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

2012-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/24/2012 1:53 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > In actuality I have only used these adapters on low power Atom > > motherboards. I am down in the 20 watts of power envelope area. So > > for me the single rail is more than enough. > > 4 pin aux CPU power plug on at Atom boar

Re: pulseaudio configuration question

2012-08-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
By way of update, typing: pulseaudio --cleanup-shm pulseaudio --start and got no errors from pulseaudio this time. Unfortunately though both mplayer and vlc can connect to streams neither provides any sound output yet. sound card is an nvidia CK804 and pulse appears to have control of it from a

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

2012-08-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/25/2012 9:34 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > OK, if you say so. I guess oempcworld.com is trying to sell me > faster memory than I really need. I was confused by PC1600 vs > PC2100. IIRC PC1600 is DDR200. PC2100 is DDR266. Identical memory certified for different frequencies. That Intel SE7

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

2012-08-25 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/24/2012 1:53 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > In actuality I have only used these adapters on low power Atom > motherboards. I am down in the 20 watts of power envelope area. So > for me the single rail is more than enough. 4 pin aux CPU power plug on at Atom board? That's just silly. My now reti

pulseaudio configuration question

2012-08-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
When I do: pulseaudio --start There is a short pause then the message: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave appears on the screen. Hitting enter again then typing: echo $? 0 is returned. I'm using speech synthesis as provided by the kernel and am in a command line

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 20:17 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 06:33:02PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > Evolution does provide those options for HTML and plain text and it has > > got impact to plain text mails. > > > > This should become a never ending line, because I switche

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 02:25 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 20:17 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 06:33:02PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > Evolution does provide those options for HTML and plain text and it has > > > got impact to plain text mails. >

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 06:33:02PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Evolution does provide those options for HTML and plain text and it has > got impact to plain text mails. > > This should become a never ending line, because I switched to preformatted. > Usually this would cause lines that force

Re: debootstrap fails

2012-08-25 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le samedi 25 août 2012 à 16:12 -0600, Bob Proulx a écrit : > > > Aug 25 23:21:13 hostname kernel: [ 8518.707495] Call Trace: > > ... > > Aug 25 23:21:13 hostname kernel: [ 8518.707693] BUG: unable to handle > > kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) > > That one in particular looks scary. Y

Re: Power Issue

2012-08-25 Thread cletusjenkins
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:24:12 -0700 Camaleón wrote >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. hanks. > >Does it work if you

Re: Is redeclipse really non-free?

2012-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Miga wrote: > > Basically what I'm asking is, can somebody help me confirm that > > redeclipse-data is actually non-free? If so, what's making it non-free? > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651752 Stated in that ITP log: > This will go in non-free due to missing

Re: debootstrap fails

2012-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Gaël DONVAL wrote: > It does not occur when I use debootstrap but some times after that. I'm > very disappointed: the device was not cheap... I have had varied reliability with external usb disks. External SATA have always worked flawlessly for me. But usb works, sometimes for a long time, but I

Re: Is redeclipse really non-free?

2012-08-25 Thread Brian
On Sat 25 Aug 2012 at 14:22:06 -0700, Miga wrote: > Basically what I'm asking is, can somebody help me confirm that > redeclipse-data is actually non-free? If so, what's making it non-free? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=651752 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Is redeclipse really non-free?

2012-08-25 Thread John Hasler
The OFL (Open Font License) is incompatible with the DFSG. -- John Hasler -- 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/87vcg6k4pj@thumper.dhh.gt.org

Is redeclipse really non-free?

2012-08-25 Thread Miga
Hey there everybody, this is my first time posting to Debian mailing lists, so hopefully I'm posting this to the correct one. Can anybody explain why redeclipse is in contrib and redeclipse-data is in non-free? From what I know, redeclipse-data isn't non-free (uses licenses like CC-BY, CC-BY-SA an

Re: debootstrap fails

2012-08-25 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le samedi 25 août 2012 à 14:46 -0600, Bob Proulx a écrit : > Gaël DONVAL wrote: > > I try to install Debian from my Debian onto an external SSD disk. > > The SSD disk is plugged on a USB3 dock. > > When I try to use debootstrap on the external SSD, it fails: > > Any idea? > > Any disk errors in /

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Erwan David wrote: > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt > >> - Limit line length to fewer than 65 characters and end a line > >> with a carriage return. > >> but 72 is a common value used by several established editors (like > >> (g)vim). >

Re: debootstrap fails

2012-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Gaël DONVAL wrote: > I try to install Debian from my Debian onto an external SSD disk. > The SSD disk is plugged on a USB3 dock. > When I try to use debootstrap on the external SSD, it fails: > Any idea? Any disk errors in /var/log/syslog? I have had terrible luck with the reliability of externa

Re: compressor

2012-08-25 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Le vendredi 24 août 2012 à 13:28 -0600, Bob Proulx a écrit : > You are very observant! And by this you are not in the target > audience I was talking about. I know people and many people will see > 66M versus 65M as a strong indicator when it should not be taken as > significant at all. These pe

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Erwan David
On 25/08/12 20:37, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 20:44 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Sb, 25 aug 12, 14:46:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >>> After 72 signs my MUA does an automatic line wrap. >>> When I receive mails from the list and I do reply, sometimes the quotes >>> are bad. I expe

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 20:44 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 25 aug 12, 14:46:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > After 72 signs my MUA does an automatic line wrap. > > When I receive mails from the list and I do reply, sometimes the quotes > > are bad. I experienced the same with mails from a friend

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 20:41 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 25 aug 12, 16:37:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > Yes, but I won't call Gedit "light weight". I'm thinking of something > > like Leafpad. FWIW I won't use vi(m), nano, emacs etc., it should be a > > GUI editor. > > gvim ;) I used g

debootstrap fails

2012-08-25 Thread Gaël DONVAL
Hi all, I try to install Debian from my Debian onto an external SSD disk. The SSD disk is plugged on a USB3 dock. The partition to be used for the installation is a BTRFS one. The BTRFS partition is mounted with the following options: rw,noatime,compress=lzo,ssd,space_cache,uhelper=udisks When I

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-25 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Christofer C. Bell wrote: > > That depends upon the Linux kernel setting of vm.overcommit_memory. I > have ranted about this on a number of occasions. But the Linux kernel > default is to overcommit. In which case swap is not used in the > tr

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 aug 12, 14:46:10, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > After 72 signs my MUA does an automatic line wrap. > When I receive mails from the list and I do reply, sometimes the quotes > are bad. I experienced the same with mails from a friend and he told me > that it takes 78 signs for him. > Is there a sta

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 25 aug 12, 16:37:57, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Yes, but I won't call Gedit "light weight". I'm thinking of something > like Leafpad. FWIW I won't use vi(m), nano, emacs etc., it should be a > GUI editor. gvim ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 16:26 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:51:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 15:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> > This line is ok, just the quoted text is borked. > >> > >> Well, I can see something wrong in your quotes. Ha

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:51:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 15:07 +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> > This line is ok, just the quoted text is borked. >> >> Well, I can see something wrong in your quotes. Have you tried to reply >> to my post from Thunderbird? > > No. I wond

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 15:07 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:37:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Hi Camaleón :) > > > > yes, I'm using Evolution, but if I quote from GUI mailers such as > > Evolution, Thunderbird or OTOH from text based mailers such as Mutt and > > Wanderlust, t

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:37:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi Camaleón :) > > yes, I'm using Evolution, but if I quote from GUI mailers such as > Evolution, Thunderbird or OTOH from text based mailers such as Mutt and > Wanderlust, the quotes usually look okay, quoting the friends Alpine or > your

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi Camaleón :) yes, I'm using Evolution, but if I quote from GUI mailers such as Evolution, Thunderbird or OTOH from text based mailers such as Mutt and Wanderlust, the quotes usually look okay, quoting the friends Alpine or your Pan looks disgusting. On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 13:48 +, Camaleón w

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

2012-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:37:17 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/24/2012 6:54 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> OK, now we're getting somewhere. There is an eight-pin connector >> coming from the power supply that plugs directly into the >> motherboard, in addition to a 24-pin connector coming

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

2012-08-25 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 05:45:23 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/23/2012 7:28 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Hmm. I'm not even sure if this is the right kind of memory. > > It is. OK, if you say so. I guess oempcworld.com is trying to sell me faster memory than I really need. I was co

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 01:20:04 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:44:18AM +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:52:06 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: >> >> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> >>> The question is I need to upgrade my CPU to any

Re: Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 25 Aug 2012 14:46:10 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > After 72 signs my MUA does an automatic line wrap. And your MUA is... X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4 > When I receive mails from the list and I do reply, sometimes the quotes > are bad. This can be "normal". I, for instance, use to force

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Christofer C. Bell wrote: > I'd ask you to keep in mind that even "unused swap" (meaning, you do > not expect the system to need to swap) is still useful and valuable. Agreed. > Sometimes processes ask for more memory than is available in the > system. The kernel will not allow the process to ru

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 11:44:18AM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:52:06 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Camaleón 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: gnome-session & charsh

2012-08-25 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this ML, and trim unnecessary content] On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 09:53:54AM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > I am bound to gnome for the program "gchempaint". In my experience, it > is the only program, freely available as gnu, that allows drawing > chemical structures as r

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-25 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:55 AM, ML mail wrote: > 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 de

Standard for soft return by automatic word and line wrap

2012-08-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
After 72 signs my MUA does an automatic line wrap. When I receive mails from the list and I do reply, sometimes the quotes are bad. I experienced the same with mails from a friend and he told me that it takes 78 signs for him. Is there a standard for how many signs it should take to do an automatic

Re: LPR printer driver installation under debian Squeeze

2012-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 21:39:50 -0500, Rick Lutowski wrote: > Am trying to get a Brother HL-2240 printer working with a new debian > Squeeze installation. The OpenPrinting site says the printer is "paperweight": http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Brother/Brother-HL-2240 It seems that needs from

Re: How to Mount USB Stick

2012-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:30:18 -0700, ray 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 labele

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

2012-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:10:45 -0700, 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. In addit

Re: Virtualbox 64 bit guest option is missing

2012-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:52:06 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Camaleón 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 32-bits guest OS but for 64

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:30:05 -0700, Weaver wrote: > On Fri, August 24, 2012 7:47 am, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Ping: 69 ms >>> Download: 27.71 Mb/s >>> Upload: 2.28 Mb/s >>> >>> Regards and thanks, >> >> Holly cow! That numbers are not good at all. > > It has been a few days since their last co

Re: Dual-Monitor help

2012-08-25 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:22:26 -0500, Nelson Green wrote: (...) >> Some unordered/random/quick thoughts... >> >> 1/ There seems to be a problem with the driver. As you are using >> Squeeze with nvidia cards, the driver to load should be either >> "nouveau" or "nv" but no "fbdev". My will guess is t

Re: How to Mount USB Stick

2012-08-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Aug 2012 at 19:30:18 -0700, 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. Their device names are likely to be /dev/sda and /dev/sdb . . . . > When I look for devices

Windows 2003 AD to Samba4 Migration

2012-08-25 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i wanted to migrate Windows 2003 AD to Samba For DC with out rejoining the clients and down time.Such as Additional Domain Controller actually, i am Planning migrating my microsoft infrastructure to linux gradually. i successfully migrated Fileserver, Virtualization, Proxy. now my goal is to repl

Re: gnome-session & charsh

2012-08-25 Thread Francesco Pietra
I am bound to gnome for the program "gchempaint". In my experience, it is the only program, freely available as gnu, that allows drawing chemical structures as required by chemical journals. jchempaint is based on gtk, therefore, in principle, it might run on other window managers based on gtk. Ho