Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-20 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Hello Steve, Thanks for your heads up on mbsync. I might try it with my GMail accounts, since I still have them on POP precisely for the reason that mutt isn't really capable of handling IMAP fine. But... Quoth Steve Lamb ... The lack of multi-account functionality... What exactly are your

Re: Fw: เรามีว ิธีทำให้แอร์ที่ บ้านของท่าน กิน ไฟน้อยลงได้ 10 - 30 % ลองคลิกดูนะคะ

2008-07-25 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - Original Message - From: Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 4:41 AM Subject: Re: เรามีวิธีทำให้แอร์ที่บ้านของท่าน กินไฟน้อยลงได้ 10 - 30 % ลองคลิกดูนะคะ On Fri July 25 2008, ณัฐณรินทร์

Re: Strange /usr/bin file

2008-02-11 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Kushal Kumaran: On Feb 11, 2008 2:52 PM, Mirco Piccin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I find in my Debian Lenny machine this file, in /usr/bin folder: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 34504 2008-01-29 04:03 [ Who created this file? What does it do? It's (mostly) a synonym

Re: Java Grey Windows/Blank Windows/Sun are stupid

2008-02-10 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:34:37PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit java SomeApp.class yeah, its annoying... A little bit... This is wrong, doesn't always work and has bad side effects. It's not working in my case anyways

Re: Multiple Java installed, how to switch?

2008-02-10 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Davide Mancusi: Magnus Therning ha scritto: How do I make sure that all the java-related links in /etc/alternatives are sane? I installed icedtea, then purged it and installed sun-java5 and sun-java6. Some links in /etc/alternatives are still pointing to the (now non-existing) tools

Re: Question about flac

2008-02-08 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Jochen Schulz: Hugo Vanwoerkom: But it gave me a chance to find out about FLAC, sounds neat. It is! It looks as if it may become the de-facto standard for lossless audio (well, there's Apple's lossless format, too...). I use it to archive my CD collection and encode to other

Java Grey Windows/Blank Windows/Sun are stupid

2008-02-07 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Hi list, let me first say that Sun are incredibly stupid. I mean really. Astoundingly stupid. Stultifingly stupid. This bug http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6429775 has been closed. Which is wrong, this bug should really be open, because it ain't fixed. I'm using a

Re: urxvt [was Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?]

2008-02-04 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 07:31:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/03/08 11:08, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm finally taking the plunge from full CLI to using an X server, and in place of Mutt

[OT] Iran to attack my Browser??

2008-02-04 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Seriously, this is quite odd... take a look at the following two screenshots of Iran's ministry of foreign affair's site: http://omploader.org/vYzU3 http://omploader.org/vYzU4 Sorry to link you to some image-hosting site, but the screenshots are neccessary... as you can see, Opera displays this

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

2008-02-03 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Michael Pobega: I'm finally taking the plunge from full CLI to using an X server, and in place of Mutt I've been using Evolution; But Evolution is nowhere near as good as Mutt, with threading/speed/customizability (And to boot I can't even use GViM as my editor!). I'd suggest you just

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-03 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Dotan Cohen: As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? Teach me, if it's a better client than I'd love to learn it. I'm not afraid of the CLI, and I'm not afraid of VI[M]. What you're missing? Tedious fetchmail/procmail/maildrop/exim/sendmail-configuration, 200-lines

Re: How to specify a different apt archive directory

2008-02-03 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Douglas A. Tutty: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 12:42:06AM -0800, Ravi wrote: Normally the packages downloaded by apt are copied to /var/cache/apt/ archives/ . But I am low on disk space for root partition. How can I ask apt to download those files to another directory and use then from

Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?

2008-02-03 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth s. keeling: Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can anyone suggest a good GTK+ e-mail reader/writer? I have cron getting my e-mail so the client doesn't even need to have POP/IMAP. Install gkrellm, tell its Mail builtin to call mutt in an xterm (or whatever). mutt will continue

Re: ksudoku segfault

2008-02-02 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Paul Cartwright: On Sat February 2 2008, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: You can install kdegames-dbg and take a look at the backtrace of the crash. how do you look at a backtrace?? http://wiki.debian.org/HowToGetABacktrace Aleks signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-02 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:13:56PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, I've only tested this procedure myself, so feel free to contribute additional information to the wiki page, and reply to this thread if you encounter any problems (cc me in this case, as I'm

Re: missing /var/mail

2008-02-01 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth John Hasler: Sven writes: I'd recommend to leave mails on the server, if you are using POP3, to ensure they aren't lost in case of a power failure. Because, as we all know, ISPs _never_ lose mail. How does a mathematician ensure he doesn't get blown up by a bomb on a train? He

[OT] XMonad (was: sid/xinerama: how to start app on specific screen)

2008-01-30 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andrew Sackville-West: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:49:24PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: I'm running XMonad and that's all this is pretty easy, just one line in the config. But as this is really very specific to your WM I'm afraid there's no way of handling all

Re: [OT] XMonad (was: sid/xinerama: how to start app on specific screen)

2008-01-30 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Tzafrir Cohen: http://packages.qa.debian.org/xmonad It shows that the package has not mingrated to Lenny yet as it depends on haskell-x11-extras. That, in turn, has an RC bug that the maintainer won't bother fixing: http://bugs.debian.org/451903 Well, the bug's resolution is

Re: [OT] Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-29 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth William Pursell: Another solution is to put the function and alias definitions before the check for the interactive shell. I think that a better solution is to define PS1 to fool the test as above, but I don't think that is a particularly good solution either. Probably better would be

Re: Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-29 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth T o n g: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 17:12:56 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: I'm wondering if you have read my OP or not. Read it again pls. Yes I have. Use functions. Don't use aliases. Despite its limitations, why one can't use aliases in scripts? This sounds like Don't use #define in C

Re: sid/xinerama: how to start app on specific screen

2008-01-29 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Bruno Voigt: Hi all, I'm running sid with a nvidia xinerama configuration with 2 displays. Is it possible to modify the start icon for eg. icedove so that this apps starts maximized on the right display only and with the show on every desktop feature enabled ? This is the business of

Re: dpkg crawling!

2008-01-29 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Zach: 0 upgraded, 44 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 906kB/73.4MB of archives. After unpacking 185MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Get:1 http://debian.mirrors.pair.com testing/main mesademos 6.2.1-1 [807kB] Get:2

Re: cpulimit

2008-01-23 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Manu Hack: The fan is working (I can tell as it's very noisy when I'm running programs) and it's on a wood table. Will look into the CPU throttling stuff later. Throttling the CPU would have the same effect as your idea of throttling programs not to use all available CPU cycles - except

Re: Delete QT4 library

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth David S: hce wrote: Hi, Due to limited root space, I am going to delete QT4 library. I am not sure if following library is used by any system applications or not as I am using Opera and Open office. Would be safe if I delete following package permenentaly by using purge? Hi

Re: Troubles with Apache 2 And Subversion (Etch)

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Sergio Cuéllar Valdés: You said you are using trac. Have you already configured your trac to point to your svn repository ? If you are using trac, I think you dont need what you are doing with your Apache. You can run Trac with its standalone server or with Apache. Try first with the

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Depo Catcher: During install there is an option to install to encrypted disk which is pretty sweet sounding. How does that work, I'm assuming everything but /boot is encrypted? Does it use GELI or something else? I'll go down that road soon, too. I'm still on unencrypted fs' but am

Re: vanishing spam -- a puzzle

2008-01-21 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Russell L. Harris: Is perhaps a third party intercepting my mail and discarding spam? Is there a way for me to investigate this possibility? Or perhaps some Botnet that had your e-mail address went down? Some of them crank out several thousands of e-mails a day, if one or two went down

[Solved] XServer (nvidia binary driver) crashes with segfault

2008-01-20 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Doe wrote: On Saturday 19 January 2008 07:41:04 am Александър Л. Димитров wrote: Probably I should mention I'm using the binary nvidia drivers. Did not try it with other drivers yet, but I don't think that should have any impact on it - it fails with _anything_ just running

XServer taken down by Wine segfaults

2008-01-19 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Hi fokls, I just recently rolled back to Debian and I'm currently on sid. After installing wine I was quite confused to find out it doesn't work - at least with my current version of the xorg-server. I've tried both the official debian build of wine as well as a custom git-build I compiled

Re: Interesting Fetchmail Foible

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth David Baron: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: Quoth David Baron: Would there be any script, option, or such to solve this problem in a more elegant manner and leave things alone when the network is doing what it is supposed to do? Depends. Are you

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Hugo Vanwoerkom: ext2. Never have used any other. I seriously hope that this was a joke... Aleks signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Jimmy Wu: I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. That's because file systems are Voodoo. Everyone wants to take part in the discussion, without anyone really understanding what they're talking about. For example, an article from

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I like to put mine on a disk. Just kidding. Why? Putting your swap somewhere else is actually quite useful. If you have a one of those new solid state conventional disk laptop hybrids (the Samsung R70 comes to my mind) then putting swap on the solid state disk

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

2008-01-18 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Thomas Damgaard: The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the power on, and I cannot hear the disk head moving. So I am figuring that it fails just after GRUB or something. GRUB would actually want to read from the disk. After initial BIOS bootstrapping, the master boot

Re: mp3 file manager similar to midnight commander

2008-01-17 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Russell L. Harris: I am in search of a file manager similar to midnight commander, but for use with mp3 files. I don't know what Midnight Commander is, but for managing many mp3's (and audio files in general) Easytag (it's in the repos) has proven to be an invaluable resource. Picard is

Re: sed -i turns link into file

2008-01-17 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Jonathan Wilson: On Thursday 17 January 2008 10:48:41 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I encountered something rather odd and in my eyes disturbing: if I edit a symlinked file with an ordinary editor (nano, kate, ...) the editor edits the file instead and leaves the symlink intact. I

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andre: Hi there I recently moved to Lenny from Etch via dist-upgrade. Now I got two kernel options in grub available for boot. Doesn't a dist-upgrade mean that the old kernel is quite useless with the new system (with all its new libraries and stuff)? If so, how do I get rid off

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Paul Cartwright: I have a question about this, please. I have an NVIDIA card, and after some updates I get the black screen of death, and I have to change my video driver to nv and restart X. If I reboot into an older kernel, will my nvidia driver work? It never fails, I need to use

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Douglas A. Tutty: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:39:51PM +0100, ??. wrote: No, the Kernel doesn't depend on those libraries. Evenything you need to boot a machine is in /boot and /lib/modules/`uname -r`. From then on, any init-process may get

Re: questions about log messages

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Ross Boylan: Second, I also keep seeing stuff like this: Jan 15 09:23:00 cotton kernel: wlan0: CTS protection disabled (BSSID=00:45:4d:80:b6:24) Jan 15 09:23:02 cotton kernel: wlan0: CTS protection enabled (BSSID=00:45:4d:80:b6:24) I think CTS protection is clear to send protection,

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: Александър Л. Димитров wrote: Having mulitple entries in grub isn't really much of a distraction. And the kernel images don't eat a lot of memory, too. Mine is currently 1.8 MiB, /lib/modules is 12 Mib, but that's only because nvidia's such a fat-ass hog. Otherwise

Re: external drive as partial mirror

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Preston Boyington: I have been given an external drive and was wondering if there would be a problem with my making it a partial mirror. Does the mirror require any particular permissions or can I leave the drive Fat32? I think there are ways to mount a Fat32 with any given UID,

Re: bash history

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Adam Hardy: I use alot of console windows in X as well as having shells and ssh shells open sometimes for the same user. I notice that bash doesn't save every command immediately and loses the history from simultaneous bash sessions, when they are not the last session to close. Is

Re: Interesting Fetchmail Foible

2008-01-15 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth David Baron: I have been having network problems lately. Comes up for a second, then dies, repeatedly. So I get the same emails, over and over again. Fetchmail can apparently get them but not tell the provider that they have been received so delete them on their server. Until the

Re: old-style ipw3945 module on latest kernel?

2008-01-14 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Hello Anthony, Quoth Anthony Campbell: I know the latest kernel on sid (2.6.23-1) is supposed to use firmware-iwlwifi because support for Intel Wireless 3945 is built into the kernel. This doesn't work on my Thinkpad Z61M so I have to use the older ipw-3945 modules. These don't exist for the

Re: [OT]FF beta2: not so good...

2008-01-14 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Hello Hugo, Quoth Hugo Vanwoerkom: Hi, With FF beta2 my use of FF instead of Iceweasel ends. You may want to try beta3 then. Beta2 is a major pain: it dies while trying to use backspace on the URL bar and can't submit the crash report. Then going back to beta1 my bookmarks toolbar got