Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-11-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 10:53 am, Andrei Popescu wrote: > For someone like me who grew-up with Windows, icewm was a good choice. > I didn't want all the bloat in KDE or Gnome and, after some tweaking, > icewm has gotten pretty close to my (good or bad) habits from Windows. I use KDE or wmake

Re: laser printer recommendation for personal use?

2006-09-17 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 16 September 2006 8:56 pm, Miles Bader wrote: > Er, are there any popular choices that have _good_ print quality? > > [My only experience with printers is those at work, which tend to be > very high quality, though I assume they're pretty expensive too.] My choice, is a used laserjet

Re: AMD 64 Dual Core questions

2006-09-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 01 September 2006 2:36 am, Margiolas Christos wrote: > But if you > want the 32bit debian I suggest you to use the k7 version of kernel because > the x86 can't recognize the dual core of the cpu... Really, 686-smp doesn't see it? Athlon64's are /both/ 686 and k7's in that they support a

Re: AMD 64 Dual Core questions

2006-09-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 01 September 2006 1:43 am, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Yesterday's paper had a Fry's add for an ECS C51GM-M MB and An Athlon 64 X2 > 4200+ Dual Core CPU for $199.98. >   >  First, does anyone know anything about this board?  Will it run under linux? I dunno, I use a Asus A8N-E (nForce4 ultra

Re: how to get package list

2006-08-12 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 12 August 2006 10:34 am, Jabka Atu wrote: > H0wdy... > > i need to create a backup of my system but i don't want to copy all the > progs (i need only the package list). "dpkg -l | awk '{print $2}' > /path/to/output/dpkg-filelist" Sample output looks like : Status=Not/Installed/Conf

AMD-64 Motherboard recomendations and questions

2006-08-11 Thread Brad Sims
I am thinking of upgrading to a 939 motherboard as the price just dropped . I am thinking either Abit kn8 ultra, MSI k8n neo4, or the k8n Neo4-f. Any advice on these boards? How well supported by Debian Canned Kernels are the nforce4 and nforce4 ultra chipsets? I don't want any hassles and havi

Re: Slow Konsole GUI

2006-06-29 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 29 June 2006 8:31 am, David wrote: > Thanks for the advice Florian. Actually the solution was much simpler. > I had been displaying a jpeg on a transparent background and this was what > was slowing everything down. Eye candy removed and everything was back > as it was before. Shame, I

Re: Printer setup!

2006-06-29 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 29 June 2006 7:40 am, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I remember that without rebooting my printer wouldn't start: > we need trying again. Ah, as root '/etc/init.d/cupsys restart' should do the trick next time. -- "Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they l

Re: mount pendrive fstab entry ?

2006-06-18 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 17 June 2006 6:16 pm, B.Hoffmann wrote: > Have changed it to > > /dev/sda /media/usbkey ext2 rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > still won't mount. The error I'm getting is > > mount: mount point /media/usbkey does not exist > Error: could not execute pmount Does the folder /media/usbkey exist?

Re: /etc/hosts.deny how to use it?

2006-06-02 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 June 2006 11:59 pm, Chuck Payne wrote: > Hi, > > I am being hit by some ips that I like to block. I like to know how can > I use hosts.deny for the ALL statement After all the comments, aka lines that look like this: # This is a comment, after these put ALL: EXCEPT LOCAL -- Tele

Re: my fonts changed

2006-06-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 12:17 pm, Pooly wrote: > a few days ago I run apt-get to update my system (etch), and since > then all the font (terminal, mozilla, KDE...) are differents from last > week. The previous were more comfortable for the eyes (at least mine). > Any ideas how I could get them back

Re: Xorg upgrade troubles

2006-04-13 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 13 April 2006 6:36 am, Žáček Kryštof wrote: > look - STABLE is too outdated for desktop, TESTING is often broken more than > unstable (mainly missing dependancies or completely missing apps (e.g. K3b > was > absent from testing for many months!)). SID appears to be the best choice for

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-13 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 2:16 pm, Curt Howland wrote: > Good thing you had a full backup. The only thing I backup is user data > (and /etc/*) so I would have had to do a fresh rebuild. Hmm, maybe > that's not such a bad idea anyway. Flush out those obsolete libraries > and applications on the lis

Re: Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-22 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 6:16 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > Yes, but it's easier just to look for the version you have on > snapshot.debian.net Well this version was never an official packaged version. Some nice gentlemen suggested dpkg-repack and it worked a treat. Thanks for the help -- Matter ca

Re: Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-22 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 21 March 2006 6:42 pm, Stephen Cormier wrote: > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 20:13, Brad Sims wrote: > > I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). > > > > I have at some point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. > > Is there someway of re-creating

Really stupid question about apt

2006-03-21 Thread Brad Sims
I am running a self-rolled deb (CVS version of Pan). I have at some point in the past cleaned /var/cache/apt. Is there someway of re-creating that deb from the existing installed version? I presume I am most likely screwed but thought I would ask. -- Remember: Every time a criminal gets his sku

Need good utility to extract .dmg files on ext3

2006-01-21 Thread Brad Sims
I want to extract the ppd.tgz from the mac printer drivers and use it with GutenPrint on Linux... Is this even possible/a good idea -- Time to Locke and load! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommendation for newsreader

2006-01-09 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 08 January 2006 7:04 pm, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > So far, I have been using pan. > > However, it tends to become painfully slow when the groups contain more > than 30.000 messages; exponentially slow. Build the CVS version, it has muchly improved header handling and lower memory u

Re: excludes list

2005-12-29 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 29 December 2005 2:24 am, Chinook wrote: > In cloning my system I want to capture everything that is important if I > need to "rollback" to a clone, but I don't want to waste time with data > that is not needed. > > For example, I might exclude anything within /tmp [?], /proc, > /ho

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-27 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 27 December 2005 4:49 am, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Excellent first impression but it limps in a very > essential feature to my taste: it display ugly-looking glyphs for > line-drawing > characters when you use FreeType fonts and ncurses applications, such as > mutt, > apt

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-26 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 26 December 2005 5:51 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Is there any work around for that? Edit the command launched by the icon. Create your panel button as normal. Right-click -> properties Application tab -> Command -- Disclaimer: Elvis would agree with me, b

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-26 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 25 December 2005 5:19 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Thanks Brad for the suggestion. I just hope the OP likes it as much as I > am liking it Your welcome... The command I use to emulate konsole with white on black background is the following all on one line: "mrxvt -stt -rv -sr -

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-25 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 24 December 2005 2:41 pm, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I really like the tabs on konsole MUCH better than opening a new xterm > window.  Is there anything else out there that can do tabs that is not > tied to a huge DE? mrxvt - lightweight multi-tabbed X terminal emulator Mrxvt is

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 2:19 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I've always worked with the idea of two different kinds of backups. > > 1) a copy of the critical files (accounting, databases, spreadsheets > etc.) that are needed for day to day operations in the event of > corruption or accid

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-20 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 19 December 2005 9:01 pm, Daniel Webb wrote: > Why don't you mirror /dev/? I use udev and /dev/ is created at boot time to the best of my knowledge -- "Last I checked, it wasn't the power cord for the Clue Generator that was sticking up your ass."- John Novak, rasfwrj -- To U

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-19 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 19 December 2005 11:44 am, Mike McCarty wrote: > It looks like you also don't have /backup on there. What > else did you not mention that you don't put on your backups? Nothing else /backup is a mountpoint for /dev/sda1 > "Can I, starting with a bare-metal machine, do a standard > ins

Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-18 Thread Brad Sims
] # Secondary Author: Brad Sims - [EMAIL PROTECTED] # backup.sh -- backup to a local drive using rsync # Directories to backup. Separate with a space. Exclude trailing slash! SOURCES="/" # Directory to backup to. This is where your backup(s) will be stored. # Exclude trailing slash! TARGET="

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-17 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 17 December 2005 5:55 pm, Scott wrote: > I had gotten Diggler to work on some of the Firefox betas either by > editing the file or using Nightly Tester Tools.  Frankly though, it's > apparent that the developer has long ago abandoned this extension, so I > decided I just had to find

REQUEST: Good backup software for DVDs

2005-12-14 Thread Brad Sims
I have used Mondorescue and like it but the time involved ~12hrs for 180GB is just too much, I would like to be able to insert the first disk of foo, have it be able to repartition/format the drives as needed but take less time to run than mondo currently does. As I understand it Mondo is slowe

Re: Opinions -- When will Sid be usable again?

2005-09-18 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 18 September 2005 1:41 am, William Ballard wrote: > I started using Woody in Jan 03, and switched to Sid maybe by around > April, and learned to deal with its unstability and stuck with it until > Sarge came out.  Now I run Sarge, because I expected Sid to become > horribly unusable.  Now

Re: AMD64 question...

2005-07-27 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 27 July 2005 7:19 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: > I have never noticed a -k7 kernel on amd64, only -em64t, -generic and -k8. > The > amd64 version is just like the i386 version (except of course, it is 64 bit). > You can install as much or as little as you like. If you need 32 bit apps >

AMD64 question...

2005-07-27 Thread Brad Sims
I am thinking of switching to an AMD64 processor... I am currently running kernel 2.4.27-2-k7. I really don't wanna switch to a 2.6 series kernel if I don't have to... I presume I can simply install the -386 versions of the packages and have them work; correct? Can I continue to run my -k7 kernel

Re: failing to upgrade udev

2005-07-15 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 15 July 2005 1:11 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > In such a case, you should use stable distribution. Unstable is not for > everyone. It is useless to complain about instability of unstable. > Unstable is meant just to be that. > However that is no excuse for making a dependency for

Question can I use Mac OSX drivers with Debian GNU/Linux's version of Cups

2005-06-25 Thread Brad Sims
If so how, and how well does it work? I am looking at a Canon photoprinter that isn't even mentioned on linux-printing.org :/ -- Spring sucks. Allergies clog sinuses like wet rags. Why can't I go home? -- Eric in ASR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: System won't boot with USB CardReader plugged in...

2005-06-05 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 05 June 2005 12:03 pm, Jan Leewe Behrendt wrote: > Can anyone help me with this? Of course I could just leave the card reader > unconnected until the system has booted up but I really don't like having to > do that every time--> convenience ;-) This is just a stupid question, but did y

Re: gpg-agent packaged...?

2005-01-05 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 05 January 2005 1:07 pm, Nicos Gollan wrote: > If you want proper support, use this package source in sour sources.list: > deb http://smurf.noris.de/code/debian/ experimental smurf > > Install the packages gnupg2 and gpgsm, that should get you proper gpg support > (and supposedly S/M

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 27 December 2004 8:15 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Yeah, I do. I still think it was stupid. Just name their new baseball > team the Washington Honky's and call it even. 8:o) The University of Northern Colorado [UNC] intramural basketball team is named the Fighting Whities (aka the F

Re: Backing up a running system

2004-12-28 Thread Brad Sims
Try Mondorescue... It works great, and is GPL. -- Opium is the religion of the atheist. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replacing Dying Harddisk (ReiserFS)

2004-12-19 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 19 December 2004 7:36 am, Darryl Clarke wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anybody has any wonderful ideas as to how I should > go about "ghosting" my existing linux system. > > Norton Ghost only supports EXT2/3 for linux and I used ReiserFS so > using it is out of the question. > > D

Re: Anyone know why AOL users post "Art Files" queries?

2004-12-05 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 05 December 2004 2:22 pm, Peter Nuttall wrote: > Googling for rid of art files throws a debian-user post as the third return. > It talks about dealing with them on shutdown of something. In other words, > not the same problem, but in the same problem domain. If you were feeling > cluel

Re: Question about usbkey lights

2004-12-05 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 04 December 2004 3:47 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 10:53 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Brad Sims wrote: > > > I have a 512mb Sandisk Cruzer, it works perfectly. However when unmounting > > > it the light stays on, it goes off on Wind

Re: Question about usbkey lights

2004-12-05 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 03 December 2004 10:09 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > If it unmounts properly, maybe it's just a minor aesthetic bug > and there's no real need to worry. > I wasn't worrying, just was wondering ... -- Troll, troll, troll your post, Gently down the feed. Merrily, merrily troll along, A life i

Question about usbkey lights

2004-12-03 Thread Brad Sims
I have a 512mb Sandisk Cruzer, it works perfectly. However when unmounting it the light stays on, it goes off on Windows... Just was wondering if anyone had a solution other than killing and restarting hotplug (which seems silly, and Not Elegant). -- Troll, troll, troll your post, Gently down th

Re: Problem solved: Kodak DX6490 on Sarge/2.6/udev

2004-12-01 Thread Brad Sims
My camera, an Olympus C3000z is supported perfectly under linux thanks to gtkam and the fine folks at gphoto2. However I don't want to have to choose my camera based on gphoto2; so I simply bought a Sandisk ImageMate 6 in 1. The cards show up as mass-storage devices; a little editing of /etc/fst

Re: Openoffice Problem ID'd, Not Solved

2004-11-26 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 26 November 2004 10:16 am, Thomas H. George wrote: > In printer settings, paper the field for the paper size is blank and the > duplex setting is . > > For documents created earlier the paper size is US Letter and the duplex > setting is Simplex. > > Neither File/Printer Settings/Proper

Re: Laser Printer

2004-11-26 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 26 November 2004 10:44 am, Jeremy Turner wrote: > I second the support for Samsung. I recently bought the ML-1740, and on > the side of the box it actually states support for Linux. I saw the > other day on some site like BestBuy.com or something that it was selling > for $100 with a $

Re: Help getting started with S/MIME email encryption

2004-11-25 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 25 November 2004 9:40 pm, Brad Sims wrote: > I found the packages I needed to get gpgsm working with Kmail, > but gpgsm shows no keys; and gpgsm --gen-key gives me this error: > gpgsm: this function is not yet available from the commandline... > > My google-fu has fa

Need help getting started with S/MIME

2004-11-25 Thread Brad Sims
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I found the packages I needed to get kmail to see gpgsm; but I can't figure out how to get gpgsm to generate keys... Gpgsm tells me that gpgsm --gen-keys is not supported from the command line. My google-fu has failed me, please help. I /do/ have inl

Help getting started with S/MIME email encryption

2004-11-25 Thread Brad Sims
I found the packages I needed to get gpgsm working with Kmail, but gpgsm shows no keys; and gpgsm --gen-key gives me this error: gpgsm: this function is not yet available from the commandline... My google-fu has failed me... Help would be nice I do have gpg working with OpenGPG/Mime but not S/Mi

I am trying to get S/Mime working with KMail on Sid

2004-11-25 Thread Brad Sims
When I scan for PGP plugins I get the error that gpgsm needs to be at least 1.9.6... latest in Sid is 0.9.4 Anyone have any ideas? -- We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:14 pm, David P James wrote: > just wish I could pass print jobs off to kprinter directly and not > have to bother with Mozilla's annoying print system. Then again, I > mainly use Konq now and that's all I use to print. Er under Mozilla does going to Print, properti

Looking for a Debian Logoed travel mug NOT the ones Cafepress sells

2004-11-23 Thread Brad Sims
I want one that is wide on the bottom and kinda of upside-down funnel shaped... they are much harder to tip over than usual. Any urls would be nice. -- Bill Gates has overall screwed more people than Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Roosevelt, and multilevel marketing opportunities -- Uncle Al -- To U

Re: xprint - why?

2004-11-23 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 1:28 pm, Martin Lorenz wrote: > did you (or anyone else) experience problems when printing pages which > contain non-latin-1 characters like this one: > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%C3%9Ftheorie Nope worked just great here; but then I /do/ have a real postscript prin

Re: printing from firefox

2004-11-18 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 18 November 2004 10:51 am, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > Invoking any firefox printing function (preview, print) is *extremely* > slow.  It now takes on the order of 15-20 seconds for the "print > dialog" to appear.  Clicking OK takes an add'l 5-10 seconds before the > printing begins.  Stran

Re: printing from firefox

2004-11-17 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 3:17 pm, Rich Wellner wrote: > I've updated xprt-common, but that didn't seem to do anything.  Are there > other packages which I must touch? IMO, dump Xprt; darn thing is more trouble than its worth... WTF do I need to run a separate daemon just so that Mozilla/Firef

Re: Antivirus/Antispyware/Antiadware for linux?

2004-11-16 Thread Brad Sims
Basically to do anything other than nuke /home/$user, you need root privileges, and if you have root; why bother with a virus. -- TIMTOWTDI often means there is more than one really bad way to do it. -- Tim Hammerquist after Tim Cuffel in comp.lang.perl.misc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-15 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 14 November 2004 3:43 pm, David wrote: > That would work quite nicely, but I would like to do a wee bit of text > formatting.  I would like to change my font sizes in a place or two, > and, just guessing, you couldn't do that with a2ps, could you?  (I've > never used it to know.) You can

Re: [OT] Printing hardcopy from an application

2004-11-14 Thread Brad Sims
Another simple idea would be to pass your output to a2ps or muttprint. -- I came; I saw; I frelled up -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: why debian

2004-11-13 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 12 November 2004 4:45 pm, Brian Nelson wrote: > Debian isn't a true democracy.  We elect our leader, and thereafter > the leader acts under his own accord. For what its worth, monasteries in medieval England used to be ran that way; the monks would elect an abbot who then would have abso

Need help making a deb of mozilla extentions...

2004-11-06 Thread Brad Sims
I have the latest mozilla-mozgest package but it is version 0.3.99+20040902-2, and to make it work with firefox (I am flirting with it) it needs version 1.0. I have the xpi downloaded but would like to make a deb of it. My google-fu must be weak, as I found nothing to help me package it. Any hel

Re: Serious problems after "apt-get dist-upgrade"

2004-10-11 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 11 October 2004 10:25 am, Thomas Adam wrote: > COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | awk '/^ii/ {print $2}' | xargs apt-get --reinstall > install I took the liberty of making a script from this excellent tip: #!/bin/bash # This script *MUST* be ran either # as root or under sudo. # The 'COLUMNS=2

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-27 Thread Brad Sims
On Sunday 26 September 2004 2:11 pm, Josef Oswald wrote: > Thanks for the link:-) Yer welcome... I have long been of the opinion that writing a sigmonster is like a jedi crafting his own lightsaber; each is just slightly different just like it's creator , and its a right of passage... I wrote m

Re: Mozilla to Xprint to CUPS = no output.

2004-09-27 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 27 September 2004 10:49 am, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Is that possible with the Debian Mozilla packages?  I remember a thread > a couple of weeks ago saying that that functionality had been removed > in the debian package (I wouldn't know, since I've gotten used to using > the mozilla.org

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-27 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 27 September 2004 10:13 am, Dave Howorth wrote: > Do you know of software that will convert the PS to a PDF form? ps2pdf may be a good place to start -- And someone pointed out that tiny children steal your brains, both while in the womb and afterwards, and summed it up, "Traditionally

Re: SLRN random-sig files, found this but stilll

2004-09-24 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 24 September 2004 12:25 pm, Josef Oswald wrote: > I have no fortune installed here that's why I searched the net for > random signatures :-) > I have a tar-ball of sigs and my sigmonster online here: http://home.insightbb.com/~bmsims1/Sigfiles/current_sigs.tar.gz http://home.insightbb.

Re: Help with bogofilter and kmail

2004-09-17 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 17 September 2004 7:03 pm, David P James wrote: > Yes: for one you don't need the '-N' and '-S' options since you are not > using the '-u' option in the first filter. Second, try turning the 3rd > and 4th filters into 'filter actions' by checking the "Add this filter > to the Apply Fil

Help with bogofilter and kmail

2004-09-17 Thread Brad Sims
I need some help with bogofilter and kmail... I have a filter that pipes anything less or equal to 2MB through 'bogofilter -p -e' this applies to incoming and manual filtering Second filter reads X-Bogosity and if it contains "yes" then it files it in to AutoSpam, marks it both as Spam and read

Re: please recommand a media reader

2004-09-13 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 13 September 2004 12:30 am, Tom Vier wrote: > Ihave a usb (floppy drive size) reader, made by in-win, but afaict, there's > no linux driver for it. > > i'm looking for a usb card reader that has good linux support, and reads cf > and sd cards. also, black is a big plus. i'd like it to m

Re: xorg + kde + keyboard

2004-09-11 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 11 September 2004 9:58 am, Karol Czachorowski wrote: > And it seems, that KDE looks only in /etc/X11/xkb, not in > /usr/local/X11R6.8 where X server is installed. Does it work if you symlink /etc/X11/xkb to /usr/local/X11R6.8? To me that seems the obvious fix albeit a workaround. --

Just a heads up for those who had gpg-agent fail to start

2004-09-02 Thread Brad Sims
KDM fails to source /etc/X11/Xsession, see bug 265865. The fix is to 'vi .xprofile' which contains just one line... "source /etc/X11/Xsession". -- Are you sure that Kraft's Pasteurized Process Cheese Food actually spoils? I'm not convinced that any self-respecting microbe would be seen near it.

I can't read encrypted email with kmail

2004-09-01 Thread Brad Sims
Encrypted message (decryption not possible) Reason: Crypto plug-in "openpgp" could not decrypt the data. Error: Decryption failed What is the current address for the unofficial aegyptian debs? I had http://ma2geo.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/public-debian binary/ But it sadly is no more... Googlin

Re: DVD Recording question

2004-08-19 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 19 August 2004 10:12 pm, Brad Sims wrote: Ok this is wierd; dvd+rw-mediainfo correctly shows the drive as a 8x drive... cdrecord-ProDVD and K3b was convinced that the drive was a 4x but after running dvd+rw-mediainfo it now thinks my 8x drive is 6x drive (probably reading the MMC info

DVD Recording question

2004-08-19 Thread Brad Sims
Is there a way around the 4X limitation on DVD burning? In other words is there a package I need to download to allow me to use my 8x burner and media at full speed? -- Tax stupidity, not wealth. -- Tanuki the Raccoon-dog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: creating audio-cd image from mp3/wav

2004-08-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 31 July 2004 8:04 am, Micha Feigin wrote: > Does it create a raw image for you for an audio project ? (could be that > I missed something or that it was a buggy version). I sit corrected... when I tell it to make an image it just gives me the wavs as well :/ I guess that's what I get f

Re: creating audio-cd image from mp3/wav

2004-07-30 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 30 July 2004 6:07 pm, csj wrote: > Since cdrecord can burn cd-compatible wav files on the fly, why > not just create the wav files in one directory, making sure the > files are arranged in track order, say track01.wav, track02.wav? > If you need special options like cd text put it in a s

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-15 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 5:40 pm, Dale Amon wrote: > The test was successful. I'm going to be keeping > a backup copy of the system disk though, just in > case something happens and I have to back out > a dselect that breaks something mission critical > to me... Newest Mozilla package 1.7.1 wil

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-12 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 12 July 2004 2:33 am, Magnus Therning wrote: > Will you put those packages somewhere where others can reach them as > well? Hrm, I need more webspace, my ISP only gives me about 10M If you roll your own, read the new developer how-to to learn how to make the debs version -99 that way ap

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-11 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 10 July 2004 11:29 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: > The numerous bugs that have been filed, and the way they've been dealt > with, would seem to indicate that he's not interested in participating. Indeed, his entire argument consists of "Me, Debian Developer. you, user." "Me make decision; yo

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-10 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 09 July 2004 11:34 pm, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I realize that all package maintainers are short of time, but in this > case I think it would be wise for the maintainer to have a package with > PS enabled and another with XPrint enabled to satisfy the needs of both > sets of users.  To do o

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 09 July 2004 9:18 am, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > By the way, is PDF also Turing-complete with the accompanying security > issues? IIRC, some wrote a nethack game entirely in postscript; so if it isn't Turing-complete, its darn close. -- How dare the government intervene to stifle innova

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 09 July 2004 5:00 pm, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > Mozilla and friends can generate PostScript directly, or they can depend > on Xprint to do so. It is the latter which has been disabled. The former > works well for some and poorly to not at all for others (myself included). Um, I think you

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-08 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 8:45 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Well I believe that xprint outputs postscript. It just does it in a > different way. I believe is xprint is like an x server. Mozilla or > whatever program sends it whatever you want to print as a series of > x-thingamabobs and it converts

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone

2004-07-08 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 08 July 2004 1:25 am, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > Nope. I just installed all the build-depends packages required to build > it and then built the package after adjusting the rules file to sort out > postscript and xprint. > > It was only afterwards that I noticed that previously I'd had

Re: Pick up a shell session after ssh timeout

2004-07-08 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 08 July 2004 6:54 am, Joost De Cock wrote: > I'd like to know if it's possible to pick up a shell session that was running > over a ssh session that timed out. Nope, but thats why the fine folks at GNU made screen I use it all the damn time, over a ssh session that goes down at rand

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone

2004-07-07 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 4:58 am, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > If anyone needs mozilla 1.7 debs with postscript re-enabled and > xprint removed, I've just built some here: > > deb http://apt.leapster.org sid mozilla Did you build them with xft? -- Cow-orker> "But can you see where I'm coming from

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-07 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 07 July 2004 12:36 am, Michael B Allen wrote: > Right the choices are A) not print, B) downgrade or C) install > xprt-xprintorg. Personally I think people should try C before bitching too > much. Actually I and quite a few people tried C), and it didn't work properly when it even work

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-06 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 7:52 pm, Wayne Topa wrote: > am also running firefox 0.8 but it was installed with apt-get.  I am > stuck with Xprint with no postscript/default.  :-( You could install the upstream version via their installer... it still uses postscript/default. Be advised however that on

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-06 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 7:07 pm, Clive Menzies wrote: > Well, from my own experience, downgrading to an older version has > brought back my printing within minutes after struggling with xprint for > several days As was my experience. -- atheism is only a religion the way absolute zero is a tempe

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-06 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 5:39 pm, Alan Shutko wrote: > Actually, it looks like only the Debian package has dropped support > for it.  And that only at the request of one person, who is the same > person who closed your bug. Why am I not surprised? While I realize that /is/ his prerogative, WTF co

Re: postscript-enabled mozilla package anyone?

2004-07-06 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 1:07 pm, Thomas Winischhofer wrote: > Since I am not willing to configure my printers a third time with that > crappy Xprint stuff (why the heck do we have CUPS including easy setup, > PPD support, KDE/GNOME integration, etc etc etc etc), does anyone > provide postscript-

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-06 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 06 July 2004 2:32 am, Michael B Allen wrote: > What! The PostScript/default printing was pretty bad but I'm a little > surprised they dumped it entirely as it would require additional setup > to get xprint running. Are you sure? I am, I was told that mozilla no longer supports direct pr

Re: Printing problems with mozilla

2004-07-05 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 02 July 2004 10:07 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: >  In the meantime, Moz 1.6 works just fine when > 'links -g' won't, and still prints when I want it to. Hrm did you compile your own links? Because the version I apt-got didn't seem to have the -g option compiled in. just wondering if there is

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 6:18 pm, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > n the keybindings section, there's a statement like this: > bindkey -k k7 detatch > > Shouldn't it be: bindkey -k k7 detach > > (spelling of detatch?) Indeed it should, sorry. Fixed now... -- "If women knew, if they even had the sli

Re: Printing problems with mozilla

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 7:06 am, Wayne Topa wrote: > I am not using cups so this may not help. > > My firefox stopped printing after the last upgrade and I had to > install xprt-xprintorg & xprt-common.  I also could not find any > printers.  After much reading I finally got it working by adding

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 3:51 pm, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > In gnome-terminal, I use CTRL-PGUP and CTRL-PGDN to cycle between tabs. > > How can I get screen to accept keyboard shortcuts for these two cycling > functions? Hrm I am not sure of the keybindings for your need but the .screenrc commands

Re: tips on using "screen"?

2004-07-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Thursday 01 July 2004 11:53 am, Will Trillich wrote: > we'd love to hear more about your setup. ~/.bashrc aliases or > settings, any keyboard macros, ~/.screenrc coolness... we're not > picky. > > inquiring minds want to know. :) Well I got tired of .screenrcs found via google being so poorly

Printing problems with mozilla

2004-06-30 Thread Brad Sims
no Xprint servers found... xprint starts with no errors... I did a apt-get purge and reinstall of xprt and friends, and mozilla and friends. echo $XPSERVERLIST returns blank and here is my output from xprint restart: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/xprint restart Restarting Xprint server(s)

Re: Good Linux backup program

2004-06-25 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 25 June 2004 11:19 am, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: > Bacula, Amanda. Mondorescue is my pick, Free and it works as advertised. The mailing list is quite active, if you have any questions -- I'd explain it all to you, but your brain would explode. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: OT wordprocessing anyone?

2004-06-12 Thread Brad Sims
On Saturday 12 June 2004 4:42 am, richard lyons wrote: >  I do use scribus, and like it > for what it does.  But you very much have to lay out each page > individually, so it is great for display work but less good for more > wordprocessing type of use.  Kile, I am trying to get used to, and to

Re: OT wordprocessing anyone?

2004-06-11 Thread Brad Sims
On Friday 11 June 2004 7:58 am, Matthias Czapla wrote: > I think if you're not willing to learn LaTeX or troff commands you > don't have many options besides OpenOffice.org. Hrm, Abiword, Koffice are options, Kile is an option if you like LaTeX but despise Lyx,. Give Scribus a try. -- 'Basica

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