Re: NNTP to email?

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:58:23PM +1000, Chris Kenrick wrote: > I'm rather fond of mutt as an email client, and would like to use it to > read Usenet articles too. I've been using a Python based NNTP > downloader, but it's a bit slow, and doesn't seem to handle > errors/failures very well. Well

Re: VIM - no syntax highlighting on console

>> it didn't work. >> > try >:set term=$TERM in vim? What does it do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VIM - no syntax highlighting on console

>> it didn't work. > > Check your TERM variable. TERM=linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NNTP to email?

I'm rather fond of mutt as an email client, and would like to use it to read Usenet articles too. I've been using a Python based NNTP downloader, but it's a bit slow, and doesn't seem to handle errors/failures very well. Does anyone have a suggestion as to a good way to achieve this using Debian

Re: [OT] Please STOP it!

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 22:28, Pigeon wrote: > Sorry. This list is overdue for a long off-topic rant, and it is > necessary for at least five people to complain in increasingly strong > terms before it begins to wind down. On-topic-ness is only a > metastable state; it causes a build-up of off-topic

Re: script to run at boot

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:02:19PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Other Linuxes have a p;ace to put a file that is to be run after the > usual bootup, where I can put extra commands that are also to be run > at every boot. > > Is there such a place in Debian? Yes, /etc/rcS.d Read the README t

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (by spammers)

> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Aug 3 22:34:48 2003 > > > Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The sig would look like this: > > > > -- > > Please include this signature in any response to this mail. Thank You. > > > > 030303284857463625397654736322637485969437549596969685747 > > Tha

Re: more install problems

Richard Lyons wrote: On Saturday 02 August 2003 11:19, Andrew McGuinness wrote: [...] I really think the 8139too driver in 2.4.18 ought to be able to work this. The problem must be either a general PCMIA issue, or a problem with the 8139too driver being compiled-in instead of being a module. [...]

Re: Mozilla 1.3 about:plugins->crash

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:28:22PM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > > I just installed mozilla 1.3.1-3, built from Debian source on a mostly > > testing system with gcc3.3. > > > > Whenever I go to help about plug-ins, mozilla crashes. It seems to > > work OK apart from that, though I haven

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (byspammers)

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 18:38:03 -0500 Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would be a bad implementation. First, that's not a valid > signature delimiter. Second, if it were, many MUAs strip off > signatures automatically in quoted replies. Not to mention that if the MUA doesn't do it

New to list

Hi all! I am resending this message because I forgot to change the topic on the last one. Most lists want a hello message, so here it is: I am newbie to Linux, and decide to throw my lot in with Debian. I always learned by asking questions, so I hope you won't mind newbie questions here. Otherw

Re: sudo doesn't work

Yves Goergen wrote: > sorry for the long lines... thought your mail reader can do word wrapping at the end > of a line :/ The problem is how does the client mailer tell whether it should or whether it should not? It can only do that if you tell it. Use 'Content-Type: format=flowed' if you want

What happened to Zinf in testing?

Can someone enlighten me on what happened to zinf in testing? I used to use freeamp. Around 6 months or so ago, freeamp seemed to disappear and was replaced in testing with zinf. Tonight I was looking to reorganize my mp3 and ogg files, and went looking to see what my program choices were, and fou

aptitude upgrade - I don't want a select package(s)

When I do my weekly update, I'm getting a maintained package that is not numbered along side the package release(s), and it causing this particular program to be downgraded every week. How do I keep from having this particular package downloaded? Unfortunately, I use this particular package every

Re: [OT] Please STOP it! -- Was: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:41:19PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Can we PLEASE cut this thread? > It is way off topic and it starts to get really annoying. > > This list is already high-volume, and I don't mind a good discussion, but > this is a bit too much don't you think? Sorry. Thi

[OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

Will the free store be properly maintained when the following is executed? // a simple object is defined typedef struct { uint32_t a; uint64_t b; uint8_t c; } t_my_type; // allocate some memory for an instance of this object t_my_type * p_a = (t_my_type) new t_my_type; // chan

Re: Mozilla 1.3 about:plugins->crash

> I just installed mozilla 1.3.1-3, built from Debian source on a mostly > testing system with gcc3.3. > > Whenever I go to help about plug-ins, mozilla crashes. It seems to > work OK apart from that, though I haven't visited pages with plugins. > > I have installed http://jopa.studentenweb.o

Re: Can't read large files from CD

On 01 Aug 2003 11:04:04 -0700 Jeremy Brooks wrote: > Hi, > I'm using debian testing, on an IBM thinkpad A31. I am attempting to > copy large (>600MB) files from CD to my HD. I am getting i/o errors: > > cp: reading `/cdrom/The Fifth Element.avi': Input/output error I used to get this when I was

Sony Digital Camcorder connected via USB possible?

Hey, I'm trying to connect my new Sony DCR-TRV 250 Digital 8 Camcorder to my Debian Sid workstation via USB. I can't find anything on Google or the Debian mailing lists about connecting camcorders via USB. Has anyone done this before? Thanks, Ryan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: All-in-One flash card reader.

> > Try /dev/sda2-5 > > That did not work, besides a flash card can have multiple > partitions on it, I have a flash card with a win and linux > partition. Does anyone know how scsi cd changers work, I > have a ide cd changer and I use eject -c[0-3] to change it, > but I believe that's only for

Re: Does anybody know what happenedt o galeon ?

Hi Elie, i dont know what happened, but did you try reading the changelog (assuming you got your packages from debian) or you might try the mailinglist archives (i think there is one for gnome) or even galeon homepage at galeon.sourceforge.net hope this helps, Siward -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Problem with PCI-IRQ routing

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 11:55:31PM +0200, Armin Spitznas wrote: > Hello debian users! > > Last week I got a new Computer and I fear it is too new or too rare. > > The biggest problem at the moment is the IRQ routing of the PCI bus. > There goes something wrong, so that the Soundcard (0:02.7) and

Re: All-in-One flash card reader.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24 Jul 2003, Dale Hair wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:38, Loren M Lang wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I have a flash card reader which is designed to read > > from 5 different types of flash cards that I'm

Re: Evolution shell error

Hi Keith, purge ximian evolution package, and then install it again. if it doesnt fail, then OK. if it still fails, then that failure is not caused by you interrupting its setup. that's the first thing you (or anyone trying to help you) need to know. for the rest, read debian's website

Re : Woody install problem

Hi Stefan, you downloaded a CD "off the web" tried to install from it, installer kernel couldnt communicate with the CD drive and bailed out. 1) get Install manual from debian website 2) make sure you download CD that boots flavor that is right for you 3) why not plug your CDROM in as

Re: apt-get nightmare

on Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 06:30:14PM -0400, David Z Maze ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > user list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm trying to upgrade a laptop and I get the following error. > > > > Removing gnome-control-center > > dpkg: error processing gnome-control-center (--remove): > > subpr

Re: more install problems

On Saturday 02 August 2003 11:19, Andrew McGuinness wrote: [...] > I really think the 8139too driver in 2.4.18 ought to be able to > work this. > > The problem must be either a general PCMIA issue, or a problem with > the 8139too driver being compiled-in instead of being a module. [...] I have give

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (byspammers)

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 18:38, Alan Shutko wrote: > Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The sig would look like this: > > > > -- > > Please include this signature in any response to this mail. Thank You. > > > > 030303284857463625397654736322637485969437549596969685747 > > That would

Re: libglide3 / libGL errors

Hi Peter Jay, you wrote : I've been playing with GLUT and OpenGL. I get the following run-time error message: libGL error: can't find Glide library, dlopen(libglide3-v5.so) and dlopen(libglide3.so) both failed. libGL error: dlerror() message: /usr/lib/libglide3.so: undefined symbol: _tris

Re: RealTex 8139 Problem -- Dmesg output

I found that my on-board 8139-C failed to receive packets if ACPI was compiled into the kernel; it might be worthwhile trying it without ACPI support if it's enabled, or tinkering with your in-kernel power management options. ~Tom White - http://www.odd

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

>Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap >and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. >Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place swap >and a separate /home partition on this new drive while keeping / on >the original hda. # Get a root shell

Re: Help! Can mount iso image

Hi YouBing, you wrote : I tried to install from harddisk with sarge iso images, but after I start the boot.bat I found I can't using "mount -o loop sarge-i386-1.iso /cdrom" in busybox, I've using "mknod /dev/loop0 b 7 0" I'm wondering where the boot kernel has any loop device support?? I

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686

On 03-08-03 21:09 +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Richard Lyons (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > It seems, after _huge_ help from Andrew McGuinness and others, that I > > am going to have to change from the bf2.4 flavour to > > kernel-image-2.4.18-686. Now, I am scared of messing with kernels > >

Re: nfs versus reiser?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:53:21PM -0400: > Serves me right for asking a negative question. I presume this meand Yes, a > reiserfs can be nfs-remote-mounted. :) I use reiserfs via NFS faily often. > When I try to mount topoi:/reiseroffsite onto /reiseroffsite on loveson

Re:crontab bug?

Hi Daniel, you wrote : When I edit my crontab (crontab -e) and then save it, it says normally that Processing '/etc/joe/editorrc'...done File /tmp/crontab.QMxjUM saved. But when the time has come, nothing happened. It did not start the command. I have to type '/etc/init.d/cron res

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (byspammers)

Alan Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The sig would look like this: > > -- > Please include this signature in any response to this mail. Thank You. > > 030303284857463625397654736322637485969437549596969685747 That would be a bad implementation. First, that's not a valid signature delimi

Need help re LVM setup...

I am looking at installing the lvm layer on my file server, which is presently running woody. I have two 80GB hd's, one of which presently stores my /home partition (exported via both nfs and samba to the other systems on my home lan), and another which I just installed. (Actually, there's a third

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (by spammers)

-- For Linux/Bash users: Eliminate spam with the Mailbox-Sentry-Program. See: http://tinyurl.com/inpd for the scripts and docs. In my last post on this subject, I made a mistake. When I send a mail to a business (etc.) the address to which it was sent is entered into my

Re: Partition sharing

on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:25:56AM -0400, alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have four Linux systems (two Debians) installed with all sharing a > single swap and a /home partition. (Don't ask why..it's just > because they were available. but everything seems to work fine.) Sharable part

Re:help for backporting

Hi Geoff, you wrote : I'm trying to backport the libssl and ipsec-tools packages from sid to woody, so I can try out the IPsec features of the 2.4.21 kernel. and your problem is that version of libssl that you need has shlibdeps on libc6(>= 2.3.1-10). As far as i know, this dependency i

Re: FHS question

on Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:18:45AM -0400, Tom Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > >On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 02:35:44AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > > > >>FHS says that this directory is for "binaries not needed in single > >>user mode". But then I went over and looked at the /

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (by spammers)

There is SO much misunderstanding (and disinformation) about CR systems here. Let's say I was going to mail a business. Here's what would happen: The address that I mailed to would go into the temporary part my passlist automatically, and any mail from that address for the next 7 days would b

Spamassassin and procmail

Hi all, I currently use fetchmail and procmail to get and sort my mail. I'd like to use spamassassin as well, however when I add :0fw: spamassassin.lock | /usr/bin/spamassassin to my .procmailrc, it works ok, but then the mail gets delivered to /var/mail/, rather than following the rest of my pro

Re: Debian Can't See All of Large Disks?

on Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:44:12PM -0700, Mike Hunt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi all, > > I had recently tried to install Debian on a computer containing a 200 > GB harddrive. However, during cfdisking of the Debian install process > cfdisk fails to see past approximately 130 GB of hard disk s

what is libmcrypt.la ?

Trying to install partimage 0.7.1 from tarball I get a configure error. He is looking for libmcrypt.a but what is there is libmcrypt.la which comes from package libmcrypt4 (testing). First time I hear of the .la extension. What is it? Thanks. Hugo __ Do you Yahoo!?

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.)

on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:37:49PM +0200, David Fokkema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:13:26AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > As some here are aware, I maintain a rant-o-matic with some standard > > screeds on frequently iterated issues. The C-R issue is one that's been

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 22:31, alex wrote: > How would you create new swap and /home partitions om hdb so Debian > would use these instead of the original /home and swap? First create the new partitions using cfdisk or fdisk (cfdisk is easier to use) and then remove the old swop partition, edit /

Re: RealTex 8139 Problem -- Dmesg output

Andreas writes: > Robert wrote: > > > I am unable to use my D-Link RTL-8139 with any of kernel 2.4.19, > > 2.4.21, or 2.6.0-test2 despite the Network Device explicitly being set > > to RTL-8139 with > > make menuconfig. Dmesg reports that my NIC is found and the 8139too > > driver > > loaded. B

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686

On Sunday 03 August 2003 20:09, Andreas Janssen wrote: [...] > apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-686 [...] > If you use lilo, it will already have a section "LinuxOLD" > additionally to "Linux", so simply rerunning lilo after installing [...] Well, that was easy. Don't know what to say: I e

[Unstable] Fetchmail upgrade to 6.2.3 breaks :(

Have been using fetchmail here successfully for some years :) The newest fetchmail in unstable breaks - I keep getting messages about null message headers at my ISP account or some such. Any clues welcome. A cc reply to me would be appreciated - although I read this list, I get it in digest form

Re: Moving /home to its own partition.

Hello alex (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap > and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. > > Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place swap > and a separate /home partition on this new drive while keeping

Re: RealTex 8139 Problem -- Dmesg output

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 15:54, Andreas Janssen wrote: > Hello > > Robert Tilley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I am including the entire output from dmesg in the hopes of > > successfully being able to use my NIC. The relevant portions are > > highlighted. > > > I am unable to use my D-Link

Re: screens

Cees wrote: >after I installed [Woody] I get the error message "No screens found" Don't worry about it. In my experience the X Window System installed by Woody does that about half the time. That's one reason they're writing a new installer. >Can anyone tell me wath I dit wrong? You did nothin

Re: Kollab packages?

> Work-Needing and Prospective Packages list http://bugs.debian.org/204028 Quickly, le Moine Fou -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 13:37, David Fokkema wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:13:26AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > As some here are aware, I maintain a rant-o-matic with some standard > > screeds on frequently iterated issues. The C-R issue is one that's been > > nagging at me for a while, h

Re: VIM - no syntax highlighting on console

Jaque Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Johann Koenig schrieb im Artikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Jaque Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> there is no syntax highlighting on console, only under xterm. > >> syntax on is enabled in global vimrc. > > it didn't work. > try :set term=$TE

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:59:47PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > > ... either get used to manually deleting spam. > (unless you LIKE knocking yourself out constantly updating filters > that you know are not going to work for long, or paying someone else > to engage in this farcical pastime.) You ma

Problem with PCI-IRQ routing

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello debian users! Last week I got a new Computer and I fear it is too new or too rare. The biggest problem at the moment is the IRQ routing of the PCI bus. There goes something wrong, so that the Soundcard (0:02.7) and the PCMCIA Cardbus bridge (0:0

Re: VIM - no syntax highlighting on console

Jaque Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Johann Koenig schrieb im Artikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > --=.5UPOgFdrEYOzCL > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > > On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 22:20:06 +0200 > > Jaque Moreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:14:43AM -0500, Kirk Strauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 2003-08-03T04:13:26Z, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Effective spam management tools should place the burden either > > on the spammer, or at the very least, on the pe

Re:

What driver and man hwclock please. cheers howell wessam wrote: hi i want this driver pls -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: nfs versus reiser?

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:08:10PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:54:33PM -0400: > > > > Can a reiserfs not be nfs-remote-mounted? > > Yes. Serves me right for asking a negative question. I presume this meand Yes, a reiserfs can be nfs-remote-mo

Re: [OT] Please STOP it! -- Was: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Can we PLEASE cut this thread? > It is way off topic and it starts to get really annoying. > > This list is already high-volume, and I don't mind a good discussion, but > this is a bit too much don't you think? I tend to be laid back in aski

Moving /home to its own partition.

Suppose Debian was installed on hda with only two partitions, swap and / and you have accumulated much data in /home. Later, you add another hard drive, hdb, and decided to place swap and a separate /home partition on this new drive while keeping / on the original hda. How would you create new

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

Here's the bottom line: IF YOU ARE GOING TO ACCEPT ANONYMOUS MAIL, YOU ARE GOING TO GET SPAM. So accept this fact and either get used to manually deleting spam. (unless you LIKE knocking yourself out constantly updating filters that you know are not going to work for long, or paying someone e

Re: RealTex 8139 Problem -- Dmesg output

Hello Robert Tilley (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I am including the entire output from dmesg in the hopes of > successfully being able to use my NIC. The relevant portions are > highlighted. > I am unable to use my D-Link RTL-8139 with any of kernel 2.4.19, > 2.4.21, or 2.6.0-test2 despite t

Re: nfs versus reiser?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:54:33PM -0400: > > Can a reiserfs not be nfs-remote-mounted? Yes. > Or am I doing something else wrong? Probably. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] hendrik]# mount /reiseroffsite/ > mount: topoi:/reiseroffsite failed, reason given by server: Permission deni

Re: Kollab packages?

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 20:50:15 +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Hello all, > > Is anyone aware of someone working on KDE Kollab packages for Debian? I > would really love to see these packaged! Unfortunately I am not a > programmer or developer as such, so I cannot do it... Anyone working o

Re: kde v3x: konqueror crashing ???

Also sprach Michael D. Schleif (Sat 02 Aug 02003 at 02:33:39PM -0500): > I am running testing. > > I have followed the instructions here: > > > > I had quite the trip! I had a previously torqued kde install, and > removed everything until `dpkg

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

Also sprach Alan Connor (Sun 03 Aug 02003 at 12:32:53PM -0700): > > The above gibberish contributed by Karsten is typical of the reaction that > spammers give when asked what they think of CR programs. > > And it would make any slimy politician or sleazeball lawyer proud. > > Here's the basic

RealTex 8139 Problem -- Dmesg output

I am including the entire output from dmesg in the hopes of successfully being able to use my NIC. The relevant portions are highlighted. I am unable to use my D-Link RTL-8139 with any of kernel 2.4.19, 2.4.21, or 2.6.0-test2 despite the Network Device explicitly being set to RTL-8139 with mak

RE: clamav install on Sid fails on retrieving database

Title: Message Hello All,   I posted below some days ago but got no reply... So I try again... maybe now somebody reads it by accident and knows a solution ;). Or maybe someone can try to reproduce it on a Sid box?   Thanx in advance!   Regards, Pim -

Re: kernel-source-2.6.0-test1?

Le Dimanche 3 Août 2003 21:26, Travis Crump a écrit : > Where can I find the source used to build kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386? > kernel-source-2.6.0-test1 doesn't exist as far as I can determine[and > apt-get source kernel-source-2.6.0-test1-i386 and/or apt-get build-dep > kernel-source-2.6.0-t

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686

On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 20:40:08 +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > It seems, after _huge_ help from Andrew McGuinness and others, that I > am going to have to change from the bf2.4 flavour to > kernel-image-2.4.18-686. Now, I am scared of messing with kernels > anyway, and new to apt as well. I don'

Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 09:18:22PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 06:14:12PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > > In order to make it work, I didn't have to touch anything in squid's > > own config, just put appropriate gateway entries in the machines' > > /etc/network/interfaces and prox

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Aug 3 12:04:08 2003 > > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:13:26AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > As some here are aware, I maintain a rant-o-matic with some standard > > screeds on frequently iterated issues. The C-R issue is one that's been > > nagging at me for a wh

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

David Fokkema writes: > I don't see the third party. He assuming the use of commercial C-R services. The spams being sent in my name frequently generate challenges from these. Some of them expect me to "click on the link", go to the service's Web site, and fill in a form. -- John Hasler [EMAIL

Mozilla 1.3 about:plugins->crash

I just installed mozilla 1.3.1-3, built from Debian source on a mostly testing system with gcc3.3. Whenever I go to help about plug-ins, mozilla crashes. It seems to work OK apart from that, though I haven't visited pages with plugins. I have installed http://jopa.studentenweb.org ./ j2re1.4 1.

Re: aptitude and /etc/lilo.conf

Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 06:42:47PM -0700, J F wrote: Based on the output from aptitude and my current lilo.conf, do you think I need to do anything to lilo.conf? aptitude is just a frontend. dpkg is doing the actual work of unpacking and installing the package. Is aptitude going

Re: kernel-image-2.4.18-686

Hello Richard Lyons (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > It seems, after _huge_ help from Andrew McGuinness and others, that I > am going to have to change from the bf2.4 flavour to > kernel-image-2.4.18-686. Now, I am scared of messing with kernels > anyway, and new to apt as well. I don't see in t

kernel-source-2.6.0-test1?

Where can I find the source used to build kernel-image-2.6.0-test1-i386? kernel-source-2.6.0-test1 doesn't exist as far as I can determine[and apt-get source kernel-source-2.6.0-test1-i386 and/or apt-get build-dep kernel-source-2.6.0-test1 suggest that is where the source should be and is in l

Re: Meta: Scoring debian-user with mutt?

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:32:43AM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 05:29:48PM -0500, Jesse Meyer wrote: > } I'm a tad curious how people use mutt (or any other MUA) with scoring to > } handle the vast amount of email that passes through this list. What? mutt has scoring? Ho

Re: [OT] Please STOP it! -- Was: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:41:19PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Can we PLEASE cut this thread? > It is way off topic and it starts to get really annoying. > > This list is already high-volume, and I don't mind a good discussion, but > this is a bit too much don't you think? Oh my god,

nfs versus reiser?

Can a reiserfs not be nfs-remote-mounted? Or am I doing something else wrong? I have a reiser filesystem mounted on a machine called topoi. >From a machine called lovesong I wish to nfs-mount this remote file system. But all I get is [EMAIL PROTECTED] hendrik]# mount /reiseroffsite/ mount: topo

Kollab packages?

Hello all, Is anyone aware of someone working on KDE Kollab packages for Debian? I would really love to see these packaged! Unfortunately I am not a programmer or developer as such, so I cannot do it... Anyone working on it? Best regards, Pim Bliek - P

Re: [OT] Utility to lookup hosts on an IP address

* Hall Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030803 13:52]: > Is there a tool along the lines of nslookup, dig, host, and so on that > can list what websites, i.e. domain names, are hosted on a particular IP > address ?? I wasn't aware of such a tool and told the person who asked me the same. I told them

[OT] Please STOP it! -- Was: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

Can we PLEASE cut this thread? It is way off topic and it starts to get really annoying. This list is already high-volume, and I don't mind a good discussion, but this is a bit too much don't you think? Thanx! Regards, Pim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 11:49:03PM -0700, Alan Connor wrote: > Yes, thanks to a lot of great feedback off the list, I have modified > the program significantly. > > Thanks for the feedback, If you are _really_ sincere about the feedback part, why not read tmda.sourceforge.net? See what parts and

kernel-image-2.4.18-686

It seems, after _huge_ help from Andrew McGuinness and others, that I am going to have to change from the bf2.4 flavour to kernel-image-2.4.18-686. Now, I am scared of messing with kernels anyway, and new to apt as well. I don't see in the apt HOWTO exactly how to "upgrade" a kernel. (I've

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.)

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:13:26AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > As some here are aware, I maintain a rant-o-matic with some standard > screeds on frequently iterated issues. The C-R issue is one that's been > nagging at me for a while, here's the draft of why C-R is considered > harmful. Criti

Re: [OT] Utility to lookup hosts on an IP address

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 11:38, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:47:37PM +, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > Is there a tool along the lines of nslookup, dig, host, and so on that > > can list what websites, i.e. domain names, are hosted on a particular IP > > address ?? > > No. The hos

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:47:54PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 21:06:22 +0200 > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know that, :-) However, Steve was telling how much time he invested in > > manually downloading and checking keys because of problems. I was > > respondin

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:35:25AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 08:33:01 +0200 > David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then you send a _lot_ of e-mails. I can see C-R to be annoying for you. > > Several hundred a month. > > > > As I pointed out there are static, we

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 01:45:54AM -0500, Michael D. Schleif wrote: > Also sprach David Fokkema (Sun 03 Aug 02003 at 08:26:11AM +0200): > > A receives challenge from B's C-R system which originates (of course) > > from B's e-mail address. > > Isn't that a shaky assumption? I use eight (8) differe

Re: Locale setting problem

On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 12:55:37PM -0400, Sridhar Srinivasan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:44:07AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 10:52:26AM -0400, Sridhar Srinivasan wrote: > > > can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong? > > > > Sure. You're not reading bug #166979.

Re: web interface to submit bugs

Hi all! I am newbie to Linux, and decide to throw my lot in with Debian. I always learned by asking questions, so I hope you won't mind newbie questions here. Otherwise let me know if there is any other list I should go to. Cheers! Anil Gupte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: web interface to submit bugs

Travis Crump wrote: > Because there is a bug in exim... ;)[hypothetically] If you have a bug in your MTA, there are a number of free web-based email systems out there you can file your bug report from, and receive emails from the package maintainer at. They all suck of course, but this is really y

Re: web interface to submit bugs

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yeah. reportbug isn't bad, but it requires a mail server (or a mail account). > Web interface should be an option, at least IMHO. The problem with a web interface is that it does not let the debian developer respond to the bug subbmiter. If you file a bug and cannot be c

Re: nVidia questions

Also you are not running with the latest driver: 4363 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

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