Re: pidgin

2008-12-14 Thread Rich Healey
status (but maybe I'm wrong). But there will be no better information than on their list ... in special when you are building your own binary as you mentioned over there ;) Cheers, Frank aMSN is now using ETK as far as I know. Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / healey.r

Re: I get too many emails

2008-10-28 Thread Rich Healey
of lists with all of my addresses, I use a combination of Gmail's filtering and procmail on the addresses managed on my servers. Because I use IMAP I don't see all the list traffic unless I look at it. Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems

Re: You are a broken record (was Re: friend cannot see me on msn)

2008-10-23 Thread Rich Healey
it to be easy (especially from windows, msn is standard, i believe) they're free to. Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : /[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 \ `. `' / [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN

Re: cannot install all updates

2008-10-23 Thread Rich Healey
minor updates, security fixes, {dist,full}-upgrade will upgrade completely, potentially breaking everything. - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : /[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33

Re: Debian on MacBook

2008-10-20 Thread Rich Healey
meant running Debian on a MacBook. :) I ran Debian testing (Lenny) single boot for some time on my MBP without issue. Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : /[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33

Re: how to check a cd-rom?

2008-10-17 Thread Rich Healey
/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2008-07-11 00:40 /cdrom - media/cdrom Maybe give it the real device path rahther. He did try that... Regards, Andrei media/cdrom is a mount point. /dev/cdrom is a device node. Regards Rich Healey - -- Rich Healey - iTReign

Re: Why not thunderbird

2008-10-17 Thread Rich Healey
the thunderbird command? thanks You can try making a link: ln -s /usr/bin/icedove /usr/bin/thunderbird Sam I'd make it in /usr/local/ . Debian likes to keep it's /usr tree to itself. - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-15 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Joachim wrote: On 2008-10-15 05:37 +0200, Rich Healey wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote

Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
(this _IS_ a bad idea, but I need the speed..) @Doug, I do love old machines, let us know how you go. I have some disks that you're welcome to, perhaps we can work something out with shipping? If you have some old kit lying around, perhaps we could trade? Regards Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign

Re: 64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland (was Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64)

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 22:37, Rich Healey wrote: [snip] I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit How do you do that? Just install the amd64 kernel and reboot? Yup :) Very simple, addresses a lot

Re:[OT] Old Boxen [WAS] old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:37:11PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:29:55PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:21:51PM -0400, Douglas

Re: 64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland (was Re: old dos and win3.1 games on Debian Etch amd64)

2008-10-14 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 23:14, Rich Healey wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 22:37, Rich Healey wrote: [snip] I'd disagree. 32bit + 64bit kernel is always a good idea, and 64 bit How do you do that? Just install the amd64 kernel

Re: how to add a virtual directory in apache with support to php files?

2008-10-08 Thread Rich Healey
list, but from memory you need to take your handler directives and nest them in the directory tags. Or apply them globally. Sorry for the vague reply - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : /[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-07 Thread Rich Healey
desktopenvironment? Also, in pidgin's settings i believe this can be changed. something like iceweasel %u for the browser command - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : /[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Star Liu wrote: thank you. do you have any IM so that i can add you into my debian group? Hi Star, You've already added me, but as Andrei points out the IRC is a very consistent place to find support/kill time. Kind Regards Rich Healey

Re: icedove

2008-10-07 Thread Rich Healey
pointed out, some apps hold app specific settings, thus they might also need to be changed. Kind Regards, Jaime Kind Regards, and happy Debian'ing Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : /[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM

Re: need help on configing alsa in sarge

2008-10-05 Thread Rich Healey
? Possibly, but you'd need to check that there were no changes between then configuration settings (uie, added removed features). Can I ask why you're using Sarge still? In a month or so it will be 2 releases old! Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer

Re: Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x - impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Rich Healey
, Peter. Why exactly do you want to use the Etch kernel? - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \.''`. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin \ : :' : /[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 \ `. `' / [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian testing + xen 3.2.1 + dom0 kernel 2.6.18 + clvm 2.x - impossible ?

2008-09-30 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Van Biesen wrote: Because you can't use a newer kernel as a xen dom0 kernel. The only working dom0 kernel ( at the moment ) is a 2.6.18 afaik. Kindest regards, Peter. On Tuesday 30 September 2008 13:48:10 Rich Healey wrote: Peter

Re: Is Novel Suse not friendly to real linux world? and how about Red hat and Debian?

2008-09-19 Thread Rich Healey
to support/implement Debian systems. 3. Shall Debian follow the way of Red hat to have a nonfree enterprise edition? 4. Do Debian has the danger of IP lawsuits created by microsoft? Knowing what you'd read to lead you to these conclusions would be handy. Regards Rich Healey - -- Rich

Re: [OT] Debian Sig

2008-09-18 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Cox wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 16:43:06 +1000, Rich Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Bob Cox wrote: http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=debian+logo+ascii+art leads to: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/07/msg00686.html

Re: [OT] Debian Sig

2008-09-11 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [[Sorry Bob, hit the wrong reply button!]] Bob Cox wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:49:53 +1000, Rich Healey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've seen a ASCII art sig on this list, of the debian

Re: reply-to-list for icedove? was Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

2008-09-11 Thread Rich Healey
with Icedove here. https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/thunderbird/addon/4455 It is considered experimental on Mozilla website I just noticed, but never had a problem with it. Tom OOOh thanks! That's brilliant :D - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

[OT] Debian Sig

2008-09-10 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've seen a ASCII art sig on this list, of the debian swirl.. but can't nut out what to google to find it! If anyone's got it that'd be great.. Cheers Rich - -- Rich Healey - iTReign \/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer

Re: Challenge - Getting Debian Working on a Pair of Real Old Laptops

2008-09-04 Thread Rich Healey
. You can also pass init=/bin/sh to the kernel and work your way up fom there.. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net- #hbh #admins richohealey irc.freenode.org - #hbh

Re: favor needed by debian beginner

2008-09-03 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: favor needed by debian beginner Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 10:33:55 +0300 [Your question belongs to debian-user, so I'm Cc'ing there]

Re: need help with cc

2008-08-23 Thread Rich Healey
That's a CompSci 101 mistake. Erm.. I believe he was blaming the coder :P - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net- #hbh #admins richohealey irc.freenode.org - #hbh #debian

Re: can't configure networking for static IP address

2008-08-11 Thread Rich Healey
). Perhaps he gathers some information on the clandestine party, perhaps he helps them come to justice. Perhaps nothing bad happens! He's behind a nat gateway, and long before he's offering services, his box needs to become publically routable ;) - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: installing a package from lenny on an etch machine...

2008-08-02 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mumia W.. wrote: On 08/01/2008 12:17 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: [...] As you can see, the doc package installed OK, but the server package needs a later version of some basic C libraries. I'd rather not upgrade the Etch machine to Lenny right now.

[OT] Move IMAP Mail

2008-07-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a quick question, I just got an iPhone, and want to hook against my gmail account, but as it stands i need to have thunderbird running to filter all my mail so i don't get all my listmail in my inbox on my phone. Gmail's filters/labels don't

Re: [OT] Move IMAP Mail

2008-07-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Rich Healey escreveu: I have a quick question, I just got an iPhone, and want to hook against my gmail account, but as it stands i need to have thunderbird running to filter all my mail so i don't get all my listmail

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Rich Healey
H.S. wrote: Hello, Many months ago I had first installed a virtual machine, VMWare. I used it for a few months and then never touched. IIRC, it was free for students back then. This week I looked it up again (I still have the virtual machines installed) and wanted to reinstall the new

Re: [OT] Incredible world-wide transportation network

2008-07-16 Thread Rich Healey
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008 Jul 15 21:21 -0500]: In 1990? Seems like it would have been a close-out deal. I bought it from a friend at the tech school I was attending. That computer served me very well for several years. Leading Edge D? Nope. No name

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
. Unstable does not play well with others: Don't try to pull unstable sources on a testing box. I've never had any issues mixing them...? After all, testing is just week old unstable anyway. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically illiterate housemate. That and putting xeyes all over

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically illiterate housemate. That and putting xeyes all over

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/23/08 21:36, Rich Healey wrote: s. keeling wrote: Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/21/08 22:23, Rich Healey wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/20/08 09:12, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/6/20 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, it is a one-user box, No it's not. Unix hasn't just had meat users in 30 years

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-21 Thread Rich Healey
, and log in as it, then sudo or su to do whatever you need to do. Besides.. I have a similar setup on my mother's machine, where i want my own .vimrc etc.. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-19 Thread Rich Healey
all over his desktop remotely is hilarious. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net- #hbh #admins richohealey irc.freenode.org - #hbh #debian PythonNinja -BEGIN PGP

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-16 Thread Rich Healey
, but this isn't ubuntu. If I want to play with [whatever] as root, then it should damn well let me. That said, the user who actually has some need to do it probably has the necessary skills to just remove the (e)uid check. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin

Re: Which IM, blog and email service are best for debian users?

2008-06-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 04:04:10PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/15/08 05:46, Star Liu wrote: snip except that it refuses root to use it. :) As well

debian build tools

2008-06-16 Thread Rich Healey
both produce great software that i enjoy using). So any guides on how to do this would be great (A do x,y,z would be handy short term.. but really I'm looking for docs). Sorry if these exist somewhere obvious and I haven't found them. Rich - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-16 Thread Rich Healey
of the mainstream ones, though xmessage may fulfill the need as `echo hey|xmessage -nearmouse -file -` is simple enough. cheers, Owen. My housemates and I use msn for talking crap, and my irc network for shouting abuse at each other in a more readable way. - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL

Re: [soopar OT] Mac killed my keybaord

2008-06-13 Thread Rich Healey
hard or isn't ready for the desktop without ever trying it out. Paul Johnson --Greg - -- Rich Healey - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Developer / Systems Admin - OpenPGP: 0x8C8147807 MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: richohealey33 irc.psych0tik.net- #hbh #admins richohealey irc.freenode.org

Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-25 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Owen Townend wrote: On 25/05/2008, Sjoerd Hiemstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 25 May 2008 03:11:05 +1000 Owen Townen wrote: On 24/05/2008, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.lessaid.net/fun/apt-get-wife.png heh, I

Re: Blocking Gmail ads

2008-05-15 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 15/05/2008, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/08 12:41, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 14/05/2008, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-13 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:54:10PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: Jaime Tarrant wrote: Rich Healey wrote: Hi List, [snip] I'll give that a shot, although the problem is _NOT_ at the stage of installing, `apt-cache policy kfind

Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I've got a Lenny/Unstable/Experimental laptop that I use for work (yes, i realise that precariously mixing 3 releases is stupid.. but I'm committed now so oh well.) Anyway, the point is that my pure unstable/experimental box at home has

Re: [OT] Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: I have a 15 monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more in India (tariffs on imported Chinese

Re: [OT] Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/12/08 18:47, Rich Healey wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/12/08 09:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: I have a 15 monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things

Re: Reducing wastage of screen real estate in gnome

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/12/08 19:28, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Maybe you're a Starving College Student, or maybe things cost more in India (tariffs on imported Chinese goods?), but 17 LCD monitors are pretty darned

Re: Apt pinning suspect?

2008-05-12 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaime Tarrant wrote: Rich Healey wrote: Hi List, I've got a Lenny/Unstable/Experimental laptop that I use for work (yes, i realise that precariously mixing 3 releases is stupid.. but I'm committed now so oh well.) Anyway, the point

Re: gfortran Permission denied

2008-05-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 michael wrote: Hello list, as you guess I am having serious boot problems, grub loading fails at stage 1.5 with Error 17. I did not install/re-install anything, resize partitions or anything else could do something wrong. I was trasferring

Re: ircii question

2008-05-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: s. keeling wrote: Jude DaShiell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What package or packages need to be installed so when I connect to an irc server I don't get the message Ident is disabled? pidentd I would also think

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:20:32PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: The problem, if one exists, is what font the terminal is using sudo apt-get install xfonts-efont-unicode xfonts-efont-unicode-ib What about the linux

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NN_il_Confusionario wrote: * From: Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eterm sounds like what you're looking for... or xterm? I have already tried all the debian x-terminal packages available since debian 1.1 (evenb the indecent ones). For my eyes

Re: C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello, In a C++ program I am reading a data file for later processing and computations. While reading that data file, I want to keep track of data items (doubles) read. The data file is just a text file with N

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Hutchison wrote: When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only happens for me with

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron Hutchison wrote: Rich Healey wrote: Cameron Hutchison wrote: When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle button in the map sidebar

Re: Cannot remove Google maps sidebar

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums wrote: Cameron Hutchison wrote: When I visit Google maps (http://maps.google.com/) using either Epiphany or Iceweasel on my Debian sid system, I do not get the little triangle button in the map sidebar that collapses it. This only

Re: Issue with VMware (2)

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug Mitton wrote: (Sorry, repost due to error.) On Mon, 05 May 2008 20:10:14 +0200, you wrote: Hey all, So I installed VMware server, had to use the any-any update for I use the 2.6.24 kernel and when I try to run it, it says that same

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Cartwright wrote: On Fri May 2 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: If they float and are not ducks ... nor made of wood, then they must be ... ? Positively buoyant non-wooden non-ducks. Or witches. hey, wait, **I** can float! especially in salt

Re: Editing C with...

2008-05-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Emilio Perea wrote: On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:46:33AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: for the record, it's VERY broken in Vista. running edit in cmd or powershell, gives, |=== |16 bit MS-DS Subsytem |x

Re: JFS / Unsupported file systems

2008-04-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 01:19:15AM -0500, Hose wrote: On Apr 28, 2008, at 7:22 PM, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:17:56PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:16:12PM -0500, Hose wrote:

Re: Notebook Latitude D630 don't shutdown properly after update

2008-04-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 07:02:35PM +, Marcelo wrote: Kevin Mark kevin.mark at verizon.net writes: Have you tried booting with the last kernel version and checking if this fixes the issue? Yes! I had been installed the

Re: Debian crash randomly

2008-04-28 Thread Rich Healey
code. Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIFnYILeTfO4yBSAcRAjPbAKDMjh4Jb2JBMZcPeu9Yfkn0ORN8ygCbB19I 8VqlEeA/jiTEtaA7pDn8+6E= =ExVu -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Debian crash randomly

2008-04-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: On 28/04/2008, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But how does the distribution advance if *NOONE* runs testing/unstable? Oh, it's great that people are running both of those, and I run them too, but we're

Force process to swap?

2008-04-24 Thread Rich Healey
, and i would think totally adequate to let it download/upload files from. Is there some way of forcing this? Cheers Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

[OT] openWRT (was: 2 ISPs ( 2 gateways) and a Debian Box)

2008-04-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 biaAlex Samad wrote: [snip] I would also suggest make the adsl modem (routers?) in bridged mode and firewall up the debian box and do it all there. Similiar to what I have done. The only difference right now is i use openwrt (linux distro for

Re: External IP

2008-04-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lee Glidewell wrote: On Tuesday 22 April 2008 10:12:41 pm Rafael Fontenelle wrote: I can see that you're running behind a router or something similar. If you want to use a shell script to return the IP to the stdout, you could probably use 'curl'.

Re: External IP

2008-04-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rafael asked for source.. So my stroke of genius follows... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ cat ip.php ?PHP print ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/public_html]$ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: migrating to 64 bit...

2008-04-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: Could one easily upgrade to an amd64 system just by formating /, reinstalling with the proper arch, and then reinstalling all the apps that were installed and

Re: checking life of battery?

2008-04-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: 1) Is there any way to check the life of a battery on a Dell Inspiron 6400 E1505? I am using Debian Etch. 2) How to find out the number of cells in the battery? The manual says it can be 6-cell smart lithium ion or

Re: OT: what scripting language to learn?

2008-04-16 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 03:23:57AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: I strongly agree, and this knowledge is portable. All of the *nix tools, including shell, perl, and python, rely on regex understanding. One can get along

Re: Read-only root (/) except /et

2008-04-13 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Digby Tarvin wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 07:30:55PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: snip The trouble is that isn't really true. As long as you have standard utilities like 'passwd' and 'chsh' normal users can cause the root filesystem to be

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-11 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/10/08 13:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:04:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/06/08 15:51, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008 05:03:13 am Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/06/08 02:20, Nate Duehr

Re: TR: How to verify package integrity after they have been downloaded?

2008-04-08 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [Redirecting to debian-user, because this has nothing to do with debian-security] Julien Stuby wrote on 2008-04-07 22:15: Please try not to break threads. Julien Stuby wrote on 2008-04-7 at 21:54 UTC+1 : No

Re: Remove package from apt's db

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NN_il_Confusionario wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:47:44AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: I've installed skype, had to force it to ignore dependencies (long story.. anyway, i do have qt4's libs, and skype does work) I would NOT remove skype from

Re: grep trick

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: On Mon April 7 2008 16:03:28 Chris Bannister wrote: export GREP_COLOR=33 alias grep='grep --colour=always' This will break any scripts which assume that the output of grep has not been annotated with color escape sequences.

Re: vncserver automation

2008-04-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Pazarena wrote: I am having trouble getting vncserver to automatically start after a reboot. It seems that setting a script in rc.5 doesn't work. signing on to the CLI after a boot, and it starts up fine. (executing vncserver on the CLI as

Remove package from apt's db

2008-04-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've installed skype, had to force it to ignore dependencies (long story.. anyway, i do have qt4's libs, and skype does work) But now apt won't upgrade, it complains about skype's missing libs. Can i remove skype from apt's db without removing it?

Re: [OT Tangent to the plane] Elitism...

2008-04-03 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Walters wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: | On 04/03/08 19:19, Chris Walters wrote: | Ron Johnson wrote: | | On 04/03/08 15:39, Ivan Savcic wrote: | | On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | snip | | That

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: I am cleaning our $HOME and I was wondering what these directories and files are: ~/.fullcircle/ (I know it is the mozilla feedback agent. I use Tbird and Firefox. Can I erase this anyway?) ~/.java/ (java is a system-wide

Re: how to reset desktop env. config?

2008-03-31 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: paragasu wrote: AFAIK, you can delete all files in $HOME directory. especially the hidden files. the worst you will get is you lost some setting of the program. But you can login just fine. One has

Re: number of users accessing a wireless network

2008-03-30 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: My current network configuration is ISP -- wireless router --- comp1 --- comp2 --- comp3 The wireless router is wrt54g. The computers might be running Debian, M$

[OT] Old Laptop

2008-03-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:38:32PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: 9.2 was the only version i ever used (and didn't totally hate), it was the only distro that everything worked off the bat with my ancient laptop, debian with 99

Re: want to speed up laptop

2008-03-29 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:12:06AM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: snipped Where are your bottlenecks? currently my two biggest bottlenecks are with the networking and the MTA. i installed ifplugd

Re: open-ssh keypair Auth

2008-03-28 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bonnel Christophe wrote: I had a similar problem several months ago. I go to /etc/ssh/ssh_config (on your franskenstein machine, not the server) and verify that you have PasswordAuthentication no Hope this helps Christophe Rich Healey

Re: iBook multimedia keys and KDE

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Hi, I recently switched from GNOME to KDE on my iBook G4, but don't know how to get the multimedia keys working. They worked fine under GNOME, but under KDE only the monitor brightness keys work, albeit with no visual

open-ssh keypair Auth

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
machine, my gentoo box and etch desktop, it still asks for my password. Ideas? Thanks guys Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH7C+ELeTfO4yBSAcRAgexAKCaIOucQg+MLhWI6CowUF+93bfXjQCbBA9M

Re: open-ssh keypair Auth

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff D wrote: Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, i've got a whole bunch of linux machines (mainly debian, with etch, testing, sid, and a frankenstein machine with mental pinning). Keypairs work fine except

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-27 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 05:46:43PM -0600, Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Was 10.1 bad? I wouldn't know. I went straight from 10.0, which was a fairly decent system, to 10.3. Although, the day I read

Re: Tunnel iceweasel?

2008-03-26 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joost Witteveen wrote: On 24/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:46:56AM +0100, Joost Witteveen wrote: On 23/03/2008, Rich Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to tunnel an iceweasel

Re: dual boot install from debian 4.0r1 net install cdrom

2008-03-25 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Channon wrote: michael wrote: i've just used the default and expertgui debian net install and there is an option for manually controlling the partitioning process Yes *is* there but perhaps not clearly enough. Maybe this will be

ATI all in wonder 9600

2008-03-24 Thread Rich Healey
testing) it was a really simple aticonfig option, but i've tried all the obvious ones. Any help appreciated. Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH6GIeLeTfO4yBSAcRAmVmAJ0TEY

Tunnel iceweasel?

2008-03-23 Thread Rich Healey
iceweasel at the bash prompt, which takes forever, but then finally *opens a local iceweasel!!!* Why would it do this?! Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

[OT] N73

2008-03-23 Thread Rich Healey
to draw a circuit. in my circuit there is one micro controller PIC16F877A. any suggestion of a good software. i am using debian unstable with GNOME.. thanks.. Hi Alphonse, I have a N73 also, do you just use the default mail client to read the list? Regards Rich Healey -BEGIN PGP

Re: LCD screen flickering

2008-03-22 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ji ZhengYu wrote: Johan Marklund wrote: Ji ZhengYu skrev: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Andrea Ferraresi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 13:54 +0800, Ji ZhengYu wrote: Hi, everyone I used a toshiba laptop on

Re: libgconf2 dependencies..

2008-03-18 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:32:00AM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: I can't upgrade a lot of packages (perl for one) because apt says that: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgconf2-4: Depends: gconf2

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