Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
umount /dev/sdb probably will work better. gparted /dev/sdb also. if those two don't throw errors, try print command inside gparted and learn about your new hardware. --

Re: text editors

2019-03-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Even if it's not possible to colorize that block, hash marks could be used on beginnings of lines to make those lines comments. Then save the document. Then grep -v "^#" file >file2 That should remove your protected block from the saved file. Now, edit file2. When finished, go into the original

Re: text editors

2019-03-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
I started working for the Navy at an installation in Warminster PA. The experience with emacs David describes certainly happened on the base where I worked. The secretaries weren't told what they were doing was programming so they developed and shared their own macros and as a result of that, ema

Re: A call to drop gnome

2019-04-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 02:54:02 > From: Keith Bainbridge > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: A call to drop gnome > Resent-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 07:12:08 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Good afternoon > > > I've

Re: How do I trace changes in configuration files?

2019-05-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
One thing I like to do whenever using vim and vim-clones is to use the +1 parameter on the command line since when the file opens I'm in a predictable location. --

re: can't install add-ons for firefox

2019-05-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
One thing that can happen with firefox is you can install webvisum on firefox for windows but because webvisum supports no other operating system you can't install webvisum on linux or android or an iphone even though firefox works on all of those platforms. --

Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
It may help to only do defrag operations while entirely off the internet. This was necessary with Windows machines when I worked for the Navy a few years ago. On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, ?tienne Mollier wrote: > Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2019 15:26:48 > From: ?tienne Mollier > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >

Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want

2019-10-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Fri, 18 Oct 2019, Doug McGarrett wrote: > Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 13:26:03 > From: Doug McGarrett > To: Dan Ritter , > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Top 7 Programming Languages That Employers Really Want > Resent-Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17

Re: Needed: functionality of mkisofs command

2019-10-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 27 Oct 2019, Richard Owlett wrote: > Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 15:39:50 > From: Richard Owlett > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Needed: functionality of mkisofs command > Resent-Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 19:40:15 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On 10

Re: KDE desktop not accessible after installation

2019-11-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
I don't know the full details on how kde starts, but have been researching jovie to my limited capacity. If spdconf has been run and had a voice configured it may be possible to hit alt+f2 then type jovie or kmouth and maybe have speech come up and talk. Me with no kde experienced sighted assis

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 18:22:58 > From: Russell L. Harris > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: auxiliary mail client for HTML > Resent-Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 23:43:57 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Several times a

Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML

2019-11-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 22:04:57 > From: Russell L. Harris > To: Jude DaShiell > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: auxiliary mail client for HTML > Resent-Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 03:51:38 + (UTC) > Res

Re: Debian Installer Bug -Wifi driver not installed

2019-11-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 9 Nov 2019, Peter Ehlert wrote: > Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 13:28:02 > From: Peter Ehlert > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Debian Installer Bug -Wifi driver not installed > Resent-Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2019 18:45:09 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > On

dropbox security situation

2019-12-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Recently I created a dropbox account with my gmail account. Very shortly after creation I was refused access since dropbox claimed someone tried to change the password on my account and they weren't sure it was me so got prompted to change my password. What I don't know is if high probability exis

Re: dropbox security situation

2019-12-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 7 Dec 2019, Hans wrote: > Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 12:49:17 > From: Hans > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: dropbox security situation > > Am Samstag, 7. Dezember 2019, 18:06:37 CET schrieb Jude DaShiell: > Hi Jude, > > I know, there were several s

Re: dropbox security situation

2019-12-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
:28 > From: Brian > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: dropbox security situation > Resent-Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 20:56:43 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Sat 07 Dec 2019 at 12:06:37 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > Recently I

Re: dropbox security situation

2019-12-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
an.org > Subject: Re: dropbox security situation > Resent-Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2019 22:21:22 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Sat 07 Dec 2019 at 16:45:34 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > > One first-hand experience on google account hacking an

Re: dropbox security situation

2019-12-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
No google now has a unique one now but didn't when the incidents happened. On Sun, 8 Dec 2019, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 12:55:12 > From: l0f...@tuta.io > To: John Hasler > Cc: Debian User > Subject: Re: dropbox security situation > Resent-Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 17:55:26 +00

Re: dropbox security situation

2019-12-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 9 Dec 2019, Charles Curley wrote: > Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 09:56:26 > From: Charles Curley > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: dropbox security situation > Resent-Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2019 14:57:02 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Sun, 8 Dec 2019 18

Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq)

2019-12-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 30 Dec 2019, ghe wrote: > Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 14:49:36 > From: ghe > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: New list for Raspbian? (was: Re: systemdq) > Resent-Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:06:09 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Goodness. My asking for a

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-04 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Reco wrote: > Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 10:22:14 > From: Reco > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface > Resent-Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2020 15:22:28 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Hi. > > On Sat

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
On another system I found pulseaudio blocking speech-dispatcher when festival was used for screen reader output. Pulseaudio works for sound but spd-say part of speech-dispatcher which produces speech gets blocked by pulseaudio. I proved this by removing pulseaudio and choosing alsa as the output

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

2020-01-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
Can you have pulseaudio on your system to make desktop environments happy and disable pulseaudio and run using alsa and jack? I got information uninstalling pulseaudio is not an option with gnome but disabling pulseaudio may work. --

Re: Debian Graphical Installer: why does it format swap?

2020-01-08 Thread Jude DaShiell
With sufficient memory above 1GB probably a swap file could be created by an installer and maybe let the user know it got created and how to turn it on with swapon as well as under what circumstances it would be advantageous to the user to turn swap on. That might be a bit too complex for installat

Re: I need to be root to run this script

2020-01-21 Thread Jude DaShiell
will alt+f2 sudo backlight-brightness work? On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, kaye n wrote: > Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:36:23 > From: kaye n > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: I need to be root to run this script > Resent-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:39:09 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@list

windstream and linux

2020-01-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
Is it possible to use a linux computer and do activation and registration of an account on windstream? If not I think I can have a relative of the friend me and another linux user tried to help out bring over a windows laptop to get those steps handled. --

Re: windstream and linux

2020-01-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, john doe wrote: > Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 11:16:29 > From: john doe > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: windstream and linux > Resent-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 16:16:47 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On 1/26/202

Re: windstream and linux

2020-01-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Sun, 26 Jan 2020, john doe wrote: > Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 12:42:57 > From: john doe > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: windstream and linux > Resent-Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2020 17:43:15 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On 1/26/202

Re: usb Confusion

2020-02-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
That sounds like a Micro usb port. If you have a connector like that try inserting it very gently. If it doesn't go in easily, flip the cable and try the other side. On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, Martin McCormick wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 08:31:37 > From: Martin McCormick > To: debian-user@lists.

Re: usb Confusion

2020-02-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
I've never held a firewire connector though my computer has one on its top, so can't say if what you need is a usb to firewire cable. On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:47:50 > From: Jude DaShiell > To: Martin McCormick , debian-user@lists.d

Re: Using a Debian Live image to Invoke a Rescue Shell

2020-02-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
Hit the < key until a numbered debian menu comes up. Execute a shell will be one of your options. Key in that number and you'll get the ash shell up and can go from there. On Tue, 11 Feb 2020, john doe wrote: > Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 09:21:52 > From: john doe > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Debian installer puts GRUB on main disk without asking

2020-03-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
running install through the menu, you get a choice of grub or lilo. Other installers even beyond these two are available on other distros. When I do an install additional to turning the screen reader on; I get to menu, save logs, set priority to low, test disk integrity, choose non-free from reposi

Re: Buster without systemd?

2020-03-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
There is devuan-ascii 2.x but I don't know its equivalent to buster. That system maintained sysv and still has support. #!/usr/bin/env bash # file: getdevuan.sh - get devuan iso. wget -bc http://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/minimal-live/devuan_ascii_2.1_amd64_minimal-live.iso On Sun, 22 Mar 2020

Re: Where to put scripts

2007-03-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
That depends. At least two alternatives exist depending on the number of user accounts on the system and who is to have access. If access is to be system-wide, /usr/local/bin is the place for these scripts. If a single user or group of users is to have access, then /home/user/bin/ is proper.

lvm and kernel 2.6.18

2007-03-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
It's not leaving its error messages in /var/log/dmesg for one thing. For another it appears to complain about missing utilities for this kernel version. If lvm is broken in kernel 2.6.18, how do I clear the system of it and its problems? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: lvm and kernel 2.6.18

2007-03-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
(18 1.4.69) debconf-2.0 (0 (null)) dmsetup (0 (null)) Provides: 2.02.06-4 - lvm-binaries Reverse Provides: 2007/3/24, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: It's not leaving its error messages in /var/log/dmesg for one thing. For another it appears to complain about missing utilitie

Re: lvm and kernel 2.6.18

2007-03-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Solved, once lvm2 was installed and that was the only package needed utilities ran and the system didn't throw errors this time. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to convert files

2007-03-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
A binary file usually starts out with a hex 1Ah character in the DOS world at least. Other clues will be many characters with values in the range of 90H-FFH inclusive. Unix has a file utility whose source code is available for examination and it's well worth the abundance of file format infor

spreadsheet question

2007-07-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
For the debian command line user, what spreadsheet package comes equipped with the most functions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: denyhosts + tcp wrappers?

2007-07-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
you might look at arno-iptables-script as another possibility. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: laptop keyboard settings in debian etch

2007-07-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
Have you run tasksel and selected the laptop option yet? If not doing that may make life a little better. I just got a Dell latitude c810 last night with no operating system on it and I'm going to put a form of Debian Linux on it. So this is something close to my first exposure to laptops.

Re: curses-interface ftp client with resume?

2007-07-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
Issue 3 can be handled if you remember to run script and then do your complex ftp command and exit out of both at the end. All you need do then is to edit the file script makes for you and turn it into a short shell script and make it useable. I use the name surf for my scripts when I need to

re: security newby

2007-08-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
The first thing to do with a firewall is to deny all incoming traffic. Once that's been taken care of then decide on which specific types and sources of incoming traffic to allow. This way you can clear out offending ip addresses since they'll all be banned with your first firewall rule. The

Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?

2007-08-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
slrn. Why? Because it also finds private newsgroups on servers as well as the public newsgroups. Others I've tried can't do that. tin fails here which surprised me. On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline. I'm using an old

Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?

2007-08-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
Ah, that kind of news! apt-get snownews then. On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, John K Masters wrote: On 17:39 Mon 06 Aug , Amit Uttamchandani wrote: John Hasler debian.org> writes: Amit writes: Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline. I doubt anyone uses a command-line newsreader but

Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?

2007-08-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
safari has rss capabilities already built in. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?

2007-08-06 Thread Jude DaShiell
snownews is a cli rss reader and I use it. Maybe I'm the only one to do so, since I haven't yet got orca talking in Debian but there it is. On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: John Hasler debian.org> writes: Amit writes: Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline. I do

Re: Creating stand-alone learning stations

2007-08-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Try the ubuntu-accessibility list. If you get the chance in a gnome terminal type orca -t one day and make sure you hve speakers hooked up to your sound card when you do that. Headphones can be substituted for speakers in classroom settings though. On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, ZephyrQ wrote: I'm

Re: trying to connect to usb devices...can not get tty -but get some strange stuff

2007-08-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Try typing lsusb -v and see if things start to work after you do that. I don't know why it is, but a usb iomega 250MB zip disk with a useable disk in it on this machine doesn't become useful until after I've done that command. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: usb and debian 4.0 os ...can i get some pointers???please???

2007-08-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
If possible download the modconf package and run it. It'll update /etc/moules for you after you select the devices your computer has that debian supports and on boot up will run those modules for you starting up those devices. The /etc/modules file format is dirt simple, only one module name

Re: Installing Sarge problem

2007-08-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
type (n) at that prompt. On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Bob Middaugh wrote: Hi, I'm installing Sarge, installation completes, reboot, set timezone, root pwd, Apt config pick http and debian.lcs.mit.edu. After that, I get the ominious message about overwriting the kernel I'm currently running and how

Re: a crazy connectivity issue. unable to ping anything

2007-08-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Oh, I know how to make that happen. Just put the dsl or router's configuration address in the /etc/resolv.conf file as the search domain and clear out the servers in that file. Could be your router or modem was told by your provider or manufacturer that it needs a firmware update. Another pos

Re: a crazy connectivity issue. unable to ping anything

2007-08-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
apache needs setting up and that's beyond just installing it. It's also not trivial. That 0 carrier line in each of your interface read outs means you're not getting out on that interface. If you intend to run a web server on your local box and are allowed to run a web server on your local b

Re: Suggestions for diagramming software

2007-08-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
hierarchy input output charts and no extra software for diagramming not necessary. To support that, interface specifications at the top of each module containing corresponding tags used in hierarchy input output charts. I find data flow diagrams too visual and their symbols don't come out wel

Re: view the exit status from command line

2007-08-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
It only takes one line appended to a shell script: echo $_ >status.log -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

clamscan error

2007-08-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
clamscan encountered a libclamav error message is not in uuencoded format. Interestingly, there's no email on this machine for it to be scanning. Clamscan script that generated this error follows. cut here. #!/bin/bash # file: cs - clamscan script clamscan -l clamscan`date -I`.log -r --bell --ex

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Those trojans trash very many files whenever anyone tries surgery on them. That was found out in a security lab by security professionals. If you can get to a friends computer and download the dban iso file from http://dban.sf.net and burn that on a single session CD and boot it up on the infe

Re: Any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive

2007-08-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
In your apt.conf file try a line like exclude texl* and see if that helps. On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, - Tong - wrote: Hi, Is there any way to stop dist-upgrade from upgrading tetex to texlive? I just upgraded from Etch to Lenny, and have loads of things to fix, keeping tetex from upgrading to tex

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
happen. Trojan file names get changed too whenever this happens too. On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Mike Bird wrote: On Friday 24 August 2007 16:16, Jude DaShiell wrote: Those trojans trash very many files whenever anyone tries surgery on them. That was found out in a security lab by security professionals

Re: Possible LKM Trojan installed

2007-08-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
August 2007 17:59, Jude DaShiell wrote: how these trojans survive is by surviving operating system reinstalls. The better trojans hide themselves in several out of the way places on disks and after adjacent areas have got their new files copy themselves back into the areas where no more disk wiping

Re: The install Command is not happy with my Syntax.

2007-08-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
A guess is that the parameters need reversing. On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Ishwar Rattan wrote: Use the knoppix-installer utility (run in a terminal window) -ishwar On Sat, 25 Aug 2007, Martin McCormick wrote: I am installing a special version of KNOPPIX (sure wish it was Debian.) from a CDROM

Re: WYSIWYG editor

2007-08-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
emacs or xemacs and html-helper-mode-el. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

debian port of timidity doesn't work here

2007-08-31 Thread Jude DaShiell
I figured to use timidity to listen to some midi files and found out missing instruments make that impossible. Would it be better to convert the midi files to another format and listen to them that way and if so which format and what tool does that conversion? If midi files aren't possible to

re: debian timidity port

2007-09-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks even after having changed dir goemon in /etc/timidity/goemon.cfg to read: dir /usr/share/local/midi/goemon there's several instruments that don't map anywhere including about 75 drum sets with the first midi file I tried to play. I've got others and will try them next. -- To UNSUBSCR

re: if I were a newby how would I get sound?

2006-12-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
Try apt-cache search jack if memory serves that's a package that can get cdrom's playing out of the cdrom jack. Even if you don't have speakers you may still have a sound card and if that's the case try plugging those earphones into the sound card to listen. Doing apt-cache search "search str

upgrade of etch beta to current level

2006-12-19 Thread Jude DaShiell
First apt-get update; apt-get upgrade; apt-get linux-image-2.6.18-amd not aptitude apt-get. I made your mistake earlier and couldn't get beyond 2.6.08 and you should not ever get offers to delete running kernels if you do this right. I did get a message that modules for my new kernel were bei

re: apt-cache bin files getting corrupted

2006-12-20 Thread Jude DaShiell
Check /etc/apt/sources.list on both machines. If you are using the uchicago mirrors for deb and deb-src, that's why this is happening. You want to switch to another set of mirrors since uchicago seems to have got itself corrupted. For a little while I had this problem too but cleared it up b

re: shutdown problem

2006-12-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Apparently debian tries to use acpi by default and I suspect your bios may be too old. You might try acpi=force lapic as two boot parameters on the kernel lines in menu.lst. After that's done try aptitude dist-upgrade as root and when that's finished try shutdown -h now and power off the syste

dhclient undocumented behavior

2006-12-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
When I bring my network connection up, I use dhclient eth0 because that is the specific connection I want opened. However dhclient opens up sit0 and also generates an error 776 when doing so claiming that sit0 is an unknown port. If I had wanted to open sit0, I could just as easily have told

re: getting scanner to work

2006-12-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
http://www.sane-project.org/ is where to search for current status on what sane does and does not support. Also, unless I'm mistaken (entirely possible) a sane back end with a patch to support usb scanners needs downloading and installing and isn't in the debian repositories. -- To UNSUBSCR

probable zip drive and udev conflict

2006-12-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
I think there may be a fight ongoing between udev and my parallel zip drive. does a way exist to have udev and the zip drive live happily together? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: zip drive and udev conflict

2006-12-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
I managed to get the zip drive recognized in etch by rmmod imm followed by modprobe imm. I can adjust /etc/fstab but this is strange udev and imm didn't get this drive started earlier. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

int-fiction-installer package

2007-01-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
The package isn't in the archives now so far as I can tell. Did it have a security problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

re: int-fiction-installer

2007-01-05 Thread Jude DaShiell
Okay, what should I read to build the int-fiction-installer package in conformance to current debian policy? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lynx no common name in certificate error on google

2007-01-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
This happens with the debian distributed version of lynx when I try logging into my google account. Do I need to rebuild the package and perhaps link it to the ssl facilities on my system or do I need to configure lynx in some way short of a rebuild? I'll probably download source and build usin

re: no common name in certificate lynx error

2007-01-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
Thanks much for the pointer, I read down far enough and found a web page with a version of lynx that fixes the no common name in certificate error. I was able to sign into my gmail account with no problems on that score for the first time today using debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

re: root privilege

2007-01-07 Thread Jude DaShiell
1) groupadd wheel 2) adduser username wheel as root 3) edit /etc/sudoers and remove the comment from line 25 that's the "#" character and save sudoers overriding objections about it being read only, 4) go into your user account and type sudo -i , 5) type whoami , 6) type exit then typ

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-09-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why not try opening the file with msword then use save-as selection box on the file menu to save in your format of choice? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help

2007-09-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
As root, type tasksel and hit return. Arrow down to desktop environment and hit space bar once. If you see a star appear to the left of desktop environment you've selected it. Next, hit return to tell tasksel to work. It should download several packages for you. When the root prompt returns,

exim4 maybe too complex to remain useful

2007-09-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
If using exim4 and it's necessary to use a smarthoast where can that be configured? I find sendmail less complex than exim4 and all other mail transport agents I've tried less complex than the pair of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: exim4 maybe too complex to remain useful

2007-09-10 Thread Jude DaShiell
tls are a hassle for them to set up and maintain on their ends. On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/10/07 02:26, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 06:42:32AM +0000, Jude DaShiell wrote: If using exim4 and it's nec

Re: exim4 maybe too complex to remain useful

2007-09-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/10/07 04:27, Jude DaShiell wrote: Thanks for the exim4 smart host help. I would almost go with postfix except the smart host requires authentication but doesn't support any encryption for doing authentication on their end. Maybe I just h

Re: postgresql help

2007-09-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
When you do an uninstall with purge, your original packages are still in /var/cache/apt/archives. I had a situation with timidity that was similar though I had lost one of timidity's configuration files and reinstalling using packages already on the hard drive did not repair the situation. I

Re: exim4 maybe too complex to remain useful

2007-09-11 Thread Jude DaShiell
What I meant was that if postfix had the capability to do smarthost authentication I didn't know about the syntax for it or where any such syntax would have been stored in configuration files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: I hate Alsa

2007-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
This may be important, are you running with etch or one of the other distributions? I run unstable myself but have had no need to try recording with alsa so can't verify or refute your experiences in this instance. On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, Barry Samuels wrote: Debian Testing up to date as of

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have a couple procmail scripts that can deal with html messages provided the html is in the main message body. What they do is to backup the message first to another folder; then they run the message contents through lynx -dump -stdin -nolist and back out into the message stream. They also p

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
What I have over here appears to be working since the de-html-backup file already has 29 lines of text in it. So here's a little patch to be placed in the .procmailrc file above the default recipe if one exists. Cut here: # create backup for de-html'd email :0 c * ^Content-Type: text/html de-

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
If there's another plumbing facility like lynx that can move parts into message bodies that could be attached to the lynx pipe so the message first goes through the part shifter and then goes through lynx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

re: html email

2007-09-14 Thread Jude DaShiell
Nobody quote me on this, but I think I found the tool to strip out mime attachments and decode them. If I'm right, piping messages through uudeview -f -c before piping them through lynx using that procmail stuff may solve this problem. I'll know by tomorrow since I have a few lists that send s

Re: html email

2007-09-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
at, 15 Sep 2007, Richard Lyons wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:01:21AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: Nobody quote me on this, but I think I found the tool to strip out mime attachments and decode them. If I'm right, piping messages through uudeview -f -c before piping them through lynx using

Re: html email

2007-09-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
I have to do some investigating. The note the procmail snippet puts into a message was found with the message's header but no body content. Possibly uudeview may need some work or perhaps another tool might work better. I forgot earlier to have uudeview work on standard input but got that fix

html messages

2007-09-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
There's a utility called mailtextbody that may be what's neded to strip mime. That before the | lynx -dump in the code snippet may work better than uudeview. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
Right, those braces now logically link those two recipes together into one unit. On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-09-14 16:54:27, schrieb Jude DaShiell: # create backup for de-html'd email :0 c * ^Content-Type: text/html de-html-backup # de-html :0 fbw * ^Content

Re: scripting question

2007-09-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
One possible approach would be to use a few files and use paste on those files where: dfile holds date, mfile holds good messages, sfile holds spam messages tfile is temporary file paste dfile mfile >tfile paste tfile sfile >dfile rm mfile rm sfile rm tfile cat dfile hth. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: How can I acces unformatted cd/dvd with data on

2007-09-22 Thread Jude DaShiell
That's the reason for the iso9660 format among others. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
rcs wasn't originally intended to manage software. It was originally intended as a documents manager then branched out to be able to manage anything that could be stored by way of electronic archiving. I'm not familiar with the historis of the newer revision control systems though so won't co

accessibility install question

2007-09-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
On debian when a system gets a text environment installed on it first then gets gnome-orca installed on it, gnome and gnome-orca get installed but X does not get installed. If X is required to run gnome; gtk, and kde and isn't found already installed on a system when a gnome-orca install gets

Re: ASCII Formatter Whose Name I've Forgotten

2007-09-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
Yes, it was called fmt and is sometimes found with the name newfmt. On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Martin McCormick wrote: I remember reading about a UNIX utility whose name escapes me. You feed it ASCII text and it breaks lines as near to a desired length as possible without splitting words. A

Re: Problem connecting USB devices

2007-09-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
Why it won't work is that the cmos machine needs a flash update provided of course one is available for that machine. Try to get a cmos update later than December 1998 and as recent as possible and you my find that problem disappears. Good luck! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Is there a Vtubes solution for debian

2007-09-30 Thread Jude DaShiell
Also search for pipes. On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Jabka Atu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello,... im searching for debian (free) solution to use as vtubes. Vtubes is an terminal application that creates sevral forks of terminal that connot to distant computers (MainFra

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