> So, what are the advantages I see, and why don't they matter to me anymore?
First off, IIUC you seem to want to use LVM, right?
I'd agree with this choice: there's little reasons not to use LVM nowadays.
Once you've decided to use LVM, then the rest (happily) doesn't really
matter anyway, since
> When I set mark with C-SAPCE and then move cursor with
> C-f C-b M-f M-b C-n C-p there is blue backgroun and
> transient-mark-mode work as I am used to. But if I move
> cursors with arrow keys or when I use C-x C-x to exchange
> cursor and mark transient-mark-mode disapears.
Doesn't sound like
> Anyone know when emacs24 will be in Debian squeeze? The latest they
> have is emacs23 :(
Yes, it's a real shame. We're also still waiting for Debian to put
Emacs-24 in unstable at least, so we can grab the source and release it.
But we've been waiting for so long that we're losing hope. We may
> this evidently does not overwrite the boot sector, does grub-install do
> this? I have yet to run grub-install. Of course, this would not explain why
> my system still boots after deleting the vmlinuz files.
Yes it could: you installed `grub' on your Debian system, but you
haven't activated it,
> Hi all, I have a HDD (the only one, in fact) with the following layout , as
> reported by df :
> /dev/sda2 99G 886M 93G 1% /
> /dev/sda1 2.0G 170M 1.8G 9% /boot
> /dev/sda5 345G 232G 96G 71% /home
> /dev/sda8 29G 172M 27G 1% /tm
>>> You're worried that that a mass renaming of partition numbers will
>>> cause your system to not reboot? That's why LABEL and UUID are now
>>> used in grub (lilo is restricted to device names) and fstab.
>> Call me a luddite but UUID < partition numbers for the simple reason
>> I can manually w
> Installing Gnash screws up Flash.
That is the core of the problem that needs to be fixed.
There's no reason the two shouldn't be able to coexist peacefully so
that each user on the machine can choose which flash player she wants
to use.
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> I am runnig backuppc on this server and I guess it is those hardlinks
> that are consuming the inodes.
hardlinks do not use inodes (they only use up space in the directory in
which they appear). But every symlink and every directory does use an
inode.
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> ? No one's calling for a 'Depends';
Indeed.
> what is requested is merely that Gnash be packaged in such a way that
> it not interfere with a certain non-free package. Is that really
> a problem?
I'm not at all convinced the problem is packaging (there doesn't seem to
be any conflict there).
>> I'm not at all convinced the problem is packaging (there doesn't seem to
>> be any conflict there). Last time I had a system with both Gnash and
>> adobe's flash, the problem was that Firefox just seemed to insist on
>> using Gnash even when I instructed it to disable the Gnash plugin.
>> So, a
>> My initial difficulties are mitigated a bit. Some web sites work;
>> some don't. I think that both Gnash and Flash can be installed at
>> the same time. Which is actually running, I am not competent enough
>> to know.
> update-alternatives --display flash-mozilla.so
> update-alternatives --c
> [...]
>> >> At worst it may require some changes to Firefox.
>> > A bug report against IW?
>> What's "IW"?
> iceweasel?
Ah, good catch, thank you. You can say "Firefox" even if
Debian has to say "Iceweasel".
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> I suppose I can classify this as an experiment case, whereas I will
> likely later on try out various (which may include Apache, Samba,
> whatever really, etc) Debian packages on the system. This time I plan
> to keep better track of what I have installed so that the packages can
> be purged easi
> How about Puddlerodent? Would that be an appropriate form of mockery
> of the situation? I mock both Debian (zealotry) and primarily Mozilla
> (love-hate relationship with FOSS and control freaks) with that one.
IIUC Debian changed the name upon explicit request from the Mozilla
foundation, so w
Is there some way to install Sugar in Debian testing?
I tried the "aptitude --with-recommends install sugar" but it basically
forces me to downgrade most of Gnome to stable.
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I've recently noticed that Firefox redraw is *really* slow on
my Debian testing machines.
I'm not sure if it's only Firefox or if it also affects some
other applications. It doesn't seem specific to a particular X driver
(I see it both with "nv" and with "radeon").
I almost get the impression tha
> Please see [1]. You probably want sucrose-0.86 for now; sucrose-0.88 still
> has a few problems [2,3] (the fixes got delayed by the recent
> ries.debian.org outage).
Thanks, sucrose-0.86 indeed seems to install properly.
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> will be listed as "Pending". Pending sectors are much worse than
> Reallocated sectors, as Pending sectors mean lost data (if the sector
Indeed. OTOH "Pending sectors" can be eliminated by turning them into
Reallocated sectors (just write to the corresponding sector), whereas
Reallocated sec
> I'm thinking to replace this IDE drive with two SATA HDs. One as small as
> I can get. Say 100GB or so and make that the boot drive. And a second HD say
> 500GB or so and moving the LVM over to that.
That begs the question: why exactly do you want 2 drives, and why do you
want one of the two to
>>> If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use
>>> mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance
>>> here and there (depends on application).
>> I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not
>> human error.
> And I disagree with that.
Has someone managed to get the IEGD driver working under Debian testing?
If so, which kernel version and Xorg server?
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> If you're going to buy two drives, you'd be stupid to not use
> mirroring for fault tolerance and a little added read performance
> here and there (depends on application).
I disagree. Mirroring only protects you against drive failures and not
human error.
>>> And I disagre
> Note that while there is a difference between GMT and UTC, mostly
> computers are set to GMT. The "M" is for Mean time which smooths over
> leap seconds that occur in UTC due to the jitter of the earth's
> rotation. Check wikipedia for a more precise answer. Note, however,
> that its unlikely
> I have a data file collection on three hard disks, each with just one
> partition. The 'primary' partition has the complete directory structure. The
> two 'secondary' partitions partially mirror that directory structure. There
> are some data files on the primary partition. For each data file on
> Note: by the way I think the filesystem present in Vista still need to be
> defrag...well, once again a feature that was announced but not delivered by
> Bill (please do not hesitate to correct me on these assumptions as I'm not a
> user of such $$$ product).
No. The NTFS file system does n
> Are you sure about that? I've seen some really heavily fragmented NTFS
> filesystems.
Sure, fragmentation does occur, just like in any other filesystem.
> Or are you saying that fragmentation doesn't affect
> NTFS's performance?
Yup. You can of course build an artificial worst-case test tha
> You obviously learn Latin differently over there too. I have a degree in
> Latin, and have taught Latin, and have never had to use these characters!
That's because it was Latin-1. If you tried Latin-2 you'd see them ;-)
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> 1: In fact, I think that meta-packages should only have recommendations and
> suggestions, since they are automatically installed by a default Debian
> configuration.
I agree that Debian's dependency management would benefit from some
extra refinements. The above suggestion is not quite suffici
> Can you run an amd64 virtual machine if the host is running
> Debian i386 ?
I wouldn't expect it to work if the bottom kernel is i386.
But if the bottom kernel is amd64 (which can be used just fine nowadays
with a 32bit userland), it can be made to work.
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> Small or smallish form factor (currently using a slim tower), attractive
> SSD (small capacity--everything impt is on a NAS elsewhere, i just want the
> system to run fast)
> Ability to have two monitors (currently using VGA and HDMI 'cause that's
> the ports i have)
> Optical drive
>
>> > Can you run an amd64 virtual machine if the host is running
>> > Debian i386 ?
>> I wouldn't expect it to work if the bottom kernel is i386.
>> But if the bottom kernel is amd64 (which can be used just fine nowadays
>> with a 32bit userland), it can be made to work.
> Except for Virtualbox, la
> There are considerable price increases with each quite small increase in
> speed-- hundreds of dollars--, but over two or three years I think the extra
> dollars would be worth the performance increase... *IF* there
> is a noticeable performance increase.
The rule of thumb, in general is that a
Recently, my Debian stable system started to refuse my password when
I want to unlock my screen.
Most users on the system use Gnome 3 and their lock screen works OK
(thank god), but I use XFCE and xscreensaver and this one has recently
decided that it can't accept any passwords any more.
I tried
softwatt writes:
> I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in
> the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing
> ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do
> it multiple times if you have multiple languages.
> If that is no
> I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped.
> I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported
> success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't
> boot from the hard drive.
[...]
> Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this mach
>> With init, skipping a scheduled fsck during boot was easy, you just
>> pressed Ctrl+c, it was obvious! Today I was late for an online
>> conference. I got home, turned on my computer, and systemd decided
>> it was time to run fsck on my 1TB hard drive. Ok, I just skip it,
>> right? Well, Ctrl
> I've tried the i386 install (v7.7) CD multiple times and I've tried having
> it put GRUB on the MBR and on the partition and neither way resulted
> in a bootable install.
I think this can be made to work with a bit of twiddling (e.g. using
lilo or grub-legacy, or maybe tweaking of the partition
> Look, if you reboot a laptop instead of suspending/hibernating it,
> sooner or later you're going to have to think "Hmm, it hasn't fscked for
> a while". It shouldn't be a surprise when it does.
Actually, it's *always* a surprise. These fsck happen at long enough
intervals, that I can never kn
>> Actually, it's *always* a surprise. These fsck happen at long enough
>> intervals, that I can never know if it was "4 months ago" or "7 months
>> ago", and neither can I remember which laptop/desktop has the delay set
>> to 172 days vs 194 days vs 98 days vs ...
> Can't you write a small script
> I want to get back to the root of the problem and claim, that I want
> to be able to interrupt *any* startup command, not just fsck.
Oh, yes, me too! !
Systemd's boot seems to suffer a lot more from such problems. E.g. it
waits for a long time before timeout if one of the partitions in
/etc/f
>> I want to get back to the root of the problem and claim, that I want
>> to be able to interrupt *any* startup command, not just fsck.
> The debug shell could be (part of) the answer,
You mean, they're probably going to answer by pointing us to the
debug shell? Yes, probably. But it's again ju
>> > I've tried the i386 install (v7.7) CD multiple times and I've tried having
>> > it put GRUB on the MBR and on the partition and neither way resulted
>> > in a bootable install.
>> I think this can be made to work with a bit of twiddling (e.g. using
>> lilo or grub-legacy, or maybe tweaking of
> (if (>= emacs-major-version 20)
> (menu-bar-mode -1))
I recommend testing (fboundp 'menu-bar-mode) instead.
> (if (>= emacs-major-version 21)
> (if window-system
> (tool-bar-mode -1)))
And here I recommend testing (fboundp 'tool-bar-mode) and calling the
function regardless of
> with ntpd crashes on my server. Time jumps forward one hour every time
> this has happened. However I'm not convinced it's the hardware causing
Sounds like something is causing the one-hour jump, and that in turns
causes ntpd to go bonkers.
As for what causes this jump, I don't know. Some cro
>>> with ntpd crashes on my server. Time jumps forward one hour every time
>>> this has happened. However I'm not convinced it's the hardware causing
>> Sounds like something is causing the one-hour jump, and that in turns
>> causes ntpd to go bonkers.
>> As for what causes this jump, I don't kno
> Decent desktop environments allow you to use the window manager of
> your choice.
Decency seems to be a dying breed, sadly ;-)
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The problem with proprietary drivers is of course that they're
proprietary, but on top of that, they aren't as hassle-free to install
and update.
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> how compatible are drivers on ports for different CPU architectures,
> e.g. I have a USB HSDPA modem which works great on Wheezy port for x86
> architecture, but can I expect it to work on Wheezy port for ARM?
If your ARM platform's USB driver works, then yes, you can expect the
exact same suppo
> If some of you don't like it, write the software you want. Or pay
> someone to write it. But enough already.
Doesn't guarantee that Debian will decide to use it.
I think the right way is to submit bug-reports about particular problems
you find in systemd. Maybe that won't cause a change to s
> One last step may be necessary : update the UUIDs in /etc/fstab and
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg, as you created new volumes with new UUIDs instead
> of cloning them. Or alternatively, change the UUIDs on the new disk with
> tune2fs, mkswap... to match the ones on the old disk. Otherwise you'll
> be stu
> My very old, failing Dell Inspiron would connect to the second monitor
> by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F8, and would remember that setting across
> reboots. It appeared to be a function of the hardware, mot the
> software..
Actually it was probably done in the BIOS rather than in the hardware,
but yes,
> Rather than probing, I prefer to have grub pass the boot off to the
> installed distro's own boot loader by chaining. That way, each install
> can update it's own loader and be done with it.
Complete agreement. Of course, what really should happen is that Grub
itself should do (at boot) the pro
>> It is possible, but it's not easy. I tried installing a Linux
>> distro (don't remember which one) from a thumb drive in Developer
>> Mode and the BIOS recognized it but would not boot it because it
>> wasn't signed. Google has some way of allowing developer
>> self-signing, but I never looked
>> viskup@viskup:~$ awk '/Name|VmSize|VmPeak/' /proc/4186/status
>> Name: gnome-shell
>> VmPeak: 3537456 kB
>> VmSize: 3403068 kB
> That doesn't show a memory leak.
Indeed, but we're talking about 3GB of memory here, which seems hard to
justify for such an application.
> awk '/Name|VmSize|VmP
> stun server is mainly used for Voice and Video due to their UDP in
> nature. so that if UDP recipient want to response back with voice or
> video packet it returns back to Stun and stun route back to our local
> server. but the question is why?. if i have a public Ip which is
> published behind "
> I don't know if he was referring to that FAQ or not.
> *HOWEVER*, as a senior citizen moving from Windows(tm) to Debian(tm?),
> I find the transition unnecessarily annoying.
I used http://goodbye-microsoft.org once and it went very smoothly.
AFAICT this site doesn't exist any more, but I have th
> I could use x64 kernel with x32 system?
Yes.
> How to use that?
Just "aptitude install linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64".
Such "32bit userland on top of a 64bit kernel" used to suffer from
corner-case bugs (like wpa_supplicant or s2ram not working) when I first
tried it (like 5 years ago), but nowa
> I have been using Debian for many years now. In all of that time I
> have never wanted to "manage" init scripts. I always wonder. What
> are people trying to do?
> What is more complicated than this. If you want it then install it.
> If you don't want it then remove or purge it. With those
> I've a very old PC with an old Debian installed. Recently I found the hard
> disk has some bad sectors, sometime the file system will be mounted as read
> only. I bought a new hard disk and downloaded Debian testing version, then
> I found the CD-ROM is broken, it can not boot from the CD-ROM.
> But can they talk to folks using SKYPE?
I talk to folks using Skype every day. I don't use Skype myself, I try
to convince them to switch to something else, but that doesn't prevent
me from talking to them.
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> I'm a long-time user of Debian, and also have an e-paper ebook reader.
> It occurs to me that something like a Debian laptop with an e-ink screen
> would be extremely useful, for, say, sitting on a sunny back porch in the
> summer and programming -- a situation where the normal luminous screens
>
> Anyone know the cure?
I see many people suggested UUIDs and other funny long names.
What I use instead: LVM. This way you get to name the "disks" and
"partitions" with meaningful names which only change when you decide to
change them.
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> As I've said several times, it's UUID or LABEL. Period.
And then there's LVM. I recommend LVM as the solution to this problem
because contrary to the UUID the name can be meaningful, and contrary to
the LABEL, the LVM volume names don't depend on the kind of file-system
you use. Also those la
> The reviews I read said the same or similar, but an Aussie tech
> magazine from 2007 said that after the standard installer starts,
> Debian is installed as a single file on the Windows partition--no
> partitioning needed.
That was not the case for me. I was offered to resize the ntfs
partition
>> [35223.216654] usb 1-8: device descriptor read/8, error -110
>> [35226.942174] usb 1-8: device descriptor read/8, error -71
>> ~
>> I have read it happens as a protective measure when its interfacing
>> circuitry notices that the USB cable does not provide enough power
Looks like the problem is
> I don't care whether or not they are supported in
> linux-firmware-nonfree; I want this to work using 100% free software.
I have linux-firmware-nonfree installed here on my desktop based on
a E350. It's not even for 3D (which I never use), but it was needed
just to get console output, IIRC.
I
> The system in question is running from an SSD, which I assume changes your
> assumptions quite a bit. With a traditional HDDs, the loss of power
> causes a head crash, etc which does in turn lessen the life of the drive.
Actually, I fail to see why a power outage would have any negative
effect o
> Please can you tell me if Debian squeeze 64 bit accepts more than 4GB ram,
> ie 8GB?
Yes. And Debian 32bit also supports 8GB.
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> Check that there is a tick for
>Show printers shared by other systems
IIUC this doesn't exist in the cups version of Debian testing.
Instead you need to install cups-browsed to get this functionality.
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> I run an SSD on my MCP61P so lack of NCQ has no impact
> whatsoever--SSD's have no moving parts, and all seeks
> are instantaneous.
While I haven't heard of NCQ improving read speed of SSDs, it can have
a significant positive impact on write speed for SSDs.
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I'm using XFCE here, but the screen saver never kicks in.
And the screen lock doesn't either, even though when I go to the "xfce
power manager" I have the "lock screen when going for suspend/hibernate"
selected and the computer is set to sleep if inactive for one hour and
that it indeed suspends to
> Does the screen lock when you run
> $ xflock4
> ?
No, it just returns without doing anything.
> What screen saver do you use?
Don't know. I just did "aptitude install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
xfce4-power-manager" and then used "XFCE" session in GDM.
xfce4-power-manager is installed and running.
> I am currently trying to get a device with an Intel GMA 500 graphics chip to
> run with Debian Wheezy. However, I don't seem to be able to get anything
> other than a standard VGA console out of the hardware.
With a stock Debian kernel and an empty xorg.conf file, it should just
work (it does fo
> IIRC, Xfce normally uses xscreensaver, which needs to have its daemon
> running. What does "pgrep xscreensaver" produce? You can (re)start the
> daemon from the screensaver settings window (File > Restart Daemon).
Aha! I installed xscreensaver, went to "settings" where it directly
asked me to
>>> I am currently trying to get a device with an Intel GMA 500 graphics
>>> chip to run with Debian Wheezy. However, I don't seem to be able to
>>> get anything other than a standard VGA console out of the hardware.
>> With a stock Debian kernel and an empty xorg.conf file, it should just
>> work
>> The rule of thumb, in general is that a speed increase smaller than
>> about 30% goes unnoticed.
> That 30% sounds about right, but then too I suppose it would also depend
> upon how closely the speed is being examined and how perceptually prominent
> the executable is and other factors.
Of cou
> LMGTFY I understand and agree with, but why the URL shortening? You only
> saved...
> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=viber
> ... 2 characters and you also hit innocent bystanders like me :p
BTW, LMGTFY was OK for the "What's viber?" part, but for the "Is
it libre?" it's a bit trickier since proprietary s
> ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes
> This will show you if a drive does spin up and down.
Start_Stop_Count should indeed tell you how many times the disk spun
up&down.
OTOH Load_Cycle_Count indicates s
> This is the 4-in-1 card reader; the one you want you are trying to boot
> from. As indicted by /dev/mmcblk0p1 it is on the PCI bus. 'lspci' should
> display the chip used; one from Ricoh?
>
> GRUB doesn't see anything on this bus (it has no drivers for the device),
> so booting from it is not pos
> I have a very annoying problem. I can't write to my usb drives (fat32,
> ntfs, etc.) without root permissions. How can I fix this?
How did you mount it? I usually mount those with `pmount`.
Stefan
> That eases problems for Debian servers, I don't see an advantage to me.
Given that there is an advantage (for Debian servers), the question
isn't if there's an advantage to you, but instead if there's
a *dis*advantage to you (or others).
Stefan
>> Of course it all depends on what you mean by "booting from". AFAICT in
>> Leandro's situation, he's loading Grub from some other disk (probably
>> the main HDD or SSD), so he's already "not booting from the SD card" in
>> this sense.
> By "booting from" I mean everything which is needed to brin
> I would like a backup tool that does not bring a million dependencies with
> MBs of files. Something that works on server without X Windows and can
> send backup to an externally attached USB drive. Nothing fancy. No
> network infrastructure. Incremental backups would be greatly appreciated.
>> There are the so called snapshots, which you can make and then include in
>> your back up. No need to down the VM.
[...]
> I may be wrong but I don't think snapshots can be scheduled, but rather
> must be initiated
I have no idea what that means. The way it normally works is that you
have a
> Yes for VM it is possible only if you use ESX server and licensed VM Ware
Then better use Free Software, such as kvm, VirtualBox, ...
Stefan
> I have a need to sort lists of URLs and associated titles formatted as
> follows:
>
>* [[][]]
>
> e.g [[http://www.google.com][Google search]]
>
> I'd like to get a simple sort routine to do that.
In my quick test,
sort -t '[' -k 4
seemed to do the trick,
Stefan
>> However, the virtual hard disk is a pretty large size. My method
>> compresses it further so that the size of the backup is much smaller.
> Have a look at "borg". It is ideal to backup VMs (or anything using
> large files with only marginal changes inside) and I have been using it
> for my Virtu
> "Unti recently" because there now is a way to do data retention, but:
> "bup only has experimental support for pruning old backups."
Indeed, it's a relatively new feature, but it's been working fine in
my tests.
Stefan
> ... where Linux (as an OS--yes, I see you coming from here)
We usually call it GNU/Linux,
Stefan
> It was installed because CraftCMS depends on it :)
Care to give some details? E.g. *how* was it installed, then?
IIUC your system needs it, so the removal caused some breakage (which
is why you noticed the issue).
Normally APT only auto-removes packages which are marked as
"automatically insta
>> What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to
>> refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution?
> One method for you use case it to put /boot or at least /boot/grub
> in a plain partition on the same disk as GRUB's core image.
Indeed, that's what I have
> I'm using XEmacs 21.4.24 and gnome-terminal 3.26.2 in sid. And I can't copy
> a text from the terminal and paste it into XEmacs. I have tried marking the
> text and then middle button; Shift-Ctrl-C and then right-button to get the
> 'paste' option; and some other combinations of these. Nothing wo
> since my bank forced me to an upgrade to Firefox 58 I am runing into the
Just install UAControl (or any other such plugin that lets you control
your user-agent string) and keep using the version you prefer.
Stefan
> Can someone advise me of the best-practice way to completely disable
> Hibernation system-wide?
I don't know the "best-practice way" to do it, but a hackish way you can
do it is by adding
touch /var/run/do-not-hibernate
to your /etc/rc.local.
Stefan
> I will agree that it increases the unpredictability of execution time,
> and if I wanted to guarantee I could meet deadlines I'd turn it off.
Turning it off may indeed improve predictability of execution time in
some cases. Especially if the various active threads have different
real-time prior
> An alternative is org mode in Emacs if you have Emacs already
> installed. Simple spreadsheet capabilities in tables.
There's also SES, also part of Emacs (i.e. C-x C-f .ses RET should
get you started). And Emacs being what it is, there's also the Dismal
package, which you can install from GNU
> My new 2TB HD just arrived. Old 1.5TB to be rescued, made in 2010, has
> 8 pending sectors reported by smartctl.
FWIW, there's a good chance that your old drive is still perfectly
usable: after backing up your data, a pass of overwriting the whole disk
(e.g. dd /dev/sdXX) will probably bring the
> I'm running with a 'nouveau.noaccel=1' kernel parameter added at hand
[...]
> Is there any way to deactivate and reactivate such a parameter without
> the need to reboot?
You can try and change it with
# echo 0 > /sys/modules//parameters/noaccel
-- Stefan
> I have an extremely simple real-world litmus test which every system
> I've ever seen so far has failed:
>
> How do I set MAIL=$HOME/Maildir/ in the login environment of every
> user, regardless of their shell, or how they log in (console, ssh,
> X Display Manager, GNOME Display Manager, et
>> > What is the length of a string?
>> When is that relevant?
> When you're trying to display one on a screen, or print one on paper.
To display a string you don't just need its length, you need the actual
bitmap representation, and getting info such as length is trivial once
you've rendered the
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