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Andrei Popescu | 1 Mar 2011 01:08
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Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

On Lu, 28 feb 11, 16:02:51, shawn wilson wrote:
> 
> But, just curious is there an 'ap guideline' for proper mailing list
> submissions somewhere? I don't think I'm going to be able to change gmail
> but I'd like to know when something is foobar all the same.

I found http://learn.to/quote very useful (English version at 
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html)

Regards,
Andrei
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Rob Hurle | 1 Mar 2011 01:16
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Input methods and terminal - any ideas?

  I'm fairly new to Debian, but not to Unix.  I'm using a standard
Lenny install (Squeeze later, when I have more confidence) and use KDE
as the desktop.  I need to use an input method for non-English scripts
and have been reviewing scim and the offerings there.  I am not ready
to install this yet, but have installed all the fonts I will need
(UTF-8) and the locale is set appropriately.  To my surprise, I find
that Gnome terminal already has all of the input methods that I need.
Where did they come from?  Neither konsole nor xterm seem to have an
input method option.  Does anyone know if I can re-jig the input
methods of terminal so that I can access them directly through
OpenOffice, Iceweasel or KDE applications (apart from copy and paste)?

  Any ideas would help.  Thank you.

Rob Hurle

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owens | 1 Mar 2011 02:13

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

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>---- Original Message ----
>From: bss <at> iguanasuicide.net
>To: debian-user <at> lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop
>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:48:36 -0600
>
>>On Monday 28 February 2011 13:47:23 Jason Hsu wrote:
>>> For those of you who have helped a company or organization migrate
>from
>>> Windows to Linux or from one Linux distro to another, what is your
>>> preference?
>>
>>The only time I've been involved in such a project it was from a
>hetrogenous 
>>AIX/HP-UX/NCR(legacy) environment to a hetrogenous
>AIX/HP-UX/NCR(legacy)/SLES 
>>environment.
>>
>>I would have recommended Debian instead, but I wasn't consulted. 
>SLES allows 
>>them to mostly operate in the same manner, as they were previously,
>though.  A 
>>shift to Debian would have required them to take a more active role
>in OS 
>>issue diagnosis and remediation, but they have sufficient technical
>staff to 
>>do so.
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owens | 1 Mar 2011 02:18

Re: Your favorite server apps (firewall, DHCP, etc.)

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>---- Original Message ----
>From: jhsu802701 <at> jasonhsu.com
>To: debian-user <at> lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Your favorite server apps (firewall, DHCP, etc.)
>Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:33:40 -0600
>
>>Joe, thanks so much for the advice.  I remember vi from
>undergraduate school in the 1990s, and I HATED it and never learned
>to use it, as emacs was so much easier to work with.  On my minimal
>command-line only Debian installations, I prefer nano.  Wow, I
>thought I was the only one who hates vi and absolutely refuses to use
>it.
>>
>>On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:00:26 +0000
>>Joe <joe <at> jretrading.com> wrote:
>>
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>>> And I'm willing to court unpopularity by admitting I absolutely
>loathe
>>> vi and its children. Hey, Windows 7 still has Edlin...
>>
>>
>>-- 
>>Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 <at> jasonhsu.com>
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mike cutie and maia | 1 Mar 2011 02:58
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help setting up an e-mail server for a newbie

Hi all,

I am new when it comes to setting up mail servers I got my bind9 to work but
I need some instructions to set up a mail server with pop3 and also to make
sure that people using Microsoft can fatch and retrieve mail from the server
any ideas?
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Mihira Fernando | 1 Mar 2011 03:39
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Re: help setting up an e-mail server for a newbie

On 03/01/2011 07:28 AM, mike cutie and maia wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new when it comes to setting up mail servers I got my bind9 to work but
> I need some instructions to set up a mail server with pop3 and also to make
> sure that people using Microsoft can fatch and retrieve mail from the server
> any ideas?
>
>
If you're looking for total exchange replacement, I'd suggest using 
Zimbra. If not, Postfix SMTP server + Dovecot POP3/IMAP server will do 
just fine.
Here's a easy to follow guide : http://workaround.org/ispmail/lenny

Mihira.
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Stan Hoeppner | 1 Mar 2011 04:34

Re: Configuring QLogic QLA4010c on Debian on Sparc

Stan Hoeppner put forth on 2/21/2011 6:37 PM:
> RR put forth on 2/21/2011 5:47 PM:

Have you made any progress on this?

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Stan

>> I hope it's "simply" just that and the HBA doesn't need any programming via
>> its own utility that accesses the firmware through some low-level API via
>> the driver etc that I have packages for for other OS/Distros
> 
> Have you looked yet in?
> /sys/module/qla4xxx/parameters/
> 
> You should read this:
> http://filedownloads.qlogic.com/files/driver/51633/readme_iSCSIsol.html#sample_file
> 
> paying attention to aspects that apply to you and ignoring those that
> don't.  I.e. find the conf files on your system with similar names.
> 
> Also, if you can find a version of this script for the qla4xxx series,
> you should be set.  I've been unable to locate one.
> 
> http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/qla-autoconf/
> 
> If you can hack this up for the qla4xxx series it should do exactly what
> you need, from the command line.
> 
>> I'm already on the Debian Sparc mailing list but will enrol in the Debian
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Chris Jones | 1 Mar 2011 04:47
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Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:34:04AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user]
> 
> [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439]

> Hi,
> 
> Being the stubborn person that I am, I want to give one more chance to
> the -offtopic list for Debian users and/or developers.
> 
> Thanks to Holger Levsen, the list is currently hosted on
> lists.alioth.debian.org by the Debian Community project and has some
> 30+ subscribers. However, activity is zero (not counting the
> occasional spam).
> 
> Interestingly, the OT threads on debian-user also went down a lot
> since a few years, for reasons unknown to me.
> 
> So, unless something happens on the list (apart from this thread and
> the spam) I intend to remove/delete the list within a month.

Still haunts me.. I shouldn't have done, but I bit.. and I got involved
in yet another OT squabble. Being a proud & responsible D-U citizen I'm
embarrassed .. deep down, I know I should have ignored the idiot.. but
it's too late now.. I can't just let go... I have to stick to my guns
and reply to the obnoxious poster who so ridiculed my previous valuable
contribution.. 

But wait.. maybe I could carry this over to D-OT, what..?
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Freeman | 1 Mar 2011 06:14
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Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:47:17PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:34:04AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:

. . .

> > Interestingly, the OT threads on debian-user also went down a lot
> > since a few years, for reasons unknown to me.
> > 
> > So, unless something happens on the list (apart from this thread and
> > the spam) I intend to remove/delete the list within a month.
> 
> Still haunts me.. I shouldn't have done, but I bit.. and I got involved
> in yet another OT squabble. Being a proud & responsible D-U citizen I'm
> embarrassed .. deep down, I know I should have ignored the idiot.. but
> it's too late now.. I can't just let go... I have to stick to my guns
> and reply to the obnoxious poster who so ridiculed my previous valuable
> contribution.. 
>   
> But wait.. maybe I could carry this over to D-OT, what..?
> 
> So what do I do..? recommend we continue our heated discussion on the OT
> mailing list..? too bad.. she's not subscribed to D-OT .. and given the
> circumstances and our disagreement.. no way she's going to go through
> all the trouble of subscribing..
> 
> Otherwise.. maybe I could use the scripting capabilities of my mutt to
> forward the entire thread to debian-off-topic and post some kind of
> form....? telling her that I'd be delighted to continue discussing.. and
> if she is agreeable, she only needs to click on the proverbial ‘here’ at
> the bottom of the form to be almost automatically subscribed to D-OT, so
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