Need help setting up a home LAN

2011-05-02 Thread Paul E Condon
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-user-requ

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 router was set up was insufficient

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 email): Please upgrade to a version 4

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

2011-04-25 Thread Paul E Condon
in advance for your help. Cedric -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Procmail question/puzzle

2011-04-24 Thread Paul E Condon
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? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt

2011-04-22 Thread Paul E Condon
-- 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/20110422152426.ga18...@big.lan.gnu

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

2011-04-20 Thread Paul E Condon
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 will be interesting to me and might be really useful to OP. -- Paul E Condon

Re: Why does Linux crash?

2011-04-19 Thread Paul E Condon
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

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

2011-04-18 Thread Paul E Condon
/alpine.bsf.2.00.1104180523180.37...@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg -- 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

Re: arbitrary disk name assignment affects dump/restore

2011-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
is /home etc.)? This is likely to make your system un-bootable. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
.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...@mesanetworks.net

Re: Procmailrc question

2011-04-17 Thread Paul E Condon
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 get email from my ISP, exim4 to send outgoing email to my

Re: Segmentation fault with iceape, etc.

2011-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
with iceweasel in wheezy, *but* I am using Xfce, not KDE. (I don't use either iceape or icedove, so can't offer info on them) HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

[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 pecon...@mesanetworks.net - Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 20:51:59 -0600 From: Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: question about bind9 from a clueless paranoid Message-ID: 20110407025159.ga4...@big.lan.gnu

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 answering queries from outside my network

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 something has happened, but I find nothing

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

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

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 when

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) business card CD. When I select

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 adzapper,

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 adzapper. adzapper is a filter for squid

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

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

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' adzapper. This involves giving the IP

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

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

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 iceweasel, on

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

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

2011-03-19 Thread Paul E Condon
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/May-2006/msg00372.html HTH -- Paul E Condon

help controlling beep in wheezy gnome desktop

2011-03-16 Thread Paul E Condon
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: 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 pecon...@mesanetworks.net 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.) Where is the control

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

2011-03-16 Thread Paul E Condon
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 subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

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

2011-03-16 Thread Paul E Condon
that no interested party can discover a deception. Thanks for all the work you have put into Debian, and for being so very patient with us paranoids ;-0 -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

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 pecon...@mesanetworks.net 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 software

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

2011-03-10 Thread Paul E Condon
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, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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 eual...@gmail.com 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 package in Squeeze/testing. The fix

repository 'debports' help needed

2011-03-05 Thread Paul E Condon
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.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org

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
will perceive the rapid depth change without benefit of binocular 3d. -- 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

Re: approx for new netinst installation

2011-01-30 Thread Paul E Condon
with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110129230759.gd2...@rlharris.org -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: fields in files

2011-01-30 Thread Paul E Condon
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/20110130215903.gb19...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Where are xrandr settings stored?

2011-01-23 Thread Paul E Condon
re-initialized on boot, but I don't know. Short of that, I suppose something can be written into the boot rom. But that seems harder to do than something involving creative (crazy?) use of swap space. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

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 machines), I can open a bug report on this. I have

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 pecon...@mesanetworks.net 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 reformatting any swap partitions

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

2010-12-21 Thread Paul E Condon
this reminds me of the old saying, Real programmers write code in octal. -- 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

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

2010-12-20 Thread Paul E Condon
installer team can do anything about. That's outside of their jurisdiction. But many Ubuntu people, both users and developers, are known to monitor Debian's lists. Let's hope that some of the right people are listening. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-17 Thread Paul E Condon
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.org with a subject

Re: Оффшоpы, онш opы и eвpoпейские кoмпaнии

2010-12-16 Thread Paul E Condon
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 kind of thing. HFH (hope for help) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Question about pam.d

2010-12-07 Thread Paul E Condon
' 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.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101207142048

Re: Extremely large level 1 backups with dump

2010-12-02 Thread Paul E Condon
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 pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

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

2010-11-30 Thread Paul E Condon
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...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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

2010-11-30 Thread Paul E Condon
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. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101201055544.gc2...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Atomic operations

2010-11-20 Thread Paul E Condon
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...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Off topic question about grep

2010-11-09 Thread Paul E Condon
the official grep implmenters definition. I found '\' in 'man grep' under 'The Backslash Character and Special Expressions' HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

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

2010-10-19 Thread Paul E Condon
, 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 unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

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 on user configurable BIOS settings

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

2010-09-25 Thread Paul E Condon
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, email to debian-user

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

2010-09-25 Thread Paul E Condon
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

Re: testing install grub install loop

2010-09-12 Thread Paul E Condon
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...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100913045255.ga2

How does Squeeze initialize PS1 ?

2010-08-20 Thread Paul E Condon
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: newbie intro

2010-08-14 Thread Paul E Condon
user. What do you find puzzling or confusing. Discover the bug tracking system. Make bug reports about what you find. The bug tracking system has categories for documentation, wishes, etc. There is a special category just for reports about doing the install. -- Paul E Condon pecon

Re: newbie intro

2010-08-14 Thread Paul E Condon
of the installation guide that cover dual booting. -- 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/20100814230104.gb30

Re: dosfslabel linux-base grub mess

2010-07-31 Thread Paul E Condon
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 unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Shell Expansion in Bourne Shell Script Question

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

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

2010-07-27 Thread Paul E Condon
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 granted the necessity of having UPS first. Peace. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net

Re: What's with Gnome not logging out?

2010-07-26 Thread Paul E Condon
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 unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: What's with Gnome not logging out?

2010-07-26 Thread Paul E Condon
-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...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Installing Squeeze i386

2010-07-23 Thread Paul E Condon
. 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, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Dash shell documentation

2010-07-11 Thread Paul E Condon
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 What is up-stream's web site? TIA -- Paul E Condon

Re: [info] grub2

2010-07-10 Thread Paul E Condon
at gnu.org directly after its first mention (which is in the History section of your document) -- 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

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 pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20100710_103920, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Camale?n noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 17:27:03 -0400, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-04 Thread Paul E Condon
, it's not ATA_NCQ_HORKAGE but rather ATA_HORKAGE_NONCQ. No real foul. I'm just correcting the record for the various archives. -- Stan -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

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 I was involved in this confusion at an earlier stage. I'm still confused

Re: SATA disk detected as IDE? SOLVED

2010-07-01 Thread Paul E Condon
listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4c2c23ff.7010...@hardwarefreak.com -- 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

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
xterm.) -- 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/20100624191629.gf3...@big.lan.gnu

Re: Understanding LVM UUIDS

2010-06-24 Thread Paul E Condon
the fs is originally created. But it can also be set to a user designated (non-random?) value by tune2fs -U UUID device. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: debian architecture history question

2010-06-15 Thread Paul E Condon
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debian architecture history question

2010-06-11 Thread Paul E Condon
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
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businesscard CD as rescue CD Tutorial?

2010-05-31 Thread Paul E Condon
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. -- Paul E Condon

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

2010-05-30 Thread Paul E Condon
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? -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Evolution email question.

2010-05-21 Thread Paul E Condon
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 wrong places. -- Paul E Condon

Re: Moving a drive to another computer

2010-05-19 Thread Paul E Condon
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 wracking if you don't have to worry about losing the pix. HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon

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

2010-05-06 Thread Paul E Condon
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Re: GRUB2 resolution

2010-05-05 Thread Paul E Condon
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...@mesanetworks.net

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: asignar hora a PC

2010-04-28 Thread Paul E Condon
of the more lucid inmates are allowed access to the computers and internet. Whatever the real reason, Camaleon seems to have exhausted the publicly available options for communication. I thank him. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

2010-04-25 Thread Paul E Condon
with difficult concepts, like telephones and dialing a telephone number. Who remembers dialing? Where did that word come from? ;-) -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: problem with USB external hard disk My Book 1110

2010-04-20 Thread Paul E Condon
of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bce53ca.5010...@teaser.fr -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

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

2010-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
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.debian.org with a subject

Re: C programming question

2010-04-14 Thread Paul E Condon
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. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100414143126.gb22...@big.lan.gnu

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 the judges were most surprised on seeing

Re: Trunk Kernel

2010-04-13 Thread Paul E Condon
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 listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100413155235.gn10

Re: Google repositories

2010-04-12 Thread Paul E Condon
; it is a downloader for googleearth that installs it in a Debianly-Correct way. I like the convenience, but if Google repository is down or moved, the package has little chance of working successfully. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

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 pecon...@mesanetworks.net 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

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. What other options are there for external

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: kernel: [78454.939948] journal commit I/O error

Re: About USB hard drives and errors

2010-04-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100410_092044, Clive McBarton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon wrote: dumpe2fs -b device is supposed to print the bad blocks that have been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find it hard to believe that a 500GB HD contains

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 device is supposed to print the bad blocks that have been marked on a device. When I run it, it prints nothing. I find

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 pecon...@mesanetworks.net 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 somewhat different

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