On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Patrick Matth??i wrote:
Am 27.10.2010 23:32, schrieb Russell Coker:
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010, Pedro Paulo Argolo wrote:
needs better support video cards from Nvidia and ATI video boards
Intel. I had configuration problems because of that, and for a typical
user is a very embar
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Thomas Koch wrote:
Hi,
while searching the right way to use tmpfs for a few locations, I found this
howto:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=16450
What do you think about this approach?
What's wrong with just putting it in /etc/fstab other than that synss
doesn't
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, Brian May wrote:
Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
qemu makes mount the directory /tmp/mount.$$. Attacker creates many
symlinks /tmp/dir.\d+ -> /etc and if qemu
(/usr/sbin/qemu-make-debian-root) starts then /etc goes
out from root directory tree. The result: system is unusable.
I
On Wed, 14 May 2008, David Härdeman wrote:
If the entropy pool is properly coded, there is no negative effect of
adding data which may or may not be truly random to the pool (i.e. you
cannot degrade the quality of the pool no matter what you add). Therefore
step b) might add some entropy or it mi
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Russ Allbery wrote:
Christian Convey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
My development workstation is running Debian, and I'd like to produce
both .deb and .rpm releases of my software.
Is this something people normally do from the same Debian workstation,
or do they typically
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:11:23PM -0400, Ivan Jager wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Ben Finney wrote:
The problem is that *many* cases are incorrect; we can't say that
*all* of them are. That uncertainty is not amenable to a mindless text
substit
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Ben Finney wrote:
Ivan Jager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Here's a shell for people who don't remember what the output of their
commands mean:
#!/bin/bash
while echo -n '$ '; read cmd line; do
man $cmd | cat;
eval $cmd "$line" |
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Eduard Bloch wrote:
#include
* Ivan Jager [Tue, Jun 19 2007, 03:22:10AM]:
Should we also add filesystem overhead to all file sizes
just to avoid confusing newbies?
Second, "du" already does that. Go figure.
No, it doesn't. It rounds up to a multiple of
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Eduard Bloch wrote:
#include
* Ivan Jager [Tue, Jun 19 2007, 03:39:22PM]:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
Ivan Jager wrote:
They are not strictly better. Did you not read the part where I said I
didn't want an extra column of "i"s that serves
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
Ivan Jager wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Eduard Bloch wrote:
#include
* Ivan Jager [Fri, Jun 15 2007, 05:36:33PM]:
[...]
Should we also add filesystem overhead to all file sizes
just to avoid confusing newbies?
Second, "du" already doe
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Eduard Bloch wrote:
#include
* Ivan Jager [Fri, Jun 15 2007, 05:36:33PM]:
How about when you buy an 80 GB disk, and you know it's 80 * 10^9 bytes,
but your software says /home only has 79 GB and you know it means
79 * 10^9 bytes?
First, it would hardly say 79GB.
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Ben Finney wrote:
Ivan Jager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Ben Finney wrote:
[re added the relevant quote]
The difference being that digital specifications for things like
storage capacity and memory are not measured. They are calculated, and
in
On Sat, 16 Jun 2007, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
On Saturday 16 June 2007 04:43:53 Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 ?? 17:36 -0400, Ivan Jager a ??crit :
Yes. Any time the unit is bytes. There is even a standard for it.
I must have missed that one. Could you point us to this
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 01:46:10PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
Because we needed a name, and Kilo is a good one to use. There is no
rule that says you can't use the word for a different meaning in a
different context.
Which context would this be?
On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Ben Finney wrote:
David Verhasselt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Perhaps transforming it into a localization problem would do the
trick. This way, users would be able to set their preference on
byte-count in the same place as their preference on currency,
decimal, and am/pm
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
On Wednesday 13 June 2007 14:03:51 Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:33:12PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
Even in the US all legitimate science and engineering is done in SI
units.
Suurre... That's why in 1999 the NASA Mar
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Ben Finney wrote:
Ivan Jager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Alex Jones wrote:
1 TB is not rounded. It means precisely 1 × 10^12 bytes, no more
and no less. If they want to actually put 1.024 TB on the disk
then they can say 1 TB (approx.) like any
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Alex Jones wrote:
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 14:29 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
Without the binary unit to consider, when we quote a drive as 1TB, we
know that it has *at least* 1,000,000,000,000 bytes available.
Depending on the drive, it may have anywhere between this and
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, Joey Hess wrote:
Nathanael Nerode wrote:
[...]
On old installs it looks like this:
# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
-
While on new installs it looks like this:
--
#
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Tim Cutts wrote:
On 1 Feb 2007, at 1:30 pm, Steffen Moeller wrote:
There is probably no point for Debian to compete in the package versions
with
upstream developers of BioPerl, Wise, EMBOSS and whatever other tools yours
and your neighbouring institutes' are providing :o)
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