Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:47:31AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..huh? I found him doing it once: > http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/07/p/16_radio.html I recall he did it when he gave progressive editorials back when he had a promisi

Newbie

2003-11-16 Thread Steven Bradley
Hi, Just finished with a fresh install of 3.0, got all the way to the end where it was time to  reboot put in user name and password this is what followed after hitting enter; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$. Is there another command that is needed or is something not installed rihght.   Thanks

Re: xinetd

2003-11-16 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Tom! On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:46:04PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: I was playing with xinetd on another distro and decided that I kind of liked it and wanted to install it onto my debian distro. Well, I wouldn't like to miss its extended features either. I was a little surprised to find tha

Re: USB 2 and APIC Question.

2003-11-16 Thread Tom
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:13:11AM +0700, Frans Thamura wrote: > Anyone success install Microsoft Intellimouse USB to Debian box? Yes. I have to preload the module "hid" but then hotplug picks it up. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: snd-card-es18xx.o

2003-11-16 Thread Edward Murrell
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 12:13, Gustavo Perro Boksar wrote: > Hi, I have a Debian Woody (2.4.18-bf2.4) over a Compaq Presario 1267. > I'm fighting to install my soundcard with no success :( > I know that the correct module is snd-card-es18xx.o which I downloaded form > the Internet but all versions

Re: alternative to mrproject (gnome project planner)

2003-11-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 01:35:49 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..is any of these project juggler toys built as front end to a > > > > real database like postgresql? > > > > > > Bette

Re: ~99 0005-1233

2003-11-16 Thread Frans Thamura
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Re: USB 2 and APIC Question.

2003-11-16 Thread Frans Thamura
Hi All, Anyone success install Microsoft Intellimouse USB to Debian box? Regards, Frans Thamura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Intercitra Innovation Center +62 855 7888 699 We help you manage and control. -- Tertarik dengan Java Open Source Integration discussion?? bergabung ke JUG Indonesia ma

Re: I hope you have an answer for the following:

2003-11-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:50:46PM -0500, Carlo Krueger wrote: > I have spent en entire day (i really mean an entire day) searching for the answer in > the Internet but I only found a lot of people with similar problems. > > Here I go: I installed certain packages on my Debian distribution using

Re: dpkg error (repost)

2003-11-16 Thread Nick Hastings
Hi Simon, * Simon Tod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031117 10:35]: > Hi. > I was in the process of purging a package when I > accidently killed the process. > > Now, when I try 'apt-get --purge remove ftape-util' I > get the error > > dpkg: error processing ftape-util (--purge): > Package is in a very

I hope you have an answer for the following:

2003-11-16 Thread Carlo Krueger
I have spent en entire day (i really mean an entire day) searching for the answer in the Internet but I only found a lot of people with similar problems. Here I go: I installed certain packages on my Debian distribution using Kernel BF24. "dpkg" can't configure a package that depends on this pac

Re: ACPI

2003-11-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:47:37PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > I have a computer with the BIOS specifically supporting ACPI. > > But when I 'halt' it goes to 'Power Down' and then stops dead. > But it never turns off. > > Can I do something like append "ACPI=on" to the lilo/grub config and > hav

sound problems

2003-11-16 Thread Glen Wagley
I just installed Debian via the new debian installer. The auto-detection was very slick. One thing that didn't work however, is my sound. I have a Soundblaster Live Value card. I installed alsa-modules-2.4.22-1-i386 but ran into the following errors: Attempting to start. depmod: *** Unresolved

Re: splitting mbox files

2003-11-16 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 02:14:00PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:44:02PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a program on debian that would let me split an mbox file into a > > series of single files each containing an email? I've looked and found > > mboxgrep but

Re: alternative to mrproject (gnome project planner)

2003-11-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > ..is any of these project juggler toys built as front end to a > > > real database like postgresql? > > > > Better. A standard text file, true to unix tradition. File the text > > file in a non-dumb way, and you can have full version control, etc.

Re: alternative to mrproject (gnome project planner)

2003-11-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:28:14 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:37:51 -0200, > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: xinetd

2003-11-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I was playing with xinetd on another distro and decided that I kind of > liked it and wanted to install it onto my debian distro. > > I was a little surprised to find that I could not then remove the inetd > package. > > Does this mean that I have both 'super servers' installed at once? I have

Re: ACPI

2003-11-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I have a computer with the BIOS specifically supporting ACPI. > > But when I 'halt' it goes to 'Power Down' and then stops dead. > But it never turns off. > > Can I do something like append "ACPI=on" to the lilo/grub config and > have the kernel pick up on that? First, you have to have ACPI en

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:05:38 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 02:30, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:52:47 -0600, > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Sun,

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:02:27 -0800, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:38:11AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:12:34PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >

Missing apostrophe

2003-11-16 Thread Jeff Elkins
Since doing a sid apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday, many websites are showing up with square blocks for certain characters, mainly the apostrophe. Is this a fontconfig issue? How can I fix it? Thanks, Jeff Elkins -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Help getting wireless card working

2003-11-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, stan wrote: > Can some kind soul point me to some docs on getting my new wireeless card > working under Debina? looks like goggling for :"wireless debian" ( without quotes is a good start ) but, for your stuff, are oyu looking for pci ro pcmcia cards.. c ya

Re: gagging - dual-boot - yup - backups

2003-11-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote: .. > > - i watch where the finger goes before i sign > > the dotted lines and look for them checks > > and lots of checklist items too of what's oka > > and whats not acceptable .. > > ..I'm not talking trivial bootloader code, I'm talking

muttprofile - changing maildir when changing profile within mutt

2003-11-16 Thread Micha Feigin
I installed muttprofile to help me handle changing betwin the local maildir and a remote imap account I have without trying to remember the addressess each time. As sugested I made a key binding in mutt to enable changing the profiles and source the new values. I can't figure out though how to make

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-16 Thread ben
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 12:43:23 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:06:13AM +, ben wrote: > > in fact, i remember that the father-son assault of a baseball > > umpire somewhere in the midwest made the nigh

Re: ACPI

2003-11-16 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:47:37PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Can I do something like append "ACPI=on" to the lilo/grub config and > have the kernel pick up on that? Which kernel are you using? You need to be using either a patched kernel of ACPI or the latest, stable kernel (currently 2.4.22).

ACPI

2003-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
I have a computer with the BIOS specifically supporting ACPI. But when I 'halt' it goes to 'Power Down' and then stops dead. But it never turns off. Can I do something like append "ACPI=on" to the lilo/grub config and have the kernel pick up on that? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xinetd

2003-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
I was playing with xinetd on another distro and decided that I kind of liked it and wanted to install it onto my debian distro. I was a little surprised to find that I could not then remove the inetd package. Does this mean that I have both 'super servers' installed at once? Isn't there some w

Re: Debian for enterprise

2003-11-16 Thread Tom Allison
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2003 11:54, John L. Fjellstad wrote: The newbie wouldn't pick it from the crackers site, because the newbie would just change his sources.list file to point at testing or unstable. Not if he wants to use stable. snort in unstable depends on libc6 (>=

Re: alternative to mrproject (gnome project planner)

2003-11-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:37:51 -0200, > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Try www.taskjuggler.org. Debian packages are being produced as we > > speak (of their CVS version). > > > > Unlike mrproje

Re: making /dev entries

2003-11-16 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 18:43:50 +0100, LeVA wrote: > Hello! > > I accidentally deleted my /dev/dsp0 file. Is there any way, to remake > that device? I have recompiled my kernel, and run /sbin/MAKEDEV, but no > success. > > Thanks! > > Daniel > cd /dev MAKEDEV audio Anita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: apt-preferences: is this right?

2003-11-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Schulman wrote: Package: * Pin: origin "www.schuldei.org/debian/bruby" Pin-Priority: 999 I think that will work. Unfortunately, the last time I looked, the "origin" feature is badly documented. So I'm not sure about the quotes, or how much of the URL you need. But for example, I have Pa

Help! kernels with hde2 and sdb2 as root devices.

2003-11-16 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I have the following problem. I am using a Gateway 700CX with a 160 GB Maxtor ATA hard drive which uses SATA. I found that I could get the hard drive recognized only with Knoppix 3.3, and I used knx-hdinstall to install sid on the hard drives which are recognized as hde. The cd rom is r

Re: Building XFree 4.3

2003-11-16 Thread . .
Hi everyone I'm tring to build Xfree 4.3 on my debian system because I need a patch to the siliconmotion driver that has only been committed in 4.3.99. I'm trying two separate paths, and I'm stuck in either. If you send us a diff, we can include it in the next release. Why do you need this patc

Re: Could not load OpenGL library

2003-11-16 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:03:32AM +1300, Edward Murrell wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 07:15, Nathan wrote: > I seem to hit this problem each time a dist-upgrade is done that > upgrades any of the graphics components. As far as I can work out, the > nvidia drivers exercise a shotgun approach to in

Re: mutt - keeping read messages in place

2003-11-16 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Micha Feigin penned: > It seems that mutt insists on asking me to move read messages each > time I exit. I prefer to leave messages in place and its annoying to > get asked that, is it possible to make mutt stop bugging me? > > And while I'm with mutt, is it poss

Re: splitting mbox files

2003-11-16 Thread TR
mb2md in sid On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:14:00 -0500 ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:44:02PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there a program on debian that would let me split an mbox file > > into a series of single files each containing an email? I've looke

LIVE LONGER with H-uman...G-rowth...H-ormone...kenadia

2003-11-16 Thread Pat Harding
H-uman...G-rowth...H-ormone Therapy "Overall deterioration of the body that comes with growing old is not inevitable."---Dr. Daniel Rudman's in the New England Journal of Medicine. Follow me to longer living: http://www.mmv9.org?affil=49 Scientific research and evidence overwhelmingly demonst

Re: mutt - keeping read messages in place

2003-11-16 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Micha! On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:33:04AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: It seems that mutt insists on asking me to move read messages each time I exit. I prefer to leave messages in place and its annoying to get asked that, is it possible to make mutt stop bugging me? set move=no And while I

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-16 Thread John
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 02:12:48PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > Folks, could you please take this off-topic thread somewhere else, > perhaps to private e-mail? Let's get back to Debian. > > Thanks, Sigh.. Good try Colin. Not a good way to present Debian/Linux for people subscribing to this

Re: Could not load OpenGL library

2003-11-16 Thread Nathan
Does anybody know what graphics libraries were recently upgraded? Also, is there a way to downgrade my system back to what it was two weeks ago? Thanks Nathan Merritt signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

mutt - keeping read messages in place

2003-11-16 Thread Micha Feigin
It seems that mutt insists on asking me to move read messages each time I exit. I prefer to leave messages in place and its annoying to get asked that, is it possible to make mutt stop bugging me? And while I'm with mutt, is it possible to make mutt mark new messages with a different color and

Re: Installing modem

2003-11-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
Success the breakthrough command was wvdialconf which located and configured the modem. The modem was located on ttyS4 and dialing the ISP succeded. Thanks to all. Regards; Hoyt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation Help: SATA Drive

2003-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 02:47, Elie De Brauwer wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2003 22:33, Erik Steffl wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 17:15, Justin Burke wrote: [snip] > > you need a fairly new kernel for SATA, 2.4.21 iwth ac4 patches, I > > think. If you have a large SATA drive (>130GB) you als

Re: Could not load OpenGL library

2003-11-16 Thread Edward Murrell
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 07:15, Nathan wrote: > Sometime in the last few days my OpenGL (or SDL, I'm not sure) has > stopped working. I use OpenGL primarily for gaming, so not having it > hasn't killed me. The error message I get when starting up Unreal > Tournament (and UT 2003) is: > > Opening SDL

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 02:30, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:52:47 -0600, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 00:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: [snip] > > > ..what stops Sissy Boy George from launching a "preventive" strike

Re: problems starting x

2003-11-16 Thread navaja
navaja wrote: actually i just got x working. turns out that i had commented out InputDevice "Generic Mouse" this meant that it was using another profile for my mouse that didnt work. i noticed that dpkg-reconfigure didnt seem to update the XF86config file, even though i ran it several times, th

Compaq Armada virtual terminal messing up

2003-11-16 Thread navaja
ok that came out under another thread by accident so im reposting... hi, i'm running unstable, and xfree86 3.2.1-14 before starting x everything is fine. Then I start it and when i try to to got to one of the virtual terminal consoles, the screen is messed up. Even if I stop X they stay messed up

Compaq Armada and virtual terminals messing up

2003-11-16 Thread navaja
hi, i'm running unstable, and xfree86 3.2.1-14 before starting x everything is fine. Then I start it and when i try to to got to one of the virtual terminal consoles, the screen is messed up. Even if I stop X they stay messed up (ie loads of colors just garbage completely unreadeable) anyone h

Re: problems starting x

2003-11-16 Thread navaja
actually i just got x working. turns out that i had commented out InputDevice "Generic Mouse" this meant that it was using another profile for my mouse that didnt work. thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problems starting x

2003-11-16 Thread navaja
Could you post the config file too? ok i installed a newer version of XF86config. now i get this http://www.ayni.co.uk/errormsgsx/XFree86.0.log heres my config file http://www.ayni.co.uk/errormsgsx/XF86Config-4 the config file was set up when installing the new xf86 with dpkg-configure thank

Could not load OpenGL library

2003-11-16 Thread Simon Roscic
(please CC me as I'm not on the list) Hi, I have exactly the same problem as you (Nathan, Kevin). > Unreal Tournament (and UT 2003) is: >... > binding libGL.so.1 > appError called: > Could not load OpenGL library Quake 3, Armagetron, GL-117, Tux Racer, Tux Aqfh, Chromium, Vegastrike, and many o

Re: printer icon

2003-11-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 20:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since I updated to 9.0 I have no printer icon, nothing to enable me to > print out a task. Help 9.0 is not a recognisable Debian version. It couldn't be Red Hat by any chance? Or even AOL, seeing who you've cc'ed. If you really are on Deb

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:29:46PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Personally, I think the Queen should have intervened. It was in her > name too, and I don't think she was exactly enthusiastic about it. Yeah, usually she keeps an ear out for stuff that the no

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:21:12AM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:24:05PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..ofcourse, the _next_ bunch will have to learn takeoff and landings, > > simply to avoid suspicion. And, they will look just like

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 01:22:54AM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:42:13AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > [more horseshit] > > I figured you'd say something like that. Dangling reference. Please http://learn.to/quote/ - -- .''`. Pau

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:47:03PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 02:31:36AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > [a bunch of horseshit] > > The terrorists are trying to get into the US via Canada. When was American security ever Canada's problem t

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 06:38:11AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:12:34PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > That movie's writer/director, Michael Moore, *hates* people who > > > don't agree with him. So, if you watch the movie

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 09:21:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Because Canada wasn't born in rebellion, and doesn't still have > individualism as part of it's ethos? > > Because Canadians *like* government? Canadian politicians at least admit they fu

Re: problems starting x

2003-11-16 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Sunday 16 November 2003 21:50, navaja wrote: > hi, > > im getting an error message that stops me from starting x > > http://www.ayni.co.uk/errormsgsx/XFree86.0.log > > anyone know what's wrong? Not really, but it seems like the mouse wasn't configured right, and that the file is a bit messed u

Re: printer icon

2003-11-16 Thread WGioe
Since I updated to 9.0 I have no printer icon, nothing to enable me to print out a task.  Help

Re: problems starting x

2003-11-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:50:11PM +, navaja wrote: > im getting an error message that stops me from starting x > > http://www.ayni.co.uk/errormsgsx/XFree86.0.log > > anyone know what's wrong? That error message says that the ServerLayout section in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 has a line saying 'I

problems starting x

2003-11-16 Thread navaja
hi, im getting an error message that stops me from starting x http://www.ayni.co.uk/errormsgsx/XFree86.0.log anyone know what's wrong? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Adding a parameter to an already installed kernel driver

2003-11-16 Thread Otto Wyss
I installed the aty128fb kernel driver (with modconf) and would like to add a parameter now but don't know where. Unfortunately I can't uninstall/reinstall it since the driver is alway in use. Does anyone know where I can add it? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.sourceforge.net/"; for ideas how to

alsa-module kernel driver for Waveterminal 192L

2003-11-16 Thread Otto Wyss
Since alsa has a driver for the Waveterminal 192L I installed the alsa packages together with the alsa-modules package for my kernel. During installation a list of drivers are shown but I have no idea which one is for the Waveterminal 192L. Does anyone else? O. Wyss -- See "http://wxguide.source

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:06:13AM +, ben wrote: > in fact, i remember that the father-son assault of a baseball > umpire somewhere in the midwest made the nightly news because it was > quite uncharacteristic of sports fans in the u.s. And yet, wh

Re: devfs

2003-11-16 Thread Todd Pytel
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:19:32 +0100 "John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:52, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > Same story I've heard. My experience with it is pretty gwadawful. > > My experience with devfs has been pretty good. It's nice knowing > exactly wh

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 14:01:23 -0500, ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 01:22:54AM -0800, Tom wrote: > > [Some manure of his own] > > > I think you are not a very nice person. You are *really* hurting my > > feelings. > > Tom, I'm so

Re: devfs

2003-11-16 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:52, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Same story I've heard. My experience with it is pretty gwadawful. My experience with devfs has been pretty good. It's nice knowing exactly which device is loaded just looking at the /dev f

Re: Debian for enterprise

2003-11-16 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 16 November 2003 12:16, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > And I mean, the core question is: What is the advantage of not updating > packages, when the package is in question is so old you shouldn't use > it? As far as I know, security patches get bac

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-16 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:42:06AM -0800, Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:40:20PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > > * Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031115 17:30]: > > > > > > But I can't find the place to change UserAgentString in Mfirebird. > > > Where is it? > > > > I t

Re: devfs

2003-11-16 Thread John L. Fjellstad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 November 2003 14:48, Tom Allison wrote: > This is based on a comment I received once long ago from a Debian > posting that devfs as a whole wasn't working out all that well and has > been removed from the 2.6 kernel. I thought it was be

Re: apt-preferences: is this right?

2003-11-16 Thread Andrew Schulman
> Package: * > Pin: origin "www.schuldei.org/debian/bruby" > Pin-Priority: 999 I think that will work.  Unfortunately, the last time I looked, the "origin" feature is badly documented.  So I'm not sure about the quotes, or how much of the URL you need.  But for example, I have Package: k3b Pin: o

Re: Debian for enterprise

2003-11-16 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Sunday 16 November 2003 18:51, Bob Proulx wrote: > Your point gets debated often on the debian lists.  The end result is > almost always that debian needs to release more often.  The current > release cycle is way too long.  The solution to this problem is not > so clear.  Everyone has ideas.

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-16 Thread Martin J. Hillyer
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 05:40:20PM -0600, Lance Simmons wrote: > * Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031115 17:30]: > > > > But I can't find the place to change UserAgentString in Mfirebird. > > Where is it? > > I think it's one of the extensions you can download and install. > > -- > Lance S

Re: Debian for enterprise

2003-11-16 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Sunday 16 November 2003 20:29, Johannes Zarl wrote: > > And I mean, the core question is: What is the advantage of not > > updating packages, when the package is in question is so old you > > shouldn't use it? > > Sorry, if I miss the point, but if there is an advisory against using > the versio

Re: Debian for enterprise

2003-11-16 Thread Johannes Zarl
> And I mean, the core question is: What is the advantage of not updating > packages, when the package is in question is so old you shouldn't use > it? Sorry, if I miss the point, but if there is an advisory against using the version of snort oficially released with woody, shouldn't there also b

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-16 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 09:17:46 -0600, "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > - Original Message - > From: "Arnt Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 00:18 > Subject: Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmi

blank screen in Xvnc / xrdb can't open display - on Woody

2003-11-16 Thread John Stumbles
[3rd time lucky? apologies if you've seen this: NTLworld seems to be even more pants than usual and to have lost my original usenet post and repost of this message as far as I can tell, so I'm now trying through the mailing list] I'm trying to connect to my Woody (3.0r1) box from vnc client on win

Re: splitting mbox files

2003-11-16 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:44:02PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi, > Is there a program on debian that would let me split an mbox file into a > series of single files each containing an email? I've looked and found > mboxgrep but not sure if there is something else that would be better It kinda so

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-16 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 01:22:54AM -0800, Tom wrote: [Some manure of his own] > I think you are not a very nice person. You are *really* hurting my > feelings. Tom, I'm sorry you chose to take this as a personal attack. That is honestly not how it was intended. I don't condone calling you a re

kernel patch question

2003-11-16 Thread Richard Kimber
I have been experimenting with the low latency and preempt patches. http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html says that after the kernel is built, make-kpkg reverses the patches you applied, so that each new build starts with an unpatched source tree. However, whenever I try to re-b

Re: Trouble with exim-tls

2003-11-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:25:14 -0800, John Schofield wrote: > First off, I'm trying to get secure POP, secure IMAP, and secure SMTP set > up on a Woody box. > The easiest path I've found seems to be installing exim-tls. It installs > correctly, but I can't seem to connect to it from my mail re

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-16 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 11:47:03PM -0800, Tom wrote: > So it is not unlikely that some of the people I saw in Europe are indeed > terrorists, especially when THEY LOOK AND ARE OBVIOUSLY ACTING EXACTLY > LIKE IT. What does a terrorist look and act exactly like then? Do they wear Osama Bin Laden T

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-16 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:46:11AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 00:21:00 -0600, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 23:44, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 12:52:00 -0800, > > > Tom <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-16 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:44:48AM -0800, Tom Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:48:40PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 03:21:12 -0800, > > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:24:05PM +0100, Arnt Karl

Trouble with exim-tls

2003-11-16 Thread John Schofield
I've been having a lot of trouble with exim-tls, and I'd love some perspective from you folks. First off, I'm trying to get secure POP, secure IMAP, and secure SMTP set up on a Woody box. I'm trying to avoid any solution that requires updating by hand -- I want to continue to use apt-get updat

Re: Debian woody or sarge?

2003-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
David Z Maze wrote: > Philip Ross writes: > > I am looking to migrate a few Red Hat boxes to Debian in the next > > month or two and am currently wondering whether to install woody or > > sarge. You did not say but are those servers or desktops? Desktop users tend to be brutal. They want the lat

Re: Debian for enterprise

2003-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
First let me say that Debian makes a great enterprise platform. I am using it for such myself. But actually, I only use it for the base framework. I carefully drive the addition and deletion of packages. Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Do 'apt-get source ' (which always gets

making /dev entries

2003-11-16 Thread LeVA
Hello! I accidentally deleted my /dev/dsp0 file. Is there any way, to remake that device? I have recompiled my kernel, and run /sbin/MAKEDEV, but no success. Thanks! Daniel -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

exim config - using multiple smtp servers

2003-11-16 Thread Micha Feigin
Hello, I want to set up exim (or a different MTA if it can do it) to send mail through multiple smtp servers where the choice of the server is based on the from address. Also possibly have the local from address automaticaly replaced to one of the configured ones. To make the setup somewhat cl

Exim (Woody) smarthost using authenicated ssmtp

2003-11-16 Thread sda
Hello: I searched the archives but didn't find anything that solved or helped my situation and yes, I've RTFM, or parts of it. I'm using Rogers Cable HighSpeed, and they require all outbound smtp to be authenticated using SMTP AUTH LOGIN. I can't figure out the syntax to use. I do have fetchm

Re: Debian for enterprise

2003-11-16 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Sunday 16 November 2003 18:10, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Do 'apt-get source ' (which always gets you the latest > source). Then 'cd - && dpkg-buildpackage' Yup, that's cool and all, but really, it doesn't answer the question, what is it to gain by having outdated packages in the archive...? C

Re: Woody kernel upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread Bob Proulx
James Hosken wrote: > That's just what I needed, thanks. I have followed your > instructions and the kernel has installed OK and booted OK. But I > have lost the network. If worse comes to worse you can boot LinuxOLD to get your network back to be able to download new packages. In particular yo

Exim (Woody) smarthost using authenicated ssmtp

2003-11-16 Thread Stephen
Hello: I searched the archives but didn't find anything that solved or helped my situation and yes, I've RTFM, or parts of it. I'm using Rogers Cable HighSpeed, and they require all outbound smtp to be authenticated using SMTP AUTH LOGIN. I can't figure out the syntax to use. I do have fetchmail

Re: Debian woody or sarge?

2003-11-16 Thread David Z Maze
"Philip Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking to migrate a few Red Hat boxes to Debian in the next > month or two and am currently wondering whether to install woody or > sarge. If you're new to Debian, I'd strongly suggest starting with the stable distribution (so, in this case, woody

TRAMP doesn't work anymore

2003-11-16 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
Hi list! After my recent upgrade to sid, TRAMP, the Emacs mode to access remote files and stuff like that, doesn't work anymore. I'm using emacs20. I've been using the version in stable earlier, I used to be a bit confused when I set it up, and I had to type my password, but other than that,

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-16 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Arnt Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 00:18 Subject: Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]] > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:49:50 -0600, > "Hoyt

Re: LKM Trojan

2003-11-16 Thread Gerard Ceraso
yup I am running unstable. I was going crazy over here. ~gerard On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 11:52, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:10:00 +0100 > Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command > > > Warning: Possible LKM

Re: Debian for enterprise

2003-11-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2003 11:54, John L. Fjellstad wrote: The newbie wouldn't pick it from the crackers site, because the newbie would just change his sources.list file to point at testing or unstable. Not if he wants to use stable. snort in unstable depends on libc6 (>=

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