Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread P. Johnson
Hans du Plooy wrote: > Calling someone a weasel has never been a compliment, and "ice" never has > any positive connotations either. Eagles may fly, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: HELP ME

2006-10-24 Thread P. Johnson
cavallini david wrote: > I tryed to install debian on my thoshiba leptop using the netinst > version dowloaded from http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ but I had the > problem with the ethernet network. My ethernet connection is: INTEL(R) > PRO/1000 PL NETWORK CONNECTION ... I must renounce to insta

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-19 Thread P. Johnson
José Alburquerque wrote: > Quick question on spamassasin: Will this work for those that do not use > fetchmail to download mail to server? I simply get my mail by using > mozilla-thunderbird. In my case, I guess I'd just click on the "Junk > Mail" button, although I'm afraid that it will begin

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 03:37:19PM -0700, P. Johnson wrote: >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >> >> >> And don&#x

Re: AVG anti-virus

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Grok Mogger wrote: > Is there any way to install an rpm on Debian...? There's rpm, but alien might be better (since it'll try to convert it to a .deb) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: APC UPS under Linux?

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Yura wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:09:15PM +0300, Yura wrote: >> >>> Thank you. I'll try to set it up.If you have some good tutorial, etc. >>> please send. >>> >>> >> >> I'm afraid I don't. Though, the documentation is fine. >> >> Rega

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Michael Fothergill wrote: > I also have a broadband connection and the 15 CD set of official Sarge > stuff. Overkill. If you have a broadband connection, for the sake of your time (wasted by downloading more data than you have to and burning CDs you won't need) the Debian mirrors (bandwidth) and

Re: APC UPS under Linux?

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Yura wrote: > What is the best program that control/monitor the status of an APC UPS > under Linux? I use apcupsd and it works pretty well for me. Pretty much dropped right in. Config files have great comments and it just works. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: firewalls and installation stuff....

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:08:33AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >> And don't take this personally, but as a piece of friendly > [...] > >> http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >> > > I hope that didn't come across as harsh as it now looks to m

Re: AVG anti-virus

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
steef wrote: > thank you all for your comments. i have decided to install AVG because > i function here as mailserver for two maillistst, from - mostly- > windows_machines via my debian-computer to other (mostly) > windows_machines; with the exception of some french farmers who > installed linux

Re: AVG anti-virus

2006-10-18 Thread P. Johnson
steef wrote: > hi list, > > AVG (www.grisoft.com) has a in their opinion 'free' anti-virusprogram > AVG. does debian (i.c. sarge and or etch) really need such a program? Debian has ClamAV, though given that there are a total of 5 unix viruses, and none of them in current circulation, virus scann

Re: Is there an interactive Linux tutorial?

2006-10-17 Thread P. Johnson
Jason Spiro wrote: > Does such a thing exist? Emacs has a semi-interactive tutorial. Fire up emacs and hit Ctrl-h then hit t. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-15 Thread P. Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 05:33:29PM -0700, michael wrote: >> Hello, >> Looking for suggestions on going with 1 dual core CPU >> or 2 dual core CPU. Main server would be an NFS file server. >> Probably using SW raid as well. >> Money is a conern. >> Is it better to go wit

Re: Linux and Newest Hardware

2006-10-15 Thread P. Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > That means you probably won't be able to get the rock-bottom WalMart PC > for $200 and still be certain that everything on it works in Linux. But the $200 WalMart special already runs Linux, pre-installed. > But, for a midrange PC, I'd venture to guess that somethin

Re: Linux and Newest Hardware

2006-10-15 Thread P. Johnson
Grok Mogger wrote: > I am under the impression that generally Linux is not guaranteed to run on > the newest hardware. That goes with any OS: Right now, you're probably going to find better luck getting things to run in Windows 2000 than Windows Vista, for example. > For example, if I buy a bra

Re: System maintenance

2006-10-15 Thread P. Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I like it because you can configure it to update the package list and do > nothing, to update the package list and download any pending updates but > not install them, or to update, download and install all without > intervention. I would avoid updating, downloading an

Re: mp3 organizer

2006-10-15 Thread P. Johnson
J Merritt wrote: > I am trying to find a good mp3 organizer that will run under Debian. > Features: organizing mp3 audio files (by ID3v1/v2 data) into subfolders by > artist or category, rewrite ID3 tags, etc. Is anyone aware of such a > package? krename and a good naming scheme? I usually keep

Re: 1 CPU or 2 ?

2006-10-15 Thread P. Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > Other than because Intel has effective salespeople that know how to > delude management? Given Intel's latest offerings, it seems that could once again apply more properly to AMD than Intel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 OS

2006-10-05 Thread P. Johnson
ES-SI Billing wrote: > I have a Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 OS running and I would like to know how to > go about changing the IP address. Is there a web document I could consult? http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww?type=runman&location=interfaces/5 Remember, after editing /etc/network/interfaces, you will n

Re: Unstable apache 2.2 and mod_php4 or 5

2006-10-05 Thread P. Johnson
Lars Samuelsson wrote: > With the new unstable update from yesterday (3/10-06) i believe, there was > apache 2.2.3 included. But no mod_php package for the 2.2 version of > apache, anyone has any idea when this will be available? J Tonight's unstable fixes it, dist-upgrade and you should be in th

Re: Quick basic config question

2006-10-04 Thread P. Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curt Howland wrote: > Well, I'm running into trouble with installing xserver-xorg, and I'd > like to change this variable back to "medium", but I've forgotten the > exact command, "dpkg-reconfigure debian-baseconfig" or something like > that. [...] >