Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
y get much attention. My guide hasn't been updated in a while, but it should help point you in the right direction(s). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: LVM: combining two logical volumes, how?

2011-05-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
writing to /usr is a policy violation, unless the administrator has specifically configured the package to write somewhere under /usr. This is is compliance with the FHS. In any case, my instructions (specifically: remount,ro) would prevent writes from occurring as well. -- B

Re: Wrong permissions to "/" in my debian/testing system

2011-05-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
nd-line parameter. File system permissions are persistent. If you don't see them change you can't be sure whether nothing is trying to change them OR coming is trying to change them, but to what they already are. If you do see them change, then you can start isolating the problem

Re: LVM: combining two logical volumes, how?

2011-05-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
but then the file systems or device mapper devices or whatever you put on top of your LVs could be confused. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.

Re: Wrong permissions 0777 on "/" in my debian/testing system

2011-05-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
set to 0777, just as during normal boot. > >So the problem must be associated somehow with bootloader (grub), >as no initialization scripts are run in this case... File system permissions are stored persistently. If they don't change, you have no indication w

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Camaleón wrote: >On Wed, 25 May 2011 09:21:24 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In , Camaleón wrote: >>>On Wed, 25 May 2011 08:50:56 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>>> "Obsolete" isn't the right term. >>> >>>How would

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t; on the web without having to go beyond what is in Debian main.[1] I suppose I'm just willing to make different choices then you. [1] Occasionally, I grab flash from somewhere other than main, but I usually find it isn't worth having around and uninstall it

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Camaleón wrote: >On Wed, 25 May 2011 08:50:56 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In , Camaleón wrote: >>>Today's >>>browsers upgrade to a new version in just two months (!) and you are >>>left with an obsolete package for several years. >&

Re: Chromium 11 on Debian 6.0.1 Stable

2011-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, but they are generally well-maintained, quite usable, and in-use (by me, if no one else.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/

Re: How do fixes/improvements to video drivers get rolled out in Squeeze?

2011-05-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e's more detail about what is considered an RC bug for Squeeze: <http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt> -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'

Re: repository change

2011-05-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
urce listed. I don't think APT does any timing calculations during an update that it uses during a download / install / upgrade. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

2011-05-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s should work as well. (LABEL= and UUID= syntaxes are not dependent on udev, only on a "recent" util-linux, IIRC.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: What is the recommended way to handle squeeze-proposed-updates?

2011-05-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110519195909.GA8991@Europa.office>, Freeman wrote: >Proposed-updates replaces the volatile archive. No, that's stable-updates, not stable-proposed-updates. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ:

Re: What is the recommended way to handle squeeze-proposed-updates?

2011-05-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e moved into s-p-u. Traditionally, s-p-u has been sort of a staging area for fixes that should be included in the next point release of stable (which includes both security updates and "important" bug fixes). I believe for Squeeze and forward it will also serve as a sta

Re: What is the recommended way to handle squeeze-proposed-updates?

2011-05-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
by upstream so, depending on the upstream, it may be relatively bug- free and well-tested, but unstable is updated almost continuously so a system using is can be under quite a lot of flux. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net (

Re: Debian update/upgrade good practices?

2011-05-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
bug fixes are "backported" to the old version, in an attempt to keep stable as free- from-change as possible. (The patch fixing the issue is isolated, then mangled to apply to the old version and tested.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanas

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ve, nonstandard) to transfer a file to or from removable media. I needed to download photos to a CD-ROM 4. (transitive, nonstandard) to install software. So, download covers "fetch the messages" but not "remove them from the server". So, yeah. There&#x

Re: Poll Summary & Poll 1b - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
upgraded very regularly until moving to Debian.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: T

Re: backports updates

2011-05-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t; 1) but it will be $bpo_ver (100 == 100) in Squeeze. Full details of how the candidate is chosen is documented in the apt_preferences(5) manpage. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Tracing Filesystem Accesses

2011-05-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
SSDs. However, SSDs have such a performance increase over SMDs that I doubt misalignment would be noticed very much. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://ig

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
reply style, including myself, it is not part of the Code of Conduct for the list. There are certain advantages to the top-posting style, but I think few are relevant for this type of mailing list. It's almost impossible to defend a full-quoted message on this list, since it is

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Camaleón wrote: >On Wed, 11 May 2011 23:24:30 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On 2011-05-11 17:35:20 Freeman wrote: >>>On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 08:30:49PM +, Camaleón wrote: >>>> IMHO, that rule lacks the following preface: "Should a user st

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-05-11 18:11:56 shawn wilson wrote: >this thread still doesn't have an OT in the subject! It does here: "Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself". -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_))

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
't commercial in nature, so it doesn't qualify under definition #2. It wasn't (made of) meat, so it doesn't qualify under definition #4. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM:

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ause significant and irreversible damage. Whereas, keeping the reply private causes, at most, temporary and reversible damage. Replies to private messages should be kept private. It is easy enough to prompt the sender to use the list for future correspondence and simultaneously give you pe

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

2011-05-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
private mail. You violated this part of list policy: "Do not quote messages that were sent to you by other people in private mail, unless agreed beforehand." -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ:

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-05-09 20:52:05 Stephen Powell wrote: >On Mon, 09 May 2011 01:45:33 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> The problem I am having is a bit more subtle. The framebuffer completely >> fills my 19" monitor, but the framebuffer has gaps on the bottom and right

This is not SPAM

2011-05-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s. If you want to help a little bit, you can "bounce" or "redirect" SPAM message to report-listspam@lists.d.o. If you want to help a lot, writing spamassassin or postfix rules that match the SPAM and communicating that to the list admins could h

Re: What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1?

2011-05-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
lmost any package that was in Debian since Etch, including packages that were only in unstable should be available via the snapshot service. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaT

Re: How up-to-date is Debian's stable release kept to fix published kernel security vulnerabilities?

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
on is "$upstream_version-$debian_version" -- like most other packages. Part of the version is in the package name to allow for co-installation. A similar naming is used for shared libraries for the same purpose. Depending on upstream support (and maintainer supp

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105081801.00768@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >I'm off to experiment some more and see if I can get accelerated nouveau >working on something. I guess even the testing/Sid kernels are worth >another attempt. I won't have the nvidia k

Re: Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <784041656.444588.1304907525303.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com>, Stephen Powell wrote: >On Sun, 08 May 2011 19:01:00 -0400 (EDT), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> BTW, anyone know how to request that the non-X virtual terminals not use >> the framebuffer? It look

Nouveau Experiments (was: Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root')

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105081209.28976@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In <20110508080807.GC7081@think.nuvreauspam>, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>And nouveau? > >I'll give Nouveau a chance sometime this week. It's definitely got some rough edges. AIXG

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105081231.04151@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In , Camaleón wrote: >>On Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:07 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> You need either the package linux-image- or >>> linux-image-2.6- and a new kernel will be install

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e for a little while. NB: In the name of package files (e.g. "linux-image-686_2.6.32-5.deb"), the name occurs first and is them separated from the version by an underscore ('_'). It is perfectly legal for things that look like version numbers to occur in the package name and vice-versa. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'

2011-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110508080807.GC7081@think.nuvreauspam>, Andrei Popescu wrote: >On Sb, 07 mai 11, 09:54:37, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> You could try this one, if you aren't using any out-of-tree modules. For >> me it is the NVidia module. I really should find the money fo

Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'

2011-05-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105070904.26205@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In , Camaleón wrote: >>On Fri, 06 May 2011 10:44:21 -0700, CACook wrote: >>> This just started after my most recent (very painful) dist-upgrade. It >>> seems that BTRFS is not compati

Re: CRITICAL: Wireless connection destroyed on some Netbooks

2011-05-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to be in action in the latest Mint Debian XFCE. Both Mint and Ubuntu have their own mailing lists. As far and I can tell, you didn't even test on Debian, rendering your posting off-topic for this mailing list. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: grub-probe: error: cannot stat `/dev/root'

2011-05-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
o btrfs, I am still using reiserfs. FWIW, I don't think GRUB2 has BtrFS support, yet. So, you'd have to store your kernel and initrd on a different file system. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 Y

Re: Unidentified subject!

2011-05-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4dc426d9.7030...@vru.uho.edu.cu>, Alexey Leyva wrote: >help You'll have to be more specific. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'

Re: Need help with approx configuration changes for squeeze [SOLVED]

2011-05-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the "volatile service" for Wheezy. The "*-updates" repository on the master server (or one of its mirrors) has completely replaces the "debian- volatile" repository on volatile.debian.org. (The "debian-volatile-sloppy" was effectively replaced by backports fo

Re: Need help with approx configuration changes for squeeze

2011-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110505230413.ga4...@big.lan.gnu>, Paul E Condon wrote: >On 20110505_164439, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On 2011-05-05 16:15:31 Paul E Condon wrote: >> >#volatile http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile >> > >> >I thought th

Re: Need help with approx configuration changes for squeeze

2011-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
r archive or one of it's mirrors. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Customising Debian install

2011-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
h machine? 1. D-I + Preseed 2. FAI -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: file systems

2011-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4dc286bf.3060...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >On 5/4/2011 6:44 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In<4dc1e009.30...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> On 5/2/2011 4:02 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>>> They are also esse

Re: file systems

2011-05-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4dc27008.2080...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >On 5/2/2011 5:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> I'm slightly surprised by the results. It's possible it was slightly >> weighted toward JFS because of the "%CPU" and "Ops/%CPU&qu

Re: file systems

2011-05-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4dc1e009.30...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >On 5/2/2011 4:02 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> They are also essential for any journaled filesystem to have correct >> behavior in the face of sudden pwoer loss. > >This is true only if you don't

Re: Bug report: Which package?

2011-05-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
CCs (like I have sent you), you'll need to mention that you want a CC in each of your postings to the list. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' h

Re: [OT] What SmartPhone for a FreeTard??? [Was: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?]

2011-05-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s too spotty. The only other GSM provider is AT&T, who I'd prefer to avoid on the principle that they screwed the public once and will likely do it again ASAP. Still, if you are with or can get good service from a GSM provider in the USA, the FreeRunner will work

Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

2011-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <1304393739.10721.1447549...@webmail.messagingengine.com>, giovanni_re wrote: >What Smartphone do you use? HTC, Hero, Android + HTC Sense, Sprint, USA -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 5149

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105021649.01038@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >I've used OpenSTV, and treated each graph as a preferential vote. > >This is only one way to aggregate the data on the graphs, and it is >certainly flawed, but it can be reasonably be used for ra

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105021602.50060@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >They are also essential for any journaled filesystem to have correct >behavior in the face of sudden pwoer loss. Barriers ensure, (e.g.) that >the journal entry creating a file is flushed to the backi

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <201105011040.19169@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >In <4dbd0d23.1080...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>http://btrfs.boxacle.net/repository/raid/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5/2.6.35-rc5_L >>a rge_file_creates_num_threads=1.html >>ht

Re: file systems

2011-05-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4dbe75dd.80...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >On 5/1/2011 10:40 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> In<4dbd0d23.1080...@hardwarefreak.com>, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> Independent Linux filesystem tests performed by an IBM engineer to track >>&g

Re: file systems

2011-05-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
h, 2nd, 4th, 4th, 2nd I wouldn't say that is a "trouncing", since it doesn't even win in many categories. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-

Re: fullscreen video with mencoder

2011-04-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ut important events. (I can imagine a full automated pan-and-scan but I don't know anything that does that, yet.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' h

Re: Patching problem, Obmenu

2011-04-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
build the files to be uploaded -- a signed changes file, source package, and binary package. ["dch" is in the devscripts package; "dpkg-buildpackage" is in the dpkg-dev package.] Even if you didn't want to do an NMU (or shouldn't because of policy), those files cou

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
upstream bug, file it there and mark the bug as forwarded. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
pooling them with other interested users. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Monitors requiring interlaced video modes with older Nvidia video cards are out of options in wheezy

2011-04-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
may have been DSFG-freeness concerns about the code as well, but they were not the primary motivator for removing the package from testing. (Obfuscated code may have driven the X.org developers away from the nv driver to the Nouveau driver, though.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Why does Linux crash?

2011-04-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
and let the userland handle things (possibly by crashing!) than have the semi- predictable OOM killer set loose. (I've heard decent arguments in favor of over-commit, but I think it fundamentally undermines the safety of the system, so I am still against it being the default.) --

Re: Why does Linux crash?

2011-04-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to it. If that fails to give you back the system, Alt+SysRq+E will, but it'll also shut down all the system services, so you'll need to restart them. In short, there's a ocean of possibilities between "wait for Linux/Eclipse to resolve things" and "yank

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
nsubscribe page. It takes roughly 3-4 clicks to get to the page, then each mailing list is just one click on top of that. So, while the relationship is still linear, there is an understandable constant overhead. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
; >There is only one question left: >Why did this happen? What could I have done, that these values changed to >-1? I don't know any tool that edits that file. I always edit it with (sudo -e /etc/apt/preferences). So, my assumption is that you made the change yourself, perhaps wit

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
>aptitude: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: (none) > Version table: > 0.4.11.11-1~lenny1 0 > -1 http://ftp.de.debian.org lenny/main Packages > >>Can you also post the output of (apt-get install aptitude) non-i18n-ized? > >If you tell me how to do this, then YES.

Re: New App. for Debian.

2011-04-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
with HTML 5 at all levels: in the contents of the specification, banding and marketing, and development model. That said, I prefer HTML 5 to Flash and I think Maquetta will be neat to use if I ever need flashy features. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasui

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
output of (apt-get install aptitude) non-i18n-ized? I'm suspecting some odd problems under /var/lib/apt or /var/cache at this point, but those outputs will help further diagnose. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Nvidia drivers

2011-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
m NVidia aren't compatible with Debian packaging. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

This is not SPAM

2011-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s. If you want to help a little bit, you can "bounce" or "redirect" SPAM message to report-listspam@lists.d.o. If you want to help a lot, writing spamassassin or postfix rules that match the SPAM and communicating that to the list admins could help. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: problem with apt-get install AND apt-get upgrade

2011-04-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e hell ...? I think you need to run (apt-get update) now. Please post the output of the update run as well as the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_))

Re: Missing keyspan.fw

2011-04-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , chris wrote: >It was a intentional decision I believe. My understanding is that all >non-free binary firmware was removed from squeeze as per their foss beliefs. Most, if not all, of the firmware that was removed from main is available from non-free. -- Boyd Stephen Sm

Re: Hash salt (was Re: BCRYPT - Why not using it?)

2011-04-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ed SHA1 has no attacks more effective than brute-force. I'd like to believe that shadow passwords will more to SHA3 within 2-3 releases after SHA3 is finalized. At the current rate of attack improvements against MD5, that should be plenty of time. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ckages? > >Server = X-less so WM-less, DE-less, GUI-less Do you have any documentation to support this assertion? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ng to documents on Canonical's site, there is no difference in package selection. I quoted directly from such a document earlier in the thread. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: Problem with time command

2011-04-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4d9c342a.1090...@shadowcat.co.uk>, Chris Jackson wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> GNU time 1.7 >> bss@dellbuntu:~$ type time >> time is a shell keyword >> >> (Bash has a time "builtin" that you should avoid if you want to use the

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , Tom H wrote: >On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: >> Someone that doesn't necessarily want to upgrade on Debian's schedule. >> With Ubuntu, you can get 5 years, as opposed to Debian's ~3 years. With >> SLE* you can get 10

Re: Problem with time command

2011-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
eal0m0.001s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s bss@dellbuntu:~$ command time --version GNU time 1.7 bss@dellbuntu:~$ type time time is a shell keyword (Bash has a time "builtin" that you should avoid if you want to use the time binary.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,

Re: Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-04-05 12:24:39 Matt Harrison wrote: >On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > wrote: >> On 2011-04-05 12:07:16 George Standish wrote: >>>On 05/04/11 01:04 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>>> On 2011-04-05 11:51:13 George Standish wrote

Ubuntu Versions (was: Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...)

2011-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-04-05 12:07:16 George Standish wrote: >On 05/04/11 01:04 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On 2011-04-05 11:51:13 George Standish wrote: >>>> If you need more support than Debian provides and<= 5 years, install an >>>> Ubuntu LTS. >>> &

Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...

2011-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
tories. What exactly is the difference? Does the server version not include "restricted"? (Like neither version includes "universe" or "multiverse".) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ

Re: Let's say you never want to upgrade from Lenny...

2011-04-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to 10 years on security support on a SLE* release. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description:

Re: apt makes it easy to track the new package but hard to dump the old

2011-04-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
.*"; }; // ..elided... }; If you'd rather see these packges handled "normally" you can either edit this file (although I recommend against it) or create a new file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d that alters or augments these settings. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution (howto write the date)

2011-04-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ing Mac OS X) and the Linux kernel have moved beyond that. I'm not sure about AIX and Solaris. I'm pretty sure there won't be anymore HP-UX. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 5149

Re: About to order motherboard Asus M4A78LT-M - any known issues?

2011-04-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-04-01 13:48:06 Ron Johnson wrote: >On 04/01/2011 11:24 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On 2011-04-01 01:31:47 Klistvud wrote: >>> the final proof will be in the pudding ... >> >> The proof *of* the pudding is in the eating. > >Except when th

Re: Debian was hacked: The Canterbury Distribution

2011-04-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the US, but I always write dates like that. I'm also in the U.S., but I prefer seeing ISO dates. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.ne

Re: About to order motherboard Asus M4A78LT-M - any known issues?

2011-04-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-04-01 01:31:47 Klistvud wrote: >the final proof will be in the pudding ... The proof *of* the pudding is in the eating. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)

Re: aptitude upgrade

2011-03-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
riants also sometimes install packages in a way so they are not marked automatically installed. If you don't want it, mark it as automatically installed, let apt-get/aptitude clean up, and if it is still around, repeat the why invocation. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=

Re: apt pinning question

2011-03-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
packages with that name. I think that is one valid interpretation of the documentation: "If any specific-form records match an available package version then the first such record determines the priority of the package version. Failing that, if any general-form records match an available

Re: What temporary space does aptitude use?

2011-03-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-30 11:16:19 Sven Joachim wrote: >Note that you have to clean up old unused >kernels manually, they are never autoremoved. "Never" meaning "only if you override the settings in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove". -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: broken shell script with dash

2011-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
se (cat /etc/aliases.[12] > /etc/aliases). [1] I'm not sure about the work-in-progress SUSv4 or a work-in-progress POSIX, if one exists. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: Installing Etch

2011-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e", but at least you should get 10+ months of security support on that and it's the first step in upgrading to Squeeze anyway.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'

Re: You touched one of my pet peeves (was Re: dpkg: syntax error)

2011-03-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s. www = double-u double-u double-u = 9 syllables. Abbreviation FAIL! -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Your favorite version control software

2011-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
se changesets for some operations. So, with Git/Hg/Mtn a commit's hash/id *is* a unique identifier of a point in time, which is what you claim you are after. I tend to think that monotonically increasing natural numbers are a bit over-rated. However, if you want them you can get them withou

Re: Your favorite version control software

2011-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ral repository; there were enough developers that found a linear history easier to work with that it became policy.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanas

Re: libXm.so.3

2011-03-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e. In Squeeze, testing (Wheezy), and unstable (Sid), it has been replaced with libmotif4 which provides libXm.so.4. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'

Re: Your favorite version control software

2011-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
If something non-distributed is entrenched in the project / workplace, I'll end up using Git with occasional synchronization with the inferior solution. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze? OT question

2011-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ckage hits unstable, you can use <http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/iceweasel.html> to watch the "testing migration" and watch it move to Wheezy. Normally, I think 15 days is the waiting period, but that can be controlled somewhat by the DD performing the upload to unstable.

Re: iceweasel 4 on squeeze?

2011-03-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ell. But basically, ordering in the file is the sorting-of-last-resort. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: An interesting experiment

2011-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
alize that some obsolete packages need to be replaced/uninstalled. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signat

Re: What happened to debian - does "stable" keep having any meaning?

2011-03-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the correct way forward. I would like liked to see the changes made in both these projects made more incrementally. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

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