Re: Cheap PC / unknown components. ALDI/Medion MD 8080 XL anyone?

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:21:02AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > >More significantly: get a Knoppix disk. Use it to identify the HW on > >the system. The 'lshw' command is useful, as is my own system-info &

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
l that's the case? Are you seeing this behavior elsewhere? I'm seeing a sequence of AOL posts originating from AOL MXs. Most spammers spoof origins. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don&#

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:04:44PM -0500, Adam Garside ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 07:08:53AM +0800, csj wrote: > > On 5. December 2003 at 8:33AM -0800, > > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > on Fri, Dec

Re: uhoh - bind on unstable (repost)

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
ateway appears to be broken. Ordinarially, content lines of a single '.' are doubled to prevent SMTP end-of-data interpretation. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Rodent

Re: xscreensaver error: usage: xscreensaver-getimage [ -display host:dpy.screen ] [ -v ] window-id

2003-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
ables came from different releases of xscreensaver: you are mixing and matching newer and older binaries. Don't do that. ...so presumably this will go away as I get my system updated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of

Re: keep old files

2003-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
'll have to have someone else tell you the setting. 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.c

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-07 Thread Karsten M. Self
velopment as a security bug directly. > > One must assume there are more bugs in this class. > > Definitely. Like in every big software-project one must assume there are > (severe) bugs going undetected. IIRC, it was a prior nonproductive thread with "Tom" which p

Tom Ballard, MSFT shill (was Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??)

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:29:30PM -0800, Tom Ballard, former Microsoft employee, ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 06:19:45PM -0800, Tom Ballard, former > Microsoft employee, wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 05:31:12PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > >

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
uot;Joe-job" attack). - Mail which cannot be cleaned is quarantined. I don't need crap mail sitting on my account. - There's no discussion of how "messages that others send you" are distinguished from viral "breed"ing mail. Magick? Nice try,

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:40:16AM -0500, Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:55:57PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:56:59PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Perhaps their recently introduced virus fi

Re: Tom Ballard, MSFT shill (was Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??)

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:48:19AM -0800, Tom Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Please don't use my real name: I've told you why I don't want it used. > Would you prefer I used a "handle" ? Interesting what truths people are uncomfortable with. Peace. -- Ka

Email disclaimers (was Re: debian rebooting randomly)

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
nybrowser.org/campaign/ 32. http://www.he.net/ 33. http://www.goldmark.org/about/ 34. http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/ 35. http://validator.w3.org/check/referer 36. http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ Thank you.

Re: Tom Ballard, MSFT shill (was Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??)

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:07:20AM -0800, Tom ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:54:26AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:48:19AM -0800, Tom Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Please don't use my real name: I've

Re: Urgent apt-problem

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
nnot see into either your mind or your machine's state. This is very much a case of "you have to help us help you". Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Bush/Cheny '04: BU__SH__! pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: could not eject CDROM as a normal user: [solved]

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
earlier a few weeks ago. > regards, Yes, this is the correct fix. The reason not to make a normal user a member of the disk group is that this generally gives read *and* write access to the raw disk device itself. This is a really good way to utterly destroy your data. 'cdrom' by

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
u what you're looking for. 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/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:47:39AM -0500, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:19:18AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:12:05AM -0500, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I'm setting up Spamassain, and I can't seem

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 10:59:01PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:33:22AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > As does DocBook and man. Deprecating man in favor of Info is _not_ > > acceptable. Period. Nor does it meet Debian policy.

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
e of strength of the passwords generated). One such test: pwgen 8 10 | sort | uniq -c | wc -l ...which generates 1 million passwords, and checks to see how many are unique. I typically see 98.7% using pronounceable passwords, far better when using fully random ones or longer keys.

Re: Swap Distribution

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
asible. HP? http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/04/HNhpdebian_1.html InfoWorld: HP to expand Debian GNU/Linux support: December 04, 2003 Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Go through his clothes and look for loose change. - Princess Bride pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:44:04PM -0800, Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031208 16:52]: > > For performance reasons, I also have in /etc/security/limits: > > > > mailhardnproc 30 > &g

Re: Urgent apt-problem

2003-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
; > If you are at the end of your rope, you might try this. > cd / #(as root) > mkdir /install > cd install > find '' /* | tee /install/files > grep plptools-kde /install/files | less > then rm (every instance in less). Then maybe you can reinstall.

Spam, email, encrypted transit, harvesting (was Re: Earthlink and Swen)

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:05:04AM -0500, Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:44:18AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:40:16AM -0500, Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:55:57PM -080

Re: Something broke MatLab

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
atlab) Try launching it with 'strace', in both modes, logging output. Examine for errors. Post relevant portion of log if you have further questions. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don'

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:03:43PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:25:38PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:13:07PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > My understanding is that the develope

Re: Spamassain question, whitelist?

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:09:38AM -0500, stan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:51:49PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'd recommend running spamc, using spamassassin in client/server mode. > > This cuts the rougly one-second overhead per mess

Re: process limits (was: Spamassain question, whitelist?)

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:51:26AM -0800, Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > * Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031208 19:46]: > > on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 06:44:04PM -0800, Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > * Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031208 1

Re: Unable to start kde session on display :1

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
s an X > display with no WM, three xterms and an xclock. That's going to depend on the existence and/or contents of ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don'

Re: Kernel 2.4.23

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
rnel packages maintainer) has posted prerelease, unofficial, 2.4.23 debs to: http://master.debian.org/~herbert/sid/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? NPR: Radio for between the ears: http://www.npr.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Chroot install (was Re: making a floppy for essential modules)

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
(change root) process. It's not terribly different from a stock Debian installation, but it's far more flexible. Choices for a booted system include Knoppix, Morphix, DemoLinux, LNX-BBC, tomsrtbt, and other bootable GNU/Linux distributions (that is: bootable on removeable media), _or_ a

Re: No email for some users

2003-12-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
o specified accounts. For sending, your best bet is to run a second system as a mailserver, allow only it to send outbound port 25 mail (via firewall rules), and allow mail for only specified accounts (via MTA configuration). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmsel

Re: debian install over ssh?

2003-12-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
bootstrap, rather than a base image as I generally operate. Moreover, there's even a remote chroot install method which has been documented by Erik Jacobson at http://trilldev.sourceforge.net/files/remotedeb.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: weird PATH_INETDPID file in root directory

2003-12-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
having /etc/init.d script. What's in the file? Is it related, by any chance, to your inetd process ID? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Am I going mad, or did the word &q

Re: Making a distribution

2003-12-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
other ideas. Or look at Linux From Scratch. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? How to unwedge / disable your X display manager login: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
shouldn't be on d-u. I've held my tongue this time, but the primary participants are very close to hitting my killfile. Again: there _is_ debian-curiosa. Many mailers have scoring or rating facilities. You might want to highlight posts by technically adept users. I do this mentally myse

Re: Procmail recipe for "ignore-thread"

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
t;<" formail -c -x Message-ID < $f >> ~/message-IDs done # And test results: for f in * do echo -e "$f: \c" if formail -c -x References < $f | grep -qf ~/message-IDs; then echo "Found" else echo &

Re: control init process

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
find out docs, howtos to re-write scripts my rc, init.d > to to achieve it less /etc/init.d/README ...and follow suggested reading there. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understa

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:11:15PM +0800, David Palmer. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:24:46 -0800 > "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The threads on completely off-topic issues (previously: rail, > > opium, and currently me

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:04:20PM -0800, Nunya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:24:46PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Ignore them. > > > > The threads on completely off-topic issues (previously: rail, opium, > > and currently med

Re: nagios

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
en I use ps -A the pid is not there. > > Can someone help please Is there a non-daemon or debug mode? Logfile? Look for error output in one or the other. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don&#

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:56:48PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 04:15:45PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > ... > > > > Earthlink have implemented virus and spam filtering within the past > > month or so, early November, if time se

Re: weird problem: X restarts if I click in an ssd'ed xterm

2003-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
suspect a windowmanager problem, but you're in a better position to assess this. Launching a raw X session (X or 'startx ') is likely going to be helpful here. Check logs (~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/XFree86.0.log), as well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to read package change logs before install

2003-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
not just > the one I don't want after reading the changes. You can also browse DEBs through a number of graphical/console shell browsers including mc, Konqueror, and Nautilus. You still need 'em downloaded, but not installed. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: installmanual

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
; Please, is there an automated installation program like that of Red > Hat ? Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. Thank you. WRT installers: several. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.html Peace. --

Re: your mail

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:51:44PM -0600, CLARK DAVIDSON ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Do you know how I can get a file called apt_0.5.4_i386.deb that is > not corrupt? > > The install CD is corrupt http://packages.debian.org/ You're looking for 'apt'. Peace.

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
;m too high-handed. Point taken, and appreciated. > > The threads he mentions have been way OT and IMHO do not belong on d-u. > > I fully agree with the sentiment, just not the approach. Addressing this specifically: while there's a lot of similarity of in

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
bing to > debian-user-digest instead of debian-user. No. You get all the traffic in undigestable chunks. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed down

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
web interface of some sort. Probably requires some engineering work on your part, but could be really useful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Spread the real

Re: Script for subscribing/unsubscribing Debian-user?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
a procmail rule, though I'd discourage this. While you don't need a body on the mail, I find it can be a useful mnemonic. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? And what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palookaville" - M. Brando pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
nstall ...where the latter needs to be run as root or staff. If there's no Makefile, read the sources, or look at what type(s) of files you have (hint: 'man file'). 'workbone' _is_ the executable. Try running it. ...though YMMV. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EM

Re: Applications are too big

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
Resize to fit your screen. Close the app. It should open sized to your screen. You might also maximize it so that it just fits within your visible desktop. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don'

Re: Mail questions

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
r MDA (e.g.: procmail) of your specification. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? George W. is deceptive to be sure. Dissembling, too. And let's not forget deceitf

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:21:02AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > As your autogenerated sig says, peace. It's not autogenerated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don&#x

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:10:11PM +, Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat 13 Dec 2003 01:14:53 +(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Alternatively, reduce your online overhead by subscribing to > > > debian-user-digest instead of debian-use

Re: eGroupWare Debs

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
be able to use this > product within the Debian package system. The usual place to look for third-party debs is http://www.apt-get.org/ There's also a list of requested packages at: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ ...which you can augment if you wish. Peace. -- Karsten M.

Re: control init process

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
#x27; can be useful for dealing with large directories of images (thumbnails). If you're familiar with Norton Commander, 'mc' may be useful. > > update-rc.d is a very useful tool to manage init stuff. Quite. > Thank you Karsten My pleasure. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? I forgot my mantra. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:56:24PM -0700, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Incoming from Karsten M. Self: > > > > What's your fetch mode? I'm finding that fetchmail over 56k is taking > > ~5-10 seconds per message (mostly depending on how much Swen I&#

RFC: Linux compatibility test framework (was: Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect)

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
Knoppix CD without an OS installed. That'd be good > enough guarantee for me. I've recommended this (strongly) in the past. It would be nice to see HW vendors pick up on this. It would also be helpful if a HW regression test fram for various peripherals could be created, automated t

Re: RFC: Linux compatibility test framework (was: Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect)

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:35:06AM -0600, Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2003 02:16 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:15:07AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > John Hasler wrote: > > > >Terry w

Missing headers (was Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?)

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:34:07PM +, Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat 13 Dec 2003 12:51:37 +(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > ...OTOH, it may reduce a lot of the overhead of full headers. > Hmm, the references and in-reply-to headers have been mis

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
d to look at /usr/local paths as well as /usr, for configurations, and take /usr/local by preference. Otherwise, one simple proxy is to substitute shell variables where necessary for current user. If your installation script runs as the user in question, simply using "${USER}" within the

Re: mach_apicdef.h: No such file or directory

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
f it was up, you could also use the file search at http://packages.debian.org/ However, sh_unix.o doesn't turn up. Have you tried to locate it on your system? I'd suggest finding out what it's supposed to be either from install docs of the app you're building, the develo

Re: kernel expolit. is 2.4.18-bf2.4 affected?

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
llation kernels predate the patch, and are vulnerable. Your safe options are 2.2.x kernels, a patched 2.4.18, 2.4.(>=23), and presumably the 2.6 tree. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: email client

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
lpheed. Among others. Generally, packages providing mail-reader: mutt, mailx, emacs20, kmail, evolution, xemacs21-mule. (hint: apt-awk Provides:mail-reader -- Package) Googling "mail client rick moen" should turn up a good page on this topic (I'd research now but my net link is satu

/var/cache/apt (was Re: don't have enough free space)

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
Create, say, /home/admin, and under that: links/var/cache/apt. Copy your existing /var/cache/apt to this location, then: rm -rf /var/cache/apt ln -s /home/admin/links/var/cache/apt /var/cache/apt ...exercising the flexibility of GNU/Linux. P

Re: (pdf,ps,dvi) -->> (rtf, doc) What's the best route?

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
he desired output format. Alternatively, Adobe's own PDF tools are rumored to have relatively good edit / extract support for working with many (but not all) PDFs. Whichever route you choose, there's likely a lot of manual overhead involved. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Sreelal Chandrasenan

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
minutes ago. So he > > obviously wouldn't mind being blocked (if there's anyone paying > > attention that can help before everything left in some buffer gets > > sent). > > > > Maybe his tune would change if whoever's names are on the private > phone

Re: squid ? ??????????? ? ???????? ??????

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:55:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ??? ? ??? ??? ? ? squid ??? ??? ??? > ? ?? win2k English to this list, please. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: remote install

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ebian Installation Manual, which is adapted from my own instructions at: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? "Yes,&

Re: debootstrap

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
lade/install/debootstrap The / an alternative is to start with the base2_2.tar.gz filesystem image from Potato. This is available at http://archive.debian.org/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/base2_2.tgz First step on install: update your /etc/apt/sources.list and update to Woody, the

Re: XFree86 with i810 onboard graphics (Newbie)

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ootInstall Advantage: You're booting a current kernel with strong HW support, and have automatic detection and configuration of most (if not all) of you're system's hardware. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Gentoo is one step on the long road from Debian to Debian. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Starting new threads (was: Re: email client (OT))

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
our post. For your own good: use your mailer's "new message" function, not the reply option, when asking a new question. Thank you. ...an example of one of my high-toned rant-o-matic posts ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http

Re: Nautilus won't die

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ill be more useful than "which" doctoring[1] Peace. Notes: 1. "Which" doctoring. The practice of pretending to determine system faults by wondering which random contributing factor might be involved. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Starting new threads (was: Re: email client (OT))

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:26:41AM -0800, Nunya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:18:43AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Alternatively: deleting any "In-Reply-To:" and "References:" headers, > > if your MUA supports header editing.

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
slashdot.org/yro/03/04/13/2215207.shtml?tid=120 http://www.marketingwonk.com/archives/2003/08/27/aol_sued_for_blocking_email/ http://www.google.com/search?q=aol+blocking+email Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gest

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
is system. This box would probably get > around 200 hits a day max, but also hosts and internal intranet as well > as an external website so there is quite a bit of data in /var/www. http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
M and supports 4 GiB RAM: - Create four 1-GiB swap partitions. Mount one or two of these. You'll expand into the remaining two as you add system RAM. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" d

DynIP mail blocking considered harmful (was: Re: My email is rejected by some sites)

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
indicator is being used to establish an absolute preference for or against a specific activity. Despite the known invalidity of this indicator in a large number of cases. And the existence of more specific, accurate discriminators. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://km

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:12:07PM -0500, Debian User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At Tuesday, 16 December 2003, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > com> wrote: > > >on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:27:09PM -0800, Raquel Rice ([EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >net) wrot

Re: Nautilus won't die

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:19:05PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Em Ter, 2003-12-16 ??s 17:30, Karsten M. Self escreveu: > > on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:57:34AM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria > > Corcete Dutra ([EMAIL PR

Re: password length > 8

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ompute all crypted, salted values on reasonably attainable hardware, making brute forcing passwords possible: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/08/192205 http://security.sdsc.edu/publications/teracrack.pdf Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.h

Re: debootstrap

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:03:54PM -0700, Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:04:19AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:56:04AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > &

Re: woody - crash.

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ce eth1, > 212.244.107.163#53 > > su-2.05a# sysctl -a | grep kdb > kernel/kdb = 1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux gepard 2.4.22-ow1 #4 ?ro gru 10 17:08:10 CET 2003 i686 unknown > > patches -> imq , htb , xfs , esfq , owl. > > cpu pI

Re: make-kpkg

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:14:23AM +0800, Isaac To ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > And I don't consider Grub to be much less documented than LILO. See the man vs. info debate rehash here last week. That said, I use GRUB on my boxen. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Custom kernel problems: PCMCIA

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ > Subject: fonts <...> > Is someone familiar with font setup in X here, or shall I try somewhere > else? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
(e.g.: Zaurus) with wireless support and get your email fix from a hotspot on your breaks. 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/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:23:50PM +0100, Magnus von Koeller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 22:12, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > SWAP - 1.5GB > > > > Rule of thumb: ?1-2x RAM. > > I never understood that ru

Re: Web server Partitions - swap

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
ally say anything about servers under heavy load, of > course... Depends on work habits. I've got 512 MiB RAM, 1 GiB swap configured, 372 MiB swap used. Heavy web browsing (Galeon has memory leaks), image editing, or sound editing can really cut into that. Ditto some database wo

Re: rcs help

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
is is supposed to work. > Isn't there a way to opening the file and editing it? > rcs rebel just gives me an error apt-get install cvsbook x-www-browser http://localhost/doc/cvsbook/cvsbook.html In general: I'd suggest you spend a little more time looking for documentatio

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
priate period after first spam activity from the IP. As I've already said: statistically, odds are that *any* IP is going to generate more spam than ham. Why not block 'em all? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "

Re: DynIP mail blocking considered harmful (was: Re: My email is rejected by some sites)

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:37:09PM +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for your useful mail. This thread started to fill my killfile... > :-) > > Am Mi, den 17.12.2003 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 01:21: > > - There are highly spec

Re: make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
' > make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/linux-2.6.0-test11' > make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 > > Any ideas? Did a google though havent found any answers. > Thanks LKML? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
corporating ASN and/or CIDR classification for automated scoring on these characteristics. I'd like to see MTAs and firewalls pick up similar capabilities. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't

Re: pdftohtml

2004-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
file is available, converting *it* to HTML directly should provide far superior results. 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 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Window sizing on Windowmaker

2004-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
e to the "maximize window vertically" function. In my case, does this (set this through the WPrefs utility). So if I get a small window a quick tap fills my monitor vertically. Very useful. I've also got set to maximize fully, though that's something used less often. Peace

Re: Installing sarge with basedebs.tar

2004-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
rors.. where I could > download the packages one at a time for instance? > NB. Due to the volume on this list and my limited quotas.. I had to > unsubscribe. Is there any place I can view your replies - if any..?? Or > would you be so kind as to cc: me on this..?? The GMANE Us

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
the basis of multiple other distributions (Storm, Progeny (_also_ a meta-distro), Linspire, Knoppix, Mepis, Ubuntu, LibraNet, Xandros...), largely in the strength and richness of its packaging system. Several of these distros are themselves very much geared to the newbie. Among them, the bootable

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:00:17PM -0500, William Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 04:32:25PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > advances. Pretty much all the "Live CD" distros (Knoppix, Mepis, > > Gnoppix, LNX-BBC, Damn Small Linux, etc.) auto

Re: OT: Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
r Ballard's use here. Alas, it was > on a totally different subject, some sort of Python-based mailer. # aptitude install mencal ...now if we can just get Bill and Steve's start days Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Linux: Good, fast, _and_ cheap. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: swap space size

2004-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:33:45AM -0800, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 07:21:20AM +, Alexis Huxley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On 2004-10-21, Gilbert, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Think about it, if you want

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