Re: OT: volt and current (ALSA sound recording frustration)

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 04:10:17PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > >> BTW, I agree a bit with an earlier poster that you a being a bit of a > >> twat. This mailing list isn't really appropriate for epistemological > >> discussions. > > > > Me, three. > > One more. Hm, it's interesting to see how u

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:32:24PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: > Which is why is is important to correct misinformation on the list. You got all wrong: People will start thinking you're a twat when you try to do that ... -- "Don't let them, daddy. Don't let the stars run down." http://adin.dyndns.or

Re: PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all. Possibly fake, but which?

2008-11-28 Thread lee
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:47:12PM -0500, A. F. Cano wrote: > SIOCSIFADDR: No such device > eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device > SIOCSIFBRDADDR: No such device > eth0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > eth0: ERROR while ge

Re: ALSA sound recording frustration

2008-11-29 Thread lee
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 08:27:02AM -0500, Napoleon wrote: > lee wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:32:24PM -0500, Napoleon wrote: >>> Which is why is is important to correct misinformation on the list. >> >> You got all wrong: People will start thinking you'r

Re: lynx and readme.gz

2008-11-30 Thread lee
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:46:26PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 03:30:09AM +0100, lee wrote: > > The web page looks good --- but it seems to tell me that it isn't > > possible to have a setting to reject all cookies in the > > ~/.lynxrc. Lynx itse

Re: lynx and readme.gz

2008-12-03 Thread lee
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:21:10PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Sounds like you're > talking about this section: > > Security and Privacy > > Cookies : [ask user__] > > Inval

Re: lynx and readme.gz

2008-12-03 Thread lee
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 10:38:16AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,01.Dec.08, 01:17:37, lee wrote: > > > Hmm, interesting, I tried to display the same file with konquerer, > > galeon and mozilla, and none of them displays it. But I'm pretty sure > > that

Re: Re: lenny nvidia-glx question.

2008-12-03 Thread lee
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:19:19AM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Thanks. I got the following. So, it is working. But no flash screen. > That is odd. But I don't care (now). They seem to have changed it with newer drivers, i. e. the image comes up for only a very short time. It might be

software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

2008-12-04 Thread lee
Hi, after switching from i386 to x86_64, my software RAID-1 partitions were not discovered automatically as they should have been. It seems that the physical devices (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb) have UUIDs stored from when I first tried to create the array, and that may have confused the automatic dete

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

2008-12-04 Thread lee
> On Thursday 2008 December 04 15:15, lee wrote: > > How do I remove the UUIDs from /dev/sda and /dev/sdb to prevent > > the automatic detection from being confused again? > Check out the --zero-superblock mode for mdadm. It is documented in 'man 8 > mdadm'

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

2008-12-05 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:40:21PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 07:10:44PM -0600, lee wrote: > > > On Thursday 2008 December 04 15:15, lee wrote: > > > > How do I remove the UUIDs from /dev/sda and /dev/sdb to prevent > > > > the automatic

Re: software raid 1: how to remove a UUID from a device?

2008-12-05 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 10:14:42AM +0100, Neil wrote: > > Note that the physical devices /dev/sda and /dev/sdb have UUIDs > > stored. How do I remove these UUIDs? > > > > You can't. The UUID is calculated out of the properties of the disk > (dunno wich exactly). It's like trying to remove the MD5

xorg and fonts

2008-12-05 Thread lee
Hi, is there something that is supposed to update /etc/X11/xorg.conf regarding font paths --- or something that is supposed to make the installed fonts available otherwise? I got an automatically created xorg.conf with no font paths specified, so I put the paths in myself. Or do things like kdm/gd

Re: Better support for merging local and upstream (was: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux)

2008-12-06 Thread lee
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 12:45:28AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 2008 December 05 23:02, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > When an upgrade is installed, local changes *have* to be merged with the > > changes brought in from the upgrade. That's just an unvoidable need. > > I disagree wi

Re: xorg and fonts

2008-12-06 Thread lee
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 08:44:30AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-12-06 08:23 +0100, lee wrote: > > There was a Section "Files" in xorg.conf, but it was empty. > > Which is fine because the X server knows (or at least, is supposed to > know) where to find fonts.

Re: xorg and fonts

2008-12-06 Thread lee
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 04:52:45PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 01:23:31AM -0600, lee wrote: > > There was a Section "Files" in xorg.conf, but it was empty. > > Yes there was I also wondered... that wa core X11 core fonts >

Re: xorg and fonts

2008-12-06 Thread lee
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:37:38AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > The manpage is wrong about the paths, fonts are in /usr/share/fonts and > that's where the server looks. See http://bugs.debian.org/428918. This bug doesn't mention the paths. I'll send a followup. > It uses a compile-time path, we

Umlaute

2008-12-07 Thread lee
Hi, how can I get xterm and xemacs to display German Umlaute correctly? I've configured locales so that they are available, but changing LANG in xterm or trying to change the encoding xemacs uses for a buffer don't get the Umlaute displayed. I've never had this problem before, it just worked fine

Re: Umlaute

2008-12-07 Thread lee
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 09:18:08PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-12-07 20:38 +0100, lee wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > how can I get xterm and xemacs to display German Umlaute correctly? > > I've configured locales so that they are available, but changing LA

Re: Better support for merging local and upstream (was: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux)

2008-12-07 Thread lee
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:42:42AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 2008 December 06 02:03, lee wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 12:45:28AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > I disagree with this. It should be possible to establish "h

Re: Building kernels the Debian way (was: DPT2044W SCSI adaptor with disk installed but no /dev/sd* devices created)

2008-12-09 Thread lee
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 10:22:51PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > Create new default link to new source code > > This is absolutely unnecessary and maybe even harmful. Read the README > in the Linux kernel tree why you should not do it. The NVIDIA driver doesn't install when it wants to comp

Re: Better support for merging local and upstream (was: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux)

2008-12-09 Thread lee
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 08:24:45PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > From: lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > When a program uses a number of different configuration files, it's > > much more difficult for the administrator to configure it. > > I'd say it's a

Re: Better support for merging local and upstream (was: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux)

2008-12-09 Thread lee
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 05:10:06PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 07 December 2008, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: > Better support for merging local and upstream (was: Erase cache, clean > registry in Linux)': > >On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at

Re: Better support for merging local and upstream (was: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux)

2008-12-09 Thread lee
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 06:00:34PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > lee wrote: > > Exim4 is another example. I can configure it easily bypassing the > > automatic configuration, but I'm unable to configure it using the > > auomatic configuration. > > Well, you

problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-10 Thread lee
as well since both disks use the same firmware version. So is there a difference between Debian and standard kernels so that I might not have this problem if I'd use a Debian kernel? Has this problem been solved in some way yet? I might get another two disks, but I'm afraid that th

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-10 Thread lee
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 04:05:26PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >So is there a difference between Debian and standard kernels so that I > >might not have this problem if I'd use a Debian kernel? > > Not that I know of. Hm, maybe I'll just try one and see what happens. > Yeah, it's a

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2008-12-10 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:45:09AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > Can't find anyone with experience with lg and fujitsu. Fujitsu/Siemens made the worst laptops I've seen (battery problems, PSU problems, horrible performance); LG is no-name so that you won't be able to get a new battery or other spa

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-10 Thread lee
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:30:02PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:52:03 lee wrote: > >But I'm wondering how many people have this problem. There are > >probably lots of people with SATA disks, and if most of them had this > >prob

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-10 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:06:27AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.12.10.2215 +0100]: > > I'm using a standard kernel, but I'm having problems with one of my > > disks (see below). > [...] > > > So is there a dif

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-10 Thread lee
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:30:40PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 2008 December 10 19:14:37 lee wrote: > >On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 06:30:02PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> If > >> time is what it takes to reproduce, that's fine --

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-10 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:37:57PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > have you tried smartctl -H and smartctl -t short|long > Yes, there doesn't seem to be anything unusual: cat:/home/lee# smartctl -H /dev/sdb smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce

cannot execute grub

2008-12-10 Thread lee
Hi, is grub executable on i386 only, or does it requre 32bit support in the kernel? I turned the 32bit support in the kernel off because I didn't use it, tried out some powermanagement options and now made another kernel with different options, but I can't set it up: cat:/boot# grub bash: /usr/s

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:58:30AM -0600, lee wrote: > I've started a long test, but it says it'll take about two hours. I'll > let you know the result. cat:/home/lee# smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruc

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:54:58AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > well it seems atleast the drives are okay, maybe a faulty cable ? Just > seems strange that the debian patches would make a difference (but I > could be wrong), especially with stock standard stuff Unfortunately, that the selftests

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:40:50PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > do you have custom kernel or debian stock kernel. Until today, I was using a standard kernel from kernel.org. Today I downloaded the package with the Debian kernel sources (2.6.24, blah etchnhalf or something like that ...), conf

Re: cannot execute grub

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 09:14:57AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-12-11 08:49 +0100, lee wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > is grub executable on i386 only, or does it requre 32bit support in > > the kernel? > > It does require 32-bit emulation on amd64, yes. &

Re: Installing 64-bit nvidia driver under 32-bit userland

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:23:09AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Most places on the web say it doesn't work, but by following the > instruction on this nvnews thread, I got driver v177.82 running on > kernel 2.6.27-1~experimental.1~snapshot.12406. > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 02:58:55PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 08:06:12PM -0600, lee wrote: > > One option I haven't tried yet is to plug both SATA disks into the > > same channel (i. e. use adjacent plugs). I didn't do that because they > &g

Re: SA-Exim and acls

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:26:10AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > acl_check_rcpt: > warn hosts = : >set acl_m0 = do-not-scan > > then in sa-exim.conf I have > > SAEximRunCond: ${if !eq {$acl_m0}{do-not-scan} {1}{0}} > > But it's not working :( The message gets scanned anyway. > > The

Re: server upgrade question

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:33:09PM -0500, Mag Gam wrote: > At my university we have 10 servers. Each server has 8 cores with 32 > GIG of memory running Debian 4.0. We have to give these servers to a > different department, and our Dean would like to consiladate 10 > servers into 5 servers. The new

Re: cannot execute grub

2008-12-11 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 07:59:35AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-12-12 03:38 +0100, lee wrote: > > > Shouldn't there be an amd64 version of grub? > > There should be, but there isn't. Poking around in the source I found a > pointer to a binutils bug

Re: SA-Exim and acls

2008-12-12 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 05:50:10PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:34:57AM -0600, lee wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:26:10AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > > > > acl_check_rcpt: > > > warn hosts = : > > >set ac

Re: SA-Exim and acls

2008-12-12 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:34:05AM -0600, lee wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 05:50:10PM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:34:57AM -0600, lee wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:26:10AM +1030, David Purton wrote: > > > > > > &g

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2009-01-01 Thread lee
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:29:28AM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > lee wrote: > > > > I'm not sure if I could use a pre-built Debian kernel: the installer > > couldn't access the SATA disks because it didn't have the module for > > the controller, and a

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2009-01-01 Thread lee
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:11:59PM +, Aneurin Price wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, lee wrote: > > Anyway, if it's a software problem, it's probably not the module for > > the particular controller but something else. That people with all > > kinds

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2009-01-02 Thread lee
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > lee wrote: > > Well, how do you install on SATA disks when the installer can't access > > them? It still has the option to load more modules from a floppy disk, > > but I haven't had a floppy d

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

2009-01-03 Thread lee
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:51:56PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:00:41PM -0600, lee wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > lee wrote: > > > > Well, how do you install on SATA disks w

totem and gxine crashing

2009-02-05 Thread lee
Hi, do totem and gxine just not work on amd64? I'm only getting: l...@cat:~$ totem E: socket-client.c: socket(): Address family not supported by protocol Segmentation fault l...@cat:~$ gxine E: socket-client.c: socket(): Address family not supported by protocol gxine has suffered a fatal interna

music in second live / Emerald

2010-03-16 Thread lee
Hi, how do you get the second live client (Emerald) to play at least music and maybe even video on amd64? There's only a 32bit client :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: how to force chronyd to be online after booting

2014-09-27 Thread lee
Philippe Clérié writes: >> On 09/26/2014 06:31 PM, lee wrote: >> >> So is there some simple way to just force chronyd to remain online? I >> think when there isn't an option for this, I'll just replace it with >> ntpd ... >> >> > > I&#

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-27 Thread lee
>> Steve Litt writes: >> >> Because you use fvwm on a regular basis, you should write some >> documentation on it. Please check out [1] --- let me know if it works for you and how you like it. [1]: https://github.com/lee-/fvwm -- Knowledge is volatile and f

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-27 Thread lee
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 26/09/14 07:34, lee wrote: >> Darac Marjal writes: >> >>>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 03:04:24PM +0200, lee wrote: >>>> >>>>> Systemd can handle the boot process from head to toe, without needing >>>&g

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

2014-09-27 Thread lee
Linux-Fan writes: > On 09/22/2014 03:23 AM, lee wrote: >> Linux-Fan writes: >>> On 09/21/2014 08:41 PM, lee wrote: >>>> Linux-Fan writes: >>>>>> On 09/20/2014 04:55 PM, lee wrote: >> >> I've seen the smart info show incredib

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-27 Thread lee
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 10:43:14 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: >> On Vi, 26 sep 14, 01:58:44, lee wrote: >> > Again, I consider it to be totally futile to try to convince the makers >> > of systemd to fix the issues it brings about.

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-27 Thread lee
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Why do I think that you do not want change from the *current* situation? > Cause > what you do, in my oppinion does not facilitate change. I think I see why you think so. What makes you think that anything you or I could do would change anything? -- Knowledge i

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-27 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Vi, 26 sep 14, 01:58:44, lee wrote: >> >> Again, I consider it to be totally futile to try to convince the makers >> of systemd to fix the issues it brings about. They cannot be unaware of >> them, so obviously they don't want to

Re: fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-27 Thread lee
Charlie writes: >> On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:20:27 +0200 lee mentioned this: >> >> Please check out [1] --- let me know if it works for you and how you >> like it. >> >> >> [1]: https://github.com/lee-/fvwm > >Hello Lee, > >

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-27 Thread lee
Martin Read writes: > On 27/09/14 21:04, lee wrote: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990177 > > Your complaint about the interface is reasonable. The systemd > developers' decision to not change the interface in response to your > complaint was also reason

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-27 Thread lee
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 28/09/14 06:13, lee wrote: >> Martin Steigerwald writes: >> >>> Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 10:43:14 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: >>>> On Vi, 26 sep 14, 01:58:44, lee wrote: >>>>> Again, I consider it to be to

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread lee
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Am Sonntag, 28. September 2014, 04:35:03 schrieb lee: >> Martin Read writes: >> > On 27/09/14 21:04, lee wrote: >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=990177 >> > >> > Your complaint about the inte

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread lee
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Am Samstag, 27. September 2014, 22:55:36 schrieb lee: >> Martin Steigerwald writes: >> > Why do I think that you do not want change from the *current* situation? >> > Cause what you do, in my oppinion does not facilitate change. >>

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-28 Thread lee
Martin Steigerwald writes: > Am Samstag, 27. September 2014, 22:13:21 schrieb lee: >> Martin Steigerwald writes: >> > Am Freitag, 26. September 2014, 10:43:14 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: >> >> On Vi, 26 sep 14, 01:58:44, lee wrote: >> >> > Again,

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread lee
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 28/09/14 04:49, lee wrote: >> Scott Ferguson writes: >> >>> On 26/09/14 07:34, lee wrote: >>>> Darac Marjal writes: >>>> >>>>>> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 03:04:24PM +0200, lee wrote: &g

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread lee
"Karl E. Jorgensen" writes: > * not doing "crazy things", like running backports or > testing/unstable [2], and no grabbing *.debs from weird places. Debian isn't as stable as you like to think. I am required to run the latest kernel from backports for otherwise my server will crash due to NF

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

2014-09-28 Thread lee
Linux-Fan writes: > On 09/27/2014 09:52 PM, lee wrote: >> Linux-Fan writes: >>> On 09/22/2014 03:23 AM, lee wrote: >>>> Linux-Fan writes: >>>>> On 09/21/2014 08:41 PM, lee wrote: >>>>>> Linux-Fan writes: >>>>>

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread lee
Ric Moore writes: > On 09/27/2014 02:49 PM, lee wrote: > >> Just ask yourself: Why would someone choose to download an ISO for >> Debian? > > For me, it's the safest way to install/upgrade. I have had too many > problems with interrupted live major migration to

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-28 Thread lee
Steve Litt writes: > On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:50:45 +1300 > Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 09:49:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:32:38 -0400 > >> > Yes. I'm a huge believer in wiping and reinstalling major versions. >> > It's like spring cleaning, a

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-29 Thread lee
Reco writes: > What's wrong with the current multiarch implementation in your option? > I'm really curious as all multiarch complains I've seen so far (barring > actual package limits) were easily solved just by reading an appropriate > man page (or Debian wiki page). > And, IMO, Debian's current

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-29 Thread lee
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > If you don't want to use Debian then don't. But if you don't even want > to use it, making lots of complaints about it seems uncalled for... There is a difference between using something because it works and using something because you want to use it. In none of the c

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread lee
Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:38:18PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Ric Moore writes: >> >> > On 09/27/2014 02:49 PM, lee wrote: >> > >> >> Just ask yourself: Why would someone choose to download an ISO for >> >> Debian? &g

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread lee
PaulNM writes: > On 09/28/2014 05:25 PM, Joe wrote: >> On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 11:01:24 -0500 >> John Hasler wrote: >> >> >> An upgraded system is not necessarily identical to a new installation, > > [...] > > It's more that Debian tries not to change things unless you ask it to. > For example, if

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread lee
Mart van de Wege writes: > lee writes: > >> "Karl E. Jorgensen" writes: >> >>> * not doing "crazy things", like running backports or >>> testing/unstable [2], and no grabbing *.debs from weird places. >> >> Debian isn&#

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-29 Thread lee
Reco writes: > About the only thing that I'm missing here is why would anyone should > compile anything on a production server, Xen's dom0 specifically (as it > seems to be the main lee's concern). I didn't have a server back then --- and software to run on my computer which worked fine until so

Re: sound recording

2014-09-29 Thread lee
Ста Деюс writes: > Доброго времени суток, Doug. > > > Спасибо за ответ, Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:32:38 -0400 вы писали: >> > I use debian jessie and sound recording in audacity or skype does >> > not work. > > [...] > > Same here. But before buying anything - that is not good in general, i > would sug

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread lee
Ansgar Burchardt writes: > lee writes: >> As I already said: try to get squid 2.7 started and stopped by systemd >> on a current Fedora installation. > > This is not the Fedora users list. And how is this relevant? Will Debian provide their own version of system

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread lee
Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:19:58PM +0200, lee wrote: >> >> Sure is, yet why tell me to make software nobody cares about. > > Maybe to keep you busy? Ah yes, that could be the reason :)) -- Hallowed are the Debians! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

2014-09-29 Thread lee
Linux-Fan writes: >> On 09/29/2014 12:56 AM, lee wrote: > > I cannot tell much about the reliability of SMART data in general but > should I see a lot of "bad" values suddenly appearing I would > immediately perform some additional backups and check the data more &g

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-29 Thread lee
Stephen Allen writes: > So, Lee why are you even here complaining about Debian - You've admitted > you don't use it?! My server runs on Debian. So technically, I'm using it, and I don't feel like I'm using it. What difference does it make? Is there some sort

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-10-01 Thread lee
Reco writes: > Hi. > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:11:01AM +0200, lee wrote: >> Reco writes: >> >> > About the only thing that I'm missing here is why would anyone should >> > compile anything on a production server, Xen's dom0 specifical

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-10-01 Thread lee
Steve Litt writes: > We had an operating system, somebody vastly altered it, some of us see > the vast alterization basically breaking the software, and we bitched > about having someone, even though they're developers, break our > software. We didn't bitch about it, we made bug reports and the

lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-03 Thread lee
Hi, how can I create a LVM snapshot of a VM? root@heimdall:~# lvcreate -L 4G -s /dev/mapper/vg_guests-lv_jarl -n lv_snap_jarl /dev/mapper/vg_mydata Physical Volume "/dev/mapper/vg_mydata" not found in Volume Group "vg_guests" root@heimdall:~# There is no free space in 'vg_guests'. The only

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-04 Thread lee
"Karl E. Jorgensen" writes: > Hi > > On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:43:06PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> how can I create a LVM snapshot of a VM? >> >> >> root@heimdall:~# lvcreate -L 4G -s /dev/mapper/vg_guests-lv_jarl -n >> lv_snap

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-05 Thread lee
Don Armstrong writes: > On Fri, 03 Oct 2014, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:43:06PM +0200, lee wrote: >> > Can I create a snapshot over the network on disks an another >> > machine? >> >> No > > You can, but not triviall

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-05 Thread lee
John Holland writes: > Zfsonlinux.org has info on using ZFS with debian. I create vm images > and snapshot them and clone the snapshots all the time. The clones are > writable and only use as much space as corresponds to the difference > from the source. The volumes have to be ZVOL s, not regular

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-05 Thread lee
PaulNM writes: > On 10/04/2014 04:09 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Fri, 03 Oct 2014, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 08:43:06PM +0200, lee wrote: >>>> Can I create a snapshot over the network on disks an another >>>> machine? &g

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-05 Thread lee
John Holland writes: > I think you can pipe output of dd on the source to netcat, going to a netcat > on the destination machine which is piped to dd going to a device or file on > that machine. Hm, assuming that the volume group resides on /dev/sda3, I would have something like 'dd if=/dev/

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

2014-10-06 Thread lee
Jerry Stuckle writes: > You are only making the setup more complicated. You generally only need > one MTA on the network. When you don't have an MTA on every machine, then how do you make sure that messages generated there (e. g. by cron jobs) can be delivered? -- Hallowed are the Debians!

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

2014-10-06 Thread lee
Jerry Stuckle writes: > Those who think Exim is easy to configure for a secure system don't > understand it. Exim is very easy to configure. Did you ever try to configure sendmail? -- Hallowed are the Debians! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

2014-10-06 Thread lee
Jerry Stuckle writes: >>dc_relay_nets >> A list of machines for which we serve as smarthost. >> >> That looks ideal, doesn't it? >> >> > > Right. But he's not running multiple MTAs - he only has the one, as he > already indicated. Does it make a difference for this setting whet

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

2014-10-06 Thread lee
Harry Putnam writes: > Jerry Stuckle writes: > >> The first question - why do you think you need to relay to other >> networks, even if they're your own? Do you have other SMTP servers >> running on those networks? > > Good question and apparently thee is no reason. It stemmed from a deep > se

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-06 Thread lee
Brian Candler writes: >> The volume group concept is for grouping the *disks*, so you can treat >> a group of disks with similar properties as a >> interchangeable. So it makes more sense to have volume groups for >> e.g. "15krpm" and "SSD". Or you can just have one big volume group, >> which m

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

2014-10-06 Thread lee
Jerry Stuckle writes: > For instance, MUAs typically connect on port 587 (at least that is the > recommendation), while MTAs always use port 25. Additionally, MUAs > should always be validated with signon/password, to prevent the server > from becoming an open relay. 1: You would have to requir

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-06 Thread lee
Don Armstrong writes: > On Sun, 05 Oct 2014, lee wrote: >> So it would have to be at least a partition? I don't have one free ... >> I could use the swap partition temporarily for something like that. > > Doesn't matter. It just has to be a block device that you ca

Re: how to force chronyd to be online after booting

2014-10-07 Thread lee
Dieter Deyke writes: >> On 09/26/2014 06:31 PM, lee wrote: >>> is there an easy way to force chronyd to get into/remain in its online >>> mode rather than going into offline mode? > > I had the same problem. My workaround was to run the following python

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

2014-10-07 Thread lee
Linux-Fan writes: > On 09/30/2014 01:40 AM, lee wrote: > > [...] > >> I think I figured it out: The USB stuff was actually going to sleep and >> remained unresponsive once it fell asleep, until a reboot. I used >> powertop to disable the power management for USB

Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-10-07 Thread lee
KS writes: > In the BIOS, the SATA ports are set to IDE. Should they be set to AHCI > instead? (third option is RAID). AHCI When set to IDE, only a smaller feature set will be supported. -- Hallowed are the Debians! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: how to force chronyd to be online after booting

2014-10-07 Thread lee
Philippe Clérié writes: > On 09/27/2014 07:17 AM, lee wrote: >> Hm, you don't use UPSs? > > :-) > > It's a long story. I'll make it short: I'm in Haiti. Grid power is an > iffy proposition. > > :-) > > So we have to have heavy backups. That

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-10-08 Thread lee
Steve Litt writes: > with lxlock, and after switching to i3lock with the -i option, I found > it a great locker for *any* wm/de. Just be careful with outdated versions of i3lock when NumLock comes into play. -- Hallowed are the Debians! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

2014-10-08 Thread lee
Linux-Fan writes: > On 10/07/2014 11:41 PM, lee wrote: > > Transferring data via network is also my favorite means of > "transportation". On the other hand, my connection has an upload speed > of about 70 KiB/sec and is therefore not suited for transferring medium >

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-10-08 Thread lee
softwatt writes: > Perhaps we should suggest an xscreensaver update, where the capslock > status and the current language are shown next to the password input. > This should be trivial to implement. +NumLock, and correct handling of NumLock A password starting with a tilde can yield strange res

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