Re: Alternative to dhcp?

2019-12-15 Thread Carl Johnson
either one and both. I had also already > done the wicd gui edit. As I said above, my chosen dns doesn't stick, as > resolv.conf keeps reverting to the router's. Has the dhclient been restarted since you edited the configuration file, either manually or through a reboot? I use the p

Re: How to disable certain keys

2015-08-15 Thread Carl Johnson
on start. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org

Re: How to disable certain keys

2015-08-14 Thread Carl Johnson
of X11 configuration is still a mystery to me. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org

Re: jessie: unable to run remote graphical program with sudo [SOLVED]

2015-05-26 Thread Carl Johnson
experimenting, I discovered that this works: sudo XAUTHORITY=/home/n7dr/.Xauthority xterm I just have my /root/.Xauthority be a symbolic link to my user ~/.Xauthority, and that seems to work without specifying XAUTHORITY. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: mixer.app ; how do i use it after installing it with aptitude?

2015-05-25 Thread Carl Johnson
that provided support for dockapps, but I'm not finding that info at the moment. There is the xfce4-wmdock-plugin which creates a dock position in a panel to hold all dockapps. I use it and it works well for me. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: SCIM - terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2015-02-23 Thread Carl Johnson
. ¹ http://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87r3tgzh6l.fsf@elk.localnet

Re: bc menu files? (Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...)

2014-10-31 Thread Carl Johnson
should have a debian menu. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/8761ez8tt3.fsf@elk.localnet

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
it to compile. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87d2b7h191.fsf@elk.localnet

Re: lost file ownerships in etc?

2014-06-17 Thread Carl Johnson
easier. I'll do some more research. Had you looked at the /etc/.etckeeper file? It contains chmod, chown, and chgrp lines for the files in /etc. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: lost file ownerships in etc?

2014-06-17 Thread Carl Johnson
Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes: On 6/18/14, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote: Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net writes: Unfortunately I have so many packages installed, it would be a rather large chroot once done, just to get ownerships back. Theoretically do-able though

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Carl Johnson
one filesystem at a time in single user mode, or from a live CD. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: Fuse module won't install in stable (Wheezy) - Solved

2014-05-05 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I was just trying to load the fuse module to run sshfs, but the module wouldn't load. The 'modprobe fuse' command gives the error: ERROR: could not insert 'fuse': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter The log files show the message

Re: Security updates are untrusted

2014-05-04 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: On Thu 24 Apr 2014 at 14:58:52 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: I was just noticing that aptitude warns that a number of packages are listed as untrusted. I checked using 'apt-cache policy' and those I just now told

Fuse module won't install in stable (Wheezy)

2014-05-04 Thread Carl Johnson
thing with the zfs modules unloaded, so I don't think that it is a module conflict. Has anybody else seen this problem before, or know how to fix it? Thanks for any suggestions. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Security updates are untrusted

2014-04-27 Thread Carl Johnson
Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: On Sb, 26 apr 14, 10:02:39, Carl Johnson wrote: I was just checking again and the problem had returned. This time, I immediately told aptitude to do an update and the untrusted warnings went away again. I suspect they will come back

Re: Security updates are untrusted

2014-04-26 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Thu 24 Apr 2014 at 14:58:52 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: I was just noticing that aptitude warns that a number of packages are listed as untrusted. I checked using 'apt-cache policy' and those I just now told

Security updates are untrusted

2014-04-24 Thread Carl Johnson
updates, but obviously not. I also tried manually picking up and installing the key recommended at security.debian.org, but that didn't change anything. Can anybody suggest what I need to do to get the security updates properly recognized? Thanks for any suggestions. -- Carl Johnsonca

Re: Security updates are untrusted

2014-04-24 Thread Carl Johnson
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Thu 24 Apr 2014 at 14:58:52 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: I was just noticing that aptitude warns that a number of packages are listed as untrusted. I checked using 'apt-cache policy' and those May we see the output that aptitude displays to you? Sorry

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Carl Johnson
is becoming an endangered species. I think I'll end up either using dnsdynamic or dnspark. I also see the inadyn package also lists several providers. One that I have looked at is freedns.afraid.org, and that is still free. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: X key bindings don't work on new system

2014-03-06 Thread Carl Johnson
as: setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps,terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87eh2e7hdl.fsf

Re: New to Debian (Gentoo user) - package management

2014-01-03 Thread Carl Johnson
. It is also available on the web at http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Does any OS (e.g. Debian) support ZFS on MIPS?

2013-12-06 Thread Carl Johnson
be more information at http://www.open-zfs.org/. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87fvq5lh5w.fsf@oak.localnet

Re: Problem getting compose-key to work with .XCompose

2013-09-28 Thread Carl Johnson
? If that is not it, then I don't have any other ideas. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87fvso1uhu.fsf@oak.localnet

Re: Typing in bar characters (accented characters?)

2013-08-21 Thread Carl Johnson
can look up those compose combinations in the file /usr/local/lib/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-23 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: Does anybody know what is going on with grub in testing? I have been waiting for 2.00, but it seems to be stuck at 1.99. Grub-common at http://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-common shows that it is at 1.99-27+deb7u1, but the source files show 2.00-14

Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-22 Thread Carl Johnson
Sharon Kimble skimbl...@gmail.com writes: On 22 July 2013 04:45, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote: William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com writes: On 07/20/13 at 08:43pm, Carl Johnson wrote: Does anybody know what is going on with grub in testing? I have been waiting for 2.00

Re: Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-21 Thread Carl Johnson
William Hopkins we.hopk...@gmail.com writes: On 07/20/13 at 08:43pm, Carl Johnson wrote: Does anybody know what is going on with grub in testing? I have been waiting for 2.00, but it seems to be stuck at 1.99. Grub-common at http://packages.debian.org/jessie/grub-common shows

Grub 2.00 in testing?

2013-07-20 Thread Carl Johnson
://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub2.html shows that 2.00-14 was migrated to testing on 2013-06-14, so there appear to be some inconsistancies. Thanks. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-09 Thread Carl Johnson
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, 08 May 2011 20:45:00 -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: What *exact* command did you run? I used the curses interface to aptitude, so I just told it to install exim4 and remove postfix. I just tried a command

Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-09 Thread Carl Johnson
Freeman hew...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 05:55:27PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4. I used aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4

Re: Trying to reinstall exim4 [Solved]

2011-05-09 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4. I used aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4, exim4-base, exim4-config, and exim4-daemon-light. It seems

Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-08 Thread Carl Johnson
install exim4. Does anybody have any idea what I am doing wrong, and what I can do to install exim? I am running this on a squeeze system. Thanks for any ideas. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Trying to reinstall exim4

2011-05-08 Thread Carl Johnson
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net writes: On 05/08/2011 07:55 PM, Carl Johnson wrote: I was trying out postfix but I was unable to get it working the way I wanted, so I tried to purge postfix and reinstall exim4. I used aptitude to select postfix to purge and to install exim4, exim4-base

Re: KDE4 taskbar: Is there a way to show apps only from the current workspace?

2011-03-04 Thread Carl Johnson
. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87y64u8991.fsf@oak.localnet

Re: shopt -s checkwinsize gone?

2011-02-24 Thread Carl Johnson
Thilo Six t@gmx.de writes: Wayne Topa wrote the following on 24.02.2011 01:56 -- snip -- I haven't uses this in ages but IIRC shopt -s checkwinsize used to show the display size. $ echo $COLUMNS $LINES 90 42 $ stty size 57 118 -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org

Re: SSH pauses

2011-02-22 Thread Carl Johnson
have any ideas about debugging though. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87mxlnz7f7.fsf@oak.localnet

Re: checking for changes in file size/permissions since installation?

2011-02-13 Thread Carl Johnson
thinking of debsums. That will check the MD5 sums of installed packages, but I don't know whether it covers all installed files. The checksums are stored in /var/lib/dpkg/info, so they might also be corrupt. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Change KDE menu Debian 6

2011-02-12 Thread Carl Johnson
Mark Panen mark.pa...@gmail.com writes: Hi Is it possible to change the KDE 4.4.5 menu at the bottom left to the old KDE 3.5.10 look? Yes, just go right click on the menu button, and select 'Switch to Classic Menu Style'. You can switch back the same way, if you ever want to. -- Carl

XFCE and debian menu?

2011-02-11 Thread Carl Johnson
for any ideas. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/877hd6fpfj.fsf@oak.localnet

Re: XFCE and debian menu?

2011-02-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Tom Ashley tomashle...@gmail.com writes: On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 09:31:44 -0800 Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote: I am experimenting with a squeeze install of XFCE in VirtualBox, and I just noticed that XFCE doesn't implement the debian menu. Does anybody know how to add that menu

Re: XFCE and debian menu?

2011-02-11 Thread Carl Johnson
Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk writes: On Fri 11 Feb 2011 at 09:31:44 -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: I am experimenting with a squeeze install of XFCE in VirtualBox, and I just noticed that XFCE doesn't implement the debian menu. Does anybody know how to add that menu into the XFCE menu? I did

Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition

2011-01-24 Thread Carl Johnson
RR ranjt...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote: RR ranjt...@gmail.com writes: I see as more messages are pouring in, this message is getting pushed down further and people won't even see it anymore. Does anyone have a personal doco

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-24 Thread Carl Johnson
of the data below, but basically it showed that total time almost cut in half when it went from 1 to 2 processors, and again when it went from 2 to 4 processors. Processors Time (seconds) P1 66 P2 36 P4 20 -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org

Re: Missing Disk Space or Partition

2011-01-23 Thread Carl Johnson
need to read the individual man pages for more detail on the commands. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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

Re: KDE4 and other WM: user-specific avoiding of plasma-autostart?

2011-01-18 Thread Carl Johnson
Settings - Autostart Just try unchecking it and see if it does what you want. I think you will have to restart KDE for it to take effect. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-15 Thread Carl Johnson
Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com writes: Carl Johnson put forth on 1/13/2011 11:34 AM: Processors Time (seconds) P1 66 P2 36 P3 25 P4 20 P5 20 P6 20 P7 20 P8 20 Your

Re: need help making shell script use two CPUs/cores

2011-01-13 Thread Carl Johnson
a KDE 4.4.5 desktop and VirtualBox with two guest OSs (Debian and NetBSD). I suspect it would have closer to linear scaling if the system had been completely idle. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: File systems' timestamps apparently formatted in a wrong way ...

2011-01-02 Thread Carl Johnson
); alternatively stat can be useful. Other locales may vary. You can also use the same options in the environment variable TIME_STYLE. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Оффшоpы, оншopы и eвpoп ейские кoмпaнии

2010-12-16 Thread Carl Johnson
structure. I see a header marked as X-Spam-Status always has the identifier SARE_FROM_CHAR_W1251 that seems to identifies only this type of spam. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: weired issues of debian squeeze (base system)

2010-12-13 Thread Carl Johnson
Geronimo geronimo...@arcor.de writes: Hi, While I'm not familiar with Kalk Sorry, was my typo - I meant KCalc The gnome calculator is years away to be that usable. I agree, but you might want to look into qalculate as a substitute. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Carl Johnson
. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87lj4kufr4@oak.localnet

Re: Wondering about the print out function of PS

2010-11-23 Thread Carl Johnson
program. I think I had similar problems but I got around it by exporting them in my .bash_profile, so I just have: export LINES COLUMNS -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-08 Thread Carl Johnson
, AltGr-/ gives ¿. I am using unicode, but it works for all characters that the charset and locale allow. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-08 Thread Carl Johnson
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net writes: On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:47:44 -0700 Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org dijo: That is why we were talking about the Compose and AltGr keys. I have a US keyboard and I just press the Compose key followed by s and s to get ß. Similarly, I can press Compose

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:43:13 -0700 Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote: Celejar cele...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 06:45:06 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: ... In GNOME, you can get it by pressing Ctrl+Shift+u and release

Re: dhclient.conf: prepend domain-name-servers doesn't influence resolv.conf

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
always killed dhclient and restarted it manually to have it take effect immediately. It may be that a networking restart doesn't restart dhclient if it is already running. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
David Jardine da...@jardine.de writes: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:01:11AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured out how to use hex input for Linux (or FreeBSD). AltGr and the keypad. For a-f work round the outside of the keypad

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-07 Thread Carl Johnson
David Jardine da...@jardine.de writes: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 02:51:29PM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: David Jardine da...@jardine.de writes: On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:01:11AM -0700, Carl Johnson wrote: Sorry, I was referring to the link to compose keys. I haven't figured out how

Re: Unicode Character key-in problem

2010-09-06 Thread Carl Johnson
. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87fwxmb4mm@oak.localnet

Re: Now lost boot dir

2010-08-30 Thread Carl Johnson
Jordan Metzmeier titan8...@gmail.com writes: David, Your reply seems to have removed all newline characters making it unreadable. That is only the text version. The message also has an html version which is readable. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Software to handle bits and pieces of information.

2010-08-04 Thread Carl Johnson
of appointments or automated reminders. Kjots seems more limited, but that might be my lack of experience with it. Both have debian packages. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: how can a non-root user mount .iso file?

2010-08-01 Thread Carl Johnson
which give you some access. You will have to decide if they give you enough access for what you need. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: Debian virus/spy-ware detection and detection technique.

2010-07-26 Thread Carl Johnson
://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html Its also now (at least Lenny) a part of standard linux man pages as units(7). -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Recovering deleted items once Kmail trash is emptied

2010-07-12 Thread Carl Johnson
is also available from debian as part of the testdisk package. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87tyo47k6n

Re: console: turning to the primary state.

2010-07-09 Thread Carl Johnson
. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87k4p48vup@cjlinux.localnet

Re: QEMU on Debian issues

2010-06-20 Thread Carl Johnson
in /etc/network/interfaces for automatic configuration. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87eig1oekx

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-03 Thread Carl Johnson
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr writes: Dne, 02. 06. 2010 18:56:48 je Carl Johnson napisal(a): used. You also might want to look at the 'conservative' governor. It will decrease speed slower, but it also increases speed slower. I tried it out and on my system it actually performs even

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Carl Johnson
out will be slower than that. On my Athlon II computer the default latency is 8 (80msec) which is faster than I really need, so I actually slow it down a little. If you have multiple cpus or cores then you will need to change all of them. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Carl Johnson
to look at the 'conservative' governor. It will decrease speed slower, but it also increases speed slower. I have been testing FreeBSD and its driver seems to increase speed quickly, but drops it back down slowly. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Running a program when computer enters/exits idle state

2010-06-02 Thread Carl Johnson
Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr writes: Dne, 02. 06. 2010 18:33:21 je Carl Johnson napisal(a): I suspect any manual selection you figure out will be slower than that. On my Athlon II computer the default latency is 8 (80msec) which is faster than I really need, so I actually slow

Re: IPv4-capable XDMCP server in Debian squeeze?

2010-05-29 Thread Carl Johnson
called IPv6... :-) (Please, Cc any replies to my email address since I don't subscribe to the mailing list. Thanks) Done. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: daemonizing a command

2010-05-27 Thread Carl Johnson
-ruby package to see if it helps? -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- 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/87sk5dq7gy@cjlinux.localnet

Re: adding 192.x with static IP

2010-05-04 Thread Carl Johnson
let the router use DHCP to automatically assign an address in the its normal range, but then I assign static addresses in another subnet using aliases. I configure the alias in /etc/network/interfaces, but the dhclient.conf file provides another way to define aliases. -- Carl Johnsonca

Re: Cyrus 2.2 imapd in AMD64

2010-04-26 Thread Carl Johnson
-upgrade which might do what you want. There are other version of db-util, so get whichever one matches your current library and try it on a *copy* to see if it does what you want. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Alternative to dhcp?

2010-04-15 Thread Carl Johnson
file, either manually or through a reboot? I use the prepend- option, but I assume that it isn't reread automatically so I kill and restart the client manually when I change the file. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: acroread not seeing printers

2010-04-15 Thread Carl Johnson
think that should be LD_LIBRARY_PATH, without the extra 'I'. I don't know enough to help otherwise. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Scaling governor via sysctl?

2010-01-30 Thread Carl Johnson
Tilo Schwarz t...@tilo-schwarz.de writes: On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:26:40 +0100, Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org wrote: Tilo Schwarz t...@tilo-schwarz.de writes: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:42:13 +0100, Todd A. Jacobs nos...@codegnome.org wrote: I'd like to set my scaling governor in /etc

Re: Scaling governor via sysctl?

2010-01-29 Thread Carl Johnson
/etc/sysfs.conf devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor = ondemand If you have the cpufrequtils package installed, then just edit /etc/defaults/cpufrequtils to specify which you want at boot. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-16 Thread Carl Johnson
ATI and is not interested in any real discussions. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: VGA cards

2009-12-16 Thread Carl Johnson
Johannes Wiedersich johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de writes: Carl Johnson wrote: I agree entirely with you. It is obvious by now that the original poster has an irrational grudge against ATI and is not interested in any real discussions. Ups OP was Rogério Brito, not Camaleón. Sorry, I

Re: debian support and laptops

2009-12-09 Thread Carl Johnson
mainline AMD 64-bit processors now have HW support, but many low and medium cost models of Intel processors do not have the HW support. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: moving lv from local VG to a remote VG

2009-10-30 Thread Carl Johnson
to move the data. I haven't tried this, so you will have to look at the other lvm commands to see if any other steps are required. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Merge Extra free space into current linux partition

2009-10-26 Thread Carl Johnson
know if there is a way to reread the partion table an a running system? Thanks, I hadn't know about that. I had seen some other way, but this is better since it is just for that purpose. The program is in the parted package if anybody else wants to check it out. -- Carl Johnsonca

Re: Merge Extra free space into current linux partition

2009-10-22 Thread Carl Johnson
if there is a way to reread the partion table an a running system? -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: keeping the two latest files on a folder

2009-10-14 Thread Carl Johnson
') as others suggested for testing I got the same result as he did. It is the echo that is putting everything on a single line. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Printing from last page to the first

2009-10-12 Thread Carl Johnson
for individual print jobs, so you just need to look deeper into the configuration options. It is available in the KDE versions of the print manager, but I don't know that is available elsewhere. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Printing from last page to the first

2009-10-12 Thread Carl Johnson
Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be writes: Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: Merciadri Luca luca.mercia...@student.ulg.ac.be writes: Hello, When printing a document, it is always easier for the person who needs to reassemble the printed document if it was printed from

Re: vim linebreaks in Mutt

2009-08-01 Thread Carl Johnson
-topic, but I've noticed there are at least a couple Mutt users on the list. I am not a Mutt user, but I am a vim user. You would just use textwidth=72 instead of the wrapmargin=5 (or use tw for textwidth). You can also put that in your .vimrc as: :set textwidth=72 -- Carl Johnsonca

Re: should I get SATA drives for old PC?

2009-07-29 Thread Carl Johnson
drives for booting. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: How do you read mail with gnus?

2009-07-19 Thread Carl Johnson
, and it must support maildir. I want to continue using emacs or xemacs as an editor for mails. It takes a while to get working with it, but I think it is worth it. There is a lot of information starting at the following page: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CategoryGnus -- Carl Johnson

Re: Uptimes - any guidance? [moving OT]

2009-06-27 Thread Carl Johnson
quite spoiled by the package management system of Debian (and I suspect that FreeBSD and Gentoo are similar with ports and portage respectively). Ports are source, but they have a binary package system also. I mostly use the binary packages, but I prefer Debian's package system. -- Carl Johnson

Re: Debian Linux

2009-05-27 Thread Carl Johnson
as well as info pages and debian documentation. I don't know about dhelp, but dwww also shows information in /usr/share/doc, and then allows access to package information. Both of these (and probably others) output in html, so they can be used with any browser including text ones. -- Carl Johnson

Re: debiantutorials.org seeks input and new blood

2009-04-24 Thread Carl Johnson
cover a lot. They also have other books and articles at http://www.freebsd.org/docs/books.html. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Strange timeout and DPMS behaviour in Lenny

2009-04-13 Thread Carl Johnson
on this, but I haven't found any. Thanks. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

2009-03-31 Thread Carl Johnson
Barclay, Daniel dan...@fgm.com writes: Carl Johnson wrote: ow...@netptc.net writes: ... The timeout or lockup can indicate that the packets cannot be reassembled at the destination (your computer) and the TCP protocol times out waiting for one or more missing packets. That makes sense

Re: Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

2009-03-29 Thread Carl Johnson
difficult if I don't know what I should be looking for. Thanks for your suggestions. -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org Oy dial up! Since others have not seemed to experience this and since you are on dial-up, this seems to point to your local dial-up connection-either excessive errors

Re: Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

2009-03-28 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de writes: Carl Johnson: I have been having access problems with some web sites for quite a while now, with wikipedia being one of the worst. I can access the web site, but articles often freeze, especially large ones

Re: Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

2009-03-28 Thread Carl Johnson
idea how I could trace something like dropped packets? Looking for the absence of something can be very difficult if I don't know what I should be looking for. Thanks for your suggestions. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Can't ping to other ip addesss

2009-03-26 Thread Carl Johnson
of matching packages. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Problems with some web sites (tuning?)

2009-03-26 Thread Carl Johnson
. Thanks for any ideas. -- Carl Johnsonca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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