Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Wei Chen
Hi, Now I've learnt that debian is not actually losing any user. And the community is ever growing as you wish. So there is nothing to worry about. Wish you all the best. -- Cheers, Wei http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Wei Chen
want to stop this meaningless dispute. HTH - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH6y8+CIqXQV6BF28RAv9kAJ473zgvv3bYpSrgGjIFrbXdeYKfMwCfVrLW FLX8X0We1P1E0J4IBBeiY1k= =USq2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Simon Jolle wrote: > 2008/3/26, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hi, > > Hi Wei > >> The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the >> recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics

Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Wei Chen
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Re: diff nv vs nvidia

2008-03-09 Thread Wei Chen
On 3/10/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have an Asus EN7300GT silent that uses the nVidia chipset. > > Where possible, I try to go with free drivers. I had noticed a > picture-quality improvment when watching DVDs if I use the > debian-packaged nVidia driver. I no

Re: How to use ``nice'' on a pipe?

2008-03-09 Thread Wei Chen
On 3/9/08, CaT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 08:35:28PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > > if [[ $1 != "run-script-nicely" ]] > > then > > nice -n19 $BASEDIR/$(basename $0) run-script-nicely > > exit 0 > > fi > > echo &#x

Re: How to use ``nice'' on a pipe?

2008-03-09 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 CaT wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:34:48PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: >> a low priority. How can I make both command1 and command2 on the pipe >> running in the low priority? Thank you. >> >> ===

Re: How to use ``nice'' on a pipe?

2008-03-09 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: > what about > > nice bash -e '

How to use ``nice'' on a pipe?

2008-03-09 Thread Wei Chen
priority? Thank you. = #!/bin/sh runprogram () { nice -n19 ionice -c2 -n7 "$@" } runprogram command1 | command2 ========= - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Re: error during apt-get update

2008-03-06 Thread Wei Chen
debian-multimedia-keyring And ignore > the apt-get warnings about the missing GPG key. For the second warning, check whether you have that duplicate entry in your sources.list file. HTH - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Etch --> Upgrading X.Org to 7.2

2008-03-06 Thread Wei Chen
t problem. Also, if you point sources.list to lenny, you eventually get it to be released as stable. But sid would remain unstable for ever. HTH - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH0OeTCIqXQV6BF28RAlf

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread Wei Chen
On 2/5/08, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 02/04/08 10:41, Wei Chen wrote: > > [snip] > >> Note that the G.F.W system of the government is in fact mai

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

2008-02-04 Thread Wei Chen
On Feb 4, 2008 11:58 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/04/08 09:37, Wei Chen wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 02/04/08 07:07, Wei Chen wrote: > >> [snip] > > > >

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

2008-02-04 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/04/08 07:07, Wei Chen wrote: > [snip] > >> Web mail can also be a feasible solution. I use gmail to retrieve and >> aggregate emails from all my other mail boxes. In this way I can read >> mai

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

2008-02-04 Thread Wei Chen
ata loss on google clusters can be considered smaller than that of a desktop disk fault, and gmail can also be accessed using IMAP. HTH - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHpw4sCIqXQV6BF28RAv/5AK

Re: [OT] Scripting question: the length limit of a list?

2007-11-01 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: > On Thursday 01 November 2007 13:07, Wei Chen wrote: >> I would like to write a bash script like the following one: >> >> for i in `some program that outputs a word list` >> do >> echo $i >>

[OT] Scripting question: the length limit of a list?

2007-11-01 Thread Wei Chen
Hi, I would like to write a bash script like the following one: for i in `some program that outputs a word list` do echo $i done where the word list can be very very long. I wonder what is the upper bound limit of the length of word lists in "for" loop of a bash script, or does it only depend

Re: all video players dropping frames when playing dvd's

2007-10-27 Thread Wei Chen
t looks to me as if > something has undergone a major change, but what? > Hi, I play DVD ISO images using xine, since it has support for DVD interactive menu. It works well and the CPU usage is around 10%. I do not know the difference but I have debian-multimedia.org in my sources.list. I d

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-25 Thread Wei Chen
) >> > > Okay. > > >> Also, are you using Debian stable or testing or what? > > Testing. > > >> In the scim setup window, does your input method have its own listing under >> "IMEngine"? If so, does it have an on/off or trigger setting tha

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 10/24/07, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is the first time that I hear of skim. I just looked into it >> briefly. It looks very interesting. However, it seems that it does not >> fo

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Wei Chen wrote: >> >>>>> 3. Run `im-switch -c` to configure the input method for the current >>>>> user. Choose scim from the i

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: > >>> Well, something doesn't seem to be right with my setup. Scim works in >>> Icedove, iceweasel and gaim. But it doesn't work in kate or konsole. >>> What am I missing? >

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Wei Chen
On 10/25/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: > > >>> > >>> 3. Run `im-switch -c` to configure the input method for the current > >>> user. Choose scim from the interactive user interface. > >> This was one step I had m

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: >> On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have been using the KDE keyboard layout applet to type different >>> languages. I recently learned th

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-23 Thread Wei Chen
On 10/24/07, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > I have been using the KDE keyboard layout applet to type different > > languages. I recently learned that uim or scim could be

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-23 Thread Wei Chen
On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have been using the KDE keyboard layout applet to type different > languages. I recently learned that uim or scim could be a better method. > > To test these out, I installed scim. Then, following some web pages > fround via goodle, I pu

Re: google bookmarks not working in iceweasel?

2007-09-22 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Yang wrote: > > > On 9/22/07, *Wei Chen* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Michael Yang wrote: >> Hi: > >> Anybody used google bookmarks in iceweasel? > >> I am w

Re: google bookmarks not working in iceweasel?

2007-09-22 Thread Wei Chen
ot; in Gray, even though I have been > authenticated with Google accounts. > > Any one have idea about this? Is there a workaround? > Hi, I had the same problem before. Try to install the package "libstdc++5" (or something like that; I cannot remember clearly). HTH - -- Che

Re: The current status of tetex -> texlive transition?

2007-09-10 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wei Chen wrote: > Russell L. Harris wrote: >> * Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070909 01:14]: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I am runnin

Re: The current status of tetex -> texlive transition?

2007-09-09 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070909 01:14]: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> >> I am running up-to-date Etch on my desktop. I would like to upg

The current status of tetex -> texlive transition?

2007-09-08 Thread Wei Chen
put files of teTeX - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG442OCIqXQV6BF28RAp9BAJ4ppJjGY5TZG0Nzfzhgyh3llnLW5QCdFhmO qETQoKPtRpjRCHQZLf/mRqw= =R3tO -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian only sees 885.5 MiB memory

2007-06-15 Thread Wei Chen
7;m not experiencing > any stability issues. Anyone know the cause of this oddity. > You may check to see whether there is something like onboard graphics card that takes the RAM. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versio

Re: advantages and disadvantages of local/lang en_CA.UTF-8?

2007-06-06 Thread Wei Chen
On 6/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:24:32PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > Things could be easy for English speaking people, since UTF-8 is fully > compatible with ASCII. However, for people that do not speak English, > for example CJ

Re: advantages and disadvantages of local/lang en_CA.UTF-8?

2007-06-05 Thread Wei Chen
compatible with ASCII. However, for people that do not speak English, for example CJK people, using UTF-8 may mean not compatible with others that use legacy character encodings. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU

Re: backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Wei Chen
On 6/4/07, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Haines Brown wrote: > I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that > I've named "mirror". The script used is: > > find / -print | egrep -v "^/media/mirror|^/proc" | cpio -pdmuv > /media/mirror/"$1" 2>&1 | cat -vt > > Since

Re: securing desktop

2007-05-19 Thread Wei Chen
(e.g. `~guest/data/') 3.2. copy the files that are stored in step 2 back to the user's home directory 4. run the script that are written in step 3 whenever the settings should be reset (e.g. when every time the system boots) HTH - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people

Re: A strange experiment: where to set a X-session-wide environment?

2007-05-18 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:51:42PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: >> I have done a small experiment and got a strange result. >> 1. write `export SOME_VARIABLE=something' in .bash_profile >> 2. logou

A strange experiment: where to set a X-session-wide environment?

2007-05-18 Thread Wei Chen
ofile should have been sourced anywhere in the experiment. However I got the value of the variable with no problem. Would anyone please tell me: 1. where was the .bash_profile file sourced? 2. what is the correct place if I want to set a X-session-wide environment? Thank you in advance. - -- Cheers,

Re: backup script and python

2007-05-05 Thread Wei Chen
en I run it on > hand, it works. > how do I load env vars to the script started by cron? > > thanks > Hi, you may try to put your environment variables, e.g. PATH, in the crontab. There is an example in the man page: man 5 crontab HTH - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.co

Re: backup script and python

2007-05-04 Thread Wei Chen
h rdiff-backup. > I once encountered problem with crontab scripts that was later found related to PATH environment variable. HTH BTW, I second that rdiff-backup is a good choice. I use it for my data backup. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BE

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-22 Thread Wei Chen
a lot of executables in it. Maybe Java is indeed in such a case. I know that there are ways. What I proposed was just another possible one that could help users select alternatives *automatically*, in some cases, by extending the functions of `update-alternatives` a little. It was inspired by a pr

Re: How to limit an IO bound process?

2007-04-22 Thread Wei Chen
the program runs. Thanks very much to you two. :) $ cat bin/mylprun.sh #!/bin/sh nice -n19 ionice -c2 -n7 $1 - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGKw/LCIqXQV6BF28RAt+nAJ9u+3MirAFFohd8gXHOyAUSPElYYQCgxx

How to limit an IO bound process?

2007-04-21 Thread Wei Chen
Hi, I have a long-term running disk IO bound program running in the background on my desktop. I want to limit its resource consumption so that other desktop programs get running smoothly. I know that `nice` can be used for CPU bound programs. What about disk IO bound ones? Is there something sim

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-21 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 13:59:41 +0800, Wei Chen wrote: >> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >>> On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:26:37PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: >>>> We now have system level `update-alter

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:26:37PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: >> We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be >> used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: > Wei Chen wchenhk-at-gmail.com |volatile-lists| wrote: >> We now have system level `update-alternatives' mechanism that can be >> used by root to maintain symbol links in `/etc/alternatives'. Is it

User level alternatives?

2007-04-20 Thread Wei Chen
`~/bin' or something like `~/bin/alternatives'? Or does that already exist? I personally think it can be useful, because I currently do that manually. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gnu

Re: Famd running with my user id?

2007-04-13 Thread Wei Chen
On 4/14/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 21:10 +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg Folkert wrote: > >> After rebooting it again, I found famd still ran as me. Is famd supposed > >>

Re: Famd running with my user id?

2007-04-13 Thread Wei Chen
ain. So on a multi-user system, when other users want to monitor *their* files, the daemon cannot get access to them. That is the point why such a daemon should not change itself to a normal user of the system. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: Famd running with my user id?

2007-04-12 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wei Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I just found that the famd process is now running with my user-id: > > [snip] > root 2987 0.0 0.1 4924 848 ?Ss Apr12 0:00 > /usr/sbin/sshd > root 2993 0.0 0.1 7044

Famd running with my user id?

2007-04-12 Thread Wei Chen
0:00 /usr/sbin/rpc.idmapd ntp 3093 0.0 0.2 5072 1164 ?Ss Apr12 0:00 /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/ru daemon3125 0.0 0.0 1828 304 ?Ss Apr12 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd [snip] Etch box. Just rebooted several hours ago. Any clue? Thanks in advance. - -- Cheers, Wei

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-05 Thread Wei Chen
t. Shall get started at least for the next installation, and hopefully the current one some time later. Thanks. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGFdowCIqXQV6BF28RAonJAKCpAohor7mzawoCcffFxTBBy733TQCg3fmo h8

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-05 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: > > [snip] >> What I currently do to handle scratch installation is that: Before I do >> the installation, I rename /home to something like /abc to make sure the >> installation process

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-05 Thread Wei Chen
he problems you are talking about. > So LVM has the power of RAID like redundancy, right? - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGFJkhCIqXQV6BF28RAr/yAJ9nK9hQ7yqpu7JYC+96gBQm14b+XwCgvmHX yohG

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2007/4/4, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 2) Is there any Debian specific LVM Howtos where I can learn >> debianized LVM? >> >> 3) How does LVM handle software upgrades in Debian? >

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Wei Chen
You can probably do it, but > personally, doing things like that is the only time I ever do a > reinstall and take the opportunity to to do it. Given the ease of > Etch's installer, its probably the easiest way. > You mean Etch's installer have a direct support of LVM in

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/04/07 03:04, Wei Chen wrote: >> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > [snip] >>> I _always_ put /home on its own partition if nothing else. >> I do not put /home on a separate partition because I never kn

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Wei Chen
is the last post that I talk about this kind of things. Sorry again to have mentioned Windows on this list since I know people here hate it. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGE+/UCIqXQV6BF28RAm5TAKC+X

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Wei Chen
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:38:18PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > > >> One day, one of my friends messed things up on her system that was on >> LVM. After re-installing the system, she had trouble activating the LVM >> partitions. (The problem w

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2007/4/4, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Kushal Kumaran wrote: >> >> From the Wikipedia page on chroot: >> > "Only the root user can perform a chroot. This is intended to prevent

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: >> So it is that based on Debian, people create Ubuntu. Also based on >> Debian, there is Backports. > > No. Ubuntu is based on debian, but not debian, ie. compatibility between >

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Wei Chen
> I think that is the problem. Thanks. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGE3NCCIqXQV6BF28RAkjHAJ4lN1hEKKJ4udFwONbBX4XPBiXhzACgi2QA mYoc0AXJjH1O3V5s8zpS63I= =FrqP -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSU

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2007/4/4, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I found that "chroot" can only be run by root. Why cannot it be run as a >> normal user? > > For security reasons...just imagine a user copy hi

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Wei Chen
ays to improve desktop with not very heavy workload. Yes debian is the flag. There should be a sub-flag to attract people (both end-users and developers). - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGE27BC

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-04 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 08:33:49PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: >> Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> >>> So why not do both? Assuming that all your hardware runs under Etch, >>> have a good etch se

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Wei Chen: >> Might there be conflicts for backports and "distribution upgrade"? > > Theoretically: yes. But since backport.org's maintainers are Debian > developers themselves (at least most of

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 CaT wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 02:10:08PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: >> You know that Etch is about to release. This means that new features and >> software will not get into it any more. >> >> So what is a better choice

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Wei Chen
stem in a chroot jail. But I have never had a chance to try those things. :) - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGEkmtCIqXQV6BF28RAlsCAKDR84D+5f204bJdAim/YScKVxJEVACeLDl/ zMlxIEFrgVgFPbgvMHQIjHA= =

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mitja Podreka wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: >> So I'd say that maybe Stable is really not for Desktop use. Testing is >> the best choice because it is neither too dangerous nor too old. >> >> After listening to the suggest

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > ---- Wei Chen wrote: >> So I'd say that maybe Stable is really not for Desktop use. >> Testing is the best choice because it is neither too dangerous >> nor too old. > > What do you think about

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Wei Chen
The object of the new software development is also to help do work better. And desktop environment usually does not need that high stability. (Stability is the most important in some situations I'd say, but not all.) - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/02/07 13:10, Wei Chen wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> It's not officially supported in Stable because the policy is that >>> Stable only gets security updates, not feature updates

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: > Wei Chen writes: >> Thanks. But I would rather have a system that just works. The reason why >> I am worrying about Stable is partially because I guess I may want to use >> some new features that are not av

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Wei Chen
who just wants to get > his work done, or a "computer geek enthusiast"? > I am mainly the first type, but I occasionally want to play with my computer. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Wei Chen
and newbies, a more stable version is better. Thanks for the article :) - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGEUX9CIqXQV6BF28RAiT6AJ9v7pTWIVb56P1AizKwn1MLmqlYxQCgqEV/ WfSve23LOK9D16TKImonF+w= =r2XH

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Wei Chen
with testing and my laptop running Etch. I've also testing and > sid vservers on my laptop for build and test packages. :) > > regards, > -- stratus > http://stratusandtheswirl.blogspot.com > > - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wche

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Wei Chen
have also decided after listening to some suggestions on the list to wait some time. Sometimes I think it would be even better if Debian introduced a new branch for desktop users. The current branches are in fact in server style. Desktop users have to jump between stable and testing back and forth

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Wei Chen
ly without the need of knowing the details. In most cases I even do not need to modify those configure files. It just works, and works fine. I like this style :) - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Wei Chen: >> Also, maybe one disadvantage of upgrading to a newer version early is >> that one can in fact upgrade at any time if still using the old one. But >> once upgraded, it is never possible to get t

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Wei Chen: >> But I once heard that things in the "Testing" distribution always change >> gradually. And the big gap between stable and testing will cause the >> upgrade not so easy after some ti

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mitja Podreka wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: >> So what is a better choice now, to stick to Etch or to switch to the >> next testing? > Last time around (Woody -> Sarge) the suggestion on this list was to > stick with Sarge (s

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Wei Chen
ople first. But I once heard that things in the "Testing" distribution always change gradually. And the big gap between stable and testing will cause the upgrade not so easy after some time of the release of stable. Is that true? - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wche

Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-01 Thread Wei Chen
? I am not sure which is more important for desktop users, stability or new features. I think there might be some people with similar problem/experience with me. What is your plan/suggestion? Thank you. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: question about firefox and iceweasel

2007-03-26 Thread Wei Chen
ry builds from Mozilla. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGB41YCIqXQV6BF28RAlpqAJ4uFEeBVqHhzKpgoYqFNO7AzJh8lgCeP5i/ p8E+ZbU4QpP/76kBf/XMZqs= =gBve -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Beep question of Icedove

2007-03-23 Thread Wei Chen
ly slightly annoying issues, not > really bugs. > All right. I will adopt the "Ostrich" algorithm and disable the new mail beeping for now. Thanks for all your replies. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN P

Re: Beep question of Icedove

2007-03-23 Thread Wei Chen
ey are in the spam folder. And the spam folder on A is empty (I do not know why). Anyway, icedove should not "beep" when auto-check is disabled for all accounts. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/

Re: Beep question of Icedove

2007-03-23 Thread Wei Chen
; Celejar > > That is strange. I got those "of host" and "be hovel" ones into icedove box for example. Maybe this is due to a setting that I am not sure. BTW, it still keeps beeping even if I disable auto-check and auto-download for all accounts. - -- Cheers, Wei Che

Re: Beep question of Icedove

2007-03-23 Thread Wei Chen
t. I hope the problem can be found when all accounts are tested. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGA8yCCIqXQV6BF28RAoVeAKCGN61poPWGkj41590sKPBiRXTx5QCfcxOc eKo98ru2X85XmUELdxOZazU= =OB9L -END PG

Re: Beep question of Icedove

2007-03-23 Thread Wei Chen
eep" ... Maybe I can try to disable the beep when receiving mail to have a test. Thanks. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGA8ZXCIqXQV6BF28RAubQAKCzAb7D7aUGieYJ4D9xINiTtbooMwCg0F00 MnEudQgvhNUc5

Re: Beep question of Icedove

2007-03-23 Thread Wei Chen
't _download_ it. I thought maybe it was this that made me confused. I corrected this then also disabled the automatic fetch of Gmail. Then, when I was going to compose a mail to tell you what I had done, it beeps again... - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/ -BEGIN

Beep question of Icedove

2007-03-23 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I know that Icedove will "beep" when a new mail is received. But sometimes it also beeps when there is no new mail or anything else. Is there any other case in which Icedove beeps? Thanks. - -- Cheers, Wei Chen http://www.acplex.

Re: Treason uncloaked!

2007-03-20 Thread Wei Chen
On 3/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everybody. There are now many years I find regularly this kind of error messages in my logs : kernel: TCP: Treason uncloaked! Peer x.x.x.x:x/80 shrinks window x:x. Repaired. There are many years, I search the web about that, and tha

Re: How to chmod files in my web server

2007-03-19 Thread Wei Chen
On 19 Mar 2007 04:18:27 -0700, Jordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just one last question Wei Chen: And the files inside that folders are ok chmoded that way? Thanks for your recommendation. Yes. All files can be set 644 and all directories can be set 755 except that the upload dir

Re: How to chmod files in my web server

2007-03-18 Thread Wei Chen
On 18 Mar 2007 13:24:54 -0700, Jordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Wei Chen, Thanks for that excelent info. > I think 755 is all right. The execute bit for a directory means the > permission of going into the directory. And what about setting the files to chmod 744 ? That way wi

Re: Removing motd from ssh logins

2007-03-18 Thread Wei Chen
On 3/19/07, Marco De Vitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 18/03/2007 14:20, Tobias Nissen wrote: > Place the file .hushlogin into the homedir of the remote user. Uhm, thanks, it works, but I'd prefer doing it "the right way"... Infact, this file is used to suppress motd (and last login) output

Re: How to chmod files in my web server

2007-03-18 Thread Wei Chen
On 18 Mar 2007 09:16:35 -0700, Jordi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello I have a web server in my PC. I need to chmod the files correctly so I don't have a security risk. I am using a CMS for the website. I have full access to my pc, as it is in my house, and I can manipulate it through keyboard

Re: Different ways of locking accounts

2007-03-17 Thread Wei Chen
On 3/18/07, Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 01:08:13AM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: ... > >BTW, both methods lock shells as well as ftp and sftp. Changing the shell > >to > >> /usr/sbin/nologin allows ftp but still prevents sftp. > >>

Re: Different ways of locking accounts

2007-03-17 Thread Wei Chen
On 3/18/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:44:18AM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > > Will there be problem if I lock an account with one program and unlock with > another? > I don't know. Why don't you try it and see? :-) I just

Re: Different ways of locking accounts

2007-03-17 Thread Wei Chen
On 3/18/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:18:55AM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I recently found ways that can lock user accounts on the local machine, > including "passwd -l" and "usermod -L". > > I am

Different ways of locking accounts

2007-03-17 Thread Wei Chen
Hi, I recently found ways that can lock user accounts on the local machine, including "passwd -l" and "usermod -L". I am wondering now what is the difference between the two commands and which one is preferred (or standard, or more widely used). Thanks. -- Cheers, Wei http://www.acplex.com/peop

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