audio problem (alsa emu10k1 woody 2.4.21custom)

2003-08-06 Thread Jerry Walter Segers
when I run xmms, on some mp3s, at the end, the last tenth of a second is repeated a multiple of 7 times (usually 14 times, but sometimes 7, 21, or 28). Many other programs display a similar problem, lletters is the simplest program I could find that consistantly shows the issue, it repeats every

Re: Reinstall all packages

2003-08-06 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 10:30, Philipp Leusmann wrote: > Hi, > > due to a harddisk-failure many files were corrupted. Far too many to > reinstall them manually. > Is there a way to reinstall all installed packages? something like 'apt-get > intall --reinstall *'? If you can get aptitude to run

Re: Firewall and Mailserver questions - suggestions wanted.

2003-08-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:01:31PM +0900, Bengt Thur?e wrote: > web cache:squid > Ad removal: privoxy I recommend adzapper over privoxy, adzapper's easy to set up, easy to maintain. > miscelaneous: dns, n

Re: HP printer saga

2003-08-06 Thread J. Zidar
Wednesday 06 of August 2003 22:29 je &F pisal: >J. Zidar wrote: >> After realizing that I must enable loopback device, I configured Cups to >> use my HP 656c printer. From www.linuxprinting.org I have downloaded the >> ppd file and copied it to the /usr/share/cups/model/. The configuration >> went

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look

2003-08-06 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:29:23 -0700, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> > Either this is a sick joke (and a poor one at that) or it is criminal. > > here's the post I sent from my sentmail mbox: It was actually a mistake. But in any event, the point still remains intact because you are s

Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

2003-08-06 Thread Al Davis
I think all of the responses are missing something very important. Let me try On Sunday 03 August 2003 08:57 pm, MJM wrote: > Will the free store be properly maintained when the following > is executed? // a simple object is defined > typedef struct > { >uint32_t a; >uint64_t b;

Completely OT: European mobile text-messaging

2003-08-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been wondering what standard, if any, is used around Europe for mobile text messaging. My brother is an aid worker in Georgia and goes for weeks at a time without email access while traveling. He told me today that he can receive mobile text messages from Belgium, France, and Croatia while he'

Re: base system install failed: debootstrap poos

2003-08-06 Thread nori heikkinen
on Wed, 06 Aug 2003 02:20:52PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > [cc'ing the list for posterity :)] > > on Tue, 05 Aug 2003 08:05:59PM -0400, Greg Folkert insinuated: > > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 15:30, nori heikkinen wrote: > > > on Tue, 05 Aug 2003 02:55:15PM -0400, Greg Folkert insinuated: > > >

calendar and contact server

2003-08-06 Thread gerard
I was wondering if anyone knows of a server where I can have all my contacts, tasks, and calendar. I was thinking about something where I can have evolution or a program like it interact so that I can sync with my palm and also have my contacts on the server so that I can log in and get them from a

Re: test please igore

2003-08-06 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:47:27PM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 August 2003 3:23 PM, Jake Johnson wrote: > > Subject: test please igore > > what is this 'ignore' you speak of ? Not 'ignore', 'igore' - the lowercase feminine of Igor. The Uberwaldian organ-swappers have got round to

Re: finding upstream

2003-08-06 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:50:43PM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote: > It is, in general, difficult to find the upstream developers of a given > debian package. The package page does not include any mention of a web > site or mailing list where actual development occurs. The .dsc files > also do not gen

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Andrew McGuinness
Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:23:29PM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: So, basically, *ALL* mail from those domains will pass -- UN-challenged -- by your C-R system? And, _none_ of those emails can possibly contain spam? Yeah. He's in for a wakeup call the first time someone h

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 19:55:34 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 12:36:27PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 6 12:22:35 2003 > > Party Time! No more harassing mails and no more spam -- EVER. > Wouldn't it be easier with roughly the

Re: installation via network

2003-08-06 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * maurizio gatto [Mon, Aug 04 2003, 05:47:35PM]: > Starting versionis 3.1.33 > watching 2 socket Cardmgr is started and found the PCMCIA controller. > unsupported card in socket 1 (says the same even if i plug it in socket 0) > product info: "Couperless pcmCIA "100base" > manfid 0x

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 07:56:02PM +, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > Where do I get the public key (8B362A2F) to verify the above-quoted > message? You seem to be using a new key. Are you testing us? x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu/ or finger://[EMAIL PROTECTE

Debian way to make lmsensors working with kernel 2.6 ?

2003-08-06 Thread ramzez
I would like to make i2c working with kernel 2.6 to use lmsensors the problem is that I havent /proc/bus/i2c directory anymore I read sometimes that I need a /sys directory which is not present in Debian Is there a solution to make it works ? --

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:18:18PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > 1) Neither I nor anyone I know cares if you are who you say you are or not. >( In fact, someone could forge your PGP sig because most people don't > have the software, and do you

Can't install or remove tetex packages

2003-08-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
Following a disaster with cleanlinks my tetex-base, tetex-bin, and tetex-extra are in a mess. According to dpkg -C they are half-installed and half-configured. I cannot either reinstall or remove. Can anyone suggest a safe method of rmoving these packages and reinstalling them? AC -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re:Look at

2003-08-06 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Thu, 7 Aug 2003 00:51:33 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:47:02PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > > I think eskimo.com is rewriting that localhost into eskimo.com. So > > it isn't actually getting any extra load from Alan Connor... it's > > just slightly

Re: kernel-2.6.0 says no /dev/dsp - no sound

2003-08-06 Thread Jeetu Golani
Hi there, Just been fiddling with Kernel 2.6.0-test2 myself,trying to get sound to work on my Creative SB Live card. Finally got it to work by using the OSS modules instead of ALSA. Maybe that'll work for you too. Good luck. Bye for now On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 6:01 pm, Anthony Campbell wrote:

Re: anybody successfully installed msttcorefonts ???

2003-08-06 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 20:55:17 -0500, "Michael D. Schleif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There appear to be other sources for these fonts; and, I might get > them manually, if I understand what this package would do with them, > and where it would place them. > > How can I make this package look else

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re:Look at

2003-08-06 Thread Alan Shutko
"Scott C. Linnenbringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > By using an invalid email address in your headers with a valid > domain, the site's mx is picking up the weight of spam, even though > you are not. I think eskimo.com's mail system is actually slightly broken, and that Alan Connor isn't posti

Re: Debian way to make lmsensors working with kernel 2.6 ?

2003-08-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 17:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to make i2c working with kernel 2.6 to use lmsensors > the problem is that I havent /proc/bus/i2c directory anymore > I read sometimes that I need a /sys directory which is not present in Debian > > Is there a solution to make it

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Anthony Rowe
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 08:22:44AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:38:48AM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > I guess it is non-obvious to some people grazing > > Usenet that the gateway is meant to be RO. I am wondering if a post > > to the gateway could be automated to go out

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (05/08/03 07:55), Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 07:20:02 -0700 > Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 5 07:07:40 2003 > > > On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:04:11 -0500, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > alanconnor writes: > > > > > Still doesn

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re:Look at

2003-08-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-06T22:10:13Z, "Scott C. Linnenbringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not a valid email address. Neither is "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which is how it appears on my system. Or "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" for everyone else. -- Kirk Strauser pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signat

Re: NNTP to email?

2003-08-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:53:21PM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote: > I have not tried it. But there should be native support for PGP I > reckon. There are no bugs about this in the BTS. I checked. Should > I file one? Would it be "wishlist"? Yes, fe

Re: Network is unreachable (bcm4400)

2003-08-06 Thread Slaven Peles
Thanks Howell! I recompiled the kernel with DHCP support and everything works fine now. I was a little bit confused with kernel documentation as it says that this option is needed only for booting diskless machines off the network, but it seems that you can't use DHCP without it at all. Cheers,

Re: aptitude and /etc/lilo.conf

2003-08-06 Thread J F
J F wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:42:47PM -0700, J F wrote: Based on the output from aptitude and my current lilo.conf, do you think I need to do anything to lilo.conf? aptitude is just a frontend. dpkg is doing the actual work of unpacking and installing the package. Is a

Re: konqueror - https?

2003-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:31:00PM +0200, Johann Spies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > How do I get Konqueror to use https on Sarge and Sid? > > As I understand it in Woody installing kdelibs-crypto would enable > konqueror to use https. But in Sarge and Sid, I don't find any > package with this qu

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-06T19:36:27Z, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alan, FIX YOUR STUPIDLY BROKEN FROM: HEADER! YOU ARE *NOT* IMPROVING YOUR CREDIBILITY. > It goes in cron.daily and checks all the password/address combos for > Challenge-Responses that were issued more than 48 hours in the past,

Passing args to in-kernel drivers?

2003-08-06 Thread Christopher Swingley
Greetings, I'm trying out a USB video camera that uses the Phillips kernel driver (pwc). The documentation discusses passing options when the module is loaded: $ sudo modprobe pwc size=cif fps=5 trace=1 (for example). If the pwc driver is built directly into the kernel, how does one pass

Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

2003-08-06 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 03:30:57PM +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Wed, 06 Aug 2003 06:00:11 +0200, MJM wrote: > > That was way over the top. That stuff is for compiler writers, not > > application programmers. I did not start a knowledge contest. If I did > > inadvertently, then you win. > >

Re: kernel-2.6.0 says no /dev/dsp - no sound

2003-08-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Aug 2003, Tom White wrote: > OSS API emulation needs to be enabled in the ALSA section of the > kernel options, (the mixer and digital sections. If it still doesn't > work, try man MAKEDEV > > ~Tom White > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:31:59PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Just trying o

Re: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

2003-08-06 Thread Howell Evans
what program is giving you that error? Does the program run at all? cheers -Howell ZekeVarg wrote: Hi! Have just installed debian and run a dist-upgrade to sid. Now when I try to open a gtk based program I get this error message: Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Any idee's on what's the pro

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:50:34AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 09:18:05PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 01:50:26 +0100 > > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have a script that looks at the sigs in incoming mail as it's > > > del

Re: base system install failed: debootstrap poos

2003-08-06 Thread nori heikkinen
[cc'ing the list for posterity :)] on Tue, 05 Aug 2003 08:05:59PM -0400, Greg Folkert insinuated: > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 15:30, nori heikkinen wrote: > > on Tue, 05 Aug 2003 02:55:15PM -0400, Greg Folkert insinuated: > > > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:50, nori heikkinen wrote: > > > > trying to insta

Re: 2.4.18 pcmcia troubles

2003-08-06 Thread ScruLoose
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 05:23:56AM +, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > ScruLoose wrote: > >Hm. I don't *think* that worked, but I'm not entirely sure. > >The i82092 module loads, but subsequent attempts to modprobe > >pcnet_cs result in the familiar error: > > Hmmm. I would have expected loading t

Re: 3Com 3C905B-TX (3c59x.o) Kernel problem?!

2003-08-06 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:23:55AM +0200, Siward wrote: > Hi Alexandru, > > your subject line seems to be a little confused about type card you have. > a 3c905 is not a 3c590 , nor a 3c509, >and therefore they do not have same driver. 3c905 and 3c590 have the same driver; from Documentatio

Re: Really stupid use of cleanlinks

2003-08-06 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Anthony Campbell (Wed 06 Aug 02003 at 03:56:28PM +0100): > Never do this! > > I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to do! > > Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't know > how long it will take to get things back working; only jus

Re: Really stupid use of cleanlinks

2003-08-06 Thread John Hasler
Anthony Campbell writes: > ...also removed /usr/bin/X11 which is a symlink to /usr/X11R6/bin and is > pointed to by /etc/X11/X... That sounds like a bug. > The modem also would not work, I can't remember why (something to do with > /dev/ttyS0). Perhaps you had /dev/modem pointing to /dev/ttyS0 a

Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

2003-08-06 Thread Isaac To
> "MJM" == MJM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MJM> They do. My app would be broken from the start if I could not rely MJM> on this capability. This style of type conversion is covered in MJM> elementary C++ books by Bjarne. It's not unusual. You must be MJM> aware of what you

Adding a default outgoing sig to exim4

2003-08-06 Thread Mark C
Hi, I'm currently in the middle of replacing my mailserver (running sendmail still) with exim4, and I would like to append a default signature to all outgoing mail (preferable not to internal mail, but this I can live with) after some digging, I came across mailscanner, with if available in the d

charset in debian mutt

2003-08-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Ok, I looked carefully at the appropriate debian readme; I made sure my locales were set (used debconf-reconfigure locales), put the appropriate export line in my ~/.bashrc. But mutt still says it's using 7-bit US aSCII instead of iso8859-1. Oh yes, and I did log in again after changing my .bas

Re: Cyrus "Could not shut down filedescriptor..."

2003-08-06 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:56, Jogi Hofmüller wrote: > Hi! > > * Jean-Marc V. Liotier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-06 15:31]: > > Aug 4 10:43:25 localhost cyrus/imapd[10867]: Could not shut down filedescriptor > > 0: Bad file descriptor > > Aug 4 10:43:25 localhost cyrus/imapd[10867]: Could not s

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-05T14:20:02Z, Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Please fix your mail headers ^^ > If the password is used with an address other than the one it was acquired > with, the mail is dumped and the password de-activated. So, if I write to you from work,

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On 05 Aug 2003 10:59:52 -0400 Mark Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You do care if someone else pretends to be you and makes you look bad > though, don't you? It's really not hard to do. He does. In fact he perports that C-R is a better defense than PGP. > > 2) They are a an extreme violat

Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

2003-08-06 Thread MJM
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 01:02, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > Language experts sure get their shorts knotted up over simple questions. > >   > > Because your question had to do with undefined and > implementation-dependent behavior. I know that. See my other posts. I asked a question about handli

Re: Meta: Scoring debian-user with mutt?

2003-08-06 Thread Alan Shutko
Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use gnus' scoring to increase/decrease the score of posts by certain > people depending on if I like them or not [...] Gnus's adaptive scoring is also great at winnowing the herd. If I read something, it gets a small score increase, if I hit kill a th

Re: base system install failed: debootstrap poos

2003-08-06 Thread nori heikkinen
on Tue, 05 Aug 2003 03:30:39PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > on Tue, 05 Aug 2003 02:55:15PM -0400, Greg Folkert insinuated: > > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:50, nori heikkinen wrote: > > > trying to install debian on some new servers (dell optiplex gx270's). > > > i need an ISO with kernel >= 2.4

Re: removed kde but remnants remain

2003-08-06 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 04:25 PM 8/5/2003 -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:23:37AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > I recall I at one point "removed kde from my system", however I still see > # dpkg -l kde\*|grep ^i > ii kdeaddons-doc- 3.1.2-1KDE add-ons documentation in HTML format > ii kdea

Re: Cyrus "Could not shut down filedescriptor..."

2003-08-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 06 Aug 2003, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > I am getting trios of messages from Cyrus at random intervals apparently > not linked to any other even, a few dozen times a day : > > Aug 4 10:43:25 localhost cyrus/imapd[10867]: Could not shut down filedescriptor 0: > Bad file descriptor > Aug

Re: Unable to connect DShot II camera

2003-08-06 Thread Tim
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew McGuinness wrote: | Tim wrote: | |> Hi, |> |> I've just bought the Oregon Scientific DShot II digital camera. I can't |> access the images. Does my kernel need reconfiguring? Or is it |> something to do with usbdevfs? |> |> The error message r

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:58:07PM -0300, Anthony Rowe wrote: > > I wouldn't mind taking up the cause. What are the newsgroups this is > > heard on? > > linux.debian.user Isn't it also in muc.* someplace? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Clipboard is bent

2003-08-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:16:29PM +1200, cr wrote: > To put it another way, the KDE apps will read anything; Gnome apps > will read each other and Opera; Opera will export to anyone but won't read > a thing. Please nobody tell me that KDE don't ta

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 16:18, Alan Connor wrote: > 1) Neither I nor anyone I know cares if you are who you say you are or not. >( In fact, someone could forge your PGP sig because most people don't > have the software, and do you MORE harm that way. How would you prove > which of two

Getting a Zip Drive to Work

2003-08-06 Thread TMButler60
Having just installed Debian (as a new Linux user) I am having problems getting my internal zip-drive to work. Mainly as I cannot figure out which device it is and becuase I need to have the edits to the fstab I need to make explained. Any help & explanations would be very much ap

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Alan Connor
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Aug 5 07:07:40 2003 > > > On Mon, 04 Aug 2003 16:04:11 -0500, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > alanconnor writes: > > > Still doesn't make sense to me and I am seriously considering > > > writing a stanza in my newsreaders filters that will dump any post

Re: kernel 2.6.0-test2 and mii-tool

2003-08-06 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Francois! On Wednesday 06 August 2003 10:30, François Chenais wrote: > On Tue, 05 Aug 2003 23:14:41 +0200 > Florian Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> According to >> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0307.2/0119.html >> it is a problem with Debian's mii-tool, try to get a c

Re: from knoppix3.2 -> where?

2003-08-06 Thread Richard Lyons
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 01:26, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 00:33:59 +0100 Richard Lyons wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 August 2003 23:52, Carlos Sousa wrote: > > > From Knoppix's changelog and package list, I should think the > > > OP is rather tracking unstable. > > > > The sources.list

Clipboard is bent

2003-08-06 Thread cr
(Next instalment in the fixing-my-desktop saga) Not sure if I should be asking on this list or a Gnome list, but can anyone tell me where to start investigating my clipboard? (I'm running Woody, and Gnome 1.4.) My clipboard works for some apps but not others. To take 6 apps at random - Opera's

Re: default fonts for java applications?

2003-08-06 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 20:13, Michael A. Miller wrote: > I'm running ImageJ (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/) using Sun's J2SE > v 1.4.2, installed from j2sdk-1.4.2-nb-3.5-bin-linux.bin. When I > start the application, the font used for the menu bar is big > enough that the menu items don't all fit in

Re: [OT] Please STOP it!

2003-08-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-05T00:03:40Z, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My theory is that all spam has spoofed headers at one end, much, MUCH more > rubbish in the middle, and a clicky link thing at the other. > -- > Pigeon > > Be kind to pigeons > Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?o

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:36:41PM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:36:01PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: <...> > > Given that a given key is only retrieved once, the penalty is > > front-loaded, and gets better. > > > > You can always abort the fetch w

Re: base system install failed: debootstrap poos

2003-08-06 Thread nori heikkinen
on Tue, 05 Aug 2003 02:55:15PM -0400, Greg Folkert insinuated: > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 14:50, nori heikkinen wrote: > > trying to install debian on some new servers (dell optiplex gx270's). > > i need an ISO with kernel >= 2.4.20 for the GB ethernet card they > > have, so i'm using a sarge ISO sinc

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:48:42PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 01:18:18PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > 2) They are a an extreme violation of netiquette > > I don't know where you've been learning your netiquette. PGP-signed > messages have been widely regarded as acceptable

Re: Completely OT: European mobile text-messaging

2003-08-06 Thread Mark Janssen
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 22:29, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've been wondering what standard, if any, is used around Europe for > mobile text messaging. My brother is an aid worker in Georgia and goes [snip] > I'm wondering if there's a way to do it online? SMS or something > similar? Europe, at least

Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

2003-08-06 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:21:04PM -0400, MJM wrote: > On Monday 04 August 2003 21:40, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > > // change the way it is accessed to prove a point int * p_b = (int *) > > > p_a; > > > > Ouch. > > Try this in /usr/src/linux/kernel > > $ grep *\) *.c Well, C is not C++, so grep

debian mutt questions

2003-08-06 Thread Cheryl Homiak
can anybody tell me whether the debian mutt package is configured to enable fetching from one's pop server. I get errors when I try to use the pop_host or pop_user variables in my .muttrc. Also, I am a bit confused about sending mail in mutt in debian. All the examples I see have sendmail in the .m

Re: mail gathering

2003-08-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:54:34AM +0200, vinz wrote: > fetchmail only allows me to download mail to root but i want to put the mail > into my pop3 account how do i go about doing this and what program can i use That's asking too much of POP3. You mi

How command "manpath" works?

2003-08-06 Thread Zhao You Bing
I downloaded j2sdk from SUN and extracted it to /usr/local and I found the /usr/local/j2sdk/man is in the list of command "manpath" But I haven't set manpath manully and it's not listed in /etc/manpath.config I'm wondering how manpath works, who can give me a hint or tell me in which package I ca