Re: Squeeze freezes

2011-02-22 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:24:14PM +0100, Rico Secada wrote: Hi. I have installed a fresh Debian Squeeze on several different laptops and desktops. On my own machines I haven't seen this problem, but on two different machines installed for family members they both complain about Squeeze

Re (n): finding the ip address for dns, nslookup etc.

2010-08-10 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
changes. [pi.shawcable.net] It's your ISP's search domain. OK, but if a system has an address for a working nameserver, what is the value or significance of the search domain? From: Jaime Di Cristina jaime...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:44:50 -0400 /etc/resolv.conf points

Re (2): finding the ip address for dns, nslookup etc.

2010-08-09 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:19:59AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Jaime, You put me back on track. Thanks! From: Jaime Di Cristina jaime...@gmail.co. Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 23:32:13 -0400 I use dnsmasq on OpenWrt. There the information of the DNS servers is stored on /tmp

Re: finding the ip address for dns, nslookup etc.

2010-08-08 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:14:35PM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: I have a Debian router with dnsmasq working. It connects to the ISP with DHCP. What is the standard way to find the ip address or addresses, which dnsmasq is using for upstream nameservers? Here are some things which don't

Re: Network crashes under heavy load

2010-07-04 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 08:53:32PM +0100, Nathen wrote: For some reason my server stops responding to network traffic (shares go offline, no response to SSH or ping, etc) after heavy load - transferring large amounts of data via Samba or running several iperf benchmarks causes it, however the

Re: QEMU on Debian issues

2010-06-20 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 01:36:57PM +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: I have installed QEMU on my Debian Testing box. I have GNOME running on my host Debian. The virtual OS installed and running on QEMU system is not running X. So, i launch QEMU with my OS image and work on the console. Any

Re: Lenny / Pidgin / Msn

2010-06-10 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:41:24PM +, Frederic Robert wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 08:34:29AM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: If you are running stable, you need to install the pidgin from lenny-backports in order to get MSN support. Instructions on setting up and installing from

Re: xdm autologin important for tiny devices

2010-06-01 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:34:00PM +0800, jida...@jidanni.org wrote: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=201855 T on my openmoko freerunner I modified /etc/pam.d/xdm by replacing T T @include common-auth T T with T T authrequiredpam_permit.so T T so that

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-05 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
No, those etherwake packets are not IP packets, they're raw ethernet packets and are hence not routable over the internet: you can only send them from a machine on the same physical ethernet network. I agree. But there are other tools that send the magic packet as UDP. That way you can

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
unforgettableid wrote: Hi all, I usually get around my city of Toronto, Canada by bicycle. I fall off my bike once a year or so. Therefore I don't carry breakable electronics like my laptop unless I know I will need them. But I sometimes need to use my Debian OS, my files, and some shell

Re: What's best way to use Debian w/o my laptop? Flash + union?

2009-11-04 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
Stefan Monnier wrote: I also like to do that, but many of my machines seem to not support it, or at least I haven't been able to use it on many of my machines, even though they appear to support it. What are those good guides on how to set it up for Debian? wiki.debian.org/WakeOnLan was all

Re: Security.debian.org confused?

2009-10-31 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
Andrew Reid wrote: Hi all -- I'm having trouble with what seems like it should be a routine security update on lenny -- I did apt-get update; apt-get upgrade as per usual, and got this: mec:~# apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

Re: Floppy Net Install Stable

2009-10-29 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
S. Fishpaste wrote: Hi; I'm attempting to install Debian Stable on an older desktop machine that doesn't support booting from an USB stick or CD. Therefore I'm looking for Debian net install floppy images. Damned if I can find any as everything I've found assumes one wants to use a USB stick or

Re: Floppy Net Install Stable

2009-10-29 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
S. Fishpaste wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:14:00 -0400, Jaime Di Cristina in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: S. Fishpaste wrote: snip Anyone know where I can find a floppy image for Debian net install? There is no floppy images for Lenny, because they would not fit