Re: PUBLIC GPG KEY REVOCATION FOR DAVID DOWNEY

2006-11-01 Thread john hacker
If this is David Downey or you know David Downey, please call John Hacker at (904) 759-2765 or (800) 499-2502 ASAP. Thanks so much for your time. We miss you, and just want to see what's up and how you're doing. Might have something right up your alley, but none the less would love

apt 0.6 not recognizing local repository

2005-09-06 Thread hacker (of golf)
I created a local repository using apt-move on another partition to make space for all the dist-upgrades. I used 'apt-get clean' to empty /var/cache/apt/archives. I added the file: into my sources list. Now, when I do 'apt-get --allow-unauthenticated update', I get these error messages: Ign file:

Re: hotplug (?) scripts

2005-08-03 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 8/3/05, Dave Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got ndiswrapper working on Sarge (kernel 2.6) but the problem is that I have to physically unplug and replug the usb wireless card each time the machine is rebooted, and then execute a couple of commands to bring it to life. How can I

Re: Troubling security news for sarge users of mozilla, firefox, thunderbird...

2005-08-02 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 8/2/05, ke6isf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Ralph Katz wrote: Yet I'm wondering how other sarge users are going to address the security concerns? Backport, install from Mozilla tarball, upgrade to unstable, change to kmail/konqueror? It would seem that the easiest

Re: wget -c 'problem'

2005-07-30 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/30/05, Nelson Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/30/05, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to download a 3GB DVD image (wget 'address'), which goes well. But after it's interrupted, I can't continue the download (wget -c 'address'). The continue

Re: x-windows-system package

2005-07-29 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/29/05, Paolo Pantaleo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed the x-windows-system package, and i found some unpleasant things: 1)xdm is installed and no question is done about it during configuration 2)the keyboard doesn't work properly as said in a previous message ALT GR + key

Re: USB Mouse stops working under xfree

2005-07-29 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/29/05, Nobrin ;- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After an apt-get dist-upgrade (testing branch) a problem came out: my usb mouse stops working under xfree (xserver-xfree 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14) after a few minutes. The pointer simply remains in the same place on the screen. If I plug out and in the

Re: howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-23 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/20/05, Matias Rollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola ! On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 06:44:16PM -0400, hacker (of golf) wrote: I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed. I'm trying this: root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox Connection Speed `tail -n1 /var

Re: howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-23 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/23/05, hacker (of golf) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/20/05, Matias Rollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope it helps, Yes, I added: kdialog --display :0 --msgbox `tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors | cut -b 8-` bps to the end of /etc/ppp/ip-up and now I get a popup telling me

Re: howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-23 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/23/05, Mr Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 18:44:16 -0400, hacker (of golf) wrote: I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed. I'm trying this: root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox Connection Speed `tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors

howto get popup for connection speed

2005-07-20 Thread hacker (of golf)
I'm trying to create a popup to show the connection speed. I'm trying this: root :~# kdialog --display localhost:0 --msgbox Connection Speed `tail -n1 /var/log/ppp-connect-errors | awk '{ print $6 }'` bps kdialog: cannot connect to X server localhost:0 but, as you can see, it won't connect to

Re: rsync fails to connect on kernel 2.6.10 over plip

2005-07-19 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 5/23/05, hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone successfully using rsync on kernel-2.6.10? What did you have to do to make it work? For the record, this has been solved. The problem was that when I was loading the modules (parport, parport_pc and plip), I was specifying a specific irq

Re: printing in Debian/need unstable users opinion

2005-07-19 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/17/05, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: known mailing list to find out what is happening in Debian. But I think this would be an easy way for the Developers to let us know whats comming in a short email, instead of having millions of users to scratching their heads and googling for

Re: kernel-build-2.6.8 for i386 doesn't exist?!

2005-07-19 Thread hacker (of golf)
On 7/19/05, Saman Ghannadzadeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need the kernel-build-2.6.8 package for arch. i386 in order to compile some kernel modules. However, it seems that there is no kernel-build-2.6.8 package available for i386. What can I do? are there any alternative packages

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-26 Thread hacker
On 6/26/05, Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HP PSC 1350 all-in-one. Connected using USB. I tried printing with both lpr and Firefox (neither works). Are you using cups? Did you install the cupsys-client in addition to the cupsys package? Could be a permission problem with your /dev/usb/lp0

how many cd for complete desktop

2005-06-09 Thread hacker
Anyone know how many of the 3.1 cd's do I need to have the complete desktop install?

Re: how many cd for complete desktop

2005-06-09 Thread hacker
On 6/9/05, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yo mero wrote: On 6/9/05, hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how many of the 3.1 cd's do I need to have the complete desktop install? Just iso 1 should be sufficient, you might get a couple more desktop apps with 2, but 1 has

Re: i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-27 Thread hacker
On 5/27/05, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 12:13, hacker wrote: I don't know all the particulars of glxinfo, but if gears is 300, you probably have it. The proof is in the use .. try running tuxracer or chromium and see if they work. For me

Re: i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-26 Thread hacker
to display your actual XFree86 and the glxinfo and glxgears output. BTW, my impression is that 16 bit depth gives up too much resolution for me to use it for normal use. So, if not playing games, I'm back to 24 bit depth. hacker

Re: i810 and Direct Rendering X11

2005-05-26 Thread hacker
On 5/26/05, Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 10:55, hacker wrote: My i810 will only work on 16 bit depth, so maybe your in another depth. Also, try glxgears to test it .. should be about 100 fps normally and 300+ when accelerated. Yup, I'm

rsync fails to connect on kernel 2.6.10 over plip

2005-05-23 Thread hacker
I've successfully used rsync (2.6.4-6) to transfer files over a plip connection via a cable connecting the parallel ports of my desktop and laptop, using kernel 2.4.27. Now, I'm trying to use kernel 2.6.10 and rsync won't establish a connection. root #: rsync mydesktop:: rsync: failed to connect

substitute for ping

2005-05-19 Thread hacker
My ISP has pings blocked. Is there some other echo command I can use to test my connection? TIA

how to determine whats downloading

2005-05-17 Thread hacker
When I'm connected to the net, I notice something downloading and hogging my dial up connection. How can I figure out what's doing this?

Re: how to determine whats downloading

2005-05-17 Thread hacker
On 5/17/05, Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hacker wrote: When I'm connected to the net, I notice something downloading and hogging my dial up connection. How can I figure out what's doing this? Something like 'netstat --tcp --program' will give you a list of what programs

Re: upgrading kde

2005-05-11 Thread hacker
Of course, you have to make sure you add a line in /etc/apt/sources.list that includes testing and/or unstable and/or experimental (alioth), then 'apt-get update'. Then use 'apt-get install kde/testing' to install kde-3.3.2 (or use aptitude, if you prefer). bye On 5/10/05, roberto [EMAIL

Re: rsync 2.6.4-4 error

2005-05-11 Thread hacker
to bug report it. On 5/10/05, Timm Essigke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear hacker, you send this mail to debian-user a few days ago. Did you get any help off-list? Have you filed a bug (couldn't find)? I have the same problem with 2.6.4-5. Thanks in advance, Timm I upgraded from

Re: rsync 2.6.4-4 error

2005-05-11 Thread hacker
On 5/11/05, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure why your bug report didn't get entered. Have you read the guidelins on bug submission at bugs.debian.org? Or looked at the reportbug package? Yes, I've been wrestling with it for the past 1/2 hour, and finally succeeded.

flash not working at http://www.scottrade.com/flash/flash.asp

2005-05-08 Thread hacker
Anyone can check this link to see if your flash 7 works on debian. Mine won't, but does on $M, which I prefer not to use. In general, my flashplayer seems to be working on other sites (i.e. jib-jab). tia

Re: KDE

2005-05-07 Thread hacker
Which version are you running? It looks like your sources.list doesn't pick up all the available kde files. Testing works fine here, so make sure you have a 'testing' entry in your debs in /etc/apt/sources.list, then 'apt-get update', the try 'apt-get install kde/testing'. good luck On 5/7/05,

rsync 2.6.4-4 error

2005-05-03 Thread hacker
I upgraded from 2.6.4-2 to 2.6.4-4 on my server and now my client gets an error: rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer (104) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(570) _exit_cleanup(cope=12), file=io.c, line=570): about to call exit(12) My client is still using

Re: Duplicating installed system

2002-02-03 Thread Magnus Hacker
. The kernel has to know from where to mount root. /etc/fstab can't be read before the root filesystem is mounted, so it has to be told in another way (lilo.conf or rdev). /Hacker

A perplexing conundrum... Wingate/Linux

2000-05-30 Thread Citizen-Class Hacker
Alright people, I've got a question for you all. We have a multi-machine LAN set up in the house using Coax cables. My parents each have a Win98 comp, my mom's is connected to the Net and she passes it to us using Wingate. We have a registered copy, so no need to worry there. The problem,

Re: Running X-Displays of win9x

1999-11-08 Thread Magnus Hacker
it but have heard good things about it. Don't know who makes it though. +++ | Magnus Hacker | I used to believe in reincarnation,| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | but that was long ago, in another life. | +++

can´t start Netscape

1998-10-08 Thread Vasili Goutas Kernel Hacker
I´m running debian Linux 2.0 and try to start Netscape, but I get the message ´can´t load library libXpm.so.4´. I have added the path to this lib in the environment variable LIBRARY_PATH but its still the same. I can´t find any readme or howtos which describes what env. variab. Netscape needs.

Re: [QUESTIONS] Using the same database on Linux and NT

1998-04-21 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Johann Spies wrote: Hallo, I use postgresql on linux and my colleage and our office uses NT. Is it possible make a postgresql-database available to the other two computers which does not operate on linux? I'd say the best way is to inter-connect them using