Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 01:07:56AM -0400, S. Fishpaste wrote: > Ah go back to TLUG you frickin twit. You were an arsehole there and are one > here. That was rude and unnecessary. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4599 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:40:20 +0100, Liviu Andronic in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On 10/11/09, deb...@waysoft.com wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400 >> JoeHill wrote: >> > I've been on here a year, and I've gotten *decent* help from exactly >> >> infantile name-calling flame fe

Re: [nfs4] mapping problem

2009-10-11 Thread Tom H
Mark wrote: > Recently I installed an nfs4 server and configured it to export to nfs3 > and nfs4 like that(/etc/exports/): > #for nfs3 > /folder1        (rw,async,subtree_check) > /folder2        (rw,async,subtree_check) > /folder3        (rw,async,subtree_check) > #for nfs4 > /nfs4     .0/24(r

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-11 Thread steef
H.S. wrote: steef wrote: <> er ... looks like your query was directed at me. The M-audio 2496, as far as I recall, worked out of the box with alsa on Ubuntu (since Gutsy, did it have 2.6.24 kernel). So I would expect it to work out of the box on any typical Debian desktop compute

Does d-i work automatically with LDAP servers?

2009-10-11 Thread surreal
In many networked environments, LDAP is widely used, most for user authentication etc.. Does d-i (debian installer) work with LDAP? Is it possible for d-i to get user information directly from local LDAP server, like it does in Fedore Core/Red Hat installers? Regards -- Harshad Joshi

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400, JoeHill in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > When half the list can't figure out how to use a goddamned e-mail client, and > so insists on sending out double the number of e-mails just because they feel > like it; when the other half seems to mostly enjoy postin

Re: Cannot empty trash because of permission problems

2009-10-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091011_163117, Merciadri Luca wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello, > > On my Debian Lenny, I am unable to empty the trash because of > permission problems. For example, I have a .jar file, and when I > choose to "Empty Trash," I receive: > > "Error while delet

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091011_190527, Mark Allums wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:28:29AM EDT, Mark Allums wrote: >> >>> The policy should be changed. >> >>> And don't tell me to use some Thunderbird extension of dubious >>> provenance. I might not use Thunderbird, or I'm on Windows for ema

Re: acpid not logging - or doing other things

2009-10-11 Thread Matthew Smith
Quoth green at 2009-10-12 11:10... > Perhaps you need to look at acpid(8). Find out what the initscript is using, > and try running acpid manually with some of --debug, --foreground, > --logevents. Thanks, will do once I've got the machine re-installed. I plan to do more with acpi (like runnin

tasksel problems

2009-10-11 Thread Matthew Smith
Hi Folks After I had gotten my new laptop all running nicely, I realised that I'd forgotten to encrypt the partitions as I'd intended :( So, I started over. For some reason, the installer (Lenny netinst) is now having problems scanning the mirrors. Those entered manually and those from the list

Re: Printing from last page to the first

2009-10-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 03:43:53PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hello, > > When printing a document, it is always easier for the person who needs > to reassemble the printed document if it was printed from the last > page to the first one, leading to such a printing stack in front of > you: > >

Re: Cannot empty trash because of permission problems

2009-10-11 Thread green
Merciadri Luca wrote at 2009-10-11 09:31 -0500: > Where is the trash folder located in my /home/? It might be at: /home/user/.local/share/Trash/files Or: /home/user/.Trash signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: acpid not logging - or doing other things

2009-10-11 Thread green
Matthew Smith wrote at 2009-10-10 21:05 -0500: > The problem that I'm having is that modifying /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh or > /etc/acpi/powerbtn-acpi-support.sh seems to have no effect. After > restarting acpid, pressing the button has no effect at all - neither the > one in the original version

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:07 PM, green wrote: > You should be able to adjust your touchpad behavior with gsynaptics or in > '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'... Well, that is a good step in the right direction. Thanks. I'll experiment further. -- thanks for letting me change the magnetic patterns on you

Re: D-Link's Shareport USB Utility

2009-10-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Merciadri Luca put forth on 10/11/2009 5:32 AM: > Is there a solution about this? Hope I was clear. Like many consumer gadgets, this one was designed for the Winders world, and uses proprietary closed source drivers. Any hope of getting this working with a Linux PC will depend on D-Link's suppor

Samba Problem

2009-10-11 Thread Jeff Grossman
I just upgraded by Testing system from Samba 3.3.4-1 to 3.4.2-1 yesterday and now I am not able to connect my Windows Vista machine to my Debian machine. I have tried to Google for an answer and have not been able to find anything. Did something with authentication change between those two versio

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread green
David Fox wrote at 2009-10-11 17:12 -0500: > (Speaking of laptops, I have a Fujitsu that is all around a good > laptop but it's the touchpad that is too sensitive. It often makes me > find myself bouncing the cursor around on the screen in the middle of > composing an email, and sometimes it drives

Re: [OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
Chris Jones wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:28:29AM EDT, Mark Allums wrote: The policy should be changed. And don't tell me to use some Thunderbird extension of dubious provenance. I might not use Thunderbird, or I'm on Windows for email [..] I didn't follow this thread, so I'm not sure

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-11 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 10:56 -0600, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Sunday October 11 2009 6:50:25 am Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am not sure where to go next. I can roll back the image to pre sp2 > > upgrade (I took a copy just prior to doing the upgrade) and that works > > fine, but as soon as I do the

[OT] List policy - [Was: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?]

2009-10-11 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:28:29AM EDT, Mark Allums wrote: > The policy should be changed. > And don't tell me to use some Thunderbird extension of dubious > provenance. I might not use Thunderbird, or I'm on Windows for email [..] I didn't follow this thread, so I'm not sure what you are refer

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Jason Filippou
> > When half the list can't figure out how to use a goddamned e-mail > client, and so insists on sending out double the number of e-mails > just because they feel like it; when the other half seems to mostly > enjoy posting links to LMGTFY so they feel like a big shot; when most > of the answers h

Odd behavusr

2009-10-11 Thread Wayne Topa
Hi List I have noticed some odd behavior with aptitude when doing safe-upgrades for the past month or so. On 5 or 6 occasions a number of files are downloaded more then once. Below is an example on my current upgrade Get:95 http://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main xulrunner-1.9.1 1.9.1.

Re: D-Link's Shareport USB Utility

2009-10-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner writes: > Merciadri Luca put forth on 10/10/2009 7:44 AM: >> Stan Hoeppner writes: >> >>> A better question is why aren't you using ethernet instead of USB? Use >>> the right tool for the job. >> I think you misunderstood what I want

Re: D-Link's Shareport USB Utility

2009-10-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: > Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Thanks for this trick. Unfortunately, >> # smbclient 192.168.0.1 password -U Admin >> >> 192.168.0.1: Not enough '\' characters in service >> >> # smbclient -U Admin -L 192.168.0.1 >> Connection

Cannot empty trash because of permission problems

2009-10-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, On my Debian Lenny, I am unable to empty the trash because of permission problems. For example, I have a .jar file, and when I choose to "Empty Trash," I receive: "Error while deleting. "/home/merci...4-1131.jar" cannot be deleted because you

Printing from last page to the first

2009-10-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, When printing a document, it is always easier for the person who needs to reassemble the printed document if it was printed from the last page to the first one, leading to such a printing stack in front of you: Sheet 1 Sheet 2 . . . Sheet n-1

Re: D-Link's Shareport USB Utility

2009-10-11 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner writes: > Merciadri Luca put forth on 10/10/2009 2:40 PM: >> Merciadri Luca writes: >> >> I receive the same answer with >> #smbclient -L //192.168.0.1 >> >> The problem with non-noname devices is that their internal config is >> oft

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Graham
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400 JoeHill wrote: > > When half the list can't figure out how to use a goddamned e-mail > client, and so insists on sending out double the number of e-mails > just because they feel like it; when the other half seems to mostly > enjoy posting links to LMGTFY so th

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/11/09, David Fox wrote: > I thought he was perfectly decent. He inquired about maybe your > touchpad being an issue, but never did I see a negative tone or > anything condescending. > The initial intervention was polite, indeed. But not so the subsequent vulgar, off-list message to which I

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Justin
Bye.

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > Regarding the latter, I don't think you want to check the "mplayer: > jumping around" thread. Joe doesn't seem familiar with decency. I thought he was perfectly decent. He inquired about maybe your touchpad being an issue, but never did I

see ya

2009-10-11 Thread David Fox
ACK! Sorry for posting to the user and not the list! On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:51 PM,   wrote: > Interesting how opinions can differ so much between reasonable people > (which I'm pretty sure I am, and I'll assume you are).  In addition I'm sure the list quality here (and has been in my experie

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/11/09, deb...@waysoft.com wrote: > On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400 > JoeHill wrote: > > I've been on here a year, and I've gotten *decent* help from exactly > > infantile name-calling flame fests I find in most Linux-related > Regarding the latter, I don't think you want to check the

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread Mark
> I've been on here a year, and I've gotten decent help from exactly > _one_ person, and that was Florian, IIANM. Otherwise, this list just > takes up space. I find it tough to complain about a list/service which is free and exists because people voluntarily help others. Just my $0.02, keep the c

Re: see ya

2009-10-11 Thread debian
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:59:52 -0400 JoeHill wrote: > > When half the list can't figure out how to use a goddamned e-mail > client, and so insists on sending out double the number of e-mails > just because they feel like it; when the other half seems to mostly > enjoy posting links to LMGTFY so th

Re: mplayer: jumping around

2009-10-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/11/09, JoeHill wrote: > Okay, seriously, I'm done here. If you're too fucking retarded to listen, or > too fucking ignorant to follow people's very simple and polite requests, then > fuck off, no one wants you here. You cannot possibly be unaware that no one > wants your goddamned double

Re: Mounting multiple devices on few mount-points.

2009-10-11 Thread gcrimp
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:36:43PM +0700, Sthu Deus wrote: > Good day. > > I need to mount diver devices (sd*, hd*, mmcblk*) on diver mount points > (/mnt/hdd* /mnt/dvd*). Yet as I do not have to mount them all at once, I do > not > want to have a lot of mount points in /mnt - therefore I can not

Re: cosmos and xfce - how-to?

2009-10-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 12:37:31PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have recently discovered Xfce. I've been using it for about a week > and like it very much. Most of my issues with Gnome are resolved, > but... [...] > > I couldn't figure out how to tell xfce about it, so that it was used. > I cou

[nfs4] mapping problem

2009-10-11 Thread Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Recently I installed an nfs4 server and configured it to export to nfs3 and nfs4 like that(/etc/exports/): #for nfs3 /folder1(rw,async,subtree_check) /folder2(rw,async,subtree_check) /folder3(rw,async,subtree_check) ...

see ya

2009-10-11 Thread JoeHill
When half the list can't figure out how to use a goddamned e-mail client, and so insists on sending out double the number of e-mails just because they feel like it; when the other half seems to mostly enjoy posting links to LMGTFY so they feel like a big shot; when most of the answers have absolut

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-11 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 05 October 2009 13:20:14 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > It is purely digital. 16-bit (not sure if this is floating- or > > > fixed-point), stereo, 44.1 kHz samples, IIRC. > > > > What's the differenc

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-11 Thread Terence
> There's a well-known story about the Osborne computers.  He had a > line of 8 bit computers which virtually captured the market.  As the > 16 bit processors came into being his customers "demanded" 16 bits > even though they had no idea what they were going to do with > it(them?).  Osborne capitu

Re: how to create a new debian package

2009-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:27:51AM +0800, george wrote: > Hi all > > How to create a new Debian package from my source ? I want to create binary > packages from the source I have. > > When I using "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -d" to cli ,I got the error > msg as follows : ... > tail: ca

cosmos and xfce - how-to?

2009-10-11 Thread Paul E Condon
I have recently discovered Xfce. I've been using it for about a week and like it very much. Most of my issues with Gnome are resolved, but... I miss automatic mounting of usb memory sticks when I plug them in and the Cosmos screensaver. I think I have a satisfactory work-around for usb sticks, but

Re: how to create a new debian package

2009-10-11 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 6:27 PM, george wrote: > Hi all > > How to create a new Debian package from my source ? I want to create binary > packages from the source I have. > > When I using “dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b –d” to cli ,I got the error > msg as follows : > > dpkg-buildpackage: wa

Re: mplayer: jumping around

2009-10-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/11/09, JoeHill wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: > > > Recently I encountered this nasty, aggravating behaviour in mplayer: > > moving the computer (say, creating a little vibration by knocking on > > the table, or simply moving a muscle when on my laps) will cause > > mplayer to scroll for

Re: Someone help me in the right direction for networks <- Might be off topic

2009-10-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20091011_100205, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Dean Chester > wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been asked to set up a network of between 6 and 10 computers, using > > linux yet i don't know what to do. I've decided to allocate 2 as servers and > > because we have to run our networ

Re: mplayer: jumping around

2009-10-11 Thread JoeHill
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Recently I encountered this nasty, aggravating behaviour in mplayer: > moving the computer (say, creating a little vibration by knocking on > the table, or simply moving a muscle when on my laps) will cause > mplayer to scroll forwards or backwards (any of the available 10

mplayer: jumping around

2009-10-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all Recently I encountered this nasty, aggravating behaviour in mplayer: moving the computer (say, creating a little vibration by knocking on the table, or simply moving a muscle when on my laps) will cause mplayer to scroll forwards or backwards (any of the available 10 or 60 sec, or 5 min).

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/10/09, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: > Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program except gnomebaker ? > Seemingly not yet mentioned: Xfburn. Liviu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-11 Thread Matthew Moore
On Sunday October 11 2009 6:50:25 am Alan Chandler wrote: > I am not sure where to go next. I can roll back the image to pre sp2 > upgrade (I took a copy just prior to doing the upgrade) and that works > fine, but as soon as I do the remote update from microsoft the image is > corrupted and I am s

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-11 Thread H.S.
steef wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> >> Not sure if this is professional grade, but I have used M-audio 2496 >> (http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Audiophile2496.html). It has >> worked like a charm. Used it for live music recording and also for >> playback via a mixer. The system is Ubuntu based, but

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-11 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: m...@allums.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: How much RAM can debian support? >Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:35:18 -0500 > >>Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >> Personally, I don't see a need to go 128 bit on a main cpu unless >you have a desire

how to create a new debian package

2009-10-11 Thread george
Hi all How to create a new Debian package from my source ? I want to create binary packages from the source I have. When I using "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b -d" to cli ,I got the error msg as follows : dpkg-buildpackage: warning: using a gain-root-command while being root dpkg-buildpackag

Re: Libata in Debian GNU/Linux Lenny

2009-10-11 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Kelly. On Saturday, 10 October 2009 20:45:26 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > I'm using Debian GNU/Linux Lenny with linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64 > > stock kernel installed from a binary image from Debian repositories. > > > > In this case the disks are seen like hdX but using kernel 2.6.31.2 > >

Re: OT question about sound cards/chip-sets and high-end music systems

2009-10-11 Thread steef
H.S. wrote: Rob Owens wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Certainly not. At best it is equally bad. (On the other hand, apparently most people don't mind listening to music at low sound quality). YMMV. I use *professional* grade sound cards, becau

Re: php cgi

2009-10-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 01:36:43PM +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I want to know how to set up a debian server capable of running php cgi > script and how to create and run cgi script. Where can I find articles on > that? > I had search for a few hours but still could not find a good one. Any pa

Re: virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-11 Thread Ross Boylan
I was running XP under KVM and, fairly recently, it stopped working. The symptoms differ from yours; XP starts and then very quickly crashes. I don't know if it was changes to XP or something else on my system that triggered this. I'm running Lenny on amd64 with a 2.6.30 kernel. My plan, when I

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 08:23:10PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 12:50:41PM +0200, Magnus Pedersen wrote: >>> Alex Samad wrote: >>> >> [...] God can you remember when 16M used to be a lot ... >>> My first one, a commedore

Re: Someone help me in the right direction for networks <- Might be off topic

2009-10-11 Thread Neal Hogan
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Dean Chester wrote: > Hi, > I've been asked to set up a network of between 6 and 10 computers, using > linux yet i don't know what to do. I've decided to allocate 2 as servers and > because we have to run our network with in another network so we are hoping > to ru

Re: virtualbox: RTR3Init failed with rc=-1912 (rc=-1912)

2009-10-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 19:03:58 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hi there, > > I am trying to play with virtual box. Once I finish setting up my > virtual machine, and I hit start, I get the following error: > > RTR3Init failed with rc=-1912 (rc=-1912) > > The VirtualBox kernel modules do no

Re: Iceape video problem

2009-10-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 16:50:05 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 03:20:49PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 13:57:41 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 02:19:41PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > > On Sex, 09 Out 20

Re: virtualbox: RTR3Init failed with rc=-1912 (rc=-1912)

2009-10-11 Thread go...@dobosevic.com
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Hi there, I am trying to play with virtual box. Once I finish setting up my virtual machine, and I hit start, I get the following error: RTR3Init failed with rc=-1912 (rc=-1912) The VirtualBox kernel modules do not fit to this version of VirtualBox. The installation

Re: Iceape video problem

2009-10-11 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:03:06AM +0100, AG wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > >On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 03:20:49PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> > >>I think you should check if iceape actually uses the correct plugin (and > >>not some outdated file that was left behind during an earlier attemp

Re: Someone help me in the right direction for networks <- Might be off topic

2009-10-11 Thread Dean Chester
Thanks for that you have given me a place to start, am not so tempted just to run ubuntu server and run debian and configure it all myself. Dean On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Didar Hossain wrote: > On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Dean Chester > wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been asked to set up a

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-11 Thread green
Tim Beauregard wrote at 2009-10-11 02:58 -0500: > green wrote: > > Tim Beauregard wrote at 2009-10-10 14:27 -0500: > >> My choice is cdrdao, as it can identify burn-proof technology without > >> switches. > > > > Surely wodim does too? And I don't see mention of 'burn-proof' in > > cdrdao(1) >

Re: Someone help me in the right direction for networks <- Might be off topic

2009-10-11 Thread Didar Hossain
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Dean Chester wrote: > Hi, > I've been asked to set up a network of between 6 and 10 computers, using > linux yet i don't know what to do. I've decided to allocate 2 as servers and > because we have to run our network with in another network so we are hoping > to ru

virtual machines and winxp

2009-10-11 Thread Alan Chandler
because I have just got myself and iphone and I need to run itunes to back stuff up, I thought I would install windows xp in a virtual machine (using libvirt and associated tools). I can easily install xp and get it up and running. But as part of the upgrade to winxp sp2 (necessary for itunes)

Mounting multiple devices on few mount-points.

2009-10-11 Thread Sthu Deus
Good day. I need to mount diver devices (sd*, hd*, mmcblk*) on diver mount points (/mnt/hdd* /mnt/dvd*). Yet as I do not have to mount them all at once, I do not want to have a lot of mount points in /mnt - therefore I can not simply specify all the combinations of the devices in mount points in /

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
John Hasler wrote: randall writes: this list sets the "reply to" to the original sender of the message instead of the list itself. It does no such thing. Here is the relevant part of the header of your message as received here. No "reply to" present. [clip] i always need to remove the

Someone help me in the right direction for networks <- Might be off topic

2009-10-11 Thread Dean Chester
Hi, I've been asked to set up a network of between 6 and 10 computers, using linux yet i don't know what to do. I've decided to allocate 2 as servers and because we have to run our network with in another network so we are hoping to run the 1 server as a copy of the other one just it will be sittin

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Personally, I don't see a need to go 128 bit on a main cpu unless you have a desire to count and enumerate every elementary particle in the known universe, without a) running out of RAM, or b) spilling the content into a multiregister add/adc pair. :) You don't. It seems o

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
Micha Feigin wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:51:40 +0100 Kelly Harding wrote: 2009/10/9 Dean Chester : Hi I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just wondering how much can 64-bit debian support? Th

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 09:44:01PM +0100, Dean Chester wrote: > Hi > I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep > advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just > wondering how much can 64-bit debian support? > Thanks in advance > Dean Current x86

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
Magnus Pedersen wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:14:32PM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Dean Chester put forth on 10/9/2009 3:44 PM: Hi I'm moving to a Macbook soon(staying with debian tho:p) and apple keep advertising that snow leopard can support 16 exobytes of RAM. Im just

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
Kelly Harding wrote: In theory at least Debian will support the limits of the kernel version it uses. So it is a bit subjective really. IIRC, only the latest X58 chipsets (for desktop consumer PCs) support upto either 16Gb or 32Gb of RAM (forget which), and the P3x chipsets only support upto 8G

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 06:49:04PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > A $600 full length ISA card and a cable to the 8088 socket quadrupled my > > system performance in about 15 minutes.  Best upgrade I ever made. > > My first computer was in the

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Apple's claim might be true and purely commercial. Plain marketing strategy not basing on real world usage at this point of time, AFAIK. Yeah, exactly. 64 bits is 4 gig of 4 GB memory modules. (128 bits would be that, squared.) 2^32 =

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-11 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Marshall wrote: > The wodim(1) manpage has this to say about the burnfree option: > > This option is deprecated and is mentioned here for documentation Aha. Guess I need to update my brain. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4

Re: Iceape video problem

2009-10-11 Thread AG
Thomas H. George wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 03:20:49PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: I think you should check if iceape actually uses the correct plugin (and not some outdated file that was left behind during an earlier attempt to get flash working, for example). Here is how to do that (

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-11 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 08:58:36AM +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote: > green wrote: > > Tim Beauregard wrote at 2009-10-10 14:27 -0500: > >> My choice is cdrdao, as it can identify burn-proof technology without > >> switches. > > > > Surely wodim does too? And I don't see mention of 'burn-proof' in >

Re: Could you recommend CD/DVD writer program?

2009-10-11 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 green wrote: > Tim Beauregard wrote at 2009-10-10 14:27 -0500: >> My choice is cdrdao, as it can identify burn-proof technology without >> switches. > > Surely wodim does too? And I don't see mention of 'burn-proof' in cdrdao(1) > (v1:1.2.2-16). Ye