Re: mutt-1.5.6 and xv with pdf plugin packages

2004-04-18 Thread Marc Wilson
, but there's been no new license released. -- Marc Wilson | Punishment becomes ineffective after a certain point. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Men become insensitive. -- Eneg, Patterns of | Force, stardate 2534.7 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Blackbox theme install probs.

2003-08-02 Thread Marc Wilson
. That way you deal with older themes as well. (2) Perhaps more to the point, I have placed two *.lsm files in Tux:~/.blackbox/backgrounds# .. are they properly background or style files ? They are neither. They are textual descriptions. Blackbox couldn't care less about them. -- Marc

Re: [OT] kernel versioning: extra suffixes

2003-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
... Anyway: -ac = an Alan Cox kernel, usually numbered -preN = a pre-release kernel, #N in a series -bkN= a BitKeeper snapshot, #N in a series -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #249: Unfortunately we have run out of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | bits/bytes/whatever. Don't worry, the next

Re: Unstable in the house

2003-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
? Assuming you want metacity (shudder) for the window manager, 'man metacity' will tell you what you need to know. -- Marc Wilson | Old age is always fifteen years old than I am. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | B. Baruch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: knx-hdinstall vs dist-upgrade. taking bets.

2003-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
it. The only safe thing to try is to take it directly to unstable, and I'd imagine that, depending on your package mix, that might not work either. -- Marc Wilson | Think of your family tonight. Try to crawl home [EMAIL PROTECTED] | after the computer crashes. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: a2ps in unstable: config files have changed

2003-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
that you, as well, can pay attention to it? -- Marc Wilson | John Dame May Oscar Was Gay Was Whitty Was Wilde [EMAIL PROTECTED] | But Gerard Hopkins But John Greenleaf But Thornton | Was Manley Was Whittier Was Wilder -- Willard Espy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Unstable in the house

2003-10-03 Thread Marc Wilson
an alternative for x-window-manager is a bonus, not a requirement. The fact that newbies are told that x-window-manager is the way to control what window manager they're using is unfortunate. -- Marc Wilson | I'm QUIETLY reading the latest issue of BOWLING [EMAIL PROTECTED] | WORLD

Re: Ugly PDF display: libXft.so.1 vs. libXft.so.2 / Freetype

2003-10-08 Thread Marc Wilson
the interpreter enabled, although this has gone back and forth several times. - Or, is one of the problems the fonts selected in the PDF file just are not that great? Ah, got it in one. -- Marc Wilson | Lying is an indispensable part of making life [EMAIL PROTECTED] | tolerable. -- Bergan

Re: windows NT

2003-10-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:12:41PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: Please see the advocacy howto and the output of dict troll. No offense, but most of the advocates should be shot. Have you never read COLA? Or slashcrap? -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #92: Stale file handle (next time use

Re: HOME and END keys

2003-10-16 Thread Marc Wilson
KeyEnd: string(\033OF) Ain't using a PC keyboard to emulate a VT220 *fun*? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marc Wilson | The most important early product on the way to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | developing

Re: gtk2 apps + utf 8 = squared characters

2003-10-17 Thread Marc Wilson
that contains the characters they're typing. The first is far more important than the latter. -- Marc Wilson | A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced [EMAIL PROTECTED] | to imitating yourself. -- Don Marquis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: 2.6.0 + where is /etc/modules?

2003-10-17 Thread Marc Wilson
exists if you're using the module-init-tools package to support 2.6.x, nor do I care. I'm not about to run 2.6, nor will I until there's some demonstrated advantage in it. Your mileage may vary. -- Marc Wilson | Yow! I want my nose in lights! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
interrupt, and that's where the service routine ends up. It's harmless. -- Marc Wilson | O.K., fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X trouble!

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 10:58:01PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: Anyone else experience this, or is it just me? See recent BTS entries for fontconfig. -- Marc Wilson | Oh, yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | livin' is gone. -- John Cougar, Jack and Diane

Re: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
the logic tried to route it. Remember, chained 8259's. So it fell to the bottom of the logic. The kernel, on the other hand, is sitting there saying huh, there was no interrupt for IRQ7 asserted. -- Marc Wilson | QOTD: The baby was so ugly they had to hang a pork [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 2.4.0 GNOME in Sid

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
, replace with real ones. -- Marc Wilson | BOFH excuse #389: /dev/clue was linked to /dev/null [EMAIL PROTECTED] | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
segfaulted during its postinst problem. -- Marc Wilson | Nadia Comaneci, simple perfection. -- '76 Olympics [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nVIDIA/Xft/OpenGL Problems

2003-10-20 Thread Marc Wilson
not *meaningless*, but it's not relevant. -- Marc Wilson | Though a program be but three lines long, someday [EMAIL PROTECTED] | it will have to be maintained. -- The Tao of | Programming -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Bug#217452: mailfilter: installing under Debian

2003-10-24 Thread Marc Wilson
. -- Marc Wilson | Confidence is the feeling you have before you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | understand the situation. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug#217452: mailfilter: installing under Debian

2003-10-25 Thread Marc Wilson
/etc/fetchmailrc and then perhaps we'll talk. -- Marc Wilson | There are only two kinds of men -- the dead and [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the deadly. -- Helen Rowland signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Marc Wilson
if the message is from you # (%4l) == number of lines # %s== subject of message set index_format=%2M %4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4l) %s - cut - cut - -- Marc Wilson | The only possible interpretation of any research [EMAIL PROTECTED] | whatever

Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1

2003-10-29 Thread Marc Wilson
the older CD-ROM drives on proprietary interfaces. I suspect what's more likely is that you have your drive on some interface that the install kernel doesn't recognize, such as an add-on PCI controller. How is this drive interfaced? -- Marc Wilson | But like the Good Book says... There's BIGGER

Re: apt-get question

2003-11-04 Thread Marc Wilson
or not anyone ELSE might have had a problem before allowing something from unstable to update? Yeah, right... -- Marc Wilson | Spirtle, n.: The fine stream from a grapefruit [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that always lands right in your eye. -- Sniglets, | Rich Hall Friends

Re: linux-kernel-headers foul-up

2003-11-04 Thread Marc Wilson
? -- Marc Wilson | *** System shutdown message from root *** [EMAIL PROTECTED] | System going down in 60 seconds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: locale not supported?

2003-11-05 Thread Marc Wilson
always try spelling it properly. rei $ locale -a | grep US en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.iso885915 en_US.utf8 -- Marc Wilson | What the large print giveth, the small print taketh [EMAIL PROTECTED] | away. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: sawfish debian menu compatibility?

2003-11-06 Thread Marc Wilson
. Where does your root menu expect to find the Debian menu? -- Marc Wilson | The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just [EMAIL PROTECTED] | crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press | 'OK' first. (Arno Schaefer's .sig) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Lynx vs xli

2003-11-06 Thread Marc Wilson
... unless you want to claim that Debian controls XFree or something. -- Marc Wilson | Problem solving under linux has never been the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | circus that it is under AIX. (By Pete Ehlke in | comp.unix.aix) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: UT2003/OpenGL/unstable Issues

2004-01-29 Thread Marc Wilson
in either case, but v5336 was supposedly released to fix AGP issues. -- Marc Wilson | Kludge, n.: An ill-assorted collection of [EMAIL PROTECTED] | poorly-matching parts, forming a distressing whole. | -- Jackson Granholm, Datamation -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

2004-02-02 Thread Marc Wilson
anyway... blackbox CVS supports EWMH. ^_^ Openbox2 does a good job of it too, but ob2 isn't packaged any more. -- Marc Wilson | Humans do claim a great deal for that particular [EMAIL PROTECTED] | emotion (love). -- Spock, The Lights of Zetar, | stardate 5725.6

Re: Multi-head (non-Xinerama) window managers

2004-02-05 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 11:20:50PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004.02.02.1826 +0100]: If EWMH compatability is important to you, I'd use fvwm. Otherwise, I'd use blackbox. Actually, I'd use blackbox anyway... blackbox CVS supports EWMH

Re: gcc the kernel, supermount (?)

2004-02-05 Thread Marc Wilson
by people who should know (ie, the kernel developers) is more than enough reason to use it to build kernels in preference to 3.x. The amazing number of regressions 3.x seems to perpetually go through is another good reason. ^_^ -- Marc Wilson | April 1 This is the day upon which we are reminded

Re: debian ... can't get it to install

2004-02-05 Thread Marc Wilson
refuse to get it No, in fifteen minutes, he will have a fully configured *Knoppix* system. Converting this system into Debian will not be painless. -- Marc Wilson | Language shapes the way we think, and determines [EMAIL PROTECTED] | what we can think about. -- B. L. Whorf

Re: Debain on the rise ! - However ....

2004-02-06 Thread Marc Wilson
? Explain, please. -- Marc Wilson | To make an enemy, do someone a favor. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-07 Thread Marc Wilson
just shouldn't be doing without appropriate training. -- Marc Wilson | (It is an old Debian tradition to leave at least [EMAIL PROTECTED] | twice a year ...) -- Sven Rudolph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is Security Host up

2004-02-07 Thread Marc Wilson
of HORRORS, actually look and see for yourself? Wow... I bet you actually think posting to the list and waiting for a response was a faster way to get an answer. -- Marc Wilson | If you put your supper dish to your ear you can hear [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the sounds of a restaurant

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

2004-02-07 Thread Marc Wilson
it HASN'T. People who write hdparm HOWTOs need to be hung up by their toenails. I've yet to read one that tried to be an even minimally responsible resource. good luck Yeah, he'll need it. -- Marc Wilson | System restarting, wait... [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
well aware that you think it is). If out of the box, it can't do at least the above, it should have bugs filed until in its default configuration, IT CAN. Please, in all seriousness, what's up? -- Marc Wilson | A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
is a way to get Debian should be shot. -- Marc Wilson | Where do you go to get anorexia? -- Shelley Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: HOWTO - Speed up IDE HD's

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 02:58:03PM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: On Son, 2004-02-08 at 04:57, Marc Wilson wrote: Never mind that the kernel can do 90% of this on its own, and a wonderful first step should *always* be finding out why it HASN'T. Nevertheless I still have to learn how

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
mousebind button=Middle action=click action name=ToggleMaximizeVert/ /mousebind mousebind button=Right action=click action name=ToggleMaximizeHorz/ /mousebind /context /mouse -- Marc Wilson | History repeats itself -- the first time as a [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
to get support for it while you're calling it something it's not. Hell... let 'em use one of the BSD's (had to throw that in since I'm installing oBSD on my 712/80 hppa for the third time as I write). -- Marc Wilson | QOTD: This is a one line proof... if we start [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
first PC compatible until sometime after 1992 (when I moved to where I am now, got it after that). after all i was born a few months after Kennedy was shot... Now some of you know i'm younger than you... and many others haven't any idea my age. ;-) See above. -- Marc Wilson | Your

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:04:57PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 7:18 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: I just have to say that I find this cluebie/stupid nonsense you keep spouting very offputting and childish. Then take steps to ensure that they're NOT cluebies, instead

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 10:42:17PM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: Enlightenment. Right click to maximize vertically, middle click to maximize horizontally. Have not used with Gnome, so I can't comment. Enlightenment v17 CVS will, as it supports EWMH. You can forget about E v16. -- Marc

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
automate this for you. -- Marc Wilson | Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wages, but truth goes a-begging. -- Martin Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, Knoppix, and other varients

2004-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
lot there to mess up. That's what's nice about it. -- Marc Wilson | Killing is wrong. -- Losira, That Which Survives, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | stardate unknown -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 09:49:13AM -0500, Johann Koenig wrote: On Sunday February 8 at 09:06pm Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enlightenment v17 CVS will, as it supports EWMH. You can forget about E v16. Does your DR17 install co-exist nicely with DR16? Not mine... I stopped using

Re: alt-right-click in xterm

2004-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
, versus the window manager that's being used on the other. Which is the first using, and which is the second using? -- Marc Wilson | If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | and spend your time serving it... -- Marion Zimmer | Bradley, _The

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 11:04:17AM -0500, Mike M wrote: On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:04:57PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: On Sunday 08 February 2004 7:18 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: snip Then they should use it. I couldn't care less whether someone uses Debian, Knoppix, SuSE, Mandrake, or even

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-09 Thread Marc Wilson
. That's where Knoppix came from in the first place, not that it was the first. It's in no way an itch I have, so no need to scratch it. However, are *you* volunteering to build the railroad? ^_^ -- Marc Wilson | Misfortunes arrive on wings and leave on foot. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade

2004-02-11 Thread Marc Wilson
disappeared. IMHO Sarge shouldn't release with this mess in it, but I'm not the release manager. Step back to the non-CVS version and you'll be fine. You think you need to be running unstable, so you know how to do that, right? -- Marc Wilson | The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core

Re: a2ps borders problem after upgrade

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Wilson
is dated 2003-01-15. None of the craziness that was apparently done to it in the uploaded version is described therein. Archives of its mailing list are apparently dead. I haven't tried mailing the upstream maintainer. -- Marc Wilson | Growing old isn't bad when you consider the [EMAIL

Re: Fonts, one more time

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Wilson
. Personally, users have no business messing with fonts in the first place. They use what they're given. But then no one ever agrees with me anyway. -- Marc Wilson | well-adjusted, adj.: The ability to play bridge or [EMAIL PROTECTED] | golf as if they were games. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Why Linux, Why Debian

2004-02-12 Thread Marc Wilson
to an advocacy document. Debian-User has a fairly high clue-level, though, so perhaps you'll get more than the average slashcrap-esque stuff. Everyone always has to make it about religion. -- Marc Wilson | Q: What do you call a blind, deaf-mute, quadraplegic [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virginian

Re: mounting loop iso9660 rw

2004-02-19 Thread Marc Wilson
... you've been pointed to them at least twice in this thread. You can't modify the ISO in-place. If you actually bother to think about it for a moment, you'll see why. -- Marc Wilson | Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T [EMAIL PROTECTED] | after you

Re: sid dvd jigdo template files renamed ??

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Wilson
are stupid enough to want them. -- Marc Wilson | I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker [EMAIL PROTECTED] | is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is | another matter. -- Winston Churchill -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Pipe Symbol

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Wilson
keyboard, instead of the pc104 keyboard. Why people can't ever be bothered to search the archives is beyond me. I do not use a non-English keyboard, have not allowed XF430 to install (and won't until at *least* -3), and even *I* know about this problem and what to do about it. -- Marc Wilson

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Wilson
only a backup if you can get out what went in. And you can't. -- Marc Wilson | Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing [EMAIL PROTECTED] | back images. -- Jean Cocteau -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: [OT?] Re: PostScript - samba - PDF - email attachment

2004-02-21 Thread Marc Wilson
|pdfwriter|PDF_Writer :sd=/var/spool/lpd/pdf :lp=/dev/null :if=/usr/local/bin/pdffilter :mx#0 :sh :rg=printers * /usr/local/bin/pdffilter: * #!/bin/bash # pdffilter - take in postcript, output PDF, mail to submitter # Marc Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) # uncomment the following line to enable

sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?

2004-02-22 Thread Marc Wilson
* searching in it hasn't found anything. -- Marc Wilson | I am so optimistic about beef prices that I've just [EMAIL PROTECTED] | leased a pot roast with an option to buy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?

2004-02-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:49:20PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: I don't see anything in the Mutt doc that says trailing space(s) get stripped in the pager... and I can't see it being an xterm thing, so what's up? Hm, more testing... trailing spaces on any line in the pager are stripped, not just

Re: sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?

2004-02-23 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 06:01:38AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 05:04:13PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:49:20PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: I don't see anything in the Mutt doc that says trailing space(s) get stripped in the pager... and I can't

Re: Xwindows in Sid

2004-02-23 Thread Marc Wilson
is. -- Marc Wilson | Use what talents you possess: the woods would be [EMAIL PROTECTED] | very silent if no birds sang there except those that | sang best. -- Henry Van Dyke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: sig dashes munged at master.d.o or Mutt issue?

2004-02-23 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 04:40:02PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:35:48PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: | I remember way back when, when I still thought transparent *terms were | cool, that running Mutt did strange things in one. Like it would paint | parts

Re: accessing usb-storage device that doesn't register as scsi

2006-10-29 Thread Marc Wilson
with this bastardization of USB flash devices should be shot. Many times. With large caliber weapons. Vote with your dollars. Return that crap device to the store and replace it with a normal flash drive. -- Marc Wilson | Tagline, you're it! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Mounting Music CD's Causes System Freeze

2006-10-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:42:58PM -0800, jantzen wrote: My system is unable to mount music CDs. You don't mount an audio CD. There's no reason to even try, as they don't have a filesystem on them. Why trying to apparently hangs up your box, I have no idea. -- Marc Wilson | You can't

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-29 Thread Marc Wilson
it. Further, why wouldn't you just use superformat(1)? It usually does a MUCH better job with marginal media than fdformat(8) does, and it'll invoke mformat for you when it's done. -- Marc Wilson | Auribus teneo lupum. [I hold a wolf by the ears.] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [Boy, it *sounds* good

Re: Kernel compile the old way

2006-11-11 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:10:53PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: make menuconfig make-kpkg --revision 1 kernel_image Don't you end up with an initrd that way? I admit to never wasting my time with kernel-package, but I thought you couldn't avoid one if you insisted on using it. -- Marc

Re: Using sysctl in debian considered harmful?!

2006-11-11 Thread Marc Wilson
: * /etc/network/options This file is deprecated, and if present should be replaced by values in /etc/sysctl.conf or equivalent custom scripts. Remember... always ask morons for documentation. When they can't provide it, you can move straight to ignoring them. -- Marc Wilson | We gave you

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-03 Thread Marc Wilson
isn't this an RC bug!? I'm not about to file it... the last thing I want to do is use the-disaster-that-is-aptitude. But *someone* should. -- Marc Wilson | I'll be comfortable on the couch. Famous last words. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Lenny Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: ./configure - file not found problem

2006-12-09 Thread Marc Wilson
how the tools work. -- Marc Wilson | Q: What do monsters eat? A: Things. Q: What do [EMAIL PROTECTED] | monsters drink? A: Coke. (Because Things go better | with Coke.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: .bash_profile ignored in X

2006-12-16 Thread Marc Wilson
and under what conditions bash uses its various configuration files. Presumably you have told xterm not to run as a login shell, as that's the criterion for bash to pay attention to .bash_profile. -- Marc Wilson | Do your part to help preserve life on Earth -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2006-12-31 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 03:32:26PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Why not just use gnome-terminal? Have you ever *used* gnome-terminal? 'Nuff said. -- Marc Wilson | Modesty: The gentle art of enhancing your charm by [EMAIL PROTECTED] | pretending not to be aware of it. -- Oliver

Re: update messages

2006-12-31 Thread Marc Wilson
not like you weren't told. For that matter, why did you give explicit permission to remove packages by using dist-upgrade in the first place? -- Marc Wilson | The longest part of the journey is said to be the [EMAIL PROTECTED] | passing of the gate. -- Marcus Terentius Varro

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:37:29PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Have *you* ever used it? Yes, unfortunately I have. Its poor-at-best terminal emulation means I never will again. There's no reason to use anything other than xterm. -- Marc Wilson | That money talks, I'll not deny, I

Re: problem with xscreensaver, xorg and DPMS

2007-01-25 Thread Marc Wilson
after that. I filed this as bug #396820 almost three months ago. Debian's xscreensaver maintainer has made no comment. File a bug or add your comments to the one that already exists. -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: reaching a machine with a dynamic IP address.

2007-01-28 Thread Marc Wilson
. Not like it's a big problem... dyndns or any number of other services can give you a name that'll re-point to the dynamic address when it changes. -- Marc Wilson | Chicken Little was right. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: fstab entries for two different pendrives?

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
find it in /media. This is also fully integrated in e.g. KDE and Gnome. Fortunately, everyone does not use KDE or Gnome. -- Marc Wilson | If we could sell our experiences for what they [EMAIL PROTECTED] | cost us, we would all be millionaires. -- Abigail | Van Buren

Re: Error 21

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
? -- Marc Wilson | Ever get the feeling that the world's on tape and [EMAIL PROTECTED] | one of the reels is missing? -- Rich Little -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
printing system being so weak is getting very thin. -- Marc Wilson | The sheep died in the wool. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Error 21

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
for configuring Samba? SWAT, in my opinion, is worse than nothing as it exposes umpteen options most of which you should not touch. Cluebies always think you have to adjust every option a GUI exposes. Perhaps your experience is different. -- Marc Wilson | You recoil from the crude; you

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
. Read about 'folder_format'. -- Marc Wilson | If we all work together, we can totally disrupt [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
there, go read mail. -- Marc Wilson | You will be held hostage by a radical group. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
I'd want to depend on. -- Marc Wilson | Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- William George Jordan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
. -- Marc Wilson | To any truly impartial person, it would be obvious [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that I am always right. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:00:26PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 05:39:56PM -0600, djhack wrote: Thunderbird - Copies entire message at reply. Works fine on my box. For all you thunderbird users... Forgot one: 5) when will Mozilla-based applications finally start

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
resist. But the Account Settings preference really doesn't work. We'll leave aside the asinine idea that a collapsed message thread with new messages in it is not itself highlighted like the unread messages are. -- Marc Wilson | You will be successful in love. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
* fiddling whatsoever. Feh. Who does Steve Lamb think he's kidding, anyway? -- Marc Wilson | If imprinted foil seal under cap is broken or missing [EMAIL PROTECTED] | when purchased, do not use. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:00:26PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 05:39:56PM -0600, djhack wrote: Thunderbird - Copies entire message at reply. Works fine on my box. For all you thunderbird users... And another one... 6) dialogs that obviously need scroll bars that do

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Wilson
downloading them in the background while they interact with the application in the foreground. Gee, that makes sense. Not. Oh, and an extension? Wow, there's another one of those pesky add-on programs. No doubt extensions don't count, or something. -- Marc Wilson | One of the pleasures

Re: Beta-3 Etch install avoiding commandline?

2006-09-07 Thread Marc Wilson
. Someday there'll actually be a non-religious answer to this question. -- Marc Wilson | Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Josh Billings -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-08 Thread Marc Wilson
On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:20:35PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: Is Debian unstable, stable enough for a Desktop system? If you have to ask, the answer is definately no. -- Marc Wilson | Do not dry clean. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-10 Thread Marc Wilson
to reconstruct the box from a smoking hole in the ground on a daily basis, then you should not be using unstable. 'Nuff said. -- Marc Wilson | Q: What's buried in Grant's tomb? A: A corpse. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-10 Thread Marc Wilson
, while 'upgrade' cannot. -- Marc Wilson | Every time I think I know where it's at, they [EMAIL PROTECTED] | move it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-10 Thread Marc Wilson
it with a cron job someone gave him. Super bonus points if he does it with aptitude and gets completely unrelated software removed as well. I will always maintain that people should be discouraged from using unstable. -- Marc Wilson | All these black people are screwing up my [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: system is up 1 year

2006-09-10 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 04:45:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: If you sit behind a firewalling router, don't run an httpd, an ftpd, etc, how much at risk are you? Depends. Is the firewalling router the Linux box with the year uptime? -- Marc Wilson | The advertisement is the most truthful

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-15 Thread Marc Wilson
won't die. Sheesh. Not like this is rocket science. -- Marc Wilson | I can't think about that. It doesn't go with HEDGES [EMAIL PROTECTED] | in the shape of LITTLE LULU -- or ROBOTS making | BRICKS ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

RE: sunrpc on port 111 and domain on port 53

2000-10-19 Thread Marc Wilson
, or running a caching name server for your own use. - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:02 AM To: Debian Subject:sunrpc

RE: X32-Session under Win32 doesn't work

2000-10-25 Thread Marc Wilson
in the [xdmcp] section. - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson -Original Message- From: kmself@ix.netcom.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 11:22 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: X32

RE: dpkg and dependecies

2000-10-26 Thread Marc Wilson
Huh? You *are* automating it... why do you think it installs several other programs and/or libraries also? If you didn't need it beforehand, why would you have wanted it installed? Until it's needed,. leave it in the archives. - Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

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