Re: free software & accessibility

2011-08-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Scott Ferguson writes: > On 27/08/11 13:57, Ivan Shmakov wrote: >> [Cross-posting to both sfd-discuss@ and planning-ru@.] […] >> Our team would probably have joined the deal, but, unfortunately, we >> don't apparently have anything to offer to the sight impaired at our >> disposal

Re: free software & accessibility

2011-08-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/08/11 13:57, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Scott Ferguson writes: [Cross-posting to both sfd-discuss@ and planning-ru@.] […] > GNU/Linux provides superior alternatives to JAWS - the only reason > more sight impaired people don't ditch MS is because they don't hear > about it - a

free software & accessibility

2011-08-26 Thread Ivan Shmakov
> Scott Ferguson writes: [Cross-posting to both sfd-discuss@ and planning-ru@.] […] > GNU/Linux provides superior alternatives to JAWS - the only reason > more sight impaired people don't ditch MS is because they don't hear > about it - and because they get stupid advice (you nee

Re: [OT] Nagios question

2011-08-26 Thread David Parker
- Original Message - From: Brad Alexander Date: Friday, August 26, 2011 8:13 pm Subject: [Spam: 5.2] Re: [OT] Nagios question To: David Parker > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 6:41 PM, David Parker wrote: > - Original Message - > From: Brad Alexander > Date: Friday, August 26, 2011 6

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/08/11 08:10, Lisi wrote: On Friday 26 August 2011 13:47:07 RiverWind wrote: Many blind computer users turn to Linux in order to escape the necessity of having to use MS Windows. I think that that statement could be more accurately written: Many computer users turn to Linux in order to e

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-26 Thread D G Teed
I started another reply, and it had lots of steps to try to repair this situation, but then I rethought. If this is a fresh install, and you have no data to keep on the Debian system, here is a bulletproof solution: Reinstall. When you reinstall, don't do anything fancy with network. Just let i

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/08/11 02:25, Martin McCormick wrote: How hard is the ext3 file system on present-day flash drives? I have some older Dell systems that run lenny and I put a flash drive on as the boot drive on one of those systems and it works great, but for how long? What got me to thinkin

Re: [OT] Nagios question

2011-08-26 Thread David Parker
- Original Message - From: Brad Alexander Date: Friday, August 26, 2011 6:07 pm Subject: [OT] Nagios question To: Debian-user List > There is a nagios plugin called check_ubc, which checks for increasing > /proc/user_beancounters. This is an indication of a spec that needs to be > tune

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS I believe that you say the truth, but something seems to be broken for your Debian. -- Speeding Cars - Imogen Heap (cover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ0_yUXidDI&feature=related -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2011-08-27 at 00:19 +0200, Ralf Jung wrote: > Well, as far as I can tell it runs "make oldconfig" each time. No, since I compile by self written scripts and I have to run make oldconfig by the scripts, because I wish to do this, it isn't done automagically. It's essential to do this or som

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > No, since I compile by self written scripts and I have to run make > oldconfig by the scripts, because I wish to do this, it isn't done > automagically. It's essential to do this or something similar, when > switching to another kernel version. If you stay at the same version > nothing will

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > You need to run > > make-kpkg --rootcmd fakeroot --initrd kernel-image kernel-headers I put the fakeroot into the kernel-pkg.conf file, should have mentioned that, sorry. > It's not doing any black magic and it never touches the configuration. > Perhaps there's an issue with preparing De

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-26 Thread Lisi
On Friday 26 August 2011 13:47:07 RiverWind wrote: > Many blind computer users turn to Linux in order to escape > the necessity of having to use MS Windows. I think that that statement could be more accurately written: Many computer users turn to Linux in order to escape the necessity of having

[OT] Nagios question

2011-08-26 Thread Brad Alexander
I have beat my head against this for a couple of days now, and I can't figure it out. I have an OpsView (nagios3) server. Two of the servers I am monitoring are running Proxmox-VE, which is a Debian-based distro that allows easy management of KVM and OpenVZ machines, though my CPU only allows it to

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-26 Thread Brad Alexander
All I can offer is some almost-on-target empirical evidence. My daughter has had an Acer Aspire One for 3 or 4 years. Her /home was an 8GB Sandisk SD card. It never had any problems...until her husband noticed he had an SD card slot on his brand new win7 laptop...and grabbed her card and Windows pa

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
> > > Forwarded Message > > From: Ralf Jung > > To: debian-user > > Subject: Building the kernel myself > > Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:18:10 +0200 > > [snip] > > I found tons of documentation on the net, but most of it is horribly > > outdated. > > Essentially there seem to b

Re: How to control network speed?

2011-08-26 Thread green
Artur Frydel wrote at 2011-08-26 14:03 -0500: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds > wrote: > > Hi, > >  For some reason, I have a linux machine that has to have a network > > bandwidth limitation for the whole system. So I looked into command > > That is why, because you using

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-26 Thread green
green wrote at 2011-08-26 15:06 -0500: > Martin McCormick wrote at 2011-08-26 11:25 -0500: > > How hard is the ext3 file system on present-day flash drives? > > Not much worse than without a journal I think, but ...that is just the feeling I have gotten from trying in vain to answer that questi

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-26 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 08/26/2011 04:08 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > All ISPs in Australia employ PPPoE. > PPPoA is available, in many instances also. And elsewhere too, but your modem appears to be a router. In this case, it handles PPPoE by itself, and all you need is to get an ip from it via dhcp. It probably has

Re: A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-26 Thread green
Martin McCormick wrote at 2011-08-26 11:25 -0500: > How hard is the ext3 file system on present-day flash drives? Not much worse than without a journal I think, but > What got me to thinking was that I have a system using > conventional magnetic-based hard drives and ext3 file systems. > T

Re: Fwd: Billion 7800N

2011-08-26 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 26 August 2011 05:05, D G Teed wrote: > On a re-read of what I wrote earlier, it might be a little confusing where > I say you > need static network set up and then instruct on how to do DHCP. Perhaps I > can just make an assumption or two and give you some simple steps. > > Assuming your ISP

Re: How to control network speed?

2011-08-26 Thread Artur Frydel
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Hi, >  For some reason, I have a linux machine that has to have a network > bandwidth limitation for the whole system. So I looked into command That is why, because you using wrong filters. And limiting download on single machine is n

problem with [SiS] AC'97

2011-08-26 Thread SZERVÁC Attila
Hello, I've selected LXDE in a Hungarian Squeeze install. All relevant controls are up in alsamixer, but there is no sound. Pls, hlp, thx! Idea? -- # alsactl init; cat /dev/sndstat Unknown hardware: "ICH" "Realtek ALC655 rev 0" "AC97a:414c4760" "0x1043" "0x810f" Hardware is initialized using a

Re: [OT] Booting from USB

2011-08-26 Thread Joe
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 11:26:16 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:03:17PM +0100, Joe wrote: >> > > > I have one computer with every boot device disabled in BIOS except > > the primary hard drive, but if I leave a USB storage device > > connected to it, even a camera, it will at

A Question about Journalling File Systems and Flash Drives

2011-08-26 Thread Martin McCormick
How hard is the ext3 file system on present-day flash drives? I have some older Dell systems that run lenny and I put a flash drive on as the boot drive on one of those systems and it works great, but for how long? What got me to thinking was that I have a system using conventional

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Ralf Jung wrote: > Hi, > > > at the risk of a bit of self-promotion, i wrote an online course for > > beginners to kernel programming, the first part of which is free and > > walks you through how to configure, build and reboot a new kernel: > > > > http://crashcourse.ca/int

Re: Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > at the risk of a bit of self-promotion, i wrote an online course for > beginners to kernel programming, the first part of which is free and > walks you through how to configure, build and reboot a new kernel: > > http://crashcourse.ca/introduction-linux-kernel-programming/introduction-li

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-26 Thread Curt
On 2011-08-26, RiverWind wrote: > > If I am not mistaken, in order to run any script, it must be saved > in a certain format. How is that done? > I just tried the following out and it seems to work quite well (from Bob and Shane). curty@einstein:~$ file=cookbook.txt curty@einstein:~$ for chapter

Building the kernel myself

2011-08-26 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi list, I am trying to build the linux kernel myself... it's one of the things I always wanted to do ;-) plus I submitted some bugerports against the kernel and would like to test the patches there were written to fix them. I found tons of documentation on the net, but most of it is horribly o

black screen after install menu.

2011-08-26 Thread jeremy jozwik
hello list. i have decided to make the plunge from installing linux on my secondary computers, machines that dont matter if they are down for weeks at a time, to installing on my main workstation. unfortunately it is not going well so far. with bootable cds inserted, i get to the debian installer

Re: googleearth

2011-08-26 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Install libgl1-nvidia-glx-ia32. Patrick On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Christopher Judd wrote: > Hi, > >        This morning I downloaded and installed google-earth- > stable_current_amd64.deb from the google site.  When I run it, a blank screen > appears, which is pretty useless. > >        

googleearth

2011-08-26 Thread Christopher Judd
Hi, This morning I downloaded and installed google-earth- stable_current_amd64.deb from the google site. When I run it, a blank screen appears, which is pretty useless. I have an nvidia graphics card with nvidia-kernel-173xx and nvidia- glx-legacy-173xx installed. I also have

Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tablet and Debian

2011-08-26 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone have any experience with this tablet, specifically whether squeeze can be installed on it, as apparently can be done with the Asus eee? I want to buy a tablet and these two are on my short list. Regards, Ken Heard -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: A Bit of a Strange Situation

2011-08-26 Thread RiverWind
Hey There, I wish to sincerely thank everyone who has responded to my queries concerning the Linux Cookbook. Very few if any of your instructions and/or descriptions have interfered with my screen-reader. I would have disclosed initially the fact that I was a speech user, but I honestly thought

zabbix-client abruptly closes connection with zabbix server on localhost in squeeze

2011-08-26 Thread Siju George
== When I enabled monitoring for localhost on the zabbix-server I get these error messages in the zabbix-server.log file. 1179:20110826:164531.270 Item [Zabbix Server:agent.ping] error: Got empty string from [127.0.0.1]. Assuming that agent dropped connection because of access

Re: [OT] Booting from USB

2011-08-26 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:03:17PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:59:35 -0400 > "John A. Sullivan III" wrote: > > > Hello, all. This is off-topic because I'm not asking how to create a > > Debian boot stick. There seem to be good how-to documents for that. > > However, we are thinki

wheezy installation

2011-08-26 Thread Borys Takunov
Hello everyone! I tried to get Debian testing working on my Asus F8Sa laptop with Core2Duo and Ati Radeon Mobility HD2600. Unforutantly i failed whatever I tried. Installing Squeeze works fine with both Gnome and KDE. The modification of sources.list and apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade fai

unfriendly function from aptitude(hold and upgrade)

2011-08-26 Thread sppmg
Hi all. I found a unfriendly function from aptitude(0.6.3-4). state: I hold a package,and this package in the upgradable too. now I upgrade by command ,I don't upgrade this package. But,If I upgrade by ncurses (move point to upgradable and press "+" ) ,I will upgrade this package. Should I s

Re: sharing one r/w unix filesystem between different machines and users

2011-08-26 Thread Lars Maes
Hi Christoph, Why not use an UDF filesystem, that is used on DVD discs? "Christoph Groth" schreef in bericht news:87hb55ku8x@falma.de... Hi, I'd like to share the data saved on an external USB drive between different (GNU/Linux) machines, each having different users. Each user should