Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie

2016-09-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 30 Sep 2016, Stefan Monnier wrote: dist-upgrade doesn't happen automatically. So yes, you can add the above and then do something like I appended this to my sources.list: deb http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free and then ran: # apt-get update I kept rer

Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie

2016-09-29 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote: Whenever I don't find the pacakge I want in Debian's repository, I typically grab the upstream source code and build it myself. Yes, me too. I was able to build 23.4 from source, and this appeared to solve the choking-on-old-elisp while byte-compilin

How to get an older emacs on Jessie

2016-09-29 Thread Bob Bernstein
I have a need for an emacs older -- in terms of major version number -- than the ver. 24.4.1 currently onboard my i686 Jessie system. I suspect anything of ver. 23.n.n vintage would suit my purpose, which is to avoid ver 24's fussiness about older elisp code in a -- non-Debian -- package I am n

Re: A psgmlx that plays nice with emacs24?

2016-09-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
Oh Lord I don't have time for this. Look, I thought I'd take a shot in the dark to see if just maybe someone who knew what psgmlx was might see my Subject: and drop into help mode instead of wounded pride mode: "That Bernstein fellow hurt my feelings because he asked about something about whi

Re: A psgmlx that plays nice with emacs24?

2016-09-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
Oops. Back in the killfile for Master Brian. -- IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational

A psgmlx that plays nice with emacs24?

2016-09-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
I think (hope) the subject says it all. -- IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humour or irrational metaph

Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-22 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Greg Wooledge wrote: cme=command not found. I know nothing about this "cme" either. Yes. Qu'est-que "cme?" Some esoteric breed of editor? -- IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is co

Re: google-chrome-stable vs. chromium

2016-09-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 15 Sep 2016, Eduardo Quagliato wrote: google-chrome-stable: Google's package, with its proprietary software in it (like flash and other things alike); chromium: Open-source project from which Google drawn its source (refer to http://www.chromium.org/); Thanks. Concise. I think I get it

google-chrome-stable vs. chromium

2016-09-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
I haven't posted a question from the far left end of the bell-shaped curve in some time, so please bear with me! In respect of my Subject: line, above, I have the first of those two packages installed. How does it differ from the second, which I do not have installed? Thank youse, -- IMPO

Re: L2TP over IPsec in Stretch Gnome Shell

2016-08-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016, Jiri wrote: Any advise? Am I missing any packages? Not sure: --- begin fyi --- $ apt-cache show strongswan Package: strongswan Version: 5.2.1-6+deb8u2 Installed-Size: 161 Maintainer: strongSwan Maintainers Architecture: all Depends: strongswan-charon, strongswan-start

Re: USB printer CUPS stalls on "Sending data to printer"

2016-06-22 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, 22 Jun 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: It was meant to be a hyperlink to my post in the archives, Ah...dawn breaks over Narragansett Bay! I was clearly too tired and should just have quoted :( Take care of yourself!! -- Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by som

Re: USB printer CUPS stalls on "Sending data to printer"

2016-06-21 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: <201606210831.24319.lisi.re...@gmail.com> Need a bit of help here. What am I supposed to do with this line of um text? If there is an elegant method that will use it as a starting point such that I end up looking at the email to which you are referri

Re: Teeny tiny console font after firmware-linux

2016-06-03 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, Felix Miata wrote: In summary, 16x32 at a lower screen resolution translates to a bigger glyph on any given display. Thanks. That comports with my feeble cogitations. I'll give her a whirl. -- Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiar

Re: Teeny tiny console font after firmware-linux

2016-06-03 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 21 May 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: It's probably a good idea to have the firmware packages installed, I think these are used to handle throttling to make sure it doesn't overheat. As can be seen, when we last left Bob he was stu

Re: Teeny tiny console font after firmware-linux

2016-06-03 Thread Bob Bernstein
Sorry...sent this first using an incorrect -- for debian-user -- account. Bah. On Thu, 21 May 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: It's probably a good idea to have the firmware packages installed, I think these are used to handle throttling to make sure it doesn't overheat. As can be seen, when w

Re: Got that network problem solved, now a new one

2016-05-19 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 19 May 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: Doesn't being old _suck_? Word dat. -- Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiarly obtrusive element in the outer world, but lapsing again quickly into the happy somnolence of imagination.

Re: ssh-ing in inside private network

2016-03-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 31 Mar 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: So I need static IPs fast! or a hosts file? That's how I do it. Only make that "or" above an "and!" Also, liberal use of public-keys practically automates the whole thing, so that you don't have to bother with pesky passwords on your private 'net.

Re: What else must I do to avoid installing "suggests"? Was: How to get a "minimal font set"?

2016-03-04 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Joel Roth wrote: cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/40nosuggestrecommends Apt::Install-Suggests false; Apt::Install-Recommends false; Nice. Done. Thanks. I had reason a couple of nights ago to consult 'man apt-get' because it seemed that lots of "suggested" pkgs were being installe

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-03 Thread Bob Bernstein
Sorry about the apparent attribution to Lisi in my last post. Even though the crowsfeet ('>') were absent from the post, it must be adjudged wrong by any decent standard. Can I have a last cigarette before disposition of sentence? It's been over fifteen years now. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-03 Thread Bob Bernstein
/font-size/ -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Andreas Weber wrote: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/theme-font-size-changer/ is maybe what you've been looking for. Iirc, that changes fonts only in the displayed page, not in the menus, dialogs, etc. Best, -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

2016-02-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
everyone who chimed in, and a tip 'o the hat to Don! -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

2016-02-01 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Nate Bargmann wrote: ...I am using Emacs -nw to type this message calling it from Mutt and running in Xfce Terminal and Alt-X. etc, works just fine. Interesting. Hrrrmmm...so perhaps I can set up Alt as Meta in the configuration of the terminal I use in X? -- Bob

Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

2016-02-01 Thread Bob Bernstein
o avoid running in X that understanding (Meta == Alt) evaporates. Perhaps I need to set something specific in my .emacs for the minibuffer? I've got amd64 Jessie running without systemd and icewm for X. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-01 Thread Bob Bernstein
745 for Debian lists.) Well, it certainly is not immediately obvious. Thank you. (I meant to say, "...this is _my_ Big Dummy Question #3,745..." I like to say this because I know there are subscribers whose fear of appearing dumb keeps them from posting. Mine doesn't!) :-) -- Bob Bernstein

Font size for Iceweasel's menus, bookmark bar, etc

2016-02-01 Thread Bob Bernstein
amd64 Jessie running icewm here w/o systemd. I know how to tweak font sizes for displayed web pages, but how do I do that for the apparatus of the browser window itself? (By my count this is Big Dummy Question #3,745 for Debian lists.) -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Problem installing ProFTPD

2016-01-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 2 Jan 2016, Steve Matzura wrote: Hope I was right! What was your choice? Inet or standalone? -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
s on that if it's okay with _everyone_ around here. Its no wonder that people like me get accused of walking on water, we are a dying breed. d00D! You nailed it! -- Bob Bernstein

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
e in order. They too serve who just like to stand around and kibbitz. No good deed goes unpunished. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015, John Hasler wrote: John "Permits? We don't need no stinkin permits." Hasler Reminds me of "Don't RTFM! Wing that sucker!" Haven't heard/seen that in a long time. And I have to say, this electrical stuff is a lot sexier than poopy linux stuff! -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

2015-12-22 Thread Bob Bernstein
http://www.wolframalpha.com is fun. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: OT Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-20 Thread Bob Bernstein
7;ll be plenty of time to get back to our old cranky individualistic ways. Right now 'tho there is a strong feeling abroad in the land, as they used to say, that either we stick together, or hang separately... -- Bob Bernstein

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-19 Thread Bob Bernstein
In many ways we are not a very admirable species. I don't really like people, as a group. Some of them, taken individually are just dandy. but as a group -- feh. Which makes it all the more difficult to do justice to them, which they need, and which we need to attempt. Best regards, -- Bob Bernstein

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Bob Bernstein
27;d google the goshdarn thing! -- Bob Bernstein

Re: POP3 was: Re: command not found [SOLVED]

2015-12-18 Thread Bob Bernstein
Gene: I'm unfamiliar with the term "mailfile." Can you expand a tad on that? Q'est-ce que? -- Bob Bernstein

Re: command not found

2015-12-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
ample_.) Also, run 'fetchmail --version' for debugging info. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
likes being *told* what to do. And, yes, there is something sophomoric about plonking someone but telling them about it first. In the Usenet heydays of killfiles, that was not as a rule how it was done. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015, Dan Ritter wrote: Plonk*. Sigh. Another satisfied customer. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plonk_(Usenet) FWIW, I didn't need the wikipedia reference. I've been plonked in classier joints than this! -- Bob Bernstein

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Woah. Calm down a bit. That made you uncomfortable a little bit Tomas, huh? Please try to deal with it before issuing instructions to me. I'm not here for your comfort, iydm. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: no response from listmaster

2015-12-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
ebian listadmins. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: KDE "libplasmacomponentsplugin.so is not a valid Qt plugin" after crossgrade?

2015-12-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
"They also do not infringe who only post what the Listmaster allows." -- Bob Bernstein

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

2015-12-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
#x27; pieces, then I could understand not feeling comfortable when someone does that in an email reply. Yes, point well taken. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

2015-12-01 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, 1 Dec 2015, anxious...@gmail.com wrote: If I bottom posted at work, no-one would ever discover my replies. I occasionally interleave if a point by point response seems sensible, or if the joke only works that way Word dat. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

2015-12-01 Thread Bob Bernstein
rds of factuality! What sort of horrible person are you?" I'm guessing your nephew isn't subscribed to any mailing lists. I doubt it. Would I be correct in that he uses Windoze and outhouse as a mailer? He uses a gmail account with "Ipad Mail". Oh well. Thanks Chris. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

2015-12-01 Thread Bob Bernstein
; with me and my pompous internet posing! I have to think about this a bit more because I am starting to have it UP TO HERE with him just writing this message! Thanks all. I knew I could find cooler heads here than in my family. -- Bob Bernstein

Re: OT: reply styles, family matters

2015-11-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
and bottom posting styles. I don't see any a priori need to impose moral equivalence on these different styles. Hmmm...I don't seem to be exactly neutral on this question. Oh well. -- Bob Bernstein

OT: reply styles, family matters

2015-11-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
better label) one, say, that perhaps has achieved the status of a "net classic?" Surely some 'net genius has dealt these nay-sayers, who seem to LIKE top-posting, a solid uppercut? Thanks, -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Your attempts to communicate

2015-11-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
I think alpine should refuse to use an expired cert. Hmmm... Perhaps I should query the alpine list on that point? _Or_, perhaps I should re-dedicate myself to learning about smime and stop expecting that, if I make enough tweaks, it will "just work." Oh well, Thanks all, -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Your attempts to communicate

2015-11-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
f the Debian Social Contract permitted wagering, I would stack a few chips that your answer to that would be "no." FULL DISCLOSURE: I haven't taken a look at my smime config here on alpine in quite some time... Thanks, -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Your attempts to communicate

2015-11-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
I believe the poster is trying to sign his messages with smime. My fairly recent version of alpine 2.20 tells me that his messages bear a "cryptographic signature," but that those signatures cannot be "verified." Please allow me to do the samd, i.e. sign with smim

Re: Terminal Madness?

2015-09-29 Thread Bob Bernstein
to barely scratch the surface, but for now I am going to stand pat and hope for the best. Thanks, -- Bob Bernstein

Terminal Madness?

2015-09-28 Thread Bob Bernstein
e -bg black -geometry x26 -fa 'Deja vu Sans Bold' -fs 24 (I've since changed to Luxi Mono just as a test of sorts.) ===> Has anyone EVA seen text file characters in an editor just change before their eyes without any intervention from the operator? -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-07 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 7 Sep 2015, Stephen Powell wrote: I just finished updating my web page to reflect the new information. Once again, go to http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/serial.htm What a great contribution! My null-modem cable ought to still be around here somewhere! :-) -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Configure Postfix *as* a smart host?

2015-08-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, David Wright wrote: Did you type the ^] ? But the ball's in your court—say hello. Type: ehlo summat I get: ehlo debian 250-boris.fuzzywuzzy.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 2048 250-VRFY 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN Hmmm...I

Re: Configure Postfix *as* a smart host?

2015-08-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 30 Aug 2015, Martin Smith wrote: You might find more answers at www.postfix.org, they also have a very good mailing list, which I can recommend No doubt a very good idea; thanks. -- Bob Bernstein

Configure Postfix *as* a smart host?

2015-08-29 Thread Bob Bernstein
age: http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/smtp_auth_mailservers.html Extra-Credit question: why does debian ship postfix with an empty /etc/postfix/sasl directory? Thanks, -- Bob Bernstein

Me vs. Qemu

2015-08-20 Thread Bob Bernstein
sed my way thru some of this stuff: To make the raw disk: 1.# qemu-img create myimage.img 12G To make the vm: 2. # qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d -cdrom cd57.iso myimage.im To launch my new vm: 3. # qemu-system-x86_64 myimage.img Comments/corrections/excoriations are welcome! -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Bob Bernstein
stupid planet the occasional blessing cannot possibly be misplaced. -- Bob Bernstein

Virtual noobie

2015-08-18 Thread Bob Bernstein
My experience of virtualization has been with Vmware "player" running on Windows. This is, for me, rather neat since I can easily create instances of *bsd flavors from the relevant install iso's. I need advice on how to do this on Jessie. What Debian virtualization packages do people like? I g

Re: "two peoples separated by a common language" -was {Re: [OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn}

2015-08-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
driving while intoxicated, which I *imagine* to be a more serious offense than spelling boo-boos, but then Lord knows I am not an attorney, that is just my opinion, and I could be wrong. -- Bob Bernstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: "two peoples separated by a common language" -was {Re: [OT] Television licensing. was: Re: pptp-based vpn}

2015-08-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
lity, but clearly we Yankees are put off by "apothecated," and begin, when we see it, to wonder if we have any prescriptions that need to be picked up at the good old apothecary. Oh well. -- Bob Bernstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Login failure after new install

2015-08-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015, Cobra wrote: I am new to this, This list is particularly welcoming to newbies. I don’t subscribe to the list itself Um...pray tell, why not? -- Bob Bernstein

Re: Wheezy firmware netinstall CDs

2015-08-08 Thread Bob Bernstein
have throttled those sentences into submission. -- Bob Bernstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.DEB.2.20.15080810

Re: After full-upgrade, `Meta' key not working within Emacs

2015-08-08 Thread Bob Bernstein
this very moment, but there is no xorg.conf file per se anywhere to be found on this machine. There is a thing, a collection of other ".conf" files in fact, installed under /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d, but none of them appear to treat of keyboards and their vicissitudes. -- Bob Be

Re: Wheezy firmware netinstall CDs

2015-08-07 Thread Bob Bernstein
vailable online, for either i386 or amd64? I went looking the other night ALL over ftp.debian.org and could not find any. Then again my eyes are not what they used to be... -- Bob Bernstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Mike Castle wrote: One handed Dvorak keyboard mappings. Thank you for handling that query Mike. Didn't wanna go near it meeself. -- Bob Bernstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Bob Bernstein
safety of the communicators. Again, I am struck by how much of this advice (and it's good advice, _if_ you can find such a server) seems to point directly back to Lavabit and its fate. But I can tell ya this: if they want my lotion 'n tissues they'll have to pry them out of my c

OT: *FREE* VPN! Why?

2015-08-06 Thread Bob Bernstein
of the room); is this all a porn thing? One is reminded of what happened to Usenet... Ok...thx! -- Bob Bernstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/alpine.DEB.2.20.1508060925150.1867@qrovna.ybpnyqbznva

Re: eth0 : no such device

2015-07-31 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 31 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: To use my fixed address methods, which are officialy discouraged by the list police... And what, exactly, pray tell, do those august personages ("the list police") preach? Something tells me that what you jocularly term "my fixed address methods" are

Re: alpine mail client with gmx.net as mail provider

2015-07-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
I suggest you join the alpine discussion list. The current developer pretty much "lives" there, and there is a nice group of subscribers. They talk about this kind of question all the time. https://mailman13.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info -- I am not a loony. Why should I be t

Re: OT Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote: Much of this discussion reminds me of an old Monty Python skit ending with the line "Lucky we didn't say anything about the dirty knife". :) I don't recall that bit, but then NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION! Recently I checked out the price of

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, John Hasler wrote: Systemd-timesyncd is not a replacement for Ntpd or Chrony. It is just an SNTP client similar to that used by Microsoft. It queries a single server and does no error checking or authentication. Basically, it replaces a cron job running Ntpdate. A ver

Re: OT Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: The question was: "What package contains the time daemon?" It may have been an X-Y question, but the answer to the question actually asked, was "ntp". You are (again) stunningly correct Lisi. I don't seem to have been able to stay focussed on "the que

OT Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Michael Biebl wrote: Yes. You actually need to do that. As long as ntp is installed, systemd-timesyncd won't start. I'd like to suggest that if I were a vindictive, morally shallow person I would be rushing back into this thread to point out: "Oh look! Another reason why

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, The Wanderer wrote: This is bordering on code-of-conduct questionability. I'm glad to hear that. I can see that my work here is done. -- I am not a loony. Why should I be tarred with the epithet 'loony' merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Ge

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Iain M Conochie wrote: No. This is an incorrect response. Really? Um...your own homework, below, suggests that ntp is not the only package that performs the task in question. Since ntpdate does not depend on ntp, then I have to say, simply REALLY! apt-cache search

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015, Gary Dale wrote: ntp No. This is an incorrect response. -- I am not a loony. Why should I be tarred with the epithet 'loony' merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabarro has a pet prawn called Simon - you wouldn't call him a loony! --

Re: Off topic, but has lists.sourceforge.net hung itself for good?

2015-07-19 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 19 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: Back when I was working as a Chief Engineer/Chief Operator/Chief BOFH, that happened to much of my operating staff once, until he got to me. The devil made me do it! Honest! He's sitting right here next to me! Hey Mr. Devil, you wanna type a few word

Re: msmtp Questions

2015-07-19 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 18 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: Just the same, you caught me on one thing. the full user name is the full email address and I was just using martin.m. Full disclosure: that wasn't me. It seems an admirable young fellow name of Curt brought that to your attention. -- I am

Re: IP address

2015-07-18 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 18 Jul 2015, Dan Ritter wrote: I find that a bizarre attitude. I'm so sorry. I hope the experience was not too uncomfortable for you. Please forgive me. I have many personal shortcomings, and frequent descents into bizarro-world figures prominently in any comprehensive list of them

Re: msmtp Questions

2015-07-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 18 Jul 2015, Bob Bernstein wrote: Then, if you have success you will at least know you are using the correct credentials (username, password) for your smtp server, which assurance you, and the rest of us, are currently lacking. At some point in this process try using your POP

Re: msmtp Questions

2015-07-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
I almost forgot: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man1/msmtp.1.html -- I am not a loony. Why should I be tarred with the epithet 'loony' merely because I have a pet halibut? I've heard tell that Sir Gerald Nabarro has a pet prawn called Simon - you wouldn't call him a loony! -

Re: msmtp Questions

2015-07-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: # Set a default account account default auth on from marti...@suddenlink.net protocol smtp port 587 Believe it or not, this is the closest I have gotten to making anything work. Above, where it says 'auth on' make that say auth off Then fir

Re: IP address

2015-07-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: Yes but depending on how your path is set it may not simply work. NO. There ought to be no monkeying EVA with the default PATHs (for root and other users) created by the authors of Linux and Unix. Period. (Which is why the wheel group ought t

Re: IP address

2015-07-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Hans wrote: If you know a little bit about the range of the network (i.e. if you know at least , it is 192.168.), then you might try to scan the IP with a direct connection to the network card. Try nmap (either from a separate computer with a crossover cable) on the c

Re: ip address

2015-07-17 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, David Wright wrote: I think you're better off forgetting about ifconfig and using ip in its place; Ach du Lieber Himmel! You will have to pry ifconfig out of my cold dead fingers! that's the direction things are heading. Of course David I am no one to gainsay your ty

Mea culpa

2015-07-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
asked be to dragged through any of the corners of my mind, let alone that one. I apologize for taking advantage of you good people. -- Bob Bernstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

2015-07-11 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Miles Fidelman wrote: Still, at $59/device - who's going to buy enough of the things to instrument all of their plants - maybe a garden plot, though. Reinhard Heydrich famously detested all plants: "The silly things will rat out their own families just for some extra wa

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-11 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: If I hope to send mail through smtp.suddenlink.net, it must see marti...@suddenlink.net plus the password also used to retrieve pop3 mail and the retrieval does work. Does your MUA set "From:" to marti...@suddenlink.net, and also set the envel

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-11 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, David Wright wrote: dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587' Syntax is correct. I've not tried that port. Must do so sometime. I think we're learning here in this thread to avoid generalizations, but 587 is known as the "submit" port. I have had good luck with it. Th

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
Maybe it's me; I'm not as spry as I used to be, but I am having difficulty following you. On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587' That looks fine to me, if the syntax for specifying a port is correct for exim (I simply don't know one way or t

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: The job now is to get the out-bound authentication to work to the smtp server. what do you put in exim's config as the name of your smarthost? -- I am not a loony. Why should I be tarred with the epithet 'loony' merely because I have a pet

Re: to be rude or not (was: YAGF is a seriously screwed package)

2015-07-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: I don't really understand. Are you saying Lisi is a "militant"? Let's suppose that: 1) my pasting that label ("militant") on her was a gross error, totally undeserved. Let's further suppose that: 2) perhaps in a minor fit of pique I had become

Re: to be rude or not (was: YAGF is a seriously screwed package)

2015-07-10 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Agreed. FWIW I do agree with you 100% -- I just wanted to raise some compassio/understanding for the "perpetrators" (I'm probably one of them many times). Oh no Tomas, compassion and understanding go right out the window when a militant's vital s

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, John D. Hendrickson wrote: but ALL DAMN DAY every day it got IP attacks purportedly from china. It's of course still like that out there, ALL DAMN DAY, the Wild West, Main St., Dodge City, only it's mostly (I think) SSH brute force attempts. I show skeptical friends my l

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-09 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 9 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: Lisi Reisz writes: As someone else has pointed out, it looks as though your username is wrong. I don't know whether to feel stupid or joyful. You get to feel both at the same time. Enjoy! -- "No matter how big the problem is, you can always

Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-08 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Wed, 8 Jul 2015, Martin G. McCormick wrote: I am trying to get a debian squeeze system to pull mail from my cable provider's pop3 server. Is there a special reason you do not post your .fetchmailrc file? Or, the output of 'fetchmail --version'? And, you have given one or two looks at t

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-08 Thread Bob Bernstein
plenty of takers. The Newton resident (Miles) knows whereof he speaks. Bob Bernstein NSHS '62 -- "No matter how big the problem is, you can always run away from it." Dom Irrera -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-07 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015, Marc D Ronell wrote: For the class, the participants will need access to GNU/Linux. After reviewing some options, including sdf.org... FWIW, sdf.org is a NetBSD operation. -- "No matter how big the problem is, you can always run away from it."

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-07 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015, Marc D Ronell wrote: I am working toward teaching a free introductory class to teens on GNU/Linux and the philosophy of free software at the Newton Free Library in MA this coming September. Oh my, that is a tantalizing menu! GNU/Linux AND philosophy! Starting, as you are

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