Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:12, David Palmer. wrote: ... > Most of our modern knowledge of the Celts > comes from the Roman campaigners' reports, in particular Julius Caesar > who fought a protracted campaign against the Celts in Britain, as the > Celts had an oral history not written. There are Wels

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

One time on Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:20:57AM +0100 this person named Pigeon wrote: > People who insist on using eg. "chairperson" instead of "chairman" or > "chairwoman", and invent ugly pronouns like "hir" to do duty for both > "him" and "her" instead of using the "they" fudge that everyone else >

Re: suspend to ram, or hibernate [plus: monitor suspend howto]

le Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:45:15 +0200, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> s'exprima en ces termes: > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 23:44, LeVA wrote: > > > > Thanks! I tried that swsusp stuff, but when I run the script, it > > writes "going to hibernate", and unloading everything, and stopping > > daemons, an

Re: Bug#217452: mailfilter: installing under Debian

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:23:59AM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: > ??? > /etc/fetchmailrc is owned by fetchmail:root, 0600. Anyone who can read > that file has root permissions and can just as easily read any > .fetchmailrc that they want to. Yes, they can. But that still doesn't mean that I want

Re: user not found .htacess

On Saturday 25 October 2003 00:27, Lucio de Aquino Marinho wrote: >  Everything is ok ,  but the apache do not authenticate   > AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/htpasswd.users What do you have in that file...? Best, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer

Re: Problem with instalation Debian on Be6 II

MarekL declaimed: > I want to install debian. When I try to install it, I have a message, > that there is no hard disk. Help me what to do. Please I m new user of > debian so send me very understable explanation.Pozdro This list will give you the best help if you give us the exact text of the err

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 08:00:53 +0100 Oliver Elphick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 12:12, David Palmer. wrote: > ... > > Most of our modern knowledge of the Celts > > comes from the Roman campaigners' reports, in particular Julius Caesar > > who fought a protracted campaign again

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On (24/10/03 22:04), Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:54, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (25/10/03 01:14), David Jardine wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:55:20PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:39:11AM -0700, John Yurcik ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > >

Re: X broke after crash, restore, upgrade

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:25:42AM -0700, Ric Otte wrote: > My hard drive recently died, and after installing a new one, I tried to get > things working by first using Mondo to restore my system to the way it was a > year ago. That worked fine. I then took a recent list of packages, and did: >

Re: another spam attack?

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:15:13PM +0100, john gennard wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:01:52AM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 08:41 GMT, john gennard penned: > > > I'm successfully using popsneaker to knock unwanted stuff off the POP > > > server - nothing now gets t

Re: Nics.

There was a thread on this subject approximately a week ago. The recommendation was for the 3COM 3C905B. I should like to advise that this model has now been deleted. Its' replacement is part number 3C905CX-TX-M. It is Linux compatible, with downloadable drivers on site. Test Lab specifies 97-98mb

Re: X Windom System will not start

- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 19:40 Subject: Re: X Windom System will not start > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >- Original Message - > >From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "debi

Re: PLIP networking -- sort of working

on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:43:35AM -0700, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Continuing my masochistic tendencies, I've got PLIP networking running > to an IBM 486 thinkpad with an IRQless perallel port. The trick, it > appears, is using plipconfig to increase the nibble and trigger wait

Re: 2.6.0-test8 PCI (?) troubles

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 22:56:57 +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: [...] > > When I boot up, I get kernel messages rolling along, but stops with the > following line: > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0d40, last bus=1 then, the LED on > the floppy drive lights up and remain lit, and then it just

fontconfig error

Hello! I just wanted to ask, if someone knows what does this message mean: Fontconfig error: Cannot load default config file I get this message whith _all_ of the kde apps. Anyway, I don't notice any failure in the application's fonts. Is this a serious error message? How can I fix this? Thanks!

Re: Re: user not found .htacess

-Original Message- From: Lucio de Aquino Marinho To: Lucio de Aquino Marinho Sent: 24/10/2003 20:32 Subject: RES: user not found .htacess I forgot to send the htpasswd.users file this is the content of the file nagiosadmin:vQ6Q9/zGRqvH2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: mplayer codecs

Micha Feigin verraste ons met de boodschap: > I installed mplayer from binary (the debs from marillat.free.fr). I was > wondering if it is possible to install new codecs without recompiling > the binary. > Namely, I'm interested in installing the realplayer codecs at the > moment. on http://www.m

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

Hi, Still stuck with getting the nvidia driver loaded. I have the old video card re-installed-which is how I could use debian gui. SuSE and Knoppix both recognized this card without a hitch. So why can't I get it to work in Debian? --- John Yurcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am still getting the

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:18:48PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: | On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 18:51, Paul Johnson wrote: | > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:34:43PM -0400, Travis Crump wrote: | > > Not to mention the fact that I'd love to see a good definition of what | > > is 'normally' installed on a Linux ma

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:44:40PM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: | Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > | - You won't get the same data displayed by the graphical interface | > | (which you'd [expect] it to print if it supported printing). | > | > Maybe, maybe not. What data is this, exactly? | | What

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

I disagree. It even took me a while to figure out what settings I needed to get my wheel-mouse to work. It also took me a while to realize that I needed to load kernel video drivers in order for the xfree86 driver (mga in this case to work). And I didn't find the remark about "dpkg-reconfigur

Re: emacs: adding default minor modes?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:21:38AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 08:30:57PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > What's the easiest way for a non-LISPer to add ispell-minor-mode to be > > one of the default minor modes in emacs? >

Re: package for bug regarding system installation and boot logo

Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:44:53PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > > > The little penguin at the top of the screen while the kernel is loading? > > >Bugs for that should be filed against "kernel", I believe. > > That is only displayed with > > Pa

apt-move and local "obsolete" files

Trying to get apt-move to move an apparently unknown package (libsensors-1debian1) into the partial mirror, I've created a file, "/mirrors/debian/.apt-move/testing.binary.local" containing this line: libsensors-1debian1 optional main/l/lm-sensors- The docs seem pretty thin on the su

Problem Maintaining Subscription

Twice in the past few weeks my subscription to the debian-user list has been unsubscribed though I never sent or wanted to send an unsubscribe message. The problem may relate to the deluge of MS mail bombs. Originally my subscription was to my second mailbox which was georgeacct. When the d

CVS /var/lib/cvs filesystem standard

Hi, Debian creates a CVS reposetory in /var/lib by default. I have some misgivings about this location. Doesn't the filesystem standard allow to delete all files below /var? This would be rather fatal for the development team if some careless admin follows this rule. /FAU -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

apt-move doesn't seem to function

I could be missing some vital command or three, but from what I understand from reading the man's :-   1.    I download packages with dselect/apt-get and they go into /var/apt/cache ( I think that is where, regardless, the standard location)   2.    I can move those packages into a local mi

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

on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:47:13PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > > > >>Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >> > >>>on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: > >> > >>... > >> > of course, you can

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

on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:52:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson insinuated: > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 14:37, Tom wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > english is like lego, yes there are some pieces that change shape > > > etc. but it consists mostly of bricks and brick l

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > Ron Johnson kindly sent me a Python script that deleted all the > large files from the server. All right, I had seen these messages > piling up and guessed, from the length, that they were all swen, > although it i

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

on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:09:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson insinuated: > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:15, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 22:02 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > > > > > > I didn't learn that exact method, but did learn what I guess > > > you'd call "sentence decomposition". It fu

Re: CVS /var/lib/cvs filesystem standard

On Saturday 25 October 2003 16:23, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > Hi, > Debian creates a CVS reposetory in /var/lib by default. > I have some misgivings about this location. > Doesn't the filesystem standard allow to delete all files below /var? > This would be rather fatal for the development team if s

Re: libc6 gcc wrapper

Hi, On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:40:54AM +0100, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Er, I think you may have misunderstood... I have a wrapper around gcc > to ensure it is always called with my desired optimisation options > even if I'm compiling a package with ill-behaved makefiles that ignore > CF

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

>From Thomas H. George on Saturday, 2003-10-25 at 10:28:57 -0500: > Twice in the past few weeks my subscription to the debian-user list has > been unsubscribed though I never sent or wanted to send an unsubscribe > message. I have had the same problem, although not all my mailing lists were aff

Re: logcheck

Hi, I finally got my problem fixed. You comments were partially helpfull because I'm still using the version in stable and some tips didn't make sence (e.g. other file names). You were correct that in logcheck.violations I had a reject in it that matched the postfix lines. I then added to logch

Re: Courier configuration

Hello, thank you and sorry. I try to play with courier at my desktop and I use exim as default. Thus I cyclicly reinstall smtp packages and it takes time. By now, I am able to send email from my desktop through courier, but I do receive messages neither by SMTP nor by IMAP to localhost nor IMAP to

Re: X Windom System will not start

Hoyt Bailey wrote: Sounds like a plan. I'll try and I believe that ext3 is already installed. Hoyt Look in /etc/fstab at your various mount points. If any of them say "ext3", those partitions are (presumably, if you get no errors) in ext3 format and are being mounted as such. If they say "ext2

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 15:30 GMT, Conrad Newton penned: > > I would not mind having some advice, either. I wrote to the ISP, but > they addressed me as an idiot, explaining the meaning of "bounced > mail", when instead I wanted to know why they were getting an error > message of the form: > >

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:11:48PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman said > Is sa-learn really so intensive that multiple instances will bring down > a machine, or is that mostly a concern for older hardware? Yup. When I run it over one message at a time, it takes maybe 3 seconds per message. For 5 at on

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 06:47:22AM +0100, Karsten M. Self said > on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:43:46AM +1000, Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > This is a good point, but it's not something I notice anymore. I scan > > through my lists and hit "y" on any spam in mutt; it passes the mail to >

Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:53:33AM -0700, Steve Lamb said > Rob Weir wrote: > > I'm dropping mail based on a DATA regexp. I have the following line in > > /etc/postfix/ms-crap > > Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the DATA regexp come after all the > DATA is already across the wire? There

Re: CVS /var/lib/cvs filesystem standard

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 04:56:36PM +0200, Nicos Gollan said > On Saturday 25 October 2003 16:23, Frank A. Uepping wrote: > > Hi, > > Debian creates a CVS reposetory in /var/lib by default. > > I have some misgivings about this location. > > Doesn't the filesystem standard allow to delete all files

Re: midentd: problems & questions

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 05:27:42PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman said > Okay. So then I go to the bug list, > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=midentd > > There certainly seem to be some relevant entries, but none of the > outstanding ones are less than 2 years old. Hrm. > > How

Re: libc6 gcc wrapper

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:40:54AM +0100, Pigeon said > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:56:39AM +0200, GCS wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have read on debian-user that you could compile libc6 for yourself > > with a wrapper around gcc. Can you please send it to me? My problem is > > even if I do not change

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

Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:47:13PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: ... of course, you can create vario

Re: midentd: problems & questions

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 17:26 GMT, Rob Weir penned: > > Yes, it is a very old bug, which hasn't been fixed in stable. Bug > #120247 however contains a workaround that will get the package off > your machine neatly. > Hasn't been fixed in unstable, either. It hadn't occurred to me to look in the

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:28:57AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Twice in the past few weeks my subscription to the debian-user list has > been unsubscribed though I never sent or wanted to send an unsubscribe > message. > > The problem may relate to the deluge of MS mail bombs. Originally

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

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 09:48, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 04:52:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson insinuated: > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 14:37, Tom wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > > > > english is like lego, yes there are some pieces that change sha

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

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 09:52, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 06:09:05PM -0500, Ron Johnson insinuated: > > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 17:15, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 22:02 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > > > > > > > > I didn't learn that exact method, but did learn w

fstab usb entries

Hello, In /etc/fstab I have the line: usbdevfs/proc/bus/usb usbdevfsdefaults,noauto 0 0 when I mount usbdevfs I can get info about the usb bus, good. Now, I've upgraded the libusb package and the configuration script suggest to add none /proc/bus/usb usbfs

choise of UDMA and SCSI kernel package...

Hi, does all "stable" k7 kernel-images have support for new 200 Gb UDMA/133 IDE and U160 SCSI disks? And do all kernel-images give me UDMA (IDE's) performance? IF not, which kernel-image package do I need to get? Thank you! /Emil -- __ Check out the

phonetic symbols

I have changed from Windows 2000 to Linux because of the viruses. Iam very happy now because Linux is much safer and much more stable.However, I have a problem: I have a file with words in English with the phonetic transcription but Openoffice or KWord of Debian-Linux doesn't convert some of the s

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

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:03:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > But the "less formal process", i.e., intuitive mapping without know- > > > ing what adjectives, adverbs, participles, etc are is less efficient > > > than having formal knowledge (even if that formal knowledge does not > > > consist

Setting Up Ogle - No /dev/dvd

I used apt-get to install ogle and hoped the default oglerc would work without editing. The call to ogle aborted with a message that it could not find /dev/dvd. There is no entry for dvd in /dev and MAKEDEV doesn't know how to make one. The dvd-rom drive is the master on ide2 and a cd-rw dri

Re: Setting Up Ogle - No /dev/dvd

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Thomas H. George wrote: > I used apt-get to install ogle and hoped the default oglerc would work > without editing. The call to ogle aborted with a message that it could > not find /dev/dvd. There is no entry for dvd in /dev and MAKEDEV > doesn't know how to make one. The d

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 18:28:01 +0100, Pigeon wrote: > They use exim 4.10... anyone got an exim.conf rule for 4.10 to block swen > at SMTP time, so I can send them a prepackaged solution - "Read this line, > you can see it's not malignant, stick it in your exim.conf and make lots > of people very

What is the root-n in my root??

Dear all, before submitting this request of help I have been looking around quite a while in my system and in the user groups without success. My problem is the following, I run a Debian system aligned with the latest testing distribution and kernel 2.4.22. Since few months I noticed a file -

xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?

How do I know if I have glib installed? I've installed libglib1.2, libglib2.0.0 and libglib2.0-data, but it says it can't find glib-config. Can anyone help? I really wanna use mplayer in XMMS :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMA

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

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 18:59 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > -- > - > Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jefferson, LA USA > > "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty: power is ever > stealing from the many to the few. The manna of

Re: midentd: problems & questions

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 12:08:40 -0600, "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 17:26 GMT, Rob Weir penned: > > > > Yes, it is a very old bug, which hasn't been fixed in stable. Bug > > #120247 however contains a workaround that will get the package off > > your mach

installing cdwriter with ide-scsi

I am failing to make a new IDE CD-writer work on a good stable Debian server and feel I'm out of ideas. Reading threads on this and other lists and FAQs and HOWTOs, many dating back way before my kernel, is taking further astray I think so a big plea for help. I've given as much detail as I c

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:20:56AM +0100, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > > It is beyond my capability (but only slightly, I feel, and it > > should be very easy for lots of people here) to produce a sort of > > interactive fetchmail that

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:54:05AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (25/10/03 01:14), David Jardine wrote: > > ... > > ... > > I've read the fetchmail documentation and concluded that fetchmail > > will never delete anything without consulting exim or whatever. > > I've tried to follow all the

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:39:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > It is beyond my capability (but only slightly, I feel, and it > > should be very easy for lots of people here) to produce a sort of > > interactive fetchmail that reads the

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:04:59PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: >> >> Ron Johnson kindly sent me a Python script that deleted all the >> large files from the server. All right, I had seen these messages >> piling up a

Re: 2.6.0-test8 PCI (?) troubles

Thanks a lot for the reply, Andre! On Saturday 25 October 2003 12:29, Andre Kalus wrote: > had some PCI problems with 2.6, too. I were able to solve them by > disabling ACPI (partially or generally). OK! >You do not have to compile a > new kernel for this, just try to append one of the followi

Re: Mailfilter+Mutt Problem--SOLVED

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 03:47:34AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: [huge snip] > > AFAIK the only thing that will alter that Status: header is mutt > itself... and the only time I've found all my new messages shown as > read is after leaving the room with my keyboard accessible to my pigeon. > [snipa] >

irq conflicts on laptop: sound

hello, I am having problems with my soundcard and my NIC on my laptop running woody 2.4.18. (My sound is jumpy and my NIC is sometimes not identified- this may be related to the state of the sound device when i power down, but i'm not sure.) laptop=toshiba portege 7140CT I think this is due to t

RE : Courier configuration

Hello If you are using Debian unstable , you're using Exim4 i suppose Ok... You want to fetch some mail from your isp mailbox and deliver it on your private network... Firstable you have to configure correctly Exim or it won't work ... I use Exim4-daemon-heavy + fetchmail + courier-imap-ssl +

Re: xmms-mplayer can't find glib-config?

Hello Joseph Jones (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > How do I know if I have glib installed? I've installed libglib1.2, > libglib2.0.0 and libglib2.0-data, but it says it can't find > glib-config. > > Can anyone help? I really wanna use mplayer in XMMS :) You can check on

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

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 15:09, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 18:59 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > > > > -- > > - > > Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Jefferson, LA USA > > > > "Eternal vigilance is the price of l

Re: Mozilla 1.3 about:plugins->crash SOLVED

On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:47:59PM -0500, Hans Koch wrote: > Hi > > I read you about:plugins->crash posting > > I had exacly the same problem. > strace helped to find the solution: > > There were 4 old libraries/files in /usr/lib/mozilla/components > libnsgif.so > libnsjpg.so > libnsmng.so > lib

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

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 21:09 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: > On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 15:09, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 at 18:59 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: >> >> >> > -- >> > - >> > Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeffe

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 06:28:01PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > I tried emailing my ISP suggesting they block the "star offender" > viruses like swen and sobig at SMTP time, pointing out that this might > also help stop the complaints they've been getting lately about their > POP3 server being slow,

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:36:53PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > And is it only my ISPs getting their acts together or is the flow > of swens starting to dry up? > I've been killing swen at my ISP with mailfilter every hour for the past 100 hrs (>4d). I get about 6/hr. I don't see any trend

Re: libc6 gcc wrapper

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:31:26AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 12:40:54AM +0100, Pigeon said > > > > Er, I think you may have misunderstood... I have a wrapper around gcc > > to ensure it is always called with my desired optimisation options > > even if I'm compiling a package

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 10:28:26PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 02:39:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > > It is beyond my capability (but only slightly, I feel, and it > > > should be very easy for lots of peop

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 03:44:37PM +0100, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > > On Saturday 25 October 2003 01:15, Paul Johnson wrote: > > ... > > Why not actually read the prompts given to you by debconf? It's > > really hard to screw that up... > > > > > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I d

Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

Two questions: (1) I have debian and XP for games multiboot. How do I keep both from changing the clock for Daylight Savings? [I'd like to set my HW clock to GMT but I don't think XP understands that]. (2) XP has this UPnP thing that I thing does sneaking things with my POS linksys FW open p

Re: fstab usb entries

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 20:46, Gabriele Persia wrote: > Hello, > > In /etc/fstab I have the line: > usbdevfs/proc/bus/usb usbdevfsdefaults,noauto 0 0 > > when I mount usbdevfs I can get info about the usb bus, good. > > Now, I've upgraded the libusb package and the configur

Problems getting Gnome to work on "testing" amchine

I'm building a new "testing" machine today, and I can't sem to get Gnome to work. I'm using gdm, and when I log in I get an error popup about the session manager ahving problems. Here's the .xsession-errors file: /etc/gdm/Sessions//Gnome: checking /etc/login.defs for option UMASK /etc/gdm/Sessio

Re: why is debian the only distribution that won't let me run X?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 12:58:28AM +0200, Wilko Fokken wrote: > Does anybody know how to get a "100x40" or "100x37" textmode with a NOT > SVGA-compatible graphic card, I mean a replacement for 'SVGATextMode' ? Pass vga=ask to the kernel at boot? - --

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 17:58, Tom wrote: > Two questions: > > (1) I have debian and XP for games multiboot. How do I keep both from > changing the clock for Daylight Savings? [I'd like to set my HW clock > to GMT but I don't think XP understands that]. > From what I understand, it's actually

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 06:41:41PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > From what I understand, it's actually possible to have XP apply your > timezone to a clock that's set to GMT. I'm not really sure how you do it > though as I don't use XP. kewl > > (2) XP has this UPnP thing that I thing does snea

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 03:58:52PM -0700, Tom wrote: > (1) I have debian and XP for games multiboot. How do I keep both from > changing the clock for Daylight Savings? [I'd like to set my HW clock > to GMT but I don't think XP understands that]. T

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:09:53PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure... I was hoping the open source community might have done it right. I didn't want to have to mess with Linksys shitty HTML management :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: remote backup from Windows PCs

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:37, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server running Debian with a tape drive and I want to back up > some Windows PCs to it (via LAN). I could use smbmount and regular Linux > backup tools (tar or whatever), but the Windows PCs aren't always on. > > So I'd prefer

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:14:50PM -0700, Tom wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:09:53PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure... > > I was hoping the open source community might have done it right.

cupsys: cupsd dosen't start, instead it loops.

I'm hoping to get some attention to this bug, downgrading to cupsys in stable worked. What do I have to do to get an NMU to fix this? This is provided as is and may harm your computer. HERE IS WHAT TODO IF YOUR SYSTEM HAS THIS BUG... as root wget \ http://security.debian.org/debian-security/pool

Migrated to debian; aliases stopped working

When I moved to debian, my aliases are no longer working. For example, in /etc/aliases I have the following entry: debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, when I try to send a message to debian, it sends a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is my FQDN attached to the alias name. That is, the

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:14:50 -0700 Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:09:53PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure... > > I was hoping the open source community might have done it right. > I didn't want to have to mess w

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 19:09, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 03:58:52PM -0700, Tom wrote: [snip] > > (2) XP has this UPnP thing that I thing does sneaking things with my POS > > linksys FW open ports. Is there something like that

Simple little basic config questions

In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which I operate at this point from console. 1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I changed PS1= in /etc/profile, but that only affects user, not root.

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 07:43:32PM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:14:50 -0700 > Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 05:09:53PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Why would anybody want to use UPnP? Wonderfully insecure... > > > > I was hoping the open sour

Re: X Windom System will not start

- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 11:44 Subject: Re: X Windom System will not start > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >Sounds like a plan. I'll try and I believe that ext3 is already installed. > >Hoy

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

Hi, Unfortunately I am going over my quota every couple of hours now. So until I find a reasonable solution, and it's definately not Yahoo, ( I can't even contact them) it will be adios for awhile. I have tried many things with my video card problem, including installing ncurses and running make me

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

On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 02:59:07PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 20:54 GMT, David Jardine penned: > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: > >> > >> english is like lego, yes there are some pieces that change shape > >> etc. but it consists mos

Re: Simple little basic config questions

Haines Brown([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little > basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which > I operate at this point from console. > > 1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I cha

Re: Simple little basic config questions

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 19:57, Haines Brown wrote: > In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little > basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which > I operate at this point from console. > > 1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I changed PS1=

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