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

2013-02-17 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, 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 look >>> bigger. >> >> Actually, they

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Re: Changing the login Background image

2013-02-17 Thread അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ് .
Then how it is done via CLI? On 17 Feb 2013 23:12, "Frank Lanitz" wrote: > Am 16.02.2013 19:57, schrieb അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്.: > > Debian Wheezy with Gnome 3.4 > > I assuming you are using GDM here. Back in my times there was an GUI for > configuration GDM inside the Gnome-menu -- but this was at Gnom

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

2013-02-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:49:33 +0100, agroconsultor0 wrote: On 02/17/2013 08:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi agroconsultor0, somebody captured a thread, instead of replying to this thread or opening a new one. This OP ask people who were talking about a technical issue, Debian does ship w

upgrading to wheezy - multiseat stops working

2013-02-17 Thread Sergey Spiridonov
Hi Debian I try to upgrade my working multi-seat installation to wheezy. I have nvidia graphic cards. In squeeze I used gdm. It was working OK. I had following entries in gdm.conf: 8<->8 [servers] 0=Standard0 1=Standard1 [server-Standard0] name=Standard server

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

2013-02-17 Thread agroconsultor0
On 02/17/2013 08:27 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Hi agroconsultor0, somebody captured a thread, instead of replying to this thread or opening a new one. This OP ask people who were talking about a technical issue, Debian does ship with apps that use wrong prefixes, to stop this discussion, calli

Help w Claws mail (pop) I don't want to download my entire yahoo message box!

2013-02-17 Thread B G
I am trying to set up claws mail to access my yahoo email account using pop. I would only like to download messages from the last day or so. My yahoo account has emails going back 7 or so years. Is there a way to tell Claws mail client to only download the last 100 messages? Right now it is grabb

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

2013-02-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 2/16/2013 12:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Let me rephrase it. Can you provide an example of a freshly created >> filesystem of a common size with an overhead of at least 7%, i.e. with >> the free space being less than 93 % of the raw size ? > > How about answering

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

2013-02-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Jerry Stuckle a écrit : > On 2/16/2013 12:33 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> >> 10^9 = (5 * 2)^9 = 5^9 * 2^9 = 1953125 * 512. >> So it is possible to have a disk of 1 953 125 sectors of 512 bytes, >> which is exactly 1 000 000 000 bytes. >> I personnally own a disk of exactly 20 GB (20 000 000 000 by

Re: Changing the login Background image

2013-02-17 Thread Frank Lanitz
Am 16.02.2013 19:57, schrieb അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്.: > Debian Wheezy with Gnome 3.4 I assuming you are using GDM here. Back in my times there was an GUI for configuration GDM inside the Gnome-menu -- but this was at Gnome2 so I'm afraid at least I cannot help you. Cheers, Frank signature.asc Descr

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

2013-02-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi agroconsultor0, somebody captured a thread, instead of replying to this thread or opening a new one. This OP ask people who were talking about a technical issue, Debian does ship with apps that use wrong prefixes, to stop this discussion, calling it a "ego demonstration". You don't l

SSD Optimization in Wheezy

2013-02-17 Thread Hormatzhan Yiltiz
D ​ear fellas, Two issues here indicated from wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization. One is about ramlog, another about asd. 1. I had 8G RAM x64 Debian testing on 120G SSD, and wanted to do some SSD optimization, and I came across http://www.tremende.com/ramlog/ from Debian Recommendation http://wiki.de

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

2013-02-17 Thread agroconsultor0
On 02/16/2013 04:45 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: 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.

Re: Installing Debian on an SSD

2013-02-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 17 feb 13, 14:09:38, Hormatzhan Yiltiz wrote: > D > ​ear fellas, > Why there is no anything-sync-daemon, goanysync​ or profile-sync-daemon in > Debian, even in Sid?! How is this related to SSDs? Please write a new message with a proper subject explaining what you need and we might be able