Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:09, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..IMHO, we should instead buy IBM irons and boycott HP, > HP is sponsoring SCO; http://groklaw.net/ > No HP is not "supporting SCO" on this matter. Neither is SUN (as they are doing the same) The reasoning they are using, is that *IF* customers

OOOOLLLLDDDD video card

2003-10-28 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
I have to use a really old Phoenix S3 Trio32/64 PCI card, running Debian Woody, no mixed stable/testing/unstable. Is there a way to get Woody's xserver to work with this fossil? Larry -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: > > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in > > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ?

Re: Spamassassin+evolution: size?

2003-10-28 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimarts 28 Octubre 2003 19:08, en David Gaudine va escriure: > That's it.  It's somewhere in the documentation, along with a comment > that > really large messages usually aren't spam anyway so you wouldn't gain > much by letting SA look at them. I'

Re: Debian Woody Sendmail/IPOPD question (web interface)

2003-10-28 Thread John Patrick Dough
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: 2003/10/28 Tue PM 12:08:27 EST > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Debian Woody Sendmail/IPOPD question > > > > Hey all, > > > >I am running Debian Stable and trying to set up > a sendmail/ipopd server. The box

Descarga CD's con jigdo

2003-10-28 Thread Juan Irisarri (personal)
La descarga del disco 1 no termina porque no encuentra una serie de ficheros en el directorio …./debian/doc/package-developer/. Me he conectado a varios de los sites y no encuentro el directorio en ninguno. Por defecto, el server con el que trabajo es ftp.es.debian.org. ¿Qué puedo hacer?

Re: reiserfs

2003-10-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 18:16, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Thanks..It may sound stupid but I am new to Linux so pardon me.. You > compiled your own kernel. When I install with apt-get command the kernel > gets compiled by itself (corrent me if I am wrong). Now can you > recompile based on your need if yes t

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 19:12 GMT, David Gaudine penned: > > On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 01:34 PM, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > I believe I have the Mail-Followup-To header set on my outgoing > > messages, which should be a clue for some readers. (I was told that > > gmane would translate M

Re: reiserfs

2003-10-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 17:38, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > At Tue, 28 Oct 2003 00:14:01 +0200, > Micha Feigin wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 18:03, Rohan Nicholls wrote: > > > At 27 Oct 2003 10:31:01 -0500, > > > Vivek Kumar wrote: > > > > You need the kernel-package package, don't remember what

re:palm on debian

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Christophe Courtois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >My Zire 71 was not detected by a 2.4.18 kernel (the latest is OK), so I had > >to had this in /etc/modules (try to change the value): > > > >usbserial vendor=0x830 product=0x60 > > Thanks, all that I h

Re: OOOOLLLLDDDD video card

2003-10-28 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Larry W. Irwin Sr. (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I have to use a really old Phoenix S3 Trio32/64 PCI card, running > Debian Woody, no mixed stable/testing/unstable. Is there a way to get > Woody's xserver to work with this fossil? I think your card is not supported by XFree 4.1, however

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031027 20:50]: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 00:26 GMT, Tom penned: > [snip] > > > > ...which seems to suggest > > > > * not only that a .procmailrc makes a .forward useless when that > > .forward is only meant to roll on procmail * but *also* that it's the > >

Re: IT140R3 Buy

2003-10-28 Thread andra
This message has been processed by the Brightmail(tm) Anti-Virus Solution using Symantec's Norton AntiVirus Technology. IT140R3 Buy.com was infected with the malicious virus [EMAIL PROTECTED] and has been deleted because the file cannot be cleaned. For more information on anti-virus tips and te

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
> > You missed one of my points, which was that the command prompt of the > > xterm disappeared as soon as there was keyboard input. Even the > > Ctl-Alt-Backspace to close the X server causes bash to terminate. I'm > > not sure bash quite made it in the first place, for the white > > insertion rec

Xfree86 4.3

2003-10-28 Thread John Holland
Can anyone say how stable the "experimental" XFree86 4.3 packages are? Is there any reliable way to install this into debian? I'm running a mix of stable and unstable. Thanks, John Holland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
> 4.- You can reconfigure the xserver at any time with > > $ dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Sorry, I didn't realize that I'd complete this so quickly. Creating a very elemental XF86Config did the trick, and icewm loads. Now I can play with the configruation to see where I went wrong. Thanks.

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Simon Tod wrote: > After a hdd install from knoppix 3.2 I tried to > dist-upgrade to Debian unstable. It all seems to work > fine but my debian_version is still reported as > testing/unstable. you are correct. knoppix is a combination of some testing and some unstable packa

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote: > Get rid of everything: what a good idea! > > I got rid of everything, and in the .xsession put exec icewm. That > didn't work. So I replaced the command with exec xterm. That did > work--sort of. > > When I start x with the xterm execution, what I get i

Re: Xfree86 4.3

2003-10-28 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 21:23, John Holland wrote: > Can anyone say how stable the "experimental" XFree86 4.3 packages > are? Is there any reliable way to install this into debian? I'm > running a mix of stable and unstable. I've been running Andreas Schuldei's somewhat patched version of XFree

Re: Cursor dust

2003-10-28 Thread Keresztes József
Hi ! > Sounds like you probably should try turning off the hardware cursor in X. > Try setting the SWCursor option in the Device section of > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. I wrote Option "SWCursor" "on" to the file (device section) you suggested me, but the problem hasn't solved yet. Do you have

Re: OOOOLLLLDDDD video card

2003-10-28 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20031028] Larry W. Irwin Sr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to use a really old Phoenix S3 Trio32/64 PCI card, running > Debian Woody, no mixed stable/testing/unstable. Is there a way to get > Woody's xserver to work with this fossil? It should work wit

Re: Spamassassin+evolution

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Riccardo Gusso wrote: > Hello everybody, > I have seen recently one suggestion on how to integrate Mozilla Mail > with spamassassin; I was wondering if there is a way to do the same with > evolution. > Thanks in advance for any suggestion. > Riccardo > -- H

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:31:40AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: | Get rid of everything: what a good idea! | | I got rid of everything, and in the .xsession put exec icewm. That | didn't work. Check ~/.xsession-errors for error messages. BTW, the exec icewm || exec xterm didn't work because on

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

2003-10-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:05:22AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: now, think of an example in which you encounter anything remotely like full sentence structure in code,

Re: palm on debian

2003-10-28 Thread csj
At Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:29:35 -0500, Erinn wrote: > > One time on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:51:52PM +1300 this person > named Paul William wrote: > > > > I am getting a new palm (tunsten E) tomorrow. My last palm > > m105 was sold before I switched to Debian and worked fine in > > mdk. > > > > Is t

Re: Xfree86 4.3

2003-10-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 22:23, John Holland wrote: > Can anyone say how stable the "experimental" XFree86 4.3 packages are? Is > there any reliable way to install this into debian? I'm running a mix of > stable and unstable. > Thanks, > > John Holland I've been running the version from experimental

gnome crash, fontconfig

2003-10-28 Thread Eliot Stock
Hello, Just installed X and gnome on sarge. When I startx, I get as far as a split second of the gnome logo, then X crashes and my term is all screwed up and I have to reboot. After rebooting I find an .xsession_errors file in my home dir (running gnome as root currently) as follows: No fonts

PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-28 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
Hi everyone, I'm working on a PHP web site that needs to generate PDFs on the fly. I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open source and I don't want people to have to deal with the licensing on PDFLib. I've found a few other products (via php.net), and I'm wondering if anyone has a

Debian Newbie Question on Network Config

2003-10-28 Thread Alberto Tobias
Hi,   I relatively new to LInux. The last couple of months I have been dabbling with some distributions, but right now I am staying with Debian.   I have however one question. I have troubles with my network card. I can get it up and running ok, using the tulip drivers from scyld.org. I can

Re: Xfree86 4.3

2003-10-28 Thread charlie derr
I've been using Daniel Stone's X 4.3 packages for some time with no problems. Well, actually the machine would lock up periodically when I was using X but that hasn't happened since I stopped using kde on my desktop (more than 2 weeks now, i still use konqueror and konsole from fvwm2 with no p

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] > Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my [...] Apparently not. I wonder why not. It would surely be a good idea - for those using simpler mail clients. I use kmail and filter lists direct to thei

RE: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config

2003-10-28 Thread Joyce, Matthew
/etc/network/interfaces or, alternatively you can install etherconf. 'apt-get install etherconf' this will lead you through a prompted setup. Matt -- -Original Message- From: Alberto Tobias [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2003 8:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sub

Re: e-mail

2003-10-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:37:14AM -0600, Gaolon O. Hall wrote: | I had to reload all of my programs including Windows ME because of | virus infection. Now I can not get my e-mail up. Neither Network | Everywhere or USB ports. What has happened? What happened was you installed Windows ME. Try

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Clive Menzies
On (28/10/03 22:37), Richard Lyons wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > [...] > > Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my > [...] > Apparently not. I wonder why not. It would surely be a good idea - for > those using simpler mail

Illegal characters in cron

2003-10-28 Thread csj
I'm having trouble getting the following to work in my crontab: 30 1 * * * mailfilter -M ~/.mailfilterrc -L ~/autosave/log/mailfilter/mailfilter-`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.log But the following appears to work: 30 1 * * * mailfilter -M ~/.mailfilterrc -L ~/autosave/log/mailfilter/mailfilter-

re:palm on debian

2003-10-28 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Mardi 28 Octobre 2003 20:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a déclamé : > I use coldsync (console sync) But one of the best things for the palm > is plucker! À propos plucker : the 1.6 version is available (or will be), but sid contains only 1.2 :-( Worse : the 1.2 was incompatible with palmOS5 (my Zir

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread p
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:34:25AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I'm going to attempt to make this a polite question, rather than a rant > or flame ... > > For those of you who CC people when responding to the mailing list, why > do you do this? Is there some benefit to doing so of which I'm

RE: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> > I'm going to attempt to make this a polite question, rather > than a rant or flame ... > > For those of you who CC people when responding to the mailing > list, why do you do this? Is there some benefit to doing so > of which I'm unaware? > > I believe I have the Mail-Followup-To header

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Monique Y. Herman said on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:34:25AM -0700: > I'm going to attempt to make this a polite question, rather than a rant > or flame ... Huzzah! Polite questions are gold. > For those of you who CC people when responding to the mailing list, why > do you do this? Is there some

Re: Illegal characters in cron

2003-10-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:46:59AM +0800, csj wrote: | I'm having trouble getting the following to work in my crontab: | | 30 1 * * *mailfilter -M ~/.mailfilterrc -L ~/autosave/log/mailfilter/mailfilter-`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.log | | But the following appears to work: | | 30 1 * * *mailfilt

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my [...] Apparently not. I wonder why not. It would surely be a good idea - for those using simpler mail clients. I use kmail and filter li

Re: problèmes sur bjc 4300

2003-10-28 Thread BUIRA Etienne
* scotto di perrotolo jean-pierre ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > depuis l'installation sur mon PC, de windows XP Pro, je n'arrive plus à Désolé, on ne connait pas fenetres Xtrême Plantage ici (ou alors on regrette de connaître). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

AverTV Studio & Sound

2003-10-28 Thread techlists
I recently purchased an AverTV Studio card. I have installed it, and enabled the bttv driver. All seems well in dmesg Linux video capture interface: v1.00 i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module bttv: driver version 0.7.83 loaded bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture bttv:

Re: Illegal characters in cron

2003-10-28 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:46:59AM +0800, csj wrote: > I'm having trouble getting the following to work in my crontab: > > 30 1 * * *mailfilter -M ~/.mailfilterrc -L > ~/autosave/log/mailfilter/mailfilter-`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.log >From crontab(5): The ``sixth'' field (the rest of the line

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 10:37:49PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: | On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: | [...] | > Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my | [...] | Apparently not. Correct. | I wonder why not. These, probably amongst other rea

Re: nfs problem

2003-10-28 Thread Wilko Fokken
BTW, is there still a way to mount a windows dirtree via nfs ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Kjetil Kjernsmo
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 22:37, Richard Lyons wrote: > Apparently not.  I wonder why not.  It would surely be a good idea  - > for those using simpler mail clients.  I use kmail and filter lists > direct to their own folders, where I set the reply-to-list address to > try to prevent myself making

Re: Debian Newbie Question on Network Config

2003-10-28 Thread David Z Maze
"Alberto Tobias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html ObFormatting: please set your mailer to send plain text only, and wrap lines at 72 characters. > I have however one question. I have troubles with my network card. I > can get it up and running ok

Re: OOOOLLLLDDDD video card

2003-10-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:04:51PM -0600, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: | I have to use a really old Phoenix S3 Trio32/64 PCI card, running | Debian Woody, no mixed stable/testing/unstable. Is there a way to get | Woody's xserver to work with this fossil? Does that card support the VESA interface?

Re: please help, lost my partition

2003-10-28 Thread David Z Maze
LeVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I lost my partition. One of my most important ones... It is a 100gb > partition with all my personal datas, emails, documents etc... You might be better off, given what you describe, getting a new hard drive and then restoring the data from backups. > I had a

Re: Xfree86 4.3

2003-10-28 Thread Bruce Sass
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, John Holland wrote: > Can anyone say how stable the "experimental" XFree86 4.3 packages are? Is > there any reliable way to install this into debian? I'm running a mix of > stable and unstable. > Thanks, I've been using Xfree-4.3 for awhile (first Daniel Stone's packages and

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

2003-10-28 Thread Paul Scott
Paul Scott wrote: Bruno Boettcher wrote: Hello, seems there's no way to get X running under debian on my new Medion laptop i still try to install debian (usntable) on the laptop, and discover discovers nothing, and even the XF86 config files saved from thos other distributions that work

cvs import version numbers

2003-10-28 Thread Michael Kahle
I just installed CVS on my Debian box. I want to import a source tree of a project I have been working on into it. I was able to do this, but it was imported with the version number of 1.1.1.1. I would like to start over now and somehow re-import in with the version number of 0.1. Could someone

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 22:18 GMT, Kjetil Kjernsmo penned: > > I can't agree. For a review of the opposing viewpoints, see > http://marc.merlins.org/perso/listreplyto.html I've been in both > camps, but I have now settled for the "harmful" camp. I've been to > too many mailing lists with reply-tos

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 22:03 GMT, Mark Ferlatte penned: [snip] > > Most of the people who have this problem, I believe, have the > technical abi= lity to setup such a filter, and for reasons that I > don't understand choose not = to do so and instead depend upon the > charity of the mailing list p

Re: Xfree86 4.3

2003-10-28 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20031028] John Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone say how stable the "experimental" XFree86 4.3 packages are? Is > there any reliable way to install this into debian? I'm running a mix of > stable and unstable. I've been running Daniel Stron

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:13:24 -0500, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 14:09, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..IMHO, we should instead buy IBM irons and boycott HP, > > HP is sponsoring SCO; http://groklaw.net/ > > > No HP is not "supporting

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 21:26 GMT, Emma Jane Hogbin penned: > Hi everyone, > > I'm working on a PHP web site that needs to generate PDFs on the fly. > I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open source and I > don't want people to have to deal with the licensing on PDFLib. > Not to pi

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:37:49 +0100 Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > [...] > > Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my > [...] > Apparently not. I wonder why not. It would surely be a good idea

Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

2003-10-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 20:06 GMT, Vineet Kumar penned: [snip] > One way to test what's happening is to use exim's address testing > mode: > > /usr/sbin/exim -bt [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Where your local user account username should probably work just as > well, being treated as a local unqualified a

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:34:25AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > I'm going to attempt to make this a polite question, rather than a rant > or flame ... > > For those of you who CC people when responding to the mailing list, why > do you do this? Is there some benefit to doing so of which I'm

Backup Package names currently installed

2003-10-28 Thread Jochen Daum
Hi! I have a debian woody machine which I installed via FTP. I would like to dump the names of all installed packages into a file, so that I can install them automatically with dpkg. I tried dpkg --get-selections but the file doesn't contain any package versions? Can I include that as well? T

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Monique Y. Herman said on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:41:56PM -0700: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 22:03 GMT, Mark Ferlatte penned: > [snip] > > > > Most of the people who have this problem, I believe, have the > > technical abi= lity to setup such a filter, and for reasons that I > > don't understand choo

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:36:47PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: | But then I have to ask -- do some clients automagically CC the poster, | or are people going to the trouble of CCing manually? I forget who already mentioned it this time around, but it is automatic. Some mail clients aren't cu

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-28 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:45:16PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Not to pick nits, but is the problem that it's opensource, or rather > that it's GPL (or some other license with restrictions)? The BSD > license is, I believe, an opensource license without restriction. The problem is that I wa

Thinkpad A22 problems with xfree86 ver 4

2003-10-28 Thread Brendan J Simon
I upgraded a friends Thinkpad A22 to xfree86 version 4. Was running version 3. Now X doesn't work properly. The X server is shutting down (being sent a signal 4) whenever there is inactivity for 20 minutes. Also a virtual console is behaving similarly as it automatically logs out whenever inact

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 23:10 GMT, David Palmer. penned: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:37:49 +0100 Richard Lyons > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] >> > Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is >> > this my >> [...] A

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 23:19 GMT, Bill Moseley penned: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:34:25AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> I'm going to attempt to make this a polite question, rather than a >> rant or flame ... >> >> For those of you who CC people when responding to the mailing list, >> why do

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread Haines Brown
Thanks for the input. I was able to get x running by rebuilding the configuration file. Somehow, I had managed to gum things up. Tomorrow I figure out what I did wrong, but meanwhile at least I get my window manager to display. My mouse is working and I can input keyboard into the xterm, so I'm all

can't set hdparm -d1 and correct kernel config

2003-10-28 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i have 2 matrox hd disks and whenever i want to set the dma to 1 i get this error: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted The first is a 40 Gb Matrox IDE and the second a 120 GB Matrox IDE. They are recent disks (< 1 year). My motherboard is abit b6, intel 440bx chipset PIIX4 IDE. lspci

dpkg needing to allocate 700MB of memory?

2003-10-28 Thread Cristian Gutierrez
Hi all. I hope you can give me a clue about this: I got stuck trying to upgrade a package with apt, and then trying to do it with the downloaded package, with dpkg: /usr/bin/dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/wajig_1.0.2-1_all.deb (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archive

Multiple postgresql packages proposed

2003-10-28 Thread Oliver Elphick
I'm currently considering whether and how to have multiple versions of the PostgreSQL packages installed at once. This is to get round problems with upgrading major versions, and to allow people to have multiple database clusters, possibly at different software versions. The full proposal is at h

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 23:38 GMT, Mark Ferlatte penned: > >=20 Whoa. Where did all of those `=3D' chars come from? Dunno. I see them on some of the messages I receive. And then again just now in the text you quoted. Something about slrn not handling quoted-printable multi-part messages proper

exim4 opening to many threads

2003-10-28 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Hi, i have exim4 running and today the people from the cable company came over and installed a cable phone. For the installation they shut down the moment for an hour and forgot to plug in the network cable into the moment. When i came home, i saw that my connection was gone, plugged the cable bac

Re: Descarga CD's con jigdo

2003-10-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Juan Irisarri (personal) wrote: La descarga del disco 1 no termina porque no encuentra una serie de ficheros en el directorio …./debian/doc/package-developer/. Me he conectado a varios de los sites y no encuentro el directorio en ninguno. Por defecto, el server con el que trabajo es ftp.es.debian.o

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Bill Moseley wrote: I cc, but luckily my mailer mutt understands what you want. That's good because I can't keep track of what the hundreds (thousands?) of people on this list wish, and not all of them have smart mailers to set the Mail-Followup-To header. You don't have to, the onus is on the

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Most of the people who have this problem, I believe, have the technical ability to setup such a filter, and for reasons that I don't understand choose not to do so and instead depend upon the charity of the mailing list posters to cater to their reply whims. This, to me, seems

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 03:45:16PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Not to pick nits, but is the problem that it's opensource, or rather that it's GPL (or some other license with restrictions)? The BSD license is, I believe, an opensource license without restriction. The

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Monique Y. Herman wrote: For those of you who CC people when responding to the mailing list, why do you do this? Is there some benefit to doing so of which I'm unaware? None. They just like breaking the CoC for these mailing lists. item #9.

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 13:30 Subject: Re: netiquette: CCing on lists > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 19:12 GMT, David Gaudine penned: > > > > On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 01:34 PM, Monique Y

Re: Backup Package names currently installed

2003-10-28 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Jochen Daum wrote: > Hi! > > I have a debian woody machine which I installed via FTP. > > I would like to dump the names of all installed packages into a file, > so that I can install them automatically with dpkg. > > I tried > > dpkg --get-selections > > but the file doesn't contain any pack

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Monique Y. Herman said on Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:00:29PM -0700: > Something about slrn not handling quoted-printable multi-part messages > properly, I believe. I don't know the meaning of what I just said, but > that's what I've been told. I guess I could write a vim script to clean > it up on r

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-28 Thread John Hasler
Emma Jane Hogbin writes: > The problem is that I want to release GPL, but PDFLib requires a fee for > commercial applications. Then it isn't Open Source. Please post a link to the license. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

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

2003-10-28 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:26:50AM +0100, Wilko Fokken wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:53:11AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > > SiS6326-based cards are cheap, are available in PCI format, and can be > > used with svgatextmode using my ClockProg. They're crap for games but > > fine for desktop stuf

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Bill Moseley
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:51:14PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > You don't have to, the onus is on them to ask, explicitly, in the body > of the message that they want a CC. If they don't ask and you don't send > that is their problem. But sending a CC unasked you're causing unasked >

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-28 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:32:24PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > What about just setting up PHP so it has limited shell access and > having the program execute ps2pdf (or another suitable alternative) > on the Web server? Unfortunately it's for variable data PDFs (in this case ordering business

Re: chkrootkit found lkm trojan ?

2003-10-28 Thread Thomas R. Shemanske
Micha Feigin wrote: I got the following output from chkrootkit but couldn't find any explenation on what processes don't appear: Checking `lkm'... You have 4 process hidden for ps command Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed I recently (two weeks) built a new box behind a firewall. A friend

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-28 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:07:59PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Emma Jane Hogbin writes: > > The problem is that I want to release GPL, but PDFLib requires a fee for > > commercial applications. > > Then it isn't Open Source. Please post a link to the license. D'uh. That's why I'm asking for *alt

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Bill Moseley wrote: Matter of opinion, as I appreciate the CC. Well, here's the deal. If you didn't get the CC does it make extra work for you? You still get the message on the list, right? The person getting the CC has to either set up filtering or manually delete it. It is the same kin

Outgoing SMTP ports

2003-10-28 Thread James W. Thompson, II
When sendmail sends mail destined for outside my server what port is it coming from and what port is it going to? 25? And does it use TCP, UDP or both? -Dubbs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Steve Lamb wrote: Mark Ferlatte wrote: Most of the people who have this problem, I believe, have the technical ability to setup such a filter, and for reasons that I don't understand choose not to do so and instead depend upon the charity of the mailing list posters to cater to their reply whim

Re: [DEB-USER] Re: Incremental CDR backups

2003-10-28 Thread Paul M Foster
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:44:16AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 11:08, Paul M Foster wrote: > > I'm having difficulty burning incremental CDR backups. (Using Debian > > 3.0r1/testing.) They burn fine, but when I mount the CD after the second > > and subsequent backups, all I can

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 07:32:24PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: What about just setting up PHP so it has limited shell access and having the program execute ps2pdf (or another suitable alternative) on the Web server? Unfortunately it's for variable data PDFs (in this cas

Re: Outgoing SMTP ports

2003-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
James W. Thompson, II wrote: When sendmail sends mail destined for outside my server what port is it coming from and what port is it going to? 25? And does it use TCP, UDP or both? A port > 1024, port 25, TCP. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Roberto Sanchez wrote: You have a point. However, I usually make an exception in the case of newbies becuase they may not receive list messages (because of Yahoo! or Hotmail spam filtering for such accounts). I know I had this problem when I first subscribed to the list. But otherwise, I tend to

Re: Outgoing SMTP ports

2003-10-28 Thread BruceG
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 20:36, James W. Thompson, II wrote: > When sendmail sends mail destined for outside my server what port is it > coming from and what port is it going to? 25? And does it use TCP, UDP > or both? > > -Dubbs > I believe sendmail uses TCP port 25, and ipopd uses TCP port 110.

Re: can't set hdparm -d1 and correct kernel config

2003-10-28 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 28 October 2003 03:32 pm, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > Hi, > > i have 2 matrox hd disks and whenever i want to set the dma to 1 i > get this error: HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted > The first is a 40 Gb Matrox IDE and the second a

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-28 Thread Eric Walstad
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 17:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Unfortunately it's for variable data PDFs (in this case ordering > business cards). So I need to do more than just convert documents > from one format to another. > > I think this is the library I'm going to use: > http://www.ros.co.nz/p

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-28 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:08:22PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 01:25:38PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Even if exim spoke SSL to the smarthost, the email would still be > > plaintext between there and the originator. At least, I think that's > > how it works. If yo

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Jr
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 17:10, David Palmer. wrote: > On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:37:49 +0100 > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > [...] > > > Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my > > [...] [snip

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