Re: Tools for users to easily switch between several defined network configs.

2009-09-22 Thread Noah Dain
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Noah Dain wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Ryan Braun wrote: > > [...] > >> There is wicd.  It can do what you want, except for the dialup support >> (not imp

Re: Tools for users to easily switch between several defined network configs.

2009-09-22 Thread Noah Dain
may be possible to to raise and lower the ppp connection as needed via a script, and have wicd manage a dummy eth interface. I've not tried this, but it seems like it could work. http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ -- Noah Dain -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Resizing partitions on production environment

2009-07-08 Thread Noah Dain
artition the disk(s) or add another disk and move / to the > new disk. When you have the needed backup, you can as well > repartition. ++ > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: Thunar 1.0.1 bug?

2009-05-31 Thread Noah Dain
) > > Thanks > pch0317 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject > of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Noah Dain "The beatings will continue, until morale improves" - the

Re: Python init

2007-08-23 Thread Noah Dain
has already replaced sysvinit with their own python based system. http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/ particularly relevant: http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/projeler/comar/SpeedingUpLinuxWithPardus.html -- Noah Dain "The beatings will continue, until morale improves" - the Management -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bug in etch: "iceweasel -safe-mode" segfaults. disabling pango corrects this.

2007-02-05 Thread Noah Dain
On 2/5/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Noah Dain wrote: > When I go to http://syscp-forum.org/ and scroll down the page, > iceweasel segfaults. It does so even with a fresh ~/.mozilla and > running with "-safe-mode" option. The crash happens

Re: bug in etch: "iceweasel -safe-mode" segfaults. disabling pango corrects this.

2007-02-04 Thread Noah Dain
On 2/4/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Noah Dain wrote: > When I go to http://syscp-forum.org/ and scroll down the page, > iceweasel segfaults. It does so even with a fresh ~/.mozilla and > running with "-safe-mode" option. The crash happens immediately a

bug in etch: "iceweasel -safe-mode" segfaults. disabling pango corrects this.

2007-02-04 Thread Noah Dain
he official Firefox2 release works fine. platform is i386. $ apt-cache policy iceweasel iceweasel: Installed: 2.0.0.1+dfsg-2 to trigger the segfault: $ iceweasel -safe-mode ( go to: http://syscp-forum.org/ and scroll down the page ) Segmentation fault the workaround: $ export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1

Re: Union FS

2006-07-19 Thread Noah Dain
mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ufs is the filesystem used by the bsd family of unices. the unionfs kernel module should be named "unionfs", but it's not in the kernel yet (debian-stable or vanilla). -- Noah Dai

Re: Postgresql pg_autovacuum in Sarge?

2006-02-15 Thread Noah Dain
t of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > apt-file is the best way to find what file belongs to what package, installed or not. apt-file search pg_autovacuum postgresql-contrib-7.4: usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/pg_autovacuum postgresql-contrib-7.4: usr/share/doc/p

Re: Firefox 1.5: middle-clicking URLs doesn't work now.

2006-01-29 Thread Noah Dain
the url input field and hit enter. in the "filter" field, type middle double click (set to true) "browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick" and "middlemouse.opennewwindow" i *think* that should do it. -- Noah Dain "Single failures can occur for a variety of reasons t

Re: Hardware RAID, software RAID, 3ware 9550SX, level 1 vs. level 5

2006-01-27 Thread Noah Dain
ne dies, corrupts itself, etc., it can be removed from the cluster without loss of data or service. -- Noah Dain "Single failures can occur for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with a hardware defect, such as cosmic radiation ..." - IBM Thinkpad R40 maintenance manual, page 25

Re: Logical Volume Manager and RAID

2006-01-18 Thread Noah Dain
much of the code (device mapper) is the same between raid and lvm2. So yeah, you should be able to do weird stuff with them. file system formats are the same, no matter what they are running on, otherwise it's no longer the same type of filesystem (ie., there would be ext3-32 and ext3-64,

Re: su/sudo cannot X

2006-01-18 Thread Noah Dain
; > Thanks, > > Martin OConnor > > > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFDzlyVeeKWVnwTIPIRAvDUAKCCzxxH5X0LtZmBW9nBxbZMao7GSgCgrE8u > JIoBB3CCsc1WO7Nxy6W5ChE= > =PiqU > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > try puttin

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

2006-01-18 Thread Noah Dain
you want to use. when i enable laptop_mode via the script, i get a value of '2' for /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode. I've no idea how this differs from a value of '1', however. here's the package info, as the seach is down: http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/laptop-mode-too

Re: Power down

2006-01-16 Thread Noah Dain
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>Noah Dain wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>>My computer says "power down" when I shut it down. I

Re: who is r/w-ing my hdd?

2006-01-14 Thread Noah Dain
-- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump then open up an xterm and do: tail -f /var/log/kern.log and wait for activity. just don't forget to turn of

Re: zero install - serious critiques?

2006-01-13 Thread Noah Dain
t package listing for the whole archive before doing anything." Well, I have news for you. If you're on a slow enough connection that you can't stand waiting for the packages list to download, just wait until you try to install any software, either via apt or zero-install. Yeah, go "

Re: Power down

2006-01-13 Thread Noah Dain
a1 ro acpi=off then run (as root): update-grub then, reboot. I'm sure there's a way to get acpi to work, but apm has always "just worked" for me. -- Noah Dain "Single failures can occur for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with a hardware defect, such as cosmic radiation ..." - IBM Thinkpad R40 maintenance manual, page 25

Re: determine correct dpi settings for X

2006-01-03 Thread Noah Dain
ol, thanks! > > Daniel > > -- > LeVA > for the impatient add this line to the XF86Config/xorg.conf monitor section: DisplaySize xxx yyy where xxx and yyy are width and height of the viewable area in millimeters. you can get dpi (and more) info via xdpyinfo, ie: $ xdpyinfo|less -- Noah Dain "Single failures can occur for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with a hardware defect, such as cosmic radiation ..." - IBM Thinkpad R40 maintenance manual, page 25

Re: fusefs + smbfs

2005-12-19 Thread Noah Dain
ct. a basic fstab entry looks something like: //host.domain/share /media/cifsmount cifs cifsexec,credentials=/home/username/.cifs,uid=username,noauto /home/username/.cifs is a text file containing the username and password for //host.domain/share. it should look like: username=smb-user-name pass