Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
y trust anyone that's in a > position to see it. And if a not-so-trustworthy "friend" or acquaintance wanders by, he can destroy you. The all-privilege sudo is the best idea, since the actions are audited. -- - Ro

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:10, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:19:00AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:55, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > Why not? They already have physical access to the machine, what more > > > would you give up

Re: X11 display managers and the keyboard

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
orking OK. > > > > I would try "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" (or is it > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common"?) and make sure the keyboard settings > are correct. But then wouldn't the KB not work after startx, either? -- --

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
ss sudo isn't > exactly what he wanted either. The OP can enable sudo privs only when he's going to be gone for any appreciable amount of time. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Python is

Re: help: email server

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:05, Miernik wrote: > On 2003-11-07, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > > 4) Can the server host the firewall too? > > yes But I wouldn't suggest it. -- ----

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:26, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:32:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 05:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:52:29PM -0700, David Millet wrote: > > > > Or not until wine

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:45, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:01:58AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > As in "proprietary, closed-source apps"? > > > > Well, that depends on if you see them as a "problem", or something > > th

Re: ClamAV & Amavisd-new (was Re: exim3 + amavis-new + clamav (clamd)- Help!)

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:20, BruceG wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:52 AM > Subject: ClamAV & Amavisd-new (was Re: exim3 +

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:35, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:55, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:30, Tom wrote: > > > * [07/11/2003 16:25] J. Bruce Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > The all-privil

Re: ClamAV & Amavisd-new (was Re: exim3 + amavis-new + clamav(clamd)- Help!)

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:53, BruceG wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:40 PM > Subject: Re: ClamAV & Amavisd-new

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:03, John Hasler wrote: > Alan writes: [snip] > with you. The script is a SMOP. SMOP ? -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Oh, great altar of passive entertainment, bes

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
I like Wine, and use it myself for some products, I fear that > the wine project may do to linux what win-os/2 did for os/2. If your > system will run win32 apps, what insentive do companies have to develop > native programs for you. One difference is that Big Blue bungled the marketing of OS/2 w

Re: split large files

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
some of them, however a dot has been replaced by `<'. > > Is this a known problem? `foo' has been created in Windows if that > makes a difference. I think I'd go in with a binary editor and see if the underlying data has changed. -- ---

Re: Motherboard ASUS a7v600: is anybody using this?

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I have ordered this motherboard, with 3c940 Gigabit ethernet (with a > >>"Linux" driver on the ASUS website(?!)); and AD1850 "AC'97" etc.) > >>sound. I would appreciate hearing about any issues

Re: split large files

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 08:05, Jens Tobiska wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:19:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Jens Tobiska wrote: > > > When using `split' (textutils 2.0-12) to split a large file (4.2G) I've > > > foun

Re: Major network problems

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
hen I reboot (which usually cleared any problems) > ifconfig lists absolutely nothing, and not even ping to localhost will > work (connect: invalid argument). Anyone have any ideas? Could the electric surge have whacked your hard disk? -- ------

Re: Which apt source to use for Evolution?

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
itself > appears to only have 1.2 available, when 1.4.5 is the current rev. Grab the evo deb-src from Sid and see if it builds. -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "...always eager to extend a friendl

Re: hardware detection on i386

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
ess has > made any headway. You may want to check out http://www.libranet.com. The previous version is available for free download, and an apt-get upgrade will bring you to sarge/sid. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff

Re: kernel image install error

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
Failed to create initrd image. > > can anyone help with this? Can you show us the whole command, with all messages? Preferably using: # apt-get -u install kernel-image-2.4.22-1-686 -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeff

Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
Size Used byNot tainted sound 58324 0 (unused) ac97_codec 13576 0 [snip non-sound stuff] Anyone have any thoughts? -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA U

Re: MTA help

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
r like maildrop or the more popular procmail, which can drop the emails in Maildir/ sub- directories that you create with 'maildirmake -f'. NOTE: to make a Maildir/ for joe, you'll have to 'su joe' and go to joe's $HOME. -- ---

Re: Setting up a new Debian system. X and Gnome, no KDE

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
with 'apt-cache search graph|sort|less' produces apt-rdepends. Thus, along with the recommended package graphviz, one can do: apt-rdepends -d evolution | dotty and get a big graph. Now, the trick will have to be to turn it into a png or jpg -- -----

Re: Setting up a new Debian system. X and Gnome, no KDE

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:43, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 17:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:45:04AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > [snip] > > > Second, more general question: the dependency links in debian > > > form a dir

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 19:54, csj wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003 13:36:07 -0600, > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > In Gnome Volume Control 2.4.0, I try to set the volume, but get > > the error > > > > Unable to open audio device '/dev/

Re: something wrong with kernel source 2.4.22?

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
gt;make dep && make bzImage && make install && make modules && make > >modules_install. [...] > > AFAIR make mrproper removes your .config, so better swap your first > two steps and retry. Or do '# make clean' instead. -- --

Re: understanding Fetchmail

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
intended to be used for? > My whole reason for fetchmail was to allow users to access their e-mail via > their MUAs (e.g. Outlook Express). Sounds like it's trying to do what it's supposed to do: pass off the emails to your MTA, but is not able to, because of: POP3 connection to local

Re: Setting up a new Debian system. X and Gnome, no KDE

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 06:30, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:01:57PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 18:43, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > A moment with 'apt-cache search graph|sort|less' produces > > > apt-rdepends.

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 04:12, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 08:00, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Guess not. I don't see them anywhere in the menuconfig hierarchy. > > How did you install it...? > > I've followed this HOWTO with great success

Re: preventing a USB device from being taken by the HID driver

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
s to hotplug). What's the best/most elegant > way to prevent the HID driver from claiming this device? Deinstall hotplug and rmmod the HID driver? Kinda drastic, though... -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
ver is running or not. -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Man, I'm pretty. Hoo Hah!" Johnny Bravo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:20, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > # apt-get -u install kernel-source-2.4.22 > > # cd /usr/src > > # tar xvfj kernel-source-2.4.22.tar.bz2 > > # ln -sf > > :-) > > > H

Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 audio and /dev/mixer under Gnome 2.4.0-1

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:20, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > # apt-get -u install kernel-source-2.4.22 > > > # cd /usr/src > > > # tar xvfj k

Re: Need to resolve booting problem

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
at Windoze stuff and install Debian. > > [Or what sort of answer did you expect from this list?] Could all these guys asking Windows questions really be trolls, seeing how we react? -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferso

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
, I needed to tell fetchmail to > deliver to [EMAIL PROTECTED], instead of simply "username". So, they > were seeing bounce messages saying there was no such user on my server. Do you use your ISP's smtp server, or your own smtp server? -- -

IRQ conflict?! (was Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 ...)

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:56, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 15:50, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:20, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:07, Ron John

Re: Noisy mount

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
Definitely works: mount //pooh/backup > /dev/null 2>/dev/null || exit 0 May work: mount //pooh/backup > /dev/null 2>&1 || exit 0 Is this emailed to you, or dropped in /var/log/syslog? If it's mailed to you (which it what I think is happening), you can always put this i

Re: preventing a USB device from being taken by the HID driver

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:36, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.11.11.1443 +0100]: > > Deinstall hotplug and rmmod the HID driver? > > > > Kinda drastic, though... > >

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
t to have something where people who have a maintenance plan get discounted home visits. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA LUKE: Is Perl better than Python? YODA: No... no... no. Quicker, easier, more seductive. LUKE: But how wil

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
clue what could be the problem here? Can you ssh in from another system, and run top(1) in P mode? Maybe some intermittent process is jumping in. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Experience hath shewn,

Re: odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
24% / > /dev/hda2-1006139352819 1 0 8% /home Woody? Sarge, what? How big is /dev/hda? -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Millions of Chinese speak Chinese, and it's no

Re: odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 19:44, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > > I am getting the following result on my filesystem. How do I correct > > > it? > > > >

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > > >>I'm experiencing periodic sluggishness when I play 3d games like Unreal > >>Tournament (natively) and M

Re: odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 21:11, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 19:13:01 -0600, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > > I am getting the follo

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:39, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > > >>Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > >>> >

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:24, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 20:02, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > > > >>Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 18:03, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: [snip] > >>As

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
; > > > great idea and plan ... but ... > > > > - everybody can do this ??? and does ... > > Targeted for home users who are currently stuck in Windows-land? > _who_ exactly is doing this, and how much are they charging? New Orleans has places like Rent-a-Geek, b

Re: odd df results

2003-11-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 22:52, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > Quoting Jeffrey L. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Quoting Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 19:44, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: > > > > Quoting Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:11, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:32:46AM -0500, BruceG wrote: [snip] > maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ It's empty -- --------- Ron Johnson,

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 12:14, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:51:42AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:11, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > maintaining a website for them. See http://bchomeschool.homelinux.com/ > > > > It's em

Re: printer icon

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i can not find a print icon on web sight what should i do? Run naked down the street, and then disembowel yourself with a short, dull knife? -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EM

Re: printer icon

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 14:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 11:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>i can not find a print icon on web sight what should i do? > > > > > > Run naked down the street, and then disembo

Re: freelance sysadmining [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 13:58, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 12:51:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Well, it works now. Before, when it was empty, was just: > > > > > > Maybe your webserver got overloaded? > > Could be.

Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
re. > I'd recommend Linux and OpenOffice for the desktops - but don't think that > would fly. I would like to grab a spare PC and set it up so folks could get > familiar, though. Kind of a kiosk PC. How about OOo on Windows? If I was a User, I wouldn't like that big jum

SOLVED: Re: IRQ conflict?! (was Re: Trouble with Alsa 0.9.6-5, 2.4.22 AC97 ...)

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 14:30, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:56, Alan Chandler wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 November 2003 15:50, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 09:28, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 08:20, Kjetil Kjernsmo

Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 19:20, BruceG wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:26 PM > Subject: Re: Free-lance - office move stu

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
t door :) > "Look honey, see, the cable is starting to fail here, look, look" Jeez, isn't that what (the insides of) walls are for? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Thanks to the good peopl

Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
could get hurt, and it would make for a very unhappy Thanksgiving, etc. -- - 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: freelance sysadmining -- friends

2003-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 00:16, Alvin Oga wrote: > hi ya > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > > Pull out your piercings, > > hide your tatoos. *Blouses* should be tucked into *slacks* or > > *skirts*[1]. > > you forgot the tie .. > you for

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
't that what (the insides of) walls are for? [snip] > > Yep, you're right but we just moved in there a few months ago. > So we'll need to check how to do this best. Note that most homes > here in Belgium have walls of brick and not wood or anything like > that so it w

Re: dvd ripping tools

2003-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
grams. xmms-mpg123-ja - mpeg123 plugin supported Japanese encodings for xmms zinf - Extensible, cross-platform audio player -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA 484,246 sq mi (1,254,197 sq km) are needed for

Re: wireless LAN in place of existing cabled one

2003-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 12:45, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:42:02PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:21, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > > BruceG wrote: > > > > - Original Message - > > > > From: "BruceG&quo

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
last 100k years, what makes you think it will happen when there are 10x as many people now as there were 100 years ago, and there will be another 6-9B people in the next 45 years. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:22, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:56:11 -0600, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 20:58, David Palmer. wrote: > > [snip] > > > Until we

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
don't know, back in the mid-1990s, 2 white teenagers from a affluent family walked into their High School armed with rifles and pistols. They proceed- ed to blow away those they didn't like, whatever the reason. -- - R

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
alarming rate". On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:39:31AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Since the US hasn't ratified the ICJ treaty, it can't happen, unless > > the Europeans come in (in force) and *take* GWB.

Re: Social Engineering. {was: Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
rogated. > The modern 'educational' process is there to teach people how to read > just well enough so that they no longer need to think. > Regards, It seems to me that the "most successful" would be those who can master the social needs (get good grades from approved t

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
riter/director, Michael Moore, *hates* people who don't agree with him. So, if you watch the movie, remember that. -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Vegetarian - an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunte

Re: Social Engineering. {was: Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:12, David Palmer. wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:44:33 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 14:48, David Palmer. wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:41:32 -0800 > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Social Engineering. {was: Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
efore", because what has been thought before might be wrong. -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Peace Thru Superior Firepower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Social Engineering. {was: Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:38, cr wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 10:12, David Palmer. wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:44:33 -0600 > > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 14:48, David Palmer. wrote: > &

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
^ I think you've smoked a bit too much of the aforementioned weed -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA As long as there is a Second Amendment, there will always be a First Amendment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:41, ScruLoose wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:09:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 01:35:20PM -0500, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > > > > > > > I

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 23:07, ben wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:14:38 -0800 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:39:31AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > whatever about the rest, a theocracy in a century! bush has already made > publ

Re: Debian based working distribution

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
Woody install, then change sources.list to point to sarge, and install what you want, manually or with something like tasksel. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Fair is where you take your cows to be

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 08:09, ben wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:05:15 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 23:07, ben wrote: > > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:14:38 -0800 > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 05:08, cr wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 15:06, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:41, ScruLoose wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:09:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 12:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 06:55, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:14:38AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:39:31AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > > Democracy will be preserved, but only for appearance. People can > > vote, b

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
n having potentially 200M average > Joes and Janes with the potential to do you in. And that, in a nutshell, is the difference between the US and all(?) the rest of the world. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "All

Re: maybe I missed a thread

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
nd on GUI for administration, and who aren't sick of RPM? -- ----- 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

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
. If Castro isn't that bad, then maybe GWB isn't either? -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever stealing from the many to the few. The ma

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
le) for dead people to vote, and for people to register in multiple precincts. I don't know about ballot box stuffing, because Louisiana hasn't used ballot boxes since the 1960s, and I've always (since the early 1980s) had to provide a gov't picture ID and signature. -- --

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
iad of other incidents. (This sig block is pretty appropriate for the current thread.) -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
;re insanely stupid, you > eventually get shot. Glib, but incredibly wrong. -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA I can't make you have an abortion, but you can *make* me pay child support for 18 years? Howeve

Salaries (was Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers")

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
ople.) Actually the average is closer to $120K now; and > it's rapidly approaching $150K for the high achievers. $120,000/year for a VB developer?? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA &qu

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 12:00, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 10:01:36AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 05:08, cr wrote: > > > > > > That's kinda a risky argument to rely on, since if accepted it inevitably > > > leads to the

Re: Social Engineering. {was: Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
ce > sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for > consumers"]] > > > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:23:51 +0800 > > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:35:54 -0600, > > > Ron Johnson wrot

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 21:06, ben wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:03:44 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [big snip] > > Inherently violent society? No, can't be, because the US didn't > > used to be violent. Maybe there was a "latently vi

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave upand went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 05:00, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 03:44:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > In other words, KDE is like Windows, because KDE is imitating > > Windows, and not vice versa. > > No, KDE is like CDE, not like Windows if we're g

Re: problem with tv card

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 06:18, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:44:27AM -0500, Mike Dresser wrote: > > On 8 Jan 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > You have a PC dedicated to displaying TV > > > > Actually, a lot of people do. > > &g

KDE, CDE & MS Windows

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 06:12, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:40:32AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > No, KDE is like CDE, not like Windows if we're going to make an > > > accurate comparison. > > > > I always wondered if there was a linkage

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
That way, you won't be making such a huge version leap in almost every bit of software in one step. -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | |

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
A7V266-C. http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7v266-c/overview.htm -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | |

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:43, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Well, 1st, do you know which chipset the A7V266-D runs? > > Btw, the ASUS web site only mentions the A7V266-C. > > http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7v266-c/overview.htm > > Try this url for the

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
l/0209.3/0382.html Now, maybe this relates to your error, and maybe not, but it looks like it has something to do with it. -- ++ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | |

Re: CD difficult to burn

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
ecord would be your tool of choice if you would like to burn your cds > using CLI. > > > > cdrecord parameters will depend on your hardware configuration, > capabilities, etc. > > > > man cdrecord for more, and there is a howto on www.tldp.org. -- +

Re: Can't upgrade from slink to woody!

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 20:25, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 12:05, Pigeon wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Just got a set of Woody CDs (thanks Gerald!) to upgrade my slink > > > sys

Re: Which kernel-image for a Via Ezra chip?

2003-01-20 Thread Ron Johnson
m/procspec/via/ezra-t.htm -- +--------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | || | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basicall

Re: Which kernel-image for a Via Ezra chip?

2003-01-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 22:55, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:50, Kent West wrote: > > > > > >>Got a Walmart Microtel $300 computer with a Via Ezra microprocessor. I > >>want to upgrade to a 2.4.20 kernel image fro

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2003-01-22 Thread Ron Rancourt
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:25:42 -0600 (CST), debian-user-digest- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2003 : Issue 231 > > Today's Topics: > Re: Recovering /var (package status [ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] > Re: apt-get dist-upgrad

Re: Installing on a Headless PC?

2003-01-22 Thread Ron Johnson
ding serial consoles. That should be a start. -- +---+ | Ron Johnson, Jr.mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ro

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