Re: complaints about systemd

2014-10-17 Thread Christopher Browne
On 9 October 2014 19:49, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 09:25:23AM -0700, Ray Andrews wrote: Can *anything* justify creating a problem that can't be debugged? I noticed on a reboot yesterday that there was a 5 minute countdown shutting down

Re: OT: complaints about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread Christopher Browne
On 10 October 2014 12:40, Michael codejod...@gmx.ch wrote: At this point, think about architectures. (Thanks heaven we're a little more on topic now ;) Especially Debian tries to support many architectures, at least as good as resources provide. Lennarts Operating System Troll (LOST)

Re: new software if moving to amd64?

2014-10-05 Thread Christopher Browne
On 5 October 2014 16:21, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: I see no reason for it to fuse given multiarch works now. I expect people to have amd64/x32 multiarch systems though since the majority of programs don't need a 64bit memory space so you would gain smaller binaries

Re: IE 8 for debian

2010-08-10 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Michael codejod...@gmx.ch wrote: No i want explorer mediaplayer and aero desktop from Microsoft. Except that it should be Linux. If you want them from Microsoft, then I suggest you contact Microsoft. I don't imagine you'd get very helpful responses from

Re: rollback after software upgrade

2010-07-26 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Michael codejod...@gmx.ch wrote:  Lennart, And hope the upgrade did convert any data files to a new incompatible format. (i think you wanted to write didn't here ?) Wouldn't it be funny to ask developers for a downgrade converter :) It's an interesting

Re: Untrusted Connection Warning .

2010-07-20 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Thierry Chatelet tchate...@free.fr wrote: On Tuesday 20 July 2010 17:38:13 Siddharth Ravikumar wrote: I have been trying to access the following links and I am getting a Untrusted Connection Warning warning from firefox and ultimately I am not able to access

Re: intel i3 processor

2010-07-19 Thread Christopher Browne
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Siddharth Ravikumar rsiddharth.m...@gmail.com wrote: I am planning to build my own computer . I have choosen to use intel i3 as my processor , I just want to know whether debian amd64 will be the right debian port If am to use intel i3 ? . i have not yet

Re: ssh

2009-01-20 Thread Christopher Browne
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM, David A. Parker dpar...@utica.edu wrote: Is any 'send file' command to make so that two machines (an amd64 multisocket and a simple i386, both lenny) talk scp with one another through a router (attached to adsl) fully without asking the password? With 'fully'

Re: How would I get debian unstable?

2008-06-05 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 04:48:48PM +0200, Heikki Levanto wrote: Sorry if I over react, but I am a bit allergic to anyone claiming something is fundamentally the wrong way to do almost anything. I guess most of the ways

Re: How would I get debian unstable?

2008-06-04 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:26 PM, annne annnie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to use debian unstable, but I do not know how to get it. If someone could direct me to a site that has the steps set out or type the steps or something it would be much appreciated. I have the image for debian

Re: persona non grata...

2008-05-01 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear folks, I got an email asking me to leave the list. If you wish I will go. I don't recall in particular anything that you have said (no offense intended; I try to ignore as much as I can of the flurry of

Re: Opinions on ext3 vs XFS vs reiserfs for LAMP server

2007-08-23 Thread Christopher Browne
On 8/23/07, Neil Gunton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if anyone has any real-world advice on the best filesystem to use for an AMD64 LAMP server. I know that the different systems have their pros and cons, but a lot of the comparisons out there seem to be rather old. So I'll describe

Re: How to use SMP right?

2007-07-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On 7/12/07, Jan-Hendrik Palic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am not really familar with multiprozessors or multicore systems except installing a smp enabled kernel and see more then one cpu in /proc/cpuinfo. On clustersystems are tools for distributing prozesses to free nodes of the cluster.

Re: Offtopic : Large hostings and colocations ?where?

2007-05-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On 5/11/07, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 08:54:51AM -0500, Igor TAmara wrote: Hi, I would like to know if there are services offering machines with about 2teras of space and 20mbps of bandwidth, I guess with no monthly limit. In my country, Colombia, we

Re: Offtopic : Large hostings and colocations ?where?

2007-05-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On 5/12/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a side note, Lennart, when you have 1500 servers, how do you arrange for console access to a server if required to solve a problem with bios or early booting (before ssh is available)? In effect, the BIOS needs to support connecting

Re: off-site backup

2006-10-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On 10/16/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a reminder, reply to the list. I'm not sure which list you read it on, so I sent it to both. On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 11:06:22AM -0600, Cedar Cox wrote: It seems that USB sticks/flash-drives are far more rugged than anything other

Re: [POLL] To continue 64 or not?

2006-09-01 Thread Christopher Browne
On 9/1/06, edwardsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't import powerpoint files. For a government lab, where productivity can, at times, seem synonymous with productivity, this can be really annoying. I'm a chroot now. What I really meant was that power point can, at times, seem synomymous with

Re: get rid of landlord

2006-07-22 Thread Christopher Browne
On 7/22/06, Francesco Pietra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking instead at etc/rc#.d how to stop services. I never looked at that before but it seems that gnome, can be stopped from rc4.d. It may be useful to get knowledge of rc#.d instead of going by trial and error as I did before,

Re: XFS, EXT3 or some other?

2006-06-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On 6/16/06, Hemlock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Seeking some advice on which filesystem to use. I've been primarlity an ext3 user, because thats all I've really ever known of, but would consider trying something else. Plus, never used anything other than 32bit Debian since slink. I've read

Trouble burning DVD

2006-01-01 Thread Christopher Browne
I am having zero luck burning DVDs (stupid system backups!) on my AMD 64 system wolfe:~# cdrecord -scanbus | egrep -v .\*$ cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try

Re: Trouble burning DVD

2006-01-01 Thread Christopher Browne
On 1/1/06, Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Christopher Browne | I am having zero luck burning DVDs (stupid system backups!) on my AMD 64 system [...] | wolfe:/proc/ide# cdrecord -v dev=ATAPI:4,0,0 speed=4 | /brownes/knuth/compiles/backups/cbhome.iso If this actually

Re: Motherboard with many SATA ports: MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum ?

2005-11-28 Thread Christopher Browne
On 11/28/05, Andre Majorel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, yet another motherboard question. Looking for a socket 939 motherboard with a comfortable number of SATA ports (at least 6, preferably 8). The application is software RAID. I would buy a reasonable motherboard, and plan to use either

Re: Migrate running IA32 system to Debian AMD 64?

2005-09-21 Thread Christopher Browne
On 9/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to migrate to Debian-AMD64 system, how can I do it, without interrupting for more than 5 minutes my services which are running on it? Last Saturday, I implemented a process converting data from one of our systems to a new

Mounting 32 bit-created XFS on AMD64: Bad???

2005-08-20 Thread Christopher Browne
It seems the power supply on my IA-32 box didn't survive the tornado thunderstorms we experienced in Toronto yesterday. In lieu of fixing it, I thought I'd mount the drives on the AMD64 box; I have been putting off the migration for way too long. Alas, it appears that I cannot mount any of the

Re: best distribution 4 AMD 64

2005-07-27 Thread Christopher Browne
On 7/22/05, fernando tear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I'm looking for a good debian distro to install in my new AMD 64 and i would like you suggest my best choise. If you're looking for a good debian distribution for AMD64, let me suggest you consider installing Debian for AMD64. It is

Re: Filesystem stability?

2005-07-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On 7/11/05, Mark Ferlatte [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've heard rumours that some of the Linux filesystems aren't as stable as they should be on AMD64; in particular, I've heard of bad things happening with JFS and XFS. We have had some trouble with XFS. It's *possible* that the problems relate

Re: Debian/Ubuntu/Redhat which is better for heavy duty computations?

2005-07-03 Thread Christopher Browne
On 7/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu seems faster, but (unfortuntaley) their packages are not always compatible with debian ones. They make their own package versions (same like Suse/Novell, Redhat etc.). That might not be an issue for you, for me that was a concern.

Re: postgresql 8

2005-05-12 Thread Christopher Browne
On 5/12/05, Koen Tavernier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm putting a dual opteron box together and I will be installing postgresql 8 on it. Has anyone here compiled this, and is there anything in particular I should look out for? We're running a bunch of quad opterons in production now, all on PG

Re: amd64 into mainstream

2005-04-18 Thread Christopher Browne
On 4/18/05, Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I full agree here: Ubuntu is more attractive to the average end user. But I do not understand why everybody is so upset about this. After all, there is no one size fits all distribution. No, I'm not saying Ubuntu will kill Debian or

Re: Time drift in amd64

2005-03-03 Thread Christopher Browne
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:20:23 +0100, Carsten Prieß [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:45:45 -0500 Peter Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bharath Ramesh wrote: I just installed a fresh installation of amd64 on another athlon box. I find that the clock seems to be drifting by

Re: Printing from chrooted open office

2005-03-02 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 18:08:05 -0500, Tong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is an obvious simple question, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere. I mean, What should I do in order to print from open office which is installed in the chrooted environment. I.e., I think I should install

Re: openoffice installation

2004-10-17 Thread Christopher Browne
On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:25:53 +0200, Michael Bienia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2004-10-16 22:04:16 -0400, Christopher Browne wrote: None of this seems to result in installing openoffice.org... Is there some extra site to point to in /etc/apt/sources.list? Yes, you need the openoffice.org

Re: openoffice installation

2004-10-16 Thread Christopher Browne
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 21:49:03 +0200, Michael Bienia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: openoffice.org-debian-files is in the openoffice.org folder and also in the pure64 archive. You need the one from the openoffice.org folder. That one from the pure64 archive needs a newer openoffice.org. Try apt-get

Re: korganizer crash

2004-10-13 Thread Christopher Browne
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:24:23 +0200, Andreas Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i try to start korganizer it crashs. can anybody run the program on debian-amd64? I haven't had any difficulties with korganizer. The icalendar support is certainly tempting, though not enough to draw me away