Re: nfs: task 865 can't get a request slot. What is this?

2003-02-11 Thread Jim Richardson
for the card. -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics Statistics, University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/jimr.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: galeon personal security manager needed?

2003-01-16 Thread Jim Richardson
mozilla-psm - Mozilla Web Browser - Personal Security Manager (PSM) Note that the galeon package requires mozilla-browser, and mozilla-browser recommends mozilla-psm. -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics Statistics, University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/jimr.html

Re: Setting Hostname after BOOPT/DHCP

2002-11-29 Thread Jim Richardson
is $( hostname ) You could update /etc/hostname too if you like. -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics Statistics, University of Sydney [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/jimr.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: gnomecal coredumps on startup

2002-10-03 Thread Jim Richardson
similar has happened to me too, and apparently to lots of other people. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83840 which says Should be fixed in 1.4.7. How can Debian stable users easily upgrade to that version? -- Jim Richardson School of Mathematics Statistics, University

Re: signing off

2001-04-02 Thread Jim Richardson
So why the drive by posting? If you choose to use something other than Debian or linux, are we supposed to beg you to reconsider? It's a free world, use what you want. Ask not if Debian is ready for you, ask if you are ready for Debian -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan

Re: newbie-esque: how to cut paste?

2001-03-31 Thread Jim Richardson
] Or do the same thing by hitting the up arrow key one time too many followed by return... Anyone know how to make bash history *not* keep certain commands? :) -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short

Forth (was Re: pyton perl)

2001-03-31 Thread Jim Richardson
under just JR about any language that will run in a forth environment, and vis-versa JR :) Yeah. Forth is really cool! What's a pity it is not popular nowdays. On the otherhand, postscript is very much like forth in many ways, and is only a printer away... -- Jim Richardson

Re: OT: Re: pyton perl

2001-03-30 Thread Jim Richardson
, is that no word means what you think it means, because someone (or some process) redefined it when you weren't looking :) On the other hand, it means that you can write a program under just about any language that will run in a forth environment, and vis-versa :) -- Jim Richardson

Re: mount a mounted filesystem

2001-03-30 Thread Jim Richardson
server.) Also man mountd shows a re-export option that includes nfs and smb volumes. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Richardson
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 10:54:47PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: Jim Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JR I am in the process of converting from SuSE to debian, if I choose to JR use testing/woody, will the upgrade automatically follow woody as it JR moves into stable? That is, if I begin

Re: PPPD problems

2001-03-28 Thread Jim Richardson
on wvdial as I don't use it. But the routing tables are the first thing that springs to mind with this sort of problem. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Sid vs unstable

2001-03-27 Thread Jim Richardson
automatically follow woody as it moves into stable? That is, if I begin following woody with apt, will I continue to follow woody as it stabilizes? Sorry if this is an obvious one, I haven't actually installed debian yet. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com

Re: quick howto-command questions?

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
because when viewing copious output through a pager, it would be useful to have sort by rows instead of by columns, which is the default behaviour. easy, simply add the -x flag to column, it ls |column -x -c80 |less -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com

Re: Routing problem...

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
, but (AFAIK) still work with current kernels (2.2.x, not sure about how iptables affect things.) Good luck. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
imho. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Checking port scanning?

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
in the water to the dumber variety of script kiddies. (the vaguely smarter ones figure out that an ip with a dozen backdoor exploits is probably not really running them) -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:54:42AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote: Jim Richardson wrote: the older IIIX(E) series, the new m100 is smaller) If all you are going to do is take notes, then you can get the cheaper 2MB visor, but if you Yes, just notes. I assume Visor uses the Palm OS and apps

Re: Viewing html-attachments with mutt

2001-03-22 Thread Jim Richardson
? ) -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question

2001-03-21 Thread Jim Richardson
of) Look in the help docs for mutt. For other mua, I have no idea -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: 1 linux box: 10 simultaneous telnet sessions

2001-03-21 Thread Jim Richardson
, good luck -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Cc: ing to debian-user when replying to a question

2001-03-21 Thread Jim Richardson
setup, you can do just about anything with the mail. www.mutt.org is the place to go for info on mutt. There are a couple of maillists there also Evolution is supposed to be more than just an mua yes? how'd you like the rest of the prog? -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud

Re: OT: Best PDA?

2001-03-21 Thread Jim Richardson
don't know how well they work as a pda though. Anyway, for price and convenience, go with a visor or palm. Just my $0.02 worth. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: PCMCIA modem card recommendation

2001-03-21 Thread Jim Richardson
is that it takes all the space in the pcmcia port. There can be only one -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-20 Thread Jim Richardson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 04:05:50PM +0800, csj wrote: On Tuesday 20 March 2001 12:13, Jim Richardson wrote: On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 07:30:30AM +0800, csj wrote: Now that you two mentioned them, I find it curious that both the YOPY and the Agenda VR3 (for virtual reality??) claim

Re: [OT] Linux palmtop computers?

2001-03-19 Thread Jim Richardson
, but they (or at least the agenda) are 'not ready for prime time' yet. I got the agenda, and it's fun to play with and dev for, but it's not replacing my palm pilot anytime soon. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short

Unstable, sid woody, what?

2001-03-19 Thread Jim Richardson
Can someone give me a quick crash course on what the relationship between the names (sid, slink, etc) and the dev_status. i.e. Is sid the stable tree? woody is testing? I am a little confused here. Thanks -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock

Re: Kernel 2.4.2 and modules

2001-03-18 Thread Jim Richardson
But when I mauch modconf or modprobe, my computer is unable to find the modules. Have I forgotten to do something? compiling the modules themselves is a seperate step from compiling the kernel. Did you make modules;make modules_install after compiling the kernel? -- Jim Richardson

Re: Rich text format.

2001-03-13 Thread Jim Richardson
- and export. But possibly there are as well some converters around. Also, Ted works with rtf fine. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Mirror

2001-03-13 Thread Jim Richardson
the sender immediately by return e-mail. http://cdimage.debian.org has instructions on this I think. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Re: Digital Camera to Linux

2001-03-12 Thread Jim Richardson
the D-360L. Might try that. -- Jim Richardson Anarchist, pagan and proud of it WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.

Considering switching to debian

2001-03-08 Thread Jim Richardson
difficult is it to build deb packages from tarballs? ie ./configure;make; - make a deb. Since I am likely to want to play with code that has no current .deb 5) Can I downgrade packages easily if they cause probs? That should cover it for now, thanks for your time -- Jim Richardson