How to suppress/handle junction points in CIFS-mounting Windows 7 shares on Linux?

2022-06-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
When mounting a Windows 7 share on Linux, how *can Windows junction points be suppressed* (or otherwise handled so that one that points up to a containing directory can't cause an endless loop)? For example, the (standard, Windows-created) junction point at "C:\Users\someuser\Application

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-08-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
gajuph4pre@yahoo, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 08:53:57PM +, gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: I have manually partitioned my hard disk drive as follows: /boot is assigned 200MB /root is assigned 10GB /swap is assigned 20GB /home is assigned 35GB /var is assigned 10GB /usr

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-05-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, April 29, 2020 12:49:53 PM Daniel Barclay wrote: How do people not understand that the word "forum" does not exclude e-mail or even non-digital communication (that "forum" does not mean only a web-based forum)? What word would

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-05-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
Brian wrote: On Wed 29 Apr 2020 at 12:20:37 -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei POPESCU wrote: ... The best thing about a wiki is that anyone can edit it[1]. Having to check with others first would, in my opinion, just hinder contributions. Reverts are much easier to do than edits ;) How

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 29 apr 20, 13:03:47, Daniel Barclay wrote: Nate Bargmann wrote: This topic has been on LWN.net for the past several days and should be free to view in the next day or two: https://lwn.net/Articles/817668/ And subscribing is required even just to *see

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
Nate Bargmann wrote: This topic has been on LWN.net for the past several days and should be free to view in the next day or two: https://lwn.net/Articles/817668/ And subscribing is required even just to *see* the "Debian discusses Discourse" discussions? That's, well, ... at least ironic.

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
Sven Hartge wrote: ... As Russ noted in https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2020/04/msg00103.html in 3) "... more comfortable with forums than with email. [...]" ... How do people not understand that the word "forum" does not exclude e-mail or even non-digital communication (that "forum"

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > ... > The best thing about a wiki is that anyone can edit it[1]. Having to > check with others first would, in my opinion, just hinder contributions. > > Reverts are much easier to do than edits ;) How about tentative or provisional edits--changes that perhaps show up

Re: scrollbar on left side

2010-10-22 Thread Daniel Barclay
lee wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:39:22PM +0200, Andreas Weber wrote: On 2010-10-21 22:48, lee wrote: On a side note: Someone once asked me why the text is moving up when you move the scrollbar down. Where´s the logic in that? Why isn´t the text moving up together with the scroll bar?

Re: umount without sync

2010-09-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 17/09/10 22:25, T o n g wrote: ... umount swap? I suspect you mean swapoff (though I can't think of many uses). There probably aren't many, but one is to reclaim disk space. For example, if you use swap files (as opposed to partitions) and the file system

Re: Proposed Fluxbox style for Debian

2010-09-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
Donald MacKinnon wrote: Dale wrote: ... I have been working on a new Fluxbox style[1] ... Comments and/or suggestions more than welcome ... [1] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Debian_LibStick Hello Dale, I for one am not keen on black on a darkish blue. There is too little contrast

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
Phil Requirements wrote: On 2010-09-10 18:56:03 -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: Phil Requirements wrote: ... GNU/Linux has an *improved* method of inputting these special characters. In Windows, you have to memorize these four digit codes that don't mean anything. In GNU/Linux, I memorize two

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
Phil Requirements wrote: ... GNU/Linux has an *improved* method of inputting these special characters. In Windows, you have to memorize these four digit codes that don't mean anything. In GNU/Linux, I memorize two-letter codes that actually hint at the meaning. On the other hand, a method

Re: Understanding LVM UUIDS

2010-07-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
Aaron Toponce wrote: UUIDs are unique to the device/filesystem. Are these (disk) UUIDs stored somewhere in the partition (in the filesystem), or are they stored at or generated from a lower level? In particular, if one used dd to copy the contents (a file system) of one partition to another

Re: Misleading Debian's installer choice

2010-06-30 Thread Daniel Barclay
Alan Chandler wrote: On 30/06/10 09:29, Merciadri Luca wrote: I find this perfect, but it should be coupled with the impossibility of putting on two partitions the same stuff, i.e. putting /var on two partitions, for example. You are still talking backwards You put the partition

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of IT Helpdesk

2010-06-11 Thread Daniel Barclay
Chris Davies wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: ... In my experience, many web forms just don't accept plus characters in email addresses at all. Daniel Barclay dan...@fgm.com wrote: Then those forms are broken (not accepting e-mail addresses properly), right? Yes. But that doesn't help those

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Stephan Seitz wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:58:09AM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... That's why the ISO date formats are numeric: As long as one uses [whatever the right name for our Arabic-digit-based decimal system is], one can read the ISO date format. Only if you know, it is ISO

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/2010 10:06 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55

Re: Disk problems or worse?

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ralph, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ralph Katz: Lenny install on newly acquired used Dell hangs and throws errors to syslog. Do I have two bad disks or a more serious hardware problem? Another option: it might be a kernel problem. I don't remember the specifics anymore, but on one of my systems I

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Stephan Seitz wrote: ... That's why the ISO date formats are numeric: As long as one uses [whatever the right name for our Arabic-digit-based decimal system is], one can read the ISO date format. Only if you know, it is ISO date format. Oh, also: Yes, but the ISO date format is fairly

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/03/2010 10:28 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/2010 10:06 AM, Daniel Barclay wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, please test grub2)

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
Stan Hoeppner wrote: The problem, in and of itself, is booting. Period. There is [no] way to test it but to replace LILO with Grub2 and see if the system boots afterward. I cannot do this on production servers, obviously. Cloning drives to play with on a lab machine would be a good idea,

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
Andrei Popescu wrote: For me dd mmm is very clear ... Even when the month abbreviation is in a language you don't know? That's why the ISO date formats are numeric: As long as one uses [whatever the right name for our Arabic-digit-based decimal system is], one can read the ISO date

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
Andrei Popescu wrote: ... You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can you tell if these files were created 5th

Re: ls has stopped using the ISO date format

2010-06-01 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/30/2010 05:51 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: [snip] You example shows only dates where it is quite obvious what date format is used. Let me see... -rwx-- 1 amp amp 891837 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010065.jpg -rwx-- 1 amp amp 733361 2010-05-03 22:55 03052010066.jpg Can

Re: file transfer from removable flash memory: time stamps and case

2010-05-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
H.S. wrote: ... When I copy files from a flash memory (inserted in a USB card reader) to my Testing desktop, I notice that the filenames are upper case and the time stamp of the transferred files is the time they were transferred and not when they were originally created. How do I avoid these

Re: (OT) suggestion on terse wording of IT Helpdesk

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
Jochen Schulz wrote: ... In my experience, many web forms just don't accept plus characters in email addresses at all. Then those forms are broken (not accepting e-mail addresses properly), right? -- (Plain text sometimes corrupted to HTML courtesy of Microsoft Exchange.) [F] -- To

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
Frank Terbeck wrote: Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frank Terbeck wrote: Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frank Terbeck wrote: Mike McClain [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frank Terbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... ... people think spaces are bad in filenames. (They are not bad, ... In what

Re: Unix-ify File Names

2007-04-19 Thread Daniel Barclay
Frank Terbeck wrote: Daniel B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frank Terbeck wrote: Mike McClain [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Frank Terbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for FILE in `ls *$1` ; do ... b) it breaks on filenames with spaces (and other special characters). ... Using 'for i in `ls *`'-type loops

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-03-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
Steve Lamb wrote: Daniel B. wrote: ... (When you logically tentatively delete a message from the Inbox folder and Seamonkey logically moves it to the Trash folder, there's still a physical copy of the data in the file that implements the Inbox folder. That physical copy is never available

Re: iceweasel not being recognized by ISP website

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 17:26 -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:42:22AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Raju's point about employment with capitalone is entirely different. CapitalOne is not (at least ostensibly) a web content

Re: Attracting newbies

2007-02-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: RE: how to write the documentation, where to put it. It seems that wget won't crawl through a wiki, it will just grab the one page. Its no different than saving the page with the browser. Wget crawls my wiki site just fine. Are you using the right wget options?

Re: iceweasel not being recognized by ISP website

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Barclay
H.S. wrote: The website ... suggests I either download Firefox or IE 6 or 7, all for Windows. They do not support any non-Windows browser at all! Firefox runs on Linux. Or do you mean that website says or implies that it only works with the Windows version of Firefox (and not others, e.g.,

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Barclay
Greg Folkert wrote: ... The issue here is that you only need to backup your data. Backups of /usr and /var and so on mean nothing. I think you're giving bad advice. Think about /var a little more, for example: /var/spool/mail/ /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ /var/lib/dpkg/info/ /var/log/ A

Re: bad anti-aliasing; what thinks my CRT is an LCD display

2007-01-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Florian Kulzer wrote: ... ...if an LCD screen is detected. You can avoid this by choosing Never if you suspect that there is a problem with the LCD detection. Where is the LCD detection performed? I have now worked around the problem (currently by turning off anti- aliasing entirely, soon by

Re: Configuring inittab

2006-02-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Tarvin, Am 2006-02-19 18:02:20, schrieb Digby Tarvin: Debian by default does not make good use (IMHO) of the runlevel mechanism. Oh yes, it does. No, it does not. The runlevel mechanism allocates 4 multi-user levels. Debian uses only one. (Making all

Re: Missing public keys in aptitude - SOLVED (Sarge debmirror case)

2006-02-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Florian Kulzer wrote: Yann Lejeune wrote: ... ... gpg --armor --export keyid | apt-key add - ... wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2005.asc -O - | apt-key add - wget http://ftp-master.debian.org/ziyi_key_2006.asc -O - | apt-key add - ... I think that these things don't work for

Re: debmirror can't find public key to validate Release files

2006-02-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
Hans Ekbrand wrote: ...Perhaps something like this would work for you too? # gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 2D230C5F # gpg --export -a 2D230C5F | apt-key add - No--the command apt-key doesn't exist in sarge. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Pros/Cons Kde vs Gnome?

2004-06-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
Steve Lamb wrote: Paul Scott wrote: But that's a CLI job anyway. Tab-completion and history and the rest of the shell goodies makes the CL easier for most of that stuff :) Most, not all. Shell's not to fond of partial selecions across a large list which is handled quite nicely in a properly

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:22:31AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: I wonder if Damon or his teacher confused the dropping of ands other than the last with dropping all ands. My teacher used to tell us: where do you see an and written there? Huh? Written where? And is your

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Daniel B. wrote: Travis Crump wrote: ... Going through it in my mind, I pretty much treat it as any other list, dropping every 'and' but the last one. Put another way, say you have 'One thousand women, 3 hundred men, and 46 children'. How many people do you have? 'One

Re: OT: Writing numbers longhand

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Paul Johnson wrote: Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... I learned how to write numbers long-hand in 1989. The only time and comes into play is to separate the integer from the fraction. 1,234,567.89 is one million, two-hundred-thirty-four thousand, five-hundred-sixty-seven and

Re: OT: Writing numbers longhand

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
richard lyons wrote: On Thursday 06 May 2004 14:43, Paul Johnson wrote: ...1,234,567.89 is one million, two-hundred-thirty-four thousand, five-hundred-sixty-seven and eighty-nine one-hundredths. Oh come on - I never heard anyone pedantic enough to spell out the decimals like that. That's not

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
richard lyons wrote: ... But it is entirely rational, since we write the smallest order digit at the right of numbers, to put this in the order 2004/05/06 if we are being orderly and businesslike. ...and given that write times with smaller units to the right. (Of course, we write addresses with

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Paul Johnson wrote: ... Checks will bounce unless dated like 5/6/2004, 6 MAY 2004 or May 6, 2004. Bull. I've been writing my checks like that for years. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Paul Johnson wrote: Roel Schroeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... One way to avoid the confusion is by using the ISO format: /mm/dd. Also makes it very easy to sort by date. Still has potential for ambiguity. Not really. The only system in use that puts the year first puts the month next and

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
William Ballard wrote: ... As I said in another post, year-first is ...bad for person to person communication. That's not true in geneology, even for person-to-person communication. You're confused about what makes it good or bad. It's not computers vs. people, it's something else. Daniel --

Re: Does using debconf with X server preclude swapping Control/Caps Lock?

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
JG wrote: Hi, Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Woody (3.0r1), when installing xserver-xfree8, does using debconf to configure the server preclude using the standard XFree86 keyboard options to swap the Control and Caps Lock keys? Debconf encloses the entire XF86Config-4 file inside

Re: Does using debconf with X server preclude swapping Control/Caps Lock?

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Brian Nelson wrote: Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Woody (3.0r1), when installing xserver-xfree8, does using debconf to configure the server preclude using the standard XFree86 keyboard options to swap the Control and Caps Lock keys? Hmm, I thought there was a debconf question

Why startx files on /dev/agpgart when xf86cfg runs? (XFree86 4.3 for Woody)

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
If xf86cfg can successfully run the X server, why would running X with startx die with an error saying: (EE) GARTInit: Unabled to open /dev/agpgart (No such device) (WW) I810(0): /dev/agpgart is either not available, or no memory is available for allocation. Using pre-allocated

can't load agpgart module for XFree86 i810 for i845G/GL controller (Woody, 2.4.18)

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Has anyone gotten an Intel 82845G/GL graphics controller working with the XFree86 4.3 backport to woody? Currently, I'm having trouble loading the agpgart module that X apparently needs. The X server dies saying: (EE) GARTInit: Unabled to open /dev/agpgart (No such device) (although xf86cfg

Re: Why startx files on /dev/agpgart when xf86cfg runs? (XFree86 4.3 for Woody)

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Daniel Barclay wrote: If xf86cfg can successfully run the X server, why would running X with startx die with an error saying: (EE) GARTInit: Unabled to open /dev/agpgart (No such device) (WW) I810(0): /dev/agpgart is either not available, or no memory is available for allocation

Re: Does using debconf with X server preclude swapping Control/Caps Lock?

2003-10-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Brian Nelson wrote: ... No, this question: Template: xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/options Type: string Description: Please select your keyboard options. For the X server to handle your keyboard as you desire, keyboard options may be entered. Available options depend on which

Does using debconf with X server preclude swapping Control/Caps Lock?

2003-10-23 Thread Daniel Barclay
On Woody (3.0r1), when installing xserver-xfree8, does using debconf to configure the server preclude using the standard XFree86 keyboard options to swap the Control and Caps Lock keys? Debconf encloses the entire XF86Config-4 file inside its: ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION and ### END

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Daniel B. wrote: ... (You can no longer use vga= in lilo.conf to use a high-resolution text mode to see kernel boot messages. If you run less on the console, the top lines of the file aren't visible, apparently because less thinks the screen is 24 lines high, but the

Re: disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
Andrés Roldán wrote: Just for the sake of being clear, LILO does not change anything in the kernel, it just passes parameters to the kernel and then, when the kernel has been completely loaded, LILO has nothing to do hereafter. Right, except that before booting the kernel, LILO can set the video

Re: package for bug regarding system installation and boot logo

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
Brian Nelson wrote: The little penguin at the top of the screen while the kernel is loading? Bugs for that should be filed against kernel, I believe. Thanks. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

what exactly does init_module: No such device mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Daniel Barclay
When trying to load a driver reports init_module: No such device, what exactly does that mean? Does it mean that the module couldn't find any instances of the type of hardware device that the module handles, using whatever degree of scanning or probing that that particular module performs? (Does

package for bug regarding system installation and boot logo

2003-10-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
What's the right package or pseudo-package to use to report a bug about the boot logo in a new installation? Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

disable boot logo from LILO (kernel boot command line)?

2003-10-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
Is it possible to disable the boot logo from LILO (e.g., via a kernel boot parameter)? With vga=ask in lilo.conf, when I boot and select a video mode, it seems LILO changes the video mode but the kernel immediately changes the mode back (to whatever supports the logo). I want to boot using a

Re: fsck finding thousands of errors

2003-02-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
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packages with configuration prompt twice

2003-02-13 Thread Daniel Barclay
When I install packages that require configuration, each one goes through configuration (its sequence of questions on the console, or its Dialog-based menus) twice. Is this normal, or do I have debconf set up wrong? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to fix Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0?

2003-02-11 Thread Daniel Barclay
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:55:54PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: ... When I try to boot a new kernel, it says: ... Hmmm...have you rerun lilo? Yes. I couldn't be booting the new kernel if I hadn't. Anyway, I did find the Debian Reference Chapter 7 ( http://www.debian.org

Re: How to fix Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0?

2003-02-11 Thread Daniel Barclay
sources (2.4.20), not from Debian-patches sources (latest 2.4.18 in woody).) Thanks. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
deleting the author's e-mail address from the To:/Cc: list (unless I forget). Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:54:40PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: How would that _not_ drop whatever features my current (non-mutt) MUA has? Mutt, and it's KDE frontend kmail, are *far* more featureful and far faster than Netscape is. Trust us on this and give

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
Paul Johnson wrote: ... There's positive features to NS4 mail? Were you trying to have a real discussion or not? If not, never mind. If so, see my other reply about what I meant about adding/dropping features. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

How to fix Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0?

2003-02-10 Thread Daniel Barclay
is no longer relevant. Is that actually correct? Is it also correct for initrd images (/boot/initrd.img-...)? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
behavior of other people. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
Martin, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.02.08.1934 +0100]: Please do not CC me when replying to lists that I read! ... (I think your wording probably doesn't say what you mean.) How would you say it? Don't modify lists with that I read. I

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
Colin Watson wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 03:46:53PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: Colin Watson wrote: ... follow his Mail-Followup-To: ... But how would you propose I do that? Do a View Source on every message? Use a mailer that supports it automatically, like mutt or (I

2.4 patch for AMD 760MPX/786 / A7M266-D IDE DMA filesystem corruption?

2003-02-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
for getting the fastest IDE disk performance without risking filesystem corruption? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
-list addresses, but how the hell is what I've been doing arbitrary behavior? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] More detailed post ...

2003-02-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 09 Feb 2003 01:02:46PM -0500, Daniel Barclay insinuated: Thorsten Haude wrote: ... However, I think the better approach is to lean back a moment and think about it: Why would anyone want to have the reply twice? Well, someone could want list messages

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.02.09.1902 +0100]: Well, someone could want list messages that are replies to them to show up in the their regular mailbox so they notice them quickly, and also want all list messages to show up in a mailbox thatis

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.02.09.1922 +0100]: I should change mail software just for the Mail-Followup-To: header? I should drop all the positive features of my current mailer (Netscape Communicator 4) just to get automatic Mail-Followup

how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?

2003-02-08 Thread Daniel Barclay
Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-08 Thread Daniel Barclay
martin f krafft wrote: ... Please do not CC me when replying to lists that I read! How are others supposed to know which lists you read (vs. which you have just posted to)? (I think your wording probably doesn't say what you mean.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] Capitalism (was Re: columbia -- what really happened)

2003-02-08 Thread Daniel Barclay
Jack Nguy wrote: Why is this on this mailing list again? By the way, your message asks for a return receipt, which I would guess isn't everyone's preferred setting for a mailing list. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Disk Corruption: SOLVED

2003-02-08 Thread Daniel Barclay
partition nor an extended partition on the first disk, then there's only one place left, where a LILO boot sector could be stored: the master boot record. That documentation is wrong. You can also use a diskette. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: how to determine whether (first) printer is lp0 or lp1?

2003-02-08 Thread Daniel Barclay
Seneca wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:17:58PM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 13:45, Seneca wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:43:05PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: Is there a direct way determine whether the (first) printer is /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-08 Thread Daniel Barclay
defined? I just searched through all the IETF RfCs but couldn't find it.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Swap capslock-control in console?

2003-02-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
don't know for sure, but that rings a bell. I think there's something in the reverse direction: X can inherit some keyboard characteristics from the virtual console's keyboard settings. I don't recall if it's the whole keyboard layout or not. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
behavior that transmuting one element into another takes significantly more advanced equipment than the alchemists had? And that even our current advanced equipment can't transmute arbitrary pairs of elements? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
Mike M wrote: On Monday 03 February 2003 18:38, Daniel Barclay wrote: Kenward Vaughan wrote: ... In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Daniel Barclay
of sky because you haven't paid your Microsoft tax. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SOLVED] backport of ICH4 IDE support

2003-02-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
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Re: columbia -- what really happened (OT)

2003-02-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ron Johnson wrote: ... Unfortunately, it's just proof that so many in the media are tres' clueless. Don't say that--too many of us(we?) Americans are monolingual. :-) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: A7M266-D CM8738 problems: Pcm control of various mixers don't work

2003-02-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
Johan Kullstam wrote: Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is anyone familar with this problem?: Since I've upgraded from a system with a SoundBlaster 16 to a A7M266-D motherboard with an on-board C-Media CM8738 chip, the Pcm control of mixer programs (tkmixer, aumix, wmmixer

Re: Swap capslock-control in console?

2003-02-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
an enhancement request that the initial keyboard configuration include an option to swap the Control and Caps Lock keys)? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
responsibility anyone could have. - Lee Iacocca Wouldn't that be society resting on its laurels? And stagnating? (With no one creating additional civilization.) Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: instructions for setting up sound?

2003-01-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Daniel Barclay said: Can anyone point me to instructions for setting up audio that addresses kernel messages such as: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 This is because ... Thanks for the fish, but what

Re: instructions for setting up sound?

2003-01-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
Kent West wrote: Daniel Barclay wrote: Can anyone point me to instructions for setting up audio that addresses kernel messages such as: modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0 ... What does lspci say your sound card is (assuming it's a PCI card - if it's (E)ISA

A7M266-D CM8738 problems: Pcm control of various mixers don't work

2003-01-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
currently using a 2.4 kernel with the cmpci module. Is there any special setup for the CM8738 that I should be aware of? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-19 Thread Daniel Barclay
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for my IDE disks. ... If you have a VIA chipset try making sure that VIA chipset support is included in the kernel. No, it's an Asus A7M266-D, which has

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-19 Thread Daniel Barclay
for reference, my rev. 1.04 A7M266-D has a version B2 southbridge (with fixed USB 1.1). Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
for command The linux-kernel mailing list archives seem to indicate that there is a patch for a kernel bug that can cause disk corruption. Does anybody know which 2.4.x kernel patches are supposed to fix that? Or is the problem something else? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED

unresolved symbols with make-kpkg but not with make, make modules, etc.

2003-01-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
What does it mean when compiling a kernel using make-kpkg yields a number of unresolved symbols but using make or make modules compiles with no errors? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

which 2.4 kernel and patch(es) to avoid IDE disk corruption when DMA on?

2003-01-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
and system hangs with a dual Athlon MP system (A7M266-D motherboard)? Thanks, Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: which 2.4 kernel and patch(es) to avoid IDE disk corruption when DMA on?

2003-01-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
on the Linux kernel mailing list about IDE disk corruption, and there a number of patches for various versions of the 2.4.1x kernel, but it's not clear which patches fixes known problems vs. which try to add new functionality to the otherwise-stable 2.4 kernel series. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay

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