Re: Controlling Fonts and Font Sizes in GTK Applications

2009-05-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On May 22, 2009, at 3:29 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a Debian system hooked up to an HDTV. I'm using KDE as the DE and have had no problem adjusting the fonts used by KDE apps so they are big enough to see from across the room, but I'm stuck with itty-bitty fonts for Firefox and other

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On May 21, 2009, at 4:50 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:39:38AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend to have to log on to very often. I checked the bad directory and get this: [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls

Re: Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On May 21, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: 2009/5/20 Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com: Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend to have to log on to very often. I checked the bad directory and get this: [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX total 0

Rogue Filename - Can't Do A Thing With It

2009-05-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
Recently I started getting errors from rsync on a machine I don't tend to have to log on to very often. I checked the bad directory and get this: [...@scarecrow:threshNet]$ ls -l reportX total 0 ?- ? ? ? ?? reportX/2009-r...@? At this point this is the only file in

Rsync Permissions Issue

2009-04-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from my iMac to my Debian server. I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably could, but it

Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

2009-04-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from my iMac to my Debian

Rsync Insists on Replacing Files

2009-04-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
At this point my workstation is an iMac and my server is running Lenny. I've had this happen before, though, with two Linux computers, which leads me to think it's rsync and the issue is OS agnostic. I have two 1-terabyte RAIDs, one on my server, one on my workstation. In the past this

Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

2009-04-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from my iMac to my Debian

Re: Rsync Permissions Issue

2009-04-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:48 PM, H.S. wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Apr 12, 2009, at 12:20 PM, H.S. wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another. Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so there was never a permission

Re: Rsync Insists on Replacing Files

2009-04-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Apr 12, 2009, at 7:42 PM, H.S. wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: rsync -av server::Data /MacRAID/Data/ (Forgot if that one required the / at the end or not. Whichever I used, it did copy directly to that directory without creating an extra subdirectory.) $ rsync option /source/path

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 22, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-03-22 19:52, Dave Patterson wrote: * Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net [2009-03-22 16:06:06 -0500]: Except that Our arguments are Right, and Theirs are Eeeevil. Here we go. I can imagine the hearings now: Are you now, or have you

Music Player With Variable Speed

2009-03-20 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have extra time on my hands right now (restricted movement after someone t-boned my car when he thought a red light meant go) and am considering setting up a computer for the ballroom dance studio where I practice. Amarok would be great for them to use to pick playlists for lessons and

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 19, 2009, at 1:38 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-18_16:37:53, kj wrote: Hi guys, This might seem like a stupid question, but I'm hoping there's a better way. I discovered a Maildir on my server with 4+ million mails in. The result of a cronjob that runs every minute -

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 18, 2009, at 1:53 PM, Rob Starling wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:25:13AM -0700, Raquel wrote: On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:37:53 + kj koffiejunkielistlur...@koffiejunkie.za.net wrote: I discovered a Maildir on my server with 4+ million mails in. The result of a cronjob that runs

Re: Window Borders, Title Bars, etc. Missing in Lenny w/ KDE

2009-03-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 7, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I installed Lenny on one system, then did apt-get install kdebase kdm and everything went fine. I had to take that system down (it was more for testing anyway) and just set up a new one and did the same thing, but now

Re: Window Borders, Title Bars, etc. Missing in Lenny w/ KDE

2009-03-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 8, 2009, at 5:39 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Mar 7, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Sounds to me you are missing the package kwin the KDE window manager. That's what I thought, but it's there and reconfiguring it didn't help. Since it's a new

Window Borders, Title Bars, etc. Missing in Lenny w/ KDE

2009-03-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
I installed Lenny on one system, then did apt-get install kdebase kdm and everything went fine. I had to take that system down (it was more for testing anyway) and just set up a new one and did the same thing, but now, in KDE, all the window borders, sliders, title bars, and such are

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: Top posting in response to a top post is etiquette. Gloating over the fact that fellow human being is put-off by your behavior is not. Top posting because your email software is incapable of doing otherwise is somewhat like being a child with

Which C++ Library am I Looking For?

2009-03-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a program that compiled fine on Etch, but when I compile it on Lenny, it's looking for a function called transform. I've tried comparing library lists of the libs installed on the Etch system and the Lenny one, but it's a long list. As best I can tell, transform is in a standard

Re: Which C++ Library am I Looking For?

2009-03-04 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 4, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I have a program that compiled fine on Etch, but when I compile it on Lenny, it's looking for a function called transform. I've tried comparing library lists of the libs installed on the Etch system and the Lenny

Does DNSMasq (or other DNS/DHCP Servers) Cache Old Addresses?

2009-03-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm adding a new system to my LAN. The DNS is running DNSMasq and is on Etch. The new system is running Lenny. I edited the /etc/network/ interfaces file to include the following (other than loopback, the only interface in the file): auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 172.16.7.111

Problems with USB Devices and RAID (And UUID) on Etch

2009-02-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have an embedded server, so using SATA and internal drives is not an option. I've added 2 drives to this server and set up a RAID on it. These drives came from another system, used as a backup RAID there (it's got over 600 GB of data on it). I had hoped I could transfer them and just

Software RAID w/ mdadm -- Need Partitions?

2009-02-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
I've created RAIDs in the past where I just used the entire drive and ones where I created a single partition on the drives and used the partition. It seems that there is no real difference in behavior. If I'm planning on using a drive for a RAID, is there any reason I should create a

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: [snip] We are probably the only

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 02/11/2009 07:47 AM, Jack Schneider wrote: [snip] We

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 09:10 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 08:32:22AM -0600, Jack Schneider wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:06:36 -0600 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 09:18 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: [snip] I think Bill Watterson put it best: The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 09:33 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 09:18 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: [snip] I think Bill Watterson put

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/11/2009 10:24 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: ... about Smurfs never made it out of the local region. If, of course, what I read is accurate... Where'd you read it? Some science-related web site. Ron, we've told you MANY times

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Mark Allums wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Try this: date -...@1234567890 Hugo Totally irrelevant, but: Isn't the Linux epoch 64 bits? Thus, what? Anything? Aside from the sun becoming a white dwarf before it rolls over. Better a white dwarf

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 05 February 2009, Ignacio Mondino wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote: [snip] Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? because i am from El Salvador and without any dude i am American. The oldest nation[0] in the region gets to pick it's

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 05 February 2009, John Hasler wrote: -c writes: If other (non-USian) residents of the greater Americas take offense at us referring to ourselves as Americans, I'm happy to attempt to get this right (and even support the effort to attempt to educate my fellow USians). Please

Joining Two Videos

2009-01-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have to join two videos, in different versions, one in .mpg for DVDs and one in .mp4. What's the best program that can do this without glitches or a high learning curve on Etch? No editing, no dissolves, just stick one after the other. Thanks! Hal

Converting a Flash Stream to MP3

2008-12-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
My favorite radio station is on the web, but their stream is through Flash and not a standard MP3 stream that most stations have. Is there some way I can access this without going through a browser with Flash and convert it to an MP3 stream for my LAN? Thanks for any suggestions. Hal

Re: USB Sound Cards on Etch: Can't Get One To Work

2008-12-08 Thread Hal Vaughan
The first post showed up about 8 hours or more after I tried to send it, sorry for the duplication of subjects. Feel free to ignore this post and just reply to the other one with the same topic. Hal On Sunday 07 December 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm currently using an iMic USB sound card

USB Sound Cards on Etch: Can't Get One To Work

2008-12-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm currently using an iMic USB sound card on a Soekris net5501 system that can handle USB 2.0, even if it is a slower CPU in comparison. (Unit specs here: http://soekris.com/net5501.htm) Before I was using this (the iMic), I was using a Startech USB sound card (here on Newegg:

USB Sound Cards on Etch: Can't Get One To Work

2008-12-07 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm currently using an iMic USB sound card on a Soekris net5501 system that can handle USB 2.0, even if it is a slower CPU in comparison. (Unit specs here: http://soekris.com/net5501.htm) Before I was using this (the iMic), I was using a Startech USB sound card (here on Newegg:

Re: [OT] Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:13:19 +0100 (CET) François Cerbelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Mer 19 novembre 2008 00:45, s. keeling a écrit : Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: If you don't agree

Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 18 November 2008, s. keeling wrote: Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Seriously, the reason I've been thinking about keeping the mail on the sending system is to make reference easier -- in case the mail server goes wrong or something. In the past it seems like things go wrong

Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm looking for a simple MTA. I have some systems that can generate email to users from programs like cron or mdadm and on at least 2 systems I currently have no MTA. I'd like to put on the simplest MTA I can (and that includes simple to configure) that will accept email from those programs

Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/16/08 13:42, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm looking for a simple MTA. I have some systems that can generate email to users from programs like cron or mdadm and on at least 2 systems I currently have no MTA. I'd like to put on the simplest MTA I

Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 17 November 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: ... Fetchmail pulls it in to a server from the ISP. I thought about something like ssmtp that would send the email from each system to that server, but there are reasons I wanted to just pull it from each machine. I guess I could still

Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 17 November 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/16/08 23:51, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 17 November 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: ... Fetchmail pulls it in to a server from the ISP. I thought about something like ssmtp that would send the email from each system to that server

Re: Paranoia about DegradedArray

2008-10-30 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 30 October 2008, Hendrik Boom wrote: ... I've had trouble with removing drives if I didn't manually fail them. Someone who knows the inner workings of mdadm might be able to provide more information on that. I wonder if /dev/hdc3 still needs to be manually failed. I wonder if

Re: Paranoia about DegradedArray

2008-10-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Hendrik Boom wrote: I got the message (via email) This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on april A DegradedArray event had been detected on md device /dev/md0. Faithfully yours, etc. P.S. The /proc/mdstat file currently contains

Re: Paranoia about DegradedArray

2008-10-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:00:25 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Hendrik Boom wrote: I got the message (via email) This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on april A DegradedArray event

USB Soundcard: Too Little Bandwidth?

2008-10-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have Debian Etch running on a Soekris net5501 (info: http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm). It's a 433 Mhz system with a CS5536 (seen as a 586 chip) and it has a USB 2.0 interface on it. I'm using a USB sound card by Startech. Here's what I get from lsusb on that: Bus 001 Device 019: ID

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 15 October 2008, you wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Both of your comments involve disagreements over differences of opinion -- but I can see where you're coming from and I think the point about rewording the warnings in menu.lst would go a long way toward addressing the issue

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
the patch itself. Go back and read the thread, starting with a post or two before the topic changed to see what I mean. Hal Cheers, Eric Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2008, you wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Both of your comments involve disagreements over differences

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 16 October 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote: 1) I'm a writer by avocation. Honestly, it's much easier for me to write a 5,000 word email than a 500 word one. I'll refer you to Churchill's quotation about how long it would take him

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
Apologies for any confusion. While making changes to my LAN, I had some downed systems and used a friend's laptop while he was here. I should have either waited or sent it later. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 15 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Denvid Wright escreveu: On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: WARNING: YOU HAVE A LOCKED AND LOADED ASSAULT RIFLE POINTED AT YOUR FEET AND YOUR FINGER IS ON THE TRIGGER. Interesting analogy, but it doesn't

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-10-12 17:44:08, schrieb Hal Vaughan: If I read every man page in detail on every program or conf file I use, I'd still be reading. I'd have never gotten anywhere. You know that as well as I. Have you read the full details

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 13 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: But does it address the original issue? The original report is that menu.lst is overwritten without notice. A fact that is noted in that file, by the way. In the top, there are pointers to documentation on what

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Hal Vaughan escreveu: I don't mean this with any offense, but you're so wrapped up in the details you're not seeing what's going on. You're re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. I may be, after all this thread has been going

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Hal Vaughan escreveu: It was two years ago. I don't remember all the details, but basically I did something like aptitude update aptitude upgrade, got a new kernel image, and a clobbered menu.lst and it took me hours before I got

Re: Warning before running update-grub (was: Filing bug reports in Debian)

2008-10-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Instead of just calling update-grub, a script could have said, This update will re-write /boot/grub/menu.lst. Press return to continue. That would have been enough (although giving a choice of continuing

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 13 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 17:44:08 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 12 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 13:56:57 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: [...] With that in mind, notice that nothing said in those posts

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Steve Kemp wrote: ... Anyway I think I've clarified my previous mail sufficiently, so I'll happily stop now. I think we've probably both made our points sufficiently. The next thing to do is to either consider ways to help raise awareness of expectations on

Re: Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops

2008-10-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:06:41AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 10 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Where is the actual install media? That's one thing I'm not clear about. Not one article I've found on the web that has

Re: Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops

2008-10-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 12 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 05:12:47AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Saturday 11 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:06:41AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 10 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Where

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 12 October 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:23:01PM -0400, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: His (Christian's) comments were This has nothing to do with aptitude. Then he goes on to talk about update-grub and that I asked for it. No. I didn't

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 12 October 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:56:57PM -0400, Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Sunday 12 October 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: Regardless, I don't see his mail as being at all impolite; just a little terse. I'll ask you

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 12 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 13:56:57 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: [...] I'll ask you to read in this context: 1) You know very little about how packages in Debian are maintained, 2) You know nothing about the internals of apt, 3) You do not know

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-12 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 12 October 2008, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: My original point is that I don't file bug reports with FOSS because I've had some indifferent and even hostile replies. As I've said, there are reasons that I usually file bug reports under a legal alias and why I

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:52:09 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,11.Oct.08, 03:32:23, Ron Johnson wrote: I've *never* had a DD get hostile with me. Ignored? Yes. But not hostile. Me neither, not even when I screwed up big time

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: But I've learned, the hard way, NEVER file a bug report in a FOSS project. I have several times and have yet to find one where the developers were appreciative of the bug report. I'll go even farther: In most cases

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,11.Oct.08, 10:20:57, Hal Vaughan wrote: [...] I still maintain that the issue had more to do with the issue than the response said, however in that case, but I felt the responder was more interested in writing it off than

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,11.Oct.08, 12:23:01, Hal Vaughan wrote: [...] I agree, the DD's response was not his best contribution ever (I wonder why he was answering on aptitude bugs at all since he is not the maintainer). But is it fair to judge developers

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Steve Kemp wrote: On Sat Oct 11, 2008 at 19:47:40 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: Still, I do have to take bug reports and I have to smile sweetly as I do because those reports come from clients who are paying me enough per month that I have to keep them a bit more

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 10 October 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,10.Oct.08, 01:50:56, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm setting up a new Etch system and just got to the point where it asks me for a username. All my life I've used my first name, Hal, as a username (although in all lower case). Etch won't

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 10 October 2008, paragasu wrote: maybethe debian installer do not permit you to use the username hal. Create any user. after the installer finish.. you can login and create user 'Hal' with adduser.. ;) I can verify this. It took me a while because I'm new to working with some

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 10 October 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:01:59PM +0800, paragasu wrote: maybethe debian installer do not permit you to use the username hal. Create any user. after the installer finish.. you can login and create user 'Hal' with

Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops

2008-10-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
I don't think the hardware is going to be the issue here. I'm pretty sure it's a config issue. I have a Soekris Net5501 box I'm installing Etch on. I'm hooked up to the box with a null modem cable for the console and it's also hooked up to my LAN. I've setup a PXE boot on my DNS server

Re: Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops

2008-10-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 09 October 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote: I don't think the hardware is going to be the issue here. I'm pretty sure it's a config issue. I have a Soekris Net5501 box I'm installing Etch on. I'm hooked up to the box with a null modem cable for the console and it's also hooked up to my

Re: Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops

2008-10-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 10 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:28:43PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: I don't think the hardware is going to be the issue here. I'm pretty sure it's a config issue. I have a Soekris Net5501 box I'm installing Etch on. I'm hooked up to the box

Re: Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops

2008-10-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 10 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 07:28:43PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: ... I thought it might be a baud rate issue. The 5501 starts with 19200 baud, so I altered pxelinux.cfg/default to use the same speed and to specify the right console (before I

Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm setting up a new Etch system and just got to the point where it asks me for a username. All my life I've used my first name, Hal, as a username (although in all lower case). Etch won't let me do this. I did it in Sarge, did it in earlier versions, did it in Mandrake, Redhat, and also use

Re: Cron Not Working On Etch

2008-09-03 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 29 August 2008, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 29 August 2008, Mumia W.. wrote: On 08/29/2008 11:29 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I recently had a system drive crash on a Sarge system, so when I put in a new drive, I installed Etch (also figuring that will make upgrading to Lenny

Cron Not Working On Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
I recently had a system drive crash on a Sarge system, so when I put in a new drive, I installed Etch (also figuring that will make upgrading to Lenny easier). Everything seems to have gone well, except for one point: Cron is not behaving well. After installing my packages and getting

Re: Cron Not Working On Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 29 August 2008, Mumia W.. wrote: On 08/29/2008 11:29 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I recently had a system drive crash on a Sarge system, so when I put in a new drive, I installed Etch (also figuring that will make upgrading to Lenny easier). Everything seems to have gone well, except

Moving RAID1 From Sarge to Etch -- Confirmation

2008-08-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
I had a system drive go bad and it'll be just as easy to install Etch on it rather than rebuild it (currently it's Sarge). I have read the issues in UPGRADING from Sarge to Etch. I just want some clarification so I don't do something messy. If I wipe Sarge and install Etch, and I still

Re: Sound Problems (Sound is Often Gone)

2008-07-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 14 July 2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: 2008/7/13 Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday 13 July 2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: 2008/7/13 Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm using Kubuntu, but not the latest version, the one before it (Gutsy, I think) and KDE 3.5.8

Re: Sound Problems (Sound is Often Gone)

2008-07-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 14 July 2008, Arthur A wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,13.Jul.08, 18:29:25, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm using Kubuntu, but not the latest version, the one before it (Gutsy, I think) and KDE 3.5.8 and have been using OSS. Should we

Re: Sound Problems (Sound is Often Gone)

2008-07-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 14 July 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,14.Jul.08, 12:42:54, Arthur A wrote: My understanding was: Hardware ALSA -- OSS -- Apps AFAIK OSS has been the first type of linux sound drivers. Alsa was introduced later as an alternative. Since 2.6.something (but before etch

Re: Sound Problems (Sound is Often Gone)

2008-07-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 14 July 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,13.Jul.08, 18:29:25, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm using Kubuntu, but not the latest version, the one before it (Gutsy, I think) and KDE 3.5.8 and have been using OSS. Should we assume alsa doesn't work on your machine? I may be behind

Sound Problems (Sound is Often Gone)

2008-07-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm using Kubuntu, but not the latest version, the one before it (Gutsy, I think) and KDE 3.5.8 and have been using OSS. Many times I start a program and I don't get sound output. Most of the time I'm using either Amarok, Flash (from Firefox or Konqueror), Kaffeine, and sometimes KMail (some

Re: Sound Problems (Sound is Often Gone)

2008-07-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 13 July 2008, you wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm using Kubuntu, but not the latest version, the one before it (Gutsy, I think) and KDE 3.5.8 and have been using OSS. Many times I start a program and I don't get sound output. Most of the time I'm using either Amarok, Flash

Re: Sound Problems (Sound is Often Gone)

2008-07-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 13 July 2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: 2008/7/13 Hal Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm using Kubuntu, but not the latest version, the one before it (Gutsy, I think) and KDE 3.5.8 and have been using OSS. Are you aware that Ubuntu and Debian are not the same distribution

Re: [OT] the limits of googling

2008-06-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 29 June 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 08:19 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/28/08 21:32, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] Besides, do you really trust the phone company to provide

Re: Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer

2008-06-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 16 June 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:16:19PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: Is there any program (I couldn't find one) that I can run on this computer, via SSH, that will give me packet info I can scan in the same way I do with Wireshark when I've got X

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 16 June 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/16/08 07:09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: [snip] A certain version of SuSE would set the desktop background to red if you logged in as root. As did Mandrake, when I left it for Debian.

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Monday 16 June 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/16/08 11:52, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Monday 16 June 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 10:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/16/08 07:09, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: [snip] A certain version of SuSE would set the desktop background

Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer

2008-06-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a workstation and several other computers on my LAN, all running Linux -- either Debian or Ubuntu (Kubuntu for the workstation, Sarge on the rest -- please don't start on the version, I'll be updating it in my copious amounts of free time one year). I am connecting to a computer through

Re: Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer

2008-06-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 15 June 2008, Mike Bird wrote: On Sun June 15 2008 20:16:19 Hal Vaughan wrote: Is there any program (I couldn't find one) that I can run on this computer, via SSH, that will give me packet info I can scan in the same way I do with Wireshark when I've got X on a system? tshark

Re: Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer

2008-06-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 15 June 2008, Mike Bird wrote: On Sun June 15 2008 20:31:32 Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2008, Mike Bird wrote: On Sun June 15 2008 20:16:19 Hal Vaughan wrote: Is there any program (I couldn't find one) that I can run on this computer, via SSH, that will give me

Re: Any isencrypted function available?

2008-06-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 13 June 2008, buyoppy wrote: Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian which judges whether some data is encrypted or not? Thanks in advance. Considering one byte looks just as much like any other (with only 256 variations), how would anything in an OS or language

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 05:13:47AM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sk i'll teach you to turn away. [EMAIL

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-28 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 08:14:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2008 08:07:45 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Come on, all geeks know nothing is bug free. The bugs just haven't And you call

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/27/08 17:38, Raquel wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:25:22 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2008 08:07:45 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 05:13:47AM +, i'll teach you to turn away.

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