Re: Digital signing of printed documents

ou'll know if the receipt they're presenting is correct. In other words, the paper is just something for the records of pre-digital folk, and not something you really care about. -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgp8HBSGHA2l8.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Digital signing of printed documents

ack of 2**80 operations based on the hash length. > > but.. 2**69 however, is still quite strong [1] ;-) My worry with SHA-1 is that, beyond being weaker than first thought, it has a flaw that wasn't originally known. Makes me wonder what else might be wrong with it that they inven

Re: ntfs access on debian

ited way that you specify, or network via Samba. Samba would also be an option if you had a second machine to run the windows instance on, but I'm guessing you don't. There are probably a number of other options that I can't think of right now :) -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpJKRThf9h79.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: uninstall PHP5.

at php5 installed earlier. Hope it helps. Good luck :) -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpwUPXwMkfew.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: encrypting the users' folders

On Sunday 03 Jul 2005 09:29, Steve Lamb wrote: > Lee Braiden wrote: > > root needs to be responsible, trustworthy, and trusted. Since root can > > do virtually anything, it makes no sense to *try* to hide things from > > him/her. The best you can do is to obscure thing

Re: encrypting the users' folders

*gone*, anyway. You can set user's folders to be NOT world-readable. One of the debconf packages actually asks this during install. I forget which one, though; possibly PAM. If you install gdebconf, it'll give you a visual way of configuring those packages, and you&#x

Re: content filtering

On Friday 01 Jul 2005 17:05, Juan Manuel Tato wrote: > hi, i'm looking for information about content filtering > using squid. > i'd like to filter porno site for my network. DansGuardian is by far the best solution for this :) -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com

Re: mouse wheel

On Friday 01 Jul 2005 10:47, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I can i get working my mouse wheel? > I'm running gnome. I tried to cheat with the XF86Config options, as > explained in the XF86 documentation, but nothing dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 -- Lee Braiden http://www.Digita

Re: Moving Cyrus email from one folder to another

gh, or outside of it. If you're having learnspam scan IMAP folders over the IMAP protocol, I'd love to know how (it would make DBMail much more viable for me). -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgprEn0Y1HLqS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Setting defaults for ulimit

security/limits.conf Yep :) At least, that's how I understand it too :) -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpGEwJJMsAka.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Setting defaults for ulimit

On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 23:37, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: > Lee Braiden wrote on Jun, 30: > Just looked at the file again and noticed that all entries are commented > out (start with #). So the defaults must be coming from somewhere else. > Any ideas ? I think the defaults are just from

Re: Accessing a program started in another term

ian in various packages), or FreeNX (which sounds much better, but is not in Debian yet, afaik). -- Lee Braiden http://www.DigitalUnleashed.com pgpTUFrlZbEwL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Setting defaults for ulimit

On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 20:41, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: > Does anybody know where the defaults for ulimit are set ? > I couldn't find anything in /etc. /etc/security/limits.conf -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list.

Re: /proc hard link count wrong.. bug?

On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 19:43, Martin Dickopp wrote: > However, a mismatch does *not* necessarily indicate a "bug in the > filesystem driver." It can also occur if directories are created or > deleted between the time the hard link count is obtained and the time > the number of subdirectories is ob

/proc hard link count wrong.. bug?

Just got the following warning: find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched. Is find just spreading panic

Re: How to get my computers IP address

On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 11:01, Mitja Podreka wrote: > But now the IP I get from myip.com or from syslog file is the IP of the > router. Is it still possible to share files as I used to and how can I > do it? Which is my computer's IP now? Your computer most likely uses a private IP address behind

Re: apache behind nat

On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 09:18, Brent Clark wrote: > the dns is fine because all resolves etc, but in the web browser it says > fetching 192.168.111.11 > > I looked in the host file. > > If anyone has any tips or advice, it would be most apprciated. I think you need to set the servername or hostnam

Re: debian vs. kernel.org kernels: what to choose?

On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 22:37, Andreas Goesele wrote: > What is recommended in a case lake that? Using unpatched kernel.org > sources or taking the patched sources from unstable or testing? What > are the advantages and disadvantages? Are there other alternatives? If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Re: video playback: horrible!

On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 11:33, Jeff Elkins wrote: > I recently reformatted/reinstalled sid via the new sarge installer. > > Now video playback via xine/mplayer sucks, where previously it was great. > What settings do I need to tweak? Sounds like you chose (or had automatically chosen for you) the w

Re: Random Crashing KMail

On Monday 27 Jun 2005 18:50, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Friday 06 May 2005 11.33, Mr Mike wrote: > > Is there any documentated problems with KMail random crashes? Yes, there are. But it's much better in KDE 3.4's kmail. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the lis

Re: Question

On Monday 27 Jun 2005 17:43, M N wrote: > I am an inexperienced(somewhat) Linux user and would > like to know > how I may be able to run ".exe" files as Windows does. EXE files are windows or DOS files. It can be done for certain reasons, but the question, in the way you're asking it, makes no s

Re: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange

On Monday 27 Jun 2005 16:42, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Monday 27 Jun 2005 16:40, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > > Can anybody recommend a good backend server for calendaring/contacts that > > works well with Debian? I need to use Outlook as front end and support > > group cal

Re: outlook calendaring/contacts - to replace MS Exchange

On Monday 27 Jun 2005 16:40, Mark D. Hansen wrote: > Can anybody recommend a good backend server for calendaring/contacts that > works well with Debian? I need to use Outlook as front end and support > group calendaring and contacts. Kolab 2 seems to be decent, as they're using it for linking up

Re: xd3d & debian

On Monday 27 Jun 2005 14:28, roberto wrote: > Hello, i need to use xd3d graphic program under sarge, but i did not find > it using aptitude > > - anyone who is using this program? Not me, sorry. > - can i download/install the rpm under debian? Yes, download it, then do: apt-get install alien a

Re: possibility of debian "cannabilizing" other Linux distributions in 5-10 years time

On Sunday 26 Jun 2005 09:02, Marty wrote: > > That's funny, I would say the exact opposite. Debian can be setup to run > > flawlessly, so that users cannot tamper with it. > > Doesn't this presume a business environment with a support staff? Not necessarily. It could be setup for any purpose; y

Re: possibility of debian "cannabilizing" other Linux distributions in 5-10 years time

On Sunday 26 Jun 2005 08:42, Andy Streich wrote: > One might hope so, but many things will have to change. Today, Debian as a > desktop is only practical where there is strong, nearby, technical support. > Clearly you don't like MS Windows (I don't like MS in general) but it works > out of the box

Re: Linux Driver For PostgreSQL .......

On Friday 24 Jun 2005 11:56, Gregory Seidman wrote: > In addition, the Qt database API seems to be pretty popular. It looks like > you're planning on a GNOME app, but you might try KDE instead. Yes, especially in combination with KDevelop and QT-Designer, which will automatically generate forms e

Re: Linux Driver For PostgreSQL .......

On Thursday 23 Jun 2005 22:33, Redefined Horizons wrote: > With a Java client application you can use JDBC. > With a Microsoft Application you can use ODBC. These are database abstraction layers. > I would like to write a client application in GNOME witha GTK GUI. > What driver would I use in thi

Re: video slower than sound

On Thursday 23 Jun 2005 19:08, Michal Simovic wrote: > hi, recently as i was watching video in Xine on my Sarge system i found > out the video is slightly slower(or more accurately - it's shown a bit > later) than the accompanying sound(the singer opens her mouth a bit > later then you can hear her

Re: BitTorrent Clients and X

On Wednesday 22 Jun 2005 17:02, Martin McCormick wrote: > Does BitTorrent require X to run under Linux? > > I was going to download a file that appears to exist only in > .torrent form and was shunted to the BitTorrent web site to download a > .deb package. Next time, try apt-cache sea

Re: Kde-KNotify Problem

On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 18:20, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > I can login to kde with 18-20 KNotify messages popping up and if I > select and click OK on the notification popup or > try to close out ktips, the system freezes up or at best operates in > super slow motion > There also are 8

Re: APT can't recognize Packages.gz?

On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 14:51, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I added the "debs file:///home debs/" line to my sources.list file. > > However, I am getting this error when I start Synaptic, which has me > puzzled: > > "W: Couldn't stat source packages list file: debs/ Packages > (/var/apt/lists/__home_

Re: where is zlib?

On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 10:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | checking for deflate in -lz... no > | configure: error: *** Unable to locate zlib library. > > "zlib" has to be there, as I am using GRASS 6.0 Beta version on my > existing installation. > > Please help me to find out "zlib" library's locat

Re: Remote connect to MySQL db with woody - Help please?

On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 06:54, s. keeling wrote: > installed libmyodbc (which also pulled in odbc-postgresql, odbcinst1, > and unixodbc), to no effect. Seems like ODBC has defaulted to installing just the odbc-postgresql driver. Install the equivalent odbc-mysql package, if it's not already there

Re: Remote connect to MySQL db with woody - Help please?

On Tuesday 21 Jun 2005 06:54, s. keeling wrote: > I'm having a bit of trouble here. My employer's op. is based on a vpn > running on Ensim (Pt!), within which is running a MySQL database. > I've looked at several things (mysql-navigator 1.2.4-1, OpenOffice > 1.1.4, ...) in order to connect rem

Re: Good backup software for Linux

On Monday 20 Jun 2005 07:45, Siju George wrote: > If in a Directory "dir1" I have "file1", "file2", "file3" and I take a > full backup "backup1" on "Day1" the I delete "file2" from "dir1" and > take a differential backup "backup2". > > Now I should be able to restore "dir1" from "backup2" with only

Re: editors on which CDs

On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 15:10, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Does anyone know which sarge CD contains emacs? pico or nano? microemacs? > > -- hendrik Emacs would presumably be on the first CD. Nano certainly is; it's part of the base packages. However... why do you care? To install, you at most need o

Re: apache 1.3 to 2.0 migration

On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 11:42, Kevin Coyner wrote: > I now have a need to switch to apache 2.0 (have started using python > and cherrypy in my sites, the latter of which does have more > functionality under apache 2.0). > > Are they any special gotcha's that I need to watch for in the > migration p

Re: Problem to use external h-d

On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 06:06, Christer wrote: > There seems to be no chance to get my external h-d (Maxtor) with usb2 > interface to get recognized by the system p4 and sarge 2.6 kernel on my > Fedorainstallation there is no problem to mount/automount the same,,any > suggestions about how to do??

Re: Firewall

On Saturday 18 Jun 2005 06:50, Christer wrote: > How to reach the firewall and manage the same as well in sarge?? default > installed on a desktop connected to a router I looked around and found > no way to get in touch with the firewallsettings You need to install and configure a firewall of your

Re: xmms skips all files

On Friday 17 Jun 2005 15:07, Francisco Borges wrote: > I know that xmms behaves like this when the files don't exist but the > files all exist and they are all MP3s I used to play with xmms so I > don't think the problem lies with my mp3s. > > I don't even have to hit play for this to happen just t

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

On Monday 13 Jun 2005 17:35, Thomas Adam wrote: > So in that way, WMs are much faster, and most WMs are damn good at > managing the windows mapped to them. That's debatable, actually. It could be argued that, since desktop environments *do* share libraries etc, they reduce redundancy and therefo

Re: Live Radar Image as KDE Screensaver

On Sunday 12 Jun 2005 13:33, Kent West wrote: > Does anyone know of a way to grab a live weather radar image from a > public source (like NOAA or weather.com) and use it as a screensaver in > KDE? I don't know of any exactly, but there are scripts available for xplanet (or one of those similar to

Re: Gwebdec

On Sunday 12 Jun 2005 05:04, David R. Litwin wrote: > Hello you Useful Persons: > > I'm trying to install gwebdec, a programme that mimics webshots (designed > for windows). I'm guessing you're running GNOME, but just so you know your options, it's worth pointing out that KDE's desktop background

Re: Setting default desktop environment

On Saturday 11 Jun 2005 22:58, Strake wrote: > I recently installed Debian but gnome is my default desktop > environment. How do I change it to KDE? apt-get install kde kdm :) If you're happy with that, you can then purge gnome stuff with apt-get --purge remove (or use a package management front

Re: CD's won't play

On Saturday 11 Jun 2005 13:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > New Sarge install 3.1r0. My mp3 CD's seem to play just fine, but CD's > that I have purchased won't play at all. I get the following msg: > > Unable to mount the selected volume. The volume is probably in a format > that cannot be mounted.

Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address

On Friday 10 Jun 2005 22:03, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > 3. Tell people that you *always* GPG sign your messages or encrypt to > them and that if they receive a message "from" your email address that > is neither signed nor encrypted, they can safely discard it without even > looking. > > It is by

Re: Sudden constant spoofing of my address

On Friday 10 Jun 2005 21:57, David Jardine wrote: > I had this problem a week or two ago (I think I reported it in > panic on this list). It went away as suddenly as it appeared, but > I'd be interested to know how GPG solves the problem - and what the > best source of documentation is for GPG. G

Re: Pre-Port Usability Question

On Friday 10 Jun 2005 16:17, Dave Babb wrote: > I used jigdo to download all 14 CD images for "Sarge". You didn't need to do that. A single CD would be more than enough for a basic install, after which apt will download any packages you ask it for. Just quicker. > Default Kernel still in the

Re: Screen Resolution (DeLL)

On Friday 10 Jun 2005 12:21, M. Maas wrote: > Change all the "800x600" "640x480" lines into: > "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" lines. Yep :) > SubSection "Display" > Depth x # and "x" beeing -> 1, 4, 8, 15, 16 or 24. > (I'd go for > 16, just as pretty, but a faster system.

Re: Once Sarge becomes stable...

On Thursday 09 Jun 2005 23:25, Angelina Carlton wrote: > How was the installer a bottleneck? AFAIK it was ready to go weeks > before sarge was released. Just curious. Not sure myself, but I'm guessing the installer held things back for a long time, and while that was happening, people decided to

Re: Clarify Sarge Release

On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 20:17, Jim Hall wrote: > Now that Sarge is released, do I need to point 'update' & 'upgrade' to > "stable", or leave Sarge as the target? No, you can do nothing, if you like. Pointing it to "stable" would only do something once the next release happens. Then, the new "s

Re: Strange KDE Problem

On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 15:33, Graham Smith wrote: > [snip] If you don't have KSysGuard, you can use top or ps or something else in a console, of course. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: Strange KDE Problem

On Wednesday 08 Jun 2005 15:33, Graham Smith wrote: > I have recently started experiencing a strange problem with KDE whereby > for some unknown reason it switches to Gnome (while I'm logged in - I > didn't think that was possible). The most obvious sign that this has > happened is the background p

page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x20

Just noticed nasty looking errors in my log files, which I'll include a small sample of below. I'm guessing this is almost certainly related to my encrypted swap (aes-loop), but "free" gives: total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:385776 360192

Re: What happened to non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US/dists/testing

On Tuesday 07 Jun 2005 14:58, Florian Ernst wrote: > non-US obsoleted, see > tml#s-non-us> Hmm. What happened? Did they automatically include non-us stuff on international servers, or something? -- Lee. Please do no

Re: updated sarge today and kde breaks, error log info

On Tuesday 07 Jun 2005 03:41, Pollywog wrote: > On 06/07/2005 02:22 am, Pollywog wrote: > I got this from the .xsession-errors file: > > Can not create file /home/pollywog/.DCOPserver_slider__0: Input/output Try deleting that file, if it exists. Otherwise, try creating a new file with the same p

Re: bash completion and local file: urls

On Monday 06 Jun 2005 16:28, Alban Browaeys wrote: > Le Mon, 06 Jun 2005 14:25:43 +0100, Lee Braiden a écrit : > > Anyone have a script that'll make bash complete file://localhost/* urls? > > Subversion annoyingly requires them... > > You might be looking after :

bash completion and local file: urls

Anyone have a script that'll make bash complete file://localhost/* urls? Subversion annoyingly requires them... -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'll read them on the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

Re: mutt + dovecot/squirrelmail + mbox ?

On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 05:51, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > So I finally bit the bullet and installed IMAP so that I could use one > of the non-openwebmail webmails. Squirrelmail's docs make a big point > of how if you're running mbox and don't make sure the locking > mechanisms are well-coordinated,

Re: Hurd drivers (was Re: Driver Authoring????)

On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 22:21, Marty wrote: > Funny you should mention it. > > I've been seriously considering writing or porting a driver for Hurd, just > to get an idea of what microkernels are all about, and hopefully even help > get the Hurd microkernel into wider usage. Does anyone have any adv

Re: Driver Authoring????

On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 19:07, klkl lklk wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering of where to start because i want to give a try making > my own drivers for conexant winmodems (open-source, of course :-) ) I > have good knowledge of C, Java and now learning C++. The probelm is > that I now nothing about

Re: kernel 2.7?

On Sunday 05 Jun 2005 15:14, klkl lklk wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to ask if anybody knows something about the 2.7 kenrel. I > mean, i haven't found it anywhere and i'd like to ask if development > upon this tree has begun. If not, when is it going to start??? > > Thank you Last I heard, the

Re: PPPD exit code 2

On Friday 03 Jun 2005 13:26, xxx xxx wrote: > Pon isn't working!!! I mean it dials, but Mozilla isn't connecting. Still > surfing as root... > > Please Help! Did you add yourself to the dialout and dip groups, and then logout and in again, as instructed? It should work, if so. But if not, you c

Re: How to move debian from one drive to another and keep it working?

On Friday 03 Jun 2005 15:56, David Witbrodt wrote: > David Witbrodt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >tar cvf - / | (cd /mnt/; tar xvf -) > > I'm a dummy. I had just spend the past several days reading docs, > including the 'man' page for 'tar', and failed to notice that the "cvf" and > "xvf" swit

Re: Will Sid go nuts?

On Thursday 02 Jun 2005 01:34, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I _had_ planned on just staying with 'testing' in my sources.list. Is > that a bad idea? I think Patrick might be referring to switching from sid to testing for a while, until things settle again. Is that right, Patrick? -- Lee. Please

Re: Unable to properly install 2 packages

On Wednesday 01 Jun 2005 04:22, Rogério Brito wrote: > On May 31 2005, J.F.Gratton wrote: > > I never took any time to delve into the innards of the install system on > > Debian since I never had any problems. Well, tonite is the nite ! :) > > I would suggest that you run fsck on the involved files

Re: KSnapshot

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 14:48, hja123 wrote: > I am using KSnapshot 0.7. There is a 'Capture Mode' which has a > selection of 'Region'. It is supposed to be for selecting a resion of > the screen mapped out by clicking and dragging the mouse. After > selecting region, the mouse does not go into 'cli

Re: knowing my IP address behind NAT firewall

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 23:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:25:10PM +0100, Lee Braiden wrote: > > ping -c 1 hop www.google.com | grep 'bytes from' | cut -d ' ' -f 5 | cut > > -d '(' -f 2 | cut -d ')' -f 1 >

Re: knowing my IP address behind NAT firewall

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 22:22, dexter2 wrote: > Each time i connect to internet, i have diferent IP, that my ISP assign > to me. If i want to know my IP, that i use on internet, I have to > connect to DSL modem via HTTP and read it there. > Is there a unix command, that will get my internet IP? How

Re: Installing a program from source

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 18:33, Rhys Hardwick wrote: > Is it ok to compile and install, and then, if another version is released > under apt that I want to install, just install it over the top, like > upgrading any other package. Is there something specific I should do? Use dh_make, if you can, or

Re: fortune bug ?

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 14:41, Aurélien Campéas wrote: > if (stat(file, &staat) == 0) > default: > perror("fortune: bad juju in is_existant"); > exit(1); > Do someone knows a tool to expose the call graph of a C program ? The easiest way might be to run it through stra

Re: system.map files

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:52, LeVA wrote: > Would someone please tell me what are those /boot/System.map* files for? I gather that it supplies the debugging info (ie, symbols names; names of functions etc) for the kernel image it applies to. -- Lee. Please do not CC replies directly to me. I'

Re: fortune bug ?

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:50, Aurélien Campéas wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fortune > > > fortune: bad juju in is_existant: Permission denied > It's a real error. > > It is not corrected even by purging/reinstalling the package. Ahh. Are you in the games group? If not, that's probably why.

Re: Possibility of personalizing OpenOffice documents automatically?

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:36, Hervé Piedvache wrote: > Yes ... marvelous ... but with what kind of tool do you manage the > production of the mail ? > Yes It'll be a web application .. no problem for this ... but I want to > manage about 100 mail style sheet ... and be able to do the redaction of >

Re: Possibility of personalizing OpenOffice documents automatically?

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 11:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No I want the operators to not be able to modify the original document ... > And to have only a main administrator of the documents ... > It's a kind of contact center, where people manage phone calls and for each > call they will attribute t

Re: fortune bug ?

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 10:42, Aurélien Campéas wrote: > I realize that since a few days, fortune does not work any more. Like > this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fortune > fortune: bad juju in is_existant: Permission denied Are you getting that continuously, every time you run it? Because fortune d

Re: Possibility of personalizing OpenOffice documents automatically?

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 10:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ok for this ... but I have may be not well explained my need ... > > I want to make this merge from a server and not from the user's computer > ... It'll be an automatic process done by this server after the user as > defined the good documen

Re: Possibility of personalizing OpenOffice documents automatically?

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 08:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I would like to know if somebody know a way ... (batch, tool etc.) to take > a classical OpenOffice text document and a small database and then make a > personalisation of the document in an automatic way ... > > The idea is to permit simple

Re: coder front end

On Tuesday 31 May 2005 03:57, Dale Anderson wrote: > I want to write some code. Can you make an apt package, debian > style which makes one's own workstation come alive with modern > development utilities? Thus far. I have yet to right click on my neat > KDE twinview kdesktop situation and see an o

Re: Disk encryption questions

On Monday 30 May 2005 23:47, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Symbolic links only contain the path. There is no inode information > involved. This is not, however, the best way to deal with an encrypted > disk. I much prefer to put LVM on top of an encrypted loop device to > provide whatever partitions I n

Disk encryption questions

In an effort to secure my system without degrading performance too much, I've created an encrypted disk, then moved various directories onto that disk, with softlinks from the original disk to there. So, for example, I have stuff like this: /home -> /crypted/home /var/mail -> /crypted/var/mai

Re: VPN server recommendation

On Monday 30 May 2005 16:06, Chavdar Videff wrote: > At our site we have to establish a secure VPN to a partner site in order to > interconnect our subnetworks. On both sides we have Linux routers. > > A fellow administrator suggested that we used OpenVPN. > The only VPN I have heard about is Popto

Re: please help a poor student

On Sunday 29 May 2005 15:40, ratikanta rath wrote: > Note- I began liking debian after i heard of it. > Please help this poor student by mailing me the CDs if > you have If you search, you may find a LUG (Linux User Group) in your area. If you attend a meeting, or contact them through their mail

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

On Sunday 29 May 2005 12:30, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > Well, I don't think it is the X only. Take Opera. On Linux it is much > faster than Firefox. Except that it lacks freedom, the main feature many of us are using Linux for in the first place. Konqueror is real fast, if you want a Firefox alte

Re: Slow Firefox performance on P4 1.7 GHz 1 GB system

On Saturday 28 May 2005 21:15, Ionut Georgescu wrote: > On the other hand, the windows versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are > amazingly fast. This is really said ... Some of the windows ports seem to leave linux versions in the dust due to the higher number of users and developers on windows,

Re: firefox

On Saturday 21 May 2005 01:56, Brian Martin wrote: > I have after a great deal of sweat installed Firefox > on Woody can i now apt-get remove mozilla > WITHOUT wiping firefox ? Depends. If you installed firefox with apt-get install, then apt-get remove should warn you about related

Re: Burning Cd's

On Friday 20 May 2005 17:28, João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste wrote: > How to burn a CD using command line? There are many kinds of CDs, and many things to make them from, so there's no simple answer to that. At this point, you might want to install synaptic, and learn to use it's searching and bro

Re: Help with Zip drive

On Friday 20 May 2005 15:39, Jerry Turba wrote: > I just got a parallel port Zip 100 drive [snip] > I have problems when I try to write to it. After the cp command > the system hangs for a while. When it comes back I have lost the use of > the keyboard but not the mouse, and I have to reboot. Wi

Re: how to change hostname

On Friday 20 May 2005 08:49, Urs Thuermann wrote: > What is the debain way to change to hostname of a system. Only > editing /etc/hostname is not sufficient, because there are other > places where the hostname is stored, e.g. /etc/hosts, /etc/mailname, > etc. I *think* the hostname command will s

Re: "foreign" fonts for X11 ?

On Friday 20 May 2005 09:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We have one SuSE (8.2 ?) machine here, where I can see all kinds of > "foreign" fonts in X11 (e.g. chinese, japanese, greek and so on). I didn't > manage to teach this to the new debian machines that I set up. We need > this urgently, because

Re: gaining net access after sarge install

On Thursday 19 May 2005 21:05, João Gabriel Sapucahy Chiste wrote: > I installed the basic version of sarge in my machine and the system did not > recognized mi intel ethernet card. but the module it's running. Just to keep you right, "mi" is "my" in English ;) > When i give ifconfig nothing appe

Re: How To Install Missing Libraries for Cinelerra?

On Thursday 19 May 2005 22:09, Scarletdown wrote: > cinelerra: Depends: libavcodec1 (>= 1:0.4.8) but it is not installable > Depends: libguicast (>= 1:1.2.2) but it is not installable > Depends: liblame0 (>= 3.96.1-1) but it is not installable > Depends: libmpeg3

Re: How can I tag Ogg/FLAC files from their discid?

On Thursday 19 May 2005 20:04, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > For various reasons, I need to be able to rip a CD whilst not connected to > the Internet, then tag the files with the correct metadata (from FreeDB) at > a later stage. > > Is there any linux software that can tag FLACs and Oggs from their

Re: project accounting application in Debian?

On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:30, Lee Braiden wrote: > On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:12, Nacho wrote: > > What I want is to insert into a database data such as the time an > > employee was working in such machine, the amount of "pieces" which he > > made during that time

Re: project accounting application in Debian?

On Thursday 19 May 2005 10:12, Nacho wrote: > What I want is to insert into a database data such as the time an employee > was working in such machine, the amount of "pieces" which he made during > that time, the cost of each part he used to make the piece... and in this > way with every procedure

Re: [debian] Re: Virii on linux

On Thursday 19 May 2005 04:56, Keith Bates wrote: > > Not to be pedantic, but the generally accepted plural of virus is > > viruses: > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plural_of_virus > > By definition, you are being pedantic :-) > > Or at least prescriptive in the terms of the article. Not to b

Re: Firefox cannot render amazon website correctly. Epiphany can.

On Thursday 19 May 2005 06:50, Glenn English wrote: > That happened to me recently. I found that I had Mozills'a "Don't accept > graphics from sites other than the one you're talking to" option set, > and that allowing graphics from the universe fixed the problem. > > I tried a little to tell them

Re: Firefox cannot render amazon website correctly. Epiphany can.

On Wednesday 18 May 2005 22:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone else have the same problem I have when trying > to view the www.amazon.co.uk website using firefox? All > the buttons and various other graphics (such as the label > to print out to return an item) are invisible. Sounds like yo

Re: any particular reason why jailkit has not been packaged?

On Wednesday 18 May 2005 21:51, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: > Is there any particular reason why jailkit has not been packaged? License > problems perhaps? Looks like the author himself was planning to package it at one point. If I'm reading the bug report right, that is. Which I'm probably not ;)

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