Re: list running applications

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGTLzzS9HxQb37XmcRAt/VAKCcDxb3jOS3zjWhROFlkEDOojr5jACgqqzI ks8TeiPkB0GNGZ6ErcspDkk= =DWpf

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
an Orwellian act? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGTQj0S9HxQb37XmcRAjnsAKCgHBcxLHuXc6qtQoLgGC5Q8lVcBwCguRas

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 18:58, pedxing wrote: On May 17, 2:10 pm, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Johnson wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the -- . (Web gmail

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
what's in there is an IDE hard disk drive, syncing it won't hurt it worth mentioning. And the smallest ones you see around now hold 80 gigs. Unfortunately, though, formatting an MP3 player (which is the drive OP is talking about) to ext2 isn't recommended. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 20:30, Deboo ^ wrote: Canada? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/18/07 00:03, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/18/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/17/07 20:30, Deboo ^ wrote: Canada? No, India. This is a family list, so I won't ask what kind of beaver

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
And it was removed from Debian: http://packages.qa.debian.org/b/beaver.html Following the links on that page, you see that bug #273316 was the cause. Apparently they decided to drop it because it is (or was, 2 years ago) dead upstream. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=273316 - -- Ron

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/18/07 09:10, Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 08:39:58AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/18/07 08:26, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/18/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following the links on that page, you see that bug #273316

Re: Where do you get beaver?

2007-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/18/07 08:26, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/18/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following the links on that page, you see that bug #273316 was the cause. Apparently they decided to drop it because it is (or was, 2 years ago) dead upstream

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
some semi-intelligible screed. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGTgdtS9HxQb37XmcRAnxwAJ96QCogp9wwpYewnIHYxpLziuShgwCdHdrk

Re: Can't find cable internet connection

2007-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
to access the Internet. When I reboot with an old Kanotix live-cd, the Internet is accessible. How do I go about diagnosing what the problem is? Any troublesome package upgrades recently? Any idea what the problem might be? To start, run this /sbin/ifconfig and paste the results. - -- Ron Johnson

Re: Can't find cable internet connection

2007-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
- in both. Make one very large, and the other smallish. In the small one, run /etc/init.d/networking restart, wait about 10 seconds and then in the large xterm window run: tail -n60 /var/log/syslog Past the results in your reply. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he

Re: SU error

2007-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
to configure my printer I get this message “Su returned with an error”. If someone know what I can do that would be great. Thanks What are the contents of your /etc/sudoers file? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes

Re: Can't find cable internet connection

2007-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
you happen to have zeroconf installed? And you still didn't post the output of /sbin/ifconfig. Depending on where in the CONUS he is, and presuming he's not in the Aleutians, it's anywhere between 01:04 AKDT and 05:05 EDT. So he's probably sleeping. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give

Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
makes me think they're pretty loud. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGT4LkS9HxQb37XmcRAmwhAKCSwRn47cIhtoX6ME1CCwf+gizR5ACg7Mho

Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
. Cost $1K Sounds pretty noisy. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGT4M1S9HxQb37XmcRAl8UAKDIy/F9IryraqYCOAczi/L+RzpboACgiGXN

Re: A few questions

2007-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
, all appreciated, - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGT5zIS9HxQb37XmcRArvWAKCchhJZgI1oZAHfgdzX0cG1l4dqcgCgrx0z

Re: A few questions

2007-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/19/07 20:04, Kelly Harding wrote: On 20/05/07, *Ron Johnson* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/19/07 19:39, Kelly Harding wrote: Anyway, I used to have my old HP LaserJet 6L on my Beige G3

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
. This is one of those times. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGT7+wS9HxQb37XmcRAv4lAJ9ky/yTz2zonxA2+meorwEuwM04JgCg2pxD gLk

Re: Can't find cable Internet Connection

2007-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
* add a startup script to /etc/init.d. What's in /etc/init.d ? (You might have to pipe it to a file and attach it.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: A few questions

2007-05-19 Thread Ron Johnson
, according to this page, the DL380 G2 does, in fact, have 2 USB ports on it. Are they only v1.1? http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10902_div/10902_div.html - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good

Re: securing desktop

2007-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
not have to waste time with. What if you have the login script recreate /home/guest each time? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: securing desktop

2007-05-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/07 02:50, CaT wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 01:38:51AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: It's not a big deal, but undoing her mucking of the desktop is something I'd rather not have to waste time with. What if you have the login script recreate

Re: keeping ooffice in foreground

2007-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
. this is, however, not possible, because these are used by the oo* binary running in background... then, i have the directories bindmounted several times and have to unmount them personally (which is annoying). i would be very glad for any hints how to accomplish this. best regards, - -- Ron

Re: trouble building glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2

2007-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
about absence of glibc-2.5. How should I proceed? What branch are you running? Testing/lenny? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

CM-Stacker plus... (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

2007-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/07 15:02, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 06:07:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/19/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] I only make a computer every 10 years or so. I went a little bleeding-edge

Re: Help setting up network printer

2007-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
port 9100 on my firewall just in case, but that didn't work either, so I removed it. Any additional help would be appreciated. Have you installed samba? That's what implements the file- and print-server protocols that Windows uses. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish

Re: APE sound compression

2007-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
-monkeysaudio.html - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGUcCbS9HxQb37XmcRAkdGAJ4x+NnF7GMI4DdNdv8Q/0BwEf+36gCgym69 EPCMi00oxw8KDD6uwKHcYXo= =OfAC

Re: Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

2007-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGUmnYS9HxQb37XmcRAq5XAKDuoyPs/r11u1AcVNSuw+izsM6d4QCgg/qy LERRXZH5TTmwL4yoJ7nNcIo= =ASc4

Re: Unable to connect to network

2007-05-21 Thread Ron Johnson
is great. There must be a logical solution since other folks run Debian/Gnome quite happily. What does /etc/resolve.conf look like on each partition? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP

Re: checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
debian-goodies. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGUwQwS9HxQb37XmcRAmoKAJ9emhu0fQmsFnlq2X/o7EzRcK2FyACgzdgL zuYhv9

Re: [OT] PSU ramblings (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
drives, add a second PSU. My CM-Stacker case has two bays and comes with the harness that connects the two. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU

Re: CM-Stacker plus... (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/07 08:11, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:43:37AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/20/07 15:02, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: According to a previous post, you only have one HDD? After discussions with Lenart

Re: Icedove

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
, with a blank screen. Fortunately, apt-listbugs mentioned that this is a known grave bug. So I purged it and dpkg installed v1.5.0.10.dfsg1-3 which I'm now writing this from. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
StarCraft when you've got NetHack - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGU1QSS9HxQb37XmcRAotgAKDHGvOH0GuI4uexigbn78bYzipOuwCg2IPr

Re: Icedove

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
. This happened in the Weasel a while back and a bit of copying and renaming of profiles was the answer. My old one fortunately hasn't been touched. When reinstalling 1.5.0.10 everything was instantly back to normal. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats

Re: Icedove

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/07 15:55, KS wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: When reinstalling 1.5.0.10 everything was instantly back to normal. In #425390, Alexander says: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425390;msg=45 For now, please purge icedove

Re: Read OpenXML Excel file in OpenOffice.org?

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
in a relatively simple format, you could parse it yourself. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/07 18:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/07 15:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: At least it's related to Linux :) To make it short here is the link: http

Re: Read OpenXML Excel file in OpenOffice.org?

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/07 19:12, Dusty Wilson wrote: On 5/22/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/22/07 17:58, Dusty Wilson wrote: [snip] I don't know my MS file formats, but it's XML and isn't binary, so that lead me to believe it was OpenXML

Re: trouble building glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/07 03:43, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 5/21/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/21/07 05:32, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my system from glibc-2.3

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/07 07:01, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/22/07 18:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/22/07 15:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: At least it's related to Linux :) To make it short here is the link: http

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
like that. After all the stories about laptops full of sensitive data being stolen, and tapes full of sensitive data being lost, you still have to ask why someone wants to encrypt private data? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/07 18:46, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:12:36PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: After all the stories about laptops full of sensitive data being stolen, and tapes

Re: (OT) Looking for Cell Phone/PDA Recommendations

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
a phone doesn't lose any data at all.) Just a thought: Server side storage is No Big Deal if you have a GMail account, but some of us would rather keep our own data to ourselves. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away

[semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/07 20:17, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:05:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: It would be very nice if there was a universal cross-platform rw + encrypt filesystem for archives. Something that you could be confident

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
problem than it was worth for them, would still be to this day. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
my Mac can read cdrom or dvdrom, but what I need is to plug my usb external hard drive to my mac just as my original post said. The hfs hfs+ drivers might not (probably aren't??) built by default. You'd have to roll your own kernel. Not too difficult. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA

Re: Read OpenXML Excel file in OpenOffice.org?

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
the point that much of the spec is stuff like this tag means that you do $IT like is done in Microsoft Word 95. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU

Re: UTF encoding when mounting USB stick

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGVULUS9HxQb37XmcRAo1cAKDF8TN20FEpIKnU/FPkMM/ovWLiWwCcCHIC BxYs584g6+rJ7WK/zDmlrPc= =hEHr

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
feasible. Maybe it's just too late and I'm too tired, but I don't understand what you mean. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

[Semi-OT] Retrieving those old passphrases (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
it, 4. put packing tape all around it, 5. send it to Iron Mountain or a bank deposit box. Then impress upon Important People that this is Important Stuff that needs fiduciary care. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 03:09, Dan H wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2007 02:48:35 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/24/07 02:30, Dan H wrote: In fact, to those that really want to get at the data, a properly encrypted (as in: unguessable passphrase

Re: UTF encoding when mounting USB stick

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
load them Did you log out/log in? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGVY38S9HxQb37XmcRAtquAJ9aGoLOlWrO1rWanCtPqTDd7c3SzQCglpeb

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 07:05, Owen Heisler wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/23/07 20:40, Ken Hu wrote: Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way to mount HFS on Linux. Of course my Mac can read

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
protocol. http://us1.samba.org/samba/what_is_samba.html - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGVZFVS9HxQb37XmcRAt2pAKCJ

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 08:49, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/23/07 20:33, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 15:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 08:47, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:49:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/23/07 20:17, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:05:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: It would be very nice

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 16:18, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:03:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Never heard of ODF, or is it specific to *Office programmes? Personally, I save my latex as latex. The origional contents are plainly

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 18:58, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:08:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: There is something to be said for casting something in plain text in bronze and gold plating it. Buffered lignin-free paper. Burns

Re: Which Kernel for 32bit Debian on ADM64 CPU

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
) is not supported The -amd64 kernel is a 64-bit kernel. The -486 and -686 are 32-bit kernels. As is -k7, which is targeted to AMD processors. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
one unreadable CD, but I consider checking 120 CDs for unreadable sectors etc. a nightmare. But isn't that putting all your eggs in one basket? (Unless I'm mis-reading you.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away

Re: Remove gnome-games

2007-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux When you say gnome, do you mean the package named gnome? If so, you should be all right. Unless aptitude does something stupid. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good

Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)

2007-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
a lighter-weight window manager. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGVxmlS9HxQb37XmcRAjmWAKDP9949ziicDpebyxZyJJ9vHVAhCACg6kio

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/07 13:44, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] But isn't that putting all your eggs in one basket? (Unless I'm mis-reading you.) 3 disks in three different locations (according to Douglas' requirements). You'd have

WEP??? (was Re: reliable wifi manager for gnome)

2007-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
must. Why are you inviting someone to (quickly!!) hack into your network? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)

2007-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/07 23:27, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri, 25 May 2007 12:15:17 -0500 On 05/25/07 11:32, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote (portions deleted): have installed Windows and booted live Linux

Re: WEP??? (was Re: reliable wifi manager for gnome)

2007-05-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/25/07 19:17, Micha Feigin wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2007 18:41:22 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 05/25/07 18:25, Micha Feigin wrote: [snip] do ifdown wlan0 followed by a ifup wlan0 and it will sometimes work. In roaming mode

Re: Good video card?

2007-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
. This *is* AGP, right?) I also vote nvidia. All prices at NewEgg: GeForce FX5500 128MB DDR AGP 4X/8X card $48 Geforce FX5500 256MB DDR AGP 4X/8X card $51 For future use, though, I'd buy an OpenGL 2.0 card: PNY VCG62256APB GeForce 6200 256MB GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X $60 - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA

Re: List of packages and version

2007-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
of all {Stable,Test, Unstable} packages. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/27/07 12:17, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Tuesday 22 May 2007 14:35:30 Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/22/07 15:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: At least it's related to Linux :) To make it short here is the link: http://www.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/petition.html If you liked StarCraft (and/or other

Re: reliable wifi manager for gnome

2007-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
or watch your movies? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shared apt archives

2007-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
peers and that's that. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shared apt archives

2007-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/07 10:39, Felipe Sateler wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: So, run apt-proxy on N-1 peers and that's that. Actually, apt-proxy would run in only 1 of the peers. The other N-1 would have to be configured to connect to it. Ah, ok. Thanks for the clarification. -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: reliable wifi manager for gnome

2007-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/28/07 10:28, Jose Rodriguez wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/28/07 04:12, Jose Rodriguez wrote: [snip] Having said this, I didn't bother to properly secure my own home network yet. If somebody wants to check a couple of e-mails using it just be it. Would you leave your door open so

Re: epson stylus c79 with debian?

2007-05-28 Thread Ron Johnson
printers are well supported.) -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
, or more conveniently, from the rear (once you unplug all the cables))); no need to remove anything else. BTW, *which* Stacker? Did I miss that? http://www.coolermaster-usa.com/ProductList.aspx?catID=614 -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him

Re: Yahoo chat client for Debian

2007-05-29 Thread Ron Johnson
packages in debian-devel. Have you tried Gaim/Pigdin? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/07 21:08, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:21:32PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:34:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: The new one didn't have the same capabilites and cost more. The new one seems to be designed for the modern gamer

Re: Yahoo chat client for Debian

2007-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/29/07 14:56, Paul Johnson wrote: KS wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: arnuld wrote: On 5/29/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok and i searched the whole Debian lists for keyword multimedia :-( Why did you search multimedia on debian lists

Re: Icedove

2007-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/07 06:43, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Joe wrote: KS wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: When reinstalling 1.5.0.10 everything was instantly back to normal. In #425390, Alexander says: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425390;msg=45 For now, please purge icedove from your system

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-30 Thread Ron Johnson
they have with the GFDL (Gnu Free Document License) regarding the DFSG. [snip] If anyone wants to setup an alternative, GNU friendly, single software package archive they should get in touch with me privately. Ubuntu? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
satisfying two years ago to hook my shortwave up to my 486 and pull in weather faxes for the north atlantic while miles away from a phone line. What's the best way to make such a connection? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
than most to that old saw about a fool and his money... indeed. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/30/07 23:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:48:34AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/29/07 21:08, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:21:32PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:34:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: The new

Re: Installing Etch on a VME PPC CPU Board

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
is there. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Since VME boards are quite specialized, these two mailing lists would better server you: http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/ http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/ -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 08:26, Nigel Henry wrote: [snip] Hi Ed. Its probably worth trying http://www.co.uk/radio4 Of course, what you *really* mean is http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away

Re: grub

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
*supposed* to start in grub. That's the bootloader. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
in advance! awk might be a better fit for this. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
instantaneously while using 6 plugins, even when I've got dozens of tabs open. Download Statusbar Flashblock Forecastfox Measureit Noscript User Agent Switcher -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good

Re: Problem with Debian Etch on s390

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
a network install using it. Is this a kernel problem ir an installer problem ir what? There is an s390 mailing list that might give more detailed help. Still, Joe Hart's suggestions are arch-generic and are the first things that most people would tell you. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA

[OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
was the United States for 48 years before the Spanish colony of Mexico became Los Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Thus, we claim first dibs. And if you don't like it, stick it in your pipe and shove it where the sun don't shine. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats

Re: File Notes

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
Attributes might be what you are looking for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_attribute#Linux http://acl.bestbits.at/man/man.shtml http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/attr -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
to be dramatically faster. I may have been right in my initial guess. Sooo, which three plugins? As for alternative browsers, I rather like Galeon and Konqueror, but I'd miss the plugins. Adblock in particular makes many sites bearable. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he

Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 20:58, Carl Fink wrote: [snip] And if you don't like it, stick it in your pipe and shove it where the sun don't shine. But that doesn't justify being stupidly scatological. How is my belly button scatological? :) -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish

Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
colonization. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
. In short, .rm files play; none of the other extensions do. btw, the listing in about:plugins shows only the .rpm extension. Is it supposed to show more? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-02 Thread Ron Johnson
on my servers either.) -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-06-02 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/02/07 10:44, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 07:06:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/01/07 22:45, Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:57:54PM -, BartlebyScrivener wrote: What about FreeBSD? I may stick that on an old machine just to try it. I don't

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