Re: top(1) and the meaning of columns

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 09:14, Tim Post wrote: On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 07:43 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Are you debugging or trying to figure out why contiguous blocks are getting kind of small? No, just curmudgeonly about the size of popular apps

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
(a GUI in front of TeX) is more DTP (actually book/journal creation) than word processor. IMO not a good program to attach to your MUA. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 11:39, George Borisov wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: I personally use gdm, but I used wdm before (before getting too depressed about how ugly it is.) Why waste RAM on something you have *no* need for and doesn't *do* anything

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
? You'll have to set up a proxy computer that runs dansguardian or a similar filter. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
it directly from adobe.com. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 19:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: [snip] You shouldn't have to mount a floppy if you're going to format it. In fact, you *can't* mkfs a mounted partition, can you? - -- Ron

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/06 03:18, George Borisov wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Get off my lawn, you young whippersnappers! Oh, stop being such a grumpy old man. :-p *Window* manager != *display* manager. Yeah I know, but both have to be... SHINY!!! :-D Bah

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
you specify if there is one you need. Anyone know a non-smut site that tries to keep opening windows, as a safe test? Infinitely opening windows != the NY Times popping open a 'sidebar' window. And there are lots of sites that do that. Too many to whitelist. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson

Re: swf to avi or other format

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
/apt/sources.list : deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ ../project/experimental main contrib non-free Then: # apt-get -t experimental install flashplugin-nonfree Restart FF, and viola! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example

Re: swf to avi or other format

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
Candidate: 2006.09.25-1 Version table: *** 2006.09.25-1 0 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites

Re: Filesystem size

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
the issues when you try to do a du on a member device? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense

Re: How install debian if my machine has SATA?

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
have a intel pentium d processor Board intel D945GNT SATA hard drive Note: i probe debian for amd64. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
to figure it out. Assuming you've no other browser besides Mozilla or Firefox, then the proxy with Dansguardian will be locked in. And does /etc/mozilla/prefs.js override ~/.mozilla/firefox/blah/prefs.js ? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/06 00:23, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Infinitely opening windows != the NY Times popping open a 'sidebar' window. And there are lots of sites that do that. Too many to whitelist. Not in my experience. I haven't noticed

Re: A Strange Networking Setup

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
to be able to use it if they want to (doing my part for society and all that). I do, Do you also leave your front door open (not just unlocked), so that someone can come take a piss in your bathroom and maybe read your mail and take your TV while you're at work? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA

Re: Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
then you can use pretty much any client. If it doesn't then as far as I know your only But only for email. Not other useful things like calendar/meeting support. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites

Re: Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/06 10:13, George Borisov wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: But only for email. Not other useful things like calendar/meeting support. Indeed and if you don't like that, don't use such a proprietary system. ;-) *I* have absolutely *no* say

Re: OT? Linux disk file system design details

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP

Re: compiling programs in debian way

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
. Tag: suite::debian - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
really winning for 6 years (since Server 2K was released). They're in a vise and are responding in the only way they know how. Certainly, the patent litigation will be unpleasant, but they are doomed to fail. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense

Re: Yes, I really did it!

2006-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
. NetBSD is your best bet. It's more tuned to old stuff. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense

Re: seting up outgoing mail (smtp) on home system (adsl)

2006-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
to recieve mail on this, only send mail out. Anybody have an url to some easy documentation? If you use postfix (which is what I know, so that's what I'm going to talk about), run # dpkg-reconfigure postfix and choose Internet with smarthost and follow the prompts. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-04 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/04/06 19:07, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 11:28:54AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: My eyes see lots of ProLiants running Win Server 2K3, and only some running Linux, HP-UX and a few running z/OS OpenVMS. Really? My eyes

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/05/06 12:28, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: But because of their lock on the desktop, they also have incredible userland and developer mindshare. You sure? I had a rather interesting conversation at work the other day. I work

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/06/06 12:53, Matthew Krauss wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Coolness, sounds like good news for your career too! This reminded me, I was in a casino and saw a video slot machine crash -- someone came by and rebooted

Re: ia64

2006-11-10 Thread Ron Johnson
is Itanium. You want the amd64 kernel. Well, actually, you *want* an Opteron CPU, but that's a totally different thread. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those

Re: apt-show-versions works not so well with Testing

2006-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
Is there any way I can fix it? Else, I hope the tool be enhanced. Since you're running a mixed system, apt-show-versions is perfectly correct in saying that you can upgrade from 0.37 to 0.38. I don't see anything in the man page about an option similar to apt-get --target-release. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: apt-show-versions works not so well with Testing

2006-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/06 10:51, T wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 09:01:20 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: I found that apt-show-versions works not so well with Testing -- packages already up to date are still shown as upgradeable... Is there any way I can fix

Re: apt-show-versions works not so well with Testing

2006-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/06 13:26, T wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:33:16 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: $ reportbug apt-show-versions is your friend. :) My ISP will TLS email authentication is my barrier to get it through. :-) reportbug lets you write the text out

Re: Sending bug report alternatively

2006-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/12/06 23:20, T wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 14:47:17 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: $ reportbug apt-show-versions is your friend. :) My ISP will TLS email authentication is my barrier to get it through. :-) reportbug lets you write the text out

Re: launcher for terminal ap

2006-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
, which will remind the user of the necessary command. If this inexperienced adaptable or rigidly meek and scared? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
to package it and the number of people motivated to work on that. Sun Java is already in contrib, so it should(?) be trivial to move it to main, no? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior

Re: echo/sed combination inserts extra characters

2006-11-18 Thread Ron Johnson
in konqueror. jhead might fill your needs. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong

Re: counting incoming mail

2006-11-18 Thread Ron Johnson
like to count any attempts at sending an email to my host. Ideally, I could get the counts by hour, day, week, etc. Also, it would be great to get the information by user of course. Is there any way to do this? Analyze the exim log file. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common

Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-11-28 Thread Ron Johnson
to the discussion. I try to avoid the program whose advocates shout the loudest. YMMV ;-) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
panned out. Only MSFT could fsck things up that badly. Since then, I had never programmed for Windows. And some people think that we used GNU/Linux only because the Emacs church... That's right. By day, I use OpenVMS, so I expect all OSs to be secure and powerful. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-platform. I'd mention GNOME, but it's a 100 apps. So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)? No killer *app*. Security is killer, but that's hard to see. For me, the CLI is killer. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 08:19, John L Fjellstad wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No killer *app*. Security is killer, but that's hard to see. For me, the CLI is killer. I'm not sure CLI could be considered a killer for GNU/Linux systems

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
is unparalleled. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 15:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The *real* killer app was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly. I took a software engineering class where the professor maintained

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 16:29, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:07:36 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 15:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 20:34, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:30:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Unfortunately, finally using a vcs in the 21st century is *not* a notable contribution to the world of software engineering. True. However

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
to reboot the system or such before external electricity is cut at least a year for maintainance. Nothing is better than 0% trouble. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 10:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] 2. Satisfying your ISP who only install on a M$ OS. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 10:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 11, not being a Windows developer) years. Windows XP will run 8

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
. They did. It was called /Lotus 1-2-3/. A *huge* productivity boost. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 12:30, Nate Duehr wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The *real* killer app was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly. I took a software engineering class where the professor

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 12:32, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Dec 01 12:08 -0600]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 10:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 15:50, Nate Duehr wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/01/06 12:30, Nate Duehr wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The *real* killer app was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
Linux *BSD are where they are, and I really don't think we can add more. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 19:25, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006 Dec 01 13:48 -0600]: Where do you live? An igloo? It just as well have been this morning, 10F for the low, I noticed the client bridge got flakey around 13F or so

Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
first [...] Aptitude is very aggressive and usually wrong about removing other unneeded apps when you remove one app. Maybe this only happens when you start out using apt-get, but is nonetheless very aggravating and disconcerting. Thus, I stick with apt-get. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
shell, which is also a wrapper around apt-get and apt-cache. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense

Re: [OT] Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
, but you need to throw much more hardware and labor at it. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/02/06 09:03, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 08:46:37AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:39:35PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: And has *kept* them working on it, without turning

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/06 02:02, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 11, not being a Windows developer) years. Windows XP will run 8 year

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/06 13:00, John Hasler wrote: David Baron writes: just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. But those little bits of noise make life so interesting!!! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Ron Johnson
. After all, a decent-sized hospital make a lot of X-rays, which would eat up 40GB drives *very* quickly. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown

Re: audio / video system

2006-12-04 Thread Ron Johnson
this, to find out more about the software and the hardware involved, but I'm not having much luck finding anything. Does anyone know of a good source of info or even have much experience doing that themselves? Not also a dvr? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/06 19:33, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:57:38PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: You could implement your own FEC. A very simple form of FEC is simply Yes, but *why*? Tape storage systems have been using ECC for decades

Re: postfix relay smtp authentication

2006-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
of the authentication information. Also, make sure that the sasl_passwd and sasl_passwd.db have mode 600 So the password would be in cleartext? and that you have libsasl2-modules installed. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/06 21:20, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/05/06 19:33, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:57:38PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] The question is, if a block is sucessfully written now, if the drive is not used for 5 years

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/05/06 21:43, Mike McCarty wrote: Douglas Tutty wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:55:40PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Douglas Tutty wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:57:38PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] [snip] If in X years you plug

Re: Command Language Reference Book (Website)

2006-12-06 Thread Ron Johnson
)? Thanks. Sebastian Please don't cross post! aptitude install rutebook Where does it install to? I can't find it in my system (Etch). $ dpkg -L rutebook - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites

Re: links -g version 2.1pre26-4

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
in Unstable. Please supply some examples of failing URLs so that others may test. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
how linux software raid work can tell me how it decides that a drive has failed. This question was posed in a thread about raid1 internals. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 09:07, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 08:36:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/07/06 08:16, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:02:37PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: [snip] [snip] Personal data. Design

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
having trouble putting this into a script. A little Perl or Python script would work. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people

Re: Bash script question

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
(or 864000 secs), in the current directory. OP specifically noted: I'm not interested in the actual created/modified date - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 16:27, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: RAID is *not* for archives!!! RAID was not designed for archives. I can see no reason why it wouldn't work for that. RAID 1, for example, is simply making two (or more) copies

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
's that can't be run any more? I did. Shame on you for not writing in a portable language. Go COBOL!!! - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 17:36, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: RAID is *not* for archives!!! RAID was not designed for archives. I can see no reason why it wouldn't work for that. RAID 1, for example, is simply making two

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
3, 4, 5, 70, 80, 7/16, 8/16, 8/16E, Interdata 7/32, 8/32, SDS 940, LGP-21, LGP-30, DEC VAX (but cannot include the microcode due to copyright) Tag: hardware::emulation, role::sw:utility - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 18:52, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] One way of doing RAID 5 with three discs is to write data to each of two discs, and write the bitwise XOR of the data on the two discs to a third. This requires no special

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 19:25, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:18:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/07/06 17:39, Mike McCarty wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] You mean there's no emulator that lets me run Fortran for the 704? I SO

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 19:21, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:39:50PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Don't you wish you could run linux on the IBM 1401? No. They were a PITA. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/07/06 20:42, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] [snip] I don't like arguments. That isn't what I've been led to believe. Raid 1 doesn't do that, AFAIK. I won't respond further, as this is getting way away from the OPs

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-08 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/06 12:22, Mike McCarty wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:23:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/07/06 11:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I looked at it again a few years ago -- some bit rot has occurred

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/08/06 20:27, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 11:26:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 05:23:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/07/06 11:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I wish

Re: using kmail with procmail

2006-12-09 Thread Ron Johnson
, you'll be totally independent of MUA, and can even set up webmail if you want. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
to exceptions etc etc make the sub-classing inheritance trees really ugly and impossible to debug. Or maybe I just work in a messy industry... - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks

Re: DVDs - err what gives?

2006-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
. $ apt-cache policy libdvdcss2 libdvdcss2: Installed: 1.2.9-0.0 Candidate: 1.2.9-0.0 Version table: *** 1.2.9-0.0 0 500 http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid

Re: DVDs - err what gives?

2006-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/12/06 11:58, andy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/12/06 11:39, andy wrote: [snip] Adjusting the sources-list to debian-multimedia I am getting an error after running update stating that I am needing a public key? Where do I get one

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
had already taken over. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/12/06 16:30, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: My recollection of the 1980s MS-DOS world was that Turbo Pascal's problems were it's small memory model and lack of modules until v4.0, by which time C had already taken over. Who said

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/12/06 17:23, Miles Bader wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After a while, the exceptions and exceptions to exceptions etc etc make the sub-classing inheritance trees really ugly and impossible to debug. Or maybe I just work

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/12/06 18:06, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/12/06 16:30, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: My recollection of the 1980s MS-DOS world was that Turbo Pascal's problems

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/06 07:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:20:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/12/06 18:06, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/12/06 16:30, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/06 08:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 05:53:17PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/12/06 16:30, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: My recollection of the 1980s MS-DOS world was that Turbo Pascal's problems were

Re: backup archive format saved to disk

2006-12-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/13/06 15:11, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/12/06 18:06, Mike McCarty wrote: programming. In fact, I *like* BD languages. Why? Not needing to worry about pointers and heaps

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-14 Thread Ron Johnson
- -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously wrong. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/14/06 16:31, Wulfy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 12/14/06 15:09, Wulfy wrote: I got fed up with messages on sites saying please update your flashplayer. so, not finding a deb for it, I googled and found this page; http

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/14/06 21:20, Wulfy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/14/06 16:31, Wulfy wrote: I saw the etch/sid deb... I'm running sarge The dependencies seemed to be very different. I thought

Re: flashplayer9? (Mystery solved)

2006-12-17 Thread Ron Johnson
is set to 700 also. Probably because of passwords. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that common sense is obviously

FF 1.5.0.8 SRC DEBs

2006-12-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Anyone know where I can get them from? (FF2 has too many quirks, and I've reverted.) - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior

Re: Edit BIOS settings remotely?

2006-12-17 Thread Ron Johnson
rather not have to make a trip down there. Package libsmbios-bin might help. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However

Re: BIOS upgrade

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-1/4 disk or Super Famicon game cartridge in order to transfer the data to your computer--but copyright law probably still prohibits you from distributing that file to other people. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense

Re: Linux friendly colour printer?

2006-12-20 Thread Ron Johnson
to be the cheapest printer on the market, but I am not looking for a professional machine designed for heavy use either. Any suggestions? I love my Dell 3100cn. It's a big network *laser* printer that cost about $350. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid

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