debian courierpassd package: change passwd with squirrelmail

2008-06-15 Thread Stephane Durieux
Hello , I am trying to use courierpassd package with courier-imap (to enable squirrelmail changepass plugin) I am also using courier-authdaemon with pam (local user in my mail server) Here is my configuration of xinetd to use courierpassd service courierpassd { port = 106 socket_

Re: [Pkg-cups-devel] how to clean off dummy packages?

2008-06-15 Thread Martin Pitt
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-06-12 3:57 +0800]: > Say, how do the pros clean up those dummy packages lying around their system? > [...] > # apt-get purge libcupsys2 > ... 50 to remove > It wanted to take 50 packages along with it... no dummy! That's because a lot of packages are still depending

qemu ISO Boot Failure (CDROM boot failure code : 0004)

2008-06-15 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, Via qemu, trying to install Windows Server 2003 Standard (x86-64) on a machine which has AMD Turion 64 X2 processor. When I try to fire up qemu using CDROM ISO image # dd of=/home/windows/windows-20G.img \ > bs=1024 seek=$[1024 * 1024 * 20] count=0 # qemu -boot d -localtime -m 512 \ >

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-15 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/15/08 05:46, Star Liu wrote: >> except that it refuses root to use it. :) > > As well it should. Why are you running as root? > I disagree. I agree that in 99% of cases running normal UL applications as root is a bad idea

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080616 00:14]: > On 15/06/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting, I have been using "\newline". Where did you find out out > > about the "\\~\\" method? > > \\ seems to be a synonym for \newline, or maybe it's one of those T

Re: Fail to connect https

2008-06-15 Thread André Berger
* hce (2008-06-16): > Hi, > > I've set up a web server lighty and web application on my local > machine and defined web addresses mywebtest.com in the /etc/hosts for > local testing. The HTTP can be connected and works fine, but HTTPS > does not work ("Unable to connect" in an error page). Try a

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 15/06/2008, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting, I have been using "\newline". Where did you find out out > about the "\\~\\" method? \\ seems to be a synonym for \newline, or maybe it's one of those TeX vs LaTeX things (e.g. $$...$$ vs \[...\]). And ~ is a space. So newl

Re: netinst CD with OpenSSL fix?

2008-06-15 Thread Bob
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 07:35:41PM +0800, Bob wrote: Does such a thing exist? If you do a networked installation, you'll get the latest version at install time anyway. I tend to do a standard system install (remotely over ssh complete with dodgy keys) without

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 09:58:25PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: [..] > \indent the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution\\ > \indent for the United States of America.\\~\\ > \noindent The deist sees the universe as a vast and intricate mechanism,\\ [..] > In this example, the const

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-15 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Star Liu wrote: > > Hi Everyone, I'm sorry to ask this silly question here. I'm now using the > microsoft live messenger, live spaces and hotmail as my IM, blog and email > service provider, because i'm a windows user for a so long time. Two weeks > before, I installed debian etch and lenny, and

Re: Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer

2008-06-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 15 June 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sun June 15 2008 20:31:32 Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Sunday 15 June 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > > On Sun June 15 2008 20:16:19 Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > Is there any program (I couldn't find one) that I can run on > > > > this computer, via SSH, that wil

Re: Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer

2008-06-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun June 15 2008 20:31:32 Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > On Sun June 15 2008 20:16:19 Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > Is there any program (I couldn't find one) that I can run on this > > > computer, via SSH, that will give me packet info I can scan in the > > > same

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:34:36AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I'll read that. I try not to buy anything from China, but it seems that > all MBs are made there, and most of the other computing stuff too. Ha!, here in N.Z. it is extremely rare to find something *not* made in China. In fact

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:06:55PM +0200, David wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Chris Bannister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 05:59:01PM +0200, David wrote: > > [...] > > > > > Consider: person a replies to part of your reply, so they trim out what > > is not

Re: Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer

2008-06-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 15 June 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sun June 15 2008 20:16:19 Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Is there any program (I couldn't find one) that I can run on this > > computer, via SSH, that will give me packet info I can scan in the > > same way I do with Wireshark when I've got X on a system? > > t

Re: Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer

2008-06-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun June 15 2008 20:16:19 Hal Vaughan wrote: > Is there any program (I couldn't find one) that I can run on this > computer, via SSH, that will give me packet info I can scan in the same > way I do with Wireshark when I've got X on a system? tshark can display packets in realtime or capture to

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080615 19:07]: > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > First line unindented > next four lines indented > next line unindented > next four lines indented > > space > > next four lines unindented. > > It goes on like

Fail to connect https

2008-06-15 Thread hce
Hi, I've set up a web server lighty and web application on my local machine and defined web addresses mywebtest.com in the /etc/hosts for local testing. The HTTP can be connected and works fine, but HTTPS does not work ("Unable to connect" in an error page). I guess it is not the problem of my we

Monitoring Net Traffic From the Console or Another Comptuer

2008-06-15 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a workstation and several other computers on my LAN, all running Linux -- either Debian or Ubuntu (Kubuntu for the workstation, Sarge on the rest -- please don't start on the version, I'll be updating it in my copious amounts of free time one year). I am connecting to a computer through

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:50:27PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: On 15/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: First line unindented next four lines indented next line unindent

Re: netinst CD with OpenSSL fix?

2008-06-15 Thread Joey Hess
Lee Glidewell wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2008 01:23:17 pm Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 07:35:41PM +0800, Bob wrote: > > > Does such a thing exist? > > > > If you do a networked installation, you'll get the latest version at > > install time anyway. > > The issue here would be u

Re: Starting NTP server: ntpd/usr/sbin/ntpd: invalid option -- p

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Reid
find > > the openntp executable and try to run it, but with wierd/wrong > > options. > > Thanks for the clue. I see: > > 20080615-135040 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > # l /etc/init.d/*ntp* > /etc/init.d/ntp* /etc/init.d/openntpd* /etc/init.d/openntpd-orig* > > > Reboot.

Re: Any isencrypted function available?

2008-06-15 Thread buyoppy
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 09:11:56PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Friday 13 June 2008, buyoppy wrote: >> > > Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian >> > > which judges whether some data is encrypted or not? >> > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Considering one byte looks just as m

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:50:27PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > On 15/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > > > First line unindented > > next four lines indented > > next line unindented > >

RE: Starting NTP server: ntpd/usr/sbin/ntpd: invalid option -- p

2008-06-15 Thread David Christensen
tions. Thanks for the clue. I see: 20080615-135040 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # l /etc/init.d/*ntp* /etc/init.d/ntp* /etc/init.d/openntpd* /etc/init.d/openntpd-orig* I guess I had already installed ntp, but forgot about it because the clock was wrong. Attempt to uninstall openntpd: 2008061

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 15/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > First line unindented > next four lines indented > next line unindented You may want to use the verse environment for this. It's in the texlive-humanities packa

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Alfredo Finelli
On Sunday 15 June 2008 21:59, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hello all, > > I've got a silly little problem that I can't seem to solve. > > I normally do my letters and other writing in LaTex. > > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > First line unindented > next four l

Re: netinst CD with OpenSSL fix?

2008-06-15 Thread Lee Glidewell
On Sunday 15 June 2008 01:23:17 pm Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 07:35:41PM +0800, Bob wrote: > > Does such a thing exist? > > If you do a networked installation, you'll get the latest version at > install time anyway. The issue here would be using the fixed random number generato

Re: debian sid & gnome

2008-06-15 Thread Reeyarn
2008/6/16 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > That looks like your gnome-system-tools package is still at version > 2.20.0-2. An up-to-date Sid mirror should have version 2.22.0-1, which > depends on liboobs-1-4. It seems gnome-system-tools in sid(i386) is still at 2.20.0-6, while other platfo

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 03:59:25PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: > > First line unindented > next four lines indented > next line unindented > next four lines indented > > space > > next four lines unindented. > > It g

Re: netinst CD with OpenSSL fix?

2008-06-15 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 07:35:41PM +0800, Bob wrote: > Does such a thing exist? If you do a networked installation, you'll get the latest version at install time anyway. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED]

silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I've got a silly little problem that I can't seem to solve. I normally do my letters and other writing in LaTex. My wife has a poem she wants typed up in a particular format: First line unindented next four lines indented next line unindented next four lines indented

Re: Starting NTP server: ntpd/usr/sbin/ntpd: invalid option -- p

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 15 June 2008 13:48, David Christensen wrote: > debian-user: > > I recently installed openntpd on a Debian 4.0 virtual machine > (http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/#debian4.0) running on VMWare Server > 1.0.4: > [Details elided] > I dug through /etc/init.d/openntpd, /etc/default/open

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:43 AM, Star Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm happy to know the gnome-blog and gtalk, but it seems by default gtalk > doesn't with in lenny, after i installed, i found nothing in my internet menu, > and the bash doesn't know "gtalk". Are you trying to use the gtalk c

Re: debian sid & gnome

2008-06-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 02:09:50 +0800, Reeyarn wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 14:36:34 +0800, Reeyarn wrote: > >> I've got the problem. Thank you for that. > >> > >> My gnome-desktop-environment is not installed, because it depends on > >> gnome-system-tools, > >> gnome-system-tools: depends:

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 06:00:19PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 15 Jun 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... > > ifup wlan0 > > # can't do anything without upping the thing > > > > iwlist wlan0 scan > > # will perform a scan (can you get this part to work?) > > > > iwconfig wlan0 ess

Re: debian sid & gnome

2008-06-15 Thread Reeyarn
>> On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 14:36:34 +0800, Reeyarn wrote: >> I've got the problem. Thank you for that. >> >> My gnome-desktop-environment is not installed, because it depends on >> gnome-system-tools, >> gnome-system-tools: depends: liboobs-1-3 (>= 2.19.91) >> but 'libooobs-1-3' is unavailable in '

Starting NTP server: ntpd/usr/sbin/ntpd: invalid option -- p

2008-06-15 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I recently installed openntpd on a Debian 4.0 virtual machine (http://www.thoughtpolice.co.uk/vmware/#debian4.0) running on VMWare Server 1.0.4: 20080615-103351 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/vd40r0 # apt-cache showpkg openntpd Package: openntpd Versions: 3.9p1-3(/var/lib/apt/lists

Re: how is it possible to assign ip ending in 255 ?

2008-06-15 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon June 16 2008 02:38:03 Jabka Atu wrote: > since ip 255 is for broadcasting how is it that even go tru routers ? You wouldn't want to create a /32 route to a .255 that you were also using as a broadcast address. In the old days most of the .255's in class A's and class B's were theoreticall

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jun 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Yes, I know others have found it worked, and probably I have been doing > > something very silly. But I've followed all the docs as conscientiously > > as I can, without success. The Intellinux wireless org site says, in > > bold letters: > > > > NO

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-15 Thread Bernd Kloss
Am Sonntag, 15. Juni 2008 15:34 schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: > On 15/06/2008, Bernd Kloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Did you leave this monitor - beamer (I suppose, your external monitor > > was a beamer for lectures) the way described above? > > I didn't use a video projector for that par

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 01:41:53PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 15 Jun 2008, Lee Glidewell wrote: > > On Sunday 15 June 2008 01:27:14 am Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > > > Wireless works with th old ipw3945 stuff but I have never managed to get > > > iwlwifi to do anything, so I can't use

Re: aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree hang

2008-06-15 Thread Oleg Batrashev
Hi, I've already answered in private but forgot to click "reply all" instead of "reply". >> >> I can't to purge nor remove flashplugin-nonfree with aptitude. > Paul , please provide details of what happens when you attempt to > remove aptitude. Preferably, copy and paste the console output > incl

Re: Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard Network Driver Availiable? Hardware compatibility with Debian?

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 09:45:30PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:08:06AM +0300, Odisseas-Nearxos Pasipoularidis > wrote: > > I own a PC with an Asus P5E-VM DO Motherboard and I am trying to install > > Debian OS on it. > > > > I can't find the driver to configure the

Re: Compiling fails: file missing but it's there

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 05:44:25AM +0200, Sladi wrote: > Hi, > > I try to compile xf4vnc on Lenny AMD64 following this page: > http://xf4vnc.sourceforge.net/modular.html > Only compiling the xserver fails. It complains about missing pixmap.h > file. The file is installed via aptitude > ("/usr

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:34:54AM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > > Later I tried to do the same trick with Debian, after I wiped Ubuntu. > The results were similar, except that the CRT/LCD key no longer > worked, and if I wanted the projector to see my laptop, I had to > restart X. If I

Re: aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree hang

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:47:10AM +0200, Paul Csanyi wrote: > Hello! > > My System is Debian GNU/Linux Etch and Half. > > I have installed flashplugin-nonfree and it works well with iceweasel > so far. > ... > > I can't to purge nor remove flashplugin-nonfree with aptitude. > > Aptitude hang

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread David
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Andrew Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2008 06:16, David wrote: [...] >> Finally, Exim MTA was setup by default on my PC, but I disabled it's >> init.d script. Reason: My PC is not connected to the internet a lot of >> the time, so I get a "MTA s

Re: updater wants to update to the current kernel version

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 08:24:33PM +1000, Andrew Storm wrote: > Hi whoever is out there. > > I recently installed debian etch in a virtual box vm. Several times > since then the updater has wanted to update the kernel image to the same > version as the current kernel, which is 2.6.18-6-k7. I let i

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 10:11:43AM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 21:43 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 03:26:26PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > > By owners of the company, do you mean Lenovo or their predecessor IBM? > > I haven't seen a Len

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:06:55PM +0200, David wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Chris Bannister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 05:59:01PM +0200, David wrote: > > [...] > > > > > Consider: person a replies to part of your reply, so they trim out what > > is not

Error on read from talk daemon: Connection refused

2008-06-15 Thread T o n g
Hi, I'm trying to enable the 'talk' in my Debian testing: % aptitude install talk talkd The following NEW packages will be installed: inetutils-inetd talk talkd 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove. Need to get 120kB of archives. After unpacking 291kB will be used. Then,

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 15 June 2008 06:16, David wrote: > Thanks for the continuing replies and suggestions. > > Why not just run fsck manually (i.e. shutdown -RF now) whenever you > > want. If you do it frequently enough, you'll never hit the automatic > > checking counter: you'll only get caught if you forg

Re: how is it possible to assign ip ending in 255 ?

2008-06-15 Thread Forsaken
> Hello,... > > I work in a IT-Network help desktop (help desk that is designed to > fix/assist in network problems) and few weeks ago i got a call from a > service Technion that asked me to check ips that end in 255. > > At first i didn't believe him (thought he was making a prank on me or > ju

rendering Postscript fonts

2008-06-15 Thread Steve Kleene
I could use some remedial instruction on how Postscript fonts are rendered. I am submitting a grant proposal to Grants.gov, and the only serifed fonts they allow are Palatino-Linotype and Georgia. Neither of these is supported by the typesetter I use, groff 1.18. It does support Palatino, but not

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 21:43 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 03:26:26PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > IMHO, thinkpads have a long history of supporting linux (or rather that > > linux works on them) and many really like it. OTOH, the Vostro is also > > a box fully supp

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread David
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 05:59:01PM +0200, David wrote: [...] > > Consider: person a replies to part of your reply, so they trim out what > is not relevant. person b replies to part of your reply, so they trim > out what

Re: POP3 server

2008-06-15 Thread Forsaken
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:26:37 +0300 Tero Mäntyvaara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have used POP3 server now a few months, but I have forgot whitch > one it was. :-/ How can I find out whitch server I am using? :-D > > > Tero Mäntyvaara > > quick and dirty way is to to telnet to port 110 of th

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-15 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 15/06/2008, Bernd Kloss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you leave this monitor - beamer (I suppose, your external monitor was a > beamer for lectures) the way described above? I didn't use a video projector for that particular test I mentioned in my review, just an external monitor. The reso

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-15 Thread pascalv
On Jun 15, 3:40 am, Star Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, I'm sorry to ask this silly question here. I'm now using the > microsoft live messenger, live spaces and hotmail as my IM, blog and email > service provider, because i'm a windows user for a so long time. Two weeks > before,

Re: how is it possible to assign ip ending in 255 ?

2008-06-15 Thread Axel Freyn
Hello, On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:38:03PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello,... > > I work in a IT-Network help desktop (help desk that is designed to > fix/assist in network problems) and few weeks ago i got a call from a > service Technion that asked me to check ips that end in 255. > > At first

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 05:59:01PM +0200, David wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Chris Bannister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:51:06AM +0200, David wrote: > >> Hi again list. > >> > >> I'm going to reply to several mails at once. Please excuse the length, > >

Re: Recover lost (deleted) data in Debian

2008-06-15 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It was my dooms day, I accedently deleted all my mutt emails by "rm > -rf *" in my local harddisk (all my mutt emails were downloaded by > POP). Is there anyway to recover from deleted data in Debian? There are various ways depending on your f

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Jun 2008, Lee Glidewell wrote: > On Sunday 15 June 2008 01:27:14 am Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > Wireless works with th old ipw3945 stuff but I have never managed to get > > iwlwifi to do anything, so I can't use a later kernel than 2.6.23, > > Well, it Works For Me(tm). The procedure fo

Re: Recover lost (deleted) data in Debian

2008-06-15 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Quoting hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, It was my dooms day, I accedently deleted all my mutt emails by "rm -rf *" in my local harddisk (all my mutt emails were downloaded by POP). Is there anyway to recover from deleted data in Debian? Take a look at http://www.xs4all.nl/~carlo17/howto/undelete

netinst CD with OpenSSL fix?

2008-06-15 Thread Bob
Does such a thing exist? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Recover lost (deleted) data in Debian

2008-06-15 Thread hce
Hi, It was my dooms day, I accedently deleted all my mutt emails by "rm -rf *" in my local harddisk (all my mutt emails were downloaded by POP). Is there anyway to recover from deleted data in Debian? Thank you. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

RE: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-15 Thread Star Liu
I'm happy to know the gnome-blog and gtalk, but it seems by default gtalk doesn't with in lenny, after i installed, i found nothing in my internet menu, and the bash doesn't know "gtalk". **Buddha Debian GNU/Linux MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Da

Re: debian sid & gnome

2008-06-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 14:36:34 +0800, Reeyarn wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 14:18:40 +0800, Reeyarn wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've come accoss a similar problem, that my apt-get or aptitude wanted to > > > remove my gnome, gtk, etc. Almost ervery core module of gnome i think.(see > > > at

Re: -- Spam --how is it possible to assign ip ending in 255 ?

2008-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/16/08 04:38, Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello,... > > I work in a IT-Network help desktop (help desk that is designed to > fix/assist in network problems) and few weeks ago i got a call from a > service Technion that asked me to check ips that end in 25

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/15/08 05:46, Star Liu wrote: > except that it refuses root to use it. :) As well it should. Why are you running as root? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed."

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread David
Oops, I stripped out the attribution: Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There are several hard-disk HOWTOs in the doc-linux-howto packages [...] Sorry about that. David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Iceweasel 3 and gopher?

2008-06-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun June 15 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > And as Paul Cartwright said, employers who want to block the web may > > ignore Gopher. > > [sarcasm]Because gopher's not "the web"?[/sarcasm] maybe they really don't know about Gopher, so they can't block what they don't know?? You have to remember, I

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread David
>> Unfortunately, experimenting with other filesystems will have to wait >> until I have a spare drive. I don't know of a way to convert to other >> filesystems on the fly :-) Also, the need to defer fsck seems like a >> poor reason to go through the trouble of switching my home PC's >> filesystem

RE: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-15 Thread Star Liu
I have tried emesene, it's excellent! except that it refuses root to use it. :) I'm also happy to know the jabber and wordpress. thanks! **Buddha Debian GNU/Linux MSN:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.

updater wants to update to the current kernel version

2008-06-15 Thread Andrew Storm
Hi whoever is out there. I recently installed debian etch in a virtual box vm. Several times since then the updater has wanted to update the kernel image to the same version as the current kernel, which is 2.6.18-6-k7. I let it do it the first couple of times since i was new to debian, but it has

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread David
Thanks for the continuing replies and suggestions. Again I will put replies in one mail, since noone has given me a good reason not to, yet. Please comment on this if it is a problem. On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 01:38:19PM +

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/15/08 04:54, Star Liu wrote: > I use the default installation of etch and lenny, yes, in fact > they work quite fine, so maybe i should keep them. :) I guess that's GNOME? What's the "they" that work fine? Iceweasel/Firefox, Epiphany, Evolutio

RE: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-15 Thread Star Liu
I use the default installation of etch and lenny, yes, in fact they work quite fine, so maybe i should keep them. :) > Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:47:10 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Which IM, blog and ema

how is it possible to assign ip ending in 255 ?

2008-06-15 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello,... I work in a IT-Network help desktop (help desk that is designed to fix/assist in network problems) and few weeks ago i got a call from a service Technion that asked me to check ips that end in 255. At first i didn't believe him (thought he was making a prank on me or just being an #$$)

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-15 Thread Lee Glidewell
On Sunday 15 June 2008 01:27:14 am Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Wireless works with th old ipw3945 stuff but I have never managed to get > iwlwifi to do anything, so I can't use a later kernel than 2.6.23, Well, it Works For Me(tm). The procedure for getting iwlwifi up and running is slightly dif

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Jun 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 03:26:26PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > IMHO, thinkpads have a long history of supporting linux (or rather that > > linux works on them) and many really like it. OTOH, the Vostro is also > > a box fully supported (watch what w

Re: Debian on laptop

2008-06-15 Thread Owen Townend
On 14/06/2008, Tobias Nissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > alfa beta wrote: [snip] > > > Question: > > Could you recommend me a laptop model, with all details, which works > > completely, or perfectly with Debian? Including audio-video hardware, > > and hardware for connection to Internet (I'm o