Re: exim exposed to the internet

2003-10-20 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 04:09, André Carezia wrote: > Em Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:12:43 +0200, David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > escreveu: > > > [...] > > I had trouble with my ISPs mail server which was telling me that it > > wasn't going to relay mail for me. [...] > > Maybe a new POP-before-SMTP sc

Re: diffs between kernel-source-2.4.22 and source of kernel-image-2.4.22?

2003-10-20 Thread David Fokkema
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 04:32, Herbert Xu wrote: > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yeah, well, `even with the same config', meaning that I used the config > > from kernel-image-2.4.22. That should work, shouldn't it? > > No it's not. The precompiled images put vesafb in /lib/modul

Re: filtering MS* mails w/ Spamassassin

2003-10-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 07:30, Nathan J. Malmberg wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:24:42AM -0400, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: > > My SA setting blocks most of the spam mails but it doesn't/can't stop > > these MS mails, no matter how many MS examples I try to feed to it to > > learn. Anyone has any hin

HELP - dpkg status file was lost

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Brooks
HELP !   All was going along swimmingly until I got a segmentation fault in a dselect operation, which resulted in me having to press the dreaded reset switch.   After having repaired the partition, and losing a few crashed sectors along the way . . .   I lost the status file for dpkg/dselec

Re: More on spam

2003-10-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 19 Oct 2003, John Hasler wrote: > Paul E Condon writes: > > It has been claimed that one person's spam is another person's ham. To > > what extent is this actually true? Or is this just obfuscation by the > > advocates of spam? > > Almost all spam has forged headers. The domains are real and v

Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:09:35PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > Daniel B. wrote: > > > Is this something I need to do something about: > > > Oct 18 20:29:30 dsb kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > > > > Just ignore it. It basically means that you do not have anythi

Re: X trouble!

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:58:01PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > Anyone else experience this, or is it just me? See recent BTS entries for fontconfig. -- Marc Wilson | Oh, yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | livin' is gone. -- John Cougar, "Jack and Diane

Re: Verify that spamc is using Bayesian?

2003-10-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 11:47, ScruLoose wrote: > Hey all, > > So I installed a Spamassassin 2.55 backport from > http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian > to my woody box not long ago, and I fed a bunch of spam and ham to sa-learn > (chomp, chomp)... finally got the corpus over 200 messages of each. >

Re: wxWindows

2003-10-20 Thread Dave Howorth
I wrote: (As an aside, it would be nice if there was a single page linked to from the docs of all such related packages that summarised them all together, along with the interrelationship dependencies) and Roberto responded: There is. At the very bottom of each page for the individual packages,

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
csj wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: [...] think about it: when learning english the only challenge is to learn how to pronounce words (and learn irregular verbs). you built vocabulary by learning words, where you pretty much only need to remember the word itself (i

Will a binary deb package ever not end in extension .deb?

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
I just read about udeb, google says they are coming in debian-installer. I have some scripts that assume every binary package downloaded to /var/cache/apt/archives will end in the extension ".deb". Is this valid? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: install_oracle9i

2003-10-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 07:24, mohammed wrote: > please can you help me to install oracle 9i > on the server and teache me the steps > to install oracle 9i I wrote a guide a while ago about this: http://www.the-love-shack.net/oracle-on-sid.shtml You can also try searching for a guide on google.

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Johann Spies
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 05:31:33PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > On Saturday 18 October 2003 17:09, Paul Smith wrote: > > If you use GPL'd code and you distribute the results, you have to > > give the source code, either along with the program or when people > > ask you for it. > > And you have to

Re: Will a binary deb package ever not end in extension .deb?

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:16:58AM -0700, Tom wrote: > I just read about udeb, google says they are coming in debian-installer. > I have some scripts that assume every binary package downloaded to > /var/cache/apt/archives will end in the extension ".deb". > > Is this valid? Yes. You should never

Re: apt-get install pkg and remove pkg on the same line?!

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:59:59AM +0200, smurfd wrote: > Hey there Debian-user list, ive been thinking, (not well enough, as it > seems). > > How does dselect do, when you select/deselect packages to be > added/removed ? i mean, can you type yourself, like on one line.. > > apt-get install

Re: Cannot use type1 fonts with OpenOffice

2003-10-20 Thread Ernest Adrogué
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 07:57:13PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:27:31AM +0200, Ernest Adrogu? wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm using OpenOffice 1.1.0 and want to use some fonts > > that I have in /usr/local/.../{truetype,type1}. They are > > visible with gtkfontsel and g

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:28:52 -0700 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:08:33PM -0700, Tom wrote: > > I'll repeat: anyplace people want to kill us, we want to kill them. > > And just so there's no confusion: > We want to kill members of the group Bin Ladan is inciting only

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:00:38 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 01:07:12 -0700, Tom wrote: > > > > > [...] > > > Maybe in 50 years the Muslims will be turning out killer cars > > like Germany or killer stereos like Japan. > > Well, Muslims are turning out cars, and not j

Re: apt-get install pkg and remove pkg on the same line?!

2003-10-20 Thread smurfd
Thanks Colin and Rob Works Exactly like i want it to.. Thanks!! Best regards /smurfd On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 06:21, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:59:59AM +0200, smurfd said > > Hey there Debian-user list, ive been thinking, (not well enough, as it > > seems). > > > > How does dsele

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:44:08 +0200 Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 05:31:33PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > > On Saturday 18 October 2003 17:09, Paul Smith wrote: > > > If you use GPL'd code and you distribute the results, you have to > > > give the source code, ei

..802.11 wifi signal noise investigation tools?

2003-10-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
Hi, ..on tracking down noise sources defeating 802.11 wifi signals, causing DOS, investigation tools? ..airsnort, wavemon, gkrellmwireless, what else do I need to spot noise sources? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his an

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
Could this thread please be taken to some other list or private mail? I think it's clear that it's got hopelessly off-topic. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-20 Thread Christoph Simon
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 00:56:37 -0700 Erik Steffl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > csj wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45 -0700, > > Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > >> think about it: when learning english the only challenge is > >>to learn how to pronounce words (and learn irregular

Re: Where to download old Potato packages?

2003-10-20 Thread Markus Kolb
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:39:10PM +0200, Markus Kolb wrote: Hi, where can I find the old Debian Potato release packages? There is still a directory /debian/dists/potato on ftp.debian.org but some packages are lost there. Same on mirrors ... I need /debian/dists/potato/ma

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:44, Johann Spies wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 05:31:33PM +0200, Henning Moll wrote: > > On Saturday 18 October 2003 17:09, Paul Smith wrote: > > > If you use GPL'd code and you distribute the results, you have to > > > give the source code, either along with the program

OT: Sony StorStation LIB-D81A2-EU

2003-10-20 Thread martin f krafft
Hey there, I would like to attach the Sony AIT-2 Autoloader (8slot 400-1040GB), model LIB-D81A2-EU, to our groupware server, but I could not find any information on whether (and how) it is supported by Linux. Does anyone have experience with that drive? Or, could anyone recommend a drive capable

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:45:48PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:28:52 -0700 > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:08:33PM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > I'll repeat: anyplace people want to kill us, we want to kill them. > > > > And just so there's no

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:48:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Could this thread please be taken to some other list or private mail? I > think it's clear that it's got hopelessly off-topic. > > Thanks, > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Ok, I won't resp

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:48:07 +0100, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Could this thread please be taken to some other list or private mail? > I think it's clear that it's got hopelessly off-topic. ..any way these off-topic rants can be flagged as such othe

Re: Where to download old Potato packages?

2003-10-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:07:30PM +0200, Markus Kolb wrote: > Yesterday I looked at ftp.debian.org in directory debian-archive but > there was no Potato directory. Only the older releases up to Slink. > That there is a new server at archive.debian.org is new to me. It's been there for some years

Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-20 Thread Dave Howorth
On Friday 17 October 2003 16:13, I wrote: | >>I need to install wxWindows 2.4 on a Woody system so I can build | >>another application (TreeView X). Does anybody have any idea of the | >>best way to do this, and what steps are involved? I haven't built Debian-ised software from source before (exce

Re: ..802.11 wifi signal noise investigation tools?

2003-10-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 12:05:05 +0200, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > ..on tracking down noise sources defeating 802.11 wifi signals, > causing DOS, investigation tools? > > ..airsnort, wavemon, gkrellmwireless, what else do I need to > spot no

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-20 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:56:37AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > csj wrote: > > >[...] > > > >Because everybody from the poor war orphan "Hey, Joe, eat!" to > >the UN Secretary General speaks it, English has become a rather > >tolerant language. But if the same standard for proper German is > >appli

Unidentified subject!

2003-10-20 Thread News Admin
>From news Mon Oct 20 14:18:50 2003 Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by nimloth.ics.muni.cz (8.12.8/8.10.0.Beta12) id h9KCIoAZ010263 for newsmaster; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:18:50 +0200 (MEST) Newsgroups: cz.muni.redir.debian.user Path: news From: Martin Homola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subj

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 21:48, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:03:06 -0500, > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:19, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:51:16 -0500, > > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-10-20 Thread Albert Dengg
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:18:51 +0200 (MEST) News Admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Can't I _force_ the XServer to load the module somehow? Or > is the nvidia kernel module omitted in some script so that > it doesn't load (e.g. /etc/modules.conf)? Am I confusing the > `nvidia.o' kernel module

How to recover the lost bookmarks

2003-10-20 Thread pradeeps
Hi, I use galeon browser extensively. I work in research lab and in my job go through the literature sources from journal and web and build model for simulations. I had book marked and categorized the bookmark which was very very important for my modelbuilding(infact work of 4mnts). Recently Gale

Re: HELP - dpkg status file was lost

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Richard Brooks wrote: HELP ! All was going along swimmingly until I got a segmentation fault in a dselect operation, which resulted in me having to press the dreaded reset switch. After having repaired the partition, and losing a few crashed sectors along the way . . . I lost the status file fo

Re: wxWindows

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Dave Howorth wrote: What I meant was a page that *explained* what each package was and under what circumstances each particular group of packages should be downloaded. Remember I have the viewpoint of somebody who is essentially not interested in wxWindows; certainly not interested in developin

Re: How to recover the lost bookmarks

2003-10-20 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently Galeon crashed and after trying to re-execute, it showed the error called " Cannot find a schema for galeon preferences". I fixed as instructed in the site : http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200108/msg01896.html " But galeon started fresh

Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-20 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 07:06, Dave Howorth wrote: [...] > dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libgtk1.2-dev, python > (>=2.3), python2.3-dev, libpng2-dev, libtiff3g-dev, xlibmesa-gl-dev | > libgl-dev, xlibmesa-glu-dev | libglu-dev, libesd0-dev > dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/con

Re: Re: X trouble!

2003-10-20 Thread Kevin C. Smith
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:33:34AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Actually, thanks to people on IRC, I fixed the problem. > > It was because of fontconfig bug 216605. The solution was to uninstall > gsfonts-other, and rebuild the font cache (I used dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig). > > (And sorry

Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Dave Howorth wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 16:13, I wrote: | >>I need to install wxWindows 2.4 on a Woody system so I can build | >>another application (TreeView X). Does anybody have any idea of the | >>best way to do this, and what steps are involved? I haven't built Debian-ised software f

Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Mark Roach wrote: The reason is that all of those wxwindows packages come from the same source package. Why exactly did you decide that you needed to compile the whole thing again? -Mark He is building a non-Debian app that requires wxWindows 2.4 and he is on Woody, where only 2.2 is available i

Re: More on spam

2003-10-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 20 October 2003 09:02, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've realized recently that I'm inadvertently sending out lots of spam. > I'd obviously wish to prevent this but how? I've been to the site you > recommend but I find the information there too complex for me to be sure > how to do it; it s

Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-20 Thread Dave Howorth
Mark Roach wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 07:06, Dave Howorth wrote: dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libgtk1.2-dev, python (>=2.3), python2.3-dev, libpng2-dev, libtiff3g-dev, xlibmesa-gl-dev | libgl-dev, xlibmesa-glu-dev | libglu-dev, libesd0-dev dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-10-20 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 20, 2003 09:18 am, News Admin wrote: > Hi, > > Can't I _force_ the XServer to load the module somehow? Or > is the nvidia kernel module omitted in some script so that > it doesn't load (e.g. /etc/modules.conf)? Am I confusing the > `nvidia.o' kernel module with the nvidia X driver? > > T

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

2003-10-20 Thread John Yurcik
Thank you for the answers.I did look at the read me a nvidia and it didn't illuminate what would solve this. (I upgraded my video card and then had Xserver failure in debian.) Anyway here is the results of uname -a & my /usr/src/. Sorry I am having some problem- I can't copy and paste from kword

RE: Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?

2003-10-20 Thread Wathen, Metherion
> -Original Message- > From: Jeff McAdams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 4:07 PM > To: Steve C. Lamb > Cc: Debian-User (E-mail) > Subject: Re: Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE? > > > Steve C. Lamb wrote: > > >>Get your eyes checked, Jeff,

Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Dave Howorth wrote: The full story is in the previous messages, which I trimmed to save bandwidth :) But briefly, I need wxWindows to be able to build a specific non-Debian application. wxWindows is not supported on Woody, which is what I run. Hence, I need to compile it. Not sure what you m

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-20 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:35:22 -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 21:48, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:03:06 -0500, > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Sun,

Re: More on spam

2003-10-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Oct 2003, Alan Chandler wrote: > On Monday 20 October 2003 09:02, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I've realized recently that I'm inadvertently sending out lots of spam. > > I'd obviously wish to prevent this but how? I've been to the site you > > recommend but I find the information there too

Re: X 4.3 mouse cursor

2003-10-20 Thread David Fokkema
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 17:59, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 02:22:37PM +0200, David Fokkema said > > Hi group, > > > > I finally decided to try out mouse cursors in X 4.3. (Well, my brother > > wanted to try them out and I wanted to do that the `debian' way). > > Anyway, I ran > > > >

Re: wxWindows + building from source in Debian

2003-10-20 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 09:47, Dave Howorth wrote: > Mark Roach wrote: [...] > >>The specific question is why these particular dependencies are arising. > > The reason is that all of those wxwindows packages come from the same > > source package. Why exactly did you decide that you needed to compile

Epiphany.

2003-10-20 Thread David Palmer
Hello, What risk do I run with apt-get remove epiphany (the game), without disturbing epiphany the browser (with bookmarks). Regards and thanks, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uname -a & /usr/src/

2003-10-20 Thread John Yurcik
Thank you for the answers.I did look at the read me a nvidia and it didn't illuminate what would solve this. (I upgraded my video card and then had Xserver failure in debian.) Anyway here is the results of uname -a & my /usr/src/. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux deblnx 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr

cypsys - lpr -p deprecated?

2003-10-20 Thread David
After recently upgrading from stable to testing, I notice that the command "lpr -p" no longer does prettyprinting. In fact, with this option, "ps ax" shows a "noprettyprint" specification. I tried "lpr -p1" to no avail. "lpr -oprettyprint" still works. The man page still shows the -p option, al

Re: Where can I get lame for "testing"

2003-10-20 Thread David Z Maze
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > lame appears in dselect, and I've tried to install it that way, but > it does not install. I've tried apt-get install lame, and I get "No > installation caidate" > > What can I do to fix this? Use (DFSG-free, not patent-encumbered, royalty-free) oggenc, from the

Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-20 Thread ananymous
Hi! I tried to install eclipse on my Debian SID box using: apt-get install eclipse-sdk aclipse-jdk eclipse-platform apt-get said that eclipse-platform depends on j2re1.4 or j2re1.3 or java2-runtime but these packages are not available. How can I install eclipse? And is there a deb package for Sun

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 06:08:33PM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 04:59:08PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > [snip] > > I was aware of all your facts and reasonings before you spoke. > We just part ways on our interpretation of the facts. > > I'll repeat: anyplace people want to kill

Re: Epiphany.

2003-10-20 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:22:34PM +0800, David Palmer wrote: > > What risk do I run with apt-get remove epiphany (the game), without > disturbing epiphany the browser (with bookmarks). Since the browser package is called "epiphany-browser" I would say little-to-none. -- Jamin W. Collins Linux

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread tb . 31020 . nospam
I'd like to stop this discussion :-) you get in one more good reply and then I'm dropping it > Then does that give people in Afghanistan and Iraq the right to attack > America? As it does seem that (some) Americans want to kill them. I said "we only want to kill them because they want to kill us"

Re: X 4.3 mouse cursor

2003-10-20 Thread Stephen Cormier
On October 20, 2003 11:13 am, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 17:59, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 02:22:37PM +0200, David Fokkema said > > > > > Hi group, > > > > > > I finally decided to try out mouse cursors in X 4.3. (Well, my brother > > > wanted to try them out and

ah shit mutt mistake

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
ah shit i was trying to take it offline my bad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:22:08AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:59:08 -0400, > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 01:07:12AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > ..really? ;-) > > > > > ..as in; "Where _is_ Osama

Re: fetchmail/exim chokes on a message...

2003-10-20 Thread Sanchez the Cactus
I'm already using latest fetchmail from unstable, so that's likely not the problem. I've switched over to using /sbin/sendmail, and so far no problems, we'll see if it stays that way. thanks for the help! --- Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 10:47:01AM -0700, Sanc

Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-20 Thread Csuthy Gabor
Hi! Try to download eclipse from http://eclipse.org/downloads/index.php and java (java2sdk) from http://java.sun.com and install them whithout using apt-get. Good luck! Lanten > Hi! > I tried to install eclipse on my Debian SID box using: > > apt-get install eclipse-sdk aclipse-jdk eclipse-pl

Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-20 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo! * ananymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get install eclipse-sdk aclipse-jdk eclipse-platform > And is there a deb package for Sun's jdk? search for mpkg-j2sdk and use a *-bin download. This will hopefully become teh defauld method for installing a unfree java. See debian-java for the

Re: More on spam

2003-10-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:47:57PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > Why does debian.org expose end-users email addresses for spammers or > virus-spreaders to utilize? Because there are readily available, easily implimented solutions to both problems that

Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-20 Thread Johannes Zarl
> apt-get said that eclipse-platform depends on j2re1.4 or j2re1.3 or > java2-runtime but these packages are not available. > How can I install eclipse? > And is there a deb package for Sun's jdk? You could look into the equivs package, use it to set up a dummy-package for j2re1.4 and then instal

Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-20 Thread Harshwardhan Nagaonkar
Csuthy Gabor wrote: Hi! Try to download eclipse from http://eclipse.org/downloads/index.php and java (java2sdk) from http://java.sun.com and install them whithout using apt-get. I've personally got the .rpm package from sun's website and then converted it into a .deb using 'alien'. Although th

Thanks Pigeon for Your mailfilterrc

2003-10-20 Thread Thomas H. George
The dialog on spam has become so lenghty I am afraid you would never see my thank you note there. My copy of mailfilter (testing) did not like those line continuations so I had to convert to individual entries - no problem after you had done all the work. After the conversion your mailfilterrc

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 08:04:20AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Then does that give people in Afghanistan and Iraq the right to attack > > America? As it does seem that (some) Americans want to kill them. > > I said "we only want to kill them because they want to kill us" > if they stop, we

installing Debian...

2003-10-20 Thread Jukka Salmi
Hello, every now and then I install Debian on new ix86 machines (Dell PowerEdge). They often have hardware which is not yet supported by the kernels of the official stable Debian release 3.0r1. So far I was using an unofficial "stable" netinst boot CD to install the OS. I also tried a few testing

Re: More on spam

2003-10-20 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Monday 20 October 2003 11:23 am, Paul Johnson wrote: > Stop trying to fix the problem by changing everyone else, instead, > secure your system against these kinds of attacks. Duh. He is not trying to change everyone else, he's trying to change this list defaults. I think that the decision of

anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread Alfredo Valles
Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses instead of the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from massively collecting address from the web archives of this list? I think that this method works because yahoo mail use it to prevent programs from creating a

Re: installing Debian...

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jukka Salmi wrote: Hello, every now and then I install Debian on new ix86 machines (Dell PowerEdge). They often have hardware which is not yet supported by the kernels of the official stable Debian release 3.0r1. So far I was using an unofficial "stable" netinst boot CD to install the OS. I also t

Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-20 Thread Csuthy Gabor
> I've personally got the .rpm package from sun's website and then > converted it into a .deb using 'alien'. Although there's no guarantee it > will work well, generally alien does a really good job and I've had no > problems with it so far. First I used a .bin install file, downloaded from sun's

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-20 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:40:19PM +0200, David Jardine insinuated: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:56:37AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > csj wrote: > > > > >[...] > > > > > >Because everybody from the poor war orphan "Hey, Joe, eat!" to > > >the UN Secretary General speaks it, English has become a rather

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread John Hasler
Alfredo writes: > Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses > instead of the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from > massively collecting address from the web archives of this list? > I think that this method works because yahoo mail use it to prevent > pr

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-20 Thread csj
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 22:05:02 -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > [...] > And as in all open source projects, it's not necessarily the > same people working on Emacs than on the Hurd. You can't tell > Emacs developers to stop and work on something else instead. Unless The Hurd could be implemente

Re: convert jpg pages to pdf file

2003-10-20 Thread Mihalis I. Tsoukalos
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 05:21:35PM +0100, Jason Chambers wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:05:19AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:19:27 +0300 > > "Mihalis I. Tsoukalos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dear list, > > > I have the following question: > > > > > > I ha

Re: More on spam

2003-10-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 14:03 GMT, Anthony Campbell penned: > > The problem has appeared in the last few weeks, since when I've been > seeing an increasing number of messages to say that outgoing mail has > not been delivered (see below for some examples). None of these are > messages I have sent m

Re: convert jpg pages to pdf file

2003-10-20 Thread Mihalis I. Tsoukalos
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:07:54PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:53:52AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > > > > > I have some scanned pages in jpg format. I want to convert them in one > > > > pdf file. How can I do this? > > Sorry, I did not follow the earlier part of this

mouse

2003-10-20 Thread Marlin Unruh
Hi, I just installed debian 3.0r1 and the mouse will not work. I have a serial track ball with a PS/2 adapter, and have it plugged into the PS/2 port. The track ball is a Kensington Expert Mouse. Do I need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file? If so what should I try for the settings? Device: Prot

Re: HELP - dpkg status file was lost

2003-10-20 Thread Seneca
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:57:41PM +1000, Richard Brooks wrote: > After having repaired the partition, and losing a few crashed sectors > along the way . . . I lost the status file for dpkg/dselect/apt-get. > > Now - I cannot do any dselect/apt-get/dpkg operations without a > segmentation fault

canned peach in syrup x 850 grs.

2003-10-20 Thread canned peach
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Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread Alfredo Valles
On Monday 20 October 2003 12:23 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses > > instead of the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from > > massively collecting address from the web archives of this list? > > > > I think that this meth

Re: mouse

2003-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 10:29:31AM -0600, Marlin Unruh said > Hi, > > I just installed debian 3.0r1 and the mouse will not work. I have a serial > track ball with a PS/2 adapter, and have it plugged into the PS/2 port. The > track ball is a Kensington Expert Mouse. > > Do I need to edit /etc/X11/

Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 04:25:26PM +0200, ananymous wrote: | And is there a deb package for Sun's jdk? http://www.blackdown.org/ ( deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/java/debian/ sid main non-free ) ( deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/ sid main non-free ) -D -- I

Re: mouse

2003-10-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Marlin Unruh wrote: Hi, I just installed debian 3.0r1 and the mouse will not work. I have a serial track ball with a PS/2 adapter, and have it plugged into the PS/2 port. The track ball is a Kensington Expert Mouse. Do I need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file? If so what should I try for the sett

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:01:12PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > At least yahoo care about making life easier to their users. Your idea of "easier" does not reflect that of the open source community, apparently. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL

Re: Epiphany.

2003-10-20 Thread David Z Maze
David Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What risk do I run with apt-get remove epiphany (the game), without > disturbing epiphany the browser (with bookmarks). What I'd suggest you do: (0) Install aptitude, if you haven't yet. (1) Start aptitude. (2) Press '/', type "ephiphany" in the box t

Re: how could Packages mention files that don't exist yet?

2003-10-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 12:52:24PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: | How do the mirrors work? I don't really know, but I have some guesses. | Are the Packages files always copied last, to ensure all the | versions mentioned in them already exist on the disk when you try to | get them? I don't think

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread Tom
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:01:12PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: > On Monday 20 October 2003 12:23 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > > Would it be too difficult to use fuzzy images of the mail addresses > > > instead of the text of the addresses itself to prevent programs from > > > massively collecting ad

Re: More on spam

2003-10-20 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 14:03 GMT, Anthony Campbell penned: > > > > The problem has appeared in the last few weeks, since when I've been > > seeing an increasing number of messages to say that outgoing mail has > > not been delivered (see below for some exa

Does anyone know how to...

2003-10-20 Thread Thomas Pomber
fix the network settings for Xmule so that it will work properly?   I'm running linux out of my xbox using Ed's Debian, which comes with Xmule pre-installed.  But it doesn't download.  I tried editing the binary file, but it was a weird-looking squiggles.Post your free ad now! Yahoo! Canada Per

Re: "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7."

2003-10-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Marc Wilson wrote: > Daniel B. wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Daniel B. wrote: > > > > Oct 18 20:29:30 dsb kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. > > > Just ignore it. It basically means that you do not have anything > > > connected to the parallel port. > > That obviously can't be right--I

big troubles in little libc

2003-10-20 Thread iain d broadfoot
Hey list, I'm having a few problems with programs dying: liferea:0x407196c9 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 gaim: 0x407466c9 in free () from /lib/libc.so.6 I can't see a bugreport about this on libc6, and it doesn't feel like the individual apps are doing anything in par

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-20 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:23:04PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:40:19PM +0200, David Jardine insinuated: > > Depends what you mean by purity. By European language standards > > it's fairly pure in the sense of not being cluttered up with things > > like redundant inflecti

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