Re: xorg synaptics driver no longer working with udev?

On 14 April 2010 17:09, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 22:06 +0200, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> After a large set of updates today on testing, xorg no longer picks up >> my udev rules file. A few months ago hal stopped working, as a change to >> udev was required (see also the lis

Re: Questions about RAID 6

> I don't know what your requirements / levels of paranoia are, but > RAID 5 is > probably better than RAID 6 until you are up to 6 or 7 drives; the > chance of a > double failure in a 5 (or less) drive array is minuscule. > . I currently have 3 TB of data with another 1TB on its way fairly soon,

Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

On 04/26/2010 08:32 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: John Hasler put forth on 4/26/2010 7:07 AM: Fortunately, they did not decide to label disk drives "drawers". Heh, IBM calls their server drive trays "drawers", and calls their CPU cards "books". Motherboards are mainboards and files are library

tool tips remaining after window switching

This looks like a bug, but I'm not sure what to file against. I use a number of applications that implement tool tips, those little boxes that come up explaining some on screen widget. Very often, when one comes up and I then switch to a different window (using Xfce4 on Sid, all window maximized,

Re: Resources for learning Linux

On 04/26/2010 08:59 PM, thib wrote: Can't miss the Debian Reference by Osamu Aoki (青木 修): http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference It covers a lot of topics and provides up-to-date pointers to other resources. -thib Yes it is really great and you can apt-get'it! apt-get debian

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

rudu wrote: Le 26/04/2010 20:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? I ca

Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:03:07 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Monday 26 April 2010 16:34:36 Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:16:32 -0500 > > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > > On Monday 26 April 2010 15:09:57 Celejar wrote: > > > > What makes the non-free firmware question

Re: Resources for learning Linux

Monique Y. Mudama wrote: They used to say - you're not a real linux admin until you've completely borked your system and had to wipe and reinstall from scratch at least once. And then recover all your user data, from your hopefully good backup. It gets really entertaining when a RAID array

Re: Problem with me Modem Huawei on Debian Lenny

On 26 April 2010 17:30, Christian Simo wrote: > Hi > > Thank you for your response. > before try all this solution. > Please found attach all following command shell: > > Script started on Sun 25 Apr 2010 23:25:36 SAST > gaelle:/media/TUX-FOR-KOM# lsusb > Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Fou

Re: Questions about RAID 6

On Mon April 26 2010 14:44:32 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > the chance of a double failure in a 5 (or less) drive array is minuscule. A flaky controller knocking one drive out of an array and then breaking another before you're rebuilt can really ruin your day. Rebuild is generally the period o

Re: Cyrus 2.2 imapd in AMD64

Carlos Bergero writes: --snip-- > Apparently for what i read in list and in web pages/lists/readme it > might be a compatibility problem in Berkeley DB use by Cyrus. --snip-- > So far im focused in trying to get this DB to the proper format > version 9 in the standard Lenny install, and see what

RE: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

> From: Kevin Ross [mailto:ke...@familyross.net] > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:31 PM > > > From: clivemcbar...@web.de [mailto:clivemcbar...@web.de] > > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:14 PM > > > > Kevin Ross wrote: > > > "Reply to List" button (which I know > > > was available as an add-on befo

backing up LVM volumes

Hi to Everyone ! On my previous systems, I used to create overall backups of partitions, using 'SystemRescueCD'. This is no longer possible ever since 2007 that I have a RAID1 mirroring system on my Debian. SystemRescueCD does not backup LVM volumes, or, if it does, that must be a very new fea

RE: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

> From: clivemcbar...@web.de [mailto:clivemcbar...@web.de] > Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 3:14 PM > > Kevin Ross wrote: > > "Reply to List" button (which I know > > was available as an add-on before) > > You remember what the add-on is called? Searching for "reply to list" > in add-ons didn't giv

Re: VM software for personal use?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums wrote: > Some people are scared of shared folders as possible attack vectors, thus > security risks. What exactly are those risks? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Ross wrote: > "Reply to List" button (which I know > was available as an add-on before) You remember what the add-on is called? Searching for "reply to list" in add-ons didn't give me anything. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Monday 26 April 2010 16:48:09 B. Alexander wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > On Monday 26 April 2010 16:05:31 B. Alexander wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > > > b...@iguanasuicide.net> wr

Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

On Monday 26 April 2010 16:34:36 Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:16:32 -0500 > "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > > On Monday 26 April 2010 15:09:57 Celejar wrote: > > > What makes the non-free firmware question particularly interesting is > > > that the alternative is often to hardcode the

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > On Monday 26 April 2010 16:05:31 B. Alexander wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > > b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > > I'm also a current reiser3 user. I find the abilit

Re: using samba with unix acls

On Monday 26 April 2010 14:00:51 andy baxter wrote: > I am setting up a file server for a small company. The people who will > be using it want to be able to control who accesses particular > directories on a user/group basis. > [T]hey are > keen to have a system which allows them to make some part

Re: Questions about RAID 6

On Monday 26 April 2010 09:29:28 Tim Clewlow wrote: > I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, > but the intention is to add more drives as storage requirements > increase. Since you seem fine with RAID 6, I'll assume you are also fine with RAID 5. I don't know what your

Re: Resources for learning Linux

On Mon, Apr 26 at 17:01, Curt Howland penned: > > On Monday 26 April 2010, James Stuckey was > heard to say: > > I would like to do a little reading/studying of linux to get a > > better understanding of some of the more advanced topics, or to > > see if I have learned a lot of the things that mi

Re: Resources for learning Linux

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:30:27 +0200 James Stuckey wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using linux (debian) for about a year now, and although I'm > no longer scared of the command line I would like to do a little > reading/studying of linux to get a better understanding of some of > the more advanced t

Re: Cyrus 2.2 imapd in AMD64

Carlos Bergero wrote: Apparently for what i read in list and in web pages/lists/readme it might be a compatibility problem in Berkeley DB use by Cyrus. Mmm, possible but IME BDB has an unfortunate tendency to create files that are not cross-version-compatible. Upstream supposedly provides an

Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:16:32 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > On Monday 26 April 2010 15:09:57 Celejar wrote: ... > > What makes the non-free firmware question particularly interesting is > > that the alternative is often to hardcode the functionality into the > > hardware. Now, if you

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Monday 26 April 2010 16:05:31 B. Alexander wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > I'm also a current reiser3 user. I find the ability to shrink the > > filesystem > > to be something I am not willing to do without. > > You know,

[UNICOLOMBIA] Matriculas abiertas

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Re: Resources for learning Linux

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 26 April 2010, James Stuckey was heard to say: > I would like to do a little > reading/studying of linux to get a better understanding of some of > the more advanced topics, or to see if I have learned a lot of the > things that might be ta

Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

On Monday 26 April 2010 15:09:57 Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:03:24 -0400 > "James P. Wallen" wrote: > > On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:53:27 -0400 > > > "James P. Wallen" wrote: > > >> Heck, I haven't even installed the non-free firmware to make

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > I'm also a current reiser3 user. I find the ability to shrink the > filesystem > to be something I am not willing to do without. > You know, I said the same thing, but then as the kernel and GRUB and the l

Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:03:24 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: > > > On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:53:27 -0400 > > "James P. Wallen" wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> Heck, I haven't even installed the non-free firmware to make wireless > >> work in a couple of th

Re: Questions about RAID 6

On Mon April 26 2010 12:29:43 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Mark Allums put forth on 4/26/2010 12:51 PM: > > Put four drives in a RAID 1, you can suffer a loss of three drives. > > And you'll suffer pretty abysmal write performance as well. Write performance of RAID-1 is approximately as good as a simple

using samba with unix acls

hi all, I am setting up a file server for a small company. The people who will be using it want to be able to control who accesses particular directories on a user/group basis. I originally thought that it would be enough to set up a standard samba system with unix home directories, plus shar

Re: Questions about RAID 6

Mark Allums put forth on 4/26/2010 12:51 PM: > Put four drives in a RAID 1, you can suffer a loss of three drives. And you'll suffer pretty abysmal write performance as well. Also keep in mind that some software RAID implementations allow more than two drives in RAID 1, most often called a "mirr

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

Le 26/04/2010 20:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? I can't be sure b

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

[Please reply to the list, and not to me, as per the CoC.] [Please don't top post.] On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:48:06 +0200 exp...@hope.cz wrote: > Celejar, > Thank you for your reply. > Not full MTA > Best regards, > lad. Hm, I had thought that at least some of the small, relaying MTAs accepted con

Re: Filesystem recommendations

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: [snip] I recommend moving to ext3 (NOT ext4) [snip] Here we go again? :-) -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4bd

Re: Cyrus 2.2 imapd in AMD64

El 22/04/10 20:50, Carlos Bergero escribió: Hi there list, got some trouble running a cyrus server, actually I have an old setup running in Etch i386 without any trouble, virtual mail server and all pgsql setup for backend and postfix for MTA, all sweat. I installed a new server, better hardwar

Re: Resources for learning Linux

Can't miss the Debian Reference by Osamu Aoki (青木 修): http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference It covers a lot of topics and provides up-to-date pointers to other resources. -thib -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

rudu wrote: Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? I can't be sure but that may coincide with that kernel*-trunk thi

Re: belocs-locales-bin broken

On Sunday 25 April 2010 07:45:28 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > I put through a pile of updates on many Lenny systems this morning and > they all errored with: > > az_AZ.UTF-8... up-to-date > be_BY.UTF-8... up-to-date > be_by.ut...@latin... up-to-date > ber_DZ.UTF-8... cannot open locale de

Re: Questions about RAID 6

On Mon April 26 2010 10:51:38 Mark Allums wrote: > RAID 6 (and 5) perform well when less than approximately 1/3 full. > After that, even reads suffer. Mark, I've been using various kinds of RAID for many many years and was not aware of that. Do you have a link to an explanation? Thanks, --Mike

Re: Resources for learning Linux

Perhaps there are some online courses posted to youtube, or a few books that someone might like to recommend? I would be interested to know what types of things one must learn to get "linux-certification" (I presume there is such a thing). I have learned much about the Linux kernel be reading th

Re: VM software for personal use?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Except... what works very nice in VMware is the NAT and Host Only network setups: works out of the box. You share your home dir thru samba. On XP all I had to setup was a netuse * to mount a net fs. Do the others do it that easy? Yes [1]. VBox even has kernel additions

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

Le 26/04/2010 19:43, Hugo Vanwoerkom a écrit : rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? I can't be sure but that may coincide with that kernel*-trunk thing, when I h

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Monday 26 April 2010 13:22:19 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Saturday 24 April 2010 12:53:25 B. Alexander wrote: > > I have a question on filesystems. > > [M]y off-the-cuff recommendation > would be to start migration to btrfs. Btrfs may not be right for you. The on-disk format has stabil

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Saturday 24 April 2010 12:53:25 B. Alexander wrote: > I have a question on filesystems. Back in the day, I started using reiser3. > It was faster than ext3, and it could be extended without umounting the > filesystem (which has since been fixed in ext3), plus, unlike any > filesystem I have enc

Re: Resources for learning Linux

James Stuckey wrote: Hello, I've been using linux (debian) for about a year now, and although I'm no longer scared of the command line I would like to do a little reading/studying of linux to get a better understanding of some of the more advanced topics, or to see if I have learned a lot of

Re: Questions about RAID 6

On 4/26/2010 11:57 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: I'm afraid that opinions of RAID vary widely on this list (no surprise) but you may be interested to note that we agree (a consensus) that software-RAID 6 is an unfortunate choice. . Is this for performance reasons or potential data loss. I can live w

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:21:06 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: >> Camaleón schreef: >>> Review your "/var/log/apt/term.*" files to find any hint about where >>> that file comes from. I cannot find any reference to it in any place >>> :-? > Amongst other stuff, it gives > > =

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

On Monday April 26 2010 11:28:36 am rudu wrote: > Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get > my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). > Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of > my graphic session's screen except that

Re: Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

rudu wrote: Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). When did it stop? Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of my graphic session's screen except that it reacts to

Re: where is what kontrol did?

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I don't have KDE installed (fvwm instead) but use Konsole. That has a warning funcion that shows up with a message 'KDE system notifications'. It used to have a sound associated with it and I used to use kontrol to set that up. But kontrol is gone. How do I get

Re: Resources for learning Linux

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:30:27 -0400 (EDT), James Stuckey wrote: > > I've been using linux (debian) for about a year now, and although I'm no > longer scared of the command line I would like to do a little > reading/studying of linux to get a better understanding of some of the more > advanced topic

Resources for learning Linux

Hello, I've been using linux (debian) for about a year now, and although I'm no longer scared of the command line I would like to do a little reading/studying of linux to get a better understanding of some of the more advanced topics, or to see if I have learned a lot of the things that might be t

Ctrl+alt+Fn not showing consoles

Hi, Running squeeze on AMD64 arch, my system recently stopped to let me get my consoles after I hit the ctrl+alt+Fn keys (n = 1 to 6). Instead, my monitor first blackens then presents me the exact replica of my graphic session's screen except that it reacts to nothing, there is no mouse cursor

Re: Questions about RAID 6

> I'm afraid that opinions of RAID vary widely on this list (no > surprise) > but you may be interested to note that we agree (a consensus) that > software-RAID 6 is an unfortunate choice. > . Is this for performance reasons or potential data loss. I can live with slow writes, reads should not be

Gendiri Peka requests anonymous contacts sharing

Hi, Last chance! Just a reminder, Gendiri would like to share approved contacts with you on Boxbe. Use this link: https://www.boxbe.com/register?tc=2507988334_2065601190 This message was sent at the request of alfin...@boxbe.com. If you want to opt-out of invitations from Boxbe members, us

[OT] Proof pudding (was: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?)

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 02:15:21PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > and the proof is in the pudding ;-) Actually, the etymology of that phrase is really interesting, because if you think about it, unless it's an alcoholised pudding, there's no proof. The full saying is: "The proof of the pudding i

Re: Debian on IBM eServer System p5 - POWER Arch

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 20:03 +0530, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Wolodja Wentland > wrote: > > Are you using the squeeze installer? If so, I would try the stable > > installer for the installation. Is there a special reason why you need > > the squeeze ins

Re: USB key accept data only as root

Zoran Kolic wrote: > > This sounds perfectly sane. Even better, it protects you from > yourself and from people around. > I suppose you are the only user of the node. Little tweaking > with permissions would let you go further, but I stay firm > against. Systems like openbsd or freebsd would not al

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

On Monday 26 April 2010 16:48:01 Stephen Powell wrote: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:26:40 -0400 (EDT), martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Stephen Powell [2010.04.26.1617 +0200]: > >> I think there may be some confusion here, Mr. Krafft. The comments > >> I made above were not in reference to anyt

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:26:40 -0400 (EDT), martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Stephen Powell [2010.04.26.1617 +0200]: >> I think there may be some confusion here, Mr. Krafft. The comments >> I made above were not in reference to anything _you_ wrote. They were >> in reference to the original

Re: Questions about RAID 6

On 4/26/2010 10:28 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: Ok, I found the answer to my second question - it fails the entire disk. So the first question remains. I just figured that out---and I see you have too. The difference between what we would like it to do, and what it actually does can be frustratin

using umlaut works in console, not in Citrix client

Hi, i'm using Debian stable on a Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop with an azerty keyboard layout (Belgian period) and when i use the Citrix client (v11), it doesn't translate all the key combinations correctly. I cannot use an umlaut with a small caps letter, it automatically makes the small letter

Re: Questions about RAID 6

On 4/26/2010 9:29 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: Hi there, I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, but the intention is to add more drives as storage requirements increase. My research/googling suggests ext3 supports 16TB volumes if block size is 4096 bytes, but some sites sug

Re: Questions about RAID 6

Ok, I found the answer to my second question - it fails the entire disk. So the first question remains. Does ext3 (and relevent utilities, particularly resize2fs and e2fsck) on 32 bit i386 arch support 16TB volumes? Regards, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

also sprach Stephen Powell [2010.04.26.1617 +0200]: > I think there may be some confusion here, Mr. Krafft. The comments > I made above were not in reference to anything _you_ wrote. They were > in reference to the original edition of "The Linux Cookbook", by > Michael Stutz, which was copyright

Re: USB key accept data only as root

> To put data on my USB key, I need to be root. This does not sound > normal. How can I tweak this? This sounds perfectly sane. Even better, it protects you from yourself and from people around. I suppose you are the only user of the node. Little tweaking with permissions would let you go further,

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Camaleón schreef: >> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:40:30 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >>> Camaleón wrote: > Did you try "file /usr/lib/libwins.so" to see the file type? > >>> It gives `/usr/lib/libwins.so: data'. >> >> Review your "/var/log/apt/term.*" files to fin

Re: VM software for personal use?

ghe wrote: On 4/26/10 8:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Used LISP for years at IBM Research No, no, no. Lisp is a perfectly fine language. There are just others more suited for systems work. As someone else pointed out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine There have been more than on

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

Camaleón schreef: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:40:30 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Camaleón wrote: Did you try "file /usr/lib/libwins.so" to see the file type? It gives `/usr/lib/libwins.so: data'. Review your "/var/log/apt/term.*" files to find any hint about where that file comes from. I c

Re: Just testing...

Nick Douma wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 03:20:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > > > I did not receive your initial mail, only the reply from Merciadri. > Normal, he did not send it to the mailing list, and I sent inadvertently my answer to the mailing list. Sorry. -- Merciadri

Re: VM software for personal use?

On 4/26/10 8:35 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Used LISP for years at IBM Research No, no, no. Lisp is a perfectly fine language. There are just others more suited for systems work. -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subj

aptitude and held packages

I just upgraded apt and aptitude to the latest testing version. Although 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' tells me that '172 not upgraded' it no longer lists them. Is this a bug or an intentional change? -- "Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do." -- Dale Carnegie Rick

Re: VM software for personal use?

B. Alexander wrote: Amen to that! IMHO, vmware merely pays lip service to Linux. 12 years ago, when we were using Linux on the job, we (and many, many others) were asking for a Linux client. We are now at VSphere 4, and still only windows clients. VMware server is even worse. It runs on Linux

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:40:30 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>> Did you try "file /usr/lib/libwins.so" to see the file type? >>> > It gives `/usr/lib/libwins.so: data'. Review your "/var/log/apt/term.*" files to find any hint about where that file comes from. I cannot find a

Re: VM software for personal use?

Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:39 PM, John Hasler wrote: Glenn English writes: A Lisp OS!!??? Pikers. I once worked at a place where they claimed to have written an accounting package in BASIC. I used a commercial accounting package written

Re: Debian on IBM eServer System p5 - POWER Arch

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 13:04 +0530, Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> I am trying to install Debian Testing on IBM eServer System p5. > > I can't really help you with your problem, but would like to point out > that t

Questions about RAID 6

Hi there, I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, but the intention is to add more drives as storage requirements increase. My research/googling suggests ext3 supports 16TB volumes if block size is 4096 bytes, but some sites suggest the 32 bit arch means it is restricted

Re: Just testing...

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 16:17:29 +0200, Nick Douma wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 03:20:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> Camaleón wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > This a simple e-mail just for testing purposes (regarding to Debian >> > mailing list problems with my replies). >> > >> > Hope

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/25/2010 10:17 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/25/2010 09:56 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: [snip] You might want to try Help -> Migration Assistant -> Use Original Toolbar That might be more familiar to you. I'd already done that, but decided to take another look at MA, and

Re: Why are there no latest books written for Debian systems?

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:24:52 -0400 (EDT), martin f krafft wrote: > > Stephen Powell wrote: >> This is hardly a new book. In fact, it was written in the days of Woody. >> (Woody -> Sarge -> Etch -> Lenny -> Squeeze) > > It was written in the days of the sarge freeze and is entirely > focused on s

Re: Just testing...

Hi, On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 03:20:56PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This a simple e-mail just for testing purposes (regarding to Debian > > mailing list problems with my replies). > > > > Hope you can receive this O.K. :-) > > > No problem. Even weirder! I

Re: Suspend to Disk + blacklisted module = still trouble

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:09:36 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > Camaleón writes: >> BTW, how do you call the hibernation state? You should type >> "hibernation" in a text console (gnome-terminal, xterm, konsole...). > > That was it: I used the GNOME shutdown dialog: I thought it would call > hibernate

Re: Linux compatible mainboards -- tortuous paths

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It is amazing how asking what I thought was a simple question can lead down a variety of long, tortuous paths. Perhaps that possibility is one of the virtues (or curses?) of the Debian system. Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v

Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

John Hasler put forth on 4/26/2010 7:07 AM: > Fortunately, they did not decide to label disk drives "drawers". Heh, IBM calls their server drive trays "drawers", and calls their CPU cards "books". -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Filesystem recommendations

Javier Barroso put forth on 4/26/2010 6:56 AM: > Hello Stan, > > Why Debian Installer doesn't change its default filesystem to xfs if > it is better than ext3 / ext4? I think always is better stick to > defaults if it is possible > > Thanks for your explications ! If one disk filesystem was bet

Re: Just testing...

Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > This a simple e-mail just for testing purposes (regarding to Debian > mailing list problems with my replies). > > Hope you can receive this O.K. :-) > No problem. Even weirder! I assure you that I sometimes did not receive your answers. I simply cannot understand th

Re: Filesystem recommendations

On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:56:21 +0200, Javier Barroso wrote: > Why Debian Installer doesn't change its default filesystem to xfs if it > is better than ext3 / ext4? I think always is better stick to defaults > if it is possible XFS (and ReiserFS) were having (still have?) problems with GRUB legacy

Re: Suspend to Disk + blacklisted module = still trouble

Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 19:06:13 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > >> Felix Natter writes: >> >>> so verbosity 1 should output something, but I will try 4. >> >> Changing verbosity didn't help, I still have no hibernate.log anywhere >> in /var. hello Camaleon, > So you changed "Verb

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

On 04/26/2010 07:58 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > >> In English the slash is understood to mean "or". There is no limit of >> 32000 files or folders under a folder in ext3. >> >> There is a limit of 31998 directories under a directory. Th

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

On Seg, 26 Abr 2010, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: This limit is rarely encountered in practice because it is so much more efficient to use multiple directory levels, e.g.: parent- a- able alf b- beta bravo Hmm... what happ

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > In English the slash is understood to mean "or". There is no limit of > 32000 files or folders under a folder in ext3. > > There is a limit of 31998 directories under a directory. This is caused by > the ext3 hard link count limit bei

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

Camaleón wrote: >> Did you try "file /usr/lib/libwins.so" to see the file type? >> It gives `/usr/lib/libwins.so: data'. P.S.: This time, your message was correctly received in my e-mail inbox. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is

Re: mkfifo question

fifo is just like pipe, but there is a name/filesystem entry for that. you could assume that fifo is splitting the standard program1 | programs into two parts using the named fifo. In this case it depends how your program is doing the processing, whether it processes one file each after downloadi

Re: 32000 directories (somewhat OT)

Paul E Condon writes: > I worked on a personal project last year in which I ran into the 32k > limit and solved the problem by imposing a simple structure on my > directory names. It's easy if you are planning ahead. This guy is stuck with an application (presumably closed-source) that already re

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:53:27 -0400 "James P. Wallen" wrote: ... Heck, I haven't even installed the non-free firmware to make wireless work in a couple of these notebooks. Firmware runs on the external hardware, not the system, so system stability

Re: ldconfig: /usr/lib/libwins.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

El 2010-04-26 a las 17:14 +0530, Anand Sivaram escribió: (resending to the list) > Did you try "file /usr/lib/libwins.so" to see the file type? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Replies to the list

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:11:57 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > >>> I use Gmane (e-mail to news gateway) to send posts and read the list >>> via Pan newsreader. >>> From time to time Gmane have had some "glitc

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