

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:09:33AM -0500, Jason Voorhees wrote: Hi people: I got a business with one of my customers to install him a Firewall+Proxy+VPN running Debian this Saturdary 14th. I was thinking about installing Debian Etch because I din't know that Lenny was so close to come. Now

Re: Upgrading kernel on a system that won't boot

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:16:32PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: Michael Pobega pob...@gmail.com writes: What I would do is put a live system on a USB flash drive (System Rescue CD is what I usually use) and mount the unbootable hard drive from within the live system. At that point you

Re: Upgrading kernel on a system that won't boot

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 08:50:19PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: Michael Pobega pob...@gmail.com writes: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 06:16:32PM -0500, Dan Christensen wrote: Now one thing about my system is that mounting /usr will be a bit awkward, since it is lvm over several raid 5

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-08 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 08:13:13AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 12:56:48AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 08:20:30PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 11:40:29AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 09

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 09:39:20AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 06:25:31PM +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: HI, There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances use that

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 08:20:30PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 11:40:29AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 09:39:20AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 06:25:31PM +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: I've done a lot

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:39:58PM +, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: On 06/02/09 21:40, jatos.softw...@gmail.com wrote: I have to say, if you want to get into programming seriously DO NOT start with Python or BASIC. Why? Because their syntax is very different to the languages (such as C) used

Re: social networks

2009-01-28 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 08:01:28PM +0100, Jesus arteche wrote: hey, some time ago i heard that there was some proyect in open source about social networks...someone knows wher can find about it? thanks http://identi.ca ? Or do you mean something else? --

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 09:58:04AM +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: Hello everybody, For IRC check http://www.mibbit.com/.. Enjoy I don't know if you read the rest of the thread but I stated at one point that I'd like to avoid web-based IRC services. I appreciate the effort though. --

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 09:00:28AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Michael Pobega wrote: I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening since I often lurk on #debian and #debian-eeepc Is there any good way to tunnel

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-20 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:25:04AM -0600, Stackpole, Chris wrote: From: Michael Pobega [mailto:pob...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 4:47 PM Subject: Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:11:44PM -0500, Paul Gupta wrote: Michael Pobega wrote

[Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Pobega
I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening since I often lurk on #debian and #debian-eeepc Is there any good way to tunnel or encrypt my data, or something similar? I am looking for something feasible, considering I can't

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:32:35PM -0800, L Glidewell wrote: On Monday 19 January 2009 14:08:56 Michael Pobega wrote: I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening since I often lurk on #debian and #debian-eeepc

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 05:11:44PM -0500, Paul Gupta wrote: Michael Pobega wrote: I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out that they block all IRC clients. I find this pretty disheartening since I often lurk on #debian and #debian-eeepc Is there any good way to tunnel or encrypt my

Re: [Offtopic?] IRC blocked at school

2009-01-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:56:42PM -0800, L Glidewell wrote: On Monday 19 January 2009 14:48:37 Michael Pobega wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:32:35PM -0800, L Glidewell wrote: On Monday 19 January 2009 14:08:56 Michael Pobega wrote: I just got into my new dorm room, only to find out

Re: Help with u tube video streaming

2009-01-11 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:14:31AM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/1/10 Michael Pobega pob...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:38:34PM +, Chris S wrote: Hello everyone genius type people, Can you help, I don't know much about computers (in comparison to you guys) they ran

Re: Help with u tube video streaming

2009-01-09 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 10:38:34PM +, Chris S wrote: Hello everyone genius type people, Can you help, I don't know much about computers (in comparison to you guys) and nearly zero about linux/debian, however after my friend had a rather fatal problem with windows recently I decided to try

Re: Debian way to set up iptables rules?

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Pobega
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Re: Debian way to set up iptables rules?

2009-01-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 08:59:54PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hi. Which is the default/designated way in Debian to set up iptables rules on system boot? I mean the /etc/init.d scripts is long gone... ;) Thanks, Chris. I used to use iptables, until I found Shorewall. It's a

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-04 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:45:09AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: Hello, Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that will run linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has a good build quallity (will travel), descent battery life, although more important is

Re: receive system mail into inbox?

2008-11-23 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 01:14:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Jack wrote: Hello, is it possible to receive system user mail (the mail one can usually read using the command line mail program, for example system error reports) as normal mail through kmail or any other desktop mail

Re: How to send tunes to MP3 player?

2008-11-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:40:52PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Michael Pobega wrote the following on 11/16/2008 05:28 PM: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 05:08:42PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Michael Pobega wrote the following on 11/16/2008 03:36 PM: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 03:29:23PM -0600, Dennis

Re: index.php does not open instead download

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:49:34PM +0100, Lars Kuppert wrote: Hi everybody, just setting up my vmware server (just for testing). I put an index.php into the server folder. But instead of opening it, firefox wanna download the index.php. Why that? Greetings, lars Do you have PHP

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:45:00PM +, Ananda Samaddar wrote: David Fox wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By default, original emails to the list are not echoed. This may be list wide or is a google policy to prevent duplicate mails. It's a Google

Re: index.php does not open instead download

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:54:12PM +0100, Lars Kuppert wrote: Michael Pobega wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:49:34PM +0100, Lars Kuppert wrote: Hi everybody, just setting up my vmware server (just for testing). I put an index.php into the server folder. But instead of opening

Re: index.php does not open instead download

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:54:12PM +0100, Lars Kuppert wrote: Michael Pobega wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:49:34PM +0100, Lars Kuppert wrote: Hi everybody, just setting up my vmware server (just for testing). I put an index.php into the server folder. But instead of opening

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:16 AM, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By default, original emails to the list are not echoed. This may be list wide or is a google policy to prevent duplicate mails. Google gets your message back from the list server, but it hides it by default. I'm

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:32:31PM +, Ananda Samaddar wrote: Michael Pobega wrote: That's a matter of opinion. I use Google's IMAP services and I love it, especially because all of the filtering is done server-side so it saves me time and energy. I really don't see what's so atrocious

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:51:42PM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:11:13 -0500 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, are there any good alternatives to Gmail? I can't really afford to purchase mail space, or a web host, so I'm kinda stuck to free services. Check out

Re: eeepc

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:30:48AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 06:01:52PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:12:03PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I am considering a eeepc, and need wireless. How is wireless support with lenny

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 06:56:48PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: 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

Re: 8x12 inch images

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:50:20AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I was asked to provide jpeg images that are 8x12 inch prints. But I don't have a printer, only the images. How can I make sure the images print @ 8x12 inch. Does that make sense? Hugo You could use The Gimp to

Re: How to send tunes to MP3 player?

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 03:29:23PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Is there a program on Debian/lenny that will send/write tunes onto an MP3 player? It is one of those little ones that you plug into a USB port. On windows we use Win. Media Player but haven't found anything shat seems

Re: How to send tunes to MP3 player?

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 05:08:42PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Michael Pobega wrote the following on 11/16/2008 03:36 PM: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 03:29:23PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Is there a program on Debian/lenny that will send/write tunes onto an MP3 player? It is one

Re: Firewall Utilities

2008-11-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 05:59:50PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:00, Michael Pobega wrote: Do you know of any reliable way to make sure my firewall is working? I'm behind a router so I don't think any of those TCP scanning sites would work. nmap

Re: eeepc

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Pobega
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:12:03PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: Hi, I am considering a eeepc, and need wireless. How is wireless support with lenny on the latest eeepc? And what is the process of configuring wireless? Thanks, Danny I'm on an Eee PC 900 now, and I can say that the

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-11 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:28:10AM -0500, Doug Mitton wrote: On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:31:16 +0100, you wrote: Hi All; I'm looking to see if anyone can confirm a change on the Walmart Photo web site. It appears it has gone Internet Explorer only as I can't get Konqueror or Mozilla on

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