Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
ve to try a bit harder; Abiword seems to try to preserve as much of the formatting as possible, rather than just letting TeX deal with it. -- Benjamin A'Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Warning: attempt to remove nonexistent passive grab

2007-09-25 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
> the command line. Anyone else? Or does anyone know what it means? I googled it a while back; apparently it's due to a harmless bug/design flaw in the libraries used by Xpdf. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/bugfixes/BUGREPORTS The error is harmless, though annoyin

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
ble to once the next version is released (it has prehooks, whereas the current version only has posthooks). bzr, git, svn should all be able to manage it too. -- Benjamin A'Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-23 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
cumentation (in this case a website, but the file formats are basically the same). -- Benjamin A'Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ "To the person who ate the contents of the container labeled 'James' - warning, it was my biology experiment" - from

Re: ls sort order: new, bad, behaviour

2007-09-22 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
pd it is still active? I shouldn't think so, but it's not impossible (I can't see why it would change system settings, but it could have done). -- Benjamin A'Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ "Now, now, dear man, this is not the time to be making enemies." - Voltaire, on his deathbed, when a priest asked him to "renounce Satan" signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Up-to-date Gnome versions?

2007-09-20 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
may get some dependency problems from time to time, but nothing hard > to solve with a few 'apt-get install ...' (don't use aptitude on a > non-stable distro!) Whyever not? I've been using aptitude on various testing/unstable systems since before Sarge was released and I

Re: choice

2007-09-20 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
nt, though: http://web.archive.org/web/20050215224024/members.optusnet.com.au/benjamincarlyle/benjamin/blog/2005/02/04/#cddl http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/08/msg00023.html (and subsequent thread) -- Benjamin A'Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://subvert.org.uk/~bma/ &

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-13 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
dump '%s'; copiousoutput # or something like that. Or use the pipe function to feed it into one of those viewers, for an interactive session. I could be wrong, but I don't think that editing the contents of a message would mess up the indexing (most applications that I know of only

Re: Real problem with debian user is NOT spam, but that posts don' t get posted.

2007-09-11 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
PROTECTED] > > >> [...] > > > > > > Huh? This is the first I've heard of that address? Where is it documented? > > I've never heard of it before either, even though I've been here on and > off for years. On the other hand, I've never see

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-03 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 10:52:12AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > Kumar Appaiah wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:26:19AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: >> >>> In ./usr/sbin exim is a symlink to exim4. exim is owned by root:root >>> with 777 permissions. exim4 was owned by root:tom with

Re: exim4/fetchmail/mutt problem

2007-09-02 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:26:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I changed the /etc/apt/sources.list entries from etch to lenny and ran > apt-get update followed by apt-get dist-upgrade. All went well but I did > not accept the new exim4 configuration as in the past I had to edit the > confi

Re: How to bind keys to commands, without requiring login?

2007-08-31 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 06:04:14PM -0400, P Kapat wrote: > On 8/30/07, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to bind some keys to commands. I can do this using my window manager, > > but I want it to work even if (1) Nobody is logged in OR if (2) the screen > > is locked with a

Re: Copy ./ to subdirectory.

2007-08-29 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:16:50PM +0100, James Preece wrote: > This is probably a simple question but I can't find the answer > anywhere and my friend Google won't search for ./ and 'copy' brings up > all sorts. > > Basically, I've got a folder containing various files for a website > (for simpli

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-11 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 04:19:39PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Fri, 11 May 2007 13:26:34 +0200 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Roberto � wrote: > > > On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 11:31:20AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > >> My point is t

Re: [OT] Screen (was Affecting Inst. Change)

2007-05-09 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 01:09:11AM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-05-10, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Screen(1) is what Unix users used before x terminals and PCs were > > inexpensive enough for everyone to have one. > > > > That much I know. Why would an acknowledged user-wizar

Re: Recommend inexpensive MP3 player?

2007-04-19 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:40:17PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > Does anyone know of any good, inexpensive players with support for the > ogg audio format? I've burned all of my music to .ogg format and I'd > like to find a good music player that ISN'T Cowon America (Their > customer support is pa

Re: Logrotate and mail

2006-03-14 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
if you just want reports of important messages. bma -- Benjamin A'Lee <http://benalee.co.uk/> Technical Officer, TermiSoc <http://termisoc.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gpg keys on multiple machines

2006-03-07 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
rt-secret-keys [name] > you could probably just > gpg -o [file] --export-secret-keys [name] on one machine and then > > gpg --import [file] on the other machine... > > I haven't tried it... I just copy my ~/.gnupg directory and its contents around; nothing has broken so

Re: What IRC is the easy to set up on Debian?

2006-03-06 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
ied a few different ones and ngircd seems to be the easiest. DCC appears to be working, and I know I haven't touched any settings related to it. bma -- Benjamin A'Lee http://benalee.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: remote desktop

2005-10-26 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
Rodney Richison wrote: What method would be good to control windows machines from my linux machine. Windows remote desktop sucks. Though it's easy to setup with tsclient on my debian box. How about VNC? A VNC daemon is available for windows, and clients are available for Linux. Ben --

Re: mail protocol question.

2005-10-24 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:44 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Can someone direct me on where I can find information on what Should and > Must be included in an email message that is a Reply, Forward, > Replay-to-All type of message? > > I'm not sure what the correct RFC is for this or if there really

Re: .bash_profile and xdm/KDE on Debian etch

2005-10-19 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 13:44 -0700, Scott Denlinger wrote: > is there > something about the way xdm or KDE starts which keeps it from sourcing a > .bash_profile file? How can I configure xdm or KDE to read in these files if > they don't? .bash_profile is only sourced for login shells; when you open

Re: telnet as login shell

2005-10-15 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 08:56 -0700, Stephen Le wrote: > Is it possible to change a user's login shell to an instance of telnet > to a user-unique port? When a user logs into my server, I'd like them > to be immediately dropped into a telnet session on a specific port > running on the server and to b

Re: How to return bash from dash?

2005-10-12 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 23:30 +0700, Ali Milis wrote: > How to return bash as /bin/sh? > Why it is not in /etc/alternatives? Well, if it really isn't in /etc/alternatives/ , try as root: # rm /bin/sh # ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh Or similar. bma -- Termisoc Tech Officer:

Re: procmail & spamassassin

2005-08-29 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 14:31 -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > > > How can i tell spamassassin or procmail to check > > the > > > message only once? (then deliver to each mailbox) > > > > Have a look at the sa-exim package, which will scan > > it before it gets to > > Procmail. > > > Thank you very m

Re: Adding fonts to Gnome.....

2005-08-01 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
Redefined Horizons wrote: I've got GNOME 2 running on Debian Sarge. I'd like to add some fonts to GNOME. (Currently I've only got about 12 fonts.) What type of fonts are compatible? Truetype fonts should work (they did for me last time I tried, at least). I've never tried any others, but

Re: How can I make a kernel package that is _identical_ to those available for download?

2004-12-29 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
a .deb that is > _identical_ to that? I assume I have to use make-kpkg, and it probably > depends on the precise version of the compiler. > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-kernel.en.html I assume that works; I don't bother making a .deb package and just compile it the non-Debi

Re: Exim4 config help request

2004-12-28 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
me domain! > > Any pointers will be appreciated. > > -ishwar > > You've got the exim4-daemon-light package, which only does local deliveries. You need to remove that and install exim4-daemon-heavy, which does remote deliveries too. apt-get install exim4-daemon-heavy should w

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
supplied Iraq with weapons, when it was fighting Iran. And to the Taliban when it was fighting the USSR. How does that make the USA better than the rest of the world, exactly? -- -Benjamin A'Lee Termisoc Secretary: http://www.termisoc.org/ Home Page: http://benalee.co.uk/ Public Key:

Re: wireless pcmcia card

2004-12-26 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
what you're doing, just compile the module, tell it where to find the Windows driver, and that's about it. -- -Benjamin A'Lee Termisoc Secretary: http://www.termisoc.org/ Home Page: http://benalee.co.uk/ Public Key: BEC9DC1A "Men can't multitask, but Unix can." signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: cron.daily, howto control mailed reports

2004-12-23 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 02:22:10AM + or thereabouts, Joao Clemente wrote: > Why do I receive daily reports (in my mail system) from this particular > script being runned, but not from other also existant in /etc/cron.daily? > If you want it to run silently, you can put MAILTO="" in /etc/cront

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread Benjamin A7;Lee
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 03:48:33PM -0500 or thereabouts, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Except that those of us that do not use GNOME (WindowMaker, in my case) > Only see the apps from the Debian menu system. That is, unless I bother > to build my own entire menu heirarchy. Personally, I think it is fi