Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

On 10/1/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:17:57 +0300 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > > > I struggled for a while to figure out how to do exactly this, without > > > success. I believe that cron does not work

Re: How do you turn on and off a program automatcially

On 9/30/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:21:16 -0400 > Peter Smerdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sid Arth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi, I am running rtorrent and I was wondering if it is possible for the > > > system to turn the program off at certain

Re: Better iptables firewall

On 8/30/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > I'm hoping some seasoned Debian sysadmins out there can help me by > advising me on how to better setup iptables...My current setup is: quite some info you can find here Securing Debian howto http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing

Re: Shut down or leave on?

On 8/28/07, Richard Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > In the past I have always shut my Debian system down over night etc for 3 > reasons: > > 1) I put backups on my 80GB external HD which I usually leave shut down even > when I boot the rest of the system. It's about the same age as my

Re: WYSIWYG editor

On 8/29/07, pinniped <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >What do you recommend as a good, practical WYSIWYG editor > >for creating simple web pages, with mostly text, some > >graphics and pdf, for debian Lenny please? Thanks. I use OpenOffice but I then touch the html manually It's not an elegant soluti

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

On 7/25/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:14:22 +0300 "Nick Demou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll soon be on vacations without my PC. I believe that internet > access from an internet cafe will be my best option. If things go for > the worse how can I ssh to my deb

Re: how to ssh to a linux box from an internet cafe

On 7/25/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] DO NOT access any meaningful device from an internet cafe. They tend (not all) to be infected boxen even down to key loggers. I'll only do it if things go for the worst and I've allready setup a simple one-time-password mechanism which

Re: Wallpaper in GDM theme

On 7/23/07, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am making a GDM theme. I want the wallpaper to expand or contract as necessary to fit in the display, while maintaining aspect ratio. I tried: > > > > But it does not maintain the aspect ratio. Kindly suggest a solution. I h

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

On 7/9/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Which brings us back to my original point; why not RTF? It's apparently a fairly open format, and apparently virtually all word processors can read and write it. rtf is NOT OPEN: we have a technical reference but we don't have a license to use it an

Re: It was new to me, even if it was 3 years old...

On 6/29/07, Bert Schulze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-cache madison ... > apt-cache's madison [...] > [...] Don't you think the list will be able to read the apt-cache manpage? (; I surely prefer that he did - I hate it when I see a URL or any other reference without a hint as to what

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

On 6/28/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:13:38 +0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > anyway, IMHO: even if RTF is "open" under some interpretation it's not > to be used as a critical component of OS SW. You will have noticed > already that it's hard to find the lic

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Peter Hillier-Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a Microsoft "standard". Draw your own conclusions regarding "open". I'd certainly suspect MS, but its authorship is insufficient reason to conclude that it isn't open. authorship is surely insufficient but

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

On 6/25/07, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using Abiword, which recommends using RTF for document exchange > with non-Abi users. I'm trying to understand whether RTF is an open > standard. Wikipedia [0] claims that it's proprietary. This article > [1] points out that it has the s

Re: how hot is my xeon?

On 6/22/07, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...]... my box gets noisy and I'm trying to see if it's temp related as a precaution: clean all the air intakes, clean all heatsinks that have a cooler on them (it's just amazing what a difference cleaning can make) and you can probably check the