Re: Re: Modem Net Access.

2008-09-24 Thread David Palmer
O.K., Kent and Celejar. Sorry for the delay, but I've got to shutdown, remove the drive, put another in, reboot, install gpmand then hit the logs to find any discrepancies anywhere. Type up what I find, then do the procedure in reverse. Anyway, here I am: Nothing I can spot in syslog. The

Re: howto post configure a debian installation

2008-09-18 Thread David Palmer
ago. Something like baseconfig? Regards, David Palmer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Buying debian compatible laptop.

2008-02-04 Thread David Palmer
I'd also like it to have DVI, SPDIF, USB2, FireWire, jumbo frame GbE, Infrared and eSATA ports Has anyone seen one? At present, I'm looking (but only looking), at the M59 SLI here: http://www.pioneercomputers.com.au/products/products.asp?c1=3c2=15 Regards, David Palmer

Re: Colours in VIM-AbiWord

2008-02-04 Thread David Palmer
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Mon February 4 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: AbiWord is much lighter smaller than OOo. I saw AbiWord when I installed ... another distro ( Pu..y ...) but I never used it. is abiword just a word processor, as opposed to a full suite, like OO ?? does it do .DOC

Re: Modem in Debian

2008-02-03 Thread David Palmer
mailbox. I read it with mutt and hear the message like any multi-media email message. Then I delete it or save it like any email message. Or provide yourself with a fax facility. Regards, David Palmer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: exim4 localhost prefix problem

2008-02-03 Thread David Palmer
Jude DaShiell wrote: I got the following error messageError sending: No such host as localhostoutgoing.verizon.net] It looks like strange terminology to me, but you may need a fullstop/period between localhost and outgoing. As in: localhost.outgoing.verizon.net Regards, David Palmer

Re: low-MHz server

2008-01-30 Thread David Palmer
I scored two 486s and three pentium 1s for nothing. Good for firewalls and mail servers, or just mucking around. Regards, David Palmer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: random mouse hangs

2008-01-28 Thread David Palmer
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:20:37 -0500 Tom Vier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running etch on amd64. The last few weeks, my mouse would stop responding for a few seconds. I switched to another mouse - same thing. Now i have to unplug (it's usb) and plug it back in to get the pointer to move again.

Re: upgrading X in sid

2008-01-28 Thread David Palmer
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:05:06 -0800 Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 8:06 AM, Kelly Clowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 28, 2008 6:29 AM, charlie derr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a laptop with a native resolution of 1900x1200 which has been working fine for

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-28 Thread David Palmer
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:45:08 -0600 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Palmer writes: [Wvdial] is handy for a newbie. Only when it works. Oh, I can remember when it didn't, don't worry. But that was a couple of years back. I thought I'd give it another try and lo and behold

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-28 Thread David Palmer
procedure, detected the serial port the modem was on, installed the strings, ready to go. If your only need for a POTS (plain old telephone service) modem is to send and receive faxes, wvdial is not required. No, but I need the modem to update/upgrade also. Regards, David Palmer

Re: Brief question as to the Linux kernel in use in the Stable version of Etch

2008-01-27 Thread David Palmer
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:41:43 +0100 Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-01-27 08:23 +0100, David Palmer wrote: On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:48:52 -0500 dick thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My ethernet adapter is an ATTANSIC Gigabyte L1 (also released since the takeover

Re: Brief question as to the Linux kernel in use in the Stable version of Etch

2008-01-26 Thread David Palmer
maiden aunts every Sunday afternoon at the age of forty. And he makes the scones. Live a little Thanks in advance. No worries. Regards, David Palmer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Creative Commons Metamorphosis

2004-08-18 Thread David Palmer
There's a new style of licence happening at Creative Commons. It is typified by the policy of attempting to meld closed and open source, particularly in relation to software. Is this where this project was heading all along? This same proposition is one that has been previously touted by such

[Fwd: New Bitstream technology comes to Linux and Desktop/LX]

2004-06-14 Thread David Palmer
This is a newsletter from the Lycoris Linux commercial distribution, concerning something new in font/font management. I'm not aware of the licencing details (I would be very surprised if it could be classified as 'free'). Point the first. Point the second: There seems to be an ever accelerating

Re: WAS A good book on C programming, now an APPOLOGY

2003-12-28 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 17:45:15 -0600 Alex Malinovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 15:43, Gavin Henry wrote: --snip-- What is Fedora then? --snip-- Fedora is for people who don't know any better. Those who do know better, of course, use Debian. :) And not to imply that

Re: Booting w/ dual CPUs hangs

2003-12-28 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 22:00:08 -0600 Jeffrey L. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Greg Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:36 pm, Greg Madden wrote: On Saturday 27 December 2003 02:28 pm, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: I have a box with a Tyan Thunder

Re: Booting w/ dual CPUs hangs

2003-12-28 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 03:37:00 -0600 Jeffrey L. Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting David Palmer. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You could also put a couple of Athlon 2000s on that board. It was actually made with AMD in mind, specifically MP processors, but in actual fact there is very little

Re: debian on my athlon?

2003-12-24 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 13:01:20 -0600 Forest Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got a new laptop for x-mas that runs on an AMD Athlon XP-M processor. It's a new processor designed specifically to minimize energy use for laptops. I was hoping to run Debian GNU/Linux on my laptop, but the

Re: network install via dialup?

2003-12-18 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:52:06 -0700 s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming from James Miller: I'm thinking of recommending Debian to someone who has only a dialin connection to the 'net. For various reasons, a network install would be Isn't cheapbytes still out there? The last time

Re: Any Linux-oriented hardware-review sites?

2003-12-17 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:42:15 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Kent West wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Kent West wrote: snip The nForce is the mobo chipset (not the graphics chip). If I had it to do over, I would get an AMD (which I

Re: Any Linux-oriented hardware-review sites?

2003-12-16 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:55:48 -0500 Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kent West wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Kent West wrote: Anyone know of any hardware-review sites from a Linux perspective? I'm looking to buy a replacement motherboard . . . . I can tell you that

Re: Need install help -mig from RedHat to Debian

2003-12-15 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 04:35:43 -0800 Gruessle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hello, I hat problems installing my mouse, video card and monitor with Debian So what I did is I installed RedHat and got the config for those: Monitor: DDC Probed Monitor = Compac V70 Horizontal (30-69)

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:25:11 -0500 Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 13:16:05 +0800, David Palmer. wrote: [snip] Perhaps you'll follow your own advice and seek three votes to throw yourself off the list for your inability to use line wrap. Well, maybe this time I

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-14 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:35:58 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 07:48:26AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: David Palmer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 23:16 Subject: Re: Easing the load

Re: Easing the load.

2003-12-13 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:16:24 -0500 Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:50:15 +0800, David Palmer wrote: I have seen what I believe is a need for an additional mailing list, not so much for the benefit of the developers' list, but most definitely for the sake

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-12 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 12:20:07 -0700 s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: There is absolutely a learning curve to every community, and long-standing members deservedly get more respect and slack. I do think that I've been lurking and posting long enough to

Easing the load.

2003-12-11 Thread David Palmer
I have seen what I believe is a need for an additional mailing list, not so much for the benefit of the developers' list, but most definitely for the sake of sanity on debian-user. I have posted to curiosain recognition of their patience with an O.T. situation. The following layout is for initial

Re: Debian for Dual Opterons...

2003-12-11 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 13:51:17 -0600 Michael Kahle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried installed Debian on a dual Opteron system? I am thinking of building a new server based on this technology, any thoughts? Would I use the IA64 branch? Hello Michael, Here is the mailing list:-

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-11 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:50:11 -0500 H. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: Documenting software is like writing a good text book. The author must get in touch with his inner Dummy and speak to his needs. Some geeks have this ability, but many do not. This is *so* true!!

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-11 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:21:01 -0700 Nate Duehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Palmer. wrote: If you request help, terminologies like 'chown' and chmode' or somesuch are thrown at you without any effort toward fuller explanation, and it goes further than assumption through long

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-11 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:36:32 -0700 Thanasis Kinias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: scripsit David Palmer.: If you request help, terminologies like 'chown' and chmode' or somesuch are thrown at you without any effort toward fuller explanation, and it goes further than assumption through long

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-11 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:47:15 -0500 Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Richard Kimber: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:07:23 -0600 Michael Martinell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why the people doing the documentation should be the power-userwho is not

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-11 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:24:46 -0800 Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:13:47PM -0800, Tom Ballard, MSFT shill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I don't expect this to be adopted, Right. This is an unmoderated list of volunteers. Many of whom can't get

Re: New Debian installer?

2003-12-10 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 04:22:35 +0100 Alexander Fitterling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2003 03:41 schrieb Paul Johnson: HI. Nope, that's it. That's how you get it. What FS actually are supported? Hello Alex. For detailed information, you may well be better off

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-09 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:58:34 +0100 Burkhard Woelfel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:55, Joyce, Matthew wrote: -Original Message- From: ScruLoose [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 5 December 2003 8:58

Re: Mimail-L

2003-12-08 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 23:30:10 + Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:24:09PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: I have just received a copy of the new variant of the Mimail worm. Would anyone like a free sample? As new condition. I haven't even clicked

Re: [OT] voting (was: Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications))

2003-12-07 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 23:14:16 -0700 Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 05:40:32AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 02:25:18PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 at 21:13 GMT, csj penned: As usual, science fiction was

Re: [OT] voting (was: Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications))

2003-12-07 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 00:32:46 -0700 Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 at 05:57 GMT, Paul E Condon penned: As the most recent user of this phrase on this list, let me join this discussion: The sense in which I meant 'know history' was to know what has

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-12-07 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:15:50 +0100 Nicos Gollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 16:33:45 -0800 Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A spammer harvesting replies. Any particular reason to feel that's the case? Are you seeing this behavior elsewhere? I'm getting

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-12-07 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 03:35:12 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 07:39:18PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: Have you asked Tom if he knows anything about this? I'd rather be me than you. There's a lot of you. Oh... Hello, Tom. How are you? Come to mess with my head

Re: Linux Kernel Security - Can it ever be 100%

2003-12-06 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 02:39:38 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:55:23PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: [This rant is probably full of shit] :-) Yes. ;-) The reason it sounds so dumb is everybody would be out of a job. I've never met a single person yet who

Re: Linux Kernel Security - Can it ever be 100%

2003-12-06 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 02:29:29 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 03:04:22PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: For a start, please allow me to refer you to Emmanuel Kant with reference to 'a priori.' 'a priori' means you know how to do it independent of experience

Re: LP - CD

2003-12-06 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 12:31:59 +0100 Luis Fernando Llana Díaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have several LP's that I would like to transfer to CD's. I have already connected a LP player to my sound card and I cad heard it. I am searching programs to: 1. Record the LP in the hard disk.

Re: Installing on a GRUB system?

2003-12-06 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 04:37:09 +0100 Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:09:59 -0500, lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i'm downloading the debian-installer beta. i intend to install on a spare partition on my GRUB-based system.

Re: Installing on a GRUB system?

2003-12-06 Thread David Palmer.
configure grub after the fact. On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 22:48, David Palmer. wrote: On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 04:37:09 +0100 Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 10:09:59 -0500, lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i'm downloading the debian

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy

2003-12-05 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 21:50:35 -0600 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Palmer. wrote: Put all politicians on a wage of $500.00/week, and make it a capital offense to take a political bribe, and you would get the ones that want to do the job for the right reasons. No. You'd get

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy

2003-12-05 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 23:05:39 -0500 ScruLoose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:50:35PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: David Palmer. wrote: Put all politicians on a wage of $500.00/week, and make it a capital offense to take a political bribe, and you would get the ones

Re: Mail Consolidation

2003-12-05 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:06:40 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I go to modify this setting to make it Digest version. The same page you subscribed to the list on. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-12-05 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 13:32:37 -0800 (PST) bob nole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you are a animal raper How did he find out? Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Kernel Security - Can it ever be 100%

2003-12-05 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 20:58:40 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:43:23PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: [great stuff which is absolutely correct] However, I Tom Ballard have figured it all out. The problem with all of computer science is the left hand doesn't know what

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-05 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 21:00:02 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:19:25PM -0800, Tom wrote: The unfortunate thing about people like you is you go from this bizarre self-loathing to crass commercialism

Re: error

2003-12-05 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 23:16:07 -0600 Norman Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I attempted to file a complaint on line. Each time I was informed that the phone number (my phone number) was incorrect; yet, my phone number, 972 727 7260 is registered on the Do Not Call list. I could not file my

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 15:15:06 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:54:54AM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: This is just the manifestation of a career CIA mentality torturing itself. George H.W. Bush was CIA director under Gerald Ford. Rummey was Secretary

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 23:01:13 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:53:29PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: Two parties, sharing power, no difference between the two other than name. I used to be like that, all mad at everybody. The internal assumption

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 23:09:44 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:46:06PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: I don't know what you are talking about. I'm fucking with your head by appearing to argue with you while offering arguments that bolster what you believe

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 04:29:04 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 07:16:48PM +0800, David Palmer. wrote: Tommy boy, you haven't got what it takes to screw with my head. Okay. Just out of curiousity, are you older or younger than 30: those of us older can remember

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:10:31 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:41:30AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:15:06PM -0800, Tom wrote: Fact: Closer to 5 pints than 5 gallons. gallons of blood. A swimming pool holds about 25,000 gallons

Re: Gentoo compromised too

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 14:15:50 -0600 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Flo writes: But even worse, about the Savannah crack Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. I suspect that all these attacks are not unrelated. Someone is out to get us. I've

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 00:48:58 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 04:57:55PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 01:50:35PM -0700, Dave wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 20:20:21 +0100, Terry Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: who benefits from the publicity

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-03 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:57:07 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:35:05AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 03:00:13PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know,

Re: [OT] Slashdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-12-03 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 13:14:24 -0700 Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 at 20:04 GMT, Tom penned: On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 07:12:33AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: And everyone seems to SHOUT on Fox. I like it when we take turns. I hope the left will play nice on

Re: Kernel upgrade time

2003-12-03 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 00:19:08 +0100 Andreas von Heydwolff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom wrote: Let's see, what's something I know but I don't know that I know? grin An archetype before it becomes conscious. generic grin -- AvH You think there might be one lurking in there

Mimail-L

2003-12-03 Thread David Palmer.
Hello, I have just received a copy of the new variant of the Mimail worm. Would anyone like a free sample? As new condition. I haven't even clicked the attachment. Going cheap. Information on the Sophos website concerning the followup message if you don't reply to the initial one. Have copied

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-01 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 02:28:52 -0800 Hereon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Request For Comment on: Enhancing the Debian mailing lists by: Creating debian-user-woody and debian-user-sarge mailing lists, and deactivating debian-user. And the people running mixed systems? I'm running stable and

Re: EXT3 File system recovery

2003-12-01 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:58:37 -0500 Matthew Kopishke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am in desperate need of help. I had two 60gb disks running in a RAID 1 using a Promise FastTrack IDE RAID card and the linux ATARaid support with a EXT3 FS (2.4.18). Over the weekend, as far as I can

Re: Slasdot and media accuracy (was Re: Improved Debian Project Emergency Communications)

2003-11-30 Thread David Palmer.
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 15:01:22 -0800 Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:53:37PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 at 03:22 GMT, John Hasler penned: Monique wrote: The difference is that, by allowing replies to

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?/Twists Guage ?

2003-11-28 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 18:30:00 -0500 lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 November 2003 15:36, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: Why are twists so important and why do the faster technologies need more twists in the cable? As an electric signal varies along a pair of wires, a magnetic

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-28 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 22:06:54 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:33:45PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:57:26PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: I've gotta say that md5-encrypted shadow passwords, chkrootkit, integrit, SYN cookies, iptables, etc.

Re: Modems-dialup.

2003-11-27 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 13:51:22 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks.. apologies getting off topic a bit but really would like to hear everyone's opinion if there's particular modem that stands above and beyond the rest..sort of like say a Courier modem would for dial-up. If I go with

Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-27 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:57:18 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:39:05AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Thanks for the excellent answers. ...you don't need to worry about viruses for GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux has a security profile. It's generally markedly

Debian Community Security, was Re: recommended Virus Scanner?

2003-11-26 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 00:07:05 -0800 Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Non-issue if you don't use Windows. This is totally piling on, but given this recent security compromise, I think the whole Linux community needs to reevaluate its can't happen here mentality. I don't

Re: kernel 2.6

2003-11-26 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 15:24:02 -0500 Paul Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Allison wrote: Is there a test package of kernel-image-2.6 ?? I thought I read once there was, but the search engine is down right now on the debian site. apt-cache search kernel-image|grep 2.6

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-26 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 10:33:04 -0700 Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 at 10:10 GMT, David Palmer. penned: On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:00:00 +0100 John L. Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-25 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:00:00 +0100 John L. Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 22:27, David Palmer. wrote: David Palmer? As in President David Palmer? What are you doing in Australia?;-) I am a Linux Newbie

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

2003-11-25 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:11:01 -0500 Fraser Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2003 07:00, David Palmer. wrote: I don't know why we have to go to Red Hat for something that Debian requires. My reason for being interested in anaconda-debian is kickstart, that's

Re: test

2003-11-24 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 19:01:15 -0500 Alexander Winston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 18:45, iain d broadfoot wrote: Hmm, is lists.d.o up again? Apparently so, but it seems that debian-user is the only active mailing list. No, I'm getting AMD64, also. Regards, David. --

Re: evolution usability (somewhat OT)

2003-11-21 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 00:27:54 -0800 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 22:50, David Palmer. wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:58:24 -0800 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (unstable debian, evolution) I find evolution to be fairly nice MUA

Re: README What up with www.debian.org ?

2003-11-21 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 05:09:13 -0500 Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul William wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 19:54, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello All, What happens to www.debian.org ? Seems to be down but http://debian.org/ is working. This means it is, IMHO, *probably*

Re: *plonk* Re: Code of Conduct (was Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium)

2003-11-21 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:24:16 + ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 20:50:09 -0800 Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:49:14AM +, ben ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:23:48 +0800 csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Learning debian Linux

2003-11-20 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 19:36:34 +0100 John L. Fjellstad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 20 November 2003 16:51, Stephen wrote: What's with you? I mean, Debian because of the text installer may be a little intimidating, but it's not /that

Re: evolution usability (somewhat OT)

2003-11-20 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 14:58:24 -0800 Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (unstable debian, evolution) I find evolution to be fairly nice MUA but: - is there a way for it to move deleted mails to trash? - is there a way for it not to show deleted emails (it shows them

Re: epson

2003-11-19 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:51:06 +0100 steef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The black ink on my epson 870 does not print. The colors print. I have run the nozzle check, etc., several times and it still doesn't print. I have a new black cartridge and it still doesn't print in black. Can anyone help?

Re: (no subject)

2003-11-19 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:33:53 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HELLO THERE IM WONDERING IF YOU COULD E-MAIL ME YOUR DRIVER FOR WINDOWS XP???

Re: Procmail virus recipies (was Re: Mimail Virus.)

2003-11-19 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 11:58:05 -0800 Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:42:40AM +0800, David Palmer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, Just saw this in Eweek, so I thought that I would forward it to the list. http://www.eweek.com/article2

Mimail Virus.

2003-11-18 Thread David Palmer
Hello, Just saw this in Eweek, so I thought that I would forward it to the list. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1383915,00.asp Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A idea for newbies.

2003-11-18 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 10:39:03 -0600 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have a machine that is newer than Woody you may run into difficulties that you cant solve. This list is a great help but it takes time. After spending a couple of weeks resolving X wont boot and Modem wont work I

Re: ISP and DNS port scanning!

2003-11-18 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:50:02 + Antony Gelberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 03:43:15PM -0600, Rthoreau wrote: Hello: fellow Debian users I was going over my router logs and noticed that I am getting port scanned from my ISP, this has been happening for a while

Disc Systems.

2003-11-18 Thread David Palmer.
Hello, I've mentioned this one before, but I've just come across the link again, so I thought I would forward it to the list for those that may be interested in this sort of thing. http://www.gnoppix.org/ Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Scripting Manuals

2003-11-18 Thread David Palmer.
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 16:47:39 -0800 shawn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:15:30PM -0600, Anil Gupte wrote: Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me (a newbie) to write bash shell scripts? the advanced bash scripting guide (assumes no previous

Re: [OT] RE: Opium (Proposal?)

2003-11-17 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 14:32:09 -0500 Alfredo Valles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 November 2003 11:33 am, Colin Watson wrote: No, the way to avoid the flamewars is for you to be less selfish and have them somewhere else where they might actually be approximately on-topic. This is

Re: Problems partioning XP disk

2003-11-17 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:05:58 -0500 Eric Dickner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All. Starting right off the bat in the set of instructions for installing on an existing disk running Windows I have a problem. Section 3.6.1.1 tells you to create a bootable floppy with the sys a: command,

Re: Anaconda, where's the beef?

2003-11-15 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 01:30:12 -0800 Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:05:59PM -0500, Fraser Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Apologies since this isn't really a Debian question but does anyone know where a person can download the anaconda port

Re: Debian based working distribution

2003-11-15 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 11:53:24 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss) wrote: Since the current Debian sarge installation doesn't work (see debian-boot list) and I need an installation fast I'm looking for alternatives. So far I've tested Knoppix from the newspaper ct (has no root access), Morphix

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

2003-11-15 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 14:09:56 + ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:05:15 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 23:07, ben wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:14:38 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:39:31AM -0600,

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

2003-11-15 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 10:52:43 -0500 TR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its not often that I agree with Tom. Should I be worried? Holy crap! I would! Be afraid. Be very afraid. Regards David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Social Engineering. {was: Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]]

2003-11-15 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:23:51 +0800 csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:35:54 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 15:31, Alfredo Valles wrote: On Friday 14 November 2003 3:48 pm, David Palmer. wrote: [snip very good points] The modern 'educational

Re: [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-15 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:09:20 +0800 csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:09:37 +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:39:31 -0600, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:22, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On

Re: maybe I missed a thread

2003-11-15 Thread David Palmer.
On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 13:01:10 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 07:09, Tom Allison wrote: I have been unsubscribed from 'debian-user' for a bit so I may have missed a thread on this one. But there has been a lot of discussion on other distro-lists about

Re: i keep getting e-mails from Mailer Daemon

2003-11-14 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 02:10:37 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi.keep getting e-mails from a MAILER DAEMON, sayin that an e-mail that i sent out didnt go through, i looked in my mail sent box and it was full of Sent mail with a subject i never heard of sent to over 40

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