[OT] Intelectual Property Law [WAS: Re: what graphic card to buy?]

2012-07-18 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi folks, While fascinating, this discussion has wandered seriously Off Topic. It's no longer appropriate for debian-user, I think. I'm not a list-guru. Is there a debian list where it would be on-topic? If so, maybe we should take it there. Enjoy! Rick On Jul 18, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Gary

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-22 Thread Rick Thomas
If all the empty space is filled with something redundant (like, zeroes?) then you can use almost any compress program (gzip comes to mind...) and it will all be compressed out. If the empty space is filled with random junk, it will depend on just how random the junk is. Does that

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 22, 2012, at 11:15 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 22 iul 12, 19:28:35, Rick Thomas wrote: If all the empty space is filled with something redundant (like, zeroes?) then you can use almost any compress program (gzip comes to mind...) and it will all be compressed out. If the empty

Re: Tools in Debian to create whole disk image (multiple partitions)?

2012-07-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 23, 2012, at 12:15 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 23 iul 12, 09:15:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote: A compressor of course helps reduce the size a *lot* (it's only 368 MiB gziped), but this introduces an additional step that I was trying to avoid. ... and a gzip/gunzip cycle makes the

Re: Purge Empathy messes up apt

2012-07-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 25, 2012, at 5:53 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Mark Allums wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: Mark Allums wrote: No, it's dependency hell. No. Dependency Hell[1] would require a rigidity of dependencies that are difficult to resolve. These resolve fine. And as is they are not causing any

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Rick Thomas
If this is a PowerPC iMac, you should be able to use the Debian PowerPC installer. If so, you can install Debian Squeeze with either http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-6.0.5-powerpc-CD-1.iso or

Re: installing Debian on an iMac

2012-07-31 Thread Rick Thomas
Debian on my mac. Any hints or clues on where to start is appreciated. Cheers David On Jul 31, 2012, at 1:47 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: If this is a PowerPC iMac, you should be able to use the Debian PowerPC installer. If so, you can install Debian Squeeze with either

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
Begin forwarded message: Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Michael Aldridge aldridge@gmail.com Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:25 AM, Michael Aldridge wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Michael Aldridge aldridge@gmail.com Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk drives. Is there a way of doing that from the mac terminal? If you just put the CD in the CD drive with

Re: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg

2012-08-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote: okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with doing that, I have no other linux machines

Re: Logging ISP Download Speed.

2012-08-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 21, 2012, at 6:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:37:43 -0700, Weaver wrote: I regularly log 40-47Kb/s on updates.. Cheers, And so do we all... The problem here is not the network bandwidth, it's that some parts of the update process have to download a lot of small

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-23 Thread Rick Thomas
Stan, Calling people names is no way to encourage them to use free software. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 22, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, no NTP daemon should crash because of skewed time; one thing is that it refushes to sync (which can be fine, and should log this fact so the admin can make the proper measures) but a different thing is completely killing the service. Hi

Re: ntpd crashes.

2012-09-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 23, 2012, at 6:13 AM, David L. Craig wrote: On 12Sep23:0208-0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Sep 22, 2012, at 6:51 AM, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, no NTP daemon should crash because of skewed time; one thing is that it refushes to sync (which can be fine, and should log this fact so

Re: apache2's handling of IP version 6

2012-10-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Satoru Otsubo wrote: But the phenomena are same, that is, When booting my PC, apache2 failed to start. And when I executed the following: # /etc/init.d/apache2 restart apache2 started successfully with the dual stack. Why this phenomena happens ? Is the apache2

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-02 Thread Rick Thomas
Another use for a large swap partition is if you want to put /tmp into tmpfs. Whether doing so is a good thing(TM) is a religious debate that I don't want to stir up here. But there are people who do it, and for them a large swap partition can be useful. Rick PS: We haven't heard back

Re: Swap space not used

2012-05-03 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, 4 May 2012 02:40:16 +0800 (WST), Bret Busby wrote: free: :~# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 80599647746808 313156 0 54708 1352976 -/+ buffers/cache:63391241720840 Swap: 42860340 66296

Re: Password salt

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 12:05:56 +0300, Lars Noodén wrote: On 6/8/12 12:02 PM, Alberto Fuentes wrote: On 06/08/2012 10:57 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: The hashed password + salt is stored in /etc/shadow. Where is the actual password salt for Debian stored? Yes, I understand that the salt is

what causes slogin -X to not generate a $DISPLAY variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
Recently, when I do slogin -X server (for one particular server, not all of them) the resulting session can't run any X11 utilities (e.g. xterm) because there is no DISPLAY variable in the environment. It used to work. I don't know what changed for sure. Does anybody know what can cause

Re: what causes slogin -X to not generate a $DISPLAY variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2012, at 10:06 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 03:56:35 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Recently, when I do slogin -X server (for one particular server, not all of them) the resulting session can't run any X11 utilities (e.g. xterm) because there is no DISPLAY variable

Re: what causes slogin -X to not generate a $DISPLAY variable on the server?

2012-06-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 8, 2012, at 11:48 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: Here's the output. I see it requesting X11 forwarding (near the end) but I don't see anything specifically saying it was granted. Nor do I see it being specifically refused. Fascinating... FWIW, I tried the same 'slogin -vvv -X

Re: /tmp is too small

2012-06-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 7, 2012, at 6:48 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: Or alternatively, how can I enlarge the tmpfs? I need it enlarged from anout 200M to about 2G for this week's project. Yes, that's a lot bigger than my RAM. Increase your swap to 4GB -- even if you plan never to swap. The space will be

Re: what causes slogin -X to not generate a $DISPLAY variable on the server?

2012-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Camaleón wrote: Given that you are login on your own computers you can try with -Y flag (untrusted X11 forwarding) and see how it goes. Another test you can run is by creating a new user and launching slogin -X -vvv macs xterm session from there. Thanks for

Re: what causes slogin -X to not generate a $DISPLAY variable on the server?

2012-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:03:24 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jun 9, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Camaleón wrote: Given that you are login on your own computers you can try with -Y flag (untrusted X11 forwarding) and see how it goes. Another test you can run

Re: what causes slogin -X to not generate a $DISPLAY variable on the server?

2012-06-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: ... mmm, you can compare the ... openssh versions That got me thinking... Looking at a third server (the same i386 Debian Squeeze machine I was using as a client in the previous reply) I *can* slogin -X and get an X session. On both the

Re: what causes slogin -X to not generate a $DISPLAY variable on the server?

2012-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 12, 2012, at 9:44 PM, Erwan David wrote: On 13/06/12 04:12, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jun 12, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Camaleón wrote: ... mmm, you can compare the ... openssh versions That got me thinking... Looking at a third server (the same i386 Debian Squeeze machine I was using

Re: what causes slogin -X to not generate a $DISPLAY variable on the server?

2012-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 13, 2012, at 7:23 AM, Camaleón wrote: Also, while searching for more information on this issue at Google I've found many posts¹, articles and blogs² pointing to a problem with X forwarding and ipv6 though I'm not sure this is going to be the case for this but it can be something to

Re: what causes slogin -X to not generate a $DISPLAY variable on the server?

2012-06-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 13, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I will file a bug report ASAP against openssh-server. It turns out this is bug #422327, which dates all the way back to 2007, and nothing has been done about it. The bug report even suggested a patch (well, not exactly a patch

[SOLVED] Re: what causes slogin -X to not generate a $DISPLAY variable on the server?

2012-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 13, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: I will file a bug report ASAP against openssh-server. It turns out this is bug #422327, which dates all the way back to 2007, and nothing has been done about it. The bug report even suggested a patch (well, not exactly a patch

Re: netinst on old dell hardware

2012-06-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120620_121804, Teemu Likonen wrote: Paul E. Condon [2012-06-20 02:55:41 -0600] wrote: On 20120620_081652, didier gaumet wrote: Your CD, being from the lenny=stable era, probably attempts to access stable release but it does not exists

Re: Very slow network with certain APs -- ipv6 problem?

2012-07-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 4, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Paul Zimmerman wrote: Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: You mean you're still using ipv4 with no ipv6 support from the OS at all? I am using an up-to-date install of Squeeze. There were several network related updates when IPv6 was supposed to be

Proposal for stage-1 secure boot Re: [POSTPONED] Re: installation with UEFI

2012-07-05 Thread Rick Thomas
The fundamental problem we must solve is allowing the *user* to securely choose which OS she wants to install. Whether that OS follows thru and verifies all its parts is between the user and the person or group who provided the OS (could be the user, herself, of course!) We need a

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 10, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Charles Blair wrote: I am trying to set up a dual-boot windows 7 / wheezy. The installer shows me 3 primary ntfs partitions, presumably for windows7. I have been able to resize to create freespace. As I understand it, / must be bootable, which seems to mean

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 10, 2012, at 9:49 PM, Charles Blair wrote: Thank you very much for your reply. I think I will post a restatement of the question. I would have thought that a dual boot of windows 7 and debian would be a common enough problem that there should be something about it somewhere, perhaps

Re: partitions - primary vs logical and bootability

2012-11-11 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Charles, On Nov 11, 2012, at 4:56 AM, Charles Blair wrote: Thanks again. I wish these issues had been addressed either by the installer itself or by the installation instructions. Tnere must be many other unsophisticated users that have encountered this problem. You're welcome, of

Installing Lenny on PowerMac?

2012-11-18 Thread Rick Thomas
I have a temporary need to install Lenny on a PowerMac G4 so I can run some tests on a fresh installation for a user who is unable (for various reasons) to upgrade to Squeeze at this time. When I run the netinst installer CD all seems well until it wants to setup sources.list. Then it

Re: need lenny.

2012-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2012, at 5:14 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 08 dec 12, 12:46:23, Mauro wrote: W: Failed to fetch http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/lenny/main/binary-amd64/Packages 302 Moved [IP: 193.62.202.28 80] Hmm, your apt is trying to download the uncompressed Packages file, which is

Re: need lenny.

2012-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2012, at 7:32 AM, Mauro wrote: Have you tried aptitude instead of apt-get? yes, same error. Just a guess, but take a look at backports and see if you can install a more modern version of apt or aptitude. FWIW My lenny box has aptitude version 0.4.11.11-1~lenny2. Rick

Re: need lenny.

2012-12-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 8, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Mauro wrote: On 8 December 2012 17:37, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Dec 8, 2012, at 7:32 AM, Mauro wrote: Have you tried aptitude instead of apt-get? yes, same error. Just a guess, but take a look at backports and see if you can install

Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-01 Thread Rick Thomas
I was googling for an inexpensive laptop for a friend and came across the chromebook C710 from Acer: http://www.staples.com/Acer-C710-2847-116-Chromebook/product_125265 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834215914 • Intel Celeron 847 1.1GHz • 2GB Memory

Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! For myself those look great. But she is *extremely* price conscious. Rick On Feb 2, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Weaver wrote: Why not go for hardware that is specifically designed for Linux and remove any potential problems completely? https://zareason.com/shop/Laptops/ -- To

Re: Anybody have a chromebook? Can it run Debian?

2013-02-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 2, 2013, at 1:30 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: Also beware of the screen resolution. It might not be what you think it is. I notice it is missing from the stats above. Staples technical details section says this: HD Widescreen CineCrystal™ LED-backlit LCD Display (1366 x 768)

Re: Seeking advise on changing names of target in dm-crypt

2013-02-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 19, 2013, at 12:10 PM, J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2013-02-19 20:36, green wrote: I use LUKS and cryptsetup encryption, but not for the root filesystem. Probably fstab and crypttab are all that you need to change. Grub configuration is another possibility, but I am guessing that you have

Re: Keeping backups until storage runs short (deja-dup style) with command line tools?

2013-02-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 21, 2013, at 3:46 AM, Johannes Graumann wrote: Hi, deja-dup has an option to keep backups forever or until storage on the drive backed up to runs short (at which point it starts deleting old backups). Does someone have any pointers on how to copy that behavior using duplicity

Re: Understanding versioning.

2011-11-08 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 8, 2011, at 2:07 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: it seems to me to be weird having those epoches If all software developers were well behaved and they all co- operated in their versioning, it would be weird to have epochs. All versions, from all sources, would be monotonically increasing as

Why do I have wpasupplicant installed if I don't have a wifi interface?

2011-11-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Can anybody tell me why I have wpasupplicant installed, even though I don't have a wifi interface on this machine? The machine has a single 10/100 twisted pair ethernet interface which is configured static in the /etc/network/interfaces file. It does not have any wifi hardware, and

Re: Why do I have wpasupplicant installed if I don't have a wifi interface?

2011-11-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 14, 2011, at 8:35 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: If you use a static /etc/network/interfaces, you're likelly to be much better off without that desktop fluff. IMHO, you should just get rid of it, at most you will lose the dekstop applets that show ethernet state.

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 26, 2011, at 2:00 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: The way I like to set up the system is to set up /boot in its own partition on /dev/sda1. Then set up the rest of the disk in /dev/sda5 as a logical partition for an encrypted partition. Then use that encrypted partition for one large LVM

Re: Full Disk Encryption

2011-11-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 28, 2011, at 8:48 AM, J. Bakshi wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:15:59 + (UTC) Virgo Pärna virgo.pa...@mail.ee wrote: On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:59:34 -0500, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Unless you are concerned about growing swap at some later date, you should leave swap out

address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 26, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Lu, 26 dec 11, 21:39:27, Victor Nitu wrote: On 12/26/2011 08:00 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: This is one reason I welcome the switch to IPv6. Just out of curiosity: can you be more specific on this issue? (please excuse me for being a

Re: address and port translation (NAT) no longer required in IPv6 -- but...

2011-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
Thanks! Can you provide some specific model numbers? I'll need a box that can do IPv6 tunneling over IPv4, since none of the ISP's I have access to have native IPv6 or any plans for it in the foreseeable future. Of course, it will also need to be able to do basic stateful fire-wall

problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On 12/27/11 22:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: It sounds like you are running two DHCP servers - in which case you have four options (none of which involve preseeding). If you have multiple DHCP servers the problem is *easily* fixed - please tell me the make and model of the primary

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still limp along. Anyway, that's the theory. Rick On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: I'm not the OP, but I do have this problem. When I try to do an install (wheezy) on a network with two DHCP

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still limp along. Anyway, that's the theory. Rick On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:07 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: I'm

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers...

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On 01/05/12 16:30, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 15:55 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jan 5, 2012, at 1:40 PM, John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 12:57 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: A limited amount of redundancy is good. If one goes down, the network can still

Re: problems with having two DHCP servers... (Rick Thomas)

2012-01-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On 01/05/12 20:02, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 05/01/12 20:26, Rick Thomas wrote: On 12/27/11 22:04, Scott Ferguson wrote: It sounds like you are running two DHCP servers - in which case you have four options (none of which involve preseeding). If you have multiple DHCP servers the problem

Re: Message about ntp when updating

2012-01-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 11, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Sthu Deus wrote: Good time of the day, Patrick. You worte: I see this message when running an update: Installing new version of config file /etc/cron.daily/ntp ... insserv: warning: current stop runlevel(s) (0 1 6) of script `ntp' overwrites defaults (empty).

gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?

2012-01-22 Thread Rick Thomas
In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the various screen parts. The gdm3 login screen by default provides a list of possible users and their names with a place that looks like it's intended to hold a

Re: gdm3 - how to put a picture on the login screen?

2012-01-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On 01/22/12 20:52, Tony Baldwin wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 07:55:42PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: In an effort to make my life with wheezy more beautiful/serene and less silly-looking, I've been exploring ways to personalize the various screen parts. The gdm3 login screen by default provides

how to get gdm3 greeter to display menu of hosts for remote login via xdmcp

2012-01-29 Thread Rick Thomas
How do I get the gnome3 greeter to give me a menu of hosts on the local network who are willing to accept an xdmcp login? On my squeeze machines running gdm, at the login screen there is a drop-down called Actions that has one option called Remote login via xdmcp. When I choose that

Re: ntp problem: the server clock slowly recedes

2011-08-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 9, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 8/9/2011 2:40 AM, owl...@gmail.com wrote: remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter = = = = = = = = = = ntp1.inrim.it .CTD.

Re: jigdo-bd

2011-08-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Aug 12, 2011, at 3:43 PM, Dejan Ribič wrote: Dne 12.8.2011 21:26, piše Paul E Condon: I am looking into downloading some iso images of squeeze. I have not done this in quite a while and I see that things have changed a lot while I wasn't looking. I think I need jigdo-cd. But what is

Re: Partitioning my new 1TB drive

2011-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On 9/25/2011 10:19 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: 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 and use the new drive

Re: Why is exim installed by default?

2011-10-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 16, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Andrew Wood wrote: Why is an MTA (exim) installed by deafult on Squeeze even if the 'Mail Server' option is not selected during installation? Does it actually serve any purpose on an out of the box basic installation? Andrew Yes, It serves as local mail

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Rick Thomas
I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw shm d Which makes sense. What release are you running? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Sticky bit on device files?

2012-02-16 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:32 PM, Peter Lebbing wrote: On 16/02/12 17:54, Rick Thomas wrote: I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw shm d Which makes sense. Correct, that is also what I see on Squeeze boxes. What release are you running? This is on Wheezy

Re: printing dead slow since squeeze

2012-03-02 Thread Rick Thomas
On 03/02/12 15:04, Rémi Letot wrote: I force reinstalled the whole cups stack (cups and co, foomatic,...) just to be sure that no etch file was lying around, but it didn't help. Thanks, Try doing: aptitude search '~c' to get a list of packages that have been removed but left

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On 03/22/12 10:47, Camaleón wrote: To be sincere, I'm still unsure about what log file holds what information. In openSUSE, the main log was /var/log/messages and you had to look there to see the most relevant information, but here (Debian) seems to be /var/log/syslog. Then there are

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:53 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:59:56 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: On 03/22/12 10:47, Camaleón wrote: To be sincere, I'm still unsure about what log file holds what information. In openSUSE, the main log was /var/log/messages and you had to look

Re: Logs normalization (was: Can no longer mount SDHC card)

2012-03-24 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 24, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Camaleón wrote: Well, it's far more simpler than that: I was only whining for not having the same log files, located in the same place and holding the same information between the different distributions :-) Ahhh... The joy of Linux! /-; Linux is all about

CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-19 Thread Rick Thomas
Anybody know what driver I should be using in Debian Squeeze for my new Epson Stylus NX420 printer? There's no NX420 in the list of drivers offered by the CUPS web interface. Thanks for any help! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2011, at 12:48 AM, Roger Leigh wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 04:50:45PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Anybody know what driver I should be using in Debian Squeeze for my new Epson Stylus NX420 printer? There's no NX420 in the list of drivers offered by the CUPS web interface. It's

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 19 May 2011 16:50:45 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Anybody know what driver I should be using in Debian Squeeze for my new Epson Stylus NX420 printer? There's no NX420 in the list of drivers offered by the CUPS web interface. Your printer

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: if I export the printer via CUPS from the Toshiba to the OpenRD and try to use it to print that way from the OpenRD, the driver on the Toshiba dies with a segfault. If anybody wants to try and help me debug the problem, here's

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-20 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 20, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Camaleón wrote: There is a source rpm package, but I'm not sure if this can help you to rebuild the package for your architecture :-? Interesting. I'll have a look at it if I get some time. I wonder if there's a source plain-and-simple tar-ball in the same

Re: CUPS Driver for Epson Stylus NX420 printer?

2011-05-21 Thread Rick Thomas
Actually, the evidence in this particular case is pretty optimistic: 1) I was able to find a (binary i386/AMD64 only) driver at OpenPrinting.Org with only a little bit of google-ing. 2) When I whined about not being able to use i386 binaries on my ARM machine, Camaleón (thanks!) found a

Re: UUID - autmatically entries?

2011-05-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 21, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Since like many others you find UUIDs a huge jumbled pile of human meaninglessness, then by all means create labels for all your fixed devices, and modify your /etc/fstab accordingly. Many of us have done so. Wouldn't it be nice if the

Bug in bash? different from ksh, at any rate...

2011-05-28 Thread Rick Thomas
Can anybody explain this difference between the behavior of bash and ksh? When reading the man page, I would expect both of them to have the behavior exhibited by ksh. Why does bash seem to treat return like a single level break in this context? The echo $AA | while read is important

Re: Bug in bash? different from ksh, at any rate...

2011-05-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 28, 2011, at 2:47 AM, David Sastre wrote: On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 01:14:42AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Can anybody explain this difference between the behavior of bash and ksh? When reading the man page, I would expect both of them to have the behavior exhibited by ksh. Why does bash

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-04 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:42:49 +0200 Pascal Hambourg pascal.m...@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote: It could be an MTU/MSS issue. See the recent discussion in the debian-ipv6 list with subject schein.debian.org [2001:4f8:8:36::6]. Many thanks.

Re: aptitude/apt-get hangs during update (plus) on IPv6

2011-06-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:46 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Rick Thomas a écrit : On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: The RFCs say that any conforming implementation MUST handle an MTU of 1280, and may not necessarily handle anything larger. What is your point in mentionning

Re: [OT] Bad characters on e-mail headers (was iceape 1.0.9 and IPv6 compatibility)

2011-06-10 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 10, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Lisi wrote: I presumed it *likely* that you are female, but was uncertain Yes, most of the time on line it is very difficult to be sure. And we have to accept that statistically the majority ... On the internet, nobody knows you're a God... --

Default paper size in LibreOffice

2011-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper. As I understand it, the accepted way to set this is with dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1. But this has no

Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice - SOLVED?

2011-06-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On 06/26/11 20:38, Greg Madden wrote: On Sunday 26 June 2011 04:04:40 pm Rick Thomas wrote: I've tried everything I can think of, but every time I create a new document in LibreOffice Writer it wants to print on A4 paper. I'm in the US and everything else uses US-Letter paper. As I

Re: Default paper size in LibreOffice - SOLVED?

2011-06-27 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 27, 2011, at 1:53 AM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: * Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2011-06-27 07:16:46 CEST]: I don't know why this works, but I noticed that one of my machines had a package called cups-pdf installed (which hauls in libpaper- utils -- more on this later

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-12 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Laurence Hurst wrote: I am only aware of using DHCP with DNS to achieve what I currently do wrt reliable, cross-device, forward and reverse host lookups but was wondering if there was a way to take advantage of IPv6's stateless configuration to get the same

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 19, 2011, at 6:13 PM, John Hasler wrote: Go Linux writes: How is [IPv6] going to work on DIALUP! I wrote: Just fine. What makes you think it wouldn't? Johan Kullstam writes: The fact that it doesn't work anywhere else? :- Works fine here. Here too. What kind of problems

Re: Backup Software

2011-07-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 21, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Johann Spies jsp...@sun.ac.za wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 08:20:26AM +0200, lee wrote: Ethan Rosenberg eth...@earthlink.net writes: What software would you recommend to backup a Debian system on a

Re: IPv6 and DNS

2011-07-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 21, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: Johan Kullstam kullstj...@verizon.net writes: […] My ISP does not offer IPv6. And in the case of NAT'ed IPv4, it's still possible to register for a free-of-charge tunnel service at http://sixxs.net/ and use AICCU (#

Re: 6rd vs. interfaces(5)

2011-07-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 22, 2011, at 5:17 AM, Dejan Ribič wrote: Dne 22.7.2011 11:09, piše Ivan Shmakov: Rick Thomasrbtho...@pobox.com writes: On Jul 21, 2011, at 3:29 AM, Ivan Shmakov wrote: […] And in the case of NAT'ed IPv4, it's still possible to register for a free-of-charge tunnel service at

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

2011-07-28 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Per Carlson wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 09:15, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: Yes it's with the official documentation:- http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04.html.en Where the first sentence reads: To prepare the USB stick,

Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-19 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 19, 2010, at 8:09 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: Caution: reformatting a swap partition with mkswap will change the uuid unless the existing one is explicitly re-specified during formatting. Which raises a question that has been on my mind for a while... The Debian Installer insists on

Re: Fun with DVD-RAM

2010-12-20 Thread Rick Thomas
Curt Howland wrote: Is there a way to do a file system check on a UDF disk? Next, while I realize that UDF spreads the writes around and makes the disks last longer, I am using them for long-term archive rather than something like a daily backup. Is there a reason anyone can think of for not

Re: Fun with DVD-RAM

2010-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 21, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Curt Howland wrote: On Monday 20 December 2010, Rick Thomas was heard to say: Curt Howland wrote: Is there a reason anyone can think of for not reformatting in ext2 or some other fsck-able format? Have you thought about a simple log-structured filesystem

Re: Request for enhancement [Re: Question about /etc/fstab in Squeeze]

2010-12-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 20, 2010, at 3:07 AM, Herbert Kaminski wrote: Rick Thomas schrieb: 2) if reformatting is necessary or desired, have the option (default) of preserving the UUID. This would be an useful option for all partitions, not only for swap, for people like me who dare to test DI in a spare

[slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Does anybody have any experience installing/using an internet accessible home security system? We recently bought a retirement home, but it will be a year or so before we can move in -- leaving the place uninhabited most of the time. I'd like to install an inexpensive (under $1000 for

Re: [slightly OT] Internet accessible home security systems using Debian?

2010-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
Cool! Thanks, I'll look into those. Rick On Dec 30, 2010, at 2:10 PM, Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi, We recently bought a retirement home, but it will be a year or so before we can move in -- leaving the place uninhabited most of the time. I'd like to install an inexpensive (under $1000

Re: Hardware needed for home network

2011-02-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 13, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Tixy wrote: (I don't discount me getting something horribly wrong, this setup is only a few weeks old and my first foray into firewalls and routing.) Computer security is so much fun! /-; As others have pointed out, it is *possible* for an attacker to get

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:23 AM, Paul Walsh wrote: (do manufacturers have to pay M$ to allow them to pre-install Windows?). Yes. But it's actually worse than that. They pay MicroSoft based on their total sales numbers. Not just the number of machines they happen to install Windows on.

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