Re: single machine, different IP addresses

On 8 February 2011 15:53, T o n g wrote: > >From http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/thttpd_man.html > But this really looks Greek to me. I have to ask, why you can't or don't want to use Apache web server? It supports Virtual Hosts pretty much out of the box on Debian with a minimum of configu

Re: KPackage

On Lu, 07 feb 11, 18:45:31, lrhorer wrote: > > For whatever reason, someone has decided to remove KPackage from the > Debian distro. 'Really bad idea, if you ask me. Anyway, when I AFAIU, kpackage lacks support for some important things needed by apt. Use at your own risk. Regards, Andrei -

Re: weired problem around grub2

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:27:02 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 07:53:56 +0100, Geronimo wrote: (...) >> "Installing GRUB" and "booting from GRUB" are two separate things :-) > > For sure! > > But as I don't know, which of it causes the trouble, I told you the > wh

Re: KPackage

Hello, lrhorer wrote: > For whatever reason, someone has decided to remove KPackage from the > Debian distro. 'Really bad idea, if you ask me. Great idea - if you ask me :) > Is there a good way to get KPackage back onto the other system? Is there > some way we could get someone to reverse th

Re: Pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 04:44 +, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:27:06 +, T o n g wrote: > > > $ dig maroon @maroon > > > > ; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> maroon @maroon ;; global options: +cmd > > ;; Got answer: > > ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53975 ;; flags: qr >

Re: skip fsck when booting on battery?

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 20:59 +0100, Steven wrote: [snipped discussion about slow fsck on large ext3 partitions] > Or would in this case another file system be a better option for the > large partitions? Ext4 comes to mind. The system is not backed by a UPS > so power failures do happen (although not

Re: Xorg removed after update

This will sound harsh, but... On Ma, 08 feb 11, 00:12:40, G. Pablo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > I just ran update through synaptic and unistalled X.Org X server and a > > whole bunch of other X server related stuff (ati drivers, etc.) and it won't > > let me install it again. It says: > > xserver-xorg-co

gcc-4.4 building from the source

Hello! I'm trying to build gcc-4.4 on Debian Squeeze and have no success. On my ppc machine i got a this error: configure:2415: /home/axet/source/cross-toolchain/gcc-4.4/build/./gcc/xgcc -B/home/axet/source/cross-toolchain/gcc-4.4/build/./gcc/ -B/usr/i486-linux-gnu/bin/ -B/usr/i486-linux-gnu/lib

Re: KPackage

On Ma, 08 feb 11, 11:05:05, Geronimo wrote: > > Try Synaptic ;) > > Works fine even on KDE systems, is better organized, offers better search, ... > ... no I don't get payed for this writing :D And to make it blend in with KDE install gtk-qt-engine and kde-config-gtk-style, go to System Configu

Re: weired problem around grub2

Hello, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:27:02 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > > But I can't state, whether grub-install puts a wrong pointer into mbr or > > whether the drive order changed on reboot and grub is not able to > > resolve the target of that pointer. One of the three causes troubles.

Re: KPackage

On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:45:31 -0600, lrhorer wrote: > For whatever reason, someone has decided to remove KPackage from the > Debian distro. 'Really bad idea, if you ask me. (...) JFYI, there is an ITP for Kpackagekit and other projects "in the wild" (like Shaman) aimed to replace KPackage. G

best labtop for debian

i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? 900$-1300$ "my choice is lenovo labtop"

Re: single machine, different IP addresses

Day Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:44:02 +0100, you wrote: > Am 08.02.11 06:53, schrieb T o n g: >> Hi, >> >> Is it possible to make a single machine having/answering to different IP >> addresses (I'm using DNSmasq as the dns server)? >> > You can use a virtual interface: > > ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.1 n

which version for intel chipset 64bit

- amd64 - armel - kfreebsd-i386 - kfreebsd-amd64

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

amd64 On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: * amd64 * armel * kfreebsd-i386 * kfreebsd

Re: best labtop for debian

hamed hosseini: > i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > 900$-1300$ > "my choice is lenovo labtop" I have been using an X200 for the last two years and I am still very pleased with it. The X201 is a bit more expensive and features more recent CPUs, but you might want to consider ge

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

thank you On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > amd64 > > On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: > >>* amd64 >>* armel >>* kfreebsd-i386 >>

Re: best labtop for debian

thank you On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > hamed hosseini: > > i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > > 900$-1300$ > > "my choice is lenovo labtop" > > I have been using an X200 for the last two years and I am still very > pleased with it. The X201 is a bit

Re: best labtop for debian

On Ma, 08 feb 11, 13:52:35, hamed hosseini wrote: > i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > 900$-1300$ > "my choice is lenovo labtop" I would go for a ThinkPad. They might be a bit more expensive, but in my experience it's worth it. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among D

Re: weired problem around grub2

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:17:27 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> You can try to "chainload" the failed GRUB (boot from the GRUB that >> works and then call the GRUB that fails). Yes, I know you are planning >> to remove the new partition to make room for windows, but this is just >> for t

Re: single machine, different IP addresses

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:27:27 +0100, Artur Frydel wrote: > Day Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:44:02 +0100, you wrote: > >> Am 08.02.11 06:53, schrieb T o n g: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Is it possible to make a single machine having/answering to different >>> IP addresses (I'm using DNSmasq as the dns server)? >>> >>

Migration from Lenny to Squeeze: any feedback about configuration upgrade issues ?

Hello I'm working on a project that aim to ease configuration upgrades during package upgrade. [1] Since a lot of people will upgrade them system from Lenny to Squeeze, I'd be interested in feedback on the upgrade of configuration files. Did the upgrade process stopped to ask you question abou

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:34:33 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: >> which version for intel chipset 64bit? (...) > amd64 Or i386, that's up to the user ;-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: best labtop for debian

On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 13:52:35 +0330 hamed hosseini wrote: > i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > 900$-1300$ > "my choice is lenovo labtop" On solar power so must use a laptop as a desktop - been using an Acer Aspire 3614WLCI for just over 4 years - rock solid but hard drive had t

Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

Hello, i would like to ask for help since i am feeling a bit clueless here. I recently bought a low end dedicated machine that was supposed to host some services: squid, proftpd and rtorrent. I installed debian lenny and immediately updated to squeeze and configured the services. I started rtorre

Sticking with Lenny

I have a headless VPS running Lenny. For the time being, until I get some time to attend to it, I wish to keep it that way. However, my sources.list points to "stable": deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main cont

Re: Sticking with Lenny

Tony van der Hoff: > > I have a headless VPS running Lenny. For the time being, until I get > some time to attend to it, I wish to keep it that way. However, my > sources.list points to "stable": Then change that to "lenny" and run apt-get update. If you didn't install any packages from squeeze (w

Re: best labtop for debian

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I would go for a ThinkPad. They might be a bit more expensive, but in > my experience it's worth it. absolutely. I was (and still am) using a T42p and now I have a X301 which is just great. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: squeeze: xen 4.0.1-2 + drbd8-utils: block-drbd script does no longer work?!

Just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze and ran into the same problem with my block-iscsi script: > # xm create foo.example.com.cfg > Using config file "/etc/xen/foo.example.com.cfg". > Error: Device 2049 (vbd) could not be connected. Hotplug scripts not working. I tried to call my script directly i

Re: weired problem around grub2

Hello, Camaleón wrote: > Then you can also think in making room for a small "/boot" partition O:-) Yes, doing so is not the problem. I only don't understand the benefit of doing so. I quite a deterministic person - so if you can tell me a good reason, I will follow your plans. > Sorry, it's a

Re: Sticking with Lenny

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:27:55AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free ... > What happens in this case? Presumably updates will be taken from the new > stable repository? Correct. > Should I be specifying lenny instead of stable

Re: weired problem around grub2

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:11:52 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> Then you can also think in making room for a small "/boot" partition >> O:-) > > Yes, doing so is not the problem. > > I only don't understand the benefit of doing so. I quite a deterministic > person - so if you can tell m

PHP and memory_limit

Hi list! I've got a problem with PHP and memory_limit. It seems like the the memory usage in the following example isn't limited at all, even though memory_limit is set. I've tried this on both lenny and squeeze with the standard php.ini. Libgd (gd.so) is included as an extension and also from

Re: best labtop for debian

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:22 PM, hamed hosseini wrote: > i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > 900$-1300$ > "my choice is lenovo labtop" > Have you seen this? http://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed -- Sincerely Yours' Mark Goldshtein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-u

Re: Sticking with Lenny

On 08/02/11 11:59, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:27:55AM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free ... What happens in this case? Presumably updates will be taken from the new stable repository? Correct. Should I

Re: single machine, different IP addresses

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:58:55 +, Camaleón wrote: Is it possible to make a single machine having/answering to different IP addresses (I'm using DNSmasq as the dns server)? >>> You can use a virtual interface: >>> >>> ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 >>> >> IMO t

Re: Firware drivers?

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Mark a écrit : > > I have read the Squeeze Release Notes, here is what it says about > > non-free firmware. So the RTFM responses can stop now... > > > > 2.1.2. Firmware moved to the non-free section > > > > Some drivers include

exim4-config fails to configure on install

Hi, i've tried to report the bug using reportbug but since the bug involves the mail command I can not send it. I'm going to paste it here. Hope it helps. Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-En

Re: single machine, different IP addresses

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:14:39 +, T o n g wrote: > Is it possible to make a single machine having/answering to > different IP addresses (I'm using DNSmasq as the dns server)? > You can use a virtual interface: ifconfig eth0:0 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 >>

Re: Firware drivers?

Hello, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring > them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond > where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot > Henrique Holschuh u made my day :D > The release notes ar

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

Camaleón put forth on 2/8/2011 4:55 AM: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:34:33 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: > >>> which version for intel chipset 64bit? > > (...) > >> amd64 > > Or i386, that's up to the user ;-) Neither of these is correct if he has an It

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

who does play with Itanium box ? expert or newbie ? On 08/02/11 14:53, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Camaleón put forth on 2/8/2011 4:55 AM: On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:34:33 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: which version for intel chipset 64bit? (...) amd64 Or

Re: single machine, different IP addresses

Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:27:27 +0100, Artur Frydel wrote: >> IMO the better choice is to use ip tool. For example; >> ip a a 192.168.0.1/24 dev eth0 > "ip" tool settings will lost after computer restarts unless you make an > script that sets the data on every network reboot... I

Re: Server freezing under heavy cpu / disk / network load

Davide Mirtillo put forth on 2/8/2011 5:25 AM: > I am currently running squeeze 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem. The machine has Why run the 32bit distro with the bigmem kernel on an AMD64 box? And why run the bigmem kernel on a machine with only 1 GB RAM? The bigmem kernel is only needed for PAE, which me

Re: single machine, different IP addresses

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:47:00 +, T o n g wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 13:14:39 +, T o n g wrote: > >>> "ip" tool settings will lost after computer restarts unless you make >>> an script that sets the data on every network reboot... I think IP >>> alias (virtual interface) is the way to go.

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 07:40:31PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-02-07 19:33 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > The problem for me is that dist-upgrade wants to install > > libdrm-nouveau1, which blasts nvidia-glx. > > No, nvidia-glx is broken by the xserver-xorg-core upgrade. I installed xo

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 07:53:23 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Camaleón put forth on 2/8/2011 4:55 AM: >> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:34:33 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> >>> On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: >> which version for intel chipset 64bit? >> >> (...) >> >>> amd64 >> >> Or i386,

Re: Sticking with Lenny

Dave Sherohman wrote: Should I be specifying lenny instead of stable, Yes, if you want to stay on lenny until further notice. Personally, I always use the version names, so I'm not 100% certain that it's still around, but I believe you could also use old-stable to continue tracking

Re: exim4-config fails to configure on install

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:12:06 +0100, Joan Marc Riera Duocastella wrote: > i've tried to report the bug using reportbug but since the bug involves > the mail command I can not send it. I'm going to paste it here. (...) You can report the bug "manually": http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.htm

Re: PHP and memory_limit

Jonas Mixter put forth on 2/8/2011 6:27 AM: > Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to > allocate > 4 bytes) in /Users/jonas/mem_test on line 20 Looks like you have a problem with OSX as well. Your test failed at allocating 40 KB when 128 MB was available. So

Re: Firware drivers?

Gero writes: > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should > offer installation media, that include non-free firmware ... Not going to happen. > That installation media should be marked as non-free, but I think, it > is vital to have it. So produce it. What are you waitin

Re: Sticking with Lenny

Bernard schreef: Dave Sherohman wrote: Should I be specifying lenny instead of stable, ... I feel quite embarrassed in reading this above. I am still on Lenny, and wishes to remain that way for as long as possible, hopefully until I buy a new computer. Don't try for longer than a y

Re: Sticking with Lenny

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 15:22:08 +0100, Bernard wrote: > I feel quite embarrassed in reading this above. I am still on Lenny, and > wishes to remain that way for as long as possible, hopefully until I buy > a new computer. > > My 'sources.list' has a few calls for 'stable', and some calls for > 'lenn

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 07:53:23AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Camaleón put forth on 2/8/2011 4:55 AM: > > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:34:33 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > > >> On 08/02/11 11:30, hamed hosseini wrote: > > > >>> which version for intel chipset 64bit? > > > > (...) > > > >> amd64 >

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

Jerome BENOIT put forth on 2/8/2011 8:04 AM: > who does play with Itanium box ? > expert or newbie ? Old Itanium boxen are often sold on Ebay very cheap, same with SPARC, etc, and discarded by universities, etc. These are what some newbies play with. You never know for sure if the OP doesn't sta

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

Camaleón put forth on 2/8/2011 8:20 AM: > I'll give you a (virtual) beer if the OP has an Itanium box. It's happened at least twice in two years on this list that an OP was told to use AMD64 when he had an Itanium box, simply because the OP asked without providing details, as in this case, and wa

This is a spam: debian-user@lists.debian.org 2:10:05 PM

I was curious enough to have opened it, and found out it is just a spam. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Firware drivers?

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:51:00 +0100, Geronimo wrote: (...) > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should offer > installation media, that include non-free firmware ... That installation > media should be marked as non-free, but I think, it is vital to have it. I'm afraid yo

Re: weired problem around grub2

Hello, Camaleón wrote: > Well, GRUB2 is having problems to boot from you current cloned partition > but is fine installed under a brand-new one. Having a small dedicated "/ > boot" partition will solve the issue (I hope!) and you can then use the > remainder space for other OSes :-) Just to let y

Re: PHP and memory_limit

Hi Stan! Thank you for your answer. Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4 bytes) in /Users/jonas/mem_test on line 20 Looks like you have a problem with OSX as well. Your test failed at allocating 40 KB when 128 MB was available. So, it's not fai

Re: Firware drivers?

Hi, John Hasler wrote: Gero writes: Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should offer installation media, that include non-free firmware ... Not going to happen. It _has_ happened, but they are "unofficial" ISO files [0]. I actually use a script [1], since slightly m

Squeeze fdisk and cfdisk changed

Hi Gang After the upgrade to Squeeze I found that cfdisk no longer displays the disk Labels and fdisk now shows that all my partitions have problems. This was not the case before the upgrade and does not occur on testing on (sda5) Anyone else seeing this?? Disk /dev/sda: 160 GB, 160039272

Re: Firware drivers?

On Ma, 08 feb 11, 08:33:50, John Hasler wrote: > Gero writes: > > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should > > offer installation media, that include non-free firmware ... > > Not going to happen. You may argue if 'unofficial' means Debian is offering the media or not,

Re: Pump, dhchp, dns and dnsmasq

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:12:09 +, Tixy wrote: >> > ;; ANSWER SECTION: >> > maroon. 0 IN A 127.0.0.1 >> > >> > ;; Query time: 0 msec >> > ;; SERVER: 192.168.0.100#53(192.168.0.100) ;; WHEN: Sun Feb 6 >> > 23:20:41 2011 >> > ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 40 >> >> This is t

Re: which version for intel chipset 64bit

On 08/02/11 16:12, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Jerome BENOIT put forth on 2/8/2011 8:04 AM: who does play with Itanium box ? expert or newbie ? Old Itanium boxen are often sold on Ebay very cheap, same with SPARC, etc, and discarded by universities, etc. These are what some newbies play with. You

Re: Firware drivers?

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:51:00 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > > (...) > > > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should offer > > installation media, that include non-free firmware ... That installation > > media should be marked as

Squeeze fdisk and cfdisk changed Correction

Hi Gang < After the upgrade to Squeeze I found that cfdisk no longer displays 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/4d517d82.1010...@gmail.com

Re: Squeeze fdisk and cfdisk changed

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 11:21:29 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: >After the upgrade to Squeeze I found that cfdisk no longer displays > the disk Labels and fdisk now shows that all my partitions have > problems. (...) Try with "fdisk -lc", I think that error is just "cosmetic". As per cfdisk and label

xfce switch user

I have a laptop that has Squeeze on it. I have xfce running, but it doesn't have switch user. I saw the xfswitch-plugin & installed it, and I'm running gdm, but I don't see a menu item for switching users. is there some magix to make this happen?? -- Paul Cartwright -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Sticking with Lenny

On Ma, 08 feb 11, 15:22:08, Bernard wrote: > > My 'sources.list' has a few calls for 'stable', and some calls for > 'lenny'. How am I to know for sure whether or not I have already > installed packages from Squeeze ? Last package I installed was > 'xine-ui' and, not later than 2-3 days ago, I have

Re: Configuring QLogic QLA4010c on Debian on Sparc

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 6:10 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Thoroughly read the Debian iSCSI HBA documentation, specifically the > sections > relating to the QLA4xxx series adapters. > > -- > Stan > Thanks Stan, will have a look and see what I can find. Just the confidence with which you say it, I'm a

Re: weired problem around grub2

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 16:45:15 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > Hello, > > Camaleón wrote: >> Well, GRUB2 is having problems to boot from you current cloned >> partition but is fine installed under a brand-new one. Having a small >> dedicated "/ boot" partition will solve the issue (I hope!) and you can >>

Possible bug in nfs-common (Lenny != Squeeze)?

Hello List! Currently I am facing the following problem. At work site we have an IBM mainframe (i6OS). We are using this mainframe as NFS server to share data between both worlds. Since the mainframe NFS supports v.4 we are using it because it is much easier to handle through firewalls (single por

Re: Firware drivers?

2011/2/8 Geronimo : > Hello, >> The release notes are a hand-holding document.  If something is important >> enough to be a pitfall during the upgrade process, it needs to be described >> in the *upgrade* section of the release notes.  "implied" in the "what's >> new" doesn't cut it. > > Sorry, but

Re: Squeeze fdisk and cfdisk changed Correction

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:29:38 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > This problem was found on only 1 of 3 installs of Squeeze. > > I am now reinstalling the faulty system. Do you still remember what partition tool that you used (that get you into this)? I found whenever I use tools from windows, I get suc

Re: Possible bug in nfs-common (Lenny != Squeeze)?

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Mario Kleinsasser wrote: > > Currently I am facing the following problem. At work site we have an IBM > mainframe (i6OS). We are using this mainframe as NFS server to share data > between both worlds. > Since the mainframe NFS supports v.4 we are using it because it

Re: sid: upgrade wants to remove xserver packages

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Doing a dist-upgrade in Sid this morning wants to remove all xserver packages. Wait a bit? Hugo Well, it don't take Guru to tell you that's not a good idea, their just separating the Men from the Boy's. ;-) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda1

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

Greg Madden writes: > On Monday 07 February 2011 04:28:39 pm Andreas Goesele wrote: >> Rene Engelhard writes: >> > Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's >> > what we ship)? >> >> Does that mean that openoffice as shipped with squeeze should be able to >> open docx-

Re: Skype

Hi, On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:20:02 +0100 Raffaele Morelli wrote: > I wonder if anyone of you is currently using skype on debian amd64 and > which app are you using. I am successfully running the Ubuntu 8.10+ 64-bit version on debian squeeze 64bit. Cheers, Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: best labtop for debian

hamed hosseini wrote: i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? 900$-1300$ "my choice is lenovo labtop" Not kidding, is labtop a real word? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda13 Registered Linux User #380263 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: best labtop for debian

On Ma, 08 feb 11, 10:51:12, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > hamed hosseini wrote: > >i want buy labtop,tell me best labtop for debian os? > >900$-1300$ > >"my choice is lenovo labtop" > > > Not kidding, is labtop a real word? Does this count? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=labtop Regards

Re: best labtop for debian

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:47:31PM +0100, Peter Beck wrote: > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > I would go for a ThinkPad. They might be a bit more expensive, but in > > my experience it's worth it. > > absolutely. I was (and still am) using a T42p and now I have a X301

Re: weired problem around grub2

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:53 AM, Geronimo wrote: > > The point is, I have an external SATA-controller and disks change order too > much times. That means, I don't have reliable device order. > > So I put a label on each vital partition and mount them by using the label in > fstab. Works fine so far

[OT]Re: best labtop for debian

> Not kidding, is labtop a real word? As for being a member of the words listed in an English dictionary I'd state no. It is a misspelled form of laptop, I blindly guess. As for 'valid' word: you cannot create invalid words out of a (valid) combo of valid chars. 'Gans' is such a word, just as 'q

Re: xfce switch user

* On 2011 08 Feb 12:24 -0600, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have a laptop that has Squeeze on it. I have xfce running, but it > doesn't have switch user. I saw the xfswitch-plugin & installed it, > and I'm running gdm, but I don't see a menu item for switching > users. is there some magix to make this

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

Greg Madden writes: > On Monday 07 February 2011 04:28:39 pm Andreas Goesele wrote: >> Rene Engelhard writes: >> > Forget odf-converter and use what is in Go-OO 3.2.1 properly (that's >> > what we ship)? >> >> Does that mean that openoffice as shipped with squeeze should be able to >> open docx-

Re: Problems upgrading GRUB to GRUB2 while upgrading to Squeeze from Lenny

On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Markus Viitamäki wrote: > On 6 February 2011 03:21, Tom H wrote: >> >> grub-pc doesn't seem to like your hardware RAID. >> >> Does "grub-mkdevicemap --verbose --no-floppy" give a better clue to >> what's failing? > > Sadly no. As it does not say anything more than

Re: Firware drivers?

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 14:51 +0100, Geronimo wrote: > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should offer > installation media, that include non-free firmware ... > That installation media should be marked as non-free, but I think, it is > vital > to have it. > > Many peop

Re: Firware drivers?

That cd with firmware isn't obviously useful, in that, I installed via DVD 1 and when prompted to insert additional discs it was unable to read from it. If I wanted to go around my friends and family house and upgrade their computers, I'd have to basically integrate all firmwares into a custom dvd

Gnome-panel uses 100% CPU after upgrade

I just upgraded from Lenny to Squeeze. The installation when fine except that I had to load the ethernet firmware manually. I am using Gnome for the desktop. When I log into the computer, the top menu panel flickers constantly and does not display "Applications / Places / System". This rend

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

On 02/08/2011 01:02 PM, Andreas Goesele wrote: [snip] Somebody recommended libreoffice to me: I installed it, and it works fine. If I don't find a solution for openoffice (any suggestion?) I might switch. LibreOffice is nothing more than the renamed OOo v3.3. -- "The normal condition of man

Re: Firware drivers?

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 09:09:20 -0800, Mark wrote: > On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:51:00 +0100, Geronimo wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> > Now its time, to become more pragmatic, which means, debian should >> > offer installation media, that include non-free fi

Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

On Tuesday 08 February 2011 19:33:17 Ron Johnson wrote: > LibreOffice is nothing more than the renamed OOo v3.3. No, Ron, that isn't correct. It is based on OOo3.3, but with some additions, including the reading of docx. The version of Open Office packaged in Lenny, 2.4.1, also reads docx - but

bleeding edge kernels misidentify my Broadcom BCM4401-B0

Hi, Recently, while using bleeding edge kernels (built from git pulls of vanillas sources from kernel.org), my Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Ethernet card, normally driven by the b44 driver, has stopped working. Poking around, I discovered that the card is no longer correctly identified; it now shows up (w

Re: best labtop for debian

On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 09:06:28 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 12:47:31PM +0100, Peter Beck wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:50 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > I would go for a ThinkPad. They might be a bit more expensive, but in > > > my experience it's worth it. > > > > ab

Installing Debian on USB sticks.

Hi, Recently I placed the netinst i386 debian installer on an old USB stick using: zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sdc and I've installed one machine using it. However yesterday I was trying to install debian itself on a USB stick and the installer found it could connect to a couple of the mirrors but tha

Re: Sticking with Lenny

In <20110208174911.GT6759@think.homelan>, Andrei Popescu wrote: >you can run > >aptitude search ~S~i~Astable > >to get the list of packages from stable/squeeze. Depends. The argument of ~A ("stable" in this case) is used as a regular expression. That regular expression also matches packages

Re: bleeding edge kernels misidentify my Broadcom BCM4401-B0

On 2011-02-08 21:19 +0100, Celejar wrote: > Recently, while using bleeding edge kernels (built from git pulls of > vanillas sources from kernel.org), my Broadcom BCM4401-B0 Ethernet > card, normally driven by the b44 driver, has stopped working. Poking > around, I discovered that the card is no l

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Re: docx, openoffice, squeeze

On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:12:32 +, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 08 February 2011 19:33:17 Ron Johnson wrote: >> LibreOffice is nothing more than the renamed OOo v3.3. > > No, Ron, that isn't correct. It is based on OOo3.3, but with some > additions, including the reading of docx. > > The version o

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