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 to add
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:45:05PM +, Hans-Gerhard Schrick wrote:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# file system mount point type options dump pass
proc/proc procdefaults0 0
/dev/hda4 / reiserfs notail
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 01:05:24PM +0200, Tero M?ntyvaara wrote:
You will also need to install some kind of POP or IMAP daemon to handle
this part.
What is/are the default POP and/or IMAP server(s) of the Debian etch?
There isn't a default POP or IMAP server, take your pick.
But if
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:30:28AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:16:52AM +0100, Vincent Bachelier wrote:
Can you explain:
all main think like HIMEM4G and 64BITS RESOURCE, is sets ...
Whats this 64BITS RESOURCE?
Is uname -a for redhat == uname -a for
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID
card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. The hard drives are all
sata Raptors with 4 of the 5 drives in a RAID 10 array. I'm running Etch.
The
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 09:07:32AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dt Now you're using shaw.ca for your home domain. Do you own that? Would
you like to e.g. relay mail for all of shaw.ca?
Not really.
Didn't think so :)
OK, I've invented the domain name petershouse;
the current
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 05:14:44PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:57:30PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
I'm building a server based on an Asus M2N-LR mobo, a 3Ware 9550SXU RAID
card, 8 gigs of ram and a dual core Opteron. The hard
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:15:53AM -0700, Michael Paulsen wrote:
On 3/21/08, Tom Goulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/21/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I haven't tried merging a the CD's yet. I'm cleaning of a HD partition
in preparation for my first attempt. Mean while I
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 02:28:40PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote:
On 03/21/2008 09:20 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
I don't think so. Run 'aptitude keep-all', 'aptitude update' and retry.
Do you get the same thing? I'm guessing you tried to install some task
and aptitude still remembers it.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 06:11:09PM -0400, Michael Ayers wrote:
I agree that Ubuntu is a great system.
It's just that I have found, the more different systems I use the
more I learn about all of them. I have also tried booting this system
with Knoppix 5.1, DSL and Ubuntu 7.10 CD that
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:55:12PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
If it doesn't get it's input from stdin and send it's output to
stdout, it's Eevvv.
mailx forever!
HELO
I thought you just used telnet and spoke SNTP directly!
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:05:49AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Unfortunately some of my friends can't use encrypted e-mail at work or
for other reasons. On the other hand almost anyone who can read e-mail
can also open encrypted pdf files. So why not send encrypted pdfs instead?
Do a
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 07:25:57PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mar 18, 9:10 pm, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps I wasn't clear, I'll try to restate the problem. :)
We have thirteen drive bays with removable SATA disks in a box used
for backups. The bays are marked 1
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:20:24AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
dt if you don't own peasthope.yi.org, then I wouldn't use it even locally.
But I do own the machine and the name.
OK
I, personally, for the 127.0.0.1 would only use localhost and
localhost.localdomain
yi.org is a dynamic dns
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 04:17:10PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote:
Does anyone know where i can track down a VT in australia?
Where do you guys find yours?
I got mine for $20 off ebay; shipping 300 Kms was $30.
Doug.
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 05:50:47PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sunday 16 March 2008 12:20:36 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote:
I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her email
and word documents over for her
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 01:51:47AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
On Monday 17 March 2008 23:51, Andrew Reid wrote:
On Monday 17 March 2008 07:55, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
However, I have never actually run Debian *on* my Palm TX, which
is what your question sounds like it might mean.
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:05:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 03/17/08 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:20:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote:
I will also tell her that I will install Debian
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:14:45PM -0700, joseph lockhart wrote:
take it as you will, but I think that it would be
useful to group the terminal and lightweight apps
together, just seems a waste to download (25 for etch)
disks to install onto a low powered computer, when
everything together
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:20:29AM +0200, Tero M?ntyvaara wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 05:34:55PM +0200, Tero M?ntyvaara wrote:
I have added a IDE/PATA swap rack mount into /etc/fstab. Every time I
boot and there is no device in the rack, boot stops (asks
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 07:34:04PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote:
GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there
that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers
computer and she is running...slowly...XP. Every other comment out
of my mom, about the
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:52:50AM -0400, Thomas D. Gaudette wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su
Password:
c-76-119-151-250:/home/thomas# etc/apt/sources.list
your asking bash to execute /home/thomas/etc/apt/sources.list,
probably not what you want.
bash: etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote:
I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her email
and word documents over for her.
Enjoy teaching her LaTex while she's at it. May as well get her away
from word into a real system.
Doug.
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On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:27:17PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
I'm setting up exim on a system and find that mutt can receive mail, but
not send it.
The exim configuration is the same on my desktop (debian etch having the
address 192.168.1.2) and the sidux laptop (having the address
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:29:18PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
The loop that's causing the package installation problems happening here
is one without an exit so far as software performance behavior on this end
show. I can leave aptitude or apt-get run with this error condition and
they
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 04:38:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Douglas others,
dt Now you will have three networks. ...
... You shouldn't have to add routes like this ...
Right oh.
dt change this to 172.23.5.1, and change heaviside's to 172.23.5.2
The revised configuration
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 06:32:18PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Chris Henry wrote:
Hi,
I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I
can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an
external drive, it won't allow flexible usage of external
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 05:34:55PM +0200, Tero M?ntyvaara wrote:
I have added a IDE/PATA swap rack mount into /etc/fstab. Every time I
boot and there is no device in the rack, boot stops (asks to press
Ctrl+D or something) after automount detects that there is no hd in
rack. Is there a way
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 07:15:33AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote:
Thanks! I have translation in a text file, but I am not sure it's in
right format for mplayer to use.
Debian etch has mplayer, but it does not have real media codec, and I
have not installed that.
Merging translation text with
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:49:29AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:24:04PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
After you installed nvidia-glx, did you run m-a to build the necessary
kernel
modules like the instructions tell you?
Huh? AFAIK in stable you have prebuild
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:19:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:30:49PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
I have now had time to get back to investigating this, and after a
systematic test of all the differences between the 486 config and
the unstable 686 config, I
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
The system is Lenny on an i386 with
a 1700 MHz Celeron and 1 Gb RAM, ASUS P4PE motherboard.
The slow performance (nearly full processor utilization) occurs not
only with iceweasel but also with galeon (2.0.4), on a variety of
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 05:58:55AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Sorry for the non debian-specific post.
You mean a non-debian specific post. Why not ask on a Ubuntu list?
Doug.
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for 'dpkg --set-selections'
I'm not sure that's necessary; if the search pattern yields what you want
to install, then just replace the search subcommand with install.
Let me elaborate. Doug's (Douglas Tutty) idea of a backup/reinstall
means saving the output of 'aptitude search ~i!~M' to a file
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 01:41:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote:
That sounds plausible, but how do you know that? I was curious since
the standard system option apparently is new in the etch installer,
and previously I was used to not selecting anything from the tasksel
dialog. Anyway, brute
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:46:32AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
* Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080312 23:56]:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
Iceweasel pushes processor utilization to 100 percent; I would like to
find a browser which is more
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:35:05AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
* Valkai Elod [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080312 02:28]:
Thank you for the reply. My desire is for a general-purpose desktop
machine which is faster than an old 1700 MHz Celeron. I do not play
games or watch videos. I use 1280x1024
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 06:23:49PM +0100, gooldi wrote:
I have a question about the way packages are handled in Debian. I am
used to CentOS/Fedora Repositories.
My Problem:
*I have a Package Z that has a dependency on a Package X Version Y1 in
the Repository.
*Package X Version Y1 is
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 01:24:53PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote:
Is there anyway to get mdadm to stripe disk reads in raid1? Some of the
documentation I read makes me think that it does this by default but in
my tests it is not
I'd like to know too. It doesn't on my Etch box.
Doug.
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On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:31:29PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
* Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080312 15:35]:
If you don't play games or watch videos, then what is slowing down a
1700 MHz Celeron (or any other 1700 MHz CPU) so that you want faster?
The most important thing
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:31:23PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:03:47PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote:
Bless you guys.
that was it...
now you just need to find out how you filled up 700+G and deal with
preventing it in the
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 09:34:14PM +, postid wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:57:03PM +, postid wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote:
The magic keystrokes just sync the disks, they do not unmount
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:41:02PM -0700, David Fox wrote:
On 3/10/08, postid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't this a bit of a security breach? Anyone booting my laptop
would have potential access to my files. Would a person using
this shell have root privileges?
You would only be running
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:07:50AM -0700, alexandre suzuki wrote:
The upgrade from 3.1 to Etch using apt-get went very bad,now I don?t
even have access to the system,the login prompt freezes when I do the
login.Now I?m thinking about doing a hard disk based fresh install of
Etch. I have a
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:20:41AM +0800, jeffry s wrote:
i am not very sure this one can be done.
i have a old computer at home without hardisk. it is quite old computer and
only support 2GB hardisk
since 2GB hardisk is quite rare this day. I am planning to install debian
into the 2GB
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:03:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 03/11/08 20:46, Julian De Marchi wrote:
Only thing that I would like to know how to change is, by default
mutt top posts. I would like to configure mutt to bottom post by
default when I reply to an email.
I have googled for
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:12:30AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
On 9-Mar-08, at 1:33 PM, Kevin Buhr wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well
used in
what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit grimey
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:57:03PM +, postid wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote:
The magic keystrokes just sync the disks, they do not unmount the
filesystems. Thus, things can become corrupted. If it were me, after
such a reboot, I'd
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 08:16:53AM -0600, Travis Crook wrote:
As far as I know the two machines have never been around smoke so that
grime is of some other source, perhaps an overly dusty environment.
They did sit in my basement for some time.
Thanks, Travis (and sorry for mis-spelling your
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 03:33:52PM +, Tim Channon wrote:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:48:16AM +, Tim Channon wrote:
Mitchell Laks wrote:
Question 1:
On one machine I am running a 32 bit debian install on a amd64 bit
machine.
I run 64 bit on another
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 02:45:11PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote:
I spend most of my time on the command line and use 'less' when I want
to just view a file. However, there are some files that have excessively
long lines and I'd like to be able to left/right scroll rather than have
the lines
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:05:34PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used
in what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit
grimey inside; not just dust that blows away. I figure that I
should clean that off so
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:51:03PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Thank you for the tutorial link. I think that I can take it from
there. Why didn't google get me there?...
There's also grub-doc as a debian package.
Doug.
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On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:18:32PM +, Jamie White wrote:
If you can get you hand on a compressor, that does the job damn well!
Actually, I have a compressor that puts out 10-15 psi breathing-quality
air. I didn't think that stright air would get off tobacco tar.
I did some research on
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:32:25PM +1100, hce wrote:
I am partitioning and formating an external HDD. I made a stupid
mistake, I called mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 before calling fdisk
/dev/md0. Now it seems that the process stopped at following last
line Writing inode tables: 14/1864:
/dev/md0
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:10:00PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 03/09/08 10:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug
The mind boggles imagining a scenario involving covering a mother board
with tobacco. You might also try Acetone (finger polish remover).
Larry
He's probably referring to
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:08:00PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
I am running a minimal install debian machine as a firewall and I
would like to keep it secure and up to date.
I included
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free deb
http://security.debian.org etch/update
Hello all,
I have an Asus EN7300GT silent that uses the nVidia chipset.
Where possible, I try to go with free drivers. I had noticed a
picture-quality improvment when watching DVDs if I use the
debian-packaged nVidia driver. I notice a huge performance improvement
using kpdf in that the
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:52:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 03/09/08 13:40, Mitchell Laks wrote:
I use apt not aptitude ( :( ). I am used to it.
When I try to do
apt-get install linux-image-2.6 it tell me that it is a virtual package
provided by (the long list of packages).
You
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:33:00PM +0200, Markus Viitam?ki wrote:
Hello all debian users, I am in a little need of help. Some weeks back I
got this task to plan a server for shell-accounts. And now I have started
searching for solutions, and I have found some. For example
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote:
For the second time in a month I got an error message
indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually.
I've had bad inodes before not long after a failure to load
my PCMCIA modem (which resulted in endless error messages on
boot) and
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 08:50:26PM +0100, laura eznarriaga wrote:
Software index is broken
-
Software index is broken
It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package
manager Synaptic or
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:03:27PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:55:41PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote:
I want to upgrade from sarge to etch, and have purchased a 3 DVD
Debian etch set. However my
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:37:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thursday 28 February 2008 03:09:48 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
I'd be very interested in Debian, with aptitude, etc, with the OpenBSD
kernel. To me, this would be the best of both worlds.
Debian, being the universal
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 04:03:46PM +1100, hce wrote:
On 3/8/08, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you. But that is not a dns problem. I have no problem to open
google or other hundreds web pages, but just a few web pages including
my bank web pages could not open in Debian. I suspect those
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 01:07:16PM -0800, PETER EASTHOPE wrote:
If an Etch system is connected to the 'net _via_ a
Belkin Model F5D5050 USB 10/100 Ethernet Adapter,
an old AT-3612TR hub and a Netgear DS104 hub,
communication works at 10 Mb/s, half duplex. The
light on the Belkin adapter
Hello all,
I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used in
what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit grimey
inside; not just dust that blows away. I figure that I should clean
that off so the dust doesn't act like a thermal insulator but I'm unsure
what
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:02:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As an old timer I would suggest you try what we used to clean the
contacts of connectors-an eraser.
But its all over the whole motherboard. I'm wondering if its tobacco
residue.
Doug.
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On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:20:54PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi to all,
I have a problem, I need to test a kernel panic crash, I have an server
Debian 4.0, some body know the way to force, may be to ins a module in the
kernel, a kernel panic?
Thanks in advance
The ability to force a
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:29:08AM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
Backgroud - I had a well-established LAMP server that was giving some
filesystem errors on boot, with the hit control-D to continue or give root
password to fix manually message. It would go ahead and work normally if I
hit
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 03:08:02PM +0100, Kurt Petersen wrote:
My daughter want to make some backups of her games on copy-protected
DVDs.
Anybody knows how to do that with Linux?
Seeing as how its called copy-protection, is this something that you
want to do? Even if it is possible, you
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote:
I want to upgrade from sarge to etch, and have purchased a 3 DVD
Debian etch set. However my DVD player/reader is external, attached
to a usb port, and I can't boot from that.
Is there a way of installing by taking a few files
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:38:07PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:29:08AM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
Backgroud - I had a well-established LAMP server that was giving some
filesystem errors on boot, with the hit
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:53:18PM -0500, John Fleming wrote:
Sorry to answer my own post, but it's FIXED! When it got to the
enter root password to enter maintenance, I did that, and at the
prompt entered fsck. It warned me about running e2fsck on a mounted
filesystem, and I entered n and
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:49:34AM -0800, PREMA wrote:
Dual Core Intel PentiumD 3.0 GHZ/2x2 L2
cashe/65nm/Presler (EM64T)
2Gb DDR2 800 Mhz Dual channel RAM
400Gb sata2 HD
CD-rom RW sata2
Grafic Card GeForce 7300GT (V7302GT21)
Mother board
abit IB9
LGA 775
Intel? 965
FSB1066
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:38:59AM +0100, s. keeling wrote:
debian azul [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think that debian logo is perfect for debian project. Debian
doesn't need a mascot. I think that is ridiculos
Killjoy. You're right of course, but the ammonite has its charms.
It's not like
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:04:58AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 04/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
watts, with 32MB ram, at a frequency in the FM band?
Your CPU runs at a frequency in the FM band? That's the funniest thing
I've ever heard! I am going to recycle that joke
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:03:20PM -0800, michael mozenko wrote:
Hello, I am trying to install Debian. I am a first time user but
Linux sounds great and I want to try it out. I have already
partitioned my hard drive to accept the new OS, and I downloaded the
?alpha? version of Debian and
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:55:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
Correct. I don't OC over every bit of trivia.
However... If I were 20yo, and my case were a not-seen-in-nature
golden red, and I had *no* life, then I might name my box /beverly/.
If my computer's box were the size of the Bull
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:43:35PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote:
Hey,
Of course there's always my favourite ship computer - Holly, much more
friendly, though arguably less usefull, especially since 'computer senility'
set in lowering his/her IQ from 6000 to 68... It would
be a fitting name
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:09:34PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote:
I've also got a 286 called M (ha, judy dench jokes)
My P-II is called rocky because the CPU fan bearing makes the whole
box sound like a gravel truck...
My IBM 486 is called reliant since it has been going with no errors
for 15
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 08:15:44PM +0200, Gregg Jansen van Vuren wrote:
i am looking to install debian on a pc using a foxconn motherboard, i
am not really sure what architecture setup i would choose from the
debian packages, any hints?
Tell us about a foxconn MB. What CPU?
Doug.
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On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 07:24:33PM +, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
Is there some simple command to get a machine to tell me which
release (of Debian in particular, or of any distro but including Debian)
is running on it? If uname -a does it, I must be missing something ...
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:48:05PM -0500, H.S. wrote:
In a Dell laptop, Inspiron 5160, the optical drive appeared to have died
a few days ago. The disk stopped spinning, Fn+Eject stopped working and
the button on the drive also stopped working. Attempting to eject lights
the LED on the
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:35:32PM -0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5 Mar 2008, at 10:24, Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
Is there some simple command to get a machine to tell me which
release (of Debian in particular, or of any distro but including
Debian)
is running on it? If uname -a
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:48:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
It's very disturbing that you know so much lolcode.
He probably wrote the debian-installer.
It lol when it sees my old boxes.
Whahaha! you're still using a box that has no fan, uses 20
watts, with 32MB ram, at a
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:52:02AM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
installed from Debian-Multimedia.org. Now, running Debian(Lenny), if I
start a video transfer from my PC to my TiVo I have to wait for quite a
while before I try to start watching it. Sometimes the transfer dies in
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:31:52PM +0100, Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote:
I'm running the lpd spooler with Debian Sarge. My kernel version is
2.6.8-4-686-smp (last stock kernel) and the Debian system is up to date.
Can't be up-to-date since security support for Sarge has ended (or is
it about to
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:32:50AM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote:
On Mon, March 3, 2008 21:00, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:03:32PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Wouldn't a chrooted ftp server do the same thing?
ftp is a intrinsecally more complex protocol than
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 12:24:55PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
Anybody know of a way to view Tivo on a Linux box?
Sure. Point a webcam at it.
:)
If a Tivo outputs a video stream to a TV, what about a video capture
card like a haupage and watch it with VLC?
Doug.
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On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:21:36PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
And, if so, how bad? I have installed Kompozer (the successor to
Nvu), but the Debian package is a 32-bit package. I forced it to
install anyway, and it seems to run just fine, although launching it
caused a bunch of the
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:47:39PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I thought it would never happen. Right from NewEgg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220246
ASUS Eee PC 4G ? Galaxy Black Eee PC Intel processor 7 Wide VGA
512MB 4GB Integrated
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 07:23:52PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've spent hours on choosing, downloading and installing debian onto a
network-separeted box today. (I used the german debian homepage since
that is my native language.)
Network-separated, as in once you get it installed there
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:42:49PM +0100, Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote:
Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:31:52PM +0100, Jean-Yves Boisiaud wrote:
I'm running the lpd spooler with Debian Sarge. My kernel version is
2.6.8-4-686-smp (last stock kernel) and the Debian system is up
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:41:33PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
Thanks for the investigation! If mc obtains the list without full
decompression that is very good news. I will try it once I get my hand
on that file. I am still trying to figure out a way to get it (trying
to log in and
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:06:55AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
On 29 Feb at 1:21 Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AWG Amp === 26 1 242 223 204 186 16
8 1417
This AWG thing is nice, since I don not know
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:55:36PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
iso files aren't compressed. When downloading a new OS CD, I wish they
were gzipped; would save a bunch of telephone time.
I wonder how compressible they are.
Well, I suppose it depends on what's on it.
I just tried an
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:30:43PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
after rereading the ATX12V specification I have some questions as
non-native english speaker... :-)
Am 2008-02-22 11:51:59, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty:
So the only trick for your design is what plugs from the PSU
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:23:34PM +0100, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:51:47AM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote:
On Mon, March 3, 2008 06:56, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:
perhaps a minimal and secure (or at lest much less complex and so safer
than the portmap/nfsd
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:50:15PM -0300, Juan Seet wrote:
Hello, I downloaded netinst for AMD64, I tried to install it and I get
the following message:
Code: 89 d5 81 e5 ff 00 00 00 75 70 48 c1 ea 08 48 8d b3 18 10 00
console shuts up ...
0Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt
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