Re: Debian for enterprise

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:15:18 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: [...] > Red Hat is abandoning its old business model because that model > wasn't working for its investors. You (and everyone else) can > expect other distributions that have a business model basis to > also fail for the same reasons. What

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

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:35:54 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:31, Alfredo Valles wrote: > > On Friday 14 November 2003 3:48 pm, David Palmer. wrote: > [snip very good points] > > > > > The modern 'educational' process is there to teach people > > > how to read just well enou

[OT] Re: Opium

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:09:37 +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:39:31 -0600, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:22, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:56:11 -0600, > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL P

Re: printing all of command executed in a script

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 05:05:21 +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:08:11AM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:47:37PM +0900, Akira Kitada wrote: > > > As the subject above implys, I'd like to print all of commands > > > executed in a shell script. > > >

Totally [OT] Re: Opium

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:32:22 -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > [1] For those (particularly non-US citizens) who 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

Re: k3b 1.0 ?

On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 21:39:29 +0100, Joan Tur wrote: > > I'd like to try the DVD burning capability of version 1.0 of > k3b... do you know when is it going to be in SID ? 8-? The backend (that I read) it uses is already in Debian: dvd+rw-tools. It might also use a piece of software that will nev

Slow keys

Does anybody know what key combination triggers slow keys? From time to time I find myself stuck in slow keys mode. To disable this "feature" I have to go to the Gnome2 accessibility controls and uncheck the option for "Enable Slow Keys", which is sometmes not possible if I'm in the middle of a Gno

Re: Flash player for Konqueror

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:17:05 +0100, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote: > > Good afternoon, > > Is there a flash-player for konqueror? If it is, where can I > find it? Good morning, konqueror can use the crash-player for Mozilla. In my experience it's even a bit more robust at doing so. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Problem with fonts in Abiword 1.1.3

On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 12:06:39 -0800 (PST), Riandi Wiguna wrote: > I downloaded and compiled the development version of Abiword > (1.1.3), but I keep getting the somewhat famous "AbiWord could > not load the following font or fontset from the X Window System > display server, [-*-Times New > Roman-r

ports puzzle

When I run "nmap" and "rpcinfo" after a fresh boot, I get the following values: # nmap localhost Starting nmap V. 3.10ALPHA4 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) Interesting ports on beta (127.0.0.1): (The 1599 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed) Port State Service 9/tcp

Re: fluxbox settings get lost

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 01:22:32 -0800 (PST), Joris Huizer wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > I've got a small question now: Each time I boot Debian > the settings of fluxbox are gone (the background style > is set to a gray one) > > Is this a bug or do I have to change something ? Just wondering: do

Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:28:16 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:34:17AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > cdrecord -v -speed=32 dev=x,y,z -dao -isosize filename.raw > > The hitch was the instruction to cdrecord to write the disc in > DAO mode. Many many recorders cannot deal with th

Re: cdrecord and BIG DISKS - Might help someone

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 23:08:58 +, Pigeon wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:47:37AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:28:16 -0800, > > Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 01:34:17AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > > cdrecord -v -speed=32 dev=x,y,z -dao

Re: find a command i have recently used in bash

On 29 Jan 2003 15:54:32 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 10:28, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 07:51:07PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > hello all > > > > > > i am sure there must be a way of doing it. i am not getting it though. > > > > > > let us s

Re: apt-get --compile source gcc-2.95: test suite failures

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 17:57:27 +, Pigeon wrote: > > Hi, > > Desiring to build gcc-2.95 optimised for my woody/k7 system, I set CFLAGS and > CXXFLAGS to "-O2 -march=i686" (seems the closest we can get to "k7" at > the moment) and did an apt-get --compile source gcc-2.95. > > Reading the output

Re: shuttle disaster

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 16:30:57 -0500, sean finney wrote: > > [1 ] > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 07:56:04AM +1100, David Pastern wrote: > > My deepest commiserations to the US, NASA and all families > > involved over the space shuttle Columbia tragedy. I believe > > that they were using Debian GNU Linu

Re: Desktop environment---what am I missing?

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 14:11:51 -0800 (PST), nate wrote: > > Mike M said: > > > What email clients and browsers do you use? > > my primary browser is phoenix 0.5. I also make use of mozilla > 1.0 and opera 6.11. usually to reduce the risk of lost data > during browser crashes. Strangely I find Konq

Re: MPG-to-AVI or AVI-to-AVI software

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:41:26 -0500, Narins, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Ronald Castillo, Sunday, February 02, 2003 12:50 PM [...] > > I've been trying to find a program which would allow me to > > convert from MPG to AVI or recompress an AVI movie but I > > haven't found any that wo

Re: OT: MPG-to-AVI or AVI-to-AVI software

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 12:12:16 -0600, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > > Try ffmpeg mencoder uses ffmpeg. IOW: if one won't work, neither will the other. > On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 06:39:30PM +0100, Ronald Castillo wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I've been trying to find a program which would allow me to > > con

Re: shuttle disaster

On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 22:36:45 +, Pigeon wrote: [...] > Personally, I think that the space programme in its current > state of development is frequently trying to run before it can > walk, and consumes money which would be better spent on famine > relief. That's one way to look at it. Agreed, f

Re: columbia -- what really happened

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:55:44 -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: > > | How the US can justify spending so much money on Space while > | 33 million US citizens live below the poverty line amazes me. > > The ideology of capitalism puts people with money into power. > Benevolent as the may want to be, po

Re: Problems downloading Knoppix

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:39:34 -0500, Levi Waldron wrote: > > On February 4, 2003 08:13 am, bob parker wrote: > > Well I just completed downloading Knoppix using my steam > > powered dial up connection. > > > > I started on 27 January. Wow, that's fast. I need a little under a month to download a 70

Re: Mencoder

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 21:39:50 +0200, Sergey A. Ovchar wrote: > > Hi. I'm recently encoded from VideoCD's(2cd) to divx, using > command: > > mencoder -vcd 2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4 -oac copy -o bla-bla-bla.avi > > I know - it was my mistake about -oac (at that moment I didn't > have lame)

Re: shuttle disaster

On 08 Feb 2003 12:10:20 -0600, DvB wrote: > > Gary Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > DvB wrote: [...] > > Where did anything about taxes? You implied that investors > > did not deserve dividends, since they didn't make their > > money. There was no reference to taxation. > > This whol

Re: OT: Plagiarism Monitor S/W

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 00:04:12 -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 01:34:31PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > > So, having had some experience doing this: your class has > > TA's, right? And they review the things students turn in? > > When I've been a TA, this has caught the

Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???

On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 23:46:26 -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Cameron Matheson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030209 22:25]: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 08:00:52PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > Well, you can tar and compress a maildir, and then it only > > > takes 1, same as an mbox. That wo

Re: kde package dependencies broken (kde relies on everything?)

On Fri, 14 Feb 2003 15:38:34 +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > On Friday 14 February 2003 4:21 pm, Michel Loos wrote: > >The kde Package is a metapackage which allows you to install > >all of kde with 1 apt-get. But KDE works fine without the > >package kde. > > How would one -uninstall- KDE in one f

Re: avi to free format

On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 13:06:34 +0100, Rudy Gevaert wrote: > Somebody send me a avi film but I would like to change it into > a free (as in free speech) format. What format should I use > and what packages should I intall? The freest format is probably mpeg 1. There are few audio and video codecs th

Re: Any way to play Canon movie files?

On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:33:35 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I tried to use xmovie to play a movie file made with the Canon > Powershot A40, which is in .AVI format. It wasn't recognized, > and trying to convert it to a different format doesn't work > either. > > Is there any way of playing th

Re: [ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003 03:08:11 +0200 (CEST), Roberto Sanchez wrote: > I just checked out the ATI website, and they have some new > linux drivers. The new version is 3.2.5, with versions for > Xfree86 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3. I just installed the drivers and > built the new kernel module, and I can alread

[OT] Text stream editing problem

Let's say I want to write a script that can convert the following: A-0001 Directory_1/Subdirectory_1/File_1.txt A-0002 ./Directory_2/Subdirectory_2/File_2.txt A-0003 ./Directory_3/Subdirectory_3/Subdirectory_4/File_3.txt to: A-0001 /Subdirectory_1/File_1.txt A-0002 /Subdirect

Re: DVD recording software?

At Sun, 7 Sep 2003 17:42:12 +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Es Diumenge 07 Setembre 2003 14:47, en TR va escriure: > > > I've purchased a DVD-RW recorder... and I'd like to use it > > > under linux... > > > > > > What software could I us?  I've goog

Re: Can not copy any VCD

At Sun, 7 Sep 2003 18:12:37 +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > > On Sunday 07 September 2003 22:38, Bhushan Kulkarni wrote: > > I always face problem while copying any VCD on my Debian > > GNU/Linux system , even when i tried on Rehat and Antomic > > also . But i get Input/Output error. I checked VCD ,

Re: [OT] Text stream editing problem

At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 01:58:43 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > [1 ] > on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:33:39AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Let's say I want to write a script that can convert the > > following: > > > > A-0001 Directory_

Re: DVD recording software?

At Sun, 07 Sep 2003 19:44:45 -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 06:39:25PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > Horning in on this thread... > > > > There are several Windows programs that make copies of > > encrypted DVDs. Under siege from the US court system and the > > MPAA, bu

Re: Need suggestions for m/bd & processor

At Sun, 7 Sep 2003 17:23:14 -0500 (CDT), Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > I need to build a few linux machines and would appreciate > some recommendations for motherboards & processors. Just in > case one size does not fit all, here is what I will be > building: > > - Desktop; word processing, graphics,

Re: Trouble with DRI (WAS: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available)

At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 05:20:28 +0200 (CEST), Roberto Sanchez wrote: [...] > OK. I'm hoping that someone can help me out here. This > morning I downloaded the new Knoppix CD that came out on > Friday. I burned it and used it to boot my machine, and to my > surprise it recognized the nForce2 AGPGAR

Re: [OT] Text stream editing problem

At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:41:17 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > [1 ] > on Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:56:14PM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 01:58:43 +0100, > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > > [1 ] > > > on Mon, Sep 08,

Re: Using parted without a floppy disk?

At Mon, 08 Sep 2003 10:21:52 -0400, David Z Maze wrote: > > Josh Rehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would like to dual boot my machine, and need to exec parted > > to do this. However, parted isn't on the Debian 3.0 distro > > CDs that I have, and gnu only provides floppy images - and my

Re: glx and xfree86 not working: why?

At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:55:39 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I am using xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-6 with a Matrox G550 card. That might be the problem. Not too well supported. But don't trust me on this. I don't own that card. > Eveything works provided I don't enable the glx module in > /etc/X

Re: East Asian O/S

At Tue, 9 Sep 2003 05:32:41 +0800, Katipo wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:03, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > An article from the BBC Online of relative interest - Asian > > countries investing in and turning to a *new* operating > > system so that they can avoid the lock-in of Microsoft, > >

Re: glx and xfree86 not working: why?

At Tue, 9 Sep 2003 09:45:34 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > [...] > Thanks for this helpful reply. I thought Matrox was supposed to > be well supported (partly the reason I bought it); anyway, I'm > using the drivers supplied by Matrox in place of the native X > ones. As I don't play games I do

Re: Trouble with DRI (WAS: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New ATI drivers available)

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:57:36 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 07:49:21 +0800, > csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Also I get my opensource radeon DRI drivers from a Debian > > maintainer's unofficial "site": > > > >

Re: Using parted without a floppy disk?

At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:20:42 -0700 (PDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Only way to go: Knoppix. It will cost you an iso download, but > it is a fantastic system for recovery anywhere on anything. Not quite. There are 50MB so called Bootable Business Card distros. Check out for example: http://ln

Re: glx and xfree86 not working: why?

At Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:13:34 +0200, Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > > csj wrote: > > > From what I've read in the MPlayer and Xine mailing lists, I > > think the Matrox is an excellent choice for watching videos > > (e.g. VCDs, DVDs). > > >

Re: Suggest CD RW app ?

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 14:35:05 +0100, David selby wrote: > > I have just installed a SAMSUNG DVD - CD RW drive, done the > config > > I tried xcdroast, I like it but it insists on a 1024x768 screen > which is a bit of a problem with my eyes / monitor. I believe this has been fixed in Debian Sid/Un

Re: East Asian O/S

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:49:50 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:50:38 +1200, > cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:23, csj wrote: > > > At Tue, 9 Sep 2003 05:32:41 +

Re: Xine and Avseq* files

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 17:28:18 +0700, arief_mulya wrote: > I've tried a couple times, Even have installed w32codecs > package from Christian Marillat deb-src site. > > But I still can get it, Why can't Xine plays avseq*.dat file? > It keep telling me no plugin found. Xine *can* play them. > While

Re: East Asian O/S

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:50:38 +1200, cr wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 12:23, csj wrote: > > At Tue, 9 Sep 2003 05:32:41 +0800, > > > > Katipo wrote: > > > On Tuesday 09 September 2003 02:03, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > > An article fro

bug tracking

I'm just curious about Debian's "bug" policy. I know that some bugs aren't fixable (because either they're too expensive to fix or upstream thinks they're a "feature"). But how are bug reports resolved in the Debian bug system? I just checked my favorite bug, and it's still under the heading "ou

Re: Broken mail - Upgrade Exim3 to Exim4

At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 19:53:40 -0500 (CDT), Russ Cook wrote: > > Please disregard my request for help. I ran dpkg-reconfigure > exim4-config and paid closer attention to my responses and the > prompts offered. All now appears to run properly. I'm a happy > camper. Mind sharing your experience?

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test-2

At 12 Sep 2003 23:30:19 -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > > Has anyone been able to successfully use this package? I > installed it but make xconfig just dies with a million errors, > all coming out of scripts/kconfig/qconf.o. > > For reference, I have installed libqt-dev, so I thought I would > be go

Re: bug tracking

At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:38:20 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > [1 ] > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 04:02, csj wrote: > > I'm just curious about Debian's "bug" policy. > > > > I know that some bugs aren't fixable (because either they're >

Re: gs-fonts ruin wmaker desktop

At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 12:35:57 -0400 (EDT), John Holland wrote: > > I recently installed Debian (mixed stable/unstable) on a > laptop. I wanted the nice look of anti-aliased > fonts. Everything looks great but I found that if the gs-fonts > were installed it wrecked my wmaker desktop and other gui >

Re: bug tracking

At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:18:39 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:02:11PM +0800, csj wrote: > > I'm just curious about Debian's "bug" policy. > > > > I know that some bugs aren't fixable (because either they're > >

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test-2

At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:29:57 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > csj writes: > > Qt is now required to configure a kernel? > > No. "make config" and "make menuconfig" still work. Well, of course ;-). I assume by your statement that "make xconfig" n

Re: bug tracking

On 13 Sep 2003 16:30:11 -0600, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 18:29, csj wrote: > > At Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:18:39 +0100, > > > Is it that much work to, as Osamu Aoki said, change the > > priority or downgrade the bug? Then I'd know how I st

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test-2

At Sun, 14 Sep 2003 13:38:42 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > [1 ] > On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 19:57, csj wrote: > > At Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:29:57 -0500, > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > > > csj writes: > > > > Qt is now required to configure

Re: gdm/desktop password protected shutdown

At Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:34:42 -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: [...] > The last couple of weeks have been full of updates to packages > in Sid, thanks to the hard work of the maintainers. I decided > to give gdmgreeter a go again, and it works. > > I am still not prompted for a password to shutdown or

Re: sed, bash script

At Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:08:51 +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:39:39AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > > Hi, I would like to run all of the files in some directories > > through sed, in order to edit the files. I can do it for > > individual files by typing: cat filename|sed c

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

At Mon, 15 Sep 2003 20:40:44 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > I remember, sometime last year, using a replacement sound > module to capture streaming audio to a file. It worked quite > well. > > Then I didn't have to do it for over six months and completely > forgot what the program was called. > >

Re: DVD RW on Debian

At Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:18:09 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:58:12PM -0500, wsykes.lists wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a good internal or external DVD RW drive > > i could use with Debian? > > The Panasonic drives are always a good bet. I have a A05 in my > main box wi

Re: sed, bash script

At Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:50:15 -0800, Ken Irving wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:22:15AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:40:31AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:08:26AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > &g

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

At Tue, 16 Sep 2003 21:23:15 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:57:57AM +0800, csj wrote: > > > Why not try mplayer? > > Because it doesn't work well with streaming stuff in general and > never with RealAudio, on my system. > > > If th

Re: sed, bash script

At Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:40:31 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:08:26AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] > > Is there anything intrinsically wrong with: > > > > find directory -name "*.foo" | xargs sed -i -f sed_scri

[OT] ML rejections

Two of my last two posts appears not to have made it to the list. Is there a log somewhere I could consult if my posts were, let's say, spam-assassinated by the list server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sound in koules only

At Wed, 17 Sep 2003 18:07:40 -0400, Antonio Rodr wrote: > > I have a sid installation in another machine, with an audigy > card. I installed the emu* driver, alsa, etc. For a few days I > couldn't figure out what was going on that I could not hear any > sounds. I was surprised today when koules st

Re: sed, bash script

At Thu, 18 Sep 2003 12:16:06 +0200, Torsten Reuss wrote: > > csj wrote: > > >At Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:08:51 +0200, > >Matthias Czapla wrote: > > > > > >>On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 07:39:39AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > >> > >> >

Re: sed, bash script

At Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:12:49 -0800, Ken Irving wrote: [...] > > sed -i -f sed_script *.foo [...] > That's nice, but the version of sed available with woody/stable > doesn't provide that option. What version are you using? > > $ sed -i > sed: invalid option -- i > Usage: sed [OPTI

Re: DVDRW: Please help!

At Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:58:37 -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > > OK, I'm bummed. [...] > DVD-RW (don't have any DVD-R's) seems to work fine under > linux. However, DVD +RW/DVD+R discs produce a coaster every > time. However, both are "perfect" when I boot Windows 98 > SE. Not that that does me a damn

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

At Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:04:15 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > [1 ] > On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:04:44PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > | Hi people. > | > | I'm receiving more and more emails with M$ trojan crap. I > | want to get ride of them, but the problem is that I download > | my em

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

At Fri, 19 Sep 2003 22:31:26 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:08:09 -0500, > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > My question is: Is there a mail client that aloud me to use > > > SpamAssassin or any other tool to effectively filte

Re: MS mail bombs

At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:16:31 -0400, Michael C. wrote: > > In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 > > > "Walt L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is there anyone else out t

Re: tuning ide-scsi/usb drives

At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:23:32 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > hdparm can make the difference between an IDE harddrive and > something connected to the IDE bus which is about as fast as if > I'd type the bits by hand. I am down with that, and my IDE > drives are at paramount speeds. > > I also ha

Re: MS mail bombs

At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:36:00 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 09:35, csj wrote: > > At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:16:31 -0400, > > Michael C. wrote: > > > > > > In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &g

Re: MS mail bombs

At Sat, 20 Sep 2003 19:18:20 -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: > > On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:27 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP > > > account- limit the size of messages to download, I limit > > > them to 2000 bytes. You can try different sizes to

Re: MS mail bombs

At Sun, 21 Sep 2003 07:05:13 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 04:39, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > > El sábado, 20 de septiembre de 2003, a las 21:03, Ron Johnson escribe: > > > There goes "Britany kissing Madonna"... > > > > Did she? I should watch more TV... What about Ju

Re: Divx and DVD playback

At Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:16:04 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > It took me quite a bit longer to get MPlayer not to segfault on > my 4 year old Sony Vaio laptop with a Chips & Technologies > graphics chip. (It played Movies fine in XP -- it's old el > crapo driver issues). For instance, I

Re: MS mail bombs

At Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:26:05 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: > > > The other way is a neat little trick I use on my ISP > > > account- limit th

Re: gdm and window managers

At Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:19:02 -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:06:45PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > > I've been using kdm for a long time and was very comfortable > > with the way a user can select the window manager to use at > > start up. I virtually never choose KDE,

Re: MS mail bombs

At Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:14:27 -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > [1 ] > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:52:20AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:02:20 -0400, > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > For telnet simply run: > > > telnet

Re: burning a CD

At Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:59:28 -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > I have put a CD with MS Office in one Linux Box. I need to > copy its contents for burning on a separate Linux box. What is > the best way to do this? If you're doing a legitimate backup and have cdrtools installed, use the program, r

Re: MS mail bombs

At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:59:53 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 04:22:47PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:39:51PM +0800, csj wrote: > > > Why not? Mailfilter has a log feature of varying degrees > > > of verbosity. So if

Re: MS mail bombs

At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:13:53 +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > [1 ] > on Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 05:44:57AM +0800, csj ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > At Mon, 22 Sep 2003 06:26:05 +0100, > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > > If Swen is the shape of things to come

Re: burning a CD

At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:26:41 +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Es Divendres 26 Setembre 2003 08:57, en csj va escriure: > > readcd dev=0,0,0 f=cdimage.iso > > That can also be done using: > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdimage.

Re: Multi-user Debian

At Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT), Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I just saved myself $600 and did NOT buy another box, > but instead just a monitor, a videocard, a keyboard > and a mouse. [...] > It is described here: > > http://startx.times.lv/ > http://www.schuldei.org/aivils/ > http://va

Re: MS mail bombs

At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 02:49:00 +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 10:10:42PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > someone on this list mentioned some other program to check > > popservers before fetchmail'ing? > mailfilter? There are others: popsneaker

Re: ppp stalls on computer activity

At Fri, 26 Sep 2003 11:38:09 -0700, WMFender-Westwind wrote: > > Hi all > > I have a Sony laptop PCG-FXA32 running Debian SID, kernel > 2.4.20 (hand-rolled) with an odd problem. I have an external > hardware modem (Motorola modemsurfr) on ttyS0. Every time > there is heavy load on the machine,

Re: Multi-user Debian

At Sat, 27 Sep 2003 17:22:40 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 16:56, csj wrote: > > At Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:00:29 -0700 (PDT), > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > > > > I just saved myself $600 and did NOT buy another box, > > > but in

Getting Totally [OT] was Re: MS mail bombs

At Sun, 28 Sep 2003 16:47:46 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: [...] > ..WWII was won on 3 major factors: Russian (and Chechen!) blood, > FDR's New Deal policy reforming US capitalism by "banning" it ;-), > giving _all_ of American industry a fair deal on re-tool flexing, and, > "everybody knew _dee

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

At Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:43:35 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Sunday 28 September 2003 11:35 am, alex wrote: [...] > > What are the indicators that will tell us whether the > > components are fully Linux compatible, whether they are part > > of a ready to run Windows computer, a systemless compu

Re: cdparanoia + ide-scsi = no usable drive?

At Sun, 28 Sep 2003 22:27:30 -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: [...] > Is cdparanoia not compatible with ide-scsi for some reason? > (why?) > > What is a good solution? (IOW, what do you do, or what do you > suggest?) -d --force-cdrom-device: use specified device; disallow

Re: Kernel Oops (was Re: Lots of scary segfaults)

At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:03:27 +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > > On Monday 29 September 2003 22:06, Juri Haberland wrote: > > Though I don't know much about kernel opps messages I still > > recommend to check you RAM, e.g. with memtest86, as it might > > be just a bit flipped due to failed memory. >

Re: changing hard returns to soft ones

At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 14:09:45 -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > > I'm interested in printing a Gutenberg Project text (it's ok, > I'm a bookbinder--printing is typical behaviour for me). The > problem is the line breaks in the .txt files. > > Does anyone know how I could convert single hard returns

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:23:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [...] > Not a bug, but the limitation of 32-bit integers. The kernel > "ticker" has a resolution of 1/100th of a second. Thus, a > little math will show you that it takes 497 days, 2 hours, 27 > minutes and 53 seconds worth of 1/100th of a

Re: Debian Desktop for a Joe Average

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:14:38 +0200, Manrtin Jungowski wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:07, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:29, sturla wrote: > > > David Palmer. wrote: > > > > > > If I should advice somebody new to Linux, I would say > > > RedHat, that's where I started. RedHa

Re: How do you know if it works in Linux?

At Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:13:45 +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > > > Quote/This will only work for expensive or really dumb products like > PS/2 keyboards. A case in point: I'm trying to google for > Linux-compatible USB modems (dialup). The only recommendations I > could find are for the ultra-expen

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

At Tue, 30 Sep 2003 14:53:43 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:11:04AM +0800, csj wrote: > > At Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:43:35 -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > > > As with most questions, ask google. There are numerous sites > > > and hardware compatabilit

Re: How Do You Know If It Works In Linux?

At Tue, 30 Sep 2003 15:25:01 -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > > alex wrote: > > ... > > > > > Is there something that prevents manufacturers from clearly > > > stating that a product is fully suitable for Linux? It's > > > done for MS Windows. Is this some kind of legal

Re: Mutt + Vim tricks (replace Nano)

At Wed, 1 Oct 2003 15:51:42 + (UTC), Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] > I've tried opera, though not recently ... my preferred choice > is still mozilla (love the tabs!) Try w3m. It has the visual equivalent of tabs. You can use your favorite editor (mine's emacs) to fill forms.. -- To UN

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