sound weirdness

2004-01-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
What might cause xmms to go from audibly playing a song to seemingly playing a song (progress bar moving, lines bouncing up and down as the song plays) without producing any actual sound? I was fiddling with installing/deinstalling alsa, esd, and other fun toys at the time, so I'm not exactly sure

Another Dumb Question About deb.conf

2004-01-28 Thread John Gilger
I've been searching through the Debian docs and can't find anything that tells me what deb.conf is for or how to modify it. Can anyone explaint it, please? TIA --John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-28 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:09:57PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Mike M wrote: > >I am not going to defend .gov's oil policy. My point is there has to be > >an oil policy. You can't disengage and think things will just turn out > >alright. > > Why does there have to be one that includes invasio

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Re: script to list installed packages

2004-01-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:27:11AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know that somewhere there is a command to list all installed packages Perhaps "dpkg --get-selections" would be a good starting point? Doh! I completely forgot about dpkg, I'm so used to apt. This

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Long story short: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is not the only way this forum is read: Other mailing lists mirror this one, as well as several usenet newsgroup. Closing the list would severely limit debian-user's usefulness due to a suddenly and artificially restricted membership. As

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:14:58PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > That isn't the reason. Perusing the archives will yield the real > answer. Because a newbie Debian user *may* read the archvies and *may* > decided to click on the link there to

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike M wrote: I am not going to defend .gov's oil policy. My point is there has to be an oil policy. You can't disengage and think things will just turn out alright. Why does there have to be one that includes invasion? They are in front of the line. My vote is all of the above. Even

WARNING: Email Virus detected

2004-01-28 Thread UCLA Antivirus Scanner
This is a message from the UCLA Antivirus E-Mail Virus Protection Service -- A message destined for your email account believed to be infected with the virus W32/MyDoom-A has been replaced by this warning message. The hea

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:02:05AM -0500, Bojan Baros wrote: > Obviously, there might be some good reasons for this behavior that I > am not aware off (besides "it helps me build up my Bayes database and > test my av"), so please enlighten me. Please

Re: Problems with memory usage

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:58:00AM -0600, Brent Zeiben wrote: > Interesting note I found out was my meminfo produced an output like: > > total memory 259MBused memory: 252MB Free: 7MB > > I thought this was quite odd as nothing was running th

Re: debian-user: not receiving all list mail

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:21:04PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: > It appears that I'm only getting a small percentage of all the mail traffic on > this list. I sent 3 posts yesterday but got nothing back from debian-user. > > Is anyone else experien

Re: Name resolving doesn't work

2004-01-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya frankh On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, [iso-8859-1] frankh wrote: > > /etc/resolv.conf > search dpc388.net > nameserver 192.168.1.2 nameserver ip-number.dns1.your-isp.com nameserver ip-number.dns2.your-isp.com just add any real dns server and you're all set c ya alvin -- To

Re: Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:16:22PM +1100, Ian Perry wrote: > Any ideas would be helpful as there are other mails in the box which we > don't really want to lose. Use mutt? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud

Re: If Linux Becomes More Prevalent -> was Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 08:50:38PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: > Migrating them to a new OS won't help - only education will. No, but it'll likely go a long way in limiting damage if they're not root. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :

Re: script to list installed packages

2004-01-28 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:27:11AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I know that somewhere there is a command to list all installed packages Perhaps "dpkg --get-selections" would be a good starting point? -- Jamin W. Collins Linux is not The Answer. Yes is the answer. Linux is The Question.

Re: If Linux Becomes More Prevalent -> was Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 11:04:52AM +1030, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And the more that Linux systems succumb to the usability vs security > (eg by having passwordless root logins or everyone running about as > admin) then we'll become the targets for t

Re: Books for Debian.

2004-01-28 Thread Scarletdown
Katipo wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:11:00 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over a year ago I tried to install Debian, but did have the time to play with the installation. I'm thinking of giving it another try and was wondering if there are any current books on the installation procedure. Debian GNU

script to list installed packages

2004-01-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all, I know that somewhere there is a command to list all installed packages (I even remember using it way back when...), but I can't seem to find it. I've looked at the various apt utility man pages and have not found anything, even for apt-cache. I'm trying to write a script to run the co

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-28 Thread Mike M
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:37:00PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Mike M wrote: > >There's no way to separate the > >private concerns from the public ones. How is the business of oil to be > >separated from the world's current woes? > > How does government meddling in it improve anything? I am n

Re: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Katipo
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:29:41 +1100 "Ian Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know what this is ? > > Or is it just elaborate spam ? > > Or am I now on yet ANOTHER spam list ? > Hello Ian, Don't worry too much about the noise. A lot of people don't realise you're a Debian newbie, so

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2004-01-28 Thread Elene
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Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:34:35PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: When the signal to noise ratio starts to approach 1:1 it's time to take steps. YOU already have the power. http://ursine.ca/~baloo/clamd-exiscan.txt 1: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} dpkg -l clamav\* Desired=Unknown/Install/

Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 02:20:39AM +0100, Brian Schmidt wrote: > From what I understand then the mailing list checks the sender address, > to see if it is subscribed to the mailinglist. The debian lists are open, not closed. > A thing I would love t

Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 07:48:55PM -0500, Rajesh Menon wrote: > i don;t know much about setting up mailing-lists, but can;t it be setup > to allow mails ONLY from REGISTERED users? Who is registered? A large portion of the readership isn't subscribe

Re: UK Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood

2004-01-28 Thread Katipo
On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:52:24 +1300 Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FYI, > > Adam. > > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39143733,00.htm > Yes, I wouldn't be too concerned. The last of the empire is handing out knighthoods like lollipops these days. It's just an expression o

MIMEDefang Notification

2004-01-28 Thread MIMEDefang
An e-mail you sent with message-id NOQUEUE was modified by our mail scanning software. The recipients were: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here are the details of the modification: An attachment named text.scr was removed from this document as it constituted a security hazard. If you require this document

Re: Books for Debian.

2004-01-28 Thread Katipo
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:11:00 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Over a year ago I tried to install Debian, but did have the > time to play with the installation. I'm thinking of giving it > another try and was wondering if there are any current > books on the installation procedure. > TIA. > W

Re: .deb dependancy hell

2004-01-28 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday January 28 at 03:32pm Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If package A needs package B, and package B needs package A, why in > the world are they two separate packages? Perhaps they are versioned separately, with developmental advances in A not requiring an upgrade to B. O

Re: Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-28 Thread Adam Aube
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 11:10 pm, Ian Perry wrote: > After the telnet session... what's the command to leave pop3 ? IIRC, it is the same as in SMTP: quit Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-29, s. keeling penned: > > Why is debian-* the place to go to complain about Windows viruses?!? > I choose Linux & Debian to avoid Windows and all its cracks and > deficiencies. Others (perhaps including you?) use Linux/Debian in a > pointless attempt to support/protect an unusable Wind

Re: .deb dependancy hell

2004-01-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-29, Richard Hoskins penned: > Stephen Rueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Conclusion: Stop using low level tools if you can't handle them and >> don't complain about them if you don't understand them. Get yourself >> a proper package management frontend like dselect or aptitude. > >

RE: Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
Thanks Brian. This works fine for all other accounts except the one in question. I have no doubt I will need a linux solution in the future. The session looks like this mserver:~# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK POP3 localhost v7.59

Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:34:35PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > When the signal to noise ratio starts to approach 1:1 > it's time to take steps. YOU already have the power. http://ursine.ca/~baloo/clamd-exiscan.txt - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAI

Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:51:52AM +1100, Ian Perry wrote: > Firstly... my apologies to the list. > > Well, thank you for your abrupt reply and for being so damn rude. > > If you can't be civil, then please in future don't bother responding. Apply c

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2004-01-28 Thread Elene
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Re: SATA + debian

2004-01-28 Thread Erik Steffl
David Purton wrote: Hi, I'm looking at purchasing a funky shuttle xpc SB62G2. Amongst other things this box supports Serial ATA drives. Are there likely to be any troubles installing debian on a box with a SATA hard drive? The chipsets are: North Bridge: i865G South Bridge: iCH5-R Can an

laptop, dhcp and ADSL

2004-01-28 Thread Victor Munoz
Hello. This is a rather long mail. I've been struggling against network configurations in my laptop this week, to get ADSL working at home. I have succeeded, but after several failed trials. Maybe someone here can help me understand? First: my laptop is a Compaq Armada 7800, with sid running

Re: test

2004-01-28 Thread girl
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Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-28 Thread Mike M
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:08:17PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > > I'd debate the issue, but you have your preferred view that appears to be based on a > mixture of misconception and a confused perception of Europe being socialist. You > obviously also appear to have no understanding of what happened i

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike M wrote: There's no way to separate the private concerns from the public ones. How is the business of oil to be separated from the world's current woes? How does government meddling in it improve anything? Who is responsible for the atrocities that followed, consisting of human enslaveme

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Bojan Baros wrote: David did bring a good point as well, about opportunity to ask question without being exposed to the volume of the list, and using gmane or some other way of reading the posts, instead of receiving them in the email box. That about settles it for me, unless someone has something

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-28 Thread Steve Lamb
s. keeling wrote: Which brings up another thing; all the talk about scanning the list for viruses, only allowing those subscribed to post, etc., yada yada. If they weren't using Windows to read mail, they wouldn't have a problem, would they? Why are so many considering reworking the list just to s

Double confirmation

2004-01-28 Thread jjackgbi
The following autoresponder 'QTPdemo_qi' just received a request from your email address. Hopefully this came from yourself, however some people think it is amusing to subscribe others without their permission so this mail is being sent so that you can confirm your request. If you do wish to rec

Re: 256-color xterm

2004-01-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can anyone tell me how to build an xterm with 256 colors using the > debian source package? I'd just like a bit more flexibility -- and > I'd like to have the off-the-shelf values for emacs highlighting work > when I'm in a terminal. The simplest way is

Re: Installing Debian Unstable From Scratch

2004-01-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 11:16:04AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 04:35:11PM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > > > pretty simple. Your start is good :). Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and > > replace woody or testing to sarge or unstable, or better, add an unstable > > line to it, like:

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-28 Thread Mike M
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 12:23:00PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Mike M wrote: > >The point-by-point rebuttal was rendered moot by this last part. We (the > >US) must not withdraw from the world and our borders must remain open and > >we must accept being hated and we must stop being so arrogant and

Re: .deb dependancy hell

2004-01-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 03:32:53PM -0500, Richard Hoskins wrote: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > RPM == DEB are of nearly equal capacity. It is the Packaging that > > Debian Uses and the Proper dependency checking it does. > > Yes. Whatever. Flippancy doesn't make people more

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-28 Thread Bojan Baros
> On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 10:31, Sebastiaan wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Bojan Baros wrote: >> >> > Hello deb users. >> > >> > I got a little issue with receiving some of the mails through this >> > list... >> > >> > The entire list have been subjected to the inflow of spam, >> viruses, >

stopping exim4 from hanging on startup with no network

2004-01-28 Thread Micha Feigin
I have exim4 setup on a laptop, thus the network isn't always available when the system starts up. The problem is that when the network isn't found it hangs for about a minute before it gives up and lets the boot process continue which is very annoying. I think it is hanging on trying to connect to

Re: rebuilding /etc/rc.d Scripts

2004-01-28 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 10:10:32AM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote: > Hi again, > > Micha Feigin: > > I just had a system crash (reiserfs) and after fsck everything comes up > > fine but looking at lost+found and as a result at the /etc/rc.d > > directories it seems that some of the links there were los

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > Does this mean that the volunteer list maintainer who has limited time > to maintain the list is a Debian Developer, > or can there be other volunteers to do this who DO have more time? I am > under the impression that recently there is NO maintenance of this l

Re: Tuning X

2004-01-28 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:13:15AM +0100, David Baron wrote: > Awaiting your XF86 options to check against mine. > Thanks. Here's my XF86Config, then. (I don't have an XF86Config-4.) # File generated by xf86config. # # Copyright (c) 1999 by The XFree86 Project, Inc. # # Permission is hereby gra

Re: xscreensaver-gl issue, gl only works once per session

2004-01-28 Thread Grégory SIMONET
Hi, I had exactly the same problem. It works fine after a simple reinstallation the the nvidia drivers : - you've got to download them on www.nvidia.com - to compile them - to restart X hope this was useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Netcraft Shows Debian Fastest Growing!

2004-01-28 Thread rthoreau
I thought I would spread the good news, according to a Netcraft study Debain is the fastest growing Distro which contain Debian in an Apache server header. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/01/28/debian_fastest_growing_linux_distribution.html >From July 03 to January 04 we had a 24.6% growth

BitDefender found an infected message

2004-01-28 Thread Florin Radu
BitDefender found an infected object in a message that was sent from your address To: [Victor Dumitrescu] Subject: [Mail Delivery System] Object: (body) Virus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] We strongly advise you to check your computer using BitDefender antivirus products. You can download a fully functiona

Re: If Linux Becomes More Prevalent -> was Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Scarletdown: > > How's about something like this? > > Dear Linux user, > > Please find the NEW LINUX Virus program called HONOR. Since this Scenario 1: "Hey Boss; the mailserver's hosed again." "How did that happen?" "Someone checked their mail." Scenario 2: "Hey Boss; the mai

New Office Location and Contact Numbers

2004-01-28 Thread Publications
Please excuse this automatic notice e-mail, as we would like to let everyone know about our pending move. For your reference, the International Law Institute will be moving in early July to the following location: International Law Institute The Foundry Building 1055 Thomas Jefferson Street NW

UK Unix users up in arms at Bill Gates' knighthood

2004-01-28 Thread Adam Bogacki
FYI, Adam. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39143733,00.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flash plugin

2004-01-28 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:27:43PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-01-27, Pigeon penned: > > > > --+KJYzRxRHjYqLGl5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: > > quoted-printable > > > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:59:22PM -0200,

Re: 8139too Module

2004-01-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 02:24:27AM -, Timothy Paling wrote: > On Tue, 2004-01-27 at 19:36, Timothy Paling wrote: > Producing this listing shows that 8139too is not in the list. > > modprobe simple reports that it cannot find the module. > > How do I proceed further? I've located the source fo

Re: rebuilding /etc/rc.d Scripts

2004-01-28 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Erich Waelde said... > > In principle, apt-get --reinstall install will fix it, but how to > find out all packages having startup links? You could try something like: # cd /var/lib/dpkg/info # grep -l update-rc.d *.postinst | sed 's/.postinst$//' That should give you a list o

Name resolving doesn't work

2004-01-28 Thread frankh
I had a hangup when I called mozilla during execution of pon, so I had to hardware-reset my system. Now that nameserver thing doesn't work anymore: a ping to the 'P-t-P' address obtained from ifconfig works. Pinging any full qualified name doesn't. My configuration files are: /etc/hostname: offi

Re: iiswish@lists.debian.org - anyone shed any light?

2004-01-28 Thread rthoreau
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:12:22PM +, Joseph Jones wrote: > I keep getting stupid e-mails from here. Anyone have any information on > it? I'll fwd the message source if anyone's interested. > > Joe You might want to check your headers, maybe a spammer is spoofing the headers and you think it

Re: If Linux Becomes More Prevalent -> was Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Adam Aube
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 07:44 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Does Windows get cracked more often because there's more Windows? No, > it's because Windows is more crackable I also think the "Windows is hacked more because it's more popular" argument is bogus. The point I like to use is this: IIS fl

Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Brian Schmidt
Rajesh Menon wrote: and as you notice, the sender names are not "rajesh menon", or "brian schmidt", or anyone on the list, but just a random name. No, but as you notice, the mail address being used is [EMAIL PROTECTED], even if I put up another name as a front for that address, the address will

Re: Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-28 Thread Brian Schmidt
Ian Perry wrote: Hi, I have a mailbox here where someone sent a 141MB (yep.. 141 meg) message to it, and now we cannot delete that message. Mail(x) responds with, fseek: Invalid argument panic: temporary file seek Segmentation fault client email programs time out. Other than deleting the entire

Re: udf writing in sid

2004-01-28 Thread Toshiro
> > > Is it possible to use udf packet writing with the Debian kernel > > > (2.6.0)? > > > > > > I've installed udftools, but when I run 'pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 > > > /dev/cdrom' I get the message 'open packet device: No such device or > > > address' (I created the /dev/pkt* devices using 'dpkg-rec

Re: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Mike M
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:44:47PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I know this is not a windows list and I have never yet asked a question > like this on here before, but perhaps there is someone who knows the > answer to this question. > > Because our vessels have to get mail over lines that are

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-28 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 17:55, Steve Lamb wrote: > Katipo wrote: > > I'd debate the issue, but you have your preferred view that appears to be > > based on a mixture of misconception and a confused perception of Europe > > being socialist. > > Uhm, no. I ran with what you agreed Nano sai

Re: Books for Debian.

2004-01-28 Thread Randy W. Sims
On 1/28/2004 8:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Over a year ago I tried to install Debian, but did have the time to play with the installation. I'm thinking of giving it another try and was wondering if there are any current books on the installation procedure. TIA. Wayne I'm fairly new to Debia

Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Rajesh Menon
Brian Schmidt wrote: Rajesh Menon wrote: i don;t know much about setting up mailing-lists, but can;t it be setup to allow mails ONLY from REGISTERED users? From what I understand then the mailing list checks the sender address, to see if it is subscribed to the mailinglist. Unfortunately it's

Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Rajesh Menon
Brian Schmidt wrote: Rajesh Menon wrote: i don;t know much about setting up mailing-lists, but can;t it be setup to allow mails ONLY from REGISTERED users? From what I understand then the mailing list checks the sender address, to see if it is subscribed to the mailinglist. Unfortunately it's

Evolution install

2004-01-28 Thread Darrell
I am using flonix ( a small debian distro) and want to run Evolution. I did apt-get install evolution and about 5-6 different packages needed to be installed. I thought apt-get and even synaptic would solve these? I need to install a groupware program ( or a good alternative contact manager app

Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Brian Schmidt
Rajesh Menon wrote: i don;t know much about setting up mailing-lists, but can;t it be setup to allow mails ONLY from REGISTERED users? From what I understand then the mailing list checks the sender address, to see if it is subscribed to the mailinglist. Unfortunately it's easy for me to simply c

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sebastiaan wrote: I think there is a nice practical reason for this. The list operator doesn't have time to delete every spam user from this list. The operator is also someone who is maintaining the list in his free time. Does this mean that the volunteer list maintainer who

Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have a mailbox here where someone sent a 141MB (yep.. 141 meg) message to it, and now we cannot delete that message. Mail(x) responds with, fseek: Invalid argument panic: temporary file seek Segmentation fault client email programs time out. Other than deleting the entire mailbox, does any

Re: If Linux Becomes More Prevalent -> was Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Scarletdown
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ..the more Linux systems, or the more open source systems, out there the more likely that people will be interested in actually cracking Others have already debunked that theory. Does Windows get cracked more often because there's more Windows?

Books for Debian.

2004-01-28 Thread infotechsys
Hi, Over a year ago I tried to install Debian, but did have the time to play with the installation. I'm thinking of giving it another try and was wondering if there are any current books on the installation procedure. TIA. Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: software raid

2004-01-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya harland On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 01:20:24PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > i am trying to configure raid-1 via software. my kernel is 2.4.18- > 1-586tsc. i do not have /etc/raidtools or /proc/mdstat. am i safe > to assume that raid support is not compiled into this kernel? if > thi

Re: flash plugin

2004-01-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-01-27, Pigeon penned: --+KJYzRxRHjYqLGl5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 03:59:22PM -0200, Daniel Ferreira wrote: Hi, =20 I'm trying to install the flash plu

new email address

2004-01-28 Thread Brian Nosek
Please update your address book. My new email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] You do not need to resend this message, it has been forwarded to my new account. However, this account will expire shortly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: software raid

2004-01-28 Thread Erich Waelde
Hi, Harland Christofferson wrote: > i am trying to configure raid-1 via software. my kernel is 2.4.18- > 1-586tsc. i do not have /etc/raidtools or /proc/mdstat. am i safe > to assume that raid support is not compiled into this kernel? if > this is true, what options do i have? are modules good

Re: Debian list = spam and virus repeater/multiplexer

2004-01-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sebastiaan wrote: Hi, On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Bojan Baros wrote: Hello deb users. The entire list have been subjected to the inflow of spam, viruses, auto-responders finding virus or spam, clueless users or someone who just wants to mess around with the list. I think there is a nice practical rea

RE: Email client programs

2004-01-28 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Ben Yau wrote: > True, but you can do your best to workaround the network issue. In this > case, a mail client that would actually do something akin to > > retr 1 > del 1 > retr 2 > del 2 > retr 3 > del 3 > > Instead of retrieving all messages _and then_ deleting which is

Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Rajesh Menon
i don;t know much about setting up mailing-lists, but can;t it be setup to allow mails ONLY from REGISTERED users? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
Apology accepted... I have to admit, it was a fairly dumb question. I can understand the frustration. I had not seen the other posts as I subscribed again only yesterday, after a 3 year break. I have in the past subscribed to one list only to be put on another at the same time. You are fortunat

Re: If Linux Becomes More Prevalent -> was Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > ..the more Linux systems, or the more open source systems, out there > the more likely that people will be interested in actually cracking Others have already debunked that theory. Does Windows get cracked more often because there's more Windows? No, it's be

Re: PHP 4 and apache 1.3.26

2004-01-28 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-01-28, Orombelli Giulio penned: > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not > understand this format, some or all of this message may not be > legible. > > --_=_NextPart_001_01C3E58B.2D9BB5A0 Content-Type: text/plain > > Hi, > > I've succesfully installed apache 1.

Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Steve Lamb
s. keeling wrote: Why is debian-* the place to go to complain about Windows viruses?!? I choose Linux & Debian to avoid Windows and all its cracks and deficiencies. I dunno. I'd hazard a guess the fact that the list mantainers idiotic position of open acceptance every freakin' time we have a

Re: .deb dependancy hell

2004-01-28 Thread Richard Hoskins
"Rosenstrauch, David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In any case, you probably should take this issue with a grain of > salt anyway. You are running "unstable", after all. :-) Absolutely. I'm still learning package management on Debian. The only box I'm running it on is my personal (as in home

libmemoize-perl/testing: Broken package?

2004-01-28 Thread Sam Ruby
I'm new to Debian (previously I used RedHat). My ultimate goal is to install mythtv, but for now I seem to have isolated a reproducible problem with a CPAN module. Environment: a machine wiped clean. Fresh minimal netinst of sarge (vintage 20040124). I then update /etc/apt/sources.list to lo

If Linux Becomes More Prevalent -> was Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread
Hi There, > Why is debian-* the place to go to complain about Windows viruses?!? I don't think I know (and I don't want to hazard a guess). > I choose Linux & Debian to avoid Windows and all its cracks and > deficiencies. Others (perhaps including you?) use Linux/Debian in a > pointless attemp

Re: udf writing in sid

2004-01-28 Thread Doug Holland
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 10:52 am, Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler wrote: > I'd also be interested in UDF for Linux, but it doesn't really seem to be > implemented. I used to use it to do incremental backups in Windows. > > Chris > > On Wednesday 28 January 2004 03:00, Toshiro wrote: > > Is it possible

Re: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Ian Perry: > Firstly... my apologies to the list. > > Well, thank you for your abrupt reply and for being so damn rude. > > If you can't be civil, then please in future don't bother responding. > > A simple "Yes, its just spam would have sufficed" thank you. I'll agree, I was abru

Re: .deb dependancy hell

2004-01-28 Thread Richard Hoskins
Stephen Rueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Conclusion: Stop using low level tools if you can't handle them and > don't complain about them if you don't understand them. Get yourself > a proper package management frontend like dselect or aptitude. I wasn't complaining. -- Lift me down, so I ca

Re: .deb dependancy hell

2004-01-28 Thread Stephen Rueger
Richard Hoskins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On unstable, i386. Irrelevant. >Kind of reminds me of RPM: Reminds me of lame RPM users... > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg -r libgphoto2-2 > dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libgphoto2-2: >libgphoto2-port0 depends on libgphoto2-

SAV detected a possible virus in a document you authored.

2004-01-28 Thread It Support Department
Please contact your system administrator and advise them of this message. Message information follows: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 28/01/2004 18:08:00 GMT Subject: MAIL DELIVERY SYSTEM Virus found: [EMAIL PROTECTED] InfectedAttachment: document.zip The scanned doc

RE: FW: registration confirmation...

2004-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
Firstly... my apologies to the list. Well, thank you for your abrupt reply and for being so damn rude. If you can't be civil, then please in future don't bother responding. A simple "Yes, its just spam would have sufficed" thank you. -Original Message- From: s. keeling [mailto:] Sen

Re: udf writing in sid

2004-01-28 Thread Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler
I'd also be interested in UDF for Linux, but it doesn't really seem to be implemented. I used to use it to do incremental backups in Windows. Chris On Wednesday 28 January 2004 03:00, Toshiro wrote: > Is it possible to use udf packet writing with the Debian kernel (2.6.0)? > > I've installed ud

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