Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Sean Perry on Thursday 13 Jul 2006 01:37 wrote: > >> That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if >> left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills. > > That's scary. > > I've been using my laptop 24/7 plugged into the mains. >

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

David R. Litwin wrote: > The question is this: Why should I ever turn off my laptop on a normal > occasion (normal being every-day, standard, stationary usage)? Because you care about the planet... > If I don't > want it on, I can suspend it in some way: Waking-up is faster than > booting-up.

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

Steve Lamb wrote: > Michael Beattie wrote: >> That may be so, but why are you using dapper instead of breezy anyway? > > More important questions are: > > a: why is he crossposting what looks to be a troll to both mailing lists > and... > > b: why are people replying to what looks like a tr

Re: Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >>From what I read on the lists it seems that Ubuntu's unstable is > generally more broken than Debian's, making me feel safer using Sid. > Could anyone confirm this. Not categorically, since I no longer use Sid, but Dapper's not seriously broken. It upgrades fine, bu

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

Derek Broughton wrote: > John L Fjellstad wrote: > >> Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I pretty much think it _must_ be a corrupted DB, but rescanning has no >>> effect. I really have to take the time to figure out how to put the D

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

John L Fjellstad wrote: > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I pretty much think it _must_ be a corrupted DB, but rescanning has no >> effect. I really have to take the time to figure out how to put the DB >> into MySQL, because I really do like Amaro

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

John L Fjellstad wrote: > Derek Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd pick AmaroK as the audio player if I could just get it to reliably >> work. I can't begin to figure out why _some_ files in a directory get >> added to my >> collection,

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

media player [ Kaffeine ] disc-burner [ k3b ] PIM [ kontact ] finance [ kMyMoney ] > John L Fjellstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> It's interesting to read this of software. Not only do we have great >> choices, they are all very usuably, IMO. I don't really like to fight my >> computer, so

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Popularity Contest would be even better if it didn't list 'required' > and 'standard' pacakges to judge true popularity. How does one call > 'dpkg' or 'apt' popular when one doesn't really have a choice --- it's > a dedian system after all. I doubt it really makes

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

David R. Litwin wrote: >> Certainly I have an internet connection, which "works". >> >> Then what's your problem? All along you've been telling us you couldn't >> access the Internet. If you can, it's a simple matter of automating the >> method you're using. In this case, probably just uncommentin

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

David R. Litwin wrote: > Ahh! Stupid Internet deleted my E-Mail! Now, I have to do it again. > Please, I really need this fixed: It's friving me mad. > > >> ppp0? Must be pppoe. That's a bit of a clue. Too bad I don't know >> anything about pppoe. Surely you configured it yourself, though, at so

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

David R. Litwin wrote: > I have but the "central computer" (the one to which the router is > connected) and the laptop. OK, and your directly connected computer is working? Is it running Linux or Windows? If it's working, we know that DHCP is working properly on the DSL router, and it's correct

Re: WiFi Problems (It doesn't work properly)

David, you have yet to properly describe your problem. > Now, cat /etc/resolv.conf gives this at College: > > search dawsoncollege.qc.ca > nameserver 198.168.48.4 > > And this when at Home: > > search no-domain-set.bellcanada > nameserver 192.1

Re: Cups+printer install?

Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: >>On 08/03/2005 08:02 pm, Ishwar Rattan wrote: >> Is there a way to install a printer using cups without a browser (no capability for http://localhost:631/)? I want to access remote printers alos on a cups server in the dept but have no interest i

Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

Steve Lamb wrote: > Furthermore when is too much information obsfucating? The often cited > example is IE's "Friendly" error messages which explain nothing. Give me > a short, relatively straight forward and meaningful string (Which "Dynamic > MMap ran out of room" is) over overly verbose "h

Re: sarge?

From: "Carl Fink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My opinion is that Debian's absurdly slow release schedule is the only > reason it isn't the leading distro. Now, many developers (who own the > project) don't *care* whether it's the leading distro, which I understand. > > The slow releases are also a grea

Re: boot message: "differences between boot sector and its backup...."

From: "J.S.Sahambi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I am getting the message "There are differences between boot sector and > its backup" while booting my machine as given below. Can anybody help > me solve this problem? iirc, by default lilo refuses to backup the boot sector if there's already a backup,

Re: xterm won't run: get_pty: not enough ptys on Sarge

From: "Adam Kessel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:17:05PM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote: > > If I go to one of the consoles and run xterm, I see: > > get_pty: not enough ptys > > I should also mention that I upgrade to the 2.6.3 kernel in testing and I > get the same result. Funny,

Re: case insensitive find and grep

From: "Jonathan Dowland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 06:56:53PM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > Am Sa, den 01.05.2004 schrieb Micha Feigin um 17:52: > > > How can I do case insensitive file finding and grep? Both grep and find > > > are case sensitive and writing the search as [

Re: System Init bottlenecks

From: "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, 01 May 2004, Bill Moseley wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 04:35:51PM -0300, Broughton, Derek wrote: > > > When I boot, I experience a number of filesystem related delays. > > > > > > All of my HD partitions are Reiser, but I get

Re: The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software

> The Traps Of Linux...&open Source Software > A scandalous book published on-line right... > Just look at this... > > [URL=http://www.e-balkani.com/book]The Traps of Linux...[/URL] Oh please no, don't make me read it. Get a _translator_!! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: USB camera is not recognised as a SCSI device

From: "Tom Peters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't get the proper name for the valid device from that. > If I am not misguided by the manuals, there is a vfat filesystem on the > memory card, and we are supposed to use the ide-scsi driver, so access it > as a SCSI disk. As I said, that is how it w

Re: grub/dual-boot problem

Chris Metzler wrote: > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > bootloader. This happened to me before, but you said you installed > > Debian AFTER you installed Windows, so this shouldn't be an issue. > > I agree that it shouldn't be an issue; but that's very much what > this smells like.

Re: 2.6.4 to 2.6.5 problems w/ a sarge machine

From: "Kenneth Macdoald Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [sorry Kenneth if you got a private copy. my bad...] > On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 20:41, Richard Weil wrote: > > > > The source for 2.6.5 came into Sarge a day or two ago. > > I complied it using the exact same configuration as > > 2.6.4. I checked

Modprobe under kernel 2.6

Does anybody know why some modules in /etc/modules appear to be ignored? I have always need "hid" in /etc/modules to make my usb mouse work, and now under 2.6 I also need to modprobe psmouse and intel-agp to get into X (kdm). I added them to /etc/modules but nothing seems to be modprobed at sta