also sprach Ron Johnson [2010.05.02.2300 +0200]:
> >My system used to become close to unusable on the 1st sunday of
> >the month when mdadm did it resync,
>
> That sounds... wrong, on a jillion levels.
It sounds (and is) wrong in exactly two ways:
1. The operation is not a resync, check the FAQ
Hi!
On 05/03/2010 01:28 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
To illustrate suppose I want to search for package where a single
version matches "~A^unstable$", "A^stable$" and "~i". A search
where we expect no results. Yet:
Why do you expect no results? The three examples you posted below
look to me
On 05/03/2010 01:21 AM, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Ron Johnson [2010.05.02.2300 +0200]:
My system used to become close to unusable on the 1st sunday of
the month when mdadm did it resync,
That sounds... wrong, on a jillion levels.
It sounds (and is) wrong in exactly two ways:
1. Th
On 05/02/2010 10:58 PM, Thomas Ferry wrote:
On 04/30/2010 10:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Is there such a DVD app analogous to cdparanoia? Or is it not possible
due to the differing data, WAV vs. MPEG?
The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old "movie" DVD-Rs
and they're all at some po
also sprach Ron Johnson [2010.05.03.1039 +0200]:
> Is that Q21?
>
> http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/FAQ;hb=HEAD
Yes.
> >2. You were asked upon mdadm installation whether you wanted it, and
> >you chose to accept yes. dpkg-reconfigure mdadm if you don't
> >
On 05/02/2010 10:53 PM, Mark wrote:
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Size. A little almost-handheld netbook just isn't as physically in danger
of cracking in your knapsack as a 15" or 17" laptop.
My girlfriend's Dell Mini's screen got cracked on a recent trip even though
On 05/02/2010 10:39 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
On 5/2/2010 9:35 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Netbooks are underpowered. Get a *real* notebook/laptop. You can get a
much better computer for about the same money. The only advantage I
can
see in a netbook is battery life. I speak from experience.
Weight?
On 05/03/2010 03:45 AM, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Ron Johnson [2010.05.03.1039 +0200]:
Is that Q21?
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/FAQ;hb=HEAD
Yes.
2. You were asked upon mdadm installation whether you wanted it, and
you chose to accept yes.
On Mon, 03 May 2010 01:48:02 -0400, Zachary Uram wrote:
> This sucks. Stupid closed source drivers cause such problems. Any
> workaround I can do?
>
> I need to build the fglrx driver for debian squeeze (ati radeon hd 4550
> card), but I just saw this bug
> saying the packages have been removed f
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Zachary Uram wrote:
> This sucks. Stupid closed source drivers cause such problems.
Agreed. Specifically, the fglrx driver. I don't have problems with nvidia,
but when fglrx-9-12 came out, it broke compiz, so I reinstalled 9-11, and
put it on hold. I haven't upgr
Le 03/05/2010 11:43, Camaleón a écrit :
On Mon, 03 May 2010 01:48:02 -0400, Zachary Uram wrote:
This sucks. Stupid closed source drivers cause such problems. Any
workaround I can do?
I need to build the fglrx driver for debian squeeze (ati radeon hd 4550
card), but I just saw this bug
saying t
Hi,
Two weeks ago my mail client (alpine) stopped authenticating my email
provider's certificate. (Provider is FastMail.fm.)
I tried several things (details below) without success.
I can't even tell if the problem is on my or server's end.
I tried to get help at the provider's forum's to no
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 11:15:27AM +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis
was heard to say:
> On 05/03/2010 01:28 AM, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> >>To illustrate suppose I want to search for package where a single
> >>version matches "~A^unstable$", "A^stable$" and "~i". A search
> >>where we expect no resul
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:14:43PM -0500, Brian Ryans
was heard to say:
> In Aptitude, I can execute queued package modification orders (install,
> remove, etc) by use of 'aptitude install', with no arguments.
>
> How does one queue packages using only the command line? I'm looking to
> duplicat
Can exim be made to listen to two ports (587 and 25) on one ip?
I put this in /etc/default/exim4:
SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS='-oX 587:25'
Exim responded by generating a /var/log/exim4/paniclog file containing:
"socket bind() to port 25 for address [my local ip] failed: Address
already in use: daemon a
On Sunday 02 May 2010 17:08:23 Mark Neidorff wrote:
> I'm running updated Lenny. I just got a droid phone and wanted to mount it
> on my Lenny box. So, I plugged the USB cable into the droid and the
> computer. I expected to see an sd? device show up with partitions (like
> sdb1, sdb2, etc.) b
On Monday 26 April 2010 16:34:38 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2010 16:05:31 B. Alexander wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <
> >
> > b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> > > I'm also a current reiser3 user. I find the ability to shrink the
> > > f
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 07:07:21AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 09:31:28AM -0400, Rick Pasotto was
> heard to say:
> > Today's run of 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' had been running for over an
> > hour and was using half my memory when I killed it. The status line was:
> >
On 03/05/10, Zoran Kolic (zko...@sbb.rs) wrote:
| > | When I try to connect, wicd says that it is 'Putting interface up...',
'Validating authentication...', 'Obtaining IP address...' then it times out and
says 'Connection failed: Unable to Get IP Address.'
| >
| > I have no clue what causes the
After doing a apt-get dist-update and restarting the pc because of some
errors I'm getting the problem as show in the image.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/fscussel/Untitled.jpg
can't dist-update and system is not working correctly, many missing
libraries which I don't know how to rein
On Monday 03 May 2010 12:34:13 Fernando B. Scussel wrote:
> After doing a apt-get dist-update and restarting the pc because of some
> errors
If a full-upgrade (previously known as dist-upgrade) throws errors, the last
thing you should do is reboot. You should *fix the errors*; your system may
n
On Mon, 03 May 2010 10:41:51 -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote:
> Can exim be made to listen to two ports (587 and 25) on one ip?
>
> I put this in /etc/default/exim4:
>
> SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS='-oX 587:25'
>
> Exim responded by generating a /var/log/exim4/paniclog file containing:
>
> "socket bind() to
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 15:46 +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 02 May 2010 17:33:59 +0200, Steven wrote:
(...)
>
> There is an open bug, but the weird thing is that in your case it works
> in one computer and fails in the other :-?
>
> ***
> gnome-panel: some application icons lost transparency in
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
From you output it looks like your 'perl-base' is scheduled to be upgraded.
You should try installing the new version of that package with dpkg and then
retrying your apt-get/aptitude run.
It's worth a shot, depending of if dpkg has not been borked, 'dpkg -i
p
On Monday 03 May 2010 13:36:07 Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > From you output it looks like your 'perl-base' is scheduled to be
> > upgraded. You should try installing the new version of that package with
> > dpkg and then retrying your apt-get/aptitude run.
>
> It's wort
> From: d.sastre.med...@gmail.com [mailto:d.sastre.med...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 3:47 AM
>
> On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 10:11:43AM +0100, hadi motamedi wrote:
> > Dear All
> > I need to schedule for a repeated task on my Debian server, as the
> > followings:
> > -) Telnet to a remote
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Here we go, currently I have only done the safe upgrade, still 176
packages to upgrade, I can remove yawp (yet another weather plasma) and
get a full upgrade or keep yawp, do the upgrade and break kde, I will
stick with the safe upgrade for awhile, cause I don't want to los
On Mon, 03 May 2010 20:29:17 +0200, Steven wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 15:46 +, Camaleón wrote:
>> ***
>> gnome-panel: some application icons lost transparency in notification
>> area http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551751 ***
>>
>> Anyway, check if the affected applicati
Hi,
Can anyone confirm if lenny or squeeze or sid gvfs-fuse works ... ie if
you use "places - connect to server" it also mounts remote file systems
under ~/.gvfs?
ta
Berni
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On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:07 +, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 03 May 2010 20:29:17 +0200, Steven wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 15:46 +, Camaleón wrote:
>
> >> ***
> >> gnome-panel: some application icons lost transparency in notification
> >> area http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.
On Mon, 3 May 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
If a full-upgrade (previously known as dist-upgrade) throws errors, the last
thing you should do is reboot. You should *fix the errors*; your system may
not reboot cleanly until they are resolved.
Well said. Rebooting in the middle of a dist-
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Jimmy Johnson wrote:
Here we go, currently I have only done the safe upgrade, still 176
packages to upgrade, I can remove yawp (yet another weather plasma)
and get a full upgrade or keep yawp, do the upgrade and break kde, I
will stick with the safe upgrade for awhile, cau
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:43 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com
wrote:
> Hi, what exactly is broken ?
> As a workaround you could use Sid packages if Squeeze's are in bad shape. I
> have two mostly Squeeze (amd64, kde with desktop "effects" enabled) machines
> running Sid's fglrx at the moment and they s
On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 08:05 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:56:44 -0400
> "John A. Sullivan III" dijo:
>
> >Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia.
> >It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups print server. It just
> >shows the cust
On 5/3/2010 3:54 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/02/2010 10:39 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
On 5/2/2010 9:35 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Size. A little almost-handheld netbook just isn't as physically in
danger of cracking in your knapsack as a 15" or 17" laptop.
I have no idea what you even mean by that
On 05/03/2010 04:13 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
[snip]
I was listing advantages of netbooks over notebooks and laptops, but
size is not one of them, _at_least_for_me_. They are too small. The
screens are too small for my eyesight, the keyboards are too small for
my hands, and so on.
YMMV, I suppose.
I need to have separate locale settings for my terminal apps, so I
configure that in .bash_profile. I assume that my desktop environment
is using my locale settings from .profile but I'd like to confirm what
those settings are. How can I get the output of locale _not_ from a
terminal (which will so
Hi, everyone --
I guess I should clarify my desirement for 64-bit. There are two things
here. First, I intend to build a home computer which will run linux, and it
will be 64-bit; since I'm quite new to maintaining my own linux computers,
I'd rather limit the number of differences between the ho
I couldn't copy cause I couldn't install gpm cause nothing works so I just
gave up.
Thanks for everyone who contributed. System got fucked =/
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Subject: Re: apt-get dist-update failu
On 5/3/2010 4:29 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
Hi, everyone --
I guess I should clarify my desirement for 64-bit. There are two things
here. First, I intend to build a home computer which will run linux,
and it will be 64-bit; since I'm quite new to maintaining my own linux
computers, I'd rather
On Monday 03 May 2010 22:13:05 Mark Allums wrote:
> Most netbooks (at least the ones I have seen) are relatively flimsy.
>
> They are not "almost-handheld". They are much larger than that.
>
> I was listing advantages of netbooks over notebooks and laptops, but
> size is not one of them, _at_least
Le 03/05/2010 22:49, Carlos Miranda Molina (Mstaaravin) wrote:
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:43 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Hi, what exactly is broken ?
As a workaround you could use Sid packages if Squeeze's are in bad shape. I
have two mostly Squeeze (amd64, kde with desktop "effects" ena
Quoting Daniel Burrows on 2010-05-03 09:07:37:
> Add --schedule-only to the command-line.
Upon grepping the manpage for --schedule-only, I see it (also after
having taken a bit of time away from the problem). Oversight on my part.
Thanks, and sorry to have taken your time with that Daniel.
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On 5/3/2010 4:39 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I need to have separate locale settings for my terminal apps, so I
configure that in .bash_profile. I assume that my desktop environment
is using my locale settings from .profile but I'd like to confirm what
those settings are. How can I get the output of l
On 5/3/2010 5:02 PM, Lisi wrote:
On Monday 03 May 2010 22:13:05 Mark Allums wrote:
Most netbooks (at least the ones I have seen) are relatively flimsy.
They are not "almost-handheld". They are much larger than that.
I was listing advantages of netbooks over notebooks and laptops, but
size is
John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-15 at 08:05 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 05:56:44 -0400
>> "John A. Sullivan III" dijo:
>>
>> >Hello, all. We've installed acroread 8.1.7-0.1 from debian-multimedia.
>> >It is not seeing any of the printers on our cups prin
> Thanks, all. We found that 9.3.1 was still broken but 9.3.2 works -
> John
forgot to post this
http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2009/06/printing_with_adobe_reader_the.html
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Mark Allums wrote:
> With 64 bits, you will need more memory, so I suggest you look for a
> machine that can use 4 GB of memory.
>
I also found that people underestimate the importance of L2/3 cache. I'm
compiling very often and it's really faster on my developer's notebook with
4M cache then o
On 5/3/2010 6:20 PM, deloptes wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
With 64 bits, you will need more memory, so I suggest you look for a
machine that can use 4 GB of memory.
I also found that people underestimate the importance of L2/3 cache. I'm
compiling very often and it's really faster on my develop
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 12:17:54PM -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
> I've been thinking about getting a netbook and I'd like to install Debian
> linux on it when / if I do. I'd also like to get one which uses an
> AMD64-class processor. Does anyone have any suggestions? The Gateway LT21
> looks li
Mark Allums wrote:
>
> I do not know, but I would guess that it is dependent on the CPU. A
> particular ARM or Atom chip may have a particular amount of on-chip cache.
>
> Choosing one's machine carefully would include knowing what type of CPU
> is in it.
>
> MAA
Good point, thanks!
I've com
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/02/2010 03:24 PM, Alexander Samad wrote:
[snip]
My system used to become close to unusable on the 1st sunday of the
month when
mdadm did it resync,
That sounds... wrong, on a jillion levels.
I would rather the array fail on a monthly resync than have it fail on a
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>
> For me, it is only partly about my hardware. It is also about my data.
> I have backups, but I didn't used to, and I would just as soon not
> have to go through a restore process. And even a simple power
> outage that wouldn't harm hardware
On 05/03/2010 06:20 PM, deloptes wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
With 64 bits, you will need more memory, so I suggest you look for a
machine that can use 4 GB of memory.
I also found that people underestimate the importance of L2/3 cache. I'm
compiling very often and it's really faster on my deve
On 05/03/2010 08:04 PM, Sam Leon wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/02/2010 03:24 PM, Alexander Samad wrote:
[snip]
My system used to become close to unusable on the 1st sunday of the
month when
mdadm did it resync,
That sounds... wrong, on a jillion levels.
I would rather the array fail on
On 04/29/2010 02:17 PM, Joe Brenner wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
B. Alexander wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
XFS is the canonical fs for when you have lots of Big Files. I've
also seen simple benchmarks on this list showing that it's faster
than ext3/ext4.
Thats cool. What about Lot
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 20:55 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 05/03/2010 06:20 PM, deloptes wrote:
> > Mark Allums wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> > Do you know if there are some with larger cache?
> >
>
> Just as a Mini Cooper isn't a dragster or a lorry, netbooks are not
> *designed* for heavy computation
I have a static IP setup, I wish to add a router and it has a web
interface, I can get to it if I start a DHCP server and then
192.168.1.1 is setup, but I'd really prefer to not do this.
Is there a way I can setup devices such as this without needing to run
DHCP? Also I was generally curious if the
> Mon, 3 May 2010 22:11:59 -0400 wrote:
>
> I have a static IP setup, I wish to add a router and it has a web
> interface, I can get to it if I start a DHCP server and then
> 192.168.1.1 is setup, but I'd really prefer to not do this.
Why might DHCP be unacceptable in your setup?
> Is there a
On 05/03/2010 09:26 PM, Alex Samad wrote:
[snip]
I find with my atom, using syncplaces (a firefox addin), which encrypts
its files - it takes for ever, I am guess i am missing some of those
nice cpu op's that speed these things up.
AMD & Intel's low-power CPUs need encryption engines just lik
On Mon, 3 May 2010 22:11:59 -0400
Zachary Uram wrote:
> I have a static IP setup, I wish to add a router and it has a web
> interface, I can get to it if I start a DHCP server and then
> 192.168.1.1 is setup, but I'd really prefer to not do this.
> Is there a way I can setup devices such as this
On 05/03/2010 09:11 PM, Zachary Uram wrote:
I have a static IP setup,
Where do you get this IP address from?
Usually (always??) the router gets the (sometimes static) IP address
from the ISP and then it either gives you a DHCP address or lets you
specify your own (192.168.x.y or 10.x.y.z) st
Ron Johnson put forth on 5/3/2010 4:21 PM:
> On 05/03/2010 04:13 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
> [snip]
>>
>> I was listing advantages of netbooks over notebooks and laptops, but
>> size is not one of them, _at_least_for_me_. They are too small. The
>> screens are too small for my eyesight, the keyboards
Hi,
I have a problem (actually more than one, but let's tackle this one
first) with my password on KDE log in screen no being accepted. The
password does work OK when logging in using command line / terminal.
I have 3 users, and all have this same situation. Their passwords work
on CLI but
Mark Allums put forth on 5/3/2010 5:01 PM:
> With 64 bits, you will need more memory, so I suggest you look for a
> machine that can use 4 GB of memory.
A user's application usage patterns dictate how much memory the machine
needs, not the width of the CPU registers. The comment above belongs in
On 05/03/2010 11:01 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 5/3/2010 5:01 PM:
With 64 bits, you will need more memory, so I suggest you look for a
machine that can use 4 GB of memory.
A user's application usage patterns dictate how much memory the machine
needs, not the width of the
deloptes put forth on 5/3/2010 6:20 PM:
> I've noticed that there is only 512K cache in the most netbooks which makes
> then unsuitable for development. ATM this is stopping me from buying one.
> Do you know if there are some with larger cache?
The Celeron/M based netbooks have 1MB L2 cache. The
password. Then just execute "ssh usern...@remote.server somecommand" and it
> will run "somecommand" and the output will be sent back to you.
>
>
>
> Thank you for your reply. Please be informed that I didn't have success in
activating ssh on my remote node VxWorks. According to your comment, I w
On 04/26/2010 03:25 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
[snip]
> If it took only 2 weeks for the bulk of this effort, I can't
imagine they had to modify a ton of XFS code. IRIX was written in C as is
Linux, so the changes in XFS were probably fairly minor.
Windows is written in C, Linux is written in C.
deloptes put forth on 5/3/2010 7:44 PM:
> So the question is, if
> someone knows of a netbook (that is _64bit) and can be used for development
> (i.e. has 2gb ram and i.e. 2m cache) this would be exactly perfect for me.
I listed the machine closest to your requirements in my last email. It
meets
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 05:30:25 Don wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem (actually more than one, but let's tackle this one
> first) with my password on KDE log in screen no being accepted. The
> password does work OK when logging in using command line / terminal.
>
> I have 3 users, and all have t
On 5/3/2010 11:01 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 5/3/2010 5:01 PM:
With 64 bits, you will need more memory, so I suggest you look for a
machine that can use 4 GB of memory.
A user's application usage patterns dictate how much memory the machine
needs, not the width of the C
Ron Johnson put forth on 5/3/2010 9:16 PM:
> On 04/29/2010 02:17 PM, Joe Brenner wrote:
>> Would you happen to have any links to such benchmarks, unofficial or
>> otherwise?
>
> They were posted to this list (within the last 6 months, I think).
I've posted a few in the very recent past, although
Ron Johnson put forth on 5/3/2010 11:26 PM:
> On 04/26/2010 03:25 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> [snip]
>> If it took only 2 weeks for the bulk of this effort, I can't
>> imagine they had to modify a ton of XFS code. IRIX was written in C
>> as is
>> Linux, so the changes in XFS were probably fairly m
Mark Allums put forth on 5/3/2010 11:41 PM:
> On 5/3/2010 11:01 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> Mark Allums put forth on 5/3/2010 5:01 PM:
>>
>>> With 64 bits, you will need more memory, so I suggest you look for a
>>> machine that can use 4 GB of memory.
>>
>> A user's application usage patterns dicta
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 5/4/2010 12:32 AM:
> 2001 was fully 64 bit and had been for many many years. Porting IRIX from
> 64bit MIPS to 64bit Itanium and other 64bit arches such as Alpha was far
Self correction. That should read, top right, "Porting XFS from"
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On Mon, 03 May 2010 22:11:59 -0400, Zachary Uram wrote:
> I have a static IP setup, I wish to add a router and it has a web
> interface, I can get to it if I start a DHCP server and then 192.168.1.1
> is setup, but I'd really prefer to not do this. Is there a way I can
> setup devices such as this
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
wrote:
> It's an aggressive migration plan, but reiser3 is just barely maintained in
> the kernel
Would that be due to the system's creator having current living
conditions unconducive to helping maintain his creation?
http://en.wikipedia
On 5/4/2010 12:43 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Please do not try to insult. It is not really useful, and wastes time.
Apologies. It wasn't meant as an insult but as an exclamation point backing
incredulity.
A user's application usage patterns dictate how much memory the machine
needs, not the
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