Hello,
I want to try out the tiling window managers. I would want to know the
experiences of the users about awesome and xmonad. Primarily i would
like to know which of those two tiling WMs has worked for you guys. The
hurdles you encountered and the gains you got thereof.
Currently i am a happy
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:45 PM, smallnow wrote:
> Get the best of both worlds with raid 5.
> Personally, I do raid 0 and I agree with you on raid redundancy not being
> very useful. Backup ftw. I cycle out my hard drives every year or two and
> make the old ones be backups, I've only ever had the
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:48:11PM -0800, Penguin Lover Mark Knecht squawked:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
> > Basically you just need
> >
> > 1) Correct permissions in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf
> > a) You need the line "Port 631" to allow remote access
> > b) Maybe
Get the best of both worlds with raid 5.
Personally, I do raid 0 and I agree with you on raid redundancy not being very
useful. Backup ftw. I cycle out my hard drives every year or two and make the
old ones be backups, I've only ever had the backups die.
- Ian
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dale wrote:
>
>> You ever thought of using webmin? I think webmin will help set this
>> up. Just a thought.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-) :-)
>>
>
> Honestly, there was nothing webmin was really going to do for me.
> There were two lines to b
Grant wrote:
I'm about to buy a couple Samsung Spinpoint F1 hard drives and I was
planning on setting them up in a RAID0 array. Everyone seems to love
RAID1 though, and I'm a little confused as to why. Don't daily
backups secure 99% of the data that RAID1 does? They even protect in
the event o
I'm about to buy a couple Samsung Spinpoint F1 hard drives and I was
planning on setting them up in a RAID0 array. Everyone seems to love
RAID1 though, and I'm a little confused as to why. Don't daily
backups secure 99% of the data that RAID1 does? They even protect in
the event of theft or fire
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dale wrote:
>
> You ever thought of using webmin? I think webmin will help set this
> up. Just a thought.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
Honestly, there was nothing webmin was really going to do for me.
There were two lines to be uncommented in the /etc/cups/mimes files.
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>>
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI:
>>
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:49:11 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>
I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also
read the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc
etc.
>
>
>>> That's what the -x is for.
>>>
>
>
In KDE 3.5.10, I can't switch keyboard layouts with Alt+Shift even
though that option is enabled in the control center:
Regional & Accessibility->Keyboard Layout
->Xkb Option->Layout Switching->[x] Alt+Shift change layout.
The generated "Command" is:
setxkbmap -option grp:alt_shift_toggl
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:49:11 -0600, Dale wrote:
> >> I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also
> >> read the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc
> >> etc.
> > That's what the -x is for.
> Thanks for the info. As you may can tell, I have never used
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>> I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI:
>>>
>>> http://192.168.1.59:631/printers
>>>
>>> It gives me a lon
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:34:28 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>
>>> rsync -ax /source/ /dest/
>>>
>
>
>> I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also read
>> the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc etc.
>>
>
> That's what the
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI:
>>
>> http://192.168.1.59:631/printers
>>
>> It gives me a long, ugly descriptive name for the printer so I tried:
>>
>> lpr
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi Willie,
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
>> (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I
>> wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent)
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knec
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:48:11 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I can get to the printers page on the server's Cups' GUI:
>
> http://192.168.1.59:631/printers
>
> It gives me a long, ugly descriptive name for the printer so I tried:
>
> lpr -P HP_PSC_1600_series_USB_1 optimize_mythdb.sh
You may want
Hi Willie,
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong wrote:
> (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I
> wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent)
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>I'm looking around for up to date instructions
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:48:50PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how
> > to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows.
>
> Why SAMBA?
>
Also, a
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
>
> In my case I have a "winprinter", doesn't do anything without drivers,
> doesn't have native understanding of postscript or PCL or anything
> like that, isn't a network printer so it doesn't have its own IP
> address. Just a plain cheapo US
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:34:28 -0600, Dale wrote:
> > rsync -ax /source/ /dest/
> I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also read
> the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc etc.
That's what the -x is for.
--
Neil Bothwick
Be nice to moderators. The
(Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I
wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent)
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
>I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how
> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to p
Justin wrote:
> Eric Martin schrieb:
>
>> Justin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It is in sunrise now.
>>>
>> Uh, I can't find it. I sync'd sunrise and ran update-eix. Eix can't
>> find it and I don't see it in the dir structure...Am I missing something?
>>
> It is, see here:
>
> http://o
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how
>>> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me t
Neil Walker wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how
>> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows.
>>
>>
>
> It's been a very long time since I was stupid enough to run Windows on
> any of my m
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:32:00 +0100, Daniel Troeder wrote:
>
>
>> While this will work perfectly well, this command is a waste of
>> resources. The compression ("-z") makes locally no sense, and there is
>> no need to tar the data (which will basically just concat files). Y
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how
>> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows.
>
> I'm also interested in this; I trie
Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how
> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows.
>
It's been a very long time since I was stupid enough to run Windows on
any of my machines. However, when I did, I didn't have
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how
> to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows.
I'm also interested in this; I tried it a while back (from both
directions; printer hosted on lin
Hi,
I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how
to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows.
The two most expansive ones I found were here:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/quick-samba-howto.xml
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=110931
Unfor
Am Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 schrieb Nicolas Sebrecht:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 01:47:49PM +0100, Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
> > sys-power/cpufreqd-2.1.1
>
> You should try sys-power/cpufreqd-2.2.1. I had similar problems resolved
> by a cpufreqd upgrade.
Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:16:03PM +0100, Penguin Lover Heinrichs, Dirk
(EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf) squawked:
> Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 15:10 +0100 schrieb ext Heinrichs, Dirk
> (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf):
> > Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 21:16 -0500 schrieb ext Willie Wong:
> > > BUS=
Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 15:10 +0100 schrieb ext Heinrichs, Dirk
(EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf):
> Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 21:16 -0500 schrieb ext Willie Wong:
> > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?[0-9]", SYSFS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77EE", NAME="%
> > k", SYMLINK+="BackUpDrive"
> > [...]
> > ATTRS{s
Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 21:16 -0500 schrieb ext Willie Wong:
> BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?[0-9]", SYSFS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77EE", NAME="%
> k", SYMLINK+="BackUpDrive"
> [...]
> ATTRS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77EE"
You see the difference?
HTH...
Dirk
--
Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:37:56AM +, Penguin Lover Neil Bothwick squawked:
> On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:16:38 -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
>
> > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?[0-9]", SYSFS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77EE",
> > NAME="%k", SYMLINK+="BackUpDrive"
>
> NAME="%k" pointless, since that's the default.
>
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:32:00 +0100, Daniel Troeder wrote:
> While this will work perfectly well, this command is a waste of
> resources. The compression ("-z") makes locally no sense, and there is
> no need to tar the data (which will basically just concat files). You
> will get the exact same res
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 18:01:20 +1100, Dave Oxley wrote:
> I upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r4 to -r5 a couple of days ago and
> got the below error messages in /var/log/messages. Also dovecot was using
> 100% CPU and could not be killed. This resulted in me having to hard reset
> the server. Th
Another argument in favour of cp in Linux: holes in sparse files are
kept correctly, whereas using tar they are not.
It is curious that this is very OS dependent.
In FreeBSD, with cp, holes always go away, using tar, or better
dump/restore is a way to keep all file attributes.
In Linux, cp -a seem
Daniel Troeder wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 03:15 -0600 schrieb Dale:
>
>> Daniel Troeder wrote:
>>
>>> Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 01:59 -0600 schrieb Dale:
>>>
>>>
I'm not to worried about this since I will be moving this over to the
other drive anyway. I wo
Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 03:15 -0600 schrieb Dale:
> Daniel Troeder wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 01:59 -0600 schrieb Dale:
> >
> >>
> >> I'm not to worried about this since I will be moving this over to the
> >> other drive anyway. I would like to know what command I should use t
Am Freitag, den 28.11.2008, 13:46 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> Any Linux defrag tool you encounter will have been written by a third party
> separate from the developers. It will move blocks around and update
> superblocks, the drive will have to be unmounted for that to work and a
> slight mi
Daniel Troeder wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 01:59 -0600 schrieb Dale:
>
>>
>> I'm not to worried about this since I will be moving this over to the
>> other drive anyway. I would like to know what command I should use to
>> tar up everything, transfer it over and untar it all on one li
Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 01:59 -0600 schrieb Dale:
> Dale wrote:
> > Dale wrote:
> >
> >> This is interesting. I am starting a new install on my backup drive.
> >> I'm part way through the install, fetching all the KDE stuff right now.
> >> This is what I got from the little frag script:
Hi,
This is slightly off topic, but I hope there is someone
here, who know the trick...
I use to compile blender myself from the freshest svn checkout
I could get ... :)
This morning my sync with the outer world presents an update
of openal from openal-0* to openal-1*. I did this, fires
up blend
Eric Martin schrieb:
> Justin wrote:
>
>> It is in sunrise now.
>>
>>
>>
> Uh, I can't find it. I sync'd sunrise and ran update-eix. Eix can't
> find it and I don't see it in the dir structure...Am I missing something?
>
>
It is, see here:
http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/sunrise/br
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:16:38 -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
> BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?[0-9]", SYSFS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77EE",
> NAME="%k", SYMLINK+="BackUpDrive"
NAME="%k" pointless, since that's the default.
--
Neil Bothwick
"Ubuntu" is an ancient African word, meaning "I can't configure
Slackware
Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>
>> This is interesting. I am starting a new install on my backup drive.
>> I'm part way through the install, fetching all the KDE stuff right now.
>> This is what I got from the little frag script:
>>
>> r...@smoker / # /root/fragck.pl /backup/
>> 0.953336175120985
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