Re: [1/2OT] htop for 128 processors

2013-01-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 18/01/2013 09:13, lina wrote: On Friday 18,January,2013 03:51 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 1/18/2013 1:29 AM, lina wrote: Anyone has some idea about how to set 4 columns like this? http://htop.sourceforge.net/htop-64.png $ man htop F2, S Setup screen. There you can co

Re: a tool to have specific images on X root window

2013-01-19 Thread Erwan David
Le 18/01/2013 22:11, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : Le 18.01.2013 21:42, Erwan David a écrit : Le 18/01/2013 21:38, Javier Vasquez a écrit : On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le 18/01/2013 21:10, Erwan David a écrit : Le 18/01/2013 21:02, berenger.mo...@neutrali

Re: Why the 64 bit ISA is better

2013-01-19 Thread berenger . morel
Le 19.01.2013 00:21, Stan Hoeppner a écrit : Given the recent threads regarding 32 vs 64 bit I thought I'd take a moment to present information often omitted in responses to these posts. First, the i386 kernel/user space have access to only the original 8 general purpose registers of the 803

Re: [1/2OT] htop for 128 processors

2013-01-19 Thread lina
On Saturday 19,January,2013 05:16 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > On 18/01/2013 09:13, lina wrote: >> On Friday 18,January,2013 03:51 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> On 1/18/2013 1:29 AM, lina wrote: Anyone has some idea about how to set 4 columns like this? http://htop.sourceforg

Re: debian 64 or 32 bit

2013-01-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 18 ian 13, 20:33:01, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > So, for processors able to support x84_64 archs, use it. Why would > you use only a fragment of your computer's power? This is a bit of an overstatement. I've been running amd64, i386 and amd64 kernel with i386 userland on this

Re: debian 64 or 32 bit

2013-01-19 Thread berenger . morel
Le 19.01.2013 11:49, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Vi, 18 ian 13, 20:33:01, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: So, for processors able to support x84_64 archs, use it. Why would you use only a fragment of your computer's power? This is a bit of an overstatement. I've been running amd64, i38

Re: [1/2OT] htop for 128 processors

2013-01-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 19/01/2013 11:13, lina wrote: On Saturday 19,January,2013 05:16 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 18/01/2013 09:13, lina wrote: On Friday 18,January,2013 03:51 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 1/18/2013 1:29 AM, lina wrote: Anyone has some idea about how to set 4 columns like this? http:/

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Lina, Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb lina: > > Where is that directory located? In your home directory? > > Yes, in my home directory. The path is /home/lina/try > > >> -? ? ? ? ?? XX.tar > > > > I imagine it could also be a subtile lack of access rights (SELinux >

Re: Why the 64 bit ISA is better

2013-01-19 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 1/19/2013 3:41 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Thanks for detailed informations, I was suggesting some of them > (instruction sets and range of registers, but did not known about the > new GPRs), but did not had the knowledge to explain things as nicely as > you. > > I would like to

Re: OpenVPN and IP Forwarding

2013-01-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Joe a écrit : > > Entirely unrelated to anything else in the thread, but this one caught > me yesterday, moving a firewall script from an old Ubuntu to a Sid > machine. > > In Sid, 'state' no longer works. Instead of: Are you sure it is not just a warning ? I can see from packages.debian

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > The 686-pae kernel is 32-bit, nothing strange here. > > However, in your OP you mentioned not being able to allocate more than 2 > GB with qemu. Unless this is some limitation of qemu it should have > worked with the -686-pae kernel Don't forget that even

Re: OpenVPN and IP Forwarding

2013-01-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
cletusjenkins a écrit : > I can ping the machine from the private network, but not the other way around. What does this mean exactly ? Please provide the exact commands and output. Also please provide the output of iptables-save. > Kernel IP routing table > Destination Gateway Genmas

Re: Why the 64 bit ISA is better

2013-01-19 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 19. Januar 2013 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > > PS: do you know if, as for 16 bits to 32 bits, there is a the need to > > switch processor's "mode"? > > Yes. x86-64 adds 'long' mode which comprises two sub-modes. See the > Wikipedia page or the x86-64 Architectural Programmer's Reference M

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 19/01/2013 14:31, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Lina, Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb lina: > Where is that directory located? In your home directory? Yes, in my home directory. The path is /home/lina/try -? ? ? ? ?? XX.tar I imagine it could also be a subtile

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread lina
On Sunday 20,January,2013 12:28 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > On 19/01/2013 14:31, Martin Steigerwald wrote: >> Hi Lina, >> >> Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb lina: >>> > Where is that directory located? In your home directory? >>> >>> Yes, in my home directory. The path is /home/lin

Priorities of alternatives; was Re: Re (2): xmonad and LXDE.

2013-01-19 Thread peasthope
man update-alternatives has no mention of how the priorities of alternatives originate. The most reasonable explanation I can imagine is that any new alternative is assigned a lower priority than extant alternatives. Correct? My example from last July. peter@dalton:~$ update-alternatives --di

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 19/01/2013 17:33, lina wrote: On Sunday 20,January,2013 12:28 AM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: On 19/01/2013 14:31, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Lina, Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2013 schrieb lina: > Where is that directory located? In your home directory? Yes, in my home directory. Th

Re: debian 64 or 32 bit

2013-01-19 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:36:50 -0600 "Mark Allums" napísal: > > There is one disadvantage, i read about it, that by using the 64bit > > pointers, the binaries size and memory requirements are on amd64 > > higher, than on i386. But bigger HDD and more RAM is no problem > > in these days. > >

RE: debian 64 or 32 bit

2013-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Original Message- From: Ralf Mardorf Sent: Sat 1/19/2013 19:21 To: debian-u...@lists.debian.or Subject: Re: debian 64 or 32 bit On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:41:21 +0100, Slavko wrote: > Hi, > > Dna Fri, 18 Jan 2013 23:36:50 -0600 "Mark Allums" > napísal: > >> > There is one disadvantage, i r

GDM3 Duplicates Menus Clocks Workspace Switcher etc.

2013-01-19 Thread Felix Winterhalter
Hey there everyone, I just installed debian wheezy and I get the following problem with gdm3: Every time I login the menu items are added again (to the already existing items) and the clock is added and the logout menu is also added as is the workspace switcher and the taskbar ... So after 3 l

Re: GDM3 Duplicates Menus Clocks Workspace Switcher etc.

2013-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:33:40 +0100, Felix Winterhalter wrote: Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/PfWgl0f.png It's good that you did add the screenshot, since it's the GNOME3 panel and not GDM, GNOME's display manager. I'm not using GNOME3, but IIRC to access the panel settings, you have to pu

Re: debian 64 or 32 bit

2013-01-19 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:34:54 +0100 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org napísal: > Of course, I think it totally useless for habitual uses, like using > word processors. But for that, modern computer are simply a waste: > most usages of those applications were made on computers 15 years > ago... (

Re: OpenVPN and IP Forwarding

2013-01-19 Thread Joe
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:30:54 +0100 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > Joe a écrit : > > > > Entirely unrelated to anything else in the thread, but this one > > caught me yesterday, moving a firewall script from an old Ubuntu to > > a Sid machine. > > > > In Sid, 'state' no longer works. Inste

Re: GDM3 Duplicates Menus Clocks Workspace Switcher etc.

2013-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:11:45 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 19:33:40 +0100, Felix Winterhalter wrote: Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/PfWgl0f.png It's good that you did add the screenshot, since it's the GNOME3 panel and not GDM, GNOME's display manager. I'm not using GN

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
## Transferring back to the list since i received this personally, and ## I am not the OP On 19/01/2013 19:12, pavicic wrote: Hi, -? ? ? ? ?? XX.tar I wonder how can I delete it? I've just come accross this. Didn't read the history. Thought the following might help

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread craig
On Saturday, January 19, 2013 10:33, "lina" said: Yes, in my home directory. The path is /home/lina/try >> -? ? ? ? ?? XX.tar > >> But it looks more to me as if this files are somehow >> corrupted. Did you fsck this file-system lately ? Hi Lina Excuse me fo

RE: debian 64 or 32 bit

2013-01-19 Thread berenger . morel
Important are the bottlenecks regarding to the usage. All general claims are nothing, but blah-blah. Could not agree more. Too many people are buying new ram modules when they should simply buy a faster hard disk, by example. People often say that dev needs high-performance computers for comp

Re: 32-bit Kernel on 64-bit CPU?

2013-01-19 Thread craig
On Saturday, January 19, 2013 07:44, "Pascal Hambourg" said: > Hello, > > Andrei POPESCU a écrit : >> >> The 686-pae kernel is 32-bit, nothing strange here. >> >> However, in your OP you mentioned not being able to allocate more than 2 >> GB with qemu. Unless this is some limitation of qemu it

Can't login into phpldapadmin web interface

2013-01-19 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I just installed slapd, ldap-utils and phpldapadmin on to my Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy) system. I run sudo slaptest -v config file testing succeeded However, I can't run say the command: sudo ldapmodify SASL/DIGEST-MD5 authentication started Please enter your password: I enter here the pa

What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-19 Thread venturehw
Hello: Please provide some examples of common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUXso that I may more effectively gain a better handle on the trouble-shooting process.  Thank you! Sincerely, Herschel

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-19 Thread berenger . morel
Le 20.01.2013 00:07, ventur...@yahoo.com a écrit : Hello: Please provide some examples of common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUXso that I may more effectively gain a better handle on the trouble-shooting process. Thank you! Sincerely, Herschel I think main problems is lack of su

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-19 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 01/19/2013 05:07 PM, ventur...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello: Please provide some examples of common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUXso that I may more effectively gain a better handle on the trouble-shooting process. Thank you! Sincerely, Herschel Maybe the primary problem comes with

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:07:19 +0100, wrote: Please provide some examples of common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUXso that I may more effectively gain a better handle on the trouble-shooting process. For "averaged" usage there aren't "common" problems. What ever "averaged" and "c

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:36:45 +0100, wrote: Some examples I am thinking about is support for recent NVidia cards, various wifi or sound chip-sets which do not always have free drivers. The common way to solve those problems is by adding non-free repositories, and install them. It's not that

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:39:55 +0100, Yaro Kasear wrote: Linux system I'd recommend Arch instead. Which I don't call a rolling release. Arch was my preferred distro. If you have a distro with releases you can make hard transitions. For Ubuntu the transition from init to upstart wasn't an iss

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread craig
On Saturday, January 19, 2013 14:33, cr...@gtek.biz said: > On Saturday, January 19, 2013 10:33, "lina" said: > > Yes, in my home directory. The path is /home/lina/try > >>> -? ? ? ? ?? XX.tar >> >>> But it looks more to me as if this files are somehow >>> cor

Incorrect time stamps after files copied to Debian Squeeze

2013-01-19 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I am copying files from my Olimpus Voice Recorder to PC which have corresponding time stamps on recorder. When I copy files to my Ubuntu 10.04 the time stamps preserved exactly as they are on Voice Recorder. However after files copied to Debian Sqeeze, the system changes the time stamps, e.g.

Re: [1/2OT] how to delete ??? file

2013-01-19 Thread lina
On Sunday 20,January,2013 04:33 AM, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > On Saturday, January 19, 2013 10:33, "lina" said: > > Yes, in my home directory. The path is /home/lina/try > >>> -? ? ? ? ?? XX.tar >> >>> But it looks more to me as if this files are somehow >>> corr

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-19 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 01/19/2013 06:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:39:55 +0100, Yaro Kasear wrote: Linux system I'd recommend Arch instead. Which I don't call a rolling release. Arch was my preferred distro. If you have a distro with releases you can make hard transitions. For Ubuntu the tr

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:59:42 +0100, Yaro Kasear wrote: Even the "non-free" stuff provided for Debian in their official repos or in many third party repos is perfectly safe and usable. non-free provided by Debian is safe regarding to third party repos the OP should ask the list for experience

Re: Priorities of alternatives; was Re: Re (2): xmonad and LXDE.

2013-01-19 Thread Kushal Kumaran
peasth...@shaw.ca writes: > man update-alternatives has no mention of how the priorities of > alternatives originate. The most reasonable explanation I can > imagine is that any new alternative is assigned a lower priority > than extant alternatives. Correct? > The packager chooses the prior

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-19 Thread Yaro Kasear
On 01/20/2013 12:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 05:59:42 +0100, Yaro Kasear wrote: Even the "non-free" stuff provided for Debian in their official repos or in many third party repos is perfectly safe and usable. non-free provided by Debian is safe regarding to third party rep

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-19 Thread Thierry Chatelet
> it also >caused that the mailing list became moderated and some users were >completely banned from the list. If you mean 'this' mailing list been moderated, my guess is you are mistaken. And are you positive about people being blacklisted? That would be pretty bad, dont you think? Thierry

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:08:21 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: it also caused that the mailing list became moderated and some users were completely banned from the list. If you mean 'this' mailing list been moderated, my guess is you are mistaken. And are you positive about people being blackli

Re: Priorities of alternatives; was Re: Re (2): xmonad and LXDE.

2013-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > man update-alternatives has no mention of how the priorities of > alternatives originate. The most reasonable explanation I can > imagine is that any new alternative is assigned a lower priority > than extant alternatives. Correct? The package postinst script will i