Re: vimdiff

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 05:26:29AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > On Jul 12, 2011 7:37 PM, "Jochen Schulz" wrote: > Default zsh and I never care to change stuff like that. Really? Was this ever the case with debian? -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: secured pdf

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 03:14:29PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:39:43 +0800, lina wrote: > > > I want to take a note (mainly take some essential copy) from a secured > > pdf, which prevent copying. > > > > In this situation, how can I handle it. > > Evince and Okular can bypas

Re: [ 7.129981] CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 74)

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 07:15:49PM +0530, surreal wrote: > [7.129981] CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total > events = 74) > [7.130633] CPU0: Temperature/speed normal > [7.141110] CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total > events = 75) > [

Re: Troubling while dist-upgrading my debian unstable

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:03:06AM +0800, Qijiang Fan wrote: > The following packages will be REMOVED: > xserver-xorg-video-nv{u} I think nv was replaced by nouveau. -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Firware drivers?

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:03:43PM -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote: > Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using "testing" for years with > very little problems. You should know that every time a release happens, both testing and unstable go into flux. Here are some free tips for everyone: Do not trac

Re: printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade and logs in /var/log/apt/term.log

On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 04:49:22AM +0200, Regid Ichira wrote: > >   Am I right having aptitude stdin connected to a pipe, as in > >     # printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade > > will cause aptitude NOT to log its actions to /var/log/apt/* ? I thought it logged its actions to /var/log/aptitud

Re: wpa_supplicant disconnecting problems

On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:42:52PM +1100, Geoff Crompton wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a bit of a wireless newbie. I'm trying to connect my tnet1130 PCI > wifi card (104c:9066) with the ndiswrapper to a Asus WL-500GP access point. > > I've got the ndiswrapper going, using Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.18-5-686,

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

> > > > On of my favorite: > > Q: How does the correct crontab entry looks like to run a script only on > > the last day of every month? > > Very very interesting! > > * * * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > It is basically a command that runs everyday checking if tomor

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:36:12PM -0400, Bernd Prager wrote: > > Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about > > Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can > > get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more > > confident I will b

Re: PATH question

> You can use 'which' to find out which ls is being called, but it goes by > first come first serve: > echo $PATH > /home/jeffd/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch ~/bin/ls > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chmod 755 ~/bin/ls > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which ls > /home/jeffd/bin/ls > [E

Re: xorg.conf & multiple screen

> >>I have a laptop with only VGA output (not s-video output), so in order > >>to connect my laptop to the LCD-TV I made a VGA to TV converter (VGA > >>to TV ). > >>My laptop have resolution of 1024x768, my external LCD monitor ha

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

> >>>"What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on > >>>a server?" > > > > > > OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct > > answer "none" ? > > That was a serious question on my part: what is the correct answer to > Tarek's question? I wa

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

> > btw, s/dorks/geeks/ please. I'm not at all a dork. I'm definitely a > geek. > I wasn't implying that you were. To me: Dork = one who is socially challenged Geek = one with aptitude or expertise in some field (e.g. science geek, or computer geek) So yes. I meant dork when I said dork. No

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:27:30PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:04:56PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > >> Since this is already a off-topic thread... > >> > >> So does Dutch, German, French, Italian.

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

> > > I just remember that expertise often doesn't > > > carry over to areas outside of one's core competence. > > > > > > > Like say, social skills. > > It seems that in pursuit of knowledge, one hits a wall where one cannot > > aquire more knowledge quickly without sacrificing social skills. > >

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

> I just remember that expertise often doesn't > carry over to areas outside of one's core competence. > Like say, social skills. It seems that in pursuit of knowledge, one hits a wall where one cannot aquire more knowledge quickly without sacrificing social skills. Not to say all dorks are super

Re: xorg.conf & multiple screen

> I have a laptop with only VGA output (not s-video output), so in order > to connect my laptop to the LCD-TV I made a VGA to TV converter (VGA > to TV ). > My laptop have resolution of 1024x768, my external LCD monitor have also

Re: Is that all there is to it??

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:27:06PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Cassiano Leal wrote: > > Tarek Soliman wrote: > >> An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "try before > >> you upgrade

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

> > > I wish it could really be that way everywhere. I have been places where > > > they run telnetd on all the Solaris and Linux servers because (get this) > > > windows only comes with a telnet client and not an ssh client. > > > > They do know about putty, right? It's only a few kB... > > >

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:33:19AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:11:06AM -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > > > > Is there any compatibility issues as far as versions of X, the server > > being non-linux (or even not the same distro as the workstati

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

> Q) In the CLI, how do you rm (remove) a file that begins with a hyphen ? > > A) rm -- --oops > Wasn't there a similar horror story where a program would save a directory as .* or *. or whatever, and then rm -R .* would expand to .. among other things, nuking the parent folder too? -- Tarek

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

> > WTF, I see Windows mentality has become the norm. > > > > and RIP TelnetD (IOW the telnet Daemon) right out of the machine. > > OpenSSH (as done by OpenBSD devs) is what should be defacto standard. > > > I wish it could really be that way everywhere. I have been places where > they run telne

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

> > If you want to install Oracle on Linux (and *lots* of companies do, > > so don't bleat about not infecting your system with closed-source), > > you need X. > > No, you only need a few libraries. The Display can be a local > workstation. > > I know this, I've done it, as far back as 1998 when

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

> > So I ask: Is debian the only distro that sows the seed of CLI? I'm > > talking about having a "server" type computer, not a desktop. > > Slackware. > Really? A slackware server in a corporate environment? Interesting -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

> Tarek Soliman wrote: > > "What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on > > a server?" > > OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct > answer "none" ? > I was gonna say "Tell

Re: Is that all there is to it??

> > > > U... is that it?!? Is it really that simple to upgrade? > > > > Yes. Isn't Debian nice? If you want to be brave and do it again and > run Sid. > > Joe > An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "try before you upgrade" if you have enough space on a partition.

Re: Eclipse crash

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:19:52PM +0100, Christian Ribeaud wrote: > I am desperately trying to get Eclipse 3.2 working on my laptop. I > upgrated java to JDK1.6 but it did not change anything. Crashes are not > predicable and could happen at anytime. Starting Eclipse is not a > problem. Buf, a

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

> > Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about > Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can > get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more > confident I will be. > > Please also post tricky and troubleshooting questions. >

Re: HOWTO: multi-seat Debian Sid using the stock kernels.

> If you don't believe me, Google it. DESCRIPTION Google is the authoritative source of all information. SEE ALSO truthiness wikipedia wikiality -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

> Now as far as video, who cares about that... servers don't need GUI > stuff. > Tell that to our admins who run redhat and suse. Want to disable these guys? Remove some X libraries. (The one guy who uses CLI uses telnet) Yes they really have X on ALL of the servers. -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: authentication failure

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:05:24AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Tarek Soliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do not log in as root via ssh or even allow it. > > There are reasons why the default in Debian is PermitRootLogin no > > The default is "yes&qu

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

> Well, as an anecdote of my own, I have used both XFS and ext3 quite > extensively and found that they are equally as good, given *quality* > hardware. > I assume quality hardware is mutually exclusive with a home PC Is that correct? -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

> > > > > I would certainly trust XFS. Of course, if you don't have your machine > > on an UPS, it can cause problems on a crash or power outage. > > Great, that is the usual propaganda from XFS users with the same lame > excuse written with small letters. It has this bad tendency to shred the

Re: authentication failure

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:43:40PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > So you can log in locally at the terminal as a normal user and then "su > - root" successfully, > but you can not log in via ssh as that same normal user and then "su - > root" successfully. > > I don't know of any mechanism that would c

Re: Kernel panic on PCI video card with 2.6.x on Dell Dimension 2300

On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:38:58PM -0500, John Stoffel wrote: > >>>>> "Tarek" == Tarek Soliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Tarek> I have done this and even dist-upgraded to etch. Every time I > Tarek> put the PCI card back, it becomes the sourc

Re: Kernel panic on PCI video card with 2.6.x on Dell Dimension 2300

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 05:28:39PM -0500, greenproc wrote: > Tarek Soliman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to install debian with a 2.6 kernel on a Dell 2300 > > The kernel panics after saying "pci" in a detection phase (I'm guessing > >

Kernel panic on PCI video card with 2.6.x on Dell Dimension 2300

Hi all, I am trying to install debian with a 2.6 kernel on a Dell 2300 The kernel panics after saying "pci" in a detection phase (I'm guessing discover) Does this panic get saved to a log? This first happened after the first boot on a net install. It is a machine that has a PCI-only motherboard w

I can't extract debian pakages from binary-i386.iso. Help!

ed dpkg, dselect, mount -o -t iso9660 image1.raw ... I have looked for documentation and news gruopps ... Can somebody please say, how this file was pakaged, and how I can open it. Thank you Soliman