Re: Beowulf gone?

2018-06-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 08:14:28AM +0200, Hans wrote: > First of all, thanks for making things clearer. So it looks like, that > Beowulf > is dead since many years. > > Is there a successor? I have in my mind to use a cluster for rendering videos

ldap and rfc2307bis

2018-06-24 Thread malcolm moore
How do I get rid of nis.schema and add rfc2307bis on slapd  I'm using Buster ( 22June ) This has been driving me nuts now all day ... any help please Ta M  

Re: Beowulf gone?

2018-06-24 Thread Hans
First of all, thanks for making things clearer. So it looks like, that Beowulf is dead since many years. Is there a successor? I have in my mind to use a cluster for rendering videos and thinking, a cluster would speed up things. At trhe moment I am still collecting ideas. Best Hans

Display full date in Thunderbird

2018-06-24 Thread Ken Heard
I start Thunderbird with the following script: #! /bin/bash export LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 && thunderbird "$@" For emails sent or received today only the time is shown, e.g., 13:17. For emails sent or received more than a week ago, the year, month, day and time are shown, e.g., 2018-06-13 07:43. F

Re: Beowulf gone?

2018-06-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 09:17:25PM +0200, Hans wrote: I am interested in clustering a server for educacation purposes, Asd far as I remembewr, there had bbeen some debian packages called "beowulf" or so, beowulf was a system at NASA Goddard 20 years ago. The basic idea of clustering computers

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-06-24 at 21:24, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 11:08:44AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> What is your actual question, here? > > Welcome to an Owlett performance art "happening". Pull up a > comfortable seat; this show is going to last a while. Oh, I'm familiar with the u

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 11:08:44AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > What is your actual question, here? Welcome to an Owlett performance art "happening". Pull up a comfortable seat; this show is going to last a while. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Expired GPG keys of older release

2018-06-24 Thread Richard Hector
On 23/06/18 06:39, James Cloos wrote: >> "T" == writes: > > T> And just extending the keys' validity (as someone proposed in this > T> thread) seems a bad idea too, since the requirement for secure keys > T> evolves over time, as the NSA^H^H^H bad guys buy more GPUs. > > The problem is that

Re: hardware update boot trouble

2018-06-24 Thread songbird
Glenn English wrote: ... > I've never seen anything like this before. Any ideas? > > My own thought is that something is hitting the SATAs before they are > to be mounted, and something, somewhere is wrong with the SATAs. But I > can't imagine what. you don't mention what file systems and file s

hardware update boot trouble

2018-06-24 Thread Glenn English
Buster, Supermicro desktop, USB stick boot (why available on request), USB3 card, M.2 / 'disk', 4 SATAs, backup tape drive. I changed some hardware in my computer: the tape drive, from a SCSI DLT to a SAS LTO, and from a PCIe USB3 to a vanilla PCI card (to make room for the PCIe SAS card). I thoug

Re: Beowulf gone?

2018-06-24 Thread Carl Fink
It would seem the Debian Beowulf project petered out almost 20 years ago. It was based here: https://www.debian.org/ports/beowulf/ The last non-spam message to the debian-beowulf list was in 2010 or so. https://lists.debian.org/debian-beowulf/ -- Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com Thinkin

Re: Beowulf gone?

2018-06-24 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 24-06-2018, at 21h 17'25", Hans wrote about "Beowulf gone?" > Hi folks, > > I am interested in clustering a server for educacation purposes, Asd far as > I > remembewr, there had bbeen some debian packages called "beowulf" or so, > > However, I may be wrong and saw them in SuSE-linux not i

Re: Beowulf gone?

2018-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2018 02:17 PM, Hans wrote: Hi folks, I am interested in clustering a server for educacation purposes, Asd far as I remembewr, there had bbeen some debian packages called "beowulf" or so, However, I may be wrong and saw them in SuSE-linux not in debian. Today I found no beowqulf packa

Beowulf gone?

2018-06-24 Thread Hans
Hi folks, I am interested in clustering a server for educacation purposes, Asd far as I remembewr, there had bbeen some debian packages called "beowulf" or so, However, I may be wrong and saw them in SuSE-linux not in debian. Today I found no beowqulf packages any more. Question: If Í want to

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread deloptes
Curt wrote: > > I'm reading when you plug this cable into a linux host the usbnet driver > enters into the fray, creating a network interface (usb0?) that > subsequently requires *configuration*. > > Like > > machine 1: ifconfig usb0 192.168.1.1 > machine 2: ifconfig usb0 192.168.1.2 > > A suc

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread deloptes
The Wanderer wrote: > What is your actual question, here? OP wanted to use usb-usb cable for ethernet and was recommended the prolific one. HE bought it but can not configure network now.

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread Curt
On 2018-06-24, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Thank you. I'm interested in only: > Prolific Technology, Inc. PL25A1 Host-Host Bridge > > I'm missing understanding of "something" everyone takes for granted. Many of your gooses seem a little wild. > While following chain of links I found "discover -t".

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-06-24 at 10:51, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/24/2018 09:35 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2018-06-24 at 10:07, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> discover --vendor-id --model-id -t | grep unknown >>> gives >>> 1912 0015 unknown unknown >> >> https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1912/0015 >> >> This

timeout before file dialogs show up

2018-06-24 Thread Lucio
This thing bugs me since a few months. I use XFCE on Debian sid. Whenever I click a menu item that opens a file dialog, be it open or save, the application freezes for exactly 25 seconds, then the file dialog shows up. It happens with almost any GUI application, from LibreOffice to Thunderbir

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2018 09:35 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2018-06-24 at 10:07, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/24/2018 08:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: discover --vendor-id --model-id -t | grep unknown discover --vendor-id --model-id -t | grep unknown gives 1912 0015 unknown unknown https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-06-24 at 10:07, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/24/2018 08:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> discover --vendor-id --model-id -t | grep unknown > > discover --vendor-id --model-id -t | grep unknown > gives > 1912 0015 unknown unknown https://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1912/0015 This would appear

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Sun 24 Jun 2018 at 09:07:33 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/24/2018 08:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > >discover --vendor-id --model-id -t | grep unknown > > discover --vendor-id --model-id -t | grep unknown > gives > 1912 0015 unknown unknown > 1bbb 0195 unknown unknown So now you google

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2018 08:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: discover --vendor-id --model-id -t | grep unknown discover --vendor-id --model-id -t | grep unknown gives 1912 0015 unknown unknown 1bbb 0195 unknown unknown Thanks

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2018 08:36 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2018-06-24 at 09:27, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/24/2018 08:16 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2018-06-24 at 08:10, Richard Owlett wrote: The discover(1) manpage does not describe output format/fields. The relevant output line is:> Prolific Technolo

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-06-24 at 09:36, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-06-24 at 09:27, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> On 06/24/2018 08:16 AM, The Wanderer wrote: >>> If you look at the "Examples" section of the man page, you'll see that >>> the first example given includes four lines which consist *only* of >>> "unk

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-06-24 at 09:27, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/24/2018 08:16 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2018-06-24 at 08:10, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> The discover(1) manpage does not describe output format/fields. >>> The relevant output line is:> Prolific Technology, Inc. PL25A1 Host-Host >>> Br

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/24/2018 08:16 AM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2018-06-24 at 08:10, Richard Owlett wrote: The discover(1) manpage does not describe output format/fields. The relevant output line is:> Prolific Technology, Inc. PL25A1 Host-Host Bridge unknown unknown There are two fields whose content is "unkno

Re: What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-06-24 at 08:10, Richard Owlett wrote: > The discover(1) manpage does not describe output format/fields. > The relevant output line is:> Prolific Technology, Inc. PL25A1 Host-Host > Bridge unknown unknown > > There are two fields whose content is "unknown". > What are they? > TIA If you

SOLVED, mostly. [Was: Re: Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.

2018-06-24 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 24.06.18 10:04, mick crane wrote: > On 2018-06-23 13:12, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test > > page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other > > print jobs not at all. Again, printing from xpdf, the job is q

What is "discover -t" saying?

2018-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
The discover(1) manpage does not describe output format/fields. The relevant output line is:> Prolific Technology, Inc. PL25A1 Host-Host Bridge unknown unknown There are two fields whose content is "unknown". What are they? TIA

Re: Have managed a CUPS printer addition, but the queue is a black hole.

2018-06-24 Thread mick crane
On 2018-06-23 13:12, Erik Christiansen wrote: Aargh! Apologies for committing a subthread hijack. That wasn't intended. The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other print jobs not at all. Again, print

Additional info [Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/]

2018-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/23/2018 01:18 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to https://manpages.debian.org/ . Usually it went away after a couple of retries. Earlier today had to do multiple retries over ~15-20 minutes. If it's relevant, my ISP is T-mobile. I haven'

Re: Problems with https://manpages.debian.org/

2018-06-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 09:23:13AM +0900, John Crawley wrote: > On 2018-06-24 03:18, Richard Owlett wrote: > >For the past couple of weeks I've had problems connecting to > >https://manpages.debian.org/ . FWIW, less than two seconds for me. I've Javas