Re: KDE suspend / hibernate just executes the screensaver

2012-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 sep 12, 07:39:23, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > Hi, > > I have posted the same question today in german language. Sorry for > that. Here it is in english. > > I am running Mint LMDE with incoming repos = basically debian testing. As I mentioned in my other mail, just because LMDE is b

Re: KDE Ruhezustand/Tiefschlaf => Bildschirmschoner

2012-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
[For d-u: I'm directing him to d-u-german and pointing out that LMDE is not Debian] Hallo Matthias, debian-user ist eine englishsprachige Liste. Vielleicht solltest Du lieber an debian-user-german schreiben, aber... (siehe unten). On Mi, 12 sep 12, 07:32:43, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > Hallo

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 sep 12, 21:56:44, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:10:01 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > What does > > > > speaker-test -c2 -t wav > > > > do (both as user and root)? > > It works! Both as root and as a normal user. Amazing! At least you know that th

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 sep 12, 14:47:57, Weaver wrote: > > There is a stage where the installer asks for contrib and non-free apt > list inclusions. Only for expert installs AFAIK. > It would probably be best to incorporate this as a default in a newbie > install. In my opinion that would be a bad idea. Wh

Re: how to uninstall gnome totally? - erratum

2012-09-11 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 12 September 2012 07:14:34 Lisi wrote: > chose choose One day I'll succeed in learning to type :-( Lisi -- 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

Re: how to uninstall gnome totally?

2012-09-11 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 12 September 2012 06:33:11 houkensjtu wrote: > I have been using ubuntu for a while and now I decided to switch to debian. > Here is my question: > If I download a debian CD with GNOME desktop system, how can I totally > uninstall it? I found a lot relating package in aptitude and I wa

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 sep 12, 21:17:52, Lisi wrote: > > I apologise to anyone who feels that my use of English is pompous. I think > that to try and talk in baby talk is insulting to those for whom English is a > second language (or third or fourth!). Not to mention the fact that I simply > don't know wh

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 sep 12, 12:29:42, Weaver wrote: > > I am advocating the elimination of that lack of knowledge. You are assuming the user is interested in learning. In my experience it is rather the contrary. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists

how to uninstall gnome totally?

2012-09-11 Thread houkensjtu
I have been using ubuntu for a while and now I decided to switch to debian. Here is my question: If I download a debian CD with GNOME desktop system, how can I totally uninstall it? I found a lot relating package in aptitude and I was confused. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

KDE suspend / hibernate just executes the screensaver

2012-09-11 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Hi, I have posted the same question today in german language. Sorry for that. Here it is in english. I am running Mint LMDE with incoming repos = basically debian testing. On the commandline I can suspend and hibernate the computer with pm-suspend and pm-hibernate. But when I click on the Suspen

KDE Ruhezustand/Tiefschlaf => Bildschirmschoner

2012-09-11 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Hallo zusammen, wie kann ich in KDE (Mint LMDE incoming distro) einstellen das bei Ruhezustand/Tiefschlaf pm_suspend oder pm_hibernate aufgerufen werden? Sowohl pm_suspend als auch pm_hibernate funktionieren wenn ich sie auf der Komamndozeile aufrufe, aber wenn ich aus dem KDE Menu heraus "Verlas

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Doug
On 09/11/2012 09:56 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:10:01 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: What does speaker-test -c2 -t wav do (both as user and root)? It works! Both as root and as a normal user. Amazing! So why does aplay fail? It's a mystery to me! Assuming yo

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 6:40 pm, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:51:39 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 21:17 +0100, Lisi wrote: >> > Since Squeeze I think that Debian has removed itself from this market. >> The >> > main repository and kernel contain only FLOSS

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 04:19:35 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 21:40 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:51:39 +0200 > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: ... > > > A serious issue for all Linux distros are codecs. We're living in the > > > media age, consumer need codecs. http:

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 21:56 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > As much as I dislike pulseaudio (I wish everyone would use alsa), it is > evident that this is the future direction of Debian; so I would like to > find a way for pulseaudio and alsa to peacefully coexist if possible. Even if Brian's hint

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 21:40 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:51:39 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 21:17 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > > Since Squeeze I think that Debian has removed itself from this market. > > > The > > > main repository and kernel contain only

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 02:10:01 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: > > What does > > speaker-test -c2 -t wav > > do (both as user and root)? It works! Both as root and as a normal user. Amazing! So why does aplay fail? It's a mystery to me! > > Assuming you really want to keep Gnome ther

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Stephen Powell
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:56:15 -0400 (EDT), Weaver wrote: > > Could it be something as simple as "alsactl init" as root? I just tried that. Here's what I got: alsactl: parse:1655: Unable to open file '/usr/share/alsa/init/ca0106': No such file or directory -- .''`. Stephen Powell

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:51:39 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 21:17 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > Since Squeeze I think that Debian has removed itself from this market. The > > main repository and kernel contain only FLOSS software. I.e. many drivers > > are missing and have to be s

Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets

2012-09-11 Thread Doug
On 09/11/2012 03:38 PM, Gary Roach wrote: 1. I checked the router. The instructions say that the router is setup to allow wireless printing. In addition, my XP wireless works fine for print and scan. It also shows up on the scan control console. 2. I ran the network connection test from th

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Doug
On 09/11/2012 11:16 AM, Tom Rausner wrote: Hi. tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 16:40 +0200, skrev maderios: Hi I bought uefi motherboard 1 year ago. It works well with squeeze weezy and sid. "UEFI" changes nothing. Thanks for the help. I'm buying an UEFI-board. Just wanted to be sure I wouldn't get any b

Re: Storage server

2012-09-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/11/2012 10:29 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > Actually, lots and lots of small files is the worst use-case for rsnapshot, > and > the reason I believe it should be avoided. It creates large hard-link trees > and > with lots and lots of small files, the filesystem metadata for the trees can > consu

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 11 September 2012 22:47:57 Weaver wrote: > I think that 'pompous' remark was made in my direction, Lisi. > I simply dealt with it in my usual pompous manner. :-) I was simply accepting that at least one member of this list thinks that correct English is "pompous". And if that applies

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 1:17 pm, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 11 September 2012 20:29:42 Weaver wrote: >> On Tue, September 11, 2012 7:43 am, lee wrote: >> > "Weaver" writes: >> >> On Mon, September 10, 2012 8:19 am, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >>> Agreed. But the person who wants to install Debian

Re: [OT] How to redirect input/output to another console?

2012-09-11 Thread Alex Robbins
On 09/08/2012 08:58 AM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: I am looking for a way, that - either she can see, what I am doing in my shell - I can see her shell - or best, we can both work in ONE shell Some have mentioned using VNC. If all you want to do is share a shell, then this is probably not the b

Setting /sys/block/sdb/device/max_sectors permanently to 128 for specific device

2012-09-11 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Dear udev gurus, After breaking the second Clip+ player I got a Samsung YP-R2 portable player which plays OGG files and is accessible as a disk with MSC mode. Only problem is the device keeps being reset at any copy/move/delete operation. Googling provided a solution which seems to work [1]

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-11 Thread Mauro
On 11 September 2012 17:32, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:53:43 +0200, Mauro wrote: > >> On 11 September 2012 16:48, Camaleón wrote: >>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:54:59 +0200, Mauro wrote: >>> On 11 September 2012 10:58, Chris Davies wrote: > Mauro wrote: >> I think th

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 21:17 +0100, Lisi wrote: > Since Squeeze I think that Debian has removed itself from this market. The > main repository and kernel contain only FLOSS software. I.e. many drivers > are missing and have to be separately installed. This is beyond a total > newbie, and I thi

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 11 September 2012 20:29:42 Weaver wrote: > On Tue, September 11, 2012 7:43 am, lee wrote: > > "Weaver" writes: > >> On Mon, September 10, 2012 8:19 am, Chris Bannister wrote: > >>> Agreed. But the person who wants to install Debian is not the average > >>> end/home user. > >> > >> Exact

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 11/09/2012 21:13, Tom Rausner wrote: tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 17:52 +, skrev Camaleón: On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:51:22 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: [...] I have it in my list of low-end (cheap) manufacturers, along with Biostar and DFI. I prefer MSI, Gigabyte or even Asus. Buy hey, there can be ex

Re: udev rules for wheezy

2012-09-11 Thread Siard
Tom H wrote: > You can get the udev properties of the Xperia with > > udevadm info --query=property --path=$(udevadm info --query=path > --name=/dev/sdX) > > udevadm info --query=property --path=$(udevadm info --query=path > --name=/dev/sdXY) > > in order to create an appropriate udev rule. Int

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 20:28 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I've noticed a few users asking questions on d-u rather than their own > language list. Because the international user base is larger than the national user base, especially for exotic usage, e.g. pro-audio, exotic mailers such as Wanderl

Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets

2012-09-11 Thread Gary Roach
On 09/11/2012 09:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: El 2012-09-11 a las 09:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (please, reply to the list) Sorry. I'll be more careful in the future. On 09/11/2012 07:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:02:42 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Earlier

Re: OT: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 10:11 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 11 sep 12, 05:47:46, Weaver wrote: >> >> On Tue, September 11, 2012 12:58 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > >> > I didn't know that MC comes with an editor. I'll install mc today and >> > test it again. >> >> Yes, in the configuration

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 7:43 am, lee wrote: > "Weaver" writes: > >> On Mon, September 10, 2012 8:19 am, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> >>> Agreed. But the person who wants to install Debian is not the average >>> end/home user. >> >> Exactly, but that's the majority market and I don't see anything

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 7:36 am, lee wrote: > "Weaver" writes: > >> On Mon, September 10, 2012 5:10 am, lee wrote: >>> "Weaver" writes: >>> On Sun, September 9, 2012 5:18 am, lee wrote: > "Weaver" writes: > >> But we are talking about Debian. >> Specifically partitioning

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 14:44 +0200, lee wrote: > Chris Bannister writes: > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:06:33PM +0200, lee wrote: > >> > >> And where's the 40GB (or whatever size it is) Blueray image that has all > >> the packages plus all the stuff from non-free plus a life system plus > >> lo

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Rausner
tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 17:52 +, skrev Camaleón: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:51:22 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: > A bad copy does not have to mean a hardware problem. Maybe using a > different software to do the copy process could have helped to diagnose > the problem. I did try different software -

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 20:23 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 11 sep 12, 13:48:04, David Cho-Lerat wrote: > > > > For short : don't try to sound smart, most people are here > > looking for help, not looking to be impressed by your mastery > > of the English language. Or by your "clever" one-sy

Re: OT: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 20:11 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 11 sep 12, 05:47:46, Weaver wrote: > > > > On Tue, September 11, 2012 12:58 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > I didn't know that MC comes with an editor. I'll install mc today and > > > test it again. > > > > Yes, in the configur

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:51:22 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: > tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 16:26 +, skrev Camaleón: > >> The logs or messages just said "corrupt data"? :-? Have you considered >> the optical media could be broken? I say this because the symptoms for >> a faulty motherboard are usually rathe

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:28:18 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:54:12 +0200, lee wrote: >> >>> Camaleón writes: >> >> (...) >> >> This is usually a delusion: is not that windows or linux is more or >> less easy (now or then) but how many people in your circ

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Am 10.09.2012 20:28, schrieb Tom Rausner: > Hi Folks. > I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. > It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) > to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. > I think some pathways in the motherboard is broken, so I want to >

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 sep 12, 22:36:09, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > More seriously : I don't mean to offend you, Weaver, but you should > > probably try to stick to "simple" English. This is an international list, > > LOL, You mean all those other debian-user (debian-user-catalan ... > debian-user-vietnam

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Davies
Camaleón wrote: > You can try a different approach: do not run ntpd as daemon but using > cron and see how it goes :-? Huh? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://li

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Davies
Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Does "jump the clock" mean that the time is synced hard, ignoring > timestamps? Yes. Ntpdate is as likely to set the clock back as it is to put it forward. Your applications might be able to cope with a second being only 800ms long, but databases and the like get very upset

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 sep 12, 13:48:04, David Cho-Lerat wrote: > > For short : don't try to sound smart, most people are here > looking for help, not looking to be impressed by your mastery > of the English language. Or by your "clever" one-syllable joke :P I can only speak for myself and not for any other n

Re: OT: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 sep 12, 05:47:46, Weaver wrote: > > On Tue, September 11, 2012 12:58 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > I didn't know that MC comes with an editor. I'll install mc today and > > test it again. > > Yes, in the configuration settings, you can select 'Internal Edit'. > Regards, You can also

RE: Dual-Monitor help

2012-09-11 Thread Nelson Green
> It is something that Debian made up. It sounds better than saying > "large set of heavy and bloated desktop programs". :-) I don't run a > desktop session like GNOME or KDE. Nor LXDE or XFCE either for that > matter. I, and you too apparently, only run the X window system with > a simple window

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 sep 12, 14:24:22, lee wrote: > > The question is not what is part of what, the question is what is > needed. Since you need a working computer to install an OS on a > computer, why can't we have that with an installation media so we can > switch between the actual installer and the worki

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 sep 12, 18:28:18, lee wrote: > > It's the other way round. People using windoze don't know how to fix > problems, they live with them. Anecdotal evidence to that: at work (Window only shop) I get some error messages on every login. The IT support guys said: "we don't know where that

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Rausner
tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 16:26 +, skrev Camaleón: > The logs or messages just said "corrupt data"? :-? > Have you considered the optical media could be broken? I say this because > the symptoms for a faulty motherboard are usually rather different. I just discovered the data to be corrupted. And

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread lee
Camaleón writes: > On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:54:12 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: > > (...) > > This is usually a delusion: is not that windows or linux is more or > less easy (now or then) but how many people in your circle can > solve/cope a problem with your system. >>

Re: [OT] web hosting server files

2012-09-11 Thread lee
lina writes: > All things are suggested to put it into the folder of the > /home/lina/public_html > > I am not clear how to password protect my file/folder. > > BTW, which tricks people can be used to get the other files under > /home/lina/public_html ? You realise that this requires your home d

Re: Satellite P870 issues

2012-09-11 Thread lee
Julian De Marchi writes: > My major issue is the video devices. They are apparently a switchable > "type", so you have the choice to use either the intel or nvidia > GPUs. You might be out of luck depending on what hardware is in your laptop. Google for "muxless"; if your laptop is muxless, swit

deprecated (Re: What Version To Install On iMac?)

2012-09-11 Thread lee
Chris Bannister writes: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:55:21PM +0200, lee wrote: >> >> "Disapproved" is as much an adjective as "deprecated". > > Not when I went to school. English is not your native language? No, it isn't. Do you mean "disapprove" or really "disapproved"? If "disapproved", why

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > On Mon, September 10, 2012 8:19 am, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> Agreed. But the person who wants to install Debian is not the average >> end/home user. > > Exactly, but that's the majority market and I don't see anything wrong > woth aiming for that. Now that is distorting th

Re: Storage server

2012-09-11 Thread lee
Veljko writes: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 07:47:52PM +0200, lee wrote: >> Did you get it to actually install on the RAID and to boot from that? >> Last time I tried with a RAID-1, it didn't work. It's ridiculously >> difficult to get it set up so that everything is on software raid. > > Yes, every

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread lee
"Weaver" writes: > On Mon, September 10, 2012 5:10 am, lee wrote: >> "Weaver" writes: >> >>> On Sun, September 9, 2012 5:18 am, lee wrote: "Weaver" writes: > But we are talking about Debian. > Specifically partitioning/file system decision making during install. When

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread lee
Chris Bannister writes: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 09:06:33PM +0200, lee wrote: >> >> And where's the 40GB (or whatever size it is) Blueray image that has all >> the packages plus all the stuff from non-free plus a life system plus >> lots of documentation on it so that I can simply download that

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread lee
"Morel Bérenger" writes: > I personally use non-free softwares (well... flash, wifi drivers and > opera, for the two firsts I do not really have choice) but I know that > Debian's way is not really to provide such tools. > Ubuntu does it. You and I might know this. I only know it because I've be

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread lee
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Lu, 10 sep 12, 21:06:33, lee wrote: >> David Cho-Lerat writes: >> >> >> > that's called "Debian Live" : http://live.debian.net/ >> >> When it already exists, why isn't that part of the installer? > > It's a live system, how could it be part of the installer? The

Re: [OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-09-11 a las 09:26 -0700, Gary Roach escribió: (please, reply to the list) > On 09/11/2012 07:24 AM, Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:02:42 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: >> >> >>> Earlier I was complaining about Xsine not working with this new printer >>> but the main problem seems

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:24:23 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: > tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 14:35 +, skrev Camaleón: > >> What kind of errors? > > Corrupt data The logs or messages just said "corrupt data"? :-? Have you considered the optical media could be broken? I say this because the symptoms for a

Re: udev rules for wheezy

2012-09-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 10 September 2012 19:29, Siard wrote: > Op Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:26 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> i'm trying to get udev rules for my usb phone, and they are ... >> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce:2138", >> SYSFS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777" >> AND >> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", AC

Re: [OT] web hosting server files

2012-09-11 Thread Denis Witt
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:27:08 +0800 lina wrote: > I am not clear how to password protect my file/folder. Hi Lina, assuming the server is running Apache follow this howto: http://www.elated.com/articles/password-protecting-your-pages-with-htaccess/ The Apache config has to allow AuthConfig (Allo

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:53:43 +0200, Mauro wrote: > On 11 September 2012 16:48, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:54:59 +0200, Mauro wrote: >> >>> On 11 September 2012 10:58, Chris Davies >>> wrote: Mauro wrote: > I think the best solution is uninstall ntp and use ntpdate with >

Re: Storage server

2012-09-11 Thread Jon Dowland
Denis' answer is very good, I won't re-iterate his points. On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 01:26:48PM +0200, Veljko wrote: > Thanks for your valuable input. So, in case I have to backup lot of > small files and only some of them are changed I should go with > rsnapshot. If there are big text files that ch

Re: [OT] web hosting server files

2012-09-11 Thread lina
On Tuesday 11,September,2012 11:09 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:25:14 +0800, lina wrote: > >> I put some files on the hosting server, those files can be viewed via >> the explicit url, >> >> such as web.xxx.com/~lina/some_file.html >> >> There are no any link built from homepage. >

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Rausner
tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 14:35 +, skrev Camaleón: > What kind of errors? Corrupt data > How did you reach to that conclusion? Maybe is simply a bad cabling or > almost-death port :-? I've made sure all cables was OK. I'm not sure what you mean by the "almost-death port"-statement, so that must

Re: Not working ServiceMenus .desktop files in krusader 2.2.0

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 16:25:45 +0300, Станислав Буценко wrote: > Im copy *.desktop files in > /home/user/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus Context menu no display > in krusader. > Debian 6.0.5, Krusader 2.2.0 How does the ".desktop" file content looks like? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UN

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Rausner
Hi. tir, 11 09 2012 kl. 16:40 +0200, skrev maderios: > Hi > I bought uefi motherboard 1 year ago. It works well with squeeze weezy > and sid. "UEFI" changes nothing. Thanks for the help. I'm buying an UEFI-board. Just wanted to be sure I wouldn't get any bad surprises. -- Tom Rausner

Re: [OT] web hosting server files

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 18:25:14 +0800, lina wrote: > I put some files on the hosting server, those files can be viewed via > the explicit url, > > such as web.xxx.com/~lina/some_file.html > > There are no any link built from homepage. > > I wonder if someone else, without knowing the explicit name

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:01:35 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:26:15PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Lu, 10 sep 12, 14:06:07, Camaleón wrote: >> > disk (well, "buy" enclosed in quotes because a high percent of >> > Windows users do not pay a cent for their OS, you kno

Re: Adding entry to /dev

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 23:04:37 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: > How do I add a new entry to /dev; eg, /dev/sdb? What do you want to do and why? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listma

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-11 Thread Mauro
On 11 September 2012 13:03, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 12:54 +0200, Mauro wrote: >> On 11 September 2012 10:58, Chris Davies wrote: >> > Mauro wrote: >> >> I think the best solution is uninstall ntp and use ntpdate with cron. >> > >> > Not a particularly good solution for a numb

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-11 Thread Mauro
On 11 September 2012 16:48, Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:54:59 +0200, Mauro wrote: > >> On 11 September 2012 10:58, Chris Davies >> wrote: >>> Mauro wrote: I think the best solution is uninstall ntp and use ntpdate with cron. >>> >>> Not a particularly good solution for a number

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:54:59 +0200, Mauro wrote: > On 11 September 2012 10:58, Chris Davies > wrote: >> Mauro wrote: >>> I think the best solution is uninstall ntp and use ntpdate with cron. >> >> Not a particularly good solution for a number of reasons. Mainly, >> though, you need to be aware t

Re: defoma and its font path

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:37:36 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:59:11 +0200, lee wrote: >> >>> Camaleón writes: >>> TrueType fonts can be simply copied/pasted into one of the available font path folders and that should be all. >>> >>> It isn't that simp

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread maderios
On 09/10/2012 08:28 PM, Tom Rausner wrote: Hi Folks. I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM), without drowning it in errors. I think some pathways in the motherboard is broken, so I want to replace

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:28:34 +0200, Tom Rausner wrote: > I have a tower PC with a serious motherboard problem. It is unable to > pass data from one place (say the harddisk) to another (say a CDROM), > without drowning it in errors. What kind of errors? > I think some pathways in the motherboard

[OT] Re: workforce 645 printer can't find other network assets

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:02:42 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Earlier I was complaining about Xsine not working with this new printer > but the main problem seems to be that the printer doesn't see any of the > computers on the hardwired network. (...) I already gave you some hints about this, did you

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:54:12 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón writes: (...) This is usually a delusion: is not that windows or linux is more or less easy (now or then) but how many people in your circle can solve/cope a problem with your system. >>> >>> Nobody --- and that probably

Re: [OT] web hosting server files

2012-09-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 07:42:50PM +0800, lina wrote: > On Tuesday 11,September,2012 06:35 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 06:25:14PM +0800, lina wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I put some files on the hosting server, those files can be viewed via > >> the explicit url, > >> > >> such

Re: Storage server

2012-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 16:04 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 08:34 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 9/10/2012 10:41 AM, Veljko wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:05:49AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > >>> I'm not able to find that card here (and I haven't so far), can I >

Re: Storage server

2012-09-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 08:34 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/10/2012 10:41 AM, Veljko wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:05:49AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >>> I'm not able to find that card here (and I haven't so far), can I > have another one? > >> > >> That's hard to believe given the wo

Re: Install Debian on a UEFI-motherboard ?

2012-09-11 Thread Tom Rausner
man, 10 09 2012 kl. 21:02 +0200, skrev tv.deb...@googlemail.com: > Hi, UEFI isn't (normally) a problem, it's the hype around the "secure > boot" feature that gives free operating systems users the chills. I know, but I'm not quite sure exactly what kind of problems I might run into using an UE

Re: Storage server

2012-09-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/11/2012 6:26 AM, Veljko wrote: > Debian reserve 1MB on start of the partition, but I > guess that part is used for MBR. The MBR is stored entirely in the first sector of the drive and is only 512 bytes in size. It includes the bootstrap code, partition table, and boot signature. The reason

Not working ServiceMenus .desktop files in krusader 2.2.0

2012-09-11 Thread Станислав Буценко
Im copy *.desktop files in /home/user/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus Context menu no display in krusader. Debian 6.0.5, Krusader 2.2.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Storage server

2012-09-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/11/2012 4:43 AM, Jon Dowland wrote: > I would say that neither hardware nor software RAID are a replacement for > a working backup scheme. Absolutely correct. RAID protects against drive failure, period. It doesn't protect against accidental file deletion, overwriting a new file with an old

Re: Storage server

2012-09-11 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/10/2012 10:41 AM, Veljko wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:05:49AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> I'm not able to find that card here (and I haven't so far), can I have >>> another one? >> >> That's hard to believe given the worldwide penetration Adaptec has, and >> the fact UPS/FedEx ship

Re: No sound when attempting to play an audio CD

2012-09-11 Thread Brian
On Mon 10 Sep 2012 at 22:13:06 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > I can confirm that my userid is in the cdrom and audio groups. I haven't > checked the cable connections yet, but I plan to do that tomorrow. > But the problem seems to be more systemic. I can't seem to get aplay > to work on a .wav f

Re: Adding entry to /dev

2012-09-11 Thread Dimitris Papageorgiou
Στις 11/09/2012 06:04 πμ, ο/η Ethan Rosenberg, PhD έγραψε: Dear list - How do I add a new entry to /dev; eg, /dev/sdb? Thanks, Ethan Rosenberg You really shouldn't have to, like everyone else said. But anyway the command you're looking of is mknod. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: OT: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 12:58 am, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2012-09-10 at 19:49 -0700, Weaver wrote: >> MC isn't installed by default and I think it should be. > > I didn't know that MC comes with an editor. I'll install mc today and > test it again. Yes, in the configuration settings, you

Re: Adding entry to /dev

2012-09-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/09/12 11:39 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear list - How do I add a new entry to /dev; eg, /dev/sdb? Thanks, Ethan Rosenberg You don't. If the device is detected, it will automatically be added. The trick is to make sure the device is recognized. Can you provide details about th

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread Weaver
On Tue, September 11, 2012 4:48 am, David Cho-Lerat wrote: > Le 11/09/2012 12:36, Chris Bannister a écrit : >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:01:13AM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: >> >>> Le 11/09/2012 04:23, Weaver a écrit : >>> I get the point. It's just not an accurate or germaine one...because

Re: Storage server

2012-09-11 Thread Denis Witt
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:26:48 +0200 Veljko wrote: > Would it be reasonable to use them both where appropriate or thats > just unnecessary complexity? Hi Veljko, I prefer backups as simple as it could get (one reason why I use rsnapshot). So personally I wouldn't mix. But if you may want to pr

Satellite P870 issues

2012-09-11 Thread Julian De Marchi
heya-- Long time no post, please be nice. :-) I've recently had a stolen laptop replaced with a Toshiba Satellite P870[0]. I currently have debian wheezy 64bit installed, but am having issues getting some hardware to work. The kernel I'm currently running is 3.4.0-10.dmz.1-liquorix-amd64 from

Re: Installation

2012-09-11 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Le 11/09/2012 12:36, Chris Bannister a écrit : On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:01:13AM +0200, David Cho-Lerat wrote: Le 11/09/2012 04:23, Weaver a écrit : I get the point. It's just not an accurate or germaine one...because you quoted out of context. it's "germane", now. Germaine

Re: [OT] web hosting server files

2012-09-11 Thread lina
On Tuesday 11,September,2012 06:35 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 06:25:14PM +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I put some files on the hosting server, those files can be viewed via >> the explicit url, >> >> such as web.xxx.com/~lina/some_file.html >> >> There are no any link built

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