Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/25/07 16:25, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:20:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> No, you're a wimp for not having them hike from the car-drivable >>> road to the campsite. >>> >>> ;) >>> >> Oh. Right. We have done that when possible. Of cours

Re: Archiver Cron Jobs

2007-02-27 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:13:11AM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'm pretty new to cron jobs, and I've just started playing around with > them pretty recently. Hi Michael: Cool. > I'd like to be able to create a cron job that does a weekly archive of > all of my folders in ~/mail

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 04:04:45PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/25/07 15:43, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> >> > Right. I was a scout leader for a couple of years. While *in some >> > places* hiking works, lots of places are simply to far from any decent >> > c

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-27 Thread judd
On 26 Feb, Paul Johnson wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/25/07 14:04, cothrige wrote: >>> * Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Anyway, voluntary abortion is legal in most countries, including the USA, so voluntary abortion

Re: OT

2007-02-27 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:39:50AM -0600 or thereabouts, Kent West wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Also, go install Outlook Quotefix already if you're going to keep posting. > > > > > > That reminds me; apparently (and I say "apparently" because I haven't > tested it extensively), the new Out

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > >> I'm as loathe >> as anyone to stifle any impetus to communicate here, but I'm >> beginning to wonder whether the amount of posting on religion/ >> atheism, the price of gasoline, abortion, politics in general, >> and other such topics isn't

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 02/26/07 16:57, Mike McCarty wrote: > > [snip] > >>>and other such topics isn't beginning to make the S/N ratio bad. It's >>>getting a little difficult to find the ON topic posts. >> >> Mozilla won't (AFAICT) let you ignore threads, but it will

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:14:59AM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > Please, don't assume you know what I went through and what I saw. I've > seen families ruined because of fundamentalist misguided views. > I assumed nothing about what you through beyond what you stated. > > Roberto, you believe what

Re: Courier IMAP

2007-02-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:54:22AM +0100, Stefan Weber wrote: > hi, > > i have a problem with my courier mailserver konfiguration. if i run > "courierauthtest " i get this output: > > Trying authdaemon... > chdir "": No such file or directory > Unless my memory is playing tricks on me, someone

Re: smtp time spam filtering

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
David Hart wrote: > On Sat 2007-02-24 21:03:11 -0500 Greg Folkert wrote: >> On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 23:24 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: >> > > > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 03:33:00PM +, David Hart wrote: >> > > > > I must be missing something here. In order to scan an email you >> > > > > m

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-27 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:03:39AM -0500 or thereabouts, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:55:04PM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > > > FWIW I was raised in a "born again" fundamentalist Christian family. > > None of the siblings remained in the faith. It was an intolerant way to >

Re: konqueror is slow

2007-02-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:10:57AM +0100, pol wrote: > Hi all. > > On my laptop, konqueror takes, sometimes, tens seconds to access pages. > Since character terminal 'links' web browser quickly navigates across the > internet, network setting should be ok. > Any hints? > What to check for mi

Re: Try the printing info at...

2007-02-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 09:22:00AM +0100, pinniped wrote: > > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-Color_LaserJet_2600n > > Personally I would not buy a (contemporary) color printer under about > US$2000 - in my opinion they are never worth the money. Until recently I > woul

Re: Subscribing to bugs

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:51:23PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> After looking through the documentation on bugs.debian.org, I'm left >> wondering if it's possible to get copies of all mail on a particular bug >> report sent.  For some reason, I vaguely recall bugs work

Re: OT Posts - My apologies!

2007-02-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:53:48PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > I have found my out spoken "opinion" of OT threads to be quiet mistaken. > After having the time to read the non "god" related ones, they actually > do by time in between REAL threads. They have also proven to be quite > interestin

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Mike McCarty wrote: > I joined here in order to learn a little bit better how to help > my girlfriend administer her Debian machine, especially since > I'm the one who recommended that she use Debian. I'm as loathe > as anyone to stifle any impetus to communicate here, but I'm > beginning to wonde

Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2007-02-27 Thread Manaen Schlabach
Sorry about the top posting but it felt like the right thing to do when reviving this thread Since we are doing OT threads lately again here is one for you. Debian thread Immortality recipe Ingredients 2 Dozen Broccoli Growers A heavy dose of green color 1 Social Contract 1 smidgen of "how do

Re: OT

2007-02-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:40:03PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > >> Hey. That's a neet trick. Can you tell me how many posts I have? I > >> started posting in late 2002, though with a different email address. > > > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alists.debian.o

Re: OT

2007-02-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:09:37AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Same here. What, you think corporate IT lets people install random > software willy nilly. Be honest, would *you* let any joe blow download > anything off the net and install it on your corporate network. Hell, at my > job I do

Re: OT

2007-02-27 Thread Kent West
Paul Johnson wrote: > Also, go install Outlook Quotefix already if you're going to keep posting. > > That reminds me; apparently (and I say "apparently" because I haven't tested it extensively), the new Outlook 2007 breaks quoting even farther, in that there's no indication whatsoever of quota

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-02-27 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Andrew Myers wrote: [somebody wrote "filter filter filter" > When you're on the digest that is not an option. Please consider us. :-( Well, duh, you run some kind of *nix don't you ? Assuming you have procmail and formail available, you set up a procmail rule to feed the digests to formail, and f

Re: static IP

2007-02-27 Thread Nikhil Nair
Hi, I've only just joined here, and have only seen this message, not the preceding ones in the thread. I'll try to help, but my apologies if I end up stating the obvious, or misunderstand the context. On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Jordi wrote: [...] I think there is some place that identifies the r

Re: VMWARE problem with Etch

2007-02-27 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 2/21/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 17:12 -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > Hi, > > three days ago I switched from Ubuntu 6.06 to Etch, an now i am not > able to run Debian > Have you properly compiled and setup VMware on you new installation? Are you runnin

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/07 03:40, Tyler MacDonald wrote: >> You do realize I was being sarcastic, right? > > Yup. Best time to butt in. :-) OK, just wanted to make sure. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFF5C4hS9HxQb37XmcRAsx

Re: static IP

2007-02-27 Thread Jordi
Thanks for so many people trying to help. I think we are centering the problem. Please if you can help me, I will try to give the maximum of info I can of what I am doing: The router is in fack a modem/router. I can connect to internet even if the other computer is turned off, and I have no other

RE: OT

2007-02-27 Thread Julian De Marchi
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 19:34 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Respect for posters lowers over time the more they top post. > http://wiki.ursine.ca/Best_Online_Quoting_Practices > > Julian De Marchi wrote: > > > Ubuntu is my Desktop system of choice. It is based on "debian", thus > > debian related. Al

Re: md5 sum

2007-02-27 Thread Alexey Konokhov
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:52:32 +0100 Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 12:23 +0200, Alexey Konokhov wrote: > > I have a question: > > where can I find md5 sums for files included in debian packages (not > > for entire package, but for its files)? > > In /var/lib/dpkg

Courier IMAP

2007-02-27 Thread Stefan Weber
hi, i have a problem with my courier mailserver konfiguration. if i run "courierauthtest " i get this output: Trying authdaemon... chdir "": No such file or directory there is no output to syslog. loglevel is 2. why is it chdir "" and not chdir "/file/"? in which file I must there still indica

Re: md5 sum

2007-02-27 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 12:23 +0200, Alexey Konokhov wrote: > I have a question: > where can I find md5 sums for files included in debian packages (not > for entire package, but for its files)? In /var/lib/dpkg/info I also suggest you look at the debsums package. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://

Re: konqueror is slow

2007-02-27 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Hi, > Hi all. > > On my laptop, konqueror takes, sometimes, tens seconds to access pages. > Since character terminal 'links' web browser quickly navigates across the > internet, network setting should be ok. > Any hints? > What to check for mis-configuration? I add the same problem and two things

md5 sum

2007-02-27 Thread Alexey Konokhov
Hello! I have a question: where can I find md5 sums for files included in debian packages (not for entire package, but for its files)? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!

2007-02-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 00:28:14 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > With my latest upgrade on sid to iceweasel 2.0.0.2+dfg-1. i now have my > firefox opening up to > some hijacked web site called > http://firefox/ > which is a advertising site and it tries to popup open > http://ads1.revenu

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-27 Thread Dan H.
Ron Johnson wrote: > Thus, atheism *by itself* won't bring about a reasonable society. Neither will any religion (or anything at all, for that matter). --D. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

konqueror is slow

2007-02-27 Thread pol
Hi all. On my laptop, konqueror takes, sometimes, tens seconds to access pages. Since character terminal 'links' web browser quickly navigates across the internet, network setting should be ok. Any hints? What to check for mis-configuration? thank you for your help -- Pol -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: How to print on an HP Color Laserjet 2600n (ZJSream protocol)

2007-02-27 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Виталий Ищенко ha scritto: > http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/ > > There is a debian package for the driver, but official site contains > following warning: > *** DON'T USE the foo2zjs package from Ubuntu, SUSE, > Mandrake/Manrivia, Debian, RedHat, or Gentoo! > *** Download it here and follow the directions

Re: Try the printing info at...

2007-02-27 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
pinniped ha scritto: > > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-Color_LaserJet_2600n > Alredy seen. The driver page points to http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/ For now I'm able to setup the driver but it prints only blank pages and the printer gives the error "page too complex" > > Personal

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-27 Thread Tyler MacDonald
> You do realize I was being sarcastic, right? Yup. Best time to butt in. :-) - Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: growisofs: how to write iso files

2007-02-27 Thread Yuwen Dai
hm. are you sure you haven't inserted a space between /dev/dvd and the '=' symbol? That is weird as I've used that very command many times. Has this worked in the past for you and recently changed? One more question, does /dev/dvd exist? and what does it point to? The device is /dev/scd0. I o

CSS DVD playback requires root permissions in vlc and xine.

2007-02-27 Thread Daniel Wyeth
When attempting to play an encrypted dvd as a non-root user, the playing application alternately crashes with a segfault (vlc) or simply becomes unresponsive to anything but a SIGKILL (xine, gxine and totem-xine). All of these players are able to play unencrypted dvds from any user account. A samp

Re: OT

2007-02-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > That doesn't make it a good idea to use it, it *does* make it a good idea to > encourage coworkers to use something other than email to contact you until > that corporate mistake is fixed. Failing that, better employment. Come now, that's not always practical. I'm locke

static IP

2007-02-27 Thread pinniped
How can you operate with no modem? Isn't your Speedtouch device a router/modem? Anyway, when you connect to the ATM network the device doing the negotiation will receive a static address - if that is your router then your router will have a static IP on the WAN side and a local subnet IP on t

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Lale
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/07 05:47, Chris Lale wrote: [...] It seems that language was forking long before software projects. Yup. You all went wrong, and we stayed correct. (How's that for blatant, mindless jingoism???) Winston Churchill (who had a parent from each camp)

Re: Subtle but annoying X startup problem

2007-02-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:25:51PM +, Bob Cox wrote: > I have used Linux for several years, but always in CLI only mode. I > have a Debian box running mail and webservers and also a couple of NSLU2 > 'slugs' running Armeb Debian. And they're all fine. > > Recently, however,I installed Etch w

Re: How to print on an HP Color Laserjet 2600n (ZJSream protocol)

2007-02-27 Thread Виталий Ищенко
http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/ There is a debian package for the driver, but official site contains following warning: *** DON'T USE the foo2zjs package from Ubuntu, SUSE, Mandrake/Manrivia, Debian, RedHat, or Gentoo! *** Download it here and follow the directions below. :)

RE: OT

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Respect for posters lowers over time the more they top post. http://wiki.ursine.ca/Best_Online_Quoting_Practices Julian De Marchi wrote: > Ubuntu is my Desktop system of choice. It is based on "debian", thus > debian related. All those things are debian related as they run on the > debian system.

Re: Download cd-iso images

2007-02-27 Thread Chris Lale
David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:57:44 -0500 Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jigdo has never worked for me. Odd, that. I don't use it a whole lot, but it has worked for me the couple of times I've downloaded etch DVD disk #1 images. I usually, but not always, get app

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:00:43 -0500, Roberto wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:38:59AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> > >> > Name five American national-level politicians in your lifetime that >> > had moral fortitude. You can't get that

Try the printing info at...

2007-02-27 Thread pinniped
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-Color_LaserJet_2600n Personally I would not buy a (contemporary) color printer under about US$2000 - in my opinion they are never worth the money. Until recently I would never have bought a monotone laser printer for under $600 - but the

Re: OT

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:38:35PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> Some folks around here consider myself, Ron, Paul, Andrew and some of > -^^ > > dude, thanks! I score geek cred! yes! So far this week

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/26/07 17:14, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:08:02PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 02/26/07 14:57, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> >>> This has always confused me: Who does *not* know that the

Re: OT

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Greg Folkert wrote: >> Hey. That's a neet trick. Can you tell me how many posts I have? I >> started posting in late 2002, though with a different email address. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alists.debian.org+roberto%40connexer.com > > This is just a big time guess, 2130 is the nu

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/26/07 17:26, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> I'm as loathe >>> as anyone to stifle any impetus to communicate here, but I'm >>> beginning to wonder whether the amount of posting on religion/

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > If it's "wife & fetus will die" vs. "fetus will die", you damned > well know who I'm carrying, kicking and screaming, into the > operating room. Refreshing to hear that "in sickness and in health, until death do us part" is considered a challenge instead of a threat to some p

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/26/07 17:31, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> >>> On 02/26/07 16:57, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >> [snip] >> and other such topics isn't beginning to make the S/N ratio bad. It's getting a little d

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-27 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/26/07 16:00, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Ask a pro-lifer whether she'd euthanize a pregnant cat. >> >>> Then you'll know when she *really* thinks life begins. >> >> They'll hedge it by saying that a cat is not human. >> >> No, the real question

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