Re: [ 7.129981] CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 74)

2011-07-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 07:15:49PM +0530, surreal wrote: [7.129981] CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 74) [7.130633] CPU0: Temperature/speed normal [7.141110] CPU0: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 75) [

Re: secured pdf

2011-07-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 03:14:29PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 20:39:43 +0800, lina wrote: I want to take a note (mainly take some essential copy) from a secured pdf, which prevent copying. In this situation, how can I handle it. Evince and Okular can bypass some of

Re: vimdiff

2011-07-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 05:26:29AM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: On Jul 12, 2011 7:37 PM, Jochen Schulz m...@well-adjusted.de wrote: Default zsh and I never care to change stuff like that. Really? Was this ever the case with debian? -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade and logs in /var/log/apt/term.log

2011-02-07 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 04:49:22AM +0200, Regid Ichira wrote:   Am I right having aptitude stdin connected to a pipe, as in     # printf di | xargs aptitude -y upgrade will cause aptitude NOT to log its actions to /var/log/apt/* ? I thought it logged its actions to /var/log/aptitude --

Re: Firware drivers?

2011-02-07 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:03:43PM -0800, Arthur Barlow wrote: Are you guys kidding??!!! I've been using testing for years with very little problems. You should know that every time a release happens, both testing and unstable go into flux. Here are some free tips for everyone: Do not track

Re: Troubling while dist-upgrading my debian unstable

2011-02-07 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 11:03:06AM +0800, Qijiang Fan wrote: The following packages will be REMOVED: xserver-xorg-video-nv{u} I think nv was replaced by nouveau. -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: wpa_supplicant disconnecting problems

2007-11-08 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:42:52PM +1100, Geoff Crompton wrote: Hi, I'm a bit of a wireless newbie. I'm trying to connect my tnet1130 PCI wifi card (104c:9066) with the ndiswrapper to a Asus WL-500GP access point. I've got the ndiswrapper going, using Debian Etch, kernel 2.6.18-5-686, and

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-15 Thread Tarek Soliman
btw, s/dorks/geeks/ please. I'm not at all a dork. I'm definitely a geek. I wasn't implying that you were. To me: Dork = one who is socially challenged Geek = one with aptitude or expertise in some field (e.g. science geek, or computer geek) So yes. I meant dork when I said dork. Not

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Tarek Soliman
What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on a server? OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct answer none ? That was a serious question on my part: what is the correct answer to Tarek's question? I was under the impression

Re: xorg.conf multiple screen

2007-03-15 Thread Tarek Soliman
I have a laptop with only VGA output (not s-video output), so in order to connect my laptop to the LCD-TV I made a VGA to TV converter (VGA to TV http://www.tkk.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/vga2tv/cindex.html). My laptop have resolution of 1024x768, my external LCD monitor have also

Re: PATH question

2007-03-15 Thread Tarek Soliman
You can use 'which' to find out which ls is being called, but it goes by first come first serve: echo $PATH /home/jeffd/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch ~/bin/ls [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chmod 755 ~/bin/ls [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which ls /home/jeffd/bin/ls [EMAIL

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:36:12PM -0400, Bernd Prager wrote: Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more confident I will be.

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Tarek Soliman
On of my favorite: Q: How does the correct crontab entry looks like to run a script only on the last day of every month? Very very interesting! * * * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] /the/script It is basically a command that runs everyday checking if tomorrow's day of

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
If you want to install Oracle on Linux (and *lots* of companies do, so don't bleat about not infecting your system with closed-source), you need X. No, you only need a few libraries. The Display can be a local workstation. I know this, I've done it, as far back as 1998 when the

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
WTF, I see Windows mentality has become the norm. and RIP TelnetD (IOW the telnet Daemon) right out of the machine. OpenSSH (as done by OpenBSD devs) is what should be defacto standard. I wish it could really be that way everywhere. I have been places where they run telnetd on all

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
Q) In the CLI, how do you rm (remove) a file that begins with a hyphen ? A) rm -- --oops Wasn't there a similar horror story where a program would save a directory as .* or *. or whatever, and then rm -R .* would expand to .. among other things, nuking the parent folder too? -- Tarek --

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:33:19AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:11:06AM -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: Is there any compatibility issues as far as versions of X, the server being non-linux (or even not the same distro as the workstation), etc? Nope. X

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
I wish it could really be that way everywhere. I have been places where they run telnetd on all the Solaris and Linux servers because (get this) windows only comes with a telnet client and not an ssh client. They do know about putty, right? It's only a few kB... I know about

Re: Is that all there is to it??

2007-03-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:27:06PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cassiano Leal wrote: Tarek Soliman wrote: An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and try before you upgrade if you have enough space on a partition. Really? I

Re: xorg.conf multiple screen

2007-03-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
I have a laptop with only VGA output (not s-video output), so in order to connect my laptop to the LCD-TV I made a VGA to TV converter (VGA to TV http://www.tkk.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/vga2tv/cindex.html). My laptop have resolution of 1024x768, my external LCD monitor have also

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
I just remember that expertise often doesn't carry over to areas outside of one's core competence. Like say, social skills. It seems that in pursuit of knowledge, one hits a wall where one cannot aquire more knowledge quickly without sacrificing social skills. Not to say all dorks are

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
I just remember that expertise often doesn't carry over to areas outside of one's core competence. Like say, social skills. It seems that in pursuit of knowledge, one hits a wall where one cannot aquire more knowledge quickly without sacrificing social skills. Not to say all

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-14 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:27:30PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:04:56PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: Since this is already a off-topic thread... So does Dutch, German, French, ItalianNow that I

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
I would certainly trust XFS. Of course, if you don't have your machine on an UPS, it can cause problems on a crash or power outage. Great, that is the usual propaganda from XFS users with the same lame excuse written with small letters. It has this bad tendency to shred the file

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
Well, as an anecdote of my own, I have used both XFS and ext3 quite extensively and found that they are equally as good, given *quality* hardware. I assume quality hardware is mutually exclusive with a home PC Is that correct? -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: authentication failure

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:05:24AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: Tarek Soliman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do not log in as root via ssh or even allow it. There are reasons why the default in Debian is PermitRootLogin no The default is yes. See /usr/share/doc/openssh-server/Readme.DEBIAN.gz

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
Now as far as video, who cares about that... servers don't need GUI stuff. Tell that to our admins who run redhat and suse. Want to disable these guys? Remove some X libraries. (The one guy who uses CLI uses telnet) Yes they really have X on ALL of the servers. -- Tarek -- To

Re: HOWTO: multi-seat Debian Sid using the stock kernels.

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
If you don't believe me, Google it. DESCRIPTION Google is the authoritative source of all information. SEE ALSO truthiness wikipedia wikiality -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more confident I will be. Please also post tricky and troubleshooting questions. What is

Re: Eclipse crash

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:19:52PM +0100, Christian Ribeaud wrote: I am desperately trying to get Eclipse 3.2 working on my laptop. I upgrated java to JDK1.6 but it did not change anything. Crashes are not predicable and could happen at anytime. Starting Eclipse is not a problem. Buf,

Re: Is that all there is to it??

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
U... is that it?!? Is it really that simple to upgrade? Yes. Isn't Debian nice? If you want to be brave and do it again and run Sid. Joe An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and try before you upgrade if you have enough space on a partition. I ran sarge

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
Tarek Soliman wrote: What is the best desktop-environment and/or window-manager to be put on a server? OK, my newbie answer: That's a trick question, right? Isn't the correct answer none ? I was gonna say Tell that to Redhat and ORACLE UNBREAKABLE LINUX but I realized I don't know

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-13 Thread Tarek Soliman
So I ask: Is debian the only distro that sows the seed of CLI? I'm talking about having a server type computer, not a desktop. Slackware. Really? A slackware server in a corporate environment? Interesting -- Tarek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: authentication failure

2007-03-12 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:43:40PM -0500, Kent West wrote: So you can log in locally at the terminal as a normal user and then su - root successfully, but you can not log in via ssh as that same normal user and then su - root successfully. I don't know of any mechanism that would cause this

Re: Kernel panic on PCI video card with 2.6.x on Dell Dimension 2300

2007-02-09 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:38:58PM -0500, John Stoffel wrote: Tarek == Tarek Soliman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Tarek I have done this and even dist-upgraded to etch. Every time I Tarek put the PCI card back, it becomes the source of monitor output Tarek during boot but then the booting

Kernel panic on PCI video card with 2.6.x on Dell Dimension 2300

2007-02-08 Thread Tarek Soliman
Hi all, I am trying to install debian with a 2.6 kernel on a Dell 2300 The kernel panics after saying pci in a detection phase (I'm guessing discover) Does this panic get saved to a log? This first happened after the first boot on a net install. It is a machine that has a PCI-only motherboard

Re: Kernel panic on PCI video card with 2.6.x on Dell Dimension 2300

2007-02-08 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 05:28:39PM -0500, greenproc wrote: Tarek Soliman wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install debian with a 2.6 kernel on a Dell 2300 The kernel panics after saying pci in a detection phase (I'm guessing discover) Does this panic get saved to a log? Try disabling