Re: NetHack meets the 21st century (was Re: Email programs that work.)

2006-08-27 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 05:55:24AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andreas Rippl wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 01:50:09PM -0500, Mumia W. wrote: > >> On 08/26/2006 11:10 AM, s. keeling wrote: > >>> S

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-27 Thread Andreas Rippl
t to do e-mail > 1996 style, use Mutt. > > It's kinda like having a web-browser that doesn't do cookies > or embedded video or PNG or javascript or flash or CSS or SSL. > Uh, is this name-calling really needed? I could call a GUI mail client bloated and not configurable, you can't even use it from a console (which I am doing at the moment), but what's the point? Live and let live. But I digress. I have to get back to my nethack session (another non-GUI leftover from the 90s). All the best Andreas > Cheers > :-P > > -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: In House Incremental Backup System - bash script

2006-08-26 Thread Andreas Rippl
ouch /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.0/ # --- 8< ---- I use this script to backup my /home and / to a USB disk, but you can run it as a cronjob on the backup server to backup any computer you want. Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-26 Thread Andreas Rippl
ll them bloated because of this? So to each his own I'd say. All the best Andreas > > Just to explain what I meant, > > Mat??j > > -- > GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC > http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie]: own boot/root cd with grub : ide problem

2006-08-24 Thread Andreas Rippl
Questions/Reponses pour partager vos connaissances, vos >opinions et vos experiences. Cliquez ici. Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Minimum to start NFS client

2006-08-22 Thread Andreas Rippl
n superhighway with detritus like > this for over 15 years now. -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: using apt-listbugs

2006-04-24 Thread Andreas Rippl
&& apt-get dist-upgrade' > > Maybe it's the fact that I'm running the upgrade from a virt console? > > I'd appreciate a pointer or two. > > Thanks, > Rick Reynolds > -- > Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Andreas Rippl
testing to stable, together with a few backported packages. Ever since I do an apt-get update/upgrade from time to time and had no hiccup ever. -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-24 Thread Andreas Rippl
ich nicht deutscher.) > > > > Man hat es geraten, ohne Sie es zu sagen! > > Oh weh mir! > ;-) > You guys are hilarious...:) > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Partition image on the fly

2006-04-18 Thread Andreas Rippl
t/sda1/backup/daily.0/ The above backs up my /home and / partitions to a USB disk and rotates the last seven backups. Another big advantage is the reduced space consumption as only _changed_ files get backed up, unchanged files are just hardlinks. Would something like this be useful to you? Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: fluent like software

2006-04-17 Thread Andreas Rippl
nt to do? I found it quite capable, it is written in Fortran77, ~400 subroutines. Also, you will need to do your own pre/post-processing, though you can use GiD which you can find here 'http://gid.cimne.com/'. Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: resizing swap partition

2006-04-09 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 11:46:26AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 15:42 +0200, Andreas Rippl wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:38:55PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 18:07 -0400, Chris Roddy wrote: > > > > Ron Johnson wro

Re: resizing swap partition

2006-04-08 Thread Andreas Rippl
Ah, reading this thread I was wondering about the penalty of using a swap file. Mind you, I've always been using one anyways as they are much more flexible. Could anyone elaborate on the vanished penalty? Just curious. -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: kernels: i386 vs optimized

2006-04-06 Thread Andreas Rippl
e any sense? If yes, is there such a feature available in fvwm? Last time I watched I didn't find anything... Cheers Andreas > > -- > Marc Shapiro > > No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. > What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspec

Re: dyndns and webserver

2006-03-25 Thread Andreas Rippl
r web server directly. That leaves us with: do you have a firewall installed, and if yes, how did you configure it? Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Netlimiter liike tool

2006-03-23 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 12:32:35PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andreas Rippl wrote: > > Package: trickle > > First off it is really poor considering it needs to be run once per > application. This would require mass editing of init.d scripts. Secondly > trickle is very

Re: Netlimiter liike tool

2006-03-22 Thread Andreas Rippl
57f Description: user-space bandwidth shaper Trickle is a voluntary, cooperative bandwidth shaper. it works entirely in userland and is very easy to use. . The most simple application is to limit the bandwidth usage of programs. Now I haven't had the need to control bandwith usage, but

Re: Cannot connect to Debian Server over network

2006-03-13 Thread Andreas Rippl
d these kind of problems > will be helpful. > Thanks in advance. > Balbir Pabla > -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

netcat on windows [WAS: copying a 12GB file]

2006-03-11 Thread Andreas Rippl
ntinue where you left off is worth the overhead of > http. if you do end up using ftp, look into tftp. > > hope it helps. > > > > > regards, > > > > -- > > Lubos > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > -- > > > anoop > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Multiple PC's for one user?

2006-03-07 Thread Andreas Rippl
see this as a problem as well. Together with public key authentification - no more password typing - I see ssh as well worth it. These are naturally just my two cents... >   > Thanks,   > ---   > Scotty   > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a

Re: Built-in Network Port not detected in Debian

2006-03-06 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 12:58:50PM +0300, Salman wrote: > I am trying to install debian on my wife's computer. It already has > Windows XP installed and running on the first partition and used to have > Mandrake 10 on another partition. Both Windows XP and Mandrake 10 > recognized all hardware c

Re: Virtual Folders

2006-02-23 Thread Andreas Rippl
ern as arguments. But I guess you are looking for something graphical... -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: script execution on the machine when its boots

2006-02-21 Thread Andreas Rippl
scripts are executed in numerical order Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: sources and deb

2006-02-21 Thread Andreas Rippl
art? > (Howto..) > > > EEE > Regards > > FFF > Christophe > > You'll have text next that's not from me and I appologize for it. > > > > > > > > > ___ > Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Découvez les tarifs > excepti

Re: Backport Questions

2006-02-11 Thread Andreas Rippl
after I restart IceWM). Running 'update-menus' should do the same without the need to restart the Window Manager (at least here, under WindowMaker, it does). > > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert > Eins

Re: GNU Hurd

2006-02-04 Thread Andreas Rippl
t; love so well ? > > Joe > > I for one wouldn't mind using something like Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. The BSD kernel development approach seems to be more structured to me than the Linux one. Not that this has anything to do with the Hurd though. -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages pr

Re: Backing up Windows using rsync

2006-02-04 Thread Andreas Rippl
ou will need to get an sshd/rsyncd for Windows though. This shouldn't be impossible, but I am not knowledgeable in that quarter, so I can't comment. I can say however that my home partition (40Gb, of which ~33 used) is being backed up with 7 weekly snapshots. I usually get below 40 Gb

Re: strange disk access

2006-02-01 Thread Andreas Rippl
#x27; like apt-get install kernel-source-2.6.x module-init-tools kernel-package ('apt-cache search kernel-source' will show you which sources you have available at the moment). Then you can read up about compiling the kernel the Debian way in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.

Re: empty root history file

2006-02-01 Thread Andreas Rippl
ete this myself, is there any debian management process > that archives the history contents? > Or should I suspect something else here? > > Thanks > > Bart Hi, also try echo $HISTFILESIZE echo $HISTSIZE to see to what number the history is set. You can read more in '

Re: strange disk access

2006-01-31 Thread Andreas Rippl
to see the processes acting up. And finally there is 'atop', which records the running processes. CPU usage etc for later perusal. So you can just let it run and examine what happened later. Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Automating Dial-up

2006-01-30 Thread Andreas Rippl
; Thanks in advance, > > Tyson Varosyan > Technical Manager, Uptime Technical Solutions LLC. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.up-times.com > 206-715-TECH (8324) > > UpTime/OnTime/AnyTime > > > Hi Tyson, since it doesn't seem like anybody else has mentioned it, you

Re: i960 compiler

2006-01-30 Thread Andreas Rippl
et a working gcc tool-chain. The configure option I used was ./configure --target=i960-rtems --enable-obsolete As there is a quite a bit more to cross compiling than gcc I'd also recommend some documentation about cross-compiling. Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred

Re: gxine package removal

2006-01-24 Thread Andreas Rippl
t; gxine libsmjs1 libxaw8 > > The following packages will be upgraded: > libnspr4 libnss3 mozilla-browser mozilla-psm > > 4 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 812 not upgraded. > Need to get 11.2MB of archives. > After unpacking 519kB disk space will be freed. &

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-19 Thread Andreas Rippl
· change /etc/fstab · change /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 · change /etc/lilo.conf · run lilo · reboot Together with a NFS mounted home directory, I get machines cloned really fast. Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: create a virtual terminal?

2005-12-15 Thread Andreas Rippl
ram which doesn't see the publicity it merits. If you are interested, I can send my .screenrc configuration as an exampleenough advocacy now :) -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Tip for WLAN application

2005-12-15 Thread Andreas Rippl
get it to work. Perhaps I > should start a new thread for that question... :) > > Thanks for any input! Hi, generally you don't connect to a WLAN with a sniffer, but for finding WLANs, kismet is all you need; and it is console based too. Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages prefe

Re: converting mailbox format

2005-12-14 Thread Andreas Rippl
x and others ReadPST is an application that can take a Microsoft Outlook PST (Personal Folders) file and convert it into mbox, kmail, its own recursive format, or separate each email into its own file. . It can currently handle emails, folders and most contacts. Does a good job for me. Ht

Re: Manuscript submission: Invitation from Appl Rheol

2005-12-12 Thread Andreas Rippl
. For the first time this mail came to the list, it got past my procmail filter for some reason, so I was wondering where they got my e-mail from as I didn't realize that it was addressed to the Debian list, but know things are clearer to me... -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: which alsa package do i need to compile mplayer?

2005-12-11 Thread Andreas Rippl
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://inforezo.u-strasbg.fr/~bboett > === > > Hi Bruno, this may have changed (i.e my version of mplayer is a bit dated) but you might want to try setting "-vo sdl" as a command line option. I have made it into an alias... Hth -- Andreas

Re: USB DVD/CD burners

2005-12-09 Thread Andreas Rippl
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Re: So what's the difference ...

2005-12-09 Thread Andreas Rippl
/usr/lib/X11 is a symbolic link to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 > > bitch ~ % ls -l /usr/lib/X11 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2005-11-30 18:15 /usr/lib/X11 -> ../X11R6/lib/X11 > > PS: aplogies for my english > > Nice computer name... or is it the users name? -- Andreas Ripp

Re: Using dd to clone smaller drive to larger drive

2005-12-09 Thread Andreas Rippl
m as you like. Hth Andreas > > Should I first set up the new drive with identical partitions to the old > drive? > > If so, what can I do with the extra space? > > What will happen if dd encounters a bad block? > > Thanks, > Brian > > -- Andreas Rippl

Re: Debian and Freebsd; booloader behaviour

2005-11-20 Thread Andreas Rippl
u would install with something like 'grub-install /dev/hda' or some other partition. As far as I remember, when installing FreeBSD, you can opt for not doing any changes to the boot process. After the installation you just have to do the changes to your Linux boot manager. Hth, -- Andreas

Free news; Was: "Antispam UOL" spam from [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-11-18 Thread Andreas Rippl
t; > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hth, -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Slow server response

2005-11-18 Thread Andreas Rippl
om another machine (as root) with ping -f (flood ping) and watch the network saturation - use some tool like ethereal to analyze the packets exchanged while making a connection Cheers, -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: sytem running out of free disk space

2005-11-15 Thread Andreas Rippl
ew to linux but have > relatively little experience with debian. > > Regards, > > > -- > Realos Hi, speaking of locales, the localepurge package should help you some... Regards, -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-13 Thread Andreas Rippl
] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi John, the .Xdefaults solution is probably the preferred way to solve your problem, but for me an alias in my .bashrc like alias xterm='xterm -bg black -fg white' has always worked fine. Hth

Re: Three Doubts

2005-10-26 Thread Andreas Rippl
PGP7 for Windows/Mac I think is > there an utility to do so. > > > ___ > Your Site for Swiss Maps: http://www.swissinfo-geo.org/ > > > Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro - snow at the top of the screen

2005-10-25 Thread Andreas Rippl
btcx_risc 5064 1 bttv > videodev 9600 1 bttv > generic 4484 0 [permanent] > evdev 9600 0 > > One thing that seems to be wrong is this: "tuner 0-0060: MT2032 Fatal > Error: PLLs didn't lock.", but googling on it doesn't provide any > useful info. > > Regards, > > William Leese -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Andreas Rippl
x27;t belong there. Also, check /var/log/ for excessive log files... > Is there a way to check what processes are going on, so that perhaps I > could kill whichever one is screwing up my computer? Also, an hour ago > I entered the command "du --max-depth=1 -m/ | sort -g", and it's still > pondering this. > > Hth -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A simple MTA?

2005-10-25 Thread Andreas Rippl
or 3., it is run by /etc/ppp/ip-up on connection. For receiving I use fetchmail which is also run at connection time. It runs as a daemon, which is however configurable, after a quick look at the man page. Hth, -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Getmail question

2005-07-11 Thread Andreas Rippl
ut logging in as "mail"? How do > I go about it? > > And do I have to run pon as root? Adding your normal user to the group 'dialout' should perhaps help? > > > - Joe > > Hth, -- Andreas Rippl -- GPG messages preferred Key-ID: 0x81073379 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?

2005-01-05 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 03:43:10PM +0500, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All: > > It want to have knowledge about some Open Source > Community that is involued in developing applications and > tools to supports various fields of science like Physics, Bio, Chemistry etc. > > As Govt. Of Pakistan have

Re: modem for potato

2005-01-05 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:01:27AM +0100, Dani Belz wrote: > * John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-12-30 01:03]: > > Any external modem that connects to the computer via a serial port will > > work. > > Unfortunately not true! Bought a Creative modem some time ago. This > didn't work. There really

Re: sid dvd jigdo site

2005-01-02 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 02:19:44PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > Is there some dependable site serving sid images in DVD format ? > > I have used a site in .hu about ten days ago and now wanted to build the > updated images but it complains about a mismatch between the NEW .jigdo > and .template

Re: TV Tuner Not Working - scantv Finds No Channels

2004-12-21 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:39:14PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote: > Here is another problem that had been resolved at one time, but it has > been so long, I don't remember how it was achieved. > > I am trying to get my TV Tuner card working with either xawtv or > TVTime. The card is a bt878 type, an

Re: 2-D Drawing Programs ?

2004-12-16 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:44:22PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > I am looking for a 2-D drawing program which includes the ability to > select an object, display its dimensions and anchor point and edit these > values from the keyboard. I have tried several and tgif comes the > closest with