Re: upgrading cmos of compaq 833 cds?

geometry is a fiction these days. Internally, the drives have a different number of sectors per track depending on whether it's the inside, middle, or the outside tracks. The drive emulates something with fixed geometry so that BIOS doesn't get confused. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL

Re: 1.3 Installation Report

that I can get PPP and FTP on it, so that we can do a one-floppy install via FTP. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: 1.3 Installation Report

From: Igor Grobman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note that I said on the base disks. Rescue disk still has the good old ugly ae on it :). OK. Try ae -f /etc/ae2vi.rc on a 1.3 system sometime. It's impressive what you can do with a 23k editor! Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510

Re: drop dead?

SmartList will remove you if it gets too many bounces. Ask the list manager Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] for help. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87

Re: 1.3 Installation Report

system, it's in our web site. I agree that starting up X is the most difficult of them to get fixed, but I'd not suggest you give up hope. A detailed report in the bug system would help. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?

SYSLINUX.CFG to add the NFS root parameters to the boot command line. See the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt, you will have to install the kernel-source package if you have not done so. That should work fine. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens

Re: nfs-booting with a null-modem cable ?

the new root filesystem, and then exit the initrd. See /usr/src/linux/Docuemntation/initrd.txt . Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: xinetd startup message

I suspect that xinetd isn't attached to any terminal, and thus an open of /dev/tty would fail. Without investigating the problem further, I suggest it should probably be using /dev/console or a log file. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger

Re: /home was DESTROYED last night.

problem. Who knows how many times the power blinked, etc., while you were asleep. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: ftp install problem

should be able to install the minicom program and use it something like telix. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: copying dpkg info to another machine?

Could you take some file (status?) from /var/lib/dpkg and edit it by hand It's not nearly that nasty. Use dpkg --get-selections to output the list of selected packages, and use dpkg --set-selections to set it on the other machine. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510

Re: iso9660 image?

I will upload 1.3 images created using the debian-cd package on June 2. I'll probably use Novare as their distribution site - 1.2 GB is a bit large to propogate to all of the mirrors. The response to early prototypes at Pixar has been I love my Debian system. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP

Re: login installation weirdness?

. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

bruce back from vacation

I am back from vacation. If you have Debian issues for me, please send them to my address [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint

Re: year-2000 testing

Did anyone test _emacs_ for year-2000 problems? Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

year-2000 testing

need to run something like clock -u -w after resetting the date with the date command. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: Problem with cdwrite, Help needed bad

. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: compiling C source for HP850C ghostscript driver from OS/2 or DOS on Linux

I think this user has to run fromdos (in the sysutils package) on the files, to replace the MS-DOS CR-NL line endings with just plain CR. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15

Re: Trolltech changing license for QT?

They don't seem to be changing the license. It's free software only when used with X. That was the story before. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A

Re: !!WARNING!! USR 33.6

that Linux is an important market. The Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO provides information about what devices currently have Linux drivers. -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A

Re: What editors are in base?

decisions with dselect, and it's no surprise that they don't always figure out how to do that. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

the not-quite-free Freedom Desktop :-)

. If a person extracts the program from Debian and uses it or distributes it without Debian, that person and any people to whom the program is redistributed should have the same rights as those that are granted in conjunction with the Debian system. Thanks Bruce Perens -- Bruce

Re: No automatic PST-PDT time change?

Is your CMOS clock on local time? That would do it. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: A Qt alternative for KDE?

the existing KDE ones. Rather than use curses, try s-lang and its terminal support. It's smaller and simpler. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95

Re: code-names

. Whose libc is libc5? That is GNU libc too, but when work on LIBC was dead in the water H.J. fixed (or hacked) it for Linux. The new libc merges in H.J. code into the main GNU source thread or replaces it with something better. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502

Re: code-names

Two questions: 1. What's good about GNU libc? 2. Whose libc is libc5? LIBC5 is GNU libc with substantial patches for Linux. LIBC6 is GNU libc with the Linux support merged back in to the main source thread. GNU calls these LIBC 1 and 2. We call it LIBC6 on Linux because our version numbers

Re: RPM

the packages in some trusted environment. When I last heard, we had some 240 (out of 900) packages not converted to the new source format. This gets in the way of automatic compilation. Volunteers to work on that are welcome. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215

code-names

, known in Linux circles as libc 6. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: A Qt alternative for KDE?

. But then, I've only asked on two Debian lists a few hours ago. There is GnuSTEP, too. If there wasn't, I think we'd have more interest in a really-free Qt. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint

Re: ppp loopback

It means the remote system echoed serial characters that PPP sent. This happens when the remote pppd hasn't started and you are sending packets at the login prompt or the shell prompt. Run through the chat script by hand and see if it really gets you logged in. Bruce -- Bruce Perens

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

is that where previously lunatics were generally isolated lunatics, with the Internet you can find 40 other lunatics just like you spread around the world. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3

Re: biff(1)

has long been obsolete. One of the various ways of starting a program in response to a mail message (procmail or mailagent can help with this) can be used to perform its function. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP

Re: The ultimate fate of Debian

Well the next release is called hamm. The one before it was called buzz. Given the mystical significance of bo, this means one of the following: 1. Bruce Perens is the antichrist and Debian really means Devil. 2. The code names are all characters in Toy Story. 3. It's

Re: RPM

certification authority or other means (like having a local Debian developer check them out) so that we can trace software all the way back to the original author. Bruce -- BAN KEY ESCROW. Privacy is your right! Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: KDE/KDM

/), but of course they only have one component of that in Alpha-test so far. Thanks Bruce -- BAN KEY ESCROW. Privacy is your right! Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24

Re: BUG in dinstall script in BO IMPORTANT!

Please send full details to Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] . He is maintaining the script. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: RPM

Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

A Qt alternative for KDE?

Would anyone be interested in working on a GPL-ed clone of Qt? This would make KDE entirely free. I'd like to hear sentiment on this before I take any more steps. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key

Re: KDE/KDM

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: KDE itself is free, but the Qt toolkit upon which KDE is free _only_when_used_with_X_. You'll still be able to get KDE from the non-free directory and run it. From: Alair Pereira do Lago [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce, shouldn't it be the contrib directory

Re: KDE/KDM

a copy of Qt to do so. Cost over $1500 per platform. Right? Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: RPM

. -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: RPM

Is there some philosophical problem with incorporating PAM as-is? I think the major problem was that it was not close to release when we made the decision for 1.3 - the shadow module was well-tested, but some of the other modules were not working. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL

Re: RPM

reached the point where its growth does not hinge upon technical features like the ones above so much as its user and developer community. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15

Re: pentium Pros and what about the USB?

the Intel 8244xFx PCI chipset Try the Triton driver support. I don't know about USB. Do you have any USB devices? I've never seen one. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6

Re: Upgrading from slackware to debian

Hosted by CrossLink; Beleive it or not we now have 73 FTP sites! Crosslink hosts the main web site and one of the FTP sites. There are a number of secondary web servers coming up now - for example there's one in Spain. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502

Re: Bug#8119: e2fsck should be linked with -static

. It isn't constructive. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: Linux Expo in Research Triangle Park NC (4/4-5/97)

I will be there, and I'm giving two talks. I don't know if any Debian CD sellers will be there. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: sound-blaster/ide channel 2

I think that's hdc=cdrom. Try that on the boot command line as: boot: linux hdc=cdrom - Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: debian-changes dead?

Please re-subscribe by sending subscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: Adaptec 2940UW/debian rescue kernel replacement

rdev.sh does not sync, so be sure to do it manually prior to removing the disk. unmount syncs. And you should un-mount the disk before removing it, unless you happened to be using mtools to access it. I don't know anything about mtools. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED

Linux for the '286

[will there be a '286 linux?] There is an 8086 linux, but it doesn't run the same executables. It's for embedded systems. I have one of those useless '286 laptops too. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP

Dialing into a Windows NT PPP server?

script to remove that stuff. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: AX25 kernal options

I'm afraid the ax.25 packages are old. You'd be better off to build from the current sources for now. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87

Re: Connecting to a Windows NT server

the samba and/or ksmbfs packages on the Linux side. Some other kind of connection? Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: GNU/Linux 1.2, help please!

but may provide the required signature. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: GNU/Linux 1.2, help please!

From: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Business Data Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, val.tamarov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: GNU/Linux 1.2, help

List mail was delayed

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Re: Term

to change. I'm not aware of how to find the server-side version of SlIRP, but if you can't find it I'm sure someone on debian-user will help. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0

Re: Adaptec 2940 UW

in the file root.bin . You might have to run the shell script rdev.sh (also on the disk), but I'm not sure. You can edit special command-line flags into syslinux.cfg for convenience. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key

Re: xdm : always reply login incorrect

It sounds like a key-mapping problem. Some of the more X-knowledgable will no doubt tell us how to fix that. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: flon command?

What does the flon command do? Maybe we have it under a different name. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: What happend to the debian-user-digest list?

To re-subscribe to debian-user-digest, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The message should be the word subscribe. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24

Re: Zimmerman case

are, and (like the Atom Bomb) all of the theoretical knowledge has been published, and much of it was researched and published by people outside of the U.S. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4

resolv.conf

It is made by the installation process when you configure your network. The one made then has these two lines: search DOMAIN_NAME nameserver XX.XX.XX.XX Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP

Zimmerman case

/pgpcorp.cgi . They don't give details on their financing, but the people on the board certainly have access to good financing. I just wish our government would get over the fascist notion that only governements should be allowed to protect secrets. No argument there. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP

Re: turning off computer

even work without anyone logging in. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 Received: (qmail 10760 invoked by uid 888); 6 Mar 1997 02:18:11 -

Re: Debian 1.2 boot-floppy won't work

The Linux driver seems to have problems with some floppy drives. I suggest you write the floppies from another PC. You should, by the way, be able to set any of the first 4 partitions on the first hard drive to be active and boot from it. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP

Re: NT authentication drama

authentication for Linux services using a central NT server is available at : http://www.mindware.com.au/ftp/smb-NT-verify.1.1.tar.gz -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24

Re: Monitor internal relay switches

is operating for one of two reasons - the monitor is going into a power-save mode, or the monitor has lost sync momentarily. Operation of the relay is not bad for your monitor, and I'd suggest you ignore it. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger

apology for mailing list mess-up

configuration file. Hopefully it's all over now. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

list service back at full performance

The list server is delivering messages at a good speed, and its problems appear to have been solved this time, so please go back to using it as you usually would. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP

kerneld problem

. --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DS U.K.E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- -- Bruce Perens

FTP archive time-stamps

The FTP archive timestamp.txt is being updated again. That was broken for about a week. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

list service improved

without the load going over 1.5 , so I think we'll do OK. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

We have someone who wrote a PPP set-up program that isn't ready for prime time. When it is ready, it will be part of the system. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A

list server coming back up

The list server will be back up properly in a few hours. It is currnetly running from a backup site, and I think we're going to transition it to operate from Bucknell U. soon. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP

Why you are seeing all of these UNSUBSCRIBE messages all of a sudden

sufficiently. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

mailing lists

Mike hasn't responded to the request I sent on Thursday to restore my directory on master, so I'll have to put the list server back up from scratch. Hopefully I'll have time for it this evening. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

over something so trivial as this just doesn't seem worth it. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

to [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOW. I have asked the statistics-keepers to add the figure for [EMAIL PROTECTED] to that for [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Thanks Bruce Perens President Software in the Public Interest (Debian's corporation) -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

_against_ Linux if it would profit Debian. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

work against Linux if it profited Debian. That's not a good perception to have. I have already sent my apologies to the Linux team for the entire project. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

From: Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today, RC5. Tomorrow, DES. Next week, Phil Zimmerman's a free man. (Oh well, we can dream...) The government dropped its case against Zimmerman long ago. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

...but hopefully things didn't get quite that bad for him... Look at www.pgp.com . He's quite the businessman. Bought Viacrypt and folded it into his own company, etc. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

do. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

the machine, and he has a 10MBIT connection to the Internet. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

against people we should be working with? 3. Are there better ways for us to spend our time? I sure think so. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76

Re: pine produces segmentation faults (fwd)

From: William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Time to RTFM, there, Corey. That's RTM on this list, please. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: Big Problem!

. You might want to start XF86_S3. Which configuration file has this pathname and not /etc/X/X11 ? 2. The X configuration program wants to run the vanilla SVGA server and it's not installed? No doubt someone more cognizant with X will respond. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL

Re: Free Publicity from the RSA Data Security Challenge

From: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that this doesn't help those of us who already *have* to use socks to get to the 'net. I guess you'd have to get at your SOCKS server in order to tell it to call our SOCKS server for this particular service. Bruce -- Bruce Perens

Re: pine produces segmentation faults (fwd)

course in developing a thick skin over there. I'm almost ready for politics. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: NT and Microsoft can go to heck!

Mount the hard disk root on /mnt, and run lilo -r /mnt. That will treat /mnt as if it were the root. I agree these commercial operating systems aren't worth the trouble. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP

Re: porting machines

Try the boot disks in unstable/disks-m68k. I think they'll work on the Atari. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Unstable vs. Stable

of available packages. There may be a manual edit of your X configuration required. People who understand X a lot better than I are available to help out on this list. There may be other small hassles, but an upgrade should certainly be possible. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP

Re: People Demanding Credit in the Press Release Silliness

a _little_ room to talk about Linus and RMS. But I still have to fit it in one page. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Debian on the shuttle

. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: bad superblock (fwd)

or the physical disk. Try fdisk rather than cfdisk, and look a bit closer. Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: Partitions (was Re: Debian installation)

That user was getting complaints about overlapping partitions. I don't see the overlap. Any clue? Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215-3502 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP public key. PGP fingerprint = 88 6A 15 D0 65 D4 A3 A6 1F 89 6A 76 95 24 87 B3

Re: m68k

The readme in the m68k disks says root.bin doesn't work for amiga. I suppose that means it works for atari. I suggest you write to debian-68k@lists.debian.org and ask the developers there how to get bootstrapped. Thanks Bruce -- Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-215

Re: Debian on the shuttle

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