Mozilla makes KWM switch desktops

2004-05-31 Thread Jürgen A . Erhard
e to tell what to make it stop behaving like that? Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard Invasion! http://invasion.jerhard.org GNUstep - Free OPENSTEP (http://www.gnustep.org) I wish I had more energy -- or less ambition. pgpF

Kernel building made easier

2003-07-11 Thread Jürgen A . Erhard
ye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard My WebHome: http://jerhard.org 1. Man gewöhnt sich an allem - sogar am Dativ. 2. Der Dativ ist dem Genitiv sein Tod. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Package signatures tools

2003-07-11 Thread Jürgen A . Erhard
PS: Yes, a crosspost, but both packages are linked (verifydebs uses python-debsigs), and both have stuff for developers and users. Flame me anyway, if you must ;-) -- Jürgen A. Erhard Invasion! http://invasion.jerhard.org I

ipac-ng: is anybody using it?

2003-06-12 Thread Jürgen A . Erhard
? PPPS: Is there an alternative? #191004 's all I say... -- Jürgen A. Erhard MARS http://mars.jerhard.org GNUstep - Free OPENSTEP (http://www.gnustep.org) Join the War on the War on Drugs pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

How to Identify Mailing Lists

2003-06-04 Thread Jürgen A . Erhard
so, where could I find a list of MLMs and their respective authors? Bye, J PS: This whole problem bothered me for years now... when I found out about List-Id, I was happy. Until I found the adoption rate to be... depressing. -- Jürgen A. Erhard My W

Re: exim in cron - why for dialup system?

2002-01-24 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
want. Add another "f" to thaw frozen messages first. Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) My WebHome: http://jerhard.org "Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book; inside of a dog, it's very dark." -- Groucho Marx pgpwo5dNz1WAS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: list all packages that are installed

2002-01-13 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
dpkg -l > foo' Even better (works in zsh, no guarantees for other shells) is COLUMNS=$COLUMNS dpkg -l | less which makes dpkg -l do the usually needed, use the current width (big xterm, mainly). Yes, setting columns to itself looks weird... guess it's not exported or something

Re: mp3 encoder?

2001-11-06 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
o Mixer) Andy> which only seems to work with mp3s. They list ogg support on their development page as goals... Hope they'll get to that soon, because GDAM looks interesting, and I don't want to touch mp3s anymore ;-) Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Querybts and text-mode browser in X11?

2001-11-01 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
shlist bug I filed proper? (;-) Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Invasion! http://invasion.jerhard.org Stop the execution of Mumia Abu-Jamal! (http://www.freemumia.org) "Windows NT" is an acronym for "Windows? No

Re: illegal to link against python 2.x?

2001-10-20 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
wyer... that one's even in wtf) TINLA (`dict tinla` has TINLC... so I think this is This Is Not Legal Advice). YADA (Yet Another D??? A??? ? Or just "yada" as in "yada yada yada"?) Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Dillo (Web-Browser Recommendation)

2001-10-15 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
ghtweight, and if necessary to achieve that, less featureful. But small footprint is important. (At least until I get myself a bigger notebook ;-) Karsten> Peace. We all wish for that... :-| Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])

Dillo (Web-Browser Recommendation)

2001-10-14 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Galeon... *eeewww* is this *l*) Take a look, it's worth it. Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) My WebHome: http://jerhard.org "Ever wonder why the SAME PEOPLE make up ALL the conspiracy

Re: SSSCA (was Re: OT or relevent?)

2001-10-02 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
tandard chipset, there's not other way). But of course they will be disabled... at first. Like IBM said they'd do with the CPRM "features" in the harddisks... after the initial criticisms. Of course, now they'll be *forced* to put those in... poor little fellas Bye, J -

Re: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!

2001-08-20 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
ke being contacted by my squid). You could do that with a special port, that the firewall would redirect to 80... but then you couldn't get to servers on non-std ports. Oh well... -- Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) My WebHome: http://membe

Re: sqrt C function

2001-08-14 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
ying something Dimitri> explicitly and trusting a compiler to figure it out for Dimitri> me, guess what I choose? Well... then you probably like Python, as one of it's (inofficial) mottos is "explicit is better than implicit" Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROT

Re: Module Errors not in Dmesg

2001-08-08 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
switches vts (from vt1 to vt7), thus erasing the scrollback buffer of vt1. Yes, I wish someone would implement separate scrollback buffers (have been bitten by that time and again). Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) My WebHome: http://me

Re: Driver for ATI

2001-07-25 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
putation... but even though they didn't do an Nvidia, they still restrict access to their docs. They officially refer you to XFree86, and from what I've read on dri-devel, becoming an XFree86 developer is not that easy... ask if you want the gritty details. (This is all just my POV, of c

Re: Newbieish question

2001-07-16 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
r system, or have an impact on a lot of critical apps). When new unstable libc appeared in sid a while ago (quite a while... I think it was before potato, so woody was still unstable, not testing), I waited a couple weeks even. Until I couldn't stand not being able to upgrade almost all the

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-16 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: >> As I said, that's bullshit. You're right that dpkg's available file >> needs to be up to date... b

Re: dpkg problem

2001-07-14 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
estions posted via debconf in its own database. So --purge and reinstall will not get rid of those. I could be speaking out of my ass here, however... ;-) Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) My WebHome: http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard

Re: [OT] job title

2001-07-14 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
D-Man> So what's the literal translation? If I may take a stab: Enchanter of Computers (Computer Enchanter). Or, maybe cooler: Computermancer. (Necromancer->Neuromancer, see?). Bye, J PS: If you're more into enchanting hardware (don't we all wish we were at times),

Re: apt-get dselect upgrade problems

2001-07-12 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
. You do the updating via "dselect update", but I should think that you known that. Bye, J PS: I wouldn't have reacted so strongly if a) you didn't walk around here with an aura of "I *always* know what I'm saying" and b) there hadn't been someone statin

Re: newbie tip

2001-06-30 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Of course you might have this in your list already...) Alternatively, mention recode. But... that's lots more powerful, and thus a lot more complicated. (You *could* mention recode in a short sentence "For universal recoding problems, there's recode" or s.th. like that. *Pointe

Re: What kind of attack is this?

2001-06-28 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
as trying to mess with my lpd - this is why Eugene> portsentry didn't pick up on it. So, meanwhile I just Eugene> purged lprng as I found myself not printing anything for Eugene> the past few months. Check out snort... if this attack is a known one, it would have told

Re: abbreviations for non-native english speakers

2001-06-01 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
e and will do the same job. It's small and Jaye> useful. Just used it today when I seen, 'smop' refered to in Jaye> an earlier post this AM :) You mean the jargon file? Because I haven't found a "jargon" program... Bye, J -- Jürgen A

Re: Free mail a/c that allows download of mail

2001-05-30 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
gt; That newspaper probably has some pretty consistent properties, D> like the From or Subject field, right? Just dump it to D> /dev/null using procmail. And one mailing a week? That contains some info about a service you're using? I skim every one... *skim*, not necessaril

Re: [users] Re: geldverschenker

2001-05-20 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
kein debian-deutsch (which Bob> is about as much german as I remember from my university days Bob> 40 years ago). There's no debian-deutsch, but there's debian-user-de... though (alas?) not on lists.debian.org. It's admin'd by Lehmann's Online Buchhandlung,

Re: pdp11 support

2001-04-26 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
ay with a UNIX Version 7, yay! ;-) Bye, J PS: The most annoying feature, though, is that it apparently busy-waits... IIRC load was near 1 while I ran it on my Cyrix MII machine (233MHz, 64M). Installing on my 500MHz notebook to test while I write this ;-) -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] p

Re: not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.

2001-04-25 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
pplies *both* visuals (8bpp and 24/32bpp) at the same time. And there seems to be only one X server that does this: the one for Matrox cards (G400 only I think... pretty certainly no chips older than G200/400). Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (

Re: Can't ssh in as a normal user anymore

2001-04-19 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
n? Do you have IPv6 in your kernel(s)? If yes... hack the sshd init scripts and add a "-- -4" to the start-stop-daemon invocation that start sshd. For me that solved it. (There's a report in the BTS that helped me find this). Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROT

Re: water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink.

2001-04-13 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
your implications to the contrary). Bye, J [1] Even though Germany is said to be SuSE territory... well, one of the founding regulars once told me that "All the people who know Linux and know their stuff use either RedHat or Debian". Okay, I'd make that "the majority"

Re: Flash Player ?

2001-03-19 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
>>>>> "Stan" == Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stan> What's the Debian way of installing a Flash Player plugin for Netscape? apt-get install navigator/communicator... netscape-base-476 contains the flash plugin... Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard

Re: more with wget..

2001-03-18 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
So... no corruption is happening (at least not due to those messages). Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326 MARS: http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard/mars_index.html "Perl Programmers are from Mars, Python Progr

Re: Naming Custom Kernels

2001-02-26 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Martin" == Martin =?iso-8859-1?Q?W=FCrtele?= writes: Martin> On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 03:31:49PM -0500, David Raeker-Jordan wrote: Martin> (...) >> What is EXTRAVERSION for and what problems might I cause? Is EXTRAVERSION >> on

Re: Which editor for programming?

2000-11-11 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
n though I don't have vi installed here, if anyone would come to work on this machine who wanted a vi, s/he'd get it, no questions asked (not even "How can you be so stupid and/or misguided..." ;-) Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 2732

Re: Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

2000-10-06 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
>>>>> "Francesco" == Francesco Bochicchio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Francesco> On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:27:43PM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: >> The only thing in syslog is a >> >> gnome-name-server[500]: inp

Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

2000-10-05 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Forgot to mention I've installed the latest Helix GNOME packages, and the rest is woody (still libc 2.1.3). Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326 My WebHome: http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard "It might look like I'm doi

Weird spontaneous X (GNOME?) shutdowns...

2000-10-05 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
14), Celeron 566... compiled my own kernel (2.2.17, slightly reduced from the Debian default, just disabled some features I definitely don't need). Anyone experienced the same? Or have some hints where to look? Any pointers are appreciated... Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Helix GNOME and Debian GNOME incompatible

2000-10-01 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
it got). PPPS: More details on request... -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326 My WebHome: http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard Mesa - Free OpenGL API (http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~brianp/Mesa.html) "No matter how cynical I get, I can'

Re: apt-get upgrade broke apache

2000-09-29 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
el that a new libc is coming (don't remember who...), and was thus on the look-out. Glad I did... as soon as I saw a new libc to install, I didn't (didn't put it on hold, as I do most upgrades manually via apt-get install PACKAGE anyway) Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EM

Re: How widely is Debian used for production?

2000-09-28 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
x Journal), who told me that all their Linux systems run Debian (including their webservers). Bye, J PS: If you read this, Mike, I hope I haven't given out a secret... ;-) -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326 My WebHome: http://members.tripod.co

Re: How can I put a package on hold without using Dselect?

2000-09-25 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
s file w/o conflicting. -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326 My WebHome: http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard "Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift -- which is why they call it the present." --

Re: OT: no cdrom audio from sound card line out

2000-09-23 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > "Mark" =3D=3D Mark Schiltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, David Z. Maze wrote: >> Mark Schiltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MS> I think I have tried everything, maybe

Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full

2000-09-23 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
decrees Mike> against UCE, etc. Mike, please do a "dict spam" (or look it up in the jargon file if you don't have dict installed). UCE is spam... but spam is not just UCE. Bruce is right. Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326

Re: Another Poll (Update)

2000-09-13 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
to vote even once is someone else on their subnet already had voted (or even on their current IP, before they had got it). Will> i only voted once, tho... :) Honest people seem hard to come by these days, so I applaud you. Honest! ;-) Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phon

Re: two apt-get questions

2000-09-10 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
g package if any? Sean> apt-get -s foo bar Sorry, but it doesn't show the *versions*. So, that'd be a resounding No here also. Too bad, I'd like such an option also... currently you can only check apt-cache show foo against dpkg -s foo to see whether there's a newer v

Re: helix-gnome for Debian 2.2 ?

2000-09-07 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
n their binary installer. Since they don't use that on Debian (that basically does what apt already does), Debian is not vulnerable (and some msg on bugtraq (I think) even said so) Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326 MARS: http://members.tripod.com/J

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

2000-09-06 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
curious departure. As I explained above, not very curious... it's rather the norm (all major distributions are moving to FHS in the long term... or have said so, at least ;-) Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326 MARS: http://members.tripod.com/

Re: Debian 2.2 and security - SecurityPortal article]

2000-08-30 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
oblems than just "an attacker can view user's files" (not root's, BTW... and, as mentioned, not files of users who have even half a clue). Bye, J PS: The apology Kurt's put up is nice, I have to say. -- Jürgen A. Erhard[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: (GERMANY) 0721 27326

Re: Dselect file list generation

2000-08-30 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
Hi Doug, Try apt-get --print-uris -y dselect-upgrade >PACKAGES Take that file to your work machine and do a for i in `awk http://members.tripod.com/Juergen_Erhard/mars_index.html Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) Amazon.com: One-Click Patent - One-Cl

Re: [Q] what do these portmap log entries mean?

2000-08-25 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Nate" == Nate Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Nate> Michael Banck wrote: >> huh, my protscan shows this: >> >> Interesting ports on Blackbird (127.0.0.1): >> PortState Protocol Service >> 9 open

Re: Apache -- SSL and normal on same system?

2000-08-18 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "kmself" == kmself writes: kmself> On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 09:19:20AM -0300, John Ackermann wrote: >> I've been running Apache successfully for a long time, and >> would like to add a secured virtual site to my collection. I >

Re: some tcsh questions

2000-08-06 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
ges for Jonas> a while. ;) Closer is glob_complete (setopt globcomplete). But probably not exactly what you want... it expands the word in the command line and steps through the completions via TAB. The original *.html is gone, so pressing ENTER would jsut deal with one. Though, mayb

Re: some tcsh questions

2000-08-05 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
ob function (lists global patterns) aswell as Jonas> the commands-, dir-, var-, env-completion that it does by Jonas> default? Don't know what this means... I only know zsh's completion system r0x. ;-)) Jonas> Thanks! What for? ;-) Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard

Re: Fw: Free Linux Journal T-Shirt!

2000-08-02 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
k should have been part of the list too... kmself> Makes you wonder how much thought went into the survey and kmself> whether it's just a data mining expedition. I can't dispute this possibility. Bye, J PS: Strangely, the LJ uses Debian on all their (web-) servers... 8-| -

Re: smail error on setup- FQDN does not match

2000-08-02 Thread Jürgen A. Erhard
". So go RTF RFC1035 ;-) You'll see that underscores in hostnames (= fqdn) are not permitted. Only letters, digits and the hyphen ("-") are allowed. So, name your machine "the-kernel" and try again. Should work then. Bye, J -- Jürgen A. Erhard eMail: [EMAIL P