Re: Wiki recommendation

2006-05-08 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Storm wrote: Hi, I need to do some collaboration with a friend and intend to set up an OpenVPN connection for him to access a wiki located on one of my servers. Which wiki is generally best? I'm looking for something that is simple to maintain and simple for collaboration.

Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-05-03 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Manaen Schlabach wrote: I haven't been around this list long but here are the ingredients for a thread that won't die. Can anyone think of further needed ingredients? Ingredients 2 Dozen Broccoli Growers A heavy dose of green color 1 Social Contract 1 smidgen of how do you address

Re: runit - another possibility

2006-04-20 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: One thing I like about runit is it's split up into many small programs (in the traditional UNIX style), so it provides an easy migration path: runsvdir runs nicely as an inittab service providing supervision for other runit services. Services can be gradually

runit - another possibility

2006-04-19 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Rogério Brito wrote: Hi, Florian. On Apr 18 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: If you have disabled all services that you can do without and you are still unhappy about the boot-up time, you might want to take a look at the initng package. Quoting from the package description: (...) Homepage:

Re: source for downloadable music?

2006-02-13 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
John Halton wrote: Wackojacko wrote: I use allofmp3.com. Russian site (click button in top left corner for english) and you pay based on the size of the file downloaded not per song. Supports various different formats too. Quite apart from the credit card security risks, bear in mind

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-18 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Bruno Buys wrote: Nikolai Hlubek wrote: [...] Just get yourself a IDE (raid) controller card. The cheapest will do since you are not going to use any of the raid features. I got one for 10 euros. Install Linux on the original hard disk and attach your modern ones to the IDE controller. My

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-17 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi everyone :-) Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:17:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: On Friday 14 October 2005 21:45, Marty wrote: You're ignoring the uses in between those two extremes. For example, why use a modern machine, which uses 3 or 4 times the power, just for a

hosts.deny doesn't work for web services

2005-10-17 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi everyone :-) On one of my machines I'm running a zope server. This server should only be accessible from my LAN so I set: hosts.deny ALL: ALL The hosts.deny manual states: This denies all service to all hosts, unless they are permitted access by entries in the allow file. Ping and ssh

Re: Melden!!!

2005-07-26 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Ivan Glushkov wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo Debian User, bitte einmal kurz in der EDV melden. Danke. MfG What is EDV? EDV is short for elektronische Datenverarbeitung in german which means data processing. Cheers, Nikolai -- 1984 is not a howto! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Enlightenment and long menus

2005-07-12 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi Robert Waldner wrote: Hi! I'm using Enlightenment (0.16.5-6), which seems to have a problem with long menus, eg. ones that have more entries than will fit on the desktop. When I select one of those (like Debian Menus/Apps/Net), I see it pop up shortly, then it instantly vanishes.

Re: X Font size

2005-06-24 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
j Mak wrote: --- Nikolai Hlubek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: KDE and GNOME integration = When working with KDE and GNOME applications and not running a complete GNOME or KDE session (not using kwn or metacity as windowmanager) you have the problem, that many subsystems

Re: X Font size

2005-06-23 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Jeff Elkins wrote: I recently started using 1280x1024 resolution for a new monitor. It's great for almost everything, except wxpython apps and other gtk apps. KDE apps and firefox work great, but the problem apps fonts are so tiny as to be near-unreadable. In /etc/X11/fs/config I

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Bill Wohler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be much appreciated. I used twm/awm back in the eighties. I've been using enlightenment for years now though. I tried wmaker and sawfish but they lacked features from

Philips rhythmic edge PSC703 sound card

2002-03-07 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi there, I have the Philips rhythmic edge PSC703 sound card and just wanted to ask if someone here has experience with this thing? Any idea which drivers I should use? Nikolai -- | apt-get | Debian GNU/Linux | into it | http://www.debian.org

Re: Games on Linux?

2002-02-08 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi there, I hope a version of Parsec (http://www.parsec.org/) which is playable on the Internet comes out soon. It looks so promising. Nikolai -- | apt-get | Debian GNU/Linux | into it | http://www.debian.org

Re: VIA sound chipset

2001-11-28 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:25:08PM -0200, francisco m neto wrote: I'm having some problems trying to have sound working on some machines which have the via89xxx chipset. When using kernel 2.2.x, mpg123, for example, will play a mp3 file at a higher rate than the normal, i.e., it

Re: Via82cxxx locked at 48kHz

2001-11-12 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi again, in 2.4.3 it works with the same options that 2.4.6/9 ... doesn't work with. Just tried it. So it must be really a bug. Either in via82cxxx or pci quirks.c . I guess I will file a bugreport. Oh and sorry for the double-posting. I got and error-message when sending to this list and

Via82cxxx locked at 48kHz

2001-11-11 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi there, if have the following problem regarding the VT82C686A chipset for sound output. With kernel 2.4.3 everything worked fine. All recent kernel versions (2.4.6 / 2.4.9) lock the audio play rate at 48kHz. I think it has something to do with a bug in the chipset which was fixed by

exim startup fails

2001-10-21 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi there, I recently installed Debian testing using my old home directory. My problem is that my e-mails only get delivered when I start exim -bd manually as root. But the startup script in init.d/ exists. Has anybody an idea what I'm missing? Thanks so far, Nikolai. -- |- Escape the

Re: exim startup fails

2001-10-21 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
I already solved it. There was an exim start line in inetd.conf. -- |- Escape the-| | Gates of hell. | Debian GNU/Linux | | http://www.debian.org |- Use Linux.-|

Re: Reinstalling Debian

2001-07-12 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Thank you very much. I used grep to filter out the deinstalled packages. Here's the line that worked. dpkg --get-selections | grep -w install | cut -f1 | / xargs apt-get --reinstall -y install Nikolai. -- |- Escape the-| | Gates of hell. | Debian

Linux substitue for Origin

2001-07-03 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi there fellow Debian'a'holics, does anybody know of a linux programm which can compete with Origin. (Origin is similar to Excel but with more advanced features, which are important for me.) Read you, Nikolai. Escape

modprobe lp failure

2000-11-11 Thread Nikolai Hlubek
Hi there, I was just trying to configure my printer and the modprobe lp command fails. However I am able to start the printer manually by using insmod lp, but it fails at boottime. By searching in a few newsgroups I figured out that the lp.o module in kernel 2.2.17 is somehow broken. So I