tomld: fully automatic MAC configuration solution

2011-07-26 Thread Horvath Andras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Members, I'd like to announce the availability of the first beta release of my tomld project. This is a deamon managing fully automatic MAC configuration without any user interaction. (supported platforms are: Debian 6 and up, Ubuntu 10.10 and

tomld: fully automatic MAC configuration solution

2011-07-26 Thread Horvath Andras
Dear Members, I'd like to announce the availability of the first beta release of my tomld project. This is a deamon managing fully automatic MAC configuration without any user interaction. (supported platforms are: Debian 6 and up, Ubuntu 10.10 and up) My site: http://log69.com/tomld_en.html F

Re: which command I should use to output sequentially,

2011-07-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> lina writes: > On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] >> $ sed -e 's/^\(\s*\w\+\s\+[^0-9[:blank:]]\+\)\([[:digit:]]\+\)/\1 \2/' \ >> | sort -nk 3,3 -k1,1 \ >> | sed -e 's/^\(\s*\w\+\s\+[^0-9[:blank:]]\+\)\s\([[:digit:]]\+\)/\1\2/' > Thanks, but there i

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-26 Thread Dom
On 27/07/11 02:57, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20110726_190017, Dom wrote: The Wheezy netinst-cdrom image can certainly be used with a USB stick (and a USB hard disk too). I've successfully used this method to install a number of test systems recently. I'd like to try this. Can you give some deta

Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 06:15:16 pm Bob Proulx wrote: > Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > What's best practices? Method or pointer to docs appreciated. > > I like running Stable machines. But web browsers need to keep > current. It would be great if they were in squeeze-updates, aka the > old volatile

Re: which command I should use to output sequentially,

2011-07-26 Thread lina
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> lina   writes: > >        First of all, a kindly reminder: there's a news:comp.unix.shell >        newsgroup (also available via Google Groups [1], though a proper >        newsreader software is recommended), with a few truly >        kn

Re: which command I should use to output sequentially,

2011-07-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> lina writes: First of all, a kindly reminder: there's a news:comp.unix.shell newsgroup (also available via Google Groups [1], though a proper newsreader software is recommended), with a few truly knowledgeable folks among the subscribers, which such question

Re: which command I should use to output sequentially,

2011-07-26 Thread lina
I just remember the sort command, but I still don't know how to get the ideal one, after I tried the sort -n -k2 , something changed on field 2 but it's still a bit away from the one I need. I attached the text, Thanks, 238CHO C10 3617 1.697 5.334 9.317 238CHO C11 3624 1.665

Re: disable fbcon in Debian Wheezy (Live)?

2011-07-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 01:23:47 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Camaleón writes: > On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:23:54 +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] Otherwise, fbcon works pretty much correctly for the case in question. As per lsmod, the driver is i915.

which command I should use to output sequentially,

2011-07-26 Thread lina
Hi, For something like 1a O28 1a H29 1a C1 1a C3 1a C8 1a C2 2a O28 2a H29 2a C1 2a C3 2a C8 2a C2 How can I make the output for the field 2 from C1, C2, C3... O28, H29? but still keep the first field as 1a 2a 3a ... Thanks for any suggestions, --

Re: sound problem with lenny

2011-07-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Long Wind writes: […] > I have made some progress If sound doesn't work commands below can > config sound: > rmmod snd-pcsp > rmmod snd-sb16 > modprobe snd-sb16 isapnp=0 Is there a line like the following somewhere in /etc/modprobe.d/? options snd-sb16 isapnp=0 >

Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011Bob Proulx wrote: to keep my desktop Stable but have the > latest web browsers from Unstable Sid. > > Bob You could put this in your sources.list: deb http://deb.opera.com/opera-beta/ unstable non-free deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free deb http://ftp.d

what is the difference between "/usr/bin/X" and "/usr/bin/Xorg"?

2011-07-26 Thread jiang lei
hi all: is there any difference between "/usr/bin/X" and "/usr/bin/Xorg"? On my debian box, /usr/bin/X is not symlink to /usr/bin/Xorg, and i can start X server with /usr/bin/X but fail with /usr/bin/Xorg? i google it but find nothing, could any one here help me? thanks in advance.

cryptdisks runlevel configuration for lvm2 + encrypted swap file

2011-07-26 Thread Jimmy Wu
Dear List, I have an encrypted swap file located inside /var, which is on a separate LVM2 logical volume from /, but it does not get mounted on boot. Everything I've been able to find either implies my setup should work or is geared toward swap partitions, not swap files. I even put aside my

Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
on 16:35 Tue 26 Jul, Greg Madden (gomadtr...@gci.net) wrote: > > > On Tuesday 26 July 2011 04:05:47 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > > I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome / > > Chromium and Firefox. > > > > Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13

Re: Debian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
T Elcor wrote: > Jerome BENOIT wrote: > > I have a very naive question regarding the "multiarch" > > transition: > > will the upgrade of Debian box from Squeeze to Wheezy be > > messy ? or as smooth as previous upgrades ? > > In my case, the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy was rather > straightforw

Re: Debian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support

2011-07-26 Thread T Elcor
--- On Tue, 7/26/11, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I have a very naive question regarding the "multiarch" > transition: > will the upgrade of Debian box from Squeeze to Wheezy be > messy ? or as smooth as previous upgrades ? In my case, the upgrade from squeeze to wheezy was rather straightforward and

Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > What's best practices? Method or pointer to docs appreciated. I like running Stable machines. But web browsers need to keep current. It would be great if they were in squeeze-updates, aka the old volatile. So instead I run a Sid chroot and install Firefox and Chromium t

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Robert Holtzman wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > AFAIK it is still true that unless you have taken special measures > > (e.g. ~/.xsession) then the .bashrc environment will not be present to > > the GNOME desktop. > > It sure seems to be present out of the box on mine (Lenny and Squeeze). > In addi

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-26 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110726_190017, Dom wrote: > On 26/07/11 18:38, Mark Grieveson wrote: > >>for the love of everything that doesn't suck... > >> > >>could it be any harder to find a USB stick image to install debian > >>from? > >> > (snip) > > > >Wow, I just spent the last five minutes laughing. Even though I d

Re: SATA resetting, WTF ?!

2011-07-26 Thread briand
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:04:55 +0200 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:31:24 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote in message > <20110726073124.7b87d...@windy.deldotd.com>: > > > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:10:30 +0200 > > Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > > > > Interesting ! It only did this for a

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Rob Hurle
> After I made a post, I phoned Samsung support, just out of curiosity. > As normal, I faced up a girl from the 1st line support. Yes, she was not > an engineer. But she firmly new what Linux is, she was well aware of the > existence of different distributions, their versions, and the difference >

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:13:34 -0400, Michael Checca wrote: > Again, Brother support is horrible. I wouldn't expect them to be > engineers, but to at least have heard of Linux and know that is a kernel > not an OS :) After I made a post, I phoned Samsung support, just out of curiosity. As normal,

Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 04:05:47 pm Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: > I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome / > Chromium and Firefox. > > Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13, and > Firefox 5 isn't available either. > > I'd like to manage either / b

Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread ZykoticK9
On 26/07/11 08:05 PM, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome / Chromium and Firefox. Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13, and Firefox 5 isn't available either. I'd like to manage either / both from my package repos,

Re: Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Michael Checca
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 20:05:47 -0400, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote: I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome / Chromium and Firefox. Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13, and Firefox 5 isn't available either. I'd like to manage either / both from

Best practices for current Chrome/Chromium and/or Firefox/Icewasel in squeeze?

2011-07-26 Thread Dr. Ed Morbius
I've recently been made aware of some of the benefits of the Chrome / Chromium and Firefox. Running Squeeze, the most recent Chromium release is from May 13, and Firefox 5 isn't available either. I'd like to manage either / both from my package repos, but be reasonably current. What's best pract

Re: SATA resetting, WTF ?!

2011-07-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:31:24 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote in message <20110726073124.7b87d...@windy.deldotd.com>: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:10:30 +0200 > Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > > Interesting ! It only did this for about 10 min. and then stopped. ..bad disk? Happens... -- ..med venn

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:04:08 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:52:20PM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: >> >> Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. >> >> I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers

Re: Debian 7 'Wheezy' to introduce multiarch support

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: I have a very naive question regarding the "multiarch" transition: will the upgrade of Debian box from Squeeze to Wheezy be messy ? or as smooth as previous upgrades ? Jerome On 26/07/11 13:04, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote: ---

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Michael Checca
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:52:20 -0400, Juan R. de Silva wrote: I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers and have no idea how good their drivers/support are. I've never used a Sa

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Jerome BENOIT
On 26/07/11 23:04, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:52:20PM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers and have no idea how good the

Re: help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:52:20PM +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: > > Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. > > I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers and > have no idea how good their drivers/support are. Check

help to choose right printer to buy

2011-07-26 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I'm looking to buy one of these B/W Laser printers: Samsung ML-2855ND or Brother HL-2270DW. I have no personal experience with printers of these manufacturers and have no idea how good their drivers/support are. Samsung lists as supported only few distributions of old versions and offers so ca

Re: VirtualBox: sharing files between the host and guest OS

2011-07-26 Thread Jason Hsu
The little detail I missed: For some reason, you cannot use "share" as the name of the folder. I changed the name of the folder in the host OS from "share" to "guest", updated the mount command and the Devices->Shared Folders setup, and the file sharing now works. -- Jason Hsu Founder and le

Re: VirtualBox: sharing files between the host and guest OS

2011-07-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:12:58 -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: > How do I share files between the host OS and guest OS? (Both are > Linux.) > > The version of VirtualBox I'm using is 4.0.8 r71778. > > Until recently, I was using an older version of VirtualBox and had no > difficulty sharing files between

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:16:12PM +0200, Dirk wrote: > for the love of everything that doesn't suck... > > could it be any harder to find a USB stick image to install debian from? > > i ente ..snip of rant. > FUCKING INSTALL ASSHOLE DEBIAN FROM MY USB STICK? > > who

VirtualBox: sharing files between the host and guest OS

2011-07-26 Thread Jason Hsu
How do I share files between the host OS and guest OS? (Both are Linux.) The version of VirtualBox I'm using is 4.0.8 r71778. Until recently, I was using an older version of VirtualBox and had no difficulty sharing files between the host and guest OS. In VirtualBox 4.0, I have yet to successfu

Re: MediaWiki 1.17.0 new stable release from Wikimedia

2011-07-26 Thread John Foster
On 7/21/2011 1:24 AM, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 11:46 PM, John W Foster wrote: There is a new stable release from Wikimedia of MediaWiki 1.17.0 Any idea when we will see it packaged for Debian. It is said to support substitution// {{subst}}& {{safesubst}} // so that the error m

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:29:43PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Steve Kleene wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:53:28PM +, I wrote: > > > > > From my command line, I tried > > > > > > BROWSER=/usr/bin/iceweasel export BROWSER > > > > > > but found that reading an html e-mail then brough

Re: OT - stitching together 2 pdf files

2011-07-26 Thread Itay
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, AG wrote: Hi all Sorry for the OT, but does anyone know of a way to stitch 2 separate pdf files together to make one large one? Check the pdfjam package. HTH Itay I'm pretty sure acroread won't, but I was wondering about Xpdf or possibly a command-line approach? Th

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-26 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 02:39:24AM +, Steve Kleene wrote: > > On 2011-07-26 00:43:30 GMT, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > > Try putting that line in .bashrc, log out and back in. Don't forget the > > "&&". > > I just did try that with the "&&", and I still got sensible-browser when I > used metam

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
shawn wilson wrote: > Ummm, earlier printers than that didn't have moveable heads like that. There > was this printer that used a chain with a few sets of letters and 80 > hammers. When the right letter moved under the proper hammer, it fired (and > if you asked it to print a row with letters in th

Re: Whitespace problem with bash script for Icedove

2011-07-26 Thread Mark Neyhart
Jimmy Wu wrote: > 1. Just use the shell's globbing - it was meant for this purpose - > instead of assigning a glob to a variable. Glob expansions can be > iterated over in loops correctly and safely. Expanded strings are > much more tricky to get right (if it is even possible) and less safe > wh

Re: manually adding root certificates

2011-07-26 Thread Arno Schuring
Hi, apologies for the delay, your response did an ACME ink on me :) Camaleón (noela...@gmail.com on 2011-07-24 16:48 +): > On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 17:35:10 +0200, Arno Schuring wrote: > > > does anyone here have experience with adding CA certificates to > > Debian? My ISP is using "USERTrust Leg

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-26 Thread Brian
On Tue 26 Jul 2011 at 13:38:14 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > However, I wonder why I'd have to use a 16 MB iso image for a usb > stick, rather than a regular install image. Wonder why no longer; read *all* the messages in this thread; recognise the power of an iso-hybrid image. :) >

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul E Condon wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > DEL 0x7f is a control character. It is not a printable character. > > And its history is interesting. > > The original name for DEL was RUBOUT. It was used by telegraphers to > rub out a mistaken punch in a paper tapes that they were preparing off > li

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Steve Kleene wrote: > I should clarify that I am doing all of this from command lines under a > window manager (fvwm). When I call startx, the first xterm's settings come > from ~/.bash_login. But if I call more xterms from there, any settings in > ~/.bashrc override those. This was easily verif

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-26 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:00:17 +0100, Dom wrote: > The Wheezy netinst-cdrom image can certainly be used with a USB stick > (and a USB hard disk too). I've successfully used this method to install > a number of test systems recently. And Squeeze. No problems at all with a USB stick. -- To UNSUBS

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-26 Thread Dom
On 26/07/11 18:38, Mark Grieveson wrote: for the love of everything that doesn't suck... could it be any harder to find a USB stick image to install debian from? (snip) Wow, I just spent the last five minutes laughing. Even though I don't feel this is the most productive way to ask for assi

Re: can't suspend in linux-image-3.0.0-1

2011-07-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-07-25 20:39 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-07-25 20:29 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I can't issue 'acpitool -S' in linux-image-3.0.0-1: Function Do_Suspend : could not open file : /proc/acpi/sleep. You must have write access to /proc

Re: fstab for usb devices in Squeeze

2011-07-26 Thread Mark Grieveson
> My fstab doesn't have any entries for usb disks. I use fluxbox and I > use pcmanfm (a file manager) to mount/unmount usb sticks. > > -Rob > That's interesting. A while back, when I tossed out gnome and gdm in favour of fluxbox and startx, I likely also removed automatic mounting processes in

OT: Re: BoF?

2011-07-26 Thread Dejan Ribič
Dne 26.7.2011 16:55, piše Sudev Barar: On 26-Jul-2011 8:10 PM, "T o n g" > wrote: > > Hi, > > What does BoF stands for? Birds of feather - common interest group ?? -- Sudev Hi, in our country we once had an electronics store named BoF (= building of fun

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/26/2011 9:15 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: >Never assume :) So, if you were me, which options would you include > or drop...I don't need PAE (one gig of memory in this machine) and I now > know it's not a multi-core, so CONFIG_X86_SMP is the only one needed ?? > I have compiled kernels befor

Re: IDT High Definition Audio Codec soundcard

2011-07-26 Thread Andreas Berglund
On 2011-07-25 18:10, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:01:16 +0200, Andreas Berglund wrote: Camaleón skrev 2011-07-24 16:16: (...) Anyway, what's your motherboard? Maybe you can start to look some tip from there... I don't know the brand but I do know it's an H67 Express Cross yo

Re: fstab for usb devices in Squeeze

2011-07-26 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello.  Back in the good old days when I used Lenny, I was able to > mount my usb stick, mount my digital camera, and sync my palm pilot, > at the same time.  After upgrading to Squeeze, this now seems like an > impossible dream. > > My fsta

Re: can't suspend in linux-image-3.0.0-1

2011-07-26 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-07-25 20:39 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-07-25 20:29 +0200, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I can't issue 'acpitool -S' in linux-image-3.0.0-1: Function Do_Suspend : could not open file : /proc/acpi/sleep. You must have write access to /proc/acpi/sleep to suspend y

Re: BoF?

2011-07-26 Thread Sudev Barar
On 26-Jul-2011 8:10 PM, "T o n g" wrote: > > Hi, > > What does BoF stands for? Birds of feather - common interest group ?? -- Sudev

Re: BoF?

2011-07-26 Thread Huang, Tao
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:40 PM, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > What does BoF stands for? Birds of a Feather http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_Feather_(computing) Cheers, Tao -- http://huangtao.me/ School of Mathematical Sciences Peking University -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: BoF?

2011-07-26 Thread Michael Checca
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:40:10 -0400, T o n g wrote: Hi, What does BoF stands for? Is it a Debian specific thing? because I can't find a suitable def in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BoF#Technology Usage examples, Test Driven Development in Debian BoF Debian Events BoF Debian Wiki BoF ...

Re: libreoffice在KDE 4.6下无法启动

2011-07-26 Thread Huang, Tao
2011/7/21 Di Shaodong : > 如题,无论是通过菜单还是通过终端,都是只出现启动画面,然后进度条不走,然后便消失了。更无法理解的是,通 > 过终端启动居然没有任何提示信息,就好像程序已经正常启动了,但事实上没有。各位有谁遇到过同样的问题,有谁 > 知道如何解决吗? > > p.s. 我用的是Debian Sid最新版。libreoffice-kde已装。 我前段時間遇到過 要關閉一個libreoffice默認開啟的選項才能啟動 好像是qt的bug還是哪個包帶進來的bug 記不清了 其實設一個環境變量就可以解決 讓libreoffice使用gtk 現在找不到當時是怎麼改的

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-26 Thread Huang, Tao
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:15 PM, thuilliercharmet wrote: > " not sure that your minority will be part of my "global" diversity . " > franckly and directly. > > With my best that i can at the moment because i have the same problem > than you : no dvd reader (means i am limited in choice OR nob

Re: SATA resetting, WTF ?!

2011-07-26 Thread briand
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:10:30 +0200 Stanisław Findeisen wrote: Interesting ! It only did this for about 10 min. and then stopped. This problem has shown up in the kernel before. Not sure how to try and reproduce it. Well, time to reboot with 2.6.39 and see what happens. Brian > On 2011-07-

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-26 Thread Huang, Tao
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Dirk wrote: > for the love of everything that doesn't suck... > > could it be any harder to find a USB stick image to install debian from? [snip] debian iso images have native usb stick support. what u want is a one-liner. and i won't explain too much to u, in cas

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-26 Thread Frank McCormick
On 26/07/11 04:49 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: I don't believe CONFIG_X86_PAE is the cause of Frank's problem. I believe it lies in two or more other config options. It just happens that he's using a pre-compiled canned Debian kernel that seems to have other features turned on that are causing hi

Re: Linux RAID for Perfomance and supported Card

2011-07-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/26/2011 6:34 AM, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > A few of my servers are running on Linux Software RAID 1 and is > meeting disk I/O bottle Neck. What is the nature of the bottleneck, IOPS or throughput? What is the workload? Email, database, file server, web server, etc? How much disk space

Re: Change Iceweasel identification SOLVED

2011-07-26 Thread mark
On Tuesday 26 July 2011 9:46:57 am Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:38 AM, mark wrote: > > HI, > > > > I'm running Lenny with Iceweasel 3.0.6. I understand that I can't > > upgrade the browser without upgrading to sid, which I'm not > > willing to do at this time. > > > > Problem

Re: Change Iceweasel identification

2011-07-26 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011, 09:38-0400, mark wrote: > HI, > > I'm running Lenny with Iceweasel 3.0.6. I understand that I can't > upgrade the browser without upgrading to sid, which I'm not willing > to do at this time. > > Problem that I am having is that when I access yahoo mail, it tells me > th

Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

2011-07-26 Thread lee
Andrew McGlashan writes: > Hi, > > lee wrote: >> Andrew McGlashan writes: >>> lee wrote: That you don't want the problem to exist doesn't help. Look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=+635184 and tell me if you know a better solution. >>> 100M logfiles via email

Re: Change Iceweasel identification

2011-07-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:38 AM, mark wrote: > HI, > > I'm running Lenny with Iceweasel 3.0.6. I understand that I can't > upgrade the browser without upgrading to sid, which I'm not willing > to do at this time. > > Problem that I am having is that when I access yahoo mail, it tells me > that in

Change Iceweasel identification

2011-07-26 Thread mark
HI, I'm running Lenny with Iceweasel 3.0.6. I understand that I can't upgrade the browser without upgrading to sid, which I'm not willing to do at this time. Problem that I am having is that when I access yahoo mail, it tells me that in order to use the new version of yahoo mail, I have to use

Re: Transfering large files (was: Unison hangs on copy)

2011-07-26 Thread Victor Munoz
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 03:24:11PM +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Victor Munoz wrote: > > > >So I tried rsyncinc another file, 23 M in size (with --progress > >option), and surprise, it stops when 11% transfer is reached. Tried > >with scp, and same magic number: 11% and it stops. > > What happen

Re: Transfering large files (was: Unison hangs on copy)

2011-07-26 Thread Victor Munoz
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 07:25:41AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote: > > So I tried rsyncinc another file, 23 M in size (with --progress > > option), and surprise, it stops when 11% transfer is reached. Tried > > with scp, and same magic number: 11% and it stops. > > I'm somewhat surprised, because when

Re: Transfering large files (was: Unison hangs on copy)

2011-07-26 Thread Claudius Hubig
Victor Munoz wrote: >Both replicas are very large, and the few listed changes showed no >large files, or so I thought. But it turns out I was wrong, and a 20M >file was involved. I deleted the cache file, and reconstructed the >mirror, and I finally discovered that unison hangs when this >particul

Re: Fwd: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-26 Thread Victor Munoz
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 09:10:35PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > > I think that I read somewhere that Unison is barely being developed any more > (I'll look for a citation), basically only major bug/security fixes, but no > new features, as I recall. I have been looking for a replacement for it.

Re: Unison hangs on copy

2011-07-26 Thread Victor Munoz
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 12:16:49AM +0300, Johannes Fichtinger wrote: > Hi > > On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 06:07:58 Victor Munoz wrote: > > > Today, I lost the ability to synchronize between two machines, one had > > I just wonder, are there any changes on this? If not, should we submit a bug > repo

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-26 Thread Dirk
On 07/26/11 13:43, Gavin wrote: On 26 July 2011 13:16, Dirk wrote: for the love of everything that doesn't suck... could it be any harder to find a USB stick image to install debian from? Go back to Ubuntu, ASSHOLE!!! i got angry.. :o -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: debian sensible browser help

2011-07-26 Thread Steve Kleene
On 2011-07-26 00:43:30 GMT, Robert Holtzman wrote: > Try putting that line in .bashrc, log out and back in. Don't forget the > "&&". On 2011-07-26 02:39:24 GMT, I wrote: > I just did try that with the "&&", and I still got sensible-browser when I > used metamail. Maybe that's unexpected, but at

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-26 Thread Gavin
On 26 July 2011 13:16, Dirk wrote: > for the love of everything that doesn't suck... > > could it be any harder to find a USB stick image to install debian from? Go back to Ubuntu, ASSHOLE!!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Linux RAID for Perfomance and supported Card

2011-07-26 Thread Siju George
Hi, A few of my servers are running on Linux Software RAID 1 and is meeting disk I/O bottle Neck. I am considering other RAID Levels to increase Performance as well as keep the Redundancy. I guess I should Go for Hardware RAID 10 as per my colleague's advise after reading through many reviews on

Re: More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

2011-07-26 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 26 Jul 2011 04:18:44 -0400 (EDT), Christoph Pilka wrote: > > in the last months I've published more than 150 Debian howtos which > are online now at ... Looks promising, Christoph. But it appears to be all in German, even when I click on the UK flag. After all, this is the English list

Re: Transfering large files (was: Unison hangs on copy)

2011-07-26 Thread Randy Kramer
I've reordered some of your comments for my convenience in responding. On Tuesday 26 July 2011 12:32:18 am Victor Munoz wrote: > Thought you guys who helped me with my original question would like > to know how this evolved. Thank you! > So I tried rsyncinc another file, 23 M in size (with --pro

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-26 Thread shawn wilson
On Jul 26, 2011 12:51 AM, "Bob Proulx" wrote: > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > but 2 are non printing: 0x20 and 0x7F > > I leave the last step as an exercise for the reader. ;-) > > I hate to make this thread longer... Sigh. > > Whether something is printable or not was easier to see in the old > day

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-26 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 03:48:49PM +1000, yudi v wrote: > I am pretty sure you are mistaken, > > 126-32 = 94 > and space is a printable character. Space is a printable character. The C isprint(3) function says: #include #include #include int main() { char upper = 'a', lower = 'a'; for(;

Re: osx / screen

2011-07-26 Thread shawn wilson
Thanks but no, it was my mac terminal emulator somehow messed the session up. I looked at the environment for a bit but ended up doing what I should have done to begin with: ctrl+a d, exit, reconnect screen -r and everything is good. On Jul 26, 2011 2:18 AM, "André Berger" wrote: > * shawn wilson

Re: What are the 94 printable characters from the 128 characters of ASCII table?

2011-07-26 Thread Jon Dowland
Oh. I missed half the thread when I posted my reply. apologies for the noise. -- 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/20110726091821.GH1860@pris

Re: Problems with PAE kernel sort of solved.

2011-07-26 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 7/25/2011 11:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> You early adopter you. I haven't rebooted my machine to the new >>> kernel today yet. :-) > > And since then I have rebooted. All good here. :-) But not a PAE > kernel here since I am using 64-bits. I

More than 150 up-to-date Debian howtos & tutorials online (server, virtualization, etc)

2011-07-26 Thread Christoph Pilka
Hi folks, in the last months I've published more than 150 Debian howtos which are online now at http://www.asconix.com/howtos/debian The howtos are covering the following topics so far: * Debian as infrastructure (BIND, Samba ...) * Webservers (Apache2, Nginx, Lighttpd ...) * Databases (MySQL,