Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-29 Thread Joe Brenner
Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: B. Alexander wrote: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: [snip] XFS is the canonical fs for when you have lots of Big Files. I've also seen simple benchmarks on this list showing that it's faster than ext3/ext4. Thats cool. What about

Re: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?

2010-04-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:30:40 -0400 (EDT), James Stuckey wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: You didn't provide much information, James. I'm afraid that there's no one size fits all answer to that question. It depends on a lot of things. Please provide the following information: (1) The make and

Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Stephen Powell zlinux...@wowway.comwrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:30:40 -0400 (EDT), James Stuckey wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: You didn't provide much information, James. I'm afraid that there's no one size fits all answer to that question. It depends on

RE: [OT] Home UPS (was Filesystem recommendations)

2010-04-29 Thread owens
Original Message From: zlinux...@wowway.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: [OT] Home UPS (was Filesystem recommendations) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:54:47 -0400 (EDT) On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:26:52 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote: Anyway, the way I've always looked

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:27:59 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: (...) I don't recall how the config file was made. The resolution I want is 1920x1080. Restarting X gave me this resolution. Now my fonts on screen (like on the menu bar in iceweasel/icedove, for example) aren't too easy to read. They

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 29 April 2010 14:17:28 Joe Brenner wrote: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: B. Alexander wrote: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: XFS is the canonical fs for when you have lots of Big Files. I've also seen simple benchmarks on this list showing that it's

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:27:59 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: (...) I don't recall how the config file was made. The resolution I want is 1920x1080. Restarting X gave me this resolution. Now my fonts on screen (like on the

Re: [OT] Home UPS (was Filesystem recommendations)

2010-04-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: zlinux...@wowway.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: [OT] Home UPS (was Filesystem recommendations) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:54:47 -0400 (EDT) On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:26:52 -0400 (EDT), Stan Hoeppner wrote:

Re: [OT] Home UPS (was Filesystem recommendations)

2010-04-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 29 April 2010 14:26:17 ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: zlinux...@wowway.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: [OT] Home UPS (was Filesystem recommendations) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:54:47 -0400 (EDT) On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:26:52 -0400 (EDT),

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:40:46 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: That is probably due to a low DPI value. You can change it to whatever value you feel more confortable with. I don't use gnome or KDE. And what DE (if any) are you

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:40:46 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: That is probably due to a low DPI value. You can change it to whatever value you feel more

Re: [OT] Home UPS (was Filesystem recommendations)

2010-04-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:48:03 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 29 April 2010 14:26:17 owens wrote: Also I might have an issue with Stan's use of AND. While surge protection of printers is a good idea, most UPS vendors advise against connecting the printer to the UPS for power

Re: [OT] Home UPS (was Filesystem recommendations)

2010-04-29 Thread Merciadri Luca
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: It's not because the printer makes the power unclean or otherwise interferes with the correct functioning of the UPS while mains is working. They recommend against connecting printers because printers draw a large amount of power, dramatically reducing the

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:46:31 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: I don't use gnome or KDE. And what DE (if any) are you using? :-) I'm using wmii Uh... and how does one change DPI settings in that :-)? You could try running: xrandr --dpi 96 Or if you have installed nvidia control panel

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:46:31 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: I don't use gnome or KDE. And what DE (if any) are you using? :-) I'm using wmii Uh... and how does one change DPI settings in that :-)? You could try

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:06:08 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: You could try running: xrandr --dpi 96 Or if you have installed nvidia control panel application, IIRC you can also change it from there. xrandr --dpi 96 or --dpi [any other

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread James Stuckey
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:06:08 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:03 PM, Camaleón wrote: You could try running: xrandr --dpi 96 Or if you have installed nvidia control panel application, IIRC

Re: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?

2010-04-29 Thread Redalert Commander
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 15:20 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:30:40 -0400 (EDT), James Stuckey wrote: [snip] (1) I'm on AMD64/Asus motherboard P5Q (2) NVIDIA 9800GT (3) ASUS VH242H (4) LCD (5) Digital connection, not DVI Digital connection, but not DVI? Hmm.

Re: The modem-related questions: connection and enroll.

2010-04-29 Thread John Hasler
Sthu Deus writes: Can I use for connection through ppp something like this: pon isp /dev/ttyACM0 where isp is my /etc/ppp/peers/isp file, /dev/ttyACM0 - the modem device. Not with pon. I suggest that you write a script that calls pppd directly. Use the pon script as a starting point. So,

RE: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Ross
From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.john...@cox.net] Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 3:49 PM On 04/24/2010 05:31 PM, B. Alexander wrote: Define hates sudden power outages...Is it recoverable? They got pretty corrupted. Maybe it's been robustified in the intervening years. Apparently,

iptables..WTF???

2010-04-29 Thread Raven
Hi all. Couple years ago I set up a very basic script to have a machine (running SID) on my network to act as a router. Two network interfaces, one with a public IP and the other on the local LAN subnet. It does NAT as well as open some inbound ports (SSH, WWW). Today, at roughly 4PM, the firewall

Re: Making onscreen fonts read-able[was:New monitor, how to change screen resolution?]

2010-04-29 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:20:36 +0200, James Stuckey wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Camaleón wrote: Option DPI 96 x 96 Under your /etc/X11/Xorg.conf Monitor section? (make a backup copy of the original file before making any change) I can't tell if that made a change or not. In

X server starts on the wrong console (was: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?)

2010-04-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:27:38 -0400 (EDT), Redalert Commander wrote: Stephen Powell wrote: James Stuckey wrote: (7) ... (++) using VT number 8 This is off topic, but did you notice that the X server initialized itself on VT number 8 instead of VT number 7? That means, for example, that

Re: X server starts on the wrong console (was: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?)

2010-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: and it will work. Then, in theory, restarting the X server again (such as with /etc/init.d/gdm restart) should cause the X server to restart on vt 7. This used to work, but the last time I tried it I ended up with two X servers, one

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-29 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stan Hoeppner wrote: Rob Owens put forth on 4/28/2010 8:26 PM: Many/most users don't run a UPS and sudden unexpected power loss is a real possibility for them. Really? I was under the impression that laptops and netbooks are now the primary

Re: nslookup from Windows resolves domain and pdc correctly but still gets cannot contact on samba 3.2.5-4 on lenny

2010-04-29 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: I have installed ii  samba                                 2:3.2.5-4lenny9            a ii  samba-common                          2:3.2.5-4lenny9 On Debian Lenny and i am sharing directories to Windows Users

Re: Re: Re: [TexLive] This math formula work a few month a go, but nowadays it didn't work anymore

2010-04-29 Thread Marcelo Laia
Perhaps it exists in lenny but not in squeeze? My apt-file search also says that it exists, but I do not even have the directory in which the file is supposed to reside. According to the debian site, however, the file is not available in squeeze:

RE: iptables..WTF???

2010-04-29 Thread Kevin Ross
What the heck happened this afternoon?? I don't know, but I'd start by making sure your interface names and IP addresses haven't changed for some reason. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-29 Thread Clive McBarton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums wrote: On 4/26/2010 5:24 PM, Clive McBarton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Allums wrote: Some people are scared of shared folders as possible attack vectors, thus security risks. What exactly are those

RE: iptables..WTF???

2010-04-29 Thread Raven
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 15:12 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: What the heck happened this afternoon?? I don't know, but I'd start by making sure your interface names and IP addresses haven't changed for some reason. Everything seems pretty kosher here: r...@dl580:~# ifconfig eth0 Link

Re: X server starts on the wrong console (was: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?)

2010-04-29 Thread Redalert Commander
On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:43 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: and it will work. Then, in theory, restarting the X server again (such as with /etc/init.d/gdm restart) should cause the X server to restart on vt 7. This used to work, but the

Multiple Graphics cards and HDMI: How to?

2010-04-29 Thread KS
Hi all, I have setup a system with Gigabyte MA-790GPT-UD3H motherboard and use a Nvidia GeForce 8600GTS PCI-E video card. It also has an onboard ATI Radeon HD 3300 graphics chipset. The PCI-E card is being used at the moment for the monitor (nvidia driver). I was thinking of using the HDMI

Re: Multiple Graphics cards and HDMI: How to?

2010-04-29 Thread Victor Padro
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:53 PM, KS list...@fastmail.fm wrote: Hi all, I have setup a system with Gigabyte MA-790GPT-UD3H motherboard and use a Nvidia GeForce 8600GTS PCI-E video card. It also has an onboard ATI Radeon HD 3300 graphics chipset. The PCI-E card is being used at the moment for

Re: downloaded .jnlp won't open

2010-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/29/2010 06:42 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:35:41 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/27/2010 11:11 AM, Camaleón wrote: [snip] How about these sample files? Can you run them? http://pscode.org/jws/api.html I'm afraid the problem resides not in your Icewasel or Java setup but

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
Joe Brenner put forth on 4/29/2010 2:17 PM: Would you happen to have any links to such benchmarks, unofficial or otherwise? Here's a somewhat old one from 2006 using Etch and rather old hardware (old then and very old now). The numbers are likely somewhat close to what you'd get with a

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-29 Thread Joe Brenner
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: Joe Brenner wrote: Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: B. Alexander wrote: Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: XFS is the canonical fs for when you have lots of Big Files. I've also seen simple benchmarks on this

Re: installing Lenny packages in Squeeze

2010-04-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 28 April 2010 20:35:29 Rob Owens wrote: If I were to install a bare-bones Squeeze system, then add Lenny repositories and declare Lenny to be the Default-Release in apt.conf, can I expect to have many problems installing a full desktop environment from

Re: X server starts on the wrong console (was: New monitor, how to change screen resolution?)

2010-04-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:26:26 -0400 (EDT), Redalert Commander wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 14:43 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:35 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: Then, in theory, restarting the X server again (such as with /etc/init.d/gdm restart) should cause the X server

Re: [OT] Home UPS (was Filesystem recommendations)

2010-04-29 Thread Stan Hoeppner
ow...@netptc.net put forth on 4/29/2010 2:26 PM: Also I might have an issue with Stan's use of AND. While surge protection of printers is a good idea, most UPS vendors advise against connecting the printer to the UPS for power protection Larry Most inkjets on a UPS are fine (for small

Re: aptitude and held packages

2010-04-29 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,26.Apr.10, 10:29:06, Rick Pasotto wrote: I just upgraded apt and aptitude to the latest testing version. Although 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' tells me that '172 not upgraded' it no longer lists them. Is this a bug or an intentional change? It probably depends on whether you consider the

Re: nslookup from Windows resolves domain and pdc correctly but still gets cannot contact on samba 3.2.5-4 on lenny

2010-04-29 Thread Siju George
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: My Domain SMB knowledge is slightly rusty but here goes... 1. Your Samba server's ip address ends with a 0, which, AFAIK, is reserved for network addresses (unless it has some special purpose like the the /32 netmask). What is

Re: how to redirect a domain in virtualmin

2010-04-29 Thread Tapas Mishra
You may try using Apache Reverse Proxy feature. On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Jozsi Vadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.com wrote: The question is simple. The answer [is there any] isn't simple [it's not implemented in virtualmin yet?]. So: There are two domains: AAA.com and: BBB.com

Re: iptables..WTF???

2010-04-29 Thread Alexander Samad
you haven't been affected by the bind to ipv6 setting ? On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Raven ra...@vp44.net wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 15:12 -0700, Kevin Ross wrote: What the heck happened this afternoon?? I don't know, but I'd start by making sure your interface names and IP

Re: downloaded .jnlp won't open

2010-04-29 Thread godo
Zeroing out /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only helped, but then I bogged down at the login window. Hi Ron, what exactly happened? I just try the same from my Sid box and http://www.pscode.org/jws/clipserv.jnlp opened Java window Clipboard Service. Here is a pic http://dobosevic.com/nix/clip.png

Re: [TexLive] This math formula work a few month a go, but nowadays it didn't work anymore

2010-04-29 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2010-04-30 00:04, Marcelo Laia skrev: According to the debian site, however, the file is not available in squeeze: It seems to come from a cmex package. Can that package have changed and dropped the fmex* files? It now seems to contain cmex*-files instead, but I do not know if that is the

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