Re: Blacklisted module still loads!

2007-03-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
"A. F. Cano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is on an Etch system (recently upgraded from Sarge), kernel > 2.6.18 from the deb source package available and compiled locally. If you compile your own kernel why don't you disable it in the kernel config? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain i

Re: authentication failure

2007-03-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
Tarek Soliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do not log in as root via ssh or even allow it. > There are reasons why the default in Debian is PermitRootLogin no The default is "yes". See /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/Readme.DEBIAN.gz for the maintainers oppinion. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't e

Problem with entering bios setup after interrupted network installation

2007-03-13 Thread Piotr pzc
Hi, About 2 weeks ago I bought a FSC Amilo Pro V3505 laptop. Last Wednesday I tried to install on it Debian from network (using Netinstal CD). However my Network card wasn't detected and installation failed. After message that no card has been detected I tried to pick some random models in hope

Re: authentication failure

2007-03-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Mar 2007, Kent West wrote: > semgogo sem wrote: > > I think that the password I'm typing in is correct. It worked fine a > > week ago. I do nothing but try login using root by wrong password. > > I'm sorry, but your English fails me on this last sentence; I'm unsure > what you're saying. >

Strange WINE behavior

2007-03-13 Thread Dan H.
Hello, there's this one Windows application I can't do without, and it is quite well-behaved under wine. Sometimes I start it and all is fine. Sometimes I start it and it takes literally 15 minutes until the application comes up (and then behaves normally). In the meantime there's nothing going o

Re: Strange WINE behavior

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Palmer
Dan H. wrote: Hello, there's this one Windows application I can't do without, and it is quite well-behaved under wine. Sometimes I start it and all is fine. Sometimes I start it and it takes literally 15 minutes until the application comes up (and then behaves normally). In the meantime there's

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:33:04 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/13/07 01:16, Joe Hart wrote: > [snip] > > > > Since you know so much about PDF files, let me ask you another > > question. Does PDF have DRM capabilities built in? > > They can

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Mike McCarty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> I personally am a fan of XFS. However, it is also possible to use ext3 >> on large partitions, as you point out. At work, I have a production >> server (running RHEL, unfortuna

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:33:04 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 03/13/07 01:16, Joe Hart wrote: >> [snip] >>> Since you know so much about PDF files, let me ask you another

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Joe Hart wrote: > As for acroread goes, it has turned into a huge package. The version in > my apt-cache shows 7.0.9, which is not the newest version, and it's a > whopping 22911748 bytes. I imagine that 8.0 is even bigger. > > While KPDF may not be as feature rich, it does the job, and weighs i

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Florian Kulzer wrote: > It is furthermore possible to write custom plug-ins which impose > additional restrictions. For example, we once got a reprint-PDF for an > article that we had published in a scientific journal. This PDF required > a plug-in so that it could contact the publisher's server to

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Joe Hart wrote: > My position comes from the fact that companies try to push their > proprietary formats down our throats. PDF is a perfect example of a > file type that I have disliked since I moved to Europe where the paper > format is different than the US. With PDF files, one cannot change th

nvidia mcp61 network adapter problem

2007-03-13 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, the thing i'm going to talk about is known issue, i'm just wondering how to easily solve it. some nvidia ethernet cards report their mac addresses to the kernel in reversed order (boot rom has them ok) - so you can boot off the network, but don't for example get ip from dhcp server,

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:31:29 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > > As for acroread goes, it has turned into a huge package. The version in > > my apt-cache shows 7.0.9, which is not the newest version, and it's a > > whopping 22911748 bytes. I imagine that 8.0 is even bigger

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:33:04 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ron, > > Since you know so much about PDF files, let me ask you another > > question. Does PDF have DRM capabilities built in? > They can be password encrypted. Don't know about anything else. Printing can be disabl

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > The concept behind pdf is a different one. The aim is not to have every > thing printed to the margins on different paper sizes. The concept is > that the printout, including line and page breaks, should be the same no >

DRM stupidity (was: Bug in acroread?)

2007-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:51:34 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > It is furthermore possible to write custom plug-ins which impose > > additional restrictions. For example, we once got a reprint-PDF for an > > article that we had published in a scientific journal. This

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

2007-03-13 Thread Freddy Freeloader
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 dpkg, debia answer me the next: http://pastebin.ca/392151, please i don't

Re: ndiswrapper problem

2007-03-13 Thread Freddy Freeloader
L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 3/12/07, Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800 > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have a problem with ndiswrapper on Sid. >> >> I have a built-in broadcom wireless chip in my laptop. I've been u

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:51:09 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: [...] > Can you point me to a link where I can get the source for PDF? The DRM > information and all? IMO, Arcoread is just a marketing tool for Adobe > so that people will buy Acrobat. Very similar to Wordpad (until > recently) being abl

Re: authentication failure

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Johnson
semgogo sem wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction... > > Using SSH , I cannot log in using root - I get 'acccess denied'. Never log in as root. > I can log in using a second account I have set up, however

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Roberto C. Sanchez [Mon, Mar 12 2007, 07:06:43PM]: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > Hi Roberto. > > > > > > I see. I was asking since I have a whole drive full of videos and such > > which are > > usually between 100MB and 300MB per file. So I gu

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:51:09 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > [...] > >> Can you point me to a link where I can get the source for PDF? The DRM >> information and all? IMO, Arcoread is just a marketing tool for Adobe >> so tha

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
> > > > > I would certainly trust XFS. Of course, if you don't have your machine > > on an UPS, it can cause problems on a crash or power outage. > > Great, that is the usual propaganda from XFS users with the same lame > excuse written with small letters. It has this bad tendency to shred the

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel Palmer
Eduard Bloch wrote: #include * Roberto C. Sanchez [Mon, Mar 12 2007, 07:06:43PM]: On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Roberto. I see. I was asking since I have a whole drive full of videos and such which are usually between 100MB and 300MB per file. So

Re: authentication failure

2007-03-13 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:09, Paul Johnson wrote: > semgogo sem wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > > Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction... > > > > Using SSH , I cannot log in using root - I get 'acccess denied'. > > Never log in as roo

Multi-disk filesystem or aufs/unionfs alternative

2007-03-13 Thread Jørgen P. Tjernø
Hi! Can anyone recommend a multi-disk filesystem or a multi-filesystem filesystem (like aufs or unionfs) for use on a series of consumer-grade stand-alone disk (currently netting about 1.7TB)? UnionFS doesn't support NFS-exporting and has issues with exporting via samba (files and directorie

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:58:31PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > * Roberto C. Sanchez [Mon, Mar 12 2007, 07:06:43PM]: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:34:48PM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > > > > I see. I was asking since I have a whole drive full of videos and such > > > which are >

Re: OT: suggestions for rugged

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Johnson
pinniped wrote in Article posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > There are rugged laptops aimed primarily at the military but also commonly > used in industry.  Occasionally you can pick them up at ex-govt auctions > for next-to-nothing and in great condition. And sometimes in some rather interest

Fwd: Processed (with 3 errors): it' so bad

2007-03-13 Thread xavier dreux
Hi; (sorry for my bad english) I just wanna said that with the boot option (at install prompt of sarge r5) "linux26" the installed kernel was a K7 , else i've got a Pentium 3 ; so then system was unbootable With the normal option , 2.4.27-speakup was installed Thanks

Re: ndiswrapper problem

2007-03-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:02:00 -0700 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > On 3/12/07, Jan Schledermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Celejar wrote: > >> > >> > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:47:08 -0800 > >> > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > >> >>

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:02:17PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:51:09 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: [...] > > Is postscript so bad that everyone needs pdf? No. The fact that PDF > > files are hard to edit is what makes them so popular in the business world. > > I think it w

Re: Multi-disk filesystem or aufs/unionfs alternative

2007-03-13 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:42:42PM +0100, "J?rgen P. Tjern?" wrote: > Can anyone recommend a multi-disk filesystem or a multi-filesystem > filesystem (like aufs or unionfs) for use on a series of consumer-grade > stand-alone disk (currently netting about 1.7TB)? > > UnionFS doesn't support NFS-e

Re: OT: suggestions for rugged portable computer

2007-03-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 03/12/07 21:32, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] I've had two laptops. Once clone died when my house got hit by lightening while I was using it. I figure induction from the current in the metal roof fried the display. The ThinkPad fried itself when the tent I was in got hit by lightn

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:23:27 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > As for acroread goes, it has turned into a huge package. The version in > my apt-cache shows 7.0.9, which is not the newest version, and it's a > whopping 22911748 bytes. I imagine that 8.0 is even bigger. > > Whil

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:58:31PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Great, that is the usual propaganda from XFS users with the same lame > excuse written with small letters. How is it propaganda? It was a statement of fact. > It has this bad tendency to shred the > file contents after powerouts

Re: Thermal Monitor & automatic shutdown on over temperature event

2007-03-13 Thread Bob
Bob wrote: David A. wrote: On Mar 9, 9:10 am, Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my etch MythTV Backend to shutdown automatically if either the CPU or the Hard drives overheat. 8< snip > Hi all, I have similar worries since I run a fanless EPIA. If load > gets to high and I

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
> Well, as an anecdote of my own, I have used both XFS and ext3 quite > extensively and found that they are equally as good, given *quality* > hardware. > I assume quality hardware is mutually exclusive with a home PC Is that correct? -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: authentication failure

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:05:24AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Tarek Soliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do not log in as root via ssh or even allow it. > > There are reasons why the default in Debian is PermitRootLogin no > > The default is "yes". > See /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/Read

services don't communicate after connection

2007-03-13 Thread ivan . jedlicka
When i try to connect to remote services like ftp or ssh using command-line client, i am prompted to enter user name after connection is established. I type the right login name and post it to server. That time communication hangs and login will fail on timeout. When I use an GUI ftp-client (conque

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 09:34 -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > > Well, as an anecdote of my own, I have used both XFS and ext3 quite > > extensively and found that they are equally as good, given *quality* > > hardware. > > > > I assume quality hardware is mutually exclusive with a home PC > Is that c

ATI fglrx driver and notebook brightness ajustment

2007-03-13 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, On my notebook, HP nx6125 (ATI X300 graphics), if I use the included radeon (oss) driver, I can ajust the screen brightness with the fn keys on the keyboard, and if I unplug AC power, the screen dimms automatically. But if I used the fglrx driver, this doesn't work correctly. It does w

Re: Problem with entering bios setup after interrupted network installation

2007-03-13 Thread Kent West
Piotr pzc wrote: Hi, About 2 weeks ago I bought a FSC Amilo Pro V3505 laptop. Last Wednesday I tried to install on it Debian from network (using Netinstal CD). However my Network card wasn't detected and installation failed. After message that no card has been detected I tried to pick some random

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:34:45AM -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > > Well, as an anecdote of my own, I have used both XFS and ext3 quite > > extensively and found that they are equally as good, given *quality* > > hardware. > > > > I assume quality hardware is mutually exclusive with a home PC > Is

Eclipse crash

2007-03-13 Thread Christian Ribeaud
Hi, I am desperately trying to get Eclipse 3.2 working on my laptop. I upgrated java to JDK1.6 but it did not change anything. Crashes are not predicable and could happen at anytime. Starting Eclipse is not a problem. Buf, after a couple of minutes, I always get this kind of message: # An un

Iceweasel and Iceweasel-dbg

2007-03-13 Thread Ken Heard
Both the iceweasel and iceweasel-dbg packages are installed in my Etch boxes and are used. Iceweasel is described by aptitude as a "lightweight web browser based on Mozilla." Iceweasel-dbg is described as "containing the debugging symbols for iceweasel." What are "debugging symbols"?

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread John Hasler
Gregory Seidman writes: > ...PDF is just a page definition language. It was. They keep adding to it... -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
> Now as far as video, who cares about that... servers don't need GUI > stuff. > Tell that to our admins who run redhat and suse. Want to disable these guys? Remove some X libraries. (The one guy who uses CLI uses telnet) Yes they really have X on ALL of the servers. -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:33:38AM -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > > Now as far as video, who cares about that... servers don't need GUI > > stuff. > > > > Tell that to our admins who run redhat and suse. Want to disable these > guys? Remove some X libraries. (The one guy who uses CLI uses telnet)

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:23:27 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > >> As for acroread goes, it has turned into a huge package. The version in >> my apt-cache shows 7.0.9, which is not the newest version, and it's

Re: usb audio device & sound card

2007-03-13 Thread Bob McGowan
Mark Grieveson wrote: Greetings Mark: This script would set your on-board card (CS46xx) to be your default card for alsa regardless of which card it is in the system (0 or 1): #!/bin/bash # # The awk statement should get the first "word" (the card number) # from the line which contains the

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-06 14:49:39, schrieb Andrew Sackville-West: > you did not follow that thread through properly as the reality is that > the US military *requires* highschool diploma or better for all ^ > recruits except for a very small percentage who are all

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Ho Paul, Am 2007-03-06 20:48:28, schrieb Paul Johnson: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Besides, you can go to College while in the Service. > > Given how thinly spread the armed forces are right now, when do you suppose > homework gets done? In the back seat of a humvee on patrol? I was 11 years and 5

Re: Bio-Based Fuels

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Arnt, I am PMC (Private Military Contractor) and I do dataretention about USA, Great Britan and Israel in conjunction with Africa, Near- and Middle East. Debian and Informatic is only my secondary job. I like you, because you are one of those WHO know the truth and you talk about it even o

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-02-25 15:49:20, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > The US is the biggest energy market in the world, though China is The USA are consuming over 40% of the worlds petrol resources and it is WHY THEY TRY TO STEAL THE PETROL FROM IRAK AND IRAN. And since the USA have arround 22% jobless peoples a

Re: Bio-Based Fuels

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-04 22:42:28, schrieb Ron Johnson: > Well... the Muslim world sure *does* seem so superior to The West. > > Thus begs the question: when are *you* moving southeast? I am under contract with the french Government up to 2007-07 and then I will migrate to Iran or Turkey... Doing some stuf

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-02-27 06:08:47, schrieb Andy Smith: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:42:22PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Sorry, for the "Off-Topic" ness of this post. I guess we are being > > admonished for far too much of this. > > It's interesting that in the relatively few wildly off-topic threads > tha

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/07 10:33, Tarek Soliman wrote: >> Now as far as video, who cares about that... servers don't need GUI >> stuff. >> > > Tell that to our admins who run redhat and suse. Want to disable these > guys? Remove some X libraries. (The one guy who us

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-06 16:31:45, schrieb Al Eridani: > >renders massive aid to the victims of natural disaster. > > You must have been in a deserted island 14 months ago when > the earthquake and the tsunami in Indonesia happened. The US Where the privates have donate over 58 Million Euro in the first wee

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-06 22:20:21, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > Here is another little tidbit: > > "For example, in the UK the public donated roughly L330,000,000 sterling > (nearly US$600,000,000). This considerably outweighed the donation by > the government and came to about L5.50 (US$10) donated by each

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-07 10:59:52, schrieb Sjoerd Hardeman: > Let me refresh your memory > Chile: Pinochet, forcibly got power with US assistance, after a > communist (Allende) won the elections. > El Salvador: US supports Junta against communists. Under the Junta > control there were many political killings,

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-08 16:22:20, schrieb Mitja Podreka: > Also everybody in the US would be speaking German in that case. > But I guess this could not happen. The WW2 would for sure last longer if > there were no US help, but the end result would be the same But do you know, that the USA had stolen the kn

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-06 19:07:37, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:48:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I believe I heard that the first Bush, in his book on the first Gulf > > war, wrote that he was not in favour of occupying Iraq because there > > was no viable exit strateg

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-06 10:46:03, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:47:05AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Failrue, we had to go back a decade later to finish the job. > > > Yup. You can blame that on your precious UN. Bush's hands were > basically tied by a resolution that was writ

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-05 22:23:00, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > You mean the wars which had overwhelming majority support from both > houses of congress? You mean the wars of which Hillary Clinton > said the following [0]: > > "I believe the facts that have brought us to this fateful vote are not > in

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-06 21:06:02, schrieb Paul E Condon: > Iraq had a national healthcare system before Saddam H. came to power. He > kept it going. It is part of what people in third world _expect_ from the > government. That and supression of riots. Not freedom. And Sadam has increased the HealthCare Sys

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-08 16:48:37, schrieb Paul Johnson: > We had 1% unemployment in the clinton years. It's several times that now. > > > BTW, that is the second time you have made the claim of high unemployment > > rates. Please provide a source. > > State of Oregon Department of Employment. I can n

Re: Does debian support sata 750GB hard drive?

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-05 14:35:38, schrieb Michael Pobega: > As far as I know SATA support wasn't included in the Kernel until > after Sarge became stable, so it was never included in Sarge's > repositories. Ehm what? I use the 2.4.27 and my AsusTek A7V600-X has a VIA SATA controler and it works perfectly..

Re: how to create a bootable 2.88M floppy boot image file

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-05 18:24:48, schrieb Stephane Durieux: > Hello, > > I would like to know how to create a vfat bootable > 2.88 M floppy image file. > I need it so as to merge two bootable floppy (one > bootable plus the other) You need FloppyDisks of the type "2ED" from BASF/MTEC or SONY Thanks, Greet

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-05 22:07:48, schrieb Curt Howland: > There may very well have been some nasty, reprehensible things done, > which deserve both wide publicity and boycott. A company, no matter > how large their market share, cannot force you to buy their product. > And unless they _sell_ product, they

Re: Apt Pinning: Way of no return ?

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Soso, Hallo Ismaninger Prüftechniker... Also: 1) Remove the pinning from the /etc/apt/preferences 2) remove the reference to "unstabil" from the /etc/apt/sources.list 3) apt-get update 4) apt-get install kdevelop=x.y.z where x.y.z is the version number of the "testing" or "stable" packa

Re: make-kpkg makes HUGE kernel packages??

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-06 22:04:59, schrieb Matt Price: > this? the vmlinuz produced by the package is of normal size, but the > initrd is huge -- 43 megs! -- and /lib/modules/kernel-version-number/ is > on the order of 530 megs!!! Sorry, but with the infos you have provided I can not help you. Please, c

Re: How to reject spam with embedded graphics

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-07 11:19:30, schrieb Chris Lale: > There was some discussion on the list a while ago about how to deal with > spam that has text as graphics embedded in it. There was disagreement > about whether or not to use it to teach SpamAssassin. I have continued > feeding this spam to SpamAssas

Re: How to reject spam with embedded graphics

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-07 17:24:58, schrieb Javier Viegas: > I don?t reccomend to block mails, based on IP addresses, this is for sure > going to cause a lot of false positive and block tons of legit mails, the > common thing is to use adsl or cable connection with dynamic IP so if a > spammer used that IP and

Re: How do I list all users in a group?

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-07 05:59:38, schrieb kawanokami: > sorry... I should have mentioned that I looked into that too. It > doesn't seem to list the group owner... I mean: group www-data doesn't A GROUP does not have an owner. > contain user www-data and so I end up not knowing if a specified group The USE

Re: Ping: Curt Howland

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-07 08:35:18, schrieb Curt Howland: > I get the digest, so I cannot reply to a single email. > > You could fix your MUA to sort by subject. This is bullshit since there are MANY tools out there, which can split diggests into seperatly messages. Even "procmail" can do this on the fly wh

Re: Ping: Curt Howland

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-07 11:05:54, schrieb Andrew Sackville-West: > there was some stuff lately about how to break out the digest messages > into individual messages. I'm curious -- does the digest preserve the > message id's? and if so can they then be incorporated into the digest All digest I know preserve

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-08 08:12:17, schrieb Jon Ingason: > OK then, what is the logical limit? I have disk array with 14x500 GB > disks with hardware raid 6. That i about 7 TB. Can the kernel handle > that large filesystem and how do I do? Yes it can, even with 2.4.27. Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Mich

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-08 13:14:02, schrieb Albert Dengg: > who needs >2TB for /boot ? M I want to test all kernels from 1.0.0 to 9.9.99 at once and want prepared for the future! :-P Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tam

Re: DST and woody

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Tony, Am 2007-03-07 13:37:51, schrieb Tony Heal: > Does anyone know if there is a libc6 package available somewhere, for > woody, that has the new DST fix? I am trying to You need to update this by hand > update the server to sarge, but I am getting resistance from the > boss, so I need to

Re: user defined mime types, source highlighting

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-07 16:59:58, schrieb Zoho Vignochi: > Hello, > > I write code in Octave (a free Matlab clone) and I would like the source > files which have an extension .m to be recognized and automagically > highlighted in gedit. As of now I have to select Octave highlighting > myself every time when

Re: how to give priority for slected source

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-08 09:33:05, schrieb abdelkader belahcene: > Hi, > I created a locale repository, defined in sources.list > > deb file:///home etch/ This should be: deb file:///home/etch . > which contains the desired packages > > I added an official repository > > deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/deb

Re: Debian and X fonts

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Ron, Am 2007-03-08 08:31:06, schrieb Ron Johnson: > > ** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*". > > Warning: Cannot convert string > > "-*-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--*-140-*-*-P-*-ISO8859-1" to type FontStruct > > Warning: Cannot convert string > > "-

Re: problems with apt-get update

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hola David, Am 2007-03-08 10:44:53, schrieb David Primero Segundo: > linex-inWpyZ:/var/lib/dpkg# apt-get update > Des:1 http://apt.linex.org sarge/linex2006 Packages [491kB] > Obj http://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main Packages > Obj http://ftp.de.debian.org sarge/main Release > Obj http://security.d

Re: Procmail recipe problems

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-08 08:50:13, schrieb Arlie Stephens: > On Mar 08 2007, jeffd wrote: > > maybe something like this would work? > > :0: > > * ^List-Id:.*debian-user\.lists\.debian\.org > > -debian-user > > It looked promising, but didn't work. Thanks anyway. I LOVE this ultragenial answers!!! G

Re: ACL support via NFS

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-09 13:16:02, schrieb Marco De Vitis: > Does NFS support ACLs somehow? Yes, in a recent kernel with NFS4 support and in the mount options you must use "vers=4". Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consu

Re: ACL support via NFS

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-09 15:14:49, schrieb Stephan Seitz: > Hm, from my kernel config (2.6.20.1): > > CONFIG_NFS_V3_ACL: > Implement the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension for manipulating POSIX > Access Control Lists. The server should also be compiled with > the NFSv3 ACL protocol extension; see the CONFIG_NFSD

Re: ACL support via NFS

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-09 16:17:30, schrieb Marco De Vitis: > Sigh! Also the 2.6.8 version from backports does not support ACLs. > I then built and installed 2.6.9 on Sarge from sources (although the > changelog between 2.6.8 and 2.6.9 only shows diffs regarding ACLs for > developers), and... it still does n

Re: Non-free software in the kernel (in the main section!)?

2007-03-13 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-09 17:46:54, schrieb Trosinenko Anatoly: > There is a driver MTD -> NFTL in the kernel-source-2.6.8 > (2.6.8-16sarge1). > Is it free software??? (See description in "make menuconfig".) There is also > the module "nftl" in the kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 (2.6.8-16sarge1). Who use 2.

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, all, > > I doubt that this is specific to debian, but has anyone noticed > this bug in acroread? I've noticed that if I print pages in reverse, I > can't print in the forward direction until I quit the program and

Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Joe Hart wrote: > Is postscript so bad that everyone needs pdf? No. The fact that PDF > files are hard to edit is what makes them so popular in the business > world. > pdf files are searchable. I cannot figure out how to search a .ps file under gv. The search functionality is tremendously usef

Re: Iceweasel and Iceweasel-dbg

2007-03-13 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Ken Heard wrote: > Both the iceweasel and iceweasel-dbg packages are installed in my Etch > boxes and are used. Iceweasel is described by aptitude as a > "lightweight web browser based on Mozilla." Iceweasel-dbg is described > as "containing the debugging symbols for iceweasel." What are > "deb

Re: authentication failure

2007-03-13 Thread Paul Johnson
Nigel Henry wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:09, Paul Johnson wrote: >> semgogo sem wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: >> > Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction... >> >

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-02-25 15:49:20, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: >> The US is the biggest energy market in the world, though China is > > The USA are consuming over 40% of the worlds petrol resources > and it is WHY THEY TRY TO STEAL THE

Re: What is this error message telling me?

2007-03-13 Thread Chris
On Saturday 10 March 2007 16:49, heba wrote: > 2007/3/10, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > cpio: ./etc/udev/.#permissions.rules: No such file or directory > > > > happens when I dist-upgrade. I have an etch/unstable system. > > > > Thanks for any suggestions, > > > > Chris > > hi, > the error say

Re: HOWTO: multi-seat Debian Sid using the stock kernels.

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
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Re: Bug in acroread?

2007-03-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Joe Hart wrote: [snip] I disagree about it being forced on us. Many documents on the web are PDF format. Most hardware comes without manuals and the documents are pdf files. You have an odd definition for the word "force". We should thank Adobe that --despite the limitations-- their forma

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] All of those should work, with (depending on the card/chip) the possible exception of sound. If you can't make Debian work, install Ubuntu. That's what it's for. And don't feel yourself a failure. I couldn't get RH5.2 installed, and, when it was time to buy a new c

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
> > 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 > get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more > confident I will be. > > Please also post tricky and troubleshooting questions. >

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: [snip] FYI, *any* filesystem has the potential to lose data on a sudden power outage. Umm, no. I suppose you haven't worked in telecomm. I've supported file systems which never, ever, lost anything. If the system call came back, and said it was on disc, then it was.

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