Re: kernel 2.6.18+ SMP question

2007-10-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 03:21:58PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: how about 16x more parallel? at least to the extent that your workload is able to parallelize (is that a word?). IOW, if you have lots of ^^ No!, it is yet another

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

2007-10-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 12:06:43AM -, Paul Johnson wrote: It might not have duplex printing, but one way around that, which has worked for me since high school, is find a printer with no jobs waiting, print the cover page and even number pages, flip the stack and throw it back in the paper

Re: Re: unable to boot

2007-10-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:29:48PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Thanks for reply, I have installed many and many debian on different machines ( which have Xp, and others Os ), so I am not new to debian. This is the first time I meet this problem, with VISTA on Laptop The

Re: going from etch to unstable (sid)

2007-10-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 01:47:55PM +, Bogdan Marian wrote: Hey, The title says it all :). How do i proceed if i want to upgrade from Etch to Sid? Of course, burning a Sid image and doing a from scratch install is out of the question... I'm looking for another way Bogdan Hi Bogdan,

Re: Best Kernel?

2007-10-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 09:20:40PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 09:12:21PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: Well, if you install the 32bit userland + 64bit kernel + X.Org it wont work. :-) Huh? Perhaps you should send the message to the amd64 list.

Re: gnome screensavers - can I get more?

2007-10-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:27:36PM +0100, Martin Waller wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xscreensaver [2] 10481 [1] Exit 127xscrennsaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Error: Cairo does not yet support the requested image format:

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with PERC 5/i RAID controller

2007-10-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 06:19:54PM +0200, Andraz Sraka wrote: Hello people, are there any diagnostic/monitoring tools in linux (debian etch for instance) for monitoring Dell PERC 5/i RAID controller. I found that there are some utilities for RHEL/SuSE enterprise distribution. Has Are they

Re: debian repositories - connection refused

2007-10-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:25:15PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: A day or two ago I began getting a 111 connection refused error when attempting to access the debian repositories with Synaptic. The command aptitude update also hangs. However, Internet access with browser and mail

Re: GLIBC_2.4

2007-10-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 01:02:31PM +1100, hce wrote: Hi, I am installing mutt and got an error of GLIBC_2.4 is missing, I searched the Debian package, but could not found it. Which of Debian package contains the GLIBC_2.4? Also, which http source should I add it to the source.list? I

Re: Using backports after upgrade

2007-11-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 11:33:26PM -0400, John Fleming wrote: Hello - I was running Sarge with SpamAssassin upgrades from backports.org. Then I upgraded to Etch. I have backports in my sources.list, but I don't seem to be getting SA updates. (My SA is 3.1.7, and latest seems to be 3.2.3)

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: You will have to stop the x-server and then restart it. In fact I had to reboot (aaarhhh) in order for the module to install correctly. Try Instead of having to reboot, you might get away with just a dpkg-reconfigure

Re: Could not find nfs package

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:04:55AM +1100, hce wrote: Hi, I got an error E: Couldn't find package nfs while trying to install nfs server by calling apt-get install nfs. Is the nfs wrong nfs server package name? Obviously. Try the following: apt-cache search nfs | less man apt-cache I also

Re: Minolta driver and management software for Linux

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 09:21:57PM -0800, jekillen wrote: Yes, I believe I do have the ppd file, it was with the software for the Mac OSX set up. Where would I put the file? (a particular directory for that? Mac does have a dedicated dir for those files). thank you for your response. Have

Re: Minolta driver and management software for Linux

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 04:22:46PM -0800, jekillen wrote: Hello: I am trying to set up a Minolta Magicolor QMS printer. The printer is a postscript laser printer. (The actual model number is QMS 6110 and it is dis- continued). The printer is set up to connect via ether- net. I obtained the

Re: debian 4.0 can't detect PCMCIA lan card

2007-11-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:01:24AM +0900, babynewton wrote: Hi. I have one problem while installing debian 4.0 on tecra530cdt with PCMCIA lancard. I used floppy image to install because cd rom drive is not available. Installer detected PCMCIA card and completed installation on PCMCIA lancard.

Re: Locale Problem

2007-11-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:57:31AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:18:49PM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote: I get the following error messages whenever I update or install a program with aptitude: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:01:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote: from your mail data flow diagram: (plus your IMAP server is haggis) fetchmail - postfix - SpamAssassin - maildrop - Maildir All those programs run on haggis? Sure

Re: old hardware, newer Debian [SOLVED]

2007-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:43:10AM -0800, root wrote: Couldn't you just upgrade? dialup takes too long I hear. You don't have to do it all at once. Etch will replace Sarge soon anyway. Any idea why my gpm mouse doesn't work at the CL after starting X until after stopping and starting it a

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:16:47PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: Personally, if you have sufficient harddrive space, I'd keep your current Etch install pointing to Etch in /etc/apt/sources.list. then I would install another instance of Etch. I'd keep this pointing to Etch, then when Etch goes

Re: [Debian-User] re: Network Install

2007-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:32:42AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: apt-cache --names-only search tcl | grep doc | wc -l 6 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ apt-cache -n search tcl doc | wc -l 6 heh. multiple words in the search string saves a pipe and grep ;-P Too true! Weird behaviour

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:50:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: I was just *waiting* for someone to open the door and let us greybeards play remember when!!! Remember when Win95 ran well with 16MB RAM? (Shame on you!!) Remember when OS/2 ran *great* with 16MB RAM? Remember when Doom ran

Re: Installing Etch with GUI on T20

2007-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:06:12AM +, john gennard wrote: Section Device Identifier S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV Driver savage BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection I would try changing the line: Driver savage to Driver

Re: OT: LaTeX with monospace material

2007-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 09:53:41AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Kent West wrote: (Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian question.) Not an offtopic question. You are using Debian, so this is relevant IMHO. Great, I have a bad case of flatulence.

Re: Installing TeX/LaTeX in Sarge

2007-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 10:57:36AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: If you install the Debian TeXLive package, you should find that LaTeX works as it formerly did in TeTeX. I am running TeTeX under Etch on one i386 machine, and TeXLive under Etch on another i386 machine, and I have not seen

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 01:40:30PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed like floppies, CF cards, etc.? Not usually, but I suppose what type of card it is. I have a modem PCMCIA card which I just release whenever I feel like

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and LVM

2007-02-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:28:52PM -0700, Archive wrote: Information for the database server might involve languages and language translation, and so on. So there is an obvious need for data management, data bases, etc., but my question to all reading this email is: Why LVM So I am

Re: Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:15:26PM -0500, Ken Heard wrote: I found the answer to my own problem. I only had gcc installed; whereas it seems that g++ was also needed for the configuration. It seems that g++ and gcc are dependent on each other. man g++ man gcc -- Chris. == Don't forget

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:38:29PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:55 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Ask me about the machine and the ping pong balls some time. Or the 12 billiard balls where one is lighter/heavier and all you have is a set of balance

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

2007-02-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 01:09:32AM +1030, Karl Goetz wrote: hi all i'm about to deploy a network which will be using debian servers on its backend (etch, hopefully) and about a hundred gnu/linux desktops. I'll be setting up a bunch of services, and was hoping people could recommend specific

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 05:45:21PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-02-14 16:45:42, schrieb Chris Bannister: That would be great! Would this be ok: # Mailboxes which get new mail. mailboxes `echo $HOME/.Maildir/*` No it would not since you have to setup: set folder=imaps

Re: Debian on ancient machines

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:19:27PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: My friend has a 128MB RAM/10GB HDD computer that runs fine with Fluxbox, XDM, and his wireless card (NIC). Luxury!!. # less /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 2

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 06:55:31PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: It never occurred to me to stop KDM while I am in X, because it is the service that starts X and I just logically concluded (assumed) that shutting down kdm from within X would cause problems. Are you confusing KDE with KDM? -- Chris.

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 10:13:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/07 22:05, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: There's no Law Of Nature that says you can't have your greenbar printout next to your terminal. I prefer 2 screens

Re: latex (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction))

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 11:45:09AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: what about a WYSIWIG which produces latex files? You rough out or do easy stuff with the wysiwig, then modify the latex files if there's stuff not easily handled by a wysiwig. Lyx, but why? Discovered 'gnuhtml2latex'. What a *neat*

Re: Command Line (was Re: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 09:22:41AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: Because Debian probably sets $EDITOR and $VISUAL to nano instead of [el|n]vi[m|s]. Thank you. Learn something new again. This is so fun. I probably can find things like that out in a book or manual or faq, but there is _so

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour

2007-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:53:06PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: One of the things that draws me to KDE is the fact that _almost_ everything is configurable (I can't change the foreground text color on the items in the taskbar :( ). Oh well. You will love fvwm where everything _is_ configurable[1].

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour

2007-02-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:13:01AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: That's one (fvwm) that I haven't tried. Unless that's comes standard on some distro's that I have tried. I'll look into it. Thanks for the tip. Since you are running Sid, install fvwm-themes. It isn't in Etch, but it looks like you can

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:22:33PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: 1. God has always been. 2. All matter/energy Just Appeared. Which is more fantastical? Even I, an atheist, think that #2 is more fantastical. Maybe you're agnostic? -- Chris. == Don't forget to check that your

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:39:04AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Now, how would one do this calculation in OO.o Calc? Or Gnumeric? Or maybe some other Debian math-y proggie? Maybe, how would one draw a graph comparing the two prices? gnuplot? http://gnuplot.sourceforge.net/demo_4.2/ I presume this

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:35:57PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: the US is arguably one of the most prosperous nations in the world. I think that it is right for us to render humanitarian aid to other nations when we can. This is generally done through deployments of the military

fvwm (was Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's ...)

2007-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 03:22:35PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Do try it. :-) [1] It's a bit of a learning curve, _but_ with power/versatility comes a huge manpage :-) I am a fvwm devotee. Absolutely everything is programmable through its .conf file. I have used it for years. Wishes:

Re: fvwm (was: Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour)

2007-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:12:27PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: I installed fvwm, and I'm running it in another session, I must say, without messing with any configuration, it looks quite impressive. It seems faster than kde, which is a no-brainer since KDE is so demanding on the resources. Yep,

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 08:25:40AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:16:51AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: You're ruling out one of the main candidates in the 2008 election; Rudolph Gullianni. As far as I know he has had nothing to do with any wars. And if

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:54:19PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: That is not it. The point is that if a fetus at 22 weeks can survive, who gets to decide when the fetus is actually alive. I say we err on the side of caution and say that it is alive from the moment of conception. You are

Re: how to send files from a pc to my home server and viceversa

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:27:12AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:55:47AM -0800, Jordi wrote: Hello Yesterday I was able to run my server. I have 2 computers at home, one is server and the other is not. Both are connected to router. One uses Xubuntu and the

Re: fvwm

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:18:52AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:33:33AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:12:27PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: I installed fvwm, and I'm running it in another session, I must say, without messing with any

Re: Kernel Multipath

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:28:57AM -0300, Alan Romaniuc wrote: Hi all, I ve trying kernel multipath feature, to use two diffrents links to connect to internet, but I can never get it work on debian etch distribution kernel. I can recompile the kernel as explained by LARTC list, and with

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:00:02AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:39:58AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, isn't air travel an example of fairly efficient (and government subsidized) public transportation, at least long distance flights? Oh

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:29:40PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Doesn't (2) I'm also finding harder to sift the useful information from the dross, so I'll post a me too message. and (4) Oh, I've been doing that a lot, I'll post an I'm sorry. conflict with (7) I'm such a prick, that I'll

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:11:36PM +, J.A. de Vries wrote: Hi, My boss gave me a Dell Latitude D810 to use for work so I didn't have to use my privately owned Acer Ferrari 4000 anymore. First thing I did was install testing on it, which was no problem at all. Next I built a 2.6.20.1

Re: [SOLVED] Re: sound in iceweasel

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:36:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 05:49:26PM +, andy wrote: Thanks for the help - have fixed it. It was a combo of not having the latest flash plugin (now fixed with flashplugin-nonfree) and adjusting the

Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:53:31AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set up bridged networking for a Qemu guest system. The doc I have says I need to do a 'chmod 666 /dev/net/tun' to be able to do this. And, I see the permissions on it are: crw--- 1 root root 10, 200

Re: CMS for server

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:40:59PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: Who the heck made you God Moderator of Debian User? Why don't you look at the Debian-User List Charter. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ debian-user mailing list Help and discussion among users of

Re: Configurable files and functions

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:33:11PM -0600, Dave Walker wrote: I am looking for an explanatory list of configuration files used in sarge 3.1. The information I am looking for would give the location (path), function (what the system uses it for), and whether the file can be successfully changed

Re: static IP

2007-03-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 10:37:27PM -0800, Jordi wrote: Ok, Andrew So I leave it that way. Why I saw sometimes in some web sites this kind of static ips starting by 10.xxx.xxx.xxx and /number ? Jordi http://aboutdebian.com/network.htm -- Chris. == Don't forget to check that your

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 04:21:18PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I built a new computer with two hard drives and installed XP Home Edition on the first drive. The second drive contains my Debian system - kernel 2.6.17 and Testing. I intended to use disc 1 of a Sarge installation set as a

Re: static IP

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 05:30:42PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: As far as I know, they aren't even talking on debian-doc anymore. The They are, but the list seems to be a clearinghouse(?) for patches submitted against the debian documentation. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. -- Chris.

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 01:25:13AM +, Hans du Plooy wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 07:56 -0700, Kelly wrote: Just a request for opinions here guys. I have read several articles about Courier and Dovecot. What is your opinions about which to go with. There's really very little

Re: Howto delete DVD-RW files

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 03:11:40AM +0100, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a method to delete individual files in one DVD-RW, without success :)Any suggestion? KDE or command line, I not use GNOME. Thanks! How expensive are they? :-) Just read the DVD-RW, and burn

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:38:59AM +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: Maybe I have not understood your problem, but are you looking for bash completion ? If you are, enable it in /etc/bash.bashrc. The OP is referring to filename expansion. To see what I mean try: man mtab with bash completion

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

2007-03-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:31:34PM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: A very large file in /var/mail was created instead. Any idea? That would be the default delivery. Your procmail file should end with this :0 /dev/null to prevent that. Won't that lose mail if any recipe fails? --

Thoughts on zsh? (was Re: vim like completion in bash?)

2007-03-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:20:54PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: cga2000 wrote: .. and as everybody will no doubt have noticed, ss/tt is one keystroke less than ss/*t* (not to mention the fact that the '*' is shifted and a little harder to reach). Ok, and now to point out the other

Re: update-initramfs question

2007-03-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:19:54PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I run this: ~Sun Mar 04-13:57:19SDA6# update-initramfs -u and I get: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 does not exist. Cannot update. That happens to be true. (Surprise!) But how does he know that

Re: Etch

2007-03-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 05:41:30PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:23:05PM +0100, pinniped wrote: Etch is almost 2 years old! SATA support began in the 2.5 kernels and some modules were backported to 2.4. There have been many huge changes in the 2.6 kernel to

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:54:11PM +, Hans du Plooy wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 22:43 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: There is one(?) caveat though. Don't create your Maildir directory by hand. USE the maildirmake program and then create your mailboxes using the -f switch of maildirmake

Re: Hard Drive hdb becomes hdf !!!

2007-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:39:33AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I call my computer Phoenix because it has gone through a massive upgrade. It had 1 GHz cpu, a motherboard with problems and two hard drives - hda with windoz for a couple of trivial apps and Debian testing for all the real work.

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:33:39PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:36:35PM EST, Franck Joncourt wrote: I may have missed something ; I am running Sid. Enabling bash completion, it does not work. However, without bash completion it does work ! Where is the trick ? Ahhh!,

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:49:17PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I get when I try to install libncurses-dev kold:~# aptitude install libncurses-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done

Re: sparse matrix computation package

2007-03-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:59:18PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: I am trying to find a package for performing sparse matrix computations. All I could find under debian is superlu and libufsparse. Both of which seem to only solve sparse linear systems but not

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:08:38AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Yes, I can tell the difference. I think your assumption is based on the idea OPEC isn't profitting massively. Wow. You really don't get it. [..] Now, please demonstrate that you have a semblance of a clue, go read

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:47:05AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Failure, we've hired warlords to hunt warlords again. Didn't we learn from working with bin Laden in the first place that you just can't trust warlords? The warlords et al are only scapegoats. -- Chris. == Don't forget to

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:48:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:46:03AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Yup. You can blame that on your precious UN. Bush's hands were basically tied by a resolution that was written with language only authorizing the

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:32:46PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 20:43, Al Eridani wrote: On 3/4/07, Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Not at all. What the rest of the world wants is less interference from the US.

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:20:11PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: That's just not true. This world, particularly the West, already produces enough food to feed *everyone*, even while paying them not to grow food. Ummm, so nothings dumped in the ocean for economic reasons? -- Chris. == Don't

Re: CMS for server

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:58:13AM -0800, Jordi wrote: I am considering to change to another CMS. The best for me are these: - Xoops - Joomla - e107 What is wrong, if anything, with PHPWCMS http://www.phpwcms.de? I haven't looked at it myself, but someone was praising it over a coupla beers.

Re: update-initramfs question

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:48:19AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:19:54PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [..] But how does he know that initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486 is the 'newest kernel' as the man-page has it? -uThis mode updates an existing

Re: tzdata package for Sarge - Daylight Savings Change

2007-03-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:36:14PM -0500, Michael Lueck wrote: I saw this article online: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6300294422.html that leads me to believe the patch is available for Testing and Unstable, but not Stable/Sarge. I have not seen this weekend's time change mentioned

Re: help please! Error with apt-get, dpkg and aptitude

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:55:18AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Joe Hart wrote: David Primero Segundo wrote: Hello friends, i am very sad because my system debian is instable. When i run: apt-get upgrade or when i run aptitude to install or remove or upgrade a package, or when i use

Re: Possible bug in 'sort -m'

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:34:25PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: [..] sort -m from_number to_number | uniq | wc -l 122010 This is still almost 12000 too big (only 17 less than the 'uniq' on the separate files). So, I run this: sort -u from_number to_number | wc -l And I get

Re: Package database

2007-03-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:31:25PM +0200, ccostin wrote: If in mc - Status section from /var/lib/dpkg/status , is modified from Package: mc Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: utils into Package: mc Status: install ok installd - an error appear installd, instead of

Re: Strange /usr/bin file

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:22:21AM +0100, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi all. I find in my Debian Lenny machine this file, in /usr/bin folder: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34504 2008-01-29 04:03 [ Who created this file? What does it do? I presume you mean what created this file? [EMAIL

Re: apt-listbugs list postix doesn't tell error ...

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:36:53PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 11:38:11PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, A small comment about the command apt-listbugs list. By mistake I wrote apt-listbugs list postix instead apt-listbugs list postfix and I got:

Re: Setting up ADSL?

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 04:11:32AM -0500, Zach wrote: Anyone have a good basic firewall (especially example rules scripts!) that I can put up? apt-get install shorewall-doc Besides a plain firewall what else can I do to make my machine more secure since it will be connected to the outside

Re: mailfilter (was Re: missing /var/mail)

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:56:29AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: More assuming on my part. It's been 3 years since I started using Maildir and courier-imap, but IIRC, maildirmake defaults to Maildir as the main location. Or the web page that I based my work off of did... It is changeable in

Re: localhost prefixing problem

2008-02-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:26:27AM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote: sample email message cut here: From [EMAIL PROTECTED]/POP3 Sat Feb 9 10:18:16 2008 Newsgroups: Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 10:18:16 -0500 (EST) From: Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED]/POP3 X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Release: KNOPPIX5.1.1 for Trusted Compuintg Geeks (v1.0)

2008-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 07:31:11AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: The trustworthyness of any code is inversely proportional to the volume of claims of its trustworthyness. --- me ;) Michael Elkins! -- now I'm worried ... -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Strange /usr/bin file

2008-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:37:01PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: # Dear package manager, in what package do we have '['? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S [ dpkg: [ not found. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/[ dpkg: /usr/bin/[ not found. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/\['

Re: mutt-patches not displaying all mail lists in the sidebar

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 12:45:49PM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I just installed the mutt-patches package in order to get the sidebar to show what mailing subdirectories have new mail. I use the Mail directory format. I have about 10 different subdirectories. For some reason only one

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 07:33:10AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 02:49:24AM -0600, gary turner wrote: Jeff D wrote:snip run apache2ctl -t it should tell you what it thinks is wrong with your apache config Thanks, Jeff. That yields the error message

Re: wget vs lynx

2008-02-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 10:18:25AM +0100, Carlos Rivera Cordero wrote: On 17/02/08 10:48, Anas Husseini wrote: wget is receiving a 403 error (Forbidden) when trying to retrieve a special web page, while lynx (and other text and graphical web browsers) succeeded to get this page.

Re: Forward to be avoided on a mailing list [Was: [Fwd: dumb ifconfig_question]]

2008-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:37:28PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:13:45PM +, steef wrote: [snip] Please avoid using forward (unless you are forwarding a totally new message) because it breaks the threading (no In-Reply-to: header). I use reply and just

Re: Bug#465608: education has made my debian mentally challenged

2008-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:44:47AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Tyler MacDonald wrote: No such luck :-( A (hopefully final) fix for the problem was tested yesterday by Fabrice Lorrain [EMAIL PROTECTED] successfully. The packages versioned 0.826 just hit incoming and

Re: Modifying Keyboards for Special Characters

2008-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 03:30:32AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: Man, and I thought the Dvorak keyboard nuts were weird. :-) Do they require a special spanner? :-) -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: APT version 0.6.x.x,the meaning of warnings,and lack of signs of checks.

2008-02-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:39:10PM -0800, alexandre suzuki wrote: Now I have all my installed packages from the CDs in aptitude with the following warning: So you are mixing the packages from your Sarge CD's with packages from backports.org? warning(in red): This version of the package is

Re: boinc-app-seti -- |Message from server: platform '' not found

2008-02-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:33:52AM +0200, Vasichkin wrote: I've got problems running boinc client. here logs from boinc manager: 24.02.2008 1:14:33||Starting BOINC client version 5.4.11 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu 24.02.2008 1:14:33||libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5

Re: boinc-app-seti -- |Message from server: platform '' not found

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:28:27PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 01:33:52AM +0200, Vasichkin wrote: I've got problems running boinc client. here logs from boinc manager: 24.02.2008 1:14:33||Starting BOINC client version 5.4.11 for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:06:14AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thx Ron, now if only I could get stupid OpenOffice to print... Hmm... - Steve Ballmer Too early for school holidays isn't it? -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: DISPLAY variable not set in ssh session

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 07:40:56PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Package: xterm On Feb 26, 2008, at 2:57 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 05:00:13AM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: I just installed Lenny on a G4 Mac. I installed the ssh package on it. I can ssh to it just fine. But

Re: Aptitude error: The package index files are corrupted.

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't hijack threads] On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:17:14PM +0800, Fan Liu wrote: Hi all, I encountered such an error when I try to upgrade my debian lenny. Writing extended state information... Error! E: The package index files are corrupted. No Filename: field for package

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:09:34PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I thought it would never happen. Right from NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220246 ASUS Eee PC 4G – Galaxy Black Eee PC Intel processor 7 Wide VGA 512MB 4GB Integrated Graphics - Retail

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