Re: Recommendation on Digital Cameras that work well with linux....and...

2004-05-10 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 10 May 2004 10:24:43 -0700 "Rodney D. Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > any other recommendations, especially stuff to avoid. > > > > walter > > I have a Canon PowerShot A60, works great using gtKam Canon S45 also. -- Richard Kim

Re: Cron output logging

2004-04-14 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:02:24 -0500 Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 07:11:39PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > > I don't think it's coming directly from the *output* of the script. > > It seems to me that the script is doing som

Re: Cron output logging

2004-04-08 Thread Richard Kimber
s doing something that now gets logged that used not to be logged. I think it must have to do with the configuration of logcheck, but I can't find documentation that explains fully enough how logcheck works so that I can stop it. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cron output logging

2004-04-07 Thread Richard Kimber
e permissions on files I own and if necessary changes them. Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Cron output logging

2004-04-07 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 12:37:08 +0100 Dave Thorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:12:27 +0100 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:09:53 +0100 > > > Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: Cron output logging

2004-04-06 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:12:27 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:09:53 +0100 > Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Maybe: > > > /path/to/script.sh 1>/dev/null > > > > Thanks, but that doesn't do it. >

Re: Cron output logging

2004-04-05 Thread Richard Kimber
path/to/script.sh 1>/dev/null Thanks, but that doesn't do it. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cron output logging

2004-04-05 Thread Richard Kimber
A recent upgrade to my testing system has caused stuff to be logged that was not logged before (I think this is pretty poor practice, but that's another question). How do I stop the logging of the actions of one script in cron.daily but not all the others? Thanks, - Richard -- Richard K

Re: testing dist-upgrade question

2004-04-01 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:54:23 +0100 Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After a dist-upgrade some X packages didn't install properly and now > nedit doesn't work because it can't find libXp.so.6. > > If I ask aptitude to install the libXp package, it want

testing dist-upgrade question

2004-03-31 Thread Richard Kimber
After a dist-upgrade some X packages didn't install properly and now nedit doesn't work because it can't find libXp.so.6. If I ask aptitude to install the libXp package, it wants to remove 505 packages, which doesn't sound optimal. Any suggestions? -- Richard Kimber http:/

Re: Goodbye stable?

2004-03-28 Thread Richard Kimber
e sorted out, but I've still been able to do all my work. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Richard Kimber
a better service than the British Post Office provided circa the 1950s, even if it had been allowed to. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Next stable release: 13 CD's

2004-03-16 Thread Richard Kimber
's better than ours, then? :) -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg problem

2004-03-15 Thread Richard Kimber
all now seems to be well. Much appreciated. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dpkg problem

2004-03-13 Thread Richard Kimber
7; near line 58406 package `libnss3': `Replaces' field, reference to `mozilla-psm': version contains ` ' I tried removing mozilla but got the same error. What should I do now? I'm running testing. Thanks. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

2004-02-08 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 08:37:38 +0100 Conrad Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From Roger Chrisman on Saturday, 2004-02-07 at 16:47:13 -0800: > > > > What command tells me most about my hardware? http://www.linuxmafia.com/pub/hardware/system-info -- Richard Kimber http:

Re: Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-24 Thread Richard Kimber
and ask yourself if you truly could > > do a better job. Hmmnn. Well, in the UK, and especially in Wales, the answer is usually "yes". - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The threat to our national security

2004-01-23 Thread Richard Kimber
ce" undertaking similar lobbying campaigns? - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ Political Science Resources -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: display directories only

2004-01-05 Thread Richard Kimber
right > switches. > > Thanks, > -Rick I don't know if this is of any use; it's what I use:- ========== #!/bin/sh # ldirs - Richard Kimber # # By default ldirs lists all the sub-directories in the current directory # in columns. It has th

question about driver packages

2003-12-31 Thread Richard Kimber
I'm planning to buy a new machine with an onboard raid0 controller. It seems from Googling that all the drivers that are available are described as being either for RH or Suse or sometimes Mandrake. How specific to the distributions are these? Can any of them be used with Debian? - Richard. --

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-18 Thread Richard Kimber
th > the guilty. If enough people do this, they may see reason. In some cases, mail to the admins is blocked too. In those that aren't my (limited) experience is that the email is ignored. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-17 Thread Richard Kimber
have to accept such > mail? I agree, but there are some who insist on emailing me, who then block my reply to them, apparently on the basis of rejecting "microsoft crap", which presumably they take my ISP's smarthost to be. - Richard (Debian testing, Exim, Sy

sound question: Jack

2003-12-13 Thread Richard Kimber
lear - DO NOT use a tarball or RPM that you may find anywhere else (trust me on this one)" Do the Jack Debian packages overcome whatever fears the author had about non-jackit.sourceforge.net versions? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-12 Thread Richard Kimber
ndeed. But I wasn't intending to use the formal name, only a phrase that might commonly be used in the contexts to which I was referring. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-12 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:24:39 -0700 "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Linux is a kernel. I can almost guarantee that you've never, for > example, discussed an implementation bug with a microsoft or apple > kernel developer. > > The gripe is about "linux" as though all of the thousa

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:58:25 -0700 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Programmers need no excuse for this. They know how it works. If > > > you think it needs documentation, go ahead and write it. > > > > Aren't you missing the point that you need to understand it before you > > can

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:15:24 -0700 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This sounds like an excuse for programmers not to document their > > programs. > > Programmers need no excuse for this. They know how it works. If you > think it needs documentation, go ahead and write it. Aren't yo

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:07:23 -0600 "Michael Martinell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's why the people doing the documentation should be the power-user > who is not familiar with every intricate detail, and has had to struggle > and learn the system. That is the person who can usually explain

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 18:01:44 + Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This may be true of some; but even reasonably intelligent users with > > quite a lot of experience can come unstuck in those areas with which > > they are not familiar, simply because the documentation is often so > > p

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:07:16 -0500 "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No, its not for consumers. Well, at least Debian is not. Perhaps > > Mandrake or SuSE, where you can pay for support, is what you're > > looking for. > > You're right. Too many consumers are too dumb for for L

Re: Debian Server Compromise -- A Fire Drill ??

2003-12-06 Thread Richard Kimber
I said that they consider themselves > > moral and law-abiding. > > Yes, I know what you said. No doubt there's no connection, but it was an interesting coincidence that in the midst of this thread I picked up a copy of the Christmas edition of Linux Format and found a two-page p

Alsa make and install question

2003-12-03 Thread Richard Kimber
works fine with gcc-3.3. Advice would be appreciated. Thanks. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: Create d-user-woody, d-user-sarge maillists, deactivate d-user

2003-12-01 Thread Richard Kimber
way on holidays, or checking that one is replying to the right list when someone has set a reply-to to somewhere else, etc.). And would the terrific people who solve all our problems be active in both the lists? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: radeon and X: was X won't start

2003-12-01 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:31:52 -0800 (PST) "Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2)the ones from ATI > A)are crap > B) intended for Mandrake > c) available as binaries only > 3)a dedicated debian one isn't available yet. Can it be used via

Re: LKM?

2003-11-28 Thread Richard Kimber
0 ?SW 0:00 [kswapd] > 0 ?SW 0:00 [bdflush] > 0 ?SW 0:00 [kupdated] > > /proc/ shows the following processes: 4, 5, 6, and 7 which appear to be > the ones showing up as '0'. No. It's not a compromise. It's just a bug. - Richar

Re: shopping

2003-11-28 Thread Richard Kimber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:05:45 + Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri 28 Nov 2003 13:02, Rus Foster wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Richard Kimber wrote: > > > All I can think of:- > > > > > > 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies > > &

shopping

2003-11-28 Thread Richard Kimber
All I can think of:- 2 boxes Tesco 3-ply paper hankies Radio Times 1 tin Crapso Olives Peregrino Water 1 box tonic see you. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help! strange bttv problem

2003-11-19 Thread Richard Kimber
r linux > > (having already said 'm' to the main Video for Linux and to I2C > > support). When I choose 'm' and save, an examination of .config shows > > there is no reference to it. Are you saying that this is just a problem with xconfig, and that I should edit

Help! strange bttv problem

2003-11-19 Thread Richard Kimber
When I do make xconfig for the first time in a clean 2.4.22 tree I am presented with the option to have support for BT848 video for linux (having already said 'm' to the main Video for Linux and to I2C support). When I choose 'm' and save, an examination of .config shows there is no reference to i

Re: Bug#221273: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: Patches not applied cleanly

2003-11-18 Thread Richard Kimber
by adding to "Please note that the patches are UN-installed from the source when you run the clean target" something like "together with this option, or with PATCH_THE_KERNEL set to yes". - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Bug#221273: /usr/bin/make-kpkg: Patches not applied cleanly

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:30:03 -0600 Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is not much kernel-package can do about this. The best > that can be done is to ensure that the unpatch script is called, > which it is. Whether or not the patch applies again after unpatching > depe

Re: kernel patch question

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Kimber
x27;ve just repeated the process to check I was doing it correctly, and the patches continue to fail, despite a prior 'make-kpkg clean' I've submitted a bug. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kernel patch question

2003-11-17 Thread Richard Kimber
ys that make-kpkg automates and replaces make dep, make clean, ... This implies that it runs a make clean anyway. So I guess this is misleading too, since having to run make-kpkg clean separately is hardly an automation. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNS

kernel patch question

2003-11-16 Thread Richard Kimber
es have in fact been removed properly? And how should I proceed? Do I really have to delete the tree and start over again? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LKM Trojan

2003-11-16 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:10:00 +0100 Kjetil Kjernsmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Checking `lkm'... You have     4 process hidden for ps command > > Warning: Possible LKM Trojan installed > > You just upgraded to unstable, eh? :-) It happens in testing

problem compiling kernel

2003-11-14 Thread Richard Kimber
drivers' make[1]: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 Is this a bug, or have I done something silly? I've been using 2.4.19. Would I be better off with another version? - Richard -- Richard Kimber http:/

Re: looking for Knotes type application

2003-11-13 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 18:42:20 -0700 Wesley J Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I find Knotes a very useful app, but it seems to use rather a lot of > > memory for what it does (in terms of how I use it - mostly as a > > storage space for copying and pasting between apps). If I've > > underst

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:18:56 +0100 Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:25:47 +0200 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joachim Fahnenmueller) wrote: > > > > > > > $ mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom > > > > > > mount: /dev/scd0 is not a

looking for Knotes type application

2003-11-12 Thread Richard Kimber
thing. There's a similar Gnome applet, but it seems that won't work on a stand-alone basis, or at least I couldn't get it to. Thanks, -Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libGL and DRM error with Matrox card

2003-11-05 Thread Richard Kimber
Some apps give an error when started saying: libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering XFree86.0.log says:- MGA(0): Direct rendering enabled Is there a problem? If so how should I resolve it? Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard

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

2003-11-05 Thread Richard Kimber
ed to have a look at. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Kimber
between testing and stable to which stuff gets moved only when there are no breakages? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2003-11-04 Thread Richard Kimber
should do - like "don't do a dist-upgrade just yet" ... etc. Maybe there is such information - if so I'd like to know how to find it. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Kimber
ld to go and write the code myself, which I cannot do. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-29 Thread Richard Kimber
ply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] as you seem to have done, prevents the reply to list option from working properly. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread Richard Kimber
> Your /etc/modules and /etc/modules.conf Next time I have the problem. I will do this. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 15:36:21 +0200 Lukas Ruf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been experiencing the same problems on 2.4.22: Why do you have this set like this? Reply-To: LIST-Reply <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It defeats Sylpheed's automatic reply-to-list facility. - Richard

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread Richard Kimber
the mount, it works. Don't ask me why. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: update-modules not working

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Kimber
-modules. Thanks. Yes, that's the work around I used, but I'm puzzled as to why the force option didn't work. Could it be a bug? If so, I guess I should report it. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-21 Thread Richard Kimber
27;`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : :' : > `. `'` proud Debian admin and user > `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system Wot's that tangle of dots in your sig? ;-) -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

update-modules not working

2003-10-19 Thread Richard Kimber
ad of logcheck messages about "/etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.19/modules.dep". None of this stops the system working. but it's irritating. Thanks. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

winhelpcgi.cgi

2003-10-17 Thread Richard Kimber
- Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Programmer for hire

2003-10-13 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 09:07:28 +0800 csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > apt-get, dselect, and aptitude answer every but the most casual > user's needs. and synaptic. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: off the list again

2003-10-09 Thread Richard Kimber
hem - I was asked to send them copies of the bounces, which of course I'm not getting - it's the people mailing me that get them - they don't seem to understand that :( - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Testing user-list

2003-10-07 Thread Richard Kimber
a number of people seem to be having this problem when their quotas have not been used up. Including me. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: off the list again

2003-10-07 Thread Richard Kimber
hat no longer delivers mails that used to be delivered. Maybe spam filtering, maybe something else. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mailing list

2003-10-05 Thread Richard Kimber
ull. It is emptied very frequently. (And my ISP sends a message when it's 75% full and I never got that). I can only suspect my ISP had a problem and wrongly bounced messages. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: blufish

2003-10-05 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 01:23:19 -0700 Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben Edwards wrote: > > >Not really sure where to ask this cos there douse not seem to be any > >email lists or forums for bluefish. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.p

Re: dangling symlink?

2003-10-03 Thread Richard Kimber
s to fix > it since there are more important issues to deal with. I doubt it's rare, I have about half a dozen, but I agree it's harmless - I've not bothered to do anything yet. Maybe when I'm bored ... - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To

Re: mailing list

2003-10-02 Thread Richard Kimber
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 17:01:15 -0400 Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:47:08PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > | Has this mailing list had problems in the last couple of days? > | > | Yesterday I found I was not rece

mailing list

2003-10-02 Thread Richard Kimber
Has this mailing list had problems in the last couple of days? Yesterday I found I was not receiving any messages. Today I discovered I was not subscribed, even though I had not unsubscribed myself. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

update-modules problem

2003-10-01 Thread Richard Kimber
problem arises because when I turn on my OSS sound it rewrites the modules.conf to ensure other sound modules are inactive. Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: record sound...

2003-09-25 Thread Richard Kimber
nows a program which can do this? > > $ apt-get install sox > $ man rec I'm using Audacity for wav (as I write). - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting rid of worms and viruses

2003-09-24 Thread Richard Kimber
l allow you to filter and delete on the server, on the basis of headers. As has been mentioned earlier. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-24 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:16:56 -0400 Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also think there is a script to set it up automatically called > fetchmailconf. I've never used it so I can't say whther it's any good or > not. It worked OK for me - R

upgrade failure

2003-09-19 Thread Richard Kimber
I run mostly testing and just did an upgrade, which included libc6. It recommended restarting services, but it hangs when it tries to restart cupsys What should I do now? Thanks. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Quoting

2003-08-30 Thread Richard Kimber
y not go > for the more effective method and ditch the mouse for a minute? > > There's times when a GUI isn't necissarily the best choice. Why not have the best of both worlds and have a nice-looking gui, but use the keyboard to operate it? I'm sure many people do this.

Re: Quoting

2003-08-29 Thread Richard Kimber
l when people snip and reply to the relevant bits underneath. It's non-snipping that's the real problem. It seems virtually to be the norm in many non-computer usenet groups. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: OT: Re: Virus found in the message

2003-08-20 Thread Richard Kimber
ess in the from field. As a result I get all the > bounces. > Now ya wanna get the kick in the nads? Is there any way of filtering them that can distinguish between these and genuine delivery failures from messages I have geuninely sent? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/

Re: sarge(testing) dist-upgrade problem?

2003-08-17 Thread Richard Kimber
a dist-upgrade? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Good Debian-based distro

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Kimber
e CPU is and if it's an x86 then use kudzu and if it isn't don't? Wouldn't that work on all platforms? Or can't an x86 CPU be reliably detected? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at

2003-08-11 Thread Richard Kimber
at they're doing, and simple home users who don't - like me. When I installed Debian, I spent _a lot_ of time getting exim/fetchmail/procmail/bogofilter to work. Correctly configuring anything is certainly a goal, but just getting it working is nice. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www

hotplug question

2003-07-30 Thread Richard Kimber
, however. Is this a bug, or are the docs wrong about a Debian way? I have hotplug 0.0.20030117-7 Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

user cannot access usb interface 0

2003-07-23 Thread Richard Kimber
or kernel module (e.g. dc2xx or stv680) is using the device and you have read/write access to the device. *** Error (-53: 'Could not claim the USB device') *** What do I have to tweak to get it running as user? Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To U

Re: tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Richard Kimber
ve installed xprt or xprt-xprintorg (if u run unstable), > that use 'tee' through xprint init script. > You should not worry since it's harmless :) > Check /etc/init.d/xprint for details. Thanks. I'll have to research it. I thought I was just running cups. - Richard. --

Re: tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Richard Kimber
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:18:40 +0100 Randy Orrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard Kimber wrote: > > When I do a ps, I see a process: > > > > tee -a /dev/null > > > > I understand I might use tee from the command line, but why is this > > proc

tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Richard Kimber
When I do a ps, I see a process: tee -a /dev/null I understand I might use tee from the command line, but why is this process running, and what is it appending to /dev/null ? And is it a Good Thing? Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Richard Kimber
oblem. No doubt I would make my own debs if I knew how, but I've always found the documentation on this obscure. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Richard Kimber
his is also in Sylpheed itself. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wine: Photoshop?

2003-07-15 Thread Richard Kimber
MP instead? Aside from its less than user-friendliness, The GIMP is not a straightforward alternative with all the facilities of Photoshop, or indeed other programs like PSP8. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

running aptitude and apt-get from cron

2003-07-05 Thread Richard Kimber
9% [Waiting for file]99% [Waiting for file]99% etc., with no indication of what, if anything, has been achieved. Is there a way of getting aptitude to give output similar to what one gets in a terminal, like apt-get? Or should I not be doing this at all? Thanks, -Richard. --

Re: The nature of testing and where can others help (Was Re: HowTofor Gnome2??)

2003-07-04 Thread Richard Kimber
yway." I thought that was what unstable was. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Kimber
in > apt 0.5.5. Many thanks. That's cleared things up. Should I just wait for 0.5.5 to come into testing, or get it from unstable? - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory

2003-06-16 Thread Richard Kimber
owing packages have unmet dependencies: apt-listchanges: Depends: python-apt but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages How do I get round this? I'm running testing. Thanks, - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-15 Thread Richard Kimber
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 02:22:22 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 01:12:57PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 01:29:09 -0400 > > Graeme Tank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > and bug #188900 seems fixe

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-14 Thread Richard Kimber
is morning listbugs still says it's open. There isn't much point in having this facility if it doesn't report the true position. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-11 Thread Richard Kimber
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 15:04:01 +0200 Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:50:10 +0200, Richard Kimber wrote: > > > I have 50 or so testing packages in line for upgrade. Some of these > > have grave bugs open. Some have grave bugs I can live

apt-get upgrade advice

2003-06-11 Thread Richard Kimber
I right in assuming that the #188900 bug is such that I should avoid upgrading binutils? Thanks, -Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt list-bugs question

2003-06-05 Thread Richard Kimber
bugs. Is this a bug in list-bugs, or does not mean that the bug has been fixed? The man page doesn't say what means. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2 Hardware Questions (LCD/Wireless Router)

2003-04-05 Thread Richard Kimber
7 20 which I'm very happy with. It's just like a CRT in the respect that you mention. I can't answer your question about colour compensation. - Richard. -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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