Re: ALSA sound setup [SOLVED]

2003-02-24 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 05:46:25PM -0600, Larry Holish wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:53:42PM -0500, Scruloose wrote: > > Woo-hoo! We have actual progress! I've re(re(re))named snd-emu10k1 to > > snd-card-emu10k1, *commented out ALL the 'options'*, updated-mod

Re: spoofing the From: header [SOLVED]

2003-02-24 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:06:15PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Scruloose wrote: > I feel certain it supports it since all of the good modern MTAs support > that and exim is a good one. Easier to try it and see that it works > than to dig into the docs in this case. Good call. It wor

Re: ICQ behind router/firewall

2003-02-24 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:17:28PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 13:34, Scruloose wrote: > --snip-- > > Needless to say, I'm using GnomeICU, 'cause it's limping along better than > > the competition. But how do I fix this? Is there some p

Re: Debian Download Problems

2003-02-26 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:24:18AM -0600, hlingis wrote: > Dear Sir or Madam, > > ...I'm sure you've heard this before, I can't download an error free ISO of > either version of potato or woody. Personally, I haven't heard this before... Myself, I'm no sort of techie, tech instructor, or guru

switching between CUPS and PLIP?

2003-02-28 Thread ScruLoose
Hi all, I'm interested in installing woody on this hand-me-down P133 laptop that a friend's mom is no longer using, and it has neither CD-ROM drive nor NIC, so I'm thinking I'll try the install-over-plip thing. Now, most of the process is documented fairly well in a HOWTO that I found, but I'm le

recurring error in exim's log

2003-02-28 Thread ScruLoose
Hi everybody, I have this little issue with exim. My setup is that I'm retrieving mail from several POP accounts (for one local user) with fetchmail, which hands off to exim. Currently I have exim filtering and delivering (maybe I'll get into procmail someday soon, but not yet). Now, my mail seem

Re: ICQ behind router/firewall [SOLVED]

2003-02-28 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 02:34:12PM -0500, Scruloose wrote: > Hey all, > > Using Trillian under windo~1 ... flawless ICQ > connectivity... not using any port-forwarding or any such. Under debian, I > can't seem to get a client to work. > > GnomeICU will send and

Re: ICQ behind router/firewall [SOLVED]

2003-03-01 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 09:01:43AM -0800, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > On February 28, 2003 11:09 pm, ScruLoose wrote: > > Well, I went to apt-get.org and found a place to get Licq as a > > .deb, and it works like a charm, straight outta the box. I still > > wouldn't mi

unqualified recipient rejected:

2003-03-02 Thread ScruLoose
Hi all, I keep seeing this pair of messages in my exim logs: 22:42:59 SMTP command timeout on connection from miguel (localhost) [127.0.0.1] 22:43:11 unqualified recipient rejected: H=miguel (localhost) [127.0.0.1] U=fetchmail It happens every five minutes, which is the frequency with which my

Install over plip (was Re: switching between CUPS and PLIP?)

2003-03-06 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 04:36:46PM -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > On February 28, 2003 03:04 am, ScruLoose wrote: -SNIP- > > I'll need to unload lp before loading plip, so that plip can > > 'own' the parallel port. > > Right? > > Yes. The only way it can&#

Re: recurring error in exim's log

2003-03-07 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:30:45PM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:40:04PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > > Now, my mail seems to be coming and going... mostly happily. > > But I keep seeing this in eximon (which is just showing m

Re: recurring error in exim's log

2003-03-07 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 05:46:17PM +, Jason Chambers wrote: > > The "unqualified recipient rejected" is caused by mail > being sent to fetchmail without a domain. To allow Exim to > accept an unqualified recipient address add > "receiver_unqualified_hosts = localhost" to Exim's config > file.

fetchmail and SMTP return codes (was Re: recurring error in exim's log)

2003-03-08 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 12:11:00AM +, Jason Chambers wrote: > On Mar 7 15:58, ScruLoose wrote: > > So yeah... now I'm receiving fetchmail's error message in my inbox every 5 > > minutes. > > it kinda looks to me like some spammer munged his headers so badly t

[SOLVED] Re: fetchmail and SMTP return codes

2003-03-08 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 08:27:19PM +, Jason Chambers wrote: > On Mar 8 13:44, ScruLoose wrote: > > poked at the man page some, commented out no_bouncemail, so fechmail_daemon > > is no longer spamming me (local postmaster) with the error, *but* I don't > > kno

Re: Install over plip

2003-03-08 Thread ScruLoose
Hi again, everybody In my ongoing attempt to get woody installed on this ol' P 133 laptop. I installed the base system with floppies, which seems to have worked. I've finally convinced it to load the plip module, and it's allowing me to add a route to my desktop box. The laptop is called roadie,

Re: Weird sound problem

2003-03-10 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:40:13PM +0300, ? ? wrote: > Hi! > > I have a weird sound problem: no sound at all. > > Sound drivers loaded ok, all programs (mplayer, mpg123, aumix, saytime, > etc) are working without any errors, and -- no sound at all. > > I have woody, kernel 2.4.18, SB

Re: SiS7012 and ALSA

2003-03-13 Thread ScruLoose
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:19:30AM +1100, Davor Balder wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if anyone had any luck with getting SiS7012 to work > with > ALSA. This chip apparently has i8x0 chip that I wanted to try ALSA on. > > I have been trying but I kept getting message that /dev/dsp coul

Re: ALSA conf

2003-03-13 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 06:46:06PM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Howdy! > Does someone know what's wrong with my alsa? I installed the module > sources and all other important alsa packages. > I compile my own kernel and use emu10k1 for sound. Now I just moved the > module away. Do I have to disa

How to make plip actually work?

2003-03-13 Thread ScruLoose
Hey all, The brief version of my question: I'm trying to make a connection over plip (w/ laplink cable) between my desktop and a crusty old laptop. plip loads fine on both machines, and packets are travelling fine from the desktop to the laptop. Packets from the laptop to the desktop are lost s

Re: ALSA conf

2003-03-13 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 08:20:41PM +0200, Johan Ehnberg wrote: > Yes. That solved it! Many thanks to you. I'm now listening to music > through xmms :-) . Yay! It feels good to have something to give back. I'm still rather a newbie at this, and mostly asking questions of my own. > The functional

Re: ALSA conf

2003-03-13 Thread ScruLoose
-. >Chris |Check out the coolest radio station ever: < >aka ScruLoose | www.radioparadise.com < `-' pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

file server recommendations?

2003-03-14 Thread ScruLoose
aturally. But I could use some pointers on where to start. Thanks -- ,-----. >-ScruLoose- | Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree < > Please do not| that took a thousand years to grow.

Re: file server recommendations?

2003-03-17 Thread ScruLoose
ity provided by rssh is effective/appropriate/necessary? Thanks again -- ,-----. >-ScruLoose-| Dear Lord, never put me in the charge < > Please do not | of a frightened

Re: Download accelerator

2003-03-17 Thread ScruLoose
er rate. Back in my Windoze days, I used to have great fun saturating my DSL line with GetRight... and I had wondered about download managers under Debian myself (Though it hadn't made it to the top of my stack of priorities yet...) -- ,-

Re: X (fails to start)

2003-03-22 Thread ScruLoose
-- > -- END /var/log/Xfree86.0.log -- Yeah, that looks a *lot* like what I was seeing. And there was always a black screen that flickered 2 or 3 times as it *tried* to start... Hope that helps. -- ,--

Re: mutt pgp nosign variable?

2003-10-15 Thread ScruLoose
gn="no"" And personally I have this line right near the top of my .muttrc as well (so it defaults to autosign -- not sure if this is necessary): send-hook . "set pgp_autosign="yes"" Cheers! -- ,---

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread ScruLoose
in a truly enlightened world, there would be no spammers. But in the here and now, filtering strikes me as a better solution than sitting around whining about how "the spammers have won". You may be beaten, but I'm still fighting, and easily holding my own.

Verify that spamc is using Bayesian?

2003-10-18 Thread ScruLoose
e? Sorry for the long-winded question, and thanks for any help. -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | There are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters,< > Please do not |and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare.

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-21 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 10:56:34AM -0700, Tom wrote: > He was in PsOps -- told me some great stories. Hehe! No doubt he did. After all, if he's in PsyOps that is his job. Cheers. -- ,-. >

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread ScruLoose
hive of the list. Not about the list itself or news gateways. Cheers. -- ,-. > -ScruLoose- | I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours < > Please do not | but I think that God's got a

Re: Verify that spamc is using Bayesian?

2003-10-21 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:17:30PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 at 16:47 GMT, ScruLoose penned: > > > > So I know that if I call spamassassin (as "spamassassin") it is using > > the bayesian test, but the question is: How can I tell whether

Re: Verify that spamc is using Bayesian?

2003-10-21 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 05:52:40PM -0400, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > On 03-10-18 12:47 -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > > > I think what most people do for systems with more users is to scan > incoming mail from the users' ~/.procmailrc, which does seem a little > cleaner wrt

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread ScruLoose
aking pretty good sense, though perhaps flamebait would be more accurate than flame. The term 'troll' springs to mind, though I'd really like to be wrong about that. -- ,-. > -ScruLoose

Re: exim4-daemon-heavy and exiscan virus/spam filtering

2003-10-22 Thread ScruLoose
e docs you can point me to that contain this answer (rather than just _giving_ me an answer) I'm happy to be pointed to them. And... this change will work with exim3 too, right? Cheers! -- ,-. >

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:14:28PM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:11:37PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > > Um. Can't speak for everyone else, but I think that being dead would be > > somewhat more disruptive to my "normal course of events" than

Re: resize swap partition `in situ`, using parted

2003-10-23 Thread ScruLoose
w because it > can't find swap (I have no idea if it would), I would think this would > work. Alternatively, check out the swapoff command. And I'm given to understand that you DO NOT want to simply ignore parted's warning about modifying an in-use partition. Cheers -- ,

Re: exim4-daemon-heavy and exiscan virus/spam filtering

2003-10-23 Thread ScruLoose
fetchmail's connection to the MTA at that point is kinda useless. Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | To hell with Saddam < > Please do not |

[SOLVED] Re: Verify that spamc is using Bayesian?

2003-10-23 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:02:49PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > > And I'm pretty sure that my problem right now is that the spamc call is > coming from exim (as user mail) in the systemwide configuration, whereas > I did the sa-learn all as my own regular user. > > 3) I

Re: automating e2fsck to assume y

2003-10-27 Thread ScruLoose
eve you can switch from ext2 to ext3 non-destructively... Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | What makes a person so poisonous righteous < > Please do not | That they'd think less

Getting d-link DFE-530TX NIC working

2003-10-27 Thread ScruLoose
ks. So I'm thinking that I missed some vital step in the network configuration, but what? Or is it actually a failure of the driver? I've been googling at it and reading manpages all day, but my debug-fu seems to have failed me on this. Thanks for any help -- ,--

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out (was Re: Getting d-link DFE-530TX NIC working)

2003-10-28 Thread ScruLoose
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:06:18PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi all, Still pluggin' away at this problem with my D-Link DFE-530TX NIC. > But when I stick knoppix in, it happily accesses the network, and lsmod > shows via-rhine and mii modules (one shows as "used by"

Re: Debian MSN clients can't connect

2003-10-28 Thread ScruLoose
n the last two weeks. I found this: http://amsn.sourceforge.net/ which is rumoured to have an interface much like MS' own client. I can't vouch for it myself, though, never having used MSN. Cheers! -- ,-----

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread ScruLoose
il-followup-to header and CC the person if it's specified. At least I know there's _some_ header that does the trick, because sometimes I hit L in mutt and voila, there's a CC in my reply. Cheers! -- ,

via-rhine problems with dlink DFE-530TX

2003-10-30 Thread ScruLoose
s arguments to a compiled-in driver, or do I have to go back and compile again with via-rhine as a module? Other suggestions? Ideas? Thanks! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | I don't want to start any blasphemous

Re: via-rhine problems with dlink DFE-530TX [SOLVED, kinda]

2003-10-31 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 04:16:36PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > Hi again, folks, > > I have this kind of ongoing issue with a machine that's got a > pretty-much clean install of woody, and has a D-Link DFE-530TX NIC in it > that doesn't want to play nice with Debian. >

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread ScruLoose
ually _know_ this, but I've heard it on this mailing list. Oh, and just in case they're some help, here are a couple of posts I made while I was trying to figure it out: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg06562.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-use

Re: Disable a Flat Screen

2003-11-02 Thread ScruLoose
s a firewall, and I've found that under 2.2.x kernels, the screen goes blank after ten minutes but the backlight stays on indefinitely. Under 2.4 it turns off the backlight when it blanks. Cheers! -- ,-. &

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-02 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 02:50:46PM +0100, Kurt Sys wrote: > ScruLoose wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:14:56PM +0100, Kurt Sys wrote: > >>Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >>>This usually means the module is already loaded, or in the case

Re: D-link DFE-530tx [SOLVED]

2003-11-02 Thread ScruLoose
scary the process was. > Thanks a lot, Glad we could help. Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours < > Please do not | but I think tha

Re: install local deb file

2003-11-02 Thread ScruLoose
compelling reason not to use dpkg for your situation? dpkg --install or dpkg -i Cheers! -- ,-. > -ScruLoose- |I care less and less what people think.< > Please do not |

Re: aptitude - finding broken packages

2003-11-03 Thread ScruLoose
Or you can use l instead of / in order to limit aptitude's display to things that match your pattern (rather than searching down the list one match at a time). /usr/doc/aptitude/README is your friend. Cheers! -- ,-

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-03 Thread ScruLoose
nds kind of wrong) -- the remote machine -- by domain name. Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | To hell with Saddam < > Please do not | and may he quick

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

2003-11-04 Thread ScruLoose
ng so that it meets Debian's (very high) standards to qualify for the name 'stable' in time for release.) If you want more newer stuff than that, go ahead and run unstable. It seems to only get significantly broken very rarely, but th

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-04 Thread ScruLoose
compile new kernel, boot new kernel.) No doubt a $15 NIC would have been easier, but I'm a starving student and had already spent $25CDN (which I could ill afford) on the first one. Cheers! -- ,-. > -ScruLo

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-04 Thread ScruLoose
osophy and furthermore didn't take the time to understand > > the basics of how the tool worked. > > It is poorly designed as a POP3 mail fetcher tool, as it relies on > special support of the local delivery configuration. If you're going to write off as "poorly des

Re: setting hardware clock from NIST

2003-11-04 Thread ScruLoose
RedHat thing. > ... Will this work; is > there a better arrangement? I don't know whether it's 'better', but I like chrony for keeping the time. It may be a bit of overkill, but it sure does a good job. Cheers! -- ,-

Re: crontab

2003-11-05 Thread ScruLoose
ea? Does such a tool exist somewhere already? Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | What makes a person so poisonous righteous < > Please do not | That they'd think less of anyone w

Re: using exim directly instead of smarthost

2003-11-05 Thread ScruLoose
nDNS, and my "downtime when changing ip" is five minutes, because that's how often I have ddclient check to see if my IP has changed (and inform dynDNS if it has). > Hmmm, i think i'll skip this setup until i ever own my own ip :) That, of course, is entirely up to you.

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-05 Thread ScruLoose
ell come out to less than what these people spend on the software itself now. Cheers! -- ,-. > -ScruLoose- |Now I realize that just getting through the day< > Please do not | without killing some

Re: new user question about stable branch

2003-11-05 Thread ScruLoose
reak. Woody boasts archaic versions of some packages, but when the developers call it 'stable', they mean it. > ... (god I hate rpm's), Oh, I hear you. Apt is ... so good ... Especially compared to RPMs. Cheers! -- ,----

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-06 Thread ScruLoose
=2949 Which I found to be very helpful when compiling my first kernel. About a week ago. (None of the precompiled kernel-image ones I tried would support my NIC) Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | Do not m

Re: Network problems

2003-11-06 Thread ScruLoose
2.4.2X > kernels in the past week, but I can't remember it off the top of my > head. It was the 'noapic' option, in my case. Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | Religion's in the hands

fetchmail config (was Re: WooHoo! Courier-Imap is imapping away!)

2003-11-06 Thread ScruLoose
to periodically run fetchmail. All this should be done as your regular user. Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- |I care less and less what people think.< > Please do not

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

2003-11-06 Thread ScruLoose
o > choice, now would we? If having sid's version of mozilla is more important to your needs than having a rock-solid system, AND the latest backport is not a good enough compromise for your needs, AND you don't want to run a non-debian

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-06 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:51:54PM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:09:24 -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > First off. I am doing this because none of the kernels on the cds > support my nic. Consequently, any suggestions that involve using > apt-get show that the

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-06 Thread ScruLoose
esn't _have_ permissions, so those programs may barf. It's just going to be less of a headache for you to leave /home/david on an appropriate linux filesystem, and mount your windows partition someplace else. Cheers! -- ,---

Re: An apology

2003-11-06 Thread ScruLoose
as far as I'm concerned. Cheers -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- |They that can give up essential liberty< > Please do not | to obtain a little temporary safety < > reply off-list. | deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread ScruLoose
he machine and do the maintenance yourself. Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | I don't want to start any blasphemous rumours < > Please do not | but I think that God's got a s

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-07 Thread ScruLoose
people have been suggesting. I used this method to install all the tools that are called for in the Very Verbose Guide to Compiling a Debian Kernel. Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | If we do not believe

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-07 Thread ScruLoose
ess right. And the google search would fail because the filename is actually kernel-source-2.4.22_2.4.22-3_all.deb Don't ask me about that naming scheme! ;-) Cheers! -- ,-. > -ScruLoose- |

Re: heres my noob install questions, smart people please help

2003-11-07 Thread ScruLoose
instead of FAT, that's a different story entirely. The linux drivers for NTFS are experimental and it's recommended to mount those drives read-only. Cheers! -- ,-. > -ScruLoose- | Reporter: What do you think

Re: got my woody working, wanted to upgrade, already ruined my system

2003-11-09 Thread ScruLoose
;re familiar with how debian does things, how apt handles dependencies, etc. Cheers! -- ,-. > -ScruLoose- | I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad< > Please do not | the

Re: understanding Fetchmail

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
you need is a POP and/or IMAP server. There are various choices out there... Courier's implementations seem to be pretty popular, though they do require the maildir format. Cheers! -- ,-. > -ScruLoose-

Re: fetchmail, when does one loose email?

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
okay I handled that successfully" SMTP codes from the MTA before it deletes the message off the POP server. If it gets a failure code from the MTA it will _not_ delete the mail. So really, the only way you're likely to lose your mail with fetchmail is if your MTA is so misconfigured tha

Re: mutt, key bindings and debian mailing lists

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
#x27;s builtin support for mailing lists? Add the line subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] somewhere in your .muttrc, and then use L for "reply-to-list"... I _think_ this setup will even respect the mail-followup-to header and automatically cc people when they have that header set (not sure,

Re: regarding kernels

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
kernel-source package which is listed as sid and sarge but works fine on woody too)... Cheers! -- ,-. > -ScruLoose- | Why can't we ever attempt to solve a problem < > Please do not | i

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

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
t my DSL company waived when I signed up. (That "promotion" has been running for at least two years.) In terms of making a monthly support plan, I'd say the best bet is to design the system to need as little maintenance as possible and keep the monthly fee _really_low_. Maybe e

Re: freelance sysadmining - $50k [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]

2003-11-11 Thread ScruLoose
a lot more per year (not necessary if you go with the $n*100/year formula I guess) - Maybe cover additional machines in same household for a discounted rate? Home LAN packages with file- and printer-sharing? Cheers! -- ,---

Stock 2.4.16 kernel, initrd and ext3

2003-11-13 Thread ScruLoose
is such a pain... Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | Reporter: What do you think of western civilization? < > Please do not | Ghandi: I think it w

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

2003-11-13 Thread ScruLoose
dividual_ drugs and you enable them to make smarter, informed decisions. Regarding any one drug as being just the same as any other makes no more sense than prescribing morphine for an infection or penicillin for a migraine. Cheers! -- ,-

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-13 Thread ScruLoose
he nameserver addresses go in /etc/resolv.conf Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | Forward he cried from the rear; and the front rank died< > Please do not | and the General sat, and the lines on the map &

Re: apt-get unstable question

2003-11-13 Thread ScruLoose
with an incredible mess of dependency problems. Cheers! -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | If we do not believe in freedom of speech < > Please do not | for those we despise

Re: mutt, key bindings and debian mailing lists

2003-11-13 Thread ScruLoose
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 05:03:35PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:42:09AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > > Wouldn't it be easier to use mutt's builtin support for mailing lists? > > > > Add the line > > subscribe [EMAIL PROTECT

OT: Drugs (was Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong --)

2003-11-13 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 02:38:12PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:04:57PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > Regarding any one drug as being just the same as any other makes no more > > sense than prescribing morphine for an infection or penicillin for a > > migra

Re: freelance sysadmining - other thread went bonkers

2003-11-13 Thread ScruLoose
arge. > And charge extra for anything else. Sounds good. Better PR to call it a discount on the Debian ones, though. Likewise, you could offer a "discount" on the maintenance of the Debian boxen. Cheers! -- ,---

Re: Stock 2.4.16 kernel, initrd and ext3 [SOLVED]

2003-11-13 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 03:25:42PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I've been wanting to switch from ext2 to ext3 on this machine, including > > the root filesystem. > > > > I'm using the stock Debian 2.4.16-i68

Re: (newbie) Still no network...

2003-11-13 Thread ScruLoose
there are some nifty kernel-building helper tools in Debian. The above-linked guide assumes you want to use them. make-kpkg in particular. Cheers! -- ,-. > -ScruLoose- | You don't *have* a soul. Y

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

2003-11-14 Thread ScruLoose
ericans are somewhere on the order of ten _times_ as likely to blow each other away. Does it take "multiple Columbines on a daily basis" to constitute a problem? Somewhere close to a hundred Americans blow each other away _per_day_ and you want this to lead me to the conclusion that things ar

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

2003-11-14 Thread ScruLoose
ink _about_ is moot. The current culture (including shitty schools, the media, etc) seems to be pretty effectively designed to teach "the people" _not_ to think. -- ,-. > -ScruLoose- | Never eat more than yo

Re: OT: Drugs (was Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong --)

2003-11-14 Thread ScruLoose
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:56:51PM -0800, Tom wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:39:56PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > > Now you're just contradicting yourself. You're also handing me the > > point I've been trying to make on a platter. > > After claiming

Re: ALSA sound setup

2003-02-15 Thread Scruloose
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:46:08PM -0500, Chris Mitchell wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:09:39PM -0500, Chris Mitchell wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 10:43:25AM -0600, Larry Holish wrote: > > > > I think you should be using 'snd-emu10k1', rather than > > > 'snd-card-emu10k1' here. See the

Re: ALSA sound setup

2003-02-15 Thread Scruloose
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:38:43PM -0600, Larry Holish wrote: > Sorry, I guess I should have started with this. I'm running testing > with a SB Live 5.1. Here's the relevant packages I have installed: > Looks like you are running a older driver (0.9.0beta10) than me, so > 'snd-card-emu10k1' is co

spoofing the From: header

2003-02-15 Thread Scruloose
I recently found one of my own posts on Google groups... and I really do *not* like seeing my preferred address splattered all over the web like that (And yes, I know I knew we were being archived on the web, I just had sort of a brain-fart about it)... So I got to thinking: There was a thread jus

Re: spoofing the From: header

2003-02-16 Thread Scruloose
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:42:58PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 04:56:51PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > Why not use a separate (but not totally bogus) address? Does your MTA > > support address suffixes such as scruloose-debian-user or > > scruloo

Odd details in Mutt

2003-02-16 Thread Scruloose
Hi all, I have a couple of peculiar little questions about how things look in Mutt. First, what is the actual command to collapse all threads? When I hit -V it works, and the little keymapping help-screen says that the command is collapse-all. But when I hit : and type that in (or, more to the

Re: ALSA sound setup

2003-02-16 Thread Scruloose
Hi all. Me again. This is undoubtedly an awfully dumb question, but: When I make changes that affect the alsa section of my modules.conf file, what do I have to do before they actually take effect? i.e. when I change the 'options' line in /etc/alsa/modutils/0.9, I force-stop alsa, update-modules,

ICQ behind router/firewall

2003-02-16 Thread Scruloose
Hey all, I have a bit of an issue here. In my household are 2 PCs: My dual-boot debian/winXP box, and my girlfriend's win98. We're both plugged directly into the LAN side of a NAT router/firewall, whose WAN side is plugged into our DSL adapter. Using Trillian under windo~1, we both get flawless

firebird woody backport

2003-09-07 Thread ScruLoose
myself... And if the latter, this would be my first attempt at compiling from source: is it feasible or would I be getting into a huge complex project? Thanks for any ideas -- ,-. > -ScruLoose- | I find i

Re: firebird woody backport

2003-09-07 Thread ScruLoose
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 10:55:15AM -0700, Joris Huizer wrote: > --- ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > After visiting mozilla.org recently, I got kind of > > keen to try > > firebird, so I checked apt-get.org for a backport, > > and found a coup

xhost +localhost has no effect

2003-09-09 Thread ScruLoose
#x27;t regard it as a solution. Any suggestions? Thanks. -- ,-----. > -ScruLoose- | Reporter: What do you think of western civilization? < > Please do not

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