Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-03 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hello, Jeffrey B. Green a écrit : > > I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a bug. (I > believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured hang while > attempting an update on security.debian.org. If I turn off IPv6 by > deconfiguring the IPv6 address, then the upd

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/02/2011 07:31 PM, John Hasler wrote: Arno Schuring writes: I find DDG (http://duckduckgo.com/Duck_Duck_Go) satisfies my needs perfectly. Requires Javascript. Google doesn't. I've been using ever since Google decided to start showing site thumbnails on mouseover events. I've never se

Re: pidofproc missing

2011-06-03 Thread lrhorer
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mi, 01 iun 11, 19:32:06, lrhorer wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> > On Mi, 01 iun 11, 07:56:58, lrhorer wrote: >> >> >> >> Oh! I see. It's not a binary, at all. The init scripts just >> >> source >> >> the function. Thanks! (I'd still like to know how `pidof`

Re: tar --remove-files chokes on symlinks

2011-06-03 Thread lrhorer
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-06-02 04:13 +0200, lrhorer wrote: > >> I have a cron script that runs tar on a directory in order to clean >> it >> up and minimize its size. I run the command: >> >> tar cf Backup_Server.tar.gz --remove-files * >> >> but during the tar process I get the errors: >>

Gnome/KDE program launches hang when Internet disconnected - Lenny

2011-06-03 Thread Jack Dodds
I am running Lenny. The system is connected to the Internet via a Linksys BEFSR81router and a cable modem. My desktop is Gnome. If the Internet is inaccessible - e.g. if the Ethernet cable is disconnected from the computer, or the cable modem power is disconnected, or if there are problems on t

iceweasel & swiftfox not rendering pages

2011-06-03 Thread AG
Hi all Has anyone else experienced problems with Iceweasel/ Swiftfox not rendering web pages properly? Any page I go to will be rendered with blue hypertext text only, no images, no lay out, etc., whilst other browsers (Iceape, Opera, Chromium) do the job just fine. Cheers AG -- To UNSUB

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 08:32 +0200, alberto fuentes wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > E.g. > http://www.ixquick.com/ > and > http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm > can't replace Google for my needs. > > Have you tr

Search engines to replace or to add to Google [was: google to pull support for firefox 3,5]

2011-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 09:38 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote: > Hallo together, > > it is not new that google or yahoo wants to see the whole world > as a glasfish. So for surch the web I use metacrawler like the > server of Uni Kassel www.metager.de . > > whish a nice day to all > > klaus Thank you Kla

Adobe flash sound issues

2011-06-03 Thread John Kapnogiannis
Hello there. I got an annoying problem with flash sound. On some services (eg Grooveshark) I hear scratches and deformities during playback. The actuall track is heard on the background though. I have flash installed through the flashplugin-nonfree packages. The problem even exists on Google Chrome

Re: Adobe flash sound issues

2011-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:01:27 +0300, John Kapnogiannis wrote: > Hello there. I got an annoying problem with flash sound. On some > services (eg Grooveshark) I hear scratches and deformities during > playback. The actuall track is > heard on the background though. I have flash installed through the

Re: iceweasel & swiftfox not rendering pages

2011-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 10:32:01 +0100, AG wrote: > Has anyone else experienced problems with Iceweasel/ Swiftfox not > rendering web pages properly? Any page I go to will be rendered with > blue hypertext text only, no images, no lay out, etc., whilst other > browsers (Iceape, Opera, Chromium) do th

Re: M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 Realtek ALC892 - No sound(mostly)

2011-06-03 Thread David Kinyua
On 17/05/11 03:35, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2011 06:45:37 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > >>> Are you sure the output jack is in the right socket? These multi-input/ >>> ouput audio cards are going to get us crazy :-) >> I know, most of us only have 2 ears... (Yes it's in the right socket >> al

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:21:47 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 18 May 2011 18:27:29 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > > ... > >> Next time you need to configure a POP3 account tell me if you leave >> enable the "keep a copy in the server" setting. It's not the default, >> it never has been in any M

What kernel for AMD Sempron system?

2011-06-03 Thread Thomas Milne
Hello all, I just assembled a system with an M2V motherboard and Sempron processor, with Nvidia graphics card. I installed Debian Squeeze, then upgraded to unstable. Installed nvidia-glx, nvidia dkms, a new kernel and headers. The kernel that was installed with Squeeze was 2.6.32-5-686 which work

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 07:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] And admittely, in such programs (like Getmail or Fetchmail) it is very useful to have the "keep" option while configuring the application so you don't delete e-mails unless you are sure they're well routed locally and messages reach their inboxes.

Re: What kernel for AMD Sempron system?

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 07:11 AM, Thomas Milne wrote: Hello all, I just assembled a system with an M2V motherboard and Sempron processor, with Nvidia graphics card. I installed Debian Squeeze, then upgraded to unstable. Installed nvidia-glx, nvidia dkms, a new kernel and headers. The kernel that was inst

Re: wget & certificates

2011-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 16:58:23 +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > Camaleón writes: (...) >> Just for testing purposes, what happens when you run this? >> >> wget --no-check-certificate >> https://www.centrum24.pl/bzwbkonline/eSmart.html?typ=90&lang=pl > > Works. > > >> (note that should still getting

Re: Avoid POP3

2011-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 07:26:25 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/03/2011 07:02 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> As I said before, it's understandable that the default setting is >> "keep" in such programs to avoid missing e-mails while testing. >> >> > Disagree. Defaults are for the *common* choices

Re: CUPS Cannot recognize lp0

2011-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:04:37 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > I am trying to print from Debian and receive the following message: > "Unable to open device file"/dev/lp0": Permission Denied" > > The permissions for lp0 are 666. And who is the owner/group of it? This is what I get under lenny: sm

Re: Backup script

2011-06-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 08:29:23PM -0400, mark wrote: > On Wednesday 01 June 2011 10:23:48 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > Hi :) > > > > > > I'm writing a script to backup the 4 Linux installs and the MBRs > > > on my machine. > > > > > > Is there a way to copy all 4 Linux b

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:15:11 +0200, tadziu wrote: > i'm just curious, is there any chance to bring iceweasel 4.0 to stable > before google ends support for 3,5? i got 4.0 on my second computer with > squeeze, but i had to mess a bit to get it working, and it's not > performing as well as i've expe

Re: Gnome/KDE program launches hang when Internet disconnected - Lenny

2011-06-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:38:23 -0400, Jack Dodds wrote: > I am running Lenny. The system is connected to the Internet via a > Linksys BEFSR81router and a cable modem. My desktop is Gnome. > > If the Internet is inaccessible - e.g. if the Ethernet cable is > disconnected from the computer, or the

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-03 Thread Go Linux
You can do the old style image search interface like this: http://www.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&newwindow=1&complete=0&sout=1&biw=1262&bih=914&site=images&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=debian&btnG=Search Of course the individual results interface still sucks. --- On Fri, 6/3/11, Ron Johnson wrote: > From

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-03 Thread Go Linux
DuckDuckGo is my first choice but I have found that the results just aren't as good as Google for technical searches. For everyday stuff they're OK. --- On Fri, 6/3/11, alberto fuentes wrote: From: alberto fuentes Subject: Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5 To: debian-user@lists.debi

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-03 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:42:49 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Hello, > > Jeffrey B. Green a écrit : > > > > I'm seeing if there is an alternate answer here before filing a > > bug. (I believe) All of the servers here that have IPv6 configured > > hang while attempting an update on security.debian

Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread Dan
Hi, I have two linux servers. One file server (debian) that is running samba and one application server (redhat). I would like to mount the shares of the file server in the application server. The problem is that the usernames are very different. Samba is already running and easier to set-up. NFS

Looking for a Dentist

2011-06-03 Thread chris brown
Hello, My name is Yusuf Rahman with TopPressPublishing.com. We are a Marketing and Publishing company and we were curious about what methods you were currently using to grow your business and how effective it was over the cost? We are not interested in wasting your time for our time is just as valu

LUKS-partition-failed-to-mount

2011-06-03 Thread Mervyn Zhang
Hi all, I'm a debian newbie who are previously using archlinux. I've a disk with the following layout: sda1 pri - Windows partition; sda3 pri - archlinux /boot sda4 pri - archlinux LUKS partition (with lvm in it, the rest partitions /, /var, swap and most important /home) sda5 logic - debian /boot

Re: LUKS-partition-failed-to-mount

2011-06-03 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Please show us the commands you are trying to execute, in order. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Mervyn Zhang wrote: > Hi all, I'm a debian newbie who are previously using archlinux. I've a > disk with the following layout: > > sda1 pri - Windows partition; > sda3 pri - archlinux /boot > sda4 pr

Re: LUKS-partition-failed-to-mount

2011-06-03 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Ah, I've never used crypt on the system partition before.. sorry, can't help :( On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Mervyn Zhang wrote: > Well, it was at first the debian-installer commands(options in the > text expert mode, I don't know the exact ones): > > making /dev/sda5 a ext2, /boot partition

Re: CUPS Cannot recognize lp0

2011-06-03 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-06-03 a las 10:54 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg escribió: (resending to the list) > At 09:40 AM 6/3/2011, you wrote: >> On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:04:37 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote: >> >> > I am trying to print from Debian and receive the following message: >> > "Unable to open device file"/dev/lp0

Re: LUKS-partition-failed-to-mount

2011-06-03 Thread Mervyn Zhang
Well, it was at first the debian-installer commands(options in the text expert mode, I don't know the exact ones): making /dev/sda5 a ext2, /boot partition and making /dev/sda6 a lvm one on top of a LUKS crypted partition. When I was about to boot arch, the grub commands should be: root (hd0,2)

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-03 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 15:41 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer > versions of some key programs I use in my work, like LyX and R. And > since the kernel included with Squeeze crashes when I unplug the USB > headset, I need to run a new

Re: New Guy asks: I want to run Squeeze, except for a few particular things...

2011-06-03 Thread Thomas Milne
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 15:41 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I want to run the stable distribution--Squeeze--except I need newer > > versions of some key programs I use in my work, like LyX and R. And > > since the kernel included with S

Re: LUKS-partition-failed-to-mount

2011-06-03 Thread tv.deb...@googlemail.com
03/06/2011 17:07, Mervyn Zhang wrote: > Hi all, Hi, I'm a debian newbie who are previously using archlinux. I've a > disk with the following layout: > > sda1 pri - Windows partition; > sda3 pri - archlinux /boot > sda4 pri - archlinux LUKS partition (with lvm in it, the rest > partitions /, /var

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread Jari Fredriksson
3.6.2011 18:08, Dan kirjoitti: > Hi, > > I have two linux servers. One file server (debian) that is running > samba and one application server (redhat). I would like to mount the > shares of the file server in the application server. The problem is > that the usernames are very different. Samba is

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread John A. Sullivan III
- Original Message - From: "Jari Fredriksson" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, June 3, 2011 11:58:15 AM Subject: Re: Samba or NFS 3.6.2011 18:08, Dan kirjoitti: > Hi, > > I have two linux servers. One file server (debian) that is running > samba and one application server (

Re: Gnome/KDE program launches hang when Internet disconnected - Lenny

2011-06-03 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/03/11 at 05:38am, Jack Dodds wrote: > > If the Internet is inaccessible - e.g. if the Ethernet cable is > disconnected from the computer, or the cable modem power is > disconnected, or if there are problems on the provider network - many > GUI programs take a long time (about 60 seconds) to

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/03/11 at 12:43pm, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Jari Fredriksson" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Friday, June 3, 2011 11:58:15 AM > Subject: Re: Samba or NFS > > 3.6.2011 18:08, Dan kirjoitti: > > Hi, > > > > I have two linux servers. One f

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread Axel Freyn
Hi, On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:17:35PM -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/03/11 at 12:43pm, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Jari Fredriksson" > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Sent: Friday, June 3, 2011 11:58:15 AM > > Subject: Re: Samba or NFS > >

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/03/11 at 07:41pm, Axel Freyn wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:17:35PM -0400, William Hopkins wrote: > > On 06/03/11 at 12:43pm, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "Jari Fredriksson" > > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Sent: Friday, Ju

Re: udev bug in Wheezy

2011-06-03 Thread maderios
On 06/01/2011 12:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:27:24 +0200, maderios wrote: On 05/30/2011 10:01 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2011 21:37:14 +0200, maderios wrote: I first sent this message in french language, sorry for my mistake I tried for the umpteenth time to ret

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20110602_222757, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 13:21 -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: > > On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:49:18 +0200, Ralf Mardorf > > wrote: > > > > >On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 20:34 +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > >> If their excuse was lack of standards' compliance maybe it'd k

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread Dan
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:49 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > On 06/03/11 at 07:41pm, Axel Freyn wrote: >> Hi, >> On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:17:35PM -0400, William Hopkins wrote: >> > On 06/03/11 at 12:43pm, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >> > > - Original Message - >> > > From: "Jari Fredriksson"

Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread alberto fuentes
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Dan wrote: > Thanks a lot for your answers, I will use NFS. Both computers and the > users are trusted. To improve the security I could set rules in the > iptables to allow NFS access only to my computers. > The problem is not that the users are trusted... the pr

Re: CUPS Cannot recognize lp0

2011-06-03 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-06-03 a las 12:28 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg escribió: (resending to the list. Ethan, you are replying just to me, not to the list ;-) ) > At 11:34 AM 6/3/2011, you wrote: (...) >> > This is a mystery.. >> > $ls -la /dev/lp0 >> > Cannot access: No such file or directory >> >> Uh? Did t

Re: Gnome/KDE program launches hang when Internet disconnected - Lenny

2011-06-03 Thread Camaleón
El 2011-06-03 a las 12:53 -0400, Thomas Milne escribió: (resending to the list) > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:38:23 -0400, Jack Dodds wrote: > > > > > I am running Lenny. The system is connected to the Internet via a > > > Linksys BEFSR81router

Re: udev bug in Wheezy

2011-06-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 08:05:57PM +0200, maderios wrote: > I discover I've no /run directory in my Wheezy. /run support hasn't migrated to testing yet, so this is expected. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `.

Re: udev bug in Wheezy

2011-06-03 Thread maderios
On 06/03/2011 10:42 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 08:05:57PM +0200, maderios wrote: I discover I've no /run directory in my Wheezy. /run support hasn't migrated to testing yet, so this is expected. Regards, Roger Strange I got /run support this way: debootstrap wh

Re: udev bug in Wheezy

2011-06-03 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 11:47:21PM +0200, maderios wrote: > On 06/03/2011 10:42 PM, Roger Leigh wrote: > >On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 08:05:57PM +0200, maderios wrote: > > > >>I discover I've no /run directory in my Wheezy. > > > >/run support hasn't migrated to testing yet, so this is expected. >

FAIL: where is snes9x?

2011-06-03 Thread Dirk
LOL, after 15 years snes9x has a GUI and the first thing that happens: debian removes it from the distro... so much fail... it impossible to grasp such a huge amount of fail... 3+ packages and i still need to compile shit myself... xD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@list

Re: FAIL: where is snes9x?

2011-06-03 Thread shawn wilson
On Jun 3, 2011 7:09 PM, "Dirk" wrote: > > LOL, > > after 15 years snes9x has a GUI and the first thing that happens: debian removes it from the distro... > > so much fail... it impossible to grasp such a huge amount of fail... > > 3+ packages and i still need to compile shit myself... xD > Ju

Re: FAIL: where is snes9x?

2011-06-03 Thread John Hasler
"Dirk" wrote: > after 15 years snes9x has a GUI and the first thing that happens: > debian removes it from the distro... thumper/~ apt-cache show snes9x-x Package: snes9x-x Priority: optional Section: non-free/games Installed-Size: 2432 Maintainer: Alain Schroeder Architecture: amd64 Source: snes

Re: FAIL: where is snes9x?

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 05:53 PM, Dirk wrote: LOL, after 15 years snes9x has a GUI and the first thing that happens: debian removes it from the distro... so much fail... it impossible to grasp such a huge amount of fail... There's this amazing new tool called the Search Engine. Type in a few words l

Re: FAIL: where is snes9x?

2011-06-03 Thread shawn wilson
Yeah, that figures ;) On Jun 3, 2011 8:06 PM, "Ron Johnson" wrote: > On 06/03/2011 05:53 PM, Dirk wrote: >> LOL, >> >> after 15 years snes9x has a GUI and the first thing that happens: debian >> removes it from the distro... >> >> so much fail... it impossible to grasp such a huge amount of fail..

Re: FAIL: where is snes9x?

2011-06-03 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Lmao. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:53 PM, Dirk wrote: > LOL, > > after 15 years snes9x has a GUI and the first thing that happens: debian > removes it from the distro... > > so much fail... it impossible to grasp such a huge amount of fail... > > 3+ packages and i still need to compile shit mys

Re: FAIL: where is snes9x?

2011-06-03 Thread Dirk
On 06/03/2011 05:53 PM, Dirk wrote: LOL, after 15 years snes9x has a GUI and the first thing that happens: debian removes it from the distro... so much fail... it impossible to grasp such a huge amount of fail... There's this amazing new tool called the Search Engine. carefu

Re: FAIL: where is snes9x?

2011-06-03 Thread Dirk
On Jun 3, 2011 7:09 PM, "Dirk" wrote: LOL, after 15 years snes9x has a GUI and the first thing that happens: debian removes it from the distro... so much fail... it impossible to grasp such a huge amount of fail... 3+ packages and i still need to compile shit myself... xD Just a thou

Re: FAIL: where is snes9x?

2011-06-03 Thread shawn wilson
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 21:07, Dirk wrote: >> I'd search around and if you can't find anything, ask the debian >> maintainer. > > the maintainer appears to have dropped the ball... meh.. i am too lazy.. > someone will pick it up.. or not... > per one of the other replies, it has been dropped on t

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [snip] NFS is by far simpler to use in pure Linux environment, Samba is for Windows networks. NFS has no passwords, just install it with apt-get, and declare /etc/exports in the server, and mount the shares in the clients /etc/fstab. That's all

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Dan wrote: > Hi, > > I have two linux servers. One file server (debian) that is running > samba and one application server (redhat). I would like to mount the > shares of the file server in the application server. The problem is > that the usernames are very differ

Re: Samba or NFS

2011-06-03 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/03/11 at 10:02pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > [snip] > > > >NFS is by far simpler to use in pure Linux environment, Samba is for > >Windows networks. NFS has no passwords, just install it with apt-get, > >and declare /etc/exports in the server, a

Re: FAIL: where is snes9x?

2011-06-03 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/03/11 at 07:06pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > There's this amazing new tool called the Search Engine. Type in a > few words like "debian snes9x", poke around a bit and then you find > stuff like: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/snes9x.html > http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/snes9x/news/20110314T09

Re: Gnome/KDE program launches hang when Internet disconnected - Lenny

2011-06-03 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/03/11 at 10:17pm, Camaleón wrote: > El 2011-06-03 a las 12:53 -0400, Thomas Milne escribió: > > (resending to the list) > > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Camaleón wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:38:23 -0400, Jack Dodds wrote: > > > > > > > I am running Lenny. The system is c

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-03 Thread Doug
On 06/03/2011 11:28 PM, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/03/11 at 10:02pm, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [snip] NFS is by far simpler to use in pure Linux environment, Samba is for Windows networks. NFS has no passwords, just install it with apt-get, and dec

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-03 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/04/11 at 12:58am, Doug wrote: > On 06/03/2011 11:28 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > >On 06/03/11 at 10:02pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > >>[snip] > >>>NFS is by far simpler to use in pure Linux environment, Samba is for > >>>Windows networks. NFS

Spin Off Question (was: What kernel for AMD Sempron system?)

2011-06-03 Thread teddieeb
Ron Johnson Said: The M2V has an AM2 socket, and all such chips are 64-bit capable, so both 2.6.39-1-686-pae and 2.6.39-1-amd64 *should* work. (I think you'd get a different error if the kernel was incompatible with the CPU.) The first thing I noticed about these two Kernels was the one i

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-03 Thread Doug
On 06/04/2011 01:30 AM, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/04/11 at 12:58am, Doug wrote: On 06/03/2011 11:28 PM, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/03/11 at 10:02pm, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: [snip] NFS is by far simpler to use in pure Linux environment, Samba

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 12:48 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] No, I don't have a network up. As I said, I really don't know anything about networks. What I want is not only file sharing, but the ability to use the Win 7 machine as a print server. (Linux is not fit to be a print server since it takes forever to pri

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-03 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/04/11 at 01:48am, Doug wrote: > On 06/04/2011 01:30 AM, William Hopkins wrote: > >On 06/04/11 at 12:58am, Doug wrote: > >>On 06/03/2011 11:28 PM, William Hopkins wrote: > >>>On 06/03/11 at 10:02pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > [snip] > >>>

Re: google to pull support for firefox 3,5

2011-06-03 Thread jeremy jozwik
> Wow... I'm still with 3.0.6. my pc is still in 2.5 -- 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/BANLkTimnO3HHNb3KJoF3zFRu6o9C6=u...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-03 Thread Doug
On 06/04/2011 01:55 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/04/2011 12:48 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] No, I don't have a network up. As I said, I really don't know anything about networks. What I want is not only file sharing, but the ability to use the Win 7 machine as a print server. (Linux is not fit to be

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-03 Thread Doug
On 06/04/2011 02:00 AM, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/04/11 at 01:48am, Doug wrote: On 06/04/2011 01:30 AM, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/04/11 at 12:58am, Doug wrote: On 06/03/2011 11:28 PM, William Hopkins wrote: On 06/03/11 at 10:02pm, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/03/2011 11:43 AM, John A. Sull

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 01:10 AM, Doug wrote: On 06/04/2011 01:55 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/04/2011 12:48 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] No, I don't have a network up. As I said, I really don't know anything about networks. What I want is not only file sharing, but the ability to use the Win 7 machine as a p

Re: Samba or NFS--tangent

2011-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On 06/04/2011 01:31 AM, Doug wrote: [snip] I opened the suggested url, and read the following intro: "*Reader Prerequisites*: To get the most from this article, understand the following concepts before reading: basic unix command line tools, text editors, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, netmask, gateway" I'm