Re: Debian 8 to be called Jessie

2012-07-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: It's become a tradition that the reward for reading all the way through our first post-freeze mail is to be one of the first few to know the name of the next release. Continuing in that vein, we are happy to announce that

Centrino wireless: good results with kernel 3.4 from experimental repo

2012-08-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Concerning Debian Squeeze/Wheezy wireless: I have Dell Precision M4600 and have had a lot of trouble connecting to wireless networks. I was constantly failing to join networks, as described https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676382 and on other bug trackers. Here's my blog about it

The Oh, No... error when gdm is trying to start

2012-08-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm refusing to start, with the error message that shows a picture of a sad computer and a message says: Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a system administrator.

Re: The Oh, No... error when gdm is trying to start

2012-08-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 12:13:53 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: On a student's Debian system, I ran some updates and resulted in gdm refusing to start, with the error message that shows a picture of a sad computer and a message

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, Conrad Nelson y...@marupa.net wrote: Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly despite my volume levels being all the way up? Annoyingly, this has always been a problem for me with a Thinkpad T400. I'd be interested in a fix, too.

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:01 AM, Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.ukwrote: There are two possibilities I can think of. One is that you're using pulseaudio and not checking its volume level (to confirm this, start alsamixer and press F6 to select a different 'card'). Didn't think I was

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-26 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: The advice given at http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/adding-an-alsa-software-pre-amp-to-fix-low-sound-levels/ does work. There is an extra control in alsamixer and rebooting is not necessary to get it. See how you go on.

Google Cloud Print

2012-10-02 Thread Paul Johnson
Has anybody successfully added Google Cloud Print to CUPS on Debian? I've googled it, poked around a little bit, but couldn't find a good tutorial.

Re: Google Cloud Print

2012-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday, October 2, 2012, Darac Marjal wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:26:25AM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: Has anybody successfully added Google Cloud Print to CUPS on Debian? �I've googled it, poked around a little bit, but couldn't find a good tutorial. Which way are you

Re: PlayOnLinux + wine + amd64

2012-05-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Brad Alexander stor...@gmail.com wrote: ...And sure enough, I appear to. Is it as  simple as installing libgl1-nvidia-alternatives-ia32, libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32, and nvidia-glx-ia32? Can I install these alongside the amd64 ones without negative impact? You

Re: Unidentified subject! [ ]

2012-05-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 12:08 PM, David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: These are really getting annoying. Is this a problem with the list server or what? Messages with unidentified subjects? Means someone sent the list mail without a subject line. Otherwise, you're going to need to be more

black screen after boot up on fresh net-install (Nvidia quadro, Debian 6.0.4); trying to get to terminal mode

2012-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On a Dell Precision workstation, there is an Nvidia Quadro card with a weird connector in which we have a dongle thing that provides plugs for four monitors. I've been running RedHat Linux 5.5 for a while and decided to try the Debian net installer The graphical install proceeds as usual (I've

Re: black screen after boot up on fresh net-install (Nvidia quadro, Debian 6.0.4); trying to get to terminal mode

2012-05-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2012-05-14 19:26 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: On a Dell Precision workstation, there is an Nvidia Quadro card with a weird connector in which we have a dongle thing that provides plugs for four monitors. I've been running

Re: A quick Q: download source

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On May 29, 2012 7:53 AM, lina lina.lastn...@gmail.com wrote: I am under wheezy, when I use the apt-get source package I will get the wheezy version by default. What if I want to get the sid one, how can I do that without going to the debian webpage. If you have Sid sources in your apt

how are you kids compiling kernels these days?

2012-05-30 Thread Paul Johnson
I've not built LInux kernels since, well, 1999, when I ran RedHat linux (before EL existed). I've compiled separate modules for the touchpad many times lately, but never a whole kernel. And never on a Debian system. Now I've got a laptop with an Intel Centrino Ultimate 6300 wireless device and

Re: how are you kids compiling kernels these days?

2012-05-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:04 PM, a0z n...@a0z.eu wrote: On 31/05/12 04:43, Paul Johnson wrote: I've tried every variation I can think of. Have you tried apt-cache search? a0z@kit:~$ apt-cache search linux 3.2 amd64 linux-headers-3.2.0-2-all-amd64 - All header files for Linux 3.2 (meta

Re: Email headers in the digest

2012-06-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jun 5, 2012 10:27 AM, Curt Howland howl...@priss.com wrote: Maybe I'm the only person getting the group though debian-user-digest, and maybe I'm the only one reading it in plain text, but has anyone else noticed the HUGE increase in the quantity of digests, which consist mostly of the

Re: ot: slightly, is debian tied to a nonprofit?

2012-07-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.netwrote: I ask because of the references to foundation? Software in the Public Interest, Inc.

Any Debian Experimental users available?

2012-11-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Any Experimental users who can tell me what the kernel numbers mean in the Experimental repository? I see flaws in the kernels 3.4, and 3.5, and wonder if other people see them too, or if they even care to report problems because those kernels are, well, Experimental. I'm running a system with

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-12 Thread Paul Johnson
I run a Lenovo ThinkPad, but I repair Dells for a living. I just have to wonder what the heck Dell was thinking having Fn and Ctrl in opposite of correct order... On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Kushal Kumaran kushal.kumaran+deb...@gmail.com wrote: Lars Noodén lars.noo...@gmail.com writes:

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.comwrote: Thinkpad. Avoid ATI graphics if possible. I think you spelled nVidia wrong. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/torvalds-nvidia-linux/

Re: Laptop left in unusable state

2012-12-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Agbefia agbe...@icloud.com wrote: To whom it may concern: I have a Dell laptop Studio that runs on Win7 operating system.i tried to install Debian but something went wrong and my laptop cannot boot and it seems all my data on the hard drive were erased and I

Re: upgrade squeeze - wheezy (issues)

2013-01-15 Thread Paul Johnson
I'm top posting because nobody should be expected to go through all that stuff. I believe you have to decide now whether your system is going to be amd64 only or multiarch. Because you now have ia32-libs installed, that means you want to have both 32 and 64. The ia32-libs framework is the old

Wheezy Beta 4 Install: Cpufrequency Scaling troubles solutions

2013-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
I've got a fresh install of Debian Wheezy Beta 4 on this Dell Precision M4600 laptop. This is the net install version. I'm working through a set of problems that others might want to know about. On the system, as originally installed, the cpu frequency scaling monitors show the CPU frequency is

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday, February 4, 2013, Kelly Clowers wrote: Esound is (mostly?) unmaintained for a long time AFAIK. Anyway, it was far buggier than PA ever was. Not that either are fun to deal with when all you want to do is be able to get Second Life's voice support to work. Pure ALSA works fine

Re: PulseAudio--is there a viable alternative?

2013-02-04 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday, February 4, 2013, Darac Marjal wrote: Actually, that depends on the hardware. If your hardware can do hardware mixing (I know of at least one SoundBlaster that can, but I can't remember which model at the moment), then you can play simultaneous streams. But for most cards, you have

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 19:51 +, Andrew Wood wrote: Why do Linux distros consider it desirable to install Gnash by default? I understand the desire to have a free flash player but Gnash is a very poor implementation and I think it tarnishes Linux's image rather than enhances it. Why bother

gnome 3 refugee; How to just run compiz as the Window Manager, no session management

2011-11-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Like others, I had carelessly allowed my apt repositories to include Unstable, and the introduction of Gnome 3 packages made my system un-login-able. Rather than try to fix that, I'd like to just forget about Gnome altogether and run Compiz as the windowmanager. Does anybody have advice about how

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 23:48 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 09/11/11 Paul Johnson said: Why bother with non-free software when we're talking about a technology that's dying like BSD these days? 'cause people like it when their systems...work? Given it's stability, i wouldn't define

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, 2012-01-06 at 21:57 -0800, T Elcor wrote: --- On Fri, 1/6/12, Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote: You could use a blank keyboard with a dvorak layout pretty effectively pretty quickly if you used the speakup feature to put speech on your sound card for those typing sessions. I'd

Re: Dvorak Keyboards.

2012-01-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 23:22 -0800, Weaver wrote: It's a shame this doesn't support USA Cherokee layout. When I was reading their site yesterday, they made a point of feedback being appreciated and wanting to implement new formats, so an approach in that direction could be well in order.

Re: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted?

2011-08-28 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 00:36 +1000, yudi v wrote: Is there a way to tell when a system was first booted? uptime is a good indicator. The uprecords package provides recordkeeping and does all the math for you. An example of uprecords output is at http://ursamundi.org/cgi-bin/uprecords.cgi

Re: fstab has user option, but still cann't be mounted by non-root user

2011-09-08 Thread Paul Johnson
output: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 84944 8月 3 22:02 /bin/mount, there is suid bit. I have googled the problem, it seems there are no other actions needed to do, but why it still failed? -- Paul Johnson 971-209-2327 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

GNOME monitor layout preferences

2011-09-09 Thread Paul Johnson
the desktop panel on the right. It's not a major irritation, but it seems like it Should Just Remember Where I Put It™. -- Paul Johnson 971-209-2327 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: GNOME monitor layout preferences

2011-09-10 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 11:43 +, Camaleón wrote: Hum... it seems to be a feature that's still on the xrandr todo list: http://live.gnome.org/RandR#Keying_monitor_configurations Thanks for the heads up! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

has network-manager started behaving badly for you too?

2011-10-05 Thread Paul Johnson
I've got Debian Wheezy (with a few components from unstable, but not many). Over the weekend, I noticed an apt update brought in network-manager0.9.0-2 and since then my laptop network works badly. There seem to be 2 separate problems 1. Network passwords and

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Hendrik Boom hend...@topoi.pooq.comwrote: I run my machine on UCT, or something like it (timezone +0). Every time I boot to Windows XP (which I need to do once in a blue moon) Windows takes it on itself to set my clock as if the UCT time were actually local

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Seems like this could be made easier by mailing the .reg file (or throwing it in a webspace someplace) with the correct key and value already set. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Don deJuan donjuans...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/21/2012 03:58 PM, Doug wrote: On 2/21/2012 1:00 AM, Don deJuan

Re: Windows screws up Linux's clock

2012-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
Sure, you can just tell people to RTFM. Or you can just post the patch. The patch is naturally easier and takes substantially less effort to create and post than being a dick about it on an internationally distributed mailing list. On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Don deJuan

Re: Timing a process

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mar 7, 2012 3:47 PM, Sian Mountbatten poenik...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: AFAIK, there is a command which says how long a process takes to complete. Its invoked with the command to be timed as an argument. Does anybody know what it is? Oddly enough, it's time(1).

Re: OT: Newbie questions on security

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Stayvoid stayv...@gmail.com wrote: What is more secure: dedicated server or VPS? I've been told that a hoster has an ability to look through the files on the VM. Why people use this solution for MTAs?  Do they care about privacy? Is it possible to hide your

Use example.com/org when giving example hostnames, please!

2012-03-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mar 20, 2012 11:49 PM, 严海东 handlerofmas...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all: I have a problem with using wget and curl on debian amd64 when I type a command -- wget www.XXX.com, error messages will display as below: Just a heads up, EXAMPLE.COM and EXAMPLE.ORG are reserved as

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:28 AM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:25:42 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: Could someone explain me, what are top- and bottom posting styles? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Though it's generally ideal to go with a

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-03-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com wrote: With phones, it's easier to follow top posting in my opinion. I usually read/post from my phone. I'm going to have to strongly disagree with that. Top posting makes it that much harder to properly edit a

Re: OT:change of mail provider

2012-04-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 2:30 AM, richard rich...@g8jvm.com wrote: Mika as you have appointed yourself as a list policeman, please explain how I am to test on whether or not I am now able to see my first posting without send a post ? Post a relevant reply to an existing thread. Test

Re: OT:change of mail provider

2012-04-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 1:48 PM, richard rich...@g8jvm.com wrote: THIS LIST SEEMS TO HAVE A HIGH POPULATION OF SELF APPOINTED PREMADONNAS THAT ARE ONLY CAPABLE OF CRITICISM. Can we get this guy tossed out the door? Talk about a negative nancy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Mika Suomalainen s.mik...@gmail.com wrote: GPG Inline signature is easier to verify if you copy-paste that email from mailing list archive. Not really, since you can just download the mbox version and verify it directly with MIME anyway. I cannot use S/MIME,

New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread Paul Johnson
I was using RedHat/Fedora for along time, then Ubuntu, now Debian. I'm not new in Linux, just Debian. And I'm still having trouble understanding some of the terminology. I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer versions of some key programs I use in my work, like LyX

Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-06-07 Thread Paul Johnson
If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other. I've got a new Dell Precision M4600 laptop. In the Dell web pages, there was indication that they had RedHat running on these things, so I figured it was safe to order. Now I'm told it was a mistake in their web pages

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-06-13 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: If you have one of these new-ish Dell laptops, maybe we can help each other. I've got a new Dell Precision M4600 laptop. 3. Wakeup from Suspend to RAM does not work. Hi, I have an update on this Dell Precision laptop

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-06-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Paul Johnson pauljoh...@gmail.com wrote: I have no improvement on the touchpad config to report, but have found a way to dependably reboot the system and also to suspend and resume the system,but from RAM and disk. After upgrading to the Debian sid kernel, I

Re: Wrestling with Dell Precision laptop. You too? Discuss tips experience

2011-07-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Here's my progress report on Debian and the Dell Precision M4600. I am in a state of currently not broken usage. I still use noapic and it allows suspend and restart. I have worked A LOT on the touchpad question. There are hundreds of posts about it, too confusing. The best thing i've found is

Re: Does Debian 6.0.2.1 for amd64 work properly ?

2011-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 7:15 PM, C.T.F. Jansen frank.jan...@actrix.gen.nz wrote: Greetings,          Is Debian 6.0.2.1, or something more recent, for the amd64 architecture OK ? It will be used to upgrade Debian 5.0.6 on an Asus PRO50G notebook. Thanks. I can't say whether an upgrade install

transition from Ubuntu - Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?

2011-01-17 Thread Paul Johnson
Greetings. On several laptops and desktops, I made the transition from Fedora - Ubuntu about 3 years ago. I did that mainly because Fedora updates kept breaking the Nvidia proprietary video drivers and the developers openly said that they didn't really care whether or not their distribution had

Newbie Thinkpad question

1998-06-24 Thread Paul Johnson
for) the floppy? What's the best way to handle this? Thanks in advance, Paul Paul Johnson Lynx Robotics [EMAIL PROTECTED] ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/Ly/LynxRobotics -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Thinkpad question

1998-06-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Once the floppies are used on bootup, I believe they are not needed again (Makes a ramdisk). So you would boot with the floppy, and do that stuff, then put CD drive in when it asks for it.. I guess I didn't make myself clear. You cannot hot-swap the CD-ROM and Floppy drives, so if you boot

Re: Old address

2003-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:13:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please be sure that no other person is using our old address or has access to any credit information. Whoa! Funniest idiot ever! - -- .''`. Paul Johnson

Re: What happened to linuxconf

2003-10-03 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 10:01:04AM -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: Welcome to the heard. What did you hear? Or, rather, who heard you? It's not like GNU spells Hurd right either. 8:o) - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Virus-infected hosts list

2003-10-04 Thread Paul Johnson
of it. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fmmxUzgNqloQMwcRAoYEAKCekD96FhbJJgai8uT60Gcyz3h8hgCgjW8I

Re: Virus-infected hosts list

2003-10-04 Thread Paul Johnson
with. If it's a problem, they email me, and I pull the IP. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: Virus-infected hosts list

2003-10-04 Thread Paul Johnson
through the smarthost for sites that refuse mail from dynamic ranges. Otherwise, direct-to-MX because I don't have to deal with Comcast's spotty servers for everything then. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-05 Thread Paul Johnson
reboot the machine' or any other key combination that achieves that? Disable rebooting in the bios? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Virus-infected hosts list

2003-10-05 Thread Paul Johnson
the RFC's. Postmaster always accepts mail. [EMAIL PROTECTED] is where they're pointed to in the bounce message. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP

Re: Release statusus

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 11:57:37AM +0200, Neo wrote: is sid frozen? I hardly got any updates last week. Nope, but sarge should be, soon, if sarge is going to go stable by December. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Ticker

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Johnson
something fairly similar. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: KDE+Kmail

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Johnson
, according to aptitude. kdebase-libs suggests it, though. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:05:38PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: There are those collections of Microsoft-Fonts around. Do we have a package in Debian ? I tried apt-cache, but no success.$ msttcorefonts? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-06 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 05:55:04PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: (Could anyone point me to a comprehensible handbook or so about Debian ?? It is so nice and so undocumented. /usr/share/doc isn't enough? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to secure WLAN access?

2003-10-07 Thread Paul Johnson
. Why anybody thinks anything you broadcast over the air can be secure is beyond me. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3

OT: Jabber IDs

2003-10-07 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:26:07AM +0200, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: ralphfdewitt on Yahoo and Aim ralphdewitt on Jabber ralphdewitt is not a valid Jabber ID. Jabber IDs are [EMAIL PROTECTED] - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian-based distros ??

2003-10-07 Thread Paul Johnson
recommend purging down to just the base packages before trying to migrate, though, to reduce potential problems. sid is unstableright? Yes. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix

Re: wine

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
and trying again. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: Sendmail and SMTP AUTH

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
need a recommendation of a secure POP system for receiving mail. ipopd? apt-cache search is your friend. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Partitions and format

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
it without a reinstall? ext3 is a journaling filesystem. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: SWEN isn't slowing down

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/g7ruUzgNqloQMwcRAovwAJ9ddjHcHqKnllRTuXVH06ApBV2vcwCfVPpM

Re: How to manage services?

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/g8NXUzgNqloQMwcRAgaQAKCD6dSkxpmzG5nR3tpy2ywDqAT9+wCgis5X bNgrYfdxm

Re: How to secure access to WLAN?

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
and still safe, I would go for it. Disable WEP. It's totally worthless. Disable any services you don't feel the public should have access to. Use SSH for connections. Treat wireless networks as hostile territory. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim, (was Re: SWEN isn't slowing down)

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
on how to tie in virus scanning to sa-exim as well, post it to this list if you figure it out. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/g8oTUzgNqloQMwcRAj/iAJwL4M4zRk+uRKTMvfgdV7yXJoQlUgCg3iFm

Re: How to secure access to WLAN?

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
with something resembling security for your wired segments. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/g8v

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim, (was Re: SWEN isn't slowing down)

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 02:12:41AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 01:24:27 -0700 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been curious on how to tie in virus scanning to sa-exim as well, post it to this list if you figure it out

Re: How to secure access to WLAN?

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
a wireless setup. For about 8 seconds before someone starts spoofing a valid, authorized MAC. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 04:36:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How would I install exim4 .deb on woody for testing (i.e. without replacing the current exim package)? You don't. They're mutually exclusive. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL

Re: How to secure access to WLAN?

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/hNkSUzgNqloQMwcRAtLkAKDUCfNxltqmoUQSbG/D2t6yXVbXZACggFlc

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
LaTeX. Why, when there's Lyx? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/hOfbUzgNqloQMwcRAqL2AKC2KucTJuZsbtr/4BXjkirUI+mJQgCfZw/B

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
, and more consistantly reliable than OOo. I believe this is because OOo tries to make the same mistakes as in the Windows world by not using existing tools to impliment really, really basic things like spell checking, etc. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim, (was Re: SWEN isn't slowing down)

2003-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
finally has some kpdf integration. Question, though: Where do you get exiscan in debian form for exim4? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim, (was Re: SWEN isn't slowing down)

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
the exiscan-acl patch http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/ for integration of virus-scanners and spamassassin. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
does is add to the misery of the victim. Go read up on how mail systems work (particularly the RFCs involving SMTP, and your MTA's documentation) before trying to do more than report spam via spamcop.net. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin

mutt: how to forward envelope From?

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed when you forward a message in mutt, it strips off the very first header, the envelope From. Is there a way to change this? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian

Re: COMITEMENT

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
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/!\ Knock off the idiot punctuation!!! !!11!

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Notice how people tend to respond later or with snide remarks when you try to do things to unduely gain attention, like !!! and /!\? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
, not .org And if you really want to start annoying spammers, go do a google search on teergrubing. This likewise only applies if you're running your own mailserver. exim4 with sa-exim is the easy and fast way to set up a teergrube. Start one today! 8:o) - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
very unhappy with me (not to mention rendering my net access unusable). Pretty low to nil. Spammers can't tell a teergrube from a really, really slow mail server connected by carrier pigeon from northern Siberia. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
of barratry. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
, but that's a whole 'nother can of beans). - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE

Re: mutt: how to forward envelope From?

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
Not quite. I want to forward the message, not bounce it. I need to add some text to the top so the recipient knows what's going on. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system

Re: BUG in package, what to do?

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
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Re: BUG in package, what to do?

2003-10-09 Thread Paul Johnson
in sid. If it's upstream, whenever upstream gets off it's ass. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :' : `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux

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