With bookworm's kernel, QEMU-KVM EFI cannot see virtio partitions

2022-11-18 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Windows-10-Jorge.xml Description: XML document Hi! After I upgraded to bookworm, my QEMU-KVM VM fails to boot the guest OS; instead it drops to the EFI shell. If I boot the physical host into bullseye's kernel (Linux 5.10) then the VM boots normally. This VM has two virtual disks, each backed

"Failed unmounting /var/cache" error message when shutting down

2022-04-03 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Hi. This problem is some months old, and I have sent a similar message on 20 Jan 2022 11:57:35 (UTC). Since then I have slightly simplified my Btrfs subvolume layout but the problem remains. When I shutdown or halt my laptop, I get error messages like: [FAILED] Failed unmounting /var/cache.

Re: Btrfs best practices

2022-01-29 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hello! I think I should inform this list about my choices so far: Em [2021-12-16 qui 14:13:05-0300], Jorge P. de Morais Neto escreveu: > Should I use a backported kernel as Btrfs [wiki][] recommends? I worry > that bullseye-backports comes from Debian testing with poor security. I&

"Failed unmounting "/{root,var/cache} error messages when shutting down

2022-01-20 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
bvirt-images 0 0 LABEL=HDD /var/cache/apt/archives btrfs noatime,space_cache=v2,compress=zstd:12,subvol=@apt-archives 0 0 LABEL=SSD /root btrfs noatime,space_cache=v2,compress=zstd:12,subvol=@~root 0 0 LABEL=SSD /home/jorgebtrfs noatime,space_cache=v2,compress=zstd:1

Debian Btrfs: subvolume layout best practice

2022-01-16 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
root 0 0 LABEL=SSD /home/jorgebtrfs noatime,space_cache=v2,compress-force=zstd:12,subvol=@~jorge0 0 LABEL=SSD /home/jorge/.cache btrfs noatime,space_cache=v2,compress-force=zstd:12,subvol=@~jorge-.cache 0 0 LABEL=HDD /home/jorge/HDDbtrfs noatime,space_cache=v2,compre

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2022-01-03 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi! Em [2022-01-03 seg 10:03:08-0500], Michael Stone escreveu: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:42:29AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: >>Indeed I use such high compression to prolong SSD lifetime. > > This is probably misguided and useless at best, at worst you're causing

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2022-01-03 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Em [2022-01-02 dom 23:38:48+], piorunz escreveu: > On 02/01/2022 16:33, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: >> I am currently using compress-force=zstd:12 for the SSD and >> compress=zstd:12 for both HDD (internal SATA and external USB3)¹. >> Despite the strong compression

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2022-01-02 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi Piotr! Happy 2022! Em [2021-12-08 qua 22:54:29+], piorunz escreveu: > On 08/12/2021 19:35, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: >> - Why `compress-force' instead of simply `compress'? > > I've read very extensive discussion about that and came to conclusion &

Re: Btrfs best practices

2021-12-16 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi. Em [2021-12-16 qui 14:55:23-0300], Eduardo M KALINOWSKI escreveu: > On 16/12/2021 14:13, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: >> I'll put system and /home on the SSD but all XDG user dirs² on the >> HDD [snip] > > I don't have that manpage installed, but if you'

Re: Btrfs best practices

2021-12-16 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi. I must add the information that I use zswap: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet zswap.enabled=1 zswap.zpool=z3fold zswap.compressor=lzo-rle" Em [2021-12-16 qui 14:13:05-0300], Jorge P. de Morais Neto escreveu: > Hi! I own a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1 TB SATA HDD, a new

Btrfs best practices

2021-12-16 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
l be on the SSD, so there will be much less need for RAM caches; therefore I should decrease swappiness (especially if I put swap on the SSD), right? By how much? * Footnotes ¹ A 250 GB WD Blue SN550 rated for 150 TBW. ² See the xdg-user-dir manpage. Kindest regards, Jorge -- - Many people hat

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-15 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
d at the start of the drive, right? Kindest regards, Jorge -- - Many people hate injustice but few check the facts; this causes more injustice. Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org> - I am Brazilian. I hope my English is correct and I welcome feedback. - https://www.defectivebydesign.org - https://www.gnu.org

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-15 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hello, Em [2021-12-09 qui 01:02:17+], Andy Smith escreveu: > If you are still worried you could partition just half of it and use > it as a physical volume for LVM, which you might want to do anyway to > encrypt it (LUKS), Then over time you can see how much you have > written, how much life

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-15 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi. Em [2021-12-09 qui 05:14:09+0500], Alexander V. Makartsev escreveu: > So, if you plan to use NVMe SSD as a system drive, I suggest you also > keep /swap partition I am considering swapping to the SSD, yes. > Also, I suggest you to make backups of /home on daily schedule to HDD, > because d

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-14 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hello! Em [2021-12-08 qua 22:05:50-0800], David Christensen escreveu: > I would remove the 1 TB HDD, install the 250 GB NVMe SSD, and do a fresh > install of Debian 11 with MBR partitioning, 1E+9 byte boot partition > (ext4) Why MBR partitioning and why a separate boot partition? > I would pu

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-08 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi. Thank you for your response. Em [2021-12-08 qua 14:49:50+], piorunz escreveu: > I understand you have one SATA 2.5" slot in your laptop and one NVMe > slot, and you want to utilize them both. That is correct. >> On the SSD I intend to leave 35 GB unpartitioned for extra over >> provisi

Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-08 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a Western Digital WD Blue SN550. I would like to set the system for reliability, SSD durability¹ and performance. I have looked at [Multi HDD/SSD Partition

Has sum mismatch and preseed problem

2019-11-27 Thread Jorge Perez Higuera
Hello all, I would like to avoid the "has sum mismatch" error during a preseed deployment. For that I can: - write a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ after /target mount (when /target apt can be modified) and before package installation Content: Acquire::By-Hash "yes" The problem is I don't find a

Re: Extending Debian partition under VMware

2016-11-19 Thread Jorge Expósito
A I had done the first part throught gparted there were only two commands left for running: lvextend -L +1G /dev/mapper/j0003--vg-root resize2fs /dev/mapper/j0003--vg-root Thank you. 2016-11-19 14:15 GMT+01:00 Dan Ritter : > On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 11:28:57AM +0100, Jorge Expósito wr

Extending Debian partition under VMware

2016-11-19 Thread Jorge Expósito
/sda1236M32M 192M 15% /boot What's the problem? Thank you very much for helping. -- -- Jorge --

Install Apache Modules on Webmin

2015-12-31 Thread Jorge
I am newbie on Webmin + Virtualmin. Since I used cPanel it was very easy to enable modules such as gd, fileinfo, exif, mysqli, ... using EasyApache. In Webmin I guess it should be done under Servers - Apache Web Server - Configure Apache Modules, but there the former modules are no present. What

Web Business Optimization: Kangry.Com : MT

2013-07-19 Thread Jorge Conner
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Re: favicon.ico not showing in apache2

2012-11-15 Thread Jorge
On 14/11/2012 12:57, Tom Grace wrote: On 14/11/12 11:53, Jorge wrote: Same result in IE and FF browsers. It only works if I put the code line and disable SSL. Are you hitting this? https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/06/site-identity-ui-updates/ I didn't check if IE has a similar

Re: favicon.ico not showing in apache2

2012-11-14 Thread Jorge
On 14/11/2012 12:22, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 12:10:15PM +0100, Jorge wrote: Mi web server is apache2 under Debian Squeeze. I've got SSL Certificate and user authentication (AuthUser), but I can't manage to show the favicon.ico unless I disable both of them.

favicon.ico not showing in apache2

2012-11-14 Thread Jorge
Mi web server is apache2 under Debian Squeeze. I've got SSL Certificate and user authentication (AuthUser), but I can't manage to show the favicon.ico unless I disable both of them. Of course, favicon.ico is in the webroot of the VirtualHost and full of permissions (just in order to pass the

Works on .htaccess but not in sites-available

2012-10-30 Thread Jorge
Good evening. I've got apache2 on squeeze. In /var/www/www.etxea.org/htdocs/.htaccess I've got the following content ... IndexIgnore * RewriteEngine on # Any HTTP request other than those for index.php, images, and robots.txt is treated as a request for your index.php file RewriteCond

Problem in bind9 9.8.1 package on SID

2011-11-12 Thread Jorge Bastos - Decimal
nitializing DST: openssl failure Nov 12 17:35:04 peixe named[6577]: exiting (due to fatal error) --- The previous version, 9.7x was working OK, and I have all the debian defaults, havent changed any conf. This may be due to chroot but, there's something on the package that needs to be fixed.

Kde 3.5 ...

2010-05-05 Thread Jorge Gonçalves
you, keep the good work, Debian is one of the best. Jorge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k2gb59a0661005052317jf0fa9ec4n239

Re: Changing from ADSL Modem to Router

2010-02-01 Thread Jorge A. Secreto
connection)? Not related to debian but, for a reference, www.adslayuda.com can help. Even though in spanish. -- Jorge A Secreto Analista de Sistemas MP 361 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Protecting files in linux

2009-02-25 Thread Jorge Delgado
Hi, i would like to protect files like passwords and websites of Firefox (iceweasel), and this cannot be done encripting the files. So, i need some program for protect the files and, at the same time be using them. If i encript the files, i cannot use them at the same time. And if I cannot use th

Debian on Toshiba A135-S4437

2007-05-10 Thread Jorge Augusto Senger
Thanks a lot, Jorge Augusto Senger -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQyUcypvwDfwTKYARAsPWAJoDdDP5NV6ujibd9+rLr0pGj4MeQQCfVhst CdlLQwK8oxlVWghjz0j31fg= =Nd68 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To U

Re: Re: bugzilla: can not log on to default web site

2007-04-12 Thread Jorge Gonzalez
On 4/12/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i meet this problem too, but follow your method, it seems doesn't work. can you give me some more suggestion? in the installation don't work me the password, I generate the password with python in console and insert this md5 in the data

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-04-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
bootcharts: http://faaltu.net/pix/bootchart-init.png http://faaltu.net/pix/bootchart-initng.png initng's boot log is http://faaltu.net/pix/initng-log.txt It seems you have some error messages: " system/mountroot : bash_helper[system/mountroot]: line 16: /usr/bin/awk: No such system/m

Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 4/1/07, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cedric > > Thanks for the prompt reply - this is sounding less of a disaster. How > would I go about reinstalling the bootloader (sorry if this is a dumb > question, but I don't want to screw things up

Re: Accessing windows partition through debian etch

2007-04-01 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Cedric Thanks for the prompt reply - this is sounding less of a disaster. How would I go about reinstalling the bootloader (sorry if this is a dumb question, but I don't want to screw things up). And yes, should have been more explicit - the partitions *are* on the same box. If you perform a

Re: Debian User List

2007-03-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/31/07, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Most recently, how much of the heavy traffic on this list has had anything to do with Debian? With Linux? With computers? The price of bread, love or hate Wallmart or Sponge-Bob, Ubuntu or Dell (ok U is a Linux distro and Dell makes computers,

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
What about the classical "1> /dev/null 2>&1"? This probably has identical behavior identical to &> /dev/null, but is longer to type. &>/dev/null seems less portable. Here I have bash and dash, and &>/dev/null does not work under dash. "1> /dev/null 2>&1" works everywhere. -- Software is like

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/31/07, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar > quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' . > Adding > /dev/null doesn't

Re: keeping tar quiet in script

2007-03-31 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I'm using a simple script for making backups with tar. I can't make tar quiet, so cron keeps mailing me 'Removing leading `/' from member names' . Adding > /dev/null doesn't help. What can I do to catch tar's output and keep it from shouting all over the place? a "> /dev/null" redirects stdou

Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
All* rechargable AA batteries are 1.2v whilst normal AA batteries are 1.5v. How embarrassing. I guess the battery was just broken then. There are a lot of other arguments against Sony still. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I'll go out on a short limb and say that more than 95% of the stuff Aldi carries that has direct "brand-name" equivalents, is better tasting... This reminds me of restaurants. I like the small, family food ones 10 times better than the expensive ones. I prefer tasty food over fancy food that t

Re: Bread (was Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux)

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I mean, since the price difference is so HUGE and the quality is mostly as good or even better, why Aldi is not deluged by people from open to close, I'll never know. For the same reason people want SUVs. For the same reason women like gold and diamond. For the same reason people want brand clo

Re: add memory and spam question

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hi all I have add memory and spam questions 1/ After adding the memory from 1G to 2G, the bios can show the correct 2G memory. but the kernel can't show it. Do I need to change any setting? I believe this is related to a kernel config option. I am assuming you know how to configure the kernel

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Except for Dell, most hardware vendors sell their product wholesale to retailers. These vendors need to convince retailers to stock their product and offer it to the public. The retail marketplace is dominated by Microsoft. Much as I like Debian and Linux, I find it hard to believe that Microsoft

Re: [OT] How much open is OpenSolaris?

2007-03-30 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/30/07, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From time to time I grab a diferent OS to install and try my hands at it. This time was OpenSolaris. The thing is, at some point in the install, OpenSolaris throws a license at my face that doesn't seem open at all. I can run the software, but I

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Is there a Debian package for initng yet? Couldn't find one... AFAIK, there is a package in experimental , and it is quite outdated. Don't ask me why. In the initng site, I found this: http://download.initng.org/debs/debian/ -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-29 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/29/07, KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> Skreenshot of the error is available here: >> http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg > > > I got a 404 on this. > Sorry my mistake, should have been http://faaltu.ne

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I believe it would also be useful for you to try a more recent version of ifiles. I use it from cvs. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Skreenshot of the error is available here: http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg Why don't you send me , attached? If you compress it enough it will probably be just a few KB, and I think my mail can handle even a few MB. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Skreenshot of the error is available here: http://open.faaltu.net/pix/initng-checkfs.jpg I got a 404 on this. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hmm I will try to get as much as possible here. As the system hasn't booted fully till the error comes, I can't find a way to copy the messages it gives. Essentially it stops due to inability to start system/mountfs daemon (or service ?). Hum... It would probably be more productive if you

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it right. Just as > everybody thinking something does not make it true. Except, of course, when it comes to language, especially idioms, where a large enough group can make any foul syntax and grammar correct. Remember, Lexicographers not

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hell, lots of people are missusing that phrase. Which begs the question: Are they wrong? It raises the question. And the answer is yes. Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it right. Just as everybody thinking something does not make it true. -- Chris. == Don't forget to c

Re: how to install debian if I can "only" boot from harddisk ?

2007-03-28 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I did try it, just for kicks since I already had Debian installed. It works just as advertised. It will detect which processor you have, and download appropriate net install (daily build if I am not mistaken) for Etch and then offer you a chance to install it next boot. The install works just

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-27 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I tried 0.6.7 from http://debian.space-based.de repository (given on http://www.initng.org/wiki/Install_Debian_Ubuntu ) and it booted the machine the first time. Then I thought of benchmarking both of them. After I was done with making a bootchart for init, I tried doing the same with initng and

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> I am attempting to get uswsusp working on my Debian Sid machine. After > reading the docs, a couple of SuSe web pages > (http://en.opensuse.org/S2disk) regarding s2ram and s2disk I am stuck on > one detail: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y. I can not find this kernel option > anywhere when attempting

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
1. It is a lot faster for a lot of stuff, as long as your kernel has proper swapping behavior. This happens because tmpfs can avoid a great deal of costly operations that other filesystems with backing store need to perform (such as the need to keep metadata in sync on the backing store). 2. It

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Does anyone have experience in using either of these? How much is the performance different than the current init? I use Initng. Is is running perfectly. In fact, a bug I had (where Esound would not start on booting as it should) was solved by moving from Sysvinit to initng. The perf

Re: Copying files to a windows XP partition (mtools?)

2007-03-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
If you dont have/cant make a vfat partition there is another option. There is a windows driver for ext2 (1) (assuming that's what you use) which enables you to copy from linux to windows when in windows. Why not just use NTFS-3G? I hear that there is a stable release since January 2007. -- So

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
If path specifies a directory, remove(path) is the equivalent of rmdir(path). Otherwise, it is the equivalent of unlink(path). I believe using unlink is less portable. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-25 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
The following little C program will illustrate: #include #include int main(void) { FILE *f; f = fopen("check_my_size", "w"); int i; for (i = 0; i < 100; ++i) fprintf(f, "This is just filler for the file"); system("ls -lk check_my_size"); printf("Checking utilization:\n")

Re: Any feedback on Icedove?

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/24/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings; I just learned of Icedove today. Is anybody here using it? What do you think of it? Where caqn I find some more info on it? Thanks for any info! Dennis Slightly off topic, but I use and like Sylpheed. Sylpheed is a very

Re: Any feedback on Icedove?

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
icedove is debianised version of Mozilla Thunderbird (the same software, but different name due to licensing issues). so I'd say MANY people use it. Only to be mathematically rigorous: not only the name, but some of the artwork, is different. The actual *code*, however, is essentially the same.

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
mount /tmp onto tmpfs and run tmpreaper. No problems, just watch your swap space, limit its (/tmp) size and instead of separate partition for /tmp use bigger swap area. What is the performance impact of mounting /tmp in tmpfs? Some thoughts: 1) Maybe it will make the system faster, because fil

Re: pppconfig "command not found"

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Thanks for clarifying the issue. I wait till the final version come out hoping that it will include the package. In the mean time I take up the issue on the developer-testing list or file a bug report as you suggested. It seems that all you have to do is install two packages, ppp and pppconfig.

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Can someone advise me on the pros and cons of deleting the contents of /tmp/ as part of general security conscious non-paranoia. I was thinking that it would be an okay thing to do periodically (or at logout, etc.) using a overwriting/shredding program. But, before I committed myself, decided it

Re: pppconfig "command not found"

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Which dependecy problems? Help us help you. You can always paste the relevant information in your email (in this case, it would be the output of dpkg). Also, depending on the amount of missing packages, you can easily download them from Ubuntu. This was the output massage: depends on ppp (<=2.3.

Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
The standard implementation of NTFS for Linux is read-only IIRC. There is NTFS-3g, which is rw, you can try that. As for the partition being mounted root-only, read the manual page of mount (man mount). Look in the section "Mount options for ntfs" for the options uid=value,gid=value and umask=val

Re: pppconfig "command not found"

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Thanks for the pppconfig package but I cannot install it because of dependency problems. jmak Which dependecy problems? Help us help you. You can always paste the relevant information in your email (in this case, it would be the output of dpkg). Also, depending on the amount of missing packa

Re: pppconfig "command not found"

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
If you can post to this mailing list, then you have internet access from some other computer. I think it should be enough to download just these two files: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/ppp/ppp_2.4.4rel-8_amd64.deb How do you know his architecture is amd64? -- Software is like s

Re: pppconfig "command not found"

2007-03-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Also after installation my ubuntu on the other partition doesn't see the partitions any longer. What could be the problem. If I understood right, when you installed Etch, Ubuntu ceased to see the partitions in which Etch was installed. Perhaps you changed the filesystem in the partition when yo

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-23 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I'm sure you can do it without recompiling, through some 'mknod' kind of magic. Can't help you there, though. If you need help compiling your own kernel, I can give you some hints. But nowadays, with things like udev, it its perfectly possible that the device will be created simply by loading

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/19/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/07 18:20, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: [snip] > > By the way, you can use Swiftfox. It is an optimized build of Firefox > with machine-specific optimizati

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I think that non-free software go to restricted and to multiverse, while main and universe are pure. I believe main and restricted are enabled by default, and that is why you ended up with unrar. Humm, thinking again, Ubuntu keeps restricted to a bare minimum, and unrar would certainly go to

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
And I'm a GNU Purist, besides my wireless drivers (Which are in contrib) I have no non-free packages installed on my system. Ubuntu doesn't offer any differentiations between non-free packages and free packages in their repositories, which upset me when I run my weekly "vrms" to find that the pr

Re: Can't boot linux with GRUB

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
After many starts and stops and restarts I got Deb installed via the web. GRUB was installed, did a shutdown/restart and I can't boot to Deb/linux. It spews out all sorts of messages too fast for me to read them and then locks the system. Be more clear. The message appear before or after the ke

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
You mean GNUS? I love Emacs, but I eventually gave up on Gnus. I just couldn't grok it. I'm on Sylpheed now. Haven't tried Claws. I don't use any calendar. On 3/19/07, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew K Poer writes: > are there others? Emacs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
And for the people who actually want to use Linux, they will eventually move from Ubuntu to Debian. I don't want to start a flamewar, but I don't why Debian is superior to Ubuntu for a home user. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
So right now I use iceape. Its big and clunky I suppose, but mostly I don't like all the security bugs that keep being found in the gekko-based browsers (per the debian BTS). Well, I was trying to find a lightweight browser too. Dillo is beautifully fast, but 1-) Lack some features as you ment

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
An Appeal to Authority is not always an invalid tactic. (Although it often is.) Agreed. This is a common confusion. People tend to refute Ad Hominen or Appeal to Authority, but they are often valid. If you claim that I am sick, I'll trust you more if you are a doctor. This is appeal to author

Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver (was: Re: Wine)

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Two approches: 1. For creating a single web page: Try AbiWord, with the Save As XHTML feature. It tends to work well, render decently. It's fine for a quick page. However, 2. For creating an intricate web site, or a series of web pages, Learn XHTML, CSS, and perhaps javascript. Code it from s

Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver (was: Re: Wine)

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
While I haven't used DW in many years (since I realized it has serious vendor lock-in issues) I didn't know that. And I suspect my friend didn't know that before he started using DW. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
So this is something like "Ubuntu considered Debian" ? :) -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Wine

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
This friend knows that Dreamweaver does *not* produce web-suitable HTML, right? (If it doesn't pass http://validator.w3.org/, it's not web-suitable). (And are you really his friend for not suggesting something better than Dreamweaver?) I did not know that. I know nothing about Web designing.

Re: wine or VM

2007-03-18 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
we used to run programs on WIN98SE, Win2000 and XP using for instance QUICKTIME or being programmed in Pascal using graphics. Some people are using powerpoint-presentations and WINWORD-Textfiles. Both with problems since StarOffice 8 PP5 is not transferring everything exactly. So some of those pe

Re: Wine

2007-03-18 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Or if you run Sarge or Testing, grab the unstable deb-src and compile away... I friend of mine wants to run Dreamweaver, and I suggested wine. However he had some problems (which I don't remember, and my friend is not here right now). He runs Debian Unstable. So you guys are saying that the .

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> - tar has been around forever >> - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar >>

Re: tar vs

2007-03-17 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
- tar has been around forever - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar becoming more common even on commercial Unices) Tar is easily available even on Windows. Good programs like 7-zip and many, many others, can handle tar well. - gzip provides better compression th

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-17 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I haven't even read this entire (huge) thread, but it seems strange to me that KDE applications don't work with arts. Can it be that the apps are misconfigured to use ALSA directly but you are running arts? You should either: 1)Leave arts on with application set up to use it or 2)Set application

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/15/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:26:25PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > > >Ok so the min hour thing is wrong on the crontab. It should be something > >like this: > > > >00 06 *

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Ok so the min hour thing is wrong on the crontab. It should be something like this: 00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month I didn't know it was possible to put this kind of thing (the output of a command) in crontab. I search

Re: bugzilla: can not log on to default web site

2007-02-11 Thread Jorge Gonzalez
remplaze: 'urlbase' => './cgi-bin/bugzilla/', for 'urlbase' => '/cgi-bin/bugzilla/', in this files /etc/bugzilla/params /usr/share/bugzilla/debian/params.new -- JAG jag2kn (at) gmail.com Cel: 301 217 78 60 Linux Counter 345082 Bogotá -Colombia- Sur América

Re: fglrx drivers: screen flickers

2007-01-04 Thread António Jorge Mota Vasconcelos
Hello! Try to remove the "Modeline" from your xorg.conf. Or you could see if your laptop has a "problem" with ATI drivers... Mine has... It's a HP NX7010 with a ATI Mobility 9200 (M9) and it didn't work with ATI drivers after 8.18.xxx giving a refresh rate problem too. :( Check this link: http

RES: how to rip a data DVD

2006-07-28 Thread Silvio Jorge Auler Junior
I'm sorry if you understood that I'm asking how to do something that implicates in break laws, that's not the case. -Mensagem original- De: [KS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviada em: sexta-feira, 28 de julho de 2006 13:37 Para: Silvio Jorge Auler Junior Cc: debian-user@l

how to rip a data DVD

2006-07-28 Thread Silvio Jorge Auler Junior
Title: how to rip a data DVD  Hello all!  I'm searching for a way to rip data DVD's, i've tried "dd" but during the process it stop returning an error, which i think it's caused due some kind of block or encrypted data in the media.   Any suggest? Silvio Auler AVISO LEGAL Esta m

Problems with A4Tech Wireless mouse and Debian

2006-06-26 Thread Silvio Jorge Auler Junior
Title: Problems with A4Tech Wireless mouse and Debian  Hi,  I have a A4Tech Wireless Mouse running under Debian Sarge for amd64. When the system is starting, the power of the mouse ends and I have to take out the usb connector and connect it again, so the system identify again.  Could s

How to share the apt cache

2006-06-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hi. We use Debian on a number of machines, and, to avoid downloading the same packages multiple times, we download debian cd images (which are kept updated with jigdo) to a server and set sources.list to point (only) to this images. But this has obvious problems. What is the "correct" way to share

RE: Can't set bash prompt

2006-05-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto
I have solved the problem by recreating the user's account, but I still don't understand it, since the .bashrc of the user was identical to mine... but well, consider it solved. --- David Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > Jorge Peixoto wrote: > > One of the us

Can't set bash prompt

2006-05-22 Thread Jorge Peixoto
One of the users of this machine has a wrong bash prompt. It works well on a virtual console, but on xterm or gnome-terminal, PS1 is set to \s-\v\$ , which is very unhelpful. But this user's .bashrc is identical to mine (as told by md5sum), and I don't have this problem, so I don't know what to do.

Re: package manager question

2006-02-03 Thread Fabiana Jorge
Ok, I'll do that.Thanks.

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