[Pan-users] Pan goes rogue and hogs CPUs

2017-06-15 Thread Mike Brown
Pan 0.141 Fedora 25 64bit AMD 6 core 32 GB RAM The version of pan that ran under Fedora 14 never had the issue. But with version 0.141, pan likes to hog CPUs. I normally catch it in the resource monitor. Pan has just been sitting there doing nothing and I will see that one CPU goes to 100%. Ev

[Pan-users] Suggestion for Pan

2014-09-07 Thread Mike
ble to find it. Another feature that would be kind of cool (but less useful to users I suppose than the one mentioned above) is the option to create a newsgroup and it would ask you for the name of the newsgroup you want to create and it would send the control messages for you.

Re: [Pan-users] SSL/TSL and Linux pan 0.139

2014-02-28 Thread Mike Brown
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 07:41:51PM +, RW wrote: > I suspect that in the long-term it would be less trouble to deinstall > and use stunnel. That way he gets updates through the packaging > system, and doesn't have to rebuild manually for security updates, > library changes etc. Thanks. I'll me

Re: [Pan-users] SSL/TSL and Linux pan 0.139

2014-02-28 Thread Mike Brown
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 04:38:41PM +, RW wrote: > IMO the benefit of having TLS/SSL support in a newsreader is > pretty small. It's so easy to setup stunnel to handle it and just point > the newsreader at one or more localhost ports. True. He downloaded the source and compiled it. It is work

Re: [Pan-users] SSL/TSL and Linux pan 0.139

2014-02-23 Thread Mike Brown
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 06:21:34AM +, Duncan wrote: > I believe you mean that you were told that TLS/SSL was *NOT* supported in > 0.133 yet, correct? Sorry, I did indeed mean "not supported." Brain fart. Thanks for the explanation as to what is going on. I will pass on the info. He will ha

[Pan-users] SSL/TSL and Linux pan 0.139

2014-02-23 Thread Mike Brown
I have 0.133 on my Linux system, as it is an older version of Fedora. I also have it un my XP laptop, but it is version 0.139. On the Linux system I was told that TSL/SSL was supported in 0.133 yet. It is in the 0.139 that I have on the XP box. But, my friend loaded 0.139, via yum, on his latest

[Pan-users] SSL/TSL and Linux pan 0.139

2014-02-23 Thread Mike Brown
I have 0.133 on my Linux system, as it is an older version of Fedora. I also have it un my XP laptop, but it is version 0.139. On the Linux system I was told that TSL/SSL was supported in 0.133 yet. It is in the 0.139 that I have on the XP box. But, my friend loaded 0.139, via yum, on his latest

Re: [Pan-users] Light Bulb

2012-12-21 Thread Mike Brown
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 04:57:11AM -0800, walt wrote: > Hm. Something seems broken, yes. To turn the task pane tooltips off, go to > the > Edit Preferences/Panes tab and uncheck the box for Task Pane Notifications. Thanks. I turned it off. I really didn't care for it anyway. MB -- e-mail: v

[Pan-users] Light Bulb

2012-12-20 Thread Mike Brown
When the tasks GUI is open, when the rodent was hovered over a task, it would display info. Something changed (don't know how it changed) so that now all it does is display a little box with a light bulb in it. What does it mean and how do I get rid of it? Thanks. MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.c

[Pan-users] My XP runtime issue - solved

2012-11-20 Thread Mike Brown
Silly me. It had been a while since I downloaded the XP version. It was for backup reasons. Now I needed to load it on the laptop, as I'll be taking a trip. After getting the latest 139 installer, I was reminded that I needed the gtk package as well. Once installed, all is well. MB -- e-mail

[Pan-users] XP version 138 fails to run

2012-11-20 Thread Mike Brown
After I installed pan-0.138-209.msi, I tried running it. It complains that the following file is missing: libcairo-2.dll What needs to be done to fix that problem? Thanks. MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.com | vid...@vidiot.net/~\ The ASCII 6082066...@email.uscc.net (1

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 02:25:21PM +, David Shochat wrote: > Are you sure you have the gmime-devel rpm installed? I looked at a list > for Fedora 14 and the rpm did seem to include /usr/lib/pkgconfig/ > gmime-2.6.pc. The /usr/lib/pkgconfig/gmime-2.6.pc file does not exist, but the /usr/lib64

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 03:26:33PM +0200, Rhialto wrote: > I think that the vast majority of software that uses configure scripts > also uses pkgconfig, these days. IMHO, I think that the use of pkg-config is unfortunate. > As I understand it, pkgconfig is used to determine *where* something is

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 08:50:37AM +, Duncan wrote: > 1) It's really cool that, of all the apps you could choose to use for > that sort of news download volume, you choose to use pan. There was a > time when it would have had a very hard time scaling, and it's great that > it not only can d

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 06:34:48AM +, Duncan wrote: > While blocknews has HISTORICALLY been cheaper, Astra's current $50 1000 > GB plan seriously undercuts blocknews ATM (that's roughly their 500 gig > plan price, 1024=$91, 3072=$240). So Astra's WAAAYYY ahead, price-wise, > ATM. Let's see

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-25 Thread Mike Brown
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:07:29AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/24/2012 11:34 PM, Duncan wrote: >> But, I've done a bit of research as I keep thinking I'll start with a >> paid service again at some point and I thought I'd pass this on in case >> you weren't aware of it... > > I've been very happ

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-24 Thread Mike Brown
Looks like us.news.astraweb.com is this one having issues, not me. Major issues. I've submitted a ticket with them and I am now using eu.news as the news server. Anyone else use these guys as a news server? MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.com | vid...@vidiot.net/~\ The ASCII

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-24 Thread Mike Brown
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:17:32PM -0500, Mike Brown wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:07:37PM -0500, Mike Brown wrote: > > Running pan 0.133 under Fedora 14. > > > > It was working fine. While it was downloading articles, I quit pan. > > I forget why I had to

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-24 Thread Mike Brown
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:07:37PM -0500, Mike Brown wrote: > Running pan 0.133 under Fedora 14. > > It was working fine. While it was downloading articles, I quit pan. > I forget why I had to quite pan. > > Now it refuses to work at all. I've deleted all the articl

[Pan-users] Pan 0.133 refuses to work any longer

2012-08-24 Thread Mike Brown
Running pan 0.133 under Fedora 14. It was working fine. While it was downloading articles, I quit pan. I forget why I had to quite pan. Now it refuses to work at all. I've deleted all the articles in articles-cache and all of the group files, but pan refuses to attach to the newsserver and down

Re: [Pan-users] SSL not supported?

2012-06-21 Thread Mike Brown
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:31:04AM +0100, Brian Morrison wrote: > Have a look at the cinnamon package, it makes GNOME 3 a lot like GNOME > 2, it's what the Linux Mint guys have been doing to plough their own > furrow. Thanks, it is on my list. MB -- e-mail: vid...@vidiot.com | vid...@vidiot.net

Re: [Pan-users] SSL not supported?

2012-06-21 Thread Mike Brown
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 08:56:21AM +, Duncan wrote: > > The readme file lists the packages as shipped by upstream. It's the > binary distros that are splitting lib packages in half, into runtime and > devel pieces, since that allows most users, the binary-only users who > never build anyth

Re: [Pan-users] SSL not supported?

2012-06-21 Thread Mike Brown
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 06:50:06AM +, Duncan wrote: > [...] > This is certainly more complicated than pan doing it by itself, but pan > simply didn't support ssl itself until very recently, and this was the > workaround people who needed a secure connection with pan had used for... > well, p

Re: [Pan-users] SSL not supported?

2012-06-20 Thread Mike Brown
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:52:13PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > Well, of course; what else did you expect? Fedora 14 is well past its EOL, > and there are no further updates of any kind, even security updates. If > you dislike the new Gnome as much as I do, try migrating to a different DE; > perso

Re: [Pan-users] SSL not supported?

2012-06-20 Thread Mike Brown
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:17:06PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > I'm using Fedora 16 and Pan 0.135. You should be able to get an update > from the standard repos. What distro are you using? Fedora 14 x86-64. I have a friend that went to 15 and absolutely hates the Gnome massive change. 16 is suppo

[Pan-users] SSL not supported?

2012-06-20 Thread Mike Brown
Pan version 0.133 Yes, I know that it is an older version, but the newer versions do not appear to have a yum rpm update package available. Either that or I don't know which mirror to get it from. Pan works fine with the non-SSL server that I have subscribed to. But, when I change to their SSL

[Pan-users] configure fails on GMIME package check

2012-04-06 Thread Mike Brown
System is Fedora 13 64-bit. When configure is run from the 135 source, it bails when it gets to the gmime package test. The problem is that while gmime 1.5.1-1 is installed (yum is used), but a "pc" file is not created, so pkg-config doesn't think it is on the system. What is needed to get aroun

[Pan-users] modonn...@sasktel.net

2009-02-23 Thread Mike O'Donnell
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[Pan-users] pan with orca screen reader

2008-08-29 Thread Mike Reiser
nd. I would be interested in testing pan accessibility in general as well. Thanks, Mike ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

[Pan-users] Re: Import from Old Version

2007-07-22 Thread Mike - EMAIL IGNORED
e someone has questions > I need to load it up to answer, on the old version still. I like this idea, but I am upgrading from FC4 to FC7, and intend do a clean install of FC7. I would therefore have to do something like "yum install old-pan" How can I do this? Thanks, Mike. __

[Pan-users] Re: Import from Old Version

2007-07-21 Thread Mike - EMAIL IGNORED
o a single text file, would be at most one day's work. I may go that way for my important threads, but it will delay upgrade to FC7 on the box my box that runs pan. What do you think? Mike. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.

[Pan-users] Re: Import from Old Version

2007-07-21 Thread Mike - EMAIL IGNORED
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:46:32 +, Duncan wrote: > Mike - EMAIL IGNORED > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 20 Jul > 2007 17:05:31 -0400: > >> I just installed pan 0.131 on a new laptop. My previous version is >> 0.

[Pan-users] Import from Old Version

2007-07-20 Thread Mike - EMAIL IGNORED
configuration information, including servers and newsgroups, and the contents of messages saved in folders. Thanks, Mike. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

[Pan-users] Re: couple questions about beta release

2007-02-14 Thread mike dixon
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[Pan-users] couple questions about beta release

2007-02-13 Thread mike dixon
Hi - I did a search of the archive but it's not too useful doing a search on "find", but having used the old pan for many years and taking a look at the new beta (r0.124), where is the exceptionally useful "find" panel? Is there some preference I'm not seeing that I need to enable? And is

Re: [Pan-users] Rules for rewriting title?

2007-02-13 Thread Mike
On Monday 12 Feb 2007 15:34, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote: > My idea is only to rename articles' titles. Sorry, Guilhem, I misunderstood your point. -- Mike ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/list

Re: [Pan-users] Rules for rewriting title?

2007-02-12 Thread Mike
up the par2 and rar files. I came across this very problem some time ago when I started downloading multipart binaries and ended up having to rename the files back to what they were before I could repair them. -- Mike ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Where does Pan keep its cache files... retrieved headers, articles, etc.?

2007-01-20 Thread Mike
This is a book I find myself turning to pretty often when I can't quite remember how to do something. I recommend you get yourself to Borders, or any other decent bookshop, grab every Linux book you can find and peruse them over a mug of coffee. That's how I ended up buying the above two book

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan Docs 070101

2007-01-07 Thread Mike
ferred to our IP based network when I worked for the NHS. -- Mike ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Pan Docs 070101

2007-01-05 Thread Mike
ingham river and you were referring to them, rather than people in the city of Birmingham. -- Mike ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Pan Docs 070101

2007-01-05 Thread Mike
7; and 'a file ... are' is mixing singular and plural in the same sentence, which is nearly always wrong. -- Mike ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Re: icons

2006-11-14 Thread Mike
s is changed from 'old pan' then because there the 'subject' line is greyed out but the icons don't change. Unless you're distinguishing between 'reading' a binary and saving it's attachment(s)? -- Mike ___

Re: [Pan-users] Re: icons

2006-11-14 Thread Mike
ched messages are indicated by a 'stack of disks' icon. Note, this is in 'old pan' but I wouldn't have thought that would have changed for 'new pan'. I've never seen grey puzzle pieces so I can't help any further. -- Mike

Re: [Pan-users] Re: ANNOUNCE: pan-attach and pan-attach-kd, version 0.0.2006.10.07.0

2006-10-11 Thread Mike
pot packages where I ask myself just why I've got them and promise myself I'll get rid of them 'soon'. The trouble is, my calendar doesn't have a day called 'soon' anywhere on it. :( -- Mike ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Re: Re: Some remarks about the user interface

2006-10-01 Thread Mike
On Saturday 30 Sep 2006 23:20, Les Newell wrote: > If I remember correctly the old Pan used to do > this well. It certainly does. -- Mike ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Mutlipart posts?

2006-10-01 Thread Mike
essentially by hitting a icon of some sort. I don't see the advantage of this. As you say, one would still have to re-expand the listing to see what parts were missing. -- Mike ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://list

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan 0.113 [Windows] - going online doesn't restart xfer + fanmail

2006-09-27 Thread Mike
On Wednesday 27 Sep 2006 00:17, Duncan wrote: > On old-pan (0.14.x, don't know where 2.19.2.41 came from), Nor do I. I blame approaching senility, myself. :( -- Mike ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.113 [Windows] - going online doesn't restart xfer + fanmail

2006-09-26 Thread Mike
f this was the standard procedure, or if there's a 'restart' button hidden somewhere when I read your message and decided to add my question as a response to your message. So, /is/ there a 'restart' button or is my method the only one which works on this version of Pa

Re: [Pan-users] Re: One confusing thing about the 'group search' widget

2006-09-23 Thread Mike
e acronym. > OneLook (a source worth bookmarking on its own) lists a number of > references: > > http://www.onelook.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=pebkac Thanks, I'll bookmark that one. I used to have a list of acronyms around here but it

Re: [Pan-users] One confusing thing about the 'group search' widget

2006-09-22 Thread Mike
ed' list -- so no need to > search it.) Likewise > IMO, the group-search widget should be blanked out any time > I return to the Groups Pane. Seconded. -- Mike ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.112 "Elijah Craig"

2006-09-11 Thread Mike Houwers
On 9/11/06, Charles Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike Houwers wrote: > Is it just me or did this release re-break Windows 2000 compatibility? > The new releases have built and run fine under Windows 2000 for the > last many, but 0.112 fails with the same old freeaddrin

Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.112 "Elijah Craig"

2006-09-10 Thread Mike Houwers
Is it just me or did this release re-break Windows 2000 compatibility? The new releases have built and run fine under Windows 2000 for the last many, but 0.112 fails with the same old freeaddrinfo could not be located in WS2_32.DLL. Thanks, mike

[Pan-users] Re: problem with passing url to Firefox

2006-07-11 Thread mike
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 18:23:02 -0500, Charles Kerr wrote: > mike wrote: >> [quoted text muted] > > Hi Mike, > > This was a 0.101 bug that was fixed in 0.102. > > cheers, > Charles Kewl, so its not just me. ;) I think the latest version of pan on Seer-of-Souls is

[Pan-users] problem with passing url to Firefox

2006-07-10 Thread mike
I'm using pan 0.101 on Mandriva.2006. I find that when I click on a URL in a note I'm reading, pan passes a file:/// instead of the http:// that is showing as the link. Why does it do that? ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.n

Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.101 "A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist."

2006-06-25 Thread Mike Houwers
e who runs into this. Thanks again to all for the hard work. mike (The HTML posting should be fixed now. I slammed my ears in the oven door as penance, and fixed the options in Gmail.) ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.non

[Pan-users] 0.100 - Error on downloading binaries

2006-06-21 Thread Mike Houwers
d byte sequence in conversion inputAnd the download never progresses.I can see where this gets reported in the code, but not much more than that. Can anyone else replicate this? I'd be glad to help troubleshoot in any way I can.Thanks,mike houwers __

[Pan-users] Compiling 0.100 in Windows & running in Windows 2000

2006-06-19 Thread Mike Houwers
;h_addr_list[i]; --->   unsigned char *addr = ans->h_addr_list[i];172,173d170< <     GIOChannel * channel = g_io_channel_unix_new (sockfd);(Is there a better way to post the diffs?)Thanks for all the efforts. mike ___ Pan-users mailing list

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pn 0.97 won't start

2006-05-26 Thread Mike Leone
Duncan wrote: HTML belongs on the web, not in a news /or/ mail post! You've spent more bandwidth arguing about the HTML than the actual HTML took ... isn't it time to let it go? ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://li