Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

2005-11-30 Thread Shot - Piotr Szotkowski
Hello. Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: > From what I read on the lists it seems that Ubuntu's > unstable is generally more broken than Debian's It depends. Ubuntu has a 6 month release cycle, and early in the cycle the 'unstable' (currently - Dapper) is generally broken, while near the end of the cycle it

Re: Java SDK on unstable

2005-01-07 Thread Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
Hello. David Baron: > On Thursday 06 January 2005 23:36, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've installed Java the day before yesterday > > with just java-package and sun-j2sdk1.5debian. > I had installed in differently in the past, had to fix problems with > some stuff on 1.4 but 1.5 went in fine

Re: Java SDK on unstable

2005-01-06 Thread Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
Hello. Jorgen Rosink: > Install java-package -> > apt-get install java-package fakeroot sun-j2sdk1.5debian > > Now it's just as easy as building a kernel the-Debian-way -> > fakeroot make-jpkg /path/to/self-extracting_java_file Just to clarify the popular misconception - fakeroot is not need

Re: Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-05 Thread Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
Hello. rich: > What I don't understand is why it is so horrendously insecure to run > testing - as I understand it when a vulnerability is found, a new > version of the program is normally released which fixes the problem. AFAIK, the catch is that the Debian Security Team is maintaining stable -

Re: mutt alternates command

2005-01-04 Thread Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
Hello. Mike M: > 2. What's the proper way to read /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz? Other than installing apt-listchanges? :o) >I used: ># cd /usr/share/doc/mutt/ ># gunzip NEWS.Debian.gz ># vi NEWS.Debian > >It worked but it seems there should be some sort of tool. I'd

Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-11 Thread Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
Hello. Ron Johnson: > A 400x400 window at resolution 1280x1024 is the exact same size as if > the monitor were running at 1280x960, because the monitor (whether LCT > or CRT) is designed to run at 1280x1024, and X knows about 1280x1024. The only monitors that are 'designed' to run at certain res

Re: Mutt/GPG: *un*encrypted copies to self?

2004-10-09 Thread Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
Hello. Martin Dickopp: > a standard solution to this problem is to encrypt the message with > your own key in addition to the recipient's key. GnuPG will do this > automatically if you put the line > > encrypt-to "your-key-id" > > in your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf file. Thanks, Martin, Johann and

Mutt/GPG: *un*encrypted copies to self?

2004-10-08 Thread Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)
Hello. Recently I started learning how to use GPG for signing and encrypting my mail, and today noticed that the outgoing encrypted messages are copied into $record folder *after* the encryption; as you can imagine, this makes them quite useless for me, as I don't have the recipient's private key.