Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 04 April 2012 01:53:37 consultores wrote: > On 04/03/2012 02:38 PM, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 April 2012 22:04:24 consultores wrote: > When I took the French Bac., the criterion laid down for the aural > English > exam was that marks would be awarded for speaking as

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 03 apr 12, 10:13:48, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:59:39AM +0100, Dom wrote: > > I'd try bringing the system up in recovery mode, unmount all ext3 > > file systems (except /, obviously) and run the du command again. You > > might find data that was concealed under the mount

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE -- SOLVED

2012-04-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 03 apr 12, 15:21:14, Camaleón wrote: > > That's why we have to use UUID instead >:-) ...or LABELs. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital sig

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 11:25:40AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 03 apr 12, 10:13:48, Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 09:59:39AM +0100, Dom wrote: > > > I'd try bringing the system up in recovery mode, unmount all ext3 > > > file systems (except /, obviously) and run the du c

Re: 2nd try: reboot hangs

2012-04-04 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:14:50 -0400, Miles wrote in message <4f7b4c2a.5030...@meetinghouse.net>: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:51:24 -0400, Miles wrote in message > > <4f78cddc.4060...@meetinghouse.net>: > > > >> Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:31:31 -0400, Mile

Xerox Phaser 3140

2012-04-04 Thread James Brown
Hi, friends, By some reasons I want to buy a printer of "Xerox Phaser 3140". Is it workable under Debian squeeze? Anyone have experience with the printer Xerox Phaser 3140 under squeeze? There are no drivers of it in the cups-package from distr. There are only drivers for 3150 in database of openp

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-04-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 04 apr 12, 10:58:52, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Sort of explains things to me - I'm still lost as to why I'd want to > remove packages for which no repository is currently listed in > /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list > Packages that custom packages, packages for which the

Re: Freeze on wake

2012-04-04 Thread Aidan Gauland
On 03/04/12 03:58, Camaleón wrote: > Being an EEEPC, I would also post into their mailing list: > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-eeepc-devel/ I will do that. Thank you for pointing that out. > Debugging resuming can be tricky and hard, it can be almost anything > (BIOS, kern

Re: Xerox Phaser 3140

2012-04-04 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On 04.04.2012 11:44, James Brown wrote: > Hi, friends, > > By some reasons I want to buy a printer of "Xerox Phaser 3140". Is > it workable under Debian squeeze? Anyone have experience with the > printer Xerox Phaser 3140 under squeeze? There ar

Re: Freeze on wake

2012-04-04 Thread Aidan Gauland
On 03/04/12 03:58, Camaleón wrote: > Being an EEEPC, I would also post into their mailing list: > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-eeepc-devel/ I will do that. Thank you for pointing that out. > Debugging resuming can be tricky and hard, it can be almost anything > (BIOS, kern

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 04 apr 12, 11:38:29, Scott Ferguson wrote: > My suggestions:- > > 1. rephrased for clarity, but hardly succint. > Note that since Lenny, apt-get installs recommended[*1] packages by default. > Beginning with the release of Squeeze[*2], apt is the recommended > program to perform system inst

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 04 apr 12, 09:38:44, Roger Leigh wrote: > > It would normally be cleaned on boot anyway, so I think we can > avoid putting this in the Release Notes if we clean it automatically. Isn't this dangerous? (It's unclear to me if /tmp is cleaned in squeeze by default or not) > I'm thinking it

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Roger Leigh
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 12:14:43PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 04 apr 12, 09:38:44, Roger Leigh wrote: > > > > It would normally be cleaned on boot anyway, so I think we can > > avoid putting this in the Release Notes if we clean it automatically. > > Isn't this dangerous? (It's unclear

Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-04 Thread James Brown
After upgrading from lenny to sqeeuze last year I faced witha problem of fonts in the console. Problem has been overcome in this way: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/04/msg00294.html After installing the kernel linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 I have problems with fonts/video again: when lo

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-04 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 04 April 2012 02:38:29 Scott Ferguson wrote: > 2. How I'd write it:- > Apt is the recommended program to perform system installation and major > system upgrades.[*3] > > 3. To avoid confusion people should read the fine Debian documentation > in their native language. :-) +1 Lisi

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-04 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 04 April 2012 10:01:47 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Note that since Lenny, apt-get *installs* recommended packages by >     default. ...since Lenny, apt-get *has installed*.. ;-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/04/12 19:01, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 04 apr 12, 11:38:29, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> My suggestions:- >> >> 1. rephrased for clarity, but hardly succin*c*t. >> Note that since Lenny, apt-get installs recommended[*1] packages by default. >> Beginning with the release of Squeeze[*2], apt i

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On 03/04/12 17:06, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > Yes we did, but you are forgetting GPG clearsigning vs GPG S/MIME and > was there something else... ☺ I missed that part of the discussion (but that has reminded me to re-setup my mailer to sign ☺) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-04 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, When I install a Squeeze machine, or when I update a Lenny machine to Squeeze, the first thing I do is to change the screen resolution so I can get some more tekst on the console when I need it. Of course most of the time I use ssh (or PuTTY) to go to a server and I can choose the screen si

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 09:58:34PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: > 3. Oh, I thought that all clients do like Enigmail. It just shows blue/green > banner with valid signatures. Blue for untrusted key and green for signed > key. Some may be interested in 't-prot', which (with a willing mail client)

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/04/12 20:28, Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 10:01:47 Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> Note that since Lenny, apt-get *installs* recommended packages by >> default. > > ...since Lenny, apt-get *has installed*.. > > ;-) > Lisi > > Even trickier - since Lenny developers have been

Re: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/04/12 20:37, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > When I install a Squeeze machine, or when I update a Lenny machine > to Squeeze, the first thing I do is to change the screen resolution > so I can get some more tekst on the console when I need it. Of course > most of the time I use ssh (or PuTTY)

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-04 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 04 April 2012 12:14:55 Scott Ferguson wrote: > ... since Lenny, apt-get will continue to install recommended packages > by default.  So I believe "has" is redundant, even though it's correct. What is wrong with : Apt-get will continue to install recommended packages by default. Wh

Re: Xerox Phaser 3140

2012-04-04 Thread Brian
On Wed 04 Apr 2012 at 08:44:12 +, James Brown wrote: > By some reasons I want to buy a printer of "Xerox Phaser 3140". > Is it workable under Debian squeeze? Anyone have experience with the > printer Xerox Phaser 3140 under squeeze? > There are no drivers of it in the cups-package from distr.

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/04/12 19:35, James Brown wrote: > After upgrading from lenny to sqeeuze last year I faced witha problem of > fonts in the console. > Problem has been overcome in this way: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/04/msg00294.html > After installing the kernel linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd6

Re: Xerox Phaser 3140

2012-04-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 04/04/12 21:12, Brian wrote: > On Wed 04 Apr 2012 at 08:44:12 +, James Brown wrote: > >> By some reasons I want to buy a printer of "Xerox Phaser 3140". >> Is it workable under Debian squeeze? Anyone have experience with the >> printer Xerox Phaser 3140 under squeeze? >> There are no driver

Re: Problems in fonts in console appear again

2012-04-04 Thread Brian
On Wed 04 Apr 2012 at 09:35:19 +, James Brown wrote: > After upgrading from lenny to sqeeuze last year I faced witha problem of > fonts in the console. > Problem has been overcome in this way: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/04/msg00294.html > After installing the kernel linux-image

Re: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-04 Thread Dom
On 04/04/12 11:37, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, When I install a Squeeze machine, or when I update a Lenny machine to Squeeze, the first thing I do is to change the screen resolution so I can get some more tekst on the console when I need it. Of course most of the time I use ssh (or PuTTY) to go

NAS box configuration

2012-04-04 Thread J. Bakshi
Dear list, I have one old PC with intel core2duo with 128 MB RAM. As the motherboard has 2 sata cables, I can add two 2TB HDD in this box to make a NAS box. What I'm missing is a good online doc to configure debian for the NAS. One option is freeNAS. I have no idea which one will be better. Could

Re: NAS box configuration

2012-04-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On 04/04/12 13:58, J. Bakshi wrote: > What I'm missing is a good online doc to configure debian for the > NAS. One option is freeNAS. I have no idea which one will be better. That depends on how you want to use your NAS. (protocols? clients? backup?) Generally, an "appliance"-like OS such as free

Re: grub2 screen resolution

2012-04-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On 04/04/12 11:37, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > The second thing I don not understand it why Grub2 will not keep the > screen resolution after the menu has gone. Why does it by default > ALWAYS go back to 640x480 even when the menu is shown at a higher > resolution? Grub is essentially an entirely di

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE -- SOLVED

2012-04-04 Thread ntrfug
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 11:29:12 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 03 apr 12, 15:21:14, Camaleón wrote: > > > > That's why we have to use UUID instead >:-) > > ...or LABELs. > > Kind regards, > Andrei Thank you both. Using either labels or uuids in fstab will accomplish what I was trying to do

Re: 2nd try: reboot hangs

2012-04-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 15:14:50 -0400, Miles wrote in message <4f7b4c2a.5030...@meetinghouse.net>: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:51:24 -0400, Miles wrote in message <4f78cddc.4060...@meetinghouse.net>: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 08:31:31 -0400, Mil

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:14:55 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 15:41:20 + (UTC) Camaleón > dijo: > >>But the above does not imply that using "posterior" in the above stanza >>is wrong. It can be improved (we are not writers not editors) but not >>incorrect. Those "old Lati

Re: Make fully encrypted disk without LVM during install

2012-04-04 Thread Jon Dowland
On 01/04/12 08:27, J.A. de Vries wrote: > This time I need my disk to be easily portable, so I prefer to have a > fully encrypted disk without LVM The system on which you might want to read the disk will need to know how to decrypt it. Do you anticipate hot-plugging it to a running machine, or tr

Re: [OT] Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:20:10 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 03/04/12 19:21, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> "Ulterior" is certainly not a synonym for "posterior", >> >> But it was, that's what I meant. It's not a term I would neither use in >> my own language but it is still perfectly correct. >

[OT] Re: thank you debian and debian user community here

2012-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:39:31 -0400, songbird wrote: > thank you to the many kind people here who spend their time helping > others. Your welcome. My Paypal account to send donatives is... (just joking) ;-) I join to your acknowledgment to debian and its big community, they all do a great work.

Re: Xerox Phaser 3140

2012-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:44:12 +, James Brown wrote: > By some reasons I want to buy a printer of "Xerox Phaser 3140". Is it > workable under Debian squeeze? Anyone have experience with the printer > Xerox Phaser 3140 under squeeze? There are no drivers of it in the > cups-package from distr. Th

Re: NAS box configuration

2012-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:28:56 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: > I have one old PC with intel core2duo with 128 MB RAM. As the > motherboard has 2 sata cables, I can add two 2TB HDD in this box to make > a NAS box. What I'm missing is a good online doc to configure debian for > the NAS. One option is freeNA

Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread Patrick Kongawi
To whom this may concern I have been having great difficulty creating a CD ISO for Debain. I went to "getting debian" and "Downloading large Image" and "Download CD/DVD with Jiggo" and select one of the official image. Is this the proper way to select and Image and write it to a CD? Will the BIO

Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE -- SOLVED

2012-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:34:34 -0500, ntrfug wrote: > On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 15:21:14 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> I see no mention there to the afore mentioned NTFS-3G warning at all >> ;-) > > The NTFS-3G message was quoted in the original post of this thread. Of course, because -as far as I

Re: Wheezy: Can't see no maps in navit

2012-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 11:26:33 -0700, T Elcor wrote: > --- On Tue, 4/3/12, Camaleón wrote: > >> A shoot in the dark: did you disable the rest of the pre-set maps? > > Eventually I did. > >> There are more tips here: >> >> http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/OpenStreetMap#Tips > > > That w

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:10:37 -0600, Patrick Kongawi wrote: > I have been having great difficulty creating a CD ISO for Debain. I went > to "getting debian" and "Downloading large Image" and "Download CD/DVD > with Jiggo" and select one of the official image. Is this the proper > way to select and

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 08:10:37AM -0600, Patrick Kongawi wrote: > To whom this may concern > > I have been having great difficulty creating a CD ISO for Debain. I > went to "getting debian" and "Downloading large Image" and "Download > CD/DVD with Jiggo" and select one of the official image. Is

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Christopher Judd
On Tuesday 03 April 2012 22:09:15 Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 16:21, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 03 April 2012 20:36:07 consultores wrote: > >> The other point, is that native speaker, does not mean "excellence"; it > >> only mean that this person just speaks one dialect/language fr

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 04/04/12 16:10, Patrick Kongawi wrote: To whom this may concern I have been having great difficulty creating a CD ISO for Debain. I went to "getting debian" and "Downloading large Image" and "Download CD/DVD with Jiggo" and select one of the official image. Is this the proper way to select a

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread Alberto Fuentes
On 04/04/12 16:44, Alberto Fuentes wrote: But for livecd i usually use ubuntu ones, latest packages conveniently packaged for live image oh, i just saw that unetbootin allows you download debian testing as well... has anybody tested how stable are those for a live? I heard about debian CUT, b

OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

2012-04-04 Thread Sthu Deus
Good time of the day. Can You recommend the debian / linux / free-software free email-subscription / feeds - the ones You prefer? Thanks for Your time and advice. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

scsi Install problem

2012-04-04 Thread cletusjenkins
I am trying to reinstall an older machine with an Advansys SCSI host adapter and not having much luck. I have two of the same model adapters and both have the same issues. When I boot without either in the machine, it gets well past my error/stopping point. I'm booting off of the CD 1, I downlo

Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

2012-04-04 Thread richard
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 22:26:51 +0700 Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > Can You recommend the debian / linux / free-software > free email-subscription / feeds - the ones You prefer? > > > Thanks for Your time and advice. > > Hi I think you may have contacted me by accident, as I t

Re: Booting Debian from Windows

2012-04-04 Thread ntrfug
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:05:15 +0200 Alberto Fuentes wrote: > > oh, i just saw that unetbootin allows you download debian testing as > well... > > has anybody tested how stable are those for a live? I heard about > debian CUT, but im not sure is ready yet. > > greets! > aL > I've used Debian Test

Re: scsi Install problem

2012-04-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 08:20:08AM -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: > I am trying to reinstall an older machine with an Advansys SCSI host adapter > and not having much luck. I have two of the same model adapters and both have > the same issues. When I boot without either in the machine, it gets well

Re: scsi Install problem

2012-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:20:08 -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: (...) > scsi host0: error: init_state 0x1f, warn 0xfffe, error 0x0 firmware: > requisting advansys/mcode.bin Failed to load image "advansys/mcode.bin" > err -2 scsi 0:0:0:0: SCSI bus reset started... > > The internet seems to say this is a

Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

2012-04-04 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 08:26, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good time of the day. > > > Can You recommend the debian / linux / free-software > free email-subscription / feeds - the ones You prefer? Not totally sure what you mean, are you looking for email lists and rss/atom feeds to subscribe to? Personall

DATA STUDIO - ESTÚDIO DE GRAVAÇÃO DE BANDAS, JINGLES E SPOTS PUBLICITÁRIOS.

2012-04-04 Thread DATA STUDIO
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Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

2012-04-04 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 08:55, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:26:51 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > >> Can You recommend the debian / linux / free-software free >> email-subscription / feeds - the ones You prefer? >> >> >> Thanks for Your time and advice. > > Sure, these are RSS feeds, no e-mai

Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

2012-04-04 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:08:57 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 08:55, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:26:51 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: >> >>> Can You recommend the debian / linux / free-software free >>> email-subscription / feeds - the ones You prefer? >>> >>> >>> Thank

Re: Make fully encrypted disk without LVM during install

2012-04-04 Thread J.A. de Vries
Hi Jon, > The system on which you might want to read the disk will need to know > how to decrypt it. Do you anticipate hot-plugging it to a running > machine, or trying to boot from it? In this situation I will have a disk which is used to boot one machine, but does contain data that will be ne

Re: [OT] Re: thank you debian and debian user community here

2012-04-04 Thread songbird
Camaleón wrote: >songbird wrote: > >> thank you to the many kind people here who spend their time helping >> others. > > Your welcome. > > My Paypal account to send donatives is... (just joking) ;-) ha! if you lived locally i'd offer free food. > I join to your acknowledgment to debian and it

Re: [OT] Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:20:10 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On 03/04/12 19:21, Camaleón wrote: > (...) > > >>> "Ulterior" is certainly not a synonym for "posterior", > >> > >> But it was, that's what I meant. It's not a term I would neither use

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Lisi: > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 10:01:47 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Note that since Lenny, apt-get *installs* recommended packages by > > > > default. > > ...since Lenny, apt-get *has installed*.. Why? It still does. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Lisi: > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 12:14:55 Scott Ferguson wrote: > > ... since Lenny, apt-get will continue to install recommended > > packages by default. So I believe "has" is redundant, even though > > it's correct. > > What is wrong with : > > Apt-get will

Re: OT: favorite free-software email-subscription / feeds.

2012-04-04 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > Interesting, I always get bored by the actual magazines, and they are > so abstracted and removed from the community... > Usually the closer I get to the community and devs, the more I enjoy it. > > Although I use atom feeds a lot, I am thinking of usi

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 2. April 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 02 apr 12, 17:32:44, Lisi wrote: > > On Monday 02 April 2012 10:48:24 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > I'd suggest this instead: > > > > > > Note that apt-get now installs recommended packages by default > > > and is, for its robustness, the

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 2. April 2012 schrieb Lisi: > On Monday 02 April 2012 22:15:08 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > As I understand it the latest recommendation is to use apt-get from > > command line and aptitude interactively. > > Ah! Do you not use aptitude at the command line? Is that what you are > saying?

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Scott Ferguson: > > Hope this explains, > > Thanks. > Sort of explains things to me - I'm still lost as to why I'd want to > remove packages for which no repository is currently listed in > /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list > Packages that c

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb Javier Vasquez: > So yes, one needs to be careful, not to oversize your tmpfs. That's > completely true, but the limit is not physical RAM, it is actually > RAM+Swap, as I mentioned before. > > On this thread, it is asked about how to got with huge files to be

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 3. April 2012 schrieb Roger Leigh: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:16:08AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2012-03-24 11:00:49 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > > You can always configure as you wish. Take a look at: > > > > > > /etc/default/tmpfs > > > > The file says: > > > > #

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 3. April 2012 schrieb Roger Leigh: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 06:00:23PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Edit /etc/default/rcS, set RAMTMP=no, reboot. Or, set TMPDIR to > > > point to something like $HOME/tmp > > > > You don't

Exim4 and SMTP relaying.

2012-04-04 Thread Peter Easthope
Referring to my http://142.103.107.138/NetworkExtant.jpg diagram, mutt and exim4 running on Dalton can send a message, through port 465 with TLS, to *.webwelcome.com and then to a destination. Next I want to have Cantor send a message through exim4 on Dalton. The connection from Cantor to Dal

Debian From Scratch Revisited

2012-04-04 Thread David L. Craig
Okay, I looked into Source Mage after I found myself in possession of a quad-core 4GB hand-me-down box that could actually permit me to undertake a full production platform built entirely from source packages. While the distribution's reduced overall rigidity was appealing and it was good to e

Re: NAS box configuration

2012-04-04 Thread Rares Aioanei
On 04/04/2012 05:21 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 18:28:56 +0530, J. Bakshi wrote: If you still prefer a pre-made NAS based OS (that handles RAID, et al) you can consider another alternatives to FreeNAS such as OpenMediaVault, Openfiler, Zentyal, Nexenta... Related docs/faqs/how tos ca

Re: Pinpointing faulty kernel driver?

2012-04-04 Thread Lars Skovlund
Sorry for the delay, I am rather busy at the moment. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:14:05PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:07:15 +0200, Lars Skovlund wrote: > > > When upgrading kernel series 3.1.0 to series 3.2.0, suddenly my system > > won't boot. It hangs with the message > > > >

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:21, Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 14:41:48 you wrote: >> Colloquial English is liberal to change, but software manuals should >> not be written in colloquial English. There is a more professional >> language that should be used in manuals. > > You are being del

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:07:35 -0400 Dotan Cohen wrote: > Another personal attack, putting words in my mouth (I never said that > I was perfect) and then refuting them. I believe that there is a term > for that. Like your ad hominem attack above, that is a sign of one who > is loosing an argument.

ibm server black screen console

2012-04-04 Thread Joey L
I did not get an answer last time - so I thought I would try this again - please help. I have an ibm x3650 7979 -- when the system boots up and goes into grub - and starts to initialize, I get a black screen console. No login prompt at all. If i enable gdm3 on bootup - i get the gui interface to c

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-04 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 04 April 2012 18:58:07 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Lisi: > > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 10:01:47 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > >  Note that since Lenny, apt-get *installs* recommended packages by > > > > > >     default. > > > > ...since Lenny, apt-get *h

Re: [OT] Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 04 April 2012 18:55:47 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I might try whether KMail handles ignoring this thread. It sometimes seems > to work at other times mails in the thread are still marked as new. You are a human being with freedom of action. If you want not to read this thread, don'

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Lisi
Dotan - this was sent to you off-list when you wrote to me off-list, to try and preempt one of your interminable off-list bullying threads. If you don't remember doing that to me, then you have a very short memory. On Wednesday 04 April 2012 21:07:35 Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 04 April 2012 21:36:39 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > Another personal attack, putting words in my mouth (I never said that > > I was perfect) and then refuting them. I believe that there is a term > > for that. Like your ad hominem attack above, that is a sign of one who > > is loosing an

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-04 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 04 April 2012 19:00:44 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Lisi: > > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 12:14:55 Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > ... since Lenny, apt-get will continue to install recommended > > > packages by default. So I believe "has" is redundant, eve

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude (now with added apt)

2012-04-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/04/12 04:24, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Scott Ferguson: >>> Hope this explains, >> > > It would be nice if I could now whether I installed a packages manually > via dpkg -i and m-a a-i, well which uses dpkg, it whether apt-get or > aptitude installed

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 18:56, Lisi wrote: > Dotan - this was sent to you off-list when you wrote to me off-list, to try > and preempt one of your interminable off-list bullying threads. I had noticed that at some point some of the messages had gone off-list, so I put them back on list when I noti

Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 00:00:02 +0100 Lisi wrote: > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 21:36:39 Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > > Another personal attack, putting words in my mouth (I never said > > > that I was perfect) and then refuting them. I believe that there > > > is a term for that. Like your ad hominem at

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/04/12 04:38, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Dienstag, 3. April 2012 schrieb Roger Leigh: >> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 06:00:23PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh > wrote: >>> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Joey Hess wrote: Edit /etc/default/rcS, set RAMTMP=no, reboot. Or, set TMPDIR to point

Live Squeeze system: ConsoleKit does not see serial console as active, cannot mount with udisk

2012-04-04 Thread Jason Heeris
I'm building a Debian Squeeze system with live-builder 3.0~a45 (from Ubuntu 11.10). I'm running into a problem where I can't use udisk to mount devices using a serial console on the live system (perhaps due to problems with consolekit or policykit). Sorry for the cross-post - I've already asked abo

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Bob Proulx
Scott Ferguson wrote: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I like the notion to just use /var/tmp for anything big by default. > > Doesn't that require manually deleting files when they're no longer > required? Of course that is no different from /tmp which is the same until rebooted and I only reboot

Re: correct English usage (for every occasion?)

2012-04-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/04/12 06:07, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 10:21, Lisi wrote: >> On Wednesday 04 April 2012 14:41:48 you wrote: >>> Colloquial English is liberal to change, Yes. I understand what you mean. And that's a classic example of something written by some for whom English is not their

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 05/04/12 11:41, Bob Proulx wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Martin Steigerwald wrote: >>> I like the notion to just use /var/tmp for anything big by default. >> >> Doesn't that require manually deleting files when they're no longer >> required? > > Of course that is no different from /tmp whic

Re: NAS box configuration

2012-04-04 Thread J. Bakshi
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:05:10 +0100 Jon Dowland wrote: > On 04/04/12 13:58, J. Bakshi wrote: > > What I'm missing is a good online doc to configure debian for the > > NAS. One option is freeNAS. I have no idea which one will be better. > > That depends on how you want to use your NAS. (protocols