Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
who spend so much energy keeping track of the number of times our planet spins. -- Dave Sherohman NomadNet, Inc. http://nomadnetinc.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
, when you say the machine is set to UTC time, that leads me to suspect that you may be referring to the hardware clock, not to the time zone setting which is used for display... They're completely independent of each other.) -- Dave Sherohman NomadNet, Inc. http://nomadnetinc.com

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
language (which would make sense, as that's what the language was designed for), then what about Object Pascal for OO? Apparently, Object Pascal has spread beyond Delphi and there are now free compilers for it available, so you wouldn't be consigning yourself to vendor lock-in. -- Dave Sherohman

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
more strict and learn good habits first, then apply them to languages which are more permissive, rather than picking up bad habits from the start. -- Dave Sherohman NomadNet, Inc. http://nomadnetinc.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
that no beginner (and few non-beginners) should write Perl without, IMO. -- Dave Sherohman NomadNet, Inc. http://nomadnetinc.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Slow Script

2009-02-05 Thread Dave Sherohman
structures which contain the actual data along with (in C terms) type definitions (e.g., whether it's stored as a string, an int, a float, etc.). That's the cost you pay for the convenience of having a single generic scalar data type and arrays that manage their own memory usage. -- Dave Sherohman

Re: Slow Script

2009-02-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
two cases, it looks very unlikely that I/O would be the bottleneck here. -- Dave Sherohman NomadNet, Inc. http://nomadnetinc.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: About LAMP

2009-02-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
in order for it to work properly. -- Dave Sherohman NomadNet, Inc. http://nomadnetinc.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Slow Script

2009-02-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
additional information about what you're actually trying to accomplish. -- Dave Sherohman NomadNet, Inc. http://nomadnetinc.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: command for checking executability

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
$ if [ -x /bin/bash ] ; then echo executable ; else echo not executable ; fi ; executable -- Dave Sherohman NomadNet, Inc. http://nomadnetinc.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-08-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 02:44:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: That seems redundant, since Emacs is the OS, and thus is running soon after POST. Does that age me? Emacs-as-OS comments just don't have the same impact when using a 2GB AMD 64X2 machine as they on a 8MB Sun3... Nah, I'd say

Re: Is the monitor ON?

2008-08-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 07:42:30AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: apropos dpms apt-cache search dpms man vbetool That all looks like power-management stuff (i.e., has the computer told the monitor to turn itself off?), but I believe the OP is looking for a way to determine whether the monitor is

Re: what's the best IDE for C programming in Debian?

2008-07-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 08:40:56AM -0700, Steve Witt wrote: Seriously, if you like an big IDE then I'd recommend eclipse. I've been forced to use it on a project for the last year and I really dislike it. A glowing recommendation, indeed. To me, a decent editor that does syntax

Re: exim: frozen messages

2008-07-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:12:38AM +0100, michael wrote: I've no user 'mbane' on the machine (ratty) so how can I unfreeze these messages and work out where they're coming from? Freezing a message only prevents additional delivery attempts from being made until a relatively long time (I think a

Re: Tool to show maximal repeating patterns / structure in (text?) data

2008-07-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:05:23AM +0100, j t wrote: I might be butting up against the edge of what's theoretically possible (computer science-wise) but I think that my requirements have something to do with lossless compression algorithms. Perhaps I should start reading the source code for

Re: sudo password visible through ssh command line

2008-07-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 01:04:31PM +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: In sid with key passwordless auth : ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo ls password: password And password is shown you Any tip to avoid this ? Do it as two separate commands? ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo ls password: should not

Re: [OT]: possible spyware?

2008-06-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 04:42:25PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/6/25 Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe it changed, but there used to be no password for the root account... https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo no, it hasn't changed. Nowhere does that document say that

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:21:15AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 10:16 am, Sam Leon wrote: andy wrote: Trying running aptitude clean aptitude autoclean is a better suggestion. Clean removes all cached deb files. Autoclean removes all old cached deb files while

Re: /dev/null /dev/sdb1 !

2008-04-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 02:45:11PM +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:35:31 +0800 paragasu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now i am wondering. whether it is because the command i just executed or my hard disk is really dying? It could be either. The command you

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:49:29AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:46:25AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: My (admittedly limited) understanding of public key crypto is that the public and private key are connected by the relationship of two extremly large prime

Re: Fwd: trans

2008-04-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 07:56:16PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Actually you ARE allowed to pump diesel in Oregon; just not normal petrol--go figure. So if you drive a Mercedes 300D, you can pump your own fuel, but if you drive a MB 300 you can't. The filling station lobbyists in Oregon

Re: Why Installing php and pecl so difficult in Debian?

2008-04-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:10:33PM +1000, hce wrote: I thought PHP is very common now days, but I found so difficult to install it in debian. The apt-get install can't find any php, pecl, php-xml packages. So, I have to downloaded php5_5.2.0-8+etch10_all.deb,

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:43:56PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: IIUC, you propose that there is a special way for non-subscribers to post, that locks out spammers at the same time? How should that work? The only thing I could imagine, is one of those silly 'type the letters that you

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:31:28PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: Frankly, I don't know what I saw in it when I was younger. It was just weird. Yes, it was. Wasn't that the point? -- News aggregation meets world domination. Can you see the fnews? http://seethefnews.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:43:58AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3-Apr-08, at 1:23 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: Unless they take the time to successfully factor the public key, Can you expand on that sentence? I'm not sure what you meant by it. I

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:57:30AM -0400, steve wrote: can the moderator please remove this idiot from the list?? Ive been getting this junk no less than ten times a day for lord knows how long. Debian-user is an open list which can be posted to by anyone, whether a list member or not. The

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 10:33:35AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: It is convenient to use scp for transferring files between the desktop machine in the LAN and the server, and to use ssh for remote maintenance of the server, again from the desktop machine in the LAN. And to

Re: DCHP

2008-03-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:01:08AM -0800, Ken Irving wrote: The dhcpd daemon(s) is not on your box, so the behavior you're seeing is due to whatever your admins are doing. The DHCP client on your box broadcasts a request for an IP address to the network, identifying itself by the MAC address

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:32:26PM -0800, David Fox wrote: On 3/2/08, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The potential hole I see in mutt is not actually a hole in mutt but in various helpers used by mutt users. For example, many of us use w3m or links or some other text browser

Re: Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?

2008-03-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:13:20PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: If the export would be r/o, what would be the risk of such a setup? I don't know their current status off the top of my head, but I seem to recall nfs/portmapper having a somewhat questionable early security history. They may be

Re: amanda - how is it running?!

2008-02-28 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 05:04:53PM +, michael wrote: I just noticed a amanda dir in /[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cd /tmp;ls -alt|head total 1831672 drwxrwxrwt 24 rootroot 135168 Feb 27 16:50 ./ {} drwx--S--- 2 backup backup 4096 Feb 27 12:29 amanda/ which I didn't

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-02-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:22:31AM -0600, Chuck Rhode wrote: By my count that six arguments anti to two pro. IT wins! ...in the context of duplicating processes which are mission-critical and/or changing the location of sensitive data. Most of those anti arguments don't really apply to such

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian or Microsoft going open source

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 12:22:58PM +0100, Misko wrote: Now that MS is going open source (it was on evening national TV news in my country) things are surely going to be better :) As mentioned news was not very clear can somebody explain what did MS actually made available? Is it source code or

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 10:10:53PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/24/08 21:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE HELP, when I tried printing debian told me that my printer is on fire. Upon inspection I found no signs of fire but I fear that

Re: confused about web servers

2008-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 08:21:01PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-02-14T19:53:13-0500, Steve Kleene wrote: Can someone here explain why the choice of web server determines whether the movie plays or not? I would have thought that the web server would just copy the WMV file to the

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:41:07PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Daniel writes: I'm sure some guy at Google is wondering why they just got a spike in searches for Overly Fond of Goats... So how many hits did you get? I found six... and debian-user had the #1 spot. -- News aggregation meets

Re: missing /var/mail

2008-02-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 03:36:55PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 01:25:59PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Use a storage method that doesn't put all eggs in one basket. What filesystem doesn't put all the eggs in one basket? I don't think Ron was talking about UPSes,

Re: Question about - apt-get upgrade

2008-01-29 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:45:01PM +0100, Robert Cates wrote: I've got a general question concerning apt-get - what would be the reason(s) for the below message when I upgrade my packages? Do I need to do an apt-get upgrade again at a later time, or is there something I need to do right away

Re: How to set up simple cgi web

2008-01-26 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:22:58AM +1100, hce wrote: Sorry for not being clear. I actually did not want to install apache, I am just doing my program to use freecgi library and want to test the cgi binary file on my local machine. I was told I could set up a simple web server to use a browser

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:28:06PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 08:09:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/23/08 19:44, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 07:17:50PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Have you yet bitched and complained how kids today have it

Re: umask

2008-01-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:17:32PM +0100, Christian Ruffer wrote: but it only works for the bash settings. colors and aliases. The umask isn't set :( If you've found a config file which sets the colors and aliases correctly, then that file is being run and it *is* setting the umask. There's

Re: umask

2008-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 12:20:24PM +0100, Christian Ruffer wrote: i want to change the umask permanently for one user. 1. I change the .bash_profile file. uncommented umask nothing Have you tried setting it in .bashrc? Depending on how a shell comes into existence, .bash_profile may or may

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 04:55:25PM +0100, ??. wrote: Quoth Depo Catcher: Say I want to apply all the security patches [or to get all updates] for my version, is there an easy way to do that? Debian stable is already very secure, the maintainers do

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 11:59:25PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: Still, with 512 MB of RAM going for $30, someone who can't afford enough RAM for a typical desktop system probably has more pressing concerns than spending time tinkering with Linux to try to wring out the last bit of

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:18:50PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the disk? At the end? I thought it might be best to have it at the beginning, immediately

Re: Perl realted..?

2008-01-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 01:51:44AM -0800, pedxing wrote: But the point is that scope doesn't change in a loop, but it does in a subroutine. You are incorrect. Every set of { braces } is its own (sub)scope, regardless of whether they are separated out into a sub or not. ~$ perl -w -e ' { my

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:45:15PM -0800, Sam wrote: if i read you correctly, you can read the file into an array and use pop, which will return the last element read.Or you could use @array[-1] That's rather wasteful of memory, which becomes a concern with larger files. If the objective is

Enabling ok_locales in SA (was: Re: Another flood...)

2008-01-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:16:01AM -0800, Brian wrote: I turned on the SA ok_locales function yesterday and loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry, these helped somewhat. Is this just a matter of adding ok_locales 1 loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::RelayCountry to

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 06:53:17PM -0500, Shane D wrote: True, but withouth them having helped us, there would be more of it. It's not good, but it is helpful. Er, waitaminnit. Let me get this straight. If there were no spammers, we wouldn't have developed spam filters, and therefore we

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: I see we have been hit by another flood of spam. Who lowered the floodgates? ;-) I've seen a slight increase in spam sent to me directly slipping through my spamassassin filters, but nothing like the flood coming from debian-user.

SOLVED: Reconfiguring package configuration interface (was Re: Terminal issues in fresh install)

2008-01-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
that I've figured it out (again): On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 06:23:52PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: ...Package configurations are... ...using the (default) curses interface. Which I've never liked anyway. How do I switch it over to the plain-text (readline

Re: Terminal issues in fresh install

2008-01-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 05:19:52PM -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 06:23:52PM -0600, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: Is it significant that the old machine was using the basic en_US locale or that I've been accessing both of them via ssh from

Terminal issues in fresh install

2007-12-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
Greetings, all! I've just moved over from an ancient self-hosted Debian box onto some more modern hardware and things are going mostly smoothly, but I'm having some issues with mutt's thread indicators (extended-ASCII arrows) displaying improperly. I've double-checked that I've got all locale

Re: multicore gizmos

2007-02-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:06:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I've always wondered about the possibilities of setting up more than one desktop on a single system. And by more than one desktop, I mean full KVM, audio, and USB (preferably with the ability to tell which

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 06:24:45AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: How about, you have N bags of coins. Each bag has some number of coins in it, each one has at least N coins. You know that one of the bags has counterfeit coins in it, and you know that the counterfeit coins each weigh one gram less

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:51:40AM -0800, Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 01:15 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 12:05:24AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Actually, I'm serious about the utility of big line printers. The large print and *wide*, lined paper made it easy

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:58:19PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: OK, one more time: Delete by default does not have to mean delete *immediately* by default. Look at the underlined text above. I already explicitly stated that I didn't mean immediate deletion

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:30:48PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: I was complaining solely about the use of compact to mean delete. Are you confusing the logical level (what the user almost always deals

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: If the tool does not provide a means to undelete messages, then I also find the decision to not make permanent deletion (either when the user changes

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:53:33PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: I believe his point was that copyright violation is not theft. I believe he is wrong, in the USA, at least. You might investigate the DMCA. AIUI, copyright violation has been moved from being a tort to being

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:10:46AM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: I think I'll side with the people who think this obscure use of the word compact is a bug in IceDove (and just continue using mutt). Ever have a huge mbox

Re: Local webserver for testing, needed

2007-02-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:43:30PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:22:21 -0600 Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [1] Is there a switch I'm not aware of that causes a search for, say, php to return just the actual php packages (i.e., php3 and php4) instead of all

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: To make Thunderbird/Icedove to really delete those messages you can use File, Compact Folders and you can specify configuration option Compact folders when it will save over XXX kB (you can also specify specific amount of disk

Re: Local webserver for testing, needed

2007-02-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:50:34PM +0100, Niels Rasmussen wrote: Does such a utility exist for use with debian (or something similar) ? I've read about LAMP but cant find it in the repositories :-/ Well, you're already running Linux, so that's covered. $ apt-cache search apache apache -

Re: when in doubt wipe it out

2007-02-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 01:54:08PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: John Hasler wrote: There is no theft involved here. Are you aware of the details of the case? How do you know that no theft was involved? I believe his point was that copyright violation is not theft. (While copyright violation

Re: iceweasel not being recognized by ISP website

2007-02-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 09:52:44PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: In such a case, should I tell my friend dont apply for jobs with capitalone as they use a website which is not compatible with iceweasel? or should I tell him Just go to a windows machine and send your application? Not as

Re: The Final Frontier. Upgrading Sarge to Etch

2007-02-03 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 07:43:31AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Backup is essential. I've tried to do an upgrade from sarge to etch several times over the past year, and have yet to do one that resulted in a working system. I found a new install works better, but even there I have

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:28:53AM +, Mihira Fernando wrote: Random Quotes From Megas XLR As much as I may love anime, I just can't deal with a series named Megasex LR, even if it's not spelled that way. -- I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty than

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-02-01 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:50:27AM +, Mihira Fernando wrote: Dave Sherohman wrote: As much as I may love anime, I just can't deal with a series named Megasex LR, even if it's not spelled that way. Your love for anime shouldn't have any issues with a cartoon named Megas XLR. However

Re: Patch for Daylight Savings Time (DST))

2007-01-31 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 06:05:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Rob Sims wrote: $ zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 MST isdst=0 gmtoff=-25200 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 02:41:21PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: I wonder why gnome, kde chose to have white on black background as defaults in konsole, gnome-terminal etc., Are those developers so reflective than being projective? :-) I suspect it's because Gnome and KDE seem to think

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:24:52PM -0500, Steve C. Lamb wrote: On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 03:17:17AM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: One of the reasons I prefer dark on light is the excessive use of blue in ls output (which I tend to use a lot). So... change it. LS_COLORS controls what colors

Re: Doing administrative work

2007-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:49:30PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Tyler MacDonald wrote: Have you put a password on your bootloader (GRUB, etc) to restrict changing the boot parameters? The same applies to the bios. Otherwise someone could just switch off the machine, enter a knoppix-cd

Re: [OT] Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-23 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 11:55:32AM -0500, celejar wrote: On 1/22/07, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:25:23AM -0600, John C wrote: I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty than those attending too small degree

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:25:23AM -0600, John C wrote: I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much Liberty than those attending too small degree of it. - Thomas Jefferson If you really believe this quote, why do you insist that bottom posting is the only *correct*

Re: Doing administrative work

2007-01-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:31:39PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: * If the need arises use a method to allow limited privileges in a granular way. I use sudo it allows one to give user creation without giving the keys to the machine to the person or helpdesk person.

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:56:23AM -0800, Francis Healy wrote: It's not in the event. You almost always need to trim your quotes. Although response-before-reply quoting is itself often a pain to decipher, my biggest beef with top-posting is that top-posters almost always just throw some text in

Re: Re: nohup, but not nohup.out -- how to?

2007-01-13 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:29:02AM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: On 1/12/07, David Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 12:45:44PM +0530, vikrant vig wrote: Nohup.out got larga enough and I don't want to redirect nohup output neither to nohup.out nor to any other file.

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] Mailing List Netiquette

2007-01-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:37:30PM -0800, Justin Gallardo wrote: When replying to an email, is it proper to leave the original poster in the To: line of the email, and the CC the list? Or is it better to just send your reply to the list, not specifically mentioning the original poster.

Re: bulk mailer

2006-12-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 06:58:36AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: Please note that my SOLE interest in Mailman is one-way transmission -- implementation of an announce only newsletter, rather than a traditional mailing list. My largest Mailman list is an announcement-only list. It's pretty

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 01:00:04PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/10/06 12:41, Nate Duehr wrote: Roll through any stop signs without coming to a full and complete stop in your car lately? You broke the law. Anyone see it (or care)? Just like everything in life, the stakes may be high

Re: spamassassin

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 05:45:06PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: I tried starting spamassassin, but get this message: debian:/home/mark# /etc/init.d/spamassassin start SpamAssassin Mail Filter Daemon: disabled, see /etc/default/spamassassin debian:/home/mark# locate /etc/default/spamassassin

Re: bulk mailer

2006-12-11 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 07:50:07AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: I found in the Debian archive a package named libmail-bulkmail-perl. The lib at the start means it's a library. You haven't installed a program, you've installed a collection of predefined functions which can be used to write

Re: cron-apt with no mta

2006-11-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 04:31:38PM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote: Besides the config and security hassles of it, the machine's a P2-300 with 64 meg ram. The GUI bogs it down enough, I can't imagine running an MTA on it as well. An MTA is nothing. Really. I ran 5 domains (including mail, DNS,

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:35:48AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Infinitely opening windows != the NY Times popping open a 'sidebar' window. And there are lots of sites that do that. Too many to whitelist. NYT pops up a sidebar window? Huh, hadn't noticed... I have all my browsers configured

Re: Why linux memory management isn't clever, always hold large memroy?

2006-10-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:51:46AM +0800, bowen wrote: (Why mysql or system do not automatic free some of the loaded data from memory, Just use a little swap space to sawp out a little memory). shell# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:

Re: debian forum

2006-09-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 09:05:22AM -0700, Raquel wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:45:20 -0500 Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:34:35PM -0700, Raquel wrote: I would say that if you want to do it, then you should. And then advertise it like crazy

Re: debian forum

2006-09-22 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 05:34:35PM -0700, Raquel wrote: I would say that if you want to do it, then you should. And then advertise it like crazy. There will be so many nay sayers here that you'll become discourage very quickly. Some people don't like change and will fight with all their

Re: Some advice on perl: read byte to hex string

2006-09-21 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:07:01PM +0700, Welly Hartanto wrote: Yeah ... Of course more digging for Pearl is absolutely what I need. I was just so curious because the same algorithm which is cross-worked in java and vc++, but not in my bfirst/b perl script. The algorithm was fine. The main

Re: OT: Some advice on perl: read byte to hex string

2006-09-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 01:29:44PM +0700, Welly Hartanto wrote: #Loop through the whole data for ($i=0; $i (length($gotit)); $i++) { my $c = substr($gotit, $i, 1); $c1 = $c 0xF0; #get the high nibble $c1 = $c1 4; # $c1 =

Re: how to tail w/o folding the output?

2006-08-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 08:50:50AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, How do you run tail and not have it fold the output? E.g. I run: tail -s 1 -n 40 -f kern.log But it folds the output so that what is messy is now messier... So you want the lines to be cut off at the end of the

Re: remote access via ssh?

2006-08-24 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 12:06:35PM -0400, Ishwar Rattan wrote: Remote system is debian derivative. When I access this system using ssh, the connection does not execute $HOME/.bashrc on remote system. My .bash_profile starts with if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then source ~/.bashrc fi According to

Re: chown

2006-08-15 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:49:23PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: On (15/08/06 09:29), Kent West wrote: Hmm; on my box: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk: man 2 chown No manual entry for chown in section 2 See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available. Hi Kent $

Re: how to get package list

2006-08-12 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 06:34:36PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: i need to create a backup of my system but i don't want to copy all the progs (i need only the package list). Debian makes it nice and easy to get a list of all installed packages: # dpkg --get-selections aalib1

Mailman refusing to create site list

2006-08-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
I just (finally) got around to upgrading my mail server from Debian Woody to Sarge, and that brought a change of my Mailman version from something a few years old to 2.1.5-8, which refuses to start unless there's a list named mailman. Seems a bit silly to me but, OK, let's create it:

Re: procmail vs. exim (was: Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...)

2006-03-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 10:07:11AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: I'll wager that procmail is one of the better documented utilities out there, considering all those writing about its usage. The tiny-tools project even supplies an emacs syntax checker mode for rc files That's beside the point, IMO.

Re: procmail vs. exim (was: Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...)

2006-03-19 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 10:16:39PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Dave Sherohman: That's beside the point, IMO. All the documentation and syntax checkers in the world aren't going to change the fact that procmail's :0: * ^From: AntiSpam UOL [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

procmail vs. exim (was: Re: Proposed change for subscriptions...)

2006-03-16 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:45:09AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Steve Lamb: email was. And procmail? Investigated it; it's line noise masquerading You don't like procmail. Great. That's no excuse for insulting it. For some of us, it's a remarkable tool; one we'd rather abandon

Re: mutt assistance

2006-03-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 11:47:11AM -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: problem 1) after composing a message it shows up as an attachment in the preview screen before it can get sent out. i have tried putting the following line in my .muttrc file: attachments +I text/plain though this doesnt

Re: Turning off shell access

2006-03-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 04:00:29PM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 08:32:06PM +, Arnór Kristjánsson wrote: How can I turn off shell access (through SSH) for certain users? If you want to disable all shell access (including local) then set the user's login shell to

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