Re: 4ol 4rt files:
Paul Johnson wrote: On Saturday 24 September 2005 03:20 pm, David Clymer wrote: On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 12:48 -0700, Brian Kimball wrote: John Hasler wrote: As for the These people... Will that group of people on this list ever stop this geek snobbery? Snobbery, hell. Anyone who copies an email address out of a Google hit and sends off a complaint without reading the referenced message is a doofus. It's not so much that AOLers are stupid as it is that they are numerous and are, more or less, a cross section of the population. As the population contains a substantial percentage of doofuses.. me too eh? you too contain a substantial percentage of doofuses? ;o) Given the AOL! response, I'd say he's part of that percentage. :o) Given that I messed up my AOL response, perhaps I am. (I bottom-posted instead of top-posting like a true AOLer would) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 4ol 4rt files:
John Hasler wrote: As for the These people... Will that group of people on this list ever stop this geek snobbery? Snobbery, hell. Anyone who copies an email address out of a Google hit and sends off a complaint without reading the referenced message is a doofus. It's not so much that AOLers are stupid as it is that they are numerous and are, more or less, a cross section of the population. As the population contains a substantial percentage of doofuses.. me too -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resolvconf not working?
Michelasso wrote: But this isn't happening and I have /etc/resolv.conf empty. Hrm, IIRC resolvconf asks some configuration questions during package setup time. You may want to try dpkg-reconfigure resolvconf and see what happens. brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't login when using kdm (KDE) -- Part 2
rs wrote: Debian / Sarge / main This is continuation of the following thread: http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread /0ba07cce9a5d0a6b/066a545b5852bfd4#066a545b5852bfd4 See http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2005/09/msg00023.html and http://bugs.debian.org/327191 /etc/kde3/kdm/Xsession is now sourcing your shell profile files and errors in them will cause your Xsession to abort. brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop choice to run debian
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good recommendations by any chance? A good recommendation that I don't see very often is to check which machines linux laptop vendors choose to use. Obviously they are going to pick machines that are as compatible as possible with linux. See http://www.emperorlinux.com/ As an example. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?
Wulfy wrote: quote src=Marc Wilson Oh, you use a brain-dead mailer that thinks it knows better than you? Your loss. Think about it. /quote If the mailer is brain-dead and I think it knows better than I do Parse error. Marc said the opposite: The _mailer_ is brain-dead because among other things _it_ thinks it knows better than you. Marc was commenting on your mailer, and his message conveys that you are smarter than your mailer. You smart. Mailer dumb. Conclusion: get new mailer. I have had some ideas from this thread. Your idea is good. It has already been implemented in mailers that have already been mentioned. If you really want those ideas incorporated into mozilla, I would suggest that you find a more appropriate venue for them: search bugzilla.mozilla.org and find the relevant wishlist bugs (I'm sure they're already there) and add your own comments and votes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?
Wulfy wrote: That makes me sad as this is a wonderful resource, squandered by bad manners. This list is full of nice people asking for help and even more nice people giving it. That is the norm. Problems arise when people who are new to Debian and Linux begin demanding changes instead of asking for help. Beware 'We should', extend a hand to 'How do I'... --Alan Cox - http://www.linux.org.uk/Papers_CathPaper.cs I have had some ideas from this thread. It should not be difficult to make e-mail clients have 4 buttons: Reply-To-Sender, Reply-To-List, Reply-To-All and Forward. Mozilla clients would only need a small change in the xul. Unfortunately, I don't program xul... Alan also had something to say about wannabe programmers. They mean well, but their comments are noise, not signal. Code is more valuable than opinion. Go take your passion and apply it towards finishing your Debian install. Close mozilla mail and open a bash prompt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?
Marc Wilson wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:05:21PM +1000, charlie wrote: Am new here, but think that reply to list is standard on all Linux learning lists? You'd be wrong. Dead wrong. Amen brother. For all you people who are dead wrong and in denial about it, read this: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html And then _please_ realize that you are wasting your breath--the debian list administrators are waaayyy too smart to listen to your ignorant pleas. Fix your MUA or get a new one instead of arguing for something that will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever happen. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: proper way to change ip and hostname
Thomas Hood wrote: Brian Kimball wrote: But that only handles the bare minimum. You will also need to reconfigure any software that has your old hostname, IP address, netmask, network address, etc., hardcoded in its config files. In this case grepping everything in /etc is the only sure-fire way to remember what needs to be changed and what doesn't. But in many cases the software should have been configured to use localhost anyway, and this name -- the canonical hostname corresponding to IP address 127.0.0.1, never changes. Good point. I was thinking from the point of view of having multiple linux machines on a network. I guess not everyone's that lucky. ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: proper way to change ip and hostname
Matthew Lenz wrote: rather than grep xarging /etc for occurances of the ip and hostname is there a proper debian way of changing them? Others have already led you in the right direction. To summarize: 1) change IP address: edit interface information in /etc/network/interfaces 2) change hostname: edit /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts 3) update nameserver information in /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/network/interfaces if you use the resolvconf package. But that only handles the bare minimum. You will also need to reconfigure any software that has your old hostname, IP address, netmask, network address, etc., hardcoded in its config files. In this case grepping everything in /etc is the only sure-fire way to remember what needs to be changed and what doesn't. Note the above: you need to grep for more than just your IP address and hostname. For example, I run the cups printing service and have the statement Allow From 64.172.171.64/29 in cupsd.conf which allows network printing from all my other IP addresses. Grepping for any one of my IP addresses (.65, .66, .67, .68, .69) would not have reminded me that I need to change that statement to my new settings. So, in short, grepping /etc _is_ the proper way. It feels brute force but it isn't really. In fact, it helps you learn your system. Someone else mentioned that when they were in a similar sitation they were told to reinstall. BLECH!! That's gross. _That_ would be improper. hth, brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian and wireless network cards
I just solved this dilemma two days ago. I found the hawking hwp54g works well and is pretty inexpensive. Hawking has used a few different chipsets but IIRC they all have linux drivers in varying degrees of development. The one that I bought has a Ralink rt2500 chipset, and the driver for it is actually based on code donated to the community from Ralink, which is always a good sign. http://www.hawkingtech.com/prodSpec.php?ProdID=180 http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). Thanks, Leonid Grinberg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Howto find and remove unused libraries?
fraz wrote: I'll give aptitude another go in the future. Just so you know, aptitude's fullscreen interface can be heavily customized to your liking. You can decide what information should be shown on each line in the package list (name, version, size, priority, description, etc). I've currently got it set to display how many reverse dependencies each package has. This allows me to see at a glance which packages are actually needed and which packages are just leftover cruft. Sounds like you would find that useful... brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Maintaining group ownership of new files
Ext2/ext3 filesystems have built-in support for this behavior, but it's not turned on by default in debian. Remount your filesystems with the bsdgroups option. This is a lot cleaner than trying to maintain setgid bits on all your directories and messing with umasks, which aren't honored by all applications. See the manpage for mount for more details. cheers, brian On Sunday 24 October 2004 10:21 pm, Upayavira wrote: Hi, I've used a freeBSD server where, when a file is created, that file becomes owned by the group who owns the containing folder. However, I cannot seem to make this happen on a Debian box. Anyone know how? Basically, I want to 'partition' a server using Unix groups. If a member of a group creates, uses modifies a file, that file is usable, modifiable, by other members of their group. I of course will be a member of all of these groups. Any ideas how to make this happen? Regards, Upayavira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: poll: managing high volumes of list mail effectively
On Friday 15 October 2004 08:01 am, martin f krafft wrote: I am subscribed to 237 mailing lists and even though my tools are Holy crap! How much time per day do you spend on all that mail? I'm trying to be as efficient as I can with my 19 mailing lists and I still spend too long on them. thanks, brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Combining images?
Also try out ale (a tool that merges images to increase fidelity or create mosaics) and grunch (merge partial scans into a larger image). I happened to notice them just a few days ago while browsing the graphics packages. brian On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 07:20:57 -0500, Nate Bargmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usually happens, I stumble across a solution. Another search pointed me toward a method of creating a panorama with the Gimp. That, in turn, led to pnmstitch and pnmcat of the netpbm package. pnmstitch will combine images that have overlapping areas while pnmcat just butts them together. Since I had already cropped my images in the Gimp, pnmcat worked very well matching up the images in the page fold area. It amazes me how many times I'll get frustrated with a GUI program only to find a commandline program that does the job as well or better. A little experimenting with the commandline options and then a consistently repeatable result can be obtained. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NNTP to email?
Chris Kenrick wrote: I'm rather fond of mutt as an email client, and would like to use it to read Usenet articles too. Try mailman. Create a new list for each newsgroup that you read and then configure the lists as mail-news gateways. Subscribe yourself to the lists. Viola. Instant NNTP-via-SMTP. I did this just last week because I can't stand slrn or any other newsreader and it worked reasonably well (up until I remembered that usenet is a gigantic fucking waste of time and purged mailman :-) ). A few caveats: 1) I'm using unstable. Stable's mailman might not be able to gate news. 2) Make sure anyone can post to the lists, or mailman will hold all the articles for moderator/owner approval 3) see the exhaustive example mailman config file under /usr/share/doc/mailman/ to see how to store your NNTP server name password and such. 4) edit /etc/cron.d/mailman to change how often gate_news runs. The default is 5 minutes. :-) 5) the gate_news program by default catches up to newsgroups it hasn't seen before, so the lists won't see posts prior to the first run of gate_news. If you don't like this then you'll need to _temporarily_ hack gate_news before its first run (IIRC add something like watermark = 0 right after it sets watermark (not sure if that's the variable name). Be prepared for mailman to spend hours processing the results. happy hacking... brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Potato and daylight Savings time
Wayne Topa wrote: Has anyone else noticed that Potato has not got the word that it now Standard time not Daylight Saving time? You got it backwards: the change in spring is from standard time to daylight-saving time. http://cnn.com/2000/US/04/02/daylight.time/index.html And it seems that potato did a fine job of changing. -- Brian Kimball
Can't Install! Kernel Hangs!
Hello all. I just got my CheapBytes 1.3.1 CD (which has some files that look suspiciously out of date ...) and I can't boot from either the CD (using loadlin) or the Rescue Disk I made. I also tried downloading the latest disk image, and it didn't work either. The kernel seems to hang when it displays the MD Driver message. I gave it 5 minutes and then rebooted. I'm going to try using my own kernel today, but if anyone has a quick fix I'd be very happy to hear it. My Computer is a gateway G6200: 200 Mhz PPro (w/ 256K cache, intel mboard (I think)) IDE disk: quantum fireball 3.2 GB IDE CDROM: toshiba something Iomega ditto on floppy controller Intel 3c595 vortex NIC Matrox Millenium w/ 4MB RAM Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO sound card USR Sportster modem 1600 MB winNT partition (fat, on hda1) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Can't Install! Kernel Hangs!
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool, thanks for the hints. I turned off my BIOS' PnP initialization feature and everything worked smoothly. Very strange! brian Hmmm.. I had the exact same thing happen with my laptop. I wasn't able to boot up at all with any of the kernels (except the one I had made myself.. which wasn't any good since it wasn't a Rescue Disk). It may not be the same problem.. but, I know on my laptop I was finally able to get it booting by making some changes to me CMOS. In my case, it would appear that my sound card was conflicting somehow and making the system hang. I think it may have been that I had my DMA channels set wrong (or maybe my IRQ.. I really didn't play around with it too much). If you CMOS contains specific DMA settings or IRQ settings you may want to try changing them one at a time, try booting, and then changing them back. Unfortunately, without me knowing what is going on in the internals of the boot process at that point.. I can't help you out further. Good luck! Richard.. - Richard Dansereau Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home page: http://pobox.com/~rdanse Electrical and Computer Engineering - University of Manitoba - Canada - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
