Re: Questions regarding hardware for a Free Software (especially Debian)

2009-12-15 Thread John Allen
On 13/12/09 21:37, Rogério Brito wrote: Hi, All. I would like to purchase a new system to replace my current Desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that getting some new hardware is not as easy, due to a multitude of unavailable drivers for Free Operating systems or differences regarding the role of

Re: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable

2009-12-15 Thread freeman
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:28:55PM +, AG wrote: > worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only > have access to the drive but am unable to write to it. Therefore, I > cannot do back ups nor can I create new directories, etc. > > I have tried the usual approach to these k

Re: email server-static IP

2009-12-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon December 14 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Your DNS service appears to be provided by this outfit below.  You would > contact this outfit to change your MX records.  My guess is that there > is a ton of reselling and partnering going on here behind the scenes, > and you may not have any clue w

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:54:53 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2009-12-14 13:28 +0100, Camaleón wrote: Be sure to avoid Nvidia graphics cards then. >>> Why? >>> >>> There is "nv" driver (2D) and soon it will be "nouveau" (2D+3D) driver >>> available. Both are open source. >> T

Re: email server-static IP

2009-12-15 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Mon December 14 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > The devil is in the details.  If your home broadband ISP is going to > host your DNS, you _must_ inform your domain registrar, Netsol in this > case, of your new DNS servers' and their IP addresses.  Then you must > explicitly tell your broadband ISP

Applet to show arbitrary text in gnome panel

2009-12-15 Thread Matteo Riva
What I'd like is a container which runs a script on a timer and displays its output. Basically something like Conky, just for the gnome panel. Is there such a thing? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Please teach me about how to find drivers and how to install drivers.

2009-12-15 Thread Kyuichiro Nakamura
Sir,I am just started to install Debian Linux on my old DynaBook SS 60P 1N8M (192Mb). I can not search for drivers. I also can not install the drivers. I am intending to use application 'ORCA' for my doctor. Which is developped for Debian Linux. I also bought a magazine titled 'Super simple intro

Re: email server-static IP

2009-12-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Paul Cartwright put forth on 12/15/2009 4:36 AM: > On Mon December 14 2009, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> The devil is in the details. If your home broadband ISP is going to >> host your DNS, you _must_ inform your domain registrar, Netsol in this >> case, of your new DNS servers' and their IP addresses

Re: Please teach me about how to find drivers and how to install drivers.

2009-12-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Kyuichiro Nakamura put forth on 12/15/2009 4:59 AM: > Sir,I am just started to install Debian Linux on my old DynaBook SS 60P > 1N8M (192Mb). > I can not search for drivers. > I also can not install the drivers. > I am intending to use application 'ORCA' for my doctor. > Which is developped for Deb

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:30:24PM +, amka wrote: > Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 01:56 -0600, Mark Allums a écrit : > > On 12/12/2009 6:32 PM, amka wrote: > > > I am going to buy a new computer and wonder what is the best for 64bits. > > > AMD or Intel ? > > > > > > Could someone give me plea

mutt deletes 1st unread

2009-12-15 Thread freeman
Duly, this only happens in my debian-user mailbox. (I sort with procmail.) The first unread email is always marked with a D, when I enter my "l-debusr" box. I have to jump to it by number and undelete it. I index by date so it is usually the newest or close to. :8 I use folder-hooks to archive

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Dave Witbrodt
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:54:53 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2009-12-14 13:28 +0100, Camaleón wrote: Be sure to avoid Nvidia graphics cards then. Why? There is "nv" driver (2D) and soon it will be "nouveau" (2D+3D) driver available. Both are open sour

Re: Applet to show arbitrary text in gnome panel

2009-12-15 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:54:15 +0100 Matteo Riva wrote: > What I'd like is a container which runs a script on a timer and displays > its output. Basically something like Conky, just for the gnome panel. > > Is there such a thing? Xfce has the "Generic Monitor" plugin (xfce4-genmon-plugin), which

PHP 5.3 on Lenny: Which package should I use?

2009-12-15 Thread Wouter van Vliet / Interpotential
(this message has also been posted to the php-general mailing list) Hi Guys & Gals, I've been playing around with PHP 5.3 for a while now on development servers and servers solely used for start-ups and lower-profile apps. But now I'm about to upgrade the servers for a high profile/high traffic w

Re: Applet to show arbitrary text in gnome panel

2009-12-15 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 15. 12. 2009 11:54:15 je Matteo Riva napisal(a): What I'd like is a container which runs a script on a timer and displays its output. Basically something like Conky, just for the gnome panel. Is there such a thing? The closest thing I am aware of is Zenity. Only, it does not display

Re: jmeter 2.3.4-2 bug report in unstable justified?

2009-12-15 Thread Tim Ruehsen
Hi Gernot, I just found all my Java apps coming out with "java.net.SocketException: Network is unreachable" when trying to connect via TCP/IP. Workaround: Start the java app with "-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true". Linux 2.6.32 together with Sun's Java might be the problem... but I had no time

Re: jmeter 2.3.4-2 bug report in unstable justified?

2009-12-15 Thread Tim Rühsen
In the german mailing list is a discussion about it. Summary: a bug has been reported > /etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf > -> net.ipv6.bindv6only = 0 see also: From: mar...@better.se (Marcus Better) Newsgroups: local.lists.debian.devel

Re: Strange Wireless Network Degredation Problem

2009-12-15 Thread Alan Chandler
Alan Chandler wrote: I have a strange wireless networking problem at home. The scenario is that I have a Debian Lenny server which I have wanted to move, so have added an Edimax EW-7128G wireless card. I have removed the reference to eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces (and removed the cable fro

Re: Can't Delete File with Bad Chars

2009-12-15 Thread Kent West
Chris Jones wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:04:03PM EST, Kent West wrote: > >> I've got a TeraStation Pro Network Attached Storage device connected to >> a stable Debian box. I'm trying to free up some space by deleting old >> backups, but have come across a file with a bad name. I'm smbmoun

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:33:41 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> It seems we have not many real choices, then :-( > > One of the remaining options is to complain to the dealer and/or > manufacturer for providing a product that does not fully work, since > neither the specifica

Re: Can't Delete File with Bad Chars

2009-12-15 Thread Kent West
Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:04:03PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > >> wes...@]goshen.acu.edu]:/TERASTATIONBACKUP/RSYNC-BACKUP/home/web/html/mriggs/Archive/Spring >> 2008/445:> stat Tentative\ Schedule\ \?��\ Math\ 445.pdf >> File: `Tentative Schedule ?\307\364 Math 445.pd

Re: Can't Delete File with Bad Chars

2009-12-15 Thread Kent West
Marc Shapiro wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:04:03PM EST, Kent West wrote: >>> I've got a TeraStation Pro Network Attached Storage device connected to >>> a stable Debian box. I'm trying to free up some space by deleting old >>> backups, but have come across a file with a bad name. I'm smbmoun

Re: Can't Delete File with Bad Chars

2009-12-15 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Ter, 15 Dez 2009, Kent West wrote: goshen:/TERASTATIONBACKUP/RSYNC-BACKUP/home/web/html/mriggs/Archive/Spring 2008/445# LC_ALL=en_US LANG=$LC_ALL find . -inum 60168219 -exec rm -i '{}' \; rm: remove regular file `./Tentative Schedule ?\307\364 Math 445.pdf'? y rm: cannot remove `./Tentat

Re: Can't Delete File with Bad Chars

2009-12-15 Thread Michael Mohn
Am 15.12.2009 um 16:52:37 schrieb Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: > On Ter, 15 Dez 2009, Kent West wrote: >> goshen:/TERASTATIONBACKUP/RSYNC-BACKUP/home/web/html/mriggs/Archive/Spring >> 2008/445# LC_ALL=en_US LANG=$LC_ALL find . -inum 60168219 -exec rm >> -i '{}' \; >> rm: remove regular file `./Ten

Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

2009-12-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Dec 2009, Joey Hess wrote: > John Jason Jordan wrote: > > But all the people in the know about Debian tell me I should be using > > aptitude. > > I suppose I should switch, but that would require learning new stuff. After > > a > > graduate degree my brain is full, so if I learn new stuff I

Problem installing libglu1-mesa-dev

2009-12-15 Thread Daniel Lidström
(I've sent this mail to ubuntu-users as well, but have not got a reply yet.) Hi, how do I resolve this error? hen...@henriklaptop:~$ sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev [sudo] password for henrik: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 14:22, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:30:24PM +, amka wrote: >> I am going to build a Postgresql server, and  will execute a lot of perl >> (local) scripts in relation with the database. A lot of read/write in >> large tables (>10'000'000 rows)

Re: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:41:53AM EST, freeman wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:28:55PM +, AG wrote: > > worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only > > have access to the drive but am unable to write to it. Therefore, I > > cannot do back ups nor can I create new di

Re: Please teach me about how to find drivers and how to install drivers.

2009-12-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:55:40 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Kyuichiro Nakamura put forth on 12/15/2009 4:59 AM: >> Sir,I am just started to install Debian Linux on my old DynaBook SS 60P >> 1N8M (192Mb). >> I can not search for drivers. >> I also can not install the drivers. >> I am intending to us

ECC Ram (Was: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits)

2009-12-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:58:02 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 14:22, Andrew M.A. Cater >> Get good quality memory (possibly ECC memory if you can) and you'll >> have a workhorse for a long period of time. > > Since I doubt he is running a DB that big just for fun, I would sa

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:43, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:33:41 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > Yes, but people may need some functions that are not provided by Intel > cards. And remember that Intel driver also had its own glitches... Intel works great for me. >> FWIW, I g

Re: ECC Ram (Was: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits)

2009-12-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:14, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:58:02 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 14:22, Andrew M.A. Cater > >>> Get good quality memory (possibly ECC memory if you can) and you'll >>> have a workhorse for a long period of time. >> >> Since I do

zero report from ifconfig; was Re(3): freezing Ethernet crossover link.

2009-12-15 Thread peasthope
Folk, Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:46:38 -0800 I wrote, > ... Cantor can use the other 200M and cable. Yes, the other Linksys USB200M Ethernet adapter and cable exhibit the same behaviour. ifconfig always reports 0 bytes transported. There has been one communication freeze as described previou

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:20:29 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:43, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Both, ATI and Nvidia are quite the same: they do not provide a complete >> access to their hardware specifications and just provide closed source >> drivers. > > ATI provides compl

Re: Please teach me about how to find drivers and how to install drivers.

2009-12-15 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-15 06:55:40, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Kyuichiro Nakamura put forth on 12/15/2009 4:59 AM: > > Sir,I am just started to install Debian Linux on my old DynaBook SS > > 60P 1N8M (192Mb). > > I can not search for drivers. > > I also can not install the drivers. > > I am intending to use applicat

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:50, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:20:29 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:43, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> Both, ATI and Nvidia are quite the same: they do not provide a complete >>> access to their hardware specifications and just

What happened to xpdf in testing?

2009-12-15 Thread Robert Latest
Hello all, I've searched the Net up and down but had to realize in puzzlement that I seem to be the only one with this problem. After an upgrade from stable to testing I found that xpdf had gone. Sure enough, the page about the package "xpdf" at http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/xpdf says: "This

Re: What happened to xpdf in testing?

2009-12-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:47, Robert Latest wrote: > Hello all, > > I've searched the Net up and down but had to realize in puzzlement > that I seem to be the only one with this problem. After an upgrade > from stable to testing I found that xpdf had gone. Sure enough, the > page about the packag

Re: ECC Ram (Was: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits)

2009-12-15 Thread amka
Le mardi 15 décembre 2009 à 10:34 -0800, Kelly Clowers a écrit : > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:14, Camaleón wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:58:02 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 14:22, Andrew M.A. Cater > > > >>> Get good quality memory (possibly ECC memory if you can

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:38:38 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:50, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> So in fact, we get from ATI no much more than from nvidia :-/ > > On the contrary, ATI gives us all this: http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ and > Intel gives us at least this: http://www.

Re: Permissions on USB drive unchangeable

2009-12-15 Thread AG
Chris Jones wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:41:53AM EST, freeman wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:28:55PM +, AG wrote: worked fine. Now the permissions have been changed so that I only have access to the drive but am unable to write to it. Therefore, I cannot do back ups nor ca

can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-15 Thread Timothy Legg
Here is a good puzzler. I got a second ATAPI disk in my machine that I was able to partition with fdisk, but cannot mkfs it. It says that the device is already mounted but when I try to umount it, it says it is not mounted. the blkid command I ran on the device contradicts with what df tells me.

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:09, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:38:38 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:50, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> So in fact, we get from ATI no much more than from nvidia :-/ >> >> On the contrary, ATI gives us all this: http://www.x.org

Re: new udev

2009-12-15 Thread Brian Nelson
On 12/14/2009 10:16 AM, Rick Pasotto wrote: The udev module in testing got updated this morning. As a result I got these lines in my syslog: Dec 14 09:51:02 niof udevd[15399]: SYSFS{}= will be removed in a future udev version, please use ATTR{}= to match the eventdevice, or ATTRS{}= to match a

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/14/2009 9:59 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Use mdadm/LVM and mirror a 100MB /boot and 30GB /root across all four drives. Of the remaining 270GB on each drive, setup a RAID 10 array and put your database files there. You'll get maximum data protection and access speed/throughput using RAID 10.

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:24:07 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:09, Camaleón wrote: >>> On the contrary, ATI gives us all this: http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ and >>> Intel gives us at least this: http://www.x.org/docs/intel/ But Nvidia >>> gives nothing at all. >> >> Still far

Re: can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-15 Thread Tom H
> Here is a good puzzler.  I got a second ATAPI disk in my machine that I > was able to partition with fdisk, but cannot mkfs it.  It says that the > device is already mounted but when I try to umount it, it says it is not > mounted.  the blkid command I ran on the device contradicts with what df >

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 13:48, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:24:07 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:09, Camaleón wrote: > On the contrary, ATI gives us all this: http://www.x.org/docs/AMD/ and Intel gives us at least this: http://www.x.org/docs/intel

Re: What happened to xpdf in testing?

2009-12-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Robert Latest writes: > OK, but where is the "xpdf" program now? The only thing with "xpdf" in > its name is some virtual package called "xpdf-utils" which is provided > by poppler-utils which doesn't contain xpdf. It was removed from testing [1] because nobody cared to fix the open securit

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:12:58 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 13:48, Camaleón wrote: >>> So what, you want AMD to hire a bunch of devs to write a complete open >>> source driver? They can't afford to do that. >> >> They couldn't do that... although they wanted. >> >> AMD has

Re: can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-15 Thread Bob McGowan
Tom H wrote: >> Here is a good puzzler. I got a second ATAPI disk in my machine that I >> was able to partition with fdisk, but cannot mkfs it. It says that the >> device is already mounted but when I try to umount it, it says it is not >> mounted. the blkid command I ran on the device contradic

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 20:56:42 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Sven Joachim put forth on 12/14/2009 6:54 AM: > > That blob is taken out from the closed > > source driver and probably undistributable, although Nvidia has promised > > not to take legal action. > > Ahem, yeah, it's not a bright idea

Re: What happened to xpdf in testing?

2009-12-15 Thread Isi
I've got it installed in squeeze, since before the update from lenny, but appears as "obsolete" :) -- La guerra es el arte de introducir trozos de metal en la carne humana -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

2009-12-15 Thread sys49152
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'll look into aptitude and synaptic. I knew there were other comand line tools, but couldn't remember the names. apt-get has become very annoying lately. It seems that it can't handle dependencies as well, leaving me to install software by hand wit

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 14:39, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:12:58 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 13:48, Camaleón wrote: > So what, you want AMD to hire a bunch of devs to write a complete open source driver? They can't afford to do that. >>> >>> They

Re: can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-15 Thread Timothy Legg
>> Here is a good puzzler.  I got a second ATAPI disk in my machine that I >> was able to partition with fdisk, but cannot mkfs it.  It says that the >> device is already mounted but when I try to umount it, it says it is not >> mounted.  the blkid command I ran on the device contradicts with what

Re: can't mke2fs hdb, says already mounted, but it isn't

2009-12-15 Thread Tim Legg
Interesting result! FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority /dev/hda1 partition 1951856 48 -1 /dev/hdb1 partition 167798520 -2 I remember a wierd thing happened wh

Re: mutt deletes 1st unread

2009-12-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:41:55AM -0800, freeman wrote: > Duly, this only happens in my debian-user mailbox. (I sort with procmail.) > > The first unread email is always marked with a D, when I enter my "l-debusr" > box. I have to jump to it by number and undelete it. I index by date so it > is

NTP setting

2009-12-15 Thread J.H.Kim
Hi, everyone I have a 2 PCs in my office and they are not connected to internet. But I wish to synchronize the 2PC. One is for time server and one is for time client. Is it possible to use NTP for the purpose? How I can config NTP server with local time? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, J.Hwan K

Re: Is apt-get still the cool package installer?

2009-12-15 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Aptitude is well worth taking the time to get to know, both in command line and in full-screen mode. For the User Manual, install aptitude-doc-en. The html manual will then be in /usr/share/doc/aptitude/html/en. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject o

Re: Please teach me about how to find drivers and how to install drivers.

2009-12-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 07:59:25PM +0900, Kyuichiro Nakamura wrote: > Sir,I am just started to install Debian Linux on my old DynaBook SS 60P > 1N8M (192Mb). > I can not search for drivers. > I also can not install the drivers. > I am intending to use application 'ORCA' for my doctor. > Which is d

Re: Can't Delete File with Bad Chars

2009-12-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 09:38:42AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 06:04:03PM EST, Kent West wrote: > > > >> I've got a TeraStation Pro Network Attached Storage device connected to > >> a stable Debian box. I'm trying to free up some space by deleting old

totem: thumbnails, nautilus properties, playback broken

2009-12-15 Thread Daniel Armstrong
Hi... I am currently running Debian testing upgraded with the latest Gnome and totem. I have installed w32codecs and I think I have all the required gstreamer plugins: $ dpkg -l | grep gstreamer ii gir1.0-gstreamer-0.10 0.10.25-4 Description: GObject introspection data for ii

Re: NTP setting

2009-12-15 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:59:36AM +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I have a 2 PCs in my office and they are not connected to internet. > But I wish to synchronize the 2PC. > One is for time server and one is for time client. > Is it possible to use NTP for the purpose? > How I can config

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Allums
Since both ATI and NVIDIA are lacking driver-wise, compare the hardware. NVIDIA was ahead for a long time, but they blundered several times lately, such as the mobile chipset debacle. NVIDIA has tried and failed also to again leapfrog ATI as they did with the 8800 and the 260/280. However,

How does a novice do this

2009-12-15 Thread A. Kane
I am a novice not at all a computer geek. I just want simple clean internet and email with a good program like windows media center handling everything else along with some axillary stuff. I am not a fan of Windows or the Organization or of their products other than they have a monopoly when yo

Re: How does a novice do this

2009-12-15 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:48 PM, A. Kane wrote: > I am a novice not at all a computer geek. I just want simple clean internet > and email with a good program like windows media center handling everything > else along with some axillary stuff. I am not a fan of Windows or the > Organization or of t

Re: ECC Ram (Was: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits)

2009-12-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
amka put forth on 12/15/2009 3:08 PM: > Le mardi 15 décembre 2009 à 10:34 -0800, Kelly Clowers a écrit : >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:14, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:58:02 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 14:22, Andrew M.A. Cater > Get good quality m

Re: How does a novice do this

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/15/2009 8:48 PM, A. Kane wrote: I am a novice not at all a computer geek. I just want simple clean internet and email with a good program like windows media center handling everything else along with some axillary stuff. I am not a fan of Windows or the Organization or of their products oth

Re: ECC Ram (Was: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits)

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/15/2009 9:43 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Enter the SmartArray BIOS utility, wipe the current drive config, create a RAID 10 set. From the Debian installer, on the resulting 146GB RAID 10 disk, create a 100MB partition for /boot, a 4GB swap partition, and a 20GB partition for /root, and creat

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Allums put forth on 12/15/2009 3:44 PM: > Quite right, seconded! Except that I think you mean root /, not /root. Yes, thanks for the correction. That user called "root" def doesn't need 30GB of space for his files. ;) -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Trouble with flash player plugin

2009-12-15 Thread T o n g
Hi, I am having trouble installing flash player plugin package from debian-multimedia. First, there is no version suitable for my Debian Testing. $ apt-cache policy flashplayer-mozilla flashplayer-mozilla: Installed: 2:10.0.42.34-0.0 Candidate: 2:10.0.42.34-0.0 Version table: *** 2:10

Re: ECC Ram (Was: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits)

2009-12-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/15/2009 12:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:58:02 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 14:22, Andrew M.A. Cater Get good quality memory (possibly ECC memory if you can) and you'll have a workhorse for a long period of time. Since I doubt he is running a DB

Re: NTP setting

2009-12-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Rob Owens put forth on 12/15/2009 7:35 PM: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:59:36AM +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: >> Hi, everyone >> >> I have a 2 PCs in my office and they are not connected to internet. >> But I wish to synchronize the 2PC. >> One is for time server and one is for time client. >> Is it possib

Re: GConf and GNOME keyring support

2009-12-15 Thread T o n g
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:05:52 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > So just use a Poppler based > program, such as Okular or Evince (or evince-gtk, which has no gconf or > gnome keyring support). What does it actually mean? What features are lacking thereafter? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to r

Re: ECC Ram (Was: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits)

2009-12-15 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Mark Allums put forth on 12/15/2009 9:48 PM: > On 12/15/2009 9:43 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Enter the SmartArray BIOS utility, wipe the current drive config, create >> a RAID 10 set. From the Debian installer, on the resulting 146GB RAID >> 10 disk, create a 100MB partition for /boot, a 4GB s

Re: Trouble with flash player plugin

2009-12-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 19:55, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I am having trouble installing flash player plugin package from > debian-multimedia. > > First, there is no version suitable for my Debian Testing. > >  $ apt-cache policy flashplayer-mozilla >  flashplayer-mozilla: >  Installed: 2:10.0.42.34

Re: What happened to xpdf in testing?

2009-12-15 Thread godo
Robert Latest wrote: Hello all, I've searched the Net up and down but had to realize in puzzlement that I seem to be the only one with this problem. After an upgrade from stable to testing I found that xpdf had gone. Sure enough, the page about the package "xpdf" at http://packages.debian.org/sq

Laptop won't resume from suspend to ram

2009-12-15 Thread Adriano Vilela Barbosa
Hello, I'm facing a very annoying problem with Debian testing on my laptop since this past weekend. Basically, the machine won't resume from a suspend to ram (resuming from suspend to disk works fine). It's not just a problem with a blank screen upon resuming; the machine actually gets complete

Using Cricket A600 Modem in Debian

2009-12-15 Thread lrhorer
I have been looking for a reference on using the Cricket Wireless A600 Broadband modem under a Debian "Lenny" install to provide wireless access to a home LAN. I can find a number of references such as the one at http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-setup-cricket-wireless-a600-broadband-modem-in-ubun

apt-get vs. aptitude

2009-12-15 Thread T o n g
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:05:45 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Don't use apt-get if you intend to obtain helpful error messages. > >> . . . > >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> iceweasel: Depends: xulrunner-1.9.1 but it is not going to be >> installed >> E: Broken packages >

Re: GConf and GNOME keyring support

2009-12-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 20:02, T o n g wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:05:52 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > >> So just use a Poppler based >> program, such as Okular or Evince (or evince-gtk, which has no gconf or >> gnome keyring support). > > What does it actually mean? > What features are lackin

Re: mutt deletes 1st unread

2009-12-15 Thread freeman
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 02:17:21PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 03:41:55AM -0800, freeman wrote: > > Duly, this only happens in my debian-user mailbox. (I sort with procmail.) > > > > The first unread email is always marked with a D, when I enter my "l-debusr" > > box.

Re: NTP setting

2009-12-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Configure them both to use their local clock as reference. On the "server" fudge the local clock to stratum 10. On the "client" fudge the local clock to stratum 13. Have each reference the other as a "peer" rather than "server". If this is unclear, let me know and I'll try to be more explicit.

Re: How does a novice do this [REF:41622147855]

2009-12-15 Thread Red Hat Customer Service
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Re: Trouble with flash player plugin

2009-12-15 Thread Cameron Hutchison
T o n g writes: >I am having trouble installing flash player plugin package from >debian-multimedia. >First, there is no version suitable for my Debian Testing. > $ apt-cache policy flashplayer-mozilla Try flashplugin-nonfree instead. That's what I have installed and have working. This downl

rsync hangs on big transfer Debian 5.0.3 pulling from WinXP SP3/ Cygwin 1.5.25

2009-12-15 Thread David Christensen
bian 5.0.3 box. Both Debian boxes report rsync version 3.0.3 protocol version 30. Cygwin reports rsync version 3.0.4 protocol version 30. Attached files: 1. cygcheck.out -- Cygwin check file. 2. debian-cygwin-20091215.txt -- console session on new Debian 5.0.3 box. Any suggestions? TIA, D

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-15 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:28:19 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 14:39, Camaleón wrote: >> That "100 people" was just a "supposition", sir :-) > > Hmmm, then that sentence needs some qualifiers or something: > > "so even *if we had* 100 dedicated engineers working on ATI drive