Gnome Application menu oddity

2006-06-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I have two laptops with Etch installed on them. One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed using the Beta 1 net install. They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then. On the laptop installed with Beta 1, there is no 'Debian' sub-menu off of the 'Appli

Re: Gnome Application menu oddity

2006-06-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 6/28/06, Andrew Sackville-West <> wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:34:30PM +0100, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > I have two laptops with Etch installed on them. > > One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed > using the Beta 1 net install. > >

Re: force stable package if avail

2006-06-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 6/28/06, Jean-Sebastien Pilon <> wrote: Hello all, Sometimes I need to install testing and/or unstable packages. The thing is that I would like to keep all to stable if possible... Example: I need sun-java5-jdk with is only in unstable I want all dependencies to be installed from stable if

Gnome Application menu oddity

2006-06-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I have two laptops with Etch installed on them. One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed using the Beta 1 net install. They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then. On the laptop installed with Beta 1, there is no 'Debian' sub-menu off of the 'Appli

Networking Problems with Debian Linux as a VMware Guest OS

2004-08-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I have a high-powered work laptop running Windows XP (with SP1). I have VMware 4.5.2 build 8848 installed on it. This is the latest available version which was released on June of this year. I installed a jigdo'd Sarge image into a VMware Guest OS. Debian is not officially supported, but they d

RE: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

2003-11-04 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Joe Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 3:52 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alex Malinovich > Subject: Re: What's the best package manager for > single-package upgrades? > Let me rephrase. Either the US mirrors are screwed, or ther

RE: how to figure out the gateway number?

2003-10-23 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Andrew Kasza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:52 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: how to figure out the gateway number? > > > I have debian 3.0. I have to change the configuration > of network > (I mean I have to change IP,

RE: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: anti-spam idea for this list > > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:17:48AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > I will give up my keyboard and text mode

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:16 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: > Your idea of "easier" does not reflect that of the open source > community, apparently. What does "open source" have to do with storing email addresses in archives in a format that is easily harvested by spam-bots? Does "open source" == "no p

RE: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list

2003-10-16 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
My main work system is Windows 2000 Pro and I check my email with Outlook XP through a corporate Exchange server. There is no SPAM filtering being done on the Exchange servers as the Messaging Group is horribly understaffed and has trouble keeping a manager and they can't be bothered with extra pr

RE: windows NT

2003-10-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Ef Reb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 4:47 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: windows NT > > > Hi, > > Will Debian run on Windows NT 4? I've an intel 233 processor. If so which version. > > thanks Your question makes no sense

RE: Screen resolution with onboard graphics card

2003-10-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Aaron Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:48 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Screen resolution with onboard graphics card > > > Hi all, > I am trying to run debian on a machine with an onboard > graphics processor. > W

RE: Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade

2003-10-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Arnt Karlsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 10:04 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade > > > On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:10:16 -0500, > "DePriest, Jas

Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade

2003-10-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I have a Compaq ProLiant 1600 that was running the stock 3.0r1 kernel (2.2.20-idepci). I upgraded it via apt-get to 2.4.21-5-686-smp. While using 2.2.20-idepci, the mouse worked fine in X (using icewm). Since upgrading to 2.4.21-5-686-smp, the mouse no longer works. I have tried two different PS

RE: Paranoid Admin: Keystroke Logger for Debian

2003-10-01 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: ListDude1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 6:21 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Paranoid Admin: Keystroke Logger for Debian > > > Hey all, I was just wondering if there is a keystroke logger > avaialble for > Debian. I'm th

RE: getting my email

2003-09-29 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
If s/he can't get his mail; how is s/he going to get these replies? > -Original Message- > From: Martin Jungowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 4:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: getting my email > > > You wanna ask your ISP why you're not gett

RE: xdm, icewm....X config indeed

2003-09-09 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Valter G. Nogueira Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 3:10 PM > To: _debian user list > Subject: xdm, icewmX config indeed > > > Currently I am using woody. > > I installed icewm using the following > > apt-get install x-w

RE: ldap integration to standard unix utilities

2003-09-08 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Julien Motch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:50 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ldap integration to standard unix utilities > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everybody, > > I have installed on

RE: Debian-hardware newbie question

2003-09-04 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Joydeep Bakshi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 8:29 AM > To: Debian-users > Subject: Debian-hardware newbie question > > > Hi list, > after using redhat for 3 years finally I have changed to the > *GREATEST* > debian-Linux. it

RE: Did I send that? (reading postfix logs)

2003-08-29 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> -Original Message- > From: Emma Jane Hogbin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 2:44 PM > To: debian-user > Subject: Did I send that? (reading postfix logs) > > > Hey everyone, > > I'm just scanning through my /var/log/mail.log and am > confused by some of > the

RE: some reality about iptables, please

2003-08-29 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
> Beyond that, I'm willing to put in the time to learn. I'm doing that > now. > > Cheers, > Bret If you want to spend some time getting down and dirty with iptables and Linux firewalls, I suggest reading a good book. I have the first and second editions of 'Linux Firewalls' published by New Rider

RE: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
The ActiveState Perl Developer's Kit for Windows can take a perl script and turn it into an executable file. But it doesn't really compile it. It just packages the minimum files needed for your script to run an compresses them. The .exe file expands the files and runs the perl script as a script. Y

'experimental' distro?

2003-08-19 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Okay, I give. How do I set up my sources.list to find the experimental distributions... deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free does not work... Thanks! -Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

RE: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
-Original Message- From: DePriest, Jason R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 8:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux defragmenter? http://www.suse.co.il/sdb/en/html/ext2frag.html The last sentence from this article pretty much says it all: "Defragmen

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
http://www.suse.co.il/sdb/en/html/ext2frag.html The last sentence from this article pretty much says it all: "Defragmentation is a waste of time" http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-partitiontip.html I also got this quote from IBM developer works: "OK, you may ask, what's the big

RE: old laptop I need ugly fast Xwindows please

2003-08-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Title: Message I use IceWM on an IBM ThinkPad 380D (P150 MMX, 80 MB RAM, 2.1 GB HDD) and it runs great.  I had tried to run GNOME in the past and it worked... but, man... it had to work pretty hard.   You can go with the unstable version (I haven't had any problems).   I think you need to

Odd console display problems

2003-08-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
When I am using SSH to connect to a remote Debian system, anything that should probably be using ncurses to display pretty bars and such looks like this lqk xReally quit Aptitude?x x [ Yes ][ No ] x mqj instead. Letters and symbols replace where the

RE: apt through proxy

2003-08-11 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I successfully use the: Add a line like this to your /etc/apt/apt.conf: acquire::http::proxy "http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port"; method. -Original Message- From: Moroni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: apt through proxy

RE: dselect apt-get coordination

2003-07-31 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
The /etc/apt/apt.conf files is extremely customizable. See 'man apt.conf' for all the details. The biggest problem I have with dselect over apt-get: it is easier to pick which version of a particular package I want to install when multiple versions are available with apt-get. -Original Messag

RE: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
My ideal solution is to use a Firewall/VPN Appliance (Cisco and Symantec both have good offerings) for perimeter protection. But, use a desktop firewall/IDS/IPS/whatever-they-decide-to-call-them-next system for your end-users, as well. Windows XP has this built-in (I think they are licensing ZoneL

RE: Network speed

2003-07-22 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Have you tried using 'ethtool'? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s ethtool Package: ethtool Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: misc Installed-Size: 156 Maintainer: Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.7-1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) Conflicts: sparc-utils (<< 1.9-1) Descriptio

RE: sed tutorial

2003-07-21 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Search on Google for 'sed tutorial' http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&q=sed+tutorial&; btnG=Google+Search First link is not broken: http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/unix/sed.html Second link is not broken: http://www.ceri.memphis.edu/computer/docs/unix/sed.htm Third link

RE: make-kpkg producing error

2003-07-07 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
1 kernel-image This left me with this file (which I haven't tried to install yet...: /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.1820030707_1_i386.deb Thanks for your timely advice! > -Original Message----- > From: DePriest, Jason R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2

RE: make-kpkg producing error

2003-07-07 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
D] > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:39 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: make-kpkg producing error > > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 04:48:40PM -0500, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: > > [ several compilation errors... ] > > > > I've wiped out the entire

make-kpkg producing error

2003-07-07 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Hello, I am using make-kpkg to build a custom kernel based on the 2.4.18 source. This is the list of errors it gives me: In file included from ksyms.c:50: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/include/asm/checksum.h:72:30: missing terminating " character In file included from ksyms.c:50: /usr/src/kernel-