Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d2aaa20.ca7a0e0a.49e1.3...@mx.google.com>, Sthu Deus wrote: >Andrei wrote: >> $ apt-cache policy >> [snip] >> >>1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages >> >> release o=Debian Backports,a=lenny-backports,l=Debian >> >> Backports,c=main origin www.backports.org >>

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on > it (far less).  Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB.   > I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD.  Is there a way to copy an > image o

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <2011011500.46f09b...@kev.msw.wpafb.af.mil>, Karl Vogel wrote: >>> On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:05:43 -0600, >>> Stan Hoeppner said: >S> #! /bin/sh >S> for k in $(ls *.JPG); do convert $k -resize 1024 $k; done > > Someone was ragging on you to let the shell do the file expansion. I > like yo

Re: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving

2011-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Phil Requirements put forth on 1/9/2011 5:53 PM: > On 2011-01-09 15:37:41 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Phil Requirements put forth on 1/9/2011 12:48 PM: >>> On 2011-01-09 08:02:05 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: If one is so power consumption conscious to be suckered into a Green (EARS) dri

Re: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 09 January 2011 21:37:41 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'm sure your grandmother has told you at least once, "Save your > dollars and the pennies take care of themselves."  Save thing.  It was > good advice when she gave it to you, and it's good advice today. Here in the UK we have a saying whi

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Klistvud: > Dne, 09. 01. 2011 17:35:07 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): >> Klistvud: >>> >>> After partitioning the drive, aligned on modulo 8 sector boundaries: >>> >>> obelix:# hdparm -tT /dev/sda >> >> Your test is unsuitable to detect any alignment-related performance >> issues. > > Care to ela

Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-09 Thread Sthu Deus
Andrei wrote: > $ apt-cache policy > [snip] >1 http://www.backports.org lenny-backports/main Packages > release o=Debian Backports,a=lenny-backports,l=Debian > Backports,c=main origin www.backports.org > [snip] > > The correct origin is "Debian Backports" according to o=... Yea, right.

Re: repos for squeeze as a base install.

2011-01-09 Thread Sthu Deus
Thank You for Your time and answer, Doug: > Where is this sources list, and where do you find a list of repos to > add to it? I've seen that in some debian news - they announced that there will be diver repos for lenny and squeeze - so that people might slightly move from one repo version to anot

PCI video card on Dell Dimension 2300

2011-01-09 Thread Jim Lebeau
The onboard video on my Dell Dimension 2300 died, so I found a pci video card and installed it. Then I installed Lenny. It would not boot. I installed Squeeze. It too would not boot and I struggled to find out why. I thought it might be a problem with the newer distros, and the older box.

USB key requirement.

2011-01-09 Thread Dan Serban
So, I'm currently switching my 9 workstations around the house to diskless boot. They mount nfs shares that reside on top of an encrypted raid server. This is all fine and good. What I'd like to do: On a specific workstation, on boot, i'd like to require that a specific usb memory stick be inse

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data > on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is > 5 GB. I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy > an image of just the files from one drive to another? In the cas

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> unfortunately that simple approach is harder to do with my renaming > scheme. So I would probably write a helper script that did the > options to convert and renamed the file and so forth. > for k in *.JPG; do > base=$(basename $k .JPG) > test -f $base.1024.jpg && continue # skip if

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The first thing of notice is that the Load_Cycle_Count of the drive > heads increases every 8 seconds by default. As seen on the Internet, > this may pose a problem in the long run, since these drives are > "guaranteed" to sustain a limited number of such head parking cycles. > The number

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If one is so power consumption conscious to be suckered into a Green > (EARS) drive, then one needs to realize the CPU dissipates about 10 > times the wattage/heat of a hard drive. Thus, concentrate your power I have no idea what makes you so angry against "green" drives. But I can assure you t

Re: Changing default size of gnome-terminal when launching terminal apps

2011-01-09 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 10:55:51PM -0500, Petrus Validus wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:48:49AM +0800, BOYPT wrote: > > gnome-terminal --geometry=80x60 -x mutt > > > > ? > > That works! Thanks. > Also, I liek using a profile to take advantage of some terminal configs and name the window s

Re: Changing default size of gnome-terminal when launching terminal apps

2011-01-09 Thread Petrus Validus
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:48:49AM +0800, BOYPT wrote: > gnome-terminal --geometry=80x60 -x mutt > > ? That works! Thanks. -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Changing default size of gnome-terminal when launching terminal apps

2011-01-09 Thread BOYPT
gnome-terminal --geometry=80x60 -x mutt ? On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Petrus Validus wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a launcher on my Gnome panel to check my email in Mutt. My > problem is when launching Mutt the gnome-terminal window is 80x24. I > always end up resizing my window to 80x60 f

Changing default size of gnome-terminal when launching terminal apps

2011-01-09 Thread Petrus Validus
Hi all, I have a launcher on my Gnome panel to check my email in Mutt. My problem is when launching Mutt the gnome-terminal window is 80x24. I always end up resizing my window to 80x60 for more space. I know if I were just launching a normal instance gnome-terminal I could adjust its defau

nvidia no signal

2011-01-09 Thread shawn wilson
i've got an nvidia geforce 7600. when i boot, i get a splash on the vgo out. however, the splash doesn't go away after it boots (i can ssh in and use it fine). however, once i kill x, i don't get a signal on either the vga or hdmi. where should i look for the issue? what logs might i provide to ge

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Bob Proulx put forth on 1/9/2011 3:12 PM: > GNU xargs has an extension to run jobs in parallel. This is already > installed on your system. (But won't work on other Unix systems.) > > for k in *.JPG; do echo $k; done | xargs -I{} -P4 echo convert {} -resize > 1024 {} > > Verify that does wh

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread shawn wilson
On Jan 9, 2011 3:09 PM, "Stan Hoeppner" wrote: > > shawn wilson put forth on 1/9/2011 11:43 AM: > > On Jan 9, 2011 12:17 PM, "Stan Hoeppner" wrote: > >> > >> Camaleón put forth on 1/9/2011 10:59 AM: > >> > >>> http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/api/#speed > >>> > >>> The above doc provides hints on

Re: Re (3): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-09 Thread Peter Koellner
On Sun, 9 Jan 2011, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Peter Koellner Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:28:04 +0100 (CET) Well, 5 1/4" disks were out of fashion around 1988, if I remember correctly, and I think the disk in question was from the 90s, so I guessed it probably was a 3 1/2" disk... Cert

Re: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 03:37:41PM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > This is because of your liberal political leanings, which have no place > here. This is a technical discussion list, so keep it technical. I was with you right up until that last sentence. You people always wind up framing every

Re: OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-09 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > But an openvpn configuration shouldn't be depending upon dynamic dns. > ... > Nevertheless, the tunnel fails. Hmm... > pe...@joule:~$ grep refused /var/log/syslog > Jan 9 15:08:53 joule ovpn-myvpn[1903]: read UDPv4 [ECONNREFUSED]: Connection > r

Re (3): Reading files from a diskette from an old MacOS.

2011-01-09 Thread peasthope
From: Peter Koellner Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 20:28:04 +0100 (CET) > Well, 5 1/4" disks were out of fashion around 1988, if I remember > correctly, and I think the disk in question was from the 90s, so > I guessed it probably was a 3 1/2" disk... Certainly. Was any new Macintosh equiped with a

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Karl Vogel wrote: > >> Stan Hoeppner said: > S> for k in $(ls *.JPG); do convert $k -resize 1024 $k; done > >Someone was ragging on you to let the shell do the file expansion. I >like your way better because most scripting shells aren't smart enough >to realize that when there aren't

Re: OpenVPN server mode usage.

2011-01-09 Thread peasthope
* From: Bob Proulx * Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 14:01:54 -0700 > But an openvpn configuration shouldn't be depending upon dynamic dns. > Have your dynamic IP client contact your server. ... might be able to use > almost > the same configuration you currently have but just with some tweaks.

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:05:43 -0600, >> Stan Hoeppner said: S> #! /bin/sh S> for k in $(ls *.JPG); do convert $k -resize 1024 $k; done Someone was ragging on you to let the shell do the file expansion. I like your way better because most scripting shells aren't smart enough to reali

Re: Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?

2011-01-09 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2011-01-09 23:28:58 +, Phil Requirements wrote: > On 2011-01-09 23:11:29 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > > As an experiment, from googling, I have added this: > > > > GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768x32 > > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1366x768x32 > > > > to /etc/default/grub, when # update-grub2 and reboot

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Re: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving

2011-01-09 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2011-01-09 15:37:41 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Phil Requirements put forth on 1/9/2011 12:48 PM: > > On 2011-01-09 08:02:05 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> If one is so power consumption conscious to be suckered into a > >> Green (EARS) drive, then one needs to realize the CPU dissipates > >

Re: Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?

2011-01-09 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2011-01-09 23:11:29 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > As an experiment, from googling, I have added this: > > GRUB_GFXMODE=1366x768x32 > GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1366x768x32 > > to /etc/default/grub, when # update-grub2 and rebooted. > Strange effect was achieved, I have seen 1366x768 at the grub's

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 02:21:22PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on > it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. > I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an

Re: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Phil Requirements put forth on 1/9/2011 12:48 PM: > On 2011-01-09 08:02:05 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> If one is so power consumption conscious to be suckered into a Green >> (EARS) drive, then one needs to realize the CPU dissipates about 10 >> times the wattage/heat of a hard drive. Thus, con

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'm not very skilled at writing shell scripts. > > #! /bin/sh > for k in $(ls *.JPG); do convert $k -resize 1024 $k; done First off don't use ls to list files matching a pattern. Instead let the shell match the pattern. #! /bin/sh for k in *.JPG; do convert $k -resize

Re: Exim4 : allow relaying for authenticateed users (LDAP,PAM over TLS)

2011-01-09 Thread William Cooper
On 9 January 2011 12:15, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > Hello, > > I want to allow my remote users to submit emails through SMTP > on port 587 (using TLS). Obviously I want to enforce authenticate > for those mail submission (my user are stored in LDAP, with passwrd > as plain text, so both PAM and LDAP

Re: Error installing Squeeze with root filesystem as btrfs

2011-01-09 Thread Paul Richards
On 9 January 2011 13:45, Paul Richards wrote: > On 9 January 2011 12:37, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Paul Richards a écrit : >>> >>> I figured out how to add crc32 to the initramfs, but unfortunately I >>> get the same error.  It's unfortunate that the error message does not >>> tell me which symbo

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Robert Blair Mason Jr.
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:21:22 -0500 Hal Vaughan wrote: > I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on > it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. > I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an > ima

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Camaleón put forth on 1/9/2011 12:12 PM: > Better if you check it, but I dunno how to get the compile options for > the lenny package... where is this defined, in source or diff packages? You're taking this thread down the wrong path. I asked for assistance writing a simple script to do what I

Re: Is The Hour Nigh?

2011-01-09 Thread Freeman
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 03:02:06PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:53:32 -0800, freeman wrote: > > > After upgrading the base-files package to 6.0 in squeeze: > > > > free...@europa:~$ cat /etc/issue.net > > Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 > > free...@europa:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 6.0 >

Couldn't find the DDC routing table

2011-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, Has anyone experienced this error message when using an nvidia 8400GS GPU? This is a fresh Sid install in new machine, and after 2 days I'm starting to think that this might be a bad part. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1028703/all-nvidia-g84-g86s-bad Thanks, Ron -- Seek trut

Re: Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-01-09 15:52 +0100, Klistvud wrote: > >> If I understand the original question correctly, you're looking for the >> vga= kernel option (to be added to your kernel line in grub.cfg or >> menu.lst). > > I'm not looking for anything, Mark i

Re: Exim4 : allow relaying for authenticateed users (LDAP,PAM over TLS)

2011-01-09 Thread Andrew Reid
On Sunday 09 January 2011 11:15:25 Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > > Does anyone knows a good howto. I am especially wondering how to > instruct EXIM to use PAM/LDAP rather than the local /etc/exim4/passwd) It has been a long time since I did this, but my recollection is that Exim is one of those sensib

Re: WPA2-WLAN on Laptop with PCMCIA card and wpa_supplicant

2011-01-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:03:00 +0100, eltrebol wrote: > I apologise for the misconduct, here is the mail in plain text. Much better, thanks! :-) > Trying to get online wirelessly I encountered problems connecting by > means of wpa_supplicant. I have an IBM Thinkpad R32 running Debian Lenny > witho

Re: Exim4 : allow relaying for authenticateed users (LDAP,PAM over TLS)

2011-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Frank Lin PIAT wrote: >I want to allow my remote users to submit emails through SMTP >on port 587 (using TLS). I do this with exim currently. >Obviously I want to enforce authenticate >for those mail submission Of course, no reason to be an open relay. >(my user are stored in LDAP, with p

DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Hal Vaughan
I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do "rsync -av" but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an image of just the files from one drive to another? For example, an

Re: Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-01-09 12:50 +0100, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > >> Subj. >> Googling points me to 915_resolution, which is about Intel video. My >> video is NVIDIA. Please, help to set up native laptop's resolution for >> console. > > Try uvesafb (you need

Re: Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 09 January 2011 19:21:08 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > David Baron put forth on 1/9/2011 10:07 AM: > > I get: > > HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > > > > > > > on bootup and any attempt to read or set dma for either the IDE or the > > SATA *

Re: Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 09 January 2011 19:21:08 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > David Baron put forth on 1/9/2011 10:07 AM: > > I get: > > HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > > > > > > > on bootup and any attempt to read or set dma for either the IDE or the > > SATA >

Re: Re: WPA2-WLAN on Laptop with PCMCIA card and wpa_supplicant

2011-01-09 Thread Geoff Simmons
Hi Clemens, On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 06:03:00PM +0100, eltre...@web.de wrote: > Trying to get online wirelessly I encountered problems connecting by > means of wpa_supplicant. [...] > For the WLAN connection I have a PCMCIA WLAN card from 3com. I will guess you are using either a 3CRSHPW_96 or 3CR

Re: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Phil Requirements
On 2011-01-09 08:02:05 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > If one is so power consumption conscious to be suckered into a Green > (EARS) drive, then one needs to realize the CPU dissipates about 10 > times the wattage/heat of a hard drive. Thus, concentrate your power > saving efforts elsewhere than the

Re: internet sharing

2011-01-09 Thread shawn wilson
On Jan 9, 2011 3:43 AM, "andu novac" wrote: > > I used to have this working in 32 bit (antix) but can't get it to work > reliably in 64 bit Squeeze. > Here's the setup maybe someone has any idea. > Hardware: intel iMac mid 2010 getting internet via eth0/pppoe wanting > to share the connection via

Re: LibreOffice 3.3 Release Candidate 2

2011-01-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-09 19:25 +0100, Ken Heard wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2011-01-09 17:01 +0100, Ken Heard wrote: > >>> Is it however now sufficiently stable to use instead of OpenOffice.org, >>> or should I wait until it becomes an official debian package? >> >> There are already official Debian

Re: GnuCash 2.4.0

2011-01-09 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Heard wrote: > Now that GnuCash 2.4.0, the latest stable version of GnuCash after > 2.2.9, has been released, will 2.4.0 be available is Squeeze, or even in > Lenny backports? I have just noted that GnuCash is already in experimental as "gnucash (

Re: LibreOffice 3.3 Release Candidate 2

2011-01-09 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-01-09 17:01 +0100, Ken Heard wrote: >> Is it however now sufficiently stable to use instead of OpenOffice.org, >> or should I wait until it becomes an official debian package? > > There are already official Debian packag

Re: Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, David Baron a écrit : > I get: > HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > on bootup and any attempt to read or set dma for either the IDE or the SATA > disk on my system. AFAIK, the -d (DMA) setting is relevant only with the legacy IDE drivers, not the newer libata-based P

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 11:17:04 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Camaleón put forth on 1/9/2011 10:59 AM: >> *** >> # IM by default uses multiple threads for image processing operations. >> That means you can have the computer do two or more separate threads of >> image processing, it will be faster th

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 09. 01. 2011 17:35:07 je Jochen Schulz napisal(a): Klistvud: > > Before partitioning and formatting: > > obelix# hdparm -tT /dev/sda … > After partitioning the drive, aligned on modulo 8 sector boundaries: > > obelix:# hdparm -tT /dev/sda Your test is unsuitable to detect any alignment-rela

Re: LibreOffice 3.3 Release Candidate 2

2011-01-09 Thread shawn wilson
On Jan 9, 2011 12:15 PM, "Sven Joachim" wrote: > > On 2011-01-09 17:01 +0100, Ken Heard wrote: > > > I note that this version of LibreOffice is now available as a debian > > package in several languages from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. > > I think I am correct in assuming that it is not

Re: Re: WPA2-WLAN on Laptop with PCMCIA card and wpa_supplicant

2011-01-09 Thread eltrebol
File1.log Description: Binary data File2.log Description: Binary data File3.log Description: Binary data File4.log Description: Binary data I apologise for the misconduct, here is the mail in plain text. Trying to get online wirelessly I encountered problems connecting by means of wpa_sup

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Camaleón put forth on 1/9/2011 10:59 AM: > http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/api/#speed > > The above doc provides hints on how to speed-up image magick operations. > > Note that multi-threading should be automatically used whether possible, > as per this paragraph: > > *** > # IM by default u

Re: LibreOffice 3.3 Release Candidate 2

2011-01-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-09 17:01 +0100, Ken Heard wrote: > I note that this version of LibreOffice is now available as a debian > package in several languages from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. > I think I am correct in assuming that it is not an "official" debian > package. > > Is it however now suffi

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 10:05:43 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > I'm not very skilled at writing shell scripts. > > #! /bin/sh > for k in $(ls *.JPG); do convert $k -resize 1024 $k; done > > I use the above script to batch re-size digital camera photos after I > dump them to my web server. It takes a

Re: Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
David Baron put forth on 1/9/2011 10:07 AM: > I get: > HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device > > on bootup and any attempt to read or set dma for either the IDE or the SATA > disk on my system. This is dual core (P4 by hyperthreading?) intel cpu: > > ~$ lscpu > Architecture:

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread David Sastre
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 10:05:43AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > #! /bin/sh > for k in $(ls *.JPG); do convert $k -resize 1024 $k; done > > I use the above script to batch re-size digital camera photos after I > dump them to my web server. It takes a very long time with lots of new > photos as th

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Klistvud: > > Before partitioning and formatting: > > obelix# hdparm -tT /dev/sda … > After partitioning the drive, aligned on modulo 8 sector boundaries: > > obelix:# hdparm -tT /dev/sda Your test is unsuitable to detect any alignment-related performance issues. J. -- No-one appears to be ab

Hdparm DMA on Newer (SATA) Systems

2011-01-09 Thread David Baron
I get: HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device on bootup and any attempt to read or set dma for either the IDE or the SATA disk on my system. This is dual core (P4 by hyperthreading?) intel cpu: ~$ lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s):32-bit, 64-bit CPU(s):

Exim4 : allow relaying for authenticateed users (LDAP,PAM over TLS)

2011-01-09 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, I want to allow my remote users to submit emails through SMTP on port 587 (using TLS). Obviously I want to enforce authenticate for those mail submission (my user are stored in LDAP, with passwrd as plain text, so both PAM and LDAP should be possible [?]). Does anyone knows a good howto. I

need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
I'm not very skilled at writing shell scripts. #! /bin/sh for k in $(ls *.JPG); do convert $k -resize 1024 $k; done I use the above script to batch re-size digital camera photos after I dump them to my web server. It takes a very long time with lots of new photos as the server is fairly old, eve

LibreOffice 3.3 Release Candidate 2

2011-01-09 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I note that this version of LibreOffice is now available as a debian package in several languages from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/. I think I am correct in assuming that it is not an "official" debian package. Is it however now sufficiently s

Re: Squeeze. The system did not bring GUI back after sleep or hibernation.

2011-01-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:28:51 +0300, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > I am using Squeeze updated to today's state, standard GNOME environment > and Lenovo laptop Y450-3M. > > $ lspci -k (...) > If I close lid or put the system into hibernation state it is never come > back with a GUI, I mean a standard

Re: Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?

2011-01-09 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 09. 01. 2011 15:56:14 je Sven Joachim napisal(a): On 2011-01-09 15:52 +0100, Klistvud wrote: > If I understand the original question correctly, you're looking for the > vga= kernel option (to be added to your kernel line in grub.cfg or > menu.lst). I'm not looking for anything, Mark is.

Re: Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?

2011-01-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:56:14 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-01-09 15:52 +0100, Klistvud wrote: > >> If I understand the original question correctly, you're looking for the >> vga= kernel option (to be added to your kernel line in grub.cfg or >> menu.lst). > > I'm not looking for anything,

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 09. 01. 2011 12:58:22 je Dotan Cohen napisal(a): Thanks, Klistvud. I just purchased a WD10EARS (1 TB drive) and I noticed that my writes are _slow_. I think that it may be a KDE issue, there even is an open KDE bug that copy/paste is vry slow. But even copying via cp I feel that it's not mo

Re: Is The Hour Nigh?

2011-01-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 18:53:32 -0800, freeman wrote: > After upgrading the base-files package to 6.0 in squeeze: > > free...@europa:~$ cat /etc/issue.net > Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 > free...@europa:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 6.0 > > and > > http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/2914/screenshotbw.png >

Re: Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?

2011-01-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-09 15:52 +0100, Klistvud wrote: > If I understand the original question correctly, you're looking for the > vga= kernel option (to be added to your kernel line in grub.cfg or > menu.lst). I'm not looking for anything, Mark is. More importantly, the standard vesafb driver which han

Re: Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?

2011-01-09 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 09. 01. 2011 14:22:27 je Sven Joachim napisal(a): On 2011-01-09 14:02 +0100, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2011-01-09 12:50 +0100, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> >>> Subj. >>> Googling points me to 915_resolution, which is about Intel vide

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Dotan Cohen put forth on 1/9/2011 5:58 AM: > Thanks, Klistvud. I just purchased a WD10EARS (1 TB drive) and I > noticed that my writes are _slow_. I think that it may be a KDE issue, > there even is an open KDE bug that copy/paste is vry slow. But even > copying via cp I feel that it's not moving,

Re: Error installing Squeeze with root filesystem as btrfs

2011-01-09 Thread Paul Richards
On 9 January 2011 12:37, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Paul Richards a écrit : >> >> I figured out how to add crc32 to the initramfs, but unfortunately I >> get the same error.  It's unfortunate that the error message does not >> tell me which symbol is missing, as perhaps including another modulre >>

Re: Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?

2011-01-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-09 14:02 +0100, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2011-01-09 12:50 +0100, Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> >>> Subj. >>> Googling points me to 915_resolution, which is about Intel video. My >>> video is NVIDIA. Please, help to set up native lap

Re: Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Goldshtein
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-01-09 12:50 +0100, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > >> Subj. >> Googling points me to 915_resolution, which is about Intel video. My >> video is NVIDIA. Please, help to set up native laptop's resolution for >> console. > > Try uvesafb (you need

Re: Debian (sid) painfully slow.

2011-01-09 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 01:41:16PM +0100, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > El Dissabte 08 Gener 2011 14:31:32, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net va escriure: > > The performance of modern desktop environments > > is I think a major issue, and I think that the main causes are very > > likely extremely simple t

Re: Error installing Squeeze with root filesystem as btrfs

2011-01-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Paul Richards a écrit : > > I figured out how to add crc32 to the initramfs, but unfortunately I > get the same error. It's unfortunate that the error message does not > tell me which symbol is missing, as perhaps including another modulre > in the initramfs would help. Did you look at the outpu

Re: Buffer Bloat, and what to do about it in Debian

2011-01-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 08:57:45 +, Alan Chandler wrote: > On 08/01/11 12:41, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:16:39 +, Alan Chandler wrote: >> >>> After a Slashdot entry, I discovered an interesting series of blog >>> posts by Jim Gettys. The series starts >>> http://gettys.wordpres

Re: Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?

2011-01-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-09 12:50 +0100, Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Subj. > Googling points me to 915_resolution, which is about Intel video. My > video is NVIDIA. Please, help to set up native laptop's resolution for > console. Try uvesafb (you need to install v86d for that to work), e.g. like this: # modprobe

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 23:32, Klistvud wrote: > Attention: long post ahead! > I don't use line wrapping because it breaks long URLs. If that makes you or > your e-mail client cringe, you may as well read this at > http://bufferoverflow.tiddlywiki.com instead (same text, nicer formatting). > > Fir

Re: Sun Java upgrade to 1.6.0_23 ?

2011-01-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:53:02 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 20:06 +, Camaleón wrote: >> Yep... I hope the installer is still as easy as it was last time I >> checked (I juts followed the on site install guide). > > > Well, tried this but was Very unsure about using up

Squeeze. How to set video res to 1366x768 in pure console?

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Hello, List! Subj. Googling points me to 915_resolution, which is about Intel video. My video is NVIDIA. Please, help to set up native laptop's resolution for console. Thanks! -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 December 2010 22:42:17 Eduard Bloch wrote: > At least he wrote in comprehensible English. Lisi -- 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/20110109

Re: Error installing Squeeze with root filesystem as btrfs

2011-01-09 Thread Paul Richards
On 9 January 2011 09:20, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , Paul > Richards wrote: >>On 8 January 2011 08:48, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: >>> In , Paul >>> Richards wrote: On first boot into the system I got the following error: FATAL: Error inserting btrfs (/lib/modules/2.

Squeeze. The system did not bring GUI back after sleep or hibernation.

2011-01-09 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Hello, list! I am using Squeeze updated to today's state, standard GNOME environment and Lenovo laptop Y450-3M. $ lspci -k 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) Subsystem: Lenovo Device 3a00 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mob

Re: adding an option for nvidia driver

2011-01-09 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 14:45:10 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Sven Joachim wrote: >>> I think the option is spelled NVreg_Mobile, with a capital 'V'. See >>> "modinfo nvidia" for supported options. >>> >>> >> I'll be darned... Learn something new every day... Sure thing

Re: NIS/NFS/Squeeze - All files have "4294967294" for GID and UID on NFS-mounted files/directories

2011-01-09 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote: > > Anywhere this info could be added for the other people who will undoubtedly > run into this when Squeeze goes stable? I assume that you mean in the release notes. I've emailed debian-...@lists.debian.org because I couldn't find a more spec

Re: NIS/NFS/Squeeze - All files have "4294967294" for GID and UID on NFS-mounted files/directories

2011-01-09 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Joseph Lenox wrote: > On 01/08/2011 08:25 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Joseph Lenox >>  wrote: >>> >>> I'm running a series of Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" clients on my network (in >>> the >>> process of upgrading from lenny) that mount NFS from a S

Re: Is The Hour Nigh?

2011-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: >The release team seems to be on the final stretch of the RC bug >squash. The last RC bugs are being squashed, or packages are being >removed from squeeze if their bugs can't be squashed. > >Yes, we seem to be very close to release. But no official announcement

Re: Error installing Squeeze with root filesystem as btrfs

2011-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Paul Richards wrote: >On 8 January 2011 08:48, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In , Paul >> Richards wrote: >>>On first boot into the system I got the following error: >>> >>>FATAL: Error inserting btrfs >>>(/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko): Unknown symbol >>>in module

Re: Is The Hour Nigh?

2011-01-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 08 ian 11, 18:53:32, freeman wrote: > After upgrading the base-files package to 6.0 in squeeze: > > free...@europa:~$ cat /etc/issue.net > Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 > free...@europa:~$ cat /etc/debian_version > 6.0 > > and > > http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/2914/screenshotbw.png > > Will

Re: Buffer Bloat, and what to do about it in Debian

2011-01-09 Thread Alan Chandler
On 08/01/11 12:41, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 08 Jan 2011 11:16:39 +, Alan Chandler wrote: After a Slashdot entry, I discovered an interesting series of blog posts by Jim Gettys. The series starts http://gettys.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/first-puzzle-piece/ (unlike Slashdot which linked to a ra

internet sharing

2011-01-09 Thread andu novac
I used to have this working in 32 bit (antix) but can't get it to work reliably in 64 bit Squeeze. Here's the setup maybe someone has any idea. Hardware: intel iMac mid 2010 getting internet via eth0/pppoe wanting to share the connection via wifi (wlan0). Card-1 Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit