Re: Python

27;s Learning Python (3e/2007), which covers Python 2.5, this will give you enough to function adequitly in Python2.7 o you can just skip to the 4th edition (4e) which covers Python2.6 and Python3.x. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it rev

Re: sbin

This was intended for the list but accidentally got sent to only lina. -- Forwarded message -- From: Chris Brennan Date: Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 12:01 PM Subject: Re: sbin To: lina On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 11:42 AM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > Is it safe to add /sbin into PATH

Re: Linux based forum software

'm unaware of any other alternatives that offer this rather traditional layout... > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ |

OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

op were affected. Being a part of emergeDesktop's community, I know the author their has instructed the community to not download his software from download.com, I'm not sure what steps have been taken for paint.net and VLC though. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you

Re: [OT] where should I look for google sync information ?

acts and look for a group called "Starred on Android", this is the group that gets sync'd to your device and back to GMail. All of your contacts on your phone will get put into this group, GMail will also attempt to guess what contacts you use the most and star them for you as well.

Re: [Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#650699: Fwd: fglrx-driver

iatary driver? Does X actually load? can you paste this grep instead? cat /var/log/Xorg.log.0 | grep -e "(WW)" -e "(EE)" This will grep for all errors *AND* warnings. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the

Re: Booting into DOS [SOLVED]

quot; { >> insmod part_msdos >> insmod fat >> set root='(hd0,1)' >> chainloader +1 >> } >> >> You can check DOS is on /dev/sda1 using 'cfdisk /dev/sda'. >> > file -s /dev/sda (as root) wil

Re: Password Management ?

nd conceivably changed) paid-for product. Stephen, my goal here was not to split hairs with you but to illustrate the differences between LastPass and KeePass at a cursory level for the OP, who expressed not understanding the difference between the two. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. >

Re: Password Management ?

ata back from them.[1] I'm a bit paranoid, but I go to great lengths to secure my KeePass DB. I have an sD card with a TrueCrypt volume on it, inside that lives KeePass in portable mode, with it's database. Which is also encrypted. [1] The reason I point this out is when they bought XMark

Re: Password Management ?

owser environment? > KeePass isn't browser based, it's an encrypted database manager for account information. While I don't use this feature of KeePass, it can also fill in browser fields for you. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: B

Re: Password Management ?

s an offline database program to manage passwords, it's under active development and I've never had any real problems with it. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is to

Re: Bind9 (9.7.4)

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello, > > Chris Brennan a écrit : > > > > I was discussing a bind issue that I am experiencing w/ an acquaintance > on > > IRC this afternoon and he informed me that bind was updated to cover a > > latent

Bind9 (9.7.4)

UPDATE requests to crash named. [RT #24777] [CVE-2011-2464] BIND 9.7.4 Released on 01 Aug 2011 > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://

Re: p7zip buggy?

g the 64-bit version, as noted by the [64] in square brackets. I would like to see which version Camaleon is using to compare, it very well might be a bug in the arch's and not the version. So it's good to make note of the version and arch. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > &

Re: p7zip buggy?

which I think is > correct :-? > Camaleon, What version of p7zip is in wheezy? Are you possibly using a different version then what is provided in the wheezy repo? > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ > GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C)

Re: p7zip buggy?

running debian/wheezy on an amd64 machine. > Try splitting into two archives of size 290MB 300*2=600 which =! 580MB, that might be where your problem is coming up. p7zip might not be handeling the simple math correctly. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? &

Re: a quick question: how to add comments for several lines at the same time

ark "a" at the first row that I want to comment, then move the > cursor to the last row I want commented and type: > > :'a,.s/^/# /g > You can do something similar in visual mode as well, I don't remember exactly how though. > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > &g

Re: help

On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, neo haux wrote: > > Blank emails don't go far. How about you start off by giving us an idea of what it is you want help with. If it's hardware related, a basic profile of your system would be in order as well. -- > -- > Chris Brennan &

Re: apt-build issues

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:59:13 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > So I decided to try and play with apt-build and I got the following > > which I can't seem to solve or figure out how to solve lol > > (...) > > I do

apt-build issues

-index file (malformed Release file?) E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. root@Blackdragon:~# Any idea's cause I'm stumped! > -- > Chris Brennan > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the log

Re: OT - Frequency of unsolicited emails

than > trivial. > Regards, > > Weaver. > I'm in the boat with Camaleon and Weaver, I'm on a dozen or more mailing lists, all open-source related and I get maybe 5 e-mail messages a *month* freebsd-{ports,chat,current,gnome,questions,security} debian-users gentoo-us

Re: installing root-kit checkers

s. Then you can work from there, but the concept is that root-kit tools should be the first tool installed and keep good, *known clean* sources handy to copy to knew machines as the first thing they do after being installed. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >

Re: Curlftpfs replacement?

y exist within the FUSE project, give that a try or shoot them a line and see if they might have some better idea's just remember that ftp is plain-text and as such, insecure... If your security-conscience then sshfs or sftp/scp might be a wiser choice (just remember that you loose spee

Re: In Need of Advice

el free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me > and what I stand for. > My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net > My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ > > hth -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A:

Re: Holiday Project for my job

edge when it comes to a cloning process. The only reason I would choose the Ubuntu version is if it had a specific feature I needed. [1]http://www.clonezilla.org -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversa

Re: [OT] Re: unsuscribe

ar, has had the foot on it... So I think it's safe to say, always does apply in my case. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http:

Re: Most Perplexing

html > done > > > Feel free to visit my website and my blog and learn more about me > and what I stand for. > My Website @ http://riverwind.shellworld.net > My Blog http://windraven13.livejournal.com/ > > Put this on line one of your little script #!/usr/bin/env sh

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

ell. 0330, NYC-Time, off to bed now... (the worst is coming in now) -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http:/

Re: Is seagate goflex compatible with debian

ves function and to show you that the external I pointed out will work in Squeeze at the very least. If you want, I can grab her external after Hurricane Irene is done leaving her mark on NYC and get you dmesg logs from Squeeze and my laptop, running testing. -- > Chris Brennan > -- >

Re: securing the system, stopping unnecessary services and closing open ports.

d to actively scan for a rootkit, you can check out rkhunter , ckrootkit or sleuthkit, just to name a few. If you want to get creative with tools, my gentoo box has this in app-forensic: afflib air chkrootkit examiner galleta lynis magicrescue metadata.xml ovaldi rdd rkh

Re: 2TB file system

ying to query all of your SATA ports and not finding drives attached to every port. It could also mean that one or more SATA ports or attached drives may be faulty. I would check cables and such first. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverse

Re: 2TB file system

t it came with. The one thing to keep in mind is laptops, all the hard-drives are accessible but in different ways, my HP and my gf's AlienWare laptops are very easy to get to, my old Dell Latitude required me to jump though many hoops and a torx screw driver ultimately fixed my problem there.

Re: 2TB file system

flawlessly. P.S. Lately, I've been able to get the 750GB, 7200RPM 2-.5in drives very cheap. 11 drives over the last 6-8mo for approximately $80-$100USD+Shipping. So yea, I personally, would highly recommend Seagate's, either internal or external. Best value for what ever your "buck&quo

Re: [OT] 2TB file system

ir drives of any capacity from sizes smaller than >> 80GB all the way to 1TB. > > Probably cause you've joined the dark side ? :P > > We have cookies. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of

Re: 2TB file system

spin up. Returned them to IBM/Hitachi and for a refund that I never got, never got paid for the original 40GB drive which was $250 at the time. On the plus side, that 20GB Seagate drive is still running, 9 years later as the FTP Storage drive for that office's intranet. Ever since the above i

Re: GLX Missing

rectly) unable to do so, because it (correctly) can't find any > nvidia video cards on my system. It also seems that this is blocking > Xorg from loading intel glx drivers. > > Thanks for any advice, > > -- > rbmj > > Try changing your xorg.conf to reflect the

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

alysis of FreeBSD was a bit short-minded. [1]http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo [2]http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/archs.html [3]http://www.freebsd.org/where.html Yes, I'm a FreeBSD fan, I'm also a Debian fan, which is why I sit on this mailing list.

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

hough I would much prefer if my host would offer FreeBSD as I am more familiar with that as a server. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? &g

Re: Best linux Distro 2011

I have no idea how much has changed since then... -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http:/

Re: Problems ejecting cd.

f view, this sounds like a bad servo or actuator motor in the drive. Is it old? New? Is the drive sluggish to eject the drive, does it feel stiff, like something might be grinding on the tray itself? Do you have kids that like to hide small things in really neat new places? -- > Chris Bren

Re: [left blank]

; > AG A great list of suggestions AG. A great alternative if you don't want to dual-boot or use a whole system is to use a Virtual Machine such as VirtualBox[1] [1]http://www.virtualbox.org -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Becaus

Re: pls respond asap

it can be modified, it's resource as that historical reference becomes tainted. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.co

Re: Has KFTPGrabber gone viral

t; "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > > > > Sorry for the repeated spam on this, my mail client has gone wonky for some reason. -- > Chris Brennan >

Re: 32bit vs 64bit

ground? > > thanks, > --b To borrow your own phrase nuke and pave. Moving between architectures is probably a very very bad idea :D (upgrade wise). While not a guru, but a power user, this is something I would only attempt to do in a VM and then, only to prove it can't be done. San

Re: Do I own an unsupported optical IDE drive?

, > does this seem reasonable (my SATA disk drives work flawlessly with > the SATA interface)? > > Thank you for your time, > > Horace. > > Could you provide the make/model of the optical drive in question as well as the output of lspci? -- > Chris Brennan > -- >

Re: Trinity site offline?

On 7/15/2011 10:11 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.1 ARIN Direct allocation to Level3 Communications. if they don't know, then TrinityDesktop.org's dns entries were removed from their DNS Servers for what ever reason, but it appears it's back online now. -

Re: Want to build new Debian PC. Is IDE interface gone?

On 7/11/2011 2:55 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 07/10/11 at 03:09pm, mark wrote: > I think the last time I was annoyed about such a change was when > you couldn't get floppy drives anymore.. > Wait! So you can't get floppy drives anymore!?! :P -- > Chris Brennan >

Re: NVIDIA - URGENT

> Is there something I can do, or is it necessary to install Wheezy anew? > In this case I hope it is enough to repartition / and /boot partitions > and leave the other ones as they are. > > Yours > Hans Vogelsberger > Hans, Try reinstalling the nvidia driver, the kern

Re: Unread bug reports ?

c) drop support and move on This is all decided by the Ports System committee and doesn't happen over night. There is ample time for people to be properly notified and for them to find a new maintainer amungst themselves or elsewhere or for people to move off/away from that po

Re: posting

they desire. -- > Chris Brennan > -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? > http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ > GPG: D5B20C

Re: news/mail client and the text borders

* Philipp ??berbacher [2011-06-13 11:27:57 +0200]: > Excerpts from Davide Baldini's message of 2011-06-13 04:28:18 +0200: > > What software do you use for mail/news? > > I see all your messages are proudly well formatted and perfectly fit in > > pages of 80 columns, while I have to push return ea

[debian.li...@home.nl: Re: broadcom: SOLVED]

- Forwarded message from steef - Redirected back to list so it can be archived. Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:39:46 +0200 From: steef To: Chris Brennan Subject: Re: broadcom: SOLVED Chris Brennan schreef: > * steef [2011-06-11 15:32:00 +0200]: > >> >> hi list, >&

Re: broadcom

* Freeman [2011-06-11 14:51:32 -0700]: > You need broadcom-sta. > > Read here > http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all&keywords=broadcom-sta > > # apt-get install broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source module-assistant > +make debhelper quilt bzip2 > > I don't reme

Re: broadcom

* steef [2011-06-11 15:32:00 +0200]: > > hi list, > > bought my self a hp mini-netbook, included windoze7 and a very strong accu, > 10 > hours of life. What's 'accu'? > i put sid on an usb-stick, included fluxbox and wicd(-curses). > > wifi = (lspci) brcm4313. (type 5.60.350.6) Can you pa

Re: unable to enumerate usb device on port 5

* Camale?n [2011-06-10 10:25:46 +]: > On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:04:00 +0530, Rohit Vaidya wrote: > > > I have just installed Debian Squeeze successfully. On boot up I get the > > following message constantly dumped > > on the console. Whenever I try to access the virtual terminal it gives > > m

Re: hard drive configuration

* prad [2011-06-06 09:23:08 -0700]: > in the past we've had two partitions: > / > /data > into the latter went home, www, mail and we'd softlink from the > appropriate places. the nice thing about this setup has always been that > when we upgraded or tried a different system there wasn't any data

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

On Wednesday, June 1, 2011, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/01/11 at 06:46pm, Chris Brennan wrote: >> While I suspect the answer to this is no, does gmail have a feature such as >> this? All I see now is reply/forward/reply-all, but no group reply... > > Not that I know of. B

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:46 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mi, 01 iun 11, 15:53:24, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > > > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:57:14 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > > > > I think that all mails came through the list, but there

Re: There was a problem with your email to debianHELP

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I think that all mails came through the list, but there were tons of: > > From: webmas...@debianhelp.org > The email you sent to ... was rejected because there was a validation > error. I got this too, it was addressed directly to me yet I ha

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Ma, 31 mai 11, 09:50:48, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: > > > > So, if anyone knows what going on here or whether this looks like > > an official bug, then let me know. > > This sounds like you might want to contact debian-admin ;) > The 404

Re: received sms possible or not with debian ??

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 4:16 PM, thuillier-charmet wrote: At the moment i have a free mail box where i can > received fax or voice message with an intermdiate of free phone number. > i wish to received a sms on this mail box (without bought a mobil) when > someone like my bank sent to me a sms !

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: I'm sorry! That was a very significant typo! I have a P4, not a P2. Also, > not raid disk. > No worries, I'm just surprised no one else picked up on it sooner lol. > > Also, > >> Mem: 1555440k Swap: 6168868k >> > so that's ~1.5GB in ram a

Re: Serial Console Access

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:17:29 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: >> >> > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> >&

Re: Serial Console Access

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2011 12:17:29 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > > >> OTOH, /etc/inittab can be restarted/reloaded by issuing "telinit q", or

Re: Serial Console Access

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Camaleón wrote: 115200 is a bit high speed rate, for testing I would lower that value and > once it works, you can play with this. > Yeah, it is high, that was just my last change, I started at the typical 9600, went to 19200, 38400 and then 115200. All produces

Re: Serial Console Access

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:04 AM, David Parker wrote: Was your onboard serial port disabled in the BIOS at the time you installed > Debian? If it was, then the first port on your serial card should be mapped > to /dev/ttyS0. If not, then udev may have picked up the onboard port as > /dev/ttyS0

Re: Why does my system stop frequently?

On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: [snip] My system (lenny 2.6.26-2-686, P2, 2+ GHz) > The Pentium II max clockspeed was 233-450MHz are you sure it's not a P4? (PIII clockspeeds are 400Mhz to 1.4GHz.) So if it's a 2GHz CPu then it's got to be a P4. It helps to know what

Serial Console Access

I've embarked on the trial and error process of setting up a serial console on my Debian 6 machine. So far, the configuration has been pretty straight forward. As a reference point I used the following two websites http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-setup-serial-console-on-debian-linux/

Re: I deleted /usr/src/linux

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Perry Thompson wrote: > In my struggle to make Nvidia work with a new kernel, I deleted > /usr/src/linux. Is this bad? I had never used /usr/src in Ubuntu before, > but I am seeing that it has more of a use in Debian. > > If I was not meant to delete it, is there a

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

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 1:57 AM, wrote: I would interject that Blackberrys are widely considered Smartphones, in > fact really being the first of the bread, but only one Blackberry Model > contained a touch screen interface... > > Really doubt they could support debian, but really I don't see de

Re: Waking from the Dead

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Andrew Reid wrote: Hi -- > > The instructions I used don't seem to have that requirement -- you just > need "dd", which Macs can do, I think. > > According to my (slightly dated, and possibly fragmentary) notes, > I got "boot.img.gz" from: > >

Re: Waking from the Dead

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Tom Allison wrote: This just got harder. > I'm trying to just do a reinstall but I only have a macbook to work from. > And the installation media can only be a USB drive. > > I am having all kinds of trouble getting an ISO image onto the USB that > will work. > >

Re: How to use serial ports?

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: Did not check BIOS for port settings, I supposed ports are enabled since > dmesg and setserial show the port. > > root@phb:~# dmesg | grep -i tty > [0.00] console [tty0] enabled > [1.072850] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq =

Re: Defending yourself

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:22 PM, PMA wrote: Actually "Re: Posting Style" (nevermind a new thread): > > It seems to me that bottom-posting is for people who want to read > in one direction, while top-posting is for people who want to see the > current message immediately. > > I am wedded to the la

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

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:16 AM, wrote: +20 > > Oh and as far as that thing I said about having Cred, Camaleón assist more > people on this list than just about anyone, so he's got Cred. > > Pick your battles a bit wiser. > > TeddyB > I have tried (rather well) to steer clear of this thread, a

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

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:53 AM, shawn wilson wrote: Ahhh, I read threads like this on reddit (and other online forums) when I'm > bored or just want to cringe at something. I never thought the likes of that > would reach this list. > This thread has been nothing but hysterical ... akin to mornin

Re: I am not receiving my discussion mail.

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 10 May 2011 20:53:14 +0530, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > > > Please reply me, let me test, whether I am getting reply of email or > > not.. > > Are you using Gmail's smtp service? > > If yes, it's normal you don't get your own postings (this

Re: Loss of connectivity on recent testing updates

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:23 PM, AG wrote: Hey list > > Sometime over the last 9 days I have updated my testing desktop system and > when I went to reboot the theme settings on Gnome had changed and I am > unable to access the Internet. > > My partner's machine - from which this is sent - can acc

Some way to restrict what apt-get/aptitude installs

I've a headless server running Debian 6 and I am curious if there is a way to restrict what gets pulled in Example #1 Gentoo: USE="-X" will effectively stop all X/X-related libs from being installed and the package manager there will fail, telling you why. Example #2 FreeBSD: X="NO" (YES/NO/TRUE/F

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

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Roger Morgan wrote: Well, there's the Openmoko Freerunner: > http://www.openmoko.com/freerunner.html > It's clunky and buggy, but it's free as in freedom, > and it's usable as a cellphone, just. It also only appears to be sold from half a dozen vendors in Europe.

Re: In Debian GNU(Linux), you own phone. - Re: Poll - What Smartphone do you use?

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:29 AM, giovanni_re wrote: I'm guessing you're probably not running Debian GNU(Linux) on your > phone. ;) > > If you were, it would be _you_ who is in control of your phone. ;) > > That's why I'm working to get Smartphone Debian (SD) going. :) I'm guessing you like to

Re: file systems

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I'd love to see data for 2.6.32 (Squeeze) and 2.6.38 (Wheezy/Sid). I have Squeeze running XFS ontop of LVM2, if I can do something to contribute to this, let me know -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses

Re: file systems

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 3:08 PM, prad wrote: Chris Brennan writes: > > [snip] > > > No worries, couldn't hurt to read up on CDDL[1], *BSD[2] Licences and > > GNU/GPL [3]. As for your general Filesystem needs, XFS or XFS-LVM is > > probably the smart way to go.

Re: Can't mount ntfs, says: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Jose Legido wrote: Based on what I see, I am going to take a stab in the dark here. It looks > like you originally had an Ubuntu/Windows dual-boot setup, is this correct? > Then you tried for a tripple-boot setup of Ubuntu/WIndows/Debian, correct? > > Yes, all c

Re: Can't mount ntfs, says: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:39 AM, Jose Legido wrote: On 04/28/2011 02:01 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: > > Reposting to the list, OP, obey REPLY-TO headers or use 'Reply All'. > > Excuse me I forget it > It's all good :D [snip] > post the output of the followi

Re: Can't mount ntfs, says: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'

Reposting to the list, OP, obey REPLY-TO headers or use 'Reply All'. On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Jose Legido wrote: On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Jose Legido wrote: > >> > >> Hello > >&g

Re: Can't mount ntfs, says: unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member'

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Jose Legido wrote: Hello > I had windows with ntfs > I installed ubuntu. All ok. Gurb with 2 os, can ran windows and uvuntu and > can mount windows partition in ubuntu > I installed debian with lvm over ubuntu partition. > I can't mount windows partition now, and

Re: file systems

On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/25/2011 02:33 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Ron Johnson put forth on 4/25/2011 1:25 AM: >> >>> On 04/19/2011 05:42 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >>> [snip] >>> XFS beats EXT4 hands down in nearly every category, >>> >>> Including

Re: list all the devices connected to the router

On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: I connect my PCs to internet via Verizon DSL router. When I go to > 192.168.1.1 in a browser (say firefox), I am able to see all the computers > connected to this router. > > However, from command line is there any way to probe for th

Re: file systems

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:44 PM, prad wrote: Chris Brennan writes: > > > CDDL isn't a BSD Licence, it's the licence that's used by what was Sun > > Microsystems and is now Oracle. > > > sorry my mistake for thinking zfs was bsd (even after you said it w

Re: file systems

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:09 PM, prad wrote: Chris Brennan writes: > > > >> one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using > >> debian/freebsd. i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, > >> so presumably it would with debian/freebsd as well. > &

Re: file systems

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:21 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > On Apr 21, 2011 3:28 PM, "prad" wrote: > > > > prad writes: > > > > > are there any feelings or recommendations regarding the above? > > > > > one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freebsd. > > i understand that zfs wor

Re: file systems

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Doug wrote: If it makes any difference to you, I _think_ that there's a windows program > that will read ext3; I know it will > read ext2. I haven't heard of one that reads ext4. If you don't care > about windows, ext4 seems to work fine. > (You can read the win

Re: file systems

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:45, prad wrote: > > we are thinking of redoing our existing servers and workstations in > > june. our servers is low volume and run out of our home via cable. > > > > right now the servers are running freebsd and ou

Re: New to Linux

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Jonathan Matthews wrote: They got borged by Oracle, IIRC, leaving them with at least 3 > different virtual platforms: virtualbox, solaris zones, virtual iron. > Ooo, and maybe one more whose name escapes me. They also bought up > Q-Layer, who were *great* ... and

Re: New to Linux

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Peter Beck wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 10:53 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: > > You'll need VMWare or VirtualBox (VBox is free but because it's not > s/not/now (Dyslexia first thing in the morning caught me off guard :D) > > Oracle

Re: New to Linux

On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:12 AM, shawn wilson wrote: another thing about times changing - virtuals are great. download some > popular distros (don't limit yourself to linux either). i'd suggest > debian, fedora, centos, ubuntu, and freebsd. then get virtual box and > have fun. go, install, snaps

Re: How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ?

On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:41 AM, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 11:57:31AM +0800, waterloo wrote: > >How to run a command as root when I shutdown system automatically ? > >I use Debian 6 amd64. > > Searching online led me to this: > > > http://synapse.wordpress.com/2007/03/24

Re: [OT] English language

Plz 2 invades ur werdz insteadz! P.S. While this meant to be funny and light-hearted, in reality, not all of us Americans are stupid, dumb rednecks who eye their cousins and farm animals. -- Sent from my Droid (sorry for the top post) On Apr 4, 2011 12:50 AM, "Chris Bannister" wrote: > On Sun, A

Re: aptitude upgrade

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Freeman wrote: Maybe > > apt-cache rdepends --installed apache2 > All this does is list the 4 MPM types repeatedly ... [snip] root@Blackdragon:~# apt-cache rdepends --installed apache2 ... apache2-mpm-itk apache2-mpm-event apache2-mpm-prefork ap

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