On Thursday 06 January 2005 21:21, Carl Fink wrote:
> On a newly-updated Sarge system I'm now finding a totally broken
> Konqueror.
No - you're finding a Konqueror built for old versions of the libraries you
just upgraded. Log out and back in and you should be OK.
-
athtaking (although admittedly pretty boring in parts), since the
landscape was completely and utterely different than what I'd grown up with
at the edge of the Ozark Mountains.
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uthwest South Dakota (Rushmore and all that).
We drove up to South Dakota and across to Rapid City, Mt. Rushmore, and the
Badlands over the summer. That was some of the most beautiful country I've
ever seen.
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M broadcast to see what's out there on
> the air when travelling through new places in the States.
I still do that. I always think it's neat to find out that I'm picking up a
station from Fargo, or Rapid City, or Chicago.
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the south and west portions.
> SWA #2062 crosses over its length in about an hour on the way from MDW
> to OAK =)
Smartass. :-)
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$ rm -rf /tmp/foo
Back in the original shell:
$ ls -la
total 0
$ pwd
/tmp/foo
$ cd $PWD
cd: no such file or directory: /tmp/foo
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nd I couldn't reach
> her by phone (dialup), so I drove over and there she was, in her UNDERWEAR
> sitting in front of the computer.
Is she cute?
DARN! Too many years on IRC/Slashdot/Fark have made that a reflex. Sorry
'bout that.
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t.
That is irrational, unsupported, and completely orthogonal to any of the
topics being discussed. As such, I will not reply further to such pointless
(and inaccurate) musings.
Please excuse me while I return to installing (purchased) Win2K on a
(purchased) copy of VMWare.
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d maintainers find it less attractive than working with and on
other, Freer counterparts.
> Or are you one of the less-than-clued who thinks you can't pay for software?
Are you a jackass who paints his car in polka-dots?
Seriously, where'd that ad-hominem non-sequitur co
y identical programs (ie
'display' from ImageMagick) that are Free and available through the normal
Debian channels.
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On Monday 13 December 2004 05:35 pm, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> actually I only saw that spew as I was looking for bug reports.
>
> My regards to the slashdotters.
I hate to ask, but: what spew?
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cs
card that's only supported by X.org (since manufacturers are loudly and
publically switching to support that distribution), or you want to use a
system that's still being actively developed, then you're pretty much stuck
upgrading to X.org.
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On Wednesday 08 December 2004 12:51, Roelof Wobben wrote:
> Is X.org better than Xfree ??
Yes.
> Does someone has X.org getting on work with debian Sarge ??
If you're asking if X.org will be packaged for Sarge: yes, although it might
take a while.
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you in the first place. In effect, each program thinks
that it owns the entire machine.
> You think this guy is a CompSci student with just enough knowledge
> to be dangerous?
I kind of got that idea. :)
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;.
> Files could be accessed by partially mapping them to memory.
See "man 2 mmap" for details.
> Anyway, if anyone would comment on any of this vapourware, I'd like to
> hear it - off the list if you think it's too off topic.
Sorry, but your ideas have pretty much already been implemented (and in some
cases discarded). :-/
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s anyone set this up under a testing Debian system? Can this (or
> another printer) be recommended?
I have an HP Laserjet 1200 and absolutely love it. It's fast, barely sips
toner, can easily have its memory upgrade, and speaks Postscript natively.
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t;testing".
Did you upgrade your entire system or just select packages? I ask because
I've seen no KDE instability on my sid system in many months.
> What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to
> testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a reinstall?
T
am's internals, you can probably get a much more accurate answer.
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blank line to the end of the crontab. Basically, cron really wants
the last character of the file to be a newline.
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ompletely happy with
it. What would make me *happier* is to see a conduit that synced SplashID
with the KDE wallet manager. The happiest solution for me would be that
conduit syncing with a Free password manager that works as well as
SplashID.
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ese things go,
but the answer was "it's not for sale" instead of "the offer is too low".
Personally, I'm *glad* that it all happened just the way it did.
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to be silent on playback, regardless of what
permutations of the steps above I've messed with. Any pointers on how I
can get started with this?
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more mundane level, I don't have a USB
> cable, and I remember them costing more than a completely trivial amount.
I'm sure you can get one for $5 or less.
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ce you're describing. Also, I'd strongly consider migrating to
using the USB interface if at all possible - it really is much faster
(and typically better-behaved) than parallel.
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On Monday 20 September 2004 17:07, Marc Wilson wrote:
> Uh, that's a CUPS back-end, not the hardware directly. The port itself
> cannot consume CPU. Well, it can, but not in the sense that you mean.
In what way do *you* think it can consume CPU?
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> that the post I was reponding to mentioned.
I take it you're using POP3 to read your email. IMAP works basically the same
way as NNTP, so there's no clear win either way.
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no distinction between
mail and news. I had several "topics" with Usenet and IMAP folders
intermixed in alphabetical order and there was no visible difference in
their appearance. If you've used bad mail clients, then it's time to find
better ones.
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st of the site; in effect, they have their own unique
namespace to work in.
I've been using TWiki for years and I love it.
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env python
# Copyright 2004 by Kirk Strauser. BSD licence, etc.
import os
import re
mailboxes = {
'mailserver.example.com':
{ 'ham' : 'INBOX.spam.train.ham',
'spam': 'INBOX.spam.train.spam', }
}
learncmd = 'fetchmail %(o
but what part of one Debian user sending a free
list of coveted invitations to a popular service to other Debian users
constitutes Spam in your opinion?
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s trying to do a nice thing my passing them out to his
friends and those who have helped him.
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talled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1779kB of archives. After unpacking 6128kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.
I don't have Apache installed, and fwbuilder doesn't require it.
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On Wednesday 18 August 2004 02:39 pm, stan wrote:
> Am I missisng something here?
Yes: telling us the size of your / directory so that we can decide whether it
was too small. :)
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/bin/sh
# Xsession - run as user
# invoke global X session script
. /etc/X11/Xsession
and log back in to get the environment you're used to having.
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> sprintf(configfile,"%s/%s",home,cfgfile);
>
> I'm sure someone can do better (and be more creative :)
I'm partial to:
if not os.getenv('HOME') or not cfgfile:
raise ForgotToSetConfigfileError
return '%s/%s' % (os.getenv(
xy. That way, there's no penalty of downloading more packages than
needed, but additional hosts benefit from the packages already downloaded
by earlier hosts.
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rday afternoon and haven't had time to refine it yet. :)
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nd solely to run Quickbooks Pro.
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kages but leaving them in
the package database.
If there were unused packages that were causing problems, then, sure, I'd
delete them. That hasn't been a problem for me, though.
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space. Even if I could cut that
in half, I'd be saving about $1.50 worth of space at a cost of hundreds of
dollars of time.
I used to be obsessed with clean drives before I upgraded the 120MB Connor
in my Amiga. Since then, I haven't spent much time worrying about it.
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ticket).
Oh, and disable root logins while you're at it if you haven't already.
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about.
I won't go so far as to recommend disabling HT (although plenty of people
suggest exactly that), but don't expect big gains from having it.
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les to see if they're there.
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> to the list for lack of time and they were very grateful and happy. It
> saved them a lot of time.
Great! I'm glad it was helpful.
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enable/disable this behavior would live,
whether through a GUI or by editing a text file?
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On Friday 16 July 2004 16:37, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> This was kind of a pain in the neck, so I'm collecting my experiences into
> one Googleable post for the sake of the next person.
I added a modified version of this post to my wiki at
http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/vie
On Friday 16 July 2004 16:43, Ryan Waye wrote:
> Thanks for the controbution, I actually will probably end up using that
> in a couple of days.
Cool. Let me/us know how well it works out for you.
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see Debian's bug database for details), then I have to log in to another
machine, SSH into my workstation, and fix things from there. This isn't
conducive to easy adminstration.
Any ideas?
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made sure that both of those
commands are run at login so that my mouse settings are always available.
Although each step turned out to be pretty easy and logical, they weren't
terribly obvious to me at first. I thought I'd save others the aggravation
by sharing the steps that worked for me. In a nutshell, if you're
considering a multi-button mouse or trackball but don't know if you could
use all of the extra buttons, the answer is probably "yes". For my
Microsoft Trackball Optical, that's definitely true.
Enjoy!
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On Friday 16 July 2004 11:45, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> This is in unstable ;-)
Excellent! And did you happen to notice if it support Postscript printing
as the original poster asked? ;-)
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you pipe it's output into less (or more):
$ command | less
Et voila! You get the output one page at a time.
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remote
(Samba, CUPS, IPP, LPD) printer. It saves the setup to the local CUPS
config file, so even if you don't use KDE it's a nice way to bootstrap your
system.
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to be much larger than the standard pointer, they seem to be
significantly bigger in practice.
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On Thursday 2004-07-15 08:59 pm, dircha wrote:
> Albeit you never would have guessed there is a package to do it. I
> didn't either, so I went to Google first.
>
> Give the big-cursor package a try; works for me.
D'oh! I can't believe I missed that.
ter. Where should I look for
that setting?
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is one of the signs of some person whom this world
> needs. So, I have have a sub-menu in my pR0n Coll^W^W tech-docs just
> related to your stuff.
That's very kind of you, Greg. Thank you for the encouragement.
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al config
to the version on the site. I updated the second line to
"check_recipient_access" on the webpage.
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d me to make a long-overdue change that I kept meaning to
add but hadn't gotten around to. I just inserted sender and recipient
access lists to the ruleset to explicitly white- or blacklist individual
senders or destination addresses.
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you and their other legitimate
customers, but it seems as though the blacklist is returning accurate
information. I trust that you're not a spammer, but my mailserver has a
pretty good (and seemingly valid) reason to believe that mail originating
from your netblock is likely to be spam.
purposes, I no longer receive spam. I am so completely
thrilled with these filters' performance that I wanted to share the good
news. :)
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ing about 600 emails and
1 spam (yes, one) per day. In other words, I don't seem to be having any
false positives at all.
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> /etc/crontab
Huh? Try /var/spool/cron/crontabs/$USER instead.
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v1.0, 2004/01/05, Florin Andrei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thank him for posting it, if you will, but note that he didn't claim to have
written it.
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way I would've told my boss to spend this much on a PHP web
forum. :)
> and more smileys ... :-)
Received loud and clear. :)
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On Tuesday 2004-06-29 09:32 am, John Summerfield wrote:
> Did you not observe the smiley?
Sure, but I've heard people make that argument in all seriousness, and the
smiley doesn't necessarily mean that Alvin disagreed with what he was
saying.
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On Monday 2004-06-28 10:48 am, Brendan Halpin wrote:
> but not Emacs->Firefox.
>
> In extremis, I use the xclipboard but this is really inconvenient.
> Any ideas?
Have you tried explicitly yanking from the Emacs buffer with M-w?
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eaves our network unless we want it
to, and we can put free encryption on it so that messages from salespeople
out in the field can't be intercepted by our Internet company."
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want. Drag them to the shell and click
"paste" on the window that pops up. That pastes the names of all the files
you've selected into the shell's command line. Hit ^A to go to the
beginning of the line, type your command, and be happy. :)
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(which I wouldn't debate, up to a point).
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where a gig of memory
doesn't give you enough headroom to run some eye candy?
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I've yet to get one with a working battery, so I've never
personally experienced that problem. :)
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$ refugees but I don't like them
> myself.
Be nice, now. I haven't touched a Windows system in months, and haven't
really used one regularly since the '90s. I'm hardly what you'd call a "M$
refugee" but I love KDE
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cal Samba shares (and vice versa).
Those things are obviously *possible* from a text shell, but Konqueror makes
the process a lot easier.
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ls to handle a specific task.
Other applications use the same KParts to do the same tasks. To me, it
seems like a very elegant Unix-ish way of doing things. Noone complains
that a shell script is "bloated" because it implements all of the
functionality of sed, grep, and cat.
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m the way I use one.
Of course, my main file manager is Konsole and Zsh, so most of this is
academic on my part. :)
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t, and
Konqueror open for a couple of weeks at a time.
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At 2004-06-12T16:01:16Z, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I had no problems, neither on ppc nor on i386 ;-)
Now close your KDE session and log back in. Welcome to our world. :)
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gest catch, the system is old.
Do you have to run the browser on the machine itself? Since you're
apparently wanting to network it, can you use it as a thin client to a
beefier host located elsewhere?
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Of course, it's rumored that "E17" will be the official front-end to
GNU/Hurd (with a corresponding release schedule), and may incorporate
elements of Duke Nukem Forever.
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of how much money he wants to
launder.
My inbox thanks you.
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is under no obligation to
package every GNU utility (although I can't think of any good reasons not
to).
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onalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: evolutionPerson
but Evolution formats and presents it as expected.
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? You can write a sed script that only
prints a few specific items this way.
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At 2004-05-12T16:11:35Z, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm going to be in Omaha, NE, USA on May 14 and 15 (Friday and Saturday).
> Anyone want to get together to trade PGP/GPG signatures?
Furthermore, since I have roughly 12 hours to kill on those two days, I
could
idered harmful" for the most commonly given answer
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I'm going to be in Omaha, NE, USA on May 14 and 15 (Friday and Saturday).
Anyone want to get together to trade PGP/GPG signatures?
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At 2004-05-11T19:31:44Z, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> anybody know any more about this
Novell bought Ximian, so they'd be the ones to support it.
> and its compatibility with debian?
There's a Debian package for Evolution.
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At 2004-05-07T15:29:23Z, "Michal R. Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> wow, it was great, simple and useful. Although it was not my question,
> thank you too :)
Thanks for the nice comments. :)
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At 2004-05-03T18:46:36Z, Patrick House <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any way at all to recover this?
Got that backup tape handy?
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are you converting to it?
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At 2004-04-08T16:20:02Z, Kirk Strauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I guess I'd have to agree. Debian's ntp installer seems to do a reasonable
> job, although I'd like to see it suggest using "pool.ntp.org" as the default
> server name.
Oops! I gue
r
> timekeeping than calling ntpdate every so often, when configured to control
> the host clock's time drift.
Gotcha.
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ey're
different?
I use and like ntpd, but I'm always open to new things.
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At 2004-04-08T01:24:42Z, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:03:09AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>> Hmmm, you may be onto something. I don't have /dev/scsi at all, although
>> my CDROM *is* visible under
t-all' script to see
what devices udev is analyzing and noted a conspicuous lack of any SCSI or
IDE devices that weren't hard drives. Guess I'll file a bug report or two
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's that Unicode installer coming along?
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