Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Miles Bader put forth on 4/21/2011 11:45 PM: > Stan Hoeppner writes: >> XFS beats EXT4 hands down in nearly every category, at least for server >> workloads. EXT4 may have some advantages on single user workstations >> simply from a familiarity standpoint WRT tools, and slightly better >> perform

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Miles Bader
Stan Hoeppner writes: > XFS beats EXT4 hands down in nearly every category, at least for server > workloads. EXT4 may have some advantages on single user workstations > simply from a familiarity standpoint WRT tools, and slightly better > performance with some single user workloads. I had an acc

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:44 PM, prad wrote: Chris Brennan writes: > > > CDDL isn't a BSD Licence, it's the licence that's used by what was Sun > > Microsystems and is now Oracle. > > > sorry my mistake for thinking zfs was bsd (even after you said it was > cddl)! i was confusing it with the fac

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread prad
Chris Brennan writes: > CDDL isn't a BSD Licence, it's the licence that's used by what was Sun > Microsystems and is now Oracle. > sorry my mistake for thinking zfs was bsd (even after you said it was cddl)! i was confusing it with the fact that you can use zfs via freebsd). thx for the correctio

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Heddle Weaver wrote: The logs, algebra, geometry, etc., that I was learning in my first year of high school, isn't taught here in Australia until after the third year of high school, now. To get anything better I have to drop work/career and go to university at a phenomenal cost. The 'conspir

Re: Why does Linux crash?

2011-04-21 Thread Richard Hector
On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 12:04 +0200, Axel Freyn wrote: > But the principal problem is: each of those limits/protections reduces > the usability (e.g. if you have 2GB Ram, and you limit eclipse to 2GB, > it will be killed by the Kernel as soon as it tries to use 2GB and 1 > byte from the SWAP Really

Re: uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-04-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:54:38 -0400, George Standish wrote: > On 21/04/11 06:16 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> ..Debian uses the same values as Ubuntu does. Good. > > I'm sure you mean, Ubuntu uses the same as values as Debian does ;) You were reading my thoughts. :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-21 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 22 April 2011 10:39, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Thu, 4/21/11, Alan McConnell wrote: > > > A couple of comments. > > > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:15:08PM -0400, Miles Fidelman > > wrote: > > > > > > >It's been my experience that most users never read > > the manual. > > > Too much troubl

Re: Libre Office Impress.

2011-04-21 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 22 April 2011 09:42, godo wrote: > On 2011-04-18 22:20, Heddle Weaver wrote: > >> Using this programme on a Debian SID base. When I used OO Impress, I had >> access to a full range of presentation backgrounds, which I believe came >> by way of a separate package install. I can't see an equival

Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt

2011-04-21 Thread green
Alan McConnell wrote at 2011-04-21 16:37 -0500: > And now my mutt puts the stuff into a Tab just like I wanted. Hey, that's great. > Mr Green is herewith added to my growing list of Geniuses! [redface] > How did you ever know about this, Mr Green? Kumar mentioned mailcap, so I looked in ~/.mai

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Thu, 4/21/11, Alan McConnell wrote: > A couple of comments. > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:15:08PM -0400, Miles Fidelman > wrote: > > > > >It's been my experience that most users never read > the manual. > > Too much trouble.  When something breaks, they > find someone to > > fix it or te

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:09 PM, prad wrote: Chris Brennan writes: > > > >> one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using > >> debian/freebsd. i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, > >> so presumably it would with debian/freebsd as well. > >> > >> i'm curious as to feelings on thi

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread prad
Stan Hoeppner writes: > I'd steer clear of USB disk storage for a server environment. I've seen > too many reports of USB links resetting spuriously for no apparent > reason. If you have your root filesystem and swap on such a device and > this happens, you're in trouble. > ok thx stan. i hadn

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread prad
Chris Brennan writes: >> one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using >> debian/freebsd. i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, >> so presumably it would with debian/freebsd as well. >> >> i'm curious as to feelings on this combo vs xfs with straight debian >> (which is really wha

Re: Libre Office Impress.

2011-04-21 Thread godo
On 2011-04-18 22:20, Heddle Weaver wrote: Using this programme on a Debian SID base. When I used OO Impress, I had access to a full range of presentation backgrounds, which I believe came by way of a separate package install. I can't see an equivalent package for LO Impress in Aptitude. No news f

Re: uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 06:16 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: ..Debian uses the same values as Ubuntu does. Good. I'm sure you mean, Ubuntu uses the same as values as Debian does ;) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt

2011-04-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 05:37:02PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:30:38AM -0500, green wrote: > > No, you need to add it. And the file to edit is probably: ~/.mailcap > > Add a line like: > > text/html; iceweasel -new-tab '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; > > nametemplate=

Re: uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-04-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:36:55 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > I'm in the process of moving from Ubuntu to Debian. I've installed > squeeze and want to restore some of 2 users home files and directories > from a backup made in Ubuntu. There are also some files from /etc needed > to be restored. >

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/21/2011 04:52 PM, Heddle Weaver wrote: Another one that should have gone to the list. On 22 April 2011 07:52, Heddle Weaver wrote: On 22 April 2011 05:27, prad wrote: prad writes: are there any feelings or recommendations regarding the above? one possibility i forgot to ask about

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Heddle Weaver
Another one that should have gone to the list. On 22 April 2011 07:52, Heddle Weaver wrote: > > > On 22 April 2011 05:27, prad wrote: > >> prad writes: >> >> > are there any feelings or recommendations regarding the above? >> > >> one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freeb

uid & gid problem restoring ubuntu made backup to new squeeze install

2011-04-21 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I'm in the process of moving from Ubuntu to Debian. I've installed squeeze and want to restore some of 2 users home files and directories from a backup made in Ubuntu. There are also some files from /etc needed to be restored. I preserved the user names for both of users in a new squeeze insta

Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt

2011-04-21 Thread Alan McConnell
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:30:38AM -0500, green wrote: > Alan McConnell wrote at 2011-04-21 09:34 -0500: > > I have looked at /etc/mailcap in my new squeeze, and also > > at the mailcap in my backup of my etc etc. They seem to be > > different files. I have greped "new-tab" in both and > > it is

Re: [OT]Re: best labtop for debian

2011-04-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:08:37 +0100, Simon wrote in message <1297192117.1610.6.camel@Nokia-N900>: > > Not kidding, is labtop a real word? > As for being a member of the words listed in an English dictionary > I'd state no. It is a misspelled form of laptop, I blindly guess. ..I'd say it depends o

Re: taskbar is missing

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:33:46AM +0200, Engi Zoltán wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded to Debian 6.0. After upgrading the taskbar is missing. > I can get back it with "killall gnome-panel" command. > > What is wrong? > Same thing is happening to my father on his Ubuntu 10.04 machine. It's intermitte

Re: Ideas for mapping users to specific uids

2011-04-21 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:16:45PM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > I know the answer is going to be LDAP, but that's not really an option for > me. > > I have, at work, a number of boxes with various users spread across our > network. And I have encountered this on several different jobs. In essenc

Anyone using recoll in wheezy or sid?

2011-04-21 Thread Wayne Topa
I have recoll installed on stable, wheezy and sid. It is working fine on stable but on the other two it indexes fine but is not displaying the results. I installed the helper files but still no display other then --- Documents 1-8 of at least 230 (query) Next N

Re: [OT] Purchasing a wired switch; advice needed [question]

2011-04-21 Thread Klistvud
Thanx to all who shared their thoughts, you've been really helpful guys (as always). As many pointed out, the crux of the question is my ISP who's only giving me one IP number. You've helped me understand why a switch won't do and why a router is needed. So, for the time being, I will kee

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 21, 2011 4:41 PM, "Stan Hoeppner" wrote: > > prad put forth on 4/21/2011 2:14 PM: > > Stan Hoeppner writes: > > > >> prad put forth on 4/20/2011 11:43 PM: > >> > >>> we want to run our servers through virtual box off usb drives which is a > >>> total departure from what we've done over the

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Alan McConnell wrote: OK, a little survey here. How many of you use mutt, or elm, or Evolution(?), and do your E-mail right from your home computer? I do, and since my ISP -- not PatriotNet, incidentally -- gives me a dynamic IP address I have

Re: hardware

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 21, 2011 4:32 PM, "Stan Hoeppner" wrote: > > shawn wilson put forth on 4/21/2011 6:29 AM: > > first, i'm curious if (or how much) read and access speed difference > > there are with an emc or hp iscsi san vs a *nix box with an iscsi card > > and similar hardware? i haven't been able to figu

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
prad put forth on 4/21/2011 2:14 PM: > Stan Hoeppner writes: > >> prad put forth on 4/20/2011 11:43 PM: >> >>> we want to run our servers through virtual box off usb drives which is a >>> total departure from what we've done over the years. so might as well >>> throw in a new fs too. :D >> >> Why

Re: hardware

2011-04-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
shawn wilson put forth on 4/21/2011 6:29 AM: > first, i'm curious if (or how much) read and access speed difference > there are with an emc or hp iscsi san vs a *nix box with an iscsi card > and similar hardware? i haven't been able to figure out how to get the > same access speed as an emc nx4 i u

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 4:21 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > On Apr 21, 2011 3:28 PM, "prad" wrote: > > > > prad writes: > > > > > are there any feelings or recommendations regarding the above? > > > > > one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freebsd. > > i understand that zfs wor

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
Oops, scratch that. Didn't see the remaining emails. On Apr 21, 2011 4:21 PM, "shawn wilson" wrote: > > > On Apr 21, 2011 3:28 PM, "prad" wrote: > > > > prad writes: > > > > > are there any feelings or recommendations regarding the above? > > > > > one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs u

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 21, 2011 3:28 PM, "prad" wrote: > > prad writes: > > > are there any feelings or recommendations regarding the above? > > > one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freebsd. > i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, so presumably it would > with debian/freebsd as we

Re: hardware

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 21, 2011 3:05 PM, "Gilles Mocellin" wrote: > > Le Thursday 21 April 2011 13:29:23 shawn wilson, vous avez écrit : > [...] > > now, i am (obviously) considering building a sub-$1k san. what i'm > > wondering if if there are any better or cheaper options? it would be > > real nice if, instead

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Miles Fidelman put forth on 4/21/2011 8:03 AM: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> Isn't ReiserFS effectively dead with the inventor being found guilty >> of murdering his wife? > > Right. Forgot about that. Ahh the problems of projects that are too > closely tied to a key individual. (Sort of makes m

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 03:51 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le Thu 21/04/2011, George Standish disait On 21/04/11 03:27 PM, prad wrote: one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freebsd. i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, so presumably it would with debian/freebsd as well. ZFS only

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Erwan David
Le Thu 21/04/2011, George Standish disait > On 21/04/11 03:27 PM, prad wrote: > > >one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freebsd. > >i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, so presumably it would > >with debian/freebsd as well. > > ZFS only has user space support on gnu

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 03:27 PM, prad wrote: one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freebsd. i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, so presumably it would with debian/freebsd as well. ZFS only has user space support on gnu/linux, thus it's not "ideal". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-21 Thread Alan McConnell
A couple of comments. On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:15:08PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > >It's been my experience that most users never read the manual. > Too much trouble. When something breaks, they find someone to > fix it or tell them how to. No learning required. If someone tells you

Re: Mediawiki extensions for Debian

2011-04-21 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 06:51:23PM -0500, John W Foster wrote: > I'm looking for more Mediawiki extensions packaged for Debian..stable > Mediawiki 1.1xxx > > Any suggestions? And of course I know I can install them myself, just > lazy & want to keep the system all Debian. > TIA: > John > > p

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread prad
prad writes: > are there any feelings or recommendations regarding the above? > one possibility i forgot to ask about is zfs using debian/freebsd. i understand that zfs works well with freebsd, so presumably it would with debian/freebsd as well. i'm curious as to feelings on this combo vs xfs wi

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-21 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 21 April 2011 20:03:00 Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 21. 04. 2011 18:21:09 je Patrick Bartek napisal(a): > > Windows users are accustomed to being lead around by the hand > > I thought that "lead around by the nose" was the correct (Queen's > English) phrase. But then again, I'm not a native s

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread prad
Stan Hoeppner writes: > prad put forth on 4/20/2011 11:43 PM: > >> we want to run our servers through virtual box off usb drives which is a >> total departure from what we've done over the years. so might as well >> throw in a new fs too. :D > > Why USB? > since our volume is pretty small we only

Re: hardware

2011-04-21 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Thursday 21 April 2011 13:29:23 shawn wilson, vous avez écrit : [...] > now, i am (obviously) considering building a sub-$1k san. what i'm > wondering if if there are any better or cheaper options? it would be > real nice if, instead of spending $900 + (big ass) power supply + > disks, i could b

Re: taskbar is missing

2011-04-21 Thread Michael Checca
On 04/21/2011 02:51 PM, Klistvud wrote: Dne, 21. 04. 2011 11:33:46 je Engi Zoltán napisal(a): Hi, I upgraded to Debian 6.0. After upgrading the taskbar is missing. I can get back it with "killall gnome-panel" command. What is wrong? Hard to tell. Try creating a dummy user account and check i

Disk partitioning suggestions to transition a Mac Pro to Debian

2011-04-21 Thread Brian Flaherty
Hello, After a 7 or 8 year trial with Mac OS X, I'm back to Debian. I have one of the first generation Mac Pros (model 1,1) and I'd like to keep OS X in a dual-boot mode temporarily, to deal with opening the occasional file that linux can't (such as Mac's Pages and Numbers files). There are

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 04. 2011 18:21:09 je Patrick Bartek napisal(a): Windows users are accustomed to being lead around by the hand I thought that "lead around by the nose" was the correct (Queen's English) phrase. But then again, I'm not a native speaker. -- Cheerio, Klistvud

Re: taskbar is missing

2011-04-21 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 21. 04. 2011 11:33:46 je Engi Zoltán napisal(a): Hi, I upgraded to Debian 6.0. After upgrading the taskbar is missing. I can get back it with "killall gnome-panel" command. What is wrong? Hard to tell. Try creating a dummy user account and check if it happens in the new account too.

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 21, 2011 1:58 PM, "Heddle Weaver" wrote: > > > > On 22 April 2011 02:31, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> It's been my experience that most users never read the manual. Too much trouble. When something breaks, they find someone to fix it or tell them how to. No learning required. > > > Most

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-21 Thread Heddle Weaver
On 22 April 2011 02:31, Patrick Bartek wrote: > --- On Sat, 4/16/11, foldingst...@theowned.org > wrote: > > > > Like I said, "A Lot has changed > > in 12 years". Debian is more friendly > > > today than yesterday as are most distros, but there > > are others that are > > > friendlier, a lot fri

Customizing /etc/init.d/skeleton

2011-04-21 Thread Ralf Ebert
Hi, I just customized /etc/init.d/skeleton for a little server application of mine, thanks for the great example script. I needed to customize the script to run the application, which acts like a foreground application, in background via '-c --background --make-pidfile'. The manpage says this

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Patrick Bartek wrote: --- On Sat, 4/16/11, foldingst...@theowned.org wrote: Like I said, "A Lot has changed in 12 years". Debian is more friendly today than yesterday as are most distros, but there are others that are friendlier, a lot friendlier. So, I stand by my initial statement th

Re: network-manager and resolv.conf

2011-04-21 Thread tony mollica
On 04/21/2011 08:47 AM, shawn wilson wrote: On Apr 21, 2011 11:42 AM, "tony mollica" mailto:t...@threedogs.net>> wrote: > > Hi. > Using deb6-amd64 and I've searched for an acceptable solution but I find > none that I like. > > The problem is that I would like to have this 'option single-re

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sat, 4/16/11, foldingst...@theowned.org wrote: > > Like I said, "A Lot has changed > in 12 years".  Debian is more friendly > > today than yesterday as are most distros, but there > are others that are > > friendlier, a lot friendlier. > > > > So, I stand by my initial statement that Debi

Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt

2011-04-21 Thread green
Alan McConnell wrote at 2011-04-21 09:34 -0500: > I have looked at /etc/mailcap in my new squeeze, and also > at the mailcap in my backup of my etc etc. They seem to be > different files. I have greped "new-tab" in both and > it isn't to be found No, you need to add it. And the file to edit is

Re: New to Linux

2011-04-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Sat, 4/16/11, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 15 apr 11, 22:26:54, Patrick > Bartek wrote: > > > > So, I stand by my initial statement that Debian is not > suitable for > > the Linux firsttimer.  I would never recommend it > to a noobie.  With > > Debian, you need to know, at least somew

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 12:04 PM, shawn wilson wrote: if you still have that vm up :( No sorry, I've deleted it already. I couldn't even boot up the system in recovery mode. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
if you still have that vm up On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:55 AM, George Standish wrote: > On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: > >> So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by >> altering my APT sources? > > I was interested if this had any chance of working, so

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by altering my APT sources? I was interested if this had any chance of working, so I tried in a VM to go from Ubuntu 10.10 to Squeeze. I failed miserably (possibly due to user error

Re: network-manager and resolv.conf

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 21, 2011 11:42 AM, "tony mollica" wrote: > > Hi. > Using deb6-amd64 and I've searched for an acceptable solution but I find > none that I like. > > The problem is that I would like to have this 'option single-request' lline in > /etc/resolv.conf but network-manager continuously removes the

network-manager and resolv.conf

2011-04-21 Thread tony mollica
Hi. Using deb6-amd64 and I've searched for an acceptable solution but I find none that I like. The problem is that I would like to have this 'option single-request' lline in /etc/resolv.conf but network-manager continuously removes the line (and anything else it doesn't care for). There must b

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
shawn wilson wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote: Isn't ReiserFS effectively dead with the inventor being found guilty of murdering his wife? Right. Forgot about that. Ahh the problems of projects that are too closely tied

Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Alan McConnell wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:35:29PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: Can I change that behaviour e.g. with a command in my .muttrc? The above is what I posted to the mutt E-list. I got one person who wrote, "yeah, I'd like to know that too"; but otherwise not

Re: Fwd: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Heddle Weaver wrote: *http://tinyurl.com/3tu3ww9 That's a pretty old reference, but an interesting read. Important note: These tests were done with a 2.4 kernel. They should be repeated to see if they still apply with modern 2.6.18+ kernels in use today. *And this example is somewhat

Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT

2011-04-21 Thread Alan McConnell
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 08:42:01AM -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > > a new Tab. Now a new Firefox Window is opened. I don't like that! > > > Can I change that behaviour e.g. with a command in my .muttrc? > > The above is what I posted to the mutt E-list. I got one > > person who wr

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> >> Isn't ReiserFS effectively dead with the inventor being found guilty of >> murdering his wife? > > Right.  Forgot about that.  Ahh the problems of projects that are too > closely tied to a key individual.  (Sort

Re: Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT

2011-04-21 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Alan, On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:19:54AM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:35:29PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > > I have been running mutt for a good many years from with my > > Debian Linux distribution. A couple of days ago I upgraded from > > Debian etch to Debia

Need your help in a NTML5 Web Development Project

2011-04-21 Thread tulsanaservices
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Result of entering 'v' within mutt -- hopefully not too OT

2011-04-21 Thread Alan McConnell
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 02:35:29PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > Assembled Wisdom! > > I have been running mutt for a good many years from with my > Debian Linux distribution. A couple of days ago I upgraded from > Debian etch to Debian squeeze and got mutt 1.5.20. It has > one behavior that I

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrew McGlashan wrote: Isn't ReiserFS effectively dead with the inventor being found guilty of murdering his wife? Right. Forgot about that. Ahh the problems of projects that are too closely tied to a key individual. (Sort of makes me worry about Postfix periodically. Sigh...) -- In t

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread George Standish
On 21/04/11 06:14 AM, David Sanders wrote: The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political decision making in the community has led me to jump back to a more sensible and technology-led distro.. Unity is what brought me to Debian. Recent Canonical decisions only encour

Fwd: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Heddle Weaver
Sorry. This one should have gone to the list also. -- Forwarded message -- From: Heddle Weaver Date: 21 April 2011 22:13 Subject: Re: file systems To: Stan Hoeppner On 20 April 2011 19:57, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Heddle Weaver put forth on 4/19/2011 6:58 PM: > > > XFS is exc

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Miles Fidelman wrote: Seems like most people have recommended ext4, and a few XFS. What about ReiserFS? Isn't ReiserFS effectively dead with the inventor being found guilty of murdering his wife? http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2008/07/reiserfs-fading-into-obscurity-as-maker-leads-c

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 21, 2011 7:47 AM, "Miles Fidelman" wrote: > > Seems like most people have recommended ext4, and a few XFS. > > What about ReiserFS? > He's in jail for killing his wife. :) So, they did have a dod contract for putting some strong encryption into raiser4 and they were going to do some other

Re: file systems

2011-04-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Seems like most people have recommended ext4, and a few XFS. What about ReiserFS? -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

hardware

2011-04-21 Thread shawn wilson
first, i'm curious if (or how much) read and access speed difference there are with an emc or hp iscsi san vs a *nix box with an iscsi card and similar hardware? i haven't been able to figure out how to get the same access speed as an emc nx4 i used to have access to. however i was thinking that th

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread David Sanders
> Really I think you'll have to bite the bullet and take it as it comes. But > I'm not an expert by any means That appears to be the case :-) You may hear my screams on the list later today! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread teddieeb
David Sanders said: So, a small question - How suicidal is crossgrading back to Debian by altering my APT sources? I've seen a few blogs saying it works, and I do have a lot of customised stuff on my main laptop which I'd prefer not to have to recompile. I'm pretty technically-adept and don't mind

Re: Ideas for mapping users to specific uids

2011-04-21 Thread Bob
On 04/21/2011 10:16 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: I know the answer is going to be LDAP, but that's not really an option for me. I have, at work, a number of boxes with various users spread across our network. And I have encountered this on several different jobs. In essence, say you have four users

Ubuntu Crossgrade

2011-04-21 Thread David Sanders
Hello List, I'm just returning to Debian after a long absence over in Ubuntu land. The upcoming train-crash that is the Unity UI, and some over-political decision making in the community has led me to jump back to a more sensible and technology-led distro where, I hope, one man's pride isn't going

taskbar is missing

2011-04-21 Thread Engi Zoltán
Hi, I upgraded to Debian 6.0. After upgrading the taskbar is missing. I can get back it with "killall gnome-panel" command. What is wrong? Zoli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: Isapnp.conf

2011-04-21 Thread Stan Hoeppner
David Baron put forth on 4/21/2011 3:36 AM: > Isapnp startup script no longer works. The READPORT fails to read the isapnp > port number due to "resource conflict." > > (READPORT 0x0213) > > Only a limited range can be entered here and the one I placed was shown on > the > /proc/ioports file.

Isapnp.conf

2011-04-21 Thread David Baron
Isapnp startup script no longer works. The READPORT fails to read the isapnp port number due to "resource conflict." (READPORT 0x0213) Only a limited range can be entered here and the one I placed was shown on the /proc/ioports file. There are two, the one labeled as "write" is outside the all