Lynx

2005-12-04 Thread Paddy Hackett
I finally located Lynx. However I am havin diffiulty finding information. I keep getting a lot of technical and other instructions. However despite what I do there is no adequate response. Paddy Hackett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Kent West wrote: Paddy Hackett wrote: In view of this could anybody tell me how we get from the stage of bits to the letters of say the English language. In short how do bits, Boolean Algebra lead to letters such as a,b,c,..etc. If I understand what you're asking Computer manufactur

Rmail

2005-12-04 Thread Paddy Hackett
Hi I have been having problems sending mail under Rmail. Can you suggest to me ways to overcome these problems. No problems as of yet with Evolution. Rmail and SendMail dont seem to have precisely my address. Instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] they have [EMAIL PROTECTED] How can get these matters reco

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-04 Thread Mike McCarty
Scott wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: Is it possible with mozilla thunderbird to do reply to list like some other mailing list friendly email clients can do (such as sylpheed-claws). I'm a Thunderbird user and I only have this problem on a few lists. The Debian lists are among those. All the

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Block wrote: > Change "good" to "marginally acceptable" and "some" to "many" and we > have a deal. It still has the best IMAP support of any client so far. It actually can do IMAPS (Evolution fails on that), handle "special" folders on the IMAP server like sent-mail and trash (most ever

Re: qt dependency problem

2005-12-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 02:11:53AM +, jpdrawneek wrote: > I am trying to compile an app called DJplay. > I think i have downloaded all the correct packges but i am still getting > this > error: > > > Any ideas where to find qobjcoll.h and which package its in. > > I am using sarge 3.1 st

qt dependency problem

2005-12-04 Thread jpdrawneek
I am trying to compile an app called DJplay. I think i have downloaded all the correct packges but i am still getting this error: list.cpp:13:22: qobjcoll.h: No such file or directory list.cpp: In member function `virtual void List::lv_rightClicked(QListViewItem*, const QPoint&, int)': list.

installing a nic

2005-12-04 Thread Marty Landman
I've got Woody installed from the mini-iso and owing to problems with the old nic which never got recognized have swapped in a Linksys LNE100TX which will take the tulip driver iirc. How do I go about installing though? An ifconfig -a shows eth0 after I ran a modprobe tulip but it's not up and

Re: Why did Debian bundle exim instead of postfix or sendmail as the Default MTA?

2005-12-04 Thread Edward Shornock
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:48:05AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I'm not sure that postfix does have license issues: I tend to apt-get I have seen some people express concerns over the IPL [1]. Whether or not that has any bearing upon why Exim is the default MTA I don't know, but it's possibl

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 02:03:45PM -0700, Scott wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > Is it possible with mozilla thunderbird to do reply to list like some other > > mailing list friendly email clients can do (such as sylpheed-claws). > > > > I'm a Thunderbird user and I only have this problem on a fe

Re: Maternity leave

2005-12-04 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 04 December 2005 16:05, Scott wrote: >Gabriella Magnusson wrote: >> Dear Madame/Sir >> >> Please note that Gabriella Magnusson are on maternity leave but your >> mail have been resent to our operation department for further action. >> >> With best regards >> ITS AB > >Thanks for sharing!

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-04 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 12/4/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gerorge Reece-Howe: > > > > I was wondering if there was a limit to the number of directories a > > single directory could hold? I assume the number of directories would > > be the limit (if any) to the number of databases MySQL could handle. >

Re: Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Gerorge Reece-Howe: > > I was wondering if there was a limit to the number of directories a > single directory could hold? I assume the number of directories would > be the limit (if any) to the number of databases MySQL could handle. Does MySQL really use a directory in the filesystem for every

Re: Graphire3 under debian sarge

2005-12-04 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Henk Boom wrote: > *I'm having trouble installing my Graphire3 Wacom Tablet. I've installed > wacom-kernel-modules-2.4.27-2-386 after having it compiled by > wacom-kernel-source, and I have installed wacom-tools, but even after a > reboot my tablet seems only to be recognized as a regular USB mous

SOLVED: 2.speedtouch modem

2005-12-04 Thread michael
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 00:54 +0100, Wodzu Wodzowski wrote: > > > 2. > > > I've got another problem as well :p ;) > > > Know, that You've heard thousands questions as for thomson speedtouch > > 330 modem, but something's wrong :> > > > I downloaded speedtouch driver ('speedtouch-06-03-2005.tar.gz')

Question: Maximum number of directories?

2005-12-04 Thread Gerorge Reece-Howe
Hi,   I wanted to make an application that would create many thousands of databases in MySQL.   I was wondering if there was a limit to the number of directories a single directory could hold? I assume the number of directories would be the limit (if any) to the number of databases MySQL coul

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-04 Thread Steve Block
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 05:13:11PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 02:03:45PM -0700, Scott wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible with mozilla thunderbird to do reply to list like some other > mailing list friendly email clients can do (such as sylpheed-claws). >

Re: No kmail in sid?

2005-12-04 Thread Roby
Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Hello, > > I just did a dist-upgrade to sid and noticed that > > kmail is absent and refuses to install. > evolution can read email but refuses to send saying > > RCPT TO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> failed: Transaction failed. > > The address is my own, and I know it works, be

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-04 Thread Steve Block
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 02:03:45PM -0700, Scott wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: Is it possible with mozilla thunderbird to do reply to list like some other mailing list friendly email clients can do (such as sylpheed-claws). I'm a Thunderbird user and I only have this problem on a few lists. The

Testing

2005-12-04 Thread Gerorge Reece-Howe
Hi,   Testing

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-04 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 02:03:45PM -0700, Scott wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > Is it possible with mozilla thunderbird to do reply to list like some other > > mailing list friendly email clients can do (such as sylpheed-claws). > > > > I'm a Thunderbird user and I only have this problem on a fe

Re: Using wine in Sarge

2005-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
lesmond74 wrote: Am Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:30:12 +0100 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: I would install from source. I did but I am not a gamer so I got rid of it again. But it would be interesting to try Call of Duty. At the time the games I tried acted the same (fail) on the source version as on the o

Re: vesa mode for MPlayer compile problem

2005-12-04 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:36:04PM +0100, Dirk wrote: > which package containes ? > > MPlayer needs it for the vesa mode output... apt-get install apt-file apt-file update apt-file search vbe.h signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Split .mov to fit on a CD-R

2005-12-04 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:54:33PM +0100, Vegard L. Rekaa wrote: > Hello list, > I have three movies, all in the .mov format at approx. 1400Mb each. I wish > to burn these out to a CD-R, meaning I need to split them, into 700Mb > pieces. Avidemux was not able to open these since they are not > .a

Re: Class of machine needed for DNS

2005-12-04 Thread GEP647
Hi Chris Brown I am Briana and I like your videos and can I be in your new video.I love you and I what to chat with you.You are HOT and cut and I need a boyfriend can you be my boyfriend and ever in my school think I am fat.        

fbsplash oops

2005-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I use fbsplash from: http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/gensplash/ In a variety of kernels: 2.6.12-vz3 from: http://members.westnet.com.au/vanzeeland/ 2.6.14-archck4/5 from: http://iphitus.loudas.com/archck.php 2.6.15-ck5/6 from: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ They all

Re: Maternity leave

2005-12-04 Thread Scott
Gabriella Magnusson wrote: > Dear Madame/Sir > > Please note that Gabriella Magnusson are on maternity leave but your mail > have been > resent to our operation department for further action. > > With best regards > ITS AB > Thanks for sharing! ;-) -- Scott www.angrykeyboarder.com © 2005 an

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-04 Thread Scott
Micha Feigin wrote: > Is it possible with mozilla thunderbird to do reply to list like some other > mailing list friendly email clients can do (such as sylpheed-claws). > I'm a Thunderbird user and I only have this problem on a few lists. The Debian lists are among those. All the lists running

Re: Class of machine needed for DNS

2005-12-04 Thread GEP647
Hi Chris Brown

Re: Why did Debian bundle exim instead of postfix or sendmail as the Default MTA?

2005-12-04 Thread Scott
Steve Lamb wrote: > TAC Forums wrote: >> Does anyone know why Debian bundled EXIM instead of Postfix or >> Sendmail as the default MTA? > > Because, IIRC, at the time Sendmail wasn't considered secure (security > audit still in process) & postfix too new. Exim was a stable, well-known and > t

Re: No kmail in sid?

2005-12-04 Thread Scott
Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Hello, > > I just did a dist-upgrade to sid and noticed that > > kmail is absent and refuses to install. It's absent? http://packages.debian.org/unstable/mail/kmail > evolution can read email but refuses to send saying > > RCPT TO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread Ralph Katz
On 12/04/2005 11:10 AM, Kaj Wiik wrote: > Hi! > > I installed fail2ban, works well with sarge. > > Cheers, > > Kaj I'm another happy fail2ban sarge user. Easy, fast, thorough solution to the problem of ssh brute force attacks. Search for ssh, and you'll see hundreds (?) of posts to this list

Graphire3 under debian sarge

2005-12-04 Thread Henk Boom
I'm having trouble installing my Graphire3 Wacom Tablet. I've installed wacom-kernel-modules-2.4.27-2-386 after having it compiled by wacom-kernel-source, and I have installed wacom-tools, but even after a reboot my tablet seems only to be recognized as a regular USB mouse. I'm using discover1 (not

xine vobcopy can't ope file

2005-12-04 Thread martellif
Xine doesn't read some of my dvd, I've tried vobcopy application that fails the same, so isn't related only to xine. I'm running Debian Sarge amd64 unofficial port however I don't think that problem it's platform dependent. Here the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ vobcopy -v path to dvd: /dev/h

repeat cursor keys

2005-12-04 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi
Hi, I have upgraded Gnome and X.org to 2.12.2 and 6.8.99.902 respectively from the original experimental packages. It broke some things and yeah, I was prepared for them - so I could fix most of them. But I can't find out how to make some keys repeat while I still press them, like the cursor keys

Re: Webmail that supports UTF-8

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel Nilsson
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 02:45:50PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 08:29:52PM +0100, Daniel Nilsson wrote: > > > > Chris, > > > > Great suggestion, Horde/IMP works well with my UTF-8 formatted > > messages so this is exactly what I was looking for! After a little > > fi

Re: Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread Glenn English
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 17:37 +0100, marcel wrote: > Or you could write an iptables rule for it. A much better solution. But unfortunately, the machine with the problem has an ipchains packet filter. -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG ID: D0D7FF20 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

No kmail in sid?

2005-12-04 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, I just did a dist-upgrade to sid and noticed that kmail is absent and refuses to install. evolution can read email but refuses to send saying RCPT TO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> failed: Transaction failed. The address is my own, and I know it works, because I am sending email from it right now.

Re: remote desktop and VPN

2005-12-04 Thread Michael Perry
Bob Hynes wrote: > Hello, does anyone have a recommendation as far as a good VPN client > goes? My plan is to use a VPN to connect to work, then a Windows-like > remote desktop client to do a remote control. > > I do this with XP already, just curious if anyone has done this with > Debian. Not

Re: OT: Copying image using acroread from pdf file

2005-12-04 Thread John Carline
Joe Mc Cool wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 06:34:00PM -0500, T wrote: If I have to paste from pdf's, which I do quite often, I use xpdf. are you talking about text, or image? Text only I'm afraid :-( Joe I've been away for several days and all I have of this entire

Re: openoffice cannot find java...

2005-12-04 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Well, no it wasn't, but I tried setting it by hand and it seems to have no effect. I did export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/lib/java export JAVAC=/usr/local/lib/java/bin/javac but I still get javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! -- Alexandru CabuzDoctoral StudentUniversité Mont

Re: realplayer 10 hassles

2005-12-04 Thread David Zelinsky
Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alexis Huxley on 28/11/05 20:36, wrote: > >> Using RealPlayer 10 and it won't output sound anymore, just video, > >> when trying *.ram feeds from websites. > > Is the audio device in use? Try 'aumix -W90; killall esd artsd' and > > then > > try again. Also

Re: Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread marcel
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 08:59 -0700, Glenn English wrote: > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 00:55 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > > I just happened, for GP, to check my auth.log file on my firewall. I > > found a lengthy listing that appears to be a dictionary attack > > against > > me. Can someone tell m

apt-get, preferences, apt.conf... I don't understand...

2005-12-04 Thread Mario Frasca
hallo everybody, I'm happily running Debian on my iMac, but there is something I definitely did not understand about choosing/pinpointing the release. I have the following situation: kruiskruid:~# grep -v "^/\|^$" /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Default-Release "stable"; APT::Hold "yaboot"; APT::Cache-Lim

Re: Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread Joe Mc Cool
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 08:59:49AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > I got so many of them, though, that my log filled the partition. So I > wrote a little shell script that checks for this frequently, and blocks > the naughty IP(s) for a few days. How about sharing it ? :-) Joe -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread Kaj Wiik
Hi! I installed fail2ban, works well with sarge. Cheers, Kaj

Re: Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread Glenn English
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 00:55 -0800, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > I just happened, for GP, to check my auth.log file on my firewall. I > found a lengthy listing that appears to be a dictionary attack > against > me. Can someone tell me what I'm dealing with here? Like someone else said, nothing spe

Re: [OT] Re: Machines and people

2005-12-04 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 14:49:13 + Peter Nuttall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my experience, people reaching consensus is the result of magic. > > > Pete And that might just /be/ the end of humor. Cybe R. Wizard -- Q: What's the difference between MicroSoft Windows and a virus? A: Apa

Re: Split .mov to fit on a CD-R

2005-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Vegard L. Rekaa wrote: Hello list, I have three movies, all in the .mov format at approx. 1400Mb each. I wish to burn these out to a CD-R, meaning I need to split them, into 700Mb pieces. Avidemux was not able to open these since they are not .avi-format. Is there a program wich splits .mo

Re: [OT] Machines and people

2005-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paddy Hackett wrote: It appears that many learn higher level computer languages such as Java yet cannot answer the more fundamental cquestions. But what are those questions and to whom are they questions? IM there is a vast computer audience now, getting larger all the time. Created in lar

debugging firmware

2005-12-04 Thread linux
I've traced my 'no stage 1 firmware' error, when attempting to use the Speedtouch modem on 2.6.11 (k7) unstable following a recent 'dist-upgrade', to /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.11/drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.c in the following loop, but I'm not au fait enough with C to understand why it fails. All

printer and web camera.

2005-12-04 Thread Rafi Gabzu
Hi , "testing" kernel = 2.6 Since there is so much documents , I wonder What is the best document for me to read in order to make my webcamera (Logitech USB ) and my Lexmark (parallel) printer to work ? Is it from the tlpd document , KDE , or there is a debian guide on these issues ? Thanks, Rafi.

Re: SSH attack

2005-12-04 Thread Andrew Vaughan
Hi On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:49, Greg Folkert wrote: > Lately, I have been requiring key-auth just to get a Login prompt, which > then use a login and password challenge scheme, once that is successful, > the Login and the key have to matchup as well. IOW, not only do you have > to have the right Key

Re: thunderbird

2005-12-04 Thread Adam Hardy
Michael Marsh on 03/12/05 22:46, wrote: Well, setting x-www-browser to mozilla, Getting about.config and editing the two values to mozilla :-( Clicking on a URL does zip... Are you running Gnome or KDE? If so, TB might be passing off the request to the desktop environment instead of using the

[OT] Re: Machines and people

2005-12-04 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 08:28:32AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > No magic; just consensus. > > -- > K > > In my experience, people reaching consensus is the result of magic. Pete -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-04 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:32:28PM +, Paddy Hackett wrote: > I am new to this list. Among my chief reasons for an interest in Linux > is in relation to AI and the relationship of human intelligence to > machines such as computers.Consequently I want to establish a clear > understanding as to ho

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-04 Thread Kent West
Paddy Hackett wrote: >In view of this could anybody tell me how we get from the stage of bits >to the letters of say the English language. In short how do bits, >Boolean Algebra lead to letters such as a,b,c,..etc. > > If I understand what you're asking Computer manufacturers have gotten

Re: Machines and people

2005-12-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:32:28PM +, Paddy Hackett wrote: > In view of this could anybody tell me how we get from the stage of bits > to the letters of say the English language. In short how do bits, > Boolean Algebra lead to letters such as a,b,c,..etc. > I have studied the Turing machine. H

Re: openoffice cannot find java...

2005-12-04 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:30:38PM +0100, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed openoffice 2 and gave it a try. [snip] > Any suggestions? State what version of Debian you're using. State how you installed OpenOffice (I'm suspecting not from an official package.) -- Carl Fink

Re: using two graphics cards in one machine

2005-12-04 Thread icmp
I had 4 years ago machine with 2 dualhead videocards (or was it 1 dualhead matrox and 2 ati cards, I dont exactly remember) + 2 mice + 2 keyboards. worked.On 12/3/05, Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi allDoes anyone know if its possible to have two different vendor graphics card in one mach

Re: thunderbird

2005-12-04 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michael Marsh wrote: On 12/3/05, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, setting x-www-browser to mozilla, Getting about.config and editing the two values to mozilla :-( Clicking on a URL does zip... Are you running Gnome or KDE? If so, TB might be passing off the request to the de

Re: Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread Bob Hutchinson
On Sunday 04 Dec 2005 08:55, Daniel L. Miller wrote: > I just happened, for GP, to check my auth.log file on my firewall. I > found a lengthy listing that appears to be a dictionary attack against > me. Can someone tell me what I'm dealing with here? > > My firewall is Debian GNU/Linux 2.6 SID, w

Re: openoffice cannot find java...

2005-12-04 Thread icmp
check your environment variables, is JAVA_HOME etc. set correctly?On 12/4/05, Alexandru Cabuz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Hello, I just installed openoffice 2 and gave it a try. It says javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! but seems to open all right. However I can't figure out ho

ACPI Thermal Zones and unwanted reset of Trip Points

2005-12-04 Thread Olaf Conradi
Hello, I'm running Debian Unstable on my laptop and have a question about trip points in ACPI thermal zones. My laptop gets too hot when I compile a kernel, or in font generation during installation of a latex font. This causes the laptop to shutdown. On my laptop (Asus L8400K) the trip points a

Re: Split .mov to fit on a CD-R

2005-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 23:29 +1100, Arafangion wrote: > On Sunday 04 December 2005 23:54, Vegard L. Rekaa wrote: > > Hello list, > > I have three movies, all in the .mov format at approx. 1400Mb each. I wish > > to burn these out to a CD-R, meaning I need to split them, into 700Mb > > pieces. Avide

Machines and people

2005-12-04 Thread Paddy Hackett
I am new to this list. Among my chief reasons for an interest in Linux is in relation to AI and the relationship of human intelligence to machines such as computers.Consequently I want to establish a clear understanding as to how the computers works. In view of this could anybody tell me how we ge

Re: Split .mov to fit on a CD-R

2005-12-04 Thread Arafangion
On Sunday 04 December 2005 23:54, Vegard L. Rekaa wrote: > Hello list, > I have three movies, all in the .mov format at approx. 1400Mb each. I wish > to burn these out to a CD-R, meaning I need to split them, into 700Mb > pieces. Avidemux was not able to open these since they are not > .avi-forma

Re: Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread Jochen Schulz
Daniel L. Miller: > > I just happened, for GP, to check my auth.log file on my firewall. I > found a lengthy listing that appears to be a dictionary attack against > me. Can someone tell me what I'm dealing with here? Some kind of dictionary attack. :) They are around for at least a year now.

Split .mov to fit on a CD-R

2005-12-04 Thread Vegard L. Rekaa
Hello list, I have three movies, all in the .mov format at approx. 1400Mb each. I wish to burn these out to a CD-R, meaning I need to split them, into 700Mb pieces.  Avidemux  was not able to open these since they are not .avi-format. Is there a program wich splits .mov files I can use, availabl

Re: Defining environment variables and cgi scripts

2005-12-04 Thread Almut Behrens
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 10:15:55PM -0500, Tom Moore wrote: > hi. > I have a cgi script I want apache to execute for me. > The problem I'm having is I don't know how to include editional > environmental variables that the script requires. > How do I add a variable called PAYMENTIC_HOME to the list

openoffice cannot find java...

2005-12-04 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Hello, I just installed openoffice 2 and gave it a try. It says javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! but seems to open all right. However I can't figure out how to do anything useful in it like for example opening a new writer document. In the File-> New there is only the option "

Re: Why did Debian bundle exim instead of postfix or sendmail as the Default MTA?

2005-12-04 Thread Steve Lamb
TAC Forums wrote: > Does anyone know why Debian bundled EXIM instead of Postfix or > Sendmail as the default MTA? Because, IIRC, at the time Sendmail wasn't considered secure (security audit still in process) & postfix too new. Exim was a stable, well-known and tested MTA. However the be

Re: Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread Yoram Hekma
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 09:55:20 +0100, Daniel L. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just happened, for GP, to check my auth.log file on my firewall. I found a lengthy listing that appears to be a dictionary attack against me. Can someone tell me what I'm dealing with here? My firewall is

Re: Why did Debian bundle exim instead of postfix or sendmail as the Default MTA?

2005-12-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 03:24:31AM -0500, Edward Shornock wrote: > On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 11:02:03AM +0530, TAC Forums wrote: > > Hi > > > > Does anyone know why Debian bundled EXIM instead of Postfix or > > Sendmail as the default MTA? > > I don't know for sure but it could be because: > * Exim

apt-build experience in building world

2005-12-04 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i would like to have some feedback from people who used apt-build to rebuild the entire system with apt-build world , in particular what packages have been excluded as indicated in the manpage and in /usr/share/doc/apt-build/README.Debian Thanks in advance, MC

Re: Hints on keeping the system clean

2005-12-04 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 04 2005, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:45:13AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > > If you know of any other hints to save space, please, let me know. > > localepurge - Automagically remove unnecessary locale data Thank you very much for this hint. It is not for the faint

unsubscribe

2005-12-04 Thread Udo Schlaepfer
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Re: Why did Debian bundle exim instead of postfix or sendmail as the Default MTA?

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Johnson
TAC Forums wrote: > Does anyone know why Debian bundled EXIM instead of Postfix or > Sendmail as the default MTA? It's flexible, secure, has a straightforward configuration and the Debian developer for the package went out of their way to make it newbie approachable. -- Paul Johnson Email and I

Possible hack attempt?

2005-12-04 Thread Daniel L. Miller
I just happened, for GP, to check my auth.log file on my firewall. I found a lengthy listing that appears to be a dictionary attack against me. Can someone tell me what I'm dealing with here? My firewall is Debian GNU/Linux 2.6 SID, with a firehol generated iptables fireall, OpenVPN, and ssh

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 21:53 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:17:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:44 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:25:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > > > Well, yeah. But there was no "su

Re: Why did Debian bundle exim instead of postfix or sendmail as the Default MTA?

2005-12-04 Thread Edward Shornock
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 11:02:03AM +0530, TAC Forums wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know why Debian bundled EXIM instead of Postfix or > Sendmail as the default MTA? I don't know for sure but it could be because: * Exim is easy to configure * Postfix' license may be too restrictive for some * Many p

Re: Hints on keeping the system clean (was: Re: sytem running out of free disk space)

2005-12-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:45:13AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > If you know of any other hints to save space, please, let me know. localepurge - Automagically remove unnecessary locale data -- Chris. == Reproduction if desired may be handled locally. -- rfc3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-12-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:17:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:44 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 02:25:06PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > One theory says that the "fat phenotype" is a useful evolutionary > > > adaptation, and that the "skinny ph

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-12-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 03:11:57AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 21:44 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:18:33AM -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:33 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Having read the Bible a lot (completely t