Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Providing for the welfare of the citizens? That is, after all, > a function of government. Not around here it's not. At least not to the extent you and Paul believe it is. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-08 Thread Al Eridani
> Franco was remarkably successfully at establishing a Castilian > hegemony. Are you saying he should have tried harder? Considering that he was from Galicia, it's not exactly accurate to talk about a "Castilian hegemony". You are probably confused by the fact that some people call "Castilian" w

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > Geez, you blithely skip right over the "raise taxes to pay the > doctors, thus costing consumers even more" part? Public healthcare pays wholesale for the same product we pay retail for. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:25:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On 8 Mar, Freddy Freeloader wrote: >> >> > response to sick patients? The first is impossible as they already >> > have 100% of the market, the second already a problem they are aren't >> > respond

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > Better to lobby government to tell me what I can't do. That's a rather glib way of writing off society. That's exactly what government is designed to do: Uphold the standards of the society that created it. We like having productive and scenic land land; compact, accessabl

Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860

2007-03-08 Thread Freddy Freeloader
rhelas rhelas wrote: shut ur mouth. Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 10:09 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:23:15PM +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: Hi, since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the sata-control

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread H.S.
Arlie Stephens wrote: Well, what I got was a different kind of gobbletygook. I presume it won't cut and paste ;-) but looking at a message that should be quoting Icelandic, I'm seeing improbably characters like a capital A with a horizontal bar across it, embedded in the middle of words. (This i

Re: Procmail recipe problems

2007-03-08 Thread s. keeling
Arlie Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've got a strange problem with my procmail setup, and it's presently > affecting my handling of the debian-user list. I suspect I've made > some stupid error I just can't see. > > The goal - filter all mailing lists into their own mailboxes, > particu

Re: Secureclient for linux ? Alternative vpn client ?

2007-03-08 Thread Silent Ph03nix
On Thursday 01 February 2007, debian wrote: > Hello, > > i have a laptop with debian, kernel 2.6.19.2. > Everything works fine. > On our windoze computers, we use secureclient for VPN but how can i use > VPN on my linux client ? > Is there an alternative for secureclient ? > > thnx > Verus. > > > >

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread s. keeling
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:26:08 -0500 > Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Democracy _sucks_. It makes all problems worse and solves nothing. At > > least in a monarchy or oligarchy, the ruler has some small incentive > > to pass on a prospero

Re: Debian GUI

2007-03-08 Thread John C
Toshko wrote: Hey John, Thanks for replying to my email. I am currently not hooked up to the internet, and dont have the driver to connect my ethernet cable to my router. Does that mean that you have broadband (cable,dsl) available through a router, but not a driver on your computer to ta

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread s. keeling
Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:26:08AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > > > Democracy _sucks_. It makes all problems worse and solves nothing. > > Good thing the US isn't a Democracy. It _thinks_ it's a republic. It _is_ a mobocracy. -- Any technology

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/07 18:48, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] >> Right. Because record low unemployment, rising wages and growing >> GDP are signposts of a non-functional economy? > > We had 1% unemployment in the clinton years. It's several times that now. Se

Re: Can I compile a hugemem kernel?

2007-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/07 19:35, Andrew Perrin wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 03/08/07 15:11, Damien Ferrand wrote: >>> On 08/03/07 10:28 -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: I seem to have

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-03-08 Thread s. keeling
H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kent West wrote: > > Historically this list has been tolerant of off-topic threads, likely > > because such threads have tended to be short-lived. > > any helpful comments other than "read the manual". Those lists were so > full of arrogant self-proclaimed Linux or

Re: writing to DVD

2007-03-08 Thread M-L
On Friday 09 March 2007 11:05, andy sent this for all our perusal: >---} Hi all >---} >---} Can anyone help me to interpret and fix the following error when I try >---} to write a DVD in Etch. This approach has always served me well, until >---} now. I can't see that I am doing anything untoward, b

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Freddy Freeloader
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 13:31 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > LOL. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and even a blind > > squirrel finds a nut sometimes. One working state government hospital > > does not equal a working federal bureaucracy. An example of a bro

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:59:36PM -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Was Java in danger because Imperial Germany invaded France? > > > > Not while Sun was holding so tightly to it. ;-] > > > Sorry, wha

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:35:57AM +0100, steef wrote: >> > >> yeah. first bomb them down on false premises and lies and then tell >> them: o jeez: you cannot do it without us: you have no functioning >> economy. >> > Ummm, the premises were not false. The Brits had

Re: Can I compile a hugemem kernel?

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/07 15:11, Damien Ferrand wrote: On 08/03/07 10:28 -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: I seem to have developed a need for a single process (R) to use more than 3G of RAM. The system has 6G, and is doing virt

Re:Off-Topic Posts

2007-03-08 Thread ggarron
Yes I do also agree, with that is good to have some OT time by time, but too much is just too much. regards, Guillermo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:35:30PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:44:54AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> >> >> As long as we're controlling it, and calling it our model project, we >> >> really should be as

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:47:12PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> > The instruction by Jesus to turn the other cheek was directed at >> > individuals. Paul lays out the guidelines for government in Romans 13 >> > and in other places as w

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Curt Howland wrote: > > Democracy _sucks_. It makes all problems worse and solves > > nothing. "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Good thing the US isn't a Democracy. Representatives are democratically elected. I was referring to "democrac

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:33:43PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> > Umm, prior to WWI and WWII we had an isolationist bent. We waited for >> > the problem to get to us. Personally, I am glad that Saddam was taken >> > out before he coul

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:26:08 -0500 Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Democracy _sucks_. It makes all problems worse and solves nothing. At > least in a monarchy or oligarchy, the ruler has some small incentive > to pass on a prosperous nation to their successor. These "elected" >

Re: Ping: Curt Howland

2007-03-08 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Curt Howland wrote: > > I do not have a problem with "broken" threads, since, not only do > > I read the digest, I read the Subject line. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > So you don't mind taking a shit in the bed because you don't have > to sleep

Re: threading

2007-03-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:50:21 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > It seems that gmail does not include "In-Reply-To" references in the > > header; at least they were absent in Patrick's message. This means that > > a change in the subject line will break threading. It should not m

Re: LDAP Authentication problem

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:46:22PM +0100, Christoph Buchli wrote: > Goals: > I have an LDAP-server which works (a SUSE-Client is able to > authenticate on this server...). > The server requires SSL/TLS to connect... > My ambition is now to connect from my freshly installed Debian-Etch > client to t

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/07 18:23, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Not really. I prefer that people not be told what they can and can't do > with their property. I understand that zoning is necessary. However, > if you are so concerned about people building up the rura

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/07 08:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 03:04:21PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On 7 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Really? Then why won't every doctor in American acce

Re: Partition greater than 2 Tbyte

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:12:17AM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez skrev: > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:52:12PM +0100, Jon Ingason wrote: > >> What is the physical limit for a diskpartition in kernel 2.6? > >> > > I think the kernel has a logical limit. The physical limit is > > de

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/07 11:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 8 Mar, Freddy Freeloader wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> ... > [snip] > >> I've worked at a government run healthcare facility, albeit in the >> maintenance department, and I was in culture

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:08:17AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Public transportation is not the entire answer, but it does serve > a purpose. Many people in this area use public transit some days, and > drive some days, depending on their schedule. > You are right that I was not

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 03:47, Paul Johnson wrote: > Celejar wrote: > >> On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:36:09 -0800 >> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> [snip] >> [snip] > >> the efforts in the Balkans have been "utter failures" ? > > I'd hardly call any of

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:06:41PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Public transit was known in only a few cities, mostly the bigger and > > more densely populated. > > Like most people live in today, which is why I keep making that comparison. > Right, but those are

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/07 16:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:53:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/07/07 17:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> Umm, prior to WWI and WWII we had an isolationist bent. We waited for >> Except in the Amer

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:26:08AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: > > Democracy _sucks_. It makes all problems worse and solves nothing. Good thing the US isn't a Democracy. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Descrip

Re: Can I compile a hugemem kernel?

2007-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/07 15:11, Damien Ferrand wrote: > On 08/03/07 10:28 -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: >> I seem to have developed a need for a single process (R) to use more than >> 3G of RAM. The system has 6G, and is doing virtually nothing else. Is >> there a

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:18:40AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > Any Christian who turns his back on someone else who is greatly in need > of being protected, in any way, is not following the teachings of the > Bible. No Christian should be a namby pamby, I cannot physically defend > any

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:47:12PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > The instruction by Jesus to turn the other cheek was directed at > > individuals. Paul lays out the guidelines for government in Romans 13 > > and in other places as well. It is the responsibility of

Re: Debian and X fonts

2007-03-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/07 17:01, Matej Kosik wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/08/07 04:01, Matej Kosik wrote: >>> Friends, >>> I am using Debian GNU/Linux Sid. >>> When I start `xmms' I get >>> ** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:35:57AM +0100, steef wrote: > > > yeah. first bomb them down on false premises and lies and then tell > them: o jeez: you cannot do it without us: you have no functioning economy. > Ummm, the premises were not false. The Brits had the same intelligence and came to th

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, H.S. wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: > >H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Arlie Stephens wrote: > > > >>>I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use, > >>>notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow > > > >>Do you use mutt in xterm? If so,

writing to DVD

2007-03-08 Thread andy
Hi all Can anyone help me to interpret and fix the following error when I try to write a DVD in Etch. This approach has always served me well, until now. I can't see that I am doing anything untoward, but as they say "many eyes make shallow bugs" ... This is the output when trying to burn a

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:35:30PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:44:54AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> > >> As long as we're controlling it, and calling it our model project, we > >> really should be asking questions like "Why are we giv

Re: Procmail recipe problems

2007-03-08 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007, Arlie Stephens wrote: > On Mar 08 2007, jeffd wrote: > > > > Arlie Stephens wrote: > > > >I've got a strange problem with my procmail setup, and it's presently > > >affecting my handling of the debian-user list. I suspect I've made > > >some stupid error I just can't see. >

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:42:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > While government bureaucracies may in general be wasteful, medicare > is currently more efficient than any private plan. I'm not sure that > the "free market" guarantees the best results for products or services > which a

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 01:31:49PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Not exactly a scapegoat when he's the one in charge and responsible for the > well-being of his subordinates (staff and patients alike in this case). > More like rightly placed blame for not taking care of the problem sooner. > He

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:41:57PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Yes, because the government is a model of efficiency. Come on. The > > simplest stratedy is to not tax people so much and let them figure it > > out for themselves. > > Fail. That leaves about 7% of

Re: Random sd* devices numbering

2007-03-08 Thread Bob McGowan
Marco De Vitis wrote: On 08/03/2007 19:40, Joe Hart wrote: Sounds to me like a call for udev. Naming the disks by UUID should udev? You opened up a new world to me. Thanks! /me reading udev docs all night long... Hmm, I thought the LABEL/UUID mounting feature was part of udev?? In any ca

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:25:38PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 8 Mar, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > response to sick patients? The first is impossible as they already > > have 100% of the market, the second already a problem they are aren't > > responding to now. > > > > I've he

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:34:25PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > So what benefit does spending almost half the budget on military and the > rest on corporate welfare bring us? > You mean more like 17% [0] of the budget on military? However, I do agree that corporate welfare is wrong and should

Re: ndiswrapper problem (solved)

2007-03-08 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I noticed there was an upgrade to the ndiswrapper source code and tools so installed them and m-a'ed a new ndiswrapper module into the kernel. Voila, problem solved. So, to whoever the developer is that is responsible for maintaining ndiswrapper, Thank you. On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 12:47 -0800,

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:59:36PM -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Was Java in danger because Imperial Germany invaded France? > > Not while Sun was holding so tightly to it. ;-] > Sorry, what does Japan have to do with this :-) Regards, -Roberto --

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 09:14:53AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Actually, our invasion of Iraq is much more likely to lead to a > broader war in the Mideast than Saddam was. > I have a real hard time believing that. The First Gulf War also proves your statement cannot possibly be tru

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 11:33:43PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Umm, prior to WWI and WWII we had an isolationist bent. We waited for > > the problem to get to us. Personally, I am glad that Saddam was taken > > out before he could do something foolish and plunge

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread H.S.
Thomas Dickey wrote: H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Arlie Stephens wrote: I've got the same basic problem with just about every tool I use, notably my email client mutt. Other versions of linux have somehow Do you use mutt in xterm? If so, it will be very difficult to get this right. Try

Re: Debian and X fonts

2007-03-08 Thread Matej Kosik
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/08/07 04:01, Matej Kosik wrote: >> Friends, > >> I am using Debian GNU/Linux Sid. > >> When I start `xmms' I get > >> ** WARNING **: Failed to open font: "-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-*-*-10-*". > >> Similarly, when I start `gv' I get > >> Warning: Cannot conver

Re: Procmail recipe problems

2007-03-08 Thread Ishwar Rattan
On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Arlie Stephens wrote: On Mar 08 2007, jeffd wrote: Arlie Stephens wrote: I've got a strange problem with my procmail setup, and it's presently affecting my handling of the debian-user list. I suspect I've made some stupid error I just can't see. The goal - filter all

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:53:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/07/07 17:11, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> > > Umm, prior to WWI and WWII we had an isolationist bent. We waited for > > Except in the Americas (Monroe Doctrine, Haiti, Banana Wars) and the > Philippines, which some wanted to m

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:25:09PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > California privatized their electric system and completely raped all it's > neighbor states with higher electric costs when they decided they weren't > going to pay for electric at all on the much higher privatized prices. > Calif

Re: Ping: Curt Howland

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Curt Howland wrote: > I do not have a problem with "broken" threads, since, not only do I > read the digest, I read the Subject line. So you don't mind taking a shit in the bed because you don't have to sleep in it. Classy, Curt. Real classy. > While you're looking for scapegoats, why not bla

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > LOL. Even a broken clock is right twice a day, and even a blind > squirrel finds a nut sometimes. One working state government hospital > does not equal a working federal bureaucracy. An example of a broken > federal health care system is a much more relevant example

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Iguess you'll have show me how the government is efficient at anything. Transportation. Try driving someplace that has a privatized road system like Australia and tell me privatization is a good idea. > Ever dealt with Workman's Comp? Another instance of a government

Re: Random sd* devices numbering

2007-03-08 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 08/03/2007 19:40, Joe Hart wrote: Sounds to me like a call for udev. Naming the disks by UUID should udev? You opened up a new world to me. Thanks! /me reading udev docs all night long... -- Ciao, Marco. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

miscellaneous issues in KMail

2007-03-08 Thread andy
Hey gang I have a few problems that are confusing and frustrating me, using Etch, in KMail: 1. I press the enter key and after a noticeable delay the text scrolls down. If the return key is pressed repeatedly, I can sit back and relax while watching the cursor move from one row to another. Loo

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 13:10:13 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: [...] > And let me guess - there's no way to automatically determine what > encoding a given message may contain, and the mutt mail client > probably cannot switch encodings on the fly. The charset should be given in the header of th

Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860

2007-03-08 Thread David A. Parker
Greg Madden wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:23:15 +0100 Ben Humpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the sata-controller used in DELL PowerEdge 850 and 860 Servers. i started with 31r0a and c

Re: Debian Installer on DELL PowerEdge 850/860

2007-03-08 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:23:15 +0100 Ben Humpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > since im using Debian, the installer is not able to find the > sata-controller used in DELL PowerEdge 850 and 860 Servers. i started > with 31r0a and currently tried

Re: Zorp Can't Open policy.boot

2007-03-08 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 00:24 +0100, Matt Miller wrote: > Under etch I can't seem to get zorp instances to start. I see the > following in syslog: > > Error opening policy.boot file; file='${prefix}/share/zorp/policy.boot' Looks like you hit an RC bug, see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c

Re: DL140 G3 with stable

2007-03-08 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 17:12 +0100, Arty Weissman wrote: > My Google-skills failed me when I tried to figure out how to produce a > custom installer. Or actually, the standard installer using a brand > spanking new kernel which will support the SATA-controller used on the > DL140's. There are inst

Re: advice on packaging phpxref

2007-03-08 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 10:54 +, Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote: > on http://phpxref.sourceforge.net/ there is a software that I would need: > A php cross referencer. > A bit like this: http://lxr.linux.no/source/drivers/fc4/fc.c?a=x86_64 > (for those who dont know), but for PHP _files_. >

Re: Can I compile a hugemem kernel?

2007-03-08 Thread Damien Ferrand
On 08/03/07 10:28 -0500, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I seem to have developed a need for a single process (R) to use more than > 3G of RAM. The system has 6G, and is doing virtually nothing else. Is > there a way to compile 2.6.18 or higher with the so-called hugemem patch > under debian? It looks l

Re: Ping: Curt Howland

2007-03-08 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 March 2007 12:57, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Yes, which is why Curt Howland has no excuse for his continued > inconsideration by breaking threads.  He is failing to make use of > fetchyahoo and procmail, delibe

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > 3. Make sure the relevant language fonts are installed. > > It looks like this is the problem. Not the fonts but the locales - the > only locales I have are 'C' and 'POSIX', at least on the system I use > most frequently. > > Interestingly, another sar

ndiswrapper problem

2007-03-08 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I have a problem with ndiswrapper on Sid. I have a built-in broadcom wireless chip in my laptop. I've been using ndiswrapper with it and it's worked fine. I also have a netgear wg11t usb wireless dongle. I have used it before in combination with ndiswrapper and the broadcom chip without probl

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread Arlie Stephens
On Mar 08 2007, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for the detailed suggestions and explanation. I can't test this > immediately, but from what I can check, I think it's going to work. Well, I'm now at home, trying this, and it didn't quite work - the bottom line being that not all the mes

Re: Ping: Curt Howland

2007-03-08 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Wednesday 07 March 2007 04:06, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was > heard to say: > > Please fix your MUA so that you stop creating a new thread every > > time you hit reply.  You're breaking threading and destroying > > thread context. On 07.03.07 08:35, Curt Howland wrote: > I get the di

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 11:21:56AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I always find that I need a folder *after* I've fired up my MUA, so I > > just use it to make my folders. In mutt > > > > s=/ > > If you want maildir folder, then you should

Re: Worse then useless replies

2007-03-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:40 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:47:52AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > > pinniped wrote: > > > > > > > >huh? > > > > > > > >I really don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've > > > >b

Re: open source friendly streaming audio

2007-03-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I'm asking here is, what open source friendly streaming audio > > protocols are the best one's out there and why? I would like to > > give this guy an intelligent answer. > > > > A little judicious wikipedia reading suggests for truly f

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I always find that I need a folder *after* I've fired up my MUA, so I > just use it to make my folders. In mutt > > s=/ If you want maildir folder, then you should probably set mbox_type=Maildir, otherwise I think it defaults to mbox -- John L

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arlie Stephens) writes: > Etch _claimed_ to default to UTF-8 - not my preference, but any > consistent and working setup is better than nothing - and I need to > check whether _that_ encoding actually works. (How can I find some > text that's definitely encoded in that format?)

Re: [OT] aargh.. the big swirl of offtopicness sucks me in, too. help!

2007-03-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:04:21 -0600 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:37:58 -0600 > > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Liam O'Toole wrote: > >> > >>>There is nothing OT about my contributions. This started as a > >>>questio

RE: open source friendly streaming audio

2007-03-08 Thread Gary Koskenmaki
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 20:35 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: > > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:31:51 -0800 > > > > On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 20:12 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: > > > > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:15:36 -0800 > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > Believe it or not I actually have an on topic discussi

Re: Worse then useless replies

2007-03-08 Thread Freddy Freeloader
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:40 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:47:52AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > pinniped wrote: > > > > > >huh? > > > > > >I really don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've been > > >leaving the subject blank lately because people bitch abo

RE: open source friendly streaming audio

2007-03-08 Thread Gary Koskenmaki
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 20:12 +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: > > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 10:15:36 -0800 > > > > Hi all, > > > > Believe it or not I actually have an on topic discussion I'd like to > > start ;) > > > > I contacted one of the Spokane, WA radio stations because I could > not > > listen

Re: open source friendly streaming audio

2007-03-08 Thread Gary Koskenmaki
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 11:11 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:15:36AM -0800, Gary Koskenmaki wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Believe it or not I actually have an on topic discussion I'd like to > > start ;) > > > > I contacted one of the Spokane, WA radio stations be

Re: Worse then useless replies

2007-03-08 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:47:52AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > pinniped wrote: > > > >huh? > > > >I really don't know what the hell you're talking about. I've been > >leaving the subject blank lately because people bitch about it for no > >apparent reason. But if you really don't want the

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-03-08 Thread Freddy Freeloader
On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 14:03 -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > Historically this list has been tolerant of off-topic threads, likely > > because such threads have tended to be short-lived. > > > > However, the off-topic posters (and I have been guilty myself) seem to > >

Re: open source friendly streaming audio

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 08:15:28PM +0100, Ben Humpert wrote: > > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:11:12 -0800> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:15:36AM > > -0800, Gary Koskenmaki wrote:> > Hi all,> > > > Believe it or not I > > actually have an on topic discussion I'd like to> > start ;)> > > > I > > cont

Re: Question about using anacron with cron

2007-03-08 Thread Cédric Lucantis
> > I have a question about cron and anancron. > > > > After reading the man page for both cron/crontab and anacron/ > > anacrontab, it's not clear to me how to configure for the following: > > > > --jobs to run currently live in /etc/crontab > > --jobs need to run serially (hence the staggered st

Re: open source friendly streaming audio

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:15:36AM -0800, Gary Koskenmaki wrote: > Hi all, > > Believe it or not I actually have an on topic discussion I'd like to > start ;) > > I contacted one of the Spokane, WA radio stations because I could not > listen to their streaming audio and received a response as

Re: Off-Topic Posts

2007-03-08 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kent West wrote: > Historically this list has been tolerant of off-topic threads, likely > because such threads have tended to be short-lived. > > However, the off-topic posters (and I have been guilty myself) seem to > have taken this to mean that this list is appropriate for any and all > discu

LDAP Authentication problem

2007-03-08 Thread Christoph Buchli
Hi I really don't want to lose much words, so let's start ;) Goals: I have an LDAP-server which works (a SUSE-Client is able to authenticate on this server...). The server requires SSL/TLS to connect... My ambition is now to connect from my freshly installed Debian-Etch client to this server and

Re: Debian GUI

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Lale
Toshko wrote: Hi, I have just installed debian 3.1, and have all the 14 cds. however, i do not know which one the GUI is on, and how to load the cds from the text interface for that matter. Can you help me please? Login as user root, run "tasksel" and choose "desktop". It will tell you whi

Re: YOUR EMAIL HAVE WON ( TICKET No:20511465463-7644)

2007-03-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > Viktor Podivinsky wrote: > >> Can anybody explain me what's going on??Why am I getting notice of winning >> a million pounds without any responces on my emails?? Viktor > > Don't respond to them, it's a scam that could leave you

Re: Aptitude says all packages are broken!

2007-03-08 Thread Chris Lale
Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: In my up-to-date Testing system, Aptitude suddenly says that many packages are broken! It also says that many packages are unused and wants to remove them! Apt-get gives similar errors. I did not do anything recently; I have no idea what caused this. Kindly help. $

Re: wma player for firefox

2007-03-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonas Geiregat wrote: > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:00:29 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> echo "deb http://debian-multimedia.org/ etch main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list >> >> gpg --keyserver hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net --recv-keys 1F41B907 >>

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