Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:37:58 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > > > There is nothing OT about my contributions. This started as a > > question of whether totalitarian regimes can tolerate diversity. > > I have consistently been arguing that they can not. > >

Re: Worse than useless replies

2007-03-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:27:10PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On 3/7/07, pinniped <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> huh? >>> >>> I really don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've been leaving >>> the subject b

Re: wma player for firefox

2007-03-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:45:18PM +0100, Jonas Geiregat wrote: >> I'm using amazon to listen to cd's I might buy. But the mplayer plugin >> for firefox doesn't play the short pieces of music. I think it's the >> wma format ,

Re: Possible iceweasel bug

2007-03-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/07/07 16:32, Michael Marsh wrote: >> On 3/7/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Since the last upgrade on sid I am experiencing strange behaviour by >>> iceweasel (2.0.0.2+dfsg-2). If I click on a link in some o

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-07 Thread Jon Ingason
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez skrev: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:12PM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: >> What is the physical limit for a diskpartition in kernel 2.6? >> > I think the kernel has a logical limit. The physical limit is > determined by your hardware.

Re: Thoughts on zsh? (was Re: vim like completion in bash?)

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Chris Bannister wrote: > I *too* would like to know how bash can do that. Is zsh worth changing > to just for that? Yeah, I know "apt-get install zsh-doc" :-) Just for that? Who knows. I however switched to zsh quite a while ago because bash just befuddled me. It seemed like simple things t

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Allowing the inspectors to continue, as most of the world wanted to > do. Possibly augmenting them with CIA or FBI agents (IRAQ said that > they would allow this). Tell me, how many chances does a dictator and thug like Saddam get before "and this time, we mean

Re: Debian GUI

2007-03-07 Thread pinniped
Once you add each cd to your source list using "apt-cdrom add" you do not have to think about which CD has what - the package manager will ask you for the correct CD. You will also be able to use 'apt-cache search' to find keywords in packages on all CDs after they're added. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Debian GUI

2007-03-07 Thread John C
Toshko wrote: Hi, I have just installed debian 3.1, and have all the 14 cds. however, i do not know which one the GUI is on, and how to load the cds from the text interface for that matter. Can you help me please? It's been a while since I've used it, but I believe you want the apt-cdrom

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-07 Thread Mike McCarty
Liam O'Toole wrote: There is nothing OT about my contributions. This started as a question of whether totalitarian regimes can tolerate diversity. I have consistently been arguing that they can not. AFAICT, everything you wrote is OT in regards to installing, maintaining, and using Debian. M

Re: Worse then useless replies

2007-03-07 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi all, Michael Pobega wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:34:08AM +0100, pinniped wrote: huh? I really don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've been leaving the subject blank lately because people bitch about it for no apparent reason. But if you really don't want the subject cha

Re: Worse than useless replies

2007-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:27:10PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On 3/7/07, pinniped <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >huh? > > > >I really don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've been leaving > >the subject blank lately because people bitch about it for no apparent > >reason. B

Re: Worse then useless replies

2007-03-07 Thread Michael Pobega
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 02:34:08AM +0100, pinniped wrote: > > huh? > > I really don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've been leaving > the subject blank lately because people bitch about it for no apparent > reason. But if you really don't want the subject changing, why don't you

Re: Emacs key binding problem on debian testing.

2007-03-07 Thread r. clayton
I don't have a testing box at hand, but on an unstable box[1], evaluating (define-key c-mode-base-map "\C-cp" 'insert-c-procedure-skeleton) (define-key c-mode-base-map "\C-ci" 'insert-include-statement) in a C buffer, yields to the following results: C-h k Ctrl-C-p => describe-ke

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-07 Thread David Purton
Arrrgghhh. Stop changing the subject line! That's what I add to my OT thread kill file! (No, I can't be bothered adding In-Reply-To and References to my checking ;) ) And don't bother replying to this, I wont get it... dc -- David Purton [EMAIL PROTECTED] For the eyes of the LORD range thro

Re: Debian GUI

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:41:49PM -0500, Toshko wrote: > Hi, > I have just installed debian 3.1, and have all the 14 cds. however, i do not > know which one the GUI is on, and how to load the cds from the text interface > for that matter. Can you help me please? > > Thanks > > Toshko Hi, As a r

Aptitude says all packages are broken!

2007-03-07 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
In my up-to-date Testing system, Aptitude suddenly says that many packages are broken! It also says that many packages are unused and wants to remove them! Apt-get gives similar errors. I did not do anything recently; I have no idea what caused this. Kindly help. $ sudo aptitude install smartm

Re: DST and woody

2007-03-07 Thread Aaron Hall
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Rick Thomas wrote: > PS: Remind the boss that Woody isn't getting security updates any > more... (Or at least that will become true after Etch releases and > Sarge becomes "oldstable") Actually, Woody hasn't been recieving security updates since the middle of last year. See:

Re: Debian GUI

2007-03-07 Thread Kent West
Toshko wrote: I have just installed debian 3.1, and have all the 14 cds. however, i do not know which one the GUI is on, and how to load the cds from the text interface for that matter. Can you help me please? I've never done a CD install, but I understand that the bulk of a "standard end-us

Debian GUI

2007-03-07 Thread Toshko
Hi, I have just installed debian 3.1, and have all the 14 cds. however, i do not know which one the GUI is on, and how to load the cds from the text interface for that matter. Can you help me please? Thanks Toshko - All new Yahoo! Mail -

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> That's modern socialism, my friend. >> >> >> > I will again quote from Wikipedia: >> > >> > "As an economic system, socialism is often characterized by state or >> > community ownership of the means of production." >> > >>

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:44:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> As far as health care goes, medicare is by far the most efficient >> system in the US. >> > Really? Then why won't every doctor in American accept Medicare? Probably because it's rude to in

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:55:56PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> >>> > Iraq also does not have a functioning economy. Now, you might >>> > argue that providing National healthcare is simply getting

Re: Worse than useless replies

2007-03-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 3/7/07, pinniped <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: huh? I really don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've been leaving the subject blank lately because people bitch about it for no apparent reason. But if you really don't want the subject changing, why don't you ask Intnsred if he can

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 15:41, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > [snip] > >> In fact, we have arguably one of the best in the world. It >> would be a colossal screw up to introduce socialized medicine >> here. > > That would be why Luxembourg a

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:13:06PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> >> > Nice revisionist bit of history there. If you go back to the Reagan >> >> > Administration (and less so the first Bush administration), you will >> >> > see that the

Re: How to reject spam with embedded graphics

2007-03-07 Thread s. keeling
Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Does anyone know of a way to deal with spam with embedded graphics? I > cannot use greylisting on a home desktop machine. Throw them away. Anyone with a clue can provide a URL instead. Anyone else (ie., your Mother) can be whitelisted. -- Any technology

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> > On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:47:05 -0800 >> > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> >> > the efforts in the Balkans have been "utter failures" ? >> >> >> >> I'd hardly call any of the former

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Was Java in danger because Imperial Germany invaded France? Not while Sun was holding so tightly to it. ;-] Cybe R. Wizard -- When Windows are opened the bugs come in. Winduhs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:55:56PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> > Iraq also does not have a functioning economy. Now, you might argue >> > that providing National healthcare is simply getting them addicted to >> > it. Which I think is

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:18:14PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:34:44AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> >> >> I'm willing to argue that Vietnam was worse for us than 1812 was for >> >> Canada. They at leas

Re: Hardware failure -- how to find out?

2007-03-07 Thread Marty
Cassiano Leal wrote: People, I have at work a mixed system Debian sarge/etch running a firewall and vpn server on a K6-2. Today, we were experiencing some connectivity problems, and we found out that they were caused by iptables not initiating properly and segfaulting. So, I went into the s

Re: Worse then useless replies

2007-03-07 Thread pinniped
huh? I really don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've been leaving the subject blank lately because people bitch about it for no apparent reason. But if you really don't want the subject changing, why don't you ask Intnsred if he can set things so that the subject isn't changed?

Re: efax-gtk faxing problem ***UPDATE***

2007-03-07 Thread Johnny
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:15:10PM -0600, Johnny wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:50:13PM -0600, Johnny wrote: Hi I am using efax-gtk -3.0.7 The distro that I am using is Ubuntu Dapper since I can't get any answers over there at the o

Re: grml can, why can't my Debian kernel do it?

2007-03-07 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Thomas H. George wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:55:52PM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > >>Thomas H. George wrote: >> >>>When I boot from a grml-0.9 cd my dvdrw and cdrw drives are found on hde >>>and hdf. They are mountable and usable. >>> >>>The grml release info says it is based on Debian and

This thread is worse than useless

2007-03-07 Thread anticapitalista
This thread is worse than useless. Sorry, but what a complete and utterly pointless thread. anticapitalista "Philosophers have interpreted the world in many ways; the point is to change it." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 17:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:33:18AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> There's a difference between fighting a war because the planet is in >> immediate danger and complicating a civil war or other largely inter

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) writes: > Folders are simply subdirectories inside the main maildir whose names > start with a period, and which are themselves maildirs. For example, > the command "maildirmake -f Drafts mail/Maildir" creates > mail/Maildir/.Drafts, that has the usual tmp, new

Re: wma player for firefox

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:45:18PM +0100, Jonas Geiregat wrote: > I'm using amazon to listen to cd's I might buy. But the mplayer plugin > for firefox doesn't play the short pieces of music. I think it's the > wma format , are there any players out there that might support this ? Add the following

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-07 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:01AM EST, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 07:33:39PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:36:35PM EST, Franck Joncourt wrote: [..] > . > Included in the bash package is the Programmable Completion Code, by > Ian Macdonald. > . > [.

Bug#413933: Acknowledgement (zorp: policy.boot cannot be found)

2007-03-07 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the package maintainers and other interested parties for their attention; they will reply in due course. Your message

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:24:21PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > You are mixing up different topics here. > 1. Having a live CD for just a subset of architechtures > 2. Installer team needs man power > > They are related. But they are different. You are basically mixing up cause > and

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:04:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> > > Really? Then why won't every doctor in American accept Medicare? > > > > Irrelevant. Not every doctor in America accepts any private > health plan, either, even very good ones

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:44:54AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > As long as we're controlling it, and calling it our model project, we really > should be asking questions like "Why are we giving more to them than we get > ourselves?" If it's good enough to build a nation, it's good enough to > k

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:33:18AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > There's a difference between fighting a war because the planet is in > immediate danger and complicating a civil war or other largely internal > conflict. We did the former in both world wars. We've done the latter in > Korea, Vie

Re: Consult for to change servers CentOS to Debian GNU/Linux

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 05:19:33PM -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > Hi everybody: > > In University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, we want to change the most > Servers > to Debian GNU/Linux, but: > - All Sysadmins used Clones RedHat (CentOS) > - All Servers are DELL and DELL don't SUPP

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

2007-03-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:45:48PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> >> Why not make the install disk also a live one? Ubuntu does this. >> >> >> > OK. So go use Ubuntu. >> > >> > Seriously, Ubuntu supports like two or three har

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 12:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > Al Eridani wrote: > >> On 3/2/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [snip] > > The whole system runs 97% on-time (that is, ±3 minutes of the printed > schedule), all transit vehicles are tracked

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:18:22AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm not quite sure where to find the numbers, but I seem to recall Portland, > Ore has a larger and more travelled transit system than Chicago and has > since a public corporation (TriMet) bought out all the failing private > rapid

Re: Possible iceweasel bug

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 16:32, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 3/7/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Since the last upgrade on sid I am experiencing strange behaviour by >> iceweasel (2.0.0.2+dfsg-2). If I click on a link in some other program >> I always

Consult for to change servers CentOS to Debian GNU/Linux

2007-03-07 Thread Javier Enrique Tiá Marín
Hi everybody: In University of Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, we want to change the most Servers to Debian GNU/Linux, but: - All Sysadmins used Clones RedHat (CentOS) - All Servers are DELL and DELL don't SUPPORT Debian GNU/Linux - For long time testimony and real test the use the RedHat + Sendmail

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 12:42, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 03/06/07 20:43, Al Eridani wrote: >>> On 3/4/07, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >> [snip] >>> Not at all. What the rest of the world wants is less interference from

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 12:33, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:31:45PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: >>> On 3/4/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> See, and I have been losing respect for the rest

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 15:35, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:05:17 +0100 > Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 18:47 + schrieb Liam O'Toole: >>> On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:49:15 +0100 >>> Michael Dominok <[E

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-07 Thread Daniel B.
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:54:19PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: That is not it. The point is that if a fetus at 22 weeks can survive, who gets to decide when the fetus is actually alive. I say we err on the side of caution and say that it is alive from the moment of

Re: Possible iceweasel bug

2007-03-07 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/7/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since the last upgrade on sid I am experiencing strange behaviour by iceweasel (2.0.0.2+dfsg-2). If I click on a link in some other program I always get a new iceweasel window with 2 tabs opening the same link. Has anybody else seen this? Yup

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-07 Thread Daniel B.
Greg Folkert wrote: DO NOT USE THE TERM "ex-Marines" it insults. The correct term is "Former-Marines". Sorry. You don't get to re-define English. "Ex-something" means "former something." If someone's a former Marine, he or she is also an ex-Marine. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 12:22, Paul Johnson wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> s. keeling wrote: This is a ridiculous statement. I've met a few who did. All Canadians, regardless of their position in the scheme of things have

Possible iceweasel bug

2007-03-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
Hello, Since the last upgrade on sid I am experiencing strange behaviour by iceweasel (2.0.0.2+dfsg-2). If I click on a link in some other program I always get a new iceweasel window with 2 tabs opening the same link. Has anybody else seen this? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply,

Re: [debian-user] Virus, Trojan, and Worm

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:36:46PM -0700, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: > Has antivirus software advanced to the point that the following excerpt > from Debian Administration (dated late 2004) is now invalid? I added > the square brackets and their content. > > "Viruses are a fact of lif

Re: user defined mime types, source highlighting

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:59:58PM -0400, Zoho Vignochi wrote: > Hello, > > I write code in Octave (a free Matlab clone) and I would like the source > files which have an extension .m to be recognized and automagically > highlighted in gedit. As of now I have to select Octave highlighting > myself

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 12:18, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:33:06PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: >>> On 3/2/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> [snip] > I like living in a region where it's nigh imp

Re: efax-gtk faxing problem

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:15:10PM -0600, Johnny wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:50:13PM -0600, Johnny wrote: > >>Hi > >>I am using efax-gtk -3.0.7 > >>The distro that I am using is Ubuntu Dapper since I can't get any > >>answers over there at the other list, >

Re: efax-gtk faxing problem

2007-03-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 02:15:10PM -0600, Johnny wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:50:13PM -0600, Johnny wrote: > >>Hi > >>I am using efax-gtk -3.0.7 > >>The distro that I am using is Ubuntu Dapper since I can't get any > >>answers over there at the other list, >

Re: Open Office writer formatting question

2007-03-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070307 15:14]: > Thank you. The only benefit I see with the WYSIWYG style is to be > able to say, "that is NOT right" without having to print it out > first. :^) When creating a document in the X environment, the first thing I do is run the "xdvi &" command, so

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-07 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:05:17 +0100 Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 18:47 + schrieb Liam O'Toole: > > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:49:15 +0100 > > Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 13:44 + schrieb Liam O'To

[debian-user] Virus, Trojan, and Worm

2007-03-07 Thread Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct.
Has antivirus software advanced to the point that the following excerpt from Debian Administration (dated late 2004) is now invalid? I added the square brackets and their content. "Viruses are a fact of life nowadays, be they real viruses or worms which require manual intervention on the [be]

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-07 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I stated: > > I wonder if the Germans would suggest West Berlin, as well as the > > continued military occupation of Japan. Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated: > So: > > 1) Freddy said that the US has never gone to war to expand its > borders. > > 2)

Re: grml can, why can't my Debian kernel do it?

2007-03-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:55:52PM -0500, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > When I boot from a grml-0.9 cd my dvdrw and cdrw drives are found on hde > > and hdf. They are mountable and usable. > > > > The grml release info says it is based on Debian and uses a vanilla > > 2.6.18-3

Re: Open Office writer formatting question

2007-03-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you. The only benefit I see with the WYSIWYG style is to be > able to say, "that is NOT right" without having to print it out > first. :^) With Lyx just press Ctrl+D to see the output. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't u

Re: Mouse can disappear from screen

2007-03-07 Thread Zoho Vignochi
> > I tend to agree with you except, I think what the OP is referring to > > might be a monitor that might not be adjusted properly. I've seen this > > several times with monitors that have looked fine in windows may be > > off center it mis-sized in debian. usually a few minutes tweaking the > > m

Re: X Authentication Problem

2007-03-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:40:28PM -0500, David A. Parker wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >David A. Parker wrote: > >>X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > >>giving up. > >>xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X > >>server > >>xinit: No such process (er

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > More to the point, equating following the majority in an > enterprise that works for them (government health care) with jumping > off a bridge is rather foolish. Maybe it works someplace else, but in Romania I would rather stay home and try alternative/traditional

user defined mime types, source highlighting

2007-03-07 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello, I write code in Octave (a free Matlab clone) and I would like the source files which have an extension .m to be recognized and automagically highlighted in gedit. As of now I have to select Octave highlighting myself every time when opening an octave source file. I thought that creating a

Re: Open Office writer formatting question

2007-03-07 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 07 March 2007 13:53, Russell L. Harris was heard to say: > * On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > What I would like to do is make a booklet, that is to say > > "letter" sheets folded in the middle to make 5.5x

Re: Open Office writer formatting question

2007-03-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:53:34 -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> * On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: >> >>> What I would like to do is make a booklet, that is to say "letter" >>> sheets folded in the middle to make 5.5x8.5 pages. >>> >>> Can s

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread judd
On 7 Mar, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/07/07 14:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:44:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [snip] >> >> And virtually every other develo

Re: External Hard Disk in Debian

2007-03-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > 1. How to shut down? Simply unplugging the USB cable, after unmounting, is > wrong, is it not? No. Unmount, unplug. This is not child's play (like some other OS). > 5. About encrypted partitions, and LVM: Are they readable, and writable from > Microsoft Windows? Ask

Re: Emacs key binding problem on debian testing.

2007-03-07 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
r clayton writes: > I'm runining emacs > GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of > 2007-01-04 on saens, modified by Debian > on a debian testing sytem > $ uname -a > Linux UlanBator 2.6.17-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 16:34:10 UTC 2006 i686 > GNU/Linux > $

Re: Worse then useless replies (was Re: Use 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.)

2007-03-07 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:14:40 -0500 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:08:29AM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > On 3/7/07, pinniped <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Use 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. Even this will not necessarily be > > successful > > on

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Paul E Condon wrote: > What has been in Iraq is hardly a reasonable standard of comparison for > how the USA should conduct its own internal affairs on any issue. But I > happen to know a few details of the recent history. As long as we're controlling it, and calling it our model project, we real

Re: Filtering (was Re: Worse then useless replies)

2007-03-07 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:45:47 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:34:00AM -0800, Raquel wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:14:40 -0500 > > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > it seem more than a few of us regulars have tried to be 'helpful' >

Re: Filtering

2007-03-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 11:55 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:12:17PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > > more and more of your precious /dev/null space. don't forget to empty > > > that thing now and then. I use a cron job: > > > > > ca

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> s. keeling wrote: >>> This is a ridiculous statement. I've met a few who did. All >>> Canadians, regardless of their position in the scheme of things have >>> two choices: accept what you're offered by those in control, or cross >>> the border and pay f

Re: Open Office writer formatting question

2007-03-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:53:34 -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > > What I would like to do is make a booklet, that is to say "letter" > > sheets folded in the middle to make 5.5x8.5 pages. > > > > Can someone point me to instr

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Al Eridani wrote: > On 3/2/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> if you compare motor vehicle traffic in those cities, you see that even >> the two *best* public transport cities in the US can't even make public >> transport work for a *majority* of their residents. > > First, c

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:33:06PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: >> On 3/2/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >if you compare motor vehicle traffic in those cities, you see that even >> >the two *best* public transport cities in the US can't even make p

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:31:45PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: >> On 3/4/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >See, and I have been losing respect for the rest of world for >> >interfering too much in people's daily lives and sitting idly by (or >> >pro

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/06/07 20:43, Al Eridani wrote: >> On 3/4/07, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > [snip] >> Not at all. What the rest of the world wants is less interference from >> the US. As far I can see, Sweden does not interfere with what happens >> in other places, b

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/07 14:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:44:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > >>> And virtually every other developed nation does have government >>> provided

Re: Converting Debian Testing to Stable

2007-03-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:41:44 -0500 > Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > >> No "apt-get dist-upgrade". You're not changing distributions. You >> already have Etch. >> >> If at some point in the future you wish to

Re: How to reject spam with embedded graphics

2007-03-07 Thread Javier Viegas
On 3/7/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Lale wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to deal with spam with embedded graphics? I > cannot use greylisting on a home desktop machine. I believe using a DNSBL's provided by spamcop etc., could be effective in this case. You can

Re: efax-gtk faxing problem

2007-03-07 Thread Johnny
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:50:13PM -0600, Johnny wrote: Hi I am using efax-gtk -3.0.7 The distro that I am using is Ubuntu Dapper since I can't get any answers over there at the other list, I thought I would try here. I have the external modem on /dev/ttyS1 I sent

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-07 Thread judd
On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:44:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> As far as health care goes, medicare is by far the most efficient >> system in the US. >> > Really? Then why won't every doctor in American accept Medicare? > Irrelevant. No

Re: DST and woody

2007-03-07 Thread Ed Curtis
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, John Hasler wrote: > Tony writes: > > Does anyone know if there is a libc6 package available somewhere, for > > woody, that has the new DST fix? I am trying to update the server to > > sarge, but I am getting resistance from the boss, so I need to patch this > > server until

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-07 Thread Michael Dominok
Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 18:47 + schrieb Liam O'Toole: > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:49:15 +0100 > Michael Dominok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 13:44 + schrieb Liam O'Toole: > > > The Nazis had no long-term interest in Amsterdam, Paris, etc. > > > > Huh? In

Re: How to reject spam with embedded graphics

2007-03-07 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 07 March 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone know of a way to deal with spam with embedded graphics? I > > cannot use greylisting on a home desktop machine. > > I believe using a DNSBL's provided by spamcop etc., could be effective in > this case. You can either reject with

Re: Lock down user account in Debian/Gnome

2007-03-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:34:03AM -0800, Raquel wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 13:23:02 -0500 > Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mar 5, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Greg Vickers wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am building a couple of PCs which will be used for public > > > Interne

Re: Filtering (was Re: Worse then useless replies)

2007-03-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:55:58AM -0800, Raquel wrote: > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:45:47 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:34:00AM -0800, Raquel wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:14:40 -0500 > > > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: Filtering

2007-03-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:12:17PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > more and more of your precious /dev/null space. don't forget to empty > > that thing now and then. I use a cron job: > > > cat /dev/zero > /dev/null > > But now you are going to have to refill /dev/ze

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