Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-20 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Hello Steve, Thanks for your heads up on mbsync. I might try it with my GMail accounts, since I still have them on POP precisely for the reason that mutt isn't really capable of handling IMAP fine. But... Quoth Steve Lamb > ... The lack of multi-account functionality... What exactly are your iss

Re: Fw: เรามีว ิธีทำให้แอร์ที่ บ้านของท่าน กิน ไฟน้อยลงได้ 10 - 30 % ลองคลิกดูนะคะ

2008-07-25 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > - Original Message - From: "Paul Cartwright" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 4:41 AM > Subject: Re: เรามีวิธีทำให้แอร์ที่บ้านของท่าน กินไฟน้อยลงได้ 10 - 30 % > ลองคลิกดูนะคะ > > >> On Fri July 25 2008, ณัฐณรินทร์ อินทร์สุรเดช wrote:

Re: Strange /usr/bin file

2008-02-11 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Kushal Kumaran: > On Feb 11, 2008 2:52 PM, Mirco Piccin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all. > > I find in my Debian Lenny machine this file, in /usr/bin folder: > > > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34504 2008-01-29 04:03 [ > > > > Who created this file? What does it do? > > > > It's (m

Re: Multiple Java installed, how to switch?

2008-02-10 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Davide Mancusi: > Magnus Therning ha scritto: >> How do I make sure that all the java-related links in /etc/alternatives >> are sane? >> >> I installed icedtea, then purged it and installed sun-java5 and >> sun-java6. Some links in /etc/alternatives are still pointing to the >> (now non-exis

Re: Java Grey Windows/Blank Windows/Sun are stupid

2008-02-10 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:34:37PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > > > > AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit java SomeApp.class > > yeah, its annoying... A little bit... > > > > This is wrong, doesn't always work and has bad side ef

Re: Question about flac

2008-02-08 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Jochen Schulz: > Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > > > But it gave me a chance to find out about FLAC, sounds neat. > > It is! It looks as if it may become the de-facto standard for lossless > audio (well, there's Apple's lossless format, too...). I use it to > archive my CD collection and encode to oth

Java Grey Windows/Blank Windows/Sun are stupid

2008-02-07 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Hi list, let me first say that Sun are incredibly stupid. I mean really. Astoundingly stupid. Stultifingly stupid. This bug http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6429775 has been closed. Which is wrong, this bug should really be open, because it ain't fixed. I'm using a non-reparen

Re: urxvt [was Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?]

2008-02-04 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 07:31:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/03/08 11:08, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > > >> I'm finally taking the plunge from full CLI to using an X server, and in > > >> pla

[OT] Iran to attack my Browser??

2008-02-04 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Seriously, this is quite odd... take a look at the following two screenshots of Iran's ministry of foreign affair's site: http://omploader.org/vYzU3 http://omploader.org/vYzU4 Sorry to link you to some image-hosting site, but the screenshots are neccessary... as you can see, Opera displays this

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

2008-02-03 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth s. keeling: > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Can anyone suggest a good GTK+ e-mail reader/writer? I have cron getting > > my e-mail so the client doesn't even need to have POP/IMAP. > > Install gkrellm, tell its Mail builtin to call mutt in an xterm (or > whatever). mutt will

Re: How to specify a different apt archive directory

2008-02-03 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Douglas A. Tutty: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 12:42:06AM -0800, Ravi wrote: > > Normally the packages downloaded by apt are copied to /var/cache/apt/ > > archives/ . But I am low on disk space for root partition. How can I > > ask apt to download those files to another directory and use then fr

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-03 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Dotan Cohen: > As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? Teach me, > if it's a better client than I'd love to learn it. I'm not afraid of > the CLI, and I'm not afraid of VI[M]. What you're missing? Tedious fetchmail/procmail/maildrop/exim/sendmail-configuration, 200-lines

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

2008-02-03 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Michael Pobega: > I'm finally taking the plunge from full CLI to using an X server, and in > place of Mutt I've been using Evolution; But Evolution is nowhere near > as good as Mutt, with threading/speed/customizability (And to boot I > can't even use GViM as my editor!). I'd suggest you jus

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-02 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:13:56PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've only tested this procedure myself, so feel free to contribute > > additional information to the wiki page, and reply to this thread if > > you encounter any problems (cc me in this ca

Re: ksudoku segfault

2008-02-02 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Paul Cartwright: > On Sat February 2 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > > You can install kdegames-dbg and take a look at the backtrace of the crash. > how do you look at a backtrace?? http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace Aleks signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: missing /var/mail

2008-02-01 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth John Hasler: > Sven writes: > > I'd recommend to leave mails on the server, if you are using POP3, to > > ensure they aren't lost in case of a power failure. > > Because, as we all know, ISPs _never_ lose mail. How does a mathematician ensure he doesn't get blown up by a bomb on a train? H

Re: [OT] XMonad (was: sid/xinerama: how to start app on specific screen)

2008-01-30 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Tzafrir Cohen: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/xmonad > > It shows that the package has not mingrated to Lenny yet as it depends > on haskell-x11-extras. That, in turn, has an RC bug that the maintainer > won't bother fixing: > > http://bugs.debian.org/451903 Well, the bug's "resolution"

[OT] XMonad (was: sid/xinerama: how to start app on specific screen)

2008-01-30 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:49:24PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > > > > I'm running XMonad and that's all this is pretty easy, just one line in the > > config. But as this is really very specific to your WM I'm afraid the

Re: [OT] Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-29 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth William Pursell: > Another solution is to put the function and alias definitions > before the check for the interactive shell. I think that > a better solution is to define PS1 to fool the test as above, > but I don't think that is a particularly good solution either. > Probably better would

Re: sid/xinerama: how to start app on specific screen

2008-01-29 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Bruno Voigt: > Hi all, > I'm running sid with a nvidia xinerama configuration with 2 displays. > > Is it possible to modify the start icon for eg. icedove > so that this > apps starts maximized on the right display only > and with the "show on every desktop" feature enabled ? This is the bus

Re: dpkg crawling!

2008-01-29 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Zach: > 0 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 906kB/73.4MB of archives. > After unpacking 185MB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y > Get:1 http://debian.mirrors.pair.com testing/main mesademos 6.2.1-1 [807kB] > Get

Re: Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-29 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth T o n g: > On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:12:56 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > >> I'm wondering if you have read my OP or not. Read it again pls. > > > > Yes I have. Use functions. Don't use aliases. > > Despite its limitations, why one can't use aliases in scripts? > This sounds like "Don't use

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Manu Hack: > The fan is working (I can tell as it's very noisy when I'm running > programs) and it's on a wood table. Will look into the CPU throttling > stuff later. Throttling the CPU would have the same effect as your idea of throttling programs not to use all available CPU cycles - exce

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Russell L. Harris: > Is perhaps a third party intercepting my mail and discarding spam? Is > there a way for me to investigate this possibility? Or perhaps some Botnet that had your e-mail address went down? Some of them crank out several thousands of e-mails a day, if one or two went down

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Depo Catcher: > During install there is an option to install to encrypted disk which is > pretty sweet sounding. > How does that work, I'm assuming everything but /boot is encrypted? Does > it use GELI or something else? I'll go down that road soon, too. I'm still on unencrypted fs' but

Re: Troubles with Apache 2 And Subversion (Etch)

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Sergio Cuéllar Valdés: > You said you are using trac. Have you already configured your trac to > point to your svn repository ? If you are using trac, I think you dont > need what you are doing with your Apache. > > You can run Trac with its standalone server or with Apache. Try first > with

Re: Delete QT4 library

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth David S: > hce wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Due to limited root space, I am going to delete QT4 library. I am not > > sure if following library is used by any system applications or not as > > I am using Opera and Open office. Would be safe if I delete following > > package permenentaly by using p

[Solved] XServer (nvidia binary driver) crashes with segfault

2008-01-20 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
PM -0700, Jonathan Doe wrote: >> On Saturday 19 January 2008 07:41:04 am Александър Л. Димитров wrote: >> > Probably I should mention I'm using the binary nvidia drivers. Did not > try >> > it with other drivers yet, but I don't think that s

XServer taken down by Wine segfaults

2008-01-19 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Hi fokls, I just recently rolled back to Debian and I'm currently on sid. After installing wine I was quite confused to find out it doesn't work - at least with my current version of the xorg-server. I've tried both the official debian build of wine as well as a custom git-build I compiled myself

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > ext2. Never have used any other. I seriously hope that this was a joke... Aleks signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Jimmy Wu: > I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly > conflicting advice. That's because file systems are Voodoo. Everyone wants to take part in the discussion, without anyone really understanding what they're talking about. > For example, an article from >

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I like to put mine on a disk. > > Just kidding. Why? Putting your swap somewhere else is actually quite useful. If you have a one of those new solid state & conventional disk laptop hybrids (the Samsung R70 comes to my mind) then putting swap on the solid state disk m

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Thomas Damgaard: > The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the power on, > and I cannot hear the disk head moving. So I am figuring that it fails > just after GRUB or something. GRUB would actually want to read from the disk. After initial BIOS bootstrapping, the master boot s

Re: Interesting Fetchmail Foible

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth David Baron: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > > Quoth David Baron: > > > Would there be any script, option, or such to solve this problem in a > > > more elegant manner and leave things alone when the network is doing what

Re: sed -i turns link into file

2008-01-17 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Jonathan Wilson: > On Thursday 17 January 2008 10:48:41 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > I encountered something rather odd and in my eyes disturbing: if I edit > > a symlinked file with an ordinary editor (nano, kate, ...) the editor > > edits the file instead and leaves the symlink intact. >

Re: mp3 file manager similar to midnight commander

2008-01-17 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Russell L. Harris: > I am in search of a file manager similar to midnight commander, but > for use with mp3 files. I don't know what Midnight Commander is, but for managing many mp3's (and audio files in general) Easytag (it's in the repos) has proven to be an invaluable resource. Picard i

Re: bash history

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Adam Hardy: > I use alot of console windows in X as well as having shells and ssh > shells open sometimes for the same user. I notice that bash doesn't save > every command immediately and loses the history from simultaneous bash > sessions, when they are not the last session to close. > >

Re: external drive as partial mirror

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Preston Boyington: > I have been given an external drive and was wondering if there would be > a problem with my making it a partial mirror. Does the mirror require > any particular permissions or can I leave the drive Fat32? I think there are ways to mount a Fat32 with any given UID, p

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: > Александър Л. Димитров wrote: >> Having mulitple entries in grub isn't really much of a distraction. And the >> kernel images don't eat a lot of memory, too. Mine is currently 1.8 MiB, >> /lib/modules is 12 Mib, but that's only

Re: questions about log messages

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Ross Boylan: > Second, I also keep seeing stuff like this: > Jan 15 09:23:00 cotton kernel: wlan0: CTS protection disabled > (BSSID=00:45:4d:80:b6:24) > Jan 15 09:23:02 cotton kernel: wlan0: CTS protection enabled > (BSSID=00:45:4d:80:b6:24) > > I think CTS protection is clear to send protec

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Douglas A. Tutty: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:39:51PM +0100, ??. > wrote: > > No, the Kernel doesn't depend on those libraries. Evenything you need to > > boot a > > machine is in /boot and /lib/modules/`uname -r`. From then on, any > > init-process >

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Paul Cartwright: > I have a question about this, please. > I have an NVIDIA card, and after some updates I get the black screen of > death, > and I have to change my video driver to nv and restart X. > If I reboot into an older kernel, will my nvidia driver work? It never fails, > I need t

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andre: > Hi there > > I recently moved to Lenny from Etch via dist-upgrade. Now I got two > kernel options in grub available for boot. Doesn't a dist-upgrade mean > that the old kernel is quite useless with the new system (with all its > new libraries and stuff)? If so, how do I get rid off

Re: Interesting Fetchmail Foible

2008-01-15 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth David Baron: > I have been having network problems lately. Comes up for a second, then dies, > repeatedly. > > So I get the same emails, over and over again. Fetchmail can apparently get > them but not tell the provider that they have been received so delete them on > their server. Until

Re: [OT]FF beta2: not so good...

2008-01-14 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Hello Hugo, Quoth Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Hi, > > With FF beta2 my use of FF instead of Iceweasel ends. You may want to try beta3 then. > Beta2 is a major pain: it dies while trying to use backspace on the URL > bar and can't submit the crash report. Then going back to beta1 my > bookmarks toolba

Re: old-style ipw3945 module on latest kernel?

2008-01-14 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Hello Anthony, Quoth Anthony Campbell: > I know the latest kernel on sid (2.6.23-1) is supposed to use > firmware-iwlwifi because support for Intel Wireless 3945 is built into > the kernel. This doesn't work on my Thinkpad Z61M so I have to use the > older ipw-3945 modules. These don't exist for t