Re: [trinity-users] Re: Strange clicking noise from my laptop hard drive

2017-05-19 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 11/05/17 18:21, Philip Ashmore wrote: On 10/05/17 20:54, Jhoanir Torres wrote: I think your disk is broken. On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Philip Ashmore mailto:cont...@philipashmore.com>> wrote: Hi there. I managed to record it using my laptops built-in microphone.

Re: Strange clicking noise from my laptop hard drive

2017-05-11 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 10/05/17 20:54, Jhoanir Torres wrote: I think your disk is broken. On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Philip Ashmore mailto:cont...@philipashmore.com>> wrote: Hi there. I managed to record it using my laptops built-in microphone. To those who would prefer a description:

Strange clicking noise from my laptop hard drive

2017-05-10 Thread Philip Ashmore
, nVidia, Intel, ... not a virus trying to phone home. I'm really hoping that someone reading this will go "oh that thing" and know what it is instantly. Curiously it doesn't happen every day. Regards, Philip Ashmore

Re: Question a-propos a USB modem

2015-01-24 Thread Philip Ashmore
though the user has logged out, so check for these or just reboot the machine. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://

Talking SPI using the sd card slot

2014-08-31 Thread Philip Ashmore
;ve built a custom kernel to enable the experimental spidev module but I've no clue about how to proceed. Any takers? Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Cloning hdds of different sizes

2014-05-28 Thread Philip Ashmore
the > original, and mount the new partition as that directory. > > If you want to expand a partition to include the unallocated space, I > think you have to use whatever partition butts up against the > unallocated space to make bigger. If there's a tool to enlarge a > diff

Re: Has anyone got apache-websocket working?

2014-04-04 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 18/02/14 08:18, Philip Ashmore wrote: > Hi there. > > While looking for a web socket implementation for html5 I found this: > https://github.com/disconnect/apache-websocket > > If someone got apache-websocket working on Wheezy amd64 with its example > programs using Goo

Has anyone got apache-websocket working?

2014-02-18 Thread Philip Ashmore
x27;d like to know when someone does, so I can give it another try. Any takers? Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debi

Re: Shutdown computer after a specific command has been executed

2013-12-09 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 09/12/13 11:42, Muntasim-Ul-Haque wrote: > Hi, > I need a tool that would make sure that, my computer would shutdown > after a specific command has been executed. This tool would just wait > for the Terminal for executing a command, like '/sudo apt-get upgrade/' > and then after the command has

Re: Linux' (and other OS's) code patterns present in device drivers, the kernel and userland code ...

2013-12-02 Thread Philip Ashmore
d best of all, I'm developing a graphical typish editor. So the days of arcane language constructs, contradictions, it-used-to-work-now-it's-an-error problems which are all language based, are numbered. As long as it's ABI-compliant, you're golden. Even if storyboard

Re: synaptic - stuck

2013-09-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 08/09/13 22:07, Verde Denim wrote: > On 09/08/2013 04:15 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: >> On 08/09/13 18:43, Verde Denim wrote: >>> Ran an update last evening to include adding mono to the layout. If I >>> could attach a screenshot, I would, but basically it looks to ha

Re: synaptic - stuck

2013-09-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
ly applied" check box checked? If not then it won't close 2. is there another synaptic dialog open? I remember it sometimes offers configuration options for some packages and the poor state of synaptic desktop integration means that these won't appear in the task switcher - you need

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 08/08/13 12:46, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 08/08/13 09:29, Philip Ashmore wrote: >> On 08/08/13 04:05, cletusjenkins wrote: >>> I'm using wheezy and in gnome 3, if I disconnect my laptop from its >>> charger and then at some point suspend. After bringing th

Re: battery

2013-08-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
eset the the > indicator? > > It's a feature of modern laptops. The idea is that the battery lasts longer if you avoid full charge/discharge cycles. Mine is on 80% too - it's normal. As for how you tell it to charge to 100% because you're planning a bus trip - anyone

Re: Driver for a TP-LINK USB wireless adapter.

2013-07-25 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 25/07/13 09:52, Virgo Pärna wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 10:27:15 +0100, Philip Ashmore > wrote: >> If it's anything like the TL-WR702N then you need to configure it via >> it's web interface, which may be in Chinese. >> > > WIFI card with a w

Re: Driver for a TP-LINK USB wireless adapter.

2013-07-24 Thread Philip Ashmore
t's anything like the TL-WR702N then you need to configure it via it's web interface, which may be in Chinese. See http://philipashmore.blogspot.ie/2012/06/wifi-bargain-hunting.html to find out how I (eventually) managed it. Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: counter-PRISM PRISM - Re: wacky question

2013-06-20 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 20/06/13 22:50, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20130620_084306, Slavko wrote: Hi, On 6/20/13, Greg wrote: Does anyone think that debian could participate in any programs like PRISM? Or could a lone (or group of) sympathetic DD or DM slip a backdoor or something that could collect private info in

Re: Cannot run a program from an optical drive

2013-06-15 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 15/06/13 11:22, Nikolas Kallis wrote: Hello, When I try to run a program from an optical drive as the 'root' user in Debian 7.0, I get a permission denied return. Does anyone know why this happened and how I can stop it from happening again? Regards, Nikolas Kallis run "mount" t

Re: Changing to lvm from ext4

2013-05-28 Thread Philip Ashmore
ws + Ubuntu + Wheezy, using an encrypted LVM for Ubuntu, shared partitions, swap and Wheezy. Currently the only way I can do this is to install using VMware Player to a .vmdk and configure for encrypted LVM. Then I mount the .vmdk and copy the image over and rename some stuff using a script, so if

Synaptic can't find Debian changelogs

2013-05-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
t synaptic access it there too? Regards, Philip Ashmore -- 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/518a3d2e.7070...@philipashmore.com

Re: Seeking advise on changing names of target in dm-crypt

2013-03-18 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 18/03/13 08:40, J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2013-03-18 03:03, green wrote: J.A. de Vries wrote at 2013-03-17 13:46 -0500: I have been messing around with fstab, crypttab, blkid.tab, grub and initramfs and every time a new dependency rears its ugly head. The system still keeps asking for the orig

Why does my wifi use wlan1 and wired ethernet use eth2?

2013-02-27 Thread Philip Ashmore
eth0 and wlan0 but I'm getting console messages like "device not found" for wlan0 - they're not logged anywhere I can find them. Eth0 isn't so important for now, but I'd like to know, where does Debian get these magic names from? Regards, Philip Ashmore

Re: alternatives to skype

2013-02-09 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 10/02/13 00:34, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Philip Ashmore [130209 09:45]: WebRTC is fast becoming the standard for this. Even Skype is thinking about adopting this for phone to tablet to pc video chats without plug-ins - see http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/basics/ Because

Re: [1/2OT] skype

2013-02-09 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 09/02/13 09:07, Lars Noodén wrote: On 2/9/13 6:52 AM, lina wrote: [snip] Is skype stable under the Debian? [snip] If you install Skype, you should also install an SIP client like Ekiga or Blink just to try to encourage open standards for IP telephony. /Lars WebRTC is fast becoming the sta

Re: Is there an updates mailing list with change logs?

2012-12-15 Thread Philip Ashmore
the recent changeling entries. -Steve On 15 Dec 2012, at 21:28, Philip Ashmore <mailto:cont...@philipashmore.com>> wrote: Hi there. My current work-flow of running synaptic, reloading, marking upgrades, viewing history, cherry-picking updates I'm interested in and viewing

Is there an updates mailing list with change logs?

2012-12-15 Thread Philip Ashmore
antic along side the history entries. I'm just brainstorming here - feedback welcome. Is there a package that does this already? Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: cpuid : Hyper threading siblings: 16?

2012-11-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 08/11/12 22:45, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 8. November 2012 schrieb Philip Ashmore: So I think there is a bug in cpuid. Reported as "cupid reports wrong hyper-threading count". http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692799 Regards, Philip Ashmo

Re: cpuid : Hyper threading siblings: 16?

2012-11-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 08/11/12 19:38, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Donnerstag, 8. November 2012 schrieb Philip Ashmore: But cat /proc/cpuinfo says: ... processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2670QM CPU @ 2.20GHz stepping

cpuid : Hyper threading siblings: 16?

2012-11-08 Thread Philip Ashmore
: 0 siblings: 8 core id : 0 cpu cores : 4 ... I'm sure the system has 4 cores or 8 hyper-threads. Am I reading it wrong? Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: cannot detect USB3 external hard disk, uas the problem

2012-10-21 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 20/10/12 17:56, H.S. wrote: Hello. I have a Hitach Touro USB3 external hard disk. When I connected it to a USB port (the one on the front of the case, it is usb2), my Debian testing (amd64, running 3.2.0-3-amd64) does not detect the disk. /var/log/syslog reports errors and I have pasted those

Can DVD isos be converted to use h264?

2012-10-10 Thread Philip Ashmore
ompared to 7,249,934,336 bytes - quite some space saving if I'm doing it right. I've attached a script based on what information I could find - but is this approach correct? Any comments/suggestions welcome. Regards, Philip Ashmore #!/bin/sh # Work files are created in the current direc

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-02 Thread Philip Ashmore
hat one a lot, out with the repair kit". This is all going to change once augmented reality really kicks in - last time I checked you could still invite friends over to watch a movie or listen to music. Once "your place" becomes virtual, no copyright laws are being broken, or am

slow DVD reading

2012-08-01 Thread Philip Ashmore
so I was expecting it to be able to read a lot faster. What, if anything, can I do to make it read faster? Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Faking quad buffers using VirtualGL for use with a 3D TV

2012-06-29 Thread Philip Ashmore
On 30/06/12 02:29, Philip Ashmore wrote: what it is about an OpenGL graphics card should read "what it is about a stereo graphics card". Philip -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Faking quad buffers using VirtualGL for use with a 3D TV

2012-06-29 Thread Philip Ashmore
an users show that they understand the concept, Debian can make a patch that someday might be accepted upstream. I just want to give Quake3 a go with a 3D TV - where's the harm? Regards, Philip Ashmore -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of