Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 07:32, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 16/02/03 Paul Johnson did speaketh: > > > Well, that's because it also installs reccommends. Some folks prefer > > that. > > Partly, but it's also because it tries to upgrade my whole system, when > all I wanted to do was install a

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 20:08, Jeff Elkins wrote: > On Tuesday 18 February 2003 6:14 am, Ewing Jeff wrote: > >ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware-ws-1455-update12.tar.gz > > Thank YOU! > > I thought I was out of the vmware business since I upgraded to 2.4.20. Is there some sort of a problem

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 01:55, Andy wrote: --snip-- > I have a Debian 3.0 install with the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel and I just did an > apt-get install kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 then did an ln -s to make: > linux -> kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4 > So I tell the vmware script that my kernel headers are i

Re: DNS + DHCP

2003-02-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 08:30, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:37:06AM -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > They work okay together using Dynamic DNS (not things like dyndns.org, > > same name, different process). You can use TSIG (IIRC) to securely > > authenticate updates. > > I t

802.11a experiences?

2003-02-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
Does anyone have any experience with 802.11a devices? I'm looking to integrate 802.11a into my home LAN but I'd like to know what to look for. Some of the computers on the LAN use Windows in VMWare, but they are ALL Debian machines at heart. (7 total) For starters, money permitting, I'd like to set

Re: VMWare package

2003-02-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
appropriate kernel headers installed as well. The first part of compilation went fine (the "generic" vmware modules) but the network modules just wouldn't compile. After I showed him how to roll his own kernel, however, the compilation went just fine. -- Alex Malinovich Support Fre

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
ck and choose which packages you want and leave out the ones you don't. Ever look for the command-line MS ftp program in Add/Remove programs? How about their telnet client? Or the god-awful GUI? Nope, you're out of luck. :) Hopefully that will help to clarify things a bit. :) > Welc

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
ng some progress. Shrek was a wonderful movie for adults and children. I would venture to say that a good half of the movie was targeted PURELY at adults without being obvious enough to make it necessary to restrict children from watching it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: "Is your son a Lunix user?"

2003-02-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
o. Since Cygwin now supports XFree86, he can actually get a chance to get used to the X desktop while still using Windows, so when he first boots up a Linux distro he should feel more or less at home. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encryp

Re: (Newbie) Functioning In Debian

2003-02-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 06:44, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:19:14PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- > > may choose to use, however, are non-free. And there is actually an > > mplayer plugin available that works pretty well. > > > > http://mpl

Re: Newbie administrator

2003-02-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
rhomedir instead of all of /home. But that would require a specific configuration for each user's machine. > Is there a good book for beginner adimin's like me? Probably, but I don't believe in books. :) Just keep working at it and when you get stuck remember that Google is your friend

Re: How to redo mp3's

2003-02-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
t;vorbis-tools" package. oggenc is the actual encoder, included in the vorbis-tools package. Good luck. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

xsnow and xscreensaver

2003-02-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
f my desktop in place so that xsnow looks like it's falling on real windows instead of invisible black ones? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D2

Re: secondary root account

2003-02-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
ll you that what you're wanting to do is a Very Bad Idea (tm). :) I've done it in the past as well, but sudo is a much better alternative. If they don't want to use sudo before every command just have them use "su" once then. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, del

X fonts dead after upgrade

2003-03-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
d and regular. And the fonts are most certainly not anti-aliased anymore. Emacs running in graphical mode looks just as bad as do the title bars in Galeon (1.2.7) although the actual page fonts are just fine. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete

Re: X fonts dead after upgrade

2003-03-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 08:27, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 9:22 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I just did a Sid upgrade yesterday, and now all of my basic X apps and, > > apparently, all of my GTK1 apps

Re: X fonts dead after upgrade

2003-03-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 18:01, Alan Chandler wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 01 Mar 2003 8:42 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > My XF86Config did get updated but the fontpath lines weren't changed. > > After some testing

Setting up a "reverse proxy"

2003-03-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
like to have some way to make my laptop be an "internal user" when I'm not at home. Thus far I've been faking it with ssh -X and other methods. Any ideas on how I could go about accomplishing this? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! En

Re: annoying problem with TFT on dell laptop

2003-03-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
er if I fixed it myself or if one of the updates sometime last year did it, but now it works fine for me. It's actually faster than on my desktop machine at home since I don't have to wait for a CRT to switch modes. Hope this helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete y

Re: LAPTOPS

2003-03-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
lacements and repairs. The only problem is that some of the hardware is kind of flaky and the BIOS's for all Dell laptops are notoriously bad. :) Overall, though, I've been very happy with mine. p.s. I'd suggest that debian-laptop might be a better place to ask this question. :) --

Re: Mozilla - snapshot

2003-03-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
Thanks in advance, > Tom Absolutely! That's why the package is called mozilla-snapshot. :) I'm running Galeon 1.2 and Galeon 1.3 (galeon-snapshot). Currently I'm only using 1.3 since the 1.2 package is temporarily broken, but they've been coexisting peacefully on my syste

Re: wma in linux

2003-03-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
quot;; print "Encoding to ogg:\n"; print " Number: $tracknum\n"; print " Track : $trackname\n"; `oggenc -a $artist -N $tracknum -t "$trackname" -l "$album" -n "\%a - \%t.ogg" encodeme.wav`; print "done!\n\n"; } -end

Re: Unstable/Java/Mozilla

2003-03-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
looking at about 10 minutes of work. The compilation time is a bit hefty though. The author says it takes about 4 hours on a PIII-800. Be warned that you'll need to have plenty of free space. I started the compilation last night and woke up today to find it "finished". Unfortunately, I

Re: Download accelerator

2003-03-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
X front end called prozgui. I've been using prozgui with galeon for about a year now with no problems except that it can't read cookies, so you can't download from certain passworded sites with it. It uses 4 simultaneous connections and has a built in FTP search as well. Quite ni

Re: [OT] user psychology

2003-03-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
's important, it also goes a long way toward keeping your blood pressure at a manageable level. :) That's the three main things. Some of these are just good people advice, and some are good "technical" advice, but they've worked for me. Best of luck... you'll need it. :)

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
languages are BARRIERS, not instruments of national identity. And since we don't currently have any barriers in programming languages (at least, not as prevalent as those in spoken languages), we shouldn't introduce new ones. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows par

Re: filtering MS* mails w/ Spamassassin

2003-10-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
and line with the debug and verbose options. Near the top of the resulting output will be some Bayesian information. It'll either tell you that it's scanning the message, or that Bayesian filtering hasn't been activated yet because of something. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software

Re: Verify that spamc is using Bayesian?

2003-10-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
il is being > delivered to... And does anyone know what the behaviour is by default for > that package? Assuming that you're running spamc from .procmailrc, it will be running as the user the mail is delivered to. I'm not really sure if this will affect anything, but you might also

Re: install_oracle9i

2003-10-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
on google. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Somewhat ON-TOPIC (was Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS))

2003-10-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
lso, when you reply, please do not top-post, but rather include your reply AFTER the quoted text you're replying to. This is a 'standard' that has, unfortunately, been steadily losing ground due to Microsoft's decisions with their mail clients. -- Alex Malinovich Support Fre

Re: RPC: Program not Registered

2003-10-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
on what you've done so far, what kind of setup you have, etc. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
st a new buffer) every time it's called? I use my desktop machine from 3 different machines in the house, so using regular old emacsclient hasn't been much of an option since I'd have to be on the same machine that I initially started it on in order to use it. -- Alex Malinovich Suppo

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
have gender? I'd imagine that specifying gender in terms is done in order to keep up with gender-based rules that are inherent in some languages. (Though this does lead you to a chicken-or-egg paradox.) Though IANAL(inguist). I'm sure that there's a more scientific explanation for it,

VT switching broken in Gnome

2003-10-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
Needless to say, having to log out just to switch terminals is really really inconvenient. Any suggestions? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signat

Re: Re: VT switching broken in Gnome

2003-10-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 12:57, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 14:14, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I'm having a problem with my VT switching while in Gnome. I think it's > > related to the recent 2.4 update but I'm not sure. Hitting Ctrl-Alt-F4, > >

Resolution switching in Gnome 2.4

2003-10-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
oing to be released as a separate package, or is it there more about it that I don't know? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Descr

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

2003-10-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
ted into Linux so it doesn't matter what time Windows says it is. :) > (2) XP has this UPnP thing that I thing does sneaking things with my POS > linksys FW open ports. Is there something like that in *? I'm afraid I don't know what "this UPnP thing" is, so I can

Re: [OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

2003-10-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
an just "screwing them over." I think someone's already got you beat. I quote from an M&M candy advertisement: "TM/(R) M&M's, the letter M and the M&M's Characters are registered trademarks of Mars, Inc. and its affiliates (C) Mars, Incorporated 2002&quo

Re: Debian to English translation

2003-10-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
something would be "apt-get remove --purge ". -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
essages before I start archiving, takes about 3 seconds in Evolution. In mutt, since AFAIK mutt doesn't cache the folders at all, it can take 10 - 15 seconds to open up at times. But once it's all opened up, everything works just fine. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
eally been THAT long. :) And WRT Daikatana, hype was really what killed that game. I actually rather enjoyed it as a regular old shoot'em up. But if you were expecting the be-all end-all rebirth of perfect gaming, well then you were rather disappointed. (Then again, being that part of the corporat

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

2003-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
ad been in unstable long enough without bug reports. > This would allow us to keep high-uptime systems running the same kernels > and such as our test/burn/destroy/rebuild laptops ;-) Well, that's basically exactly how it works. There's quite a few extra details but that's the &q

Re: [no subject]

2003-11-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
vice not found or if you start getting garbage when you move the mouse. If you get garbage, then the mouse is found properly. In my case, I just had to install hotplug (apt-get install hotplug) and then unplug the mouse and plug it back in. After that, everything worked fine. Good luck. -- Alex Mal

Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
I did a chmod -R g+rwx *, which I'd like to avoid.) So any ideas on how to go about it? Is it possible to have two different users with the same UID? i.e. adduser --uid 0 --gid 0 temproot If not, any other possibilities? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partitio

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 03:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem > > that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to > > have one of my roommates do somet

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:55, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:58:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem > > that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to &

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
4 evenings a week is not really an option. The reason that I really want the single use (i.e. one time use) root account is so that I can set it once and not have to worry about it until I've had to call home and have them do something. Then once I get home, I reset the password to something n

Re: X wont start again

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
Device is: PCI 01:00:0 > (EE) No devices detected. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found Have you upgraded X recently? Your XF86Config-4 may have been overwritten without you knowing about it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypt

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:50, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:35, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:55, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:30, Tom wrote: > > > > * [07/11/2003 16:25] J. Bruce Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 16:54, ScruLoose wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:58:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > If not, any other possibilities? > > Olkay, I see there's been plenty of discussion of the ins and outs of > the self-locking one-shot root pr

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:00, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:27:21PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > In regards to the roommates at least, they both use Debian and know > > enough about it to do some basic functions from a terminal. As such, I > > could tell the

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
ll be whatever > you assigned when you created the account. The second time it will be the > first password on the list. The third time it will be the second on the > list, and so on. When the last password has been used the account will be > deleted when the user logs out. Great

Re: Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
could disable that if you wanted. Everything else was just as I remembered it, except that you could run it at higher resolutions and use opengl if you wanted. And it had a TCP/IP multiplayer mode. (Something the original Doom lacked.) But the experience was just as I remember it. -- Alex Malinov

Re: fast swithichg between X and virtual console - how to?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
l be fast? Is there some reason you need to constantly switch to the VTs? Can you just use xterm instead? That would make switching a lot faster. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
cations, NOT the OS, that's been crashing left and right. (At least in my experience.) Running a buggy app under Wine won't make it crash any less. It may well make it crash MORE. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:49, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:28:40PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:00, Pigeon wrote: --snip-- > > > What happens if they get a keybounce while typing ^D ? > > > > "keybounce"? You m

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
#x27;s possible to start XMMS without an X-server, but assuming that there is a way to do so just run it in 'screen'. I generally listen to ogg's while I'm using my computer, so I just do a 'screen ogg123 -@ my.list' followed by a quick ^a, ^d. -- Alex Malinovich Su

/etc/profile not being read for gnome

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
und a way around this before, but having lost my hard drive last week and installing from scratch, I don't really remember what I had to do. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of t

Re: parted: "rather strange layout"

2003-11-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
along the lines of: resize 1 1 50 move 2 51 150 resize 2 51 200 -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Is it possible to retach a process to a new terminal?

2003-11-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
t;. As far as actually switching which tty you're using once the application is already running, I don't know of any way to do it. (Though that certainly does not mean that there ISN'T a way to do it.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypt

Re: Is it possible to retach a process to a new terminal?

2003-11-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
er of them, but I believe that xmove and teleport will both do that. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
, it might be something with your video drivers. Actually, and I just thought of this, check your sound setup. What type of sound card do you have, are you using ALSA or OSS, etc? I remember Quake III had some serious issues with certain types of sound setups and serious slowdown in the game. -- A

Re: openGL cannot do fullscreen in dual monitor config

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
ake III fullscreen across both monitors. (Well, "able to play" being a relative term. It was damned near impossible to aim as the crosshair was split between the two monitors, with 4 inches of dead space between the adjoining edges of the screens. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Soft

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
ly important stuff was there anyway), but it would have been MUCH easier had I just had a separate backup somewhere. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:18, stan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:58:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: --snip-- > > > So, given that I was using liol, what should I do to restore the boot > > > blocks? > > >

Re: how to do a clean upgrade without losing packages?

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
t you want is: apt-get upgrade This will only upgrade those packages that can be upgraded without requiring removing or adding packages. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyse

Re: Text processing help (sed?)

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
ma than it did before. If you wanted to just remove the date without actually inserting a comma, just pull the comma out of the above command. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net k

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
pen. :) (I'd put my money on the latter. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: upgrading packages that are in use, especially X or gnome

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
programs generally only read the configuration file at startup, so changing the config file won't affect the running process. The few programs that actually check their config files at various points during run time, I'd imagine the package maintainers would account for in some way

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:19, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote: > > --snip-- > > > It hasn't happened in the last 100k years, what makes you think > > > it will ha

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 04:00, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:49:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:19, Tom wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?#

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
'm extremely curious how you managed to use a 0.7x kernel that never existed. The last release of the kernel after 0.12 was 0.95 after all. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 11:40, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I wonder -- are the people that start with Debian people who are new to Linux, > but used to Unix or sys admin/programming on other systems, or are they just > at the "user" (or just above) level? I did my first ever install of a Linux distro 13

Re: RE:GeForce4 MX

2003-01-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 23:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Hey everyone, > > >I just upgraded from a GeForceDDR to a GeForce4 MX and of course my XWindows > >system stopped working. I checked out the log, and it seems that the nv > >driver i'm using only wants to work on nvidia cards up to the GeFo

Recovering lost partitions

2003-01-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
I made a BIG mistake. Assuming that fdisk -l partition numbers and parted partition numbers would be identical, I happily deleted two of my disk partitions. One of them was the wrong one. Here's how my partition table USED to look: MinorStart End Type Filesystem Flags 1

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

2003-01-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:09, will trillich wrote: --snip-- > right. here's why people (read as 'non-geeks') insist that > documentation is lacking in the linux world: --snip-- > > no clue given HOW to determine which "available authenticators" > are supplied, WHAT they might be called, nor HOW TO

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

2003-01-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 00:56, will trillich wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:10:52PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 16:09, will trillich wrote: As for your > > earlier post about the auth not working, have you checked to > > see if you have libpam

Re: exim and relaying -- for ONE user

2003-01-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 06:51, will trillich wrote: > 5:05am? whassa matter, couldn't sleep? (that's *my* problem -- > one of them, anyway...) > (I get most of my best work done after 2 am. :) > i noticed (below) you used "basic" instead of "plain" so i > munged my setup to match: Actually, that w

Need RAID0 recommendations

2003-02-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've got two identical 45 GB drives, but unfortunately I can only use one at the moment since I've got 3 other IDE devices already connected. I'd like to get a good RAID board and just set them up as RAID0. Any suggestions on a good (preferably not too expensive) board? I'm running a constantly upd

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 21:46, Pigeon wrote: > Alchemy is an interesting example... Of course, alchemy itself is > possible, because people used to do it. They were called alchemists. > The fact that they never achieved their fabled goals is because the > discipline they were following was mostly a

Re: shuttle disaster

2003-02-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 14:11, Pigeon wrote: > > And apparently Delaware's department of transportation is either > > stupid or insane or both... > > http://www.state.de.us/research/register/september2000/signing and >marking.revised---V-1-12.gif You know, I was perfectly content ignoring this thr

Re: Applying kernel patches in make-kpkg

2003-02-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 18:28, sean finney wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:39:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have edited /etc/kernel-pkg.conf and added the lines > > "patch_the_kernel=yes" and "config_target=menuconfig". > > i could be way off, but this is what i have in my kernel-pk

Re: mutt: maildirs that contain folders ???

2003-02-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 02:47, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:22:28PM -0600, Michael D. Schleif wrote: --snip-- > > For example, if I do these: > > > > maildirmake Maildir ~/mail > > maildirmake -f Drafts ~/mail/Maildir --snip-- > > but, mutt does *not* show me the Drafts folde

Re: Machines with Debian preinstalled?

2003-02-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 17:28, A.J. Rossini wrote: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > also sprach A.J. Rossini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.12.2306 +0100]: > >> (yes, I can do it myself; done that about 20+ times, at this point, > >> and have FAI running at home BUT, I'd really l

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 22:05, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:29:39PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > I think you'd be much better off forgoing apt-get and using an > > interactive package tool instead such as aptitude. Proper use of such a > > tool will make it much easier to keep

Re: The myth of aptitude simplicity

2003-02-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 08:37, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 16/02/03 Alex Malinovich did speaketh: > > > Personally, I generally stick to apt-get and apt-cache for most of my > > maintenance work. But I'll never give up dselect. Aptitude makes no > > sense to me w

Re: ICQ behind router/firewall

2003-02-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 13:34, Scruloose wrote: > GnomeICU will send and receive messages, initiate/accept chat mode, and > other people can see my status, but everybody always looks offline to me > (except 2 users, whose statuses update fine. No clue why they're special). > > GAIM just loses a hug

regexp problem

2003-09-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
) via [[:alnum:]]+$ Now the filter gets rid of the latter, but lets the former through! Is there some glaring omission in my regexp that I haven't caught yet? Possibly because of the double parenthesis? The outer set is for a selection, the inner set is literal. Any suggestions are welcome

Re: ..mirror script: woody deb mirror for i386, how to exclude the rest?

2003-09-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
r "parsesize.pl" will get called by sidmirror, so you don't have to worry about when to use them. Run sidmirror with -h or --help for usage info. You can get all the scripts at: http://www.the-love-shack.net/geek.html -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Win

Re: Howto set up SB live 5.1?

2003-09-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
etting the OSS drivers working with an SB live is very painless, but the ALSA drivers work much better with much better control. If you're currently using OSS, I'd strongly suggest switching to ALSA and then seeing what the situation is like. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, dele

Re: Howto set up SB live 5.1?

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
eply should come after a properly snipped quote of the original message to imply what it is you are replying to. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 pgp00

mutt tips

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
o be whatever I want, but shouldn't it default to something intelligent like: Real Name (per /etc/passwd) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5) Any tips you might have for making life easier, especially in regards to dealing with debian-user. Thanks for any help. -- Alex Malinovich Support F

Re: regexp problem

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
move one of the spaces into the optional part, otherwise > with no "(guts)" part the rule is looking for 2 consecutive spaces. I knew it was bound to be a stupid mistake. :) Thanks! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail prefer

Re: Howto set up SB live 5.1?

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
stick with OSS, you'll need to wait for someone else to reply as I haven't used OSS in well over a year now. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6

Re: Howto set up SB live 5.1?

2003-09-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 02:33, Baka Tamas wrote: > On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06.20, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- > > i.e. modprobe -r emu10k1 > > > > After that, you'll want to make sure that you have the appropriate ALSA > > drivers loaded: > > > &g

'intelligent' mail filtering

2003-09-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
rier-imap (with a Maildir) to store and access the mail. What else would be needed in order to implement the filter? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D2483

Re: 'intelligent' mail filtering

2003-09-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
n-perl and localscan-install.html haven't really helped much as I'm still confused about the whole local_scan + spamc/d issue. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyserv

Re: Q: Oracle vs Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
e? I did a writeup of the process a few months ago specifically for installing Oracle 9i on Sid. Things have gotten a lot simpler since then since libc has been upgraded in Sid. You can find it at: http://www.the-love-shack.net/oracle-on-sid.shtml -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, del

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
at Debian has been doing for years, I'd much rather see them JOIN with Debian to further promote community-supported distros. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyserv

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
irror.pl, but you'll also need to get the other related files to handle cleaning up old files, etc. It's not extremely well documented, but the variables at the top of file are pretty clear so you can set it up to do more or less what you want. If you need any help with it, or if you decid

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