Re: Odd spurious IP addr in ifconfig

2006-05-05 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:53:11PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: | | Earlier, I was looking at old threads in my mail archive and found a | neat way to get the IP address from a shell script, but in trying it I | noticed - hey that's *not* my IP address! I've had static IP here on a | DSL line since

Re: What's wrong with X forwarding / remote X logins?

2006-05-05 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 12:21:04PM +0200, Christian Pernegger wrote: | Hi! | Is X11's network transparency a thing of the past and not supposed to | work anymore? No, it still works. I use it fairly frequently. | X forwarding of single apps via ssh: | - win32 (wine) programs crash on startup

Re: Is it possible to simply copy the kernel from one machine to another and use it?

2006-05-05 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 12:33:20AM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: | Christopher Nelson wrote: | On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 10:01:08PM +0200, Joris Huizer wrote: | | Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: | | I was wondering if it's possible to copy the vmlinuz-x.y.z from one | machine to another and have the other

Re: packages.debian.org status update?

2006-02-03 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:58:34AM -0700, Scott wrote: | [If there is a better forum for these questions, please advise and I'll | redirect. Thank you] | | | Is there any more current information than what can be found here?: | | http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2006/01/msg00035.html |

Re: gv bug, maintainer please?

2006-02-03 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:51:14PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: | On Thursday 26 January 2006 13:35, Linas Zvirblis wrote: | Does anyone know who the gv maintainer is? | | Martin A. Godisch $ aptitude show gv | fgrep Maintainer: Maintainer: Martin A. Godisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] The control file in

Re: README files

2005-12-19 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:18:32PM -0700, Ed Paris wrote: | | Hi There, | | I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and nano | and all I get is gibberish. How should I access this file in English? | Thanks. That file is a plain text file, but it is compressed using

Re: Slow copy

2005-12-15 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 12:42:18PM +, Graham Smith wrote: | Hi, | | This is perhaps one of the stranger questions to be asked but I'm looking for | a utility that will copy a file slowly. [...] | What I am basically looking for is a version of cp with a max copy rate | argument. I would

Re: why only find linux-image-2.6.12-1-686 can't find kernel-source-tree,

2005-12-15 Thread Derrick Hudson
Are these what you're looking for? http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/linux-source-2.6.12 http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/linux-tree-2.6.12 -D On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:39:48PM +0800, ericradt wrote: | kernel-image-2.6-k7 - Linux kernel 2.6 image on AMD K7 machines -

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:11:46PM -0700, Darrell Bellerive wrote: | I will soon be moving into a house in the rural country. Nice. I like the countryside too :-). Last night my dad showed me an article about the company CrossUSA that purposely hires software people out in the boonies. It's a

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 07:14:32AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: | Darrell Bellerive wrote: | Can anyone share some tips, tricks, or favorite applications to increase | the useability of a dial-up Internet connection? | | Just remember this: On an infinite timeline bandwidth is also infinite. ;)

Re: Bizarre ls Behavior

2005-07-22 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 01:34:06PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: | Hendrik Sattler writes: | Guessing: your $PATH contains . before the /bin | Bad thing! | When in doubt: run /bin/ls instead of ls. | | Wow! I've been doing UNIX for around 14 years and am flat | ashamed of myself. I have

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-21 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 04:48:51PM -0400, Patrick Rutkowski wrote: | On Tuesday 21 June 2005 04:39 pm, Valeriu Cerchez wrote: | I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine | what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my | internal DHCP). I wish to make a script to determine | that by

Re: DHCP problem where ip address is assigned to wrong NIC on reboot

2005-06-21 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 05:32:01PM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: | I got a real whacky one. This old machine I've got has two NICs, and during | install I assign eth1 to be the one used, and it gets the ip address from | DHCP. Well, after the reboot, that same IP address is assigned to eth0, and

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-21 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 01:39:34PM -0700, Valeriu Cerchez wrote: | I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine | what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my | internal DHCP). I recommend using the 'ip' command (in package 'iproute'). My understanding is that it is intended to replace

Re: non-network printer in a network.

2005-05-25 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:07:58PM +0200, Hans wrote: | Enlighten me please. | | I have an HP Office Jet 5505 all-in-one on my main box. This isn't a | network printer, and by that I mean no build in network card, it just | plugs into the USB port. | | I like to make the printer part available

Re: udev how to set up automatic /media/cdrom0

2005-05-18 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 03:22:00PM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: | On Mon, 16 May 2005, Mitchell Laks wrote: | | On Monday 16 May 2005 08:49 am, LeVA wrote: | | - debian-user@lists.debian.org,: |Hi, |are there any knowledgeable users of udev who can tell us how to |configure udev

Re: An EXCELLENT Microsoft ... MS is in trouble from OpenSource OSes like Linux

2005-05-18 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 08:02:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: | On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 19:49 +, Stephen Patterson wrote: | Jude DaShiell wrote: | I hope you're writing about an excellent Microsoft heavy duty Shop Vac, | because otherwise excellent and Microsoft never get that close in |

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-18 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:21:03PM +, John Moore wrote: | Thanks. The primary purpose is to study and understand Linux and the | programming environment. I'd also like to install Apache and Tomcat and do | some Java programming For Java work, I recommend using eclipse. You can use eclipse

Re: starting vim in non-gui mode under woody

2005-05-06 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 06:51:41PM +0930, David Purton wrote: [...] | When I run vim, with out the X server running, it still tries to connect | to the forwarded X server because $DISPLAY is set. Yep. | Of couse it fails, | but it is not falling back to the terminal version, it just dies. Odd.

Re: Missing ttys with udev

2004-10-15 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 06:41:12PM +0900, Nick Hastings wrote: | | Hi all, | | I recently switched from devfs to udev. Everything is fine except that I | now have no virtual consoles, only X. | | The device /dev/tty exists as do /dev/vc/tty/*, but there are no | symbolic links like /dev/tty0 -

Re: space-limiting /var/cache/apt/archives

2004-10-15 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Fri, Oct 15, 2004 at 12:52:18PM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: | | On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:53:19 +0200, Maurits van Rees writes: | Is it possible to somehow tell apt to use no more than X MB of | space for the archive, or not to keep more than Y versions of any | package? I can't find

Re: converting old style ufs to ext2

2004-10-15 Thread Derrick Hudson
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 09:30:29AM -0700, Marc Jackson wrote: | Hello, | | I've connected a j-bod with to an Alpha running the latest stable | release of Debian linux. I can mount the filesystems as ufs in | /etc/fstab, but I can't write to them. | In poking around, it seems as if there is no