Re: Google [was: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED] [slightly OT]

2016-09-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 22 September 2016 13:27:59 deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Privacy? > > > > See, sometimes there are reasons beyond technical ones. At least for me. > > > > (I alternate between DuckDuckGo and searx) > > Not sure where the red line is. I don't think searching on

Re: Google [was: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED] [slightly OT]

2016-09-22 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Privacy? > > See, sometimes there are reasons beyond technical ones. At least for me. > > (I alternate between DuckDuckGo and searx) Not sure where the red line is. I don't think searching on debian+p1109w would impact googles or anyones live in anyway, but each

Google [was: Laserjet p1109w - FIXED] [slightly OT]

2016-09-22 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:20:24PM +0200, deloptes wrote: [...] > I still use google and if I type in "debian p1109w", the first 10 results > cover both threads. > About 1999 doing a research on search engine algos, we (at the university) > came to

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Jun 29 2015,Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 29 June 2015 22:03:50 Arno Schuring wrote: [snipped 10 lines] intrastructure admin / manager / department, i.e. the network overlords. Thanks, Arno. I'm obviously too far out of the swing these days. Sorry, that was typo from my side that

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Jun 29 2015,to...@tuxteam.de nil wrote: [snipped 8 lines] IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions... On a more serious note, if you have to manage many VMs, or VMs on different technologies, those tools may help. But for single (or very similar) VMs, some

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 06:26:14PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: On Mon, Jun 29 2015,to...@tuxteam.de nil wrote: [snipped 8 lines] IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions... On a more serious note, if you

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-30 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 06:26:14PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: On Mon, Jun 29 2015,to...@tuxteam.de nil wrote: [snipped 8 lines] IMHO not -- they complexify things. But you'll hear other opinions... On a more serious note, if you have to manage many VMs, or VMs on different

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-29 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015 20:16:58 +0300 Selim T. Erdoğan se...@alumni.cs.utexas.edu wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask.

slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
I was making a debian VM to be used for a small teaching session on shell scripting that I was planning. Our IT infra came up to me and said, use Vagrant with it to make it easier. I looked at the Vagrant page and I can't wrap my head on what its for. That and Docker too. Why and how does it

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:20:13PM +0530, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: I was making a debian VM to be used for a small teaching session on shell scripting that I was planning. Our IT infra came up to me and said, use Vagrant with it to make it

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 29 June 2015 17:50:13 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: Our IT infra came up to me Please - put me out of my misery. I have googled, honest. _What_, when he she or it is at home, is an IT infra. I simply can't find infra as a noun! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

RE: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread Arno Schuring
From: lisi.re...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:52:59 +0100 On Monday 29 June 2015 17:50:13 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: Our IT infra came up to me Please - put me out of my misery. I have googled, honest. _What_, when he she or it is at home, is an IT infra. I simply can't find infra

Re: slightly OT: what's the point of vagrant when I have a debian VM

2015-06-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 29 June 2015 22:03:50 Arno Schuring wrote: From: lisi.re...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 21:52:59 +0100 On Monday 29 June 2015 17:50:13 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: Our IT infra came up to me Please - put me out of my misery. I have googled, honest. _What_, when he she

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-28 Thread Selim T . Erdoğan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally recommended brand,

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally recommended brand,

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/26/2015 at 08:40 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally recommended brand, but according

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Petter Adsen: the 850 EVO does not support queued TRIM. Is that a problem for everyday desktop use? No. It only means that TRIM commands must not be queued by the drive but executed instantly (after clearing the existing commands in the queue, I guess). For desktop use this means that a

Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread Petter Adsen
I know this isn't Debian-specific, but I hope someone can give me some useful information here anyway, or point me to a better place to ask. My SSD is dead, and I need a new one. Samsung seems to be a generally recommended brand, but according to

Re: [slightly OT] anybody know the status of wiki.kernel.org?

2011-10-07 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:22:02 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: I realize this list is for Debian, but I expect there are some kernel hackers here as well. What with the security breach of kernel.org, a month or so back, access to info about things like btrfs and xen in the kernal is hard to come

[slightly OT] anybody know the status of wiki.kernel.org?

2011-10-06 Thread Miles Fidelman
I realize this list is for Debian, but I expect there are some kernel hackers here as well. What with the security breach of kernel.org, a month or so back, access to info about things like btrfs and xen in the kernal is hard to come by (at least wiki.kernel.org seems to be offline, as does

Re: [slightly OT] anybody know the status of wiki.kernel.org?

2011-10-06 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011, Miles Fidelman wrote: What with the security breach of kernel.org, a month or so back, access to info about things like btrfs and xen in the kernal is hard to come by (at least wiki.kernel.org seems to be offline, as does btrfs.wiki.kernel.org). Anybody know the status

[Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread AG
Hey list Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for usenet. Is there any value/ harm in releasing this space using something

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com writes: Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for usenet. Is there any value/ harm

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:51:07 +0100, AG wrote: Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for usenet. What's your amount of physical

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread AG
On 14/08/11 14:35, Ivan Shmakov wrote: AGcomputing.acco...@googlemail.com writes: Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread AG
On 14/08/11 15:27, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:51:07 +0100, AG wrote: Just a quick query about releasing swap space. On occasion according to Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:37:34 +0100, AG wrote: On 14/08/11 15:27, Camaleón wrote: What's your amount of physical ram? My hard ram is 3 GB (2.84 to be exact) and I gave the same amount to swap when I initially partitioned the HDD. That's a fair amount of ram... I wonder why your system is

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com writes: On 14/08/11 14:35, Ivan Shmakov wrote: AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com writes: […] I have recently switched to Xfce4 on Stable from Gnome because the latter was quite a memory hog and seemed to retain pages in swap until I logged/

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Ivan Shmakov
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: […] So, who is going to say that a /swap partition is going to be needed with 8 GiB of RAM? I wouldn't, I just thought kernel makes use of all of the available resources are allocates them to get the best performance. Meaning: if you have available

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 6:51 AM, AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: Hey list Just a quick query about releasing swap space.  On occasion according to Conky (system monitoring app), the swap space (set at 3Gb) sometimes gets used to up to 15% especially if using something like Pan for

Re: [Slightly OT] Releasing swap space?

2011-08-14 Thread Brian
On Sun 14 Aug 2011 at 15:37:34 +0100, AG wrote: My hard ram is 3 GB (2.84 to be exact) and I gave the same amount to swap when I initially partitioned the HDD. More than enough. My response to Ivan crossed yours, so if there's no value and I also run the risk of meddling with the

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it?

2011-02-18 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:11:30 +, AG wrote: I'm seriously considering this laptop http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. Given the specs of the hardware, what is the likely quality of experience for the user with a Debian

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it? [ really OT ]

2011-02-18 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 02/17/2011 06:48 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I think this is a valid technical explanation of why some people are bothered by the video 3d technology. Disliking 3d is absolutely *not* something to be embarrassed about. Being able to watch a 3d movie without discomfort is a clear sign of a

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it?

2011-02-18 Thread Doug
On 02/18/2011 07:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:11:30 +, AG wrote: I'm seriously considering this laptop http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. Given the specs of the hardware, what is the likely quality of

[slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it?

2011-02-17 Thread AG
Hello list I'm seriously considering this laptop http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. Given the specs of the hardware, what is the likely quality of experience for the user with a Debian testing installation and what would

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it?

2011-02-17 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 02/17/2011 04:11 PM, AG wrote: Hello list I'm seriously considering this laptop http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. Given the specs of the hardware, what is the likely quality of experience for the user with a Debian

Re: [slightly OT] I'm thinking about this piece of kit - how well will Debian work with it? [ really OT ]

2011-02-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110217_174340, Gilbert Sullivan wrote: On 02/17/2011 04:11 PM, AG wrote: Hello list I'm seriously considering this laptop http://3dguy.tv/toshiba-3d-enabled-laptop/ and wiping it clean of Windows (or dual booting) with Debian. Given the specs of the hardware, what is the likely

Re: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-31 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:37:20 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote: Does anybody have any experience installing/using an internet accessible home security system? We recently bought a retirement home, but it will be a year or so before we can move in -- leaving the place uninhabited most of the time.

Re: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-31 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi again Does anybody have any experience installing/using an internet accessible home security system? You could also consider small domo IP networked cameras which provide an embedded mini web-server and they're easy to setup and control (basically you only need to provide the power and a

[slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Does anybody have any experience installing/using an internet accessible home security system? We recently bought a retirement home, but it will be a year or so before we can move in -- leaving the place uninhabited most of the time. I'd like to install an inexpensive (under $1000 for

Re: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-30 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi, We recently bought a retirement home, but it will be a year or so before we can move in -- leaving the place uninhabited most of the time. I'd like to install an inexpensive (under $1000 for parts -- I'll do the installation myself) CC-TV (CC=closed circuit) and recorder that can be

Re: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Cool! Thanks, I'll look into those. Rick On Dec 30, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, We recently bought a retirement home, but it will be a year or so before we can move in -- leaving the place uninhabited most of the time. I'd like to install an inexpensive (under $1000

RE: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems usingDebian?

2010-12-30 Thread owens
Original Message From: rbtho...@pobox.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems usingDebian? Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:37:20 -0800 Does anybody have any experience installing/using an internet accessible home security

slightly OT or notdoes anybody know if git can be like wget

2010-12-13 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, Wget is persistent and its great at leeching/using bandwidth to download a file. Git atleast the way I know isn't aggresive as wget is. I'm sure there are improvements which one has to do on server perhaps, the git repository server. But is there something that a user who's

Re: slightly OT or notdoes anybody know if git can be like wget

2010-12-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In aanlktim4nst7ss9==yqc7x+wpgts_eieyi3t9q7bz...@mail.gmail.com, shirish शिरीष wrote: Wget is persistent and its great at leeching/using bandwidth to download a file. Git atleast the way I know isn't aggresive as wget is. I'm sure there are improvements which one has to do on server

[Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Mark
I am curious how others on this list manage their laptop batteries while using Debian. From doing some research, there doesn't appear to be many (if any) software solutions for draining a laptop battery completely, before recharging. So what do people on this list do - just keep running Debian

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Friday 30 of July 2010, Mark wrote: I am curious how others on this list manage their laptop batteries while using Debian. From doing some research, there doesn't appear to be many (if any) software solutions for draining a laptop battery completely, before recharging.

RE: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Mike Viau
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:24:52 -0700 Subject: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny From: mamar...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I am curious how others on this list manage their laptop batteries while using Debian. From doing some research, there doesn't appear

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/7/30 Mark mamar...@gmail.com: Or do you shutdown  when the battery reaches, say, 5%? I just ordered a few laptop battery replacements I guess you're talking about Lithium ion or Lithium polymer batteries (as all modern devices are using either of those)? Then you do rather *not* want to

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 07/30/2010 08:08 PM, Christian Jaeger wrote: 2010/7/30 Markmamar...@gmail.com: Or do you shutdown when the battery reaches, say, 5%? I just ordered a few laptop battery replacements I guess you're talking about Lithium ion or Lithium polymer batteries (as all modern devices are using

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Christian Jaeger chr...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/30 Mark mamar...@gmail.com: Or do you shutdown when the battery reaches, say, 5%? I just ordered a few laptop battery replacements I guess you're talking about Lithium ion or Lithium polymer batteries

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/7/30 Mark mamar...@gmail.com: Thank you Christian.  Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here.  So is there a way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%?  Both machines in this case are Dell's, one Inspiron and one XPS, both 5+ years old. Yes, see the Tp_smapi link

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Mark
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Christian Jaeger chr...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/30 Mark mamar...@gmail.com: Thank you Christian. Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here. So is there a way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%? Both machines in this case are

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Lawrence Cadden
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Christian Jaeger chr...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/7/30 Mark mamar...@gmail.com: Thank you Christian. Correct, Li-ion is the discussion here. So is there a way to keep the battery in the laptop, without it charging to 100%? Both machines in this case are

Re: [Slightly OT] Laptop battery draining in Lenny

2010-07-30 Thread Christian Jaeger
2010/7/30 Mark mamar...@gmail.com: Unless I'm reading the ThinkWiki wrong Tp_smapi is not compatible with my machines... Then I don't know, you'll have to find out about alternatives yourself or hope someone else points them out, if they exist (I also guess not all hardware allows to do that).

Re: Change In Restarting Services (slightly OT)

2010-03-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100317_202738, Carlos Mennens wrote: I haven't been active in Debian for two years back when Lenny was still in 'testing' and noticed that for some reason it is no longer protocol to restart network services using the 'init.d' scripts. I also noticed the same for Ubuntu (which I don't use

Re: Change In Restarting Services (slightly OT)

2010-03-18 Thread Tom H
I haven't been active in Debian for two years back when Lenny was still in 'testing' and noticed that for some reason it is no longer protocol to restart network services using the 'init.d' scripts. I also noticed the same for Ubuntu (which I don't use or could care about) and am trying to

Re: question about sending mail and postfix - slightly OT question

2010-01-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Paul E Condon on 19/01/10 06:14, wrote: On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote: This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I feel like all the documentation I've read about sending mail and postfix starts at step 2, and step 1 is just common knowledge that I somehow failed

Re: question about sending mail and postfix - slightly OT question

2010-01-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 04:54:57 Adam Hardy wrote: Paul E Condon on 19/01/10 06:14, wrote: On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote: I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to send all its mail for root to my email address, and that's all. I don't want it to receive

Re: question about sending mail and postfix - slightly OT question

2010-01-19 Thread Adam Hardy
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 19/01/10 17:53, wrote: On Tuesday 19 January 2010 04:54:57 Adam Hardy wrote: Paul E Condon on 19/01/10 06:14, wrote: On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote: I have a new server online with lenny that I want to configure to send all its mail for root to my email

Re: question about sending mail and postfix - slightly OT question

2010-01-18 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20100118_133220, Adam Hardy wrote: This is possibly an exceptionally easy question to answer because I feel like all the documentation I've read about sending mail and postfix starts at step 2, and step 1 is just common knowledge that I somehow failed to pick up. I have a new server

[slightly OT] List mbox tip

2009-02-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Debian users, I often want to read archives of lists as well as lists to which I am not subscribed to as mboxes. However, this is not possible usually as the persons who host the lists don't make it available. But I recently read this mail which solves this problem for lists available

Re: [slightly OT] modifying Emacs html helper mode

2008-08-27 Thread gary turner
gary turner wrote: Emacs's html-helper-mode is seriously out of date vis-a-vis current html standards. It is my intention to modify the cookies to bring them up to html4.01 or xhtml1.0 recommendations, and current best practice. OK, I got a good start. I'd appreciate anyone's help who

[slightly OT] modifying Emacs html helper mode

2008-08-21 Thread gary turner
Emacs's html-helper-mode is seriously out of date vis-a-vis current html standards. It is my intention to modify the cookies to bring them up to html4.01 or xhtml1.0 recommendations, and current best practice. There are areas where I need guidance. The Debian Emacs packages install the

Re: xorg reconfigure problem after upgrade slightly OT

2008-07-10 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Thursday 10 July 2008 10:13:13 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/10/08 08:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/09/08 14:21, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron

(Slightly OT) TZ settings for outgoing mail?

2006-05-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
Is the mail client responsible for setting the time on outgoing mail? I am running Sarge, with exim 3.36-16 and Thunderbird 1.0.2. I used to live on the east coast (of the US) and am now living on the west coast (3 TZs later). Output of tzconfig: Your current time zone is set to US/Pacific

Re: (Slightly OT) TZ settings for outgoing mail?

2006-05-10 Thread Matthias Julius
Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the mail client responsible for setting the time on outgoing mail? I am running Sarge, with exim 3.36-16 and Thunderbird 1.0.2. I used to live on the east coast (of the US) and am now living on the west coast (3 TZs later). Output of tzconfig:

Re: (Slightly OT) TZ settings for outgoing mail?

2006-05-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
Matthias Julius wrote: Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the mail client responsible for setting the time on outgoing mail? I am running Sarge, with exim 3.36-16 and Thunderbird 1.0.2. I used to live on the east coast (of the US) and am now living on the west coast (3 TZs later).

Re: (Slightly OT) TZ settings for outgoing mail?

2006-05-10 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Marc Shapiro wrote: Matthias Julius wrote: Take a look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Time_and_time_zone_settings This says that the TZ can be checked from the javascript console, but that it must be changed through the OS. The problem with this is that the OS says that the box is set to

Re: (Slightly OT) (SOLVED) TZ settings for outgoing mail?

2006-05-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Matthias Julius wrote: Take a look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Time_and_time_zone_settings This says that the TZ can be checked from the javascript console, but that it must be changed through the OS. The problem with this is

Slightly OT: Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-28 Thread Jan Schledermann
Leonid Grinberg wrote: Mr. Bird is right, but there is another thing you need to understand. There are really no TOS that debian-user has, because people can send to it without agreeing to anything. If you got an offensive email: (a) All of us did too (b) They broke no TOS (c) Just ignore

Re: Slightly OT: Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-28 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Jan Schledermann wrote: Before you slip out of the generous mood, I'd like to receive an invite for gmail from you (on the obfuscated email at the bottom of this posting) If anyone else needs a gmail invite, please ask. I have dozens spare. -- Martin A. Brooks | http://www.antibodymx.net/ |

Re: Slightly OT: Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-28 Thread IraqiGeek
On Friday, April 28, 2006 5:09 PM GMT, Martin A. Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan Schledermann wrote: Before you slip out of the generous mood, I'd like to receive an invite for gmail from you (on the obfuscated email at the bottom of this posting) If anyone else needs a gmail invite,

Re: Slightly OT: Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-28 Thread Jan Schledermann
Martin A. Brooks wrote: Jan Schledermann wrote: Before you slip out of the generous mood, I'd like to receive an invite for gmail from you (on the obfuscated email at the bottom of this posting) If anyone else needs a gmail invite, please ask. I have dozens spare. Thanx a lot Jan -- **

Re: Slightly OT: Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-28 Thread Josh Battles
On Fri, April 28, 2006 11:09 am, Martin A. Brooks wrote: Jan Schledermann wrote: Before you slip out of the generous mood, I'd like to receive an invite for gmail from you (on the obfuscated email at the bottom of this posting) If anyone else needs a gmail invite, please ask. I have dozens

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations? - slightly OT

2006-03-04 Thread B.Hoffmann
On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 03:10:08 +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: Andrew Cady wrote: snip I am very certain that Dell does sell servers that optionally have Linux, and even says this on their website. Nothing but lip service. I

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations? - slightly OT

2006-03-04 Thread B.Hoffmann
On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 13:04 +, B.Hoffmann wrote: with free calls from the UK to the US where their support centre was Sorry, I believe Quantex were a Canadian company actually. -- B.Hoffmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
Some thing I wish for are A diagnostic index -- solutions indexed by symptom. IBM once had one of these for OS/2. It starts with common classes of complaints, like, the screen stays black, and ends up in a tree of possibilities. Obvious things like make sure it's turned on. Unobvious things,

Re: tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:13:55AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: webmin is the purrfect example to me of what's broken, but is agoo dstart for beginners that like to point-n-click because if you looked at the files, what to change in the config files would be deep void - it's close

Re: tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya hendrik On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never been able fo figure out what webmin does in sufficient detail to enable me to use it. i know webmin is broken in terms of creating the correct config files ... ( or good enuff for some .. but not the silly boat i want )

Re: tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-12 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 08:09:57AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya hendrik On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never been able fo figure out what webmin does in sufficient detail to enable me to use it. i know webmin is broken in terms of creating the correct config

tools Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-08 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya andy On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Andy Streich wrote: But I expect you to have something in mind as well -- something of your own that has motivated you to create a new Debian site. yup.. :-) Anyway, I'd love to see not just docs for new users but configuration software that plays an

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-08 Thread Steve Kemp
My ideal website would be one that combined the material in the really useful http://www.debian-administration.org/ :) with simpler guides for less experienced users (such as, the basics of aptitude, how to install Nvidia/ATI 3d drivers, or the basics of Debian-specific commands like

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 6 December 2005 at 21:43:15 -0600, Josh King wrote: Hey all, Currently I am the lead admin/webmaster of DebCentral.org. I really would like to take a few minutes out of your life to gather some inputs on an idea I have. [...] subject was the basis of an article written by a

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Josh King
Richard Lyons wrote: I'm half inclined to ignore this post as merely promotional, but debcentral looks fairly interesting, even if I couldn't create an account on its wiki (that part of the form missing). Thanks for the ideas and suggestions. I am hoping that we can accomplish some kind of

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Crean
Josh King wrote: Hey all, Currently I am the lead admin/webmaster of DebCentral.org. I really would like to take a few minutes out of your life to gather some inputs on an idea I have. [snip] I wonder if you or colleagues have taken a good look at what other distros and their users are

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Mark Crean
Antony Gelberg wrote: [snip] I like the one-question FAQ: I want to get more involved with DebCentral, what can I do to help? WHo (sic) do I need to contact? What an informative resource. The OP's post was sincere and his questions worthwhile. His site is also new and so not yet fully

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Josh King
Josh King wrote: Don't take this the wrong way, but you asked. What is the point of your site existing? What does it achieve that has not already been achieved elsewhere, better? I like the one-question FAQ: I want to get more involved with DebCentral, what can I do to help? WHo (sic)

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Josh King
I wonder if you or colleagues have taken a good look at what other distros and their users are doing with regard to websites. Perhaps some ideas may come of it? The only other ones I know well are SuSE and Ubuntu. SuSE's online presence is also a little bitty and spread around, largely

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Josh King
Antony Gelberg wrote: I don't understand what you want to do other than run a website and collaborate with other websites, whatever that means in this instance. What I want to do is cut down on the redundancy. Whether I run it or not is irrelevant. I would like to be involved, yes.

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Katipo
Mark Crean wrote: However, in my experience running a website is a great deal of hard work and many people start to flag after three months or so. Many other people enjoy running their own show and wouldn't want to combine into a bigger one, other than as, perhaps, an item in a web ring.

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Andy Streich
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 01:26 pm, Katipo wrote: Mark Crean wrote: However, in my experience running a website is a great deal of hard work and many people start to flag after three months or so. Many other people enjoy running their own show and wouldn't want to combine into a

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Josh King
Andy Streich wrote: Sometimes it's about the personal requirement for individual recognition, but other times it has more to do with an individual having a vision and trying it out. That's not something we should be pushing back on. Sure it would be nice if all these people found a way to

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Mark Crean wrote: The OP's post was sincere and his questions worthwhile. His site is also new and so not yet fully worked out, so far as I can tell. I think he deserves more than you appear able to give. yes .. always give credit to those willing to put in time and

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Andy Streich wrote: Sometimes it's about the personal requirement for individual recognition, but other times it has more to do with an individual having a vision and trying it out. That's not something we should be pushing back on. Sure it would be nice if all

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Josh King
Alvin Oga wrote: yes .. always give credit to those willing to put in time and effort into free documentation and other relevant info ... - and if they are looking for helpers, one could step in and help fix the problems they're having what someone doesn't like may be what

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Josh King wrote: All I can do is give my assurances that I plan to be in this for the duration. Those who know me know I'm not one to give up easily ;-) yup... from what i can see so far .. As for help to fix the problems, I would welcome anyone willing to roll up

Re: Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-07 Thread Andy Streich
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 05:26 pm, Josh King wrote: So, the question is still open. What is all the Debian-related material we all wish for? At least in your view? I've received several inputs on this, both on and off this list. Its given us a good direction to start with, but I'd like to

Slightly OT: Comments, ideas, or suggestions for improving websites

2005-12-06 Thread Josh King
Hey all, Currently I am the lead admin/webmaster of DebCentral.org. I really would like to take a few minutes out of your life to gather some inputs on an idea I have. I know the general advice from this list and other Debian-* lists has generally consistent through the years I have

Re: [slightly OT]: GUI firewall applications in Linux

2005-11-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
H.S. wrote: Hi, I have managed to convince a friend of mine to try out a Linux based machine as a router in the company that he works in. At present, all their computers (around 15 or so) run Windows. They have a router (I think a consumer grade one) through which they connect their lan

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