Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-02-17T14:11:58Z, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or should I use this "opportunity" to (finally) upgrade to CUPS? I'd suggest CUPS. Once you have it running, you'll probably wish you'd done it earlier. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis

Re: set up a LAN DNS so that it doesn't conflict with externalDNSes

2003-02-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
n/db.mydomain.com xxx IN A 192.168.1.2 and "external/db.mydomain.com" would be similar to: $TTL 86400 @ IN SOA( ) $INCLUDE common/db.mydomain.com xxx IN A aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd I hope this makes sense. If it doesn't, please blame Alka Seltzer Cold & Flu and don't think too harshly of me. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg31340/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Can only use ALSA via OSS emulation layer

2003-02-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
x27;t know how to get any debugging information to illuminate the matter. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg31355/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Can only use ALSA via OSS emulation layer

2003-02-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
aRTs would > either complain that it could not open the dsp device, or lock up, when I > tried various other approaches. Thanks for sharing. At least now I know that it's not just me. Anyone else? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg31385/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: spamassassin - three basic questions

2003-02-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
0 > 3. how do i tell spamassassin, here, if the message is from a certain > sender, it is not spam - irrespctive of what you think and if a message is > from some other sender, it is spam - irrespctive of what you think? whitelist_from blacklist_from Read `man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf&#

Re: Tripwire

2003-02-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-02-21T12:45:59Z, Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a comparable package available for debian? I've started using AIDE on my production machines. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: spamassassin - three basic questions

2003-02-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
out 99.9% of that time waiting for something such as a DNS request to finish; I can process 15-20 incoming emails simultaneously in the same 5-second window without a detectable load on the machine. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mail server

2003-02-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
t saturates the > customer's T1 without problems... Have you tried newer versions of Sendmail with multiple queues, and many queue-runners? I helped a friend tune an existing installation a week or so ago, and it really seemed to fly. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp000

Re: floating point hex calc?

2003-03-07 Thread Kirk Strauser
o 16, and enter A-F in caps. The ">" and ":" show what I typed and what bc displayed, respectively. $ bc -l > ibase=16 > A+B : 21 > 1A.C9E : 26.788 -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to get PHP4 to work with Apache2

2003-03-08 Thread Kirk Strauser
base and the programming language you choose will probably have much more impact than the web server. > ...there is great interest in Apache2 because of its ease of management > and its SPEED. Thanks! Ease of management? On a POS system? Don't you just set it up and leave it running? -- Kirk

Re: Comments on security, Re: recover lost root password

2003-03-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
tiality of the organization. This is true of any system. Security is a process, not a destination. >(Gnu/Linux doesn't make things easy in this crucial aspect!). Ummm, sure. > Is there a gnu/linux community concerned with these issues? Hey! You found us on your first try! -- K

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-10T13:10:02Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ?? RAID1 can only handle 1 failure also!! Depends on how many drives are in the volume, doesn't it? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
y for such a setup, RAID1+0 (or RAID10, whatever you want to call it) would be faster and possibly more robust; as long as at least one drive from each stripe survives, the whole filesystem is still available. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
. > And you're right, the likelihood that a specific disk will puke is pretty > darned low. Hence the saying that RAID5 is the poor man's RAID10. :) -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian spammed

2003-03-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
e switch Noting that you said nothing about *implementing* the corrective instrument, I invent an electric chair and claim my $100. Need my address for the check? :) -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
agine, instead, that file1 and file2 are on a mirror. The RAID system could converge on the situation where the first drive is "dedicated" to file1, and the second is "dedicated" to file2. I don't think this is a particularly unlikely scenario. -- Kirk Strauser In Googli

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
x27;s heads will be physically closer to a requested block from file1, and similarly for file2 and the second drive. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: using white noise for cryptography

2003-03-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
ss? Even if the audio input were a perfect sine wave, would adding that into the mix result in sin()+random? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

KDE 3.1 + Korganizer?

2003-03-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
I'm tracking unstable, and have updated much of my KDE installation to 3.1. However, korganizer is nowhere to be found. Does anyone know of a good source for that program? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: KDE 3.1 + Korganizer?

2003-03-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-18T05:44:41Z, Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > http://people.debian.org/~ccheney/kde-3.1.1-1/ Thanks to everybody for the responses! I now have kdepim and korganizer on my KDE 3.1 desktop. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp

2003-03-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
d version), and would always be annoying in the case that you have multiple unnamed images that you'd have to name at that time or skip. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Upgrading to Sid Via Apt-Get

2003-03-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
this email is not such that it really need pgp encryption > anyway. I'd disagree on that point, in that the message wasn't encrypted - it was signed. It seems as though more people are using crypto authentication these days, which I can only see as a Good Thing. -- Kirk Strauser I

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-22T16:27:16Z, "Sharninder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > anybody here has any idea when will Sarge or Sid become stable. AFAIK > when sarge becomes stable, only then will Sid become sarge. Am i right ? No. Sid will always be unstable. -- Kirk Strauser In Goo

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-22T17:07:47Z, Blake Covarrubias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks like I was wrong then. :o I'm still somewhat new to Debian and their > releases. My apologizes. None needed. :) -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] user psychology

2003-03-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-03-23T22:27:37Z, Raju Kurunkad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For laughs, you can read thru the "Bastard operator from hell" archives at > > http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html That was written as *humor*? I'd thought it was a training manual. -- Kirk Strause

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-23 Thread Kirk Strauser
and z, and w, y, and z WILL NOT BE > INSTALLED NO MATTER WHAT THE GODD* F*** YOU DO!" If you feel that strongly, please accept a refund for the unsatisfactory software. Here it is: --> <-- There. Feel better now? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT, FLAME] Linux Sucks

2003-03-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
exist, but are generated when you're holding down "Fn" count? Frankly, *I* have to look up my keyboard specs when I install X (which happens, maybe, once every 1.5 years or so), because the answer isn't nearly as straightforward as just counting the physical buttons. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Anybody using 2.6 kernel packages?

2003-10-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
? I've head that 2.6 has much better support for IDE CD-Rs; is this true? Thanks, -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list

2003-10-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
ts.txt Paul, I released this today; you may be interested: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/NewTrino -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list

2003-10-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
nd enough nameservers to help balance the load. I wrote NewTrino with the goal of efficiently hosting a public blackhole list with hundreds of thousands of entries. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-26T18:46:05Z, David Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then wouldn't > > rm -r `ls` > > do the trick? No; it wouldn't list files starting with '.'. That whole line of experimentation also fails on any filename with a space in it. -- Kirk

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-26T15:12:18Z, Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could always do: > rm -r `ls -A` If you have good backups, consider the ramifications of: $ touch 'a .. b' $ rm -r `ls -A` -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp

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

2003-10-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
? This may or may not be overkill, depending on how many hosts you want to protect: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/NewTrino -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Sometimes it Just Works

2003-10-29 Thread Kirk Strauser
rogram I run. I've been using Linux for quite a while and have been impressed with the advances its made over the years, but I don't think I really appreciated how far it's come until today. Good job, everyone. You just made my job a lot easier. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: print command

2003-11-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-31T19:50:17Z, Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. Ooh! My turn: $ yes '*' | head -n 60 | xargs echo | sed 's/ //g' I'm sure that's optimizable somehow

Re: print command

2003-11-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-11-02T07:17:12Z, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm sure that's optimizable somehow, but I haven't really looked at it yet. > yes '*' | head -n 80 | tr -d '\n' Very good. Thanks! -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2003-11-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-11-04T11:52:17Z, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Galeon brain death. ... > This generally hasn't been helped any by libonoboui or gconf, both of > which are brutish f'ups and epitomes of developer hubris. But seriously, Karsten, what

Re: setting hardware clock from NIST

2003-11-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
Besides putting a load on the precious stratum-1 servers and stratum-2 servers on the other side of the Big Pond, look at http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/clock2a.html to find some servers closer to home. The backbone will be happier and your clock will be more accurate. -- Kirk Strauser In

Re: setting hardware clock from NIST

2003-11-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
vy.mil; every little shareware time utility syncs against those poor machines by default. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: restart / shutdown by normal user

2003-01-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
give the ability to execute `shutdown' as root to an explicit set of users. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg25197/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Quick spamassassin question

2003-01-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-24T10:54:27Z, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If spamassassin is installed site-wide, do individual user preferences > still apply? If not, is there any way to make it do so? Yes, based on the settings in ~/.spamassassin/user_prefs . -- Kirk Strauser In Goo

Re: Kernel Recompile

2003-01-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
m a 'newbie' so I want to > make sure that I am doing it right. http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Main/DebianKernelBuilding -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg26011/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: if you could have just one dead tree book

2003-01-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-01-30T17:57:50Z, Dan Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh fellow debian-users, if you could have just one dead tree book what > would you ask for? "Programming Perl, 3rd Ed." by Wall, Christiansen, and Orwant. No question. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, erg

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
o that. Out of curiosity, though, why would you want to? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg28766/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ogg to mp3 audio (also via 8233a question)

2003-02-05 Thread Kirk Strauser
e.sourceforge.net/ -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg28789/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
useless "binary trash"? Am I wrong? That was the whole point: Netscape 4 has quite a few known vulnerabilities. It may very well be the case that a MITM could snoop a session from a Netscape 4 browser's broken SSL implementation. -- Kirk Strauser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Evolution + LDAP on unstable?

2003-09-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
L] has crashed. You will have to restart Evolution in order to use it again. That's all of the debugging information I can coax out of it. Is anyone else having the problem? Is anyone else successfully using Evo+LDAP on an unstable system? -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Equation system resolver

2003-09-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
e whole goal of the section, or if it's just a means to a bigger end. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Firebird, the database

2003-09-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
t year or so, but I've already migrated my large installations to PostgreSQL. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
ot;, "New Security Update", etc. allof( header :matches "Subject" [ "current*", "last*", "latest*", "microsoft*", "new*", "newest*" ],

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
t;Subject" [ "current *", "internet *", "last *", "latest *", "microsoft *", "net *", "new *", "newest *" ], header :matches "Subject" [ "* upgrade", "* update", "* pack", "* patch" ] ) ) { fileinto "INBOX.virus.2003-09-18"; } -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
the > sending host ;). You know, I'm "this close" to seriously investigating OpenBSD's passive OS fingerprinting (http://www.w4g.org/fingerprinting.html) and filtering appropriately. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: Burned by domain name registrar for $150, suggestions?

2003-09-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
ctually helpful. If order to transfer your domain to Domain Monger, you have to pay them for one year of service ($17, I think). However, they *add that year to the end* of your correct registration, so you don't lose any money that you weren't going to spend anyway. I imagine that o

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-19T12:42:31Z, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why not just drop everything with a Microsoft executeable attached? Where's the challenge in that? :) -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-19T03:33:53Z, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: OK, last iteration (I promise). Enough people have found this helpful, or at least amusing, that I'm posting my final script update. I'm using the "MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE" block in SpamAssassin in

SpamAssassin, SQL prefs, and Bayes?

2003-09-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
similar setup? As of a couple of weeks ago, I wasn't able to find any good documentation on the subject. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-19T16:41:51Z, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ..hmmm, cool. And in .procmailrc'ese it is? No. In Sieve-ese it is. See RFC 3028 for details. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
re in Perl anyway, use: rename $file, $newname; which doesn't care about spaces or punctuation, and calls the appropriate libc functions directly rather than causing an expensive fork/exec. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: Martin Krafft - mail bouncing

2003-09-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
L PROTECTED] . This is not satisfactory for all applications. It's not so cut and dry as some people would have you believe. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-25 Thread Kirk Strauser
file than clicking on an attachment icon. Out of curiosity, are there *any* legitimate reasons at all why you'd want to mail an uncompressed executable to someone? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
his has anything to do with kernel unresponsiveness? A bogged system wouldn't let you type anything at all, would it? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-26 Thread Kirk Strauser
Save it to your drive then load it. Want to open a .zip archive? Save it to your drive first. Refer back to "people are lazy". Removing the "One-Click (TM) Infection" vector would dramatically reduce trojan distribution. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Son of Swen?

2003-09-27 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-27T05:16:41Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > and the parents who bore and raised such obvious hyper-cephalics. s/hyper/hydro/ would've worked equally well. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-30T20:47:44Z, Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 00,15,30,45 * ... > >would be executed every 15 minutes "*/15" is a handy shortcut for the same thing. That's particularly handy for jobs that need to run, say, every 3 minutes. -- Kirk Strause

Re: Doubts about quota

2003-10-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
t" for longer than the "grace" time. They may not exceed the "hard limit" ever. This is handy for users that may *briefly* exceed their quota by a little bit (i.e. when downloading a large email, putting a file on their web space to let a friend download it and then d

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
id that on a Linux-oriented mailing list. Why? Because the BSD license explicitly allows the sort of distribution you are planning. I use and love Linux but it *may* not be the appropriate solution for you. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
he wants. He wants to interface with a set of probes outside his home / office / whatever to record whether at his exact location. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
stion. You may in fact be correct that it is free to use, but MySQL AB's position on the matter seems pretty clear to my untrained eyes. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
application, then I'd have to follow the terms of the GPL. Their page makes it sounds as if I'm obligated to purchase a license if my application only connects to a MySQL server that I'm distributing along with it. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Licensing requirements ???

2003-10-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-11T18:15:32Z, Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I believe it is all about how it is distrubited. But, IANAL. That would be contrary to my understanding; I believe that distribution doesn't matter, but linking does. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est

Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?

2003-10-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
nstant), do they all get the same return address from malloc() or do they get different answers? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?

2003-10-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
m involved working with memory location's physical address. I'm not sure that I agree with the author on some of the details because I don't believe a userspace program has access to that information (although kernel module implementers should probably follow the advice). -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?

2003-10-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
ties would be purely coincidental. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Any correlation between malloc return value and physical location?

2003-10-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
onded. I thought that's the way it would work, but I don't know anything about the Linux implementation details to feel speek confidently about it. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Why is apt trying to install packages from Sarge ?

2002-10-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
to pin testing with /etc/apt/apt.conf: APT::Default-Release "testing"; FWIW, I get identical results with: apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Happy Hacking + Emacs keybindings have changed in the last week

2002-10-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
eta_R I have not touched a config file on my system recently, although I've dist-upgrade'd several times recently. Anyone know of any changes that would have caused this to happen, and/or how to get my old Emacs bindings back? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. --

Re: Happy Hacking + Emacs keybindings have changed in the last week

2002-10-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
s follows, restarted my X session, and had my old settings back: - Option "XkbLayout" "us" + Option "XkbOptions" "altwin:meta_win" -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The only thing I miss about Windows

2002-10-10 Thread Kirk Strauser
at you're concurrently working on? That seems like a reasonable thing to do. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Project organizer and time-tracking software?

2002-10-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
I tried using PHPGroupware, but it just wasn't quite up to par as of a month or so ago (although certainly far better than nothing). I don't care if the app is Gnome, KDE, PHP/mod_perl, or Emacs based, as long as it works. Any suggestions? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non es

Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?

2002-10-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
t file a bug report and check back later. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?

2002-10-15 Thread Kirk Strauser
. Right now, the procedure is to hand-copy information from a company's flat-text work record into a LaTeX invoice template and then mark all of the related projects as "invoiced". This grows annoying when $num_projects * $num_clients > 6 or so. -- Kirk Strauser In Goog

Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?

2002-10-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
many projects for many clients. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?

2002-10-16 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-10-15T21:42:35Z, "Jamin W.Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Take a look at Tutos <http://tutos.sf.net> it handles projects, resources, > and invoicing. Might take a bit to get used to though. Thanks for the tip - I'll give it a look. -- Kirk Stra

Re: Project organizer and time-tracking software?

2002-10-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-10-18T07:40:48Z, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is the same information I'm collecting/documenting at TWikIWeThey: That's a pretty good source of information - thanks. > MrProject seems to be the lightweight option of choice. Inde

Re: OT: Simpsons Trivia answers

2002-10-22 Thread Kirk Strauser
miles) than Springfield, OR. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
important for classical, theme albums, etc.). > I'm just wondering if any of you have some experience on this? Perhaps > undertaken such a task yourself? I am going to do this to about 500 CDs > and want to do it right from the start. ;) Have fun, and good luck! -- Kirk Straus

Re: Converting router from W2K to Debian

2002-11-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
s *that* bad? I currently use `honeypot.net' and `lan.honeypot.net' for external and internal DNS, and it avoids a whole host (heh!) of problems. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

2002-11-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
consider that to be a Good Thing. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MP# (or OGG) -> WAV? How?

2002-11-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
th storage space or bandwidth, more of both being needed to store/transmit song collections today. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bind8 vs bind9

2002-11-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
s not. More security compromises have been found in the former, but it has perhaps 100 times the number of users testing it and programmers examining it. Frankly, as a programmer, I would not waste my time auditing tinydns when I could make a bigger contribution to BIND. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis

Re: bind8 vs bind9

2002-11-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
ther of them, regardless of what bugs I patch or features I add. > Good for you. Thanks! I appreciate the encouragement. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
dware. I haven't touched a Compaq since I installed on a DL380 two years ago, but it was a major pain in my neck to get that thing running. Once the install was finished, though, it ran very well. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
, for one, never said that I don't like Compaq, or even that I wouldn't recommend Compaq. I do believe, though, that they're some of the more difficult machines on which to install Debian, which may be of some importance to a new would-be Debian sysadmin. -- Kirk Strauser In Goo

Re: [OT] Love you guys

2002-11-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
to be that the standard Debian boot floppies did not support the Compaq's "Smart Array" (IIRC) hardware RAID system. Once I switched to the "compact" boot floppies which included the appropriate driver, the rest of the installation was fairly typical. -- Kirk Strauser In Goo

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-11-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
they could also drop the project tomorrow and start reigning in usage of their trademark. It probably won't happen, but it *could*, and that kind of bothers me. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-11-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
t's the only reason I can think of. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sync root passwords?

2002-12-04 Thread Kirk Strauser
s no need to. In the many-password case, it'd be far too easy for the wrong person to get your password-generating algorithm and then have a program to calculate every password you will ever use from now on. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Why make-kpkg? What and Where is apt-src?

2002-12-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
lo. Beyond that, it also provides the package management system with proof that you actually have a kernel installed so that said management system doesn't say, "Oh, he needs a kernel!" and install one of its choosing for you. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- T

Re: How insecure are cable connections, versus dialup?

2002-12-09 Thread Kirk Strauser
can get pretty bogged down when faced with a host dropping packets. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Remember when hard disk sizes were in MiB?

2002-12-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
! Sure. My C64 didn't have to deal with multiprocessing, various and sundry device drivers, user-configurable resolutions, multiple isolated users, networking, etc. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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