Thorny wrote:
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:40:47 -0500, Mark Allums posted:
paragasu wrote:
ubuntu == debian testing,
if you think debian outdated, try debian unstable.
ubuntu = debian unstable
Ubuntu=(a snapshot of Debian unstable at the time)!=Debian unstable.
Note, I used an assignment
Petrus Validus wrote:
i would like to see some opinions and personal experiences regarding
these 2 excellent systems!
I used to use Ubuntu back in the 5.10 and 6.06 days for about a year or
so as a desktop. I liked it and it was alright but Debian's stability
and performance won me over!
I
a bug. Also, check the settings of the vm again. If
you have hardware virtualization support (CPU), use it. Or if you are
using it, turn it off.
Mark Allums
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), but it won't attempt to make changes to
the system until you authenticate as root (become root).
In command-line, I guess you must be root. But you can use sudo -c
exec aptitude, I think, or something similar, if you are weird enough.
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suspect that VirtualBox may require a fork, as MySQL is doing, and as
OpenOffice may end up doing as well. Oracle may want to control the world.
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Mirco Piccin wrote:
HI
I'm seriously thinking to switch to virtualbox ose...
me too but my image will not boot in VB, I have taken a copy of the boot
disks to see what I can do, but I am not hopeful - its a W2000 server
image. This is the exact reason I want to move to VB from vmware
I
you get to
GNOME, you must log in. The session choice is at that
screen---*before* you log in.
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. Remember, if your internet connection is not
always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still needs to download
the player from Adobe.
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Marc Shapiro wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has any
other Sid dependencies. Remember, if your internet connection is not
always-on, that it is just an installer, and it still needs to
download the player from Adobe.
I've already
Ken L. Klaser wrote:
On Sun, 2009-05-17 at 19:39 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
thveillon.debian wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
Marc Shapiro wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
flashplugin-nonfree in Sid is working again. I don't think it has
any other Sid dependencies. Remember
://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ , the
IA-64 has nothing to do with anything. Ignore it completely.
(Different architecture. On a PC it DOES NOT COMPUTE!.)
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box does not have LAN port - Ethernet cable), I am not able to
access the net.
You may be able to use it by getting a USB LAN port, and then plugging
the cable modem into *that*. Of course, you will want to get a USB LAN
adapter that follows standards and has Linux drivers.
Mark Allums
wget, others like curl. I would say curl is more of a requirement, wget
is more optional. But that is in my experience, others might have
other experiences.
(This point of view is from a non-technical standpoint. Looking forward
to reading what others have to say.)
Mark Allums
On 4/4/2010 10:33 PM, Tech Geek wrote:
So I have a very low end system which has 128 MB of RAM and a 486 based
x86 processor. After installing GNOME on Lenny, as soon as I launch
firefox, opera or any other relatively intensive application the system
comes to a crawl and becomes slow and
On 4/7/2010 9:26 AM, steef wrote:
hi folks!
somebody out there knows of an linux_equivalent for MS's siverlight??
regards,
steef
moonlight (part of mono)
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On 4/9/2010 10:41 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hi,
How come the latest linux-image-2.6-686 in Sid is:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-headers-2.6-686
and is set to linux-image-2.6-686 (2.6.32+24) while apt-cache policy
linux-image-2.6-686 gives:
linux-image-2.6-686:
Installed: 2.6.32+25
On 4/19/2010 4:29 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-19 04:24, Dotan Cohen wrote:
Why plonk me? Surely this is not the last Etch machine out there? In
any case, I could probably convince him to upgrade if you think that
Etch is not up to the task.
You completely missed (probably because
On 4/18/2010 3:27 PM, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:15:53 -0500
Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
Hello Ron,
Plz show us a link to a USB adapter that plugs into a PC's serial port.
I've never even looked for one. I'm just going what by Dotan wrote. By
the sounds of it,
On 4/19/2010 8:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote:
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 09:16 -0400, B. Alexander wrote:
I've got an issue with a sid box that I have been maintaining for a while. This
is my workstation, and I have noticed a growing number of broken packages,
unmet dependencies and conflicts. I
On 4/19/2010 9:00 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:01:41 -0400 (EDT), Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
Couldn't say why they switched, but I find pages in Epiphany 2.29 in
Squeeze look vivid compared with the Gecko version.
I have switched back and forth between epiphany and iceweasel
On 4/19/2010 7:53 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:59:29 -0400 (EDT), Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-17 21:32, Stephen Powell wrote:
Why did they switch from gecko to webkit anyway? It was working so well.
I still use it in Lenny. But not in Squeeze. Not anymore.
On 4/19/2010 9:46 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
On 4/19/2010 9:00 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 21:01:41 -0400 (EDT), Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
Couldn't say why they switched, but I find pages in Epiphany 2.29 in
Squeeze look vivid compared with the Gecko version.
I have switched
On 4/19/2010 10:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-19 21:47, Mark Allums wrote:
[snip]
Webkit 2.0 is imminent. Perhaps they are considering moving to it.
According to various sources, it is the bee's knees.
Beyond crude process separation, what are it's benefits over v1?
I don't know
On 4/20/2010 3:07 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:02:25 -0500
Mark Allumsm...@allums.com wrote:
Hello Mark,
That ought actually to work, if a computer were plugged into the USB
side. Then you would have a very slow transfer cable.
Yes, but AIUI, the computer's on the RS232
On 4/19/2010 11:24 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
On 4/19/2010 10:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-19 21:47, Mark Allums wrote:
[snip]
Webkit 2.0 is imminent. Perhaps they are considering moving to it.
According to various sources, it is the bee's knees.
Beyond crude process separation, what
On 4/20/2010 4:18 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-20 10:41, Mark Allums wrote:
On 4/19/2010 11:24 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
On 4/19/2010 10:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2010-04-19 21:47, Mark Allums wrote:
[snip]
Webkit 2.0 is imminent. Perhaps they are considering moving to it.
According
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,
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
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 module
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
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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
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
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.)
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On 4/25/2010 7:18 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/25/2010 01:19 AM, Mark Allums wrote:
I wanted to like ZFS, but Sun is now
Oracle, and thus over it hangs a dark cloud. Besides, we can almost get
the benefits of ZFS with Linux RAID plus LVM2.
Even were Sun not owned by Oracle, the likelihood
On 4/25/2010 9:28 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/25/2010 09:06 AM, Mark Allums wrote:
On 4/25/2010 7:18 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/25/2010 01:19 AM, Mark Allums wrote:
I wanted to like ZFS, but Sun is now
Oracle, and thus over it hangs a dark cloud. Besides, we can almost get
the benefits
On 4/25/2010 8:34 PM, ghe wrote:
On 4/25/10 7:10 PM, Richard Lawrence wrote:
http://losak.sourceforge.net/
A Lisp OS!!???
Could be, I guess. I once worked at a place where they claimed to have
written an accounting package in BASIC. I think I'd stick with
VirtualBox...
Am I detecting
On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM:
(Why? ext3 and 4 are exceptionally well supported by Linux and GNU. XFS
will be, too, probably.)
Are you kidding? XFS already is all of the things you mention. You
apparently need a history lesson
On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
I'd also guess that XFS seems new to a lot of people because it's never
been the default filesystem for any major Linux distro on i386/AMD64.
I wonder why.
_
Older is not better.
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On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
XFS has had just as much development support in Linux as EXT3/4 have,
possibly more in some areas.
What does this prove? Development does not equal support.
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On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Did I forget to mention that XFS is pretty old? 17 years old.
So what's your point?
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On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM:
Sorry Stan, Your defense of XFS has put me into troll mode. It's a
reflex. I don't buy it, but I shouldn't troll.
I think you are confusing what is with what should be.
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On 4/26/2010 4:53 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 4/26/2010 3:22 AM:
On 4/26/2010 2:14 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 4/25/2010 1:19 AM:
Sorry Stan, Your defense of XFS has put me into troll mode. It's a
reflex. I don't buy it, but I shouldn't troll
On 4/26/2010 9:29 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote:
Hi there,
I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start,
but the intention is to add more drives as storage requirements
increase.
My research/googling suggests ext3 supports 16TB volumes if block
size is 4096 bytes, but some sites
On 4/26/2010 10:28 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote:
Ok, I found the answer to my second question - it fails the entire
disk. So the first question remains.
I just figured that out---and I see you have too.
The difference between what we would like it to do, and what it actually
does can be
On 4/26/2010 11:57 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote:
I'm afraid that opinions of RAID vary widely on this list (no
surprise)
but you may be interested to note that we agree (a consensus) that
software-RAID 6 is an unfortunate choice.
.
Is this for performance reasons or potential data loss. I can live
On 4/26/2010 1:37 PM, Mike Bird wrote:
On Mon April 26 2010 10:51:38 Mark Allums wrote:
RAID 6 (and 5) perform well when less than approximately 1/3 full.
After that, even reads suffer.
Mark,
I've been using various kinds of RAID for many many years and
was not aware of that. Do you have
On 4/26/2010 2:29 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 4/26/2010 12:51 PM:
Put four drives in a RAID 1, you can suffer a loss of three drives.
And you'll suffer pretty abysmal write performance as well.
Also keep in mind that some software RAID implementations allow more than
On 4/26/2010 5:24 PM, Clive McBarton wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
Mark Allums wrote:
Some people are scared of shared folders as possible attack vectors, thus
security risks.
What exactly are those risks?
(For me, personally, it's theoretical, as I only am
On 4/26/2010 11:11 PM, Tim Clewlow wrote:
I don't know what your requirements / levels of paranoia are, but
RAID 5 is
probably better than RAID 6 until you are up to 6 or 7 drives; the
chance of a
double failure in a 5 (or less) drive array is minuscule.
.
I currently have 3 TB of data with
On 4/27/2010 3:56 AM, Thomas Pomber wrote:
I can see that some people here are boring, and lack a sense of fun.
So, technical questions only from here on in. :)
In case it hasn't been mentioned, there now exists an off-topic user
list for Debian.
MAA
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On 4/27/2010 9:56 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
On 4/26/2010 1:37 PM, Mike Bird wrote:
On Mon April 26 2010 10:51:38 Mark Allums wrote:
RAID 6 (and 5) perform well when less than approximately 1/3 full.
After that, even reads suffer.
Mark,
I've been using various kinds of RAID for many many years
Stan,
We are on the same wavelength, I do the same thing myself. (Except that
I go ahead and mirror swap.) I love RAID 10.
MAA
On 4/28/2010 5:18 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 4/27/2010 10:31 PM:
For DIY, always pair those drives. Consider RAID 10, RAID 50, RAID 60
On 4/29/2010 7:36 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
In the U.S., given the numbers of
cheap APC, Triplite, and Belkin UPS on the shelves at $big_box_store I'd say
most U.S. desktop users have a UPS. I know I do.
Naw. It ain't so. Most US users don't even know what a UPS is. APC
quit calling
On 4/30/2010 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/26/2010 09:29 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote:
Hi there,
I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start,
Since two of the drives (yes, I know the parity is striped across all
the drives, but two drives is still the effect) are used by
On 4/30/2010 9:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Is there such a DVD app analogous to cdparanoia? Or is it not possible
due to the differing data, WAV vs. MPEG?
The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old movie DVD-Rs
and they're all at some point failing.
I thought cdparanoia was
On 5/1/2010 12:45 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/01/2010 04:50 AM, markus reichelt wrote:
* Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
The issue is that I'm trying to read some 2-3 year old movie
DVD-Rs and they're all at some point failing.
Try another drive (best would be a dvd burner).
Apart
On 5/1/2010 4:07 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
If you are interested in DVDs under Debian, note that a useful thing to
know about is the videolan project
http://www.videolan.org/
They provide libdvdcss and libdvdplay, useful libraries to install,
which are not included in Debian. (non-DFSG)
I've
On 5/1/2010 7:24 PM, Rob Owens wrote:
On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 03:52:30PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
If you are interested in DVDs under Debian, note that a useful thing to
know about is the videolan project
http://www.videolan.org/
They provide libdvdcss and libdvdplay, useful libraries
On 5/2/2010 2:17 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
I've been thinking about getting a netbook and I'd like to install
Debian linux on it when / if I do. I'd also like to get one which uses
an AMD64-class processor. Does anyone have any suggestions? The
Gateway LT21 looks like just what I want in
On 5/2/2010 6:47 PM, Celejar wrote:
On Sun, 02 May 2010 18:36:57 -0500
Mark Allumsm...@allums.com wrote:
...
Netbooks are underpowered. Get a *real* notebook/laptop. You can get a
much better computer for about the same money. The only advantage I can
see in a netbook is battery life. I
On 5/2/2010 8:47 PM, Marco Shaw wrote:
Hi,
I'm just looking to do a basic install of the latest version. I just
need a basic version (no GUI/X required), with networking and an SSH
client basically...
I've downloaded DVD #1. Since it took almost 10 hours from my
location of choice, I'm
On 5/2/2010 9:35 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Netbooks are underpowered. Get a *real* notebook/laptop. You can get a
much better computer for about the same money. The only advantage I can
see in a netbook is battery life. I speak from experience.
Weight?
Size. A little almost-handheld netbook
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote:
All you *need* is the Debian installer and basic networking, so the netinst
disc (or business card disc) and internet will get you going. Once you boot
into a base system, APT will take care of you.
So, yeah. You have enough
On 5/3/2010 3:54 AM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/02/2010 10:39 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
On 5/2/2010 9:35 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
Size. A little almost-handheld netbook just isn't as physically in
danger of cracking in your knapsack as a 15 or 17 laptop.
I have no idea what you even mean
On 5/3/2010 4:29 PM, Peter Tenenbaum wrote:
Hi, everyone --
I guess I should clarify my desirement for 64-bit. There are two things
here. First, I intend to build a home computer which will run linux,
and it will be 64-bit; since I'm quite new to maintaining my own linux
computers, I'd rather
On 5/3/2010 4:39 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote:
I need to have separate locale settings for my terminal apps, so I
configure that in .bash_profile. I assume that my desktop environment
is using my locale settings from .profile but I'd like to confirm what
those settings are. How can I get the output of
On 5/3/2010 5:02 PM, Lisi wrote:
On Monday 03 May 2010 22:13:05 Mark Allums wrote:
Most netbooks (at least the ones I have seen) are relatively flimsy.
They are not almost-handheld. They are much larger than that.
I was listing advantages of netbooks over notebooks and laptops, but
size
On 5/3/2010 6:20 PM, deloptes wrote:
Mark Allums wrote:
With 64 bits, you will need more memory, so I suggest you look for a
machine that can use 4 GB of memory.
I also found that people underestimate the importance of L2/3 cache. I'm
compiling very often and it's really faster on my
On 5/3/2010 11:01 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 5/3/2010 5:01 PM:
With 64 bits, you will need more memory, so I suggest you look for a
machine that can use 4 GB of memory.
A user's application usage patterns dictate how much memory the machine
needs, not the width
On 5/4/2010 12:43 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Please do not try to insult. It is not really useful, and wastes time.
Apologies. It wasn't meant as an insult but as an exclamation point backing
incredulity.
A user's application usage patterns dictate how much memory the machine
needs, not
On 5/5/2010 8:49 AM, Camaleón wrote:
BTW, my Shuttle box has also a ram limitation of 2 GiB (and currently
using only 1 GiB) but has installed amd64. It runs fine, without
noticeable drawbacks.
A concern was future-proofing. More than one GB is not needed now.
What about later?
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On 5/12/2010 6:49 AM, Snood wrote:
I'm looking forward to seeing if nouveau will be an improvement,
performance-wise, without causing reliability issues.
I am, however, going to wait and install nouveau the easy way, once the
upgrade to xserver-xorg-core becomes available in the repository. If
On 5/12/2010 10:41 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote:
I for one want to get my money out of my hardware. If
you don't want a 64-bit system, then why did you pay for it?
+1
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If you have other i386 machines around, it may be convenient for you to
keep the same architecture so you can share the download bandwidth of
Debian updates, and things like that.
On the other hand, now might be a good time to begin the migration to
the future. 32-bits will be around for a
On 5/12/2010 4:24 PM, Chris Austin wrote:
I've learned today that when there are circular conflicts while upgrading, e.g.
libcairo2 has to be upgraded to install xulrunner-1.9.1, but upgrading
libcairo2 breaks xulrunner-1.9, it helps to use the dpkg --auto-deconfigure
option before the -i
On 5/13/2010 1:37 AM, steef wrote:
hi list,
how do i get rid of the message of a new (of course much valued)
maintainer Christian about MTA'S and cron when updating squeeze on the
commandline before using startx? apt-get upgrade hangs on this message
and i do not know the protocol to go on in
On 5/13/2010 1:51 AM, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2010-05-12 23:24 +0200, Chris Austin wrote:
I've learned today that when there are circular conflicts while upgrading, e.g.
libcairo2 has to be upgraded to install xulrunner-1.9.1, but upgrading
libcairo2 breaks xulrunner-1.9, it helps to use the
On 5/13/2010 6:31 PM, Celejar wrote:
Adobe claims that they publish the Flash specs:
http://www.adobe.com/choice/openmarkets.html
I always thought that the reason for all the trouble with Flash on
Linux is that Flash was a closed standard. If the spec is published,
why are the FLOSS players so
On 5/14/2010 2:41 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu,13.May.10, 23:40:51, Merciadri Luca wrote:
Note that, under Windows, I remember that acrord32.exe always blocked
the file for writing, even if it was only being read by acrord32.exe.
Okay, it's Windows. Bad memories.
I thought that was a
On 5/14/2010 3:20 AM, Sthu Deus wrote:
Good day.
I can not open a file in 'oowriter' by 'edit' user, the program says, Write error.
The file could not be written. Running from console gives no additional info. The
version is 3.2.0-4.
ls -l 1.odt
returns:
-rw-r--r-- 1 edit we 64145
On 5/14/2010 1:39 PM, Celejar wrote:
- there are serious sites that require Flash.
Yes, what a pity! Sad...
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On 5/14/2010 2:22 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I always perceived a lack of interest. Few people really want to work
on it, it seems. I root for Gnash, but I go ahead and use Adobe's
non-free player.
As long as you use adobe's player, you're not really rooting for Gnash.
It comes down to
On 5/14/2010 2:36 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Does it annoy anyone else that the 'aptitude' package no longer provides an
'aptitude' binary?
Yes, that kind of thing bugs me to no end. I think a package should
give me what I expect. (Within reason.)
MAA
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On 5/14/2010 6:13 PM, Michelle Konzack wrote:
Hello Mark Allums,
Am 2010-05-14 07:39:47, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
Flash may not be a priority, sense it performs two functions. One,
it acts as the standard web video player. Two, it tries to be a
standard web programming interface
On 5/14/2010 9:25 PM, ryanjonath...@gmail.com wrote:
Is it better to upgrade debian using dist-upgrade or just download the new iso
and reinstalling it?? I'm waiting for the squeeze final release.. Currently
still using lenny.
I used the testing installer recently, and was amazed at how
On 5/15/2010 11:16 AM, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
Op 15-05-10 14:43, Steve Fishpaste schreef:
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:08:43AM +0200, Michelle Konzack uttered:
Hello Steve Fishpaste,
Am 2010-05-14 18:48:21, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
There are some printers that use GNU/FLOSS to you know.
On 5/15/2010 11:50 PM, godo wrote:
In fact, that is what I advocate: Improving Javascript.
Also, note: Do not confuse Javascript with Java. Two entirely different
animals.
MAA
Is it really possible in real life?
I mean you can have 100% nice working javascript but probably will not
On 5/17/2010 8:49 AM, Erwan David wrote:
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote:
I would say that the problem with testing is more that it does not get
immediately the security patrch that Sid and stable gets, since they
wait before being committed from sid to testing.
Backwards. Sid gets no security, AT
On 5/17/2010 10:43 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon,17.May.10, 10:29:57, Mark Allums wrote:
Backwards. Sid gets no security, AT ALL. Testing get some.
If some issue is fixed for stable the fix is also applied for unstable,
unless the maintainer is unresponsive or so. In practice this means
Andrei Popescu wrote:
Probably a good start (whatever technology you end up using) is a
GNU/Linux (preferably Debian) machine connected to both internet links
and your internal network since consumer gateways don't even have more
than one WAN port[2].
I would like to point out that
On 5/18/2010 10:34 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:07:10AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
Thank you. This is contrary to what the main Debian site says in
multiple places, but it is plausible. Good to know.
Could you be more specific where you saw them or where you got
On 5/18/2010 2:21 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
On 5/18/2010 10:34 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:07:10AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
Thank you. This is contrary to what the main Debian site says in
multiple places, but it is plausible. Good to know.
Could you be more specific
On 5/20/2010 8:45 AM, exp...@hope.cz wrote:
Let’s suppose this configuration
|Server1| - |Server2| - |Client|
A client sends a request that starts a script on Server2.The script (
running on server2) from this server 2 will download a webpage from
Server1.
Is it possible to record
On 5/20/2010 6:09 PM, lrhorer wrote:
OK, I'm stumped. I was having some problems which were likely related
to the old kernel in Debian Lenny, so I upgraded to Squeeze in
order to alleviate the issue, which it apparently has. Now, however, I
need to fsck the main array on the box,
On 5/20/2010 9:49 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 05/20/2010 07:59 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
[snip]
If xfsprogs is installed, then I think fsck will do it, just first run
something like:
tune2fs -C912 /dev/sda3
Except that tune2fs is only for ext[234] filesystems.
Really? Well, I expect XFS has
On 5/20/2010 9:32 PM, Robert Brockway wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Mark Allums wrote:
If not, then a live CD will be needed, something like Knoppix, be sure
it has XFS support. Just boot the live CD or DVD, and Bob's your uncle.
I was going to suggest a live cdrom too but remember that Debian
On 5/22/2010 2:22 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 5/21/2010 7:37 PM:
64-bit Knoppix is in the TODO list of Klaus Knopper, but for rescue
purposes, 32-bit should be able to do the job.
This is incorrect _if_ the filesystem is large and thus contains 64 bit inode
numbers
On 5/23/2010 12:41 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 5/22/2010 8:32 PM:
That's a very odd thing. Thanks for correcting me. I would not have
guessed that file system structure would be dependent on OS word width.
I mean, that seems like a catastrophic implementation/design
On 5/23/2010 12:41 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Mark Allums put forth on 5/22/2010 8:32 PM:
That's a very odd thing. Thanks for correcting me. I would not have
guessed that file system structure would be dependent on OS word width.
I mean, that seems like a catastrophic implementation/design
On 5/26/2010 8:22 AM, JW Foster wrote:
Evony Age II does lot load on Iceweasel. It stalls at 27% every time.
when I first started playing there was no issue. However when I tried to
use the Facebook connect (which did not work) it started freezing the
loading process at 27%. Anyone playing this
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