Re: Fonts in netscape and acroread menus

2002-11-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
listres or viewres utilities to get a list of resources used by an X application. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Ki

Re: vncserver errors

2002-11-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
e session > remotely), but kde won't start; it gives a screen with the following: > > no access to '/home/matt/.ICEAuthority' What's ownership of this file? I suspect your home directory may not be writeable by you. $ ls -ld /home/matt ...will show perms. Peace.

Gnome / Gtk menu fonts: galeon, mozilla, pan, gabber (sid/unstable)

2002-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm not sure what the syntax or possible contents are, and can find no other related documentation. Anyone got a work-through for this? Thanks. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you unders

Solved: Re: Gnome / Gtk menu fonts: galeon, mozilla, pan, gabber (sid/unstable)

2002-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Nov 20, 2002, Michael Rauch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >Menu fonts for a number of applications, most of them Gnome / Gtk apps > >(and I suspect the latter) are now larger than I'd like them to be. > > > >Apps affected include G

Re: about mt and rmt command

2002-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
what you want. Otherwise, an old 2-4 GiB DAT device shouldn't cost too much off eBay or another auction or used HW source. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek fo

Re: capturing X to video

2002-11-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
-%d.%H%M%S).png; do sleep 1; done Though that's not quite realtime capture. I'd think a hardware device is what you'd need for what you're describing, Martin. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &q

Re: Virus Alert - ScanMail for Lotus Notes

2002-11-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
ddresses handy which I forward all of such misdirected list mails to. Figuring that if enough people do this, the AV vendors will take pains that their customers set the products up right. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of &quo

OT: debian powerpc: 64 bit or 32 bit?

2002-11-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
FAIK). If there's a document explaining this in detail, I'd appreciate a reference. Thanks. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.ne

Re: Low Disk Space (deleting /usr/share/locales) and printing

2002-11-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
eve the goal some. > > 2) What printing subsystem do you recommend? On a firewall: none. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html msg15051/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Spam alert

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
, whitelists, & spamassassin do wonders for me. Modern MUAs, MTAs, and MDAs all offer filtering options. Explore and exploit them. Spam is a scourge, but it's no excuse to flood the moats and burn the drawbridge. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.

Re: commercial scientific programs on Debian

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
king about the > most recent versions. Thanks. The vendor will be the definitive source on GNU/Linux support. Again, most software tends to run w/o issues on most distros. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt"

Re: Debian linux

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
x-books.html You've got a functioning system. You don't know how to use it. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? We freed Dmitry!Boycott Adobe!

Re: unable to fork

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
You'll want to : - Check memory: free - Check filehandles: lsof | wc -l - Check processes: ps aux | wc -l; ps ux | wc -l ...generally, user processes are limited to ~256 (check me on this, I'm not positive). I'm not sure what the "Illegal seek" message is c

Re: Window manager

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
fish, blackbox, fvwm, xfce. Or others. KDE's pretty tightly integrated w/ kwm, and I'm not sure it's possible to specify an alternate WM with KDE3. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Ge

Re: Uninstall X

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
ministrators guides: http://www.debian.org/doc/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 Cabal: http://www.kuro5hin.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: WindowMaker Menu

2002-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
sert Debian Menu" or "Insert KDE menu". > I added both of them and they hold most of the programs that are > installed in the menu. > Maybe you are lucky. I've also posted my WMRootMenu to this list, others have posted modified versions as well. Search archives. Peace.

Re: cupsys setting for an 882C?

2002-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
...and posibly others. Make sure you've got 'em installed. Then hunt down your printer. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/

Re: Holiday Wish list

2002-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
hich is one of the goals of a Wiki. I'm running one myself, with a focus on free software tools: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main ...and it's aimed at filling in just this gap between mailing lists and Usenet on the one hand and HOWTOs and hardcopy on the other. Peace.

Re: True Type Font

2002-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
f you have XFree86v4, the setup's trivial: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86.html One-page setup. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Geek for hire: http

Re: True Type Font

2002-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:58:25AM -0500, Shawn Lamson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:32:54 + > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 07:03:47PM -0500, Bruce Park ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > &

Re: Help - PCI card detection problem

2002-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
e card handy, pull it, ID the chips, and Google on markings. Or check your vendor info. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? The Amazon "one-click" patent boycott -- ye

d-u / Usenet gateway (was Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful)

2003-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
cribe", and then post to the list using their mail client. Newsgroup descriptions are the proper repository for this information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? I man

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:36:41PM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:36:01PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: <...> > > Given that a given key is only retrieved once, the penalty is > > front-loaded, and gets better. > > > &g

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
trieved is something I hadn't thought of and would be > far smoother for me. Given that a given key is only retrieved once, the penalty is front-loaded, and gets better. You can always abort the fetch with ^C. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>ht

Re: konqueror - https?

2003-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
t; package with this query: > > apt-cache search kde | grep crypto kdebase-crypto -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Americans [...] need to watch what they say. -- Ari Fle

Re: Reinstall all packages

2003-08-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
doesn't complete successfully, then bringing these back in. I actually used a sed command: sed -e '1,40' reinstall-packages ...say, to attempt install on packages 1-40. If these ran successfully, I'd delete those lines from the file and try another set. Wash, rinse,

OT: RH vs SCO Declaratory Judgment request in text, and a help request

2003-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
the support of both word-of-mouth and links to help get the word out about the this issue of much significance to the GNU/Linux community. See: http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2003-June/006604.html Thanks much. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.h

US crypto export regs (was Re: Use of Debian For Non-Profits)

2003-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
ligible for License Exception TSU if it is also made publicly available. IANAL, TINLA, YADA. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. SCO vs IBM Linux lawsuit info: http://sco.iwethey.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

fetchmail: choking on invalid headers

2003-08-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
mpression that fetchmail is crufty. No bug filed yet, suggestions on how to phrase this appreciated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est.

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
thing relatively easy to handle. > > I want to be able ot select downloaded .pdf files edit > > them and then upload or fax them. > > Is there even such a thing in the Windows world besides Acrobat? I found a "Jaws PDF Editor" from an Australian company. I

Re: US crypto export regs

2003-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:48:11PM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > For "publicly available" encryption source code, the requirement is > > notification of intent to export. > > For software in Debian/main that notifica

Re: possible to extract .cab files under linux?

2003-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
xtract does indeed assualt most, but not all, CAB files. This is (as most legacy MS Windows "standards" something of a moveable feast specification, and there are files I've not been able to open in the past, though most recent attempts have been successful (say, past 12-18 months).

Help parsing a fetchmail dumped mail file

2003-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
ransfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FROM=3AGARY CUSUMA My question is: how can I wrangle this file into a format that's further processable? I've tried with mutt, formail simply spits out a single, somewhat large mail message (all 34 MiB ;-).

Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
., for about fifteen years, so I'm not sure what the options are here. I'm also wondering if there is other terminal software other than minicom I can use, preferably with color support. minicom seems to do only vt100. Some full-screen programs (notably 'top') don't wo

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:17:18PM +0300, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > After this point, you can transfer shar archives (which use uudecode, > > hence the above step), allowing for

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:05:12AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:56:48PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > It would also be helpful if I could do the old trick of : > > > > cat <foo > > > > EOF > &

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
It's an uphill struggle: for some people rewriting from scratch > seems to be much sexier. Literally, at times. One of Bdale's stories is of a Brazillian project to produce a distro (forget which), where a primary objective was not only "to impress the girls", but was met

Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
e Oregon border). Downsides of electrification are notably the cost of electrifying the RoW, and aquisition of stock. Also, back in my intern days at SMUD, I recall that the city's light rail system operated in power blocks seperated (though not fully independent of) the city grid, largely be

zmodem file transfer w/ minicom over serial connection

2003-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
57600. None of these appears to make a difference. Assistance appreciated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: verifying a Debian package

2003-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
AQ, but I'm not coming up with a definitive answer at the Debian FAQ: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA slots, > > and might make a decent gateway.

So what the hell is wrong with X? (was Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?)

2003-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
o few benefits, too much uncertainty. And I really am interested in responses, commentary, criticisms, or corrections. I keep seeing this matter raised. I see little clear articulation or benefit from alternatives I've seen posed though. References 31. http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=90399 32. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ 33. http://www.windowmaker.org/ -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
n only handle a very small subset of these capabilities. > Servers are available with Win2k Terminal Server or WinXP. Clients > (also from third-party) work on any recent Windows. Some of them even > display single windows on the 'server' as independant windows on the > c

Re: simple backup script

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html > Secondly I'd like to do a fullbackup of a remote server, but I'm not > sure what's the best way to do a e.g. a dd over the lokal network. May > be the obove script could use for both. Amanda, for starters. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self

Re: apt-get problem

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
#x27;s solved? Try also: strace ...where is some command and arguments. Usually the error will be evident in output (note ther emay be lots of it). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: run win/dos file on linux, please help

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
onboard floppy support may work with a USB floppy you can borrow from a friend. There are downloadable DOS floppy images on the web, or again, a friend may have one. > I ever download dosemu, then at command line type dos DOSEMU can't run real mode for BIOS/Firmware upgrades. Peace. --

Re: zmodem file transfer w/ minicom over serial connection

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:02:01PM -0600, Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -- > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I'm running minicom over a null-modem serial cable settings: 57600 8N1. > > > > File transfer setting is: > > > >

Re: "Restoring" system after MB/processor upgrade

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
fic to specific kernel architectures. If you're upgrading CPUs within the P4 familiy, it's a transparent change. Best bet is to have bootable media (boot floppy, Tom's Root Boot, LNX-BBC, Knoppix) handy. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.ho

Re: Duplicating installs across the network

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
to Advogato some time back: http://www.advogato.org/article/555.html Data replication across a (switched) network independent of nodes being populated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: strace pppd: open("/dev/ttyS1", O_RDWR

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
log file? Are you trying to run it as root? > > -- > > > > Shaul Karl,shaulk @ actcom . net . il > > nothing in the log file, I suppose at least (I checked many log in > /var/log, the most common). I run pppd as root. grep -l pppd /var/log/* 2>/dev/nul

Re: Piping the output of bash completion; command line navigation

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
ke "CTRL+Left Arrow" move one word > to the left on the command line? And similiarly for right? That would be > so great...IIRC DRDOS had that a long time ago. The win2k shell does > that, too. I don't even know where to start looking for this one. :-) man bas

Re: OT: RAID Controllers

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
lakiness. SCSI will be much more robust on both counts. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? We are the unwilling... led by the unqualified... to do the unnecessary... for t

Re: Dependency issue : resolving them, how ?

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
nfusing as to why newer > versions are obsoleted by older version dependency's. More detail and specifics would be useful. The output of apt-get|aptitude dist-upgrade|install, for example. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What P

Re: linux(knoppix

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
French, German, and Danish. Thanks. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Sick of mal-formed websites? A stylesheet to override poor design: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/UserCo

OT: Works for hire (was Re: SCO identifies code?)

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
ain with his employer for a period of time, with benefits accruing, etc. He left this employer in May, moved to California, and is working under far more favorable law, at a better salary, and with a team he enjoys, not to mention a disgustingly brief commute and sweet pad. His former employer

mutt: thread reconstruction?

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
n/cni-nothread.png Both the Message-ID and References headers are being munged. I'd like suggestions on how I might go about restoring at least pseudo-threading of articles, though I'm also posting to the list on this matter. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://k

Re: Dependencies and .deb vs creating .deb's from source code

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
e Debs that's so crucial to isolate yourself from the mainstream Debian distro, and why you feel you have to do this. > We currently have a blank canvas to work from which is based around > the bf24 kernel install of Debian with only the C++ Development option > installed. Peace

Re: spamassassin: whitelist_from_rcvd ?!?!

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
explicit data to do so. Fixes with procmail are similarly straightforward. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: CUPS alt.

2003-09-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
ler system. Neat bit about Debian is that you can remove, but not purge, cups. Try out lpr and/or lprng. See if it works. If it doesn't, just reinstall cups and you're cooking with gas (as Peter would say). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.ne

Re: mutt: thread reconstruction?

2003-09-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:26:14AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:32:21AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'd like suggestions on how I might go about restoring at least > > pseudo-threading of articles, though I'm also postin

Re: mutt: thread reconstruction?

2003-09-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:10:54PM -0700, Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030905 14:55]: > > on Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:26:14AM -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 12:32:21AM +0100, Kar

Re: spamassassin: whitelist_from_rcvd ?!?!

2003-09-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
ight with him on #debian), he mumbled something about not being able to filter TMDA challenge headers for fear of raising hell from TMDA. Not that I care or anything ;-) My suggestion in this case: file a wishlist bug for a user note about the whitelisted domains to appear during install. Pe

Re: [OT] ssh remote command execution without public keys.

2003-09-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
urpose user with a restricted shell, maybe; but eww. > > If I were you I'd definitely ask the administrator of (A) to enable > public key authentication. Seconding all of the above. I'd also recommend the O'Reilly SSH book, which covers a number of remote execution scenarios in

Re: How stable is SiD ?

2003-09-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Rule of thumb: if you have to ask, don't. You _will_ be required to be self-sufficient (or hire a live-in rescue person for when things break). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you u

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
7;ve used. And why they're restricting themselves to proprietary formats. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://sw

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA slots, > > and might make a decent gateway. >

Re: System is a mess where should I start

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
nent. Oh, and read this: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html And this: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Burn all gifs! Use PNG and tell Unisys to go to hell: http://burnallgifs.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Which release

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
ew months. It's old, as we're nearing the end of a release cycle (target for Sarge is December 1, 2003, though I'm told they've left wiggle room by not specifying the calendar). Whatever you do, you can find excellent support here or at irc:irc.debian.org/#debian. Peace

Re: number-up=2, openoffice, and cups

2003-09-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
> any clues? I install mpage or a2ps, and use it as a filter on the 'lpr' command, using CUPS for printer support: mpage -2 | lpr ...as a print command works in pretty much all apps. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ Wha

Re: getting rid of flash

2003-03-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
Downloader Plugin ..." That's what I thought. Hence the stylesheet. > > Mozilla should have some protection against plugins built-in, as it > has for blocking images and scripts opening windows ... > > Well, I'll try that CSS style sheets next. I can assure you it wo

Re: leaving computer on 24/7

2003-03-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 04:31:15PM -0600, Nathan E Norman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:12:14PM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote: <...> > > Additional problem: "stiction" on old drives. I've got a set of SCSIs > > from 1998 which ca

Re: kdm init files and xmodmap

2003-06-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
> > > > KDM starts X which runs Xsession which will look in .Xmodmap. If you > > put your xmodmap into $HOME/.Xmodmap it should be read at start up > > time. > > > > Bob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of

Re: strange kernel error ?

2003-05-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
ts or modules settings (/etc/modul* files and subdirectories) for what might be running that. Try it by hand. Look for more copious error output. I suspect a typo as 'modprobess' is not typically a system executable. 'modprobe' is. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROT

OT: Paul Johnson - direct mail problems

2003-05-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
Your procmail recipies are hanging. My mail to you was bounced. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? "Yes," said Marvin. "Wearily I sit here, pain and mis

CUPS / HPLJ5: very slow printer processing

2003-05-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
1.15 # Written by cupsd on Fri May 9 22:44:58 2003 Info QPC Office HPLJ5 Location QPC Office DeviceURI smb://USERNAME:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/PRINT-SERVER/HPLaserJet5 State Idle Accepting Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 Pea

Re: awk usage question

2003-05-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
print lines [-n]; use an expression [-e] that > > replaces an arbitrary number of characters followed by the word > > "Message" with nothing, and print the result.) > > Won't this print all lines, and delete the word "Message" where it appears? 1. No. 2. Try

Re: Remote KDE desktop over SSH?

2003-06-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
ed it over a 56K dialup, it workedafter about 15 minutes startup I'd strongly discourage use of GNOME or KDE over a remote connection. VNC will do you better here. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestal

Re: OT: Putting down the SCO FUD

2003-06-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
ranscript and oggs of Friday's conference call. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Windows Refund Day II: fight for your right to refund http://www.windowsrefund.

Re: Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB

2003-06-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
3, wma, and ra. > > > That did it, I was using some other bogus URLs that I'd Googled up. > > Thanks! > > PS: I live in Berkeley, would love to find a good Debian-friendly user > group. bad: http://bad.debian.net/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?

2003-06-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
esForBinaryMultiples http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GiB http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/MiB But oddly enough, not (yet): http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/KiB Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netc

Re: Resizing ReiserFS Partition

2003-06-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
imates show that all slashodot viewers will die. > --Mohammad Al-Sahhaf SCO Sopkesman, Former Iraqi information minister*/ On that note, see: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SCOvsIBM Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
figure it out). > > Sorry for not shortening this post, but on the couple of other places I've > posted, I get the third degree on WHY am I partitioning, WHY so many, etc. I > don't need that, just some advice if the numbers above are in the ballpark, > or if I'

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD Thanks

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
say, /var/log, /var/cache, and /var/lib) when it blows up. > > Luckily, this box has the smallest drive. Now if I could only squeeze > > debian/apache on to that 270 MB hard disk sitting in the corner for another > > box... > > That should be easy. 270 MB is _huge_. You

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm using ~ 150MB in / and ~650MB in /usr. However, for a desktop box, > having a seperate /usr can cause trouble (some packages are a little buggy and > don't work when /usr is on a seperate partition... the only one I've > encountered is discover, so it's a pret

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
a symlink to either /usr/local or /usr/local/opt. /usr/local itself may be its own partition (back this off seperately from /usr) or a subdirectory of /usr. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: exiting chroot

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
get and fix things (eg. lilo > > :) and then I just typed 'exit' like always and it did exit back to the > > 'ash' shell of the install. Please correct me if the other chroot is > > some other situation. > > In bash ^d is the same as typing exit. ..

Re: [OT] Bogus undelivered message

2003-06-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
f getting their junk read? If you want your messages authenticated, sign them. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Integrity, we've heard of it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

OT: new GPG key

2003-06-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
about why I was showing up with a new key (though you're right to be suspicious). I hope to have the new key circulating at keysignings soon. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you unde

Re: how do I do this is shell script?

2003-06-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
7;s/^\([EMAIL PROTECTED])\t\([A-Za-z0-9_-.]*\)[ ]*\([A-Za-z0-9_-. > ]*\)\t(Palm)/alias \2 "\2 \3" <\1>/' | > sort > $MUTT_ADDRESSES ^ -u Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gesta

Re: Speeding up debian ... ?

2003-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
may also still be a copy of Stuart Cheshire's "It's the Latency, Stupid" accessible from somewhere. http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html Or similar: http://peripherals.about.com/library/weekly/aa012101c.htm Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Re: how do I do this is shell script?

2003-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:27:15AM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On June 11, 2003 11:14 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:15:32PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > >

Re: vim broken: unstable / hppa

2003-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:08:43PM +0100, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I filed a bug on this a few days ago, was wondering if anyone else has > been bitten. See #190585 > > vim segfaults on startup on this system. Given that it's my editor of > choice (cur

Re: Wrong address on reply (on debian maillist)

2003-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
; >1) make sure you remove the original sender's e-mail from the >recipient addresses. Since most subscribers to the list don't >need/want a second copy of most messages. > >2) file a wishlist bug with pine's author(s) for proper mail list >

Re: Internet Browser Preferences

2003-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ng? Galeon on reasonable HW. Dillo / w3m on older (PII-200 and worse). For more: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NixBrowsers Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't yo

Re: Internet Browser Preferences

2003-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 05:57:22PM +0200, Frank Van Damme ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2003 17:49, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I don't want to get into any long debate, but I am looking for a light > > > weight browser. I am currently using Opera, bu

OT: Malformed date header? (was: Re: Re: Kernel penguin logo?)

2003-06-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
ining what he could do to get the penguin logo. I'm going to change > mine to the debian logo. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Karsten M. Self <

Re: OT: Malformed date header? (was: Re: Re: Kernel penguin logo?)

2003-06-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:45:15PM -0400, christophe barbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:14:26PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Dec 31, 1969 at 11:59:59PM +, Benedict Verheyen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > The webm

Re: OT: Malformed date header? (was: Re: Re: Kernel penguin logo?)

2003-06-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:28:22PM -0400, christophe barbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:39:13PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > On a related topic, is there a way to instruct procmail to fix broken > > > date on the flight. I would be happy to

Re: How to Identify Mailing Lists

2003-06-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
hive/suse-linux/2003-Jun/0207.html > > And the list (in German) itself at: > http://procmail.livingit.de/ Nick Moffitt of Crackmonkey has a set of filters which I tried locating a few days ago, didn't turn it up though a bit of Googling might. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL

Re: New line with xmessage?

2003-06-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
ew line? This sort of works: > > xmessage "Newline > > You will get to the alternate prompt, and then continue > > here!" ...or fold, or indent: echo "some silly message" | fold -w 10 | xmessage -file - Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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