Re: GTK can't load images

2020-11-12 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:57:08PM +0100, mmdebmail2...@marwedels.de wrote: [...] > I think is clearly png [...] [...] > I got so far as cache_get_mime_type_for_data in glib2.0-2.58.3 in > xdgmimecache.c not finding a proper entry [...] I don't know (not sure I'd want to) where Gtk keeps its M

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 23:36:07 -0300 riveravaldez wrote: > On 11/11/20, Felix Miata wrote: > > Charles Curley composed on 2020-11-11 13:43 (UTC-0700): > > > >> Also consider a lightweight desktop such as XFCE. But I would > >> be surprised if that solution helped. > > > > Why do people keep c

drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread Thomas Anderson
Hello List, I have two drives (setup in a RAID 1 array). The drives are mostly for archive purposes, and accessible via SMB on my local network. They are not constantly accessed, and performance/speed is irrelevant. I would rather they idle/sleep when not being directly accessed. I know they ar

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread James B
You can set the sleep time in the firmware of most drives, although some respond better than others. I've been able to set the sleep time in WD drives but not Seagate, but both go to sleep when instructed. I have an old Iomega ix2-200 running Arch ARM.I use 'hdparm' to instruct the drives to sle

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread James B
Sorry it's 'hdparm -S' to set sleep time, not small s! -- James B portoteache...@fastmail.com Em Qui, 12 Nov ʼ20, às 12:25, James B escreveu: > You can set the sleep time in the firmware of most drives, although > some respond better than others. I've been able to set the sleep time > in

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
Hi, another option is hd-idle package available via backports for stable and oldstable. On 11/12/20 1:18 PM, Thomas Anderson wrote: Hello List, I have two drives (setup in a RAID 1 array). The drives are mostly for archive purposes, and accessible via SMB on my local network. They are not

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> You can set the sleep time in the firmware of most drives, although some > respond better than others. I've been able to set the sleep time in WD > drives but not Seagate, but both go to sleep when instructed. FWIW, the `hdparm -S` doesn't really work for WD drives last I checked. More specifica

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread James B
That makes sense.These WD drives I got to sleep automatically after 10m are 2013 Blue desktop drives.The firmware on new ones may behave differently.The Seagate Barracudas in the NAS do respond to a sleep command (hdparm -y) but not any command to change the auto sleep time - they stay spinning

Re: drives spin 100% of the time, idle down?

2020-11-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> That makes sense.These WD drives I got to sleep automatically after 10m are > 2013 Blue desktop drives. There's a chance that you just got lucky and the time that the drive decides to use is similar to the time you set. In any case this behavior was not really documented anywhere so it might ha

Re: GTK can't load images

2020-11-12 Thread Malte Marwedel
Am 12.11.20 um 09:35 schrieb to...@tuxteam.de: On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 11:57:08PM +0100, mmdebmail2...@marwedels.de wrote: I don't know (not sure I'd want to) where Gtk keeps its MIME types database these days. But, as a shot in the dark: have you checked that your /etc/mime.types is sane? Wha

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/11/20 7:09 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: Pentium II is old indeed. Whenever using old processors, it is important to test if the new kernel will still support them. So maybe I shall try some newer kernel only?

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/11/20 7:42 PM, Felix Miata wrote: I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if possible at all) to upgrade it to Debian 9. Any ex

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/11/20 9:43 PM, Charles Curley wrote: I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if possible at all) to upgrade it to Debian 9. Any

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/11/20 7:09 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: Upgrading to a newer release is not likely to make it faster. If anything, it'll be slower (due to increased memory demands of newer software). That's something I have already experienced with previous upgrades. But it was always in full GUI (eithe

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Felix Miata
Miroslav Skoric composed on 2020-11-12 23:01 (UTC+0100): > At this stage (Debian 8) I do that in MATE + Thunderbird. It's slow but > works. What is not known is whether that would work in Debian 9. Possibly you could boot live media 9 to find out, or if you have enough disk space available, ins

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 17:40:50 +0100 Miroslav Skoric wrote: > I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) > running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very > slow after starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try > (if possible at all) to upgrade

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Linux-Fan
Miroslav Skoric writes: On 11/11/20 7:09 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: Pentium II is old indeed. Whenever using old processors, it is important to test if the new kernel will still support them. So maybe I shall try some newer kernel only? If you have an easy means to do that: Yes, I would highly r

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Linux-Fan
Felix Miata writes: Miroslav Skoric composed on 2020-11-12 23:01 (UTC+0100): > At this stage (Debian 8) I do that in MATE + Thunderbird. It's slow but > works. What is not known is whether that would work in Debian 9. Possibly you could boot live media 9 to find out, or if you have enough disk

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 23:01:19 +0100 Miroslav Skoric wrote: > And when bootable, what GUI might be workable at best (Mate, > Xfce, ...)? As I said, for nothing much more than occasional > Thunderbird, or any other compatible mail client that can use the > CLI-based ham email server (FBB), to proces

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 11/12/20 4:52 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: On 11/11/20 7:42 PM, Felix Miata wrote: I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if po

HDD for CCTV

2020-11-12 Thread mick crane
regarding earlier post with do not reply request. There's loads of HDDs advertised as "for CCTV, like a PC disk" Is there some difference between HDDs for video recording and regular PC HDDs ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31