Re: Chromium in Sid

2010-05-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
for packages that you absolutely have to have the latest at the moment upstream makes it available is an advantage. Especially if you disagree with the choices or patches that the maintainer added to package. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos

Re: Giving a user root priveleges?

2009-11-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
nversation error > > How can I fix this? You are putting in zu22 password, right? As the user, you can run sudo -l to see what kind of right it has. You must still put in the correct password, though -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2009-11-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
t; misc utilities: grep > p2p: ktorrent > pdf/ps-reader: okular > terminal emulator: yakuake > text editor: emacs > video player: kmplayer > web browser: konqueror/firefox -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

Re: [mutt] label mails with colored tags

2009-10-25 Thread John L Fjellstad
omes in), or editlabel(1) script (1) http://blitiri.com.ar/p/other/mutt-labels/ -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Installing Debian alongside Windows Vista?

2009-06-28 Thread John L Fjellstad
by 50% and install Debian squeeze (64bit > AMD) on the 250GB partition that will be freed. I used to use PartitionMagic to shrink Windows partitions. Not sure if it still works with Vista, but I would think the newest version has support for it. A free vesion is gparted, but I have never u

Re: undigesting and filtering by list-id

2007-09-25 Thread John L Fjellstad
keep track of how often patterns actually > get hit. It's not that hard to add counting information to procmail. You can log the information. I do that with my spamrules -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: undigesting and filtering by list-id

2007-09-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
y easing reading, threading and replying), which doesn't > preserve the 'list-id' header. Is there no choice, then, but to filter > by 'to' (and 'cc' etc.)? Couldn't you reinsert the list-id header? That is, pull out the list-id header before undiges

Re: how to give priority for site with apt

2007-09-19 Thread John L Fjellstad
"abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't found info about priority in the apt doc Take a look at the apt_preferences(5). You can change the priority of the repositories by using pinning -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/

xml-fo to odf converter

2007-09-18 Thread John L Fjellstad
Anyone know a working xml-fo to odf converter? Google only shows me ms-doc to odf or xml-fo to pdf. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
s far as IMAP is concerned, I deleted the old message and uploaded a new message. As long the In-Reply-To header is still there, the threading shouldn't be broken -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
he text/html version of message, and not the plain text. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail messages with only html

2007-09-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
rough w3m -dump (or links -dump) before storing the message. Also, IMAP won't care if you change the message. You just upload the message as a new message. I do it all the time with I add labels etc. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos cu

Re: Better iptables firewall

2007-08-30 Thread John L Fjellstad
55:18 2007 I took the rules look fine -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: man for linux programmer's Manual

2007-08-18 Thread John L Fjellstad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hi, > > When I used RH 9.1 before, I can call man to display linux > programmer's C / C++ manual. But, I am not be able to do it in my new > installation of Debian 4.0. How can I install it? It's in manpages-dev, manpages-posix and manpa

Re: Problem with compiling kernel

2007-05-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
root access, just merely pretend to give you access. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-04 Thread John L Fjellstad
o remove the original /usr directory. At least that's my understanding. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

2007-05-04 Thread John L Fjellstad
to handle a > badly- or non-working system are the ones most likely to be > blind-sided by it. > > John L Fjellstad wrote: >> If you remove 'stable', then you kind of have to remove >> 'testing' too. > >I don't think that follows. If someone,

Re: replacing /usr with a new mountpoint

2007-05-03 Thread John L Fjellstad
> normal? I think you can do it without telinit 1. Try rebinding the / mountpoint somewhere else mount --bind / /mnt Then / will be in both / and /mnt The /mnt/usr should be your original /usr. Delete that directory, and unmount /mnt Theoretically, this should work, but I haven&#

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

2007-05-03 Thread John L Fjellstad
testing' too. Otherwise, people who follow testing will get a blast of new software once 'whatever' becomes stable. And how do you know which code name is the current stable? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUB

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

2007-05-03 Thread John L Fjellstad
y kind anymore. That means when the new distro goes stable, it's never much of a surprise. Then again, I don't feel like running "aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade" every day, especially on my servers. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/

Re: GCC compiler

2007-04-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
ook, it the book I have was more generic and not GNU make specific). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GCC compiler

2007-04-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
"+=". What's the difference? My book on Make mentions "=", but not ":=". I knew about ":=" but I always thought they were pretty much the same. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
I just don't have time or energy for this. Sorry. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Blog about using Debian for a really small business...

2007-04-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
ou put it up as a success story? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
r Windows). Actually, the Solaris lab probably has closer to 40 or 50 computers. And SCU isn't that big. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
you format the partition. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
ab, your system might become unbootable with a new kernel install. If you have label or UUID, then you continue as if nothing has happened. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: [OT] Universities, Linux, M$, USA

2007-04-24 Thread John L Fjellstad
n US college, but Santa Clara U always had a UNIX lab. Used to be HP-UX, now it's Solaris. Actually, the engineering lab has three systems, Solaris, Linux and Windows. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: iptables not behaving the way I expected

2007-04-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
and external services -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
ld just do something similar as long as they reside in their own directory structure. For compilers, you could export CC and CXX and only use those variables in your makefile, I guess. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not recommended, but possible: > > sudo su - I think sudo -i will give the same effect -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: iptables not behaving the way I expected

2007-04-19 Thread John L Fjellstad
ate before you do set. -m recent --set will log the ip address to the list whether it is in the list or not, so that rule will always match. You never get to the second rule, which say that only update if the ip address is already in the list. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/

Re: [Multi] Wireless Network Configuration

2007-04-10 Thread John L Fjellstad
er to have a program to manage my wireless network > choosing (Scanning for networks and choosing one based on a database of > "known" hosts, or something similar) I use whereami. Works great. Only problem is, I'm not sure it works if you use WPA -- John L. Fjellstad

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-10 Thread John L Fjellstad
equate, I will use iptables. It's basically three lines of rules -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch release??

2007-04-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
Debian Developers. Well, done. Have a beer :-) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
on and try again if the username/password does not match. This means that they only get one try. And since the 60 seconds timelimit is set every time someone makes a connection, they will never get the login unless they wait 60 seconds (which they never do). Also, in /etc/hosts.deny, set ALL: PAR

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
the environment. The system will remember what you chose last. To change environment, just logout of your current session, and log back in with the new environment. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: GPG and Signing

2007-04-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
to make > money from it. Instead, they built native S/MIME support into their > MUA's, built a certificate store into their operating system and > bought VeriSign. Couple of points. There are lots of stuff MS does that don't make them money. Also, I don't believe they ow

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
sed. I have looked but haven't been able to find > a good comparison them. You're better off just installing all three and test them out. I think they are pretty feature-equivalent these days. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

Re: GPG and Signing

2007-04-03 Thread John L Fjellstad
27;d still like to understand > what's happening. THANKS! - John The reason you and people who use OE see it as an attachment is because MS is unable to implement an 11 years old standard. This page (http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html) has a discussion about the different standards (PG

Re: GPL v3?

2007-04-02 Thread John L Fjellstad
track down or for people who don't want to relicense their code. And that was the intention of the kernel too, which is why they removed the "..or later" text from the standard license text. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custod

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
aults to mbox -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: accented chars. shown as question marks in non-browser tools, sarge

2007-03-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
ed in that format?) But what I want is the > ability to read anything. Well, anything in any European language, > with emphasis on french, german, and icelandic, plus a few related > dead languages.) Here are examples of unicode text: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/ -- J

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
problems. Totally forgot about the -f option -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IPTables Port Forwarding

2007-03-02 Thread John L Fjellstad
asically all packages after the first one, will be dropped or whatever the policy is) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-03-02 Thread John L Fjellstad
cked in awhile, so it might have changed. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-02-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
adding news.gmane.org as a server. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't modeprobe ip_tables

2007-02-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
ter/ip_tables.o: insmod > ip_tables failed > > In other words, it didn't work. Don't you need to do /sbin/depmod -a before you do a /sbin/modprobe? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian dedicated server (provider)?

2007-02-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
dly hosts, but I'm very interested to hear actual > experiences. I haven't used them yet, but www.serverbeach.com might be an option. They seem pricecompetitive to servermatrix. I'm researching this myself, so this thread is of interest to me (I've been leaning towards serverb

Re: stable 3.1 (sarge) or testing 4.0 (etch) for a new user?

2007-01-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
s, > udev, etc.) I'm pretty sure Sarge had the option to install 2.6.8 -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-28 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 01/28/07 13:32, John L Fjellstad wrote: >> Make sure you buy v4 or below. v5 can't be upgraded (and doesn't run >> Linux) > > I thought that was the difference between the WRT54GL and WRT54G. You're rig

Re: A simple question FORK! Something that bugs me about net-installs and security

2007-01-28 Thread John L Fjellstad
nks! Make sure you buy v4 or below. v5 can't be upgraded (and doesn't run Linux) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
dows in Windows. Can't ever remember seeing a black-on-white window. OTOH, I usually see black-on-white on *nix systems (Solaris, HP-UX, now KDE and GNOME) as the default state. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: function-hiding feature in Kate rocks...

2007-01-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
i.org/cgi-bin/wiki/OutlineMode Not sure if someone have made a better one for programming (the one in kate is really good). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
h to see what the problem might be -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
all my mailing lists through gmane). As newsgroups reader, gnus can't be beat, and mailing lists really works best as a 'newsgroup'. (I use either mutt or kmail to read my email, depending on which MUA irritates me the least last) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad

Re: top post fixer?

2007-01-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
-> Rearrange Citation -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xorg & xfree86

2007-01-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
f other distros use xorg now, and I actually wonder > who's using xfree86, for new development today. I think even the *BSD people went to Xorg -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Eudora -> Evolution how?

2007-01-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
out the IMAP as aliases file, but mutt can be setup to use LDAP. It's relatively easy to set up. http://www.brennan.id.au/20-Shared_Address_Book_LDAP.html -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: I WILL ASSIST YOU GET YOUR FUNDS

2007-01-14 Thread John L Fjellstad
ers who don't master the English language as well as you. Are you saying that aren't allowed to post (in English, mind you)? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux Drivers, The Kernel, and a Driver List

2007-01-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
t have been called kernel-doc- in sarge. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Manual java alternative

2007-01-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
updated. Last I checked, java-package hadn't been updated to create sun-java 6 deb files (couple of weeks ago). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: using kmail with procmail

2006-12-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
point your maildir directory anywhere (it insist on moving all the mail into its directory structure). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: shell script and variable problem

2006-12-01 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not sure, but it'll work if you enclose the variable in quotes. That worked perfectly. Thanks. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: VCS systems on linux

2006-12-01 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:45:04AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: >> >> Well, not exactly. CVS only does vcs-per-file. That is, it doesn't >> know anything about the interrelationship between files. &

shell script and variable problem

2006-12-01 Thread John L Fjellstad
ng is -n will check if $exlist is empty or not, and if it is, it will fail. And even if it doesn't, -f $exlist should fail since it wouldn't be able to find that file. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: VCS systems on linux

2006-12-01 Thread John L Fjellstad
y have the same version number. So, if you check out by version number, you will get all the files (and older) that got checked in for that version. OTOH, if you are checking out a specific file, I don't know any vcs that will check out all files that this specific file depend on. --

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

2006-11-30 Thread John L Fjellstad
thinkg a killer app for a system would be unique for that system. I can't really think of an app that would be unique to GNU/Linux (that wouldn't also work on other unix systems). Maybe something like FUSE? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet

Re: The Linux Code

2006-11-25 Thread John L Fjellstad
43 -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop choice?

2006-11-23 Thread John L Fjellstad
Can't give you specific advice on the laptops you showed, but I would check http://www.linux-laptop.net/ and see if those models are there and how much problems people have setting up their laptops. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos cus

Re: UDEV Question

2006-11-18 Thread John L Fjellstad
gt; > Anyone else have issues getting udev to support their scanner when they > 'hot-add' it with scsiadd -s? I don't have a scanner, but if you give me the output of the following command: udevinfo -a -p `udevinfo -q path -n /dev/` I might be able to help you write

Re: Reporting brute force ssh login attempts

2006-11-18 Thread John L Fjellstad
ill drop all connection from that ip address until there has been at least one minute since last attempt. Works great. Take a look at the recent module in iptables (iptables -m recent --help) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: brute force ssh login attempts and how to Disrupt them

2006-11-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
In Linux, you can use iptables with the recent module. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs without documentation nonsense

2006-11-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why duck? Everyone knows that the only component missing from emacs is > generally a good text editor. :-) And what's wrong with viper? :-) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custod

Re: C++ exception handling question [solved]

2006-11-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
this feature: http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/subprocess/subprocess.html Also, when you have time, you really should read about on google. There are some interesting discussion for and against the memory overcommit feature/bug. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/

Re: C++ exception handling question

2006-11-12 Thread John L Fjellstad
u use the memory, it will be available. It's controlled by /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory. Check the man page for malloc (look under BUGS), and do some search in your favorite search engine. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes --

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
erminal emulator [ konsole ] text editor [ emacs ] 3D animation [ ] video player [ kmplayer ] web browser [ firefox, konqueror ] word-processor [ OpenOffice.org write ] (unreleased) [ ] (great honours) [ GCC, emacs, KDE ] -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodie

Re: Why I left Debian

2006-10-29 Thread John L Fjellstad
Bruno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Indeed I just grab a Ubuntu DVD (labelled 'Dapper-drake 6.06 LTS' > which looks very recent). Ubuntu is based and so I'll probably try it > as a replacement of etch. Ubuntu Edgy Edge got releases on the 26th. -

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John L. Fjellstad writes: >> shorewall creates pages of iptables rules and that is considered a good >> thing? > > You'd rather write them all by hand? You think creating "pages" of rules is Keeping I

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-22 Thread John L Fjellstad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 05:22:24PM -0700, John L Fjellstad wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >> > If you look at the number of lines of rules you make, and compare it >> > to the number of lines (pages!) of iptables rules it make

Re: Starting iptables

2006-10-19 Thread John L Fjellstad
he best book I've found for > understanding iptables. shorewall creates pages of iptables rules and that is considered a good thing? What happened to KISS? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: regex for top-posting?

2006-07-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Eric d'Alibut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anyone have a regex for top-posted list messages? > > Or some other Mailman hack that can be used to weed out these > undesirables? In Gnus, W Y c -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-27 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I need is an X keyboard configuration tutorial. The > Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO is long in the tooth and only glances over > X. I used this site: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html -- John L. Fjellstad web:

Re: How to use sudo not root

2006-06-27 Thread John L Fjellstad
The reason GNU doesn't support wheel group: http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/coreutils_149.html#SEC150 -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have > happened. > > P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird? Set up the compose key (I have it set up as the Left Alt key) Then compose c = -- Joh

Re: wlan in different environments -- one time with static network address, one time with dhcp

2006-06-20 Thread John L Fjellstad
c IP over dhcp > ? Install whereami -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: setting firefox as default kde webbrowser

2006-06-17 Thread John L Fjellstad
has priority, type sudo update-alternatives --display x-www-browser Do a man on update-alternatives -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network: how to name interfaces ?

2006-06-16 Thread John L Fjellstad
reate your own rules, sinze the z25_persisten-net.rules might be changed in the next upgrade. Better to create a custom-net.rules file and do your changes there. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
g to site:" for a long time. Well, during the game, the servers might be overloaded. Try again later. Here, the video starts probably within 30 sec (the times I tried). -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps they require w32codecs from the Marillat repository. Could > Patrick and John (Fjellstad) confirm? Well, looking at the URL, it looks like a WMV file, so probably -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/

Re: FIFA video clips in mozilla firefox

2006-06-15 Thread John L Fjellstad
y sucks. Works here. Firefox and Mozilla (plugin) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: network: how to name interfaces ?

2006-06-12 Thread John L Fjellstad
Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > how to name network interfaces ? My unique wireless card contines to > receive changing interface names like eth1 or eth2 ..etc.. : how to > fix it ? If you are using udev, you can also use the rules to redefine the name -- John L

Re: Samba Management

2006-06-11 Thread John L Fjellstad
rmission files ... > Hard configurations, administration are assigned to a system admin. > > What about SWAT? I like swat alot. Very easy to use. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: How does inetd work?

2006-05-25 Thread John L Fjellstad
) three times, duplicating 0, 1, 2 (stdin, stout, stderr). Closes the socket. Child exec() the server. The server therefore uses stdin, stdout, and stderr to communicate with the other side. At the parent, the parent (inetd) closes the socket. I think proftpd can work with inetd. -- John L. Fjell

Re: For the love of...

2006-05-21 Thread John L Fjellstad
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > alias xorgcfg=vim > > should do the trick for you :) > > of course on my box, I also have > > alias vim=emacs Do you also have alias ed=vim ? :) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Qu

Re: Alsa breaks after kernel upgrade

2006-05-11 Thread John L Fjellstad
. Are you using udev? If you are, did you upgrade your udev? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Posix and SysV message queues

2006-05-10 Thread John L Fjellstad
ckage manpages (which > manpages-posix recommends you install :-). Well, google showed me the actual manpage (once I knew the name), and it's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks alot. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custodes -- T

Re: Posix and SysV message queues

2006-05-09 Thread John L Fjellstad
eue.h and mq_open doesn't mention a mq_overview man page. There is no /dev/mqueue on my filesystem (using udev). I have the posix man pages installed (both manpages-posix and manpages-posix-dev), so I think I should have everything installed (in regards to man pages) I appreciate the help. -

Posix and SysV message queues

2006-05-09 Thread John L Fjellstad
I'm trying to write a program using posix and sysV message queues. For sysV, there is a utility, ipcs and icprm that lets me inspect and remove messages from the queue. Anyone know if there is a similar utility for posix msg queues? -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellsta

Re: upgrade glibc on Sarge

2006-05-07 Thread John L Fjellstad
le chance that this will not break anything (I'm only running > apache, mysql, postfix and courier on the box. I'm not so sure that safe (not sure the differences are between the glibc in Sarge and Etch). You might be better off using the backports, www.backports.org, which are newer

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