Re: More then 2800 spams from the list...

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:31:48 + Karol Augustin wrote: > On 2018-03-19 12:58, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Hello and Listmaster/owner, > > > > I have send on "Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:17:40 -0400" a message > > to the list and now I got already 2800 Spams on one go! > > >

Re: [Solved] youtube error msg & html5

On Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:57:38 -0400 Whit Hansell wrote: > For grins, I tried restarting Firefox w/o plugins. Then went to > youtube and tried a video. Worked perfectly. So knew it was a plug-in. > Turned out to be "You tube flashplayer - html5." disabled it and >

Re: top that shows "Web Content" (was Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?)

On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 07:39:58 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, September 08, 2017 07:59:40 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 08 Sep 2017 at 17:39:39 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > On Friday, September 08, 2017 05:13:31 PM David Wright wrote: > > > > Meanwhile, I have firefox

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

On Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:19:03 +1000 Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> wrote: > Nick Boyce <n...@steelyglint.org> writes: > > > I don't want to provoke any religious war here, and sorry if I offend > > anybody, but: > > That doesn't alter the fact that

Re: Editor survival [Was: Recommended editor for novice programmers?]

On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:08:15 +1000 Erik Christiansen <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote: > On 06.09.17 05:31, Nick Boyce wrote: [...] > > [Joe is] one of the first things I install on any Linux > > or *BSD system. > > In my decades of leading software teams, one thing

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

On Sat, 02 Sep 2017 18:21:07 + Tom Browder wrote: > I would especially appreciate other ideas for programming editors for > novice programmers. If you really want to have a *simple* non-GUI (i.e. terminal) screen-mode editor available that novice programmers who are

Re: Why does no one care that Brad Spengler of GRSecurity is blatantly violating the intention of the rightsholders to the Linux Kernel?

On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:45:13 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > Who can compete when Intel refuses to pay > the price of making CPUs that are unsafe at > progressively higher speeds? Er .. s/unsafe/safe/ ??? But basically +1 to everything (else) you wrote. Nick -- Never FDISK

Re: Is this really the way to get your name out?

On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 04:49:15 -0600 Doug wrote: > On 11/29/2016 03:23 PM, David Niklas wrote: > > Every so often I see something very much like this on the debian > > mailing list. > > I want to know, do people really get a job this way? > > Is this list really intended

Re: Can't install security update: server name not resolved

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:35:28 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: > Anyone else seeing this? > > E: Failed to fetch > http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux/linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64_3.16.36-1+deb8u2_amd64.deb > Could not resolve 'security-cdn.debian.org > It was

Re: Frequent kernel panics

On 16/09/2013 13:15, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Of course the computer hasnt crashed for the last four days now. I did run some of the tests suggested, and everything checks out OK. Theres no new hardware in the system, no new accessories. ... I dont think that I installed any new

Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks

On Tuesday 26 Jun 2012 10:47:50 Claudius Hubig wrote: If you do luksAddKey, you’ll have to enter one of the old passphrases. After that, you can try unlocking the volume with the new passphrase. If that succeeds, you can use luksKillSlot to remove the first slot. luksDelKey or luksKillSlot ?

Re: SATA 6 Gb/s WD HDD not booting on Squeeze

On Wednesday 27 Jun 2012 00:30:20 Mark Panen wrote: When i reboot grub appears and then i get a message Please wait loading and then a whole lot of other sh!t. I think you'd better tell us what some of that doodookaka actually says :) Knoppix does not pick up the 2TB drive so i can't edit

Re: Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks

On Monday 25 Jun 2012 09:16:23 Claudius Hubig wrote: Nick Boyce n...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk wrote: The installer uses 'dm-crypt' to encrypt the drive, rather than the full LUKS system - and 'dm-crypt' generates the encryption key directly from the pass- phrase, rather than storing

Changing pass-phrase on dm-crypt'ed disks

encrypted device with the new passphrase and copy your data over Thanks in advance, Nick Boyce -- Never FDISK after midnight -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Dual channel memory question

On 17/04/2010 01:03, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Camaleón put forth on 4/16/2010 8:31 AM: It can be worst, though. There are manufacturers that paint all the RAM slots in black or using the same color and so forcing us to read the manual :-) The manufacturers have bastardized the color coding

Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 4b29bdbe.2090...@glimmer.adsl24.co.uk, Nick Boyce wrote: The main advantage of aptitude over apt-get (IMO) used to be (sarge/etch IIRC) that aptitude added extra info into the apt database flagging packages that were only installed as a dependency of some

Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

the dependency packages because apt now knew the packages were no longer needed. It kept cruft out of the system. Has that specific functionality been rolled back into apt-get ? Cheers, Nick Boyce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html er [cough] ... all 123 lines of the original quoted, as context for 7 lines of added value . V poor signal to noise ratio - please don't do that. Cheers Nick Boyce -- Goto, n.: A programming tool that exists to allow structured

Re: Software for creating web page

. Cheers Nick Boyce -- Most people, I think, don't even know what a Rootkit is, so why should they care about it? -- Thomas Hesse, president of Sony-BMG's Global Digital Business, commenting on XCP -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Sarge Repository Gone

s. keeling wrote: Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can anyone confirm for me that it should be okay for us to repoint sources.list to archive.d.o for a while, in order to apt-get anything we Why not just point it at a locally mounted DVD? Then, you'd be safe from a direct strike on a.d.o

Sarge Repository Gone

, so it's probably still underway. Can anyone confirm for me that it should be okay for us to repoint sources.list to archive.d.o for a while, in order to apt-get anything we need to install prior to our belated upgrade to Etch ? Thanks, Nick Boyce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Source code editor

... I'll go now ;) /religious Obviously everyone has their own favourite. Cheers, Nick Boyce -- Leave the Olympics in Greece, where they belong. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

Nick Boyce wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47 +, Nick Boyce wrote: Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the BADSIG error from aptitude update [...] I'm inclined to agree with you about our proxy having a caching problem, and I like your

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

guess, and may be way off-target. Now I think about it a bit more I realise aptitude almost certainly *isn't* using wget ... the proxy specification is in apt.conf, not .wgetrc. Must be own code Cheers Nick Boyce -- Leave the Olympics in Greece, where they belong. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47 +, Nick Boyce wrote: Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the BADSIG error from aptitude update [...] The usual suggested causes involve Debian mirrors in an inconsistent state while updating, broken packages

Re: aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 04:29:47AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: Just wondering whether anyone here understands the cause of the BADSIG error from aptitude update [...] Yes, I used to get this a lot with ftp.ro.debian.org. I switched to using ftp.at.debian.org and got rid

Re: Digital Camera

http://packages.debian.org/digikam I haven't tried it (don't have a digital camera). Nick Boyce -- 'If you don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

aptitude update BADSIG Error (getting silly now)

A70DAF536070D3A1 refer to ? (Maybe this is a topic for debian-security - not sure) Cheers, Nick Boyce -- Walk towards the light. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce wrote: (Etch) aptitude's error handling [cough] falls short of optimum behaviour. In particular it returns an exit status of zero in various failure situations [...] I did a quick test with 'apt-get' on Sarge

Re: aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:24:15AM +, Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Does anyone think another bug report is called for ? It looks as though it's known that the error handling behaviour needs attention but it's not high on anybody's TODO list

aptitude has poor exit status behaviour

is called for ? It looks as though it's known that the error handling behaviour needs attention but it's not high on anybody's TODO list. And is there a better list to post this to ? A check shows only debian-dpkg(-bugs) or debian-qa(-packages) as being likely. Any comments welcome. Cheers, Nick

Re: Checking GPG Signatures - Debian Keyring is Huge !

is painful ... compared with the 2K (say) that a separate release-signing key would take. Is this 13Mb keyring also needed by the new package-signature-checking apt-get ? Okay - enough from me. Cheers Nick Boyce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Checking GPG Signatures - Debian Keyring is Huge !

by the new package-signature-checking apt-get ? No, that's a much smaller package, only containing the key for the debian archive. Thanks for your help. Nick Boyce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Checking GPG Signatures - Debian Keyring is Huge !

... I assume the Debian keyring contains the public keys of every Debian developer there has ever been. Surely there is a release-signing key that Debian uses, that could be posted separately for download ? Cheers, Nick Boyce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Checking GPG Signatures - Debian Keyring is Huge !

Stephen Cormier wrote: On March 13, 2007 11:04:44 pm Nick Boyce wrote: Do I *really* need to add such a large keyring to my own keyring, just to verify the dang GPG signature on a CD image ? Have you tried/heard of the --keyring option when using gpg? That way you only need to specify

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

lifecycle, specifically to add support for new hardware ... yay :-) [1] http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2007/02/ See the section Updates during the Etch Life Cycle. Cheers Nick Boyce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VIA VT8237A Southbridge Advice

Grok Mogger wrote: Nick Boyce wrote: The latest Debian Weekly News [1] mentions there are already tentative plans to add updated kernels to Etch during its lifecycle, specifically to add support for new hardware ... yay :-) Very cool! Thanks for letting me know. Of course, 9 months

Re: Debian switches driver letters preventing boot

to find a good way round this sort of silliness before Linux can be ready for the masses. Good luck. (And sorry if I'm completely off-target here) Nick Boyce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

this as the price of asking for and receiving help from volunteers). Just my 2p - hope I haven't offended. Cheers Nick Boyce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wireless adapter/card recommendations?

. If someone can point me to a D-Link statement making a proper apology then I'll shut up ... :) Until then, I urge you to consider boycotting D-Link products - even if they _do_ work with Debian :-} Cheers Nick Boyce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Litter in the logs when DVD seen by KsCD

://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2007/01/msg00033.html [2] http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92714 (It seems everyone else on debian-kde must be running Etch - or doesn't fit one of the other criteria ... probably they just don't use KsCD.) TIA for any responses, one way or the other. Nick Boyce

Re: small form factor recommendations

. Sorry I didn't see your original post in time. Good luck. Cheers, Nick Boyce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop choice?

can tell it's normal :) These were quite elderly models - I'd love to hear how modern Thinkpads compare on these points. Cheers Nick Boyce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: strange email link

recently in which use of Javascript-driven address obfuscation was mentioned as a possible technique lemme see . yes, here it is : http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/12/2048219 BTW: the decryptString address bar trick doesn't work with Sarge's Konqueror 3.3.2 either :( Nick

Re: du and df Used Space Inconsistent On Fresh Install

been the cause of the discrepancy - thanks very much. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- You are in a maze of twisty political parties, all alike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

du and df Used Space Inconsistent On Fresh Install

, but ~7 Kb is still missing. Does anyone think the reserved space is indeed the explanation ? I'd just like to know, before I go too much further with this installation, that there isn't something horribly wrong Perhaps there _is_ a bug after all, that I should report. TIA Nick Boyce

Re: du and df Used Space Inconsistent On Fresh Install

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:41:18 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:13:03 +0100 Nick Boyce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just done a fresh install of Sarge 3.1r1 on an 8Gb partition on an i386 machine here, basic packages only (no tasks), and on checking space

Re: Installing a KZPSA card with debian (woody) on intel machine

as necessary) ? I last saw one in a DEC Alphaserver 800. I'm not at all sure you should expect it to work in an 1386 machine. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- There is no spoon. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Custom Kernel - Tux Boot-Time Logo Vanished Horror :)

anywhere in make menuconfig where a framebuffer console is even mentioned. Can anyone help me out here ? Cheers Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Custom Kernel - Tux Boot-Time Logo Vanished Horror :)

that an experimental feature is enabled in the default Debian release boot-floppies kernel. I wonder how experimental it is. Thanks for the help. Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: debian 2.2 release 3 and net connect

be able to ? (Like the DNS servers themselves) Nick Boyce Bristol, UK -- Bother, said Pooh as he struggled with sendmail.cf. It never does quite what I want. I wish Christopher Robin were here..