Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/12/2009 6:32 PM, amka wrote: I am going to buy a new computer and wonder what is the best for 64bits. AMD or Intel ? Could someone give me please an advice ? I have actualy an AMD Opteron and the idea is, for the moment, to buy : - CPU AMD Opteron 1356 - Motherboard

Re: results: debian-user's favourite FLOSS (2009)

2009-12-12 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 11:56, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 09:18, Dotan Cohen wrote: sidenote: this year has had probably the worst participation since I've started this poll in 2005 :-( >>> >>> I noticed that as well. Kinda sad. Any thoughts as to why? >>>

Re: Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-12 Thread Gordon Wrigley
>> Another way to look at this would be to ask... >> >> Given two available versions of a package where the higher version has >> the lower priority, how do I get apt to automatically install the >> lower priority one when the higher version is required to meet a >> dependency? > > If the higher ve

Re (2): freezing Ethernet crossover link.

2009-12-12 Thread peasthope
Stan, Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:20:00 -0600 you wrote, > Yes, it's not sending or receiving any packets. My expanation was unclear. The 0s come from ifconfig after data transmission. Communication has always worked for a non-zero time prior to failure. Presumeably ifconfig reports cumulat

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
amka put forth on 12/12/2009 6:32 PM: > - CPU AMD Opteron 1356 > - Motherboard Tyan Tomcat n3400B (S2925-E) > - MemoryKingston KVR800D2E6K2/4G (2x kit of 2x2GB = 8GB) > > Perhaps somebody have an experience with some of that. Is this for a desktop system?

Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 09:49:22AM +1100, Gordon Wrigley wrote: > Another way to look at this would be to ask... > > Given two available versions of a package where the higher version has > the lower priority, how do I get apt to automatically install the > lower priority one when the higher versi

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-12 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 16:32, amka wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am going to buy a new computer and wonder what is the best for 64bits. > AMD or Intel ? > > Could someone give me please an advice ? It isn't really in their use of 64 bits that they distinguish themselves. Intel has the performanc

Re: Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-12 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/12/13 amka > Hi everyone, > > I am going to buy a new computer and wonder what is the best for 64bits. > AMD or Intel ? > > Could someone give me please an advice ? > > > I have actualy an AMD Opteron and the idea is, for the moment, to buy : > > - CPU AMD Opteron 1356 > it

Debian 5.0 & 64 bits

2009-12-12 Thread amka
Hi everyone, I am going to buy a new computer and wonder what is the best for 64bits. AMD or Intel ? Could someone give me please an advice ? I have actualy an AMD Opteron and the idea is, for the moment, to buy : - CPU AMD Opteron 1356 - Motherboard Tyan Tomcat n340

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 02:15:32PM EST, lee wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:41:05PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:42:49 +0100 > > lee dijo: > > > > >On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > >> > > >> no need of lithium at all. > > > > >

Re: freezing Ethernet crossover link.

2009-12-12 Thread Stan Hoeppner
peasth...@shaw.ca put forth on 12/12/2009 4:17 PM: > This is a phenomenon in Squeeze for the recent > few weeks. > > A Linux router and workstation are connected > with a crossover cable. This is on the router. > Communication appears normal until after > some minutes or hours it freezes so

Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-12 Thread Gordon Wrigley
Another way to look at this would be to ask... Given two available versions of a package where the higher version has the lower priority, how do I get apt to automatically install the lower priority one when the higher version is required to meet a dependency? G -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-12 Thread Gordon Wrigley
> Are you sure that this applies to *all* lucid sections, including > lucid-updates and lucid-security? I recall reading some blogs that > indicated that Ubuntu's pinning and default release settings don't > work exactly like Debian's. I checked it with apt-cache policy and everything karmic is 5

freezing Ethernet crossover link.

2009-12-12 Thread peasthope
This is a phenomenon in Squeeze for the recent few weeks. A Linux router and workstation are connected with a crossover cable. This is on the router. Communication appears normal until after some minutes or hours it freezes so that "/etc/init.d/networking restart" fails. dalton:/home/pete

Re: How to play sound as a different user in GNOME?

2009-12-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,12.Dec.09, 22:26:09, "Stanisław T. Findeisen" wrote: > Hi > > How to play sound as a different user in GNOME? > > I have a habit of running web browser as a separate user, so that > running all those malicious programs from the Web is safer. But from > time to time I need to decode Flash c

How to play sound as a different user in GNOME?

2009-12-12 Thread Stanisław T. Findeisen
Hi How to play sound as a different user in GNOME? I have a habit of running web browser as a separate user, so that running all those malicious programs from the Web is safer. But from time to time I need to decode Flash content. Video is OK but I have no sound. I tried Rhythmbox --- same here.

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-12 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 08:31:41PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:25:05AM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Dear Debian user, > > > > I have a weird time-zone related issue on my machine. I observed that > > the "alarm-clock" package was always ignoring my requests for an a

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-12 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-12-12 08:54:35, Merciadri Luca wrote: ... > It looks like a hardware error, as stated before by the log, but why? > I am sure this is linked with the fact that it is done through IDE, > but Windows does not complain about this. Can the drive /read/ CDs and DVDs in Windows? In Linux? If no

Re: apt-file update doesn't get Contents-i386.gz from my own apt repository

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Michaux
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:49:13PM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: >> I have created my own apt simple repository > > Which documentation recommended you to create a so called "simple > repository"?  It should be avoided these days. > > (See > ht

Re: Weird time-zone oscillation

2009-12-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:25:05AM -0600, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian user, > > I have a weird time-zone related issue on my machine. I observed that > the "alarm-clock" package was always ignoring my requests for an alarm > within an hour from now, and all other alarms used to go off with

Re: rsync, beagle, lsetxattr

2009-12-12 Thread David Maus
At Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:20:36 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:35:14 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > I used to have beagle installed but have now purged it. When I run rsync > > there are many error messages of the following type: > > > > rsync: rsync_xal_set: > > lsetxatt

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-12 Thread lee
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 05:41:05PM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:42:49 +0100 > lee dijo: > > >On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:45:31PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > >> > >> no need of lithium at all. > > > >What's the alternative? Have they found another resource to make >

Re: lenny's hardware compatibilty list

2009-12-12 Thread Camaleón
2009/12/12 peasthope: > Hi CamaleA3n, > >> You sent the message to my direct mail. Forwarding to the list. > > Sorry. I am in Winter hibernation. > Thanks for forwarding. Pardon for awaking you, not my intention :-) >> I don't think that is the right place to use it as a central point for >> D

Re: apt-file update doesn't get Contents-i386.gz from my own apt repository

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Michaux
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:49:13PM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: >> I have created my own apt simple repository > > Which documentation recommended you to create a so called "simple > repository"? It should be avoided these days. > > (See > htt

Re: VLC cannot support the traditional music keys

2009-12-12 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Merciadri Luca ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I am using VLC 0.8.6h Janus (with wxWidgets). Totem and other GNOME's built-in players make the appropriate action when I press a specific music key on my (damn Microsoft, but standard) keyboard. However, it i

Re: rsync, beagle, lsetxattr

2009-12-12 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:35:14 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I used to have beagle installed but have now purged it. When I run rsync > there are many error messages of the following type: > > rsync: rsync_xal_set: > lsetxattr("home/rick/12-05-01.txt","user.Beagle.AttrTime") failed: > Operation not

Re: lenny's hardware compatibilty list

2009-12-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:19:01 +, Camaleón wrote: 2009/12/12 peasthope: You sent the message to my direct mail. Forwarding to the list. > Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:19:01 + (UTC), Camaleon wrote, >> Which would be the >> right place to write down that info so other users can benefit of t

Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-12 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 03:28:19PM +1100, Gordon Wrigley wrote: > I wasn't sure what venue was best to ask this in, so if this is the > wrong place please direct me to the correct place. > > I'm using APT pinning to pull packages from both Ubuntu Karmic(stable) > and Ubuntu Lucid(testing) but I'm

Re: IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - From Matt Harrison on Sat Dec 12: > The other CD-DVD writer works like a charm, but this one does not, > whatever the interface. I had mainly tried with GNOME's built-in's > burning tool, but it explains me that I should try burning the CD/DVD > at

VLC cannot support the traditional music keys

2009-12-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, I am using VLC 0.8.6h Janus (with wxWidgets). Totem and other GNOME's built-in players make the appropriate action when I press a specific music key on my (damn Microsoft, but standard) keyboard. However, it is not the case with my VLC. It

Re: apt pinning question

2009-12-12 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,12.Dec.09, 15:28:19, Gordon Wrigley wrote: > I wasn't sure what venue was best to ask this in, so if this is the > wrong place please direct me to the correct place. Hmm, I would suggest ubuntu-users or similar mailing list, but there is indeed a chance that your question is not Ubuntu sp

IDE CD-DVD Writer won't write

2009-12-12 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have two CD-DVD writers on this machine. It is equipped with a ASUS P5 which supports IDE and SATA. One of these CD-DVD writers is connected through IDE. Here is the output of `lshw' for the problematic CD-DVD writer: # lshw | grep ND-2500A

Re: apt-file update doesn't get Contents-i386.gz from my own apt repository

2009-12-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:49:13PM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: > Hi, > > I have created my own apt simple repository Which documentation recommended you to create a so called "simple repository"? It should be avoided these days. (See http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02

Re: lenny's hardware compatibilty list

2009-12-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:55:17 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:11:15AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:58:24 -0500, Israel Garcia wrote: >> >> > Hi, where can I find an official list of hardware compatibility >> > (different devices) for debian lenny? >>

Re: Re: install location and aptitude

2009-12-12 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Thanks all. I moved /opt to /usr/local/opt and then used the obvious solution of symlinks (as suggested by Eduardo) to point /opt to /usr/local/opt and it worked! By the way, I'm the only user of this machine and that should not cause any problems. Nima :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: lenny's hardware compatibilty list

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:11:15AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:58:24 -0500, Israel Garcia wrote: > > > Hi, where can I find an official list of hardware compatibility > > (different devices) for debian lenny? > > I haven't found any for that specific purpose :-? What about: h

Re: [OT]What's the price index of your laptop's battery?

2009-12-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 02:49:28PM +0530, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Klistvud wrote: >> My sister has an even older Dell (it must be at least 5 or 6 years) >> which still lasts just under an hour on the *original* battery. In >> the meantime, I've had at least 3 or 4 batteries in

Re: SATA drive performance seems low

2009-12-12 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 12. 12. 2009 07:14:28 je Stan Hoeppner napisal(a): > > I guess my first question is, why is the performance going through > the > Linux system cache buffers ~40% lower than doing a --direct read? > Going > through the Linux buffers is normal system operation. Second > question > is how d