Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:27:12PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Specs would be nice, but I think the processor and/or video card is > doing all the heavy lifting in such a case. Having dedicated video RAM > is usually a plus, but I had something like this running on a PIII 500 > MHz with 768 M

Create backup of system-connections on a USB stick

2014-05-30 Thread Horatio Leragon
I would like to back up system-connections (full path is /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections) on to a USB stick. The folder in question contains the imported profiles of several OpenVPN config files. I tried to drag the said folder to my USB stick unsuccessfully. The error message is "Permi

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Brian
On Sat 31 May 2014 at 09:31:35 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Brian wrote: > > > > What work has it done? It needs 2.5 GB of disk space and has two or > > three WM's and a couple of file managers. Plus libreoffice. I think > > AntiX is quite a nice distro but do y

My new external USB HDD can't write and show error

2014-05-30 Thread sppmg
Hi all. I got a new external USB shell for HDD. But when I mount with write property, it will unmount immediately. Only once write successful , it happened when I show this problem for technicist to change now one .. there is something message : items: external USB shell : SilverSton

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Chris Angelico
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 30 May 2014 at 03:00:21 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Steve Litt >> wrote: >> > When I have an extremely RAM starved computer, I put Debian on it every >> > time. CLI Network install works with almost no

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 May 2014 at 03:00:21 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > When I have an extremely RAM starved computer, I put Debian on it every > > time. CLI Network install works with almost no RAM, and granular > > choices of things to install guaran

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 30 mai 14, 20:20:32, Gour wrote: > > However, some people believe that DE is somehow connected with the bloat > where specific DE forces one to install tons of apps no matter whether > one likes/needs them or not. Yes, that is the generally accepted definition of a Desktop Environment. K

Re: How to declare default browser in JWM

2014-05-30 Thread Linux-Fan
On 05/30/2014 06:10 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > After installing JWM, I copied /etc/jwm/system.jwmrc to ~/.jwmrc and > changed the window close hotkey, added a Shift+Ctrl+; key to invoke > dmenu_run, changed the active window to have a red border, and a lot of > other stuff, but I can find

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 May 2014 at 14:09:53 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > I guess what I'm saying is this: I know KDE is a Desktop Environment, > and I know that JWM is a Window Manager, but with anything between > those extremes, I don't know what to call it, and I guarantee you that > if I call it one or the

Re: How does one restore the original stable linux-image after it has been removed and purged?

2014-05-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > $ apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 > > > > That will work. It will also cause linux-image-amd64 to be removed. > > Why should that happen? You are right. That by itself won't. I was wrong. I had thought (incorrectly) that apt-get

Can't resize columns in kalarm

2014-05-30 Thread C L.
Hi, Using Kalarm from wheezy, on an asus eeepc, I cannot get the columns(date, description, time til alarm, etc) to resize at all. I can move them, but not resize. The resize/slide icon, showing arrows <-||-> doesn't even appear (it does on my desktop system.) What's the problem and how can I f

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Gour
Tony Baldwin writes: > I would say you've misunderstood something. I believe I didn't. ;) > A window manager manages windows. Correct. > Tiling has nothing to do with the definition of a DE or WM. I believe I never did imply that tiling is any in any way related to DE. My point was simply t

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 30 May 2014 10:38:50 +0200 "Gian Uberto Lauri" wrote: > David Dušanić writes: > > > Ok, we have to be even more correct on this, even JWM is just a > > window manager. > > One may agree with the precision of your classification. > > Or the same one may increase confusion by (rightfu

Re: How can I benchmark my brand new usb 3.0 WD My Passport hdd

2014-05-30 Thread Brad
On Thu, 29 May 2014, Anubhav Yadav wrote: Sorry for not being more clear before. I would like to know 1) If I am benchmarking the right way? 2) Is what I am getting is the standard speed? 3) If no then is this problem OS related or Device related? To the best of my limited knowledge you are in

How to declare default browser in JWM

2014-05-30 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, After installing JWM, I copied /etc/jwm/system.jwmrc to ~/.jwmrc and changed the window close hotkey, added a Shift+Ctrl+; key to invoke dmenu_run, changed the active window to have a red border, and a lot of other stuff, but I can find no way to change the default browser, and Google didn

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 06:50:22AM +0200, Gour wrote: > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > > If so, then still resizing and moving windows by the mouse is missing, > > This is also possible... > > > assumed even this isn't missing, then it's not a tiling WM anymore. > > ...but not to the extent that til

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Tony Baldwin
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 08:49:01AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 29 mai 14, 23:07:40, Gour wrote: > > Ralf Mardorf writes: > > > > > A tiling WM isn't a DE. > > > > Can you tell me what is missing? > > - file manager > - text editor > - image viewer > - terminal emulator > - etc. > > (

Re: 'Authentication is required' while mounting drives in any Window Manager

2014-05-30 Thread Brian
On Tue 27 May 2014 at 14:38:04 +0100, Brian wrote: > On the other hand he might see this as unsuitable in some way. But he > has pklocalauthority(8) to guide him further. The OP might very well be delighted with what he found and devised from his reading of pklocalauthority(8). However, it would

Re: about heirloom mailx

2014-05-30 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 May 2014 at 16:49:39 +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > On 30/05/14 08:48, Bob Proulx wrote: > > As to why your command prompt isn't being emitted after the task > > is done that seems very strange to me. Definitely not normal. As > > you can see from my examples it works fine for me. Ple

Re: Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/05/14 04:05 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 29.05.2014 15:30, schrieb Gary Dale: In may case, I have a working screen saver when using the KDE desktop but not when using Gnome 3. Checking with Synaptic, I have screen saver packages installed but they don't appear to functioning when using Gno

Re: Can't force unmount device

2014-05-30 Thread Klaus
On 27/05/14 08:11, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 26 mai 14, 10:15:40, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: >> >> Also updatedb never seems to index the NSF-mounted files. > > There are also other indexers. KDE had one, but I forgot the name. > > Kind regards, > Andrei > Yes, I've seen a similar behavio

Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

2014-05-30 Thread Paul Pignon
Andrei POPESCU gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > No, please do > > > > > > # echo "options snd-hda-intel model=dell" >> /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf I did this, but modprobe snd-hda-intel still says "invalid argument" and I have no idea why. > > > > > > as alsa-base.conf will be purged in Jessie.

Re: How to find dirs with single item

2014-05-30 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: >> Can you try the Python script on that, please? File system encodings >> can be a bit of a pain at times. If it doesn't work as "python", try >> "python3", as the two are a bit different as regards Unicode. >> >> ChrisA >> >> > > No probl

Re: How to find dirs with single item

2014-05-30 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Fri, 30 May 2014 17:17:29 +1000 Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > On Thu, 29 May 2014 22:43:29 +0100 > > Clive Standbridge wrote: > > > >> find temp |sed 's|[^/]*$||' |sort |uniq -u > > > > This doesn't work on this directory. > > > > Can

Re: iptables, virtualbox and port forwarding

2014-05-30 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:51 PM, wrote: >> Hoping to find something that you can do entirely under your own >> control. :) > > > You mean, be your own boss? Heh, that's another way of interpreting that statement. But no, what I meant was "some way you can get the test/dev systems you need withou

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Friday 30 May 2014 10.23:42 David Dušanić wrote: > 29.05.2014, 23:19, "Ralf Mardorf" : > > On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 23:07 +0200, Gour wrote: > >>  Ralf Mardorf writes: > >>>  A tiling WM isn't a DE. > >> > >>  Can you tell me what is missing? > >> > >>  It has status bar, systray, launcher, worksp

Re: iptables, virtualbox and port forwarding

2014-05-30 Thread berenger . morel
Humpf... finger mistake. Also, there's fossil if you are in that situation: it's It's a DVCS which integrate a wiki and a bugtracker. Sounds really interesting, but I never took time to really play with it. So, in a situation where you are the only one to use real tools, and do not want to

Re: iptables, virtualbox and port forwarding

2014-05-30 Thread berenger . morel
Le 30.05.2014 12:08, Chris Angelico a écrit : On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:04 PM, wrote: What I basically want to do, and I do not understand how they ( my programmer colleagues ) can happily live without that, is a server for source versionning, bug tracking, wikis, etc. This stuff does not

Re: iptables, virtualbox and port forwarding

2014-05-30 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 7:04 PM, wrote: > What I basically want to do, and I do not understand how they ( my > programmer colleagues ) can happily live without that, is a server for > source versionning, bug tracking, wikis, etc. This stuff does not need any > virtual system or network, and is re

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread David Dušanić
29.05.2014, 23:19, "Ralf Mardorf" : > On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 23:07 +0200, Gour wrote: >>  Ralf Mardorf writes: >>>  A tiling WM isn't a DE. >>  Can you tell me what is missing? >> >>  It has status bar, systray, launcher, workspaces...ability to launch >>  specific app in a specific workspace. Ther

Re: iptables, virtualbox and port forwarding

2014-05-30 Thread berenger . morel
Le 28.05.2014 18:05, Joe a écrit : On Wed, 28 May 2014 21:25:23 +1000 Chris Angelico wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Joe wrote: > The point here is that all modern hardware is capable of IPv6, and > even if you aren't using it, malware writers may be. And by > default, a Debian mach

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
David Dušanić writes: > Ok, we have to be even more correct on this, even JWM is just a > window manager. One may agree with the precision of your classification. Or the same one may increase confusion by (rightfully) asserting that depending on user skills and habits, a WM and shell may be al

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread David Dušanić
29.05.2014, 23:07, "Gour" : > Ralf Mardorf writes: >>  A tiling WM isn't a DE. > > Can you tell me what is missing? > > It has status bar, systray, launcher, workspaces...ability to launch > specific app in a specific workspace. There is upcoming feature to save > one's layout. > > Sincerely, > Go

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread David Dušanić
29.05.2014, 22:27, "Gour" : > Andrei POPESCU writes: >>  If there's a lighter weight DE I'd like to know. > > http://i3wm.org/ > > Sincerely, > Gour i3 is not a desktop environment. ;) -- David Dusanic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-30 Thread David Dušanić
29.05.2014, 15:30, "Gary Dale" : >  On 29/05/14 07:14 AM, David Dušanić wrote: >>   29.05.2014, 05:24, "Gary Dale" : >  If you are getting different results then your system has a different >  setup from mine. If you've got a working password-protected screen >  saver, I'd like to know how you got

Re: How to find dirs with single item

2014-05-30 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Thu, 29 May 2014 22:43:29 +0100 > Clive Standbridge wrote: > >> find temp |sed 's|[^/]*$||' |sort |uniq -u > > This doesn't work on this directory. > Can you try the Python script on that, please? File system encodings can be a bit o