Re: Disk problems? (was: Re: dpkg fails)

2003-03-11 Thread Pigeon
full, back up your drive ASAP and get a new one. How do you know if it's full if you don't know how big it can be - if the number of entries is a suspicious number like (2^n)-1, it's probably full. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: buy or build computer?

2003-03-11 Thread Pigeon
st of the assembly. It's a lot easier than it used to be. There are very few jumpers to muck about with these days; generally you just plug it all together and do your mucking about in the BIOS Setup instead. Do note however that the paper and CD manuals you get with the hardware are probably out of date, so download the latest versions from the manufacturer's website before you start. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: acard driver

2003-03-12 Thread Pigeon
: > > modprobe atp870u > > That statement can be added to /etc/modules. > > Maybe the solution for your problem is similar. > > - Robert Try: modprobe aec62xx Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Relocating an ext3 journal

2003-03-12 Thread Pigeon
it. Can it be overcome? Or have I totally misunderstood this man page and am within millimetres of nuking my filesystem? Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt sources.list problem

2003-03-12 Thread Pigeon
27;s the same in 3.0r0, and I didn't accidentally change mine... > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20020718)]/ > unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main (and so on) CDs burned from official Debian ISOs by a kind person on this list. Is i

Re: creating a FAT file system

2003-03-12 Thread Pigeon
s, I'm sure vfat is good for > 8 GB. Try booting off a win98 boot floppy that has FORMAT.EXE on it? Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Direct cable connection

2003-03-12 Thread Pigeon
, address 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255 followed by /etc/init.d/networking restart. This should be enough to allow you to ping one machine from the other, telnet in etc. Then you can set up nfs or something to share files, which is pret

Re: Kernel panic: No init found.

2003-03-12 Thread Pigeon
. Assuming that what is normally your root filesystem is mounted on /mnt, and has a usable and empty tmp in it, copy the libc6 deb from your install CD into /mnt/tmp and then cd /mnt/tmp ar -x libc6_*.deb tar xzf data.tar.gz ls -l (so you can see what's just happened...) cp -a lib/* /mnt/lib c

Requesting the resending of digests

2003-03-13 Thread Pigeon
an it up. Am I in luck? Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian install with Promise ATA100

2003-03-14 Thread Pigeon
aving a BIOS of its own and (b) setting the right option in the main BIOS, which was something not entirely obvious like "boot from SCSI" which really meant "boot from additional HD controller card". Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-14 Thread Pigeon
int letter = 'a'; int i; for (i=0; i < record_size; i++) { record[i] = (char) letter++; printf ("record[%d] = %c\n", i, record[i]); } return 0; } EOF ~$ g++ prog2.c # note this is now g++ ~$ a.out record[0] = a record[1] = b record[9] = j ..

Re: Printers via SMB?

2003-03-16 Thread Pigeon
o installation candidate > jan-jr-ent:~# This URL was posted in another thread a few days ago: http://mumford1.dyndns.org/~bs7452/linuxhelp/cups.html This tells you exactly what you need to install and how to set it up. I found it very useful. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: odd compiler behaviour?

2003-03-16 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 08:06:33PM +, Bruynooghe Floris wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 06:12:28PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > #include // need this to use malloc() > > Well I thought so to, but it _did_ work without to my surprise (discovered after > I stupidly forgot i

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-16 Thread Pigeon
are concerned, Fords and GMs are compatible. The steering wheel, pedals etc are all in the same relative positions and work the same way. If you were to make a car with even slightly different controls - like a different gearshift pattern - nobody would buy it. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Download accelerator

2003-03-17 Thread Pigeon
t work, so I settled for running wget in one xterm and man wget in another one. This works well enough that I haven't bothered to try d4x under woody. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Difficulty configuring exim for use with fetchmail and as external MTA.

2003-03-17 Thread Pigeon
esses}\ {$value}fail} frFs and in /etc/email-addresses: # This is /etc/email-addresses. It is part of the exim package # # This file contains email addresses to use for outgoing mail. Any local # part not in here will be qualified by the system domain

Re: tar ate my symlinks

2003-03-18 Thread Pigeon
> of /usr; you can restore by simply using dpkg --set-selections. Surely this doesn't cover the case of non-debian packages installed in /usr/local? - ie. Don't forget to back up /usr/local! Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

No "File -> Save" in gimp

2003-03-18 Thread Pigeon
... still no "Save"/"Save As". I make some changes to the image... still no "Save"/"Save As". Is there some incantation one has to perform to get a Save option? If so, what is it? And WHY??? Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Download accelerator

2003-03-18 Thread Pigeon
and also relays reports that it works under WINE. So if > that's what you're looking for, it may be a way to go. > > I haven't used it since I liberated my desktop many years ago, and I > don't know if it supports segmented downloads, etc. It does. Pigeon -- To

Re: passwordless ssh login not working: BUG?

2003-03-19 Thread Pigeon
It seems this thread made its way onto usenet, and I reproduce the text of an email exchange that resulted: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 02:37:21PM +1100, (somebody) wrote: > > Hi Pigeon, > > > > I just read your usenet thread > > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&am

Re: [OT] New Mobo, etc

2003-03-19 Thread Pigeon
s as good as this fast an Intel" marketing thing? > And how do you install the BIOS update if you have a > 'pure' system (no M$ installation)? I haven't tried this, but wouldn't a freedos boot floppy be the easiest? (Or even an MSDOS one?) Unless the installer'

Re: No "File -> Save" in gimp

2003-03-19 Thread Pigeon
t to make one tiddly change! Thanks again, Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: default editor

2003-03-20 Thread Pigeon
ut that distinction hasn't really been meaningful for at > > least a decade, and people writing programs these days don't > > necessarily follow it. > > And by way of illustrating just how worthless the distinction is these > days... when was the last time you actually u

Re: Rant (was Re: X Window : Newbie)

2003-03-21 Thread Pigeon
o believe > > that people grow up without knowing about these things, but it > > is obviously true. > > I first used a telephone when I was in college. Unbelievable? Dunno. How long ago were you in college? Did you know about telephones before you went to college? Pigeon

Re: moving harddives from one system to another

2003-03-21 Thread Pigeon
disks tons of times, never had a problem. Just watch out in the case of systems which might run microfots as well as linux. If the drive you've moved has any DOS/Windoze partitions on it, "don't access them from DOS/Windoze" is the safest rule. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-22 Thread Pigeon
MD64X and CMD680 chipset support" in make menuconfig. (2.4.20) Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PCI ATA card support

2003-03-24 Thread Pigeon
"Boot: bf24 ide2=0x6200,0x6302,11 ide3=0x6400,0x6502,11" > where ide2=[start IO address],[end IO address],[IRQ]. You seem to have the hardware working, so the hard part is over. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X

2003-03-24 Thread Pigeon
video adapter, machine is useless. > > After spending the afternoon in the Debian /etc directory, I'm > > inclined to agree with Evi Nemeth et al who claim Debian's init > > process leaves a little something to be desired, readability-wise. > > It's such a mess that I'd volunteer to fix it if I thought I knew > > enough. Can't agree here... when I got hit with the graphical login thing it didn't take me too long to get from 'ps ax' to 'rm /etc/rc?.d/S99gdm' (slink, remember). Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] user psychology

2003-03-25 Thread Pigeon
l > > That was written as *humor*? I'd thought it was a training manual. No, to find a real-world example google for "info.eagle.current.status". Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
iving me the options of source-build to /usr/local, chroot, backport, or source-build to a custom .deb, which would be nicest. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Can't install kernel compiled on sid machine on a woody system

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
o stop the install. What am I doing > wrong? > > The router (on which I try to install the kernel) is all-woody with > security updates and the laptop (on which I compile the kernel) is > newest sid, with gcc 3.3 (same thing happens with gcc 3.2, however). What about with gcc-2.95

Re: sa-exim: What user does spamassassin run as?

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:21:58AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Does sa-exim suid to the user recieving the mail when it runs? Dunno, but: make it touch a file in /tmp and see who owns it? Run pgrep in a loop while you send yourself a mail? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key h

Re: Does DRI work?

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
out of the way again. check out equivs, perhaps? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:23:46PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Pigeon writes: > > Thanks. And this site has the source code, which is mysteriously missing > > from the Debian/unstable version. > > You _have_ filed a bug? Have now. I don't like to scream "BUG!&q

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-16 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:52:06AM -0200, klaus imgrund wrote: > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 14:20, Pigeon wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:23:21AM -0200, klaus imgrund wrote: > > > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 03:21, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > > > &

Re: Can't install kernel compiled on sid machine on a woody system

2003-10-16 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:29:01PM +0200, Magnus von Koeller wrote: Content-Description: signed data > On Wednesday 15 October 2003 18:53, Pigeon wrote: > > What about with gcc-2.95.4? > > How would that make any difference? Shouldn't such a kernel package be > pretty m

Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list

2003-10-16 Thread Pigeon
eek masses who are hurt the most by these levels of junk because > geeks like myself rarely see any of it. My filtering works just fine but my ISP's POP3 server still seems to be groaning under the strain of all the crap it's receiving for everyone. I've emailed them suggest

Re: Bug#215999: mldonkey source code "not found" on website

2003-10-16 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:24:09PM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:25:38PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > Package: mldonkey > > Version: 2.5.3-1 > > > > The Debian website package pages for mldonkey > > > > http://packages.de

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Pigeon
"pour" instead of "for" and "si" instead of "if"? You could stick #include "francais.h" in your C source, where francais.h contains: #define pour for #define si if #define casser break or something like that... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeon

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Pigeon
d to viruses, is downloaded, spambayes catches it with outstanding reliability, and off it goes to spamcop. Interestingly, spambayes appears to work on the header data only, which (a) makes its reliability even more impressive and (b) suggests the possibility of adapting it to operate like mailfilter,

Re: Re: Canon BJC-250

2003-10-18 Thread Pigeon
out on my computer. CUPS appears to have support for this printer already, so you don't need to download anything special. Just make sure you've got CUPS installed, go to http://localhost:631/admin and Add a New Printer, select "CANON BJC 250, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.0(en)" on the p

Re: More on spam

2003-10-18 Thread Pigeon
"primed" my .mailfilterrc with rules appropriate to what I'd seen in these headers at the time, and have semi-automatedly stuck in extra rules to match the odd ones that still slip through. The attached .mailfilterrc may be of some use. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-18 Thread Pigeon
;Croatian" with Cyrillic, but they were actually the same language, hence "Serbo-Croatian". How close to the truth is this? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: More on spam

2003-10-18 Thread Pigeon
aders; the envelope from was 'From [EMAIL PROTECTED]' and the originating IP in the Received: headers was part of a dialup block owned by some.isp.com, so it does seem plausible that swen's envelope from is not spoofed. No idea why not though. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#215999: mldonkey source code "not found" on website

2003-10-18 Thread Pigeon
it wouldn't hurt to check. Thanks. I have, and he hasn't, so I have :-) - which didn't involve any checks (that I noticed) that I had the right to do such a thing... what's to stop some prannock sending malicious control messages and screwing up the BTS? -- Pigeon Be kind

Re: [OT] is swen evoluting ?

2003-10-18 Thread Pigeon
executables can have any extension, the .exe is not mandatory. The loader figures it out by looking for the .exe signature in the file. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-19 Thread Pigeon
deally after watching me smile lowering my gun from your eye > and down, while you flip around trying to fire at me. ;-) Ah, just the kind of enemy soldier I want to meet... the one who thinks he's Clint Eastwood and mucks around asking if I'm feeling lucky while I just pull my trigger.

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 01:07:12AM -0700, Tom wrote: > Maybe in 50 years the Muslims will be turning out killer cars like > Germany or killer stereos like Japan. ...the killer cars aren't too bad, it's the killer cats... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: ht

Re: Thanks Pigeon for Your mailfilterrc

2003-10-20 Thread Pigeon
ons - perhaps they got munged in transit somehow; the long lines work with both the stable version of mailfilter and the unstable source built under woody. You may have to update the DENY rules occasionally, as every so often a new variant of the From:, To: or Subject: appears to show up. Glad i

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Pigeon
was a debian-offtopic for threads such as this to be moved to. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread Pigeon
ive up my keyboard and text mode interface when they pry it from my cold dead fingers... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1

2003-10-20 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:24:25PM +0100, brian.huckstep wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 21:28:02, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:54:07PM +0100, brian.huckstep wrote: > > > I have a copy of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 on CD-Rom 7 discs in > > > fact. Unfortun

Re: what exactly does "init_module: No such device" mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Pigeon
g it out for themselves though. Disclaimer: this is "how it looks like it's working to me" rather than being based on a formal study of what's behind that error message. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A newbie's confusion about BS

2003-10-22 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:07:41AM -0400, Thomas Pomber wrote: > Okay, I'm out. I got too many weirdos emailing me > about my dick. Who are these people? Leave me alone! Spammers. I get loads of them. They don't seem to realise that pigeons don't have dicks. -- Pigeon B

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-22 Thread Pigeon
uses damn it! ... so shouldn't it be 'octopedes' IIRC? Haralambos? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mystery: disappearing .mailfilterrc

2003-10-23 Thread Pigeon
ontainer. I > noticed no error messages on boot up, nor do I see any in the log > (though the log has fewer messages than showed on the screen). Have you clocked this message: Clearing: /tmp /var/lock /var/run. /var/run is not a place to put things that you want to survive a reboot...

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

2003-10-23 Thread Pigeon
as 'color' is masculine. But I think you'd be OK in German: boolisch ist_rot(Farbesstruct *pointer); (shortcomings of the German dictionary I downloaded are becoming apparent

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

2003-10-23 Thread Pigeon
ll over the shop. I think there are one or two languages that are notable for not having it even for men and women, but AFAIK the vast majority do have it. > - Why English doesn't have gender, since it's predecessor, German, > does have gender? Because we've got enough sense t

Re: What arch is my PC [was: Need some help.......]

2003-10-23 Thread Pigeon
other one. > Please help, Thank you for your time Please reply to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] i386 is correct. Simplistically: "if you can run DOS / Windoze on it, it's i386". -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:55:02AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" wrote: > > > > on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:59:35PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:15:30AM -0700, Tom wrote: > > > >... > >

Re: libc6 gcc wrapper

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
stick pigeon.gccopts in /usr/local/etc edit /usr/local/etc/pigeon.gccopts with your desired options (one per line, fixed strings only) gccfudge.c is the source code. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F gccfudge.tar.gz Description: Binary data pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
> to block this stuff with an on-line mail account? Search the list archives for 'fetchyahoo' - ISTR someone posted a solution recently. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
; Nixon out of Office on some silly burglary. After Iraq and Palestine > etc is freed, and your traitors and war criminals has been hanged, > there may be a new _viable_ chance for peace. hmmm... s/hanged/imprisoned/ I think getting rid of the death penalty would be an excellent thing fo

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

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:05:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:52:10AM +0100, Pigeon insinuated: > > Also, what do the advocates of "gender-neutral" language do in > > German? And what do they do in French? > > what do you mean by advoca

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
n automatic solution is a lot less hassle in the long run. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mailfilter+Mutt Problem

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:32:17PM -0700, Lonnie Sutton wrote: > Hi Pigeon, > > First, let me add my thanks for your putting up your .mailfilterrc to > give me a great start on that file and dealing with the blizzard of spam > that comes from posting to the d-u list these days.

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
hanged, > > > there may be a new _viable_ chance for peace. > > > > Without going into left field, and without saying anything negative, > > what's your vision of a harmonious world? Use only positive statements. > > The return of Christ. Rock on that man...

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-25 Thread Pigeon
e but I was in a hurry). I > then subscribed to the debian-user list from the new mailbox. This did > not stop the deluge of MS mail bombs so I installed mailfilter, got a > good mailfilterrc for MS mail bombs from a posting by Pigeon on the > debian-user list and started using it

Re: libc6 gcc wrapper

2003-10-25 Thread Pigeon
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 > &

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-25 Thread Pigeon
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 > > > shou

Re: X11R6

2003-10-26 Thread Pigeon
ome reason this doesn't work... I tried it the other day... if all you select in tasksel is 'desktop environment' you don't get an X server installed. Huh?? (Though given that boot-floppies has one foot in the grave it's probably not worth making a fuss over this.)

Re: 2.6.0-test8 PCI (?) troubles

2003-10-26 Thread Pigeon
I find I have to turn the APIC off in BIOS Setup, otherwise the boot hangs when it gets to dealing with the APIC. I don't know if this applies to 2.6 (haven't tried 2.6 yet because the driver for my scsi card is broken) but it might be worth a shot. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-26 Thread Pigeon
cd /etc/rc2.d # mv S99xdm K99xdm ...if that doesn't work, it'll still give you more informative error messages than a "beep". -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-26 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 04:41:05PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 03:58:14 +0100, > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:38:33PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > On Thu,

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

2003-10-26 Thread Pigeon
tt' with > "syntax on" in '/etc/vim/vimrc') > > Of course, changing graphical contents is a bit slow, but I would't do > without my higher resolution text mode. > > So I'd appreciate any information about identifying PCI-based graphic > cards bei

Re: how to set SETSERIAL values forever

2003-10-27 Thread Pigeon
using LINEX (this is a Debian distro, with kernel 2.4.20) 3.0 /etc/serial.conf (see man setserial) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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 +0000, 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 game

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-28 Thread Pigeon
valuable as knowing the contents of the message... ask your friendly neighbourhood intelligence agency :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Debian MSN clients can't connect

2003-10-28 Thread Pigeon
.4-pre3 I get: Sending protocol Sending server policy (long pause, of a minute or more) Idle detection enabled: true Timer: 15 set connected to: false Call cancelConnect() (repeated indefinitely) From everybuddy-cvs (EveryBuddy v0.2.1beta7) (logged with 'everybuddy > logfile 2&g

Re: Debian MSN clients can't connect

2003-10-29 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:51:03PM -0600, oskar nl wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:51:16AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > >>The kids have given me a username eg. '[EMAIL P

Re: can't run X - permission denied

2003-10-29 Thread Pigeon
ould be? /dev/null is supposed to be world readable and writable (rw-rw-rw-). Is it? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Pigeon
; People keep talking about sudo like it's the cat's meow, and maybe for a > single-user system it is. But sudo documentation very explicitly warns > that, if you're not careful about what you allow, you could accidentally > allow access to far more than you expected. ..

Re: Has SWEN finally died?

2003-10-30 Thread Pigeon
ir own OS wouldn't look very good. I find swen to be highly variable; I got several hundred yesterday but only a few tens today. My gut feeling is that's just a blip on the curve. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 20:43 GMT, Pigeon penned: > > > > --PLVMksexArUZ/iL3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: > > quoted-printable &g

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Pigeon
the bottomline is a > lot of good for the customer. The customer won't have any money left, but > (s)he'll be happy. Linux will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no Linux... :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Pigeon
te clone knocked up by some backstreet cowboy outfit. Seems they can write good apps, but only under Apple's iron fist... > I suppose I could go all the way back to Edlin. I still use ed... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-10-31 Thread Pigeon
xxx - if it's there, it'll load it... > Or does anyone know how to get the .config files for the stock > kernels? Don't they end up in /boot? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
gt; > How can I fix this? setterm -blank 0 -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian MSN clients can't connect

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:33:56PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:24:21 + > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've downloaded kopete and gaim0.71 as well but I've got to sort out > > some broken dependencies before I can try

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:47:14PM +1300, cr wrote: > On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:43, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:40:01PM +1300, cr wrote: > > > I suppose I could go all the way back to Edlin. > > > > I still use ed... > > ed - is that t

Re: How to test a hard disk?

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
ying the data on the disk, as it sometimes catches errors that the destructive write test doesn't. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
.4.22.html and download the .deb of kernel-source-2.4.22. Then install that, install make-kpkg, and build yourself a 2.4.22 kernel with support for the Broadcom. > Mark Healey > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Giving debian a chance. Good on you. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key he

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
onfigured to blank after a certain time with no input *and no output*.) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:40:52PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > --and pigeon, where do you suggest he place that command so that it > has global effect upon bootup? See my other post today... :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/look

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
ot aware that it is > > "officially" anything, but to me as a French-speaker, it "feels" more > > like a masculine noun. > > (I'm French) I've never heard "La Linux". It is masculine as are > 'ordinateur' (computer) and '

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
input *and no output*.) > > Thanks, I see how that works (noblank needs to be executable), but > assumed there was some obvious script file checked during boot. I think that's what Red Hat does. Debian has a directory full of individual scripts for each operation, and other director

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
; First, it just sounds better as "le Linux" compared to "la Linux". Hmmm... what exactly does the word "Linux" sound like in French? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-02 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:20:21AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:26:35AM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:13:02PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > > On November 01, 2003 09:12, Rus Foster wrote: > > > > Hi All, >

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-02 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:14:46PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > >On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 12:06:21 -0800 (PST), > >"Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > >

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Pigeon
essful fetch. By default it doesn't delete them until you hang up; a connection failing may not be the equivalent of a proper hangup. You could try fetchmail -e 1 so it only fetches 1 email at a time then QUITs then goes back for the next one... but this is slow and nasty, see the man

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