Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-26 Thread Francis Healy
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/07 18:31, s. keeling wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez : On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:14:05AM -0800, Michael M. wrote: [snip] Every time I see men fighting about abortion, I wonder who the are they to

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-24 Thread Francis Healy
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/07 02:33, Paul Johnson wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:32:04PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] - he decided to outspend the Soviets to bankrupt them Never mind

Re: Using graphical environment

2007-02-12 Thread Francis Healy
Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am having trouble getting a new install of Debian 3.1 r4 and it boots to the command line prompt. I want it to have a graphical interface. As is it is useless to me. Could someone point me in a direction of a tutorial on how to install with GUI or how

Re: Debian shutdown

2007-02-08 Thread Francis Healy
gunnar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've carried out a network-installation of debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso and my problem is that I cannot shut it down. The only way of shutting it down seems to be to press the Reset-button, choose my Windows-partition in GRUB and carry out the shutdown

Re: Debian shutdown

2007-02-08 Thread Francis Healy
B. L. Jilek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 08 Feb 2007, Francis Healy wrote: gunnar wrote: I've carried out a network-installation of debian-31r4-i386-netinst.iso and my problem is that I cannot shut it down. The only way of shutting it down seems to be to press the Reset-button, choose

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Francis Healy
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Glenn Becker wrote: Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^) I'd say - no. Okay! :^) to remove: #update-rc.d -f gdm remove to restore: #update-rc.d gdm defaults I learned something, today, great! TMTOWTDI, I guess. G

Re: packet forwarding

2007-01-29 Thread Francis Healy
Andrew Critchlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma }Hello everyone, I am trying to set up a debian proxy such as this: USERDEBIANINTERNET The debian box will have two network cards. How

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-24 Thread Francis Healy
John C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: John C wrote: It's kinda like a religious fanaticism... everyone should act and believe like I do. And yes, you're absolutely right - there is too much bile being spewed at top posters. No, it's not. It's called a convention for

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-23 Thread Francis Healy
I'm dodging the bile being spewed at top posters. Bottom line, top posting is not evil. Scrool down if you want to read the original message. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John C wrote: I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty than those attending

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-21 Thread Francis Healy
Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:43:05AM -0800, Francis Healy wrote: Why is it that most mail clients default to a top post? When you hit reply, There is a blank space where your cursor it, followed by . wrote: and then the message you are replying to. Yes

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-20 Thread Francis Healy
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Ken Irving wrote: On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:57:25PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi folks, with the continual talk of the bad etiquitte of top posts... Why is it that most mail clients default to a top post? When you hit reply, There is a blank space

Re: Debian install hanging at yenta_socket module

2007-01-19 Thread Francis Healy
Mitchell Verter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to install Sarge on a pretty old Toshiba 2500CDS http://209.167.114.38/ISG/pastproducts/html/satellite/satellite_2500cds_spec.html I downloaded the netinst CD image (100 Mb) The computer has just begun loading the CD and it

Re: Debian on Toshiba 2500CDS

2007-01-16 Thread Francis Healy
Mitchell Verter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a great deal on a Toshiba 2500CDS: The seller told me that he does not know the user/password. Is there a way to crack this? If not, what would be a good Debian distribution to install and from where would I download it? It is not a recent

Re: dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network?

2007-01-13 Thread Francis Healy
--- Bruno Buys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am missing the dpkg-reconfigure command to reconfigure the network interfaces. I am moving from dhcp to static ip address, and I need that dpkg dialog. Can someone here recall that? The machine is sarge. thanks much! Have you tried editing

Encrypted file systems

2007-01-08 Thread Francis Healy
I currently use a Windows XP/Linux dual boot laptop. My company will likely begin to require encryption on laptop systems. I have built a few etch systems and noticed that it offers encryption as an option in the setup. My company uses PGP for encryption on Windows laptops. Has anyone tried

Re: ..OT: Watch your snow load!

2006-12-23 Thread Francis Healy
Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 10:53:00AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Roberto writes: Depending on the dimensions of your property, it might be fairly easy to find another vein of ground water. Aquifers are usually quite large. I

Re: Newbie need help on upgrading/installing current weekly snapshot CDs

2006-11-30 Thread Francis Healy
aquamarine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am a pure newbie on Linux/Debian coming from Windows world! I downloaded just 3 of the 21 CDs from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/ website, booted the 1st CD and install testing Debian successfully. The main point is

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Francis Healy
For me, the killer app for Linux is its ability to be a very secure proxy/gateway system. Take an older system, two different fast ethernet net cards, a linux distribution, and a firewall script for IPtables and you have a proxy gateway system that allows you to run a network off a single DSL

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Francis Healy
The classic definition of the killer app is the one program that justifies the entire cost of the computer. Nyizsnyik Ferenc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:22 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: On 11/30/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: [...] a killer app is a useful app. Something

Ripping CDs to MP3

2006-11-28 Thread Francis Healy
I am running Debian Sarge and would like to rip CDs to MP3. I have installed GRIP, added the multimedia archive to my apt sources list, and installed as many of the encoders (lame) as I could from the multimedia archive. I have been able to sucesstully rip a CD to OGG, but when I change the

Re: Ripping CDs to MP3

2006-11-28 Thread Francis Healy
That worked like magic. I'm now happily ripping CDs to MP3 for my daughters MP3 player. Its great to get dad points and do it on Linux. --- Mathias Brodala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Francis. Francis Healy, 29.11.2006 00:18: Does anyone know settings that work in GRIP to rip to MP3

Re: HELP ME

2006-10-23 Thread Francis Healy
Your have a few options you can try. The easiest solution is probably toburn a set of CDs (you probably only need 1 through 5) and do a local install, leaving the solution of your network adapter problem until later. Another solution I can think of is to borrow a PC Card ethernet adapter (common