Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2010 01:06 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Du, 20 iun 10, 00:41:29, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 19 iun 10, 02:02:17, ABS Doug wrote: [problems with torrents] If you're on wireless try a wired connection for a while. Did you get to trying wired only? I don't think he can. -- Seek t

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/21/2010 12:01 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:44:17PM -0400, ABS Doug wrote: .snip Ok now I REALIZE what people have been trying to communicate. I hope I can help those smarter than I... please REALIZE, we noobs don't even KNOW what

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 20 iun 10, 00:41:29, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 19 iun 10, 02:02:17, ABS Doug wrote: > > [problems with torrents] > > If you're on wireless try a wired connection for a while. Did you get to trying wired only? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers

Re: Well, this is interesting... (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Du, 20 iun 10, 17:18:21, ABS Doug wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > >> When someone sends you a direct email, the expectation is that you will > >> send a direct reply. > > No problem. From now on, I'm hitting reply to all. I think you misunderstood: - privat

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark
> > On 6/20/2010 11:30 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: > >> >> no, we don't want download managers here. >> we are trying to isolate the cause of the problem. >> > Exactly. I'm hoping his dvd download via Iceweasel fails, since that would point directly to a driver issue. If it succeeds, that means the pro

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 11:30 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Mark Allums wrote: If you use Iceweasel for downloading, try the Firefox add-on Downthemall for management of downloads. I use and recommend it. Mainly for safer "pause" (or dropped connection) and "resume". no, we d

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:44:17PM -0400, ABS Doug wrote: .snip > >Ok now I REALIZE what people have been trying to communicate. I > hope I can help those smarter than I... please REALIZE, we noobs don't > even KNOW what info to give until the "pros" ask! Dmesg? O

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 11:30 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Mark Allums wrote: If you use Iceweasel for downloading, try the Firefox add-on Downthemall for management of downloads. I use and recommend it. Mainly for safer "pause" (or dropped connection) and "resume". no, we

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > If you use Iceweasel for downloading, try the Firefox add-on Downthemall for > management of downloads.  I use and recommend it.  Mainly for safer "pause" > (or dropped connection) and "resume". no, we don't want download managers here. we ar

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 11:18 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 6/20/2010 4:39 PM, ABS Doug wrote: I'm sorry, I was trying to figure out what jiado is. Also I've never did a DL through Iceweasel& was trying to figure that out to. Then I got distracted& forgot. I'm about to go& try a download of Ubuntu via torrent

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Huang, Tao put forth on 6/20/2010 10:27 AM: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: >> >>> $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\ | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l >>> 111 >> >> You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with: >> >> net

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:44 AM, ABS Doug wrote: [snip] > -Error messages: Don't know where to look. Visual indication is Skype > is offline & internet is offline so the torrents render you wireless disconnected. if your wifi adapter driver supports auto-reconnecting, everything should be solve

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 4:39 PM, ABS Doug wrote: I'm sorry, I was trying to figure out what jiado is. Also I've never did a DL through Iceweasel& was trying to figure that out to. Then I got distracted& forgot. I'm about to go& try a download of Ubuntu via torrent to see if I have an issue. If you want

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:59 AM, ABS Doug wrote: > Yes, quite right, a DVD. Now which one? download this one [1] with iceweasel and see if it fails or encounters any glitch. [1]: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-504-amd64-DVD-1.iso Tao -- http://huangtao.me/ http

can't disable Caps Lock now that I use nodm

2010-06-20 Thread jidanni
Help. I can't disable Caps Lock now that I use nodm, at least via scripts. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584502 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:24 AM, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > He-he! Contrary. > I assume poster tries to solve the problem himself first. > Aside of being polite, it is a fun to learn new things. > Some lists, like openbsd ones, ask you to do various steps > toward answer to the question. Describing th

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Tim Clewlow wrote: > What do you have to do to get the connection back? Restart > networking on the torrent client computer, or, restart the > modem/router, or perhaps you have a separate firewall that requires > a (networking) restart. The answer to this question

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: > > you have no control at all on how the wifi hotspots were configured, > which is also the case of ABS Doug. > port-forwarding (or upnp) is needed for good torrents performance. > if the number of connections is not limited, the router resouces

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:10 AM, H.S. wrote: > On 06/20/10 21:55, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 06/20/2010 08:26 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> torrents over wireless can be very tricky. >> >> Why? >> > > I think he is over-simplifying the problem of flaky wireless, but I > understand where h

status of Snd soundfile-editor in squeeze???

2010-06-20 Thread Jim McCloskey
I've used the Snd soundfile editor for many years for simple audio editing tasks. But since upgrading to current testing I don't seem to be able to anymore. After installation of the basic infrastructure (the snd package itself) you need to install one of the user interface packages---snd-gtk-ja

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread H.S.
On 06/20/10 21:55, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/20/2010 08:26 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: > [snip] >> >> torrents over wireless can be very tricky. > > Why? > I think he is over-simplifying the problem of flaky wireless, but I understand where he is coming from. I have discovered that a buggy driver, or

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Mark wrote: > > Ubuntu download might be too small to test, that's why I suggested a dvd > download.  The logic is, if you can download large files on the same OS but > from a different software platform like jigdo or Iceweasel, you've isolated > the problem to be

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 08:26 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: [snip] torrents over wireless can be very tricky. Why? -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d

Re: netstat (was Re: Torrents killing my conection)

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 08:07 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] Nope, since that also returns tcp6 packets. This does it simplest: $ netstat -ant4 so you are not taking use of ipv6 p2p. Should I be? After all, my ISP only uses IPv4 for consumer HSI.

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:30 AM, ABS Doug wrote: [snip] > I rent a room. The router is in a different part of the house. WiFi is > included in the rent. I already asked about moving the router, but > that isn't gunna happen. The router isn't even mine. I might end up > trying to run a splitter at

Re: Well, this is interesting... (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:18 AM, ABS Doug wrote: > No problem. From now on, I'm hitting reply to all. nah, read the code of conduct http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct "When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon copy (CC) to the original poster unless they

Re: netstat (was Re: Torrents killing my conection)

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > Nope, since that also returns tcp6 packets.  This does it simplest: > $ netstat -ant4 so you are not taking use of ipv6 p2p. Tao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Newsletter MultiPet

2010-06-20 Thread newsletter MultiPet
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Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 20 June 2010 18:06:37 ABS Doug wrote: > Downloading Ubuntu through Iceweasel went fine... thing is it went SO > fast, I'm not sure it's really a good test. FYI, this effectively rules out the MTU issues I suggested earlier, so it was a useful test for that. The multi-OS character wo

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 2:42 PM, ABS Doug wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:39 PM, ABS Doug wrote: > > >If you want to provide more > > info re: jiado & DL through Iceweasel, I'll try it! > It's "jigdo", and it's a great way to download big files for Debian. It's the only thing I use to down

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread H.S.
On 06/20/10 17:54, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/20/2010 04:30 PM, ABS Doug wrote: > [snip] >> >> I rent a room. The router is in a different part of the house. WiFi is >> included in the rent. I already asked about moving the router, but >> that isn't gunna happen. The router isn't even mine. I might

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
Downloading Ubuntu through Iceweasel went fine... thing is it went SO fast, I'm not sure it's really a good test. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanl

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 04:30 PM, ABS Doug wrote: [snip] I rent a room. The router is in a different part of the house. WiFi is included in the rent. I already asked about moving the router, but that isn't gunna happen. The router isn't even mine. I might end up trying to run a splitter at some point, but

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 04:23 PM, ABS Doug wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: pan2, unrar and par2 got me over my distrust of multi-part downloads. Yep. Funny thing too, these days I almost *NEVER* find anything incomplete or corrupted. I only download par2 files& run the chec

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 5:39 PM, ABS Doug wrote: >If you want to provide more > info re: jiado & DL through Iceweasel, I'll try it! Sorry, I got what you mean DL through Iceweasel... doing it now, downloading Ubuntu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Mark wrote: > My previous reply: > > Nuno mentioned looking at your hardware, and it's possible the drivers are > different in the Ubuntu/XP/Debian platforms that's causing the dropout.  Is > it only with torrents, or is it all downloads?  What if you download a d

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:37 AM, H.S. wrote: > If torrents were acting all weird in my case, I would do the following, > in the given order. > > 1. Try a "safe" torrent, e.g. of a Linux distribution (Ubuntu is a good > example). The idea is to exclude the possibility of using bad or > intentiona

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > pan2, unrar and par2 got me over my distrust of multi-part downloads. Yep. Funny thing too, these days I almost *NEVER* find anything incomplete or corrupted. I only download par2 files & run the check... can't remember the last time I need t

Re: Well, this is interesting... (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> When someone sends you a direct email, the expectation is that you will >> send a direct reply. No problem. From now on, I'm hitting reply to all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Well, this is interesting... (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread ABS Doug
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:31 AM, Klistvud wrote: > Call me paranoid (many people do), but I have a strong hunch that, in order > to subvert the bittorrent protocol and eventually dismantle its user base, > the media majors are flooding the Internet with intentionally malformed > torrents/trackers

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Curt Howland
One point on the NetInstall and BusinessCard images, they do NOT work unless connected to the 'Net. Up through Woody, those images would install a minimal system. But not now, they error when there is no 'Net connection and will not continue the install. So for non-networked installs, CD#1of Gnom

Re: QEMU on Debian issues

2010-06-20 Thread Jaime Di Cristina
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 01:36:57PM +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > I have installed QEMU on my Debian Testing box. I have GNOME running > on my host Debian. The virtual OS installed and running on QEMU system > is not running X. So, i launch QEMU with my OS image and work on the > console. > > Any sol

Re: grb2 can't boot my ext4 partition

2010-06-20 Thread mess-mate
On 06/20/2010 06:49 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:50 PM, mess-mate wrote: i've squeeze and lenny installed and squeeze as a production system now. Recently installed grub2 (1.98) on squeeze on the MBR of hd0. Evereting goes well but i can't boot lenny. The lenny file sys

Re: This is why gmail sucks (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 05:58 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 4:44 AM: On 06/20/2010 04:04 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:52 AM: Gee, I've got a lot of Linksys kit... It didn't used to be like that.) Too much shopping at WorstBuy et al and no

netstat (was Re: Torrents killing my conection)

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 10:27 AM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\ | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l 111 You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with: netstat -an | grep ^tcp\

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-20 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/6/20 Klistvud : > Dne, 20. 06. 2010 19:28:57 je Eero Volotinen napisal(a): > >> >> With pae enabled kernel on 32bit systems, you can split memory on 4GB >> slices. >> It comes with some overhead, but still works fine. also 4GB process >> limit applies to processes. >> >> -- >> Eero >> > > Than

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-20 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 06. 2010 19:28:57 je Eero Volotinen napisal(a): With pae enabled kernel on 32bit systems, you can split memory on 4GB slices. It comes with some overhead, but still works fine. also 4GB process limit applies to processes. -- Eero Thanx for correcting me. The (first) link given b

From UTF-8 to octal and back

2010-06-20 Thread Alexander Batischev
Hi! I'm currently playing with Djvu and have some troubles with text information passed to it. By standard, all non-ASCII text should be represented as UTF-8 encoded octal string, i.e. \320\222\320\262\320\265\320\264\320\265\320\275\320\270\320\265 (in this particular example we have Russian word

Re: Debian Community Poll

2010-06-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:50:17AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 19 iun 10, 12:13:11, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 09:06:32PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > On 2010-06-19 21:01 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [...] > > > > I'm interested inthe results,

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-20 Thread Eero Volotinen
2010/6/20 Klistvud : > Dne, 20. 06. 2010 18:32:02 je T o n g napisal(a): > >> Is the 3G memory access limit is the natural one > > IIRC the answer is yes, it's a "natural" one, imposed by the address lines > being limited to 32 bits: 2^32 gives you 4G, the remaining 1G was last seen > being swallow

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-20 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:32:02 +, T o n g wrote: > Is the 3G memory access limit is the natural one, or something > superficial imposed by M$? MS allows some versions of Windows systems to bypass such limit on 32 bits machines (by means of PAE and AWE), so yes, nowadays it's fictional. > I m

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-20 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 06. 2010 18:32:02 je T o n g napisal(a): Is the 3G memory access limit is the natural one IIRC the answer is yes, it's a "natural" one, imposed by the address lines being limited to 32 bits: 2^32 gives you 4G, the remaining 1G was last seen being swallowed by the "Doors, Gates and

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
articles to read: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/3_GB_barrier https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/64-bit#Limitations Tao -- http://huangtao.me/ http://www.google.com/profiles/UniIsland On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:32 AM, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if it is a FAQ, >

Re: grb2 can't boot my ext4 partition

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:50 PM, mess-mate wrote: > i've squeeze and lenny installed and squeeze as a production system now. > Recently installed grub2 (1.98) on squeeze on the MBR of hd0. > Evereting goes well but i can't  boot lenny. > The lenny file system partitions are for /boot ext3 and all

32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-20 Thread T o n g
Hi, Sorry if it is a FAQ, Is the 3G memory access limit is the natural one, or something superficial imposed by M$? I mean, does 32bits Linux (the i386 architecture) has such 3G limit as well? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xp

Re: QEMU on Debian issues

2010-06-20 Thread Carl Johnson
Disc Magnet writes: > I have installed QEMU on my Debian Testing box. I have GNOME running > on my host Debian. The virtual OS installed and running on QEMU system > is not running X. So, i launch QEMU with my OS image and work on the > console. > > Any solutions to the following problems? > > 1.

grb2 can't boot my ext4 partition

2010-06-20 Thread mess-mate
i've squeeze and lenny installed and squeeze as a production system now. Recently installed grub2 (1.98) on squeeze on the MBR of hd0. Evereting goes well but i can't boot lenny. The lenny file system partitions are for /boot ext3 and all others ext4. When i try to boot lenny i have this error me

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: > >> $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\  | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l >> 111 > > You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with: > > netstat -an | grep ^tcp\  | grep ":"[6][8,9][0-9][0-9] |

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Disc Magnet wrote: [snip] > Why do you say that CD1 would be useful if we don't have a net > connection. It seems that the netinstall can install a base system as > well. I hope netinstall would install a system with the basic tools > like ls, aptitude, vim, etc. I

Re: [OT] First computer

2010-06-20 Thread John Hasler
David Barron writes: > I learned programming in 1963 (now that's OLD). You've got me beat by several years. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debia

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread H.S.
On 06/19/10 02:02, ABS Doug wrote: > I still don't have an answer. It would seem for the 1st time in my > life, I've reached a point were I can't figure something out. Here is > what I've tried: > > -Lowered upload speed below 50% of total upload capacity (fail). > -Lowered the number of peers, bo

Re: [OT] First computer

2010-06-20 Thread David Baron
I learned programming in 1963 (now that's OLD). My first computer was the IBM 1620. The first desktop, or should I say, desk (the whole thing). No OS. Used punched cards (OOO). Had a crippled FORTRAN compiler, assembler, little else, but had a unique variable word-length architecture and

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 06. 2010 13:03:59 je Disc Magnet napisal(a): If I install Debian from a businesscard ISOs, what am I going to miss as far as software and packages are concerned? Or does it work like a normal CD-1 iso install because it pulls down everything required from the Internet? The latter. I

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Michael Tsang
On Sunday 20 June 2010 19:53:42 Disc Magnet wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > The business card iso does not have much, it sets up a network > > connection and downloads everything..so you need a net connection. The > > netinstall iso has the base system on it so yo

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Disc Magnet
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Greg Madden wrote: > > The business card iso does not have  much, it sets up a network connection and > downloads everything..so you need a net connection. The netinstall iso has > the base system on it so you have a minimal install to work with, none of > the 'sta

How to change the console into UTF-8 mode for FreeBSD kernels?

2010-06-20 Thread Michael Tsang
It's really annoying if the console isn't in UTF-8 mode as every bit of my system is in Unicode to prevent any compatibility problems. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 20 June 2010 03:03:59 Disc Magnet wrote: > If I install Debian from a businesscard ISOs, what am I going to miss > as far as software and packages are concerned? Or does it work like a > normal CD-1 iso install because it pulls down everything required from > the Internet? > > Is there a

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Michael Tsang
On Sunday 20 June 2010 19:03:59 Disc Magnet wrote: > If I install Debian from a businesscard ISOs, what am I going to miss > as far as software and packages are concerned? Or does it work like a > normal CD-1 iso install because it pulls down everything required from > the Internet? > > Is there a

Re: Grrrrrub2 again!!

2010-06-20 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > I did a new squeeze install on a desktop with dual boot, and install grub 2. > System boot fine in debian, but $W was not present. No problem, I had this > problem before and a simple update-grub solved it. But this time I got an > error

Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Disc Magnet
If I install Debian from a businesscard ISOs, what am I going to miss as far as software and packages are concerned? Or does it work like a normal CD-1 iso install because it pulls down everything required from the Internet? Is there a way to prevent it from connecting to the internet and in that

Re: This is why gmail sucks (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 4:44 AM: > On 06/20/2010 04:04 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:52 AM: >> >>> Gee, I've got a lot of Linksys kit... It didn't used to be like that.) >> >> Too much shopping at WorstBuy et al and not enough at Newegg, Fryes, >> etc m

Re: Enigmail: why couldn't I sign an HTML message?

2010-06-20 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Camaleón, Am 2010-06-13 16:31:01, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Unfortunately > PGP/MIME is not supported by all mailclients; those that currently are > compatible with it are Enigmail, Apple Mail, Becky, Evolution, KMail, > Mulberry, Sylpheed, and The Bat!. Arg! Gnagnagna

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: > $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\ | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l > 111 You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with: netstat -an | grep ^tcp\ | grep ":"[6][8,9][0-9][0-9] | grep -c -v LISTEN Your command line merely shows all TCP connecti

Re: Re: GRUB2 - automatically generating extra entries

2010-06-20 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Jason Heeris wrote: >> For grub1, the only way that I can see doing this >> automatically/automagically is to replace the single/recovery entries >> by init3 entries. > > I just found my old menu.lst - there was a section that started: > > ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNEL

Re: This is why gmail sucks (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 04:04 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:52 AM: Gee, I've got a lot of Linksys kit... It didn't used to be like that.) Too much shopping at WorstBuy et al and not enough at Newegg, Fryes, etc maybe? On the contrary, I do almost all my shopping at Ne

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/20/2010 1:34 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/20/2010 12:50 AM, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] Throttling is just one possibility, and maybe (probably) not even the best guess. It's just a suggestion. I think throttling is more likely if you open lots of connections, so try using fewer. Beyond abo

Re: This is why gmail sucks (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:52 AM: > Gee, I've got a lot of Linksys kit... It didn't used to be like that.) Too much shopping at WorstBuy et al and not enough at Newegg, Fryes, etc maybe? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Rebuilding RAID 1 Array in Linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault - Howto with screen shots

2010-06-20 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Huang, Tao wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Tom H wrote: > [snip] >> mdadm assembles an array according to data in the superblock so it >> shouldn't matter whether the kernel recognizes sda and sdb as sdb and >> sda respectively should you plug them in di

Re: QEMU on Debian issues

2010-06-20 Thread Javier Barroso
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Disc Magnet wrote: > I have installed QEMU on my Debian Testing box. I have GNOME running > on my host Debian. The virtual OS installed and running on QEMU system > is not running X. So, i launch QEMU with my OS image and work on the > console. > > Any solutions

Re: Well, this is interesting... (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 20. 06. 2010 09:59:55 je Ron Johnson napisal(a): For the first time since I bought it, I just had to reboot my router! Doug's torrent was 86% complete. Call me paranoid (many people do), but I have a strong hunch that, in order to subvert the bittorrent protocol and eventually dismantle

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 0.9.9 released

2010-06-20 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hello World, I'm pleased to announce apt-offline version 0.9.9 Release Highlights * Minor Bug Fix and Feature Release Please see the git log for full details[1]. . What is apt-offline ? apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager . apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based di

QEMU on Debian issues

2010-06-20 Thread Disc Magnet
I have installed QEMU on my Debian Testing box. I have GNOME running on my host Debian. The virtual OS installed and running on QEMU system is not running X. So, i launch QEMU with my OS image and work on the console. Any solutions to the following problems? 1. The IP address of the QEMU system a

Well, this is interesting... (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/20/2010 01:52 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/19/2010 11:53 PM, ABS Doug wrote: I send you mail in private, and the gmail interface is so bad that you don't notice. So, either post the .torrent so that other can test it, or keep your problems to yourself. Not gmail, I probably did that. Ha

Re: mdadm doing strange things

2010-06-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 20/06/10 02:15, Andrew Reid wrote: On Saturday 19 June 2010 14:20:27 Alan Chandler wrote: [ Details elided ] HOWEVER (the punch line). When this system booted, it was not the old reverted one but how it was before I started this cycle. In other words it looked as though the disk which I ha

Re: mdadm doing strange things

2010-06-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On 19/06/10 23:54, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Alan Chandler put forth on 6/19/2010 1:20 PM: I have a server with a pair of raided (RAID1) disks using partition 1,2 and 4 as /boot root and and and lvm volume respectively. The two disks are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. They have just replaced two smaller d

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Mark
I'm just curious since ABS Doug didn't reply to my suggestions, have you read my reply? Here is the pertinent info below. It's clearly not a hardware problem, on the computer or router, since other OS's work fine. My previous reply: Nuno mentioned looking at your hardware, and it's possible the