Fix for boot failure with testing stream and 6.6.13-amd64 kernel

2024-02-13 Thread Sam Varghese
the machine bootable again. Sam -- (Sam Varghese)

Fix for bug in r8168-dkms with kernel 6.4.0.2-amd64

2023-09-01 Thread Sam Varghese
est regards, Lol. -- I am not subscribed to the list. Sam Varghese

Hibernation issue with 4.19.0-4-amd64 on Debian testing

2019-05-11 Thread Sam Varghese
. Otherwise, if I just let it return from hibernation without any intervention, even though the system is using the 4.19.0-2-amd64 kernel, it does not hibernate when I try to put it into this state and I have to do a hard reboot. Has anyone seen this kind of behaviour? Thanks, Sam -- (Sam Varghese)

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

2019-02-22 Thread Sam Varghese
id, you should probably opt for this > kernel: > https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries Thank you, Andrea, and everyone else for the helpful responses. Much appreciated. I think I will avoid the "G" variant; the Ryzen5 2600 is available for $259 (Australian dollar

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

2019-02-21 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, February 22, 2019 8:11 am, Dan Ritter wrote: > Sam Varghese wrote: >> I have seen some older reports about kernel issues and crashes. Hence my >> concern. > > I haven't seen any while running Stretch or later. >> I presume that the built-in graphics

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

2019-02-21 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, February 22, 2019 7:46 am, Dan Ritter wrote: > Sam Varghese wrote: >> I would value feedback from anyone on this list who has been running >> Debian on an AMD Ryzen system. I have gone back through list posts for a >> year and cannot find anything on this subjec

Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

2019-02-21 Thread Sam Varghese
good experiences with AMD processors in the past - my current box has a K6-2 chip - I would prefer to go with a processor from the same company. If anyone does respond, could you please copy me in? I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks, Sam -- (Sam Varghese)

Re: Unable to upgrade testing system

2015-01-03 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 07:12:48PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Jan 2, 2015 6:33 PM, Sam Varghese s...@gnubies.com wrote: I have been trying to upgrade a system that is running testing. for the past couple of weeks and have been getting the following errors: [oodles of errors

Unable to upgrade testing system

2015-01-02 Thread Sam Varghese
I have been trying to upgrade a system that is running testing. for the past couple of weeks and have been getting the following errors: root@tuatara:/home/poormigrant# apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade lots of output Fetched 70.5 kB in 13s (5,300 B/s) Reading package lists... Done Reading

Wireless connection problems after testing upgrade

2014-10-07 Thread Sam Varghese
I run Debian testing on a Lenovo Thinkpad E531 which I bought in June. I have been running Debian for the last 14 years, and have used the testing stream on several machines for the last seven or eight years. I have never used network-manager to manage my wireless connection, depending instead

Re: /usr/sbin/alternatives-update missing

2014-01-04 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 11:37:33AM +, Brian wrote: On Fri 03 Jan 2014 at 19:20:57 +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: i am running the testing stream on a fairly old laptop. At the end of every upgrade, I get this message: sh: 1: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives: not found Does bug

/usr/sbin/alternatives-update missing

2014-01-03 Thread Sam Varghese
it can be corrected. i am not subscribed to the list, and would, thus, appreciate being copied in. thanks, sam (sam varghese) debian user since 2000 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-16 Thread Sam Varghese
very much for taking te trouble to reply. My problem has away after an apt-get update apt-get install linux-firmware. There are some error messages during bootup but they are about udev. Thanks to all the others who offered helpful suggestions as well. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-13 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, February 12, 2010 23:41, Kumar Appaiah wrote: The most likely cause is a problem with the video driver's kernel modules. Assuming that you indicate that the X login screen doesn't appear and that the computer does try to indeed start X, could you please check if there is some issue

Re: vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-12 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, February 13, 2010 01:39, Aioanei Rares wrote: Sam Varghese wrote: the kernel image listed above was added to my system (testing on an ibm thinkpad) during a recent dist-upgrade. snip What type of Thinkpad is this? the thinkpad is an R50e. full specs: Processor: Intel Pentium M 1.70

vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686

2010-02-11 Thread Sam Varghese
boots and runs as it should with the previous kernel image, vmlinuz-2.6.30-686. has anyone else experienced this? any way around it? or should one wait for a fix to appear in the regular course of things? thanks, sam (Sam Varghese) PS: anyone responding, please copy me in as i am

Jerky mouse movements with 2.6.0

2004-01-03 Thread Sam Varghese
the protocol to IMPS/2 does not make any difference. Under the older version of X, I was using BaudRate and SampleRate but the mouse works perfectly with 2.4.19 and this configuration so I haven't bothered to add those parameters. Cheers, Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Bootable Rescue CD-ROM

2003-07-04 Thread Sam Varghese
, grub, bash (please, no ash!), vim, ssh and a reasonable ftp (what about ncftp) client. lynx, X are nice, but not a requirement. It should be capable of mounting common filesystems like ext2, xfs, vfat. Any comments? What do you use? Damn Small Linux - http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ Sam - -- Sam

Removing a signature from a file

2003-06-24 Thread Sam Varghese
decompress it. Anybody got an idea about how I can recover this file? Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: Mail from M$ Outlook Express - something

2003-06-22 Thread Sam Varghese
by kmail or some other linux mail client. There's a howto here: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/other-formats/html_single/Outlook-to-Unix-Mailbox.html Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which

Updating to new kernel from 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-06-11 Thread Sam Varghese
a recompile? Or will these not work properly with Woody? Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2

Re: vulnwatch.org ???

2003-06-11 Thread Sam Varghese
and are having some problems with the new provider. There were three messages from the list admin over the last two days explaining the problems in detail. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief. -BEGIN

Getting Gnome to run on testing

2003-06-10 Thread Sam Varghese
. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra -BEGIN PGP

Re: Getting Gnome to run on testing

2003-06-10 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 03:45:38AM -0700, David Monarres waxed eloquent and said: On Tuesday 10 June 2003 03:20 am, Sam Varghese wrote: How does one get Gnome 2.2 to run on testing with its default window manager? I've done the necessary

Re: Antivirus in Debian?

2003-03-28 Thread Sam Varghese
installed but nothing has ever got through the Debian server - yet. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The years teach much which the days never knew. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+hUEjZyXhknb+33gRAiljAJ4pcudy2nnm9+BcGKKuAWG0LBy4IgCeM7v5

Re: OT: VMS / WNT [was: Re: Official Exim 4 package]

2003-03-26 Thread Sam Varghese
NT OS. After Microsoft settled the case with DEC for $150 million, inside sources alleged that large quantities of NT's code (and even most of the programmer's comments) were identical to Mica's. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-20 Thread Sam Varghese
. I tend to agree. Even getting something to display correctly on different versions of the same browser and browsers which are said to be from the same codebase can often be a frustrating exercise. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The term software piracy is probably the only real

Re: cdrecord -scanbus fails

2003-02-18 Thread Sam Varghese
/hdc When my system boots up, it disables hdparm on hdc which is my cd-rom. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux

Re: DSL connecting using a USB modem

2003-02-07 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:07:03PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson spake thus: On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 08:11:51AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: | i've been trying to find some app which would let me connect to the net | with an usb dsl modem and have

Re: netdev watchdog eth0 transmit timed out

2003-02-03 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 06:42:55PM +0100, Anand Buddhdev spake thus: On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 11:42:58AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: g'day all, i've just set up a debian box for use as a server, using woody. everything has gone well apart

Re: netdev watchdog eth0 transmit timed out

2003-02-01 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:01:28PM -0800, Alvin Oga spake thus: On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Sam Varghese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 g'day all, i've just set up a debian box for use as a server, using woody

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-17 Thread Sam Varghese
for elderly and disabled people in one region of the state of Victoria - we use a P133 running Debian as our server. It handles mail, dial-up and caching-only DNS for about 55 people. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more

Re: Burning CD Revisited

2003-01-07 Thread Sam Varghese
... So with, that I used a new CD, now I have been having one heck of a time trying to burn another one, using Xcdroaster... I didn't see your previous posting so pardon me for asking: are you trying to burn a data CD or an audio CD? And if data is it a bootable CD? Sam - -- Sam Varghese http

Re: kernel recompile

2003-01-01 Thread Sam Varghese
-post-install.en.html#s-kernel= - -baking Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+EqeYZyXhknb+33gRAi4+AJ9

mysql-server refuses to install on testing

2002-12-29 Thread Sam Varghese
. I'd appreciate any help in understanding why this is so and how I could resolve it. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+DsSLZyXhknb

syslog-ng[3946]: STATS: dropped 0

2002-12-22 Thread Sam Varghese
that the same question has been asked but never answered. Can someone please explain what this means? Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+BbelZyXhknb+33gRAu+eAJkBaPcRSzNuabTDc7y5qqZyrS3hFgCfYvr4 48nyI

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Sam Varghese
. Anything one of us can set to get around this other than me turning off auto-signing? Change your Mutt options to clearign your mail. I use this in my .muttrc: macro compose \CP Fgpg --clearsign\ny Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com What we have done for ourselves alone

Re: [robertsharris@comcast.net: Re: Fw: Ga. Visit.]

2002-12-18 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 03:33:23PM -0500, Robert L. Harris spake thus: Thus spake Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 09:11:58AM -0500, Robert L. Harris spake thus: Since I started using GPG to sign my emails my father

PPoE support in 2.4 series kernel

2002-12-16 Thread Sam Varghese
impression that the 2.4 series has support for PPoE - am I wrong? If so, can someone point me to a patch for the required support? Thanks, Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. -BEGIN PGP

Re: How to add testing source to my apt.conf?

2002-11-05 Thread Sam Varghese
there is an error, but not how to fix it), as to how to correctly add a url, so I can use Synaptic to get .debs. What is the correct syntax please? Run apt-setup, make your choices and it will add the correct lines to your sources.list. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com I've

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-25 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:46:49PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins spake thus: On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:42:54 +1000 Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got an evaluation pack from the Australian reseller yesterday. I'm reading off the material

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Sam Varghese
yet compatible with outlook/eudora. There's a product called Samsung Contact which is the former HP Open Mail. It's free for up to five mailboxes - anything over that has to be paid for. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad Ein

Re: Replace MS Exchange

2002-10-24 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 04:31:30PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins spake thus: On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 07:20:42 +1000 Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a product called Samsung Contact which is the former HP Open Mail. It's free for up to five

Re: Debian vs. SuSE 8.1

2002-10-18 Thread Sam Varghese
they supply) and then try apt-get. You won't ask these questions again. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info

Re: Oracle 9i and Debian

2002-10-17 Thread Sam Varghese
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 12:49:21PM +0330, Arash Bijanzadeh spake thus: Does anybody have experience with installing Oracle9i on Debian? On April 5 this year, there was a detailed post about installing 9i on Woody. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http

Re: MS WINWORD and WINE problems....

2002-09-19 Thread Sam Varghese
/ http://www/kde.org/ Win4Lin runs all M$ apps without a problem. CXOffice does an adequate job with Office 97 and 2000 - apart from M$Access. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Where does your symbolic link point today? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Problem with ssh

2002-06-28 Thread Sam Varghese
uses protocol version 1. I installed ssh2 and used it instead. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one other person. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: Problem with ssh

2002-06-28 Thread Sam Varghese
version 2 - and I don't need to supply the -2 switch. Sam - -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-07 Thread Sam Varghese
thought it was an appropriate thread to pass along some of the credit to those whom it is really due. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. pgpEvkbieH1PB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-06 Thread Sam Varghese
to the world as many of them are disabled and house-bound. Thank you for providing free, quality software which is easy to maintain. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words

Re: IMAP + fetchmail + procmail

2002-06-04 Thread Sam Varghese
), so I don't need a large capacity setup. This guy's done something similar to what you are trying to achieve: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue42/stumpel.html Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb pgp0UtWEOLhIy.pgp Description

Re: Signify Googlebomber (was Re: random signatures in mutt)

2002-05-01 Thread Sam Varghese
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:42:56AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, May 01, 2002, Sam Varghese ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: How does one set random signatures in mutt after compilation? I looked up on Google and everything I found seems to indicate that it only be done by editing

random signatures in mutt

2002-04-30 Thread Sam Varghese
How does one set random signatures in mutt after compilation? I looked up on Google and everything I found seems to indicate that it only be done by editing config.h during compilation. Is there some hack for this? I'm running version 1.3.28i on Woody. Sam -- Sam Varghese -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Unable to mount cd-rom

2002-04-19 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 08:43:23PM +0200, Martin Zipfel wrote: On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:47:48 +1000 Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently moved my Debian install over to a new hard disk and after this I find that I cannot mount my cd-rom. i think this is due to your cd-burner

Unable to mount cd-rom

2002-04-18 Thread Sam Varghese
the device file but that did not make any difference. Any hints to get out of this would be appreciated. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: kernel support for RealTek NIC's

2002-03-30 Thread Sam Varghese
PCI module. It has worked for me on all kernels from 2.0.36 right up to 2.4.17. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Cannot login using root password

2002-03-18 Thread Sam Varghese
for the help in advance. http://www.burningvoid.com/iaq/linux-root-password.html Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com One World, one Web, one Program - Microsoft promotional ad Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer - Adolf Hitler

Re: Why Debian?

2002-03-01 Thread Sam Varghese
more experienced users, that plaint is no longer valid. Check http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/debian/chapter/index.html and http://rute.sourceforge.net for the books mentioned above. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Linux and all free software is not about the smell of money

Re: Mail clients (and text editors)

2002-02-24 Thread Sam Varghese
very little about IMAP. Currently I think I've got about 50,000 messages in my Eudora folders, so I'm not clear if IMAP will be slow working with that many messages. I used to love GUI mail programs but after using Mutt for about five months, I wouldn't dream of going back. Sam -- Sam Varghese

upgrading potato to woody

2002-02-23 Thread Sam Varghese
of the reasons Debian is what it is. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Linux and all free software is not about the smell of money but the improvement of community

X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link

2002-02-22 Thread Sam Varghese
time. I would appreciate some pointers in getting out of this mess. Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com Linux and all free software is not about the smell of money but the improvement of community

Re: X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link

2002-02-22 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 01:30:52AM +, Keith Willoughby wrote: Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did this, using ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 as root. I get a message stating that the file exists. You've got your parameters to ln backwards. If it helps, I do this all

Re: newbie

2002-01-18 Thread Sam Varghese
memory (RAM) do you have? Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Continuing ALSA suckage

2002-01-15 Thread Sam Varghese
and have a lot of other things to learn as well. Have a look at http://rute.sourceforge.net Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: console Editors similar to winedit

2002-01-15 Thread Sam Varghese
(and don't want to have to worry about poison in the coffee :) ). Have you taken a look at nedit? Sam -- Sam Varghese http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: xinetd /etc/host.deny ALL:PARANOID

2002-01-10 Thread Sam Varghese
/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx I'm not an ISP or even a tech person so maybe someone else can get in on this and elaborate. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems.

Re: xinetd /etc/host.deny ALL:PARANOID

2002-01-10 Thread Sam Varghese
, therefore i practice them. of course, one would agree to disagree. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems.

Re: mail server

2002-01-09 Thread Sam Varghese
security defaults as with anything Microsoft puts out for Email? Exim is the default MTA on Debian and nothing is easier to configure for a small network. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra

Re: Looking for package to manipulate pop3 mailbox index

2002-01-08 Thread Sam Varghese
-- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems.

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread Sam Varghese
seconds on a standard 74-minute CD. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal and you can charge extra for fixing the problems.

Re: OT: on-the-fly cd copying

2002-01-07 Thread Sam Varghese
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:22:11AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 06:42:15AM +1100, Sam Varghese wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 05:26:33AM +0100, Carel Fellinger wrote: ... More seriously, there is only one *good* audio copy program on Windows that I know of, i.e

Re: NIST time

2002-01-05 Thread Sam Varghese
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 07:41:38AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Sam Varghese writes: ntpdate always complains that it cannot find the time servers. ... chrony runs without complaint. This has got to be a configuration problem, as ntpdate and chrony use the same protocol, the same ports

Re: NIST time

2002-01-04 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 12:40:47PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Sam Varghese wrote: i used ntpdate initially but have now swicthed to chrony. the same guy who wrote pppconfig has written this utility and like pppconfig it is simple and works well. Is ntpdate not simple, or does

Re: NIST time

2002-01-04 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 03:27:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Sam Varghese writes: i used ntpdate initially but have now swicthed to chrony. the same guy who wrote pppconfig has written this utility and like pppconfig it is simple and works well. Thank you, but I did not write chrony

Re: NIST time

2002-01-03 Thread Sam Varghese
but have now swicthed to chrony. the same guy who wrote pppconfig has written this utility and like pppconfig it is simple and works well. apt-get install chrony would suffice sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com Software industry: unique industry where selling substandard goods is legal

Re: How to delete Exims' queue

2001-12-29 Thread Sam Varghese
) and in /var/spool/exim/msglog/ you will find one system message for each mail which has been frozen. These can be removed as well. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: kernel building ways

2001-12-27 Thread Sam Varghese
-install.en.html#s-kernel-baking Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Mounting floppy. Newbie #61

2001-12-27 Thread Sam Varghese
On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote: # mount -t auto /dev/fdo /floppy If this is really what you typed, then I hope you have noticed that you have typed the letter 'o' instead of zero. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes

Re: Debian issue's and problems

2001-12-26 Thread Sam Varghese
! and that someone that wants to learn linux can do so without having everything go wrong! See my sig. It really means something in this context. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Threading Mail

2001-12-26 Thread Sam Varghese
.muttrc set pop_user = set pop_pass = set pop_delete = set pop_host = set pop_checkinterval=60 set pop_port = 110 set pop_last = no Fill in your details. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Internal Modem- compatibility

2001-12-22 Thread Sam Varghese
at linmodems.org sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Solved: upgrading a single program

2001-12-19 Thread Sam Varghese
/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz: boot = /dev/hda2 compact image = /vmlinuz image = /vmlinuz.old other = /dev/hda1 table = /dev/hda label = msdos what are you looking for? a lilo.conf for linux and NT? sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan

Re: Exim.conf help

2001-12-19 Thread Sam Varghese
to be able to set up a second agent that tests for hostname 'foo2' (I've added this as a static entry in resolv.conf, I can ping foo2 by name). here's a chap who's done something similar to what you are trying: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue42/stumpel.html sam -- (Sam Varghese) http

Re: Some program wrongly updates my /etc/resolv.conf after reboot

2001-12-11 Thread Sam Varghese
resolv.conf, then it will change when you reboot or dial out afresh. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com The dogs bark but the caravan passes. - ancient Arab proverb

Re: Please Help: PPP in Debian

2001-12-02 Thread Sam Varghese
, not as a loadable module. changes are documented in a file called (surprise!) Changes is in /usr/src/linux/Documentation, assuming you unpacked your kernel source in /usr/src. read the Changes file. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Unidentified subject!

2001-12-01 Thread Sam Varghese
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Re: Networking a Linux and a Window workstation

2001-11-26 Thread Sam Varghese
they are!)? Bill McCarty's book on Debian gives a fairly simple explanation of Samba: http://antiweb.org/translation/debian/ch10_03.html And this LJ article gives a reasonably simple explanation of samba passwords: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2717 HTH Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http

ppp dropouts on a 2.2.20pre12 kernel

2001-11-26 Thread Sam Varghese
four days. i wonder if anyone has had similar problems and what could be using them. i've checked the usual web pages which list such issues but have come up with a blank. any help would be appreciated. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Maildrop permission problems

2001-11-23 Thread Sam Varghese
139448 Aug 12 2000 maildrop -rwxr-xr-x1 root root36376 Aug 12 2000 reformail -rwxr-xr-x1 root root31228 Aug 12 2000 reformime What am I doing wrong? Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Reading .. And editing qxd files

2001-11-17 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 02:02:59PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: Can anyone tell me what kind of file this is and how to read /edit it under debian? I think it is some type of page layout file. .qxd is a Quark Xpress file. As to what can read it, I couldn't help you. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http

Re: Does Netscape cause lockups?

2001-11-16 Thread Sam Varghese
until 3.0. After that it has degenerated into crap. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-16 Thread Sam Varghese
switch it off and on. Their explanation is that there is a jolt to the system when it starts and that causes more damage than leaving it on all the time. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Support for MS-6378 motherboard

2001-11-11 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:32:57PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: Has anyone had a good/bad experience with this? Sam Varghese wrote: i built a machine using this m-b for a friend; dual-boot, runs w98 and mandrake 8.0. never tried debian on it. On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 10:53:10PM -0600, hanasaki

Re: Support for MS-6378 motherboard

2001-11-10 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 03:32:57PM -0600, hanasaki wrote: Has anyone had a good/bad experience with this? i built a machine using this m-b for a friend; dual-boot, runs w98 and mandrake 8.0. never tried debian on it. sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Epson scanner 1650 - does it work on Linux?

2001-11-08 Thread Sam Varghese
On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:13:21PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Has anyone used the Epson 1650 flatbed scanner via USB successfully on Linux? I've used an Epson 640U in the past. Have a look at http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/faq.html Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: problem with diamond v770 tnt2

2001-10-25 Thread Sam Varghese
. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Messages being frozen with exim.

2001-10-24 Thread Sam Varghese
any more. The command is: exim -Mg 15sIjN-0005OC-00 (just the message ID - leave off the -H or -D). You'll get an e-mail saying the message was cancelled. HTH. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

Re: Sound Won't Work

2001-10-15 Thread Sam Varghese
, Slackware and Mandrake and all run fine with es1371. Sam -- (Sam Varghese) http://www.gnubies.com

mail headers - why do they differ?

2001-10-12 Thread Sam Varghese
I was looking at the Debian mailing list archives for some info this morning and came across one of my old postings. The headers read as under: To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: exim problem - rejecting senders From: Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 15:15:36 +1000

Re: mail headers - why do they differ?

2001-10-12 Thread Sam Varghese
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 01:13:43AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: It's very easy to forge From-addresses in email, that's what the line Sender = Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] in your ~/.muttrc files tell mutt to do. Most MUA (mail user agents) allow such things. But fortunately most

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