OT: list-etiquette and cross-posting

2004-02-08 Thread Josh Robinson
in the munging-headers thread, someone posted a link to http://marc.merlins.org/perso/listreplyto.txt - which includes this: > - "Reply-To munging adds additional functionality, it actually increases > freedom of choice" > *cough* bullshit *cough* > For one, it prevents a thread across two l

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-16 Thread Josh Robinson
> See above reference to proper usage of the 'find' command. It really > comes in handy in situations like this. :) <- Once again. Smiley. Joke. > Ha ha. Funny. Etc, etc, etc, ad nauseaum. Need I go on? :) has it not occurred to you that what you find funny, others might find offensive, irritatin

default terminal application in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread Josh Robinson
hi all apologies if this is an absolutely inane question: when i execute a command (e.g. after pressing alt + F2) and elect to 'run in terminal', it always chooses to use uxterm. is there any way of telling my box to use Konsole instead, which (a) looks much nicer and (b) makes copying and pasting

Re: Evolution and Firebird

2004-01-05 Thread Josh Robinson
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 18:16, Rohit Kumar Mehta wrote: > Hey I know this doesn't help you at all, but how did you get evolution > working with Debian? > I thought Ximian stopped supporting Debian :( > I would like to try Ximian Desktop with Evolution. no idea about Ximian Desktop, but Evolution w

Evolution and Firebird

2004-01-05 Thread Josh Robinson
Hi all, i'm not sure if this is the best place to ask about such things, but could anyone tell me, or direct me to a place where i can find out - how to tell firebird to use evolution to handle mailto: links and - how to tell evolution to use firebird to open webpages? at the moment, evolution

Re: [OT[UnOfficial Unsubscribe FAQ

2004-01-03 Thread Josh Robinson
> Not meaning to be a prude, but see: > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct, next to last rule. could you please quote webpages for those who have difficulty accessing webpages from email? (the sysadmins have disabled the URL-viewer in Pine when run on my email-server, for example.

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-31 Thread Josh Robinson
> Your must have set your partitions up as logical partitions. Logical > partitions start at 5. how wonderfully, err, logical j signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-31 Thread Josh Robinson
all sorted out: thanks to all for your help. nice shiny box, working as new - and i no longer have to use pine to get at my email! for some reason, my partitions are hda5 through 8 - i have no idea quite how or why i set them up like that, but once i'd found that out, it was all ok. oh, and using

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-31 Thread Josh Robinson
thanks for all the advice: still no joy as yet, though when i boot from the CD, it gives me about 5 options, most of which involve a new installation. there is, however, the option of executing a shell command. when i do that, it tells me i'm about to run ash (whatever that might be) and that the

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread Josh Robinson
> Maybe you have one of the woody intaller CD's, boot off the first one, > and when prompted type rescue root=/dev/hdxX <-- replace with your > root partition, probably hda1. thanks: how do i know which is my root partition? (i can't remember which is which of my various partitions - i can't r

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread Josh Robinson
a problem: i updated my sources.list file, and ran apt-get dist-upgrade. followed the instructions on the screen. and rebooted. except now my box won't boot. i just get the characters LI (i think) in the top left-hand corner of teh screen, and nothing happens. what should i do? josh -- To UN

Re: OT: Thunderbird 0.4 "feels" better

2003-12-27 Thread Josh Robinson
> I don't believe any of this is true. I can see no Reply-to: header in > what I get from the list. Running mutt, "r" replies to sender. "L" > does a list reply. apologies - i get the digest which -does- munge reply-to headers to send to the list. i'll be interested to have a look on firebird

Re: OT: Thunderbird 0.4 "feels" better

2003-12-27 Thread Josh Robinson
> Hey, you're right. > "Reply all" puts the list as CC, individual as "To" --- however, the > `simple' "Reply" puts *only* the list as recipient. This mail, for > instance, was sent with "Reply", and at least I believe it's sent only > to the list, and not you as an individual (as well). that's

Re: OT: Thunderbird 0.4 "feels" better

2003-12-23 Thread Josh Robinson
> Question: The only reason why I stay with evolution instead of changing > to thunderbird is: There is no "Reply to list"-button. I can't live > without it. Did I miss something, or do you have to correct every mail > to a list manually? > In mailinglists I only accept answering to the list (pub

problems recognising gpg public keys

2003-12-21 Thread Josh Robinson
i'm running Evolution 1.45 on KDE 3.1.4, with a recent (i think: i downloaded it a couple of weeks ago) version of GnuPG. although i have no problem signing messages, whenever i click on anyone else's signature, i get the following error message : > This message is digitally signed but can

apt-get update and install query

2003-12-19 Thread Josh Robinson
tead. which seems, from the penultimate line, to be a self-perpetuating situation. could anyone please explain what's going on and how i can fix it?! thanks, josh robinson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part