Gnome Application menu oddity

2006-06-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I have two laptops with Etch installed on them. One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed using the Beta 1 net install. They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then. On the laptop installed with Beta 1, there is no 'Debian' sub-menu off of the

Re: force stable package if avail

2006-06-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 6/28/06, Jean-Sebastien Pilon wrote: Hello all, Sometimes I need to install testing and/or unstable packages. The thing is that I would like to keep all to stable if possible... Example: I need sun-java5-jdk with is only in unstable I want all dependencies to be installed from stable if

Re: Gnome Application menu oddity

2006-06-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On 6/28/06, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 04:34:30PM +0100, DePriest, Jason R. wrote: I have two laptops with Etch installed on them. One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed using the Beta 1 net install. They have both been dist-upgraded

Gnome Application menu oddity

2006-06-28 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I have two laptops with Etch installed on them. One was installed using the Beta 2 net install and one was installed using the Beta 1 net install. They have both been dist-upgraded to the same level since then. On the laptop installed with Beta 1, there is no 'Debian' sub-menu off of the

Networking Problems with Debian Linux as a VMware Guest OS

2004-08-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I have a high-powered work laptop running Windows XP (with SP1). I have VMware 4.5.2 build 8848 installed on it. This is the latest available version which was released on June of this year. I installed a jigdo'd Sarge image into a VMware Guest OS. Debian is not officially supported, but they

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

2003-11-04 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
-Original Message- From: Joe Rhett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 3:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alex Malinovich Subject: Re: What's the best package manager for single-package upgrades? Let me rephrase. Either the US mirrors are screwed, or there is

RE: how to figure out the gateway number?

2003-10-23 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
-Original Message- From: Andrew Kasza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to figure out the gateway number? I have debian 3.0. I have to change the configuration of network (I mean I have to change IP, netmask

RE: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
-Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: anti-spam idea for this list On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:17:48AM +0100, Pigeon wrote: I will give up my keyboard and text mode interface

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:16 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Your idea of easier does not reflect that of the open source community, apparently. What does open source have to do with storing email addresses in archives in a format that is easily harvested by spam-bots? Does open source == no privacy?

RE: getting viruses/spam after posting to this list

2003-10-16 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
My main work system is Windows 2000 Pro and I check my email with Outlook XP through a corporate Exchange server. There is no SPAM filtering being done on the Exchange servers as the Messaging Group is horribly understaffed and has trouble keeping a manager and they can't be bothered with extra

RE: Screen resolution with onboard graphics card

2003-10-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
-Original Message- From: Aaron Greene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Screen resolution with onboard graphics card Hi all, I am trying to run debian on a machine with an onboard graphics processor. When I run

RE: windows NT

2003-10-10 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
-Original Message- From: Ef Reb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 4:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: windows NT Hi, Will Debian run on Windows NT 4? I've an intel 233 processor. If so which version. thanks Your question makes no sense. Debian

RE: Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade

2003-10-06 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
-Original Message- From: Arnt Karlsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 10:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 18:10:16 -0500, DePriest, Jason R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message

Mouse no longer working after kernel upgrade

2003-10-03 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I have a Compaq ProLiant 1600 that was running the stock 3.0r1 kernel (2.2.20-idepci). I upgraded it via apt-get to 2.4.21-5-686-smp. While using 2.2.20-idepci, the mouse worked fine in X (using icewm). Since upgrading to 2.4.21-5-686-smp, the mouse no longer works. I have tried two different

RE: Paranoid Admin: Keystroke Logger for Debian

2003-10-01 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
-Original Message- From: ListDude1 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2003 6:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Paranoid Admin: Keystroke Logger for Debian Hey all, I was just wondering if there is a keystroke logger avaialble for Debian. I'm the

RE: getting my email

2003-09-29 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
If s/he can't get his mail; how is s/he going to get these replies? -Original Message- From: Martin Jungowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 4:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: getting my email You wanna ask your ISP why you're not getting

RE: xdm, icewm....X config indeed

2003-09-09 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
-Original Message- From: Valter G. Nogueira Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 3:10 PM To: _debian user list Subject: xdm, icewmX config indeed Currently I am using woody. I installed icewm using the following apt-get install

RE: ldap integration to standard unix utilities

2003-09-08 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
-Original Message- From: Julien Motch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 5:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ldap integration to standard unix utilities -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everybody, I have installed on a debian

RE: Debian-hardware newbie question

2003-09-04 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
-Original Message- From: Joydeep Bakshi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 8:29 AM To: Debian-users Subject: Debian-hardware newbie question Hi list, after using redhat for 3 years finally I have changed to the *GREATEST* debian-Linux. it was the

RE: some reality about iptables, please

2003-08-29 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Beyond that, I'm willing to put in the time to learn. I'm doing that now. Cheers, Bret If you want to spend some time getting down and dirty with iptables and Linux firewalls, I suggest reading a good book. I have the first and second editions of 'Linux Firewalls' published by New Riders

RE: Did I send that? (reading postfix logs)

2003-08-29 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
-Original Message- From: Emma Jane Hogbin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 2:44 PM To: debian-user Subject: Did I send that? (reading postfix logs) Hey everyone, I'm just scanning through my /var/log/mail.log and am confused by some of the

RE: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
The ActiveState Perl Developer's Kit for Windows can take a perl script and turn it into an executable file. But it doesn't really compile it. It just packages the minimum files needed for your script to run an compresses them. The .exe file expands the files and runs the perl script as a script.

'experimental' distro?

2003-08-19 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Okay, I give. How do I set up my sources.list to find the experimental distributions... deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free does not work... Thanks! -Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
http://www.suse.co.il/sdb/en/html/ext2frag.html The last sentence from this article pretty much says it all: Defragmentation is a waste of time http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-partitiontip.html I also got this quote from IBM developer works: OK, you may ask, what's the big

RE: Linux defragmenter?

2003-08-18 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Message- From: DePriest, Jason R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 8:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux defragmenter? http://www.suse.co.il/sdb/en/html/ext2frag.html The last sentence from this article pretty much says it all: Defragmentation is a waste of time

Odd console display problems

2003-08-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
When I am using SSH to connect to a remote Debian system, anything that should probably be using ncurses to display pretty bars and such looks like this lqk xReally quit Aptitude?x x [ Yes ][ No ] x mqj instead. Letters and symbols replace where the

RE: old laptop I need ugly fast Xwindows please

2003-08-14 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Title: Message I use IceWM on an IBM ThinkPad 380D (P150 MMX, 80 MB RAM, 2.1 GB HDD) and it runs great. I had tried to run GNOME in the past and it worked... but, man... it had to work pretty hard. You can go with the unstable version (I haven't had any problems). I think you need to

RE: apt through proxy

2003-08-11 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
I successfully use the: Add a line like this to your /etc/apt/apt.conf: acquire::http::proxy http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port; method. -Original Message- From: Moroni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 1:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: apt through proxy

RE: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls

2003-07-31 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
My ideal solution is to use a Firewall/VPN Appliance (Cisco and Symantec both have good offerings) for perimeter protection. But, use a desktop firewall/IDS/IPS/whatever-they-decide-to-call-them-next system for your end-users, as well. Windows XP has this built-in (I think they are licensing

RE: dselect apt-get coordination

2003-07-31 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
The /etc/apt/apt.conf files is extremely customizable. See 'man apt.conf' for all the details. The biggest problem I have with dselect over apt-get: it is easier to pick which version of a particular package I want to install when multiple versions are available with apt-get. -Original

RE: Network speed

2003-07-22 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Have you tried using 'ethtool'? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -s ethtool Package: ethtool Status: install ok installed Priority: extra Section: misc Installed-Size: 156 Maintainer: Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.7-1 Depends: libc6 (= 2.2.4-4) Conflicts: sparc-utils ( 1.9-1) Description:

make-kpkg producing error

2003-07-07 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
Hello, I am using make-kpkg to build a custom kernel based on the 2.4.18 source. This is the list of errors it gives me: In file included from ksyms.c:50: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/include/asm/checksum.h:72:30: missing terminating character In file included from ksyms.c:50:

RE: make-kpkg producing error

2003-07-07 Thread DePriest, Jason R.
This left me with this file (which I haven't tried to install yet...: /usr/src/kernel-image-2.4.1820030707_1_i386.deb Thanks for your timely advice! -Original Message- From: DePriest, Jason R. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 6:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE