Hello, i am on debian-user so get *lots* of mail consequently i want to
sort it. Currently i use a series of mutt filters to show the mail im
interested in but i figure it would be beter to sort it as it arrives.
Am lookin at sortmail
hugh@wacka:~$cat .forward
"| /usr/bin/sortmail hugh"
hugh@wa
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 10:15:09PM +1100, Peter Johnson wrote:
> If using Maildirs then consider maildrop. I personally find it rather
> easy to configure but still packs plenty of options but if ~/mm is an
> mbox then this isn't an option.
is it not possible to use a combination of maildirs and mb
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 12:36:54PM -0800, nate wrote:
[stuff about browsers...]
> for reference, my primary desktop is an athlon 1300 with 768mb ram, a 9gig
> ultrawide scsi disk, no swap, home directory is mounted over NFS. Video is
> nvidia geforce3 (forgot which model), 2.2.19 kernel with debia
On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 04:59:08PM -0800, nate wrote:
> Hugh Saunders said:
>
> > if you added some swap, maybe browser mem leaks would be such a prob as
> > rubbish would be swapped out? [obv still annoying but maybe not as much!]
>
> probably be just as bad if not w
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 10:42:44AM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I have a lot of photos (jpeg's) that I would like to be able to batch
> thumbnail & possibly rename. Any suggestions for a program to 'easily'
> do this? I will explore all the functionality of Gimp at some point,
> but wanted to kn
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:42:11PM +0100, Tommaso Moroni wrote:
> Tommaso Moroni wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'd like to install Debian on an old pc (hereafter called A) using an
> > ADSL connection I have on another PC (hereafter called B). The problem
> > is that after configuring the network on A it
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Scott --sidewalking-- wrote:
[snip]
> I wonder if all (or most) of you are in similar careers and that is
> why you are so proficient with compiling and testing and tweaking
> all of this stuff. Or is it just a hobby that has gone on for so
> long that yo
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:03:00AM +0200, Paul Wright wrote:
> I decided that it may be easier to get a reasonable count of how many known
> users of Debian can be counted by the number of unique email addresses have
> suscribed to the lists hosted here.
from http://lists.debian.org/stats/
you can
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:26:37AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm also wondering how this number compares with the number of unique IP
> addresses that have downloaded the install CDs.
the thing with that is that, of the people who've downloaded cds, many
will have copied for their friends =
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 05:47:14PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:
> What do I need to do to stop syslog from sending messages to the virtual
> consoles?
>
> I am operating in a new Debain testing (aka sarge?) system with a 2.4.18
> stock kernel. It's non-graphical, so I'm using different virtual
> ter
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 11:01:04PM +0200, Marino Fernandez wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 June 2003 04:28 am, Bill Morgan wrote:
>
> > Is this a good time to move to unstable, or is there breakage right now?
> >
> > Should I watch the mailing lists for 12-18 hours after the mirrors update
> > to see if
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:49:12PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
> >>
> >> You must have Ncurses installed in order
> >> to use 'make menuconfig'
> Even then, I cannot find the ncurses-devel package in dselect, nor on debian's
> FTP site.
> If it's not
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 10:39:58PM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote:
> Hi Breno,
>
> > I've googled for it, and searched the debian-user lists' archive, and
> > found nothing useful there, except for one page which refers to SUSE,
> > and said:
>
> That's weird, the solution should have been in the archi
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:20:22PM +, Matthias Leopold wrote:
> hi
>
> although this isn't debian-specific, i hope someone can help me (i AM using
> debian). how can i make screenshots of playing videos(maybe fullscreen)?
> i've tried to do this using the import program from ImageMagick, but
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:23:32AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sid"
isnt 3.1 [or 3.0r1 possibly?] woody?
didnt think sid had a release number.
sorry cant help with xv probs.
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:03:27PM +0100, David selby wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am writing bash a bash & sed script, it has been going suprisingly
> well. I need a loop to count 9 times & the variable n to the count ..
>
> for n=1 to 9
>
> next
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:28:32AM -0400, David Z Maze wrote:
> ITYM 'for file in *'...
> ISTR earlier versions...
flip man! i needed two references to `dict` to read your email.
Guess i should learn some acronyms!
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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 03:11:48PM +0200, JZidar wrote:
> Is there an app or trick that would enable to just pop a cd or floppy in the
> drive and use it without the need for mount and unmount every time? Can be
> this built-in in the kernel?
>
> Basically this would an aoutmounter of some kind.
a
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:47:45PM +0800, Zhao YouBing wrote:
> So many distributions, it seems that the life will be easier if they can
> unite into one,
> anyway, there is only one breed of kernel.
/me humms something about Debian GNU/hurd..
;)
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On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:01:36AM +0100, Paladin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In X, is it possible to switch between two programs being one in
> full screen?
not an X problem, this is done by your window manager. If you just want
to switch between fullscreen apps then matchbox or ratpoison would be
good for
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:43:32AM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just downloaded Umbrello, and had this:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ umbrello
> libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted
> libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
depends, does the user you are running it as
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 08:23:50PM +0200, LeVA wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I need a testing program (under console or X) which can test memory,
> mainboard, cpu, disks, graphics card, network card, sound card
> etc...
> Anybody could suggest a nice, and useable one?
not sure about actual test programs apar
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:56:34PM +0200, Schulze Thomas wrote:
> Where i can find the Debain references?
in the fine packaging system :)
apt-cache search debian reference
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:34:49PM -0500, Ian Melnick wrote:
> Hello, all
>
> For a while I've been wanting to play games like doom and quake thru an
> ssh session. I would have settled for 'text mode' quake, but the older
> libraries provided with it segfault on my system. Then I thought maybe I
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 01:00:19AM +, Robin Gerard wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 05:32:25PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> > * David selby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030709 12:08]:
> > > Is there a neater way to get a modification date for a file without ls
> > > -l & sed ? I have a bash script tha
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:39:56PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 07:40:15AM -0400, dhobner wrote:
> > Is there a driver for the Netgear 54Mbps Wireless PC Card (32-bit Cardbus
> > WG511)? If so where can I get it?
>
> AFAIK there is no driver available for any 55Mbps card.
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 03:58:31PM +0200, Timo Kamph wrote:
> I had a little trouble installing my ethernet cards drivers. Now the
> interface is up and works fine.
> But there is a problem with DNS. /etc/resolv.conf was missing, so i created
> one, containing a single line:
>
> nameserver xxx.xxx
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:43:57PM +0530, Joydeep Bakshi wrote:
> Hi all,
> I can enter into the interactive mode of Redhat by pressing * key i * at the
> time of booting. but this technique doesn't work in Debian . how to get the
> same thing in Debian ?
what are you meaning by "interactive mode
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 02:44:23AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> How do I get man pages to show in color?
> used to have it on mandrake at one of the workplaces but never figured
> out how to enable it under debian.
i quite like most and pinfo for displaying man pages/info doc in colour.
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:32:20AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> And, if so, why do you want to "screw with him"?
he's already said hes a bofh ;-)
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 04:49:30PM +0100, Paulo Jorge wrote:
> The interactive mode of Redhat asks the user what services should be
> started up during boot but I believe Debian doesn't have anything like
> that.
i guess the best thing to do if you want to start some services
sometimes but not othe
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:45:03AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have to ask a dumb question. When booting is lilo.conf read?
no. lilo cannot read filesystems. The inverse is what is s good
about grub.
> Or is lilo.conf only used for writing the MBR plus the additional boot
> sectors?
On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:32:53PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote:
> *I* don't get any spam.
im guessing you dont get much ham either...
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 04:54:38PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> I don't think I want to do this ;>
>
># sudo apt-get -u install apt=0.5.8
>Reading Package Lists... Done
>Building Dependency Tree... Done
>The following packages will be REMOVED:
> apt-utils aptitude synapt
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Matt Peter wrote:
> hello,
>
> Is there a debian-way of viewing the changelog for an app? I can
> usually find them .gz'd up on my system, but it's a hassle, is there
> any simple way to view a changelog?
talk about FAQ! second time today!!
look at th
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:12:39PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> And, this is *NOT* valid:
>
>deb http://security.debian.org unstable/updates contrib main non-free
>
> Please, correct my misunderstandings, Colin; but, what I understand from
> your message above is that, regardless of an
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