Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
for packages that you absolutely have to have the latest at the moment upstream makes it available is an advantage. Especially if you disagree with the choices or patches that the maintainer added to package. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos

Re: Giving a user root priveleges?

2009-11-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
in zu22 password, right? As the user, you can run sudo -l to see what kind of right it has. You must still put in the correct password, though -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
p2p: ktorrent pdf/ps-reader: okular terminal emulator: yakuake text editor: emacs video player: kmplayer web browser: konqueror/firefox -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: [mutt] label mails with colored tags

2009-10-25 Thread John L Fjellstad
in), or editlabel(1) script (1) http://blitiri.com.ar/p/other/mutt-labels/ -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-28 Thread John L Fjellstad
% and install Debian squeeze (64bit AMD) on the 250GB partition that will be freed. I used to use PartitionMagic to shrink Windows partitions. Not sure if it still works with Vista, but I would think the newest version has support for it. A free vesion is gparted, but I have never used this. -- John L

Re: undigesting and filtering by list-id

2007-09-25 Thread John L Fjellstad
patterns actually get hit. It's not that hard to add counting information to procmail. You can log the information. I do that with my spamrules -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: undigesting and filtering by list-id

2007-09-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
doesn't preserve the 'list-id' header. Is there no choice, then, but to filter by 'to' (and 'cc' etc.)? Couldn't you reinsert the list-id header? That is, pull out the list-id header before undigesting, store it, undigest, insert list-id. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org

Re: how to give priority for site with apt

2007-09-19 Thread John L Fjellstad
abdelkader belahcene [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I haven't found info about priority in the apt doc Take a look at the apt_preferences(5). You can change the priority of the repositories by using pinning -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos

xml-fo to odf converter

2007-09-18 Thread John L Fjellstad
Anyone know a working xml-fo to odf converter? Google only shows me ms-doc to odf or xml-fo to pdf. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
of message, and not the plain text. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
the In-Reply-To header is still there, the threading shouldn't be broken -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
the message. Also, IMAP won't care if you change the message. You just upload the message as a new message. I do it all the time with I add labels etc. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Better iptables firewall

2007-08-30 Thread John L Fjellstad
limit --limit 1/sec -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p icmp -j DROP #-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 5030 -j ACCEPT #-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT #-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp --dport 15000 -j ACCEPT COMMIT # Completed on Mon Jun 18 09:55:18 2007 I took the rules look fine -- John L. Fjellstad web

Re: man for linux programmer's Manual

2007-08-18 Thread John L Fjellstad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, When I used RH 9.1 before, I can call man to display linux programmer's C / C++ manual. But, I am not be able to do it in my new installation of Debian 4.0. How can I install it? It's in manpages-dev, manpages-posix and manpages-posix-dev -- John L. Fjellstad

Re: Problem with compiling kernel

2007-05-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-04 Thread John L Fjellstad
. Try rebinding the / mountpoint somewhere else mount --bind / /mnt Then / will be in both / and /mnt The /mnt/usr should be your original /usr. Delete that directory, and unmount /mnt Theoretically, this should work, but I haven't tried it. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org

Re: Dangers of stable in sources.list

2007-05-04 Thread John L Fjellstad
system are the ones most likely to be blind-sided by it. John L Fjellstad wrote: If you remove 'stable', then you kind of have to remove 'testing' too. I don't think that follows. If someone, even a newbie, signs up for `testing', they've got to know there's going to be a bumpy ride

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-04 Thread John L Fjellstad
understanding. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dangers of stable in sources.list

2007-05-03 Thread John L Fjellstad
distro goes stable, it's never much of a surprise. Then again, I don't feel like running aptitude update aptitude dist-upgrade every day, especially on my servers. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Dangers of stable in sources.list

2007-05-03 Thread John L Fjellstad
follow testing will get a blast of new software once 'whatever' becomes stable. And how do you know which code name is the current stable? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: GCC compiler

2007-04-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
knew about := but I always thought they were pretty much the same. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GCC compiler

2007-04-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
generic and not GNU make specific). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
or 50 computers. And SCU isn't that big. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Blog about using Debian for a really small business...

2007-04-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
story? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
I just don't have time or energy for this. Sorry. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
a UNIX lab. Used to be HP-UX, now it's Solaris. Actually, the engineering lab has three systems, Solaris, Linux and Windows. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
become unbootable with a new kernel install. If you have label or UUID, then you continue as if nothing has happened. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
the partition. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iptables not behaving the way I expected

2007-04-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
-- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
in their own directory structure. For compilers, you could export CC and CXX and only use those variables in your makefile, I guess. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not recommended, but possible: sudo su - I think sudo -i will give the same effect -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: iptables not behaving the way I expected

2007-04-19 Thread John L Fjellstad
or not, so that rule will always match. You never get to the second rule, which say that only update if the ip address is already in the list. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-10 Thread John L Fjellstad
iptables. It's basically three lines of rules -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Multi] Wireless Network Configuration

2007-04-10 Thread John L Fjellstad
to manage my wireless network choosing (Scanning for networks and choosing one based on a database of known hosts, or something similar) I use whereami. Works great. Only problem is, I'm not sure it works if you use WPA -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
does not match. This means that they only get one try. And since the 60 seconds timelimit is set every time someone makes a connection, they will never get the login unless they wait 60 seconds (which they never do). Also, in /etc/hosts.deny, set ALL: PARANOID -- John L. Fjellstad web: http

Re: Etch release??

2007-04-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
. Have a beer :-) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
to find a good comparison them. You're better off just installing all three and test them out. I think they are pretty feature-equivalent these days. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GPG and Signing

2007-04-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
into their MUA's, built a certificate store into their operating system and bought VeriSign. Couple of points. There are lots of stuff MS does that don't make them money. Also, I don't believe they own VeriSign. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
what you chose last. To change environment, just logout of your current session, and log back in with the new environment. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: GPG and Signing

2007-04-03 Thread John L Fjellstad
and people who use OE see it as an attachment is because MS is unable to implement an 11 years old standard. This page (http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html) has a discussion about the different standards (PGP/MIME and S/MIME) and links to the different RFCs. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http

Re: GPL v3?

2007-04-02 Thread John L Fjellstad
to relicense their code. And that was the intention of the kernel too, which is why they removed the ..or later text from the standard license text. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
?) But what I want is the ability to read anything. Well, anything in any European language, with emphasis on french, german, and icelandic, plus a few related dead languages.) Here are examples of unicode text: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/ -- John L. Fjellstad web: http

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
-- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
option -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-03-02 Thread John L Fjellstad
changed. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IPTables Port Forwarding

2007-03-02 Thread John L Fjellstad
or whatever the policy is) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-02-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
as a server. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
a /sbin/modprobe? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
to hear actual experiences. I haven't used them yet, but www.serverbeach.com might be an option. They seem pricecompetitive to servermatrix. I'm researching this myself, so this thread is of interest to me (I've been leaning towards serverbeach lately). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
Sarge had the option to install 2.6.8 -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-28 Thread John L Fjellstad
can't be upgraded (and doesn't run Linux) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-28 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 01/28/07 13:32, John L Fjellstad wrote: Make sure you buy v4 or below. v5 can't be upgraded (and doesn't run Linux) I thought that was the difference between the WRT54GL and WRT54G. You're right. The WRT54GL is the linux version. From what I can

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
a black-on-white window. OTOH, I usually see black-on-white on *nix systems (Solaris, HP-UX, now KDE and GNOME) as the default state. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
gmane). As newsgroups reader, gnus can't be beat, and mailing lists really works best as a 'newsgroup'. (I use either mutt or kmail to read my email, depending on which MUA irritates me the least last) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
might be -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: function-hiding feature in Kate rocks...

2007-01-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
if someone have made a better one for programming (the one in kate is really good). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks, with the continual talk of the bad etiquitte of top posts, I was thinking if anyone has ever developed a way to fix the problem. The Gnus people already did that: W Y c or Article - Washing - (Outlook) Deuglify - Rearrange Citation -- John L

Re: xorg xfree86

2007-01-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
actually wonder who's using xfree86, for new development today. I think even the *BSD people went to Xorg -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS

2007-01-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
that aren't allowed to post (in English, mind you)? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Eudora - Evolution how?

2007-01-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
as aliases file, but mutt can be setup to use LDAP. It's relatively easy to set up. http://www.brennan.id.au/20-Shared_Address_Book_LDAP.html -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
-version in sarge. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Manual java alternative

2007-01-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
been updated to create sun-java 6 deb files (couple of weeks ago). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using kmail with procmail

2006-12-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
the mail into its directory structure). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VCS systems on linux

2006-12-01 Thread John L Fjellstad
) that got checked in for that version. OTOH, if you are checking out a specific file, I don't know any vcs that will check out all files that this specific file depend on. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

shell script and variable problem

2006-12-01 Thread John L Fjellstad
or not, and if it is, it will fail. And even if it doesn't, -f $exlist should fail since it wouldn't be able to find that file. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: VCS systems on linux

2006-12-01 Thread John L Fjellstad
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:45:04AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: Well, not exactly. CVS only does vcs-per-file. That is, it doesn't know anything about the interrelationship between files. The new generation vcs', like subversion and arch does

Re: shell script and variable problem

2006-12-01 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ken Irving [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not sure, but it'll work if you enclose the variable in quotes. That worked perfectly. Thanks. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread John L Fjellstad
for a system would be unique for that system. I can't really think of an app that would be unique to GNU/Linux (that wouldn't also work on other unix systems). Maybe something like FUSE? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: The Linux Code

2006-11-25 Thread John L Fjellstad
Baz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I saw this yesterday via Google Video.  Excellent!  I had no idea Linus lives here in the Bay Area.   Must be a pretty old program since Linus moved out of the Bay Area a couple of years ago. http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/10/2317243 -- John L

Re: Laptop choice?

2006-11-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
Can't give you specific advice on the laptops you showed, but I would check http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and see if those models are there and how much problems people have setting up their laptops. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-18 Thread John L Fjellstad
from that ip address until there has been at least one minute since last attempt. Works great. Take a look at the recent module in iptables (iptables -m recent --help) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: UDEV Question

2006-11-18 Thread John L Fjellstad
' it with scsiadd -s? I don't have a scanner, but if you give me the output of the following command: udevinfo -a -p `udevinfo -q path -n /dev/device` I might be able to help you write the rule to create the link to the node -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis

Re: emacs without documentation nonsense

2006-11-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why duck? Everyone knows that the only component missing from emacs is generally a good text editor. :-) And what's wrong with viper? :-) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

Re: brute force ssh login attempts and how to Disrupt them

2006-11-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
In Linux, you can use iptables with the recent module. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: C++ exception handling question [solved]

2006-11-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
Also, when you have time, you really should read about on google. There are some interesting discussion for and against the memory overcommit feature/bug. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: C++ exception handling question

2006-11-12 Thread John L Fjellstad
/vm/overcommit_memory. Check the man page for malloc (look under BUGS), and do some search in your favorite search engine. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Why I left Debian

2006-10-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Indeed I just grab a Ubuntu DVD (labelled 'Dapper-drake 6.06 LTS' which looks very recent). Ubuntu is based and so I'll probably try it as a replacement of etch. Ubuntu Edgy Edge got releases on the 26th. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
[ konsole ] text editor [ emacs ] 3D animation [ ] video player [ kmplayer ] web browser [ firefox, konqueror ] word-processor [ OpenOffice.org write ] (unreleased) [ ] (great honours) [ GCC, emacs, KDE ] -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:22:24PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you look at the number of lines of rules you make, and compare it to the number of lines (pages!) of iptables rules it makes, you see that shorewall is easier. Also

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John L. Fjellstad writes: shorewall creates pages of iptables rules and that is considered a good thing? You'd rather write them all by hand? You think creating pages of rules is Keeping It Simple? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-19 Thread John L Fjellstad
found for understanding iptables. shorewall creates pages of iptables rules and that is considered a good thing? What happened to KISS? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: regex for top-posting?

2006-07-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
Eric d'Alibut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone have a regex for top-posted list messages? Or some other Mailman hack that can be used to weed out these undesirables? In Gnus, W Y c -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

Re: How to use sudo not root

2006-06-28 Thread John L Fjellstad
://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/coreutils_149.html#SEC150 -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-28 Thread John L Fjellstad
Mumia W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I need is an X keyboard configuration tutorial. The Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO is long in the tooth and only glances over X. I used this site: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have happened. P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird? Set up the compose key (I have it set up as the Left Alt key) Then compose c = -- John L. Fjellstad web: http

Re: wlan in different environments -- one time with static network address, one time with dhcp

2006-06-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
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Re: setting firefox as default kde webbrowser

2006-06-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
sudo update-alternatives --display x-www-browser Do a man on update-alternatives -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network: how to name interfaces ?

2006-06-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
the z25_persisten-net.rules might be changed in the next upgrade. Better to create a custom-net.rules file and do your changes there. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
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Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps they require w32codecs from the Marillat repository. Could Patrick and John (Fjellstad) confirm? Well, looking at the URL, it looks like a WMV file, so probably -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
, during the game, the servers might be overloaded. Try again later. Here, the video starts probably within 30 sec (the times I tried). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: network: how to name interfaces ?

2006-06-12 Thread John L Fjellstad
Bruno Costacurta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how to name network interfaces ? My unique wireless card contines to receive changing interface names like eth1 or eth2 ..etc.. : how to fix it ? If you are using udev, you can also use the rules to redefine the name -- John L. Fjellstad web: http

Re: Samba Management

2006-06-11 Thread John L Fjellstad
are assigned to a system admin. What about SWAT? I like swat alot. Very easy to use. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How does inetd work?

2006-05-25 Thread John L Fjellstad
, stout, stderr). Closes the socket. Child exec() the server. The server therefore uses stdin, stdout, and stderr to communicate with the other side. At the parent, the parent (inetd) closes the socket. I think proftpd can work with inetd. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org

Re: For the love of...

2006-05-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: alias xorgcfg=vim should do the trick for you :) of course on my box, I also have alias vim=emacs Do you also have alias ed=vim ? :) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

Re: Alsa breaks after kernel upgrade

2006-05-11 Thread John L Fjellstad
? If you are, did you upgrade your udev? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Posix and SysV message queues

2006-05-10 Thread John L Fjellstad
recommends you install :-). Well, google showed me the actual manpage (once I knew the name), and it's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks alot. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Posix and SysV message queues

2006-05-09 Thread John L Fjellstad
I'm trying to write a program using posix and sysV message queues. For sysV, there is a utility, ipcs and icprm that lets me inspect and remove messages from the queue. Anyone know if there is a similar utility for posix msg queues? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org

Re: Posix and SysV message queues

2006-05-09 Thread John L Fjellstad
a mq_overview man page. There is no /dev/mqueue on my filesystem (using udev). I have the posix man pages installed (both manpages-posix and manpages-posix-dev), so I think I should have everything installed (in regards to man pages) I appreciate the help. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http

Re: upgrade glibc on Sarge

2006-05-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
anything (I'm only running apache, mysql, postfix and courier on the box. I'm not so sure that safe (not sure the differences are between the glibc in Sarge and Etch). You might be better off using the backports, www.backports.org, which are newer packages compiled for stable. -- John L. Fjellstad

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