Re: gnome-session & charsh

2012-08-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 03:34:35PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I suggest that in Debian mirrors, gnome is so arranged that launching > it be an optional. In computational chemistry/biochemistry, > particularly with amd64, most work is at the linux prompt. Now, with It would be better not to i

Re: ssh

2012-08-24 Thread lina
On Saturday 25,August,2012 01:07 AM, Gaël DONVAL wrote: > Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 23:56 +0800, lina a écrit : >> x pts/12 172.21.51.15517Jul12 38days 0.02s 0.02s -bash >> y pts/14 :3.0 16:057:46m 0.01s 0.01s -bash >> wwpts/15 172.21.49.37

Re: LPR printer driver installation under debian Squeeze

2012-08-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/08/12 10:39 PM, Rick Lutowski wrote: Am trying to get a Brother HL-2240 printer working with a new debian Squeeze installation. The Brother website has a linux LPR driver in .deb format that installed and worked easily under Lenny using the gnome Printer install menu. Under Squeeze, the

LPR printer driver installation under debian Squeeze

2012-08-24 Thread Rick Lutowski
Am trying to get a Brother HL-2240 printer working with a new debian Squeeze installation. The Brother website has a linux LPR driver in .deb format that installed and worked easily under Lenny using the gnome Printer install menu. Under Squeeze, the gnome Printer install menu seems to be loo

Re: How to Mount USB Stick

2012-08-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/08/12 10:30 PM, r...@aarden.us wrote: I am learning on Wheezy Beta1, command line only. I am trying to access the USB stick which was the installation media. The box has 2 SSDs. When I look for devices with and without the stick plugged in, the difference is sdc and sdc1 labeled as floppy.

How to Mount USB Stick

2012-08-24 Thread ray
I am learning on Wheezy Beta1, command line only. I am trying to access the USB stick which was the installation media. The box has 2 SSDs. When I look for devices with and without the stick plugged in, the difference is sdc and sdc1 labeled as floppy. When I try to mount either 'floppy' or 'sdc'

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:21:50 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: >>> The question is I need to upgrade my CPU to any VT capable CPU or is >>> there any solution staying at the current CPU? >> >> Well, you can stil install a 3

Re: hardware monitoring at the most basic level …

2012-08-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
OK, I got inquisitor 3.1beta2 and I will try it on my boxes, but honestly I think there has been quite of "paradigm shift" and I couldn't see how it covers the kinds of "use cases" (let's call it that ;-)) that I mentioned. BTW, have you thought of including DTrace? The assumptions that initiall

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread hvw59601
Gaël DONVAL wrote: Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 16:47 +0200, Sven Hartge a écrit : Maybe the alignment of the swap partition is off? SSD react very badly if you don't align your partitions to their erase block size. This is why I always recommend to align them to 1MB boundaries as most SSDs availa

Re: is there a way of getting back the original /etc/bind

2012-08-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > Can someone send me a tarball of the original /etc/bind from my > > > debian 6.0.5? my old ubuntu server and otther hardware broke, and > > > until I can get a new Dell, I want to put back my test [Debian] > > > computer to its original

Re: Grub2: How to clone a bootable disk?

2012-08-24 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:34 PM, T Elcor wrote: > > I have two identical hard drives, one HD contains a bootable wheezy > installation and I'd like to clone it to the other HD. My first idea was > to use "dd" but since grub2 uses disk IDs in /boot/grub/devices.map > and /etc/fstab then once the di

Re: is there a way of getting back the original /etc/bind

2012-08-24 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: >> >> Can someone send me a tarball of the original /etc/bind from my >> debian 6.0.5? my old ubuntu server and otther hardware broke, and >> until I can get a new Dell, I want to put back my test [Debian] >> computer to its o

Re: is there a way of getting back the original /etc/bind

2012-08-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary Kline wrote: > Can someone send me a tarball of the original /etc/bind from my > debian 6.0.5? my old ubuntu server and otther hardware broke, and > until I can get a new Dell, I want to put back my test [Debian] > computer to its original state. You can do this for yourself. Backup your ex

Re: compressor

2012-08-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Gaël DONVAL wrote: > Bob Proulx a écrit : > > There is a problem with the mashing and reformatting. It makes lzip > > appear to be 66M against xz being 65M and so xz is better, right? But > > wait the above says that gz is 99M. But ls says 100M. So the listed > > sizes are not 100% correct. So

Re: Icedove 10.0.6-1 or higher not in Wheezy

2012-08-24 Thread Alex Robbins
On 08/24/2012 10:46 AM, Camaleón wrote: El 2012-08-22 a las 15:16 -0500, Alex Robbins escribió: (resending to the list) On 08/22/2012 09:41 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:12:15 -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: A recent Debian Security Advisory [1] warned that the package icedove had s

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > You could probably get away without connecting the 4 pin aux CPU power > on the Foxconn board if using a 65w or lower CPU. I've never tried it. > But I don't find anything in the manual that says the board won't post > with it disconnected. Many newer boards won't power up

is there a way of getting back the original /etc/bind

2012-08-24 Thread Gary Kline
Can someone send me a tarball of the original /etc/bind from my debian 6.0.5? my old ubuntu server and otther hardware broke, and until I can get a new Dell, I want to put back my test [Debian] computer to its original state. thanks to anybody who can help! gary kline -- Gary Kline kl...@t

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Most newer motherboards now require this addtional power connector. > > But if your power supply does not provide one then you can add an > > adaptor and convert one of the 4-pin power connectors to the ATX12V > > 4-pin motherboard power connector. That

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-24 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Camaleón wrote: Thanks for your long and detailed answer. I cut it down a bit, sorry. > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:21:50 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> The question is I need to upgrade my CPU to any VT capable CPU or is >> there any solution staying at the curre

Re: mp3 to speex

2012-08-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 9:01 AM, wrote: > Can speex be used to represent a recording which is mostly voice > but has some non-voice sound? Yes, it will be less than ideal for those sounds, but as long as it is not a majority of the file, it shouldn't be too bad. > In this experiment the intenti

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-24 Thread Weaver
On Fri, August 24, 2012 7:47 am, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:29:52 -0700, Weaver wrote: > >>> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:39:46 -0700, Weaver wrote: >>> > On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >>> Can you please provide the results of this speed test? >>> >>> http://

RE: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-24 Thread Nelson Green
> From: nelsongree...@hotmail.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: Dual-Monitor help > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:16:03 -0500 > > > > Unfortunately, lxrandr only shows the single monitor. Another issue I > > have is nothing from xrandr nor

RE: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-24 Thread Nelson Green
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > From: noela...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Dual-Monitor help > Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 17:20:04 + > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:13:36 -0500, Nelson Green wrote: > > > I have been trying to get a dual monitor set-up workin

RE: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-24 Thread Nelson Green
> Unfortunately, lxrandr only shows the single monitor. Another issue I > have is nothing from xrandr nor lxrandr shows an output interface. If > I could get that information I might at least have a place to start. OK, I feel dumb. I was just setting up a VM, and the output of xrandr is similar.

Re: Grub2: How to clone a bootable disk?

2012-08-24 Thread T Elcor
From: Camaleón >>   To fix the files I need to  know disk IDs and partition UUIDs... not sure >> how to get them. > > "ls -ls /dev/disk/by-*id" will tell. Thank you. A lot clearer now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Grub2: How to clone a bootable disk?

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:34:54 -0700, T Elcor wrote: > I have two identical hard drives, one HD contains a bootable wheezy > installation and I'd like to clone it to the other HD. My first idea was > to use "dd" but since grub2 uses disk IDs in /boot/grub/devices.map and > /etc/fstab then once the d

Re: ssh

2012-08-24 Thread lina
On 25 Aug, 2012, at 1:26, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Friday 24 August 2012 11:56:33 lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I noticed in the server via w >> >> it showed me >> >> >> x pts/12 172.21.51.15517Jul12 38days 0.02s 0.02s -bash >> y pts/14 :3.0 16:057:46m

Re: ssh

2012-08-24 Thread lina
On 25 Aug, 2012, at 1:07, Gaël DONVAL wrote: > Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 23:56 +0800, lina a écrit : >> x pts/12 172.21.51.15517Jul12 38days 0.02s 0.02s -bash >> y pts/14 :3.0 16:057:46m 0.01s 0.01s -bash >> wwpts/15 172.21.49.37 Tue14

Grub2: How to clone a bootable disk?

2012-08-24 Thread T Elcor
Hi, I have two identical hard drives, one HD contains a bootable wheezy installation and I'd like to clone it to the other HD. My first idea was to use "dd" but since grub2 uses disk IDs in /boot/grub/devices.map and /etc/fstab then once the disk is cloned it probably will not boot, unless I fi

Re: ssh

2012-08-24 Thread Pedro Eugênio Rocha
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Friday 24 August 2012 11:56:33 lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I noticed in the server via w >> >> it showed me >> >> >> x pts/12 172.21.51.15517Jul12 38days 0.02s 0.02s -bash >> y pts/14 :3.0 16:057:46m

Re: ssh

2012-08-24 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Friday 24 August 2012 11:56:33 lina wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed in the server via w > > it showed me > > > x pts/12 172.21.51.15517Jul12 38days 0.02s 0.02s -bash > y pts/14 :3.0 16:057:46m 0.01s 0.01s -bash > wwpts/15 172.21.49.37 Tue1

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:13:36 -0500, Nelson Green wrote: > I have been trying to get a dual monitor set-up working, and am getting > no where with this, so it is time to request help. > > I have a Dell Precision T5500 with dual video cards, and I would like to > have one large screen spread across

Re: ssh

2012-08-24 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 23:56 +0800, lina a écrit : > x pts/12 172.21.51.15517Jul12 38days 0.02s 0.02s -bash > y pts/14 :3.0 16:057:46m 0.01s 0.01s -bash > wwpts/15 172.21.49.37 Tue142days 0.19s 0.19s -bash > y pts/17 :2.0

Re: mp3 to speex

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:01:18 -0800, peasthope wrote: > Can speex be used to represent a recording which is mostly voice but has > some non-voice sound? I don't see why not :-? > In this experiment the intention is to retrieve the stream by http, send > PCM to stdout, pipe that to speexenc and s

mp3 to speex

2012-08-24 Thread peasthope
Can speex be used to represent a recording which is mostly voice but has some non-voice sound? In this experiment the intention is to retrieve the stream by http, send PCM to stdout, pipe that to speexenc and save as a *.spx file. peter@dalton:~$ vlc --demuxdump-file=- \ http://www.cbc.ca/qui

Re: Samba 4 on Debian Wheezy

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:52:38 -0300, Federico Alberto Sayd wrote: > Anyone has tried to implement samba4 in Debian Wheezy? (...) > I am investigating this new version that provides Active Directory > functionality. I have installed the samba4 packages and provisioned > samba using debconf. Samba

Re: Icedove 10.0.6-1 or higher not in Wheezy

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-08-22 a las 15:16 -0500, Alex Robbins escribió: (resending to the list) > On 08/22/2012 09:41 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:12:15 -0500, Alex Robbins wrote: >> >>> A recent Debian Security Advisory [1] warned that the package icedove >>> had several security issues. These

ssh

2012-08-24 Thread lina
Hi, I noticed in the server via w it showed me x pts/12 172.21.51.15517Jul12 38days 0.02s 0.02s -bash y pts/14 :3.0 16:057:46m 0.01s 0.01s -bash wwpts/15 172.21.49.37 Tue142days 0.19s 0.19s -bash y pts/17 :2.0

Re: gnome-session & charsh

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:34:35 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: (please, don't cross-post or at least add a big warning...) > Since the latest gnome, the sequence "startx" "gnome-session" is often > attended by hanging of linux at "gnome-session" with both i386 and amd64 > wheezy. Gnome dislikes much

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 16:47 +0200, Sven Hartge a écrit : > Maybe the alignment of the swap partition is off? SSD react very badly > if you don't align your partitions to their erase block size. This is > why I always recommend to align them to 1MB boundaries as most SSDs > available today seem

Re: Power Issue

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:47:24 -0700, cletusjenkins wrote: > I have a problem with my laptop. When the battery runs down the system > won't shut down automatically. I am running stable with gnome. The power > manager detects the battery and reports the charge level correctly. I > have the options se

Re: bug report

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:40:22 +0200, Anael wrote: > From some days, appears some errors on the launch of Debian : > Aug 23 20:45:05 anael-debian kernel: [0.868174] ssb: ERROR: PLL init > unknown for device 4322 > Aug 23 20:45:05 anael-debian kernel: [0.868224] ssb: ERROR: PMU resource >

Re: hardware monitoring at the most basic level …

2012-08-24 Thread Lisi
On Friday 24 August 2012 02:56:16 Albretch Mueller wrote: > A la Orson Wells 1984 You mean George Orwell (Eric Blair) surely? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lis

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 24 aug 12, 14:47:46, Camaleón wrote: > > > > Ping: 69 ms > > Download: 27.71 Mb/s > > Upload: 2.28 Mb/s [...] > - Forget wireless devices if you want to get the best numbers for your > high speed connection. Good point, I get about 24+ Mbit/s (2.7 MB/s) over a 54 Mbit/s (Wireless G) c

Re: Problems with wlan connection via dhclient in Squeeze

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:10:45 +0200, Astrid Jürgensen wrote: > I recently upgraaded the operating system of my laptop from Debian Lenny > to Debian Squeeze. Since then, I have some problems connecting to the > internet using dhclient. (...) Mmm... the only noticeable change I recall from lenny to

Re: dpkg

2012-08-24 Thread Jochen Spieker
Lars Noodén: > On 8/24/12 12:52 PM, Gaël DONVAL wrote: >> Le jeudi 23 août 2012 à 21:51 +0200, Jochen Spieker a écrit : >>> >>> I understand your problem has been solved already, but nevertheless: >>> /var/backups should contain an old version of your /var/lib/dpkg/status. >> >> Great one! > > Is

Re: etc/cups directory should be owned by group lpadmin, not group lp

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 21:36:48 +0100, Brian wrote: > severity 613142 wishlist > thanks Oh, you're welcome ;-P P.S. Yes, I know this is for the BTS... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact lis

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Gary Dale wrote: > So why would switching to an SSD slow hibernation times? Frankly I can't > think of any reasons (comparing apples to apples) why a faster drive > should lead to slower performance. Possibly it's an interface issue - > the SSD's controller is getting swamped - while the HDD t

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:29:52 -0700, Weaver wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:39:46 -0700, Weaver wrote: >> On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> Can you please provide the results of this speed test? >> >> http://www.speedtest.net/ >> >> I get: >> >> Ping: 3 ms >> Download: 8

Re: Hacked .htaccess redirect to htttp://reltime2012.ru/frunleh?9

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:32:01 -0300, Dr Beco wrote: > Does anyone knows how to protect against unauthorized change of > .htaccess? Uninstalling WordPress/Joomla/PHP-Nuke and all that "frameworking" stuff? Just kidding, but having this pre-made environments on you server it poses a real risk, yo

Re: hardware monitoring at the most basic level …

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:18:31 -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > How do you get periodic snapshots of your running hardware? What? Is your hardware changing on every day basis? :-? > My box started to shutdown by itself and I doubt it is related to > overheating (in a random and plain physical wa

Re: alsa-base breaks linux-sound-base

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:56:29 -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:20:02 +0200 > Camaleón wrote: (...) > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/alsa-base/alsa-base_1.0.25+2+nmu1/changelog >>* Drop linux-sound-base: OSS was removed from the kernel >>pre-squee

RE: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-24 Thread Nelson Green
> It is possible that the 'nouveau' driver doesn't do dual monitors with the > Quadro > 600 cards. i am not to good with these things, looks like it tries 'nouveau, > vesa & FB, and fails. , > > I do run a Quadro dual port card, I use the 'nvidia' driver, the xorg drivers > do > not work with my

RE: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-24 Thread Nelson Green
> Nelson, > Do you have a xorg.conf file or do you let X sort it all out itself? I > noticed from your xrandr posting, that only one resolution is defined > so maybe it's hard coded. I run without a conf file X seems to pull > everything correctly for my hardware. I am still kinda green

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-24 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:21:50 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > Virtualbox on my Wheezy x86_64 is not showing 64 bit for guest and guest > x86_64 OS installer displays CPU mismatch error. My CPU is a E5200 which > does not have VT support. Virtualbox page says "On 64-bit hosts (which > typically come

Re: gnome-session & charsh

2012-08-24 Thread Chris Swenson
I believe there's an option at install whether to install a GUI. – Chris Swenson On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Hi all: > Since the latest gnome, the sequence "startx" "gnome-session" is often > attended by hanging of linux at "gnome-session" with both i386 and > amd

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/24/2012 6:54 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:16:12 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Stephen Powell wrote: >>> I don't see the 4-pin CPU power plug to which you refer coming out >>> of the power supply. (Yes, I finally broke down and took the cover >>> off.) Of course,

gnome-session & charsh

2012-08-24 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi all: Since the latest gnome, the sequence "startx" "gnome-session" is often attended by hanging of linux at "gnome-session" with both i386 and amd64 wheezy. Gnome dislikes much more than in the past not be set completely free. I suggest that in Debian mirrors, gnome is so arranged that launchin

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/08/12 08:29 AM, Gaël DONVAL wrote: Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 12:58 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 12:04 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : I might be wrong here, but isn't the key benefit of SSDs that they

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-24 Thread ML mail
That's good news, I didn't see that option in the Debian sample preseed config files. So as you recommended I checked the partman-basicfilesystems package from Ubuntu and found the template which does that. Now added the following to my debian preseed file: d-i partman-basicfilesystems/no_swap

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Aug 2012 at 05:22:01 -0700, ML mail wrote: > I am currently creating a preseed file to get my server installed > automatically over the network with PXE boot. This server will have no > swap space but I have the problem that if I do not specify a swap > space in my preseed configuration

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 12:58 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: > > Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 12:04 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : > > > I might be wrong here, but isn't the key benefit of SSDs that they have > > > a tiny access time? Bu

No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-24 Thread ML mail
Hi, I am currently creating a preseed file to get my server installed automatically over the network with PXE boot. This server will have no swap space but I have the problem that if I do not specify a swap space in my preseed configuration file the automated Debian installation stops and opens

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:32:16PM +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: > Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 12:04 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : > > I might be wrong here, but isn't the key benefit of SSDs that they have > > a tiny access time? But that their read speed is about the same as a > > normal disk (also, I

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 06:16:12 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> I don't see the 4-pin CPU power plug to which you refer coming out >> of the power supply. (Yes, I finally broke down and took the cover >> off.) Of course, it does have several spare 4-pin power connectors

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 12:04 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : > I might be wrong here, but isn't the key benefit of SSDs that they have > a tiny access time? But that their read speed is about the same as a > normal disk (also, I might be wrong, but I understand their write speed > is average). Th

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:00:46AM -0500, hvw59601 wrote: > Hi, > > Mindful of what Stan Hoeppner in various posts has written about SSD > I thought I'd put swap on an SSD I installed (Samsung SSD 830 128GB) > in order to get superfast hibernate. I might be wrong here, but isn't the key benefit o

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/24/2012 3:43 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:42:45AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> This email mentions nothing of any troubleshooting performed by you up >> to this point. It's sole purpose seems to be to blame me for what you >> apparently believe is a bad recommendation

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/24/2012 12:57 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Stephen Powell wrote: >> Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> As long as the PSU has the 4-pin CPU power plug, and it should being a >>> Xeon board, you shouldn't need to replace anything else. And you've >>> basically got a brand new system, sans drives, for $110-13

Re: [RÉSOLU] Re: Plus de son sauf en root depuis mise à jour

2012-08-24 Thread maderios
On 08/24/2012 11:13 AM, BERTRAND Joël wrote: maderios a écrit : On 08/23/2012 09:23 PM, BERTRAND Joel wrote: Bon, j'ai trouvé quelqu'un qui avait le même problème que moi. La solution est assez simple et ce n'est pas une histoire de droits. Je me suis déconnecté de la session graphique, j'ai

Re: dpkg

2012-08-24 Thread Lars Noodén
On 8/24/12 12:52 PM, Gaël DONVAL wrote: > Le jeudi 23 août 2012 à 21:51 +0200, Jochen Spieker a écrit : >> >> I understand your problem has been solved already, but nevertheless: >> /var/backups should contain an old version of your /var/lib/dpkg/status. >> >> J. > Great one! Is there a utility (e

Re: dpkg

2012-08-24 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le jeudi 23 août 2012 à 21:51 +0200, Jochen Spieker a écrit : > > I understand your problem has been solved already, but nevertheless: > /var/backups should contain an old version of your /var/lib/dpkg/status. > > J. Great one! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/23/2012 7:28 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 03:07:49 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-14-PC1600-DDR-200-Registered-ECC-1GB-Server-Memory-Micron-Samsung-/130718246446?pt=US_Memory_RAM_&hash=item1e6f6a262e > > Hmm. I'm not even sure if this

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le jeudi 23 août 2012 à 10:00 -0500, hvw59601 a écrit : > Hi, > > Mindful of what Stan Hoeppner in various posts has written about SSD I > thought I'd put swap on an SSD I installed (Samsung SSD 830 128GB) in > order to get superfast hibernate. > > Surprise: it is slower than usual and the disk

Re: compressor

2012-08-24 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 10:10 +0100, Jon Dowland a écrit : > > Most compressors work on a block-cipher model in order to support stream > operation and so the compressor doesn't have a global view of the data being > compressed. At least with 7zip and xz, you can tweak the block size directly

Re: compressor

2012-08-24 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le jeudi 23 août 2012 à 14:26 -0600, Bob Proulx a écrit : > Jon Dowland wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Jon Dowland wrote: > > > > linux-3.6-rc2.tar.bz2 78M > > > > linux-3.6-rc2.tar.gz 99M > > > > linux-3.6-rc2.tar.xz 65M > > > linux-3.6-rc2.tar.lz 66M > > > > > > I think lzip is

Re: compressor

2012-08-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 02:26:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > There is a problem with the mashing and reformatting. It makes lzip > appear to be 66M against xz being 65M and so xz is better, right? snip > It would be better to look at the long byte counts for this type of > comparison. You're rig

Re: compressor

2012-08-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:04:56AM +0200, Gaël DONVAL wrote: > Le jeudi 23 août 2012 à 20:24 +0800, lina a écrit : > > > > Sorry, here you mean, > > > > once tar -Jcf a.tar.xz a > > > > again > > tar -Jcf a.tar.xz a.tar.xz > > ? > No, I think this was a joke :) Yes it was a joke :) but it w

Re: compressor

2012-08-24 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le jeudi 23 août 2012 à 20:24 +0800, lina a écrit : > > Sorry, here you mean, > > once tar -Jcf a.tar.xz a > > again > tar -Jcf a.tar.xz a.tar.xz > ? No, I think this was a joke :) In most programs, there is a "depth" or "pass number" parameter that does just this already. If you try to c

Re: hibernate: swap on SSD = not fast

2012-08-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 01:42:45AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > This email mentions nothing of any troubleshooting performed by you up > to this point. It's sole purpose seems to be to blame me for what you > apparently believe is a bad recommendation. I read it very differently: veiled admirati