Re: PostgreSQL+ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 01 January 2011 20:30:31 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 1/1/2011 2:16 PM: > > Is your problem with RAID5 or the SSDs? > > RAID 5 > > > Sudden disk failure can occur with SSDs, just like with magnetic media. > > If > > This is not true. This is true. Whi

Re: PostgreSQL+ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Atif CEYLAN put forth on 1/1/2011 3:58 PM: > On 01/01/2011 06:24 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> How much data? Total GB? > ~300 GB >> Are you currently short of space? > no, don't need more space. Perfect. :) >> Are you currently short of IOPS capacity? > yes Got it. >> How many concurrent t

Radeon 8500, kdetv, and xawtv broken - no video overlay device

2011-01-01 Thread Robert Braddock
I have a Radeon 8500 video card which I use as video-in for my computer to act as my tv monitor. Sometime since the Summer, this has stopped working and I am having no luck finding any helpful information by searching. Most searches just refer to the old GATOS project, which hasn't done anything

Re: [OT] Re: microsoft.com -> NetBSD

2011-01-01 Thread Brad Alexander
Look, I am as much for free software as the rest, but I think the FSF tends to start brush fires to justify their own existence. I believe they have done some good work, but many things they do seem to be counterproductive to the cause. For instance, their latest attack, on Linus Torvalds, claiming

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Fothergill
>> >> Suggestions welcome. >> >> Michael Fothergill >> > Just in the last day or two, someone wrote to the list (probably this one) > that there are a couple of repos you can get to from Debian that hold > proprietary software, and probably Adobe Acrobat.  Either scan for > that info, or maybe some

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Doug
On 01/01/2011 06:36 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debian folks, I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower resolution. But e.g

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Fothergill
OK, Here is what I did here: The google search suggestion was to do this: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf What is peculiar here is that man gs and info gs find the NOPAUSE QUIET and BATCH commands or

Re: PostgreSQL+ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 1/1/2011 2:16 PM: > Is your problem with RAID5 or the SSDs? RAID 5 > Sudden disk failure can occur with SSDs, just like with magnetic media. If This is not true. The failure modes and rates for SSDs are the same as other solid state components, such as syst

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread shawn wilson
Converting your scans to text (ocr) might yield you some improvement. Ymmv depending on the text, images, number of pages, etc. If there are mainly graphics here, you might look into raster to vector software. I do not have any recommendations for such software.

Re: making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 01 January 2011 02:36:51 pm Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried > making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't > have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower

making a pdf file smaller the debian way....

2011-01-01 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I have pdf file that is too big to be emailed around easily. I tried making a zip file out of it but that only made it 1% smaller. I don't have the scanner with me or I could have scanned it at lower resolution. But e.g. adobe acrobat I think has an option in it somewher

Re: Not able to update using apt

2011-01-01 Thread Daniel Andersson
On 01/01/2011 09:09 PM, David Sastre wrote: On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 08:14:08PM +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: Hi I just installed Debian Squeeze on a Eee PC. The installer downloaded all the packages during the install but when I want to install more packages at the prompt I only get: Could no

Re: Squeeze. apt-get update failed to fetch .../binary-i386/Packages.gz

2011-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Is that temporary problem or there is need to change something in > source.list? Before this, all updates went smooth. Those kinds of errors tend to be temporary. The http.us.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org names are mapped to multiple addresses so that you will round-ro

Re: udev question

2011-01-01 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 04:56:50PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:26:51 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 08:54:28AM +, Camaleón wrote: > > >> There is a Debian wiki page about the iphone/ipod: > >> > >> http://wiki.debian.org/iPhone > >> > > This

Re: Serious filesystem bug?

2011-01-01 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Op 01-01-11 14:27, Slobodan Aleksić schreef: > I first guessed also a hardwarefailure, all smarttests passed without > errors, the only thing I found was that the partitiontable is showing me > (fdisk -l) : > "Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary." > My first partition is the boot partitio

Re: PostgreSQL+ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread Atif CEYLAN
On 01/01/2011 06:24 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Atif CEYLAN put forth on 12/31/2010 4:58 PM: Hi all, I have a large postgresql database system and I want to migrate to a new and fast storage system (10 Gbp/s FC network). But 150x3 ssd disk on my db server and I want to use ext4 file system (rai

Squeeze. apt-get update failed to fetch .../binary-i386/Packages.gz

2011-01-01 Thread Mark Goldshtein
Hello, list! Today's log of apt-get update: [...] Err http://http.us.debian.org squeeze/updates/contrib i386 Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80] W: Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/updates/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found [IP: 35.9.37.225 80]

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2011-01-01 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat January 1 2011 06:00:54 Andrei Popescu wrote: > I'm sure you are aware that insserv is doing the (re)ordering based on > the LSB headers in each initscript. Don't you think your rant is > exaggerated? Please read the thread. I don't think there is merit in repeating it here. --Mike Bird

Re: access point using 3945

2011-01-01 Thread briand
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 21:04:37 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 01 ian 11, 08:35:57, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > Well you'd be right if I was running stable. I just looked and > > there is a /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf file in the stable package. > > > > Looking at the _unstable_ package,

Re: X Keyboard layout trouble

2011-01-01 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-01-01 a las 21:56 +0100, Robert Latest escribió: (resending to the list) > On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > > > How does your "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" InputDevice section look like? > > Like this: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Generic Keyboard" >

Re: permissions all zero when using 'cp'

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Davies
Martin Lorenz wrote: > i recently noticed some errors at my mail-server and so I tried to drill > it down with my limited abilities. > what I found is really strange: > when copying a file (no matter which) the copy gets zero permissions. Silly question time, because I've encountered this kind o

Re: [OT] Stupid consumers and inferior hardware

2011-01-01 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 08:33:28PM EST, John Jason Jordan wrote: [..] > It will be a long time before I install an nVidia proprietary driver > again. When I installed ‘lenny’ on this new laptop, the ‘nv’ driver was the default. At some point I figured I'd watch some TV news, and I noticed that t

Re: set privoxy to rewrite http to https

2011-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Camaleón wrote: >On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:46:09 -0800, S Mathias wrote: >> KB SSL Enforcer >> https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/flcpelgcagfhfoegekianiofphddck >> of?hl=en >> >> so i could browse the net safer [i mean webserver <-> me] with using >> https, if available. > >Do you feel

Re: PostgreSQL+ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d1f5543.3010...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >Atif CEYLAN put forth on 12/31/2010 4:58 PM: >> I have a large postgresql database system and I want to migrate to a new >> and fast storage system (10 Gbp/s FC network). But 150x3 ssd disk on my >> db server and I want to use ext4 file

Re: Not able to update using apt

2011-01-01 Thread David Sastre
On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 08:14:08PM +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: > Hi > > I just installed Debian Squeeze on a Eee PC. The installer > downloaded all the packages during the install but when I want to > install more packages at the prompt I only get: > > Could not resolve 'ftp.sunet.se' > > I'v

Not able to update using apt

2011-01-01 Thread Daniel Andersson
Hi I just installed Debian Squeeze on a Eee PC. The installer downloaded all the packages during the install but when I want to install more packages at the prompt I only get: Could not resolve 'ftp.sunet.se' I've only selected laptop and webserver with tasksel during installation. I'm abl

Re: access point using 3945

2011-01-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 01 ian 11, 08:35:57, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > Well you'd be right if I was running stable. I just looked and there > is a /etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf file in the stable package. > > Looking at the _unstable_ package, that file is gone. > > Package bug ? > > Regardless, many of the ex

Re: access point using 3945

2011-01-01 Thread briand
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 16:30:52 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > OTOH, it seems that "iwl3945" driver does not allow the card to be > set in master mode (AP), as you said: > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers > > Additional documentation on this can be found here: > > http://wireless.kernel.

Re: access point using 3945

2011-01-01 Thread briand
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 16:30:52 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > > OTOH, it seems that "iwl3945" driver does not allow the card to be > set in master mode (AP), as you said: > > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers That is correct. > > Additional documentation on this can be found here: > >

Re: set privoxy to rewrite http to https

2011-01-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 03:46:09 -0800, S Mathias wrote: > I use the > > KB SSL Enforcer > https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/flcpelgcagfhfoegekianiofphddckof?hl=en > > so i could browse the net safer [i mean webserver <-> me] with using > https, if available. Do you feel "safer" just for

Re: Driver problems when installing debian

2011-01-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:26:12 +, Warwick wrote: > Hi I have a Samsung R710 laptop. The Debian 5.07 installation DVD (from > download ISO) won’t recognize my ‘Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN’ nor my > ‘Marvell Yukon 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller’. I’ve been > doing some surfing and I und

Re: udev question

2011-01-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 09:26:51 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 08:54:28AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> There is a Debian wiki page about the iphone/ipod: >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/iPhone >> > This link got me a bit further but seems to apply just to the iPhone. It shou

Re: access point using 3945

2011-01-01 Thread briand
On Sat, 1 Jan 2011 16:04:36 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 31 dec 10, 14:00:04, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > Hello, > > > > looks like one good way to go about it is to use hostapd. > > > > however there's supposed to be nl80211 driver which I need. > > > > I can .h files when I search

Re: access point using 3945

2011-01-01 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:00:04 -0800, briand wrote: > Hello, > > looks like one good way to go about it is to use hostapd. > > however there's supposed to be nl80211 driver which I need. > > I can .h files when I search through debian, but no binary looking > thingy, and the hostapd package does

Re: PostgreSQL+ZFS

2011-01-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Atif CEYLAN put forth on 12/31/2010 4:58 PM: > Hi all, > I have a large postgresql database system and I want to migrate to a new > and fast storage system (10 Gbp/s FC network). But 150x3 ssd disk on my > db server and I want to use ext4 file system (raid5) at the ssd disks as > xlog storage or us

Re: [FIXED] saytime kills sound

2011-01-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:42:42 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * Camaleón [101230 17:23 +]: [...] Nope, it's not even visible :-? Don't bother us with wasteful stuff. That sounds a bit rough... what do you exactly consider i

Driver problems when installing debian

2011-01-01 Thread Warwick
Hi I have a Samsung R710 laptop. The Debian 5.07 installation DVD (from download ISO) won’t recognize my ‘Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN’ nor my ‘Marvell Yukon 88E8055 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller’. I’ve been doing some surfing and I understand that it supposed to recognize my wireless under t

Re: udev question

2011-01-01 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 08:54:28AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:00:32 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > For Christmas I was given an ipod. When connected to a usb port the > > system (Debian Squeeze, linux-2.6.32-5-amd64 stock kernel) gives the > > following response. > > (

Re: access point using 3945

2011-01-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 31 dec 10, 14:00:04, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > Hello, > > looks like one good way to go about it is to use hostapd. > > however there's supposed to be nl80211 driver which I need. > > I can .h files when I search through debian, but no binary looking > thingy, and the hostapd package do

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2011-01-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 31 dec 10, 13:13:39, Mike Bird wrote: > On Fri December 31 2010 10:51:18 Arthur Machlas wrote: > > As for all the talk of losing years of wisdom and bug squashing and > > what-not, I'm not really sure that's the case, but a debate about the > > worthiness of insserv as a successor to all the

Re: insserv + apache2 + bind9 = pain

2011-01-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 31 dec 10, 12:24:34, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Mike Bird wrote: > > > > But then they abuse the Debian packaging system by "requiring" > > > > instead of "recommending" unnecessary packages so that people are > > > > forced to use their silly hacks

Re: Serious filesystem bug?

2011-01-01 Thread Slobodan Aleksić
I first guessed also a hardwarefailure, all smarttests passed without errors, the only thing I found was that the partitiontable is showing me (fdisk -l) : "Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary." My first partition is the boot partition. Very curious for now, because I am running sever

Re: lenny to squeeze - key arrows not all working

2011-01-01 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 21:28:16 +0100, Filipe Freire wrote: > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:41:00 +0100, Filipe Freire wrote: >> >> > My keyboard, non usb, got its standard arrow key shortcuts disabled >> > after upgrade. Tested with a usb keyboard an

Re: lenny to squeeze - key arrows not all working

2011-01-01 Thread jp
Filipe Freire gmail.com> writes: > > Hi debians,near the end of having everything working after my upgrade to squeeze.  One last issue.My keyboard, non usb, got its standard arrow key shortcuts disabled after upgrade.  Tested with a usb keyboard and there everything works fine but that is not my

Re: Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?

2011-01-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-01-01 12:26 +0100, Daniel Andersson wrote: > I'm running Debian Squeeze, and I have only gnome-core installed so > that I would not have Evolution or Epiphany installed since I do not > use them. > > But it seems that both Evolution and Epiphany has been moved from > gnome-desktop-environm

Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2011-01-01 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 01. 01. 2011 12:36:14 je Lisi napisal(a): On Sunday 19 December 2010 23:18:19 Bob Proulx wrote: > I wouldn't transition to > single user mode from multiuser mode directly myself. I have never had any problems with init 1, wherever I used it from, other than that KDE doesn't shut down very

set privoxy to rewrite http to https

2011-01-01 Thread S Mathias
I use the KB SSL Enforcer https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/flcpelgcagfhfoegekianiofphddckof?hl=en so i could browse the net safer [i mean webserver <-> me] with using https, if available. The problem is: e.g.: facebook... if i go to https://www.facebook.com/ that's ok, it's https.

Why is Evolution and Epiphany now a part of gnome-core?

2011-01-01 Thread Daniel Andersson
Hi I'm running Debian Squeeze, and I have only gnome-core installed so that I would not have Evolution or Epiphany installed since I do not use them. But it seems that both Evolution and Epiphany has been moved from gnome-desktop-environment to gnome-core. They were not a part of gnome-core

Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2011-01-01 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 19 December 2010 23:18:19 Bob Proulx wrote: > I wouldn't transition to > single user mode from multiuser mode directly myself. I have never had any problems with init 1, wherever I used it from, other than that KDE doesn't shut down very cleanly in the sense that it does not save every