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

2004-12-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
ually work just fine. -- 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: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
tem more auto-probe friendly it is now only a matter of getting manufacturers to take some time and effort to test and support their devices on Linux systems. That, unfortunately, is MUCH easier said than done. But I am quite hopeful that, one day, it will happen. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free S

Re: Java

2004-12-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 16:52 +, Pedro M (Morphix User) wrote: > Alex Malinovich escribiÃ: --snip-- > Can anyone create the .deb package, so everybody can download it using > apt-get install. > > I think we can create a program to install a Java Mozilla Plug-in and > inc

Mod4 vs. Super_L on Windows Key

2004-12-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
ock screen) the Windows key is reported as Super_L which is treated as a regular key instead of a modifier and therefore can't be combined with another key into a single keypress. Any suggestions? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail pre

Re: Iptables the "Debian" way?

2004-12-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
k on your username. That'll show you a "Webmin user access rights" screen. At the bottom of that screen you can find a Modules section. Any modules which aren't checked won't show up on the main menu. Check the modules you want to see and click Save. -- Alex Malinovich Support

Re: Remote X-Desktop

2004-12-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
DMCP chooser from within GDM and you'll get a listing of all available X servers on the network. Then you can just click on the appropriate machine and log in. (You'll still need to set up the server to allow XDMCP connections of course.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, de

MIME-type icon associations in Gnome 2.8

2004-12-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
works perfectly just by using open with other application, there's no way to specify what the default icon for that type of file will be. Any ideas/suggestions? Is this a feature that's buried in Nautilus somewhere, or is it just a feature that isn't there yet? -- Alex Malinovich S

Re: [OT] The decline and fall of Google Groups

2004-12-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
ere but I don't really use any. When I need an answer I search on google and generally find it since at some point or another it has been discussed on some web-accessible list or group. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferre

Re: OT: time and computer networks

2004-12-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
ll get slapped with a multi-million dollar bank charge in the process. Granted, this is a rather extreme and unrealistic example, but that's one of the reasons why computer networks nowadays need to be synchronized so closely. Hope that helps. And when you're done giving the lecture, be

Re: debian and linus kernel, the difference??

2004-11-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
at way most modern mail clients will automatically remove your signature when they quote your message so that we don't have to. :) -- 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.

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
ves in the Neuros community. I looked at Positron a few times, but it really hasn't been maintained all that well as time has gone by. And it's CLI-only which can make it a bit of a hassle at times. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted

Re: Full replacement of MS

2004-11-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
a formats that mplayer hasn't been able to handle RP10 has had no problems with. Then you can finally get rid of that Windows partition for good. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from

Re: Tedium of Network Settings

2004-11-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
nut) libgnomedb-dev - frontend to the GDA architecture for GNOME -- development files workrave - RSI prevention tool gnome-nettool and gnome-system-tools seem to be what you're looking for. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail prefer

Re: Neuros Digital Audio omputer (MP3 Player)

2004-11-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 04:11:48PM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > As far as compatibility is concerned, it works perfectly for me. Some > > people have had problems with lockups using the USB 1.1 version but > > switching from usb-uhci to uhci

Re: Neuros Digital Audio omputer (MP3 Player)

2004-11-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
and the amount of support that the company provides to the community is astounding. They just recently released the source for the firmware so this is really an exciting time to pick one up. And look at me, I'm rambling again. :) So needless to say, I definitely think you should pick one

Re: This file...I cannot kill it!

2004-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
in the directory. If you do, then it's a filesystem problem. In the case of ReiserFS, it's a filesystem problem requiring a --rebuild-tree. -- 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: Cups in sarge stops a lot.. maybe lprng better?

2004-11-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
til recently I had a problem with cups stopping every morning at 6:30 am. It looks like it might have been related to logrotate since it runs at the same time. I did an update about a week ago however, and since then I haven't had the problem. Not sure if your problem and mine are in any way relat

Re: BIG filesystems, Big Files, Transparent Compression?

2004-11-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
t to add more archive data you just use mksquashfs to append it and you're all set to go. This could be automated through a script called by your tape backup program for example. Hope that helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail prefe

Re: SCP GUI

2004-11-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
nux boxes. Not sure if the version in Sarge is recent enough, but I'd imagine it would be. -- 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 Des

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
atch this one day. From http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-package.en.html#s-dselect "When started, dselect automatically selects all "Required", "Important", and "Standard" packages." -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windo

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
ugh I do keep dselect around for sentimental reasons. :) ) -- 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: Java

2004-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
27; 4) Install the newly created .deb using 'dpkg -i ' 5) Install the debian-specific java bits 'apt-get install sun-j2redebian' By far the most time-consuming part of the process is going to be downloading the JRE and then waiting for the .deb to build. As long as you're n

Re: [OT] Gates has spyware on his home machines

2004-11-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
my computer was when I was running Windows. And the more I think about it, the only time I ever had any REAL problems with my computer, it was while running Windows. (Well, I did have a few kernel panics over the years, but those have been mostly my fault.) Gee, I'm seeing a pattern he

Re: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
x27;s why he 'doesn't like' Debian. For him, Debian is a great tool but not one that he has any particular attachment to. -- 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: why debian

2004-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
n's biggest strength and the reason that it done so well over the years, is the Debian Social Contract and the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Those two documents give Debian the foundation that makes it such a rock-distro day after day. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Window

Re: Get directories names

2004-11-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
directory, you could do: ls -d criteria*/*/ If you're not looking for either of the above, then please restate the question. -- 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

CUPS keeps dying

2004-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
to do it daily. Any suggestions? -- 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: Dell Poweredge 420SC SATA support?

2004-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
f the controller and then set the box up to use software RAID and everything worked just fine. -- 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 Desc

Redirect console output

2004-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
the system messages that are being generated. -- 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

Re: Weirdness with realtek 8169

2004-10-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
was about an invalid IRQ, and it wanted me to load the module with a pci=bios (or something like that) option. The workaround in my case, at least, was to go into the BIOS and disable the Plug and Play OS feature so that the BIOS would assign an IRQ to the device. Did that and the module loaded just

Re: make menuconfig and xconfig

2004-10-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
build a kernel image, I'd suggest installing kernel-package (apt-get install kernel-package) and then reading /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/README.gz. That will give you everything you need to quickly and easily build a kernel image the Debian way. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Softwar

Re: Browser Crashes

2004-10-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
oesn't work, I'd start looking at the plugins that you're using and see if temporarily removing any of those fixes it. Other than that, I'm not sure what to suggest. Hope that helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail pre

Re: Looking for a Debian based distro similar to SME Server.

2004-10-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
l webmin on a Debian box and away you go. While webmin isn't DEAD simple, it's still very easy to work with IMO. -- 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: A

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
P server on one of my Debian boxes so I can't give Evolution ALL of the credit. But most of it at least. :) -- 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 s

Re: ximian-connector under debian

2004-09-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
tries to look up a name. Restarting evolution fixes the problem each time. I'm actually not sure if it's a problem with the plugin or a problem with our exchange server here. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You ca

Re: Different default browser

2004-08-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
rences screen. (Tools -> Preferences -> Browser) Not sure about FirstClass as I've never used it and don't even know what it is for that matter. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key fr

Re: Dead Gnome MIME settings

2004-08-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 13:50 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 15:25:17 -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Yeah, I forgot to mention that little part which I suppose probably could > > have been rather important. So yes, I'm using experimental. >

Re: Dead Gnome MIME settings

2004-08-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 21:07 +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 20:37:48 -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > (gnome-file-types-properties:3273): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Deprecated > > function. User modifications to the MIME database are no longer > > s

Dead Gnome MIME settings

2004-08-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
ething got fouled up at some point. Unfortunately, aside from the things I mentioned above, I don't know what else to troubleshoot. (As much as I love Gnome some of the more obscure files and settings that it uses make me think back to my days of suffering in Windows.) -- Alex Malinovich Supp

Re: Thanks for Debian Installer

2004-07-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
re RAID specific issue, but it wouldn't allow me to create a primary partition on the RAID device. I had to create a logical partition and then divide that up. But as soon as it got to actually creating the filesystem it would give me an error. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: Fedora Trademark guidelines. Don't use Fedora.

2004-07-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
people start calling them telling them what a terrible, outdated, buggy piece of junk they've released. By that same token, someone using the Fedora name for a modified Fedora distribution could POTENTIALLY make RH look even worse than it already does. Umm... I mean... "could make RH look

Re: NTP IP via DHCP (using dhcp3-client)

2004-07-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 11:57, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Alex Malinovich said on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:41:48AM -0500: > > I'm trying to get my laptop to use whichever NTP server is specified via > > DHCP and not having much luck. I have heard that dhcpcd will > > automatic

NTP IP via DHCP (using dhcp3-client)

2004-07-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
found the dhclient hooks, but as far as I can tell it's impossible to actually get at the NTP server info using them. 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 key

Re: help! dselect wants to remove everything!

2004-07-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
but I still start it up at least once a month to do a dist-upgrade and check out what's new. The rest of the time I just use wajig. (I need to send a Graham Williams a big THANK YOU packet or something one of these days. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partiti

Re: Diskless Debian PCs / Network Boot

2004-07-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
either come back with a timeout error or the TFTP server would report a client error. Upgrading the BIOS (the network card was built into the motherboard) took care of the problem and it's been working fine since. I'd imagine that all newer boards should have no problems. -- Alex Malinov

Re: About emacs

2004-07-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
sr/local. Unfortunately, I don't know all that much about the package build process, so I'm afraid I can't be of much help in troubleshooting the build error you're getting, but hopefully someone else can help. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: Hotkeys при русской раскладке в X

2004-07-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
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Re: Problem in cycling widows with alt+

2004-06-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
73 There are very easy-to-follow directions in there from Branden Robinson for applying a patch. -- 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

Re: Visual C++?????

2004-06-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
k in Visual C++ you can pretty safely tell him that his program is broken. :) -- 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: Thi

Re: Uh Oh... Prof requires ms word format

2004-06-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
the work and as long as they're able to efficiently grade it. The only time this has been a problem with me was with a prof who wanted compiled binaries as part of the submitted assignment. For this I would run down to the lab, do a compile (and use their printer to print source, etc) and t

Re: detaching a process from an ssh session ??

2004-06-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'll stop now. :) apt-get install screen ssh mymachine screen processToRun C-a, C-d logout If you want to come back to it later: ssh mymachine screen -r -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key f

Re: OT: Debian/Linux Stickers

2004-06-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
x27;re available put up a post with some info and I'll be all over it. :) What I would REALLY like to see though, is an actual replacement for the "powered by Windows *" stickers. Something that's got the same metallic feel, with either Tux or a gnu on the sticker saying &quo

Re: How to get Microsoft Natural Multimedia Keyboard working

2004-06-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
thing that I don't have access to in a tty is the Play/Pause, etc, buttons on the top of the keyboard. Everything else works just fine. -- 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 keyser

Re: programming editor

2004-06-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
stalled size for all emacs* packages, and it's only 21 MB. :) (All the vi stuff added together was 700 K :) But I'm still an emacs guy myself. So to get back on-topic, I'd second the suggestion for emacs. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TO

Re: OT: How easy is it to break GnuPG if you have the Private Key?

2004-06-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
nough that no one will put in the required amount of time and resources to break it. The opposite is also true whatever. If you make it too difficult for YOURSELF to use the encryption, you'll stop using it in which case it's the same as someone having cracked your private key. -- Ale

Re: Extract ISO image

2004-06-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
uts it in their home directory and names it 'your-image.iso' and then does a 'mount /home/user/image'. That SHOULD work, though I haven't tested it so don't hold me to it. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encry

Re: Moving Package List

2004-05-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
f all the > packages on this system and how can i read that info into the new one? Old machine: dpkg --get-selections > myselections copy 'myselections' over to new machine New machine: dpkg --set-selections < myselections -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Window

Re: ZIP drive question..

2004-05-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
with a 2.6 series kernel, the device entries will always be there, whether or not they actually exist on the system. This is a silly question, but you do of course have a disk in the drive, right? Also, if you're using hotplug, that might be affecting the drive as well. Something else that

Re: ZIP drive question..

2004-05-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
sure what you mean by this. Could you explain please? > What is the option for this drive to be treated as ide/atapi drive? > hdd=ide and hdd=atapi are treated as BAD options by the kernel. You don't need to pass any options. If it shows up as hdd the system already knows that it's a

Re: ZIP drive question..

2004-05-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
drive is 'in' the computer (and that it's being detected as hdd), I'm guessing that it's an internal IDE drive. If that's the case, why do you want to access it as a SCSI device? Have you tried taking out the hdd=scsi line in lilo.conf and accessing it directly as hdd? -

ALSA strangeness

2004-05-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
d ALSA (emu10k1 module) I can play multiple streams at once with no problems. Any ideas? TIA. -- 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 Descrip

Re: have used only 4904 out of 9729 cylinders, but "No free sectors available"

2004-05-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
uot; message, etc. Once we have a better idea of what's going on we might be able to troubleshoot your problem more effectively. -- 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: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 18:29, Alvin Oga wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 2004, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 23:35, David Cunningham wrote: > > > Sounds good. What brand and model of heatsink do you use? > > http://directron.com/hdcoolers.html > &

Re: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
the same ones. If they do I'll let you know what the actual name is. -- 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

Re: disks are hot hot hot

2004-05-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
ze as a drive, and have two fans on the bottom. They attach to the bottom of the drive and have an in-line power coupler that you can put between the power supply and the drive itself. I got them for $10 (US) a piece and since then have not had a single drive failure or heat problem. YMMV of course.

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
dows, so this shouldn't be an issue. But if you don't see grub at all, this could be the problem. If that's the case, you'll need to boot off of either a recovery disk or your Debian install disk and re-run grub-install and update-grub. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Softw

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

2004-04-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
reboot, the grub menu doesn't come up; the > machine goes straight into windows. > > Is there anything I can do in my grub setup to prevent > this? It would be nice to actually be able to go back > and forth. Check your configuration. Your XP entry probably has something

Re: Oracle install

2004-04-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
last year for installing 9i on Sid. You can find it at: http://www.the-love-shack.net/oracle-on-sid.shtml I'm currently working with someone on trying to get 10g to install properly on a Woody system. If/when we get it taken care of, I'll add that to the 9i page. -- Alex Malinovich

Re: To dselect or aptitude, that is the question

2004-04-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
of a way) is remember which packages got brought in for installation of package 'a'. So when I remove package 'a' it'll remove it and all of the packages that were brought in with it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail

Re: How can I find identical files in a directory

2004-04-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 14:03, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: --snip-- > $ md5sum .* * | sort -ub | less --snip-- > Hints? apt-get install fdupes -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the p

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
LLY need a database any more than I NEED a 97-ton dump truck to return a rented movie. :) -- 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: naming usb devices?

2004-04-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
new stuff, you can always try udev. The question you just asked is why I initially tried udev, and now I don't know how I ever lived without it. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

RE: Dynamically increase/reduce hardware raid partition?

2004-04-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
zed. So if you need constant access to the filesystem, I don't think there's much you can do. But if you can afford a minute or two of downtime for the drive, it should be no problem. Just use resize_reiserfs and resize the fs to fit the partition. Hope that helps. -- Alex Malinov

Re: RAID performance

2004-04-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
do software or hardware RAID.) As for filesystems, I personally prefer ReiserFS, but that's just personal preference. If you're comfortable with ext3, then by all means use ext3. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You

Re: Another ALSA post

2004-04-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
all the appropriate headers package, it's just a matter of going into the alsa directory and doing something along the lines of 'debian/rules binary' and you're done. The documentation will have more exact instructions of course. Hope that helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Fre

Re: Another ALSA post

2004-04-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
set. Since you're using KDE, I believe you'll need to have one of the libarts packages installed. I'm not a KDE user though, so I'm not sure about that. Hope that helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
ose their native country, the name of country should be written in their native tongue. After all, if I can't read Japanese, for example, I probably shouldn't be selecting Japanese as my installation language anyway. :) (Coincidentally, take a look at the various languages available on debian.or

Re: udev and CD or DVD drives

2004-04-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
from /dev/scd0 to /dev/dvdrom. :) But if you're going to be 'fixing' it anyway, you might as well do it the 'right' way and add appropriate rules to your udev.conf. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. Yo

Re: why must Debian call Taiwan a "Province of China"?

2004-04-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
oot, so I'd suggest people take a look at that thread first to prevent duplicate discussions. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/debian-boot-200404/msg00284.html Note that none of the above is a statement of my personal beliefs or opinions on the issue, but just a statement of fact

Re: Useful new package management tool

2004-04-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 13:35, Matthew T. Atkinson wrote: > 'ellow, > > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 20:02, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > It's always good to see more new tools for Debian. But have you checked > > out deborphan at all? It does pretty much the same thing tha

Re: Useful new package management tool

2004-03-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
t basically does the same thing as debmirror only using rsync. :) -- 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: Critical: SCSI reset problem

2004-03-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
s reset which would require a reboot. (If your root drive isn't a SCSI device AND if you have SCSI support loaded as a module, just removing and re-loading the SCSI module SHOULD work.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail pref

Re: Boxed deb perl and activestate perl 5.8

2004-03-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
e to. AFAIK, ActiveState's license is NOT GPL-compliant. As such, I'd much rather use the GPL licensed version of Perl instead of a non-free alternative. -- 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: ut2004full installer

2004-03-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
or 2 weeks now, and I've only had one crash. If you REALLY want to play the game, there's no reason to hold off in my opinion. But if you don't mind waiting a while, then you can do so as well. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted ma

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
TIVELY safely assume that the key is REASONABLY valid. (Of course, when dealing with public key systems, unless you personally got that key from a TRUSTED individual on some form of non-modifiable media and have had them verify it, you can't be all THAT sure, but for day to day communications you can be sure enough.) -- 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 and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
llers and bots, I have not yet seen this in my 2+ years on d-u.) -- 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 and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
e it's not perfectly ethical. But it makes the people I'm saying it feel good, and even if that doesn't get me a better tip, I'm still happy about making someone feel good. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail prefer

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
f someone comments on my looks, I'm flattered. Online, I have to admit I'd probably be creeped out. Only because, that's not the type of message I'd expect someone to take the time to actually send me unless they were really creepy in some way. But that's just me. :)

Re: Permission change - recursive

2004-03-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
'`; do if [ -d $i ]; then chmod 770 $i else chmod 660 $i fi done That should do it for you. -- 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

udev questions (and answers)

2004-03-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
tried shorter delays than 10 seconds, but this is the only one that consistently works. Note that I'm relatively sure that there must be a better way to do this, I'm just really not sure what it is. You could pre-load the alsa modules like the nvidia module, but that's just a worka

Re: Maintain usb-storage device entries

2004-03-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 21:27, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:50:21PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > | Is there any way to make usb-storage maintain device names? > > udev. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev_vs_de

Maintain usb-storage device entries

2004-03-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
then having the hotplug agent manage those symlinks. But I'd rather see if I can do it via static device entries if possible. (I'm not sure if it's even technically possible, as I don't know if USB devices have any sort of unique identifiers akin to MAC addresses in network devi

Re: Shared IMAP folders in Mutt

2004-03-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 15:17, CW Harris wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:44:37PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've set up my Bayesian filter to scan two shared IMAP folders for ham > > and spam. Using evolution, when I get spam, I can just Move it to the > > sha

Shared IMAP folders in Mutt

2004-03-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
now that people usually use Bounce in mutt for spam filtering, but as the folder is a shared folder and not an actual account, I can't do that. Any suggestions? TIA. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public

Re: OT? perl IDE

2004-02-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
rything else is certainly handy to learn at your own pace, but if you can get those 4 down, you're pretty much ready to start coding. I'd strongly suggest it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my

Re: gnome without evolution?

2004-02-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
If this is what's causing the depndency, then feel free to remove it. All of the other packages will stay installed. Once it's gone, then get rid of Evolution and you're all set. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail prefer

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
l be there for a while. :) In the meantime, I'd suggest getting comfortable with your mail client's "Reply to List" feature. In mutt, it's L, in Evolution I believe it's under "Actions". For other clients, I'm not sure where it's at, but most mod

Re: disregard post re: sound!

2004-01-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
the right time. Anything else is beyond it." "I don't know why and I'm not yet motivated to fix it since my views on esd are mostly unprintable." -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can ge

Re: FireWire disk - sharing with an iBook?

2004-01-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
that this isn't really related to the partition table at all. Possibly a misconfiguration with regards to firewire somewhere along the line. What are you doing in order to use the firewire drive under Linux? Do you have all of the appropriate modules loaded with no error messages? (ieee1394, ohci

Re: deluser without rebooting first

2004-01-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
ps -Af only shows 7 characters of the username for me. So I do the first 5 just in case it decides to drop to only displaying 6 or so for some reason.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of t

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