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

2005-09-20 Thread Douglas Ward
On Sunday 18 September 2005 02:41, 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 m

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-15 Thread Douglas Ward
On Monday 15 August 2005 04:37, Hans du Plooy wrote: > I really couldn't care if mp3 is free or not, it doesn't cost anything > to compile lame and it doesn't cost anything to play back mp3s either, > so what's the fuss? Another poster correctly stated it isn't DFSG-Free, though it is available.

Re: ext2/ext3, sync/async filesystems, data hygiene

2005-08-06 Thread Douglas Ward
On Thursday 28 July 2005 07:41, Anonymous wrote: > Tom Vier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm the author of wipe, btw (the one at wipe.sf.net). Meta-data > > journaling alone isn't a problem (except for wiping filenames), but full > > data journaling is, and some journaled fs (like reiser) don't n

Re: X server security defaults.

2005-07-26 Thread Douglas Ward
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 08:15, pier wrote: > wim wrote: > > Doesn't kde has a "run-as" function? There's such a function in gnome... > > In Gnome is gksu. > Or you could use sudo. > > > Pier Also, in KDE the [Alt]+[F2] dialog has a "run as user" option under the "Options" button. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: monitoring web-based email

2005-07-25 Thread Douglas Ward
On Monday 25 July 2005 17:33, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > Yeh, I was afraid that the encrypted factor would cause problems. As   > for legality, it would be interesting to know what other people know,   > but it is my understanding that: whereas the computers belong to the   > business, all activities

Re: USB Pen / Thumb / Keyring Drive

2005-07-25 Thread Douglas Ward
On Monday 25 July 2005 16:45, H. S. wrote: > I believe KDE 3.4 is going to offer the feature of doing this > transparently for the user as is currently being done in Gnome using > gnome-volume-manager. I should have stated that, for both Debian and (k)Ubuntu, I was using KDE 3.4. It has been a wh

Re: USB Pen / Thumb / Keyring Drive

2005-07-25 Thread Douglas Ward
On Monday 25 July 2005 11:42, Graham Smith wrote: > What I would like it something that will just automagically mount the > drive. I have installed the usbmount package (which I presume is the same > as usb-mount) but it doesn't seem to do anything. It's created /media/cdrom > and /media/usb direc

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Douglas Ward
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:24, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > The question has come up whether K3b should be run as user or as root. > After being admonished not to run it as root, I changed my setting back to > user. Now, when I tried to run it, I got an error message from the author > ur

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-17 Thread Douglas Ward
On Saturday 16 July 2005 10:11, Bernie Betlach wrote: > I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience. Which should I > install Ubuntu or Debian??? > > Thanks I appreciate your opinions and advice. > > Bernie Advice: Create a separate partition for /home ; If you ever need to re

Re: syntax highlighting

2005-07-06 Thread Douglas Ward
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 05:35, roberto wrote: > --- Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > You can enable syntax highlighting for vim by editing /etc/vim/vimrc > > look for the line: > > > > " syntax on > > > > and uncomment it.Then look in the > > file /usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/sync

Re: Executing script

2005-07-04 Thread Douglas Ward
On Tuesday 05 July 2005 01:10, j Mak wrote: > --- Anders Breindahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 July 2005 05:48, j Mak wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a script for ejecting cd from the drive. > > > > > only > > > > > way I can execute the script is to login as root, > > >

Re: [OT] - UPS APC

2005-07-04 Thread Douglas Ward
On Monday 04 July 2005 12:15, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am buying a UPS APC, for three PC.Anyone having problems > with "apcupsd - APC UPS Power Management" on Sarge, or it that people > said works very well? > > My candidate UPS: > http://www.apcc.com/products/configure/index.c

Re: WHAT the Eff is this???

2005-07-04 Thread Douglas Ward
> > > METHOD 1. Fairly Involved, but worth a try a. Log in as 'root' (You probably entered a password for 'root' during the install, as well as a user and password)[4] b. Run commands to make sure the system is partly up to date: echo "deb ftp://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian stable contrib main non-

Re: encrypting the users' folders

2005-07-04 Thread Douglas Ward
On Sunday 03 July 2005 03:16, Dominik Margraf wrote: > Hello! > > Currently, the default setting is that root can see and modify > anything, including the contents of the users' folders, moreover, > users can also see the contents of other users' folders by default. > These pose a significant confi

Re: WHAT the Eff is this???

2005-07-04 Thread Douglas Ward
On Monday 04 July 2005 04:23, trevor hamel wrote: > i recently installed linux. when i finished the installer i as hoped to be > gretted with an OS with a display like windows what i gto was more like > a display of dos. can someone tell me how to get it to not be in command > prompt... because

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-28 Thread Douglas Ward
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 11:42, Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > On 6/21/05, Valeriu Cerchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine > > what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my > > internal DHCP). I wish to make a script to determine > > that by request.

Re: How do i find dynamic IP assigned?

2005-06-28 Thread Douglas Ward
On Tuesday 21 June 2005 16:39, Valeriu Cerchez wrote: > I'm trying to find out a(/n easy) way to determine > what is my dynamic IP assigned by my ISP (not my > internal DHCP). I wish to make a script to determine > that by request. > > I would greatly appreciate any suggestion. > Thanks, Val. > Th

Re: Crypto File System: Necessary patches

2005-06-28 Thread Douglas Ward
On Saturday 25 June 2005 20:53, nuno romano wrote: > I got the following warning trying to create a > crypto file system in hda10 partition of my > hard disk: I did -> > > modprobe cryptoloop > modprobe aes > > losetup -e aes-256 /dev/loop0 /dev/hda10 > Password: > ioctl: LOOP_SET_STATUS:

Re: Console Password Manager?

2004-12-26 Thread Douglas Ward
On 2004-Dec-21 23:19, Jacob S wrote: > > Except that my usb keychain was only $35 US. I'm still a little too > cheap to buy a Palm. One of these days I'll probably do that too, > though. > > And yes, I realize the security holes in using an unknown computer to > read passwords from a usb drive. I'

Re: Audio streaming

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
Gabriel Granger wrote: I'm want some audio files to be streamed from my webserver. I'm not after a playlist, I really just was the ability to stream audio so when someone click on a audio on my webserver it will stream rather then download and play. I'm looking into mod_mp3 for apache but i lo

Re: Xorg and apt-build

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
Didier Caamano wrote: Hello, I just installed debian testing, and went to install xorg and I apt-cache search didn't find it, went to the debian site and looked for packages and didn't find it there either. Is it xorg supported in Debian? if it's so, do I need to add any line to my source list? if

Re: cue2wav

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
Roberto Winter wrote: Hi all, I recently ran across some cue+mpc files and found out that there is no program on debian to burn them to disc. This is why I made a (fairly poor, I admit) script to be able to get the information from the cue file and split the mpc file into wavs so that I could recor

Re: k3b won't fully ackowledge a friends CDR/CDRW

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:31:11 -0800, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have an elderly woman, whom I installed debian sarge for. She now has a cdrwriter installed on her computer, but it fails to full recognize it. it shows the writer as a reader under all user

Re: Why no NTP client in default install?

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
Olaf van der Spek wrote: Hi, I installed Debian Sarge system with a Samba server and that went great. But I was just wondering, why is an NTP client not installed by default during such an install to make sure the time is in sync? It's more secure to provide a default install with no services run

Re: partition magic?

2004-12-02 Thread Douglas Ward
belahcene wrote: Hi every body, I have a machine with only ONE partion where win$ is installed, I want the equivalent of magicPartition ( something like diskdrake of mandrake on debian), either on windows or on linux ( to run it from knoppix) to create a new partition without loosing the co

Re: upgrading KDE

2004-11-12 Thread Douglas Ward
downtime null wrote: in my very bried testing, everything seems to be up to date and in working order now. I remember that, in 2002/3 when KDE 3.x was first released in Debian, there were problems for some users moving from 2.2->3.x, or kde.org packages -> official Debian packages; almost all of

Re: adduser problem

2004-10-10 Thread Douglas Ward
On Sunday, 10 October 2004 23:45, Jim Hall wrote: > Greetings, > snip > > The newspaper has been working on a series of articles about the > switchover from Windoze to Linux. Right now they're not very happy with > Debian. Is there anyone who offers paid, secure support for Debian? > Donation to th

Re: rekall doesn't work properly on debian

2004-09-13 Thread Douglas Ward
On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 00:18 -0700, Daniel M. wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I successfully compiled and instaled rekall 2.2.1 on Debian unstable (rekall is > a database front-end, similar to Microsoft's Access, see > http://www.rekallrevealed.org/), but the program is virtually unusable, since > i

Re: problem to connect by ssh in graphic mode session

2004-08-20 Thread Douglas Ward
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How i take control to my server with ssh in graphic mode, what command i need to use? my computer and my server used debian thank you for all your help I recently updated my remote access setup. You want vnc tunneled through ssh. (There is even a Java applet that will

Re: Help using Apt-Get

2004-08-20 Thread Douglas Ward
peaking of which, if someone wouldn't mind explaining the format of the sources.list file (the man page is unclear to me) I would be greatly appreciative. Thank You in Advance, David Bokan /etc/apt/apt.conf // Created by Douglas Ward 11 September 2002 APT::Architecture "i386"; // Th

Re: Orphaned libraries and programs

2004-08-10 Thread Douglas Ward
On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 07:27 +0530, P V Mathew wrote: > Hello > I am using Debian sid. I had also installed some packages and libraries > from original tar balls also. Now I think there are conflicts between some > installed libraries. > Is there any utility or option for dpkg which lists >

Re: Installing PHP and Apache on Debian

2004-08-08 Thread Douglas Ward
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 16:18 -0500, wrote: > Hi. > > I plan to install PHP and Apache on a new, virgin (remote) Debian server, with PHP > running as an Apache shared module. > Can I do that using "apt-get install"? Would I simply run "apt-get install php4" (is > that the correct notaton?) and wi