Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
*a* GNU/Linux system set up (or provide materials for it to be installed yourself). If the system works well, it will be its own testament. And if none of that works, float your resume. There *are* GNU/Linux jobs out there, and with time you're likely to land one. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self

Re: Jargon File - where is tuxedo.org?

2003-02-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
. 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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I/O errors - logged?

2003-02-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
string. I'd suspect system or kernel logs. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? A few years ago you could buy a CD, knowing that it was a standard product... Now, you...find that you can play it in your

Re: wine and IE

2003-02-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
consider the browser user-agent string to be harmful. You can join the protest: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/UserAgentString Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Reading is a right

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 01:15:17PM -0600, Keith G. Murphy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 10:18:46AM +0100, Jeff Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Is there one, or if so is it perceptible? For instance, I compiled kde and qt to live in /opt

Re: Best WWW browser..

2003-02-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
from a rather large set of possibilities). Peace -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? A guide to GNU/Linux browsers: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NixBrowsers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Good C/C++ IDE

2003-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/linux-info/applications-ides.html 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

Re: Certification

2003-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
candidates. The others will be open again soon enough ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Hollings: bought, paid for, but couldn't deliver the CBDTPA: http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa

Re: Performance hit: symlinks

2003-02-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
appreciated. -- 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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Presentation ... et pbl (s)

2003-02-16 Thread Self
Bonjour, vous pouvez m'appeler indifferament newbi ++ ou Laurent j'utilise la 3.0 en attedant de recevoir la mise à jour le noyau est recompilé 2.4.18 Je m'adresse à vous pour pouvoir utiliser le touchpad (le machin qui replace la souris)de mon Acer 368D sur un serveur x + Gnome. Si cela

Re: Windowmaker question

2003-02-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
shared application icon for apps you run many of (e.g.: terminal windows). 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

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
. 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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More detailed post ...

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Get a clue: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/NixBrowsers (Well, when Mozilla gets the ability to edit bookmarks as well as Netscape Communicator 4, then I will upgrade.) Start moving. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: maildir vs. mbox vs. mh ???

2003-02-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
-- recent Linux Journal article on the recent 64-way SGI GNU/Linux server. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist

Re: WordPerfect 8 on Woody

2003-02-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
. -- 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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Inexplicable crashing

2003-02-09 Thread Karsten M. Self
of memory), and/or install process accounting so you can see what the last run processes were. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Remember Ed Curry! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Educational software for Linux (was Re: simple (non-technial) software question)

2003-02-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
-en.html). This is in process, but should be pretty slick: a disk that you insert in the CD drive of a system, reboot, and you're running a GNU/Linux system with an educational focus. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

Re: [REPOST] Kernel-Update

2003-02-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
-a' and 'update-modules' should fix this. The messages are generally pretty harmless, FWIW. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act

Re: How I partitioned my harddrive

2003-02-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 08:54:46PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - Original Message - From: Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 2:50 AM on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 02:32:55AM -0500, Emma Jane Hogbin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote

Re: Migrate from RedHat to Debian

2003-02-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
the system up and running, and configured, before committing yourself to it completely. You also have full use of your existing distrobution during the process. Further information: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/DebianChrootInstall Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: if you could have just one dead tree book

2003-02-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
is available online (Google for it). - Temperate-Zone Pomology. After all, Davis *is* an ag school. - A UC Davis Coffeehouse mug. You can't get these just anywhere. For technical books, you can get just about anything at Powells: http://www.powells.com/ Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on the Subject of Signed E-Mail and Public Key Infrastructure By Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're probably reading this because you either stumbled across it at my website, or I sent it to you

Re: XF86Config - XF86COnfig-4 converter?

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
foolproof. And it doesn't overwrite your existing v3 config file. Version 4 uses /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. 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

Re: disk partitioning partition size allocations

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
,nodev) /dev/hda5 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev) /dev/hda6 on /usr type reiserfs (rw,nodev) /dev/hda7 on /var type reiserfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) /dev/hda8 on /home type reiserfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com

Re: How I partitioned my harddrive

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
. One partition assumes either no swap, or use of a swapfile. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? At the sound of the toner, boycott Lexmark: trade restraint via DMCA. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979791.html

Re: BackOrifice on Linux?

2003-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on. This can lead to false-positive alerts when scanning your own systems. Snort is another package which detects traffic on ports but doesn't open them. I'd recommend it as an alternative. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt

Re: ext3 partition recovery

2003-01-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
: BACK UP AND VERIFY YOUR DATA BEFORE REPARTITIONING YOUR DISK. YOU RISK LOSING ALL DATA. PERMANENTLY. Consider this a learning experience. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? A guide to GNU/Linux

Re: changing the root password

2003-01-30 Thread Karsten M. Self
':' delimited field. Is your root partition mounted readonly? Is there a value in the second field of either /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow (if you're using shadow passwords, and you should be). Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

Re: Backup Consensus?

2003-01-26 Thread Karsten M. Self
this has been discussed in the past. I apologize in advance, but I'm not a subscriber of this list. Please cc me on replies. I don't know about full concensus, but this is what I recommend: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Window Managers

2003-01-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
--config x-window-manager For your own use, make the following the last line of ~/.xsession exec afterstep ...and take a look at WindowMaker if you like Afterstep. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand

plex86, VMWare, other emulators (was Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX)

2003-01-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:59:24AM +0100, Rohan Nicholls ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: * Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030125 00:17]: on Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:54:46AM +1100, Russell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Rohan Nicholls wrote: I have to say that I took over my windows

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
of virtual HW independent of what the devices are on your physical system). I don't know how XP registration affects this, but strongly suspect that it does. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Geek for hire

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
-install everything again? you should reinstall everything again. VMWare has the ability to run off a raw disk(I think IDE only..) Current versions extend this to SCSI as well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 09:26:37PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 02:51:46AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:28PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Should it be? I can understand a desire to ease

Re: Turning off error messages

2003-01-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
file. There should be an example of logging this to an idle virtual console in the default file. 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

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
of experience and expertise levels out there. 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

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
: if policy at some future point dictates that this arrangement should change, then disrupting the but you're destroying our backup dpkg status state repository argument holds no water. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-22 Thread Karsten M. Self
you actually want to *advertise*. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
and self-inflicting damage, then recovering, and telling me what I got wrong). #!/bin/sh export PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin # Let's be verbose set -v # Create /var directory tree stubs mkdir /var/cache/apt/archives mkdir /var/cache/debconf mkdir /var

Re: Desktop productivity with Debian GNU/LINUX

2003-01-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
here, great. If you don't, happy trails. I _would_ encourage you to understand what it is that Debian brings to the table, and to realize that there are variants (compatible with the main Debian project) which do offer what you're looking for. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Recovering /var (package status only)

2003-01-21 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:03:00AM -0500, Travis Crump ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: Here is a good article about recovering a Debian system without having a backup of /var/lib/dpkg... http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0113.petreley.html Funny, I walked someone

Re: Maintaining a mixed system

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
/unstable. - Because the delta between testing and unstable is far smaller than that between stable and testing, it's more feasible to pin between testing/unstable. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand

Re: Queue Task Software on Linux ?

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
finer-grained control than the traditional cron/at/batch GNU/Linux job schedulers. 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

Re: WAS: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related--NOW, I gave up and went back to Mandrake :-(

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
of the broader lessons of free software. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? At the sound of the toner, boycott Lexmark: trade restraint via DMCA. http://news.com.com/2100-1023-979791.html

Re: OT Aliasing Multiple Addresses in Mutt

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
],\ [EMAIL PROTECTED],\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] You don't. You define 'mygroup' in /etc/aliases, and let your MTA handle this. Or you get a mailing list package and deal with things through it. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
keep vital system information in a save place (preferably hardcopy and/or a remotely accessible system). I use a script system-info to provide this and other data: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Download/system-info Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: how to determine hd partitioning?

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 06:08:13AM +, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: on Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 06:30:24PM -0500, Matthew Weier O'Phinney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I had my *newest* computer's motherboard crap out on me Friday night, and I'm trying to grab the data from its

Re: Re-configuring after an install

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
question. See /usr/share/doc/netenv . Use mc command. netenv is IMO a useless package. Lose it. No harm. -- 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

Re: xdm error

2003-01-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
): Can't create/lock pid file /var/run/xdm-pid All I want to do is have x start up by default. Does anyone have any Idea's? Does /var/run exist? Does /var/run/xdm-pid exist? What permissions? What ownership? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What

Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?

2003-01-18 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: opera or other fast browser

2003-01-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
and suck. Opera leaves me cold, though some people like it. More info: 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 you understand? Verio webhosting? Guaranteed downtime

Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

2003-01-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
in /var in descending size. You'll want to comb through these to find where you're using excess space. I try to allocate ~1GB for /var on a typical workstation. For server purposes, you may want to carve out various spool or webserver directories separately. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL

Re: Command line apt bot

2003-01-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
know the answer, staff there might ...though your friendly neighborhood IRC client is one means. 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

Re: suggestions for a fast web browser?

2003-01-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
- preferably with folders. Again, my pick on anything remotely resembling modern HW is Galeon. 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

Re: sas fileserver

2003-01-11 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:34:55PM -0800, Michael West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:45:51AM +, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:21:17PM -0800, Michael West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have been asked to help with getting a server for SAS. One

Re: sas fileserver

2003-01-10 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Keep software free. Oppose the CBDTPA. Kill S.2048 dead. http://www.eff.org/alerts/20020322_eff_cbdtpa_alert.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Revert Back to Gnome 1.4 from Gnome2

2003-01-04 Thread Karsten M. Self
other packages reflect this, though most are development or interpreter packages (e.g.: Perl, Python, etc.). The distinction and interoperability are significant enough that it matters in this case. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: users and x/gdm

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
You should be able to manage this setting with: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common man 5 Xwrapper.config for more information. 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

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:52:25AM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - Original Message - From: Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:59 PM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 ... The following is largely

Re: Timing a program run?

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
the time program in package time. It'll live at /usr/bin/time. In bash and other modern shells, 'time' is a builtin. The 'time' package provides 'time' for shells which don't include a time builtin function. Or reseved word according to the bash manpage. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:15:08PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - Original Message - From: Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 12:15 PM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:52

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
of the useful aspects. On a less-capable or heavily loaded system, the decreased memory and swap load can be significant. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Geek for hire: http

Re: man pages as user

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
this recently on debian-user, so i'll keep googling for that one. First fix should hit this as well. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? In 2002, everyone discovered that everyone else is using Linux

Re: Can only login as root

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
/nologin*' say? I had this problem once, and it turned it out to be because of this. Removing them should fix it... Moreso: if /etc/nologin exists, non-root users can't log in. Delete the file. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: keyboard problem

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
archives at http://www.debian.org/, or Google. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Help needed to steal Knoppix settings, etc

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
uses DHCP. For modules, etc., check /proc/modules. Add an additional linespace between your paragraphs, makes reading your posts easier. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Geek for hire: http

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
to root, and are attempting to run an X client, try specifying the local display *and* merging xauth records, as root: # export DISPLAY=local display # xauth merge ~/nonprivileged user/.Xauthority Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: Exchange Calendar client?

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
into this market. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? How to unwedge / disable your X display manager login: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: initializing linux partitions after installation

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
# mount /home # cp -pdR home-bak/* /home i mean, i'm going to go back and initialize it and /tmp just as soon as i figure out how, but i'm kind of confused. You're doing fine. The confusion is permanent, its focus shifts with time. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0

2003-01-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 10:32:20PM -0800, Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: - Original Message - From: Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:03 PM Subject: Re: cannot open dislpay: debian:0.0 on Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 11:35

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

2002-12-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
extended partitions to fill this out. Details: 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 understand? Geek for hire: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html

Re: hard drive partitioning questions

2002-12-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
, and the remainder logical, partitions. - i *do* need to specifically partition /home as its own partition, right? No, see above. Though it's generally useful practice. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

Re: surfraw

2002-12-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
=/usr/bin:/bin lynx -dump $@ ...and make it executable. Should work, does for me. Frankly, I'd far prefer using w3m as my surfraw browser, as it's then possible to follow links, etc. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt

Re: surfraw

2002-12-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
/surfraw.conf, though, I note that there is a line: def SURFRAW_text_browser_args none ...which is awfully suggestive, if you ask me ;-) Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Geek for hire: http

Re: OT: duplex entry in printcap

2002-12-18 Thread Karsten M. Self
into a document. My own preferred setting is duplex, 2-up. Uses 1/4 the paper of full-sheet single-sided, and binders well. 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: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Anyone have experiences / further information on this? And note that I may be half-remembering or rumormongering here 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

OT: any Debian users near Collegeville / St. Cloud, MN?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
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Re: Once in a while 'pon' just hangs without connecting

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
setting. This should clear any other pppd sessions which are running. May or may not help with your problems. 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: install program cannot detect swap partition

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
partition of your first IDE drive, or 3rd partition of your first SCSI drive. device will be, eg: hda for an IDE drive, sda for a SCSI drive. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? Geek for hire: http

Re: Not getting the letter I press

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
reveal what's going on. Look into it. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Suggestions for faxing under Debian?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
stories/configs for fax setups to share, I'm interested. 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

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Safe Sex Shell + Condom = Total Protection ??????+??????=??????????

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:21:16PM -0600, Elizabeth Barham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: George Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Safe Sex Shell + Condom = Total Protection sssh? sssh -ctp -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt

gnome 1.4 rather than 2 w/ unstable?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
systems, a'la Perl, Python, glibc, etc.? TIA. -- 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Runaway vim on SSH disconnect

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
. | Does anyone know a workaround (other than a script that seeks and | kills runaway vim sessions...)? Use 'screen' for remote sessions. Article in this month's LJ, or apt-get install screen. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-16 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 11:57:50PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 10:10:14PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: | On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 17:37, Karsten M. Self wrote: | on Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 04:01:24PM -0600, Alex Malinovich ([EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: spamassasin - how to avoid further false positives and negatives?

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
rejection, I'd strongly recommend setting your reject level fairly high -- ~10 is good -- and doing secondary filtering with personal mail rules. You'll also probably want to set some domain-wide whitelists. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part

Re: djbdns breaking out of a chroot?

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
with permissions appropriate, and adequate, but no more than this, for the job at hand. Chroot is a good tool, but like much else, it's an additional level of protection, not a silver bullet. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't

Re: server monitoring program

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
in this case is distinguishing actual alerts from false alarms. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Install with no removable media

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
-config'. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's

2002-12-15 Thread Karsten M. Self
that with the emerging significance of highly modular redundant x86 form factors (eg: blade servers with 300+ nodes per standard 19 rack), RAID may in fact play _no_ role, as service would consist of wholesale replacement of individual nodes. IBM's work on self healing systems doesn't even call

Re: OT: Printing a monthly calendar

2002-12-14 Thread Karsten M. Self
options mentioned, gcal, which uses a 'calendar'-like syntax, though more flexible. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: True Type Font

2002-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:58:25AM -0500, Shawn Lamson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 01:32:54 + Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 07:03:47PM -0500, Bruce Park ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello Debian users, How can I see if I have

Re: Help - PCI card detection problem

2002-12-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? The Amazon one-click patent boycott -- yes, it continues: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/amazon.html#whyContinue -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: WindowMaker Menu

2002-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
are lucky. I've also posted my WMRootMenu to this list, others have posted modified versions as well. Search archives. 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: cupsys setting for an 882C?

2002-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
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Re: Holiday Wish list

2002-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
. I'm running one myself, with a focus on free software tools: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main ...and it's aimed at filling in just this gap between mailing lists and Usenet on the one hand and HOWTOs and hardcopy on the other. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: True Type Font

2002-12-06 Thread Karsten M. Self
, the setup's trivial: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/TT-XFree86.html One-page setup. 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Spam alert

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
for me. Modern MUAs, MTAs, and MDAs all offer filtering options. Explore and exploit them. Spam is a scourge, but it's no excuse to flood the moats and burn the drawbridge. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you

Re: commercial scientific programs on Debian

2002-12-03 Thread Karsten M. Self
software tends to run w/o issues on most distros. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of Gestalt don't you understand? How to unwedge / disable your X display manager login: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html

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