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: 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: 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: [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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: [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: 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: 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: 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

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: 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.

Re: problem with tv card

2003-01-08 Thread Mike Dresser
On 8 Jan 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: You have a PC dedicated to displaying TV Actually, a lot of people do. They're called TiVo's and ReplayTv's and Dishplayers and stuff like that :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

RE: Unhappy, Bouncing, CDs

2003-01-08 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Narins, Josh wrote: Someone (who sounded wise) suggested my troubles began when Apple upgraded the firmware without telling me, a few days back. Is this music cd one of those copyprotected ones? At the risk of revealing your musical preferences, which ones have you tried?

RE: Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all scsi comp uter

2003-01-09 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Michael Kahle wrote: blow this one up... be sure I will NOT be sharing with anyone... a future employer will look me up and Google and decide he cannot afford my less than adequate performance. Some of the best hardware problems are prefaced with things like Nah, it'll

Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all s csicomp uter

2003-01-10 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Donald Spoon wrote: Rumor has it that the U.S. Auto industry has been secretly putting black boxes in cars trucks for analysis after accidents. Along with the usual Aww..S##T!, the most common last remark among our Rednecks is: Hold my beer and watch this! Indeed, my

Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all s csicomp uter

2003-01-10 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Hugh Saunders wrote: thats exactly what happend to my bp6... hugh We've got a BP6 in the fileserver here, I must have one of the few that is stable. It wasn't stable for the first few months of its life though. I ended up figuring out on my own that you needed a heatsink

Re: (OT) Worst night ever. WAS Adding a ide drive to an all s csicomp uter

2003-01-10 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Hugh Saunders wrote: yeah, mine had the heat sink and fan from a 486, fitted nicely. It was stable [even when overclocked] running woody with an smp kernel. Died because i added a graphics card before it had powered down properly [user-error, not hardware failure!] This

Re: network print server

2003-01-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Alvin Oga wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Mike Dresser wrote: On Sat, 11 Jan 2003, Michael West wrote: I have been using samba as a print server at home, but I am often mucking around on my debian box, and sometimes this results in my wife not being

Re: Web based IM

2003-01-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Tim Grogan wrote: Hello all, My company has decided to shutdown all IM services on our corporate network. Does anyone know of a web based IM that doesn't need a client to connect. It doesn't have to be really fancy. Thanks for your help. Tim go.icq.com, if i remember

Re: Sed or Awk Question

2003-01-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On 14 Jan 2003, Jody Grafals wrote: Dose anyone know how to replace a line break with a space using sed or awk? cat testfile | xargs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sed or Awk Question

2003-01-14 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Colin Watson wrote: cat testfile | xargs You win today's useless use of cat award. :) ('xargs testfile') YAaay I'll put this one up on the mantle with the others! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

(OT, Long) Very strange behaviour with real W2k file sharing, solvedby using Samba.

2003-01-15 Thread Mike Dresser
We have a group of W2k machines that have CADD software installed on them. In particular, we use a program called I-DEAS, currently at version 9. This software is installed and runs locally, and accesses our part datafiles off a network drive mapped to T: Under NT 4.0 on the client, this

Re: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-15 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Michael Kahle wrote: Now I am installing Debian Woody. A fresh install. I cannot find how during the installation to setup software RAID. Anyone know? If I'm remembering right, you can't do this for a Raid5 array.(is this still true?) I just did this on a Raid1 fresh

RE: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-16 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Michael Kahle wrote: Thanks to the both of you for your comments. My boss gave me the go ahead to purchase a Hardware RAID controller. I figured this would be a more robust solution that the Software RAID. Any suggestions on a brand? I am going to install Debian Woody

RE: Follow-up: Worst night ever...

2003-01-16 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Michael Kahle wrote: The 3ware card is ATA RAID. I have SCSI disks in my system. I need a hardware RAID card that supports my 68pin UltraSCSI drives. Doh. Me dummy. =) Hmm. Well, we've got an Adaptec 3410S w/256 meg cache, running 4 Seagate Cheetah X15-36lp's in a

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-16 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote: All, I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so long that you have advanced your

RE: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: Well, yes and no. I have sort of a round about computer history. I got my first computer when I was 10, a TI-99/4A -- that should date me properly, I spent many hours of playing Tunnels of Doom a few months ago under MESS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Ignoring ps's pid in ps (was: kill with regex?)

2003-01-20 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Does anyone know of a way to use the standard 'ps' to get a process listing without showing the pid of that instance of 'ps' itself, WITHOUT any piping being performed or auxiliary processes being done, and without using a different utility, such as

Re: Where has gcc been installed?

2003-01-20 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Steve Lamb wrote: {grey@teleute:~} locate gcc {grey@teleute:~} dpkg -L gcc and of course: which gcc /usr/bin/gcc Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: anything else). Second, you can change your font on the fly or via X resources or application default settings. Indeed, I run a 20 Viewsonic 20G at the office here at 1600x1200. My xterms are set to use a 10x20 font, and I use icewm with the blueHeart

Re: umount hdb?

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: orange:~# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 93M 93M 0 100% / Free up some space on your / partition, and you should be closer to your goals. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote: never tried installing a system w/o a video card at all though if that's what your attempting. nate I ran a slackware machine without a video card many many years ago, and it worked. Pain in the rear to diagnose when something went wrong, consisted mostly of

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote: Have you tried APC's powerchute? I'm not sure about their recent versions but have read one or 2 complaints in the past that they don't work on Debian. I keep an older version around which works fine on debian 2.2 and 3.0 just incase I need to test. I put it

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: Thanks for the other tips. APC currently says Debian is not one of their (semi)supported systems. And neither is Windows 95/98. :) I tried to get APC to fix their security holes in PowerChute Plus, they denied there was a problem. As well, the

Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-22 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Alvin Oga wrote: stick an rs232 into it and run minicom/seyon ?? and if one powers down during POST... it might go into bios mode and sit and wait for ya c ya alvin I even have a pair of IBM 3151's VT's somewhere, never did get them working right though, always had

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: Grab the MIB and roll your own tool using, for example, perl + Net:SNMP I have the MIB somewhere (or know someone who does :-) if you need it. Now that's even harder than putting up with their crappy software! I used snmpwalk once to grab the

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-23 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, nate wrote: I had a couple APC units with the SNMP cards, used APC Network shutdown on the systems, worked pretty well. only downside was tryin to get java workin on some of the more obscure platforms(AIX 4.3, Solaris 2.5-2.6, Tru64). On debian and redhat it was a snap

Re: hard crash despite UPS

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: If I had one of those SNMP modules here I'd whip together a script, but my APC is directly attached using a serial cable. Regards, Ours is double connected, now that I think of it. AS/400 on the serial side, and the SNMP board handles the rest of

Re: libcupsys2 is kept back

2003-01-24 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: and see what happens. The -s means simulate. It's possible that the new libcupsys2 depends on some other package and that's why it is being held back. Simulating an install will show if that's the case. Relies on libpng3 instead of the old

Lag test.

2003-01-27 Thread Mike Dresser
The current time here is 8:58, January 27th, and if it gets bad enough, 2003. Just curious what the current lag is. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lag test.

2003-01-27 Thread Mike Dresser
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Mike Dresser wrote: The current time here is 8:58, January 27th, and if it gets bad enough, 2003. Just curious what the current lag is. Mike two hours, for those who care :D Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

2003-01-29 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: now, i want to use that ls command again. is there a way inwhich i can reach it quickly? for instance, i type ls and some other key and bash completes from history? well, if nothing else, you can hit up a few times and it'll scroll through your

Re: External serial modem advice ?

2003-01-29 Thread Mike Dresser
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I have a Hayes Accura 336/56k fax modem that mostly works well with Linux. But sometimes the modem becomes unresponsive and the only way I can get it to work again is to power cycle it. That happens regardless of the OS on the computer it's

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 384mb RAM installed but 57mb recognized at bootup..........huh?

2003-01-30 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, nate wrote: Courtney Thomas said: Nate, Thank you for your interest. This motherboard is about 4 yrs old. I don't remember the brand but the manual indicates that it is a M5SAB, if that helps. The RAM is Kingston which I bought yesterday at Office Max. The

Re: 384mb RAM installed but 57mb recognized at bootup..........huh?

2003-01-30 Thread Mike Dresser
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Pigeon wrote: that go on a bender. :-) I suspect it of taking exponential time so it's quicker to test each DIMM separately rather than all three together, though I am prepared to be corrected on this. It uses an ultrasonic sensor buried in all computers since 1984 to

Re: RAM upgrade ignored or kernel panic arises on Thinkpad T22

2003-01-31 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Virgil wrote: I added append=mem=256M to lilo.conf and ran and executed /sbin/lilo -v Try mem=255M and see what happens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: list delay

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: At present, SPI cannot accept donations in Canadian currency due to the reluctance of U.S. banks to deal with Canadian funds. SPI is currently evaluating the possibility of opening an account in a Canadian bank. :/ Then again, i've always been

Re: XFree86 display problems

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Chad Johnson wrote: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, a line towards the very end states that Primary Device is: PCI 01:00:0 (EE) No devices detected - which seems kind of This is normal, they all say pci, even for agp odd, since my card uses an AGP slot (GeForce 4 Ti4600). the X

Re: list delay

2003-02-02 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 07:36:00PM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: | On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | | At present, SPI cannot accept donations in Canadian currency due to the | reluctance of U.S. banks to deal with Canadian funds

Re: XFree86 display problems

2003-02-02 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Chad Johnson wrote: I have done that, but X still fails to start. Chad Take a look at /usr/share/doc/, there should be two folders under there for those two packages, telling you what to do next. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Disk formatting

2003-02-02 Thread Mike Dresser
On 2 Feb 2003, Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote: Now, I found that /home has taken up almost all of /'s available space. So, I created a new logical partion from some free space, as /dev/hdb5 (~2GB) My question is: How can I format the new partition as ext3, and move /home to it safely? I'll

Re: Disk formatting

2003-02-02 Thread Mike Dresser
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, sean finney wrote: mv /home /home.old mount /dev/hdb5 /home I like your method a lot more than my own, but one minor note. Doesn't /home have to exist to mount on it? just throw a mkdir /home in the middle of there, and he should be all set. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Question on raid1 root problems (fwd)

2003-02-03 Thread Mike Dresser
I've got a setup here for root software raid1, installed a few months ago. Running woody, on a pair of 40 gig IDE drives, installed as /dev/hda and /dev/hdc. I installed the raid1 root as per the documentation on tldp.org We had a power outage over the weekend, and when the system came back up,

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: [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

.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: 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

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: 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: 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: virus killers?

2002-10-11 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A second question: I know debian has a command to search the system for finding keywords in packages, a kind of inventory. I thought it was part of the apt-get command, but can't find it there. Any idea. apt-cache search keyword -- To

Re: HD size limit ?

2002-10-25 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Kevin Coyner wrote: Is there a limit to the size of a IDE hard drive that Debian/Linux can accomodate? Not sure WHAT the limit is, but it's definately higher than anything commercially available today.(speaking of that, Maxtor needs to get their 320 gig drives available

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