Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2004-01-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:10:42AM +, Alan Chandler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Wednesday 31 December 2003 22:12, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:16:01AM +, Alan Chandler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: OK - I added commands in /etc/devfsd/conf.d to symlink /dev

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
much less likely to need to do that :) Spoken like someone who's failed to grasp the concept of multiple simultaneous IOs. Ever watch your system freeze for a quarter minute while swapping a large process in or out? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed downtime: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57011,00.html http://www.dowethics.com/r/environment/freedom.html pgp0.pgp

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 09:51:40AM -0700, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Incoming from Karsten M. Self: The correct first step is ~/kde3-errors. What is that? I've never seen indirection used like that. Or is this something else

Re: Advice on usb pendrive purchase

2003-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Microsoft Trustworthy Computing: http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit033.html pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
utilization of any mounted filesystems on /, which are _not_ contributing to your root FS useage. - Are you running user apps as root? Particularly X? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? If spam

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
and linking should be done when KDE isn't running (e.g.: from console). lsof and fuser can be useful commands in this situation as well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Honi soit qui mal y pense

Re: Root Partition Fills Up Completely After a Few Hours

2003-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
or rotate logfiles on a scheduled basis. However, first suggestion remains finding out what it is that KDE's complaining about, and fixing that problem or filing a bug, if appropriate. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

Re: David Grudek/COR/AXE is out of the office.

2003-12-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
months (payed ?) FWIW: sysadmin at his company replied to my off-list mails -- the vacation message has been disabled. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est

Re: knode: fonts appear double-spaced.

2003-12-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 07:13:01PM +0100, John L. Fjellstad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: Using knode, there seems to be a recent change in which all text (body, headers, dialogs in compose windows, etc.) appears doublespaced. There's no outstanding bug

Re: Is Evolution available for net-installation

2003-12-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
. OR I have to download its tarball from Ximian website. What debian release are you using? I'm on testing/unstable. Double-check your /etc/apt/sources.list file, and try running 'atp-get update' again. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: Is Evolution available for net-installation

2003-12-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 12:18:03AM +0800, Stephen Liu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi Karsten, Thanks for your advice. On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 00:00, Karsten M. Self wrote: I am prepared to install Ximian Evolution but could not find it available for net-installation # apt

Re: Netinst CD with recent kernel

2003-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
-upgrade Preferably from a current bootable GNU/Linux which supports your hardware. E.g.: Knoppix, LNX-BBC, Damn Small Linux, Morphix, etc. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Bush/Cheney '04: The last

Re: Defining a group of addresses, sending mail to all , mutt

2003-12-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
a mailing list system (mailman, etc). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? GNU/Linux BSD: We *are* the way out. http://www.wehadthewayout.com/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: question

2003-12-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 12:37:00PM -0800, Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031222 07:58]: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:05:30AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Bochs (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/), but last time I

knode: fonts appear double-spaced.

2003-12-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Checking File integrity

2003-12-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
default. Thank you. apt-cache show debsums apt-get install debsums man debsums ...note that not all packages include md5sums. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Of the top 24 industrialized

Re: question

2003-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
by the way, just a little sluggishly). Which are you saying is sluggish? VMWare or bochs? For VMWare, that's a fair statement. For bochs, it's grossly overstating performance, which tends to be somewhere between glacial and tectonic. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Web accelerator (was Re: ATT Internet Runner?)

2003-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
nominal modem speed. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? GNU/Linux BSD: We *are* the way out. http://www.wehadthewayout.com/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Suspected system compromise (was: Re: console login fails)

2003-12-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
/login vs. md5sum from /var/lib/dpkg/info/login.md5sums. For additional tips: http://www.wiggy.net/debian/developer-securing/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM

Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
of instances which X is treating as independent clients. There are some tools to view and list clients, though they don't come to me off the top of my head. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Moderator, Free

Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 12:14:49AM -0800, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:21:58PM -0500, Norman Walsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello world, Sorry, the world is out of the office for a moment, can you take a message? After running for a couple

Re: Restarting daemons

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
but what signal do you pass it to have it restart?? Dead daemons can't be signalled. You have to start them directly: /etc/init.d/daemon start Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? With Ahnold

Re: hardware raid and 3ware

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
haven't tried it myself. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mouseproblems

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
with Knoppix-CD everything works perfect. Check its configs. I'm trying to get Linux3.0Woody rev.1 running. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Support the EFF, they support you: http://www.eff.org

Re: Where can I get a certain version of a package?

2003-12-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:33:02AM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:02:12PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:40:18AM +0100, Stefan Bellon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I need an older version of a package. I read the man page

Re: Debian logo stolen.

2003-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
remarkably similar generic anthropomorphic corporate logo. Sorry, Paul, but it's a direct copy, color-shifted and rotated. I disagree. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? The revolution will not be televised

Re: Web server Partitions - /tmp

2003-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 12:32:26PM -0800, Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: You left off full attributions: Alvin Oga wrote: if /tmp is a separate partition and it cannot mount it during bootup, nothing will work right if the app depends

Re: Suggestion: Media Check for ISO Images

2003-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Problem solved. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Ford had another Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the drink which has been described as the alcoholic equivalent of a mugging - expensive

Re: network install via dialup?

2003-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
or something)? Yes, it can. In this regard, apt-get is very nice. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Where can I get a certain version of a package?

2003-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
it? See http://archive.debian.org/ for an archive of pretty much every version of every package. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Don't rush me sonny. You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles

Re: Argument list too long

2003-12-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
stdin and executes the specified command on the arguments found on stdin. I'd recommend the 'print0/-0' arguments to find xargs, respectively. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? We need a miracle, it's

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
. And there's Google. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Support the EFF, they support you: http://www.eff.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
this? See recent discussion on list, or http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? LNX-BBC: Bootable GNU/Linux -- Don't leave /home without it. http

Re: Web server Partitions - me

2003-12-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
is generally pretty silly in any regard -- you don't need data reliability, and generally take a performance hit doing this. *Striping* /tmp might be called for. You can park any arbitrary filesystem under /tmp to squeeze by in a pinch anyway. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:09:26PM +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Am Do, den 18.12.2003 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 02:56: In practice, most dynamic IPs are in use by 24/7 connections which will hold that IP for days, weeks, or months at a time. Incorrect

Re: Custom kernel problems: PCMCIA

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
... Is someone familiar with font setup in X here, or shall I try somewhere else? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? STATE OF THE ART Expensive, loud and fragile. Occasionally functions for brief periods

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
options include forwarding critical mail to your work account, a third-party webmail account, or hosting your own remotely-accessible mail. Or buy yourself a handheld system (e.g.: Zaurus) with wireless support and get your email fix from a hotspot on your breaks. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:23:50PM +0100, Magnus von Koeller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Content-Description: signed data On Tuesday 16 December 2003 22:12, Karsten M. Self wrote: SWAP - 1.5GB Rule of thumb: ?1-2x RAM. I never understood that rule... In what way does it make sense that I

Re: Web server Partitions - swap

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
, of course... Depends on work habits. I've got 512 MiB RAM, 1 GiB swap configured, 372 MiB swap used. Heavy web browsing (Galeon has memory leaks), image editing, or sound editing can really cut into that. Ditto some database work. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: rcs help

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:41:02PM -0800, Gruessle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I been trying my self on RCS I read the man rcs file created an rcs file with rcs -i rebel rebel is the name of my Debian box But I can't figure how this is supposed to work. Isn't there a way to opening

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
: statistically, odds are that *any* IP is going to generate more spam than ham. Why not block 'em all? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Inconceivable! - Princess Bride pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: DynIP mail blocking considered harmful (was: Re: My email is rejected by some sites)

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:37:09PM +0100, Joerg Rossdeutscher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, Thanks for your useful mail. This thread started to fill my killfile... :-) Am Mi, den 17.12.2003 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 01:21: - There are highly specific filters and methods which can

Re: make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2

2003-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
directory `/home/user/linux-2.6.0-test11' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 Any ideas? Did a google though havent found any answers. Thanks LKML? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? I'm no one

Re: squid ? ??????????? ? ???????? ??????

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:55:43PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ??? ? ??? ??? ? ? squid ??? ??? ??? ? ?? win2k English to this list, please. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com

Re: remote install

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
at: http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/DebianChrootInstall Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Yes, said Marvin. Why stop now just when I'm hating it? -- HHGTG pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debootstrap

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
with the base2_2.tar.gz filesystem image from Potato. This is available at http://archive.debian.org/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/current/base2_2.tgz First step on install: update your /etc/apt/sources.list and update to Woody, then proceed. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: XFree86 with i810 onboard graphics (Newbie)

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Gentoo is one step on the long road from Debian to Debian. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Starting new threads (was: Re: email client (OT))

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
, not the reply option, when asking a new question. Thank you. ...an example of one of my high-toned rant-o-matic posts ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com

Re: Nautilus won't die

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
system faults by wondering which random contributing factor might be involved. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Windows Refund Day II: fight for your right to refund http://www.windowsrefund.net

Re: Starting new threads (was: Re: email client (OT))

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:26:41AM -0800, Nunya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:18:43AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Alternatively: deleting any In-Reply-To: and References: headers, if your MUA supports header editing. Question: sometimes I delete a message

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
://www.marketingwonk.com/archives/2003/08/27/aol_sued_for_blocking_email/ http://www.google.com/search?q=aol+blocking+email Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? The golden rule of technical design: complexity is the enemy

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
max, but also hosts and internal intranet as well as an external website so there is quite a bit of data in /var/www. http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/partition.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
partitions. Mount one or two of these. You'll expand into the remaining two as you add system RAM. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? TWikIWeThey: An experiment in collective intelligence. Stupidity

DynIP mail blocking considered harmful (was: Re: My email is rejected by some sites)

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
discriminators. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 04:12:07PM -0500, Debian User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: At Tuesday, 16 December 2003, Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] com wrote: on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 06:27:09PM -0800, Raquel Rice ([EMAIL PROTECTED] net) wrote: I have a block of static IPs. I have

Re: Nautilus won't die

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:19:05PM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Em Ter, 2003-12-16 ??s 17:30, Karsten M. Self escreveu: on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:57:34AM -0200, Leandro Guimar?es Faria Corcete Dutra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Nautilus

Re: password length 8

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
/12/08/192205 http://security.sdsc.edu/publications/teracrack.pdf Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? We are the unwilling... led by the unqualified... to do the unnecessary

Re: debootstrap

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:03:54PM -0700, Paul E Condon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:04:19AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:56:04AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of trying to convert

Re: woody - crash.

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
Oopsed. There is nothing about it in logs. Thank You for all sugestions and help. Well, you're running a brk() vulnerable kernel (2.4.22). You want a backported patched 2.4.18-12, or 2.4.23, to get around the userspace kernel buffer overflow. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: make-kpkg

2003-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:14:23AM +0800, Isaac To ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: And I don't consider Grub to be much less documented than LILO. See the man vs. info debate rehash here last week. That said, I use GRUB on my boxen. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: mach_apicdef.h: No such file or directory

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
, the developer, or online docs. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Yes you will, enthused Zaphod, there's a whole new life stretching out ahead of you. Oh, not another one, groaned Marvin

Re: kernel expolit. is 2.4.18-bf2.4 affected?

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
the patch, and are vulnerable. Your safe options are 2.2.x kernels, a patched 2.4.18, 2.4.(=23), and presumably the 2.6 tree. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Americans [...] need to watch what

Re: email client

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
, packages providing mail-reader: mutt, mailx, emacs20, kmail, evolution, xemacs21-mule. (hint: apt-awk Provides:mail-reader -- Package) Googling mail client rick moen should turn up a good page on this topic (I'd research now but my net link is saturated). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL

/var/cache/apt (was Re: don't have enough free space)

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
/home/admin/links/var/cache/apt /var/cache/apt ...exercising the flexibility of GNU/Linux. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Of the top 24 industrialized nations, only Turkey has

Re: (pdf,ps,dvi) -- (rtf, doc) What's the best route?

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
relatively good edit / extract support for working with many (but not all) PDFs. Whichever route you choose, there's likely a lot of manual overhead involved. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Spread

Re: Sreelal Chandrasenan

2003-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
would change if whoever's names are on the private phone list knew that he was sending their phone numbers all over the world? That and the product list, with CVS archive locations. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

RFC: Linux compatibility test framework (was: Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect)

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
for various peripherals could be created, automated to the extent possible. There's some work toward this (lshw, hdparm, my own system-info script, etc.), anyone care to mention subsystems and possible tests? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What

Re: RFC: Linux compatibility test framework (was: Re: OT: Letter to TigerDirect)

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:35:06AM -0600, Terry Hancock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 02:16 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:15:07AM -0600, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: John Hasler wrote: Terry writes: Now, if you are just doing

Missing headers (was Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?)

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:34:07PM +, Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat 13 Dec 2003 12:51:37 +(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: ...OTOH, it may reduce a lot of the overhead of full headers. Hmm, the references and in-reply-to headers have been missing for the last

Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user

2003-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Otherwise, one simple proxy is to substitute shell variables where necessary for current user. If your installation script runs as the user in question, simply using ${USER} within the context of a shell script or here document may be sufficient. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: installmanual

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
, is there an automated installation program like that of Red Hat ? Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. Thank you. WRT installers: several. http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: your mail

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:51:44PM -0600, CLARK DAVIDSON ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Do you know how I can get a file called apt_0.5.4_i386.deb that is not corrupt? The install CD is corrupt http://packages.debian.org/ You're looking for 'apt'. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
. While she may not appreciate being told so, it doesn't change the facts. And it makes her own lecturing at least mildly ironic. /lecture ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? The black hat community

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
the traffic in undigestable chunks. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed downtime: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,57011,00.html http://www.dowethics.com/r

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
, but could be really useful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Spread the real scoop on Xenu and The Church of Scientology, link a href=http://xenu.net/;;Scientology/a on your website. pgp0.pgp

Re: Script for subscribing/unsubscribing Debian-user?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
be a useful mnemonic. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? And what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palookaville - M. Brando pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Workbone - With Volume Control - How To Install?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
type(s) of files you have (hint: 'man file'). 'workbone' _is_ the executable. Try running it. ...though YMMV. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com

Re: Applications are too big

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
the app. It should open sized to your screen. You might also maximize it so that it just fits within your visible desktop. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? DON'T PANIC pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Mail questions

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? George W. is deceptive to be sure. Dissembling, too. And let's not forget deceitful. He is lacking veracity and frankness, and void of sooth, though seemingly sincere in his

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 11:21:02AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: As your autogenerated sig says, peace. It's not autogenerated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Erin Joyce

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:10:11PM +, Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat 13 Dec 2003 01:14:53 +(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: Alternatively, reduce your online overhead by subscribing to debian-user-digest instead of debian-user. No. You get all

Re: eGroupWare Debs

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
this product within the Debian package system. The usual place to look for third-party debs is http://www.apt-get.org/ There's also a list of requested packages at: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/ ...which you can augment if you wish. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?

2003-12-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:56:24PM -0700, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Incoming from Karsten M. Self: What's your fetch mode? I'm finding that fetchmail over 56k is taking ~5-10 seconds per message (mostly depending on how much Swen I've got). What?!? Swen, now? Don't you

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:56:48PM -0800, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 04:15:45PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: ... Earthlink have implemented virus and spam filtering within the past month or so, early November, if time serves. That explains some

Re: weird problem: X restarts if I click in an ssd'ed xterm

2003-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
') is likely going to be helpful here. Check logs (~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/XFree86.0.log), as well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Gentoo is one step on the long road from Debian to Debian

Re: How to read package change logs before install

2003-12-12 Thread Karsten M. Self
. You can also browse DEBs through a number of graphical/console shell browsers including mc, Konqueror, and Nautilus. You still need 'em downloaded, but not installed. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
: there _is_ debian-curiosa. Many mailers have scoring or rating facilities. You might want to highlight posts by technically adept users. I do this mentally myself. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Kid

Re: Procmail recipe for ignore-thread

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
# And test results: for f in * do echo -e $f: \c if formail -c -x References $f | grep -qf ~/message-IDs; then echo Found else echo Not found fi done Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What

Re: control init process

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
to to achieve it less /etc/init.d/README ...and follow suggested reading there. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? I managed to love simultaneously -- and this is not easy -- women and justice

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 01:11:15PM +0800, David Palmer. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:24:46 -0800 Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The threads on completely off-topic issues (previously: rail, opium, and currently media acccuracy) simply shouldn't be on d-u

Re: Can we tag [T]echnical posts?

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:04:20PM -0800, Nunya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:24:46PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Ignore them. The threads on completely off-topic issues (previously: rail, opium, and currently media acccuracy) simply shouldn't be on d-u

Re: nagios

2003-12-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
is not there. Can someone help please Is there a non-daemon or debug mode? Logfile? Look for error output in one or the other. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Geek for hire: http

Re: No email for some users

2003-12-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
, your best bet is to run a second system as a mailserver, allow only it to send outbound port 25 mail (via firewall rules), and allow mail for only specified accounts (via MTA configuration). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt

Re: debian install over ssh?

2003-12-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
documented by Erik Jacobson at http://trilldev.sourceforge.net/files/remotedeb.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est. SCO vs IBM Linux

Re: weird PATH_INETDPID file in root directory

2003-12-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
. What's in the file? Is it related, by any chance, to your inetd process ID? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Am I going mad, or did the word think escape your lips? - Princess Bride pgp0.pgp

Re: Making a distribution

2003-12-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
(amongst others). I want apt-get and a custom 2.4.23 kernel. Is there a way to do this based on Debian (for apt-get etc)? I am a big Debian fan, but even a minimal install is more than I need. FAI. Bootfloppies. Possibly other ideas. Or look at Linux From Scratch. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self

Spam, email, encrypted transit, harvesting (was Re: Earthlink and Swen)

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:05:04AM -0500, Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 04:44:18AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:40:16AM -0500, Kevin Mark ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:55:57PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote

Re: Something broke MatLab

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
output. Examine for errors. Post relevant portion of log if you have further questions. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:03:43PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 05:25:38PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:13:07PM +, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: My understanding is that the developer's account on the machine

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