Re: Laptop Recommendations?

getting a laptop without paying for Windows when you order from EmperorLinux (unless things have changed). But on the plus side I was able to make my paid-for Window$ license work for me in a VMWare virtual machine that I can fire up on this laptop if I really need to. Thanks, Rick Reynolds

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 February 2007 13:52, Rick Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: It's probably worth getting a larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a dual boot option just so you can verify

ifconfig reports weird IP addr

with the udev renaming. So what's going on here? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- Thorin Oakenshield -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Lost Sheep and Networking

you can run it under Debian if you'd like. Respond back to the list (or me personally) if you'd like the source code. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom. -- Gandalf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

issue, it's just the Linux machines that have this goofy offset problem. I wish I could tell you I've found a solution... :( Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Machines should work. People should think. -- Richard Hamming -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

etch laptop system logs me out during inactivity (X crash?)

etch system is pretty current, and 'X -version' reports version 7.1.1. I'm also running kernel 2.6.17. Anyone else seeing this? Anyone found the problem? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom. -- Gandalf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: vmware on debian etch

Hmm... I've been using vmware workstation for over a year in testing (was sarge, then etch -- I think, not sure of the release dates). The standard installation scripts they provided have worked for me each time. Never played with server, though... Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Released in 1996

Re: sony sucks

to see them go. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -- Terry Pratchett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: painful accidental Xorg upgrade

settings as xorg moves up in version number. The amount of things that are automatic now is much larger than when I was running XFree86. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- There are many shades of 12. -- Glenn Beck Jim McCloskey wrote: * Justin Piszcz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | did you add

Re: Starting up network interfaces conditionally

something similar. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. -- Woody Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Diskless Debian

Casey Tucker wrote: Rick Reynolds wrote: I'm doing nearly the same thing: WRT54GS router, but I'm running the DD-WRT distro on it. It has the ability to do what you're talking about, namely mount an NFS partition at boot time and then read firewalling rules from a file

Re: MP3 resampling

this via mp3info -- use it to query the tags on the original mp3, then assign them to the new one. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Released in 1996, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 cemented the product as the first choice of buggy front-ends to databases everywhere. In fact, if you wanted a buggy front-end

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

That's your problem. aptitude sucks. Interesting claim. I thought I was finally getting into Debian Power User mode when I switched from apt-get to aptitude. What are the weaknesses of aptitude that make you say the above? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- I had a dream that I was eating my

Re: mini-DV with sd-card

in getting the video off it via firewire and being able to process it in kino. I'm using Debian Testing, but I see you've verified that all the pieces are available in Sarge. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Hey, this is the government. You just can't expect five 9s -- Chief Justice, on the Gore/Bush

Re: thinkpad value for money?

. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought -- Henry Bergson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Diskless Debian

on the NFS partition. I found a HOWTO on a blog out there showing me how to set this up, but then I figured out a slightly better way to do it. But it's certainly possible with DD-WRT without having to reinvent that wheel... Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same

Re: Will VNC run on a laptop with 32MB? What to do with OLD laptop?

still working out a few kinks (like getting the mouse pointer either to disappear or move off the screen automatically), but my first set of results look very promising. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason

update loses prism54 firmware

like to get this into the right spot so that a future upgrade doesn't toss the file again. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done -- Scott Adams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Replying to list

company! Oh well... Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Win95 is not a virus; a virus does something. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VPN / PPTP

is whether the Debian binary kernels have the MPPE compiled in or not. But if you were going to compile your own kernel anyway, I know that you don't need to apply any special patches to get MPPE working if you're using the Debian Linux source packages. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- There is no reason

Re: VMware free server beta

snappily on my Intel PentiumM 1.8 GHz laptop. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Hey, this is the government. You just can't expect five 9s -- Chief Justice, on the Gore/Bush election's narrow margin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: eth* devices (again)

(still not sure why that was the case) 2. attempted to rename eth* devices with poorly chosen names. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- I say to all you criminals out there: Knock off all that evil! -- The Tick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

eth* devices (again)

can be looking for in syslog or the messages file to debug udev? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Hey, this is the government. You just can't expect five 9s -- Chief Justice, on the Gore/Bush election's narrow margin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: eth* devices (again)

to be the only one acting this way. Anyone understand this changing of addresses? Does it have to do with this being a prism54 card -- one of the cards that requires a firmware load upon activation? Maybe that changes the reported address? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- I say to all you criminals

switching from apt-get to aptitude

, or perhaps pointers to better articles than what I've found? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- If you don't know the truth, you will believe anything. -- Eric Simmons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using apt-listbugs

files or mine, for instance). Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom. -- Gandalf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems in gnome/gdm after weekend etch upgrade

Chris Lale wrote: Rick Reynolds wrote: I run etch on my laptop system, and I usually do a dist-upgrade each weekend to keep up to date. This past weekend's update seems to have broken some things in either gnome or gdm that are decently difficult to work around. Wondered if anyone else

Re: getting OOo to use Firefox

. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- When you hear the toilet flush, and hear the words uh oh, it's already too late. -- anonymous Mother in Austin, TX -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Solved: Setting keyboard preferences in Gnome (etch) makes system hang up and prevents loging in from GDM

in gnome itself and not gdm. I've switched over to using Enlightenment as my window manager for now (on its own, not within gnome), and I don't have any issues with gdm as a login screen, session manager, etc. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- I say to all you criminals out there: Knock off all

Re: Solved: Setting keyboard preferences in Gnome (etch) makes system hang up and prevents loging in from GDM

before via gnome. Any way to clear out the gnome definition without actually logging into gnome (since I can't do so reliably at this point)? Or do I have to blow away all my gnome user settings? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom

getting OOo to use Firefox

direction? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. -- Woody Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problems in gnome/gdm after weekend etch upgrade

. This is decently painful. My guess is that some underlying library that gnome and/or gdm uses has some kind of problem, as this last upgrade only asked me about changing one configuration file and that was for xdm which I don't use. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Rick

using apt-listbugs

console 2. '/etc/init.d/gdm stop' to exit X 3. 'apt-get update apt-get dist-upgrade' Maybe it's the fact that I'm running the upgrade from a virt console? I'd appreciate a pointer or two. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark

Re: using apt-listbugs

Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:20:29AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: When I do an 'apt-get upgrade' (running testing) the command typically fills more than a screensworth while it downloads packages. Then I see apt-listbugs running, but the crucial output -- the question

Re: using apt-listbugs

Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:30:35AM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: But attacking this problem from another angle: I'm assuming it's not a good idea to do an upgrade from within X. Is that accurate? If I ran the upgrade within an xterm window, I'd probably not have

Re: problems with syntax highlighting in vim

, perhaps? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- If you don't know the truth, you will believe anything. -- Eric Simmons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

twinview: one virtual screen or two?

large animation across both screens. I'm wondering where I can read about how dual screen setups interface with the window management (I'm running gnome, BTW). Is there something I can tweak to make the two screens behave how I'd like? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Never work for a sawmill that's so

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

to root out of my system. Thanks for asking me good questions which inspired me to keep digging until I found it. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Released in 1996, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 cemented the product as the first choice of buggy front-ends to databases everywhere. In fact, if you wanted

Re: gnome: switch workspaces via command line?

Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:33 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 18:01 -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:11 -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: [snip] Yes. I'm aware

Re: gnome: switch workspaces via command line?

David Kirchner wrote: On 4/10/06, Rick Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More of a gnome question, but I've seen those posted to the list before... Is there a way to control the workspace switcher from the command line? Thanks to David Kirchner who pointed me towards wmctrl -- works

sound volume not persistent between reboots

(although they do across restarts of X). I'm guessing there is some alsa-something that just needs to be reconfigured. Anyone have a pointer for me? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought -- Henry Bergson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:29:48 -0400 Rick Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My sound works great. My only problem is that the settings I apply to the Gnome volume control applet don't persist across reboots (although they do across restarts of X). The alsa-utils

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

Lubos Vrbka wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Rick Reynolds napsal(a): A few topics similar to this have been recently discussed, and I was waiting for this particular question to be hit, but it never did (at least that I saw). My sound works great. My only

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

Kim Christensen wrote: On 4/11/06, Rick Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few topics similar to this have been recently discussed, and I was waiting for this particular question to be hit, but it never did (at least that I saw). My sound works great. My only problem is that the settings

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

. Plus the call to alsa-util from /etc/rcS.d makes three. I'm really starting to wonder if all three of these are meant to be called at startup. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought -- Henry Bergson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:23:44 -0400 Rick Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Maybe I should remove the symlinks to /etc/init.d/alsa and see what happens since alsa-util is already getting called earlier. Any thoughts? There are two links to alsa scripts

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

. But it still doesn't come back with the volume settings restored. I'll keep hunting... Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom. -- Gandalf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

gnome: switch workspaces via command line?

-to-left-workspace I'm aware of 3ddesk and use it in this fashion. I'd like to find a gnome-only alternative tool. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- If you don't know the truth, you will believe anything. -- Eric Simmons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: gnome: switch workspaces via command line?

Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:11 -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote: More of a gnome question, but I've seen those posted to the list before... Is there a way to control the workspace switcher from the command line? I'd like to have a tool that would essentially let me do: gnome

Re: Network interface sanity

to continue through the rest of the pre-up lines. BTW, I'm not 100% sure that I'm doing that in the most efficient way possible (i.e. I'm not remembering at this moment why I put the ' true' on the end). Enhancements to this method are certainly welcome. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Released

switch from Twinview to regular without restarting X?

for a small speed increase). Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself, a cold will hang on for a week. -- Darrell Huff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CUPS/foomatic/gs printing problem - plain text - first line too high,gets cut off

CUPS and samba, and it is a bit frustrating that my wife's windows laptop has no such issue when it prints. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. -- Douglas Adams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Best Linux Laptop

development in their environment outside of Windows. Then was pleasantly surprised when I had everything working within a week or so! Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Machines should work. People should think. -- Richard Hamming -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: NFS file size limit

deal though. Switching to the kernel space NFS server fixed me right up. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Never work for a sawmill that's so behind that they don't have time to sharpen the blades. -- Will Hayes, Software Engineering Institute -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED