Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-19 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 19, 2013 8:11 PM, "Hans-J. Ullrich" wrote: > > Whatever I see in all your comments is this: > > Most of the people show a big uptime. 100 days, 400 days, 500 days, even more > than a 1000 days! So many people do this. It proves, how stable a good system > can be and it also shows the great

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-19 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 19, 2013 7:43 PM, "Bill Harris" wrote: > > Darac Marjal writes: > > > This looks like it might be > > http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/problem-brcm80211-hangs-2-6-36-0-34-rc6-git3-fc15-x86-64-help-200600731.html . > > Try a newer kernel, if you can (though I don't see evidence in that >

Re: wake on lan: power on, no boot

2013-04-18 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 18, 2013 10:14 AM, "Freddie" wrote: > > Hi Debian users, > > I asked this question to the debian-laptop list a few weeks ago but there's been no solution found. As I'm not convinced my issues are laptop specific I thought I'd open it up to the wider group. > > I'm wanting to wake my philips

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-18 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 18, 2013 11:29 AM, "Soare Catalin" wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2013 8:42 AM, "Bill Harris" wrote: > > > > I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually been stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time

Re: Random crashes that won't allow rebooting easily

2013-04-18 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 18, 2013 8:42 AM, "Bill Harris" wrote: > > I'm running an up-to-date Debian Squeeze 64-bit on a laptop. It's usually been stable, as I might expect from Debian Stable. From time to time, though, it freezes at seemingly random times. I notice it mostly when I'm typing and the keyboard sto

Re: How to install Debian in such a situation

2013-04-15 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 15, 2013 11:16 AM, "Yuwen Dai" wrote: > > On 4/15/13, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > Buy a dvd burner, not blue ray either and replace that cdrom in the old > > computer. It should cost less than the new hard drive or about the same > > > > Yes, this is easier. But I want to try the harder pat

Re: Using unstable for certain packages

2013-04-12 Thread Soare Catalin
On Apr 12, 2013 3:29 PM, "Alex Mestiashvili" wrote: > > On 04/12/2013 02:16 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:59 AM, Alex Mestiashvili > > wrote: > >> On 04/12/2013 01:33 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > >>> Is it possible to fine tune the package sources so as to use unstable > >>> on

Re: What's Up With Debian.org?

2013-04-01 Thread Soare Catalin
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 11:47 PM, Howard Lee Harkness < how...@howardleeharkness.com> wrote: > They ran more than one. > http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/introducing-gmail-blue.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OfficialGmailBlog+%28Gmail+Blog%29 > > > On Mon, Apr

Re: Debian on 256MB PIII TabletPC

2013-03-04 Thread Soare Catalin
On Mar 4, 2013 4:49 PM, "Steven Grunza" wrote: > > > Hello. I would like to install Debian on a laptop with 256 MB of RAM. > Is this possible? I was previously running Ubuntu but there are > problems in the Ubuntu X11 server code that cause the touchscreen to be > unusable. > > I realize this sy

Re: a very carefully asked question?

2013-02-26 Thread Soare Catalin
On Feb 27, 2013 6:39 AM, "Joao Luis Meloni Assirati" < assir...@nonada.if.usp.br> wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > I have been considering all day how I will ask this. > > it is very very important that I get the answer I seek, and with so many > > variations, things can shift off the mark if not caref

Re: Thinking about using Debian

2013-02-26 Thread Soare Catalin
On Feb 26, 2013 7:16 PM, "T Elcor" wrote: > > > From: Mark Filipak > > >> P.S. Please don't top post. Thanks. > > > > Funny... I belonged to many lists 15 or 20 years ago. All wanted folks to top > > post and bitched about bottom-posts. Why? Bottom posts require scrolling to see > > that latest

Re: Guide / Tools

2012-11-21 Thread Soare Catalin
On Nov 21, 2012 7:57 PM, "Siard" wrote: > > Jochen Spieker: > > Morel Bérenger: > > > $man dc > > > => "reverse-polish" ? What is it? It is surely not for simple > > > calculations and conversions... > > > > That's probably only for majors in maths or computer science. > > No, dc is a perfect tool

Re: Installing Debian on Windows 7 machine?

2012-10-20 Thread Soare Catalin
On Oct 20, 2012 11:53 PM, "John Hasler" wrote: > > Hugo writes: > > I wouldn't bother buying a complete system. I built my own. > > I build my own systems too, when I don't recycle $10 yard-sale boxes. > However, he may need (or even want!) Windows, in which case a complete > system may be signifi

Re: Optimal Storage Server

2012-07-24 Thread Soare Catalin
On Jul 24, 2012 5:08 AM, "Stan Hoeppner" wrote: > > On 7/23/2012 11:05 AM, Shaffin Bhanji wrote: > > I am thinking of the Norco 16/20 hotswap and a 2x operton QC CPU m/b > > but wasnt sure what a solid performing m/b would be that will work > > well with the LSI? Any thoughts? > > You didn't even

Re: Flashplayer on Google Chrome

2012-07-18 Thread Soare Catalin
On Jul 18, 2012 1:00 PM, "Lisi" wrote: > > I reinstalled Squeeze and I now have Google Chrome installed and mostly > working. I used teh stable deb from Google, ratrher than use the > repositories and install chromium-browser. I used dpkg -i and installed teh > dependencies with apt-get -f insta

Re: DHCP + DNS questions

2012-06-30 Thread Soare Catalin
On Jun 25, 2012 10:07 AM, "Andrei POPESCU" wrote: > > On Lu, 25 iun 12, 01:09:36, Soare Catalin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed > > debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen

Re: DHCP + DNS questions

2012-06-30 Thread Soare Catalin
On Jun 25, 2012 10:07 AM, "Andrei POPESCU" wrote: > > On Lu, 25 iun 12, 01:09:36, Soare Catalin wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed > > debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen

DHCP + DNS questions

2012-06-24 Thread Soare Catalin
Hello everyone, I've setup a dhcp+dns server on a small box where I've installed debian wheezy. It is for home use, as I happen to have a retarded router from my ISP which is unable to hold reservations. I've installed both isc-dhcp-server ( 4.2.2) and bind9 (9.8.1), and they both work fine for a

Re: Debian disables IRQ, video performance goes down

2012-06-08 Thread Soare Catalin
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:13 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 04 iun 12, 14:10:30, Soare Catalin wrote: >> >> Could anyone please help, if you have any suggestions as to what I could >> try to fix this? > > We need more info to be able to help you. Start with the out

Debian disables IRQ, video performance goes down

2012-06-04 Thread Soare Catalin
Hi everyone, I have been experiencing an issue ever since I started using Debian (weird enough, never had this with Ubuntu): With Debian Squeeze and now, with Wheezy after a while of running the system I get a short beep from my internal speaker. If I happen to have a terminal window open, I get

Re: how to practice.

2012-05-18 Thread Soare Catalin
On May 18, 2012 3:40 PM, "Gary Dale" wrote: > > On 18/05/12 08:18 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> >> Ok I have been working in IT network field since 7 years and just one and half year back i have started exploring Linux and I believe, someone said to me lately that if you start loving black an

Re: Bash script problem [OT?]

2012-04-22 Thread Soare Catalin
On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Dom wrote: > On 22/04/12 08:34, Cam Hutchison wrote: > >> Soare Catalin> >> writes: >> >> The script will take files or dirs as parameters and will back them up >>> in a >>> presefined location, using tar. Pro

Bash script problem [OT?]

2012-04-21 Thread Soare Catalin
Hello fellow Linux supporters! I apologise if this specific thread is off topic to this mailing list. I've been having problems with a backup script and am not sure how to make this work. So far, Mr. Google hasn't helped me much -- maybe my search terms have been as dumb as I'm feeling right now.

Re: Happy Christmas

2011-12-24 Thread Soare Catalin
Thank you, Richard, I also want to thank everyone on this list, for asking questions I might have asked, and also for answering those questions. I really feel happy to be part of this community. Thank you, everyone no matter what timezone or religion! I wish you all a happy Christmas time! Sent