Re: Trying to Switch from Ubuntu to Debian

2011-02-16 Thread Sam Leon
On 02/16/2011 01:58 AM, Noah Duffy wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 23:55 -0600, Sam Leon wrote: I think it just depends on what you are wanting to accomplish. I left MS because their OS just tries too hard to do everything for me (and tries too hard to take my money). I left ubuntu because

Re: Trying to Switch from Ubuntu to Debian

2011-02-15 Thread Sam Leon
On 02/15/2011 09:36 PM, Noah Duffy wrote: Hello, all. I've been an Ubuntu user for quite awhile. Linux has been my only OS for over a year now (and I've been using it on and off longer than that). I've recently gotten the itch to switch to Debian. Ubuntu has worked quite well for me, but

Re: adaptive traffic shaping with shorewall?

2010-10-16 Thread Sam Leon
On 10/16/2010 03:37 PM, lee wrote: Hi, is it possible to implement adaptive traffic shaping with shorewall? What I have in mind is, for example, to be able to specify that outgoing ftp traffic shouldn´t use more than 1/4 of the total bandwidth if the other 3/4 of it are used otherwise. When

Re: KDE Question

2010-10-12 Thread Sam Leon
On 10/11/2010 09:37 PM, Dmitryi wrote: KDE 4 is a nightmare. How can KDE 3.5.x be installed on Debian testing? Is there a package repository somewhere? What exactly is your problem? After spending about 2 hours with kde4 I had it working very similar to 3.5. True, it did take 2 hours but

Re: Upgrade SVN in Debian Lenny

2010-09-27 Thread Sam Leon
On 09/27/2010 08:07 PM, Tech Geek wrote: I am using Debian Lenny (amd64). I need to upgrade the current version of Subversion (1.5.1) on my Lenny system to something more recent, say 1.6. I noticed that Debian backport does not have the 1.6 version but Debian testing (squeeze) has 1.6 which is

Re: mdadm without initramfs

2010-08-16 Thread Sam Leon
On 08/16/2010 08:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. put forth on 8/15/2010 5:34 PM: In20100815190053.ga4...@gandalf.home.lxtec.de, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: How do I set up mdadm to create the root array witout an initramfs? You can't. mdadm is a user-space binary that can't

Re: why rsync wants to delete destination files

2010-08-06 Thread Sam Leon
On 08/06/2010 10:41 PM, T o n g wrote: Hi, I believed that rsync wouldn't delete existing destination files unless instructed so (by --delete-excluded). However, while debugging a (mysterious) bug, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems.aufs.user/2821/focus=2827 I now suspect

Re: md does a monthly resync?? (was Re: Questions about RAID 6)

2010-05-03 Thread Sam Leon
Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/02/2010 03:24 PM, Alexander Samad wrote: [snip] My system used to become close to unusable on the 1st sunday of the month when mdadm did it resync, That sounds... wrong, on a jillion levels. I would rather the array fail on a monthly resync than have it fail on

Re: xen

2010-04-17 Thread Sam Leon
IAN DELANEY wrote: Hello there, Ny name is Ian, from Perth Australia. I have a question to be answered please. I'm a linux user, so I use suse, debian, ubuntu and gentoo, and fedora. I'm interested in exploring the capabilities of xen and have done so an all the above. I'm in a brand new

Re: KDE and Squeeze

2010-03-13 Thread Sam Leon
lrhorer wrote: I have been using kde4 for over a year. The only issues that I have had are the lack of a couple of programs that haven't been ported from kde3 to kde4 yet but I have managed with out them. You didn't explain what your problems are with kde4 so I am going to have to guess here.

Re: KDE and Squeeze

2010-03-08 Thread Sam Leon
lrhorer wrote: I loaded up an embedded system with Debian recently. I was having problems relating to the older kernel in Lenny, so I want ahead and installed Squeeze. I got things working, but I was mortified with KDE4, which installed with Squeeze. It's horrible. I mean really,

Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Sam Leon
Matthew Moore wrote: On Friday February 26 2010 9:42:09 am wishi wrote: Am 26.02.10 12:20, schrieb Alex Samad: On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:16:57AM +0100, Marius wrote: Hi! I'm using the xfce4-terminal and GNU screen. However since ... forever I have stuff in my .screenrc that made it recently

Re: mp3 Book Helper

2010-02-19 Thread Sam Leon
Daniel Cliff wrote: There is an excellent open-source ID3v1,2 tag editor for MS Windows called mp3BookHelper http://mp3bookhelper.sourceforge.net/ Is there anything similar for Debian? Can anyone suggest a good ID3vX tag editor? TIA D. The best I have found for mass editing tags has been

Re: Air compressors vs. canned air

2010-02-13 Thread Sam Leon
Chris Jones wrote: Just paid c. $10.00 for a DYNEX Compressed Gas Duster, IOW a 10 oz. can of compressed air from my local Best Buy. Not so much the money per se, but each time I buy one of those, I get this nagging feeling that I've had been had. Has anyone with real world experience in the

Re: Losing Debian to the cancer known as HAL

2009-09-13 Thread Sam Leon
JoeHill wrote: Dirk wrote: I am not affiliated with Gentoo but I see a raising demand for Linux without HAL http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+remove+HAL (Yes, almost 500.000 results) Yeah, and 3,750,000 for 'linux install hal'. So what? I don't even know what HAL is Sam -- To

Re: RAID questions (again)

2009-08-12 Thread Sam Leon
kj wrote: ghe wrote: I've partitioned a server disk fairly heavily, and I want to RAID1 it. I see on the 'Net that there's such a thing as partitionable RAID arrays. But I also read that this isn't such a good idea. Seems pretty good to me: build an array of unpartitioned drives, and slice

Re: Lenny on an Asus eee pc 900A 4 GB SSD

2009-07-20 Thread Sam Leon
Mark wrote: Looking for input/feedback. I just bought a refurbished Asus eee pc 900A 4 GB SSD netbook (Linux model, not XP). Have yet to receive it, but it comes with Xandros according to the specs. I'd really like to put Debian Lenny stable on it instead, and have looked at the wiki here

Re: CMOS query

2009-03-31 Thread Sam Leon
matheng...@aim.com wrote: I believe the CMOS battery of my lenny box is faulty since being a second hand one I cant tell its age certainly. What are the right sensors i could use to determine this? If i need to replace it is there anything i need to configure? I have never seen a board that

Re: managing audiofiles

2009-03-28 Thread Sam Leon
Bernard wrote: Hi to Everyone, I have an old Olympus Digital Voice Recorder VN-960PC. I never did find a way to recuperate recorded audio files from this tool, in any other way than using the MSWIN specific program. Since it worked all right, I always used it that way. It gave compressed

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-25 Thread Sam Leon
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: In 49c93fd1.7040...@net153.net, Sam Leon wrote: Most everyone here is recommending just plain old rm -rf I might add that once you start the rm process that you find the pid of it and then lower its priority with renice so that away your whole system won't

Re: Delete 4 million files

2009-03-24 Thread Sam Leon
kj wrote: Hi guys, This might seem like a stupid question, but I'm hoping there's a better way. I discovered a Maildir on my server with 4+ million mails in. The result of a cronjob that runs every minute - this has been fixed. Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {}

Re: Flash player for Lenny/64 - But from where?

2009-03-23 Thread Sam Leon
Matthew Smith wrote: Hi Folks A little research has shown me that to install Flash player for my 64-bit Lenny Iceweasel I need to install flashplugin-nonfree However, when I get nothing but: 0% [Connecting to www.backports.org (194.8.57.6)] ...followed by a timeout, this makes it a bit tricky.

Re: iceweasel rendering problem

2009-03-19 Thread Sam Leon
Leonardo Canducci wrote: It only happens in a few websites (i.e. http://www.tuxfeed.it/ ) and in debian sid only, lenny is ok. The webpage is a little messy with frames and decorations out of place. Zooming charachters in or out (ctrl + ctrl -) fixes the problem but using default size (ctrl 0)

Re: RAID 5 data structures

2009-03-12 Thread Sam Leon
Joe McDonagh wrote: Sam Leon wrote: I have a funny question. I have been playing with a 3 disk raid 5 setup for my desktop. I guess I don't fully understand how the stripe is managed or even what it is. I know the stripe is made up of a chunk from each disk. Now I always thought

Re: Ext3 for flash drive

2009-03-11 Thread Sam Leon
Mark Allums wrote: Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:23:43PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Masatran / Deepak, R.: Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and one Ext3 partition. Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At least cheap flash

RAID 5 data structures

2009-03-11 Thread Sam Leon
I have a funny question. I have been playing with a 3 disk raid 5 setup for my desktop. I guess I don't fully understand how the stripe is managed or even what it is. I know the stripe is made up of a chunk from each disk. Now I always thought of the stripe in raid the same as a block in

Re: RAID 5 data structures

2009-03-11 Thread Sam Leon
Mark Allums wrote: Sam Leon wrote: I have a funny question. I have been playing with a 3 disk raid 5 setup for my desktop. I guess I don't fully understand how the stripe is managed or even what it is. I know the stripe is made up of a chunk from each disk. Now I always thought

Re: both bootable in raid1

2009-03-06 Thread Sam Leon
Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi: I am looking for a debian thread instructing how to make bootable both disks in a mdadm raid1. I followed successfully the recipe time ago, don't remember how, and unfortunately i did not take notice of. Unable now to find the thread on the web. But I am sure there

Re: ssh connection takes long time

2009-03-02 Thread Sam Leon
abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, When I connect to ssh server ( server running Redhat ) from debian it takes a long time to give me the prompt, while I receive the prompt rapidly when I connect from slackware or solaris? thanks for help See option usedns

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-28 Thread Sam Leon
Dean Chester wrote: Hi I have been recently looking at other distros to use other than Debian. And i have also been given a new laptop for use in school which i am soon going to be running Linux on. However i don't know what to go for. The 3 options to choose from are Debian(of course),

Re: fish://host protocol died unexpectedly

2009-02-20 Thread Sam Leon
H.S. wrote: Though I should start a new thread for this after I posted about this just now as a response to another user. Just a heads up in Testing. It appears there is a bug in konqueror or something because when I try to fish://u...@host I get --- An

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Sam Leon
Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: HI, There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances use that language instead of the other. In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better. thanks a lot bela __

Re: Postfix config

2009-01-25 Thread Sam Leon
These are the documents that I used when I set up my postfix server a year or so ago: http://wiki.debian.org/Postfix https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PostfixBasicSetupHowto https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/serverguide/C/postfix.html

Re: OT: IP of computer sending message

2009-01-06 Thread Sam Leon
Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, Is there a way to get the IP of the computer sending message, using Kopete? I am receiving messages from someone who must have highjack my brother ID. I know that the messages dont come from his machine (I first thought it could be as he is running W$) because I

Re: Debian AMD64

2009-01-06 Thread Sam Leon
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: I just got my Compaq laptop CQ40-115AU and I want to install Lenny AMD64. What's the different if I use AMD64 instead of i386. My main use of laptop is for word processing and virtualization. Can any of AMD64 user share their experience or perhaps a bit of advice? No

Re: squid-cache

2008-12-07 Thread Sam Leon
Tom Allison wrote: why is there two different versions (v2.x vs v3.x) of squid supported? Is there that much incompatibility between the two? pros/cons with one over the other? http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg52046.html Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: x11vnc and kde

2008-11-28 Thread Sam Leon
Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I'm trying to start a new KDE session with either of the following: FD_SESS=kde x11vnc -N -usepw -http -ssl SAVE -xvnc FD_SESS=startkde x11vnc -N -usepw -http -ssl SAVE -xvnc but all I get is a default X server. I've also tried configuring ~/.vnc/xstartup to

Re: how to execute a command as another user in one command?

2008-10-28 Thread Sam Leon
Star Liu wrote: currently i'm the root user, but I need to execute a command as another user named postgres, I can do it in 2 commands, and it works fine. --- su postgres postgres -D ~/data ~/log/logfile 21 --- but i hope I can do it in one command, so I tried this

Re: CRT to LCD

2008-10-18 Thread Sam Leon
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! I am running etch in a system with a CRT monitor. I want to switch to a LCD one. Is there a smooth way to do it? I mean, do I need to change something in xorg.conf? Thanks in advance Marcelo LCD over DVI is usually very easy. When I did this all I did

Re: Why not thunderbird

2008-10-17 Thread Sam Leon
T o n g wrote: Hi, I know that thunderbird has been renamed to icedove in Debian. But for iceweasel, we can still type the command firefox, mozilla-firefox, or even mozilla and start it. So why icedove is not providing the thunderbird command? thanks You can try making a link: ln -s

Re: On the fly spell checking in firefox

2008-10-16 Thread Sam Leon
T o n g wrote: Hi, My firefox (iceweasel) use to have the on the fly spell checking capability in text editing entries. But my lose it in my newly installed lenny. How can I get it back? thanks Install hunspell and a laungauge pack:

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-16 Thread Sam Leon
Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/15/08 19:16, Sam Leon wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote: I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the drive will be rarely accessed I added: /dev

Re: How to properly empty log files

2008-10-16 Thread Sam Leon
T o n g wrote: Hi, My /var/log/mail.err is very big due to a misconfiguration error. However, I can't simply remove it because it is owned by rsyslogd: $ lsof | grep mail.err rsyslogd 4387 root 10w REG8,9 17605899 247416 /var/log/mail.err So, how to properly

Re: Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-15 Thread Sam Leon
Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 12:12, Sam Leon wrote: I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the drive will be rarely accessed I added: /dev/sdb { spindown_time = 180 } To hdparm.conf to spin down

Slow SATA

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Leon
I just bought a new motherboard, Asus M3A79-T. The hard drives I am using can get speeds of over 100MBs but with this motherboard they only get about 48MBs max. I can disable ncq with echo 1 /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth It gave me a 5MBs boost but that was all. I also tried

Hard Drive Spin Down

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Leon
I have added a large drive to my desktop for back up purposes. I am using rsnapshot to backup just a couple of times a week. Since the drive will be rarely accessed I added: /dev/sdb { spindown_time = 180 } To hdparm.conf to spin down the disk after 15 minutes of inactivity to save power

Re: Slow SATA

2008-10-14 Thread Sam Leon
Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/14/08 11:50, Sam Leon wrote: I just bought a new motherboard, Asus M3A79-T. The hard drives I am using can get speeds of over 100MBs but with this motherboard they only get about 48MBs max. I can disable ncq with echo 1 /sys/block/sda/device/queue_depth It gave me

Re: rsync over lan

2008-09-10 Thread Sam Leon
tyler wrote: Hi, With some help from the good people on this list, I got a simple home network setup, and I'm now using it to backup my laptop to my desktop using rsync. I have one question though - I'm backing up /etc, /home, /opt, and parts of /usr and /var. I want to preserve ownership, but

Re: SATA drive problems in LENNY...

2008-07-15 Thread Sam Leon
Kai Martens wrote: Hi there, While upgrading to service pack 3 windoze died - so I finally got my wife to work on my debian machine. Now I need to install debian on her amd64 compaq, and unlike 15 month ago this time I cannot give up. The SATA drives are simply not recognized during

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-14 Thread Sam Leon
Steven Maddox (Cyorxamp) wrote: Hi folks, This is my first time on the Debian mailing list. I wanted to bring up a number of things I have been thinking about as of late. I had a long lng chat in #debian-offtopic if some of you remember. Abrotman - you're gonna love this :P Apologies

Re: 97% use of / system

2008-05-22 Thread Sam Leon
andy wrote: Hello My / partition is some 12GB and I see that it is currently 97% full. How can I clean this out without trashing important files? What should I be looking for in terms of likely culprits that can be deep-sixed safely? Thanks Andy Trying running aptitude clean Sam --

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [TAG] 2-cent Tip: Poisoning the spammers]

2008-05-11 Thread Sam Leon
Chris Bannister wrote: - Forwarded message from Ben Okopnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] - User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Ben Okopnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:03:36 -0400 To: The Answer Gang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [TAG] 2-cent Tip: Poisoning the spammers I saw a

Re: Most inexpensive debian friendly laserjet printer? total cost of ownership including laserink?

2008-05-05 Thread Sam Leon
Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, I tend to print out a lot of documentation on the software for projects that I work on. Therefore I go through alot of laserjet cartidges on my postscript compatible hp laserjet 1200 printer. My latest cartridge just needs to be replaced again. I am tired of paying so

Re: CPU frequency scaling

2008-04-22 Thread Sam Leon
Peter Tynan wrote: On 22/04/2008, Peter Tynan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22/04/2008, Vikki Roemer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Probably a dumb question, but what processor do you have? -- Vikki Roemer cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name gives model name : AMD Athlon(tm) Processor cat

Re: migrating to 64 bit...

2008-04-15 Thread Sam Leon
Could one easily upgrade to an amd64 system just by formating /, reinstalling with the proper arch, and then reinstalling all the apps that were installed and hopefully all the conf files in /home/user will be compatible with the arch change of kde and other apps? (of course I am only talking

Re: AMD Athlon XP3200

2008-04-01 Thread Sam Leon
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:16:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 31 March 2008 12:24:05 pm Phil Wiley wrote: My computer uses an AMD XP3200 processor. Which set of instructions should I use? The ones that apply to your system's architecture. If you used to run

mdadm Raid1 Striped Reads

2008-03-12 Thread Sam Leon
Is there anyway to get mdadm to stripe disk reads in raid1? Some of the documentation I read makes me think that it does this by default but in my tests it is not Thanks, Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fsck.ext3

2008-02-02 Thread Sam Leon
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: After converting my file system to ext3, I thought there would be no more lengthy fsck's every 20 or so boot-ups. But they still happen. Some Googling revealed different opinions; some people say ext3 does not need periodic fsck's, others say even with ext3, it is best

Re: Few Questions About Debian

2008-01-21 Thread Sam Leon
Depo Catcher wrote: I've played around with this a bit and considering switching over my workstation to Debian. Currently I use FreeBSD - but the Virtual Machine software I use (VMWare) it's supported as well as on Linux. Few questions I have: During install there is an option to install

Re: Iceweasel version question

2007-12-28 Thread Sam Leon
S Scharf wrote: Just curious, anyone know why/how debian stable is at version 2.0.0.10 http://2.0.0.10 for iceweasel but testing is still at 2.0.0.8 http://2.0.0.8? Stuart It usually takes a month or so. One of the draw backs of testing. Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: konqueror won't start

2007-12-10 Thread Sam Leon
Bogdan Marian wrote: Hello, I'm running Debian Etch - Nvidia FX 5200. Everything used to work out fine but suddenly, Konqueror won't start... Bogdan What happens if you type konqueror in the console? Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: OT: clicky keyboards

2007-12-07 Thread Sam Leon
Ed Curtis wrote: i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ASW [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: us-ascii, 13 lines --] ASW Totally OT, except it's on my debian box ;) ASW If you need that amazingly insightful gift for someone

Re: OT: Socket A motherboard

2007-12-03 Thread Sam Leon
Jacob S. wrote: Howdy list, Sorry this is a bit OT, but the motherboard just died in one of my computers. I was hoping to simply replace it, since I do not have enough money to build a new computer right now. But, I can't find any good sources for a socket A motherboard w/SATA (the computer

Re: OT: Socket A motherboard

2007-12-03 Thread Sam Leon
Ron Johnson wrote: And *none* will have SATA. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Do you mean sataII? There are alot of socket A boards that have sata, the nf7-s v2 included. Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Why ext3 doesn't need defragmentation ?

2007-11-30 Thread Sam Leon
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya David Brodbeck wrote: On Nov 30, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: No. The NTFS file system does not need defragmentation. all file systems can use a defragmentor lets assume a disk format of: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 .. 63( aka sectors ) if you try

Re: removing kde

2007-11-26 Thread Sam Leon
lostson wrote: Hello All I have install debian stable with kde and am wanting to remove kde completely and install gnome. Is this possible ? and if so how ? I have been googling trying to find a way with no luck thanks. LostSon I am not sure how kde was installed since usually doesn't

Re: Postfix and SASL authentication

2007-11-25 Thread Sam Leon
Barry Samuels wrote: I have tried twice before to set up SASL authentication for Postfix and failed to get it working both times. I am now trying a third time. I have three remote mail servers to which I can send outgoing mail. I use Balsa as a mail client and, as a test, I set the value of

Re: The excessive amounts of spam I am getting

2007-11-24 Thread Sam Leon
Sidarth Dasari wrote: Is anybody else getting tons of spam emails from this mailing list? Not only spam, but spam of the Japanese and Arabian variety :-/ Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: انتاج الفحم

2007-11-19 Thread Sam Leon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: لدينا فحم ممتاز To get the most help, an english translation would be great. Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: file transfer information

2007-11-18 Thread Sam Leon
hce wrote: Hi, I use scp to transfer a file, it displayed 50 KB/s. Does that mean 50 Kbit/s or 50 Kbyte/s? Thank you. Jim bytes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

2007-11-17 Thread Sam Leon
André Wendt wrote: Hi, I'm running a benchmark program on Lenny that writes into a file and repeatedly exits once the filesize reaches 2,099,204 bytes. This is on ext3. $ ulimit -f unlimited $ uname -a Linux think 2.6.22-2-686 #1 SMP Fri Aug 31 00:24:01 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux This doesn't

Re: Help with Debian Install

2007-10-19 Thread Sam Leon
Ed wrote: Hi, I downloaded an image called debian-40r1-i386-netinst.iso. The install went fine until I got to the step to 'Configure the Package Manager'. When I do this step, it asks if I want to use a network mirror and I choose 'yes'. It then asks for a protocol and I choose 'http' although

test

2007-10-08 Thread Sam Leon
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Re: test

2007-10-08 Thread Sam Leon
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Re: not prettey! Display problem

2007-10-08 Thread Sam Leon
andy wrote: Chris wrote: Hi, when I start a KDE-Session I get several flashing pixels on the upper edge of my display, that leave holes in windows that are dragged accross them (see picture with holes in the blue margin of the konsole window). When I switch to a text console (ctrl-alt-f1)

Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-09-30 Thread Sam Leon
Daniele Salatti wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set up a mailserver on Debian etch for the first time, but I have a problem: every time I restart postfix I get this message: /usr/sbin/postconf: /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2: no version information available (required by /usr/sbin/postconf) Any

Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-09-30 Thread Sam Leon
Daniele Salatti wrote: Sam Leon wrote: Daniele Salatti wrote: Hi! I'm trying to set up a mailserver on Debian etch for the first time, but I have a problem: every time I restart postfix I get this message: /usr/sbin/postconf: /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2: no version information available

Re: Debian Lenny VLC from where?

2007-09-23 Thread Sam Leon
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 04:29:44AM +0530, Siju George wrote: Could some one tell me the repository from which I can install the VLC player for Debian Lenny? You must be missing something. Please post your /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: nvidia-glx and xorg

2007-09-21 Thread Sam Leon
Tim Day wrote: For what it's worth, I just got nvidia drivers working on my testing box (+Nvidia 7600) by picking up linux-image-2.6.22-2-k7 from sid, and module-assistant building nvidia (so also need nvidia-kernel-common and nvidia-kernel-source from sid, and then nvidia-glx too once the

Re: oo 2.2 in lenny?

2007-09-04 Thread Sam Leon
Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! I am running lenny, and I would like to install openoffice.org-2.2. The version in lenny is 2.0. In my etch machines, I used the oo-2.2 from backports.org. How can I install openoffice.org-2.2 in lenny? Thanks in advance Marcelo oo2.2 is getting

Re: Extending ext3 root-fs

2007-09-04 Thread Sam Leon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I am running Debian 4.0 64bit on an Opteron. My disks are two RAID5 on a IPC VOrtex controller (gdth). My / is becoming a bit to small (Mostly stuff in /lib), so i extended it with lvextend -L +200M /dev/Debian/root Now, to resize the fs i intend to boot

Re: nvidia-glx redux...

2007-09-04 Thread Sam Leon
ZephyrQ wrote: ZephyrQ wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:56:36AM -0500, ZephyrQ wrote: I've edited the xorg.conf file back and forth several times (usually manually changing 'nv' to 'nvidia' and back again when glx couldn't load) and checked the previous thread

Re: I LOVE DEBIAN!

2007-08-31 Thread Sam Leon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I love Debian so much that when I see the Debian boot screen my rocket takes off!! Me too Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WYSIWYG editor

2007-08-28 Thread Sam Leon
Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: What do you recommend as a good, practical WYSIWYG editor for creating simple web pages, with mostly text, some graphics and pdf, for debian Lenny please? Thanks. -- Regards, I would like to know too. I think us html noobs using linux are just out of luck :(

Re: using ssl on part of a website

2007-08-06 Thread Sam Leon
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 01:08:43PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi guys, I'm having real trouble figuring out how to do this. I've got a wiki running ikiwiki and I'd like to get the log-in/editing portion out of clear text. the obvious thing seems to

Re: Opinions XFS

2007-08-03 Thread Sam Leon
Sergio Belkin wrote: Hi I was reading http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/index.html and was amazed because XFS powerful features. But I'd like opinions if xfs should be a good alternative to ext3 in typical cases, or if it should be relegated to critical missions servers. Thanks in advance!

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-30 Thread Sam Leon
David Fox wrote: On 7/28/07, *David Fox* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hints? OK well, running the patched driver available was a good suggestion, but it fails miserably on my system. here's the attached error log Looks like you need to remove the old

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-28 Thread Sam Leon
David Fox wrote: I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get the nvidia drivers (the non-free ones) the debian way. There doesn't seem to be an avalable version of nvidia-kernel-source for my particular kernel (I was running 2.6.18-4-k7, but I just upgraded to 2.6.21-2-k7 a

Re: Opera is faster, but...

2007-07-11 Thread Sam Leon
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: tejas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Firefox in Windows is faster than Iceweasel/Firefox in Debian and Ubuntu. Firefox in Windows is faster than Swiftfox in Debian/Ubuntu. Firefox in Zenwalk is faster than Iceweasel/Firefox/Swiftfox in Debian.(may

Re: Opera is faster, but...

2007-07-11 Thread Sam Leon
tejas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Leon yazmış: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: tejas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Firefox in Windows is faster than Iceweasel/Firefox in Debian and Ubuntu. Firefox in Windows is faster than Swiftfox

Re: Opera is faster, but...

2007-07-09 Thread Sam Leon
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, On an unrelated matter I installed Opera on Sid. It *is* faster than iceweasel. But because it hasn't got the ease of the adblock extension, that turns out to be a wash. Hugo I really want to use opera but I can't because it seems to force you to use tabs

Re: Opera is faster, but...

2007-07-09 Thread Sam Leon
Matthew K Poer wrote: On Monday 09 July 2007 3:14 pm, Sam Leon wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, On an unrelated matter I installed Opera on Sid. It *is* faster than iceweasel. But because it hasn't got the ease of the adblock extension, that turns out to be a wash. Hugo

Re: Opera is faster, but...

2007-07-09 Thread Sam Leon
ArcticFox wrote: On Jul 9, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Sam Leon wrote: Matthew K Poer wrote:On Monday 09 July 2007 3:14 pm, Sam Leon wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, On an unrelated matter I installed Opera on Sid. It *is* faster

Re: Playing SMIL File

2007-07-05 Thread Sam Leon
On Thursday 05 July 2007 20:38, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 10:11:16PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote: Does anyone know how to play a smil slideshow in linux? I can get the audio but not the pictures in mplayer. It is some kind of realmedia format I think. Have you tried

Playing SMIL File

2007-07-04 Thread Sam Leon
Does anyone know how to play a smil slideshow in linux? I can get the audio but not the pictures in mplayer. It is some kind of realmedia format I think. Thanks, Sam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailing list problems with Thunderbird

2007-07-01 Thread Sam Leon
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Sam Leon wrote: Ok, I have had this problem for awhile and I can't find any info on it. I am using thunderbird 1.5 in testing. All the other mailing lists that I have subscribed to work fine. When I see a post that I want to respond to, I simply click

Re: FileSystem Question

2007-06-30 Thread Sam Leon
Manon Metten wrote: Hi Sam, On 6/30/07, *Sam Leon* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ext3cow does this but it is not in debian repos for some reason http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/02/0413253 http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/02

Mailing list problems with Thunderbird

2007-06-30 Thread Sam Leon
Ok, I have had this problem for awhile and I can't find any info on it. I am using thunderbird 1.5 in testing. All the other mailing lists that I have subscribed to work fine. When I see a post that I want to respond to, I simply click the Reply button and it will bring up a new box with

Re: FileSystem Question

2007-06-29 Thread Sam Leon
Manon Metten wrote: Hi, On my Debian GNU/Linux box I use ext3 file system. On my other platform (AmigaOS) I use SmartFileSystem (SFS). Well, I don't know nothing about file systems, but SFS has one feature I really miss in ext3: .recycled. Every file I delete or every file I overwrite, ends

Re: lenny: dri stopped working (nvidia)

2007-06-24 Thread Sam Leon
David Fox wrote: Hello, when I was running etch I had the nvidia driver on a Geforce FX 5200 running just fine. I've done a recent (as of a few days ago) dist-upgrade to lenny and the DRI no longer works. Additionally, I'm seeing a stack backtrace and a sig11 from the X server on

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