Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > But since most users (and probably developers) of Tbird are on Windows, > they just don't have the same ethos as old-time midrange admins, and so > I'm just thanking $DEITY that the plugin system exists. Even then there is a huge barrier to entry. I would love to write a

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-18 Thread Steve Lamb
s. keeling wrote: > Are we still waiting for killfiles in Mozilla (et al)'s nntp clients, > or did they finally get around to that? Heck if I know. I never used killfiles. Slrn + scoring was all I needed. Yeah, yeah, - is killing but it isn't confined to a single killfile. :D --

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-18 Thread Steve Lamb
François Cerbelle wrote: > Yes, there is some text... But it is acceptable because it did not alter > neither what I wrote, nor the meaning of what I wrote. It alters the contents of your message which is exactly what the post I was replying to said should not happen. Now you're providing exc

Re: [OT] less spam

2008-11-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/08 23:02, Clifford W. Hansen wrote: [snip] If only they could use all that energy and time for doing good instead, imagine how much better Debian/Linux would be if that energy was spent on bug fixes instead of sending spam... If only all the bad people would start doing good, what a

Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)

2008-11-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/08 21:03, s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] Also, it might (or might not...) be a Tbird bug that it doesn't show the UNSUBSCRIBE signature. Tbird. I see the list sig also. Silly man!!! Mozila apps have no bugs!!! -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I

Re: Unable to mount cdrom in Lenny

2008-11-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/08 23:02, Frank Miles wrote: Why can't I mount cdrom? Running Lenny with custom 2.6.26 kernel. I don't often read CDROMs, so I don't know when this failed (yes, it used to work). Putting a CD into the drive no longer causes udev to provide a /dev/hda device. Kernel modules loaded (

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/08 20:14, John Hasler wrote: s. keeling writes: What is the Debian package that offers hostid info pages? Most likely it's in a non-free GFDL document. Doesn't look like it... $ apt-cache search coreutils|grep coreutils coreutils - The GNU core utilities policycoreutils - SELinux c

Re: 32bit vs 64bit EXT3

2008-11-18 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/11/19 Stackpole, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The system started life out as a 32bit etch install. Then later I did an > upgrade to Lenny (~5 months ago) and it has been running smooth since. > > Since the drives were all formated as ext3 with a 32bit Etch install, should > I expect any pro

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-18 Thread ajm
> On 11/13/08 06:18, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple of nice editions

NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-18 Thread Dexter Filmore
I use these options to mount an NTFS partition: users,gid=fuse,umask=0002,silent,utf8,locale=de_DE.utf8 Now "silent" is supposed to suppress warnings on chmod/chown errors, each time a copy operation is completed I get "couldn't change permissions on XY" I need to copy a pretty big range of file

Unable to mount cdrom in Lenny

2008-11-18 Thread Frank Miles
Why can't I mount cdrom? Running Lenny with custom 2.6.26 kernel. I don't often read CDROMs, so I don't know when this failed (yes, it used to work). Putting a CD into the drive no longer causes udev to provide a /dev/hda device. Kernel modules loaded (lsmod) include: ide_cd_mod cdrom

Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)

2008-11-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 18 November 2008, "S.D.Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)': >On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:53:47 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. in >gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >> On Tuesday 18 November 2008, "S.D.Allen" >><[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] less spam

2008-11-18 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/19 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:02:11 +0200 > "Clifford W. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > >> If only they could use all that energy and time for doing good instead, >> imagine how much better Debian/Linux would be if that energy was spent on bug >> fix

Re: [OT] less spam

2008-11-18 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:02:11 +0200 "Clifford W. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > If only they could use all that energy and time for doing good instead, > imagine how much better Debian/Linux would be if that energy was spent on bug > fixes instead of sending spam... Can't argue with t

Re: [OT] less spam

2008-11-18 Thread Clifford W. Hansen
On Wednesday 19 November 2008 06:27:08 Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:06:36 -0500 > > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > After the shutdown of that server I get less spam. > > > Others have noted that too: > > > > http://www.wa

Re: [OT] less spam

2008-11-18 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:06:36 -0500 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > After the shutdown of that server I get less spam. > > Others have noted that too: > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111801120.

OT NOW-Tonight- Join VOIP BALUG conference online, OpenMoko Neo Phone topic

2008-11-18 Thread john_re
You might want to listen in live to the BALUG.org meeting for the next hour or so. We are working now on the first ever VOIP conference for a BALUG meeting. You can listen in two ways: 1) using a VOIP phone like Ekiga from your computer over the internet, 2) by dialing into the voip server with a

Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)

2008-11-18 Thread S.D.Allen
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:53:47 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > --nextPart1772980.aT8pGrQ5Ap > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > On Tuesday 18 November 2008, "S.D.Allen"=

Re: [OT] less spam

2008-11-18 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > After the shutdown of that server I get less spam. > Others have noted that too: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111801120.html?hpid=topnews > > Hugo yep. A more graphical version of the result can be seen at http://forum.

Re: Q: List Policy (ot)

2008-11-18 Thread s. keeling
Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:27:47AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:30:04AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > > [snip] > > > I'm not subscribed, and haven't been for years. I read the list in > > the

Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-18 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 18 November 2008, s. keeling wrote: > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Seriously, the reason I've been thinking about keeping the mail on > > the sending system is to make reference easier -- in case the mail > > server goes wrong or something. In the past it seems like things > >

Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)

2008-11-18 Thread s. keeling
Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:43:49AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 11/18/08 03:35, Ken Irving wrote: > > [snip] > >> also for some MIME forms if the last one is visible. The list software > >> does not change, mung, or otherwise mess with message bodies other t

Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)

2008-11-18 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/18/08 01:19, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Monday 17 November 2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > about 'Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)': > >> Your email, though text, is really a quoted-printable attachment. >

Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)

2008-11-18 Thread s. keeling
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm fine switching my messages to text/plain vs. multipart/signed by not=20 > signing them or using an inline signature. I'm not fine with not being=20 > able to send non-ASCII characters to the list. What? Why? It's an email mailing list. Ye

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-18 Thread green
On Tue, 2008.11.18, 323, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > On Lenny, I am not running that tool. What is overwriting my > resolv.conf and how do I keep the correct data while using static IP? Is the 'resolvconf' package installed? If so, the resolvconf(8) man page outlines how to include nameservers in

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread s. keeling
Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Tom Allison wrote: > > Richard Hartmann wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 19:04, Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> hostid - contained in the coreutils package. > >> > >> Unfortunately, this id is either read from /etc/hostid or > >> calculat

Re: GnomeSword2 Bible Program

2008-11-18 Thread green
On Tue, 2008.11.18, 323, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > If you installed gnomesord with apt-get, it should have put the KJV in > English in. The KJV package is 'sword-text-kjv'. You may want to: - Close GnomeSword - Install the sword-text-kjv package - Check for and purge other sword-text-* packages th

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread s. keeling
Richard Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 19:42, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was agreeing with you... > > Oups. Misread you there, sorry. Understanding Ron's posts is an art. It's worth figuring it out, but it can take years. Shut up, Ron. I was agre

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: > What is the Debian package that offers hostid info pages? Most likely it's in a non-free GFDL document. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-18 Thread Damon L. Chesser
First saw this on a test install of ubuntu 8.10. resolv.conf would not keep nameserver x.x.x.x data. Fixed that by nuking Ubuntu and installed Debian testing. A few days ago, I started seeing the same behavior when I reboot: no namserver data in the dynamically generated resolv.conf. I can fix

Re: sarge, aptitude, archives

2008-11-18 Thread s. keeling
jeremy bentham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Please, no {advice, orders} to upgrade to etch. Consider this a > question about aptitude/sources.list/archives. Fine. Why would you expect Sarge to work anymore? Just curious. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Re: octal dump

2008-11-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/08 18:44, mike wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/18/08 05:50, mike wrote: Girish Kulkarni wrote: Hello, I was trying to understand octal dumps today that can be obtained using od. But two questions cropped up: 1. When would an octal dump be useful? Surely not in perusing text fil

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread s. keeling
Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon Nov 17, 2008 at 18:58:15 +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > > > I am wondering if there is any sane way to get a unique ID for a system. > > That means both hardware- and Xen-based. > > > Of course, I could try to mangle all this into an ID, but that proces

Re: octal dump

2008-11-18 Thread mike
Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/18/08 05:50, mike wrote: Girish Kulkarni wrote: Hello, I was trying to understand octal dumps today that can be obtained using od. But two questions cropped up: 1. When would an octal dump be useful? Surely not in perusing text files?! And when people say they u

Re: [OT] Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/08 17:45, s. keeling wrote: Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: If you don't agree with me, you are worse than Hitler!!! You mean there are people who agree with you?!? Well, I agree with him that you ought to turn off HTML for mail to t

Re: How to send tunes to MP3 player?

2008-11-18 Thread Dennis Wicks
Michael Pobega wrote the following on 11/16/2008 05:28 PM: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 05:08:42PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Michael Pobega wrote the following on 11/16/2008 03:36 PM: On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 03:29:23PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; Is there a program on Debian/lenny that

Re: octal dump

2008-11-18 Thread s. keeling
Girish Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I was trying to understand octal dumps today that can be obtained > using od. But two questions cropped up: > > 1. When would an octal dump be useful? Surely not in perusing text Sure. ftp any text file from a Windows or Mac using binary mode. od -

Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-18 Thread s. keeling
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Seriously, the reason I've been thinking about keeping the mail on the > sending system is to make reference easier -- in case the mail server > goes wrong or something. In the past it seems like things go wrong in > bunches, so I've started to plan fo

[OT] Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-18 Thread s. keeling
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > If you don't agree with me, you are worse than Hitler!!! > > You mean there are people who agree with you?!? Well, I agree with him that you ought to turn off HTML for mail to the list. People used to get

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-18 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 09:20:13PM EST, s. keeling wrote: > Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Patrick Wiseman a écrit : > > > ... > > > > > > And why do you send message in text+HTML format to this list ? ;-) > > > > Yeah .. it took me a while to figure out how I could get mutt to display >

Re: adding a web user?

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Zach Uram wrote: > I would like one of my friends to host some files on my apache > webserver, but I only wish him the ability to upload files into the > web directory, but don't want to run an FTP server since that is very > risky. Any solution? > The way I solved this for myself is I don't ru

32bit vs 64bit EXT3

2008-11-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
Pardon me if these are basic questions, but I have only ever done clean installs of 64bit Debian before and I am having difficulty getting the answers I am looking for from Google. I have a 32bit system with a bunch of 500GB hard drives. The system is 64bit capable and so I would like to format

Re: inline pgp not working in evolution (when using base64 encoding?)

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Bob Cox wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ base64 -d email_inline_pgp_failes.txt | gpg -d > gpg: encrypted with ELG-E key, ID 5515B7F0 > gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available > > Presumably this is the sender's key - but where is the recipient's? > > Something is not quite right. But you alr

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Paul Johnson wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > >> I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this >> list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever that may be. >> >> I would gladly comply .. but I have no idea what that "PGP passphrase" >> is and how I can obtain

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:07:22AM EST, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > [..] > > >> I don't think it's a default, but if you have the line >> >> set crypt_replysign=yes >> >> in /etc/Muttrc, /etc/Muttrc.d/*, or ~/.muttrc, you'll see this >> behavior. >> > > Absolutel

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Chris Jones wrote: > I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this > list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever that may be. > > I would gladly comply .. but I have no idea what that "PGP passphrase" > is and how I can obtain it. > You are running a mail

Re: Talking with Yahoo Messenger

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Johnson
steve wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> >>> AFAIK, gaim can't do voice chat. Use Skype for voice chat. Skype works both >>> in Linux, Windows. >>> >>> >> To use Skype is to say that it's perfectly OK to grossly violate the >> GPL. Boycott Skype. >>

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Johnson
Chris Jones wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:09:38PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > [..] > > >> Lastly do NOT connect a printer to the UPS. >> > > Why? > They're unholy electricity hogs. Plus, how badly do you need to print in a power outage? What are you going to do, read hard co

SATA CD/DVD recording fails on Etch - MSI K8MM-V

2008-11-18 Thread KEBRA
Hi everybody, after trying for a couple of weeks, I decided to ask you about this. The installer recognizes perfectly (I guess) all drives and the installation works fine, no errors, everything ok. I can read perfectly any CD or DVD, but when I try to record, kaput. The records process starts ok

xft description of a font

2008-11-18 Thread Micha
I am running compiz (using fusion icon) for some unknown reason at the moment and for some reason if I run urxvt without xft fonts then occationally it stops drawing some of the text properly (messes it up) so to keep things short, I'm looking for how to describe my favorite font as a xft font I

Re: multicast arp QAUD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM

2008-11-18 Thread Grant Maxwell
Thanks Alex thats exactly what I needed. Don't know why I did not get the other posting but thanks for posting again. regards Grant On 19/11/2008, at 8:06 AM, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 07:35:45AM +1100, Grant Maxwell wrote: Can anyone point me at another group that might

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-18 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Celejar wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:11:13 -0500 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, are there any good alternatives to Gmail? I can't really afford to purchase mail space, or a web host, so I'm kinda stuck to free services. Check out lavabit.com. There's a free account option,

Re: using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-18 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:22:08AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Have you read the excellent aptitude manual (I think its in package > aptitude-doc)? Also, be sure to use the curses interface (rather than > the command-line apt-get replacement). Not yet, but I'll take a look at it, thanks.

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-18 Thread lee
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 05:17:29PM +0200, Micha wrote: [installing gpm] > but then I lose the touchpad capabilities related to synaptic such as > scrolling and tap lock to drag, no? That I don't know, I don't have a touchpad. -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 19:42, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was agreeing with you... Oups. Misread you there, sorry. Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Broken flashplayer installation.

2008-11-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:13:18 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Jack Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:02 PM > > Subject: Re: [OT] Broken flashplayer installation. > > > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:18:55 -0600 > > "Stackpole, Chris"

RE: [OT] Broken flashplayer installation.

2008-11-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Jack Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:02 PM > Subject: Re: [OT] Broken flashplayer installation. > > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:18:55 -0600 > "Stackpole, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: Jack Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent

Re: multicast arp

2008-11-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 07:35:45AM +1100, Grant Maxwell wrote: > Can anyone point me at another group that might be able to help ? > > thanks > You must have missed the earlier reply. the package you are looking for is iproute, the command ip maddr. More information google lartc you might also

Re: merge 2 vpns to one broader tunnel

2008-11-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:17:52PM +0600, Vladi Lemurov wrote: > Hello! > I have 2 vpn connections from my provider and would like to use them as > if it were 1 tunnel. These connections are not phisycal lines but PPP > vpns. The provider doesn't give the possibility to increase the > bandwid

Re: [OT] Broken flashplayer installation.

2008-11-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:18:55 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Jack Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:01 PM > > Subject: Broken flashplayer installation. > > > > > > Hi, all. > > Debian "lenny" > > Linux Speeduke 2.6.26-1-amd64

Re: Q: List Policy (ot)

2008-11-18 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:27:47AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:30:04AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] > > I'm not subscribed, and haven't been for years. I read the list in > the nntp "mail to news gateway" (cf. Usenet). Don

Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)

2008-11-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 18 November 2008, "S.D.Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)': >On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:38:36 -0600, Ron Johnson in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >> The only issue I see with it is that each line ends with a "=20" and >> t

Re: [OT] Broken flashplayer installation.

2008-11-18 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:18:55 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Jack Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:01 PM > > Subject: Broken flashplayer installation. > > > > > > Hi, all. > > Debian "lenny" > > Linux Speeduke 2.6.26-1-amd64

Re: multicast arp

2008-11-18 Thread Grant Maxwell
Can anyone point me at another group that might be able to help ? thanks On 16/11/2008, at 10:33 AM, Grant Maxwell wrote: Hi Folks This is my first posting to the list so smack me if i muck up :). I am trying to assign an multicast mac address. My environment is: (cat /proc/version) Debian

Re: problems with module-assistant and gspca

2008-11-18 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 20:32:15 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 19:40:14 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 20:48:53 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I am running etch and I have a pleomax pwc-2100 webcam by Pixart

[OT] Broken flashplayer installation.

2008-11-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Jack Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 2:01 PM > Subject: Broken flashplayer installation. > > > Hi, all. > Debian "lenny" > Linux Speeduke 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 9 14:16:53 UTC 2008 x86_64 > GNU/Linux > > > > -- I get the following errors fr

Broken flashplayer installation.

2008-11-18 Thread Jack Schneider
Hi, all. Debian "lenny" Linux Speeduke 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 9 14:16:53 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- I get the following errors from Synaptic when trying to reinstall flashplayer-mozilla. RE: E: /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs-libidn11_1.10-0.0_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite `/emu

Re: problems during debian installation

2008-11-18 Thread Kent West
raman narasimhan wrote: > i study in an engg. college student and recently our department > (computer science and engineering) decided to switch from WINDOWS to > LINUX.. A few of us formed linux awareness group and since i was > already a linux user i volunteered to help... we chose DEBIAN as our

Re: more openssh trouble?

2008-11-18 Thread en0f
markus reichelt wrote: > Hi, > > http://www.cpni.gov.uk/Docs/Vulnerability_Advisory_SSH.txt > > how does one switch from CBC mode to CTR mode? >From sshd_config(5)- Ciphers Specifies the ciphers allowed for protocol version 2. Multiple ciphers must be comma-separated.

Re: bug advice

2008-11-18 Thread Mark Allums
Earl Sullaway wrote: Not sure where this bug should be reported. New install of Lenny amd64 on HP Proliant DL360G5, onboard SAS RAID, Broadcom G-Ethernet During install, message indicated install of bnx2-06-4.0.5.fw required for ethernet adapter, installed from USB drive During boot, grub

apt-cacher-ng

2008-11-18 Thread Stackpole, Chris
Caching is perfect for those that consistently use the same packages in their builds or for those who have to update many systems and do not want to use lots of bandwidth. One package that I have been using for sometime and am a big fan of is apt-cacher. I have mentioned it to several people on thi

Re: bandwidth logger/report

2008-11-18 Thread Michael Shuler
On 11/18/2008 12:23 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:50:18 -0800 (PST) Phillipus Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any application to log bandwidth for each clients/hosts connected to debian gateway? Won't bandwidthd do what you want? I haven't tried it, but from the desc

Re: GnomeSword2 Bible Program

2008-11-18 Thread Kent West
Donny Forbes wrote: > I am trying to use this program, however it is all in Arabic. I don't > know this language or speak it. My question to you is does this support > English or other bible text? I did go to edit -> preferences -> modules > -> main and saw a drop down for Biblical Text however the

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/08 11:14, Richard Hartmann wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:02, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Debian installation I am writing this from was first installed on almost completely different hardware. The only commonality between that PC and my current box is that I brought

bug advice

2008-11-18 Thread Earl Sullaway
Not sure where this bug should be reported. New install of Lenny amd64 on HP Proliant DL360G5, onboard SAS RAID, Broadcom G-Ethernet During install, message indicated install of bnx2-06-4.0.5.fw required for ethernet adapter, installed from USB drive During boot, grub error 2 message Checked me

Re: bandwidth logger/report

2008-11-18 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:50:18 -0800 (PST) Phillipus Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi There, > > Is there any application to log bandwidth for each clients/hosts connected to > debian gateway? > I got a debian act as gateway for each hosts. > The purpose is to produce report on periodically

Re: Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-18 Thread Andres Migliazzo
You can consider these aproaches depends of the situation: 1- Synch. your system with a reliable NTP server and change the hardware clock. This is what I do in my home's system. # rdate time.mit.edu && hwclock --systohc 2- Install openntpd and run the an ntp client as a daemon. This is what I do

more openssh trouble?

2008-11-18 Thread markus reichelt
Hi, http://www.cpni.gov.uk/Docs/Vulnerability_Advisory_SSH.txt how does one switch from CBC mode to CTR mode? -- left blank, right bald pgpuJSfgo1zbm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread John Hasler
Richard writes: > I would simply do > uuidgen > /etc/hosts > if I could rely on IDs of that kind. Unfortunately, I can't :( Why not? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Memory known only 1G

2008-11-18 Thread Andres Migliazzo
Try the 686 Kernel instead of the 383.

Re: GnomeSword2 Bible Program

2008-11-18 Thread Cheryl Homiak
If you installed gnomesord with apt-get, it should have put the KJV in English in. On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Donny Forbes wrote: Hi, I am trying to use this program, however it is all in Arabic. I don't know this language or speak it. My question to you is does this support English or other bib

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:02, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Debian installation I am writing this from was first installed on almost > completely different hardware. The only commonality between that PC and my > current box is that I brought the boot disk (hda) with me. In this c

Re: problems during debian installation

2008-11-18 Thread Adrian Chapela
raman narasimhan escribió: i study in an engg. college student and recently our department (computer science and engineering) decided to switch from WINDOWS to LINUX.. A few of us formed linux awareness group and since i was already a linux user i volunteered to help... we chose DEBIAN as our

problems during debian installation

2008-11-18 Thread raman narasimhan
i study in an engg. college student and recently our department (computer science and engineering) decided to switch from WINDOWS to LINUX.. A few of us formed linux awareness group and since i was already a linux user i volunteered to help... we chose DEBIAN as our OS.. we downloaded the debian bi

GnomeSword2 Bible Program

2008-11-18 Thread Donny Forbes
Hi, I am trying to use this program, however it is all in Arabic. I don't know this language or speak it. My question to you is does this support English or other bible text? I did go to edit -> preferences -> modules -> main and saw a drop down for Biblical Text however there is no other options

Re: Installing Debian on late 2008 MacBook Pro

2008-11-18 Thread jsmurf
Hi all, (This is both an install report and a help request, so I'm cross-posting on debian-boot and debian-user.) I'm trying to install Debian on a late 2008 MacBook Pro. I had no luck with Debian Etch 4.0r5 (AMD64): the keyboard couln't be set correctly (it reacted as if the control key w

Re: Here's something interesting... (was Re: Q: List Policy)

2008-11-18 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:43:49AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/18/08 03:35, Ken Irving wrote: > [snip] >> also for some MIME forms if the last one is visible. The list software >> does not change, mung, or otherwise mess with message bodies other than > > Well it should! http://bug

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-18 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:20, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've absolutely no idea what you are trying to do here or why. I'm a little > curious about that. I want to assign all hosts a unique id that is consistent across all monitoring and accounting solutions. The existance of VMs

[OT] less spam

2008-11-18 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, After the shutdown of that server I get less spam. Others have noted that too: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111801120.html?hpid=topnews Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-18 Thread Mark Allums
Ananda Samaddar wrote: All this rubbish could have been avoided by simply using folders and not labels - but no Google had to do their own way. The cynics, me included, would argue that Google doesn't want you to delete e-mail so they can data mine it. You make up your own mind. This is tr

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Here is fact ... On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:43:53PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the Debian > mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless they requested > it. Is that correct? See http://www.debian.org/Mai

Re: mencoder crash permanently

2008-11-18 Thread Jochen Schulz
Michelle Konzack: > Am 2008-11-17 14:18:26, schrieb Michelle Konzack: >> Now I have tried >> >> ffmpeg -i 2007-08-05_Tehran.flv 2007-08-05_Tehran.mp4 >> >> But the video looks a little bit weird... Define "weird". By the way, it might help to set a bitrate and video dimensions (-b, -s). > A

Re: using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-18 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 07:24:02AM -0600, lee wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 02:39:10PM +0200, Aioanei Rares wrote: > > > > Maybe I even come to like to aptitude if I can figure it out. > > > > > > > If you can't figure it out, that doesn't mean it sucks. > > That you can figure it out doesn't

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-18 Thread Micha
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:15:15 -0600 lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 04:44:54AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > > > Not to mention, gpm config is a black art. I have no clue how to gpm > > my mouse, and haven't for years. I knew how long ago, but gpm is not > > easy these days

Re: using dselect (was: Re: debian installation help)

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:33:39AM -0600, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 07:51:30PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > The "expected" workflow in aptitude is that you pick all the changes > > you want to make, then ask aptitude to show you all the changes th

Re: How to find out monitor range?

2008-11-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars Kuppert wrote: > Hi everybody, > > i often set up debian (or debian based) systems. But with old CRT > monitors i often get problems because of wrong default values for the > monitor range. > Which command is good for finding out the range? ddcp

Compact Flash (CF) boot question

2008-11-18 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Hello, I have a fanless board by Acrosser with Geode GX CPU. The board has a CF slot that is seen as primary/secondary HDD in Bios. I've jumpered to primary as I don't have a HDD attached. The card is a CF card (hda: ELITE PRO CF CARD 4GB, ATA DISK drive). Now the problem is that the system can no

Re: mencoder crash permanently

2008-11-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/08 07:53, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-11-17 14:18:26, schrieb Michelle Konzack: Now I have tried ffmpeg -i 2007-08-05_Tehran.flv 2007-08-05_Tehran.mp4 But the video looks a little bit weird... And then I get for other videos: FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-

Re: OT: Looking for free email service with disposable email addresses

2008-11-18 Thread lee
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 06:11:13PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > Well, are there any good alternatives to Gmail? I can't really afford to > purchase mail space, or a web host, so I'm kinda stuck to free services. DynDns maybe? You can create an MX entry for your domain, and if you can forward al

Re: mencoder crash permanently

2008-11-18 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-11-17 14:18:26, schrieb Michelle Konzack: > Now I have tried > > ffmpeg -i 2007-08-05_Tehran.flv 2007-08-05_Tehran.mp4 > > But the video looks a little bit weird... And then I get for other videos: FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2004 Fabrice Bellard configuration:

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