Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
one of my Linux boxes here with the ATA/133 adapter card, no problems. Which brand and model, and which kernel are you using? >From your post, I presume that the driver for it is in the kernel.org source. Correct? -- +-------+ | Ron Johnson

Re: mozilla: goto top/bottom of webpages ???

2003-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
mbinations of Ctrl- > and Alt- and Home and End ;> > > Sometimes, even the simplest things are too simple for me . . . Well, I think I agree with you. I'd have never thought to try only & . "Everywhere else", the standard keystrokes are - & -. -- +--

Re: hard drives larger than 137gb

2003-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 08:08, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 03:18:32AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 20:13, Lupust wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 12:13, Ric Otte wrote: > > > > > > > Is it possible to use som

ipmasq fails to install (help!)

2003-03-09 Thread Ron Farrer
I can think of is that there is some sort of previously unseen hardware problem - but I hope that's not the case! Any help would be greatly appricated! Ron -- Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home: <http://farrer.net/~rbf/> Debian GNU/Linux on PowerPC:

dpkg fails (Re: ipmasq fails to install)

2003-03-09 Thread Ron Farrer
Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Anyone got an idea why the ipmasq package in stable would fail to > install? I'v got an old machine (486 vintage with an AMD 5x86 processor > @133MHz) that I use as a firewall running latest stable. While > attempting to install ipmasq it

[OT] High-availability computing (was: Software RAID...)

2003-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
, and continue from your last checkpoint. Of course, NODE2 is now 1/2 as fast, since there are 2x as many users on it... So, other than those 2 examples, how do you do clustering in Linux? -- +-------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
/www.debian.org/distrib/packages http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=libdvdcontrol.so.8&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=unstable&arch=i386 This says that ogl-mmx provides that file. -- +---

Disk problems? (was: Re: dpkg fails)

2003-03-09 Thread Ron Farrer
Ron Farrer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Update: it's not just ipmasq. I also tried to install wget and it fails > in the same way. > > TIA, > Ron Second update: after doing some disk intensive work, these show up in the system log: Mar 9 19:16:27 dmz kernel: scsi0: MEDIU

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
, or as soon as it fails. (Of course, if 2 disks go at the same time, you're hosed, but that's the case for RAID1 also...) -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://mem

Re: apt-* notify for new packages ?

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
y big "Thank You!!!" to whoever wrote that utility... -- +-------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | |

Re: eep, gcc update no likey!

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
debian.org and I'm seeing this as > well. File bugs. > > And I was going to do an apt-get upgrade tonight. Thanks for the warning. > -- > John Hasler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dancing Horse Hill > Elmwood, Wisconsin -- +------

Re: apt-* notify for new packages ?

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 07:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 04:50, Konstantin Kostadinov wrote: > > Hi > > Is anyone knows is there are some scripts,binary that can notify for new > > packages. > > > > Now I'm use apt-get update ; apt-get

Re: Bash scripting

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
grep "port|connection" egrep -n "port|connection" /var/log/dmesg -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | |

Re: buy or build computer?

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
bones system (mobo installed in case with maybe a CPU), and then you install everything else. This is the way I prefer to go. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.j

Re: VIA & AGP & mystery

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
tion of [x|menu]config to select that chipset or something close to it. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Spit in

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 09:22, Kirk Strauser wrote: > 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? Hmmm. By definition, RAID1 is

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
y that the use of a spare disk is recommended in any case. ;) You know, I forgot all about hot spares! Even with a hot spare, if a 2nd drive puked before the storage controller integrated the hot spare into the RAID5 set, all would be lost. -- +

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 11:36, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-03-10T16:39:36Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > > Never heard of putting any more than 2 disks in a mirrorset. > > Mirroring can have a nice boost for read access. I'd imagine that such a &

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
programmer, and I sure would like to see what > all the fuss is about before I die of old age... > > (Everything worked perfectly the first time, BTW, installing woody on my > sister's old iMac, but I want it on my laptop.) > >

Re: CA Clipper Compiler for Linux?

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
es.msp?PID=18 http://cbbrowne.com/info/xbase.html http://www.fship.com/ http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/307/ http://www.recital.com/products_linux.htm http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=1083 -- +-------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailt

Re: Apt-get, downloading a single package

2003-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
get install single_package Let's be a bit more verbose: # apt-get -s -u install The "-s" is for "simulate", so after you are happy with the action, and that it won't remove something that you really want, then run it w/o the "-s". -- +--

Re: Ext3

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
e Debian-30r1 for i386 gotten a few days ago from a Debian > mirror. Thanks in advance, man tune2fs Specifically, the -j option. -- +-------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA

[possibly OT] change in behavior of terminal windows after upgradeto GNOME 2.2

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
uot;. Is there some option to "flip" to go back to the GNOME 1.4 way of doing things, or should I enter a bug? TIA -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EM

Re: wtf? (long and frustrated)

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
I'm Try Libranet 2.7 or even Knoppix (which has an install-to-disk script). > A server does not need X. Unfortunately, some do nowadays. The management "console" for Oracle databases is a GUI app written in Java. -- +------

fsck on a mounted disk?

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Farrer
a mounted partition (the disk only has one: root) without causing any (further) damage? TIA, Ron -- Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: image viewer that refreshes?

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
he > downloading: > > #!/bin/sh > > WATCHIMG="/tmp/jennicam.jpg" > > display -immutable "$WATCHIMG" & > while true > do > sleep 1200 > display -remote "$WATCHIMG" > done What, in this case, is a "remote"

Re: Package system vs. source vs. both

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
Free that you tried to install had drivers for your video card? -- +-------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Spit in one hand, and wish for

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 13:15, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-03-10T18:25:06Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I bet RAID0 would be even faster. Yes, yes, fragile... > > Not for concurrent reads. If a file spans more than one physical disk, then > at

Re: Problem with Mozilla

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
lla 1.2.1-9 from sid. I do, however, see mozilla crash occasionally. I think it has to do with the version of Java I run (Sun 1.3.1). -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jeffe

Re: DVD Recording

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
pport Then... Install cdrecord-ProDVD (you'll have to go to the web site to get it.) Next... cdrecord dev=1,0,0 -v blank=fast mkisofs -r -J -udf -o dvdrw.test.raw /usr/local/data/compaq cdrecord-wrapper.sh dev=1,0,0 -v dvdrw.test.raw Lastly, to verify... modprobe -v udf mount /

Re: [possibly OT] change in behavior of terminal windows afterupgrade to GNOME 2.2

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 16:11, Michael Wardle wrote: > On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 01:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Specifically, this regards "window blanking" in "full screen" curses > > apps (like man(1), less(1) & vi(1), but not more(1)). > > >

Re: Software RAID and drive failures

2003-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 14:30, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-03-11T18:41:12Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why wouldn't you get parallel reads, especially if you do async IO? > > I guess a better example would be when two files are accessed, and each

Re: X-over cables [was Direct cable connection]

2003-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
ould make a patch cable for you for the cost of parts plus a 6-pack of good beer. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | |

fixing perl scripts for register_globals = Off

2003-03-13 Thread Ron Farrer
elpful. So I thought I'd ask here. Below is an example PHP page that is broken, can someone show me how to fix? That way I can see the changes in something I somewhat understand. ---cut-here--- ---cut-here--- This is just a simple bit of PHP that logs the users web browser and ip add

RE: How can I unistall mysql?

2003-03-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-log As a generality: $ dpkg -l | grep In your case, this will tell you the names of all the mysql-related packages: $ dpkg -l |grep mysql -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA

deb 3.0 woody install

2003-03-17 Thread Ron Mayer
i've been trying to get the 3.0 woody installed on my compaq pII 350 svirge card for a week. knoppix will install and work if i use xmodule=vesa at bootup. installing woody doesn't work with svirge, vesa or anything else.  i've tried all possible combos of kernals, vid card, monitor configs.

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
G3 Macs still used the NuBus, and thus won't run Linux. -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "As the night fall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It is in such twilight that we must all be

Re: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-15 Thread Ron Johnson
r to the Linux box. You'll have to drop them in the correct directory on the Linux box. -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "What other evidence do you have that they are terrorists, other than that they

Increasing maximum number of groups

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
ting NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS to 256. I recompiled, made a new entry in lilo, ran lilo, rebooted the new kernel, everything works the way it did with the previous kernel... And when I say everything, I mean everything :(, the maximum number of groups is still 32. Any ideas?? Thanks, Ron PS. I'm not

Group of new files

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
or she created to be owned by group bar... Not by group foo. Most of the users barely know how to use ftp... So learning them how to user chown or sg is out of the question. Any ideas? Thanks, Ron PS. I'm not on the list so could you please cc any responses to me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: debian on a mac?

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 03:11, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (15/10/03 21:41), Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 19:01, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Clive Menzies penned: > > > > It is worth reviewing the archive for [EMAIL PR

Raid system

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Rademaker
ernel. Thanks, Ron PS. Could you please cc any replies to me because I'm not on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
al, and documentation is sketchy, unless you want to spring for the O'Reilly book. -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Spit in one hand, and wish for peace in the other. Guess which is more effective... --

Re: Can't install kernel compiled on sid machine on a woody system

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
and this, > though. I'm also having problems (different, though) compiling the .22 kernel-source package with 3.2. On another box, I successfully built the kernel.org .22 using 3.3.2, so I'm going to try that now. -- --------- Ron Joh

Re: Mozilla Mail & Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 16:51, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Thursday 16 October 2003 22:19, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:51, Alan Chandler wrote: > > > On Thursday 16 October 2003 02:45, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: > > > > Hi. > > &g

Re: wont install

2003-10-16 Thread Ron Johnson
r-- root/root 2099 2003-10-16 22:25:47 dbg_log/pci -r--r--r-- root/root 110 2003-10-16 22:25:47 dbg_log/cmdline -r--r--r-- root/root 188 2003-10-16 22:25:47 dbg_log/partitions -r--r--r-- root/root 145 2003-10-16 22:25:47 dbg_log/mounts -r--r--r-- root/root 124 2003-10-16 22:25:47 dbg_log/ve

Mkinitrd question

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
l met how to do the following with Debian I would very much appreciate it: /sbin/mkinitrd -- preload scsi_mod --preload sd_mod --with ft3xx initrd-2.4.22.img 2.4.22 BTW. I'm using testing Thanks, Ron PS I'm not on the list, so could you please cc me any replies, thanks! -- To UNSUBS

Initrd modules

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
sn't seem to modprobe the modules before trying to mount the root filesystem... And therefore panics :( Any ideas on how to fix this? Thank, Ron PS. I'm not on the list so could you please cc any replies to me? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

RE: Initrd modules

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Rademaker
arl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 17 October 2003 15:56 To: Ron Rademaker Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Initrd modules On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:22:22AM +0200, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Hello, > > I've created a cramsfs initrd image and while booting the kernel says &

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
uot; instead of "for" and "si" instead of "if"? Bad idea. Why? Imagine trying to compile existing code that uses "pour" and "si" as variable/function names. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
ut then, why did Niklaus Wirth use English key words, even though he is Swiss/German? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you wri

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
the non-Norwegian and/or Afrikaans speaker) had > to be seen to be believed. Other than it being wordy, what's the difference between COBOL written by Afrikaaners and Pascal, FORTRAN, Visual Basic, C, etc? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:15, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 19:01 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:29, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> You're right; the anglo-centric nature of most programming languages > >> is distressin

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-18 Thread Ron Johnson
ON TV TO ESPN IF (BEER IN HAND) THEN WHILE (BOTTLE NOT FULL) DRINK BEER END WHILE SCREAM AT OLD LADY FOR MORE BEER END IF END IF No, there's not a perfect correlation, and it looks more like COBOL than stack-oriented languages like C/Pascal (not RPN stac

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 09:05, David Jardine wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 06:56:13PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > IF (I LIKE BEER) AND (THERE IS BEER IN THE FRIDGE) THEN > >GO GET A "BUD" > > END IF > > > > IF (THE FOOTBALL GAME IS ON T

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
any other "race"? Before the Renaissance, Europeans were just like the vast majority of the world's poor are now: scraping out a meager existence, oppressed by landlords, superstitious, uneducated, and occasionally conquered, and thus landlord X substituted for landlord Y. -- ---

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 19:25, Tim Connors wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 18 Oct 2003 18:56:13 -0500: > > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 19:54, Chris Roddy wrote: > > > really, the syntax of most programming languages is not very much like > > >

Initrd trouble

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
(this module is the reason I need an initrd image), and using local loop device to mount the image: it is there!! If anyone could help me I would very much appreciate it, Thanks, Ron PS. Could you please cc any replies to me? I'm not on the list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:19, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:51:16 -0500, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 00:03, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:12:15 -050

RAID controller

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
dprobe pdc-ultra it fails :-( Any thoughts on this? Thanks, Ron PS. Could you please cc any replies to me? I'm not on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 12:42, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 at 17:03 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:19, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > >> enough > >> as "Herrmensch" to convince me Adolf would have laughted his ass

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 21:48, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:03:06 -0500, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:19, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:51:16 -050

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:05, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:35:22 -0500, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 21:48, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:03:06 -050

Apache - groups - can anyone explain this?

2003-10-21 Thread Ron Rademaker
me: file permissions deny server execution When I: su - www-data ./index.cgi It works! The file permissions are: 770, www-data is in the group owning the cgi This happens to ALL my cgi-scripts Thanks, Ron PS. Could you please cc any replies to me? --

Re: Help with VIA EPIA-CL mini-ITX with two onboard ethernet ports

2003-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
hernet card. That's the CL series? When I first saw them advertised, Linux- incompatibility was mentioned. -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Vegetarian - an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunt

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-21 Thread Ron Johnson
d and Switzerland are (or at > least were within the past 50 years) true democracies. Google is a wonderful thing. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2128.html Iceland constitutional republic Switzerland federal republic -- -

Apache2 and.... php

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Rademaker
new package. Thanks, Ron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
. Will you be among them? > >[fini. The film runs off the reel] > > ..by human international legal etc tradition, whoever populates it > first. > The Chinese? ;-) Has the PRC ratified the Moon treaty? http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SpaceLaw/moontxt.htm -- --

Re: [OT] Cracked website at sf.net

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Farrer
em, but that doesn't mean they'll respond... Regards, Ron -- Email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
e. Maybe not. If I worked on SETI, it sure would catch my attention if I heard "dots and dashes" (which is a form of binary digital signal) or high/low "volume" signals. That would be a great beacon. -- - Ron Johns

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
sks, except on Ebay? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time." Bertrand Meyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-22 Thread Ron Johnson
e the gender concept? - Why English doesn't have gender, since it's predecessor, German, does have gender? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Causation does NOT equal correlation -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
n a RCPT test. Hrm, should make it a HELO test. :/ I've got a simple "pre-fetchmail" script that deletes any emails larger than 13 bytes while still sitting on the pop server. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTE

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

2003-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:11, David Jardine wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 08:49:09AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > I've got a simple "pre-fetchmail" script that deletes any emails > > larger than 13 bytes while still sitting on the pop server. >

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Ron Johnson
the command line? Is "ls -l" too geeky looking for PHBs, or are you nervous/unsure at the command line? Or, heaven forbid, will Untrained Users have to do it, and Linux is too difficult? -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 19:58, Cam Ellison wrote: > * Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > ... > > > > > > - Why English doesn't have gender, since it's predecessor, German, > > > does have gender? > > >

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 19:58, Cam Ellison wrote: > * Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > ... > > > > > > - Why English doesn't have gender, since it's predecessor, German, > > > does have gender? > > >

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 05:24, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:08:11AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Here's another one: > > http://www.nature.com/nsu/030616/030616-15.html > > 'But the Y chromosomes of the regions tell a different story. "The > &

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
ng Library python-imaging-doc - Examples for the Python Imaging Library python-imaging-doc-html - Documentation for the Python Imaging Library. python-imaging-doc-pdf - Documentation for the Python Imaging Library. -- - Ron Johnson, J

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
is with Konqueror 2.2.2 and Mozilla 1.0.0, things may have > improved since then. Surely some file browsers do have a print > option? In Moz 1.4, at least, if you pull up a directory using file:///, Print works fine, since the "directory listing" is just html. -- --

Re: indent for html?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
7;ve recently > acquired Vim-improved by Steve Qualine) will "set autoindent" not do it? I think he's looking to indent existing messy code. -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Peace Thr

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
in that manner, because it's all I heard every day. -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "...always eager to extend a friendly claw" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
successful Lingua Franca (pun intended). -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
; fork is the subject, red is "a predicate adjective" > > i'm just guessing, haven't diagrammed sentences since 6th grade > > I don't even think they teach this anymore I didn't learn that exact method, but did learn what I guess you'd call "s

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:15, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 22:02 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > > > > I didn't learn that exact method, but did learn what I guess you'd > > call "sentence decomposition". It fundamental to being

Re: indent for html?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:46, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 21:37 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:11, Clive Menzies wrote: > >> On (24/10/03 11:41), Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> > > >> > Anyone know of an indent p

Re: indent for html?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:41, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 23:22 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:46, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 21:37 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > >> > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:11, Clive

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
to > filter most of it out. Let me know if you want my rc file. The problem with mailfilter, regarding swen, is that mailfilter only loots at the header, and the swen signature is in the body of the mail, where mailfilter can't see it. -- -

Re: remote backup from Windows PCs

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
server daemon on the Linux box, written in Perl or Python, and the client written in Python/Tk (which could then run on Windows, Linux, BSD, and probably even Mac OS9 & X). -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA &

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
installed on every Linux system. In fact, except on the smallest (i.e. floppy & embedded) systems, are these utils ever *not* installed? -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Whatever may be the moral ambig

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
f metal or ceramics, it'll turn red, with no need for chemistry at all.... -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Why should we not accept all in favor of woman suffrage to our platform and association even though they be rabid pro-slavery Democrats."

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 09:48, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:52:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson insinuated: > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 14:37, Tom wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > english is like lego, yes the

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 09:52, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:09:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson insinuated: > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:15, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 22:02 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > > > > > > > > I did

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 15:09, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 18:59 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > > > > -- > > ----- > > Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jefferson, LA USA > >

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

2003-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
here something like that in *? > > Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure... For the same reason they want to use Lookout and Internet Exploder: because they don't *care* about computers and security like we do. -- ------

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
file /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm exists? Of course, you could always deinstall xdm : # apt-get --purge remove xdm -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage the plane

Re: spam settings (5mb "nei-group" email every few minutes!)

2003-10-25 Thread Ron Johnson
robably fake -- > spam-scanned headers, and spamassassin doesn't seem to be > scanning it; the logs show spam-scanned, but there's no > X-Spam-Level headers or any other spamassassin fingerprints on > it. odd!) Maybe SA doesn't think it's spam? -- ---

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 04:26, David Jardine wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 09:08:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > Of course, you could always deinstall xdm : > > # apt-get --purge remove xdm > > apt-get remove --purge xdm Doesn't matter which way

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
ow keys to move up and down, press D to delete a message. Q exits > mutt, it asks you to delete the marked ("D") messages. Just press enter > and you are done. > > I do have a dial-up connection too, so this is my way to get rid of SWEN... For a high-volume account, this

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
t; until your box gets hacked, but this sort of thing always gives me the > willies. But even for non-root users of the same system, all they'd have to do is do 'cat ~/.muttrc', unless .muttrc is only owner- readable (like .fetchmailrc). -- ---

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