Re: [OT] Googling...

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:12:54PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > Pedro Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [snip] > > So how come that searching for 'miserable failure' lists a page (GWB > > bio) as number one, when that page contains none of the words in the > > search? Is that becaus p

Re: [OT] Googling...

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:28:41AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > hook line and sinker again. I am a little disapointed in Bush for -not- > raising interest rates -- I didn't think he'd let it get this far out of > hand again. Fire Alan Greenspan! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: kill process by name

On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 01:47:38PM -0600, Rick Weinbender wrote: > Is there a way to use the kill command > to kill a process by name? > * > For example: kill inetd > I have to look up the pid number every time > using 'ps aux' then I can kill it with 'kill pid#' Me = Know! kill `ps -C aux | cut

Re: The threat to our national security

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:09:02AM -0700, John M. Purser wrote: > Yep. Kind of amazing. Thanks for the post. what I'm about to say is related, in a stream of consciousness way... On CNBC today an analyst said Microsoft could lose 100% of its server business to Linux and it would only be a penn

Re: The threat to our national security

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:36:33AM -0600, ABrady wrote: > > I still contend they aren't after money any more. They're after > domination. Most of their products lose money. The ones that make any > make obscene amounts to support the losers. It would mean more to the > market if they dropped the l

Re: The threat to our national security

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:57:19AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > You can't quite appreciate what it's like to work for the richest > company in the world until you've done it -- even though I don't have > much money. Power is my trip. Let me put it like this: the peop

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 12:46:13AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > Thank you Collin. Beautiful reading. Scary. To think that so many of the > statements made in science fiction have come through, to know how dark > life can be made to be on the surface of this ball, or on the surface of > the oth

Re: DVD copying and CSS

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 04:21:25PM -0800, Curtis Howland wrote: > Like civil forfeiture, copyright has been abused. That > abuse should be resisted by everyone. > Long live CSS. Oy. Listen, dead horse, I'm beating it, but there is a phenomenon in psychology called "rationalization": I cannot int

Re: jpeg to mpeg or avi

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 12:11:57PM +0200, Gustavo Halperin wrote: > Hello > > I need any program for make a 'mpeg' or 'avi' movie from 'jpeg' > pictures. Do you > people know some program for do it? > > Thanks > Gustavo > -- http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-enc-images.htm

Re: jpeg to mpeg or avi

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:50:07AM +0100, Øyvind A. Holm wrote: > > I got very good results by using > > http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/ > Strange, because Mplayer *uses* ffmpeg. Sounds fishy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: jpeg to mpeg or avi

On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 01:39:50PM +0200, Gustavo Halperin wrote: > >-mf on is deprecated, use mf://files instead > >Exiting... (error parsing cmdline) > > Do you understand what is the problem??? Yes. Unfortunately, the syntax changed between 0.9 and 1.0pre. I use the command: mencoder "mf://*

Re: Car Talk (wma9 stream) on Debian system?

On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 09:42:14PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > The streams are visible at > . > > Any suggestions? > -- Same behavior here. It's either updated codecs that mplayer doesn't support or maybe the server expect

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: [snip] bike week Hey, when you're done with that heavy-consumption-of-technology recreation you can play some centrifugal bumble puppy and a round of electromagnetic golf at the Charing T. I like to ride my bicicyle out on the trail b

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:39:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > of RTFM. Am I to understand that instead of using the > debian-user list that I should use a search engine? It's unclear from your rant what you are actually upset about. The answer to this question is "no" -- but google indexes

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:59:08PM +, stephen parkinson wrote: > actually i think this used to be reccommended behaviour at traffic > lights, but doesn't seem to be the norm now :-( > to do this, it needs some cooperation from the on-coming stream of > traffic, aka intelligence :-) The guide

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:00:10PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > When I'm waiting to turn left on a median, do I wait on the left edge or > the right edge? Both are bad -- one way cars have to cross in front of > you, the other way you block visibility for people turning left to the

OT moz-firefox's cookperm.txt is now hostperm.1

FYI: CVS builds of moz-firefox have changed the cookperm.txt file to a hostperm.1. I don't know about you, but I've built up my cookperm.txt file over the past year with a wonderful list of blocked cookie and images hosts -- and I back it up, because I've already blocked everything *I* need b

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:03:53AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Both are bad -- one way cars have to cross in front of > > you, the other way you block visibility for people turning left to the > > right of you. > > Nobody should be next to you in the lane. Yes, people coming from the right t

Re: Where can I find Centrino Drivers?

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 12:31:31AM -0800, Jake Johnson wrote: > Hello All, > I am looking for centrino drivers for my laptop. Anyone have any ideas where I can > find support? http://infoworld.com/article/04/02/25/HNlinuxdriver_1.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: DSL problem (possibly OT)

On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 11:34:24PM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:31:32 -0500 > Mike M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On a final note, my DSL service sucked. Broadband on cable is _much_ > > better. YMMV. > > Yeah, MMDV. It's all the providers, and what they provide.

howto serialize tasks in .xsession

I run a hybrid desktop: gnome-control-center is installed, but not metacity. Fluxbox is my WM; but I remove gnome-session as a Session Manager so I have No Session Manager. Here is my .xsession: #!/bin/sh ARGS="--hide-menubar --window-with-profile=Default" #gnome-control-center gnome-settings-

Re: howto serialize tasks in .xsession

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 11:55:44PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 18:50, Nano Nano wrote: > > I run a hybrid desktop: gnome-control-center is installed, but not > > metacity. Fluxbox is my WM; but I remove gnome-session as a Session > > Manager so I ha

Re: howto serialize tasks in .xsession

On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 02:09:17AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > ... A better > way is to use a spinlock wrapped around lsof or netstat right after the > gnome-settings-daemon call (note that calling it without any arguments > works at least as well): > > #... > gnome-settings-daemon & > GSDPID=

Re: ghost-like programs for Linux platform

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:01:55PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > j smith wrote: > >ghost for Windows can copy files in an partition > >exactly. is there any Linux programs similar to ghost? > > > > Systemimager. It also supports making configuration I use partimage to backup and restore my NTF

what does xlibmesa-dri provide?

I'm running XFree 4.3 from SID with the FGLRX drivers from ATI. My OpenGL is working *very* well. Obviously a non-tainted kernel would be preferable, but framerate is God. Would xlibmesa-dri provide (1) additional, (2) alternate, or (3) orthogonal functionality? Is it the open source "OpenGL-

Re: Gigabit Ethernet switch using Linux?

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:06:10PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've been looking at prices for a managed gigabit Ethernet switch, and > thought the prices are a bit up there... :-/ Was going to refer you to the $99 Netgear gigabit 5-port switch at Frys (outpost.com), until I saw the

Re: what app includes 'startx' command

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 12:05:52AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:57:31PM -0800, MJ Inabnit wrote: > > What application includes the "startx" command? > > xserver-xfree86, IIRC. You can find out for sure on > http://packages.debian.org/ or dlocate -S startx -- To UNS

emms

This is just plain wrong: Description: The Emacs MultiMedia System EMMS is the Emacs Multi-Media System. It tries to be a clean and small application to play multimedia files from Emacs using external players. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Newbies! please check this out -> http://www.aboutdebian.com/

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 09:02:00AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 03 Mar 2004, xucaen wrote: > > Today I found an amazing web site! why this is not listed anywhere on the > > debian.org > > web page I can not say but this has more information than I could ever have wished > > for! > > I urge

Re: Let Sunbeam Tech know Case Mod products with Bin Laden are not welcome

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:37:34AM +, stephen parkinson wrote: > might have something to with standing in front of a > bullseye target ring Or a halo. If this was 1997, it would be funny. It ain't now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Let Sunbeam Tech know Case Mod products with Bin Laden are not welcome

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 12:50:33AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 08:37:34AM +, stephen parkinson wrote: > > might have something to with standing in front of a > > bullseye target ring > > Or a halo. > > If this was 1997, it would be funny.

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 06:00:30PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:00:26 -0800 > Nano Nano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From my own experiences at leadership of various things, all I can say > > is I have total sympathy for politicians

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 07:56:44AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Nano Nano writes: > > From my own experiences at leadership of various things, all I can say is > > I have total sympathy for politicians. Put aside the concept of "sides" > > (as in "my side is win

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 03:30:14PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Nano Nano writes: > > Ah, yes, but the answer is also, "sometimes" yes, grasshopper. > > "Grasshopper"? ROFL. I thought everybody realized when you add that it's supposed to be a joke :

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >Nano Nano writes: > > > >>From my own experiences at leadership of various things, all I can say is > >>I have total sympathy for politicians. Put aside the concept of "sides

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:29:02PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Not to mention the fact that the US is following more than one thread by > >being by far the largest donor of aid to poorer nations > > Google for

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 04:16:24PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 11:29:02PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Not to mention the fact that the US

Re: Derivative effects.

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 01:44:02PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > > * Haines Brown wrote (2004-01-25 13:21): > >I kind'a miss DOS. > > With a decent shell it might have been just endurable. Like 4/dos? The radical libertarian in me enjoys the concept of an O/S where user apps can trash the sys

Re: apt-get via Windows

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:21:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > With apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or apt-zip, I am able to > produce a list of the URLs I need to do a dist-upgrade. However, I > don't have the bandwidth to download all those files (which would fill > a CDROM). > > So I beg s

Re: apt-get via Windows

On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 05:24:32PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:21:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > With apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris, or apt-zip, I am able to > > produce a list of the URLs I need to do a dist-upgrade. However, I > > don&#x

elinks -dump without tables

I use elinks -dump to get websites into text files. However, if the website contains tables, the output isn't well-formatted for a text editor -- all the tables become split lines. I don't much care for lynx output either. Is there a good way to get table-oriented html pages into a text editor p

demangling text columns

I asked an earlier question about e-links, let me ask it another way: Say I have a text file like: a a a a a a a a a a a a b b b b b c c c c a a a b b b b c c c c --- b b b b b d d d d b b b b b |e e e e e d d

Re: elinks -dump without tables

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 05:11:59AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: > links is an awful botch. Designwise, it's to browsers what MS-DOS is to > OS's. > > > I don't much care for lynx output either. Is there a good way to get > > table-oriented html pages into a text editor properly? > > w3m(1). It eve

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:19:38PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > I think the world's needy are going to be far happier with the US 12.9 > billion than they are going to be with Canada's paltry 2.0 billion. > Or would you prefer they had Norway's _massive_ (per Capita) > contribution of only 1.7 billio

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 04:57:15PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Dave's List Addy wrote: > >Yeah Right! With world opinion of the US, many are lucky that the 12.9 is > >even given. > > >Charity starts at home. > > Charity is not coerced. How much of those figures is actual charity > and how muc

deluser without rebooting first

When I logout as my user account, having never logged in any other TTYs, and log in TTY1 as root, and "slay ", and then "ps -AL | grep ", no matches, and then try to "deluser ", it says " is logged in." I have to reboot first. Why? How can I get not to be logged in at all so I can deluser and

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:13:12PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > As a paleolibertarian/paleoconservative I'm totally opposed to the current US > foreign policy. However, as far as these so-called "taxes" go, they are > nothing more than state-imposed slavery. >

Re: deluser without rebooting first

On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:18:27PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 22:48, Nano Nano wrote: > > When I logout as my user account, having never logged in any other TTYs, > > and log in TTY1 as root, and "slay ", and then "ps -AL | grep "

Re: deluser without rebooting first

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:19:27AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > who -H says the user has pts/[0-3] open, even though I've slayed him. > How can I close those? Apparently this is gnome-terminal that's causing it. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=183035 Been open for

Re: deluser without rebooting first

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 03:43:24AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 02:32, Nano Nano wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 12:19:27AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > > who -H says the user has pts/[0-3] open, even though I've slayed him. >

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 05:21:32AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:11:07PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > > >From what I heard the constitution explicitly defines two types of taxes > > (I forget the names), but basically they are "taxes on things&q

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 05:21:32AM -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > Perhaps you've heard of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, > > explicitly authorizing an income tax? The first guy I heard talking about this was on AM-radio, back before Tim McVeigh took all the fun out of black helicopte

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:26:34AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Even if the 16th were declared void, it wouldn't matter, because since > that amendment was "passed", the courts have decided that an income tax > was constitutional all along, with our without the amendment: > > http://www.taxable

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:26:52AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > The only westernized nation that spends less on health care/capita than the U.S. is > Turkey. You are forgetting the private sector. It's the best in the world for those who can get it. True, it's not distributed uniformly, but our poo

Re: deluser without rebooting first

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:41:12AM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: > Once upon a time Nano Nano said... > > > On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 22:48, Nano Nano wrote: > > > > When I logout as my user account, having never logged in any other TTYs, > > > > and log in TTY

alias priorities in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

The default aliases in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf: Bitstream Vera Sans Helvetica Arial Verdana [snip] sans-serif appear to give priority to later fonts: if both Bitstream Vera Sans and Arial are present,

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:55:04AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Uhm, no. I ran with what you agreed Nano said. IE, that Europe was > trending towards socialism. You said it was the right direction which means You're getting my part of the thread confused. Katipo originally replied to Paul M

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:09:57PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Mike M wrote: > >I am not going to defend .gov's oil policy. My point is there has to be > >an oil policy. You can't disengage and think things will just turn out > >alright. > > Why does there have to be one that includes invasio

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:43:56AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > invites the same to be done to it. And if we don't want people messing > with the US they why the hell do we put up with the US messing with other > nations. It's called a double-standard, really pissy things. http://history.acusd.e

Re: How to install HP 1010 in linux

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:36:04PM +, J.S.Sahambi wrote: > Recently I purchased a HP 1010 laser printer with *only* USB interface. > I would like to now how to install it in Redhat 6.0. I would be greatful > if I can get some url which could be helpful. http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_prin

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:50:25AM +0100, Mike M wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 01:04:43AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > Definition of Isolationism > >1. involvement without commitment - "advantages without obligations" > Impossible. > >2. no permanent,

Re: script to list installed packages

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:21:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The origional idea for this was for instances of having installed > something to try it out, then removing it. If a bunch of dependencies > were pulled in, I don't remember what they are. Over time this leads to > lots of

Keeping track of new packages (again)

I asked how to rediscover what packages are "really new" after you change your sources.list and everything shows up as new in this message: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200401/msg05571.html Aaron Hall suggested: http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ I'm using that, but I've

Re: Keeping track of new packages (again)

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:22:53PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: [snip] > > What files on my hard drive do apt-cache reference to display that > information? Perhaps if I back those up daily and later diff them. What do you think about this? grep-available . | grep-dctrl -sPackag

grep-available

What is the precise definition of "available"? $ grep-available dnsmasq | grep-dctrl -s Version . Version: 2.0-1 $ apt-cache show dnsmasq | grep-dctrl -s Version . Version: 2.1-1 Version: 2.0-1 FYI, 2.0-1 is what I have installed, but it will be upgraded to 2.1-1. I'm using it in this script:

Re: Screen fonts in X

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 04:27:07PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote: > Hi, > > Just installed Debian 3.0 r.0 from CD (No internet connection, I > know 3.0 is at r2). Fonts are very fuzzy. Title bars are unreadable, > text in a terminal window is, but not for very long, menus can be used > too, but ve

Re: grep-available

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 02:26:40AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 03:31:44PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > What is the precise definition of "available"? > > Whatever's in your available file (/var/lib/dpkg/available). Remember to > run 

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:36:22PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > That's where the comperison ends for me. I've never found a need for > sendmail in the modern 'net populated with Postfix and Exim. Well, i just bit the bullet: I installed postfix-tls on Sid. Up till now I just answer the questi

postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 09:53:43PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > Configuration: Internet with smarthost > Append .domain? No > Smtp relay host? My ISPs smtp server > Final destination domains? > --->Force synchronous updates on mail queue? Yes > > Is that it?

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:19:36AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > What's in the log for this message? from /var/log/mail.log: Jan 29 23:42:00 desk postfix/smtp[4117]: 8AEF514756: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=smtp.comcast.net[204.127.198.27], delay=0, status=bounced (host smtp.comcast.net[204.1

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:52:13PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:19:36AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > > What's in the log for this message? > > from /var/log/mail.log: > > Jan 29 23:42:00 desk postfix/smtp[4117]: 8AEF514756: >

Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:00:49PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:13:58 +1100 > > http://shearer.org/en/writing/mtacomparison.html ^^^ > > > Procmail is definitely worth looking at. Also > clamav, spamassassin, amavis, spamc. Procmail is an MDA. T

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:02:25AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > Moin, > > * Nano Nano wrote (2004-01-30 08:52): > >On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:19:36AM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > >> What's in the log for this message? > > > >from /var/log/mail.log:

Re: Isolationism is history.

On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 08:05:36PM -0800, Day Brown wrote: > women barefoot and pregnant. The only thing they want, they only thing > they have always wanted, is more sons to go into battle to steal more > women for the alpha male warrior class leaders. That's what they been > doing, in Iraq and el

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC [ PLEASE STOP ]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:37:39PM -0300, federico silva wrote: > if this long thread has gone for > soo long with the [OT] tag > why don't you go to another place > to talk about this *rather* OT stuff. okay http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/debian-user-200401/msg06917.html -- To

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:28:43PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: > I deliver my mails with a valid from address, which [EMAIL PROTECTED] is > not. Maybe you should fix your MUA? Aha, that explains why the 2nd message worked: I have a mutt rule that adds the correct From for list-replies. I guess

Who uses /etc/email-addresses?

Who uses /etc/email-addresses? Apparently, Exim adds: Sender: [Account Full Name] If I switch to Postfix, need I any data in email-addresses? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 01:21:46AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2004-01-30 14:57:37 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > Aha, that explains why the 2nd message worked: I have a mutt rule that > > adds the correct From for list-replies. I guess I'll have to make sure > >

Re: Isolationism is history.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:51:13PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > And a bit friendlier to those who get dumped on their ass due to > unforseen circumstances. The whole idea of credit ratings tends to > cause a lot of false positives for people who intend to pay but lose > their job or get screwed by

Re: choice of languages for debian system tool?

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 03:20:43PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > aptitude ~sbase > aptitude search ~sbase ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Isolationism is history.

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 02:51:14AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..the good side of this AFAICT, is my wee linux business will survive > another coupla years, before the big landslide of ex-MSCE etc hits. ;-) I was a MCSD thank you :-) I got mine in 1995 on the NT 3.51, VB 3.0, and Access 2.0 rou

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 07:30:43AM +0100, Alex Fitterling wrote: > I know what i want the thing is why can't debian do > I wish a desktop system and wish to get rid of cron and all other grab I do > not want to see on my system. other distributions can do.. I seen it > alex # aptitude purge cron

Re: Gaim currently broken in unstable?

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 06:31:21AM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > I can't get gaim to log into MSN at all, even though the current version > is supposed to be able to (I was using a backport when I was on woody a > day or so ago). > > Anybody else having this problem, or know a solution? > > Acco

Re: Postscript or PDF --> html?

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:32:36PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Anyone know of a tool to convert the pdf or postscript to html? http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/ ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A letter for Mr. Darl McBride

On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 12:25:25AM -0800, Ivan Torres Jimenez wrote: > Mr. Darl McBride > President & CEO > The SCO Group, inc. A Parable: Once there was a year called 1993 and there was a brick-and-mortar store called Egghead. Software was sold on floppies inside shrink-wrapped boxes with sti

Need help on postfix [MAILER-DAEMON@desk: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender]

I still just don't know what to do about Postfix. My hostname is "desk". My ISP is comcast.net -- should I tell postfix my "mail name" is comcast.net, so mail appears to come from [EMAIL PROTECTED] from things like popularity contest? I have configured Mutt to use a valid email for the From;

Re: postfix [was Re: Sendmail vs Exim vs Others]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 05:39:54AM +0100, Tobias Reckhard wrote: > Nano Nano wrote: > >My first test message to the outside world bounced with: > > > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host smtp.comcast.net[216.148.227.125] said: > >550 > >[PERMFAIL] comcast.net req

Buying a new computer, questions!

I am going to buy a new computer this week (yay Bush tax cuts!) -- will it work with Linux? Intel Pentium 4/ 3.2C GHz 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache, Hyper Threading Technology - Retail Asus 875P Chipset Motherboard for Intel Socket 478 CPU, Model "P4C800-E DELUXE" -RETAIL Corsair XMS Extreme Memory

Re: Buying a new computer, questions!

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 01:02:47PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would consider another MB manufacture, as Asus has had problems with quality of as > late. > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13674 > > Ok this might effect their AMD line, but do you really trust a MB company which uses

Re: debian ... can't get it to install

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 07:36:35AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > KIND : Knoppix Is Not Debian KIND BUD: Knoppix Is Novice Distro Based Upon Debian :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 03:12:09PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > IE, name me one case where someone would set reply-to where they would > not be able to also set From:. I can't think of a single modern email > client out of early development where this isn't the case. I can't think > of one i

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:47:17AM +, Svens wrote: > Svens wrote: > > > hi, here is a vary short HOWTO about speed up IDE Harddisks: > > > > open file /etc/init.d/hwtools and insert this lines: > > > > if command -v hdparm >/dev/null 2>&1; then > > # insert begin > >hdparm -c3 -d1 -D1 -k

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 07:57:55PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 12:07:26AM +, Svens wrote: > > > > Gee, let's turn another cluebie loose with a shotgun, and see if he can > zorch his data. > > Let's not find out what modes his drives actually support, and let's make >

a bit (asus!) confused about i2c and lm-sensors

I have an ASUS P4C800. I have 2.6.2 kernel. I wish to see my CPU and Mobo temps (and ideally fan speeds) like Asus PC Probe shows in Windows. (1) Which of the following should I have installed? $ apt-cache search "sensors|i2c" i2c-source - sources for drivers for the i2c bus libsensors2 - Libra

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:34:07AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Thorsten Haude wrote: > >Funny you see it that way. For years Mutt's feature list was copied to > >the other clients todo list almost verbatim. > > Funny? That would kind of be the definition of a tech. demo. "Look, > this is nea

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:44:57AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Nano Nano wrote: > >You're making tons of statements that just apply to you. I like mutt. > >I can make it think like me. It doesn't feel like a box. > > Oh, I can get mutt to work but only with

Re: saving .debs to their original name

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:36:50AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Say, apt-get dist-upgrade --print-uris makes lines with URL FILE SIZE MD5. > What are the bad things that might happen if I just use wget to get > the URLs, without using the FILEname? I intend to use > dpkg-scanpackages later. > > H

Re: a bit (asus!) confused about i2c and lm-sensors

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 06:40:26AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2004 01:08:40 -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > > > I have an ASUS P4C800. I have 2.6.2 kernel. I wish to see my CPU and > > Mobo temps (and ideally fan speeds) like Asus PC Probe shows in Windows. [snip]

Re: [OT] Taking notes

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:59:57PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > Any suggestions? Would a custom (v.v.v.v. simple) DTD be an idea? What > emacs packages let me input the notes into a valid XML file adhering to > my simple DTD in a pointy-clicky sort of way? Is this not the way > forwar

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 08:05:15PM -0800, Dale Welch wrote: > > ---dale > ---it is ok to have no rules... >so long as everyone follows the rules Evey asks: "All this riot and uproar, V...is this anarchy? Is this the land of do-as-you-please?" He responds: "No. This is only the land of take

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