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DVD for Archiving and Backup
DVD-R doesn't have the shelflife needed for longterm archiving, so NO. (same for DVD+R, CD-R) However...
A new reader Welcome to comp.os.linux.misc, read this first if you're new here FAQ 4837
Netiquette 2005-09#2 New reader? Great! Welcome! Here's how to make best use of this newsgroup and get yourself a slice of the best help available. Now read on ... TESTING YOUR CONNECTION Errm, first...
starting IMAPD, with xinetd 4838
Peter T. Breuer Wow. I have never in 10 years of using FIDO and Usenet and UUnet ever responded to a jerk...
starting IMAPD, with xinetd 4839
Just STOP right there. Your perceptions are way off. READ what is written and cease the small-bratty-child-like behaviour. That's easy, no? There's nothing...
UBUNTU how do I do to connect me as administrator Help me !!! 4840
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:26:15 GMT, LumisROB I thank everybody unfortunately with the indications that...
UBUNTU how do I do to connect me as administrator Help me !!! 4841
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 16:26:15 GMT, LumisROB Hurray I want to thank everybody. I Arrive from the world of windows and I have always considered too complicated...
UBUNTU how do I do to connect me as administrator Help me
Michael Heiming I am having exactly this trouble with an Ubuntu machine recently installed by someone else. I have managed to get root logins allowed...
UBUNTU how do I do to connect me as administrator Help me !!! 4843
Your Ubuntu machine that was installed by someone else: Hmm. I'd say that something is...
UBUNTU how do I do to connect me as administrator Help me !!! 4844
Hi Michael and John, I have to say that I regret a little to interrupt your...
USB Hard drive there but now missing
Hi all, I connected a new Freecom USB hdd to my Suse 9.2 pro system which was detected and auto mounted. The drive (as sold) had one Windows parbreastion...
mail user
That's not to do with the mail server (i.e. transfer agent), but with the local delivery agent. If procmail is your LDA, that's been procmail's decision to put it there. It could put...
Filesharing, RIAA and Linux
Apologies to posters like John-Paul who're outside the United States of Disney^WAmerica: The...
what do you think about this site 4848
Seems riddled with opinion rather than fact, such as "1. Freedom The # 1 reason for Linux being the top choice. Linux lets you do whatever you want with no ties to the vendors for...
what do you think about this site 4849
Yikes. Blue text on black background is awfully hard to read. In general, the grammar needs a lot of work. I take it the author is not fluent in English...
Toshiba laptop display probs
I just installed Fedora Core 4 on a Toshiba Portege 7140 laptop. All is reasonably well; however, the display has been problematic since installation: 1. When I first boot into text...
Toshiba laptop display probs 4851
Here are my latest new findings. The quoted text is a composite of posts from Aragorn, Lew Pitcher, and Lenard, in that order, with...
Toshiba laptop display probs 4852
On Thursday 22 September 2005 18:43, rr2 stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...
Dual monitor no longer works with new card
This may be completely unrelated to Linux, and is soley a PC issue...I don't know. I'm hoping to maybe get some direction of where to go. I've a Dell Dimension...
Dual monitor no longer works with new card
spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: I don't have a solution for your problem, but I'm replying because there's an important piece of advice I wish to give you nevertheless. I've also...
Question about TCP implementation
I am having trouble with a packeteer and its redirect. Basically what happens is that when an incomming HTTP command hits the packeteer it alters it and turns it into an http redirect. Then the...
A new reader Welcome to comp.os.linux.misc, read this first if you're new here FAQ 4856
Netiquette 2005-09#3 New reader? Great! Welcome! Here's how to make best use of this newsgroup and get yourself a slice of the best help available. Now read on ... TESTING...
Problem makekpkg'ing a kernel on a newly upgraded debian distro
Hi I just changed my sources.list to point to etch (testing) from sarge, and had a lot of upgrades as...
PHP exploit
Here's a fun story. A friend of mine whose ISP runs RH and FreeBSD on their servers, so he says, went down for several days not too long ago...
doesnt boot from cd
First of all, we need to reduce the number of unknowns: We don't know if your system is configured for booting from...
gmp and kernel programming
That's encouraging. Yes, I did mean that. On the other hand, I recall from the...
Python Sender: Linux
You are probably running into the problem of having 2 installs, one inusr and one inusr-local. The problem is that most software will install itself, by default...
rsync killing machine
What kind of a machine is broken by running rsync? I'm amazed! ?? It sounds like reading the FS on your machine is a no-no! You REALLY want to fix that FS. Run fsck...
public distributed filesystem 4863
kevincw01 It's an interesting idea, with the fascinating question of how to keep the system secure and ensure privacy. I think it's a solvable problem. To start with...
public distributed filesystem 4864
I like the feedback guys-gals. It seems like there is at least a general interest for this concept. So far these are the points...
Many Computers for a nonprofit org without OSes
Adam A lot of people here have said that the Linux distribution doesn't really matter, but IMHO that's not true...
Mount question
Hi All, I have two identical machines, with 3 Ware RAID cards and 4 drives each. I thought I's installed them in a very similar manner but when...
Mount question
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:19:29 -0400, Warrick FitzGerald staggered into the Black Sun and...
Turning onoff SMP support without rebooting
The distribution does not matter. The only thing that does matter is the way the kernel was compiled. Turning off all but one of the processors can spoil performance if you actually...
Fedora Core 4 wont install
I'm trying to install Fedora Core 4 on a Asus A8N-SLI deluxe motherbord with a ADM Athlon 64 3200+ processor and two Western Digital Vaciar 320 Gb S-ATA...
Fedora Core 4 wont install
Just for the record and future reference: No, one does not need an installed OS to...
Manual Fix 4871
S. Baiz Jr." You'll probably have to turn off the system unit and reboot with a rescue disk and run fsck manually, probablly editing lilo-group config files to see that it doesn't happen again...
Manual Fix 4872
F.A. Johnson" Sure Chris. That's why you see them all over the place on these ggroups because no one killfiles people that have them. (The...
UBUNTU and ADSL. I pray you helped me
I am trying to install a modem (adsl usb or ethernet) on UBUNTU 5.10 previws (amd64) but any modems is seen...
UBUNTU and ADSL. I pray you helped me!!! 4874
Bottom line - there is nothing to "install". It's there. Talk to it. Or maybe you don't mean a modem at all ... ah! No you...
UBUNTU and ADSL. I pray you helped me!!! 4875
Cristian Those drivers are for USB modems. If this is connected via Ethernet, then the eciadsl driver is not for you---that's for...
UBUNTU and ADSL. I pray you helped me!!! 4876
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:17:01 -0400, John-Paul Stewart Hi John, thanks I apologize...
UBUNTU and ADSL. I pray you helped me!!! 4877
Please stop talking about "installation"! Theer is no such thing. You have a router. Now all you have to do is CONFIGURE your static routes to go through...
UBUNTU and ADSL. I pray you helped me!!! 4878
What's "1"? And what's "2"? Please be aware of the medium you are using! I only see your post. Nothing more...
UBUNTU and ADSL. I pray you helped me!!! 4879
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:15:50 +0200, "Peter T. Breuer" Peter I apologize, but....have you read my native message? In it...
UBUNTU and ADSL. I pray you helped me!!! 4880
And yet, Ubuntu 5.10 won't be released until later this week. I hope you won't feel singled out, Cristian: You're one of several people who've claimed recently on this...
UBUNTU and ADSL. I pray you helped me!!! 4881
What "native (original) message"? News is not mail! I do not see everything you post, nor in...
Build problem with 2.6.13.2 kernel
I've been trying to build a 2.6.13.2 on an old PIII system with a fresh FC4 install (all of the updates...
Mailing from the command line repost
I posted this already in the networking group a few days ago and got no response. If...
Mailing from the command line repost
Interesting. Couple of comments: I've never had any dislike of sendmail, and its smtp auth works fine for me, and I didn't have any problem turning it on, so I...
Iomega Ditto MagtapeNo Valid Device
In a rare fit of cleaning I ran across an Iomega Ditto Easy 3200 magtape (parallel port interface), leftover from...
vi editor file limitation 4886
There are several common implementations of the "vi" standard: o vim o nvi o elvis o vile The original "vi" editor at Berkeley was copyright-encumbered...
vi editor file limitation 4887
On comp.os.linux.misc, in What a bunch of crap. 10's of thousands of people, including most of unix-linux pros, use the real vi...
vi editor file limitation 4888
On comp.os.linux.misc, in Notice that he doesn't intelligently address any of the issues I raised, just offering sophomoric insults worthy of a snotty teenager who can't get his way. ------------------------------- Back to the adult world...
Replay Radio replacement in Linux
I am trying to get rid of my last Windows box. To do so I am finding replacements for critical apps. One...
Replay Radio replacement in Linux
Mihai Osian That only works for MP3 streams, unfortunately. and the Proc::Background module from CPAN (do "man cpan" from the command line) are required. If anyone...
newbie question about hard drives
and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: The first thing you need to do is...
Manual Fix 4892
On Wednesday 28 September 2005 20:01, Edward S. Baiz Jr. stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: What you need on boot-up is most likely everything...
