Re: Current through USB bus

2010-05-06 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, How can I know how much current goes through each USB port for its related device(s)? Thanks. Try lsusb -v There will be a MaxPower listed for the device -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions

2010-03-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: hda: Host Protected Area detected. ^Icurrent capacity is 268435455 sectors (137438 MB) ^Inative capacity is 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) Is this a PATA drive, and from there, has a jumper on the back for LBA48? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !

2010-03-03 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Bernard wrote: Again I re-installed the old .mozilla-thunderbird directory, waiting for more advices Icedove has a 4gb folder size limit.. could you have hit that? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: SAS Card Suggestions

2009-05-21 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: 2. PCI-X PCI-X, or PCI-E? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-07-24 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Paul Johnson wrote: If I can find where I filed them, I can send you copies of my traffic tickets, all of them to date have been on a bicycle. I zipped by a police officer doing radar once about ten years ago, doing just over 60kph in a 50kph zone.. He didn't bother me,

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-16 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I would like to get an MP3 player to use with my Lenny box. My specs are few but perhaps odd: I have a Sandisk e140, with 1 gb onboard, and uses up to a 2GB SD-card in the side. Shows up as two disks, no special software needed to copy mp3's and

Re: [OT] Need to carry around 750 songs? (was Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?)

2007-04-16 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: 3GB will hold 750 4MB songs. Is the user interface so efficient that it's simple to work with them? How do you remember what's in all those playlists? It's decent enough, you can select by artist, album, songs, favorites, genre, year, spoken word.. i

Re: How to enable/use Hyperthreading?

2006-11-13 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Colin wrote: I don't think Pentium D processors are suppose to have two cores. Some of them have hyperthreading which can make then behave like they have two cores. The Pentium D (dual) has two physical cores smudged together on one die, for a total of two cores. The

Re: GRUB and +2TiB disk

2006-11-09 Thread Mike Dresser
Disk label type: gpt Grub cannot boot from a gpt type partition table, and MSDOS style cannot handle over 2 TiB... I have a 15x300 array with the same problem, I ended up putting a 128 meg CF card on a CF to IDE adapter, and using that as /boot. Now the machine boots with the help of LILO

Re: hard drive repair problem

2006-06-08 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Marty Landman wrote: 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032 253 253 000Old_age Always 51 That's a bit on the warm side for a hard drive.. can you improve your cooling when you replace this drive? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-06-02 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Koos Meijering wrote: I am trying to create on a nfs file server a partition with the size of 4TB every time after a reboot the system reports there is only a 2 TB partition and an unused part of the disk. I have a 15 x 300 array under ext3 on the 3ware 9550SX-16ML. You

Re: impossible to apply security updates

2006-05-09 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Piotr A. Dybczy?ski wrote: It seems something is going wrong with DNS. security.debian.org points to 0.0.0.0 !! Saw this yesterday, appears to be working properly today. Mike

Re: Am I getting USB 2.0 speed?

2005-08-25 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: That *still* won't give you USB 2.0 speeds. I have never seen a [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$ pen-drive or mp3-player that did more than lie on that regard, they all operate at ~10Mbit/s maximum, and that's for the very good ones. It is just

Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine

2004-04-13 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Roberto Sanchez wrote: it has been great. Extremeley quiet (I chose a 600 MHz fanless Eden CPU Ding. Cyrix Cpu, and like all cyrix's, low in performance(which is the whole point of this cpu being low power) Memory bus is likely slow to go with it. # hdparm -tT /dev/hda

Re: [OT] How big are Logitech's balls?

2004-03-26 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Pigeon wrote: Unfortunately they are all very decidedly asymmetrical and right-handed only. Odd, I'm left handed, and I can't properly use a mouse in that hand. However, the fact that anything I draw or trace with the righthand-using mouse/trackball looks like a

Re: Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears

2004-03-05 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] Pål Dahle wrote: Hi all, I've got a Dell D600 laptop with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 M9 graphics P4 2.53, Geforce4 MX 440(hey, i didn't want it, it was given to me at work) With DRI on Sid, i get around 175 fps. Without DRI on Knoppix, i get around 350. Both

Re: Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears

2004-03-05 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Mike Dresser wrote: I'm sure I've done something wrong on both problems :) Well, found the first problem. Don't run setiathome while glxgears is running. 1800 fps now. Much more respectable. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Question RE IDE Tape Drives

2004-03-01 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I am looking to install a Seagate Travan 10GB/20GB IDE Tape drive into a Debian box. Your basic method listed in the rest of the email is the way to do it. Keep in mind this tape drive will

OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:48:12AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: Then again, the traction control doesn't work worth a damn either :) I'd be surprised if that's the case. You can't expect too much from anything claiming to give you better control. You

OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote: It's a long time since I took my car test, and I had no problems with the emergency stop, but the examiner's instructions were ...without locking the wheels, so I'd guess any kind of lock would be a fail. Dunno what they do now that ABS is common. Does

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote: The UK's Highway Code calculates stopping distances from the equation: d = v + 0.05(v^2)(d in feet, v in mph) Scary numbers at my cars top speed of 160mph :) (Something like a quarter mile) Any equations for time? :P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote: Dunno what they do now that ABS is common. Do they still teach if you have a floor mounted automatic, to hit neutral during a panic stop? _big_ difference in stopping times at 30-40 mph and under. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-23 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote: Yeah, I know... same here, despite the fact that an emergency stop is part of the UK driving test and locking the wheels is a fail. How much of a lock is a lock? My car has ABS, but in extreme situtations you can get it to slide a couple feet on dry

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan

2004-01-09 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Johann Koenig wrote: it is transferring. About 1-1.5 megabytes per second is good for a 100 megabit link. If it is substantialy less, its probabyl running at 10 megabits. Well, on this P4 2.53ghz, i regularly see 10.5 meg per second from a similar host, even the celeron

Re: has anyone heard of this new crap?

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Kevin Boergens wrote: ROTFL! It has to be some kind of hoax.. Not at all, do a google search for acacia stream I know of several porn webmasters that have had run ins with these people. www.youmaybenext.com details a company that is doing something similar as well. --

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Greg Norris wrote: Can anyone recommend a good 4-port (or thereabout) KVM switch? I need one which can handle USB keyboard and mouse inputs, and it would be a plus (but definitely not required) if it can accommodate both USB and PS/2 outputs. I know this is completely

Re: KVM switch recomendation?

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Greg Norris wrote: Thanx for the info. After researching a number of KVMs from various companies, I've decided that the SwitchView USB 4-port looks the most promising. That beastie is on order, so I should know for sure in a few days. ;-) Looks like Cybex became Avocent

Re: hard disk access on every keystroke in console mode!

2003-12-17 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, michelle wrote: Or is this perhaps from a keylogger secretly installed? If so, how could I detect it? Thank you. Well, you could try booting off the rescue disks/cd's, and see what happens. Also, I'd try going into the bios setup screen, and see if there's disk activity

Sreelal Chandrasenan

2003-12-15 Thread Mike Dresser
Anyone else waiting for a list of passwords to go through? Had that happen back a year or two ago with that virus that emailed your documents(can't remember the name) I thought of sending this person mail, along the lines of Hi Mom!, and seeing if it gets to d-u. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: backports.org routing fixed

2003-12-09 Thread Mike Dresser
Hopefully this will clearn up the routing issues for anyone else still having problems. It's working here now from this host. However, I'm still seeing it drop in the i-p-x.de addresses from a cgocable.net address. It's working when it goes through the eurorings.net network fine though.

Backports.org

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Dresser
Anyone know what is going on with www.backports.org? I can get at it from a few rare hosts, but from most of the hosts I've tried it simply times out. Traceroute reveals it dies in the eurorings.net, and from another host i-p-x.de I had to use google's cache to get a peek at the mirror listing

Re: Backports.org

2003-12-08 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Andreas Schwarz wrote: Very fast from here (T-Online, Germany). Hmm. Wonder if this is leftovers from the cable that was broken last month? It's weird, because the two hosts that could get through were over here in North America. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: ftp problem

2003-11-28 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Ken Gilmour wrote: ftp dir 227 Entering Passive Mode (68,141,111,92,217,95) ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp ftp dir 200 PORT command successful 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 287 bytes received in 0.09Seconds 3.05Kbytes/sec. ftp bin 200 Type set to I. ftp The

Re: IBM 60 Deskstar

2003-11-17 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, M. Lee Wiltrout wrote: While talking with the folks at Hitachi, I realized that something was 'not right'! Requirements for RMA very different from any other manufacturer. Luckily, I had retained a box from a Maxtor drive that I will use to return the IBM. Do not know

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Vikki Roemer wrote: *shrug* I'm having no problems with it, and no one else seems to either-- people are going to my site and the server is sending data, and I haven't had any complaints from the group. Anybody else here having problems? I just tried it here, because I

Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama

2003-11-12 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, BruceG wrote: 3. Move PCs to new building. This is just a short walk, so they could be carried. Insert floppy in drive to prevent failure. (is there a command to park the hard drive?). Move the PC, keyboard, monitor, cables and mouse. Are you using 5.25 drives?!?!

Re: Progress meter on copying

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know of a nice way of being able to show a progress meter on copying a large file from one part of the disk to another. I tried scp localfile localfile2 but scp calls cp. Ugly/weird/overkill way of doing it, but rsync -P

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-30 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Marc Shapiro wrote: I opened this hotmail account specifically for posting to this list. This is my fourth post in 2 days. So far, no spam, including no SWEN. Could we finally be seein the end of this mess? 135 in 12 hours here, and it'll probably jump up now that I've

Re: nslookup? What package is it in?

2003-10-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, stan wrote: I tried apt-cache search, and the Debian package search page, and I can't seem to find nslookup. I've got it on most of my testingh boxes, but the one I'm building at the moment doesn't have it. Seems to be in dnsutils, according to packages.debian.org --

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, John Hasler wrote: Or A virus was detected and removed from this message to you followed by instructions on how to retrieve the virus and the cleaned Swen. How about the ones that have something to the effect of Scan engine failure, unable to scan that let you know just

Re: [OT] Cracked website at sf.net

2003-10-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Can someone here who has a sourceforge account please let the admins know that the Crystalspace Wiki site has been cracked. http://crystal.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php I thought the whole point of a wiki was that anyone could edit it? From

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tom wrote: For the blind, link to a CGI which generates the email as a WAV. And the blind and deaf? ... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: change medium type on Sis 900

2003-10-16 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Tim Broddin wrote: It's standard (straight, not crossed) twisted UTP... I thought this should be fine for 100 mbps? Yes, but do you know it's been wired up properly, and isn't damaged in some way? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: change medium type on Sis 900

2003-10-15 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Tim Broddin wrote: it still gives me 90-100% packet loss. The 100 mbps indicator on the switch also stays on. I'm planning on buying a decent NIC for her this weekend but I'm still interested in what the problem could be... Any thoughts? Start with checking the cabling.

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-26 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: After getting hundreds of infections per day early in the week of 14-Sep, it seems to have radically tapered off: Looks like it's slowing down a bit, only 280 copies here in the last 24 hours, compared to the 400 or so for the last couple days. Still

Re: apt-get problem

2003-09-23 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Vivek Kumar wrote: Hi , I was trying to get updates using apt-get and i got following error message: Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages 404 Not Found Likely wouldn't be any updates anyways, as potato support was

Re: Problem trying to start X-windows in a Debiam 3.0 installation under Virtual PC

2003-09-17 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David Fokkema wrote: On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 20:39, Jaime Ash wrote: Does anybody in this group have any clues? Yes. According to your logs, you have selected the nvidia driver, but that driver thinks there is no nvidia card in your pc. So, to be able to help you, we

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-09-09 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, JM Besnard wrote: Hi , I need an *IDE* Raid controller to do mirroring (Raid1) with the following requirements: - easy to install and natively supported in Debian (ie, no external module to load from floppy and setup in initrd like with the Promise raids) -

Re: Why ROOT all in uppercase

2003-09-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, in a faraway land (in the days of the teletype) not all terminals were capable of lower-case characters. The age of the punched cards, punched tape and when CRTs were merely some new-fangled technology...

Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?

2003-08-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Joe Emenaker wrote: Is there some Debian tool that would let me specify an IP and a message and it would handle the delivery without making me bother with finding out the NetBIOS name, etc.? It's not what you want, but this might work. No comments on the legality of what

Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?

2003-08-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: -- Using this parameter will force the client to assume that the -- server is on the machine with the specified IP address and the -- NetBIOS name component of the resource being connected to will -- be

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, John Foster wrote: I have been at this for a while (since the early 90's) I have yet to need to run any kind of defrag utility on any Linux distro. I did not see what is the reason for you considering this...but I strongly advise against it. If you are having some

RE: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: Like a moron, I requested a read-receipt with the last message I sent. Sorry! However, I did come across a 'defrag' command by doing this: apt-cache show defrag See if that will fix your problems or not. I've never used it, but it supposedly

Re: hot boxes and power consumption

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's now a good 10 degrees warmer than the rest of the house. My own room stays at about 80, even in the winter. Most winters I have the window open a crack to keep the temperature sane. One computer, one 21 monitor and one 17 monitor. Summers are

Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Nejko Zidarjev wrote: Just a few minutes ago I managed to issue a top command and it appears that I had (or have during the slowdowns) more than 1 (YES, you read well!) processes running. the numbers is decreasing as time passess to the overall 42-50, which is kinda

firewire/usb2.0/ide enclosures.

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Dresser
I'm looking for a solution to backup a server that has about 40 gig a day of daily backups. Too big for a DDS-4 tape, and DLT/AIT/etc are just too expensive considering the alternatives available. The critical files are already backed up onto tape, I'm looking to expand what is backed up to the

Re: hot boxes and power consumption

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Johann Koenig wrote: Does anyone have any information or methods which might determine what atypical computers power consumption might be? Well, I found that when we moved to P4/CeleronP4 systems at the office here, that our APC 280VA battery backups just aren't powerful

Re: Network speed

2003-07-24 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: If it's running at 10Mbit, it will never be full duplex. If you're running at 100, then it could be full or half. If your network cables only have four leads connected, you're using 10. Actually, you can have full duplex on 10BaseT. 100BaseT runs on

Re: Shell Question..

2003-07-21 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Jeff Schaller wrote: Boy, reminds me of the old useless use of cat award... I always use: I've got a bunch of those on the shelf here, anyone need one? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Junk mail on the list.

2003-06-30 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:39:12PM -0400, alex wrote: I'm getting a lot of junk mail that is addressed to this list. Am I the only one getting this stuff? Spam filtering on Debian lists was temporarily broken recently. And it shows how effective

Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'

2003-06-25 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's not the ncurses-devel package that is missing, what could it be? Regards, apt-get install libncurses5-dev Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Jerky Screen Saver

2003-06-23 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, debian_newbie wrote: Sorry for taking so long to respond. Yes, Euphoria also does the same thing. Except it is even worse. Euphoria has an 18 second delay between jerks (movements). I also noticed that I have a lot of screensaver names listed but they don't work. So now

Re: Laptop tape backups

2003-06-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Bill Wohler wrote: Still looking for a Linux-compatible 30-80 GB tape drive that is most likely going to be USB. Has anyone used the Seagate Travan TapeStor 40 (STT6401U2-R) or the OnStream USB 30 or ADR2.60usb? I haven't heard anything Linux about the former, but the

Re: Laptop tape backups

2003-06-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: The early 30GB Onstream required special, proprietary drivers. The later ones worked much better on Linux because the standard drivers worked. I was using it under NT, and crashing the fileserver anytime i went to do a backup. Also, be wary

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: It was fairly common in the early 80's for application source to be printed in a variety of magizines and to be shared between users. I'm not referring to pirated software, but rather Free software. I remember Commodore (yes Commodore) magazines

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-10 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: demonstrating well that it's really all a matter of personal preference, and that what works for some may be what's causing pain in others. Indeed, if I use an ergonomic split keyboard I usually get wrist/arm pains in about 15 minutes, but can type

Re: [OT] ergonomic setups

2003-06-06 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: hey debian folk, i'd like your opinions/feedback about what kind of ergonomic setups you use at home and in the office. as i mentioned a couple of days ago, i've been issued a laptop at work, and i can barely use it for the wrist strain. i can

Re: dpkg-reconfigure ntp-simple not working?

2003-06-06 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, cfactor wrote: Yup, done that as well. :p I'm really stumpted... If you have ntp installed, it will use/steal/abuse ntp-simple's config file and might cause the problem you're having. I've ran into where removing either ntp/ntpdate or ntp-simple will blow away the

Re: fried(?) computer hangs on boot

2003-05-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Pigeon wrote: Me, I run with the sides off the case and if I want an estimate of the CPU temp I stick my hand in and feel the heatsink. How do you keep the pigeons out? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

LM-Sensors on an ASUS P4B533

2003-04-04 Thread Mike Dresser
Two questions: One: How are you supposed to install the lm-sensors-source when you compile your own kernels. the resulting file from make-kpkg modules_install depends on kernel-image-2.4.20. I just --force-depends'd it in, I assume that's not the proper way. Two: Is this ASUS P4B533

Re: LM-Sensors on an ASUS P4B533

2003-04-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once you've scoped out the lm-sensors situation, go here for hints on building that kernel with kernel-package: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Kevin I eventally got bored enough to test out what a make-kpkg would do, and

Re: buying a cd writer

2003-03-30 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello Mike Dresser, Thank you for your reply - though I'd want to check - is it this one you meant ? http://www.liteonit.com/english/new_p_e/english--p-rw482448.htm I'm asking because the support section only talks about Windows versions

Re: buying a cd writer

2003-03-29 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody, I have a simple question: which cd writer do you people recommend to buy for use with Debian (and windows 98) ? I'm using a 48x lite-on that usually sells for 20-30 dollars after rebates. Works just fine except that burn proof gets

Re: bug apt-get dist-upgrade

2003-03-18 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, hina wrote: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://okki666.nerim.net ./ xchat-common 2.0.2.CVS20030317-1 [320kB] This doesn't look like a debian package to me, so you need to report this to whoever runs that unoffical debian package repository. Mike -- To

Re: Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?

2003-03-15 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: a ] share your entire xp drive (ew...), smbmount it onto the woody box, and then just rsync -a between two directories your entire XP drive is shared anyways, you could smbmount it onto the woody box using the C$ share and the admin login/password.

Re: Motherboard Madness

2003-03-12 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Mike Dresser wrote: The 533-E has a highpoint raid controller onboard. Don't bother. My mistake, it's a Promise MBFastTrack133. You'd think I would know what's in my home machine, having to watch their bios take 30 seconds every time you reboot to inventory the drives

Re: Direct cable connection

2003-03-12 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, csj wrote: In Windows I recall something called Direct Cable Connection that allowed you to link two computers thru the parallel port. The GNU/Linux version of this appears to be PLIP (which I tried and failed at many many moons ago). So, is there a more modern way to

Re: Quiet HDD (was Quiet cases)

2003-03-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On 10 Mar 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote: For cases I love Antec. I recently built a system with the SX835II from Antec (see http://www.antec-inc.com/pro_details_enclosure.php?ProdID=80843). It is hard to tell if the PC is on despite the CPU fan, video GPU fan, dual fan power supply + 2 case

Re: Motherboard Madness

2003-03-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: Proably the wrong forum, but trying to build a new Debian imap server. After spending a few hours the last few days researching motherboards I went to the local stop to pick up an Asus P4B-533-E (which they said they had on the phone). Of course,

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-10 Thread Mike Dresser
On 10 Mar 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: ?? RAID1 can only handle 1 failure also!! Well, actually you could have a N2 number of drives in your raid-1 setup. It's rarely done, but still possible. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 in SID

2003-03-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Mpiktas wrote: As far as I understand the default compiler for sid is gcc 3.2. Today I installed kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 from sid and cat /proc/version shows Linux version 2.4.20-k7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 Tue Jan 14

Re: Veritas compatibility.

2003-03-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Geir Oye wrote: Hello, Anyone on the list familiar with the use of Veritas backup software on Linux Debian 2.2.? The idea is to use Veritas backup software in conjunction with HP SureStore Dat 40x6. (for server backup) (Also interested in experience on other backup

Re: backing up hidden files

2003-02-28 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Robert Storey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp$ tar -cvf target.tar * .?* s close. tar -cvf target.tar . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Robert Storey wrote: Considering all the subdirectories in /home, it would probably be better to do this: chmod -R 700 /home/* What if you don't want to make all files executable writable and readable in everyone's directory? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Laptop (PCMCIA) NIC Suggestions for Woody Stable

2003-02-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Ed Lawson wrote: I have used one of the combo cards from Xircom in a laptop running Woody. I really like the card since cable and phone line plug in directly and it works well. I don't remember having to do anything to get it to work both as a modem and NIC under Woody.

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-26 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Phil wrote: I think this should work, anyways :) do I have to do this individually for each user? (all 120 of them) is there a way to do this in the skel directory in. the future Well, set it for one user, and see if others can get into

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-26 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, nate wrote: I get cc'd or bcc'd on almost every post that someone replies to me, it would be nice if people didn't do that but it's not a big deal to me. I prefer if people DO cc me, it's much easier to see that someone replied to me, without having to remember what thread

.bkf files from Windows 2000/XP, and how to read them in Debian

2003-02-25 Thread Mike Dresser
Supposing I had a .bkf file from a Win2000/XP backup, and wanted to be able to extract files from it in Linux, how would I go about this? Just looking at the file, it looks similar to a tar file, but of course it's not. Supposedly it's Veritas Backup Exec that is bundled with W2k. I use smbtar

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread Mike Dresser
Huh? Princess Mononoke isn't a Disney movie at all; it's a Japanese anime by Hayao Miyazaki, distributed in the USA by Miramax (at least, their logo is on the DVD, and Disney's isn't). Guess who owns Miramax? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: How do I do a sid upgrade and not get the gcc 3.2 stuff?

2003-02-24 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, John Covici wrote: I was trying to do a sid upgrade and it keeps trying to give me the gcc 3.2 compiler, but I want to stay with the 2.95 -- the new ones are broke and don't compile kernels properly. What problems are you having compiling the kernel under 3.2? Anyway,

Re: Mail server

2003-02-24 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, nate wrote: Maarten Vink said: I totally agree with Russel; disk speed is probably the most important limiting factor, not CPU speed or diskspace. my home server is a p3-800 1GB ram, dual 100GB WD special edition(8MB) drives in raid1, with spamassasin+sanitizer only

Re: Boy! this spam is riling me!Re: First Time

2003-02-21 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: Actually, I never saw the original but I did see the response. That made me angry, very angry indeed. http://www.angelfire.com/pa/lkmarvin/images/angry.wav Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Problem with HP Laserjet 2100

2003-02-20 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: I've got an HP 2100TN with a JetDirect card; I installed CUPS (the cupsys package), read the docs, and had fun. _Much_ easier than doing it with lpr/lprng. from my /etc/printcap lp|Generic HP2100 entry:\ :lp=:\ :rm=192.168.0.53:\

Re: Problem with HP Laserjet 2100

2003-02-20 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Alan Shutko wrote: Now make it so you can specify paper trays and resolution on the lpr command line I'm a very simple person, If i need different paper, I go load it into the manual feed, and 1200 fastres is all i ever use. Point taken. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Perfered idle kicker?

2003-02-20 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Robert L. Harris wrote: I'm being tasked to come up with a way to kick idle users off off systems. I've seen different ways of doing this in the past but haven't used them. What's your prefered methods? This will be for a large environment with a couple hundred users

Re: Defragment

2003-02-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, David Z Maze wrote: fraction gets above 5% or so; the 'defrag' package in theory can help clean this up but it's a little dangerous, and usually unnecessary. So this one machine at home that has over 60% on all 4 hard drives might benefit from a bit of cleaning, eh? =)

Re: wu-ftpd security

2003-02-10 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Ross Tsolakidis wrote: Hi all, With wu-ftpd installed, by default the user can ftp to his home directory, but can then just go up a few dirs and view the entire filesystem. Is there some way to limit wu-ftpd from doing this, I just want the users to have access to

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-09 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: use an ATM card with pin number. No, I'm not sure what currency the ATM is talking about when it reads off your account balance, either, I live in Canada. Whenever I've done this in the US in PA/NY area, it has given me the remaining withdrawal I can

Re: HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?

2003-02-05 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, stan wrote: Remote configuration, downlaoding configs, and most important of all monitoring for things like out of paper, and jam. I have one of my computers use festival to announce these things. Well, JetDirect supports syslog servers, I have one out there that

Re: HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?

2003-02-04 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, stan wrote: Trying to get the last of my porprietory systems out of service. I'm in pretty good shape, except for the JetAdmin printer managment tools. Any sugestions here? Well, depends on what you want to do? You can telnet to jet direct printer servers, and the

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