Debian and Android

2021-01-16 Thread Dale Amon
d using old mobiles as small pocket Unix computers. -- +--+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data, Las Cruces Airport| | CEO 8990 Zia Blvd, Suite D,Las Cruces, NM, 88007 | | "Data Systems for Deep

Quake3 Arena source release

2005-09-20 Thread Dale Amon
I'm playing around trying to compile it. Is anyone else looking at it? Please respond directly, especially if you are familiar with q3lcc... -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux sy

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-14 Thread Dale Amon
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 05:21:31PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:00:07 +0200, Dale Amon wrote: > > > > I'd like a black and white clarification of the impact > > of the change so I know for certain whether to be > > incredibly p

Re: Cite for print-to-postscript exploit in Mozilla?

2004-07-09 Thread Dale Amon
vities... -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, systems programming and Admin "Have Lapt

Re: Sarge is trying to remove Netscape

2004-03-30 Thread Dale Amon
ood browser for Linux. Good not meaning featureful (Galeon is very nice that way): good meaning respectful of resources, of other processes, of not crashing... -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 Internationa

Sarge is trying to remove Netscape

2004-03-29 Thread Dale Amon
up Netscape and print there. -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 International linux systems consultancy Hardware & software system design, security and networking, systems programming and A

Util-linux 2.12 compile problems in sarge

2004-02-03 Thread Dale Amon
e of util-linux 2.12 from upstream source under a sarge dist updated as of a half hour ago on a workstation running 2.4.18. Has anyone else started having this problem? -- -- Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED]+44-7802-188325 Internati

Util-Linux source problem

2003-12-04 Thread Dale Amon
rgument_for_IOC))) << ((0 +8)+8))), 4, -1, ((void *)0), ("get blocksize") }, If you look closely you will see sizeoff(int)[1]. That is the error which occurs in all three lines here (and also once in get_blocks.c. Has anyone else run across this? It looks like a problem in the

Sid

2002-09-03 Thread Dale Amon
Probably not appropriate here, but if anyone is involved with the sid dist could reply off line, I'd be interested to know if there is any ETA on that dist sorting out. Some of my machines are showing large numbers of packages "held back" under apt-get; and dselect looks like it wants to de-insta

Galeon and Nautilus stopped working

2002-02-27 Thread Dale Amon
ead(7, "\315#D<\250I\210\202", 8) = 8 close(7)= 0 mkdir("/dma/home/amon/.gconfd", 0700) = 0 brk(0x8109000) = 0x8109000 open("/dma/home/amon/.gconfd/lock/ior", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or director

xemacs21 install totally broken in woody dist

2000-12-18 Thread Dale Amon
only I and a couple other people have ever used? Are others seeing it this badly broken as well? emacslessly yours, Dale Amon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please respond to my email address if you have any idea what is going on or when

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #195

2000-10-09 Thread Dale Amon
es of the drives for posterior. -- -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to waste.Belfast, Northern Ireland --

Netscape text save working spottily

2000-10-06 Thread Dale Amon
Has anyone had trouble with netscape lately?? Ah, let me rephrase that :-) Has anyone else been having trouble with saving pages as text? It used to work just fine, but now it gives me 0 length files much of the time. See if you have the same problem. I've been unable to save this page, forexample

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #170

2000-10-06 Thread Dale Amon
> this though, i have wdm running and sometimes do things like: > > X -query localhost :1 vt8 > > to get a second x based login screen, or more interesting: > > X -query dogbert :1 vt8 > > to get a X based login from remote machine dogbert. (your at the > mercy of your network security here t

What happened to X server web page?

2000-10-02 Thread Dale Amon
Does anyone know what happened to the X server page on www.debian.org? http://www.debian.org/~branden/ is claimed to not exist anymore! -- Use Linux: A computerDale Amon, CEO/MD is a terrible thing Village Networking Ltd to

gpm locks out console keyboard

2000-10-01 Thread Dale Amon
onfig file is f***ed, one would not expect a mouse daemon to completely block console command line logins! Any suggestions for a bandaide until the underlying problem goes away? -- Use Linux: A computer Dale Amon, CEO/MD is a terr

RE: Questions from a new debian user

2000-04-01 Thread Phoenix Amon
> Have a look in /var/log/xdm.log and see if you can find out why xdm > isn't restarting the X server (or perhaps you've deliberately set it > that way somewhere in /etc/X11/xdm?). Thanks, Colin, but I can't. I zapped both XDM and KDM to dust. :) And actually even if it was broken (it was a strai

RE: Questions from a new debian user

2000-03-31 Thread Phoenix Amon
> Why would you want to close X? You can also switch to a > virtual terminal > from X at any time using --F1 to F6 (there are six virtual > terminals at default). Well, for instance... if what you want to do from the terminal is upgrade your X server. :) Trying to do this from within X can be a

RE: Questions from a new debian user

2000-03-31 Thread Phoenix Amon
Hi Hillary. I'm about a week newer to Linux that you are... I know your bewilderment well. :) > 1. Is there a way to exit X without halting the computer? The methods > I've tried have either shut down the computer correctly or > brought me back > to the X login prompts. If you're in the login

RE: Lying to dpkg?

2000-03-29 Thread Phoenix Amon
> Lying to dpkg eventually causes huge problems and usually a > re-install. Uh-oh! :) Well, I'll probably do a clean install when potato is released as stable anyway. I still don't have an awful lot riding on the current installation. Maybe I'll even try installing apache/php/mysql/mod_ssl/open

RE: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread Phoenix Amon
> Phoenix writes: > > 2.2 is potato... > > No. 2.2 will be potato when it is released. 2.2 does not exist yet. Hmm. Is that right? The newsletters have been referring to potato as "a.k.a. release 2.2" since it's been frozen. Is it actually 2.2 now, or will it not be 2.2 until it's released? An

RE: Difference between woody and potato

2000-03-23 Thread Phoenix Amon
> I'm a bit confused about woody and potato. I though that potato is > always the newest, bleeding edge distribution. And that woody is the > code-name for the 2.2 release. Each version has a code name. The code name doesn't relate to whether the distribution is in stable or unstable or frozen

Re: Lying to dpkg?

2000-03-23 Thread Phoenix Amon
Jonas wrote: > Have a look at the equivs package. The other programs should find > your programs as long as you have them in the $PATH. For anyone who's interested, I took this route since it would solve the problem once and for all. Other than the fact that the equivs package fails to list its o

Re: Lying to dpkg?

2000-03-22 Thread Phoenix Amon
> I'd go with one of the ways you suggested in passing in your earlier > post; use Debianized source. > > If you install dpkg-dev and devscripts, it's almost trivial (once you > know how) to build a package from source; just do the following: Colin, Thanks for the tip. I unfortunately didn't di

Re: Lying to dpkg?

2000-03-22 Thread Phoenix Amon
> I learned how to use dpkg from reading the man page. The thing is, you > did know that for which you were looking, else I wouldn't have been able > to find the answer. Before you asked, I didn't know how to do it (because > I never wanted to). Well, I'll gladly agree to disagree. The last thing

Re: Lying to dpkg?

2000-03-22 Thread Phoenix Amon
> 1. Use the --ignore-depends flag. > 2. RTFM; it's right there. "man dpkg" (if you've installed man-db). Thanks and I did. I always do. :) Sometimes TFM doesn't give quite enough info if you don't already know what you're looking for. In a lot of cases TFM serves you well if you know what you're

Lying to dpkg?

2000-03-22 Thread Phoenix Amon
I've installed Linux/Apache on my standalone home box so that I can mirror and locally test my web sites using dummy network interfaces. I needed PHP, mySQL, SSL and Apache to all work together nicely, and I couldn't make that happen installing from debs (primarily mysql wouldn't talk to php...

Re: Creating debian packages

1998-08-19 Thread Kyle Amon
uld be nice. If anyone can point me to this information or send me > anything I would greatly appreciate it. > > Wayne Cuddy > CRB-WEB (C & H Consulting) > http://www.crb-web.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Samba passwords

1998-08-19 Thread Kyle Amon
"El Nino shot JFK" > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > Kyle Amon email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Systems Administratorphone: (203) 486-3290 Security Specialist pager: 1-800-759- P

Re: Linux and Security

1998-08-19 Thread Kyle Amon
not encryption. This is why it is not possible to decrypt it -- it quite simply is not encrypted in the first place. - - Kyle Kyle Amon email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Systems Administratorphone: (203) 486-3290 Security Specialist pager: 1-800-759- PIN 1

Re: Linux security

1998-08-19 Thread Kyle Amon
on and the learning experience. Thank you for your time > and attention. Kyle Amon email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Systems Administratorphone: (203) 486-3290 Security Specialist pager: 1-800-759- PIN 1616512 IBM Global Services