Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

On 2011-04-24 00:14 +0200, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > There may have been DSFG-freeness concerns about the code as well, but they > were not the primary motivator for removing the package from testing. They were. Bug #383465¹ had been ignored for three releases already which is really to

Re: Where do I get a list of all the fonts in my system?

Just in case you are not averse to using a GUI, Fontmatrix is an excellent tool. It should be in your repos. -- 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/2011042323

Re: Where do I get a list of all the fonts in my system?

On 04/24/2011 12:21 AM, Disc Magnet wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Yuanle Song wrote: There are two font systems in X. An old one is X font, the new one is fontconfig/xft. To list X fonts, xlsfonts To list xtf fonts, fc-list -- Thanks, Yuanle xlsfonts | grep -i vera a

Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

On 24 April 2011 14:01, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > But with the BSDs? > > Not a chance! > > With FreeBSD and PC-BSD it is dropped at the USB register stage of both > the > > install and all consequent boots after O.S. install - so it's in the > > mothercode. > > I assume the topic is on install to th

Re: Where do I get a list of all the fonts in my system?

On 04/23/2011 11:21 PM, Disc Magnet wrote: [snip] fc-list | grep -i vera Works for me... $ fc-list | grep -i vera Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Bold Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Oblique Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Roman Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:style=Oblique Bitstream Vera Sans:style=Bold Bitstrea

Re: test usb drive read / write speed

On 04/23/2011 11:09 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: hi list, i was trying to find out among several microSD cards which one has the fastest speed. i searched the web and didn't see any efficient solutions. are there conventional ways to test usb drive read / write speed? or any block device? i'm currentl

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Apr 23, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:03:00PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having >> to mount it, but I need to do more than that. >> >> I want to be able to access either Java classes or a

Re: I don't want mrxvt to consume the Alt + keystrokes

On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 01:24:40 +0530 Disc Magnet wrote: > I run irssi on mrxvt. When I press Alt+1, Alt+2, etc. it changes mrxvt > tab and not the irssi win. > > How can I configure mrxvt such that it does not consume the Alt > key-stroke. It also intereferes with emacs style Alt+ > keystroke for

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Apr 23, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 04/23/2011 12:59 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> I'm also looking into creating a temporary mount point and deleting when >> it's done, but if there's a crash or something, that temporary mount point >> would remain, unless I put it in /t

Re: Where do I get a list of all the fonts in my system?

There are two font systems in X. An old one is X font, the new one is fontconfig/xft. To list X fonts, xlsfonts To list xtf fonts, fc-list -- Thanks, Yuanle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas..

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Apr 23, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:04:20 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> On Apr 23, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Does Java handle the SMB protocol on its own? I know I can't list a directory that way with ls, even with the Samba client packag

Re: Where do I get a list of all the fonts in my system?

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Yuanle Song wrote: > > There are two font systems in X. An old one is X font, the new one is > fontconfig/xft. > > To list X fonts, > >    xlsfonts > > To list xtf fonts, > >    fc-list > > -- > Thanks, > Yuanle > xlsfonts | grep -i vera as well as fc-list | gr

Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

> But with the BSDs? > Not a chance! > With FreeBSD and PC-BSD it is dropped at the USB register stage of both the > install and all consequent boots after O.S. install - so it's in the > mothercode. I assume the topic is on install to the hdd? Not using usb hard drive as a storage? It all depends

test usb drive read / write speed

hi list, i was trying to find out among several microSD cards which one has the fastest speed. i searched the web and didn't see any efficient solutions. are there conventional ways to test usb drive read / write speed? or any block device? i'm currently using hdparm for reading speed test. $ hd

sysctl vs kernel .config

Hello debianers: today i successfully compiled 2.38.4 kernel using make-kmkg and fixed the hibernate can't resume issue for kernel 2.38-2, got a couple questions here: first is run time and the latter is compile time, but what is the difference here, is one of the other's subset? do their paramete

Where do I get a list of all the fonts in my system?

Earlier, in my .Xresources I had the following because I got this font from xfontsel URxvt.font: -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-*-u However, later in the urxvt man page, I found an example of this and it looks much prettier than the terminus font displayed above. URxvt.font:xft:Bitstream Vera

Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011, at 21:49:39 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > What was the size of image.img in exact bytes? What happened if you > specified exact image size via "count"? What happened if bs=1024? The size of image.img is 31457280 bytes. I have tried several ways below and listed in parentheses w

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Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

On 24 April 2011 10:05, William Cooper wrote: > > > On 23 April 2011 17:56, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > >> On 04/23/2011 06:04 PM, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: >> > Sounds like the problem is in your host, can you try the same pieces in >> > another box? >> >> Actually I tried on two boxes, a deskto

Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

On 23 April 2011 17:56, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > On 04/23/2011 06:04 PM, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > > Sounds like the problem is in your host, can you try the same pieces in > > another box? > > Actually I tried on two boxes, a desktop running Squeeze and a notebook > running Wheezy. > > The f

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Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

In <4db35418.50...@cox.net>, Ron Johnson wrote: >But OP is correct that nv *works*. *Everywhere*. I didn't claim otherwise. It also doesn't change the fact that it is not currently maintained. If you'd like it maintained, I suggest you chip in resources, possibly pooling them with other inter

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:14:39 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution. > > It is no longer maintained. NVidia abandoned it a while ago. It was still > maintained by the X.org developers for a while.

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

On 04/23/2011 05:14 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In<1636648964.128495.1303595827920.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>, Stephen Powell wrote: I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution. It is no longer maintained. NVidia abandoned it a while ago. It was still mai

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

On 04/23/2011 04:57 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: I thought this would probably happen eventually. And it did. I use an Nvidia video card with a RIVA TNT2 chipset. My CRT monitor, an IBM G51, has a maximum pixel clock rate of 70 MHz. In order to get 1024x768 resolution out of this monitor I must

Re: Help with Software RAID needed

Jo Galara (jogal...@gmail.com on 2011-04-23 19:55 +0200): > I just got my new dedicated server, running Debian Lenny 64bit. > It has 2x500gb Software RAID but "df -hT" only shows a few GB for each > partition: [...] > /dev/mapper/vg00-usr on /usr type xfs (rw) > /dev/mapper/vg00-var on /var type xf

Re: Openjdk vs. sun-java in Debian

Thanx for the tips, Camaleon, Sven and Liam. Your answers more or less confirmed my suspicions. Must dig into some recent Java documentation when I find the time ... -- Cheerio, Klistvud http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com Certifiable Loonix User #481801 P

Re: Tripwire can't send report by email‏

On 04/23/2011 03:18 PM, Cedric DC wrote: [snip] If I try to launch this in command line I have this message : root@proxytest:/etc/cron.daily# /usr/sbin/tripwire --test --email t...@mydomain.com Sending a test message to: t...@mydomain.com ### Error: The SMTP server returned an error. ### Error

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

In <1636648964.128495.1303595827920.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>, Stephen Powell wrote: >I really don't see why nv had to be dropped from the distribution. It is no longer maintained. NVidia abandoned it a while ago. It was still maintained by the X.org developers for a while. However,

Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

On 04/23/2011 05:08 PM, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: [snip] Anyway I (almost) haven't lost any data since setting up a software RAID (md) array. Well I have, but it was my fault for messing up with the partition tables. RAID is a must-do for anyone who values their data. G. BACKUPS are a

Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

On 04/23/2011 05:08 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> I've tried two different Western Digital disks. I've had a lot of >> problems with WD disks, so it could be the hdds' problem. > > Yep, I've also heard about that but have not experienced by myself, > mostly because I tend to buy Seagate hdds. Good for

Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

I thought this would probably happen eventually. And it did. I use an Nvidia video card with a RIVA TNT2 chipset. My CRT monitor, an IBM G51, has a maximum pixel clock rate of 70 MHz. In order to get 1024x768 resolution out of this monitor I must use an interlaced video mode. (There is a 1024x

Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

On 04/23/2011 06:04 PM, Leonardo Ruoso wrote: > Sounds like the problem is in your host, can you try the same pieces in > another box? Actually I tried on two boxes, a desktop running Squeeze and a notebook running Wheezy. The first enclosure failed on both, the second worked for a while and then

Re: Tripwire can't send report by email?

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 02:21:01PM -0700, evenso wrote: > It is far more appropriate to ask your question with a new thread rather > than piggy back a question onto someone else's question. > > You can ask your own question by addressing your mail to > > debian-user@lists.debian.org > > with a

Re: Tripwire can't send report by email?

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:18:50PM +, Cedric DC wrote: > > Hello, > > I have setup tripwire on a Debian 6. I have tripwire integrity reports (pwr > files) in the directory /var/lib/tripwire/report/ > With the following command I can read the report. > twprint --print-report --twrfile proxyte

Re: I don't want mrxvt to consume the Alt + keystrokes

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 01:24:40AM +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > I run irssi on mrxvt. When I press Alt+1, Alt+2, etc. it changes mrxvt > tab and not the irssi win. > > How can I configure mrxvt such that it does not consume the Alt > key-stroke. It also intereferes with emacs style Alt+ > keystroke

Re: Anyone using recoll in wheezy or sid?

On 04/23/2011 02:43 PM, David Baron wrote: I have recoll installed on stable, wheezy and sid. It is working fine on stable but on the other two it indexes fine but is not displaying the results. (...) Not using recoll here, but there are some bugs for it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgre

Tripwire can't send report by email‏

Hello, I have setup tripwire on a Debian 6. I have tripwire integrity reports (pwr files) in the directory /var/lib/tripwire/report/ With the following command I can read the report. twprint --print-report --twrfile proxytest-20110421-135326.twr > test-log I would like send the report by email.

I don't want mrxvt to consume the Alt + keystrokes

I run irssi on mrxvt. When I press Alt+1, Alt+2, etc. it changes mrxvt tab and not the irssi win. How can I configure mrxvt such that it does not consume the Alt key-stroke. It also intereferes with emacs style Alt+ keystroke for repeating command that readline can understand. So, please help me

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 01:03:00PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I now know I can use smbclient to read files on an SMB share without having > to mount it, but I need to do more than that. > > I want to be able to access either Java classes or an executable on a shared > volume on a server without

Re: Anyone using recoll in wheezy or sid?

> > I have recoll installed on stable, wheezy and sid. It is working fine > > on stable but on the other two it indexes fine but is not displaying the > > results. > > (...) > > Not using recoll here, but there are some bugs for it: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=recoll;

Re: Help with Software RAID needed

More information: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md3 : active raid1 sdb3[0] sda3[1] 482512192 blocks [2/2] [UU] md1 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[1] 3911680 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused devices: # mount /dev/md1 on / type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosui

SSD drive use [was Re: file systems]

On Jo, 21 apr 11, 22:10:10, Chris Brennan wrote: You mentioned something about doing this on USB (solid-state?) storage? You might want to also consider reading up on USB's general policy about write few, read many. I assume this "read many, write few" idea applies to all SSD drives. There se

Help with Software RAID needed

I just got my new dedicated server, running Debian Lenny 64bit. It has 2x500gb Software RAID but "df -hT" only shows a few GB for each partition: # df -hT FilesystemTypeSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 ext33.7G 339M 3.4G 10% / tmpfstmpfs2.0G 0 2.0G 0

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

On 23/04/11 05:24, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: George Standish said: Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now you expect it to "upgrade" to a new distro... This idea doesn't seem like a good idea to me. - I agree with this assessment though any ubuntu

Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

On 04/23/2011 09:08 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] JFYI, I own an external 3.5" USB enclosure¹ (I have more, but are completely unbranded :-P) and still haven't had any problem with it and features an internal combo interface to connect both IDE/SATA hard disks: For a decade, I've had a series of

Re: howto unplug a device?

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:01:47 -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:15:53 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: >> >>> is there a way, to unplug a device by software or a command? I wanna >>> unplug and plugin a device (it is a built in mod

Re: howto unplug a device?

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:15:53 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > >> is there a way, to unplug a device by software or a command? I wanna >> unplug and plugin a device (it is a built in modem), if it crashes. At >> the moment, i have to reboot, each t

Re: howto unplug a device?

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:15:53 +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > is there a way, to unplug a device by software or a command? I wanna > unplug and plugin a device (it is a built in modem), if it crashes. At > the moment, i have to reboot, each time it hangs. I dunno if an internal/embedded modem can

[OT] Re: Howto to get more UBE

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:54:28 +0200, Frank M. wrote: > I plaing around with mail filters. I like to get more spam. (Not to > download. Real traffic on port 25) > > I create thousands of accounts on my honeypot, but how I distribute they > on the web? > > Any nice ideas howto get more UBE? A curi

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On 04/23/2011 12:59 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I'm also looking into creating a temporary mount point and deleting when it's done, but if there's a crash or something, that temporary mount point would remain, unless I put it in /tmp or something radical like that. Couldn't you copy the file inste

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Apr 23, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 04/23/2011 12:04 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> I don't have to use SMB, I could have the server use NFS as well, but I >> can't find anything about reading an NFS share unless it's mounted. As best >> I can tell, unless you use a program

howto unplug a device?

Hi all, is there a way, to unplug a device by software or a command? I wanna unplug and plugin a device (it is a built in modem), if it crashes. At the moment, i have to reboot, each time it hangs. Thanks for any info. Greetings Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 11:04:20 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Apr 23, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Camaleón wrote: >>> Does Java handle the SMB protocol on its own? I know I can't list a >>> directory that way with ls, even with the Samba client package >>> installed. >> >> Good question. >> >> Nowadays it

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On 04/23/2011 12:04 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I don't have to use SMB, I could have the server use NFS as well, but I can't find anything about reading an NFS share unless it's mounted. As best I can tell, unless you use a program like smbclient, scp, ftp, or rsync, there is no way to read any net

Re: kernel 2.6.38 on Lenny

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 10:18:59 -0400 (EDT), Jim Brooks wrote: > > I manually compiled the official/stock kernel 2.6.38. > But the (SATA) disk drives were remapped from sda/sdb to sde/sdf > Apparently USB and memory card ports became sd[abcd]. > How the Linux kernel be told to map real disk drives to

Re: Unable to export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-04-23 16:25 +0200, Disc Magnet wrote: > >> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Disc Magnet wrote: >>> Please help me to resolve this error. >>> >>> disc@magnet:~$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 >>> bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Apr 23, 2011, at 6:44 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:42:56 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:03:00 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network sha

Re: Unable to export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

On 2011-04-23 16:25 +0200, Disc Magnet wrote: > On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Disc Magnet wrote: >> Please help me to resolve this error. >> >> disc@magnet:~$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 >> bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale >> (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory >>

Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

Sounds like the problem is in your host, can you try the same pieces in another box? 2011/4/20 Panayiotis Karabassis > Hi, > > I made the mistake of purchasing an external HDD enclosure without > researching first. The enclosure wouldn't be recognized in Debian > Squeeze or Wheezy with errors th

Re: kernel 2.6.38 on Lenny

On 23/04/2011 16:18, Jim Brooks wrote: I manually compiled the official/stock kernel 2.6.38. But the (SATA) disk drives were remapped from sda/sdb to sde/sdf Apparently USB and memory card ports became sd[abcd]. How the Linux kernel be told to map real disk drives to sda/sdb Hi, I think you don'

Re: My posts to list not echoed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ken Heard wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> I bet it has to do with ISPs blocking port 25. > > Well I ran the following command, with the result indicated: > > R61:/# telnet smtp.gmail.com 25 > Trying 74.125.53.109... > Connected to gmail-smtp-msa.l.

Re: Using tar and gpg from Konqueror

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:38:05 +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > >> While experimenting with tar and gpg files I discovered that right >> clicking on a file or directory name in Konqueror with gnugp installed >> behaves differently depending o

Re: file systems

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Jo, 21 apr 11, 22:10:10, Chris Brennan wrote: >> >> You mentioned something about doing this on USB (solid-state?) storage? You >> might want to also consider reading up on USB's general policy about write >> few, read many. In a nutshell

kernel 2.6.38 on Lenny

I manually compiled the official/stock kernel 2.6.38. But the (SATA) disk drives were remapped from sda/sdb to sde/sdf Apparently USB and memory card ports became sd[abcd]. How the Linux kernel be told to map real disk drives to sda/sdb? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Unable to export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Disc Magnet wrote: > Please help me to resolve this error. > > disc@magnet:~$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 > bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale > (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory > Solved it by doing: dpkg-reconfigure locales But now

Re: Unable to export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 19:39:32 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > Please help me to resolve this error. > > disc@magnet:~$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 bash: warning: setlocale: > LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory Hum... what does your "/etc/locale.gen" file look like

Unable to export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Please help me to resolve this error. disc@magnet:~$ export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 bash: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE: cannot change locale (en_US.UTF-8): No such file or directory -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:37:00 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > On 04/22/2011 05:31 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> I've had no problems with any of my hdd external cases so may I ask you >> about brand and model of yours? > > Yeap, that's what they said at the shop, that there shouldn't be any > probl

Howto to get more UBE

I plaing around with mail filters. I like to get more spam. (Not to download. Real traffic on port 25) I create thousands of accounts on my honeypot, but how I distribute they on the web? Any nice ideas howto get more UBE? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On 23/04/11 12:44, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:42:56 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:03:00 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which

Re: Please recommend an external HDD enclosure

On 04/20/2011 11:25 PM, Mark wrote: > I've been using this one with Debian Lenny for a while. Have a 250 GB > IDE hdd in it currently. I couldn't find it in my country, but thanks anyway! On 04/22/2011 05:31 PM, Camaleón wrote: > I've had no problems with any of my hdd external cases so may I as

Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

On Sat, 2011-04-23 at 21:49 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > You know 1M stands for 1*1000*1000*1000 not 1*1024*1024*1024. I'm half asleep, so I may not be thinking straight, but isn't that one too many multiplications, in both cases? Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

Hi, On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 07:46:06PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > On Wed, Apr 13, 2011, at 07:13:13 -0500, Mark Kane wrote: > I suppose I should have tested this before for thoroughness, but in > Debian Lenny it works! So to summarize: > > # dd if=image.img of=/dev/sda bs=1M You know 1M stands fo

Re: Show me the difference! (rxvt-unicode vs. rxvt-unicode-ml)

On 04/23/2011 08:35 AM, Disc Magnet wrote: What is the difference between rxvt-unicode and rxvt-unicode-ml? I tried installing both the packages. When one is installed, the other is removed. But I didn't find any visible difference while using them. Both can be invoked using the 'urxvt' command

Re: Show me the difference! (rxvt-unicode vs. rxvt-unicode-ml)

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:05:32 +0530, Disc Magnet wrote: > What is the difference between rxvt-unicode and rxvt-unicode-ml? "ml" stands for multilingual support. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

mrxvt transparency behaves opposite to what is documented

The man page says: Ctrl+Shift+jChange shading of terminal to make it more transparent. Ctrl+Shift+kChange shading of terminal to make it less transparent. But when I press ctrl+shift+j it decreases transparency. Could you please confim this behavior? I am using

mrxvt shading and urxvt shading behave differently

The shading option of mrxvt and urxvt seems to be working differently. mrxvt --transparent --shading 95 # This makes the terminal only 5% transparent (or in other words 95% shaded) urxvt --transparent --shading 95# This makes the terminal 95% transparent (or in other words 5% shaded) Why

Show me the difference! (rxvt-unicode vs. rxvt-unicode-ml)

What is the difference between rxvt-unicode and rxvt-unicode-ml? I tried installing both the packages. When one is installed, the other is removed. But I didn't find any visible difference while using them. Both can be invoked using the 'urxvt' command. Both has the same man page. I am curious to

Re: Problem with udev device identification

El 2011-04-22 a las 17:04 -0400, Sebastian Lara escribió: (resending to the list) > El viernes 22 de abril de 2011, Camaleón > > > > (...) > > > > There must be a string that uniquely identifies the converters despite > > the device being attached on them... for instance, how about the serial > >

Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light?

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:50:07 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Apr 2011, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:14:35 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> >> > My HP laptop tends to boot with a dim screen. >> >> (...) >> >> Hum... some of the new HP notebooks have a sensor that automatical

Re: Using Files Without Mounting A Share From Another System

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:42:56 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Apr 22, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:03:00 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> >> (...) >> >>> I need a way, on Linux, to access files on a network share, which >>> could be SMB or NFS (or something else) with

Re: Openjdk vs. sun-java in Debian

On 2011-04-22, Klistvud wrote: > Howdie, fellow Debianites! > > I need somebody to explain to me in lay terms what's "wrong" with Java > in Debian. I'm running Squeeze and have recently bumped into two > Java-related issues: > > 1. The site http://ndt.switch.ch/ warns me about a missing Java R

Re: lenny to squeeze dbus-daemon

On Vi, 22 apr 11, 18:28:23, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:34:26 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > > I did my first server upgrade from Lenny to Squeeze the other day and > > dbus-daemon was installed automatically. > > You should have instructed apt to do not install recommended packag

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

On Jo, 21 apr 11, 11:55:05, George Standish wrote: > On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: > > >So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by > >altering my APT sources? > > I was interested if this had any chance of working, so I tried in a > VM to go from Ubuntu 10.

Re: file systems

On Jo, 21 apr 11, 22:10:10, Chris Brennan wrote: > > You mentioned something about doing this on USB (solid-state?) storage? You > might want to also consider reading up on USB's general policy about write > few, read many. In a nutshell, most USB devices don't like to be written to > many many ti

Re: lenny to squeeze dbus-daemon

Stan Hoeppner (s...@hardwarefreak.com on 2011-04-22 13:12 -0500): > ~$ aptitude why dbus > i libdbus-1-3 Recommends dbus > > ~$ aptitude why libdbus-1-3 > i dbus Depends libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2) > > It appears my only dependency is circular. Not necessarily. Sadly, aptitude why only discovers o

Re: changing my e-mail address

On Du, 17 apr 11, 10:19:30, sal migondis wrote: > > That's not what he asked, is it...?!!! > > OP: > > "how do I MODIFY my address WITHOUT doing > unsubscribe/subscribe" > > Wise guy: > > "The answer is... unsubscribe.. subscribe" > > HElloooOO...??? Anybody home...??? > > I took a quick

Re: changing my e-mail address

On Lu, 18 apr 11, 14:15:36, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2011, Jonathan Matthews wrote: > > >>    "how to modify my address without doing unsubscribe/subscribe?" > > > >What difference do you think there is between those 2 operations? > >Hint: none at all. > > your arithmetic seems c

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

On 23 April 2011 04:24, wrote: > George Standish said: > > > Ubuntu regularly has issues upgrading from one version to another, now > you expect it to "upgrade" to a new distro...  This idea doesn't seem > like a good idea to me. > In fairness to Ubuntu, I've been dist-upgrading since 8.10, and t

Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light?

On 22 Apr 2011, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:14:35 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > My HP laptop tends to boot with a dim screen. > > (...) > > Hum... some of the new HP notebooks have a sensor that automatically > adjusts the brightness of the screen depending on the ambient l

Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light?

On 22 Apr 2011, shawn wilson wrote: >Might try turning on all kernel logging and look to see if there's any >logging hook for proc, sysfs, and udev. > >If it is bright when you first turn the machine on and then dims, the goal >would be to synchronize a clock with your computer (nt