On Tue 08 Nov 2011 at 22:48:28 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
I can only say Wow!
But you said it so charmingly. :-)
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I'm setting up a Debian system for a friend, and he uses a dial-up
modem. It's been many years since I dealt with a modem, so I could use
a few tips.
I know that winmodems probably won't work, so I may have to swap it out
for something in my old parts bin. What is used to control dialup these
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Up to now, hardware autodetect has worked just fine - finding both NICs,
identifying them, and giving me a choice. Now it all just hangs. I
expect that I could escape out of the installer, and plug in some magic
incantations - but a little guidance is what I'm looking
Dan B. wrote:
I tried swapping the left Control key and Caps Lock key by modifying
the XKBOPTIONS value in /etc/default/keyboard, per instructions that
said it would take effect for both the virtual consoles and X.
However, it works only for the virtual consoles, and not for X (neither
when
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:52:34 +, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
I have been trying to get an email client which would access my web
mail. I've tried
kmail -- which simply does not retrieve the mail balsa -- which asks
for an SMTP address (I don't have SMTP)
and I am now using emacs23.
Can
I have Linux Mint Ubuntu Installed, at one time I tried KDE, all
as I recall have a control panel for changing a lot of the hardware
configs as well as preferred apps desktop layout.
Is there a similar app for Gnome in Debian Stable? A search of the words
control panel have not turned up what
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:43:39 -0600, John W. Foster wrote:
I have Linux Mint Ubuntu Installed
So why are you asking this question on a Debian list?
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On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 23:40:24 -0700,
Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com said:
B I would create a script that edited the /etc/shadow file directly and
B manipulated the encrypted passwords. Then the clear text would never
B need to exist in any form. Only the encrypted form of the password is
B needed.
--- On Tue, 11/8/11, Rob Owens row...@ptd.net wrote:
From: Rob Owens row...@ptd.net
Subject: dial-up modem usage
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 6:16 PM
I'm setting up a Debian system for a
friend, and he uses a dial-up
modem. It's been many years since I
Somehow the workspace manager and the index which appeared
at the lower right of the screen have disappeared.
If I right-click on a window tab in the task bar I can move
the window to another workspace, and the window selector
will show that the windows are in the workspace where they
were
From: David Purton dcpur...@marshwiggle.net
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Cc:
Bcc:
Subject: Re: Disk performance deteriated to unbearable levels
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David Purton wrote:
Since other suggested possible hard drive problems... What does
smartctl say about the health of your drive?
smartctl -H /dev/sda
try smartctl -A /dev/sda
that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive
the one I always look at first is the
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:16:12 -0500 (EST), Rob Owens wrote:
I know that winmodems probably won't work, so I may have to swap it out
for something in my old parts bin.
That's not necessarily true anymore. I hate winmodems, but some of the
most popular winmodems do have Linux drivers these
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:12:17PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
David Purton wrote:
Since other suggested possible hard drive problems... What does
smartctl say about the health of your drive?
smartctl -H /dev/sda
try smartctl -A /dev/sda
that will give you a much longer list of
On 11/09/2011 12:13 AM, David Purton wrote:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 10:12:17PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote:
David Purton wrote:
Since other suggested possible hard drive problems... What does
smartctl say about the health of your drive?
smartctl -H /dev/sda
try smartctl -A /dev/sda
i have interfered with computers to a greater or lesser degree all my life.
i have been led to believe that Linux OS may be less susceptible to me that
gates'.
is there anyone out there that can shed some light here? offer suggestions?
i have burned up watches, cell phones, and laptops;
Explore another career and hobby??
Sent from my HTC.
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From: stefan long stefanteac...@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2011 11:43 pm
Subject: high galvanic skin response vs os's
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
i have interfered with computers to a greater or lesser degree
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 06:56:59PM +0200, Camaleón wrote:
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 16:21:42 +, T o n g wrote:
There are another frontend programs which are better prepared to deal
with this task, IMO.
I'm all ears. What's your recommendation?
That will depend on what are your
Good time of the day.
I try to accomplish auto running of a script on suspending/resuming
events. The goal is that the script will be lunched on suspend and
resume to start or stop it. For that I have created a file:
/etc/pm/sleep.d/50osus
w/ the following content:
# /etc/pm/sleep.d/50osus
#
On Vi, 28 oct 11, 12:03:00, Mark Panen wrote:
Hi,
I am having problems with *.jpg and *.pdf attachments in icedove.
Some open some don't, i use okular for the pdf's but sometimes
icedove asks me to save the file, which i don't want to do.
The preferences are set up correctly.
The problem
On Vi, 04 nov 11, 18:04:43, Sian Mountbatten wrote:
Problem now solved by installing wheezy.
Could you please elaborate on how wheeze solved you problem, since to my
knowledge the same limitations apply.
Regards,
Andrei
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David Purton wrote:
But I think DMA is enabled on the disk. From dmesg:
[1.808090] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
I believe all SATA interfaces are go for DMA.
Ha! I just found some disk related errors in syslog:
Nov 2 12:10:58 swires kernel: [33736.415350] sd
Miles Fidelman wrote:
try smartctl -A /dev/sda
that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive
the one I always look at first is the absolute value of raw read
errors - if that's higher than 0, the drive is starting to fail,
and its internal code is spending
Karl Vogel wrote:
If you don't add or delete a lot of accounts or modify /etc/passwd
frequently, could you change your password to the high-security one,
copy /etc/shadow to /etc/shadow.hi, then change it back and copy
/etc/shadow to /etc/shadow.lo? Then your password-changer
Hello list,
I have recently upgraded a debian box from old lenny to squeeze. Hence the
apache has become
Server version: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)
Server built: Sep 29 2011 20:59:05
But... the apache has become *deadly slow*. This box has 4GB RAM with xeon
processor.
And the main point apache
Walter Hurry wrote:
Sian Mountbatten wrote:
I have been trying to get an email client which would access my web
mail. I've tried
kmail -- which simply does not retrieve the mail balsa -- which asks
for an SMTP address (I don't have SMTP)
and I am now using emacs23.
Can anybody
On 11/9/2011 1:34 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
Miles Fidelman wrote:
try smartctl -A /dev/sda
that will give you a much longer list of statistics collected by the drive
the one I always look at first is the absolute value of raw read
errors - if that's higher than 0, the drive is starting to fail,
I too have the same problem. Although I already had it a couple days
before upgrading to 4.1.4.. upgrading didn't help either.
any thoughts?
Daniel
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Steve Kleene sk...@syrano.acb.uc.edu wrote:
I've been happily running a virtualbox Windows XP machine (VM) on a
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