Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/2/2012 7:27 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > But granted I find it a pity that soo much variety of CPU platforms has > gone already. Yes, a shame. A short list of some CPU archs that have been pushed out of the market or severely marginalized by x86, desktop/workstation/server/supercompute

Re: Problem with system update or something

2012-11-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I am running (or, now, kind of running) Debian 6.0.x AMD64 version. I have done a system update in the last day or so, and, possibly because of that, the system has become mostly unusable. Upon shutting down konqueror, all of the saved bookmarks

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-11-02 Thread Go Linux
--- On Fri, 11/2/12, lee wrote: > From: lee > Subject: Re: compiling a Debian package > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Friday, November 2, 2012, 6:11 PM > Go Linux > writes: > > > po'd.  Thankfully, I did manage to get the driver > for the old nvidia > > card installed with the sgf

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:30:02 +0100 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Now if they'd just smarten up I've pondered this sort of thing my whole adult life. I don't understand everything you're saying here but it sounds pretty straight forward for someone who does, like the 50 miles-to-the-gallon carburettor

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/2/2012 7:16 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > And thus I say, that I better use a dual core CPU with higher peak > performance for typical desktop workloads, than a quad core CPU with lower > peak performance. A quad core CPU with as high peak performance might be > in order if something co

Re: Apace Redirect Question

2012-11-02 Thread Wolf Halton
Make these changes in sites-available files. That is what those files in there are for. I don't have the specific directive but I can put up one of my servers' apache files for you. Wolf Halton http://sourcefreedom.com Apache developer: wolfhal...@apache.org On Nov 2, 2012 9:02 PM, wrote: > Good

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread Neal Murphy
I hate waiting for my computer to do things. Swapping and paging at all? Add more RAM. CPU-starved while running multiple processes? Add more CPUs. By and large, for most desktop purchases, the most economical and reliable system will have a Gigabyte 790 or 970 mboard (I've never had a Gigabyte

Re: Catastrophe on Bootup

2012-11-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 11/1/2012 1:23 AM, David Baron wrote: > I get as far as the USB ports. > From there I can get into a root-shell where I must vgmknodes to get my lvm > volumes mounted! > > Various other inits like USB capabilities, network (cannot find eth2 > device!), > etc., rc.local, are not executed. Pro

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread lee
Martin Steigerwald writes: >> SSDs are a waste of money unless you do have the workload to benefit >> from them. And if you have that, where do you store your data? > > I disagree. > > Putting an SSD in this laptop has been the single most effective way to > improve all my desktop workloads lik

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-11-02 Thread lee
Jochen Spieker writes: > lee: >> Darac Marjal writes: >> >>> Nothing (that I'm aware of) in Debian bans you from using non-free >>> software. There is only the understanding that support for non-free >>> software is the responsibility of that software's provider. >> >> You already can't use it

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-11-02 Thread lee
Go Linux writes: > po'd. Thankfully, I did manage to get the driver for the old nvidia > card installed with the sgfxi script but had to blacklist nouveau to > get it to work. Just use either the drivers from their website or the Debian version of those. Won't that work? -- Debian testing i

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-11-02 Thread lee
Kelly Clowers writes: > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:09 AM, lee wrote: >> >> >> Besides, I was told in an answer to a bug report that 32bit support will >> not be available in the next release, > > > Yeah, right. I'll believe that when I see a formal announcement of > it on the front page of debian

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-11-02 Thread lee
Lisi Reisz writes: > It is much the best solution to the problem you keep expounding. It is not a solution at all. > You clearly dislike Debian intensely, so it is daft to keep using it. I don't dislike Debian, I only dislike that the developers broke it. > Windows would give you everything y

Apace Redirect Question

2012-11-02 Thread craig
Good evening folks, I am trying to teach myself Apache and have run into what seems to be a real simple problem for which I can not find a solution. I have two virtual hosts with files in /var/www/htdocs/domain1.com and /var/www/htdocs/domain2.com. I have a fairly simple configuration file for th

Wheezy suspend fail after todays upgrade

2012-11-02 Thread Gean Ceretta
Good night friends, after todays (02/11/2012) upgrade, my Wheezy begin to fail on waking from suspend mode, anyone experienced that too? This is an very old bug on Wheezy that was not affecting me before today. Here is the list of upgraded packages: libapt-pkg4.12 apt libapt-inst1.5 apt-u

connect to two APs

2012-11-02 Thread shawn wilson
i asked this on a fairly regional linux user group list about a week ago and didn't get any hardware recommendations. i figured i'd ask here for a wider net. here is the thread i started last week: http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/novalug/2012-October/033546.html what i want is a usb wifi card tha

Re: Network hardware.

2012-11-02 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 02 Nov 2012, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > We have a Linksys WRT54G in a community hall and want to extend > the range. Candidate devices are the Linksys RE1000 and the > PLWK400. The PLWK400 is just a PLE400 and PLW400 together. > > 1. Which if any of these things uses the 110 V wiring a

Re (2): Network hardware.

2012-11-02 Thread peasthope
From: lati...@vcn.bc.ca Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 13:30:57 -0700 > Have you seen those artifacts? > > http://www.ubnt.com/unifi No. Can they help? How? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 Bcc: peasthope

Re: Network hardware.

2012-11-02 Thread latinfo
> Can anyone recommend a forum or mailing list for discussion of > network hardware? A search in Google Groups yields advertising. > > Not within the scope of debian-user but with many knowledgeable > readers I'm taking the liberty of asking here. > > We have a Linksys WRT54G in a community hall a

Re: nouveau driver bugs

2012-11-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-11-02 19:20 +0100, Worrier Poet wrote: > On 11/02/2012 10:42 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> On 2012-10-30 12:53:24 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: >>> The guys developing free drivers for the Nvidia graphics cards seem to >>> have a lot harder job to do, but they also seem to be up to the task.

Problem with system update or something

2012-11-02 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I am running (or, now, kind of running) Debian 6.0.x AMD64 version. I have done a system update in the last day or so, and, possibly because of that, the system has become mostly unusable. Upon shutting down konqueror, all of the saved bookmarks were deleted. With rebooting, rebooting

Re: nouveau driver bugs

2012-11-02 Thread Worrier Poet
On 11/02/2012 10:42 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2012-10-30 12:53:24 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: >> The guys developing free drivers for the Nvidia graphics cards seem to >> have a lot harder job to do, but they also seem to be up to the task. >> It's coming along slowly, but the nouveau drivers

Network hardware.

2012-11-02 Thread peasthope
Can anyone recommend a forum or mailing list for discussion of network hardware? A search in Google Groups yields advertising. Not within the scope of debian-user but with many knowledgeable readers I'm taking the liberty of asking here. We have a Linksys WRT54G in a community hall and want to

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 09:53:56AM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: > > > Well, it is almost what I want, but the check for new mail on start up and the > check for new mail every X minutes do not seem to work. I can only get mail if If all you want is the pop-up to grab your attention, maybe a noti

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread craig
On Friday, November 2, 2012 07:57, cr...@gtek.biz said: > >> >> I don't think you need to bother with POP or IMAP. It appears Icedove >> has an account type called "movemail" that you can point to >> /var/spool/mail/. >> >> Personally, I use good old /usr/bin/mail for this purpose. >> >> John

nouveau driver bugs (was: Advice on system purchase)

2012-11-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2012-10-30 12:53:24 -0400, Worrier Poet wrote: > The guys developing free drivers for the Nvidia graphics cards seem to > have a lot harder job to do, but they also seem to be up to the task. > It's coming along slowly, but the nouveau drivers are most certainly > working well enough for me. I a

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread John L. Cunningham
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 04:08:20PM +0800, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > I just add an account via Edit --> Account settings --> Add other > account --> Unix Mailspool (Movemail) > > But no mail shows up. > > > There was nothing in /var/mail which is link to /var/spool/mail That's perfectly logical.

stainless steel cookware supply

2012-11-02 Thread james gray
does any one person or people know how to contact google with hacker spam from the Orient. i do receive e mail with subject of: stainless steel cookware supply with oriental chars on right hand side. i did look in google groups, but then, open another account for just one simple question or i

Re: package#dpkg-reconfigure

2012-11-02 Thread Brian
On Fri 02 Nov 2012 at 06:05:59 -0700, james gray wrote: > The package: > > #dpkg-reconfigure dpkg-reconfigure is not a package. > Question: > > does it actually exist. Run the command dpkg -S dpkg-reconfigure to discover which package a file is in. [Snip] > #su dpkg-reconfigure keyboa

Re: package#dpkg-reconfigure

2012-11-02 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Fri, 2 Nov 2012 06:05:59 -0700 james gray napísal: > #su dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration try: #sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration or: #su #dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration or edit the /etc/default/keyboard file manually. regards -- Slavko http://slavino.s

Re: swap-partition

2012-11-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 01:07:28PM +, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > Hello, > > on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux system. > Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions. > > As I want to remove the other Linux I want to get rid of one of the swap > p

Re: package#dpkg-reconfigure

2012-11-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 02/11/2012 14:05, james gray wrote: The package: #dpkg-reconfigure Question: does it actually exist. [cut] Could some one please allow me to know , what . Thank you. Hi, $ dpkg -S dpkg-reconfigure debconf-i18n: /usr/share/man/de/man8/dpkg-reconfigure.8.gz debconf-i18n: /usr/shar

Re: package#dpkg-reconfigure

2012-11-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 06:05:59AM -0700, james gray wrote: >The package: > >#dpkg-reconfigure > >Question: > >does it actually exist. No. The file "dpkg-reconfigure" is actually part of the debconf (or cdebconf) package. [cut] > >#su dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuratio

Re: swap-partition

2012-11-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: > > on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux system. > Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions. > > As I want to remove the other Linux I want to get rid of one of the swap > partitions. > How can

swap-partition

2012-11-02 Thread Klaus Jantzen
Hello, on my machine I have two HDDs with Windows, Debian and another Linux system. Because of the two Linux systems I have two swap partitions. As I want to remove the other Linux I want to get rid of one of the swap partitions. How can I find out which swap partition is used by Debian and by

package#dpkg-reconfigure

2012-11-02 Thread james gray
The package: #dpkg-reconfigure Question: does it actually exist. - At this page: http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg there are instructions to call: #dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration at this page: http://www.debian

Re: If btrfs is a way to save my SSD. Then what is for swap?

2012-11-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 2. November 2012 schrieb Darac Marjal: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 01:48:00AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > On 11/2/2012 12:05 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > > > SSD like samsung 840 (TLC) only has 1k write times. Swap directly > > > on it would not be horrible? > > > > Your questio

Re: Partition Control During Debian Installation

2012-11-02 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2012-11-02 13:05, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: > Hi, > > Several weeks ago I installed Debian on my older Intel-based 32-bit machine. > In anticipation of this, I had installed a 1TB hard disk, which I expected to > be able to install three distros on for experimenting. > > Debian was the first

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread craig
> > I don't think you need to bother with POP or IMAP. It appears Icedove > has an account type called "movemail" that you can point to > /var/spool/mail/. > > Personally, I use good old /usr/bin/mail for this purpose. > > John Bingo!, and thanks! I always have an xterm open, tailing the log

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2012 schrieb lee: > Stan Hoeppner writes: > > most of the time, and a faster CPU doesn't make Thunderbird or > > Firefox, IE or Outlook express, go any faster. Nor any of the > > standard desktop apps. > > Sure it does. > > > 90% of users would benefit more from a low w

Re: Partition Control During Debian Installation

2012-11-02 Thread Brian
On Fri 02 Nov 2012 at 12:05:16 +, Feuerbacher, Alan wrote: > Several weeks ago I installed Debian on my older Intel-based 32-bit > machine. In anticipation of this, I had installed a 1TB hard disk, > which I expected to be able to install three distros on for > experimenting. > > Debian was t

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 10/30/2012 7:19 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 29 oct 12, 21:06:36, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> The second big reason is that neither Microsoft nor ISVs will profit > >> from a non x86 CPU architecture entering the desktop > >> space. S

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > > http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2411546,00.asp > > > > > > > > Although to be fair, Stan was talking about desktops, and this is > > about servers. > > If it ever gets off the ground. The super high density application > sever space w

Problems with MG5320 solved

2012-11-02 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
Hi: I have now solved the problems I had with Canon Pixma MG5320. The problem I had was because I was using the ipp protocol. Canon has its own protocol cnijnet which I think comes with the drivers from Canon Ireland; however I had problems with their driver MG5320.ppd, and I had to use the one t

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 2. November 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > > > But I do believe that the kernel pings > > > between 800 MHz and turbo mode not for nothing. > > > > > > > > I have no idea what point you're making here. > > "ondemand" scheduler tends to do it by give-me-everything-you-got or > the-

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-11-02 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 2. November 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > On 11/1/2012 11:42 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2012 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > >>> For powerful laptops and power saving desktops I think Intel > >>> Sandybridge/Ivybridge is best bet currently - except for the > >>> p

Re: Does Debian dictionary/glossary/acronym list exist?

2012-11-02 Thread Richard Owlett
Kelly Clowers wrote: On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've been using computers since before Linus was born. I'm making the switch from a certain OS ;\ I'm also one of those strange people who actually reads docs. What do I do when I find terms such as initrd or udeb ? A

Re: Trojan Detected by Kaspersky in One Debian DVD

2012-11-02 Thread Jochen Spieker
Alan Feuerbacher: > > Last night Kaspersky anti-virus detected a Trojan in one of the files: Apparently you have missed the excellent answers you have already received on-list. If you want to be CC'ed, you should specifiy this in your e-mails (preferrably using appropriate headers). If you are n

Trojan Detected by Kaspersky in One Debian DVD

2012-11-02 Thread Alan Feuerbacher
A couple of weeks ago I downloaded to my Windows7 machine 10 DVD iso files for debian-6.0.6-amd64. I have not yet installed Debian on this machine. Last night Kaspersky anti-virus detected a Trojan in one of the files: debian-6.0.6-amd64-DVD-7.iso\pool\main\n\nepenthes\nepenthes_0.2.2-6_amd64.

Re: If btrfs is a way to save my SSD. Then what is for swap?

2012-11-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 01:48:00AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 11/2/2012 12:05 AM, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > > SSD like samsung 840 (TLC) only has 1k write times. Swap directly on it > > would not be horrible? > > Your question I presume: "Is SSD suitable for a swap partition?" > > Answ

Re: Addition of the Workman keyboard layout

2012-11-02 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 03:29:07PM -0400, David Norman wrote: > What is the best way to go about proposing the addition of the Workman > keyboard layout to continue in the tracks of Colemak? Raise a wishlist bug against console-data with a suitable patch attached. signature.asc Description: Di

Re: Catastrophe on Bootup

2012-11-02 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello all, On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 08:23:53AM +0200, David Baron wrote: > [...] > sudo /etc/init.d/udev [whatever...] > Signal 11 (SEGV) caught by ps (procps-ng version 3.3.4). > ps:display.c:59: please report this bug > [warn] udev does not support containers, not started ... (warning). > > Whil

Re: Works on .htaccess but not in sites-available

2012-11-02 Thread Wolfgang Karall
Hello, On 10/30/2012 10:02 PM, Jorge wrote: > In /var/www/www.etxea.org/htdocs/.htaccess I've got the following > content ... [..] > RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.txt|user_guide) > RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L] [..] > > RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|robots\.

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
On 01/11/2012 22:36, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: This may or may not be a dumb question, but I would like to install logcheck on my local machine, and then view the emails it generates using Icedove. I guess I need a POP or IMAP server running, so my question is, which server should I install to acce

Re: Checking local mail with Icedove

2012-11-02 Thread lina
On Friday 02,November,2012 11:18 AM, John L. Cunningham wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 04:36:13PM -0500, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: >> This may or may not be a dumb question, but I would like to install logcheck >> on my local machine, and then view the emails it generates using Icedove. I >> guess

Installed library files (mostly kernel modules) not belonging to any package in tiger audit report

2012-11-02 Thread Maarten Derickx
Dear All, Today I got the following in my tiger security audit: # Checking installed files against packages... --WARN-- [lin001w] File `/lib/init/rw/.ramfs' does not belong to any package. --WARN-- [lin001w] File `/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/modules.softdep' does not belong to any package. --WARN

Catastrophe on Bootup

2012-11-02 Thread David Baron
I get as far as the USB ports. From there I can get into a root-shell where I must vgmknodes to get my lvm volumes mounted! Various other inits like USB capabilities, network (cannot find eth2 device!), etc., rc.local, are not executed. Problem in udev which I cannot execute manually: sudo /etc