Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-24 Thread Brian Kimball
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 24 September 2005 03:20 pm, David Clymer wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 12:48 -0700, Brian Kimball wrote: > > > John Hasler wrote: > > > > > As for the "These people"... Will that group of people on >

Re: 4ol 4rt files:

2005-09-24 Thread Brian Kimball
John Hasler wrote: > > As for the "These people"... Will that group of people on this > > list ever stop this geek snobbery? > > Snobbery, hell. Anyone who copies an email address out of a Google > hit and sends off a complaint without reading the referenced message > is a doofus. > > It's not s

Re: resolvconf not working?

2005-09-18 Thread Brian Kimball
Michelasso wrote: > But this isn't happening and I have /etc/resolv.conf empty. Hrm, IIRC resolvconf asks some configuration questions during package setup time. You may want to try "dpkg-reconfigure resolvconf" and see what happens. brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Can't login when using kdm (KDE) -- Part 2

2005-09-16 Thread Brian Kimball
rs wrote: > Debian / Sarge / main > > This is continuation of the following thread: > http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/browse_thread/thread >/0ba07cce9a5d0a6b/066a545b5852bfd4#066a545b5852bfd4 See http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2005/09/msg00023.html and http://bugs.debian.or

Re: Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Brian Kimball
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for > travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good > recommendations by any chance? A good recommendation that I don't see very often is to check which machines linux laptop vendors choose to

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-26 Thread Brian Kimball
Wulfy wrote: > That makes me sad as > this is a wonderful resource, squandered by bad manners. This list is full of nice people asking for help and even more nice people giving it. That is the norm. Problems arise when people who are new to Debian and Linux begin demanding changes instead of

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-26 Thread Brian Kimball
Wulfy wrote: > > > Oh, you use a brain-dead mailer that thinks it knows better than you? > Your loss. Think about it. > > > > If the mailer is "brain-dead" and I think it knows better than I do Parse error. Marc said the opposite: The _mailer_ is brain-dead because among other things _it_ t

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-24 Thread Brian Kimball
Marc Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:05:21PM +1000, charlie wrote: > > Am new here, but think that reply to list is standard on all Linux > > learning lists? > > You'd be wrong. Dead wrong. Amen brother. For all you people who are dead wrong and in denial about it, read this: http://

Re: proper way to change ip and hostname

2005-07-27 Thread Brian Kimball
Thomas Hood wrote: > Brian Kimball wrote: > > But that only handles the bare minimum. You will also need to > > reconfigure any software that has your old hostname, IP address, > > netmask, network address, etc., hardcoded in its config files. > > In this case greppin

Re: proper way to change ip and hostname

2005-07-26 Thread Brian Kimball
Matthew Lenz wrote: > rather than grep xarging /etc for occurances of the ip and hostname > is there a proper "debian way" of changing them? Others have already led you in the right direction. To summarize: 1) change IP address: edit interface information in /etc/network/interfaces 2) change h

Re: Debian and wireless network cards

2005-07-23 Thread Brian Kimball
I just solved this dilemma two days ago. I found the hawking hwp54g works well and is pretty inexpensive. Hawking has used a few different chipsets but IIRC they all have linux drivers in varying degrees of development. The one that I bought has a Ralink rt2500 chipset, and the driver for it

Re: Howto find and remove unused libraries?

2005-06-27 Thread Brian Kimball
fraz wrote: > I'll give aptitude another go in the future. Just so you know, aptitude's fullscreen interface can be heavily customized to your liking. You can decide what information should be shown on each line in the package list (name, version, size, priority, description, etc). I've curr

Re: Maintaining group ownership of new files

2004-10-30 Thread Brian Kimball
Ext2/ext3 filesystems have built-in support for this behavior, but it's not turned on by default in debian. Remount your filesystems with the bsdgroups option. This is a lot cleaner than trying to maintain setgid bits on all your directories and messing with umasks, which aren't honored by all

Re: poll: managing high volumes of list mail effectively

2004-10-15 Thread Brian Kimball
On Friday 15 October 2004 08:01 am, martin f krafft wrote: > I am subscribed to 237 mailing lists and even though my tools are Holy crap! How much time per day do you spend on all that mail? I'm trying to be as efficient as I can with my 19 mailing lists and I still spend too long on them. th

Re: Combining images?

2004-08-22 Thread Brian Kimball
Also try out ale ("a tool that merges images to increase fidelity or create mosaics") and grunch ("merge partial scans into a larger image"). I happened to notice them just a few days ago while browsing the graphics packages. brian On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 07:20:57 -0500, Nate Bargmann <

Re: NNTP to email?

2003-08-04 Thread Brian Kimball
Chris Kenrick wrote: > I'm rather fond of mutt as an email client, and would like to use it to > read Usenet articles too. Try mailman. Create a new list for each newsgroup that you read and then configure the lists as mail<->news gateways. Subscribe yourself to the lists. Viola. Instant NNTP

Re: Potato and daylight Savings time

2000-04-02 Thread Brian Kimball
d it seems that potato did a fine job of changing. -- Brian Kimball

Re: Can't Install! Kernel Hangs!

1997-08-07 Thread Brian Kimball
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cool, thanks for the hints. I turned off my BIOS' PnP initialization feature and everything worked smoothly. Very strange! brian > Hmmm.. I had the exact same thing happen with my laptop. I wasn't able > to boot up at all with any of the ker

Can't Install! Kernel Hangs!

1997-08-07 Thread Brian Kimball
Hello all. I just got my CheapBytes 1.3.1 CD (which has some files that look suspiciously out of date ...) and I can't boot from either the CD (using loadlin) or the Rescue Disk I made. I also tried downloading the latest disk image, and it didn't work either. The kernel seems to hang when it di