Re: Debian Porterbox machine

2012-04-20 Thread brian m. carlson
rds, they don't yet have a stated purpose, but will be used in some capacity in the future. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0

Re: Debian Porterbox machine

2012-04-17 Thread brian m. carlson
re. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Environment vars (JAVA_HOME) not working on Debian 4

2012-01-16 Thread brian m. carlson
les. You will need to use env or the like for this case or modify /etc/sudoers.conf. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Get working multiarch on debian testin: is it possible?

2011-12-24 Thread brian m. carlson
aware that while some of the infrastructure works just fine, some software (e.g. aptitude) is buggy. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225

Re: Differences between amd64 and i386.

2011-10-18 Thread brian m. carlson
and operate efficiently, thanks to SSE2. * The compiler can depend on the CPU being able to perform more advanced operations, such as certain vector operations, which can increase performance. So basically, a lot of performance improvement potential. 20% is not unheard of. -- brian m. carlson /

Re: key server error

2011-07-27 Thread brian m. carlson
he pgp-keyserver-folk list (Google may help you there) and someone will adjust the round-robin DNS setup. I expect to provide my own implementation soon, but it's not ready yet. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My o

Re: Fwd: /bin/sh linked to dash? SOlVED, however..

2011-07-08 Thread brian m. carlson
vertheless, if you persist in thinking that changing /bin/sh to dash was a bad idea, please go complain on debian-devel, where the people that made the decision are. Just don't expect to get a warm reception. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http:/

Re: wl.ko

2011-07-02 Thread brian m. carlson
ot work with the b43 driver? If not, could you post the output of lspci -nn here? (BTW, the link is broken.) -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552

Re: Fwd: /bin/sh linked to dash? SOlVED, however..

2011-07-01 Thread brian m. carlson
h. So the solution here is to fix the buggy shell script; if mopac needs /bin/bash, it needs to say that explicitly and not just hope that /bin/sh is bash. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP:

Re: ATI proprietary drivers installation issue on debian testing

2011-05-22 Thread brian m. carlson
rivers to > make tests and so on. So it would be nice for me that I could install > drivers as soon as they are made available on IP manufacturers. That's the problem with proprietary drivers. When they break, nobody else can fix them. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston,

Re: libcholmod

2011-05-05 Thread brian m. carlson
th a library in lib64 as long as ld is doing its job correctly. My comment about multiarch was an extension of the previous paragraph. If those extra development files (such as headers) end up in both library packages, they may cause a file conflict. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Ho

Re: libcholmod

2011-05-05 Thread brian m. carlson
up with more. It will also affect multiarch, where those two versions of a library package may be for separate architectures. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2

Re: Wine with X-trap

2011-03-31 Thread brian m. carlson
wrap your lines and break your text into paragraphs so that it's easier to read what you're saying (and therefore easier for people to reply). -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-22 Thread brian m. carlson
t for the usual reasons. The current flashplugin-nonfree package uses the 64-bit plugin, not the 32-bit one with nspluginwrapper. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2

Re: 32 or 64 bits for the end user.

2011-03-21 Thread brian m. carlson
and they both seem to work fine. I haven't encountered any other problems on amd64/sid. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225

Re: upgrade from x86 to amd64

2011-03-07 Thread brian m. carlson
e have been. It is, however, trivially automatable. Multiarch might make it even easier, I don't know. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1

Re: touchscreen issue

2011-02-05 Thread brian m. carlson
. gpointing-device-settings may be helpful for GNOME. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: autodock packages

2011-01-19 Thread brian m. carlson
ive may be a more appropriate place for this. It's really up to the maintainers whether they want to maintain it in volatile vs. stable. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b:

Re: ATI proprietary drivers installation failures

2010-11-28 Thread brian m. carlson
ers; * use a 32-bit userland (i386), 32-bit kernel, and the fglrx drivers; * wait for multi-arch to be implemented; or * use the free drivers. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b:

Re: Changing from stable to testing.....

2010-10-25 Thread brian m. carlson
reinstalled lenny after this... ;) This is #571255. udev should be fixed and in testing by now. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0

Re: Intel mac support for Squeeze?

2010-09-13 Thread brian m. carlson
> Debian Linux kernel and drivers and possibly more. Actually, it is a FreeBSD kernel (hence the name kfreebsd) with the normal Debian userland, including a port of glibc. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opini

Re: old libstdc++-libc6 library, ia32-libs?

2010-08-11 Thread brian m. carlson
a safe thing to do? > or there is a proper "Debian" way to make this program work? /usr/local/lib32 is a much better place. Run ldconfig afterwards. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only Op

Re: Can't install Debian 505 AMD64

2010-08-10 Thread brian m. carlson
's very hard to provide a helpful response if we don't have all the information. It's always better to provide too much information rather than too little. See <http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html>. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1

Re: Untrusted Connection Warning .

2010-07-21 Thread brian m. carlson
ot sure which. If you paste the path to the certificate into a Firefox window, you can import it. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 022

Re: Untrusted Connection Warning .

2010-07-21 Thread brian m. carlson
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:04:34PM +0530, Siddharth Ravikumar wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:23 PM, brian m. carlson > wrote: > > > Okay.  You'll need to check to see if the SPI root certificate is in the > > certificate store.  If it's not, then you

Re: Untrusted Connection Warning .

2010-07-21 Thread brian m. carlson
rnative, of course, is to use Iceweasel, where this is not a problem. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Untrusted Connection Warning .

2010-07-20 Thread brian m. carlson
on authority. If you don't use the Debian certificate store, then obviously it will not permit SPI-signed certificates, since they're almost certainly not in the default store. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc |

Re: intel i3 processor

2010-07-19 Thread brian m. carlson
ages. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i3_microprocessors -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Disk errors?

2010-06-14 Thread brian m. carlson
authorized to send it to you, please do not > distribute, copy or use it or any attachments. Please notify the > sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this from your > system. Thank you for your cooperation. You probably don't want to put that on a public mailing list. It