Re: Disk boot failure

2002-11-09 Thread Pigeon
sure that the boot sequence (can't remember the exact name and I don't want to reboot right now!) is set to A:, C:. Then you should be able to boot from a boot floppy. Pigeon

Re: Disk boot failure

2002-11-10 Thread Pigeon
. On most machines, if the cable is upside-down, the floppy LED is always on and (usually) the motor running. Pigeon

Re: dangling symlink?

2003-10-03 Thread Pigeon
MANPATH and you should therefore be safe to delete the symlink. If you get 'no manual entry for vi' reinstall the docs for the package. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: pppd daemon

2003-10-03 Thread Pigeon
which could have more devastating effects if you're root. Having said that, I've just tried running konqueror myself as root for the first time and it didn't complain, so not quite sure here, but I very much doubt it's connected. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http

Re: Old address

2003-10-03 Thread Pigeon
/Linux operating system be expected to have access to AOL's account database? What did you think you were sending to? This is a serious question. Lots of AOL subscribers have been posting similarly inappropriate questions to this list and nobody can understand why. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons

Re: ppp daemon ip-up.d perm +

2003-10-04 Thread Pigeon
actually do anything as long as the 0dns-up script and /usr/sbin/pppconfig both exist - is /usr/sbin/pppconfig there?) and 0dns-up. If 0dns-up isn't failing, what do you get in /etc/resolv.conf after it's run? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op

Re: pppd daemon

2003-10-04 Thread Pigeon
not be compatible. I think that might be inadvisable: it would introduce more unknowns into the system, and at a point when we're probably nearly there. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Spam, exim, .forward vs. procmail

2003-10-04 Thread Pigeon
this if you use POP to get your mail... Finally: I'm poised to start running a 24x7 server for the first time, I'm contemplating making it a true mailserver for incoming and outgoing. ...in this case you don't care. You can reject the viruses and other rubbish at SMTP time. -- Pigeon Be kind

Re: frustration building, please help(was: does debian xfree support my video?)

2003-10-04 Thread Pigeon
- which one? The mmagallo one or the nobse one? They both have this sort of problem but the nobse one is considerably worse. It didn't take me long to give up on it and try the mmagallo one instead. I still had to install one or two things from testing but it wasn't a problem. -- Pigeon Be kind

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-05 Thread Pigeon
filesystem like ext3. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: default keymap

2003-10-05 Thread Pigeon
default.kmap.gz default.kmap.gz.old ln -s path-to-keymap-you-want default.kmap.gz -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ppp daemon 0dns-up fails!

2003-10-05 Thread Pigeon
elif test -e $RESOLVCONF; then exit 1 ... /etc/resolv.conf doesn't exist, or is somehow weird. So, does /etc/resolv.conf actually exist - if so what does 'ls -l /etc/resolv.conf' report, and what's in the file? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu

Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

2003-10-05 Thread Pigeon
have to worry about games teaching them to shoot people accurately in the head. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mailing list

2003-10-05 Thread Pigeon
NTL, but it still kept happening for months. As an experiment, I'll CC you on this message, to see if the direct copy generates any sort of bounce. Hope you don't mind! -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp

Re: Games for 1-2 year old child. Recommendations wanted.

2003-10-05 Thread Pigeon
long way. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-06 Thread Pigeon
the backup, you've still got the other copy. A new PSU is probably a good idea too :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mailing list

2003-10-06 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:46:07AM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 00:59:10 +0100 Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an experiment, I'll CC you on this message, to see if the direct copy generates any sort of bounce. Hope you don't mind! Fine. OK, I've got your reply

Re: ppp daemon resolv.conf empty

2003-10-06 Thread Pigeon
. Make it so: rmdir /etc/resolv.conf touch /etc/resolv.conf ...should - IIUC - get you going. You should now find that 0dns-up returns exit status 0, then you can remove all the 'extra' 'exit 0' lines from earlier on from the other scripts and I think you'll find it's all OK now. -- Pigeon

Re: Testing user-list

2003-10-07 Thread Pigeon
using a modified version of Ron Johnson's python script backed up by mailfilter, run as a preconnect script to fetchmail, and it's effective at nuking virus traffic large and small. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F

Re: ppp daemon WORKING!!!!

2003-10-07 Thread Pigeon
. They're relics of previous failed connection attempts when it wasn't working. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Upgrading kernel

2003-10-07 Thread Pigeon
still saved the time it takes to do a full memory test. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-08 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:04, Pigeon wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:09:29AM +1300, cr wrote: I've only had one sieze in recent times, what I've had several of recently is sudden complete power cut - possibly a power supply fault

Re: Swen

2003-10-08 Thread Pigeon
about it except what you are doing. It's a bitch. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-08 Thread Pigeon
to mention this. For example, in the attached file, the = and the superscript 2 don't show up - they're there on the output, but invisible in the editor. I'm using the 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody1 backport of X 4.3.0. Are there any known problems with this combination? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get

Re: off the list again

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
what's happening is that sometimes you get a big burst of swens and your mailbox goes over quota for a while until whatever anti-swen you're using deletes them. Perhaps you could try increasing the frequency with which you delete swens, using a cron job maybe. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG

Re: mutt: how to forward envelope From?

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
-signed Content-Disposition: inline Headers from forwarding it to myself from mutt: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 09 21:33:21 2003 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from pigeon by pigeon.pigeonloft with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A7hTN

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:49:26PM +1300, cr wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:49, Pigeon wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote: On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 07:04, Pigeon wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:09:29AM +1300, cr wrote: I've only had one sieze in recent times, what

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
.) I'm not quite sure what you've done, but if you forced e2fsck to fsck an ext3 filesystem as ext2 with a dirty journal it's probably screwed the filesystem beyond recovery. This might be one of the rare cases where you need to reinstall. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http

Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim,

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
that would be a problem. chroot? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: don't read

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 03:55:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Subject: don't read] I like reading. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Suggestions for Organization's documents

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 09:00:22AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 01:32:43AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:33:31PM +0200, JG wrote: So you could try Lyx (available in woody/contrib, or testing/unstable/main), which is an almost WYSIWYG

Re: Best Nics.

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
. ??? What's wrong with the 3c905B? Why shouldn't it work with AMD systems? Indeed. That family of NICs work fine on my Athlon. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
to make ext3. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dependency trouble after installing backport

2003-10-09 Thread Pigeon
of a Readme in /usr/share/docs. OOI what/where is 'mkdeb'? It doesn't seem to be anything to do with 'equivs'. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: To be safe don't use shift key...

2003-10-10 Thread Pigeon
I should have auctioned the beetle that chewed through my tape of Rain Dances. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-10 Thread Pigeon
bandwidth and make my ISP very unhappy with me (not to mention rendering my net access unusable). Pretty low to nil. Spammers can't tell a teergrube from a really, really slow mail server connected by carrier pigeon from northern Siberia. See RFC 1149. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG

Re: mutt: how to forward envelope From?

2003-10-10 Thread Pigeon
the message to a temporary file and do it by hand with exim -f. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mutt: how to forward envelope From?

2003-10-10 Thread Pigeon
you have to do that by hand - copy message to a temp file and use your editor's insert-file function to pull that into your abuse report, etc. Or if your abuse report is a standard text, you could hack one of the spam-reporting scripts that spamcop gives you (see attachment). -- Pigeon Be kind

Re: windows NT

2003-10-10 Thread Pigeon
are somehow connected. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mutt: how to forward envelope From?

2003-10-10 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:20:03PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 02:01:04PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:22:35PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 11:59:23AM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: I think you're looking for the following

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
unfortunately seem to be the case that you needed a Windoze application to download the HTML code to the SitePlayer module, but OTOH it uses an Ethernet interface so it should be fairly straightforward to use a packet sniffer to see what's going on. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http

Re: windows NT

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
. It's often expressed as pick the simplest explanation that fits the facts. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 12:47:05AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 01:46:01PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: Pretty low to nil. Spammers can't tell a teergrube from a really, really slow mail server connected by carrier pigeon from northern Siberia. See RFC 1149

Re: How to kill X?

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 02:56:49PM +1300, cr wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 05:17, Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 08:49:26PM +1300, cr wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 03:49, Pigeon wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:11:53PM +1300, cr wrote: (snip) Are there any downsides

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 04:52:28PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 11:51, Pigeon wrote: A dead-tree advert I have suggests http://www.ObservantWorld.com , who make a thing called a Data Station that gives you a bunch of analogue and digital inputs and outputs

Re: 2nd try? fontconfig? autohinter? anyone?

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
steer in the direction of discussing your real issue. :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: problems with rsa authentication (for use with mpich)

2003-10-11 Thread Pigeon
free, but do you actually _want_ CCs, or just don't mind them? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 2nd try? fontconfig? autohinter? anyone?

2003-10-12 Thread Pigeon
Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:40:12PM -0700, Tom wrote: You know, this is the first slipup in the Matrix I've experienced since I switch to Linux. They've happened, you just didn't notice. Like this thread being attacked by a ^M virus. Where did they all come from

Re: 2nd try? fontconfig? autohinter? anyone?

2003-10-12 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 05:08:43PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 16:37, Pigeon wrote: Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 03:40:12PM -0700, Tom wrote: You know, this is the first slipup in the Matrix I've experienced since I switch to Linux. They've

Re: copying entire hard drive

2003-10-12 Thread Pigeon
using cp. dd copies the entire drive, including all the blank space. cp won't copy the blank bits, so that's faster. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: hard disk not accessable via second ide controller

2003-10-12 Thread Pigeon
. CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD680 is probably better. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-13 Thread Pigeon
in the ointment. Googling for kazaa client linux only turns up something from May 12 saying basically from this date there is no Linux KaZaA client no matter what you may read elsewhere. Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability of KaZaA clients for Linux? -- Pigeon

Re: return of DNS problem

2003-10-13 Thread Pigeon
to use your browser etc. You can run exim -qf (as root) by hand after bringing the connection up to see if exim does have a problem. (Your kernel must be supporting PPP, otherwise you wouldn't be getting this far at all. Don't worry about that.) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http

Re: BIOS corrupted by Woody CD2

2003-10-13 Thread Pigeon
-so-helpful manufacturer has hard-wired it in the 'unprotected' position. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:08:13PM -0400, Chris Roddy wrote: Pigeon wrote: Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability of KaZaA clients for Linux? packages 'nicotine' and 'gtk-gnutella' (I suggest unstable) are not kazaa clients, but provide similar

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:53:26PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: On Monday October 13 at 10:57pm Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend of mine has a Win2k PC which has suddenly decided that it can't load some extremely fundamental driver and therefore reboots itself before it has

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
be possible to cut and paste the whole thing into the body of a reply. That's kind of clunky, but at least it would get the headers to you. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Woody installation

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
--i burnt debian-30rev1-i386-binary-1.iso onto a CD and it failed to boot on its own. What am i missing here? Sounds a bit like you've burned the iso as a file. You should burn it as an image: cdrecord -v dev=your,cd,writer debian-30rev1-i386-binary-1.iso -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:39:14PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 06:53:26PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: Using 'unstable,' add deb ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/gift-fasttrack unstable main to you're /etc/apt/sources.list Then do 'apt-get install gift libfasttrack-gift' I

Re: return of DNS problem-fixed!

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
the list in digest form instead of as individual messages also helps reduce the load. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:31:08PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 23:57, Pigeon wrote: A friend of mine has a Win2k PC which has suddenly decided that it can't load some extremely fundamental driver and therefore reboots itself before it has finished booting. The standard

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 07:24:54PM +0200, Olav Lavell wrote: Op ma 13-10-2003, om 23:57 schreef Pigeon: Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability of KaZaA clients for Linux? http://www.nongnu.org/mldonkey/ It's the ONE :) You're welcome. Thanks

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 05:24:58PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 16:07, Pigeon wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 07:08:13PM -0400, Chris Roddy wrote: Pigeon wrote: Does anyone have any more up to date information on the availability of KaZaA clients for Linux

Re: Umax Astra 3400

2003-10-14 Thread Pigeon
newbies once. ;-) AFAIK sane does support this scanner. Someone asked the list in July whether this support had made it into Debian yet, but didn't get an answer. So it might be necessary to install sid, or build sane from source. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
to a custom .deb, which would be nicest. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Can't install kernel compiled on sid machine on a woody system

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
? The router (on which I try to install the kernel) is all-woody with security updates and the laptop (on which I compile the kernel) is newest sid, with gcc 3.3 (same thing happens with gcc 3.2, however). What about with gcc-2.95.4? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http

Re: sa-exim: What user does spamassassin run as?

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 01:21:58AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Does sa-exim suid to the user recieving the mail when it runs? Dunno, but: make it touch a file in /tmp and see who owns it? Run pgrep in a loop while you send yourself a mail? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http

Re: Does DRI work?

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
equivs, perhaps? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-15 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:23:46PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Pigeon writes: Thanks. And this site has the source code, which is mysteriously missing from the Debian/unstable version. You _have_ filed a bug? Have now. I don't like to scream BUG! as soon as I find the slightest wrinkle; I

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

2003-10-16 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 05:52:06AM -0200, klaus imgrund wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 14:20, Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:23:21AM -0200, klaus imgrund wrote: On Wednesday 15 October 2003 03:21, Alex Malinovich wrote: Better make sure that your friend's kids aren't

Re: Can't install kernel compiled on sid machine on a woody system

2003-10-16 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 10:29:01PM +0200, Magnus von Koeller wrote: Content-Description: signed data On Wednesday 15 October 2003 18:53, Pigeon wrote: What about with gcc-2.95.4? How would that make any difference? Shouldn't such a kernel package be pretty much self-contained

Re: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list

2003-10-16 Thread Pigeon
of all the crap it's receiving for everyone. I've emailed them suggesting they block at least the well-known, easily-identified offenders like swen and sobig at SMTP time. Dunno what they'll say... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch

Re: Bug#215999: mldonkey source code not found on website

2003-10-16 Thread Pigeon
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 08:24:09PM +0200, Sylvain LE GALL wrote: On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 09:25:38PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: Package: mldonkey Version: 2.5.3-1 The Debian website package pages for mldonkey http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/mldonkey-gui.html http

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Pigeon
of for and si instead of if? You could stick #include francais.h in your C source, where francais.h contains: #define pour for #define si if #define casser break or something like that... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F

Re: More on spam

2003-10-17 Thread Pigeon
only, which (a) makes its reliability even more impressive and (b) suggests the possibility of adapting it to operate like mailfilter, and delete the spam directly off the POP3 server. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F

Re: Re: Canon BJC-250

2003-10-18 Thread Pigeon
to have support for this printer already, so you don't need to download anything special. Just make sure you've got CUPS installed, go to http://localhost:631/admin and Add a New Printer, select CANON BJC 250, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.0(en) on the page for selecting Model/Driver. -- Pigeon Be kind

Re: More on spam

2003-10-18 Thread Pigeon
appropriate to what I'd seen in these headers at the time, and have semi-automatedly stuck in extra rules to match the odd ones that still slip through. The attached .mailfilterrc may be of some use. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-18 Thread Pigeon
, but they were actually the same language, hence Serbo-Croatian. How close to the truth is this? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: More on spam

2003-10-18 Thread Pigeon
from is not spoofed. No idea why not though. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#215999: mldonkey source code not found on website

2003-10-18 Thread Pigeon
to check. Thanks. I have, and he hasn't, so I have :-) - which didn't involve any checks (that I noticed) that I had the right to do such a thing... what's to stop some prannock sending malicious control messages and screwing up the BTS? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http

Re: [OT] is swen evoluting ?

2003-10-18 Thread Pigeon
by looking for the .exe signature in the file. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-19 Thread Pigeon
me smile lowering my gun from your eye and down, while you flip around trying to fire at me. ;-) Ah, just the kind of enemy soldier I want to meet... the one who thinks he's Clint Eastwood and mucks around asking if I'm feeling lucky while I just pull my trigger. :-) -- Pigeon Be kind

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-19 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 01:07:12AM -0700, Tom wrote: Maybe in 50 years the Muslims will be turning out killer cars like Germany or killer stereos like Japan. ...the killer cars aren't too bad, it's the killer cats... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371

Re: Thanks Pigeon for Your mailfilterrc

2003-10-20 Thread Pigeon
somehow; the long lines work with both the stable version of mailfilter and the unstable source built under woody. You may have to update the DENY rules occasionally, as every so often a new variant of the From:, To: or Subject: appears to show up. Glad it's working, anyway! -- Pigeon Be kind

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

2003-10-20 Thread Pigeon
for threads such as this to be moved to. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread Pigeon
and text mode interface when they pry it from my cold dead fingers... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1

2003-10-20 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:24:25PM +0100, brian.huckstep wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 21:28:02, Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 01:54:07PM +0100, brian.huckstep wrote: I have a copy of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 on CD-Rom 7 discs in fact. Unfortunately my computer bios only provides

Re: what exactly does init_module: No such device mean?

2003-10-21 Thread Pigeon
based on a formal study of what's behind that error message. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A newbie's confusion about BS

2003-10-22 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 05:07:41AM -0400, Thomas Pomber wrote: Okay, I'm out. I got too many weirdos emailing me about my dick. Who are these people? Leave me alone! Spammers. I get loads of them. They don't seem to realise that pigeons don't have dicks. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-22 Thread Pigeon
it be 'octopedes' IIRC? Haralambos? -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Mystery: disappearing .mailfilterrc

2003-10-23 Thread Pigeon
in the log (though the log has fewer messages than showed on the screen). Have you clocked this message: Clearing: /tmp /var/lock /var/run. /var/run is not a place to put things that you want to survive a reboot... -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-23 Thread Pigeon
dictionary I downloaded are becoming apparent) als ist_rot(die_Farbe) { schreibef(Kommunistich ist.\n); } als ist_rot(das_Blut) { schreibef(Kein Koenig ist.\n); } -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: snip])

2003-10-23 Thread Pigeon
languages that are notable for not having it even for men and women, but AFAIK the vast majority do have it. - Why English doesn't have gender, since it's predecessor, German, does have gender? Because we've got enough sense to realise that girls aren't neuter. :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons

Re: What arch is my PC [was: Need some help.......]

2003-10-23 Thread Pigeon
, Thank you for your time Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] i386 is correct. Simplistically: if you can run DOS / Windoze on it, it's i386. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 09:55:02AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:59:35PM +0100, Pigeon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 07:15:30AM -0700, Tom wrote: ... Octopus is greek. The correct plural is octopuses damn

Re: libc6 gcc wrapper

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
options (one per line, fixed strings only) gccfudge.c is the source code. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F gccfudge.tar.gz Description: Binary data pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
? Search the list archives for 'fetchyahoo' - ISTR someone posted a solution recently. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS)

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
their spines. And, they _are_ about as right as the Jews in WWII. ...facing cultural rather than physical extermination... I'm inclined towards agreement. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: snip])

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 12:05:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:52:10AM +0100, Pigeon insinuated: Also, what do the advocates of gender-neutral language do in German? And what do they do in French? what do you mean by advocates of gender-neutral languages? people

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-24 Thread Pigeon
is a lot less hassle in the long run. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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