Re: user not authorized to run X, strange variant

2000-12-13 Thread David Zoll
Erik Steffl wrote: > > sena wrote: > > > > On 12/12/2000 at 11:35 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > my point was that these options do not help in what I think is by far > > > most common situation. then again, I have no lies neither statistics to > > > support this:-) > > > > > > I mean the m

Re: The truth about PSM and other XPI's

2000-12-13 Thread David Zoll
Damon Muller wrote: > > Quoth Sebastian Silva, > > > The thing is the default permissions for /usr/lib/mozilla are too > > tight. Mi solution was simply to give it all the permissions it wants > > (of course NOT setuid). Now the other thing is that Mozilla wont > > download the X-install packag

Re: cd-burning

2000-12-12 Thread David Zoll
Peter Wollny wrote: > > I had a look on the docs for cdrecord and found out that it is > not possible to burn in DAO, only TAO. How can I avoid the two > seconds of silence between the tracks? The cdrdao package works great for that. Even better, it will let you create hidden tracks, divide

Re: inetd questions

2000-12-12 Thread David Zoll
Damian Menscher wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > tell what is so damn insecure about these? > > > > $ while true ; do makepasswd --chars=12 ; done > > t2nWXiWynAU8 > > qdesULEdwzLG > > g3YfAxqxLG1d > > Well, since you asked there is no punctuation. Is there anythin

Re: Horrifying suggestion

2000-11-01 Thread David Zoll
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: [snip] > Sarcasm noted. What you really mean is "Debian is not for newbies". > Well we all know that. I happen to have discovered that this might no > longer be the case... Debian is very much for newbies, I've set up a friend with Debian & Helix GNOME, and he really

Re: where to put shell scripts?

2000-10-31 Thread David Zoll
Krzys Majewski wrote: > > I have a habit of writing many shell scripts for everything. Some of > them are very local to me, so I put them in ${HOME}/shell and stick > that in my PATH. Makes sense. > Some of them may be generally useful, so although I > don't have any users, I'm anal, a

Re: Using old libstdc library

2000-10-26 Thread David Zoll
Craig Law wrote: > > Ben/David, > > I've done as you both said and have only found libstdc++2.10 and > libstdc++2.10-dev packages on my CD. I've have searched the whole > of the Debian 2.2 CD that I have and there is definitely no > libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1_2.91.66-4.deb package anywhere. Is it

Re: Using old libstdc library

2000-10-24 Thread David Zoll
Ben Collins wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 09:24:29PM +1100, Craig Law wrote: > > I'm using Debian 2.2 distribution and have a piece of commercial software > > from Novell that won't install unless it has the following file ... > > > > libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 > > > > I've had a look at this

Re: What are MUA, MTA, MDA? (Was Re: Linux Mail Client)

2000-08-24 Thread David Zoll
David Teague wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: > [snip] > > > I differentiate between MUAs, MDAs, and MTAs; examples are: > > MUA: mutt > > MDA: procmail > > MTA: exim > > John, > > 1) What do MTA, MUA, MDA stand for? MTA: Mail Transfer Agent MDA: Mail Delivery Age

Re: I've got me a sourceforge project for something I really don'tthink exists, but haven't much any coding experience

2000-08-24 Thread David Zoll
Brent Harding wrote: > > I don't think there's much of anything for linux to do streaming audio, > (I mean broadcast it, plenty to play it, freeamp, mpg123, etc). There's > nothing that has the ability to have a playlist that fades from 1 song to > another like winamp in windows could. I've hear

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread David Zoll
Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:47:49PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote: > > So go ahead, start a sourceforge project page, and write a damn clone. > > Go look on Sourceforge in the email clients and notice what the first one > /is/. It's acmemail (https://sourceforge.net/projects/

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread David Zoll
Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] > I have been specific. I have even given examples! PMMail and The Bat! > Screen shots alone for those two products speak volumes! OK, I've gone and looked at the websites for those two products. I can't really test either effectively in the real world since: * both

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-23 Thread David Zoll
Steve Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:33:48PM -0400, David Zoll wrote: [snip] > > 1) Fetchmail, which will grab the mail from separate accounts, and > > stuff it through... > > Requires filtering to separate out accounts which should be separate in > the

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-22 Thread David Zoll
Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 11:41:17AM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > > But you probably don't care about that. What I've learned from this > > long and silly thread is there are plenty of ways to receive mail from > > several accounts and keep them separated, but none that you