Re: shared memory in computational chemistry

2007-04-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 03:39:28PM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: QUESTIONS: 1) How to set shmmax in debian? Look in /proc/sys/kernel ... there are several shared memory parameters there. [Not sure about the rest] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: communication structures crumbled

2003-11-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Nov 25, 2003, at 17:16, Dan Jacobson wrote: With the mailing lists affected, what would average user me do to learn the latest on the situation, irc.debian.org #debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hd question

2002-01-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 09:20 AM, Robert Epprecht wrote: /dev/hdc: Timing buffered disk reads: hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } [ ...

Re: NO ANSWER, trying again...annoying console message: lp0: compatibility mode

2002-01-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 10:25 AM, James D. Freels wrote: I got no response. Anyone know about this one ? modprobe in the correct modules, then you won't have to deal with them being dynamicly loaded.

Re: NTP no server suitable for synchronization found

2002-01-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 06:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 /usr/doc/ntp # ntpdate -q 192.168.1.1 server 192.168.1.1, stratum 2, offset -0.882461, delay 0.02628 16 Jan 10:53:16 ntpdate[1422]: no server suitable for synchronization found Huh? Your gateway is a

Re: Duplicating installed system

2002-02-03 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Friday, February 1, 2002, at 11:27 AM, Sridhar M.A. wrote: rsync -aH to copy all the directories. rsync? I'd trust tar or cp -a more. Especially since it messed up /dev already! Everything is there. Checked the /etc/fstab and all other places. Is the partition table correct?

Re: [Fwd: Re: shutdown/halt as user]

2002-02-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, February 13, 2002, at 01:43 PM, Jason Ramey wrote: correct, an example is as follows: puckALL= NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/pico -w /etc/bind/[A-z]* I'm letting puck edit anything in /etc/bind/ using sudo, no password required. this should fit your needs. Remember that most editors

Re: ? about C++

2002-03-12 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, March 7, 2002, at 03:57 PM, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Anyhow, my point was, name 4 problem areas in C. You're lucky with 'none of the above'. It could be... 1. No array bounds checking (Fix: use vector or equivalent) Real-world idiot fix: My name is 7 characters; give it twenty,

Re: [HELP] RAID chunk-size - alternatives

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 06:22 PM, Russell Coker wrote: Another thing, you should have a separate cable for each disk you want to be independant. So for RAID-1 you should have two cables so that a cable failure won't lose your data. For a RAID-5 with 5 disks you want 5 cables. This

Re: debian

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 08:45 AM, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin quoting what Mark Janssen said on Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:57:30AM +0200: Maybe we should make a wav/mpg/ogg file like the old linus.wav file: My name is Current DPL and I pronounce debian as debian :) You could get

Re: Debian on PS2 with 2.5 IDE raid??

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 10:16 AM, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello list, I'd like to install Debian on Sony PS2 with 2 2.5 IDE disks as software raid disk array. Is it possible? Is there anyone having experience? First question: What architecture is this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Kernel idle interference??

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 09:29 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote: At first I thought it was due to bad hardware, or perhaps broken/incompatible sound drivers; but one day, I got an idea and ran the following program: It is bad hardware. The kernel puts the CPU into low-power mode when idle (see

Re: security updates for testing distibution

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Can one switch back to stable without reinstalling the whole? Probably not. But you don't want to, woody will be soon! Just keep saying it, woody will be soon... woody will be soon... eventually, we'll convince ourselves that it is true ;-) Seriously --- we now have under 100 RC bugs in

Re: unsubsribe!!!

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 06:36 AM, Karsten M. Self wrote: echo You appear to be sending a subscription, unsubscription, or; \ echo \help\ message to a mailing list I'm subscribed to. I am; \ echo not the list manager, just another subscriber.; \ I confess to

Re: wine = crackling speakers

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 08:49 AM, Andrew Perrin wrote: Any advice on how to get rid of the crackle? for dev in /dev/dsp* /dev/audio; do # did I miss any? fuser -v $dev done And have fun with kill once you find out the program. If that doesn't work, try modprobe -r on your

Re: xfree86 4.1.0-15 broke my display

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 04:19 PM, Craig Duncan wrote: Jeffrey W. Baker writes: Well, I use apt-get clean on occasion. The -14 release of XFree86 was several months ago. Would be nice if there was apt-get clean-except-last-version i supposed. apt-get autoclean unless the manpage

Re: [HELP] RAID chunk-size - alternatives

2002-04-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 03:34 AM, Russell Coker wrote: Of course. As we all know SCSI cables never break. There must be something about the IDE command-set which causes copper wires to corrode. :-# (I know this is a joke, but) actually there is. IDE has a wonderful feature of only

Re: Debian on PS2 with 2.5 IDE raid??

2002-04-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 04:00, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:16:25PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: I'd like to install Debian on Sony PS2 with 2 2.5 IDE disks as software raid disk array. Is it possible? Is there anyone having experience? [Disclaimer: I've never tried this, nor

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-04 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 11:02:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: For Etch and Sid, it is probably a good idea to use -Os instead of -O2 at least on the bigger arches (ia32, ia64, amd64, etc), as we can probably trust gcc not to screw up. If gcc generally generates faster code with

Re: Compiling packages for the standard distribution with -Os instead of -O2

2006-05-06 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 04:44:23PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Initialiy this was for people with older computers, not a 2 GHz amd64 with 2GB ram. Think P90 with 64Mb or slightly better. We are not talking generally here but specific. Specific to certain hardware. OP mentioned:

Re: New woody install - INIT: cannot execute /etc/init.d/rcS

2002-06-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 23:56, Andy Saxena wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:15:24PM -0400, Matt Miller wrote: I just installed woody (from a pile of 1.4M floppies) onto my circa 1994 Intel 486. When trying to boot off the hard drive or off my boot floppy everything looks fine until

Re: this post is not off-topic

2002-06-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 16:17, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: What!? PPC takes priority!? I thought you didn't want to support obscure architectures! I think this whole which architecture takes priority is silly. As a correction only, I'd like to point out that 10-15% of desktop computers sold

Re: this post is not off-topic

2002-06-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 22:16, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: It is. Glad we agree. I don't know a whole lot about PPC, but M68K is much better designed that x86. Yes, it is. Very much better designed. The i386 is what, 32-bit extensions to a 16-bit version of an 8-bit core? Or did it start

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 20:33, Alvin Oga wrote: if you have a nearly full 80GB disks ... it wont matter if you have 1x 80GB or 4x 20GB( stripping ) No, it does matter. You can expect at least one of four 20GB drives to fail much sooner than one 80GB drive, assuming same MTBF numbers on all

Re: Make eth0 be eth1, something like eth0=eth1?

2002-06-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sun, 2002-06-09 at 09:46, AE Roy wrote: I'm looking for a way in which I can turn my eth0 into eth1. I've been thru all the files in /etc/network but I didn't find what I'm looking for. I've never used it, but according to the manpage, nameif can do this. see man 8 nameif. signature.asc

Re: HDD vs. RAID (was Re: Lilo Q)

2002-06-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 03:46, Alvin Oga wrote: - and if the drives gonna fail... i say its more likely to die within the first 30 days ... Yes. MTBF only measures how likely it is to fail during the middle of its life. A good number die early (defective) and late (worn out). Not many die in

Re: ext2 file recovery software

2002-06-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Wednesday, June 12, 2002, at 06:30 , Paul Scott wrote: I have an ext2 partition which was formerly my working woody/sid system. Someone (not me) began a woody installation on that partition. Apparently a new file system was initialized destroying the first 500 blocks of a 4 GB partition.

Re: OT question sorry but i need salution fast ....

2002-06-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tuesday, June 11, 2002, at 02:14 , faisal gillani wrote: well i have 2 ethernet networks running which i want to connect but the distance between them is above 400 meters .. so this is way beyond the normal lan hardware .. First off, you might be able to get away with it. Make sure the

Re: ext2 file recovery software

2002-06-13 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 12:41 , Paul Scott,,, wrote: I was thinking that creating a new file system (the problem) would have written new backup superblocks. Am I wrong? I would be glad to be wrong! What if an fsck had been done just after the problem happened? Well, if only the

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Fri, 2002-06-14 at 15:31, Ian D. Stewart wrote: Can anybody else shed some light on the difference between SIZE and RSS? Size is how much memory has been allocated through brk(2). RSS is how much is currently paged in. So, a program can (and some do) brk a lot of memory, thus upping their

Re: artsd, scsi me

2002-06-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 17:16, Jamin W.Collins wrote: Very strange. Don't know why you'd be getting an error for a device that isn't attached. scsi0 and scsi1 refer to the controllers, methinks. Very unlikely he removed controllers. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: Server X process taking 250 Mo - leaking ?

2002-06-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
So, if I'm understanding this correctly, SIZE indicates how much memory has been reserved for the application (and therefor not available to other applications), Nope. By default at least, Linux will overcommit memory. So, you can run 40 different programs all with a 1GB size. brk just

Re: artsd, scsi me

2002-06-18 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 02:20 , G. L. `Griz' Inabnit wrote: No. The AIC-7xxx is built onto the motherboard. Well, that would qualify for 'very unlikely'. Have you tried reseting the controller in the Adaptec BIOS? That has fixed most AIC-7xxx issues I've had. I also notice you

Re: Kernel Panic - ext2 vs cramfs

2002-06-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 18:54, curtis wrote: Now, on my personal computer after updating to 2.4.xx, I made the same changes, but I notices that during the boot there is a line entry: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) Look closer. There should be at least two VFS lines. For example, from a

Re: Woody install insists on using Potato packages

2002-06-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
When installing, after setting up apt for http or whatever, tell it you want to add another source. Go to edit by hand. Change all the 'stable' to 'woody' Continue the install (BTW: By editing /etc/apt/sources.list, you can fix your already performed install. Do a potato - woody upgrade after

Re: How to set default compiler to 4.0?

2005-11-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Lennart Sorensen wrote: Or you could start running unstable where gcc-4.0 is the default I believe. :) Same with testing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Page Faults Defined

2002-09-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 04:50, martin f krafft wrote: i am repeatedly seeing the term page fault being used in Debian in the wrong way. (examples?) A page fault, despite its name, has nothing to do with memory corruption or an invalid access. It has quite a bit to do with an invalid access.

Re: Removal of freeswan from sarge

2004-12-19 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Last I heard (and this was a while back, pardon me if it's been fixed since then), openswan didn't have support for cyphers other than 3DES, e.g., AES, like freeswan does. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Looking for Linux-friendly PCI Express 2.0 x1 host bus adapter internal SATA 6 Gbps

2016-01-05 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 10:17:27PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > My goal is to use a current SATA 3.0 (6 Gbps) SSD as the system drive in > older computers that have SATA 2.0 (3 Gbps) ports and PCIe 2.0 x1 expansion > slot(s). SATA 3.0 is backwards-compatible; you can just use the SATA 2.0

Re: Dovecot Problems?

2015-12-27 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Presuming you're running stable, I've got 1:2.2.13-12~deb8u1 running and login from Android clients (K-9, Android 5 and 6) works just fine. I would suggest using tcpdump to see how far the packets are getting. Also, IMAP/SSL (as opposed to IMAP + STARTTLS) runs on port 993—make sure you're not

Re: What is Installjammer? (OT reply)

2017-07-20 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On 07/20/2017 03:16 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Similarly, it is currently Thu Sep 8724 1993 (Eternal September calendar, available as sdate). Way back on September 4180, 1993, AOL ended Usenet access, the cause of the Eternal September. I'm not sure if it's best to call the next day October 1,

Re: Scanner Compatibility question

2017-10-25 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 08:02:28PM +, J.W. Foster wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone here has used or been able to install a > scanner model: Canon - 9000F Mark II Flatbed Scanner - I personally use said model with a Debian testing box. It works perfectly, though I've never tried the 4-channel

Re: Display full date in Thunderbird

2018-06-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On 06/24/2018 11:56 PM, Ken Heard wrote: How do I get Thunderbird to use the same format for dates/times more than a week old? You need to use the config editor to create/edit mail.ui.display.dateformat.today, mail.ui.display.dateformat.thisweek, and mail.ui.display.dateformat.default as

Re: estamated number of Linux users?

2017-10-26 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On 10/26/2017 09:38 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi all, Any place where this number exists?  I would include those companies and web professionals, using Linux servers as apart of their craft? This isn't an easy question to answer, or probably even a meaningful one, especially because it's

Re: OT: dovecot with letsencrypt, K9 mail fails?

2018-03-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Dovecot (IMAP) is working fine here with K-9. Since you're seeing different results in different clients, the most obvious reason would be a different behavior from the two different ways to connect to IMAP (or POP3) with TLS: * connect to port 993, start TLS negotiation * connect to port

Re: Difference between ipp, ipps, http, https CUPS protocols?

2019-11-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Quick search of https://sources.debian.org/src/cups/2.3.0-7/backend/ipp.c/ shows there is no different between ipp and http, and no difference between ipps and https. ipps and https force encryption, using SSL/TLS (just like you'd expect from https) (so if your printer doesn't offer

Re: Lenovo Ideapad 320 requires non-free firmware vega 20. In sid, but not Buster

2019-11-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On 11/17/19 3:51 PM, Kenneth Parker wrote: Note:  I didn't check "Backports", when I did the install. I could add it, if someone thinks vega20 might be there.  Is there a way for me to check? You can check the versions of packages at https://packages.debian.org, so for

Re: Broken PMTUD / ICMP blackhole?

2019-12-17 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On 12/17/19 11:39 AM, Celejar wrote: Now I just have have to figure out the best place to configure this. I'm using dhcp via /etc/network/interfaces, but the 'dhcp' method doesn't seem to support manual MTU setting. I could use a 'supersede interface-mtu' line in dhclient.conf, but AFAICT,