RE: Partitioning a drive with Windows 7 already installed

2010-10-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 00:24 +0200, Ogya Chief wrote: SNIP I have Win 7 home premium. I will find out what tools for partitioning/backup came with it and decide on my next course of action. Windows comes with a resizer: right click on my computer manage diskmanager. The next step

Re: question/answer website for user support: shapado.debian.net

2010-10-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 17:33 +0200, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 04. 10. 2010 17:07:51 je T o n g napisal(a): OMG, I hope that is NEVER possible. Why? Take a look at, or participate in ubuntu forum and you will know why. You'll get endless flood in nonsense replies, I agree, bump, etc etc,

Re: cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

2010-09-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 05:34 +, s. keeling wrote: Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com: For some reason, I don't have cpufreq scaling enabled: Well that's pretty damned sad. :-P I really don't get cpufreq* myself. Methinks it's far too young software. da...@dam-main:~$ sudo

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

2010-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 18:58 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20100925_233536, Aniruddha wrote: I have found some information at the link below. Apparently only mobile processors are supported. You could try: modprobe processor modprobe powernowd-k8

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

2010-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 22:37 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 18:58 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20100925_233536, Aniruddha wrote: I have found some information at the link below. Apparently only mobile processors are supported. You could try: modprobe

Re: Simplest and cheapest RAID

2010-09-16 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 16:14 +, T o n g wrote: Hi, How practical is to create a simplest and cheapest RAID, using 2 partitions on the same disk, combining them as a RAID drive? It is not practical at all since if you loose the drive, you loose both partition, thus defeating the purpose

Re: two sound card problems

2010-09-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 21:20 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Debain Sid. 2.6.32-5-amd64 lspci -l |grep -i audio: 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2) 05:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx

cpufreq not loaded in amd64?

2010-09-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
For some reason, I don't have cpufreq scaling enabled: da...@dam-main:~$ sudo powernowd -d PowerNow Daemon v1.00, (c) 2003-2008 John Clemens /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/affected_cpus: No such file or directory err=2Found 2 scalable units: -- 1 'CPU' per scalable unit

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 10:50 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: I have a Panasonic subnotebook (CF-R3) that has been functioning superbly for months under Squeeze with Xfce/gdm. It has an integrated Intel video system and a Japanese / English keyboard with which I have used the standard kernel

Re: Squeeze System Bricked after Software Upgrades 09/04

2010-09-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 13:31 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 09/04/2010 12:40 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: You could also try wicd-curses if that's installed, or use X with the vesa driver. Here's an /etc/X11/xorg.conf for that: --8---cut here---start-8---

two sound card problems

2010-09-02 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Debain Sid. 2.6.32-5-amd64 lspci -l |grep -i audio: 00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2) 05:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series] I actually stopped using Debian for about a year because of

Re: adding testing repositories

2010-09-02 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 20:40 -0500, tom wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 21:25 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 19:42 -0500, tom wrote: Is it recommended to add testing repositories to package list in Synaptic for lenny? Tom Not by me. See this: http

Re: Lenny?

2009-02-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
change etch to lenny in my sources.list to upgrade? Thanks, Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com Offically released Today, Sunday, February 15, 2009. -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 02 January 2009 13:20:05 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 11:22:39AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: had my Dell Vostro 1500 for one year now. No issues. I can run it for 5 or 6 hours on battery. As for price, I never buy anything $500 USD as you can boy three

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-02 Thread Damon L. Chesser
forwared, spend another $500 USD, and buy a slightly newer version. After three years you are greatly ahead in terms of $$ and, if you had to replace your cheap box, technology. Just my 2c worth. -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com 404-271-8691 Cell 678-401-8420 hm http://www.linkedin.com

Happy New Year

2008-12-31 Thread Damon L. Chesser
To all, I have enjoyed reading the many posts and solutions you have provided in the last year. May you all have a Happy New Year and thanks for the education. Sincerely, -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?

2008-12-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
, come over to my house and instruct me! See package xen-linux-system- -- Damon L. Chesser, VCP da...@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Creative Zen mp3 Player

2008-12-20 Thread Damon L. Chesser
it in and an icon is made on the desktop in the same way as a usb disk or cd. On my box, Rhythmbox opens up as well. So: I can use Rhythmbox to listen to my music or a file browser/cli to move recordings to it. Running Gnome/XFCE4 on testing. -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com 404-271-8691 Cell 678-401

Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2008-12-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 18 December 2008 22:24:40 Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008 22:15:40 Star Liu wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: On Thursday 2008 December 18 20:15:00 Star Liu wrote: I found

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
on what ever filesystem you are using. Fix any errors you find. [snip] -- To be, or not to be, those are the parameters. 01:45:01 up 1 day, 1:22, 1 user, load average: 1.71, 1.52, 1.17 Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com

Re: LVM reorganization

2008-12-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
] -- To be, or not to be, those are the parameters. 01:45:01 up 1 day, 1:22, 1 user, load average: 1.71, 1.52, 1.17 Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com 404-271-8691 Cell 678-401-8420 hm http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser

Re: how to install skype on debian sid amd64?

2008-12-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
dpkg --force-help dpkg --force-anything can bork your box. This did work on my box, it might not work on yours. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com 404-271-8691 Cell 678-401-8420 hm http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: cupsys installation

2008-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
you could always get the source and recompile it for your secure installation? Baring that, start trying the dpkg --force-depends-version and start installing the packages one by one until you have a working cupsys. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser

Re: Cannot get Etch installer to accept partitions -- success

2008-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
. xfs is real good at large files. There are no large files in /boot. Now, I suppose that TODAY a lot more rescue toys have xfs installed, so this might not be such a big deal. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser da...@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Micha Feigin wrote: Hello, Sorry for being a bit off topic but it's time for a new laptop that will run linux solely and I'm looking for recomendation on what has a good build quallity (will travel), descent battery life, although more important is good computing power and a good screen at 15.4

Re: new email test to debian user

2008-12-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 16:19 -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: sent 4:18 PM, EST 12/1/08 and I am subscribed to whitelist. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Testing for my rely. Sorry for the noise, there will be no more follow ups by me if this goes through 1/12/08 21:03 EST

Re: new email test to debian user

2008-12-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 13:34 +, Bob Cox wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 21:03:36 -0500, Damon L. Chesser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Testing for my rely. Sorry for the noise, there will be no more follow ups by me if this goes through 1/12/08 21:03 EST I think you mean 2/12/08

Re: new email test to debian user

2008-12-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 13:34 +, Bob Cox wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 21:03:36 -0500, Damon L. Chesser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Testing for my rely. Sorry for the noise, there will be no more follow ups by me if this goes through 1/12/08 21:03 EST I think you mean 2/12/08

Re: new email test to debian user

2008-12-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 16:19 -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: sent 4:18 PM, EST 12/1/08 and I am subscribed to whitelist. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Replying as requested by my hosted site. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

another new email test as requested by hosted provider

2008-12-03 Thread Damon L. Chesser
test, ignore, checking headers for relay time. sent 4:43 EST 12/3/08 -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

new email test to debian user

2008-12-02 Thread Damon L. Chesser
sent 4:18 PM, EST 12/1/08 and I am subscribed to whitelist. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

not all messages getting through to the list

2008-11-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
in email nor on the website lists.debian.org/debian-user resending to the list and the maintainer on November 28th, 12:08 EST USA -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

2008-11-27 Thread Damon L. Chesser
to clean it up and sort some things out, and that reduced it from 120GB to 117. I still haven't figured out what takes up so much space ... SNIP See package Filelight. Very useful to see where all your disk space is used and by what. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 23:23 -0700, green wrote: On Wed, 2008.11.19, 324, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:41 -0700, green wrote: On Tue, 2008.11.18, 323, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Lenny, I am not running that tool. What is overwriting my resolv.conf and how do I

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-21 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 02:13 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:50:09AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: ... Both run current Lenny. A pulls it's dns from what looks like my home router. B does not. I might have put that dns info there in the past, but if so, it does

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:41 -0700, green wrote: On Tue, 2008.11.18, 323, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Lenny, I am not running that tool. What is overwriting my resolv.conf and how do I keep the correct data while using static IP? Is the 'resolvconf' package installed? If so, the resolvconf

Re: resolv.conf issues

2008-11-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
This message has been sent twice. Resending it after changing the Subject to see if spam filters are hitting me. Was Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues. On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:41 -0700, green wrote: On Tue, 2008.11.18, 323, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Lenny, I am not running that tool

dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
that tool. What is overwriting my resolv.conf and how do I keep the correct data while using static IP? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to disable unused sound chip

2008-11-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:58 +1000, Bob wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 18:07 +0200, Juha Tuuna wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: ... How to I use udev (and hotplug?) to disable this unused ATI sound chip and to select my onboard Nvidia sound chip

how to disable unused sound chip

2008-11-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
sound card. How to I use udev (and hotplug?) to disable this unused ATI sound chip and to select my onboard Nvidia sound chip? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to disable unused sound chip

2008-11-04 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 18:07 +0200, Juha Tuuna wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: ... How to I use udev (and hotplug?) to disable this unused ATI sound chip and to select my onboard Nvidia sound chip? Try /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist Add the ATI module to the list, that should do

stupid nautilus question

2008-10-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
to work and it worked in XFCE. I stoped using XFCE due to massive memory leaking. How do you get that function working and if it does not work, what is the typing supposed to be for? It is much faster to typ /path then to use the point and click navigation. Don't make me go to KDE! -- Damon L

Re: stupid nautilus question

2008-10-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 22:24 +0100, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: On 18/10/08 16:15, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Here is a stupid nautilus question: you can open (in browser mode) nautilus and start typing, say, /usr/share/doc and a small window opens on the bottom right with your paty you

Re: New Disk: On to LVM?

2008-10-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
partitions here. Every time I do, the patitioner pukes (anaconda, DI, they all do). Wait until you have a system installed then edit fstab to add them. man LVM vg TAB TAB lv TAB TAB to see commands you can do. Google lvm tldp for the howto. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: live cd with lvm

2008-10-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
the unused extends to the small root: lvextend -l SOMEEXTENDSNUMBER /dev/VGName/LVName resize2fs /dev/VGName/LVName HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New Disk: On to LVM?

2008-10-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 23:26 +0200, Johannes wrote: On 2008-10-14 22:01, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Google lvm tldp for the howto. or just: # aptitude install doc-linux-html $ iceweasel /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/LVM-HOWTO/index.html Johannes Funny, never knew that! -- Damon

Compiling a Debian kernel The Debian Way

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
good (there is a bug against it: kernel-packaged eaten by bit rot). I have not kept up on current methods, I just stuck with one that worked. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Kerberos with LDAP backend / Replace active directory

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
question, but it is a start on getting an LDAP server up and running with kerberos authentication. Then you can work on the SAMBA part and plug in LDAP. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
=478062 kernel Ilpo Järvinen and two others on the kernel team were outstanding in terms of responses and assistance. They even said I would be listed for credit on testing the fix for the code. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Compiling a Debian kernel The Debian Way

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 17:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,11.Oct.08, 10:23:37, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [...] Is kernel-package still considered good (there is a bug against it: kernel-packaged eaten by bit rot). I have not kept up on current methods, I just stuck with one

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 18:25 +, Michael Perry wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:40:05 +0200, David Sanders wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: @dam-main:~$ uname -r 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware ii vmware-workstation

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-26 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Ah, that's the workstation. I was talking about the server. Hugo Yes, it is, but I have done server as well. Workstation is what I have installed now. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
products and work. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 10:12 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 07:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, VMware's vmserver 2 is out. Anybody figure out how to use wget to download it? Hugo KVM is out: http://www.ibm.com

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
/synaptic/dpkg to uninstall it. I have never (but once during a 25 kernel IIRC) had to use the famous any-any patch using this method. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 15:06 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 07:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, VMware's vmserver 2 is out. Anybody figure out how to use wget to download it? Hugo On another note, while I am on the subject

Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail

2008-09-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 18:28 -0400, David Sanders wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: @dam-main:~$ uname -r 2.6.26.cybo.2.0 @dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware ii vmware-workstation6.5.0-110069 VMware Workstation ii xserver-xorg

Re: howto post configure a debian installation

2008-09-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
, there is a tool called network-config that has a cli component. Man network-config. This can allow you to, in one command, set up your ethX with DNS, IP, GW, etc etc. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Odd question about CUPS

2008-09-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
/ipv4/frt0 I have no idea if this is the same issue, I am just guessing. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using projector on D630 (debian lenny+xfce)?

2008-09-06 Thread Damon L. Chesser
powered up the lappie and entered X first. Now, I don't know the version of xrandr in Lenny, so perhaps this will not work, but I think it will. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: nvidia twinview broken

2008-08-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
/HowToRandR12 Let us know what happens if you run xrandr --auto. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
of the above but that operation and number. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. -- Thomas Jefferson -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: diagram tool

2008-08-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 15:15 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Starting a contract job and I might need to diagram out the network, I know of diag, anything else out there? Well, Thanks for the replies. The program I remembered was not diag, but dia. I have looked at the ones listed

Re: diagram tool

2008-08-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 08:10 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Starting a contract job and I might need to diagram out the network, I know of diag, anything else out there? If you just need to draw the network, Kivio

Re: Migrate from AMD64 to i386

2008-08-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
. Jefferson LA USA Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. -- Thomas Jefferson -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in

2008-08-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
comes to be busy. So, if I add in fstab another line: /dev/sdb/mnt/sdb vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 , I can mount the pendrive on /mnt/sdb. But now I wish to use the UUID as normal user. Suggestions welcome. Bye Rodolfo -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Pendrive not mounted when another usb device is plugged in

2008-08-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
/mnt/sdb vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 , I can mount the pendrive on /mnt/sdb. But now I wish to use the UUID as normal user. Suggestions welcome. Bye Rodolfo -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 22:31 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: One of my active anti-goals is making aptitude the best package manager

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-09 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 01:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/07/08 23:42, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:56:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/07/08 20:20, s. keeling wrote: Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Damon L. Chesser
use EMACS as a front end. Sorry, I could not resist. I know, that would be the opposite of what you suggest you want to do. I am looking forward to test driving this new interface. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 16:23 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 07:00:52PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 06:58 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 03:11:39AM +0200, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I've

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-08 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 03:13 +0200, s. keeling wrote: Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 03:20 퍭㒲䞞阩먭磚, I think he was serious, and I agree with him. Do you want your access to the pkging system to be borked when X is borked? Especially in this nvidia crazed age

Re: Debian Sid first time user

2008-08-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
is, again, because of your limited bandwidth, no need to download all that stuff, only to have it upgraded and downloaded again and again. I hope this helps. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
better people (and dang it! People like me!) -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

diagram tool

2008-08-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Starting a contract job and I might need to diagram out the network, I know of diag, anything else out there? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
, but I'm sure that's a case of me training myself to use it... A And to be sure, I did not mean to rag on aptitude, only that I don't work the way it is meant to work. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
://n0nb.us/index.html -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 16:55 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Cousin Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008 Aug 07 16:38 -0500]: Ditto. I'm sure it's a fine program, but I, too, get lost

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 19:37 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Displeasure? Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to like? Perhaps exactly that. Simplicity sometimes means that advanced features are not available, or that you have to dig deep to be able

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 03:20 +0200, s. keeling wrote: Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 17:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/07/08 17:14, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Displeasure? Synaptic is brain dead simple, what's not to like? It's a GUI app

Re: Benefits (and risks) of using Sid

2008-08-07 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 20:11 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:12:45AM -0500, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Damon L. Chesser wrote: Sadly, I have NEVER used aptitude ncurses. Ever since the early days of Potato, when I tried to use it, I would get

Re: trouble HP SmartArray 6400

2008-07-28 Thread Damon L. Chesser
for server support. Failed HDs comprised about 80% of the job. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Paul's email is garbled for me

2008-07-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
the other US_locales did not fix the issue? Paul, would you respond to this thread just so I can test it out now? Thanks, -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Paul's email is garbled for me

2008-07-25 Thread Damon L. Chesser
, Damon L. Chesser wrote: snip -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: How to fix resolv.conf?

2008-07-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
this help? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system

2008-07-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 10:18 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-07-23 20:06, Damon L. Chesser wrote: All ready covered two emails ago. In a word, Yes. Oooops, sorry for not reading the thread careful enough. Notice I said ADVANCED options? I find killing the touchpad while

Re: How to fix resolv.conf?

2008-07-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
the lines: nameserver 193.70.152.25 nameserver 193.70.192.25 . How do you suggest I should edit /etc/network/interface? Thanks Rodolfo Rodolfo, I do not know what you need for PPP and we will have to wait for someone who knows to respond. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: my ip was previously banned at http://forums.debian.net/

2008-07-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
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Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
/home was in my 4G / partition and I ran out of room on the system when transferring all my must have data back into /home. This required me to test my emergency recovery skills in a single user log on. I hope this helps. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com

Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system

2008-07-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 09:29:59 pm Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 08:05:12 pm Celejar wrote: Hi, My xorg.conf files used to have sections such as these: Section InputDevice Identifier Synaptics Touchpad Driver synaptics

Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system

2008-07-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 01:48:45 pm Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-07-23 16:50, Damon L. Chesser wrote: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Synaptics_Touchpad http://johnny.chadda.se/2007/08/12/speed-up-your-synaptics-touchpad-in-ub untu/ http://johnny.chadda.se/2007/08/12/disable

Re: Linux on Dell Inspiron 1720?

2008-07-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
. http://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-desktops HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: ping

2008-07-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 05:13:41 pm Preston Boyington wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: snipped It appears that something blocked my l.d.o email for about 16 hours. It's all flowing now, though. maybe you need a gmail account... :D or perhaps a real OS like Vista? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL

Re: Problems getting Etch in France

2008-07-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
://cdimage.debian.org Where's the problem? Regards, Andrei I also do not get the distress? Download the CDs. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: The (New?) xorg configuration system

2008-07-22 Thread Damon L. Chesser
/index.php?title=Synaptics_Touchpad http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Seg fault

2008-07-20 Thread Damon L. Chesser
is killing slypheed. HTH -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: nvidia-glx or xserver-xorg (was Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace)

2008-07-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
You need Load glx in your xorg and you do not need 'Disable dri after all Thanks anyway -Mathieu Glad you got it up and running. -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
an external monitor on there laptop. What is your proposed use? Perhaps someone here can give you info? -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [OT] Looking for a Debian based Linux distro

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
has a jumpdrive install option. http://manual.sidux.com/en/hd-install-opts-en.htm -- Damon L. Chesser [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Friday 18 July 2008 12:32:29 pm Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Friday 18 Jul 2008 20:07:51 Damon L. Chesser wrote: Truly I don't know.  My desktop has two monitors (Nvidia driver).  I have yet to try to connect a monitor to my laptop, but I bet it will work.  I have wondered about

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