Incoming, from Bob Nielsen
> On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Greg Cox wrote:
>
> > Ok, now it says "System Lacks PPP Kernel Support.
>
> Either you:
>
> 1) Compiled your kernel without selecting ppp in the configuration
> process; or
>
> 2) Compiled with ppp but have not yet run /sbin/lilo to select that
Incoming, from Robert Moody
>
> This might be a little off topic [certification]
qulifications, similar to Novells CNA, CNE and Microsofts MCSE. If
there are could someone point me in the right direction.
As much as I disdain certification, RedHat and Linux Journal were
doing "something" abo
Incoming, from OSWALD jean
>
> I have set the ppp debian package
> My modem is responding when I use minicom
> I have completed the /etc/ppp/options file properly.
> And when I run the command pppd the kernel answers
> "Sorry - Lack of PPP in your kernel"
>
> Or when I type "dmesh | grep PPP" I h
Incoming from Paul Morgan:
> On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 10:10:35 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Paul Morgan writes:
> >> Having said that, when I see a watch, it convinces me of the existence of
> >> the watchmaker
> >
> > And when you view the watchmaker as a watch do you see an infinite
> > regressio
Incoming from John L. Fjellstad:
> Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> > Have you tried adding it to your .xinitrc?
>
> I tried. I forgot to mention that I'm logging in through kdm. As far as I
> know, neither local .xsession nor .xinitrc is called during login.
Speaking of which, how does this work? I've b
Incoming from John L. Fjellstad:
> s. keeling wrote:
>
> > What's the rationale behind this failure to communicate? If this is
> > annoying to me (a long time user), what's it look like to a new user?
>
> Open Source/Free Software developers are suffering from
Incoming from Paul Schwartz:
>
> I have been trying to enable web access to update apt, etc.
>
> I have tried two ways: wvdial and pon
>
> Both seem to connect to my ISP and establish ppp, but
> none of the programs I run are able to communicate with the outside.
>
> I have tried to ping by nam
Incoming from Richard Kimber:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:07:23 -0600
> "Michael Martinell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > That's why the people doing the documentation should be the power-user
> > who is not familiar with every intricate detail, and has had to struggle
> > and learn the system. T
Incoming from Richard Kimber:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:15:24 -0700
> "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > This sounds like an excuse for programmers not to document their
> > > programs.
> >
> > Programmers need no excuse for th
Incoming from Roberto Sanchez:
> s. keeling wrote:
> >Go join the LDP and fix this apparent deficiency yourself if you think
> >it's a problem.
>
> professionals. I would think that if you are just going to half-ass
> the job the community would be better off withou
Incoming from Nunya:
>
> Also: If you could post a one-line .muttrc command which would pipe the
> current message to grep, pull out the message id, and append it to kill,
| egrep '^Message-ID' > ~/.mutt/kill
You can stuff some sed in there to clean it up.
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Incoming from Roberto Sanchez:
> s. keeling wrote:
> >Incoming from Richard Kimber:
> >>Obligation? What about a sense of pride in having done something well?
> >
> >He did do it well! It works! Oh, "well" for you means fully
> >documented s
Incoming from Monique Y. Herman:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 05:11 GMT, Karsten M. Self penned:
> >
> > Then people are advised to _find_ an appropriate forum (their problem,
> > not mine), and exercise self-control on this list.
>
> You know, people might take you more seriously if you stopped tryi
Incoming from Stephen Liu:
>
> How can I login as ROOT after booting at 'Desktop Manager" popup. I am
> only allowed to login as USER both KDE and GNOME.
"Hi. I bought this really neat gun yesterday, and now I'd like to try
it out. Problem is, I can't get the ammunition into the thing. Can
so
Incoming from Anton Zinoviev:
>
> It would be nice however to find a solution that will not require to
> install anything on the server.
Got a web browser or newsreader? Debian mailinglists are gatewayed to
Usenet (linux.debian.user & etc.). That's read only though. If you
want to be able to p
Incoming from Monique Y. Herman:
>
> There is absolutely a learning curve to every community, and
> long-standing members deservedly get more respect and slack. I do think
> that I've been lurking and posting long enough to have a sense of the
> community.
I don't think that's possible. Between
Incoming from Wesley J Landaker:
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> On Friday 12 December 2003 11:38 am, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> >
> > I am a first year CS student, learning C. A while ago I was asked
> > this question from a fellow friend of mine:
>
> Hmmm... sounds a lot like a homework problem...
Incoming from Scarletdown:
> I've been trying to set up POP3 email access (in text mode instead of from the
> desktop), and
> am really stumped now. I just did a little experiment and installed fetchmail, then
> from the
> command prompt gave the fetchmail command as follows:
>
> fetchmail -p
Incoming from John L. Fjellstad:
>
> Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>
> > Can you explain to me why you would use a subject such as you did,
>
> Actually easiest way to get help.
Actually, as has been known and said for _ages_, it's the best way to
get THOSE WHO KNOW to ignore you. Do you want to ge
Incoming from Karsten M. Self:
>
> What's your fetch mode? I'm finding that fetchmail over 56k is taking
> ~5-10 seconds per message (mostly depending on how much Swen I've got).
What?!? Swen, now? Don't you have access to a shell acct? If you
do, kill that crap on the server. I haven't seen
Incoming from Stephen Liu:
> [somebody:]
> > Similarly to kill the connection:
> >
> > poff dsl-provider
>
> # poff 202.123.68.108
> /usr/bin/poff: I could not find a pppd process for provider
Close, but no cigar. Use (literally!):
poff dsl-provider# not IP address
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Incoming from Joerg Rossdeutscher:
>
> Censorship? Nonsense.
Blah, blah, blah. *plonk*
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Incoming from Raquel Rice:
>
> Can this crap be stopped?
Yes. Any copies of it going my way are going into /dev/null. He has
been informed and now we're just seeing complaints from people who
don't use procmail.
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Incoming from Steve Lamb:
> s. keeling wrote:
> >Yes. Any copies of it going my way are going into /dev/null. He has
> >been informed and now we're just seeing complaints from people who
> >don't use procmail.
>
> And snarky replies from holier-tha
Incoming from Alvin Oga:
>
> > /var - 10GB
>
> if you want to save weblogs, you can move it to /home
> since "users" want that info
>
> system use very little space in /var
... exception being /var/cache/apt/archives. That can be a symlink to
somewhere else though.
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Incoming from Debian User:
>
> or, just tell your friends who are using aol, earthlink, snet, etc.
> , that you cannot send email to them because their isp is uptight
... And their ISP is "uptight" because in the past, they've been
blacklisted left and right for having _sent_ spam.
AOHell has b
Incoming from Magnus von Koeller:
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> On Wednesday 17 December 2003 01:21, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > This isn't acceptable for general-purpose communications, however.
> > And I'd suggest you look into common carrier laws as well (I'm
>
> And if you don't like your
Incoming from Magnus von Koeller:
Content-Description: signed data
> On Wednesday 17 December 2003 21:36, ScruLoose wrote:
> > And, given the popularity of online blacklists that track IPs that
> > are _actually__used_ by spammers, how does it make any sense to
> > move backwards from something tha
Incoming from James Miller:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Kent West wrote:
>
> > James Miller wrote:
> >
> > >normal behavior under X was killall gpm. So, what was I doing wrong? I'd
> > >be delighted if I could get gpm to cooperate with the mouse cursor under
> > >X.
> >
> > and your /etc/X11/XFConfig
Incoming from Wayne Topa:
> Karsten M. Self([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> >
> > http://linuxmafia.com/~karsten/Downloads/SpamTools.tar.gz
>
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
>
> Do you have another URL Karsten?
At one time, http://linuxmafia.com/~karst
Incoming from John Kenneth Fisher:
>
> >debian:/home/jkfisher# lilo
> >Fatal: open /initrd.img: No such file or directory
>
> How do I make one?
>
> I used apt-get (actually wajig, but who's counting?) to update, which
> I've done many times before, but for the first time I've seen, LILO is
>
Incoming from David Mandelberg:
> I tried this the first time it happened (this is the second). It didn't
> work, and I ended up rebooting during the next network outage (ISP's
I'm wondering how it managed to get mounted rw in the first place. Is
there some reason it needs to boot mounted rw? If
Incoming from Lian Liming:
>
> I am using debian ustable with kde 3.3. I wonder why my kde is so
> weak. It oftern crashes.
>
> I am not curious to know the reasons why my kde often crashes. I
> just want to know when meeting such problems, how can i analyze the
> problem. I am not f
Incoming from George Iordanou:
> I'm using debian unstable. I'm currently reading my e-mail through
> evolution. I want to read them through a text-based mail client. As i
> can see my best choice is mutt (there's nothing else exciting available,
> [snip]
> Details of GMail account:
>
> Incoming M
Incoming from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> How do I write a script to set an environment variable?
Understand that you're trying to define something that will be
available to the current process, and all children of that process.
Already existing processes won't know about it, and after that process
exits
Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez:
> > > Whats the command to determine who is a registered user in your
> > > system, or to gather stats about them, such as registration time, etc?
> >
> > What do you mean by "registered user"?
>
> Good question, hmm, the ones that you can unregister with deluser?
Incoming from Shawn McCuan:
> What do I have to do to get cd burning enabled on my system? The burning
> programs arent detecting that I even have a burnerwhat should I do?
Search the archives at lists.debian.org
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Incoming from Thomas Beresford:
> I want to run some commands whenever I logout the window manager. I thought
> that
> using bash_logout script would do the thing but it does't. I'm running
> fluxbox as
Have you tried $HOME/.bash_logout ? It worked for me when I still
used bash.
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Incoming from Sam Watkins:
> On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 11:54:17AM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > watch out for dumb file anems like:
> > office birthday list
> > bob's projections
> > 'any other "dumb" file names' allowed in windoz, that is not
> > allowed in *nix
>
> I think the only c
Incoming from jack kinnon:
>
> Yes, I used a 'hand-made' 2.6.3 kernel.
> I checked the kernel config to ensure that 'Unix domain sockets' is selected.
> I even re-create kernel from the source but the problem is still there.
Problem? What problem?
> Further suggestions, pls.
Who, what, when, w
Incoming from Jim Hall:
>
> 4) Where do I find out how to "tell" the module to recognize more file
> types? I need the system to just deal with whatever known fs is put in
Change the fs type in /etc/fstab to "auto":
#
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,
Incoming from Rogério Brito:
> On Nov 27 2004, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> > I don't know anything about the packages in question or their maintainer,
> > but if he's really being unresponsive, somebody should look into it in a
> > serious way.
>
> Actually, I think that there are quite a lot of
Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez:
> I would like to know what font are people using for coding. I have
> tried a bunch of different ones, and it always seems to have some bad
> corner. This last one I am using makes it difficult to distinguish
> braces "{" from parentheses "(". Bad news for coding.
Incoming from Adam Rosi-Kessel:
> Is there any Debian package (or free software outside of Debian) that can
> detect random ssh login attempts and blacklist (temporarily or
> permanently) the IP address?
fwlogwatch purports to be able to do this (I haven't tried this
feature; ymmv). However, woul
Incoming from Shawn McCuan:
> Does anyone know if the
>
> ftp.egr.msu.edu APT source is down?
(0) keeling /home/keeling_ ping -c 1 ftp.egr.msu.edu
PING ike.egr.msu.edu (35.9.37.225): 56 data bytes
--- ike.egr.msu.edu ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet lo
Incoming from Jacob S:
> On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 14:50:24 -0700
> "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Incoming from Adam Rosi-Kessel:
> > > Is there any Debian package (or free software outside of Debian)
> > > that can detect ran
Incoming from Lian Liming:
>
> So can someone give me some information on where to find useful
> debian apache configuration documents?
aptitude install apache-doc
You can find things like this with "apt-cache search apache"
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Incoming from Tim Jackson:
> >Normally I keep a copy of .config in the file /usr/src/konfig-2.6.8 and
>
> Being a total newbie to Linux I may be talking complete *!^% but here goes
> anyway. Having just compiled a kernel myself I was wondering if this would
> work, copy the original .config fi
Incoming from Faithful John:
>
> I got this weird message, when I left my email through Telnet/Pine
> running when I left my house.
>
> + N 15 Apr 27 Dixie H. Brunson(2,892) Cialis Soft Tabs - Super Viagra
>
> + N 16 Apr 27 Garry Martin(2,769) Get it up again
Incoming from rubyriddle:
>
> Would you give me information on how best to move from SUSE9.1 linux to
> plain Vanila Debian Linux.
Got backups? Start there. Then download the Sarge/testing netinst
CD, burn it, and boot from it. See the archives at lists.debian.org
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Incoming from Deboo Geek:
>
> Yes, I'm doing it on the usual console, not under X.
>
> Here's the file content of gpm.conf:
>
> device=ttyS0
Mine says /dev/ttyS0
> responsiveness=
> repeat_type=ms3
> type=msc
> append=''
> sample_rate=
If you make repeat_type=raw, you can tell X to use /dev/g
Incoming from Phil Dyer:
> s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from Faithful John:
> > >
> > >I got this weird message, when I left my email through Telnet/Pine
> > >running when I left my house.
> >
> > I'd say someone got in, and they got in
Incoming from Deboo Geek:
> On 5/1/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Incoming from Deboo Geek:
> > >
> > > device=ttyS0
> >
> > Mine says /dev/ttyS0
> >
> > > responsiveness=
> > > repeat_type=ms3
> > > ty
Incoming from Deboo Geek:
> On 5/1/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > From /etc/gpm.conf:
> >
> > # If mouse response seems to be to slow, try using
> > # responsiveness=15. append can contain any random arguments to be
>
> That&#x
Incoming from Deboo Geek:
>
> FIrst of all thanks a lot to Kent for pasting me the info from some
> howto, that did the work. setting the protocol to ms3 worked. Now, the
> only thing remaing is making the mouse work smoothly on console and X
> both. WOuld I need to play with the responsiveness a
Incoming from Faithful John:
>
> So this gives me a second question. I'm pretty sure that I disabled
> the remote access ability stuff (though I'm not 100% on that at this
> moment). Is there a chance someone could still get into my system in
Certainly. What are you running that you don't ne
Incoming from H. S.:
>
> do not take long. They are fine. It is only the compilaton of a new
> kernel after "make-kpkg clean" that takes around 50 or 58 minutes (1.8
> GHz PIV with 256 MB of RAM).
You must have the slowest hard drive in existence. My 700 Mhz PIII
does a kernel compile in 18 min.
Incoming from Chris Bannister:
>
> I remember readding something that they each use their own database.
> So that mixing the two methods was not a good idea.
Confirmed. Karsten M. Self did an analysis of this (check the
archives). You can see it when adding a source for backports to your
source
Incoming from STEPHANE DURIEUX:
>
> Well everything is in the title.
> I would like to use ssh in scripts so without entering
> the password.
local_ ssh-keygen -t pick_one
When it asks for your _passphrase_, hit ENTER. Now (assuming
"remote:~you/.ssh/" exists):
- local_ scp ~/.ssh/id_pick_
Incoming from Paul E Condon:
> I am not a TeX expert. I have books and I am searching the Web. I found
> a package that is supposed to do a thing that I want, namely newsletr.
> I want to install it on my Sarge system, which already has tetex package
> installed and running. But I can't figure out
Incoming from Hendrik Boom:
>
> In all fairness, the U.N. doesn't have the military strength to stop the U.S
What a load of crap, and what the hell's it doing here?
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Incoming from Michiel van Es:
>
> I have some questions about the upcoming Debian Sarge and the testing
> version Sarge right now:
It's not upcoming. It's there now. It's not deemed to be "Debian
Stable" yet, but it's been very usable for quite a while now.
> -is software raid suported during
Incoming from zn:
> I just wander why such a famous software is not included in sarge.It's
> puzzling.
Who cares?!? "aptitude search lftp". It's there in woody. Install
it if you want it.
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Incoming from Eric Gaumer:
>
> create a file to use. In the case of /dev/null you are just
> telling mutt that there is no input to receive.
Actually, you're using the device /dev/null to provide stdin, and
/dev/null is the device that provides nothing.
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Incoming from Pollywog:
> Please post your question in plain text. Many people read the list with Mutt
> and not with a browser or mail client capable of reading HTML and one of
> those people might have the answer you seek.
Get a real mail client. It looks fine in my mutt.
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Incoming from Michael:
>
> I have been having troubles to no end installing Debian on my system.
> I've recently purchased a WD800JD SATA hd and the I/OFlex SATA Controller.
>
> First I was trying to install Woody for ~3-4 days before I received both
> pieces of hardware and have been trying to
Incoming from Michael:
> keeling:
> >
> > What did you do when you burnt the CD? I've used a number of netinst
> > images with no trouble.
>
> I tried a variety of different procedures. The first cd I wrote to was the
> ISO, files not verified. The second was another burn of the image--data not
Incoming from Michael:
> I recently tried the disks and cd on a Windows 98 machine (~8 years old)
> and encountered the same error message. Therefore, the error seems to be
> less a factor of an unsupported cd-writer and more a factor of burn
> quality/burn type. Although, considering both cd d
Incoming from Peter Klauer:
> I have just installed Debian GNU/Linux i386 Woody, Version 3.0r5.
> It boots to the Gnome Desktop Manager where my keyboard is recognized
> and I can log in. That puts me to the Gnome 1.4 desktop GUI where my
> mouse is not recognized and I can find no combination of k
Incoming from germ germ:
> I changed the eth0 dchp line to:
> iface etho inet static
> address 192.168.0.129
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.0.2
>
> "ifconfig -a" inet line now has IP,mask and bcast but
> I am unable to ping out or get pinged.
>
> do I have to modify anthing in /etc/
Incoming from ice.dp:
>
> I want to download only headers of my mail messages
> and then in mutt choose which mail should be download completely.
> I use fetchmail to get messages.
Why? What are you trying to do? If this is related to spam
detection, look into maildrop. It can check headers on
Incoming from Deboo Geek:
> On 5/8/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Deboo Geek wrote:
> > >
> > > A small Vi question: How to move ahead/forward a line when in insert
> > > mode. I always have to use the arrow keys to move forward, when in
> >
> > You can't do that in insert m
Incoming from Pollywog:
> I have a function defined in my .bashrc as:
>
> function lf { /bin/ls -l | grep "^-" ; }
>
> It prints the files in the CWD without listing other directories.
>
> Suppose I want to 'chmod 600' all the files in the CWD without affecting
> directories, I try this:
>
> c
Incoming from Pollywog:
> On Sunday 08 May 2005 04:52 pm, s. keeling wrote:
>
> >
> > You're passing it "/bin/ls -l" instead of "/bin/ls". "-l" works in the
> > function to pick up files only, but fails in chmod (you can't "
Incoming from Rogério Brito:
> On May 10 2005, Jon Dowland wrote:
> > Rogério Brito wrote:
> >
> > >Could you let me know of other window managers that are "lightweight" and
> > >that at least let me use dock apps. It will be a plus if I can set them to
> > >"auto-hide".
>
> P.S.: As you can see,
Incoming from Rogério Brito:
>
> And the thing that prevents me fro using blackbbox is, among other things,
> the need for bbkeys. I think that this functionality should (as is done
> with fluxbox) be included in the basic window manager.
And bb's author disagrees. bb was designed to be a fast,
Incoming from Bill Wohler:
>
> A Google search was unfulfilling and not relevant with my Debian system.
Next time, go to lists.debian.org and search the mailing list
archives. This (and many others) has been discussed here numerous
times in the past.
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Incoming from kenny B:
> On 5/11/05, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 May 2005 11:07 pm, kenny B wrote:
> > > I installed KDE... i also tried 'startx' and it just said a bunch of
> > > stuff including:
> > > "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
> > >
> > >
Incoming from Mitchell Laks:
> On Thursday 12 May 2005 01:32 pm, Micha Feigin wrote:
>
> > > CTRL-ALT-F1 gets you to a console prompt. login as root, then
> > > "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86". Then, CTRL-ALT-F7 takes you back
> >
> > Actually Alt-F7. In console you don't use Ctrl.
>
> On al
Incoming from David R. Litwin:
>
> On 12/05/05, Robert Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, I missed the beginning of this thread. But I know how to set up
> > pppoe. Assuming that your Ethernet card is already being detected (as
...
Incoming from Thomas Chadwick:
> I recently discovered that I can greatly improve my harddrive performance
> by customizing a few settings using hdparm on the command-line. I'd like
> to make the changes permanent, but I'm not sure where to do that. Is there
> an /etc/init.d/hdparm script out
Incoming from Paul Johnson:
> On Friday May 13 2005 9:50 am, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > > Report spam instead. Just hitting delete does nothing to solve
> > > the problem.
> >
> > Could you explain how you would do that?
> > How can I be sure that reporting spam indeed works?
>
> Experience.
Incoming from Monique Y. Mudama:
> Has anyone had to contact hotmail about this kind of thing?
Is it mail from your server, or some(one|thing) forging you as the
sender? Most I've seen include a relevant Received: line from the
original. I forward it to them.
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Incoming from Bob Freemer:
> I remember reading somewhere an apt-gettable or debian-specific project
> for clustering. Rolling my own from openmosix is a pain.
Caveat: I'm stepping in here as an interested dilettante.
I don't know about Debian, however, I've a paper in front of me
entitled, "In
Incoming from Deboo ^:
> On 5/16/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Deboo ^ wrote:
> > > What is a good book on debian for and intermediate users?
> >
> > Intermediate in what sense? Intermediate software developer?
> > Intermediate kernel hacker? Intermediate DB guru?
>
> Bo
Incoming from Colin Ingram:
> Ian Cottrell wrote:
> >Is it possible to subscribe to the list, yet no receive it via e-mail?
> >I'd much prefer to read it via Usenet, but if I'm not subscribed, I can't
> >post.
>
> You have to subscribe to the list to post? What happens if you just
> send an
Incoming from Ian Cottrell:
>
> 'mail massive'. But, I can post! (=: ..Ian
I nominate 'mail massive' to be debian-user's new marketing
catch-phrase. Do we need to patent it or anything like that
"Threepeat" thing?
Is it April 1st yet?
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Incoming from Ritesh Raj Sarraf:
> Lee Braiden wrote:
>
> > On Monday 16 May 2005 11:02, Carl Fink wrote:
> >> Why is it a "problem" and why do you want to stop it? It isn't hurting
> >> anything.
> >
> > I consider this to be "broken" too. It slows down the boot process, and
> > the messages a
Incoming from Ron Peterson:
> My mutt installation isn't displaying the character symbols used in
> thread mode to show relationships between messages; I'm seeing other
> special characters instead. What do I do to fix this?
Use another font. I like:
-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-r-normal-sans-1
Incoming from Rogério Brito:
> On May 19 2005, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > Seems like the best solution would be to find an ISP that gets the job
> > done...
>
> Really counter-productive to not be able to SSH to my machine at home,
> especially as I am a lecturer at a local university and I usually
Incoming from Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragão:
> I have just observed that vim handles negated character classes [^...]
> in an apparently odd fashion:
Try it with some normal characters before complicating it with
compound/special/meta chars.
> [\n] matches \n as expected
What does "\n" m
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mirror us
mirror uk
sign gpg
email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
realname "s. keeling"
editor 'emacs -nw'
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When you run reportbug (as a user, not as root), it'll walk you
through the whole
Incoming from Marc Shapiro:
>
> Just yesterday, I started having problems with kate. It will start up,
> and then give me errors about not being able to start the DCOP server
The last time I complained about something like that, some kde person
said I needed to restart kdeinit.
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Any techn
Incoming from A Mennucc:
>
> I just upgraded my box from woody to sarge
> overall the result is OK, but for minor glitches
>
> one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any
> other application
> that draws white chars over black background, is much worse
>
> I attach a
Incoming from Bill Day:
> I got a quite a few errors when I changed all of my stuff in sources.list
> from
> testing to sarge and unstable to sarge. Below is a copy of my sources.list
I've never heard anyone report success in rolling back unstable to
testing. Make a backup, get a sarge neti
Incoming from michael:
> On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 13:23 +0200, Dennis Stosberg wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 12:20 schrieb Nacho:
> >
> > > So I think it's very easy for anybody to automatically extract
> > > all of the email addresses from the web archive.
> >
> > It _is_ very easy and many s
Incoming from David Jardine:
>
> What worries me is the spam that is sent out under my name. Just
I get bounces from clueless mail admins all the time. If they'd spend
two seconds scanning the original's Received: headers, they'd know I
had nothing to do with it. Blast it back to those fools
Incoming from Nick Price:
>
> Part of the problem is that this list is also a widespread public usenet
> group,
> and many spammers harvest e-mails from them as well as post spam to
> the group itself.
And some of us harvest spammers simply by posting to Usenet. How are
you going to get the cha
Incoming from Larry Felton Johnson:
> keep the folks in my work group
> amused with a "Spam of the Week" posting, often involving the stream
I recently stumbled across a thread on my local user group list where
victims were holding "dick wars" over the highest SA scores they've
seen ("mine's bigg
Incoming from David Jardine:
> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:43:43PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> > Incoming from David Jardine:
> > >
> > > What worries me is the spam that is sent out under my name. Just
> >
> > I get bounces from clueless mail admins
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