Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
at bay by having cash thrown at them will escalate at the slightest provocation, at which point all of Bush's advisers and all his men won't put the Middle East back together again. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get

Re: deluser without rebooting first

2004-01-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
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Re: Future of Linux Question

2004-01-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
know what you guy's think about this. This is already pretty much possible when using LDAP. It's not quite as integrated as Samba, but it is a lot more robust and extensible. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 14:11, Paul Morgan wrote: On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 03:19:54 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: I'm taking a class this semester which is all about installing and using Linux. After talking with the professor on Tuesday, I've learned a few details. First, I have to use Vulgarly

Re: wma files

2004-01-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
around the download section on www.mplayerhq.hu and look for the codec packages. Download and install in wherever it tells you to and you should be all set. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: changing root password

2004-01-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
it remotely as well? You can do it remotely with no problem. su-ing to root and running passwd is all you need to do. -- 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: Cobol for linux

2004-01-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
statement I've gotten a segmentation fault during compilation. So consider yourself warned that it might not have all the functionality you might want. It does, however, come pre-packaged for debian, so you can use dpkg to install it without any major problems. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free

Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
. Any and all tips are welcome. 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 Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
. And I hope I didn't come across as too negative towards RH in my earlier message. My comment about what's 'sickening' was in regards to the university's lack of understanding of free software and the Linux world in general, not a jab at RH. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
. I appreciate your concern though. :) -- 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

Red Hat and Debian differences (ignore previous thread)

2004-01-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
, and Richard has informed me of the differences in the init procedure. Anything else I should be aware of? -- 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

Basing new file permissions on current dir perms

2004-01-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
in as root). It would be really nice to be able to automatically set the permissions to the correct values whenever they create a file. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: Basing new file permissions on current dir perms

2004-01-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 11:36, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-01-09, Rob Sims penned: On Friday 09 January 2004 05:06 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: Lets say I have a directory called mydirectory. The permissions are as follows: drwxrwxr-x root mygroup ... What I want, is a way

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm CSS2 ???

2003-12-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
suggest working with each individually following individualized tutorials. Once you have a firm grasp of each individual component, you'll be able to think of something that's well-suited to that particular union. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
have a nice 10+ disk SCSI RAID array with a hot-swappable external enclosure. That's bleeding edge. (The pricetag will also make your eyes bleed though...) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: best practices on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
experimental xserver-xfree86 Note that unless versions are specifically specified in the dependencies, you'll most likely end up with a mixture of 4.2 and 4.3 X packages. This isn't really a bad thing, but if you want to be thorough you'll want to look at pinning. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
chain the XP bootloader from 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 message part

Re: WAS A good book on C programming, now an APPOLOGY

2003-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
to us. I don't want to speak for the whole list, but I found the thread quite useful actually. :) -- 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: Athlon and Debian?

2003-12-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
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Re: file transfer from USB digital camera freezes

2003-12-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
the module over to 'uhci' fixed it right up. Good luck. :) -- 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: diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

2003-12-21 Thread Alex Malinovich
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: Some nagging problems

2003-12-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
. 5.08 should be the most current to show up. Have you tried apt-get install acroread? 3. ADSL works great now. However I do get disconnects, sometimes often, sometimes not. persist is set is the providers file (and elsewhere). What else? No idea on this one, sorry. -- Alex Malinovich Support

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
as well just keep it as a linked list. -- 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] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 15:00, Aryan Ameri wrote: On Friday 12 December 2003 22:38, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 14:04, Wesley J Landaker wrote: On Friday 12 December 2003 11:38 am, Aryan Ameri wrote: Hi There: Hmmm... sounds a lot like a homework problem... =) Yes

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

2003-12-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
repeatedly... :) -- 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: ooh! debian jewelry

2003-12-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
as the outside that I always keep on my cufflink shirts. If I can't find my 'real' cufflinks, I just leave those in and go like that. They're solid black so they still look good, but they're about $2 (US) a piece so I can afford to have a set for each of my shirts. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software

Re: Portable Ogg Vorbis player

2003-12-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
ordered mine today but it's on backorder so I don't really know when it'll come in. As soon as it does come in I'll post my experiences on here. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: Which JRE?

2003-12-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
available, not a week or a month later. But if you just need the JRE and Blackdown works, then by all means keep using it. It's much simpler and much less prone to error than handling a manual install each time a new version is released. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: Limit network speed

2003-12-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
that specifically in the case of BitTorrent you can limit the upload rate by a command line parameter to btdownloadgui. I believe it's --max_upload_rate. If that's the only thing you need to cap the upload speed for it's a lot less work than manually trying to cap the entire network. -- Alex

Re: Why should non-root users have a password?

2003-12-07 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

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
are by no means the ONLY way to go about this, but they've received a lot of attention in the last year or two in various arenas. -- 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: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
it. I'm afraid I'm part of the group that just doesn't understand. This snippet reeks of security through obscurity for me. If the hole has been identified and, presumably, fixed, why not tell people about it? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted

Re: bind and dynamic ip

2003-12-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
such as dyndns.org. I don't know of any real howto's on the subject, but reading up on DNS in general would be a good start, followed by reading up on bind in particular. Good luck! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my

Re: how to mount a zip drive

2003-11-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
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Re: Setting up debian package server for installation over ethernet

2003-11-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
operations that uses rsync, but unless you only want to mirror sid and your disk space is at a premium you're better off with something like apt-move. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
a bad idea. But if you're more interested in ease of use than security per se, then it gets the job done. I've been doing that on a couple of my systems for over a year now and have yet to have anyone try to exploit it in any way. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
device that I've found I need to use eject as SUID root for is my zip drive. Both of my CD-ROM drives are working 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

Re: running script from cdrom fails

2003-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
need to add the exec flag to your mount options. By default, all removable media has noexec set. Check the mount and fstab man pages for more info. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: dselect makes me feel like an idiot

2003-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
it to be infinitely better than an apt-get dist-upgrade due to the opportunity to review any impending additions removals and the chance to make changes.) -- 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

Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
pick up and use right away simply won't cut it. So any ideas? (If only I could get her to learn emacs... emacs + w3m + XF86 + gnus = perfection! :) -- 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: Any tool for access NTFS partition of damaged hard drive

2003-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
over the file you need.) -- 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: finding what is using a mount point

2003-11-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
time I had to restart famd before unmounting... I'd have almost a dollar by 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 Description

Re: mouse will only works in one direction with X+gpm

2003-11-21 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 15:54, Micha Feigin wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:33:58PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:36, Micha Feigin wrote: I configured my logitec usb optical wheel mouse (a lot of words

Re: mouse will only works in one direction with X+gpm

2003-11-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
laptop with no problems. -- 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: emacs -nw and emacsclient

2003-11-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
of emacs using X forwarding, I don't think it can be done. The X forwarding only forwards the DISPLAY. The PROCESS continues to run on the machine you're connected to. So you can't have a remote emacsclient connect to a LOCAL emacs. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition

Re: sending messages using smbclient

2003-11-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
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Workspace/desktop switching

2003-11-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
, I'll use two desktops/workspaces, but I don't think I've ever really gone over that. That leads me to believe that there's some unrealized benefit that I'm missing out on. So what do you use your workspaces for, and why are they so important? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: ls and directories only

2003-11-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
, it was dir /ad Doing ls -ld * does not do it as it only displays the files in the current directory. I have ls aliased to ls -lh so I generally do: ls |grep ^d -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?

2003-11-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
box.. I'm not sure if this is really proper or not, but I've been noticing a lot of newer houses using regular old CAT 5 twisted-pair cable for phone cable. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: messenger

2003-11-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:02, Paul Valley wrote: could some one recomend a very easy to setup insent messenger that would work with yahoo i dont like to compile things so if its in dpkg ill take it apt-get install gaim It supports Yahoo, MSN, AIM, ICQ, and more. -- Alex Malinovich Support

Re: Adding a parameter to an already installed kernel driver

2003-11-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
and reload it using whatever parameters you want. -- 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: X 4.3.0

2003-11-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
at a bad time. (i.e. when they're being updated, and not all of the updated packages have been uploaded yet) As far as actually doing the update, just add experimental to your sources.list and then run apt-get with the -t option and you should be fine. Good luck. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:18, stan wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:58:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: --snip-- So, given that I was using liol, what should I do to restore the boot blocks? Once you've copied the data back onto the new

Re: how to do a clean upgrade without losing packages?

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
that can be upgraded without requiring removing or adding packages. -- 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: Text processing help (sed?)

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
, just pull the comma out of the above command. -- 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: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]]

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
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Re: upgrading packages that are in use, especially X or gnome

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
process. The few programs that actually check their config files at various points during run time, I'd imagine the package maintainers would account for in some way or another. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]]

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:19, Tom wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote: --snip-- It hasn't happened in the last 100k years, what makes you think it will happen when there are 10x as many people now

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]]

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 04:00, Tom wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:49:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:19, Tom wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote: --snip-- It hasn't

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?#

2003-11-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
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Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
do you have, are you using ALSA or OSS, etc? I remember Quake III had some serious issues with certain types of sound setups and serious slowdown in the game. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: openGL cannot do fullscreen in dual monitor config

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
a relative term. It was damned near impossible to aim as the crosshair was split between the two monitors, with 4 inches of dead space between the adjoining edges of the screens. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

2003-11-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
had a separate backup somewhere. -- 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: parted: rather strange layout

2003-11-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
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Re: Is it possible to retach a process to a new terminal?

2003-11-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
is already running, I don't know of any way to do it. (Though that certainly does not mean that there ISN'T a way to do 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

Re: Is it possible to retach a process to a new terminal?

2003-11-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
that. -- 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: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:00, Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:27:21PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: In regards to the roommates at least, they both use Debian and know enough about it to do some basic functions from a terminal. As such, I could tell them what to do over the phone

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
it will be the first password on the list. The third time it will be the second on the list, and so on. When the last password has been used the account will be deleted when the user logs out. Great! This is EXACTLY what I wanted! Thanks a lot! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software

Re: Doom problems?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
could run it at higher resolutions and use opengl if you wanted. And it had a TCP/IP multiplayer mode. (Something the original Doom lacked.) But the experience was just as I remember it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can

Re: fast swithichg between X and virtual console - how to?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
switch to the VTs? Can you just use xterm instead? That would make switching a lot faster. :) -- 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: No to wine! (was:Red Hat recommends...)

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
are generally doing so to get away from the instability of Windows. But ever since W2K, it's generally been the applications, NOT the OS, that's been crashing left and right. (At least in my experience.) Running a buggy app under Wine won't make it crash any less. It may well make it crash MORE. -- Alex

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:49, Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:28:40PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:00, Pigeon wrote: --snip-- What happens if they get a keybounce while typing ^D ? keybounce? You mean if they hit ^D with an empty command line

Re: XMMS without X?

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
, but assuming that there is a way to do so just run it in 'screen'. I generally listen to ogg's while I'm using my computer, so I just do a 'screen ogg123 -@ my.list' followed by a quick ^a, ^d. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred

/etc/profile not being read for gnome

2003-11-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
a way around this before, but having lost my hard drive last week and installing from scratch, I don't really remember what I had to do. :) -- 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

Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
ideas on how to go about it? Is it possible to have two different users with the same UID? i.e. adduser --uid 0 --gid 0 temproot If not, any other possibilities? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 03:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Alex Malinovich wrote: I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to have one of my roommates do something to the network at home when I'm

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:55, J. Bruce Fields wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:58:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to have one of my roommates do

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
do something. Then once I get home, I reset the password to something new and am all set for one more login with the account which might not come for another month. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key

Re: X wont start again

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
have been overwritten without you knowing about 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 message

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:50, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:35, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:55, Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:30, Tom wrote: * [07/11/2003 16:25] J. Bruce Fields [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The all-privilege sudo

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 16:54, ScruLoose wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:58:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: If not, any other possibilities? Olkay, I see there's been plenty of discussion of the ins and outs of the self-locking one-shot root privilege thing. Neat idea, too; it's

Re: [no subject]

2003-11-05 Thread Alex Malinovich
start getting garbage when you move the mouse. If you get garbage, then the mouse is found properly. In my case, I just had to install hotplug (apt-get install hotplug) and then unplug the mouse and plug it back in. After that, everything worked fine. Good luck. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

2003-11-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
systems running the same kernels and such as our test/burn/destroy/rebuild laptops ;-) Well, that's basically exactly how it works. There's quite a few extra details but that's the meat and potatoes of it so to speak. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
actually rather enjoyed it as a regular old shoot'em up. But if you were expecting the be-all end-all rebirth of perfect gaming, well then you were rather disappointed. (Then again, being that part of the corporate office was a built in movie theater, are you really surprised? :) ) -- Alex

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
2k messages before I start archiving, takes about 3 seconds in Evolution. In mutt, since AFAIK mutt doesn't cache the folders at all, it can take 10 - 15 seconds to open up at times. But once it's all opened up, everything works just fine. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: [OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

2003-10-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
: TM/(R) MM's, the letter M and the MM's Characters are registered trademarks of Mars, Inc. and its affiliates (C) Mars, Incorporated 2002 So, by my count, by the end of this message I have committed 39 acts of trademark infringement... :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

Re: Debian to English translation

2003-10-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
packagename. -- 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: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

2003-10-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
this UPnP thing that I thing does sneaking things with my POS linksys FW open ports. Is there something like that in *? I'm afraid I don't know what this UPnP thing is, so I can't help you there. If you'd care to elaborate a bit maybe I can be more helpful. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software

Re: Re: VT switching broken in Gnome

2003-10-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 12:57, Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 14:14, Alex Malinovich wrote: I'm having a problem with my VT switching while in Gnome. I think it's related to the recent 2.4 update but I'm not sure. Hitting Ctrl-Alt-F4, for example, does nothing. It works while I'm

Resolution switching in Gnome 2.4

2003-10-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
to be released as a separate package, or is it there more about it that I don't know? -- 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: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: snip])

2003-10-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
scientific explanation for it, but this is the first thing I could come up with. :) -- 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

VT switching broken in Gnome

2003-10-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
out just to switch terminals is really really inconvenient. 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

Somewhat ON-TOPIC (was Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS))

2003-10-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
replying to. This is a 'standard' that has, unfortunately, been steadily losing ground due to Microsoft's decisions with their mail clients. -- 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: RPC: Program not Registered

2003-10-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
that you have the exports set up right, and that you're trying to mount the nfs share properly, the next thing I'd check would be whether you've actually started up the NFS server. For anything more than that, we'll need more info on what you've done so far, what kind of setup you have, etc. -- Alex

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
use my desktop machine from 3 different machines in the house, so using regular old emacsclient hasn't been much of an option since I'd have to be on the same machine that I initially started it on in order to use it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY

Re: filtering MS* mails w/ Spamassassin

2003-10-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
will be some Bayesian information. It'll either tell you that it's scanning the message, or that Bayesian filtering hasn't been activated yet because of something. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from

Re: Verify that spamc is using Bayesian?

2003-10-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
as the user the mail is delivered to. I'm not really sure if this will affect anything, but you might also want to try restarting spamd. /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart should do the trick. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You

Re: install_oracle9i

2003-10-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
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Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
in spoken languages), we shouldn't introduce new 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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: International Characters

2003-10-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
of the graphical glitches have annoyed me to the point that I've stopped using mutt for anything but plain-old English and disabled the utf support. But that's just me. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

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