Re: regards the /

2011-09-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 24. September 2011 schrieb lina: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:02 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: [...] > $ uname -a > Linux debian 3.0.0-mbp82-lina #1 SMP Tue Jul 26 21:52:57 SGT 2011 > x86_64 GNU/Linux [...] >

Re: regards the /

2011-09-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 24. September 2011 schrieb lina: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 2:01 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: [...] > $ dpkg -l | grep linux- > ii doc-linux-text2008.08-1 > Linux HOWTOs and FAQs in ASCII format > ii linux-base3.

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Lisi: > On Friday 23 September 2011 20:06:15 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I am pretty sure that browsers put the web cache into the home > > directory > > > of the user that uses it or /var/tmp. I.e.: > Mine were in /var/cache. A

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Marc, Am Montag, 26. September 2011 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > Now that I have my Seagate 1TB drive functional and recognized by > Linux, I need to format the thing. As I mentioned in my previous > thread, my current boot drive on this box is only 40 GB. I intend to > keep it as the boot drive a

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > On 09/26/11 12:24, Nicolas wrote: > > I have a disk with the same space and i use lvm dividing it in > > several partitions and a 300 gb free space block if any of the > > partitions need more space. It's very practical and dependable. And > >

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Marc Shapiro: > On 09/25/11 23:35, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > I would emphatically recommend to use a more advanced file system > > like ext4 for this size of drive. > > E.g., fsck runs much much faster with ext4. > > Other than fsck running faster, what a

Re: New SATA drive installation question (SOLVED)

2011-09-28 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:50:05 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 September 2011 12:53:34 Camaleón wrote: > >> Then, you have to start reading the "whole thing" (aka, the whole > >> thread) before making such statements on what you find "qualified

Re: problem in installation

2011-09-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011 schrieb Rajan Rai: > Hi Hi Rajan! > Dear Sir/Madam,, > > > >Can I get the some help on while installing the > debain... Please try the installation according installation guide which is available in lots of languages: http://www.debia

Re: OT: laptop choice

2011-09-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011 schrieb Lisi: > On Thursday 29 September 2011 10:05:49 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > some say nice things about > > Thinkpads, others say they're not built as they used to be. > > Those 2 statements are not necessarily contradictory. Thinkpads may > still be good, wh

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2011 schrieb Stephen Powell: > On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:45:34 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I was kidding :), since I'm a dino I know "MS-DOS", on my Atari ST > > 80286 hardware emulater I used "DR-DOS" instead of the M$ thingy. > > Sorry. Didn't notice the winkies. I

Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 6. Oktober 2011 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Stan Hoeppner wrote: > > All of the off topic crap the last couple of days is making it more > > difficult to assist those who actually need help with Debian. > > > > Debian is an OS for _mature_ Linux users. Please act like one and > > st

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Without disabling plasma? > > I switched from KDE3 to KDE4 and then, since I'm unable to stand KDE4 > to GNOME2. GNOME2 is dying :(, I'll need to watch out for a new DE. > > Konqueror

Re: PPS: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > KDE did use "aRts" and replaced it by "Polypaudio" sorry I've forgotten > it's current name ;), it might be PulseAudio ;), a PITA. Is there anything aside from venting personal frustration with an open source software in your comment? I have no

Re: Please kill the noise

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: > On 10/07/2011 05:44 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I do not like filtering out off topic mails, since as you wrote, some > > off topic threads can contain interesting stuff. > > The ubuntu-users list is sufferi

Re: want to try KDE 4.6 from sid on squeeze

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Juan! Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Juan R. de Silva: > I'd like to try to co-install KDE 4.6 from sid to my standard GNOME > squeeze install. I do not know what you mean by co-installing. When its on a different partition or logical volume, thats fine. On the same / you would need a c

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:46:00 +0200 > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hello Martin, > > > Aside from that Konqueror should still work as a file browser as well > > Whilst that is true, in KDE3 Konqueror had better func

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:30 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:46:00 +0200 > > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > > Hello Martin, > > > > > Aside from that Konqueror should

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:57 +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > Without disabling plasma? >

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:21 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 16:46 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > > Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > > > > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 19:

Re: PPS: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 7. Oktober 2011 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > PS: Thank you, thank you, thank you Debian, that I doesn't need to > install PA by default. Installing Ubuntu or Suse will cause pain, since > they ship with PA by default. Actually at least Wheezy installs Pulseaudio by default as well. I even

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. Oktober 2011 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Sat, 8 Oct 2011 00:03:11 +0200 > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hello Martin, > > > That might have to do with the fact that Konqueror AFAIR now also > > uses the Dolphin engine for displaying file / dir

Re: OT: Desktop icons - Some blubbering :.(

2011-10-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 8. Oktober 2011 schrieb Scott Ferguson: > Fortunately Lenny is still available - for some purposes I still use > it. I doubt all support for it will end any time soon (hopefully). The > beauty of Debian - we get a lot of choices. One year after the release of Squeeze - if the security

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