Re: Printers using free software only

Am Montag, 23. Juli 2012 schrieb Brian: > On Mon 23 Jul 2012 at 08:29:49 -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > On 07/23/2012 07:47 AM, Registros Web wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > > > >Im about to buy a printer and want to make sure I get one that uses > > >100% free software, no blobs or proprietary d

Re: Printers using free software only

Am Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2012 schrieb Gaël DONVAL: > Three goods points were raised: > 1) Postscript printers (advertised so) are great in that regard because > they only need a PPD (ASCII) file to work. This is not the only way to > be sure the printer will work in 10 years but this is the easiest

Re: Printers using free software only

Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2012 schrieb Roger Leigh: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 02:06:07PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 19:43:13 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 04:51:11PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> I just wanted to point a scenario where the j

Re: Debian multimedia repository (was: Shockwave Flash)

Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012 schrieb Teemu Likonen: > Gary Dale [2012-08-01 13:55:09 -0400] wrote: > > Agreed. I would also advise people to stay away from > > debian-multimedia. It's packages are incompatible with standard > > Debian packages in many cases. [...] debian-multimedia can be too > > mu

Re: Debian multimedia repository

Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2012 schrieb Yaro Kasear: > On 08/01/2012 11:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 01/08/12 11:52 PM, Yaro Kasear wrote: > >> On 08/01/2012 02:55 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >>> On Mi, 01 aug 12, 22:30:52, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Titanus Eramius [2012-08-01 21:18:03 +0200] wro

Re: Shockwave Flash

Hi Fred! Please quote properly, please do not top-post. Am Mittwoch, 1. August 2012 schrieb Fred Zinsli: > > Em 01-08-2012 12:27, Gary Dale escreveu: > >> On 01/08/12 10:11 AM, Kent West wrote: > >>> If you haven't already tried it, > >>> > >>> aptitude install gnash > >> > >> Do you have rec

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

Hi! Bill Unruh allowed me to post his personal answer to the list. He answered personally cause otherwise he would get the whole mailing list in the mail instead due to some newsgroup gateway stuff. On Thursday, 2. August 2012 he wrote: > In linux.debian.user, you wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 2. A

Re: GNU find: "print0" and "-type" arguments

Am Freitag, 3. August 2012 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > martin@merkaba:~/Zeit/find-Test> find \( -type d -print \) -o \( > > -name "file" -printf "%s %p" \) -o \( -name "anotherfile" -print0 > > \) . > > ./anothe

Re: Shockwave Flash

Am Freitag, 3. August 2012 schrieb Fred Zinsli: > >> Did that after I removed everything else. Installed without error. > > >> Chromium and firefox state that the flashplugin-nonfree is installed, > >> but I cannot view any flash sites at all. > > >> Both browsers report the following as installe

Re: Printers using free software only

Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2012 schrieb green: > Martin Steigerwald wrote at 2012-08-02 13:19 -0500: > > I am quite confident my HP OfficeJet 5610 doesn´t contain such a > > nasty firmware, as I am using it for a real long time now. > > True according to > <http://hp

Re: bug kde 4.8.4

Am Freitag, 3. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:20:48 -0600, alex wrote: > > bug KDE 4.8.4 DEBIAN SID august-02-2012 > > (...) > > Bug reports have to be filed at Debian BTS: > > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/index.en.html CC´ing to sub...@bugs.debian.org should have done th

Re: bug kde 4.8.4

Am Samstag, 4. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:14:16 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 3. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > >> On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 13:20:48 -0600, alex wrote: > >> > bug KDE 4.8.4 DEBIAN SID august-02-2012 > >

Re: find -printf ' %TT

Am Sonntag, 5. August 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Sat, 04 Aug 2012 22:57:55 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > Given "find / -type f -printf '%TT %p\n'". Gnu find previously > > printed hh:mm:ss for the files modify time but now is printing > > hh:mm:ss.00 for all 33K+ files on my Squeeze syste

Re: dd command can't get the same uuid

Am Montag, 6. August 2012 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Fnzh Xx wrote: > > root@debian:/home/tiger# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=10240k > > 11447+1 records in > > 11447+1 records out > > 120034123776 bytes (120 GB) copied, 4729.59 s, 25.4 MB/s > > root@debian:/home/tiger# blkid > > ... > > why /dev/sda

Re: find -printf ' %TT

Am Sonntag, 5. August 2012 schrieb Sven Joachim: > On 2012-08-05 18:33 +0200, Mike McClain wrote: > > Thanks Sven. > > > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 08:33:54AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2012-08-05 07:57 +0200, Mike McClain wrote: > > > > > >> > Given "find / -type f -printf '%TT %p\n'

Re: Something about netiquette Re: systemd

Am Sonntag, 5. August 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 21:00 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > But I do use systemd, cause it works nicely for me. > > > > So what? > > And the technical fact that Poettering's stuff does cause issues for >

Re: [LAU] OnDemand-performance was (OT: klang)

Am Montag, 6. August 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Hi Debian and LAU list, Hi, > sorry for the cross-posting, but I want to verify if Debian still is > using and not using some CPU frequency scaling script: Why don´t you just look? > On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 08:42:02 +0200, Jeremy wrote: > > On 08/05

Re: [LAU] OnDemand-performance was (OT: klang)

Am Montag, 6. August 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 10:43 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Why don´t you just look? > > I already answered to Martin off-list, I guess the list should at least > getting informed, that I had a "default" Debian in

Re: Debian showing less RAM

Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2012 schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan: > i was using i686 kernel now i just updated amd64 it worked > aptitude install linux-image-2.6-amd64 > > root@lion:~# free > total used free sharedbuffers > cached Mem: 8134920 833728051

Re: which one is faster?

Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2012 schrieb Johannes Wiedersich: > On 08/08/12 09:14, lina wrote: > > It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, > > > > from one server to another server. > > > > I checked that rsync is faster than scp, > > but in my situations rsync has elapsed for 1 hour, I guess t

Re: which one is faster?

Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2012 schrieb Darac Marjal: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:14:50PM +0800, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, > > > > from one server to another server. > > > > I checked that rsync is faster than scp, > > but in my situations rsync has

UEFI install (was: Re: Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD)

Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: > On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Gary Dale wrote: > > > On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: > > >> Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in > > >> ultrabooks

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

Hi! Am Samstag, 11. August 2012 schrieb Lili-Anne Girard: > > Do you really think that XFCE is tested in the same way that GNOME > > (and Dothe same goes for Razor-QT and KDE, for instance)? I mean, > > there are > > more > > > Dothe GNOME/KDE users out there than XFCE/LXDE/Razor-QT and more > >

Re: UEFI install (was: Re: Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD)

Am Samstag, 11. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: > Not sure about all the: > > - GPT + UEFI > > - MBR + UEFI > > - GPT + BIOS > > I just installed Wheezy and it seemed to install just like any other > install I have done. Ah, so you are not sure its using UEFI at all? Do you have grub-pc or gr

Re: UEFI install

Please quote instead of top-post. Am Freitag, 10. August 2012 schrieb Jerome BENOIT: > On 10/08/12 11:17, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 9. August 2012 schrieb Greg Madden: > >> On Thursday 09 August 2012 4:37:05 am L V Gandhi wrote: > >>> On Thu, Aug

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

Am Mittwoch, 15. August 2012 schrieb Gary Dale: > On 15/08/12 02:13 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 15 aug 12, 05:12:46, Gary Dale wrote: > >> If your computer has a 64bit CPU, you could also install the 64bit > >> version of Debian over the existing. Just don't format your /home. > > > > Ano

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

Am Donnerstag, 16. August 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 02:50:37PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > It works, but why not just upgrade to full 64 bit if you can? It's > > not a lot more work unless you've installed a lot of extra packages. > > Not sure if things are better now

Re: Managing to get the 4 RAM GiB recognized easily

Am Montag, 20. August 2012 schrieb Gaël DONVAL: > Le jeudi 16 août 2012 à 09:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > On Mi, 15 aug 12, 14:50:37, Gary Dale wrote: > > > On 15/08/12 02:13 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > >Another option not mentioned yet is to install the -amd64 kernel > > > >(assuming

Re: sometimes space does not work in knode

Am Montag, 13. August 2012 schrieb Kamaraju S Kusumanchi: > I am using a mixture of stable + testing (Squeeze + Lenny), knode > version 4.4.11, KDE 4.8.4, I hope you aren´t serious or there is a typo in above. In a way that means that there is no Lenny involved ;). Anyway, in the state of devel

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

Am Mittwoch, 22. August 2012 schrieb Weaver: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:39:46 -0700, Weaver wrote: > >>> On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: > > I regularly log 40-47Kb/s on updates.. Cheers, > >>> > >>> And so do we all... > >

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

Am Donnerstag, 23. August 2012 schrieb Weaver: > > Am Mittwoch, 22. August 2012 schrieb Weaver: > >> > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:39:46 -0700, Weaver wrote: > >> >>> On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: […] > >> >> I understand also, that many can't get these speeds, but when you > >> >> are pa

Re: Mail without MUA?

Am Dienstag, 7. Januar 2014, 19:36:24 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: > > However a MUA won't download emails from a MTA, but from a POP or IMAP > > server. > > Yes, of course from the pop3 server of my provider. > > > What makes you think they were "downloaded". > > I think, they were downloaded, for

Re: Number of Procs

Am Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014, 11:40:36 schrieb Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda: > Hi. Hi Hudson, > Sometimes, the system raises a lot of processes, causing considerable > delay to respond any input action. This moment, there are 312 processes > running (in a personal laptop - Debian testing). Here i

Re: Number of Procs

Am Donnerstag, 9. Januar 2014, 07:52:55 schrieb Jeff Bauer: > On 01/08/2014 10:41 AM, Hudson Flavio Meneses Lacerda wrote: > > hudson@musix:~$ free -m > > > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > > > > Mem: 435412 22 0

Re: Hey humans, I'm a machine

Am Freitag, 17. Januar 2014, 22:37:30 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > once you build me, but nowadays I'm more gifted than you humans. Is there any on-topic stuff going on on this mailing list anymore? I observe myself clicking on ignore message on whole mail threads quite often these days. Actually I

Re: POP3 softwares.

Am Samstag, 18. Januar 2014, 21:46:15 schrieb Peter Easthope: > Problem > Given a remote POP3 server which provides SSL. Also a MUA on a > local host, which retrieves by POP3 when activated by the user and > lacks SSL. Try to move messages from the server to the MUA. > > Candidate Solution > Let

Re: Minimizing shell access on my VPS

Am Samstag, 18. Januar 2014, 01:23:16 schrieb Aubrey Raech: > Hey debian-user list-- > > I have a friend in another country who only uses Windows, and I wanted > to show him a programming project I've been working on. This program > only runs on GNU/Linux as of now, and is accessed through the ter

Re: Minimizing shell access on my VPS

Am Samstag, 18. Januar 2014, 19:12:18 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Unix-like systems have been multiuser machines forever. Personally I > create accounts for people often and know that the file permissions do > their job to keep people restrictions presented. If I have files that > I don't want other pe

Re: how to remove ? directory

Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2014, 15:16:57 schrieb lina: > ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied > > d? ? ?? ?? .gvfs > > a# rm -rf .gvfs > rm: cannot remove `.gvfs': Is a directory > > > any advice, I think the .gvfs being introduced long time ago when I > t

Re: Mysterius Download

Am Freitag, 28. Februar 2014, 16:14:07 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Vi, 28 feb 14, 10:06:12, Markos wrote: > > How to find out which program is doing this mysterious "download" > > and block this download? > > nethogs nethogs is sufficient for TCP and user processes. There is also atop, but it n

Re: Zimbra mail........

Am Freitag, 17. Januar 2014, 09:38:17 schrieb Charlie: > From my Keyboard: > > Just a quick question. Does anyone use Zimbra mail and know something > about setting it up. Have changed to a new ISP and they us Zimbra > mail. They set up the default account without too much trouble othe

Re: Replacing systemd

Am Montag, 3. März 2014, 20:50:09 schrieb Steve Litt: > Hi everyone, > > I just checked with my local Linux group (GoLUG), and the opinions > there are that systemd is not a particularly good thing. I also heard > from our LUG's most vociferous proponent of Daemontools that Daemontools > wouldn't

plasma desktop changes positions of widgets after I moved them

Hi! Did someone else notice this? https://bugs.kde.org/232171 I wonder if this could be partly debian / ubuntu specific as Bojan commented that he couldn't find it on other distros. But then to what I know Debian and Ubuntu package KDE seperately. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - htt

Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

Am Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010 schrieb Modestas Vainius: > Hello, > > On ketvirtadienis 06 Gegužė 2010 23:48:43 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [...] > > > YOU assume that your truth is an ultimate one. > > > > Not really. I made objective statement about KMail based on > > observable facts. I also vo

Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?

Am Montag 10 Mai 2010 schrieb Nate Bargmann: > * On 2010 10 May 11:50 -0500, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Yes, 4.2 and now 4.4 seem to behave badly without a clean ~/.kde. I > > find that very disturbing and unstable. > > For the record, I had a clean ~/.kde for 4.2 when it hit Sid about a > year ago an

Re: Kde 3.5 ...

Am Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010 schrieb Sune Vuorela: > On 2010-05-06, Curt Howland wrote: > > On Thursday 06 May 2010, Ana Guerrero was heard to say: > >> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:17:43AM -0300, Jorge Gonçalves wrote: > >> > Maybe use dummy packages, or rename the packages so that KDE 3.5 > >> > coul

Re: KDE 4.4.3 in unstable

Am Donnerstag 06 Mai 2010 schrieb Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.: > > However, whether to ship akonadi trunk/beta/final of the next version > > is another question which is still open. In my opinion, Akonadi > > itself is > > > > pretty mature so it might be doable. > > I didn't complain well. This is t

please no further bug reports about co-installability of plasma/kf5 and kde-l10n-some-language

Hi! I hope this gets through even tough I am not subscribed currently. (I am not interested in any replies, if you have questions, please ask on debian-kde mailing list, thank you.) I may only partly reach the target audience here: Please stop reporting that kf5/plasma5 and kde-10-somelang is

Re: Have I been hacked?

Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 20:04:56 schrieb Danny: > Hi guys, Hi Danny! > A while ago I posted a question about SFTP (I think the thread name was > "SFTP Question") about attacks I got against my server after syslog warned > me about an attempted breakin. > > Consequently I installed fail2ban

Re: Hard Drive Issues - smartmontools

Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 12:21:45 schrieb Jape Person: > Hello, folks! > > Please help me save my old Sony VAIO desktop system. > > I have two very old Sony VAIO systems, one desktop and one > notebook. They have PATA drives. I run Debian testing (updated > every day) on them. They've run t

Re: Have I been hacked?

Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 21:51:26 schrieb Danny: > Hi guys, > > I am afraid my happiness was short lived. To test if the deletion of the > file (and the effects thereof) would be permanent I rebooted the system and > consequently found another file (same size, same random lettering) booted > u

Re: Have I been hacked?

Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 19:20:20 schrieb Brian: > On Tue 06 Jan 2015 at 19:47:09 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 21:51:26 schrieb Danny: > > > Hi guys, > > > > > > I am afraid my happiness was short lived. To test if the

Re: Please stop systemd-fsck on _every_ boot!

Am Dienstag, 6. Januar 2015, 22:13:26 schrieb ~Stack~: > In summary: > * I have systemd-fsck disabled just about every damn place I can find to > do so, yet it still runs on boot every time. I see it on the screen and > in the log messages. > * I still can't find where the hell systemd stores the s

Re: Have I been hacked?

Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2015, 14:20:27 schrieb Jerry Stuckle: > As for the attacks - I've seen a big uptake in the attacks over the last > couple of weeks. The worst I've seen is > 100 IP's locked out in one 24 > hour period. They are coming from all over the world, although since > there are a

Re: Have I been hacked?

Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2015, 14:20:27 schrieb Jerry Stuckle: > As for the attacks - I've seen a big uptake in the attacks over the last > couple of weeks. The worst I've seen is > 100 IP's locked out in one 24 > hour period. They are coming from all over the world, although since > there are a

Re: Have I been hacked?

Am Freitag, 9. Januar 2015, 00:24:06 schrieb Brian: > On Thu 08 Jan 2015 at 22:36:46 +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 8. Januar 2015, 14:20:27 schrieb Jerry Stuckle: > > > Just ensure you're using good security practices - don't allow root > > &

Re: installare debian su macair

Ciao Alessandro, Am Montag, 10. Oktober 2011 schrieb alessandro soprana: > valdagno, 10.10.2011 > > ho un mac air da febbraio 2011 e vorrei installare debian. Mentre su > altri notebook riesco ad installarlo su questo non mi riesce. Mi potete > indicare una guida in Italiano che mi permetta di in

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ad L.: > Regardless of the possibility to use the space, I ALWAYS leave the > first cylinder of a disk unused (aligning partitions to cylinder > boundaries). I find the idea of using the first cylinder for "optimal" > space usage a bit ridiculous, to be honest.

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Darac Marjal: > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:58:52PM +0200, Kurt Flex wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've done a safe-upgrade today which upgraded grub: > > upgrade grub-pc 1.98+20100804-14 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 > > > > The same for grub-common. > > > > A dial

Re: grub-install fails an RAID1

Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Kurt Flex: > Tom H writes: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Kurt Flex wrote: > >># grub-install /dev/sda > >>/usr/sbin/grub-setup: warn: This msdos-style partition label has > >> no post-MBR gap; embedding won't be possible!. > >> /usr/sbin/grub-s

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:02:39 -0500 > Harry Putnam wrote: > > Hello Harry, > > > Oh boy, I guess there is not much doubt that I need new glasses. > > Nah, just set the font a couple of point sizes bigger. :-) When you use Konsole Ctrl and +

Re: nvidia driver performance drop?

Am Mittwoch, 12. Oktober 2011 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:02:39 -0500 > Harry Putnam wrote: > > Hello Harry, > > > Oh boy, I guess there is not much doubt that I need new glasses. > > Nah, just set the font a couple of point sizes bigger. :-) Bah, forget about this. I bette

Re: New desktop configuration

Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2011 schrieb yudi v: > Hi all, [...] > from what I understand Btrfs is the closest to ZFS and this is not > production ready yet. Also it does not offer the advanced features of > ZFS like RAID, deduplication. BTRFS supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10. It is still mark

Re: New desktop configuration

Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2011 schrieb Dan Ritter: > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 06:06:38PM +1000, yudi v wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Just a quick question about RAID and linux file systems. I am > > building a new desktop and wondering what the best configuration to > > get redundancy and speed. > >

Re: Best mount point for shared files

Am Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2011 schrieb Alois Mahdal: [...] > Hi, Hi Alois, >I have a server from which I want to share files via multiple > protocols--so far it's HTTP and SMB. The files do not reside > on the server, they are mounted from other server via NFS. I was > wondering: where to p

Re: the best note in debian

Am Freitag, 14. Oktober 2011 schrieb lina: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 3:38 PM, lina wrote: > > Sorry, > > > > I did not finished last email and the keyboard just sent it. > > > > Well.. I wanna ask what's the best note-taking package, > > > > some one small, can jot down at anytime, > > > > jus

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

Am Samstag, 15. Oktober 2011 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:39:05 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > > > > > > > I have terrible delays/freezes w/ any application whenever HDD (a > > > SATA one) does its writing. > > > > > > > > That

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

Hi Sthu, Am Samstag, 15. Oktober 2011 schrieb Sthu Deus: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Henrique: > >Well, *any* issue with the disk subsystem will cause such problems to > >get several orders of magnitude worse, so yes, one must *first* make > >sure the disks are operating at the expected

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

Am Samstag, 15. Oktober 2011 schrieb Sthu Deus: > >> My question is, Whether I can make any adjustments as to FS mount > >> options, kernel parameters, etc? > >> > >> > >> > >> The idea is, If it works extremely slow - to reduce its (the writing > >> process or whatever related to it) priority or

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2011 schrieb Sthu Deus: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Martin: > >Thats a typical workload where certain kernels have lots of problems > >with interactivity. I think its best to use at least kernel 2.6.37. At > >some kernel version CFQ gained a low_latency mode which

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2011 schrieb Sthu Deus: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Martin: > >There has been significant improvements with recent kernels. After > >installing 2.6.37 - AFAIR - on my ThinkPad T42 which uses Ext4 I > >actually thought I bought a new notebook. And there have been >

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2011 schrieb Sthu Deus: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Camaleón: > >> For system that I'm speaking now is a Dell's laptop w/ AMD > >> Tutorion64 2.4 GHz, 2G RAM, w/ Hitachi SATA 750G in it. > > > >If memory serves me right, Turion64 sounds like an "old" CPU, right? > >

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

Am Sonntag, 16. Oktober 2011 schrieb Sthu Deus: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Martin: > >Huh? Well compared to SSD they are dog slow with small size random > >read/write operations - typical refered to as IOPS - but I cannot > >confirm that they are slower than PATA drives. They might not b

Re: GPT on BIOS system partitions scheme

Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2011 schrieb Arno Schuring: > Virgo Pärna (virgo.pa...@mail.ee on 2011-10-17 08:50 +): > > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:16:02 +0200, Arno Schuring > > > > wrote: > > > yudi v (yudi@gmail.com on 2011-10-16 15:20 +1000): > > >> Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boun

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2011 schrieb Sthu Deus: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Martin: > >Ok, before doing anything else try to repair your Ext4 filesystem: > > > >[ 154.732424] composite sync not supported > >[ 299.358408] composite sync not supported > >[ 304.096062] EXT4-fs (sda2): er

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2011 schrieb Sthu Deus: > >You need to run fsck from a live distribution. Go to grml.org, dd the > >suitable GRML iso image to an empty (!) USB stick or one with > >disposable data, boot this and try fsck from there without mounting > >the partition. If it says clean, use

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > > I would say it was the first time. Rather weird remounts accur at boot: > > > > > > [ 11.010837] EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro > > [ 19.630649] EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data > > mode. Opts: errors

Re: Reducing HDD writing affect on whole system.

Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2011 schrieb Sthu Deus: > Thank You for Your time and answer, Martin: > >How do you copy the file? Maybe the method you use for copying uses > >small buffers and thus needlessly generated disk seeks. You might try > >using dd with bs=1M ;). > > I do this w/ mc. > > But w/ d

Re: which system is similar with debian

Am Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2011 schrieb lina: > Hi, Hi! > I want to download a software, which only provided the below options > except Windows: > > 1] RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 (64 bit) > 2] RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (64 bit) > 3] Suse Linux Enterprise 10/11 (64 bit). > > I am not sure which one

Re: Formatting external HDD

Hi Lisi, Am Dienstag, 18. Oktober 2011 schrieb Lisi: > I have just acquired a one T HDD for use as an external HDD. I now > need to decide how to partition it. I am intending to use it for > backup purposes, and have bought what seems ot me ot be a very large > disk so that things can be added o

Re: GRUB2 in edit mode

Am Samstag, 22. Oktober 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > Hello, Hi Camaleón, > I am trying to get a more paused bootup messages by appending > "boot_delay=1000" to the kernel line in GRUB2 edit mode (I'm adding > this at the "linux" line, after "ro quiet"), but when I press F10 to > continue with the boo

Re: KDE package manager

Am Mittwoch, 2. November 2011 schrieb Doug: > On 11/02/2011 01:56 PM, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > Camaleón wrote: > >> On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:22:14 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote: [...] > >>> world's easiest program to use. > >>> > >>> Is there a KDE package manager available? > >> > >> What happe

Re: GNOME3 Ugh! Reverted to XFCE4

Am Samstag, 12. November 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > > FRom what I read, just consider gnome 3.0 as a pre-alpha... > > Although probably GNOME developers don't like that term, I'd say "sort > of", yes. How do I remember quite some of this and other points from this thread from the introduction of

Re: KDE activities

Hi Alan! Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011 schrieb Alan Chandler: > With the problems I seem to be having with Gnome3 (not the problem that […] > ...) I decided to give KDE 4 another try (I had switched to Gnome from > KDE when KDE 4 was first introduced). > > I am struggling with the concepts behind

Re: KDE activities

Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011 schrieb Alan Chandler: > With the problems I seem to be having with Gnome3 (not the problem that > most people have with the shell, which I like - but other applications > which seem to have become flakey - Gedit crashes on closing a tab, > Nautilus FTP doesn't seem to

Re: KDE activities

Am Sonntag, 27. November 2011 schrieb Alan Chandler: > On 27/11/11 09:00, Alan Chandler wrote: > ... > > > This shows I have two activities both named "New Activity". I should > > then right click on a desktop and select "Desktop Settings" I should > > see a window with the left pane having three

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

Am Montag, 28. November 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:29:10 -0900, Greg Madden wrote: > > On Sunday 27 November 2011 8:29:19 am Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:04:24 +, Cam Hutchison wrote: > >> > I have tried GNOME 3. I have tried it with fallback mode. I've now >

Re: How can I get GNOME 2 back

Am Montag, 28. November 2011 schrieb Cybe R. Wizard: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:52:52 + > > Richard wrote: > > I was unhappy with Gnome 3 at start, but after giving it a chance > > I've grown to like it. for instance, ALT Tab to move between desktop > > is a nice feature, its less hand movement

Re: Full Disk Encryption

Am Samstag, 26. November 2011 schrieb J. Bakshi: > Hello, > > I am always interested in Full disk encryption for my laptop ( i5 + 3 > GB ), but what makes me stop is the thinking of performance lag. > Recently I have seen an ububtu laptop ( i5 + 4 GB ) with full disk > encryption and it is perform

Re: Removing debian from hdd

Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012 schrieb Guido Martínez: > Hi, Hi Guido, > I recently borrowed a hard drive and installed debian on it, alongside > windows. I used it for a couple of weeks. > > Later, I tried to remove debian by deleting the partitions I had > installed it on, but that caused grub

Re: Removing debian from hdd

Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012 schrieb Charles Kroeger: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:10:02 +0100 > > Guido Martínez wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently borrowed a hard drive and installed debian on it, > > alongside windows. I used it for a couple of weeks. > > > > Later, I tried to remove debian by d

Re: cifs problem with kernel 3.1

Am Montag, 16. Januar 2012 schrieb Johann Spies: > I have the following in my /etc/fstab: > > //stbstaff.stb.sun.ac.za/dept/let/senis /home/js/mnt/senis cifs > credentials=/etc/credentials,user,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 > > Using this I can mount the volume with > > $ mount /home/js/mnt/senis >

Re: enable i915 rc6 save 7 watt on kernel 3.2

Am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2012 schrieb Chen Wei: > Hi List, Hi Chen, > Since recently upgraded to kernel 3.2, the core temperature on my > laptop seems raised few degrees. An external power meter shows big > difference in power consumption. The power usage raised from 15w on > kernel 2.6.39, to 2

Re: POP3 in Debian

Am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2012 schrieb peasth...@shaw.ca: > Failure in parsing "LIST 1" baffles. How big a problem can parsing of > 6 characters be? To understand further, I want a Debian system to > automatically retrieve messages from the POP3 server and put them in > /home/peter/mbox. Then qpop

Re: POP3 in Debian

Am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2012 schrieb Jon Dowland: > On 19/01/12 09:32, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > You could try with fetchmail, but I am not completely sure whether it > > can store what it retrieves in a mbox or whether it only supports > > maildir. > > Fairly

Re: enable i915 rc6 save 7 watt on kernel 3.2

Am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2012 schrieb Chen Wei: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:29:19AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > merkaba:~> cat /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf > > options i915 modeset=1 i915_enable_rc6=1 i915_enable_fbc=1 > > semaphores=1 > > > >

Re: POP3 in Debian

Am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2012 schrieb Jon Dowland: > > On 19/01/12 09:32, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > You could try with fetchmail, but I am not completely sure whether > > > it can store what it retrie

Re: POP3 in Debian

Am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2012 schrieb Jon Dowland: > On 19/01/12 12:50, Mathias Bauer wrote: > > Is this a general advice? If so, then why? > > Yes. > > covers many > reasons. Holy smoke! Well that are enough reasons for me. OTOH it

Re: enable i915 rc6 save 7 watt on kernel 3.2

Am Donnerstag, 19. Januar 2012 schrieb Chen Wei: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:05:13PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > wei@Tungsten:~$ dmesg|grep -i aspm > > > [0.00] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.1 > > > root=UUID=ed888aee-0822-4

Re: [Fwd: Re: enable i915 rc6 save 7 watt on kernel 3.2]

Am Freitag, 20. Januar 2012 schrieb kei...@strucktower.com: > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:29:19AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >> merkaba:~> cat /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf > >> options i915 modeset=1 i915_enable_rc6=1 i915_enable_fbc=1 > >> semaphore

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