Re: Exim4 + Clamav

2005-08-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Marco Tasinato wrote: In this way clamav intercept the virus, exim4 reject the e-mail message without notifying it to the receiver. How can I enable clamav to sent an notification e-mail to the receiver when clamav finds a virus and exim turns it down??? The more important question is

Re: Exim4 + Clamav

2005-08-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: If you need a good example why trusting the From: header blindly like it sounds like you want to do by making ClamAV do exim's job may be found in the recent archives: You're getting it backwards, Paul. He wants to notify the person the mail is supposedly going to,

Re: std mail server

2005-07-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Maurice O'Regan wrote: I would like to hear from and administrator who has such a configuration, and is prepared to provide details of how to set it up. If necessary, I am prepared to pay for a satisfactory level of assistance. If that's the case why not hit guru.com? -- Steve

Re: OT: xorg-x11 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 Packages Not Found

2005-07-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Clive Menzies wrote: After hanging back for a while, I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to xorg a few days ago (amd64/sid) and all was hunky dory. A day or so ago I also did a G4 (sid) and all is well. This conversation prompted me to upgrade my laptop (Dell Latitude CPx) to xorg. The

xmove problems, it should NOT be this hard!!!

2005-07-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Ok, here's the problem I'm trying to solve. I have a laptop on which I am running Debian pretty much 24/7. It is my work machine in that I try to keep all productive work on that machine so if I ever need to travel I can pop it out of it's dock, pack it up, and everything goes with me.

Re: xmove problems, it should NOT be this hard!!!

2005-07-27 Thread Steve Lamb
michael wrote: I presume sshd is configured with X11Forwarding yes on your boxes? Yup. Like I said, the SSH tunnel works fine as I was using it to write the message. IE, right now TBird is displayed on the desktop from the laptop through SSH. :) Thanks for the sanity check,

Re: xmove problems, it should NOT be this hard!!!

2005-07-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: Ok wrong authentication!? What't the hell's going on now? The laptop's got the desktop's xauth cookie. The desktop has xhost wide open to the entire world. The SSH tunnel is up and running fine; I'm using it right now to write this! So what bloody freakin

Re: xmove problems, it should NOT be this hard!!!

2005-07-27 Thread Steve Lamb
michael wrote: as bad or worse than [X]vnc? Yes. XVNC isn't all that bad, really. Well, correction, TightVNC. I've not used the base VNC in years. Anyway, TightVNC isn't all that bad. On the LAN there's no 2-3s pause to redraw portions of Thunderbird that were overlapped by other

Re: kernel-source-... renamed for .12 ???

2005-07-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Anyone know why kernel-source-2.6.x was renamed to linux-source-2.6.x for 2.6.12? If I had to hazard a guess it is because Debian has other projects (Hurd, BSD) which have kernels which are not the Linux kernel. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm

Re: root login on console not allowed -- why and how?

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Andreas Ntaflos wrote: however, fails. No matter what password is entered, the system refuses to let us in as root. The root-password can be changed without problem when `su'-ed to root so the problem is not that it's mistyped at the prompt or anything. What does /etc/securetty say? --

Re: xfce4 dependencies in stable

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I just installed xfce4 in stable version. i noticed that the package xfce4 has not a dependecy requiring that a X server is installed, is it a bug or a precise policy? I don't believe it is. There's nothing that says the display has to be on the local machine. --

Re: Three OS on one HD

2005-07-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Rajiv Vyas wrote: I need XP only for MS Project 2003 and Dreamweaver. Need to use both those software for a program I am doing. Do they run under Crossover? If you only need 2 apps you could drop XP completely if they do. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your

Re: Bizarre ls Behavior

2005-07-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Whaddaya mean a while back? It's still in Sid... Erm, based on me not being able to find it with locate. I figured it had been subsumed into the shells like some other former external commands. :D -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink,

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Tim Connors wrote: It's not that clear! It's clear enough for people who are interesed in finding an answer to be able to do so. I agree it could provide more information. But that does not mean it isn't clear. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Please don't CC, it is against list policy. Ian Greenhoe wrote: The difference between sufficient and clear is the difference between Error: 2 and Error: Access denied. They both mean the same thing, at least according to errno. :) Y... And what's the difference between

Re: Bizarre ls Behavior

2005-07-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Martin McCormick wrote: Other directories seem normal. What could possibly be going on here? Here is a listing of what is in bin. There is a file named [ but that is the only strange thing in the listing and it is not causing the behavior: Well, I can't say why it is happening

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

2005-07-20 Thread Steve Lamb
Tim Connors wrote: Or what about automatically doubling each time it runs out of room, and starting again (along with an appropriate warning message as to how not to keep doing this)? Kinda defeats the purpose of limiting the amount of space the process uses. I mean which is better, a

Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Michael Marsh wrote: I'd say the most optimistic explanation is that google is finding what it's able to find while respecting site owners' wishes. Which is, incidentally, more than MSNBot does. It slammed my forums for months, several connections at a time. I put in a robots.txt to tell

Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Marty wrote: I don't see what legitimate purpose it might serve, and I wonder if the posters' wishes or search engine users' interests, or even public interests, enter into consideration? I suppose not. The public has no interest. As for a legitimate reason having constant hits from

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Marty wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: The public has no interest. But google shareholders do? I hope that's not what you mean. Nope. Simply pointing out that the public is an entity which in and of itself has no interests. The public is a collection of individuals, each of whom have thier

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Marty wrote: I wonder how SPI would respond to that statement. Would be interesting, wouldn't it. I mean you are talking about a collective of individuals who have decided that some software should be funded. Just because they say it is in the public interest doesn't mean the public wants

Re: [BackupPC-users] Re: OT: Archives nearly useless? (Google doing evil?)

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Marty wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: No, it's just some recent change that google made. So you claim. And your proof is... what? See my answer above. What you gave was not proof. It was supposition based on your observations on a *dynamic system*. IE, the same term used today

Re: anacron can't run hourly?

2005-07-19 Thread Steve Lamb
phyrster wrote: Can anacron run hourly jobs? Nope. Isn't that what cron is for? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-18 Thread Steve Lamb
Hal Vaughan wrote: People do things like that because they have the illusion they can control others. It's a nasty habit, and it says more negative about the person doing it than the person they are jumping on. No. It's called letting people know they're being rude. Don't like the

Re: DNAT problem in Shorewall

2005-07-15 Thread Steve Lamb
askar k wrote: In shorewall/rules I set up the line: DNATnet loc:192.168.0.100 tcp 80 Is my setting correct? It doesn't work. That sets it up so that any incoming connection from the zone defined as net on tcp port 80 is forwarded out the zone defined as loc to

Re: does Gmail has the function Reply to list?

2005-07-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Robert Wolfe, MCP wrote: When you click on Reply To All in gmail, it will cc the mailing list address like this message. And unless you trim the CCs out will violate list policy like you just did. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP

Re: .torrent clients sugestions

2005-07-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Nathaniel Homier wrote: Does anybody know of an replacement that is as good as Azureus. There isn't one. The only one that comes close is g3torrent. Unfortunately the main author programs it for Windows and the person who does the semi-regular Linux ports does some rather appalling things

Re: Reverse Shell?

2005-07-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Jacob S wrote: There are not currently any ports forwarded from the firewall to this computer and we do not have any access to the firewall to enable something like this, either. What I am hoping is that I can have them establish an ssh connection into my firewall with some software that

Re: exim4 spamassassin - no spam scanning

2005-07-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Branden Faulls wrote: Following instructions at: http://koivi.com/exim4-config/ I added a transport to /etc/exim4/conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_spamcheck and a router to /etc/exim4/conf.d/router/850_exim4-config_spamcheck_router I can say up front that something is amiss with those

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Stolp wrote: I truly believe that man should be one of the first programs a new user should get familiar with. Agreed. Too bad that GNU doesn't go along with that. . -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Jacob S wrote: What happened to humans being smart enough to make things look neat and clean? It went away around the time when humans stopped taking responsibility for their own actions. When I first came to this list, I observed how others posted, received a few tips when I messed up

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen R Laniel wrote: XML is chatty. But please: a few hundred extra megabytes won't kill you. Not on hard disks that *start* at 40 gigs. Now apply that to the providers that have to transport and store several hundred thousand in a day. The trouble is that everybody has different

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen R Laniel wrote: This XML format would be no more of a burden on sysadmins than HTML email or large attachments. Less, in fact. Point being that any increase of message size cannot be blithely dismissed at one level without looking at the impact on other levels. The word

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen R Laniel wrote: How many people do you think have 1.4-gig email archives? Gmail's original 1-gig archive was supposed to be enough for a lifetime. Which is marketing talking, not technical realities. How many people do I think have 1.4Gb archives? It's easier to ask me how many I

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen R Laniel wrote: Speaking of netiquette (since the topic is top-posting, which is supposedly a violation of some norm or other), being a screamy dick in email is a violation. I'll only respond to the un-angry folks. Nope, not screaming. As I prefaced, since you clearly missed the

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen R Laniel wrote: I get a few hundred messages a day, and I never delete any mail other than spam. My archives over the last *four years* total about 900 megs. Happy for ya. My dad hasn't upgraded his email client in 5 years and has mail going back 5 years beyond that. Just because

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen R Laniel wrote: Well, yes: so that they wouldn't kill people. The consequences of being unable to use a command line (which is different from computer illiteracy -- being computer literate means being able to use a web browser, word processor, c.) are pretty minor, really. Is it?

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Steve Lamb
David E. Fox wrote: You might check this posting[1] on Mandrake expert advocating highly redundant rar files for the backups. Let me point out I am a big fan of RAR. Have been for, what, well over a decade now. However, some of what you're saying is untrue. Also, with tar or gzip, you

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Mal Beaton wrote: rsync to get a complete picture of the system then rdiff-backup for incremental changes. I actually keep a seperate old box with big disks just for the backup. I like rdiff-backup as you can do such stuff as restore this file as it was x days ago. Beats having to dig out the

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen R Laniel wrote: I wonder if I may be so bold as to suggest the final word about top- or bottom-posting. Here it is: Nope. Here's the final word. Your email program should be smart enough to customize to your preference. Pipe dream. Email messages should look like so:

Re: syntax highlighting

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Lamb
roberto wrote: how to achieve this in vim? vim can find matching braces, be they curley, square or parens. If I recall correctly it is %. Python's declined my need for such matching. :) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key:

Re: syntax highlighting

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Lamb
roberto wrote: the problem are not braces, sorry, but just pattern because i'm currently editing matlab files, so without braces... Heh, without knowledge of what matlab source looks like I was presuming there'd be braces in there somewhere. :D Ok, what I've come up with. A quick

Re: encrypting the users' folders

2005-07-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Shaun Lipscombe wrote: ... and I should have said.. and then use ~/dominik as your ~. Don'tcha mean I should have said, chmod 700 ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} pwd /home/grey [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} ls -ld /home/grey drwxr-xr-x 59 grey grey 2856 2005-07-04 03:51 /home/grey [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} chmod

Re: encrypting the users' folders

2005-07-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Lee Braiden wrote: root needs to be responsible, trustworthy, and trusted. Since root can do virtually anything, it makes no sense to *try* to hide things from him/her. The best you can do is to obscure things, so that root won't accidentally find them out without trying to. If you don't

Re: encrypting the users' folders

2005-07-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Lee Braiden wrote: I'm not sure what you're getting at. The alternative of not having anyone who is trusted? Yup. Imagine trying to install something when even root cannot write to the install directories. That's what NT was like without admin privies on any user. -- Steve

Re: debian hosting service

2005-07-01 Thread Steve Lamb
John Kelly wrote: And I see their $45 package only includes 15GB monthly transfer. Velocity includes 400GB monthly transfer with their $69.95 package. I like to read the fine print. And the last time I had colo/VPS I was hard pressed to top 2Gb. That was including the month where I

Re: MythTV

2005-06-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: You haven't seen the series 2 tivos, or any of the hacks you can do to an original tivo. I certainly haven't and don't think it is relevant. In today's litigation happy culture I would not want to have to rely on hacks of any box to provide something it isn't supposed

Re: Perl upgrade risks

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Almut Behrens wrote: (2) Install the new perl 5.8.7 in /usr/local and leave 5.6.1 as it is. This is probably the safest bet. In your software that needs 5.8.0, make sure you're calling the new version This doesn't work to well with packages since the packages in question could contain a

Re: tune linux ip stack?

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Stefhen Hovland wrote: I am still recieving suboptimal usenet downloads from news.giganews.com even after the 4mbps Comcast speed upgrade my city went through a couple of months ago What, exactly, is suboptimal pr0n downloads from giganews? 100kps? 200kps? 50kps? What makes you think

Re: Subscription renewal

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Bob Proulx wrote: Samuel B Preston wrote: I am trying to renew my subscription. Is this the place? How / why did the renewal process go wrong? You don't need to renew a scription to the debian-user mailing list. When subscribed you remain subscribed until you unsubscribe from it. See the

Re: debian hosting service

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Mark D. Hansen wrote: can anyone recommend a good hosting company that provides debian sarge (either dedicated or virtual private server)? Either tektonic.net or unixshell.com. Both are the same company, the only difference being that unixshell.com is the for experts only Xen offering that

Re: tune linux ip stack?

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Stefhen Hovland wrote: Well, um, I used to be able to download pr0n at 400KB/s before the comcast 4megabit speed for a good solid year and a half, and now since the upgrade my speeds seem to be limited to ~200KB/s. Nothing else on my end has changed Any policy changes on Giganews' side?

Re: tune linux ip stack?

2005-06-28 Thread Steve Lamb
Stefhen Hovland wrote: Actually I did ask them this via their giganews.general newsgroup and one of the staff members stated that they do not do any type of rate limiting on any accounts, so that I believe shouldn't be the issue. I also was wondering that myself.. Heh, ok. Just checking

Re: Howto find and remove unused libraries?

2005-06-26 Thread Steve Lamb
fraz wrote: How can I find libraries etc that were installed as dependencies, but which currently have no dependants installed? IE the package that caused apt to install them isn't installed anymore. Personally I used aptitude for this. I simply marked the libraries branch as Managed.

Re: [OT] Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Kent West wrote: I'm in America (USA to be specific), and I avoid math whenever I can. It's calculators for me, whenever possible. :-) Is it bad of me that I avoid calculators whenever possible and instead go for a Python prompt? :D -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest,

Re: [Fwd: Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System]

2005-06-20 Thread Steve Lamb
steef wrote: No message from ya so I presume you're wondering why he would be saying there's a problem? Illegal-Object: Syntax error in To: address found on mailgate.god.de: To:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:gebruikerslijst debian-user@lists.debian.org He's partially correct and partially

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-06-18 Thread Steve Lamb
steef wrote: Vincent Lnngren wrote: Actually, it refuses to defrag ext3 filesystems, because they have unsupported features. why would you do that for heaven's sake? Vincent was replying to an old thread. Already discussed at length. Check archives. :) -- Steve C. Lamb

X session startup/shutdown scripts?

2005-06-16 Thread Steve Lamb
I am using GDM and have need for some things to start up and shut down based on me logging into/out of my X session. I've done a basic check of documentation but unless I am missing some DEEP MAGIC I didn't find anything too fit the bill. I figured I'd ask here before I cracked open my

Re: Thunderbird annoyance

2005-06-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Hi Mitja, Can you give us a hint? 1. What version of TBird? Prime reason for some headers right there. ;) User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5

Re: Top posting

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Because we're not playing Jeopardy. Why is top-posting wrong? Put up top for the top posters who are too lazy to do it right. Hal Vaughan wrote: It is not a strawman argument. It is. My point is that you have put yourself in a position to say, This is right, you are making

Re: Looking for recommendation or backup/restore tool

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Michael Martinell wrote: Does anybody have any suggestions for this? Erm, why the requirement for a web interface? That right there is the killer because backup/restore is generally thought of an admin task which implies to some degree having command line access on the box(es) in question.

Re: Top posting

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Proofreading is a good thing. Why I never do it until the message is delivered back to me is beyond me. Steve Lamb wrote: Point is that since it is a matter of technical detail, not moral nor subjective as all points in favor of interspersing and against top/bottom posting are *objective

Re: Looking for recommendation or backup/restore tool

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Jacob S wrote: It saved my life (well, several hours of it, anyway) when I accidentally deleted all the mysql databases on my server. (Yes, it was a very stupid mistake. Don't ask. :-) Why do people always tease about a potentially humerous anecdote and then tell us not to prompt for it's

Re: Top posting

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Kent West wrote: I say,, said Fred, that's a giant tuber!. - - Incorrect, but technically more informative (or so I would think) (*ducks*) *tosses peanuts back at the gallery!* -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5

Re: Top posting

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Kent West wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Proofreading is a good thing. Why I never do it until the message is delivered back to me is beyond me. ... and against top/bottomg posting ... D'oh! Meh, typos I'm less concerned about than sweeping generalizations I have not confirmed (IE, all

Re: Top posting

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Hal Vaughan wrote: Actually, they are not as objective as one would think. Statement with no backup, gotta love it. Putting a few sentences together in reverse order is not a comparison to top posting. Yes, it is because that is exactly what top posting does. There are many

Re: Top posting

2005-06-12 Thread Steve Lamb
David P James wrote: On Thu 9 June 2005 22:12, Paul Johnson wrote: The only time when top-posting is equal (not superior - equal) to interspersed is under the following strict set of circumstances: Even under those circumstances it isn't because most people don't naturally do

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-12 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A personal recommendation of your favourite window manager would be much appreciated. I'd say give XFCE4 a try. While I generally use KDE it wasn't practical on my laptop w/only 192Mb of RAM. I tried different WMs and found most to be either too bare bones, ugly

Re: Top posting

2005-06-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Modern mail readers include reply-to-list as a basic part of standard functionality these days (No, OE and Lotus Notes are not modern). Neither is Thunderbird. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5

Re: apt or aptitude on sarge

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Lamb
michael wrote: I note that it seems that aptitude is recommended over apt for Sarge. I was wondering if it's as str forward as just using aptitude from now on? Pretty much. eg I do not have to rebuild anything the first time i use aptitude (ie it uses the same dpkg info as apt

Re: enhancing xdmcp performance

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen Patterson wrote: Either way (ssh or XDMCP) are much quicker than regular vnc. As with all things, that depends. GTK2 applications would kill XDMCP on my network (100mbit) so I switched to VNC and made sure to try each of the encodings. Some of the encodings are slower over the

Re: Swap usage

2005-06-08 Thread Steve Lamb
theal wrote: But that will not tell me what is using swap only what is using a resource. I need to determine what program or PID is actually causing my swap to grow. I already know that it is growing, just don't know what is causing it. Uhm, is it growing uncontrolably or just growing a

Re: DVORAK

2005-06-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Clinton V. Weiss wrote: How effective is Dvorak in programming enviroments? Particularly Java, are the key layouts any better? Speed in programming is more a function of the language you use and the tools with which you program said language. A cheap explination, whom do you think

Re: On IMAP servers

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Rogério Brito wrote: Not only Thunderbird, but other MUAs, independently of what platform you're confined to use. That's the beauty of IMAP, IMVHO. That's the beauty of properly implemented IMAP on the client side. I remember back in my PMMail/2 beta test days ('94-'95?) trying to explain

Re: mutt + dovecot/squirrelmail + mbox ?

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: Okay, at the risk of starting a flame war, it's still silly. Allowing users to have 100,000 messages in a single directory is insane, and is purely the fault of the administrator for not forcing users to download, sort, archive, or otherwise deal with their mail in a

Re: On IMAP servers

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Erik Steffl wrote: are you talking about pre-2k times only? I mean during last four years imap support seems to be pretty good (and improving). Thunderbird definitely isn't the first usable MUA, as far as imap support goes. Nope. In the past few years I've tried Netscape, TheBat!,

Re: On IMAP servers

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Bull. Evo has always give the option to save Sent Drafts where- ever you want to put them. Yes, and where in my list did I say I tried Evo before 2003? You are aware that I was expressing what I had personally verified, right? And you are utterly incapable of

Re: mutt + dovecot/squirrelmail + mbox ?

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Michelle Konzack wrote: OK, I have curently around 220.000 MAILDIR-Messages of the LKM in my Folder on a FileServer which is a Sempron 2200 with 256 MByte. Open the Folder with mutt takes around 57 seconds via NFS/100MBit Ye, and if we were paying attention we'd see that I was talking

Re: On IMAP servers

2005-06-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Erik Steffl wrote: ok, so how come I was using mozilla email client since 2001/10/27 and saving emails, moving to trash, saving drafts etc.? that qualifies as past few years, right? BTW that's only with cyrus server (my current setup), I was briefly using uw-imap before that and it worked

Re: mutt + dovecot/squirrelmail + mbox ?

2005-06-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: While I understand that maildir allows you to isolate corruption to single messages instead of the entire mailbox, I guess corruption just seems so unlikely that I haven't worried about it. I'm sure it will bite me soon. Strictly speaking mbox is no different.

Re: mutt + dovecot/squirrelmail + mbox ?

2005-06-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: This is a silly response. Maildir and mbox have different efficiencies; it depends on what you're optimizing for. Maildir requires no locking, and is more efficient for indivdual deletes; It is not a silly response, it is factual. 500Mb of mail at an average of 5Kb

Re: mutt + dovecot/squirrelmail + mbox ?

2005-06-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Squirrelmail seems to be extremely popular as a webmail client, so I went with that. I chose Dovecot because it seemed pretty light-weight and simple. I'd say go with UW's IMAP server. It's not feature rich or perfect but for home use it does the job.

Re: decyphering spam

2005-06-02 Thread Steve Lamb
michael wrote: how do i decypher what the following HTML/javascript attempts (original 'write' was all one line)? Personally, I used Python's urllib.unquote and got the following: SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascriptdocument.write('empty..');/SCRIPTscript language=javascriptfunction dF(s){var

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Jon Dowland wrote: The fun is stopping a fork bomb, not starting one :-) In the case of a Python thread bomb as described CNTL-C works nicely. ;) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the

Re: The dumb things we do to ourselves.

2005-05-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Hopefully, someone gets a chuckle out of this. Bah, and to think I do that from time to time on purpose just to see how far I can fork before the machine hangs. Last time was playing with Python's threading. Decided to have a thread recursively start itself as

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-23 Thread Steve Lamb
Carlos Rodrigues wrote: And after 8 years using Linux all the time, I came to find the MS-land rituals somewhat exotic (if unix filesystems take care of themselves, why can't the so called New Technology File System?). It can. NTFS is a dirivative of OS/2's HPFS. HPFS didn't have a

Re: Can't Defrag Ext3 File System

2005-05-22 Thread Steve Lamb
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Ok, I get your message, but for my gratification, insight and knowledge of Linux how do I get the programs to run without error and not distroy my harddisk? I'd say you're not getting the message. You don't need to do it. Period. Full stop. There is no

Re: Debian is ugly -- package for beautification?

2005-05-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2005-05-14, Ron Johnson penned: Prettier??? Is that what's keeping your SO from using Linux? Stereotype much? Heh, I was wondering where the hell he came up with that one, too. Hehe. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm

Re: 'Virtual Private Servers' - Advice, recollections and recommendations requested

2005-01-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Rich Rudnick wrote: 1. Reputable providers: Who do you use that you would recommend? UML seems acceptable, since our load will be almost minuscule to begin with. At least one static ip is a must. I just recently obtained a VPS from Tektonic http://www.tektonic.net and they have been great.

Re: free vs commercial

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Lamb
ken keanon wrote: Starting with the maxim To beat MS you have to be as good as, if not better than, MS, I am constantly comparing the Linux I had installed with WinXP. [snip] What I find wanting in Linux is Device Management. With plug-in, adding new devices to WinXP is a breeze but not in Linux.

Re: free vs commercial

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Lamb
David Fokkema wrote: I forgot: I bought a CanoScan Lide30 which I plugged into my laptop. That was the hard part. The easy part was starting up gimp and selecting 'acquire' and clicking on my scanning device. It didn't even need the install cd. Windows users were advised to first install the cd

Re: [OT] Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: Why do so many people persist in moving to deserts? It seems really silly. Better than California. 'sides, when you Oregonians decide to stop huggin' trees to actually have a job market worth speaking and, oh, letting people into your little communte lemme know, 'kay?

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Dave Ewart wrote: Not at all. US makes up approximately 5% of the world's population. The arrogance of some in the US [1] who believe that only the US is important, or that US == The World, annoys me. [ Snip ] The poster generalized about 300 million people. I wouldn't like to generalize about

Re: free vs commercial

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Rob Bochan wrote: Are you a member of the 'scanner' group? Nope. Added myself to it. Still no joy. Nothing in the /dev tree appears to be chgrped to scanner. :( -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection

Re: free vs commercial

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: After you are added to a group, you must log out for the kernel to see the change. That did it. Thanks, Ron. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Lamb
ABrady wrote: It won't help. I tried it and a few sanctimonious assholes decided they're moderators and will do as they damned well please. As opposed to you who thinks you're a moderator? Lemme put it this way; why do you think those of us who do go off on tangents from time to time

Re: free vs commercial

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Come on, Steve, you should know better. This is Linux, not MacOS. We get the games. Lemme know when ATI support gets to Linux so I can at least play City of Heroes under Cedega. And natively, forget it. There's more to gaming than a few FPS. -- Steve C.

Determining a device

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
I'm attempting to get my Canon LiDE 20 scanner working. So far it works, kind of. I can find it with lsusb. When I run xsane as a normal user it cannot find the device. However when I run xsane as root it does find it. xsane's help suggests this is because of a permissions problem on

Re: Clarification concerning security of testing on a laptop

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
Kent West wrote: My personal opinion? Skip Testing and go straight to Sid. You have more chance of breakage (although it's been very rare in my experience (about 3 years now)), but said breakage also tends to get fixed within hours instead of 10 days. Same for vulnerabilities. Or a nice

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-04 Thread Steve Lamb
William Ballard wrote: Plus we had forced bussing, which engineered a 50% white/black distribution in every school. My idea of diversity is to see as many black people as I see white. Then here's a suggestion; tell 'em to stop killing each other and pump a few more out if that's your goal.

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