Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Rogério Brito wrote: > They don't have the best practices around (actually, I could, myself, > administer > an ISP much better than they can---and, in fact, had done so for some years, > when I was beginning my M.Sc. degree), but the guilty part here is just an > stupid user using the (stupid) cha

Re: nvidia drivers and 2.6.13.4

2005-11-17 Thread Andras Lorincz
Finally, I found the problem, I removed /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx script. I removed nvidia-glx but did not purge it.On 11/16/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,I have the same problem. I managed to fix it when i recompiled my kernel withgcc 4, and then everything goes fine.Hope th

Re: SATA controller failure?

2005-11-17 Thread Anders Rillbert
You're right in that the BIOS was flashed and used default settings (which apparently means disabling sata). I didn't take the initiative to the flashing though :-) so I still think it can be worthwhile to have someone take a look at the battery backup and powering of the motherboard. Thanks al

Re: Setting global environment correctly

2005-11-17 Thread Allan Jensen
On Tors, November 17, 2005 22:56, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:42:48PM +0100, Allan Jensen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> what is considered the "correct" way of setting global and exported >> environment variables in debian? Specifically I want to set ORACLE_HOME >> and other ora

[Fwd: Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:25:16PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Let's find the cause, find the reason for the challenges, and then act. Let's ask the listmasters why this account wasn't unsubscribed within hours of this stupid misconfiguration. I manage multiple mailing list

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:25:16PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Let's find the cause, find the reason for the challenges, and then > act. Let's ask the listmasters why this account wasn't unsubscribed within hours of this stupid misconfiguration. I manage multiple mailing lists myself, and I pro

Re: WordPerfect 8.0

2005-11-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ken Heard wrote: Those of you who go back to before the earth's crust hardened, may remember Corel WordPrefect 8.0 (and 8.1). WP 8.0 was released by Corel about 2000. It (and 8.1) were the only versions of WP which were native to Linux. (WP 10 was ported from Windows to Linux through Cor

debmirror: what does 'passive' option mean?

2005-11-17 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hello, Debmirror, such a useful tool for me, has the 'passive' option whose meaning I don't know and would like someone to explain. Also, doesn't the program sometimes include package files which it doesn't download? I had a problem where I had the partial mirror and then on install there were seve

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Rogério Brito wrote: On Nov 17 2005, Realos wrote: Maybe, I need to take time to report'm on the blacklist server lists. This attitude would punish a lot of users, "thank you". For example, since they are my ISP, I'm using them as a relay. Agreed. And, yet, you don't get such stupid mes

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 22:41 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:40:32AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 22:43 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > > > So it's inefficent. So what? > > > > Because in 6 months or a year, when the size of that quick-and-dirty > > DB grow

Re: WordPerfect 8.0

2005-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 18:33 +, Ken Heard wrote: > Those of you who go back to before the earth's crust hardened, may > remember Corel WordPrefect 8.0 (and 8.1). WP 8.0 was released by Corel > about 2000. It (and 8.1) were the only versions of WP which were native > to Linux. (WP 10

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/17/05, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know if that's exactly a black hole, but you can also try to address > your messages to, at least, two other addresses: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] whois also suggests sending complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . It would p

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread Rogério Brito
Gene, On 11/18/05 01:17, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 17 November 2005 21:30, Rogério Brito wrote: > >>This attitude would punish a lot of users, "thank you". For example, >>since they are my ISP, I'm using them as a relay. > > And "open" relays should be banned. Period. I'm not using the

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:40:32AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 22:43 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > > So it's inefficent. So what? > > Because in 6 months or a year, when the size of that quick-and-dirty > DB grows bigger than expected, and becomes vital to the organization > (o

Re: Slow server response

2005-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:10:42AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >Check the logs -- is the slowness in server response itself, or in the > >network? For instance, if there's a firewall/router upstream of the > >server, > >that could have slowed down or been overloaded. > > > The l

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 November 2005 21:30, Rogério Brito wrote: >On Nov 17 2005, Realos wrote: >> Maybe, I need to take time to report'm on the blacklist server lists. > >This attitude would punish a lot of users, "thank you". For example, >since they are my ISP, I'm using them as a relay. And "open" rel

Checking to See if this List Got My Firefox E-Mail

2005-11-17 Thread David R. Litwin
Hello all.I sent an E-Mail concerning my troubles with Firefox. However, it was spammified by that new Brazilian thingy asking for approval and what not (aren't I specific!). I was just wondering if it got through for I do not see it. If not, I'll send it again.If it did, I apologise for clogging t

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 17 2005, Realos wrote: > Maybe, I need to take time to report'm on the blacklist server lists. This attitude would punish a lot of users, "thank you". For example, since they are my ISP, I'm using them as a relay. And, yet, you don't get such stupid messages from me. The fact is that a stu

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread Rogério Brito
On Nov 17 2005, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Rogério Brito: > > If anybody knows of anything similar to what news.individual.net were, > > please let me know. > > What have they been that they aren't anymore? Ok, they are charging > for their service now, but I think 10 Euro per year is something even >

Upgrading to linux-2.6.14.2

2005-11-17 Thread Jeff Lucas
I've been trying to install an update from linux-2.4.27-2-k7 to linux-2.6.14.2. But when I install the kernel package that I built and reboot to linux-2.6.14.2 it brings up a kernel panic. When I created the menu config file I made sure that all filesystems where to be installed in the packag

Re: vnc repeater

2005-11-17 Thread Rodney Richison
Joseph H. Fry wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2005 1:15 pm, Rodney Richison wrote: Is there a vnc repeater available on linux(debian) like the ultravnc repeater? For customer support... And,,, this is probably a question in the ultravnc forum, but can you connect to a repeater using linux xvn

Re: WordPerfect 8.0

2005-11-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
I recall WP 8.0 as I had it installed way back when. But then I go back to WP 5.1 on DOS way back when the Earth had no form and was void--1990 to mid-1996 when I made a wrong turn and swerved into MS Word 6.0. Before that I used VIP Writer on my TRS-80 CoCo 2. Somewhere in 2000 (I think) I downl

Mouse loses sync whenever a sound event initiates

2005-11-17 Thread Den
Hi, I have a strange problem that I would like to fix. My System: Debian Testing i386 Kernel: 2.6.8-2-k7 Mobo: Asus a7n266-vm Supports Socket A AMD Duron, Athlon, and Athlon XP up to 2400+. NVIDIA nForce 220-D: NVIDIA IGP-64 north bridge and NVIDIA MCP-D south bridge. 200/266MHz front side bus.

Re: Where to download Debian 1.2?

2005-11-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Nov 17 09:56 -0600]: > Hi Manou, > > Am 2005-11-13 17:32:22, schrieb Manou J.M. Eifes: > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone know where I can download a full version of Debian 1.2 or > > getting an ISO-image of a cd that contains Debian 1.2? Or could someone

Re: WordPerfect 8.0

2005-11-17 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 11/17/05, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:     I have the Corel CDROM which has on it the WP 8.0. .deb package. Thereis however a dependency problem on which I would like some advice. You might find my page at http://ul451.gsu.edu/~pwiseman/WP8_and_Debian_GNU_Linux.html useful. Patrick

Re: ssh session timeout

2005-11-17 Thread Glennie Vignarajah
Le Tuesday 15 November 2005 13:50, A. Lanza("A. Lanza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) disait: > Hi list, Hi, > > After some time (about half an hour), ssh sessions timeout. I'd > like to avoid this, but it keeps happening... > I have KeepAlive set to Yes in sshd_config. > How can i make it? Try changing

Re: WordPerfect 8.0

2005-11-17 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: I have the Corel CDROM which has on it the WP 8.0. .deb package. There is however a dependency problem on which I would like some advice. The WP 8.0 package depends on only two other packages, libc5 and xlib6g. The former is still available from the Debian archive; s

WordPerfect 8.0

2005-11-17 Thread Ken Heard
Those of you who go back to before the earth's crust hardened, may remember Corel WordPrefect 8.0 (and 8.1). WP 8.0 was released by Corel about 2000. It (and 8.1) were the only versions of WP which were native to Linux. (WP 10 was ported from Windows to Linux through Corel's own vintage of

Re: vnc repeater

2005-11-17 Thread Joseph H. Fry
On Thursday 17 November 2005 1:15 pm, Rodney Richison wrote: > Is there a vnc repeater available on linux(debian) like the ultravnc > repeater? > For customer support... > And,,, this is probably a question in the ultravnc forum, but can you > connect to a repeater using linux xvncviewer? > > -- >

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread Adam Hardy
kamaraju kusumanchi on 17/11/05 19:59, wrote: That sounds like a pretty good filter rate. I'm relying on Thunderbird's built-in spam filter which is meant to train itself but it's no more than 60% to 70% effective. Adam The thing is when thunderbird is used, only one user is training the spa

RE: SATA controller failure?

2005-11-17 Thread Steven Jones
Flashed your bios? If so it might have picked fail safe defaults. Anyway, check your bios to make sure the sata side has not been disabled somehow. On my sata setup you can see the sata being added to the systems bios during post and the sata card polling for drives, if yours does'nt do that then

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > >Hi folks, > > > >Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up > >bogofilter & spamassassin in the past & I've always run into trouble; > >the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. > > spam howt

Re: looking for a transparent hardware RAID controller for debian

2005-11-17 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Ron Johnson wrote: > Money really does == speed. sorta... depends .. i'd say it's more like: technology + know-how == speed | price | performance | reliability | capacity ( choose 4 of the 5 criteria ) killers would be : namebrand + marketing/advertising hipe =

Re: Imap

2005-11-17 Thread Roy
- Original Message - From: "Clive Menzies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 10:44 PM Subject: Re: Imap > On (16/11/05 12:25), Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > > Roy wrote: > > > > >- Original Message - > > >From: "loos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >To: > > >Sent

Re: cupsd.conf help

2005-11-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 17 November 2005 12:36, jpg wrote: >Attempting to set up the cupsd.conf file and getting errors logged to > the /var/log/cups/error_log for what is documented to be valid > cupsd.conf directives, i.e.: > >snippet of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file: >===

Re: Setting global environment correctly

2005-11-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:42:48PM +0100, Allan Jensen wrote: > Hello, > > what is considered the "correct" way of setting global and exported > environment variables in debian? Specifically I want to set ORACLE_HOME > and other oracle-related variables in a way that works in both console > and X.

Setting global environment correctly

2005-11-17 Thread Allan Jensen
Hello, what is considered the "correct" way of setting global and exported environment variables in debian? Specifically I want to set ORACLE_HOME and other oracle-related variables in a way that works in both console and X. I would also like to add $ORACLE_HOME/bin to the global PATH. -- Regar

Re: compilation error for mplayer plugin

2005-11-17 Thread cqst
Thanks for your help, I didnt know "auto-apt" ! usefull tool :) bye On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:37:28 -0500 "Edward J. Shornock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cqst wrote: > > hello everyone, > > I try to compile the mplayer plugin for my web browser. > > ./configure is OK but when I laucnh "make" I go

Re: SATA controller failure?

2005-11-17 Thread Anders Rillbert
Hi, Steven Jones wrote: Any other changes? Patched the machine? Nope. Try running modprobe and see if you can manually install the driver. Don't know what driver to try and install... If not, reboot, does the sata card appear in the bios detection as the machine posts? The BIOS is unable

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
David Kirchner wrote: On 11/17/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In order to get rid of all the spam that I get due to posting to public archived mailing lists etc., I subscribe to mailing lists through a gmail account. Gmail spam filtering is quite effective and filters alm

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread David Kirchner
On 11/17/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In order to get rid of all the spam that I get due to posting to public > archived mailing lists etc., I subscribe to mailing lists through a > gmail account. Gmail spam filtering is quite effective and filters > almost 95% of the spam.

RE: SATA controller failure?

2005-11-17 Thread Steven Jones
Any other changes? Patched the machine? Try running modprobe and see if you can manually install the driver. If not, reboot, does the sata card appear in the bios detection as the machine posts? If not, move it to another pci slot and do a escd reset in the bios and try again Otherwise it t

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-17 Thread steef
Seth Goodman wrote: From: steef [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 2:39 AM To: debian Users Subject: Re: Request to remove Information Steve Lamb wrote: privacy.at Anonymous Remailer wrote: Well, according to your law of the capitalist jungle if we of

SATA controller failure?

2005-11-17 Thread Anders Rillbert
Hi, I have a dual boot system with a debian distro on an "ordinary" ide drive and a Windows distro on a SATA drive. Since yesterday morning my SATA drive can no longer be located by the BIOS but my other ide drive is not affected. I'm trying to figure out if it is the disk itself that has broke

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Carl Fink wrote: I'm tempted to report them to the US authorities AS as spammer. The same thing is going on over on the Fedora list, which I also subscribe to, so I'm getting 2x the SPAM :-( Fedora has at least temporarily forcibly suspended uol.com.br subscriptions. One possiblity is to send

Re: compilation error for mplayer plugin

2005-11-17 Thread Edward J. Shornock
cqst wrote: > hello everyone, > I try to compile the mplayer plugin for my web browser. > ./configure is OK but when I laucnh "make" I got that : > > g++ -c -o plugin-support.o -Wall -g -O2 -g -O2 -DXP_UNIX -DMOZ_X11 > -I../gecko-sdk -I../gecko-sdk/include -Iinclude -fPIC -DXPC

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 12:22 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Then we're even: "religion" should work better than the people > > who implement and practice it. > > Nope. Because the people who practice and implement it are required by > its very nature to ignore reason, logic

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Then we're even: "religion" should work better than the people > who implement and practice it. Nope. Because the people who practice and implement it are required by its very nature to ignore reason, logic and to disbelieve anything to the contrary. -- Steve

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 12:06 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Scientists are people. > > People have biases, are selfish, vain, proud, etc. > > > Scientists thus have biases, are selfish, vain, proud, etc. > > Yes, but you made the same mistake as other people. We're talking

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Scientists are people. > People have biases, are selfish, vain, proud, etc. > Scientists thus have biases, are selfish, vain, proud, etc. Yes, but you made the same mistake as other people. We're talking about the process and the institution and how it should work in spi

Re: ipw2200 issues

2005-11-17 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 12:23:31PM -0500, James Strandboge wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 15:20 +, Daniel Nilsson wrote: > > Somehow I'm a little suspicious that my problems might be related to kernel > > version 2.6.12, mainly because the reports I've seen from people with these > > kinds of i

Re: cupsd.conf help

2005-11-17 Thread Edward J. Shornock
jpg wrote: Attempting to set up the cupsd.conf file and getting errors logged to the /var/log/cups/error_log for what is documented to be valid cupsd.conf directives, i.e.: snippet of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file: = 239 240 Order

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Adam Hardy wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi on 17/11/05 13:10, wrote: Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up bogofilter & spamassassin in the past & I've always run into trouble; the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. Any help out th

Re: compilation error for mplayer plugin

2005-11-17 Thread cqst
I cant install from apt-get cause i'm on stable and its purposed but there are dependancies not satisfied, and its not for mozilla but for opera I need to build it thx for the answer On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:34:01 + Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cqst wrote: > > hello everyone, >

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread Adam Hardy
kamaraju kusumanchi on 17/11/05 13:10, wrote: Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up bogofilter & spamassassin in the past & I've always run into trouble; the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. Any help out there? Matt In o

Warning: Ending maintenance of my Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird backports to Sarge

2005-11-17 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, Since the Debian Security Team is doing a good job of keeping up with security updates for the Mozilla family in Sarge, much better than I can, I am ending maintenance of my Mozilla backports to Sarge located at http://borex.princeton.edu/~k

Re: firefox crashes on flash

2005-11-17 Thread Cláudio E. Elicker
On Thursday 17 November 2005 16:27, Maurits van Rees wrote: > I have the flashblock plugin installed. Instead of starting flash > movies automatically it gives you a button to click so it will play > the movie. This lets you choose whether or not you trust the flash > movie not to crash your fire

Re: Adding LVM to an existing system (SOLVED)

2005-11-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Dick Davies wrote: On 17/11/05, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dick Davies wrote: That's weird. All I can say is that it's definitely possible to do LVM on logical partitions. It does seem odd. Are you using Sid, or Etch? I am running Sarge. Could that make a difference? I

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Weird, becasue I have a directory called ~/.Xresources and there I > have the file Are you using Sid with Xorg? I don't think I had problems until I upgraded to Sid. Don't really know what the difference, if any, between Xorg and whatever version o

Re: firefox crashes on flash

2005-11-17 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 04:06:55AM +, Lei Kong wrote: > My system is debian testing, with kde 3.4, xorg 6.8.2. > After upgradeing from kde 3.3.x to kde 3.4.2, > firefox crashes everytime I visit a site > with flash stuff. Anyone has a clue on how > to get around without removing flash plugin?

vnc repeater

2005-11-17 Thread Rodney Richison
Is there a vnc repeater available on linux(debian) like the ultravnc repeater? For customer support... And,,, this is probably a question in the ultravnc forum, but can you connect to a repeater using linux xvncviewer? -- Highest Regards, Rodney Richison RCR Computing PO Box 566 - 118 N.

cupsd.conf help

2005-11-17 Thread jpg
Attempting to set up the cupsd.conf file and getting errors logged to the /var/log/cups/error_log for what is documented to be valid cupsd.conf directives, i.e.: snippet of /etc/cups/cupsd.conf file: = 239 240 Order Deny,Allow

exim4 through a smarthost

2005-11-17 Thread Rob Brenart
I have a local box which I want to be able to send mail... specifically I want bugzilla to be able to mail people. I have no idea how to make it a mail server, or if my ISP would even allow it, but I have a dedicated server from http://liquidweb.com/ so I'm pretty sure I can use that as a smar

compilation error for mplayer plugin

2005-11-17 Thread cqst
hello everyone, I try to compile the mplayer plugin for my web browser. ./configure is OK but when I laucnh "make" I got that : g++ -c -o plugin-support.o -Wall -g -O2 -g -O2 -DXP_UNIX -DMOZ_X11 -I../gecko-sdk -I../gecko-sdk/include -Iinclude -fPIC -DXPCOM_GLUE -DMOZILLA_STRIC

Re: exim4 and virtual domains: SOLVED

2005-11-17 Thread Matt Johnson
--- Dick Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16/11/05, Matt Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I've used: > > > > * : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > in the virtual domain aliases, but if a mail is > sent > > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it bounces unless > "matt" > > has an linux account on the serve

Re: Why don't I have /dev/inotify

2005-11-17 Thread Skender Osmani
I am having the exact problem as David. I am using kernel 2.6.13.4 with inotify support on Debian woody. Has anyone got an idea. Cheers, Skender >I grabbed a 2.6.13.2 kernel off kernel.org and built it with these >options: > >CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y >CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y > CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y

cannot log back into Gnome after reboot (bug in Testing?)

2005-11-17 Thread H.S.
Hi, I am experiencing this loggin in problem for quite a while now. Recently I have had to reboot my machine quite a few times for one reason or another and have noticed this problem consistenly. After a reboot, I cannot log back into gnome. After the username password I get the gray screen but

Re: popPort:NOKIA 3120

2005-11-17 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/17/2005 09:20 AM, H S Rai wrote: > Can we make Nokia 3120 mobile to communicate with Debian based PC. I > installed GAMMU/WAMMU, but I could not make it functional using its > popPort > > Anyone who has used it or knows how to make it through. > > This is the only thing, which is compellin

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 22:23 +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:11 +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > >>Steve Lamb wrote: > >> > >>>Andy Streich wrote: [snip] > No, it's not, and that's not what I said. I was pointing out that > encouraging newbies to us

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 22:43 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 01:26:50AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > > I think users need to get back to learning a little. I was asked by a > > customer yesterday why Thunderbird doesn't capitalise the H in Hello > > like Outlook (Word) does.

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 13:46 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2005-11-12 21:59:22, schrieb Marc Wilson: > > > Myself, I don't use Crapfox, and therefore don't pay any attention to its > > Debian versioning, but if normal Debian practices are being followed, > > security fixes are backported to s

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 13:44 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > No much difference between science and religion, same crap. Thus I > > decline the offer. > > Actually, there is one major difference. > > Religion is based on the notion that they know everything and anyt

Re: Slow server response

2005-11-17 Thread Ed Curtis
Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:02:37AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: Just recently one of our servers has started to respond to certain requests rather slowly. POP, SMTP, and SSH reqeusts have started showing slower reponse times from the server. I'm running Woody on a dual processor

Xorg 6.8.2:can't swith to console from X

2005-11-17 Thread giv
When in Xorg's GUI,I can't switch to virtual terminal by pressing ctrl +alt+f1-f6,although there are 6 getty processes running. I searched the web and got some information but couldn't resolve the issue yet. Also I can't switch the screen resolution by the "ctrl+alt+ +/-" combo key,but "ctrl+alt+

Re: I have some question about LINUX?(hardware)

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 05:23:45PM +0800, fai lo wrote: HI: I have some question about LINUX. I wish how to know that my hardware can support LINUX? Which website can give me some test to know my hardware can support LINUX? THANK YOU! I have some answers about LINUX. Most hardware is supporte

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 03:34:13PM +0100, Realos wrote: Steve Block wanted us to know: Yes and I am probably going to blacklist the sender. did you report that sender to the (online) blacklist servers? I am still receiving spam from that user. It is being sorted out to /dev/null but the best

Re: Slow server response

2005-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:02:37AM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > > Just recently one of our servers has started to respond to certain > requests rather slowly. POP, SMTP, and SSH reqeusts have started showing > slower reponse times from the server. I'm running Woody on a dual > processor machine with

Re: looking for a transparent hardware RAID controller for debian

2005-11-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 13:44 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hi David, > > Am 2005-11-15 07:54:47, schrieb David Kirchner: > > > We haven't tried Raptors yet. We're waiting for the capacities to > > approach that of the other SATA drives. As it is now the pricing on > > the Raptors isn't low enou

Re: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-17 Thread Realos
> Steve Block wanted us to know: >Yes and I am probably going to blacklist the sender. did you report that sender to the (online) blacklist servers? I am still receiving spam from that user. It is being sorted out to /dev/null but the best solution would be if emails from that sender are blacklis

Re: Got totally messed up with Debian Unstable

2005-11-17 Thread Kent West
Michelle Konzack wrote: >Hey guy, we are using GNU/Linux and backups are only for wimps. >Our power OS does not need backups. :-P > > I backed up my laptop computer the other day, about two inches. Had to in order to see it since since I got these bifocals -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

popPort:NOKIA 3120

2005-11-17 Thread H S Rai
Can we make Nokia 3120 mobile to communicate with Debian based PC. I installed GAMMU/WAMMU, but I could not make it functional using its popPort Anyone who has used it or knows how to make it through. This is the only thing, which is compelling me use M$ windows. Any help will be appreciate

Re: I have some question about LINUX?(hardware)

2005-11-17 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 05:23:45PM +0800, fai lo wrote: >I have some question about LINUX. I wish how to > know that my hardware can support LINUX? Which website > can give me some test to know my hardware can support > LINUX? You could look at www.linuxhardware.net, for one. Several distrib

Slow server response

2005-11-17 Thread Ed Curtis
Just recently one of our servers has started to respond to certain requests rather slowly. POP, SMTP, and SSH reqeusts have started showing slower reponse times from the server. I'm running Woody on a dual processor machine with 2 gigs of memory and a hardware raid. Uptime shows our load average a

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Nov 2005, Matt Price wrote: > Hi folks, > > Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up > bogofilter & spamassassin in the past & I've always run into trouble; > the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. > > Any help out there? > > Matt I prefer spamprobe my

canon a410 digital camera

2005-11-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, This: http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html says that the canon a400 is supported in PTP mode by gphoto2. Now I find nothing on the a410, its later cousin. What do you think, can I buy that and have USB support? Thanks H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: spam howto

2005-11-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Matt Price wrote: Hi folks, Looking for a simple spam-control howto. I have tried setting up bogofilter & spamassassin in the past & I've always run into trouble; the process sometimes seems incredibly complex. Any help out there? Matt In order to get rid of all the spam that I get du

Re: redirecting the output with sudo

2005-11-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hubert Chan wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:29:43 -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Is there a way to do this in one single command? $wajig doc > /tmp/wajig_doc.txt $sudo mv /tmp/wajig_doc.txt /root/wajig_doc.txt I usually do "sudo wajig doc | sudo tee /tmp/wajig_do

Unable to open gnome-terminal, xterm, konsole

2005-11-17 Thread David Guchua
Using debian sarge. Kernel 2.6.14. After recent "apt-get upgrade" I am no longer able to open terminals in X under any user but root. Just get "There was an error creating the child process for this terminal."Any help will be appreciated. I've googled but have found no working solution.

How to enable APM on kernel 2.6.14-2-686

2005-11-17 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
Hi, Would anybody know how to enable APM on a 2.6.14-2-686 kernel ? After I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.14-2-686, I noticed I couldn't suspend my laptop. It's an old Fujitsu Lifebook E342, with APM. These messages come from dmesg: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: ove

Re: Imap

2005-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-15 19:08:40, schrieb Roy: > > It means that the IMAP server expects mail in a Maildir and there isn't > one. > > In my postfix config file I have home_mailbox = Maildir/ Does it contain the three required subdirs: cur, new and tmp ? Greetings Michelle -- Linux-User #280138 wit

Re: fortran compiler bug

2005-11-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Steven Jones wrote: We seem to be having issues getting a bug registeredthe site listed is somewhat obtuse with its instructions... :( Sorry that you are having problems with reporting the bug. The following are the relevant links. To report a bug open an account in gcc bugzilla by go

Re: Imap

2005-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Roy, Am 2005-11-15 18:24:22, schrieb Roy: > I've just installed courier imap and imap-ssl to use with postfix. The > problem i'm having is when I try and retrieve mail from my Debian (Sarge) > Server from Outlook Express the following message appears (Your Imap Server > wishes to alet you t

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-15 16:57:35, schrieb privacy.at Anonymous Remailer: > He didn't just make a "relatively common mistake," he posted > HTML-loaded mail to a mailing list. If he can't figure out how to set > his mail client to plain text ONLY, he has no business in IT. If he > can't figure out that his re

Re: fetchmail + courier MTA

2005-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-14 17:42:18, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > helo! I am an Italian boy. > > I have a problem to use fetchmail with courier MTA. > the error is the follow: Better: 8<-- set syslog set daemon 1800 options fetchall poll pop.fastwebn

Re: Got totally messed up with Debian Unstable

2005-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-14 11:35:17, schrieb Mitch Wiedemann: > Did your old (working) /etc/fstab get hosed by a new non-worky fstab? > You *do* have a backup of your old /etc/fstab don't you? :) > > That would be my first step. Hey guy, we are using GNU/Linux and backups are only for wimps. Our power OS do

Re: Compile problems - how do I know what source to install?

2005-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Daniel, Am 2005-11-14 11:01:00, schrieb Daniel McBrearty: > I'm in the process of setting up a server that runs sarge, but I get > many > compile errors when trying to do cpan install of some perl modules: > > cc -c -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN > -fno-strict-alia

Re: fetchamil + courier MTA

2005-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi, To know, what happen with your fetchmail setup, we need to know, your /etc/fetchmailrc (please make passwords X). Am 2005-11-14 10:13:39, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > helo! I am an Italian boy. > > I have a problem to use fetchmail with courier MTA. > the error is the follow: > > Nov 1

Re: Problem with hard drive

2005-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Steve, Am 2005-11-13 22:31:56, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I've recently installed Debian, and mostly it's been great, but ^^ Kernel 2.4.27 ? > recently I've run into trouble with my hard drive. It started out when > the hard drive was under heavy load - my mo

Re: Ram memory after many days

2005-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi Steve, Am 2005-11-15 00:02:14, schrieb Steve Lamb: > Counter anecdotal evidence... > > 173 days, 19:00:02 | Linux 2.6.9-1-686Sun Mar 27 18:56:01 2005 > 246 days, 19:43:30 | Linux 2.6.9-1-686Tue Feb 1 00:16:37 2005 > 331 days, 22:05:18 | Linux 2.6.9-1-686

Re: Ram memory after many days

2005-11-17 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2005-11-13 18:39:23, schrieb Carl Johnson: > I have similar problems, and I know it isn't used by the buffers and > cache as others have already suggested. I have to exit from > X-windows, so it appears that X has some major memory leaks. My > system seems to lose about 50MB/day, so that mean

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