Re: OT: NTP hardware

2000-05-31 Thread mitch
Check out (Totally Accurate Clock) On the Taper site. I might do what you want. http://www.tapr.org/tapr/html/Ftac2.html Mitch

Re: ATI Driver Installer ATI Installer Version: 8.27.10

2006-08-08 Thread Mitch
this with 'setenv LIBGL_DEBUG verbose' (tcsh, translate to yours) before running glxinfo. Maybe that helps, sorry if it doesn't. Mitch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bandwidth and uptime graphs

2006-08-08 Thread Mitch
On 08/06/06 22:28 PM, Bryan Fr?chette wrote: Hi i would like to know if anyone has a php app that can show bandwidth and uptime graphs or ping graphs on a website, if anyone has an idea, thank you http://cricket.sf.net and http://www.cacti.net/ are two more rrdtool based packages. Mitch

Re: Open Source Supported Graphics Cards

2006-08-09 Thread Mitch
will. Mitch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how do i grep boobies

2009-06-27 Thread mitch
This might be a good time to consider Linux?! It's made my boobie grepping better! Linux that is... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: need advice on scsi disk failure

2009-08-21 Thread mitch
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:50:21 -0400 Long Wind longwind2...@gmail.com wrote: It's no surprise because the light on scsi disk isn't on I reconnect the power cable to scsi disk again and again and then with some luck the disk works normally. It seems that the power connection becomes loose I had

Re: need advice on scsi disk failure

2009-08-21 Thread mitch
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:35:25 -0400 Long Wind longwind2...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:56 AM, mitchdebianu...@mll.dissimulo.com wrote: I had the same problem, scsi drives failing to start, shutting down while running. Bad power connector. The pins were not making proper

Mulit card USB reader Compact Flash not being detected

2009-01-20 Thread mitch
Have a USB multi slot card reader. When I plug it in, all slots except the Compact Flash are shown. Tried a different card reader, no difference. Insert a 1GB card and it is accessible. Other slots are shown and mounted, tried a SD card and could access the files on it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Problem getting Win to see Samba shared printer

2009-02-05 Thread mitch
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 07:42 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Rob Singelais wrote: Hello, I have installed hplip 2.8.7 using the automatic installer from sourceforge and the printer works fine on Debian Lenny. I installed samba and am trying to share it to a Windows XP machine. After I

Re: Problem getting Win to see Samba shared printer

2009-02-05 Thread mitch
Sharing a printer to Windows XP clients with Samba and Cups http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 I've tried that tutorial and others online, and none of them has helped. The way it looks to me on XP is it can see Samba but something is wrong with my cups config

Re: Problem getting Win to see Samba shared printer

2009-02-05 Thread mitch
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 14:04 -0500, Rob Singelais wrote: mitch wrote: I've tried that tutorial and others online, and none of them has helped. The way it looks to me on XP is it can see Samba but something is wrong with my cups config because XP can't see the printer and I can't figure

Re: digital camera recomendations

2009-02-14 Thread mitch
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 15:30 -0800, Mike McClain wrote: I'm in the market for an inexpensive digital camera. Just for snapshots and was wondering if anyone had recommendations or knows where I could find which are going to work with Debian. Just something simple with USB, AA batteries and that

ldonfig errors

2009-03-16 Thread mitch
ran aptitude update and then safe-upgrade and the following error messages came up. Googled for help, found some bugs from last year. Is this a bug or an error that is correctable? debian:/home/mitch# aptitude safe-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading

Re: how to association mailto mime type with icedove

2009-03-20 Thread mitch
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 15:17 +, T o n g wrote: Hi, how to association mailto mime type with icedove? Currently, when clicking on a mailto url, firefox gives me an error message saying that there is no association for the mailto mime type. I want to association with icedove, how can I

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:27 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:16:41 -0500, mitch wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:07 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, mitch wrote: Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 15:29 -0200, André Neves wrote: Mitch, please clarify whether there are still any iceweasel|firefox processes running (i.e. if any survived the killing). André There are none running. Use Gnome as desk top and looked in System Monitor and it shows no iceweasel

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:57 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 2009 January 05 11:29:48 André Neves wrote: Mitch, please clarify whether there are still any iceweasel|firefox processes running (i.e. if any survived the killing). Wow! How many times are you guys going to tell

Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below started. Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Iceweasel process, or restart your system. Googled for reasons and possible fixes. Killed iceweasel

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 17037] open(/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/stock/text, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 23 [pid 17037] open(/home/mitch/.icons/icon-theme.cache, O_RDONLY| O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) [pid 17037] open(/home

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:26 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:16 AM, mitch debianu...@mll.dissimulo.com wrote: Thanks. That was one of the tips I did find, the parentlock. Removed it before killing all and Iceweasel will still not start. What about after killing? Did

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:07 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:26 AM, mitch debianu...@mll.dissimulo.com wrote: Using Iceweasel 3.0.5-1, or was using, and yesterday the message below started. Iceweasel is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:55 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 2009 January 05 14:07:19 you wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 13:58 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: If so, send me *via private mail* the file created by: strace -f -t $(which iceweasel) 21 | bzip2 -c $(mktemp

Re: Iceweasel problem

2009-01-05 Thread mitch
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 17:24 -0800, Ken Teague wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: then move your ~/.mozilla somewhere else, and reboot? Mitch, I'm not sure if you were catching this as humor or not, but just to be on the safe side... you're saying that you've moved ~/.mozilla

Re: XWindows -- checking color mode?

1998-10-12 Thread Mitch Blevins
Rob Collins wrote: just wandering if anyone knows how you can check how many colors your display is set to while active (while in xwindows)? xwininfo -root will give resolution and color depth (among other things...) -Mitch pgpiUF6XUQ6vk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problems sending mail

1998-10-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
in your routers file. Just let the smart_host take care of that. Also, you are being redundant with the smarthost_path and smarthost_transport being in both the config and routers file. I would take it out of the config file. -Mitch

Re: I have a winmodem:( And now?

1998-10-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
to this piece of hardware work in my Linux Debian Hamm box? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique Edit your modem configuration file to include the following: return_to_manufacturer yes buy_a_real_modemyes Seriously... you are SOL on the winmodem -Mitch

Re: Networking (lowbie)

1998-10-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
inferno.domainnameinferno where dommainname is the domain name you set up for your local network. Now you should be able to do (from warhammer): ping inferno Is this what you needed? -Mitch

Re: Chap w/o Chap?

1998-10-16 Thread Mitch Blevins
of the above' choice. -Mitch

Re: Is sysklogd OK now?

1998-10-19 Thread Mitch Blevins
. Do I need to manually edit my /etc/syslog.conf now? -Mitch pgpsHQ4gD6iN4.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: source install tracking

1998-10-20 Thread Mitch Blevins
://appindex.freshmeat.net/view/907109750/ -Mitch pgp9E8UCxffSA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Automate UPPER to lower case directory

1998-10-20 Thread Mitch Blevins
, that there is a Samba option to have these files auto-converted as they are created. -Mitch pgpl6jNQ5LuBg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

1998-10-22 Thread Mitch Blevins
both is if you need some of the more advanced control of which kind of packets are considered in the 'idle' determination. Diald does this well. -- This .sig space available for lease. Please contact: Mitch Blevins | [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpjZxKKwKGnE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-22 Thread Mitch Blevins
this? Have you tried just leaving the 'debian' out of your sources.list entry? deb file:/cdrom main/binary-i386 -- This .sig space available for lease. Please contact: Mitch Blevins | [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgploVkabnYEZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

1998-10-22 Thread Mitch Blevins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mitch Blevins writes: For the most part, pppd can now do most of what people use diald for. Are you saying that 'demand' now works in Linux? Don't use it. I had assumed from the man page and a VagueMemory(tm) that I had heard of it working... Anybody out

dpkg-ftp thru Squid

1998-10-23 Thread Mitch Blevins
Anybody having trouble using dselect/ftp to slink thru a Squid proxy? Or is it just me... -- This .sig space available for lease. Please contact: Mitch Blevins | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Downloading install files

1998-10-25 Thread Mitch Blevins
netscape. Hold down the shift button when you click on the link to download. -Mitch pgplIStp98oNi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Off Topic: Picture of GNU and Linux at netgod.net

1998-10-26 Thread Mitch Blevins
a nice day,Paulo Henrique I thought it was a cow and a chicken. Either way, you can get it at http://blevins.simplenet.com/cow_and_penguin.gif -- This .sig space available for lease. Please contact: Mitch Blevins | [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp68a0iPy7dq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: UPS systems and Debian/Linux?

1998-11-02 Thread Mitch Blevins
to automate the shutdown (already use it on my Redhat). If you're interested in this package, drop me a line and I'll notify you when/where to get it. -Mitch -- This .sig space available for lease. Please contact: Mitch Blevins | [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpJvG3Ha3IcU.pgp Description: PGP

Re: timezone

1999-01-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
. It says 'timezone' when it really meant 'timezones'. -Mitch

Re: RPM under Debian?

1999-01-19 Thread Mitch Blevins
asking for trouble if you install (for instance) gnome as a converted alien package. Of course the best alternative is to install a native deb if available. -Mitch

Re: Debian goes big business? [was: Re: Suggestion for RedHat (

1999-01-19 Thread Mitch Blevins
the developers. Really? Great! Me and my seven brothers can each take one small package a peice and make a nice living (with extra beer money to boot). Heck, I'd even have time learn golf! -Mitch

Re: RPM under Debian?

1999-01-20 Thread Mitch Blevins
Jernej Zajc wrote: Mitch Blevins wrote: [snip] Debian provides different levels of rpm support. 1) The rpm program is available as a Debian package, and it can install/uninstall rpms. This method of use is not advised, however. RPM keeps a database of which packages

Re: Admin Questions

1999-01-21 Thread Mitch Blevins
the debian one, then do a (as root) find / -uid OLDRHUID -print -exec chown NEWRHUSER {} \; seewhatchanged.txt -Mitch

Re: Administrating a network of debian machines?

1999-01-21 Thread Mitch Blevins
on debian-admintool if you feel like combing thru it. -Mitch

Re: libgmodule-1.1.so.3: cannot open shared object file:

1999-01-22 Thread Mitch Blevins
libglib1.1 (note: this may require other upgrades... gtk, etc) -Mitch

Re: A pipe dream?

1999-01-26 Thread Mitch Blevins
/etc.tar.gz -C /etc . You may want to also add a line to the top of this script: dpkg --get-selections /etc/my_packages.dat so that you can easily recreate the installed packages on your system (which your /etc backup has the config files for...) -Mitch

Re: Crypt function

1999-02-01 Thread Mitch Blevins
for it? I'm running Debian with kernel version 2.0.34. Thanks! Include the crypt.h file in your program. Link with -lcrypt -Mitch

Re: duplicate binaries

1999-02-06 Thread Mitch Blevins
/fgrep' so that we can identify the offending package. (and any other duplicate binaries you find) -Mitch

Re: duplicate binaries

1999-02-06 Thread Mitch Blevins
dan wrote: On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 08:19:19PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I was looking around in the /bin directory, and there are several duplicate files installed there. For example, grep, fgrep, and egrep are all the same file. The program checks

Re: svgalib

1999-02-07 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I have now decided to use svgalib but already have run into trouble ! /* programme svgatest.c */ #include stdio.h #include vga.h main() { /* code */ } #: gcc svgatest.c -O2 -lvga Programme won't compile because a) Can't find vga.h

Re: Wooooooo Hooooooooooo!!!!!!!

1999-02-07 Thread Mitch Blevins
for you as the last. :) -Mitch

Re: Where is emacs and vi command line editing set?

1999-02-07 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: A long long time ago my root account mysteriously switched to using vi command-line editing instead of the default emacs, and I've been too lazy to get around to fixing it until now I guess. Where is this behavior configured? Christopher Mine is set in

Re: suspicious connections

1999-02-07 Thread Mitch Blevins
system for changed system files. -Mitch

Re: using dpkg

1999-02-07 Thread Mitch Blevins
if it is corrupted. Also, make sure you don't have a hung process accessing it somewhere. ps auwx |grep dpkg -Mitch first of all, ps auwx |grep dpkg says: root 189 0.0 1.1 856 352 1 s 14:59 0:00 grep dpkg I replaced status with status-old and got the same results

Re: How to find files by text/subdirectories

1999-02-08 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the easiest way to locates files (say HTML) by text in their documents? find ~/somedir -iname *\.htm* -exec grep -i some text {} \; -print Also look at the 'rgrep' package. rgrep some text /somedir -Mitch

Re: Slink, xbase-common and xdm...

1999-02-09 Thread Mitch Blevins
Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: Interesting - if I can ever figure out how to get into the system I'll do that :-) There's no way to shut down and reboot clean - xdm won't do anything till you log in g... Can't you just Ctl-Alt-F2 to another console? -Mitch

Re: Network doesn't work

1999-02-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
on the floppy and recompile, reboot, etc. Maybe that will work. -Mitch

Re: Network doesn't work

1999-02-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Mitch Blevins wrote: The newer NetGear cards ship with a floppy that contains their own version of tulip.c which is not necessarily the same tulip.c that is included in your kernel tarball. Replace the tulip.c in the kernel tree with the one included

Re: Strange 'find' result

1999-02-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Can somebody explain this to me? $ find /cdrom -iname wx* $ find /cdrom -iname wxx* /cdrom/debian/hamm/hamm/binary-i386/libs/wxxt1_1.66d-2.deb Why does the first 'find' query give no results? Are you quoting the argument to avoid shell expansion? $ find

Re: what happened to irc.debian.org?

1999-02-24 Thread Mitch Blevins
. Try connecting instead to irc.openprojects.net, #debian. -Mitch

Re: Help. How do I reconfigure my the network?

1999-02-24 Thread Mitch Blevins
nor any machines outside the office. Based on this, I am getting the impression that the problem lies in the set up of my default router. Look in /etc/init.d/network Also, check your mailer. It seems to be sending html. -Mitch

Re: Network Problem

1999-03-06 Thread Mitch Blevins
in the /etc/hosts of the server, assuming that you don't have any DNS servers running on your local network. -Mitch

Re: Custom headers -- outgoing email

1999-03-07 Thread Mitch Blevins
route. Curious, -Mitch

Re: Apt 0.3 lost ftp-method ???

1999-03-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
and mirrors to have 'Release' files. -Mitch -- X sucks ... The beauty of X is that it sucks independently of the OS. -JC Jaros

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I still can't get apt-get update do do anything useful. Anyone have a clue? Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib

Re: mail filtering

1999-03-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Hi, I am trying debian after using redhat for awhile and have a question about procmail. With redhat I use fetchmail to download my email and as long as I have a procmailrc set up in my home directory my mail would be filtered automatically. I am using

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
Matt Garman wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 04:56:23PM -0500, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I still can't get apt-get update do do anything useful. Anyone have a clue? Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-11 Thread Mitch Blevins
is just an alias for http.us.debian.org. Also, when I try to update from http.us.debian.org I get errors almost identical to yours... and I am running apt_0.3.0 My best guess would be a mirror problem. Any body know some *working* mirrors to test? -Mitch

Re: still no luck with apt-get

1999-03-12 Thread Mitch Blevins
which gave the offending error messages. Does anybody know who runs this mirror? Can we just drop it from the DNS record? Thanks for your help (and all the others who pointed to mirrors) -Mitch

Re: nfs

1999-03-12 Thread Mitch Blevins
You also might try specifying the nfs version in your mount command. In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Howdy: Make sure that the DNS is active on one machine or the other, and that the names are still set up properly... I'm assuming (should I?) that you are running a tcp/ip based net...

Re: I've been cracked! (hamm, 2.0.35)

1999-03-13 Thread Mitch Blevins
be replaced. Investigate using the tripwire package to detect these things in the future. -Mitch -- Any command with less than 48 switches is a Cat in the Hat book. - E. Charters

Re: Enlightenment 0.15 .debs

1999-03-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Brian Almeida wrote: Enlightenment 0.15 .debs are out. They will not be uploaded into the distribution, they are placed in the GNOME staging area. This is so that Where's the GNOME staging area? For those of us who like to live

Re: Too many subdirectories

1999-03-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: --zYM0uCDKw75PZbzx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I made a c program : #include stdio.h main() { int nbr=3D0; while(1) { printf(%d\n,nbr+=3D1); mkdir (x); chdir (x);

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
a kernel source package in .deb format as opposed to a generic kernel source in tar.gz format? zless /usr/doc/kernel-package/Rationale.gz -Mitch

Re: Two quick questions

1999-03-15 Thread Mitch Blevins
/library/weekly/aa03149a.htm?pid=2801cob=home -Mitch -- Any command with less than 48 switches is a Cat in the Hat book. - E. Charters

Re: Where's the CGI bin?

1999-03-16 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I have a normal apache installation; where is the cgi-bin? /usr/lib/cgi-bin

Re: VB and Active X

1999-03-17 Thread Mitch Blevins
-platform. 2) ActiveX has security risks, which prompts many security-conscious users to disable it. Your friend should be using Java/Javascript for client-side interactivity if web-programming is of interest to him. -Mitch

Re: Trying to understand Packages[.gz] files

1999-03-17 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: I think this got lost - apologies if this is its second time around. I'm installing Debian gradually; until I get it online I have Windows, in its own partition, set up for Internet use. I use Windows to download Debian packages I'm interested in onto my hard

Re: Staging Areas.

1999-03-24 Thread Mitch Blevins
) non-standard location that you need to remember now. That is deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main This houses all the gnome stuff. The newest apt is now in potato, and gnome-apt is in the staging area above, so this is the only location needed. -Mitch

Re: Staging Areas.

1999-03-25 Thread Mitch Blevins
Michael Beattie wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Can the developers subscribed please tell me/us where the various staging areas are? I keep losing the various posts that have the urls (stupid me). (i.e. gnome, apt, whatever

Re: mySQL

1999-03-25 Thread Mitch Blevins
in the root directory that lists all files contained in the archive. Hope this helps, -Mitch

Re: Coupla quick questions...

1999-03-25 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: 1.) I somehow managed to delete my /var/log/news directory and was getting boot errors. I apparently fixed it by recreating the directory as root but that made the /news subdir owned by root:root. Is this correct or should it be owned by root:news? [promt]$

Re: Kernel compile errors

1999-03-25 Thread Mitch Blevins
on the kernel mailing list. (Basically, just add a 'NULL' argument to the 'filp_close' functions at lines 197 and 203) -Mitch

Re: How to Email a Binary file from the command line

1999-03-26 Thread Mitch Blevins
PROTECTED] This is the subject of the mail -Mitch

Re: How to Email a Binary file from the command line

1999-03-26 Thread Mitch Blevins
application/x-gtar/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject -s 1000 will not split anything unless it is bigger than 10 Megs. mimeit just calls the splitmail command, so see man splitmail for more details. -Mitch

Re: lilo for 96Mb system

1999-03-26 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: In earlier e-mail to the list someone advised that I could add the line append=(mem=96M) to /etc/lilo.conf to get the kernel to recognize my newly added memory. When, having done so, I run lilo, I get [snip] append=mem=96M

Re: ftp mail

1999-03-27 Thread Mitch Blevins
and choosing an access method. From there, you can download and install any number of programs for ftp and mail (Netscape, mutt, etc..) -Mitch

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Mitch Blevins
? -Mitch

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-28 Thread Mitch Blevins
well to email. Other office apps, yes. But email, no. Call me old-fashioned, but I think email should remain a primarily text-based medium. Nothing irks me more that some nut sending an HTML email to the Debian lists. JMHO, -Mitch

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
frankie wrote: Mitch Blevins wrote: Call me old-fashioned, but I think email should remain a primarily text-based medium. Nothing irks me more that some nut sending an HTML email to the Debian lists. Don't pretend you haven't done it - everyone's done it b4 they realised. I'm sure its

Re: Suggestion for change to debian package format

1999-03-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
will be able to toggle the 'Auto' flag directly from any of the apt front-ends. Is that what you were looking for? -Mitch

Re: Suggestion for change to debian package format

1999-03-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
(no matter what the default is). -Mitch

Re: security issue

1999-03-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
/Baboon format, or even an HTML/Javascript renderer built into the mail client. Actually, this could happen with any buffer overflow exploit found in a very popular mail client. -Mitch This is why email should be limited to text, and everything else is evil (your turn George ;-) )

Re: Suggestion for change to debian package format

1999-03-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: Apt will keep a boolean flag called 'Auto' for each package installed on your system. 'Auto' is short for 'Automatically uninstall this package when it is not required anymore because of a dependency'. What about

Re: tar oddness

1999-03-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
remember to change it during your untar... This is documented in the man pages for gzip (the padding) and tar (the blocksize) -Mitch

Re: Suggestion for change to debian package format

1999-03-29 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: This sounds like a great idea.. I have one question tho: Foo depends on libfoo1 and libfoo2 libfoo1 depends on foostuff1 and foostuff2 So, say I remove foo, will it be smart enough to remove foostuff1 and footstuff2 as well as libfoo1 and libfoo2? I don't

Re: Y2K

1999-03-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
Debian as soon as possible. Also, Emacs is NOT Y2K... you should use vi. Hope this helps, -Mitch -- The above is untruthful nonsense based entirely on personal opinion

Re: Handheld-Organizer connected

1999-03-31 Thread Mitch Blevins
support for synchronizing and programming the Palm Pilot. You can even run Linux in a simulated PalmPilot on Debian if you want (althought it doesn't really do much yet..) -Mitch

Re: Can apt-get work via a proxy?

1999-03-31 Thread Mitch Blevins
for authorization. Under netscape it pops up a dialog box asking for my name and a password. I am presuming this capability hasn't been built into apt. Any chance that it will be soon? just use http_proxy=http://mylogin:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port/ This is documented in 'man sources.list' -Mitch

Re: Announce: 3D graphical install for Debian

1999-04-01 Thread Mitch Blevins
It works for me... and I only have an AMD/300. Great work, Ben! In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Yup..you are right. It won't boot on my 486dx4/100. Damn..it's got a sweet OpenGL card in it too. -Ian On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: Following up on the success of my VGA 16-color

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