Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:52:02PM -0700, ben wrote: > On Wednesday 10 April 2002 08:39 pm, Gary Turner wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:17:21 -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > >begin ben quotation: > > >> reiterate them. as for the modification, i have no idea what ms-tnef is, > > >> much less why

Re: Blackbox functionality

2002-04-10 Thread Andy Mott
Theo Bierman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Comming from a window maker background I am very used to sloppy focus in fact > I cannot work without it. I am running 2.2r6, I see in my home dir in > .blackboxrc there is a line like so: > > session.autoRaiseDelay: *, this is fine but I need my windo

Blackbox functionality

2002-04-10 Thread Theo Bierman
Hi Not sure if this should go to a Blackbox mailing list, but anyway. Comming from a window maker background I am very used to sloppy focus in fact I cannot work without it. I am running 2.2r6, I see in my home dir in .blackboxrc there is a line like so: session.autoRaiseDelay: *, this is fine

system hangs at boot after crash???

2002-04-10 Thread Lars Jensen
My system hangs at bootup after a crash (my son pressed the reset button). When I boot up the file check fails, and a message appears to run fsck without the -a and -p arguments. As root, I issued the command fsck /dev/hdb8 and the system appears to reboot correctly, except that when the bootup p

Re: No screen lock in Gnome

2002-04-10 Thread Florentin Ionescu
Is there a method to clean the descktop please ? Thank you, Florentin. On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote : | Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:59:05 -0400 | From: Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Subject: Re: No screen lock in Gnome | | begin Jeroen Valcke

Re: apache-ssl on Sparc 2 4/75

2002-04-10 Thread Tom Cook
I have that apache-ssl working, albeit not on a sparc box. I have some advice for you though... On 0, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > When the system starts, the apache-ssl > daemon appears to start OK. Yet no > connection is accepted. Executing > "lynx http:///" on the console > yields on

apache-ssl on Sparc 2 4/75

2002-04-10 Thread peter_easthope
Hello Debian users, Recently I installed Debian 2.2.22 on a Sparc 2 4/75. Subsequently installed apache-ssl which reports these versions. Apache/1.3.9 Ben-SSL/1.37 When the system starts, the apache-ssl daemon appears to start OK. Yet no connection is accepted. Executing "lynx http:///" on

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread ben
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 08:39 pm, Gary Turner wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:17:21 -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > >begin ben quotation: > >> reiterate them. as for the modification, i have no idea what ms-tnef is, > >> much less why it should or shouldn't be permitted. since you apparently > >>

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:17:21 -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: >begin ben quotation: >> >> reiterate them. as for the modification, i have no idea what ms-tnef is, >> much >> less why it should or shouldn't be permitted. since you apparently do, what >> should its status be relative to desired prop

Re: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 09:19:45PM -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote: > Can the SNMP tools deal with this (packages snmp and snmpd)? Only insofar as they provide a method to gather the data. You still have to collect, collate, and interpret the data. As someone else mentioned, cricket is a great way

Re: vmware with parport device in bidirectional mode

2002-04-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 18:42, Arno Baier wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 10. April 2002 10:29 schrieb Crispin Wellington: > > > What about /dev/par0? > > the same message "Cannot open /dev/par0: No such device" And you're in group lp? Crispin Wellington -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: 100dpi vs 75dpi

2002-04-10 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 18:39, Thomas Peri wrote: > I seem to be using 100dpi fonts. This wouldn't bother me, but since > many programs seem to assume 75dpi, lots of elements like buttons and > things (especially in mozilla) are sized too small, and the text gets > clipped. How can I use 75dpi f

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Chad Waters quotation: > > Now... the bonehead that unleashed the almost YEAR-OLD virus is another > story... And note that I complained about him, not about the bouncebacks; the bouncebacks were merely the catalyst that led me to the suggestion. Eliminate the Outlook Express users, and y

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Kent West
ben wrote: On Wednesday 10 April 2002 06:35 pm, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin Patrick Kirk quotation: On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 19:45, Shawn McMahon wrote: Perhaps it's time to start refusing list posts from Outlook Express. perhaps it's simply time to work out a mutually agreeable ruleset fo

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Chad Waters
This has been amusing... Really, who here has adminned SMTP servers and NEVER caused at least one mail loop or something similar. As long has they acknowledge it, fix it promptly, and learn from it, then let it go. Now... the bonehead that unleashed the almost YEAR-OLD virus is another story...

Re: using Mondo -k FAILSAFE switch

2002-04-10 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 13:50, Wayne wrote: > Hi, > Reading the docs for this it says for Debian to use the above switch: > "-k path > Path of user's kernel. If you are a Debian user then specify -k > FAILSAFE as your kernel. Otherwise, you will rarely need this option." > > I dont seem to have thi

Re: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-10 Thread Elizabeth Barham
Can the SNMP tools deal with this (packages snmp and snmpd)? Elizabeth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin ben quotation: > > reiterate them. as for the modification, i have no idea what ms-tnef is, much > less why it should or shouldn't be permitted. since you apparently do, what > should its status be relative to desired propriety on the list? It's a Microsoft proprietary standard for encap

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread ben
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 06:56 pm, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin ben quotation: > > let's get it going: > > > > 1. no spam. > > > > 2. no html. > > > > 3. wrap text. > > The first two are already in the list charter. The second, however, > should be modified to make it more clear what's allowed

Re: mounting a RAID array

2002-04-10 Thread Alvin Oga
hiya paul which raid controller ??? - is it supported by your kernel ?? - lots of fun finding the right hw and kernel combo - - list of "supported hw raid controllers" - http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html - more fun raid stuff http://www.1U-Ra

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin ben quotation: > > let's get it going: > > 1. no spam. > > 2. no html. > > 3. wrap text. The first two are already in the list charter. The second, however, should be modified to make it more clear what's allowed and what isn't, since it doesn't mention ms-tnef. -- Shawn McMahon

Re: Upgraded computer not upgraded

2002-04-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 05:34:05PM -0700, curtis wrote: | I had upgraded one of our computers per instructions, which have worked | on all computers. Provided at the end of the message is the procedure I | used. | I had actually assumed that that computer was upgraded to 2.4, but I | discovered

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread ben
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 06:35 pm, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin Patrick Kirk quotation: > > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 19:45, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > > Perhaps it's time to start refusing list posts from Outlook Express. > > perhaps it's simply time to work out a mutually agreeable ruleset for sub

Re: Copying and pasting don't work in Gnome terminal

2002-04-10 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:17:53PM -0700, jennyw wrote: > Just wondering if I'm missing something obvious ... cutting and > pasting in Gnome terminal is pretty inconsistent for me. Sometimes it > works, sometimes it only copies the first letter or does something > else weird. Does this happen to

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Patrick Kirk quotation: > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 19:45, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > Perhaps it's time to start refusing list posts from Outlook Express. > > > What gives you the right to decide who is fit to ask for help using > Debian? "Perhaps" indicates expression of an opinion. So I hav

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, Chris Jenks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 02:49 PM 4/10/02, Karsten M. Self wrote: > >on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >> Perhaps it's time to start refusing list posts from Outlook Express. > >> > >> That'd eliminate 99% of the "unsubscribe" stupidity, as w

Re: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-10 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Alan Poulton quotation: > > Forgive me if I'm missing it, but I don't see the Bytes transmitted and > received, only packets. What version of net-tools do you have installed? Under both current Woody and current RedHat, it does. > Unfortunately, I'm not knowledgable in writing scripts ju

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-10 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Wendell Cochran quotation: > > Even parts-supply houses have informed me, haughtily, > that if I want to look or buy I must `upgrade' my browser. CapitalOne learned on that one, too. Their page used to tell you if you were using Netscape 6, you had to "upgrade" to 4.7. I told them that r

RE: mounting a RAID array

2002-04-10 Thread Dave Scott
Not sure, but you might try adjusting the bios for HD3 instead of HD1, depending on your motherboard. Boot off a dos disk and see if you see 1 full partition. Basically after you RAID the system the drive should appear to whatever OS as one drive, but you usually have to give the proper OS driver

Re: gnuPG keys

2002-04-10 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Greg C. Madden quotation: > Someone brought to my attention here, thanks, that searching on my key > ID number does not get any results from a key server. I have verified > this on: > http://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net/pgpnet > http://www.keyserver.net/en/ You are not gonna believe this, Greg, but T

Re: Re[4]: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Alan Poulton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 4:16:06 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > > net-tools 1.60 > > ifconfig 1.42 (2001-04-13) > > AHH! Much better. I was running net-tools 1.54, so I upgraded that and > now I can see how many Mb I've transferred. > > > Have

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 20:05, Alan Shutko wrote: > I saw two suggestions about possible ways he could stop the impact of > his company's broken mail server. I did not see "Go home, we don't > want you." Is it now intolerance to suggest ways people could fix > problems that bother others on the lis

Re: runaway modprobe loop

2002-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:20:58PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > I compiled 2.2.20 with VESA frame buffer support enabled, and > now I have a runaway modprobe loop: [...] > I'm going to try again with unix and pf_packet compiled into > the kernel, That fixed it, but I don't know what caused it in

Upgraded computer not upgraded

2002-04-10 Thread curtis
I had upgraded one of our computers per instructions, which have worked on all computers. Provided at the end of the message is the procedure I used. I had actually assumed that that computer was upgraded to 2.4, but I discovered that it is still on the 2.2 kernel. Any apt-get dist-upgrade produ

Re[4]: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-10 Thread Alan Poulton
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 4:16:06 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > net-tools 1.60 > ifconfig 1.42 (2001-04-13) AHH! Much better. I was running net-tools 1.54, so I upgraded that and now I can see how many Mb I've transferred. > Have a look at mrtg. You'll need to set up the snmp packages to get it >

mounting a RAID array

2002-04-10 Thread Paul Yeatman
Hi, I recently installed a RAID controller on a pc and set up within the controller's BIOS an array out of two disks using RAID level 1. This all went well. Then I booted the system. The system sees the two drives I RAID'd as individual IDE drives. I'm completely new to RAID and am having proble

runaway modprobe loop

2002-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped s/20020410.log Read-only file system insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.20/misc/unix.o: cannot create /var/log/ksymoops/20020410135256.ksyms Read-only file system insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.20/misc/unix.o: insmod net-pf-1 failed insmod

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Alan Shutko
Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I really never expected to see this level of intolerance in a Debian > list. You shouldn't have been, since it seems you were looking for it. I saw two suggestions about possible ways he could stop the impact of his company's broken mail server. I di

Re: Galeon not to be in Woody?

2002-04-10 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, April 10, The Doctor What did write: > I saw Anthony Towns's message about Galeon not being in Woody. > > Is this true even for galeon 1.0? Not sure about this. However, it's pretty straightforward to install Galeon from Sid on top of a Woody system; I've been doing that here

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 19:45, Shawn McMahon wrote: > Perhaps it's time to start refusing list posts from Outlook Express. > What gives you the right to decide who is fit to ask for help using Debian? > That'd eliminate 99% of the "unsubscribe" stupidity, as well. > Then let's exclude those foo

unsubscribe

2002-04-10 Thread netburner
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Installation Error

2002-04-10 Thread Luis Garcia
Hi, I bought a set of Debian installation disk from LAN Comp Systems in Issaquah, Washington. I have tried to install the systems and I always get an error when I get to disk 3 out of 4. It says: E: sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned and error code (1) At this point, the process stops and reboots

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:23, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:16:53 +0200 > "adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . > > Why don't you just subscribe with a different (private?) account? > I'm shocked. I really never expected to see this level of intolerance in a Debian list. Ad

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Simon Hepburn
Scott Henson wrote: > Ok thats just not cool. You dont have to do that. This is an open > list. And I believe it is against the inclusive philosophy of the Debian > project as a whole to exclude someone for such a stupid purpose. Seconded. This goes totally against the spirit of Debian. It's no

Re: scanner demise

2002-04-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* dave mallery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > i compared the two config files. there is an additional usb entry in the > 2.2.20 config: > > config_hotplug=y > > everything else in usb is identical. ... > so does anyone have any suggestions? this is the first real thing i have > found

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:16:53PM +0200, adam wrote: | okay, I expected a bit more tolerance from debian users - I've just | unsubscribed. | sorry for having bothered you . . . Apology accepted for bothering us. You don't need to unsubscribe because of it. The bother actually made me patch it o

[OT] Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Karsten M. Self" writes: > on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Perhaps it's time to start refusing list posts from Outlook Express. > > > > That'd eliminate 99% of the "unsubscribe" stupidity, as well. > > I respond to the address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and > [EMAIL

Re: Re[2]: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Alan Poulton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 10:24:58 AM, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > >> And does it give Bytes transmitted/received, or just the sheer number > >> of packets? > > > Both. Do an ifconfig now and look at the output. > > Here's my output: > > eth0

Re: Galeon not to be in Woody?

2002-04-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 04:12:01PM -0500, The Doctor What wrote: | I saw Anthony Towns's message about Galeon not being in Woody. | | Is this true even for galeon 1.0? Likely : $ apt-cache policy galeon galeon: Installed: 1.0.3-0.4 Candidate: 1.0.3-0.4 Version Table: 1.2.0-3 0

Re: HAS Galeon UI changed? Solved.

2002-04-10 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 19:40, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 10:35, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Hi all, [...] > into not showing the crash recove

Re: Stuck: "EXT2-fs warning: ..."

2002-04-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:55:19PM +, Soren Andersen wrote: | On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 03:07:10 +, I myself <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: | > On Tue, 09 Apr 2002 09:54:45 -0700, "Steve Juranich" | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: | > > First thing, please use word-wrap on your mail client (including repl

Re: scanner demise

2002-04-10 Thread dave mallery
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > * dave mallery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > hi > > > > i posted a long-winded situation report on the sudden demise of my scanner > > last night. > > > > i think the real symptom is that the epson 1650 works under potato's > > 2.2.19 and not

Re[4]: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-10 Thread Alan Poulton
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 3:34:47 PM, Gary Turner wrote: > This from a non-hacker: > 1. Wouldn't a cron job, say hourly, cover you? Have a script call > ifconfig and extract the data to a log. Your number crunchers could > have a field day with all that info :-) I like the idea, and

Re: Eterm equivalent? (was Re: How to *not* restore screen after viewing man pages in X)

2002-04-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:07:20PM -0400, Bill Benedetto wrote: > Dave> Cool. Works great for xterm, but what's the Eterm equivalent? The > Dave> obvious choice of > I believe that Eterm, by default, uses Xterm resources. So the > same setting, "XTerm*titeInhibit:True", should work for Eter

Re[2]: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-10 Thread Alan Poulton
Wednesday, April 10, 2002, 10:24:58 AM, Shawn McMahon wrote: >> And does it give Bytes transmitted/received, or just the sheer number >> of packets? > Both. Do an ifconfig now and look at the output. Here's my output: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:29:30:85:C0 inet addr:

Re: Re[2]: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-10 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:53:43 -0700, Alan Poulton wrote: >Tuesday, April 09, 2002, 1:14:48 PM, Shawn McMahon wrote: > >> ifconfig will show you that. It's cumulative, so either take the >> interface down and up before you want to start, or write down the >> numbers. > >Hmm... two questions. Do the

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-10 Thread Wendell Cochran
> Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:13:50 -0400 > Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [SNIP SNIP] > So they do track this stuff, and they do respond. People complaining in > mailing lists don't get it fixed, and people knuckling under and using > proprietary browsers don't get it fixed, but people sending email

RE: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 17:16, adam wrote: > okay, I expected a bit more tolerance from debian users - I've just > unsubscribed. > sorry for having bothered you . . . > > Adam Ok thats just not cool. You dont have to do that. This is an open list. And I believe it is against the inclusive philoso

Re: 100dpi vs 75dpi

2002-04-10 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 14:23, Bill Moseley wrote: > Now, changing screen sizes (Ctrl-Alt-+) my fonts do change relative to > the screen size. > > I tried with other applications, too, such as gedit, mozilla, kedit. > Removing DisplaySize seems to have no effect, either. Passing various > -dpi sett

RE: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread justin cunningham
Adam, I think you may be overreacting a bit and shutting the door to an opensource user list while running opensource servers is a bad idea. I've got 5 debian boxes here but read this list-mail from a windows laptop for lots of reasons e.g. easier to manage a ms lan with a res kit; need to test/

Re: vmware with parport device in bidirectional mode

2002-04-10 Thread Greg Norris
You'll need the ppdev module as well, IIRC. On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:40:51AM +0200, Arno Baier wrote: > hi > i 've probs get the parport device work with vmware 3.0 and 3.1. > i switched the paralell device in the bios to epp mode and compiled the > modules parport and parport_pc. i do not use

Re: fluxbox and kde

2002-04-10 Thread Thomas Peri
Hmm... It kinda works. The main problem is that doing it that way is that kdesktop just shows up in a blackbox window. I've explored the alternative of just starting kdesktop by itself with fluxbox, using the --x-root flag, but that presents some problems too: 1) kdesktop intercepts the midd

RE: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread adam
No, I'm sorry if it looks that way for you Dimitri (and more so if others get that impression). I admit that I was (am) a bit on the edge, fired up and waiting. You just happened to reply before I quit. I think - it's only my opinion that I dare to express to the list: I think that Linux is better

Re: Growing File Count with apt-get/dpkg

2002-04-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Apr-2002 James A. Lupo wrote: > I've been using apt-get/dpkg for some time, tracking the "unstable" > distribution. I've noticed that the number of files reported by dpkg > grows continuously. The file count has grown continuously till now > its over 104,000. Disk space utilization increa

Growing File Count with apt-get/dpkg

2002-04-10 Thread James A. Lupo
I've been using apt-get/dpkg for some time, tracking the "unstable" distribution. I've noticed that the number of files reported by dpkg grows continuously. The file count has grown continuously till now its over 104,000. Disk space utilization increases with each update as well. Is this normal

Re: How does 'compact' do it?

2002-04-10 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:13:33AM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote: > The kernel on the "compact" disk has several of the more common drivers > "compiled in" rather than compiled as modules. Your SCSI driver is one > of those. This is propably at the root of your problem. I was far from clear in

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Dave Price
Reading from work via ssh ... Outlook window for corporate e-mail minimized. aloha, dave - unix, because rebooting is for adding new hardware. On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:55:03PM -0400, Scott Henson wrote: > Some people read the list from places other than their home where they > don't

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Christoph Simon
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:16:53 +0200 "adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > okay, I expected a bit more tolerance from debian users - I've just > unsubscribed. > sorry for having bothered you . . . Why don't you just subscribe with a different (private?) account? -- Christoph Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Dave Price
Here Here aloha, dave - unix, because rebooting is for adding new hardware. On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:45:16PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: > Perhaps it's time to start refusing list posts from Outlook Express. > > That'd eliminate 99% of the "unsubscribe" stupidity, as well. > >

Re: 100dpi vs 75dpi

2002-04-10 Thread Bill Moseley
On 10 Apr 2002 10:45:57 -0700 Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > I start X by specifying 100 dpi. I'm not sure exactly what that > > does, but it makes my fonts a better size. BTW -I specify that -dpi setting in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp > > That is a side

gnuPG keys

2002-04-10 Thread Greg C. Madden
Someone brought to my attention here, thanks, that searching on my key ID number does not get any results from a key server. I have verified this on: http://wwwkeys.us.pgp.net/pgpnet http://www.keyserver.net/en/ If I search on my name Greg C. Madden I get results. It appears that Evolution ( I am

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-10 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 18:42:57 +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: >On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 12:58:16 -0400 >Shawn McMahon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> begin Phillip Deackes quotation: >Can anyone else confirm that I have a problem with message text not >wrapping correctly? > " "I have a PAL TV because

Re: VIA AC97 Audio Controller again.

2002-04-10 Thread Derek Loree
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All. > I have VIA VT82C686A sound chipset & I have some problems. > Sometimes my sound card stops to work & I hear only squeak. > I could solve this problem only reboot my computer. > Anyone knows how solve it. I use the OSS driver & kernek 2.2.20. > Thanks in advan

RE: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread adam
okay, I expected a bit more tolerance from debian users - I've just unsubscribed. sorry for having bothered you . . . Adam -Message d'origine- De : Dimitri Maziuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoye : mercredi 10 avril 2002 23:05 A : debian-user@lists.debian.org Objet : Re: The latest round

Galeon not to be in Woody?

2002-04-10 Thread The Doctor What
I saw Anthony Towns's message about Galeon not being in Woody. Is this true even for galeon 1.0? Ciao! -- Any given program will expand to fill available memory. The Doctor What: Kaboom! http://docwhat.gerf.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* adam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > It wasn't my choice and I have no say in the matter - if the means that I am > not welcome on this list then I will (reluctantly) unsubscribe. You can always read the list via usenet. Posting is a bit of a PITA if you do that, but I hear they are work

RE: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread adam
I agree, I'm sorry, the France Telecom one was my fault. I work for a company that uses France Telecom for internet access and pays for them to check for viruses. It wasn't my choice and I have no say in the matter - if the means that I am not welcome on this list then I will (reluctantly) unsubscr

RE: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread adam
I agree, I'm sorry, the France Telecom one was my fault. I work for a company that uses France Telecom for internet access and pays for them to check for viruses. It wasn't my choice and I have no say in the matter - if the means that I am not welcome on this list then I will (reluctantly) unsubscr

Re: scanner demise

2002-04-10 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* dave mallery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > hi > > i posted a long-winded situation report on the sudden demise of my scanner > last night. > > i think the real symptom is that the epson 1650 works under potato's > 2.2.19 and not under 2.2.20 in woody. i had the same problem in r/h where

Re: using unstable package on testing?

2002-04-10 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:44:19PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 10:18:41PM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: > > Weird, Licq is available as a package in unstable and in stable, but not > > in testing. My question what's the best thing to do to install this on a > > Debian testing sys

Re: Help

2002-04-10 Thread Dave Price
Thanks but no thanks - that looks like some kind of visual-basic / registry hack crap. By sending it to a debian linux list, you are: a> Advertising that you are really stupid. b> Silly enough to think we are brain-dead enough to be: 1> Using an MS operating system 2> Dumb enough

scanner demise

2002-04-10 Thread dave mallery
hi i posted a long-winded situation report on the sudden demise of my scanner last night. i think the real symptom is that the epson 1650 works under potato's 2.2.19 and not under 2.2.20 in woody. i had the same problem in r/h where it was working fine and then ceased after a kernel upgrade. i

Re: 100dpi vs 75dpi

2002-04-10 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:02:51 -0700, Craig Dickson wrote: > style "user-font" > { > fontset ="-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1" > } > > widget_class "*" style "user-font" I tried that, but accented characters and following text no longer get drawn. Any idea? -- Vin

Re: pppd dial-in problems

2002-04-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:17:30PM -0500, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to configure a 2.2r5 system for dial-in PPP access. > The dail-in part works fine, but when the dial-in user starts > pppd using "exec /usr/sbin/pppd -detach", the ppp daemon just > sits there forever: deaf and dumb until

Re: Galeon crashing

2002-04-10 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 02:38:15PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > > Galeon has started freezing up and shows the folowing error message if I > call it from the command line: ... > Its only certain sites that cause it to lock - one that always crashes > it is www.mobilestreams.com > > If I run gal

Re: Getting time from server at boottime

2002-04-10 Thread David Roundy
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:19:42PM +0200, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hi ! > > I have one computer with DCF77 time (=server). I can update my other > computers (=clients) with rdate easily. > > Now I want to do that at boottime. I see there are two scripts for time > setup in /etc/init.d, namely hwc

Re: gnome-utils won't install on update

2002-04-10 Thread Bill Morgan
On 4/10/02 5:45 AM, "stan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:07:26AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:49:31PM -0400, stan wrote: >>> I trued to update my woody box yesterday, and ran inot a small problem with >>> the gnome-utils package. I fugured it wa

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Scott Henson
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 15:43, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin dman quotation: > > > > was. I think it was being a "good neighbor" by alerting the rest of > > us that we just got a virus. > > Sorry, this is "debian-user", not "windows-user". I don't

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin dman quotation: > > was. I think it was being a "good neighbor" by alerting the rest of > us that we just got a virus. Sorry, this is "debian-user", not "windows-user". I don't need half a dozen bounces telling me somebody sent a virus, my system is immune. -- Shawn McMahon

Re: 100dpi vs 75dpi

2002-04-10 Thread Thomas Peri
Wonderful! Thanks! Note: it does have to be .gtkrc, and not .gtkrc-kde, which existed already for me. Craig Dickson wrote: begin Vincent Lefevre quotation: I have huge fonts in my GTK apps and I'd like smaller ones. How can I change that? (I don't use GNOME.) Add something like the fol

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:49:10AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | > Perhaps it's time to start refusing list posts from Outlook Express. | > | > That'd eliminate 99% of the "unsubscribe" stupidity, as well. Exchange, not Lookout.

Re: Evolution and openoffice

2002-04-10 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 06:34, Paulo Jose da Silva e Silva wrote: > Hello, > > After upgrading two woody boxes (grabbing evolution 1.0.3), evolution > can't print e-mail anymore. Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a > solution? > Evolution v1.03, in the select printer dialog the default com

Re: Ok, so what's this MS Exchange crap? (was Re: Not read: ????????:????)

2002-04-10 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin dman quotation: > > with razor). It's not a problem, though. Who would ever send you a > message that had _nothing_ but ms-tnef content? If it is their Someone using Word as their email editor, perhaps? I can't test this, I don't use Lookout. The one time I received mail that the send

Re: Ok, so what's this MS Exchange crap? (was Re: Not read: ????????:????)

2002-04-10 Thread dman
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:52:18PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: | begin Karsten M. Self quotation: | > | > Ricochet: http://vipul.net/ricochet/ Automated spam responder, parses | > headers for ISP, relays, etc. | | I don't think reporting all ms-tnef email automatically as spam is a | good idea

VIA AC97 Audio Controller again.

2002-04-10 Thread petrov
Hi All. I have VIA VT82C686A sound chipset & I have some problems. Sometimes my sound card stops to work & I hear only squeak. I could solve this problem only reboot my computer. Anyone knows how solve it. I use the OSS driver & kernek 2.2.20. Thanks in advance for you help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Copying and pasting don't work in Gnome terminal

2002-04-10 Thread jennyw
Just wondering if I'm missing something obvious ... cutting and pasting in Gnome terminal is pretty inconsistent for me. Sometimes it works, sometimes it only copies the first letter or does something else weird. Does this happen to others, too, or am I special? ;-) Are there better terminal

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-10 Thread Chris Jenks
At 02:49 PM 4/10/02, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Perhaps it's time to start refusing list posts from Outlook Express. > > That'd eliminate 99% of the "unsubscribe" stupidity, as well. I respond to the address, [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EM

Re: initrd-tools won't update

2002-04-10 Thread csj
On Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:29:17 GMT "mulderij" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been having troubles updating my woody-install. I have > initrd-tools v0.1.19 installed, the latest (that I want to > have installed) is v0.1.22. > For about a month I get: > ~ The following packages have been kept

Re: Ok, so what's this MS Exchange crap? (was Re: Not read: ????????:????)

2002-04-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > ...and he forgets and sends it via ms-tnef format, he is NOT sending > > you unsolicited commercial email, and reporting tha

Re: Ok, so what's this MS Exchange crap? (was Re: Not read: ????????:????)

2002-04-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Apr 10, 2002, Shawn McMahon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > begin Karsten M. Self quotation: > > > > If you don't want to fink on your Uncle Louie, then filter separately. > > You have a filter that will accommodate every person you know now or > may meet in the future, even if they don't h

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