Re: Poll Summary Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
moving to Debian.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to download photos to a CD-ROM 4. (transitive, nonstandard) to install software. So, download covers fetch the messages but not remove them from the server. So, yeah. There's no way to read anything without downloading it, and that is obvious. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: Debian update/upgrade good practices?

2011-05-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
as free- from-change as possible. (The patch fixing the issue is isolated, then mangled to apply to the old version and tested.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: What is the recommended way to handle squeeze-proposed-updates?

2011-05-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
be relatively bug- free and well-tested, but unstable is updated almost continuously so a system using is can be under quite a lot of flux. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: What is the recommended way to handle squeeze-proposed-updates?

2011-05-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
area for fixes that should be included in the next point release of stable (which includes both security updates and important bug fixes). I believe for Squeeze and forward it will also serve as a staging area for stable-updates (the replacement for volatile). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: What is the recommended way to handle squeeze-proposed-updates?

2011-05-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20110519195909.GA8991@Europa.office, Freeman wrote: Proposed-updates replaces the volatile archive. No, that's stable-updates, not stable-proposed-updates. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

2011-05-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: repository change

2011-05-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
think APT does any timing calculations during an update that it uses during a download / install / upgrade. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: How do fixes/improvements to video drivers get rolled out in Squeeze?

2011-05-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
is considered an RC bug for Squeeze: http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
), but they are generally well-maintained, quite usable, and in-use (by me, if no one else.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In pan.2011.05.25.14.04...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 08:50:56 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In pan.2011.05.25.11.55...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote: Today's browsers upgrade to a new version in just two months (!) and you are left with an obsolete package for several

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
on the web without having to go beyond what is in Debian main.[1] I suppose I'm just willing to make different choices then you. [1] Occasionally, I grab flash from somewhere other than main, but I usually find it isn't worth having around and uninstall it within the month. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In pan.2011.05.25.15.12...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 09:21:24 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In pan.2011.05.25.14.04...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 25 May 2011 08:50:56 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Obsolete isn't the right term. How would you call

Re: Wrong permissions 0777 on / in my debian/testing system

2011-05-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the problem must be associated somehow with bootloader (grub), as no initialization scripts are run in this case... File system permissions are stored persistently. If they don't change, you have no indication whether they were set or not. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b

Re: LVM: combining two logical volumes, how?

2011-05-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
on top of your LVs could be confused. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Wrong permissions to / in my debian/testing system

2011-05-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
system permissions are persistent. If you don't see them change you can't be sure whether nothing is trying to change them OR coming is trying to change them, but to what they already are. If you do see them change, then you can start isolating the problem. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: LVM: combining two logical volumes, how?

2011-05-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
violation, unless the administrator has specifically configured the package to write somewhere under /usr. This is is compliance with the FHS. In any case, my instructions (specifically: remount,ro) would prevent writes from occurring as well. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
been updated in a while, but it should help point you in the right direction(s). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze

2010-12-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-a Linux monster 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 10 15:35:08 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux (I'm on mostly Squeeze; stable+security+volatile+multimedia/lenny(winehq)/lenny- backports/testing+security+multimedia/squeeze(winehq)/unstable+multimedia/sid(winehq)/experimental -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: Mysql database and OO_base.org: problem with INNER JOINTS on tables

2010-12-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
of your query that displays only a single place- field in the clear. All this requires learning some SQL and being about to design a query in SQL that is used by base. I know little to nothing about the UI provided by base. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b

Re: Keeping Lenny via /etc/apt/sources.list when Squeeze becomes stable

2010-12-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
mirror system onto the archives and the 'oldstable - lenny' will be updated. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: lenny squeeze etc etc

2010-12-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
/ 3.0 in the future. I think it is more likely that they will just drop it from standard usage, so that the kernel I am currently running on this system will simply be Linux 32.5. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ

Re: 2 Ethernet cabling question

2010-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
my own cable. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: How to upgrade chain-booted grub-pc?

2010-12-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
MBR on those devices at that time and after each upgrade of GRUB2. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc

Re: PostgreSQL+ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
against ext4 to see if it gives any improvement. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description

Re: set privoxy to rewrite http to https

2011-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
(etc.) stores your private information and then later gets pwned by crackers, the crackers will have access to that data. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: PostgreSQL+ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 01 January 2011 20:30:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 1/1/2011 2:16 PM: Is your problem with RAID5 or the SSDs? RAID 5 Sudden disk failure can occur with SSDs, just like with magnetic media. If This is not true. This is true. While single

Re: File systems' timestamps apparently formatted in a wrong way ...

2011-01-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
modification date of the file rather than the current time. When the LC_TIME locale category is not set to the POSIX locale, a different format and order of presentation of this field may be used. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o

Re: sleeping the system vs hibernate or suspend

2011-01-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
(and I think S1) automatically. I don't know how a Linux-based system can go into S2. If you just want to turn off the monitor, search for DPMS. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: Error installing Squeeze with root filesystem as btrfs

2011-01-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
) implementation. Make sure your initrd contains the crc32 module before you go looking for other problems. IIRC, this can be configured in /etc/iniramfs-tools/modules, but you may be using some other method to build an initrd. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
/nitpick This means that: 1. Squeeze is currently testing. 2. Soon, Wheezy will be testing. 3. Wheezy is nothing right now. 4. Equating unstable (Sid) to another codename is incorrect. 5. The closest equivalence to Wheezy is actually testing. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b

Re: Error installing Squeeze with root filesystem as btrfs

2011-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In aanlktimma2=mmo758p8xb85apjjqzv3+=mhukmoqt...@mail.gmail.com, Paul Richards wrote: On 8 January 2011 08:48, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In aanlktikebsmpx7jabaoeguptdp6bdkglyulphdb1p...@mail.gmail.com, Paul Richards wrote: On first boot into the system I got

Re: Is The Hour Nigh?

2011-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to be very close to release. But no official announcement yet. By all measures the RC count is under 70. Some place it as low as 30. A release is forthcoming. I expect it before Valentine's Day (Feb. 14). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Exim4 : allow relaying for authenticateed users (LDAP,PAM over TLS)

2011-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
into arguments at the end of each filename. If you want to do the right thing, independent of the characters in the filenames and the value of the IFS environment variable, use the later. TL;DR: *.ext work when filenames contain spaces; $(ls *.ext) doesn't. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
a quoted string, which is indicated by the double-quote characters ''. '~ODebian Backports' looks for something with an origin of 'Debian' AND having Backports in the package name. '~ODebian Backports' looks for something with an origin of 'Debian Backports'. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: Basic questions about Debian package tools

2011-01-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, by properly (re-)implementing aptitude's handling of markauto, unmarkauto, Recommends-Important, Suggests-Important, Keep-Recommends, and Keep-Suggests, etc. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: Maximum size of temporary files

2011-01-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
assertion? How you know how to ask smart questions? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: Maximum size of temporary files

2011-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 87zkr4boi6@gmail.com, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net writes: In 878vyoepsy@gmail.com, Rodolfo Medina wrote: It seems that the maximum size of internet temporary files on my Debian Lenny system is 5.5MB. How can I enlarge it at my pleasure? How

Re: How to make an upgraded system clean by automatically removing abandoned config files?

2011-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
and the old.version - new.version upgrade you saw the behavior on. If you can generate a good piuparts report, that would likely be appreciated, since the PTS doesn't automatically track that. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o

Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
expansion. # Any quotes prevents word splitting and 7zparameters needs to be # broken on whitespace before the command can process it. tar $tarparameters $backuppath | 7z $7zparameters $7zfilename -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o

Re: OT: Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to be word split before getting to the command, so we don't want to quote that. Same thing is true for backuppath. (I hope the OP never need to add a path containing whitespace to backuppath, you'll find it a bit futile.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b

Re: OT: Re: Help with a bash script please

2011-01-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
make this difficult. Beyond the standard, many shells can handle shell variables of array types and careful use of such types should allow all use of not-quotes expansions to be eliminated. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o

Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?

2011-01-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: aptitude: set all packages auto-installed except given list?

2011-01-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
shells have convenient behavior on input like Is it now `date that really messes with you if you try and use quotes inside backticks. Like making the following ambiguous: Is it now`date + %F `, but I wish it was 100 years in the future. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
tools, manual alignment, whatever) on the part of each user in order to get performance of cheaper, earlier generation drives. That fact is enough for me to form the opinion that these drive suck with Linux and feel justified in said opinion. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [OT] trouble with .gitignore patterns

2011-01-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
' still ignored? Looks like a bug to me. It is at least an undocumented feature. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: [OT] trouble with .gitignore patterns

2011-01-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 87aaj0vceg@turtle.gmx.de, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-01-16 20:58 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 20110116160216.GA6914@think.homelan, Andrei Popescu wrote: $ git init Initialized empty Git repository in /home/amp/Download/gitest/.git/ $ touch dir/file3 $ echo '*' .gitignore $ git

Re: transition from Ubuntu - Debian to avoid Unity Desktop?

2011-01-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
and shipped in their binary packages. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: KDE install on Squeeze rc1

2011-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
in testing (and includes the security fix). That said, I don't use kde-full. I use kde-standard, plus other packages as needed. (I used to use kde-minimal, but that package seems to have been dropped at least temporarily by the KDE/Qt packaging team.) HTH, -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: KDE install on Squeeze rc1

2011-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 09:44:14 Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/18/2011 10:35 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Where'd you get these packages, I don't see it available in Lenny, testing, sid, or experimental. I see acroread-debian-files in the unofficial (and not ALWAYS compatible

Re: KDE install on Squeeze rc1

2011-01-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 18 January 2011 10:19:47 Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/18/2011 10:59 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: $ apt-cache policy adobereader-enu N: Unable to locate package adobereader-enu $ aptitude search adobereader-enu $ Yeah, I'm not seeing that package either. # apt-cache

Re: KDE install on Squeeze rc1

2011-01-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4d35d2b1.4040...@pcartwright.com, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 01/18/2011 12:04 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: # apt-cache search adobereader-enu adobereader-enu - Adobe Reader allows you to view navigate and print PDF files. This version adds advanced forms support (save), better

Re: Oracle 9i R2 installation on Debian 64 (Installer hang at 17% work done)

2011-01-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
libc5? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
) but follow the Debian Free Software Guidelines. All package in non- free may violate the DFSG, but must still be freely distributable by any recipients (a Debian-specific license is not appropriate). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
using HTTPS? Keep in mind that IPs don't identify users -- proxies and reverse proxies mess that up. Keep in mind that it is difficult to serialize requests; users that are fans of multiple tabs and/or windows may have requests that overlap or interleave with other requests. -- Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: Did I find a bug? If so, where to file?

2011-01-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. Make sure they haven't already been fixed by doing an update/upgrade dance. reportbug will also try and find other bugs related to the package; don't file a new bug if one already exists. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In pan.2011.01.22.15.39...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:14:31 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In pan.2011.01.21.12.44...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote: Using cookies for tracking/ identifying the user's session can be replaced with another methods or can require additional

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In pan.2011.01.22.16.44...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:11:39 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In pan.2011.01.22.15.39...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote: (...) Or just think about removable flash drive devices with portable versions of the browsers; the owner logins into his

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In pan.2011.01.22.18.22...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:13:31 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In pan.2011.01.22.16.44...@gmail.com, Camaleón wrote: Physical access to the same hardware in a roughly 5 minute window also allows one to impersonate another user

Re: Let's talk about HTTPS Everywhere

2011-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
), but some server don't actually see that as being in their interest. (E.g. Facebook loses relatively few page views if it discloses too much information about you.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: VirtualBox 4 fails building kernel module (the same with nvidia module)

2011-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
with make-kpkg since the stock Debian kernels have served me well so far. Does it prepare all the linux-* .debs? You'll need linux- headers-* for building kernel modules. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: can I install Linux to this phone?

2011-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
like some people other than you would like to see Linux on the phone, but it didn't seem like there was much luck moving toward that goal. Hopefully, that thread can serve as a starting point for modifying your phone's software to do what you'd like it to. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: Did I find a bug? If so, where to file?

2011-01-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20110123160647.4924a94f.cele...@gmail.com, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:39:02 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: Most of the time Debian bugs should be filed using the reportbug binary from the reportbug package. Nitpick - reportbug is a python script

Re: Lenny Apache2: ReverseProxy - https - http://localhost:port

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
old? 'Cause Apache (from upstream) has supported it for a while and I've had it in production (system based on Ubuntu Maverick) for a number of months. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
and fix issue in Lenny until the Wheezy release or until one year after the Squeeze release (2012-02-06) whichever comes first. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: Apache SSL named based virtual hosts

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20110124202335.ga5...@hysteria.proulx.com, Bob Proulx wrote: In another thread: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: ... Apache (from upstream) has supported it for a while and I've had it in production (system based on Ubuntu Maverick) for a number of months. Re: NameVirtualHost *:443

Re: Apache SSL named based virtual hosts

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 201101241443.22084@iguanasuicide.net, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/NameBasedSSLVHostsWithSNI I believe Lenny does actually have a recent enough version of both apache2 and libssl0.9.8, but I've not tried using SNI with Lenny's version of Apache. (Correcting

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20110124131514.16ce33fe@gauss, Joe Riel wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:08:06 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: I recommend not changing back your sources.list and actually adding the security repository for Lenny as well. I may have misinterpreted this. Are you

Re: What no Quanta in Squeeze!?

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
(Constantly Usable Testing) efforts and KDE upstream effort come together for a Quanta you can run on testing (Wheezy) without having to move away from Debian. Feel free to join either of those efforts in order to help yourself. Failing that, Debian will miss you. :( -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: putting /tmp to memory help

2011-01-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: apt-get/aptitude. Ist it true...

2011-01-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Lenny or Squeeze?

2011-01-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
] to get the udev / kernel stuff right. For anyone using KDE related stuff, the transition from KDE 3 to KDE SC 4 might be near-traumatic.) In any case, the Squeeze release notes are a must-skim should-read for anyone wanting to install it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: Small annoyances with Squeeze

2011-01-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to that bug might be good. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: approx for new netinst installation

2011-01-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to choose which mirror you want to use. Point it at your local apt proxy and you should be fine. Might require using an expert mode. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: Lenny or Squeeze?

2011-01-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 16:48:58 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 25 ian 11, 16:31:26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: (Migrating from Lenny to Squeeze is going to be a bit more of a pain for many users that the Etch - Lenny upgrade. For most everyone, there'll be an extra reboot [or two

Re: Ubuntu - LMDE: migrate packages using `aptitude` alone?

2011-01-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
(if not all) the problems with the migration should be caught by the package managers. If you can make them happy, I think your system will probably be fine after the migration. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM

Re: Ubuntu - LMDE: migrate packages using `aptitude` alone?

2011-01-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
messages and proposed actions to detect things as soon as possible. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc

Re: loud f'ing noise

2011-01-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
a pc speaker module loaded and this is the the only log entry that was around when it started: Sounds to be like a hardware or case alarm. There's probably a reset button on the case, but you might have to hard reset to clear it up. Usually, the pcspkr module is not very loud. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: Testing

2011-01-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20110126213523.959ac32a...@smtp.hushmail.com, ced...@hush.ai wrote: Testing email functionality. http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct Specifically this point: Do not send test messages to determine whether your mail client is working. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: Ubuntu - LMDE: migrate packages using `aptitude` alone?

2011-01-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 26 January 2011 17:20:05 Rob Owens wrote: [M]aybe there is a way to convince apt/aptitude to tell you what applications were installed purposedly (not automatically installed to resolve dependencies). aptitude search '~i!~M' -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: OT Re: help

2011-01-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
on the Subject header, but rather the In-Reply- To and References headers. The message Robert complained about did indeed have those headers incorrect based on its content. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984

Re: Squeeze volatile?

2011-01-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. In this case, I think that's a good thing.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description

Re: Problem with memory on apache

2011-01-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, others will mention them.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
something is missing is that no volunteer labor is available. There are also some minimal quality standards. There might have been a volunteer, but their work was below those standards either due to lack of time or skill. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Spam Rules, per argument (Re: Any package for surveys?)

2011-01-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, but it wasn't really SPAM because it wasn't trying to get $$$ from me. Both off-topic and SPAM messages are inappropriate for the list, so I'm not surprised that you are getting some flak. Avoid posting off-topic messages in the future to avoid the backlash you received this time. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: Any package for surveys?

2011-01-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
subjective) topic that I've observed being used on the list. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description

Re: java 5 in squeeze

2011-01-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
for approximately 2 years or have a maintainer that is willing to maintain the software independent of upstream for a similar period of time. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: approx for new netinst installation

2011-01-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
with: 192.168.0.200 and the second question with: debian -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description

Re: [squeeze] Open with... gone from Ark?

2011-01-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
that takes the updates from the security archive and includes them in the master archive. Lenny will be entirely unsupported either 1 year after the Squeeze release or immediately after the Wheezy release, whichever comes first. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b

Re: hide url in apache2

2011-01-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
://wiki.freegeekarkansas.org/mediawiki/index.php However if you rewrite a request for http://www.example.com/ into http://www.example.com/users/login you can't at the same time also rewrite http://www.example.com/ to http://www.example.com/some/other/object. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: logrotate

2011-01-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
is no longer supported at all. Upgrade to Lenny if you want any support. Then, upgrade to Squeeze if you don't want to see your support gradually disappear over the next year or so. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ

Re: No sudo, no root, on a fully encrypted LVM filesystem

2011-01-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
shell you should be able to fix things and reboot into full multi-user mode. [1] If root has a password, even one that can't legitimately be typed from the local console, you get a root password prompt instead. :( -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: which is at fault? iceweasel or drupal?

2011-01-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: help

2011-01-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
personal VPS, 1 business VPS, and share maintainership of at least 1-2 more. Most of them have the root account disabled. None of them allow root to connect over ssh. All have sudo available. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o

Re: How to find (and remove) all installed recommended packages

2011-01-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. That lists all automatically installed packages that are not a Depend of an installed package. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net

Re: How to find (and remove) all installed recommended packages

2011-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
aptitude, you may need instead to use: Aptitude::Keep-Recommends false; Post-Squeeze, the first will affect APT and Aptitude. Pre-Squeeze the last will affect Aptitude but I don't know exactly how to affect APT. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Finding packages installed from experimental

2011-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
~Aexperimental does not work. aptitude search ?narrow(?archive(experimental),?installed) If you like the short type better, you could use (aptitude search '~S ~i ~Aexperimental'). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o

Re: debconf answerfile

2011-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
- end. You can also use a readline frontend that will read from stdin, so you can feed it answers via redirection. Finally, there's a noninteractive frontend that will basically take all the defaults. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: Finding packages installed from experimental

2011-02-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In ii8dn0$t58$1...@dough.gmane.org, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: aptitude search '~S~i~Aexperimental' on my system does not list the packages from experimental which are upgradable. The spaces I included were not optional, at least I don't think they are. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

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