Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:24:10PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 06 mar 12, 19:18:49, Rob Owens wrote: > > I'm considering using bittorrent to back up large files such as pictures > > and home movies. I am the admin for several of my family members' > > computers. The idea would be to bac

KVM problem

2012-03-08 Thread Neal Murphy
Howdy! A friend is having the devil's own time trying to get qemu-kvm working for himself. I have no such trouble. We are both using Squeeze. I have a quad Phenom-II with 8GB RAM, nVidia video. He has a dual Athlon with 3GB RAM, ATI video (and recently bought and tried an nVidia AGP card). Bot

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 08 mar 12, 18:56:19, Rob Owens wrote: > > > I'm a bit of a novice, so my terminology may be off. But by "public" I > mean a torrent that I upload to any public tracker, like > thepiratebay or something. Anyone could download my torrent, not that they > would know to look for it. You don

Re: X forwarding to a Windows 7 PC

2012-03-08 Thread owens
- Original Message - From: yudi v To: ow...@netptc.net Cc: Debian users mailing list Sent: 3/8/2012 10:44:16 PM Subject: Re: X forwarding to a Windows 7 PC > > IIRC there is a version requirement for Samba to play nice with W7. Google > for Samba and Windows 7 > > Larry The

Re: using bittorrent for backup of personal files

2012-03-08 Thread Jason Heeris
On 9 March 2012 07:46, Rob Owens wrote: > 1)  It typically maxes out my internet connection.  Plain old rsync > would do this too, unless there is a throttling option that I don't know > about.  Rtorrent, which I use, has a throttling option. Slightly tangential, but do you know about "trickle"?

Re: X forwarding to a Windows 7 PC

2012-03-08 Thread yudi v
> > Do you have a non-Win 7 (e.g. XP) that you can try to see if it exhibits the > same behavior?  This would probably identify the culprit end Sorry, don't. I am guessing I might have missed a setting somewhere. -- Kind regards, Yudi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: X forwarding to a Windows 7 PC

2012-03-08 Thread yudi v
> > Distance is irrelevant, but rather how the network itself is shielded > from the outside. > > Kind regards, > Andrei I am not sure what you are implying here. I am not changing any network settings nor am I opening up any ports expect when I run xserver on windows. All I am trying to do is us

Re: sshfs and permissions

2012-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:27:29 +0100, Pierre Penninckx wrote: > > (...) > >> So like I said I didn't manage to make permission 100% work through >> sshfs, though it works on the server or through DokanFS. The ACL on the >> /srv/movies folder is: # fi

How often will this cron job execute

2012-03-08 Thread T o n g
Hi, I've got the following entry in my cron job: 1 1 1 */2 * me my-this-job How often will it execute? Checking the log, I notice that it run on Jan 1 and Mar 1. That's really not something that I've been expecting for. I have another cron job fired at Feb 1, so no doubt that my cron was work

Re: How to share the Internet with Linux and an iPad by Wi-Fi?

2012-03-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 19:14 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 08 mar 12, 16:51:18, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > ... I just wondered that it looks like the driver doesn't work anymore, > > since the WLAN adapter also is lost after reinstalling nm. > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#Co

Re: How often will this cron job execute

2012-03-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:32 PM, T o n g wrote: > > I've got the following entry in my cron job: > > 1 1 1 */2 * me my-this-job > > How often will it execute? > > Checking the log, I notice that it run on Jan 1 and Mar 1. That's really > not something that I've been expecting for. I have another c

Re: CUPS

2012-03-08 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
At 07:03 PM 3/7/2012, Brian wrote: On Wed 07 Mar 2012 at 16:05:01 -0500, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > At 06:57 PM 3/6/2012, Brian wrote: >> >> Please let us know how you make out. > > Brian - > > Thanks. > > Not well regrettably. > > I tried the stable version and then testing, and had the same resu

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