Re: WD Reds get dropped on boot

2015-02-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > However, when you boot the computer, the BIOS is still invoked as the > very first bit of executable code. It initialises the hardware and then > reads the first sector of the first hard drive and executes that as > native code. Typicall

Re: WD Reds get dropped on boot

2015-02-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Some guys at the WD forum suggested this could be a BIOS issue, which kinda sucks as i'm not in the mood to get a new mobo. I was under the impression linux doesn't really need the BIOS to operate, but i'm not versed in the art of bootloading. Can anyone point me to some reading material on this (

Re: Modular-debian: a list for discussing init-system alternatives

2014-11-19 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On 2014-11-19 22:00, Joel Roth wrote: > This is an extraordinary supplemental announcement that a > separate list is available[1] to discuss the issues related > to working with various init systems on Debian. Cool, but if this is an effort to make *Debian* modular, the list *should* be under lis

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-11-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On 2014-11-16 11:40, Klistvud wrote: > 1. Reviving the existing init systems. Modernizing them, making them > into true, interchangeable drop-in replacements of each other, which do > the task assigned, and do it well. Each of them accomplishing at least > the common subset of tasks an init system

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
y a big company, like Red Hat or Canonical. It seems as though as soon as they start to grow too much they get lost and drunk on power and money. Remember that nifty search engine? You don't have to agree with me. I don't have to bother replying either. By then maybe i'll have unsu

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:42 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > So if you've seen some of your posts not be posted, be aware that ... I often see debian-user messages in Gmail's spam box (that are not spam, this should be obvious otherwise i wouldn't mention it). This didn't use to happen but it seems their

Re: enabling remote X Window sessions

2014-08-21 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Search around for XDMCP tutorials. Your local machine needs an Xserver (like Xorg). The machine you want to connect to needs a display manager (gdm, kdm, xdm... i don't think slim supports XDMCP) and the xclients you want to run. You'll have no sound. Look into pulseaudio or jack for that. HTH,

Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Microsoft and Google are great big US companies ... that's a problem > just to start with; the US Government or any of their agents can easily > destroy all your privacy any time they like. Are you assuming US companies only gangrape your

Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > Insofar as I am aware, no open source equivalent, that works, is > available for Debian 6. Of skype?! Don't think so, no. I guess you can always chroot it. Or try ubuntu packages. I doubt M$ will put any efforts in releasing non-Windows versions

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 7:54 PM, Nuno Magalhães > wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >>> My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs >>> "binary"

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:09 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > My typical experience is that when people distinguish "text" vs > "binary" files, they mean the whole file can reasonably be made sense > of in a text editor (that's not a precise definition, of course, but I > think it serves the purpose). Wh

Re: simple database solution without root access

2014-07-06 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 9:03 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I am still exploring all the suggestions given by others. But SQLite looks > very promising. There is a Perl DBI Interface to SQLite which might be what > I am after. >> > 2) I want the data to be in text format. SQLite keeps data in b

Re: Virtualized desktop

2014-06-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 12:23 AM, B wrote: >> My IaaS provider has switched from LVM to ZFS, so I think this is >> for some reason... > > Two in one compared to LVM+whatever, not to mention failure > of LVM or whatever usually clobbers the whole thing (definitely), > integrated snapshots, insa

Re: Virtualized desktop

2014-06-28 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Jimmy Thrasibule wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking to renew my hardware and I'm wondering how Debian can help > me to virtualize my desktop environment. > > My first go was to have 2 Intel NUC and 2 screens, one NUC more stable > and one I can play with. I want to

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I use the PC speaker for > notifications/warnings/what ever and I use ALSA to play sound from e.g. > a YouTube video and for pro-audio I use jackd, jackd doesn't always > satisfy my needs, but IMO it still is the best sound server available > f

Re: Assange and NSA

2014-06-01 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The German problem > is, that we don't have our own Internet/ISPs/nodes. German? ICANN is american, the root servers are managed by the US Department of Commerce, the .gov TLD is american... the net is american (unless you wanna know 4 octets

Re: SMART data, should I change my HDD?

2014-04-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > > Only one thing I do not like at all, having the front USB and audio front > connections at the top of the case. I guess those are designed for being on the floor, so your wired stuff will most likely be above on the desk and not in the DVD's w

Re: Disk heads won't park [pat II]

2014-04-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > The drive isn't failing, but has failed. Replace it. I already have another one on the way. I was going to buy Samsung but then learnt their drive division was bought by Seagate (which also bought Maxtor, the brand of the oldest drive on

Re: Disk heads won't park [pat II]

2014-04-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Reviving this thread since i tried turning the machine on again (and amybe another thread will bump this one). And, again (well i wasn't expecting it to go away), as soon as the machine starts - right after POST, even before GRUB - the drive starts making "reading noise" (like when an antivirus is

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-27 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Celejar wrote: > Aptoide, IIUC, just provides a common > interface that allows us to use different app markets. [I haven't yet > played with it, though.] >From their website: "Aptoide is the largest independent Android App Store and allows partners to setup and ma

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Somehow this thread got slightly OT... On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >> I really want to limit myself to f-droid, but they're really pretty >> lacking. They don't even have an ssh server! Try aptoide (an apt-inspired android market, not an apt fork in the Debian repos).

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-23 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 10:11 PM, Roger Klorese wrote: > If I agree to let you watch me 24/7, you 're not spying. People just click agree without reading - otherwise they have no access to the service, so i'm not sure if the argument applies. I guess misinformed agreement is the user's problem,no

Re: Personal Recommendations for Free List Compatible Email Service

2014-04-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > FYI: If I don't get replies -- because of Yahoo my posts don't get > mirrored back to me -- I can't know if this got through. There ya go :) but i had to fish this out of the gmail spam, it's been wrongly tagging a lot (well 2-3 per day) of

Re: Ways to use DDNS with your own domain name (was Re: DynDNS no longer free.)

2014-04-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:19 PM, David Guntner wrote: > Presto! Now when you try to access your home machine, you can simply > refer to mydomain.org and it will point you to the correct place. Er... mydomain.org, being a *.TLD, will most likely be a *paid* domain, hence defeating the purpose (OP

Re: which is the best lan messanger

2014-03-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Debian Admin wrote: > I would like to know which is the best and stable internal chat with out > internet. ejabberd (XMPP) My 2¢, HTH Cheers, Nuno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Cherokee web server

2014-03-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Try nginx, it's in the repositories and you'll find it's smaller, > lighter and faster than apache - and is capable of scaling up to the > same load capacity. +1 for nginx -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: PROBLEMA DE IMPRESSÃO NO DEBIAN

2014-02-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Boas, Esta lista é em inglês, e é considerado má etiqueta usar CAPS. Se quiseres continuar em português, usa a https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-portuguese/ 2014-02-24 8:34 GMT+00:00 Vanderlei Gouvêa : > As impressoras de rede brother e HP na empresa que eu trabalho está muito > lento no SO DE

Re: Runnings Windows 7 pro from inside Debian 7

2014-02-21 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:17 AM, John Foster wrote: > Seeking tips on how to set up a multi boot system that has Windows 7 > pro, Debian 7 & 2 other operating systems each with its own disk to run > from so that any of the OS can be run in a safe manner from within > Debian 7. Try Xen with LVM.

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-19 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count. >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes >> This will show you if a drive does spin up and down. > > Start_Stop_Count should indeed tell you how many t

Re: Trouble replacing an LVM disk

2014-02-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Does pvcreate imply pvscan? I.e. is LVM aware of the new pv so you can move onto it? -- 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/CADqA9ub_YHpeR3fZjvA4=ezecmab6a4e

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
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Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi I was in the process of setting up smartd when i noticed the head noise (although it's not the first time i've noticed it). smartd is enabled now. I don't even have X installed yet (i'm trying to keep the system minimal while i figure out all the issues), so KDE and other DE's is out of the equ

Re: Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > You can try using smartctl to check the status of the drive(s) in question > (e.g. > "smartctl -H /dev/sda", though this is just a real quick check - check the man > page for all options) . There is (IIRC) also a monitoring daemon that c

Disk heads won't park

2014-02-17 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, One of my 4 SATA HDDs is constantly making "write noise", as if it was under heavy load. However, the system is idle (and recently installed). I can't see any activity on iotop and this starts immediately when i turn on the box. The HDD activiy LED doesn't blink on this activity. All d

Re: About to format the whole laptop, need some partitioning advice.

2014-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > 2) As you can see in the screenshot, gparted shows that the hdd is > only 698 gb whereas when purchased it was 720 GB. Any ways to recover > the lost sectors back? As people pointed out, GB and GiB are different[1]. However, 720GB is 670

Re: Recovering data from an ext4 on LVM [solved]

2014-02-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Well, i got my data back. Rstudio did help, only the naming isn't intuitive. Once i spotted the partition i had to browse it's tree for the first awkwardly named directory (same size as the partition though) and scan it. Then i started seeing familiar names and had to browse another tree of weird n

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Chen Wei wrote: > Besides, it > is easier to change the size of a swapfile than size of a swap > partition. How about with LVM? -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Question regarding swap partition when installing Linux Mint Debian.

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > There is logic for having at least as much swap as you have RAM (in other > words, a multiplier of 1.0) because, when the system panics, it may want to > make a copy of RAM to the swap space for later analysis. Or if the system is a laptop a

Re: Strange networking behavior

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Florian Götz wrote: > Anyone got a hint where to search for a solution to that? Not an expert, but, does the machine have more than one NIC? If so, have you tried ping -i? Or other services in the unpingable machines? What about the reverse way? HTH -- To UNSUBS

Re: Recovering data from an ext4 on LVM

2014-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Search for a live media including ext4magic. Keep in mind to mount read > only. I've been either trying to recover unmounted; or mounting readonly, yes. Not much success in finding a recovery distro with ext4magic, maybe there'll be other tool

Recovering data from an ext4 on LVM

2014-02-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, I had an ext4 partition accessible via samba share and one day that share became empty. I considered goofing up in Windows, but then found out that there were a lot of warnings in dmesg. The partition was not set to be fsck-ed and was made available via a Xen guest. I did start running

Re: Without SKYPE?

2013-05-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Since you didn't clarify what you mean by "alternative to Skype", i'll go with XMPP. -- 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/CADqA9ua8CdfY436y=4mo5m46opymn4zk

Re: Running Nvidia Driver Without an xorg.conf?

2013-03-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, If X automagically finds and uses nvidia, sure, otherwise you'll need an xconf (or maybe you can pass the driver as a parameter to startx,man it up). Just guessing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Debian is a translation.

2013-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 7:40 AM, wrote: > you will run localepurge. Yup, that plus whichever locales you want usually does the trick, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http:/

Re: Installing Debian (currently squeeze) on Toshiba Satellite L750-170

2013-01-27 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, Not really an expert, but... On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Chris Evans wrote: > 1) General one: What is the approved way to sort out what hardware is in a > machine and get that information onto the Debian HCL and to work out what > works on it and what doesn't? I'd say your favorite

Re: [OT] Language(No programming language ) question

2013-01-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Thore wrote: > In the list description this is an international list --> english. > Isn't there a spanish list? Search, you'll find it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Xen vs. KVM on Debian squeeze

2012-12-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Chris Davies wrote: > P. J. McDermott wrote: >> I'd like to set up virtualization on a home server with a Debian >> GNU/Linux squeeze amd64 host and squeeze and wheezy amd64 guests. > > I'd recommend KVM and libvirt/VMM. I'd go for Xen. Not a virtual

Re: how many users is enough?

2012-12-01 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 3:01 PM, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > And the subject was the number of users needed to keep a distro alive ;) One. Of course it would take ages for a release. :) The power of GNU/Linux distros (and other *nixes) lies - IMHO obviously - in the community of volunteers who kee

Re: newbie question on port forwarding(and ssh, netcat)

2012-10-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html A bit of searching the net on port-forwarding oughta give you the answer. You probably forgot to forward port 22 on the router to whichever ip adress your DEBIAN has. Search around for stuff on your router/ISP combo as they're almost always blocked

Re: wanted: Debian Cloud hosting provider suggestions

2012-10-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, Not sure if a VPS qualifies as "cloud hosting", whatever that is, but i was happy with linode (then i found another provider in my country), good service, reasonable prices,nice management stuff, etc HTH, Nuno -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: minimal HTTP server recommends

2012-07-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:10 AM, T o n g wrote: > please recommend another minimal HTTP server nginx, preferably compiled from source HTH; Nuno -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: [OT] Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Camaleón wrote: > And remember > Debian has not a time-based schedule for their releases That's awkward, i was under the impression there was a change some years back so that the stable branch would change to a 6 months release schedule. Did that never go through o

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

2012-06-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
A combination of "find" and "rm" will probably do. -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- 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/cadqa9uy7f1nacbz

Re: server monitoring

2012-05-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:01 AM, David Sastre Medina wrote: > I know nagios is pretty standard, but what most people is not > telling is most its developers fleed. You should check Icinga instead. > https://www.icinga.org/2011/11/03/icinga-vs-nagios-a-developers-comparison/ > My personal cho

Difference between php memcache packages

2012-02-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, Maybe i'm missing something obvious, but what's the difference between php5-memcached and php5-memcache (in stable)? They both seem to be APIs to connect to memcached servers through PHP. TIA, Nuno -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: aptitude/apt-get update downloads needless translations

2012-02-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
There's localoepurge, it cleans unneeded locales after an install, but i'm not sure it affects an update. -- 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/CADqA9uawpaO

Re: [OT] gmail archive button missing from label

2012-02-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 10:18, J. Bakshi wrote: > Is it not possible to archive messages from label view ? OT indeed. Isn't there a debian-misc or something? If you're in the label view and the message is also in the inbox, select it and go to the "More" menu, Archive will be one of the options.

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:27, Camaleón wrote: > And what's make you think open source projects cannot ask for money? I > see nothing wrong there. I prefer a company or a project is transparent > enough to say, "hey, we need $$$ to put this working" and ask for it. Diaspora started as a free-for-a

Re: [OT] Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 11:20, Camaleón wrote: > Identi.ca and DIASPORA*, the > open counterparts for Internet socializing. Don't know about identi.ca, but disaspora started asking for money even before lauch, did they get to actually leave beta-stage? People who care about their privacy might mo

Re: GNU/Debian Linux vs. facebook, Twitter and other proprietary social media

2012-02-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, It is kinda off-topic (i'd OT it), and being picky it's GNU/Linux Debian, not GNU/Debian Linux. Being extra picky i'd ask where is Manhattan, :) There's no inherent incompatibility between FOSS software and social media, that i know of. Your only concern could be the browser but Firefox has b

Re: Backup System

2012-02-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 09:33, Jon Dowland wrote: > On 03/02/12 05:36, David Christensen wrote: >> >> >> $ apt-cache search backup | less >> >> >> HTH, > > > It's hardly likely to.  I don't know why you bothered to suggest it. 'Cos the OP shows no evidence of having done the slightest bit of resea

Re: only console login after latest sid upgrade

2012-01-31 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 20:36, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: >> Is anyone else experiencing this? How about checking X's log? Or kdm's? -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

[ ERR] Reading package lists - E: Encountered a section with no Package: header

2011-11-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I've been having these errors: [ ERR] Reading package lists E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/mirrors.nfsi.pt_debian_dists_squeeze_main_binary-amd64_Packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. E: Could

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 17:36, John Hasler wrote: >> Maybe we should coin an adjective.  USian perhaps? Usonian is not unheard of, thanks to Frank Lloyd Wright and James Duff Law. Btw, has comedian always been so? No matter how much i search, i can't find comediants! -- Nuno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 06:22, Doug wrote: > (That's the American placement of the comma before the close-quote; the > Brits do it opposite.) I could never understand that, seems like wrong nesting/closing of html tags to me. Even though i started with the UK version i prefer the US pronounciatio

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2011/9/29 mforestier : > Bonjour a toutes et tous! > C'est mon premier message sur cette liste! Hopefully it's also the last in french; there's another list for that: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-french/ As for laptops, i favour Toshiba (just bought one but keeping Windows for the moment)

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 06:07, David Christensen wrote: > I'd recommend LVM: +1, did that for a 1TB (931GiB) Seagte, you'll end up with a /dev/mapper/volumeGrouName-partitionName1 /dev/mapper/volumeGrouName-partitionName2 If you RTFM around it's fairily straightforward. I'm almost using up my fi

Re: solicitud de ayuda

2011-07-25 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hola, On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 20:58, Gustavo Martinez wrote: > como solucionar el problema. Disculpen mi ingles es limitado. > saludos Puedes intentar http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/ Pardoname mi castellano ;-) -- "On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Does Debian 6.0.2.1 for amd64 work properly ?

2011-07-19 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 18:04, Paul Johnson wrote: > It appears than any dvd > writing program that relies on 64 bit mencoder will produce bad sound. >  People have many bad things to say about the code inside mencoder and > they say it is a lost cause, nobody trying too hard to fix. That see

[SOLVED] Re: Virtually installing a virtual package?

2011-07-18 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi >>There has to be a switch for that or maybe a better way to achieve it >>without needing to lie the whole apt database about apache real status :-? That was my first guess, but there was nothing (i could find) in the manpage. Besides, the whole point of a package manager is to *prevent* you f

Virtually installing a virtual package?

2011-07-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi folks, Keeping it short, i want to install zabbix-frontend-php, which depends on apache; or httpd. I installed nginx from source (and used checkinstall a while back i think so) it's listed in the installed packages but it didn't provide httpd. I can't install httpd because it's a virtual packag

Re: How to tell X to use a specific video driver

2011-07-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 21:01, Tech Geek wrote: > So how do I tell X to load the ati driver? Explicitly specify it in > xorg.conf file? Currently, I there is no such file in /etc/X11 > directory. > There isn't one 'cos X nowadays automagically detect everything - when it does. Create one. See man

Re: Looking for an alternative to mysql

2011-07-08 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 17:57, Roger Leigh wrote: >> Is postgresql more reliable then mysql > > Yes, without a shadow of doubt. Why? I must say i had a big trouble upgrading mysql last time i ran aptitude safe-upgrade; it just wouldn't upgrade since it couldn't shutdown the server (it wasn't eve

Re: Squeeze - Virtualbox - No Installable Kernel

2011-07-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 04:59, wrote: > During the install > of an Ubuntu 8.04 server virtual machine I got the following error: Why are you asking in a Debian list about an Ubuntu package? Ask in the Ubuntu forums, they'll know how it's packaged. I use Sid, i haven't had issues with Virtualbox

Borked FastCGI after [SECURITY] [DSA 2266-1] php5 security update

2011-06-29 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I have a stable server with these packages: ii php5-cgi 5.3.3-7+squeeze3 server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary) ii php5-common5.3.3-7+squeeze3 Common files for packages built from the php5 source ii php5-gd

Re: Not authorized to mount flash drive with normal account

2011-06-19 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 16:00, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Downgrade to consolekit 0.4.1-4, reboot, and the > problem should go away. I just did an aptitude safe-upgrade on my Sid after pinning consolekit to 0.4.1-4 and now i can mount as a normal user again. HTH and thanks, Nuno -- To UNSU

Re: psi instead of Skype [OT]

2011-06-14 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 04:34, Scott Ferguson wrote: [...]and ISPs start rolling out VOIP products of their own. [...] Will ISPs start blocking VoIP ports? *evil grin* > with the telcos. I heard of one that is basically a wireless PSTN > equivalent - no line rental, a landline number, data rate

Re: psi instead of Skype

2011-06-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 15:24, Camaleón wrote: > low land-line/mobile rates my SIP provider has How's the sound quality? Any big known SIP providers? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: psi instead of Skype

2011-06-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:19, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > I doubt the situation will get better with > skype in the hands of ms. There was a thread about that recently. AFAIK it'll just get integrated into MSN-Live or whatever it's called. My 2¢ Nuno -- Mars 2 Stay! But a torus on L1 first, p

Re: psi instead of Skype

2011-06-12 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, Not an expert, but skype uses its own proprietary protocol, i think (plus SIP to initiate), so i think you'd need a skype transport on your jabber server. Again, not an expert. Try converting your friends to open protocols instead ;) [not an easy task, i know] HTH, Nuno -- Mars 2 Stay! htt

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
2011/6/7 Christian Simo : > iface eth1 inet static >    address 41.134.19.90 >    netmask 255.255.255.248 >    broadcast 41.134.19.95 >    gateway 10.0.0.2 > > the above IP addresses are set up on one of my computer on my LAN Isn't this a node in a LAN, with a public IP address? You either have ve

Re: Set Up a server using Public IP Addresses on debian

2011-06-07 Thread Nuno Magalhães
What did you try? And where are those "ip adresses" connected to? The router? Individual servers? A single link? -- 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/BANLk

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
If their excuse was lack of standards' compliance maybe it'd kinda make sense. If. There's something called graceful degradation and it does "force" people to buy newer hardware. How green of Google Inc. Reminds me to start migrating away from their products and start treating them as Microsoft's.

Re: Until now Debian seems to be the right decision :), better performance than Ubuntu

2011-05-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 18:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > For Debian I still need to set up a xorg.conf, hopefully it will keep in > good shape ;). I suspect many issues regarding to the way X is handled > today. It's usually automagically generated, unless it borks, in which case your best approa

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 21:19, Freeman wrote: > I am thinking of moving to the simplest, cheapest thing that is dependable > and allows one to turn off tracking--dumping even texting! I guess if you have a smartphone you can always implement some kind of encryption both on voice and on text (assum

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 05:05, shawn wilson wrote: > i don't think this is very wise information to give out. +1 And i use a dumbphone, Nokia 2600 i think, good to make calls and send text messages. If i ever get a smartphone, it'll be an openmoko (pref the GTA02A7++ or any of the later if they

Re: X crashes since last upgrade

2011-04-13 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 17:40, S Scharf wrote: > I am running Testing, with the nvidia driver installed, and two screens with > xinerama ( a 30" and a 90 degree rotated 20") First try the nv driver. And check /var/logs/X.0.log or something, if it's an X error it should be there. HTH -- Mar

Re: Addressing a machine behind the router without port forwarding or DMZ

2011-04-03 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 13:25, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Not a Debian-specific question, but I turn to the best brains that I know. Then OT it. > Is there any way an individual from outside the LAN could access a > resource (Apache for instance, or SSH) on Computer1 assuming that he > knows Computer1's

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-01 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 04:57, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> Why not use the Debian standard?? >>day-of-week, dd month hh:mm:ss + ISO format available. -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Unable to connect to CUPS server after upgrading to Squeeze

2011-03-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 10:25, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > Hi all! > > After upgrading to Squeeze, I tried to do a test print from a client > with Lenny and I could not connect to server. From what I see, the > server is up: > > sirius:~# netstat -puta Nice mnemonics ;) Have you tried localhos

Re: [Semi-OT] Advice on whether a C++ book is still adequate

2011-03-04 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, What's the latest "official" "release"? C++02? C++03? Has Boost been "officialized"? What about C#? I know it's not directly related, but how do you figure fits the picture? -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: best labtop for debian

2011-02-16 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 03:21, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On a related topic, could you please tell me which of the current > ThinkPads have the same basic (awesome) feature-set which the old > favourites (T61, T42 etc.) had? I am genuinely unaware, and wanted to > know if all the ones available to

Re: About Asterisk, 'best' practices, suggestions, etc.

2011-01-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 13:57, Roman Khomasuridze wrote: > wouldn't it be better to use Debian packages of Asterisk instead of > compiling? I'd say it depends: if the Debian package has everything you want, cool, use it; if not, compile it. Or both, you can use checkinstall and similar to co

Re: can I install Linux to this phone?

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, I have no idea, but try using search engines. That and maybe OpenMoko's Debian. HTH, Nuno -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: VirtualBox 4 fails building kernel module (the same with nvidia module)

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, You're not gonna get much help using non-free software on a tarnished kernel. That said, when i have problems with VBox i just purge everything, dkms included, make sure the drivers are actually deleted, then reinstall, with dkms. Usually does the trick. HTH, Nuno -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkc

Re: Non native English speaker is checking whether a phrasing should be filed a minor bug report.

2010-11-30 Thread Nuno Magalhães
uot;The messages will be kept in memory until a logfile is available on disk.", but i don't think the existing phrasing is ambiguous. HTH, Nuno Magalhães -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: My server catched a rootkit?

2010-11-28 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 02:45, Brad Alexander wrote: > IMHO, it's another tool in the toolbox. The secret is that you need to > be using multiple tools, Such as? Other than a firewall and maybe antivirus. Rkhunter? Tripwire? Why/not any specific one? What about log analysis? -- Mars 2 Stay! htt

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-21 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 11:45, Alan Chandler wrote: >> My machine >> is an older desktop with only 1 Gb of RAM Have big applications like office suites, internet browsers and the like added so many more features that a "mere" 1GB of RAM doesn't suffice?! Isn't Web2.0's structure mostly text-based

Re: Frustration made me do it.

2010-11-20 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 00:09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > There are other WebKit-based browsers besides Chromium out there and there are > other Gecko-based browsers besides FireFox / IceWeasel out there.  By > experimenting you may find one that is less bad for you than FireFox. Kazehakase

Re: Busco parcerias para comercialização de sotwar e ERP

2010-11-14 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Tenta na debian-portuguese ou debian-jobs. -- Mars 2 Stay! http://xkcd.com/801/ /etc -- 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/aanlkti=17+bamk=j_6edtk2vxujnim

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