help resizing a partition on GPT disk

2010-04-24 Thread Alexander Samad
Hi I have built a 5T partition with my raid card and just expanded it out to 9G, now I want to resize the partition I had to use parted so that I can use gpt partitions. Every time I go to resize partd tells me it doesn't know what fs ison the partition - its a pv. so I am sort of stuck ... Nev

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/24/2010 4:56 PM, B. Alexander wrote: . Even with it's vboxheadless functionality, its [vbox is] still a bit too dodgy for a group of machines that need to stay up. I would have said that about Xen. (OP did say "personal use", so I assumed desktop.) MAA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/24/2010 4:27 PM, Andreas Weber wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: Except for USB the package virtualbox-ose in Debian will meet all your requirements. (OSE stands for Open Source Edition) If USB is a must you can use the repos from Sun (the USB stuff is non-free). If USB is a must, stick the d

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 04/24/2010 12:53 PM, B. Alexander wrote: Hi, So now, I would like to slowly start replacing my reiser3 partitions with...something else. There are two options, the old standards, e.g. ext3/4, xfs, etc, and then there are a slew of new filesystems, such as nilfs2, btrfs and exofs. You pro

Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

2010-04-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> Not only that, but it's definitely not "production ready".  Almost > > I've seen far worse in production equipment.  OTOH, without a case, it > does look far from professional. > Well, production in this case is not "people will die if it fails" so it is passable for his needs. > Unless, that

Re: Moving to Debian: updated software

2010-04-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
Thanks, Johan and Ron! -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/x2r880dece01004242303k2a8c78t6545f43

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/24/2010 7:31 AM, John Hasler wrote: Mark Allums writes: Ah, a matter of taste, then. (Debian tastes bad with Nvidia loaded, apparently.) No. A matter of support. Okay. But perhaps a less loaded word than "taint" could be chosen. MAA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: funky kernel message from syslogd

2010-04-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 07:24:38PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > This popped up in one of my xterms after my Thinkpad came out of hibernation > today. The machine has beeped a few times as this message was repeated. > Does not sound good. Call Trace? That's, like, bad? Right? > > > Message from sy

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread James P. Wallen
I occasionally turn on Xfce's compositing for specific tasks in which it actually makes my work easier. But most if the time, it's off. How do you enable it? Did you also have to add something to xorg.conf? Desktop compositing in Xfce? I just turn it on in the Compositing tab of the Window Ma

Re: Problem with me Modem Huawei on Debian Lenny

2010-04-24 Thread Dale
On 25 April 2010 04:41, Danny wrote: > Hi Christian, > > It looks like Vista and Windows 7 people are experiencing the same problem as > you are. If you go to the www.huawei.com forum you will find a bunch of non > linux people have more or less the same problem with communicating with this > mode

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-24 Thread Kevin Ross
On 4/24/2010 10:53 AM, B. Alexander wrote: Hi, I have a question on filesystems. Back in the day, I started using reiser3. It was faster than ext3, and it could be extended without umounting the filesystem (which has since been fixed in ext3), plus, unlike any filesystem I have encountered, i

Re: Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

2010-04-24 Thread Kevin Ross
On 4/24/2010 4:50 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/24/2010 06:11 PM, James P. Wallen wrote: [snip] PS: My apologies. Recent update to my mail client coupled with lack of sleep. I accidentally sent Ron a direct e-mail reply. Mea culpa. I don't think I've hated a program more than I hate Tbird 3.0

Re: creating tables...html

2010-04-24 Thread Robert Baron
Here is a different way - kinda expensive with divs - depending on how rigorous the formatting needs to be. You can change the colors to what you want them to be. test text here1 test text here2 test text here1 test text here1 test text here1 test text here2 On Sat, Apr 24, 20

Re: creating tables...html

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat April 24 2010 15:52:41 Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > > > a:link, a:visited, a:active { text-decoration: none; } > a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } > table.tabletemplate { width: 100%; border-width: 1px; border-style: > outset; border-color: #00; } > > test text here1 > test text here2

Icedove/Thunderbird 3.0 (was Re: The future of "nv" ...)

2010-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/24/2010 06:11 PM, James P. Wallen wrote: [snip] PS: My apologies. Recent update to my mail client coupled with lack of sleep. I accidentally sent Ron a direct e-mail reply. Mea culpa. I don't think I've hated a program more than I hate Tbird 3.0. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? --

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

2010-04-24 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > That's one difference between us: I don't use Compiz. That's not a difference. I don't use it, either. My use of Compiz was just a part of exploration of the Gnome DE. I don't even use Gnome now. > ... because I don't need glitzy special effect

Re: Sharing Iceweasel's bookmarks through LAN

2010-04-24 Thread Nick Douma
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:57:07PM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Hi, > > I am using UNISON to share files between two computers in my LAN. I > share my documents, etc., but I would like to share bookmarks too. > However, I don't know if Iceweasel puts them in some place. Where could > I reach the

creating tables...html

2010-04-24 Thread Jozsi Vadkan
What can i do about those empty spaces? i just can't figure it out... the html code: a:link, a:visited, a:active { text-decoration: none; } a:hover { text-decoration: underline; } table.tabletemplate { width: 100%; border-width: 1px; border-style: outset; border-color: #00; } test text her

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/24/2010 05:31 PM, B. Alexander wrote: On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ron Johnson 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 Lots of Little

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/24/2010 04:09 PM, John Hasler wrote: Mark Allums writes: Ah, a matter of taste, then. (Debian tastes bad with Nvidia loaded, apparently.) I wrote: No. A matter of support. Device driver bugs can cause crashes in apparently unrelated parts of the kernel. Ron Johnson writes: I must

Re: where is what kontrol did?

2010-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/24/2010 03:20 PM, Lisi wrote: On Saturday 24 April 2010 20:10:51 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: But will pulse audio make my Konsole make a sound because that is the only reason I would install systemsettings. I'm fascinated. Why do you _want_ your Konsole to make a sound? He might have prac

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-24 Thread B. Alexander
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/24/2010 12:53 PM, B. Alexander wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a question on filesystems. Back in the day, I started using >> reiser3. It was faster than ext3, and it could be extended without >> umounting the filesystem (which has since be

Re: Sharing Iceweasel's bookmarks through LAN

2010-04-24 Thread Merciadri Luca
Nuno Magalhães wrote: > http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+firefox+bookmark+file > Sure it helps. Thanks. I habitually do it, but there, I thought there would not have been any result! -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility p

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-24 Thread B. Alexander
Amen to that! IMHO, vmware merely pays lip service to Linux. 12 years ago, when we were using Linux on the job, we (and many, many others) were asking for a Linux client. We are now at VSphere 4, and still only windows clients. VMware server is even worse. It runs on Linux, and it worked okay, but

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-24 Thread Andreas Weber
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Except for USB the package virtualbox-ose in Debian will meet all your > requirements. (OSE stands for Open Source Edition) > > If USB is a must you can use the repos from Sun (the USB stuff is > non-free). If USB is a must, stick the device in, mount it and open a share

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread John Hasler
Mark Allums writes: > Ah, a matter of taste, then. (Debian tastes bad with Nvidia loaded, > apparently.) I wrote: > No. A matter of support. Device driver bugs can cause crashes in > apparently unrelated parts of the kernel. Ron Johnson writes: > I must not stress my system enough, because eve

Re: Sharing Iceweasel's bookmarks through LAN

2010-04-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=linux+firefox+bookmark+file HTH -- () ascii-rubanda kampajno - kontraŭ html-a retpoŝto /\ ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debia

Re: Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection

2010-04-24 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This looks like kerneloops sends the oopses through a simple URL. Strange. It seems not to even ping a reference IP to see if the connexion is still alive. Weird. submit-url = http://submit.kerneloops.org/submitoops.php is appended at the end of my ke

Sharing Iceweasel's bookmarks through LAN

2010-04-24 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, I am using UNISON to share files between two computers in my LAN. I share my documents, etc., but I would like to share bookmarks too. However, I don't know if Iceweasel puts them in some place. Where could I reach them? Thanks. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/

Re: Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection

2010-04-24 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:44:46 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> When my Lenny (w. k. 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem) encounters a kernel error, a >> box pops, and I am asked if I want to report the (de)bug information. > > Yes, that's "kernelo

Audible bell in Metacity

2010-04-24 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello List, I like my audible bell very much. I really really like it – unfortunately, Metacity (from current Testing) blocks it in the following way: * "beep" works fine * "xkbbell -force" works, but it doesn't w/o the "-force" * Gnome-Terminal and all the other applications can only bell "vis

Re: Suspend to Disk + blacklisted module = still trouble

2010-04-24 Thread Felix Natter
Camaleón writes: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:33:59 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > >> Camaleón writes: >> >>> What does "/var/log/hibernate.log" say? >> >> /var/log/hibernate* does not exist after a (succesful) resume, although >> this is in common.conf: >> >> Verbosity 0 >> LogFile /var/log/hiberna

Re: where is what kontrol did?

2010-04-24 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 24 April 2010 20:10:51 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > But will pulse audio make my Konsole make a sound because that is the > only reason I would install systemsettings. I'm fascinated. Why do you _want_ your Konsole to make a sound? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: how to setup my environment variable for vim ?

2010-04-24 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
> Try putting this in ~/.bashrc: > > export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim > > Regards, > Andrei > -- You can also make it a system wide configuration with "update-alternatives --config editor". I have not tried it shells other than bash but I assume it is portable. -- Jordan Metzmeier -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Suspend to Disk + blacklisted module = still trouble

2010-04-24 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
This site has great resources on fixing suspend problems: http://hal.freedesktop.org/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/h

Re: Why is Acroversion not properly updated?

2010-04-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/24/2010 02:08 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> >> Every time I update acroread (including mozilla-acroread, the plugin >> which displays PDFs), it breaks until I edit >> /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/AcroVersion to reflect the current >> ver

Re: Why is Acroversion not properly updated?

2010-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/24/2010 02:08 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Every time I update acroread (including mozilla-acroread, the plugin which displays PDFs), it breaks until I edit /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/AcroVersion to reflect the current version (which is noted in the shellscript /etc/alternatives/acroread).

Re: Impossible to establish ppp-connection through cellar samsung.

2010-04-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
green wrote: Sthu Deus wrote at 2010-04-23 06:47 -0500: I have troubles with connecting cellar phone Samsung C3010 to Debian 5 desktop. I have put into chatscript the correct for the manufacturer initialization line, but it still does not work. I can't help you with chatscripts, but I have fo

Blank page after every page when printing PDFs with evince - Debian Lenny, CUPS, HP Paintjet (pj)

2010-04-24 Thread Stephen Powell
I have noticed that when printing multi-page PDF files from evince on the GNOME desktop, using CUPS under Debian Lenny, I get a blank page after every page. My printer is an HP PaintJet. This wastes paper and is very annoying. I have searched the Internet, of course, but I did not find any solu

Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

2010-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/24/2010 08:53 AM, James P. Wallen wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/22/2010 08:49 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] I shall now avoid, when possible, computers with Nvidia graphics cards. Except that Nvidia's drivers are still *much* better than ATI's drivers

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Allums wrote: On 4/23/2010 11:31 AM, Richard Lawrence wrote: Hi all, P.S. Apologies if this question seems too far off-topic for debian-user. If there's a better place to ask this question, I'd like to know that, too. Virtualbox meets more of your individual criteria than anything el

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mike Bird wrote: On Fri April 23 2010 21:13:27 Siju George wrote: ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that limit. Which file system can I use to over come it? I am planning for JFS Does anybody has any recommendations? There is no such limit. ext3 can handle as ma

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/24/2010 01:14 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] I agree. I do not willingly use non-free software. I only use it if it's the only thing that will work. I might change my mind if the Nouveau driver gets picked up by X.Org and there's a standard Debian package for it, and it works reliably

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/24/2010 07:31 AM, John Hasler wrote: Mark Allums writes: Ah, a matter of taste, then. (Debian tastes bad with Nvidia loaded, apparently.) No. A matter of support. Device driver bugs can cause crashes in apparently unrelated parts of the kernel. I must not stress my system enough, be

Re: Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/24/2010 12:53 PM, B. Alexander wrote: Hi, I have a question on filesystems. Back in the day, I started using reiser3. It was faster than ext3, and it could be extended without umounting the filesystem (which has since been fixed in ext3), plus, unlike any filesystem I have encountered, it

Re: where is what kontrol did?

2010-04-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dotan Cohen wrote: But at what price: hal comes back in again, after I just got rid of it, and also consolekit, after I just got rid of that too... I dunno, all for just a sound... I suppose that depends on how (and why) you got rid of them. Have you tried installing Pulse Audio, you can cont

Re: Suspend to Disk + blacklisted module = still trouble

2010-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:33:59 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > Camaleón writes: > >> What does "/var/log/hibernate.log" say? > > /var/log/hibernate* does not exist after a (succesful) resume, although > this is in common.conf: > > Verbosity 0 > LogFile /var/log/hibernate.log > LogVerbosity 1 > > An

Why is Acroversion not properly updated?

2010-04-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Every time I update acroread (including mozilla-acroread, the plugin which displays PDFs), it breaks until I edit /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/AcroVersion to reflect the current version (which is noted in the shellscript /etc/alternatives/acroread). This should NOT be necessary. Is it my problem

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-24 Thread Monsieur Louk
I'll join the "Virtualbox is what you want/need" wagon.

Re: how to setup my environment variable for vim ?

2010-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/24/2010 11:48 AM, Bernard wrote: [snip] You're right : I had done the trial late last night, doing something else in the meantime, so I'd mixed things up. I just checked again: /bin/sh is a file. But it contains binary data, at least I suppose so, since it reads strange characters such as a

Re: Moving to Debian: updated software

2010-04-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 04/24/2010 01:02 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 24 April 2010 02:38, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/22/2010 03:54 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: [snip] It looks to me that Backports is the best for an everyday user who values stability, and prefers to use released software version. Please let me know where I

Re: Moving to Debian: updated software

2010-04-24 Thread Johan Grönqvist
2010-04-24 20:02, Dotan Cohen skrev: Thanks, Ron. I don't see the contradiction: I want released software, no betas or alphas. I am using the word "stable" as in "not crashy (doesn't fall down)", not in the sense of "doesn't change". I wondered if Testing or Unstable would provide that. I use

Re: Suspend to Disk + blacklisted module = still trouble

2010-04-24 Thread Felix Natter
Camaleón writes: > On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:36:29 +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > > (...) > >> So does this command cause hibernate to read >> /etc/hibernate/blacklisted-modules, or do I have to add UnloadModules >> uvcvideo >> ? hello, > What does "/var/log/hibernate.log" say? /var/log/hibernate*

Problem with me Modem Huawei on Debian Lenny

2010-04-24 Thread Danny
Hi Christian, It looks like Vista and Windows 7 people are experiencing the same problem as you are. If you go to the www.huawei.com forum you will find a bunch of non linux people have more or less the same problem with communicating with this modem. Just a stupid question, can Debian see this m

The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:07:02 -0400 (EDT), James P. Wallen wrote: > > One of the primary reasons I started using GNU/Linux was that I was > really tired of being stonewalled when looking for explanations for > system functions and malfunctions. Trying to figure out a problem by > looking through

Re: Moving to Debian: updated software

2010-04-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 24 April 2010 02:38, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/22/2010 03:54 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > [snip] >> >> It looks to me that Backports is the best for an everyday >> user who values stability, and prefers to use released software >> version. Please let me know where I am mistaken. Thanks. > > "stabl

Re: where is what kontrol did?

2010-04-24 Thread Dotan Cohen
> But at what price: hal comes back in again, after I just got rid of it, and > also consolekit, after I just got rid of that too... > I dunno, all for just a sound... > I suppose that depends on how (and why) you got rid of them. Have you tried installing Pulse Audio, you can control that withou

Filesystem recommendations

2010-04-24 Thread B. Alexander
Hi, I have a question on filesystems. Back in the day, I started using reiser3. It was faster than ext3, and it could be extended without umounting the filesystem (which has since been fixed in ext3), plus, unlike any filesystem I have encountered, it could be reduced in size. Well, now reiser3 i

Re: USB device attached via RS232 adaptor

2010-04-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:01:56 -0500 Ron Johnson wrote: Hello Ron, > Not only that, but it's definitely not "production ready". Almost I've seen far worse in production equipment. OTOH, without a case, it does look far from professional. Unless, that is, Dotan stripped the unit to take the ph

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:24:14 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: Hello Mark, > I've never understood the use of the word "taint" in this context. For some people, maintaining a system with FLOSS software is of the utmost importance. To them, adding stuff like the Nvidia drivers, acroread, or any other so

Re: Problem with me Modem Huawei on Debian Lenny

2010-04-24 Thread deloptes
Christian Simo wrote: > the problem is, nm-applet or wvdialconf don't detect my modem. > so i can setting it. > the modem is communicating with the system over a driver. you have to find out how to setup the modem on system level. This has to be done prior to get it used by an application like a

Re: how to setup my environment variable for vim ?

2010-04-24 Thread Bernard
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,24.Apr.10, 11:28:13, Bernard wrote: Hi to Everyone, I use ncftp' fairly often, and I wish to be able to edit files on my remote accesses. The ncftp command 'edit' does not operate here, it says: " Setup your Editor environment variable prior to running ncftp exa

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:58:17 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sat April 24 2010 07:30:33 Camaleón wrote: >> And wasn't *that* the limit the OP was asking about or I misunderstood >> something? :-? > > OP wrote: "ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I > hit that limit." > > As I

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat April 24 2010 07:30:33 Camaleón wrote: > And wasn't *that* the limit the OP was asking about or I misunderstood > something? :-? OP wrote: "ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that limit." As I demonstrated, ext3 can have 5 files in a "folder" (directory). O

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:24:04 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:00:37 Camaleón wrote: >> Well, I admit my English is not the very best it could be, but for sure >> the OP concern was "32000 files/folders under a folder" and if I read >>                                 ^^

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 07:17:22 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sat April 24 2010 07:00:37 Camaleón wrote: >> Well, I admit my English is not the very best it could be, but for sure >> the OP concern was "32000 files/folders under a folder" and if I read >> ^^

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 4/24/2010 6:26 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-04-24 12:24 +0200, Mark Allums wrote: I've never understood the use of the word "taint" in this context. It means the same as "contaminate". The practical consequence is that nobody will accept

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 24 April 2010 15:00:37 Camaleón wrote: > Well, I admit my English is not the very best it could be, but for sure > the OP concern was "32000 files/folders under a folder" and if I read >                                 ^^ > that in a correctly manner, it says somethi

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat April 24 2010 07:00:37 Camaleón wrote: > Well, I admit my English is not the very best it could be, but for sure > the OP concern was "32000 files/folders under a folder" and if I read > ^^ > that in a correctly manner, it says something ab

Re: Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

2010-04-24 Thread James P. Wallen
On 01/-10/-28163 02:59 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/22/2010 08:49 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] I shall now avoid, when possible, computers with Nvidia graphics cards. Except that Nvidia's drivers are still *much* better than ATI's drivers. Insofar as my experience goes I'd have to q

Re: where is what kontrol did?

2010-04-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: On 23 April 2010 21:22, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I don't have KDE installed (fvwm instead) but use Konsole. That has a warning funcion that shows up with a message 'KDE system notifications'. It used to have a sound associated with it and I used t

Re: where is what kontrol did?

2010-04-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 23 April 2010 21:22, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I don't have KDE installed (fvwm instead) but use Konsole. That has a warning funcion that shows up with a message 'KDE system notifications'. It used to have a sound associated with it and I used to use kontrol to set tha

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:46:45 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 24 April 2010 09:16:46 Camaleón wrote: >> Note that "The max number of subdirectories in one directory is fixed >> to 32000." >> >> ¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext3 > > The article to which you link refers to subdirectories. The O

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread John Hasler
Mark Allums writes: > Ah, a matter of taste, then. (Debian tastes bad with Nvidia loaded, > apparently.) No. A matter of support. Device driver bugs can cause crashes in apparently unrelated parts of the kernel. Thus in order to properly debug kernel problems it is necessary to have complete s

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Lisi
On Saturday 24 April 2010 09:16:46 Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 03:03:57 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 04/23/2010 11:13 PM, Siju George wrote: > >> ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that > >> limit. Which file system can I use to over come it? I am planning

Re: OT - Backup of HA server on external drive

2010-04-24 Thread Johan Kullstam
Ivan Marin writes: > Hi all, > > I have to make a backup plan for a server that is physically very far away > from > me right now. If for some reason this server goes south, I have to have a plan > and it has to be done quickly. The problem is that the personnel that is on > site doesn't know sq

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-04-24 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 12:35:55PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > msmtp will *not* accept incoming mail (which is what the OP asked for). > The solution is probably one of exim or postfix, possibly recompiled to > keep only a minimum of features needed for the given application, an > answer to

Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

2010-04-24 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> The VESA driver is not adequate > for many users. If I recall correctly, the VESA driver only makes > use of video graphics modes supported by the video BIOS. These video > modes often cannot exploit the maximum video resolution available on > many modern LCD displays. This was the main reason

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-04-24 Thread d . sastre . medina
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 04:57:10AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > You must have missed this in the OP's post. It's omitted in your reply > quote as well: "Users will send emails to a program running..." > > I take this to mean _remote_ network users. msmtp-mta is an smtp _CLIENT_ > only. It wil

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/24/2010 6:26 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2010-04-24 12:24 +0200, Mark Allums wrote: I've never understood the use of the word "taint" in this context. It means the same as "contaminate". The practical consequence is that nobody will accept bug reports against the kernel if the nvidia mod

Re: Problem with me Modem Huawei on Debian Lenny

2010-04-24 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
that means you did not set it up properly. Check the product id and vendor id On 4/24/10, Christian Simo wrote: > the problem is, nm-applet or wvdialconf don't detect my modem. > so i can't setting it. > > On 4/24/10, Christian Simo wrote: >> the problem is, nm-applet or wvdialconf don't detect

Re: Problem with me Modem Huawei on Debian Lenny

2010-04-24 Thread Christian Simo
the problem is, nm-applet or wvdialconf don't detect my modem. so i can't setting it. On 4/24/10, Christian Simo wrote: > the problem is, nm-applet or wvdialconf don't detect my modem. > so i can setting it. > > > On 4/24/10, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> if my memory serves me right, and if you in

Re: Problem with me Modem Huawei on Debian Lenny

2010-04-24 Thread Christian Simo
the problem is, nm-applet or wvdialconf don't detect my modem. so i can setting it. On 4/24/10, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > if my memory serves me right, and if you insisted on using nm-applet, > install network manager from squeeze then set the configuration of > your broadband connection accordi

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-04-24 12:24 +0200, Mark Allums wrote: > On 4/24/2010 5:11 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> Except that Nvidia's drivers are still *much* better than ATI's drivers. >> >> Only the proprietary ones, and not everybody wants to taint their system >> with these non-free blobs. > > I've never underst

Re: Problem with me Modem Huawei on Debian Lenny

2010-04-24 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
if my memory serves me right, and if you insisted on using nm-applet, install network manager from squeeze then set the configuration of your broadband connection accordingly. Refer your ISP manual. On 4/24/10, Christian Simo wrote: > Hi > > Please, I still trying to configure my modem. > > the

Re: Problem with me Modem Huawei on Debian Lenny

2010-04-24 Thread Christian Simo
Hi Please, I still trying to configure my modem. the command wvdialconf can't detect my modem, i don't know if is need some package? thanks On 4/23/10, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > i had done that once and documented it at http://umarzuki.org/blogku/?p=174 > > P/S: use google translate to transl

Re: overcoming the 32k objects limit is ext3 - which file system to use?

2010-04-24 Thread Paul (KC9EYE)
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 09:43:27AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > ext3 can have only 32000 files/folders under a folder and I hit that limit. > Which file system can I use to over come it? > I am planning for JFS > > Does anybody has any recommendations? You are stating that you believe the

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/24/2010 5:11 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: Except that Nvidia's drivers are still *much* better than ATI's drivers. Only the proprietary ones, and not everybody wants to taint their system with these non-free blobs. I've never understood the use of the word "taint" in this context. [Possibly

Re: The future of "nv" driver

2010-04-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2010-04-24 01:18 +0200, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/22/2010 08:49 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > [snip] >> >> I shall now avoid, when possible, computers with Nvidia graphics cards. >> > > Except that Nvidia's drivers are still *much* better than ATI's drivers. Only the proprietary ones, and not e

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-04-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
d.sastre.med...@gmail.com put forth on 4/24/2010 3:51 AM: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 09:19:56AM +0200, exp...@hope.cz wrote: >>I use Linux running in Compact Flash so that the size of the Compact >>flash memory is the limit >>Only SMTP, no POP3 server >>Can you suggest something? >

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,24.Apr.10, 10:51:56, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 09:19:56AM +0200, exp...@hope.cz wrote: > >I use Linux running in Compact Flash so that the size of the Compact > >flash memory is the limit > >Only SMTP, no POP3 server > >Can you suggest someth

Re: a submission

2010-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,23.Apr.10, 10:02:12, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:12 AM, IAN DELANEY wrote: > > I think this version of reportbug doesn't get to submit the bug.  Can you > > take this as a bug and post it please. > > Assuming you mean that it did not send the email, are you sure you

Re: how to setup my environment variable for vim ?

2010-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,24.Apr.10, 11:28:13, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > I use ncftp' fairly often, and I wish to be able to edit files on > my remote accesses. The ncftp command 'edit' does not operate here, > it says: > > " > Setup your Editor environment variable prior to running ncftp > example for /

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,23.Apr.10, 09:31:45, Richard Lawrence wrote: > > I am looking to run some virtual machines for personal use: I'd like ... > I value: > - free over non-free > - ease of use and good documentation over performance > - installation via apt and reasonable default configuration > - simple netwo

how to setup my environment variable for vim ?

2010-04-24 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone, I use 'ncftp' fairly often, and I wish to be able to edit files on my remote accesses. The ncftp command 'edit' does not operate here, it says: " Setup your Editor environment variable prior to running ncftp example for /bin/sh: EDITOR="/usr/bin/vi";export EDITOR " But, on my

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2010-04-24 Thread Stan Hoeppner
exp...@hope.cz put forth on 4/24/2010 2:19 AM: > > Hi Celejar, > Thank you for your reply. > I use Linux running in Compact Flash so that the size of the Compact flash > memory is the limit > Users will send emails to a program running in the Compact flash so I need a > mail server there too. >

Re: Kernel (de)bug information sent, even if there is no connection

2010-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:44:46 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > When my Lenny (w. k. 2.6.26-2-686-bigmem) encounters a kernel error, a > box pops, and I am asked if I want to report the (de)bug information. Yes, that's "kerneloops" daemon :-) > 1. Why can't I specify somewhere that I always want to

Re: VM software for personal use?

2010-04-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/23/2010 11:31 AM, Richard Lawrence wrote: Hi all, P.S. Apologies if this question seems too far off-topic for debian-user. If there's a better place to ask this question, I'd like to know that, too. Virtualbox meets more of your individual criteria than anything else I can think of,

Re: SMTP-Error 451 while using smarthost for mail delivery

2010-04-24 Thread deloptes
b1 wrote: > On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 17:28 +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:20:01 +0200, b1 wrote: >> >> > Currently I am trying to set up a Debian Lenny Server, but I am stuck >> > at mail delivery. The server I am trying to set up, has no FQDN, so I >> > used my ISP-Mailserver as a

Re: Cyrus 2.2 imapd in AMD64

2010-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:18:31 -0300, Carlos Bergero wrote: > Sorry forget to copy it > tlsprune is disable now so it doesnt lock the start up of the cyrus Next time use an online service (such Pastebin) to put the data and send a link ;-) (...) > Both are mostly standar files. Yep, I see nothi

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