Re: Graphic card advice

2013-06-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 25 iun 13, 20:21:15, David Christensen wrote: > > I have an older machine with motherboard NVIDIA graphics. Building > and installing the NVIDIA proprietary driver wasn't too hard, but I > have experience with Linux kernel and embedded systems programming. > The kicker was keeping the vide

Re: Debian 7.1 root password issue.

2013-06-25 Thread Dom
On 26/06/13 03:11, SANG KIM wrote: I recently installed debian 7.1 and I reinstalled it at least five times. I've tried installing it with a root password created and without and Debian still won't let me log in as root. It says "authentication failed" after I type in the root password. I've

Re: Encrypted drive

2013-06-25 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > What I was considering am using a 16GB thumb drive for the OS, then > encrypting and using the 1.5TB and 3TB for swap, /var, /tmp, and the rest > for data. > > Toward that end, I have a few questions. > > * Is using a thumb drive for / an

Re: Encrypted drive

2013-06-25 Thread Arun Khan
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 9:32 AM, David Christensen wrote: > If you can figure out how to boot from USB and run from RAM, then omitting a > system drive could work. Otherwise, USB drives were never intended to be > system drives. You want an SSD. It depends on the use case scenario. FWIW, I am

Re: Encrypted drive

2013-06-25 Thread David Christensen
On 06/25/13 14:27, Brad Alexander wrote: I'm going to be adding a 3TB drive to my fileserver, but I want to use LUKS encryption. The fileserver is kinda long in the tooth, a 2.8GHz P4 with 2GB of RAM. The machine has two drive slots, currently with an 80GB and a 1.5TB drive. What I was considerin

Re: Debian 7.1 root password issue.

2013-06-25 Thread Pablo Alejandro Hamann
El 25/06/13 23:11, SANG KIM escribió: > ied to use the password command to remove whatever password I > created/didn't create and I get an error message that the password > command cannot be found in BASH. Is there Hello SANG KIM. Never happen to me. But, when you login with a user account, you

Re: Graphic card advice

2013-06-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/06/13 11:21 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 06/25/13 00:12, a...@alphanet.ch wrote: 1. Your budget. <= ~$150 2. What applications you plan to run. Some office applications, no games, max HD video. I actually have problems with fast forward (up to a frozen picture...) 3. How many monito

Re: Graphic card advice

2013-06-25 Thread David Christensen
On 06/25/13 00:12, a...@alphanet.ch wrote: 1. Your budget. <= ~$150 2. What applications you plan to run. Some office applications, no games, max HD video. I actually have problems with fast forward (up to a frozen picture...) 3. How many monitor(s) you have (or will buy) and their interfaces

Debian 7.1 root password issue.

2013-06-25 Thread SANG KIM
I recently installed debian 7.1 and I reinstalled it at least five times. I've tried installing it with a root password created and without and Debian still won't let me log in as root. It says "authentication failed" after I type in the root password. I've tried reinstalling it without

Re: Encrypted drive

2013-06-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 6/26/13, Brad Alexander wrote: > I'm going to be adding a 3TB drive to my fileserver, but I want to use LUKS > encryption. The fileserver is kinda long in the tooth, a 2.8GHz P4 with 2GB > of RAM. Your mobo should be adequate, for just a home file server. > The machine has two drive slots, cu

Re: apt pinning for deb-multimedia does not work

2013-06-25 Thread Roland Hieber
On 21.06.2013 15:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I think we didn't understand priorities correctly. Let's see again what > the fine manual (apt_preferences(5)) says: > > […] > As per above output you have 6:9.3-1 installed, which is more recent > than 6:0.8.6-1. Because of this apt wants to jump dir

Re: counter-PRISM PRISM - Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post on this list.] On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 08:05:04PM -0400, låzaro wrote: > Make yourself this question: > > >I'm s important? The CIA is looking for me? > >There have not another way for waste CIA's time and money than look >for me; a Mr. Nobody? >

Re: Nvidia and 4 monitors in 7.1

2013-06-25 Thread Dan Serban
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:18:45 -0700 Dan Serban wrote: [snip] > > [1] http://paste.debian.net/10492/ > [2] http://paste.debian.net/10491/ > So, nothing huh? Is what I want to do impossible in Wheezy? -- Dan Serban -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

suddenly: shutdown!

2013-06-25 Thread Dexter Filmore
So today I when looking at the logs for something else I noticed this: (PWRWATCH is my own disk array power management, only sends disks to standby) Jun 25 06:51:13 xerxes kernel: [359176.119126] Jun 25 06:51:33 xerxes kernel: [359196.088136] pctv452e: pctv452e_power_ctrl: 1 Jun 25 06:51:33 xerxe

Re: Dual monitor problems

2013-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
On 25/06/13 12:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 25 iun 13, 06:56:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: >> I am trying to use two monitors at once, for the first time, using >> an Nvidia dual head card. >> >> I have now got the two monitors displaying a single screen and the >> mouse passes from one to the ot

Re: Encrypted drive

2013-06-25 Thread sp113438
> * Is using a thumb drive for / and /usr a bad idea? Would it be > better to set up the 1.5 TB with two VGs, one for the OS and one for > data? I would never use a thumb drive for / I think it is slow, and perhaps unreliable greetings -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Encrypted drive

2013-06-25 Thread Brad Alexander
I'm going to be adding a 3TB drive to my fileserver, but I want to use LUKS encryption. The fileserver is kinda long in the tooth, a 2.8GHz P4 with 2GB of RAM. The machine has two drive slots, currently with an 80GB and a 1.5TB drive. What I was considering am using a 16GB thumb drive for the OS,

RAID: one disk missing when creating the array

2013-06-25 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi, I created an array /dev/md0 --level=5 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sd[bcde] I get this in mdstat root@nas:/nas/secure/KEY# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md0 : active raid5 sde[4] sdd[2] sdc[1] sdb[0] 5860148736 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 512k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3

Re: Unknown option: -a to fsck.btrfs

2013-06-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 09:06:01PM +0100, Dan Dart wrote: > Okay then, thanks, I'll do that. Out of curiosity, which is the script to > do the fsck'ing on boot up? Start reading here: http://wiki.debian.org/InitramfsDebug -dsr- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 08:08:11PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > And we tend to get caught up in the wrong battles and find ourselves > converted to their world. And conflate the government's stupidities with > God's intent for us to learn hard lessons. Oh, please! Don't go there. Please read: http://

Re: Unknown option: -a to fsck.btrfs

2013-06-25 Thread Dan Dart
Okay then, thanks, I'll do that. Out of curiosity, which is the script to do the fsck'ing on boot up? Cheers Dan

Re: Unknown option: -a to fsck.btrfs

2013-06-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 03:29:36PM +0100, Dan Dart wrote: > Recently after an upgrade to my Debian system (and after a certain > number of mounts) whose rootfs is on btrfs, my system now goes to > maintenance shell mode because it can't run fack against the root fs. > > Whilst attempting to fsck a

Re: Unknown option: -a to fsck.btrfs

2013-06-25 Thread Dan Dart
Yes, I know that but the boot up auto-fsck doesn't! Cheers Dab

Re: counter-PRISM PRISM - Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread Slavko
Dňa 25.06.2013 19:32 låzaro wrote / napísal(a): > Thread name: "Re: counter-PRISM PRISM - Re: wacky question" > Mail number: 2 > Date: Tue, Jun 25, 2013 > In reply to: Slavko >> >> Dňa 25.06.2013 02:05 låzaro wrote / napísal(a): >>> Make yourself this question: >>> >>>I'm s import

Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 25/06/13 19:55, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:04:08 Jochen Spieker wrote: > >>> I find this comment very offensive. >> >> Don't worry, you are not alone with this. I guess most people ignore >> messages from the previous poster. > > Nor are you the first person to find his po

Re: Graphic card advice

2013-06-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 19:02 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 09:48 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > (I've been using Linux for about 12 years--switched from the > > > > Amiga, n

Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 25 June 2013 17:04:08 Jochen Spieker wrote: > Veljko: > >> Our governments make a lot of evil things without our permissions, but > >> there are reasons for people seek asylum in "evil" countries like the > >> USA, France, Great Britain, Germany etc. ;). Lees people flew from the > >> US

Re: counter-PRISM PRISM - Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread låzaro
Thread name: "Re: counter-PRISM PRISM - Re: wacky question" Mail number: 2 Date: Tue, Jun 25, 2013 In reply to: Slavko > > Dňa 25.06.2013 02:05 låzaro wrote / napísal(a): > > Make yourself this question: > > > >I'm s important? The CIA is looking for me? > > There are more quest

Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread Сту Деус
Good time of the day, Veljko. Thank you, for your time and answer. On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:22:36 +0200 you wrote: > I find this comment very offensive. Governments from USA, Mexico, > Germany or Serbia are pretty much same when it comes to political > freedoms. It's just that some governments are

Re: GNOME 3 non-responsive?

2013-06-25 Thread MRH
On 24/06/13 10:22, Stephen Allen wrote: On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 05:02:39PM +0100, MRH wrote: Hi, I run Debian wheezy/sid. After recent updates (resulting in mix of GNOME 3.4 / 3.8 the new gnome shell has became unresponsive. I mean I can log in, but then there is no top panel, no window top fra

Nuevo Lanzamiento TODO EN PESOS en Zona Tecnológica

2013-06-25 Thread M&M PROPIEDADES

Re: counter-PRISM PRISM - Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread Slavko
Dňa 25.06.2013 02:05 låzaro wrote / napísal(a): > Make yourself this question: > >I'm s important? The CIA is looking for me? There are more questions: How CIA (NSA, FBI, etc) will know, that the mail is from me and because i am not important for them, then they will not scan it?

Re: Arora project

2013-06-25 Thread Frank McCormick
On 06/25/2013 10:59 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 25/06/13 16:45, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I am wondering whether any members of the Arora web browser project are subscribed to this list. I have and use, a copy of the Arora web browser, but have a couple of problems, for which I seek assista

xrandr, Nvidia and Xfce login

2013-06-25 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
I have two screens, both 19", 1280x1024 resolution, and one of these is an (old) Dell screen with Pivot rotation possibilities. It works pretty good, my lightdm gets the screens properly, (thanks to a xrandr setup described below), but when logging into Xfce the screens blinks black, and after t

Re: Separate partitions for filesystems (was Re: computer rendered un-usable)

2013-06-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:49:57PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 18:09 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > David Guntner: > > > > > > As you can see, I'm a BIG believer in separation of filesystems. > > > > Judging from your usage of "df -k" (instead of -g or -h) and the number

Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
Veljko: >> Our governments make a lot of evil things without our permissions, but >> there are reasons for people seek asylum in "evil" countries like the >> USA, France, Great Britain, Germany etc. ;). Lees people flew from the >> USA to Mexico or from Germany to Serbia ;). > > I find this commen

Re: Arora project

2013-06-25 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 25/06/13 16:45, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am wondering whether any members of the Arora web browser project are > subscribed to this list. > > I have and use, a copy of the Arora web browser, but have a couple of > problems, for which I seek assistance. > > In the Help - About Arora wi

Re: At my wit's end with openvpn

2013-06-25 Thread Aubrey Raech
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:30:54 -0700 Aubrey Raech wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:09:02 +1200 > Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > > > Goes to syslog by default i.e /var/log/syslog IIRC. > > > > Your name resolution issue is seperate, and probably due to needing > > different name servers. Ensure you

Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread Veljko
> Our governments make a lot of evil things without our permissions, but > there are reasons for people seek asylum in "evil" countries like the > USA, France, Great Britain, Germany etc. ;). Lees people flew from the > USA to Mexico or from Germany to Serbia ;). I find this comment very offensive

Re: Arora project

2013-06-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 10:45:36PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I am wondering whether any members of the Arora web browser project > are subscribed to this list. > > I have and use, a copy of the Arora web browser, but have a couple > of problems, for which I seek assistance. > > In th

Re: At my wit's end with openvpn

2013-06-25 Thread Aubrey Raech
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:09:02 +1200 Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > Goes to syslog by default i.e /var/log/syslog IIRC. > > Your name resolution issue is seperate, and probably due to needing > different name servers. Ensure you have a tun/tap device and IP etc > from your vpn provider with ; > > $

Re: Installation of tdsodbc triggers removal of KDE due to dependency on libiodbc2

2013-06-25 Thread Benedict Verheyen
Op Thu, 30 May 2013 14:57:54 +0200, schreef Benedict Verheyen: > 1. Download the source package of soprano-daemon to rebuild it to not > depend on iodbc. > 2. Extract the soprano-daemon deb and change the dependency on iodbc, > then rebuild the package and install it. > > I'm not sure one of the

Arora project

2013-06-25 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I am wondering whether any members of the Arora web browser project are subscribed to this list. I have and use, a copy of the Arora web browser, but have a couple of problems, for which I seek assistance. In the Help - About Arora window, is a URL for the Arora project, but the URL

Debian Installer can't see my partition table

2013-06-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
Hello Debian Mailing List, I am trying to go back from Debian Sid to Jessie or Wheezy, but when I run the installer (Latest Wheezy netinst disk image.) and go into manual partitioning, it does not see any of the partitions on my primary hard drive. fdisk sees them with no issue: /dev/sda1

Re: I need help reconfiguring Mutt to work with msmtp

2013-06-25 Thread låzaro
try something like this in your .msmtprc: defaults logfile ~/.msmtp.log # el bufete LEX account lex host mail.lex-sa.cu from pec1...@gmail.com auth on tls on tls_certcheck off user pec11xx password yourpassword if do not work in that way, try adding the @gmail.com after the username... Threa

Re: counter-PRISM PRISM - Re: wacky question

2013-06-25 Thread låzaro
Make yourself this question: I'm s important? The CIA is looking for me? There have not another way for waste CIA's time and money than look for me; a Mr. Nobody? Why CIAS's HDD space shall used to store info about ME? What I have that their concern so much for waste

Re: fglrx not working with Radon 7770 HD and kernel 3.9-1

2013-06-25 Thread Luis Bandarra
On 24-06-2013 10:48, Max Linke wrote: I still have the 3.2.0-3 kernel installed and when I use the driver their everything works, nothing else is changed. So think that the fglrx driver and Xserver I have installed now work together. I have a HD7700 (cape verde XT) running jessie with xserver-xor

Squid with https in transparent mode

2013-06-25 Thread Frank Lanitz
Hi folsk, Is there a way of using a squid proxy in transparent way, just to put the traffic and forward it via another proxy to outside network(no caching etc) w/o doing man-in-the-middle? Currently I've got this running for http via cache_peer xx.xx.xx.xx parent 3128 7 no-query default never_dir

Re: At my wit's end with openvpn

2013-06-25 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 6/25/13, Aubrey Raech wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm at my wit's end with openvpn. I've had a VPN service for almost a ... > ~ > client > dev tun > proto udp > remote us-west.privateinternetaccess.com 1194 > resolv-retry infinite > nobind > persist-key > persist-tun > ca ca.crt > tls-client > re

Re: Dual monitor problems

2013-06-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 25 iun 13, 06:56:14, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I am trying to use two monitors at once, for the first time, using > an Nvidia dual head card. > > I have now got the two monitors displaying a single screen and the > mouse passes from one to the other. However, the second screen > blanks after

Re: Graphic card advice

2013-06-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 19:02 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 09:48 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > (I've been using Linux for about 12 years--switched from the > > > Amiga, not Windows) > > > > I switched from the Atari ST to L

Re: At my wit's end with openvpn

2013-06-25 Thread Joe
On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 18:37:38 -0700 Aubrey Raech wrote: > > > Put those settings into a file in /etc/openvpn/.conf > > > > Put your key, crt and ca into that same directory. > > > > run : > > > > $/etc/init.d/openvpn restart > > > > ta da! > > > > Done. > > > > This will automatically start

Re: Graphic card advice

2013-06-25 Thread aka
Hi, Thanks everyone for answers ! Here are more information : David Christensen writes: On 06/24/13 01:37, a...@alphanet.ch wrote: Hi, I am a debian user and I am looking to buy a new computer (I will build it). I simply wonder if it is better to take a graphic card with an ATI or a NVIDIA