Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-05 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On September 4, 2024 5:18:53 PM CDT, "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: >On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 05:04:33PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: >> I'm trying to propose a computer lab for young wannabe coders, and I want >> to use a Linux box (I prefer Debian, but I get the feeling Ubuntu is more >> familiar wi

Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-05 Thread ael
On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 05:04:33PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I'm trying to propose a computer lab for young wannabe coders, and I want > to use a Linux box (I prefer Debian, but I get the feeling Ubuntu is more > familiar with school systems and other institutions). You seem to be across the pon

Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-04 Thread tomas
On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 06:30:25AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > Currently I buy them at a brick-and-mortar store in my city [...] And, oh, by default they come empty or with pre-installed Ubuntu. You can order them with Windows, but this costs extra (as it should be). Cheers -- t s

Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-04 Thread tomas
On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 10:18:53PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 05:04:33PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > > I'm trying to propose a computer lab for young wannabe coders, and I want > > to use a Linux box (I prefer Debian, but I get the feeling Ubuntu is more > > familiar

Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-04 Thread Russell L. Harris
For inexpensive, low-mileage, office-quality machines (laptop & desktop) try blairtech.com. You'll get a W10 or W11 machine.

Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-04 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 17:47 Charles Curley ... What did you replace the H&R Block program with? Free TaxUSA, recommended by my lawyer son. it's free, but I paid extra (still less that H&R) for some extra features. It worked great for 2023, I will use it again for 2024. Note I've been audited t

Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-04 Thread Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ
On Wednesday, 4 September 2024 18:47:25 -04 Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 4 Sep 2024 17:04:33 -0500 > > Tom Browder wrote: > > I am torn with whether dual boot is the way to go, given all the > > problems I see with dual boot with Windows now. (I finally dumped > > Windows entirely some months a

Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 4 Sep 2024 17:04:33 -0500 Tom Browder wrote: > I am torn with whether dual boot is the way to go, given all the > problems I see with dual boot with Windows now. (I finally dumped > Windows entirely some months ago when I found a decent, modern > replacement for Microsoft Word and for the

Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-04 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 05:04:33PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I'm trying to propose a computer lab for young wannabe coders, and I want > to use a Linux box (I prefer Debian, but I get the feeling Ubuntu is more > familiar with school systems and other institutions). I suggest an HP stream. I got

Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-04 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 05:04:33PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I'm trying to propose a computer lab for young wannabe coders, and I want > to use a Linux box (I prefer Debian, but I get the feeling Ubuntu is more > familiar with school systems and other institutions). > If you're going to set it

Re: Need advice on a usable, inexpensive laptop for Debian

2024-09-04 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Tom Browder wrote on 05/09/2024 at 00:04:33+0200: > I'm trying to propose a computer lab for young wannabe coders, and I > want to use a Linux box (I prefer Debian, but I get the feeling Ubuntu > is more familiar with school systems and other institutions). > > I am torn with whether dual boot is

Re: Need advice on known work with linux graphics card.

2022-06-27 Thread piorunz
On 26/06/2022 10:15, Stefan Monnier wrote: I agree, no need to grab absolutely newest-pre-order product. Just buy 2021 or early 2022 released GPU for example, and you will be fine. FWIW, I've had zero problems with the AMD driver on my 2006-vintage Thinkpad T60, so I don't think it's important

Re: Need advice on known work with linux graphics card.

2022-06-25 Thread piorunz
On 24/06/2022 21:47, The Wanderer wrote: I wouldn't go *quite* that far; my understanding is that, especially if AMD has recently released a new Radeon model series, the *very* newest may not have its drivers available yet - or they may at least not be in the repositories. I agree, no need to

Re: Need advice on known work with linux graphics card.

2022-06-24 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 03:49:11PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > What really changed recently is the move from Nvidia to open-source > > their drivers, making it an alternative to those who don't want to use > > proprietary drivers: > > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-

Re: Need advice on known work with linux graphics card.

2022-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-06-24 at 16:13, piorunz wrote: > On 23/06/2022 20:40, hput wrote: > >> I'm an ubuntu user but spent several yrs as a straight Debian >> user. >> >> I know there is a level of sophisticated knowledge here and hope >> to find people who know which cards play well with linux >> (especially

Re: Need advice on known work with linux graphics card.

2022-06-24 Thread piorunz
On 23/06/2022 20:40, hput wrote: I'm an ubuntu user but spent several yrs as a straight Debian user. I know there is a level of sophisticated knowledge here and hope to find people who know which cards play well with linux (especially Debian derivatives like ubuntu.) I don't want to have to scr

Re: Need advice on known work with linux graphics card.

2022-06-24 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 23 Jun 2022 19:40:22 + hput wrote: > I've done one of those "build it yourself" online setups and built up > an HP Z840. The host has no built in graphics capability. So > requires a card right off the real. My graphics usage will be some > sort of semi-extensive image editing and A

Re: Need advice on known work with linux graphics card.

2022-06-24 Thread didier . gaumet
Le vendredi 24 juin 2022 à 11:02 +0200, didier gaumet a écrit : [...] > functionnel or no functionnal state [...] functional

Re: Need advice on known work with linux graphics card.

2022-06-24 Thread didier gaumet
Le jeudi 23 juin 2022 à 19:40 +, hput a écrit : > I've done one of those "build it yourself" online setups and built up > an HP Z840.  The host has no built in graphics capability.  So > requires a card right off the real. My graphics usage will be some > sort of semi-extensive image editing

Re: Need advice about an error messange that worries me in Wheezy [solved]

2014-05-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140523_0733+0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-05-23 00:41 +0200, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Under Wheezy, every time I print a document I get and error message which > > reads verbatim: > > > > p11-kit: couldn't load module: > > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: > > /u

Re: Need advice about an error messange that worries me in Wheezy

2014-05-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-23 00:41 +0200, Paul E Condon wrote: > Under Wheezy, every time I print a document I get and error message which > reads verbatim: > > p11-kit: couldn't load module: > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: canno

Re: need advice

2013-04-01 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 4/1/2013 9:59 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i have been working on Postfix dovecot etc for couple of months and > suddenly my my management ask the question that they want to sync mobile > device calendar along with i map. i am sure about IMAP i can implement this > with no issues but calend

Re: need advice

2013-04-01 Thread Erwan David
Le 01/04/2013 16:59, Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : i have been working on Postfix dovecot etc for couple of months and suddenly my my management ask the question that they want to sync mobile device calendar along with i map. i am sure about IMAP i can implement this with no issues but calenda

Re: need advice on remote installation of Debian

2013-03-26 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
well, thanks for the advice but Dell is quite expensive then Asus so we selected Asus-iKVM module. i am not sure about features in DRAC and Asus but what we need is remote console with security and that is what we can have with iKVM. so we do not go for Dell stuff for a while. On Tue, Mar 26, 201

Re: need advice on remote installation of Debian

2013-03-26 Thread Jude DaShiell
Could debian be installed over skype from a remote location? On Mon, 25 Mar 2013, Rob Owens wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 03:10:40PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > i am living in a remote country and our main branch is in US where > > hosting is very expensive. it is almost costing us

Re: need advice on remote installation of Debian

2013-03-25 Thread Eero Volotinen
2013/3/25 Muhammad Yousuf Khan : > Thanks Rob for the advice but we need redundancy and permanent > solution. we can not always ship pre-installed harddrive to US it will > take days and we can not bear downtime. anyways for us we are right > now planning to buy asus boards with Asus-iKVM module fo

Re: need advice on remote installation of Debian

2013-03-25 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks Rob for the advice but we need redundancy and permanent solution. we can not always ship pre-installed harddrive to US it will take days and we can not bear downtime. anyways for us we are right now planning to buy asus boards with Asus-iKVM module for remote control the console even with th

Re: need advice on remote installation of Debian

2013-03-25 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 03:10:40PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i am living in a remote country and our main branch is in US where > hosting is very expensive. it is almost costing us $4000K for a kind > of setup we need therefore being a small company we decided to build > our own hosting

Re: need advice on remote installation of Debian

2013-03-25 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
ok got the solution, KVM over IP is the answer :) Thanks On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i am living in a remote country and our main branch is in US where > hosting is very expensive. it is almost costing us $4000K for a kind > of setup we need therefore being a s

Re: Need advice on cloning Debian server

2012-05-30 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Shane Johnson wrote: > > I am sure where you have a working system you already know this, but for > those who find this and want to put LVM on top of a raid with Grub2, > make sure you create the raid with the .9 version of the metadata or > Grub2 won't work with

Re: Need advice on cloning Debian server

2012-05-30 Thread Shane Johnson
I haven't actually done it, but you should be able to boot to a live CD initialize the raid and LVM and then add a removable HD to the VG. Create new LV's the same size as your existing ones but make sure you create them on the removable PV then use dd or similar to clone the LV's. Once cloned

Re: Need advice on cloning Debian server

2012-05-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 29 May 2012 12:35:40 +0800, Joe Aquilina wrote: > I am relatively new to Linux/Debian and need some advice on "cloning" a > Debian system. Then I'd ask for someone with more experience can help you with this because cloning a full system on different hardware with the setup you describe

Re: Need advice on cloning Debian server

2012-05-29 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 May 2012 12:35:40 +0800 Joe Aquilina wrote: > > My thought is that I should install Debian squeeze on to it and get > it running with RAID & LVM, with partitions, logical volumes etc. > matching the original file server, and then use rsync to copy all the > data files over the inte

Re: Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Miles Fidelman
Long Wind mailto:longwind2009%40gmail.com>> wrote: I trade stocks. I put stock prices in file. Often I need compute PE for each day. To cope with stock split, I need to recompute prices as if un-split. Sometimes to compute PE, I want to use average of the last three years' earning To complete

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/04/2010 04:20 PM, Long Wind wrote: I have heard that sql can do all tasks that a procedural programming language can do so That is manifestly *incorrect*, since SQL is a declarative domain-specific language. However... RDBMSs like PostgreSQL and Oracle offer procedural language extens

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Long Wind
I have heard that sql can do all tasks that a procedural programming language can do so I'll try sql -- 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/aanlkti=cymy0n77a

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/04/2010 02:33 AM, Doug wrote: On 10/04/2010 03:15 AM, Doug wrote: On 10/04/2010 02:59 AM, Long Wind wrote: I'm rather confused. Another user Ron just say the opposite. Suppose stock prices in an array (or table or database) and annual earnings of 10 years in another array (or table or dat

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > PostrgeSQL is *the* way to go... For his purpose sqlite might be better. -- John Hasler -- 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/87vd5ij

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/04/2010 07:08 AM, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: PostrgeSQL is *the* way to go... For his purpose sqlite might be better. I thought about that, but it's datatypes are only notional. $ sqlite3 foo.db SQLite version 3.7.2 Enter ".help" for instructions Enter SQL statements termi

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/04/2010 01:05 AM, Long Wind wrote: (sorry, this is not Linux specific) I trade stocks. I put stock prices in file. Often I need compute PE for each day. To cope with stock split, I need to recompute prices as if un-split. Sometimes to compute PE, I want to use average of the last three yea

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Doug
On 10/04/2010 03:15 AM, Doug wrote: On 10/04/2010 02:59 AM, Long Wind wrote: I'm rather confused. Another user Ron just say the opposite. Suppose stock prices in an array (or table or database) and annual earnings of 10 years in another array (or table or database) to compute PE using average

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Long Wind
Thank Ron Johnson ! I probably won't waste time on learning spreadsheet. I am new to Perl and Python. (A lot of training required!) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://li

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Doug
On 10/04/2010 02:05 AM, Long Wind wrote: (sorry, this is not Linux specific) I trade stocks. I put stock prices in file. Often I need compute PE for each day. To cope with stock split, I need to recompute prices as if un-split. Sometimes to compute PE, I want to use average of the last three yea

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Doug
On 10/04/2010 02:59 AM, Long Wind wrote: I'm rather confused. Another user Ron just say the opposite. Suppose stock prices in an array (or table or database) and annual earnings of 10 years in another array (or table or database) to compute PE using average of last 3 years is like writing a pro

Re: need advice on a solution

2010-10-04 Thread Long Wind
I'm rather confused. Another user Ron just say the opposite. Suppose stock prices in an array (or table or database) and annual earnings of 10 years in another array (or table or database) to compute PE using average of last 3 years is like writing a program Can spreadsheet really do the job?

Re: Need advice analyzing S.M.A.R.T data of HDD in "Imminent disk failure".

2009-11-03 Thread Tony Nelson
On 09-11-03 21:29:19, Luis Maceira wrote: > In Ubuntu9.10 I have received warnings that a HDD is in > pre-failure.The disk(Iomega Prestige mobile USB external) has 1 > month.In Debian Testing and OpenSolaris(installed on the same HDD I > have no warnings.).Using smartmontools (this disk is not in i

Re: Need advice analyzing S.M.A.R.T data of HDD in "Imminent disk failure".

2009-11-03 Thread Greg Madden
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 17:29:19 Luis Maceira wrote: > In Ubuntu9.10 I have received warnings that a HDD is in pre-failure.The > disk(Iomega Prestige mobile USB external) has 1 month.In Debian Testing and > OpenSolaris(installed on the same HDD I have no warnings.).Using > smartmontools (this d

Re: Need advice from experts in complex multi-boot setups.

2009-10-03 Thread Tom H
I purchased an Iomega mobile HDD 250GB and am planning to install on it several OSs: MacOSX 10.5.8 (Hackintosh), Solaris10, OpenSolaris, Debian, OpenSuse, Fedora, BSDs (FreeBSD and OpenBSD). The computer is a Dell netbook Mini9 which supports all these operative systems ver

Re: Need advice from experts in complex multi-boot setups.

2009-10-02 Thread ein gedanke
Hello, AFAIK at least for Linux you need 1 primary partition of small size (200MB is nearly too big) which contains /boot if you want to use LVM. greetings, vitaminx 2009/10/3 Tom H > >> I purchased an Iomega mobile HDD 250GB and am planning > >> to install on it several OSs: MacOSX 10.5.8

Re: Need advice from experts in complex multi-boot setups.

2009-10-02 Thread Tom H
>> I purchased an Iomega mobile HDD 250GB and am planning >> to install on it several OSs: MacOSX 10.5.8 (Hackintosh), >> Solaris10, OpenSolaris, Debian, OpenSuse, Fedora, BSDs >> (FreeBSD and OpenBSD). The computer is a Dell netbook >> Mini9 which supports all these operative systems very well >>(

Re: Need advice from experts in complex multi-boot setups.

2009-10-02 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Luis Maceira [091002 15:55 -0700] > The case: I purchased an Iomega mobile HDD 250GB and am planning > to install on it several OSs: MacOSX > 10.5.8(Hackintosh),Solaris10,OpenSolaris, > Debian,OpenSuse,Fedora,BSDs(FreeBSD and OpenBSD).The computer is a > Dell netbook Mini9 which supports all the

Re: need advice on scsi disk failure

2009-08-21 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: longwind2...@gmail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: need advice on scsi disk failure >Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:33:10 -0800 > >>On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:34 AM, wrote: >>>> >>> The c

Re: need advice on scsi disk failure

2009-08-21 Thread Long Wind
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 7:34 AM, wrote: >> > The conventional approach is first to clean the contacts on the > connector and the card (some alcohol on a cotton swab for the > connector and a pencil eraser for the card contacts) and try again. > If that doesn't work go to "plan B" (run a complete d

Re: need advice on scsi disk failure

2009-08-21 Thread Long Wind
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:34 AM, wrote: > The conventional approach is first to clean the contacts on the > connector and the card (some alcohol on a cotton swab for the > connector and a pencil eraser for the card contacts) and try again. > If that doesn't work go to "plan B" (run a complete dis

RE: need advice on scsi disk failure

2009-08-21 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: longwind2...@gmail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: RE: need advice on scsi disk failure >Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:50:21 -0400 > >>I bought a scsi 50G disk a few years ago >>The seller said it had be

Re: need advice on scsi disk failure

2009-08-21 Thread mitch
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:35:25 -0400 Long Wind wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:56 AM, mitch > wrote: > > > > I had the same problem, scsi drives failing to start, shutting down > > while running. > > > > Bad power connector. The pins were not making proper contact at all > > times. > > > > Chang

Re: need advice on scsi disk failure

2009-08-21 Thread Long Wind
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:56 AM, mitch wrote: > > I had the same problem, scsi drives failing to start, shutting down > while running. > > Bad power connector. The pins were not making proper contact at all > times. > > Changed the connectors and the problem stopped. > Really? I always think scsi

Re: need advice on scsi disk failure

2009-08-21 Thread mitch
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:50:21 -0400 Long Wind wrote: > It's no surprise because the light on scsi disk isn't on > I reconnect the power cable to scsi disk again and again > and then with some luck the disk works normally. > It seems that the power connection becomes loose I had the same problem,

Re: Need advice on Debian Hotspot

2005-09-15 Thread Antonio Rafael C. Paiva
Just about the initial redirection of the users, it seems that the best (cause its free!) the that NoCat thing. I just looked into their webpage and its seams it takes care exactly of that redirection you mention. Apparently, you can even require some form of authentication. Other than that all

RE: Need advice on Debian Hotspot

2005-09-15 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> Greetings, > > I want to set up a local wifi hotspot. I've got a decent > cable internet > connection to feed it, a small switch to connect everything, > the access > points, cabling, and I've just purchased an inexpensive box > to use as the > server for the whole project. Naturally, I want to

Re: need advice Iptables/2.4.25

2004-04-06 Thread Laurence J. Lane
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 10:55:19AM +0200, Thierry wrote: [ errors omitted ] >Is that kernel bug or me or iptables ? Those are unresolved symbols in the kernel modules. You can try another kernel build with a clean (make mrproper) source tree. There is a FAQ somewhere that explains the proce

Re: need advice Iptables/2.4.25

2004-04-03 Thread David Clymer
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 03:55, Thierry wrote: > Hi, > I have got a little problem with iptables 1.2.9-6 running on laptop > debian SID/kernel 2.4.25 ... > > /lib/modules/2.4.25/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: > /lib/modules/2.4.25/k > ernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol >

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan [Thanks]

2004-01-10 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 10 January 2004 00:26, Paul E Condon wrote: > Thanks to all who answered. > > I'm running sarge and some packages are currently unavailable to me. I > have, so far, established that my LAN is running at 10Mbs, and I'm > proceeding with investigation of why. Most likely reason is that i

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan

2004-01-10 Thread Vicente Ferrando
You can know the speed your NIC are running with mii-diag. Install the mii-diag package if you haven't already done it and type "mii-diag ethx" with ethx your network interface. By default it is eth0. This will show the speed and duplex mode your NICs are running. But the speed wil

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan [Thanks]

2004-01-09 Thread Paul E Condon
Thanks to all who answered. I'm running sarge and some packages are currently unavailable to me. I have, so far, established that my LAN is running at 10Mbs, and I'm proceeding with investigation of why. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan

2004-01-09 Thread Jonathan Matthews
Paul E Condon had the gall to say: > I have a small LAN in my home. I need some advice on tuning it. > > I've started working on a project wherein I move large files (>3GB) > between two Debian boxes. This is a slow process. I would like to be > sure that it goes as fast as is reasonable. I think

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan

2004-01-09 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:52:53AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have a small LAN in my home. I need some advice on tuning it. > > I've started working on a project wherein I move large files (>3GB) > between two Debian boxes. This is a slow process. I would like to be > sure that it goes as fa

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan

2004-01-09 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Johann Koenig wrote: On Friday January 9 at 11:57am Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Johann Koenig wrote: it is transferring. About 1-1.5 megabytes per second is good for a 100 megabit link. If it is substantialy less, its probabyl running at 10 megabits. Well, on thi

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan

2004-01-09 Thread Johann Koenig
On Friday January 9 at 11:57am Mike Dresser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Johann Koenig wrote: > > > it is transferring. About 1-1.5 megabytes per second is good for a > > 100 megabit link. If it is substantialy less, its probabyl running > > at 10 megabits. > > Well, on this

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan

2004-01-09 Thread Mike Dresser
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Johann Koenig wrote: > it is transferring. About 1-1.5 megabytes per second is good for a 100 > megabit link. If it is substantialy less, its probabyl running at 10 > megabits. Well, on this P4 2.53ghz, i regularly see 10.5 meg per second from a similar host, even the celeron

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan

2004-01-09 Thread Johann Koenig
On Friday January 9 at 08:52am Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a small LAN in my home. I need some advice on tuning it. > > I've started working on a project wherein I move large files (>3GB) > between two Debian boxes. This is a slow process. I would like to be > sure that it

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan

2004-01-09 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:52:53AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have a small LAN in my home. I need some advice on tuning it. > > I've started working on a project wherein I move large files (>3GB) > between two Debian boxes. This is a slow process. I would like to be > sure that it goes as fa

Re: need advice on fixing my home lan

2004-01-09 Thread Andrea Tasso
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:52:53AM -0700 or thereabouts, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have a small LAN in my home. I need some advice on tuning it. iptraf is a good package -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: need advice on default font size in X app menus

2003-11-11 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 01:10, mike wrote: > oops - after an upgrade to Xfree86 where I wasn't paying enough > attention to the prompts telling me which config files were going to > be overwritten I have a problem. The font of the menus in many X > windows applications such as openoffice, mozilla bro

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-22 Thread Marc Wilson
On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 09:02:20PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > ...and then use a bootup script to execute hdparm? At least I found that > necessary. If after configuring your proper IDE controller, configuring it for DMA, and configuring DMA by default, the kernel still doesn't do it by defaul

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-19 Thread Andy Saxena
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 06:33:50PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote: | This one time, at band camp, Geoff Crompton said: | > | > 'scuse my ignorance. How do you configure UDMA 100 (or the other | > modes)? | > | > Geoff Crompton | It's all in the kernel .config: | CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y | C

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Geoff Crompton said: > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:43:24AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > > One other thing I noticed is that Gentoo brought up my disks in UDMA > > 100 mode, Debian did not. Ofcourse I went in to change this in > > Debian. Et voila, a speed increase th

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-18 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 08:43:24AM +0200, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > One other thing I noticed is that Gentoo brought up my disks in UDMA > 100 mode, Debian did not. Ofcourse I went in to change this in > Debian. Et voila, a speed increase that I never thought of getting > before. > 'scuse my i

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-17 Thread Robert Ian Smit
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 03:40:10PM -0600, Cameron Matheson wrote: > I played around w/ gentoo a few months ago (and promptly came back to > debian (i missed apt) ). But i do miss the optimization i experienced > w/ gentoo (despite what everyone says, there was a very noticeable > difference i

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-17 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hi, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >two packages: pbuilder and pentium-builder. One makes a chroot for compilin >apps in the other wraps gcc and causes it to use machine level optimizations. > excuse my simplicity, but you could go into a little more detail (maybe an example?), i could probably fi

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 14:40, Cameron Matheson wrote: > > I dont' really want to build everything from source (that takes way too > long on my k6-2), but i was thinking maybe compiling glibc, moz, > (g|bz)ip, etc might be a good thing... what would be the best way to go > about this? > two

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-20 Thread Nick Traxler
On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 07:19:59PM -0800, Christopher Swingley wrote: > * Derek Gladding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-19 15:46 > * AKDT]: > > > I am seriously considering the Tyan S2460 Dual AMD board. Any > > > comments are appreciated. If you feel this is off topic please reply > > > anyway off

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-19 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 08:19 pm, Christopher Swingley wrote: > * Derek Gladding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-19 15:46 > > * AKDT]: [snip] > Make sure you've got very clean power, excellent cooling, and a good > high-wattage power supply. I've had trouble with most of the dual > Tyan boards s

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-19 Thread Christopher Swingley
* Derek Gladding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-Jun-19 15:46 * AKDT]: > > I am seriously considering the Tyan S2460 Dual AMD board. Any > > comments are appreciated. If you feel this is off topic please reply > > anyway off the list. Thanks! > > I'm running mixed Woody/Sid, home-cooked 2.4.18 kernel on

Re: Need advice on best SMP mainboard for Debian

2002-06-19 Thread Derek Gladding
On Wednesday 19 June 2002 10:11 am, John Foster wrote: > I have decided to build a new workstation and am asking for users > input as to the best mainboard for the money available. I can go > pretty much any direction i.e. AMD,Intel or possibly Alpha but I do > not have any experience with Alpha. I

Re: need advice on IRC client choice

2002-03-11 Thread Arthur H. Johnson II
My vote is X-Chat. It has quite a comfortable interface. On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 15:33, Gary Turner wrote: > It's hard to believe, but I haven't done chat (and I've been 'online' > since Genie in '90 or '91). I don't even have a chat client installed > on any of my machines. > > So, I figure --

Re: need advice on IRC client choice

2002-03-10 Thread Jeff
Gary Turner, 2002-Mar-09 14:33 -0600: > It's hard to believe, but I haven't done chat (and I've been 'online' > since Genie in '90 or '91). I don't even have a chat client installed > on any of my machines. > > So, I figure -- let's stick one on the Debian box. A quick > > "apt-cache search irc

Re: need advice on IRC client choice

2002-03-10 Thread Michael C. Alonzo
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 02:33:05PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: > It's hard to believe, but I haven't done chat (and I've been 'online' > since Genie in '90 or '91). I don't even have a chat client installed > on any of my machines. > > So, I figure -- let's stick one on the Debian box. A quick >

Re: need advice on IRC client choice

2002-03-10 Thread David Bell
XChat for me. I've tried several different X IRC clients but I prefer XChat. I'm still up in the air on the best console IRC client, though. :) On Sat, 2002-03-09 at 14:33, Gary Turner wrote: > It's hard to believe, but I haven't done chat (and I've been 'online' > since Genie in '90 or '91). I

Re: need advice on IRC client choice

2002-03-09 Thread Sebastiaan
High, On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Gary Turner wrote: > As you might imagine, I need some suggestions on which irc-client to > install. > > I'm running Debian Woody, X11 v4, and Gnome-sawfish desktop. I mention > the X stuff because for this application I think a graphical interface > will be more approp

Re: Need advice on Linux Programming tool

2001-12-30 Thread August Logan Bear Jr.
Aldous B Bernardo wrote: > Greetings, > > I would like to ask for some advice on what programming tools can I > use in developing Linux apps. I've been developing Windoze > applications for about 3 years and would like to shift to Linux. > I'm interested in GUI tools for X, preferably using KDE (

Re: Need advice on Linux Programming tool

2001-12-29 Thread dman
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 01:00:23AM +0800, Aldous B Bernardo wrote: | I would like to ask for some advice on what programming tools can I | use in developing Linux apps. I've been developing Windoze | applications for about 3 years and would like to shift to Linux. | I'm interested in GUI tools for

Re: Need advice on Linux Programming tool

2001-12-29 Thread Alec
On Saturday 29 December 2001 12:00 pm, Aldous B Bernardo wrote: > Greetings, > > I would like to ask for some advice on what programming tools can I use > in developing Linux apps. I've been developing Windoze applications for > about 3 years and would like to shift to Linux. I'm interested in

Re: need advice pls, the best cdwriter using with Linux

2001-12-23 Thread csj
On Sunday 23 December 2001 06:57, Steve Kieu wrote: > Hi, > > My friend has a 8x4x32 Acer CD-Writer and I got a lot > of trouble with the quality of recording, not for sure > what is the reason. cdrecord informs that everything > is ok but after that the newly created cd can not be > mount ; no med

Re: need advice pls, the best cdwriter using with Linux

2001-12-22 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Steve Kieu: > I suspect the hardware or the disk, mostly I burnt > using the cheap Sanyo CD-R 80min/700MB disk (the > surface is light green, not gold color like gold > ultima type). I've wasted a lot of time with cheap disks - sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't. It doesn't s

Re: Need advice on Upgrade Apache apache-dev_1.3.9-13.2.deb

2001-08-24 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On 24 Aug 2001 09:44:52 +0800, Kennice Low wrote: > Hi mike, > Thank you for your help on the previous email. > I would like to upgrade apache using debian package. > > 1)I think I make a mistake on the path setting for sources.list: > should be : > deb file:/var/ftp/debian potato main > instead o

Re-Need advice on Upgrade Apache apache-dev_1.3.9-13.2.deb

2001-08-23 Thread Kennice Low
Hi mike, Thank you for your help on the previous email. I would like to upgrade apache using debian package. 1)I think I make a mistake on the path setting for sources.list: should be : deb file:/var/ftp/debian potato main instead of : deb file:/var/ftp/debian potato main apache-dev_1.3.9-13.2.de

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-16 Thread D-Man
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000 03:04:09 Peter Jay Salzman wrote: | d-man, you might want to set your wrapmargin a bit shorter. What is the preferred size? I had it at 80, this time it's 70. :-) | as for lilo, you can have two devices on each ide chain. i assume | you have | windows on one hd and li

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-16 Thread dude
) but now that i have debian woody on it, i have no problems you have two hard disks on your laptop? On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, D-Man wrote: > Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 23:45:23 -0500 > From: D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sub

Re: Need advice: Compaq Presarios and Debian

2000-12-16 Thread JoshNarins
Since so many people are harping on them, I got a Compaq Presario 7478 with an extra 64MB (tot 128) and a Voodoo3 for < 1100USD. AMD K-6 II 500 30 Gig HD CD-RW DVD-R floppy 2 ISA, 4 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 USB decent keyboard Debian noticed both CD-RW and DVD-R right away. Red Hat only noticed one of them.

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