Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
T Elcor writes: > - Original Message - > > From: Stan Hoeppner > >> This list, as with most others, is not to be used as a >> primary technical support resource.  People should be making at least a >> cursory effort to search for information before asking here. > > Please see the Code of

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/21/2012 7:17 PM, T Elcor wrote: > - Original Message - > > From: Stan Hoeppner > >> This list, as with most others, is not to be used as a >> primary technical support resource. People should be making at least a >> cursory effort to search for information before asking here. > >

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/21/2012 7:05 PM, T Elcor wrote: > - Original Message - > > >>> You are either: >>> >>> 1. Horribly lazy >>> 2. Incompetent > >> Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) >> to say this on the list > > I agree. I find this list to be very helpful bu

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread T Elcor
- Original Message - From: Stan Hoeppner > This list, as with most others, is not to be used as a > primary technical support resource.  People should be making at least a > cursory effort to search for information before asking here. Please see the Code of Conduct ( http://www.debian.

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread T Elcor
- Original Message - >> You are either: >> >> 1.  Horribly lazy >> 2.  Incompetent > Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) > to say this on the list I agree. I find this list to be very helpful but lately there seems to have been a lot of unnecessar

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
On 9/21/12 3:06 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: If one cannot respond with civility and respect, one shouldn't respond at all. How would that help OSS? I wasn't aware I had an obligation to help OSS in order to use it. The list exists to help people use the software, and not primarily to help the so

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
self-fulfilling prophecy, one can aim at Godwin's law ;) -- 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/1348265101.1187.2.camel@localhost.localdomain

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Wayne Topa
On 09/21/2012 05:16 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: On Friday, September 21, 2012 04:53:21 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: It's not writing style but attitude. My attitude is that people should be self reliant. Only when they search and can't find an answer should they ask on a mailing list. Especially in thi

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/21/2012 4:16 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Friday, September 21, 2012 04:53:21 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> It's not writing style but attitude. My attitude is that people should >> be self reliant. Only when they search and can't find an answer should >> they ask on a mailing list. Especially

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday, September 21, 2012 04:53:21 PM Stan Hoeppner wrote: > It's not writing style but attitude. My attitude is that people should > be self reliant. Only when they search and can't find an answer should > they ask on a mailing list. Especially in this case, when the answer is > so damn eas

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 9/21/2012 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: > Stan, just my personal opinion but I think there's no need (and no gain) > to say this on the list. We all can think whatever we want -and we can be > wrong or right as we don't have all the details over the table- but it's > rather discourteous to tell

Re: pppd shutdown

2012-09-21 Thread Mike McClain
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 02:53:52PM +, Camale?n wrote: > You can try by adding/enabling "crtscts" and also the "modem" options at the > config file. depending on the hardware you're using, these were to alleviate > the kind of errors you get although OTOH, dialup links are very unreliable, > it

Re: Film scanner software / hardware.

2012-09-21 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 04:16:30PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > After review a gazillion scanners I have concluded that the Plustek > OpticFilm 7400 is my best choice for my needs and my budget. > Unfortunately, they don't support Linux. Vuescan doesn't support > this Plustek scanner. Does anyone kno

Re: Mplayer-gui error

2012-09-21 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
2012/9/21 Camaleón : > On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:10:29 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > >> "Do you mean the stock mencoder cannot convert from ogv to avi >>> containers? :-?" -> I think yes... "$ mencoder out.ogv -ovc xvid -oac >>> mp3lame -xvidencopts pass=1 -o output.avi >> >> MEncoder 1.0rc3-4.4.4 (

Re: Mplayer-gui error

2012-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 19:10:29 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > "Do you mean the stock mencoder cannot convert from ogv to avi >> containers? :-?" -> I think yes... "$ mencoder out.ogv -ovc xvid -oac >> mp3lame -xvidencopts pass=1 -o output.avi > > MEncoder 1.0rc3-4.4.4 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team >

Re: Mplayer-gui error

2012-09-21 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
2012/9/21 Camaleón : > El 2012-09-21 a las 17:11 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi escribió: > > (to the list...) > >> " this is something you should >> think carefuly so unless you are in need for specific functionality >> that can be only found in D-M packages" -> Yes, I need it for mencoder >> to convert .

Re: EXIM in Debian

2012-09-21 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 07:10:18PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > I think its better to configure exim4 for single configuration file by > whatever means is described in the wiki page Camaleón linked to, likely an > > dpkg-reconfigure exim4something We differ in our opinion. In my opinion,

Re: Mplayer-gui error

2012-09-21 Thread Camaleón
El 2012-09-21 a las 17:11 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi escribió: (to the list...) > " this is something you should > think carefuly so unless you are in need for specific functionality > that can be only found in D-M packages" -> Yes, I need it for mencoder > to convert .ogv to avi. Do you mean the st

Re: let logrotate create an new empty file?

2012-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 13:55:33 +0200, Meike Stone wrote: >> >From your explanations, I understand that logrotate would create the >> file if logrotate rotates the file, which requires the file to exist in >> the first place, so create it manually and let logrotate rotate and >> create the file in th

Re: EXIM in Debian

2012-09-21 Thread Mark Robinson
No, I am not, but it is principal. On Sep 20, 2012 8:48 AM, "Jon Dowland" wrote: > Do you need split configuration? Are you wedded to it? My advice would be > to > copy /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated to /etc/exim4.conf, at which > point the > Debian exim configuration is overridden, and just

Re: Installation

2012-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:18:36 +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: > Am 20.09.2012 um 16:31 schrieb Camaleón: > >> For the lazy users who are not interested in what their systems are or >> run, a big _sure_. If there were nobody solving their issues (and I'm >> quite confident that Windows users ha

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:04:50 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 9/20/2012 2:44 AM, Mauro wrote: >> Hello. >> I have a HP proliant DL580 G5 server with 4 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7330 >> @ 2.40GHz processors. >> What architecture port I've to install, IA64 or AMD64? Thank you. > > This may be a bit ha

Re: pppd shutdown

2012-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 13:21:33 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm on dialup using pppd and loosing the connection often in the > middle of fetching mail or loading some URL in the browser. I'm hoping > for suggestions to help me debug the problem. (...) > My logs show this when I close the c

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 12:05:01 +0200, Mauro wrote: > On 20 September 2012 22:20, Mauro wrote: >> On 20 September 2012 16:56, John Hasler wrote: >>> Someone who Stefan failed to identify wrote: ...ntpd crashes on my server. Time jumps forward one hour every time this has happened. >>> >>

Re: Mplayer-gui error

2012-09-21 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 19:53:13 +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: And don't forget replying at the bottom of the text you're citing ;-) > 2012/9/20 Camaleón (...) >> > So now I run this? "dpkg -l | grep -i mplayer" What will it do now? >> >> Run the command and send here the output so we can see what

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Mauro
On 20 September 2012 23:04, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > You are either: > > 1. Horribly lazy > 2. Incompetent Ok, thank you for answer, have a good day ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: Virtualkeyboard like to one from Android Tablets or the iPad?

2012-09-21 Thread Worrier Poet
rofl I imagine ass-cape key sequences would be involved. On 09/21/2012 08:05 AM, Tom Rausner wrote: > Hi. > > fre, 21 09 2012 kl. 13:10 +0200, skrev Michelle Konzack: > >> and the design is for the ass. > > Just curious.. How do a keyboard look, when it's designed for the ass > and exactly H

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 23:43 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > It draws about 400-500 watts continuously at idle, up to 900 at load. > 99.999% of people will not tolerate this on the home electric bill. 99.9991% of the people don't have knowledge about this, their motto is "more is better". -- To UN

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 19:43 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > That he's at that stage now doesn't mean he's an idiot. Even if somebody should be an idiot, I wonder about the intolerance. Isn't it wanted that everybody should use FLOSS? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Display hurtful on LCD screen with Wheezy

2012-09-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 16:37 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote: > Come now. It just isn't a proper internet discussion without a > flamewar thrown in. :) :D But an OT t the subject for the flame would be nice. > - if a CRT, can you (or anyone with very good ears) hear a very high > pitched whine, nearly

Re: Installation

2012-09-21 Thread Avi Greenbury
lee wrote: > > Besides that, it appears to me that people for reasons that escape me > are willing to put up with whatever crap and problems their windoze > throws at them while they *never* would put up with them if Linux threw > them at them. They even pay a lot of money for it! Any idea why

Re: Virtualkeyboard like to one from Android Tablets or the iPad?

2012-09-21 Thread David Cho-Lerat
Le 21/09/2012 13:10, Michelle Konzack a écrit : Hello, I use currently on my PanelPC "xvkbd" which is the last crap on earth and the design is for the ass. Hi, you can try kvkbd (KDE) - not sure if it's any better. There probably is a GNOME alternative, too, I suppose. Regards, David.

Re: let logrotate create an new empty file?

2012-09-21 Thread Meike Stone
> >From your explanations, I understand that logrotate would create the > file if logrotate rotates the file, which requires the file to exist in > the first place, so create it manually and let logrotate rotate and > create the file in the future. Does that work? (This somewhat ignores > issues

Re: Virtualkeyboard like to one from Android Tablets or the iPad?

2012-09-21 Thread Tom Rausner
Hi. fre, 21 09 2012 kl. 13:10 +0200, skrev Michelle Konzack: > and the design is for the ass. Just curious.. How do a keyboard look, when it's designed for the ass and exactly HOW do one operate it ? -- Tom Rausner -- www.tomtech.dk tomt

Virtualkeyboard like to one from Android Tablets or the iPad?

2012-09-21 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, I use currently on my PanelPC "xvkbd" which is the last crap on earth and the design is for the ass. Does someone know, whether the virtual keyboard from Android exist as source which can be used under Debian GNU/Linux? Also it would be nice, if it can be activated with a double-

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-21 Thread Mauro
On 20 September 2012 22:20, Mauro wrote: > On 20 September 2012 16:56, John Hasler wrote: >> Someone who Stefan failed to identify wrote: >>> ...ntpd crashes on my server. Time jumps forward one hour every time >>> this has happened. >> >> I doubt ntpd is crashing. Most likely something else is

Re: Installation

2012-09-21 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 20.09.2012 um 16:31 schrieb Camaleón: For the lazy users who are not interested in what their systems are or run, a big _sure_. If there were nobody solving their issues (and I'm quite confident that Windows users have *a lot of* problems) they will look for another solution that "breaks" le

Re: Installation

2012-09-21 Thread Helmut Wollmersdorfer
Am 19.09.2012 um 18:59 schrieb lee: Helmut Wollmersdorfer writes: Am 18.09.2012 um 19:06 schrieb Ross Boylan: I remember someone saying "a pigeon could install Debian" [...] You can try an installation under Virtualbox, which is available free for all major OSes (Linux, Win, Mac OSX).