Re: [OT] End of the world

On 12/1/2012 12:45 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: darkestkhan wrote: Isn't this a bit too fast ? Wasn't End of the World scheduled in crontab for 21.12.2012 ? ;) Yup. http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/maya-world-end.html Hugo For those who may actually be taking this seriously, the only t

Re: LVM devices and symlinks

Neil T. Dantam wrote: > I'm having an issue (not quite a problem) creating LVM logical > volumes. It seems that the way device files and symlinks are created > has changed between Squeeze and Wheezy (or I have some bad > configuration). As far as I can tell these features have not changed between

Re: [OT] tips for spending the pdflatex

On Tuesday 11,December,2012 01:52 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 12/10/2012 11:03 PM, lina wrote: > >> Let's say, I have some .tex which will generate more than 100 pages in PDF. >> >> The pdflatex consume a bit longer to finish in one core. >> >> Here I have physical 4 cores with virtual 4. >> >>

Re: [OT] tips for spending the pdflatex

On 12/10/2012 11:03 PM, lina wrote: > Let's say, I have some .tex which will generate more than 100 pages in PDF. > > The pdflatex consume a bit longer to finish in one core. > > Here I have physical 4 cores with virtual 4. > > I wonder whether or how can make it fast. > > In my situation, if

[OT] tips for spending the pdflatex

Hi, Let's say, I have some .tex which will generate more than 100 pages in PDF. The pdflatex consume a bit longer to finish in one core. Here I have physical 4 cores with virtual 4. I wonder whether or how can make it fast. In my situation, if I corrected a minor place, I needed run three time

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

Hi, I am replying to all, not used to sitting in the dark with the light of the notebook to type only, Out here in the sticks there are always power failures when it rains. I normally use pop, not used to gmail., the mobo is two years old a midrange board with SATA 6 and USB 3.0, an ASUS, I also t

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

* Bob Proulx [121211 00:51]: > How old is your * motherboard? Could it be suffering from the bad > capacitor * problems of the last decade? Are any of the caps bulging? > This * has been a terrible problem for many motherboards and LCD > * monitors. There were several years there that were ver

LVM devices and symlinks

Hi, I'm having an issue (not quite a problem) creating LVM logical volumes. It seems that the way device files and symlinks are created has changed between Squeeze and Wheezy (or I have some bad configuration). Old (working) Behavior -- Performing an `lvcreate -L10G -nLV

Slew of problems following touchpad failure

I'm running XFCE and Debian stable on a Thinkpad R40 (~ 10 years old), and have lately faced a whole host of problems following the touchpad's finally giving out. While I can still move the cursor via the touchpad and track point, all of the buttons either do not work at all or produce sporadi

Re: apt vs. SSD computers

OK thanks everybody. I suppose I will just hit ^C next time aptitude asks me if I want to do nothing, rather than dumping it completely for apt-get. Cc'ing Bob just in case he is, like me, not subscribed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

Mark Panen wrote: > I am after a good quality hair dryer that works with 6.0.6 amd64. I really almost hurt myself laughing at your comment. :-) > Every time I shut down my machine due to a thunderstorm and try to power up > again after a couple of hours the machine is dead and only he LED on the

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

* John Hasler [121210 23:27]: > You may find that pressing down or prying up on that part of the board > works as well as does the dryer. Inspect the suspicious area of the > MOBO carefully with a magnifying glass and then fix the crack or bad > solder joint. The problem is that motherboards tod

Re: Several questions regarding compiled web server (/usr/local)

- - wrote: > it's the first time I am not using Debian packages and > I have several questions regarding the correct use of > paths and permissions. Cherokee runs under www-data:www-data. I have no experience with Cherokee but let me try to help with the issues and questions in general. > I build

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

* Mark Panen [121210 22:50]: ... > Every time I shut down my machine due to a thunderstorm and try to power up > again after a couple of hours the machine is dead and only he LED on the > MOBO is on. ... > The only thing that works is hot air from a hair dryer directed at the MOBO > to the left si

Re: Tractor-feed paper (was Re: Shell prompt)

On 12/10/2012 03:21 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:39:49AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: >> third, etc., copy. Of course either carbon or NCR paper needs to be run >> on a dot-matrix or other impact-type printer. High-speed laser printers >> used in that environment (which

Re: Tractor-feed paper (was Re: Shell prompt)

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:39:49AM -0800, David Guntner wrote: > Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > On Monday 10 December 2012 09:55:28 Chris Bannister wrote: > >> Is it double sheeted with a carbon paper arrangement so the second sheet > >> is a carbon copy of the original? > > > > I've

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

Mark writes: > Any ideas guys? You may find that pressing down or prying up on that part of the board works as well as does the dryer. Inspect the suspicious area of the MOBO carefully with a magnifying glass and then fix the crack or bad solder joint. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: multiarch - please do not force

On Lu, 10 dec 12, 20:25:18, David Baron wrote: > > Would have hoped that a real multi-arch system would facilitate this, make a > more sensible procedure for doint this, and even allow coexistance (not a > requirement once 64-bit working). Coexistence should work fine once all relevant packages

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

On Lu, 10 dec 12, 18:41:57, Brad Rogers wrote: > > FYI, Skype is now available as a multiarch package, v4.1.0.20. Could you please tell me what makes it a multiarch package? $ dpkg-deb -I debs/skype-debian_4.1.0.20-1_i386.deb new debian package, version 2.0. size 30688192 bytes: control archiv

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

On Lu, 10 dec 12, 18:41:33, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I now read on the debian-user-german list that there is an amd64 package. > > So if there is, I would use this one. AFAIU the amd64 package will likely depend on ia32-libs(-gtk), while the i386 package will depend only on the actually ne

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

On Monday 10 December 2012 22:28:22 Mark Panen wrote: > Every time I shut down my machine due to a thunderstorm and try to power up > again after a couple of hours the machine is dead and only he LED on the > MOBO is on. What happens if you shut it down completely; i.e. turn it right off so that

Squeeze with ATI video won't hibernate

Hi, I have two debian machines running squeeze and configured (almost) identically. The laptop (Lenovo T430s) hibernates correctly, the desktop does not. My desktop has: # cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 12077024 kB ... SwapTotal: 17583104 kB The desktop has Radeon video card. # lspci -

Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

Le 10.12.2012 23:28, Mark Panen a écrit : Hi,   I am after a good quality hair dryer that works with 6.0.6 amd64.   Every time I shut down my machine due to a thunderstorm and try to power up again after a couple of hours the machine is dead and only he LED on the MOBO is on.   I wasted my buck

Re: WiFi / Hot-Spot Open Source World

Hi, If your product uses FreeBSD wireless code, please ask your vendor to liaise with the FreeBSD wireless community and work with us to improve things. I have no idea who the vendor is though, so this is all total conjecture. Adrian On 10 December 2012 04:51, Shiv. Nath wrote: > Dear Exper

[OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze

Hi, I am after a good quality hair dryer that works with 6.0.6 amd64. Every time I shut down my machine due to a thunderstorm and try to power up again after a couple of hours the machine is dead and only he LED on the MOBO is on. I wasted my bucks on a new PSU. The only thing that works is hot

Re: Error with Munin on wheezy

Thore wrote: > I'm using Xen for vitualization and let 3 VPS run. All of them are > running Munin without problems. 'munin'? Or 'munin-node'? Where does the munin server process run? On *one* of the nodes? That would be fine. And then all of the others simply run the client munin-node process.

Error with Munin on wheezy

Hello at all, I have an dedicated server running on wheezy. Short information about the system: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+ 8GB RAM 2x750GB SoftwareRAID I'm using Xen for vitualization and let 3 VPS run. All of them are running Munin without problems. But the dom0 has probl

Re: Need help recovering hard drive

On 10/12/12 02:32 PM, Arne de Boer wrote: Hello, You could also give photorec a try, it's in the testdisk package. -- PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost pictures from digital camera memory or even Hard Disks. It has been extended to search also for n

Re: Need help recovering hard drive

Hello, You could also give photorec a try, it's in the testdisk package. -- PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost pictures from digital camera memory or even Hard Disks. It has been extended to search also for non audio/video headers. It searchs for * Su

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:15:25 +0100 "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: Hello Hans-J., >1. As googleearth package and skype do need ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk >packages, I reinstalled them. FYI, Skype is now available as a multiarch package, v4.1.0.20. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindin

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

On 10.12.2012 19:15, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > 3. The problem with the 32-bit nvidia accelerator (libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386) > could I solve, that I removed all nvidia-packages from debian and used the > installer from Nvidia's site. [..] > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libxvm

Re: multiarch - please do not force

I have a 64-bit processor running the 686 kernel and tried in the past, almost successfully, to migrate this to the full 64 bit. The 64 bit kernel can be installed, boots and runs fine. From this thread, I dpkg --add-architecture amd64. Did not change any upgrades or anything. Just a "foreign

Several questions regarding compiled web server (/usr/local)

Hello, it's the first time I am not using Debian packages and I have several questions regarding the correct use of paths and permissions. Cherokee runs under www-data:www-data. I build Cherokee Web Server from source and there are some differences between that and the package installation: 1)

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

Hi Martin, sorry, if I was too harsh in my last mail. Maybe I found not the best English words. Again, sorry for that. However, I found a solution indeed. 1. As googleearth package and skype do need ia32-libs and ia32-libs-gtk packages, I reinstalled them. 2. The other needed 64-bit-libs and

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2012 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: > Hi Martin, Hi Hans, > > We had it in debian-user-german to an almost unbearable extent. Please > > read some of the recent threads there. > > > > Thus please forgive me when this starts getting on my nerves. > > > > I may better try to st

Re: multiarch - please do not force users to change a running system!

Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Du, 09 dec 12, 16:01:05, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > > Exactly the opposite is true: Once Google puts out a multi arch aware > > Google Earth package like Skype did and you have nothing else requiring > > ia32-libs you can git rid of it

Re: WiFi / Hot-Spot Open Source World

"Shiv. Nath" writes: > I work with ISP offering service for hotspots and cafe clubs. > ... > i wish to seek advice form experts. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Need help recovering hard drive

2012/12/10 Markos : > Dear Dennis, > > I found at http://andrew.daviel.org/XP-disk-recovery.html, an > interesting strategy to use Linux to recover data from a hard drive with > NTFS system. > > Perhaps the same strategy could be used for a HD with Linux (using "dd") > > ... > dd if=/dev/sda1 of=sd

Re: WiFi / Hot-Spot Open Source World

Shiv. Nath wrote: i am sure many of you would be the part of the real game, where lot of technology is implemented (Internet Service Providers) those serve thousands of clients everyday . i am requesting opinion & advice from those experts. I work with ISP offering service for hotspots and caf

Tractor-feed paper (was Re: Shell prompt)

Lisi Reisz grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Monday 10 December 2012 09:55:28 Chris Bannister wrote: >> Is it double sheeted with a carbon paper arrangement so the second sheet >> is a carbon copy of the original? > > I've not come across that. I have only seen and used single "sheets". But >

Re: WiFi / Hot-Spot Open Source World

On Lu, 10 dec 12, 12:51:13, Shiv. Nath wrote: > Surfing web does not help much unless someone who is > practically touch and making the use of the technology everyday. You might want to search for "captive portal" (no, I'm not familiar with it, I just know the keywords from another mailing list)

Re: Need help recovering hard drive

Dear Dennis, I found at http://andrew.daviel.org/XP-disk-recovery.html, an interesting strategy to use Linux to recover data from a hard drive with NTFS system. Perhaps the same strategy could be used for a HD with Linux (using "dd") ... dd if=/dev/sda1 of=sdb1 # aborted dd if=/dev/sda1 of=sdb1

Re: Shell prompt

On Lu, 10 dec 12, 07:30:30, Wolf Halton wrote: > If you are doing large-scale packing lists, invoices or inventory, friction > feed printers will wear out in days (I imagine) and you will have to hire > somebody to do nothing but mess around with loading paper, taking care of > jams and moving the

Re: Shell prompt

If you are doing large-scale packing lists, invoices or inventory, friction feed printers will wear out in days (I imagine) and you will have to hire somebody to do nothing but mess around with loading paper, taking care of jams and moving the paper off the printer. If that worker slips the pages

Re: Icedove hangs on opening in Squeeze -- problem installing packages with apt-get?

kenslists writes: > I have a Lenovo R61 laptop with Squeeze newly installed. The version of > Icedove installed is 10.0.11-1, which is apparently the latest available in > Squeeze. > > > > Another phenomenon occurs whenever I install packages with apt-get. At the > end of the process lines

Re: Shell prompt

On Lu, 10 dec 12, 00:12:05, Bob Proulx wrote: > > P.S. What I find most surprising is that you can still buy green bar > tractor feed continuous computer paper. There must still be some of > those in use! Wow. Yep. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers

Prośba o zgodę na przesłanie oferty- windykacja

Szanowni Państwo, Zwracamy się z prośbą o wyrażenie zgody na przesłanie niezobowiązującej oferty na windykację należności. Jeśli są Państwo zainteresowani, prosimy o podanie numeru kontaktowego. Jeśli nie jesteście Państwo zainteresowani ofertą prosimy o zignorowanie tej wiadomości lub odpowie

Re: Laptop fan not working at full speed on Debian 6.0

Output of acpi -V: Adapter 0: on-line Thermal 0: ok, 44.5 degrees C Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 105.0 degrees C Cooling 0: LCD 0 of 15 Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10 Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 10 I use my machine only for browsing the internet and music(qmmp) so

Re: Shell prompt

On Monday 10 December 2012 09:55:28 Chris Bannister wrote: > Is it double sheeted with a carbon paper arrangement so the second sheet > is a carbon copy of the original? I've not come across that. I have only seen and used single "sheets". But there are many things in existence of which I have

Re: Laptop fan not working at full speed on Debian 6.0

On Lu, 10 dec 12, 12:07:44, Tom Braine wrote: > Hello! I just installed debian 6.0 squeeze on my laptop. Fan seems to work > at the same speed for over 12 hours. > I never had this problem while running Ubuntu or Trisquel. Fan would work > for some time, then when it got really hot it would run at

Re: Network Manager icon not working well

On Lu, 10 dec 12, 14:33:52, magina antimage wrote: > Hi, >I am facing a problem,my network manager icon is not working,whenever i > plug out my Ethernet cable, >it's icon doesn't changes and shows i am still connected. Maybe Network Manager still thinks you are connected via some other in

Re: Shell prompt

[Sorry for 2nd reply, sent 1st one before I noticed ...] On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:12:05AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > Asking on list, as others may be interested also. > > > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > martin@merkaba:~#1> > > > martin@merkaba:~#130> > >

Re: Shell prompt

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 12:12:05AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > Asking on list, as others may be interested also. > > > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > martin@merkaba:~#1> > > > martin@merkaba:~#130> > > ^^^ > > > > I am wondering what is the signif

Laptop fan not working at full speed on Debian 6.0

Hello! I just installed debian 6.0 squeeze on my laptop. Fan seems to work at the same speed for over 12 hours. I never had this problem while running Ubuntu or Trisquel. Fan would work for some time, then when it got really hot it would run at full speed then back to low. I didn't found anything

Re: partition table not sticky

On Fri, 7 Dec 2012 21:23:32 +0900 Osamu Aoki wrote: [] > > I bet you used gparted first to create GPT and now trying to use these. > This is just a wild guess. (Some fdisk can not handle GPT as I > remember) > > If you wish to make HDD use MBR instead of GPT, you can reset it by > somethin