Re: Debian Porterbox machine

2012-04-20 Thread brian m. carlson
a stated purpose, but will be used in some capacity in the future. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc

Re: Debian Porterbox machine

2012-04-17 Thread brian m. carlson
that a maintainer might have. While most maintainers have access to an amd64 machine, if a problem occurs on sparc, a maintainer would be able to use the appropriate porterbox for determining why the package is not working or why it fails to build. There are porterboxes for every architecture. -- brian m

Re: Environment vars (JAVA_HOME) not working on Debian 4

2012-01-16 Thread brian m. carlson
or modify /etc/sudoers.conf. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Get working multiarch on debian testin: is it possible?

2011-12-24 Thread brian m. carlson
that while some of the infrastructure works just fine, some software (e.g. aptitude) is buggy. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187

Re: Differences between amd64 and i386.

2011-10-18 Thread brian m. carlson
efficiently, thanks to SSE2. * The compiler can depend on the CPU being able to perform more advanced operations, such as certain vector operations, which can increase performance. So basically, a lot of performance improvement potential. 20% is not unheard of. -- brian m. carlson / brian

Re: key server error

2011-07-27 Thread brian m. carlson
-folk list (Google may help you there) and someone will adjust the round-robin DNS setup. I expect to provide my own implementation soon, but it's not ready yet. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only

Re: Fwd: /bin/sh linked to dash? SOlVED, however..

2011-07-08 Thread brian m. carlson
on debian-devel, where the people that made the decision are. Just don't expect to get a warm reception. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA

Re: wl.ko

2011-07-02 Thread brian m. carlson
? If not, could you post the output of lspci -nn here? (BTW, the link is broken.) -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187

Re: Fwd: /bin/sh linked to dash? SOlVED, however..

2011-07-01 Thread brian m. carlson
shell script; if mopac needs /bin/bash, it needs to say that explicitly and not just hope that /bin/sh is bash. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552

Re: ATI proprietary drivers installation issue on debian testing

2011-05-22 Thread brian m. carlson
tests and so on. So it would be nice for me that I could install drivers as soon as they are made available on IP manufacturers. That's the problem with proprietary drivers. When they break, nobody else can fix them. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791

Re: libcholmod

2011-05-05 Thread brian m. carlson
multiarch, where those two versions of a library package may be for separate architectures. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187

Re: libcholmod

2011-05-05 Thread brian m. carlson
is doing its job correctly. My comment about multiarch was an extension of the previous paragraph. If those extra development files (such as headers) end up in both library packages, they may cause a file conflict. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http

Re: Wine with X-trap

2011-03-31 Thread brian m. carlson
you're saying (and therefore easier for people to reply). -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-22 Thread brian m. carlson
. The current flashplugin-nonfree package uses the 64-bit plugin, not the 32-bit one with nspluginwrapper. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-21 Thread brian m. carlson
fine. I haven't encountered any other problems on amd64/sid. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description

Re: upgrade from x86 to amd64

2011-03-07 Thread brian m. carlson
automatable. Multiarch might make it even easier, I don't know. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description

Re: touchscreen issue

2011-02-05 Thread brian m. carlson
-settings may be helpful for GNOME. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: autodock packages

2011-01-19 Thread brian m. carlson
to the maintainers whether they want to maintain it in volatile vs. stable. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description

Re: ATI proprietary drivers installation failures

2010-11-28 Thread brian m. carlson
, and the fglrx drivers; * wait for multi-arch to be implemented; or * use the free drivers. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-25 Thread brian m. carlson
. udev should be fixed and in testing by now. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Intel mac support for Squeeze?

2010-09-13 Thread brian m. carlson
kernel and drivers and possibly more. Actually, it is a FreeBSD kernel (hence the name kfreebsd) with the normal Debian userland, including a port of glibc. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP

Re: old libstdc++-libc6 library, ia32-libs?

2010-08-11 Thread brian m. carlson
? or there is a proper Debian way to make this program work? /usr/local/lib32 is a much better place. Run ldconfig afterwards. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2

Re: Can't install Debian 505 AMD64

2010-08-10 Thread brian m. carlson
response if we don't have all the information. It's always better to provide too much information rather than too little. See http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc

Re: Untrusted Connection Warning .

2010-07-21 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:34PM +0530, Siddharth Ravikumar wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:23 PM, brian m. carlson sand...@crustytoothpaste.net wrote: Okay.  You'll need to check to see if the SPI root certificate is in the certificate store.  If it's not, then you know what

Re: intel i3 processor

2010-07-19 Thread brian m. carlson
/List_of_Intel_Core_i3_microprocessors -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Disk errors?

2010-06-14 Thread brian m. carlson
. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. You probably don't want to put that on a public mailing list. It looks silly. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http