Re: Let Sunbeam Tech know Case Mod products with Bin Laden are not welcome

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 12:50:33AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:37:34AM +, stephen parkinson wrote: > > might have something to with standing in front of a > > bullseye target ring > > Or a halo. > > If this was 1997, it would be funny.

Re: Let Sunbeam Tech know Case Mod products with Bin Laden are not welcome

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:37:34AM +, stephen parkinson wrote: > might have something to with standing in front of a > bullseye target ring Or a halo. If this was 1997, it would be funny. It ain't now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Newbies! please check this out -> http://www.aboutdebian.com/

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:02:00AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 03 Mar 2004, xucaen wrote: > > Today I found an amazing web site! why this is not listed anywhere on the > > debian.org > > web page I can not say but this has more information than I could ever have wished > > for! > > I urge

emms

This is just plain wrong: Description: The Emacs MultiMedia System EMMS is the Emacs Multi-Media System. It tries to be a clean and small application to play multimedia files from Emacs using external players. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: what app includes 'startx' command

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:05:52AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:57:31PM -0800, MJ Inabnit wrote: > > What application includes the "startx" command? > > xserver-xfree86, IIRC. You can find out for sure on > http://packages.debian.org/ or dlocate -S startx -- To UNS

Re: Gigabit Ethernet switch using Linux?

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:06:10PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've been looking at prices for a managed gigabit Ethernet switch, and > thought the prices are a bit up there... :-/ Was going to refer you to the $99 Netgear gigabit 5-port switch at Frys (outpost.com), until I saw the

what does xlibmesa-dri provide?

I'm running XFree 4.3 from SID with the FGLRX drivers from ATI. My OpenGL is working *very* well. Obviously a non-tainted kernel would be preferable, but framerate is God. Would xlibmesa-dri provide (1) additional, (2) alternate, or (3) orthogonal functionality? Is it the open source "OpenGL-

Re: ghost-like programs for Linux platform

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:01:55PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > j smith wrote: > >ghost for Windows can copy files in an partition > >exactly. is there any Linux programs similar to ghost? > > > > Systemimager. It also supports making configuration I use partimage to backup and restore my NTF

Re: howto serialize tasks in .xsession

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:09:17AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > ... A better > way is to use a spinlock wrapped around lsof or netstat right after the > gnome-settings-daemon call (note that calling it without any arguments > works at least as well): > > #... > gnome-settings-daemon & > GSDPID=

Re: howto serialize tasks in .xsession

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:55:44PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 18:50, Nano Nano wrote: > > I run a hybrid desktop: gnome-control-center is installed, but not > > metacity. Fluxbox is my WM; but I remove gnome-session as a Session > > Manager so I ha

howto serialize tasks in .xsession

I run a hybrid desktop: gnome-control-center is installed, but not metacity. Fluxbox is my WM; but I remove gnome-session as a Session Manager so I have No Session Manager. Here is my .xsession: #!/bin/sh ARGS="--hide-menubar --window-with-profile=Default" #gnome-control-center gnome-settings-

Re: DSL problem (possibly OT)

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:34:24PM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:31:32 -0500 > Mike M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On a final note, my DSL service sucked. Broadband on cable is _much_ > > better. YMMV. > > Yeah, MMDV. It's all the providers, and what they provide.

Re: Where can I find Centrino Drivers?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:31:31AM -0800, Jake Johnson wrote: > Hello All, > I am looking for centrino drivers for my laptop. Anyone have any ideas where I can > find support? http://infoworld.com/article/04/02/25/HNlinuxdriver_1.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:03:53AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Both are bad -- one way cars have to cross in front of > > you, the other way you block visibility for people turning left to the > > right of you. > > Nobody should be next to you in the lane. Yes, people coming from the right t

OT moz-firefox's cookperm.txt is now hostperm.1

FYI: CVS builds of moz-firefox have changed the cookperm.txt file to a hostperm.1. I don't know about you, but I've built up my cookperm.txt file over the past year with a wonderful list of blocked cookie and images hosts -- and I back it up, because I've already blocked everything *I* need b

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:00:10PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > When I'm waiting to turn left on a median, do I wait on the left edge or > the right edge? Both are bad -- one way cars have to cross in front of > you, the other way you block visibility for people turning left to the

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:59:08PM +, stephen parkinson wrote: > actually i think this used to be reccommended behaviour at traffic > lights, but doesn't seem to be the norm now :-( > to do this, it needs some cooperation from the on-coming stream of > traffic, aka intelligence :-) The guide

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:39:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > of RTFM. Am I to understand that instead of using the > debian-user list that I should use a search engine? It's unclear from your rant what you are actually upset about. The answer to this question is "no" -- but google indexes

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: [snip] bike week Hey, when you're done with that heavy-consumption-of-technology recreation you can play some centrifugal bumble puppy and a round of electromagnetic golf at the Charing T. I like to ride my bicicyle out on the trail b

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:42:14PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > The streams are visible at > . > > Any suggestions? > -- Same behavior here. It's either updated codecs that mplayer doesn't support or maybe the server expect

Re: jpeg to mpeg or avi

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 01:39:50PM +0200, Gustavo Halperin wrote: > >-mf on is deprecated, use mf://files instead > >Exiting... (error parsing cmdline) > > Do you understand what is the problem??? Yes. Unfortunately, the syntax changed between 0.9 and 1.0pre. I use the command: mencoder "mf://*

Re: jpeg to mpeg or avi

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:50:07AM +0100, Øyvind A. Holm wrote: > > I got very good results by using > > http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ > Strange, because Mplayer *uses* ffmpeg. Sounds fishy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: jpeg to mpeg or avi

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Gustavo Halperin wrote: > Hello > > I need any program for make a 'mpeg' or 'avi' movie from 'jpeg' > pictures. Do you > people know some program for do it? > > Thanks > Gustavo > -- http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-images.htm

Re: DVD copying and CSS

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 04:21:25PM -0800, Curtis Howland wrote: > Like civil forfeiture, copyright has been abused. That > abuse should be resisted by everyone. > Long live CSS. Oy. Listen, dead horse, I'm beating it, but there is a phenomenon in psychology called "rationalization": I cannot int

Re: CD-rom references from Lilo

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 01:59:11AM +0100, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > I'm not an expert, so I'll try to answer the best I can. At my place > (Sony VAIO laptop), the cdrom didn't get recognized at all unless I had > that line in there. Looking at the ide.txt file in Documentation > directory of t

Re: Stolen debian logo?

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 10:09:18PM -0500, David Clymer wrote: > What makes it Free is an accompanying license which grants an individual > freedom to use the item in question (software, logo, etc) under certain > conditions. Ug. Listen, you're right and everything, but "Freedom" and "you can onl

Re: CD-rom references from Lilo

> On Sunday 22 February 2004 12:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Where in 2.4.x, you would do hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf, you would > > do hdc=cdrom in 2.6.x Q: Is putting hdc=cdrom equivalent to not putting anything at all? I.e., will ide-cd get loaded by default? (I tried this and my ker

Re: DVD copying and CSS

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 09:19:46PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: [snip] > movies on our computers. If they make it illegal for us to watch them, > why would we buy them? It just doesn't add up. ...But it probably does > add up for Congress. Of course, in that case, what's adding up is the > Hollyw

Re: AW: Bonjour

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:11:13AM -0800, Troy Truchon wrote: > Heck america isn't even english only, despite what many claim. Sadly I never > learned quebecois as my father never picked it up. It never was. Back in the 1700s the most common language was German. Today the "official" languages of

Re: AW: Bonjour - WAY WAY OT!

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:27:02AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I have heard that joke too. There is a similarity between the Russian > technology and the French technology. The west was surprised when the > Russians put the sputnik in the skies. When taken care of can be > amazingly powerful

Re: Unable to mount cdroms in linux 2.6.3

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:41:36AM +0100, Joris Huizer wrote: > Can anybody tell me how to make the cdrom work again /without/ SCSI > emulation in place? ide-scsi in enabled in lilo.conf; edit that and rerun lilo or you can leave it on and run ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Congratulations

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:37:09PM -0800, mal icous wrote: > Simply put the installation of Debian Woody can be at > best be describbed as painfull. In fact so painfull i Try Sarge. > bootable etc. My complaint with that is - that i > already had existing partitions, and Debians installer > noted

Re: AW: Bonjour - WAY WAY OT!

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:39:44AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Marty Landman: > > At 02:37 PM 2/18/2004, s. keeling wrote: > > > > >Of course, there's a lot of people from where I'm from who would dispute > > >the suggestion that English is spoken anywhere in the US. > > > > Heh. Ju

Re: CLI

On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:13:22PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > What about a switch with a 1 and 0? From what I've read of you so far it > would obviously be 'turned on' :-) Do yourselves a favor and stop this patheticness. I'm cringing just reading it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Tom Ballard, Microsoft shill and list troll... (was Re: ..OT: todo list)

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:11:35PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 05:10:22AM -0800, Tom Ballard, Microsoft Shill wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 04:25:48AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > > > > > Like I said, after going through about 30 exa

FYI, non-gl xscreensavers are CPU intensive too

A few of the non-opengl xscreensavers are heat-generators as well -- e.g., XFlame. Most are not. I looked at /etc/cron*, nothing in there is going to generate much heat. I'm going to file a bug against xscreensaver: it should be split into low-usage and high-usage packages. I expect laptop us

Re: CLI (was "Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space")

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 06:18:27PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Monique Y. Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MYH> On 2004-02-17, i'll teach you to turn away. penned: > >> i'm not sure you could handle me. http://tinyurl.com/ail9 > MYH> Unfortunately, too much slashdot/irc/ga

Re: CPU-intensive periodic processes, e.g. xscreensaver-gl

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 02:31:35PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > As for 'unexpected' tasks, look at /etc/cron.* (daily, monthly, etc). Will do. > As I understand it, you sleep almost on top of the machine and want it > to keep running 24/7. Why you want to do this is none of my business, >

Re: CPU-intensive periodic processes, e.g. xscreensaver-gl

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:11:04AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > [1] 230 mhz bus, 14% increase. Kernel compile time went from 6:11 to > 5:20, a 14% increase. It's worth the trouble. A separate subthread to preemptively answer the nay-sayers: I benchmarked it non-overclocked vs. overc

Re: CPU-intensive periodic processes, e.g. xscreensaver-gl

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:11:04AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > xscreensaver-gl is the first to go. I really need to know: what sorts > of tasks could "just run by themselves" that would likely lead to heavy > CPU loads? (aside from the obvious like [EMAIL PROTECTED]) In my ef

CPU-intensive periodic processes, e.g. xscreensaver-gl

I've overclocked my 3.2Ghz to 3.68Ghz with proper but extremely loud CPU fan. [1]. My goal is to lever let my heatsink temp. exceed 53 celsius [2]. It idles at 36C. Ordinary load generates temps in the low 40s: disk and network load -> not much, bzipping tar etc. -> relatively more. Heavy l

Re: CLI (was "Re: cdparanoia & a song in negative space")

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 06:06:29AM +0800, csj wrote: > On 16. February 2004 at 5:47PM +, > Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 10:17:15AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > On 2004-02-16, Ken Gilmour penned: > > > > On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 16:38, David T-G

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 01:07:54AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > All correct, what a plum I am. Except for this. I asked not to be CC'd. > You CC'd me. The fact that your MUA uses Mail-Followup-To: does not remove > your obligation to check that the To: field of an email that you send > is corr

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:42:56PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Please don't CC me. It's in my sig and it's list policy. It's your fault. Your mail includes the header: Mail-Followup-To: Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] which makes Mutt's list-reply function add

Re: Something horribly broken in Sid's debconf

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:38:23AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 03:23:56AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > I just noticed that in debconf questions I can't arrow up/down, but I > > can tab and enter. I tried rolling back to the previous version of > &g

Re: Something horribly broken in Sid's debconf

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 03:23:56AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > I just noticed that in debconf questions I can't arrow up/down, but I > can tab and enter. I tried rolling back to the previous version of > debconf but that didn't fix it. This repros on 2 PCs. > > I t

Something horribly broken in Sid's debconf

I just noticed that in debconf questions I can't arrow up/down, but I can tab and enter. I tried rolling back to the previous version of debconf but that didn't fix it. This repros on 2 PCs. I tried rolling back gettext/whiptail/libnewt that got updated in Sid a couple days ago -- no joy. I

Holy Shee-it

http://infoworld.com/article/04/02/13/HNlinuxoffice_1.html That's a wierd story. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiling the kernel

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:13:05AM -0600, Brian wrote: > I want to be able to turn some options off and on in the kerenl so how > do i compile the kernel in a debian system??? install "kernel-package" with apt-get and then use "make-kpkg" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Macromedia Director 8: .dxr files in Linux

A CD I got in a magazine has a lot of .dxr files on it. These are Macromedia Director 8. I can play Shockwave Flash in Mozilla. Does anybody know how to play them in Linux? (A quick search on google and l.d.o suggests the answer is "you can't"). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ..OT: todo list

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 04:25:48AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > Like I said, after going through about 30 examples this year of the Left > actiing all passionate and final over such a range of issues, I think I > see through them -- it's all pretty shallow. Pluses of the right

Re: ..OT: todo list

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 02:09:00PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..amen! ;-)Lenin referred to it as 'useful'. ;-) The term "useful idiots" has been attributed to Lenin, as a description of those mindless people in the Western democracies who would always find ways to excuse whatever the So

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 02:24:28AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > I came in a bit late here. Have a look on my site - > http://www.antgel.co.uk/compsci/linux/promise_raid.shtml. This has the > Promise driver module built against 2.4.18-bf24. I have a 376 on my motherboard, but its disabled [1].

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 08:38:03AM +0100, Danny wrote: > Hi Nano Nano, > > to supply a floppy during setup is no problem. There in the Debian 3 > installer is an option "Preload modules from disk". And that is all I ask > for, the modules (binary device drivers for Promi

Re: eth0/eth1 which one?

On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:46:58AM +0800, Shaddy.Baddah wrote: > Finally! Thank you Jan. Some of the suggestions are pretty convenient, like > dmesg, which should give you the vendor details, but that would break down > if they are the same vendor. And considering this is the absolute correct > way

Re: apt cache obese?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:16:31PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > If you regularly use apt-get (instead of dselect, aptitude, or synaptic) > it stores all the downloaded packages and does not delete them. The > other front ends either delete them immediately after installation or > prompt you. a

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:26:52PM +0100, Danny wrote: > Hi Nano Nano, > > thank you for your posting, but I'm an absolute Linux beginner. I have > installed only Windows, so I can't compile a new kernel, as I have no Linux > avaiable. > > All I need is for the

Re: [OT] Taking notes

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:21:08PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM +, Jonathan Matthews ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Fairly OT for d-u, but I'm wondering what people use to take notes for > > courses. > > Stiff-backed, three-hole drilled, microperf, nar

Re: eth0/eth1 which one?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:40:11AM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote: > I have two network cards on my machine How do I tell which one is eth0 > and which one is eth1 ? > > Thanks, > Lars. ping something and look at the link lights -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: How to install Debian with Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 03:21:25PM +0100, Danny wrote: > I have difficulties to install Debian 3 on my MSI K7N2G motherboard with > Promise FastTrak 376 chip onboard. Standard Install and also 2.4 Kernel > (BF24) doesn't recognize the harddisk controller. > > Unfortunately Promise supports only Su

Re: Fonts, one more time

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:50:24AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What does it take to fix this problem? One month of solid work (that's what it took me to get all my hardware and eye candy working). Debian's "stable" philsophy means Stable predates many useful and pretty things. I expect t

Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:12:33PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:58:16PM -0500, Petr Vanek wrote: > > i am trying to find out what happened with a2ps in unstable. recently > > after upgrade it does not react to command line switches like > > --borders=no , so i always print

Re: Comcast has IPv6, when will Debian?

On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:11:07PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > I got an email from them telling me that they gave us more bandwidth > and to powercycle the modem. So I did. And now I've got an ip6 > address in ifconfig on eth0. I haven't gotten an email, but in the last three or four days my b

Re: saving .debs to their original name

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 01:43:36AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Why? It might change, and you don't need it. apt-get --print-uris > > gives you the URI and the filename. Since you have both, you can > > either use wget's -O to put it in the right place when downloading, > > or rename things to

Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:52:53AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > All along there is no tool to view all of what's inside an .xls file > in cleartext or whatever. All I can use is less(1). All I can do is > trust that other programs are doing the right thing inside their black > boxes. There is no

how do I file a bug against a virtual package?

Somehow I ended up with wcatalan and not wamerican on my system. I have "bsdmainutils" which suggests and "xscreensaver" which recommends the virtual package "wordlist", and "wcatalan" was selected to fulfill that dependency. I remember I used to be prompted if I wanted wamerican or wamerican-l

Re: fetchmail with multiple accounts

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:33:29PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:59:10PM +0100, Philipp Weis wrote: > > man fetchmail > > > > --tracepolls > >(Keyword: tracepolls) Tell fetchail to poll trace information in > >the form ?

Re: fetchmail with multiple accounts

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:58:01PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > You can poll as many accounts as you'd like and dump them all to the > same spool file. Fetchmail doesn't care. But maybe I don't understand > your question properly, as you talk about adding a header, and I don't > see why you

Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 07:22:18PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > On Tuesday 10 February 2004 07:11 pm, Nano Nano wrote: > > You know you can set "Security Level = {Medium,High}" in Office right? > > Yes, but I was trying to give the OP a solution he could implement on his

Re: how to tell if anything evil lurking in an .xls file?

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 06:57:54PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > On Tuesday 10 February 2004 05:02 pm, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > But if I convert it to .cvs format, all the "=..." formulas of the > > spreadsheet are lost. All I am left with is just a snapshot of what > > it looked like on the face of it

Re: fetchmail with multiple accounts

On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:59:10PM +0100, Philipp Weis wrote: > man fetchmail > > --tracepolls >(Keyword: tracepolls) Tell fetchail to poll trace information in >the form ???polling %s account %s??? to the Received line it gener??? >ates, where the %s parts are replaced b

fetchmail with multiple accounts

I have seven different email accounts at Comcast.net, all used for various purposes. At the comcast level I have mail forwarded / don't leave a copy for six of the emails to the "primary" email. Then I use fetchmail to deliver the mail to my local user spool. It's efficient and easy (only pol

OT as hell: Many Globalizations

Just let this one slide by, it'll be the only of its kind: Twice in earlier emails I praised the book "Many Globalizations" by Berger and Huntington. Those were just the chapters by Asian writers (China, Taiwan, Japan, India) and Germany. The chapters by Chilean, South African, and American a

Re: ntfs partition thinks its reiserfs, sorta

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:35:59PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > hde1 was my ntfs partition > hde2 was my reiserfs / debian partition > > I accidentally copied an old fstab that had: > # > /dev/hde1 / reiserfsdefaults0

ntfs partition thinks its reiserfs, sorta

hde1 was my ntfs partition hde2 was my reiserfs / debian partition I accidentally copied an old fstab that had: # /dev/hde1 / reiserfsdefaults0 0 from when debian was on hde1! Now partimage thinks the partition is reiserfs. file

using packages from experimental

I installed XFree86 4.3 from experimental. Will it "update" itself whenever a newer 4.3 is uploaded? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dual boot debian & Windoze, need advice

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 01:06:38PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > So what do I put in the Windoze stanza of lilo.conf to make boot program > load Windoze? And is there a reasonable hope that Windoze can be made to > think that the slave drive is C:? Or will it do this automatically? In my experienc

Re: Buying a new computer, questions!

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 06:55:06PM +, M.Kirchhoff wrote: > Nano Nano <40119.nospam comcast.net> writes: > > > This low-latency ram is supposed to be nice. All my games play > > extremely well but Doom 3 is about out. > > Under Windows? I'm still tethe

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:05:15PM -0800, Dale Welch wrote: > > ---dale > ---it is ok to have no rules... >so long as everyone follows the rules Evey asks: "All this riot and uproar, V...is this anarchy? Is this the land of do-as-you-please?" He responds: "No. This is only the land of take

Re: [OT] Taking notes

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > Any suggestions? Would a custom (v.v.v.v. simple) DTD be an idea? What > emacs packages let me input the notes into a valid XML file adhering to > my simple DTD in a pointy-clicky sort of way? Is this not the way > forwar

Re: a bit (asus!) confused about i2c and lm-sensors

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 06:40:26AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 01:08:40 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > > I have an ASUS P4C800. I have 2.6.2 kernel. I wish to see my CPU and > > Mobo temps (and ideally fan speeds) like Asus PC Probe shows in Windows. [snip]

Re: saving .debs to their original name

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:36:50AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Say, apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris makes lines with URL FILE SIZE MD5. > What are the bad things that might happen if I just use wget to get > the URLs, without using the FILEname? I intend to use > dpkg-scanpackages later. > > H

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:44:57AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Nano Nano wrote: > >You're making tons of statements that just apply to you. I like mutt. > >I can make it think like me. It doesn't feel like a box. > > Oh, I can get mutt to work but only with

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:34:07AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Thorsten Haude wrote: > >Funny you see it that way. For years Mutt's feature list was copied to > >the other clients todo list almost verbatim. > > Funny? That would kind of be the definition of a tech. demo. "Look, > this is nea

a bit (asus!) confused about i2c and lm-sensors

I have an ASUS P4C800. I have 2.6.2 kernel. I wish to see my CPU and Mobo temps (and ideally fan speeds) like Asus PC Probe shows in Windows. (1) Which of the following should I have installed? $ apt-cache search "sensors|i2c" i2c-source - sources for drivers for the i2c bus libsensors2 - Libra

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:57:55PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:07:26AM +, Svens wrote: > > > > Gee, let's turn another cluebie loose with a shotgun, and see if he can > zorch his data. > > Let's not find out what modes his drives actually support, and let's make >

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:47:17AM +, Svens wrote: > Svens wrote: > > > hi, here is a vary short HOWTO about speed up IDE Harddisks: > > > > open file /etc/init.d/hwtools and insert this lines: > > > > if command -v hdparm >/dev/null 2>&1; then > > # insert begin > >hdparm -c3 -d1 -D1 -k

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:12:09PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > IE, name me one case where someone would set reply-to where they would > not be able to also set From:. I can't think of a single modern email > client out of early development where this isn't the case. I can't think > of one i

Re: debian ... can't get it to install

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 07:36:35AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > KIND : Knoppix Is Not Debian KIND BUD: Knoppix Is Novice Distro Based Upon Debian :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Buying a new computer, questions!

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:02:47PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would consider another MB manufacture, as Asus has had problems with quality of as > late. > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13674 > > Ok this might effect their AMD line, but do you really trust a MB company which uses

Buying a new computer, questions!

I am going to buy a new computer this week (yay Bush tax cuts!) -- will it work with Linux? Intel Pentium 4/ 3.2C GHz 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache, Hyper Threading Technology - Retail Asus 875P Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU, Model "P4C800-E DELUXE" -RETAIL Corsair XMS Extreme Memory

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 05:39:54AM +0100, Tobias Reckhard wrote: > Nano Nano wrote: > >My first test message to the outside world bounced with: > > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host smtp.comcast.net[216.148.227.125] said: > >550 > >[PERMFAIL] comcast.net req

Need help on postfix [MAILER-DAEMON@desk: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]

I still just don't know what to do about Postfix. My hostname is "desk". My ISP is comcast.net -- should I tell postfix my "mail name" is comcast.net, so mail appears to come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] from things like popularity contest? I have configured Mutt to use a valid email for the From;

Re: A letter for Mr. Darl McBride

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:25:25AM -0800, Ivan Torres Jimenez wrote: > Mr. Darl McBride > President & CEO > The SCO Group, inc. A Parable: Once there was a year called 1993 and there was a brick-and-mortar store called Egghead. Software was sold on floppies inside shrink-wrapped boxes with sti

Re: Postscript or PDF --> html?

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:32:36PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Anyone know of a tool to convert the pdf or postscript to html? http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/ ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gaim currently broken in unstable?

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 06:31:21AM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > I can't get gaim to log into MSN at all, even though the current version > is supposed to be able to (I was using a backport when I was on woody a > day or so ago). > > Anybody else having this problem, or know a solution? > > Acco

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 07:30:43AM +0100, Alex Fitterling wrote: > I know what i want the thing is why can't debian do > I wish a desktop system and wish to get rid of cron and all other grab I do > not want to see on my system. other distributions can do.. I seen it > alex # aptitude purge cron

Re: Isolationism is history.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 02:51:14AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..the good side of this AFAICT, is my wee linux business will survive > another coupla years, before the big landslide of ex-MSCE etc hits. ;-) I was a MCSD thank you :-) I got mine in 1995 on the NT 3.51, VB 3.0, and Access 2.0 rou

Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:20:43PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > aptitude ~sbase > aptitude search ~sbase ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Isolationism is history.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:51:13PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > And a bit friendlier to those who get dumped on their ass due to > unforseen circumstances. The whole idea of credit ratings tends to > cause a lot of false positives for people who intend to pay but lose > their job or get screwed by

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