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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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:
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject
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
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
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
Stan,
Calling people names is no way to encourage them to use free software.
Rick
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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).
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
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 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
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
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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
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
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
I tried it on a couple of Debian Squeeze machines and only saw
shm d
Which makes sense.
What release are you running?
Rick
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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 (#
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:
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And in the case of NAT'ed IPv4, it's still possible to register for
a free-of-charge tunnel service at
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
$1000
On Feb 13, 2011, at 9:09 AM, Tixy wrote:
(I don't discount me getting something horribly wrong, this setup is
only a few weeks old and my first foray into firewalls and routing.)
Computer security is so much fun! /-;
As others have pointed out, it is *possible* for an attacker to get
On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:23 AM, Paul Walsh wrote:
(do manufacturers have to pay M$ 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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