Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:24 PM, martin f krafft wrote: > > Regardless, there's a need for a new edition. I am working on it. > > that deserves a big hooray! -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://debmal.my

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

also sprach Stephen Powell [2010.04.21.1534 +0200]: > This is hardly a new book. In fact, it was written in the days of Woody. > (Woody -> Sarge -> Etch -> Lenny -> Squeeze) It was written in the days of the sarge freeze and is entirely focused on sarge. > And parts of it are obsolete. But the

Re: Filesystem recommendations

Kevin Ross put forth on 4/24/2010 9:46 PM: > So if Btrfs were more mature, or if ZFS were included in the kernel, I'd > recommend either of those. But as it is, I think JFS is the way to go. Except for the fact that JFS has almost zero development and/or bug fix activity these days. The project

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

also sprach Charles Kroeger [2010.04.24.0045 +0200]: > Mr. Krafft, I have your "Debian System, concepts and techniques" > a first editon from 2005. I think it's a good choice for a new > Debian user. Thank you. > Why does a cow ride a surfboard on the cover, Is this widely understood? The imag

Re: Replies to the list

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:04:16 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> Does anyone here have to reply to my posts in the same manner? >:-? > Actually, I have two choices to read your answers. Either I use my Gnus, > through emacs, which shows me all the posts in the group. There, your

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:37:25 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:05:45 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >> >>> ~/.xsession is recognized by the Xsession usually located at >>> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession or /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession.  gdm, us

Re: VM software for personal use?

On 04/25/2010 09:39 PM, John Hasler wrote: Glenn English writes: A Lisp OS!!??? Pikers. I once worked at a place where they claimed to have written an accounting package in BASIC. I used a commercial accounting package written in BASIC. Worked fi

Re: Filesystem recommendations

Ron Johnson put forth on 4/24/2010 5:48 PM: >> Define "hates sudden power outages"...Is it recoverable? >> > > They got pretty corrupted. Maybe it's been robustified in the > intervening years. Drop this in the "lore" category. Any machine using pretty much any modern filesystem can suffer cor

Re: Filesystem recommendations

Ron Johnson put forth on 4/24/2010 2:11 PM: > On 04/24/2010 12:53 PM, B. Alexander wrote: >> Does anyone have suggestions and practical experience with the pros and >> cons of the various filesystems? >> > > XFS is the canonical fs for when you have lots of Big Files. I've also > seen simple ben

Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

On 20100425_161747, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > You all should (with some research and planning) be able to reorganize > > that sprawling flat structure into a significantly nested structure. > > I wrote: > > Unless it is hard-coded into a closed-source program. > > Ron Johnson w

Re: VM software for personal use?

Glenn English writes: > A Lisp OS!!??? Pikers. > I once worked at a place where they claimed to have written an > accounting package in BASIC. I used a commercial accounting package written in BASIC. Worked fine. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: VM software for personal use?

On 4/25/10 7:10 PM, Richard Lawrence wrote: http://losak.sourceforge.net/ A Lisp OS!!??? Could be, I guess. I once worked at a place where they claimed to have written an accounting package in BASIC. I think I'd stick with VirtualBox... -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: VM software for personal use?

Thanks to all who have replied! Looks like VirtualBox OSE may be the way for me to go for now, though I may also try my hand at QEMU. I found another lisp-based OS I might want to play around with, and they have QEMU images ready to boot: http://losak.sourceforge.net/ Richard -- To UNSUBSC

Re: GNOME crashes when .xsession file is present.

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:05:45 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > >> On 4/14/10, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> Anyway, what is the full content of your "~/.xsession" file and what is >>> your final purpose, I mean, what do you want to achieve with th

Re: 32000 directories

Ron Johnson writes: > You all should (with some research and planning) be able to reorganize > that sprawling flat structure into a significantly nested structure. I wrote: > Unless it is hard-coded into a closed-source program. Ron Johnson writes: > That scenario can (probably) be worked around

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

On Sunday 25 April 2010 21:06:14 Merciadri Luca wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > On 04/25/2010 02:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> Not enough information. > >> > >> Sorry. > >> > >>> Automounted from a DE, or manually from the CLI? > >> > >> Automounted, but the related f

[SOLVED] Re: how to setup my environment variable for vim ?

Andrei Popescu wrote: Of course, /bin/sh is needed for the basic operation of your OS, it couldn't reside on /usr (which is often a separate partition mounted later on). Try putting this in ~/.bashrc: export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim This worked OK ! Thanks for this advice. Regards, Andrei

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:46:51 -0700 Kevin Ross wrote: ... > There's also JFS, which has been around for a number of years, and is > mature. It doesn't checksum your files, but it does use copy-on-write > (as do Btrfs and ZFS), which goes a long way to keeping your data from > getting corrupte

Re: Replies to the list

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:04:16PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: > > > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:56:07 +0200, Nick Douma wrote: > > > >> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:47:50AM +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:26:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >>> > >>> > P.S.: I

laptop-mode for a downloading machine

Good day. I want to save power/HDD on some computer that is used for Internet downloads yet with slow Internet connection. I know that I can use laptop-mode for that. My question is, Should I make a long time delay for FS journal writing in case of ext3 in order to let the laptop-mode work - s

Re: Replies to the list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:56:07 +0200, Nick Douma wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:47:50AM +, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:26:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >>> >>> > P.S.: I never receive your answers by e-m

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson writes: > On 04/25/2010 02:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Not enough information. >> Sorry. >>> Automounted from a DE, or manually from the CLI? >> Automounted, but the related folder is still there (in /media/) ev

understanding iperf output

Hi, I'm using iperf to measure the throughput between two systems, 'local' and 'remote'. They're both connected via 802.11g wireless to wireless AP / routers, connected in turn to pretty fast (I don't have the exact bandwidth figures) broadband internet access providers. So: local - (802.11g) -

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

On 04/25/2010 02:47 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Not enough information. Sorry. Automounted from a DE, or manually from the CLI? Automounted, but the related folder is still there (in /media/) even when the USB key is disconnected. What are the ownership and privs on the moun

Re: 32000 directories

On 04/25/2010 02:32 PM, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: You all should (with some research and planning) be able to reorganize that sprawling flat structure into a significantly nested structure. Unless it is hard-coded into a closed-source program. That scenario can (probably) be wor

Re: 32000 directories

Ron Johnson writes: > You all should (with some research and planning) be able to reorganize > that sprawling flat structure into a significantly nested structure. Unless it is hard-coded into a closed-source program. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

Ron Johnson wrote: > Not enough information. Sorry. > Automounted from a DE, or manually from the CLI? Automounted, but the related folder is still there (in /media/) even when the USB key is disconnected. > What are the ownership and privs on the mount point? And the raw device? == /media# ls -al

Re: USB key accepts data only as root

On 04/25/2010 02:16 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote: Hi, To put data on my USB key, I need to be root. This does not sound normal. How can I tweak this? Not enough information. Automounted from a DE, or manually from the CLI? What are the ownership and privs on the mount point? And the raw devic

Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:53:27 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: ... > Heck, I haven't even installed the non-free firmware to make wireless > work in a couple of these notebooks. Firmware runs on the external hardware, not the system, so system stability shouldn't be an issue. I assume that here

USB key accepts data only as root

Hi, To put data on my USB key, I need to be root. This does not sound normal. How can I tweak this? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. signature.asc D

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

> Why else would "they" have made the radical UI changes unless "they" thought > the traditional UI was broken (i.e. substantialy flawed)? > Maybe not broken, but could be improved. > Jeez, everyone know that *my* opinion is the only one that counts! > :) > Not in v3.6, but it's coming. > > h

Re: Audible bell in Metacity

Hello Camaleón thank you for your reply :) Camaleón wrote: >On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:41:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> I like my audible bell very much. I really really like it – >> unfortunately, Metacity (from current Testing) blocks it in the >> following way: >I think you are facing this u

Different ways of creating a USB-install stick

Hello, I'm curious as to the different ways one can create a USB install stick, for the purpose of installing Debian. It is possible to do it by a) acquiring (where?) a boot.img.gz file, and then doing "zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdc". Then load a netboot iso to the disc. b) making a FAT/FAT32 parti

RE: Can't read DVD

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater < amaca...@galactic.demon.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:11:57PM +0200, James Stuckey wrote: > > stuc...@debian:~$ cat /etc/fstab > > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > > # > > # Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universall

Re: Suspend to Disk + blacklisted module = still trouble

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:06:13 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > Felix Natter writes: > >> so verbosity 1 should output something, but I will try 4. > > Changing verbosity didn't help, I still have no hibernate.log anywhere > in /var. So you changed "Verbosity 4" and "LogVerbosity 4" but still nothing

Re: Suspend to Disk + blacklisted module = still trouble

Felix Natter writes: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:33:59 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: >> >>> Camaleón writes: >>> What does "/var/log/hibernate.log" say? >>> >>> /var/log/hibernate* does not exist after a (succesful) resume, although >>> this is in common.conf: >>> >>> Ver

Upgrading xorg Lenny->Testing

hello, I am currently running on VESA driver with Lenny's xorg (7.3), because my Geforce 310M is only supported in xserver-xorg-video-nv >= 2.1.17 (Squeeze). Now I can try to build the xorg, xorg-server and xserver-xorg-video-nv source packages and install them, but I must rely on this system so

bbkeys: NextWindow command does not work with java programs

Package: bbkeys Version: 0.9.0-7.1 Severity: normal I am not shure if this is for bbkeys or blacbox! When I run any java program I am not able to switch to it by bbkeys binding that work for every other program just fine. In my ~/.bbkeysrc I have: [NextWindow] (Mod4-Tab) [PrevWindow]

Re: ZFS in Linux (was Re: Filesystem recommendations)

On 4/25/2010 9:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:06 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 4/25/2010 7:18 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/25/2010 01:19 AM, Mark Allums wrote: I wanted to like ZFS, but Sun is now Oracle, and thus over it hangs a dark cloud. Besides, we can almost get the benefits of Z

Re: Blank page after every page when printing PDFs with evince - Debian Lenny, CUPS, HP Paintjet (pj)

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:00:55 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > Yes, I also saw that but mostly under windows systems using PCL 6 > drivers. Is that setting available under CUPS printer options? :-? > > Try using this as a link for managing your CUPS system if you do not > already know this. > > http

Re: Blank page after every page when printing PDFs with evince - Debian Lenny, CUPS, HP Paintjet (pj)

-Original Message- From: Camaleón To: Debian [en] Subject: Re: Blank page after every page when printing PDFs with evince - Debian Lenny, CUPS, HP Paintjet (pj) Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:28:14 +0200 El 2010-04-25 a las 09:05 -0500, John W Foster escribió: (you e-mailed me directly... I'

Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:15:22 +0300 Dotan Cohen wrote: Hello Dotan, > I have seen the UK electrical mains connectors. I would have to admit > that our standards are well below UK levels! Mains electrics are covered by different regulations. Certainly, however, our mains connectors seem to be am

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM, B. Alexander wrote: > Does anyone have suggestions and practical experience with the pros and cons > of the various filesystems? Google is switching (has switched by now?) all of it's servers over to ext4. A web search will turn up more details on the subject.

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

On 04/25/2010 10:17 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:56 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: [snip] You might want to try Help -> Migration Assistant -> Use Original Toolbar That might be more familiar to you. I'd already done that, but decided to take another look at MA, and thus disabled "Smart

32000 directories (was Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit ...)

On 04/25/2010 10:04 AM, Siju George wrote: [snip] The folder limit was reached some time back. As a temporary solution some directories were removed . They will be fitting new drives tomorrow so I guess i will format them to XFS and use that. since ext4 also has a limit ans jfs also has a limi

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

On 04/25/2010 09:56 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: Lots of other issues, such as the message header being huge, are taken care of in addons. And lots of Tb2 bugs are fixed in Tb3 (such as the invalid server cert issue). But Tbird/ID 2.0.x (the layout and UI) was *not* broken! What is "broken"? What

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

That's true! I also hate cosmetics changes. After upgrade I was scared that it mess all my sub folders. But at least in Thunderbird/Icedove it is possible to turn back on old way. How? I've minimized the damage, but still don't like it. When it is first time opened afther upgrade there is

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that limit. > Hi, Sorry for the ambiguity. by files/folders I meant the number of objects inside a directory. But Mike showed there is no such limit for files/folders a

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

>> Lots of other issues, such as the message header being huge, are taken >> care of in addons. And lots of Tb2 bugs are fixed in Tb3 (such as the >> invalid server cert issue). > > But Tbird/ID 2.0.x (the layout and UI) was *not* broken! > What is "broken"? What would you say if an Ubuntard poste

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

On 04/25/2010 09:29 AM, godo wrote: It's "different" for *no ascertainable reasons*. Fix what *is* broken, not what's not broken. The same with FireFox/Iceweasel. Major UI and add-on redesigns in an upcoming version, but the UI is fine just like it is. That's true! I also hate cosmetics cha

Re: Blank page after every page when printing PDFs with evince - Debian Lenny, CUPS, HP Paintjet (pj)

El 2010-04-25 a las 09:05 -0500, John W Foster escribió: (you e-mailed me directly... I'm resending to the list) > > My printer is an HP PaintJet. This wastes paper and > > is very annoying. I have searched the Internet, of course, but I did > > not find any solutions. The closest I found was

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

It's "different" for *no ascertainable reasons*. Fix what *is* broken, not what's not broken. The same with FireFox/Iceweasel. Major UI and add-on redesigns in an upcoming version, but the UI is fine just like it is. That's true! I also hate cosmetics changes. After upgrade I was scared that

Re: ZFS in Linux (was Re: Filesystem recommendations)

On 04/25/2010 09:06 AM, Mark Allums wrote: On 4/25/2010 7:18 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/25/2010 01:19 AM, Mark Allums wrote: I wanted to like ZFS, but Sun is now Oracle, and thus over it hangs a dark cloud. Besides, we can almost get the benefits of ZFS with Linux RAID plus LVM2. Even were

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:26:16 -0500 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > exp...@hope.cz put forth on 4/24/2010 2:19 AM: > > > > Hi Celejar, > > Thank you for your reply. > > I use Linux running in Compact Flash so that the size of the Compact flash > > memory is the limit > > Users will send emails to a progr

Re: where is what kontrol did?

Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/24/2010 03:20 PM, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 24 April 2010 20:10:51 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: But will pulse audio make my Konsole make a sound because that is the only reason I would install systemsettings. I'm fascinated. Why do you _want_ your Konsole to make a sound?

Re: ZFS in Linux (was Re: Filesystem recommendations)

On 4/25/2010 7:18 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/25/2010 01:19 AM, Mark Allums wrote: I wanted to like ZFS, but Sun is now Oracle, and thus over it hangs a dark cloud. Besides, we can almost get the benefits of ZFS with Linux RAID plus LVM2. Even were Sun not owned by Oracle, the likelihood of Z

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 08:55:52AM -0400, James P. Wallen wrote: > Hmmm. Maybe Debian could set up "activation servers" that could > determine whether or not we are using "genuine Debian". Hmm... sounds like an interesting feature request for vrms. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.or

Re: The future of "nv" driver

On 04/25/2010 07:55 AM, James P. Wallen wrote: [snip] Hmmm. Maybe Debian could set up "activation servers" that could determine whether or not we are using "genuine Debian". But seriously... each kernel module has a "license" field, so if a non-GPL module gets installed, the kernel knows.

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

On 04/25/2010 08:02 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 25 April 2010 02:50, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/24/2010 06:11 PM, James P. Wallen wrote: [snip] PS: My apologies. Recent update to my mail client coupled with lack of sleep. I accidentally sent Ron a direct e-mail reply. Mea culpa. I don't think

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 13:55, James P. Wallen wrote: > Hmmm. Maybe Debian could set up "activation servers" that could determine > whether or not we are using "genuine Debian". Eeww creepy... -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-ma

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver

On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 4/24/2010 7:31 AM, John Hasler wrote: Mark Allums writes: Ah, a matter of taste, then. (Debian tastes bad with Nvidia loaded, apparently.) No. A matter of support. Okay. But perhaps a less loaded word than "taint" could be chosen. MAA I a

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

On 25 April 2010 02:50, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/24/2010 06:11 PM, James P. Wallen wrote: > [snip] >> >> PS: My apologies. Recent update to my mail client coupled with lack of >> sleep. I accidentally sent Ron a direct e-mail reply. Mea culpa. >> > > I don't think I've hated a program more than

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/24/2010 06:11 PM, James P. Wallen wrote: [snip] PS: My apologies. Recent update to my mail client coupled with lack of sleep. I accidentally sent Ron a direct e-mail reply. Mea culpa. I don't think I've hated a program more than I hate Tbir

Re: Sharing Iceweasel's bookmarks through LAN

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:57:07 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > I am using UNISON to share files between two computers in my LAN. I > share my documents, etc., but I would like to share bookmarks too. > However, I don't know if Iceweasel puts them in some place. Where could > I reach them? The latest

ZFS in Linux (was Re: Filesystem recommendations)

On 04/25/2010 01:19 AM, Mark Allums wrote: I wanted to like ZFS, but Sun is now Oracle, and thus over it hangs a dark cloud. Besides, we can almost get the benefits of ZFS with Linux RAID plus LVM2. Even were Sun not owned by Oracle, the likelihood of ZFS in Linux is zero. http://kerneltrap.o

Re: Replies to the list (was: Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection)

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:56:07 +0200, Nick Douma wrote: > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:47:50AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:26:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >> > P.S.: I never receive your answers by e-mail, despite my subscription >> > to the list. >> >> And how do you rece

Re: Replies to the list (was: Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection)

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:47:50AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:26:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > P.S.: I never receive your answers by e-mail, despite my subscription to > > the list. > > And how do you receive my answers? I only post to the list :-? Most likely on-lin

Re: creating tables...html

1. you have overlapping tags: begins before ends; 2.

Re: VM software for personal use?

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:44:21PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,23.Apr.10, 09:31:45, Richard Lawrence wrote: > > > > I am looking to run some virtual machines for personal use: I'd like > ... > > I value: > > - free over non-free > > - ease of use and good documentation over performance

Replies to the list (was: Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection)

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:26:33 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > P.S.: I never receive your answers by e-mail, despite my subscription to > the list. And how do you receive my answers? I only post to the list :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

belocs-locales-bin broken

I put through a pile of updates on many Lenny systems this morning and they all errored with: az_AZ.UTF-8... up-to-date be_BY.UTF-8... up-to-date be_by.ut...@latin... up-to-date ber_DZ.UTF-8... cannot open locale definition file `ber_DZ': No such file or directory dpkg: error processing be

Re: Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:57:27 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> This looks like kerneloops sends the oopses through a simple URL. >> Strange. It seems not to even ping a reference IP to see if the >> connexion is still alive. Weird.

Re: help resizing a partition on GPT disk

did the brave thing rm the partition and recreated it :) On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Alexander Samad wrote: > Hi > > I have built a 5T partition with my raid card and just expanded it out > to 9G, now I want to resize the partition I had to use parted so that > I can use gpt partitions. Ever

Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

> Looking like that, it'd be virtually unsaleable here, unless it was > sold in kit form. > > "Here" being the UK. > I have seen the UK electrical mains connectors. I would have to admit that our standards are well below UK levels! -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- T

Re: Audible bell in Metacity

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:41:55 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > I like my audible bell very much. I really really like it – > unfortunately, Metacity (from current Testing) blocks it in the > following way: > > * "beep" works fine > * "xkbbell -force" works, but it doesn't w/o the "-force" * > Gnome-

Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:08:22 +0300 Dotan Cohen wrote: Hello Dotan, > Well, production in this case is not "people will die if it fails" so > it is passable for his needs. :-) > > Unless, that is, Dotan stripped the unit to take the photograph. > No, actually, that is how it came! Looking like

Re: Blank page after every page when printing PDFs with evince - Debian Lenny, CUPS, HP Paintjet (pj)

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:27:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > I have noticed that when printing multi-page PDF files from evince on > the GNOME desktop, using CUPS under Debian Lenny, I get a blank page > after every page. It does the same when you print with another PDF viewer (i.e., GV)? It ha

Re: ldap help ?

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 6:39 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > > Hi, > I installed  sldap  2.4.18  on server  debian squeeze (here 172.19.6.150) > when Iuse the command > ldapsearch -xLLL -b "dc=example,dc=com" uid=john sn givenName cn > dn: uid=john,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com > sn: Doe > givenNa

Re: creating tables...html

On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:52:41 +0200, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > What can i do about those empty spaces? i just can't figure it out... Use CSS: *** a:link, a:visited, a:active { text-decoration: none; } a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } table.tabletemplate { display: inline-table; width: 100%;

Re: Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:57:27 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > This looks like kerneloops sends the oopses through a simple URL. > Strange. It seems not to even ping a reference IP to see if the > connexion is still alive. Weird. > > submit-url = http://submit.kerneloops.org/submitoops.php is append

Re: Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection

On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:52:11 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón writes: (...) >> I dunno what method uses kerneloops to send the data (e-mail?). If >> sends the info by e-mail, you could check Exim's queue by being root >> and issuing "mailq" command. > > Actually, mailq seems to give nothi

Re: how to setup my environment variable for vim ?

On Sat,24.Apr.10, 16:15:46, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > > Try putting this in ~/.bashrc: > > > > export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim > > You can also make it a system wide configuration with > "update-alternatives --config editor". I have not tried it shells > other than bash but I assume it is portable. Ye

Re: VM software for personal use?

On Sat,24.Apr.10, 23:27:03, Andreas Weber wrote: > > If USB is a must, stick the device in, mount it and open a shared folder > in Virtualbox OSE on the mount point for it. That easy. The only time I had to setup the non-OSE version was due to the iPhone not being properly supported on Linux :|

Re: Sharing Iceweasel's bookmarks through LAN

Nick Douma wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:57:07PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > I would rather use X-Marks or something similar to share bookmarks between > multiple workstations. It seems a bit more robust to me than just copying the > file. > I'll try it. Thanks. -- Merciadri

Re: VM software for personal use?

Mark Allums wrote: > That works on disk-like devices, not so much on other things. Some > people are scared of shared folders as possible attack vectors, thus > security risks. This is absolutely correct, my answer was too shortsighted, sorry for that. I must confess that for the last 2 years I