[OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
have had a fighting chance if they'd have stuck with GMT. In fact, I think that a metric system based on GMT is a good idea, since 1/100th of a "beat" is 0.864 seconds, which gives just as good a granularity as the second. -- ---

Re: [OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

2003-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 20:21, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:39:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What's the point of it? > > > > According to http://www.luvit.se/stefanp/lec_35_manual/swatch.html , > > "As a re

Re: Pathetic Writer (or siagoffice)

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
cated it with xpw 3.5.5-2 and got a 'Segmentation fault' by running it from the command line. -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
ser readable. Does anyone know > why this isn't the default? Debian asks you during installation whether you want all files glob- ally readable or not. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA YODA: Code! Yes. A

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
;. Tag all messages > in a mailbox and move 'em to the new mailbox -- it'll be created > automatically. Newer versions of Evo let you store each sub-folder in mbox, mh or maildir. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Our c

Re: NFS server setup -> 'nfs-kernel-server' or 'nfs-user-server' !

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
server. . Upstream: SourceForge project "nfs", CVS module nfs-utils. Task: file-server -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Fair is where you take your cows to be judged." Unknown -- T

Re: Video/grabber devices

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
x27;ll only work if the proper drivers are loaded. -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Great Inventors of our time: Al Gore -> Internet Sun Microsystems -> Clusters -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Fw: Plattenfehler

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
Debian woody, 2.4.20, KDE 3.1.4 > > > > > > -- > > Haeufig gestellte Fragen und Antworten (FAQ): > > http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ > > > > Zum AUSTRAGEN schicken Sie eine Mail an > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > mit dem Subject "unsubscribe". Probleme?

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread Ron Johnson
quot;hot > gerbil sex" mailing list ... You mean you're on HGS? Wow, me too!!! Hey, you wouldn't be grblgrrrl, would yo? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Fear the Penguin!!" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:19, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:53:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:36, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > maildir. Much better performance, more flexible, you can access > &g

Re: distutils lacking from my Python installation

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
install python2.3-dev -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Knowledge should be free for all." Harcourt Fenton Mudd, Star Trek:TOS, "I, Mudd" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: All pdf attachments defanged by spamassassin

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
s as if spamassassin doesn't see it - it logs > nothing Are you also using mimedefang or mailfilter? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

2003-10-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 04:39, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 02:20, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:19, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 03:53:08AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2003-1

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:01, John Hasler wrote: > What is the gender of Unix? What is the gender of "geek"? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA After seeing all the viruses, trojan horses, wo

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 22:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:53:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:01, John Hasler wrote: > > > What is the gender of Unix? > > > > What is the gender of "geek"? > > I don&

Re: Network unreachable

2003-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
erland problem. If you boot using a different kernel, does it work ok? -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Note to LSU and Valdosta State students: India is not an Arab country! http://www.talonnews.com/news/2003/october/1009_college_dem

Re: Network unreachable

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
ateway is reasonable using > > # route (as root. Haha!) > > If not, then > > # route add default gw That should not be necessary. ifup should do that for you, if your /etc/network/interfaces has this in it: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp -- --

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
iculties making feminine forms of many words ;-) > > > Leurs enfants, Lise, Claire et Paul, sont des geeks. > > Right. > > > A family of geeks :) > > Oh God... Mon dieu! -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL

Re: tasksel on testing - unmet dependencies for Desktop

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
.kernel.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.2.2-4 0 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org testing/main Packages -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Fair is where you take you

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
I did for /boot, would be all you'd need, I think. -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Great Inventors of our time: Al Gore -> Internet Sun Microsystems -> Clusters -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network unreachable

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 05:03, Marshal Wong wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 01:41, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 03:28, Marshal Wong wrote: > > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 20:21, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > > > > When I use the kernel that I built from th

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
ition. > Also, APT-get puts packages in /var/cache/apt/archive and maybe put that > is a partition. > my 2 yen. > -Kev Hard disks are so big nowadays, is a separate partition for apt really necessary? If it ever gets too big, 'apt-get clean'. -- -----

Re: Slow linux.bin

2003-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
s dog slow even in 1990. Have you looked in /var/log/syslog? Did you hear the FDD clicking and whining like it there's a bad sector on the disk? -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "The greates

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:13, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 08:03:07AM -0600, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 07:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Alvin Oga wrote: > > [snip] > > > > lots

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
ten in Perl based on Mail::POP3Client, > this would be a good solution. Have you tried fetchmail? The messages in /var/log/mail.log seem to indicate that it deletes each mail after a successful fetch. -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL

Re: linking to a DVD-drive

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
there an application or program to create easily this type of > links?. Links? I think you are referring to /etc/fstab instead, since that is where such mount points are defined, enabling you to say: # mount /media/floppy -- ------------

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
rver-xfree86: Installed: 4.2.1-12.1 Candidate: 4.2.1-13 Version Table: 4.2.1-13 0 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages *** 4.2.1-12.1 0 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org testing/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- ----

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
have been impressed with their durability, speed, etc. Note, though, that whereas that 5GB Travan drive probably plugged into the floppy drive cable, all other drives is SCSI based. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeffer

Mainframe & thin-client (was Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn)

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
a TC/FS network-based system as it is when you have stand-alone or fat-client/thin-server system. And you're still running all the same apps, no matter what. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Causation does NOT equal correlation -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
The big knock against disks as backup is that he'd need 14(!!) disk drives (one for each night, so that if "last night's disk" dies, he can go to the previous night's tape, and recover most of the data). -- --

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
fferentials inbetween. Note that with modern, high-speed drives, you'll be able to do full backups every night, to one tape/night. -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Why is cyber-crime not being effec

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 15:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2003-11-03 05:38:44 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Have you tried fetchmail? > > It is easy to lose mail with fetchmail (and I did lose mail in the past > with it). Really? Do you know how? > > The messages in /

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
ot;, but it still > > shows 4.2.1 : > > They are in experimental. Ah, ok. -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big prod

Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:06, Pigeon wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:38:44AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 16:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > Is there a POP3 mail fetcher that wouldn't download messages twice > > > when the POP3 connection

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
3rd site. You'll need a 2nd external 160GB firewire disk for rotation purposes. Thus, if office goes up in flames on the same day the building where the off-site PC gets burglarized, there would still be a 3rd copy out there. -- -------

Re: OT Tape backup recomendations

2003-11-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:02, David Purton wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:29:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 06:00, Haines Brown wrote: > > > You say you want a "new backup system," and did not specify it should > > > be tap

Re: Mainframe & thin-client (was Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn)

2003-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 00:06, cr wrote: > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 01:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 01:14, cr wrote: > > > On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 23:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:13:01PM +, Pigeon wrote: > > > &

Re: file system check, and defrag

2003-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
or example. > 3. How can I setup Debian to check at bootup? See answer #2. > Thanks in advance! > Kordula -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Spit in one hand, and wish for peace in the other. Guess wh

Re: df and du results on / strange

2003-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
27;t use) large chunks of disk, but don't release them after a "kill -9". -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Man, I'm pretty. Hoo Hah!" Johnny Bravo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Debian menu empty in gnome-panel

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
7;man update-menus'. # update-menus --stdout > /tmp/menu-stdin # /etc/menu-methods/gnome-panel -v < /tmp/menu-stdin -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Peace Thru Superior Firepower -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hyper Threading

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
he time stays > ok). When I go back to windoze (i dual boot), the date gets set to > december - god knows why! :-O Debian knows that you are having an affair with Windows, and wants to make your life *miserable*? -- --------- Ron Joh

RE: Backup Package names currently installed

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
s is really useful if you have a mixed stable/testing environment and want to list all packages which are from testing and can be upgraded in testing. My system's packages list is attached, as generated by $ apt-show-versions | sort| gzip > package.versions.txt.gz -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals package.versions.txt.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Bug in packaging of dictd (or in aptitude 0.2.13-2) ?

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
hus, should aptitude not try to remove "Recommends:" and "Suggests:" packages. -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA LUKE: Is Perl better than Python? YODA: No... no... no. Quicker, easier, m

Re: Who is eating my IDE subsystem bandwidth?

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
ted state, the kernel will, figur- atively, burn up the disk paging back and forth. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "As I like to joke, I may have invented it, but Microsoft made it popular" David Bradley, regarding Ctrl-Alt-Del -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to extract attachments from an email?

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
ng somewhere? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA 296,443 sq mi (767,787 sq km) are needed for 6 billion people to live at the same population density as Manhattan, New York. That is ~ Arizona or Nevada. Alternatively, that ~ double

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
to Boy, you're an old geezer, aren't you? Do any cars sold in the US last 10 years have carburetors? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statemen

The Unix Philosophy (was Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?)

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
lt, > fetchmail should be fault-tolerant (deal with a misconfigured mail > system). Fetchmail should scream loudly: your mail system is fubar, > bailing out now! I don't know if this is possible, but I think that > that would help a lot of people. How the hell does fetchmail know wheth

Re: how to extract attachments from an email?

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
want. Unfortunately, it may only work with Sendmail. -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California." Edsger Dijkstra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: which architechture

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
x27;t have > to bug you all too much after this little hang-up. All PCs are based on the i386 architecture. -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "I have created a government of whirled peas..." Maha

Re: xfce

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
epending on what /etc/alternatives/ x-session-manager and /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager point to. Since I only have Gnome installed, they point to gnome-session and metacity. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Causation does NOT equal correlation -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Querying packages

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
d can be upgraded in testing. -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA The difference between drunken sailors and Congressmen is that drunken sailors spend their own money. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting hardware clock from NIST

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
ds a sequence ICMP ECHO requests to each one to determine the quality of the link to each machine. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each machine. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "T

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
Creator that works with Linux. Ditto for Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, etc, etc, ad nauseum. -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into bi

Re: Debian Testing - enabling cleartext passwords in uw-imap (next up - enable SSL)

2003-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
to > figure out how to enable SSL and actually get it to work. Can I convince you to dump UW and go with courier-imap? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "You ask us the same question every day, and we

Re: woody/sarge on Barton MoBo? kt600 and/or which nvidia

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
friend install Debian on his mobo > with an nforce (nvidia) ethernet chipset. Suffice it to say that I will > _never_ purchase an nvidia-based mobo, unless something major comes > along to change my mind. What kernel version? -- -

Re: Linux Standard Base

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
g that > was started by Red Hat, it should hardly matter to those left behind > in a business model shift. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad ide

UUCP & Usenet (was Re: NTP packages (was: setting hardware clock from NIST))

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
?? I thought that "Unix-Unix cp" was for, well, copying files, of which Usenet files were only a subset? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "I have created a government of whirled peas..." M

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
bleeding (as opposed to Sun's hemorrhaging) money and talent because of bone-headed management. -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "As the night fall does not come at once, neither does oppression. It

Re: Testing system from stable install

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
he search kernel-image-2.4.22 and choose the proper kernel for your CPU. 4. After you reboot, run tasksel. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "My advice to you is to get married: If you find a good wife, you will be happy; if not, you will become a

Re: woody/sarge on Barton MoBo? kt600 and/or which nvidia

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 07:32, Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 23:52, Kent West wrote: > > > >>Hanasaki JiJi wrote: > >> > >>>What motherboards have people had success/failures with for woody and > >>>sarge

Re: Mainframe & thin-client (was Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn)

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 03:45, cr wrote: > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 20:19, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 00:06, cr wrote: > > > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 01:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 01:14, cr wrote: > > > > >

Re: woody/sarge on Barton MoBo? kt600 and/or which nvidia

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
und AGPGART then yes. However, the ethernet > uses a binary-only library with a partial source that is just interface > code for the kernel. Also, note that the "NIC" built into nForce is *very* minimal, and requires much more CPU overhead than other on-board NICs. -- ---

Re: WooHoo! Courier-Imap is imapping away!

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
. Haven't tried Evolution yet. Will try that yet. > I also installed courier-imap-ssl and courier-pop-ssl, but haven't > tried them yet. But - PROGRESS!!! Congratulations. Have you gotten sub-folders working yet? -- ----------

Re: WooHoo! Courier-Imap is imapping away!

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 12:47, BruceG wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 1:35 PM > Subject: Re: WooHoo! Courier-Imap is imapp

Re: WooHoo! Courier-Imap is imapping away! (fetchmail config)

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 13:49, BruceG wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 2:12 PM > Subject: Re: WooHoo! Courier-Imap is imapp

Re: AAC software hardware

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
vement alone. No keyboard or mouse is needed. Have you Googled? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as

Re: Separate /home drive?

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
gt; have system partitions on one drive, and posting to /home on another. > If it is possible, does anybody have a reference they could point me to? Sure, why not? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA &quo

Re: [Fwd: Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.]

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
> something to solve this ? Strange though, I'm using ReiserFS, are these > kind of things supposed to be avoided ? Oh, and if I try to replace for > instance xfree86-common.list my PC reboots immediatly! > > > > Try "/usr/bin/ls -l"; any difference? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse." Larry Wall, 10/14/1998 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Separate /home drive?

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 16:20, David Palmer. wrote: > On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 15:38:06 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:24, David Palmer. wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I've been reading different partit

Re: Cannot install, upgrade, remove, etc.

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
d get those files > 2) even if I did, as I said before if I try to replace one of the broken > files, my system immediatly reboots (now I know why) > > Actually the more I'm thinking it, the more I feel in a dead-end... I'd check for a h/w problem. -- ----

Re: efax

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
Hoping that someone has a suggestion. What does 'ls -aFl /dev/ttyS0' look like? Were you still logged in as bob when you added bob to fax? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Those who would

Re: exim .forward - mail in mbox format, not Mailbox format

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
quot;Send/Receive" will make it show up. Note, though, that I use "maildrop" as filter, not exim. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
e and RedHat. Maybe Debian in a while. Complain to the store's owner that his employees overwrote your data, and demand compensation. Contact the BSA, and tell them about the unlicensed Windows. (You reinstalled SuSE, right?) -- - Ron Johnson, Jr.

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
.25-1.1 0 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA Some former UNSCOM officials are alarmed, however. Terry Taylor, a British senior UNSCOM inspector from

Re: kde under sid

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
t happens if you remove gdm and start X from the console using startx? -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA The difference between Rock&Roll and Country Music? Old Rockers still on tour are pathetic, but old

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:25, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 07:15:44PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Hmmm. Have you done an 'apt-get update' lately? > > This afternoon. > > > $ apt-cache policy abiword > > abiword: > > Instal

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
wanna try out. 2) Physical flaw in the hardware or internal > hardware needing a power cycle. 3) Power failure. Don't forget: kernel bug -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "A C program is like a

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:25, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:19:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:25, Carl Fink wrote: > > > > > $ apt-cache policy abiword > > > > abiword: > > > > Installed: (non

Re: kde under sid

2003-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
o > > > install kde components(i.e. konsole, kpackage) just fine. Is this a > > > known issue? > > > > What happens if you remove gdm and start X from the console using > > startx? -- - Ron Johnson,

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
start making native Linux s/w. And, yes, that leads to the question, "why should we make a native Linux version, if it works under Wine?" To which I say, "If you build a Linux version using winelib, and support it officially, I don't mind." -- --------

Re: efax - SOLVED

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
Jul 14 12:05 ttyS3 > crw-rw1 root dialout4, 68 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS4 > crw-rw1 root dialout4, 69 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS5 > crw-rw1 root dialout4, 70 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS6 > crw-rw1 root dialout4, 71 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS7 >

ClamAV & Amavisd-new (was Re: exim3 + amavis-new + clamav (clamd) - Help!)

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
html and send a virus to my server, > it does not pick it up and quarantine it. > > I looked in /var/log and do not see logging for amavis. Where do I start > looking? Out of curiosity, why have ClamAV and Amavisd-new? I though they were both AV packages. -- ---

Re: An apology

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
elpful. If you want a "smoother" Debian, try http://www.libranet.com. -- --------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted w

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
y trust anyone that's in a > position to see it. And if a not-so-trustworthy "friend" or acquaintance wanders by, he can destroy you. The all-privilege sudo is the best idea, since the actions are audited. -- - Ro

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:10, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 08:19:00AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:55, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > Why not? They already have physical access to the machine, what more > > > would you give up

Re: X11 display managers and the keyboard

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
orking OK. > > > > I would try "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" (or is it > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common"?) and make sure the keyboard settings > are correct. But then wouldn't the KB not work after startx, either? -- --

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
ss sudo isn't > exactly what he wanted either. The OP can enable sudo privs only when he's going to be gone for any appreciable amount of time. -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Python is

Re: help: email server

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:05, Miernik wrote: > On 2003-11-07, Marcelo Chiapparini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > > 4) Can the server host the firewall too? > > yes But I wouldn't suggest it. -- --------

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:26, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 07:32:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 05:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 04:52:29PM -0700, David Millet wrote: > > > > Or not until wine

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:45, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 11:01:58AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > As in "proprietary, closed-source apps"? > > > > Well, that depends on if you see them as a "problem", or something > > th

Re: ClamAV & Amavisd-new (was Re: exim3 + amavis-new + clamav (clamd)- Help!)

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:20, BruceG wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:52 AM > Subject: ClamAV & Amavisd-new (was Re: exim3 +

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:35, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:55, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:30, Tom wrote: > > > * [07/11/2003 16:25] J. Bruce Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > > The all-privil

Re: ClamAV & Amavisd-new (was Re: exim3 + amavis-new + clamav(clamd)- Help!)

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:53, BruceG wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 1:40 PM > Subject: Re: ClamAV & Amavisd-new

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 13:03, John Hasler wrote: > Alan writes: [snip] > with you. The script is a SMOP. SMOP ? -- ----- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Oh, great altar of passive entertainment, bes

Re: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"

2003-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
I like Wine, and use it myself for some products, I fear that > the wine project may do to linux what win-os/2 did for os/2. If your > system will run win32 apps, what insentive do companies have to develop > native programs for you. One difference is that Big Blue bungled the marketing of OS/2 w

Re: split large files

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
some of them, however a dot has been replaced by `<'. > > Is this a known problem? `foo' has been created in Windows if that > makes a difference. I think I'd go in with a binary editor and see if the underlying data has changed. -- -------

Re: Motherboard ASUS a7v600: is anybody using this?

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I have ordered this motherboard, with 3c940 Gigabit ethernet (with a > >>"Linux" driver on the ASUS website(?!)); and AD1850 "AC'97" etc.) > >>sound. I would appreciate hearing about any issues

Re: split large files

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 08:05, Jens Tobiska wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 07:19:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 04:28, Jens Tobiska wrote: > > > When using `split' (textutils 2.0-12) to split a large file (4.2G) I've > > > foun

Re: Major network problems

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
hen I reboot (which usually cleared any problems) > ifconfig lists absolutely nothing, and not even ping to localhost will > work (connect: invalid argument). Anyone have any ideas? Could the electric surge have whacked your hard disk? -- ----------

Re: Which apt source to use for Evolution?

2003-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
itself > appears to only have 1.2 available, when 1.4.5 is the current rev. Grab the evo deb-src from Sid and see if it builds. -- ------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "...always eager to extend a friendl

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