Re: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Richard Kimber
27;t remember). However, in both cases it is now filled with what I can only describe as "noise", which changes each time the window is created. I have a vague recollection if seeing something like this a couple of years ago, with Mandrake, but it eventually disappeared when I upgraded ag

Re: testing migration

2003-03-12 Thread Richard Kimber
still create a backup of your > old file. Yes it did create a backup. But the confusing thing is that in the case of some packages I *was* asked if I wanted to replace my file. I therefore assumed that if I hadn't been asked it hadn't been overwritten. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber ht

Re: testing migration

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Kimber
eleted when the package is purged. Actually, this is ambiguous, because "local changes must be preserved" can both mean "backed up" (which is what happened in my xinetd case) and "remain active", which is what I think should happen. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber ht

Re: testing migration

2003-03-13 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:00:25 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Kimber wrote: > > Actually, this is ambiguous, because "local changes must be preserved" > > can both mean "backed up" (which is what happened in my xinetd case) > > a

Re: Auto apt-get upgrade

2003-03-16 Thread Richard Kimber
eemingly no > reason. Yes, though there's presumably no reason not to do just the update bit. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mouse question

2003-03-16 Thread Richard Kimber
text cursor, the procedure often results in unwanted selection of text. Thanks. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Downgrading libc6?

2003-03-18 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 11:27:42 +1100 Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or you could just wait a few days for it to filter into testing. I thought it already had. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: gcc 3.2 and kernel 2.4.20

2003-03-21 Thread Richard Kimber
ther. I run testing. How do I change from what has been the default to 3.2? - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Transferring Digital Camera Images

2003-03-24 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 10:14:22 -0500 Matthew Weier O'Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Grab the 'usbmgr' and 'hotplug' packages via apt. (These packages Doesn't hotplug conflict with and replace usbmgr? That's what synaptic tells me

Re: Official Exim 4 package

2003-03-24 Thread Richard Kimber
claim it to be. Well, it's hard to tell isn't it? I've just been reading (much of) this thread, and I'm not really qualified to contribute, but it seems to me that he has enough of a point for it to be worth thinking about and discussing in a productive way. - Richard. -- Ric

winhelpcgi.cgi

2003-10-17 Thread Richard Kimber
- Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

update-modules not working

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Kimber
ad of logcheck messages about "/etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.19/modules.dep". None of this stops the system working. but it's irritating. Thanks. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Kimber
27;`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : :' : > `. `'` proud Debian admin and user > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system Wot's that tangle of dots in your sig? ;-) -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: update-modules not working

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Kimber
-modules. Thanks. Yes, that's the work around I used, but I'm puzzled as to why the force option didn't work. Could it be a bug? If so, I guess I should report it. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread Richard Kimber
the mount, it works. Don't ask me why. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:36:21 +0200 Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been experiencing the same problems on 2.4.22: Why do you have this set like this? Reply-To: LIST-Reply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It defeats Sylpheed's automatic reply-to-list facility. - Richard

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread Richard Kimber
> Your /etc/modules and /etc/modules.conf Next time I have the problem. I will do this. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Kimber
ply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as you seem to have done, prevents the reply to list option from working properly. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Kimber
ld to go and write the code myself, which I cannot do. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Kimber
should do - like "don't do a dist-upgrade just yet" ... etc. Maybe there is such information - if so I'd like to know how to find it. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Kimber
between testing and stable to which stuff gets moved only when there are no breakages? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?#

2003-11-05 Thread Richard Kimber
ed to have a look at. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libGL and DRM error with Matrox card

2003-11-05 Thread Richard Kimber
Some apps give an error when started saying: libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering XFree86.0.log says:- MGA(0): Direct rendering enabled Is there a problem? If so how should I resolve it? Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard

looking for Knotes type application

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Kimber
thing. There's a similar Gnome applet, but it seems that won't work on a stand-alone basis, or at least I couldn't get it to. Thanks, -Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:18:56 +0100 Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:25:47 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joachim Fahnenmueller) wrote: > > > > > > > $ mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > > > > > mount: /dev/scd0 is not a

Re: looking for Knotes type application

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:42:20 -0700 Wesley J Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I find Knotes a very useful app, but it seems to use rather a lot of > > memory for what it does (in terms of how I use it - mostly as a > > storage space for copying and pasting between apps). If I've > > underst

problem compiling kernel

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Kimber
drivers' make[1]: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 Is this a bug, or have I done something silly? I've been using 2.4.19. Would I be better off with another version? - Richard -- Richard Kimber http:/

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-28 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:29:11 -0600 (CST) Scott Dier - dieman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > of distributions that shows how deticated many of the Linux > distributions are at distributing stable and secure fixes to users in a > timely fashion. Including users of 'testing

upgrade failure

2003-09-19 Thread Richard Kimber
I run mostly testing and just did an upgrade, which included libc6. It recommended restarting services, but it hangs when it tries to restart cupsys What should I do now? Thanks. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-24 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:16:56 -0400 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also think there is a script to set it up automatically called > fetchmailconf. I've never used it so I can't say whther it's any good or > not. It worked OK for me - R

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Richard Kimber
l allow you to filter and delete on the server, on the basis of headers. As has been mentioned earlier. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: record sound...

2003-09-25 Thread Richard Kimber
nows a program which can do this? > > $ apt-get install sox > $ man rec I'm using Audacity for wav (as I write). - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

update-modules problem

2003-10-01 Thread Richard Kimber
problem arises because when I turn on my OSS sound it rewrites the modules.conf to ensure other sound modules are inactive. Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mailing list

2003-10-02 Thread Richard Kimber
Has this mailing list had problems in the last couple of days? Yesterday I found I was not receiving any messages. Today I discovered I was not subscribed, even though I had not unsubscribed myself. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: mailing list

2003-10-02 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:01:15 -0400 Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:47:08PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > | Has this mailing list had problems in the last couple of days? > | > | Yesterday I found I was not rece

Re: dangling symlink?

2003-10-03 Thread Richard Kimber
s to fix > it since there are more important issues to deal with. I doubt it's rare, I have about half a dozen, but I agree it's harmless - I've not bothered to do anything yet. Maybe when I'm bored ... - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To

Re: blufish

2003-10-05 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:23:19 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Edwards wrote: > > >Not really sure where to ask this cos there douse not seem to be any > >email lists or forums for bluefish. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.p

Re: mailing list

2003-10-05 Thread Richard Kimber
ull. It is emptied very frequently. (And my ISP sends a message when it's 75% full and I never got that). I can only suspect my ISP had a problem and wrongly bounced messages. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: off the list again

2003-10-07 Thread Richard Kimber
hat no longer delivers mails that used to be delivered. Maybe spam filtering, maybe something else. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing user-list

2003-10-07 Thread Richard Kimber
a number of people seem to be having this problem when their quotas have not been used up. Including me. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: off the list again

2003-10-09 Thread Richard Kimber
hem - I was asked to send them copies of the bounces, which of course I'm not getting - it's the people mailing me that get them - they don't seem to understand that :( - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Programmer for hire

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:07:28 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get, dselect, and aptitude answer every but the most casual > user's needs. and synaptic. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

ftp from windows box

2002-10-14 Thread Richard Kimber
I'm trying to ftp, on my local home net, from a win2000 box to my Debian testing box. I can happily transfer files, but neither of the ftp clients I've tried on the windows PC will show a remote file listing. The ftp client thinks the directory is empty even though it has just transferred a file

Re: ftp from windows box

2002-10-14 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 17:16:22 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.14.1707 > +0200]: > > client thinks the directory is empty even though it has just > > transferred a file there successfully.

Re: ftp from windows box

2002-10-14 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:33:55 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.10.14.1723 > +0200]: > > I'm logging in as a recognised user with password, and the connection > > is made OK. The permissio

Re: Name resolution on internal network

2002-10-15 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 21:31:27 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Proulx) wrote: > And apparently a poor guess one at that. Just a few messages down in > the list, seen in the archive here, the problem has been reported as > being a Win2k DHCP server. I have this - my Netgear router seems to be configu

setting up static IP

2002-10-23 Thread Richard Kimber
How do I go about telling my router on my home network that I want to use a fixed IP address on my Debian box? It needs to be fixed so that the other PC on the system can retrieve mail from it. At the moment the router seems to allocate 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.0.3 to both machines at varying time

pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Kimber
I'm getting in a bit of a muddle setting up qpopper as a mail server for a local pc. >From my machine I can do: telnet pop3 and see how many unread messages there are. But if I try telnet pop. 110 I get: could not resolve pop./110: Name or service not known and essentially the same message when

Re: pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 13:42:04 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are you trying to do? telnet pop. 110 tells telnet to > find a machine called "pop.hostname" and connect to port 110, which is > equivalent to the pop3 port. I don't think that's what you're looking > for. W

Re: pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:08:24 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What are you trying to do? telnet pop. 110 tells telnet > > > to find a machine called "pop.hostname" and connect to port 110, > > > which is equivalent to the pop3 port. I don't think that's what > > > you're

Re: pop server

2002-10-18 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:05:48 -0700 Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the machine running the pop3 server is properly configured (no TCP > wrappers, no firewall, etc) from some other machine you should be able > to: > > telnet machine pop3 (whatever the machine's name is). If

Re: pop server

2002-10-19 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:29:50 -0700 (PDT) Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on kimber... >make sure in.pop3 or equivalent is listed in /etc/hosts.allow > ipop3: localhost, 192.168.xx.0/255.255.255.0 > > ( you should see similar entries for wuftpd, in.telnetd > (

Re: which anti-spam tool?

2002-10-24 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:33:26 +0200 Robert Ian Smit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know spamassassin by name. I believe the version in stable is > quite old. Is it useful to install that version? What other tools > should I consider? I use Ifile with procmail. Ifile works differently from spamass

apt-get upgrade question

2002-10-31 Thread Richard Kimber
In the course of a recent Debian testing apt-get upgrade, without using the -u option, a number of packages were upgraded. I discovered that one of these turned out to be kernel-source-2.4.19. Since I only have one kernel-source-2.4.19 directory on my machine, I assume that it just overwrote what

Re: Compiling Sources and Maintaining a Debian System..

2002-11-01 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:21:36 -0600 "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I went through the steps to get the sources.. apt-get source qpopper What do you do if the source is not available via apt-get? I.e. where do you unzip it? And do you have to do anything to it before proceeding?

Re: Compiling Sources and Maintaining a Debian System..

2002-11-01 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 07:25:51 -0600 Jamin W.Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 12:46:44 +0000 Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > What do you do if the source is not available via apt-get? I.e. where > > do you unzip it? And

Re: Needed: Hardware recommendateons for Wireless Networking

2002-11-03 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 18:38:40 + iain d broadfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've got a netgear MR314, and a cheap Belkin pc card in my laptop. > > the netgear is a doddle to admin. Yes, I have this router. Along with a D-Link USB adapter for one of the other machines. D-Link stuff seems

copying files

2002-11-04 Thread Richard Kimber
Is there a program that will copy files from one directory to another, but which will avoid overwriting files with the same name by automatically creating a unique filename in the second directory, or is this something I need to program for myself? Thanks, - Richard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)

2002-11-05 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:32:40 -0500 Joshua Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You mean there are email programs that can't thread? Amazing. I've run > > kmail, mutt, evolution and sylpheed-claws (this post). All are > > thread-capable. But Sylpheed is not. - Richard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

XF86 4.2.1 upgrade problem

2002-11-06 Thread Richard Kimber
I run testing, and have just upgraded X to 4.2.1-3, and I eventually got it working OK. However, although I'm using the same XF86Config file as before, and have not made any screensaver or other changes, my monitor no longer goes into power saving mode as it used to with the previous version of X.

Re: problem with XFree86 in testing

2002-11-07 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 02:33:01 -0600 Caitrin Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never had X work less than perfectly before, so I haven't any > idea where to start troubleshooting. Any suggestions of things I > ought to try? Was a new config file created? If so, try using the one you succe

apt-get questions

2002-11-07 Thread Richard Kimber
apt-get dist-upgrade is persistently holding back one package (j2sdk1.3). Why is this, and what, if anything, should I do? Also, when I upgraded earlier, I found my kernel source had been upgraded. I assume it just overwrote what was there previously, but it's not clear. Is that what normally hap

Re: apt-get questions

2002-11-07 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 09:07:31 -0600 Gary Lowder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Richard Kimber wrote: > > > apt-get dist-upgrade is persistently holding back one package > > (j2sdk1.3). Why is this, and what, if anything, should I do? > > > > &g

Re: Bayesian Mail Filter

2002-11-08 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:28:48 +1100 "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been using bmf to filter spam, for about a week now. It is > superb. I know I am still receiving spam, but I don't care as I don't > have to sort through heaps of crap anymore. > > Credit where credit is

Re: Howto add a crontab job ?

2002-11-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 04:43:22 +1100 bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's an excerpt from my crontab > > # run every 5 minutes > */5 * * * * /home/bob/bin/getmail Don't you have to have the user in here? My crontab says:- # m h dom mon dow user command 25 6* * * roottest -e

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On 11 Nov 2002 16:19:17 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, I'm scared, since I don't want to trash X Windows. Other > than saving copies of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /etc/X11/fs/config, > are there any other preparations that I should make before taking > the upgrade plunge?

Re: Upgrading to XFree 4.2.1-3

2002-11-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On 11 Nov 2002 17:43:04 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Were these the only 2 problems? The only significant ones. I had a problem with the monitor not powering down, which it had done before, but that was easily solved - though I'm not sure why I had the problem at all since I wa

Re: X 4.2 problems ("out of range") with Matrox G450

2002-11-16 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 06:26:09 + (UTC) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forgot to mention that shortly previous to this I had started having > tracking problems with my Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer mouse. It > would occasionally freeze or not track properly. I was puzzled by > this

Re: X 4.2 problems ("out of range") with Matrox G450

2002-11-16 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 06:02:33 + (UTC) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I won't try to reproduce the entire bug report here, but in a > nutshell, with my original working config file for 4.1, which > corresponds to a resolution of 1280x1024, the server tries to come up, > but then hangs

Re: X 4.2 problems ("out of range") with Matrox G450

2002-11-17 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:56:26 + (UTC) Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a reason you are not using the usual X drivers? It's a difficult decision, I guess. On the one hand Matrox presumably know more about their cards than X people (unless they work for Matrox, of course, but

Re: firewall problems !!

2002-12-01 Thread Richard Kimber
not a very cost effective way of spending time. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

testing - no new packages

2002-12-01 Thread Richard Kimber
I have not seen any new packages in testing for quite a long time. Is this because I'm using a mirror that's not being updated, or aren't there any? Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: firewall problems !!

2002-12-02 Thread Richard Kimber
m into a false > sense of security. It depends on how complicated their setup is. InteractiveBastille seems OK for someone who, say, doesn't run any servers, and just runs simple clients to do email and web browsing. If it's not, I imagine the developers would like to know about

file permissions problem

2002-12-10 Thread Richard Kimber
I have two accounts on my machine (which is a simple home machine that no one else uses, except for my wife logging in to retrieve her email). I have set the permissions on one of the accounts to rwx--x--x (because my local apache needs execute permission to access files in this account, as I unde

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

2003-08-11 Thread Richard Kimber
at they're doing, and simple home users who don't - like me. When I installed Debian, I spent _a lot_ of time getting exim/fetchmail/procmail/bogofilter to work. Correctly configuring anything is certainly a goal, but just getting it working is nice. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www

Re: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Kimber
e CPU is and if it's an x86 then use kudzu and if it isn't don't? Wouldn't that work on all platforms? Or can't an x86 CPU be reliably detected? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge(testing) dist-upgrade problem?

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Kimber
a dist-upgrade? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Re: Virus found in the message

2003-08-20 Thread Richard Kimber
ess in the from field. As a result I get all the > bounces. > Now ya wanna get the kick in the nads? Is there any way of filtering them that can distinguish between these and genuine delivery failures from messages I have geuninely sent? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/

Re: Quoting

2003-08-29 Thread Richard Kimber
l when people snip and reply to the relevant bits underneath. It's non-snipping that's the real problem. It seems virtually to be the norm in many non-computer usenet groups. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Quoting

2003-08-30 Thread Richard Kimber
y not go > for the more effective method and ditch the mouse for a minute? > > There's times when a GUI isn't necissarily the best choice. Why not have the best of both worlds and have a nice-looking gui, but use the keyboard to operate it? I'm sure many people do this.

Trying to re-exec init

2003-04-01 Thread Richard Kimber
After today's testing upgrade (which included libc6), I see that logcheck reports: init: Trying to re-exec init What does this mean? Did it try and was successful, or did it fail? Is it a good thing for it to be doing? Do I need to do anything about it? Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard K

Re: Trying to re-exec init

2003-04-01 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 15:24:20 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No, I think it's just logcheck being excessively paranoid. > > Cheers, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Many thanks. -- Richard Kimber http://

logging changes in file permissions

2003-04-03 Thread Richard Kimber
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Re: logging changes in file permissions

2003-04-03 Thread Richard Kimber
hich process made the change. It just says: "you know exactly which files have been modified, added, or removed". -- I know this already. I need to know what does it. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

compiling pan

2003-04-03 Thread Richard Kimber
my system, do I have to create it, or should it come with the package? I'm running, mostly, testing, with gtk2 from unstable. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compiling pan

2003-04-05 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 17:31:21 +0200 "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 19:49:49 +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > > I tried to compile pan 0.13.4, but got a configure error saying that > > it couldn't find gnet >= 1.

Re: 2 Hardware Questions (LCD/Wireless Router)

2003-04-05 Thread Richard Kimber
7 20 which I'm very happy with. It's just like a CRT in the respect that you mention. I can't answer your question about colour compensation. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt list-bugs question

2003-06-05 Thread Richard Kimber
bugs. Is this a bug in list-bugs, or does not mean that the bug has been fixed? The man page doesn't say what means. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-11 Thread Richard Kimber
I right in assuming that the #188900 bug is such that I should avoid upgrading binutils? Thanks, -Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:04:01 +0200 Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:50:10 +0200, Richard Kimber wrote: > > > I have 50 or so testing packages in line for upgrade. Some of these > > have grave bugs open. Some have grave bugs I can live

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-14 Thread Richard Kimber
is morning listbugs still says it's open. There isn't much point in having this facility if it doesn't report the true position. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-15 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 02:22:22 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 01:12:57PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 01:29:09 -0400 > > Graeme Tank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and bug #188900 seems fixe

/usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Kimber
owing packages have unmet dependencies: apt-listchanges: Depends: python-apt but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages How do I get round this? I'm running testing. Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Kimber
in > apt 0.5.5. Many thanks. That's cleared things up. Should I just wait for 0.5.5 to come into testing, or get it from unstable? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

2002-12-22 Thread Richard Kimber
e it does with the NTL cable system I'm on. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

2002-12-22 Thread Richard Kimber
time server is. The local router that acts as your gateway. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Testing security

2002-12-24 Thread Richard Kimber
unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 6.2.0-1 of fetchmail and fetchmail-ssl. Where does this leave testing? Some statement would have been nice. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

RealOne Player

2002-12-27 Thread Richard Kimber
/real/player/unix/unix.html - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Video CD software

2003-01-01 Thread Richard Kimber
o stuff, I have no idea what sorts of packages I might need. I'd be grateful for any suggestions for simple-to-use packages (I don't need anything particularly fancy), and for any links to useful tutorial-type websites. Thanks. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Testing security

2003-01-10 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:48:03 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.24.1538 > +0100]: > > Where does this leave testing? Some statement would have been nice. > > testing has no security updates

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