Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
[fixed the top-posting] On Mon,03.Aug.09, 17:16:18, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> ok ,ok . . . I'll just be gender neutral from now on. I apologize for > >> offending anyone. I wasn't referring to Mr. Po . . . I mean . . . > >> Andrei as male under the stereotype that all computer nerds are guys. > >> I

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 21:22:28, Jack Schneider wrote: > I've found Compiz-fusion useful to keep multiple things going.. > ctrl-alt--> giving a new desktop quickly... YMMV. Ctrl+Alt+ -> works in "pure" Xfwm (the WM of Xfce) too and I think a few other WMs as well, but I prefer Alt+Fx which switches t

Re: detect ramtype

2009-08-03 Thread T o n g
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:25:09 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> 2009/7/31 michal krajcirovic >> >>> Hi, I need to determine the type of RAM in the server, I could add >>> more. Is it a program that know what memory is currently in the >>> server, without it I had to disassemble? Dmidecode command outp

Re: qemu slowness

2009-08-03 Thread jeremy jozwik
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:48 PM, jeremy jozwik wrote: > so i figured this would be a nice time to setup a virtual machine. so > ive been poking around with qemu. also, what is the pro / con of qemu and virtualBox, which i just noticed is listen in the mail list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

qemu slowness

2009-08-03 Thread jeremy jozwik
hello list. the wife wants to watch netflix "watch instantly" videos. it requires a program to be installed in order to watch the videos. said program is only supported under the w and mac os. so i figured this would be a nice time to setup a virtual machine. so ive been poking around with qemu. s

disregard re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-08-03 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:10 -0700, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > > On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:11 +, "Sylvain Le Gall" > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On 02-08-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org > > wrote: > > > > > > It also seems that things are not so rosy on the > > > server itself. I ra

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Timothy Wu<2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good news! I finally am able to boot with fail safe defaults. I don't know > what the defaults are though, I can't see any option being changed by casual > checking. I loaded back the optimized default and it still boots! So..I

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Timothy Wu
Good news! I finally am able to boot with fail safe defaults. I don't know what the defaults are though, I can't see any option being changed by casual checking. I loaded back the optimized default and it still boots! So..I've no idea what I've really done. Now this is Ubuntu, I'm hoping I can rein

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:22:28PM EDT, Jack Schneider wrote: > Chris, > I've found Compiz-fusion useful to keep multiple things going.. > ctrl-alt--> giving a new desktop quickly... YMMV. > Jack Jack, I'm sure it does.. and trust me, I also can spend time looking at the screenshots, marveling

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Timothy Wu
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 09:48, Timothy Wu wrote: > >> >> The same horizontal bar appears when successfully booting the Ubuntu live >> CD, though it quickly disappeared. My guess is that it's part of the >> normal >> booting process. >> >> Oh yeah, this

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread John Hasler
Chris Jones writes: > If you need the editor, a shell, a debugger, and a log tail displaying > concurrently on the one physical screen to achieve what you are > working one faster and more effectively, fine. No, _not_ one physical screen. I have poor eyesight but a good memory so I usually keep t

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-08-03 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:11 +, "Sylvain Le Gall" wrote: > Hello, > > On 02-08-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org > wrote: > > > > It also seems that things are not so rosy on the > > server itself. I ran "aptitude build-dep approx" > > to try and solve the other part of my problem > > (approx

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:16:00PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 18:30, Chris Jones wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 02:08:07PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] >> >>> (I'd mention huge scrollback buffers, but emacs or screen probably >>> also does that.) >> >> Again, I'm lost - how doe

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:54:56 -0400 Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:20:58PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: > > Chris Jones writes: > > > I guess so.. though I'm not sure about the usefulness thereof, > > > save for demo'ing the flexibility of, what's the word.. Window > > > Managers..? >

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:11:49 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Jack Schneider wrote: > > On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:33:32 -0500 > > Mark Allums wrote: > > > >> Chris wrote: > >>> On Monday 03 August 2009, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > Chris wrote: > > I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless

Re: Unable top boot newly installed machine

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 16:04, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I have just installed a machine from a daily build deb installer, I did the whole disk encryption chioce and now when it is finished and tries to reboot I can't find the root fs :( I have been able to boot the partition by hand and I have updated the sy

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 18:30, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 02:08:07PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] (I'd mention huge scrollback buffers, but emacs or screen probably also does that.) Again, I'm lost - how does the graphical nature of the interface change the size of the scrollback bu

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread Mark Allums
Jack Schneider wrote: On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:33:32 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: Chris wrote: On Monday 03 August 2009, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: Chris wrote: I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on Lenny guest systems to no avail. I have tried insalling the guest-utils p

Re: Help with postgresql upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
just to be annoying and point out the obvious, a backup is not a backup if you don't know how to restore from it... A Aye, and you should be restoring it periodically to validate it - all my systems restore daily and validate the data, Yes, I'm painfully aware of the irony! --

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:33:32 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > Chris wrote: > > On Monday 03 August 2009, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > >> Chris wrote: > >>> I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on > >>> Lenny guest systems to no avail. > >>> > >>> I have tried insalling the guest-u

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:20:58PM EDT, John Hasler wrote: > Chris Jones writes: > > I guess so.. though I'm not sure about the usefulness thereof, save > > for demo'ing the flexibility of, what's the word.. Window Managers..? > > Organization. I can have an FVWM "desktop" with a couple of dozen

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread Mark Allums
Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 04:33:32PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Chris wrote: On Monday 03 August 2009, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: Chris wrote: I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on Lenny guest [snip] Lets see if anyone has it working! I have some SID

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread Mark Allums
Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 04:33:32PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Chris wrote: On Monday 03 August 2009, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: Chris wrote: I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on Lenny guest [snip] Lets see if anyone has it working! I have some SID

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 04:33:32PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Chris wrote: >> On Monday 03 August 2009, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: >>> Chris wrote: I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on Lenny guest [snip] >> >> Lets see if anyone has it working! I have some SIDUX gu

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread John Hasler
Chris Jones writes: > I guess so.. though I'm not sure about the usefulness thereof, save > for demo'ing the flexibility of, what's the word.. Window Managers..? Organization. I can have an FVWM "desktop" with a couple of dozen "panes" for each of umpteen projects. I can then, for rxample, swit

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 01:22:58PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 11:55, Chris Jones wrote: >> gnu/screen, tmux..? > > Does that give you overlapping .. no.. matter of taste, but I'd rather see the contents of each window and not have to shuffle them continually. In any case, ncurses ha

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 02:08:07PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: > A GUI, What's that got to do with the interface..? GUI = Graphical User Interface, right? > though, allows you to have dozens (hundreds, even) of xterms I would assume that a single instance of a terminal multiplexer allows you to

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
I referred to you as "it." On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,03.Aug.09, 17:03:01, Neal Hogan wrote: >> >> ok ,ok . . . I'll just be gender neutral from now on. I apologize for >> offending anyone. I wasn't referring to Mr. Po . . . I mean . . . >> Andrei as male unde

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 17:03:01, Neal Hogan wrote: > > ok ,ok . . . I'll just be gender neutral from now on. I apologize for > offending anyone. I wasn't referring to Mr. Po . . . I mean . . . > Andrei as male under the stereotype that all computer nerds are guys. > I figured (correctly, I might add) t

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,03.Aug.09, 23:57:06, Aioanei Rares wrote: >> > >> >Depending on country and/or language there can be rules to >> >determine if a name is female or male. For example in my language >> >I don't know of any male name that ends in "a". > >>

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 23:57:06, Aioanei Rares wrote: > > > >Depending on country and/or language there can be rules to > >determine if a name is female or male. For example in my language > >I don't know of any male name that ends in "a". > Zaharia Stancu ;) You got me! :) Regards, Andrei -- If you

Re: Linksys WUSB54GCv3

2009-08-03 Thread Eric Spreen
Op zaterdag 01-08-2009 om 20:31 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Sven Joachim: > On 2009-08-01 20:13 +0200, Eric Spreen wrote: > > >> Install the firmware-ralink package from non-free and the kernel > >> should > >> pick the right driver (if available) automagically. > > > > Well, that's apparently

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-03 Thread Scott Gifford
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." writes: > In , Scott Gifford wrote: >>"Todd A. Jacobs" writes: >>> Dell purportedly sells a netbook with Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried >>> it myself. >> >>I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed, and >>it works quite well. The only thing tha

Re: How to partition and format external disk to ext3

2009-08-03 Thread Paul Richards
2009/8/3 Paul E Condon : > > To discover the device name and partition name that the kernel wants > you to use for the HDD, run 'ls -l /dev/sd*' > > If this give more than two lines of output, unplug whatever other USB > devices you are running and repeat. If you still have more than two > lines, g

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread Mark Allums
Chris wrote: On Monday 03 August 2009, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: Chris wrote: I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on Lenny guest systems to no avail. I have tried insalling the guest-utils packages, as well as the guest-additions the manual way with m-a. They install f

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread Paul Richards
2009/8/3 Chris : > On Monday 03 August 2009, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: >> Chris wrote: >> > I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on Lenny guest >> > systems to no avail. >> > >> > I have tried insalling the guest-utils packages, as well as the >> > guest-additions the manual

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread Chris
On Monday 03 August 2009, go...@dobosevic.com wrote: > Chris wrote: > > I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on Lenny guest > > systems to no avail. > > > > I have tried insalling the guest-utils packages, as well as the > > guest-additions the manual way with m-a. They insta

Re: Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Chris wrote: I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on Lenny guest systems to no avail. I have tried insalling the guest-utils packages, as well as the guest-additions the manual way with m-a. They install fine, but sreen-resize and seamless mode don't work. Does anyon

Unable top boot newly installed machine

2009-08-03 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I have just installed a machine from a daily build deb installer, I did the whole disk encryption chioce and now when it is finished and tries to reboot I can't find the root fs :( I have been able to boot the partition by hand and I have updated the system to the latest packages and tried reb

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Aioanei Rares
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,03.Aug.09, 12:28:41, Neal Hogan wrote: (Yet another reason I dislike gmail is that people no longer need addresses with ccTLD to know where they are from...) How would this have helped identify gender? Depending on country and/or language there can

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 12:28:41, Neal Hogan wrote: > > > > (Yet another reason I dislike gmail is that people no longer need addresses > > with ccTLD to know where they are from...) > > How would this have helped identify gender? Depending on country and/or language there can be rules to determine if

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 12:25:10, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >You're kidding, right? :) > > Unless Andrei is a female name, At least not in my country, but funny enough, the female version, Andrea, is a male name in Italy :) > or you're a child... In some way all of u

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 12:22:58, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> But...but...how do you fit an Emacs session and five shells on the > >>screen at once without a GUI? :-O > > > >gnu/screen, tmux..? > > Does that give you overlapping or tiled windows? GNU screen can do tiled windows. Regards, Andrei -- If

Virtualbox Lenny Guest - Screen resize and Seamless mode

2009-08-03 Thread Chris
I am trying to get Screen resize and Seamless mode working on Lenny guest systems to no avail. I have tried insalling the guest-utils packages, as well as the guest-additions the manual way with m-a. They install fine, but sreen-resize and seamless mode don't work. Does anyone have this worki

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Scott Gifford wrote: >"Todd A. Jacobs" writes: >> Dell purportedly sells a netbook with Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried >> it myself. > >I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed, and >it works quite well. The only thing that has never worked right is >the modem. Oh

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090803070741.gg6...@penguin.codegnome.org>, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: >Dell purportedly sells a netbook with Ubuntu on it. I own a Dell-buntu. Mine is a bit old at this point, an Inspiron E1505. The wireless card firmware was recently (in the last year) moved to non- free. I do not use blueto

Re: How to partition and format external disk to ext3

2009-08-03 Thread Paul E Condon
hce: IMHO, previous responses are leave out some stuff that, if youv'e done before, will seem obvious, but which had me stumped long ago when I first did it. See below. On 2009-08-02_21:25:43, hce wrote: > Thanks Johannes and all responses. That's great help. > > Cheers. > > Jupiter > > On Sun

Re: Help with postgresql upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Glyn Astill
> From: Andrew Sackville-West > > > > 2.) Can someone help with the restore > process from > > > tape? The command my > > > > script uses to write the backups to tape > is: > > > >         pg_dump -F t > > > | bzip2 -c | dd of=/dev/nst0 > obs=512 > > > conv=sync > > > > > > > > A guess, corre

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 12:43, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:12:18AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:19:16PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <...> was heard to say: Michael Pobega wrote: Mark, a GUI-less system is useless (unless it's some sort of server)

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Ekstrand
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,03.Aug.09, 09:43:02, Michael Ekstrand wrote: >> In my experience with an R61, Thinkpads come pretty close (with the >> Intel wireless card and firmware from non-free). Stay away from the >> memory card reader option for "perfect" (the memory stick support won't >> wo

Re: Help with postgresql upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 03:45:13PM +, Glyn Astill wrote: > > > On 2009-08-03 09:31, Andrew Perrin > > wrote: > > > Greetings all- > > > > > > Running postgresql under debian, my standard apt-get > > upgrade upgraded me > > > from 8.3 to 8.4. As a result, I no longer have access > > to the dat

Re: ifupdown error on startup, Debian Xen

2009-08-03 Thread Andy Davidson
On 2 Aug 2009, at 20:26, Andy Davidson wrote: On 4 Jul 2009, at 19:27, Andy Davidson wrote: If I run ifconfig eth0 down && sleep 2 && ifup eth0 and then restart xend, the network bridge works fine, and ipv6 is started. Any clues ? I have more on this now. It happens without xen... I r

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:12:18AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:19:16PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > was heard to say: > > Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > > Mark, a GUI-less system is useless (unless it's some sort of server). > > > > You are kidding, right? > > >

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 11:59, Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> On Mon,03.Aug.09, 06:05:46, Neal Hogan wrote: >>  [...] >> >>> Mr. Popescu >> >> You're kidding, right? :) > > Unless Andrei is a female name, or you're a child... if this is the case, then it wa

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 11:59, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon,03.Aug.09, 06:05:46, Neal Hogan wrote: [...] Mr. Popescu You're kidding, right? :) Unless Andrei is a female name, or you're a child... (Yet another reason I dislike gmail is that people no longer need addresses with ccTLD to know where

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 11:55, Chris Jones wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:12:18PM EDT, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:19:16PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi ... was heard to say: Michael Pobega wrote: Mark, a GUI-less system is useless (unless it's some sort of server). You are kidd

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon,03.Aug.09, 06:05:46, Neal Hogan wrote: > > [...] > >> Mr. Popescu > > You're kidding, right? :) nah . . . you deserve respect! what do you want to be called? > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't und

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 06:05:46, Neal Hogan wrote: [...] > Mr. Popescu You're kidding, right? :) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 12:12:18PM EDT, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:19:16PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi > was heard to say: > > Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > > Mark, a GUI-less system is useless (unless it's some sort of server). > > > > You are kidding, right? > > > >

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 09:43:02, Michael Ekstrand wrote: > > In my experience with an R61, Thinkpads come pretty close (with the > Intel wireless card and firmware from non-free). Stay away from the > memory card reader option for "perfect" (the memory stick support won't > work, although SD should).

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,03.Aug.09, 09:02:31, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > > set header_cache="~/.mutt/cache/" > > I've done that already. It still takes a good half-minute to a > minute to load a big mailbox, and it's worse if I have concurrent disk > activity going on. What do you mean by big? Currently my de

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 09:19:16PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi was heard to say: > Michael Pobega wrote: > > > Mark, a GUI-less system is useless (unless it's some sort of server). > > You are kidding, right? > > It actually depends on what you are using it for. I use GUI-less systems all >

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-08-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:59:03AM +0300, Andrei Popescu was heard to say: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:14:55 -0700 > Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > (3) mutt takes *ages* to load large folders, particularly if they're > > maildir based. ISTM that an on-disk index would be a sensible > >

Re: Help with postgresql upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Glyn Astill
--- On Mon, 3/8/09, Ron Johnson wrote: > From: Ron Johnson > Subject: Re: Help with postgresql upgrade > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Monday, 3 August, 2009, 4:14 PM > On 2009-08-03 09:31, Andrew Perrin > wrote: > > Greetings all- > > > > Running postgresql under debian, my standar

Re: Hylafax faxgetty faxrcvd arguments

2009-08-03 Thread Franck Largillet
Hi, Do you have any response about your problem ? thanks ... Your post : Hi @ll, i have trouble with my hylafax configuration. I use a Debian Etch System with the standard hylafax package from debian. The faxserver is only used for incoming faxes. Each incoming fax is delivered to one mail ad

Re: Help with postgresql upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Suno Ano
- first you install the newest version of pg - then drop it is cluster, not the .deb - upgrade the old cluster i.e. databases to the newest version of your pg installation see /usr/share/doc/postgresql-8.4/README.Debian.gz pgp4x9FWFxT0o.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Debian] text display problem in mail - fixed

2009-08-03 Thread Glen Lee Edwards
I changed the font settings in IceDove. I'm not sure specifically which modification fixed it, but it's displaying properly now, and using TTF, which makes it much easier on the eyes. Glen glen...@life-in-christ.holiness.ch wrote: When I receive text mail, or try to compose mail in text mode

Re: Help with postgresql upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 09:31, Andrew Perrin wrote: Greetings all- Running postgresql under debian, my standard apt-get upgrade upgraded me from 8.3 to 8.4. As a result, I no longer have access to the databases that were created under 8.3. Typically I would use pg_upgradecluster to fix this problem; howev

Re: Messages when system is loading

2009-08-03 Thread eva
2009/8/3 Ron Johnson : > On 2009-08-03 09:37, eva wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have a few Debian 5 machines as Mail servers. I have changed many >> times the order of the services in the run levels but I still have >> lots of warning and error messages when the system is loading. > > What kind of messa

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Victor Padro
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 09:48, Timothy Wu wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: >> >>> i7 920, motherboard Asus P6T, 4 hard drive (640GB WD, 2 x 160GB Seagate, >>> 32 GB SSD OCZ core v2), 12G RAM. >>> >>> A horizontal cursor

Help with postgresql upgrade

2009-08-03 Thread Andrew Perrin
Greetings all- Running postgresql under debian, my standard apt-get upgrade upgraded me from 8.3 to 8.4. As a result, I no longer have access to the databases that were created under 8.3. Typically I would use pg_upgradecluster to fix this problem; however, the upgrade also removed 8.3, and so I

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 09:48, Timothy Wu wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: i7 920, motherboard Asus P6T, 4 hard drive (640GB WD, 2 x 160GB Seagate, 32 GB SSD OCZ core v2), 12G RAM. A horizontal cursor flashes means nothing to me... If you succeed installing you should be OK

Re: Messages when system is loading

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 09:37, eva wrote: Hi, I have a few Debian 5 machines as Mail servers. I have changed many times the order of the services in the run levels but I still have lots of warning and error messages when the system is loading. What kind of messages? The servers work perfect but I woul

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Timothy Wu
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > > i7 920, motherboard Asus P6T, 4 hard drive (640GB WD, 2 x 160GB Seagate, > 32 GB SSD OCZ core v2), 12G RAM. > > A horizontal cursor flashes means nothing to me... If you succeed > installing you should be OK with hard drive. Give more inf

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-03 Thread Michael Ekstrand
fred basset wrote: > I'll soon be able to spec. a new laptop for my new job. Can anyone > recommend any systems that can run the latest Debian > and support all the hardware out of the box? I prefer IBM and Dell > laptops myself. > It would be great to hear from anyone who's got a perfectly worki

Messages when system is loading

2009-08-03 Thread eva
Hi, I have a few Debian 5 machines as Mail servers. I have changed many times the order of the services in the run levels but I still have lots of warning and error messages when the system is loading. The servers work perfect but I would like to know what's all those messages about. Does anyone

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Scott Gifford wrote: > "Todd A. Jacobs" writes: > > [...] > >> Dell purportedly sells a netbook with Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried >> it myself. > > I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed, and > it works quite well.  The only thing that

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-03 Thread Scott Gifford
"Todd A. Jacobs" writes: [...] > Dell purportedly sells a netbook with Ubuntu on it, but I haven't tried > it myself. I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 that came with Ubuntu pre-installed, and it works quite well. The only thing that has never worked right is the modem. Scott. -- To UNSUBS

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Siggy Brentrup
On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 06:05 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > Oh ya . . . good morning :-) I hope you can calm down a bit after the coffee, in general it's said to bring you up to speed for a while :) leaving-for-cooking-3rd-1l-coffee-pot-for-today-ly yours Siggy -- Please don't Cc: me when reply

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-08-03 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
Hello, On 02-08-2009, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > It also seems that things are not so rosy on the > server itself. I ran "aptitude build-dep approx" > to try and solve the other part of my problem > (approx-import missing from v3.3.0). One of the > things it wanted to install is oca

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-03 06:05, Neal Hogan wrote: > [snip] >> >> Mr. Popescu has kindly pointed out basic point-drag, drop, GUI-click >> help, which should have been found and "played with" upon install. >> There is definitely no reason to bother the WHOLE

Re: Force the kernel to use generic ide driver

2009-08-03 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 02.07.09 18:23, Kushal Koolwal wrote: > I am using a Etch and a half kernel 2.6.24 on my Debian Lenny system. This > kernel does not have the IDE driver for my chipset. However, I do remember > that if the native IDE driver is not present, then the generic ide driver > is loaded. However, in my

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 06:05, Neal Hogan wrote: [snip] Mr. Popescu has kindly pointed out basic point-drag, drop, GUI-click help, which should have been found and "played with" upon install. There is definitely no reason to bother the WHOLE LIST with more XFCE config stuff . . . ya? The Xfce-equivalent

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list)

2009-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-08-03 02:01, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,02.Aug.09, 22:24:57, Ron Johnson wrote: As you can see from the above screen shot, certain fonts (like the ones in the Iceweasel Folders and Subjects lists) are "correct", according to my tastes. Menu->Settings->Appearance let me set them to the

Re: debian package creation: how to specify a version range in Depends: field

2009-08-03 Thread Tiago Saboga
Please don't cc me; I am subscribed. Unfortunately I don't have the time to do tests here, but I am sure you are quite close to your answer. Good luck, Tiago. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: HOWTO enhance Debian by removing HAL

2009-08-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Siggy Brentrup [2009 Aug 03 01:45 -0500]: Thanks for your explanation. > IMHO it was a fault to make bash essential in the early days of Debian > which nobody saw - with dash not yet available and shell functionality > required. Indeed, however, had a choice been made to keep scripts POSIX co

Re: udev warning message on Debian 5.0

2009-08-03 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:27:19AM -0700, Kushal Koolwal wrote: > > >Either use a Live CD or add init=/bin/bash to the kernel commandline > > to make it accessible. > > Doing > > init=/bin/bash > mount -o rw,remount / > rm -rf /dev/.udev/ > > worked fine! mount -o remount,ro / exec /sbin/init

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list) (now: waaay OT)

2009-08-03 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-08-02 12:21, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 2009-08-02 05:59, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> >>> On Sun,02.Aug.09, 03:45:58, Ron Johnson wrote: > > My Xfce setup would be very familiar for a Windows 2k user ;) Can you send me (

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
On 03-08-2009, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > --00163642729ff6ff900470395e87 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > >> On 03-08-2009, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hi, >> >

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Timothy Wu
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM, Sylvain Le Gall wrote: > On 03-08-2009, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anybody have any experience installing Debian on i7? The > installation > > went smoothly but it didn't seem to boot. A horizontal cursor flashes on > > screen and I

Re: debian package creation: how to specify a version range in Depends: field

2009-08-03 Thread Peter Van Biesen
Hi, FYI , I have a 10.0 and a 11.5 version of B in my repository. I added a Conflicts line with B (>= 11.0), the error: The following packages have unmet dependencies: A: Depends: B (>= 10.0) but it is not going to be installed I tried the Depends: B (>= 10.0), B (<< 11.0), the error: The fo

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
On 03-08-2009, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody have any experience installing Debian on i7? The installation > went smoothly but it didn't seem to boot. A horizontal cursor flashes on > screen and I don't see anything else. > I use a core i7 920 since 6 months. Never h

Re: Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Timothy Wu
On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Timothy Wu <2hug...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody have any experience installing Debian on i7? The installation > went smoothly but it didn't seem to boot. A horizontal cursor flashes on > screen and I don't see anything else. > > Timothy > I've just tri

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-03 Thread Aioanei Rares
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 06:34:49PM -0700, fred basset wrote: I'll soon be able to spec. a new laptop for my new job. Can anyone recommend any systems that can run the latest Debian and support all the hardware out of the box? I prefer IBM and Dell laptops myself. It w

Re: A Laptop where all hardware is perfectly supported

2009-08-03 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 06:34:49PM -0700, fred basset wrote: > I'll soon be able to spec. a new laptop for my new job. Can anyone > recommend any systems that can run the latest Debian and support all > the hardware out of the box? I prefer IBM and Dell laptops myself. It > would be great to hea

Installation on Intel Core i7

2009-08-03 Thread Timothy Wu
Hi, Does anybody have any experience installing Debian on i7? The installation went smoothly but it didn't seem to boot. A horizontal cursor flashes on screen and I don't see anything else. Timothy

Re: Xfce (was Re: Musings on debian-user list)

2009-08-03 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,02.Aug.09, 22:24:57, Ron Johnson wrote: > > As you can see from the above screen shot, certain fonts (like the > ones in the Iceweasel Folders and Subjects lists) are "correct", > according to my tastes. Menu->Settings->Appearance let me set them > to the font/size which I prefer. Other f