Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 04:08:55PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Bernard wrote: > > |> I wish to install an alternate web browser > > Google chrome is very good (as fast as was promised as far as I can > see). It's free in both of the relevant senses and it's packaged for > Debian/Ubuntu. Bew

Re: DNS round robin with NFS

2010-01-01 Thread Brent Clark
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:32:01PM -0500, Mag Gam wrote: I have 3 NFS servers which are serving the same exact data - ISO images. I have close to 50 clients who access this data so I manually mount up 1/3 clients to serverA, 1/3 clients to serverB, and the remainder to serverC. I was wondering

[debian-users] Integration of development tools

2010-01-01 Thread Ted Hilts
I am looking for some advice regarding integration of tools for development purposes. I have obtained the following over the internet.: 1. All debian binary and source DVD ISOs (for the present stable version) as the basis of a repository for binary and source code. I blasted the binary ISOs

Re: install -- netboot vs netinst vs businesscard Debian installer CDs

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 1, 2010, at 8:44 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On 2010-01-01 at 13:51:59 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: Here's a datapoint... Today I did the same for the PowerPC version of the netboot/mini.iso (13 MB) and used it to install squeeze on my testing PowerMac G4. Worked a treat. And what's really

RE: DNS round robin with NFS

2010-01-01 Thread James Wu
I've never tried this but I assume it should be possible to use DNS to do basic round-robining. All you need to do is have 3 A records for the same hostname. James -Original Message- From: Mag Gam [mailto:magaw...@gmail.com] Sent: Fri 1/1/2010 5:32 PM To: debian-user Subject: DNS round r

Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Charlie (aries...@clearmail.com.au) wrote: |> >Google chrome is very good (as fast as was promised as far as I can |> >see). It's free in both of the relevant senses and it's packaged for |> >Debian/Ubuntu. |> > |> >Jim |> |> Aha - didn't know it was licensed under GNU? N

Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone epiphany (similar to firefox) elinks (text only) midori (never used it myself) konqueror (KDE app, and very good) dillo (very lightweight; not in

Re: DNS round robin with NFS

2010-01-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:32:01PM -0500, Mag Gam wrote: > I have 3 NFS servers which are serving the same exact data - ISO images. > > I have close to 50 clients who access this data so I manually mount up > 1/3 clients to serverA, 1/3 clients to serverB, and the remainder to > serverC. > > I wa

Re: splittin monitor

2010-01-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 10:46, roberto wrote: > hello, > i am looking for a way to split my small 14" monitor in two and send > some windows on another external monitor; > btw, is it possible to send simply an entire desktop (it'd be my 8th) > on the external monitor and keep the other seven on the

Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 08:02, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone > (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs and > expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have something else > to

Bluetooth on IBM T42 (2.6.32)

2010-01-01 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi all, I have been using the stock kernel 2.6.26-1-686 of debian and things were running fine until i compiled 2.6.32 where the bluetooth stopped working. I have thinkpad acpi module and also enabled bluetooth. hcitool says it cannot find device. Info > > $ sudo rfkill list 0: phy0: Wirel

Re: install -- netboot vs netinst vs businesscard Debian installer CDs

2010-01-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-01 at 13:51:59 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > Here's a datapoint... > > Today I did the same for the PowerPC version of the netboot/mini.iso > (13 MB) and used it to install squeeze on my testing PowerMac G4. > Worked a treat. > > And what's really cool is that the businesscard and n

Bluetooth on IBM T42 (2.6.32)

2010-01-01 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi all, I have been using the stock kernel 2.6.26-1-686 of debian and things were running fine until i compiled 2.6.32 where the bluetooth stopped working. I have thinkpad acpi module and also enabled bluetooth. hcitool says it cannot find device. Info $ sudo rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless

Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:08:55 -0800 Jim McCloskey shared this with us all: >Bernard wrote: > >|> I wish to install an alternate web browser > >Google chrome is very good (as fast as was promised as far as I can >see). It's free in both of the relevant senses and it's packaged for >Debian/Ubuntu

Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Jim McCloskey
Bernard wrote: |> I wish to install an alternate web browser Google chrome is very good (as fast as was promised as far as I can see). It's free in both of the relevant senses and it's packaged for Debian/Ubuntu. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 2:57 PM: I think I am missing something but don't know what other then a missing route statement. It's not a route issue because the PCs are all on the same class C subnet (or should be). I looked at a previous route table you posted and it w

Re: problemi con gestore pacchetti ubunto 9.10

2010-01-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 04:23:26PM EST, po...@tiscali.it wrote: > Salve chiedo il vostro aiuto per il seguente errore: dopo aver provato > alcuni codec con aptitude mi da il seguente errore ogni volta che > provo ad aprire il gestore pacchetti E: Tipo "“deb" non riconosciuto > alla riga 54 nel fil

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '>' in emails.

2010-01-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 02:33:32PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri,01.Jan.10, 13:26:59, Chris Jones wrote: > > I noticed that some e-mails come back to this (and other) mailing lists > > with the traditional '>' quote markers removed. > > [...] > > > Is this caused by 'poster four' in the ab

DNS round robin with NFS

2010-01-01 Thread Mag Gam
I have 3 NFS servers which are serving the same exact data - ISO images. I have close to 50 clients who access this data so I manually mount up 1/3 clients to serverA, 1/3 clients to serverB, and the remainder to serverC. I was wondering if I can place the 3 NFS server in a pool and have all the

problemi con gestore pacchetti ubunto 9.10

2010-01-01 Thread po...@tiscali.it
Salve chiedo il vostro aiuto per il seguente errore: dopo aver provato alcuni codec con aptitude mi da il seguente errore ogni volta che provo ad aprire il gestore pacchetti E: Tipo "“deb" non riconosciuto alla riga 54 nel file /etc/apt/sources.list E: Impossibile leggere l'elenco delle sorgent

Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

2010-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Merciadri Luca put forth on 1/1/2010 3:13 PM: > Stan Hoeppner writes: > >> Completely disable ACPI Power Management in the ASUS BIOS and within Debian >> and >> see if this makes a difference. From the behavior you mention this really >> sounds like an ACPI problem. > > Once this is done, the

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 2:57 PM: > I think I am missing something but don't know what other then a missing > route statement. It's not a route issue because the PCs are all on the same class C subnet (or should be). I looked at a previous route table you posted and it was fine. Speaking of

Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

2010-01-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner writes: > Completely disable ACPI Power Management in the ASUS BIOS and within Debian > and > see if this makes a difference. From the behavior you mention this really > sounds like an ACPI problem. Once this is done, the problem see

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 1:43 PM: This is a good sign: /var/log/wicd# ifconfig ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:5a:bb:e8:c5 inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

Re: ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

2010-01-01 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Which filesystem is more appropriate for maildir use on a Postfix/Dovecot system, ext2/3 or xfs? This maildir will be storing mulitple mail folders and files, some folders containing over 10,000 email files. I'm a big fan of XFS and have successfully u

Re: ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

2010-01-01 Thread Robert Brockway
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Volkan YAZICI wrote: I strongly agree, even in recent ext4 and nilfs benchmarks, reiserfs is generally the winner in many different scenarious. Besides, XFS is very disappointing at power failures and ext2/3 requires huge amounts of There are reasons for the observed XFS be

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 1:43 PM: This is a good sign: > /var/log/wicd# ifconfig > ath0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:5a:bb:e8:c5 > inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX p

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 10:43 AM: Current settings of all info is on the site WICD2 is the file. No changes will be made here for 2 days. The requested URL /~huntbrittany/linux/WICD2.info.gz was not found on this server. The requested URL /~huntbrittany/linux/WICD

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 10:43 AM: Current settings of all info is on the site WICD2 is the file. No changes will be made here for 2 days. The requested URL /~huntbrittany/linux/WICD2.info.gz was not found on this server. The requested URL /~huntbrittany/linux/WICD

Re: Removing the indent-string quote marker '>' in emails.

2010-01-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,01.Jan.10, 13:26:59, Chris Jones wrote: > I noticed that some e-mails come back to this (and other) mailing lists > with the traditional '>' quote markers removed. [...] > Is this caused by 'poster four' in the above example having manually > removed the markers, or is an attempt from the

Re: install -- Debian install CD: "netboot" vs "netinst" vs "businesscard"

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
[This discussion started over on debian-user. I've CC'ed debian-boot incase there's anybody there who has wisdom on the subject.] On Dec 31, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: Hmm. I'm certain that I didn't set up a netboot server. I booted from what is ap

Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread mess-mate
tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 17:02 +0100, Bernard wrote: Hi to Everyone, I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs and expectations, but, for

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 10:43 AM: > Current settings of all info is on the site WICD2 is the file. No > changes will be made here for 2 days. The requested URL /~huntbrittany/linux/WICD2.info.gz was not found on this server. The requested URL /~huntbrittany/linux/WICD2 was not found on th

Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Anthony Baldwin
--- On Fri, 1/1/10, Bernard wrote: > From: Bernard > Subject: alternate web browser etc... > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 4:02 PM > Hi to Everyone, > > I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the > firefox clone (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I alread

Re: install -- netboot vs netinst vs businesscard Debian installer CDs

2010-01-01 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 31, 2009, at 3:01 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On 2009-12-31 at 14:43:44 -0500, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: That would be netinst, not netboot. Whatever. All I can say is that I downloaded dists/lenny/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso from a public Debian mirror, bur

Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Bernard wrote: > Why not 'Opera', even if it is not free (I doubt if it is very > expensive) ? I may miss the knowledge of something better that Opera... > > As for newsgroups, I also wish to experiment something new. Up to now, I > have rarely used "F

splittin monitor

2010-01-01 Thread roberto
hello, i am looking for a way to split my small 14" monitor in two and send some windows on another external monitor; btw, is it possible to send simply an entire desktop (it'd be my 8th) on the external monitor and keep the other seven on the main laptop monitor ? thank you in advance -- roberto

Removing the indent-string quote marker '>' in emails.

2010-01-01 Thread Chris Jones
I noticed that some e-mails come back to this (and other) mailing lists with the traditional '>' quote markers removed. For instance, instead of the following: +--- Message | Comments -

Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
>Alan Ianson wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 17:02 +0100, Bernard wrote: >> Hi to Everyone, >> >> I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone >> (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs >> and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wis

Re: can't get CUPS working with Xerox Phaser 6280DN [SOLVED]

2010-01-01 Thread Steve Kleene
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:14:11 -0500, I wrote: > I am failing to get CUPS working with a new Xerox Phaser 6280DN color laser > printer ... This problem has been resolved by Helge at cups.org. The solution is at http://cups.org/newsgroups.php?s19897+gcups.general+v19906+T1 and the whole thread ("

Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 17:02 +0100, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone > (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs > and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have > something

Using KSM in Debian GNU/Linux Lenny

2010-01-01 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, all! From Buenos Aires I wish you a happy new year!! I'm using qemu-kvm-0.12.1.1 that it already comes with support for KSM and Linux also compiled with KSM support, but nevertheless it seems that it is not being used: r...@ubuntu:~# uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.32.2-dgb #1 SMP Thu Dec 31 20:2

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 8:56 AM: http://www.intergate.com/~huntbrittany/linux/WICD.info.gz If that data is accurate... 1. Your wired ethernet card is using 192.168.1.11 2. Your Atheros card is being assigned 192.168.1.3 The wired NIC is first in the binding order a

Re: alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Stephen Powell
On 2010-01-01 at 11:02:35 -0500, Bernard wrote: > I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone > (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs > and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have > something else too, one of these

Re: domain redirection how?

2010-01-01 Thread Tudod Ki
no one? :) --- On Fri, 1/1/10, Tudod Ki wrote: From: Tudod Ki Subject: domain redirection how? To: "Debian User" Date: Friday, January 1, 2010, 12:00 PM I want to redirect a domain:  "somedomain.eu" to: "tothis.eu" so I edit the "somedomain.eu.hosts" file with vim [appending this two line to

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 8:56 AM: http://www.intergate.com/~huntbrittany/linux/WICD.info.gz If that data is accurate... 1. Your wired ethernet card is using 192.168.1.11 2. Your Atheros card is being assigned 192.168.1.3 The wired NIC is first in the binding order a

Re: ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

2010-01-01 Thread Volkan YAZICI
On Fri, 1 Jan 2010, Camaleón writes: > On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:51:23 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Which filesystem is more appropriate for maildir use on a >> Postfix/Dovecot system, ext2/3 or xfs? This maildir will be storing >> mulitple mail folders and files, some folders containing over 10,0

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 8:56 AM: http://www.intergate.com/~huntbrittany/linux/WICD.info.gz If that data is accurate... 1. Your wired ethernet card is using 192.168.1.11 2. Your Atheros card is being assigned 192.168.1.3 The wired NIC is first in the binding order

Re: ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

2010-01-01 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 09:51:23 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Which filesystem is more appropriate for maildir use on a > Postfix/Dovecot system, ext2/3 or xfs? This maildir will be storing > mulitple mail folders and files, some folders containing over 10,000 > email files. How about ReiserFS? D

alternate web browser etc...

2010-01-01 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone, I wish to install an alternate web browser, else than the firefox clone (iceweasel v3.0.6) that I already have. Iceweasel does fulfill my needs and expectations, but, for various reasons, I wish to also have something else too, one of these reasons being that it would be initi

ext2/3 vs xfs for maildir

2010-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Which filesystem is more appropriate for maildir use on a Postfix/Dovecot system, ext2/3 or xfs? This maildir will be storing mulitple mail folders and files, some folders containing over 10,000 email files. If xfs, what is the most appropriate mkfs.xfs command line for creating the filesystem be

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Wayne put forth on 1/1/2010 8:56 AM: http://www.intergate.com/~huntbrittany/linux/WICD.info.gz If that data is accurate... 1. Your wired ethernet card is using 192.168.1.11 2. Your Atheros card is being assigned 192.168.1.3 The wired NIC is first in the binding order and thus first in the ro

Re: [Fwd: Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network -UPDATE]

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
Stan Hoeppner wrote: Wayne put forth on 12/31/2009 10:18 PM: Stan Hoeppner wrote: Are you able to ping the IP address of the Windows laptop that is properly communicating with the MiFi? ] No. I can ping the admin page (192.168.1.1) from the Laptop that is running XP. Please show output of

Re: Getting connected to Verizon 3G network

2010-01-01 Thread Wayne
green wrote: Stan Hoeppner wrote at 2009-12-30 21:04 -0600: Wayne put forth on 12/30/2009 7:50 PM: 169.254.213.81 every time I get it connected. Your interface is auto self configuring a link local address because it is unable to contact a DHCP server. Please read the RFC to better understa

Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

2010-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Completely disable ACPI Power Management in the ASUS BIOS and within Debian and see if this makes a difference. From the behavior you mention this really sounds like an ACPI problem. -- Stan Merciadri Luca put forth on 1/1/2010 6:04 AM: > Stan Hoeppner writes: > >> What keyboard layout and sy

Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

2010-01-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner writes: > What keyboard layout and system language are you using? I am using a belgian keyboard (azerty) with be-fr layout. > Does the KB only lock > up after a power management (i.e. sleep) event or screen saver engaging, or > does >

SOLVED: vmplayer dying on lenny/amd64

2010-01-01 Thread michael bane
On 3 Sep 2009, at 10:42, michael wrote: I've recently upgraded my amd64 box from etch to lenny. I had been using VMware's free vmplayer on etch (to run a WinXP guest) without problems. However, under lenny (with an un-install and then a new install of vmplayer by running VMware-Player-2.5.3

domain redirection how?

2010-01-01 Thread Tudod Ki
I want to redirect a domain:  "somedomain.eu" to: "tothis.eu" so I edit the "somedomain.eu.hosts" file with vim [appending this two line to the end]: $ORIGIN eu.somedomain      IN      CNAME       tothis.eu. then I update the serial, save the file, quit, then: rndc reload somedomain.eu but it s

Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

2010-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Merciadri Luca put forth on 1/1/2010 3:27 AM: > Stan Hoeppner writes: > >> Can you give us a hardware dump? I.e. brand, model, vid card type, if you >> built >> it yourself from parts, what mobo, etc? Is it a laptop or desktop? > For sure. It is a desktop computer. This one was built by a > pr

Re: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen

2010-01-01 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner writes: > Can you give us a hardware dump? I.e. brand, model, vid card type, if you > built > it yourself from parts, what mobo, etc? Is it a laptop or desktop? For sure. It is a desktop computer. This one was built by a professionna

Re: Setting Pam/Pap-secrets for ADSL Username/Password

2010-01-01 Thread guo yixuan
If you used pppoeconf to set up ADSL, the username/password should be in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets. -- Guo Yixuan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org