> I would say that the choice between the two is defined not by how
> 'professional' your host is, but rather by the hostility of the
> networking environment. Xinetd can limit the number of connections and
> running processes, preventing some DoS attacks. Xinetd also has a more
> extensive logging
When I'm AC-plugged, I like my /etc/init.d/network script to start my wifi
card automatically. But when I'm on battery, I'd rather not start it
automatically (I can always start it manually if I really want it).
Does anybody have an idea how to do that?
Can the `auto' lines in /etc/network/inter
> Given the way disk prices have fallen, I'd like to get a new bigger
> disk (say 40-50 GB), but want to get something that I can easily move
> to a new system when I buy one. As I expect any new system (I'll
> probably buy one within the next 1-2 years) will use different
> somewhat different tec
> So, let me ask you, when you drive the speed limit, you are skirting the
> law. Or if in a 55MPH speed limit area and you drive 55MPH... exactly,
> are you are skirting the law (and therefore staying within the limits of
> the law) or are you breaking the spirit of the law and should be
> punish
> if you use code under GPL your program has too be under GPL.
That's the gist of it, although it's only if you distribute your program
that this comes into effect.
Also this is not really the end goal, but rather its means. The end goal is
to make it possible for anybody to fix/adapt/share/impro
>> I say "Patents BAD" only if they are used for keeping progress from
>> happening.
> Software patents are an unmitigated evil. However, attempting to fix a
> patent problem with a copyright license is a serious error.
You're confused: while I expect most GPLv3 contributors find software patents
> I see your point, the reason I am shocked is that Flash is not a web
> standard as such verified by the Web Consortium but has become a de facto
> standard as people rush to put stupid animations and graphics on their
> websites. I agree with the Captalism comment to. The reason I use Debian
>
I need a few kernel modules that are not included in the stock kernel.
module-assistant makes it pretty easy to compile&install them, but I still
wish it were even more transparent.
I.e. I'd like to be able to automatically compile&install those modules for
every new kernel I install (and also au
> crash, given this, what would be really cool would be to partition the
> system at install time using a slightly mean, but granular, best guess
> layout [0] so things should fit in their partitions without too much wasted
> space, then configure each partition as one mount point on one logical
>
> I setup my rootfs as an LVM, the menu.lst of grub looks like this;
> title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-386
> root(hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/volume/root ro
> initrd /my_init
> savedefault
> Error happens when the kernel tried to
> That sounds like poor implementation, the critical bit is not to let it
> iterate without it having worked the first time. I still don't see anything
> wrong with the concept as long as it's implemented right, although I've
> never dealt with a system on the scale you're talking about.
The prob
>> Try use /dev/mapper/volume-root instead.
>> I'm not sure why, but I recently had a similar problem where using
>> /dev/Debian/root didn't work but /dev/mapper/Debian-root did (even though
>> once the boot is over, /dev/Debian/root can be used just fine, it looks
>> like the alternate name is con
>>> Is this a clue? When I try to use aptitude it wants to remove
>>> 150+ "unused" packages, including Gnome. Doesn't feel right
>>> to me so I don't use it.
If `apt-get upgrade' suggested to remove `gnome'. I'd do the following:
apt-get install gnome
If that doesn't do anything, then I'd w
> low-resource: box only has 64 MB available.
> Rock solid stable. A focus on good design and being bug-free over
> adding 'features'.
I recommend ctwm.
But you'll have to go through editing a config file.
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>> I'm looking for a simple NTP client daemon to synchronize the time on
>> my debian server. I'm testing openntpd but I've this error message:
>> adjtime failed: Invalid argument
>>
>> Could someone help me or suggest something?
>> Thanks
> "aptitude install ntp-server" and off you go.
I believ
What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file?
In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only
saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form.
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nautilus (via right clicking on the disk's icon), but I haven't figured how
to do it from the command line. Any hint?
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>> What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file?
>> In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only
>> saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form.
> You don't ask much, do you?
No, indeed. Mac OS X's `preview' does it out of the box.
>
> AFAI
>> Actually, PDF is not a programming language, contrary to Postscript.
>> So it's much easier to deal with (and more difficult to introduce viruses
>> into it, among other things).
> Really? Can you explain more about this? I thought PDF was a subset of
> Postscript with some kind of compression
> I have this really weird and mildly annoying issue I cannot pin down.
> When I suspend my laptop (thinkpad x40 running sid) using the Fn+F4
> hotkey (which sends an ACPI sleep event), my laptop sleeps. However,
> on trying to wake it up, once wakeup is complete (I see a flash of
> gnome-screensa
> I'm not sure the GNU project produces the majority of Debian, by
> any metric.
I'm pretty sure it doesn't, because by and large "the GNU project"
doesn't produce any software. It provides technical, philosophical,
ethical, and political support to help and encourage the development and
use of F
> A previous poster stated to add this line to the "/etc/apt/apt.conf"
> file: APT::Install-Recommends "0"; . I would love to do that but I am
> unable as yet to find a file named /etc/apt/apt.conf.
In the Unix world, there is usually no difference between an empty
configuration file and a configu
How can I tell (from a script) if some *.m4a file is using the AAC codec
or the ALAC codec?
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> Saying GNU doesn't produce software is like saying Debian doesn't produce
> dpkg, apt-get, and aptitude.
There's a big difference: most GNU software was written first and then
integrated as part of the GNU project.
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>> How can I tell (from a script) if some *.m4a file is using the AAC codec
>> or the ALAC codec?
> One possibility is to use ffmpeg -i filename and then parse the
> output. (Grepping for the strings used in each codec should give
> the answer.)
Indeed, that did the trick: the stderr either inclu
> What is the best tool available in the free,OpenSource world to verify
> the integrity of HDD but,specially SSD drives (the fading capacity
> problem with too many writes to the same blocks). It is not only
> a problem of filesystem check,it is more physical of the drive itself.
> Right now, I d
> Question 1: In the Debian manual it says a swap partition isn't needed but
> recommended for efficiency. Anyone else installed without swap and had
> success? Is my installation a ticking time bomb if I don't have a swap
> partition?
"Recommended for efficiency" clearly means your installation
> I trust Amazon more than a HD. You're free not to, but I've seen more
> HDs fail than I have Amazons.
I'm not sure the HD's reliability is much of an issue: you wouldn't want
to backup to a single drive which you bring back home at night,
otherwise, during the day you're at the mercy of a big a
> sda1 /10Gb
> sda2 /usr 10Gb
> sda3 /var 10 Gb
> sda5 swap 1 Gb
> sda6 /tmp 1 Gb
> sda7 /home the rest of the driveabout 456 Gb
Every one has his favorite partitioning scheme (and prefers or avoids
LVM), so I won't delve into that, but in my experience, you'd be better
off addi
> the gnustep packages are very old when installed from the official
> repositories so I wish to make debian packages from sources: tarballs,
> or SVN to make the fresh gnustep debian packages for the Lenny.
> By the way I wish to translate it to Hungarian too.
> When I get sources with 'apt-get
>> Hmm.. not quite.. text-mode browsers are also useful insofar as they
>> remove all the fluff and reveal the actual content.
> Leaving nothing at all of most Web sites.
Yup: the actual content,
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> Ok so here is the issue I have a desire to run my own linux server as an rt
> box and to do wiki web serving plus email.
This requires outside machines to be able to connect to your server on
port 80 by default. It's fairly common for ISPs to block port 80
specifically because they don't want y
>> Of course, a static IP would probably work as well, not by its nature
>> but because your ISP probably doesn't block port 80 for their static IPs
>> (since that would defeat the main purpose of having a static IP).
> Some ISPs only have a small surcharge for static IPs, but others only offer
> t
>> To me disallowing running servers is pretty close to the issue of
>> net-neutrality, so I prefer to stay away from such ISPs.
> It isn't usually the customer who is running a server: he doesn't know
> what it is. It's the botnet herder who controls the machine that runs
> the servers. As long
> I'm trying to tune compression for my httpd. My default it'll gzip any
> (specified type of) file regardless of its size. However, very small
> files will probaly end up being bigger than the original (a 1B file
> becomes 25B). Is there an average minimum size from which to gzip?
> Assuming all f
As the subject says, I'm looking for a media center application.
I've tried Elisa (aka Moovida) but couldn't believe how sluggish it is
(without hardware 3D is absolutely unusable, and even with hardware 3D
on a Macbook Pro, it feels sluggish).
So, I'm looking for something much more down to earth
>> As the subject says, I'm looking for a media center application.
>> I've tried Elisa (aka Moovida) but couldn't believe how sluggish it is
>> (without hardware 3D is absolutely unusable, and even with hardware 3D
>> on a Macbook Pro, it feels sluggish).
>> So, I'm looking for something much more
> As udev insists on renaming wlan0 to ath0, I haven't had to rename the
The default udev rules try to remember the name used for network
interfaces (they're stored in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
which is automatically filled by some other file I can't find right
now). So maybe that
> I've removed Network Manager in the past because it causes no end of
> trouble, especially because it never seems to think I'm connected to
> the Internet, so everything starts in 'offline' mode.
> Major Gnome update today, and sure enough, Network Manager is
> installed again. This time howeve
> > It's clearly a packaging bug.
> Not necessarily, gnome is just a metapackage pulling in a set other
> packages. Whether it should really bring in network-manager-gnome is
> debatable, of course; but you are free to remove the metapackage and use
> your own collection.
This answer is a cop-ou
>> Gosh you would think that I said micro-kernels are a waste of time or that
>> vi is the one true editor.
> But... MKs *are* a waste of time,
Fair enough.
> and vi *is* the 1TE.
Woa there!!
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> Can you explain what exactly you mean by that and why NM isn't multi-user.
In what way is it multi-user?
Try it: log in once, look at the applet; then log in a second time with
another user, look at the absence of the applet.
I actually find the UI fairly good, but I find it a drag that it can'
> I installed "freevo" from the lenny repository about two months ago.
Thanks. That sounds like a good candidate as well,
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> In this context what do you mean by misrepresenting verifiable facts? I
> wrote "34 MB" and "37 MB" in my original mail. Your message has a
> slightly aggressive tone which I don't understand.
It's because it's not "aggressive", only "defensive".
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> I have done so. But in this province (Quebec) anglos are lucky to
> get a Quebec government webpage in English, never mind making it easy
> to DL PDF's :) We'll see if they answer.
I'm pretty sure the same brain-damage can be found on the French side of
the site. That might be taken slightly
> But about the ifconfig -a command; it only reports the interfaces
> configured in the /etc/X11/interfaces file, so (in my case) if I _do not_
No it doesn't. It doesn't look at /etc/*/interfaces at all.
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> How could I manage to make the process of using "Performance"
> automatically?
Most likely the setting you currently have is one which automatically
adjusts the frequency based on the amount of work there is for the CPU:
if it's busy, the frequency will climb to 100%.
> The computer I am speaki
> Ondemand, the same as what appears in the applet, after boot.
> However, despite "Ondemand", even a huge CPU load does not make Debian
> asking for more CPU resources, such as 100%.
Notice that "ondemand" and such are completely implemented inside the
kernel. So all the relevant parameters are
> How about a PIII-500 machine with 384 MB RAM running from an 1GB USB
> stick?
Machines with much smaller memory and slower processor were used as
departmental mail servers not that long ago. Believe me, it's a no
brainer. I run postfix on my Neo Freerunner (128MB RAM) and haven't
noticed it be
> I was wondering if someone could explain how to install flash player
> on debian? Thank you.
I did "aptitude install gnash mozilla-plugin-gnash" way back then.
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> Indeed this is working. ( Test it with 2 identical USB-keys)
> But I think this is not a solution because the target usb is not the same
> size and make.
It will work as long as the destination is as large or larger than
the source.
If the new key is larger, the added space will stay unused afte
> I have debian installed onto a 4gb usb stick (my laptops HD crashed
> and i'm using this as a temporary solution till i get it fixed). All
> works great. The only issue is that periodically, the whole system
> will freeze for 1-3 seconds and then come back. It doesn't matter if
> I'm just doing
> There's a protocol standards revision in the works, called TRIM, that will
> allow the host to tell the flash what parts of the file system can be
> erased and what it needs to keep. This will allow smarter garbage
> collecting, which can happen in the background.
Actually the TRIM thingy is no
> I really would like to use only free software, but unfortunately
> acroread has a feature I didn't find so far in free alternatives: The
> option "Fit to printable area" in the print dialogue.
[...]
> Is there any free pdf-reader with a similar option? Or, is there any
> easy way to achieve the s
> I've a file $HOME/.rsync-EXCLUDE (listing files to exclude from my rsync
> based backup scripts) but when I try and save it, emacs refuses with
> message
> File /Users/mkbane/RCS/.rsync-EXCLUDE is not an RCS master file
> ANy thoughts? (I need to check this holds for all my emacs... this
> So, I was wondering if I get a standard wireless router and feed it
> with an internet connection from the laptop, configuring my computer
> as a dhcp server.
I can't think of any reason why you couldn't do it (especially if you
install OpenWRT on the router). But I wonder: why have your laptop
> I installed the AMD64 Debian on my AMD64 box (emachines T6520 by the
> way). Ever since the time I installed it, everytime I ran apt-get,
> I was given a couple screenfulls of package names that were no longer
> needed and could be removed by apt-get autoremove and 512M of disk
> space would be
>> How can I work around this and what to do? My old kernel 2.6.26 works
>> fine How to force initrd to load the dm-mod and other
>> device-mapper kernel modules?
> I have added
> dm_mod
> dm_log
> dm_snapshot
> dm_mirror
> to
> /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
> file and then
> did
> dpkg-reco
> Which is the easiest way to recover deleted files/folders using ONLY
> commands from Debian OS?
I'll just agree with Johannes here: if you value your data enough to try
and recover deleted files, then you *should* *really* be doing
regular backups. Hardware failures do happen.
Stefan
>> My hardware is Presario CQ40-115AU
>> It have AMD Turion X2 processor, 4 GiB RAM (2 X 2 GiB)
I have 2 similar boxes, one running 686-bigmem and one running amd64.
>> Since 32 bit Debian have more packages I'm thinking of going back to 32-bit
>> with bigmem kernel. The questions are:
I don't u
>> The router get's the hostname of the Debian PC [it's in his DHCP
>> client list], now the only problem is that I can't ping [the Linux PC]
>> it by it's hostname from another computer..:S:D:S
> Probably your router is not a real DNS server and will only uses that
> names for informative purpose
> Does anybody nows if lenny installation on x86 machines
> using floppy is (or will be) available?
Why would you need that?
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> I've used 'xset m 0 0' and definitely found it to be different to 'xset 1 1',
> though its meaning doesn't appear to be well defined.
IIUC a 0 threshold means to select a progressive speedup where the
screen movement is O(dx^N) where `dx' is the physical mouse movement and
N is related to the fi
> I was given a bunch of Ricoh NP-50 laptops a few weeks ago. Nothing
> special, but I have been having fun tinkering with them while I watch
> Mythbusters / Dirty Jobs. They are Pentium 90mhz, 64MB ram, 4-6GB hard
> drives. They have no onboard lan, one usb 1.1 port (can't boot off of
> it), 2 PCM
> laptop IDE). However, the amount of pain to take these things apart
> isn't funny. It is layered such that you remove the keyboard, then the
> motherboard, then the daughterboard, and the drive is at the very
> bottom. I have been unable to find an easier way to get to them and I
Duh! Like my P
> I have to run "xset m 0 0" everytime i start a game that uses mouse and in
> between...
> Why does that useless/stupid mouse acceleration enable itself again and
> interfere? It renders having a expensive mouse pretty much worthless.
FWIW, it's most likely not done by Xorg code. Instead, I'd ex
> AA batteries are cheap, readily available and I can get NiCad and NiMH.
> Custom rechargable battery packs are like printer ink cartridges.
I agree to some extent. But AA batteries do not come on Li-ion versions,
and there's a good reason why all cameras (and laptop) batteries use
Li-ion: it h
> I saw a regerence to http://www.goodbye-microsoft.com/ in a recent email,
> but the site doesn't respond. I have tried several different browsers but
> they all go into a "waiting for reply" mode and nothing comes back.
Works for me, maybe it was a temporary outage?
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> failure, I need to move the system to a new HDD. This new drive is
> bigger than the current one, so I can't just 'dd' from old one to the
> new (and I'm not even sure if this could work - because of UUIDs
> different for new disk?).
You can dd just fine.
The result will be a disk where some par
> I have a computer with 10 GB of RAM, but no hard disks. I want to
> install Debian to make it work this way:
> 1. Debian is installed in RAM (maybe from PXE netboot)
> 2. with some command a compressed squashfs image is created of the
> current system, and saved on an USB flash stick
> 3.
>>> If you have over 3 GB of memory then you need 64 bit.
>> I really think that's myth.
> I'll confirm that. My laptop has 4G of RAM (though only 3.4G is
> addressable, but my understanding is that that's a BIOS limitation (thanks
> Dell) since both windows XP (which I dual boot) and Debian show
> A non-ECC box that has an error may just show up as a random
> non-reproducable error of a range of severity. A piece of software may
> crash, a comma turn into a period in a letter you're writing, who knows.
> I think its the "who knows" factor that makes ECC worth it in some
> applications.
A
> Very useful with single-column LaTeX documents. I have no idea how to do
> that with xpdf or evince.
FWIW, the upcoming Emacs-23 includes a PDF viewer, which offers just
that feature. But yes, I'd also like to see it in xpdf.
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> You can abuse laptop mode and do
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump
> and then look in the syslog I think.
It's no abuse at all: it's the just The Right Way to do it.
BEWARE, tho: make sure your syslog doesn't get written to disk,
otherwise you'll get a storm of writes causing other writes ad-na
> it's pretty flawless. And I do agree about the ease of dist-> new dist
> in-place upgrades. I just find that my most common tasks are simply easier
> on RHEL/CentOS.
I'm curious: which tasks are these, and in which way are they made easier?
[ to give you some context: I only admin my own 4-5 hom
> Journaling uses significantly more disk space and does not allow for deleted
> file recovery.
Neither is true. I believe you're confusing log-structured file systems
and journalled file systems.
> ext2 - for backup, removable, partitions rarely used, etc.
ext2 is problematic for removable dri
>> ext2 is problematic for removable drives because if you remove the drive
>> without cleanly unmounting it you risk losing your data. So I would
>> recommend ext3 for such uses. Performance is rarely an issue, actually.
> I use ext3 for my external USB drive. Does this mean that I can remove
> Does anyone here power off their computer without first shutting it down?
> Maybe, but after having to spend time repairing the system and/or rebuilding
> it or losing data they most likely don't anymore.
Even if you're careful, you'll still occasionally lose power, and your
machine will still o
> The message doesn't -tell- you what to do, but what I think one should
> do is plug in the USB drive again and do fsck on the device. When fsck
> runs, in immediately reruns the journal and fixes metadata
> inconsistencies.
Mounting the device would have done the same thing (even if mounted
read
> Stefan:
> The original post for this thread was a user asking whether to use ext2
> or ext3 on a removable USB HD.
I know. And I strongly recommend ext3 over ext2 for such a use, for the
reasons explained. Feel free to disagree. But the fact is that ext3
was specifically designed to be "alway
>> Recently, I re-partitioned my flash drive. I made one FAT32 partition, and
>> one Ext3 partition.
> Is ext3 on a flash medium really a good idea? At least cheap flash
> drives probably don't have smart wear levelling.
ext3 is not significantly different in this respect from most other FSes
(inc
>> So, yes, unplugging your USB key while it's still mounted is to be
>> avoided, and even more so while it's being written to.
> The OP asked about about a USB external HDD, not a key. I have not
> tested the theory, but I have always understood that keys are
> particularly vulnerable. To phy
> I have been using a run-of-the-mill 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Micro for nightly
> backups for c. 6 months and I am curious as to wear and tear.
I wouldn't worry about it unless you intend to keep doing it for 10
years without ever getting a new stick.
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> Yup, I did a reinstall of Etch. I just did a minimal install this time
> (unchecked all the options in tasksel). I was able to get througt the
> base install and right up to the installation of GRUB and the reboot and
> could log in. In other words, no surprises. Etch is installable.
> I've not
>> > Why so many difficult answers?
>> > If you normally use ext3, use ext2(ext3 without journalizing) on your
Why ext2 rather than ext3?
> Google for explore2fs.
It claims to support both ext2 and ext3.
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>> Why ext2 rather than ext3?
> I think you trimmed that line a bit prematurely in that it went on to
> say "flash drive". ext2 is arguably better than ext3 for flash drives
> because of the reduced number of writes to disk.
The extra writes of ext3 have 2 consequences:
1 - slow things down
2 - w
> Here is my situation. I have six Debian/Lenny machines that I have to
> update/upgrade at various times, and some of these runs take hours for each
> system over my 768Kbs connection.
Same here. For various reasons, I found apt-cacher and friends
unsuitable for my needs (can't remember the reas
>> How about doing an upgrade instead?
> Still, I'd like to know why the Etch installer is successful and the
> Lenny installer isn't. Should I still be using this machine "down the
> road" (and I'd like to keep it going as long as the hardware holds up),
> incremental upgrades from Etch to Lenny t
Just a note that this thread has finally convinced me to go and add the
emacs19 and emacs20 packages to my Debian installation. It took some
tweaking (adding a few dummy packages to fill in dependencies, plus
silence some post-inst script failures), but it appears to work well.
Thanks,
S
> As for old boxes and how cheap replacments are, my 486 only uses 20
> watts. This can be handy for some uses.
My WL700gE uses 10W (and 5W when the drive spins down). With its 260MHz
CPU and 64MB, it's probably a good bit more powerful than your 486.
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> an issue with the flash drives is their life cycle. they support about
> 10 writes or so in average - there was article I read recently
For large enough drives, 10 writes will take several years
of constant write access. So I wouldn't worry about it.
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> Thanks for letting me know! I learned something new*!
[...]
> *If you learn something new everyday, does this mean I just met my quota
> and can go home early? :)
Beware: you may also learn something new at home (or even on the way
home), so your best bet is to go straight to tomorrow,
> What happens if, for whatever reason, just one of the disks is
> available?
You lose it all (pretty much). For that reason, it's not recommended,
unless you have backups elsewhere.
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> a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
> source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
> 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software
> interchange; or,
[...]
> Usually, this prohibits "simply" providing a "pointer" to the
> source cod
> Option a requires the source and binary to be distributed on the same
> medium.
Yes, sorry I erased the right option (b) and kept the wrong one (a).
> Now, *if* the Internet is considered a "medium customarily used for software
> interchange", a URL that was live for at least 3 years after th
> does it apply on CF cards? The name says flash, so I would assume yes? But
> still, I think it really reasonable to consider the life of the media.
Yes, same thing. BTW, regarding the life of the media: let's say the
internal maximum write speed is 50MB/s, an expected lifetime of
10-writes,
>>> an issue with the flash drives is their life cycle. they support about
>>> 10 writes or so in average - there was article I read recently
>> For large enough drives, 10 writes will take several years
>> of constant write access. So I wouldn't worry about it.
> Well several years is not
> The comfort of administering just one LV, covering both disks carries
> the risk that most of the data will be useless on failure of one disk
> and possible data recovery will be difficult to predict. The 'classical'
> two partition approach at least gives the possibility to save some
> crucial
> That said, two ext3 filesystems would be absolutely OK with me, as
> long as I could merge them virtually, so my movieplayer (dbox2) would
> have to access just one directory, and deleting files from that
> directory would result in deleting the original file (not just a
> symbolic link). I could
>>> > I was thinking to let my firewall
>>> > run on a CF drive. The last one served for 10years, so ...
>>> Your firewall can probably run with near-0 writes (or even with exactly
>>> 0 writes), so your CF will easily last centuries.
>> Especially if you can use a syslogd on another machine.
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