Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-27 Thread tb . nospam
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:18:51PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 04:05:39PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 01:40:27AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Wow, way too easy. It should require you to type something long and case sensitive. You know, something

snapshot.debian.net

2003-09-27 Thread tb . nospam
Does http://snapshot.debian.net really keep EVERY version of EVERY package in unstable? I've been doing this myself; on the rare instances when something blows up it's been great; but if anything is missing, Murphy's law comes into play... -Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cron

2003-09-27 Thread tb . nospam
On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 09:47:07PM +0200, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote: Howell Evans wrote: You can not make cron more granuler(sp?) then ever 5 mins. Quote from 'man cron': cron then wakes up every minute, examining all stored crontabs, check- ing each command to see if it should be

SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-25 Thread tb . nospam
Sometimes, when I type SU and then start typing my password really fast, a few of the keystrokes will be echod to the screen -- usually when the system is only under moderate load and I'm not expecting it to be slow. It happens in X with gnome-terminal and also sometimes just at the console.

Re: SU shows my password at terminal

2003-09-25 Thread tb . nospam
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 02:43:01PM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:39:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes, when I type SU and then start typing my password really fast, a few of the keystrokes will be echod to the screen -- usually when the system is

Re: fonts in openoffice.org

2003-09-24 Thread tb . nospam
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 10:25:18PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running unstable and apt-getted openoffice.org a couple of days ago. The fonts in openoffice are awful - both the actual application and fonts used when writing documents. My gnome desktop has really nice

Re: Procmailrc to play sound async when message arrives

2003-09-23 Thread tb . nospam
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:22:28AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip so unless anybody has a better already written sound buffer mixer to recommend, consider this matter closed. Thanks for your attention. -T I had a sugguestion.

Re: Procmailrc to play sound async when message arrives

2003-09-23 Thread tb . nospam
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:06:49AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:45:42 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if I fork bplay several times, it doesn't mix the sounds: they still play out synchronously, even though the caller isn't blocked. Is there a sound utility that

Re: Procmailrc to play sound async when message arrives

2003-09-23 Thread tb . nospam
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:53:36AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 01:16:51 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:06:49AM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 19:45:42 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if I fork bplay several times, it

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-23 Thread tb . nospam
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 03:55:47PM -0400, Alfredo Valles wrote: Hi all. Seems to me that for the first time debian is going to have real competition in its own field. Red Hat announced that they will join with fedora community and produce the Red Hat Linux Project. So they will have

Is Motion being actively maintained?

2003-09-23 Thread tb . nospam
The latest stable release of Motion (http://motion.sf.net) is 3.0.6. The packaged version in unstable is 3.0.4. I compiled 3.0.6 manually, necessary to work with the latest ov511 drivers. I filed a wish about it; most of the bugs are 1 or 2 years old (most are marked as Fixed in NMU). What's

Re: Is Motion being actively maintained?

2003-09-23 Thread tb . nospam
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:35:21PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: On Tuesday September 23 at 03:09pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest stable release of Motion (http://motion.sf.net) is 3.0.6. The packaged version in unstable is 3.0.4. I compiled 3.0.6 manually, necessary to work with

Re: Is Motion being actively maintained?

2003-09-23 Thread tb . nospam
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:13:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 06:35:21PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: On Tuesday September 23 at 03:09pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest stable release of Motion (http://motion.sf.net) is 3.0.6. The packaged version in

Re: Is Motion being actively maintained?

2003-09-23 Thread tb . nospam
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:19:54PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: On Tuesday September 23 at 06:13pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think I clearly stated my question: Why is Debian packaging 3.0.4 when 3.0.6 has been out for a long time? Purely a Debian question... [EMAIL

Re: Is Motion being actively maintained?

2003-09-23 Thread tb . nospam
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 09:55:39PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: On Tuesday September 23 at 06:37pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can stop flaming me now. I'm not flaming anyone, I'm trying to fix the signal/noise ratio by directing your question to the proper place. I'm sorry I didn't see

Procmailrc to play sound async when message arrives

2003-09-22 Thread tb . nospam
I'm a procmail newb. I've written a recipie to play a WAV when a message arrives. It works, it sounds nice, but it's synchronous: :0 c * ^X-Mailing-List:.*lists.debian.org* | /usr/bin/bplay /x/x/click_x.wav Since this WAV takes ~1 sec to play, procmail blocks 1 sec per message. It ends up

Re: Procmailrc to play sound async when message arrives

2003-09-22 Thread tb . nospam
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:15:40PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: There's probably an easier way than this, but you could use perl to fork() the bplay processes, so they don't block. Okay, I realized I could just call a bash script that ends in to play the sounds async to procmail, that's half

Re: Procmailrc to play sound async when message arrives

2003-09-22 Thread tb . nospam
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:45:42PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 10:15:40PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: There's probably an easier way than this, but you could use perl to fork() the bplay processes, so they don't block. Okay, I realized I could just call a

Re: getting rid of debian gnome

2003-09-21 Thread tb . nospam
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:25:56PM -0400, Geordie Birch wrote: Cheryl Homiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21 Sep 2003 12:09 -0500]: Is there any clean way to get rid of gnome. When I did apt-get install gnome) it installed a whole bunch of packages. but when I did apt-get remove gnome it just

Re: Divx and DVD playback

2003-09-21 Thread tb . nospam
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 09:10:14PM -0400, Gerard Ceraso wrote: -Original Message- From: AnotherLinuxGuy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2003 7:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Divx and DVD playback what is the best of the best when it comes to a program

Re: DVDRW: Please help!

2003-09-20 Thread tb . nospam
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 08:44:56AM +0800, csj wrote: At Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:58:37 -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: OK, I'm bummed. [...] DVD-RW (don't have any DVD-R's) seems to work fine under linux. However, DVD +RW/DVD+R discs produce a coaster every time. However, both are perfect

Re: DVDRW: Please help!

2003-09-20 Thread tb . nospam
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 11:20:03AM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: On Saturday 20 September 2003 2:00 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not try: dvd+rw-tools (debian packaged, reportedly has better support for +RW than even cdrecord-prodvd)? I use cdrecord-prodvd. It's definitely not Free

Re: DnsMasq: Happy Happy Joy Joy

2003-09-20 Thread tb . nospam
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 12:27:52AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The docs aren't very prescriptive and the new versign-blocker isn't documented at all, so here's what I did. 1. If you're running Woody or Sid, you'll have dhcp-client. DnsMasq recommends resolvconf,

DnsMasq: Happy Happy Joy Joy

2003-09-19 Thread tb . nospam
The other day I wished for a patched DnsMasq to block Verisign. Pleased to say it works! The docs aren't very prescriptive and the new versign-blocker isn't documented at all, so here's what I did. 1. If you're running Woody or Sid, you'll have dhcp-client. DnsMasq recommends resolvconf, and

Re: DnsMasq: Happy Happy Joy Joy

2003-09-19 Thread tb . nospam
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 07:57:45PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:40:01PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other day I wished for a patched DnsMasq to block Verisign. Pleased to say it works! snip 3. Then I patched /etc/dnsmasq.conf: --- dnsmasq.conf.orig

Re: Moz Firebird

2003-09-18 Thread tb . nospam
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:42:35PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: tvn said: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:15:08 +0700 Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you stumbled upon the text fields that wouldn't accept any input? (ie: no keystroke accepted, but the mouse works). It happens to me, on

Re: Verisign and spam blocking

2003-09-17 Thread tb . nospam
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:30:28AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: To follow up on this, thanks to the quick work of Lamont Jones, Debian unstable will, in about 15 minutes, include a bind patched as follows: [snip] I haven't been running a local DNS, I get my IP DNS settings from DNS from my ISP.

Re: Equation system resolver

2003-09-17 Thread tb . nospam
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:48:58PM -0400, Nicolas wrote: Is there a equation system resolver in debian or linux in general? Basicly, I need to resolv equation systems or simplify very long and complicated equations. Nic Cola -- QOTD: Sacred cows make great hamburgers.

Re: directfb w ATI Radeon

2003-09-15 Thread tb . nospam
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:39:01AM -0400, Mental Patient wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 00:31:55 -0400, Mental Patient [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone using this setup? I recently switched my Geforce3 for a Radeon. I have glx/X11 stuff

Re: directfb w ATI Radeon

2003-09-15 Thread tb . nospam
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:11:03PM -0400, Mental Patient wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:39:01AM -0400, Mental Patient wrote: Is the framebuffer accelerated with a Radeon [9700]? I got it to work but it was very slow compared to not using it. This would make