Re: Easy firewall advice

2003-06-19 Thread bijan
id but it worked pretty well. It asks you some pretty simple questions (do you want to run any service, etc.) and then sets up a basic firewall for you. Then you can fine tune it if you want. Hope that helps, Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-15 Thread Bijan Soleymani
application an ok when it asks for (password) authentication. I've attached my /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/gdm files Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com # # The PAM configuration file for the Shadow `login' service # # NOTE: If you use a sess

Re: Upgrading to a new release

2003-10-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
l that this is the best/easiest way to get unstable onto my computer. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: RAID install

2003-10-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
o or set up grub or whatever and reboot into debian. Please let me know if you need help with any of these steps. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Network setup

2003-10-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 09:42:38PM +0100, Simon Windsor wrote: > FTP, ssh and ping all report > > No route to host. > > Any ideas ? Wild guess here, but what is the output of /sbin/route. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc

Re: How to remove Penquin from Linux (boot screen that is)

2003-10-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
a black square. Alternatively you could edit out the call to the fbcon_show_logo function and related lines of code in: drivers/video/fbcon.c Hope this helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
an find a friend with a nice cable modem or DSL connection and have him periodically download your mail (say every hour) from your ISP and then have him run a pop/imap/webmail server and you can connect to that whenever you want. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasse

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ernet connection (e.g. dialup, cable or DSL) but you do have a choice as to who provides you with email service. Heck if you paid me $10-$15 a month I could give you a couple of hundred megabytes of pop/imap/webmail mail, complete with filtering and all :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 02:52:47PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Bijan writes: > > Heck if you paid me $10-$15 a month I could give you a couple of hundred > > megabytes of pop/imap/webmail mail, complete with filtering and all > > I cannot afford another $10-$15 a month. I a

Re: sed problem

2003-10-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
>//;print;}' or using the -n option to make the while(<>){} implicit: perl -ne 's///;s/<\title>//;print;' or using the -p option that also makes the print implicit (like sed: perl -pe 's///;s/<\/title>;' Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
I can't believe *you* don't understand what I > meant with "graphical". :-) It's hard to understand what you mean by that. I mean I compile my emacs to use GTK2 and it can show images (used by preview-latex), and can play a nice game of tetris so to me it's graphical... Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
for an iron-fisted military junta to seize power and rule in Iraq the way Saddam Hussein did. But since we couldn't get that, we'd have to accept him. That was the main opportunity of getting rid of him. Since then it hasn't been so simple. The forces of resista

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
al). Private power wants just enough government to protect private power. And the U.S. is *only* interested in free trade between unequal countries. That is to say the U.S. wants free trade with poor countries, not with rich powerful countries. Even so, the U.S. has a good deal of protectionism. J

Re: Where to download old Potato packages?

2003-10-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
debian-archive/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/libs/libmime-base64-perl_2.11-2.deb Hope this helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2003-10-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
omplain that it can't find the package "remove". Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: unexpected IFS behavior with the newline character

2003-10-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
resulting from the expansion of parameters that have no values, are removed. If a parameter with no value is expanded within double quotes, a null argument results and is retained. I don't think this says that null arguments will be removed. I think that "null

Re: Cannot use type1 fonts with OpenOffice

2003-10-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
and chose use bitmap fonts and things were ok. I don't know if this is your problem, but this drove me mad for 3 days as I installed every single font package and still couldn't get fonts to work :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

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

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

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

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ush administration is not *that* stupid. > > seems like we're already hated, what's the loss Spend billions of dollars, and a good deal of human life, and become EVEN MORE HATED. > > > > (Bin Laden doesn't use cruelty to make people not want to kill him. He

Re: software download

2003-10-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
boxen), and some insane amount of bandwidth. The software issue wouldn't be that big a problem. Of course now that I think of it we could set up a p2p type indexing system, kind of like giFT or kazaa but just for searching the web :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
/bin/cat cat -rf / Of course the idea with actual suid programs is that they are designed so as not to allow this kind of thing, but still software isn't always perfect (bug, etc.). Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2003-10-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ng physical force on its own people (or at least used less of it). Instead they decided on spending the money on public relations, and on technicalogical methods. So basically they got into bed with the entertainment industry to make sure that every little film and show had its little piece of

Re: allowing a "normal" user to work efficiently

2003-10-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:40:48PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 12:03, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > [...] > > For example imagine you make "cat" suid... > > > > Then someone can do: > > cat /bin/rm /bin/cat > > cat -rf / > >

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
term) and use EDITOR=emacsclient. So that whenever mutt calls up the editor it switches me to a new emacs buffer where I can type up my message (I also have it set up so that the new buffer is in mail mode). Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:11:09PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Bijan Soleymani wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:04:18AM -0400, Allan Wind wrote: > > > >>On 2003-10-22T09:29:24-0400, Johan Kullstam wrote: > >> > >>>I think it may best f

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
d be very simple to set up. I think the code would be: (add-hook 'server-visit-hook '(make-frame-on-display remote-display)) But I'm not sure how to you would get the variable remote-display to contain the display you want to display on. I mean you could set it by hand. (setq

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

2003-10-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ting to prevent. I'm kind of afraid to ask but what does Bin Laden have to do with Jacques Chirac. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: emacs: adding default minor modes?

2003-10-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
text file). The above line adds the function flyspell-mode to this list. flyspell-mode is the function that turns on spell checking. Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
example all of customize is accessible through the menubar (nested menubar things). And finally Xemacs has tabs for switching between different buffers (like in mozilla). I still use gnu emacs though, because I like how it works. And I sometimes feel that Xemacs is a bit buggier (not segfaulting bugs, just glitches). Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
st never use Xemacs. For some reason Xemacs tries to overwrite my .emacs file each time I run it :) Xemacs also works on the command line. On the other hand gnu emacs has a menu bar even in the command line mode, while Xemacs doesn't... Also gnu emacs has very nice syntax highliting

Re: Problem with sed, Exec format error.

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
re where the problem is. A simple solution would be to download the correct sed package and use dpkg to install it: dpkg -i sed-package-name.deb If that fails then extract the files from the package and copy the file sed to /bin/sed: dpkg -x sed-package-name ./ cp ./bin/sed /bin/ Hope that help

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
eal > until your box gets hacked, but this sort of thing always gives me the > willies. Hmmm... If your box gets cracked, the cracking party can simply run a keylogger and watch you as you type your passwords... Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To

Re: What do I need to to be abe to buld Gnome apps from source?

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
;version=testing&arch=i386 reveals that this file is in the package libgnome-dev: http://packages.debian.org/testing/libdevel/libgnome-dev.html Try installing that and see if it helps. If anything else breaks just post a followup... Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> htt

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 01:29:44PM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-10-26T15:12:18Z, Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You could always do: > > rm -r `ls -A` > > If you have good backups, consider the ramifications of: > >$ touch

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives (was: Re: I broke gnome2 *snff*)

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
things up in a rootly way. > > Personally I tend to walk through trees very carefully when doing > deletes. > > > Other tips? You could always do: rm -r `ls -A` ls -A lists all files except "." and "..". From the ls manpage: "-A, --almost-

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
t or some other email program that can connect directly to a pop3 server could do as well. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives (was: Re: I broke gnome2 *snff*)

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 07:46:05PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 10:12:18AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 02:10:01PM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:28:36PM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
f mailing lists that I have only a passing interest in, and even my email resources are finite. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] - problem with java

2003-10-26 Thread Bijan Soleymani
rth, but the rest is kind of there. It's better than nothing :) Of course if you already know about octave then send this message to /dev/null :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
gt; X, they always work in every distro (Debian and Slackware included). They work in both emacs and xemacs on my computer. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
have a filesystem that does hashing you never have that problem. The main gains from Maildir are: no locking any number of simultaneous programs accessing the mail without fear of corruption no rewriting the mailbox if you delete a message in the middle (computer goes down in the middle of thi

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
re is a header that people can set to request no CCs. I think you mentionned something along those lines. I am pretty sure mutt respects that. I think most of the CCs you are receiving are from borken mail-clients that don't respect that header. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
se it's also nice to get copies of replies to my messages directly through email. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
t hit reply, hit reply-to-list. There is a header one can set to indicate where the mail should go. Mutt respects this header so I just hit g (group reply) and it figures out if the person wants replies or not. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:38:45AM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:12:49AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > I hit the g key in mutt. It usually does do CCs. I'm told that there is > > a header that people can set to request no CCs. I think you mentionned

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:51:09AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Bijan Soleymani wrote: > >I like getting CCs. I receive hundreds of mailing list mail a day and > >might not be able to check up on all of them every day, but I make sure > >to check my main inbox, that way I can s

Re: Looking for a better info-file viewer

2003-10-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ntains their manuals online in html at: http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html Most projects that have info documentation do a similar thing. If not you can simply run texi2html on them yourself. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
le not good way to do this in bash: for x in `seq 80`; do echo -n "*"; done ; echo the last echo is to get the newline to print. In perl you could do: perl -e 'for(1..80){print "*";}print "\n";' Technically that is shorter than: echo "***

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:27:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:50:17PM -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > Is there any other command to print any charac

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:12:31PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? I think it's masculine as in "le linux". Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Slightly OT

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
me to a newsserver (free - available from outside > the confines of an ISP) carrying all messages from this list, please ? > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/ > is so unhandy ... ! news.gmane.org is amazing, every single message since the dawn of time (or almost) is ava

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
t make a right, but three lefts do. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
was written as Debiane though. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
masculine or feminine. You see in french you "can't" have two vowels in a row, so they drop the "e" or "a" from le and la, and replace it with an appostrophy. On the other hand you don't have that with "un" or "une" and it's Un Uni

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
re et Paul, sont des geeks. A family of geeks :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Linux, men primarily use Linux, playing around with > powerful operating systems built on top of Linux is a man's thing, et > cetera. > > /me REALLY ducks after that comment ;P Debian is feminine so there you have. We're all a bunch of little girls :) Bijan -- Bijan S

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ee, the nux is kind of like nooks. In both cases it's a bit different, but that's as close as I can think of. I think it's pretty close to how Torvalds pronounces it. Well close enough considering it's a whole 'nother language. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: daemontools-installer

2003-11-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
t recommended it (an nntp server written in perl) and it worked fine. I'm running sid I think I've set my default gcc to be 2.95. I didn't really need daemontools after all (got inn2 to work the way I wanted) so I purged daemontools, but yeah it was working. Bijan -- Bijan Soleym

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 07:26:52PM +0100, Christophe Courtois wrote: > Le Dimanche 2 Novembre 2003 07:20, Bijan Soleymani a d?clam? : > > > Hmmm... what exactly does the word "Linux" sound like in French? > > The Li is kind of like Lee, > > the nux is kind of like

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 07:37:59PM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:20:21AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:26:35AM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:13:02PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > > > On Novem

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
orked. There is another important objective: "doing the right thing". It is simply not acceptable to lose mail. Even if it isn't fetchmail's fault, fetchmail should be fault-tolerant (deal with a misconfigured mail system). Fetchmail should scream loudly: your mail system is fubar, bailing out now! I don't know if this is possible, but I think that that would help a lot of people. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Some newbie questions

2003-11-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
; usually because they have special or strange hardware that will not boot > the regular kernel on the first CD. People with dial-up may appreciate the other CDs. I currently don't have an internet connection at home, so I especially need them. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Some newbie questions

2003-11-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
gick) before installation? Yes. > 3) Where can I ask some other newbie questions? Is this list the right > place? Yes. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: The Unix Philosophy (was Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?)

2003-11-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:34:09AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 09:08, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:42:40PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 at 21:54 GMT, Vincent Lefevre penned: > > > > On 2003-1

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:14:10PM -0500, Mark Roach wrote: > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 10:08, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > [...] > > There is another important objective: "doing the right thing". It is > > simply not acceptable to lose mail. Even if it isn't fetchmail

Re: Some newbie questions

2003-11-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 10:31:05PM +1300, cr wrote: > On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 04:49, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 08:49:48AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > > Alexey Buistov wrote: > > > >Hello Debian fans! > > > > > > &

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
quot;X" in the name :) But this is something that could be fixed. You should probably report it as a wishlist type bug. If you want a solution now you might want to look at xvfb. It's an xserver that doesn't actually display anything (it uses a "virtual" framebuffer). Bijan

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ecause it bothers your conscience to use a non DFSG application. If the first case, then don't feel bad as it's pretty easy to build and there are sources of unofficial debs. If the second don't feel so bad because the code is pretty much GPL'd, minus extra propr

Re: Fickle sound

2003-11-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
re well supported under linux. You should be able to find tons of decent cards for $15-$40. If you are talking about a laptop then you might have to live with what you have. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Fickle sound

2003-11-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 12:18:21AM -0500, Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: > Bijan Soleymani wrote: > >If you are talking about a laptop then you might have to live with what > >you have. > > I do indeed have a laptop. Thing is, I've had no problems under Windows. > An

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-10 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:01:33AM +0800, csj wrote: > On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 19:22:08 -0500, > Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 04:02:07PM -0800, Tom wrote: > > > > > Anyway, it bugs me to have my music stop when I leave X. Is >

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

2003-11-15 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ut it isn't as simple to bully the federal government. This is all outlined by Noam Chomsky in one of his audio CDs, the full thing is available online in realaudio format (it's a proprietary format, but mplayer can handle it :). http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/audio/fmf.html Bijan -- Bijan

Re: where is netscape 4 in testing?

2003-09-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
4.77 in Sarge ? Assuming someone wants to maintain it, of > course. It is impossible to maintain. Only netscape the company has the source and can fix actual problems with the program. If they give up on the program it's dead. This is one of the problems with proprietary software. If you rea

Re: DVD recording software?

2003-09-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
me, but I'm sure you can find a program to do that somewhere. You have to decrypt the vobs because consumer grade dvd blanks have the decryption key preset to 00 00 00 00 00 or something like that. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Strange output to console

2003-09-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
7;m not sure about this, but I had a problem with unwanted information flooding my screen and I had to fiddle with klogd and put KLOGD="-c 4" in /etc/init.d/klogd to get rid of some messages that came up after setting up ipmasq. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
.. I did for a while but my ISP is terrible and they're now blocking port 25 (and some others too) so that I just gave up and run one at work and use fetchmail at home. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
in that case. Simply send using your isp's or a third party's smtp server as a smarthost. And use yahoo mail to read the replies. For example my isp's smtp server is relais.videotron.com. To set up any mail program with my yahoo mail I would do the following: Name: Bijan Soleymani Em

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
` > if [ $file != $ucfile ] > then > mv -i $file $ucfile > fi > fi > done #!/usr/bin/perl @files=`ls`; foreach $file (@files) { chomp $file; if(-f $file) { $newname = uc $file; `mv $file $newname`; } } This should do what you want.

Re: Uppercasing filenames

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 05:52:44PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > #!/usr/bin/perl > @files=`ls`; > foreach $file (@files) > { > chomp $file; > if(-f $file) > { > $newname = uc $file; > `mv $file $newname`; oops that should be: `mv "$

Re: Direct ethernet

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ure things out, please reply and attach the output of lspci so that we can recommend a course of action. Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SBLive! 5.1 in Debian?

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
to. It's best to subscribe to the list, at least temporarily. P.S. Please wrap your lines. -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
email addresses. So why bother to go through usenet looking for email addresses to spam. Is it just because it's so easy? Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: SBLive! 5.1 in Debian?

2003-09-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
to the audio group. You have to edit the file /etc/group and change the line: audio:x:29: to something like audio:x:29:bijan,alex,fariba,reza where you would replace bijan alex fariba and reza, with the users you want to be able to use audio. You then need to log out and log back in. I never appre

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
can then delete whichever ones I don't want to download. After that's done I use fetchmail to retrieve the mail as I normally would. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Divx and DVD playback

2003-09-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
e box? Mplayer works right out of the box :) Most people download unofficial debs from some site like free.marillat.fr or something like that... google for it. For me it works right out of the box after I compile it from source. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cra

Re: spam filtering

2003-09-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 08:53:15PM -0400, Gerard Ceraso wrote: > I am currently using procmail and spamassassin and I heard that razor is > better. Any opinions? Spamassassin can use razor, I think all you have to do is apt-get install it. I'm not 100% on that though. Bijan -- Bija

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
QUIT (once you're done) Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: radeon opengl help

2003-09-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
op. Make sure all the GL related stuff is being loaded by checking out the messages that X gives as it's starting up. Make sure you have this in you X config file (or else I think only root will have acceleration): Section "DRI" Mode0666 EndSection Hope that helps, Bij

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ite at: http://www.crasseux.com/linux/ If you want to learn about the syntax then: man fetchmailrc I also think there is a script to set it up automatically called fetchmailconf. I've never used it so I can't say whther it's any good or not. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 02:52:20AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:02:20 -0400, > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > For telnet simply run: > > telnet pop.server.com 110 > > USER username &g

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
il addresses in clear on my website for at least 2 years now. And the only one that is getting spam is the one I use for mailing lists and newsgroups. > So now I've recently installed spamassassin 2.55 as well. Amen to that. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:53:07PM -0400, Antonio Rodr wrote: > > Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I also think there is a script to set it up automatically called > > > fetchmailconf. I've never used it so I can't say whther it&

Re: burning a CD

2003-09-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
(especially games) used certain tricks to make sure you didn't copy them (the game could detect if they were running off a copied cd). And you had to patch your executable to be able to run them. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: per user samba

2003-09-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
s it will be a > ~/.smb file or something like that, but that I don't know :) Why complicate things, why not just share all /home/ and have users decide what files they want to share by setting appropriate permissions. That is to say if they want to share a folder simply chmod 755, if the

Re: burning a CD

2003-09-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 08:15:01PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 19:42, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 04:21:09PM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: > > > Op vr 26-09-2003, om 02:17 schreef Carla Schroder: > > > > If it's

Re: pam and other authentication methods

2003-09-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
s? As I have said, passwd file authentication and NIS are probably built into the C library so those should be OK to set up. To use anything more complicated might require messing with the C library or recompiling programs. Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://

Re: Statically linked bash

2003-10-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ould also download the source code for bash and compile it statically yourself. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses (was Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?)

2003-10-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
m a warning saying that it may be a virus. I mean this prevents legitimate attachments like jpegs, etc. So users simply disable it, and you're back to square one. P.S. It might have been a security upgrade or something that added this "feature" to OE, but still I've seen people st

Re: Maildir with uw-imapd

2003-10-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
know people who use uw-imapd with hundreds of folders with 1000s of mboxen, but they don't use Maildir. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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