Re: Debian using USB stick on diskless machine

On 12/28/2015 04:08 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: I have a diskless machine and figured it would be quicker to get it running off a USB thumb drive than PXE boot. I'd appreciate any suggestions or advice. That's one of my favorite tricks. I typically boot and install from an optical disk to avoid c

Re: HAL

> > Because, criminal offence though I fully understand it to be, I want to use my > television to watch UK Channel 4 catch-up TV and Amazon Prime Video. For > that I need the computer attached to my television to run Flash-player. > > I know that I can get the setup running in Wheezy. The questi

Re: HAL

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 9:30 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: > >> But I see there is a package named libhal1-flash available from >> Christian Marillat in his deb-multimedia.org repository. It contains the >> code from https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash. > > Hmm, libhal1-flash is o

Debian using USB stick on diskless machine

I have a diskless machine and figured it would be quicker to get it running off a USB thumb drive than PXE boot. I'd appreciate any suggestions or advice. I stuck Debian live on the thumb drive but discovered changes I made in that environment were not persistent. Ran the installer on the live C

Re: s-nail fails with "Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied"

On Dec 28, 2015, at 2:31 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > With recent Stretch installations the “mail” (or “mailx”) command is > satisfied by the s-nail package. > As it comes fresh out of the box, s-nail has a problem with dotlock files. > For example: > >> rbthomas@half:~$ mail >> Creating dotlock

Re: is twitter useful for debian?

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > ​Dear Folks, > > I don't use twitter much. But I noticed that debian is on twitter ie The > Debian Project @debian. ​ > > What benefit is there in that? > Could be u

Re: Funny integer problem in wide-dhcpv6-client (20080615-12)?

On Mon, 28 Dec 2015, Atle Solbakken wrote: > I've noticed something strange in dhcp6c where the preferred lifetime of a > delegated prefix is set to a very high value apparently for no reason. It > looks like an issue with signing, integer size or such. > > I had look into the source code to debug

Funny integer problem in wide-dhcpv6-client (20080615-12)?

Hi I've noticed something strange in dhcp6c where the preferred lifetime of a delegated prefix is set to a very high value apparently for no reason. It looks like an issue with signing, integer size or such. I had look into the source code to debug it, but after building from source, the pro

Re: Debian on Dell XPS 15

On Fri, 25 Dec 2015, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > Hi everyone..I am going to get a new Dell XPS 15 laptop. I want to know if > I will be able to install and use Debian on it properly without getting any > issues. A new Dell XPS 15 will be Intel Skylake-based. Unless you are feeling extremely lucky, u

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

On Monday 28 December 2015 12:35:01 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > And I haven't carved up a pcb to hold it all yet either. > > I never do pcbs for this sort of thing. I just solder point to point > on a breadboard. Printed circuit boards are for production. Which, since I was in the env

Re: zfs list shows no space while only 50% real size of files.

On 12/28/2015 07:00 AM, Mimiko wrote: I use zfs to create zvols. This is the zpool list: ... Here logicalused display 1.85TB of data. Why rest of the space is not available? For detailed ZFS on Linux questions, I'd suggest the zfs-discuss mailing list: http://zfsonlinux.org/ http:

Re: is twitter useful for debian?

Michael Fothergill writes: > I don't use twitter much. But I noticed that debian is on twitter ie The > Debian Project @debian. ​ > What benefit is there in that? Nails down the name "debian" so that a troll can't get it. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

Gene writes: > And I haven't carved up a pcb to hold it all yet either. I never do pcbs for this sort of thing. I just solder point to point on a breadboard. Printed circuit boards are for production. > The qucs simulation is hampered by its lack of two part models, a decent > hexfet, and a t

zfs list shows no space while only 50% real size of files.

Hello. I use zfs to create zvols. This is the zpool list: NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ FRAGCAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT zfspool 14.5T 10.7T 3.75T -13%74% 1.00x ONLINE - I have 3.75T free to create more zvols or extend existing vols. I have several zvols crea

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

On Monday 28 December 2015 04:30:06 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote on 12/23/15 16:12: > > On Wednesday 23 December 2015 08:49:34 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> e.g., Qucs > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quite_Universal_Circuit_Simulator > >> > >> Regards, > >> jvp. > > > > Sounds

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

On Monday 28 December 2015 01:59:44 Gener Badenas wrote: Back on the list where this belongs. > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Do we have such a beast? > > > > Thanks. > > There might be some projects in github that does this. Qucs seems to be t

Re: KTorrent: Turn off computer when finished

On Monday 28 December 2015 01:14:55 Allan Aguilar wrote: > On 12/28/2015 06:06 AM, Brandon Vincent wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 10:20 PM, Allan Aguilar wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is there a way to set up KTorrent in a way that the computer turns > >> off when all downloads are complete?

is twitter useful for debian?

​Dear Folks, I don't use twitter much. But I noticed that debian is on twitter ie The Debian Project @debian. ​ What benefit is there in that? I tried tweeting a bit on twitter but I did not get much response. So I got bored with it. Some exchanges on twitter ca

Build Bacula 7.2.x on Debian Jessie

Hi all! In a virtual machine with Debian Jessie I am testing Bacula 7.2.x. Initially I had downloaded the tarball of here [1] (published in 2015-08-13), but here I got some errors when running the configuration script: --- ma

s-nail fails with "Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied"

With recent Stretch installations the “mail” (or “mailx”) command is satisfied by the s-nail package. As it comes fresh out of the box, s-nail has a problem with dotlock files. For example: > rbthomas@half:~$ mail > Creating dotlock for "/var/mail/rbthomas" . > Unable to (dot) lock mailbox,

Re: Need a calculator that knows about coulombs

Gene Heskett wrote on 12/23/15 16:12: > On Wednesday 23 December 2015 08:49:34 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> e.g., Qucs >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quite_Universal_Circuit_Simulator >> >> Regards, >> jvp. > > Sounds like exactly what might be useful here. But no qucs exists in the > wheezy

Re: Recovering data from a Raid 1Sata HD

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 02:48:45PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 07:41:00AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > >> Or do I have to first create a (failed) array with mdadm ? > > > > For RAI