Re: Good C/C++ IDE

2003-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
supports C. See: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/applications-ides.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed downtime: http://www.wired.

Re: Certification

2003-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
, your own ability to present yourself well in person. Yes, the current US job market is tight, but there are jobs, and some of them are going to qualified candidates. The others will be open again soon enough ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netc

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
w I'm butchering this somewhat. Corrections appreciated. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:15:17PM -0600, Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:18:46AM +0100, Jeff Elkins > >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >>Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I co

Re: Best WWW browser..

2003-02-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
I use 'signify' to randomly select sigs from a rather large set of possibilities). Peace -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? A guide to GNU/Linux browsers: http://twik

Re: Jargon File - where is tuxedo.org?

2003-02-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
first place managed to obstruct transfer to a new host/domain. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/ma

Re: I/O errors - logged?

2003-02-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
es under /var/log modified within the past day (-mtime -1) containing that error string. I'd suspect system or kernel logs. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? A few years ago

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
e to accomodate them (particularly for specific versions of MSIE after 5.x). For this and other reasons, I consider the browser user-agent string to be harmful. You can join the protest: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UserAgentString Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
*a* GNU/Linux system set up (or provide materials for it to be installed yourself). If the system works well, it will be its own testament. And if none of that works, float your resume. There *are* GNU/Linux jobs out there, and with time you're likely to land one. Peace. -- Kars

Re: Rant (was Re: X Window : Newbie)

2003-03-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
as best practice. RH is brain dead in numerous ways, internally inconsistant, and subject to violent change from version to version. > And I'm a *very* newbie since I just tried installing Debian, > failed to quite get it working, and am back in RH while I plan my next > attempt). No

Re: getting rid of flash

2003-03-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
. See: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UserContentCSS The attached stylesheet kills flash (actually: *all* plugins), and fixes a number of other web annoyances. It's heavily ocmmented. Adapt it to your needs. CSS is pretty powerful -- you can kill banners, fucked-up fonts, , an

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

2003-10-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
;ve tried several of the better ones. Personally, I like Galeon 1.2.5 (*not* to be confused with 1.3+), and use it extensively. Mozilla is another option. Extensive reviews: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixBrowsers Echoing Monique: what MSIE features do you find lacking? Peace. --

Re: Drive gone bad

2003-10-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
o I boot without mounting anything and trying to run something > (fsck?) If you want to play with bad data, boot removeable media (Tom's Root Boot, Knoppix, LNX-BBC) and dd the bad drive to good new media. You can treat this an an image. You'll need to treat partitions separately. P

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
different service levels is also likely (this is a modification of Brad Templeton's current "best plan" for spam. The net result is that good transmitting MTAs get priority access, bad MTAs don't steal resources, and are themselves forced to pay through time

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
ver the tools ELNK has provided to date have been both utterly ineffective, and grossly unaccountable to subscribers (you cannot tell what's been blocked). I'm very strongly considering going fully self-hosting due to ELNK's ineptitude. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMA

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
st the second someone manages to post it. I prefer locking down my systems against the crud, but keeping my address available. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Don't suspect your friends -- turn them in! -- "Brazil" signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
m not sure about the censorship aspect (which has certainly been used in the past), the fact that this tends to make a valuable grass-roots channel less useful is very disturbing. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gest

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
ucts, the best strategy would be "sting" accounts established to receive spam, purchase products or otherwise respond, and then prosecute the vendor(s) who are benefitting from spam, as well as the advertising services they use. Most of which is OT for d-u. Peace. -- Karsten M. Se

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
r technical stopgap solutions that can be > > implemented... > > Every solution to every problem can be viewed as a stopgap in some sense. Life is a stopgap to death. Your point? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Wha

Re: Does anyone know how to...

2003-10-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
//www.google.com/) will help set you on the road to resolving your problems. While others can offer suggestions, guidance, and experience, we cannot see into either your mind or your machine's state. This is very much a case of "you have to help us help you". Good luck. Thank

Please permanently block *@lists.debian.org from your mailing lists: [info@bairestrade.com: canned peach in syrup x 850 grs.]

2003-10-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
the list owner: canned peach syrup buyers Private Policy: You might want to save this email for future reference. You can unsubscribe anytime from canned peach by following this link: http://www.bairestrade.com/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=u&l=cannedpeach&e=debian-user%40lists.debian.org&

Re: Can Anyone tell me what this is?

2003-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
mailing list. You can do so by sending a message with "subscribe" in the > body at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address or by visiting > http://lists.bofh.it/listinfo/linux-gate . Crap from a broken 'bot. Bounce it to abuse@ the site and its upstream. Report it as spam. And ad

Re: debian

2003-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
t; I really appreciate your help because i wrote to the magazine telling > them the problems and they havent helped. Thankyou very much for your > time. Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. Thank you. http://ww

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
rapper script that sets up these variables > temporarily just to run wordperfect. How do I do that ? Frankly, I'd recommend WP5.1 under dosemu. Otherwise, I'll point you at Rick Moen's "WordPerfect on Linux FAQ": http://www.linuxmafia.com/wpfaq/ Peace. --

OT: US War Powers (was Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL)

2003-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
get install miscfiles; zless /usr/share/state/us-constitution.gz Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Comic tragedy: MobiliX sued by Asterix publisher over 'iX'

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
to comply with GPL terms, if other negotiations fail. Since most violations are for commercial purposes, the prospect of facing zero demand (and potentially high-stakes fraud suits from customers) for a product known to contain infringing software. Of course, if you feel this is an acceptab

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
ourse). Doubled mail. For no useful effect. And required 4GB of spool space, extended over the 1-2 weeks you hold your contested mail. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you un

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
reply to valid challenges. Only encourages the bastards. > I don't need it, because I've never been challenged. I'm just thinking > ahead. Better: just drop the challenges on the floor. That's my style. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
t chrooted, so you're sharing the same :25 with the parent. However user-mode Linux would work, on a separate IP. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? A guide to GNU/Linux partitioning: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: exim4: How to stop viruses at SMTP time

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
dy beating master into the freaking ground trying to > scan things, OK? We need to make it do something sensible with > crossposts before doing anything like that. Any chance of distributing the load to lighten it? Doubtless already considered Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROT

Re: OT: US War Powers (was Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL)

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
t Iraqi disagreement was not a declared war -- there have been none involving the US since Korea. I was correcting a sloppy statement I should have left alone. End discussion. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gesta

Re: Best way to combine file systems?

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
d idea to use LVM directly on top of a disk. > You always should use LVM on top of a RAID-System. If you use xfs as > your filesystem you can even extend your partitions while they are > mounted. What's your basis for these statements? I've not heard this before. Peace. -- K

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
t; > n. pl. oc?to?pus?es or oc?to?pi (-p) > > > > Octopus is greek. The correct plural is octopuses damn it! > > ... so shouldn't it be 'octopedes' IIRC? Haralambos? hexadecipus Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.ho

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 04:21:49PM -0600, Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 09:30:42AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 09:42:31PM -0600, Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > - Any autoresponder is an invitation to

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
ill subscribed, though largely inactive. Most pertinant response I saw was from Robin Frank. I don't recall any specific change proposals or decisions on same. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
l gets pretty good coverage. > Reporting to spamcop was high on the list, but I've heard rumours of > them accepting payoffs in exchange for ignoring some spamhauses, so we > shall see. *Really* ? Details? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmsel

PLIP networking -- sort of working

2003-10-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
nibble 12000 trigger 2000 # network proper. ifconfig plip0 192.168.3.1 pointopoint 192.168.3.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 up echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward ping -c 4 reflex route -n -------- Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:24:17PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 03:48 GMT, Karsten M. Self penned: > It was during that whole discussion in which you were actively involved. > (Please let's not rehash that here.) See d-u. > Fo

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
nobody can find you. Maybe. If you're lucky. If someone doesn't out you. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: PLIP networking -- sort of working

2003-10-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:43:35AM -0700, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Continuing my masochistic tendencies, I've got PLIP networking running > to an IBM 486 thinkpad with an IRQless perallel port. The trick, it > appears, is using plipconfig to increase the nibb

rm -rf .* alternatives (was: Re: I broke gnome2 *snff*)

2003-10-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
first changes ownership to a nonprivileged user, then runs the rm as that user. Keeps you from mucking things up in a rootly way. Personally I tend to walk through trees very carefully when doing deletes. Other tips? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself

Re: SW for maintaining documentation

2003-10-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
ters/services in our > > network) with ability/feature to upload (into some CVS > > repository/PostgreSQL database) configure files and have a revision > > control over it. > > I know this is off-point, but TWiki (http://twiki.org) is a wiki with > built-in version control. S

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
your old mailbox directory from, say, "Mail" to "Mail-old". Tag all messages in a mailbox and move 'em to the new mailbox -- it'll be created automatically. Probably automatable, but this works for the single-user case. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:53:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:36, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > maildir. Much better performance, more flexible, you can access > > messages as individual files, and more robust. Plus 'From

Re: Strange port/service of proprietary app...

2003-10-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:36:41PM +0200, Manolis Tzanidakis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello all, > we have a proprietary windoze app (client) that uses a dial-up connection Does it have a name? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com

Re: List mail being redirected?

2003-10-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
arrive. I don't recall the > exact subject line, but it had to do with aptitude installation of > kernel-headers. That's an idiot who's mail system is misconfiguring bounces. I've added the originating address to my spamlist and am reporting the mails to spam resources. I

Re: Spam filter recommendation

2003-10-28 Thread Karsten M. Self
with a large mail load. Process limiting is very useful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: please help, lost my partition

2003-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
x/FAQs/backups.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? I'm no one to be trifled with. That is all you ever need know. - Princess Bride signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OOOOLLLLDDDD video card

2003-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
v3 svga driver should work as a last gasp. I've got an S3 ViRGE/VX which runs under XF86v4. lspci gives it as: 00:13.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86c988 [ViRGE/VX] (rev 02) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Pa

Re: Fail to telnet Debian from Windows

2003-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
sane. > Modify hosts.allow? No. If it wasn't already mentioned: you'll want the PuTTY ssh client for legacy MS Windows. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Vot

Re: Fonts to big in gtk1 programs

2003-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
). ~/.gtkrc. Copy an appropriate local from /etc/gtk and modify to suite. I find I tend to bump fonts down 10-20 points for best results. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bac

Re: Pathetic Writer (or siagoffice)

2003-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
a number of bugs (check BTS) fixed in current unstable. I had the segfault on startup for a while, but not the one you mention (though I don't use pw much myself). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt"

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
e lists will strip and/or rewrite this (considered harmful, GIYF). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Support the EFF, they support you: http://www.eff.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:04:25PM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:17:52AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > My .muttrc highlights my own posts (bright cyan) in index view, and > > notes posts in response to or mentioning my name (eas

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
ation: where a list doesn't munge addresses and a poster has set Reply-To on a message to indicate where responses should go (say, for an OT discussion). All the more reason why reply-to munging is harmful in the first place. But in a balance of evils, it's acceptable. J

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
tion manual, or at: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall Note that the Installation Manual instructions are for dbootstrap, while the TWikIWeThey ones are for a base tarball from Potato. Otherwise, pretty similar. > An unrelated quetion: > when using apt-cache show or aptitude is t

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
however, it's possible to restart and continue from this point? At what point in the process can one simply restart? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Background

Re: Converting a chroot install into a real one

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
tp://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade If you've installed into a distinct partition, you'd simply add the appropriate LILO configuration to select this partition as the system root, and boot into it. Note precautions if this is a remote install/re

Re: Problem with exporting an X session

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
(it appears not to be). Run 'ssh -v -C ' for verbose debugging output. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? "I repeat, all planet leave is cancelled. I'v

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:01:38PM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What is the gender of Unix? Or "eunuchs"? Is "neuter" a masculine or feminine in French? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Wha

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
oogle.com/froogle http://www.pricewatch.com/ More info: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Of the top 24 industr

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
ace you have, and setting/tuning configuration options appropriately. If you like living in a warehouse, by all means do. If you prefer not shitting in the open, give yourself a bathroom with a door. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Wh

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
boot and /)? I've been at shops which strongly prefer single partitions. I prefer splitting things out among /, /usr, /tmp, /var, and /home, possibly additional partitions: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-11-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
.. ' Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? zIWETHEY: Provocative, super smart, and oh yeah, just a little sexy. http://z.iwethey.org/forums/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
up systems. They're great. Until you outgrow capacity. At which point, adding additional capacity means breaking down your current array, losing history, and a day or more's backups downtime while working out the kinks. I'll recommend tape. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAI

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:32:38AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:13, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:03:07AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hard disks are so big nowadays, is a separate

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:37:26PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > If you need to recover a snapshot (or file) from 12 months ago, a > > three-disk rotation isn't going to do much for

Re: Fighting Spam with procmail

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
of the above. Save the message to a file. procmail < file > Where msg.mbox contains all the emails, I would like to filter again, > and procmail_test_rc contains the rules to be tested. procmail handles one message at a time. mbox is a multi-message per file format. Peace. -- Ka

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:38:26PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 04:40:55AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:37:26PM +1030, David Purton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 02:57:04AM +000

Re: Apt-get error with package diff

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
t when I re-run apt-get the same error > apear > > Anybody know what can I do? > Pablo > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Karsten M. Self <

Re: Backup Package names currently installed

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
and pinning options). However, one possible hint: $ dpkg-awk Package:.*libk[l-r].* Status:' installed' -- Package Version Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The revolu

Re: galeon 1.3.x fuckwittedness -- 1.2.5 fork, anyone?

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
n. My own coding mojo is weak, but I know what I like in a browser: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NixBrowsers Interest, anyone? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? At the sound of the toner, boycott Lexmark: trade restraint via DMCA. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979791.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Base files for Debian 3.0

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
in noted, dbootstrap is the updated method. I sorta like having a base tarball myself. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Of the top 24 industrialized nations, only Turkey

Re: a bit more info

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
Disclaimers such as the above are off-putting (if not legally ocntradictory) on public lists. If you can't strip the disclaimer, post through a personal account elsewhere. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestal

Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
> >>Is my KMail broken? > > > > > >Marco's clock is. ;) > > > >His clock is set forward about one month into the future, unless he > >actually *is* from the future. > It's actually Debian's fault! Every time I install it, it reads and &

Re: Any Debian package to manage Apache users ?

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
r this (many users and quite dynamic). That's about the depth of it. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the

Re: df problem

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
c/mtab ...if necessary to ensure this. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The revolution will not be televised. You can apt-get it from the usual mirrors, however. http:/

Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:32:50PM +0100, Marco Cecconi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > >Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > >>Marco Cecconi wrote: > >> > >> > >>>It's actually Debian's fault! Every time I install it,

Re: "Community-oriented" distros

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
esn't. Closest I see is the Fedora Users FAQ: http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraUsersFAQ > Thanks for the opinions, guys. I'd suggest you focus more on facts than opinions. But draw your own conclusions. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kms

Re: WindowMaker Attributes

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
section of the WPref tool. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Inconceivable! - Princess Bride signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
DROM distributions solve this problem by a number of means. One is to use a RAM filesystem for root, another is to use an immutable root but symlink /etc and parts of /dev elsewhere. The problem is addressable, but not entirely cleanly. Working implementations exist. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EM

Re: Looking for a good digital image manager

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
So what are the favorites out there? Editing: The GIMP. Managing / manipulating: ImageMagick (a tool suite). Creating galleries for online viewing: Gallery. GUI image management tools: Konqueror (as file manager), Nautilus. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://k

Re: fully removing a user?

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
rmary reason *not* to blindly delete a user's /etc/passwd entry. Given a disabled account, the user *cannot* log into the system. However the system administrator *can* still identify files owned by that user, and move, change ownership, or delete these as necessary. Peace. -- Karsten M

Re: OT - Documenting systems

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
se. You'll probably also want a hardware inventory system. Which is where you keep the information you collect. http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=inventory§ion=projects&x=9&y=6 Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &q

Re: Tracking packages without having them installed

2003-11-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
Using it here, six systems behind a 56k dialup. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: fully removing a user?

2003-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:49:39PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 at 04:31 GMT, Karsten M. Self penned: > > > > > > It's the residual files which are th epirmary reason *not* to blindly > > delete a user's /etc/pa

Re: F-Prot and Amavis, exim

2003-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
vis[441]: (00441-08) FRISK F-Prot Daemon: Can't > connect to INET socket 127.0.0.1:10204: Connection refused, retrying (15) Is the daemon open? Can you telnet to the port? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&qu

Re: Faked Browser with Mozilla Firebird

2003-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
ki.iwethey.org/Main/UserAgentString The user-agent string has been the source of many of the Web's worst ills. It's strongly encouraged that it be done away with in a way that encourages better practices from site authors. .... Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EM

Re: how to make unicode mode default for all virtual consoles?

2003-11-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
> bootup to make it work. Then my unicode keyboard works OK. > How to make it automatic? Check /etc/init.d/*console* scripts. Those *should* set up loadkeys on all consoles if I'm RTFMing properly. You likely need to add the '-u' flag. man loadkeys ...for more info.

Re: Some newbie questions

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
dialup. With a full set of ISOs, I can populate apt-proxy fully instead. My current configuration is seven systems running behind a 56k dialup line, with a local apt-proxy cache. New installs can now hit the proxy, essentially giving me local network speeds on an installation. And night

Re: ssh-agent

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
so the fish:// protocol (implemented in lftp, for example). ssh replaces telnet and rsh, for the most part transparently, both of which are highly insecure protocols. I'd strongly recommend you leave ssh installed. Could be most useful. Speaking of which, anyone know how to get lftp

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
ith theirs. In a vendor-neutral tradition, the iPaq may also offer options. More general information at: http://www.handhelds.org/ Alternatively: one-time-passwords. If you generate these, and tell them to your roommate, the password itself is only good for a limited

Re: Yahoo says I'm a Spam-o-Rama (via DynDNS)

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
ur ISP's SMTP server as a smarthost. At least in the case of AOL mail. > They may not be accomodating, but can this be done in principle? Would > it overcome AOL's peculiar desire to block my address? AOL is blocking your SMTP connection at connect time based on IP address. P

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
ile > bash: cst: command not found > (middle click to paste a URL) > bash: http://www.two-stroke-diesels.org: No such file or directory > ^D > (xterm vanishes) > > Or am I the only one who does this? echo "set ignoreeof" >> ~/.bashrc Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: handling "broken packages"

2003-11-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
ble. I'm not tracking it myself but have seen comments both on this list (recently by Colin Watson) and in the #debian IRC support channel. You may be able to address this by downloading the necessary version directly from a mirror site, or by pinning against the appropriate release.

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
as a defense data management project in the 1970s which grew into a largish proprietary enterprise applications vendor headquartered at Redwood Shores. If I've got my stories straight. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/20/MN209661.DTL http://ww

Re: debian install went fine, but windoze slowed to a crawl

2003-11-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
hift keys, to the left and right of your main alphabet keyboard. Please instruct yourself on their proper use. There is also a key labled "enter" or "return". It also has a use in prose text. As for your Windows issues, GRUB has, and LILO may have, options to conceal one o

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 05:04:57PM -0700, Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Pigeon wrote: > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > echo "set ignoreeof" >> ~/.bashrc > > Oops! This would probably be what was intended. > > set -o ignoreeof Yep.

Re: Spamassassin, keep feeding messages for bayes?

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
ssin, auto-train off most of the mail and explicitly train based on any false positives or negatives which slip through. Overall effectveness is quite high. Design is simple. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: Four More Wars! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Preventing Forkbombs

2003-11-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
estion. This can be particularly useful, say, for avoiding system thrash when innundated by thousands of viral mails all needing filtering by Spamassassin. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?

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