Re: Emails [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-07-24 Thread Harry Rickards
il > > You could try out googlegroups. This mailing list is available there > (linux.debian.user) and you could also use the web interface for > posting. That would also get rid of that annoying footer :) > > Regards, > Andrei You could also try gmane (IMHO the interface is bette

Re: Emails [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-07-24 Thread Harry Rickards
me's you're either not allowed, or can't (it's added on by the MTA (or is it MDA?)). - -- Thanks Harry Rickards GPG Key Info: pub 1024R/58449F6F 2009-06-12 uid Harry Rickards (OpenPGP Card) sub 1024R/D775CCEE 2009-06-12 sub 1024R/9394048C 2009-06-12

Re: FWD: Re: Network email draft

2009-07-23 Thread Harry Rickards
s list), someone will answer. - -- Thanks Harry Rickards GPG Key Info: pub 1024R/58449F6F 2009-06-12 uid Harry Rickards (OpenPGP Card) sub 1024R/D775CCEE 2009-06-12 sub 1024R/9394048C 2009-06-12 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuP

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-07-05 Thread Harry Rickards
On 5 Jul 2009, at 09:32, "Cybe R. Wizard" wrote: On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 02:37:32 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: Ubuntu is Debian Sid Lite pretending to be some other OS and GUI. Hal Debian Sid is using upstart now? What, only an option? Which is lite again? Cybe R. Wizard -- There is absolute

Re: Services / Runlevel editor

2009-06-27 Thread Harry Rickards
On 27 Jun 2009, at 17:45, kj wrote: Have a look at sysv-rc-conf - it's a ncurses interface that works in a similar way to the yast (ncurses version) runlevel editor. --kj +1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: BIND

2009-06-26 Thread Harry Rickards
e contents of your hosts file (cat /etc/hosts)? - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:58449F6F) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D G e* h! !r y? - -

Re: X-server restart console command

2009-06-24 Thread Harry Rickards
E; > > 2. I did try the same /ets/init.d/... just for KDE - and it refused saying, > that it is not running - nothing to restart. > > Did you do '/etc/init.d/gdm restart'? If so, you might be using kdm, so do '/etc/init.d/kdm restart'? - -- Many thanks Harry Ri

Re: Cheap Debian VPS servers

2009-06-22 Thread Harry Rickards
ut CheapVPS.co.uk are there, who are also owned by VaServ. Should I group all of them together under the parent company, VaServ (there's 4 companies under them). - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:58449F6F) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s:

Re: Join Debian Global Meeting Sunday June 21 using VOIP - BerkeleyTIP

2009-06-20 Thread Harry Rickards
SA = > 6P - 2A??? GMT - Daylight savings correction? +7 hours? > > at the BerkeleyTIP Global Free SW HW & Culture meeting > http://sites.google.com/site/berkeleytip/ > ... The GMT time is right. Only thing is that it should be BST (British Summer Time) not GMT, but the actu

[OT] Inline Evolution GPG/PGP Signing

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Rickards
/024704.html, but nothing seems to have been resolved. However, that was back in 2003. Also, I'd love to get away from a GUI mail client altogether, but I need to be able to view messages in a seperate frame. Is there a live preview feature in mutt or alpine? -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GP

Re: Gimp and unstable

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Rickards
;s (http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/libwebkit-1.0-1/download). It seems to work fine. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:58449F6F) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t

Re: equivalent to mepis-network

2009-06-13 Thread Harry Rickards
mmend wicd. > > /tony > +1. I actually just use /etc/network/interfaces at the moment, but when I did use a GUI, I found wicd to be the best. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:58449F6F) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C U

Re: SQL Syntax Error '????????????????'

2009-06-13 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/13/09 09:39, David Psiuk wrote: > please post some javacode. thx > > > Harry Rickards schrieb: > I've written some sample code in Java that connects to localhost using > the MySQL JDBC. I've tried multiple vari

Re: [OT] SQL Syntax Error '????????????????'

2009-06-10 Thread Harry Rickards
On 10 Jun 2009, at 23:32, "s. keeling" wrote: Harry Rickards : I know this is off-topic, but I don't really want to have to subscribe to or constantly read the MySQL mailing lists, and the IRC channel's no help. Search the archives: groups.google.com &

Re: Ctrl-Alt-Backspace disabled?

2009-06-08 Thread Harry Rickards
On 8 Jun 2009, at 18:58, widux wrote: Am Montag 08 Juni 2009 19:34:24 schrieb Jan Willem Stumpel: Andrei Popescu wrote: (about getting ctl-alt-backspace back): You need Option"DontZap" "false" in the ServerFlags section of your xorg.conf (check the manpage for xorg.conf, I'm writing fro

Re: Listing held packages for which there are upgrades

2009-06-08 Thread Harry Rickards
des. I can miss an email on occasion and not have > to worry about missing an irreplaceable message. > > Thank you. > > Karl > Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." > -- Robert A. Heinlein > > - -- Many thanks Harry

[OT] SQL Syntax Error '????????????????'

2009-06-08 Thread Harry Rickards
ied STFW, but I can't find anyone with a similar problem. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06A) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D--

Fwd: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-02 Thread Harry Rickards
Sorry, I forgot to send it to the list. On 2 Jun 2009, at 20:07, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,02.Jun.09, 16:27:18, Harry Rickards wrote: While I use Thunderbird, some people use CLI-based mail clients such as alpine or mutt. In these, HTML shows up as the actual HTML code. Not unless

Re: [OT] Gmail posters! turn off html!

2009-06-02 Thread Harry Rickards
uggestions? > > - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06A) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D G e* h! !r y? - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-

Re: setting a static ip for my lenny box

2009-05-30 Thread Harry Rickards
92.168.2.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.2.150 I don't have a wireless key as I can never get the rt73usb module to work with either WEP or WPA. I'm working on it though, so don't rant on at me about how insecure it is. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-28 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/28/09 08:58, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:59:32PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 05/27/09 17:57, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>> On W

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/09 17:57, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:19:17AM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > >> I admit that instead of just doing 'man whatever', I pipe it through >> less with 'man whatever|le

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/09 16:39, Harry Rickards wrote: > On 05/27/09 11:54, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Harry Rickards wrote: >>> On 05/27/09 10:20, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>>> rand...@songshu.org wrote: >>>>>

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/09 11:54, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: >> >> On 05/27/09 10:20, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>> rand...@songshu.org wrote: >>>> most new users don't now the existence of t

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
rs, > Johannes > > I use proper Firefox (3.5b4) instead of iceweasel, but when I enter "man:whatever" it opens up gnome-help with the appropriate man page. man:startx works, but man:rtfm doesn't. I can get to rtfm in gnome-help, so maybe I just have to restart Firefox or so

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
with a ':' which I'm more used to from vi/vim. >> I guess after a while they will find out that they can get more accurate >> information for their system in an easy fashion if they just do 'man' or >> 'man -k' from the CLI. > >> Cheers,

Re: Thank you!

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
u've got into the most famous gnu/linux distribution. :) It may not be the most famous distro, but IMHO it's certainly the best one. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06A) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Harry Rickards
; Bern / Rome / Stockholm / Vienna > Subject: Re: Debian Linux > > Harry Rickards wrote: >> Someone definitely needs to make a rtfm.com version, that redirects you >> to the appropriate manual page. :D > > Try that for a start > > http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=man+rtfm&

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-26 Thread Harry Rickards
ow if Debian Linix is compatible with a HP >>> Proliant DL360 G5 server? >> >> I can resist. >> http://tinyurl.com/ort4zu > > Okay, that is just too cool. :) > Someone definitely needs to make a rtfm.com version, that redirects you to the appropriate manual pag

Re: Correct sudoers file configuration

2009-05-26 Thread Harry Rickards
I thought sudo was meant to use your password, not the root/sudo password? If you want to change that behaviour, use the following line at the start of the file: Defaults:rootpw Hope that works - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06A) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 G

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
ut of the music like MP3s tend to do. If you jailbreak it, vlc4iphone does a great job of playing most media files. I think mplayer plays ogg's as well. Thanks Harry Rickards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: mass conversion from ogg to mp3

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
ms.org/archive/index.php/t-299969.html. You'll obvously have to have lame and oggdec installed. Alternatively use ffmpeg: ls *.ogg | while read file; do echo $file ffmpeg -i "$file" -acodec mp3 "$file"\.mp3 done - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06A

Re: Alt-F7 fails

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
> Regards, Jan > > > Thanks for the great writeup. I'd previously heard murmurings about this 'New Input System', but until reading that didn't know anything about it in detail. Am I right in thinking that this 'New Input System' is in Ubuntu as well, and has been si

Re: KDE is now broken (Fwd: Heads-up: KDE4 hitting testing tonight (UTC) )

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
+1. I use Openbox and before I bogged it down with a load of custom themes, login scripts etc I had an instant login. I typed my username and password and I was ready to go. That's on the same machine that took 3 - 5 minutes to login when I had KDE4 installed. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards

Re: hanging up for the previous P2P user

2009-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
verything you've said, if the torrent client were to send a sign-off signal to all nodes connected to it which would then in turn *immediately* rebroadcast that to all the nodes connected to it, wouldn't it still be a decentralised network but with no problem's like the OP's? Alt

Re: Why burning ISO of a multisession disc results in a disc that doesn't have multisession?

2009-05-24 Thread Harry Rickards
dvd1 later with Brasero. > > 2. I was NOT able to do so in dvd2. When I inserted dvd2, Brasero > never showed this as a media to which I can wrote. > > Why? > > - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a?

Re: Burning DVDs on GNome of Debian Testing (Squeeze) ?

2009-05-24 Thread Harry Rickards
. Contrary to the name, cdrecord does support burning DVD's. To create an iso from a disc, use dd. e.g, dd if=/dev/cdrom of=isofile.iso You could probably also swap the input and output around, and use dd if=isofile.iso of=/dev/cdrom to burn an iso to disc. I&

Re: Choosing my own GTK theme

2009-05-23 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/09 18:19, T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 23 May 2009 09:28:51 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > >>> I just found out that the GTK themes look different in my account than >>> it should. E.g., the bg_color for the Crux

Re: Where are the GTK local conf files

2009-05-23 Thread Harry Rickards
x > or gnome. > > Thanks > Try deleting .gtk-bookmarks, .gtkrc-2.0 and .gtkrc-2.0-custom. If that doesn't work and you're using GDM, run 'sudo gdmsetup' from a terminal, and see what file is next to the GtkRC file. Then delete that. Not sure if that works with

Re: Meaning of "score" when looking for package solutions

2009-05-23 Thread Harry Rickards
score that is too low will be immediately rejected) the bigger the number is better because the lower the number is the more chance aptitude won't allow it. Basically what you said but for a person with their IQ roughly 10 x GB of RAM in their PC. :) - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards - -B

Re: Where are you

2009-05-18 Thread Harry Rickards
On 19 May 2009, at 04:45, "Santhosh Loganathan" > wrote: snipped Try reading the Decleration of Indpendence of Cyberspace, in particular the 10th paragraph. That should give you a pretty good idea of where we are. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: What is the preferred way to install packages from testing/unstable in stable?

2009-05-17 Thread Harry Rickards
/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free' to your sources.list. You'll then need to update ('aptitude update') as usual, and specify to install from backports for the package you want. e.g, 'aptitude -t lenny-backports install package-you-want' Hope that was of som

Re: Google is catching URLs from Input Forms

2009-05-15 Thread Harry Rickards
; HTTP/1.1" 200 2115 "-" "Mediapartners-Google" > > Does someone know more about it? > > Same thing count for AdWords and the other stuff... > > Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening > Michelle Konzack > Systemadministrator > Tamay Dogan Ne

Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current?

2009-05-14 Thread Harry Rickards
r. > Alternatively can setup /etc/network/interfaces (if you mainly use 1 network). Then if X refuses to start up, you still have automatically configured net access. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L

Re: Using terminal output as input

2009-05-14 Thread Harry Rickards
You can install it by typing: > sudo apt-get install ekiga > bash: ekiga: command not found > $ > > In contrast to the "which" example, the text that the user needs is > buried in the output. Is there a way to use it anyway, without > retyping (and without using t

Re: I can not set up postfix to send email through SSL-connection

2009-05-14 Thread Harry Rickards
ur time, again. If it's big, try using Pastebin (http://pastebin.com/). Thanks Harry Rickards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Current WM - Lenny

2009-05-12 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/09 09:11, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009, Harry Rickards wrote: > >> On 12 May 2009, at 08:02, Miguel Obliviemo wrote: >> >>> What is Lenny's default window manager? >>> >>

Re: Current WM - Lenny

2009-05-12 Thread Harry Rickards
d when you login choose it from Options > Sessions. You'll then be asked if you wish to make whatever you chose the default. There's also a way to do it by running #gdm-setup or something similar. Hope I was of help Harry Rickards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Debian's glacial movement--a rant

2009-05-11 Thread Harry Rickards
thing wrong, I haven't been reading this thread in detail. But, does the OP just require someone to build a gnucash deb package for stable, with the version in unstable? Again, sorry if I'm completely wrong. Thanks Harry Rickards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: [Debian-uk] ftp.uk.debian.org ill?

2009-05-10 Thread Harry Rickards
On 10 May 2009, at 20:22, Philip Hands wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 02:41:57PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/09 12:09, Julian Gilbey wrote: Is it my imagination, or is ftp.uk.debian.org missing a *lot* of binary packages at the moment

Re: IceApe on Lenny

2009-05-10 Thread Harry Rickards
t; I only see iceape-dev and iceape-dev-bin. Where did you install that one > from? - From the looks of packages.debian.org, it's only avaliable for Etch. Try using dpkg to install http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/i/iceape/iceape-browser_1.0.13~pre080614i-0etch1_i386.deb. - --

Re: [Debian-uk] ftp.uk.debian.org ill?

2009-05-10 Thread Harry Rickards
list seems to be very quiet, I've also CC'ed this to the debian-user list/ - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI

Re: Encrypting incoming messages with GnuPG

2009-05-10 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/10/09 13:17, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Harry, > > On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 11:14:14AM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: >> I was wondering if anyone knew of a way, perhaps using /etc/aliases, so >> that all incoming mail add

Re: Untrusted packages

2009-05-10 Thread Harry Rickards
brar > > > So I'm not sure why I'm getting these warnings. What do I need to do to > correct these warnings? > > Thanks, > Mike > > What repository are you installing these packages from? Cat your sources.list for us, and copy it into Pastebin. (cat /etc

Re: Encrypting incoming messages with GnuPG

2009-05-09 Thread Harry Rickards
se as an IMAP server. Thunderbird connects to that. Thanks Harry Rickards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Encrypting incoming messages with GnuPG

2009-05-09 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/09 19:34, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Harry Rickards [2009-05-09 18:24:37 +0100]: > > >> When piping stuff to it from the command line it works fine, but when >> sending a test email to gpm...@l33tmyst.com I get a blank

Re: Encrypting incoming messages with GnuPG

2009-05-09 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/09 19:08, James Richardson wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 05/09/09 18:24, Harry Rickards wrote: >>> On 05/09/09 18:05, Harry Rickards wrote: &g

Re: Encrypting incoming messages with GnuPG

2009-05-09 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/09 18:24, Harry Rickards wrote: > On 05/09/09 18:05, Harry Rickards wrote: >> On 05/09/09 17:42, Dave Patterson wrote: >>> * Harry Rickards [2009-05-09 11:14:14 +0100]: >>>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- &

Re: Encrypting incoming messages with GnuPG

2009-05-09 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/09 18:05, Harry Rickards wrote: > On 05/09/09 17:42, Dave Patterson wrote: >> * Harry Rickards [2009-05-09 11:14:14 +0100]: > >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>>

Re: Encrypting incoming messages with GnuPG

2009-05-09 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/09 17:42, Dave Patterson wrote: > * Harry Rickards [2009-05-09 11:14:14 +0100]: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I was wondering if anyone knew of a way, perhaps using /etc/aliases

Re: Debian testing

2009-05-09 Thread Harry Rickards
pgrade from Lenny (stable) to Squeeze (testing) though, so you're not skipping any releases. I know that's the reccomended way to do it in Ubuntu. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL

Encrypting incoming messages with GnuPG

2009-05-09 Thread Harry Rickards
myst.com's inbox. Thunderbird downloads the message and decrypts it with my private key, leaving me with the plain text. Sorry if I wasn't very clear. Thanks - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C+++

Re: Laptop woes - Black background is now pure red.

2009-05-08 Thread Harry Rickards
e uploaded a few screenshots at: > > www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fckw/ > > Thanks, > CJ > The screenshots look normal to us, try taking them with a camera. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d?

Re: testing update today hosed aptitude!

2009-05-06 Thread Harry Rickards
pt package! (I'm on an amd64 system, which may be the difference.) > And 'apt-get -f install' just wants to re-upgrade the apt package I > just downgraded. > > Patrick > > IMHO, it looks as though you need to downgrade apt-utils. I may be wrong, but it looks as

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-05 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/09 09:39, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Harry Rickards: >> On 4 May 2009, at 22:12, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> You are probably looking for something like xsetroot. I have no idea >>> how openbox handles background ima

Re: Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-05 Thread Harry Rickards
On 4 May 2009, at 22:12, Jochen Schulz wrote: Harry Rickards: I just thought I'd tell everyone about the great experience I've had recently with debootstrap. Congratulations! I used deboostrap once to install Debian on a remote machine via SSH using only the swap partition as t

Great experience with debootstrap

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
is a menu) always stays an ugly shade of grey. Is there a way to somehow change this to the nicer colour used in Ubuntu (and I think also a GNOME or XFCE install of Debian)? I know in Ubuntu this was provided by the ubuntu-artwork package. Thanks. Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmy

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
On 4 May 2009, at 21:01, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,04.May.09, 19:10:44, Harry Rickards wrote: Sorry, yeah I was thinking of aptitude as in 'aptitude install bash', not aptitude as the gui-based tool. aptitude search interesting_package Yeah, there's that as wel

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: > >> But if they can run aptitude in the first place, surely they could >> either su to root or use sudo to read or delete the files. Just my opinion. > > Aptitude doesn't

Re: Bientôt en librairie (Soon in Booksho ps)

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
translated, and then I thought I might as well post it so everyone else didn't have to translate the spam. I won't qoute spam from now on, thanks for the pointer. Sorry if I annoyed anyone. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1

Re: Bientôt en librairie (Soon in Bookshops)

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
tor, haunted by his text, which turns on his life as a book to rewrite. In the confusing world of the time believed, conformism bowed to the singular voice of Azza Filali, simple and décalé, always with humor, which distills clarity a bit dull, like a light back on our society. " The hours of r

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: > >> Have you tried configuring Outlook to send in plain text by default, >> using the instructions at http://www.expita.com/nomime.html#out2002? > > Read my signature mor

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
different experience when the Control key is in the right > place. > Is that why GNU Screen uses Crl-A Whatever to perform actions, because the Control key should be to the left of the A key? - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GA

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Barclay, Daniel wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 07:30:25AM EDT, Harry Rickards wrote: > >> Plus, even though emacs does other stuff apart from editing, what can >> emacs do that a separate tool can't do? > > It can i

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> jida...@jidanni.org wrote: >>> Why must emacs depend on sound packages? Is emacs >>> http://en.wi

Re: debian and ubuntu - answer from user not pretending to be guru

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
files inside > the user's home directory, including files the user might not be able to > read and/or delete. > But if they can run aptitude in the first place, surely they could either su to root or use sudo to read or delete the files. Just my opinion. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickard

Re: A way to automatically share latest Debian CD/DVD images via torrent

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
; > You could also manually use the torrent files from http://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X

Re: Change location of SSH Private Key

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Harry Rickards: >> I was wondering whether it was possible to give a path to the SSH >> Private Key in the ~/.ssh/config config file, instead of having to give >> it as an option. I can't find anythin

Change location of SSH Private Key

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering whether it was possible to give a path to the SSH Private Key in the ~/.ssh/config config file, instead of having to give it as an option. I can't find anything by RTFM, or STFW. Thanks. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33

Re: Package search in local repository

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
code on the Debian package search, and the Ubuntu package search. See http://packages.ubuntu.com/about/ for more info on that. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++

Re: A way to automatically share latest Debian CD/DVD images via torrent

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
bytes/sec) or Mb (Megabits/sec). As I say, I'd been interested in doing it, but may have to limit it to using only 200GB of my bandwidth per month or something. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-03 Thread Harry Rickards
/BSD? (Something I'd find very amusing, by the way.) > > mrc > > If I run GNU Emacs, GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), GNUnet, MinGW (Minimalist GNU for Windows) etc on Windows, does that mean I have to call it GNU/Windows? :D - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tm

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-03 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Scott wrote: > > On May 2, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Harry Rickards wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> John Hasler wrote: >>> Harry Rickards writes: >>>> Plus, even

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-02 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: > Harry Rickards writes: >> Plus, even though emacs does other stuff apart from editing, what can >> emacs do that a separate tool can't do? Surely if emacs is more than an >> editor, it doesn't follow

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-02 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Jones wrote: > On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 07:30:25AM EDT, Harry Rickards wrote: ... >> Plus, even though emacs does other stuff apart from editing, what can >> emacs do that a separate tool can't do? Surely if emacs is more t

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-02 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, sent it to Chris Jones, not the list by mistake. - Original Message Subject: Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages? Date: Sat, 02 May 2009 12:27:06 +0100 From: Harry Rickards To: Chris Jones References: <87hc04v

Re: why must emacs depend on sound packages?

2009-05-01 Thread Harry Rickards
ll an emacs without sound packages? > Even the nox version depends on them. Does emacs say things more than > "beep" often? > > I don't want to turn this into a flamewar, but couldn't you use another editor, like vi, vim, nano, pico or ed? - -- Many thanks Harr

Re: can't install xfdesktop from unstable

2009-04-28 Thread Harry Rickards
g to be uploaded to unstable, but I can't find it now (should have noted > it, I know). > > Any tips? > I'm no expert with apt stuff by any means, but you could try using aptitude, as everyone seems to say it can resolve dependencies better than apt-get. - -- Many thanks Har

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting Felix Miata : On 2009/04/24 16:54 (GMT+0100) Harry Rickards composed: Try installing the sysv-rc-config tool (with apt-get install sysv-rc-config or aptitude install sysv-rc-config), and run sysv-rc-config as superuser (root.). If you're using gdm as you're login manager,

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Felix Miata wrote: > On 2009/04/24 16:54 (GMT+0100) Harry Rickards composed: > >> Try installing the sysv-rc-config tool (with apt-get install >> sysv-rc-config or aptitude install sysv-rc-config), and run >> sysv-rc-config

Re: Boot Debian to a command line and prevent X from starting on boot

2009-04-24 Thread Harry Rickards
vel (who -r), or if you're using a different login manager remove the appropriate entry. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: Can't change brightness on HP Compaq 6715b laptop

2009-04-13 Thread Harry Rickards
On 13 Apr 2009, at 21:16, Klistvud wrote: Dne ponedeljek 13 april 2009 ob 21:17:12 je Klistvud napisal(a): Hiya, since I installed my fresh Lenny system several days ago, this thing has been bugging me: although the brightness buttons "work", ie the brightness slider/icon appears onscre

Re: [imp] Mod_env and mod_setenvif

2009-04-12 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting LALOT Dominique : That's rather an apache question: disable your modules apacha2ctl -t If the config is OK, then apache2ctl restart. ... Thanks, I did that and it worked. However, I use init for apache, so to restart I did /etc/init.d/apache2 restart. Thanks Harry -- Contact i

Re: after usermod can not su to root

2009-04-11 Thread Harry Rickards
On 11 Apr 2009, at 18:58, zhang zhengquan wrote: Dear debian users, I used to use islanddancer as username to login to my sid laptop. and islanddancer is in sudoers file. today I changed it to zhengquan using sudo usermod -l zhengquan islanddancer I did nothing else. Now I can login us

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-10 Thread Harry Rickards
On 10 Apr 2009, at 21:51, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 07:54, Harry Rickards wrote: On 10 Apr 2009, at 15:46, "Douglas A. Tutty" wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:37:28PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Here's the reply I received from Startech.

Re: USB PCI card to buy

2009-04-10 Thread Harry Rickards
On 10 Apr 2009, at 15:46, "Douglas A. Tutty" wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 05:37:28PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: Here's the reply I received from Startech. Hi Doug, Both chipsets (Nvidia and NEC) are natively supported in the Linux = kernel since 2.4.x, but we do not directly support these

Re: The tools through which a bunch of servers can be easily set up and maintained - wanted.

2009-04-10 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting Strong and Humble : Thank You for Your reply, Harry: You could try webmin or ebox. But it is not in repo: $ sudo apt-get install webmin ebox Package webmin is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is o

Re: are these hacks?

2009-04-09 Thread Harry Rickards
Quoting Rick Pasotto : On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:07:59PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: On 9 Apr 2009, at 17:40, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:29:26PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: On 9 Apr 2009, at 17:20, Rick Pasotto wrote: Occasionally on some websites I visit

Re: are these hacks?

2009-04-09 Thread Harry Rickards
On 9 Apr 2009, at 17:40, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 05:29:26PM +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: On 9 Apr 2009, at 17:20, Rick Pasotto wrote: Occasionally on some websites I visit daily I'll get one of two incorrect results: 1) The home page for www.sogosearch.com 2) A

Re: are these hacks?

2009-04-09 Thread Harry Rickards
On 9 Apr 2009, at 17:20, Rick Pasotto wrote: Occasionally on some websites I visit daily I'll get one of two incorrect results: 1) The home page for www.sogosearch.com 2) A page with nothing but the words "It works!" on it There is no pattern. It could happen on a refresh of a page or when

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