Re: [OT] Bloatware and how to make Programs smaller

2009-02-23 Thread s. keeling
Michelle Konzack linux4miche...@tamay-dogan.net: Am 2009-02-21 22:59:39, schrieb Andrew Reid: Awesome. Reminds me of my hobbyist/hacker days. And as long as we're already OT: It also reminds me of a great book I read years ago, Windows Assembly Language and Systems Programming,

Re: Upgrading from Etch to Lenny - aptitude ERROR

2009-02-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:14:18PM +0100, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com was heard to say: Daniel Burrows dburr...@debian.org writes: One last idea: does it help at all if you delete /var/lib/apt/*.bin? I haven't any *.bin files in /var/lib/apt/ directory, just the following directories:

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-23 Thread Javier
ow...@netptc.net escribió: Original Message From: javu...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack? Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:53:27 +0100 Ron Johnson escribió: On 02/23/2009 09:26 AM, Javier wrote: Ron

Re: Upgrading from Etch to Lenny - aptitude ERROR

2009-02-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:09:47PM +0100, Csanyi Pal csanyi...@gmail.com was heard to say: How can I find the package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11 to download it and install it with dpkg? That's a virtual package provided by apt. You need to install the apt package that matches aptitude (the

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Ken Teague wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: You need to use IMAP and use the folder All Mail to see both sent and received mail. This works. Having to go into All Mail to view only what I want to see from this list in a threaded fashion is odd and non-standard. I feel violated! You'll get

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:34:31 -0600 Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 02/23/2009 07:48 PM, Ken Teague wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Wouldn't that only be relevant to the Web Interface? I forgot to mention that I'm seeing this issue while using Thunderterd connecting to Gmail via

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-23 Thread Javier
Ron Johnson escribió: On 02/23/2009 06:12 PM, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 02:34:26PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: Given enough time, and resources, *nothing* is untouchable. It's just a matter of whether They think that the time-effort is worth being spent on *you*. Like, twenty

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Daryl Styrk
Jimmy Johnson wrote: You need to use IMAP and use the folder All Mail to see both sent and received mail. That option doesn't available here.? [Gmail] where all the server folder and labels would be found is greyed out. Ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Kent West
Ken Teague wrote: Ever since I've switched to using Gmail (setup as my outbound SMTP server as well), I don't see my replies to this list. When I subscribed to this list, I did so with my @pobox.com alias. When I switched to Gmail, I updated my pobox.com account to forward e-mail to my Gmail

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Daryl Styrk wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: You need to use IMAP and use the folder All Mail to see both sent and received mail. That option doesn't available here.? [Gmail] where all the server folder and labels would be found is greyed out. Ideas? Sure, click on your gmail account,

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Daryl Styrk
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Sure, click on your gmail account, Advanced Features, Manage folder subscriptions, that should do it. Spot on! Thanks.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Daryl Styrk wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Sure, click on your gmail account, Advanced Features, Manage folder subscriptions, that should do it. Spot on! Thanks.. You're welcome. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux User #380263 K.I.S.S. (Keep it simple stupid) --

Update Manager

2009-02-23 Thread John Lindsay
Is there a problem with the update manager or the sites from which it get updates? I haven't seen an update since Friday Feb 13. It tells me my system is up-to-date but up until last Friday I would get updates 5-6 times a week. Also, whenever the update manager starts up, mplayer shows up in

Re: VirtualBox on lenny

2009-02-23 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 11:28:29 + Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org wrote: Harry Putnam wrote: Googling about virtualbox on debian.. I see only older information. Looks like the wiki at http://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox Appear to be somewhat old too and only goes up to etch. Other stuff

OT: file system versus databases

2009-02-23 Thread Mag Gam
I was curious why this was faster: At our company we store close to 50TB of certain transaction data and we stored it on a UNIX filesystem raw without any DBMS help. For example: country/A/name/A.txt country/B/name/B.txt country/C/name/C.txt and so on... We have close to 500 million entries in

Recommended TrueType fonts

2009-02-23 Thread T o n g
Hi, I want to install a minimum set of TrueType fonts. Which are ther recommended good ones? My current selections are: ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra But I've forgot why. Any recommended web pages that I can refer to? PS. I used to have Lucida TrueType

Re: Are squeeze weekly CDs being produced yet?

2009-02-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 23, 2009, at 5:57 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:14:18PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Same sort of thing for the weekly page http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ It mentions Lenny as if it were still testing. Also fixed now. The first set of

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:54:00AM -0800, Michael M. Moore mich...@writemoore.net was heard to say: The thing is I was planning on keeping gdm, though I guess I could switch to xdm, or do without a display manager. But gdm, according to aptitude, shouldn't require nautilus. It shouldn't

Re: how to find why packages are automatically installed?

2009-02-23 Thread Mr. Wang Long
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 22:39, Douglas A. Tutty dtu...@vianet.ca wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 05:34:09PM -0800, Michael M. Moore wrote: But I'm still left with a whole slew of automatically installed packages I don't want anymore, and I can't figure out how to identify why they are still

Re: 515...@bugs.debian.org

2009-02-23 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 17:16:20 -0800, Ink Bottle (ink.bot...@yahoo.com) wrote: I quite don't understand how this bug had been treated, or not treated. It looks like your bug report http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=515159 was forwarded by one of the package maintainers to

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/23/2009 08:43 PM, Javier wrote: [snip] As I also have read in the Wikipedia, it is reseonable to crack a 56bits DES, a 64bits AES if you have online access to the machine, and probably in the future it might be possible to crack a 128bits, even offline. But, a 256 one? It seems

Re: Recommended TrueType fonts

2009-02-23 Thread H.S.
T o n g wrote: Hi, I want to install a minimum set of TrueType fonts. Which are ther recommended good ones? My current selections are: ttf-bitstream-vera ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra But I've forgot why. Any recommended web pages that I can refer to? PS. I used

Re: [OT] Gmail my replies to this list

2009-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/23/2009 09:02 PM, Celejar wrote: [snip] You *are* aware that while neither User-Agent nor X-Mailer is part of a standard, X-Mailer is much more common? X-Mailer makes it into RFC 2076, albeit as non-standard, while User-Agent doesn't; it's apparently a pretty new-fangled thing cooked up

What is the relationship between debian maillist and google groups?

2009-02-23 Thread Mr. Wang Long
Dear all, I'm confused by the relationship between debian-user@lists.debian.org and http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user : In http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ I found the maillist is not moderated, but in http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/about what I found is

RE: Wireless Setup Problem

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Stackpole, Chris wrote: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php The OP said he's running Debian, so just 'aptitude install wicd' If he is running Squeeze or Sid, then yes. If he is running Lenny or older, he needs that link or this one.

Re: OT: file system versus databases

2009-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/23/2009 10:28 PM, Mag Gam wrote: I was curious why this was faster: At our company we store close to 50TB of certain transaction data and we stored it on a UNIX filesystem raw without any DBMS help. This doesn't sound very Linuxy... For example: country/A/name/A.txt

Re: Recommended TrueType fonts

2009-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/23/2009 11:01 PM, T o n g wrote: Hi, I want to install a minimum set of TrueType fonts. Why? Why not a big (not huge, but big) set from a variety of Western and Eastern fonts? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA The feeling of disgust at seeing a human female in a Relationship

Re: Wireless Setup Problem

2009-02-23 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:51:24 -0700 (MST) Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Stackpole, Chris wrote: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php The OP said he's running Debian, so just 'aptitude install wicd' If he is running Squeeze or Sid, then yes. If he is

Re: What is the relationship between debian maillist and google groups?

2009-02-23 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/24/2009 12:11 AM, Mr. Wang Long wrote: Dear all, I'm confused by the relationship between debian-user@lists.debian.org That's the *address* of the mailing list. and http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user : That's a Google Groups version of the Usenet bi-directional gateway

Re: OT: file system versus databases

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Baron
If it works for you, why change? Lets face it not every problem needs a relational database, if you do not need atomic transactions and crash recovery as examples of what a DBMS system will do better than file systems. Furthermore, you may be able to save some space by eliminating redunent

Re: mediawiki-extensions - package... strongly suspect bug, wonder about adv. of deb packages...

2009-02-23 Thread John W Foster
On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 23:14 +0100, Michael Bonert wrote: Hi John, Thanks. ( http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/02/msg01426.html ) I did get one module working (Cite.php). Above said, I have the impression that there is an incompatibility, between the 'mediawiki-extensions'

repo gpg keys list

2009-02-23 Thread T o n g
Hi, I noticed that the gpg keys were updated for repos, but I didn't wrote it down before reboot. Anyway to list them now? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Recommended TrueType fonts

2009-02-23 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:00:22 -0500, H.S. wrote: PS. I used to have Lucida TrueType fonts. They looked pretty good and I use them all over my applications. Which package provides them? I don't think I've installed sun-java6-fonts though (Maybe it is called something different previously?)

Re: Recommended TrueType fonts

2009-02-23 Thread Bob Cox
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 07:10:06 +, T o n g (mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com) wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:00:22 -0500, H.S. wrote: PS. I used to have Lucida TrueType fonts. They looked pretty good and I use them all over my applications. Which package provides them? I don't think I've

Re: Bug in Iceweasel: Graphics not displayed

2009-02-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-23 23:23 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: I have noticed that Iceweasel (i.e., firefox, version 3.06 under debian sid) does not display the graphics from Wikipedia, although as far as I can tell images from all other websites are shown correctly. That is, instead of the images on a

Re: repo gpg keys list

2009-02-23 Thread Magnus Therning
T o n g wrote: Hi, I noticed that the gpg keys were updated for repos, but I didn't wrote it down before reboot. Anyway to list them now? Not sure I understand what you mean, but possibly this is what you are looking for: # apt-key list /M -- Magnus Therning

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