re: how can I see booting messages

2006-10-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
as root, dmesg | grep -i "hdd" | less should do it for you. dmesg doesn't store everything, I've had error messages speak that later were nowhere to be found after running dmesg but hdd information is preserved. If debian doesn't speak, I can't use it and you do need to have speech temporarily

Re: iRiver Clix Media Player - How To Use with Debian?

2006-10-27 Thread Carl Fink
It's controversial, but every one of my own USB-related problems seems to be that udev became the Debian standard, replacing hotplug, which worked. Udev works most of the time. There's a big difference. Right now, udev doesn't work at all. I think the Debian team wants me to upgrade my kernel b

Re: iRiver Clix Media Player - How To Use with Debian?

2006-10-27 Thread Scarletdown
On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 04:41 +, Pollywog wrote: > There is also an article about udev in the October issue of Linux Magazine > (the UK version not the US magazine of the same name). > > I happened across this today via Stumble, I believe. > http://www.debianadmin.com/rename-network-interface-

Re: iRiver Clix Media Player - How To Use with Debian?

2006-10-27 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 28 October 2006 04:10, Scarletdown wrote: > > I take it this is the link you were referring to? > http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html > > If so, it proved to be completely useless and even incomprehensible. There is also an article about udev in the October issue of Linux M

Re: iRiver Clix Media Player - How To Use with Debian?

2006-10-27 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 16:52 -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 22:16 -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > > I just bought a 2GB iRiver Clix media player as an upgrade from my old > > CD-based mp3 player. It works fine on my XP hardware testing box. > > However, I need to get it working w

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread cothrige
* Miles Bader ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> (2) a giant bloated whale, but actually seems to work pretty well for > >> light word-processing duties and reading .doc files I get in the mail > > > > Maybe you should try abiword. > > Yeah, I used to

Re: Re: GPG keys aren't available on new system [SOLVED]

2006-10-27 Thread David Nason
John: I read your reply on this question, and I am still having problems like the one Roberto raised.  On one machine, I exported the key, and the result was an .asc file.  I copied that file to the second machine and imported that file.  It shows that imported key on the list of keys, but Trusted

Re: fetchmail: SMTP error: 450 4.4.3

2006-10-27 Thread J F
>i used to use pop3browser and list the email message headers and when I >found a bad one, deleted it. This usually got fetchmail 'unwedged'. > Yeah, that works. Thanks. That is one way. I really want to turn off this reverse DNS checking and solve it forever. $ fetchmail -v ... fetchmail: SMTP

Re: dialup modem identification

2006-10-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:00:27PM -0300, David Whelan wrote: > I installed debian 2.2.20-idepci.on a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop using an > old set of floppies I successfully installed some years back on another > machine, thinking that I would update later using apt. I do not have > broadband an

Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 16:58, HXC wrote: > That is a very extensive list, thanks a lot! I especially like the > konqueror option :-). Do you happen to know a way to view the Debian > specific readme's in /usr/share/doc/? > Since all the README files are just text files without special formattin

SQL-Ledger Chart of account seems to be missing in stable package

2006-10-27 Thread John W. Foster
Like it says. I installed the SQL-Ledger package and when I try to view the chart of accounts it opens up the interface but there are no accounts listed. The tarball package comes with a bunch of accounts installed which you can use out of the box or edit. Is this different in the Debian package

dialup modem identification

2006-10-27 Thread David Whelan
I installed debian 2.2.20-idepci.on a Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop using an old set of floppies I successfully installed some years back on another machine, thinking that I would update later using apt. I do not have broadband and need to get a dialup connection working but I cannot seem to get my

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Steve Lamb
David Hart wrote: > Most of what you say kind of proves the OP's point. You mention 'hooks' > which means using programs _external_ to the email client. Er, no. Hooks in the client does not equate to requiring a full-blown MTA along with the problems that arise from it. -- Steve C

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Steve Lamb
David Hart wrote: > I have no need to read the archives as I have a threaded view of this > conversation in front of me as I write. Uh, doesn't help when it wasn't *IN* this conversation. But dozens of times over the past *5 years*. Hence, get thee to the archives. > I didn't realise that p

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Kamaraju Kusumanchi([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thursday 26 October 2006 13:02, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > apt-cache search pdf > > wajig search pdf > > both of them do the same thing and give exactly the same results. There is no > need to use them both. > I know that but he

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread Miles Bader
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> (2) a giant bloated whale, but actually seems to work pretty well for >> light word-processing duties and reading .doc files I get in the mail > > Maybe you should try abiword. Yeah, I used to use abiword back in the day, but it was always _horribl

Re: GNOME keyboard layout view bug?

2006-10-27 Thread Otto Maddox
On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 19:42:34 -0400, "José Alburquerque" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Otto Maddox wrote: > > >Can somebody please tell me which GNOME package this belongs to > > > gnome-applets Thanks. -- Otto Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users:

Re: GNOME keyboard layout view bug?

2006-10-27 Thread José Alburquerque
Otto Maddox wrote: I'm trying to configure my keyboard in GNOME 2.14.3 (Debian PowerPC testing). Selecting "Layout View" from the Keyboard Indicator applet's popup menu gives a blank window with only "Help" and "Close" buttons. No diagram of a keyboard is shown. Same sort of problem when I br

Re: libgphoto2-2 (sarge->sid)

2006-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/26/06 20:04, Gregory Bushta wrote: > Greets, > I am wondering how broken Sarge would become if I > allowed an unstable install of libgphoto2-2 to > complete. > I changed the apt sources list from stable to > unstable. Then ran apt-get update.

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:20:56PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > (2) a giant bloated whale, but actually seems to work pretty well for > > > light word-processing duties and reading .doc files I get in the mail > >

inode spike issue.

2006-10-27 Thread Anthony Tippett
When my cron.daily scripts run there is a huge spike in my open inodesand inode table size.  This also causes my system to start slowing downdramatically.Does anyone know any ideas on how to diagnosis this.  See what all the inodes are being opened for?My only thought was lsof but the open files li

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 10:20:56PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (2) a giant bloated whale, but actually seems to work pretty well for > > light word-processing duties and reading .doc files I get in the mail > > Maybe you should try abiword. Doe

Re: Upgrade problem with updating fontconfig cache

2006-10-27 Thread gabriel
Hi Pete, recently i got the same error. you have to remove the /usr/X11R6/lib line from your /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig afterwards. i think the library directory X11R6 is no longer used in recent debian systems and there are residing old librarys which don't contain that symbol. hope it wor

Broken 'KDE su' ?

2006-10-27 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, I cannot validate root password when using a 'KDE su' (meaning ie. cannot start synaptic from the KDE menu under a non-root account) However the same root password is accepted via other way, ie. 'su root' typed in a normal user console Something broken with my 'KDE su' as it was working

Re: dist-upgrade kicks out nvidia-glx

2006-10-27 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 27 October 2006 22:18, Ross Boylan wrote: > I'm thinking the best way to proceed might be to build an nvidia-kernel > package to go with the current testing kernel (2.6.17--is that the one > that will be released?). Some of the 2.6.18 linux kernel bugs make me > hesitant to install it,

flgrx-driver and libGL.so.1

2006-10-27 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, when I 'apt-get upgrade' I receive following error : ... Removing fglrx-driver ... dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to when removing `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/fglrx/diversions/libGL.so.1 by fglrx-driver' found `diversion of /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 to /usr/lib/libGL-no-dr

CUPS Error

2006-10-27 Thread Brown, Travis
I had no problem installing my Samsung ML2250 printer with Sarge. However, now I can't get it to work after I upgraded to etch. The installation script successfully completes, but when I try to add the printer, I get the following error: "CUPS_BackEnd: get-printers failed: client-error-not-fou

dist-upgrade kicks out nvidia-glx

2006-10-27 Thread Ross Boylan
I noticed when I dist-upgrade a testing system it now wants to remove nvidia-glx. In case others are wondering what's going on, here's what I think I found. And, if you have thoughts on how to proceed, I'd love to hear them. xserver-xorg-core 2:1.1.1-10 (the one that is now in testing, but not y

Re: libgphoto2-2 (sarge->sid)

2006-10-27 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:04:45PM -0700, Gregory Bushta wrote: From: Gregory Bushta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: libgphoto2-2 (sarge->sid) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on murphy.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 re

Re: Multilpe IPv6 addresses in interfaces

2006-10-27 Thread Pupeno
Can anybody confirm that this is not possible ? if so, I'll submit a feature request. On Thursday 26 October 2006 23:40, Pupeno wrote: > Hello, > I need to configure multiple IPv6 addresses on the same interface of a > Debian box. I need the configuration that would have the same effect as `ip >

Re: debian planet rss feed on firefox?

2006-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Price wrote: > can I file a bug somewhere against planet debian? anyone know? I've CC'd mako, its maintainer. The underlying software package, FWIW, is planet. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital signature

switching from mbox to maildir in mutt, exim, etc.: how?

2006-10-27 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm looking at my system backups and notice that there is some clutter form mbox files being updated almost daily. I think the clutter would be reduced by switching to maildir (true?), but I wonder about other consequences of such a switch. In particular, when I google the topic of how to switch, I

Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?

2006-10-27 Thread Bob McGowan
HXC wrote: That is a very extensive list, thanks a lot! I especially like the konqueror option :-). Do you happen to know a way to view the Debian specific readme's in /usr/share/doc/? On Friday 27 October 2006 17:05, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 05:40, HXC wrote: I a

GNOME keyboard layout view bug?

2006-10-27 Thread Otto Maddox
I'm trying to configure my keyboard in GNOME 2.14.3 (Debian PowerPC testing). Selecting "Layout View" from the Keyboard Indicator applet's popup menu gives a blank window with only "Help" and "Close" buttons. No diagram of a keyboard is shown. Same sort of problem when I browse keyboard layouts

Re: debian planet rss feed on firefox?

2006-10-27 Thread Matt Price
On 10/27/06, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matt Price wrote: > >David Welton: Passing information to Rails droppables > from draggables >urn:uuid:73683519-cc21-4c2e-90b2-5bf2955fc359 > http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2006/10/25/passing-information-to-rails-drop

Re: Can't boot after installation ==> ALERT! /dev/sda1 doest not exist. Dropping to a shell.

2006-10-27 Thread Bob McGowan
debian wrote: Hello, Thanks for the information, I tried some things and I hope I am little bit closer to the solution. This is what I have done: Rebooted with a rescue cd and changed the label of /dev/sda1 to /root "Jfs_tune -L /dev/sda1 /root" When I check my settings with jfstune: Jfs_tune

Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?

2006-10-27 Thread HXC
That is a very extensive list, thanks a lot! I especially like the konqueror option :-). Do you happen to know a way to view the Debian specific readme's in /usr/share/doc/? On Friday 27 October 2006 17:05, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Friday 27 October 2006 05:40, HXC wrote: > > I am searchi

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Scott Lair
Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > [about the penny-stock image spams] > >Yes, I get several a day myself. The actual "text" of the message is > >often actually an image, while the body of the message is randomly > >selected sentences or words from a collection which would make a > >Ba

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Mike McCarty wrote: [about the penny-stock image spams] Yes, I get several a day myself. The actual "text" of the message is often actually an image, while the body of the message is randomly selected sentences or words from a collection which would make a Bayesian filter delete most of my e-mail

Re: What kernel when etch becomes stable?

2006-10-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
John Graves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With the impending move of etch to stable, I have a question on how to > do the upgrade. I am running sarge with the 2.4.25-1-386 kernel. I > understand that etch requires the 2.6.x kernel. This would imply that I > have a kernel upgrade in my future.

Re: debian planet rss feed on firefox?

2006-10-27 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Price wrote: > >David Welton: Passing information to Rails droppables > from draggables >urn:uuid:73683519-cc21-4c2e-90b2-5bf2955fc359 > > http://journal.dedasys.com/articles/2006/10/25/passing-information-to-rails-droppables-from-draggables Planet Debian is generatin

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (2) a giant bloated whale, but actually seems to work pretty well for > light word-processing duties and reading .doc files I get in the mail Maybe you should try abiword. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it wel

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread José Alburquerque
Jochen Schulz wrote: José Alburquerque: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 10/26/06, José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * mathematics [ calculator ] Which is this? Can't find it in Debian... Sorry, I meant 'gcalctool'. I'm not sure it's a package, but

Re: The crippled resurrection of said etch.

2006-10-27 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:25:37AM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: > Hi, I haven't been following this to closely so I may be missing > something, but this message caught my eye. I'm not sure how experienced > you are, so I will try to be very explicit -- if I tell you things you > think are obvi

Re: libgphoto2-2 (sarge->sid)

2006-10-27 Thread José Alburquerque
Gregory Bushta wrote: Greets, I am wondering how broken Sarge would become if I allowed an unstable install of libgphoto2-2 to complete. I changed the apt sources list from stable to unstable. Then ran apt-get update. That took a while. Then I ran apt-get install libgphoto2-2. It spit out t

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
José Alburquerque: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> On 10/26/06, José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * mathematics [ calculator ] >> >> Which is this? Can't find it in Debian... > > Sorry, I meant 'gcalctool'. I'm not sure it's a package, but it's the > command that brings up t

Re: [Offtopic] Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 13:58, Pollywog wrote: > On Friday 27 October 2006 15:18, celejar wrote: > > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by > > > the amount of traffic an individual user uses. If a sp

Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:30:00 -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > I upgraded my debian testing system y'day and now the type on many of the > frame areas of diff' applications has been replaced by empty boxes. this is > true on the frames of the gnome-terminal windows. gimp is unuseable because

Re: micro debian

2006-10-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For ancillary computer uses (e.g. a firewall), having an install option > that focuses on a small footprint would be usefull, eg. no man pages, > no documentation, etc since that's all on the main computer. This > suggests a modified package installation

Re: I made a mistake.

2006-10-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 08:03:11 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Hans wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 20:31 schrieb Chris Walters: > > > >> > >> I will be removing myself from this group for posting such a stupid > >> thing and for making such a stupid error. > >> > >> > > > > You don`

Re: Multiple firewall profiles with shorewall

2006-10-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I use shorewall to create a local (personal) firewall on my sid > machine. I have a wireless nic which is sometimes connected to my > private wireless network which I control and can secure (with WPA or > WPA2), and sometimes to other networks which ar

upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-27 Thread tom arnall
I upgraded my debian testing system y'day and now the type on many of the frame areas of diff' applications has been replaced by empty boxes. this is true on the frames of the gnome-terminal windows. gimp is unuseable because of the problem. and my login screen has only boxes for type on it. i

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread José Alburquerque
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 10/26/06, José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * mathematics [ calculator ] Which is this? Can't find it in Debian... Sorry, I meant 'gcalctool'. I'm not sure it's a package, but it's the command that brings up the gnome calculator... -- Sincer

Re: fetchmail: SMTP error: 450 4.4.3

2006-10-27 Thread Kevin Mark
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:16:33PM -0400, J F wrote: > > My fetchmail seems wedged. > Usually this is cause by somebody faking a domain > and spamming. > Does anybody know how to flush this email or > get my fetchmail to fetch it? > > Smail is my MTA (mail transport agent). > I recall it is the

Re: how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:18:38PM +0200, B_Kloss wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 13:29 schrieb debian: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I still have problems with my new installation. > > > There is some important information (i think) displayed just after grub > > >

Re: weird BIND9 errors

2006-10-27 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 27 October 2006 14:23, Pollywog wrote: > I am seeing some weird errors in Bind9 (version 9.3.2-P1-2) that look like > this: > > Oct 27 13:16:05 lilypad named[6161]: unexpected RCODE (REFUSED) > resolving 'libglx.so/NS/IN': 209.68.0.85#53 > > Why would BIND be attempting to resolve libglx.

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 27 October 2006 11:18, celejar wrote: > > > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by > >

[Offtopic] Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 27 October 2006 15:18, celejar wrote: > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by the > > amount of traffic an individual user uses. If a spammer uses a zombie > > operation and starts sending spam

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 08:00:33AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Chris Walters writes: > > As for stopping spam, as we have recently seen, word lists are not going > > to be the answer, since spammers are now using images > > These rules are presently stopping most image spam here: > > > rawbody I

Re: Looking For A Good Representative(JOB OFFER)

2006-10-27 Thread Mike McCarty
George Borisov wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: AAHH!! Get me outta this SPAM-HOLE! To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Hope this helps :-P :-) Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Ken Irving wrote: [snip] [Ken, quoting Wikipedia] PDF is a file format instead of a programming language and for that reason it doesn't need to be interpreted. For instance, flow control commands like if and loop are removed, while graphics commands such as lineto remain. I dunno who

fetchmail: SMTP error: 450 4.4.3

2006-10-27 Thread J F
My fetchmail seems wedged. Usually this is cause by somebody faking a domain and spamming. Does anybody know how to flush this email or get my fetchmail to fetch it? Smail is my MTA (mail transport agent). I recall it is the thing that flag the spam and plugs up fetchmail. Any ideas?

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 27-okt-2006, at 12:03, George Borisov wrote: Peter Teunissen wrote: If you're looking for a way to get rid of picture spam, try the SARE rules (http://www.rulesemporium.com/) for spamassassin. I use these rulesets and get very high scores on the picture spam I get. Simply add these rules

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:17:22AM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > someone wrote: > >> > >>AFAIK: PDF is not strictly speaking a vector-graphics format. It is > >>a subset of Postscript, which is actually a programming language for > >>drawing > >>documents. It is design

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-10-27 Thread Björn Lindström
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alok G. Singh): > On 27 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Has anyone set up a repository with unofficial Firefox packages, for >> until whatever is going on is done? > > If you mean FF 2.0, it is in experimental. That's 2.0-beta2, which the add-on I'm trying refuses to in

Re: Looking For A Good Representative(JOB OFFER)

2006-10-27 Thread George Borisov
Mike McCarty wrote: > > AAHH!! > > Get me outta this SPAM-HOLE! To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Hope this helps :-P -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Hodgins Family
> > > >> Scribus is probably your best bet for actually importing a PDF in any > >> friendly way -- I think they were at least working on that, not sure if it > >> is really usable > >> > > > > Hmm... never heard of it. Looks interesting. I don't know how to make it > > read PDF, tho. >

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/26/06, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * audio editor [ ] * audio player [ xmms ] * cd-ripper [ ] * Desktop Environment [ gnome ] * DBMS [ ] * development [ g++, gdb, tla, lua, libfltk ] * disc burner [ ] * e-mail client [ gnus (in emacs), mutt ] * file manager [ ] * finance [ ] * ft

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread celejar
On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 11:18, celejar wrote: > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by the > > amount of traffic an individual user uses. If

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread celejar
On 10/26/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to pleas

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 11:18, celejar wrote: > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by the > > amount of traffic an individual user uses. If a spammer uses a zombie > > operation and starts sending spam

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-10-27 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 27 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anyone set up a repository with unofficial Firefox packages, for > until whatever is going on is done? If you mean FF 2.0, it is in experimental. -- Alok You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeannette Rankin

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread celejar
On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by the amount of traffic an individual user uses. If a spammer uses a zombie operation and starts sending spam from these zombie machines, it increases the net amount of

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Matthew Krauss
Stefan Monnier wrote: What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. You don't ask much, do you? No, indeed. Mac OS X's `preview' does it

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 07:51, Chris Walters wrote: > Unfortunately, I think the only answer to spam is a class action lawsuit > - or an International one against the people who are getting rich off > these messages. I'll bet that most legitimate Internet Service/Access > Providers would join a

Re: micro debian

2006-10-27 Thread celejar
On 10/26/06, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Douglas Tutty wrote: >Does anyone know of a project to make a micro-distribution of debian for >use on older hardware? Eg 486, 32 MB, 100 MB. One problem with >installing with Woody and upgrading is that the list of packages in Main >is so hug

Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 05:40, HXC wrote: > I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ > and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list > the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. > Anyone knows such a prog

Re: Looking For A Good Representative(JOB OFFER)

2006-10-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Fabrice Madson Inc. wrote: Greetings Sir/Madam, Fabrice Madson International Limited ,Need an International Representative AAHH!! Get me outta this SPAM-HOLE! Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34)

Re: rhythmbox missing files

2006-10-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 00:15 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > OOOPS! Me stoopid. The missing files are not the problem at all, they are > just a > red herring. > > I just moved all my files, and rhythmbox figured that all my files should be > in > their original location but were missing. So I cleare

Re: Multiple firewall profiles with shorewall

2006-10-27 Thread celejar
Oops, left off the footnote: [0] http://www.debianadmin.com/rename-network-interface-using-udev-in-linux.html Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Multiple firewall profiles with shorewall

2006-10-27 Thread celejar
On 10/26/06, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] For security on a public network (including the internet) sshd should not be listening on the public interface. As an added layer, it should also be firewalled. Both layers need to be tailored to fit. sshd can be told what interfac

Re: vncserver

2006-10-27 Thread linux china
what's mod3? I mean the Alt + b or Alt + d can't be used, I perfer these keys combination which is really very useful. On 10/27/06, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2006-10-27 16:23:20 +0800, linux china wrote: > I installed a tight vnc server 1.2.9-20 in my Debian and use real vnc

weird BIND9 errors

2006-10-27 Thread Pollywog
I am seeing some weird errors in Bind9 (version 9.3.2-P1-2) that look like this: Oct 27 13:16:05 lilypad named[6161]: unexpected RCODE (REFUSED) resolving 'libglx.so/NS/IN': 209.68.0.85#53 Why would BIND be attempting to resolve libglx.so ? Is Linux becoming that esoteric? -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/26/06, José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * mathematics [ calculator ] Which is this? Can't find it in Debian...

Re: how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-27 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 01:42:04PM +0200, debian wrote: > > Hello, > > Works fine for me now, but I was wondering... > Is there a way to use normal terminal (the monitor, keyboard of the > specific server) and also serial redirection at the same time ? > When my server restarts, I can see everyth

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread John Hasler
Chris Walters writes: > As for stopping spam, as we have recently seen, word lists are not going > to be the answer, since spammers are now using images These rules are presently stopping most image spam here: rawbody INLINE_IMAGE/src\s*=\s*["']cid:/i describe INLINE_IMAGE Inline Images sc

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-27 Thread John Hasler
Hans du Plooy wrote: > Why don't they just put it in the non-free repositry? a) It would not then be part of Debian. b) It would still be necessary for someone to maintain it while jumping through all the hoops that Mozilla requires. Any developer who wants to can do that at any time. Seth

Re: I made a mistake.

2006-10-27 Thread Kent West
Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 20:31 schrieb Chris Walters: > >> >> I will be removing myself from this group for posting such a stupid >> thing and for making such a stupid error. >> >> > > You don`t need to. We all make mistakes. :) > > Shit happens. > > Like

Re: Debian on Dell Dimension E510

2006-10-27 Thread Douglas Tutty
> >On (26/10/06 09:50), Narendhran Vijayakumar wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am trying to install Debian 3.1 on a Dell Dimension E510. I am facing > >two > >> problems > >> > >> 1.) It is not detecting the ethernet card > >> > >> 2.) It is not detecting the SATA hard-drive > >> > >> Can anyone tell m

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-26 12:56:07 +0100, David Hart wrote: > I'll be the first to admit that mutt is not ideal for reading pop > accounts but I've found it very useful for things like testing when > setting up pop/imap servers. AFAIK, POP is not a protocol to read mail (in the sense, as a real mailbox, with

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2006-10-26 19:34:49 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: >> DENY=^Subject:.*v..agra > > You may reject legitimate mail, in particular because . can replace > anything including a space (in French, "agra" is contained in > "agrand

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-25 20:05:48 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The goal is to mix mail. And yes, Mutt can't do that when dealing > > with multiple accounts (they all appear in a separate mailbox). > > Not true, mutt excels at mixing mail to the point where it is > utterly incapab

Re: how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-27 Thread Miles Fidelman
It really depends on your specific hardware and BIOS. I can do it on my server, but your mileage may vary. For this one, you really do have to read the manual, and probably search online documentation as well. Miles ebian wrote: Hello, Works fine for me now, but I was wondering... Is ther

RE: how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-27 Thread debian
Hello, Works fine for me now, but I was wondering... Is there a way to use normal terminal (the monitor, keyboard of the specific server) and also serial redirection at the same time ? When my server restarts, I can see everything on the monitor but also in my ZOC terminal session on my laptop, w

Re: vncserver

2006-10-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-27 16:23:20 +0800, linux china wrote: > I installed a tight vnc server 1.2.9-20 in my Debian and use real vnc > client to use the xterm, but I fount the key 'Alt' can't be sent back > to the vnc server, I have no idea why it doesnt work. If this key corresponds to the mod3 modifier, th

Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-10-27 Thread Björn Lindström
Has anyone set up a repository with unofficial Firefox packages, for until whatever is going on is done? (I want to try out an add-on that requires it.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-26 19:34:49 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > DENY=^Subject:.*v..agra You may reject legitimate mail, in particular because . can replace anything including a space (in French, "agra" is contained in "agrandir", which is a very common word -- I don't know about English words that contain "

RE: Can't boot after installation ==> ALERT! /dev/sda1 doest not exist. Dropping to a shell.

2006-10-27 Thread debian
Hello, Thanks for the information, I tried some things and I hope I am little bit closer to the solution. This is what I have done: Rebooted with a rescue cd and changed the label of /dev/sda1 to /root "Jfs_tune -L /dev/sda1 /root" When I check my settings with jfstune: Jfs_tune -l /dev/sda1 .

Re: I made a mistake.

2006-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/27/06 01:51, Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 20:31 schrieb Chris Walters: >> I wish to apologize to all who were subjected to a "Return Receipt" >> request on my stupid post (it really was stupid to begin with). >> >> I will be remo

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-27 Thread George Borisov
George Borisov wrote: > > * misc utilities [ ssh, rsync, dig, iptables, racoon, iproute2, > nagios, mrtg/rddtool ] Add screen and mailscanner to that as well. -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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