Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-22 Thread John Schmidt
On Sunday 02 December 2007, John Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 15K Mbs connection (up/down) to my house (fiber to the home). > > I have a Buffalo router that connects to my WAN and then one of the LAN > ports on this router connects to my IPCOP firewall that is running on a PII > -- 400 MHz box

Re: Changing packages

2007-12-22 Thread Raquel
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 03:25:20 + Rui Manuel Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raquel wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:52:47 + > > Rui Manuel Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> Raquel wrote: > >> > >>> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:49:32 + > >>> "Nuno Magalhães" <[EMAIL

Re: Changing packages

2007-12-22 Thread Raquel
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:52:47 + Rui Manuel Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raquel wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:49:32 + > > "Nuno Magalhães" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>> But why not just do a base install and choose the packages you > >>> want with aptitude? > >>>

Re: Something is moving my saved mail

2007-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Saturday December 22 2007 10:48:16 Alan Chandler wrote: > My home server, running etch has a mail server that is based > around exim. I have set it up to copy all outgoing mail from > local users to ~user/Maildir/.Sent directory. > > What is really strange however is that about monthly mail is

zune compatibility

2007-12-22 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
ok kids, some of you must have a zune. how are you accessing the thing? i've only found word on google of installing some sort of stupid windows emulation. tell me that isn't the only option. lish"your house is standing [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: diff between amd64 and ia64

2007-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Saturday December 22 2007 13:32:32 Bogart Salzberg wrote: > On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On Saturday December 22 2007 10:11:48 Sven Hoexter wrote: > >>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:45:25PM +0100, abdelkader > >>> belahcene > >> > >>

Re: Can't find newly added fonts in 'xfontsel'

2007-12-22 Thread Michael Yang
Anyone have idea about this? Thanks very much! -M Michael Yang wrote: Hi All: I created a folder /usr/share/fonts/X11/myfonts where to save the my added fonts. After mkfontscale, mkfontdir operations, the fonts are available to most of applications I use. However, I can't find it in "xfont

need help on getting CD-Writer working in etch

2007-12-22 Thread Serena Cantor
I attach a CD-Writer(hdb) after installing etch on hda According to /usr/share/doc/wodim/README.ATAPI.setup: "If you have just one CD writer in your computer, CD-writing should work out of the box. There should be a symbolic link /dev/cdrw which points to your actual CD-Writer's device (e. g. /de

Tape backup hardware question

2007-12-22 Thread David Auburndale
Hi, I just purchased and returned a DDS5 (DAT 72) drive which I was told would be able to ready my DDS4 tapes. I tried two drives, but both failed with the tape becoming irretrievably jammed in the drive. Can someone suggest a SCSI tape storage solution which is upwardly compatibl

Re: Aptitude Reference Manual

2007-12-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:22:02PM -0600, John Salmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I keep seeing "Aptitude Reference Manual" mentioned in the documentation > but can't find a location to access it. Can anyone help me? In addition to the other two replies, typing "aptitude reference

Re: How do I install by package Tag?

2007-12-22 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:04:15AM -0800, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I've decided I want to install all arcade games on my desktop system. I > noticed that "abuse" has a "Tag: game::arcade" associated with it. However, > when I do an "apt-cache search game::arcade", no

Re: 800x600

2007-12-22 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/22/2007 07:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Help. I feel so stupid. I don't know how to get X windows to start or > toggle into 800x600 mode these days anymore. I feel so stupid. > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456955 > > man xrandr should help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

800x600

2007-12-22 Thread jidanni
Help. I feel so stupid. I don't know how to get X windows to start or toggle into 800x600 mode these days anymore. I feel so stupid. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=456955 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: How do I install by package Tag?

2007-12-22 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:04:15 -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > I've decided I want to install all arcade games on my desktop system. I > noticed that "abuse" has a "Tag: game::arcade" associated with it. However, > when I do an "apt-cache search game::arcade", nothing turns up. I've looked > thro

Re: latest radeon driver and full screen video

2007-12-22 Thread Bob
Romain JACQUET wrote: Hello, I'm playing with the experimental version of xserver-xorg-video-ati (6.7.196-2). I'm using a big desktop configuration with a LCD computer screen on the vga output and LCD TV on the DVI output. I want to use the TV screen to watch films. When I play a video on th

Something is moving my saved mail

2007-12-22 Thread Alan Chandler
My home server, running etch has a mail server that is based around exim. I have set it up to copy all outgoing mail from local users to ~user/Maildir/.Sent directory. What is really strange however is that about monthly mail is moved from this .Sent directory and copied into some maildir form

Re: Synpatic problem.

2007-12-22 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Rui Manuel Martins wrote: > I have a problem with synpatic, it don't install the dependecies auto. I > need to go to debian package site and install manually. > > Can anybody help me? Use command line utilities like apt-get and paste the error on your screen. Also please give the contents of you

Re: concatenating pdf files

2007-12-22 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > I have scanned related pages of a document as jpeg > (limitation of software), converted to pdf using > imagemagick::convert. Now is there a way to concatenate > the pdf files (or jpeg files and then conver to pdf) > to collect the complete document. To combine pdf file

Re: diff between amd64 and ia64

2007-12-22 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 22 Dec 2007, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > HI, > I have an AMD laptop, > I downoloaded ia64 iso image , I thought it is the same, > I can't boot with the CD; > what is the difference between them? > best regards > bela ia64 is the itanium processor amd64 covers the 64bit intel and a

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-22 Thread Nate Duehr
On Dec 14, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Kent West wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: Didn't Microsoft sell a data wristwatch for a while that was programmed by rapidly flashing the screen? I remember thinking at the time that it was rather short-sighted to come out with a product that required the user t

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 09:28:27PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > Hey, > > > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the sake of it is frowned > > upon. > > I believe it actually means

keyboard remapping

2007-12-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings. I'm running Debian unstable on AMD64. I have X and (for the time being), GNOME. My locales are en_US.UTF-8, although i'd rather they were pt_PT.UTF-8 by default. My keyboard map is portuguese, it has deadkeys. In particular, the ^ key. If i press ^ and e, i'll get ê. I'd like to do the

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-22 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Well, when I did need it, I could reboot into etch which I've still > > got, and where it works fine. > > Since I used it only now and then, that was just a minor annoyance. > > If you have the etch install on a partition in the same machine, y

Re: diff between amd64 and ia64

2007-12-22 Thread Bogart Salzberg
On Dec 22, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On Saturday December 22 2007 10:11:48 Sven Hoexter wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:45:25PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: HI, I have an AMD laptop, I downol

Re: diff between amd64 and ia64

2007-12-22 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On Saturday December 22 2007 10:11:48 Sven Hoexter wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:45:25PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene > wrote: >>> HI, >>> I have an AMD laptop, >>> I downoloaded ia64 iso image , I thought it is the same,

Re: diff between amd64 and ia64

2007-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Saturday December 22 2007 10:11:48 Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:45:25PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > HI, > > I have an AMD laptop, > > I downoloaded ia64 iso image , I thought it is the same, > > I can't boot with the CD; > > what is the difference between them?

lpr obtain job number

2007-12-22 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
Is it possible obtain job number after lpr command without use lpstat? lpstat get me all job completed and not, but with hight volume of jobs I can't associate print and his job. Thx. -- Openclose.it - Idee per il software libero http://www.openclose.it -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: Changing packages

2007-12-22 Thread Raquel
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:49:32 + "Nuno Magalhães" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But why not just do a base install and choose the packages you > > want with aptitude? > > A base isntall isn't so basic, it does install lost of stuff you > don't need. But, beats nothing, that's what i usually do

Re: apt-file

2007-12-22 Thread David Fox
On 12/18/07, Arthur Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > apt-file update > > tried to download some huge Contents.gz files, so I purged apt-file. If > diffs were produced of Contents.gz files so that subsequent "apt-file > update" runs were relatively brief, it would be ok, but downloading huge Wh

Re: concatenating pdf files

2007-12-22 Thread John Hasler
David Baron writes: > Go to kde-apps.org, get pdfedit. There's a debian package. aptitude install pdfedit -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get torture - deadlock libc6

2007-12-22 Thread David Baron
No way out. 2.6 kernel for newer libc6. I had my bash murdered by this problem because I had a profile item pretending! that I had a 2.4 kernel. That was enough to kill most everything. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: concatenating pdf files

2007-12-22 Thread David Baron
> I have scanned related pages of a document as jpeg > (limitation of software), converted to pdf using > imagemagick::convert. Now is there a way to concatenate > the pdf files (or jpeg files and then conver to pdf) > to collect the complete document. > > -ishwar Go to kde-apps.org, get pdfedit.

How do I install by package Tag?

2007-12-22 Thread Tyler MacDonald
I've decided I want to install all arcade games on my desktop system. I noticed that "abuse" has a "Tag: game::arcade" associated with it. However, when I do an "apt-cache search game::arcade", nothing turns up. I've looked through apt-cache, apt-get, and synaptic, and I can't find anything to do w

Re: Changing packages

2007-12-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> But why not just do a base install and choose the packages you want with > aptitude? A base isntall isn't so basic, it does install lost of stuff you don't need. But, beats nothing, that's what i usually do. However, if you want to personalize an installation (and learn something) i'd recomend

Re: diff between amd64 and ia64

2007-12-22 Thread Branko Djurkovic
Just to announce, amd64 (x86_64) is used both on AMD's (Athlon/Opteron) and Intel's (Pentium D/Core/Core 2 Duo...) CPUs. So you need to download amd64 version anyway. On Dec 22, 2007 5:11 PM, Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:45:25PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene

Re: diff between amd64 and ia64

2007-12-22 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:45:25PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > HI, > I have an AMD laptop, > I downoloaded ia64 iso image , I thought it is the same, > I can't boot with the CD; > what is the difference between them? It's a different architecture. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64 http:

Re: diff between amd64 and ia64

2007-12-22 Thread Branko Djurkovic
Heh, I had the same 'prob' :) IA64 is Intel's 64bit technology for Itanium server architecture ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA-64) you need amd64 version for your notebook. On Dec 22, 2007 4:45 PM, abdelkader belahcene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI, > I have an AMD laptop, > I downoloaded

Re: [OT] Whitelisting a domain?

2007-12-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Dec 22 09:20 -0600]: > You're not necessarily on a blacklist. I live in a clean IP range, and can > send email to AOL without problems, but Yahoo is aggressive in terms of > content. I sent a set of instructions to a client's employee on his private > email addre

diff between amd64 and ia64

2007-12-22 Thread abdelkader belahcene
HI, I have an AMD laptop, I downoloaded ia64 iso image , I thought it is the same, I can't boot with the CD; what is the difference between them? best regards bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-22 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Well, when I did need it, I could reboot into etch which I've still got, and where it works fine. Since I used it only now and then, that was just a minor annoyance. If you have the etch install on a partition in the same machine, you can just mount it somewhere and use

Re: [OT] Whitelisting a domain?

2007-12-22 Thread Joe
Nate Bargmann wrote: A week ago I registered a domain for myself which included an email account at the same domain. So far, if I include a URL in a message to a Yahoo! Groups mailing list, the message gets caught by their spam filters. How can I go about learning if my new domain is blackliste

info

2007-12-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ciao scusa se ti disturbo, ma è tre giorni che ci sbatto la testa, ho un problema con il rilevamento della scheda di rete quando ho provato ad installare debian netist. il lo provato ad installare su un portatile ASUS X5ON CON SCHEDA MADRE F5N con chip Geforce n 610 e processore Amd Athlon in

Re: Synpatic problem.

2007-12-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:05:59 + Rui Manuel Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Rui, > I have a problem with synpatic, it don't install the dependecies > auto. I need to go to debian package site and install manually. Without more information, it's difficult to diagnose this. However, my

Synpatic problem.

2007-12-22 Thread Rui Manuel Martins
I have a problem with synpatic, it don't install the dependecies auto. I need to go to debian package site and install manually. Can anybody help me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pdftk in Lenny

2007-12-22 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On 2007-12-22 00:05 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2007-12-21 23:41 +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Sven Joachim wrote: > > > Or install the version from unstable, which should just work fine > > > (assuming Sjoerd does not have an alpha machine). > > > > Hm, I tried 'aptitude -t unstable instal

Re: Switch running System to RAID-1

2007-12-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 01:05:31AM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote: > alexandrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > I just figured that our complany's server was running on JBOD with 2 HDs, > > one of them entirely unused (d'oh!). Of course I would like to have it as > > RAID 1. > > > > Now, I b

Re: Software-RAID for root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 11:24:10AM +0100, Felix Natter wrote: > > I am using Software-RAID for the root-partition and I get a "Can't shut > down raid partition because it's busy" message on system shutdown. > > Is using Software-RAID for / not recommended? Can I fix this somehow? > This questio

Re: Software-RAID for root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Saturday December 22 2007 04:24:10 Felix Natter wrote: > hi, > > I am using Software-RAID for the root-partition and I get a > "Can't shut down raid partition because it's busy" message on > system shutdown. > > Is using Software-RAID for / not recommended? Can I fix this > somehow? I wouldn't

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On Saturday December 22 2007 07:03:48 Owen Townend wrote: > On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 21:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > > > > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the s

[OT] Whitelisting a domain?

2007-12-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
A week ago I registered a domain for myself which included an email account at the same domain. So far, if I include a URL in a message to a Yahoo! Groups mailing list, the message gets caught by their spam filters. How can I go about learning if my new domain is blacklisted? How can I undo that

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Owen Townend
On Sat, 2007-12-22 at 21:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > > Hey, > > > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the sake of it is frowned > > upon. > > I believe it actually means: "Kee

Re: [OT] JavaScript with socket function

2007-12-22 Thread Misko
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:49:51PM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > > I guess I am looking for some kind of socket > > function in JavaScript (like fsockopen() in PHP). > Search for XMLHttpRequest. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest > You might want to use it to retrieve HTTP(S) docume

Software-RAID for root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Felix Natter
hi, I am using Software-RAID for the root-partition and I get a "Can't shut down raid partition because it's busy" message on system shutdown. Is using Software-RAID for / not recommended? Can I fix this somehow? thanks! -- Felix Natter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Sarge -> Lenny

2007-12-22 Thread stevem
On Friday 21 December 2007, Sven Joachim wrote: >... > Please try to find out where you got > /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Errno.pm from. > > Regards, > Sven Can't answer for the OP but I've downloaded various perl modules from CPAN and now my /usr/local/share is no longer arch independent.

Re: what to take off the root partition

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 03:27:33PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: > Hey, > > kiss = keep it simple, stupid > > It's a philosophy whereby complexity for the sake of it is frowned > upon. I believe it actually means: "Keep it short and simple." -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Adjusting volume, and system beep

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 08:34:32AM -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Sorry if this is too basic a question. > > I have an IBM ThinkPad T60 running lenny, using GNOME. > > There looks like there are two main ways to adjust the volume. I can do it in > software by using the Volume Control or Mi

Re: finding the rpm of the hard drive

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:19:16AM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Is there a command in Debian Sid (or in Linux in general) to find out the > rpm of a SCSI hard drive? I can actually remove it and look at the label of > the hard drive, but I rather not shutdown the machine just for this. I >

Re: Changing packages

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:44:09PM +, Rui Manuel Martins wrote: > I want to configure the installation cd of Debian, changing the packages to > "determine" wich software i want installed by default, etc. > > I need documentation about changing packages and about the constitution of > insta

Re: FreeAgent USB HDD (update)

2007-12-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 08:17:12AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I've lost the beginnings of this thread, but there was a recent story > about Seagate FreeAgent drives being (intentionally?) designed to > *not* work with Linux. > > http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/09/065