Debian

DNS agent for dynamic IP addresses
Most consumer grade ISPs (cable ISPs, aDSL) use DHCP, so you have no guarantee you'll have the same IP address five minutes after you get it. Some (my own provider, Optimum Online for one) rarely change the address, but who wants to count on that always being the case? Organizations like dyndns.org and no-ip.org... 8 Jul 2008 10:00

incoming connections refused
On Monday 30 June 2008 12:17:15 pm Nobody Famous wrote: The problem I'm having is that when I run a server on my Debian Linux machine, I can access the server from the local loopback interface, but the connection gets refused if I use the external IP address. <snipped details/examples> I can get to the... 30 Jun 2008 16:51

BIOS limit with old laptop.
Greetings I have an old Compaq Armada 1500 that i intend to use as P2P and printer server; maybe http/sql/ftp if i use really lightweight stuff since it only has 32RAM. The thing is, the disk is a 4GB Toshiba and i wanna get something larger than my 70GB of files. Can i get any IDE disk and make a small /boot partiti... 30 Jun 2008 17:53

Silly mistake in X config renders screen useless
Hey all, I was playing around with a dual monitor setup last night and found myself editing the X configuration in an attempt to have both the laptop's LCD and the CRT functioning at the same time from the ATI card in the Gateway M675. Somehow I made a mistake. I know there's a backup configuration file (an xorg... 1 Jul 2008 06:10

mp3 player with adjustable speed and pitch correction
Hi, I'm looking for an mp3 player that allows to adjust the speed, but haven't been successful so far. audacity: requires preprocessing (and is not really a music player) amarok: the developers tagged #103895 as wontfix vlc: allows only fixed multipliers (like 0.5x/1x/2x) noatun: restarts song from beginning ... 1 Jul 2008 15:25

reiserfs problem (journal_mark_dirty: j_len (1024) is too big)
Hi I have a machine with debian 3.1 (sarge) and kernel 2.6.8-3-686-smp. Today suddenly al process started to block and i get this: Jun 30 01:00:12 localhost kernel: REISERFS: panic (device sdb1): journal-1413: journal_mark_dirty: j_len (1024) is too big Jun 30 01:00:12 localhost kernel: Jun 30 01:00:12 ... 30 Jun 2008 13:45

Font color in gnome panel
Hello All, As the subject line says, how can one change the color of the font that is used in the gnome panels (top and bottom)? I want to use a dark background image for the panels, but the letters become unreadable. Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerpr... 1 Jul 2008 13:21

message at startup, "resume: Could not stat the resume device file."
Andrew, OK. It all makes sense now. At Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:20:31 -0700 you wrote, "... it can't find the volume ..." Because I rearranged partition usage. "You can either purge uswsusp, ..." Done. It was pulled in only because it is recommended by pmutils. I don't need it. "... rebuild your initr... 30 Jun 2008 12:43

reiserfs problem (journal_mark_dirty: j_len (1024) is too big)
Hi I have a machine running debian 3.1 (sarge) with kernel 2.6.8-3-686-smp. Today suddenly all proccess started to block an i get this: Jun 30 01:00:12 localhost kernel: REISERFS: panic (device sdb1): journal-1413: journal_mark_dirty: j_len (1024) is too big Jun 30 01:00:12 localhost kernel: Jun 30 01:00:12 ... 30 Jun 2008 12:43

Shutting off graphical ssh agent popup?
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 08:59:03AM +0000, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 07:59:21PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: The ssh-agent is started by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent You can edit this file to make sure ssh-agent is not started automatically anymore ... 30 Jun 2008 12:43