Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-02-16 Thread Hormatzhan Yiltiz
D ​ear fellas, Why there is no anything-sync-daemon, goanysync​ or profile-sync-daemon in Debian, even in Sid?! 祝好, He who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy to receive* all else* from you (and me). The Proph

Re: Apache's mod_userdir resets global per-user permissions, when redefined in

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 08:58:24PM +0400, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: > Hi. > UserDit /home/Public/*/www ^^^ huh? > UserDir enabled > UserDir disabled root [...] > > .. > UserDit /home/Public/*/www/wiki ^^^ > > > .. > UserDit enab

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

2013-02-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 01:28:06 +0100, agroconsultor0 wrote: On 02/16/2013 03:23 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: This conversation is unbelievable. Debian-user is supposedly a list where voluntary people answer simple practical questions of users. Are you really going to enforce list membe

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

2013-02-16 Thread agroconsultor0
On 02/16/2013 03:23 PM, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: This conversation is unbelievable. Debian-user is supposedly a list where voluntary people answer simple practical questions of users. Are you really going to enforce list members to watch such ego demonstrations and unfunny jokes? Well,

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

2013-02-16 Thread Joao Luis Meloni Assirati
This conversation is unbelievable. Debian-user is supposedly a list where voluntary people answer simple practical questions of users. Are you really going to enforce list members to watch such ego demonstrations and unfunny jokes? > On 2/16/2013 3:50 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Jerry Stuckle wri

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 3:50 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Jerry Stuckle writes: On 2/14/2013 4:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Agreed. And now there are "official" binary prefixes, so there is no excuse for not using them when powers of 2 are more convenient instead of abusing SI decimal prefixes. And who d

Re: audacious : mousewheel volume control

2013-02-16 Thread orang Aumori Jepun
> On my system, the mouse wheels seems to lower the volume by 5, or raise > it by 4.  And that doesn't change even if I modify the > mouse_wheel_change value. > > -Rob Anyway , thank you very much for your advices. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

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

2013-02-16 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Jerry Stuckle writes: > On 2/14/2013 4:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> >> Agreed. And now there are "official" binary prefixes, so there is no >> excuse for not using them when powers of 2 are more convenient instead >> of abusing SI decimal prefixes. >> > And who declared these made-up prefixes

Re: Changing the login Background image

2013-02-16 Thread Bob Proulx
"അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്." wrote: > Anyway to change the background of Login screen with Dconf editor of Gconf > editor (without Command prompt) Not as far as I know. However the theme in Debian Stable Squeeze 6.0 with gdm may be changed by editing the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file and setting the [greeter] fil

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 3:40 PM, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hallo, * Jerry Stuckle [Sat, Feb 16 2013, 01:36:42PM]: On 2/16/2013 5:43 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: In fact, the main reason for becoming a drama is the impression that numbers have on some people's mind. "I bought a 32 gig stick and Windows says it's not

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

2013-02-16 Thread Bob Proulx
Eduard Bloch wrote: > Nah, not having much spare time to post doesn't mean I have to drop > all the good habits. I had nothing in the mailbox for the last year of recent memory. I will call that good enough to be called "a while". > Bob Proulx wrote: > > $ perl -le 'print 5605687296 / (1024*1024

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

2013-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Jerry Stuckle [Sat, Feb 16 2013, 01:36:42PM]: > On 2/16/2013 5:43 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: > >In fact, the main reason for becoming a drama is the impression that > >numbers have on some people's mind. "I bought a 32 gig stick and Windows > >says it's not even 30 gig on it.

Re: aptitude update anomaly

2013-02-16 Thread Weaver
On Sat, February 16, 2013 8:29 am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 16 feb 13, 04:11:44, Weaver wrote: > ... >> W: Failed to fetch >> http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/PackagesIndex: >> MD5Sum mismatch >> E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, o

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

2013-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Jerry Stuckle [Sat, Feb 16 2013, 09:09:42AM]: > >And there is it again :-( Please don't justify pure misuse of > >terminology with false analogies like this document about Holy Wars at > >absolutely equivalent things (equivalent WRT their application). > > > >In the field of arithmetics th

Re: Changing the login Background image

2013-02-16 Thread അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ് .
Debian Wheezy with Gnome 3.4 On 16 Feb 2013 15:10, "Frank Lanitz" wrote: > Am 16.02.2013 09:55, schrieb അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്.: > > > > Anyway to change the background of Login screen with Dconf editor of > > Gconf editor (without Command prompt) > > Which one are you using? > > Cheers, > Frank > >

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 12:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 2/16/2013 10:20 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 2/16/2013 5:43 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: In fact, the main reason for becoming a drama is the impression that numbers have on some people's mind. "I bou

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 12:47 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 2/16/2013 9:54 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: But this is not the point. I repeat, the use of powers of 2 is perfectly acceptable. What is not acceptable any more is the abuse of decimal SI prefixes for powers of 2. I have ab

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

2013-02-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 2/16/2013 10:20 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Jerry Stuckle a écrit : >>> On 2/16/2013 5:43 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: In fact, the main reason for becoming a drama is the impression that numbers have on some people's mind. "I bought a 32 gig stick and Windows >>

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 12:38 PM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 16/02/13 16:54, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/16/2013 9:54 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 2/14/2013 4:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: And now there are "official" binary prefixes, so there is no excuse for not using them when

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 12:33 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 2/16/2013 10:04 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Big deal. The sector size is 2^9 bytes, but the sector count is a totally arbitrary number, and is orders of magnitude bigger. So the binary nature of the sector size is complete

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

2013-02-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 2/16/2013 9:54 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> But this is not the point. I repeat, the use of powers of 2 is perfectly >> acceptable. What is not acceptable any more is the abuse of decimal SI >> prefixes for powers of 2. I have abused them too, but always felt >> unc

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

2013-02-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 2/16/2013 10:04 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> >> Big deal. The sector size is 2^9 bytes, but the sector count is a >> totally arbitrary number, and is orders of magnitude bigger. So the >> binary nature of the sector size is completely invisible in the disk >> capacity.

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

2013-02-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/02/13 16:54, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 2/16/2013 9:54 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Jerry Stuckle a écrit : >>> On 2/14/2013 4:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: And now there are "official" binary prefixes, so there is no excuse for not using them when powers of 2 are more convenient in

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

2013-02-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
I'm willing to use what prefix ever, but it's annoying, if I need exact information, to figure out how the Linux app I'm using, does interpret the prefix. hwinfo does use GB for powers of 2 and gparted does use GiB for powers of 2, for Linux apps I'm using seldom I never do know what they m

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 10:20 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 2/16/2013 5:43 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: In fact, the main reason for becoming a drama is the impression that numbers have on some people's mind. "I bought a 32 gig stick and Windows says it's not even 30 gig on it... that'

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 10:04 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 2/16/2013 1:37 AM, Richard Hector wrote: Powers of 2 make sense when you're talking about RAM, where the modules have a certain number of binary address lines, so they naturally fall on those boundaries. For disks, there'

Apache's mod_userdir resets global per-user permissions, when redefined in

2013-02-16 Thread Dmitriy Matrosov
Hi. I notice, that if i define either path or per-user permission (enabled/disabled) in directive, than all per-user permissions from "main" server config are reset to global permission ("all-enabled" or "all-disabled"). Particularly, this means, that if in mods-enabled/userdir.conf i have follow

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 9:54 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Jerry Stuckle a écrit : On 2/14/2013 4:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: And now there are "official" binary prefixes, so there is no excuse for not using them when powers of 2 are more convenient instead of abusing SI decimal prefixes. And who declare

Re: aptitude update anomaly

2013-02-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 16 feb 13, 04:11:44, Weaver wrote: ... > W: Failed to fetch > http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/PackagesIndex: > MD5Sum mismatch > E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old > ones used instead. > E: Couldn't rebuild package cache >

Re: audacious : mousewheel volume control

2013-02-16 Thread Rob Owens
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 09:44:14AM +0900, orang Aumori Jepun wrote: > Sorry , Rob, I replied directly to you, so resend to this list. > > > In ~/.config/audacious/config, there is a parameter called > > mouse_wheel_change.  I expect that is what you're looking for. > > > > By the way, most softwa

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

2013-02-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 2/16/2013 5:43 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: >> >> In fact, the main reason for becoming a drama is the impression that >> numbers have on some people's mind. "I bought a 32 gig stick and Windows >> says it's not even 30 gig on it... that's FRAUD!!" > > Sure it has 32GB on i

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

2013-02-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 2/16/2013 1:37 AM, Richard Hector wrote: >> Powers of 2 make sense when you're talking about RAM, where the modules >> have a certain number of binary address lines, so they naturally fall on >> those boundaries. >> >> For disks, there's no particular advantage, and man

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

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 08:20:45AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 16 February 2013 03:20:54 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2.  When > > dealing with distances, it's powers of 10. > > Not so. Manufacturers of hard drives normally (frequently?) give the

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

2013-02-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 2/14/2013 4:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> And now there are "official" binary prefixes, so there is no >> excuse for not using them when powers of 2 are more convenient instead >> of abusing SI decimal prefixes. > > And who declared these made-up prefixes "official"

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

2013-02-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 09:24:36AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 03:56:58PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 03:35:01PM +0100, Alois Mahdal wrote: > > > > > > (Finally, as we know, there's only 10 kinds of people...) > > > > Yeah, those that put peo

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 5:43 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hallo, * Lisi Reisz [Sat, Feb 16 2013, 08:20:45AM]: On Saturday 16 February 2013 03:20:54 Jerry Stuckle wrote: When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2. When dealing with distances, it's powers of 10. Not so. Manufacturers of hard drives normal

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 5:28 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: Hallo, * Bob Proulx [Sun, Feb 10 2013, 11:46:30AM]: Eduard Bloch wrote: Hallo, * Bob Proulx [Sat, Feb 09 2013, 11:44:03AM]: You say "tomato", I say "tomahto". You can make your own divider the number 34,969[1] if you like. Wow, someone trying to dis

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 3:20 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 16 February 2013 03:20:54 Jerry Stuckle wrote: When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2. When dealing with distances, it's powers of 10. Not so. Manufacturers of hard drives normally (frequently?) give the size in decimal, though they

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 1:37 AM, Richard Hector wrote: On 16/02/13 17:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Powers of 10 make completely no sense. Why not simply dropping the powers of 10 and using the prefixes *B and *iB both for the powers of 2? Powers of 2 make sense when you're talking about RAM, where the modules

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

2013-02-16 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 2/16/2013 1:30 AM, doug wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 04:20:54 +0100, Jerry Stuckle wrote: And who declared these made-up prefixes "official"? Making up prefixes for something which has always been that way is confusing. It's simple. When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2. When deal

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

2013-02-16 Thread John Hasler
doug writes: > Actually, when dealing with distances, it's not powers of 10, it > factors of 12, (inches/foot) 3, (feet.yard) and 5280 (ft/mile). Leave > us not get into furlongs, leave us not! Or stones, or the fact that there are two very, very slightly different miles... Much of this comes fr

Re: aptitude update anomaly

2013-02-16 Thread berenger . morel
Le 16.02.2013 13:11, Weaver a écrit : Hello, Here it is again. What do you make of this? ~~~ weaver@Telaman:~$ su Password: root@Telaman:/home/weaver# aptitude update Get: 1 http://ftp.au.debian.org unstable InRelease [236 kB] Get: 2 http://www.deb-multimedia.org sid I

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

2013-02-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/02/13 03:20, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 2/14/2013 4:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Ralf Mardorf a écrit : >>> On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 09:50 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 13 feb 13, 14:08:15, Richard Hector wrote: > Abusing the standard prefixes like that was always a horrible ha

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

2013-02-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 16 February 2013 10:43:51 Eduard Bloch wrote: > Hallo, > > * Lisi Reisz [Sat, Feb 16 2013, 08:20:45AM]: > > On Saturday 16 February 2013 03:20:54 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > > When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2.  When > > > dealing with distances, it's powers of 10. > > > > Not

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

2013-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Lisi Reisz [Sat, Feb 16 2013, 08:20:45AM]: > On Saturday 16 February 2013 03:20:54 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2.  When > > dealing with distances, it's powers of 10. > > Not so. Manufacturers of hard drives normally (frequently?) give the size in

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

2013-02-16 Thread Eduard Bloch
Hallo, * Bob Proulx [Sun, Feb 10 2013, 11:46:30AM]: > Eduard Bloch wrote: > > Hallo, > > * Bob Proulx [Sat, Feb 09 2013, 11:44:03AM]: > > > You say "tomato", I say "tomahto". You can make your own divider the > > > number 34,969[1] if you like. > > > > Wow, someone trying to disguise the own mist

Re: Changing the login Background image

2013-02-16 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 16.02.2013 09:55, schrieb അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്.: > > Anyway to change the background of Login screen with Dconf editor of > Gconf editor (without Command prompt) Which one are you using? Cheers, Frank signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Changing the login Background image

2013-02-16 Thread അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ് .
Anyway to change the background of Login screen with Dconf editor of Gconf editor (without Command prompt) സസ്നേഹം, ~ അഖിലൻ

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

2013-02-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 16 February 2013 03:20:54 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > When dealing with computers, it's powers of 2.  When > dealing with distances, it's powers of 10. Not so. Manufacturers of hard drives normally (frequently?) give the size in decimal, though they obviously don't say so, to make them lo