On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:41:11PM -0800, Gruessle wrote:
> > From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:06:52PM -0800, Gruessle wrote:
> > >
> > > arch comes up as "print machine architecture"
> > > what is the arch you are taking about?
> >
> > apt-cache show arch says l
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:06:52PM -0800, Gruessle wrote:
>
> arch comes up as "print machine architecture"
> what is the arch you are taking about?
apt-cache show arch says look for larch
apt-cache show larch says you should really use tla
so I guess you should read apt-cache show tla
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:55:27PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 30 years later, its easier/cheaper to just add a new stick of memory
> - having "some swap" prevents your system from doing a
> random self-reboot or hanging forever whenever it runs out
> of "virtual memory"
Don't know
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:48:10PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> We'll leave it as an exercise for the students to discover why xsane
> only works well under su.
Neither my Epson 1650U nor my HP PSC 750 requires root under xsane.
IJW.
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:43:30PM +0100, FB wrote:
> the search engine at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages
> seems not to be working from a long time.
> Is there any plan to make this search engine working back ?
> Do we have to use an other search engine ?
>
> I have tried
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:18:43AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Alternatively: deleting any "In-Reply-To:" and "References:" headers,
> if your MUA supports header editing.
Question: sometimes I delete a message and empty my trash, and later
decide to reply to a thread. The mailto: in my cvs
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:40:45AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> Use dpkg-scanpackages to update the Packages file (and remember to gzip
> it, so you've got Packages.gz).
When you say "update" the Packages, are you implying that you can do an
incremental update of an existing Packages file?
I use
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:10:13AM +, James Williamson wrote:
> My version of passwd has a --stdin switch which'll read the
> password from STDIN, i.e.
Where can I get such a version of passwd?
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On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:14:54PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> home->work). However, my employer doesn't mind. I use tunnelling
> just to bypass the technical limits of a single IP address and NAT.
Thanks, I was looking for at least one person to say "my employer
doesn't mind." Of co
As I think about getting a job, I realize wherever next will probably
block outgoing traffic on most ports.
I always thought I could have ssh listen on some port which gets through
like FTP port or HTTP port to bypass all those restrictions.
Two obvious, unavoidable problems will be: my employe
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:29:59AM -0800, Deryk Barker wrote:
>
> True, but there is no preservation of the session. The original
> developers of VNC (Olivetti UK) wanted this feature so that people
> could disconnect their viewer at work, go home, reconnect and be
> exactly where they had left of
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:09:35AM -0800, Nunya wrote:
> The point is, to the degree you want the users to have identical
> settings, you don't, for big things like kde and gnome. They (luckily)
> don't have the username embeded in them.
Correction, this statement is wrong.
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:49:44PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> Nunya wrote:
>
> I don't get it. You are talking about copying the files. This of
> course is not a problem, but what do you do if you have to change the
> content of hundreds of files for each user?
> Phi
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 02:04:36PM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> Brad Sims wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 13 December 2003 3:41 am, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > > I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any
> > > pointers.
> >
> > Hrm try copying and chmoding as needed: .kde, .gno
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 08:53:50PM -0800, Nunya wrote:
> I'm almost positive the prof. just wanted the guy to use malloc
s/malloc/malloc+realloc/
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 09:33:46PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> cheating. But, from my experience as a univerisity professor, I know
> that the 'rules of the game' are rather different for homework than
> they are for the real world. A homework problem that is of the form "
> construct a system th
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:08:07PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote:
> It would be conceivable to call PDF 4 an open standard, since
> Ghostscript can already handle it. But we really ought to make
> a distinction, since the newer versions are incompatible.
Or, I could even quote the right paragraph.
[
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:08:07PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote:
>
> This is equally true of DOC format, too, though. We *could* adopt
> some prior version of it as a standard, seeing as several open
> word processors can handle them already.
Many PDFs I get don't display correctly in gv.
The Calo
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:06:18AM +0530, saravanan wrote:
> 2) I 've installed sendmail from debian CD set. I 've downloaded
> latest sendmail.deb. How to upgrade using dpkg or apt-get ?
dpkg -i sendmail.deb
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 05:50:16PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:29:37 -0800, Nunya wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:44:52PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
> >> Or, if you have info2www installed, enter (make) (including the
> >> parenthese
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:23:53PM -0500, Brad Stockdale wrote:
>But is there an easier way to do this? An unattended way to do it,
> equivalent of setting the 'Everything' choice in Red Hat's install?
First, apt-get install aptitude.
Run aptitude.
Highlight "Not Installed Packages". Hit the
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:27:54PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
> Nunya wrote:
> >Why is konqeror my x-www-browser when it doesn't "Provide" it?
>
> See
> <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200312/msg01165.html>
So it's a bug?
I
On my machine:
# update-alternatives --display x-www-browser
x-www-browser - status is auto.
link currently points to /usr/bin/konqueror
/usr/bin/konqueror - priority 100
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/konqueror.
But:
$ grep-available -FProvides x-www-browser
Why is konqeror my x-www-brows
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:38:18PM +0200, Aryan Ameri wrote:
>
> "Write a program, which promts the uset to enter some numbers. The user
> should terminate the sequence of numbers by entering EOF character. The
> program should put numbers entered by the user in to a 1D array".
The real answer
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:24:46PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> Ignore them.
>
> The threads on completely off-topic issues (previously: rail, opium,
> and currently media acccuracy) simply shouldn't be on d-u. I've held my
> tongue this time, but the primary participants are very close to
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:12:59AM +, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> He's paranoid about people googling for his name. (Personally, I find
> that a better approach is to do lots of worthwhile stuff so that the
> worthwhile stuff scores highly in searches for my name, but each to his
> own I suppose.)
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 07:26:30PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
> scripsit s. keeling:
> >
> >| egrep '^Message-ID' > ~/.mutt/kill
> >
> > You can stuff some sed in there to clean it up.
>
> Um, `>>' not `>', right? You don't want to clobber the killfile, no?
I ended up with:
| grep -Ei '
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 05:10:04PM -0700, Thanasis Kinias wrote:
> scripsit Monique Y. Herman:
> > A lot of times, people post very app-specific questions to, say, this
> > debian-user list. I've done this myself.
>
> OTOH, there is a great pool of knowledge here
Is it fair to ask a mutt or proc
Searched mutt-users archive for how to "ignore-thread" in Mutt.
Found http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mutt-users&m=105208920830140&w=2
Apparently you can do it with procmail.
Would this recipe work:
:0:
* ? $FORMAIL -x References: | grep -isF -f $MAILDIR/kill
$MAILDIR/k/
I think this means: if
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 04:21:16PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> ---[1], After reading the first of the annoying one use "ignore thread" in
> your favorite MUA.
Snap. How can I do that in mutt?
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[1] I know you can read a sender tag, so there's no hiding here. I'd ask
that you respect my wis
I don't expect this to be adopted, but I'd like to get the suggestion
out there:
I really enjoy reading the technical questions about "How do I do X",
"Here's how to do X", and even "Here's my opinion about X technology or
technique". I much less enjoy reading the posts about "Getting Linux
a
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:38:03AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote:
> AFAIK, mutt cannot be made to actually issue a prompt in any of these
> cases. So I guess if you really _really_ want to be prompted (instead of
> just using the appropriate command in the first place) then you are
> trying to make mutt d
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:43:24PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I may be a small minority, but I view the web page at...
> http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html as being harmfull.
I'd like to be able to sit a single key, and be prompted "Narrow or
Wide ?" with a default of Wide.
Wide
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 06:44:52PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
> Or, if you have info2www installed, enter (make) (including the
> parentheses) into the "goto:" box
info2www depends on (apache | httpd); of the several packages that meet
that dependency, what's the "least impactful" ? I'd prefer on
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 01:44:44PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> Look at the 'tofu' package. It will do what you want.
Thank you. (For anybody else who didn't know about it, the package is
called "t-prot" in Debian). I'm doing the snoopy happy dance over here.
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 07:59:09PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> Yes. You're acting like you're two. FOAD.
Okay, you made your point. Like I said, I'm completely comfortable with
whatever you think of me. Whatever you say, I refuse to express any
futher opinions.
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I've decided SIGs are spam: they are unrelated to what I'm reading this
list for, and most of them bug the crap out of me. Mostly because they
break my technical concentration with some random quip of ego or dumb
philosophy.
For now, I've set my .muttrc to color signatures as "black/black", wh
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