dual head on asus laptop

2008-02-19 Thread Rich Healey
). Cheers Rich Healey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install KDE 4 to lenny?

2008-02-24 Thread Rich Healey
-Priority: 900 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 499 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 501 I'm sure that with tweaking the Package: directive could be made better for kde4, but this works for me. Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Habashy wrote: i agree - this issue seems to be affecting a couple oof other things on the server as well. For instance, on the xconsole screen..it lets me login and then bounces me back out. I uninstalled gdm package, i am left iwth

Re: Unable to su as a user, I get: Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

2008-02-25 Thread Rich Healey
, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Habashy wrote: i agree - this issue seems to be affecting a couple oof other things on the server as well. For instance, on the xconsole screen..it lets me login and then bounces me back out. I uninstalled gdm package, i am left iwth kde ---when

C Compiler cannot create executables

2008-02-26 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think i did something stupid accidentally apt-get dist-upgrade'd for the first time in 6 months with a compile going in the background, and now when i go to build E the autogen script tells me that gcc can't create executables...? What else CAN it

Re: Debian nice looking desktop (XGL, KDE or ??)

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frenchguy wrote: Hello, Im really new on Debian and I'm looking for a nice Desktop GUI, sort of XGL or anything looking good. I've seen people imitating Vista look, these are nice as well... But for Debian running on Sparc (Sun Ultra T1120,

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
that yes, i think a mascot is a good idea. Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHxjdnLeTfO4yBSAcRAtyAAJ9yNiqQ2Mu3THNPnCDHkMH125GKzACgqFuM /QXDDE+8QLNz+LfHulJjszI= =yW1O -END PGP

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: ... Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, even though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then only using firefox to check email, hardly

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-02-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:22:01AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'd rather the same effort be put into the things that give Debian its uniqueness in the first place. Maybe I'm a snob on the sysadmin/programmer end of

Re: replace cpu on debian etch

2008-02-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/28/08 13:51, Rick Dooling wrote: I am not a hardware person. I have an old AMD Athlon XP chip 2700 that just quit working (I think) on an ASUS A7V8X motherboard. If I replace with any socket A Athlon, say, a 2600,

My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes life much easier, i can't find anythign to make iit do this, but i';m guessing it's possible. Cheers Rich -BEGIN PGP

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/28/08 19:39, Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu February 28 2008 05:19:38 pm Rich Healey wrote: Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes life much

Re: My own emails

2008-02-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:55:27 +1100 Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Rich, Ah cheers, i'll dig through gmail's settings and see if i can get it sorted out. You'll find nothing. Google insist this is a feature

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool]

2008-03-03 Thread Rich Healey
---BeginMessage--- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/02/08 19:19, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:03:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: If you happen to be using GNOME (God's own DE), then file-roller will do just fine. Simply fire up

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-03 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hhding wrote: Any method to redirect any fd to the pipe? Not only stdout,stderr. Chris Henry wrote: Hi, You can use tee. e.g. ./configure | tee filename Chris On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Luis Maceira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How

Re: Basic bash question.

2008-03-03 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 joseph lockhart wrote: Luis Maceira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I see all the messages generated by a bash command (configure make make install, for example) to standard output(computer screen), and at the same time make sure that all is

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-04 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: My wife loves hers. But be warned, DON'T spill liquid on the keyboard. My daughter accidentally spilled a glass of water, some of which (I don't know how much) hit the keyboard. I have heard

Re: My own emails

2008-03-04 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:37:29 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/29/08 15:14, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:36:11 + Brad Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-04 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owen Townend wrote: On 3/5/08, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: My wife loves hers. But be warned, DON'T spill liquid on the keyboard. My daughter accidentally spilled a glass of water

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Lyons wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:09:34PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owen Townend wrote: Staying off-topic :) Naming schemes wise - Good idea with the bond girls. My VM names

Re: Keyboard usage analyzer

2008-03-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Nelson Castillo wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Raj Kiran Grandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any utility that can report keyboard usage patterns? There is no need for an elaborate keylogging mechanism. I

Re: Etch -- Upgrading X.Org to 7.2

2008-03-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: On Wed March 5 2008 08:24:33 Carlos Parada wrote: I don't find X.Org 7.2 on Backports. Is there any other way of upgrading X.Org but keeping Debian Stable distro? The library versions in Lenny are different, so you're unlikely

Re: Probably very stupid script/bash question

2008-03-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Pursell wrote: I couldn't find the correct place to interject this question in the thread, so I fairly randomly selected this location... As far as I can tell, the following 4 commands should all behave the same, but the last one hangs.

Re: uninstall vmware-player

2008-03-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hce wrote: Hi, I tried to uninstalled a vmware-player, but got following errors: # ./vmware-uninstall.pl Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Player. Unable to find the tar installer database file (/etc/vmware/locations) Execution

Re: Control-C kills interactive bash

2008-03-05 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:58:21PM +1300, Lesley Walker wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/05/08 17:39, Lesley Walker wrote: After upgrading from Sarge to Etch, I have this problem, Ctrl-C kills the current

Re: Help booting up Debian

2008-03-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 michael mozenko wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Debian. I am a first time user but Linux sounds great and I want to try it out. I have already partitioned my hard drive to accept the new OS, and I downloaded the “alpha” version of

Re: Help booting up Debian

2008-03-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Friday 07 March 2008 00:30, Rich Healey wrote: michael mozenko wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Debian. I am a first time user Thanks in advance, Michael Mozenko What archtype are you using? if you don't

Re: foxconn arch, should been specific

2008-03-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregg Jansen van Vuren wrote: for this architecture, which debian package? yeah i shoudl,ve been more specific, my pc specs are basically foxconn mb -doesn't matter you say. intel pentium 4 3.00ghz processor, radeon ati video card,

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: On 04/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: watts, with 32MB ram, at a frequency in the FM band? Your CPU runs at a frequency in the FM band? That's the funniest thing I've ever heard! I am going to recycle that

kmplayer has dodgy colour

2008-03-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've moved most of my machines from mandriva to debian, hada few hitches, but god move i think. however, my debian lenny laptop has waaay overdone contrast when playing any media (dvd, file etc) It seems to have too much yellow also, but i'm not

Re: kmplayer has dodgy colour

2008-03-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Fox wrote: On 3/8/08, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: however, my debian lenny laptop has waaay overdone contrast when playing any media (dvd, file etc) I haven't noticed anything like that. I run lenny, on a desktop, Nvidia FX5200

Re: kmplayer has dodgy colour

2008-03-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Fox wrote: On 3/8/08, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nope, vlc looks fine.. should i get kmplayer from the debian multimedia? Minor correction - kmplayer is indeed from debian testing repo here. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ apt-cache

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-09 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owen Townend wrote: On 3/7/08, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 05:55:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Correct. I don't OC over every bit of trivia. However... If I were 20yo, and my case were a not-seen-in-nature

Iceweasel does not use JRE

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have the jre installed apt, or at least i think i do [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l *jre* ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-==- ii sun-java6-jre 6-04-2

Re: Iceweasel does not use JRE

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:59:54 +1100 Jaime Tarrant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Healey wrote: I have the jre installed apt, or at least i think i do [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg -l *jre* ||/ Name VersionDescription

Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
to remove all the xserver-xorg* packages despite deps, and then just using apt to isntall the testing ones, then apt-get check? Good idea, bad idea, suicide? This is my work machine so my usual tolerance for breaking stuff in the persuit of knowledge is suspended. Cheers Rich Healey -BEGIN

Re: Iceweasel does not use JRE

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/10/08 21:17, Rich Healey wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/10/08 19:24, Rich Healey wrote: [snip] I found this (http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#Java) it's exactly what i needed. But you don't have to do that. I

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 postid wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: For the second time in a month I got an error message indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually. I've had bad inodes before not long after a

Re: Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/10/08 19:37, Rich Healey wrote: Last night while bored and reading this list I saw that many use the unstable version of Xorg on testing systems, and so I decided to do this as well. Works fine, well in fact, except

Re: Downgrading Xorg

2008-03-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 But wouldn't that also remove every X application i haven't built from source as well, due to dependencies? Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/10/08 23:54, Rich Healey wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/10/08 19:37, Rich Healey wrote: Last night while bored

Re: Games on a Redmond virtual machine.

2008-03-11 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nuno Magalhães wrote: Greetings, enjoy your breakfast. I have a 20GB partiiton with an OS that i seldom ever use. When i do, it's to play games. My board's an Asus M2NPV-VM which has an onboard nVidia GeForce 6150. The thing is i'm gonna

Re: Migrating from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5 in Etch

2008-03-11 Thread Rich Healey
i just recommend building the latest from source, or at least using lenny's or Sid's for any kind of development. Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH1xoVLeTfO4yBSAcRAtbvAKDNR

Re: ssh to Vmware linux on a MS Window machine

2008-03-11 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hce wrote: Hi, Can my debian box ssh to a Vmware linux on a MS Window machine? Both debian box and the Window in the same subnet, I can ping the Window IP address, but I cannot ping the Vmware linux IP address from my debian box. How can I fix

Re: acpid

2008-03-13 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Byron Watkins wrote: I am running Debian testing on amd64. About a week ago acpid began reporting an error status whenever I apt-get upgrade or use synapsis from gnome: Setting up acpid (1.0.4-7.1) ... Loading ACPI modules Starting

Re: DCHP

2008-03-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cassiel wrote: Hi you all, I am a LAN member and I am experiencing a strange behaviour with dchp ip renewal. Every time I restart my Lenny I obtain a new ip addr from one of the 2 dhcp servers. We have a 1 month lease on this servers and this

Enigmail not compatible with icedove?

2008-03-15 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just copied all my settings accross from thunderbird on this machine (debian, but icedove installed a 1.5.x with apt, so i just build thunderbird from the mozilla repos) to my other debian machine, (just installed icedove, 2.0.0.9, like this

Re: Enigmail not compatible with icedove?

2008-03-15 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/15/08 09:06, Rich Healey wrote: I just copied all my settings accross from thunderbird on this machine (debian, but icedove installed a 1.5.x with apt, so i just build thunderbird from the mozilla repos) to my other debian

Re: KDM not working

2008-03-16 Thread Rich Healey
entrance (www.enlightenment.org) If you want to use kdm, can you start it from a shell, and then send us the debug output? what exactly does it do? You need to be more specific than it doesn't work to get useful replies. Cheers Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:57:27AM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: Second enlightenment! It's worth noting that enlightenment is not a DE, (they call it a desktop shell), but really it's so much more, because it is whatever

libgconf2 dependencies..

2008-03-17 Thread Rich Healey
unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.20.1-3 0 500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au lenny/main Packages [xenia:/home/richo]# Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

[OT] VT's

2008-03-17 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/17/08 22:24, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 17 March 2008 06:33:37 pm Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/17/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] My dad would be quite at home in front of my VT520; he hasn't been here since I

Re: libgconf2 dependencies..

2008-03-18 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:32:00AM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: I can't upgrade a lot of packages (perl for one) because apt says that: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgconf2-4: Depends: gconf2

Re: Unpredictable drive naming with multiple SATA controllers

2008-03-18 Thread Rich Healey
if this is not what you meant. Regards rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH4GH1LeTfO4yBSAcRAuqgAKDXp64CX/JUIdghjKNZ6aiMwHCGGwCbBAKC BIIpAeP32FgVMTqTufDP21g= =LMYh -END PGP SIGNATURE

Limit X tunnelling

2008-03-18 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, on one of my etch machines that heaps of people have access to (via samba within my house and shells over the web) i want to limit X tunnelling to those people on my lan. One solution would be to limit it to the 192.168.0.0/24 subnet, which i

Re: LCD screen flickering

2008-03-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ji ZhengYu wrote: Johan Marklund wrote: Ji ZhengYu skrev: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Andrea Ferraresi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:54 +0800, Ji ZhengYu wrote: Hi, everyone I used a toshiba laptop on

Tunnel iceweasel?

2008-03-23 Thread Rich Healey
iceweasel at the bash prompt, which takes forever, but then finally *opens a local iceweasel!!!* Why would it do this?! Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

[OT] N73

2008-03-23 Thread Rich Healey
to draw a circuit. in my circuit there is one micro controller PIC16F877A. any suggestion of a good software. i am using debian unstable with GNOME.. thanks.. Hi Alphonse, I have a N73 also, do you just use the default mail client to read the list? Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP

ATI all in wonder 9600

2008-03-24 Thread Rich Healey
testing) it was a really simple aticonfig option, but i've tried all the obvious ones. Any help appreciated. Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH6GIeLeTfO4yBSAcRAmVmAJ0TEY

Re: dual boot install from debian 4.0r1 net install cdrom

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Channon wrote: michael wrote: i've just used the default and expertgui debian net install and there is an option for manually controlling the partitioning process Yes *is* there but perhaps not clearly enough. Maybe this will be

Re: Tunnel iceweasel?

2008-03-26 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joost Witteveen wrote: On 24/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:46:56AM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: On 23/03/2008, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to tunnel an iceweasel

Re: iBook multimedia keys and KDE

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, I recently switched from GNOME to KDE on my iBook G4, but don't know how to get the multimedia keys working. They worked fine under GNOME, but under KDE only the monitor brightness keys work, albeit with no visual

open-ssh keypair Auth

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
machine, my gentoo box and etch desktop, it still asks for my password. Ideas? Thanks guys Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH7C+ELeTfO4yBSAcRAgexAKCaIOucQg+MLhWI6CowUF+93bfXjQCbBA9M

Re: open-ssh keypair Auth

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff D wrote: Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i've got a whole bunch of linux machines (mainly debian, with etch, testing, sid, and a frankenstein machine with mental pinning). Keypairs work fine except

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:46:43PM -0600, Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Was 10.1 bad? I wouldn't know. I went straight from 10.0, which was a fairly decent system, to 10.3. Although, the day I read

Re: open-ssh keypair Auth

2008-03-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonnel Christophe wrote: I had a similar problem several months ago. I go to /etc/ssh/ssh_config (on your franskenstein machine, not the server) and verify that you have PasswordAuthentication no Hope this helps Christophe Rich Healey

[OT] Old Laptop

2008-03-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:38:32PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: 9.2 was the only version i ever used (and didn't totally hate), it was the only distro that everything worked off the bat with my ancient laptop, debian with 99

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: snipped Where are your bottlenecks? currently my two biggest bottlenecks are with the networking and the MTA. i installed ifplugd

Re: number of users accessing a wireless network

2008-03-30 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: My current network configuration is ISP -- wireless router --- comp1 --- comp2 --- comp3 The wireless router is wrt54g. The computers might be running Debian, M$

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: I am cleaning our $HOME and I was wondering what these directories and files are: ~/.fullcircle/ (I know it is the mozilla feedback agent. I use Tbird and Firefox. Can I erase this anyway?) ~/.java/ (java is a system-wide

Re: how to reset desktop env. config?

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: paragasu wrote: AFAIK, you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can login just fine. One has

Re: [OT Tangent to the plane] Elitism...

2008-04-03 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Walters wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: | On 04/03/08 19:19, Chris Walters wrote: | Ron Johnson wrote: | | On 04/03/08 15:39, Ivan Savcic wrote: | | On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | snip | | That

Remove package from apt's db

2008-04-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've installed skype, had to force it to ignore dependencies (long story.. anyway, i do have qt4's libs, and skype does work) But now apt won't upgrade, it complains about skype's missing libs. Can i remove skype from apt's db without removing it?

Re: Remove package from apt's db

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:47:44AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: I've installed skype, had to force it to ignore dependencies (long story.. anyway, i do have qt4's libs, and skype does work) I would NOT remove skype from

Re: grep trick

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: On Mon April 7 2008 16:03:28 Chris Bannister wrote: export GREP_COLOR=33 alias grep='grep --colour=always' This will break any scripts which assume that the output of grep has not been annotated with color escape sequences.

Re: vncserver automation

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Pazarena wrote: I am having trouble getting vncserver to automatically start after a reboot. It seems that setting a script in rc.5 doesn't work. signing on to the CLI after a boot, and it starts up fine. (executing vncserver on the CLI as

Re: TR: How to verify package integrity after they have been downloaded?

2008-04-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [Redirecting to debian-user, because this has nothing to do with debian-security] Julien Stuby wrote on 2008-04-07 22:15: Please try not to break threads. Julien Stuby wrote on 2008-04-7 at 21:54 UTC+1 : No

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/10/08 13:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:04:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/06/08 15:51, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008 05:03:13 am Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/06/08 02:20, Nate Duehr

Re: Read-only root (/) except /et

2008-04-13 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Digby Tarvin wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:30:55PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: snip The trouble is that isn't really true. As long as you have standard utilities like 'passwd' and 'chsh' normal users can cause the root filesystem to be

Re: migrating to 64 bit...

2008-04-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: Could one easily upgrade to an amd64 system just by formating /, reinstalling with the proper arch, and then reinstalling all the apps that were installed and

Re: checking life of battery?

2008-04-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 1) Is there any way to check the life of a battery on a Dell Inspiron 6400 E1505? I am using Debian Etch. 2) How to find out the number of cells in the battery? The manual says it can be 6-cell smart lithium ion or

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:23:57AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: I strongly agree, and this knowledge is portable. All of the *nix tools, including shell, perl, and python, rely on regex understanding. One can get along

Re: External IP

2008-04-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Glidewell wrote: On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:12:41 pm Rafael Fontenelle wrote: I can see that you're running behind a router or something similar. If you want to use a shell script to return the IP to the stdout, you could probably use 'curl'.

Re: External IP

2008-04-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael asked for source.. So my stroke of genius follows... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ cat ip.php ?PHP print ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-16 Thread Rich Healey
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008 Jul 15 21:21 -0500]: In 1990? Seems like it would have been a close-out deal. I bought it from a friend at the tech school I was attending. That computer served me very well for several years. Leading Edge D? Nope. No name

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Rich Healey
H.S. wrote: Hello, Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used it for a few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for students back then. This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual machines installed) and wanted to reinstall the new

[OT] Move IMAP Mail

2008-07-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a quick question, I just got an iPhone, and want to hook against my gmail account, but as it stands i need to have thunderbird running to filter all my mail so i don't get all my listmail in my inbox on my phone. Gmail's filters/labels don't

Re: [OT] Move IMAP Mail

2008-07-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Rich Healey escreveu: I have a quick question, I just got an iPhone, and want to hook against my gmail account, but as it stands i need to have thunderbird running to filter all my mail so i don't get all my listmail

Re: installing a package from lenny on an etch machine...

2008-08-02 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mumia W.. wrote: On 08/01/2008 12:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: [...] As you can see, the doc package installed OK, but the server package needs a later version of some basic C libraries. I'd rather not upgrade the Etch machine to Lenny right now.

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-11 Thread Rich Healey
). Perhaps he gathers some information on the clandestine party, perhaps he helps them come to justice. Perhaps nothing bad happens! He's behind a nat gateway, and long before he's offering services, his box needs to become publically routable ;) - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: need help with cc

2008-08-23 Thread Rich Healey
That's a CompSci 101 mistake. Erm.. I believe he was blaming the coder :P - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net- #hbh #admins richohealey irc.freenode.org - #hbh #debian

Re: favor needed by debian beginner

2008-09-03 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: favor needed by debian beginner Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:33:55 +0300 [Your question belongs to debian-user, so I'm Cc'ing there]

Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-04 Thread Rich Healey
. You can also pass init=/bin/sh to the kernel and work your way up fom there.. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net- #hbh #admins richohealey irc.freenode.org - #hbh

[OT] Debian Sig

2008-09-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've seen a ASCII art sig on this list, of the debian swirl.. but can't nut out what to google to find it! If anyone's got it that'd be great.. Cheers Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer

Re: [OT] Debian Sig

2008-09-11 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [[Sorry Bob, hit the wrong reply button!]] Bob Cox wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:49:53 +1000, Rich Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've seen a ASCII art sig on this list, of the debian

Re: reply-to-list for icedove? was Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

2008-09-11 Thread Rich Healey
with Icedove here. https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/thunderbird/addon/4455 It is considered experimental on Mozilla website I just noticed, but never had a problem with it. Tom OOOh thanks! That's brilliant :D - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] Debian Sig

2008-09-18 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Cox wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 16:43:06 +1000, Rich Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=debian+logo+ascii+art leads to: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/07/msg00686.html

Re: Is Novel Suse not friendly to real linux world? and how about Red hat and Debian?

2008-09-19 Thread Rich Healey
to support/implement Debian systems. 3. Shall Debian follow the way of Red hat to have a nonfree enterprise edition? 4. Do Debian has the danger of IP lawsuits created by microsoft? Knowing what you'd read to lead you to these conclusions would be handy. Regards Rich Healey - -- Rich

Re: Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x - impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Rich Healey
, Peter. Why exactly do you want to use the Etch kernel? - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : /[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 \ `. `' / [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x - impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Van Biesen wrote: Because you can't use a newer kernel as a xen dom0 kernel. The only working dom0 kernel ( at the moment ) is a 2.6.18 afaik. Kindest regards, Peter. On Tuesday 30 September 2008 13:48:10 Rich Healey wrote: Peter

Re: need help on configing alsa in sarge

2008-10-05 Thread Rich Healey
? Possibly, but you'd need to check that there were no changes between then configuration settings (uie, added removed features). Can I ask why you're using Sarge still? In a month or so it will be 2 releases old! Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer

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