Re: Unusable free space?

2010-03-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will cause your system to not reboot? That's why LABEL and UUID are now used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab. Call me a luddite but UUID partition numbers for the simple reason I can

Re: VirtualBox or VMware?

2009-11-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Mark Allums wrote: Windows users should stick with MS Virtual Server. Everyone else should use VMWare or Xen or KVM or Virtualbox. Oh hell no. VirtualPC hasn't been seriously updated in years, has been plagued with performance problems from its inception and on machines which support

Re: VirtualBox or VMware?

2009-11-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Mark Allums wrote: Virtual PC is dead in the water. With Windows 7, MS has gone the hypervisor route. Virtual Server 2008 and later is a new(er) product. Not everyone is on W7. For example my work machine, where I require VMs the most, is on WinXP. I'm sure not upgrading it to W7 on my

Re: VirtualBox or VMware?

2009-11-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Reilly wrote: why cant you just use openoffice? it will read wordperfect files, and save as whatever you want to. He did mention the formatting would be lost. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do...

Re: Is Squeeze right for me?

2009-11-22 Thread Steve Lamb
John Jason Jordan wrote: Today I have two main motivations for going to Debian: 1) It's time to expand my knowledge of Linux, and I have no huge computer projects underway at the moment. If it is for academic purposes why sacrifice the stability you have thus far enjoyed for learning.

Re: Is Squeeze right for me?

2009-11-22 Thread Steve Lamb
John Jason Jordan wrote: However, several Linux friends have suggested it's time for me to move on. According to the advice I receive I no longer need the Ubuntu training wheels and I would be better served by going to a less newbie-oriented distro. I am going to take a different

Re: Mini 10v

2009-09-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Osamu Aoki wrote: If so, why not configuring exim or postfix as non-resident. It can be done. Why not? U, which is what I was telling the OP who posed the question. Dunno why you're telling me. If resource is issue, reducing eye candies have real impact. Just because something

Re: Mini 10v

2009-09-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:39:14PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Considering the class of machine this is (highly portable, personal machine) it is highly unlikely that it would ever needs a resident MTA. Odd. My highly portable, personal laptop runs an MTA (which

Re: Mini 10v

2009-09-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: So now compare the overhead of those applets (CPU, memory, anything else?) to the applets you have running. This is a flawed analogy. Each one of those applets are ones that serve some purpose to me at the moment. I use the menu dozens of times a night, the workspace

Re: Lightweight alternative MTA? [was: Re: Starting MTA:]

2009-09-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrei Popescu wrote: Besides (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) cron doesn't need an MTA listening on port 25, it uses /sbin/sendmail. Ok, first response was that nullmailer might work. Is the intent to get it to another MTA which doe the final delivery nullmailer works. If it is

Re: Lightweight alternative MTA? [was: Re: Starting MTA:]

2009-09-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrei Popescu wrote: Well the requirements were: - respects /etc/aliases - able to do local delivery Then you need an MTA/MDA and just don't run it in daemon mode. I fail to see what the issue is with Exim in that case. If runsize for the transient time it is delivering mail is a

Re: Lightweight alternative MTA? [was: Re: Starting MTA:]

2009-09-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrei Popescu wrote: - I don't want to run a listening MTA on some machine just for that Then don't run it in daemon mode. Not seeing the problem here. It isn't like when it is called locally it binds to port 25. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream?

Re: Lightweight alternative MTA? [was: Re: Starting MTA:]

2009-09-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Not running a daemon means that you have the overhead of startup for each new delivery. It implies less efficient handling of a queued mail. Given that he is doing this for local messages from daemons only I think resident memory is the primary concern, not efficiency

Mini 10v (was: Lightweight alternative MTA?)

2009-09-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: What desktop are you running there? I bounce between Dell's 8.04 GNome and UNR 9.04 GNome. I'm not too keen on GNome but haven't had the bug to move to XFCE or KDE. I many bounce between the two because Dell's 8.04 has better hardware support while UNR 9.04 has

Re: CPU default frequency is at 75%

2009-09-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Stefan Monnier wrote: Nowadays, power management is important for all machines nowadays, and Not to the point where it overrides user preference or causes problems with the machine. I've got one machine where every time the power manager decided to adjust my CPU speed the entire machine

Re: Tbird Reply To List (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-09-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:36:39 -0700 Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello Marc, As Brad said, it does not appear to be included in the outgoing mail, If it were, I would hope something somewhere would complain about the empty header, rather than just silently

Re: Emacs

2009-08-31 Thread Steve Lamb
Teemu Likonen wrote: If I start the same Emacs and Vim executables in a text terminal mode the numbers are 27 MB for Emacs and 30 MB for Vim. So it would seem that Emacs is a bit lighter than full-featured Vim. Both editors can be compiled with smaller set of features which may make them even

Re: Emacs

2009-08-31 Thread Steve Lamb
Teemu Likonen wrote: Memory usage can be measured different ways. What we see here is the difference between usage of VSZ and RSS memory. Neither gives the ultimate answer, only a certain point of view. Yes, and neither comes close to 30Mb you cited. Of course what were you using to

Re: Tbird 3.0 (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Snicker Besides features already enabled via Addons? Shredder (Tbird 3.0) has it built directly into the client now. No need for Mnenhy + replytolist. They finally, fi-nal-ly, hashed out some what to present the options to reply-to-list. While for people who found

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Chris Jones wrote: You're in mutt, you hit r for reply to poster instead of L for reply to list and this annoying Reply-To: list causes the To: header that is automatically created to point to the list instead of the poster's private address. Oh, doesn't even need to be in mutt or a

Re: Tbird Reply To List (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Ken Heard wrote: Am I doing something wrong? Overthinking it? I just downloaded, went to TBird, Tools - Addons - Install and chose the file from my download directory. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do...

Re: List Ettiquette

2009-08-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Kevin Ross wrote: It's true I'm currently using Outlook from my Windows computer. But when I'm at a Linux computer, I use Icedove, with the same results. v3.0 you can get addons to add that functionality in. 3.0 it is built directly into the client... finally! Same with SquirrelMail

Re: Tbird Reply To List (was Re: List Ettiquette)

2009-08-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: These are the two which I need: mnenhy replytolist Reply To List will still be greyed out, though, until within Mnenhy you enable Extended Normal View. And don't forget that you can customize the toolbar to add the RTL icon. ... You know, every time this topic came

Re: Is there any security risk using p2p client ?

2009-08-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Dave Sherohman wrote: If you're verifying the checksum, then you implicitly don't trust the're file 100%. [ snippage ] Always obtain your checksums via an alternate (cryptographically- secured) path, not directly from the data they're being used to verify. Wow, failure to understand

Re: OT: Re: Gmail filtering. NOT OT

2009-06-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Kemp wrote: Seriously this is way off-topic for the list. Yeah, you couldn't be more wrong on that. I always giggle when someone tries to declare something OT here. Lemme know how that works out for you. ;) -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching movies, most new computers with a decent video card will do that as is and isn't anything special. Heck, until I figured out a method to stream video to my XBox360 I was watching video on my ~10 year old

Re: Meaning of score when looking for package solutions

2009-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Friday 22 May 2009 03:43:32 am David wrote: But, like I said before, I don't know if this is exactly how it works. The above is mostly my theory based on observations of aptitude's behavior. I think this would be Debian's case of Deep Magic...

Reply-to-list in TBird.

2009-05-09 Thread Steve Lamb
I know a few people are interested in this feature in TBird and, like me, have issues with the current addon which provides similar functionality. This just came through bugzilla. - --- Comment #184 from Bryan W Clark (:clarkbw) clar...@gnome.org 2009-05-08 18:18:29 PDT --- Blake,

Re: top-posting

2009-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Dotan Cohen wrote: Why did you think that I killfiled you there? I remember getting in the crossfire between you and someone else a few months ago, but I don't remember there ever being a problem between us. Well, shoot, I know someone did and thought it was you. Was for something rather

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
karun wrote: Top Posting is an unfortunate side effect, of Microsoft Outlook becoming the standard for non Opensource computer software users. Outlook as an excuse for top-posting went out the window circa 2002. http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ Also the base Outlook

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Top-posting works great in places where you have a common archive and thus don't have to carry the full context in your message. Er, what? Top-posting requires you to carry the *full* context of the entire thread in every message! -- Steve C. Lamb |

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Dotan Cohen wrote: Yes, there are those who over react. And no, I didn't killfile you! [ snippage ] Just like I had seen only your post, and not Steve's. Know that that is likely to happen before you decide to be violent or troll. The irony here is that the reason this is so is because

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Raleigh Guevarra wrote: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS to host dozens of websites? When I chose Debian, CentOS didn't exist. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they dream PGP Key: 1FC01004 | and dream I do

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Joe McDonagh wrote: Most claims about RH are the in the beginning type and it's like do people *really* still hold that against them? They still use RPM? Of course I really still hold it against them. BTW, don't top post. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Joe McDonagh wrote: At the risk of starting a huge religious war: About top posting vs. actually formatting your messages intelligently? 1. Preseed vs. kickstart If you're only running at home or only a few machines at work, you're not going to run into this. Once you're done a RH

Re: Why did you chose Debian over CentOS?

2009-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Joe McDonagh wrote: know better. Also, I was under the (right) impression that dpkg-query -S (dpkg -S) is a string search, which is a different operation than rpm -qf, though they can yield the same results. Not that it makes a practical difference. Unless the debian-list rules state top

Re: Slow Script

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Dave Sherohman wrote: Given that the posted loop is operating entirely on Perl in-memory arrays, the OP is unlikely to be deliberately[1] accessing the disk during this process. TBH given the fragment he posted there's no way to help him. There isn't enough there to make any meaningful

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Dean Chester wrote: Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. I'd be shocked to find any machine on which that is true considering my KUbuntu install boots to the desktop faster than XP as measured in minutes. Vista is well

Re: [OT] Pros and Cons of Gmail [WAS] Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?

2009-01-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Bob Cox wrote: So long as you have a static IP which is from a block recognised as such (which amongst other things means it is not listed in dul.dnsbl) AND have valid a valid rDNS (PTR record) in place then you can send to these people ok. I've been doing it for years. That's the

Re: [OT] Pros and Cons of Gmail [WAS] Re: Lenny: which arch for a Intel Core 2 Duo?

2009-01-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Which is why if you want privacy *and* address independence, you need to spend the extra effort to get a dynamic DNS address and run your own IMAPS server, and probably a web server, too, with squirrelmail. DynDNS has problems since you will get blocked on outbound mail.

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/07/09 05:30, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: iceape-mailnews ;-) The MUA that starts with Ice and isn't the red-headed step-child... Ice ice baby? Da dun nun da nunnun? -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they dream PGP Key:

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: My User-Agent string is a lot more rich than yours. Are you purposefully minimizing it, or could it be a co-symptom of what ever is the real reason why r-t-l doesn't work for you? Probably not. This one better? Still no r-t-l here. -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: My User-Agent string is a lot more rich than yours. Are you purposefully minimizing it, or could it be a co-symptom of what ever is the real reason why r-t-l doesn't work for you? Yours seems to be inflated for some reason. Here's yours: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11;

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: I have RTL 0.2.0 on there from a suggestion you made a while back about 0.3.1 not playing nice with IMAP while the older version did. Older versions needed either Mnenhy(which you have) or Enigmail(which I have) to work. 0.3.0 does not need either. But here's

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Are you using stock Tbird, or Iceweasel? (I/w has certain patches needed by r-t-l.) Stock from Ubuntu/Debian packaging respectively. Both of which have had the patch as part of the Debian version for close to 2 years now (I think). -- Steve C. Lamb |

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I prefer a sieve, the standard language for server-side mail filtering, implementation on my IMAP (and managesieve) server. If only mail clients would incorporate sieve into their normal filtering. IE, my dad probably can't write sieve filters but he can use

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Michelle Konzack wrote: flamewar=start Maildrop is the last thing one would install... The same for Sieve. If you try to konfigure those blobs you will get knots and cancer in your brain. /flamewar Glad to see you're as rational as ever. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: God must not love you. Being an Atheist I'm used to it. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they dream PGP Key: 1FC01004 | and dream I do ---+-

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I agree and there has been work on that. However, I've yet to see a good UI for composing sieve scripts. I think one of the webmail packages SquirelMail(?) or RoundCube(?) has the beginning of a UI. Squirrelmail, with the appropriate addon activated. --

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Ken Teague wrote: Is Kmail available for Win32? I'm at work on my laptop and don't have the luxury of Linux all day. http://windows.kde.org/ I also stated in my previous post that the reply-to field was missing from the SMTP header. I can manually add it from my MUA (as I did with this

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Install the Reply To List add-on, v0.2.1 or v0.3.0, depending on whether you access IMAP or not. Works perfectly. For you... Still not working here. :P signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
(Apologies to Boyd, been a while since I replied to D-U, got out of the habit of reply-to-all and trim. ;) Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: See, I just think you guys should stop using bad clients. ;) Kmail replies to the list (and only to the list) by default. (Which, actually, appears to

Re: [OT] mailing lists versus usenet / reply to list, reply-to, reply

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: You've got to be doing something wrong... Installed Thunderbird, installed Enigmail, downloaded reply-to-list, both versions, installed them, neither work. Can't mess than up Ron, even for me. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Difference between Lenny/testing?

2008-12-15 Thread Steve Lamb
The difference is Testing Bruce never took to the stage like his brother. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Confusion about legality of Linux

2008-12-10 Thread Steve Lamb
Nate Bargmann wrote: I do hope that she comes away from this experience not embarrassed and angry, but rather with an appreciation of the path of learning that her students would like to voluntarily take. Maybe I haven't mellowed out as much with age as I thought but I hope to hell she

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Monday 24 November 2008 02:31:53 Chris Bannister wrote: True, I uderstand that, but my thoughts are concerning newbies who post to the list and not being subscribed won't see a reply to their post. How many archives for the list exist? They have methods of finding the reply; often in

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-24 Thread Steve Lamb
On Monday 24 November 2008 02:32:14 Chris Bannister wrote: What harm? What's worse; rec a CC or missing out on crucial help/information? That depends, whose perspective? We are talking about newbies here. No, we're talking about the list in general and how a policy to coddle newbies

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-23 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sunday 23 November 2008 03:09:04 Teemu Likonen wrote: It's usually about using the correct clients and configuration, mailing list configuration, Reply-To and Mail-Followup-To usage etc. So far nobody has managed to convince everybody that their system is the best one. Hence my point: there

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Teemu Likonen wrote: This is the last one: I suggest that you try to see norms of communication in social terms and concepts, not mathematical. The email-using world, as I see it, is mainly social. What you're missing is that I am seeing them in social terms as well. I see them in terms

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Chris Bannister wrote: Quite right, but why discourage CCing on an open list? I can see the point in not CCing on a closed list. For the same reasons. Whether the list is open or closed is irrelevant to the harm that CCing people unbidden causes. A list being open or closed is also

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Saturday 22 November 2008 04:15:42 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Actually, to be very blunt: CCing people is absolutely the only way to deal with massive ammounts of email and very-high-traffic lists when you *care* about not ignoring email that you should have read. That is

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: (Of course, even if you use a GUI, if you are a geek you should implement fetchmail/getmail, an MTA, a spam filter and procmail or mailfilter and IMAP, so that you can switch MUAs as easily as you switch underwear, or even access your mail from across the LAN or even

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Saturday 22 November 2008 12:49:29 Andrei Popescu wrote: Of the open-source mailers I know only Thunderbird/Icedove doesn't support Reply-To-List by default. Claws-Mail even has a smart Reply button that does Reply-To-List by default if it detects a list. Now it's time for the webmails to

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Saturday 22 November 2008 09:39:12 Ron Johnson wrote: Wear fewer clothes... Nah, I change underwear once a day. Most days I move from my home machine which is still on TBird to a work VM on which I test KMail. So 3 client changes an average day vs. 1 underwear change. :) --

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Saturday 22 November 2008 10:44:35 Teemu Likonen wrote: Steve Lamb (2008-11-22 04:40 -0800) wrote: That is absolute, 100% pure rubbish. This is solvable by technical means, right now, today, if email client authors would just implement a feature [...] I think that being solvable

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-22 Thread Steve Lamb
On Saturday 22 November 2008 19:40:14 Ron Johnson wrote: Don't wear underwear? AKA, the commando geek! Certainly one I would hope is able to filter on in-reply-to. ;) -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they dream PGP Key: 1FC01004 | and dream I

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-18 Thread Steve Lamb
François Cerbelle wrote: Yes, there is some text... But it is acceptable because it did not alter neither what I wrote, nor the meaning of what I wrote. It alters the contents of your message which is exactly what the post I was replying to said should not happen. Now you're providing

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-18 Thread Steve Lamb
s. keeling wrote: Are we still waiting for killfiles in Mozilla (et al)'s nntp clients, or did they finally get around to that? Heck if I know. I never used killfiles. Slrn + scoring was all I needed. Yeah, yeah, - is killing but it isn't confined to a single killfile. :D --

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: But since most users (and probably developers) of Tbird are on Windows, they just don't have the same ethos as old-time midrange admins, and so I'm just thanking $DEITY that the plugin system exists. Even then there is a huge barrier to entry. I would love to write a

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: It isn't that difficult to create Reply-to-List functionality. Tell that to the TBird developers. We're going on, what, 4 years now and counting? :( -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they dream PGP Key: 1FC01004 | and dream I

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Webmail and popular MUAs like Tbird and Lookout make it difficult to follow the no-CC rule. Someone, though, has thoughtfully written a replytolist plugin for Tbird/Icedove. Get v0.3.0 unless you use IMAP, which requires you to use v0.2.1. Huh, first time I ever saw

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: According to the upstream website (and which I confirmed myself), using v0.3.0 with emails stored in IMAP kills Tbird as soon as you click on Replt-To-List. Actually here it doesn't kill TBird, it just doesn't work. At all. I found 0.2.0 on the addon site but it, too,

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-16 Thread Steve Lamb
François Cerbelle wrote: A list should *NEVER* alter the contents of a message and the reply-to field *DOES BELONGS TO THE CONTENTS* of the message. Really? You believe that? *looks at the footer appended to every message* Then, u, a header is the least of your concerns. I look

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

2008-10-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Ron, if you can't be nice, please leave the Debian lists. You've been nothing but obnoxious in every reply to one of my messages for months now. It's not appreciated, nor welcome, here. Funny, Paul, people have been thinking the same of you for several years. --

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Reid Priedhorsky wrote: 5. Cheap, ideally in the $10-15/mo range. This will be the hardest part. Most in the $10-$15 range won't have enough RAM to do the things you want or disc space that you desire. $20/month is a closer price point. Personally I've gotten VMs from

Re: How to apt-get over ssh tunnel through a firewall?

2008-10-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Osamu Aoki wrote: Run squid on A and let others access it. You need to set http_proxy environment variable or use apt.conf setting for all A,B,C. Then you save bandwidth. Or use apt-cache. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they dream PGP Key: 1FC01004

Re: Adding a dash and then a number

2008-09-20 Thread Steve Lamb
jmdennis @dslextreme.com wrote: I am using Debian Lenny Beta 2 as well as the sidux updates. I was wondering why a hypen is added such as kmymoney2 is listed as kmymoney2 0.9-3 instead of the version number that should be used. Because of this I do not know if I am using 0.9.2 or not. I

Re: mutt backscatter clues

2008-09-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Kemp wrote: I believe it is possible to sign outgoing messages to detect legitimate bounces and dump bogus ones - but I've not tried that. You mean something like this in Exim? deny hosts = !+relay_from_hosts senders = : message = Joe-job protection - Learn

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-09 Thread Steve Lamb
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:08:10AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: This is not unusual here. Here being? Somewhere in +0300 is kinda broad. :D -- Steve C. Lamb | But who can decide what they dream PGP Key: 1FC01004 | and dream I do

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-04 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:26:16PM -0600, Chris Burkhardt wrote: I just realized that the remotely through a computer network doesn't pertain to any situation where the user is sitting in front of the machine (like slot machines and ATMs). So that renders many of our examples moot. Hopefully

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-03 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 05:03:27PM -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: Which is the thing. GPL guarantees freedom the users of the software. The AGPL says that the user is the one writing the documents with the software is the user not the one running the code. I agree with the AGPL on that.

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-03 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:58:24PM -0400, Mike Pobega wrote: I am desperately trying to fix this, but I have no clue what to do and my college technology office is a joke. Well, that much is obvious. They're the ones that have to fix this. Their server is sending you login.pl instead of

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-03 Thread Steve Lamb
judgement call when to do so) Steve Lamb wrote: [...] Lets take a simple example, Google's web-based spreadsheet. Who is using the software, you or Google? Answer: Google. Your idea of user is strange to me. Why? They're the ones using the software to provide the service

Re: How to enable Debian to automatically clear the tmp directory

2008-08-28 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 12:05:08PM -0500, Stackpole, Chris wrote: I second the cronjob. Just have something along the lines of: find /tmp -type f -ctime +1 mtime or atime. ctime has no bearing on whether the files are still in use. mtime is not perfect but will show if a file has been

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Sebastian Günther wrote: Look at account-hook and folder-hook and in combination with a nice source statement, you everything some bloated GUI mailer has. Even more you can easily adjust your profile on folder basis. This has never been true and is still not true. It is, of course, the

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: Are you sure about this ? As of the last time I tested mutt imap, yes, without question. In fact I had gone so far as to take a screencast of mutt deleting 200 messages by copying it to the local machine then uploading it to the trash folder. However, those

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike Pobega wrote: I wish I was even using Debian for that long. I'm 18 now, been a user since I was 15, Debian Sarge. I grew up in a Windows household, so it was actually a big move for me to go to Debian at all Well, if it is any consolation at 18 I was running a BBS based on SuperBBS

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Daniel Burrows wrote: Do you know how this compares to offlineimap? I've been using that to synchronize mailboxes more-or-less happily for the last few years. I do not, no. I have not used offlineimap so cannot make any comparison. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Johann Spies wrote: My experience is not that it is 'horribly slow and inefficient'. Are you sure that it is not a network-related slowness? Of course it is, the fact that mutt is using the network to download-then-upload the messages is the entire problem! Which is going to be faster:

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Kemp wrote: If you use the mutt-patched package you can take advantage of the sidebar to have a toggleable list of mailboxes on the left side of the screen. I've further updated that to allow it to show you only folders with new messages. See here for details, and here for

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-20 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 07:27:19PM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: whoa. i've been running it for 11. has anyone here been with debian from the start? Not I. I came in somewhere between Bo and Hamm which places me solidly in the 10-11 year range. Debian 1.3 Bo (June

A viable mutt

2008-08-20 Thread Steve Lamb
I'm sure many of the long-time readers of D-U are familiar with my many rants against the horridness that is mutt. I prefer my email client GUI. I prefer it to do its own transport. I prefer that it handle multiple accounts sanely. IE, I prefer all things mutt is not. However, this is not

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-20 Thread Steve Lamb
?? ?. wrote: The problem is that Mutt is agnostic to 'accounts', I'll give you that one, but I don't think it'd a useful feature -- think about it, what's an account other than a From: field? For those that needs it different SMTP servers with different SMTP settings,

Re: Two computers thrash soon after boot -- how to stop it?

2008-08-13 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 04:28:11PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: One of these computers is a desktop. From a cold boot it appears to load the operating system without incident -- as far as I can tell -- right to the kdm login manager. Once a user name and password are entered it loads KDE in

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: So I guess that's why Ubuntu folks are working on Ubuntu instead of doing the Right Thing by working on Debian Desktop[1], eh? Yeah, because it has nothing to do with wanting to maintain a 6 month release schedule. Let's see, the first release of Ubuntu was 4.10. So

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Consider submitting a patch instead. I suspect few have this problem. Yes, because everyone is a developer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Interestingly enough, about once a decade is about how often I come across a mouse with a fourth and fifth button. It's happened once, and that was about a decade ago. Well, there's not accounting for the technological backwoods of the PRO. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?

2008-07-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Wackojacko wrote: Is this a typo in the e-mail or the command? Was me fat fingering it. Sure enough, put the h in and it worked. Thanks much for a second application of the clue-by-four. ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-18 Thread Steve Lamb
David Baron wrote: Qemu will run most anything and without the need of guest-modules which may or may not be available for the target guest or may or may not install their successfully. Qemu presents standard hardware. Qemu is also dog slow since it is virtualizing everything instead of

Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?

2008-07-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Wackojacko wrote: The command is the same except the device section is as follows (from user manual section 9.9) *On a Windows host, instead of the above device specification, use e.g. \\.\PhysicalDrive0.* Cripes, good catch. I can see how I missed it being one line and not in the same

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