Hello,
I have some Sysadmin interviews coming up soon, so I thought
the best place to ask for some sample Linux questions would be this
mailing list.
Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about
Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can
ge
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 08:58:09AM -0600, Charles Blair wrote:
>I am trying to install debian (testing) on a machine that
> has Windows XP. I downloaded and booted the first .iso image
> (weekly build as of Feb 28). Partitoning and other steps
> seem to have worked properly.
>
> When I s
Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:22:55 -0600, Cybe wrote in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 02:19:03PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > >I heard the U
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:08:40PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 07:44:06PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > Totalitarianism and socialism aren't mutually exclusive, but neither is
> > any
> > > other economic and political model combination. Corr
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:05:25PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 16:14:59 -0800
> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > You can claim a duck is really a chicken, but that doesn't stop that
> > it's really a duck.
>
> Wow, you win! I can not possibly beat *this* argu
Andrei Popescu wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
I use ssh with X11 forwarding to manage the firewall.
With firestarter? How?
[snip X11 forwarding stuff]
If *that* isn't shooting a fly with a canon, than I don't know what
is.
[snip rant against console users]
You *really* do not read what othe
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:09:23PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:47:15PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >
> > just to put it out there, another way to look at that stat:
> >
> > assuming 2 trips per work day for commuting, that is 1,327,822,650
> > work roun
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:40:06AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> I.ve updated
> http://wiki.debian.org/USB-HD_Boot_Full_Debian?highlight=%28USB%29
> to reflect the fact that you can install and run a Debian Stock Kernel
> from USB disk but as of this date you must change the initrd image
>
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:19:02PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> 70MB is *huge* amount of data to install *only* to have a gui. IMHO
> firestarter is only useful if you already have X installed, though this
> is a bad idea on a server.
You could run X on another system. People tend to forget
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> >> Totalitarianism and socialism aren't mutually exclusive, but neither is
> > any
> >> other economic and political model combination. Correlation without
> > causation.
> >
> > They're not mutually exclusive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could run X on another system. People tend to forget that X is a
networked protocol.
mmm. I am not sure we are talking about the same thing.
If yes.. then I'd like to learn how to do it the other way.
But to be sure I will tell how I see it. If you still think oth
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:08:02AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:27:28 -0500
> "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:06:45AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:36:08 -0500
> > > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PRO
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:51:48AM +0100, Andreas Duffner wrote:
>
> Do I understand you right, that I do not have to
> download these X-files, if I intend to export the display
> to another computer ?
>
> That would be really nice.
>
You need the xbase-clients package at a very minimum. You ss
On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:10:35 -0600, Ron wrote in message
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> On 02/25/07 16:30, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Michael Pobega wrote:
> >> Everyone has their own belief, and let it be that way.
> >
> > I'd rather not. Personally
Andreas writes:
> Do I understand you right, that I do not have to download these X-files,
> if I intend to export the display to another computer ?
You need some libraries but no X-server. Firestarter 1.0.3-1.3
dependencies:
libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.2),
libaudiofile0 (>=
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 09:55 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> > Paul Johnson wrote:
> >> Totalitarianism and socialism aren't mutually exclusive, but neither is
> > any
> >> other economic and political model combination. Correlation without
> > causation.
> >
> > They're no
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:28:57 -0600, Ron wrote in message
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> On 03/01/07 13:31, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:11:04 -0600
> > "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL P
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 16:43 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:08:40PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 07:44:06PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > > Paul Johnson wrote:
> > > > Totalitarianism and socialism aren't mutually exclusive, but neithe
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:51:48AM +0100, Andreas Duffner wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >You could run X on another system. People tend to forget that X is a
> >networked protocol.
>
> mmm. I am not sure we are talking about the same thing.
> If yes.. then I'd like to learn how to do it th
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:04:13PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> If we do go socialistic this nation will have abandoned what made it
> great. I hope you do notice that the further we move toward socialism
> the more our country has declined in both moral fiber and in respect by
> the rest of
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 10:09:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Being rom the rest of the world, I have been losing respect for the
> United States because it fails to ensure a minimum standard of living
> for its people, and sends out armies to interfere in how the rest of the
> world r
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On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:04:13PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
If we do go socialistic this nation will have abandoned what made it
great. I hope you do notice that the further we move toward socialism
the more our country has declined in both moral fiber and in
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:34 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> Or a Brit needing an operation for which there is a very long
> waiting list because of NHS inefficiencies?
Life Expectancy at birth (years):
U.S. E.U. U.K. Canada
Male:75.0275.1076.0976.86
Female: 80
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:46:30PM -0800, Michael M. wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:34 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> >
> > Or a Brit needing an operation for which there is a very long
> > waiting list because of NHS inefficiencies?
>
> Life Expectancy at birth (years):
> U.S. E.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:04:13PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
If we do go socialistic this nation will have abandoned what made it
great. I hope you do notice that the further we move toward socialism
the more our country has declined in both moral fiber and in
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> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:10:35 -0600, Ron wrote in message
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On 03/04/07 21:07, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:28:57 -0600, Ron wrote in message
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>> On 03/01/07 13:31, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:11:04 -0600
>>> "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED
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On 03/04/07 17:30, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 18:49:53 -0500, Greg wrote in message
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>> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:56 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 05:38:49PM -0500, Greg Folkert
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On 03/04/07 21:59, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:46:30PM -0800, Michael M. wrote:
>> On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 14:34 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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>>> Or a Brit needing an operation for which there is a very long
>>> waiting list be
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On 03/04/07 22:16, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:04:13PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
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>>> If we do go socialistic this nation will have abandoned what made it
>>> great. I hope you do notice th
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070304 22:42]:
>
> It *is* religion.
Dear People! Kindly edit out my name and address the next time you
quote the message in question. The way the message is being quoted
makes it appear that I am promoting the degaussing of CDs.
But in fact, I several roun
abdelkader belahcene wrote:
Refer to section 5.2.3 of the docs for information about configuring
XDMCP:
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gdm/docs/2.16/configuration.html
Note Enable=false by default, so you need to turn it on if you want
it to work. You can also configure by running gdmsetup as
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:54:45PM EST, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Wayne Topa wrote:
> > zhengquan zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> >> Hello:
> >> I can :e *doc* in vim, pressing tab and it can help me find the document I
> >> need,
> >> but in bash if I use vi *doc* and press tab, not
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 10:14:06 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Debian Users,
>
> My favourite MUA has an implementation of POP3
> which is not compatible with the POP3 of my ISP.
>
> Until I can fix POP3 in the MUA, I want my
> home Debian router machine to fetch messages
> from the ISP and d
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:46:30PM -0800, Michael M. wrote:
[ snip some stats ]
>> Sure looks like socialized medicine is sucking there, huh?
> So what? The US also has the highest levels of obesity in the world. I
> *highly doubt* that even if the US happened to im
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 glaringly obvious part of this thread.
Care to share how you got bash
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yuwen Dai wrote:
>[I wrote]
>> $ formail -s < mboxfile | procmail recipefile
>>
>> recipefile looks like this:
>>
>> :0:
>> * ^Received: .* myserver.example.net ;.* Dec 2006
>> /home/me/December
> I created a similiar rc file like this:
>
>:0:
> * ^Received:
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:50:17 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:19:02PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >
> > 70MB is *huge* amount of data to install *only* to have a gui. IMHO
> > firestarter is only useful if you already have X installed, though
> > this is a bad idea on
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