Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-26, Emma Jane Hogbin penned: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:12:50PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> >> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ >> >> I've been slowly wading through it. I honestly didn't find anything >> offe

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-26, Steve Lamb penned: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig45DB75C5E7FD374844766632 Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> Sure, there

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-26, Leo Spalteholz penned: > On March 25, 2004 04:12 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On 2004-03-25, s. keeling penned: >> > Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: >> >> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ >> > >> > That on

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-26, Kent West penned: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >>what I should have asked, and meant to ask, is, *how* would you treat >>women any differently than men? Especially when your only medium is >>the keyboard. >> >> > Well, not only me, but e

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-26, s. keeling penned: > Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: >> >> I've been slowly wading through it. I honestly didn't find anything >> offensive in the document. I guess I should re-read it after I >> finish reading the flameage. > >

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-26, s. keeling penned: > > I was considering complaining (facetiously) about the lack of even an > "OT:" in the subject line, but this subject is a bit of a sore spot > with me, and I'd like to see some progress on it. See the link to the > tldp discussion for a far less satisfying atte

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-26, Number Six penned: > > I usually watch "To The Contrary," the show about Women's issues on > PBS on Fridays. Recently this subject came up, and all these > journalists / manhattanites talked about how they and all their > friends had started marriage with hyphenated names and just s

OT: last names (was: Re: debian and women? from DWN #10)

On 2004-03-26, s. keeling penned: > Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: >> >> sore point for me at the moment. I'm pretty sure I'll be changing my >> name to make him happy, but it weirds me out. I never fantasized >> about > > Why?!? Tell him to chan

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Steve Witt penned: > > I've been on many technical mailing lists since the early '90s and the > Debian lists since about '96 and I don't recall seeing much flaming > due to gender. I'm not a woman so maybe I'm completely insensitive to > it when it happens, but I don't recall seeing

Re: DNS setup

On 2004-03-25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: > I can connect and ping IPs, but DNS does not resolve. /etc/resolv.conf > exists and the ISPs servers are added automatically. Now have no clue > what to check. Any ideas? > > (I installed from Knoppix with the new Debian installer, and could > connect und

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned: > > Without countering anything you just said (cause I agree with you), > I'd like to insert an aside about Why I Liked Going To Grateful Dead > Concerts Even Though I'm Really Square And Uptight: > > It's one of the only places I've ever been where I was just free

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, s. keeling penned: > Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: >> >> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ > > That one elicited about the loudest flamefest I've ever seen, in > [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you can find that thread in their archives, a

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned: > > Yes, I certainly was *not* thinking that "only men are rigorous". I > meant the second thing. What I was clumsily trying to say is that the > stereotype is silly, but I like an environment you have to be afraid > to ask questions, because it makes me work har

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Kent West penned: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >>Outside of the dating scene and maybe someone who is visibly pregnant, >>why would you treat women any differently than men? >> >> >> > Because women _are_ different than men, regardless of the

Re: Issues with pulling out data from MySQL

On 2004-03-25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: > Hi folks, > > NEWBIE here, I am having issues with pulling data out of several > tables in MySQL. I am running debian 3.0.23 with MySQL 3.23.49, I can > create the tables and view them through mysqladmin along with the > data, put using the webform that I

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Kent West penned: >> > Wow! I must be a throwback to the 1950's. All these answers from guys > sound so politically correct to me. Politically correct, honest -- take your pick =) > My remembrance of Monique's first post and my first response was that > I gave my best effort at an

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned: > > Carol is a man's name sometimes. There was an actress on the TV show > "The Waltons" named Mike. And in the 1800's Barbara was sometimes a > man's name. When I was a kid, I met a female lifeguard named Michael. IIRC, she told me that her parents had been ex

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, CW Harris penned: > > Yes. I have found that men and women think about > things in different ways, probably due to differing life experiences > (cf. Monique's comment re: female getting weird email about her > picture showing she is too good for her boyfriend - how often would > so

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Gary penned: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> Any guys have opinions? > > Why ask us men? We can't even see the ketchup in the fridge when it is > staring us in the face, and you expect us to to see /this/? > I never did figure that one out. Why do I re

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, timg penned: >> > i know exactly what she means and dont think it is a male/female > thing. i'm a programmer, partly responsible for our main servers and > development servers in house, happy to repair/build computers but > still find that I do have a certain amount of trepidation

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:30:15PM +, timg wrote: >> find that I do have a certain amount of trepidation when posting >> technical difficulties. I dont know why tho. probably looking an ass >> in public when you discover the answer was right under your nose

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Jaldhar H. Vyas penned: > On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> She seems to be talking about a fear of being put down or treated >> poorly for participating in a technical forum. This isn't a fear >> I've ever had, but maybe I'm

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Andreas Janssen penned: > Hello Hi! > So far I have not seen any hostility towards women because they were > female (at least on the mailing lists and in the usenet groups I > read). I have however seen that in some cases people (newbies) who > use women's names (mostly you don't

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Joost De Cock penned: > ... >> Any guys have opinions? > > When I think about you, it goes a bit like this: > > 1. Regular poster, knows what she's talking about. > 2. Hmm, Monique, that's my mothers name and not very English sounding. Well, I'm not English, I'm American! *grin* My

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned: > > The tune "Man Smart, Women Smarter" seems appropriate to bring up > here: > http://dannyman.toldme.com/lyrics/Grateful_Dead/Man_Smart,_Women_Smarter.html > > It's a cover tune, a lot of other people sing it. If you don't > believe that Women rule the world you

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Tom Massey penned: > * Rebecca Dridan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-25 18:37]: >> On the other hand, I'm not sure if anyone caught the issue on Full >> Disclosure. Check this link [0] to see how some females do get >> treated on tech lists. >> >> Bec >> >> [0] http://www.oneeyedcrow

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned: > > I always thought Monique was a guy. I think what happened was I saw > "Herman" and subconsciously said: Oh yeah, Monique, that's a guy's > name in France... Pretty sure it's not ... > I personally enjoy working with women in computers, because it's so > rar

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Rebecca Dridan penned: > (sorry about the direct reply Monique) I'll get over it with years of therapy =) [snip] > On the other hand, I'm not sure if anyone caught the issue on Full > Disclosure. Check this link [0] to see how some females do get treated > on tech lists. > > Bec >

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

On 2004-03-25, Katipo penned: >> >>She seems to be talking about a fear of being put down or treated >>poorly for participating in a technical forum. This isn't a fear I've >>ever had, but maybe I'm in the minority? I've also heard of women >>masquerading as men online to avoid any such questions

debian and women? from DWN #10

I just saw this in Debian Weekly News issue ten: I guess I just wonder. I've never found any sort of hostility or difficulty in dealing with any technically-oriented online forum; if anything, I've found that some people

Re: email signatures

On 2004-03-25, Matthew Joyce penned: > > Hi, > > what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an > email, is it '--' before the appendage ? > > thanks > The polite way to do it is not at all. I've yet to see a huge honkin' signature that was actually necessary/productive. The

Re: how can I recover the file I've deleted?

On 2004-03-22, blue_stone penned: > I use ext3 fs, and i've deleted some important file ,hao can I recover > them ? > Retrieve them from the backups you've been maintaining ... -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: packages in unstable

On 2004-03-22, Matthew Joyce penned: > >> -Original Message- From: Rajesh Menon >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 22 March 2004 1:43 PM To: >> Matthew Joyce Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: packages >> in unstable >> >> >> why not install the proprietary sun jdk available from

Re: Debian queries

On 2004-03-19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: [snip] > But what about LCD support (how easily can I adjust refresh rate etc.? > I am not afraid to do it by hand, as long as it will let me). I googled on my LCD monitor's model and found that someone had posted some helpful modelines. I used those s

Re: Question re Debian versions

On 2004-03-19, Travis Crump penned: > > Unstable, on the other hand, breaks much more spectacularly on package > installation with no warning other than people moaning on the > lists/IRC/BTS. I don't want to imply that this is a frequent > occurence, but it does happen... I've only been bitten in

Re: Question re Debian versions

On 2004-03-19, Paul Johnson penned: > > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] >> Unstable is where bug fixes, new packages, etc are first introduced >> into a debian distribution. (There's also something called >> "experimenta

Re: Question re Debian versions

On 2004-03-19, Michael Satterwhite penned: > > On Thursday 18 March 2004 17:31, Brian Nelson wrote: >> >> However, testing tends to be more broken than unstable. Testing >> works well right now since we're near a release and almost everything >> in there is in a releasable state, but after sarge r

Re: Question re Debian versions

On 2004-03-18, Michael Satterwhite penned: > > On Thursday 18 March 2004 14:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> What sorts of testing would you want to do on your testing machine? >> The testing distro is a little odd in that it's really intended for >> developers, not us

Re: Apache questions.......

On 2004-03-15, Ralph Crongeyer penned: > Hi all, > > There are two Apache packages in Sarge, apache and apache-ssl. But > there is also a libapache-mod-ssl package > > Apache-ssl works in encrypted mode fine, however I can't get it to use > mod_php4, which I need. Apache is able to use mod_

Re: Question re Debian versions

On 2004-03-18, Michael Satterwhite penned: > > I've been Distro hopping for the last few weeks and am very impressed > with the Debian system. It's probably going to become the distro on > all my machines very shortly. > > I'm going to be running Woody on one machine and Sarge on another for > test

Re: Newbie question: moving from RedHat to Debian

On 2004-03-17, Roland Dunn penned: > - Anyone know of any sites that try to make such moves simple for users - > that list some of the common differences between Debian and RedHat? I don't know about this. > - On RedHat /etc/rc.d/init.d/ was where you could find scripts to start/stop > apache, sa

Re: my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

On 2004-03-16, Andy Firman penned: > > I finally got motivated and upgraded to Exim4 as well but I did not go > to the effort of using a backup MX. From what I know, most good MTA's > are built with redundancy and will try for a couple of days before > they drop any mail. My concern was being dow

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

On 2004-03-16, Derrick 'dman' Hudson penned: > > >| Further more, why am I penalized with a higher postage rate for not | >spamming? > > I don't understand this statement. > Compare the "bulk" mailing rate to the cost of a stamp. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: what user for /etc/cron.weekly?

On 2004-03-15, Travis Crump penned: > This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) > --enig4A9C6BFDF59F36CFEFC734C0 Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> When entrie

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

On 2004-03-15, John Hasler penned: > Chris Metzler writes: >> Presumably, when there actually is a release, this fact will be >> publicized -- like it was for Woody, which was 7 CDs but didn't >> require them all either. > > It will have to be effectively publicized somewhere other than the > insta

what user for /etc/cron.weekly?

When entries in /etc/cron.weekly are run, what user/group are they run as? -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: coda vs. nfs on home lan?

On 2004-03-14, Kenward Vaughan penned: > > Further reading has led me to feel that these would suit me, too. > It's nice to get feedback from others about the possibilities, though, > when one is feeling clueless outside of what is mostly documentation > and documented problems. :) > On that note

Re: my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

On 2004-03-14, Vineet Kumar penned: > > That part about the process on port 25 is a bit strange, but having > the init scripts in place shouldn't be a problem. Init scripts hang > around when you remove (without purging) a package, but they usually > begin with something like > > DAEMON=/usr/lib/e

my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

Hi all! This is just a description of what I did to upgrade from exim3 to exim4. I hope it's useful to someone. I have an MX backup, so the first thing I did was to disable port 25 on my router. The logic was that this way, I could test my mail server internally without risking a loss of mail --

Re: Question re: nfs

On 2004-03-12, John Hasler penned: > Joan Tur writes: >> If I'm not wrong you'll have to delete the user and create it again >> using -u parameter... > > Just edit the password file with vipw and change the number. Huh! Learn a new command every day! Thanks! -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: installation, Linux source code

On 2004-03-12, Chris Metzler penned: > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:32:36 -0600 > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Chris Metzler writes: >> > Pick a specific topic that you're *expert* in, compared to the general >> > /. population. Find in the archives and read a discussion on that >> > t

Re: installation, Linux source code

On 2004-03-12, John Hasler penned: > Chris Metzler writes: >> Pick a specific topic that you're *expert* in, compared to the >> general /. population. Find in the archives and read a discussion on >> that topic. Look at the +3, +4 and +5 posts only. Do you really >> find them that impressive? M

Re: installation, Linux source code

On 2004-03-12, Chris Metzler penned: > > 30% are trolls; > 30% are expressions of opinion without substantive explanation/ > justification (the equivalent of "Me too!" or "Not me!"); > 30% are "explanations" of configuration procedures, or software > capabilities, or scientific issues,

apt-cacher (was: Re: Speeding apt by multiple connections)

On 2004-03-11, Lucas Albers penned: > setup a local apt-cacher repository. This drastically speeds up > downloads, as it only gets new package lists once per day (per > configuration). It saves all previously downloaded apt files to the > cache. This is good because: Downloads are a lot faster.

Re: exim - automatic signature

On 2004-03-11, Antony Gelberg penned: > > I don't think that what they want to do is a good idea. However, they > are paying me good money and having tried to dissuade them from doing > this, they are certain that they want to go ahead. > fwiw, I support you in this. While what they want to do i

[OT] robots.txt creation script?

Hi all! I've recently developed an interest in preventing spiders from accessing certain areas of my site ... but as near as I can tell, robots.txt is pretty stupid. It only lets you *disallow*, whereas it would be a lot more sensible for me to specify what I want to *allow*. I was thinking I mi

Re: kernel source tree

On 2004-03-04, Richard Lyons penned: > Another really dim question coming up... > > I'm trying to install thinkpad drivers for Debian. Instructions say to > unpack the thinkpad.tar.gz (no problem there) and then to "cd to the > root of the source tree for the kernel for which you want to compile

Re: [solved!] Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!

On 2004-03-03, Matt Price penned: > On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out >> $70 for a new one -- and carelessly bought a Sandisk Cruzer 256meg >> model. Gaah! I can't get it to work!

Re: exim "Frozen" messages?

On 2004-03-03, Rick Pasotto penned: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:14:15AM -0500, stan wrote: >> I've got a smail mailserver using Debain and exim. I noticed that >> some messages have stoped getting through. Looking in >> /var/log/exim/mailog, I see lot's of entries about messages being >> "frozen".

Re: Number of workspaces in gnome-2.4

On 2004-03-02, Henrik Enberg penned: > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On 2004-03-02, Henrik Enberg penned: >> >>> Or just right-click on the gnome pager and set it up from there. Or >>> with gconftool-2 like so: >>&

Re: Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver

On 2004-03-02, Sis penned: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > >> You should start a new thread for a new question. You are more >> likely to catch people that way, should they be cruisin'n'bruisin' by >> Subject in a threaded reader. > >Hmmm. I'm not sure what you mean, since i ju

Re: Distributed Jukeboxes for LAN

On 2004-03-02, Bill Moseley penned: > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:51:43PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> >> Have you looked at slimp3? > > I have now. I wonder if the slimp3 device works the same way as a > client running xmms. I suspect it does. I've wondered t

Re: ghost-like programs for Linux platform

On 2004-03-02, j smith penned: > ghost for Windows can copy files in an partition exactly. is there any > Linux programs similar to ghost? > In my personal experience, ghost does *not* always copy the files in a partition exactly. If at all possible, keep backups when using it. -- monique --

Re: Hi:Installation Help

On 2004-02-28, Pritpal Dhaliwal penned: > New to debian and theis list. Coming from Redhat. Just wanted to say > hi. > > Pritpal Dhaliwal > Hi! Hope the installation went well. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Number of workspaces in gnome-2.4

On 2004-03-02, Henrik Enberg penned: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Metacity: You need to have "metacity-setup" installed. Once you have >> that using it to change the workspace settings. > > Or just right-click on the gnome pager and set it up from there. Or > with gconftool-2 li

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

On 2004-03-01, Douglas Pollard penned: > > I tried to boot with disc #1 Red Hat Linux Fedora. The monitor > shows what looks like files being loaded but is not. The on screen > printing seems to stay the same although it looks to be scrolling. > I took the disc out and the same thin

Re: Installation Questions

On 2004-02-29, Martin Kuball penned: > Hi! > > I'm planing to install Debian on my desktop machine which already has > a running Linux. But not Debian which I came to like recently because > I use it on my laptop. > > So here is the question. Is it possible with the debian installer to > skip some

Re: Distributed Jukeboxes for LAN

On 2004-02-29, Bill Moseley penned: > Just looking for suggestions on a distributed jukebox for mostly audio > files for my home lan. There seems to be a few available but wanted > to see if anyone here has a favorite. > > Anyone using http://www.theory.org/software/djukebox/ ? > > My current setu

Re: Backup my Debian woody system

On 2004-02-26, Oliver Fuchs penned: > > What I want: I want to know if my backup strategy is working this way > or if there is a better solution? > > So ... any help/advice/documentation is appreciated. > It kind of depends on whether you want to spend money on this backup. Me, I bought a large h

Re: apt-get rollback !?!

On 2004-02-25, David Baron penned: > On Wednesday 25 February 2004 19:01, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> While I agree that this feature would be awesome, I believe I've seen >> many discussions indicating that this would be a lot more difficult >> to implement than it might seem. > > Awesome and or

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

On 2004-02-25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: > > It is a shame that at times debian-user can be so inhospitable to > debain users. I think it is unfair to have a question answered with > "try google" or some other variation of RTFM. Am I to understand that > instead of using the debian-user list that I

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On 2004-02-25, Paul Johnson penned: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:48:55AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> As a USian, I'm really confused by this description of turning. >> Could you please explain the term "tangle turning"? > > If you were to perform

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On 2004-02-25, Paul Johnson penned: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > >> As for down hill, I ride quite a bit of free ride, not so much >> downhill since unfortunately I don't have the money for the big hit >> bikes, but the steeper the terrain the more I use the f

Re: Differentiating fetchmail-pulled accounts (in procmailrc)

On 2004-02-25, Jan Minar penned: > > --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: > quoted-printable > > Hi there. > > I've been switching ISPs as some of you maybe noticed. > > Now I don't know how to reliably differentiate

Re: Strong encryption in Mozilla

On 2004-02-24, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) penned: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:27:59 -0700, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: >> Does the Debian version of Mozilla support strong (128 bit) >> encryption? > > As long as you ensure mozilla-psm is installed as well, yes. > Does that work for fire[bird|fox], or is th

Re: apt-get rollback !?!

On 2004-02-25, David Baron penned: > It can happen, even to the best, even from "stable"--an upgrade is > done that renders the system less than usable. It just occured with X. > > While, if one really knew how, one could bet stuff from backport, > compile it (assuming all goes well--remember other

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On 2004-02-25, Paul Johnson penned: > > It doesn't help that you handle cross-traffic turns (left in the US, > right in GB) by what Americans call "tangle turning" and is a major > no-no on the west side of the pond...why hold fast to "keep left" when > it's safer on a right turn at an intersection

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

On 2004-02-24, Danny O'Brien penned: > > > Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid PostgreSQL link resource in >/auth.php on line 10 > > Line 10 in auth.php looks like this: > > $result = pg_exec( $link, $sql ); > Well, first of all, from http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-query.php : No

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

On 2004-02-24, Colin Watson penned: >> >> Well, not necessarily "better", but the simpler thing to do is just >> not use apt and Debian's packages for kernel management. Instead, >> manage that yourself, especially if you recompile your own kernel >> anyway. I'll be flamed for going against the

Re: ext3 why?

On 2004-02-25, xucaen penned: > >> I use ext3 for main partitions so that if the power fails, I be >> likely to have a corrupt filesystem. I still use ext2 for /boot, for >> example, because it is small (therefore the journal's overhead is >> more expensive) and it isn't updated very frequently an

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

On 2004-02-24, Micha Feigin penned: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:29:39PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> What I never understood is locally they tell bicyclists that you stop >> faster locking the brakes and everybody else to absolutely avoid >> doing > > Its actually wrong also for bicycles. If

Re: Stupid fetchmailrc quiestion

On 2004-02-24, stan penned: > OK, I just tried abut a dozen things, none of which worked :-( > > What's the syntax of adding the ssl keyword to a fetchmailrc for an > individual site? I tried: > > ssl; set ssl; > > and some other stupid things, all in the section associated with that > specific sti

Re: Need a shell or perl script

On 2004-02-23, Deboo penned: > On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> On 2004-02-22, Deboo penned: >> > but I know neither. Not that I do not want to learn, but I need >> > help to get this list. Can anyone help me out by giving the >> > commands

Re: Need a shell or perl script

On 2004-02-22, Deboo penned: > Over the years, I have been using many email clients from windows to > linux and have been saving lots of old personal emails. I have many > them in many different formats as per the MUA. They are a lot. > > Now, I could search for one or two email addresses whenever

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

On 2004-02-21, Anthony Campbell penned: > On 21 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> > [snip] > Monique, I really am grateful to you for supplying this information; > exactly what I was looking for. I've adopted your suggested format for > /etc/hosts. [snip] Yo

Re: emergency! unrm a directory

On 2004-02-21, Vikki Roemer penned: > > --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: > quoted-printable > > Hi, I just rm'd a website on my server by accident, I need to know if > there's any way I can get it back. I have an

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

On 2004-02-21, Anthony Campbell penned: > On 20 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On 2004-02-20, Anthony Campbell penned: >> > >> > My /etc/hosts is as follows, in case this indicates the problem: >> > (The alternative lines are because I tried both the IP w

Re: php4-imap && apache virtual domains

On 2004-02-21, Tadas penned: > Oh, I see it was registered 190 days ago. why the bug is not fixed for > such long time? > [tone="tongue in cheek"] Because you haven't fixed it yet! [/tone] Seriously, if you click on the bug number, you'll see tons of email regarding this bug, the latest being in

Re: aptitude marking everything "packages held back"?

On 2004-02-20, Paul Morgan penned: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:54:11 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> (I wonder how I managed to change that setting without noticing ...) >> > > You make me a bit nervous for you when you say stuff like that, > Monique :) > I mak

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

On 2004-02-20, Anthony Campbell penned: > > My /etc/hosts is as follows, in case this indicates the problem: > (The alternative lines are because I tried both the IP which my domain > name resolves to and also the ip on my router. I don't know which, if > either, I need.) > > cut---

Re: what's the use of dselect

On 2004-02-19, Benedict Verheyen penned: > Hi, > > I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when we > have tools like aptitude and apt-get. My simplistic answer, without considering any of the interesting stuff you point out, is: 1) dselect was around before aptitude was e

Re: kernel-source-* packages

On 2004-02-19, Olle Eriksson penned: > Hi > > What is the difference between the kernel source from kernel.org and > the Debian kernel-source-* packages? The only thing I can find about > that is some discussion from 1997 concluding that there is no > difference except that the debian packages hand

Re: aptitude marking everything "packages held back"?

On 2004-02-19, £ukasz Stelmach penned: > > U¿ytkownik Monique Y. Herman napisa³: >> Just wondering if anyone else has seen this. On one of my machines, >> aptitude works like a champ. On the other, as of a week or so ago, >> every package that would normally be aqua (a

Re: aptitude marking everything "packages held back"?

On 2004-02-19, David Z Maze penned: > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Just wondering if anyone else has seen this. On one of my machines, >> aptitude works like a champ. On the other, as of a week or so ago, >> every package that would

Re: apt-get upgrade of kernel-image

On 2004-02-19, mess-mate penned: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:20:26 +0100 > "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >|On 2004-02-19, mess-mate penned: >| >|> Sorry, not clear enough for me. >|> I'd a kernel-image -2.4.24-1-686 installed and did

Re: Home Mail Server

On 2004-02-19, Peter A. Cole penned: > > Anyway, what I really need is a pointer in the direction of some > documentation or advice on whether or not to use mailboxes under home > folders or just to let the messages go to /var/mail/username. > I have mail delivered to /var/mail/monique and then ha

aptitude marking everything "packages held back"?

Just wondering if anyone else has seen this. On one of my machines, aptitude works like a champ. On the other, as of a week or so ago, every package that would normally be aqua (available for upgrade) in the "g" screen is instead white and listed under "Packages being held back." I can hit "+" on

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

On 2004-02-19, Anthony Campbell penned: > > I am indeed grateful to everyone for help with this. Following > suggestions received so far I've tried (for this computer) setting my > hostname to arcadia.acampbell.org.uk and putting the following in > /etc/hosts: > >>---cut- > 127.

Re: apt-get upgrade of kernel-image

On 2004-02-19, mess-mate penned: > Sorry, not clear enough for me. > I'd a kernel-image -2.4.24-1-686 installed and did an upgrade to the 2.4.24-2 > Since Can't boot anymore; the boot sequence stops after loading the initrd. > Didn't reinstall lilo; the vmlinuz-name seems the same . > Anyone had

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

On 2004-02-18, Jacob S. penned: > > There is something called "round-robin dns", among other things, for > the purpose of having multiple machines answer queries for the same > domain name. This is used for domains where web and e-mail traffic is > heavy enough that one server can't handle the load

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