Re: DNS issue affecting gnu.org (and subdomains)

2023-03-26 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Ar Rakin on Sat, 25 Mar 2023 23:38:29 +0600: > Hello Sebastian, > > I'm also unable to access gnu.org. I don't exactly know why this is > happening, though I've encountered this type of issues before, with > my own domains. But it got fixed automatically after a few > days. Hopefully, it wil

DNS issue affecting gnu.org (and subdomains)

2023-03-25 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hello all, On a VPS in the UK: $ host gnu.org Host gnu.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL) Hmm... maybe it's just my VPS host provider's resolver. $ host gnu.org 8.8.8.8 […] Host gnu.org not found: 2(SERVFAIL) Nope, Google's resolver can't resolve gnu.org either. How about, making the same querie

[git-users] How to mirror and augment a git repository

2023-03-04 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hello list, I wish to mirror _and augment_ an upstream git repository. Upstream | Augmented mirror / | \ Client#1 Client#2 Client#3 Clients of the augmented mirror must have access to everything available fro

Re: [exim] Issue with Exim on an IPv6-only host

2023-02-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant via Exim-users
Hello Heiko, Quoth Heiko Schlittermann via Exim-users on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 15:24:41 +0100: > […] > $host_address likely contains colons, which confuses the parser here. > Use … = <; $host_address Yup. That was the problem. Thanks. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/e

Re: [exim] Issue with Exim on an IPv6-only host

2023-02-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant via Exim-users
Hello Jeremy, Quoth Jeremy Harris via Exim-users on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 12:36:41 +: > On 21/02/2023 11:59, Sebastian Tennant via Exim-users wrote: >> hosts_require_auth = $host > > Why not > > hosts_require_auth = * > > ? Indeed. That will work too. -

Re: [exim] Issue with Exim on an IPv6-only host

2023-02-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant via Exim-users
Hello Kurt, Quoth Kurt Jaeger on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:24:42 +0100: > Hi! > >> My (only) transport included the line: >> >> hosts_require_auth = $host_address > > try: > > hosts_require_auth = <; $host_address > > otherwise the : from the v6 address is used as list seperator character. Ah, of cou

Re: [exim] Issue with Exim on an IPv6-only host

2023-02-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant via Exim-users
Hello Jeremy, Thanks for your quick response. Quoth Jeremy Harris via Exim-users on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 10:44:45 +: > On 20/02/2023 14:53, Sebastian Tennant via Exim-users wrote: >> ** […] R=all_via_fast_smtp_server T=fast_smtp_server […]: SMTP error >> from remote ma

[exim] Issue with Exim on an IPv6-only host

2023-02-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant via Exim-users
Hello there, Exim is configured to listen only on local interfaces and deliver _all_ mail to a remote SMTP server requiring TLS and authentication, with all local mail being sent to single email address. Here are the four most pertinent lines written to mainlog (abbreviated, redacted and wrapped)

Re: A question about connection pooling, and the many ways to connect.

2013-11-12 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hello Marijn, Quoth Marijn Haverbeke : > You're right, you have to use local connection and specify that you > want them to be pooled. (This model has much less overhead -- a single > synchronization point -- than a model where a single handle can be > used in a multi-threaded way.) This touches

[Eap-commits] r56 - /trunk/eap.el

2012-09-15 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Author: sebyte Date: Sat Sep 15 19:55:33 2012 New Revision: 56 URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/eap?rev=56&view=rev Log: .WAV|.wav included in list of supported file extensions. Liberal use of delete-other-windows. Modified: trunk/eap.el ___ Eap-co

[Debconf-discuss] DC12 Talks Schedule - Day 0 - Sunday 8th July 2012 - plain text version

2012-07-08 Thread Sebastian Tennant
2012-07-08 == Aula Magna -- Start: 15:30 Title: WELCOME ON BOARD! Subtitle: This is your organizing team. Love your organizing team! Speaker: Holger Levsen Speaker: Leandro Gómez Speaker: Norman Garcia Aguilar Speaker: Moray Allan Speaker: Gunnar Wolf Iszaevich

[Debconf-discuss] DC12 Talks Schedule - Day 0 - Sunday 8th July 2012 - plain text version

2012-07-07 Thread Sebastian Tennant
2012-07-08 == Aula Magna -- Start: 15:30 Title: WELCOME ON BOARD! Subtitle: This is your organizing team. Love your organizing team! Speaker: Holger Levsen Speaker: Leandro Gómez Speaker: Norman Garcia Aguilar Speaker: Moray Allan Speaker: Gunnar Wolf Iszaevich

Re: [GENERAL] Help needed creating a view

2012-01-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth "David Johnston" : > A) SELECT user_id, CASE WHEN course_name = 'Maths' THEN completed ELSE false > END math_cmp, CASE WHEN course_name = 'English' THEN completed ELSE false > END AS english_cmp FROM applications > a) Expand to multiple columns and store either the default "false" or the

[GENERAL] Help needed creating a view

2012-01-26 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi list, Given an 'applications' table for a static set of courses:: user_id (integer) course_name (text) completed (boolean) how best should I go about creating an 'alumni' view with columns: user_id (integer) maths (boolean) english (boolean) . . . . . . w

Re: A Quicklisp Debian package

2011-12-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
https://github.com/sebyte/swiQlisp/issues/1 ___ pkg-common-lisp-devel mailing list pkg-common-lisp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-common-lisp-devel

Re: A Quicklisp Debian package

2011-12-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Paulo Sequeira : > I looked at your swiQlisp tool and found it to be working just fine for me. Great! > [...] I found that it already supports an optional parameter to specify the > location where it is desired to install quicklisp. If you checkout the latest version of swiQlisp[0], you'll

Re: A Quicklisp Debian package

2011-10-05 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Paulo Sequeira : > I agree. I also started feeling that ql-* packages would be a burden I wasn't > sure would be worth bearing. Yeah, although it would be nice. > What you describe is basically the expectation I've been having about > the package. Would it be useful still? Well, I think so,

Site-wide Quicklisp

2011-10-03 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi Paulo (and others), So I've created a tool (and called it swiQlisp) which hopefully demonstrates what I've been banging on about (in my confused and rather roundabout way). https://github.com/sebyte/swiQlisp git://github.com/sebyte/swiQlisp.git Hopefully it speaks for itself so I'm not goi

Re: A Quicklisp Debian package

2011-10-01 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Lesson: Don't consider an idea a good one until you've slept on it and woken up stil thinking it's good. Perhaps not everything I proposed yesterday is nonsense, but the idea of maintaining a one-to-one correspondence between binary ql-* packages and individual Quicklisp libraries is the

Re: A Quicklisp Debian package

2011-09-30 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Sebastian Tennant : > 5. sbcl > > * (push #p"/usr/share/common-lisp/ql-quicklisp/installed-systems" > asdf:*central-registry*) This pathname is missing a trailing '/'. It should read: (push #p"/usr/share/common-lisp/ql-quick

Re: A Quicklisp Debian package

2011-09-30 Thread Sebastian Tennant
d the message to require moderator approval (which will probably never happen) so I'm including my two files inline (below). You'll have to grab the Quicklisp quickstart file from http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp and put in ~/ql-quicklisp/ alongside the other

Re: A Quicklisp Debian package

2011-09-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi Paulo, First of all, sorry for the delay. I've been meaning to reply for some time now and your post to the Quicklisp mailing list was precisely the reminder I needed. Secondly, I'm responding to both postings here *only* because cross-posting generally leads to confusion and the main issues

[Debconf-discuss] DC11 Talks Schedule - Saturday 30th July - plain text version

2011-07-29 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Auditorium == Start: 10:00 Title: SPI BOF Speaker: Bdale Garbee Start: 11:00 Title: ASK THE LEADER Subtitle: Q&A session with the DPL Speaker: Neil McGovern Start: 12:00 Title: DEBCONF12 NICARAGUA Speaker: Marcelo Martin Gutierrez Cabezas Start: 15:00

Re: [Debconf-discuss] DC11 Talks Schedule - Thursday 28th July - plain text version

2011-07-29 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Guido Trotter : > Mine a few days ago didn't either appear here Oh dear. > nor in giggity Interesting - I hadn't heard of this Android app before. > maybe the XML is not being updated together with the web schedule? Something like this must be happening. Does anyone know who can check w

Re: [Debconf-discuss] DC11 Talks Schedule - Thursday 28th July - plain text version

2011-07-29 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Gergely Nagy : > vedran writes: > >> I see there is no "Packaging for beginners" on the list. Is it canceled? > > Nope, it is NOT cancelled. It will be held betweeen 12:00 and 12:45 in the > round room, and it is on the schedule on the webpage (at least, it was this > morning, and I have no

[Debconf-discuss] DC11 Talks Schedule - Friday 29th July - plain text version

2011-07-29 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Auditorium == Start: 10:00 Title: GOOGLE SUMMER OF CODE 2011 AND CODE-IN 2010 AT DEBIAN Subtitle: Meet the students, mentors and admins Speaker: Ana Beatriz Guerrero López Speaker: Obey Arthur Liu Speaker: Sylvestre Ledru Start: 11:00 Title: DELIVERING MULTI-PLATFO

[Debconf-discuss] DC11 Talks Schedule - Thursday 28th July - plain text version

2011-07-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Auditorium == Start: 10:00 Title: DERIVATIVES ROUNDTABLE Subtitle: The traditional roundtable to seek for synergies between Debian and its derivatives Speaker: Andreas Tille Start: 11:00 Title: DEBIAN DERIVATIVES EXCHANGE (DEX) BOF Subtitle: ... and other initiatives

Accepted quicklisp 1.0-1 (source all)

2011-07-26 Thread Sebastian Tennant
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Format: 1.8 Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:49:14 +0200 Source: quicklisp Binary: cl-quicklisp Architecture: source all Version: 1.0-1 Distribution: unstable Urgency: low Maintainer: Sebastian Tennant Changed-By: Sebastian Tennant Description: cl

[Debconf-discuss] DC11 Talks Schedule - Tuesday 26th July - plain text version

2011-07-25 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Auditorium == Start: 10:00 Title: BITS FROM THE RELEASE TEAM Speaker: Neil McGovern Start: 11:00 Title: DSA Subtitle: Where do we want to go today? Speaker: Stephen Gran Speaker: Martin Zobel-Helas Start: 12:00 Title: TALK FROM THE WEBSITE TEAM Subtitle:

Re: [Debconf-discuss] reviewing needed

2011-07-25 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Gaudenz Steinlin : > The raw viedos are done, but the encoded ones are still only partly done. To > help out go to > > https://penta.debconf.org/penta/video/transcodings > > claim a file and rate it. Do you need special permissions to access this part of penta? I'm logged in to penta, but

[Debconf-discuss] DC11 Talks Schedule - Monday 25th July - plain text version

2011-07-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Auditorium == Start: 10:00 Title: WELCOME TALK Subtitle: DebConf11 introductory session Speaker: Joerg Jaspert Speaker: Moray Allan Speaker: Gunnar Wolf Speaker: Vedran Omeragic Speaker: Andrew McMillan Speaker: Bojana Borković Speaker: Holger Levsen Speaker: Adna

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Morning run tomorrow (Monday) 07:00

2011-07-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Christian PERRIER : > I'll go running tomorrow morning quite early in the morning. How about 07:00? > [...] trying to explore paths that are different from the main road [...] I was thinking of suggesting the same thing. Count me in. sebyte -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Li

[Debconf-discuss] DC11 talks schedule - Sunday 24th July (Debian Day)

2011-07-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
The signal to noise ratio is rather low (IMHO) on the talks schedule pages on penta so I wrote a script which parses the XML feed and spits out the essentials in plain text. Here's todays schedule (as it was at approx. 08:15 this morning): Auditorium == Start: 10:00 Title: OPENIN

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Swimming pool tested

2011-07-23 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Andreas Tille : > Well, writing it down might consume similar time and is usable for more > people. :-) Indeed. > [...] Thank you for this long and detailed description. It sounds like a very nice, hi-tech pool. Unfortunately, I don't think I can go, as I only have a pair of baggy (water

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Swimming pool tested

2011-07-23 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Andreas Tille : > I enjoyed the swimming pool (2km from the hotel [...]) this morning. Aquana? > If somebody might be interested just ask me and I could give some report > about dos and don'ts. I'm interested in hearing about the dos and don'ts. When/where should we meet, assuming you don

[Debconf-discuss] Forgot to bring a network cable?

2011-07-23 Thread Sebastian Tennant
If, like me, you forgot to bring a network cable with you, you can find one in 'Techno Markt' (or something like that) on the second floor of 'Boska' (the shopping arcade). 1m, 5m and 20m cables are available and the prices are reasonable (a 5m cable cost me 7 KM). Sebastian -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer

Re: [Debconf-discuss] bus station at night

2011-07-22 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Adam Borowski : > Do city buses go at that time? Probably not (but I really don't know for sure). > Is getting a taxi a hassle? A taxi is probably the easiest option (provided there are still some waiting around at that time). Also, make sure you have some convertible marks (BAM) on you.

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Museum visit

2011-07-22 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Moray Allan : > A few of us are thinking of visiting the local museum (even though > it's not expected to be particularly exciting!) this evening, around > 18.00. Correct. > Speak to sebyte for more information. No need to speak to me really... :) If you're interested in coming, just me

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Nice place to be at: Banj brdo

2011-07-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Christian PERRIER : > 07:00 is still quite OK. Yes it is, and 07:00 is fine with me too. > That won't probably be tomorrow No problem. Saturday morning perhaps? Sebastian -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http:/

Re: [Debconf-discuss] Nice place to be at: Banj brdo

2011-07-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Christian PERRIER : > This morning, my morning run brought me to Banj brdo. This place is a > hill in the south of Banja Luka, with a nice view over the city and > the surrounding hills. Will you be running there again one morning? I've decided to run in the mornings rather than at 18:00 (

Re: A Quicklisp Debian package

2011-07-19 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Kambiz Darabi : > I would really appreciate a quicklisp package for debian. Thanks for showing your support for the idea. > OT: thank you for this hint. Closes a gap in my emacs usage! Great! EAP needs new users. Please post bug reports (or praise, if everything works perfectly) to the m

[Debconf-discuss] Call for runners

2011-07-19 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Christian PERRIER : > Quoting Sebastian Tennant (seb...@gmail.com): >> Quoth Christian PERRIER : >> > I'll probably go running (19th) tomorrow "not so early" (around 9am or so) >> > but might join an evening run too. >> >> I'd al

[Debconf-discuss] Call for runners

2011-07-19 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Christian PERRIER : > Quoting Sebastian Tennant (seb...@gmail.com): >> Quoth Christian PERRIER : >> > I'll probably go running (19th) tomorrow "not so early" (around 9am or so) >> > but might join an evening run too. >> >> I'd al

A Quicklisp Debian package

2011-07-19 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi Debian Lispers, As you are probably aware, Common Lisp library management got a whole lot easier with the introduction of Quicklisp last year. How about a Debian 'quicklisp' package which: 1. installs a Lisp if neccessary (or if requested) 2. goes out and grabs the Quicklisp quickstart fil

Re: [exim] greylistd understandings

2011-07-05 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth prad : > on my system the man page says the file is host_local_deny_exceptions > (instead of local_host_whitelist), so possibly the file name is an older > one since i'm on debian squeeze. Correct. local_host_whitelist is deprecated in favour of host_local_deny_exceptions. Seb -- Emacs' A

Re: [exim] Gmail's new 'suspicious sender' flag

2011-07-05 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Ian Eiloart : > Can you link to the documentation? http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&ctx=mail&answer=185812 > [...] So, you'd just want to publish a record for example.org. I'll give this a try and if that doesn't work, maybe Ted's recommendations. Seb -- Emacs' Als

[exim] Gmail's new 'suspicious sender' flag

2011-07-04 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi all, I use a machine (let's say it's called example.org) to compose and send email with the From header set to my Gmail address (let's say f...@gmail.com). I login to example.org as 'foo' so the envelope sender address is f...@example.org but example.org is not gmail.com and this mismatch betw

Re: [Pdns-users] Documentation on populating backend database tables

2011-04-25 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Maik Zumstrull : > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 00:22, Sebastian Tennant > wrote: > >> One quick question (as the domains/zones table is undocumented) what should >> the >> value of the domains.type column be? My guess is 'IN'. > No, it should be one

Re: [Pdns-users] Documentation on populating backend database tables

2011-04-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Kenneth Marshall : > The only thing missing is the SOA record to actually define your > domain and you should be good to go. Do simple DNS queries work without an SOA record I wonder? The reason I ask is that I set up my own nameserver once before, years ago, which seemed (to me) to work fi

Re: [Pdns-users] Documentation on populating backend database tables

2011-04-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Maik Zumstrull : > Yes. This has an implied foreign key constraint, but it's up to you to > actually define one on the database level. It also should be NOT NULL. Thanks for the confirmation. One quick question (as the domains/zones table is undocumented) what should the value of the domain

Re: [Pdns-users] Documentation on populating backend database tables

2011-04-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Kenneth Marshall : > Here is a basic desciption of the fields and queries that PDNS uses: > > http://doc.powerdns.com/generic-mypgsql-backends.html#id587910 Thanks. I see now. The first half of the 'Basic functionality' section describes the records table. It might help if the words 'reco

[Pdns-users] Documentation on populating backend database tables

2011-04-22 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi all, Can anyone point me to some documentation on how to populate the backend database tables (assuming you're using a relational database backend), i.e., what values should you use in each column, and when? I've chosen to use sqlite3 as my backend, so my schema looks like this: --8<-

Re: Dual boot GNU and Windows 7

2011-03-26 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Piscium : > There is possibly a way to shrink further. You would need to move files to > the beginning of the disk before resizing. You could try Mydefrag > (www.mydefrag.com). Thanks for the tip. I did try defragging first (using Windows' own defragger) but this being a brand new laptop th

Re: Dual boot GNU and Windows 7

2011-03-26 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Joel Roth : > The Minitool Partition Wizard live CD can move "unmovable files" > and handles other details to be able to shrink a Windows > partition. It's free, very slick, and Linux under the hood. Very interesting. Thanks. > I did this for Windows 7 (on a recent Thinkpad). It is occasi

Re: Dual boot GNU and Windows 7

2011-03-26 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth k...@trixtar.org: > There's a long thread on alt.os.linux titled "Please recommend partitioning > schemes for Linux" that might interest you. Thanks. I've read the first few postings and it looks like it will be useful. > Dire straits booting ANY bootable partition is real easy with grub1

Re: Dual boot GNU and Windows 7

2011-03-26 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Piscium : > What version of Windows do you have? Windows 7. > I remember reading a while back that resizing Windows Vista partitions with > Gparted can make it unbootable (XP should be fine though). Not sure if that > is still the case, or what is the deal for Windows 7. Funny, I just read

Dual boot GNU and Windows 7

2011-03-26 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi list, I have a new Lenovo IdeaPad laptop and I would like to keep the Windows installation for testing websites in Internet Explorer. At the moment the hard disk looks like this: /dev/sda1 - ntfs - no label- Windows boot partition (200 MiB) /dev/sda2 - ntfs - no label- Main

Re: [postmodern-devel] How to remove trailing spaces?

2011-03-01 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Marijn Haverbeke : >> I meant that I thougth that postgresql could be faster with fixed >> lenght fields, not postmodern, sorry... :-D > > Benchmark this, before you make life hard for yourself. I seem to > remember an expert telling me that fixed char columns are rarely > useful anymore. h

Re: Can the Places side panel be told to ignore certain partitions?

2011-02-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Sebastian Tennant : Correction: *In addition* to this independent device scan, it also shows devices corresponding to fstab entries WITH MOUNT POINTS UNDER /MEDIA (identified by said mount points). I should also add that my new fstab entry: UUID=- /mnt/FAT\040storage vfat

Re: Can the Places side panel be told to ignore certain partitions?

2011-02-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Tomas Bzatek : > we're showing all mounts from /media and your homedir by default. If you want > to hide your custom mounts, move them to /mnt. Noted. > Displaying the device twice might be a bug, or not if information > differ. Something may change the device path (UUID=... here), fs type

Can the Places side panel be told to ignore certain partitions?

2011-02-23 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi list, I'm using nautilus 2.30.1 under Debian. I've split my hard disk into multiple partitions. One such partition is called 'FAT storage'. The following entry in /etc/fstab: UUID=- /media/FAT\040storage vfat user,noauto 0 0 makes it user-mountable on "/media/FAT storage" and I au

Re: Binding keys for summary mode

2011-02-03 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Jim Burton : > (BTW, how do I see what keymaps are in effect for a given buffer?) C-h b OR M-x describe-bindings is your friend. Seb -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.org/eap _

[postmodern-devel] Minor bug in the Simple Date reference manual

2011-01-25 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi Marijn, There's a very minor bug in the Simple Date reference manual: http://marijnhaverbeke.nl/postmodern/simple-date.html The HTML title tag reads "Postmodern reference manual" whereas I belive it should read "Simple Date reference manual". It's noticeable if/when you create browser bookm

Re: need to change mode of nnml email files

2011-01-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Lars Ingebrigtsen : > Sebastian Tennant writes: > >> nnml email files (under ~/.gnus.d/nnml/) get mode 500 (rw---) by default. >> >> Can I loosen this to 540 (rw-r-), ideally on a per-group basis? > > `nnmail-default-file-modes' says what file p

Re: EasyPG versus Mailcrypt in Emacs 23

2011-01-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Philipp Haselwarter : > What are they good for? Actually, I've just realised that they do a bit more: ---%<--%<--%<--%<--%<--%<--%<--%<--- (mc-write-mode &optional ARG) Minor mode for interfacing with cryptographic functions. C-c / eEncrypt (

Re: EasyPG versus Mailcrypt in Emacs 23

2011-01-22 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Richard Riley : > Philipp Haselwarter writes: > >> I fear I still don't get your question, but that might be due to the >> fact that I've never used mailcrypt. >> All I do when I want to read an encrypted mail is select it in the >> summary. Then I usually get prompted if I want to decrypt t

Re: EasyPG versus Mailcrypt in Emacs 23

2011-01-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Philipp Haselwarter : > What are they good for? Encrypting/decrypting email message bodies for a recipient's/your eyes only (if I remember correctly). Seb -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.org/eap

EasyPG versus Mailcrypt in Emacs 23

2011-01-18 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi list, I recently switched to Emacs 23 and I had planned to get rid of Mailcrypt in favour of EasyPG, which is now included. However, I forgot that I have the following lines in my .gnus: (add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook 'mc-install-read-mode) (add-hook 'message-mode-hook 'mc-install-write-

need to change mode of nnml email files

2011-01-12 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi list, nnml email files (under ~/.gnus.d/nnml/) get mode 500 (rw---) by default. Can I loosen this to 540 (rw-r-), ideally on a per-group basis? Thanks, Seb -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.or

[exim] string too large in smtp_notquit_exit()

2010-12-15 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi Ximmers, For the last two or three days I've woken up to the following message in my /var/log/exim4/paniclog: 2010-12-16 01:21:27 string too large in smtp_notquit_exit() Anyone know what's causing it and why it should have suddenly started happening? I haven't touched my exim setup in a whi

[exim] Prevent the sending of locally generated blank email

2010-10-13 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi list, How easy or hard would it be to write an ACL that denies locally generated email if the subject header _and_ the body of the email are blank, i.e., contain nothing at all, or just horizontal or vertical whitespace? Any tips/pointers/suggestions very much appreciated. I'm struggling with

[exim] What to do when a message is locked

2010-10-10 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi list, Scenario: Sending an announcement to thousands of recipient addresses and then suddenly remembering that you forgot to include a vital piece of inforamtion. In the above scenario it's not possible to prevent the message from being sent to any more recipients by markin

Re: [Eap-dev] M-p s in dired does not work

2010-09-15 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi Matthieu, Quoth ra...@free.fr: > I am currently trying eap, which seems a good idea of how to play music with > emacs (I especially like the dired integration, and the use of symlinks for > playlists). Thanks. > However I stumbled upon the following problem: M-p s in dired does not work > (fa

[Eap-commits] r55 - in /trunk: eap-autoloads.el eap-dired-keybindings.el

2010-09-14 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Author: sebyte Date: Wed Sep 15 08:55:45 2010 New Revision: 55 URL: http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/eap?rev=55&view=rev Log: Fixed naming bug - dried-eap-symlink-to-playdir -> dired-eap-symlink-to-playlist-library Modified: trunk/eap-autoloads.el trunk/eap-dired-keybindings.el _

Re: [exim] ACL question

2010-06-16 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Sebastian Tennant : > Try as I might, I can't get any ACLs to work. Many thanks to both respondents. Noted and understood. May I suggest that the chapter in the manual on regular expressions be changed to highlight the fact that Exim cannot handle delimiter-modifier notation (e.

[exim] ACL question

2010-06-12 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi all, Try as a might, I can't get any ACLs to work. I'm using Exim 4.69 (split configuration) on a Debian box and I've edited: /etc/exim4/conf.d/acl/00_exim4_config_header to read: begin acl acl_smtp_connect: deny message = Go away! hosts = 79.126.200.252 but when I do:

Re: [alexandria-devel] Compilation failure

2010-06-04 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Attila Lendvai : > i'm not sure it's related, but this change is missing from the git > repo (or maybe i didn't push it or too late to the darcs repo): > > -#-sbcl(simple-error reader-error) > +#-sbcl(reader-error simple-error) > > but it's only on #-sbcl, so... ... not much help the

[alexandria-devel] Compilation failure

2010-06-02 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi all, Just checked out the latest git version and keep getting the following compilation error with SBCL 1.0.34: --- REPL --- [...] WARNING: COMPILE-FILE warned while performing # on #. ; compilation unit aborted ; caught 1 fatal ERROR condition ; caught 1 WARNING condition

Re: [Gimp-user] PNG files and IE6

2010-05-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Frank Gore : > There's more to it than just the PNG format, and this isn't really a Gimp > thing: > > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/ Many thanks to all respondents. It turns out there are two kinds of transparency; binary & alpha channel. IE6 can handle binary but not alpha channel

[Gimp-user] PNG files and IE6

2010-05-27 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi all, I downloaded a few little icons in PNG format which have transparent backgrounds and they display fine in IE6. I then created a spacer image (in Gimp) consisting solely of a transparent background but it is rendered as a solid colour (light grey) in IE6. Can anyone explain what it is you

Re: [postmodern-devel] Passing a list to a prepared query

2010-05-16 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Marijn Haverbeke : > I think that Postgres doesn't allow the right-hand side of IN to be an > $-parameter. Try something like > this: > > (defprepared addresses-by-ids > "SELECT address FROM users WHERE id = ANY($1)" :column) > > I think you'll still have to convert your list to a vecto

[postmodern-devel] Passing a list to a prepared query

2010-05-14 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi, I'd like to do this: (defprepared addresses-by-ids "SELECT address FROM users WHERE id IN $1" :column) and then call it like so: CLUSER> (addresses-by-ids "(1,2,3)") Is this possible? I've tried a few different approaches but keep getting errors. Many thanks for great software by th

Re: [elephant-devel] Memory corruption in open-store

2010-02-18 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Andrew Kirkpatrick : > Hi, I'm trying to use elephant but with limited success. Running on > Ubuntu 9.04, with clbuild installed SBCL 1.0.35.1 and current Elephant > and dependencies. I tried using contrib/henrik/install-bdb.sh to install > Berkeley DB 4.5 and set up my-config.sexp as it s

Re: [elephant-devel] Elephant in Production and the Elephant 1.0 Release

2009-12-07 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Ian Eslick : > :: Appeal below for help on 1.0 :: > > There is plenty of opportunity for small efforts from volunteers (1-3 hour > chunks) that would greatly accelerate the release cycle. If you write to me > directly, I'd be willing to put together a 'punchlist' of small projects > along th

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB problems and a proper FAQ

2009-11-24 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Ian Eslick : > I've posted this FAQ documentation online. It looks good. Thanks. Seb -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.org/eap ___ elephant-devel site l

Re: [elephant-devel] "file is not of required architecture"

2009-11-22 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Sebastian Tennant : > Quoth Ian Eslick : >> What were the problems you encountered and solutions you found? >> Anything we should add to the FAQ? > > Nothing (reliable) that isn't already addressed in the FAQ. I suspect there's > something in git SBC

[elephant-devel] Inspecting a bdb store

2009-11-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi guys, I'm _very_ new to the Berkeley DB way of doing things so please bear with me. map-root allows you to inspect the root BTree of a bdb store, but having created a few instances of a persistent class and performed a map-root, there's no sign of these stored instances. get-instances-by-clas

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Ian Eslick : >> I still intend to provide some patches for doc/Makefile and doc/ >> elephant.texinfo. > I'm happy to make the updates if you provide doc patches (for the 1.0 > release) and I'll post the FAQ once we've resolved the current problems. I hope to be able to edit elephant.texin

Re: [elephant-devel] "file is not of required architecture"

2009-11-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Ian Eslick : > What were the problems you encountered and solutions you found? > Anything we should add to the FAQ? Nothing (reliable) that isn't already addressed in the FAQ. I suspect there's something in git SBCL (1.0.32.xx) which was causing me problems on my 32-bit Debian box but I'

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth "Leslie P. Polzer" : > Sebastian Tennant wrote: >> If he isn't able to do it, then who is? > Well, with "able" I mostly meant "has the time, motivation and energy". >> Does such a person exist? > I think there are a few candida

Re: [elephant-devel] "file is not of required architecture"

2009-11-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth "Leslie P. Polzer" : > Can you send us the backtrace? Also try compiling libmemutil.so manually. > The patches shouldn't influence the compatibility but it can't harm to apply > them either. I've got elephant working on my Mac as well now - a 32-bit ClozureCL and a patched 32-bit BDB - so t

Re: [elephant-devel] "file is not of required architecture"

2009-11-19 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Ian Eslick : > The reason I asked for the my-config.sexp is that the my-config you > forwarded some time ago below will fail in the way you are talking > about (undefined symbols as well as unrecognized arguments) because > this file is telling it to use BDB 4.5 headers to talk to 4.7

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB problems and a proper FAQ

2009-11-19 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Ian Eslick : > What's your my-config look like again? I removed some stale .dx32fsl files and I'm pleased to say that bdb stores are now working with a 32-bit CCL on my Mac. (I ended up in '32-bit mode' while wrangling with SBCL, which I still haven't managed to get working). I'm going to

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB problems and a proper FAQ

2009-11-19 Thread Sebastian Tennant
FFI (not available through clbuild) dependency. We have made attempts to port Berkeley DB to CFFI (available through clbuild) but without success; there are subtle issues that lead to obscure bugs and the original FFI developer who wrote that code left the project in 2003 or 2004 and no one

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-14 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Henrik Hjelte : > You could perhaps try to remove all fasl and generated files I've been doing that all along. > and recompile with an older sbcl version. Sbcl can have bugs sometimes. This is what I'm going to do. Thanks for the suggestion. I despaired at the thought initially but then

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-14 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth "Leslie P. Polzer" : > CFFI is younger than UFFI and works in a different way. They provide an > incomplete UFFI compatibility layer, though. Thanks for the clarification. > [Luís is] one of the primary [CFFI] developers I think. But that doesn't mean > that he's able [...] to do this work.

Re: [elephant-devel] "file is not of required architecture"

2009-11-14 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth "Leslie P. Polzer" : >> Berkeley DB error #22: Invalid argument >> [Condition of type BDB-DB-ERROR] > Try again after removing libmemutil.so (thus causing Elephant to rebuild it). It fails before this file is built, i.e., there is no libmemutil.so. Instead, there's a strange directory

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-13 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Robert Synnott : > 2009/11/13 Sebastian Tennant : >> Two isn't many :) > There are certainly more than two. I've used it in a reasonably large > production webapp, and I know of a few other people who've used it. I was joking (hence the smiley) and tr

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-13 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth "Leslie P. Polzer" : > I don't know much about this. My guess is that this page only lists > authors that have committed a chunk big enough to be relevant in > copyright matters. Yes, I'm sure you're right. > I've contributed a substantial number of fixes and help people when > they face pr

Re: [elephant-devel] "file is not of required architecture"

2009-11-13 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Sebastian Tennant : > Now let's see if I can get elephant's bdb store working on my Mac. Well, I'm a lot closer, but still not quite there yet. I compiled a 64-bit BerkeleyDB but now I get a 'Berkeley DB error #22: Invalid argument' error message when I try to

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