On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 09:37:02AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> this works
> perl -e 'while(<>){chomp ; next if ( /^\s*;/); print "[$_]\n" if length
> $_ > 0}' sip.conf
>
> or this
> perl -nle 'next if ( /^\s*;/); print if length $_ > 0' sip.conf
>
> why doesn't the next force a read of a new
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 07:33:11PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>
> > If its a pure
> >> engineering problem, I'll use Fortran77.
>
> May I suggest you shift to Fortran 90 from Fortran 77? Though Fortran 77
> codes are compatible with Fortran 90, I find that F90 ha
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:23:05PM -0700, tom arnall wrote:
> i find that opera does ok if i start with a clean slate each time, i.e., no
> tabs from former session.
>
I don't do sessions at all anyway (whatever they are), i.e. I always
have a clean slate.
Doug.
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On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 02:23:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have recently installed debain Etch 40r3 on an older Intel desktop
> which was previously reliably running a 2,4 Kernel SuSE system.
>
> The installation went pretty smoothly, and the system is being manly
> used as a firewall
Just a note:
Posts recently are becoming many pages long with perhaps a one-liner
comment somewhere. People are forgetting to snip.
Also, some people are forgetting to word-wrap.
Not trolling, not trying to moderate the list, just observing.
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:36:56PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> I know that reading /etc/network/interfaces has been done over and
> over... has an API been created for editing/writing it? If it's available in
> perl, or over the commandline, that would be even better :-)
Its just a plain
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:04:23PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:10:04AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> >
> Yes, the system does thrash, not a complete lockup. But, if you try to
> move the cursor and few times with no
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:23:57AM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> I strongly agree, and this knowledge is portable. All of the *nix
> tools, including shell, perl, and python, rely on regex
> understanding.
One can get along just fine in python without using regex. I'm living
proof. Sure, the reg
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:22:10PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> That just violates basic economic principals, setting the price below the
> balance of supply and demand, especially given we're talking about an
> international commodities market and thus don't have the aboslute authority
> to m
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 07:10:04AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Is there any way, instead of restricting a resource, to have a command
> executed when a setpoint for a given resource is reached? Say, when FF
> uses 200M of virtual memory, or over 30% of CPU, a job runs which pops
> up a warning
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:21:42PM +0200, Jean-Louis Crouzet wrote:
>>
> >Thanks for this thread I thought I was alone with my Iceweasel issues...
> >Basically I'm running Lenny with optimized kernel but still low memory
> >configuration (512MB) on a Dell Pentium III.
512MB considered low-memory
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:55:55PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote:
> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> >I keep coming up against a wall "Solid scripting experience required"
> >in my job search (for Linux sys admin). IYHO, what would be the one
> >scripting language to learn?
> >
>
> Several other responses
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:29:37PM +0530, Jaisen N.D. wrote:
> Hai I have a problem here.
> I use Etch. I have installed a postgresql package from debian backports,
> with the following command.
>
> #apt-get -t etch-backpo
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:20:09PM -0700, alexandre suzuki wrote:
> I want to upgrade my libc6,from etch to testing,the
> output of apt-get below:
libc is the heart of any unix. Since debian gives you binary packages,
they are linked against a specific version of libc6.
If you want such things f
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 05:02:14PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
>
> I don't understand why 'host fred' doesn't return 127.0.0.1
>
> ==> host -v fred
> Trying "fred.realsubdomain.realdomainname.com"
> Trying "fred.realdomainname.com"
> Trying "fred"
> Host fred not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> Received 97 by
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 01:25:53PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Thu, April 10, 2008 12:45 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > I don't see how a single process could use 95% of memory on a 32-bit
> > system.
>
> I can. FF2.x was just painful on my laptop. It only has 256Mb and what
> i used to be abl
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:45:32PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/10/08 14:35, tom arnall wrote:
> > all of a sudden browsers have become memory hogs on my system (>95%). i've
>
> I don't see how a single process could use 95% of memory on a 32-bit
> system.
Easy on my P-II, which is 32-bit (
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:22:06PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I was seriously surprised with the power my old 95 Kia Sportage had. 4
> banger, but got 147HP on the State of Oregon DEQ dynos at Hillsboro. It once
> pulled a Ford Explorer out of a drainage ditch, and with the help of another
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:02:33AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:57:27 -0400
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I use Latex. For simple things, it really is simple. For complex things
> > its a bit more complex.
&
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:16:15AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
> My first Linux install was on a 386-33. I still have the steel full-sized AT
> case around here somewhere... The hardest thing was figuring out the
> monitor's frequencies for Xwindows, since at that time they were not
> autodetecte
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:12:03PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> == January 22, 2008 ==
>
> * Writing Testbenches Using SystemVerilog, Janick Bergeron
>
> === Interesting Reading ===
>
> * Thomas L. Friedman "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the
> Twenty-first Century,"
>
> === C
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:17:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/09/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > I have a 1965 International Harvester (aka Cornbinder) Metro-Mite
> > delivery truck. It's so cool. Geared so low in first, you could pull
> > stumps with it...
>
> Gee,
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:14:05AM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Still doesn't help on my white-on-black VT520. A bit of white-space
> > (well, actually black-space) does help.
>
> # -
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:58:14AM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > If before we were kettle and pot, now that duct tape is an issue, are we
> > Red and Green (do other places get the Red Green show?).
>
> Augh! Red Gre
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 09:34:39AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> No no, sorry Doug, but rubber bands are reserved for securing daughter
> *boards* not daughters. I only use du(ct|ck) tape for securing the
> children.
>
> /me runs from the SPCA^h^h^h^hCPS...
If the wiggle fits.
(I think
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:12:37AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> Doug, you should have, choosing the headers of your choice.
>
> # .muttrc
> # What headers are displayed
> ignore *
> unignore From Date Subject To Cc User-agent X-Mailer
> # And for consistancy.
> unhdr_order *
> hdr_order X-Mai
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:21:42AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> Or wonder if you will be stuck at a 2.6.22 kernel because you have a
> nvidia MX400 because m-a only works with the nvidia-glx from unstable if
> you try installing the 2.6.24 kernel which has migrated down to Lenny.
So you find
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:32:13AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:41:37 -0400, Douglas A Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > How does this mesh with, for example, debian's thought-paradigms for
> > deciding if something is free. e.g. the de
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:08:11PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Someone recently talked about using
> ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
> So that must be the UUID for the individual /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1.
>
> What is the UUID for the raid1 itself?
Doesn't matter. The raid subsystem will search all d
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:23:07PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> >>>slot "wore out" (don't ask me how, because I don't know). At the
> >>>end, I had to keep a rubberband pulling that daughter board at just
> >>>the right angle, or the thing would lock up and not boot. Worked
> >>>like that for years
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:47:51PM +0100, Bob Cox wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:07:57 -0400, Haines Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> wrote:
> > It turned out I have no codecs.conf file in either /etc/mplayer/ or in
> > ~/.mplayer/ . Shouldn't mplayer have created the file? I was unable to
> >
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:43:56PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Johannes Wiedersich wrote on 2008-04-07 14:31:
> >> I understand the issue about not wanting to limit posters to the list of
> >> subscribers. However, perhaps there should be a whitelist or somthing
> >> to which non-subscrib
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:20:17AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Rich Healey wrote on 2008-04-08 08:51:
> > Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> >> [Redirecting to debian-user, because this has nothing to do with
> >> debian-security]
>
> [snip]
>
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 12:52:06PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:44:38PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > Neat project. I am not sure why being able to install 3.0r3 rather than
> > 3.0r6 is necesarily very useful, but it is neat to have the choice.
>
> To have repr
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:48:29PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:41:56 -0500
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello Ron,
>
> > On 04/07/08 05:44, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > > That's X-Face. Face can be colour.
> > I guess we'd better ask OP for clarification!
>
>
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:20:53PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:50:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:37:14PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Doug
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:17:49PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty w
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:46:15PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> Since we're off topic and talking about low end machine. I don't know
> if any of you guys have heard of this new linux distro on the block
> called slitaz.
>
> http://www.slitaz.org/en/
>
> Very small distro...fits in a 24.8
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:26:41PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/06/08 20:48, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > I remember my
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:54:19PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> > Sorry, I'm at my VT520 now so can't try it, but I think in the menu's
> > there's a search dialog with check boxes as opposed to just the search
> >
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:45:59PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> I remember upgrading my C-64's 300 baud modem to a 1200baud one. That
> was so cool. No more typing faster than the modem... I used to "chat"
> with my friends using terminal programs we'd written ourselves
> complete with x
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:28:20PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> I currently use kpdf for viewing pdf files. I have tried other pdf viewers
> (acroread, xpdf etc.,) some time back and settled on to kpdf as it sucked
> less. Is there any pdf viewer out there which has the following feature?
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:37:14PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> > Still doesn't help on my white-on-black VT520. A bit of white-space
> > (well, actually black-space) does help.
>
>
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest
> assured that lenny will be out any time. When's the next utnubu due
&
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:16:02AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> is there any way to do this with mail, maybe if it was a header I could
> then wget the report as spam link. Don't really want to open a browser
> to do this
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On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:59:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Not really, since I didn't become a teenager until the mid-70s.
>
I thought you were an old fart. You're my age. I was born in 66.
Oh, wait a minute...
Doug.
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On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:46:25AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> In practice, any decent public key system will use large enough primes
> that this is a "Got a supercomputer or a botnet and a good bit of time?"
> case which makes brute-forcing an md5 password file look easy, but I
> like to be c
Great OT thread. Yes, no flaming.
Last time it was like this, Etch was almost ready...
I'm trying to remember the last real Etch problem (as opposed to Lenny
or Sid questions) other than those where the answer was to remove
network-manager :)
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On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:04:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Totally ACK! This is the kind of situation that inflames my
> crotchetiness gland and impels me to pull out my cane and ear horn.
Yeah, when you were a student, you did the same thing with a carrier
pidgeon, carrying a role of punch
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:40:48PM +0530, sini kumar wrote:
>
> Hi all I'm from U.A.E i would like to use GNU LINUX in my laptop
> Compaq presario F700 ,processer is Mobile AMD Sempronm(tm)Processor
> 3600+ 2.00Ghz,,1Gb ram , system type is 32bit operating system. so
> how can i install and wher
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:47:12AM -0700, Bryan wrote:
> I downloaded the latest Debin relese(4.0) from Bittorent and burned it
> to DVD but for some reason it will not boot from the CD. I don't
> think it is the CD becuase it boots on two other machines I have. The
> weird thing is this same ma
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 07:43:05PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
> Yeah, it should be simple, but it isn't doing it!
>
> I have a whole bunch of packages held from back when I
> had a buggy apt-get and aptitude and now I want to
> upgrade and I can't get them unheld. Where is that list
> at? Is
Something I've notice latey, is that people sending to the list have a
header referred to as "Face". Since I use mutt on my VT520, all I see
is a whole screen of ascii chars.
Just as there's a netiquette rule about the number of lines in a .sig,
what is netiquette re sending to a list where many
Of course,
Quoting the spam when you complain about spam just confuses the spam
filter so that it will think such mail is legitimate.
I understand the issue about not wanting to limit posters to the list of
subscribers. However, perhaps there should be a whitelist or somthing
to which non-subs
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:44:44AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > Fair enough. just a thought. BTW, it's darn hard to find your
> > responses with no whitespace around them...
>
> Someting like:
>
> color quoted blue
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 04:31:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> If I'm using the business card CD install, I get to a page that says,
> "Install the base system" and lists about 30 different kernels. I
> can't find any web page or documentation that explains the difference
> between each one.
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 12:29:44PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 04/04/2008 10:47 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:39:55AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >>My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her
> >>to read.
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:29:26PM -0700, remigio wrote:
> I'd like to buy an Acer Aspire m1610 for a very convenient low price,
> but before this I want to know the Debian Etch compatibility on this
> pc. Have someone had an experience in this way?
> Thanks very much.
Don't know but if its hot-o
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 06:33:27PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-04-04 17:57 +0200, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Douglas writes:
> >> My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her to
> >> read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I do
> >> no r
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 04:42:28PM +0100, Andr? C?sar de S? wrote:
> On 04/04/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her
> > to read. First she sent .doc fi
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:39:55AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her
> to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I
> do no run OO) although I could get the jist. I then suggested t
Hello all,
My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her
to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I
do no run OO) although I could get the jist. I then suggested that she
send plain text.
I don't run any locales but have LANG=C.
Her plain-t
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:53:13AM -0700, Pete Kay wrote:
> I am looking for a solution to perform specific tasks based on email
> received. So, when emails of specific Send-to address arrives to my mail
> server, I would like to kick off certain scripts. Can anyone tell me how to
> do that?
>
>
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:50:02AM +0200, Ivan Savcic wrote:
> While we're on the topic, can anyone sum it up, what do people
> generally think is "bad" with Debian?
>
Doesn't run well on old (e.g. 10 years old) hardware. Installer needs
too much memory, an install takes too much disk space.
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:27:59AM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:51:49PM +1000, hce wrote:
> > >
> > > I ran following command and got an error.
> > >
> > > $ apt-get install lighttpd
> > > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must m
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:50:47AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> On 04/01/2008 10:44 AM, Michael Yang wrote:
> >Is there any good tools you can recommend to save the web pages?
> >
> >When I find some pages that I'm interested in, or some good articles, I
> >would like to save it (the content, not the
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 08:33:34PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> * s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080402 19:28]:
> > Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> > If the server's compromised, you should reinstall.
>
> My concern is not for corruption of the server. My concern is whethe
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:26:02AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On my AMD64 etch system, cntl-alt-F1 has stopped giving me a text
> console a month or two ago. Now I haven't been doing anything much to
> it excpet for regular upgrades, and the installation of an ocasional new
> Debian pack
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 02:33:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/31/08 23:39, Jim McCloskey wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > Thank you very much. This file is of a daunting size (7096 lines). It
>
> Send it to the band printer in the computer room?
I don't know, my Epson LQ-2080 would handle that jus
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:44:16AM -0400, Michael Yang wrote:
> Is there any good tools you can recommend to save the web pages?
>
> When I find some pages that I'm interested in, or some good articles, I
> would like to save it (the content, not the link url) on my system, so that
> I can review
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:06:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 03/31/08 17:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:54:44PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> >> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Chris Bannister
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> &g
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:16:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Monday 31 March 2008 12:24:05 pm Phil Wiley wrote:
> > My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions
> > should I use?
>
> The ones that apply to your system's architecture. If you used to run
> Windows, od
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:54:44PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Chris Bannister
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:09:10PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > > They also alphabetically increment with each release and Gutsy Gibbon,
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:04:28PM +, T o n g wrote:
> I saw the following for the first time when I rebooted just now:
> Mar 31 09:10:04 cxmr kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0
> action 0x2 frozen
> Mar 31 09:10:04 cxmr kernel: ata1.00: cmd b0/d2:f1:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 08:10:07PM +0800, paragasu wrote:
> > There is a lot more than just the I/O scheduler. It just popped into my
> > head because I am doing the configuration right now, myself, and because
> > of the debate/controversy about it. Also, you will want to build the
> > device dr
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:46:44PM -0400, Michael Yang wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:26 AM, jeffry s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Rich Healey
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Presto
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 05:38:17PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> My booting of Etch was being slowed by
> /etc/network/if-up.d/avahi-daemon, so I removed execute permissions from
> that file, and now my boots are 10 seconds faster.
>
> However, the avahi-daemon still starts. Will there be any advers
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:17:59AM +0800, paragasu wrote:
> i have a small vps with only 64MB memory. i am trying to run a costume made
> PHP
> well, assume i don't have enough money to buy a better server. it is
> possible to make a
> very fast server with compiling the source code etc..
>
> th
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:20:26AM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Can we use a virtual qemu linux machine as a firewall for
> a real home network?
Well, on normal i386 hardware (unlike e.g. Zseries with LPARs),
virtualization doesn't gain you any security really. Think of it this
way: the only wa
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:06:28PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 09:11:13PM +, Suzy Hesketh wrote:
> >>I am registered blind but I do have some limited sight. I have
> >>never used Debian but I have looked at Dream. My IRC administrator
> >>uses Debian and so does my frie
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 08:26:13PM +0800, jeffry s wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Chris Bannister wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
> use xfce4 instead of gnome or kde. it help a lot. my laptop i
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:00:13AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
> Lord, so I decided to upgrade my laptop (a Lenovo T60) to
> testing/lenny so as to try out TeXLive and suddenly found myself in
> one of those linux weekends of long ago (which I've never been sure if
> I missed or not) when you're
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 01:45:07PM +, T o n g wrote:
> I once saw people put their long log output (eg xorg log) to the Internet
> "paste board" to shorten the question here. But can't find such posts any
> more. So,
>
> do you know any Internet "paste board" that is hassle free?
> which one
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 03:13:27AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:39:22PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> If you want more definitive UNIX networking, try "UNIX System
> > Administration Handbook".
>
> Rather expensive last time I saw
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:38:30PM -0600, Walt L. Williams wrote:
> Where can I find more information on "apt-get"? More that the small
> PDF that I have already downloaded. Will it do a search for applications
> using key words? I installed KDE by completely de-installing Gnome and
> then install
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:31:05PM -0600, Walt L. Williams wrote:
> On Thursday, 27 March 2008 9:19 am, Bogdan Marian wrote:
>
> Netinst sound like its doing it over the internet. I only have dialup
> (college budget) Thanks for the info. I WILL investigate it for future
> use.
So, I only have d
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:57:09PM -0400, Jabka Atu wrote:
> I'm upgrading my small home network .
> today i use /etc/hosts on each machine to figure out where each host
> goe's as in :
>
> 192.168.0.1 whitebox.rent.net whitebox
> 192.168.0.2 bluebox.rent.net bluebox
> 192.168.0.3 blackbox.rent.ne
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:13:37PM +0100, Martin Marcher wrote:
> I guess I'll add myself to the sendmail people then. Can't be that bad
> and I don't plan to spend vast amounts of time on that, only on a as
> needed basis :)
>
> > If it were me and I only knew postfix, I'd find something else
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:21:35PM -0700, Wu Kejia wrote:
> Because truetype font is somewhat obscure on screen, I wish to use
> truetype as printing font while bitmap fonts for screen display. Can I
> do that?
What do you mean obscure? If you use bitmap fonts for screen display,
you'll get a lou
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:58:02AM -0700, Jeff wrote:
> If you want Debian to be popular with more people, work at making it
> better for more people.
However, be careful not to make it worse for the previously loyal users.
If you add fancy but fragile knobs and eye-candy, the fragility will
sc
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 03:18:57PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Mumia W.. wrote on 2008-03-26 12:55:
> > I'm just a user. I meant that I configured my mailreader to ignore such
> > messages. But yes, someone (not I) should inform sculpture.cz of the
> > problem. It's probably futile though;
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 07:43:37AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 March 2008 11:43:37 pm Wei Chen wrote:
>
> > The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the
> > recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most
> > famous search engines. Th
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:51:25PM +1200, C.T.F. Jansen wrote:
> Greetings,
> Regarding the root compromise in Debian 4.0R1, DSA 1491-1,
> relating to vserver and vmsplice. Can one disable this feature or not
> enable it, without breaking the kernel or anything else ?
> Is it possible for r
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:22:41PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# less /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 box localhost
>
> > Conclusion
> > Well now I see that the correct solution to
> > the original problem was to leave /etc/hosts
> > with the line
> > 127.0.0.1 l
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 06:22:55PM -0700, David Fox wrote:
> Recently I'm getting a bounce message on every post to debian-user. I
> figure some of you who post a lot more than I do can see what is going
> on. I just got one again:
>
> from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> to[EMAIL PROTECTED],
> date Tue
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 04:19:15AM +0100, s. keeling wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:18:33 -0400 (EDT)
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Even with computers with BIOS too old to boot from CD, Debian CDs
> provide sbm (smart boot manager) which can boot
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:45:05PM +, Hans-Gerhard Schrick wrote:
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> #
> proc/proc procdefaults0 0
> /dev/hda4 / reiserfs notail 0 1
> /dev/hda3 no
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:31:40PM -0600, Walt L. Williams wrote:
> I have been successful in getting Debian onto the internet
> using Gnome PPP. (I have dailup) the one small quirk is
> I have to manually add a default route to ppp0 to get it to
> work.
>
> Is there a way to include the command t
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 07:45:47PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:56:45 -0400
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I would suggest trying links2. It is light weight but does javascript,
> > SSL, etc and will help you decide
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:45:55PM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote:
> On 23/03/2008, Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > My /etc/hosts contains a handful of mappings useful on my internal subnet:
> >
> > 10.0.0.2 reidster.net reidster
> > 10.0.0.4 con
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