Re: fish problem almost solved

2009-03-26 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
e whole X session but putting them in your ~/.xsessionrc file. -- Wesley J. Landaker OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: pci-to-parallel vs usb-to-parallel?

2008-08-16 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
one. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
hope for fixing it. One simple minded suggestion: try CTRL-I. That emits a tab character in many contexts. But given the above, it probably won't work either. Anyway, good luck! -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6

Re: Tab in Java

2008-05-17 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
e in a software freedom (and annoying hassle) perspective, but will almost certainly get the job done. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: lvreduce - no such file or directory?

2007-10-07 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
n:/home/andy# You don't give it a device, you give it a vg and lv name, so: $ lvreduce -v -r -L -50g debian/home But you'd better be sure you've already shrunk the *filesystem* itself, or you're going to lose all of your data. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: The effectiveness of 'make uninstall' command

2007-10-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
If you want something similiar, but generally has much less trouble, you might want to look at stow (debian package: stow, upstream url: http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-03 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 03 June 2007 19:52:27 cothrige wrote: > * Wesley J. Landaker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Well since gNewSense is a derivative of Ubuntu which derives from > > Debian, by default the emacs docs would be out as well, unless they add > > them back in themselves. Lo

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-03 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
that they only removed things and didn't actually modify packages to add things back in. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-27 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
StarCraft (and/or other Blizzard games) then please sign. > > Who needs StarCraft when you've got NetHack???? I would agree, if Nethack had Zerglings. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-13 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
ncremental backups. The increments themselves are binary diffs and are compressed. It's much nicer than plain rsync with snapshots. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpEaU18PaGOC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: help!

2007-05-13 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
; kernal and the terminal?! :S haha > > Newbie I've heard from others that this one is great, but I haven't read it myself: Debian System Concepts and Techniques http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270690/ -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 472

Re: google earth, pango

2007-05-13 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
e just released version 4.1 of Google Earth (you never know what version you've got until you download it, unfortunately); the latest googleearth-package (0.1.0) supports it. Anyway, if you still can't get it to work, you really need to complain to Google. Google Earth is cool, but

Re: Debian policy on copyright

2007-05-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
D key, and much later, the complete works of shakesphere, last > week's episode of Lost, etc. I'd be more interesting if it would output NEXT week's episode. In 16:9 w/ subtitles, please. Before next week, preferably. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP

Re: From "Etch" to Testing ("Lenny")

2007-05-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free /etc/apt/preferences: Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 50 Package: * Pin: release a=experimental Pin-Priority: 40 -- We

Re: Recent upgrade killed matlab

2007-05-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
<http://www.octave.org/> instead of matlab if at all posible. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpNlOiwl92jt.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: scattered google-earth image

2007-04-13 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Friday 13 April 2007 13:16, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > On Thursday 12 April 2007 14:36, steef wrote: > > i installed a nvidia_graphic_driver into my standard kernel but could > > not get google-earth properly working: the graphics are scattered over > > the screen. has so

Re: scattered google-earth image

2007-04-13 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
s, and is absolutely an nvidia card or driver problem. I've seen this a bunch of times. I don't know of any fix. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpUxuc06bWZ9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-12 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
a fine request, but claiming that this use is "obscure" when it has been the canonical term for this operation for a *very long time* just makes you seem ill-informed. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp28daVfSk97.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: replying to a message in debian-user

2007-01-25 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
ally be faster than using a web MUA anyway. Good luck! -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpofqB9RlPjU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: replying to a message in debian-user

2007-01-25 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
ge so that the thread > connection is maintained? Well, if your web-based MUA supports it, it can and should do threading correctly. Barring that, as long as the subject stays intact, often other people's MUA will do pseudo-threading by subject line if there is no other threading inf

Re: Handy Bash alias script

2007-01-21 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
| psnup -2 -pletter | lpr arg1 -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp4FPBTxgZLW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Handy Bash alias script

2007-01-21 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
is being expanded *after* the alias is evaluated, and will always be undefined. The reason it works at all is because when you alias something, the alias part is expanded and the rest of the command is left in place. Remove those $1's and you'll get the exact same effe

Re: partitioning tools for LVM

2007-01-11 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
/LVM-HOWTO/> for a more in depth discussion. You can pretty much ignore anything that talks about "LVM1" unless you're working with a legacy system. There are also other systems like EVMS, but LVM2 is pretty much the mainstream. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpg53uYZ7Zar.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Does XFS work with LVM?

2007-01-07 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
gt; reiserfs, JFS, XFS, you have 10GB. With ext3 you have 9GB. If you don't want ext3, reiserfs is the only alternative if you want to be able to shrink. JFS and XFS cannot shrink, only grow. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgprGFBoG2VFS.pgp Description: PGP signature

[OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-05 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
Qemu than use Iceweasel with the GNOME file picker enabled. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpwsJxGpF6PQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-03 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
to find out the pts that the pid is using. 4. In the "input" terminal, run bash &> /dev/pts/xxx to start a shell and redirect everything to the "output" terminal. If you want typed commands to be also echoed on the "input" terminal, you might have to fiddle with the stty settings. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpR5rgFtcFVf.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: On Etch can't to remove a broken package

2007-01-03 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
cript to exit with success, i.e. edit /var/lib/dpkg/info/ltmodem-2.6.8-2-386.postrm and either fix the error, or just make the script do an unconditional "exit 0". The second method is a rather hackish ways to do it, but it'll definitely work. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpzGr2T8Ad7X.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Quick question

2007-01-03 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
e identifying the chroot you work in (used in the prompt below) if [ -z "$debian_chroot" ] && [ -r /etc/debian_chroot ]; then debian_chroot=$(cat /etc/debian_chroot) fi -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpezuX8JXpfX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: LVM problem

2006-12-29 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Friday 29 December 2006 03:26, Pierguido wrote: > lvextend -L+962G /dev/mapper/uservg-data > > It respond me: > > Volume group mapper doesn't exist lvextend -L+962G uservg/data -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094

Re: lvm vs traditional partitioning

2006-12-25 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
eat with etch as well. I usually have at least /usr, /var, /opt, /srv and /home as their own LV. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpzccrVD0HWr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: lvm vs traditional partitioning

2006-12-22 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
oned, consult a recent LVM HOWTO for more general information. I would be happy to personally answer and specific questions you may have, although please keep the list CC'd. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2

Re: Pine macros

2006-12-15 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
er privileges, it is pretty easy and well worth it to compile and install the software you want into your own user space. If you're going to do that, though, I strongly recommend using mutt <http://www.mutt.org/> instead of a newer version of pine. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL

Re: Can't find libXmu.a and libXaw.a for xorg

2006-06-16 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
It depends on what version of xorg you are running--if it's a recent one (e.g. 7.0), the files will in /usr/lib. You can find where your particular files are with dpkg -L; for instance on my system: $ dpkg -L libxmu-dev | grep libXmu.a /usr/lib/libXmu.a Hope that helps. -- Wesley J. Landaker

Re: Subversion Repository / db4.2_recover

2006-06-05 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Monday 05 June 2006 15:02, Nelson Castillo wrote: > My repository is getting corrupt almost every other day. > I might have to put db4.2_recover in a crontab! > > Suggestions? > Have any of you ran into similar issues? Do a dump+load cycle and convert it to FSFS instead of BDB

Re: Mixing sarge and etch

2006-06-05 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
urself from the testing (etch) or unstable (sid) sources. I believe most of the software you mentioned (Firefox, etc) are supported by backports.org already. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpAwvdpMj01o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: mplayer & mencoder

2006-05-06 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
can try passing in /dev/null for the video stream, and using -vo null. Also, you could try using xine with "--audio-driver file" to output to a file. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgppVqvjj9qJA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Firewall software for Debian

2006-04-16 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Sunday 16 April 2006 14:47, lmyho wrote: > I would like to ask for advice on the good firewall software to use for > Debian. I'd recommend firehol as a powerful but easy to use text-mode firewall generator. I like it a lot better than shorewall personally. -- Wesley J. Landa

Re: Fwd: Re: Another bug of debian package --- Validation issue

2006-04-16 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
What you described is an AND function, which is never represented by a "+" in *any* computer language, in Boolean mathematics, nor in any field of formal logic. > Who doesn't know what he/she is doing? ... -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A

Re: Strange network things: eth1 (but no nic!!) and sit0

2006-02-25 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
gt; nothing configured myself, there is nothing about IP6 I can find on my > machine)? sit0 is a generic device that will AFAIK always be around if you have IPv6 support, whether or not that support is configured. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5

Re: Howto setup my own CA the right way?

2006-02-02 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
(e.g. aptitude install tinyca) that will help you manage a CA, generate certs, etc. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpALBQpOYrDV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: alternative to packages.debian.org

2006-01-18 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 08:55, icmp wrote: > is there packages.debian.org alternative anywhere ? Not sure what feature from it you want a replacement for, but you know about packages.qa.debian.org, right? -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

2006-01-05 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
your problem. What exactly are you trying to accomplish with this snippet? It certainly doesn't look like a normal thing to do. Also, do you have the same problem if you use #!/bin/sh instead of #!/bin/bash? You mentioned wanting to be portable, so that's a good idea anyway. -- Wes

Re: [Way OT] "#!/bin/bash" changes working directory

2006-01-05 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
st.sh /home/wjl/tmp If you think you're having magic changing directories, I think you'll need to post more information, like the exact script you're using, and EXACTLY how you are running it. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpHAOU92C3WP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-11 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
archive > which can be verified. Well, just use md5sum, sha1sum, etc. Or use .zip with zipsplit -n . . . I don't see that rar has any particular advantage there. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpjVJYXAYyIX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Was this question too technical for this group? : Is the %ESP register special?

2005-09-04 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
ch, like a gcc or kernel mailing list. Good luck! =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpbI3RARROCY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Limiting User Commands

2004-11-20 Thread Wesley J Landaker
ler: e.g. add users you don't want to run /usr/bin/prog1 to the group "noexecprog1", set the permissions of /usr/bin/prog1 to 705 and make the owner:group root:noexecprog1. Now anyone in group noexecprog1 can read/execute /usr/bin/prog1, but anyone else can. Only affects users

Re: Kmail & date

2004-09-11 Thread Wesley J Landaker
der of Arrival)" (Ascending) - "Date (Order of Arrival)" (Descending) - "Date" (Ascending) It doesn't change what it *shows* as the date, but it does sort things differently. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpxqky04rXNH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Recording the screen

2004-09-09 Thread Wesley J Landaker
here a ready solution for me? > > /M I've seen a program to record a VNC session to a SWF (Flash) movie. I don't think this program is in Debian, but you could take a peek here: <http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/vnc2swf/>. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Open

Re: compile problem

2004-09-09 Thread Wesley J Landaker
the compilation. [ ... ] > debian:/home/paul/softwarecon# gcc test.c > test.c: In function `main': > test.c:26: warning: return type of `main' is not `int' Try: $ gcc test.c -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXt -lXaw -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-05 Thread Wesley J Landaker
blem they may cause"? -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpHEpcgby9p2.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-05 Thread Wesley J Landaker
s you run a command to pre-process messages flowing through it. Sorry to interrupt. ;) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpUyleL7J84R.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

2004-08-17 Thread Wesley J Landaker
ed up to non-modem devices). It won't actually affect anything. -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgpEKEQUtJfVY.pgp Description: signature

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

2004-08-16 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Monday 16 August 2004 19:34, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > Is there a serial terminal program in testing? Like what you'd use > to log in to another host over a serial line? I've always used minicom; I use it all the time to talk to FPGAs. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL

Re: Moving from XP and looking for replacement programs

2004-04-21 Thread Wesley J Landaker
didate but I don't > know it. Also gnome-db looks like it may be what you want. Rekall is a very good KDE based interactive database app; it's not currently packaged for Debian, but has an ITP out for it: http://www.rekallrevealed.org/ -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: please help

2004-04-21 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Wednesday 21 April 2004 12:56 pm, Muvhango Ramabulana wrote: > hi my name is muvhango ramabulana and I want to be aporn star help > please. I'll do anithing to get this job. I'd recommend a more fulfilling job: <http://qa.debian.org/> -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMA

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-28 Thread Wesley J Landaker
-e $GPG_AGENT_CONFIG_FILE ]; then touch $GPG_AGENT_CONFIG_FILE fi eval "$(gpg-agent --daemon --options $GPG_AGENT_CONFIG_FILE)" echo $GPG_AGENT_INFO > $GPG_AGENT_INFO_FILE chmod 600 $GPG_AGENT_INFO_FILE fi fi A bit evil, but it works fine fo

Re: Inline PGP signatures [was: Re: email signatures]

2004-03-26 Thread Wesley J Landaker
ages from <http://www.opensides.be/debian> and ported them to unstable. Actually, now that I think of it, I think I will try to find out why those haven't been packaged (I know both are GPL licensed)... -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-26 Thread Wesley J Landaker
butt-chewing in return. Since apparently I'm no longer welcome > in that group, I no longer have anyone to pester regarding physics > questions. I haven't checked the list of lists lately, but I'm pretty sure there is a debian-physics. ;) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL P

Re: LICENSE/ SERIAL NUMBERS for INSTALLATION

2004-03-26 Thread Wesley J Landaker
gt; > numbers to install these CDs? > > For a one-time cost of $699 (to cover my SCO license), I'll be happy > to provide you with a serial number to any Debian CD you may have. Hey, for $699, I'll write you a custom Debian CD serial *KEYGEN*! -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL

Re: Inline PGP signatures

2004-03-26 Thread Wesley J Landaker
s, but it seemed like nobody wanted to believe Kirk that alt.sci.physics even existed. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: VNC on current running KDE desktop

2004-03-09 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Tuesday 09 March 2004 9:51 pm, Thomas G wrote: > Wesley J Landaker wrote: > >On Tuesday 09 March 2004 9:33 pm, Thomas G wrote: > >>Ive also been working on vncserver as long as a few other things on > >>my current desktop linux box. How can I get a vnc server to ru

Re: VNC on current running KDE desktop

2004-03-09 Thread Wesley J Landaker
f making a new one. Look in the "rfb" package, i.e. "apt-get install rfb" -- Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: Postfix

2004-01-18 Thread Wesley J Landaker
lly install all dependancies you need to compile. You have to run it as root for that to work, of course. -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: Postfix

2004-01-18 Thread Wesley J Landaker
it to me. > Thanks Here's what I'd recommend: 1. apt-get apt-src 2. apt-src install postfix 3. (apply your desired patches) 4. apt-src build postfix 5. (install the resulting package with dpkg -i) Maybe there is a more clever way to do it, but I do it this way quite often. =) -- Wes

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Wesley J Landaker
faster. It'd have to sample all 155 channels (or > whatever) each 30th of a second (for analog TV signals) in order to > get a full 30-frames per second for 155 channels. Actually, each 60th of a second to get 30-frames per second. Blame it on Nyquist... -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL

Re: setting print command in xemacs

2004-01-17 Thread Wesley J Landaker
witches And set up the right switches to send to lpr to make things happy. If that doesn't work for you, you can control the generation of the postscript output it gory detail: Options->Advanced (Customize)->Emacs->Postscript->PS Print ... but I have never messed with this

Re: gpg help

2004-01-17 Thread Wesley J Landaker
quot;trust" database -- can be rebuilt if necessary But it shouldn't hurt to just restore everything. -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: My system has Flashbacks?

2004-01-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 10:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 8:41 pm, Nano Nano wrote: > >>On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:38:29PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > >>Content-Description: signed data > >

Re: My system has Flashbacks?

2004-01-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 8:41 pm, Nano Nano wrote: > On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 08:38:29PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > Content-Description: signed data > [snip] > > > The contents of video ram aren't initialized by the hardware. They > > just come up in a rando

Re: My system has Flashbacks?

2004-01-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
ecause there is nothing actively destroying it's contents. -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 2:34 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Am Di, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Wesley J Landaker um 22:15: > > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 1:56 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > Don't do somethink risky if you not /really/ need that. And you > &

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 2:09 pm, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:34:03PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 1:08 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > A mailserver can harm _others_. > > > > I totally agree. Which is

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 1:56 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Am Di, den 16.12.2003 schrieb Wesley J Landaker um 21:34: > > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 1:08 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > > > Local software can destroy (your) local stuff. > > > > Exactly my

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-16 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 1:08 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: > Am Mo, den 15.12.2003 schrieb Wesley J Landaker um 02:55: > > Local software is childish, dangerous and nonsense. > > Local software can destroy (your) local stuff. Exactly my point--a mail server is local software

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
of providers will not accept that > mail. And if I configured it to use my providers smarthost after some > thousand mails my providers stops it, see example 1. If I misconfigure my machine with users having no passwords and someone runs lots of annoying programs from my machine, a lot of providers will not accept those packets. > Local mailservers are childish, dangerous and nonsense. Local software is childish, dangerous and nonsense. -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Friday 12 December 2003 1:41 pm, Aryan Ameri wrote: > On Friday 12 December 2003 22:04, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > Something like this would work if you fill in some of the blanks: > > > > int main() { > > int *array = malloc(sizeof(int)); > > int size

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Wesley J Landaker
, I wouldn't be surprised if some IBM mainframe had a single instruction that would read console input and fill a dynamically-sized array. ;) -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Friday 12 December 2003 1:42 pm, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Wesley J Landaker: > Content-Description: signed data > > > On Friday 12 December 2003 11:38 am, Aryan Ameri wrote: > > > I am a first year CS student, learning C. A while ago I was asked > > > t

Re: [OT] C programming, variable size array

2003-12-12 Thread Wesley J Landaker
realloc(array, size); scanf("%d", &array[size/sizeof(int)-1]); } } It would be better to allocate memory in chunks, or better yet, do something like read the numbers into a linked-list and then copy them to an array when you're ready to use them that way, or to use C++ and use the class, or something like that. -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: Color in text console

2003-12-04 Thread Wesley J Landaker
enable ANSI output? ASCII art is per definition > black-and-white, but ANSI terminals are what gives you colour. You might look at the "Colour AsCii Art library." It has an unfortunate name (and mascot), but it does what you want. =) http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/ -- Wesley

Re: Smart-Card based Security

2003-11-15 Thread Wesley J Landaker
Are there > any projects that deal with this sort of thing? This site might looks interesting to you: http://www.linuxnet.com/ -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: 56K video link software?

2003-11-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
Can anyone point me in the right direction for video link software ? GnomeMeeting works fine; AFAIK, it's NetMeeting compatible, as well. http://www.gnomemeeting.org/ - -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNA

Re: Geological tracking application

2003-11-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
h on google linked to a few geographic-related applications/ frameworks: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/ http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/GIS-GRASS/ - -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: looking for Knotes type application

2003-11-12 Thread Wesley J Landaker
dn't get it to. After a quick search in aptitude, I see: xfce4-notes-plugin (only works in xfce, apparently, I haven't tried it) xpostit (claims to do what you want, haven't tried it) xpostitplus (like xpostit, with some extras like resizing) One of those might do what you want. (I&#x

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Wesley J Landaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 9:54 am, Tom wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:48:25AM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > "Le Linux" is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it, less > > often, used as feminine, &qu

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Wesley J Landaker
", or "la Linux Expo", where the gener of the subject follows the non-Linux noun (la distribution, le truc, la Expo, etc) than you'll see references to "le/la Linux" by itself. - -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5

Re: Using Japanese (and Chinese) on an prodominantly english system

2003-09-15 Thread Wesley J Landaker
put and interfaces in English. This works in *all* programs, so I can use vi, xemacs, Qt & Gtk & GNOME apps, whatever. As far as switching between Japanese and Chinese input methods, you'll have to do some creative LANG switching; I've seen a few posts already suggesting how to d

per-user localization

2003-09-13 Thread Wesley J Landaker
plish this same thing with debian? -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: some reality about iptables, please

2003-08-29 Thread Wesley J. Landaker
Apparently, Bret Comstock Waldow recently wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 10:44, Steve Lamb wrote: >> On 29 Aug 2003 10:26:57 -0400 >> Bret Comstock Waldow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Yes, this is a fun place we all get to be individuals in, joking with >> > each other. OTOH, I'm a Software Qu

Re: Helping the newbie

2003-08-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
ainnamservers.com ones). Anyone it was working for probably was getting it cached from their upstream DNS. It does work for me today. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2 pgp0.pgp Description: signature

Re: Challenge-response mail filter. Goodwin's Law...

2003-08-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
s just drop the subject already... > > > > Enough of the "Gentleman's Flame Fest"... it ALMOST reminds me of > > the e-mail I sent out with a Monty Python Transcript attached. > > > > I have MANY MANY more... and will help out wasting bandwidth... (thoug

Re: Helping the newbie

2003-08-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
x. > > > > > > Slackware is the UNIX of Linux. > > > > > > Alan > > > > And RedHat is the Windows of Linux! > > And what is SuSE ? Maybe the OS/2 of Linux? ;) (I used to run OS/2... it was pretty cool!) -- Wesley J. Landaker - [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-14 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Friday 08 August 2003 8:18 am, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 06:53:15AM -0700, Dave Carrigan wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:38:55AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > > I have always had really great luck with subversion. It has > > > customi

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-10 Thread Wesley J Landaker
On Friday 08 August 2003 7:53 am, Dave Carrigan wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:38:55AM -0600, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > I have always had really great luck with subversion. It has > > customizable transports, and comes built in with support for > > working over http, w

Re: [OT]: CVS replacement

2003-08-08 Thread Wesley J Landaker
e transports, and comes built in with support for working over http, which is wonderful for distributed projects. It even has a cvs repository converter that will save all your history. =) FWIW, I've used tla a bit and I wasn't very happy with it, but I didn't spend a lot of