Re: Internet Dial-up Connection Setting

of this automatically. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How does Cron send email?

' command) I can get email at my gmail account. Edit /etc/aliases. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How does Cron send email?

like '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', that's actually going to send legitimate Internet mail to Joe at his gmail account? If you have your MTA properly configured, yes. I find that hard to believe. Why? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: How does Cron send email?

also have an agreement with your ISP for them to forward your outgoing mail for you. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Mike McCarty writes: 8086 is 16 bit bus, 16 bit registers But with a bizarre segmentation scheme and a 20 bit address bus able to address 1MB. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Ron Johnson writes: But back in the day, with the limited silicon budget, segmentation is a great way for a 16 bit system (that wants to maintain upward compatibility with the 8080/8085) to address more than 64KB. There was no upward compatibility between the 8080 and the 8086. -- John Hasler

Re: etch no wifi with ipw2200

. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: sponge burning!

extreme to say that they founded the country. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: sponge burning!

is to make war hurt *everybody* and not just a certain slice of the population. I'ma pacifist too but I know better than to propose solutions that ignore fundamental features of human nature. Give the politicians a slave army and they will use it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: static IP

that on the Linux box. It will be your router and firewall. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian 4

. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Audio recording hardware

Ron Johnson writes: Demagnetize something that relies on lasers? This is aimed at the people who buy special low-noise gold-plated power cords. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Michelle Konzack wrote: The Z80 was the sales name but intern it was Z8000. Not true. The Z80 was an 8-bitter, upward-compatible with the 8080. The Z8000 was a 16-bitter, with a completely different architecture and instruction set. Z80 = 1983 Z80 = 1976 Z8000 = 1979 -- John Hasler

Re: Audio recording hardware

Ron Johnson writes: Does the aluminum get magnetized, or the nickel and cobalt? Alnico = alumimum, nickel, cobalt. And it's the intermetallic compound that gets magnetized. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Z8000

Larry Irwin writes: But the [Altos] main processor was an early x86 I think. 80286 -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the best way to backup to dvd?

this ruling became moot. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

Jordi writes: To have a good hardware firewall buy a good router-switch or a specific hardware device. To have a good hardware firewall buy a cheap used pc, install Linux on it, and configure it as a router and firewall. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

Peter writes: Or, if you like ease of use (great web based GUI)... I do not want a Web server running on my router. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is debian-non-US

Andras Lorincz writes: Has something changed recently? Where is debian-non-US? Due to changes in US law it was eliminated some time ago. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is debian-non-US

Max Hyre writes: Given the status of software patents, though, it might be time to revive [non-US]. Then for similar reasons we'll need non-JP, non-DE, non-AU... -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woody on 486 problem

Juraj writes: Z88 was computer made by Sir Clive Sinclair with Z8000 CPU. The Z88 was a portable Z80 based computer designed by Sinclair and marketed as the Cambridge Z88. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Where is debian-non-US

Andras Lorincz writes: Has something changed recently? Where is debian-non-US? I wrote: Due to changes in US law it was eliminated some time ago. idsvp-helga writes: Yet another exaple of enforcing US law to the rest of the world! ROFL. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

Andreas Duffner writes: WebInterface... So you have a Web server running on your firewall. Not good. ...so you do not *have* to install some software. You wouldn't have to install software to use ssh. [QOS] would be really cool. I'd like to have it. Linux already has it. -- John Hasler

Re: Where is debian-non-US

, has a licensing law for games (unless it has been repealed recently). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

), gconf2 (= 2.10.1-2), iptables (= 1.2.11), gksu (= 0.8.5) All that to edit a few text files? Amazing. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where is debian-non-US

software (some minor ones probably still do). Several US states have attempted to enact legislation restricting distribution of computer games in ways which Debian might run afoul of. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: DST and woody

Tony writes: Does anyone know if there is a libc6 package available somewhere, for woody, that has the new DST fix? I am trying to update the server to sarge, but I am getting resistance from the boss, so I need to patch this server until then. Just update the zone file by hand. -- John

Re: Filtering

Andrew Sackville-West writes: more and more of your precious /dev/null space. don't forget to empty that thing now and then. I use a cron job: cat /dev/zero /dev/null But now you are going to have to refill /dev/zero. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

Paul E Condon writes: I do not see Standard system as a declared task option. Perhaps OP meant Desktop environment. No. He means standard system as in including all packages of priority standard or higher. Nothing to do with tasksel. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: At work, I have a production server (running RHEL, unfortunately)... Mike McCarty wrote: Why unfortunately? Perhaps because he feels unfortunate in having to maintain multiple distributions. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug in acroread?

Gregory Seidman writes: ...PDF is just a page definition language. It was. They keep adding to it... -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is that all there is to it??

Jim Hyslop writes: I finally figured out that it was because the openbsd-inetd process wasn't being stopped before being restarted. So, I manually stopped openbsd-inetd, ran `dpkg --configure openbsd-inetd` and now everything's happy. Did you file a bug report? -- John Hasler

Re: daylight savings time

into effect over the weekend. What Debian version are you running? Is it up to date? What is the output of 'zdump -v America/New_York | grep 2007'? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug in acroread?

Celejar wrote: So acroread uses about 10 times as much space as xpdf (and I haven't even looked closely at acroread's dependencies vs. those of xpdf). Isn't Acroread statically linked? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

Andrei writes: The tools are useful for common stuff that should be preserved across upgrades. It would be a PITA to do them again (by hand) every time. Manual changes to conffiles are preserved. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

Joe Hart wrote: What is the point of having all info stored in plain text files if one is supposed to only use tools to edit them? There is no such suppostion. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BellSouth DSL with Static IP

Michael Lueck writes: The first half (pppoe in the modem) I am fine with. This connects to a Debian Linux based firewall, thus no need for DHCP... Just put the Netopia in bridge mode and run PPPoE on the Linux firewall/router. The software in the Netopia is crap anyway. -- John Hasler

Re: Change Locale of One/All Running Application(s)

if the application is written with this as a feature. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

I wrote: Manual changes to conffiles are preserved. Celejar writes: Yes, but if you edit it by hand, then it won't be updated when a new version becomes available. You will be offered the choice of keeping your version or replacing it with the new version. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

a long-range or contingincy plan for this? Write DFSG-free versions of the man pages. Your assistance would be welcome. Just write such a page and send it to the maintainer via the BTS. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Man pages point to non-free documentation

, are commonplace, are dictated by external factors or are noncreative structures such as simple lists are not protected. You may also be able to find old pre-GFDL documents to start from. That is what I did with the diffutils docs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re (3): relaying POP3

Peter E. writes: My first guess would be that it is MS Windows based. If you tell me how to obtain the server identity from fetchmail, I will try. Use telnet. 'telnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] smtp' and type 'help' at the prompt. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

Matthew K Poer writes: are there others? Emacs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re (3): relaying POP3

Celejar writes: The pop3 server is not the same thing as the smtp server. Shouldn't we be telneting to 'servername pop'? If they are using Microsoft for POP they'll be using it for SMTP. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

to redo my changes. You examine the diff and decide which improvements you want and/or whether you want to keep any of your changes. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Change Locale of One/All Running Application(s)

. No need to log yourself out. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: this list is on google groups

? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using kppp with pon/poff? or alternate ppp status/monitor?

a text app as my kterms are large and I want a small applet or window. Shrink the Xterm Pppstatus is running in. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New User- Network Problem

Mitch writes: ifconfig is showing inet6 addr with the 169.254.176.243 net address, You probably have zeroconf installed. Remove it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New User- Network Problem

--purge zeroconf -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New User- Network Problem

Mitch Crawford wrote: DHCP server is OFF in the router. Well, turn it back on and make sure you have a dhcp client running on the Debian box (Network-manager purports to do this). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: New User- Network Problem

Mitch writes: Why I want static IP addresses so don't want DHCP turned on. Then you are going to have to get the IP numbers of your ISP's nameservers and put them in /etc/resolv.conf. You'll need to get rid of any packages that mess with /etc/resolv.conf. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: New User- Network Problem

Post the _exact_ contents of /etc/resolv.conf. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Password problems

Raj writes: I am yet to come across a linux system without a root account. Ubuntu systems have a root account but root logins are disabled (you can easily enable them, of course). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

Tony writes: What's that comma doing there? Also note that all nameserver lines after the first three will be ignored, and your domain and search lines are at best useless: remove them. I hope that the // delimited comments are not actually in the file. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

was put there by zeroconf, avahi-daemon, or network-manager. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New User- Network Problem

Where did you get those nameserver IPs? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New User-Network Problem Still

Why are you running any DNS services? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scripts running all the time?

Daniel Dalton writes: man crontab but didn't find much. man 5 crontab -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian vs centos as server

not just not supported on anything else but also won't work on anything else. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PPPOE Connection

Henrique writes: I have Debian Sarge R3.1 installed. I ran pppoeconf to configure my adsl connection. Are you sure you need to? Most ADSL modems handle PPPoE themselves and act as routers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: PPPOE Connection

. First he would need to know that is possible and configure the modem to do so. Given his question that seems unlikely. Henrique: Is your modem in bridge mode? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newsreader question

of your machines using the newsreader of your choice. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newsreader question

, and the machine you are sitting in front of could all be different. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using Exim

be Procmail) which sorts the mail and delivers it to individual users. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Routing and Gnome PPP

Doug writes: Or, just switch to pppconfig and create a button that runs pon and poff. Gpppon provides just such a button. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: store the output of wget in a different directory

files and sub- directories will be saved to, i.e. the top of the retrieval tree. The default is . (the current directory). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: store the output of wget in a different directory

will not be written to the appropriate files, but all will be concatenated together and written to file. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fixing .txt files sent from a MS$ user

Douglas writes: My niece sends some of her schoolwork to my wife (e.g. essays) for her to read. First she sent .doc files which I can't access properly (no, I do no run OO) Try Abiword. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Fwd: trans

Ron Johnson writes: That's an invalid invocation of Godwin's Law. Bsides, Godwin never promised that a thread would _end_ when Hitler was mentioned: just that he eventually would be. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: pppoe configuration - unable to ping outside

nor want a default route for LAN traffic. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update messages

. That often happens when a non-free package ceases to provide any functionality not available in a Free package. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for music player software

. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: webbased SSH server/client

Miles Fidelman writes: try googling on ssh proxy - you'll start finding things like: http://www.mtu.net/~engstrom/ssh-proxy.php http://www.agroman.net/corkscrew/ http://www.nocrew.org/software/httptunnel.html The latter two are in Debian. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

hendrik writes: I thought that java and javascript were completely independent -- that the only connexion was the first four letters of the name. Correct. They are completely unrelated. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: No IceWeasel in etch?

is pretty weak. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

be initially expensive but would be better in the lost term. Insulation would probably be a better investment. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

Angelo Bertolli writes: 2) If you have a hash of all the files (like tripwire provides) on some media that was NOT compromised, you can check those. You must also boot from uncompromised media. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: dial up connection

to the dialout group. You need to be in the dip group. No need to be in dialout. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dial up connection

Charlie writes: Also to allow the user to connect and disconnect # adduser user dip Pppconfig can take care of this. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dial up connection

Andrew Sackville-West writes: okay, I'll buy that, but then what's dialout for? You need to be in dialout to run programs such as Minicom that connect to serial ports. The names dip and dialout are of historic significance only. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dial up connection

access to the serial ports. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to prevent these windows within web pages

that. The extension you want is called Noscript. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: resolv.conf file is written over on reboot.

If you have the zeroconf package installed, remove it. Remove resolvconf as well. You don't need it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

. They also sometimes have the chips labeled with their own labels so that somebody has to do some reverse engineering to find out what is really in there. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

sdpatt2 wrote The kernel comes with it's own documentation section. Some good reading there. Grok Mogger writes: Sounds great. Where can I find that? Install the kernel source package for your kernel and look in /usr/src/linux/Documentation. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

Grok Mogger writes: Is it safe to say that drivers are really for a chipset, not a device? And so therefore, support for a device really boils down to is the chipset supported? not is the device supported? Fairly safe. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

that the DRM restrictions did not apply. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

Ron Johnson writes: But Microsoft lets me run *anything* as Administrator! Why can't I do the same thing in Stupid Old Linux? You can, if you know how. Once you figure out how you will know better than to do it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

Kevin Mark writes: Are you saying that there is FSF- defined non-free software in Debian? Well, Debian silently includes the non-free archive in the default apt-sources so that new users can easily install non-free software without realizing that it is non-free. -- John Hasler

Re: chrony won't access hwclock but prevents hwclock.sh from doing so either

Hugo writes: Doug, I recall(?) that solution from the list. I subscribe to it. But you only rarely need the list because most of the time chrony works as advertized. He did the right thing in filing the bug. -- John Hasler, Chrony maintainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

Ron Johnson writes: You, though, John, get flogged 100 times with a wet noodle for not noticing obvious sarcasm. _My_ sarcasm was aimed at the OP. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where is the bash documentation in info format ?

I wrote: Well, Debian silently includes the non-free archive in the default apt-sources Joey Hess writes: I'm sorry, but you're completely incorrect. Good. I'm glad to be wrong about this. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

those applications. If they really cared about security they would refuse to buy such programs and the publishers would get the message. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Doing administrative work

Performs login accounting, just like the ac program but with totals, per day and per users. Also performs average usage and hourly profiling. Tons of other options. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why there is no space left on root partition?

Andrew Sackville-West writes: how about if aptitude could install in ~/blah if run as non-root? I'm sure there are implications I don't understand. Worms would then be able to call aptitude to install malware in the user's home directory. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Possible New User - Intro

, have. You can do rolling updates when running Testing or Unstable. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Possible New User - Intro

Andrei Popescu writes: It is said there are users that didn't reinstall for more than 10 years. I'm one of them, though I have upgraded all my hardware. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Re: top post fixer?

Celejar writes: I confess that I am rather leery of Jefferson's almost unbalanced extremism as manifested in his over-the-top support for the French Revolution, as in the notorious Adam and Eve quote [0]. Seems pretty reasonable to me, in the context of the times. -- John Hasler

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