Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-26, Emma Jane Hogbin penned: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 05:12:50PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ I've been slowly wading through it. I honestly didn't find anything offensive in the document. I guess I should re-read

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Katipo penned: She seems to be talking about a fear of being put down or treated poorly for participating in a technical forum. This isn't a fear I've ever had, but maybe I'm in the minority? I've also heard of women masquerading as men online to avoid any such questions ... and

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Rebecca Dridan penned: (sorry about the direct reply Monique) I'll get over it with years of therapy =) [snip] On the other hand, I'm not sure if anyone caught the issue on Full Disclosure. Check this link [0] to see how some females do get treated on tech lists. Bec [0]

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned: I always thought Monique was a guy. I think what happened was I saw Herman and subconsciously said: Oh yeah, Monique, that's a guy's name in France... Pretty sure it's not ... I personally enjoy working with women in computers, because it's so rare. I

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Tom Massey penned: * Rebecca Dridan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-25 18:37]: On the other hand, I'm not sure if anyone caught the issue on Full Disclosure. Check this link [0] to see how some females do get treated on tech lists. Bec [0]

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned: The tune Man Smart, Women Smarter seems appropriate to bring up here: http://dannyman.toldme.com/lyrics/Grateful_Dead/Man_Smart,_Women_Smarter.html It's a cover tune, a lot of other people sing it. If you don't believe that Women rule the world you are a

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Joost De Cock penned: ... Any guys have opinions? When I think about you, it goes a bit like this: 1. Regular poster, knows what she's talking about. 2. Hmm, Monique, that's my mothers name and not very English sounding. Well, I'm not English, I'm American! *grin* My mom is

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Andreas Janssen penned: Hello Hi! So far I have not seen any hostility towards women because they were female (at least on the mailing lists and in the usenet groups I read). I have however seen that in some cases people (newbies) who use women's names (mostly you don't know

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Jaldhar H. Vyas penned: On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: She seems to be talking about a fear of being put down or treated poorly for participating in a technical forum. This isn't a fear I've ever had, but maybe I'm in the minority? No Monique you

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:30:15PM +, timg wrote: find that I do have a certain amount of trepidation when posting technical difficulties. I dont know why tho. probably looking an ass in public when you discover the answer was right under your nose (and

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, timg penned: i know exactly what she means and dont think it is a male/female thing. i'm a programmer, partly responsible for our main servers and development servers in house, happy to repair/build computers but still find that I do have a certain amount of trepidation when

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Gary penned: Monique Y. Herman wrote: Any guys have opinions? Why ask us men? We can't even see the ketchup in the fridge when it is staring us in the face, and you expect us to to see /this/? I never did figure that one out. Why do I remember where my s.o. left his

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, CW Harris penned: Yes. I have found that generalization men and women think about things in different ways, probably due to differing life experiences (cf. Monique's comment re: female getting weird email about her picture showing she is too good for her boyfriend - how often

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned: Carol is a man's name sometimes. There was an actress on the TV show The Waltons named Mike. And in the 1800's Barbara was sometimes a man's name. When I was a kid, I met a female lifeguard named Michael. IIRC, she told me that her parents had been

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Kent West penned: Wow! I must be a throwback to the 1950's. All these answers from guys sound so politically correct to me. Politically correct, honest -- take your pick =) My remembrance of Monique's first post and my first response was that I gave my best effort at an

Re: Issues with pulling out data from MySQL

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: Hi folks, NEWBIE here, I am having issues with pulling data out of several tables in MySQL. I am running debian 3.0.23 with MySQL 3.23.49, I can create the tables and view them through mysqladmin along with the data, put using the webform that I

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Kent West penned: Monique Y. Herman wrote: Outside of the dating scene and maybe someone who is visibly pregnant, why would you treat women any differently than men? Because women _are_ different than men, regardless of the populist notion in the 70's and 80's

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned: Yes, I certainly was *not* thinking that only men are rigorous. I meant the second thing. What I was clumsily trying to say is that the stereotype is silly, but I like an environment you have to be afraid to ask questions, because it makes me work harder.

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, s. keeling penned: Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ That one elicited about the loudest flamefest I've ever seen, in [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you can find that thread in their archives, and stand to wade through it all, you

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Number Six penned: Without countering anything you just said (cause I agree with you), I'd like to insert an aside about Why I Liked Going To Grateful Dead Concerts Even Though I'm Really Square And Uptight: It's one of the only places I've ever been where I was just free to

Re: DNS setup

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: I can connect and ping IPs, but DNS does not resolve. /etc/resolv.conf exists and the ISPs servers are added automatically. Now have no clue what to check. Any ideas? (I installed from Knoppix with the new Debian installer, and could connect under

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Steve Witt penned: I've been on many technical mailing lists since the early '90s and the Debian lists since about '96 and I don't recall seeing much flaming due to gender. I'm not a woman so maybe I'm completely insensitive to it when it happens, but I don't recall seeing much

OT: last names (was: Re: debian and women? from DWN #10)

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-26, s. keeling penned: Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: sore point for me at the moment. I'm pretty sure I'll be changing my name to make him happy, but it weirds me out. I never fantasized about Why?!? Tell him to change his own damn name! When he refuses, ask him why

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-26, Number Six penned: I usually watch To The Contrary, the show about Women's issues on PBS on Fridays. Recently this subject came up, and all these journalists / manhattanites talked about how they and all their friends had started marriage with hyphenated names and just slowly

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-26, s. keeling penned: I was considering complaining (facetiously) about the lack of even an OT: in the subject line, but this subject is a bit of a sore spot with me, and I'd like to see some progress on it. See the link to the tldp discussion for a far less satisfying attempt at

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-26, s. keeling penned: Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: I've been slowly wading through it. I honestly didn't find anything offensive in the document. I guess I should re-read it after I finish reading the flameage. It was mostly males who took offense at it, including me

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-26, Kent West penned: Monique Y. Herman wrote: what I should have asked, and meant to ask, is, *how* would you treat women any differently than men? Especially when your only medium is the keyboard. Well, not only me, but everyone else in this thread has allowed this thread

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-26, Leo Spalteholz penned: On March 25, 2004 04:12 pm, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-03-25, s. keeling penned: Incoming from Monique Y. Herman: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ That one elicited about the loudest flamefest I've ever seen, in [EMAIL

Re: debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-26, Steve Lamb penned: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enig45DB75C5E7FD374844766632 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Monique Y. Herman wrote: Sure, there are some quantifiable

Re: email signatures

2004-03-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-25, Matthew Joyce penned: Hi, what the polite way off appending a largish sig or disclaimer to an email, is it '--' before the appendage ? thanks The polite way to do it is not at all. I've yet to see a huge honkin' signature that was actually necessary/productive. The

debian and women? from DWN #10

2004-03-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
I just saw this in Debian Weekly News issue ten: http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2004/debian-vote-200403/msg00067.html I guess I just wonder. I've never found any sort of hostility or difficulty in dealing with any technically-oriented online forum; if anything, I've found that some people

Re: packages in unstable

2004-03-22 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-22, Matthew Joyce penned: -Original Message- From: Rajesh Menon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 22 March 2004 1:43 PM To: Matthew Joyce Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: packages in unstable why not install the proprietary sun jdk available from the sun

Re: how can I recover the file I've deleted?

2004-03-22 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-22, blue_stone penned: I use ext3 fs, and i've deleted some important file ,hao can I recover them ? Retrieve them from the backups you've been maintaining ... -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-19, Paul Johnson penned: Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Unstable is where bug fixes, new packages, etc are first introduced into a debian distribution. (There's also something called experimental, but that's not a proper distribution.) The important ones

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-19, Travis Crump penned: Unstable, on the other hand, breaks much more spectacularly on package installation with no warning other than people moaning on the lists/IRC/BTS. I don't want to imply that this is a frequent occurence, but it does happen... I've only been bitten in

Re: Debian queries

2004-03-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: [snip] But what about LCD support (how easily can I adjust refresh rate etc.? I am not afraid to do it by hand, as long as it will let me). I googled on my LCD monitor's model and found that someone had posted some helpful modelines. I used those

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-18, Michael Satterwhite penned: I've been Distro hopping for the last few weeks and am very impressed with the Debian system. It's probably going to become the distro on all my machines very shortly. I'm going to be running Woody on one machine and Sarge on another for testing

Re: Apache questions.......

2004-03-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-15, Ralph Crongeyer penned: Hi all, There are two Apache packages in Sarge, apache and apache-ssl. But there is also a libapache-mod-ssl package Apache-ssl works in encrypted mode fine, however I can't get it to use mod_php4, which I need. Apache is able to use mod_php4

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-18, Michael Satterwhite penned: On Thursday 18 March 2004 14:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote: What sorts of testing would you want to do on your testing machine? The testing distro is a little odd in that it's really intended for developers, not users. It's the stuff they're working

Re: Question re Debian versions

2004-03-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-19, Michael Satterwhite penned: On Thursday 18 March 2004 17:31, Brian Nelson wrote: However, testing tends to be more broken than unstable. Testing works well right now since we're near a release and almost everything in there is in a releasable state, but after sarge releases,

Re: Newbie question: moving from RedHat to Debian

2004-03-17 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-17, Roland Dunn penned: - Anyone know of any sites that try to make such moves simple for users - that list some of the common differences between Debian and RedHat? I don't know about this. - On RedHat /etc/rc.d/init.d/ was where you could find scripts to start/stop apache,

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-16, Derrick 'dman' Hudson penned: | Further more, why am I penalized with a higher postage rate for not | spamming? I don't understand this statement. Compare the bulk mailing rate to the cost of a stamp. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

2004-03-16 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-16, Andy Firman penned: I finally got motivated and upgraded to Exim4 as well but I did not go to the effort of using a backup MX. From what I know, most good MTA's are built with redundancy and will try for a couple of days before they drop any mail. My concern was being down

what user for /etc/cron.weekly?

2004-03-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
When entries in /etc/cron.weekly are run, what user/group are they run as? -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-15, John Hasler penned: Chris Metzler writes: Presumably, when there actually is a release, this fact will be publicized -- like it was for Woody, which was 7 CDs but didn't require them all either. It will have to be effectively publicized somewhere other than the installation

Re: what user for /etc/cron.weekly?

2004-03-15 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-15, Travis Crump penned: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --enig4A9C6BFDF59F36CFEFC734C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Monique Y. Herman wrote: When entries in /etc/cron.weekly

Re: my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

2004-03-14 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-14, Vineet Kumar penned: That part about the process on port 25 is a bit strange, but having the init scripts in place shouldn't be a problem. Init scripts hang around when you remove (without purging) a package, but they usually begin with something like

Re: coda vs. nfs on home lan?

2004-03-14 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-14, Kenward Vaughan penned: Further reading has led me to feel that these would suit me, too. It's nice to get feedback from others about the possibilities, though, when one is feeling clueless outside of what is mostly documentation and documented problems. :) On that note --

my experience upgrading from exim3 to 4

2004-03-13 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Hi all! This is just a description of what I did to upgrade from exim3 to exim4. I hope it's useful to someone. I have an MX backup, so the first thing I did was to disable port 25 on my router. The logic was that this way, I could test my mail server internally without risking a loss of mail

Re: installation, Linux source code

2004-03-12 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-12, Chris Metzler penned: 30% are trolls; 30% are expressions of opinion without substantive explanation/ justification (the equivalent of Me too! or Not me!); 30% are explanations of configuration procedures, or software capabilities, or scientific issues, or whatever

Re: installation, Linux source code

2004-03-12 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-12, John Hasler penned: Chris Metzler writes: Pick a specific topic that you're *expert* in, compared to the general /. population. Find in the archives and read a discussion on that topic. Look at the +3, +4 and +5 posts only. Do you really find them that impressive? My bet is

Re: installation, Linux source code

2004-03-12 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-12, Chris Metzler penned: On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:32:36 -0600 John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Metzler writes: Pick a specific topic that you're *expert* in, compared to the general /. population. Find in the archives and read a discussion on that topic. Look at the

Re: Question re: nfs

2004-03-12 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-12, John Hasler penned: Joan Tur writes: If I'm not wrong you'll have to delete the user and create it again using -u parameter... Just edit the password file with vipw and change the number. Huh! Learn a new command every day! Thanks! -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

[OT] robots.txt creation script?

2004-03-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Hi all! I've recently developed an interest in preventing spiders from accessing certain areas of my site ... but as near as I can tell, robots.txt is pretty stupid. It only lets you *disallow*, whereas it would be a lot more sensible for me to specify what I want to *allow*. I was thinking I

Re: exim - automatic signature

2004-03-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-11, Antony Gelberg penned: I don't think that what they want to do is a good idea. However, they are paying me good money and having tried to dissuade them from doing this, they are certain that they want to go ahead. fwiw, I support you in this. While what they want to do is a

apt-cacher (was: Re: Speeding apt by multiple connections)

2004-03-11 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-11, Lucas Albers penned: setup a local apt-cacher repository. This drastically speeds up downloads, as it only gets new package lists once per day (per configuration). It saves all previously downloaded apt files to the cache. This is good because: Downloads are a lot faster.

Re: kernel source tree

2004-03-04 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-04, Richard Lyons penned: Another really dim question coming up... I'm trying to install thinkpad drivers for Debian. Instructions say to unpack the thinkpad.tar.gz (no problem there) and then to cd to the root of the source tree for the kernel for which you want to compile

Re: exim Frozen messages?

2004-03-03 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-03, Rick Pasotto penned: On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 10:14:15AM -0500, stan wrote: I've got a smail mailserver using Debain and exim. I noticed that some messages have stoped getting through. Looking in /var/log/exim/mailog, I see lot's of entries about messages being frozen. What does

Re: [solved!] Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!

2004-03-03 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-03, Matt Price penned: On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 11:47:58AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: Hey everyone, I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out $70 for a new one -- and carelessly bought a Sandisk Cruzer 256meg model. Gaah! I can't get it to work!!

Re: Number of workspaces in gnome-2.4

2004-03-03 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-02, Henrik Enberg penned: Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2004-03-02, Henrik Enberg penned: Or just right-click on the gnome pager and set it up from there. Or with gconftool-2 like so: $ gconftool-2 --type=int --set /apps/metacity/general/num_workspaces 4

Re: Asking for help: installing debian on Athlon needing nvidia driver

2004-03-03 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-02, Sis penned: On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Kenward Vaughan wrote: You should start a new thread for a new question. You are more likely to catch people that way, should they be cruisin'n'bruisin' by Subject in a threaded reader. Hmmm. I'm not sure what you mean, since i just sent

Re: Distributed Jukeboxes for LAN

2004-03-02 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-02, Bill Moseley penned: On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:51:43PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: Have you looked at slimp3? I have now. I wonder if the slimp3 device works the same way as a client running xmms. I suspect it does. I've wondered that, too. Let me know if you find

Re: uninstall Debian Linux

2004-03-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-01, Douglas Pollard penned: I tried to boot with disc #1 Red Hat Linux Fedora. The monitor shows what looks like files being loaded but is not. The on screen printing seems to stay the same although it looks to be scrolling. I took the disc out and the same thing

Re: Number of workspaces in gnome-2.4

2004-03-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-02, Henrik Enberg penned: Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Metacity: You need to have metacity-setup installed. Once you have that using it to change the workspace settings. Or just right-click on the gnome pager and set it up from there. Or with gconftool-2 like so: $

Re: Hi:Installation Help

2004-03-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-28, Pritpal Dhaliwal penned: New to debian and theis list. Coming from Redhat. Just wanted to say hi. Pritpal Dhaliwal Hi! Hope the installation went well. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: ghost-like programs for Linux platform

2004-03-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-03-02, j smith penned: ghost for Windows can copy files in an partition exactly. is there any Linux programs similar to ghost? In my personal experience, ghost does *not* always copy the files in a partition exactly. If at all possible, keep backups when using it. -- monique --

Re: Distributed Jukeboxes for LAN

2004-02-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-29, Bill Moseley penned: Just looking for suggestions on a distributed jukebox for mostly audio files for my home lan. There seems to be a few available but wanted to see if anyone here has a favorite. Anyone using http://www.theory.org/software/djukebox/ ? My current setup is a

Re: Installation Questions

2004-02-29 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-29, Martin Kuball penned: Hi! I'm planing to install Debian on my desktop machine which already has a running Linux. But not Debian which I came to like recently because I use it on my laptop. So here is the question. Is it possible with the debian installer to skip some of the

Re: Backup my Debian woody system

2004-02-26 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-26, Oliver Fuchs penned: What I want: I want to know if my backup strategy is working this way or if there is a better solution? So ... any help/advice/documentation is appreciated. It kind of depends on whether you want to spend money on this backup. Me, I bought a large hard

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-25, Paul Johnson penned: It doesn't help that you handle cross-traffic turns (left in the US, right in GB) by what Americans call tangle turning and is a major no-no on the west side of the pond...why hold fast to keep left when it's safer on a right turn at an intersection to keep

Re: apt-get rollback packagename !?!

2004-02-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-25, David Baron penned: It can happen, even to the best, even from stable--an upgrade is done that renders the system less than usable. It just occured with X. While, if one really knew how, one could bet stuff from backport, compile it (assuming all goes well--remember other

Re: Strong encryption in Mozilla

2004-02-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-24, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) penned: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 07:27:59 -0700, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: Does the Debian version of Mozilla support strong (128 bit) encryption? As long as you ensure mozilla-psm is installed as well, yes. Does that work for fire[bird|fox], or is there

Re: Differentiating fetchmail-pulled accounts (in procmailrc)

2004-02-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-25, Jan Minar penned: --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi there. I've been switching ISPs as some of you maybe noticed. Now I don't know how to reliably differentiate between

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-25, Paul Johnson penned: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: As for down hill, I ride quite a bit of free ride, not so much downhill since unfortunately I don't have the money for the big hit bikes, but the steeper the terrain the more I use the front

Re: OT: Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-25, Paul Johnson penned: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 08:48:55AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: As a USian, I'm really confused by this description of turning. Could you please explain the term tangle turning? If you were to perform a tangle turn in the US, when you turn left, you

Re: OT: google or debian-user?

2004-02-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: It is a shame that at times debian-user can be so inhospitable to debain users. I think it is unfair to have a question answered with try google or some other variation of RTFM. Am I to understand that instead of using the debian-user list that I

Re: apt-get rollback packagename !?!

2004-02-25 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-25, David Baron penned: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 19:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree that this feature would be awesome, I believe I've seen many discussions indicating that this would be a lot more difficult to implement than it might seem. Awesome and or

Re: Emergency braking and bird anatomy [was: Re: DVD copying and CSS]

2004-02-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-24, Micha Feigin penned: On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 10:29:39PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: What I never understood is locally they tell bicyclists that you stop faster locking the brakes and everybody else to absolutely avoid doing Its actually wrong also for bicycles. If you skid

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-25, xucaen penned: I use ext3 for main partitions so that if the power fails, I be likely to have a corrupt filesystem. I still use ext2 for /boot, for example, because it is small (therefore the journal's overhead is more expensive) and it isn't updated very frequently and so the

Re: downloading only diffs from kernel-source update?

2004-02-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-24, Colin Watson penned: Well, not necessarily better, but the simpler thing to do is just not use apt and Debian's packages for kernel management. Instead, manage that yourself, especially if you recompile your own kernel anyway. I'll be flamed for going against the Debian Way,

Re: Postgre/PHP installation woes

2004-02-24 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-24, Danny O'Brien penned: Warning: Supplied argument is not a valid PostgreSQL link resource in path/auth.php on line 10 Line 10 in auth.php looks like this: $result = pg_exec( $link, $sql ); Well, first of all, from http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-query.php : Note:

Re: Need a shell or perl script

2004-02-23 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-23, Deboo penned: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-22, Deboo penned: but I know neither. Not that I do not want to learn, but I need help to get this list. Can anyone help me out by giving the commands needed to do this? If they think this I am asking

Re: Stupid fetchmailrc quiestion

2004-02-23 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-24, stan penned: OK, I just tried abut a dozen things, none of which worked :-( What's the syntax of adding the ssl keyword to a fetchmailrc for an individual site? I tried: ssl; set ssl; and some other stupid things, all in the section associated with that specific stie, and

Re: Need a shell or perl script

2004-02-22 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-22, Deboo penned: Over the years, I have been using many email clients from windows to linux and have been saving lots of old personal emails. I have many them in many different formats as per the MUA. They are a lot. Now, I could search for one or two email addresses whenever I

Re: php4-imap apache virtual domains

2004-02-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-21, Tadas penned: Oh, I see it was registered 190 days ago. why the bug is not fixed for such long time? [tone=tongue in cheek] Because you haven't fixed it yet! [/tone] Seriously, if you click on the bug number, you'll see tons of email regarding this bug, the latest being in

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-21, Anthony Campbell penned: On 20 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On 2004-02-20, Anthony Campbell penned: My /etc/hosts is as follows, in case this indicates the problem: (The alternative lines are because I tried both the IP which my domain name resolves to and also

Re: emergency! unrm a directory

2004-02-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-21, Vikki Roemer penned: --E/DnYTRukya0zdZ1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I just rm'd a website on my server by accident, I need to know if there's any way I can get it back. I have an ext3

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-21 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-21, Anthony Campbell penned: On 21 Feb 2004, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [snip] Monique, I really am grateful to you for supplying this information; exactly what I was looking for. I've adopted your suggested format for /etc/hosts. [snip] You're welcome =) Hope it's working

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-20, Anthony Campbell penned: My /etc/hosts is as follows, in case this indicates the problem: (The alternative lines are because I tried both the IP which my domain name resolves to and also the ip on my router. I don't know which, if either, I need.)

Re: aptitude marking everything packages held back?

2004-02-20 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-20, Paul Morgan penned: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:54:11 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: (I wonder how I managed to change that setting without noticing ...) You make me a bit nervous for you when you say stuff like that, Monique :) I make me a bit nervous, too. Does that help

Re: apt-get upgrade of kernel-image

2004-02-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-19, mess-mate penned: Sorry, not clear enough for me. I'd a kernel-image -2.4.24-1-686 installed and did an upgrade to the 2.4.24-2 Since Can't boot anymore; the boot sequence stops after loading the initrd. Didn't reinstall lilo; the vmlinuz-name seems the same . Anyone had

Re: DNS and Hostnames (was: Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?)

2004-02-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-19, Anthony Campbell penned: I am indeed grateful to everyone for help with this. Following suggestions received so far I've tried (for this computer) setting my hostname to arcadia.acampbell.org.uk and putting the following in /etc/hosts: ---cut- 127.0.0.1

aptitude marking everything packages held back?

2004-02-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
Just wondering if anyone else has seen this. On one of my machines, aptitude works like a champ. On the other, as of a week or so ago, every package that would normally be aqua (available for upgrade) in the g screen is instead white and listed under Packages being held back. I can hit + on a

Re: Home Mail Server

2004-02-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-19, Peter A. Cole penned: Anyway, what I really need is a pointer in the direction of some documentation or advice on whether or not to use mailboxes under home folders or just to let the messages go to /var/mail/username. I have mail delivered to /var/mail/monique and then have a

Re: apt-get upgrade of kernel-image

2004-02-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-19, mess-mate penned: On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:20:26 +0100 Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |On 2004-02-19, mess-mate penned: | | Sorry, not clear enough for me. | I'd a kernel-image -2.4.24-1-686 installed and did an upgrade to the 2.4.24-2 | Since Can't boot anymore

Re: aptitude marking everything packages held back?

2004-02-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-19, David Z Maze penned: Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just wondering if anyone else has seen this. On one of my machines, aptitude works like a champ. On the other, as of a week or so ago, every package that would normally be aqua (available for upgrade) in the g

Re: aptitude marking everything packages held back?

2004-02-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-19, £ukasz Stelmach penned: U¿ytkownik Monique Y. Herman napisa³: Just wondering if anyone else has seen this. On one of my machines, aptitude works like a champ. On the other, as of a week or so ago, every package that would normally be aqua (available for upgrade) in the g

Re: kernel-source-* packages

2004-02-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-19, Olle Eriksson penned: Hi What is the difference between the kernel source from kernel.org and the Debian kernel-source-* packages? The only thing I can find about that is some discussion from 1997 concluding that there is no difference except that the debian packages handles

Re: what's the use of dselect

2004-02-19 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-19, Benedict Verheyen penned: Hi, I admit i'm a little confused as to what the use is of dselect when we have tools like aptitude and apt-get. My simplistic answer, without considering any of the interesting stuff you point out, is: 1) dselect was around before aptitude was even

Re: SSH: does it require portmapper and what hostname is it looking for?

2004-02-18 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On 2004-02-18, Anthony Campbell penned: I'm trying to run ssh between two computers but I get: connect to host port 22: Connection refused. I have portmapper turned off for security, but is it essential for ssh? I don't know about this one, but I don't think so? Also, what is

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