Re: Input methods and terminal - any ideas?

2011-02-28 Thread Rob Hurle
Hi Michael, Thanks for the reply: On 1 March 2011 16:03, Michael Tsang wrote: > On Tuesday 01 March 2011 08:16:31 Rob Hurle wrote: >> (UTF-8) and the locale is set appropriately.  To my surprise, I find >> that Gnome terminal already has all of the input methods that I need. >> Where did they

Re: testing/unstable(sid) in sources.lst ok? (was Re: Problemsinstalling VLC [SOLVED])

2011-02-28 Thread teddieeb
Just be sure to comment the unstable repos from your sources list after the fact AFAIR, if you are running testing it is recommended to have testing AND unstable repositories listed in your sources.lst. [..] To flush the repository system, do it now so you don't forget and do an upgrade by ac

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

2011-02-28 Thread Miles Bader
Ron Johnson writes: > On 02/28/2011 01:36 AM, Miles Bader wrote: >> Ron Johnson writes: I do program development, compiles, etc. and have to say that for me 64-bit is definitely faster, to wit: >>> >>> Have you tried Tiny CC? When it's sufficient for the task, it's compile >>> times ar

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Freeman
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:47:17PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:34:04AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: . . . > > Interestingly, the OT threads on debian-user also went down a lot > > since a few years, for reasons unknown to me. > > > > So, unless something happens on the l

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:34:04AM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] > > [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439] > Hi, > > Being the stubborn person that I am,

Re: Configuring QLogic QLA4010c on Debian on Sparc

2011-02-28 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Stan Hoeppner put forth on 2/21/2011 6:37 PM: > RR put forth on 2/21/2011 5:47 PM: Have you made any progress on this? -- Stan >> I hope it's "simply" just that and the HBA doesn't need any programming via >> its own utility that accesses the firmware through some low-level API via >> the driv

Re: help setting up an e-mail server for a newbie

2011-02-28 Thread Mihira Fernando
On 03/01/2011 07:28 AM, mike cutie and maia wrote: Hi all, I am new when it comes to setting up mail servers I got my bind9 to work but I need some instructions to set up a mail server with pop3 and also to make sure that people using Microsoft can fatch and retrieve mail from the server any ide

help setting up an e-mail server for a newbie

2011-02-28 Thread mike cutie and maia
Hi all, I am new when it comes to setting up mail servers I got my bind9 to work but I need some instructions to set up a mail server with pop3 and also to make sure that people using Microsoft can fatch and retrieve mail from the server any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Maîtrisez WORD pour gagner du temps !

2011-02-28 Thread Efficience au travail
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Re: Your favorite server apps (firewall, DHCP, etc.)

2011-02-28 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Your favorite server apps (firewall, DHCP, etc.) >Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:33:40 -0600 > >>Joe, thanks so much for the advice. I remember vi from >undergraduate school in the 1990s, an

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: b...@iguanasuicide.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop >Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:48:36 -0600 > >>On Monday 28 February 2011 13:47:23 Jason Hsu wrote: >>> For those of you who have help

Input methods and terminal - any ideas?

2011-02-28 Thread Rob Hurle
I'm fairly new to Debian, but not to Unix. I'm using a standard Lenny install (Squeeze later, when I have more confidence) and use KDE as the desktop. I need to use an input method for non-English scripts and have been reviewing scim and the offerings there. I am not ready to install this yet,

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 28 feb 11, 16:02:51, shawn wilson wrote: > > But, just curious is there an 'ap guideline' for proper mailing list > submissions somewhere? I don't think I'm going to be able to change gmail > but I'd like to know when something is foobar all the same. I found http://learn.to/quote very use

Re: Squeeze: can Bluetooth headset work without pulseaudio???

2011-02-28 Thread John
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 28. 02. 2011 21:41:26 je John napisal(a): > >> I appreciate hearing about your success.  I can get the pairing, but >> it is always "failed to connect" > > Hmm, that's a problem you should definitely fix first. Try to pinpoint it. > There are

Re: Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/28/2011 03:55 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On 2011-02-28 15:40:18 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/28/2011 03:25 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 28 February 2011 14:35:26 erikmccaskey64 wrote: Original: Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.

Re: Squeeze: can Bluetooth headset work without pulseaudio???

2011-02-28 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 28. 02. 2011 21:41:26 je John napisal(a): I appreciate hearing about your success. I can get the pairing, but it is always "failed to connect" Hmm, that's a problem you should definitely fix first. Try to pinpoint it. There are several routes to explore. Is there a problem with the P

Re: Your favorite server apps (firewall, DHCP, etc.)

2011-02-28 Thread Jason Hsu
Joe, thanks so much for the advice. I remember vi from undergraduate school in the 1990s, and I HATED it and never learned to use it, as emacs was so much easier to work with. On my minimal command-line only Debian installations, I prefer nano. Wow, I thought I was the only one who hates vi a

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Petrus Validus
> Ps - as much as I dislike redhat, sles takes the cake for the worst > corporate *nix imo. What don't you like about SLES? -- Petrus Validus petrus.vali...@gmail.com If there isn't a way, I make one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 23:27, shawn wilson wrote: > So, even though I think I smell dog shit on the bottom of my shoes every > time I type rpm or yum, I will still recommend them for corporate use just > because I know support will be there if I'm not. > What?!? yum is great. What don't you like

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 22:42, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > I've been following this with interest as we are about to deploy what we > hope will be very many enterprise desktops.  We had originally planned > on Ubuntu until we realized their understanding of long term support was > very different

Re: Your favorite server apps (firewall, DHCP, etc.)

2011-02-28 Thread Joe
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 09:48:49 -0600 Jason Hsu wrote: > Since I'm looking for a job as a Linux IT consultant, I need a > portfolio of favorite server applications - firewall, DHCP server, > mail server, print server, etc. Just as I have favorite distros for > the desktop (Puppy Linux, Linux Mint,

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Aaron Toponce
On 02/28/2011 12:47 PM, Jason Hsu wrote: > Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise > desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are > Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE. > > What features/characteristics are needed for an enterprise desktop c

Re: Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-02-28 15:40:18 Ron Johnson wrote: >On 02/28/2011 03:25 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Monday 28 February 2011 14:35:26 erikmccaskey64 wrote: >>> Original: >>> Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi >>> Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi >>> Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.av

Re: Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 15:40 Mon 28 Feb, Ron Johnson (ron.l.john...@cox.net) wrote: > On 02/28/2011 03:25 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >On Monday 28 February 2011 14:35:26 erikmccaskey64 wrote: > >>Original: > >>Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi > >>Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi > >>Feb 12 2010

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Dan Serban
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:04 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] > > [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439] > > Hi, > > Being the stubborn person that I am, I

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 28 February 2011 15:02:51 shawn wilson wrote: > On Feb 28, 2011 3:37 PM, "Ron Johnson" wrote: > > On 02/28/2011 02:29 PM, Celejar wrote: > > [snip] > > > >> Shawn: I've noticed that all your emails seem to include the quoting > >> carat '>' on the first line of your response. Is your e

Re: Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/28/2011 03:25 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Monday 28 February 2011 14:35:26 erikmccaskey64 wrote: Original: Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi Feb 11 2011 20

Re: Runaway process detection.

2011-02-28 Thread Dan Serban
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:23:37 -0800 Dan Serban wrote: > Because of a bug in gtk, iceweasel and others (google helped me > find the bug reports) nautilus for some users pegs at 100% cpu use > because .xsession-errors fills up at incredible rates, which in turn > basically hangs the machine (nautilu

Re: Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 12:35 Mon 28 Feb, erikmccaskey64 (erikmccaske...@zoho.com) wrote: > > Original: > Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi > Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi > Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi > Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi > Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi >

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread shawn wilson
On Feb 28, 2011 3:35 PM, "Dotan Cohen" wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 21:47, Jason Hsu wrote: > > Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE. > > > > What featu

Re: Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 28 February 2011 14:35:26 erikmccaskey64 wrote: > Original: > Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi > Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi > Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi > Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi > Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi > Feb 27 2011 23

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 28 February 2011 14:42:41 John A. Sullivan III wrote: > That is ultimately what led us to Debian. It has been our first major > experience with Debian and we have been quite pleased with it as the > best balance for a desktop OS thus far when we combine stable, > backports, and occasional

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
Dotan Cohen wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 21:47, Jason Hsu wrote: Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE. This is easy: RHEL or it's twin CentOS

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-28 Thread shawn wilson
On Feb 28, 2011 3:37 PM, "Ron Johnson" wrote: > > On 02/28/2011 02:29 PM, Celejar wrote: > [snip] > >> >> Shawn: I've noticed that all your emails seem to include the quoting >> carat '>' on the first line of your response. Is your editor >> misconfigured? >> > > gmail misconfigured?? > > Gmail

Re: Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/28/2011 02:35 PM, erikmccaskey64 wrote: Original: Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi Feb 27 2011 23:05 SOMETHING 2011.02.2

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 28 February 2011 19:10:58 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Hi, > > In short, seeing what has been posted over the past 12 months, I can't > see the point in having the list, sorry. > > There are so many emails, forums, etc there isn't enough hours for > me to consume any more time. There

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 28 February 2011 13:47:23 Jason Hsu wrote: > For those of you who have helped a company or organization migrate from > Windows to Linux or from one Linux distro to another, what is your > preference? The only time I've been involved in such a project it was from a hetrogenous AIX/HP-UX/

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 28 February 2011 20:47:23 Jason Hsu wrote: > Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise > desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are > Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE. Maybe one of us should go and replace you whenyou go for your

Re: Intermittent internet since upgrading to squeeze

2011-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/28/2011 02:31 PM, George wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:48:23 +0200, George wrote: Ever since I upgraded to squeeze I have intermittent internet. It works for about 30-45 seconds, then it stops. I have to do ifdown -a ifup -a which brin

Re: unable to login as root

2011-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/28/2011 02:14 PM, Jim Kester wrote: I installed debian 6.0.0 amd64 netinst. I installed about 3 different time. I can login to my regular account and everything seems to work. From the console or from a GUI? If from the GUI, then that's (probably) on purpose, since logging into root fro

Re: Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:35:26PM -0800, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > > Original: > Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi > Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi > Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi > Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi > Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi > Feb 2

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 22:34 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 21:47, Jason Hsu wrote: > > Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise > > desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are > > Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE. > >

Re: Squeeze: can Bluetooth headset work without pulseaudio???

2011-02-28 Thread John
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 28. 02. 2011 12:42:57 je Klistvud napisal(a): >> >> Dne, 27. 02. 2011 22:21:05 je Celejar napisal(a): >>> >>> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:55:42 -0500 >>> John wrote: >>> >>> >  I have used pulseaudio in the past, and it was horrible to install >>

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/28/2011 02:29 PM, Celejar wrote: [snip] Shawn: I've noticed that all your emails seem to include the quoting carat '>' on the first line of your response. Is your editor misconfigured? gmail misconfigured?? -- I prefer banana-flavored energy bars made from tofu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Doug
On 02/28/2011 11:13 AM, Slicky Johnson wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:04 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439] Hi, Being

Sorting by date

2011-02-28 Thread erikmccaskey64
Original: Jan 23 2011 10:42 SOMETHING 2007.12.20.avi Jun 26 2009 SOMETHING 2009.06.25.avi Feb 12 2010 SOMETHING 2010.02.11.avi Jan 29 2011 09:17 SOMETHING 2011.01.27.avi Feb 11 2011 20:06 SOMETHING 2011.02.10.avi Feb 27 2011 23:05 SOMETHING 2011.02.24.avi Output: Feb 27 2011 23:05 SOMETHING 2011

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 21:47, Jason Hsu wrote: > Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise > desktop?  My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are > Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE. > > What features/characteristics are needed for an enterprise de

Re: Intermittent internet since upgrading to squeeze

2011-02-28 Thread George
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:48:23 +0200, George wrote: > > > Ever since I upgraded to squeeze I have intermittent internet. It works > > for about 30-45 seconds, then it stops. I have to do > > > > ifdown -a > > ifup -a > > > > which brings it back,

Re: unable to login as root

2011-02-28 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Montag, 28. Februar 2011 schrieb Jim Kester: > I installed debian 6.0.0 amd64 netinst. I installed about 3 different time. > I can login to my regular account and everything seems to work. Since I'm > using an AMD Athlon 64 x2 I thought I should be using this version. I get > an authentication f

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-28 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:03:11 -0500 shawn wilson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: > > > On Lu, 28 feb 11, 09:36:43, shawn wilson wrote: > > > > > > > > first, debian comes with apparmor by default iirc. i haven't looked > > much > > > into the default config of a

Re: Your favorite server apps (firewall, DHCP, etc.)

2011-02-28 Thread green
Jason Hsu wrote at 2011-02-28 09:48 -0600: > Since I'm looking for a job as a Linux IT consultant, I need a portfolio of > favorite server applications I had trouble finding a utility I liked for firewall. Scripts for iptables are slow and bulky, and with other frontends I don't really know wha

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:56:07 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Jason Hsu > wrote: > > > Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the > > enterprise desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise > > desktop distros are Ubuntu, RedHat, and

Re: Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Jason Hsu wrote: > Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise > desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are > Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE. > http://distrowatch.com/ is probably what you want. -- Did

Best and most popular distros for the enterprise desktop

2011-02-28 Thread Jason Hsu
Are there any rankings of the most popular Linux distros for the enterprise desktop? My guess is that the most popular enterprise desktop distros are Ubuntu, RedHat, and SUSE. What features/characteristics are needed for an enterprise desktop computer that aren't needed for a home desktop comp

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 1 March 2011 01:34, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] > > [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439] > > Hi, > > Being the stubborn person that I am, I want to give o

Re: Debian vs. other firewall/server operating systems

2011-02-28 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 01:00 Mon 28 Feb, Jason Hsu (jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com) wrote: > I can't comment on other distros as servers, as my experience at the > server level has so far been with a minimal command-line only Debian > Stable installation. (When I'm given the option of installing > packages for the graphical

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-28 Thread Steven Ayre
I was more thinking about whether a script existed that wraps it so it'd only send the mail if there was >0 programs to restart. At the moment you'd get an email every time it ran. Easy to write one though. -Steve On 28 February 2011 16:20, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/28/2011 02:41 AM, Steven Ayr

Re: Re: debian kernel panic no init found SOLVED

2011-02-28 Thread dirkydirk
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 17:13 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > A quick look at the manpage reveals that you have to specify one of the > supported commands. Let's try "list": > > $ apt-listbugs list apt/0.8.11.5 > serious bugs of apt (0.8.11.5 -> 0.8.11.5) > #558784 - apt: re-adds removed keys > S

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:04 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] (removing off-topic just in case because I'm not subscribed) > [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, In short, seeing what has been posted over the past 12 months, I can't see the point in having the list, sorry. There are so many emails, forums, etc there isn't enough hours for me to consume any more time. There is plenty of "noise" on some of the lists that I already subscribe,

Re: weird font problem with white lines

2011-02-28 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Hi, It appears in Firefox as well as gnome-terminal. I have not (yet) seen it in the GTK+ menus and window text. gnome-terminal in squeeze has an annoying bug [1], it could be due to that. Also, I am using FF4 beta build from mozilla, so it could be that it is not integrating with the system libr

Re: How do you clone a server hard drive from another computer?

2011-02-28 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:30:03 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > I understand that there are programs like partimage that can be used to > clone a hard drive. But if I use a live CD to clone a server, I have to > interrupt its operation. Thus, I need a way to clone the server > remotely. > > So how do I

How do you clone a server hard drive from another computer?

2011-02-28 Thread Jason Hsu
I understand that there are programs like partimage that can be used to clone a hard drive. But if I use a live CD to clone a server, I have to interrupt its operation. Thus, I need a way to clone the server remotely. So how do I clone the server hard drive from another computer? -- Jason Hs

Re: Re: debian kernel panic no init found SOLVED

2011-02-28 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 16:40 +0100, dirkydirk wrote: > On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 15:17 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 15:37 +0100, dirkydirk wrote: > > Which version of libc-bin do you have installed (dpkg -l libc-bin). If you > > have 2.11.2-12 you might have run into [..

Re: bash variables

2011-02-28 Thread Mike McClain
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:53:44PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Bash is not adding quotes.[1] It is failing to remove them. If you really > want to understand what is happening, install the susv2 or susv3 packages > from contrib and read the section "Shell Command Language". Parti

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 17:34, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] > > [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439] > > Hi, > > Being the stubborn person that I am, I want to

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Op Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:04 +0200 Andrei Popescu schreef: > [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] > > [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439] > > Hi, > > Being the stubborn person that I am,

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

2011-02-28 Thread Dotan Cohen
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 00:21, Ron Johnson wrote: > What do you do with your PC? > > If you're "just a desktop user", then I recommend sticking with 32-bits (and > a PAE kernel if you have gt 4GB RAM). > I agree. One of the biggest problems with 64 bit desktop systems is Flash: the Adobe implemen

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/28/2011 02:41 AM, Steven Ayre wrote: /usr/sbin/checkrestart in package debian-goodies tells you what processes are using obsolete libraries and can usually tell you which services to restart. Nice! I hadn't heard of that before. Is there anything already existing that can run as a cronjo

Re: To 64 or Not to 64?

2011-02-28 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/28/2011 01:36 AM, Miles Bader wrote: Ron Johnson writes: I do program development, compiles, etc. and have to say that for me 64-bit is definitely faster, to wit: Have you tried Tiny CC? When it's sufficient for the task, it's compile times are pretty fast. http://global.phoronix-test

Re: A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Slicky Johnson
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:34:04 +0200 Andrei Popescu wrote: > [Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] > > [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439] > > Hi, > > Being the stubborn person that I am, I

Re: Your favorite server apps (firewall, DHCP, etc.)

2011-02-28 Thread shawn wilson
you're asking pretty broad questions, however... On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Jason Hsu wrote: > Since I'm looking for a job as a Linux IT consultant, I need a portfolio of > favorite server applications - firewall, DHCP server, mail server, print > server, etc. Just as I have favorite dis

Your favorite server apps (firewall, DHCP, etc.)

2011-02-28 Thread Jason Hsu
Since I'm looking for a job as a Linux IT consultant, I need a portfolio of favorite server applications - firewall, DHCP server, mail server, print server, etc. Just as I have favorite distros for the desktop (Puppy Linux, Linux Mint, antiX/Swift Linux) and favorite desktop applications (like

Re: Re: debian kernel panic no init found SOLVED

2011-02-28 Thread dirkydirk
On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 15:17 +, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 15:37 +0100, dirkydirk wrote: > > > I conclude then, there's an issue with the update script. (I'm running > > Debian sid, btw.) > > An important piece of information. Which version of libc-bin do you have > inst

A Debian -offtopic mailing list: to be or not to be

2011-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
[Cross-posted to: d-community-offtopic, debian-user] [For those who don't know what I'm talking about, please see #425439 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425439] Hi, Being the stubborn person that I am, I want to give one more chance to the -offtopic list for Debian users and/o

Re: debian kernel panic no init found

2011-02-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Wolodja Wentland wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 15:37 +0100, dirkydirk wrote: I conclude then, there's an issue with the update script. (I'm running Debian sid, btw.) An important piece of information. Which version of libc-bin do you have installed (dpkg -l libc-bin). If you have 2.11.2-12 y

Re: Migrate debian etch to virtual machine (vmware)

2011-02-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 28 February 2011 05:58:30 Márcio Luciano Donada wrote: > Hi People > Physically I'm running a debian server 4 for the e-mail, but I'm having > problems to use the tool to perform VM virtualization. I wonder if there > is another way to virtualize this machine, do some kind of backup so yo

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Patrick Bartek wrote: Having tired of Fedora's short support life (13 months)--I've been using it since FC3, but have only been upgrading every 3rd release since 6--and wanting a distro where longevity and stability are paramount, and SELinux is an option, not the default, I've settled on Debi

Re: debian kernel panic no init found

2011-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:54 AM, dirkydirk wrote: > > I suspect the script that generates the ramdisc to be faulty. See my > other reply here: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2011/02/msg02902.html Have you tried running update-initramfs one kernel at a time rather than "update-initramfs -k

Re: debian kernel panic no init found

2011-02-28 Thread dirkydirk
Hmm, interestingly only swap and tmp were listed with an UUID. But alas, it did not work out to list the other partitions with their UUID. Should I mention that software raid and lvm is used? KR, m On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 16:57 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 28 feb 11, 15:54:38, dirkydirk w

Re: Re: debian kernel panic no init found

2011-02-28 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 15:37 +0100, dirkydirk wrote: > I conclude then, there's an issue with the update script. (I'm running > Debian sid, btw.) An important piece of information. Which version of libc-bin do you have installed (dpkg -l libc-bin). If you have 2.11.2-12 you might have run into [

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:36 AM, shawn wilson wrote: > > debian comes with apparmor by default. You're confusing Debian and Ubuntu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-28 Thread shawn wilson
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 28 feb 11, 09:36:43, shawn wilson wrote: > > > > > > first, debian comes with apparmor by default iirc. i haven't looked > much > > into the default config of apparmor, but it doesn't seem to get in the > way > > because it doesn't se

Re: debian kernel panic no init found

2011-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 28 feb 11, 15:54:38, dirkydirk wrote: > It's grub2 and UUIDs are used; and grub finds the kernel and the ramdisc > file. (If it would not find them, grub would show a different msg. > Already encountered and solved that a while ago when grub had an issue > with wanting "/boot" in the path ;)

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 28 feb 11, 09:36:43, shawn wilson wrote: > > > > first, debian comes with apparmor by default iirc. i haven't looked much > into the default config of apparmor, but it doesn't seem to get in the way > because it doesn't seem to be configured to do much. Nope, SELinux. Regards, Andrei -- O

Re: debian kernel panic no init found

2011-02-28 Thread dirkydirk
It's grub2 and UUIDs are used; and grub finds the kernel and the ramdisc file. (If it would not find them, grub would show a different msg. Already encountered and solved that a while ago when grub had an issue with wanting "/boot" in the path ;) I suspect the script that generates the ramdisc to

I'm really interested, please send more info on your offer

2011-02-28 Thread Brian
Hello, please send me some more info about your offer, I'm seriously interested and need to start soon. I won't join you though until I have read over the info and reply back to you. Whatever you do, please don't give anyone else or sell this address. Please look out for my reply. Many Thanks &

Re: Debian vs. other firewall/server operating systems

2011-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 28 feb 11, 09:13:16, Curt Howland wrote: > > From: Klistvud > > Because, without realizing it, people are usually their own worst =20 > > enemy. Short-sightedness rules. > > One of the reasons democracy is such an awful form of government. > > It works in a voluntary organization, and the

Re: Re: debian kernel panic no init found

2011-02-28 Thread dirkydirk
Hi, yes, there's init in it. But the directory structure of the ramdisc looks quite different from a 2.6.31 ramdisc on another computer. Unfortunately I did run update-initramfs -k all, and now even the 2.6.26 kernel refuses to boot. Same error. >From the recent grml live-distro I copied kernel

Re: Debian vs. other firewall/server operating systems

2011-02-28 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Curt Howland wrote: > > Now if Unity would work under VirtualBox, I could give it a good going > over. But NoooOOOooo https://launchpad.net/~unity-2d-team/+archive/unity-2d-daily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-28 Thread shawn wilson
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Having tired of Fedora's short support life (13 months)--I've been using it > since FC3, but have only been upgrading every 3rd release since 6--and > wanting a distro where longevity and stability are paramount, and SELinux is > an option,

Re: debian kernel panic no init found

2011-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 28 feb 11, 13:09:20, dirkyd...@gmx.net wrote: > Hi all, > > after updating my Debian box, it ceases to boot with above error. I > use kernel 2.6.32. Booting older 2.6.28 seems to run the init process > well (but has other issues). > > Somebody has an idea what went wrong? I suspect prob

Re: testing/unstable(sid) in sources.lst ok? (was Re: Problems installing VLC [SOLVED])

2011-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 28 feb 11, 23:36:30, Chris Bannister wrote: > > ARRRGH, sorry. That should be: > AFAIR, if you are running unstable it is recommended to have unstable AND > testing repositories listed in your sources.lst. > > Not sure it is true if you are running testing. On occasion I had to install pa

Re: Debian vs. other firewall/server operating systems

2011-02-28 Thread Curt Howland
> From: Klistvud > Because, without realizing it, people are usually their own worst =20 > enemy. Short-sightedness rules. One of the reasons democracy is such an awful form of government. It works in a voluntary organization, and the Debian project demonstrates that admirably. > Agreed, =20 >

Re: Debian 6 64-bit and Openbox: Opinions, Suggestions, Pitfalls.

2011-02-28 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Lu, 28 feb 11, 13:26:24, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > That sounds complicated, how about this: activate non-free and Correction: flashplugin-nonfree is in contrib, not non-free > apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree > > (works fine also on amd64) This is correct. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic

Re: debian kernel panic no init found

2011-02-28 Thread kuLa
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/02/11 12:09, dirkyd...@gmx.net wrote: > Hi all, hi > after updating my Debian box, it ceases to boot with above error. I use > kernel 2.6.32. Booting older 2.6.28 seems to run the init process well (but > has other issues). > > Somebody has

Re: Can you recommend a audio/video package?

2011-02-28 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:05:55 +0800, Long Wind wrote: > Currently I use helix producer 9. It meets my three requirements: > > 1) It works on slow PC. It can run on my P3/550. (I have another PC that > runs P4/1.6G) > > 2) It use compression. For video size 384x288, it take about 100 M for > one h

Re: Migrate debian etch to virtual machine (vmware)

2011-02-28 Thread shawn wilson
2011/2/28 Márcio Luciano Donada > Hi People > Physically I'm running a debian server 4 for the e-mail, but I'm having > problems to use the tool to perform VM virtualization. I wonder if there > is another way to virtualize this machine, do some kind of backup so you can > import it in vmware. D

debian kernel panic no init found

2011-02-28 Thread DirkyDirk
Hi all, after updating my Debian box, it ceases to boot with above error. I use kernel 2.6.32. Booting older 2.6.28 seems to run the init process well (but has other issues). Somebody has an idea what went wrong? KR, m -- NEU: FreePhone - kostenlos mobil telefonieren und surfen!

Re: Things I Don't Understand About Debian

2011-02-28 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, shawn: En fecha Sábado, 26 de Febrero de 2011, shawn wilson escribió: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:30 PM, John Hasler wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > But there is no 100% way to tell the machine is clean, so you will > > > have to wipe and reinstall anyway. > > > > But if the machine i

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