Re: [1/2OT] skype

2013-02-08 Thread Tom Bamford
On 2013/02/09 6:52 AM, lina wrote: Hi, Is skype stable under the Debian? I have not installed, but I am kinda of needing it for a video call. Will it easily be crashed, I have never tried, so ask ahead. Works great for me in Wheezy/sid, much more stable than it used to be (with earlier Skyp

Re: [1/2OT] skype

2013-02-08 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2013-02-09 05:52, lina skrev: Is skype stable under the Debian? Works well enough and is stable enough for me. You can always uninstall it if you find problems. / johan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Where do `pr_warning()`s end up?

2013-02-08 Thread Alois Mahdal
On Sat, 9 Feb 2013 13:19:31 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > [...] > > Start looking here: > > root@tal:~# less /etc/sysctl.conf > [...] > > # Uncomment the following to stop low-level messages on console > #kernel.printk = 3 4 1 3 > [...] Looks interesting, although from what I understood from

[1/2OT] skype

2013-02-08 Thread lina
Hi, Is skype stable under the Debian? I have not installed, but I am kinda of needing it for a video call. Will it easily be crashed, I have never tried, so ask ahead. Thanks for your answer, Best regards, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Where do `pr_warning()`s end up?

2013-02-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 08:10:31PM +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: > Hello && GTOTD, > > I'm trying to make sense of some kernel driver code and I noticed some > `pr_warning()` calls. > > From kernel.h I know pr_warning is an `eprintf()` macro: > > #define pr_warning(fmt, ...) \ > epr

Re: computer security (online) training

2013-02-08 Thread owens
- Original Message - From: Joe To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: 2/8/2013 9:03:30 PM Subject: Re: [OT] computer security (online) training On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:48:45 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > > Cutting to the chase... after googling around I see there are many > many

Re: [OT] computer security (online) training

2013-02-08 Thread Brad Alexander
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sorry for taking advantage of the list a bit but as happens pretty > often, this list is more likely to provide useful info on the subject. > > I want to begin some training in computer security... training I can > do online... and hopefully a

Re: Update hanged, now stuck in loop

2013-02-08 Thread Brad Alexander
Did you try apt-get -f install ? I've used that as well, making careful note of what it is about to do (so I could reinstall things it may uninstall to get itself sorted out). You could also try it with the --dry-run option. --b On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi folks,

Re: Client "daemon" for sorting e-mail via IMAP

2013-02-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/23/13, David Guntner wrote: > Alois Mahdal grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> I wonder if there already is a solution for this: ... > One of the machines on my home network is my Linux server, running > Debian Squeeze. I've got Postfix installed for the MTA same here > and Procmail installed

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Viskup
On 02/08/2013 10:44 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Peter Viskup: viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status Name: gnome-shell VmPeak: 3537456 kB VmSize: 3403068 kB I am not sure, but I suspect you misinterpret those numbers. This is the amount of memory that the application th

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Peter Viskup: > > viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status > Name: gnome-shell > VmPeak: 3537456 kB > VmSize: 3403068 kB I am not sure, but I suspect you misinterpret those numbers. This is the amount of memory that the application thinks is available for itself. This doe

Re: [OT] computer security (online) training

2013-02-08 Thread Joe
On Thu, 07 Feb 2013 19:48:45 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: > > Cutting to the chase... after googling around I see there are many > many computer security training sites and companies. I need a little > guidance to paring them down with my main criteria being hands on > training. > Without having

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Viskup
On 02/08/2013 03:12 PM, Jon Dowland wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:28:51AM +0100, Peter Viskup wrote: viskup@viskup:~$ uptime 11:10:57 up 16 days, 17:01, 10 users, load average: 1.61, 1.34, 1.07 I'm not sure what this is supposed to demonstrate. Has gnome-shell been running for 16 days?

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Viskup
On 02/08/2013 06:09 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status Name: gnome-shell VmPeak: 3537456 kB VmSize: 3403068 kB That doesn't show a memory leak. Indeed, but we're talking about 3GB of memory here, which seems hard to justify for such an ap

Re: Download 3.1: Link is not responding

2013-02-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Feb 2013 at 19:05:04 +0200, Zvi Vered wrote: > I'm looking for DVD iso. > The link: > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r8/i386/iso-dvd/ > Does not contains any ISO files. All you have to do is click on "Parent Directory" to start exploring. > Can you help ? Hopefully. >

Where do `pr_warning()`s end up?

2013-02-08 Thread Alois Mahdal
Hello && GTOTD, I'm trying to make sense of some kernel driver code and I noticed some `pr_warning()` calls. From kernel.h I know pr_warning is an `eprintf()` macro: #define pr_warning(fmt, ...) \ eprintf(0, pr_fmt(fmt), ##__VA_ARGS__) while eprintf is defined in debug.c. So..

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status >> Name: gnome-shell >> VmPeak: 3537456 kB >> VmSize: 3403068 kB > That doesn't show a memory leak. Indeed, but we're talking about 3GB of memory here, which seems hard to justify for such an application. > awk '/Name|VmSize|VmP

Re: Download 3.1: Link is not responding

2013-02-08 Thread Zvi Vered
Hello, I'm looking for DVD iso. The link: http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r8/i386/iso-dvd/ Does not contains any ISO files. Can you help ? What is businesscard ISO ? Thanks, Zvika On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 10:27 AM, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > Le Ven 8 février 2013 7:57, Zvi Vered a é

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-08 Thread Jon Dowland
You could use GNU units. It appears to treat SI prefixes as strictly base 10, so use the KiB/MiB etc. variants where applicable: > $ units 8112116KiB MiB > * 7921.9883 > / 0.00012623094 Something like > …2>&1| awk '/transferred/' {print $1}'|while read i; do units "${i}bytes" > "GiB

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Jon Dowland
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 11:28:51AM +0100, Peter Viskup wrote: > Hi all, > just want to share my bad experience with Gnome3 in testing. They > have/had some mem-leaks in there. > > viskup@viskup:~$ uptime > 11:10:57 up 16 days, 17:01, 10 users, load average: 1.61, 1.34, 1.07 I'm not sure what th

OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Peter Viskup
Hi all, just want to share my bad experience with Gnome3 in testing. They have/had some mem-leaks in there. viskup@viskup:~$ uptime 11:10:57 up 16 days, 17:01, 10 users, load average: 1.61, 1.34, 1.07 viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status Name: gnome-shell VmPeak:

Re: [OT] computer security (online) training

2013-02-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 09:15:26AM +0100, "Morel Bérenger" wrote: > > I'm curious to look at other replies. A good place to post would be d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving t

Re: OT - Convert output of byte count to GB count?

2013-02-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 01:26:45PM -0600, Kent West wrote: >This is off-topic because it's on OS/X instead of Debian, but you folks >are the smartest, so >The GNU dd command, when sent the -USR1 signal, pauses processing long >enough to spit out a status line, like so: > > 1833

Re: Moving mdadm raid volume to new OS install

2013-02-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 08 feb 13, 18:25:04, Chris Bannister wrote: > > What a horrible email client, how do you know who wrote what? It seems to be one of those "smart" clients that defaults to html and inserts quoting when you try to interleave your reply. Usually switching to plain text only helps. Kind reg

Re: Download 3.1: Link is not responding

2013-02-08 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 8 février 2013 7:57, Zvi Vered a écrit : > Hello, > > > I have to download debian 3.1 for i386. > So I went to: > http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/debian-installer/ > > > And clicked on: full CD sets / i386 > It seems that the link is not responding. > > > Can you help ? > > > Thanks, >

Re: For Help!

2013-02-08 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 8 février 2013 8:19, s. keeling a écrit : > Aijun Xuan : > >> ---485831647-466411508-1354984718=:50704 >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> >> >> Hello, Debian: >> >> >> First of all, I would like appreciate what Debian had offered to >> us! I would thank GUN very much! >> >> I a

Re: [OT] computer security (online) training

2013-02-08 Thread Morel Bérenger
Le Ven 8 février 2013 8:24, lina a écrit : > On Friday 08,February,2013 08:48 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Sorry for taking advantage of the list a bit but as happens pretty >> often, this list is more likely to provide useful info on the subject. >> >> I want to begin some training in computer sec