Re: Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?

2003-10-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
ll barely tolerable...) The first thing I do when I have to use a Windows machine is either pop in my Knoppix CD (if I'm allowed to), or otherwise pop in my Cygwin CD and start up X. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferre

Re: International Characters

2003-10-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
rillic and accented Latin characters and generally don't have any problems. Every once in a while, mutt seems to confuse a letter here and there, but it's generally ok. Unfortunately, some of the graphical glitches have annoyed me to the point that I've stopped using mutt for anything but plain-

Re: vmware with win2k as the guest os

2003-10-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
ll make life a lot easier than it was with 3. Most likely, when you start booting up your W2K, it'll hang. You'll need to boot into it natively and set up hardware profiles. You'll need one hardware profile for VMWare and another one for native booting. There's also some work to

Completely OT: Romanization of Chiense speech

2003-10-13 Thread Alex Malinovich
figure out the pronunciation? (I'm guessing that it's "che(eseburger)" as "q" in Pinyin seems to be a ch and not a k sound. Also, any simpler references to more on the subject would be appreciated. I'm actually finding all of this very interesting. :) -- Ale

Re: How do I prevent User 'A' from seeing User 'B' /home contents

2003-10-12 Thread Alex Malinovich
ese decisions should be left to the users. Show the users HOW to change their own home directory permissions, but do not do it for them. If they choose to do it, then they can. Personally, I believe that information should be shared, so I leave my home directory world-readable. I only restrict acces

Re: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop

2003-10-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
ust get pscp. (putty scp) Do a google search for "putty ssh" and hit "I'm feeling lucky". It'll take you straight there. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pg

Re: [OT] CVS diff: hard vs. soft tabs

2003-10-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
it for you. Using Perl, I'd do: #!/usr/bin/perl open (INFILE, $ARGV[0]); open (OUTFILE, >$ARGV[1]); foreach () { $_ =~ s/^ {2}/\t/; while ($_ =~ /^\t {2}/) { $_ =~ s/\t {2}/\t\t/; } print OUTFILE $_; } close INFILE; close OUTFILE; -- 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: How to secure access to WLAN?

2003-10-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
ve equal security consideration to all machines, regardless of if they're currently "open for attacks". Because, inevitably, at some point they WILL BE, and at that point you don't want any easily exploitable security holes. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete yo

Re: installing oracle9i

2003-10-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
gt; but, when i tried running ./runInstaller on Disk1 it ask me for a DISPLAY so > i just export a setting. And found out that Oracle must be run on a GUI?. > > Hm, is there other solutions here? Unfortunately, no. Oracle must be installed using the Java installer which requires the GUI i

Re: 802.11(b|a|g) cards in Linux

2003-10-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 12:13, Ed Lawson wrote: > Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > >Thanks very much for the heads up about the madwifi project. I just went > >out and picked up a Linksys 802.11A+G PCMCIA card for my laptop, and > >after a bit of fiddling, got it up a

Re: 802.11(b|a|g) cards in Linux

2003-10-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:20, BruceG wrote: > On Wednesday 01 October 2003 23:50, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've been looking more at getting a wireless card for my laptop lately > > as my university is now nearly 100% covered with wifi access. I know > > that there i

802.11(b|a|g) cards in Linux

2003-10-01 Thread Alex Malinovich
or a combo 802.11a/b card. But I'm wondering how good the support I can expect is. Is anyone successfully using any combo cards or a g card in Linux? Any particular things to look out for? Recommended brands, chipsets, etc? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows

Re: Executing a Script every hour

2003-09-30 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'd > like to run the swendeleter.pl script automatically every so often to keep my > mailbox from overfiling. Actually, cron will let you start a job by minute. Take a look at: man crontab man 5 crontab -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encryp

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
ng you with any real questions or suggestions. And my comments about dselect were not meant to be exclusive of other package managers. Every good package manager will show you suggests and recommends, I just tend to prefer the way that dselect does it for my own personal use. -- Alex Malin

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
d even after 2 hours I just can't get the hang of 'em. Though I know of QUITE a few people who absolutely swear by aptitude. Personally, I couldn't be happier with dselect. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. Y

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
irror.pl, but you'll also need to get the other related files to handle cleaning up old files, etc. It's not extremely well documented, but the variables at the top of file are pretty clear so you can set it up to do more or less what you want. If you need any help with it, or if you decid

Re: OT: RH and Debian brothers now?

2003-09-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
at Debian has been doing for years, I'd much rather see them JOIN with Debian to further promote community-supported distros. -- 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 keyserv

Re: Q: Oracle vs Debian?

2003-09-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
e? I did a writeup of the process a few months ago specifically for installing Oracle 9i on Sid. Things have gotten a lot simpler since then since libc has been upgraded in Sid. You can find it at: http://www.the-love-shack.net/oracle-on-sid.shtml -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, del

Re: 'intelligent' mail filtering

2003-09-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
n-perl and localscan-install.html haven't really helped much as I'm still confused about the whole local_scan + spamc/d issue. -- 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 keyserv

'intelligent' mail filtering

2003-09-11 Thread Alex Malinovich
rier-imap (with a Maildir) to store and access the mail. What else would be needed in order to implement the filter? -- 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: A6D2483

Re: Howto set up SB live 5.1?

2003-09-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 02:33, Baka Tamas wrote: > On Wednesday 10 September 2003 06.20, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- > > i.e. modprobe -r emu10k1 > > > > After that, you'll want to make sure that you have the appropriate ALSA > > drivers loaded: > > > &g

Re: Howto set up SB live 5.1?

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
stick with OSS, you'll need to wait for someone else to reply as I haven't used OSS in well over a year now. -- 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: A6

Re: regexp problem

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
move one of the spaces into the optional part, otherwise > with no "(guts)" part the rule is looking for 2 consecutive spaces. I knew it was bound to be a stupid mistake. :) Thanks! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail prefer

mutt tips

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
o be whatever I want, but shouldn't it default to something intelligent like: Real Name (per /etc/passwd) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5) Any tips you might have for making life easier, especially in regards to dealing with debian-user. Thanks for any help. -- Alex Malinovich Support F

Re: Howto set up SB live 5.1?

2003-09-09 Thread Alex Malinovich
eply should come after a properly snipped quote of the original message to imply what it is you are replying 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 pgp00

Re: Howto set up SB live 5.1?

2003-09-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
etting the OSS drivers working with an SB live is very painless, but the ALSA drivers work much better with much better control. If you're currently using OSS, I'd strongly suggest switching to ALSA and then seeing what the situation is like. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, dele

Re: ..mirror script: woody deb mirror for i386, how to exclude the rest?

2003-09-08 Thread Alex Malinovich
r "parsesize.pl" will get called by sidmirror, so you don't have to worry about when to use them. Run sidmirror with -h or --help for usage info. You can get all the scripts at: http://www.the-love-shack.net/geek.html -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Win

regexp problem

2003-09-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
) via [[:alnum:]]+$ Now the filter gets rid of the latter, but lets the former through! Is there some glaring omission in my regexp that I haven't caught yet? Possibly because of the double parenthesis? The outer set is for a selection, the inner set is literal. Any suggestions are welcome

Re: Quoting

2003-08-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
ll school though. About 5000 students I think. -- 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] open source distribution

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
bsolutely broken, and definitely not ready for prime-time. :) -- 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: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
that's possible in their environment. (e.g. I don't think it's possible to do a } else { line in python even when using comments because you'd have comment code comment on one line) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
one, love it when I have a job to do. But if I just feel like hacking at some code I don't like it. I find that just feeling out a program as I go along is much more fun. But when I just need to get a job done, having a good plan in place is the greatest thing in the world. -- Alex Malinovic

Re: resolv.conf file

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
0 from the end. dhclient may have some way of getting around it, but I just use pump if I'm in a Windows environment. -- 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:

Gnome icons misbehaving

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
ff on the right and bottom edges. If I use the Nuvola theme, all I get is the top left corner of the image. Everything still works fine, it just looks weird. Any ideas where I could start looking to fix the problem? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY!

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 04:32, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:44:50AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I've been using Perl for a number of years with programs that store > > data in flat files. Usually using a combination of likely-to-be-unique > >

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
vise a language with an extremely solid OO structure, good garbage collection, easy interfaces to C libraries, and most importantly, forced type C bracketing, I'd be in heaven! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
ops and if's based on indentation just doesn't cut it for me. I deal much better with counting brackets or, better yet, having The One True Editor highlight corresponding brackets as I pass over their partners. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition T

Re: Nautilus & Samba

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
as I can remember and, as far as I know, still hasn't been implemented. -- 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: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
ve it's meant to be 'fsckd up beyond all recognition' and was originally 'fubar'. Though there has been discussion regarding whether foobar and fubar have any real relation. For a rather complete writeup on the topic, see: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=foobar and h

Re: more OT: search-and-replace commands (was Re: OT: Why is C sopopular?)

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
not and it will actually work. And if there's already a shell-script for it (I'm not familiar with 'rename') just run it in Cygwin. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
+ and Java when I catch myself starting to type myStringVariable =~ s/ /_/; or some such only to realize that it won't work. :) -- 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: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 21:43, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 16:01, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > Дана сре, 27-08-2003 у 13:06, Steve Lamb је написао: > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 04:21:05 -0700 > > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] &g

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
ou silly English K-nigit! Getting my hopes all up hoping that Gates was dead! How rude! :) -- 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: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
what prompted this question in the first place) but I've never quite gotten comfortable with C. I'm also very reluctant to learn Python because I'm very adamant in how I use whitespace. Though I will need to pick it up sooner later. As well as Ruby and probably PHP as well. You can never kno

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
be argued that the speed at which a program can be written is more important than the speed at which it executes. -- 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

OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
. If not for some of the speed limitations and, more importantly, the fact that it's non-free, I would say that Java is the perfect language. Hmm... is that gasoline I smell? :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 22:57, Al Davis wrote: > On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:35 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: --snip-- > You didn't say what your major is, so I am assuming it is CS. CIS actually. Not nearly as much theory as CS and a very solid grounding in business and management. Abo

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 09:18, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:36, Mark Roach wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 03:35, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > > I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a C

COBOL compiler

2003-08-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
r family for not including a proper copyright notice any time you use two or more letters present in the product name in a sentence. Whoops! There goes the family! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key

Re: TV-out without X

2003-08-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 01:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 11:38:37PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > The only way I've EVER done TV-out from a computer has been with my > > laptop, which is using an ATI Mobility M4. > > Could You

Re: TV-out without X

2003-08-26 Thread Alex Malinovich
es may work. The only way I've EVER done TV-out from a computer has been with my laptop, which is using an ATI Mobility M4. Hope that helps. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from a

SMTP over SSH

2003-08-25 Thread Alex Malinovich
won't require any modifications to my MUA or MTA setups. (i.e. I won't have to set Evolution to send on port 2525 or some such, nor force exim to listen for connections on port 2525) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred.

Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 13:18, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > --- Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > > I use Moneydance after trying GNUcash, kapital, Mymoney, QHacc and > > > Checkbook Tracker. Moneydance is the best. > > > > > >

Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
ken? THAT's double-entry! Every debit in one account is a credit in another. So when you debit $20 from your checking account, you also credit $20 to your Expenses:Auto:Gas account. Simple. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted m

Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
;financial institutions"? Not in the point-and-drool fashion offered by things like Money and Quicken. For gnucash you would have to manually go to your bank's web site and download the qif. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail

Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
, I ended up switching to gnucash and have been there since. I agree that moneydance is a very good program, but I hesitate to recommend non-free software which is why I use and tend to promote gnucash. And I do very much believe that given 10 - 15 minutes to just sit down and use gnucash, it becomes ve

Re: money/quicken/?

2003-08-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
ake. In gnucash, you do the same. The only difference is that every "category" is actually a separate account. If you want, you can always look at any individual account (say, Expenses:Auto), or you can just ignore them and only really worry about your checking and savings accounts. -- Ale

Re: custom top level menu (gnome)

2003-08-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
to my Gnome menu on a panel that has all of my most commonly used programs in 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: Th

Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?

2003-08-22 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 12:49, Christophe Courtois wrote: > Le Vendredi 22 Août 2003 00:08, Alex Malinovich a déclamé : > > Assuming you're exchanging messages with friends who have French, > > Japanese, and English fonts installed, and that their mailers support > > Unic

Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?

2003-08-21 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 01:03, Xavier Maillard wrote: > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: --snip-- > > I'm pretty sure that most MUA's, M$ and otherwise, already have full > > Unicode support. Any MUA that's used anywhere outside of the US would

Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?

2003-08-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
e it in order to be used seriously. On the off chance that they don't, however, you don't really have to worry about it. All regular ASCII characters (i.e. all characters in the English alphabet) will still show up fine. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windo

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
as proper English is concerned, recursive acronyms are 'wrong', but as far as geeks dating back to the MIT AI lab and earlier, they're considered quite clever. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public

Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?

2003-08-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
ways welcome. I have my entire system set up to use UTF whenever possible. The only problems I have are when using a plain (i.e. not xterm) console, some characters don't display correctly. But for communication with others, I've never had a problem. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 00:50, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 07:51:00PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > (Thankfully it was all a dirty hack so I don't > > have to worry about ever writing somethin

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-19 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 02:53, cr wrote: > On Tuesday 19 August 2003 12:51, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > (snip) > > > > > IANAL, but this is how I've understood the law and, in particular, how > > my former employer would most certainly interpret it. > > I

Re: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
eard of anyone even TRYING to enforce a clause such as this, much less succeed. Though I have personally SEEN the clause on a number of occasions. p.s. This list goes to my primary mailbox, so no need to CC me on replies. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows parti

Re: startx doesn't work

2003-08-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 23:22, Leandro Patrón Rizzo wrote: > Sorry. > I forget the log. > cheers It looks like it might be a problem with the framebuffer device. Try setting: Option "UseFBDev" "false" in the Device section of your XF86Config-4. -- Alex Malinovich

Re: Q3Demo Segfault

2003-08-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
the same engine. Maybe some of your q3 files got corrupted somehow? Have you tried re-installing maybe? -- 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: SCO identifies code?

2003-08-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
isk making my entire program 'illegal'. Theoretically, if I re-implemented that library in say, Perl, I still MIGHT be in violation. (Thankfully it was all a dirty hack so I don't have to worry about ever writing something that bad again. :) IANAL, but this is how I've underst

Re: Woody & M$ dhcp

2003-08-18 Thread Alex Malinovich
her app keeps writing "-- > MARK --" in /var/log/messages. Looks like my limited disk space shall all > be eaten up by log files. Any idea on how to reduce the amount of logging > in my case?? Running 'ifdown' before unplugging should at least take care of the dhc

Hard drive space disappearing

2003-08-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
Everything either runs extremely slowly or stops responding altogether. I had thought that maybe it was some program going crazy and dumping data either to a log file or a tmp file, but I've checked both /var/log and /tmp every time it's happened and they are usually contain no more than a

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
en introduced to free software through Cygwin, I went to gnu.org and looked at the list of recommended distros in order to get started. Sure enough, the "free-est of the free" that I found mention of was Debian. Oh well, I guess you can't ALWAYS be on top. :) -- Alex Malinovich Suppor

Re: How can I use bittorrent?

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
es for which of the tools to actually use, but if you want the Windows-lookalike GUI client, you'll want 'btdownloadgui' for your program name. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key

Re: [OT: Elfquest] WAS: Re: Howto released: Using OpenLDAP onDebian Woody to serve Linux andSamba users

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
ther. Then again, it could have something to do with growing up in Sarajevo and being surrounded by mountains, or with spending every winter break as a child at my grandmother's house where 'heating' was what the wood-burning stove in the kitchen did for that one room. :) Though sai

Re: Reliably transferring a large amount of data from one machineto another over DSL

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
er dsl ? apt-get install rsync If that doesn't work, then you need to look into actual hardware or service problems. (e.g. your ISP blocking certain types of transfers) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my

Re: Debian Decade and Keysigning Party

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
lass, you maintain all pointer references. And while we're discussing theoretical things, why do all of my friends think I'm a geek? Oh... wait... :) -- 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

[OT: m r ducks] Re: pdf readers

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 13:50, Greg Folkert wrote: > MR DUCKS! > MRNOT DUCKS! > CM EDBD WINGS? > LIB MR! DUCKS! I always heard it as: M R ducks M R not ducks O S A R C D E D B D wings? Y I B! M R ducks! And now this is all hopelessly off-topic... :) -- Alex Malinovich Support F

Re: Offline aptitude?

2003-08-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
for dpkg and apt-get for more details. It might be possible to have aptitude do all of this from the command line as well, but since it would just end up calling dpkg and apt-get anyway, you may as well cut out the middle man. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows parti

Re: Unusual idea..

2003-08-10 Thread Alex Malinovich
a stream of integers corresponding to the waveform of the original source. Not to compress it, not to convert it back, and not to get a unique value. Just to do it. But then, that's just me. I can't pretend to know what the OP truly had in mind. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Softwar

Re: FYI

2003-08-07 Thread Alex Malinovich
anyone to think that I'm singling anyone out here, specifically Alan. This just happened to be the most recent post that I saw about this issue and was a convenient one to reply to. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You c

Completely OT: European mobile text-messaging

2003-08-06 Thread Alex Malinovich
while he's traveling in the countryside. While I seriously doubt that I could send him messages directly from my cell phone in the US, I'm wondering if there's a way to do it online? SMS or something similar? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition T

Re: [OT] Please STOP it!

2003-08-04 Thread Alex Malinovich
te that it would be even worse than dealing with a dead parrot. But enough of this. I have things I must attend to in my own, particular. Idiom, sir? Idiom! p.s. And don't worry about how we got the coconuts either! :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows

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

2003-08-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
ption that most websites that are on the same IP will use the same nameserver as well, it might be a good start to just get the A records on that particular nameserver. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public

Re: web interface to submit bugs

2003-08-03 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 00:38, Paul Johnson wrote: --snip-- > You want obscure? Go look at Microsoft's BTS. Microsoft HAS a BTS?! Where?! (Or do they call it a "feature" tracking system? :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encryp

Re: web interface to submit bugs

2003-08-02 Thread Alex Malinovich
:) As for bugzilla, I for one would be opposed to it. I actually think that bugzilla is a bit TOO full-featured for its own good. I like to go by the KISS principle. (Keep It Simple, Stupid :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred.

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
/. /dev/hdc1 /usr/bin/gcc -> /usr/bin/gcc-3.2 - Now we're ok again. Unless the idea is to keep /dev/hdc1 mounted as a backup drive (e.g. /backup/hdc/1) in which case the symlink considerations come in handy. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODA

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
thing I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned is using 'cp' in parted. Using a partitioning tool to copy partitions sure sounds like a pretty safe bet to me. :) -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can

Re: Newbie needs install help....

2003-07-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
I would like some help. > > I can do AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, or whatever. Check out #debian on irc.debian.org. There's always a bunch of helpful people in there. Every once in a while, someone might get grumpy, but you can just ignore them and keep talking to the helpful ones. :) -- Alex M

Re: Using dd to copy a disk.

2003-07-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
to /backup or some other silly thing, this should be ok, right? Or am I missing some of the finer points of multiple mounts throughout the filesystem? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pg

Re: only get packages that haven't changed in last 5 days

2003-07-28 Thread Alex Malinovich
y have versions, it's much simpler to do it this way since you can get both the package name and the package version from the same line in Packages.gz. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any o

Re: How to kill gdm??

2003-07-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 20:53, Zhao You Bing wrote: > Every time when killed gdm will restart itself, so if I start with gdm > and later I don't want to see gdm after logout how should I do?? > Thanks As root, run "gdm-stop". -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Softw

Re: "undead" network interface

2003-07-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 14:24, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 20:30:11 +0200, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > However, from everything I > > know about bit torrent (I don't use it myself) I had thought that it > > would only establish connections WHILE y

Re: "undead" network interface

2003-07-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 13:25, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Alex Malinovich said on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 01:17:51PM -0500: > > My roommate's computer is turning into an undead monster in regards to > > the network interface. He's constantly downloading things over our > >

Re: gaim: keyboard shortcut for switching between tabbed IM/Chattabs?

2003-07-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
is a true "standard" but every tabbed application I've ever used has honored 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

"undead" network interface

2003-07-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
s downloads. However, from everything I know about bit torrent (I don't use it myself) I had thought that it would only establish connections WHILE you were downloading something. Any ideas/suggestions? -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypte

Re: [OT] linux-2.6.0-test1 problems

2003-07-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
pad. /dev/input/event[0-n] I think event interfaces are numbered according to the order that the devices are configured, so you'll have to try event0 event1 and event2 if you have a standard keyboard/mouse setup. Good luck. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows parti

Re: [OT] linux-2.6.0-test1 problems

2003-07-16 Thread Alex Malinovich
with 2.6.0-test1, so I really want to pursue this. Getting a USB mouse to work with 2.6 is extremely easy as the whole USB input interface has been much improved. Unfortunately, the rest of the input methods have all been made considerably more complicated. (Though it is quite understandable.) Gettin

Re: mysql on debian

2003-07-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
conf. There's a line in there that either needs to be commented or uncommented to enable external connections. Just look through it and you should find it no problem. My server is down at the moment so I can't give you more precise directions. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delet

Re: No sound after kernel upgrade

2003-07-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
with 0.9. Other than that, I don't know what to suggest. Good luck. -- 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: 4GL development (a little OT: perhaps)

2003-07-14 Thread Alex Malinovich
it myself but I've heard good things. apt-cache show glade and/or apt-cache show glade-2. -- 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

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