Re: deluser without rebooting first

l the next reboot. If that doesn't help, I'm not really sure what else to check. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

be your friend is not a valid use of your parents money. :) Peace that is bought isn't peace at all. Restrained tensions that are kept at bay by having cash thrown at them will escalate at the slightest provocation, at which point all of Bush's advisers and all his men won't put the Mi

Re: Future of Linux Question

thing like network neighborhood. > Please let me know what you guy's think about this. This is already pretty much possible when using LDAP. It's not quite as integrated as Samba, but it is a lot more robust and extensible. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partit

Re: Cobol for linux

o, any time I've tried using an EVALUATE statement I've gotten a segmentation fault during compilation. So consider yourself warned that it might not have all the functionality you might want. It does, however, come pre-packaged for debian, so you can use dpkg to install it without any ma

Re: changing root password

i simply su to root and change it remotely as > well? You can do it remotely with no problem. su-ing to root and running passwd is all you need to do. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: wma files

x27;apt-get install w32codecs'. Otherwise, look around the download section on www.mplayerhq.hu and look for the codec packages. Download and install in wherever it tells you to and you should be all set. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 14:11, Paul Morgan wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 03:19:54 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > I'm taking a class this semester which is all about installing and using > > Linux. After talking with the professor on Tuesday, I've learned a few >

Red Hat and Debian differences (ignore previous thread)

Richard has informed me of the differences in the init procedure. Anything else I should be aware of? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

n your first corporate gig. My first 'gig' came and went years ago and I don't recall any pummeling in the process. I appreciate your concern though. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

a on, but unfortunately I don't. And I hope I didn't come across as too negative towards RH in my earlier message. My comment about what's 'sickening' was in regards to the university's lack of understanding of free software and the Linux world in general, not a jab at RH.

Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

les to be in /etc, does RH use /etc/init.d/ and friends, etc. Any and all tips are welcome. TIA. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Basing new file permissions on current dir perms

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 11:36, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On 2004-01-09, Rob Sims penned: > > On Friday 09 January 2004 05:06 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: > >> Lets say I have a directory called mydirectory. The permissions are > >> as follows: > &g

Basing new file permissions on current dir perms

(without going in as root). It would be really nice to be able to automatically set the permissions to the correct values whenever they create a file. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my

Re: "best practices" on debian

at either pinning, or using something like -t with apt-get. (That's what I do.) So to install the xf86 4.3 server for example, you'd do something like: apt-get install -t experimental xserver-xfree86 Note that unless versions are specifically specified in the dependencies, you'll most

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

on the bleeding edge at more than 12 ide disks If you're going to use more than 12 disks, you'll need a dedicated enclosure. And if you can afford one of those, you can also afford SCSI disks, in which case you can have a nice 10+ disk SCSI RAID array with a hot-swappable external enclosur

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm & CSS2 ???

ou're just interested in learning how to use them, I'd suggest working with each individually following individualized tutorials. Once you have a firm grasp of each individual component, you'll be able to think of something that's well-suited to that particular union. -- Alex

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

er and just chain the XP bootloader from it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: WAS "A good book on C programming", now an APPOLOGY

all helped me out. No need to apologize to us. I don't want to speak for the whole list, but I found the thread quite useful actually. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from a

Re: file transfer from USB digital camera freezes

i'. I had almost this identical problem before with one of my USB devices and switching the module over to 'uhci' fixed it right up. Good luck. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from

Re: Athlon and Debian?

ly about AMD's new 64-bit processor, though I don't really know much of anything about that. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: diagnosing firewire hard drive problems

you're not sure how, just do 'fsck. /dev/sda'. So if you're using a reiserfs partition, it would be fsck.reiserfs. For ext3 it's fsck.ext3 and so on. Hope that helps. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Some nagging problems

eally sure why 4.05 is showing as the most current. 5.08 should be the most current to show up. Have you tried "apt-get install acroread"? > 3. ADSL works great now. However I do get disconnects, sometimes often, > sometimes not. "persist" is set is the providers file (

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 15:00, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Friday 12 December 2003 22:38, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 14:04, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > > On Friday 12 December 2003 11:38 am, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > > Hi There: > > > > Hm

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

hich, as I said, would be a good exercise) it will already support all of the functions that you're likely to need with an array, so you might as well just keep it as a linked list. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You

Re: Portable Ogg Vorbis player

t. Overall, it looks like a relatively even match for the player you recommended. I ordered mine today but it's on backorder so I don't really know when it'll come in. As soon as it does come in I'll post my experiences on here. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete yo

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

Dress sense might be a bit different in the UK from that in the US, > though. I have elastic cufflinks with wrapped cord as the outside that I always keep on my cufflink shirts. If I can't find my 'real' cufflinks, I just leave those in and go like that. They're solid

Re: ooh! debian jewelry

ll be sure to say hi. :) (Assuming I can still form coherent sentences after a full day of wiping out repeatedly... :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Limit network speed

the limitation for a while). I know that specifically in the case of BitTorrent you can limit the upload rate by a command line parameter to btdownloadgui. I believe it's --max_upload_rate. If that's the only thing you need to cap the upload speed for it's a lot less work than manua

Re: Which JRE?

e newest version of the JDK the day that it's available, not a week or a month later. But if you just need the JRE and Blackdown works, then by all means keep using it. It's much simpler and much less prone to error than handling a manual install each time a new version is released. :)

Re: Why should non-root users have a password?

ectly' as "Does this make me look fat?". :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

cious executable code into those memory addresses that could then be executed by the system letting you do just about anything you want such as giving you root access. Buffer overflows are by no means the ONLY way to go about this, but they've received a lot of attention in the last year or two i

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

't know. So please don't ask us about it." I'm afraid I'm part of the group that just doesn't understand. This snippet reeks of security through obscurity for me. If the hole has been identified and, presumably, fixed, why not tell people about it? -- Alex Malinov

Re: bind and dynamic ip

our static ip DNS server is running debian, it would be "/etc/init.d/bind9 restart". If, however, you don't have a nameserver with a static IP, then the only real alternative is to go with something such as dyndns.org. I don't know of any real howto's on the subject, but re

Re: how to mount a zip drive

, assuming that the drive is hdc of course.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Setting up debian package server for installation over ethernet

.) > > Also, what is the best way to keep this > > server up-to-date? Guess, what I'm asking > > for is like a mirror of the Debian packages... > > I use apt-move (the mirror option) I wrote my own script for the mirroring operations that uses rsync, but unl

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

permissions on the device? Check to make sure that the "cdrom" group has write permissions to the device and to make sure you are a member of the cdrom group. The only device that I've found I need to use eject as SUID root for is my zip drive. Both of my CD-ROM drives are working ju

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

ING SUID root is generally a bad idea. But if you're more interested in ease of use than security per se, then it gets the job done. I've been doing that on a couple of my systems for over a year now and have yet to have anyone try to exploit it in any way. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Sof

Re: finding what is using a mount point

md, it loves to keep mount points busy. If I had a penny for every time I had to restart famd before unmounting... I'd have almost a dollar by now! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of th

Re: Any tool for access NTFS partition of damaged hard drive

dows installed on there so you might as well just let Windows boot up and copy over the file you need.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

and this little patience, anything that she can't just pick up and use right away simply won't cut it. So any ideas? (If only I could get her to learn emacs... emacs + w3m + XF86 + gnus = perfection! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted

Re: dselect makes me feel like an idiot

two packages, it's generally better to use apt-cache and apt-get. I generally only use dselect when I want to do a system-wide upgrade. (For which I find it to be infinitely better than an apt-get dist-upgrade due to the opportunity to review any impending additions removals and the chance

Re: running script from cdrom fails

k. Any idea? You need to add the "exec" flag to your mount options. By default, all removable media has noexec set. Check the mount and fstab man pages for more info. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my

Re: mouse will only works in one direction with X+gpm

On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 15:54, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 12:33:58PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:36, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > I configured my logitec usb optical wheel mouse (a lo

Re: mouse will only works in one direction with X+gpm

hat's the case, all you need to do is have the mouse already defined in your XF86Config-4 (which it looks like you already do) and just make sure your USB modules are loaded when you start up X. Plugging in the mouse at any point after that should make it "just work". I've been

Re: sending messages using smbclient

e not been able to get linpopup to do it on my system. You might want to try using the -I option to specify the ip to connect to. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: emacs -nw and emacsclient

rom there. Now if what you want is to run a REMOTE emacsclient and have it connect to a LOCAL instance of emacs using X forwarding, I don't think it can be done. The X forwarding only forwards the DISPLAY. The PROCESS continues to run on the machine you're connected to. So you can't have

Re: messenger

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 09:02, Paul Valley wrote: > could some one recomend a very easy to setup insent messenger that would > work with yahoo i dont like to compile things so if its in dpkg ill take it apt-get install gaim It supports Yahoo, MSN, AIM, ICQ, and more. -- Alex Malinovich S

Re: OT, proper phone wire question?

' or so from my box.. I'm not sure if this is really proper or not, but I've been noticing a lot of newer houses using regular old CAT 5 twisted-pair cable for phone cable. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You

Re: ls and directories only

rectories? In MS-DOS, it was dir /ad > > Doing ls -ld * does not do it as it only displays the files in the current directory. I have ls aliased to ls -lh so I generally do: ls |grep ^d -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred.

Workspace/desktop switching

re 5 windows a piece, I'll use two desktops/workspaces, but I don't think I've ever really gone over that. That leads me to believe that there's some unrealized benefit that I'm missing out on. So what do you use your workspaces for, and why are they so important? -- Alex

Re: X 4.3.0

as you don't catch the packages at a bad time. (i.e. when they're being updated, and not all of the updated packages have been uploaded yet) As far as actually doing the update, just add experimental to your sources.list and then run apt-get with the -t option and you should be fine. Good luck.

Re: Adding a parameter to an already installed kernel driver

u should be able to unload the module and reload it using whatever parameters you want. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Descriptio

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?#

'm extremely curious how you managed to use a 0.7x kernel that never existed. The last release of the kernel after 0.12 was 0.95 after all. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 04:00, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:49:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:19, Tom wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 02:19, Tom wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:08:15AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 22:56, Ron Johnson wrote: > > --snip-- > > > It hasn't happened in the last 100k years, what makes you think > > > it will ha

Re: upgrading packages that are in use, especially X or gnome

programs generally only read the configuration file at startup, so changing the config file won't affect the running process. The few programs that actually check their config files at various points during run time, I'd imagine the package maintainers would account for in some way

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: "Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers"]]

pen. :) (I'd put my money on the latter. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Text processing help (sed?)

ma than it did before. If you wanted to just remove the date without actually inserting a comma, just pull the comma out of the above command. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net k

Re: how to do a clean upgrade without losing packages?

t you want is: apt-get upgrade This will only upgrade those packages that can be upgraded without requiring removing or adding packages. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyse

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 17:18, stan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:58:31PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:03, stan wrote: --snip-- > > > So, given that I was using liol, what should I do to restore the boot > > > blocks? > > >

Re: Disaster recovery help, please

ly important stuff was there anyway), but it would have been MUCH easier had I just had a separate backup somewhere. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: openGL cannot do fullscreen in dual monitor config

ake III fullscreen across both monitors. (Well, "able to play" being a relative term. It was damned near impossible to aim as the crosshair was split between the two monitors, with 4 inches of dead space between the adjoining edges of the screens. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Soft

Re: Periodic sluggishness in games

, it might be something with your video drivers. Actually, and I just thought of this, check your sound setup. What type of sound card do you have, are you using ALSA or OSS, etc? I remember Quake III had some serious issues with certain types of sound setups and serious slowdown in the game. -- A

Re: Is it possible to retach a process to a new terminal?

er of them, but I believe that xmove and teleport will both do that. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Is it possible to retach a process to a new terminal?

t;. As far as actually switching which tty you're using once the application is already running, I don't know of any way to do it. (Though that certainly does not mean that there ISN'T a way to do it.) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypt

Re: parted: "rather strange layout"

along the lines of: resize 1 1 50 move 2 51 150 resize 2 51 200 -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

/etc/profile not being read for gnome

und a way around this before, but having lost my hard drive last week and installing from scratch, I don't really remember what I had to do. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of t

Re: XMMS without X?

#x27;s possible to start XMMS without an X-server, but assuming that there is a way to do so just run it in 'screen'. I generally listen to ogg's while I'm using my computer, so I just do a 'screen ogg123 -@ my.list' followed by a quick ^a, ^d. -- Alex Malinovich Su

Re: Single-use root account?

On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 16:49, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:28:40PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:00, Pigeon wrote: --snip-- > > > What happens if they get a keybounce while typing ^D ? > > > > "keybounce"? You m

Re: No to wine! (was:"Red Hat recommends...")

cations, NOT the OS, that's been crashing left and right. (At least in my experience.) Running a buggy app under Wine won't make it crash any less. It may well make it crash MORE. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: fast swithichg between X and virtual console - how to?

l be fast? Is there some reason you need to constantly switch to the VTs? Can you just use xterm instead? That would make switching a lot faster. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any

Re: Doom problems?

could disable that if you wanted. Everything else was just as I remembered it, except that you could run it at higher resolutions and use opengl if you wanted. And it had a TCP/IP multiplayer mode. (Something the original Doom lacked.) But the experience was just as I remember it. -- Alex Malinov

Re: Single-use root account?

ll be whatever > you assigned when you created the account. The second time it will be the > first password on the list. The third time it will be the second on the > list, and so on. When the last password has been used the account will be > deleted when the user logs out. Great

Re: Single-use root account?

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 23:00, Pigeon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 12:27:21PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > In regards to the roommates at least, they both use Debian and know > > enough about it to do some basic functions from a terminal. As such, I > > could tell the

Re: Single-use root account?

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 16:54, ScruLoose wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:58:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > If not, any other possibilities? > > Olkay, I see there's been plenty of discussion of the ins and outs of > the self-locking one-shot root pr

Re: Single-use root account?

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:50, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 12:35, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 10:55, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 09:30, Tom wrote: > > > > * [07/11/2003 16:25] J. Bruce Fields <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: X wont start again

Device is: PCI 01:00:0 > (EE) No devices detected. > > Fatal server error: > no screens found Have you upgraded X recently? Your XF86Config-4 may have been overwritten without you knowing about it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypt

Re: Single-use root account?

4 evenings a week is not really an option. The reason that I really want the single use (i.e. one time use) root account is so that I can set it once and not have to worry about it until I've had to call home and have them do something. Then once I get home, I reset the password to something n

Re: Single-use root account?

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 07:55, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 02:58:48AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem > > that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to &

Re: Single-use root account?

On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 03:22, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've decided that it's about time I look for a solution to a problem > > that's been bugging me. On certain occasions, I find it necessary to > > have one of my roommates do somet

Single-use root account?

I did a chmod -R g+rwx *, which I'd like to avoid.) So any ideas on how to go about it? Is it possible to have two different users with the same UID? i.e. adduser --uid 0 --gid 0 temproot If not, any other possibilities? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partitio

Re: [no subject]

vice not found or if you start getting garbage when you move the mouse. If you get garbage, then the mouse is found properly. In my case, I just had to install hotplug (apt-get install hotplug) and then unplug the mouse and plug it back in. After that, everything worked fine. Good luck. -- Alex Mal

Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades?

ad been in unstable long enough without bug reports. > This would allow us to keep high-uptime systems running the same kernels > and such as our test/burn/destroy/rebuild laptops ;-) Well, that's basically exactly how it works. There's quite a few extra details but that's the &q

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

eally been THAT long. :) And WRT Daikatana, hype was really what killed that game. I actually rather enjoyed it as a regular old shoot'em up. But if you were expecting the be-all end-all rebirth of perfect gaming, well then you were rather disappointed. (Then again, being that part of the corporat

Re: Mailboxes, etc.

essages before I start archiving, takes about 3 seconds in Evolution. In mutt, since AFAIK mutt doesn't cache the folders at all, it can take 10 - 15 seconds to open up at times. But once it's all opened up, everything works just fine. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian to English translation

something would be "apt-get remove --purge ". -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)

an just "screwing them over." I think someone's already got you beat. I quote from an M&M candy advertisement: "TM/(R) M&M's, the letter M and the M&M's Characters are registered trademarks of Mars, Inc. and its affiliates (C) Mars, Incorporated 2002&quo

Re: Daylight Savings Time and UP-n-P

ted into Linux so it doesn't matter what time Windows says it is. :) > (2) XP has this UPnP thing that I thing does sneaking things with my POS > linksys FW open ports. Is there something like that in *? I'm afraid I don't know what "this UPnP thing" is, so I can

Resolution switching in Gnome 2.4

oing to be released as a separate package, or is it there more about it that I don't know? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signature.asc Descr

Re: Re: VT switching broken in Gnome

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 12:57, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 14:14, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I'm having a problem with my VT switching while in Gnome. I think it's > > related to the recent 2.4 update but I'm not sure. Hitting Ctrl-Alt-F4, > >

VT switching broken in Gnome

Needless to say, having to log out just to switch terminals is really really inconvenient. Any suggestions? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 signat

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: ])

have gender? I'd imagine that specifying gender in terms is done in order to keep up with gender-based rules that are inherent in some languages. (Though this does lead you to a chicken-or-egg paradox.) Though IANAL(inguist). I'm sure that there's a more scientific explanation for it,

Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL

st a new buffer) every time it's called? I use my desktop machine from 3 different machines in the house, so using regular old emacsclient hasn't been much of an option since I'd have to be on the same machine that I initially started it on in order to use it. -- Alex Malinovich Suppo

Re: RPC: Program not Registered

on what you've done so far, what kind of setup you have, etc. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Somewhat ON-TOPIC (was Re: A newbie's confusion about GPL (BS))

lso, when you reply, please do not top-post, but rather include your reply AFTER the quoted text you're replying to. This is a 'standard' that has, unfortunately, been steadily losing ground due to Microsoft's decisions with their mail clients. -- Alex Malinovich Support Fre

Re: install_oracle9i

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Re: Verify that spamc is using Bayesian?

il is being > delivered to... And does anyone know what the behaviour is by default for > that package? Assuming that you're running spamc from .procmailrc, it will be running as the user the mail is delivered to. I'm not really sure if this will affect anything, but you might also

Re: filtering MS* mails w/ Spamassassin

and line with the debug and verbose options. Near the top of the resulting output will be some Bayesian information. It'll either tell you that it's scanning the message, or that Bayesian filtering hasn't been activated yet because of something. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

languages are BARRIERS, not instruments of national identity. And since we don't currently have any barriers in programming languages (at least, not as prevalent as those in spoken languages), we shouldn't introduce new ones. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows par

Re: Debian / Linux KaZaA client?

by working myself up > into the mood to produce one of my rants about how dead and chewed I > think lossy compression is... Better make sure that your friend's kids aren't 12. The RIAA seems to have it in for 12 year olds. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your

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