Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-26 Thread Huang, Tao
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Dirk noi...@gmx.net wrote: for the love of everything that doesn't suck... could it be any harder to find a USB stick image to install debian from? [snip] debian iso images have native usb stick support. what u want is a one-liner. and i won't explain too much

Re: installing debian from USB... IS IT POSSIBLE?

2011-07-26 Thread Huang, Tao
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:15 PM, thuilliercharmet n...@illogal.net wrote: not sure that your minority will be part of my global diversity . franckly and directly. With my best that i can at the moment because i have the same problem than you : no dvd reader (means i am limited in

Re: libreoffice在KDE 4.6下无法启动

2011-07-26 Thread Huang, Tao
2011/7/21 Di Shaodong gnuyh...@gmail.com: 如题,无论是通过菜单还是通过终端,都是只出现启动画面,然后进度条不走,然后便消失了。更无法理解的是,通 过终端启动居然没有任何提示信息,就好像程序已经正常启动了,但事实上没有。各位有谁遇到过同样的问题,有谁 知道如何解决吗? p.s. 我用的是Debian Sid最新版。libreoffice-kde已装。 我前段時間遇到過 要關閉一個libreoffice默認開啟的選項才能啟動 好像是qt的bug還是哪個包帶進來的bug 記不清了 其實設一個環境變量就可以解決

Re: BoF?

2011-07-26 Thread Huang, Tao
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:40 PM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, What does BoF stands for? Birds of a Feather http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_Feather_(computing) Cheers, Tao -- http://huangtao.me/ School of Mathematical Sciences Peking University -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: fstab for usb devices in Squeeze

2011-07-26 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Mark Grieveson dg...@torfree.net wrote: Hello.  Back in the good old days when I used Lenny, I was able to mount my usb stick, mount my digital camera, and sync my palm pilot, at the same time.  After upgrading to Squeeze, this now seems like an impossible

Re: locate something not exist

2011-04-28 Thread Huang, Tao
off-topic: mlocate have some advantages over locate. it does a partial scan on modified files only, which makes it's updatedb much faster and disk friendly. u may already be using it if u have it installed, since mlocate has a higher score in the update-alternatives system than the original

ttf-liberation over ttf-mscorefonts; was Re: Why doesn't debian remove the proprietary software from it's servers?

2011-04-27 Thread Huang, Tao
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Klistvud quotati...@aliceadsl.fr wrote: Dne, 27. 04. 2011 12:36:03 je Andrei Popescu napisal(a): On Mi, 27 apr 11, 12:09:56, Klistvud wrote: Seems a quite reasonable policy to me. Of course, we all wish we could run free software ponly on our machines, but

Re: Debian 6: openvpn tun0 device not created

2011-04-26 Thread Huang, Tao
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 4:14 AM, Chris ch...@nickname.berlin.de wrote: Chris wrote: I have a new installed Debian 6 system (Fujitsu Siemens tablet st4121) that runs fine so far. When I set up openvpn, the tun0 device is not created. /dev/net/tun exists, but ifconfig tells: sudo ifconfig

Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

2011-04-25 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Mark Kane m...@mkproductions.org wrote: [...] So the problem only happens when overwriting the live system in either Etch or Squeeze. Lenny works exactly as expected so I guess I could try upgrading the remote server from Etch to Lenny and then do it, but it

Re: Connect to a hidden wireless by command line

2011-04-25 Thread Huang, Tao
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Marcelo Laia marcelol...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am in a hidden wireless network when I could connect in it set this commands in /etc/network/interfaces: auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static wpa-driver wext wpa-conf managed wpa-ssid BLABLABLABLA wpa-ap-scan

Re: test usb drive read / write speed

2011-04-24 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 04/23/2011 11:09 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: [snip] is there a utility that: 1. benchmarks random access, 2. can do random writing on unused spaces for major filesystems, 3. deals with the buffer properly. bonnie

Re: test usb drive read / write speed

2011-04-24 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: On 04/23/2011 11:09 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: [snip] is there a utility that: 1. benchmarks random access, 2. can do random writing on unused spaces for major filesystems, 3. deals with the buffer properly. bonnie

Re: test usb drive read / write speed

2011-04-24 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: [...] You may find useful this link: http://grigio.org/microsd_class_6_performance_benchmarks It seems to be using palimtest, a nice GUI tool included within the GNOME desktop. Just a careful note here, write speed test

Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

2011-04-24 Thread Huang, Tao
what about a binary diff on those two written images. i guess the difference should be at the beginning / end of the device. just diff their hex value instead of a real binary diff. try $ dd if=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=1 | hexdump -x outfile or $ dd if=/dev/sda bs=1024 skip=30719 count=1 |

Re: list all the devices connected to the router

2011-04-24 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: I connect my PCs to internet via Verizon DSL router. When I go to 192.168.1.1 in a browser (say firefox), I am able to see all the computers connected to this router. However, from command line is there

Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

2011-04-24 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Mark Kane m...@mkproductions.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 24, 2011, at 22:54:48 +0800, Huang, Tao wrote: [...] When using either of the above commands, there is no difference outputted from diff between the data written by Lenny (where it works) and Squeeze (where

Re: Issue writing image to disk via dd

2011-04-24 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 10:00 AM, Mark Kane m...@mkproductions.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011, at 09:45:44 +0800, Huang, Tao wrote: what do u mean by live running file system? a mounted file system? Yes. Debian is installed and running on sda and I am trying to overwrite the current

test usb drive read / write speed

2011-04-23 Thread Huang, Tao
hi list, i was trying to find out among several microSD cards which one has the fastest speed. i searched the web and didn't see any efficient solutions. are there conventional ways to test usb drive read / write speed? or any block device? i'm currently using hdparm for reading speed test. $

Re: The following packages cannot be authenticated

2011-04-06 Thread Huang, Tao
I'm not familiar with the SwiftLinux project. guess you'll have to manually update your keys. see this wiki page for instructions. http://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt Cheers, Tao -- http://huangtao.me/ http://www.google.com/profiles/UniIsland School of Mathematical Science, Peking University --

Re: Can I get some help with this? (Cleaning bad dependencies with APT)

2011-04-06 Thread Huang, Tao
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Ken Ingram ken.ing...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] apollo:/var/www/fss# cat /etc/apt/sources.lst cat: /etc/apt/sources.lst: No such file or directory should be /etc/apt/sources.list it appears to me that purging kdepim-dev and reinstall it afterwards might be a

Re: [help-a-newb] setting grub

2011-04-06 Thread Huang, Tao
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Another problem is the fragile linkage. If Debian ends up with more than two entries there, or if, for some reason I delete the rescue mode entry, having the third entry as the default suddenly is not what I want.

Re: [help-a-newb] setting grub

2011-04-06 Thread Huang, Tao
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] 1. Set GRUB_DEFAULT=saved in /etc/default/grub and run grub-set-default n; update-grub. You will then always boot by default with the last kernel with which you booted. you dont boot with the the last entry you used unless

Fwd: Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated)

2010-09-12 Thread Huang, Tao
-- Forwarded message -- From: Hal Vaughan h...@halblog.com Date: Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:52 PM Subject: Re: Updating files in /etc Remotely (and automated) To: Huang, Tao deb...@huangtao.me On Sep 12, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Huang, Tao wrote: On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Hal

Re: X login screen with onscreen keyboard

2010-06-24 Thread Huang, Tao
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:25 PM, jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com wrote: hmm... edited the two files as instructed but not only do i get no keyboard but a nice notifier telling me that my config is bad. make sure you used correct syntax. along with that, gdm.conf in debian lenny is

Re: How 'stable' is squeeze?

2010-06-24 Thread Huang, Tao
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM, John A. Sullivan III jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com wrote: Well . . . I suppose this is not hijacking as it is about stability and usability.  I eagerly ran my apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, rebooted and, voila, X refused to start.  I finally installed the

Re: LEMP Development Server

2010-06-23 Thread Huang, Tao
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 9:42 PM, GNUbie gnu...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] You mean, it's possible that a user can create MySQL users, databases, tables, etc. anytime they wanted to? Likewise, they can change the MySQL configuration, change DB engine, restart the service, and many others without

Re: e2fsck: HOWTO tutorial

2010-06-22 Thread Huang, Tao
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Augustin beginner2...@masquilier.org wrote: Hello, I must learn to use e2fsck as I am having some I/O problems on some of my external drives. I checked all the existing documentation everywhere I could think of (including the Debian official documentation

Re: Sound in iceweasel? (fwd)

2010-06-22 Thread Huang, Tao
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:29 PM, I Rattan ratt...@cps.cmich.edu wrote: I missed the response, so, trying again. -ishwar -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 12:39:37 -0400 (EDT) From: I Rattan ratt...@cps.cmich.edu To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Sound

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: [snip] he won't be able to get the 4.4G iso file without pausing and resuming, if a misconfigured networking enviroment (or flaky wireless) was the reason. From what I can remember of his claims, it (downloading a

Re: Version in use

2010-06-21 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Cliff Ayling cliffayl...@btinternet.com wrote: How do I find out which version of operating system I have? Please. cat /etc/issue /proc/version Tao -- http://huangtao.me/ http://www.google.com/profiles/UniIsland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (Installing Squeeze)

2010-06-21 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Alan Chandler a...@chandlerfamily.org.uk wrote: I have spent the last couple of days (intermittently) failing get a usb bootable installation for squeeze that will work with my hardware and AMD-64 (I have inadvertently built an i386 system [twice] - because I

Re: Installing from businesscard ISO

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Disc Magnet discmag...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Why do you say that CD1 would be useful if we don't have a net connection. It seems that the netinstall can install a base system as well. I hope netinstall would install a system with the basic tools like ls,

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stan Hoeppner s...@hardwarefreak.com wrote: Ron Johnson put forth on 6/20/2010 1:58 AM: $ netstat -an | grep ^tcp\  | grep -v LISTEN | wc -l 111 You might get a more accurate count of BitTorrent connections with: netstat -an | grep ^tcp\  | grep

Re: grb2 can't boot my ext4 partition

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:50 PM, mess-mate messm...@free.fr wrote: i've squeeze and lenny installed and squeeze as a production system now. Recently installed grub2 (1.98) on squeeze on the MBR of hd0. Evereting goes well but i can't  boot lenny. The lenny file system partitions are for /boot

Re: 32bits and 3G memory limit

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
articles to read: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/3_GB_barrier https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/64-bit#Limitations Tao -- http://huangtao.me/ http://www.google.com/profiles/UniIsland On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:32 AM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi,

Re: netstat (was Re: Torrents killing my conection)

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:56 AM, Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net wrote: [snip] Nope, since that also returns tcp6 packets.  This does it simplest: $ netstat -ant4 so you are not taking use of ipv6 p2p. Tao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Well, this is interesting... (was Re: Torrents killing my connection)

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:18 AM, ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com wrote: No problem. From now on, I'm hitting reply to all. nah, read the code of conduct http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon copy (CC) to the original

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 5:30 AM, ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I rent a room. The router is in a different part of the house. WiFi is included in the rent. I already asked about moving the router, but that isn't gunna happen. The router isn't even mine. I might end up trying to run

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 10:10 AM, H.S. hs.sa...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/20/10 21:55, Ron Johnson wrote: On 06/20/2010 08:26 PM, Huang, Tao wrote: [snip] torrents over wireless can be very tricky. Why? I think he is over-simplifying the problem of flaky wireless, but I understand where he

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:59 AM, ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, quite right, a DVD. Now which one? download this one [1] with iceweasel and see if it fails or encounters any glitch. [1]: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-504-amd64-DVD-1.iso Tao --

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:44 AM, ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] -Error messages: Don't know where to look. Visual indication is Skype is offline internet is offline so the torrents render you wireless disconnected. if your wifi adapter driver supports auto-reconnecting, everything

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-20 Thread Huang, Tao
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Mark Allums m...@allums.com wrote: If you use Iceweasel for downloading, try the Firefox add-on Downthemall for management of downloads.  I use and recommend it.  Mainly for safer pause (or dropped connection) and resume. no, we don't want download managers

Re: Pre-Install Question

2010-06-19 Thread Huang, Tao
look for the listing in the mirror directory hierarchy. go up one level and you'll find http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/i386/list-dvd/ btw, the first disc contains the installer and the most frequently used packages. Do not post to multiple mailing list. and this question is totally

Re: [ubuntu-bo] Desconfiguración al conectrar lapto p a la tele :S

2010-06-19 Thread Huang, Tao
When you use the Reply to all button in Gmail, check the addresses before hitting Send Tao -- http://huangtao.me/ http://www.google.com/profiles/UniIsland 2010/6/20 Tn 4dm1n tuad...@gmail.com: una cosa tienes que tener en cuenta que para que lso menus se acomoden a la resolucion del pantalla

Re: Rebuilding RAID 1 Array in Linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault - Howto with screen shots

2010-06-18 Thread Huang, Tao
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] mdadm assembles an array according to data in the superblock so it shouldn't matter whether the kernel recognizes sda and sdb as sdb and sda respectively should you plug them in differently. so they's recognized with data

Re: UUID in fstab?

2010-06-18 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 1:15 AM, Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: I edited fstab and replaced /dev/sda1 with UUID=507caf8f-f9cd... (i.e. an hell of a long string I obtained from blkid /dev/sda1) leaving the rest of the line unchanged as /bkups  ext3  rw,user,noauto  0  2 Next I

Re: partition re-sizing

2010-06-18 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Jim Pazarena deb...@paz.bz wrote: Does debian have a native way to re-size a partition which can be run live? parted should be the choice. you can also use a gui of it, like gparted. what do you mean by live? in most cases, you can only resize a unmounted

Re: cp: backup version control

2010-06-18 Thread Huang, Tao
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:36 AM, T o n g mlist4sunt...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, From 'man cp': ,- | The backup suffix is `~', unless set with --suffix or SIM- | PLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX.  The version control method may be | selected via the --backup option or through the | VERSION_CONTROL

Re: Rebuilding RAID 1 Array in Linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault - Howto with screen shots

2010-06-17 Thread Huang, Tao
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Michal mic...@ionic.co.uk wrote: This is a better way then disconnecting the drive and checking which drive was disconnected like I did, but I would still put a very easy to read label on the drive to say /dev/sdX. It would be far easier then checking a long

Re: Ntpdate Errors (previously posted, +)

2010-06-17 Thread Huang, Tao
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:42 PM, David Baron d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: [snip] So .. I got rid of ntpdate altogether, installed the ntp daemon instead. I still get the error messages, now with /usr/sbin/ntpdate does not exist (of course). So I still need to find the original cron script!

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-16 Thread Huang, Tao
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 2:34 PM, ABSDoug absd...@yahoo.com wrote: Cheesy that I wouldn't just write straight to the partition with /home files, from XP. The way I have it setup now, info is stored on a ntfs named storage, any OS can read/write. That said, I don't really use XP that much

Re: Triple boot with MS XP

2010-06-16 Thread Huang, Tao
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:03 AM, ABSDoug absd...@yahoo.com wrote: I've never heard this term Symlink. I'm off to Google, but if you care to elaborate, please feel free! i didn't notice that you are not familiar with the symbolic link solution. actually, it's the simplest way. i should have

Re: deb_checkmd5sum?

2010-06-15 Thread Huang, Tao
a procedure called checkmd5sum - which shows up in a process listing as deb_checkmd5sum (which, I think, comes from a library).  We'll see if turning off that job stops the nightly crashes. I really can't believe there aren't better crash logging facilities for Debian. Huang, Tao wrote: Why

Re: deb_checkmd5sum?

2010-06-14 Thread Huang, Tao
Why not search for the process name in your hard drive? Tao -- Link: http://www.google.com/profiles/UniIsland On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Anybody recognize this process name? I'm seeing a nightly crash, and this seems to be running at