Re: [SOLVED] Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?

2012-08-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
I run an SSD on my MCP61P so lack of NCQ has no impact whatsoever--SSD's have no moving parts, and all seeks are instantaneous. While I haven't heard of NCQ improving read speed of SSDs, it can have a significant positive impact on write speed for SSDs. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: [Conclusion] Looking for an emacs replacement

2012-09-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
(if (= emacs-major-version 20) (menu-bar-mode -1)) I recommend testing (fboundp 'menu-bar-mode) instead. (if (= emacs-major-version 21) (if window-system (tool-bar-mode -1))) And here I recommend testing (fboundp 'tool-bar-mode) and calling the function regardless of

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
with ntpd crashes on my server. Time jumps forward one hour every time this has happened. However I'm not convinced it's the hardware causing Sounds like something is causing the one-hour jump, and that in turns causes ntpd to go bonkers. As for what causes this jump, I don't know. Some cron

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
with ntpd crashes on my server. Time jumps forward one hour every time this has happened. However I'm not convinced it's the hardware causing Sounds like something is causing the one-hour jump, and that in turns causes ntpd to go bonkers. As for what causes this jump, I don't know. Some

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-05-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
Hmm... I guess I'm going to have to test it in a minimal environment where I'm reasonably sure there can't be some clever daemon interfering while trying to do something useful. Did you find the solution? And if yes, what was it? I think the problem was hardware. At least I'm now using

Re: Can Debian's paranoia be tamed

2012-11-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
Decent desktop environments allow you to use the window manager of your choice. Decency seems to be a dying breed, sadly ;-) Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: OT: Seeking Advice on Purchasing a Laptop

2012-11-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
The problem with proprietary drivers is of course that they're proprietary, but on top of that, they aren't as hassle-free to install and update. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
It is possible, but it's not easy. I tried installing a Linux distro (don't remember which one) from a thumb drive in Developer Mode and the BIOS recognized it but would not boot it because it wasn't signed. Google has some way of allowing developer self-signing, but I never looked into how

Re: OT: just falling back to fluxbox after Gnome3 mem-leak experince

2013-02-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status Name: gnome-shell VmPeak: 3537456 kB VmSize: 3403068 kB That doesn't show a memory leak. Indeed, but we're talking about 3GB of memory here, which seems hard to justify for such an application. awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/'

Re: stun server. (just want to clear my concept)

2013-02-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
stun server is mainly used for Voice and Video due to their UDP in nature. so that if UDP recipient want to response back with voice or video packet it returns back to Stun and stun route back to our local server. but the question is why?. if i have a public Ip which is published behind

Re: Moving from a proprietary OS - unnecessarily inful experience -- was [Re: I wish to advocate linux]

2013-02-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
I don't know if he was referring to that FAQ or not. *HOWEVER*, as a senior citizen moving from Windows(tm) to Debian(tm?), I find the transition unnecessarily annoying. I used http://goodbye-microsoft.org once and it went very smoothly. AFAICT this site doesn't exist any more, but I have the

Re: How to ifdown ... on squeeze?

2011-11-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
NM's only controversial because there are people who oppose change not matter why it might be. The NM developers haven't done themselves any favors by not providing server-type features like bonding... No, it's also controversial for other reasons. In my case, I have issues with it because it

Re: Adobe flash is dead

2011-11-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
Why bother with non-free software when we're talking about a technology that's dying like BSD these days? Because right now, realistically it's the only game in town if one wants to watch flash content. When HTML5 comes along and I am able to get rid of

Re: how to download the packages in Debian testing non-free before installing?

2012-01-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
Most probably it's the firmware you require. This can be provided to d-i on a USB stick. Another alternative is to do the install on another machine, and then to move/clone the resulting partition. Most of my Debian installs were done by cloning an existing system rather than going through the

Re: ntp daemon.

2012-01-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
== server1.shellva .INIT. 16 u- 102400.0000.000 0.000 mail.honeycomb. .INIT. 16 u- 102400.0000.000 0.000 thor.netservice .INIT. 16 u- 10240

Re: stupid question about pvdisplay, just to be sure.

2011-10-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
Just to be sure in case I misunderstand and do something really stupid: When pvdisplay says april:/farhome/hendrik# pvdisplay --- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/md0 VG Name VG1 PV Size 673.62 GiB / not usable 3.00 MiB Allocatable

Choppy video

2011-10-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm trying to watch www.ctv.ca from a macbook pro (2GHz dual core with ATI graphics) and am having problems where the video is going slow (I'd estimate around 5fps). This is using Debian testing with the nonfree Adobe flash player (obviously since gnash doesn't even display any video at all).

Re: USB boot from HardDisk

2011-10-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
But if the computer starts I do get a grub menu from the Ubuntu distrobution. Would it be possible to use this grub setup from Ubuntu to boot my pendrive usb ? One way or another, your Ubuntu can read the pendrive, then you can do it. There are various ways to boot over USB; by order of

Re: bash command

2011-10-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
Sadly, this can't be done in-place, so you'll either need to use mv to replace /etc/conf.file with /etc/conf.file.new or repeat the loop (with no substitution) to copy /etc/conf.file.new into /etc/conf.file. It can be done inplace with `rm' in place or `mv': (rm /etc/conf.file; while

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
So to recap my original post, the basic requirements are: - fanless mini PC - it will run Debian - production environment (reliability is important) - good Linux support to facilitate fast deployment and low maintenance, - avoiding non-free software (non-free firmware, out-of-tree kernel

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
not a necessity, though it is desiable :). A custom kernel that doesn't work is obviously going to be a problem, but if it works well enough then it would be fine for me. But I guess it does make a The problem is: what will you do with your machine three year down the road? Will you have to

Re: free software mini pc

2012-02-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
Of course, the manufacturer distributes the GNU/Linux version of the product with a proprietary driver which is hell to get working on anything else than that specific Xorg+kernel combination. I like to avoid that head-banging experience and the associated why did I ever purchase this

No sound from Adobe's flash player

2012-02-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
I recently updated my Debian testing desktop (which moved it to Gnome 3) and now the Adobe flash plugin doesn't give me any sound any more. Luckily, Gnash gives me sound OK, but I'd still like to solve the issue with the Adobe plugin for those sites that don't work with Gnash. So, from what I

Re: No sound from Adobe's flash player

2012-02-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'd love to get help here: - how do I work around the problem so that Adobe's flash plugin gives me sound? - why is ALSA's dmix refusing connections (after all, its name claims it's a mixer, so it should accept more than one input stream). I would like to see the output of: lspci -knn |

Re: xserver-xorg vs. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

2012-02-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
While I admire the work the Nouveau guys are doing, after suffering for more than 4 years with an Nvidia GPU+chipset on my desktop, I just replaced the motherboard with a one based on the AMD E350 fusion chip, and suddenly all my problems are gone. One of the best $200 I've spent recently. Only

USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5 drive, it's almost always idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not in a place where I can easily plug it in and out. Googling, I found a very similar looking problem that

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). This is a serious problem since it's a 3.5 drive, it's almost always idle (I only use it once a day for backups) and it's not in a place where I can easily plug it in and out. Googling, I found a very similar looking problem

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). (...) Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it? IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm (-M flag and also /usr/ share/doc/hdparm/README.acoustic) but as the man page/doc says, the possible options for this

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
My USB-connected drive spins up every hour (or even half-hour). (...) Any idea what it might be and how to find out and fix it? IIRC, this setting can be defined using hdparm (-M flag and also /usr/ share/doc/hdparm/README.acoustic) but as the man page/doc says, the possible options for this

Re: shrink ext3 filesystem using e2fsprogs and fdisk

2012-03-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
thanks for replies! Is it possible to slide partition using the tools included with e2fsprogs package as well? The e2fsprogs tools only deal with the needs specific to ext[234] partitions. Sliding a partition can be done for any partition you like with `dd'. Stefan -- To

Re: USB drive spins up every hour

2012-03-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
The hard disk can have set (by default) embbeded routines that make the disk to be awaked at a regular interval and external disks (those that come with USB enclosures or NAS/SAN appliances) tend to do it to speed up things (e.g., to run scheduled backup tasks). For a NAS, I could agree. But

Re: Disk clicking and in increasing Load_Cycle_Count in laptop with debian/testing

2012-04-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
to find how often the head get unloaded, I have completely prevented this effect to occur. Notice that you have 2 problems: 1- Unloading. 2- Reloading. From where I stand, the unloading is normal, harmless, and even desirable so the real problem is: why is it re-loaded every 3 minutes? I'd

Re: HELP: Number of CPU cores is not right

2011-06-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
I hardly call module size blows up to be no rationale for limiting the number of CPUs. Well, if now is set to 512, the problem was not that big, I mean... solvable. IIRC the Linux kernel handling of CONFIG_NR_CPUS has changed: it used to allocate potentially large static data of size

Re: Debian Squeeze and Intel 82830 GC on Thinkpad X30

2010-12-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
Possibly someone out there has a working xorg.conf for this amazingly long lived little laptop? I use Debian testing on my X30 with an empty xorg.conf. The switch to kernel mode setting (KMS) seems to have brought its share of problems, tho: without KMS the i810 driver won't start any more, and

Re: Debian Squeeze and Intel 82830 GC on Thinkpad X30

2010-12-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
So you use KMS and get good performance? I'm not very sensitive to video performance, but I didn't notice any particularly slow operation. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
If one is so power consumption conscious to be suckered into a Green (EARS) drive, then one needs to realize the CPU dissipates about 10 times the wattage/heat of a hard drive. Thus, concentrate your power I have no idea what makes you so angry against green drives. But I can assure you there

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
The first thing of notice is that the Load_Cycle_Count of the drive heads increases every 8 seconds by default. As seen on the Internet, this may pose a problem in the long run, since these drives are guaranteed to sustain a limited number of such head parking cycles. The number given

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

2011-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
unfortunately that simple approach is harder to do with my renaming scheme. So I would probably write a helper script that did the options to convert and renamed the file and so forth. for k in *.JPG; do base=$(basename $k .JPG) test -f $base.1024.jpg continue # skip if already

Re: DD To a Smaller Partition

2011-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have a 10 GB partition that is nowhere near full, less than 5 GB of data on it (far less). Unfortunately, the partition I'd like to copy it to is 5 GB. I can do rsync -av but normally I'd use DD. Is there a way to copy an image of just the files from one drive to another? In the case

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have no idea what makes you so angry against green drives. I am against using any drive, at this time, in Linux, with a native sector size other than 512 bytes. Again, I fail to see why you're so emotional about it. I understand you don't recommend people buy such drives unless they know

Re: USB key requirement.

2011-01-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
The eToken is basically a smartcard that plugs into USB. I still don't really understand the difference apart from it containing a key that I match against. Which is in essence what I was asking to do with a USB block device which looks much cheaper than the eToken. Typically, the difference

Re: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving drives?

2011-01-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
# hdparm -I /dev/sdc | grep Sector size Logical Sector size: 512 bytes Physical Sector size: 4096 bytes This is reported by the drive to hdparm. Only the 512 is used by the kernel. It has no knowledge of the 4KB physical block size and can't use it

Re: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?

2011-01-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm down on these drives due to the maniacal 8 second head park interval, which likely does more mechanical damage than it saves power in dollar terms. There is simply no concrete evidence to back this urban legend. In the WD20EARS I purchased this was in no way just a legend -- be it

HD manufacturers and Free Software (was: [SOLVED] Is squeeze compatible with WD20EARS and other 2TB drives?)

2011-01-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
MUST READ: Western Digital is unable to provide support for the Unix/Linux operating systems outside of jumper configurations (for EIDE hard drives) and physical installation support. While I never expect any OS-specific support from hard-drive suppliers, I find it offensive for a manufacturer

Re: [OT] Hard Drive Energy Not Worth Conserving drives?

2011-01-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
Read the ATA and SCSI specifications. Or ask on either mailing list. In short, the drive presents its LBA addressing based on 512B sectors. The kernel can't choose to ignore that--it's stuck with it. Since the drive is presenting LBA based on 512B sectors, there is no way the kernel can

Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW

2007-03-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
Thanks, that is a perfect solution to my problem. Esp. since I am not having much luck getting ntfs-3g installed and running. Odd. For what it's worth I don't use ntfs much, but I tried ntfs-3g the other day, and it was trivial: apt-get install ntfs-3g, then mount. Stefan -- To

Re: CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y, ACPI, and uswsusp

2007-03-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
No. It is not. That's why I went to the trouble of downloading 2.6.20 from kernel.org. These are my options in either kernel: The stock 2.6.18-4-686 kernel has it enabled, but the 2.6.18-4-686-bigmem doesn't have it at all (not even disabled). Maybe that can help you, Stefan who

Re: GPL v3?

2007-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
So, let me ask you, when you drive the speed limit, you are skirting the law. Or if in a 55MPH speed limit area and you drive 55MPH... exactly, are you are skirting the law (and therefore staying within the limits of the law) or are you breaking the spirit of the law and should be punished

Re: GPL v3?

2007-04-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
if you use code under GPL your program has too be under GPL. That's the gist of it, although it's only if you distribute your program that this comes into effect. Also this is not really the end goal, but rather its means. The end goal is to make it possible for anybody to

Re: GPL v3?

2007-04-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
I say Patents BAD only if they are used for keeping progress from happening. Software patents are an unmitigated evil. However, attempting to fix a patent problem with a copyright license is a serious error. You're confused: while I expect most GPLv3 contributors find software patents an

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
I see your point, the reason I am shocked is that Flash is not a web standard as such verified by the Web Consortium but has become a de facto standard as people rush to put stupid animations and graphics on their websites. I agree with the Captalism comment to. The reason I use Debian is

auto-install modules when installing a new kernel

2007-04-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
I need a few kernel modules that are not included in the stock kernel. module-assistant makes it pretty easy to compileinstall them, but I still wish it were even more transparent. I.e. I'd like to be able to automatically compileinstall those modules for every new kernel I install (and also

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-04-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
crash, given this, what would be really cool would be to partition the system at install time using a slightly mean, but granular, best guess layout [0] so things should fit in their partitions without too much wasted space, then configure each partition as one mount point on one logical

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

2007-04-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
I setup my rootfs as an LVM, the menu.lst of grub looks like this; title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-386 root(hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/volume/root ro initrd /my_init savedefault Error happens when the kernel tried to mount

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-05-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
That sounds like poor implementation, the critical bit is not to let it iterate without it having worked the first time. I still don't see anything wrong with the concept as long as it's implemented right, although I've never dealt with a system on the scale you're talking about. The problem

Re: grub and rootfs as LVM

2007-05-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
Try use /dev/mapper/volume-root instead. I'm not sure why, but I recently had a similar problem where using /dev/Debian/root didn't work but /dev/mapper/Debian-root did (even though once the boot is over, /dev/Debian/root can be used just fine, it looks like the alternate name is constructed

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove 150+ unused packages, including Gnome. Doesn't feel right to me so I don't use it. If `apt-get upgrade' suggested to remove `gnome'. I'd do the following: apt-get install gnome If that doesn't do anything, then I'd write down

Re: suggestions for window manager

2007-05-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
low-resource: box only has 64 MB available. Rock solid stable. A focus on good design and being bug-free over adding 'features'. I recommend ctwm. But you'll have to go through editing a config file. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

unmounting /media/usbdisk from the command line?

2006-10-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
When a USB disk is mounted by gnome-volume-manager, I can unmount it using nautilus (via right clicking on the disk's icon), but I haven't figured how to do it from the command line. Any hint? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. You don't ask much, do you? No, indeed. Mac OS X's `preview' does it out of the box. theory AFAIK:

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
Actually, PDF is not a programming language, contrary to Postscript. So it's much easier to deal with (and more difficult to introduce viruses into it, among other things). Really? Can you explain more about this? I thought PDF was a subset of Postscript with some kind of compression and/or

Re: Laptop choice?

2006-11-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
Intel Celeron M 420 I'd recommend against any Celeron CPU. It's slow and not energy efficient. A Turion64 ML-something is OK but an Turion64 MT-something is more energy efficient, so check the details. W.r.t GNU/Linux support I've come to the conclusion that it's a question of luck more

Re: ripping several hundred cds?

2006-11-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
as part of this project I want to rip all of our cds to mp3 or ogg Of course. Note that if you you can get the necessary disk space, I recommmend you use flac rather than ogg or MP3. This is much bigger (a factor of 5 of so, I'd say) but has the advantage that it's lossless which means that

Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software.......

2006-12-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have given up on sane with my scanner. I guess you mean xsane. If so, a bewildering interface, a badgering licence message, and a lack of stability, make this a program to avoid. Hmm... interesting. I started with the software that HP distributes with my OfficeJet: a complete waste of

Re: alternatives to sane in scanner software.......

2006-12-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
Hello after a while on this. I have tried xsane in Debian and Fedora until I am blue in the face and I can't get it to work. I am starting to think the only way to get a scanner to work in Linux is if you write the program in assembler code and hire an idiot savant to configure it. I get

Re: 48000Hz bitrate Audio distorted

2006-12-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
Whenever I play a video with an Audio bitrate of 48000Hz in Totem or VLC, the sound is very distorted, doesn't matter if it's in mp3 or AC3 format. Video files with an audio bitrate of 44100Hz plays fine. Odd, it's usually the reverse. Sound card is an onboard (Asrock 939Dual-Vsta) C-Media

Re: 48000Hz bitrate Audio distorted

2006-12-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
Not sure which part of the dmesg to copy so you can see it in full here: http://fab621.googlepages.com/dmesg Hmm... looks like the ALSA driver doesn't output the relevant info. Anyway So the way you describe your problem (48kHz sampled audio is OK, but 44.1kHz one sounds bad) is odd.

Re: DVDs - err what gives?

2006-12-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
Regulations prevent distribution = non-free True, it's non-free by Debian standards. But I still would like to make a distinction between blatantly non-free software, like the w32codecs, and stuff licensed as free software, like libdvdcss. Agreed. It would be good to distinguish between

Re: RAM puzzle

2007-07-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
apt-get install linux-image-2.6.18-4-686. And try the 2.6.21 one while you're there: it may reduce your battery consumption significantly. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Notebook Battery

2007-07-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
I know the answer to this will probably hurt, but I thought I'd give it a shot in any case. My notebook's battery life took a sudden drop from around an hour to about 15 minutes. I is a 4800mAh battery. Given the specs of your battery (10.8V 4.8Ah, i.e. 51Wh), an autonomy of one hour means

Re: disable saving persistent net rules

2007-07-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
How can I prevent udev from saving the MAC address of eth0 into the persistent net rules file? I am using Debian Etch. I added a file /etc/udev/rules/a10-monnier.rules which contains various rules that I like (e.g. rename the firewire network interface to eth-fw0, rename the wifi interface to

Re: Benefits of using aptitude

2007-07-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
Still, if you're used to apt-get, I don't really see a reason to switch. I always recommend aptitude, but never tell users to switch from apt-get on a running system. If I should, please let me know the reasons. The biggest benefit (at least until the new apt) would be the automatic

Re: GRUB2 and Windows

2007-07-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
I took a leap of faith (or folly, yet to be seen) and installed grub2. I did this in an attempt to move from Lilo to Grub (as I prefer grub). However, I didn't realize that Grub2 is vastly different! It seems to be installed correctly as I have a grub.cfg file that looks correct for

Disable gnome-power-manager?

2007-07-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
Am I the only one who finds the gnome-power-manager to be fundamentally flawed? A power daemon needs intrinsically to be system-global and not specific to a particular login session. This becomes obvious when there are several logins active at the same time (on different virtual consoles),

Re: Disable RAM

2007-08-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
I want to test how a program would run with a reduced physical memory. The machine has currently 4 GB RAM running Debian. I'd like to evaluate the performance of the system with 2 GB physical RAM. Of course, I could remove on of the RAM modules. But, is there also a way to disable the

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

2007-08-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
is because there is a penalty for executing 32-bit code, one which is There is none (if you use the 32bit subset of the AMD64 architecture). But there is a penalty for using the x86 architecture instead of the amd64 architecture. This penalty is not specific to the Athlon64/Opteron/younameit,

Re: Transitioning to 64bit, is it worth it, and how

2007-08-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
So I installed a system where / and /boot are not on raid and low and behold grub seemed to successfully install the boot sector and I could boot the disks. Making the /boot partition on a RAID is generally not possible with GRUB (don't know about LILO). It supposedly can be done if the RAID

Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
I don't have a card reader, but it sounds like that may not be such a bad thing to get, except that it is probably more hassle to eject the SD card and reload it into a reader and run the risk of damaging it from frequent handling. Contrary to HS I haven't found the card reader to be

Re: gnome in testing

2007-08-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
Right now when I run 'apt-get -s upgrade' there are 172 programs in the 'not-upgraded' response. If I try to upgrade any one of them a bunch of gnome programs are also upgrade but also apt-get wants to REMOVE gnome-desktop-environment and gnome-themes among a few others. I'd probably do: 1 -

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
Just remember to tell you editor to inserts spaces as tab and set the tab width to something reasonable like 4. Please don't. TABs are 8 spaces apart. Always have been, always will be. People playing silly tricks with tab-width is the main reason why using TABs in languages like Python is a

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
Looking in /etc, I see /etc/network/iface, is it here I fix that? I don't see any such file. There is /etc/network/interfaces however. man iface man network try man interfaces ;-) Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
Haskell defines TABs as being 8 spaces apart and I expect Python to do the same. Python should do it because Haskell does it?? Not because Haskell is so influential, but because the same causes tend to result in the same effects. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: flac and wav

2007-08-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
Would have if I could have! But it wasn't a cd. It was an old cassette tape feeding into the sound card, captured with ReZound. There are *definitely* ways to do that with Linux. Someone asks every 4-6 months on this list. Record players, not cassette players, but the concept is the same.

Re: Samba + external drives

2007-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
So it's just a mix of network and network copy that seems to cause problems. I hope that's better :-) Any ideas? I'd try linux-kernel. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disadvantages of Iceweasel instead of Firefox

2007-08-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
As you all know, Debian Etch released with Iceweasel instead of Firefox. This is totally okay, but some applications (like X-Chat or Gaim/Pidgin) still uses firefox %u command instead of iceweasel %u for opening web URL addresses, from Gaim conversations and IRC channels. It used to work in

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
I'm a big proponent of swap *files*. Once you allocate the whole disk, there no room left over if you want to add another swap partition, whereas you can add as many swap files as your heart desires, whenever you need them. I'd always heard that swap files are slower than swap partitions.

Re: Good fdisk Practices

2007-08-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
I read recently on this list that LVM is not portable across CPU Don't believe everything you read. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have been using Subversion for this very application for several years; it works well. Most revision control systems will do the job. And most of the post-CVS revision control systems (other than Subversion) also allow you to commit locally before sending the commit to the remote server.

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
I write all my texts in latex, use JabRef/bibtex to manage references, subversion to keep track of things and to collaborate with coauthors, and -- if I need to submit to a journal misguided enough only to accept word, latex2rtf. My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files.

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
I write all my texts in latex, use JabRef/bibtex to manage references, subversion to keep track of things and to collaborate with coauthors, and -- if I need to submit to a journal misguided enough only to accept word, latex2rtf. My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files.

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
I write all my texts in latex, use JabRef/bibtex to manage references, subversion to keep track of things and to collaborate with coauthors, and -- if I need to submit to a journal misguided enough only to accept word, latex2rtf. My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files.

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
I write all my texts in latex, use JabRef/bibtex to manage references, subversion to keep track of things and to collaborate with coauthors, and -- if I need to submit to a journal misguided enough only to accept word, latex2rtf. My wife works in a field where most journals want Word files.

Re: GMT vs UTC

2007-11-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
Note that while there is a difference between GMT and UTC, mostly computers are set to GMT. The M is for Mean time which smooths over leap seconds that occur in UTC due to the jitter of the earth's rotation. Check wikipedia for a more precise answer. Note, however, that its unlikely that

Re: How to install from hard disk on ia64 system?

2007-02-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
My cd-rom is not recognized by the debian installer because of the intel 965 chipset on my asus p5b mainboard. I know there is a way to install from an iso image on the hard drive but I am having problems understanding how to get this to work. I currently have mandriva installed and lots of

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
Does anyone have any recent experience, either good or bad, with any specific laptops? Just avoid ATI graphics cards, and nVidia as well (tho it's not as bad). Integrated Intel graphics is often the best choice (best support under GNU/Linux, best battery life as well). How are they for

Growing an HFS file system

2007-03-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
I have an HFS+ filesystem (on a powerpc-mac style partition) that I need to grow. parted/gparted seem only able to shrink it. Is there some other tool that's able to grow an HFS+ filesystem. I looked at tools under macosx as well, but macosx is only able to resize an HFS+ partition if it's on a

Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

2007-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
I wanted a live Debian system on my USB key. The Debian Live option is too static for my taste, I wanted a real live system, upgradable via apt-get etc... One option is to use a large enough USB drive and do a plain Debian install on it. But my USB drive is only 128MB so it was not possible. I

Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

2007-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
I know you said you want a plain Debian, but what about DSL ? http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ My understanding is that DSL offers some things I don't need (like a desktop; I'm mostly interestd in this system as a kind of rescue drive) and fails to provide me with the ability to just update it

Re: Debian on a 128MB USB flash drive

2007-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
You say that you have problems with apt-get. Have you tried aptitude at the command line? No. Googling for jffs2 mmap apt seemed to indicate that it's not specific to apt-get, so I didn't even bother to try something else. Besides, I'm used to apt-get and not to aptitude, so I actually

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