On 09/13/2012 08:58 AM, Camaleón wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:14:09 -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
OK. Lets start over.
Configuration:
1. Epson Workforce 645 All in one
2. Network mix of hardwired Win2K and linux computers and an XP
wireless. All with fixed IP addresses.
3. 645 now hardwired to
On Vi, 14 sep 12, 09:02:08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 13 sep 12, 21:39:34, Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> > $ aplay -L
> > default
> > Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
>
> That looks like your problem. Now what's left is to find out where this
> is configured and to cha
On Jo, 13 sep 12, 13:45:58, Tom H wrote:
>
> grep because I don't think that the search would work for other
> virtual packages that don't share 3 of 4 letters with the real
> packages that provide it. Do they?
Not sure what you mean, but (using short syntax for variety):
$ aptitude search ~vawk
On Jo, 13 sep 12, 14:45:30, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>
> Glxinfo was a good suggestion. Unfortunately, it didn't work.
What do you mean by this? Please copy-paste the error messages.
Kind regards,
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On Jo, 13 sep 12, 12:06:04, Charles Kroeger wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:10:01 +0200
> Camaleón wrote:
>
> > A better approach would be using the expert installer mode
> > and do not select the "desktop" task.
>
> This is just so.
>
> Load a "basic system" add the driver for your particular
On Jo, 13 sep 12, 21:39:34, Stephen Powell wrote:
> $ aplay -L
> default
> Playback/recording through the PulseAudio sound server
That looks like your problem. Now what's left is to find out where this
is configured and to change it. The pulseaudio package installs several
files under /etc
On Thu, September 13, 2012 5:26 pm, lee wrote:
> "Weaver" writes:
>
>> On Thu, September 13, 2012 4:20 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 04:10 -0700, Weaver wrote:
If you find, in time, that you are running out of drive space, instaal
a bigger drive, install the / and sw
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:36:08 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, 21:56:44, Stephen Powell wrote:
>> So why does aplay fail? It's a mystery to me!
>
> Please post the output of 'aplay -l' and 'aplay -L'.
OK, here it is:
$ aplay -l
List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices
Rob Owens writes:
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:32:40PM +0200, lee wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> since I'm not making any progress: I want to set up a VM (running
>> testing) that can be reachable from the outside over the network. I've
>> done that 2 years or so ago and I forgot how to do the networking
"Weaver" writes:
> On Thu, September 13, 2012 9:58 am, lee wrote:
>> "Weaver" writes:
>
You said you want the discussion centred around what happens when a
clueless user uses the Debian installer and is presented with a
question
about partitioning.
Now you're
"Weaver" writes:
> On Thu, September 13, 2012 4:20 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 04:10 -0700, Weaver wrote:
>>> If you find, in time, that you are running out of drive space, instaal
>>> a bigger drive, install the / and swap and again, allocate the rest
>>> as /home and copy i
On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:04 pm, lee wrote:
> "Weaver" writes:
>
>> On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:29 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:53:41, Weaver wrote:
I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the
'Newbie Install'.
>>>
>>> How big? I
On Thu, September 13, 2012 9:47 am, lee wrote:
> "Weaver" writes:
>
>> On Wed, September 12, 2012 8:40 am, lee wrote:
>>> "Weaver" writes:
>>>
I wouldn't classify partitioning as a 'tiny little detail.'
>>>
>>> It is one of the many tiny little steps the installer does.
>>
>> Agreed.
>> Man
On Thu, September 13, 2012 9:58 am, lee wrote:
> "Weaver" writes:
>>>
>>> You said you want the discussion centred around what happens when a
>>> clueless user uses the Debian installer and is presented with a
>>> question
>>> about partitioning.
>>>
>>> Now you're talking about increasing the m
tor, 13 09 2012 kl. 05:02 +0200, skrev lee:
> Let us know how it turns out in about three years from now :)
I wouldn't be suprised if I stil was happily using the ASRock...
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On Thu, September 13, 2012 9:51 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Jo, 13 sep 12, 04:16:07, Weaver wrote:
>> >
>> > This is not about you and me, or any debian-user subscriber AFAICT.
>> It's
>> > about the type of users that regard the computer as a tool and have no
>> > desire to learn about its wor
On Thu, September 13, 2012 4:20 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 04:10 -0700, Weaver wrote:
>> If you find, in time, that you are running out of drive space, instaal
>> a bigger drive, install the / and swap and again, allocate the rest
>> as /home and copy it over.
>
> How big shou
On 9/13/2012 5:20 AM, Veljko wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:34:51AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> One of the big reasons (other than cost) that I mentioned this card is
>> that Adaptec tends to be more forgiving with non RAID specific
>> (ERC/TLER) drives, and lists your Seagate 3TB drives as
Hello,
in order to wrap this hostname question up, then hostname set during
the Debian installation is:
1) mapped to an address from 127.0.0.0/8 range in /etc/hosts file.
Specifically to IPv4 address 127.0.1.1
2) written to MTA(for example exim4) configuration file
3) written to /etc/mailname
4)
On 9/13/2012 5:21 AM, Veljko wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> On 9/11/2012 10:29 AM, Jon Dowland wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, lots and lots of small files is the worst use-case for rsnapshot,
>>> and
>>> the reason I believe it should be avoided. It creates lar
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:32:40PM +0200, lee wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since I'm not making any progress: I want to set up a VM (running
> testing) that can be reachable from the outside over the network. I've
> done that 2 years or so ago and I forgot how to do the networking setup,
> and network confi
Hi,
since I'm not making any progress: I want to set up a VM (running
testing) that can be reachable from the outside over the network. I've
done that 2 years or so ago and I forgot how to do the networking setup,
and network configuration has changed in the meantime.
I need to somehow set up a
Frank Van Damme writes:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm into a slight struggle with my mail servers. They are satellite
> systems (no local mail, everything goes to a smarthost). I figured out
> that by changing the mailname to generaldomain.com instead of
> themachineshostname.generaldomain.com, all users
"Weaver" writes:
> On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:29 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:53:41, Weaver wrote:
>>>
>>> I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the
>>> 'Newbie Install'.
>>
>> How big? IMVHO a separate /home partition[1] makes sense now[2] only
Andrei POPESCU writes:
> On Jo, 13 sep 12, 04:16:07, Weaver wrote:
>> >
>> > This is not about you and me, or any debian-user subscriber AFAICT. It's
>> > about the type of users that regard the computer as a tool and have no
>> > desire to learn about its workings. After all, one can drive a car
Veljko writes:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 06:49:22PM +0200, lee wrote:
>> Denis Witt writes:
>>
>> > Anyway, I have some comparison data. I have a backup server that saves
>> > data from 5 other server at our hosting company using rsnapshot. The
>> > backups are kept for 14 days.
>> >
>> > rsnap
I got a Samsung YP-R2 portable
...
Only problem is the device keeps being reset at any copy/move/delete
operation.
Googling provided a solution which seems to work [1][2] which consists
in setting max_sectors to 128 istead of the default 240.
I can do that as root manually but I'd like to
> Why "of course"? I don't have a separate /home partitions and still
> happy :-)
my sweet /home is on a separate physical drive and I hope now to be able to
mess a little bit around without losing all data...:)
> What problems are you facing in GNOME? Be the more specific you can.
> ...
> I do
On Thursday 13 September 2012 13:53:05 Camaleón wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:42:34 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> > On Thursday 13 September 2012 10:10:58 Camaleón wrote:
> >> > The PyRx instalation process gives me:
> >> >
> >> > computation@debian:~/Applications$ ./PyRx-0.9-Linux-x86-Insta
"Weaver" writes:
> On Wed, September 12, 2012 8:40 am, lee wrote:
>> "Weaver" writes:
>>
>>> I wouldn't classify partitioning as a 'tiny little detail.'
>>
>> It is one of the many tiny little steps the installer does.
>
> Agreed.
> Many of the steps in the installer are tiny, but I wouldn't cla
Julian DeMarchi writes:
> On 09/13/2012 04:12 AM, lee wrote:
>> Everything works fine with the intel card unless you want to play games.
>> Its performance for that is pathetic at best, though even that works.
>>
>>
>> Other than that, it's only a pointer for the OP so he has an idea of
>> what
"Weaver" writes:
> On Wed, September 12, 2012 8:45 am, lee wrote:
>> "Weaver" writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, September 11, 2012 7:43 am, lee wrote:
"Weaver" writes:
> On Mon, September 10, 2012 8:19 am, Chris Bannister wrote:
>>
>> Agreed. But the person who wants to install Debia
Tony van der Hoff writes:
> On 12/09/12 02:01, lee wrote:
>> Tom Rausner writes:
>>
>>> Generally I would agree and I was looking at MSI and ASUS to start with.
>>> I just happened to clap my eyes on this one "by accident" -and liked it.
>>
>> Get an MSI board if you can. Asus sucks and Gigaby
Chris Bannister writes:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 05:26:09PM +0200, lee wrote:
>> "The administrator installed disapproved software. Since then, many
>
> No. That would have got you a smack over the hand with a ruler. :)
Then how do you say that?
>> users have had trouble with the system and th
Alex Robbins writes:
> I think development has stopped -- upstream.
Which would be a pity, it's really good software ...
> Whatever works for you, I suppose, but in my personal experience, tmux has
> been much better (It is also highly customizable. I had to play with it
> for a bit to make it
"Stephen P. Molnar" writes:
> On Wednesday 12 September 2012 14:17:45 lee wrote:
>> "Stephen P. Molnar" writes:
>> > opengl extension GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil is not present
>>
>> This makes me think that you need another driver for the graphics card
>> which supports the required extension.
Andrei POPESCU writes:
> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 02:28:48, lee wrote:
>> Andrei POPESCU writes:
>> >
>> > You can press (Ctrl+)Alt+F1 to get a console :p
>> >
>> > (SCNR)
>>
>> Wasn't that F3? And then you try to start a web browser and it says
>> "command not found". Not even less is available, only
Tom Rausner writes:
> Hi.
>
> ons, 12 09 2012 kl. 03:01 +0200, skrev lee:
>
>> Get an MSI board if you can. Asus sucks and Gigabyte is the worst crap
>> you can get. I don't have any experience with Asrock, though.
>
> Well, it ended up with an ASRock.
Let us know how it turns out in about three
Camaleón writes:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:10:31 +0200, lee wrote:
>>
>> It can be ridiculously difficult to install Debian.
>
> (...)
>
> When it comes to an OS, installation process can be considered
> irrelevant. The real problems starts afterwards.
It is irrelevant when you can't install t
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:42:34 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> On Thursday 13 September 2012 10:10:58 Camaleón wrote:
>> > The PyRx instalation process gives me:
>> >
>> > computation@debian:~/Applications$ ./PyRx-0.9-Linux-x86-Install
>> > invalid command name "bind"
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> Check i
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Jo, 13 sep 12, 06:05:51, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> [root:~]# aptitude search '?virtual' | grep awk
>> v awk -
>> v awk:i386-
>> [root:~]# aptitude search '?installed' | grep awk
>> i A gaw
On Thursday 13 September 2012 10:10:58 Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:20:14 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> > MGLTools installs without any problems,but when I try to run I get:
> (...)
>
> > GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil is not present
>
> (...)
>
> What's the emulated g
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:10:01 +0200
Camaleón wrote:
> A better approach would be using the expert installer mode
> and do not select the "desktop" task.
This is just so.
Load a "basic system" add the driver for your particular video
card that will bring with it the xorg stuff then try the comma
Hello.
> Can anyone verify this, or is it just me? Is it possible I missed a kernel
> config parameter required to allow the PAE-enabled kernel to boot in a KVM
> session? Could it be a Debian build problem? An upstream kernel problem? Or a
> qemu-kvm problem?
I was able to boot the IS
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:54:20 -0400, Chris Capon wrote:
> After a recent Debian update, I've been unable to log in to my
> Debian/Linux server using the console and GDM3 won't start - X.org
> crashes part way through the startup.
What can be read from X server error logs?
(you can boot from singl
On Jo, 13 sep 12, 06:05:51, Tom H wrote:
>
> [root:~]# aptitude search '?virtual' | grep awk
> v awk -
> v awk:i386-
> [root:~]# aptitude search '?installed' | grep awk
> i A gawk- GNU awk, a pattern scanning and
On Jo, 13 sep 12, 04:16:07, Weaver wrote:
> >
> > This is not about you and me, or any debian-user subscriber AFAICT. It's
> > about the type of users that regard the computer as a tool and have no
> > desire to learn about its workings. After all, one can drive a car quite
> > well without knowing
On Jo, 13 sep 12, 04:10:36, Weaver wrote:
> >
> > How big? IMVHO a separate /home partition[1] makes sense now[2] only if
> > one can make reasonable guesses about future use. I got it wrong several
> > times and so have many others.
>
> That depends on the size of the drive.
>
> I make a / parti
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:52:15 +0200, lavcina wrote:
> to start it should not be unmentioned that my linux knowledge is in
> development. So your experience is highly needed. For some reasons I
> want to use the debian squeeze OS. Might be that you feel the same
> vocation. Now I have installed a de
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:14:09 -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
> OK. Lets start over.
>
> Configuration:
> 1. Epson Workforce 645 All in one
> 2. Network mix of hardwired Win2K and linux computers and an XP
> wireless. All with fixed IP addresses.
> 3. 645 now hardwired to router. Fixed IP address set in
On Thursday 13 September 2012 15:44:24 Claudius Hubig wrote:
> http://openskill.info/infobox.php?ID=1104 and
> http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/lilo.htm say that GRUB was the default in
> Sarge.
Thanks, Claudius. :-)
Lisi
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Hello Lisi,
Lisi wrote:
> Which version was the first to have GRUB by default? I know that Etch and
> Lenny both had GRUB by default and that Squeeze has GRUB 2 by default. But
> when did Lilo stop being default? (I had GRUB in Sarge, but it may not have
> been the default.)
http://openski
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:02:22 +0200, Frank Van Damme wrote:
> I'm into a slight struggle with my mail servers. They are satellite
> systems (no local mail, everything goes to a smarthost). I figured out
> that by changing the mailname to generaldomain.com instead of
> themachineshostname.generaldom
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 15:28 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> Which version was the first to have GRUB by default? I know that Etch and
> Lenny both had GRUB by default and that Squeeze has GRUB 2 by default. But
> when did Lilo stop being default? (I had GRUB in Sarge, but it may not have
> been the defa
Which version was the first to have GRUB by default? I know that Etch and
Lenny both had GRUB by default and that Squeeze has GRUB 2 by default. But
when did Lilo stop being default? (I had GRUB in Sarge, but it may not have
been the default.)
Thanks.
Lisi
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:48:46 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> 1) The man page of smartctl is not much helpful in figuring out what
> various fields in the output of "smartctl -a" stand for. For example,
> what does fields such as Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate,
> Hardware_ECC_Recovered,
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:20:14 -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
(...)
> MGLTools installs without any problems,but when I try to run I get:
(...)
> GL_EXT_packed_depth_stencil is not present
(...)
What's the emulated graphic card?
Anyway, VirtualBox VGA 3D capabilities are rather limited and
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Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
2) Can someone please tell me if this hard drive is dying. The following is
the difference between two smartctl outputs that are a week apart.
58c58
< 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 046Pre-fail Always
- 74727
---
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rat
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 07:48:46AM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> 1) The man page of smartctl is not much helpful in figuring out what various
> fields in the output of "smartctl -a" stand for. For example, what does
> fields such as Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate, Hardware_ECC_Recov
On 13/09/12 07:48 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
1) The man page of smartctl is not much helpful in figuring out what various
fields in the output of "smartctl -a" stand for. For example, what does
fields such as Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate, Hardware_ECC_Recovered,
Multi_Zone_Error_Rat
On 13/09/2012, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> 1) The man page of smartctl is not much helpful in figuring out what various
> fields in the output of "smartctl -a" stand for. For example, what does
> fields such as Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate, Hardware_ECC_Recovered,
> Multi_Zone_Error_Rat
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:16:31 +0100
Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 13/09/12 12:54, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 12:33 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> >> When you come to re-install the OS (and it is occasionally
> >> necessary), it is vital to have at least /home and /usr/local o
On 09/13/2012 05:36 AM, evol wrote:
> I write here as I do not know to what package this problem belongs.
>
> I've purchased LENOVO ThinkPad L512 (2597AB2) laptop, and experiencing
> some problems with
> it in Linux. Particularly, after some time (it may be 10 minutes, or may
> be day)
> buttons F
On 13/09/12 12:54, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 12:33 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
>> When you come to re-install the OS (and it is occasionally necessary),
>> it is vital to have at least /home and /usr/local on seperate partitions
>> from /, so that you can happily reformat / wi
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 12:33 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> When you come to re-install the OS (and it is occasionally necessary),
> it is vital to have at least /home and /usr/local on seperate partitions
> from /, so that you can happily reformat / without worrying (too much)
> about your data.
1) The man page of smartctl is not much helpful in figuring out what various
fields in the output of "smartctl -a" stand for. For example, what does
fields such as Raw_Read_Error_Rate, Seek_Error_Rate, Hardware_ECC_Recovered,
Multi_Zone_Error_Rate mean? Is there any page that describes all these
On 13/09/12 12:20, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 04:10 -0700, Weaver wrote:
>> If you find, in time, that you are running out of drive space, instaal
>> a bigger drive, install the / and swap and again, allocate the rest
>> as /home and copy it over.
>
> How big should / become? Okay
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:16:21PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> When I used tape for backup, I used Amanda, and it did what it was
> supposed to do very well, with tape contents indexes, and a media
> rotation pattern.
>
> However, in a non-tape environment with only a few machines, I found i
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 04:10 -0700, Weaver wrote:
> If you find, in time, that you are running out of drive space, instaal
> a bigger drive, install the / and swap and again, allocate the rest
> as /home and copy it over.
How big should / become? Okay, modern drives have that much capacities
that f
On 13/09/12 11:21, Veljko wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 06:49:22PM +0200, lee wrote:
>> Denis Witt writes:
>>
>>> Anyway, I have some comparison data. I have a backup server that saves
>>> data from 5 other server at our hosting company using rsnapshot. The
>>> backups are kept for 14 days.
>>>
On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:36 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:12:12, Weaver wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, September 11, 2012 11:07 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> > On Ma, 11 sep 12, 12:29:42, Weaver wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I am advocating the elimination of that lack of knowledge.
>> >
>> > Yo
On Thu, September 13, 2012 12:29 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:53:41, Weaver wrote:
>>
>> I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the
>> 'Newbie Install'.
>
> How big? IMVHO a separate /home partition[1] makes sense now[2] only if
> one can make reasonab
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:53:41, Weaver wrote:
> >
> > I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the
> > 'Newbie Install'.
>
> How big? IMVHO a separate /home partition[1] makes sense now[2] only if
> one can make reaso
On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:36 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> After all, one can drive a car quite well without knowing much about
> internal combustion engines.
I agree. OTOH in German driving school they teach it in the past,
perhaps they still do it today, but during the tests they didn't ask
abou
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:46:37AM +0200, Denis Witt wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:29:22 +0100
> Jon Dowland wrote:
>
> > Denis' answer is very good, I won't re-iterate his points.
>
> Thanks. And also thanks for pointing out the Hardlinks thing, I
> over-read the "lots of small files" part in
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 19:20:20, Alex Robbins wrote:
>>
>> I think development has stopped -- upstream. Some people (presumably
>> the Debian people) have been developing patches. I imagine that some of
>> these patches are for security fixes; I
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 06:49:22PM +0200, lee wrote:
> Denis Witt writes:
>
> > Anyway, I have some comparison data. I have a backup server that saves
> > data from 5 other server at our hosting company using rsnapshot. The
> > backups are kept for 14 days.
> >
> > rsnapshot:
> > bup:
> > obnam:
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 9/11/2012 10:29 AM, Jon Dowland wrote:
>
> > Actually, lots and lots of small files is the worst use-case for rsnapshot,
> > and
> > the reason I believe it should be avoided. It creates large hard-link trees
> > and
> > with lo
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:54:18PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:03:43PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > http://www.taobackup.com/
>
> Yes indeed, great read.
>
> Also this: http://www.jwz.org/doc/backups.html
>
> A single external drive, normally stored away from the s
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:50:04PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 05:44:46PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > Which is why I recommend XFS. It is exceptionally fast at
> > traversing large btrees. You'll need the 3.2 bpo kernel for
> > Squeeze. The old as dirt 2.6.32 kernel d
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 08:34:51AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> One of the big reasons (other than cost) that I mentioned this card is
> that Adaptec tends to be more forgiving with non RAID specific
> (ERC/TLER) drives, and lists your Seagate 3TB drives as compatible. LSI
> and other controllers
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:04:16PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> The cheapest, but anyway reliable German retailer for all kinds of
> electronic gear:
> http://www.reichelt.de/index.html?;ACTION=103;LA=2;MANUFACTURER=adaptec;SID=12UE9B@H8AAAIAAEcGSWU702e805c66e3a1b7cce75cd098027793
> Perhaps you'll
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:43:26, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU
>> wrote:
>>> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 15:44:59, Kris Deugau wrote:
Is there a single command that can do this for both virtual and real
pac
I write here as I do not know to what package this problem belongs.
I've purchased LENOVO ThinkPad L512 (2597AB2) laptop, and experiencing some
problems with
it in Linux. Particularly, after some time (it may be 10 minutes, or may be day)
buttons Fn + F1, Fn + F2, ..., Fn + F12, Insert, Delete,
On 09/12/12 23:44, Kris Deugau wrote:
I already have this and it's been working well for quite a while:
dpkg-query --showformat '\${status}\t\${version}\n' -W $pkg
Unfortunately I've just discovered it fails when $pkg is a virtual
package, and I have no way to tell ahead of time if this is t
On 12/09/12 17:13, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:15:51 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
(...)
Googling provided a solution which seems to work [1][2] which consists
in setting max_sectors to 128 istead of the default 240.
I can do that as root manually but I'd like to have it done
automa
Hello list,
thank you all guys and ladies for all the answers, I got.
Yes, it was screen, I was looking for. I used screen a long time ago, but
forgot about the correct syntax.
However, I did not know about tmux, this was new for me. I will test them both
as soon, she is back from holiday.
I
On 9/13/12 10:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Mi, 12 sep 12, 19:20:20, Alex Robbins wrote:
>>>
>> I think development has stopped -- upstream. Some people
>> (presumably the Debian people) have been developing patches. I
>> imagine that some of these patches are for security fixes; I know
>> t
On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:43:26, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Andrei POPESCU
> wrote:
> > On Mi, 12 sep 12, 15:44:59, Kris Deugau wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there a single command that can do this for both virtual and real
> >> packages, a la "rpm -q --whatprovides"?
> >
> > I have no idea
On Mi, 12 sep 12, 19:20:20, Alex Robbins wrote:
> >
> I think development has stopped -- upstream. Some people (presumably
> the Debian people) have been developing patches. I imagine that some of
> these patches are for security fixes; I know that some are added features.
> Either way, I think s
On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:12:12, Weaver wrote:
>
> On Tue, September 11, 2012 11:07 pm, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > On Ma, 11 sep 12, 12:29:42, Weaver wrote:
> >>
> >> I am advocating the elimination of that lack of knowledge.
> >
> > You are assuming the user is interested in learning. In my experience
On Mi, 12 sep 12, 17:53:41, Weaver wrote:
>
> I would be an advocate of at least a separate /home partition in the
> 'Newbie Install'.
How big? IMVHO a separate /home partition[1] makes sense now[2] only if
one can make reasonable guesses about future use. I got it wrong several
times and so ha
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