confused. (was: Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel)

2006-09-21 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:29:36PM +0200, Albert Dengg wrote: > On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:18:27PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:04, Albert Dengg wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:22:04PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: > > > > Hello All > > > > > > > > Just di

Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

2006-09-21 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:52:13PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > handful of uses! And make it an absolute nightmare to buy foreign movies > > while travelling internationally that will play when I get home! > > If you're talking about regi

Re: kernel --append-to-version

2006-09-21 Thread Jon Dowland
Fred J. wrote: Hi I just built a kernel based on the steps below and got this linux-image-2.6.16.060919_2.6.16.060919-10.00.Custom_i386.deb my quetion is why this "2.6.16.060919_2.6.16.060919" and not just "2.6.16.060919"? > linux-image-2.6.16.060919_2.6.16.060919-10.00.Custom_i386.deb <---

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-21 Thread Jon Dowland
Fred J. wrote: I can't, first I use etch and k9copy is for sarge. Is there a specific conflict? I've ran packages designed for older distros on newer ones fairly often. woody's user-mode-linux package on sarge, for example. > second, it depends on kde and I use icewm. that's a fairly lame

Please help me installing Debian!

2006-09-21 Thread Wahyu Aris Darmono
Linux operating system is really new for me. But after collected distro comparison from various sources, I decided to choose Debian. I have i386 Debian 3.1 rel. 2 Sarge DVD. I tried to install it onto my Acer Travelmate 2303 NLCi(laptop). The laptop features are : Intel Celeron M 340 processor (

python: local site-packages

2006-09-21 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I have to use Python, which is new for me. In particular I have to install some Python packages which are not debianised on my Etch box: I tired to do so, but I realized that the package was installed in the /usr directory, namely not in the /usr/local directory as I expected: 1] thi

Re: mplayer encounts premission problem of directfb

2006-09-21 Thread José Alburquerque
Jeff Zhang wrote: I can play video with mplayer -vo directfb ???.avi, but normal user can't do it and mplayer complains that permission of /dev/tty0. what's the better method to resolve it? whether it will cause security problem? As I suggested in the "Parallel port access as non root user" t

Re: Parallel port access as non root user?

2006-09-21 Thread José Alburquerque
Ed Young wrote: What I want to do is to execute the program as a normal user. How can I do this? How must I configure the system (/dev/lp0, /dev/parport0, /dev/port, /etc/group) to allow this program to access the parallel port? I want to do this to reduce the security issues related to runnin

Re: Please help me installing Debian!

2006-09-21 Thread jetblast
Hello! I had a similar problem with my Sarge instalation and I got it working with "expert 26 hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false acpi=off noapic"at the boot line. Maybe it helps. Best Rgrds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

2006-09-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:31:58PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 23:52, Scarletdown wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > handful of uses! And make it an absolute nightmare to buy foreign movies > > > while travelling internationally

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread John Kelly
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:33:26 -0500, "Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But once you get a grip and hang on for a while, you realize that >> sacrificing 2% is a piece of cake. >If users value reliably getting their messages more than they value spam >reduction, which seems to be the case

Re: Fwd: Bash script to run OpenJUMP on Linux...

2006-09-21 Thread José Alburquerque
Redefined Horizons wrote: I've recently installed the Java 1.5 packages for Debian. I'm trying to create a simple bash script that will launch a java program. (There isn't a Debian package for this program, but I hope to create one if I can get it runnging.) I'm trying to launch the program, but

Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

2006-09-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 23:52, Scarletdown wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > handful of uses! And make it an absolute nightmare to buy foreign movies > > while travelling internationally that will play when I get home! > > If you're talking about region cod

[Fwd: suspend-to-disk (powersave -U) problems]

2006-09-21 Thread Owen Heisler
> I just tried out powersave for suspending to RAM or disk and was quite > impressed that it all worked without any tweaking whatsoever. Well, > almost, that is. When I use suspend-to-disk, then resume, my usb > optical mouse isn't initialized (light/laser/whatever is off) until I > hit a key on

Re: bind keys for vt consoles

2006-09-21 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 02:54:59PM EDT, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Things like xbindkeys bind keys for X. > Is there such a thing for non-X? The vt's? What are you running in that console..? Are we talking about a shell such as bash .. ? What do you want to bind..? Is it something like s

Re: '/dev' nodes not getting populated

2006-09-21 Thread Michael Armida
Hello All, I picked up on a recent conversation from this list here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/256763 I'm having exactly the same problem. Does Kevin Mark or anybody else know where I can find more information about the "initscript upgrade error", or how to fix this

suspend-to-disk (powersave -U) problems

2006-09-21 Thread Owen Heisler
I just tried out powersave for suspending to RAM or disk and was quite impressed that it all worked without any tweaking whatsoever. Well, almost, that is. When I use suspend-to-disk, then resume, my usb optical mouse isn't initialized (light/laser/whatever is off) until I hit a key on the keyboa

Re: Spanish Lesson Program?

2006-09-21 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:56:21PM EDT, Chris Humphries wrote: [..] > | > > | I want to learn to speak and converse in Spanish. I would happily pay > | for one of the commercial programs which include in addition to lessons > | an ability to analyze sound tracks and correct pronunciation. I ju

Re: debian forum

2006-09-21 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:07:48 +1000 (EST) "Julian De Marchi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I would be willing to setup a Debian Forum for the users of this > mailing list on my web servers. Would there be much interest out > there for this? If so, with some suggestions we can go ahead w

Re: debian forum

2006-09-21 Thread Julian De Marchi
Thats kool. Just making a suggestion, if the needs arises for a specific forum. I am willing to do alot for the users of this mailing list as the information gained from the mailing list is so useful and got me out of lots of trouble. On Fri, September 22, 2006 10:19 am, Roberto C. Sanchez said:

Re: debian forum

2006-09-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 10:07:48AM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > Hi All, > > I would be willing to setup a Debian Forum for the users of this mailing > list on my web servers. Would there be much interest out there for this? > If so, with some suggestions we can go ahead with this at some pace

Re: debian forum

2006-09-21 Thread Julian De Marchi
Hi All, I would be willing to setup a Debian Forum for the users of this mailing list on my web servers. Would there be much interest out there for this? If so, with some suggestions we can go ahead with this at some pace and have it up and running in a day or so. Julian On Fri, September 22,

Re: Spanish Lesson Program?

2006-09-21 Thread Scott Gifford
"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:07:05PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:48:24PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: >> > Are there any good Spanish Lesson Programs that run on linux? I can >> > shutdown and reboot to Windows b

Re: debian forum

2006-09-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:17:47AM +0600, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > today at the time of searching http://debian.org get a link > http://forums.debian.net > > but, there number of registed user is too few "We have *7054* registered > users" > > why debian not making a official forum for debi

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 21 September 2006 21:11, Seth Goodman wrote: > On Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:39 AM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > This is why debian-user is being constantly blacklisted -- So the > > onus is on Debian to fix things on their end. > > Strongly agree. Spam from USENET is part of it, but

Re: how to define what is kernel

2006-09-21 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 9/21/06, Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Good evening... im creating a tips and triks lesson and i need to define what is module and what is kernel . could you plz advise how to define what is kernel : is it the collection of program (modules) that allow interaction between harwdare resor

Re: Degraded i810/i915 Rendering Performance After Xorg 7 Upgrade

2006-09-21 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 20 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However, rendering performance seems to have degraded somewhat. Is there anything relevant in /var/log/Xorg.0.log ? -- Alok Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

RE: closing mailing lists (was: spamcop)

2006-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
On Thursday, September 21, 2006 3:38 PM -0500, Andrei Popescu wrote: > It's not nice to require *everybody* to receive 100-150 mails/day > just for a simple answer. There's no reason you have to receive list traffic. You can already do this if you subscribe via email. There is no reason the web

how to define what is kernel

2006-09-21 Thread Jabka Atu
Good evening... im creating a tips and triks lesson and i need to define what is module and what is kernel . could you plz advise how to define what is kernel : is it the collection of program (modules) that allow interaction between harwdare resorses and the operation system. Module: is it a

Re: Please help me installing Debian!

2006-09-21 Thread M-L
On Thursday 21 September 2006 03:40, Wahyu Aris Darmono shared this with us all: >--> Linux operating system is really new for me. But after >--> collected distro comparison from various sources, I >--> decided to choose Debian. >--> >--> I have i386 Debian 3.1 rel. 2 Sarge DVD. I tried to >--> i

RE: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
On Thursday, September 21, 2006 2:33 PM -0500, John Kelly wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:53:28 -0500, "Seth Goodman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The improper DNS false positive rate is low, less than 2%. > > > It's a pity, but very few people think in terms of winning the > > spam war an

Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

2006-09-21 Thread Scarletdown
On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 09:18 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 23:52 -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > handful of uses! And make it an absolute nightmare to buy foreign movies > > > while travelling internationally that will

RE: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
On Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:39 AM -0500, Stephen wrote: > This is why debian-user is being constantly blacklisted -- So the > onus is on Debian to fix things on their end. Strongly agree. Spam from USENET is part of it, but SpamCop listed the server because of messages to a spamtrap. If

Re: /dev/null altered, ssh, and security

2006-09-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:42:11PM -0700, Reza Roboubi wrote: > Reza Roboubi wrote: > >I've had exactly this problem and this solution worked: > >http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_frm/thread/2e1954d22cbe441d/62571302f1c3dfaa?lnk=st&q=sshd+%22fatal+daemon+failed+success%22&rnum

Re: /dev/null altered, ssh, and security

2006-09-21 Thread Reza Roboubi
Reza Roboubi wrote: I've had exactly this problem and this solution worked: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_frm/thread/2e1954d22cbe441d/62571302f1c3dfaa?lnk=st&q=sshd+%22fatal+daemon+failed+success%22&rnum=6#62571302f1c3dfaa Now I wonder why /dev/null was altered? Cou

Re: closing mailing lists (was: spamcop)

2006-09-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:44 PM -0500, Matus UHLAR - fantomas > wrote: > > > I don't think that closing mailing lists is the right way to fight > against spam. > > The question is whether requiring a user to answer one confirmation > message be

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread John Kelly
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:53:28 -0500, "Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The improper DNS false positive rate is low, less than 2%. >It's a pity, but very few people think in terms of winning the spam war >anymore. Most systems would consider this false positive rate unusable >by a large

RE: closing mailing lists (was: spamcop)

2006-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
On Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:44 PM -0500, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > I don't think that closing mailing lists is the right way to fight against spam. The question is whether requiring a user to answer one confirmation message before posting is any real burden. You have to send mail to

Re: debian forum

2006-09-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
"S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > today at the time of searching http://debian.org get a link > http://forums.debian.net > > but, there number of registed user is too few "We have *7054* registered > users" > > why debian not making a official forum for debian-user?? > > --

Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

2006-09-21 Thread derek
I always just mount the dvd,and play the video file directly.I dont really care about the menu's or anything.On 9/21/06, Owen Heisler < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 23:52 -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:> > handful of uses!  And ma

Re: closing mailing lists (was: spamcop)

2006-09-21 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 08:43:30PM +0200 or thereabouts, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 21.09.06 12:39, Stephen wrote: > > It's not appropriate in my view, to allow anyone to post to debian-user, > > without first subscribing. Apparently, anyone can post to debian-user, > > without needing to

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:57:31PM +0100 or thereabouts, John Kelly wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:15:58 -0400, Stephen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> But debian-user is more than a mailing list. It's also gated to the > >> Usenet newsgroup linux.debian.user, where anyone can post. > > >>

RE: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Seth Goodman
On Wednesday, September 20, 2006 5:48 PM -0500, John Kelly wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:01:38 -0500, "Seth Goodman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > require matching DNS, forward and reverse <...> > > some large servers won't use it. > > I don't know of any. But if there really are some

kmail transports question

2006-09-21 Thread Pollywog
Does anyone know if there is a way to set a particular smtp transport for certain *recipients* in kmail? I send my spam (spam I receive) to a dummy account on one of my systems and I sometimes forget to choose the correct transport for this in kmail. It would be advantageous to be able to set

Re: evolution break

2006-09-21 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 01:30 +0600, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > shanazsoft:/home/ibrahim# apt-get install evolution > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > > <--cut--> > The following packages have unmet dependencies. > evolution: Depends: libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.62) but

udev errors

2006-09-21 Thread Pollywog
I am seeing this in my logs on a Debian Sarge system: Sep 21 06:24:08 lilypad udev[9336]: parse error /etc/udev/rules.d/025_logitechmouse.rules, line 1:25, rule skipped Is there a way to fix it other than just ignoring it? I do not use a Logitech mouse. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

evolution break

2006-09-21 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
shanazsoft:/home/ibrahim# apt-get install evolutionReading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... Done<--cut-->The following packages have unmet dependencies.  evolution: Depends: libdbus-1-2 (>= 0.62) but it is not installableE: Broken packagesinteresting thin is. i my debian, libdbus-1

Re: Diskless Debian

2006-09-21 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 21 September 2006 19:26, Frank Hart wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:13:08AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > > Alternatively you can use some of the small comms boards that are around > > these days. There are the WRAP boards from pcengines.ch and the > > Routerboard boards from Mi

debian forum

2006-09-21 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
today at the time of searching http://debian.org get a link http://forums.debian.net but, there number of registed user is too few " We have 7054 registered users"why debian not making a official forum for debian-user??-- S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)Home page: http://lavluda.tripod.com Blog: http://lavlud

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

2006-09-21 Thread Adrian Midgley
David Mulcahy wrote: > I understand that, (but they do provide desktop software) but if you are > running debian on a server you probably know a bit about what you are doing > and are probably prepared for a kernel compile. That set the bar high. I don't think people who run NT/2003 on a serve

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread John Kelly
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:15:58 -0400, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But debian-user is more than a mailing list. It's also gated to the >> Usenet newsgroup linux.debian.user, where anyone can post. >> Spam filtering of non subscribers, after the fact, is the only method >> possible, under

Re: (no subject)

2006-09-21 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Humphries wrote: > +-- >| On Thursday, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:51:36AM +, s. keeling wrote: >| operator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >|

closing mailing lists (was: spamcop)

2006-09-21 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 21.09.06 12:39, Stephen wrote: > It's not appropriate in my view, to allow anyone to post to debian-user, > without first subscribing. Apparently, anyone can post to debian-user, > without needing to do that step. I don't buy the argument that it's too > much of a hurdle to expect a newbie to de

Re: Diskless Debian

2006-09-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 8/5/06, Frank Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A couple of months ago, I switched from a normal PC router to a Linksys WRT54G with OpenWRT. It's a good image but the problem is space. There is barely room for an OpenVPN server and shorewall. Also, I'm somewhat worried about timely updates. One

Re: Diskless Debian

2006-09-21 Thread Frank Hart
On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 10:13:08AM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > Alternatively you can use some of the small comms boards that are around > these days. There are the WRAP boards from pcengines.ch and the Routerboard > boards from Microtik. The WRAP boards need CF, but the new RBs (the 500 and

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:01:33PM +0100 or thereabouts, John Kelly wrote: > On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:39:08 -0400, Stephen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >It's not appropriate in my view, to allow anyone to post to debian-user, > >without first subscribing. Apparently, anyone can post to debian-us

Re: Cyber Cafe Manager

2006-09-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-20 09:36:53, schrieb Ralph Katz: > ~$ apt-cache show zeiberbude > Package: zeiberbude > Description: program for administering internet cafes. (server) Its crap... I had installed it (Backport), but it lakes in to many functions... Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack

Re: Cyber Cafe Manager

2006-09-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-20 08:49:40, schrieb Sergio Cuéllar Valdés: > zbdesk and zeiberdude are only in the stable release, maybe Antonio > should test this ones too. I found the homepage of zeiberdude in > SourceForge: http://zeiberbude.sourceforge.net/. It has not been > updated since 2002 :( And missing to

Re: Cyber Cafe Manager

2006-09-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-09-19 17:56:03, schrieb Antonio Felipe: > Hello! > I'm looking for a cyber cafe manager. > I know that's too much to ask, but i need it to be free and support > clients MS Windows. Me too and it must support Linux and crappy Windows. I like a software like CyberLux version 6.0 (Client/Se

Documentary from BBC World over FOSS and Development

2006-09-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi *, for those which do not know it already and have not seen it: http://www.apdip.net/news/fossdoc with a 37 minutes film (75 MByte, unfortunatly bad quality) http://videos.apdip.net/codebreakers.ogg works perfectly under Sarge with vlc, but MPlayer and Xine are crashing License

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 08:15:29PM +0300 or thereabouts, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should see debian-www, it's much worse and it has a fraction of the > traffic of d-u This is an argument for the status quo -- Just because another list is getting more ?

Re: Repository for backports

2006-09-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:38:31PM +0200, Michele Della Marina wrote: > On 9/21/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >"Michele Della Marina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> HI guys! > >> I would like to install (in my debian stable) the newest possible > >> package hylafax. In backpo

Re: Is there any software dedicated to small to medium non-profit making organizations?

2006-09-21 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:19:06PM +0800, Hoi Tak Yau wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I am a final year computer student, and my final year project is to > build a management application for small and medium-sized non-profit > making organization. I have been searching on the web some weeks, but > I

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:19:38PM +0300 or thereabouts, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > This has been discussed pretty extensively a while ago. The conclusion > > was that d-u has pretty effective spam-filtering, the signal-to-noise > > ratio is very low. > > I

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread David Baron
I am using spamassassin and only very occasinally are messages from this list flagged! When they are, if it were a "false alarm", I set to "ham". Spamassassin works on rules it downloads, user rules and is Bayes-trained by marking emails as spam or ham. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread John Kelly
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:39:08 -0400, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >It's not appropriate in my view, to allow anyone to post to debian-user, >without first subscribing. Apparently, anyone can post to debian-user, >without needing to do that step. I don't buy the argument that it's too >much of

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu September 21 2006 09:26, Raquel wrote: > > Sorry, but I don't want to say that. I want only to remark that > > debian mailing lists are source of spam. > > Additionally I'm not happy with my current solution (whitelist), > > but right now I don't have a plan to add and additional specific

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 06:19:38PM +0300 or thereabouts, Andrei Popescu wrote: > This has been discussed pretty extensively a while ago. The conclusion > was that d-u has pretty effective spam-filtering, the signal-to-noise > ratio is very low. I understand your point, however it's annoying when

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:00:24 +0200 "Daniele P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 21 September 2006 15:23, John Kelly wrote: > > >I don't agree. I have whitelisted the debian mailing lists. > > >They are > > > the first (and the only) source of spam in my inbox. I think > > > that spamcop i

RE: sending email specifying a reply-to

2006-09-21 Thread Jerry DuVal
For those interested echo "test " | mail -s "test " -a "Reply-To: Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" [EMAIL PROTECTED] -u root >-Original Message- >From: Jerry DuVal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:07 PM >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: sending emai

Re: Problem with apt-get after enabling unstable tree

2006-09-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
Kaspar Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam and Ismael, > > Thanks a lot for your answers; I read the article > >http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html > > about apt pinning and set up my /etc/apt/preferences > according to this -- great. > > Also, I used apt-show-versions to f

Re: Parallel port access as non root user?

2006-09-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
What you did should have worked, chmod 666 /dev/lp0, it appears the program itself needs root permissions. Justin. On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Ed Young wrote: Yes, it does, but this is what I'm trying to avoid. I can run the program if I execute it as root. What I want to do is to execute the prog

RE: sending email specifying a reply-to

2006-09-21 Thread Jerry DuVal
I would be sending it using the 'mail' command. >-Original Message- >From: Andrei Popescu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:04 PM >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: sending email specifying a reply-to > >"Jerry DuVal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Parallel port access as non root user?

2006-09-21 Thread Ed Young
Yes, it does, but this is what I'm trying to avoid. I can run the program if I execute it as root. What I want to do is to execute the program as a normal user. How can I do this? How must I configure the system (/dev/lp0, /dev/parport0, /dev/port, /etc/group) to allow this program to access the pa

Re: sending email specifying a reply-to

2006-09-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Jerry DuVal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently running Sarge, with EXIM4 for email. Can I send an email from > the command line and specify the reply-to address? Depends on what you mean by command line. You could use mutt(-ng) which is one of the most powerful mailers I know of. Or th

Two Thinkpad Problems: USB and azx_get_response timeout

2006-09-21 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm trying to get my Thinkpad up and running. For the most part it's going really well. Two things have come up that I don't know what to do about. First, how do I get my USB drives sorted out? The past three or four installs I just added the following to my fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/jumpdrive

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread John Kelly
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 17:00:24 +0200, "Daniele P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I want only to remark that debian mailing lists are source of spam. >Additionally I'm not happy with my current solution (whitelist), but >right now I don't have a plan to add and additional specific filter >configurati

sending email specifying a reply-to

2006-09-21 Thread Jerry DuVal
I’m currently running Sarge, with EXIM4 for email.  Can I send an email from the command line and specify the reply-to address?   Thanks   Jerry

Re: Problem with apt-get after enabling unstable tree

2006-09-21 Thread Kaspar Fischer
Liam and Ismael, Thanks a lot for your answers; I read the article http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html about apt pinning and set up my /etc/apt/preferences according to this -- great. Also, I used apt-show-versions to find the packages from unstable: backup:/mnt# apt-get remove gc

Re: How to query mssql database?

2006-09-21 Thread Nebodi Gatreba
On 9/21/06, Mirco Piccin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: }} Is there a way to connect to and make queries on MSSQL database?I use the UnixODBC ( http://www.unixodbc.org/).In section "drivers" you can find out the working driver for the most SQL server I use the FreeTDS driver to connect to MSSQL (http:/

Re: Repository for backports

2006-09-21 Thread Michele Della Marina
On 9/21/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Michele Della Marina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI guys! > I would like to install (in my debian stable) the newest possible > package hylafax. In backports.org repository is not present. Is there > another update repository? > Thanks Ye

Re: Using wine w/ Lotus Notes

2006-09-21 Thread Dan Kegel
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, "Mirco Piccin" wrote: }}Why are you using wine to run Lotus notes? Lotus notes 7 is available for Linux... Well, Lotus Notes 7 for linuxwaw, if you have 'bout 300 MB Ram free (Websphere core!!) ... Lotus Notes 7 for Linux is not so light, and it has not Admin and Develop

Re: Repository for backports

2006-09-21 Thread Daniel Baumann
Michele Della Marina wrote: > I would like to install (in my debian stable) the newest possible > package hylafax. In backports.org repository is not present. Is there > another update repository? I'm sponsoring the hylafax upload on backports.org; however, there must have been happen something we

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Fred J.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fred J. wrote: > ... > Install k9copy from christian marillat source. k9copy is the linux > dvdshrink option. > > > I can't, first I use etch and k9copy is for sarge. second, it depends on kde > an

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
Daniele P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 21 September 2006 15:23, John Kelly wrote: > > >I don't agree. I have whitelisted the debian mailing lists. They are > > > the first (and the only) source of spam in my inbox. I think that > > > spamcop isn't entirely wrong. > > > > You are sayin

Re: Repository for backports

2006-09-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Michele Della Marina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI guys! > I would like to install (in my debian stable) the newest possible > package hylafax. In backports.org repository is not present. Is there > another update repository? > Thanks Yes, the testing and the unstable repository ;) This means

Re: Please help me installing Debian!

2006-09-21 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/09/06 10:40), Wahyu Aris Darmono wrote: > Linux operating system is really new for me. But after > collected distro comparison from various sources, I > decided to choose Debian. > > I have i386 Debian 3.1 rel. 2 Sarge DVD. I tried to > install it onto my Acer Travelmate 2303 NLCi (laptop

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Daniele P .
On Thursday 21 September 2006 15:23, John Kelly wrote: > >I don't agree. I have whitelisted the debian mailing lists. They are > > the first (and the only) source of spam in my inbox. I think that > > spamcop isn't entirely wrong. > > You are saying that thousands of individual users should each do

Re: Please help me installing Debian!

2006-09-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
Wahyu Aris Darmono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried to install 3 times (automatic installation > method by pressing ENTER only). Try typing "linux26" (without the quotes) before pressing ENTER. This will use a 2.6 kernel for install. Maybe it will work like this. HTH Andrei -- If you can't

Re: Some advice on perl: read byte to hex string

2006-09-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:07:01PM +0700, Welly Hartanto wrote: > Yeah ... Of course more digging for Pearl is absolutely what I need. > I was just so curious because the same algorithm which is "cross-worked" in > java and vc++, but not in my first perl script. The algorithm was fine. The main r

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread John Kelly
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:42:35 -0400 (EDT), Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Any spam blacklist that is not saving my time, is wasting my time. >> Good riddance to spamcop. >A better method is to use www.policyd-weight.org, Believe it or not, not everyone runs postfix. >this takes the

Re: Set Up EPSON ME 100 in Debian

2006-09-21 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/21/2006 09:07 AM, Rocky Ou wrote: Hey, I'm trying to set up my debian sid for my Dell Inspiron 2200 to use EPSON ME 100. I followed the wizard at http://localhost:631/admin. The problem is when it comes to step of Model/Driver for Epson, I could not find EPSON ME 100 in the model list. But

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, John Kelly wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:01:58 +0200, "Daniele P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When spamcop admins don't have enough sense to whitelist servers like murphy.debian.org, it's time to abandon them I don't agree. I have whitelisted the debian mailing lists.

Re: Parallel port access as non root user?

2006-09-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
The program you are running needs root permissions perhaps? chown root:root program; chmod 4755 program ; ./program Justin. On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Ed Young wrote: I'm trying to access the parallel port (/dev/lp0) from a non root process. Basically I have a program that can only access the port

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread John Kelly
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:01:58 +0200, "Daniele P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When spamcop admins don't have enough sense to whitelist servers like >> murphy.debian.org, it's time to abandon them >I don't agree. I have whitelisted the debian mailing lists. They are the >first (and the only) sou

Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

2006-09-21 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 23:52 -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > handful of uses! And make it an absolute nightmare to buy foreign movies > > while travelling internationally that will play when I get home! > > If you're talking about region code

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

2006-09-21 Thread David Mulcahy
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:04, Albert Dengg wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:22:04PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: > > Hello All > > > > Just did a sarge -> etch upgrade. > > > > Aptitude update , upgrade complained about libfam0 problems and stopped. > > > > apt-get worked. Although I hav

Set Up EPSON ME 100 in Debian

2006-09-21 Thread Rocky Ou
Hey, I'm trying to set up my debian sid for my Dell Inspiron 2200 to use EPSON ME 100. I followed the wizard at http://localhost:631/admin. The problem is when it comes to step of Model/Driver for Epson, I could not find EPSON ME 100 in the model list. But I noticed there's an input ask me to pro

mplayer encounts premission problem of directfb

2006-09-21 Thread Jeff Zhang
I can play video with mplayer -vo directfb ???.avi, but normal user can't do it and mplayer complains that permission of /dev/tty0. what's the better method to resolve it? whether it will cause security problem? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Repository for backports

2006-09-21 Thread Michele Della Marina
HI guys! I would like to install (in my debian stable) the newest possible package hylafax. In backports.org repository is not present. Is there another update repository? Thanks -- Michele Della Marina [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

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