Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 7, 2008 4:09 PM, Quincy Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spam here too! I notice no spam in the Ubuntu users list maybe they have a better filter? Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! :) -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-01-07 08:10:28 -0500, Curt Howland wrote: As much as I do not want to restrict the Debian lists to subscribers only post, I will not be surprised nor blame the Debian developers if that decision is made. This could be taken into account in scoring. Moreover, I've noticed that most

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
Chris Howie wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 4:09 PM, Quincy Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spam here too! I notice no spam in the Ubuntu users list maybe they have a better filter? Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! :) -- Chris Howie

Re: detecting hdd on usb cable

2008-01-07 Thread Scott Gifford
Andrew Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have connected a laptop hdd to another laptop using a usb to ata converter cable. The laptop has an sata drive and the internal drive i have hanging off the usb cable is ata, and fdisk -l does not recognise the device at all, but WinXP does see it OK

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:49:05 +0200 Georgi Naplatanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Howie wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 4:09 PM, Quincy Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spam here too! I notice no spam in the Ubuntu users list maybe they have a better

Re: kmail: spam filtering

2008-01-07 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 07 January 2008 22:00, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 11:50 AM, Nigel Henry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know how to set up bogofilter on Kmail to filter out spam from mailing lists? Why not use the spam filter wizard in kmail? Last I used it, the spam filtering wizard

Re: how to install sun java plugin for iceweasel in Debian?

2008-01-07 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:23:04 +0100 Dal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amogh Hooshdar wrote: How can I install the Sun Java plugin for Icewesel in Debian Lenny? I tried copying the libjavaplugin_oji.so as shown below. cp /opt/jdk1.6.0_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns7-gcc29/libjavaplugin_oji.so

Re: Autostart programs: How to remove them?

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca writes: I'm curious why someone would even bother installing Google Desktop if they're not going to run it...it's one of those things that more or less has to run while you're logged in to keep the index synchronized. Perhaps he installed it to try it out,

Broken Swedish keyboard layout

2008-01-07 Thread Davide Mancusi
Hello everyone, My X server is configured with a double keyboard layout, as this excerpt from the config file shows: Section InputDevice Identifier Generic Keyboard Driver kbd Option CoreKeyboard Option XkbRules xorg

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:50:00PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: I'm getting it on Debian-user, and Debian-user-fr. Anyone know how to set up bogofilter on Kmail to filter out spam from mailing lists? Bogofilter on Kmail is working fine with all the non mailing list spam, and 99.5% goes

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 02:40:07PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/07/08 14:18, David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 6, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: After that, use a cleaning disk to clean the heads of the floppy drive... I find I have to do this a lot, these days. Floppy drives don't

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Julian De Marchi
Hey Doug, snip In other words, give the list guys a break. It will likely be fixed in a day or so. I do not think any one was having a _go_ at the list maintainers. They are doing a perfect job. People are just stating there has been an influx in spam, not only on this list. -- Cheers,

ipw3945 takes a while to warm up???

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi list I'm running etch on a Toshiba Satellite laptop I picked up about a year ago now in Hong Kong. It's on my home wireless LAN supported by a Buffalo Airstation 54G which I bought recently here in Japan. The wireless LAN card in the laptop is an inbuilt Intel ipw3945. If I configure my

Re: Autostart programs: How to remove them?

2008-01-07 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 22:44:24 + (UTC) Mark Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca writes: I'm curious why someone would even bother installing Google Desktop if they're not going to run it...it's one of those things that more or less has to run while you're

POLL: tape backup format and software

2008-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Could those of you who use tape (DDS, DLT, Ultrium) for backup or archive tell me what format and software you have found most helpful? I only have a couple of boxes to backup. Right now, they each run their own script and create a tarball that then the main box rsyncs to its raid1 array (and

Re: weird udev behaviour

2008-01-07 Thread Csillag Kristof
Csillag Kristof wrote: Dear all, [...] On some of my machines, udev started to act strangely lately. Just for the record: With today's update, problem has disappeared. Looking at /etc/udev/rules.d, I see that only the following three files have changed lately: -- ls -l

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread David
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: In other words, give the list guys a break. It will likely be fixed in a day or so. Agreed! And, I've made the point before, spam is good. Without it, spam filtering wouldn't evolve. You can draw the parallel with the body's defensive system being continually

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:32 PM, David wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: In other words, give the list guys a break. It will likely be fixed in a day or so. Agreed! And, I've made the point before, spam is good. Without it, spam filtering wouldn't evolve. That's like saying if not for

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Shane D
True, but withouth them having helped us, there would be more of it. It's not good, but it is helpful. And I want to know why they know enough about me to _stop_ sending me ads. Where did they get the private information on, well, my private information? On 1/7/08, David Brodbeck [EMAIL

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread David
David Brodbeck wrote: On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:32 PM, David wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: In other words, give the list guys a break. It will likely be fixed in a day or so. Agreed! And, I've made the point before, spam is good. Without it, spam filtering wouldn't evolve. That's like

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-07 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Monday 07 January 2008 06:55:30 Alex Samad, vous avez écrit : On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:05:29PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: 2008-01-06_21:12:01-0500 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: Is anyone on this list using multipath

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 7, 2008, at 3:49 PM, David wrote: Well, we might have to disagree here. I simply can't equate spam, which is invasive - agreed, with theft/ burglary/misappropriation. People who run large mail servers and have to devote resources to processing spam might disagree. Spammers

nfs - odd behaviour of server after reboots

2008-01-07 Thread Vincent McIntyre
Hi, I have a question about NFS behaviour on etch. Before filing a bug, perhaps people here can point out something I've missed, or perhaps you know of this as an existing problem. The scenario is this: box A is an NFS server with one file system exported (the mountpoint is the exported

Re: nfs - odd behaviour of server after reboots

2008-01-07 Thread Vincent . McIntyre
... a followup, if I may ... on the server, I tried stracing rpc.mountd, but saw nothing interesting, just the log message written to /var/log/daemon.log send(8, 29Jan 7 17:49:22 mountd[5741]: authenticated mount request from B.atnf.CSIRO.AU:703 for /data/A_1 (/data/A_1), 130,

Re: POLL: tape backup format and software

2008-01-07 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Could those of you who use tape (DDS, DLT, Ultrium) for backup or archive tell me what format and software you have found most helpful? I only have a couple of boxes to backup. Right now, they each run their own script and create a tarball that then the main box rsyncs

Re: POLL: tape backup format and software

2008-01-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:49:05PM +, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I've also got more files stored on cheap flash media, than I'll ever be able to figure out what I needed them for. I've got a couple of older laptops with pcmcia slots that still read/write 8 year old media just fine. I'm

problem restarting services ...

2008-01-07 Thread Roberto Alejandro Espi Muñoz
Hi ... I'm having problems in my Debian Etch ( made with debootstrap ) to restart two services in particular. One is apache2, I issue: # /etc/init.d/apache2 start And it does nothing, and when I call it by: # apache2 It starts. I can't manage also to start the sudo init.d script that way.

Re: problem restarting services ...

2008-01-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:43:49PM -0500, Roberto Alejandro Espi Muñoz wrote: Hi ... I'm having problems in my Debian Etch ( made with debootstrap ) to restart two services in particular. One is apache2, I issue: # /etc/init.d/apache2 start And it does nothing, and when I call it by:

RE: problem restarting services ...

2008-01-07 Thread Roberto Alejandro Espi Muñoz
Thanks it worked. Now I know something new. Still the same for sudo though -Original Message- From: Kumar Appaiah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 1/7/2008 9:53 pm To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: problem restarting services ... On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:43:49PM

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread David Fox
On 1/7/08, Chris Howie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's very possible. I've been furiously flagging things as spam in gmail all morning and others have probably flagged the same messages too, causing I'm not sure whether or not mark as spam in gmail does anything other than just sending the

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 7, 2008 8:01 PM, David Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/7/08, Chris Howie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's very possible. I've been furiously flagging things as spam in gmail all morning and others have probably flagged the same messages too, causing I'm not sure whether or not

Re: 2008 LOAN APPLICATION FORM.........

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Bannister
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Re: What's happening with the 3.1r7 install iso?

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:32:34PM -0800, joseph lockhart wrote: what about using Damn Small Linux, a little lightweight but installs as sarge (at least the last one i checked did DSL 3.4.4) Not as easily as one might think. There are many pitfalls along the way. You get to find out why its

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Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Alex Samad
was wondering if somebody could help with a procmail rule to select email which is in a different language (ie allow through english, but not anything else) On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:53:17PM -0500, Shane D wrote: True, but withouth them having helped us, there would be more of it. It's not

Re: stability of multipath

2008-01-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 01:16:12AM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le Monday 07 January 2008 06:55:30 Alex Samad, vous avez écrit : On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:05:29PM -0500, Ron Peterson wrote: 2008-01-06_21:12:01-0500 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 08:00:00PM -0500,

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 7, 2008 8:53 PM, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: was wondering if somebody could help with a procmail rule to select email which is in a different language (ie allow through english, but not anything else) I believe spamassassin has language rules, either by default or readily

Re: [good workaround] Re: latest radeon driver and full screen video

2008-01-07 Thread Bob
Romain JACQUET wrote: 8 snip I strongly believe it is a mplayer bug... I have found a solution. The problem only occured when the aspect ratio is dynamically changed using the gui. The problem is not present when calling mplayer from the command line with the good aspect. (i.e. mplayer

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:53:17PM -0500, Shane D wrote: True, but withouth them having helped us, there would be more of it. It's not good, but it is helpful. Er, waitaminnit. Let me get this straight. If there were no spammers, we wouldn't have developed spam filters, and therefore we

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? ;-) I've seen a slight increase in spam sent to me directly slipping through my spamassassin filters, but nothing like the flood coming from debian-user.

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