Re: Duplicating installs across the network

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
to Advogato some time back: http://www.advogato.org/article/555.html Data replication across a (switched) network independent of nodes being populated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: "Restoring" system after MB/processor upgrade

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
fic to specific kernel architectures. If you're upgrading CPUs within the P4 familiy, it's a transparent change. Best bet is to have bootable media (boot floppy, Tom's Root Boot, LNX-BBC, Knoppix) handy. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.ho

Re: zmodem file transfer w/ minicom over serial connection

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:02:01PM -0600, Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -- > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I'm running minicom over a null-modem serial cable settings: 57600 8N1. > > > > File transfer setting is: > > > >

Re: run win/dos file on linux, please help

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
onboard floppy support may work with a USB floppy you can borrow from a friend. There are downloadable DOS floppy images on the web, or again, a friend may have one. > I ever download dosemu, then at command line type dos DOSEMU can't run real mode for BIOS/Firmware upgrades. Peace. --

Re: apt-get problem

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
#x27;s solved? Try also: strace ...where is some command and arguments. Usually the error will be evident in output (note ther emay be lots of it). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: simple backup script

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html > Secondly I'd like to do a fullbackup of a remote server, but I'm not > sure what's the best way to do a e.g. a dd over the lokal network. May > be the obove script could use for both. Amanda, for starters. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
n only handle a very small subset of these capabilities. > Servers are available with Win2k Terminal Server or WinXP. Clients > (also from third-party) work on any recent Windows. Some of them even > display single windows on the 'server' as independant windows on the > c

So what the hell is wrong with X? (was Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?)

2003-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
o few benefits, too much uncertainty. And I really am interested in responses, commentary, criticisms, or corrections. I keep seeing this matter raised. I see little clear articulation or benefit from alternatives I've seen posed though. References 31. http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=90399 32. http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/ 33. http://www.windowmaker.org/ -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:19:33AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I'm trying to bootstrap an old 486 Thinkpad. It's got two PCMCIA slots, > > and might make a decent gateway.

Re: verifying a Debian package

2003-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
AQ, but I'm not coming up with a definitive answer at the Debian FAQ: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

zmodem file transfer w/ minicom over serial connection

2003-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
57600. None of these appears to make a difference. Assistance appreciated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Defeat EU Software Patents! http://swpat.ffii.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Traction (was Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?)

2003-09-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
cause of the acceleration and deceleration power draws and surges. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Use a personal CSS stylesheet to promote Web usability: http://kmself.h

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
It's an uphill struggle: for some people rewriting from scratch > seems to be much sexier. Literally, at times. One of Bdale's stories is of a Brazillian project to produce a distro (forget which), where a primary objective was not only "to impress the girls", but was met

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:05:12AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:56:48PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > It would also be helpful if I could do the old trick of : > > > > cat <foo > > > > EOF > &

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:17:18PM +0300, Shaul Karl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:41:24PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > After this point, you can transfer shar archives (which use uudecode, > > hence the above step), allowing for

Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
., for about fifteen years, so I'm not sure what the options are here. I'm also wondering if there is other terminal software other than minicom I can use, preferably with color support. minicom seems to do only vt100. Some full-screen programs (notably 'top') don't wo

Help parsing a fetchmail dumped mail file

2003-08-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
ransfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FROM=3AGARY CUSUMA My question is: how can I wrangle this file into a format that's further processable? I've tried with mutt, formail simply spits out a single, somewhat large mail message (all 34 MiB ;-).

Re: possible to extract .cab files under linux?

2003-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 08:09:50PM +1000, Damien Solley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 19:11, Lukasz Szift Hejnak wrote: > > I was seeking a way to extract cab files too and found two > > > > 1) you can get your self any bootable win disk > > and u

Re: US crypto export regs

2003-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:48:11PM -0500, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > For "publicly available" encryption source code, the requirement is > > notification of intent to export. > > For software in Debian/main that notifica

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
thing relatively easy to handle. > > I want to be able ot select downloaded .pdf files edit > > them and then upload or fax them. > > Is there even such a thing in the Windows world besides Acrobat? I found a "Jaws PDF Editor" from an Australian company. I

fetchmail: choking on invalid headers

2003-08-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
mpression that fetchmail is crufty. No bug filed yet, suggestions on how to phrase this appreciated. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Ceterum censeo, Caldera delenda est.

US crypto export regs (was Re: Use of Debian For Non-Profits)

2003-08-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
ligible for License Exception TSU if it is also made publicly available. IANAL, TINLA, YADA. 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 lawsuit info: http://sco.iwethey.org pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

OT: RH vs SCO Declaratory Judgment request in text, and a help request

2003-08-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
the support of both word-of-mouth and links to help get the word out about the this issue of much significance to the GNU/Linux community. See: http://zgp.org/pipermail/linux-elitists/2003-June/006604.html Thanks much. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.h

Re: Reinstall all packages

2003-08-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
doesn't complete successfully, then bringing these back in. I actually used a sed command: sed -e '1,40' reinstall-packages ...say, to attempt install on packages 1-40. If these ran successfully, I'd delete those lines from the file and try another set. Wash, rinse,

Re: konqueror - https?

2003-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
t; package with this query: > > apt-cache search kde | grep crypto kdebase-crypto -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Americans [...] need to watch what they say. -- Ari Fle

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
trieved is something I hadn't thought of and would be > far smoother for me. Given that a given key is only retrieved once, the penalty is front-loaded, and gets better. You can always abort the fetch with ^C. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>ht

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:36:41PM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:36:01PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: <...> > > Given that a given key is only retrieved once, the penalty is > > front-loaded, and gets better. > > > &g

d-u / Usenet gateway (was Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful)

2003-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
cribe", and then post to the list using their mail client. Newsgroup descriptions are the proper repository for this information. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? I man

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
gt; want to be. Alan's complaints here are very curious as his headers indicate he uses mutt. Which was designed as a reference RFC 2015 implementation by Michael R. Elkins, specifically to provide PGP signature and encryption support. Similarly, Alan's mail configuration breaks threads for some

Re: Identifying spamhosts

2003-08-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
vers will either never try again, or reconnect hours later. Adding RBL lookup checks provides a ready means to then deny connections from known spam hosts. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you

Squid cache size? (was Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls)

2003-08-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
t; use of its capacity, hence the decision to move the security function > to a separate box. Incidentally, how much space are you dedicating to your Squid cache? I know that this can't be assigned directly, so either the segment size, or net use (du -s on cache) would be useful. Peace.

Debian & OpenBSD (was Re: Linux firewall vs Windows and Hardware based firewalls)

2003-08-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
Not that it needed much -- once configured, it just ran. But that's in part the point -- because updates were problematic, they simply didn't happen. Which made me feel uncomfortable. Don't let me talk you out of experimenting with OpenBSD, and note that my experiences are a

Re: New to list

2003-08-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
your browser at http://localhost/dwww/ I list a few hardcopy sources at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/linux-books.html Rick Moen's Debian tips are useful: http://www.linuxmafia.com/debian/tips Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.net

Re: apt-get nightmare

2003-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
o echo all commands to stdout as they're executed to see where the error occurs. If all else fails, try to work out what the script does, do these steps manually, and replace the whole thing with a call to /bin/true. dpkg just checks for the exit status of the script, this will always comple

Re: Partition sharing

2003-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
able somewhat to VMWare). > Question--what advantage or disadvantage would there be if multiple > Linux systems shared additional partitions such as /temp, /usr, > /var,..? Is this even practical? You'll utterly crap out the information required by one system when running others.

Re: FHS question

2003-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
x27;ll find in Debian is that packages with large quantities of related files will create a subdirectory under /usr/lib or /usr/share for components, for arch-dependent and arch-independent files, respectively. See Debian Policy 10.7.3. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Data corrupts. Absolute data corrupts absolutely. -- Ed Self's corollary of Atkinson's Law. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian Can't See All of Large Disks?

2003-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
For disks beyond 137 GiB, the HOWTO doesn't provide specific guidance, though a good overview is here, in general, you want 2.4.18 or better kernels: http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/maxtor-160.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.c

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.)

2003-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:37:49PM +0200, David Fokkema ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 05:13:26AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > As some here are aware, I maintain a rant-o-matic with some standard > > screeds on frequently iterated issues. The C-R issu

Re: Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful

2003-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 08:14:43AM -0500, Kirk Strauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > At 2003-08-03T04:13:26Z, "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Effective spam management tools should place the burden either > > on t

Re: tool for checking compromised box

2003-08-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
y suspect. You must analyze it from known good media (say, a Knoppix boot disk). A mix of chkrootkit, debsums, and the new tripwire replacement (aide, integrit), would probably be good. Reinstall from known good sources would be strongly recommended. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMA

Challenge-response mail filters considered harmful (was Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.)

2003-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
at all. 2. Privacy violation. A record of our correspondence is being maintained by a third party who has no business knowing of the transaction. Many people will refuse to respond to C-R requests for this reason. 3. Less effective at greater burden than reciever-s

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
out and of that less than .1% (I'd wager) would > actually hit someone. *That* would be an appropriate use, IMHO. And this is more legitimate than you scanning the messages yourself, and adding the addresses to your whitelist or spamlist, appropriately, how? Peace. -- Karsten M. Sel

Re: Look at these update from M$ Corporation.

2003-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
7;t known, A's C-R system sends a challenge in response. Rinse, wash, repeat. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 Cabal: http://www.kuro5hin.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Q on NYT article on the cost of Spam

2003-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
s for $300-$1000 a pop. Much as it was the blue-jeans vendors who profited from the California Gold Rush, and, er, well, who got rich from dot-coms? Only winner I can see is Microsoft. Hmm... _That_ explains something Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmse

Re: sudo doesn't work

2003-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
to us. See your own "i've found some..." line above. > :/ using my own mailer now, since i'm at > work (and so i can't test that pathname thing right now). That's not an excuse. Get and run 'vim' or another editor which handles wrapping and quoting s

Re: clueless autoresponders (was: Kicking users)

2003-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
x27;m on is absolutely polluted with spam, content-filter, and vacation bots), to my spamlist address trap. Procmail deals with these as it sees fit. Including autopost to abuse@ and postmaster@ sending domain. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netco

Re: Getting man pages in color

2003-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
ate-alternatives --config pager Alternatively (if you prefer using less elsewhere): function man () { export PAGER=most /usr/bin/man $@ } ...in your .bashrc. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don'

Re: Top - Mem: 119212k used

2003-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
nale for this is: you have memory on your system. It might as well be used for something. Allocating memory to buffers and cache is far more useful than not using it at all. As others have said, if the memory is needed (by programs), then the cache/buffers will be flushed and allocated. Peace

Re: Newbie question on partitioning (primary/logical drive ?)

2003-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
27;. Gave it the full size and now I have no idea what to > do. I am not really sure what I just did. One big system partition is likely the simplest partitioning scheme. "Best" depends on what your goals are. For a mix of usability, stability, security, and recoverability, see: h

Re: installing a Debian system on a 2nd hdd while booted off the first

2003-08-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
ally writing this from an ssh session on which I'm doing just this ;-) 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: Why are passwords in /etc?

2003-07-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
ised to research this discussion thoroughly before raising further questions here. 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: Why are passwords in /etc?

2003-07-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
Why is this the case? Creating this as a symlink is possible, though it breaks in edge cases. Most notably, loopback mounts aren't properly freed. It is possible to refresh or rectify /etc/mtab by catting /proc/mounts over it if necessary. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Re: How to resize Pictures

2003-06-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
ow galrey # (sic), yes, that's how it's spelled. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Use a personal CSS stylesheet to promote Web usability: http://kmself.

Re: Activating vim color?

2003-06-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
or 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: locale not supported by C library

2003-06-27 Thread Karsten M. Self
et install locales > util-linux', but I'm fairly sure I just accepted the defaults > everywhere, so that shouldn't have broken anything. dpkg-reconfigure locales # and if you're still seeing problems locale-gen If you're using locale-purge, make sure your

Re: How many users?

2003-06-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
; I'm also wondering how this number compares with the number of unique IP > addresses that have downloaded the install CDs. > > I'm not sure that can be gathered accurately because of the mirrors. Bingo. It's a right proper conundrum. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <

Re: How to count actual users?

2003-06-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
specifically Dan Kuznetsky, though he tends to track unit shipments and dollar sales, rather than hypothetical users. Still, Dan is one of the more generally clueful folks. Unfortunately, his clues cost money. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.n

Re: Debian files available as tarballs? Ques. about full Debian chroot

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
and stop daemons as you wish. Note that these share kernelspace with daemons run outside the chroot, and may conflict on sockets or other resources. In general, I'd recommend against doing this intentionally. If you want to run jailed daemons, UML (user-mode Linux) is a better bet. Peace

Re: Window manager troubles in Sid

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
session manager (wdm) has launched both XFree86 (the X server) and WindowMaker (my window manager), which is running multiple clients. There should be a way to get the windowmanager spec from within the X environment, but I'm not aware of how. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Jerky Screen Saver

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
acceptable on the fastest, highest-end gaming systems, but little else. I get relatively smooth performance running in an 800x600 window, but the rest of my box bogs down. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt&

Re: What's going on with Gnome in "testing"?

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
Need to get 0B/31.2MB of archives. After unpacking 3217kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n Abort. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? SCO is the thief w

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
s ;-) Peace (by whatever means necessary). -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? "Rob McKenna was a miserable bastard and he knew it" -- HHGTG pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian files available as tarballs?

2003-06-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
of Debian. But what about access to just the operating system > files without gigabytes of binary packages? The "operating system files" in general _are_ binaries, among other formats. What, again, exactly are you looking for, and do you intend to do? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self &

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
nd scratch partitions, running Woody on the linux side. ...and you want to do...? > Thanks in advance. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Moderator, Free Software Law Discussion mailing list: http://lists.alt.org/mailman/listinfo/fsl-discuss/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
ituation continues to improve. There's information on SiS X driver support here: http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsis630.shtml > Yet, both RedHat and Mandrake's graphical installers and Debian's penguin > logo display fine with *whatever* card I'm running -

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
sing a stock kernel. - Copy Knoppix's X configuration file someplace, as a starting point. With this, the modestly skilled newbie should have few issues with a Debian install. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "G

Re: Network not enabled with upgraded kernel, 2.2.20->2.4.18, Dell Insp 4100 NB

2003-06-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
net grep Ethernet /proc/pci ...is going to be useful to us here. Or install lspci and run it. I keep a system-info script at http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/LinuxSystemInfoScript ...running this and posting output would be useful. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Network not enabled with upgraded kernel, 2.2.20->2.4.18, Dell Insp 4100 NB

2003-06-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
/config-$( uname -r ) CONFIG_E1000=m ...shows me that my gigabit-ethernet card is configured as a module. If it yad been "CONFIG_E1000=y", then it's built into the kernel, if the line was commented or the value was 'n', it's not configured. Peace. -- Karsten M

Knoppix & Debian chroot install (was Re: debian, request help)

2003-06-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
scription of this method. I would like to try it on an old box that > I have been unable to get working. Please be rather verbose. I am not > good at connecting dots. > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 06:01:41AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > There are a number of differe

Re: debian

2003-06-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
ny, Knoppix, and if you dig a bit, the Stormix installer. http://www.google.com/search?q=debian+graphical+installer Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Integrity, we've heard of it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: New line with xmessage?

2003-06-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
ew line? This sort of works: > > xmessage "Newline > > You will get to the alternate prompt, and then continue > > here!" ...or fold, or indent: echo "some silly message" | fold -w 10 | xmessage -file - Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: How to Identify Mailing Lists

2003-06-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
hive/suse-linux/2003-Jun/0207.html > > And the list (in German) itself at: > http://procmail.livingit.de/ Nick Moffitt of Crackmonkey has a set of filters which I tried locating a few days ago, didn't turn it up though a bit of Googling might. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL

Webmin not working--I'm getting Access Denied

2003-06-19 Thread Jeff Self
icate. I select temporary and then I get the "Unable to connect -- Access denied" on my browser. -- Jeff Self Information Technology Analyst City of Newport News Personnel Department 2400 Washington Drive Newport News, VA 23607 757-926-3741 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Malformed date header? (was: Re: Re: Kernel penguin logo?)

2003-06-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 08:28:22PM -0400, christophe barbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:39:13PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > On a related topic, is there a way to instruct procmail to fix broken > > > date on the flight. I would be happy to

Re: OT: Malformed date header? (was: Re: Re: Kernel penguin logo?)

2003-06-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:45:15PM -0400, christophe barbe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:14:26PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Dec 31, 1969 at 11:59:59PM +, Benedict Verheyen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > The webm

OT: Malformed date header? (was: Re: Re: Kernel penguin logo?)

2003-06-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
ining what he could do to get the penguin logo. I'm going to change > mine to the debian logo. > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Karsten M. Self <

Re: Internet Browser Preferences

2003-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 05:57:22PM +0200, Frank Van Damme ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2003 17:49, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I don't want to get into any long debate, but I am looking for a light > > > weight browser. I am currently using Opera, bu

Re: Internet Browser Preferences

2003-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
ng? Galeon on reasonable HW. Dillo / w3m on older (PII-200 and worse). For more: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NixBrowsers Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't yo

Re: Wrong address on reply (on debian maillist)

2003-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
; >1) make sure you remove the original sender's e-mail from the >recipient addresses. Since most subscribers to the list don't >need/want a second copy of most messages. > >2) file a wishlist bug with pine's author(s) for proper mail list >

Re: vim broken: unstable / hppa

2003-06-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:08:43PM +0100, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I filed a bug on this a few days ago, was wondering if anyone else has > been bitten. See #190585 > > vim segfaults on startup on this system. Given that it's my editor of > choice (cur

Re: how do I do this is shell script?

2003-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 12:27:15AM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On June 11, 2003 11:14 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:15:32PM -0400, Chun Kit Edwin Lau > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > >

Re: Speeding up debian ... ?

2003-06-13 Thread Karsten M. Self
may also still be a copy of Stuart Cheshire's "It's the Latency, Stupid" accessible from somewhere. http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/rants/Latency.html Or similar: http://peripherals.about.com/library/weekly/aa012101c.htm Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PRO

Re: how do I do this is shell script?

2003-06-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
7;s/^\([EMAIL PROTECTED])\t\([A-Za-z0-9_-.]*\)[ ]*\([A-Za-z0-9_-. > ]*\)\t(Palm)/alias \2 "\2 \3" <\1>/' | > sort > $MUTT_ADDRESSES ^ -u Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gesta

OT: new GPG key

2003-06-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
about why I was showing up with a new key (though you're right to be suspicious). I hope to have the new key circulating at keysignings soon. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you unde

Re: [OT] Bogus undelivered message

2003-06-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
f getting their junk read? If you want your messages authenticated, sign them. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Integrity, we've heard of it: http://www.theregister.co.uk/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: exiting chroot

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
get and fix things (eg. lilo > > :) and then I just typed 'exit' like always and it did exit back to the > > 'ash' shell of the install. Please correct me if the other chroot is > > some other situation. > > In bash ^d is the same as typing exit. ..

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
a symlink to either /usr/local or /usr/local/opt. /usr/local itself may be its own partition (back this off seperately from /usr) or a subdirectory of /usr. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
I'm using ~ 150MB in / and ~650MB in /usr. However, for a desktop box, > having a seperate /usr can cause trouble (some packages are a little buggy and > don't work when /usr is on a seperate partition... the only one I've > encountered is discover, so it's a pret

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD Thanks

2003-06-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
say, /var/log, /var/cache, and /var/lib) when it blows up. > > Luckily, this box has the smallest drive. Now if I could only squeeze > > debian/apache on to that 270 MB hard disk sitting in the corner for another > > box... > > That should be easy. 270 MB is _huge_. You

Re: kdm init files and xmodmap

2003-06-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
> > > > KDM starts X which runs Xsession which will look in .Xmodmap. If you > > put your xmodmap into $HOME/.Xmodmap it should be read at start up > > time. > > > > Bob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of

Evolution segmentation faulting on me now

2003-06-05 Thread Jason Self
tly appreciated. Thanks, Jason Self -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Partitioning advice, 13.9 GB HD

2003-06-05 Thread Karsten M. Self
figure it out). > > Sorry for not shortening this post, but on the couple of other places I've > posted, I get the third degree on WHY am I partitioning, WHY so many, etc. I > don't need that, just some advice if the numbers above are in the ballpark, > or if I'

Re: Gnome desktop icons are no longer showing

2003-06-05 Thread Jeff Self
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 13:12, Chris Metzler wrote: > On 04 Jun 2003 12:36:38 -0400 > Jeff Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 12:03, Nathan Poznick wrote: > >>Thus spake Jeff Self: > >>> I'm running Debian unstable with Gnome 2.2 and

Re: Gnome desktop icons are no longer showing

2003-06-05 Thread Jeff Self
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 12:03, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake Jeff Self: > > I'm running Debian unstable with Gnome 2.2 and Nautilus. Since yesterday > > afternoon, I noticed that my icons are missing. My Home, Start Here, > > Trash and other folders I created myself.

Gnome desktop icons are no longer showing

2003-06-05 Thread Jeff Self
a new bug with something that was updated? -- Jeff Self Information Technology Analyst City of Newport News Personnel Department 2400 Washington Drive Newport News, VA 23607 757-926-3741 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Resizing ReiserFS Partition

2003-06-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
imates show that all slashodot viewers will die. > --Mohammad Al-Sahhaf SCO Sopkesman, Former Iraqi information minister*/ On that note, see: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SCOvsIBM Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What

Re: Knoppix ISO image is 715MB - How Do I burn it ?

2003-06-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
esForBinaryMultiples http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GiB http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/MiB But oddly enough, not (yet): http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/KiB Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netc

Re: Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB

2003-06-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
3, wma, and ra. > > > That did it, I was using some other bogus URLs that I'd Googled up. > > Thanks! > > PS: I live in Berkeley, would love to find a good Debian-friendly user > group. bad: http://bad.debian.net/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: OT: Putting down the SCO FUD

2003-06-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
ranscript and oggs of Friday's conference call. Peace. -- 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.

Re: Remote KDE desktop over SSH?

2003-06-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
ed it over a 56K dialup, it workedafter about 15 minutes startup I'd strongly discourage use of GNOME or KDE over a remote connection. VNC will do you better here. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestal

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