Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 05:30:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 15:15, will trillich wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:02:09AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Hal Vaughan wrote: Alchemists had three generally accepted > [snip] > > > Is there a parallel to alchemy in the m

Re: [OT] Re: shuttle disaster (Socrates)

On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 04:57:28PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:26:44AM -0500, Mike M wrote: > > In America, we say, "Those who can, do. Those that can't, teach." > > An interesting retcon. That's a quote from George Bernard Shaw, an > Irishman, who also said: "Americans

Re: Knoppix?

#include * stan [Mon, Feb 10 2003, 09:27:53PM]: > I am probably going to get a new Compaq EVO N 410c laptop. I booted one of > these today off a Knoppix CD, and it seemed to recognize everythign > important, with the possible exception of the modem. > > Would it make sense to isntall Knoppix, pla

Re: setting content-description in mutt

* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030210 23:06]: > Try dropping the attached patch in your debian/patches. Woops. I mean, of course, the attached patch. good times, Vineet diff -urN mutt-1.5.3.orig/pgp.c mutt-1.5.3/pgp.c --- mutt-1.5.3.orig/pgp.c 2002-12-16 07:27:26.0 -0800 +++

upgrading consequences?

Dear all, I like to know, What happens if I upgrade, from testing to unstable? the major package I installed on testing include: - gnome 1.4 - mozilla - xfree86 4.2 - openoffice (from unofficial source) - abiword, gnumeric, the gimp - some games and multimedia (xmms, xine) - apache, mysql, php

Re: moving fs to new disk using tar

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:48:34AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > heya, > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:11:08PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > tar -c --atime-preserve -l usr |tar -C /spareide -x -v --atime-preserve > > --preserve --same-owner > > may i suggest a less confusing alternative: > > r

mutt - bouncing a message

I use mutt on sarge at work and woody at home. Bouncing a message (using 'b') in mutt from the sarge machine results in the full message being bounced as it is without any visible changes to the reader (unless the reader wants to inspect the full headers). Bouncing a message from the woody machin

Re: setting content-description in mutt

from your hard drive to any or all recipients from your address book. But it only happens about once a month or so, so it's okay. Just keep on using it. * martin f krafft ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030201 05:33]: > When I sign a message with mutt and GPG, the GPG signature's MIME part > is introduced li

Re: OT--How to ask aquestion, an example

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:14:47PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > While Googlin' for a similar error I ran across this post. It struck me > as a near perfect example of how to do it. Interestingly, ESR, of > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html fame was the first > respondent :) Consi

Re: Debian Newbie: Truetype fonts

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:05:17AM +0100, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I'm a total Debian newbie, having used RedHat for years and > years. I'm having some difficulty making Debian see my TT > fonts. > > They show up in selection lists, but they look pretty poor > whhen compared to RH8. Is there a Debia

Re: Mutt Save-Hook Help

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 04:26:11PM -0800, Curtis Spencer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:00:19AM +0100, Christian Arthaber wrote: > > would exactly do you want? you're save-hook should make mutt to save > > the message into folder debian as soon as you are on the message and > > press 's'. if y

Re: Packaging system and non-Debian packages [was: Re: lm_sensors]

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:05:27AM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 02:09:04AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 03:49:57PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > It would be useful to know how to do this in the more general case, > > > where there isn't a convenient comma

Re: More detailed post ...

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 06:59:59PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 01:02:46PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > > >(By the way, where is that message header defined? I just searched > > > >through all the IETF RfCs but couldn't find it.) > > > > > > Whatever the RFCs say, ...

Re: More detailed post ...

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:38:25PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:50, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > This isn't standard, nor is it a good idea. (Yahoo Groups is the only > > place I know of that still uses it). > > > > mailman and ezmlm both do this. i'm not sure if it is the

Re: moving fs to new disk using tar

heya, On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:11:08PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > tar -c --atime-preserve -l usr |tar -C /spareide -x -v --atime-preserve > --preserve --same-owner may i suggest a less confusing alternative: rsync -a usr/ /spareide it does for most intents and purposes the same thing.

Re: How can I make Galeon use xmms to play .flac files?

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:23:08AM -0500, stan wrote: > I'n using Galeon, and if I point it to an mo3 file, it hands it to xmms, > just fine. However it does not do the same for flac files, even though the > version of xmms I have can play flac file fine, f i invoke it speeratly. > > How can I "te

HOWTO install a multilingual search engine

The HOWTO is finally written. It's very long (21K of HTML ... and there's not that much HTML). Here's the URL for those of you who are interested. I'd love to get some feedback on it. I know it still needs at least a little bit of cleaning up...but I've been working on it for over 2 hours (plus y

Re: Knoppix?

On Monday 10 February 2003 10:39 pm, Srinivasan Ranganathan wrote: > stan wrote: > > Would it make sense to isntall Knoppix, planing to follow Debian testing? > > Using that now. Works like a charm. So what did you do? Use the HD install script in Knoppix, edit /etc/apt/sources.list, and do a di

Suggestions for UUCP News Reader?

Greetings, I'm looking for a easy way to read a few newsgroups without alot of overhead on the computer. I've setup news servers, but never really read the stuff on *my* personal systems before. So... I've installed Knews and it sucks, and also tried gnus..., which seemed like overkill. I'm lo

Re: Apache ProxyPass and ModRewrite

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 06:16:04PM -0200, GBV wrote: | Hi all! | | I´m using Apache mod_proxy to emulate a direct internet connection | with one internal web host running ISS 5.0 | | internet -> debian/Apache -> w2k/ISS | | httpd.conf - inside virtual host foo.com | ProxyPass /universite/ http:

VIA con dios?

First my system specs: CPU: Athlon 1800+ Motherboard: Epox EP-8K7A Kernel: 2.4.20 on Debian sid. $ sudo hdparm /dev/hda /dev/hda: multcount= 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq= 1 (on) using_dma= 1 (on) keepsettings = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead=

How to fix "Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0"?

I've been having trouble booting from kernels I've built with make-kpkg with the --initrd option. My /etc/lilo.conf does has initrd=... lines. When I try to boot a new kernel, it says: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0 and says something about device 1601 / 16:01 (which d

OT--How to ask aquestion, an example

While Googlin' for a similar error I ran across this post. It struck me as a near perfect example of how to do it. Interestingly, ESR, of http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html fame was the first respondent :) Subj: fetchmail: couldn't find canonical DNS name of [...] Short descri

Re: Knoppix?

stan wrote: > I am probably going to get a new Compaq EVO N 410c laptop. I booted one of > these today off a Knoppix CD, and it seemed to recognize everythign > important, with the possible exception of the modem. > > Would it make sense to isntall Knoppix, planing to follow Debian testing? Soun

Re: [OT] volunteer work

Hello, I found indymedia.org several months ago. A channel from Iran is starting and those individuals have asked for technical help. I don't know what OS they are using, but I assume they would be open to a reasonable suggestion to run free software. This was the site, but it appears that they

moving fs to new disk using tar

Hi all, I thought I was being very careful, but this didn't work like I'd hoped. Basically I want to move my /usr fs from one disk to another - the first will eventually be repartitioned, to use LVM and ReiserFS. Other filesystems will follow. So I used this command from / (in single user mode -

Re: Knoppix?

stan wrote: Would it make sense to isntall Knoppix, planing to follow Debian testing? Using that now. Works like a charm. HTH Srini -- _ _ Srinivasan Ranganathano' \,=./ `o E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: dcgui problems

Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:09:01AM +0100, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: Hi my dcgui hangs when it conncts to a hub, regardless of which hub. Dies with the message dcgui: relocation error: dcgui: undefined symbol: __fixunsdfdi Does anyone know whats wrong? Im running unstable on P

Re: [OT] volunteer work

said Faheem Mitha (on 2003-02-10), > I was wondering if any people on this group do volunteer work using > their knowledge/expertise with Debian/Free Software to help deserving > causes. I'm particularly thinking of progressive groups here. > I was wondering how difficult it would be. TAO Commun

Re: Defragment

Itsik Aviad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had a serious lock up that forced me to shutdown the system. When > I brought it back. It went through the normal procedure of 'fixing' > everything, except for a section where it said (and I don't remember > the correct syntax) that it wasn't 'continous

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/texmf is your rather overwhelming starting > point. Diving into latex/general gets you what you want. You can use the 'texdoc' tool to conveniently read a file in this tree. For a good beginner's reference, I'd recommend "The No

Re: Printer Problem - An Insane Solution

Glenn English wrote: >On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:03, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > >> PS. I was going to call this a cock-a-manie (sp?) solution but I can't >> find the word in any of our dictionaries. Anyone know a correct >> spelling and dictionary entry? > >Not at all sure, but I think it's "c

Knoppix?

I am probably going to get a new Compaq EVO N 410c laptop. I booted one of these today off a Knoppix CD, and it seemed to recognize everythign important, with the possible exception of the modem. Would it make sense to isntall Knoppix, planing to follow Debian testing? -- "They that would give

Re: Hard disk power cut too early during a halt

Ian Melnick wrote: Hello, all This problem has been happening for as long as I can remember... since I enabled ACPI power management (this comp doesn't do APM afaik). Kernels in question are from 2.4.17 to 2.4.20, I think (didn't use power management before that). I have two hard disks in this

Re: Moving /usr to a reiserfs partition

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I Installed woody and all its filesystem on one reiserfs partition /dev/hdb1. Now, >because my beloved debian has grown over time, I'd like to move the entire 1.6 GB >/usr directory to a reiserfs /dev/hdb6 partition. > I had a go at it mo

Re: dcgui problems

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 02:09:01AM +0100, Nils-Erik Svang?rd wrote: > Hi my dcgui hangs when it conncts to a hub, regardless of which hub. > Dies with the message > dcgui: relocation error: dcgui: undefined symbol: __fixunsdfdi > Does anyone know whats wrong? > Im running unstable on P4 2.4 ghz 512

Re: alien error

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 12:16:00AM +0100, Mikkel wrote: > i am trying to convert a rpm to a deb. with Alien but i keep getting this > error: > > make : dh-testdir:Command not found Install debhelper. Regards, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Urgent Help: courier-imap installation

heya On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 11:18:31PM -, Kevin Smith wrote: > I installed courier-imap and then tried to remove exim. Which caused these > problems... how do I reinstall courier-imap? i don't know about the specifics of your situation, but i imagine # apt-get --reinstall install courier-i

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

* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030210 16:28]: > I don't think mutt even really nails the hierarchical presentation bit > when used as an IMAP client. I don't even know that mutt supports IMAP > folder browsing and subscribing, though in fairness I haven't used it > extensively. Wrong again;

Re: Mutt Save-Hook Help

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:28:09AM -0800, Curtis Spencer wrote: > I am trying to get mutt to save all messages from the debian user list > in a file called debian. I don't fully understand the save-hook functionality. > my muttrc looks like this, yet everything still gets saved to the inbox. > >

Re: Other Unix'es

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 16:03, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 00:16, René Seindal wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just happened to stumble over this, which is a rather amusing list of > > other uses of the name Unix. > > > > It is a part of Dennis Ritchie's personal homepage. > > I was re

Re: Mutt Save-Hook Help

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 01:00:19AM +0100, Christian Arthaber wrote: > * Curtis Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-11 00:49]: > > I am trying to get mutt to save all messages from the debian user list > > in a file called debian. I don't fully understand the save-hook functionality. > > my muttrc

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

* Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030210 15:03]: > > Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > * Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030210 12:24]: > > > Under netscrape I have directory hierarchies such as: > > > > > > Lists > > > |__debian > > > | |__debian-users > > >

Re: Mutt Save-Hook Help

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 07:28:09AM -0800, Curtis Spencer wrote: > I am trying to get mutt to save all messages from the debian user list > in a file called debian. I don't fully understand the save-hook functionality. > my muttrc looks like this, yet everything still gets saved to the inbox. Per

Re: Other Unix'es

On Tuesday 11 February 2003 00:16, René Seindal wrote: > Hi, > > I just happened to stumble over this, which is a rather amusing list of > other uses of the name Unix. > > It is a part of Dennis Ritchie's personal homepage. I was reading an interview with him somewhere on the net (a Unix site I t

dcgui problems

Hi my dcgui hangs when it conncts to a hub, regardless of which hub. Dies with the message dcgui: relocation error: dcgui: undefined symbol: __fixunsdfdi Does anyone know whats wrong? Im running unstable on P4 2.4 ghz 512mb ram /nisse -- Nils-Erik Svangård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Mutt Save-Hook Help

* Curtis Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-11 00:49]: > I am trying to get mutt to save all messages from the debian user list > in a file called debian. I don't fully understand the save-hook functionality. > my muttrc looks like this, yet everything still gets saved to the inbox. > > set mbo

Re: Urgent Help: courier-imap installation

When trying to remove courier-imap as follows, it won't do it and I can't reinstall it, is there anyway to fix this? NSLINUX:/home/admin# dpkg -r --force-all courier-imap dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinsta

Re: Courier-IMAP Config

Kevin Smith wrote: Hi All, I've installed courier-imap and courier-webadmin, however, can someone please point me to some decent documentation for the Debian platform as so far I've tried following this manual: http://www.courier-mta.org/ and all the installation directories are different and hal

Mutt Save-Hook Help

I am trying to get mutt to save all messages from the debian user list in a file called debian. I don't fully understand the save-hook functionality. my muttrc looks like this, yet everything still gets saved to the inbox. set mbox=+inbox set record=+outbox set sort=threads set noprompt_after # M

Urgent Help: courier-imap installation

Hi All, What can I do about this error? Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 58917 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace courier-imap 1.4.3-2.3 (using .../courier-imap_1.4.3-2.3_powerpc.deb) ... ERR: config file missing dpkg: warning - old pre-removal scrip

alien error

hi i am trying to convert a rpm to a deb. with Alien but i keep getting this error: make : dh-testdir:Command not found make: *** [build] Error 127 package build failed: Illegal seek at /usr/share/perl5/Alien/Package/Deb.pm388 Was does it mean, and what should i do? Thanks Mikkel -- To UNS

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:14:58PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ apt-cache search sgml-tools > linuxdoc-tools - SGML converters for the LinuxDoc DTD only. > > > What distro are you using, I can't find the dummy package in either > testing or unstable so presumably it no long

RE: wu-ftpd security - solved

Title: RE: wu-ftpd security - solved Thanks heaps Mike.  :) -Original Message- From: Mike Dresser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2003 2:21 AM To: Ross Tsolakidis Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: wu-ftpd security On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Ross Tsolakidis wr

audio in cdplay and audacity not working but ok in play and xmms

Hi, I can't play audio using cdplay or audacity. xmms and command-line play work as per normal. cdir works as per normal. This is a new computer, fresh install. I am added to 'audio' group. cdplay gives the following message: cdplay: ioctl cdrommsf audacity starts but gives: Audio I/O erro

Re: Other Unix'es

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:44:16PM -0600, Justin Ryan wrote: > forget the url? ;p Sigh! That's the second time to day I do this. Here it is: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html I was particularly amused by the diaper part. > > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:46, René Seindal wrote:

Courier-IMAP Config

Hi All, I've installed courier-imap and courier-webadmin, however, can someone please point me to some decent documentation for the Debian platform as so far I've tried following this manual: http://www.courier-mta.org/ and all the installation directories are different and half the files seem to

Re: Other Unix'es

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:44:16PM -0600, Justin Ryan wrote: > forget the url? ;p Sigh! That's the second time to day I do this. Here it is: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/otherunix.html I was particularly amused by the diaper part. > > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:46, René Seindal wrote:

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

Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030210 12:24]: > > Under netscrape I have directory hierarchies such as: > > > > Lists > > |__debian > > | |__debian-users > > | |__debian-devel > > |__tomcat-users > > > > With many li

Re: Other Unix'es

forget the url? ;p On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 14:46, René Seindal wrote: > Hi, > > I just happened to stumble over this, which is a rather amusing list of > other uses of the name Unix. > > It is a part of Dennis Ritchie's personal homepage. > > Sorry if this has been around before. > > -- > René

Re: More detailed post ...

Hi, * Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-02-10 22:10]: >In any case now I am deleting the author's e-mail address from the >To:/Cc: list (unless I forget). Thanks. I have rarely a problem with things happening accidently on mailing lists, so this is fine by me. Thorsten -- He who receive

mutt: maildirs that contain folders ???

Ref: # mutt -v Mutt 1.4i (2002-05-29) How can I make mutt see maildirs that contain folders? For example, if I do these: maildirmake Maildir ~/mail maildirmake -f Drafts ~/mail/Maildir then, I s

Re: shuttle disaster

Em Dom, 2003-02-09 às 09:32, Paul Johnson escreveu: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 05:01:22AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > I'm not entirely convinced of this, to be honest with you. If we were > > > talking the RA and RCA in northern Europe, you're right. But even > > > then, the RCA and RA was lea

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

Brian Potkin wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:59:39AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: I just downloaded and installed Lyx using aptitude on a Sarge system. The package recommends also installing 'sgml-tools' which, from its name, sounds like a good idea, but the search function in aptitude cann

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

* Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030210 12:24]: > Under netscrape I have directory hierarchies such as: > > Lists > |__debian > | |__debian-users > | |__debian-devel > |__tomcat-users > > With many lists and so many old mails, a flat list of

Re: vi temporary files remaining in dir

--- Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joris Huizer sez: > } I hope someone can help on this problem I have: > each > } time I edit a file using VIM, " Vi IMproved 6.1 > (2002 > } Mar 24, compiled Apr 14 2002 20:41:29)" I get a > } "temporary" copy of the original file. > } > } The nami

SOLVED Re: wireless: what to take /out/

My wireless card is working now. Thanks to everyone for their help!! I'm working on a HOWTO and will post it here when it's ready. (It's ... long and may take me a while to pull together...) emma -- Emma Jane Hogbin [[ 416 417 2868 ][ www.xtrinsic.com ]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: fetchmail is confusing me - SOLVED

> Does anyone know what this means (specifically "retained", and > fetchmail not passing it on to my local MTA like other emails): > > I'm guessing that fetchmail thinks you've already seen this message, > and so isn't downloading it. Try passing it the `-a' option. This is what fetchmai

Re: cluttered up system?

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 04:15:30PM +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > is there a way to find out which packages are taking up how much space? > making some stats about what's installed, where and how much ressources > it eats up? would i e.g. by throwing out gnome get back 3/4 of my HD?? > (if that's

Re: [OT] volunteer work

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 11:02:45PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham wrote: >I currently do no do any volunteer work using Debian, but I do > volunteer work and the place I volunteer at uses Windows which is > mostly what I want to talk about. > >I am *shocked* that so many non-profit organizations

Re: gpg key in memory

Op ma 10-02-2003, om 04:29 schreef Scott Henson: > On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 18:53, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > I didn't think about that. I'm using Ximian Evolution 1.2.2. > > Im using evolution and it automagically takes care of that. Just click > the button telling it to remember the passphrase w

Re: vi temporary files remaining in dir

Joris Huizer sez: } I hope someone can help on this problem I have: each } time I edit a file using VIM, " Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 } Mar 24, compiled Apr 14 2002 20:41:29)" I get a } "temporary" copy of the original file. } } The naming is as follows: when I edit, say, trash.txt, } the "temporary" c

Re: More detailed post ...

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 02:38:25PM -0500, Fred Smith wrote: > On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:50, Paul Johnson wrote: > > This isn't standard, nor is it a good idea. (Yahoo Groups is the only > > place I know of that still uses it). > > mailman and ezmlm both do this. i'm not sure if it is the default,

Re: More detailed post ...

also sprach Daniel Barclay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.10.2210 +0100]: > In any case now I am deleting the author's e-mail address from the > To:/Cc: list (unless I forget). Thanks. Now do yourself the favour and look at mutt! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`.

Re: More detailed post ...

also sprach Fred Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.10.2038 +0100]: > mailman and ezmlm both do this. i'm not sure if it is the default, or > it is just the case on the mailing lists that i'm subscribed to. it's not the default on either. and both strongly suggest not to do it. > mutt apparently

Re: More detailed post ...

Paul Johnson wrote: > ... > There's positive features to NS4 mail? Were you trying to have a real discussion or not? If not, never mind. If so, see my other reply about what I meant about adding/dropping features. Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: More detailed post ...

Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 09:54:40PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > How would that _not_ drop whatever features my current (non-mutt) MUA > > has? > > Mutt, and it's KDE frontend kmail, are *far* more featureful and far > faster than Netscape is. Trust us on this and give

RE: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

-Original Message- From: Pigeon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 9:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:05:59PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > > > [tables edited out] > > > > Well, the /etc/fsta

Re: More detailed post ...

Hi Pigeon, [snips:] Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:19:16PM -0500, jereme wrote: > > > > That is like telling me to build a fence so your dog doesn't crap on > > my lawn... > > If your dog crapped on my lawn, I'd rather build a fence than bitch at > you about it.

vi temporary files remaining in dir

Hello everybody, I hope someone can help on this problem I have: each time I edit a file using VIM, " Vi IMproved 6.1 (2002 Mar 24, compiled Apr 14 2002 20:41:29)" I get a "temporary" copy of the original file. The naming is as follows: when I edit, say, trash.txt, the "temporary" copy is named t

Re: More detailed post ...

Thorsten Haude wrote: > ... > I'm not intimate with the datails of Netscape's usage; you arbitrary > send the mail to two addresses where one is enough to do the work. > > Please explain where the value is in sending the mail twice. I didn't claim there's any value in sending the message twice.

jazip... error mounting

Hi, I have a zip drive that will mount from the command line but will not do same from jazip. If I try to mount from jazip I get: Error trying to mount /dev/sda: Invalid argument If I mount the zip manually I can umount it using jazip. My jazip.conf file contains: /dev/sda/zip

Other Unix'es

Hi, I just happened to stumble over this, which is a rather amusing list of other uses of the name Unix. It is a part of Dennis Ritchie's personal homepage. Sorry if this has been around before. -- René Seindal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://sights.seindal.dk/   -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: More detailed post ...

* Fred Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030210 12:14]: > mutt apparently has a reply-to-list function that i was unaware of. (g, > instead of r) Actually mutt has 3 reply functions: reply reply to a message group-reply reply to all recipients list-reply reply to specified mailing list The m

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:59:39AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: > I just downloaded and installed Lyx using aptitude on a Sarge system. > The package recommends also installing 'sgml-tools' which, from its > name, sounds like a good idea, but the search function in aptitude > cannot find a packa

Re: Sound missing - help needed II

Thanks Rob and Kent for their advices. I tried them all, results: - mpg321 can play files on the from the command line (KDE is shut down and no sound daemon is running), from fwm, and from KDE - xmms can play files from KDE, but in fvwm is screwed. Beside it I set messages in Sound and multimedia

Re: Lyx package recommends sgml-tools, but...

The tutorial included with Lyx is about the best beginning reference I've found. Check out CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) at www.ctan.org. Leslie Lamport's book(s) on TeX/LaTeX are good. Kevin On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:59:39 -0800 Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just downlo

Re: fstab/mount filesystem nomenclature

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:05:59PM -0500, David Turetsky wrote: > > > [tables edited out] > > > > Well, the /etc/fstab and fdisk -l look good to me - are you sure that > > you have actually formatted /dev/hde5? Can you read it under windoze, > > or do you get "Invalid media type" when you type DIR

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

Vineet Kumar wrote: > > * Michael D. Schleif ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030209 19:32]: > > > > Jeff wrote: > > > I've not used mh mail boxes before, only maildir and mbox. I use > > > maildir for my active mailboxes for it's ability to keep messages from > > > getting messed up on delivery (sorry for

Re: More detailed post ...

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 10:19:16PM -0500, jereme wrote: > > That is like telling me to build a fence so your dog doesn't crap on > my lawn... If your dog crapped on my lawn, I'd rather build a fence than bitch at you about it. In fact, that would stop everybody's dog crapping on my lawn, and achi

nfs: task 865 can't get a request slot. What is this?

Hi. I see messages in log's: client1 kernel: nfs: task 865 can't get a request slot and sometimes: client1 kernel: nfs: server carter not responding, still trying client1 kernel: nfs: server carter OK I mount nfs disks form "carter" to "client1" with next option: defaults,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,sof

Re: shuttle disaster

Alex Malinovich wrote: On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 14:11, Pigeon wrote: And apparently Delaware's department of transportation is either stupid or insane or both... http://www.state.de.us/research/register/september2000/signing%20and%20marking.revised---V-1-12.gif [fixed the URL] You know, I wa

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

On Sunday 09 February 2003 22:05, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Considering moving from mbox to maildir a very large (~2GB, ~100 > messages) email archive. Mostly concerned with the integrity of > receiving messages intact. > > Obviously, this will impact performance and inodes used. It might n

Re: More detailed post ...

On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 02:50, Paul Johnson wrote: > This isn't standard, nor is it a good idea. (Yahoo Groups is the only > place I know of that still uses it). > mailman and ezmlm both do this. i'm not sure if it is the default, or it is just the case on the mailing lists that i'm subscribed t

Re: HELP-Downgrading gcc

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 12:51:05PM -0500, Es Que wrote: > When I use apt to install gcc2.95, it automatically installs 3.2.2. In > fact, I think I'm running both versions. I need to compile a the 2.4.19 > kernel using gcc 2.95. > Is there a step-by-step process of downgrading gcc? > > Thanks in

Re: wireless: what to take /out/

On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 12:26:32AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Hey all: > > I'm trying to get my wireless card working (Orinoco built-in mini card). I have a similar card (from IBM, but it's still lucent). > I've had some people suggest that I need to take PCMCIA support out of the > kernel

Re: gpg key in memory

* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030210 08:46]: > Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > is it possible (like with ssh) to have gpg ony ask you your passphrase > > once and then remember it for the duration of a session? > > This would be handy if one is writing a lot of emails and you don't want > > to both

Re: Problema com APT!!

Olá, » Assim falou Emanuel F Silva em Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:21:05PM -0300: > Galera meu apt ta com esse problema, ja tentei reconfigurar (apt-setup) mais > continua com esse problema, abaixo: > > gandalf:~# apt-get update > E: Type 'non-US/main' is not known in on line 3 in source list

Re: Defragment

Hello Itsik Aviad, I might be wrong on this, but that text might have been "[partition] 1.2% non-continous ..." - I see it sometimes when 'a partition check is forced' (25 times mounted or something like that) If it's indeed that message, then there's no problem I think. regards, Joris --- It

Re: X setup problem

Le Lundi 10 Février 2003 17:57, Michael Rudmin a écrit : > Hi, >I've got what I think is a common problem with > setting up X, but I can't find the solution. Some > help would be appreciated. > >We have current debian, xdm, X. The card is an > NVIDIA GEFORCE2MX; (NV driver). The monitor

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