> I don't know when it happened but it must have been during some
> "aptitude upgrade" run lately: My console font turned from white to
> cyan. At first I thought that the red VGA signal had a bad contact,
I was recently experimenting with framebuffer settings, and when I tried certain
settings, I
I have a machine running Lenny with a 250GB IDE HD in it. The HD is on
its last legs giving S.M.A.R.T. errors.
I have a question about how best to divide things up in the new setup.
The current 250GB IDE HD has two partitions on it:
/dev/hda1 = linux (~80 MB)
/dev/hda2 = linux LVM (~249.92
Lisi put forth on 4/11/2010 1:56 AM:
> On Saturday 10 April 2010 22:12:04 Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> Stephen Powell put forth on 4/8/2010 9:38 PM:
For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head:
Give a man a fish and
On 11/04/10 07:56 +0100, Lisi wrote:
Recently I was trying to show my 15 year old granddaughter, who runs Open SuSU
11 on her laptop, how to do some small admin job. She said that she didn't
want to know. When I queried this, she said:
"When I am at school, the IT department does it for me
>> But you do understand that desktop users _don't_ want to learn about
>> their OS, correct?
>
> Recently I was trying to show my 15 year old granddaughter, who runs Open SuSU
> 11 on her laptop, how to do some small admin job. She said that she didn't
> want to know. When I queried this, she sa
But you do understand that desktop users _don't_ want to learn about
their OS, correct? They want the computer to be as transparent as
possible in their workflow.
If they don't wont to learn they don't have. That's way there is PC service.
Tell me how much of them know solution for some bigge
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 19:20:42 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote:
>
> I run KDE and normally mount usb devices with the "Storage Media" applet
> in the task bar. Recently I have been getting strange errors and
> mounting failed:
Which version of KDE, 3.x or 4.x? (I don't remember a task bar applet
fo
I have a question about how best to divide things up in the new setup.
I'm thinking to replace this IDE drive with two SATA HDs. One as small
as I can get. Say 100GB or so and make that the boot drive. And a second
HD say 500GB or so and moving the LVM over to that.
Would it be better to m
On Sat,10.Apr.10, 16:24:45, Paul E Condon wrote:
> The errors that I am experiencing are all similar. The first
> indication of a problem is a message from the kernel (I think). An
> example is:
>
> kernel: [78454.939948] journal commit I/O error
[...]
> When this happens, all the USB drives
>> But you do understand that desktop users _don't_ want to learn about
>> their OS, correct? They want the computer to be as transparent as
>> possible in their workflow.
>>
>>
> If they don't wont to learn they don't have. That's way there is PC service.
> Tell me how much of them know solution f
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 09:53:20 +0200, steef wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
(...)
>> So I would
>> test with the nvidia Debian drivers. If they do not work, you can
>> always come back and activate the Intel one.
>>
>>
> that is what i did when the nvidia drivers from *their site* worked out
> disastro
On Sunday 11 April 2010 09:02:49 you wrote:
> >> But you do understand that desktop users _don't_ want to learn about
> >> their OS, correct?
> >
> > Recently I was trying to show my 15 year old granddaughter, who runs Open
> > SuSU 11 on her laptop, how to do some small admin job. She said that s
No, these are normal everyday people who don't know what Windows or
what Linux is. They have a problem, they call me. No bitching, no
blaming.
In that case there is no really meter what they have. Only you will do
him a big favor if you put Debian because in that case they will be much
safe
On Sun,11.Apr.10, 12:15:53, godo wrote:
> In that case there is no really meter what they have. Only you will
> do him a big favor if you put Debian because in that case they will
> be much safer from virus's and it's much easier to open synaptic,
> hit refresh button, upgrade and apply then man
> Are you saying that only those who want to learn to administer it should be
> allowed to use Linux?
>
No, no, not at all. It may have been like that once, but today anyone
can pick it up and use it. Maintain and fix it, no, but use it until
problems arise, most certainly. And for some distros, t
>> No, these are normal everyday people who don't know what Windows or
>> what Linux is. They have a problem, they call me. No bitching, no
>> blaming.
>>
>>
> In that case there is no really meter what they have. Only you will do him a
> big favor if you put Debian because in that case they will b
M.Lewis put forth on 4/11/2010 2:19 AM:
> I'm thinking to replace this IDE drive with two SATA HDs. One as small
> as I can get. Say 100GB or so and make that the boot drive. And a second
> HD say 500GB or so and moving the LVM over to that.
First, LVM isn't a "thing" you move. LVM is a tool to
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 01:24:23AM +0200, Regid Ichira uttered:
>
> As some of you might know, the transition to dependency based
> boot / insserv is causing the following lines:
>
> insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp'
> overwrites defaults (empty).
>
>
Sure, but first you have to take care at least of these issues:
* proprietary drivers (if applicable and/or needed)
* multimedia stuff (add debian-multimedia repos)
* backports for:
- wicd or network-manager (if applicable, especially since
network-manager in lenny is too old)
- flash
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:49, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> That is exactly what I do! However, I use a Debian derivative as it
> has slightly better hardware support out of the box and more
> up-to-date packages than straight Debian. That is exactly what this
> thread is about.
For personal use i prefe
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:29, godo wrote:
>
>> Sure, but first you have to take care at least of these issues:
>>
>> * proprietary drivers (if applicable and/or needed)
>> * multimedia stuff (add debian-multimedia repos)
>> * backports for:
>> - wicd or network-manager (if applicable, especially
Nuno Magalhães wrote:
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:29, godo wrote:
Sure, but first you have to take care at least of these issues:
* proprietary drivers (if applicable and/or needed)
* multimedia stuff (add debian-multimedia repos)
* backports for:
- wicd or network-manager (if applicable, espe
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 06:08:22PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote:
> Both sup (sup.rubyforge.org) and notmuch (notmuchmail.org) are
> interesting works-in-progress that are based off the Xapian search
> engine, and have curses-based interfaces. For people who like the gmail
> interface, this might b
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Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 19:20:42 +0200, Clive McBarton wrote:
>> I run KDE and normally mount usb devices with the "Storage Media" applet
>> in the task bar. Recently I have been getting strange errors and
>> mounting failed:
>
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 07:56:10AM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Saturday 10 April 2010 22:12:04 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > > Stephen Powell put forth on 4/8/2010 9:38 PM:
> > >> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head:
> > >>
> > >>
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:48:51 -0600
Paul E Condon wrote:
...
> Your comment was/is helpful to me. Thanks. Please don't drop off this
> thread because I'm sometimes too terse. Following some links from article
No offense taken - I just didn't want you to get your expectations up
of the likelihood
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Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
> mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
> rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.
What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"?
I would have suggested mv. It has the useful property that you
On 04/11/2010 10:11 AM, Clive McBarton wrote:
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Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.
What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"?
Ov
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010 21:31:08 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote:
> Everytime I log into GNOME, I run this command in my home directory.
>
> xmodmap keymaps
>
> How can I automate this?
Mmmm, not sure if this will work.
You can try by creating a ".desktop" file under "~/.config/autostart" and
put there
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Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>>> mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
>>> rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.
>>>
>> What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"?
>>
>
> Over mv? That you keep the ori
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 3:01 AM, Phil Requirements
wrote:
>> I don't know when it happened but it must have been during some
>> "aptitude upgrade" run lately: My console font turned from white to
>> cyan. At first I thought that the red VGA signal had a bad contact,
>
> I was recently experimentin
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 06:49:45 -0400 (EDT), Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
> I use a Debian derivative as it
> has slightly better hardware support out of the box and more
> up-to-date packages than straight Debian. That is exactly what this
> thread is about.
No, that is not what this thread is about. I am
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:46:45 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
(...)
> You're welcome to search our archives. But don't post here unless you
> run Debian, want to know how your system works, and are willing to help
> others as well as yourself. I'm not trying to be unkind. I have
> nothing against
Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 09:46:45 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
(...)
You're welcome to search our archives. But don't post here unless you
run Debian, want to know how your system works, and are willing to help
others as well as yourself. I'm not trying to be unkind. I have
noth
On 2010-04-11 08:11, Clive McBarton wrote:
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.
What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"?
I would have suggested mv. It has the useful property that you can
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:51:01 +0200, godo wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
>>
>> (...)
>>
>> I acknowledge every list has it own rules but true is that some
>> questions are so wide that are also valid for any kind of linux flavour
>> and every list user will get benefit from the responses.
>>
>> And
On 2010-04-11 08:29, Clive McBarton wrote:
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.
What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"?
Over mv? That you keep the original files.
Of cou
On 2010-04-11 02:19, M.Lewis wrote:
I have a machine running Lenny with a 250GB IDE HD in it. The HD is on
its last legs giving S.M.A.R.T. errors.
I have a question about how best to divide things up in the new setup.
The current 250GB IDE HD has two partitions on it:
/dev/hda1 = linux (~8
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Disc Magnet wrote:
> Everytime I log into GNOME, I run this command in my home directory.
>
> xmodmap keymaps
>
> How can I automate this?
You can try with .xinitrc and/or .xsession, it should work.
Alternatively, you can try with .bachrc file, but in this way com
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:59:48 + (UTC)
Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:51:01 +0200, godo wrote:
...
> > We can talk about everything not just Linux OS on
> > d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org
> >
> > Why not ask there?
>
> Because I sincerely think that things like i.e.,
>> I use a Debian derivative as it
>> has slightly better hardware support out of the box and more
>> up-to-date packages than straight Debian. That is exactly what this
>> thread is about.
>
> No, that is not what this thread is about. I am the OP of this
> derivative of the thread
> "[OT] Ubuntu
Hi!
Asterisk in Debian/Lenny claims to be bristuffed, not? At least the
the Debian patch tracking system shows the bristuff-patches:
[1] http://bit.ly/bRRHe7
We have a QuadBRI-Card and recently needed support from Junghanns.net
but they refused telling us there is no bristuff installed because o
On 2010-04-08 19:44, Paul E Condon wrote:
I want to use the low cost high capacity hard drives that are
for sale in places like Best Buy and Costco. I have put ext3 on
several of them and started experimenting. The results so far
are puzzling.
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/faq.html#tes
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 3:19 AM, M.Lewis wrote:
>
> I have a machine running Lenny with a 250GB IDE HD in it. The HD is on its
> last legs giving S.M.A.R.T. errors.
>
> I have a question about how best to divide things up in the new setup. The
> current 250GB IDE HD has two partitions on it:
>
> /
I think the main question you should ask yourself is: "Do I want redundancy?"
* Yes? Now you know the drives should have equal size, reflecting your
needs. It's also a good idea to get identical drives.
You'll then probably create a big volume group over the entire RAID.
* No? Then you'r
Others suggested using filesystem-level tools, which is really fine.
Alternatively, you can shrink the filesystem and move the entire block at once.
Each method probably has its pros and cons.
-thib
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On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 07:45:34PM +0200, Darshaka Pathirana wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Asterisk in Debian/Lenny claims to be bristuffed, not? At least the
> the Debian patch tracking system shows the bristuff-patches:
>
> [1] http://bit.ly/bRRHe7
>
> We have a QuadBRI-Card and recently needed support fro
Clive McBarton schreef:
> Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
>> mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
>> rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.
>
> What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"?
Added to the points others make the "don't cross filesystem
borders"-option (-x
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Ron Johnson wrote:
>Never destroy the original until you know the copy works!
In my earlier days I would have avoided mv for exactly that reason. But
when copying (including rsync), you cannot easily see that it worked
from the emptyness of the origin
Ron Johnson schreef:
> On 2010-04-11 08:11, Clive McBarton wrote:
>>
>> Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
>>> mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
>>> rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.
>>
>> What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"?
>>
>> I would have suggested m
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Clive McBarton wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Never destroy the original until you know the copy works!
In my earlier days I would have avoided mv for exactly that reason. But
when copying (including rsync), you cannot easily see that it worked
from the emptyness of the original file system. And co
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
I thought symlinks keep point via a file location memo, like "look at
/usr/share/the/file/you/want", which is the old location just after
copying, but the new location when you boot from your new device and
that becomes root.
A tool that tries to be too smart could try to
On 20100411_005025, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Paul E Condon put forth on 4/10/2010 11:41 PM:
>
> > So, the fact that my WD drives don't play well with S.M.A.R.T doesn't
> > make them special, and I should not spend much, if any, time looking
> > for a USB solution. What other options are there for e
On 20100411_115203, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat,10.Apr.10, 16:24:45, Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> > The errors that I am experiencing are all similar. The first
> > indication of a problem is a message from the kernel (I think). An
> > example is:
> >
> > kernel: [78454.939948] journal commit I/O
On 2010-04-11 15:53, Clive McBarton wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Hah. Speeding up transfers is more likely, since the wire is always the
bottleneck, and compression means it will be carrying "more bits per bit".
There's no mention of wire transfer anywhere in this thread, and in fact
Yes, "wi
> You're welcome to search our archives. But don't post here unless you
> run Debian, want to know how your system works, and are willing to help
> others as well as yourself. I'm not trying to be unkind. I have nothing
> against you personally. But it is not fair for you to run another OS and
On 2010-04-11 15:54, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
Ron Johnson schreef:
On 2010-04-11 08:11, Clive McBarton wrote:
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
mount the new device (mount -odev /dev/newdevice), and do a
rsync -ax / /media/newdevice.
What exactly is the advantage of this approach over "cp -a" or "mv"?
I
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote:
> * From: Jozsi Vadkan
> * Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:08:46 +0200
>
>> What could be the best skype alternative,
>>
>
> Twinkle works in Lenny and in Squeeze.
>
> fsf.org advocates Ekiga. Ekiga 2 worked for me
> a few years back but Ekiga 3 has never work
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 08:58:59AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 07:56:10AM +0100, Lisi wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 April 2010 22:12:04 Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > > On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> > >
> > > But you do understand that desktop users _don't_ want to learn
Ron Johnson wrote:
Yes, "wire" is slang for network cables, but SATA cables are actual
wires too and orders of magnitude slower than CPU/RAM transfer.
This is true, but isn't relevant to what you suggested.
Think about it some more.
...
Oh yes.
We'll never talk about this again, I promise.
On 2010-04-11 18:49, thib wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Yes, "wire" is slang for network cables, but SATA cables are actual
wires too and orders of magnitude slower than CPU/RAM transfer.
This is true, but isn't relevant to what you suggested.
Think about it some more.
...
Oh yes.
We'll never t
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010 19:30:14 -0500, Ron Johnson
wrote:
> On 2010-04-11 18:49, thib wrote:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> Yes, "wire" is slang for network cables, but SATA cables are actual
>>> wires too and orders of magnitude slower than CPU/RAM transfer.
>>
>> This is true, but isn't relevant to wh
Paul E Condon put forth on 4/11/2010 4:40 PM:
> All of the computers are hand-me-downs. None have eSATA capability. So
> far I have not convinced myself that spending money would help solve
> the problem. Perhaps in a few years, computers with eSATA will start
> showing up in dumpsters. Maybe I sh
im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read
power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope > paste from that page,
the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a
dpkg-reconfigure locales issue?
how can i gain the ability to type a power of 2?
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Andrew M.A. Cater put forth on 4/11/2010 6:54 PM:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 08:58:59AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 07:56:10AM +0100, Lisi wrote:
>>> On Saturday 10 April 2010 22:12:04 Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
But you do u
vr put forth on 4/11/2010 8:49 PM:
> I've used dd to push a copy of a working system onto larger drives in the
> past. So my misuse of the term "migrate" is me actually doing a copy of the
> working system to a new, larger device and then zap the original.
>
> I'd hoped there was a block by block
vr wrote:
[snip]
I'd hoped there was a block by block way to do it so I didn't have to set
up the partitions & filesystems ahead of time but I suppose that part won't
be too painful.
Well, as I said in another branch of the thread, you can shrink most
filesystems, including all extfs (I think
Hi,
This is the output of scp -vv
$ scp -vv files.tar.gz r...@192.168.1.11:/root/Desktop
Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host 192.168.1.11, user root, command scp -v -t
/root/Desktop
OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/ssh_config
debug1:
vikram wrote:
Hi,
This is the output of scp -vv
$ scp -vv files.tar.gz r...@192.168.1.11:/root/Desktop
Executing: program /usr/bin/ssh host 192.168.1.11, user root, command
scp -v -t /root/Desktop
OpenSSH_5.1p1 Debian-5, OpenSSL 0.9.8g 19 Oct 2007
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh/s
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:12 PM, vr wrote:
> What's the best mechanism to migrate a working bootable system from one
> drive to a smaller capacity drive?
>
How about Clonezilla, clone mode, not image mode?
Mark
jeremy jozwik writes:
>im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read
>power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope > paste from that page,
>the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a
>dpkg-reconfigure locales issue?
>how can i gain the ability to type a power of 2
jeremy jozwik wrote:
im trying to type [copy from character map] power of 2. i can read
power of 2 on webpages but if i were to cope > paste from that page,
the power displays as a normal character 2. is this a
dpkg-reconfigure locales issue?
how can i gain the ability to type a power of 2?
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