Re: Current through USB bus
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, How can I know how much current goes through each USB port for its related device(s)? Thanks. Try lsusb -v There will be a MaxPower listed for the device -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.1.10.1005061259300.13...@router.windsormachine.com
Re: qtparted and kernel disagree about partitions
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, David Goodenough wrote: hda: Host Protected Area detected. ^Icurrent capacity is 268435455 sectors (137438 MB) ^Inative capacity is 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) Is this a PATA drive, and from there, has a jumper on the back for LBA48? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.1.10.1003041645270.17...@router.windsormachine.com
Re: unexpected problem with icedove : hundred of storaged mails no longer have a body !
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Bernard wrote: Again I re-installed the old .mozilla-thunderbird directory, waiting for more advices Icedove has a 4gb folder size limit.. could you have hit that? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.1.10.1003031613210.11...@router.windsormachine.com
Re: SAS Card Suggestions
On Thu, 21 May 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: 2. PCI-X PCI-X, or PCI-E? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?
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, probably surprised him more than anything else. I do sometimes lament the lack of hills around here to really get up to speed, though I suspect our level terrain is more conductive to my longterm survival prospects. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?
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 the like. Supports using it as a portable hard drive as well. I believe it's limited to 2GB maximum on the SD card though, as it's a standard FAT16 format. Uses a single AAA battery, and that lasts something like 15 hours, also can be run off the USB port if you modify a cable to not have data pins, or use one of those wallplug to USB adapters. It also has a cheap FM tuner built in. Believe they're well under $100 nowadays, if they're still made. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Need to carry around 750 songs? (was Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?)
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 just put mine on shuffle and hit next if i don't like the song at that particular moment. it goes by id3 tags for the above, so if your tags are inaccurate, you're stuck.. i don't remember if it can guess by the song titles or not. with 2gb sd cards being under 20 bucks, it seemed a better idea than having a fixed size player, and the thing was onsale for fairly cheap Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to enable/use Hyperthreading?
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 Pentium D Extreme(955,965,etc) has two physical cores that each have a hyperthreaded side as well, making for 4 cores.. and for the thousand US dollars it costs, it'd better have all 4. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GRUB and +2TiB disk
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 22.6.1-6.2 and kernel 2.6.16-2, I'm surprised lilo worked at all. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard drive repair problem
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Marty Landman wrote: 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032 253 253 000Old_age Always 51 That's a bit on the warm side for a hard drive.. can you improve your cooling when you replace this drive? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4TB filesystem
On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Koos Meijering wrote: I am trying to create on a nfs file server a partition with the size of 4TB every time after a reboot the system reports there is only a 2 TB partition and an unused part of the disk. I have a 15 x 300 array under ext3 on the 3ware 9550SX-16ML. You need to use parted to create a GPT type partition system. MS-DOS style(default) does not allow you to create over 2 TB arrays. Then you can create your 4 TB partition. You'll always have to use parted instead of cfdisk/fdisk when playing with partitions, as cfdisk/fdisk will see the fake partition table GPT uses to point to the real table. You'll also need large block device support compiled into your kernel. This implies a 2.6.x kernel. Your other option is using the 2 TB carving of the 3ware card, and then using software raid or LVM to put that back together into a larger chunk. Also, you won't be able to boot off this, as lilo/grub do not support booting from GPT style partitions.. I put a 16 meg CF card on a CF to IDE adapter, and put /boot on there, with my lilo boot loader running from the CF card. Also, what hard drives are you using? You should be aware that currently Maxtor Maxline III's(7v300F0's) do not work properly due to a firmware bug. The current version shipping is VA111630, an update is available to VA111670 which merely reduces the frequency of timeouts that get the drive kicked out from the array. I will be getting VA111680 from Maxtor as soon as I find the time. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: impossible to apply security updates
On Mon, 8 May 2006, Piotr A. Dybczy?ski wrote: It seems something is going wrong with DNS. security.debian.org points to 0.0.0.0 !! Saw this yesterday, appears to be working properly today. Mike
Re: Am I getting USB 2.0 speed?
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: That *still* won't give you USB 2.0 speeds. I have never seen a [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$ pen-drive or mp3-player that did more than lie on that regard, they all operate at ~10Mbit/s maximum, and that's for the very good ones. It is just operating in USB 2.0 mode, but in 12Mbit/s speed (which is not a bad thing, if the flash device inside isn't faster than that anyway...). It sounds like it's a USB 2.0 Fullspeed (12mbit) vs a USB 2.0 HiSpeed (480mbit). Thank the marketing department for us all. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Crappy hdparm performance on new machine
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Roberto Sanchez wrote: it has been great. Extremeley quiet (I chose a 600 MHz fanless Eden CPU Ding. Cyrix Cpu, and like all cyrix's, low in performance(which is the whole point of this cpu being low power) Memory bus is likely slow to go with it. # hdparm -tT /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.85 seconds = 69.19 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.53 seconds = 41.83 MB/sec Hmm.. suspicious results: probably not enough free memory for a proper test. The following two systems are 3ware 7000-2 cards with 2 120 gig drives in a raid1. Here's a P4 2.6C with 2x256 pc3200 dimms, dual channel. Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.24 seconds =533.33 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.55 seconds = 41.29 MB/sec Here's a Celeron 1.7ghz with 2x256 pc3200 dimms at pc1600 speed, single channel. Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.36 seconds =355.56 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.19 seconds = 53.78 MB/sec And my home workstation is a old Celeron 600, not a clue on memory, just that it's a mix that gives 224 meg total. Pc66 speed for sure. Dual 160 in software raid. Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.22 seconds =104.92 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.18 seconds = 54.24 MB/sec So you can see it's largely your motherboard/cpu combo that determines the first number, and your disks can vary. I should probably open up that 2.6C and see why the hdparm values vary so much (not that hdparm is a reliable benchmark anyways) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] How big are Logitech's balls?
On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Pigeon wrote: Unfortunately they are all very decidedly asymmetrical and right-handed only. Odd, I'm left handed, and I can't properly use a mouse in that hand. However, the fact that anything I draw or trace with the righthand-using mouse/trackball looks like a Kindergarten child's scribblings might be related. Must be training from using a mouse for nearly 15 years. :) I'm using a Trackman Wheel at work, and an old Trackman at home that has worn out buttons. (it either doesn't click, or it double clicks) Someday I'll get around to replacing it. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, [iso-8859-1] Pål Dahle wrote: Hi all, I've got a Dell D600 laptop with a ATI Radeon Mobility 9000 M9 graphics P4 2.53, Geforce4 MX 440(hey, i didn't want it, it was given to me at work) With DRI on Sid, i get around 175 fps. Without DRI on Knoppix, i get around 350. Both running at 1400x1050, but with the default window size. I run icewm on Sid, and the default KDE on the Knoppix test. Didn't care enough to work on getting DRI going on Knoppix. The other annoying thing is that XFree 4.3.0 takes about 35 seconds to start, compared to the 8 of 4.2.x I'm sure I've done something wrong on both problems :) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Knoppix 3.3 beats Debian sid badly in glxgears
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Mike Dresser wrote: I'm sure I've done something wrong on both problems :) Well, found the first problem. Don't run setiathome while glxgears is running. 1800 fps now. Much more respectable. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question RE IDE Tape Drives
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I am looking to install a Seagate Travan 10GB/20GB IDE Tape drive into a Debian box. Your basic method listed in the rest of the email is the way to do it. Keep in mind this tape drive will self destruct in about a year or two of use. Sometimes silently. At least you're using a Seagate and not an HP, which will last 6-12 months if you're lucky. As for other IDE drives, I don't know of any offhand that are worth the time. SCSI DDS-3/4 tape drives are relatively cheap, especially when you consider media costs. You can get a SCSI controller for 75 dollars or so. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 11:48:12AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: Then again, the traction control doesn't work worth a damn either :) I'd be surprised if that's the case. You can't expect too much from anything claiming to give you better control. You still have to have all the driving skill, the extra features usually only make it easier to control in a bad situation, not a guarantee that you're going to stick to the road. It's mostly that it's too sensitive. I believe the Corvette(same engine/powerplant) has two modes for traction control, one that allows you some wheel spin. If i want to take off at full throttle, I shouldn't have to shut the traction control off(button on the middle console), do my takeoff run, and then turn it back on. If i want to chirp the tires, then that should be my option. :) As it sits now, the tire(s) chirps, traction control comes on, cuts the throttle, and applies the brake the brake to the slipping tire, and kicks the accelerator pedal back up at me. Then about 2-3 seconds later, even while maintaining full throttle, it will reapply the gas. Repeat as necessary. It's mostly noticeable when I'm on the Blizzak snow tires, when I'm on the summer Firehawk SZ50ep's, wheel spin is _rare_. Yes, I'm a happy Firestone customer. :P Granted, traction control works REALLY nicely on snow and ice, and on hard cornering. :) Then again, I'm sure it's all software reprogrammable _somewhere_ And I'm just about at the age where I'll find myself too old to have fun driving anymore, so all will be moot. :P Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote: It's a long time since I took my car test, and I had no problems with the emergency stop, but the examiner's instructions were ...without locking the wheels, so I'd guess any kind of lock would be a fail. Dunno what they do now that ABS is common. Does sound like your driving tests are much better than ours. I still don't understand how anyone can actually _fail_ one over here, but people occasionally do. To be expected. Most ABSes cut out at very low speeds. The Chevy Cavaliers of around 2001-2002 were the other way, and hyper sensitive. I've seen the ABS come on at 5kph at the end of a stop, completely removing any braking power, causing you to not be able to stop in time. And those can't be disabled, unlike most cars with traction control. I'd consider it a safety hazard. The 2003 LS we have here doesn't seem to do it, or not as bad. ...so you can still powerslide round roundabouts :-) What, roundabout's aren't skidpads? That's not how Car Driver does that? :) Actually, there's no roundabouts in my part of the country. I suspect there's not many roundabouts IN my country. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote: The UK's Highway Code calculates stopping distances from the equation: d = v + 0.05(v^2)(d in feet, v in mph) Scary numbers at my cars top speed of 160mph :) (Something like a quarter mile) Any equations for time? :P -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Pigeon wrote: Dunno what they do now that ABS is common. Do they still teach if you have a floor mounted automatic, to hit neutral during a panic stop? _big_ difference in stopping times at 30-40 mph and under. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]
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 pavement, and usually only at the very end of the stop. Then again, the traction control doesn't work worth a damn either :) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: need advice on fixing my home lan
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Johann Koenig wrote: it is transferring. About 1-1.5 megabytes per second is good for a 100 megabit link. If it is substantialy less, its probabyl running at 10 megabits. Well, on this P4 2.53ghz, i regularly see 10.5 meg per second from a similar host, even the celeron 533's around here can usually manage 3-4. No gigabit here to see how fast it _could_ go, cpu usage is pegged at about 65%, so I'd guess about 13-14 meg per second with the default encryption. Does about 30% cpu usage with blowfish. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: has anyone heard of this new crap?
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Kevin Boergens wrote: ROTFL! It has to be some kind of hoax.. Not at all, do a google search for acacia stream I know of several porn webmasters that have had run ins with these people. www.youmaybenext.com details a company that is doing something similar as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KVM switch recomendation?
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Greg Norris wrote: Can anyone recommend a good 4-port (or thereabout) KVM switch? I need one which can handle USB keyboard and mouse inputs, and it would be a plus (but definitely not required) if it can accommodate both USB and PS/2 outputs. I know this is completely wrong for what you're asking, but just for the benefit of anyone reading the archives, my 4 port Cybex Switchview has served me well over the years. Uses ctrl twice and a letter, enter, to switch stations, instead of scroll lock, which has caused endless people grief with frozen terminals. Handles 1600x1200 at 85 hertz just fine. It's PS/2 keyboard/mouse and AT keyboard only though. Cheap too. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KVM switch recomendation?
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Greg Norris wrote: Thanx for the info. After researching a number of KVMs from various companies, I've decided that the SwitchView USB 4-port looks the most promising. That beastie is on order, so I should know for sure in a few days. ;-) Looks like Cybex became Avocent at some point. Assuming nothing changed inside the SwitchView itself, you shouldn't have any problems with it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hard disk access on every keystroke in console mode!
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, michelle wrote: Or is this perhaps from a keylogger secretly installed? If so, how could I detect it? Thank you. Well, you could try booting off the rescue disks/cd's, and see what happens. Also, I'd try going into the bios setup screen, and see if there's disk activity there. Now you've got me looking all paranoid-like at my hard drive access lights :) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sreelal Chandrasenan
Anyone else waiting for a list of passwords to go through? Had that happen back a year or two ago with that virus that emailed your documents(can't remember the name) I thought of sending this person mail, along the lines of Hi Mom!, and seeing if it gets to d-u. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backports.org routing fixed
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. ge-7-0.c12008gsr-1.nbg-dhk1.core.i-p-x.de (212.123.97.70) is the last hop I get to. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Backports.org
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 in order to find replacement deb lines that worked. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Backports.org
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 PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp problem
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 Unix machine youre transferring from is using binary mode... the windows machine is most likely using ascii mode... Does the server support both binary and ascii modes? Actually, notice that passive mode is enabled on the unix side, and not on the other. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM 60 Deskstar
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 where I would have been able to get the packing materials that were required. That's pretty common, as far back as I can remember the manufacturers have always required you to ship the harddrive back in a hard drive shipping box. They reserve the right to not accept a drive stuck in a box with packing peanuts, and duct taped together. Maxtor will ship you packaging materials for a nominal fee(their words, not mine, no idea how much it costs) in case you don't have anything. Perhaps they will realize that I am unhappy when they receive their drive in a Maxtor box! I have shipped Maxtor's back in WDC boxes, and vice versa. Have yet to receive one back in anything but the original manufacturers box. No subtle hints to buy something else from them! ;) I used to keep about 4 hard drive shipping boxes around the office, because I would have 2 or 3 drives off in flight at a time. Lately, I haven't had any failures for quite a while. Very worrisome, I'm hoping the hard drive deity (HDD) has turned his attention to someone else. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]
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 was about to reply to Ron saying, hey, it's easy to maintain emptiness! But alas, the page works properly for me under Mozilla 1.5 Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama
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?!?! If not, don't worry about parking the heads on a floppy drive. In all the years I've kicked about 3.5 floppy drives, I've never had issues with them going bad from that. I do remember the days of 360k floppy drives shipping with a cardboard insert, but these had a much different mechanical mechanism to lock the disk in. Hard drives are autoparking, unless you've got a bunch of really really ancient dinosaurs there. Easy way is don't drop the machine. 3 LAN printers are on lease. Have leasing company move the LAN printers to make sure we don't void warrantees. This part is pretty sad, but I guess that's what the leasing company wants? Okay - if you guys were doing an office move, what else would you include? It's a MS shop, so Linux would only play in there as a Samba server for file sharing and for backups. Doing something similar to this now, smbtar works very nicely for backups, Windows 95/98 can be restored on a hard drive right from the .tar.gz and it will work perfectly. Just have to partition the drive, sys c: it, and restore the .tar.gz. Win2000/XP, you have to rebuild the OS, and restore the data files from your backup though. Definately leave enough time to restore a backup/rebuild a machine. Are the machines powered up all the time, or shut down normally at night? If they're powered 24/7, you can possibly expect to see a hard drive not come back after being powered up. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Progress meter on copying
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 3dmark2001se.exe test.exe 41780867 100% 46.57MB/s0:00:00 seems to work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Has SWEN finally died?
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 posted a reply. I assume 135, although I'm seeing a few of the 9k sized virus, and a few new ones are actually worming(sorry, bad pun) their way in now. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nslookup? What package is it in?
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...
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 who you should be mailing your malware to? :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Cracked website at sf.net
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 what I looked at, isn't there an edit button there, which would allow someone to change it? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: anti-spam idea for this list
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tom wrote: For the blind, link to a CGI which generates the email as a WAV. And the blind and deaf? ... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: change medium type on Sis 900
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 unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: change medium type on Sis 900
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. I've ran into similar cases with bad cabling. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?
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 nothing compared to the poor people getting 10,000+ a day :) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apt-get problem
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 discontinued in June 2003. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem trying to start X-windows in a Debiam 3.0 installation under Virtual PC
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 need some info. To begin with, what video card do you have installed? Virtual PC may be different, but under vmware at least, you tell X you have a vmware video card and vmware handles how to talk to your real card. VMware could hypothetically run on any hardware without haveing to change the emulated session settings. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unidentified subject!
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) - price $350 - hotswap is a must Any clue ? Thanks, JM 3ware 7000-2. It's about 140 dollars or so. The bf2.4 disks have support right off the install, and the kernel has supported them for many many years. Administerable with a commandline utility, or with a web based program. Hotswappable as well. You can also get a 7506-4, which does 4 drives, (2 sets of raid 1, one 3 or 4 drive set of raid1, etc) as well as doing raid5. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why ROOT all in uppercase
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... No no no! This is NEW technology! Your computer is now able to detect when you are shouting at it. Take this, you stupid computer, I AM R-O-O-T! And in turn, it detects your mood through various kernel tweaks, and responds in kind. FINE, WHAT'S YOUR PASSWORD, IDJIT! And carries on so forth. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?
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 you want to do.
#!/bin/sh
# grabs the pcname using nmblookup and dumps it to a file.
nmblookup -A $1 | head --lines=2 | tail --lines=1 | awk '{print $1}' pcname
# checks if the filesize is greater than one, which indicates something
# was written to it(like the remote pcname)
if [ `ls -l pcname | awk '{print $5}'` -gt 1 ]; then
echo your statement on fixing | smbclient -U yourname -I $1 -M `cat name`;
else
echo Couldn't find servername(or Mike can't code)
fi;
Call it with ./filename IP, of course.
It'll probably horribly break if it can't find some of this stuff, and my
redirect into a file called pcname is just ugly. So's the head/tail
thing, actually. You can clean it up and add your own error detection.
I'm sure I also won a useless use of cat award too. I'll put it in my
collection.
Someone have a way to clean that up, so it can be done in one chain?
Mike
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Re: Tool for sending Windows popup messages?
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 ignored. From what I've played with it, you still need a name for -M, but not for other smbclient services. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux defragmenter?
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 problem maybe there is another solution. Mostly a case of seeing if anything had changed in defrag in the last few years. I do have some systems here that are heavily fragmented(and on my home machines i have filesystems reporting 60-80% fragmentation via e2fsck), but haven't taken the time to see if it's adversely affecting performance yet. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Linux defragmenter?
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 works with ext2, minix, and xiafs. Tried it on a spare ext3 partition that I backed up first. Did a diff after, the defrag corrupted data. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hot boxes and power consumption
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 great fun, the 8K btu air conditioner for a 10x12 room is the only thing that keeps me sane. I went away on vacation, and outside temperature was 70, in my room was 95. Next time I'll set the a/c to 88, and just pay the hydro bill without complaining! Imagine how warm in there it was when the temperature was 95 outside... Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Poor performance with 1GB of RAM
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 expected. I have no idea what spawns (is this the correct term?) all this processes. Are they all the process name? What do they show as? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
firewire/usb2.0/ide enclosures.
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 not as important stuff. Anyways, I'm looking at using a pair of 120 or 200 gig Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 or Maxline drives, and rotating the drives offsite, using a script to copy the days backup onto the drive. Replace drives when I drop them, of course. (not that that ever happens. *stares at a dead jaz drive and disks*) The server machine has both firewire and usb 2.0 ports, and has IDE ports available. ASUS P4B533-E. I was looking at the: http://www.vipower.com/product/SmartDisk/35_hdd_smartdisk/vp_9054v.htm combo unit(the 9054V), which has a common carrier, and a Firewire and also USB 2.0 cable. As well, I'd like another unit to use for moving large amounts of files around, and for restoring Windows images from the .tar.gz without having to power down a server to get at the files. Those backup servers have USB 2.0 ports, but no firewire and obviously no IDE available. So I guess my question is, just how much slower is a USB 2.0 or Firewire interface going to be than the native IDE? I usually see around 35-40 meg a second transfers with the bare drive on IDE, what could I expect from 2.0/Firewire? It would simplify things a bit if i didn't have to try and connect this directly to the IDE controller on the MB. If firewire wasn't much faster than USB 2.0, then I could get just the plain USB2.0 cable, saving a few dollars as well. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hot boxes and power consumption
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 enough anymore. One nice way to find out your power usage, is to stick your computer on a battery backup that has reporting(such as a BackUps Pro) and ask it how much power it's using(upsc localhost, if you have NUT installed and working) I was just testing a battery backup here(well, 6 of them) and a P120 with an old video card and no hard drive pulls about 55 va. Your current may vary, no warranty express or implied. A P4/2.53, with 2 200 gig, and 2 120 gig maxtors, 3ware 7500-4, Antec SX635 case, and misc other equipment is pulling 171 VA at idle, and 255 at load(running a gzip on some files). At 24/7(which it is), this thing would cost us about $ 13 a month at residental rates, I'm not sure what we pay for industrial electricity. So if you're concerned about heat and your power bill, shut off anything like [EMAIL PROTECTED], dnet, etc that runs your CPU at high load. OT: Whatever you do, don't believe APC's online power estimator. I find it's off by a factor of two, a battery backup we have(Smart 1000XL with a UXBP24 battery pack(basically it's 4 car batteries inside a housing)) is supposed to last about 5-6 hours according to them at the load we have, it actually makes it to about 3. APC claims it's because we're using power bars, which makes me wonder how my power bars are dissipating almost 400 watts of heat without melting down. ;) OT: I'm actually moving all my home machines into my bedroom, as that's the room that is actually air conditioned, I have my living room blocked off from the rest of the bedrooms. Noise doesn't bother me much, as I'm profoundly hard of hearing anyways! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Network speed
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 only 4 wires as well. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell Question..
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Jeff Schaller wrote: Boy, reminds me of the old useless use of cat award... I always use: I've got a bunch of those on the shelf here, anyone need one? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Junk mail on the list.
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 01:39:12PM -0400, alex wrote: I'm getting a lot of junk mail that is addressed to this list. Am I the only one getting this stuff? Spam filtering on Debian lists was temporarily broken recently. And it shows how effective the filtering is despite all the complaints it's not working. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: You must have Ncurses installed in order to use 'make menuconfig'
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If it's not the ncurses-devel package that is missing, what could it be? Regards, apt-get install libncurses5-dev Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Jerky Screen Saver
On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, debian_newbie wrote: Sorry for taking so long to respond. Yes, Euphoria also does the same thing. Except it is even worse. Euphoria has an 18 second delay between jerks (movements). I also noticed that I have a lot of screensaver names listed but they don't work. So now I'm thinking that I'm missing some package. Check whether you have hardware openGL support working. On my bog slow card(geforce4 mx440), these run smoothly at 1280x1024. Even at full resolution of 2560x1024 the solarwinds screensaver still runs smoothly, although some of the other ones are starting to get slow. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop tape backups
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Bill Wohler wrote: Still looking for a Linux-compatible 30-80 GB tape drive that is most likely going to be USB. Has anyone used the Seagate Travan TapeStor 40 (STT6401U2-R) or the OnStream USB 30 or ADR2.60usb? I haven't heard anything Linux about the former, but the OnStream USB 30 seems as if it should be supported, but am not sure about the ADR2.60usb. If you have any info about these drives, I would appreciate hearing about it. Be wary of the Onstream units, at least the 30 gig unit, I had one years ago, and Onstream was not interested in fixing the lockups. As well, some google searching will show you just what people think of their stuff. Also, be wary of the Traven drives, I've replaced some of warranty replacements of warranty replacements. They're fine for about a year and then break. Look into DDS-4 drives, I believe the drives are around 600 apiece, and a cheap scsi card. Tapes are also MUCH cheaper, at about 10-15 dollars apiece. You could also get a DDS-3 for something like 350ish, and tapes are about 7. I know the tapes are small, but DLT drives are horribly expensive. You could get an external enclosure(5.25), and then a USB 2.0 to scsi adapter.(usb 1.0 won't be able to keep up with the 2 meg a second datarate of a dds at full stream) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop tape backups
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: The early 30GB Onstream required special, proprietary drivers. The later ones worked much better on Linux because the standard drivers worked. I was using it under NT, and crashing the fileserver anytime i went to do a backup. Also, be wary of the Traven drives, I've replaced some of warranty replacements of warranty replacements. They're fine for about a year and then break. I have a Seagate STT2A Travan drive that has been doing daily backups for four years. Better luck than I'm having, we've gone through about.. maybe 20-25 of them in the last couple years, out of an initial purchase of around 12. Seem to get about 3 years out of the dat drives, and those were DDS3, which is supposedly a lot less reliable than the DDS4's. Look into DDS-4 drives, I believe the drives are around 600 apiece, and a cheap scsi card. Tapes are also MUCH cheaper, at about 10-15 dollars apiece. You could also get a DDS-3 for something like 350ish, and tapes are about 7. People keep recommending this combination. I crunch the numbers and I'll have to keep it for over a decade before the cheaper media saves money. Well, for a backup set at the office, TR5 would cost me around 500 dollars for tapes. Doesn't take long for the DDS to make sense It's all about how many backups you want, how often you make them. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: America's Army
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: It was fairly common in the early 80's for application source to be printed in a variety of magizines and to be shared between users. I'm not referring to pirated software, but rather Free software. I remember Commodore (yes Commodore) magazines with the source for applications printed among their pages. Home comput(er/ing) Magazine (HCM) used to publish code for 5 or 6 different computers, atari 800?, ti99/4a, c64, vic/20, etc. Back in the early 80's, so I dont'r emember what all they covered. 99'r mag had a similar idea, but only for the ti99/4a. Talk about portability, even back then. They actually had a program you inputted your program into, and it would do a crude checksum to make sure you typed your code in properly. Have i dated myself now? :D -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] ergonomic setups
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: demonstrating well that it's really all a matter of personal preference, and that what works for some may be what's causing pain in others. Indeed, if I use an ergonomic split keyboard I usually get wrist/arm pains in about 15 minutes, but can type all day on a regular keyboard. That, and it's a pain to reach across the keyboard to type the y key with my left hand! (it's a quirk of my typing, i type both the t and the y with the left hand, and i also never use the number pad unless I have to.) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] ergonomic setups
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Nori Heikkinen wrote: hey debian folk, i'd like your opinions/feedback about what kind of ergonomic setups you use at home and in the office. as i mentioned a couple of days ago, i've been issued a laptop at work, and i can barely use it for the wrist strain. i can have a desktop if i want, and i think i'm going to ask for one ... they're less convenient and less mobile, but i'd like to keep my wrists. Assuming you want to keep the laptop, have you considered just plugging a keyboard into it?(and maybe a mouse) I'm one step beyond that, and I use a docking station on my Omnibook 5700, which lets me plug in my keyboard mouse monitor, scsi card, one or two isa cards, and/or a pci card. But that's a bit extreme, and definately no longer portable. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg-reconfigure ntp-simple not working?
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, cfactor wrote: Yup, done that as well. :p I'm really stumpted... If you have ntp installed, it will use/steal/abuse ntp-simple's config file and might cause the problem you're having. I've ran into where removing either ntp/ntpdate or ntp-simple will blow away the ntp.conf file, leaving the other package broken since it can no longer sync. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fried(?) computer hangs on boot
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Pigeon wrote: Me, I run with the sides off the case and if I want an estimate of the CPU temp I stick my hand in and feel the heatsink. How do you keep the pigeons out? Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LM-Sensors on an ASUS P4B533
Two questions: One: How are you supposed to install the lm-sensors-source when you compile your own kernels. the resulting file from make-kpkg modules_install depends on kernel-image-2.4.20. I just --force-depends'd it in, I assume that's not the proper way. Two: Is this ASUS P4B533 supported by the i2c/lmsensors found in Sid? I go through the sensors-detect, and it doesn't find anything, leaving me high and dry. I looked for various howto's, but they all assume you're running prebuilt kernels, unfortunately. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LM-Sensors on an ASUS P4B533
On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once you've scoped out the lm-sensors situation, go here for hints on building that kernel with kernel-package: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html Kevin I eventally got bored enough to test out what a make-kpkg would do, and did all taht listed. Much more work than my current system, unfortunately. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: buying a cd writer
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello Mike Dresser, Thank you for your reply - though I'd want to check - is it this one you meant ? http://www.liteonit.com/english/new_p_e/english--p-rw482448.htm I'm asking because the support section only talks about Windows versions ... Thanks again, Joris Looks like that's the one that sits in my main workstation at work. Works perfectly with cdrecord, and should work with others as well, and its burnproof function is supported as well. Burns a cd in under 3 minutes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: buying a cd writer
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody, I have a simple question: which cd writer do you people recommend to buy for use with Debian (and windows 98) ? I'm using a 48x lite-on that usually sells for 20-30 dollars after rebates. Works just fine except that burn proof gets triggered when I try to burn an audio cd at 40x, but doesn't on data at 40x. Very weird. I use a 32x model at home. Both work flawlessly in Linux and in Windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bug apt-get dist-upgrade
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, hina wrote: Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://okki666.nerim.net ./ xchat-common 2.0.2.CVS20030317-1 [320kB] This doesn't look like a debian package to me, so you need to report this to whoever runs that unoffical debian package repository. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba, rsync, home network w/ XP, backups?
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: a ] share your entire xp drive (ew...), smbmount it onto the woody box, and then just rsync -a between two directories your entire XP drive is shared anyways, you could smbmount it onto the woody box using the C$ share and the admin login/password. (i wouldn't recommend that as an automated solution, leaving your entire drive shared is bad...) indeed, and microsoft insists on doing this, unless you know the registry keys to remove those shares. b ] install cygwin on your xp box, and through cygwin install rsync, cron, and ssh. then, rsync the directories when you want, just like you would on another linux box (this assumes you know how crontabs work if you want to automate it). one problem I found with rsync under cygwin is it is HORRIBLY slow. I have a dual celeron 433 master server that takes about 30 to 45 minutes to build the file list for 5 gig of files(about 150,000 files) The celeron 333 that grabs that list off the NT server, can in turn share it out in well under a minute. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboard Madness
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Mike Dresser wrote: The 533-E has a highpoint raid controller onboard. Don't bother. My mistake, it's a Promise MBFastTrack133. You'd think I would know what's in my home machine, having to watch their bios take 30 seconds every time you reboot to inventory the drives. Unsupported by Promise. (go see your motherboard manufacturer. Luckily it is on an ASUS board and that they support their boards very well, and for long beyond what I'd reasonably expect them to do.) Promise has been very unfriendly to Linux, according to Andre Hedrick. It's also another one of those hardware raid cards. So either way, don't bother. :) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Direct cable connection
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, csj wrote: In Windows I recall something called Direct Cable Connection that allowed you to link two computers thru the parallel port. The GNU/Linux version of this appears to be PLIP (which I tried and failed at many many moons ago). So, is there a more modern way to hotwire two boxes without the use of routers or extra file systems? Is it possible to do a straight USB to USB or NIC to NIC connection? There's something called an ethernet crossover cable, you can hookup two machines back to back with this and not need a hub. You just need to setup your networking right for it. Once that's done, it's just the same as going through a hub/switch. Should be around the same cost as a regular cable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quiet HDD (was Quiet cases)
On 10 Mar 2003, Fraser Campbell wrote: For cases I love Antec. I recently built a system with the SX835II from Antec (see http://www.antec-inc.com/pro_details_enclosure.php?ProdID=80843). It is hard to tell if the PC is on despite the CPU fan, video GPU fan, dual fan power supply + 2 case fans. The cases are beautiful to work with as well (no sharp edges, nice hinged side door, etc.). Indeed, one of those sitting on my desk right now. MB temp sits at about 80 and cpu temp at 85 or so.(it's a bit warm in my office today) Most similar class machines in regular cheapo Aopen KX50's here sit at about 85 and 105 cpu temperature. The part I like best about the antec cases is there is a 80mm fan mounted in the hard drive bay. I just wish the 835 had two fans, one for each tray that is there. I emailed antec about the availability of that, and they haven't gotten back to me, I might need to call them. We have an Antec 1440B over at one of our facilities, with 4 Cheetah X15-36LP's mounted in it, and a P4 mb with a GF4 TI4600 and a raid card. This case doesn't have fans mounted in front of the hard drives. However, the drives run at barely above room temperature, because there are 9 92mm fans in total pulling air from the front to the back. Normally you have to have active cooling on a Cheetah or it will die a quick death, but with this case, it's quite safe if you set it up right. Even with all those fans in the case, it's not noticeablely loud. Then again, this case is somewhere around 500 bucks, you get what you pay for Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Motherboard Madness
On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: Proably the wrong forum, but trying to build a new Debian imap server. After spending a few hours the last few days researching motherboards I went to the local stop to pick up an Asus P4B-533-E (which they said they had on the phone). Of course, they were out and said it was no longer available. The ASUS site doesn't show that. Indeed, and many places sell them. I'll be installing with a 2.4.18 or 2.4.20 kernel. I'll be using a P4 2.4 533 FSB CPU. The sweet point on cpu's seems to be the 2.4 or 2.53 ghz cpu's right now. There there seems to be a number of 845 chip sets, but I see a number of different ones: snip Seems to effect what memory to use (pc2100 or pc2700) but I'm not sure how it might effect a Debian install. http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/sitemap.htm?iid=PCG+devleftnav; That has all the chipsets listed, and you can see what's unique about each one. Most of it is different speed built-in video, different memory speeds, and different ram type support. It's going to come down to performance a bit, unless you ended up with PC133 in which case that's a major performance hit. Onboard video is supposed to slow down your regular memory access as well. I'm looking for a basic board with NIC/video/LAN onboard. No video onboard on that P4B533-E anyways, so you're lucky on that one being out of stock. The P4B533-VM has video onboard, optional lan. I use the 533 on some of our servers, they work quite nicely. With an Antec 630II case, the cable layout is almost perfect. I have one 533-E in use if I remember right. The 533-E has a highpoint raid controller onboard. Don't bother. Spend the ~145 dollars, and pick up a 3ware 7000 or the 300ish for a 7500-4LP hardware raid card. Very nice and easy debian support, and these are fast. the bf2.4 kernel doesn't support the onboard LAN on the 533-E, but a 2.4.20 and I think 2.4.19 kernel does just fine. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID and drive failures
On 10 Mar 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: ?? RAID1 can only handle 1 failure also!! Well, actually you could have a N2 number of drives in your raid-1 setup. It's rarely done, but still possible. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 in SID
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 00:29:06 EST 2003 That's due to the fact that this kernel is precompiled in the package, and 2.95.4 was the version used by the maintainer. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Veritas compatibility.
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 systems used in conjunction with Debian, and the HP SureStore Dat40x6). Could you please provide experience info; on compatibility, stability etc.. I have not found this info elsewhere so therefore I'm trying here. Indeed, I'm looking for the same info, but slightly different application of it, because I want to be able to read Windows 2000/XP backups in Debian. Not even a nibble though :D As for the DDS drive, there's always programs like amanda, dump, tar, and others. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backing up hidden files
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Robert Storey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp$ tar -cvf target.tar * .?* s close. tar -cvf target.tar . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie administrator
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 PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop (PCMCIA) NIC Suggestions for Woody Stable
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. Ed Lawson I have the non cardbus version in my Omnibook 5700(and a 5500 too), and it works perfectly on both ethernet and modem. Fits in so neatly it looks like it's part of the laptop aside from the bright red colour. Pull on the cable, and the card pops out, rather than letting a dongle or something break.(which I've done 4 times in the last two years on 3com and USR units) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie administrator
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 the directory or not. If not, you can do a chmod 700 * while in /home, and it will set all directories to drwx-- permissions. as for /etc/skel stuff, that's a good question, I've never had to do this before! take a look at the end of /etc/adduser.conf I suspect the DIR_MODE=0755 if changed to 0700 will make this the way you want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Complaint
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 I was talking in, and checking all the replies. So I'm weird. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.bkf files from Windows 2000/XP, and how to read them in Debian
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 to backup win9x machines over the network, and am able to restore them properly just from the tarball and a copy of fdisk/format, but w2k images won't work that way, so I'm looking at reversing it to W2k putting the image on the server instead. Had to use the smbtar method, because the task scheduler in Win9x depends on the phase of the moon far too much for my liking. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names
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. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I do a sid upgrade and not get the gcc 3.2 stuff?
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, for whatever reason, I want to stick to the 2.95, so what can I do to make this happen? Thanks. apt-get install gcc-2.9.5 and all the other files you'll need to go with that I have both installed simultaneously here, and compile kernels with 3.2.3 on at least one machine here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail server
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 it takes an average of 3-5 seconds to deliver 1 message. If i had amavis+sophos running that would add another 2 seconds on top of it I think. Messages can take much longer if they are real big. My IMAP back end is cyrus 1.5 which is lightning fast. Dual p3-600 here, 512 meg memory, four 40 gig Maxtor D740X-6L's in a pair of raid1's, one set for system, one for /var/spool/, using a 3ware 7500-4. Handles ~90 users and 20,000 emails a week.(mostly to my email box as well) Load average is around 0.4 most of the time while handling 2 gig in mbox format via pop3. Very quick and responsive. User complaints about speed turn out to be their Windows workstations acting up or their DNS settings being wrong. It's definately disk speed bound at this point, the server could still handle 10x the users or 10x the mail spool. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boy! this spam is riling me!Re: First Time
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. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with HP Laserjet 2100
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:\ :rp=192.168.0.53:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: can't get much simpler than that :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with HP Laserjet 2100
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Perfered idle kicker?
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 across hundreds of machines. I've got the mass deployment handled but I don't want to go through and set up an entry for everyone individually, etc. Thoughts, theories? autolog works nicely, i modified it to deal with a dialup setup we have here. 4 different locations dial on demand manually using a program called wconnect. But anyways, once in awhile they forget to hang up the long distance connection. So I changed autolog to not actually send the logout/kill but to send email to my pager and I can log in and see whether they're just idle for two hours or whether they're using the connection. The out of box setup is to either disconnect the user with or without warning, or to do absolutely nothing at all, unfortunately. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Defragment
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? =) And yes, defrag can be dangerous, and when it's not busy being dangerous, it sucks up a couple hundred meg of ram to clean a 100 gig filesystem Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wu-ftpd security
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 their own home dirs and thats it. guest-root /home username restricted-uid username allow-uid username deny-uid %-65535 The allow-uid line has the advantage of not allowing ftp to anyone that isn't in the allow-uid field. If they try to go up a level it will give them an error message to the effect that they are restricted in what they can do. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shuttle disaster
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 do that day, in USD. So my 1200 CDN limit a day turns into a balance of ~800, and if I take out 300, it'll say balance remaining of 500. Very worrying when you know the car payment and the rent payment are due while you're away, and the total of them is more than that 500. Very hurried and worried trip to my online banking when i got back from the mal to see what my real balance was! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?
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 annoyingly tells me when it's out of paper or out of toner, etc. Haven't gotten to it yet to tell it to shut up and not bother me again. Remote config can be done via the telnet or web interfaces quite easily. Hmm, why don't I just do that on the annoying printer?! Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HP Jetadmin printer tools fro Debian?
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 newest ones have web interfaces. as far as support on linux, lpd understands how to print to the lpd emulation on a jetdirect board. and you can always cat filename | telnet ip 9100 if you're looking for the most base support you can get. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
