Re: Debian Kernel versions question

2007-01-20 Thread Hubert Chan
de show linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude show kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 AFAIK, "linux-image" is the newer name, because "kernel-image" is not precise in that it does not specify what kind of kernel it is (Linux, *BSD, HURD, etc.) -- Hubert C

Re: gnome-gv

2006-12-24 Thread Hubert Chan
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:49:03 +0800, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hello List, I have just upgraded my Etch box: gnome-gv seems to > removed, why ? gnome-gv has been superseded by evince. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG k

Re: where should i post securety risc code ?

2006-12-16 Thread Hubert Chan
o the disk devices) unless they are entirely trusted. > where can i send this code ? > Regards Jabka Atu Cold Burn Team -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA http://www.uhoreg.ca/ Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 529

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

2006-08-12 Thread Hubert Chan
On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 20:14:51 +0100, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight text > therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone know what > I could use? Would pdftops + flpsed + ps2pdf work for y

Re: What's blocking port 1443 during boot?

2006-07-27 Thread Hubert Chan
(So it binds once, and then fails when it tries to bind a second time.) -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: xpdf -fullscreen (maybe not Debian specific)

2006-07-10 Thread Hubert Chan
On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 13:05:01 +0900, Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi, # Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 06 Jul 2006 23:07:15 -0400 >> I just checked, and when I do xpdf -fullscreen, there are no buttons >> or scrollbars. > Ok, this is another hi

Re: xpdf -fullscreen (maybe not Debian specific)

2006-07-06 Thread Hubert Chan
) includes all these Hmm... That seems very old. The version I have installed is 3.01-8. I just checked, and when I do xpdf -fullscreen, there are no buttons or scrollbars. > widgets: not exactly what I want for giving presentations. -- Hubert Chan -

Re: Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

2006-07-03 Thread Hubert Chan
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:29:09 -0400, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:05:37PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote: >> On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:41:00 -0400, "Thomas H. George" >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >>

Re: Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?

2006-07-02 Thread Hubert Chan
ric CCS Disk Sorry, no CD/DVD-drive > found on this target. Huh? You're trying to use a CD burning program to write to a USB stick? I can't imagine that that would have any chance of working. -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/G

Re: Can't Drive Intel PRO/100 VM Network Connection

2006-05-03 Thread Hubert Chan
_Desc.aspx?agr=&DwnldID=2896&ProductID=61 The instructions in the readme should be pretty straightforward (although I didn't try it on a Debian machine). -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwk

Re: Australian timezone (australasia) update for this weekend

2006-03-22 Thread Hubert Chan
ding if they don't need to? Testing has libc6 2.3.6-3. Is it safe to assume that any 2.3.6 version will have the correct time zone information? Thanks -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.p

Re: Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-21 Thread Hubert Chan
/etc were modified), the new package will inherit the changes. . This utility can make it easy to copy packages from one computer to another, or to recreate packages that are installed on your system, but no longer available elsewhere, or to store the current state of a package before you upgr

Re: OpenVPN makes system loose all network conectivity?

2006-02-25 Thread Hubert Chan
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 19:16:49 +0100, "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > cookiemonster:~# cat /etc/openvpn/scooter.conf ... > route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 10.4.1.2 ^^^ Erm, your local network address wouldn't happen to be a 192.168.0.x add

Re: Understanding "Depends: Package <= Version"

2005-12-01 Thread Hubert Chan
h the correct version. > Along with my "English language" interpretation, it would seem strange > that the presence of a newer package which does not directly conflict > with the older is not likely to break an application. > Is this a bug in apt? If so, is it a known

Re: redirecting the output with sudo

2005-11-16 Thread Hubert Chan
_doc.txt". I guess you could also do "sudo wajig doc | sudo tee /tmp/wajig_doc.txt > /dev/null" so that the output doesn't get copied to the terminal. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74

Re: Three Doubts

2005-10-25 Thread Hubert Chan
; think is there an utility to do so. > Yes. Wipe. Just apt-get install wipe, or aptitude install wipe, > which ever you prefer using. It depends on your filesystem. Wipe (or secure-delete) doesn't work too well on journaling filesystems (ext3, reiserfs, ...). (See the manpa

Re: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing

2005-09-21 Thread Hubert Chan
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:37:28 -0400, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 9/21/05, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Click on the Tools menu, and select the Extensions item. Then select >> the extensions that you want to activate. > This apparently i

Re: installing epiphany-extensions does nothing

2005-09-21 Thread Hubert Chan
on the Tools menu, and select the Extensions item. Then select the extensions that you want to activate. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net.

Re: Hard links to directories

2005-09-04 Thread Hubert Chan
t says Reiserfs, it is almost definitely v3. v4 is usually referred to as "Reiser4", and is only available with a custom patched kernel (or via the -mm branch). -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1F

Re: Pinning, Local Repositories

2005-08-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> take preference over the distro's libfoo-perl.1.deb. You need to set a priority > 1000 to force a downgrade. Pinning priorities are a bit strange; different numbers mean different things. Read 'man apt_preferences' for all the gory details. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: dpkg-repackage recreates lost .debs from installed packages

2005-07-24 Thread Hubert Chan
easy to copy packages from one computer to another, or to recreate packages that are installed on your system, but no longer available elsewhere, or to store the current state of a package before you upgrade it. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D

Re: Top posting

2005-06-11 Thread Hubert Chan
t;> cases, both ways of replying can be acceptable, which was my original >> point. Wim >> > Since this discussion seems to winding down, I think it's safe for me > to comment. Agreed that there's a little agression, but overall I have > to say it's

Re: Top posting

2005-06-10 Thread Hubert Chan
reminded of what's been said before, because I've brought up that exact same point about five times already, and I believe others have brought it up as well. But I guess that is the nature of flamewars. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/1

Re: Programming Backwards (was Re: Top posting (a different point of view))

2005-06-10 Thread Hubert Chan
s stand on their own, it doesn't really matter what order you read them in. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail prefer

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Hubert Chan
he rare instance of having missed something? If you trim properly, you shouldn't need to scroll down (much -- at most one screenful, depending on how big your screen is). -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Hubert Chan
thread has no branches, and so it's easy to keep track of the conversation, I tend to write like a regular letter -- the pen and paper kind. (Why bother keeping the context at all when the recipient already knows it?) > But don't get all righteous about it, for heaven's sake!

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-09 Thread Hubert Chan
the rest of the messages in the thread. I can't imagine how you would do that with most-recent-first. If you just read the latest message in a thread and find that you're not interested, you can't just kill the thread because you don't know if that message is off on a tangent,

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Hubert Chan
h threaded mail readers, it doesn't work too well with long threads with many replies -- if you finish reading this message, and then read my reply to Hal's reply to the original message, you would have a hard time remembering Hal's message that I was replying to, since you would h

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Hubert Chan
On Thu, 09 Jun 2005 19:51:22 -0500, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hubert Chan wrote: >> (David, I think you're to subtle . . . . >> >> > "too". > D'oh! Yeah, I saw that after I sent the message. I'll blame it on my keyboard

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Hubert Chan
is grammar if you read his message properly? (Other than the missing period after the last sentence.) As a writer, you were definitely not making your point clear. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1F

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Hubert Chan
hursday 09 June 2005 12:55 pm, David Jardine wrote: >> Isn't some authoritative voice on the list going to give >> us a lecture on top posting sometime soon? It seems to >> be getting out of hand :) (David, I think you're to subtle for the majority of the people on this

Re: Package 'prosper' and color in Latex

2004-12-06 Thread Hubert Chan
This bug has already been reported, along with a workaround. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=254807 -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key availa

Re: dvips problem

2004-12-04 Thread Hubert Chan
2) cmr17 font is missing cmr17 files are found in tetex-base and tetex-extra. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred

Re: Openoffice won't start

2004-07-13 Thread Hubert Chan
[snip] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=250983 No known fix yet, but you're not alone. I get the same thing too, but it started a couple of months ago. It looks like a strange bug. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fi

Re: How to get Anti aliasing fonts in Gnome?

2004-03-27 Thread Hubert Chan
>>>>> "Hubert" == Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Jaap" == Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jaap> Hi, I have the problem that anti aliasing does not seem to Jaap> work. See for example the font in the at

Re: How to get Anti aliasing fonts in Gnome?

2004-03-27 Thread Hubert Chan
lution. Jaap What fonts are you using? Try installing the ttf-bitstream-vera package. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-ma

Re: Invisible X Fonts in Sid

2004-02-17 Thread Hubert Chan
It might be bug #223352. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=223352 See if downgrading to fontconfig 2.2.1-8 helps. If you trust me, you can download a copy from http://www.uhoreg.ca/fontconfig_2.2.1-8_i386.deb If that works, you may want to add to the bug report. -- Hubert Chan

Re: Where'd the fonts go?

2004-01-23 Thread Hubert Chan
>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Rati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Robert> I'm running Debian unstable and some time ago I lost most of my Robert> fonts. ... Bug 223352? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=223352 -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Remove E-mail Headers

2004-01-10 Thread Hubert Chan
t it seem to be correct. I would think that the X-Evolution-Source header is being added by Evolution when it's fetching the mail from your server, and not when it's sending the mail. Try reading your mail with a different client. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uh

Re: Finding All Locations/URIs of a Package

2004-01-07 Thread Hubert Chan
apt-cache policy ... ? -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there any encrypted or secure NFS?

2004-01-03 Thread Hubert Chan
ng observed. Any Antonio> ideas? Thanks. You can try tunnelling NFS over SSH. http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/snfs/ (It's written for RedHat, but should work under Debian.) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint:

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-30 Thread Hubert Chan
does, but it is empty. I'm not sure about the m505, but with my Visor, /dev/usb/tts/ only gets populated when I hit the hotsync button (and becomes empty shortly after the hotsync is complete). -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fing

Re: only root able to play music cds? (2nd try)

2003-12-13 Thread Hubert Chan
members of the disk michelle> and audio groups can do that. The CD-ROM device is probably owned by the cdrom group. Check /dev/cdrom. Users can mount CDs because mount is SUID root. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Hubert Chan
ld not reallocate the original array. The new array would then disappear after it went "out of scope" (i.e. after it exits the body of the while loop). (Well, since it's static, it wouldn't disappear, AFAICT -- it would just become inaccessible.) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Hubert Chan
urncode == 0) John> { John> for ( nCounter = 0 ; nCounter < nNumberofelements ; nCounter += John> 1 ) John> fprintf (stdout,"pnStorage [%d] : %d\n", nCounter, pnStorage John> [nCounter]) ; John> fprintf (stdout, "=

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Hubert Chan
tdin)) { scanf("%d", array + size); size++; if (size > capacity) { capacity *= 2; array = realloc(array, capacity*sizeof(int)); } } -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Hubert Chan
is no efficient way to do random access on a linked list. Efficient implementation requires choosing a proper data structure. Choose the wrong data structure, and something that should take milliseconds could end up taking minutes, hours, or even days. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - h

Re: esd taking over /dev/dsp

2003-12-10 Thread Hubert Chan
Uh, what's the debian way of David> allowing these things to co-exist peacefully? Not the Debian way, but you can use esddsp to make other programs play through esd instead of trying to talk to the sound card directly. esddsp ogg123 ... -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www

Re: Invisible fonts in KDE on Sarge

2003-11-27 Thread Hubert Chan
to the latest (...-12), the fonts become invisible. Can you downgrade your fontconfig and see if that helps? (I'll file a bug report for this eventually...) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291

Re: Where is Gnome-Freecell?

2003-10-29 Thread Hubert Chan
It has been dropped in favour of the freecell that is part of Aisle Riot (/usr/games/sol). -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted

Re: CVS /var/lib/cvs filesystem standard

2003-10-21 Thread Hubert Chan
web pages is /var/www, mail is stored in /var/mail, etc. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CUPS on a standalone: turn off port 631 how?

2003-09-15 Thread Hubert Chan
ff> Geoff> Now, this is what is already set up, but netstat still shows Geoff> cupsd as LISTENING. Yup. The "Allow from ..."/"Deny from ..." only limits accesses after they try to connect, and is just another layer of security. BTW, remember that a portscan from your ow

Re: [OT-ish] IGPL - Idea General Public Licence

2003-08-28 Thread Hubert Chan
vercompetes for a Karl> sales area or something... but there could be more factories and Karl> distributed world wide to simplify logistics for new ones and Karl> _compatible_ replacement parts. Designs and blueprints are probably copyrightable (maybe depending on jurisdiction), and so you co

Re: usb devices /etc/fstab

2003-07-20 Thread Hubert Chan
scsidev run automatically when you plug something in, using hotplug, but I've had some stability problems with that -- at least with Firewire devices. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF2

Re: mouse pointer does not show

2003-07-20 Thread Hubert Chan
fier "Generic Video Card" | Driver "trident" | VideoRam8192 | Option "SWCursor" "on" | Option "backingstore" | EndSection ` -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://w

Re: Gnome-Terminal size not restored

2003-07-11 Thread Hubert Chan
er of lines in the terminal is what is really important -- not the window size. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Gnome-Terminal size not restored

2003-07-11 Thread Hubert Chan
t size, then shrinks itself. AFAICT, it only happens if I start off with some tabs open (but I haven't tried with no tabs for a while). -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C7

Re: Where does Mozilla get its list of printers?

2003-07-03 Thread Hubert Chan
>>>>> "Kirk" == Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kirk> At 2003-07-03T02:14:58Z, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> AFAICT, mozilla uses the Xprint system. See the xprt-xprintorg >> package, or xprint.mozdev.org. Basically

Re: Where does Mozilla get its list of printers?

2003-07-03 Thread Hubert Chan
commands to. The "@" I guess means that it's served at localhost (or thinks it is). But I have no idea where it got "huffalump" from. P.S. you'll need to read (some of) the docs in xprt-xprintorg to get it to work properly. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: ssh

2003-06-28 Thread Hubert Chan
X forwarding must also be enabled on the server side. Check with your sysadmin to see whether that has been done. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key availa

Re: grip & ide-scsi & ripping

2003-06-27 Thread Hubert Chan
and hence grip) needs to access the SCSI generic interface for ripping. The device for the generic interface is probably /dev/sg0 (depending on how many other SCSI devices you have, if any). -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint:

Re: Updating to new kernel from 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-06-11 Thread Hubert Chan
fig options that were not present in the old kernel (mostly new hardware support). Then do a "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" to tweak the options that you know need changing. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61F

Re: secure kernel

2003-06-10 Thread Hubert Chan
d kernel-image-2.4.18-bf2.4, which should have the appropriate patches. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.

Re: secure kernel

2003-06-09 Thread Hubert Chan
You'll want to look at the latest DSA: http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-311 -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encry

Re: [OT] no space after defined \newcommands in LaTeX

2003-03-31 Thread Hubert Chan
want something uglier, you can use "... the \TM{} defined by blah blah ..." You probably don't want to use ~ since ~ is a non-breaking space. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5

Re: gnome2 to draw the desktop

2003-03-28 Thread Hubert Chan
tion from the Preferences box, since the default is supposed to be to use Nautilus. But you can still access the preference by running gconf-editor, and going to apps/nautilus/preferencces. I believe it's the "show_desktop" preference. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - ht

Re: PDF presentation from LaTeX: TexPower? Prosper?

2003-03-23 Thread Hubert Chan
per. Does anyone know where to get A4 paper in Canada?) If you need to do this, email me, and I'll dig up the command that I used to make it use US-Letter paper. (IIRC, it wasn't perfect, but it was good enough.) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/Gn

Re: source debs and security

2003-03-18 Thread Hubert Chan
mber that if the package that you compile has the same version number as the one from security (or any other apt-gettable source), apt-get will want to replace it, so you'll need to bump up the version slightly (usually adding a ".1" does the trick") by editing debian/changelog.

Re: Mouse Cursor Offset in X

2003-03-05 Thread Hubert Chan
itself, rather than telling the video card to draw it. It causes a minor performance hit (very minor), and you may notice the cursor flickering sometimes. But at least you'll be able to click on stuff. ;-) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Kernel compile for dhcpd

2003-03-05 Thread Hubert Chan
found in /usr/share/doc/dhcp3-client/README.Debian. I'm sure that on Woody, there's a similar file. BTW, when compiling your kernel, it's generally a good idea to start off with the configuration that's found in /boot/config-. Then just turn off any options that you know for sure

Re: kernel menuconfig

2003-03-05 Thread Hubert Chan
ns I Curtis> absolutely need for various configurations. Just copy the .config file to the new tree. Then do a "make oldconfig" and it'll prompt you for any new options, if there are any. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124

Re: xfree86 4.3

2003-03-03 Thread Hubert Chan
e time between 4.2's release and the first experimental debs. Branden delayed working on 4.2 because it was expected that Woody would be released real soon.) Quite a bit has changed between 4.2 and 4.3, so I wouldn't expect the time frame to be much different. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL P

Re: cdparanoia can't access scsi

2003-03-02 Thread Hubert Chan
which is linked to /dev/scd1 Christof> is set to allow read access by the group cdrom. You need to also allow the cdrom group to access /dev/sg0 (or whichever sg? device is associated with the cdrom). -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-27 Thread Hubert Chan
My MUA (gnus, if you're too lazy to check the headers) can highlight messages that are replies my own messages (so long as the other guy's mailer handles threading properly). ;-) I wouldn't be surprised if other MUAs like mutt could do this too. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PR

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-26 Thread Hubert Chan
I agree that BCCing the list is a bad thing to do. (BCCing in general should not be done unless you have a really good reason.) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at w

Re: [OT] Complaint

2003-02-26 Thread Hubert Chan
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Or something like that. I read d-user through the gmane.org mail-news gateway, which may munge some headers, or add or remove headers.) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: make gnome2 theme persistent

2003-02-23 Thread Hubert Chan
king the obvious substitution). That is what Gnome1 did for the .gtkrc file, so something like that might work for Gnome2. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key avai

Re: small spamassassin configuration question

2003-02-23 Thread Hubert Chan
spamd should use per-user configuration files by default. At least it does for me. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Recompile kernel lost network

2003-02-17 Thread Hubert Chan
all I have is the local loopback interface lo, no eth0. An lspci Barry> shows the adapter and I get a link light on the card so I am a Barry> bit lost. Any thoughts? Are you using DHCP? If so, you need to enable CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER. (Or use pump instead of dhclient.) -- Hub

Re: How do I find out where a package came from?

2003-02-15 Thread Hubert Chan
#x27;t think there's any way to tell where it came from, though. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. msg30976/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-02-05 Thread Hubert Chan
lor}", since xfig uses some color commands on the text, even if it is all black. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. msg28815/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ncurses can't find libraries

2003-01-31 Thread Hubert Chan
ses-base, ncurses-term and Thomas> libncurses5 are installed and have even reinstalled them without Thomas> solving the problem. You need the ncurses dev files: libncurses5-dev -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5

Re: devfsd and /dev/dsp

2003-01-30 Thread Hubert Chan
amixer Francois> but I have no /dev/dsp device ! What's the way to create it Francois> with devfs ? What's happens to my previous /dev directory ? If you want /dev/dsp, you need to turn on OSS emulation. Do a modprobe snd-pcm-oss (you may also need snd-mixer-oss and snd-s

Re: /var still counts /var/cache

2003-01-27 Thread Hubert Chan
u unmount /var/cache, you should still be able to see the files under /var/cache. Just delete those, and remount /var/cache. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at ww

Re: OT: finite-state automata in LaTeX

2003-01-26 Thread Hubert Chan
ext part of the figure. And if you set the "special" flag in your text (click on the text tool. Then, at the bottom of the screen, click on the "Text Flags" button. Click on the button next to "Special Flag" and select "Special"), you can use TeX commands

Re: Galeon scrollbar resembling the one in Mozilla

2003-01-26 Thread Hubert Chan
ferent theme which I installed as a test Christopher> theme. Yep. That's because Galeon and Mozilla use different directories to store their preferences. Christopher> However, your .rdf file works great. Thanks! Excellent! -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/

Re: Galeon scrollbar resembling the one in Mozilla

2003-01-25 Thread Hubert Chan
aleon/chrome/chrome.rdf file. See if that helps. http://www.mozilla.org/rdf/chrome#"; xmlns:NC="http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#"; xmlns:RDF="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";>

Re: Some myths regarding apt pinning

2003-01-25 Thread Hubert Chan
er than pinning, since that won't pull in the dependencies either. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. msg26230/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mouse not aligned in X

2003-01-21 Thread Hubert Chan
is made by about the width Kent> of a close button (the X in the upper right hand corner of a Kent> window) in icewm. Try using the software cursor. In the video card Device section, add a line that says `Option "SWCursor" "on"'. This causes XFree86 to draw the poi

Re: a basic aptitude question - how to install a virtual package

2003-01-17 Thread Hubert Chan
will see a list of packages that Provide: it. Pick one to install. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. msg24697/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gcc-3.2 transition breaks build of KDE packages

2003-01-14 Thread Hubert Chan
Colin> [Where'd this thread come from, by the way, out of curiosity? Colin> -kde?] ... -curiosa is where this particular segment of the thread is from. It was originally completely unrelated to talking about females, but somehow evolved, which I guess seems to happen quite of

Re: upgrade to gnome2 lost truetype fonts in galeon

2003-01-12 Thread Hubert Chan
nd monospace (look under the "Provide required aliases for standard names" section). Of course, doing that would affect the global configuration. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 529

Re: I do not have Super Cow Powers

2003-01-11 Thread Hubert Chan
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Strauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Try typing "apt-get moo" at the prompt. (on an apt with Super Martin> Cow Powers, that is) You can also try "aptitude moo", and see what a non-Super Cow Power p

Re: broken package: testing: libapache-request-perl

2003-01-09 Thread Hubert Chan
just be giving redundant information. (And possibly annoying the maintainer unnecessarily.) -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred. msg23306/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: grubing my debian box

2003-01-09 Thread Hubert Chan
>>>>> "Hugh" == Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Hugh> 4. wrote /boot/grub/menu.1st ... Grub expects that to be menu.lst, not menu.1st (ell, not one). -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61

Re: OT: LaTeX problem w/ upside-down slides

2003-01-07 Thread Hubert Chan
e to get a menu by clicking the right button. In gv, click on the Landscape button, and either select "Seascape", or "Swap landscape". -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C

Re: [solved] Cannon USB Cammera

2002-12-29 Thread Hubert Chan
nted automatically for me. Perhaps it is the hotplug package. I have it installed, and I know it does a lot of magic that I don't understand. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 6

Re: Cannon USB Cammera

2002-12-25 Thread Hubert Chan
e, nor a Aryan> directory. You should have a couple of files and one or more directories. Which kernel are you using? Is it a stock Debian kernel, or one that you compiled yourself? Hmm. Googling for usbdevfs, brings up this page: http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/15125.html See

Re: Cannon USB Cammera

2002-12-25 Thread Hubert Chan
th root? Hmm. If it doesn't work with root, then it's probably not a permissions problem. You can check that your kernel supports USB, and that the usbdevfs is mounted (make sure /proc/bus/usb exists). When you plug the camera in, a new file should appear in /proc/bus/usb/00?/. -- Huber

Re: Cannon USB Cammera

2002-12-24 Thread Hubert Chan
oto2-2/README.Debian (if you're using unstable, different location if you're using stable/Woody) for the possible approaches. Basically, you need to make sure that your user has proper permissions for the device in /proc/bus/usb. -- Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.uhoreg.c

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