Re: Dumb question about unicode

2006-10-30 Thread Martin Möller
* cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [29-10-2006 14:07:51 -0600]: > My main trouble is mrxvt, which does not have unicode support. If I > run mutt in that terminal, which is my favorite, it will not draw the > trees right. Instead of nice little lines and arrows, it now produces > junk looking characte

Re: xsetwacom parameter question

2006-10-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:13:36AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Now my Wacom Graphire 4 mouse moves in fits and starts. It worked > smoothly before the upgrade. The upgrade was from Debian Sarge with a > 2.6.11 kernel to Debian testing with a 2.6.17 kernel built from > linux-source-2.6.17 w

xterm, mutt, emacs -nw, and utf-8

2006-10-30 Thread Anders Lennartsson
I'm in the process of converting to utf-8 locales and have some problems with emacs -nw in a xterm, and a related question about mutt. In general it is quite simple to convert, (re)configure locales to set some utf-8 locale as default. In particular for etch and sid (I use both, and some computers

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade)

2006-10-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 04:58:02 +0100, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > El Diumenge 29 Octubre 2006 20:41, Florian Kulzer va escriure: > > I would try this: > > Thanks for this tutorial! > > Only one question: what's the reason for those new packages: > linux-image-2.6.18-1-486 nvidia-kernel-2.6.18-

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: > On 10/29/06 15:57, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Ron Johnson: > > >> And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek. > > > > Real geeks may still have their terminals running under X. :) > > startx is your friend. It's not that I don't know how to start X from a console. But

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/29/06, David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the package name splitvt? I can't find split in Debian... It's in coreutils. Silly me! I even used it for a while, just totally forgot about it. Thanks... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: mutt and maildir question (after recent thread)

2006-10-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 29.10.06 15:54, Kevin Mark wrote: > I just took the plunge to try maildir. I use mutt and had to add a few > things to my .mutt/muttrc but it seems I'm missing some info. When I > used mbox, I could move a mail from mbox A to mbox B by using 's' in > mutt and then type in '=NEWMAILBOX' as the ne

Re: Jerky Mouse Movement - SOLVED!

2006-10-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:42:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > After a dist-upgrade from Sarge to testing and to a kernel built from > > linux-source-2.6.17 my mice - one old fashioned ball mouse and one Wacom > > Graphire mouse - only move in jumps and starts.Clearly there is > > s

Is there a way of updating spamassassin rules?

2006-10-30 Thread Robert S
I run sarge at work and gentoo at home. On my gentoo box there is an "sa-update" script which updates spamassassin rules, without requiring that spamassassin is completely updated. Is there an equivalent script that will work with sarge? I realise that there is Rules Du Jour, but I'd like to us

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Dmitri Minaev
On 10/29/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Walters wrote: >>> Anyone remember FidoNET? Not only remember, but still read and write. Russian conferences are still working and available through FidoNet-NNTP gates as fido7.* newsgroups. For some years, I used to run such gate (based

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread anthony
Hi there, I don't have a problem getting at the files, booting single user or into a failsafe terminal as myself (username=anthony) the problem is exactly how to correctly 'check/fix owner/permissions until you are happy.' I just need to know what ownership and permissions my /home/anthony folder s

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/29/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start

Re: Is there a way of updating spamassassin rules?

2006-10-30 Thread Peter Teunissen
> I run sarge at work and gentoo at home. On my gentoo box there is an > "sa-update" script which updates spamassassin rules, without requiring > that spamassassin is completely updated. Is there an equivalent > script that will work with sarge? > > I realise that there is Rules Du Jour, but I'd

Raid problems

2006-10-30 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
Hi. This moring after fatal "ATA Abnormal Status" machine freeze, and after reboot it said on syslog: Oct 30 12:35:15 prometeo kernel: DMA write timed out Oct 30 12:35:16 prometeo kernel: parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio what means this error? -- Openclose.it - Idee per il s

Re: Is there a way of updating spamassassin rules?

2006-10-30 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 22:10:00 +1100, Robert S wrote: >I run sarge at work and gentoo at home. On my gentoo box there is an >"sa-update" script which updates spamassassin rules, without requiring >that spamassassin is completely updated. Is there an equivalent >script that will work with sarge?

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/06 03:04, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Ron Johnson: >> On 10/29/06 15:57, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> Ron Johnson: And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek. >>> Real geeks may still have their terminals running under X. :) >> start

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/06 05:14, anthony wrote: > Hi there, > > I don't have a problem getting at the files, booting single user or into a > failsafe terminal as myself (username=anthony) the problem is exactly > how to > correctly 'check/fix owner/permissions unti

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread anthony
So from failsafe terminal, after login[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ cd /home/anthony/bash: cd: /home/anthony/: Permission denied[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ pwd/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ iduid=1000(anthony) gid=1000(anthony) groups=20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),$ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ls -l /hometo

Re: Is there a way of updating spamassassin rules?

2006-10-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/06 05:10, Robert S wrote: > I run sarge at work and gentoo at home. On my gentoo box there is an > "sa-update" script which updates spamassassin rules, without requiring > that spamassassin is completely updated. Is there an equivalent > scr

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Ott
Hello! > > > When you say couldn't read DVDs, do you mean that you couldn't mount a > > > data DVD, couldn't watch a movie, or couldn't mount a movie DVD? > > > > Hi Doug, > > > > The answer is "yes" :) The original drive reacted to movie DVDs and > > DVD-RWs by buzzing and whirring > > for a

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Miles Fidelman
Dmitri Minaev wrote: On 10/29/06, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Walters wrote: >>> Anyone remember FidoNET? Not only remember, but still read and write. Russian conferences are still working and available through FidoNet-NNTP gates as fido7.* newsgroups. For some years, I used t

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/06 06:04, anthony wrote: > So > > from failsafe terminal, after login > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ cd /home/anthony/ > bash: cd: /home/anthony/: Permission denied > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ pwd > / > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ id > uid=1000(anthony) gid=1

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
anthony: > > I don't have a problem getting at the files, booting single user or into a > failsafe terminal as myself (username=anthony) the problem is exactly how to > correctly 'check/fix owner/permissions until you are happy.' You only need chown, chmod and ls. # chown -R anthony:anthony /hom

Re: Is there a way of updating spamassassin rules?

2006-10-30 Thread Robert S
Thanks for the suggestions. I had a bit of bother with volatile-sloppy - spamc started timing out and a lot of spam got through. I ended up downgrading back to the sarge version. It looks like the latest version in sloppy needs to be compiled by hand. Think I'll wait until Etch becomes stable

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Ed Curtis
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Tim Post wrote: > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:40 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: > > > > Anyone remember FidoNET? > > > > Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while. I just had a conversation over the weekend about blogging with my mom. She asked me w

Re: xterm, mutt, emacs -nw, and utf-8

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > XTERM > Xterm by itself also seems to be able, and if I set the use of fonts > in .Xdefaults by e.g. > XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 > it can print most characters. For example the results of echo -e

Re: Is there a way of updating spamassassin rules?

2006-10-30 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
On Mon Oct 30, 2006 at 23:21:06 +1100, Robert S wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. I had a bit of bother with > volatile-sloppy - spamc started timing out and a lot of spam got > through. I ended up downgrading back to the sarge version. It looks > like the latest version in sloppy needs to be

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread anthony
how to set these permissions?On 10/30/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1On 10/30/06 06:04, anthony wrote:> So>> from failsafe terminal, after login>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ cd /home/anthony/> bash: cd: /home/anthony/: Permission denied > [EMAIL PRO

Re: Is there a way of updating spamassassin rules?

2006-10-30 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Martin Zobel-Helas said: > On Mon Oct 30, 2006 at 23:21:06 +1100, Robert S wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions. I had a bit of bother with > > volatile-sloppy - spamc started timing out and a lot of spam got > > through. I ended up downgrading back to the sarge vers

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread anthony
Thank youOn 10/30/06, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: anthony:>> I don't have a problem getting at the files, booting single user or into a> failsafe terminal as myself (username=anthony) the problem is exactly how to> correctly 'check/fix owner/permissions until you are happy.' You only n

Monitor sarge server(s) from win box

2006-10-30 Thread Ali Jawad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I would like to know how I could possibly monitor my linux server "remote" from my windows box..Ive found this article to install gkrellmd on my server "no X installed on it I only access it through ssh" and use a windows port for the application to

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:20:35AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: } On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Tim Post wrote: } > On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:40 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: } > > > Anyone remember FidoNET? } > > } > > Yes, I definitely remember FidoNet - I even ran a BBS there for a while. } } I just had a conv

Re: Monitor sarge server(s) from win box

2006-10-30 Thread Daniel Graham Palmer
Hi, Why not install a snmpd and use one of the windows snmp clienty things? I know you didn't want a "web" based solution,.. but you might find munin handy. It can monitor almost everything, handle lots of nodes, and the graphs are very pretty. Cheers, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: xsetwacom parameter question

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:35:40PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:13:36AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Now my Wacom Graphire 4 mouse moves in fits and starts. It worked > > smoothly before the upgrade. The upgrade was from Debian Sarge with a > > 2.6.11 kernel t

RE: How to reverse a package upgrade?

2006-10-30 Thread Tony Heal
Try this updatedb located subversion It should find the package in question in /var/spool/apt/archives cd to the directory and use dpkg -i {suversion...} to install Tony -Original Message- From: rds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 10:59 PM To: debian-user@lis

Re: Is there a way of updating spamassassin rules?

2006-10-30 Thread Gavin Westwood
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Martin Zobel-Helas said: On Mon Oct 30, 2006 at 23:21:06 +1100, Robert S wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. I had a bit of bother with volatile-sloppy - spamc started timing out and a lot of spam got through. I ende

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Kent West
Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >> sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440 >> > > I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for > fdformat(8). Because the man page for fdformat only mentions the /dev/fd* paths,

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: > I'd there's a higher probability of creating new geeks if existing > geeks reproduce. What is this "reproduce" of which you speak? Is that a new utility similar to "cp"? -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
>>  * DBMS [ gnumerica ] > Where can I find this? OK, I meant functionality not real DBMS ;) Small database for office use - sums, filtering etc. Gnumerica is excellent here. > >  * (unreleased) [ hugin ] > But this is available in Debian. What do you mean? I use sarge where it's not available r

CD-icons

2006-10-30 Thread Jonathan Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to force cd icons on the desktop to launch in Totem rather than opening Nautilus? Regards, Jon NB, Using Debian Etch with Gnome... -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Kent West
Marc Wilson wrote: > Further, why wouldn't you just use superformat(1)? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk> sudo superformat /dev/fd0 hd Password: Measuring drive 0's raw capacity In order to avoid this time consuming measurement in the future, add the following line to /etc/driveprm: drive0: deviation=

Re: modprobe error

2006-10-30 Thread Kostas Robotis
Thanks, Kostas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Kostas, > It's possible that the gcc version that the kernel was compiled with does > not match the version you compiled the module with. This is just a guess > but that does cause problems for loading modules. > Cheers, > Jonathan > > > -- > To UNSUBS

Re: Monitor sarge server(s) from win box

2006-10-30 Thread Ali Jawad
Yeah Ive checked out munin...but I really dont wana install a lamp server just for that particular purpose..do you have any hints on the snmp setup. On 10/30/06, Daniel Graham Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Why not install a snmpd and use one of the windows snmp clienty things? I know yo

Re: Monitor sarge server(s) from win box

2006-10-30 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 02:28:20PM +0200, Ali Jawad wrote: > Hi > I would like to know how I could possibly monitor my linux server > "remote" from my windows box. Please pardon a silly question, but what do you mean by 'monitor'? Do the 'monitor' apps run on the linux server? If so, can you us

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:36:41 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > I'd there's a higher probability of creating new geeks if existing > > geeks reproduce. > > What is this "reproduce" of which you speak? Is that a new utility > similar to "cp"? I was also confused by this sub-threa

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:36:41AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > I'd there's a higher probability of creating new geeks if existing > > geeks reproduce. > > What is this "reproduce" of which you speak? Is that a new utility > similar to "cp"? > More like fork. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: xsetwacom parameter question

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:57:08AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:35:40PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:13:36AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > Now my Wacom Graphire 4 mouse moves in fits and starts. It worked > > > smoothly before t

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/30/06, Zbigniew Wiech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * DBMS [ gnumerica ] > Where can I find this? OK, I meant functionality not real DBMS ;) Small database for office use - sums, filtering etc. Gnumerica is excellent here. Did you misspell gnumeric? I can't find gnumerica in Debian.

Re: Dumb question about unicode

2006-10-30 Thread cothrige
* Martin M?ller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [29-10-2006 14:07:51 -0600]: > > My main trouble is mrxvt, which does not have unicode support. If I > > run mutt in that terminal, which is my favorite, it will not draw the > > trees right. Instead of nice little lines

Strange: Files served from Apache 2.2.3-2 have 0 Byte

2006-10-30 Thread frank . kintrup
Hello, I've encountered a very strange problem after a re-install of my server with the new Debian Apache2 2.2.3-2 from testing (prefork type because of PHP5). The first problem was that libapr1 did not work with my 2.4 kernel (lots of segmentation fault errors), so I compiled a new version from

Re: laptop display

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello. I just installed Debian Etch on an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad > > 770). It works okay, but the image is half the screen size. It's a > > centred box within the larger screen. How do I make it full size? I > > tried "dpkg-reconfigure xserve

Re: Firefox/Flash sound comes and goes using 32-bit chroot on amd64.

2006-10-30 Thread Steve Juranich
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > Here is a thought you might consider. > Your first solution runs firefox with the same environment variables > as the 64 bit environment (the -p takes care of that) but in the > latter you fire up bash and that could perhaps overwrite some values > and set things up

Re: xterm, mutt, emacs -nw, and utf-8

2006-10-30 Thread Anders Lennartsson
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Presumably you're using the options for telling xterm to use UTF-8 encoding > as well. But I don't see any details of that here, so it could be a problem. For xterm I use the default settings for sid|etch|sarge, no local changes for my user. -- To UN

Re:Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Zoran Kolic
> from failsafe terminal, after login > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ cd /home/anthony/ > bash: cd: /home/anthony/: Permission denied Don't say! Log in as root. Then: # cd /home # chmod 755 anthony # exit Log in again, now as anthony. This was recommended few days ago by Ron Johnson. Zor

Re: Multiple firewall profiles with shorewall

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:33:31PM +, Wackojacko wrote: > > >celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Hi, > > >> > > >>I use shorewall to create a local (personal) firewall on my sid > > >>machine. I have a wireless nic which is sometimes

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread celejar
On 10/29/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/27/06, celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Desktop Environment [ xfce] Can I safely assume that you meant Xfce4, not the version what was in Woody? Yes. I'll also add ssh and less under misc utils, and wesnoth and nethack

Re: Multiple firewall profiles with shorewall

2006-10-30 Thread celejar
On 10/27/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use shorewall to create a local (personal) firewall on my sid > machine. I have a wireless nic which is sometimes connected to my > private wireless network which I control and can secure (with

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread anthony
yep, this was the sensible thing to do, but probably got lost in the noiseDon't say! Log in as root. Then:# cd /home# chmod 755 anthony# exitLog in again, now as anthony.thinking:/home/anthony#  chown -R anthony:anthony /home/anthonythinking:/home/anthony#  chmod 755 /home/anthony thinking:/home/an

Re: Multiple firewall profiles with shorewall

2006-10-30 Thread celejar
On 10/29/06, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] In conjunction with the above, and other advice received, would run levels help you achieve this. Switching to a different run level would also enable you to shut down the services you dont want to run on the public network fairly easil

Re: Multiple firewall profiles with shorewall

2006-10-30 Thread celejar
On 10/29/06, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:33:31PM +, Wackojacko wrote: > >celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>I use shorewall to create a local (personal) firewall on my sid > >>machine. I have a wireless nic which is sometimes co

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/29/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > Hi, > > > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > > > winners in that thread were G

Re: switching from mbox to maildir in mutt, exim, etc.: how?

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 03:25:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I'm looking at my system backups and notice that there is some clutter > > form mbox files being updated almost daily. I think the clutter would > > be reduced by switching to maildi

Re: Dumb question about unicode

2006-10-30 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:47:38AM -0600, cothrige wrote: > * Martin M?ller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > * cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [29-10-2006 14:07:51 -0600]: > > > My main trouble is mrxvt, which does not have unicode support. If I > > > run mutt in that terminal, which is my favorite, it

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Tim Post
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 07:20 -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > I just had a conversation over the weekend about blogging with my mom. > She asked me what it was. I told her people had been doing it for years > before it ever became "blogging" on BBS's through fidonet, etc. > I had a similar conversation

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-30 Thread George Borisov
Peter Teunissen wrote: > > > OTH, I just looked at some of my recent image spam and when I substract > the bayes score from the final score, most of it would still be tagged > as spam (I use a threshold of 5). True, but those messages that get through tend to have almost no score assigned to t

Odp: Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
> >>  * DBMS [ gnumerica ] >  > Where can I find this? > OK, I meant functionality not real DBMS ;) > Small database for office use - sums, filtering etc. Gnumerica is excellent > here. > Did you misspell gnumeric? I can't find gnumerica in Debian. You're right. Should be - "gnumeric" > "hugin"

Re: Please trim replies.

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a few good guides online which talk about "commonly > accepted" etiquette for posting to mailing lists. Heres the > first one that I read through: > > http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/netiquett.html > > I hope nobody takes offense

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
true. out of three available word processors in sarge (oowriter, koffice, abiword) only oowriter reads and writes properly MS Word's more advanced formattings - shadowed backgrounds, etc. As most people are using MS, oowriter seems quite raisonable choice. regards Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Is there a way of updating spamassassin rules?

2006-10-30 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:10:00 +1100 "Robert S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run sarge at work and gentoo at home. On my gentoo box there is > an "sa-update" script which updates spamassassin rules, without > requiring that spamassassin is completely updated. Is there an > equivalent script that

Re: mutt and maildir question (after recent thread)

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29.10.06 15:54, Kevin Mark wrote: > > I just took the plunge to try maildir. I use mutt and had to add a few > > things to my .mutt/muttrc but it seems I'm missing some info. When I > > used mbox, I could move a mail from mbox A to mbox B by u

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/29/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 10:08, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 10/29/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * shell [ bash ] > > Not such a valid entry, unless many entries go for other shells. If > so,

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/29/06 15:57, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Ron Johnson: > >> On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote: > [snip] > >> And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek. > > > > Real geeks may still have t

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Kent West
anthony wrote: one other clue is that I cannot save text files logged in as anthony (i get a no space left on device error) but I can as root in the same directory Ah, then perhaps you're out of drive space on that partition. (*nix leaves a small buffer available for root to write to, which n

Re: Dumb question about unicode

2006-10-30 Thread cothrige
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > > > That should at least ease the ulgly-line-problem a little. > > That's twice in two days I've seen ugly spelled as ulgly, and I don't > recall ever having seen it spelled this way before? Is a cosmic > spelling change starting to take e

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
I've been following this thread with interest, since I was the one who initially expressed his exasperation over Linux coughing up floppies like so much sour milk. Anyway, I finally did find a floppy that was actually mounted by my system (of course, later, my computer rejected it as not worth

Re: laptop display (CORRECTION!)

2006-10-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Mark Grieveson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello. I just installed Debian Etch on an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad > 770). It works okay, but the image is half the screen size. It's a > centred box within the larger screen. How do I make it full size? I > tried "dpkg-reconfigu

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > * audio editor [ ] > * audio player [ ] > * cd-ripper [ ] > * Desktop Environment [ icewm ] > * DBMS [ ] > * development [ Modula 3, Eiffel, Algol 68, various homebrew notations compiled to C ] > * disc burner [ K3b ]

Re: yikes

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (xserver-xorg-video-ati). Now, for some reason, I've got a plug icon > letting me know that my computer is running on ac power. Hmm. > > Mark And isn't it? :))) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Tim Post
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 07:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I am not 100% certain, but I believe Usenet predates FidoNet, if you want > to talk about message boards and their equivalents. Blogging, however, is a > different animal. > Not quite, but close. FidoNET pre-dates BitNET (which became U

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:52:43AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > anthony wrote: > >one other clue is that I cannot save text files logged in as anthony > >(i get a no space left on device error) but I can as root in the same > >directory > > Ah, then perhaps you're out of drive space on that partiti

upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-30 Thread tom arnall
I upgraded my system recently and now have font problems. For example, if I run gaim as non-root, it takes a password and then disappears, leaving: gaim: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: cairo_scaled_font_get_f In /usr/lib I find:

Re: xterm, mutt, emacs -nw, and utf-8

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Presumably you're using the options for telling xterm to use UTF-8 encoding >> as well. But I don't see any details of that here, so it could be a problem. > For xterm I use the default settings for sid|e

Debian and Ubuntu sharing apt-cacher?

2006-10-30 Thread edwardsa
I have some ubuntu machines living inside of a debian firewall machine that point to an apt-cacher archive on that machine. It looks to me that I could have the same archive serve both distributions. This would be useful because I have two other debian machines on the same network. It looks as

FF vs. Seamonkey prompt for passwords

2006-10-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Seamonkey promts fills in a userid/password or prompts you with a list of possible userids. FF you have to fill in the userid first. Can Seamonkey's behavior be emulated in FF? Thanks H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: The crippled resurrection of said etch.

2006-10-30 Thread Matthew Krauss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:25:37AM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: [snip] What I would try to isolate the problem is: 1. Reboot in to single user mode. 2. Log in as root. 3. Try starting X alone: $ X 2>&1 | less 3a. If X starts, you may kill it with ctrl-alt-back

Networking down but seems ok... ?!

2006-10-30 Thread Nicolas Pillot
Hello ! I come to ask a question about my networking experience with debian. I installed a basic debian system with the i386 network install of the 3.1r3 image. My hardware is an asustek a8n sli motherboard, with an nforce4 sli chipset. Before the install, i chose linux26, because using the stan

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-30 Thread John Hasler
George Borisov writes: > On my IMAP server at home I have a set of scripts that harvest a > particular folder in the account and feed all messages to sa-learn. If a > spam slips through then I just move it into that folder and forget about > it. I do something similar. I also have my script copy

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:29:48PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 10/29/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> Hi, > >> A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > >> winners in tha

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread anthony
What's the result of  "df -h"? I'm using 94% of the disk. I have deleted some stuff. I triedchmod -R 775 /home/anthonyand this allowed me to access files in my directory and some of my personal settings e.g. pal (calendar) I could start X but not fluxbox.  What should the permissions be for all th

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-30 Thread Edward Guldemond
How much RAM do you have in your system? In my expreience, Firefox takes more memory than Opera does. -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The crippled resurrection of said etch.

2006-10-30 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:29:56PM -0500, Matthew Krauss wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:25:37AM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: > > > [snip] > >>What I would try to isolate the problem is: > >> > >>1. Reboot in to single user mode. > >>2. Log in as root. > >>3. Try s

Re: Networking down but seems ok... ?!

2006-10-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
Nicolas Pillot wrote: The rest of the install went smooth, up to the apt-source selection. Choosing any server in the list made the installation program hang up to timeout. So i cancelled the package selection and finished the install in order to examine what i thought was a networking problem.

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade)

2006-10-30 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
El Dilluns 30 Octubre 2006 09:54, Florian Kulzer va escriure: > (Your > old custom-built nvidia package provides "nvidia-kernel-1.0.8774", > therefore it cannot satisfy the dependency of the new module.) The > linux-image-* package is installed because the nvidia-kernel-* package > depends on it.

Re: Dumb question about unicode

2006-10-30 Thread Bruno Delalleau
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:55:43PM -0600, cothrige wrote : > * Angelina Carlton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [snip] > > At the moment mrxvt does not support utf-8 but perhaps it will in the > > near future? If so, you might find rxvt-unicode an adequate interim > > replacement. I would think this

Re: Debian and Ubuntu sharing apt-cacher?

2006-10-30 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 30.10.2006 at 11:06 -0700, edwardsa wrote: > I have some ubuntu machines living inside of a debian firewall machine > that point to an apt-cacher archive on that machine. It looks to me > that I could have the same archive serve both distributions. This > would be useful because I have

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-30 Thread celejar
On 10/30/06, Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How much RAM do you have in your system? In my expreience, Firefox takes more memory than Opera does. -- Ed My Firefox (1.5 on Sid) is really, really slow (startup, getting / rendering pages, and even things like displaying the prefs scr

Re: Networking down but seems ok... ?!

2006-10-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
Nicolas Pillot wrote: 2006/10/30, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: A quick and inexpensive work-around is simply to purchase a network card which is supported and is recognized automatically by Etch Ok. I'll unplug the one from my good ol' P75 sarge server, and finish the install cleanly.

Re: Debian and Ubuntu sharing apt-cacher?

2006-10-30 Thread edwardsa
Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 30.10.2006 at 11:06 -0700, edwardsa wrote: I have some ubuntu machines living inside of a debian firewall machine that point to an apt-cacher archive on that machine. It looks to me that I could have the same archive serve both distributions. This would be useful

Re: rhythmbox missing files

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 15:09 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > OK, so my album is called St Dominic's Preview by Van Morrison. And there's > another called His Band and the Street Choir. > > What's the plugin searching with? The artist and the album tags, I guess. > Just > in case it was something stup

Re: rhythmbox missing files

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 14:58 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Sound juicer plays cds fine. > > Debugging showed this: > (14:51:12) [0x815b3d8] [rb_plugins_engine_load] rb-plugins-engine.c:108: > Loading > plugin: /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/audiocd.rb-plugin > (14:51:12) [0x815b3d8] [rb_plugins_engine_l

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