Re: LVM2 snapshot question

2006-05-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 13:56 -0500, Grant Thomas wrote: snip 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 without unmounting.) Doesn't Reiser allow

Re: Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet card

2006-05-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY

Re: LVM2 snapshot question

2006-05-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
. 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 growing the filesystem without unmounting.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail

Re: xmms and the vorbis plugin

2006-05-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
.) -- 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
didn't select any GB items. I just reconfirmed it (wajig reconfigure locales) and the only locales I have selected in there are US. Any ideas if the above could be causing this behavior, and, if so, how to change it? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY

Re: LVM - dead disk

2006-04-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description

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 appropriate for what I was trying

Re: Compatible VoIP software on Debian

2005-12-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
, that is. :) ) They both use H.323, so you'll get video and voice. H.323 tends to be much more sensitive to network connections however, so you may get spotty results running over the Internet. (It was originally used for direct ISDN connections between video conferencing systems.) Hope that helps. -- Alex

Re: Using par2

2005-12-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
(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 Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: Holiday computer access problems!

2005-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
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. But if I got the part in #1 right, then you shouldn't need to get to this point anyway. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software

Re: ping claims lost packets

2005-12-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: Booting Debian directly into a 'regular user account

2005-12-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
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. Hope that helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
, and split? -- 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: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
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: 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 archive or any other type of archive. Bzt

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 the reference is where you need

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
with them, I'll certainly oblige. However, if the format is unspecified, as in this case it was, I would certainly choose to use free software to do the job. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 Description

Re: Neal Stephenson on Debian

2005-12-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
... -- 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 partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can

Re: Power button not shuting down debian

2005-12-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
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
to DNS entries. So I can change my DHCP lease address by changing just the DNS entry. The only thing that DNS names don't work for sometimes is iptables, so if you're doing a lot of machine specific filtering and forwarding in iptables, it's still useful to have static leases defined. -- Alex

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
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

Re: DHCP with Static Addresses

2005-11-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
; fixed-address 192.168.0.123; } If you're also running your own DNS server you can actually specify the fixed-address line using a DNS name. If 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

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

2005-11-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
as Roberto suggested just to make sure that your sudo does, in fact, work right. If you do it while logged in as root and then log out, and if your sudo ISN'T set up right, you'll be locked out of your system. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail

Re: exim4 and SSH tunneling

2005-11-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837

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.smarthost.org That way anything that goes out

Re: .bash_history

2005-11-21 Thread Alex Malinovich
for just push Ctrl-R again for each additional match. -- 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

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
-- 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: Request to remove Information

2005-11-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
, 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 the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Request to remove Information

2005-11-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: Imap

2005-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
home directory and verify that you do, in fact, have a Maildir directory there. IIRC, courier does not create Maildirs for users by default. You have to do it manually. So check to make sure that you do, in fact, have a Maildir and if not, make one using maildirmake. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free

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

2005-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
.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 it gets the job done. -- Alex Malinovich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

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

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

2005-11-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 I hope that the information helps a little bit at least. Oh, and welcome to Debian! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition

Re: Asterisk Problems

2005-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Using USB and Visor module

2005-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Using the latest Eclipse on Debian

2005-07-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
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
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.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: A little something quirky....

2005-07-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 Support Free Software, delete your Windows

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 and give it a shot for a while. However, I don't much care

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, pagename works, but it's too many steps. Not to mention that I have to switch to the window

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 slow for me. M-x info, m, pagename works, but it's too

default info browser

2005-07-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID

Re: .torrent clients sugestions

2005-07-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

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

2005-06-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: Evolution / Novell

2005-06-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
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. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail

Re: Top posting

2005-06-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 preferred. You can get my public key from any

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

2005-06-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 appreciated. -- Alex Malinovich Support

Re: Top posting

2005-06-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
with you. (If, in fact, I give a damn about getting my message across.) Wow... that stretched out much longer than I expected... we now return you to your regularly scheduled debate. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can

Re: Top posting

2005-06-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
get caught up with mails, it becomes very difficult for me to keep track of who's saying what with regards to what without proper context. -- 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

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

2005-06-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 signature.asc Description

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 ID: A6D24837 signature.asc

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 quality of reading for others. -- Alex Malinovich

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

2005-06-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
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. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY

OT: Safe Type (was Re: DVORAK)

2005-06-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
. 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 Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You

Re: ion2 + x2vnc + multiple workspaces = possible?

2005-06-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description

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

2005-06-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
? 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 ). Also, are you sure that you're using UTF fontsets? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get

Re: lilo to grub conversion

2005-06-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID

Re: grub vs lilo

2005-05-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 opposite. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 less than the ssh timeout period. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted

Re: tar packet

2005-05-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID

Re: friendly scp (help)

2005-05-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net

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

2005-05-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
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. -- 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

Re: Eclipse: X eats up 280 MB of memory

2005-05-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition

Re: Is 64MB enough?

2005-05-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 Eclipse. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

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

2005-05-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

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

2005-05-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
than invoking a browser. To quote the OP: On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 14:10 -0700, A.Melon wrote: --snip-- I searched for information on this and found only solutions by parsing the output of websites that display the HTTP REMOTE_ADDR. But I don't want to rely on an external website. -- Alex

Re: Regex expert needed

2005-05-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
: 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 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: Regex expert needed

2005-05-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
with (for me at least) without sample data. -- 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
dselect exclusively (before I saw the light and started using wajig) and it would work on any changes that were set by apt-get and/or dpkg. i.e. I could mark packages for installation in one, and then execute the operation in another without a problem. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software

Re: [OT] X-friendly KVM switch?

2005-05-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
$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: multiport ethernet cards

2005-01-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 their NICs would be no exception. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software

Re: Debian installer

2005-01-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
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. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY

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, delete your Windows

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 can get my public

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

2004-12-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Script to temporarily open port

2004-12-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
to the world at particular times, regardless of who initiated the request. -- 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

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 preferred. You can

Re: Debian sid and risk management

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
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: 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 compiled packages? or Third Party

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

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
-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 of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837

Re: ncftp versus ncftp2 -- Debian packages for woody

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
. If, on the other hand, you need a cron job to do lots of ftp transfers and wget can't handle it for some reason, ncftp2 might be what you need. That's just my opinion though. I wouldn't be a bit surprised to find quite a few die hard ncftp2 users who actually use it as their client day to day. -- Alex

Re: Linux Functionality? (OT)

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
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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 case in point, most

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
. 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 (including things like Winamp, Mozilla, Photoshop, etc.). -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
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: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
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.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 public key from any

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
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]? (Or does KDE not support multiple logins ala gdmflexiserver?) -- Alex Malinovich

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 distributions of various kernels

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 servers, it's plenty stable enough in my

Re: php plugin for emacs

2004-12-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
- 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: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Debian sid and risk management

2004-12-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 are usually fixed within two weeks). -- Alex Malinovich

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
with The Gimp, though I believe Photoshop suffers from it as well. WHY OH WHY can't we drag the borders of a selection after we've made it??!?!?!) As I said previously I am not at all a MS supporter, I'm just playing the Devil's advocate here. Ron, I guess that would make you the Devil. :) -- Alex

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

2004-12-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
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 reference. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

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. I've been wondering about this. Say

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