Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

2007-11-27 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:01:30 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > For true security you'll never use computers, never use the > > telephone, never write anything down, never use banks or other > > financial institutions, and always pay

Re: Etch-compatible "PCIe X4" network card?

2007-11-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 27, 2007 1:57 PM, Jonathan Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know of a "PCIe X4" (please note the "e") NIC that works > out-of-the-box with Debian Etch? When I say out-of-the-box I mean no kernel > recompiles, no installing of additional third-party drivers. > > I really only

Re: Crontab doesn't run

2007-11-27 Thread Mailing Lists
On 11/26/07, Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I've just installed a system with Debian Etch 4.0 and the crontabs which are > edited by users will not be executed. > > The cronjobs added by the root user, "crontab -e" will are executed as > expected. Jobs added by a regular user, also usin

Re: removing kde

2007-11-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:01:09PM -0600, lostson wrote: I have install debian stable with kde and am wanting to remove kde completely and install gnome. Is this possible ? and if so how ? I have been googling trying to find a way with no luck thanks. In most cas

Re: Install Question

2007-11-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 02:33:18PM -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > If a controller manufacturer makes drivers for your OS, but the OS > doesn't have them natively, how does one install Debian on to this > controller as the boot device? Try being specific. What device, what driver. Doug. -- T

Re: Screen and GPM

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:53:10PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Michael Pobega([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:28:13PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Michael Pobega([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:

Re: no x version

2007-11-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 01:31:42AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:11:42PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:33:46AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > But what the title of mail say "no x", that is difficult. There will be > > > some X client librar

Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

2007-11-27 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:45:23PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:01:30 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > For true security you'll never use computers, never use the telephone, > > never write anything down, never use banks or other financial > > institut

cursor indicator of program loading

2007-11-27 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. On a gnome desktop, the cursor no longer indicates, via the spinning industrial wheel, the loading of a program, after pressing a desktop icon such as iceweasel (the cursor's spinning wheel does show up when the cursor is within the iceweasel window, but not when the cursor is simply agains

[OT] Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

2007-11-27 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > e) Skype seems secure, but the Germans[1] might have cracked > it and be blowing smoke in order to get Bad Guys to use > encrypted Skype, > > [1] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10477899 "Might have cracked it and be blo

Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

2007-11-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/07 12:45, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [snip] > and lots of guns and mmo, stockpile food for years, and shoot anything > that moves. You'd kill yourself within minutes. That would solve your security problems really quick! ;) - -- Ron Johnso

386 kernel (was Re: debian 3.1 - how make it to support 2G memory)

2007-11-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/07 13:24, Manon Metten wrote: [snip] > > Once I had the same problem with kernel: 2.6.18-4-486 > After I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.18-5-686 I could use 2Gb. Because the -686 kernel binary is built with this feature enabled. > I was told th

PS Editors.

2007-11-27 Thread David
Hello, I've just configured a small fax server soon to be connected to a new network, but with its own 56K modem access. Efax-gtk and Kfax seem to be the flavours that work, for receiving anyway. I'm sure for sending as well - I just have to get the format right. I installed abiword as an editor

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-27 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: > When dialing up my ISP in an interactive mode providing user name and > password I get a third prompt with the prompt message "AiiNET". So now > I get 3 prompts: "user name", "password", and "AiiNET" where before

Curious file-permissions problem

2007-11-27 Thread x_debian-user_x
Hi, I wonder if someone can throw some light on this file-permissions issue please? It came to light as rsync complained: rsync: failed to set times on "/var/www/mirror/foo/.": Operation not permitted (1) An strace revealed the failure is effectively a result of: cd /var/www/mirror/foo; touch -

Re: CD to acc

2007-11-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 27, 2007 12:37 PM, Pantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After installing gstreamer plugin what to do with sound juicer > perferences? There is no acc option still. Are you on etch (stable) or lenny/sid (testing/unstable)? If you have the newer version of sound-juicer that is in lenny and sid

Install Question

2007-11-27 Thread Joseph L. Casale
If a controller manufacturer makes drivers for your OS, but the OS doesn't have them natively, how does one install Debian on to this controller as the boot device? Thanks! jlc

Etch-compatible "PCIe X4" network card?

2007-11-27 Thread Jonathan Wilson
Does anyone know of a "PCIe X4" (please note the "e") NIC that works out-of-the-box with Debian Etch? When I say out-of-the-box I mean no kernel recompiles, no installing of additional third-party drivers. I really only need a 10/100BT card but I'm guessing no one makes such a slow card with a

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/07 07:20, Serena Cantor wrote: > Thanks for your advice! > I have tried and been disappointed by gentoo. > I have used File Runner before. It's not as intuitive as Explorer of > Windows. You might like xfe. > To me, any interface that's diff

Re: removing kde

2007-11-27 Thread David
Angus Auld wrote: --- lostson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All I have install debian stable with kde and am wanting to remove kde completely and install gnome. Is this possible ? and if so how ? I have been googling trying to find a way with no luck thanks. There are three (I think) k

Exim4 and mail problems

2007-11-27 Thread Doli
Hi, Some time ago I moved my forum to new server, unfortunately during it one problem showed up. Emails sent from forum didnt come to recipient. I wrote simple php script to test it: test.php I ran it: : php -q test.php Mail was sucesfully delivered to recipient. Now I tried to send email usin

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 05:47:19PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Serena Cantor: > > > > To me, any interface that's different from Explorer will make me > > uncomfortable. > > Then you won't like any file manager except Explorer. > > I wasted a lot of time searching for a drop-in replacement for

Re: making .deb in equivs fails

2007-11-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:14:25AM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > okay, i got the deb to make, but i am still unable to > use it to install the dependant/suggested programs, > probably my fault, missed something in setting it up, suggestions? You could start by giving more info, like how are you

Re: terminal-metapackage

2007-11-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:50:52PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > i have been looking at screen, and think that it may > work if i could find a way (an add-on script or > something) to create a tabbable menu of the open > screens to replace the use of next and windowlist > (almost a persist on w

Re: terminal-metapackage

2007-11-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:15:56PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > >> my other intrest would be to create a ncurses > >based > >> overlay for terminal that would allow multiple > >screens > >> without logging into more than one tty, though i > >am > >> not sure if one exists or not (i am also going

Re: Crontab doesn't run

2007-11-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:14:36PM +0100, Jan wrote: [cron not executing user crontabs] > Any ideas? Help will be greatly appreciated. Did you have a look at the logs? Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Desc

Re: K3b did not find a suitable writer

2007-11-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 10:53:02AM -0600, Rob Wright wrote: > Any other suggestions? Perhaps I should use a different package for burning? > > Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.22-2-amd64 Where did you get that kernel on etch? You should try a default kernel. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it

Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

2007-11-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:01:30AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > For true security you'll never use computers, never use the telephone, > never write anything down, never use banks or other financial institutions, > and always pay cash. ... and avoid using big notes and big stores and ... let's move

Re: CD to acc

2007-11-27 Thread Pantor
After installing gstreamer plugin what to do with sound juicer perferences? There is no acc option still. Kelly Clowers wrote: On Nov 27, 2007 5:49 AM, Pantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi lads, would you be able to advice what to use for converting audio CD to acc files please? I would re

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-27 Thread Paul Cartwright
Sidarth Dasari wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: [1] http://www.knujon.com/ [2] http://www.complainterator.com/ just my 2 cents raju Thanks for those links :) there is also http://www.spamcop.net/ and thanks for the links!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: nvidia card & Lenny, again

2007-11-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 15:55:25 -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri November 23 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > We need to see the error messages for the nvidia driver. What you posted > > above is the result of Xorg using the "nv" driver. > > g$ cat nvi*.log > nvidia-installer log file '/var/

Re: making .deb in equivs fails

2007-11-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:29:36PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > trying to make a dummy package in equivs, followed all > instructions and edited the resulting control file as > root. on the equivs-build step get the following > output > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/terminalphile-0.1$ sudo > equivs-bui

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 7:40 am, Paul Cartwright wrote: > Sidarth Dasari wrote: > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > >> > >> > >> [1] http://www.knujon.com/ > >> [2] http://www.complainterator.com/ > >> > > > > Thanks for those links :) > > there is also > http://www.spamcop.net/ > > and thanks f

Re: terminal-metapackage

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:30:54PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > > the biggest part of it is that it is a learning > experience for me, both to see what can be done > without the x server installed, and to work on > programing which is certainly not a strong suit for me > at the moment. nothin'

Re: terminal-metapackage

2007-11-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:50:52PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > > i have been looking at screen, and think that it may > work if i could find a way (an add-on script or > something) to create a tabbable menu of the open > screens to replace the use of next and windowlist > (almost a persist on

Re: debian 3.1 - how make it to support 2G memory

2007-11-27 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Ann Kok, On 11/27/07, ann kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes. I have 2G physical memory > but the kernel is showing 1G > > the kernel verion is 2.4.27-2-386 > Once I had the same problem with kernel: 2.6.18-4-486 After I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.18-5-686 I could use 2Gb. I was told tha

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-27 Thread Haines Brown
> > Interesting. I see the logic by looking at /dev/disk/by-id, and it > > looks simple. But I am a bit nervous about experimenting. Can you > > refer me to a HOWTO, or do I have to play around to see if I can get > > it to work? It seems this use of by-id is actually part of udev. > > It's quite

Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

2007-11-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:01:30 -0600, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > For true security you'll never use computers, never use the telephone, > never write anything down, never use banks or other financial > institutions, and always pay cash. For really really true security, you'll

Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

2007-11-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/07 08:01, John Hasler wrote: > For true security you'll never use computers, never use the telephone, > never write anything down, never use banks or other financial institutions, > and always pay cash. Until you get robbed. That's why I men

Re: debian 3.1 - how make it to support 2G memory

2007-11-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/27/07 09:04, ann kok wrote: > Yes. I have 2G physical memory > but the kernel is showing 1G > > the kernel verion is 2.4.27-2-386 > > Thank you again Have you yet followed *everyone's* advice to roll a new kernel? BTW, is there a special rea

acidrip not showing status

2007-11-27 Thread Preston Boyington
i run debian testing and noticed today that acidrip is not showing any status / progress in either the "full" or "compact" views. since it seems to work very well otherwise i am wondering if it is a permission issue or something relatively simple to fix. any help will be appreciated. -- Arrant

windows won't boot anymore after installation of debian

2007-11-27 Thread Micha Feigin
Hello, A friend of mine tried to resize his windows partition using partition magic and then proceeded to install fedora (don't know the version but with kernel 2.6.5) which complained about some problem and after the installation when grub came up it showed an unknown os and would boot it, booted

Re: Screen and GPM

2007-11-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Michael Pobega([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 08:28:13PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Michael Pobega([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > I'm trying to get GPM clicking to work from within screen; So far I've > > > been without luck. I stumbled

Re: cupsd, hplip on demand?

2007-11-27 Thread André Berger
* Kelly Clowers (2007-11-25): > On Nov 24, 2007 9:41 AM, André Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm on an Etch system with limited memory and CPU power, which I'm > > trying to optimize in terms of software. The box acts a CUPS print > > server with two queues, one raw queue and one HP PSC-111

Re: Adobe Reader 8

2007-11-27 Thread Pavel SRB
KS wrote: Hi, With Adobe Reader 8 I have noticed that when I click on a document to open it in Adobe Reader, initially the reader window shows me my desktop (icons and all) for a small instant ~ 0.5 sec. Has anyone noticed that? Is it normal? thanks, /KS hi all please, is there a way to

Re: Adobe Reader 8

2007-11-27 Thread Pavel SRB
KS wrote: Hi, With Adobe Reader 8 I have noticed that when I click on a document to open it in Adobe Reader, initially the reader window shows me my desktop (icons and all) for a small instant ~ 0.5 sec. Has anyone noticed that? Is it normal? thanks, /KS hi all please, is there a way to

Re: removing kde

2007-11-27 Thread Angus Auld
--- lostson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All > I have install debian stable with kde and am > wanting to remove kde completely > and install gnome. Is this possible ? and if so how > ? I have been googling > trying to find a way with no luck thanks. > > LostSon >>>

Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

2007-11-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: For true security you'll never use computers, never use the telephone, never write anything down, never use banks or other financial institutions, and always pay cash. Did just that. Got robbed. Took my cash. Now I have nothing. Better. Very secure. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: no x version

2007-11-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:11:42PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Nov 24, 2007 at 12:33:46AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 08:40:12PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: > > > i am wondering if anyone has found or created a > > > terminal only version of debian (similar t

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Serena Cantor: > > To me, any interface that's different from Explorer will make me > uncomfortable. Then you won't like any file manager except Explorer. I wasted a lot of time searching for a drop-in replacement for Windows Explorer as well. Get used to it, there is no clone. And once you are

Re: CD to acc

2007-11-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 27, 2007 5:49 AM, Pantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi lads, > > would you be able to advice what to use for converting audio CD to acc > files please? I would recommend sound-juicer. To use sound-juicer to make aac files you will need the gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad package from the

Re: making .deb in equivs fails

2007-11-27 Thread joseph lockhart
okay, i got the deb to make, but i am still unable to use it to install the dependant/suggested programs, probably my fault, missed something in setting it up, suggestions? jwlockhart Registered Linux User #458799 this user is penguin powered _

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-27 Thread H.S.
Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: >>> On Nov 27, 2007 1:37 AM, Sarunas Burdulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 'pdflatex ' will produce latexfile.pdf. Alternatively, use dvips (dvi->postscript) and then ps2pdf. >>> One advantage of using pdflatex, rather than dvips+ps2pdf or

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for your reply. Yes, I sometimes run into trouble by having too > many different USB drives to mount. I got the impression that > configuring udev was the answer, but I was intimidated by the coding > necessary to do it. disk/by-id is now provided

Re: [debian-users] minicom or ISP? - No urgency - answer if you have time.

2007-11-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-11-16 23:04:06, schrieb Ted Hilts: > BTW: Isn't it some form of discrimination to provide ISP services and > support for Windoz and Mac while turning a blind eye to Linux??? Definitivly > That's how my ISP behaves. I think that in Europe it is apparently law > for computer manufa

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-11-16 16:04:46, schrieb André Wendt: > Hi, > > I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and > repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. Blame the Autor of the program, since it seems not to have LFS. > $ ulimit -f > unlimited >

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-11-16 12:05:01, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > So that makes the file 2.5 GB or so. Is this an issue for ext2/3? > Isn't a DVD about 7 GB? Can't you hold the .iso for a DVD on an ext2 > filesystem? 18 GByte :-) > What is the real issue here? LFS Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michel

Re: Preview of cursors for X

2007-11-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-11-13 23:34:06, schrieb Erik Steffl: > Is there any way to preview the cursor themes for X? > > I have several cursor packages installed (e.g. chameleon-cursor-theme > comixcursors crystalcursors dmz-cursor-theme etc.) and can change from > one cursor theme to another using "sudo update-

Re: why does the shell show commands foolishly when I press UP key?

2007-11-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-11-19 14:45:35, schrieb Steve Kemp: > On Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 22:46:22 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > > while read LINE > > do > > if [ -z "$(grep "${LINE}" ~/.bash_history.tmp)" ] ; then > > echo -e "${LINE}" >>~/.bash_history.tmp > > fi > > done > >

Re: [OT] FF 3 Beta 1 + Java

2007-11-27 Thread William Cooper
On 26/11/2007, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I have no problems with FF3 Beta 1, except when I use the java plugin > that is installed for iceweasel it segfaults. > > Anybody running Java with it? > > Hugo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subje

Re: spam2

2007-11-27 Thread steef
serverfailure! hope i did not loose the thread. try again samething. s. steef wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/26/07 16:24, steef wrote: m. forget my previous message; sorry. others got too a load of spam. try to make some f

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-27 Thread Haines Brown
Dominique, Thanks for your reply. Yes, I sometimes run into trouble by having too many different USB drives to mount. I got the impression that configuring udev was the answer, but I was intimidated by the coding necessary to do it. > On my side, to be sure that a usb-device is always mounted on

Re: spam2

2007-11-27 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
Thanks a lot for your quick reply :o) cheers, yuriy On Nov 27, 2007 1:05 PM, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 27 Nov 2007, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > > Hi Anthony, > > > > You have mentioned spamprobe, or qsf - did you mean to install this > > appz on client side or on the email ser

Re: mtab SNAFU

2007-11-27 Thread Dominique Dumont
Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running a stock etch kernel. For whatever it's worth, the line in > /etc/fstab for usb-key is: > > /dev/sdd1 /media/usb-key vfat rw,user,noauto0 0 This setup is fine if you have only one usb-drive. On my side, to be sure that a usb-device

Re: debian 3.1 - how make it to support 2G memory

2007-11-27 Thread ann kok
Yes. I have 2G physical memory but the kernel is showing 1G the kernel verion is 2.4.27-2-386 Thank you again --- Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ann kok wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I want to increase the memory from 1G to 2G > > > > debian 3.1 - how make it to support 2G memory > > > >

Re: Adobe Reader 8

2007-11-27 Thread Kent West
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I prefer kpdf, which integrates better into my kde than xpdf or evince. I was surprised to discover the other day that kpdf had a right-click option to read out-loud highlighted text. Pretty cool. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Etch mysql won't start (resolved)

2007-11-27 Thread John Fleming
On Mon, November 26, 2007 1:04 am, I.E.Broadbent wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 21:35 -0500, John Fleming wrote: >> I was playing with Wordpress stuff the last few days, and got my >> databases >> mucked up. Somehow ?? now, mysql won't start at all. Can someone >> help this >> newbie figure out w

Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

2007-11-27 Thread John Hasler
For true security you'll never use computers, never use the telephone, never write anything down, never use banks or other financial institutions, and always pay cash. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

CD to acc

2007-11-27 Thread Pantor
Hi lads, would you be able to advice what to use for converting audio CD to acc files please? Thank's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spam2

2007-11-27 Thread steef
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/26/07 16:24, steef wrote: m. forget my previous message; sorry. others got too a load of spam. try to make some filters. Doesn't Tbird have a spam filter? Or you could always set up postfix or exim

publicidad- Nuevos centros comerciales...estas preparado

2007-11-27 Thread Retail en Provincias
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Re: Hardware howto - do you need a (very) little help?

2007-11-27 Thread Augustin
Hello Steven, I CC this to the debian-user mailing list, because sooner or later, I'd like to get the people there involved, for the long term benefit of the Debian (and Linux) community. On Sunday 25 November 2007 00:34, you wrote: > Well, "actively" is a stretch now. I think I stopped "act

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-27 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks for your advice! I have tried and been disappointed by gentoo. I have used File Runner before. It's not as intuitive as Explorer of Windows. To me, any interface that's different from Explorer will make me uncomfortable. --- Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been looking at F

Re: [OT] LaTeX

2007-11-27 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Marsh wrote: > On Nov 27, 2007 1:37 AM, Sarunas Burdulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 'pdflatex ' will produce latexfile.pdf. >> >> Alternatively, use dvips (dvi->postscript) and then ps2pdf. > > One advantage of using pdflatex, rather than d

Re: spam2

2007-11-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Nov 2007, Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > Hi Anthony, > > You have mentioned spamprobe, or qsf - did you mean to install this > appz on client side or on the email server ? > > thanks, > yuriy > Client-side. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gn

Re: spam2

2007-11-27 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
Hi Anthony, You have mentioned spamprobe, or qsf - did you mean to install this appz on client side or on the email server ? thanks, yuriy On Nov 27, 2007 10:07 AM, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26 Nov 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: S

Re: Could you recommend file manager that are not based on KDE and GNOME?

2007-11-27 Thread Haines Brown
I've been looking at FileManagers, and it seems there's some tendency to rely on two applications, a text-based file manager for daily use and a GUI application for special purposes. While a purist will insist on managing files from a terminal, I've never found that to be practical. For a GUI fil

vcard fields arbitrary mapping

2007-11-27 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I submitted the present matter to the opensync mailing list but no solution came from there. With some mobile phones (e.g. Nokia 6630, Nokia N73 etc.) it is possible, when composing the addressbook, to arbitrarily change the predefined labels: e.g., I can change `home phone' into `mother's home ph

Re: spam2

2007-11-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Nov 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/26/07 16:24, steef wrote: > > m. forget my previous message; sorry. others got too a > > load of spam. try to make some filters. > > Doesn't Tbird have a spam filter? > > Or you could

Re: spam2

2007-11-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/26/07 16:24, steef wrote: >> m. forget my previous message; sorry. others got too a >> load of spam. try to make some filters. > > Doesn't Tbird have a spam filter? Isn't that called Idove nowadays? ;-) Joh

Re: Adobe Reader 8

2007-11-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > IMHO, acroread is getting more and more bloated with each release. I > prefer to use evince or xpdf most of the times and only try acroread > when all else fails (which is rather rare and the converse is much more > likely)

nss asking for unknown users (from udev)

2007-11-27 Thread Miro Dietiker
Hi again I have installed a debian 4.0r1 amd64 right now. After switching nsswitch.conf to passwd: files ldap group: files ldap New things show up when booting the computer! Obviously, during boot (as long no network is available) already nss want to contact ldap service. Th

Re: removing kde

2007-11-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 26, 2007 9:43 PM, Sam Leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lostson wrote: > > Hello All > > I have install debian stable with kde and am wanting to remove kde > > completely > > and install gnome. Is this possible ? and if so how ? I have been googling > > trying to find a way with no luck t