Re: Reinstall maintainer's files

2006-07-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: Doing aptitide reinstall foo doesn't seem to reinstall the maintainer's configuration files. What do I need to do to have the system ask me if I want to use the modified version or the package maintainer's version? I would just do a purge, remove any vestigial files in

Re: Video conversion

2006-07-13 Thread Roberto Sanchez
J Merritt wrote: I am looking for a good, feature full video conversion package that will allow for conversion between various video formats, containers, audio formats, etc., in the associated video file. Is there a package that can be installed under Debian with all the associated

Re: forgot password workarounds not working

2006-07-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Haines Brown wrote: I have sarge I installed on a new hard disk, and I can log in OK, but I decided to see if I could log in without a password. I tried two methods: 1. I booted knoppix and opened a terminal. In it I tried to do: $ mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/hd in order to then run

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Roberto Sanchez
S Clement wrote: I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and two things puzzle me. Welcome. Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both and kde seems to me to be easier to use. There must be something I am missing. We don't really prefer one or the other,

Re: etch vs sarge

2006-07-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
BAGI Akos wrote: Hi List! I run services on sarge in two major parts: - qmail,clamav,spop3, ssmtp,rblsmtp and - apache2,mysql 4.1,php4 I'm considering to dist-upgrade from sarge to etch(testing) I would like to use mysql5 and php5 if it's not a to big deal to change. My question is: Can the

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I think i'm sending you down the wrong road. rdiff-backup does incremental backups of data using rsync to transfer the data. but still, istm that for some reason rsync doesn't realise that you haven't changed everything. maybe you need to go through it once and

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Anil Gupte wrote: Need help and advice. I am trying to do a specialized install of Debian. Note that I have done two or three before (in the past), but without knowing much about what was going on - I mostly accepted the defaults. This system happens to be in a place where there are

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrew Vaughan wrote: I've seen entering/leaving daylight savings do something similar with Windows shares rsynced to linux. It might be worth letting rsync copy a few of the files to a temp location, and manually comparing timestamps/permissions etc. OK. I'll give that a shot.

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Willie Wonka wrote: JJ wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: I don't think I have lost the rsync data. Basically, what I do is: rsync -nave ssh ~/Documents/stuff/ remote:~/school/stuff/ Even if have changed only one or two files, it still wants to transfer everything. I will check out rdiff-backup

Re: Bash socket /dev/tcp

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrea Ganduglia wrote: How can I obtain /dev/tcp (and /dev/udp) onto debian? Bash seems compiled without socket support. Why? Could you elaborate? I think that you are confusing UNIX domain sockets with network sockets. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

Re: apt-get question?

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ishwar Rattan wrote: How can one install a package downloaded as: apt-get install -d gcc-3.4 If you download it first, then a simple `apt-get install gcc-4.3` later will install it. This is because apt looks in the local package cache before going to the network. -Roberto --

Re: Is it possible to install ftp servers w/o 421 Service not available errors?

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Dirk wrote: Seriously, I've tried proftpd, vsftpd and another one I don't remember on different machines (all with debian) and randomly they bitch around giving me 421! Interesting. What steps (exactly) have you taken? Have you enabled inbound FTP in the /etc/hosts.allow? Are you inetd

rsync weirdness

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
This is not Debian-specific (at least I don't think it is), but I will ask here regardless. I have recently acquired a MacBook (a graduation gift from my parents). Anyhow, while I was recently traveling, I did some work on it. When I try to rsync back to either of my workstations (both

Re: rsync weirdness

2006-07-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: have you lost the rsync-data on the receiving end? I actually use rdiff-backup myself, but istm that if you lose the rsync data on the receiving end, then it will try to sync everything. Maybe I don't understand what you're doing though. I don't think I have lost

Re: creating custom binary packages?

2006-06-26 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kit Peters wrote: I have a need to create my own .debs for a box at work, and I'd like to use precompiled stuff when I can. How do I create a custom .deb from a precompiled package, a la firefox or MySQL? I've looked at the New Maintainer's Guide (though perhaps not as in depth as I ought)

Re: Debian package of the day

2006-06-23 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Aaron Maxwell wrote: Something I did for fun, that you might find neat: http://potd.redsymbol.net It's pretty skeletal right now; I'll add features to it over time. (If anyone has a feature request, post on this list or email me.) Hi, Seems pretty cool. One question, though. Wouldn't

Re: Debian package of the day

2006-06-23 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Aaron Maxwell wrote: Don't complain, or I'll make it update every ten minutes! Then we'll all be in trouble. :-) If anyone's curious, the reason I did this is that there's so much software for debian - about 17,000 packages in i386/main - that there are probably some you would find

Sound card issues [WAS: Re: Hello!]

2006-06-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
KlarsDev wrote: Hi, i have this problem: I have debian 3.1 sarge installed on my PC, but i encounter some problems with my sound device. My sound card is C-media(external) it works ok, but i have a 5.1 EBODA sound system and i don`t know how to make it work with debian. I tried with alsa but

Re: kernel problems

2006-06-12 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: Well, never mind, I solved it. What was wrong was that the /boot/initrd.img symlink didnt get updated. Why is that? Should I file a bug against this package? Before you do that, what are the contents of /etc/kernel-img.conf? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez

Re: X 7.0 .debs????

2005-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Ron and Rob, if you follow planet.debian.org, David (aka gravity) bloged/blogs about it. IIRC he said he was preparing it for experimental. And if you must know yesterday, he is sometimes on #debian. Cheers, Kev Hi Kevin, I understand that the X Strike Force is moving

Re: compiling apache 2.0.55, undefined reference errors (BIO_printf and such)

2005-12-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Artur Makówka wrote: compiling 2.0.54 gives the same results (well, at least it also stops on some errors) i just want to recompile apache to match my processor architecture optimization and such, besides i want to change few configure options. Of course i havent changed them yet, now i

Re: compiling apache 2.0.55, undefined reference errors (BIO_printf and such)

2005-12-26 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Artur Makówka wrote: does anyone know why i have a lot of such messages :/root/source/apache2-2.0.55/build-tree/apache2/support/ab.c:521: undefined reference to `BIO_printf' :/root/source/apache2-2.0.55/build-tree/apache2/support/ab.c:605: undefined reference to `SSL_do_handshake'

Re: aspell error in sarge

2005-12-23 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rodney D. Myers wrote: For the past month I have been trying to get a friends computer working with Sylpheed-claws gaim, but libaspell has an ongoing error within it. I keep getting this error message; sylpheed-claws: relocation error: /usr/lib/libaspell.so.15: undefined symbol:

Re: VPN client to Windows network

2005-12-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Bob Hynes wrote: Is there a commonly used VPN client for Debian? I'd like to vpn to a windows network at work, but I'm not sure if there is something that works like the VPN client built in to XP (which is what I currently use). For windows VPN, you will probably need to patch your kernel

Re: netstat output

2005-12-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Adam Hardy wrote: Is this some brute force dictionary attack in progress on my webserver? The full foreign address is zns551-ga01a.us.yokogawa.com. Those nasty people in Yokogawa! Original Message Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:00:07 + (GMT) Active Internet connections

Re: X 7.0 .debs????

2005-12-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ron Johnson wrote: So, X.org 7.0 is out? When will it be in Etch? Tomorrow, right? Ron, I know that you know better than that :-) You've been around long enough to know that it takes a while for things to happen in Debian. Now, I do know that David Nusinow (I believe that is how you

Re: Debian and VMware

2005-12-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Greg Madden wrote: On Tuesday 20 December 2005 10:14, Chris Sutton wrote: Dear Sir/Mam, Is it possible to install VMware-for-Linux on Debian? Thx! -- Chris VMware does not ship modules compiled for any Debian, as they do for many other distro's. Just make sure you have a compiler

Re: Firefox and XFCE4 session management

2005-12-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
C. Chad Wallace wrote: Hello, Is there a way to get Firefox to load automatically in an XFCE4 session? Most programs (specifically Gaim, Amarok and Terminal) will just reload with the same state if I log out and choose Save session with them open. Firefox doesn't do this. I'd like to have

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote: search [0], I am a bit hesitant to get that combination. Does anyone on the list have any firsthand experience with Barracuda drives on a 3114 controller? What have you encountered? Bad question. You need

Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
I am getting ready to purchase a system that has the Silicon Image 3114 SATA controller. I understand that it is well supported, even by the default kernel in Sarge. However, I was also planning on getting some Seagate Barracuda drives. Based on some things I found via a Google search [0],

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Don Hayward wrote: Hi Roberto, On Sun, 18 Dec 2005, Roberto Sanchez wrote: I am getting ready to purchase a system that has the Silicon Image 3114 SATA controller. I understand that it is well supported, even by the default kernel in Sarge. However, I was also planning on getting some

Re: [SOLVED]update etc/aliases.db

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: Hmm...found it, I just run newaliases and /etc/init.d/postfix reload. I use a little shell script (located in /usr/local/sbin): #!/bin/sh echo Updating Postfix configuration postmap /etc/postfix/relocated postmap /etc/postfix/transport postmap

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Don Hayward wrote: Two are etch, one is sarge. The sarge and one etch started out as sid before the sarge release. The sarge was downgraded to sarge after release. The reinstall has always been etch. OK. That's what I needed to know. Sorry, I have no experience with broadcom -- My LAN

Re: Slowing down exim4

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Clinton V. Weiss wrote: (Posted on alt.comp.mail.exim over a month ago with no answers - hope someone here can help me on this...) On my desktop machine (Debian unstable) I have a couple of different programs (fetchyahoo, etc.) that go and get mail and send them to other emails for me. These

Re: Kino problem - doesn't read files

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Russ Cook wrote: I am running an AMD64 dual-core machine, on an Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe motherboard.I'm running Debian-64, Sarge (I think). My sources.list file is attached. I'm trying to use Kino to edit some video files for burning to DVD. When I try to load an AVI file, I get the error

Re: Slowing down exim4

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Clinton V. Weiss wrote: It is Comcast (enough said?). I haven't been able to find any official policy, but my guess is this is done to prevent malware infected computers from sending out hundreds of spams. So, despite my good intentions, I am being limited. I'm sorry to hear that (that

Re: Silicon Image 3114 and Seagate?

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Katipo wrote: I think that Seagate would have just about anything catered for. Might be an idea to check out the latest, though. They may be a little expensive, but with the space they save, that's money in the bank, dependent on your application.

Re: How to compile custom 2.4 series kernel in Sarge with root on LVM?

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Amal Phadke wrote: Hi all, I am trying to compile a custom 2.4 series kernel for my server box which has /boot as a separate ext3 partition and / (root) partition on LVM (/dev/mapper/vg00-lv03), because I prefer to have all the drivers corresponding to my server hardware compiled into

Re: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-18 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Brad Sims wrote: I have a 300GB external HD that contains a current / with the exeption of /proc/ /tmp/ /mnt/ /dev/ and /sys/... Is it possible do a bare-metal restore using this? Also can you think of anything useful to add to this script? SNIP script Have you considered switching to

Re: Error when starting apache2 (new installation)

2005-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Philippe Dhont (Sea-ro) wrote: Hello, I installed apache2 wit apt-get and i get: [Fri Dec 16 14:17:57 2005] [notice] mod_python: Creating 20 session mutexes based on 20 max processes and 0 max threads. [Fri Dec 16 14:17:57 2005] [error] (38)Function not implemented: mod_python: Failed to

Re: Fresh installation: Segmentation fault

2005-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Amar P. Patel wrote: Hello! I followed the instructions on http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/heimdal.html to install heimdal kerberos, but when I run kinit me and enter the correct password it spits out Segmentation fault. I am using berkeley db to store the keys. Anyone experience this error

Re: Fresh installation: Segmentation fault

2005-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Amar P. Patel wrote: The packages included in Debian are not suitable since they are outdated. I want the latest version of Heimdal Kerberos: 0.7.1. Amar It appears that version 0.7.1 is in experimental: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/source/heimdal Might I recommend that you

Re: Install kernel-source-2.6.8 update

2005-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Marty wrote: New kernel in 5 easy steps! 1) untar /usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2 Check. 2) Add your .config (e.g. from /proc/config.gz) Check. 3) make oldconfig;make bzImage Why not use make-kpkg from kernel-package? 4) replace old bzImage in /boot See last. 5) run lilo Switch to

Re: OT: don't understand something about xpdf

2005-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Joe Mc Cool wrote: cutting and pasting from a pdf - both text and image - is fairly easy using the tools/utils from xpdf. Under X I can drag my mouse over the _text_ in a pdf file. Then in an xemacs window I can double click and the text is pasted in there. (A very useful facility.) How

Re: How to make dpkg forget a package was ever there?

2005-01-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Quoting William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: vrms still lists some non-free packages on my system as purged. References to these are found in /var/lib/dpkg/status. Can I just edit this file? I have edited /var/lib/dpkg/status to recover from a b0rked system after a power outage in the middle

Re: How to make dpkg forget a package was ever there?

2005-01-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Quoting William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:22:50AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: I have edited /var/lib/dpkg/status to recover from a b0rked system after a power outage in the middle of a fairly big dist-upgrade. Just be careful, as you have the potential

Re: dhcp apparently handing out the wrong ip address

2005-01-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
, though it has been a long time since I messed with Windows networking, if the DHCP server takes too long to offer an address, it will simply use the previously issued address. -Roberto Sanchez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Quoting Steve Greenland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 08-Jan-05, 15:08 (CST), Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this really called for in changelogs? Note that the bug reports were perfectly polite. Not really called for, but I understand the frustration with people who have nothing better

APT Repository HOWTO

2005-01-08 Thread Roberto Sanchez
suggestions and feedback. -Roberto Sanchez This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 'Virtual Private Servers' - Advice, recollections and recommendations requested

2005-01-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
(for the $100 plan). That should be plenty for most any organization. 3. Instant messaging: I don't use it, have never investigated it, and know nothing. I will investigate, but a few signposts would be welcome. Can't help you here. -Roberto Sanchez

GNUMail.app

2005-01-07 Thread Roberto Sanchez
and is one of the *Step environments most of the time. -Roberto Sanchez RFC3156 defines security multipart formats for MIME with OpenPGP. pgphOMcciNihG.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dkpg --purge question..

2005-01-06 Thread Roberto Sanchez
-Roberto Sanchez This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: best high performance video card for debian

2005-01-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
performance, your only real choice is an nVidia. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Kernel 2.6.8 won't boot

2005-01-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
) please help me...to solved this problem.. here is .config and menu.lst in attach Have you tried without an initrd? Also, do you have /boot on a seperate partition? -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: How to get Sound to work - Need step by step instructions

2005-01-02 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Grub actually reads your filesystem. It is also easier to recover from a botched kernel install as you can easily edit the entire kernel command line. I know this can also sort of happen with lilo, but it is much easier and flexible with Grub. initrd's are also handled better in Grub. -Roberto

Re: mod_perl for apache insallation problem

2004-12-31 Thread Roberto Sanchez
/mod_perl-1.29/apaci' make: *** [apxs_libperl] Error 2 thanks and regards Umar Draz That means that you are missing the libperl-dev package. But why don't you just install the libapache-mod-perl package? -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: META: Re: When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-31 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Yoda said it :-) -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: pppd: CHAP authentication failed

2004-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
functioning. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: OpenOffice (sid) just quit , WHY?

2004-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
was involving Apache2 PHP4 as far as altering my system. That does not work yet either, but that's a different problem. Try running /usr/sbin/oooprelink to re-prelink your binaries. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: PDF Form Editing.

2004-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Substitute stable or testing if that is your preference. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Backup-software FTP

2004-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
script it will execute the commands in the script file. I suppose you could write up a script and throw the lftp command into your crontab. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Installing old tarballs on a new Debian system

2004-12-30 Thread Roberto Sanchez
that needs a complete reinstall every couple of months. I understand that Debian might provide exactly this but I am concerned that by the time I become a little more experienced with its packaging system I may have polluted this new system beyond repair. Please advise. Thank you. HTH, -Roberto Sanchez

Re: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/

2004-12-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
available in the archives, i.e., packages that you can still install. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Backups - what files can safely be omitted?

2004-12-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
and /var/mail, respectively. HTH, -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[[offlist] Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
directly contradicts itself and parts of Hadith contradict what the Quran says. -Roberto Sanchez This is absolute bullshit to be precise. There is no piece of the Quran OR the Hadith that ever contradicts each other. Infact, it compliments each other in many respect. Why not read the original Quran

Re: [[offlist] Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-29 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Syed Huq wrote: Then why do early verses in the Quran say that Jews and Christians (people of the Book) or OK and can continue practicing their religion and later say that they must be converted? That would seem like a contradiction to me. The Quran considers Jews and Christians as people of the

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: You missed on of the best: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
blowing up children in the Middle East. The difference is this: 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the teachings of Mohammed and Islam. 2. Christians who commit terrorist acts are in direct opposition to the Bible and the Word of God. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Wim De Smet wrote: On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:16:01 -0500, Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: You missed on of the best: To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
want a better time of it :) There is *no* good way to cross Nebraska. It is like crossing Kansas on I-35. Boring. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Kernel installation woes on Athlon 1100: hda: lost interrupt.

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Adam Funk wrote: Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adam Funk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Debian testing on an Athlon 1100 and currently using the 2.4.23-1-386 kernel. I've tried to upgrade to the following packages: kernel-image-2.4.25-1-386 kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
of reference, either of their one accord or once it was requested. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [OT] Big Open Roads (Was: Linux Functionality?)

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
. I quickly replied Well, I just passed marker 810, d'ya think he'll still be there when I get there tomorrow? :) Yup. Nothing quite like crossing into Texas well before sun up and not crossing out until well after sun down. :-) -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
suffered from. I am not sure that DU is cause of the Gulf War Syndrome. However, I think that using DU in munitions and tanks was a big boo-boo on the part of the US military. There were certainly safer alternatives available. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-28 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Sam Watkins wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:22:30AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: The difference is this: 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the teachings of Mohammed and Islam. 2. Christians who commit terrorist acts are in direct opposition to the Bible

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. Ecclesiates 3:1-8 -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
of the stated objectives of the Cold War. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
would have to change their name because of the political incorrectness of it? -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-26 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:17:03PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: On Dec 26 2004, Mauro Darida wrote: The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing named _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu. And what about using something called Debian? Is that a

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jean-Michel Hiver wrote: Well, Linux is certainly less user friendly (especially if you have difficulty with english as localization is quite poor) but if you take Not true. Linux is *quite* user friendly. It just happens to be very picky about who its friends are :-) -Roberto signature.asc

Re: Debian sarge and production servers is it ready on 12/26/2004?

2004-12-26 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Mitchell Laks wrote: Tim said: If you think testing or unstable is suitable for production systems you are one of 1. an idiot 2. have very limited needs/no experience 3. talking out of your ass 4. have no concept of what it means to be responsible for others' work Even Sarge? I need something more

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2004-12-25 Thread Roberto Sanchez
particular choice. Such as, which text editor is best (vim, of course) or which window manager is the slickest (naturally it is WindowMaker), and so on. I know I have sort of flooded your request with lots of info, but I hope you find it helpful. Regards, -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description

Re: Sarge not showing all RAM

2004-12-23 Thread Roberto Sanchez
configured for 4GB. -Roberto Sanchez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rogério Brito wrote: On Dec 22 2004, William Ballard wrote: You could file a bug and request an option to have Debian's menu be *the* Gnome menu. Now, that would be a good thing, IMO. Seeing the applications separately isn't that intuitive for the new users that I've been using as guinea pigs for

Re: Difference between Gnome and Debian menus. Why ?

2004-12-22 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Rogério Brito wrote: On Dec 22 2004, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: I think he means (optionally) replacing the GNOME menu with the Debian menu; that would save having two separate menu heirarchies. I meant exactly that. Anyone who doesn't use GNOME would be unaffected. Exactly, I personally use

Re: saslauthd? I can't seem to get it installed for postfix..

2004-12-21 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Charles Read wrote: OK, so I got the postfix-tls package, didn't know about that thanks! But still cant find saslauthd... don't I need to start it? Now an ehlo over telnet shows AUTH and STARTTLS like expected and I created /usr/local/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf with the line 'pwcheck_method: pam'

Re: NeverEverNoSanity WebWorm???????

2004-12-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
been p0wned. Someone has gained root access to your box and obviously defaced your website. Since they had root access, there is no telling what other damage they may have done. You will need to wipe the machine clean and start with a fresh install. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description

Re: Low Power Servers

2004-12-19 Thread Roberto Sanchez
handle lots of traffic, but I only run my personal domain on it and use it to let me ssh home from various places. It's also extremely quiet and draws less than 60 W (since that is what the DC converter it comes with maxes out at. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: dist-upgrade to sarge

2004-12-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Jianan wrote: Hi, I was able to use the sarge cd #1 to do a dist-upgrade. I mounted the cd with mount /dev/hdc -t iso9660 /mnt Then I add a line to sources.list to read from /mnt The correct way to register a CDROM of packages is through the apt-cdrom command. -Roberto Sanchez

Re: e-Sword under Linux?

2004-12-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: I just submitted a feedback on the e-Sword website. I encouraged Rick to consider making the software available under an open source license and even offered my help to port the software. Hopefully this will pan out, as I also have been looking

Re: Thunderbird style search in Firefox

2004-12-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
irritated now and then because I still forget sometimes. I will type in a 10-word Google query and hit CTRL-W to delete the last word I typed and wham. My tab is closed. If anyone knows how to get Firefox and Thunderbird to default to the old keyboard shortcuts, I would like to know about it. -Roberto

Re: Sarge Betting Pool

2004-12-17 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ron Johnson wrote: On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 15:32 -0600, Eric van der Paardt wrote: May 12th... its my bday! My birthday: 19-November. My goodness. If we have to wait until November, Lord help us all. :-) -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
kurtz wrote: El jueves 16 de diciembre de 2004 a las 16:34:36, Roberto Sanchez escribe: Then on his list of top 10 tips for developers he seems to think that the only reason to write software is to sell it and make money. No concept of Free software. Let us not forget, of course

Re: apache apache-ssl

2004-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Matthew Joyce wrote: -Original Message- From: Roberto Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 17 December 2004 11:49 AM You can either use apache-ssl or apache + libapache-mod-ssl. These are two different things, but I have used both and they work. As a matter of preference, I

Re: yeah yeah it's OT as heck -- Re: OT anova.org: Cool Bibles and Porn [was Re: e-Sword under Linux?]

2004-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:02:39AM -0500, William Ballard wrote: http://www.anova.org/software/ This is just bizarre. Zaine Ridling, Ph.D. is listed as the editor in the PDF file. This same twit who put together this list of his favorite Closed Source applications and

Re: apache apache-ssl

2004-12-16 Thread Roberto Sanchez
then there is only one apache config to mess with. With apache and apache-ssl, there are two configs, two services, and so on. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: acroread key bindings do not work.

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Francois Cerbelle wrote: Le Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:52:13PM +0100, Francisco Borges ecrit : » On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 09:47PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Francisco Borges wrote: Acroread control based key bindings (e.g. C-q or C-w) do not work on my sarge box. Do you happen to have NumLock

Re: Limiting Disck Cache

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
, and put back in RAM. In this case, though, the difference is not apparent. The result is still as you describe. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Hardware hassles: Linux vs. Windows

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
written for Windows. It is changing somewhat now (with UT, NWN and others being made for Linux as well). But, it will still be a long time in coming before that aspect changes. -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: What will happens when sarge becomes stable?

2004-12-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
as possible for everyone. I never saw a debian branch change, so I don't know what expect. Neither have I, but I am anxiously lookig forward to it. Thanks for help! feanor7 -Roberto Sanchez signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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