2013 -- KDE or GNOME?

2013-06-09 Thread Evuraan
I've been on Gnome for years. (vdpau, GT430, 1080p - the typical nvidia setup) Looking at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/i386/bt-hybrid/, I gotta ask: These days, kde or gnome - which one? iirc, kde does retina display (high dpi), and gnome yet may not etc. thanks in advance!

duplicity backups are unidirectional? : local_directory -> remote_host

2012-01-25 Thread Evuraan
duplicity full [options] source_directory target_url Duplicity enters restore mode if it sees the "URL" before the local directory. - this sorta sucks as this mandates the "source" to be a local directory - means I can backup "this" machine's stuff elsewhere using duplicity. If i wanted to

Re: gnu screen - 40 windows limit?

2012-01-13 Thread Evuraan
ever limit you want. > > Rebuild the package using dpkg-buildpackage and then install the .dpkg > file over the top of your current screen installation. This will then > set the window limit to what ever you defined earlier. > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Evuraan wrote: &g

gnu screen - 40 windows limit?

2012-01-12 Thread Evuraan
gnu screen seems to let me open upto 40 windows. When I try for more, it says "No more windows." - is there a way we can override this limit? many thanks in advance.

Re: reverse proxy with directory replication capability

2010-09-21 Thread Evuraan
user:rw group:rw all:r; proxy_temp_path /data/temp; alias/data/www; } http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpProxyModule#proxy_store 2010/9/21 Evuraan : > I've a web server (server1) with 30G data footprint - i used to rsync > the directory to a rather frail (but ex

reverse proxy with directory replication capability

2010-09-21 Thread Evuraan
I've a web server (server1) with 30G data footprint - i used to rsync the directory to a rather frail (but expensive) VM, but the sheer no. of files is pushing rsync out of memory on the VM. ever since rsync failed on me, i run squid as reverse proxy on the VM against server1 - it works "ok", but

atomically concurrent writes question

2010-06-22 Thread Evuraan
I've a script which forks and echo's [appends] multiple long lines to one plain text file. some of the multiple threads also yank lines from the same plain text file. this file is now approx 31M and has about 105000 lines ( growing.) i've been doing this for years now, and have seen nothing go w

changing default nfs mount options

2010-05-21 Thread Evuraan
hello, i did install nfs-common portmap, and nfs client works: below are the options i see take effect per /proc/mounts if i say "mount -t nfs blah:/fs /tmp/somedir" rw,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,namlen=255,hard,nointr,proto=tcp,timeo=600,retrans=2,sec=sys,mountproto=udp how can i change s