Hi,
Having installed extlinux in sid, I still don't have the /boot/extlinux/
linux.cfg file, so I tried to run extlinux-update to generate one.
However, I got:
extlinux-update: command not found
Also, https://packages.debian.org/search?
searchon=contentskeywords=extlinux-
Hi,
The following inserting file method for sed used to be working, even
before last line, but not any more. Is it a bug in the current sed?
Demo of inserting file method with sed:
mkdir /tmp/test
printf '%s\n' {1..3} /tmp/test/f1
printf '%s\n'
Hi,
I felt that I've been cyber bullied for my post warning about bitlocker,
and I've blog the story at,
http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/bitlocker-guideline-and-precaution/
Please take a look and see if you have the same feeling.
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I would like to install debian on a SD (I've only a Company laptop and I
would like to not modify the standard configuration).
Yep, that's the same reason that I installed my debian onto my USB key
several years ago.
Since SD is a flash
Hi,
Any of you are still using /dev/dsp as I do? Is your /dev/dsp (osspd)
still working?
OSS Proxy Daemon is a Linux userland OSS sound device (/dev/[a]dsp and
/dev/mixer) implementation using CUSE. Currently it supports
forwarding OSS sound streams to PulseAudio and ALSA.
I'm using
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:39:44 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
the time it takes for someone to setup the best ad blocking method
has been hatched down from the previously over an hour to just a few
minutes this time ...
apt-get install privoxy works for me.
Yeah, that’s the beauty of Linux,
Hi,
FYI, I've just packed The Best Ad Blocking Method [1] into a Package [2],
[3]
[1] http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/the-best-ad-blocking-method/
[2] http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/the-best-ad-blocking-method-in-
a-package/
[3] http://mentors.debian.net/package/dbab
Taken from
Hi,
Last time I posted about that Docker being the best tool for developing
Debian/Ubuntu packages [1]. If you missed it, here is the recap:
- The reason Docker being the best tool for developing Debian/Ubuntu
packages is that, it gives you isolated pure pristine environments to
build
Hi,
I found that Docker is the best tool for developing Debian/Ubuntu
packages, but seems no one has talked about it in Debian world. So here
is mine [1].
[1]
http://sfxpt.wordpress.com/2013/11/10/debianubuntu-package-developing-
with-docker/
If you build your packages with pbuilder, then
On Thu, 23 May 2013 18:55:11 +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
That's where you run it, iirc.
thanks Richard.
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Forgot to ask, should the dch be used before dpkg-source -x *.dsc or
after, to streamline updating the debian/changelog, to increase the least
significant version # and add my change comment, and my id?
If after, how about the directory already created by dpkg-source?
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What the proper way to update debian/changelog, to increase the least
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On Wed, 08 May 2013 08:40:57 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
Can I use something like root=ID=ata-IBM-DBCA-203240_HP0HPL43952? I
remember nothing worked well, so I reverted to the (now troublesome)
safe /dev/sdXn.
/dev/sdXn is *not* safe. That's the whole point.
If you read my message again,
On Thu, 09 May 2013 00:11:20 +0800, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote:
I'd like to capture a song [1] played via http protocol using firefox. I
wish I could find the file itself in tmpfs but I just could not find it.
Now I'd like to record the song myself using ffmpeg or avconv ( or even
VLC ), as
On Tue, 07 May 2013 16:26:58 +1200, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote:
I'm looking for a wu-ftp substitute, i.e., an ftp server that is
relatively easy to configure the anonymous upload.
vsftpd
I hope that you *did* notice that I need an ftp server that is
*relatively easy* to configure the
On Tue, 07 May 2013 07:55:24 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
Recently I added an old PATA HD to my system, which previously consist
of two SATA HDs. Ever since then, the order of my SATA and PATA are
keep switching.
This problem, and its solution, are discussed at length on my LILO web
page,
On Tue, 07 May 2013 21:40:03 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
I'd like to try installing debian from an iso file but not burn a disc.
If you are using the commonly used GRUB2, then consider yourself lucky:
Boot an ISO via Grub2
http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2009/05/25/boot-an-iso-via-grub2/
On Tue, 07 May 2013 20:11:40 -0700, Dan Hitt wrote:
Suppose that i don't want to make a bootable usb stick, or burn a cd,
or burn a dvd.
Yes, as long as you can boot into GRUB2.
Check my reply in other thread.
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Recently I added an old PATA HD to my system, which previously consist of
two SATA HDs. Ever since then, the order of my SATA and PATA are keep
switching.
NB, it is not that I can't boot, I can boot just fine, but half of the
time the boot process will drop to that single user PANIC
Hi,
I'm looking for a wu-ftp substitute, i.e., an ftp server that is
relatively easy to configure the anonymous upload.
Please advice.
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Hi,
From a certain point of time that I can't remember, emacs started to use
gtk style of menus. It didn't bother me until now, because the font size
is so big that it distort my emacs window shape.
Anyone know how to set the emacs' gtk menu font size?
I believe emacs is now built with
Hi,
I used to use defoma to register ttf fonts. Now that it's gone, how to
register ttf fonts system wide now?
A side question, I used to be able to find out why packages disappearing
from the repo by querying it at http://packages.qa.debian.org/, now I
can't. How can I know why packages
On Sun, 28 Apr 2013 23:41:50 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
I just wish it could open in Sylpheed's reader window itself, instead
of me having to switch to a different workspace where google-chrome is
running all the time. Would Thunderbird or similar do that? I've
never used it, so I don't
On Thu, 02 May 2013 09:19:32 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote:
So, what would you plan for normal home users on disk failure for Disk
Encryption? How to cope with it?
Hi, I guess what you are referring to can happen if you get bad sectors
where the luks header resides. This is a single
Hi,
It's well known that fail to plan means plan to fail. But when comes to
Disk Encryption, I did not see any reasonably planning on disk failure,
even though I've googled extensively.
My understanding/impression is that with Full Disk Encryption, even a
single bad sector will have a much
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:44:55 +, Alan Chandler wrote:
please suggest a lightweight dns server that is available on debian
main repo
dnsmasq is ideal for this. It also includes a dhcp server if you need
that too.
+1,
check out:
Providing DHCP and DNS services with DNSMasq
Hi,
I want to permanently delete an old revision (or revisions) of single
file from Git. Specifically, I want to delete from my public git server
repo my initial published version of one single file, but keep the rest
of its revisions. How can I do that?
I've done some searching, as
Hi,
cp -a, or rsync -a, or cpio normally preserve the source attribute and
set the destination attribute accordingly. Now my question is, is there
any way for me to preserve the destination attribute and disregard the
source attribute. Any way to make it possible, cp/rsync/cpio or something
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:36:48 -0500, John L. Cunningham wrote:
Well...
head /etc/group |\
awk '{echo $0 | cut -d: -f1 | getline result; print result}'
...seems to work.
Great. Thanks.
But it is also very silly.
Again, as I said, this is only
*for the sake of illustration of
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:51:29 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
You only get 4 primary partitions. If you want any Logical partitions,
you have to have to make one of the primary partitions an Extended
partition, and put your Logical partitions inside that Extended
partition.
So, in effect, your
On Sun, 11 Nov 2012 05:07:20 +, T o n g wrote:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:51:29 -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
You only get 4 primary partitions. If you want any Logical partitions,
you have to have to make one of the primary partitions an Extended
partition, and put your Logical partitions
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:29:23 -0500, John L. Cunningham wrote:
However, I want the cmd itself a piping command as well. E.g..,
echo substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH) | command external with
parameters|
getline result
I'm not getting it. Perhaps you could post a sample input with the
Hi,
Awk allows reading results from external command:
cmd | getline result
However, I want the cmd itself a piping command as well. E.g..,
echo substr($0, RSTART, RLENGTH) | command external with parameters|
getline result
Any way to make it works?
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Would acpi-support conflict with acpid?
acpi-support scripts for handling many ACPI events
acpid Advanced Configuration and Power Interface event daemon
They seems to do the same thing to me, would they conflict with each
other? What would best suit my laptop?
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On Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:13:21 +, Lisi Reisz wrote:
For more than one year I wish to pick up some package to maintain but
has never proceed further.
Exactly my situation as well, just I've been wishing for years.
I don't know it's a problem or not, such as I can figure out the
meaning of
Hi,
It's been generations since I last play with X and defoma.
Is defoma still the recommended way of configuring TrueType fonts?
I noticed that defoma's font path is not in my Xorg. Is there any modern
way to slip it in without touching the xorg.conf, using xorg.conf.d
perhaps?
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On Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:01:33 +, Camaleón wrote:
Time to look for an all purpose editor to replace emacs.
And you want to drop it just because of a problem with your settings not
being honored? Have you report it?
Does it matter? -- I started to use Emacs almost 15 years ago. By then,
Hi,
Subject: My app-defaults won't work for emacs any more
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2012 01:25:20 + (UTC)
I haven't updated my emacs for quite a while and today when I update it,
I notice that the new emacs is not following my app-defaults settings,
which has been working for quite a long
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 21:33:15 -0300, Mauricio Calvao wrote:
I would like however to preserve my /home partition. Is that
**advisable** or should I delete this partition as well?
Depending on how much version dependant stuff you put there.
I personally never put any version dependant tools in
Hi,
I haven't updated my emacs for quite a while and today when I update it,
I notice that the new emacs is not following my app-defaults settings,
which has been working for quite a long time.
Does it happen to you as well? How did you fix it?
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Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio?
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On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:17:04 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
Wait: Have you . . .
Thanks Mark, that is really a comprehensive answer.
Really appreciate it.
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comes back so quickly. Thanks.
On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:56:03 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
If normally booted, my USB key would be sdc, should I use
preseed/file=/sdc/path/preseed.cfg
or /mnt/sdc or /media/its_label,
OMG, thanks again for the fast and comprehensive answer.
On Sun, 02 Sep 2012 19:33:56 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
Is it doing installation from the CD or from the Internet? I mean, do I
have to user a certain CD, eg Debian installation CD, or it has nothing
with the CD media so I can put the
Hi,
Where can I find the explanation of the following localepurge debconf
selection settings?
$ debconf-get-selections |grep ^localepurge
localepurge localepurge/quickndirtycalc boolean true
localepurge localepurge/remove_no note
localepurge localepurge/mandelete boolean
Hi,
I get into X by startx (not lightdm).
How can I define the default gnome session (gnome-classic instead of
2d/3d) system-wide for all users?
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On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:03:57 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
In any case with all packages locally available it speeds things up
considerably for doing repeated installations. It is actually kinder to
the upstream file servers because I have many machines and am often
doing many installations in
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 09:54:09 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
Why did you choose rbind over bind. Just curious.
The advantage of using rbind is that you don't have to mount
/dev/pts and /dev/shm (or just /dev/pts on wheezy since
/dev/shm has been moved to /run/shm) after mounting /dev.
This
On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:46:50 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote:
Epub files are the closer to a standardized format, whereas mobi is more
proprietary.
The other reason I prefer epub is that it is, in essence, html docs in a
zip file format. You can unzip title,epub get a listing of html files:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:44:14 -0400, Tom H wrote:
1) Does the mount work if you export with nfsv3 specified?
Hmm... that might be the way. How can I do that?
I remember that I have to specify nfsv3 on the client/nfsmount side to
get the straight-mount work for my uid and gid.
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If I can choose, which version of ebook I should pick,
the epub or mobi files, and why?
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 18:06:31 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
T o n g wrote:
My Autofs auto-mounted NFS share looks like this:
drwxr-xr-x 9 4294967294 4294967294 45056 2011-04-12 09:47 tmp/
I.e., the user id and group id are all mapped wrong.
I have identical user ids and groups between my
Hi,
My Autofs auto-mounted NFS share looks like this:
drwxr-xr-x 9 4294967294 4294967294 45056 2011-04-12 09:47 tmp/
I.e., the user id and group id are all mapped wrong.
I have identical user ids and groups between my NFS sharing stations, so
previously, prior to using Autofs I just use
Hi,
I think DVD burning would be possible within the VirtualBox VM. Can
anyone confirm that?
The host is Win7, and I don't like Windows' DVD burning solution at all.
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On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:23:38 +0100, Lorenzo Beretta wrote:
some google-fu, and a look at mount(8):
embarrassed, Thanks Lorenzo.
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On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 14:43:41 +0100, Lorenzo Beretta wrote:
Most likely your filesystem is mounted with noexec,
Bingo! Thanks!
Hmm..., but why? I didn't specify noexec for any of my mounted filesystems
except /proc:
$ grep noexec /etc/fstab
proc/proc proc
Hi,
I believe that zpipe.c used to be working.
But it is still working now?
I get it compiled OK,
gcc -g -lz -o zpipe zpipe.c
but wasn't able to run it:
$ ./zpipe
bash: ./zpipe: Permission denied
I get the same result even I put an output immediately after main:
/* compress or decompress
On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:37:19 +0100, Florian Ernst wrote:
Is there any easy way to schedule a job for a duration that is
greater than one month but shorter than 2 months? Any duration will
do, as long as it is easy to schedule.
Easy? Hmmm.
0 12 * * 1 [ $(expr $(/bin/date +\%s) / 60
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:32:36 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
arnt@nb6:~$ date ddate
Fri Mar 9 15:25:34 CET 2012
Today is Pungenday, the 68th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3178 arnt@nb6:~$
ddate 14 3 2012
Pungenday, Chaos 73, 3178 YOLD
arnt@nb6:~$ ddate 15 3 2012
Prickle-Prickle, Discord 1, 3178
Hi,
I've got the following entry in my cron job:
1 1 1 */2 * me my-this-job
How often will it execute?
Checking the log, I notice that it run on Jan 1 and Mar 1. That's really
not something that I've been expecting for. I have another cron job fired
at Feb 1, so no doubt that my cron was
Hi,
My wife uses gnome, but the problem is that her gnome settings goes
berserk every now and then. It won't be long for her to find out this is
not working as expect, then that is not working as expect. I use fluxbox
instead of DM, so I don't know gnome well. So all I can do is to remove
any
On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:14:15 -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Ethernet at 100 Mb/s = 12.5 MB/s
File copy at 10 MB/s = 80 Mb/s
Ethernet at 1000 Mb/s = 125 MB/s
File copy at 117 MB/s = 936 Mb/s
Thanks Stan, for all your explains.
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:49:15 +0500, Syed Hasan Atizaz wrote:
well 10MB is quite good, things that could affect your network speed
could be firewall, iptables, router itself plus the cables, i mean no
matter if you have cat 6 connected at one end and . . .
Thanks for everybody's replies,
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:51:19 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
Moreover, I'll throw in /var/log as well, because I don't care about
the logs either.
You might benefit from putting it on tmpfs then ;)
That brings up an interesting topic. -- No, I didn't put /var/log on
tmpfs, but /tmp, /var/run
Thanks for your detailed explain, Karl.
On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:21:19 +, Karl E. Jørgensen wrote:
* /var/mail - if people are OK losing their mail (but they're
usually not).
Oh, I meant home system only, in which my mail queue will guarantee to
be empty at the time that I chose
On Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:07:10 +, Camaleón wrote:
I filed a bug report against package fontconfig and I have sent a
number of updates to the bug address, but I haven't received any
response: http://bugs.debian.org/479035
Wow, no reply in almost three years...
I use defoma and never had
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:12:04 +, Camaleón wrote:
Additional info: . . .
Bingo! Thanks a lot!
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On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:32:37 +, Camaleón wrote:
You can add a #comment inside the scripts themselves remembering how
hard is to get them sorted and run at the desired order ;-)
ROTFL. Camaleón, you just won't admit that you ever neglect something,
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On Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:18:59 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
there were actually more piping commands between formail $SENDMAIL in
my rcfile.
Yes. But as noted that is incorrect. Only one action line is allowed
there.
Hmm..., actually, it is correct. True, that there can only be exactly one
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:23:12 +, Camaleón wrote:
If users scp/sftp to my host, how is the default mode of files copied
determined? Is it from users' umask in their ~/.profile, or somewhere
else?
For ssh connections I'm not sure this still applies. Look at man 8
sshd and scroll down to
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 16:59:27 +, Camaleón wrote:
Yup, but this can be found by simply trial and error tests.
trial and error can sure yield some conclusion, but whether the
conclusion is good really depend on the trials.
For Vincent's case specifically, I believe no matter how many trials
On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:40:24 +, T o n g wrote:
# send header only
[ . . . ]
I.e., having processed it, procmail went on with the following recipes
instead of considering the mail delivered and cease processing the
rcfile.
Hmm... looks like procmail considered the mail *header
Hi,
If users scp/sftp to my host, how is the default mode of files copied
determined? Is it from users' umask in their ~/.profile, or somewhere
else?
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Hi,
How is the execution order of cron.daily jobs determined?
I want inject my own cron job before and after certain predefined jobs.
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On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:45:45 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
How is the execution order of cron.daily jobs determined?
. . .
the same order as ls -s, ie. alphanumerically.
I thought so. Thanks everyone.
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On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 07:47:42 -0600, hvw59601 wrote:
Recently one of my Yahoo accts was compromised. Mail was sent all over
the place with nonsense, to LDU also.
[. . . ]
And how is an account compromised?
Looks like it's a growing trend to me. One of my friend was hit a while
ago as well.
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:18:17 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
So, I'm wondering what's the current solution to show/prompt messages
with embedded \n?
Use printf. What problems are you having with it?
$ printf Hello world!\n
Thanks for your explanation, Bob.
What I didn't make clear in the OP
On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:16:41 +, T o n g wrote:
BTW, the reason that I gave up 'echo -e' was that it started to
mysteriously output that -e in front of the messages I wanted to show
in my /bin/sh scripts. I still haven't figure out why yet.
Oh, I forgot, I've already figured it out -- Now
Hi,
Somehow I don't like the gmail's new look. I was able to defer switching
to gmail's new look before, but I can't figure out how I did it now.
Anyone knows how?
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Instead I started looking for when it worked correctly and what the
ddclient.config was at that moment. Then I copied that .config over and
that made it work correctly.
Which brings up an interesting question: what are the answers you have
Thanks for your answer Bob.
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:38:05 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
I know normally cron will send emails to whoever the job is owned/
launched by, but if I put a MAILTO at the top of the file, will all
emails be then sent to my designated MAILTO user id, instead of to
Hi,
I know how to get an IP address *info* using dig, but has anyone looked
into how to get *only* the IP address? so that I can use, eg.
the_ip=`get_ip host`
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Well, not exactly now but at lease Adobe flash is dead for all mobile
devices:
Adobe confirms Flash Player is dead for mobile devices
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/09/adobe-confirms-flash-player-is-dead-
for-mobile-devices/
Steve Jobs wins: Flash being phased out from mobile devices
On Wed, 09 Nov 2011 08:23:33 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
I'm all ears. What's your recommendation?
That will depend on what are your expectations.
- For a clone to MS Access (with easy wizards to make fancy reports or
to create forms with a few clicks...) there is Kexi, knoda or gnome-
On Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:33:08 +, Camaleón wrote:
There are another frontend programs which are better prepared to deal
with this task, IMO.
I'm all ears. What's your recommendation?
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Ever used the OO/LibreOffice Base?
Ever used it with any light-weighted SQL DB?
Have any comments to share?
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Hi,
I'm having a very weird problem.
% mount /dev/sdb7 /mnt/tmp
mount: special device /dev/sdb7 does not exist
I.e., my sdb7 is not in my system's device list. But the partition does
exist:
$ fdisk -l /dev/sdb | grep sdb7
/dev/sdb7 15300 1784820474842 83 Linux
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:41:40 +0200, Mirco Piccin wrote:
I meant a simple one, just to the point, not a big monster like gimp.
i use Shutter!
Thanks Mirco. Shutter is indeed a feature-rich screenshot manipulation
program which has all the features that I need. Thanks.
Just one drawback is
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:34:01 +, T o n g wrote:
24 new dependences, 4232kB of archives, 26MB of total installation disk
space is a bit too big for a simple task like this.
I still gave it a try. Here is it's limitations I found so far.
- unable to work on the image from the system
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 11:33:38 +, Camaleón wrote:
That's weird. Give us the output of mount and dmesg|grep -i sdc
What do you get? Different than mine?
Yep, sure. As soon as I plug my USB flash key (or my camera) it gets
detected by blkid without needing to make sorcery nor summoning
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:33:19 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
On the other hand, given a country or state/province, can I get a list
of IP addresses that belong to it?
Not sure if that's possible, but someone else might have ideas.
Thanks for the hint, Darac. Found it's source. FYI, the
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:22:04 +0300, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
If the remote user has problems with their computer they should be able
to press Enter and fixme will login and run a script connecting . . .
Quite strange setup. But OK.
Typical Windows-thinking.
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:29:47 +, T o n g wrote:
What the most appropriate tool to document/describe/diagram the inter-
relations between a group of friends, of which the relations can be
anything, even like, neighbour, car-pool, play-hokey, etc, etc.
The graphviz comes first to my mind
Hi,
All my boxes have mlocate working fine, except one Ubuntu box. I guess
that its mlocate db updating is disabled. How to verify it and get it
working?
Thanks
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http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/
http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/
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On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 17:10:56 +, Camaleón wrote:
I'm looking for a script-able way to print any arbitrary image onto a
full printer page (letter, A4, etc). . .
Mmmm, not sure if you are looking for something like lp file.jpg -o
fitplot :-?
Can you do that? ... I can't wait to try it
On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:20:18 -0600, ChadDavis wrote:
I'm learning about various tools to monitor performance. I'm reading
about vmstat right now, and it says that context switching, if very
high, can be an indicator of misbehaving hardware
Hi ChadDavis, can you post more about this vmstat
Hi,
I'm looking for a script-able way to print any arbitrary image onto a
full printer page (letter, A4, etc).
All the image viewing tools that I tried didn't give me such feature, and
so far the only solution I have is, cough, cough, doing it in winword.
Thanks
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On Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:51:56 +, Camaleón wrote:
I put them in another file, /etc/udev/rules.d/71-my-cd.rules, but how
would I overwrite the settings in /etc/udev/rules.d/70 -persistent-
cd.rules, which was automatically generated by the 75-cd -aliases-
generator.rules? I.e., wouldn't
Hi,
Thanks everyone for the follow ups.
Sorry for responding late.
On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:07:08 +, Camaleón wrote:
On my system the /dev/cdrom is actually DVD while My CD is actually
/dev/ cdrom1.
That does not match with a correct fstab file.
Your primary device (dvd?) should
On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:19:42 +0100, Wawrzek Niewodniczanski wrote:
I think it can be introduced on a USB stick or possibly even a floppy
although the USB stick method would work on just about any P.C. made in
the last 15 years. . .
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I use http to server preseed file . . .
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