RE: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Matt Frazer wrote: > This surprises me in that other than the blanket definition of, Email I > don't want to see, I do not understand how a mail server here replying to a > message sender that it detected a virus in an attachment could be seen as > Spam, or unsolicited commerc

Re: mail rules

2002-04-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:36:21PM -0700, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > I'd take this effort more seriously if participants (like you) honored > > my Mail-Followup-To: header which explicitly requests a response to the > > list, and only to the lis

Re: mail rules

2002-04-11 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Nathan E Norman wrote: > I'd take this effort more seriously if participants (like you) honored > my Mail-Followup-To: header which explicitly requests a response to the > list, and only to the list. Until I see people practicing what they > preach, nay demand from the rest o

Re: mail rules

2002-04-11 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, ben wrote: > 4. reply to the list only, unless requested to cc: This can be fixed if [EMAIL PROTECTED] reconfigures the list to send messages with a Reply-To: header. Yes, I've seen the "Reply-To: considered harmful" bit, but if you don't want to automatically be CC'd on

3 nic and routing

2002-04-11 Thread Suresh Kumar R
Hi, I am trying to setup a linux (debian potato, kernel 2.2.19) box as a firewall . I have 3 nics on it. First one(210.212.236.97) connected to my cisco router. 2rd card (eth1) to internal lan with pvt ips. Third(eth2) (210.212.236.113) one to a hub which connects to my machines with public ips

Re: Woody???

2002-04-11 Thread Crispin Wellington
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 21:17, Mattias Berg wrote: > I'l need to dist-upgrade to woody due kernelchange.. didn't work.. totally > fuck'd up my server... Try'd to reinstall debian and try with unstable... > didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my server... Of course being a wise and resposible sys admin

Re: List and Usenet management

2002-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 11, 2002, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I'm subscribed to another list which is very high volume, and > > focusses largely on entertainment industry issues. Reader > > habits are highly different: botto

Re: User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?

2002-04-11 Thread jeff
ugrading to 2.4.18 (IMHO) gives a pretty good performance increase... of course, i don't have any 'real' stats to prove...it just 'feels' like it ;) good luck and happy compiling! -jeff p.s. the make-kpkg is so slick...why not try it...just to see how it works...very cool indeed... -- To UN

Re: apache-ssl on Sparc 2 4/75

2002-04-11 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Tom, > > Thanks for replying. > > tc> Ahem. You do mean 'lynx https:///', don't you? > > Sorry to say, but yes, I did try "lynx http:///". > Only now do I grasp that apache-ssl does not support http. > Seems plausible for it to support http as a special case

Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt

2002-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 08:10:52PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 19:20, Shawn McMahon wrote: > > begin Jeffrey W. Baker quotation: > > > * Undelete mail > > > > u > > I'm sure that would be it, if I could select the deleted messages. > When I use the up/down arrow to

List and Usenet management

2002-04-11 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I'm subscribed to another list which is very high volume, and > focusses largely on entertainment industry issues. Reader habits > are highly different: bottom quoting, a wide mix of mailers, much > HTML mail, varying quote markers, l

Re: acroread

2002-04-11 Thread Gaelle T. Morin
John Griffiths wrote: > Type 3 fonts are a bitch even under full acrobat exchange May I know what to do, when using xpdf? -- Gaelle T. Morin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Correct way to modify a pkg's logrotate and cron

2002-04-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > I know I could do some deletes and so forth, but I wanted to see if there > was a debian method so that I would stay package friendly. > if the file lives in /etc you should be able to edit it and have the changes survive an upgrade. Otherwise look into dpkg-divert. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Correct way to modify a pkg's logrotate and cron

2002-04-11 Thread Stewart James
Hi everyone, I have had a look around, and a look through the list archives, can anyone tell me the best way to override a pkg supplied logrotate file. I know I could just move it or delete it, but I want something that will cope with upgrades. Specifically I want to change squids logrotate to t

Re: Woody???

2002-04-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Tom" == Tom Playford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 01:06, Shyamal Prasad wrote: >> I've upgraded from potato to woody at least three machines in >> the last 12 months, none have failed. The last one was near >> perfect. Tom> My experience is eve

Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt

2002-04-11 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:55:27PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | Ximian Evolution really is a foul pig of an MUA. I love pine, but it is | slow and featureless. I want to try mutt. The problem is, I can't | figure out in < 10 minutes how to do the most basic things with mutt: | | * Configure

Re: acroread

2002-04-11 Thread John Griffiths
At 11:21 PM 4/11/02 -0400, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: >Karsten M. Self wrote: > >> Use instead the free xdpf or gv readers, both of which handle (almost >> all) PDF documents. > >I am using xpdf, but there are font type problems. >May I know, how to get "Type 3" fonts? Type 3 fonts are a bitch even un

Re: Home Networking

2002-04-11 Thread Donald R. Spoon
Jon Eisenstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's my /etc/network/interfaces setup: ### auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static # This is my university network (ethernet) address x.x.x.54 netmask 255.255.254.0 network x.x.x.0 broadcast x.x.x.255 gatew

Re: acroread

2002-04-11 Thread Gaelle T. Morin
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Use instead the free xdpf or gv readers, both of which handle (almost > all) PDF documents. I am using xpdf, but there are font type problems. May I know, how to get "Type 3" fonts? -- Gaelle T. Morin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?

2002-04-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 20:16, dman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:18:33PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > | It's a little unclear, but I get the impression that the /dev > | hierarchy, in particular, is very different between the two, which > | suggests that switching back and forth is not very e

The Direction of Debian

2002-04-11 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > I also used Debian for half a decade, and I don't like where it > is going any more that you do. However, I've been using Debian ever since my DOS disks died in 1997 and I was left without operating system. Other than having to beat myself in the head

Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt

2002-04-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 19:20, Shawn McMahon wrote: > begin Jeffrey W. Baker quotation: > > > > * Delete mail > > d > > > * Purge mail > > Exit, or change folders. You might like this: > > macro index I "!\r" > > which changes to the main mailbox, thus invoking the purge question > (unless y

Re: User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?

2002-04-11 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 09:18:33PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: | Greetings, all. | | I'm happily running woody with kernel 2.2.20, and I'm thinking of | upgrading to kernel 2.4.18. Before I do this, though, I'd like to know | more about this process -- it's been a long time since I upgraded acros

Re: Testing procmail autoresponses

2002-04-11 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:24:30PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: | begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation: | > How do I test autoresponses that require email coming from certain | > places without pestering the groups involved? | | There's more than one way to do it. | | One would be to down your WA

Re: Potato vs. Woody

2002-04-11 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:51:55PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: | Alan Poulton wrote: | > | > I was wondering.. should I be sticking with Potato or switch to Woody? | > | (snip) | > If I upgrade to Woody, how do I do it? Would I just edit | > /etc/apt/sources.list, replace all "stable" with "woody",

Re: mail rules

2002-04-11 Thread ben
On Thursday 11 April 2002 06:27 pm, Nathan E Norman wrote: [snip] > > A quote from your previous post: > > 4. reply to the list only, unless requested to cc: > > I'd take this effort more seriously if participants (like you) honored > my Mail-Followup-To: header which explicitly requests a resp

Re: diskless

2002-04-11 Thread dman
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:07:26AM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: | On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:08:16AM -0300, Marcelo Leal wrote: | > i have one FreeBSD box running diskless fine. | > now, i wanna one linux box, and... | > the bootp, tftp and nfs servers are the same for FreeBSD and linux. | > the

Re: mkinitrd?

2002-04-11 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Decibels quotation: > > in Debian. I have search google till I just became confused with the > issue. I find all kinds of > references to Debian and mkinitrd, but it isn't on either of my Debian > installs, apt-get can't > find it either and it looks like it isn't available as a package

mkinitrd?

2002-04-11 Thread Decibels
I have used other distro's before and they always have 'mkinitrd'. I have created a partition that I want to use as a rescue cd, but having trouble trying to find out how to create a initrd.img in Debian. I have search google till I just became confused with the issue. I find all kinds of ref

Newbie Install Problems

2002-04-11 Thread Dr. Louis A. Turk
Hi, I am brand new to Debian Linux. I just installed Debian Linux from the CD that came with Debian GNU/Linux Bible. So far I have noticed two big problems: 1. I also installed Window Maker, and it loads up upon startup. I don't like that; I want to load it from the command line only if a

Re: User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?

2002-04-11 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Richard Cobbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020411 22:21]: > > Second question: is it possible to have a 2.2 kernel and a 2.4 kernel > installed on the same system and switch between the two by means of > LILO? It's a little unclear, but I get the impression that the /dev > hierarchy, in particular, is v

Re: kernel version

2002-04-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 03:34:49PM -0700, Vaughan, Curtis wrote: > I just realized something. > > After doing the apt-get upgrade my computer now has kernel 2.2 as the > default, whereas it used to be 2.4. > Why in the hell has it done this? > > Is the easiest method fix this simply to edit my

Re: Why does emacs look like xemacs?

2002-04-11 Thread Henrik Enberg
Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm still in the process of putting stuff back together the way it was before > my upgrade. I just fired up emacs and I get all of this button and toolbar > crap that I have no desire for. First question: Why's it there? Second > question: How do I

Re: User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Smith
%% Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: rc> First question: what are the major differences between 2.2 and 2.4 rc> from a *user's* perspective? You won't notice any difference, except possibly a difference in performance. And, of course, in addition to the other enhancements you mention

Re: Testing procmail autoresponses

2002-04-11 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Paul 'Baloo' Johnson quotation: > How do I test autoresponses that require email coming from certain > places without pestering the groups involved? There's more than one way to do it. One would be to down your WAN, and then telnet to port 25 and pretend to be whomever you please. Then wi

Re: Why does emacs look like xemacs?

2002-04-11 Thread Paul Smith
%% Steve Juranich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sj> I'm still in the process of putting stuff back together the way it sj> was before my upgrade. I just fired up emacs and I get all of sj> this button and toolbar crap that I have no desire for. First sj> question: Why's it there? Second qu

Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt

2002-04-11 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Jeffrey W. Baker quotation: > > * Delete mail d > * Purge mail Exit, or change folders. You might like this: macro index I "!\r" which changes to the main mailbox, thus invoking the purge question (unless you've set it to not purge in your config file.) > * Undelete mail u > * Repl

Why does emacs look like xemacs?

2002-04-11 Thread Steve Juranich
I'm still in the process of putting stuff back together the way it was before my upgrade. I just fired up emacs and I get all of this button and toolbar crap that I have no desire for. First question: Why's it there? Second question: How do I get rid of it. Thanks. --

User's perspective on upgrading to kernel 2.4?

2002-04-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Greetings, all. I'm happily running woody with kernel 2.2.20, and I'm thinking of upgrading to kernel 2.4.18. Before I do this, though, I'd like to know more about this process -- it's been a long time since I upgraded across minor version numbers. First question: what are the major differences

Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt

2002-04-11 Thread N. Thomas
* Jeffrey W. Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-11 18:55:27 -0700]: > > Ximian Evolution really is a foul pig of an MUA. I love pine, but it is > slow and featureless. I want to try mutt. The problem is, I can't figure > out in < 10 minutes how to do the most basic things with mutt: You really

Re: Broken swap on potato, running 2.2.19 build

2002-04-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 16:44, Chris Murton wrote: > Hmm.. > > Swap is something i very rarely touch. I give it a partition, and it works > mostly. Hence why i'm getting stuck with swap that doesn't work itself. > > dmesg on boot reports Swap space is added. Lovely.. get into the machine, > play ab

Someone tell me the secret of mutt

2002-04-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
Ximian Evolution really is a foul pig of an MUA. I love pine, but it is slow and featureless. I want to try mutt. The problem is, I can't figure out in < 10 minutes how to do the most basic things with mutt: * Configure it to get mail from my IMAP servers. * Change IMAP folders. * Set my SM

Re: opera and java plugins

2002-04-11 Thread Florentin Ionescu
Check www.opera.com - try to install "openmotif" which is necessary in order the plug-in to work. Hope that helps, Florentin. On 11 Apr 2002, Dale Hair wrote : | Date: 11 Apr 2002 19:23:57 -0500 | From: Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Subject: Re: ope

Re: No screen lock in Gnome

2002-04-11 Thread Florentin Ionescu
...minimize all applications :-) ! | > Is there a method to clean the desktop please ? | | Sure; you can use Windex and a paper towl. | | If you want a better answer, please be more specific as to what you mean | by "clean". | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: mail rules

2002-04-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:50:16PM -0700, ben wrote: > On Thursday 11 April 2002 05:41 pm, Nathan E Norman wrote: > [snip] > > > > Coming up with a list of "rules" is a pointless exercise; you do not > > possess the ability to enforce your rules, unless you are the > > listmaster. > > > > I do supp

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 17:18:48 -0700, ben wrote: >On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:19 pm, Wendell Cochran wrote: >[snip] >> >> http://www.expita.com/nomime/.html >> >> -- which is useful in explaining matters to innocent offenders. >> It tells how HTML/MIME clash with mailing lists, & then lists more >>

Re: usb mouse

2002-04-11 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:18:29PM +0200, Matthias Ospelkaus wrote: > Hi, > After some problems installing debian, I finally got X running. But my > usb-mouse does not run. > This is what I have done: > 1. Install usbmanager > 2. Install new kernel(took the newest precompiled version with dselect)

Re: mail rules

2002-04-11 Thread ben
On Thursday 11 April 2002 05:41 pm, Nathan E Norman wrote: [snip] > > Coming up with a list of "rules" is a pointless exercise; you do not > possess the ability to enforce your rules, unless you are the > listmaster. > > I do support people who desire that "netiquette" be observed on this > list, a

Re: Broken swap on potato, running 2.2.19 build

2002-04-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 12:44:30AM +0100, Chris Murton wrote: > Hmm.. > > Swap is something i very rarely touch. I give it a partition, and it works > mostly. Hence why i'm getting stuck with swap that doesn't work itself. > > dmesg on boot reports Swap space is added. Lovely.. get into the machi

Re: mail rules

2002-04-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 04:23:18PM -0700, ben wrote: > so far: > >1. no spam > >   2. text-only (no html, ms-tnef, etc.) > >   3. wrap text > > 4. reply to the list only, unless requested to cc: > > 5. attachments should be minimal and relevant to the topic > > additions, modif

Re: opera and java plugins

2002-04-11 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 18:52, Paul F. Pearson wrote: > On 11 Apr 2002, Dale Hair wrote: > > > Installing blackdown java setup java plugins automatically for opera, > > mozilla and netscape for me. > > ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread ben
On Thursday 11 April 2002 04:19 pm, Wendell Cochran wrote: [snip] > > http://www.expita.com/nomime/.html > > -- which is useful in explaining matters to innocent offenders. > It tells how HTML/MIME clash with mailing lists, & then lists more > than 2 dozen mailers each with a recipe for turning MIM

Re: Woody???

2002-04-11 Thread Tom Playford
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 01:06, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "Mattias" == Mattias Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mattias> I'l need to dist-upgrade to woody due > Mattias> kernelchange.. didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my > Mattias> server... Try'd to reinstall debian and try with >

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Wendell Cochran
> Thu, 11 Apr 2002 05:24:19 -0700 > "Karsten M. Self" : >> on Thu, Apr 11, 2002, Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] >> 1. What problem do we have that needs to be addressed? >> 2. How do we address these problems in a way that /encourages/ people >> to come h

Re: Woody???

2002-04-11 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Mattias" == Mattias Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mattias> I'l need to dist-upgrade to woody due Mattias> kernelchange.. didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my Mattias> server... Try'd to reinstall debian and try with Mattias> unstable... didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my serv

Re: opera and java plugins

2002-04-11 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On 11 Apr 2002, Dale Hair wrote: > Installing blackdown java setup java plugins automatically for opera, > mozilla and netscape for me. > ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/j2re1.3_1.3.0.2_i386.deb > On my LinuxPPC woody distro,

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Matt Frazer quotation: > > This is largely irrelevant as I have put in my request to unsubscribe, > corporate policy requires I unsub from lists that trip the AV filter. > > I must say as a long time debian user and advocate, it breaks my heart to > see this foolhardy "anything that is Mi

Broken swap on potato, running 2.2.19 build

2002-04-11 Thread Chris Murton
Hmm.. Swap is something i very rarely touch. I give it a partition, and it works mostly. Hence why i'm getting stuck with swap that doesn't work itself. dmesg on boot reports Swap space is added. Lovely.. get into the machine, play about for a while, run 'top' and .. Mem: 79300K av, 50836K us

Netatalk question

2002-04-11 Thread Brandt Dusthimer
Greetings. I am a fairly experienced Debian user (for those of you who wish to get technical) with a question relating to Netatalk. I maintain a low security mac lab and it, for the most part, has been working fine as a file server for me. However, I have run into one large hitch; I, for some

Re: mail rules

2002-04-11 Thread ben
so far: 1. no spam   2. text-only (no html, ms-tnef, etc.)   3. wrap text 4. reply to the list only, unless requested to cc: 5. attachments should be minimal and relevant to the topic additions, modifications? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Testing procmail autoresponses

2002-04-11 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
How do I test autoresponses that require email coming from certain places without pestering the groups involved? -- Baloo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Potato vs. Woody

2002-04-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:51:55PM -0500, Rich Puhek wrote: > Alan Poulton wrote: > > I was wondering.. should I be sticking with Potato or switch to Woody? > > > (snip) > > If I upgrade to Woody, how do I do it? Would I just edit > > /etc/apt/sources.list, replace all "stable" with "woody", then

Re: Potato vs. Woody

2002-04-11 Thread Rich Puhek
Alan Poulton wrote: > > I was wondering.. should I be sticking with Potato or switch to Woody? > (snip) > If I upgrade to Woody, how do I do it? Would I just edit > /etc/apt/sources.list, replace all "stable" with "woody", then apt-get > update; apt-get upgrade ? > A friend of mine, who knows way

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread John Hasler
Matt Frazer writes: > I must say as a long time debian user and advocate, it breaks my heart to > see this foolhardy "anything that is Microsoft should be banned" attitude > proposed and accepted... What evidence do you see that any such thing has been accepted by the only people who matter: the l

Potato vs. Woody

2002-04-11 Thread Alan Poulton
I was wondering.. should I be sticking with Potato or switch to Woody? Currently, my setup is I am running a Gateway. A router so my Windows computers can share an internet connection. I installed Potato 2.2r5, but I wanted iptables so I performed the Bunk hack to upgrade to Kernel version 2.4.17.

Re: Intermittent aspect ratio problem in X 4.1

2002-04-11 Thread Simon Hepburn
Tom Zych wrote: > Hi. I hope someone knows what's going on here, I'm stumped. You need to upgrade to a 2.4 kernel and enable the neccessary agp and dri support. In the meantime change your modules section to this: Section "Module" Load "ddc" # Load "GLcore" Load "dbe"

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Matt Frazer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > I must say as a long time debian user and advocate, it breaks my heart to > see this foolhardy "anything that is Microsoft should be banned" attitude > proposed and accepted on a list whose purpose is to provide help to debian > users. Seems to

RE: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 14:44, Matt Frazer wrote: > Karsten neglects to mention that he also sent a Spam/UCE/UBE report to > myself, abuse and [EMAIL PROTECTED], abuse and [EMAIL PROTECTED], as well > as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The body of this report contained thinly > veiled threats of being reported to

Re: diskless

2002-04-11 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:08:16AM -0300, Marcelo Leal wrote: > i have one FreeBSD box running diskless fine. > now, i wanna one linux box, and... > the bootp, tftp and nfs servers are the same for FreeBSD and linux. > the linux box get the kernel, but do not get the root filesystem. > why???

Intermittent aspect ratio problem in X 4.1

2002-04-11 Thread Tom Zych
Hi. I hope someone knows what's going on here, I'm stumped. My PC switches from text to graphics mode when I run startx or switch from a console to X. Most of the time this works fine, but sometimes the resulting graphics window is too tall, such that the top and bottom of the window are shifted

Re: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-11 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 02:43:19PM -0700, Alan Poulton wrote: | Thursday, April 11, 2002, 10:43:23 AM, dman wrote: | | > perl can do what you want, and so can python, c, and likely bash too. | > I find python to be much easier to understand than perl, and better as | > an introduction to programmi

Re: opera and java plugins

2002-04-11 Thread Dale Hair
Installing blackdown java setup java plugins automatically for opera, mozilla and netscape for me. ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/j2re1.3_1.3.0.2_i386.deb On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 09:23, François Chenais wrote: > Hello, > >

RE: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Matt Frazer
Karsten neglects to mention that he also sent a Spam/UCE/UBE report to myself, abuse and [EMAIL PROTECTED], abuse and [EMAIL PROTECTED], as well as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The body of this report contained thinly veiled threats of being reported to the FTC as well as multiple abuse reporting systems and

Re[2]: Bandwidth Monitor

2002-04-11 Thread Alan Poulton
Thursday, April 11, 2002, 10:43:23 AM, dman wrote: > perl can do what you want, and so can python, c, and likely bash too. > I find python to be much easier to understand than perl, and better as > an introduction to programming. Thank you for your input. I've downloaded the latest version of Pyt

Re: unsubscribe

2002-04-11 Thread Juhan Kundla
Ühel ilusal päeval [11.04.2002] kirjutas Siward de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > hi, netburner, > > that was the 3rd unsubscribe email you sent in 3 days, iirc. > ? Are you having trouble unsubscribing ? > Then please report it to the list, as you may be not the only one. > > Correct way t

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-11 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 13:59:01 -0700 Petro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So you agree with me that forcing commercial buildings to be > handicap accessible is wrong? After all, they are being forced to > do *major* redesigns of the buildings (much more time consuming and > expensive t

Re: X-4.1: Matrox G200, cursor problem

2002-04-11 Thread Igor Mozetic
Simon Hepburn writes: > often solved just by enabling or disabling a single line in your config. I > suspect you have Option "HWCursor" "off" in there somewhere, but without > seeing your config all we can do is speculate. Well, I didn't have that option, but when I include it: Section "Dev

Re: alternative web browser to netscape

2002-04-11 Thread Petro
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 03:22:14AM -0700, Phillip Deackes wrote: > This message uses a character set that is not supported by the Internet > Service. To view the original message content, open the attached > message. If the text doesn't display correctly, save the attachment to > disk, and then o

"unsubscribe"

2002-04-11 Thread netburner
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RE: Woody???

2002-04-11 Thread Brooks R. Robinson
| On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 14:17, Mattias Berg wrote: | > I'l need to dist-upgrade to woody due kernelchange.. didn't | work.. totally | > fuck'd up my server... Try'd to reinstall debian and try with | unstable... | > didn't work.. totally fuck'd up my server... | | Quite apart from the offensiv

Re: xpdf missing a font?

2002-04-11 Thread Jeroen Valcke
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 07:48:35AM -0800, Greg C. Madden wrote: > I am not sure if this will help, XPDF here works fine on the doc you > referenced. My Fonts: Current Woody install. Thanks for the help. Unfortunately no fix. This is really weird. I have the same fonts like you now. Can you compare

Re: mail rules (WAS Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks)

2002-04-11 Thread John Hasler
Shawn writes: > It can in fact be detrimental for non-Native speakers, because if the > spell checker suggests a word that is not at all what you meant, you > might go "oh, is that what it is? OK." and pick something bizarre. That's because most spelling checkers know too many words. -- John Has

Re: mail rules (WAS Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks)

2002-04-11 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 10:15, Daniel Toffetti wrote: > > > 4. Spell check. > > > > i think stipulating a spell check would impose too much on many > > non-native english speakers whose participation on this list is very > > valuable, > The spellchecker is pretty, but hardly useful enough as to re

Re: Home Networking

2002-04-11 Thread Elizabeth Barham
It looks like your linux system is set up okay. (Confirm that it's okay by using "ifconfig" to dump the interfaces the kernel knows about). What about your windows box? A couple of quick questions: Is the link light on for each connected port on the hub? If not, then you may have a problem with

Re: mail rules (WAS Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks)

2002-04-11 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Daniel Toffetti quotation: > > The spellchecker is pretty, but hardly useful enough as to require it > to post to the list. It can in fact be detrimental for non-Native speakers, because if the spell checker suggests a word that is not at all what you meant, you might go "oh, is that what

Re: X-4.1: Matrox G200, cursor problem

2002-04-11 Thread Simon Hepburn
Igor Mozetic wrote: > The problem I have is that the cursor is blurred - it is > about 10 times the size of the normal one. When moved, > horizontal lines, 1 pixel wide, start appearing on the screen. > > XFree86.0.log doesn't show any errors, except: > > (EE) MGA: Failed to load module "mga_hal"

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Jeff quotation: > > Some are more strict than others, but it's for IT support > reasons. IT doesn't want to have to support multiple > applications that do the same thing (i.e. email clients), this > gets expensive. Not as expensive as supporting Outlook Express; every time the virus-of-t

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 00:35:38 -0700, ben wrote: >... the purpose of this is to generate an advisory >notice for new subscribers. what else shoud be on that list? How about reply protocol? Reply to list, not poster, unless explicitly requested. -- gt It is interesting to note that as one evil emp

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 07:54:52 +0100, Simon Hepburn wrote: >ben wrote: > >> thanks for the input. so, on attachments, none? some? > >If I'm helping people out with, say X problems for example, I'd far prefer to >see their config and log files as attachments rather than pasted, simply >beccause of

Re: Home Networking

2002-04-11 Thread Jon Eisenstein
> On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 12:32, Jon Eisenstein wrote: > > I'm trying to set up my Debian machine as a gateway to the outside network, > > with (for now) one windows machine going through it via a hub (Linksys > > router). I've followed instructions for both Debian and Redhat to set it up, > > but af

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:41:45 +0200, Mikael Bergman wrote: >On 11-04-02 00:45 , Gary Turner wrote: > >> I have no problem with attachments. In many cases, where a file is >> long, attachments are preferred. I often have neither the >> qualifications nor interest needed to enjoy wading through pag

Re: Copying and pasting don't work in Gnome terminal

2002-04-11 Thread jennyw
Turns out the problem in Gnome Terminal is only with clipboard copies. Primary works ... selecting text then using the middle mouse button to paste it into another app works just fine. Thanks! Jen On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:41:38PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:17:

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Apr 11, 2002, Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Ben has a good idea about a consensual agreement as part of > subscribing. Rather than dive straight into what goes into this > agreement, perhaps its worth asking a three questions: > > 1. What problem do we have that needs to be

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> management of the list. If you want to express an opinion on the > merits of the position, go for it. If you want to cast aspersions of > fascism, save us both the trouble and pipe it to /dev/null. Well, it's not an exact reference to nazism, but it was very close. Hence, I invoke the applica

Re: mail rules (WAS Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks)

2002-04-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Thursday 11 April 2002 10:51, Kent West wrote: > >>>1. no spam > >>> > >>> 2. text-only (no html, ms-tnef, etc.) > >>> > >>> 3. wrap text > > 4. English preferred. I do agree, but anyway most of the messages are posted in english. The few that are not in english are from first-timers. I ofte

Re: mail rules (WAS Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks)

2002-04-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
> > 4. Spell check. > > i think stipulating a spell check would impose too much on many > non-native english speakers whose participation on this list is very > valuable, and the purpose of the rules is to enable harmonious > inclusion rather than exclusion. apart from that, misspelled words > are

Re: The latest round of antivirus bouncebacks

2002-04-11 Thread Daniel Toffetti
On Wednesday 10 April 2002 20:30, Simon Hepburn wrote: > Scott Henson wrote: > > Ok thats just not cool. You dont have to do that. This is an open > > list. And I believe it is against the inclusive philosophy of the > > Debian project as a whole to exclude someone for such a stupid > > purpose.

Re: unsubscribe

2002-04-11 Thread Siward de Groot
hi, netburner, that was the 3rd unsubscribe email you sent in 3 days, iirc. ? Are you having trouble unsubscribing ? Then please report it to the list, as you may be not the only one. Correct way to unsubscribe is as listed below : > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Compaq fan-speed.

2002-04-11 Thread Andrew Pearce
Has anyone had any success with getting any of the Compaq (ML370/DL380 models) health and wellness drivers working under Debian/GNU Linux? For some reason Compaq insist on providing binary only packages built for specific (obsolete?) kernels. I've tried many things to try and get this working (incl

Re: Galeon not to be in Woody?

2002-04-11 Thread dman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 10:02:41AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: | Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 04:12:01PM -0500, The Doctor What wrote: | > > I saw Anthony Towns's message about Galeon not being in Woody. | > > | > > Is this true even for galeon 1.0? | > |

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