Dave is correct. I have researched this long and hard, since I don't
particularly like vmware because they only seem to pay lip-service to
Linux. So I have researched a lot of the virtualization platforms for
Linux.
KVM needs a 64-bit cpu, but it also, as Dave said, needs the VTX
instruction set (
Hi,
I'm running kde 4.4.5 on my desktop and for the past few weeks, I have
seen something odd. It seems that when I, for instance, insert a CD,
instead of the native KDE app dialog popping up in the device
notifier, I get the Nautilus file browser. When I connect my N900, an
external hard drive or
I personally am not impressed with Unity. I think it looks and feels
too much like Moblin. It may be good for a netbook or other
screen-real-estate limited device (I'm not even sure on this point),
but a full-size desktop? Not thanks. I usually have multiple windows
open on multiple desktops, and h
I'm having a weird problem on my workstation at home. I can't do
anything on gmail any more. I can pull the site up and look at emails,
but I can't compose, I can't go into the settings and my chat contacts
are gone. This started happening about 2 days ago. I'm running 32-bit
sid (with an amd64 ker
Here is an idea...Just throwing this out there. If the accounts are
placeholders, why not set them up on install with a shell of
/bin/false and then when a package that needs them is installed, one
of the steps would be to chsh to /bin/sh or whatever.
Obviously, this would be something to be accep
I don't mind keeping my mail in a flat file rather than a db. I guess if I
were doing higher volume stuff, it might make a difference, but most of the
emails I deal with are read, deal with and delete.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camal
I had considered squirrel, but I'm not in love with the interface.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 8:13 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:33 -0400, B. Alexander wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> > Now the mail server, since Comcast blocked port 25, is mainly used for
> &
Hi all,
I figured I would ask for a sanity check here. I'm looking to replace my
internal mail server. Right now, I'm running Zimbra 5.0.x, but I have always
run on the low end of the hardware requirements, and now, the box I am
running on (2.4 GHz P4, 1GB RAM) is being beaten to death by java in
at 2:58 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 13:22:02 -0400, B. Alexander wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> >
> >> > Is there any way to shut Gnome up when I'm in KDE?
> >>
> >> Mmm... check for services runn
I checked with ps, and there was nothing gnome running. I'm remoted in from
work, so I can't connect anything to it, but nothing seems to be listening
from the gnome camp.
--b
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:27:33 -0400, B. Alexander wro
For the past few weeks, I have had something wierd going on.
I have a full workstation load on my workstation, including KDE 4.4.5 and
Gnome. I personally run KDE. What I have seen over the past few weeks is
that when I plug in anything that triggers the device notifier (e.g. CD,
N900, thumb drive
Another couple of items that I came up with, to follow up to Lee's post. You
might want to discuss having bastion hosts, such that each server performs a
function. The most obvious (though probably out-of-scope for a home server)
would be that it would be a Bad Idea to put a public anonymous ftp se
Hi,
For the past several months, I have been unable to run Compiz on my desktop
at work. At home, I run KDE 4.4.5 and use compiz 0.8.4 for compositing. On
this box, I have a GeForce 8600GT video card and am using the closed nvidia
driver.
At work, I have a similar configuration, but I have an ATI
...or possibly a larger monitor and keyboard if mobility is an issue.
I was issued a Macbook, and tried humping that monster around for a week.
Gave up and it sat at home. Traded it in for a Lenovo thinkpad. Of course, I
generally use my N900 for the stuff that I would need a laptop for at work.
:
I don't have one, but it is one of my top choices for a netbook. I remember
when they came out. There was a guy on the talk.maemo.org forums that got
one, and he said it was a good machine.
The earlier version had some construction issues, they kinda felt cheesy,
but I assume they worked these bug
Hmmm. I've used this method several times before, in fact it is my primary
way of building machines.
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:05 AM, Lisi wrote:
> I am installing on a new box. I have copied the installed_packages.txt
> from
> the old box onto a CD. (I am physically 10 miles away from the old
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Paweł Ch. wrote:
> Hi,
> I must create security policy for my company.
> Can someone send me example security policy? Especially with division to
> user, administrator and boss.
>
> Thanks
>
Yeah, as the other posters have said, you should focus on guidelines. Eac
You should have a listen to episode 9 of Hack Radio Live (
http://hackradiolive.org/), where they talked about DIY radar. It actually
sounds like it wouldn't be insanely expensive to build your own radar
set...Obviously, it wouldn't be military grade, but you could conceivably do
it on a shoestring
Another way to do it would be to have the "invisible" sudo similar to
NEEDSUDO=""
if [ "`id -u`" != 0 ] ; then
NEEDSUDO="sudo"
fi
echo abc | $NEEDSUDO tee /tmp/t
Then, if the uid is not 0 (root), then it inserts the sudo line...If run by
root, then NEEDSUDO is empty.
--b
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010
I was looking at this last night. As a test, I pulled root out of sudoers,
and it gives the same error as it would for a non-root user, "root is not in
the sudoers. This will be reported."
I can't figure out why it is giving you a permission denied. Are you running
extended acls or anything like t
It seems that we (Debian) is falling further and further behind. The latest
kernel in sid is 2.6.32+28, and I didn't see anything in experimental. Are
we going to see any of the more recent kernels any time soon in Debian?
Thanks,
--b
I agree with Jesús. This is a far more elegant and scalable solution, though
my experience is with cfengine [1]. This allows you to use svn or cvs to
manage the master files, check out the files to your workstation, make
changes and commit, and depending on how you have it set up, have the
changes
d to use windows and IE, and I
never realized how horrible an experience surfing the web was for mere
mortals...:) You get spoiled not to have to put up with all the advertising
swill...
--b
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 04:15, B. Alexander wro
y
* Secure Login
* NoScript
* FoxTab (meh...)
* CS Lite
* BugMeNot (though I haven't used it in a while...)
I have several others installed, but these are the ones I use more or less
daily.
--b
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:16:26 -0400, B. Alexande
have been
reconsidering that as well...Since it has been almost painfully slow the
past month or so...
--b
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, B. Alexander wrote:
>
> I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable.
&
I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I
have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a
(lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory
leaks, and after a couple of days, it eats up a significant amount (10-
A few weeks ago, I posted because sid wanted to uninstall a slew of system
apps, including aptitude. I waited it out as suggested here, and sure
enough, it cleared. However, I have one last package that does not seem to
clear -- libept0. So do I allow it to be uninstalled or should I wait longer
fo
.
On the desktop, I mainly read books, etc...Or more likely, convert them to
epub. :)
--b
On Sun, Sep 5, 2010 at 4:42 AM, John A. Sullivan III <
jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 23:23 -0400, B. Alexander wrote:
> > You should also probably consider an
You should also probably consider an alternative to Acrobat for PDF, since
Adobe seems to have at least one security alert per week. My wife's computer
(running lenny) had acrobat installed and she had the same problem...I
uninstalled acrobat and she was able to open it in kpdf and print just fine.
I went to upgrade a sid box today and found that libapt-pkg-libc6.0-6-4.8
appears to be broken. I got a number of messages saying:
Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8 which is a virtual package.
Which means aptitude wants to remove things like apt-file, apt-listchanges,
aptitude, etc. With things b
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:53 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:19:54 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>
> > this only seems to happen with a thread, when it gets a message in the
> > thread. I don't get 2 of the original messages, but I get 2 replies, as
> > separate messages, that are t
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:06:11 -0400, B. Alexander wrote:
>
> (...)
>
> > When I go to the site on port 9000, it offers me a pop-up to download
> > the gconsole.jnlp file. I choose "Open with..." and select javaws. It
> > opens Java, then thinks about it and says &
I have a problem wherein I cannot connect to our Sun StorageTek Enterprise
Backup Software (version 7.6) page, so I wonder if it is a Debian thing. I'm
using Iceweasel (3.5.9 through 3.5.11), and sun-java6 6.21. Ny coworker,
running an old Fedora box (F-8 or F-9 maybe?) can connect to it.
Unfortuna
You can also, if you have them partitioned separately, share filesystems. I
used to do that back in the day, with Slackware 2.x and RH 3.0.3. It's just
a matter of mounting the appropriate filesystem to the mount point.
You could probably still do the same with if you are using lvm, as long as
you
We use XFS in production at work. Where I work, we are routinely dealing
with hundreds of terabytes of data (I have heard the word "petabyte" bandied
about in several meetings), so we are beyond or hovering on the edge of the
size limits and performance limits of the ext filesystems.
At home, I pr
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 9:11 AM, H.S. wrote:
> On 21/07/10 08:41 AM, B. Alexander wrote:
>
>
>> 3. Build the new machine with the netinst or businesscard cd. When asked
>> what type of system to build (package selection), uncheck all the boxes.
>>
>>
John,
For future reference, if you want to have a basic clone (not an exact copy)
of a machine, what I end up doing (which allows me to provision a machine in
about 15 minutes) uses the following procedure:
1. Create a package list on the old machine [1]
dpkg --get-selections | grep -v d
I have a Lenovo T400 running sid. Did routine updates (I think there were
almost 200 today), and was prompted to reboot to complete the installation.
The system has /boot which runs on a thumb drive, an encrypted swap (sda1)
and an encrypted lvm (sda2). When I rebooted, it did the chainload to
gru
Anyone?
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 8:11 AM, B. Alexander wrote:
> I just built a brand new laptop, a Lenovo T400 specifically, with KDE
> 4.4.4. One of the things I enabled on the panel is the lock/logout plasmoid.
> However, instead of a blue lock and red logout icon, both (all three,
Done.
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> I weighed in...
>
> --
>
> "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
> possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true."
>
> Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://n0nb.us/index.html
>
>
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai
Hey,
I'm having a wierd occurrence with my keyboard keys. First, I'm running sid
with kde 4.4.3-2 with Compiz 0.8.3. I've been running this configuration
(kde + compiz) for a couple of years.
Lately, call it the last month or so, I get strange keyboard behavior. I can
be composing an email here i
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Alan Ianson wrote:
>
> Yep, even though it's called unstable it's like a rock.. :)
>
I run unstable on everything, unless there is a reason not to (e.g my
mailserver, which runs zimbra has to run stable, and my firewall alternates
between testing and stable).
In
I upgraded my machine at work today, and among other things that were
installed, aptitude upgraded the kernel (linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64) as well
as the fglrx packages. I had the 9-11 held, but aptitude upgraded it anyway.
And with the combination of packages, I was no longer able to roll back to
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:45 PM, thib wrote:
> ...
> but consider encrypting the logical volume instead of the physical
> volumes. It makes much more sense to me.
>
It seems to me that
> Does anyone know the right way to get the drives decrypted first?
>>
>
> The fun might take place in yo
I use LUKS drive encryption on several machines on my network. The problem I
have is that every time I attempt to set up LVM which spans multiple drives,
it decrypts the first one, then panics because it can't see the rest of the
PVs, because they are still encrypted. For instance, the my backup ma
IMHO, Debian seems to have the best record of successful upgrades. I run Sid
on several of my boxes, which means it is in a constant state of upgrade. On
my workstation, with a very eclectic mix of software, I have only started
over from scratch twice in the last 10 years...Once in 2000 and once in
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>
> For me, it is only partly about my hardware. It is also about my data.
> I have backups, but I didn't used to, and I would just as soon not
> have to go through a restore process. And even a simple power
> outage that wouldn't harm hardware
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Zachary Uram wrote:
> This sucks. Stupid closed source drivers cause such problems.
Agreed. Specifically, the fglrx driver. I don't have problems with nvidia,
but when fglrx-9-12 came out, it broke compiz, so I reinstalled 9-11, and
put it on hold. I haven't upgr
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <
b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> On Monday 26 April 2010 16:05:31 B. Alexander wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <
> > b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> > > I'm
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <
b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> I'm also a current reiser3 user. I find the ability to shrink the
> filesystem
> to be something I am not willing to do without.
>
You know, I said the same thing, but then as the kernel and GRUB and the
l
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/24/2010 12:53 PM, B. Alexander wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a question on filesystems. Back in the day, I started using
>> reiser3. It was faster than ext3, and it could be extended without
>> umoun
Amen to that! IMHO, vmware merely pays lip service to Linux. 12 years ago,
when we were using Linux on the job, we (and many, many others) were asking
for a Linux client. We are now at VSphere 4, and still only windows clients.
VMware server is even worse. It runs on Linux, and it worked okay, but
Hi,
I have a question on filesystems. Back in the day, I started using reiser3.
It was faster than ext3, and it could be extended without umounting the
filesystem (which has since been fixed in ext3), plus, unlike any filesystem
I have encountered, it could be reduced in size.
Well, now reiser3 i
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Ron Johnson
>
> Honestly, though, how often does that happen?
>
It happened to me once, and that was enough to take appropriate measures.
> Maybe it's because I "just" run a workstation, or maybe because disks are
> so huge nowadays, or I'm just a fool, but I le
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:07 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> B. Alexander wrote:
> > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a
> > while. This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of
> > broken packages, unmet dependencies and co
2010 at 4:41 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:27 PM, B. Alexander wrote:
> > If you are asking what I think you are asking, as in which files would
> you
> > need to restore your system in the event that you lose your apt and dpkg
> > databases, then I d
If you are asking what I think you are asking, as in which files would you
need to restore your system in the event that you lose your apt and dpkg
databases, then I do the following:
/var/backups
/var/cache/apt (less /var/cache/apt/archives)
/var/lib/apt
/var/lib/dpkg
This will give you enough t
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Monique Y. Mudama
wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20 at 7:31, B. Alexander penned:
> >
> >In my case, it appears the root of the problems are caused by
> >bitrot. I probably need to come up with some method of rebuilding
> >my sid box
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> B. Alexander wrote:
>
>> I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while.
>> This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken
>> packages, unmet dependencies and
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Clive McBarton wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Liam O'Toole wrote:
> >> Adding debian-multimedia.org breaks a couple of things. Including vlc.
> I
> >> don't know why they don't fix their repository.
> >>
> >> I'm curious if many people
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland <
wentl...@cl.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:16 -0400, B. Alexander wrote:
> > I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a
> while. This
> > is my workstation, and I hav
I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while.
This is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken
packages, unmet dependencies and conflicts. I have been using safe-upgrade
for months now, hoping that it would work itself out over time. However,
this h
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