ian).
I also installed the resume-backlight-workaround.
For other MacBooks start here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook
Another problem with dual boot on Mac is, that OSX began to store a hidden
recovery partition since some version of OSX, which causes additional pain, if
you have dua
under OSX, but sometimes it is boring and time consuming. This
depends on the tasks and details. But I am happy with this way, mainly
developping in Perl, C, C++ in OSX on one of best lightweight (1 kg) laptops,
with a battery allowing 9 hours of work.
HTH
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brew.sh/, which uses better lib-paths
for the installations.
The problem of OSX is, that it just copies the files onto the disk during
upgrade, often damaging individual or third party changes. OSX is simple crap
under the hoods.
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s patched afterwards. But who knows what happend in the
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>>
>>
>>
>
> Which would (in addition to being tedious) do an ugly job because of web
> pages decorations and the fact that a webpage does not map well on a pdf
> page.
# apt-cache search wkhtml
wkhtmltopdf - Command line utility to convert
in the long run and in daily work.
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app to shutdown or reboot your
> machine
Agreed, should work.
But sometimes it can happen, that you didn’t see a dependency of a package on
some desktop/Gnome thingy, and bang…
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Am 01.04.2014 um 11:58 schrieb Chris Bannister :
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 09:52:12AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
>>
>>
>> root@dev:/home/helmutw# apt-cache search lshw
>> lshw-gtk - graphical information about hardware configuration
>> lshw - informa
shw
lshw-gtk - graphical information about hardware configuration
lshw - information about hardware configuration
HTH
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vironment (Gnome, or now back to KDE).
Usually everything (sound, wifi, trackpad etc.) works out of the box.
My smallest Debian box is a creditcard sized RaspberryPi, my largest a 2 node
cluster, each node having 16 cores, 32 GB, and many VMs on it.
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> off buying new guts. This seems to currently be the least expensive
> Newegg AMD based combo:
There is so much outsorted hardware from companies which geeks can get for free.
This year we sorted out a dozen of servers not worth to refurbish for a company.
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are there some new HOWTOs about installing Debian on Macbook Air (Mid 2013)?
Via Google I found a lot of traffic concerning Ubuntu & al., but now it is
quiet.
Problems (suspend) solved or still open?
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> much as Gnome3.
Thanks for the tip. I gave LXDE a try and is feeling a lot faster.
Some features like the taskbar are better than in XFCE. But the
power-management seems unstable.
I got the "suspend on lid close" and other b
Am 17.10.2013 um 13:21 schrieb Joel Rees :
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Helmut Wollmersdorfer
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> my netbook is a ~5 years old Acer One with Atom processor, 1 GB memory and
>> 150 GB HDD.
[…]
>
> Have you checked the hardware
E)
b) try to tune XFCE on the Acer One
c) buy a new small, powerful, lightweight Lenovo (I like the nibble:-)
Alternatives a) and c) do not solve the pain of choosing a "good enough"
desktop environment for Debian Wheezy.
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m, i.e. I plug in the device, open the file-browser
etc. Then unmount/remove the storage media. As I need to do this cross-OS
(Debian, Win XP/7, OSX), both Win and OSX write their hidden files crap on the
devices.
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d not understand 90% of the
people, because they spoke their local dialect, but I was educated
standard "Oxford" English in school.
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I cannot share your experience. Data loss on floppy discs caused a lot
of expensive time in my life. 10 years ago I saved them all on HDD and
threw them away.
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Am 12.07.2013 um 11:50 schrieb Ralf Mardorf:
OT: DVDs aren't safe medias for backups.
Hmm ... How safe is safe for backup?
At home I rsync to an external SATA disk with 1 TB.
And for musik, foto etc. I have 4 external USB-HDDs, each 0.5 - 1 TB.
Burning DVDs is too much work.
H
Am 03.07.2013 um 18:34 schrieb Darac Marjal:
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 04:05:13PM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
how can I find out the version number of a particular kernel module
without downloading, without installing, without booting, from
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel
Am 01.07.2013 um 17:52 schrieb Wayne Topa:
On 07/01/2013 10:05 AM, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
I.e. I would like the version number of a kernel module (e.g. drbd,
megaraid_sas, igb) before deciding to download, compile, or install.
# apt-cache search linux-image |grep ^linux
HTH
version number of a kernel module (e.g. drbd,
megaraid_sas, igb) before deciding to download, compile, or install.
TIA
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Maybe* you are right. *Maybe* in this case means that I don't want to
risk 10 minutes for clarifying problems with non-plain 32-bit or 64-
bit configurations.
Thus my configurations are all plain (out of the box) 32 bit, if the
hardware is limited, and plain 64 bit in all other cases
Am 10.05.2013 um 05:20 schrieb Chris Bannister:
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 09:48:40AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
You can try to install from Windows.
This method is convenient and saves your time (no need to prepare
install media).
You mean from here?
http://goodbye-microsoft.com
except for the hard drive, all
other drives are externals.
You can try to install from Windows.
This method is convenient and saves your time (no need to prepare
install media).
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IK a known kernel module problem of kernel 2.6.32.
So I use these expensive NICs in spare/testing machines;-)
BTW: Is there an easy way to get the version of a kernel module
directly from kernel source tree? I.e. without installing the kernel.
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, on travel, from other client
computers, then allow password login for a normal user (you) and su to
root.
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Win (XP, Vista, 7) Chrome has the same leading edge
features as Safari, but performs a lot faster than Safari and Firefox.
From my experience (as a web-developer I have to use all the major
browsers) Chrome is the *best*.
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of RC-bugs
"Only bugs relevant to testing" (last link on the page)
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/other/testing.html
and look if the affected packages or bugs are important for your
planned installation.
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netinstall from WinXP, DHCP over ethernet-cable. Booting
from Win was convenient, because this netbook (Acer one) has no CD-
drive, and I had no empty USB stick available.
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users: They see the look and
feel of the hardware, and use "Apps". Which operating system (iOS,
Android, ChromeOS, MozillaOS) runs the whole thing is nearly
unimportant.
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IMHO in a graphical desktop environment like Gnome2 it is also
possible to double click on yourpacke.deb in the file browser but I
like the console more for such activities.
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ke it'll do what I need in a simple and familiar way; but I'm
concerned about the performance of the CPU and I/O virtualization and
the page swapping.
Squeeze is very outdated now. If you can afford the time, try out both.
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same frequency in a line with a small distance between them. Then they
disturbe each other. Around 10 cm (4 inches) distance between them
solved the problem.
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. Have the US signed the
Human Rights, or the international Woman Rights?
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h dual head causes heavy
packet loss on the first Intel NIC, this is AFAIK a PCIe kernel
problem solved in newer versions
In the future, do your homework *before* you buy, saving yourself from
these headaches.
Subscribing linux-powere...@dell.com is a must.
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udev 988M 32K 988M 1% /dev
tmpfs1023M 4.0K 1023M 1% /dev/shm
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Am 21.09.2012 um 23:16 schrieb Neal Murphy:
If one cannot respond with civility and respect, one shouldn't
respond at all.
Attitudes like yours drive people away from OSS.
Fully ACK.
Open Source needs open communication.
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cursory effort to search for information before asking here.
Then you should not answer.
Or only give a short but friendly answer with a link like Camaleón did:
| The available architectures are detailed and explained here:
|
| http://www.debian.org/ports/index.en.html
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ebian >10 years.
I also had to find the answer for 'IA64 or AMD64?'. AFAIR I used
google and then I grepped /proc/cpuinfo for 'lm'.
BTW: We have here many powerful machines out of service, because they
are not worth the time for refurbishing.
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itity and flexibilty.
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Am 19.09.2012 um 18:59 schrieb lee:
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Am 18.09.2012 um 19:06 schrieb Ross Boylan:
I
remember someone saying "a pigeon could install Debian"
[...]
You can try an installation under Virtualbox, which is available free
for all major OSes (Linux, Wi
ueeze
with KDE) and Win7 (bundled with hardware), plus Win XP Pro installed
under Virtualbox/Debian.
Disk/partition configuration was choosable at time of order.
The additional installation fee was AFAIR EUR 60,- plus the license
for Win XP.
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tallation under Virtualbox, which is available free
for all major OSes (Linux, Win, Mac OSX).
AFAIR the only needed choices are keyboard and language.
After this you can blindly hit enter, until the question to enter a
password (wich maybe is not necessary).
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That's easy.
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ty to hide such important information, or make it
unaccessible, unconfigurable.
That's the reason, why I have usability problems with Mac OSX and
Windoze 7+.
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102M./home
5.6M./bin
34M ./opt
959M./usr
137M./root
20G ./var
4.0M./sbin
108M./lib
25M ./etc
21G total
- plain/fresh Gnome:
3.1Gtotal
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test-server.
Otherwise, it is just wanting to "be up with the Joneses" :)
IMHO stable is good enough on the servers and on my PCs.
If I want the newest of $package, then I first try in a virtual machine.
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Excellent, as long as the client is easily portable. I don't understand
why people want graphics in accounting.
Full time bookkeepers don't need graphics, but all the other users of a
ledger.
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dozen of
different ledgers, from very primitive ones up to SAP. Thus I am
dreaming about an own designed and written ledger, integrating state of
the art requirements.
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Marco Paganini schrieb:
This is almost certainly a kernel problem. However, it is quite likely
that different distros have their kernels configured differently.
I've seen strange problems with big hard drives and 2.4.18. Actually, I lost
an entire hard-drive because I partitioned and created th
mhz is
maybe a little bit slow, but I remember even KDE with Netscape running
on 166 mhz, 1.2 GB and 96 MB very nice.
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not reliableunglaubwürdig
Examples
condemned as untrustworthy als unglaubwürdig verworfen
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