Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110502_111609, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 02 May 2011 02:35:54 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > The web interface on the router no longer works with iceweasel. It did > > work fine a few hours ago but now I can only get a one line message > > (folded here for emai

Re: Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110502_095924, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 02 mai 11, 00:29:24, Paul E Condon wrote: > > A few days ago, my old consumer grade router died, or seemed to die > > such that I decided to purchase a new consumer grade router. What I > > remembered about how the old

Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-01 Thread Paul E Condon
backups of files on two different boxes, and approx to maintain a local Debian repository. The way I have done this in the past is dependent on local search. Suggestions? Useful reading material? -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Tripwire can't send report by email‏‏ [OT but not really]

2011-04-25 Thread Paul E Condon
the twcfg the variable SMTPHOST by > smtp.altitudetelecom.fr (my ISP SMTP relay) instead of localhost. But it > doesn't work... > > Thank you in advance for your help. > > Cedric >

Procmail question/puzzle

2011-04-24 Thread Paul E Condon
lding. If the above is garbled on the list, I'll welcome suggestions as to how to format it in a reposting. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt

2011-04-22 Thread Paul E Condon
etically", they really mean, "not really". > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110421213702.GA5956@

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed [question]

2011-04-20 Thread Paul E Condon
others are really expensive over kill? Would the appropriate industrial grade router be a bigger/smaller energy hog than something cobbled together out of an old computer and junk box network cards? Or compare to new consumer suitably sized for the job? Whatever you have time to write wil

Re: Why does Linux crash?

2011-04-19 Thread Paul E Condon
s. Why are you trying to use it? But given your experience with Eclipse, I hope you are developing a healthy scepticism about proposals to have elections voted and votes counted on the Internet. Imagine what malicious persons could do with that. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: When installing from a CD image How to Gain Internet [off topic]

2011-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
-- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/alpine.bsf.2.00.1104180523180.37...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg > -- Pau

Re: Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
do what install-nmh does for non-debian > systems. I read up on nmh from the nmh website.On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Paul > E Condon wrote: > > > I once had my email working nicely, but over the last few years > > the setup has decayed. I am now running wheezy with fetchmail to

Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
user .procmailrc and spamassassin (or spamc/spamd) please post a copy of the PATH statement is a working setup? As an added goody, please tell me where you got the information. Did it get installed automagically by a Debian package? Or what? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetwork

Re: arbitrary disk name assignment affects dump/restore

2011-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
ucted from the mount point because the whole point of /etc/fstab is to establish a mapping between physical partitions and mount points. HTH > > (i.e. /dev/sda1 is /, /dev/sda3 is /home etc.)? > > This is likely to make your system un-bootable. > > Regards, > Andrei > -- &

Re: Segmentation fault with iceape, etc.

2011-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
> > Can someone interpret the warnings and critical stuff for me?  I'm not > > a newbie, but I have little experience in this area. > > > > I do have two other problems that has recently popped up, and I do not > > know if they are related to this problem

[pecon...@mesanetworks.net: Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid] (re-sent after a computer user malfunction)

2011-04-08 Thread Paul E Condon
- Forwarded message from Paul E Condon - Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:51:59 -0600 From: Paul E Condon To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid Message-ID: <20110407025159.ga4...@big.lan.gnu> Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debi

Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

2011-04-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110406_121404, Brian wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2011 at 23:24:47 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20110404_190551, Brian wrote: > > > I came to the conclusion there was no risk to the server (unbound in my > > > case) as long as the server was not ans

Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

2011-04-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110404_190551, Brian wrote: > On Mon 04 Apr 2011 at 07:13:57 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > But I can't find any information more recent than 2008 by > > googling. Surely there have been some more recent developments. > > What has happened? Surely somet

question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid

2011-04-04 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm running Wheezy on several i386 boxes. Over the weekend I installed bind9 and dhcp3-server on one of them. While starting to set up dynDNS, I noticed a comment in /etc/bind/named.conf.options (this is a file that had just been installed by the bind9 package): // ports to talk. See http

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110401_051637, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > right now, the Official Debian site seems hacked by The Canterbury > Distribution. > > I guess it is a joke. Apparently not a joke. So, what will change in Debian? Is there there a place to go to read about what parts of Debian the deve

Re: Finnishing apt/aptitude runs with a script?

2011-03-31 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110331_080146, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) and have to > update it's database whenever I upgrade the system using apt/aptitude. > > Does that package management suite provide the functionality to run a > script/shell command

Re: wheezy repository ???

2011-03-29 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110329_182325, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:46:15 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I have been using wheezy for a couple of weeks. Yesterday (I think) > > something happened and now I cannot install Wheezy using a recent (and > > known to work before)

Re: adzapper help needed [SOLVED]

2011-03-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110328_122249, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20110328_111305, Clive Standbridge wrote: > > > My recollection is that in addition to configuring adzapper, > > > one must also configure ones browser to use it. > > > > You don't configure your browser to use

Re: adzapper help needed

2011-03-28 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110328_111305, Clive Standbridge wrote: > > My recollection is that in addition to configuring adzapper, > > one must also configure ones browser to use it. > > You don't configure your browser to use adzapper. adzapper is a filter > for squid (or other proxy). You configure squid to use adz

Re: adzapper help needed

2011-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110327_194800, hamed hosseini wrote: > i am new,what is adzapper? > [snip...] Adzapper is a filter that removes advertisements from the pages that you browse on the internet. I remember that I liked it because it could be used with any and all web browsers and I am always searching and ho

Re: need help with adzapper

2011-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110327_093735, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm running Squeeze. I've used adzapper in the long ago past, but I can't > get in running with iceweasel now. My problem is really with iceweasel, > I think. I recall that I have to configure my browser to 'point to' ad

need help with adzapper

2011-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm running Squeeze. I've used adzapper in the long ago past, but I can't get in running with iceweasel now. My problem is really with iceweasel, I think. I recall that I have to configure my browser to 'point to' adzapper. This involves giving the IP address AND the port # for adzapper. I know the

adzapper help needed

2011-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
I've used adzapper long ago, but stopped using it long ago, and forgotten why I stopped. Now I want to use it again on a computer running Wheezy, but I can't find information on how to configure my browser. The Debian documentation seems to have been simplified with some info left out. But maybe my

wheezy repository ???

2011-03-25 Thread Paul E Condon
I have been using wheezy for a couple of weeks. Yesterday (I think) something happened and now I cannot install Wheezy using a recent (and known to work before) business card CD. When I select wheezy/testing, I get an error message that my architecture is not available at the repository I have sele

labeling swap partitions, a question

2011-03-24 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm looking into using partition labels on my wheezy boxes. In the course of doing this, I notice that one can uses a partition label to specify which partition is to be used for swap in the swapon command and one can specify a label string to be written onto a partition in mkswap. But, I can't fin

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze? OT question

2011-03-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110324_160327, Ken Heard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steven Sciame wrote: > > > > This is confusing. There is 'backports.debian.org' and > > 'mozilla.debian.net'. Both > > use squeeze-backports in sources.list. > > > > apt-get install -t squeeze-backports

Re: I should not be trying to use tor, but...

2011-03-19 Thread Paul E Condon
nd is that privoxy and polipo are two different packages that both implement the proxy function, but in different ways with different implications as to security, privacy, anonimity, etc. I am totally unqualified to judge the importance of this information. For example, http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Ma

Re: help controlling beep in wheezy gnome desktop

2011-03-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110316_222113, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-03-16, Paul E Condon wrote: > > The analog electrical signal is coming out of the computer amd getting > > into my external speakers via an stereo sound audio cable. It is as if > > the desktop tasksel installed the

Re: Canonical source for the new CD signing key's fingerprint?

2011-03-16 Thread Paul E Condon
s list, who happens to know you in first life, objecting that there was something strange about the email. But all this paranoid thinking will soon be put to rest because of your very reasonable plan to post signing key fingerprints on the Debian web site. That web site gets mirrored in

Re: Canonical source for the new CD signing key's fingerprint?

2011-03-16 Thread Paul E Condon
as his personal name in his first life? If I ever had reason to doubt, I would not be satified with what appears to be an exercise in ritual purity. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: help controlling beep in wheezy gnome desktop

2011-03-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110316_141734, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2011-03-16, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I'm running wheezy gnome desktop on i386 host. I can't turn off the > > beep sound using software. (Pulling AC plug on sound system works, but > > has unwanted side effects.) W

help controlling beep in wheezy gnome desktop

2011-03-16 Thread Paul E Condon
is done by the tasksel desktop task? -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110316131326.ge9...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Upgrading the old OS vs. fresh installation of the new OS

2011-03-10 Thread Paul E Condon
is incapable of mounting the newer installation because the old UUID on that root partition has been clobbered. At least I haven't figured out a convenient way to switch back and forth. Any suggestions? -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: repository 'debports' help needed

2011-03-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110306_081227, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 5:06 AM, Alexander Batischev wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 05:02:34PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> > >> Long ago, well before Squeeze became stable, I supmitted a bug report > >> on a packag

repository 'debports' help needed

2011-03-05 Thread Paul E Condon
rious magic places in /etc/apt so that I can install this special gdm3 using aptitude? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.deb

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it? [ really OT ]

2011-02-17 Thread Paul E Condon
hout discomfort is a clear sign of a perceptual deficiency. You can still see the movie without puking if you put on the 3d glasses and then put a post-it on one of the lenses. It doesn't matter which one. With one eye, you will see one picture. If the wierd monster lunges toward the camera

Re: "fields" in files

2011-01-30 Thread Paul E Condon
human traditions by defining shell variable TIME_STYLE=+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S This combines date and time-of-day into a single field. A file of data about files using this, remains correct when reconstructed at a later date. A full-up geek design decision with no concession to human frailty would be to

Re: approx for new "netinst" installation

2011-01-30 Thread Paul E Condon
eze) > > However, the approx server has been used less than a week ago to > install files to a new Squeeze system (which was installed using > the netinst Release Candidate 1 CD). > > RLH > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > wit

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110123_174918, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 05:24:54 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20110123_115724, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> I can do more testing but if someone can confirm the problem (do not > >> try on production mac

Re: Where are "xrandr" settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Paul E Condon
> -- > Camaleón I have no special knowledge. Just a suggestion on reading this thread. Outside the file system, but still on disk, is the swap space. I have always supposed that swap space was always wiped clean and fully re-initialized on boot, but I don't know. Short of that,

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-21 Thread Paul E Condon
erred UUID (or if you are a Cylon who carries such data effortlessly in your internal memory banks.) Otherwise, you can mount each of the partitions that contain an alternative OS and edit the new UUID into the older versions of /etc/fstab. Or mount one of the older OS partitions (on /mnt)

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20101221_040215, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Paul E Condon > wrote: > > On 20101220_173710, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> On Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:44:35 -0500 (EST), Rick Thomas wrote: > >>> > >>> The Debian Installer insists on re

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-20 Thread Paul E Condon
he developers who insist on using UUIDs. > > >From what I've heard, the Ubuntu installer has the same problem, > and it can ruin a functioning Debian system too. Of course, that's > not something the Debian installer team can do anything about. > That's outside

Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-17 Thread Paul E Condon
nformation that this comment seems to attempt to convey? Is the string, vol_id --uuid, intended as the argument to some other program? What is the name of that other program? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Оффшоpы, онш opы и eвpoпейские кoмпaнии

2010-12-16 Thread Paul E Condon
pe: text/plain; charset=Windows-1251 And multiple occurances of the strint "International Consulting Group" I suspect this is spam from a badly configured mailer. But I say this more in a spirit of trying to provoke a response from someone who is more skilled than I in researching this

Question about pam.d

2010-12-07 Thread Paul E Condon
lude'. 'include' is explained, but not '@include'. Explanation? -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: Extremely large level 1 backups with dump

2010-12-02 Thread Paul E Condon
. Since my data is pretty static, I have 300 daily backups in disk space that is about 110 GB. I use a 500 GB USB external drive for backup. Long before I run out of space, I will retire the disk merely because it will have become too old to be kept in use. HTH -- Paul E Condon pec

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-11-30 Thread Paul E Condon
hould avoid pronouns merely because the rule is poorly understood by people who learned English from books. Easy to say, but tedious to do. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-11-30 Thread Paul E Condon
#x27;s sentences is often difficult. I never have a problem with my own sentences. But many people do seem to have problems with my sentences. I think computer documentation, when written in English, should avoid the use of pronouns, as is suggested above. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@me

Re: Atomic operations

2010-11-20 Thread Paul E Condon
ges in Debian is almost never a total lack of man page access for the Debian user. Some man pages have wierd copyright restrictions. For me, reading man pages on the web often tells me that the package is not at all what I want to clutter my system with. Peace -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mes

Re: Off topic question about grep

2010-11-09 Thread Paul E Condon
f grep as to what it is that defines the beginning of a word. What is your definition? Look in 'man grep' for clues as to where you can find the official grep implmenters definition. I found '\<' in 'man grep' under 'The Backslash Character and Special Expressions

Re: Continue without install grub (y/n) confusion

2010-10-19 Thread Paul E Condon
dditionally, maybe significant: All my work was done using the businesscard CD, squeeze version, which seems to have been unchanged for a very long time. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: AMD 'cool & quiet' stopped working in squeeze (and lenny?)

2010-09-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100925_224627, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Paul E Condon put forth on 9/25/2010 7:58 PM: > > > Thanks, but ... > > Paul you're hardware handicapped. :( All the modern Asus boards (and > many others) have the "Qfan-2" feature which controls fan speed based

Re: AMD 'cool & quiet' stopped working in squeeze (and lenny?)

2010-09-25 Thread Paul E Condon
ere is a recovery fix for my computer, but I think I'll have to learn to live with the noise. Thanks, -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100926005852.ga2...@big.lan.gnu

AMD 'cool & quiet' stopped working in squeeze (and lenny?)

2010-09-25 Thread Paul E Condon
re-install. But what Debian packages relate to AMD Cool and Quiet? What should I make sure to install? What programs do I run to adjust/ enable Cool and Quiet? And what is the cute Linux community name for this stuff? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: testing install grub install loop

2010-09-12 Thread Paul E Condon
pdate-grub' and reboot lets me see all the OS on the computer. Hope this works for you. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

How does Squeeze initialize PS1 ?

2010-08-20 Thread Paul E Condon
in which case whatever code that actually sets up the tty also sets PS1 to some minimal non-empty value like a single space or a dot, but is this actually the way it works, and where is it? Where can I read about these issues? Puzzled. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- T

Re: newbie intro

2010-08-14 Thread Paul E Condon
l function "as one" and be totally > >transparent to you. It will all appear to be one big 240 GB file > >system. Would that be good enough? > > > >Phil > > > > > Your description sounds like we're on the same page. My hard drives > need the

Re: newbie intro

2010-08-14 Thread Paul E Condon
tting up LVM as part to the initial install. I haven't used it, as I don't do LVM. But it is there. This is by no means a suggestion that you can avoid reading the documentation prior to doing an install. Do have a look at www.debian.org I suggest your first contribution to Debian mi

Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

2010-07-31 Thread Paul E Condon
also writes a new, different UUID into its superblock. For a label, you have the option of giving the same value as it had before. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Shell Expansion in Bourne Shell Script Question

2010-07-28 Thread Paul E Condon
gt; To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/201007281327.o6sdrwlz070...@dc.cis.okstate.edu > -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesane

Re: Linux filesystems was [Re: Debian cd supporting ext4.]

2010-07-27 Thread Paul E Condon
that, IMHO. I suggest that you try to learn to live with the fact that there is a vast unwashed mass of invincibly ignorant people who call themselves computer experts. Unless you relish this heated controversy, you should limit your recommendation of XFS to shops that take for gr

Re: What's with Gnome not logging out?

2010-07-26 Thread Paul E Condon
that you can run 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'. Don't ^^^ This works on my maching only if I have started X with startx, not if I start with gdm3 (using Squeeze) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetwo

Re: What's with Gnome not logging out?

2010-07-26 Thread Paul E Condon
rebooted after seeing that it didn't work, and it still didn't work.) But its nice to know that there is supposed to be a way to enable it. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Installing Squeeze i386

2010-07-23 Thread Paul E Condon
s functional to the point that I can send this email. But I have stopped trying to fix things. My advice is to hunker down and wait for a better day. I think my last update installed a new version of debconf, but not sure. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Dash shell documentation

2010-07-11 Thread Paul E Condon
er the complete specification? I'm interested in the particular flavor of dash that is used in Debian Squeeze. The man page on my Squeeze is from BSD. Should I be looking at a BSD web site to get answers? Which one? I guess the correct question is What is 'up-stream' for Dash? and Wh

Re: [info] grub2

2010-07-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100710_155720, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Paul E Condon > wrote: > > On 20100710_103920, Tom H wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Camale?n wrote: > >> > On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:27:03 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> > >

Re: [info] grub2

2010-07-10 Thread Paul E Condon
uch lower status. In order to help those who are stragglers in the rush to the future, it would be nice if you could put a hotlink to the GRUB Legacy manual, which is archived at gnu.org directly after its first mention (which is in the History section of your document) -- Paul E Condon pe

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100704_154414, Camale?n wrote: > On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 09:04:56 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20100702_235713, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > >> >>> "ATA_NCQ_HORKAGE list"? The only hit that I get on this string in > >> >>> Google

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Paul E Condon
; > > You mangled your quoting. I didn't ask these questions, another OP did. I > answered them. Or, at least, someone else answered the first and I answered > the second. And again, it's not "ATA_NCQ_HORKAGE" but rather > "ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ". No re

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-01 Thread Paul E Condon
ay with a setting much higher than the default. There > are some specific server applications where high read_ahead_kb is useful, such > as streaming media servers, but they are few and far between. > > -- > Stan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Understanding LVM UUIDS

2010-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
a 128 bit number that is stored in a 16 byte space in the superblock of the ext[234] file system. Mostly it is set to a random value by mke2fs when the fs is originally created. But it can also be set to a user designated (non-random?) value by tune2fs -U device. -- Paul E Condon

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
, frequent running of sync seems to reduce the error rate quite a bit. (By frequent, I mean once or twice a second. I do this with a while loop running in a separate xterm.) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: debian architecture history question

2010-06-15 Thread Paul E Condon
t issue. But for these packages, if the instruction set for the two classes of chip are the same, what is it that is different from the point of view of the kernel software requirements? I think I have repeated the same question several times with different wording. If none of these word

debian architecture history question

2010-06-11 Thread Paul E Condon
I can't find it. Please help. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100611164216.ga13...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-06-09 Thread Paul E Condon
-- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100610013235.ga9...@big.lan.gnu

businesscard CD as rescue CD Tutorial?

2010-05-31 Thread Paul E Condon
entry on it that purports to provide rescue functions. But... I'd like to read some tutorial material before I get into trouble. Suggestions, anyone? What are the likely causes of failure to boot with grub2? What actions can be taken to fix things when one boots from a rescue disk? etc. -- Pau

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-30 Thread Paul E Condon
t menu seems to work but when you do reboot at the end of the install process, the installations that were listed as having been found are not there in the boot menu. Just issue update-grub and reboot again. It is fixed. Does this post give you warm fuzzies about the coming release? -

Evolution email question.

2010-05-21 Thread Paul E Condon
t the Evolution window and it seems that Evolution is scanning everything under "/". This will take a long time (100GB HD and pretty near full). Question: What is Evolution looking for? and Is there a way that I can tell it where that is ? So it doesn't look in all the wro

Re: Moving a drive to another computer

2010-05-19 Thread Paul E Condon
the drive as a second HD on a computer that boots from the first HD, and explore what is on the drive. Mount your friend's drive ro (read only). Depending on how many pix you find, choose an appropriate storage medium to copy pix to. Then 2) install 5.0.4, which will be much less nerve wra

Re: Suggestion/Question for the approx apt(itutde) proxy daemon

2010-05-06 Thread Paul E Condon
be added as a feature in a future > release? > > > Thanks! > > Rick > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.orgwith a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http

Re: GRUB2 resolution

2010-05-05 Thread Paul E Condon
e, I managed to make the box not boot anymore. Look in /etc/default/grub. Replace the line: #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 with one the suits your fancy. And remove the # at the beginning. Also note the other variables that are set here for future reference. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesa

Re: asignar hora a PC

2010-04-28 Thread Paul E Condon
t of his investigation, I think it is like that the real reason is something else, not on your list. Perhaps, for instance, he is insane and is confined to a mental institution where some of the more lucid inmates are allowed access to the computers and internet. Whatever the real reason, Camaleon see

Re: Technical questions

2010-04-28 Thread Paul E Condon
for dealing with html in email. My approach was to remain clueless about how to set up mutt to open html emails. The current situation is well within my procmail skill set. For me, it is somewhat like how I deal with Fox News, and other abominations of modern life. ;) -- Paul E Condon

Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

2010-04-25 Thread Paul E Condon
irectories (called folders) and no nested directories. I think because Apple didn't want to trouble their users with difficult concepts, like telephones and dialing a telephone number. Who remembers dialing? Where did that word come from? ;-) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesane

Re: problem with USB external hard disk My Book 1110

2010-04-20 Thread Paul E Condon
try, in an attempt to get that > system to be ext2 formated and to operate under my Linux ? > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > A

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100414_123342, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-04-14 09:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > [snip] > > > >non-obvious --- to the point that there was an open contest with > >prizes awarded for the most obfuscated example of C code. The prizes > >went to the code for which

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
be safely ignored by that future reader. You may be that future reader of your code who will appreciate what you have done by using it. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Where to find setup for env variable? [a question]

2010-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
be something that involved user volition, it could still be useful to know what mistakes can be made. Better than learning from ones mistakes is learning from others experience. TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Trunk Kernel

2010-04-13 Thread Paul E Condon
iness-card install, instead of netinst, eliminates the problem. An recent netinst CD image may also fix it. YMMV -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-12 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100412_152156, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Celejar wrote: > >On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:06:06 -0600 > >Paul E Condon wrote: > > > >... > > > >>I got a little less timid and tried running smartctl even though I was > >>quite unsure of wh

Re: Google repositories

2010-04-12 Thread Paul E Condon
> I might have used googleearth-package to generate the .deb. I'll give that a > try. > > -Chris In re. the googleearth-package. It is not googleearth; it is a downloader for googleearth that installs it in a Debianly-Correct way. I like the convenience, but if Google reposit

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100411_115203, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,10.Apr.10, 16:24:45, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > The errors that I am experiencing are all similar. The first > > indication of a problem is a message from the kernel (I think). An > > example is: > > > > ker

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100411_005025, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Paul E Condon put forth on 4/10/2010 11:41 PM: > > > So, the fact that my WD drives don't play well with S.M.A.R.T doesn't > > make them special, and I should not spend much, if any, time looking > > for a USB solution

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100411_005504, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:41:57 -0600 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > ... > > > So, the fact that my WD drives don't play well with S.M.A.R.T doesn't > > make them special, and I should not spend much, if any, time looking >

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100411_002510, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:06:06 -0600 > Paul E Condon wrote: > > ... > > > I got a little less timid and tried running smartctl even though I was > > quite unsure of what to expect. It ran. Each of the three USB HD gave > > so

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100410_162445, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100410_092044, Clive McBarton wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Paul E Condon wrote:> > > > dumpe2fs -b is supposed to print the bad blocks that have > > > been mark

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