Re: Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet card

2006-05-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
However, when I first upgraded to 2.6.16 it DID work. I was forced to go back to .15 (and my other NIC) due to some problems with the NVIDIA drivers for my video card, but the Yukon board DID work with 2.6.16. Sorry I can't be much more helpful than that. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free

Re: LVM2 snapshot question

2006-05-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 13:56 -0500, Grant Thomas wrote: > > On 5/13/06, Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It's one of the greatest > > strengths of LVM in my opinion. (Second only to pairing it with xfs and > > allowing growing the filesystem withou

Re: LVM2 snapshot question

2006-05-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
keep all of the changes, LVM merges those changes in with the original filesystem and you're left with an up-to-date filesystem. It's kind of like having a CVS for filesystems. It's one of the greatest strengths of LVM in my opinion. (Second only to pairing it with xfs and allowing

Re: xmms and the vorbis plugin

2006-05-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
uot; without being able to play ogg files.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Gnome locale

2006-05-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
DDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= What's strange is that when I set up the "locales" package I didn't select any GB items. I just reconfirmed it (waji

Re: LVM - dead disk

2006-04-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 20:04 -0800, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 22:25 +0200, Chris Searle wrote: > --snip-- > > Vol group vg0 consisted of hda3, hdb1 and hdc1 (the plusses and > > minuses of this idea I'm well aware of - at the time it seemed > &g

Re: LVM - dead disk

2006-04-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
you didn't get too greedy with using all of those spindles. I would have striped all of my lv's across all three drives, and then I would have been up a creek without a spindle. ;) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mai

Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian

2005-12-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
he Internet. (It was originally used for direct ISDN connections between video conferencing systems.) Hope that helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Using par2

2005-12-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
t of luck. But as long as you keep the PAR files somewhere safe you could (probably) lose 1 or 2 CD's out of a 10 CD set and still recover. With the DVD's it would be a different issue. Recovering from 33% data loss would be tricky. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Wind

Re: Holiday computer access problems!

2005-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
e a way to perhaps telnet to port 80 and > somehow get a login prompt, from which I can log in as root or any > user? > I don't believe there's any way to do this. SSH server and client processes only work in the direction they're supposed to, to the best of my knowledge

Re: ping claims lost packets

2005-12-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
hat tcpdump will pick up packets BEFORE they're filtered by iptables, whereas ping would obviously sit BEHIND the firewall. In this way, if iptables was set up to drop ICMP packets, the kernel would still receive them, but ping wouldn't. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Win

Re: Booting Debian directly into a 'regular user account

2005-12-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
o have it end up in an X session sooner or later, so you can just set up gdm and configure it to automatically log in a user of your choosing without asking for name or password. So you can just create a user with no real permissions and set their session to start up your slideshow of choice at login. H

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
her of us to make personal assaults against the other in the course of said discussion. If I have done that in any of my previous statements in this message, or any other one, I do apologize. So shall we move on? My question still stands; what practical benefit does the proprietary RAR solution prese

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
question referred to how to archive a large amount of data and split it into pieces for transferring to someone else. If someone REQUESTS RAR specifically, and I have a business relationship with them, I'll certainly oblige. However, if the format is unspecified, as in this case it was, I wou

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 18:51 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- > > I don't know, maybe I'm just dense or something, but explain to me why > > you would WANT to put that information in the archive itself? > > What, the checksums? Uh, so

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 16:15 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > The same way that RAR does. They tell you whether that discreet part of > > the archive is corrupted or not. If it is corrupted it's just as useless > > whether it's a RAR archi

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
ks with any type of a multi-part archive I'm just not seeing any particular strength to using RAR. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Neal Stephenson on Debian

2005-12-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
y, and redemption..." > > -- Neal Stephenson > In The Beginning Was The Command Line, 1999, p.106 Thanks for the quote. I'm assuming you've just now read In the Beginning? Better late than never I guess. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
if you have to use something more windows friendly, zipsplit would do the trick as well. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Descript

Re: Power button not shuting down debian

2005-12-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
ing the mode of management used (APM or ACPI) instead of abandoning the concept altogether. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
it would be far from the ideal solution. Specifying a static IP in /etc/network/interfaces with the dhcp option set would also not work as the dhcp option would cause any static IP's listed to just be ignored. The "correct" way to do this is to use a static lease. That's the reason that static leases exist in the DHCP spec in the first place. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
lot of machine specific filtering and forwarding in iptables, it's still useful to have static leases defined. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: exim4 and SSH tunneling

2005-11-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 21:19 +0100, Björn Lindström wrote: > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > You could just use an SSH tunnel FROM port 25 on localhost TO port 25 > > on the smarthost. For example: > > > > ssh -L25:localhost:25 -N your.smarthos

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
desirable trait. But inbreeding can cause lots of nasty things including genetic mutations. So a few years down the road those inbred "organic" turkeys can be just as bad as hormone-injected ones. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mai

Re: exim4 and SSH tunneling

2005-11-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
on your local system will come in on port 25 of the remote system. So exim will still answer it as a default SMTP connection. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyserver

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-11-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
o as long as you're not using password-based authentication (which is the case with sudo), you're fine. Obviously, make sure you use sudo to do the change in the first place as Roberto suggested just to make sure that your sudo does, in fact, work right. If you do it while logged in a

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
f you're not using dhcpd, then you'll need to look for some reference to assigning a static lease and go from there. Hope that helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: .bash_history

2005-11-21 Thread Alex Malinovich
tead, grep it by piping it: > > history | grep mycommand Or save yourself some typing and just use Ctrl-R. If the first result isn't the one you're looking for just push Ctrl-R again for each additional match. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TOD

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
while being hostile to any individual in that group is beyond me. I'm really not sure what you mean here. Perhaps an example of a law that is meant to be friendly to the community but is unfriendly to an individiual would be in order? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
ess you are an old bald man with a penchant for Earl Grey tea and saying things like "engage", you are not likely to get out of it easily. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of t

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
(among others), for religious people in general. Buddhism and many other eastern religions focus very heavily on logical thought and learning. So religion does not NECESSARILY need to ignore reason and logic, it is only that many of the best-known religions tend to do this. -- Alex Malinovich Supp

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
aviour [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_mentality [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformism [5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupthink#See_also -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Looking for a one-time "change this password" script for login

2005-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
ce of a flag file (say ".pwd-changed") and if it doesn't exist, run passwd. Then just add this to the user's .profile and you're done. You could actually add this to skel to have it in there automatically whenever you create a new user. Definitely not an ideal solution, but

Re: Imap

2005-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
k to make sure that you do, in fact, have a Maildir and if not, make one using maildirmake. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: quake4 installation

2005-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
debianista.deb wrote: ok thanks for your answers :D how can I do a chroot ? please I haven't the game totally yet ;P but then I will test inside the cds folder yes I have enough space https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.html#id271960 There's a good howto th

Re: Comfortable with Debian,but 4 points...

2005-11-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
it's probably not good enough. :) But for day to day use with some additional security it should be good. And as dm-crypt is easily extensible, if someone writes an excellent encryption plugin for it you will have the benefit of that update. Sorry that I couldn't give you some better news, but

Re: Using USB and Visor module

2005-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
that have been closed recently have either been fixed by an NMU or by a different package which gnome-pilot uses being fixed by the maintainer for that package. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from an

Re: Asterisk Problems

2005-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
liar with the configs, and after you do you'll be able to do some really great stuff with the system. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signatu

Re: Using the latest Eclipse on Debian

2005-07-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
If you got something smaller then you just got the eclipse environment without the associated SDK bits (like java, etc). -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

sharing i386 and amd64 /etc and /home

2005-07-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
I just want to make sure that I don't hose my i386 setup before I'm fully switched over. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.a

Re: A little something quirky....

2005-07-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
is correct (assuming that purdue.edu is the mirror you have set up in /etc/apt/sources.list). If you mean something else then I'm not sure what you mean. If that is the case post the output you're getting and then point out what part you're asking about. -- Alex Malinovich Suppor

Re: default info browser

2005-07-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 14:42 -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 12:39 -0500, Sebastian Luque wrote: > > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Even if I already had it running however, clicking is much too s

Re: default info browser

2005-07-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 12:39 -0500, Sebastian Luque wrote: > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > Even if I already had it running however, clicking is much too slow for > > me. M-x info, m, works, but it's too many steps. Not to >

Re: default info browser

2005-07-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 15:59 +, s. keeling wrote: > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > So after 4 years of stubbornly refusing to accept info pages and > > sticking to plain old 'man' I've decided that it's time to embrace info > &

default info browser

2005-07-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
like to do is force emacs to be my info browser, so that 'info foo', for example, will start up emacs, load up info, and open the 'foo' info page. Any ideas? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get m

Re: .torrent clients sugestions

2005-07-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
e other internal code DOES require a Sun JVM. But at some point in the, hopefully, not too distant future, someone may make a fully-free implementation of Azureus that will work with one/all of the FOSS Java alternatives.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODA

Re: Evolution / Novell

2005-06-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
e major components of Evolution are now fully free. It was thanks to that move that I was able to finally ditch my Windows box at work altogether (only used it for Outlook anyway) and have a pure Debian desktop at work. Hope that clears things up. Just holler if you have any more questions. -- A

Re: Is 'rename' missing or is it just me?

2005-06-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
levels deep in a directory tree, arbitrarily move parts of a file-name around (e.g. rename foo-bar.jpg to bar-foo.jpg), and my favorite feature, uppercase or lowercase individual parts of a file-name. Quite a nice little tool. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partitio

Re: Top posting

2005-06-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
here with 'loosing my keys' and having a 'lose bolt'. That little extra 'd' can't be that hard to type, can it? Not picking on Hal here, just the most recent example. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail

Re: Top posting

2005-06-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
with footnotes. > > If a point isn't clear and footnoted, check on what it says. If it is clear > and you don't need explanation, skip the footnotes. I usually deal with emails (discussion group and otherwise) in 'bursts'. I don't keep up with it on an hourl

Re: Top posting

2005-06-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
s that I speak, the importance of my message is completely irrelevant. And if you will not be able to comprehend any message which is not top-posted, then it is my responsibility to top-post when communicating with you. (If, in fact, I give a damn about getting my message across.) Wow... that stretc

Re: Where did the unstable branch of the debian archives (ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US/) go?

2005-06-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
estrictions that made non-US necessary a few years ago, so all of the packages from non-US have been moved into the main archive. Someone on one of the lists I'm on posted a link about this recently but I can't seem to find it at the moment. If anyone else has the link handy it would be ap

Re: Programming Backwards (was Re: Top posting (a different point of view))

2005-06-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
f the norm. At least I think it is... maybe it's not and I'm a crazy backwards coder too... hmm... -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 sign

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
in his case if there is justice. Amen to that! I feel like contributing to chemotherapy research right now! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
who use proprietary software have a view of the world which stresses "Me! Me! Me!". People who use free software generally view the world in terms of "We!". So a top-poster is concerned about him or herself not doing extra work. A bottom-poster is concerned with improving the qu

Re: OT: Safe Type (was Re: DVORAK)

2005-06-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
oking at their site more I saw that they do have a guarantee on the keyboards, so I'll probably buy one and try it and see if the keypad issue is one I can live with or not. With that once exception, I'm very impressed with the keyboard. Now I just have to try it and see how it feels. -

OT: Safe Type (was Re: DVORAK)

2005-06-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
tainly see where it could be comfortable. And by the looks of it, the number pad is BETWEEN the two upright sections? That seems rather cumbersome. Any input appreciated. (My credit card started itching as soon as I saw the keyboard. :) ) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Wind

Re: ion2 + x2vnc + multiple workspaces = possible?

2005-06-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
anything for you. Hopefully at least the clarification will help you get some better answers. (Assuming, of course, that my clarification is correct. :) ) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key

Re: lilo to grub conversion

2005-06-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
ections to be found in /usr/share/doc/grub/README.Debian.gz You'll need to run a few commands as root, double-check your menu.lst, and you'll be all set to go. It's actually a lot easier than most people expect. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows pa

Re: still can't write some slovak characters in ordinary text editors

2005-06-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
ou trying to type them? Are you setting your keyboard layout to a Slovak keyboard, or are you trying to do it using a modifier key? (e.g. "Super + S + <" for Š). Also, are you sure that you're using UTF fontsets? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partit

Re: grub vs lilo

2005-05-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
is uninstalled, but it is still written to your MBR. You'll need to run 'lilo' as root (no options necessary) to get it to re-write itself to the MBR and overwrite Grub. Just out of curiosity, why are you switching FROM grub TO lilo? Most people (myself included) do just the op

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
; have done it? Just an 'ifdown -a; ifup -a' would have let you back in. I have actually managed to MAINTAIN a connection that way before. I'm not exactly sure how that happened but I'd imagine that the length of time that it took for the connection to get re-established was le

Re: tar packet

2005-05-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
e tar command as yourself. If you run it as yourself you do not have permissions to set the ownership on a file to root. Try running the tar command as root and see if that helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my pu

Re: friendly scp (help)

2005-05-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
's not exactly light-weight, don't expect to run it on a 233 MHz machine) But I think a default Gnome install pretty much has to have Nautilus anyway, so assuming you're a Gnome user you should be all set to go. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition

Re: [OT] Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
icant other. But if I wasn't just playing devil's advocate here, I'd agree with your initial statement. :) p.s. In all fairness to Ron, he's never held back from speaking his mind on this list which, in my case at least, is why I value him so much as a member of the community.

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
ource files open, the memory footprint gets very close if not pretty well over 256 MB. Throw in X, a wm, and all the basic system services and that 384 MB is nothing. For anyone doing serious Eclipse work I would very much recommend having at least 768 MB or RAM with 256 MB pre-allocated to Eclip

Re: Eclipse: X eats up 280 MB of memory

2005-05-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
recommend starting Eclipse with AT LEAST 256 MB allocated to it (using the -Xmx256M flag) for best performance. This also means that you should upgrade to a total of 768 MB of RAM or more. With how cheap RAM is nowadays though, I'd say just throw another 512 MB in there and be done with it. -- Alex

Re: how to determine WAN IP address from behind a NAT router?

2005-05-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
_ADDR. > But I don't want to rely on an external website. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: how to determine WAN IP address from behind a NAT router?

2005-05-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
ot;outside" IP address. How do they > do it? I'd imagine that Gnutella-type programs detect it by asking the server you're connecting to for it. I don't know of a way to determine it from the actual machine being NAT-ed. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: Regex expert needed

2005-05-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
#x27;.*?')*?,('.*?')*/ If you KNOW that the commas are going to be before or after the quoted string, then the above could be simplified a bit. Disclaimer: The above is written from the top of my head. I don't have a chance to test it at the moment so YMMV. -- Alex Malinovich

Re: [OT] X-friendly KVM switch?

2005-05-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
not sure how much it costs since work provided it, but I think it's right around $100US. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: apt-get deprecated?

2005-05-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
idea. > > Or was that dselect? Can someone confirm or deny? I'm not sure if it IS aptitude, but I'm relatively sure that it's NOT dselect. I used to use dselect exclusively (before I saw the light and started using wajig) and it would work on any changes that were set b

Re: Regex expert needed

2005-05-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
eful. Your explanation is pretty good, but as soon as you started with "Unfortunately ...", that made it much more difficult to deal with (for me at least) without sample data. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get

Re: multiport ethernet cards

2005-01-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
rking with both Debian and FreeBSD flawlessly. As the net4801 has 3 ethernet ports I'd imagine they're based on either a scaled up lan1621 or a scaled down lan1641. This is, of course, pure speculation but given that Soekris generally makes very Linux-friendly hardware I'd imagine that

Re: Debian installer

2005-01-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
at all files created during install can > get the wrong date and time if you do not do this. That's a good suggestion. Have you filed a bug report to suggest it? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
bian? > apt-cache search dance > Just curious... I would very much recommend pydance to anyone who needs to kill some time. :) Be warned as if you get good at it and you don't have a dance pad hooked up to your computer, your keyboard will get quite a pounding on the old arrow keys

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
> playable if you know Japanese or have played DDR so many times you > don't need to know what the game is saying any more). Who hasn't?! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from an

Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 12:08 +0800, Katipo wrote: --snip-- > Take the time to sit down and watch a sunset sometime, then chuck the > book away. > Regards, Amen to that! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You c

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 08:49 +0100, Pascal Bonesh wrote: --snip-- > What a wonderful world it would be if all people would just throw away > their holy books and start thinking and acting as humans. Bravo! I second that wholeheartedly! -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delet

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
change the last two digits in Chicago. The primary roads to/through the city are 55, 57, 80, 88, 90, 94, 190, 290, and 294. And various concatenations of the above. (80/94 being the one that I frequent most) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail

Re: Script to temporarily "open" port

2004-12-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
afer since the port will only be opened when you request it with a particular knock sequence. With a cron job that port will end up being open to the world at particular times, regardless of who initiated the request. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partiti

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
x27;m a very happy atheist who disbelieves in God and Allah equally among all the other deities out there. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837

Re: Linux Functionality? (OT)

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
I do I guess I can just hop on good ol' 30 and start driving. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: ncftp versus ncftp2 -- Debian packages for woody

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
ard ncftp2 users who actually use it as their client day to day. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: OT: Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
l, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt. And we were thankful! -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 11:40 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 09:18 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- > > But I do absolutely agree that for mission critical systems, stable > > should be the only real choice. > > With or without backports? Or hand

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
tems, stable should be the only real choice. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: php plugin for emacs

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
php-elisp - Emacs support for php files txt2regex - A Regular Expression "wizard", all written with bash2 builtins -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 14:42 -0500, William Ballard wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:05 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear > > > defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on > >

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 11:37 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Debian - a distribution which uses the Linux kernel with the GNU OS > > tools and a whole bunch of associated userland applications > > Bzt. Debian, a project which puts together dis

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
s I know, but it possible to do the same sort > > of thing from the command line, it's just that no one has gone to the > > trouble to make a "click-and-drool" way to do this yet ;) > Isn't that being implemented in KDE 3.4? What's wrong with Ctrl+Alt+F[8-12]?

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
perfectly. And I would think that with French being a much more prominent language (I assume you're referring to French localization) it would actually be even better. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my p

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
e jump to Ubuntu and he's been quite happy so far. I'm actually considering installing Midnight Commander for him to see how he likes it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
box. (Like you would resize a window by clicking on one of the borders and dragging.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
de' programs. Programs which aren't officially recognized as a part of either distribution. In the case of Debian these are programs which aren't in the official repository. In the case of Windows, these are all the programs which aren't included in a basic Windows installation (in

Gimp select tool (was: Re: Linux Functionality?)

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 07:38 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 11:33:43PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > ... > > And though I hate to admit the need for tools such as these, SIMPLIFIED > > GUI tools for specific tasks tend to be better in Windows. As a great

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
ying the Devil's advocate here. Ron, I guess that would make you the Devil. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian sid and "risk management"

2004-12-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
storing the list of packages that WOULD be upgraded in a text file. Then when I do my next update, I compare that list vs the list of two weeks ago and only install the packages that HAVEN'T changed. This gives me a selection of two week old packages that MOST LIKELY work (since critical bugs

Re: udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 19:59 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:11:38PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > This is just a copy of your pre-udev device entries. They're not used > > for anything, they're just pretty much there for your reference. >

Re: udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

2004-12-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
have: > > ll /.dev/hd[cd] > brw-rw 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2004-03-23 16:48 /.dev/hdc > brw-rw 1 root cdrom 22, 64 2004-03-23 16:48 /.dev/hdd This is just a copy of your pre-udev device entries. They're not used for anything, they're just pretty much there for your refere

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