Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-30 Thread Rick Thomas
If this is a PowerPC iMac, you should be able to use the Debian PowerPC installer. If so, you can install Debian Squeeze with either http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-powerpc-CD-1.iso or http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/po

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-30 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, 30.07.2012 23:19, David Harrison kirjoitti: > Hi, > > I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues > on where to start is appreciated. I haven't tried Debian on Mac, but I have installed Ubuntu on MacBook. First you ins

Re: Shockwave Flash

2012-07-30 Thread Kent West
On 7/30/12 9:53 PM, Fred Zinsli wrote: > > Hi all > > Been playing with this for days, but just don't have a clue about what > I'm supposed to be doing or looking for to help. > > Attempting to install shockwave flash so I can view swf files in a web > browser. > > It isn't working for me, but what

Re: Autofs and NFS, user mapping

2012-07-30 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:06:31 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > T o n g wrote: >> My Autofs auto-mounted NFS share looks like this: >> >> drwxr-xr-x 9 4294967294 4294967294 45056 2011-04-12 09:47 tmp/ >> >> I.e., the user id and group id are all mapped wrong. >> >> I have identical user ids and grou

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 31/07/12 13:15, Mark Fletcher wrote: Paul -- The NAS is a Buffalo LinkStation 4TB NAS configured to do RAID giving me 2TB of storage. I bought myself it for Christmas from Amazon.co.jp (I live in Japan) at Christmas 2010. I don't know what OS it will be running but doubt it will be Linux since

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-30 Thread Richard Hector
On 31/07/12 13:35, Joel Rees wrote: Looking at Samsung's pages, they say the scanner is compatible with twain, so you should be able to take a scan from it okay. Um, my understanding of TWAIN may be rusty and incomplete, but my understanding is that it's an interface between their (Windows) sc

Problem installing kFreebsd on external USB hard drive

2012-07-30 Thread Derek Cole
Hello, I have been trying to install debian kFreebsd to an external USB hard drive. I am using a VMWare VM running from my Macbook pro with the mini.iso loaded to complete the install. I get almost all the way through the install and i get a message about the grub bootloader installation failing

Shockwave Flash

2012-07-30 Thread Fred Zinsli
Hi all Been playing with this for days, but just don't have a clue about what I'm supposed to be doing or looking for to help. Attempting to install shockwave flash so I can view swf files in a web browser. It isn't working for me, but what makes it worse is I can't seem to find any real info

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh debian.org> writes: > > Well... there is an awlful lot of CIFS and NFS-related fixes in the kernel > stable queue. Check that. Also make sure it is not your NIC driver or > memory (or the NAS' memory) that went bad... > I wondered about this too -- and the defecti

Getting nVidia to work

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Panen
Hi, I am on Squeeze amd64 6.0.5 When Squeeze first came out I managed to install the nVidia driver on one of my other machines using the driver from the nVidia site and not Debian's Wiki way, touch wood it works to this day. Yet on this machine, I failed a few weeks ago using the nVidia driv

Re: Debian 5 - was Re: Query abouut root account

2012-07-30 Thread Joel Rees
On 7/25/12, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012, Joel Rees wrote: > >> >> On 7/23/12, Bret Busby wrote: >>> [...] >>> >>> One of the reasons that I wanted to be able to log in as root, is to >>> perform an update on that system. >>> >>> The system is running Firestarter on Debian 5. >>> >>> H

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Paul E Condon mesanetworks.net> writes: > > Having posted this, which I thought was reasonable, I went and looked at > > the > > archives to see what OP (Mark Fletcher) had written. It turns out that all > > of his investigation was done using commands

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Paul E Condon mesanetworks.net> writes: > > Having posted this, which I thought was reasonable, I went and looked at the > archives to see what OP (Mark Fletcher) had written. It turns out that all > of his investigation was done using commands typed in as root. For me, this > thread is a real

Re: systemd

2012-07-30 Thread Joel Rees
On 7/30/12, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: >> >> I hate pulseaudio, but I could imagine that systemd anyway could have >> some advantages, even if it's from a man (boy) who often takes photos >> from himself in front of a mirror and then publish this snapsh

Re: EeePC and Debian

2012-07-30 Thread Simon Lukes
Chen Wei aol.com> writes: > it could be a video model problem, try press TAB and custom the boot > option, *avoid* any fancy vga= parameter. > My 4g was hanging on the install screen as soon as I chose an install option. Your solution sorted it out, I changed the vga parameter to vga=766 - whi

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-30 Thread Helgi Örn Helgason
On 30 July 2012 22:19, David Harrison wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where > to start is appreciated. > Hi First of all: search the web for debian imac and you'll get a lot of material to study. Second: please be more specific, there are a

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Brian wrote: > > > used. But if it can be demonstrated that a twenty character password can > > > be forced in a time-frame which makes sense I'll stop doing it and most > > > > That depends. Are you using any dictionary words or easy characte

installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-30 Thread David Harrison
Hi, I thought I'd like to install Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where to start is appreciated. Cheers David -- 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

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread Brian
On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 22:27:08 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: > > used. But if it can be demonstrated that a twenty character password can > > be forced in a time-frame which makes sense I'll stop doing it and most > > That depends. Are you using an

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/07/12 04:09 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120730_122543, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120730_065640, Mark Fletcher wrote: Joe jretrading.com> writes: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 Mark Fletcher gmail.com> wrote: It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not exactly what was or

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120730_122543, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20120730_065640, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Joe jretrading.com> writes: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 > > > Mark Fletcher gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not exactly what was >

Install and setup of a mailserver

2012-07-30 Thread Titanus Eramius
Hello good folks of Debian Together with 3 other admins I'm in the process of moving a Danish forum for Linux to a VPS since standard hosting is becomming to slow. The VPS (offcourse) runs Debian stable, and the last task which needs doing is getting a mailserver to work. It's primary function wi

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

2012-07-30 Thread Gary
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-07-30 18:27 +0200, Gary wrote: > > Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2012-07-29 21:38 +0200, Gary wrote: > > > >> > Still confused why the wireless doesn't work. > >> > >> It's not supported by the 2.6.32 kernel.  Installing a 3.2 kernel and > >> firmware-ralink from squeeze

Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-07-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120730_065640, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Joe jretrading.com> writes: > > > > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 > > Mark Fletcher gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not exactly what was > > > originally on the host. This is a huge problem for me

Re: Thread supplicate

2012-07-30 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:32:34AM +0200, Srdja Micic wrote: > Hi, when I was about 16 I made an thread on your site, a rather bad one, with > lots of question and exclamation marks etc., with my real name. Every time > somebody googles me, that thread shows up. Is there any possiblity that you

Re: PCIe debugging error messages - kern.log

2012-07-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Andrew Peng wrote: > I've been working with the Intel E1000 development team in trying to > find the cause of a hardware hang in my kern.log: > > Jul 24 02:49:45 gaia kernel: [806292.204500] e1000e :02:00.0: > eth1: Detected Hardware Unit Hang: Meh, we've just seen those

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 11:54:14 -0500 John Hasler wrote: Hello John, >Brad Rogers writes: >> Yeah, on a Post-It note. Stuck to the monitor. >That's what people do when you tell them not to write it down. _Tell_ >them to write it down and tell them _how_. As it happens, I agree with you; write

Re: gnome doesn't know monitor size under nvidia x server

2012-07-30 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-07-29 a las 09:26 -0800, Britton Kerin escribió: (resending to the list) > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 5:30 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 11:24:30 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote: > > > >> I installed all the nvidia driver kernel xserver packages, but now it > >> seems that gnome do

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

2012-07-30 Thread Gary
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-07-30 18:27 +0200, Gary wrote: > > I'm guessing this is a "get source and compile" jobby. > > No, squeeze-backports has binary packages (linux-image-3.2*) that you > can just install. Ooh! That's nice! Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Which is why, as Bruce Schneir recommends, you _write it down_. Brad Rogers writes: > Yeah, on a Post-It note. Stuck to the monitor. That's what people do when you tell them not to write it down. _Tell_ them to write it down and tell them _how_. They keep their credit cards and cash

Re: Installing 3.2 kernel

2012-07-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-07-30 18:27 +0200, Gary wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2012-07-29 21:38 +0200, Gary wrote: > >> > Still confused why the wireless doesn't work. >> >> It's not supported by the 2.6.32 kernel.  Installing a 3.2 kernel and >> firmware-ralink from squeeze-backports should make it work. >

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:33:34 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Mon 30 Jul 2012 at 15:03:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:39:40 +0100, Brian wrote: >> >> > On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 14:11:22 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> >> >> Does your printer integrate a PDF interprerter? The ones I >>

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-30 Thread Steve Dowe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 23/07/12 20:30, green wrote: > I do wish there were more hardware manufacturers with a real interest in > making their products work well with Linux. HP is the best I have seen: > http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/recommended.html I have had

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:55:16 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 30/07/12 07:02 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: (...) >> KMS is a wonderful feature, but I personally would rather see good >> OpenGL support than KMS, though. Nouveau's getting there, but it's >> support for OpenGL (Through Gallium.) isn't really

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-30 Thread Brian
On Mon 30 Jul 2012 at 15:03:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:39:40 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 14:11:22 +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> >> Does your printer integrate a PDF interprerter? The ones I managed > >> >> do not, just PCL6 and PostScript. > >> > > >>

Installing 3.2 kernel (was: Re: Missing rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw)

2012-07-30 Thread Gary
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-07-29 21:38 +0200, Gary wrote: > > Still confused why the wireless doesn't work. > > It's not supported by the 2.6.32 kernel.  Installing a 3.2 kernel and > firmware-ralink from squeeze-backports should make it work. I'm guessing this is a "get source and compile" jo

Re: PCIe debugging error messages - kern.log

2012-07-30 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:43:56 -0500, Andrew Peng wrote: > I've been working with the Intel E1000 development team in trying to > find the cause of a hardware hang in my kern.log: (...) I've read the report you posted at "e1000-devel" mailing list. > One of the steps to find the cause of this is

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I experienced Nouveau as a PITA only. I had no issues with the proprietary 17x, but serious issues with 2xx for a while on Arch and Ubuntu, but at the moment current 2xx don't cause issues anymore. I'm not sure if it really was the proprietary driver, X or another package that did cause the issues.

Re: Loadlin and Squeeze kernel 2.6.32

2012-07-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:03:12 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:50:44 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > I'm not sure to had get it (sorry, I must be a bit dense...). Can you pro

Re: Why is FQDN not found?

2012-07-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 15:50:53 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Yes, I can ping *but* I have the above machine listed in my >> "/etc/hosts" file. >> >> sm01@stt008:~$ cat /etc/hosts >> 127.0.0.1 localhost >> 192.168.0.8 stt008.linux.site

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:28:51 -0500 John Hasler wrote: Hello John, >Which is why, as Bruce Schneir recommends, you _write it down_. Yeah, on a Post-It note. Stuck to the monitor. :-)) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately a

Re: systemd

2012-07-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:05:15 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> >> I hope sysvinit is still available (and be the default option) for at >> least a couple of years until systemd is being bright polished by the >> rest of the other friendly linux distri

debian squeeze xen after migration

2012-07-30 Thread Pascal Bénistant
Hello I'm migrating a Lenny/2.6.26-2-xen-686 kernel lvm file based DomU to a new Squeeze Dom0 server running kernel 2.6.32-5-xen-686 xen-hypervisor-4.0-i386 xen-tools 4.2-1 . when i use command xm create test4.domain.fr.cfg it starts, but then when I login with xm console I get: [0.0989

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Gary Dale rogers.com> writes: > > On 30/07/12 03:04 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > hvw59601 care2.com> writes: > > > >> Camaleón wrote: > >>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> Then choose one that you like (because of price/design) and then check > Y

Re: Printers using free software only

2012-07-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:39:40 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 29 Jul 2012 at 14:11:22 +, Camaleón wrote: >> >> Does your printer integrate a PDF interprerter? The ones I managed >> >> do not, just PCL6 and PostScript. >> > >> > No, it does not. Does it need to? This subthread began with the >> >

Re: mail server

2012-07-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:21:53 +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> since we fetch the email via pop and sent via smtp the problem is i >>> need to make backup of individual PST. >> >> What? I don't get this... you mean you need to migrat

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Chris Bannister slingshot.co.nz> writes: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:04:34AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Actually, right now, the nVidia-provided nVidia driver packaged in Debian has a > > number of problems with 3D support on several cards. For example I use an nVidia > > GeForce 9800

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/07/12 07:02 AM, Yaro Kasear wrote: On 07/30/2012 03:25 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 30/07/12 03:04 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: hvw59601 care2.com> writes: Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Then choose one that you like (because of price/design) a

Re: serial connexion between 2 machines failed

2012-07-30 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:44:24 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: (please, no html posts, thanks...) > Thanks a lot for the hint, > > the difference is there : > > on the machine where the programs ran i got the ouput: > # dmesg |grep ttyS > [0.331367] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq =

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread John Hasler
Stan Hoeppner writes: > Gibberish implies one wouldn't be able to remember the > password/phrase. Which is why, as Bruce Schneir recommends, you _write it down_. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/30/2012 5:14 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > You need to have gibberish passphrases if you want it to be secure... Gibberish implies one wouldn't be able to remember the password/phrase. What you want is something recognizable to you but gibberish to all others. I've been using su

PCIe debugging error messages - kern.log

2012-07-30 Thread Andrew Peng
I've been working with the Intel E1000 development team in trying to find the cause of a hardware hang in my kern.log: Jul 24 02:49:45 gaia kernel: [806292.204500] e1000e :02:00.0: eth1: Detected Hardware Unit Hang: Jul 24 02:49:45 gaia kernel: [806292.204503] TDH <8c> Jul 2

Re: Debian 8 to be called "Jessie"

2012-07-30 Thread cortman
Maybe it will rope and hog-tie a Beefy Miracle... :) Regards, Cortman On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Sunday 29 July 2012 08:11:05 Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 02:31:53PM +, Camaleón wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I just read it from "debian-de

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread hvw59601
Mark Fletcher wrote: hvw59601 care2.com> writes: Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Then choose one that you like (because of price/design) and then check about its current support status in Linux ecosystem, though I would go for nvidia; their cl

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 07:14:06 -0300 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Hello Henrique, >You need to have gibberish passphrases if you want it to be secure... On one web site I use that requires a login, even pass phrases are impossible to use as at least one character has to be 'punctuation' plu

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 30 iul 12, 21:33:38, Chris Bannister wrote: > > JFTR, you don't need accelerated graphics to watch a video. But you may need something like VDPAU. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-o

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 07/30/2012 03:25 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 30/07/12 03:04 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: hvw59601 care2.com> writes: Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Then choose one that you like (because of price/design) and then check about its current support st

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 29 iul 12, 22:27:08, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: > > > used. But if it can be demonstrated that a twenty character password can > > > be forced in a time-frame which makes sense I'll stop doing it and m

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:04:34AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Actually, right now, the nVidia-provided nVidia driver packaged in Debian has > a > number of problems with 3D support on several cards. For example I use an > nVidia > GeForce 9800 GTX+ which is 2-3 years old -- in other words, nei

Re: is it rational to close the 139 port

2012-07-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 29 iul 12, 22:27:08, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012, Brian wrote: > > used. But if it can be demonstrated that a twenty character password can > > be forced in a time-frame which makes sense I'll stop doing it and most > > That depends. Are you using any dictionar

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 30/07/12 03:04 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: hvw59601 care2.com> writes: Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Then choose one that you like (because of price/design) and then check about its current support status in Linux ecosystem, though I would go

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
hvw59601 care2.com> writes: > > Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > > > > Then choose one that you like (because of price/design) and then check > > about its current support status in Linux ecosystem, though I would go > > for nvidia; thei