Re: flashplayer v10

2008-11-04 Thread gary turner
Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:09:45 -0600 gary turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello gary, The last upgrade of flashplayer-mozilla to v10.0.12.36-0.4 (amd-64) from v9.0.124 killed flash for me in all browsers. I tried removing and re-installing, but no joy. I found

flashplayer v10

2008-11-03 Thread gary turner
The last upgrade of flashplayer-mozilla to v10.0.12.36-0.4 (amd-64) from v9.0.124 killed flash for me in all browsers. I tried removing and re-installing, but no joy. My PIII, 32 bit, latest upgrade is to 9.0.124.0-0.0 0, and it still works just fine. Both machines' /etc/apt/sources.list po

Re: diff display

2008-09-10 Thread gary turner
Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 18:28, gary turner wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 16:03, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: The main purpose of diff is to generate a patch which can then be used to apply/revert changes across two versions of a file. That would sanely be called "

Re: diff display

2008-09-10 Thread gary turner
Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/10/08 16:03, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: The main purpose of diff is to generate a patch which can then be used to apply/revert changes across two versions of a file. That would sanely be called "patch", not "diff". See man patch. diff consists of differences betw

Re: cgi-bin stopped working in apache ?! please help

2008-09-09 Thread gary turner
Zach Uram wrote: This is really baffling because CGI was working last week and now when I try it again and it is not working. I reread your post and my reply, and want to say it was was not clear that your url was complete. If I merely duplicated what you've been doing, I apologize. cheers

Re: cgi-bin stopped working in apache ?! please help

2008-09-09 Thread gary turner
Zach Uram wrote: This is really baffling because CGI was working last week and now when I try it again and it is not working. All I did was add a name based virtual host in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/ and /etc/apache2/sites-available/ I am running apache2-mpm-prefork version 2.2.9-7 on Debian

Re: grammar tool in linux ... perhaps in emacs

2008-09-09 Thread gary turner
Martin Smith wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello, I hope I do not start a flame war here. I was wondering what choices do we have to check English grammar in Linux. Well the last time I saw a grammar checker on a computer was in the days of wordstar and dos 3.1, to call it crap would be an insult to c

Re: how to restrict developers in /var/www/html directory...??

2008-09-02 Thread gary turner
Michael Habashy wrote: i would like to restrict developer access to the /var/www/html directory. I currently have a number of websites in that directory. They are all live public_html for their respective webpages. I have developer A who i want to give access to /var/www/html/a-website.com I hav

Re: Does anyone know where to find mod_auth_form

2008-08-31 Thread gary turner
Alan Chandler wrote: I quite like the idea of making my web site use the facilities described for mod_auth_form (see apache2 manual). But I can't find where to get this module from. There doesn't appear to be a debian package. Why? These appear to be (at least session module) in Apache 2.

Re: [slightly OT] modifying Emacs html helper mode

2008-08-27 Thread gary turner
gary turner wrote: Emacs's html-helper-mode is seriously out of date vis-a-vis current html standards. It is my intention to modify the cookies to bring them up to html4.01 or xhtml1.0 recommendations, and current best practice. OK, I got a good start. I'd appreciate anyone&

Re: zotero on debian?

2008-08-25 Thread gary turner
H.S. wrote: Hello, Do we have zotero as an extension for Iceweal (firefox) on Debian? apt-cache didn't reveal anything. See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3504 cheers, gary -- Anyone can make a usable web site. It takes a graphic designer to make it slow, confusing and painf

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread gary turner
j t wrote: Hi all. Does anyone have any suggestions for a command-line-interface (CLI) calculator that can work out the difference between 2 (gregorian) dates (i.e. that is calendar aware). My favourite cli calculator ("bc") doesn't seem to have any knowledge of the gregorian calendar. Just to

[slightly OT] modifying Emacs html helper mode

2008-08-21 Thread gary turner
Emacs's html-helper-mode is seriously out of date vis-a-vis current html standards. It is my intention to modify the cookies to bring them up to html4.01 or xhtml1.0 recommendations, and current best practice. There are areas where I need guidance. The Debian Emacs packages install the file(s

Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-15 Thread gary turner
David Witbrodt wrote: Thanks, I ran purge on the four oldest. Three of them reported an error: rmdir: failed to remove `/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486': Directory not empty dpkg - warning: while removing linux-image-2.6.22-3-486, directory `/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-486' not empty so not removed.

Re: What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-15 Thread gary turner
Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 01:06:39AM -0500, gary turner wrote: Through upgrades, etc., I've accumulated six kernel images. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /boot Can I safely rm those I don't want to keep? Are there other directories and files that need to be included in

What to do with multiple kernel images

2008-08-14 Thread gary turner
Through upgrades, etc., I've accumulated six kernel images. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls /boot config-2.6.18-5-486 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-486 config-2.6.21-2-486 initrd.img-2.6.25-2-486.bak config-2.6.22-2-486 System.map-2.6.18-5-486 config-2.6.22-3-486 System.map-2.6.

Re: OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-22 Thread gary turner
Nick Lidakis wrote: I'm glad I went with the ALIX. Not only does my Class A amplifier consume 300 watts at the outlet no matter what the volume, but Con Edison in New York is raising their electric rates by %22 soon. It's a little late now, but why would you choose a class A amp over a class

Re: Flash in Etch?

2008-07-14 Thread gary turner
Jeff Soules wrote: Hi all, Open to any advice. My ultimate goal is to get a fully functional Flash player in a browser in my Debian Etch installation (amd64 base). I use Gnome and don't care much for KDE & Konqueror. Here's what I've tried so far: *Iceweasel + swfdec -- without success. I'm

Re: dpkg: error,processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs-gtk_2.5_amd64.deb,(--unpack):

2008-07-05 Thread gary turner
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-07-05 07:49 +0200, gary turner wrote: (Reading database ... 85648 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ia32-libs-gtk (from .../ia32-libs-gtk_2.5_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs-gtk_2.5_amd64.deb (--unpack

dpkg: error,processing /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs-gtk_2.5_amd64.deb,(--unpack):

2008-07-04 Thread gary turner
While trying to install acroread from debian-multimedia, I got the above error with the suggestion to try again with the -f option. The result of that is: aretha:/home/gt# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dep

large HD partition plan

2008-06-23 Thread gary turner
After 8 years on my PIIIs w/10Gb HDs, I've bought a Core2 duo w/320GB HD and 4GB mem. I will install Lenny AMD64. Usage will will be primarily web development using multiple browsers, Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape and ImageMagick. I also plan to run Vista Home Premium in a VM (probably VirtualBox).

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-18 Thread gary turner
Mike Bird wrote: On Sat February 16 2008 22:39:22 gary turner wrote: libxml2 is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/lib$ ls -al | grep libxml lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2008-02-16 10:11 libxml2.so.2 -> libxml2.so.2.6.31 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1166856 2008-01-19 12:54 libxml2.so.2.6

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-18 Thread gary turner
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 07:33:10AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 02:49:24AM -0600, gary turner wrote: Jeff D wrote: run apache2ctl -t it should tell you what it thinks is wrong with your apache config Thanks, Jeff. That yields the error

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-16 Thread gary turner
Mike Bird wrote: On Sat February 16 2008 08:29:06 gary turner wrote: koko:/home/gt# apt-cache policy libxml2 libxml2: Installed: 2.6.31.dfsg-1 Candidate: 2.6.31.dfsg-1 Version table: *** 2.6.31.dfsg-1 0 500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main Packages 100 /var/lib

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-16 Thread gary turner
Lesley Binks wrote: On 16/02/2008, gary turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeff D wrote: run apache2ctl -t it should tell you what it thinks is wrong with your apache config Thanks, Jeff. That yields the error message quoted in my first post. I'm trying to figure out how/why th

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-16 Thread gary turner
Mike Bird wrote: Please post the output of "apt-cache policy libxml2", and/or reinstall libxml2. koko:/home/gt# apt-cache policy libxml2 libxml2: Installed: 2.6.31.dfsg-1 Candidate: 2.6.31.dfsg-1 Version table: *** 2.6.31.dfsg-1 0 500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org lenny/main Package

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-16 Thread gary turner
Jeff D wrote: run apache2ctl -t it should tell you what it thinks is wrong with your apache config Thanks, Jeff. That yields the error message quoted in my first post. I'm trying to figure out how/why the syntax is in error, or how I can cause /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp5.so to load. A

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-15 Thread gary turner
Mike Bird wrote: On Thu February 14 2008 10:31:10 gary turner wrote: koko:/home/gt# dpkg -s libapache2-mod-php5 Package: libapache2-mod-php5 Status: install ok installed Please post that to the list again but this time with all the headers. You can skip the description if you like. We still

Re: Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-14 Thread gary turner
Mike Bird wrote: On Thu February 14 2008 01:09:12 gary turner wrote: As of sometime today, my Apache2 stopped working. It has been performing without issues in a small network. There have been no recent changes in any configurations of Apache, PHP or MySQL. Attempts to restart yield

Apache2 config errors on previously good setup

2008-02-14 Thread gary turner
As of sometime today, my Apache2 stopped working. It has been performing without issues in a small network. There have been no recent changes in any configurations of Apache, PHP or MySQL. Attempts to restart yield: koko:/home/gt# apache2ctl start apache2: Syntax error on line 185 of /etc/

Re: Apache configuration

2005-08-02 Thread Gary Turner
Tasos Bazotis wrote: Webpages aren't loaded correctly on apache. Although I include a meta tag () in the head of the html file, apache ignores it and loads the default character encoding (iso-8859-1). Is there something I can do? How should I modify the httpd.conf file? Thanks in advance for the

Re: is there a software like Bandwidth

2005-07-13 Thread Gary Turner
不坏阿峰 wrote: we can use MRTG for monitor the bandwidth of Lan ,but i found Bandwidth used in many linux. is it in Debian? is it named bandwidth or what?? apt-cache search bandwidthyields, among others, webmin-bandwidth. apt-cache show webmin-bandwidth will show the description. cheers

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-30 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 06:23:04PM +, Pigeon wrote: >> with even slightly different controls - like a different gearshift >> pattern - nobody would buy it. > >Explain Volkswagen's shifting pattern through the 1970s, where >

Re: Installing Intel compiler RPMs on Debian

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
Charlie Zender wrote: >Hi, > >What is the recommended way to install the Intel Fortran and C/C++ >compilers on Debian? They come as a set of RPMs. The RPMs do not >install on my Debian system, because there are no RPMs installed >on my Debian system so it can't find any pre-requisites: > >error:

Re: util-linux-locales Configuring Locales --- Unable to select

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
Gary Turner wrote: [...] > >I searched BTS for util-linux-locales, and/or Configuring Locale to no >avail. I am not BTS fluent, so my search could be faulty. > >I may be wrong about the package in which I see the error, though doing >"apt-get install --reinstall util-lin

util-linux-locales Configuring Locales --- Unable to select

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
On an apt-get upgrade, the util-linux-locales package is among the upgraded packages in Sarge. The "Configuring Locales" screen comes up and I would like to indicate "no change". The problem is that I am unable to make a selection. The only option I seem to have is to scroll up and down the list

Re: exim & iptables

2003-03-08 Thread Gary Turner
Hal wrote: >I'm using Woody as a firewall with NAT to protect a small network that >includes a mail and web server on an unregistered (192.168) >network. I'd like to configure the fw so that it can send mail alerts >to the users via the mail server on the protected net. If I set >exim.c

ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread Gary Turner
I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen. Like some kind of idiot, I cannot find where I put the switch.:) Will some kind soul please let me know where to look so I can hit the FM? tnx -- gt

Re: Couple of more questions.

2003-03-01 Thread Gary Turner
Teilhard Knight wrote: [...] >Second. My ISP is a log on ASDL provider. That means I have to use my >Ethernet card and log with a username and a password. I do not have a static >IP, but everytime a log I am assigned one (dynamic). Any way to configure >this in Debian? My "card" (it is built in th

Re: repost -- phoenix, java and other plug-ins. are there any .debs?

2003-03-01 Thread Gary Turner
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: >hello all > >this is my last attempt before i shift to some bloated browser. i have >tried installing phoenix and make java run on it umpteen number of >times. it *never* worked. > >phoenix installation is perfect. java is not. so, finally, i have >decided to try installi

Re: Phoenix with java ..

2003-03-01 Thread Gary Turner
nate wrote: >I guess I deleted the mail from I think "Sandip" but I decided >to try to get java working in phoenix 0.5 and it seems to work.. Thanks a bunch, Nate. I had to make a couple of changes, but only in detail. I've noted them below. Maybe it will help those that did it my way, as I did

Re: Newbie bull brings own china shop.

2003-02-28 Thread Gary Turner
A: See for yourself Brian Durant wrote: >If it is OK with you, I would rather not interleave my responses. I just >got over some serious eye problems and find that spending too much time >editing and working with the dim Debian text output on my daughter's >computer, makes my eyes complain a

Re: Need help configuring box as router

2003-02-24 Thread Gary Turner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 23 Feb 2003 14:25:07 -0600, >Justin Ryan wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 12:27, Nathan E Norman wrote: >> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 11:13:24AM -0500, Scott Ehrlich wrote: >> > >> > [ top posting SUCKS ] >> > >> >> [ self-righteousness SUCKS ] > > >[...] > >[Sinc

Re: [OT]: < 10pt in LaTeX?

2003-02-23 Thread Gary Turner
Nori Heikkinen wrote: >does anyone know if it's possible to specify a smaller than 10pt font >size for a LaTeX document without resorting to putting the entire >document in one big \tiny{}? --which is cool for my purposes ... i'm >just curious. No LaTeX guru by any means, but as far as I know, 1

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Turner
nate wrote: >Gary Turner said: > > >> page of nested tables, simply because that seems the best way to present >> your ideas. Then take a look at the page with Lynx. > >i don't think that's fair. lynx is not what I would call a feature >complete browser.

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Turner
Colin Watson wrote: >On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:04:15AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> Colin Watson wrote: >> >Not everybody developing for the web is a shopkeeper (thank God). If I'm >> >not trying to sell something and therefore achieve Perfect Marketing Zen >&

Re: regexp---remove comments---simplification

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Turner
Colin Watson wrote: >On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:18:48AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: [...] >> >> grep -v '^\ *#' some.conf | grep -v '^\ $' > condensed.file >> >> How would you combine these regexp's to remove a commented line (even if >

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Turner
Colin Watson wrote: >On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 06:34:35AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> >> What is more reasonable, the shopkeeper cater to the customer --- or >> vice versa? > >Not everybody developing for the web is a shopkeeper (thank God). If I'm >not try

regexp---remove comments---simplification

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Turner
Not an earth-shattering problem. I try to remove all those comments from various config files before emailing them to wherever. I currently chain some greps grep -v '^\ *#' some.conf | grep -v '^\ $' > condensed.file How would you combine these regexp's to remove a commented line (even if inden

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-21 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:27:22PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> It's not really a question of who sucks and who blows ;) Java Script, >> Flash, frames, tables, and graphics are compliant technologies, so does >> Lynx suck if it doesn't support

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: >-- Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >(on Thursday, 20 February 2003, 09:27 PM -0600): >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> >On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:43:29AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> >> If only that were

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:43:29AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> If only that were true. Every page I produce is 100% W3C compliant. >> That's not enough. In the area of CSS alone, IE for Windows is not >> compliant, while IE for Mac is. >

Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
Gary Turner wrote: >I have been unable to locate this utility. The more I look, the sillier >I feel. Wasn't this in some util pkg? The closest I've come is >ptknslookup in the ptknettools pkg. I'd prefer non X. Many thanks to all who answered. I installed dnsuti

Re: nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
Rus Foster wrote: >On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Gary Turner wrote: > >> I have been unable to locate this utility. The more I look, the sillier >> I feel. Wasn't this in some util pkg? The closest I've come is >> ptknslookup in the ptknettools pkg. I'd pref

nslookup --- which package?

2003-02-20 Thread Gary Turner
I have been unable to locate this utility. The more I look, the sillier I feel. Wasn't this in some util pkg? The closest I've come is ptknslookup in the ptknettools pkg. I'd prefer non X. Running Sarge. -- gt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If someone tells you--- "I have a sense of humo

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-19 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 03:07:59PM -0600, DvB wrote: >> I've never done this, but I've seen it done (with me own eyes! :-) I >> don't think it worked as well as the native Linux browsers and probably >> would crash as soon as it started doing its Direct-X crap but, for your >>

Re: Best WWW browser..

2003-02-18 Thread Gary Turner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi, I'm using Debian 3.0r1 stable (woody) and am currently using Galon for >web-surfing. However, it seems to break on some sites - they seem to be >moaning about Frames support mostly. > >Anyway, which browser should I use under gnome to get the most pages >viewed? > >I'

Re: how the fuck do I unsubscribe

2003-02-13 Thread Gary Turner
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: >Quoting Fer'had Erdogan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I have been trying to unsubscribe from this list for a few days now. >> Ended up sending an email to the list manager as well about it. Why am I >> still subscribed? Way too many emails for me to deal with. Driving me >> cra

Re: Bogus e-mails sent ....iConnectHere has received your mail! (KMM2416947V99452L0KM)

2003-02-13 Thread Gary Turner
To: iConnectHere CustomerCare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: iConnectHere has received your mail! (KMM2416947V99452L0KM) From: Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 22:50:08 -0600 It's impolite to spam a mailing list with an autoresponder. If you were using a sane MTA

Re: network problem: configuration/DNS? cannot access internal machine using our external IP

2003-02-13 Thread Gary Turner
Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: >On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 20:20, Gary Turner wrote: >> Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: >> >> >Summary: If I try to connect to an internal server given its dyndns.org >> >hostname, it works from the outside world, but fails if I

Re: Good C/C++ IDE

2003-02-12 Thread Gary Turner
Johan Kullstam wrote: >"S Yuval" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Hello, >> Can anyone suggest a good C/C++ IDE? I've tried Anjuta, KDevelop, >> KStudio and have been disappointed. The only somewhat useful IDE I >> could find was QIDE, which is a trial product and only supports C. > >I like em

Re: network problem: configuration/DNS? cannot access internal machine using our external IP

2003-02-12 Thread Gary Turner
Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: >Summary: If I try to connect to an internal server given its dyndns.org >hostname, it works from the outside world, but fails if I try from >within our intranet. > >I have this network configuration > > E > | >Internet > | > | (EXT-IP) >** R ** (Firewall) >

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-12 Thread Gary Turner
Gary Turner wrote: >Rob Weir wrote: > >>On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:34:59PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >>> Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:17:37AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >[...] >>> >> Now I'm back to "cou

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-12 Thread Gary Turner
Rob Weir wrote: >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:34:59PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> Rob Weir wrote: >> >> >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:17:37AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: [...] >> >> Now I'm back to "couldn'y find canonical DNS name for >> >

Re: dpkg inconsistency

2003-02-12 Thread Gary Turner
> In the spirit of "don't re-invent the wheel" this is what I use: #!/bin/sh # Written by Larry Holish, [EMAIL PROTECTED] # As customized by Gary Turner for his own use # Script that writes current list of packages installed # from /var/lib/dpkg/available to pkgs_woody.current.

Re: Deb-List Subject Line Tag?

2003-02-12 Thread Gary Turner
Scalar wrote: >This isn't about debian but about the list.. > >Would it be acceptable for the listserver to add a few >letters at the beginning of the subject to distinguish the >list from other email? [...] >If the listserver appended something like "DEB " to the >front of a non-reply subject, it

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
David P James wrote: >Gary Turner wrote: > [...] >> [la]tex sample >> dvips -Ppdf sample >> ps2pdf sample.ps >> >> This should yield a pdf file that Acroread can render nicely. >> > >Really? It usually comes out looking pretty awful if you ask

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
Rob Weir wrote: >On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:17:37AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> Shyamal Prasad wrote: [...] >> >> >Also, I don't use 'auth' and it works fine. I use the same POP server >> >as you are trying to use. >> >> Dropping th

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
Shyamal Prasad wrote: >"Gary" == Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Gary> poll pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.net proto POP3 >Gary> user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", with password "secret" >Gary> is "gt" here >

Re: Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
drew cohan wrote: >>poll pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.net proto POP3 >> user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", with password "secret" >> is "gt" here > >I'm no fetchmail expert, but what happens if you remove the comma and make >the user line all one line, like: No joy. The comma was in an example in the manu

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
Joerg Johannes wrote: >For some time I am struggling with pdflatex. Today's update of tetex resolved >the major problem I had (Acroread could not process the pdf files), but now >it is getting weird. >If I run pdflatex on a document, the "normal" font is shown very fuzzy (Yes, >various mails i

Fetchmailrc--parse error

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
I have the following error message when running Fetchmail from the command line. gt@koko:~$ fetchmail -v fetchmail:/home/gt/.fetchmailrc:10: parse error at end of input or, gt@koko:~$ fetchmail -u [EMAIL PROTECTED] pop.sbcglobal.yahoo.net fetchmail:/home/gt/.fetchmailrc:10: parse error at end of

Re: OT--How to ask aquestion, an example

2003-02-11 Thread Gary Turner
Nathan E Norman wrote: >On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:14:47PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> While Googlin' for a similar error I ran across this post. It struck me >> as a near perfect example of how to do it. Interestingly, ESR, of >> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-q

OT--How to ask aquestion, an example

2003-02-10 Thread Gary Turner
While Googlin' for a similar error I ran across this post. It struck me as a near perfect example of how to do it. Interestingly, ESR, of http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html fame was the first respondent :) Subj: fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of [...] Short descri

Re: Printer Problem - An Insane Solution

2003-02-10 Thread Gary Turner
Glenn English wrote: >On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:03, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > >> PS. I was going to call this a cock-a-manie (sp?) solution but I can't >> find the word in any of our dictionaries. Anyone know a correct >> spelling and dictionary entry? > >Not at all sure, but I think it's "c

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-10 Thread Gary Turner
Nick Hastings wrote: >* Fred Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030210 16:41]: >> netscape/mozilla does this and evolution does this. the >> kind people at ximian were good enough to add a "reply to list" function >> to evolution to get around _broken_ mailing list software (like whatever >> is runnin

Re: Logging all hits in Apache

2003-02-09 Thread Gary Turner
Rus Foster wrote: >Hi Folks, >I've got a few virtualhosts on my server and they are logging quite >happily into their appropiate files. However what I would also like to do >is log all hits for all the servers into one file as well. i.e. so each >hit get logs twice. Can this be done? I'm guessing

Re: [OT] Capitalism (was Re: columbia -- what really happened)

2003-02-09 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:16:09PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> >By the way, your message asks for a return receipt, which I would >> >guess isn't everyone's preferred setting for a mailing list. >> >> Maybe for mail-lists we shoul

Re: Sharing a printer with SAMBA

2003-02-09 Thread Gary Turner
Chris wrote: >Gday y'all, >Im trying to share a CUPS printer over samba. I can see the printer, but >when i try to print to it from a windows box i get the message "Access >Denied, Cannot connect.". [...] Don't look to me as an expert. I did manage to get stuff hooked up, though. It's been 18

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:32:10PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >> My dictionary (American Heritage College Dictionary) sz they're >> synonyms. Save your valuable exemption for a real error :) > >And American Heritage Dictionary also screws up

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Gary Turner
Pigeon wrote: >On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:42:50AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:41:01AM +, Pigeon wrote: >> > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:37:53PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> > > Pigeon writes: > >On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 10:03:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> s/

Re: [OT] Capitalism (was Re: columbia -- what really happened)

2003-02-08 Thread Gary Turner
Daniel Barclay wrote: >Jack Nguy wrote: >> >> Why is this on this mailing list again? > >By the way, your message asks for a return receipt, which I would >guess isn't everyone's preferred setting for a mailing list. Maybe for mail-lists we should honor requests for return receipts. Talk about

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Gary Turner
DvB wrote: >Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> DvB wrote: >> >> >Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> Yeah, after all it's not their money .. they just worked hard to earn >> >> it. >> >

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-08 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 12:40:36AM -0600, DvB wrote: >> Once again, if cutting taxes is going to put the government $300B in the >> hole, they need to cut some programs and I don't think there're many >> that can be justified being cut. > >Considering the military accounts fo

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Turner
Paul E Condon wrote: >Gary Turner wrote: > >>DvB wrote: >> >>>Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> >> >> >>>>Yeah, after all it's not their money .. they just worked hard to earn >>>>it. >>>&

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Turner
Paul E Condon wrote: >Gary Turner wrote: > >>John Hasler wrote: >> >>>Pigeon writes: >>> >>>>It would be under tension, because the upper station is outside the >>>>geosynchronous orbit. So the bit above the break would fly off in

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Turner
DvB wrote: >Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Yeah, after all it's not their money .. they just worked hard to earn >> it. >> > > >You don't "work hard" for stock dividends. You just put your money in >stocks and they come all by themselves... although I guess I did word >that a lit

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Turner
DvB wrote: >Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 03:59, James Buchanan wrote: >> > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:34:51PM -0600, DvB wrote: >> > > > "James Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Once >you find a private company or NGO that's willing to provide adequ

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Turner
John Hasler wrote: >Pigeon writes: >> It would be under tension, because the upper station is outside the >> geosynchronous orbit. So the bit above the break would fly off into >> space, and the lower bit would fall back. > >The tension would taper from nominally zero at the base to maximum at the

Re: shuttle disaster (space elevators)

2003-02-07 Thread Gary Turner
John Hasler wrote: >Gary Turner writes: >> Not just impact. > >Impact is the most likely cause of failure. I don't doubt that, but I did not address probabilities. >> If the elevator should part at the CG, 23,500 miles of material would >> fall to the East, n

Re: How to prevent x startup

2003-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
David Turetsky wrote: > David Turetsky wrote: > [...] > How do I abort the startup of x? > > Kent West > > At the LILO: prompt, enter "linux single". [...] David Turetsky > > YES!!! Thank you. Now I can go on to experiment with corrections to > my XF86Config file [...]

Re: shuttle disaster (space elevators)

2003-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
John Hasler wrote: >Paul E Condon writes: >> It is not hard to compute the tension in a space elevator ribbon. (It >> would be a fair question for a final exam in an undergraduate mechanics >> course.) It depends on position along the ribbon, on the Earth >> parameters (size, rate of rotation, et

Re: please help on adsl sharing

2003-02-06 Thread Gary Turner
Paul Johnson wrote: >On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:55:17AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >> This may not be what you want to hear, but the best thing is probably to >> spend $25-$50 for a cable/DSL router with a built in firewall. > >Not necissarily an option. > >1) I tend to hear about security pro

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Turner
Bill Moseley wrote: >On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Gary Turner wrote: > >> Hmm, similar here. X and icewm--no desktop; > >That's what I'm running. > >> 1. Drag with left button to select, or >> left click to set the start, then move to the

Re: Highlighted in X, is there a buffer ?

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Turner
Kent West wrote: >Bill Moseley wrote: > >>On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Thorsten Haude wrote: >>> >>>* Timothy Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-05 18:27]: >>> Have a read at what a horrible nightmare cut&paste is under X. http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html >>>I can't find any thing h

Re: apache, mod_perl, apt-get php4

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Turner
cmustard wrote: > >I run apache 1.3.26 and mod_perl, i recently did 'apt-get install php4', which >installed fine and ran apachectl when finished which i assumed meant > > >I am sure there are great docs for this question, as i'm sure it's asked >all the time but i seem unable to find them. > >Th

Re: out of space in /var/cache/apt/archives

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Turner
Nick Hastings wrote: >Hi, > >* Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030205 11:31]: >> my /var is 465M. i'm trying to do and apt-get upgrade, which i >> haven't in a while, and got the following message: >> >> Need to get 69.0MB/109MB of archives. After unpacking 39.1MB will be >> used. >> E: Sorr

Re: simple (non-technial) software question

2003-02-05 Thread Gary Turner
Phil wrote: >I'm setting -up linux machines at a school and the teachers are interested >in Mavis Beacon teaches typing and Mathblaster type programs. They want >programs that are fun for the kids and teach them things at the same time. > >Does anyone have any suggestions? "apt-cache search ty

Re: What this error means?

2003-02-03 Thread Gary Turner
César Augusto Seronni Filho wrote: >TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer externalIP:20522/20 shrinks window 448523626 Googling gave up this among others; http://www.der-keiler.de/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/focus-linux/2001-08/0026.html Of course, I don't know what the answer means any more than I gro

Re: give me the command line - REPHRASED

2003-02-03 Thread Gary Turner
Hans Christian Andersen wrote: >On booting my woody-box it goes directly into X without letting me command >startx. >How do I make it stay at a command line untill I order startx? The answers you were given address *exactly* that. -- gt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If someone tells you---

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