Dear List,
I received the following today from (Jerry Henley at) Ella White
.
I suspect fraud here, so have not opened the invoice he/she attached.
Can you possibly tell me whether the message is legitimate?
Thanks for your time!
Peter Armstrong
Greetings! customer,
I hope you're doing w
Dear Debian,
I'm preparing to install Debian 11.5.0 on a new computer.
Its drives are SSDs, not the HDDs I've been accustomed
to and have always fastidiously *partitioned*.
With my file groupings already well differentiated c/o
directory-tree layout, is there any further advantage
to be had in p
Dear Gurus,
Please reinstate my Debian forum subscriptions!
My ISP, Eskimo North, just disabled its new "spam filter",
which had proved to be bouncing way more legitimate
email than spam.
My apologies on EN's behalf for the inconvenience.
Thanks,
PMA
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Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Du, 08 apr 12, 12:15:49, PMA wrote:
P.S. I may as well add here, that it would help me -- in opening a
Debian list email -- *not* to see blank lines at the top of the
message (like the two at top here). They're what I have to
fight, as
Scott Ferguson wrote:
Hopefully ending this thread, and providing reading material for others
with similar queries and concerns.
Amen.
Icedove => Toolbar => Account Settings => Composition and Addressing
Tick "Automatically quote the original message when replying" and select
"then start my
For the record on this issue, here is my opinion.
1) A reply should be entered immediately below
the text to which it specifically responds;
2) a signature, of whatever kind, should be no
longer than needed to verify sender identity.
I will not defend these assertions, and hope to
say no
Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 08 April 2012 17:15:49 PMA wrote:
P.S. I may as well add here, that it would help me -- in opening a
Debian list email -- *not* to see blank lines at the top of the
message (like the two at top here). They're what I have to
fight, as
Scott Ferguson wrote:
...
Which part of "my bad - I'd mistaken you for someone trolling" did you
not understand? You're too quick to claim offence.
I know this last is true. If caught in it I've offended you 'too', I'm
sorry.
The LilyPond list (a digital-music-scoring site)
had been deb
Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 08/04/12 23:54, PMA wrote:
I was caught up thinking how a personal signature -- choosing in a
given instance to enter it or not -- can affect a message's import,
separately from the issue of verification.
Oh good - I couldn't get my head around it when ap
Scott Ferguson wrote:
...
I take that you are unable to defend your assertion that signing has a
point without having to validate the sender. ie. it demonstrates that
the email from an unverified sender is verified.
Almost. I was caught up thinking how a personal signature -- choosing
in a give
Chris Bannister wrote:
[Please trim your posts on this mailing list]
On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 10:14:34AM -0400, PMA wrote:
I'm not sure "utterly" is quite the word.
Nobody in signing thinks a signature is
needed to identify him.
You're not confusing the cryptographi
Scott Ferguson wrote:
Please don't top-post. How hard is it to move the cursor?
On 08/04/12 00:14, PMA wrote:
Nobody in signing thinks a signature is
needed to identify him.
Nobody?
Are you serious?
Kind regards
Not hard whatsoever. I'm afraid that, hearing so much
ta
Does signing "in-line" specifically mean typing my name into a given email,
or does it include also whatever signature text I've told my email program
to append automatically?
Lisi wrote:
On Saturday 07 April 2012 20:44:43 Joey Hess wrote:
If you're at least some of the time sending mail that i
I'm not sure "utterly" is quite the word.
Nobody in signing thinks a signature is
needed to identify him.
Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 07/04/12 18:16, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
On 07.04.2012 01:02, Walter Hurry wrote:
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:23:07 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
SIGNATURE-
Fair enough -- mea culpa.
Lisi wrote:
On Sunday 01 April 2012 16:41:50 PMA wrote:
Nobody has been insulted :-?
Granted, no-one has screamed. I saw, BTW, only an unattributed quote,
so don't know whose it was.
In this case (as often!) you needed to have read the thread rather
Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 10:19:21 -0400, PMA wrote:
Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:08:19 -0400, Celejar wrote:
(...)
I'm not sure who writes these rules, and what their exact authority
is, but the page itself acknowledges that it does not constitute
&quo
Camaleón wrote:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:08:19 -0400, Celejar wrote:
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:55:31 +0200
Tony van der Hoff wrote:
...
Before you started posting here, the polite thing to do would have been
to read the list guidelines, and apply them. Seeing as you appear too
intellectually cha
portant:
seeing the current message immediately (Top),
or keeping the flow in one-direction (Bottom)?"
PMA
P.S. ...unless, of course, a resolution would be
less fun than the debate.
Claudius Hubig wrote:
Hello Mika,
Mika Suomalainen wrote:
On 31.03.2012 12:04, Mihamina
amen
Andrei POPESCU wrote:
On Vi, 30 mar 12, 13:17:16, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
On 28/03/2012 16:04, Keith McKenzie wrote:
On 28/03/12 01:37, Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) wrote:
I prize bleeding edge technology above stability and reliability. But of
course I still want stability and
Hi List.
This reminds me to ask: has Squeeze any history of disabling CD/CDR
drives?
The first time I tried mine after (some weeks after) installing Squeeze,
one drive sounded "bump" and blinked -- as thought trying to eject --
but couldn't open, and then gave up.
Now both drives act that way.
se with it).
And I may well upgrade soon to Testing. Thanks for your
feedback!
Pete
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Jo, 05 ian 12, 16:23:52, PMA wrote:
Hi List.
I see the Csound .deb is at version 5.12.
Is an upgrade to 5.15 projected?
Thanks,
PMA
Hi PMA,
The only method for Debian stable to get newe
Hi List.
I see the Csound .deb is at version 5.12.
Is an upgrade to 5.15 projected?
Thanks,
PMA
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Yes, specifically at http://www.jsoftware.com/stable.htm,
though I'd recommend linking from "Getting Started" on
the Home page -- for overview, docs, labs
Joel Rees wrote:
On 12/25/11, PMA wrote:
Rather than APL itself -- value judgement aside --
you might consider it
Original Message
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Debian Forum comparing J to Brainf*
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:09:31 -0500
From: Marshall Lochbaum
To: Programming forum ,
peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu
Well, I'm not tired of this stuff quite yet, so here goes:
Brainfuck and APL/J/K
Rather than APL itself -- value judgement aside --
you might consider its successor and superset,
*J* ( http://www.jsoftware.com/ ).
Miles Fidelman wrote:
David Christensen wrote:
Any other comments/ suggestions regarding programming languages/
systems for advanced applications on Linux?
Li
Speaking for myself --
Sometimes an off-topic email perks my interest
so powerfully that, defying all reason of course,
I neglect to disassociate the off-topic from the
topic that it was off. I shall try harder now in
such situations to discipline my response.
PA
Weaver wrote:
On Sat, 08 Oct
For hopefully my last remark on this thread, I urge that anybody's decision
(to whom to reply) err rather on the side of courtesy than on its dismissal.
Otherwise, for starters, your message will reduce to the power you feel in
being untrustworthy.
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Chris Brennan wrote:
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:22 PM, PMA wrote:
Actually "Re: Posting Style" (nevermind a new thread):
It seems to me that bottom-posting is for people who want to read
in one direction, while top-posting is for people who want
Actually "Re: Posting Style" (nevermind a new thread):
It seems to me that bottom-posting is for people who want to read
in one direction, while top-posting is for people who want to see the
current message immediately.
I am wedded to the latter by profession, game in any case for either,
and wi
It's hard to see a humble opinion ("IMHO") in this, flatly denying the rule.
Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2011 11:55:48 -0700, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
Lisi wrote:
"Do not quote messages that were sent to you by other people in private
mail, unless agreed beforehand."
IMHO, that rule lacks t
deranged enough to enjoy that.)
Heddle Weaver wrote:
On 27 April 2011 10:11, PMA wrote:
I'm missing a detail here. Was the assertion re FSCK
specifically that XFS doesn't call this exec during boot,
or was it that under XFS, FSCK can't be called at all?
(And -- for whichever -
I'm missing a detail here. Was the assertion re FSCK
specifically that XFS doesn't call this exec during boot,
or was it that under XFS, FSCK can't be called at all?
(And -- for whichever -- why so?)
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/26/2011 04:44 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ron Johnson put forth on 4/26
hmm. nevermind.
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/22/2011 08:12 AM, PMA wrote:
Wonder if Reiser's FS inspired his decision where to stash his wife.
In a tree?
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Dear List,
My cat, much enjoying this thread, would like to know:
"What please, referencing particular persons, is a 'git'?"
Thank you.
P.A.
Original Message
Subject: Re: changing my e-mail address
Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:48:55 + (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@li
Hi List.
How soon may there be a Debian driver for
the recently released Epson Stylus R3000?
Thanks,
Pete
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Brian wrote:
On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 15:28:19 -0500, PMA wrote:
So my question: When I rebooting, can I safely assume
that, because fstab is using UUIDs and not "/dev/..."(s),
the system won't get confused?
One possible gotcha. When GRUB was in
Well, I've rebooted and come out alive. So the Squeeze installer's
suggested GRUB destination, which I happily accepted, must have
been /dev/sdb. Lucky me. For next time, thanks for this alert!
Brian wrote:
On Sat 26 Feb 2011 at 15:28:19 -0500, PMA wrote:
So my question: When I
Hi List.
I have installed Squeeze from scratch using a USB stick.
The installer regarded that stick as "/dev/sda". So the
/etc/fstab that it installed lists my system disk (til now
always "/dev/sda") as "/dev/sdb", and similarly my 2nd
disk (til now "/dev/sdb") as "/dev/sdc".
If I now run 'mou
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Lu, 21 feb 11, 10:01:42, PMA wrote:
I gather from docs that the problem was my ISDN connection which,
after the reboot following "install -udev", Squeeze simply disabled.
I'm not sure what you mean here.
httpd://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/c
On Sun, 2011-02-13 at 13:04 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sb, 12 feb 11, 20:43:55, armst...@eskimo.com wrote:
> > Hi List.
> >
> > In the midst of upgrading Lenny to Squeeze - specifically, upon reboot
after
> > installing the new kernel and udev - I find that:
> >
> > 1) My external hard driv
I have often read advice to the effect that it is best to choose *ONE*
package-handling strategy (dpkg OR apt-get OR aptitude OR synaptic)
and stick to it -- if only to ensure a consistent system representation
of my package installations history.
In preparing to install a given package, what wo
Hi List.
I plan to install Squeeze pretty soon, and am reviewing
my old decisions re disk partitioning. I will mainly resize
proportionally to my 'df -k' output's Used column.
But two items puzzle me:
/srvI gather this is important to have, but I have yet
to find anything *in* it.
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