Re: how to detect if a jpeg file is progressive or not

2006-06-01 Thread H.S.
Wayne Topa wrote: > All of the inages on our web site are converted with the 'quality 25' > option. I find a lot of sites with images that are 100K or more just > take too long to load. There are still a lot of us that live in the > sticks and don't have access to anything but slow POT lines.

Problems with SkyStar 2 DVB-S card

2006-06-01 Thread Vladi Lemurov
Hello! We have a Debian unstable gateway installed connected to internet via ADSL and pci dvb card + satellite antenna. We push our requests to our satellite provider through ADSL and get answers via satellite antenna and dvb card. It worked fine, but suddenly, on Sunday something happened and w

Re: how to detect if a jpeg file is progressive or not

2006-06-01 Thread H.S.
Wayne Topa wrote: >>This is a case of compression with a loss in quality. Note that you can >>still have the new smaller image either as progressive or non-progressive. >> > > > I don't see that loss in quality tho. At 1280x1024 they look the > same, to these old eyes anyway, and the savings in

Re: LAN

2006-06-01 Thread Peter Vandenabeele
On 6/1/06, Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My system consists of two machines, one running debian 32 testing and equipped with KDE, the other one amd64 debian testing with no GUI (undesired) and only X-system and window manager twm. Both operated by single user. Both are connected A

Re: Free SWF to AVI converter for Sarge

2006-06-01 Thread Siju George
On 6/1/06, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:47:19PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > I installed the w32codecs package and tried again. Did not succeed :-( I just checked, and the version of mencoder on my box will decode SWFs ... but only uncompressed ones, which you

Re: /etc/hosts.deny how to use it?

2006-06-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Chuck Payne wrote: > Hi, > > I am being hit by some ips that I like to block. I like to know how can > I use hosts.deny for the ALL statement > The hosts.deny file is only used by applications that have been compiled to work with tcpwrappers. If you want a surefire way of blocking IPs, then loo

/etc/hosts.deny how to use it?

2006-06-01 Thread Chuck Payne
Hi, I am being hit by some ips that I like to block. I like to know how can I use hosts.deny for the ALL statement Thanks, Payne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-06-01 Thread Dmitri Minaev
On 6/2/06, nick lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tried booting after recovering but no luck. Maybe I need to reinstall grub? In my case, TestDisk renumbered the partitions, so I had to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab accordingly. Compare the actual partition numbers with those shown

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 01 June 2006 11:09, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > That's typical in elections except ties, and not surprising nobody > > bothered or wanted to check for absentee ballots. This is one of the two > > problems Oregon eliminated by going to vote by mail. > > So, all v

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 01 June 2006 13:08, Curt Howland wrote: > On Thursday 01 June 2006 15:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to > > say: > > To my mind, that is when america stopped being a democracy. > > The US was never a democracy. It was founded as a representitive > republic of limited powers. > > It has

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 01 June 2006 11:59, Curt Howland wrote: > It actually solves a great many problems. There is a paper trail, > which eliminates the greatest threat of electronic voting, > undetectable fraud. It also is convenient for anyone and everyone > equally, people can also vote early if they wan

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jun 01 06:40 -0500]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jun 01 03:15 -0500]: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I would like to know which is the best & lightest editor for source code

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:55:32PM -0400 or thereabouts, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Stephen wrote: > > > > BTW even the U.S. has a commonwealth state -- Massachusetts, which still > > refers to the Governor as "his excellency" a holdover from the British > > tradition when it was the major of th

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-01 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 6/1/06, Rodney D. Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: gqview. It will show thumbnails of correct pictures Sir, Excellent! Danke. Perhaps Mr. Gary Parker will let us know how he's doing with this problem... -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a loone

Re: Quad Monitor nVidia on Etch -- UNSTABLE

2006-06-01 Thread James Wiggs
Hello Andy, Many thanks for the feedback. I've already sent this to nVidia and to the good folks at nvnews.net, along with the output from nvidia-bug-report.sh. A friendly fellow with the handle of Netllama has already gotten back to us with a few suggestions, which we will be trying this e

Re: how to detect if a jpeg file is progressive or not

2006-06-01 Thread Wayne Topa
H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > But converting a jpeg to progressive somehow has the effect that the > progressive jpeg file is slightly smaller than the non-progressive one, > but the client then uses up more RAM to reconstruct the image -- not >

Re: my fonts changed

2006-06-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 12:17 pm, Pooly wrote: > a few days ago I run apt-get to update my system (etch), and since > then all the font (terminal, mozilla, KDE...) are differents from last > week. The previous were more comfortable for the eyes (at least mine). > Any ideas how I could get them back

floppy disks for netinstall

2006-06-01 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello List Do you know where are floppy disks images for netinstall ? Thank you, Gustavo Halperin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to detect if a jpeg file is progressive or not

2006-06-01 Thread H.S.
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Having never heard of "a progressive jpeg" I was interested in your > query, and the answer you received. > > I tried out the conversion to "progressive" on some of my large jpegs > to see if it would help (as I have the same problem you have, dialup). > > I used the sug

Re: Help really needed: Formatted / partition by accident.

2006-06-01 Thread nick lidakis
Dmitri Minaev wrote: I am afraid that nothing can be done to recover this installation. You still can try to recover some of your data. If your partition table is damaged, you may find TestDisk useful. See: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk TestDisk has helped me to recover my data when I

What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
In my continuing effort to remove as much of KDE and GNOME as possible from my system, I have come across scite to replace kate, and galculator to replace kcalc. Since I only use konqueror to read html documentation, dillo can replace that. That would appear to be all that I really need to re

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:09:43 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > That's typical in elections except ties, and not surprising nobody > > bothered or wanted to check for absentee ballots. This is one of

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-01 Thread Derek
Oh man that sucks,I hope that never happens to me.On 5/31/06, Gary Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have Debian/Stable installed on one partition formatted as ext3. Recently,when booting into my Debian/Stable partition a check was forced and fsck failed.   I was then prompted to enter the root p

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 June 2006 15:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: > To my mind, that is when america stopped being a democracy. The US was never a democracy. It was founded as a representitive republic of limited powers. It hasn't been a republic

Re: quake3+xmms

2006-06-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 09:41:08PM +0200, Bart Schelstraete wrote: > >The only way I have managed to get sound from Quake3 on Debian was > >by using the command > >artsdsp -m /usr/local/games/quake3/quake3.x86 > > > > Try using ossdsp iso artsdsp Thanks, but could you elaborate a little o

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 15:40:53 -0400 "Eric d'Alibut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/31/06, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A valuable tool in this case is "file". It can identify loads of > > different file formats, and can be very effective in conjunction with > > some shell scri

Re: quake3+xmms

2006-06-01 Thread Christoph Nenning
Am Donnerstag, 1. Juni 2006 20:00 schrieb Enrique Morfin: > Hi! > > I just want to hear xmms music while playing. > > while xmms playing: > > if quake3-smp > > i got: > --- sound initialization --- > /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy > Could not open /dev/dsp > -

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glenn Becker wrote: > >> vi (vim) is lighter then emacs and many think it is also better > > i am more and more of a vi-head and altho i like vim quite a bit i am > coming to prefer elvis - it sticks closer to original vi. :set cp - -- Ron Johnson

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 09:39:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Come off it, Paul. Even under the conditi

Re: LAN

2006-06-01 Thread Bart Schelstraete
On 6/1/06, Francesco Pietra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My system consists of two machines, one running debian 32 testing and equipped with KDE, the other one amd64 debian testing with no GUI (undesired) and only X-system and window manager twm. Both operated by single user. Both are connected A

Re: quake3+xmms

2006-06-01 Thread Bart Schelstraete
The only way I have managed to get sound from Quake3 on Debian was by using the command artsdsp -m /usr/local/games/quake3/quake3.x86 Try using ossdsp iso artsdsp Bart -- Schelstraete Bart http://www.schelstraete.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fsck on ext3, lost files

2006-06-01 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On 5/31/06, Linas Žvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A valuable tool in this case is "file". It can identify loads of different file formats, and can be very effective in conjunction with some shell scripting. There is also tool called "testdisk". I have never used it, but it does seem to have

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 June 2006 14:39, "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > That's typical in elections except ties, and not surprising > > nobody bothered or wanted to check for absentee ballots.  This is > > one of the two problem

Re: LAN

2006-06-01 Thread Bill Smith
Francesco Pietra wrote: My system consists of two machines, one running debian 32 testing and equipped with KDE, the other one amd64 debian testing with no GUI (undesired) and only X-system and window manager twm. Both operated by single user. Both are connected ADSL through to a common 4-por

Re: how to make Packages file and set sources.list for misc. downloaded .debfiles

2006-06-01 Thread GRACE GIL
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Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 June 2006 13:03, "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > So, how would we implement liquid hydrogen or liquid helium cooling > of the budget? Throw in the politicians! Problem solved. - -- September 11th, 2001 Th

Re: Orinoco 802.11b Weirdness!

2006-06-01 Thread Gnu-Raiz
After a little more research, and trying a debian etch netinstall iso, which gave me the same results. I have concluded that my Orinoco 802.11b silver card has given up the ghost. I had that card for over 5 years, got it in 2000, or 2001 when Wireless networking first started to get going. That

Re: quake3+xmms

2006-06-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:00:48AM -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > Hi! > > I just want to hear xmms music while playing. > > while xmms playing: > > if quake3-smp > > i got: > --- sound initialization --- > /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy > Could not open /dev/dsp > --

Re: Squirrelmail

2006-06-01 Thread Bill Smith
Michele Della Marina wrote: Hello!! I've some problems after installing squirrelmail, the error is: ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: SELECT "INBOX" Reason Given: Unable to open this mailbox. and ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: SUBSCRIBE "INBOX.Sent" I know that prob

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 09:39:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>Come off it, Paul. Even under the conditions that Gore's team asked > >>> for > >>> on the recounts Bush won. In fac

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Glenn Becker
vi (vim) is lighter then emacs and many think it is also better i am more and more of a vi-head and altho i like vim quite a bit i am coming to prefer elvis - it sticks closer to original vi. glenn +-+ Dr. Glenn Becker - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread loos
Em Qui, 2006-06-01 às 10:58 +0200, Ivan Glushkov escreveu: > > >> I would like to know which is the best & lightest editor for vi (vim) is lighter then emacs and many think it is also better Michel.

Re: Quad Monitor nVidia on Etch -- UNSTABLE

2006-06-01 Thread Andy Ritger
Hi James, Your question is probably better asked either on the nvnews.net forums, or sent to the linux-bugs NVIDIA email address. One very useful piece of information would be an nvidia-bug-report.log, generated by running `nvidia-bug-report.sh`; this will also capture any error messages printed

quake3+xmms

2006-06-01 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! I just want to hear xmms music while playing. while xmms playing: if quake3-smp i got: --- sound initialization --- /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Could not open /dev/dsp if aoss quake3-smp i got: --- sound initialization --- --

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Paul Johnson wrote: > > That's typical in elections except ties, and not surprising nobody bothered > or > wanted to check for absentee ballots. This is one of the two problems Oregon > eliminated by going to vote by mail. > So, all voting is done by mail? That's different. -Roberto -- R

Quad Monitor nVidia on Etch -- UNSTABLE

2006-06-01 Thread James Wiggs
Folks, I am trying to get a quad-monitor system running using the PNY Quadro NVS 440 PCI Express x16 video card. Here are the system specs: Motherboard: ASUS A8N-SLI P/S: Aspire ATX-AS520W Blue 520 Watt CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ RAM: 4 x 1GB DDR 400 Unbuffered Car

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 01 June 2006 07:26, Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > * Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-27 01:07]: > > > So it comes down to: > > > * Is it a bad idea to use unstable on a production server > > > when it comes to security? > > > > Possibly to probably yes (the answer for stabl

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 01 June 2006 07:39, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: > > On Thursday 01 June 2006 09:52, Rich Johnson > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >>>The budget? ...waitthat's underflow. > > > > Naa, it's damage due to deliberate overclocking by politicians. > > S

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 01 June 2006 03:50, Rich Johnson wrote: > On May 31, 2006, at 9:39 PM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Pascal Hakim wrote: > >> Australian governor-generals are chosen by the prime minister... > >> (including John Kerr), and can be dismissed by the prime minister. > >> Yes, > >> we techni

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 01 June 2006 06:29, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Come off it, Paul. Even under the conditions that Gore's team asked > >> for on the recounts Bush won. In fact only under one recout, one Gore's > >> team *DIDN'T* ask for did Gore squeak by on a narrower

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Stephen wrote: > > BTW even the U.S. has a commonwealth state -- Massachusetts, which still > refers to the Governor as "his excellency" a holdover from the British > tradition when it was the major of the 13 colonies, and the Governor, > was the Governor General, representative of the Queen of En

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Stephen
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 09:59:35AM -0500 or thereabouts, Ron Johnson wrote: > Given your .au address, I presumed you are Australian. The > Australian Head of State is ... Elizabeth II. As she is for the rest of the Commonwealth, but in name only. She is obligated to follow the instructions of

[SOLVED]-ish: Re: Apt-get upate problem

2006-06-01 Thread John O'Hagan
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 00:36, John O'Hagan wrote: > Hi list, > > Last few days, when I try to do apt-get update on my Etch laptop, it fails > with a number of different errors. The recent apt upgrade (which is really good: updates are now very fast) seems to have fixed my problem with the Debi

LAN

2006-06-01 Thread Francesco Pietra
My system consists of two machines, one running debian 32 testing and equipped with KDE, the other one amd64 debian testing with no GUI (undesired) and only X-system and window manager twm. Both operated by single user. Both are connected ADSL through to a common 4-port router Zyxel Prestige 66

Re: OT: DVD Writers

2006-06-01 Thread Ken Wahl
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:35:38PM +0200, Chris wrote: > > I know this is off-topic, but I am using a Debian box ;-) but can anyone > recommend a decent DVD writer? I've been using a Plextor PX-716A for well over a year now with no errors at all. Works well for me under Debian and OpenBSD. See

Cautionary tale: what to blame?

2006-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
I was all ready to write to the list asking if there were any problems in Etch's CUPS or HPIOD support, because suddenly I couldn't print to my Laserjet. I could see the jobs stacking up in the queue, but they didn't print. Then I noticed that my USB hub didn't have a green light for the printer.

Re: console screen size

2006-06-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu June 1 2006 05:41 am, Juha Tuuna wrote: > On Thursday, 1. June 2006 00:33, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On this particular machine I am working on I get a text screen size of > > > 80x25. I'd like to change it to 80x30, or perhaps I need a 640x480 > > > frame buffer.

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 16:54:35 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote: [..] >Since free implementaions of vi have become available, I have tended to >stick to that on Unix systems unless I want to do something exotic like >running complex macros that act on multiple files simultaneously. Vi is >much easier to

OT: DVD Writers

2006-06-01 Thread Chris
Am I having bad luck, or is this typical? I purchased an LG 4157 DVD-Writer. It burned ok, but could not read any CDs or DVDs. I excanged it and had the same result. I now have the following Samsung Writer installed: hdc: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW SH-S162A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-R

Re: Orinoco 802.11b Weirdness!

2006-06-01 Thread Michael Marsh
On 6/1/06, Gnu-Raiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I ran into a rather weird problem with my network card, this is a pcmcia card plugged into an old laptop. For some reason when I start, and stop the pcmcia service my card is no longer recognized. It seems that it is trying to connect, but I get no g

Re: Free SWF to AVI converter for Sarge

2006-06-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:47:19PM +0530, Siju George wrote: > I installed the w32codecs package and tried again. Did not succeed :-( I just checked, and the version of mencoder on my box will decode SWFs ... but only uncompressed ones, which you almost never see. Sorry. I had only ever done it

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:22:02PM +0100, George Borisov wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > > > If you are learning a new editor, learn vim instead of vi. vim is > > basically 'vi iMproved'. It is a very nice, powerful and not bloated > > editor. > > It has syntax highlighting, folding, ct

Orinoco 802.11b Weirdness!

2006-06-01 Thread Gnu-Raiz
I ran into a rather weird problem with my network card, this is a pcmcia card plugged into an old laptop. For some reason when I start, and stop the pcmcia service my card is no longer recognized. It seems that it is trying to connect, but I get no green light. I even reboot and it is still the

Re: how to detect if a jpeg file is progressive or not

2006-06-01 Thread Wayne Topa
H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: > > > Imagemagick does the trick for you. > > > > To see if your files are interlaced or not you can use identify > > -verbose filename.jpg and search for the Interlace line and if it says > > None then it isnt a pr

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > Do you know what would be the best way to make sure I don't miss any > of those updates? If I backport e.g. mysql from unstable/testing, > will I be able to rely on security announcements to debian-security, > or do I need to check for new vulnerabilities upstream? J

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Rich Johnson
On Jun 1, 2006, at 10:43 AM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:At least one already.  And she wasn't even elected for the two terms she was in office, so she can still serve two more terms. Edith Wilson is dead!

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Katipo wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Katipo wrote: >> >> >>> Mike McCarty wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> This is a consequence of the fact that, in the USA, the Sovereign is the Elector

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Katipo wrote: > > Now, now. > > Just because I'm not American, don't assume I'm English. > It's a big world out here. > > I come from a country that currently has its second, elected, female > head of state in office. > > Oh, hang on a minute! > How many female American presidents have there bee

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
George Borisov wrote: > Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > >>Wouldn't mixing stable and testing be less secure than using >>backports? Or is security support for testing good enough to rely on >>for (some packages on) production servers? > > > Supposedly testing gets security updates now. It is in > s

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>Come off it, Paul. Even under the conditions that Gore's team asked for >>> on the recounts Bush won. In fact only under one recout, one Gore's team >>> *DIDN'T* ask for did Gore squeak by o

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Katipo
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Katipo wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: This is a consequence of the fact that, in the USA, the Sovereign is the Electorate, Yes, but that's all rapidly changing, isn't it? When was *your* Head of State elect

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Curt Howland wrote: > On Thursday 01 June 2006 09:52, Rich Johnson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >>>The budget? ...waitthat's underflow. > > > Naa, it's damage due to deliberate overclocking by politicians. > So, how would we implement liquid hydrogen or liquid helium cooling

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Rich Johnson wrote: > > On May 31, 2006, at 9:39 PM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> Pascal Hakim wrote: >> >>> >>> Australian governor-generals are chosen by the prime minister... >>> (including John Kerr), and can be dismissed by the prime minister. Yes, >>> we technically have a race condition

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 June 2006 09:52, Rich Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > The budget?  ...waitthat's underflow. Naa, it's damage due to deliberate overclocking by politicians. - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun contro

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread George Borisov
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > Wouldn't mixing stable and testing be less secure than using > backports? Or is security support for testing good enough to rely on > for (some packages on) production servers? Supposedly testing gets security updates now. It is in security.debian.org together with

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > I'm running unstable on my desktop (well, actually a laptop), so I'm > accustomed to the occasional breakage and could probably live with it. > > I'm just reluctant to use unstable on a production server connected to > the internet, because I don't want to leave the

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Rich Johnson
On May 31, 2006, at 9:39 PM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Pascal Hakim wrote: Australian governor-generals are chosen by the prime minister... (including John Kerr), and can be dismissed by the prime minister. Yes, we technically have a race condition at the top of our government. (But final

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-06-01 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-27 01:07]: > > So it comes down to: > > * Is it a bad idea to use unstable on a production server > > when it comes to security? > > Possibly to probably yes (the answer for stable would be "no"). > > > * If so, would you recommend using testing

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread George Borisov
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > If you are learning a new editor, learn vim instead of vi. vim is > basically 'vi iMproved'. It is a very nice, powerful and not bloated editor. > It has syntax highlighting, folding, ctags support, compile/edit/run support > within vim and a lot more. As tempted

Re: is it a bad idea to use unstable on a server ?

2006-06-01 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-01 12:11]: > > * Is it a bad idea to use unstable on a production server when it > >comes to security? > > * If so, would you recommend using testing, or stable? > > * And does anyone with experience running unstable on production > >servers kno

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 01 June 2006 07:37, Angel L. Mateo wrote: > El jue, 01-06-2006 a las 10:12 +0200, Ivan Glushkov escribió: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to know which is the best & lightest editor for source code > > editing, which supports syntax highlighting. Currently when I want to > > edit fast

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-01 14:47]: > > > It is said that compiling your own kernel with make-kpkg should > > > be pretty easy. It generates a kernel package which you can than > > > install with "dpkg -i". Never tried it myself though ... > > > Compiling smaller software is ge

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* "Roberto C. Sanchez" [2006-06-01 14:59]: > Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > > > I've thought about using unstable (see an earlier thread I > > started), and decided to go with stable instead. But it's nice to > > know that unstable can be used with very little problem. > > > > In general, there

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* George Borisov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-01 11:39]: > Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > > > I'm about to install sarge on a (production) server of my own, and > > would rather like to have the latest versions of: > > * mysql (5.0) > > * vim (7.0) > > * the Linux kernel (2.6.16) [ppc] > > T

Squirrelmail

2006-06-01 Thread Michele Della Marina
Hello!! I've some problems after installing squirrelmail, the error is: ERROR : Could not complete request. Query: SELECT "INBOX" Reason Given: Unable to open this mailbox. and ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server. Query: SUBSCRIBE "INBOX.Sent" I know that probably the problem is in the di

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Johannes Wiedersich [2006-06-01 12:39]: > > I'm about to install sarge on a (production) server of my own, and > > would rather like to have the latest versions of: > > * mysql (5.0) > > * vim (7.0) > > * the Linux kernel (2.6.16) [ppc] > > Since these are not in sarge, I'm considering usin

Printing problem 750C

2006-06-01 Thread Clark Ken
Hello There, I am trying to print a .pdf file to an HP Designjet 750C roll feed plotter.The length of the plot is equal to 3.5 x A0 sheets but I cannot get it to print the whole thing as I wish, it only does a single A0 sheet taken from the middle of the plot window. I have set the plotter to 'Inke

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>Come off it, Paul. Even under the conditions that Gore's team asked for >>on the recounts Bush won. In fact only under one recout, one Gore's team >>*DIDN'T* ask for did Gore squeak by on a narrower margin than any of the other >>recounts. > > > The only count

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-06-01 Thread hendrik
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:32:37AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Just wait until Alito "elects" Bush to a third term as president of the US > > in > > a 5 to 4 swing decision. Same as the last two elections, just change the > > names of the 7 people allowed to vote in the l

Re: rsh as root without password

2006-06-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Sadegh Ismael Nattaj wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working with a clustered software that needs to rsh as "root" into > every nodes of cluster (before advising on ssh or something else, I must > say that all machines are in an isolated network and there is no > security risk at all). > > I added "mac

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > > I've thought about using unstable (see an earlier thread I started), > and decided to go with stable instead. But it's nice to know that > unstable can be used with very little problem. > In general, there are not too many problems or breakages with unstable. Occa

Re: console screen size

2006-06-01 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Thursday, 1. June 2006 00:33, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On this particular machine I am working on I get a text screen size of > > 80x25. I'd like to change it to 80x30, or perhaps I need a 640x480 > > frame buffer. Is there a way I can change that from the command line,

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Felix C. Stegerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-01 08:10]: > > > * Also, since even backports.org does not seem to have vim 7.0 and > > > kernel 2.6.16 (yet), what would be the best way/place to get these > > > from ? Should I (try to) bac

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 13:49:26 +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: >Angel L. Mateo wrote: >>El jue, 01-06-2006 a las 10:12 +0200, Ivan Glushkov escribió: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I would like to know which is the best & lightest editor for source >>>code editing, which supports syntax highlighting. Current

Re: proftpd startup error ipv6 getaddressinfo

2006-06-01 Thread Raymond A. Meijer
On Sun 28 May 2006 20:50, David Baron wrote: > Now I get an error ipv6 getaddressinfo. It is testing my "machine name" and > finds no such address or service. > > I was not able to find and config file requesting such with my machine > name. This is occuring before the internet connection is acti

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Angel L. Mateo wrote: El jue, 01-06-2006 a las 10:12 +0200, Ivan Glushkov escribió: Hi all, I would like to know which is the best & lightest editor for source code editing, which supports syntax highlighting. Currently when I want to edit fast some C/C++ file I am opening it with pico. I

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jun 01 03:15 -0500]: >> Hi all, >> >> I would like to know which is the best & lightest editor for source code >> editing, which supports syntax highlighting. Currently when I want to >

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Angel L. Mateo
El jue, 01-06-2006 a las 10:12 +0200, Ivan Glushkov escribió: > Hi all, > > I would like to know which is the best & lightest editor for source code > editing, which supports syntax highlighting. Currently when I want to > edit fast some C/C++ file I am opening it with pico. I looked around, >

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Guillermo Mulliert Carlín
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Ivan Glushkov wrote: |> Lubos Vrbka wrote: |> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |> > Hash: RIPEMD160 |> > |> > Ivan Glushkov wrote: |> > |> >> Hi all, |> >> |> >> I would like to know which is the best & lightest editor for source code |> >> editing, which supports syntax

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Jun 01 03:15 -0500]: > Hi all, > > I would like to know which is the best & lightest editor for source code > editing, which supports syntax highlighting. Currently when I want to > edit fast some C/C++ file I am opening it with pico. I looked around, >

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