Re: Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [snip] >> Looks like a fine system you're setting up there, of course, I'm >> addicted to KDE, but xfce is a nice light desktop. Somehow I don't >> think you're getting 4.4 that way, but how do I know what version is on >> your proxy. Have you checke

Re: Change Locale of One/All Running Application(s)

2007-03-21 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-03-18 > Masatran, R. Deepak writes: > > This is an important requirement for many users, especially non-English > > speakers. > > When would a user need to change the locale of a running program? When I give a demo to my friend, I want the desktop environmen

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> If Ubuntu = Debian, then one could install Ubuntu packages on one's >> Debian system. They could install Debian packages on their Ubuntu. >> While some might work, the majority of them will not. Why not? Becaus

Finding it out yourself...

2007-03-21 Thread vesket
It's a really good thing that you did not post a "I found it out myself"-message, because others are struggling with the same issue. It's a issue in Etch RC2... ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Weird apache2 issue

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi all In setting up apache 2.2.3 with virtual hosts I have experienced something very strange which has never happened before. I have configured a vhost namely foo.com.conf with the path to the doc root as /var/www/foo.com when i go to http://www.foo.com it works and serves the pages from /var

freeradius - ldap problem Please Help Me!

2007-03-21 Thread peppeska
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a pppoe-freeradius-ldap system but I have a problem, when I try to autenticate, freeradius response: Sleeping until we see a request. rad_recv: Access-Request packet from host 127.0.0.1:1030, id=57, length=54 Service-Type = Framed-User

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Joey Hess wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Security support for etch started around the freeze, IIRC. > > Testing has had security support for several years now. > http://secure-testing-master.debian.net/ Thanks for proving me wrong. I was unaware of testing's security repositories. Search

Ligue Grátis com o seu MSN

2007-03-21 Thread Hélio Cerqueira
Ligar do seu MSN Messenger para celular e telefone fixo sem pagar nada... Acabou a era do Skype.Foi lançado MSN VOIP,um software que você instala no seu MSN e com ele você poderá discar para celulares ou telefones fixo sem pagar taxas de uso. Basta instalar e sair ligando. Maiores informaçoes

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-21 Thread Raffaele Morelli
> pkill is a better killall? it reminds me to the differences between top and > htop (recently someone posted about it). But how is it better? Really don't know, my rule is "the one which fits to your needs". I always use killall and feel comfortable with. Sometimes I use kill, e.g. when killi

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-21 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:03:18 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/19/07 18:56, Micha Feigin wrote: > [snip] > > > > I don't like kmail as it takes the microsoft approach and won't play nicely > > with other programs touching it'

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> If you Run Sid, you don't have to worry about that *ever* happening. > > Yes, you do. If you think otherwise I'll ask where the updated packages > for Bo are. > Please use the full context if you're going

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:11:07PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:21:31PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > >> And for the p

spam originating from this list !

2007-03-21 Thread debian-user
A soon as I wrote to this list using a special email [EMAIL PROTECTED], only used here I immediatly started to receive spam on this address ! Perhaps the members email addresses should be masked online to avoid that ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: spam originating from this list !

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A soon as I wrote to this list using a special email > [EMAIL PROTECTED], only used here I immediatly started to > receive spam on this address ! > Perhaps the members email addresses should be masked online to avoid that ? >

Re: Re: broken upgrade of postfix_2.3.7-3

2007-03-21 Thread Tadas Miniotas
>> From looking at the changelog entry and my trials, this does appear >> be an issue with the current libssl/openssl 0.9.8c-4 that I am >> hitting - the postfix changelog states: >>20070225 "Workaround: Disable SSL/TLS ciphers when the underlying >> symmetric algorithm is not available in the

Receipt of email

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Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 10:54:41PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > > Anything you can do on Ubuntu you can do on Debian, but the truth is > > that Debian provides much more functionality, stability, and ease of > > use than Ubuntu > > Er, wha? You just had several people te

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:03:21AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > H.S. wrote: > > Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > > > The Debian social contract is the main thing that won me [over > > > into using Debian] > > > > > > > Yes, that is some contract! Debian's 'persona', I guess, is largely > > due to the co

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
I don't mean to topic steal here, but this is kind of on topic. I'm wondering if anyone knows of any good calender applications for a system tray? I'm running Window Maker and wmsystray, so I can still use gnome-power-manager, nm-applet, and update-notifier (I need these because I'm on a laptop, ot

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:07:33AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mihira Fernando wrote: > > Ken Heard wrote: > >> Not only was I able to to have full access to the site from Konqueror > >> but not Iceweasel, but it also accepted my user id and passwor

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:15:09PM +0800, Bob wrote: > What do people use for mirroring Linux partitions, tar probably but is > there a better tool? > Why is it better? > I've heard of the dd command being used, but I'm not really too knowledgable in that field. But if someone really needs to do

Re: input output error(5)

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 07:54:38PM -0400, Chris Parker wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hello all, > > I've got a dell power edge 2400 with an adaptec scsi card. Attached to > the card are 2 16G disks on the 1st raid channel, while on the 2nd > channel are 3 136G driv

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/20/07 09:02, Micha Feigin wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:03:18 -0500 Ron Johnson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Why? An IMAP server gives you total MUA independence. > > > And an overhead of another server program running in the courie

Re: Weird apache2 issue

2007-03-21 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 09:44, Justin Hartman wrote: > Hi all > > In setting up apache 2.2.3 with virtual hosts I have experienced > something very strange which has never happened before. name-based or IP-based virtual hosts ? > I have configured a vhost namely foo.com.conf with the path to th

Re: spam originating from this list !

2007-03-21 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 11:07, Joe Hart wrote: > Best thing to do with Spam is to ignore it (or eat it if you like canned > meat). or feed it to spamassassin or something else that helps you ignore it. spammers, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is where the spam goes. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Re: broken upgrade of postfix_2.3.7-3

2007-03-21 Thread Carl Fink
Pardon the thread hijack, but for several versions now the postinst script hasn't been able to start Postfix on my box. I get Stopping Postfix Mail Transport Agent: postfixpostfix/postfix-script: fatal: usage: postfix start (or stop, reload, abort, flush, check, set-permissions, upgrade-configur

Re: broken upgrade of postfix_2.3.7-3 -> 2.3.8-2 (etch)

2007-03-21 Thread Jochen Schulz
Michael Shuler: > > Today's postfix update has broken my smtp configuration, I had the same issue and solved it temporarily by installing OpenSSL from unstable. See . The release manager noted that unstable's version of OpenSSL won't be in

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:07:33AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Mihira Fernando wrote: >>> Ken Heard wrote: Not only was I able to to have full access to the site from Kon

Re: how to get gaim-sound working within KDE?

2007-03-21 Thread Ralph Plawetzki
Andrei Popescu schrieb: Ralph Plawetzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrei Popescu schrieb: I'm not using kde but sound didn't work for me either. I changed in gaim preferences: Method: Command Sound command: aplay %s and it works. You might need to disable arts. HTH, Andrei Using the meth

Re: Weird apache2 issue

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In setting up apache 2.2.3 with virtual hosts I have experienced > something very strange which has never happened before. name-based or IP-based virtual hosts ? It's all IP-based -- Regards Justin Hartman PGP Key ID: 102CC123 -- To UNS

Re: Weird apache2 issue

2007-03-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Justin Hartman wrote: On 3/21/07, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In setting up apache 2.2.3 with virtual hosts I have experienced > something very strange which has never happened before. name-based or IP-based virtual hosts ? It's all IP-based one obvious step: look at your acce

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Joe Hart([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > <> Hint Joe > > It is interesting though. It seems that the change from Firefox to > Iceweasel caused a lot more problems than some people think. By that do you mean I am not the only one

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Topa wrote: > Joe Hart([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> > <> Hint Joe > >> It is interesting though. It seems that the change from Firefox to >> Iceweasel caused a lot more pro

Re: PATH question

2007-03-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-03-19 16:06:05 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 2007-03-15 16:06:40 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > $PATH is "universal" environment variable. (t)csh maps path to PATH, but > > > only PATH exists in (ba|z|k|)sh > > On 19.03.07 15:07, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > $path e

how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Zhengquan Zhang mailing list
I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this? Thank you! Regards: Zhang -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Weird apache2 issue

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
OK it was an easy fix... in my default conf file I had this configured: NameVirtualHost 1.2.3.4:80 I changed it to this: NameVirtualHost *:80 An now the problem is gone...! On 3/21/07, Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Justin Hartman wrote: > On 3/21/07, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PRO

Re: spam originating from this list !

2007-03-21 Thread dave
on Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:55:43PM +0100 Thomas Jollans wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 11:07, Joe Hart wrote: > > Best thing to do with Spam is to ignore it (or eat it if you like canned > > meat). > or feed it to spamassassin or something else that helps you ignore it. > Bogofilter here.

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 14:38 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > After all the claims that Iceweasel=Firefox with just a name change. > > I never had those problems with Firefox. [...] > After all the problems I have been having with IceWeasel, I have started > using Konqeror more and more. Unfortunately, s

Having both dhcp3 server and dhcp3 relay on the same host

2007-03-21 Thread Laurent CARON
Hi, I'm considering installing dhcp3 relay on my linux boxes. I already have dhcp3 server running. Wouldn't those packages conflict ? I mean: Is it a correct behavior to run dhcp3 relay as a fallback if the dhcp3 server is unavailable (misconfigured, crashed...)? Thanks Laurent -- To UNSUB

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 21:56 +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: > I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the > home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the > networking. > > Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this?

Re: OT: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-21 Thread judd
On 19 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >> >Heh, Texans (and for that matter, most of the desert southwest and >> >California) crack me up in thinking that they get weather more than >> >30 days out of any given year..

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-21 Thread judd
On 18 Mar, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:04:42AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> >> ..peace. First we need to hang all our war criminals, then they have >> to hang theirs, all under the strictest combination of Sharia, the >> full 4 Geneva Conventions, the US War Crimes

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread H.S.
Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this? Take a look at network-manager. You can s

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 14:38 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >>> After all the claims that Iceweasel=Firefox with just a name change. >>> I never had those problems with Firefox. > [...] >> After all the problems I have been having with I

X problem after upgrade

2007-03-21 Thread Tommi Lantta
Hi I have a strange display problem after upgrading from Sarge to Etch. In X the screen is displaced 1 cm to the left (leftmost 1 cm of screen is out of display area and there is an 1 cm wide black stripe at the right edge of the display). This only happens with the native 1280x1024 resolution of

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz to block. So the above function's loop goes over these many times inserting the rules for each range. And this is taking huge amount of time: in over 50 minutes, only around 12% rules have been loaded on my rou

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 10:52, H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: > >> >> Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz >> to block. So the above function's loop goes over these many times >> inserting the rules for each range. And this is taking h

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Stephen Allen
Joe Hart wrote: > I think we've been through the whole iceweasel == || != firefox issue > before. I understand the reasoning behind the name change, and I > understand both sides of the issue. What I don't understand is why it > has to have such a large impact on us, the users. Probably because

Re: X problem after upgrade

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tommi Lantta wrote: > Hi > > I have a strange display problem after upgrading from Sarge to Etch. > In X the screen is displaced 1 cm to the left (leftmost 1 cm of screen > is out of display area and there is an 1 cm wide black stripe at the > right e

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/21/07 10:52, H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz to block. So the above function's loop goes over these many times inserting the rules for each range. And this is t

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Wackojacko
H.S. wrote: Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the networking. Is there any easier and smarter way of doing this? Take a look at network-m

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Albert Dengg
H.S. wrote: ... Yes. The experiment shows that this is not going well. I was wondering if there are any alternatives. I currently have around 80,000 rules now inserted, and the process is still continuing more than 17 hours later! However, my internet connection seems to be holding up without a

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-02-28 @ 12:49:05 (week 09) Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Sorry to get back only now. Haven't been keeping up with my mail due to an overly full agenda and todo list. > did you try vga=normal? that should at least get you a readable > screen. won't be the best res. I did, but still no cons

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-05 @ 01:48:40 (week 10) Chris Bannister wrote: Sorry to get back only now. Haven't been keeping up with my mail due to an overly full agenda and todo list. > Is there any particular reason you need a later kernel? Other than wanting to try out a couple of new features no, not really.

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:09:03PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On 03/21/07 10:52, H.S. wrote: > >>H.S. wrote: > >> > >>>Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz > >>>to block. So the above function's

Re: X problem after upgrade

2007-03-21 Thread macondo
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tommi Lantta wrote: Hi I have a strange display problem after upgrading from Sarge to Etch. In X the screen is displaced 1 cm to the left (leftmost 1 cm of screen is out of display area and there is an 1 cm wide black stripe at the

Re: spam originating from this list !

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:18:50AM -0500, dave wrote: > on Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:55:43PM +0100 Thomas Jollans wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 11:07, Joe Hart wrote: > > > Best thing to do with Spam is to ignore it (or eat it if you like canned > > > meat). > > or feed it to spamassassin or

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:15:09PM +0800, Bob wrote: [...] > > What do people use for mirroring Linux partitions, tar probably but is > there a better tool? to truly mirror the partition you need dd or you could cobble together a raid 1 setup and then when its done syncing pull it out (probably

Re: broken upgrade of postfix_2.3.7-3 -> 2.3.8-2 (etch)

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Shuler
Jochen Schulz wrote: > I had the same issue and solved it temporarily by installing OpenSSL > from unstable. See > . > > The release manager noted that unstable's version of OpenSSL won't be > included in etch, though, so that downgrading p

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 12:23:54AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > it appears to me that there are two paths into testing for security > > fixes: sid or testing security. Is it possible for a security fix to > > bypass sid and make it into testing? > > Yes, but multiple

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-03-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 03:15:09PM +0800, Bob wrote: What do people use for mirroring Linux partitions, tar probably but is there a better tool? Why is it better? I've heard of the dd command being used, but I'm not really too knowledgable in that field. But if someone

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:46:22AM -0400, A. Ben Hmeda wrote: [snipped ridiculous flamage] > > At Ubuntu forums, I found at least 8 different threads around the same > subject (Slow Ubuntu) spanning about 3 versions of the distro. Did the > same on Google. All suggestions were pretty much the

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:06:31AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: [...] > > So in short; Does anyone know of any good calender applications that > dock into a system tray? I use orage a little and its okay. Don't know if it works outside xfce though... A signature.asc Description: Digital sig

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2007-03-04 @ 19:43:57 (week 09) Florian Kulzer wrote: > I think this might be related to the framebuffer driver. Agreed. > You can try to "modprobe vesafb" (or whatever fb module is suitable > for your graphics card) from an X root console and see if this helps. I am sorry to say it didn't.

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 12:09 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 03/21/07 10:52, H.S. wrote: > >> H.S. wrote: > >> > >>> Now, currently, there are around 151,000 ipranges listed in level1.gz > >>> to block. So the above function's

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: nice to know that the connection is holding up, but there's got to be a better way to do this. I'm not really up on iptables, but surely there is some better way to distinguish the traffic to allow or not? Maybe even just some judicious grepping of the rule set for

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen Allen wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: > >> I think we've been through the whole iceweasel == || != firefox issue >> before. I understand the reasoning behind the name change, and I >> understand both sides of the issue. What I don't understand is w

when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread tom arnall
when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? tom arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-21 Thread Bob McGowan
Raffaele Morelli wrote: > pkill is a better killall? it reminds me to the differences between top and > htop (recently someone posted about it). But how is it better? Really don't know, my rule is "the one which fits to your needs". I always use killall and feel comfortable

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? Please ask a better question. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that th

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 tom arnall wrote: > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? > > tom arnall > north spit, ca > > Yes. You need to be root, or have sufficient sudo privileges. Otherwise you get a dpkg lock error. Joe - -- Registerd L

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Joe Hart([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Wayne Topa wrote: > > Joe Hart([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > > <> Hint Joe > > << snip more >> > > I just sa

Re: ether-wake won't work anymore.

2007-03-21 Thread Joe
Bruno Buys wrote: Andy Hawkins wrote: Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruno Buys<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I´ve relied on etherwake to up remote machines, and it worked ok for quite some time. But recently I noticed it kind of stopped working. Since today I bumped two more ma

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Topa wrote: [snip] >> Hopefully the transition is complete enough that we won't run into >> things like losing our profiles or having 2 tabs open when we click on >> something. >> >> These issues are fixed in iceweasel_2.0.0.2+dfsg-3; I'm >> cu

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:36:17PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > >nice to know that the connection is holding up, but there's got to be > >a better way to do this. I'm not really up on iptables, but surely > >there is some better way to distinguish the traffic to allow

bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi guys Very strange problem which I'm sure is pretty easy to fix - if you know how. I installed bind9 with lsb-base on a Debian Etch system. The problem is that as soon as bind9 is installed I can no longer ping or access external sites from the bind9 server. For example I can't ping google.com

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 01:41:30PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Maybe I'll just start using the Sid or Etch partitions and forget > about testing, for awhile. you do know that etch and testing are still the same thing, right? A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? > > Please ask a better question. > -- what is the problem with this one? ;o) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:30:08AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 07:06:31AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > [...] > > > > > So in short; Does anyone know of any good calender applications that > > dock into a system tray? > > I use orage a little and its okay. D

Re: No text mode display after grub

2007-03-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 17:10:56 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: > On 2007-03-04 @ 19:43:57 (week 09) Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > I think this might be related to the framebuffer driver. > > Agreed. > > > You can try to "modprobe vesafb" (or whatever fb module is suitable > > for your graphics card)

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:41:50AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? > As said before, if you're in the sudo group and in the /etc/sudoers file you can run "apt-get upgrade". The main difference I've seen between being root and sudoin

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Oliver Jato
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2007 19:10 schrieb Justin Hartman: > Very strange problem which I'm sure is pretty easy to fix - if you > know how. I installed bind9 with lsb-base on a Debian Etch system. The > problem is that as soon as bind9 is installed I can no longer ping or > access external sites from

Xen and PAE

2007-03-21 Thread Urs Thuermann
I have two separate questions, actually, concerning Xen and PAE: Today, I installed Xen on a Pentium4 machine running Debian testing. I did aptitude install xen-linux-system-2.6.18-4-xen-686 which installed besides others the two debian packages xen-hypervisor-3.0.3-1-i386-pae and linux

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 11:13:13AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? > > > > Please ask a better question. > > -- > wh

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:41:50AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: >> when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? >> > > As said before, if you're in the sudo group and in the /etc/sudoers > file you can run

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:13 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? > > > > Please ask a better question. > > -- > what is t

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:19:49PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:41:50AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'? > > > > As said before, if you're in the sudo group and in the /etc/sudoers > file you can run "a

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread H.S.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I'm sorry, but what exactly is the purpose here? I did a little poking > around and it looks like just a massive list of ip's to block, but for > what purpose? > > I'm not trying to say that this is not the right solution for whatever > your problem is, but it c

Re: ..voice recognition, was: To be M$ free....

2007-03-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:48:37 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > On 19.03.07 21:54, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> ..try play with these searches in your CLI: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-Reformer $ apt-cache search recogni |wc -l >> 123 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Justin Hartman
On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: you'll probably have to tell bind to use recursion for fetching adresses which are not in his authority. in options, set "allow-recursion { 127.0.0.1; };". if you want others on your network to use your bind, too, also add "192.168.1/24;", for ex

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:54:29 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Personally, I've found that some websites will block me because of my > location, and that's something I cannot change. Unfortunately my ISP > identifies me as being here. Perhaps I need to look into anonymizers. >

Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 14:14:22 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > I never could run Sarge's installer re memory so went with Woody and > > upgraded. I can try that with Etch but want to have a fall-back > > position in case the attempt hoses. I'm on very slow dialup so gettin

Re: bind9 prevents external access

2007-03-21 Thread Oliver Jato
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2007 19:48 schrieb Justin Hartman: > On 3/21/07, Oliver Jato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > you'll probably have to tell bind to use recursion for fetching adresses > > which are not in his authority. in options, set "allow-recursion { > > 127.0.0.1; };". if you want others on

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 15:10:00 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote: > > You will be offered the choice of keeping your version or replacing it with > > the new version. > > Celejar writes: > > Yes, but neither choice is entirely satisfactory; if I keep my version, I > > don't get

Re: loading huge number of rules in iptables (blocklist)

2007-03-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:30:06PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > I'm sorry, but what exactly is the purpose here? I did a little poking > > around and it looks like just a massive list of ip's to block, but for > > what purpose? > > > > I'm not trying to say that t

Re: Browser identification to websites

2007-03-21 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:54:29 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > >> Personally, I've found that some websites will block me because of my >> location, and that's something I cannot change. Unfortunately my ISP >

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:36:23 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Steve Lamb wrote: > > Joe Hart wrote: > >> If you Run Sid, you don't have to worry about that *ever* happening. > > > > Yes, you do. If you think otherwise I'll ask w

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:45:10 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Yes, Etch install includes security. I assumed that is because it is > about to become stable. According to the debian-reference, testing does > not normally get security updates, unstable does, and they filter down

Re: how to switch between different network configurations?

2007-03-21 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:56:13 +0800 Zhengquan Zhang mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to switch the network configurations between the lab, the dorm and the > home ones. Normally I manullay edit /etc/network/interfaces and restart the > networking. > > Is there any easier and smarte

Re: when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as 'root'?

2007-03-21 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 11:34, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 11:13 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:42, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:41 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > > when you do an apt-get upgrade, does it matter it you do it as >

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