Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 22:26 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Richard Owlett writes: > > > I have two computers with USB ports. > > I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers > > did. > > Then we used RS232-C with a null modem &/or  appropriate software > > software at both end

Re: Trouble installing openedx on Debian9

Le 07/06/2018 à 06:27, Sonu Sirvee a écrit : > https://openedx.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OpenOPS/pages/60227779/Open+edX+Installation+Options > > it uses this vargrant machine(virtual one)... Is there a

Re: The Internet locks up Buster

Hi. On Wed, Jun 06, 2018 at 05:51:34PM -0400, Borden Rhodes wrote: > On 6 June 2018 at 15:26, wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 09:25:25PM -0400, Borden Rhodes wrote: > >> During the freeze, hard drive activity goes through the roof. Yes, my > >> hard drive is fine a

Re: The Internet locks up Buster

On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 10:52:01 +0300 Reco said: [--8<--] > I.e. 12309 bug is back. It's obscure and presumably fixed (at least four > times fixed) bug that happens with relatively slow filesystem (be it > SSD/HDD/NFS or whatever) and a large amount of free RAM. I first > encountered the thing back i

Re: The Internet locks up Buster

Hi. On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 11:05:27AM +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 10:52:01 +0300 Reco said: > > [--8<--] > > > I.e. 12309 bug is back. It's obscure and presumably fixed (at least four > > times fixed) bug that happens with relatively slow filesystem (be it >

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

On 2018-06-07, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > This depends on what you mean by "universal". It was intended to be a > protocol for computers to use to communicate with peripherals; > "universal" in this context was restricted to peripherals. And to the planet earth rather than all the way to the furthe

Re: The Internet locks up Buster

> Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 01:32:27 +0300 > The first questions regarding Out Of Memory situation is, how much memory do > you have, and what Desktop Environment and active programs (other than the > browser) have you been using when OOM-killer got triggered? I use KDE. That may be part of the proble

Re: The Internet locks up Buster

On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 11:48:54 +0300 Reco said: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 11:05:27AM +0300, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 10:52:01 +0300 Reco said: > > > > [--8<--] > > > > > Limit the size of dirty blocks cache. Kernel defaults are insanely large. > > > What I'm using here is

Re: The Internet locks up Buster

On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 05:38:20 -0400 Borden Rhodes said: > I use KDE. That may be part of the problem. > > I can trigger OOM with only with a browser (Firefox or Chromium) open > because it leaks memory on certain websites. Of course, I can trigger > it more quickly with other programs like LibreOff

Re: USB "null modem" cables and related Linux driver questions

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 08:07:15AM +0100, Tixy wrote: On Wed, 2018-06-06 at 22:26 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Richard Owlett writes: > I have two computers with USB ports. > I wish them to communicate as simply as mid-20th-century computers > did. > Then we used RS232-C with a null modem &/or  

Debian on new hardware: ASUS UX430U notebook PC

Greetings. I have successfully installed debian (buster) on my ASUS UX430U and have been using it for around one month without any severe problems. There are however, some minor issues, that I would like to share with the community. (This notebook does not appear on debian's supported hardware lis

Re: Debian on new hardware: ASUS UX430U notebook PC

Hi. On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 07:18:47PM +0200, Toby Young wrote: > Greetings. > > I have successfully installed debian (buster) on my ASUS UX430U and have > been using it for around one month without any severe problems. There are > however, some minor issues, that I would like to share wi

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Re: The Internet locks up Buster

> I.e. 12309 bug is back. It's obscure and presumably fixed (at least four > times fixed) bug that happens with relatively slow filesystem (be it > SSD/HDD/NFS or whatever) and a large amount of free RAM. I first > encountered the thing back in 2.6.18 days, where it was presumably > implemented (as

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Re: The Internet locks up Buster

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 02:13:17PM -0400, Borden Rhodes wrote: > > I.e. 12309 bug is back. It's obscure and presumably fixed (at least four > > times fixed) bug that happens with relatively slow filesystem (be it > > SSD/HDD/NFS or whatever) and a large amount of free RAM. I first > > encountered t

Re: akondadi - should be really improved!

Hans wrote: > Don't know if anyone got into the same trouble, but IMO akonadi should be > improved. yes long time ago. I think it was 2008. Since then I use TDE which is old KDE3. I am not advertising, but KDE >= 4 is PITA in itself. regards

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I am currently running Debian Stretch and MATE desktop. I have noticed a while back the hibernate option disappearing from desktop options and have found this does not work. Is there any reason for this not working on Debian Stretch or Debian Jessie or even other Linii I have tried ? Regards, A

Re: Hibernate not working !

On 08/06/18 15:03, Aaron Gray wrote: I am currently running Debian Stretch and MATE desktop. I have noticed a while back the hibernate option disappearing from desktop options and have found this does not work. Is there any reason for this not working on Debian Stretch or Debian Jessie or even ot

Re: akondadi - should be really improved!

On Thu, 07 Jun 2018 21:18:01 +0200 Hans wrote: Hello Hans, >just a little feedback. IMO akonadi in kmail should be either really >improved or dropped. That's a kmail/akonadi issue, not specifically a Debian one. The relevant Debian packaging team(s) are probably not involved directly in develo

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