Re: default resolution on distro boot

2012-01-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 23. Januar 2012 schrieb mik...@softhome.net: > Given that several Linux distros identify (on boot) my display brand > and type, get the size only slightly wrong, but default to a > resolution that isn't native and doesn't work correctly, how do I > identify just what package, module, or

Re: default resolution on distro boot

2012-01-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 24. Januar 2012 schrieb Darac Marjal: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 03:47:10PM -0700, mik...@softhome.net wrote: > > Given that several Linux distros identify (on boot) my display brand > > and type, get the size only slightly wrong, but default to a > > resolution that isn't native and do

Re: [OT] how to take care of hand

2012-02-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2012 schrieb lina: > Hi, > > are there some suggestions about how to take care of hand? > > for weeks, I felt the hand especially the thumb get strengh-less in > typing, and kinda of stiff, > > I can't avoid using mouse ( even has changed to a light one) and > keyboard, go

Re: Radeon HD 6500 lag mouse

2012-02-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2012 schrieb Dan: > Hi, Hi Dan! > I bought a brand new computer with a Radeon HD 6500. I installed > debian stable and I have two problems: From what I remembered from Phoronix.com and elsewhere, Squeeze is to old for HD6xxx series. man radeon might give a hint as it usua

Re: [OT] how to take care of hand

2012-02-07 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2012 schrieb doug: > On 02/03/2012 12:39 PM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2012 schrieb lina: > >> Hi, > >> > >> are there some suggestions about how to take care of hand? > >> > >> for weeks, I

[OT] Using dvorak (was: Re: how to take care of hand -> dvorak)

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012 schrieb lina: [... nice and long essay dvorak layout ...] > > Actually, one of the best things about the combination of > > QWERTY-labeled keycaps and software mapping to the Dvorak layout is > > that other people in the office quickly learn not to mess around with > >

Re: [OT] Using dvorak

2012-02-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 8. Februar 2012 schrieb Sylvain: > On 08. 02. 12 09:41, Martin Steigerwald wrote: […] > > How does it work when you have to use a qwert(zy) keymapping > > sometimes? Would that still work out nicely enough? > > I've been typing in dvorak (actually bépo

Re: How best to replace NetworkManager with wicd?

2012-02-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Claudius, hi everyone, Am Sonntag, 12. Februar 2012 schrieb Claudius Hubig: > kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > >Sometime back I moved one of my laptops from using Gnome to using a wm > >(i3 at present). I have been slowly trying to learn the various > >functions that the Gnome DE does in the bac

Re: How best to replace NetworkManager with wicd?

2012-02-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 13. Februar 2012 schrieb Chris Davies: > kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > > I'm a bit confused as to how to replace NetworkManager with wicd > > (using both wired and wireless connections). > > My understanding is that NM will not touch any interface that is > defined in /etc/network/int

how to deal with spam (was: Re: Petites annonces gratuites)

2012-02-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Hans, Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012 schrieben Sie: > michel_le_gran...@yahoo.fr wrote: > > Bonjour, > > . . . . > > Meilleurs Salutations > > ! > > D O S T O P Y O U R I M P E R T I N E N T M O L E S T A T I O N S > > FROM WHATEVER ADDRESS YOU SAUCILY USE > > ! Please never e

Re: how to deal with spam

2012-02-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012 schrieb Jochen Spieker: > Don deJuan: > > Debian list is a cesspool of spam. This email is only used for > > Debian and only been used for debians list and yet daily I get at > > least 10 spam messages sent to the list. I think they should give a > > major overhaul t

Re: how to deal with spam

2012-02-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 23. Februar 2012 schrieb Hans Vogelsberger: > >> So please anyone here: Never ever reply to spam on list. > >> Never ever. > >> Please only respond on list if you absolutely have to. > > In future as in the past and as right now this will be entirely my own > decision and nobody el

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 14:19:36, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > My desktop computer is nearly 7 years old and I'm thinking that a > > new computer using some of the hardware improvements would be a good > > thing. > > > > > > > > So I'm going to ask

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 21. Februar 2012 schrieb Celejar: > Curt Howland wrote: > > ... > > > It is my understanding that the Intel-based graphics cards work > > perfectly well with the standard Linux drivers, if you want to stay > > purely open-source. > > That's what everyone says, but it's not as true

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 17:09:45, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 16:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > If you definitely don't want to use proprietary drivers you can > >

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb David Christensen: > On 02/20/2012 06:58 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > If you definitely don't want to use proprietary drivers you can also > > consider Intel cards (or even built-in), > > I prefer full FOSS HW support OOTB and have had the best experiences > wi

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 10:17 -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > > Memory is cheap. More is better as Linux uses it for disk cache > > if nothing else. > > For heavy audio production I never noticed that even the swap gets > touched with 4GB RAM. That d

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 20. Februar 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 20 feb 12, 16:29:18, Doug wrote: > > You need a real mechanical hard drive. The solid-state drives have > > a limited read/write cycle. > > Recent studies seem to suggest that the limited read/write cycles are > unlikely to affect norm

Re: New computer planned

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Still 0,4% annual failure rate for X25-M is 4 drives out of 1000 in > one year and it is always good to keep a backup! I have not yet seen > numbers for Intel SSD 320 tough and they have had and probably even > still hav

Re: a quick Q: what is the .alias for

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Please no top-posting. Thanks. Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012 schrieb Keith McKenzie: > On 24/02/2012, lina wrote: > > Hi, > > > > /lib/modules/3.2.5mj-lina/modules.alias > > /lib/modules/3.1.13.1-mj-lina/modules.alias > > > > I don't know what the .alias stands for, […] > An alias is one word th

Re: KDE Probleme - deutsche Kommunikation gesucht

2012-02-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. Februar 2012 schrieb Manfred Rebentisch: > Hallo Martin, > > Am 29.02.2012 11:27, schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > > Am Mittwoch, 29. Februar 2012 schrieb Manfred Rebentisch: > >> Hallo, > > > > Hallo Manfred! > > > >> dies h

Re: KDE Probleme - deutsche Kommunikation gesucht

2012-02-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 29. Februar 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Mittwoch, 29. Februar 2012 schrieb Manfred Rebentisch: > > Hallo Martin, > > > > Am 29.02.2012 11:27, schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > > > Am Mittwoch, 29. Februar 2012 schrieb Manfred Rebentisch: > >

Re: Why did UDEV renumber my ethernet interface again?

2012-03-01 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 1. März 2012 schrieb Curt Howland: > But, when the bug was fixed and UDEV started working again, the same > entry was still in 70-persistent-net.rules to make it eth3. > > Ok. I can live with it. I guess it's better than the good old days > when one's ethernet ports, if there were m

Re: Securing Debian Manual: 10.4.2.1 Proactive defense

2012-03-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Stayvoid! Thanks for what I perceive to be an attempt to help to improve the securing Debian manual. Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2012 schrieb Stayvoid: > Hello. > > "Note, however, that there are rootkits which might work even in this > case, there are some that tamper with /dev/kmem (kernel memo

Re: Securing Debian Manual: 4.10.9.2 Using the shell history file

2012-03-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 8. März 2012 schrieb Stayvoid: > Hello. Hi Stayvoid, > "Note that you could introduce the configuration above in the user's > .profile. But then you would need to setup permissions properly in > such a way that prevents the user from modifying this file. This > includes: having the

Re: I accidentally installed lenny's linux-image/linux-header packages and I'm running Squeeze. What to do?

2012-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. März 2012 schrieb Alex Hutton: > Hello, Hi Alex, > Basically what happened was I did sudo aptitude update && sudo > aptitude upgrade and I hit 'Y' to accept the packages being installed. > Only afterwards did I realise it would be installing packages from > Lenny. I tried to hit c

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2012 schrieb Keith McKenzie: > On 20/03/12 23:23, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > Before you suggest, I didn't put the mount -t vfat etc command in > > fstab because I don't want to see a message every time I boot the > > computer without the SD card in the reader saying sde1 can't

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2012 schrieb Ken Heard: > Camaléon's latest suggestions are worth trying to determine whether the > cause is a software malfunction rather than a hardware failure. To do > so however I would have to wait until I upgrade the laptop from Lenny > to Squeeze, as he suggests I use

Re: Can no longer mount SDHC card

2012-03-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. März 2012 schrieb Martin Steigerwald: > Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2012 schrieb Ken Heard: > > Camaléon's latest suggestions are worth trying to determine whether > > the cause is a software malfunction rather than a hardware failure. > > To do so however I

Re: [MUST WATCH YOUTUBE VIDEO] [SUCCESS REPORT] Xen VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linux Kernel 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 11.10 amd64

2012-03-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 22. März 2012 schrieb Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming): > Dear Xen Users and David Techer, Hi Teo, > It is only in the last few days that I have had great success with Xen > VGA Passthrough to Windows 8 Consumer Preview HVM Virtual Machine with > Xen 4.2-unstable Changeset 25070 and Linu

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-03-26 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 21. März 2012 schrieb Pierre Frenkiel: > hi, > I wanted to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and as I saw in several > places that aptitude should be preferred to apt-get, I first tried > with it. I started with only 1 line in sources.list: > deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wh

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb David Banks: > menuentry 'squeeze' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu > --class os { > insmod part_msdos > insmod ext2 > set root='(hd1,msdos1)' > linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-amd64 root=/dev/sdb1 ro quiet > initrd /boot

Re: repository signing keys update HOW?

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb Paul E Condon: > On 20120329_123755, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 29/03/12 12:12, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I have forgotten how to install the latest official signing keys > > > for the package repositories, and I can't even remember search > > > terms that ta

Re: repository signing keys update HOW?

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb Per Carlson: > Hi Paul > > > And thanks for mentioning (debian-keyring at a minimum) The > > descriptive phrase confirmed my guess that this was the one I needed > > the contents of. I need an alternative method of getting the contents > > since aptitude is in

Re: Upgrade to wheezy possible?

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. März 2012 schrieb Sharon Kimble: > Is it possible to upgrade to wheezy from squeeze with only 670.9mb > available in my /usr partition please? Or do I need to repartition and > reinstall squeeze and then upgrade to wheezy? Should be. Depends on the amount of packages you upgrade

Re: Upgrade to wheezy possible?

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 28. März 2012 schrieb Sharon Kimble: > Is it possible to upgrade to wheezy from squeeze with only 670.9mb > available in my /usr partition please? Or do I need to repartition and > reinstall squeeze and then upgrade to wheezy? See here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/rele

Re: Dual-boot with kFreeBSD and Linux cannot find Linux kernel

2012-03-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb David Banks: > On 29/03/12 12:57, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >> However, when I boot this I get this error three times: > >> error: file not found. > > > > What is before the file not found? Does it give a hint as to which &

Re: sharing desktop on debian - freenx?

2012-03-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 30. März 2012 schrieb John A. Sullivan III: > On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 11:49 +0200, Alberto Fuentes wrote: > > Ive seen that the most optimal sharing desktop is freenx but i > > "aptsearched" (new verb guys! if i can google something i can > > certanly aptsearch as well :) freenx does not

Re: Some KDE apps depend on kdebase-runtime, which is transitional

2012-03-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Max! I added debian-kde to Cc as there are members of the Debian Qt/KDE packing team subcribed to, while I am not sure whether any of them are subscribed to debian-user. Am Freitag, 30. März 2012 schrieb Max Hyre: > Dear Debian: > > I tried to remove the transitional package kdebase

Re: Xen vs KVM

2012-03-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb francis picabia: > Xen requires a patched kernel. It is unstable. It crashed on > me randomly before I got as far as configuring any VM stuff. > The system which experienced this returned to a standard > Debian kernel and never had a problem again. Not any lo

Re: [OT] Re: correct English usage

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:20:10 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On 03/04/12 19:21, Camaleón wrote: > (...) > > >>> "Ulterior" is certainly not a synonym for "posterior", > >> > >> But it was, that's what I meant. It's not a term I would neither use

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Lisi: > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 10:01:47 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Note that since Lenny, apt-get *installs* recommended packages by > > > > default. > > ...since Lenny, apt-get *has installed*.. Why? It still does. -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Lisi: > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 12:14:55 Scott Ferguson wrote: > > ... since Lenny, apt-get will continue to install recommended > > packages by default. So I believe "has" is redundant, even though > > it's correct. > > What is wrong with : > > Apt-get will

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 2. April 2012 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Lu, 02 apr 12, 17:32:44, Lisi wrote: > > On Monday 02 April 2012 10:48:24 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > I'd suggest this instead: > > > > > > Note that apt-get now installs recommended packages by default > > > and is, for its robustness, the

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 2. April 2012 schrieb Lisi: > On Monday 02 April 2012 22:15:08 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > As I understand it the latest recommendation is to use apt-get from > > command line and aptitude interactively. > > Ah! Do you not use aptitude at the command line? Is that what you are > saying?

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Scott Ferguson: > > Hope this explains, > > Thanks. > Sort of explains things to me - I'm still lost as to why I'd want to > remove packages for which no repository is currently listed in > /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list > Packages that c

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2012 schrieb Javier Vasquez: > So yes, one needs to be careful, not to oversize your tmpfs. That's > completely true, but the limit is not physical RAM, it is actually > RAM+Swap, as I mentioned before. > > On this thread, it is asked about how to got with huge files to be

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 3. April 2012 schrieb Roger Leigh: > On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 11:16:08AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2012-03-24 11:00:49 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > > > You can always configure as you wish. Take a look at: > > > > > > /etc/default/tmpfs > > > > The file says: > > > > #

Re: how to increase space for tmpfs /tmp

2012-04-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 3. April 2012 schrieb Roger Leigh: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 06:00:23PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, Joey Hess wrote: > > > Edit /etc/default/rcS, set RAMTMP=no, reboot. Or, set TMPDIR to > > > point to something like $HOME/tmp > > > > You don't

Re: debian-faq (was ... Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude)

2012-04-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2012 schrieb Lisi: > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 18:58:07 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Lisi: > > > On Wednesday 04 April 2012 10:01:47 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Note that since Lenny, apt-get *installs* r

Re: [OT] Re: correct English usage

2012-04-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 5. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:55:47 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 4. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > >> On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:20:10 +0200, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> > On

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:20:05 +0200, Alberto Fuentes wrote: > > On 21/04/12 19:34, Camaleón wrote: > >> I'm against big partitions (500 GiB is the limit I have auto-imposed > >> to my systems) so I would make 4 slices and spread the data over > >> them

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > > While I wait for the new 2 TB HDD, I am copying data across my home > > LAN to my laptop which has a 120 GB HDD. I was using the WiFi > > network provided by the computer consultants downstairs: it gave me > > 1.2 MB/s transfer rate. When I succeede

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 21. April 2012 schrieb tv.deb...@googlemail.com: > On 21/04/2012 18:36, Sian Mountbatten wrote: > > I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and > > photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of > > packages installed). > > > > Anybody out there

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-29 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 24. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: > 2012/4/21 Sian Mountbatten : > > I am going to buy a big USB hard drive to backup films, music and > > photos. In fact, I might backup the system (at least, the list of > > packages installed). > > > > Anybody out there tried a 2TB USB hard driv

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors that lie to the OS > > they have 512 byte sectors. Although I think even those should work. > > But

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-04-30 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: > 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: > >> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 08:27:03PM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >> > Hmmm, I´d avoid those with 4 KB hardware sectors

Re: 2TB USB hard drive for backing up

2012-05-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 3. Mai 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: > 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Ellwood Blues: > >> 2012/4/30 Martin Steigerwald : > >> > Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: > >> >> On Sun, Apr 29,

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2012 schrieb Curt: > On 2012-05-04, Matthias Guentert wrote: > > Any real alternatives (in terms of performance, support, opensource > > drivers) to nvidia? > > I don't know. ATI's worse, IMHO. There's the new 'nouveau' nvidia > driver (bilingual redundancy, anyone?), but I th

Re: Random system freezes - need your input

2012-05-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 20. Mai 2012 schrieb Matthias Guentert: > I have set up remote logging just in case something get's lost on local > system. > > I am really running out of ideas here... and becoming unsure if the > nvidia driver really is the culprit. I will switch back to the nv > driver and test for

Re: kmail crashes on startup

2012-05-20 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 19. Mai 2012 schrieb m...@neidorff.com: > Hello, Hi Mark! > I'm using Mepis (a debian derivative) and I'm using kmail (4.4.4) as my > e-mail client. It has been working just fine. > > Today, I fixed a couple of filter rules and moved a couple of messages > from one mailbox to anothe

Re: [OT] Mails coming from "joe1assis...@gmail.com"

2012-05-27 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 30. April 2012 schrieb Camaleón: > Hello, > > Is just me who receives this sort of e-mails when replying to certain > messages of this mailing list? *Oh* *my* *goddess*! Is this really true? Please just report to listmasters and then filter for yourself as necessary. Anyway not need

Re: Troubleshooting Debian

2012-06-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 4. Juni 2012 schrieb DragonDon: > Greetings all! Hi! > I know this will be a rather difficult thing to answer I think, but > are there any generic steps listed somewhere on how to troublehshoot a > problem on a Debian/Linux system? I understand that each problem can > be rather unique

Re: mp280

2012-06-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2012 schrieb steef: > dear all, > just a small question: has somebody an experience with the 'canon pixma > mp 280 printer' under debian; (cups) ? a very cheap and compact > printer so i am told. I always look at OpenPrinting database first¹. MP250 seems to be closest match²,

Re: what did hwinfo do to my machine?

2012-06-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Dan! After reading the complete thread up to know some more ideas that I didn´t found explicitely mentioned. Am Montag, 4. Juni 2012 schrieb Dan B.: > After I ran hwinfo (to detect a modem), my machine runs very slowly at > the beginning of booting. Is the modem still plugged in? If so, plea

Re: epson printer prints WHITE PAGE !!!

2012-06-04 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Sonntag, 3. Juni 2012 schrieb J. Bakshi: > Dear list, > > I have a epson C20SX parallel printer. I have bought a parallel to usb > cable so that I can use it with my laptop. After connecting the cable > I have seen the new H/W has been detected. > > From lsusb > > ` > Bus

Re: Troubleshooting Debian

2012-06-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
I am subscribed, no need to Cc. Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2012 schrieb terryc: > On 05/06/12 03:55, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > >> I know this will be a rather difficult thing to answer I think, but > >> are there any generic steps > > Nope. It really depends on the err

Re: Troubleshooting Debian

2012-06-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2012 schrieb Chris Bannister: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 01:20:58PM +1000, terryc wrote: > > On 05/06/12 03:55, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > I've told O'Reilly that their books are rather useless for trouble > > shooting or learning for the avera

Re: Unix command(s) to remove files recursively?

2012-06-05 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 5. Juni 2012 schrieb Rodolfo Medina: > Hi. Hi Rodolfo, > Suppose that I have, in a certain directory and all its subdirs and > subdirs' subdirs' subdirs... etc., a certain number of files > terminating with `~', e.g.: `myfile~', and that I want to remove all > of them recursively. I

Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-13 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 10. September 2011 schrieb jacques: > Le 10/09/2011 14:25, Mark Neidorff a écrit : > > On Wednesday 07 September 2011 3:33:10 pm jacques wrote: > >> Hi, > > Hi Mark, Hi Jacques, > > 1. alias "rm" to "rm -i" to add a > > rm: remove regular file `filename' ? > > to give the user a mome

Re: Sandy bridge and kernel 3.1

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 13. September 2011 schrieb Rémi Marchal: > Hello! Hi Rémi, > I have bought the laptop N53SN-SZ126V from ASUS with the technology > Sandy Bridge. When I install the last stable version of Debian, I get > a black screen typical of the incompatibility of the kernel and Sandy > bridge. >

Re: Free drivers for AMD Radeon (Vaio S)

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Jörg! Am Dienstag, 13. September 2011 schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: > The status of the free radeon driver is available here: > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature > > A very recent kernel and additional firmware (firmware-linux-nonfree) > is needed for the discrete graphic adapter. A HP Pavilio

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011 schrieb Andrew Reid: > > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > jacques wrote: > > >> by error most of the binaries in /usr are erased (killing rm :-( > > > > > > Everyone has made that mistake at some point. I know I have! > > > > Not me! Thoug

Re: Worst Admin Mistake? was --> Re: /usr broken, will the machine reboot ?

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: > On 09/14/2011 01:15 AM, Bryan Irvine wrote: > > Which brings me to another fun question. What's your worst > > administration mistake and how did you recover? > > On ext4 resizing > > - I did not put a swap partition on my laptop

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Dienstag, 13. September 2011 schrieb yudi v: > I will be wiping partitions on my hard drive before sending it back to > the manufacturer for replacement. > > I usually prefer dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sdX# for the unencrypted > partitions and just over write the first few sectors on the LUKS

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-14 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011 schrieb yudi v: > > For SSDs or harddisk which do encryption internally - with or without > > encryption password in BIOS - an ATA Secure Erase should be enough: > > > > http://ata.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/ATA_Secure_Erase > > > > Search "site:kernel.org secure er

Re: Wiping hard drives

2011-09-15 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 14. September 2011 schrieb yudi v: > > I used an external USB/eSATA case hooked up via eSATA and then bootet > > GRML. The BIOS did not protect the external drive and I was able to > > transfer the ATA Secure Command via eSATA. I bet it might not work > > via USB tough. > > > > Booted

Re: A quick Q: how do I link LS or Ls to ls

2011-09-17 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Samstag, 17. September 2011 schrieb lina: > Hi, Hi Lina, > I wonder is it possible to make the terminal recognize > > LS or Ls > > as > > ls > > only in command line in terminal. Or use Z-Shell: martin@merkaba:~> lS zsh: correct 'lS' to 'ls' [nyae]? n zsh: command not found: lS martin@me

Re: xorg - MatchIsTouchpad not working properly

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2011 schrieb David Roguin: > Hi! Hi David! > I have an InputClass section in my xorg.conf that catches whenever a > touchpad is detected (MatchIsTouchpad "on"), but the driver on that > section never loads. If I change the MatchIsTouchpad for other Match > like the Matc

Re: regards the /

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2011 schrieb lina: > Hi, Hi Lina! > To avoid messing up Lisi's post, I started a new one. > > What's the acceptable saturation for the / partition, > > now my one reached 61% (377M of 658, wheezy), > another reached 87% (483M of 657M, sid) > > only saw it increases,

Re: regards the /

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Camaleón, Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:24:49 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 September 2011 16:10:53 Camaleón wrote: > >> When you are out of space you will notice (you get a nice warning > >> message), don't worry >:-) > > > > > > > > I got

Re: regards the /

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > The above experience I posted it happened on a VM I have to run > testing for well... "testing" purposes. I wanted to try something > (don't remember exactly what, either "hibernation" or "suspension") > and something went wrong so one of the l

Re: regards the /

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb lina: > > Even low end SSD can do 2500 IOPS, 15x that of a 7.2k drive. And > > most SSDs are small. So if you have an SSD in this runaway logging > > scenario you could potentially fill the log filesystem in a matter > > of minutes. > > > > Moral of the

Re: regards the /

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb shawn wilson: > Either way, its been a while since I've seen a unix box fall over > because of a full disc. So, if something fills up, go in, take your > time and figure it out. You might not be able to run some GUI programs > (and some services might act weir

Re: regards the /

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > > Partitions are great if you need then. Today, I think they are one of > > those things that, unless you can point to the use case you have, > > you don't need them. > > My hiking analogy sums it up pretty well: > "Better to have it and not

Re: regards the /

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Lisi: > On Friday 23 September 2011 17:59:13 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > For KDE there is: > You mean, I take it KDE 4? KDE 3 appears not to do so - tho' it may > just be that the system didn't get a chance. Yes, freespacenotifie

Re: regards the /

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Lina, Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb lina: > > > Thanks very much for explanation. > > > > > > Tell you one secret, I didn't know LANG means language environment. > > > When I test each directory. > > > I avoid using the up arrow to get history. I tried to type each > > > time to en

Re: regards the /

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:50:54 +0800, lina wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: > >> Hmm... you "/lib" seems a bit bloated (mine is 94 MiB), I would look > >> inside it: > >> > >> du -h /lib | grep "[0-9]M" | sort -n -r |

Re: regards the /

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Camaleón: > > Here is the > > > > > > > > :/lib/modules/3.0.0-mbp82-lina$ ls > > (...) > > But that's not the same as the other folders. > > This one contains the modules for that kernel (3.0.0-mbp82-lina) but > the folders you "cleaned" were pointing

Re: regards the /

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Lisi: > On Friday 23 September 2011 17:54:04 Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > (now isn´t --sort=h cool? Just found out about it a moment ago as I > > searched a solution to sort the G and the M´s as well.) > > sort -h does the same thing -

Re: Still trying to reduce the size of /, now that I have the bit between my teeth....

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Lisi! Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Lisi: > I still have two of the already suggested things to try, but meanwhile > my /usr is 3.7G, and my /, of which it forms part, is 4.7G. This > seems slightly disproportionate. How can I find out what is actually > needed - or even, used - in /

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Alex: > Any comments on the "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) > firmware" and its ability to preclude booting from alternative > operating systems such as Linux, BSD etc., would be greatly > appreciated, as per article entitled "Windows 8 secure bo

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Alex: > Any comments on the "Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) > firmware" and its ability to preclude booting from alternative > operating systems such as Linux, BSD etc., would be greatly > appreciated, as per article entitled "Windows 8 secure bo

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Chris! Please avoid TUFO. Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb chris: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Scott Ferguson > > > > Check out Coreboot - and research before buying a device/motherboard. > > > but does coreboot support uefi? Sometimes I think: Better not. ;) I twice tried hal

Re: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Weaver: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 11:04:51 +1000 > > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 23/09/11 09:01, Alex wrote: [...] > > Check out Coreboot - and research before buying a device/motherboard. > > That's one way, but new tech is getting to the stage where it won't

Re: 100% used / file system. Help!

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011 schrieb Stan Hoeppner: > > Tux:/home/lisi# du -s -h /var/cache > > 2.3G/var/cache > > This is probably where your web browser is storing its cached > files. Go into browser options and clear the cache. May take a > while. Tell us how much space this frees

spam on this list (was: Re: Business Proposal, Reply)

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:54:02 + (UTC) > Walter Hurry wrote: > > Hello Walter, > > > And by the way, I am not impressed with the SpamAssassin setup at > > liszt.debian.org > > It got turned off once, accidentally. Spam came through at a r

spam on this list (was: Re: Business Proposal, Reply)

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Brad Rogers: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:54:02 + (UTC) > Walter Hurry wrote: > > Hello Walter, > > > And by the way, I am not impressed with the SpamAssassin setup at > > liszt.debian.org > > It got turned off once, accidentally. Spam came through at a r

spam on list this (was: Re: Walter Overeager)

2011-09-23 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb Walter Hurry: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 22:29:38 +0100, Terence wrote: > > On 23 September 2011 18:13, Tony van der Hoff > > > > wrote: > >> On 23/09/11 18:54, Walter Hurry wrote: > >>> And by the way, I am not impressed with the SpamAssassin setup at > >>> lisz

Re: About alien command

2011-09-24 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Freitag, 23. September 2011 schrieb co...@esid.gecgr.co.cu: > Hi Hi! > It may be a silly question but I'm following occurs ago > some time trying to install an ATI R200 BB [Radeon All in > Wonder 8500DV], I got the drivers-8.28.8-1.x86_64.rpm fglrx64_4_3_0 and > 8.28.8-1.x86_64.rpm fglrx64_6_8

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