Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-09 Thread Laurence Hurst
On 09/08/2012 16:50, Darac Marjal wrote: Fair point. However, comparing[3] popcon results for xfce4-session[1] and gnome-session[2], less than 4% of debian users use[4] xfce, compared to a little over 16% who use gnome. Hmm. My numbers seem a little suspect there. Is a graphical session REALLY u

Re: USB ports not working after device disconnect

2012-08-08 Thread Laurence Hurst
On 08/08/2012 15:51, Camaleón wrote: Weird. Check if there's a BIOS update, just in case. I didn't think of that (d'oh!). There is a newer BIOS (more than one, actually) on Lenovo's website for my machine. I will have a go at installing the latest one and see if it helps. Kernel does n

USB ports not working after device disconnect

2012-08-08 Thread Laurence Hurst
Hi folks, Occasionally, when I disconnect a device (usually a mass storage device) from my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad x201), the USB ports stop recognising devices when I plug them in until I reboot. The ports are still powered and will charge e.g. a phone if I plug one in but nothing at all is

Re: how to open ssh tunnel port ?

2012-06-27 Thread Laurence Hurst
On 27/06/2012 15:37, J. Bakshi wrote: Dear list, I have made a successful ssh tunnel between two pcs A and B. A is running mysql and B have the tunnel with A , so that B can access that remote mysql with its local port 3360. Everything is fine.. But B is bind the port with localhost only,

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread Laurence Hurst
On 06/06/2012 14:56, Jon Dowland wrote: and it'd require resources to manage and maintain, something better suited to a commercial enterprise. That's the big deal. Fedora seem to believe they can manage maintaining closed and signed bootloaders, kernel and kernel modules. That would be very di

Re: the ghost of UEFI and Micr0$0ft

2012-06-06 Thread Laurence Hurst
On 06/06/2012 11:47, Tom H wrote: Nowhere is the proposed Fedora 99-dollar-key being offered to other distributions. Since it only costs USD 99 it wouldn't make sense for Debian, for example, not to get its own rather than use Fedora's. And Fedora wouldn't want to take the risk of loaning its ke

Re: Could rsync do something like robocopy does?

2012-01-16 Thread Laurence Hurst
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:19:27PM +, TCP wrote: > Thanks, this works perfectly what I want. > btw, what does the --include '*/' does? According to the man page the --include '*/' includes all the directories, without which it won't actually look in any directories (even though it's recursiv

Re: Could rsync do something like robocopy does?

2012-01-16 Thread Laurence Hurst
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:43:44AM +, TCP wrote: > robocopy C:\CDs D:\Covers cover.jpg /s > > This copy all avatar.jpg under C:\CDs to D:\Covers with respective > directory name. > > > Regards, > Penguin > Penguin, I believe something like this might do what you describe (note this is un

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-13 Thread Laurence Hurst
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 12:09:45PM +0100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 13/07/11 02:30, Laurence Hurst wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 04:09:27PM +0100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> Why not just use a single host file on yo

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-12 Thread Laurence Hurst
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 04:09:27PM +0100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > Why not just use a single host file on your firewall/router? DHCP > always seems like overkill for equipment you own. > eg. reserve static addresses 192.168.0.2-10 for your machines, > 192.168.10-20 for people who regularly bring ma

IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-12 Thread Laurence Hurst
Hi folks, I notice a couple of other IPv6 related questions on this list so I hope this isn't too far of topic... I currently have an IPv4-only network (192.168.0.0/24 behind a NAT firewall/router) at home which includes a variety of systems (Windows, Debian, OSX and some embedded devices). Al

Re: Keeping stable stable.

2011-06-02 Thread Laurence Hurst
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 12:07:40AM +0100, R. Clayton wrote: > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable > release independent of what the release is called. I changed all > non-commented > appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do

Managing large numbers (100+) of Debian-based machines

2011-04-07 Thread Laurence Hurst
Hi folks, I am looking at possibly deploying Debian (or a derivative thereof) on a large number of machines (initially 80 but I fully expect the final number to end up being in excess of 100) which are intermittently connected to the network (due to multi-boot setup). I was wondering if anyone e