Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/10/03 15:47), Monique Y. Herman wrote: > So, lately, I've been drooling over the latest 15" powerbooks. I have > never owned or even really used a Mac, but when looking at laptop > choices, powerbooks look to be the best. I even had a dream about it > last night ... except in the dream, sa

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/10/03 18:01), Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Clive Menzies penned: > > It is worth reviewing the archive for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Speaking of which, http://www.debian.org/ports/ lists the motorola 68k > as the second-most popular debian-por

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/10/03 21:41), Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 19:01, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Clive Menzies penned: > > > It is worth reviewing the archive for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Speaking of which, http://www.debian.org

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/10/03 21:06), Kent West wrote: > >So, lately, I've been drooling over the latest 15" powerbooks. I have > >never owned or even really used a Mac, but when looking at laptop > >choices, powerbooks look to be the best. I even had a dream about it > >last night ... except in the dream, salesm

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (16/10/03 10:39), Paul E Condon wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 09:11:41AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > I've got an 8100/80 Nubus Mac running woody and serving files on our > > network. This was the first machine on which I installed Debian but it > > did ta

Re: filtering MS* mails w/ Spamassassin

2003-10-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/10/03 03:24), ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > My SA setting blocks most of the spam mails but it doesn't/can't stop > these MS mails, no matter how many MS examples I try to feed to it to > learn. Anyone has any hint / howto's ? Swen isn't classified as spam and if you search the archive you wil

Re: Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?

2003-10-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/10/03 15:58), Wathen, Metherion wrote: > > >Personally, I prefer Opera for linux, on my old box it loads > > >at least twice as fast as Mozilla, not that I dislike mozilla, > > >opera was just faster. > > >have they got tabbed browsing in ie yet? > > > > > > > If you're going to make commen

Re: speedy spam

2003-10-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/10/03 20:17), David Crane wrote: > On Tuesday 14 October 2003 06:56 am, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I was finding it virtually impossible to work because of the > > volume of these MS Swen virus emails. So I installed mailfilter > > (woody) and fetchmail, set up my ma

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/10/03 01:07), Tom wrote: > > > > I'm beginning to see this as an issue over which rational and reasonable > people can disagree. > > For me, this all ties back into my "Illusion of Technique" philosophy. > The positive argument the anti-Bush people make is: "Iraq is a waste of > time;

Re: browsers (galeon; mozilla) really slow

2003-10-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/10/03 11:28), Nori Heikkinen wrote: > Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 11:28:51 -0400 > From: Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: browsers (galeon; mozilla) really slow > > for the past two or so weeks, galeon especially, but also usually > mozilla, hav

Re: Epiphany.

2003-10-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/10/03 05:22), David Palmer. wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 09:00:59 -0600 > "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:22:34PM +0800, David Palmer wrote: > > > > > > What risk do I run with apt-get remove epiphany (the game), without > > > disturbing epiph

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/10/03 22:29), David Lloyd wrote: > > > You know what? > > All you technical whizz bang, dumbass geeks haven't even given a link to > how to fix the problem. You've HINTED at what it is, but there's no > solution. > > You're so fucking helpful. Ouch ! Hi David I'm not any sort of geek,

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/10/03 18:44), Olav Lavell wrote: > Op di 21-10-2003, om 01:25 schreef John Hasler: > > > Olav Lavell writes: > > > Denbian still installs too much stuff I did not ask for. It's not a > > > "minimal" distribution > > > > The Debian base system is too much? > > Isn't it? > > Why would one

Re: RPC: Program not Registered

2003-10-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/10/03 04:20), Alex Malinovich wrote: > Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 04:20:24 -0500 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: RPC: Program not Registered > From: Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 11:07:55AM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > > Nice to be back with a broadband

Re: good beok on mysql and php?

2003-10-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/10/03 03:01), Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am looking for a book about mysql and php to develop some web > application. And good suggestion? Please CC me. It depends on your level of competence (scripting languages etc.) If you're new to all this (like me) I'd recommend La

Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/10/03 04:50), Scott Hansen wrote: > Thanks for everyones response to my post! > > In response to the last posting helping me with my request, no I do not > have the graphical side of things working. Here is what goes on when I > use startx (although I am unsure if I am doing this correct

Re: indent for html?

2003-10-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/10/03 11:41), Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Anyone know of an indent program for html? > > I'd accept a vim script too *grin* At the risk of a little knowledge being a dangerous thing (I've recently acquired Vim-improved by Steve Qualine) will "set autoindent" not do it? Regards Clive --

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/10/03 01:14), David Jardine wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:55:20PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:39:11AM -0700, John Yurcik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > Hi, I am glad to be on this list-even if it seems like one has to wade > > > through crocodile

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/10/03 22:04), Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:54, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (25/10/03 01:14), David Jardine wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:55:20PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:39:11AM -0700,

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/10/03 22:37), Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > [...] > > Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my > [...] > Apparently not. I wonder why not. It would surely be a good idea - for > those using simpler mail

OT - Documenting systems

2003-11-05 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi By stealth, I seem to be developing a sysadmin personality, what with the expanding network here and increasingly getting involved in networking on behalf of clients. I've tried various approaches to recording details of individual components and the network but keeping them up to date is diff

Re: OT - Documenting systems

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/11/03 21:56), Paul M Foster wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:47:00PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > By stealth, I seem to be developing a sysadmin personality, what with the > > expanding network here and increasingly getting involved in networking > > on behalf of

Re: OT - Documenting systems

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/11/03 04:57), Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:56:15PM -0500, Paul M Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:47:00PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > By stealth, I seem to be developing a sysadmin personality, what with t

Re: file and directory permissions question...

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/11/03 14:39), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Eric, > > > /foo - Only folks in the 'users' group can read, write and delete > > files/dirs. > > The permissions of directory foo do not influence whether someone can > open a given file in it for reading or writing, only whether he can >

Re: xfce

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/11/03 17:24), JG wrote: > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi Kent, > > > > > >> Not knowing what your level of *nix knowledge is, it's hard to answer > > >> without being too terse or too simplistic. > > > I've been using Redhat for about a year no

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/11/03 17:35), Joseph Jones wrote: > > Lukas Ruf wrote: > > >Dear all, > > > >is there any way to make Mozilla Firebird send a faked browser > >identification to the server? I would like it to send for some sites > >the MSIE identification, while for others Netscape 4.7. > > > >Can I do th

Re: Help!

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/11/03 17:32), Ken Gilmour wrote: > Do you work in sales or something? > > > Replying to the message sent by David Palmer. ?on Thu, 6 Nov 2003 14:02:34 +0800, > received at 17:32:09 on 06/11/2003. David Palmer. wrote: > > >Stick with it! > >Some kind person is trying to save you. > >Now,

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/11/03 16:48), Kent West wrote: > Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 16:48:50 -0600 > From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Clive Menzies wrote: > > >I'm intrigued. why would y

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/11/03 04:27), Alex Malinovich wrote: > To: debuser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 04:27:01 -0600 > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 03:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > Alex Malinovich wrote: [snip] > > > So any ideas on how to go about it? Is it possible to have two different > > > users

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 14:41), wsa wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 14:41:18 +0100 > From: wsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email? > > Exim passes it on to icourier so everyone on the local network has their > mail on

Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 16:28), Iago Sineiro wrote: > Hi. > > I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is it > possible? > > Note: I want to do it in one box with Debian that doesn't have command sudo > and I don't want to install it. > > > Iago. FWIW KDE3.1 gives me reboot/shutdo

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 13:21), Roberto Sanchez wrote: > csj wrote: > >Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I > >describe below. > > > >I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test" > >and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter": > > > >$ grep -Ei

Re: Execute shutdown as other user than root

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 19:33), Andreas Janssen wrote: > Clive Menzies (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > On (11/11/03 16:28), Iago Sineiro wrote: > > > >> I want to execute shutdown as other user than root. How to do it? Is > >> it possible? > >> >

Re: What is the password of "root" when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/11/03 22:48), Otto Wyss wrote: > Since neither Sarge-i386-1 nor Knoppix nor Morphix was usable to install > a base system I took out Debian-3.0r1 and cleanly installed it. Now I'm > at the first run but I'm stuck at the Login prompt, I simply don't know > the password for root!?! > > Can't

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/11/03 20:53), Brian Walker wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:10:18 +0800, kmark+debian wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >> csj wrote: > >> > Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I > >> > describe below. > >> > > >> > I have in my my ~/.mailfilter

Re: kernel recompile - correct syntax

2003-09-09 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/09/03 05:26), Robert Storey wrote: > Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 05:26:28 +0800 > From: Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: kernel recompile - correct syntax > > > I'm writing an article about Debian which will be published in a few days (on a > well-known GNU/

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-10 Thread Clive Menzies
On (10/09/03 15:29), Pigeon wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:21:56PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 10:21:23 +0100, > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04:57:05AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > on Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 04

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/09/03 08:09), Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 00:36, Clive Menzies wrote: > [ re Network Rail tender request ] > > I'm London (UK) based and have a business background. I lack the > > technical skills and knowledge to approach this but I'

SCO v open-source community

2003-09-11 Thread Clive Menzies
Thought this may be of interest to the list - worth a read, if you haven't seen it: http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003091001926OSCDCY Regards Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCO v open-source community

2003-09-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/09/03 18:31), David Palmer wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 17:50, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Thought this may be of interest to the list - worth a read, if you > > haven't seen it: > > > > http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/2003091001926OSCD

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/09/03 17:58), Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:18:51 +0100, > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On (11/09/03 08:09), Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 00:36, Clive Menzie

Re: scanner

2003-09-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/09/03 09:04), john gennard wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:59:03PM -0500, oskar debian lists wrote: > > > Thanks for your reply. I have most documentation, and have > identified the correct backend. My confusion is that sane does > not show up as being installed when at least parts of i

Re: Open-source opportunuity?

2003-09-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/09/03 00:23), Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > > .agreed, but I do not wanna use this list to discuss the > > > details of the tender docs. ;-) > > > > > Agreed again but as yet there seem to only six people interested on list > > and two off. Is this enough? Or more importantly do we have

Re: NFS share: cannot write

2003-09-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/09/03 01:32), Joan Tur wrote: > From: Joan Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: NFS share: cannot write > Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 01:32:50 +0200 > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hallo! > > I've set up an NFS share (server runs Woody), and I can

Re: ADSL + exim mail server HELP!!

2003-09-15 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/09/03 09:36), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have an Exim mail server behind an ADSL router. > How do i collect mail for my domains from my isp and pass it to exim > for distribution to the users boxes. > > I have tried fetchmail and it seems to only collect mail for one user at a > time . ??

Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2003-09-15 Thread Clive Menzies
headers. -- > > Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from clive by apollo with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) > id 19yuvm-0001vB-00; Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:06:22 +0100 > Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 16:06:22 +0100 > From: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Network Rail - UK business opportunity for the Debian Community

2003-09-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (15/09/03 22:51), Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > I'm sending this to the list because my message to you bounced. > > .Shri's NetRail list announcement should come any minute now, > I'm #2 enlisted. ;-) Thanks for the update Arnt. I've taken the liberty of changing the subject line and thought a br

Re: Network Rail - UK business opportunity for the Debian Community

2003-09-16 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/09/03 02:14), Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:23:14 +0100, > > On (15/09/03 22:51), Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > .Shri's NetRail list announcement should come any minute now, > > > I'm #2 enlisted. ;-) > > .ok, as far as I know it is ready and I guess the worst thing I risk >

Re: apt-get install

2003-09-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/09/03 09:45), Victory wrote: > Reply-To: "Victory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Victory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: apt-get install > Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:45:57 -0400 > > How do I install debian package from the mirror site instead of from cdrom ? > i.e. w

Re: XFree86 Config

2003-09-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/09/03 16:44), Rishikesh wrote: > I bought a new monitor and I want to reconfigure X. > How can I get the debconf menus to configure X I got > when I was installing debian. > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 should do it HTH Clive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: grub/lilo question

2003-09-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/09/03 16:46), Victory wrote: > Some one please let me know the advantage/disadvantage > about grub/lilo ext2/ext3. > As I understand it lilo is the official debian bootloader but is not as flexible as grub for booting many different kernels. I've used both and lilo is automatically set up

Re: OT: BT Broadband - which ADSL modem?

2003-09-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/09/03 23:15), Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 18:21, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > After a couple of years of um-ing and ah-ing, my dad's finally got round > > to installing broadband. Specifically, BT broadband (here in the uk). > > > > He's asked me to slip in a 486 class r

Re: debian package install problem

2003-09-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/09/03 23:54), Greg Folkert wrote: > Gerald, For the life of me, I cannot understand you[r] REAL question. > > I want you to understand, Debian *IS* the ultimate Linux Distribution. I > find your wording very insulting. You need to ask smart questions. You > need to be a bit more logically d

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/09/03 00:13), Greg Folkert wrote: > Subject: Re: Why such volume with W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: DebianUser list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:13:46 -0400 > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 21:49, Bill Moseley wrote: > > I'm curious why I'm

Re: OT: An Open Call to Developers

2003-09-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (21/09/03 08:59), Kent West wrote: > I'm one of seven Technical Support staff persons at a private > university. My team supports the staff and faculty on campus. Another > branch of my department serves the students, and is composed of > students. We are separate from the server administrato

Re: OT: An Open Call to Developers

2003-09-23 Thread Clive Menzies
On (23/09/03 16:14), Shri Shrikumar wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 10:42, Clive Menzies wrote: > > A brief note in support. We have clients running MS Outlook (different > > versions); it, and the security updates issued for it seem to break > > their systems from time to ti

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/09/03 04:22), Pigeon wrote: > I've just found getting mailfilter up on woody to be a suitable > means of passing the time while microwaving pizzas. It's dead easy: I think my pizza would be crisped by now ;) but thanks for this. Coincidentally, I was trying to confilgure mailfilter last nigh

Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/09/03 13:44), Rene Engelhard wrote: > > why not just apt-get install'ing msttcorefonts if you want them? Have you any idea why msttcorefonts doesn't show when I dselect? sources.list is as follows: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ s

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/09/03 07:43), John Hasler wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: MS mail bombs > From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 07:43:10 -0500 > > Pigeon writes: > > apt-get install mailfilter - it only depends on libc, libstdc++ and > > debconf, so no baddies there.

Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/09/03 15:44), Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Hi, > > Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (24/09/03 13:44), Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > > > > why not just apt-get install'ing msttcorefonts if you want them? > > > > Have you any idea why msttcoref

Re: MS mail bombs - This does work ;)

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
Apologies to Pigeon - this does work ;) On (24/09/03 11:48), Clive Menzies wrote: > On (24/09/03 04:22), Pigeon wrote: > > I've just found getting mailfilter up on woody to be a suitable > > means of passing the time while microwaving pizzas. It's dead easy: > I think

Filtering spam at the POP3 server

2003-09-24 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've been playing with mailfilter (using Pigeon's recent post) to remove the assorted MS spam at the server with a view to using spamassassin or other local solution for the other crap one receives. The major drawback with mailfilter is that it deletes offending messages automatically wit

Re: Filtering spam at the POP3 server

2003-09-25 Thread Clive Menzies
On (25/09/03 03:49), Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:51:08 +0100, > Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Given the volume of this stuff that list subscribers are receiving, is > > a good solution? ie.

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/09/03 08:26), cr wrote: > I appreciate that dselect is only part of the install process, albeit the > largest part timewise if one uses it. What makes it frustrating is that, > while working through the huge list of apps in dselect (which isn't the most > intuitive piece of software ever

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/09/03 07:53), Ron Johnson wrote: > Subject: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down? > From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian-User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 07:53:19 -0500 > > After getting hundreds of infections per day early in the week of > 14-Sep, it

Re: script for zapping Swen at the pop server

2003-09-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/09/03 10:49), Ron Johnson wrote: > (Mailfilter only checks headers, so can't see filenames of > attachments.) > > I've got this in my crontab: > */5 * * * * (/home/me/pop_zap_msft.py && fetchmail -s) > > The rc (named ~/.pop_zap_msftrc) has this *exact* format: > SERVER=pop.someisp.net > U

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

2003-09-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/09/03 00:39), Peter Nuttall wrote: > On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 12:19 am, Edward Murrell wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > A friend of mine has had Windows installed for over a year. He's getting > > somewhat sick of it due to the recent spate of virus and spyware that's > > rendered his machine unusa

Re: fetching older packages?

2003-10-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (30/09/03 20:56), Joey Hess wrote: > I used dselect for 6 years or so. I have even fixed some of its bugs and > added things like configurable colors to it. Eventually though, it just > comes time to move on to the next better thing. Aptitude has many > features dselect lacks. For me the killer

Re: Holy Spam!

2003-10-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/10/03 01:40), David Palmer. wrote: > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:13:28 -0400 (EDT), Jon Earle said: > > > I sent _one_ post to the debian-users list yesterday. One. I neglected > > to use an alias I'd created for posting to that list, and, due to their > > open posting policy and their email-

Re: I want spam!

2003-10-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/10/03 13:18), Info wrote: > Please send me lots and lots of spam, viruses, hoaxes, etc! > > I want money from Nigerians! > > I want Viagra! > > I want a bigger penis! > > I want cheap animal sex! > > Gimme all the spam and crap you can muster! > > Send it all here! LOL - hehe! -- h

Re: Help, OSX vs Linux

2003-10-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/10/03 12:02), Mike Egglestone wrote: > Quoting Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I haven't seen any uptime or speed benchmarks, so I can't comment on either > > Debian vs. OS X with respect to uptime or speed. I would guess that you > > would > > require a bit less downtime with Deb

Re: Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

2003-10-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/10/03 21:06), Paul Mackinney wrote: > I've been reading the various spam threads, I'm certainly > getting my share of hits from the various worms going > around. Clearly I can do better can people provide some > clear recommendations? > > Currently I'm using exim, receiving w/fetchmail a

Re: Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

2003-10-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/10/03 23:12), Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (03/10/03 21:06), Paul Mackinney wrote: > > I've been reading the various spam threads, I'm certainly > > getting my share of hits from the various worms going > > around. Clearly I can do better can people provi

Re: Installation has not created boot properly

2003-10-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/10/03 00:19), dan oram wrote: > >From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >>I installed Debian Linux on my Windows PC yesterday. Everything seemed > >>to go smoothly, except it hasn't created the boot sector properly. > >>Booting from the hard disk it gets as far as displaying the foll

Re: boot loader question

2003-10-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/10/03 23:05), Jason Housewright wrote: > Greetings all. > > I am looking at possibly moving to Debian; I have a > question about the boot loader. I have used grub for > quite a while now. What is the default bl for Debian, > and if one is preferred over the other, is it > difficult to switc

Re: exim/fetchmail config

2003-10-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/10/03 20:54), Paul Mackinney wrote: > Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 20:54:00 -0700 > From: Paul Mackinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: exim/fetchmail config > > Jeff Elkins declaimed: > > I've recently switched to a system where fetchmail picks up all my pop3 email >

Re: exim/fetchmail config

2003-10-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/10/03 22:55), Jeff Elkins wrote: > > I've recently switched to a system where fetchmail picks up all my pop3 email > and routes it to a local address, wherespamassassin analyzes it. Thus far, > it's been working great, except for one caveat... > > Certain family members are Windows/Outlo

Re: galeon REALLY slow in loading pages

2003-10-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/10/03 17:28), Nori Heikkinen wrote: > Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 17:28:50 -0400 > From: Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: galeon REALLY slow in loading pages > > has anyone else noticed this? i'm running galeon 1.2.5-0.woody, and > have loved it

Re: Incorrect system time

2003-10-07 Thread Clive Menzies
On (07/10/03 11:22), michael montagne wrote: > I have two knoppix systems with the same problem. The time returned by > "date" does not match the timestamps shown in the logfiles. I've run > "tzconfig" and changed the timezone to US/Pacific. I've used "ntpdate" > to update the time with a val

Re: Incorrect system time

2003-10-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/10/03 06:40), Oliver Elphick wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 22:50, Clive Menzies wrote: > > I'm not sure if this is related but I found (I'm in London on British > > Summer Time ie GMT +1) that if when configuring the base system I > > selected yes to &quo

Re: Question PPC First Installation

2003-10-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/10/03 22:48), Michael Flaig wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 09:11:54PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (11/10/03 22:27), Irrlicht wrote: > > > Can someone please help me? Would be vey kind ;))) > > > > > > I try to install Debian on my Ibook. I

Re: Programmer for hire

2003-10-12 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/10/03 19:20), alex wrote: > Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 19:20:07 -0400 > From: alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Programmer for hire > > Dominique Devriese wrote: > >Bob Tilley writes: > > > > > >>I would like to wet my feet in the Open Source pool. Can anyone > >>

Re: Installation via HTTP?

2003-10-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (12/10/03 18:59), Robert Tilley wrote: > How can Debian be installed via HTTP? > > When I install Debian, I get to the point where it asks if I wish to > continue installing via PPP. To my knowledge, PPP is for use with a modem. Answer "No" > How do I continue installation using TCP/IP once

Re: fetchmail

2003-10-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/10/03 17:18), Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I'm using Fetchmail and have a fetchmailrc in etc. > Fetchmail starts and syslog show my messages being gathered. > > the problem is the messages do not end up in my home Maildir (courier-imap), > they end up in spool somewhere. > > Any ideas ? > > I'

Re: speedy spam

2003-10-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/10/03 11:45), Andrew Hayes wrote: > Jeff Elkins wrote: > >Well, hell. > > > >I set up a new address (for family) on my server and inadvertently used it > >Sunday in a reply to debian-user. It's now being flooded with email > >viruses and spam. > > You aren't the only one, since signing up

Re: Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?

2003-10-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/10/03 11:28), Joseph Jones wrote: > While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at some tasks (yes, they > are non-standard HTML tasks, but what can you do when that's what the > industry uses? *sigh*). > > I've tried Konqueror and found it lacking extremely (yes, I love it as a > file

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/08/03 07:55), Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:20:02 -0700 > Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 5 07:07:40 2003 > > > On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:04:11 -0500, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > alanconnor writes: > > > > > Still doesn

Re: debian mutt questions

2003-08-10 Thread Clive Menzies
tes? set hostname=apollo set use_domain set realname="Clive Menzies" set folder=~/Mail set spoolfile=/var/mail/clive set mbox_type="Maildir" # sent mail should not be defined as a mailbox # mailboxes /home/clive/Mail/sent-mail set copy=yes set record=+sent-mail set envelop

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/08/03 13:17), Alan Connor wrote: > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 5 12:33:25 2003 > > > As a disinterested observer (who currently has yet to get grips with > > filtering spam - I do it manually at present) this argument seems to be > > somewhat circular and repetitive or maybe I'm

Re: Problem with video card when installing debian Gnu/Linux.

2003-08-18 Thread Clive Menzies
On (18/08/03 16:04), Johansson Mikael (mj) wrote: > Subject: RE: Problem with video card when installing debian Gnu/Linux. > Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 16:04:34 +0200 > From: "Johansson Mikael (mj)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Gnu/Linux sändlista eng. (E-mail) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello! > Tha

Re: ip changed after sometime using dhcp

2003-08-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/08/03 18:15), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm using DHCP to connect to the network, and I use ssh to contral > another machine. The problem is, my ip address is always changing. This > makes my ssh die. I wonder if it is because of my configure file is not > correct or is the common way of

Re: Problem with rebooting or shutting down the system

2003-08-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/08/03 15:35), Nick Hastings wrote: > * Hooman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030820 15:14]: > > Hi, > > I have recently made my Debian linux working. Now, > > when I boot the system, I see a login screen in which > > I can login as a regular user with Gnome or KDE. The > > problem occurs when I want t

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/08/03 08:05), Rthoreau wrote: > From: Rthoreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Mail list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: rms on debian > Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:05:14 -0500 > > What gets me is what does the G stand for in GNU? Hehe It stands for GNU. It is a recursive acronym GNU

Re: compatibility

2003-09-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/09/03 10:18), Jérémie MARTIN wrote: > I want to implement Debian on 6 Intel servers and am looking for servers that > support DEBIAN. I unfortunately do not know who (HP/ IBM/ NEC???) supports DEBIAN. > Could you please help me?? > Amicalement IBM "supports" Linux but few large organsisati

Re: compatibility

2003-09-05 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/09/03 10:02), Clive Menzies wrote: > Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 10:02:53 +0100 > From: Clive Menzies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: compatibility > > On (05/09/03 10:18), Jérémie MARTIN wrote: > > I want to implement Debian on 6 In

Network trouble shooting - HP Netserver LH Pro 6/200

2003-04-01 Thread Clive Menzies
I've edited every file in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0 to read "1" instead of "0". However there is one file that I haven't the permissons to change "mc_forwarding" - is this the problem? Or is there a hardware setting that needs changing? Any ideas wo

Resolving hostnames using DHCP

2003-04-05 Thread Clive Menzies
in /etc/hosts? It would seem to defeat the object of having a dhcp server. I can ping all the hosts by IP address but only the Windows machines can ping using the hostname which I guess means that windows is resolving the names in some way. What's the Linux equivalent? TIA Clive

Re: Resolving hostnames using DHCP

2003-04-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On Sunday, April 6, 2003, at 02:58 am, Mouammer H. Rayes wrote: kata Clive Menzies Hi I've just installed Debian on an HP Netserver LH Pro which was a challenge in itself ;). I am still very much a newbie and not very technical. I've managed to get Linux running on an old Mac and

Re: OT: Use of variables in HTML

2003-04-06 Thread Clive Menzies
amount = $totalamount * (1 + $taxrate); $totalamount = number_format($totalamount, 2); echo "Total including tax:$".$totalamount."\n"; ?> Regards Clive ________ Who says middle America supports this act of aggression in the Middle

Re: Resolving hostnames using DHCP

2003-04-06 Thread Clive Menzies
uot; Thanks anyway Regards Clive On Sunday, April 6, 2003, at 05:38 am, Reaz Baksh wrote: Hello I hope this helps. Modify your /etc/resolv.conf file to include the name servers. The same one the windows machines are using. The format that I have on my machine is: nameserver 24.153.23.66

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