Re: POSIX regex packahe

2007-01-24 Thread John Hasler
of the build dependencies for slapd. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-24 Thread John Hasler
: To support revolution, certainly. To support the level of bloodthirstiness and savagery that the Revolution became, no. I don't read the letter as doing so. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-26 Thread John Hasler
Roberto writes: Debian policy requires that all packages be built on Debian autobuilders (there are rare exceptions, but they are extremely few) There is no such policy. Debian maintainers build their packages on their own machines and then upload them. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Firefox user agent settings for Iceweasel

2007-01-27 Thread John Hasler
). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-27 Thread John Hasler
as the temperature might be higher... Use a pressure-cooker. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-27 Thread John Hasler
Angelo Bertolli wrote: I'm not clear on why Firefox couldn't be put in non-free though. Because no DD felt like doing it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dialup connectivity problem

2007-01-27 Thread John Hasler
Zach writes: Exactly how can I enable [dial on demand]? Change-provider name-Advanced-Demand How can I enable [persist] also? Change-provider name-Advanced-Persist -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: File encryption

2007-01-28 Thread John Hasler
with a password that you remember. Gpg does symmetric encryption. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XVth Int. Workshop on Numerical Methods for non-Newtonian Flows, June 6-10 Rhodes, Greece

2007-01-28 Thread John Hasler
, wouldn't it? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread John Hasler
Angelo writes: It was reiterated by Mozilla that if it doesn't do this, it will lose some ability to protect its trademarks. IANAL, but somehow it just doesn't sound right to me. It needn't be right in order to be true. Trademark law is loony. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread John Hasler
infringement. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-28 Thread John Hasler
Max Hyre writes: Of course, they're fighting a losing battle in the casual usage... In the US they have no power over casual usage. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread John Hasler
John Hasler wrote: Max Hyre writes: Of course, they're fighting a losing battle in the casual usage... I wrote: In the US they [Kimberly-Clark] have no power over casual usage [of the word `Kleenex']. Max Hyre writes: Yes, the law offers no help there, but they fight the tendency as best

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-29 Thread John Hasler
be conductive enough to heat up and catch fire. A new natural sponge might heat up as well as it consists partially of protein. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-01-29 Thread John Hasler
. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

2007-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Atis writes: Btw, Swiftfox (another ff clone) identifies as Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Swiftfox). I wonder, is usage Firefox in User-Agent also covered by trademark? I'm not a lawyer, but I find it extremely unlikely that such use would be found to infringe the trademark. -- John Hasler

Re: does apt-setup exist?

2007-01-31 Thread John Hasler
Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, Is there such a utility as apt-setup? There are many. Vi, emacs, joe, nano... -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: old hardware, newer Debian

2007-02-01 Thread John Hasler
Blade/Image/ProVidia/TGUI/9xxx video cards. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread John Hasler
Kevin Mark writes: So how exactly will Dell (or any ISP for that matter) help you with issues if you dont have a supported OS that they say you need to check the HW? Dell could supply a test CD loaded with their custom test software. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: netbot'd ?

2007-02-02 Thread John Hasler
not) If you had opened that file under Microsoft Windows your machine soon _would_ have been sending out thousands of spams. It was a trojan and the message a trick to try to get you to open it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-02 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: We're really not sure what the poem actually is about. Here it goes: !*''# [EMAIL PROTECTED] !*'$_ %*#4 )../ |{~~SYSTEM HALTED Yes, but what does it do when you run it? It _is_ Perl, is it not? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Work to do: was godammit

2007-02-03 Thread John Hasler
probably don't want that. There will be no abrupt upgrade when Etch is released. The new testing will start off as an exact copy of Etch and then drift away from it as packages migrate in from unstable. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: iceweasel not being recognized by ISP website

2007-02-03 Thread John Hasler
as if they are just warning you that everything may not work (they're wrong). If so, just ignore the warning. I'd also suggest taking your business elsewhere as these doofuses are evidently not capable of putting up a standards-compliant site. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: iceweasel not being recognized by ISP website

2007-02-04 Thread John Hasler
is not a culture. It's just a business relationship. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bug in etch: iceweasel -safe-mode segfaults. disabling pango corrects this.

2007-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Noah Dain writes: If I'm the only one in the world with the problem, big whoop. It's still a bug even if no one else on this list is currently affected by it. Please report it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-05 Thread John Hasler
hendrik writes: Doesn't look like Perl to me. Might be TECO, though. You're right. Much more like TECO. Maybe a quotation from the first version of Emacs? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-09 Thread John Hasler
Mike McCarty writes: I dunno about the law in Russia, but in Texas what is illegal is *knowingly* receiving stolen goods. There is no theft involved here. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-09 Thread John Hasler
still installed. The seller _might_ be breaching his contract with Microsoft by selling it, but that has nothing to do with the buyer. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Uncompressing gif Files that May or May Not be gif's

2007-02-12 Thread John Hasler
Martin McCormick writes: Is there a way to uncompress something that identifies itself as a .gif file to try to figure out what it really is? First run 'file' on it. If it isn't what it claims to be you don't need to know more: you can reject it immediately. -- John Hasler

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-12 Thread John Hasler
has lost an infringement suit or who has even been convicted of criminal infringement could lose you a libel suit. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-12 Thread John Hasler
into a clean room to get the data out. Maybe. First take it out and try it in a different computer. Then try chilling it and/or turning it upside down. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ..help my doorbell server recognize the doorbell ding-dongs...

2007-02-12 Thread John Hasler
Arnt Karlsen writes: ...all I need is something _simple_... How about a relay and a serial or parallel port? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread John Hasler
, though, that most of these new packages will have been in Sid for quite a while and so are less likely to still contain serious bugs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't set up internet connection

2007-11-20 Thread John Hasler
instructions. Use 'pon' to start the connection and 'poff' to stop it, or use the Advanced menu in pppconfig to set up demand-dialing. If you need a pointy-clicky front-end for pon and poff install gpppon. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Can't set up internet connection

2007-11-22 Thread John Hasler
some Web site always check for it first in the Debian archive. If it is Free Software chances are that it is there. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: configuring ADSL via a gui

2007-11-22 Thread John Hasler
. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: configuring ADSL via a gui

2007-11-22 Thread John Hasler
but they are crap. Best to put the modem in bridge mode and use a seperate router/firewall. I use an old Aptiva running Debian. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: small service

2007-11-23 Thread John Hasler
Jim writes: I need a small service like SAMBA. Does anyone know if there is an open source similar to SAMBA, but much small size? What problem are you trying to solve? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-25 Thread John Hasler
messages in my spam directory this morning. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

2007-11-27 Thread John Hasler
For true security you'll never use computers, never use the telephone, never write anything down, never use banks or other financial institutions, and always pay cash. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PII fast enough for firewall

2007-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Doug writes: ...OpenBSD is supposed to be the most secure firewall to which regular people have access. It's also probably the most secure firewall to which regular people don't have access. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: permissions in /sbin

2007-12-04 Thread John Hasler
Andy writes: .../sbin keeps those programs that only root can run... No it doesn't. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: permissions in general

2007-12-05 Thread John Hasler
? Because most sysadmins don't want every user coming in every fifteen minutes to get permission to run yet another program. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: permissions in /sbin

2007-12-05 Thread John Hasler
user can add /sbin to her path. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How Linux becomes Windows

2007-12-10 Thread John Hasler
? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp set up

2007-12-13 Thread John Hasler
' package. I have installed the ppp program as advised in a help section of the Debian.org site but when I type in 'pppconfig' as advised on the root terminal, it doesn't recognise the command. Install pppconfig with 'aptitude install pppconfig' as root. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ppp set up

2007-12-20 Thread John Hasler
Doug writes: ...you turn on the internet with pon provider (unless you provide another provider name)... Pon defaults to provider. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: concatenating pdf files

2007-12-22 Thread John Hasler
David Baron writes: Go to kde-apps.org, get pdfedit. There's a debian package. aptitude install pdfedit -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition

2007-12-25 Thread John Hasler
Uwe Dippel writes: Exim in Debian is a political decision; due to licensing. Not true. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMTP error: 550 Administrative prohibition

2007-12-25 Thread John Hasler
Free Software Guidelines.) Postfix is in Debian/main. The license is clearly DFSG-free. Otherwise Postfix would not be in Debian. And yes, of course the license was discussed. New ones always are. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: (Solved) Re: JRE in Iceweasel

2007-12-25 Thread John Hasler
JRE) sun-java6-jre - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture independent files) sun-java6-plugin - The Java(TM) Plug-in, Java SE 6 (non-free) -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to install subsequent kernel than linux-image-2.6.18 on debian way?

2007-12-26 Thread John Hasler
. Applications talk to libc, not the kernel. - Go to kernel.org and get the sources and build your own outside the packaging system. Or go to kernel.org and get the sources and use kernel-package to build your own inside the packaging system, or else just use the Debian source package. -- John Hasler

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-28 Thread John Hasler
. If they are renting the modem to him they don't have to provide source. If they sold it to him they do. It doesn't matter whether or not they modified the software. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-28 Thread John Hasler
that you connect to with a browser to configure it (it may not need any configuration). Run pppoeconfig to configure Linux to connect to it. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-31 Thread John Hasler
wants you to install is just full of crapware that they want on your computer. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pls check this new site

2008-01-02 Thread John Hasler
Hans Vogelsberger writes: Is it possible that the list inhibits this spam? More than 99% of the mail hitting the servers is spam. What you see is what gets past the filters. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-08 Thread John Hasler
more here than on other lists. and more than usual. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No DNS consistency checks in Debian spam filter?

2008-01-08 Thread John Hasler
but I believe that the SMTP-time stuff was still in effect. The problem has been fixed now, of course. Unfortunately, once Debian has accepted this garbage and forwarded it to a million victims, its much harder to block. Spamassassin blocked most of it here. -- John Hasler

Re: No DNS consistency checks in Debian spam filter?

2008-01-08 Thread John Hasler
Mike Bird writes: No, I checked headers during the flood. Debian was forwarding spam directly received from hosts with PTR records without matching A records. That just means it doesn't use your favorite method (because many ISPs have broken DNS). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread John Hasler
on spam that comes via mailing-lists. Do you somehow have the lists whitelisted? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread John Hasler
get distinctly different mixes of spam. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: powerline ethernet

2008-01-17 Thread John Hasler
. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mp3 file manager similar to midnight commander

2008-01-17 Thread John Hasler
Write a script using something like cutmp3 to extract the ids and put them (and the associated file name) in a file. Edit the file with any text editor to remove the uninteresting entries. Run another script to move the remaining files. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-18 Thread John Hasler
as a router (like yours). I suggest that you follow Mike Bird's advice below. You are making it more complex than it is. Does anyone know how I can fix the Cannot determine ethernet address for proxy ARP? Ignore it. It's just a warning that, in this case, means nothing. -- John Hasler

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread John Hasler
into the modem. You do that via the Web page I mentioned above. Do so and everything should just work -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread John Hasler
Larry writes: I know there's a problem with the `resolv.conf` but I don't know how to fix it. Try sudo apt-get remove --purge zeroconf. I can't find `route`. /sbin/route -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-19 Thread John Hasler
/route will. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-20 Thread John Hasler
Mike Bird writes: I looked at your resolv.conf in your earlier post and I don't see a problem. What problem do you see? He has no default route. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-20 Thread John Hasler
effect of your experiments with PPPoE. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

2008-01-20 Thread John Hasler
that is used to configure it is on port 80 at that address. Browsers automatically connect to port 80. Other services provided by the modem (such as name service) are on other ports. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Russel writes: The spam simply has disappeared. You can have mine. Neither the hosting outfit nor my local ISP has an explanation. One of them probably started doing some filtering, using an RBL, checking rDNS, etc. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-21 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: So, if a year down the road, you add more RAM and commensurately want to increase the swap space, you're stuck. Adding memory is not a reason to increase swap. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

2008-01-22 Thread John Hasler
Chris writes: so a device does not need to be mounted for a sync to work? Sync only affects file systems on mounted devices. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-28 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: dhcpcd is installed and configured correctly? He neither needs nor wants dhcp for dialup. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-28 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: He neither needs nor wants dhcp for dialup. Ron Johnson writes: How else does the machine get it's IP address? It gets the gateway IP (and its own IP) via scripts run by pppd when it brings up the connection. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-28 Thread John Hasler
Install pppconfig. Run it as root and answer the questions. You can add yourself as a ppp user in the Advanced menu. You will then be able to start ppp with pon and stop it with poff. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-28 Thread John Hasler
David Palmer writes: That's what I usually do [us pppconfig], but for a newbie, wvdial is a handy app. Why? I think it needs ppp installed though. Does it drag it in as a dependency, or is it a separate install scenario? Wvdial depends on ppp. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Trying to get on the web with wvdial.

2008-01-28 Thread John Hasler
David Palmer writes: [Wvdial] is handy for a newbie. Only when it works. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: missing /var/mail

2008-02-01 Thread John Hasler
Sven writes: I'd recommend to leave mails on the server, if you are using POP3, to ensure they aren't lost in case of a power failure. Because, as we all know, ISPs _never_ lose mail. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Modem in Debian

2008-02-04 Thread John Hasler
had a motherboard damaged was when I was using an internal modem. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modem in Debian

2008-02-04 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: The USR 5610C is an internal hard modem. And because it's internal, there's no need for extra wires, a wall-wart power supplies, etc. Because it is inside your computer it also provides extra opportunities for lightning damage. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-04 Thread John Hasler
David Brodbeck writes: ...have you considered putting the machine in another room and placing only the monitor, keyboard, and mouse at your wife's workstation? Or put the computer in the basement and set her up with a diskless X-terminal based on an old, slow pc. -- John Hasler

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread John Hasler
and infrared is 10,000GHz. Ultraviolet is even higher. And everything at a temperature above absolute zero emits radiation at all wavelengths. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: low-MHz server

2008-02-05 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: Halogens are incandescents. They just use a bit of chemistry to run hotter than ordinary incandescents. Doug writes: In the process, we've been told by EMF researchers, they also emit more EMF than regualar non-chemical incandescents. Who are these EMF researchers? -- John Hasler

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-05 Thread John Hasler
s. keeling writes: Mutt handles any standard form of mail box format, including on_some_other_server(don't much care how), aka. imap. Internet Message Access Protocol is a protocol, not a file format. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-07 Thread John Hasler
somewhere or mirrored as a newsgroup? If not how would Google have gotten at it? Sure wouldn't want anyone keeping tabs on those posts. Now your boss knows they exist. BTW, this bit about goats is a complete and hopefully humorous fabrication. Sure it is. _Sure_ it is. -- John Hasler

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-07 Thread John Hasler
to any mailing list. Only mailing lists that are publically archived. Google has no way to get at private lists. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-08 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: This is a mailing list? Is it publically archived somewhere or mirrored as a newsgroup? --D. writes: Yes, it is. Read-only IIRC. I was referring to his mythical goat list. Having been on debian-user for more than ten years, I am well aware of its nature. -- John Hasler

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-08 Thread John Hasler
Daniel writes: I'm sure some guy at Google is wondering why they just got a spike in searches for Overly Fond of Goats... So how many hits did you get? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wxWidgets versus gtkmm

2006-08-19 Thread John Hasler
Roberto C. Sanchez writes: First, back in the early days, there were serious licensing issues (not so serious anymore, but they still exist) with Qt. I know of no licensing issues with Qt. It is distributed under the GPL. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Sid: Really strange network address stuff

2006-08-23 Thread John Hasler
Curt Howland wrote: I have no idea where this 169.254.185.184 is coming from. Until 2.6.17, the DHCP server address of 192.168.1.16 was all that ever showed up. You may have zeroconf installed (one of the desktop packages recommends it for no good reason). Purge it. -- John Hasler

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread John Hasler
you do `dpkg -l \*foo\*' and it tells you there's no such thing. Why not have a `apt-get list' or something like that? Or does it exist already? man apt-cache -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-08 Thread John Hasler
, and the maintainer thinks it's ok. Complex packages with many dependencies can take quite a while. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-08 Thread John Hasler
: And is it not broken is some way in the meantime? No. No package enters Testing until all its dependencies are satisfied. That's the largest difference between Unstable and Testing. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread John Hasler
-devel, selectively upgrade individual packages, and occasionally do a general upgrade when everything seems ok. I also use neither Gnome nor KDE. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-09 Thread John Hasler
be careful. I should think that would be obvious. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB rescue/boot disk

2006-09-12 Thread John Hasler
Mike McCarty wrote: The use of any *NIX type file system which keeps access dates/times will cause wearout very quickly. celejar writes: Can't it be mounted read-only? Or just noatime. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Emacs newbie question

2006-09-14 Thread John Hasler
PAolo writes: What can I do if I want Emacs to start with console interface? 'emacs -nw' -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-16 Thread John Hasler
Andrei Popescu wrote: This is the rule for stable. Grave bugs are fixed for the next update though. Vincent Lefevre writes: And this can take months. Losing mail for months is not acceptable. Updates are available from proposed-updates. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Disneys

2006-09-20 Thread John Hasler
John Kelly writes: Content filtering is a treadmill. Works fairly well for me. Origin filtering is better. And unavailable to those of us who cannot run our own servers. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

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