Re: Java plugins

2002-05-09 Thread Brett Parker
Mario Vukelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 15:32, Carlos A P Gomes wrote: > > Hi, > > some time ago someone in this list suggested a way to get java plugins > > installed on woody by runnig the browser as root e accessing java.sun.com. > > > > My question: is there any securi

Re: Wrong sender address!

2002-04-14 Thread Brett Parker
{$value}fail} bcfrFs which rewrites a whole bunch of headers including the sender according to information found in /etc/email-addresses. The relevant line in there is simply: brettp: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope that helps, Brett Parker pgpUwgLIXtbmI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Window Manager Probs *sigh*

2002-03-21 Thread Brett Parker
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 06:46:58AM -0800, SJ wrote: > I'm really not sure what I did wrong, but... > > After doing an apparently clean install of debian linux on a > new system, Gnome does not come up Window Maker does. I > know we installed Gnome but it's not even in the list of > Window Manager

Re: bash scripting question (variables and spaces)

2002-03-19 Thread Brett Parker
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 08:35:53PM +0100, Karsten Heymann wrote: > Hi, > > I have once again come upon bash problem I can't solve. I'm writing a > little bash frontend and one of the programs expects a option that includes > spaces and is composed from two other shell var's. Example: > > #!/bin/b

Re: How do you run a bin file format - now StarOffice problem

2002-03-13 Thread Brett Parker
lly sh scripts, try sh in/so-blah and see what happens. Its been a while since I last needed an office suite at all (for viewing there's mswordview, xlhtml et al... for writting there's LaTeX... and I very very very rarely need/want a spreadsheet, that's what databases are for ;). Cheers, Brett Parker

Re: ssh-client & gui

2002-03-12 Thread Brett Parker
On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 01:16:45PM +0100, Ines Rieger wrote: > Hi all, > is there any graphical ssh-client for Unix? Testing onwards has secpanel, which I've used a couple of times and at a guess would do what you're after. Thanks, Brett Parker

Re: Debian install for beginners?

2002-03-08 Thread Brett Parker
viding the GUI. grip, tends to do a good job and is but gtk+. works well, and does cddb, is configurable in nearly every concievable way too. It can use many different encoders and rippers, including cdparanoia and blade. It also grabs stuff from freecddb so that you don't have to type in all

Re: Need some help with hardware

2002-02-18 Thread Brett Parker
> GAH! netscape? html mail? eww. mutt + w3m are the answer ;) its *very* rare for me to fire up anything graphical for reading mail, HTML or not... after all... the only mail that you'd get that you'd *need* a graphical browser for would be porn, and hell, I can't afford that! Cheers, Brett Parker pgpiJOqDkDVdn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Actualized PostgreSQL 7.2 packages?

2002-02-18 Thread Brett Parker
wn from source in unstable, including a newer version of postfix, which I needed for my place of employment as the older postfix was *massively* outdated, and its ETRN support was *BAD*). Thanks, Brett Parker now drinking belgian beer and getting quite drunk after a hard day at the office. pgp4JxGJDl7O4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: delayed transfer of mail to Pine

2002-02-06 Thread Brett Parker
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:15:38AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I am using fetchmail and pine; lately I am noticing something that didn't > happen before, so I wonder if it has to do with an upgrade of fetchmail. > When I fetch my mail, my primary pop3 usually has at least a couple > hundred messa

Re: remote mutt - printing local?

2002-01-26 Thread Brett Parker
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:17:36AM -0500, dman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 10:55:30PM +0100, Kerstin Hoef-Emden wrote: > > | is it possible to start mutt remote, but to use a local printer? > > Sure, if anything (eg 'lp' or 'lpr') can spool to the local printer. > What's the remote system, a

Re: Pasting into vim from Win2k via SSH

2001-09-20 Thread Brett Parker
org > Unauthorized use of this .sig may constitute violation of US law. > echo Qba\'g gernq ba zr\! |tr 'a-zA-Z' 'n-za-mN-ZA-M' Personally, I'd suggest using :set paste which stops it from doing anything clever and just lets you paste, then when you want to go back to the normal mode do a :set nopaste Hope that's what you're after. -- Brett Parker

Re: How to remove non-deb package software?

2001-08-06 Thread Brett Parker
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 03:32:54AM -0500, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 08:53:37PM +0100, Brett Parker wrote: > > Obviously that's a pain, in future I would suggest that you build your > > own debs if you *really must* use software that isn't already de

Re: Mutt questions

2001-08-05 Thread Brett Parker
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:39:31PM +0100, P Kirk wrote: > It all works. Many thanks dman. > > > What do people recommend as a console newsreader with a mutt like > interface? > > Patrick slrn Cheers, Brett pgpZUeCy13034.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: LT WinModem and kernel headers

2001-08-05 Thread Brett Parker
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 03:34:44PM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Hi, > > I am an experienced programmer who still has a lot to learn/remember > about *nix. > > I am trying to get my LT WinModem running under potato 2.2.19pre17 #1 I > have downloaded what seem to be the files I need. Running the

Re: How to remove non-deb package software?

2001-08-05 Thread Brett Parker
On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 02:44:04PM -0500, Lance Peterson wrote: > How do I remove software that I compiled on my system rather than using > the .deb packages? Removing .deb packages is easy, but how to get rid > of other stuff I installed from source? find out exactly where and what it installed

Re: Help! All thumbs with prosper and/or seminar.sty in LaTeX

2001-08-02 Thread Brett Parker
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 02:51:27PM -0400, Glen Snyder wrote: > Hi. Has anyone produced transparencies using the version of prosper > class in Debian "testing" . I've tried both the example in prosper and > the examples in seminar and I have a problem with things bleeding of the > page when I run la

Re: how to you reconfigure an already installed package?

2001-08-02 Thread Brett Parker
On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 09:01:33AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > i'm surprised that dpkg doesn't have a --reconfigure option. > > how are we supposed to reconfigure an already installed package? the only > way i can think of is to uninstall the package and reinstall it. > > pete dpkg-reconf

Re: Deb-Newby: Read HOWTO's?

2001-08-01 Thread Brett Parker
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 08:59:21PM -0500, d wrote: > LURKER here again, what is used to read the HOWTO files? All of the ones I > have on my system are **.gz, I know that means compressed. What to use > to uncompress? When I used to work on UNIX systems you used a command > called "compre

Re: ghostview problem

2001-07-31 Thread Brett Parker
On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:06:53PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:25:09PM -0300, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi. I'm running potato and I use ghostview for .ps files. > > May I recommend 'gv' instead? Same great ghostscript interpreter, m

Re: Procmail questions

2001-07-30 Thread Brett Parker
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 04:09:51PM -0300, Jordi S. Bunster wrote: > > Hello list ... wonder if anyone gives me a hand on this one: > > Here at my job two bosses need to send mail to everyone from time > to time. There're about 20 accounts only, so I did a small script > that runs every week and a

Re: pdf editor

2001-07-28 Thread Brett Parker
On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 03:20:55AM +0530, harsha wrote: > hi, > > > Sounds like the poster wanted to fill in PDF Forms, and the only app I know > > that can do that is Acrobat Reader. > > hmmn there is no GNU utility for the same purpose. I have a problem in > viewing some pdf files. xpdf ref