Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Allums
Mark Allums wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: RAID is "old school"/"old guard", but it works very well. I'm not a big believer in ZFS, because I believe a separation between the filesystem and block-device management makes the whole system for flexible and useful. This is a good point.

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/12/08 12:28, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:40:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Last night, I (foolishly) added a couple of items (hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe) to the "append" line of lilo.conf w

Re: Need suggestions for internet messenger app

2008-11-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
H.S. wrote the following on 11/12/2008 11:17 PM: Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except they don't support microphone/speaker or webcam. ^ Does anyone know of messenger/chat programs that do? Al

Re: failure in installing msttcorefonts

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Wagner
Hello Bernard, If you wonder why noone gives you an answer, that's because of you are hijacking threads and it's possible, that the people who know the answer, don't read this thread anymore. So begin a new thread for a new question and don't click only "reply" in your mailprogram. Hth Michael -

Re: Need suggestions for internet messenger app

2008-11-12 Thread H.S.
Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except they don't > support microphone/speaker or webcam. > > Does anyone know of messenger/chat programs that do? Also > need to work on Yahoo network. > > I'm running lenny/gnome. > > Many TIA! > > Dennis

Re: Need suggestions for internet messenger app

2008-11-12 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except > they don't support microphone/speaker or webcam. > > Does anyone know of messenger/chat programs that do? Also > need to work on Yahoo network. > > I'm running lenny/gnome. You can use Skype for vo

Re: postfix can't send and receive mails

2008-11-12 Thread lee
> If commenting out the line "mydestination = $myhostname, > localhost.$mydomain, localhost, satimis.com" on main.cf all incoming > mails are rejected. That is how it's supposed to be. You *only* need what is in virtual_domain_maps, with *correct* entries there, and an *empty* mydestinations. You

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:28:23 +0100 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I usually have no need for switching between X and console. Infact I > have usually no need to run X at all, since svgalib/framebuffer > programs are faster than their X counterparts. Well, I never figured out wha

Re: virtualbox error-SOLVED

2008-11-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:09:57AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed November 12 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > > I went to the VirtualBox web site: > > > http://www.virtualbox.de/wiki/Linux_Downloads > > > , and downloaded the all_distributions .run file: > > > http://download.virtualbox.org/vir

[ANNOUNCE] aptitude 0.5.0 released

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
Hi, everyone, I've finally released aptitude 0.5.0 into experimental. The main change here is that it's the first release containing the GTK+ frontend. You can find a longer description of the release (with a screenshot) here: http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/aptitude-0.5.0-rel

daer account user

2008-11-12 Thread james mailer
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Dear yahoomail users yahoo is requesting for your password and your usser namefrom you weting 24 hours immediatly you recive this message, we are into a yahoomail draw and this will qualifie you to the draw,and will be rel

Re: postfix can't send and receive mails

2008-11-12 Thread Stephen Liu
--- tôba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:57:54 +0800 (CST) > Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > --- lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:59:10 +0800 (CST) > > > Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Nov 11 02:41:55 xe

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-12 Thread J M Cerqueira Esteves
Jeff Soules wrote: > it looks > like there is support for LaTeX on Windows via MiKTeX, per a cursory > look here[1]. I don't know if anyone uses it, but I guess someone > must, since the MiKTeX package is still around... and there is proTeXt (MiKTeX-based): http://www.tug.org/protext/ and also...

Re: change loading order of modules in apache

2008-11-12 Thread Freddy Freeloader
lee wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:51:50 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No. I just created symlinks in mods-enabled to mods-available as I've always done. That has always worked without a snag before. Maybe it has to do in which order files are found in the direct

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Allums
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: What is the point of RAID?': Age matters. Drive either fail in the first 60 days, or last for the full length of the design life. Except when they don't. As mentioned else where in t

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Allums
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: RAID is "old school"/"old guard", but it works very well. I'm not a big believer in ZFS, because I believe a separation between the filesystem and block-device management makes the whole system for flexible and useful. This is a good point. I guess, like everyt

Re: change loading order of modules in apache

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:51:50 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. I just created symlinks in mods-enabled to mods-available as > I've always done. That has always worked without a snag before. Maybe it has to do in which order files are found in the directories? -- To UNS

dropbox on lenny with kde

2008-11-12 Thread Felipe Gallois
hello all, I installed the dropbox client for linux in my debian lenny box, using a package made for debian ( http://www.gallois.com.br/inutilidades/nautilus-dropbox_0.4.1-1_i386.deb) everything is running well, the icon shows up in the system tray, i can sync the files, can browse through them,

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 12 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: What is the point of RAID?': >The conventional wisdom for hardware is called "infant mortality". >Most hardware failures occur during the first hundred or so hours of >operation. This is why good vendors typically burn the devices

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 12 November 2008, Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: What is the point of RAID?': >Age matters. Drive either fail in the first 60 days, or last for the >full length of the design life. Except when they don't. As mentioned else where in the thread. This is an urban le

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 12 November 2008, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: What is the point of RAID?': >On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:59:09 -0600 > >"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >So what is the optimal number of disks in a raid 5 and a raid 1? >> >> If by optimal, you mean, least

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Jeff Soules
> Jeff, > you math is off - way off. > > P(one fails) != 5/100 > > P(two drives fail at the same time) = P(one fails) * P(one fails) > > = 25/1 Henning -- I'm not talking about the chance that the array will fail -- just that the more drives are under observation, the more the chance that *one

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-12 Thread H.S.
Jeff Soules wrote: > > Anyway (trying to drag this back to the original topic) -- it looks > like there is support for LaTeX on Windows via MiKTeX, per a cursory > look here[1]. I don't know if anyone uses it, but I guess someone > must, since the MiKTeX package is still around... > > [1] http:

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-12 Thread Jeff Soules
>> Stefan "Who doesn't understand why people use such old systems >> given the availability of cheap replacements which are >> much smaller and consume less power." Nothing wrong with running on whatever hardware is available. But if your hardware was around

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-12 Thread H.S.
Stefan Monnier wrote: > This is Debian: the family of the CPU doesn't really matter. Wonderful! This is just another reason I like Debian so much -- one is free to use on many supported processors. I think no other distro comes anywhere near Debian's basic ideology of real freedom. Debian is gre

Re: change loading order of modules in apache

2008-11-12 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Jeff D wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I am experiencing something with Apache that hasn't been a problem on three previous Etch builds. We use Ajaxterm as a proxy to reach another server as part of our web application. On all previous builds Apache has loaded all rela

Preseeding

2008-11-12 Thread M.Lewis
Is there a list for discussion of preseeding? If so, what is it. Thanks, Mike -- Managing programmers is like herding cats. 15:45:01 up 22:34, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Linux Registered User #241685 http://counter.li.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Stefan "Who doesn't understand why pople use such old systems >> given the availability of cheap replacements which are >> much smaller and consume less power." > * not everybody lives in regions with the same "techonological density" > as, say, New York. Even less people live in places where d

failure in installing msttcorefonts

2008-11-12 Thread Bernard
Hi to Everyone, On my desktop running under Debian Sarge, I had no problem installing 'msttecorefonts', which was done about 18 months ago. However, now, on my laptop under Etch, I can't get those fonts installed. Upon launching: #apt-get install msttcorefonts the install process starts allr

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread John Magolske
* lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081112 08:55]: > Isn't it possible to convert/use the console font for X11? PSF Tools has a utility called psf2bdf. From the manpage: psf2bdf - convert part or all of a PSF Font file to an X11 BDF. http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Unix/PSF/ Regards, John -- John Ma

Re: crash recovery

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Iatrou
When the date was Wednesday 12 November 2008, tyler wrote: > Hi, > > I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck > looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the > keyboard and mouse stopped responding completely. The screen appeared > fixed, viewi

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 02:20:36PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Stefan "Who doesn't understand why pople use such old systems > given the availability of cheap replacements which are > much smaller and consume less power." * not everybody lives in regions

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Allums
lee wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:59:09 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So what is the optimal number of disks in a raid 5 and a raid 1? If by optimal, you mean, least chance of failure: Not exactly; I was wondering if there is a breaking point, as in "adding more d

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Raj writes: > Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead of > localtime? What is local time for a computer? What if you have different users with different locales and different time zones? What if your local jurisdiction makes changes to local time (such as advancing

Re: crash recovery

2008-11-12 Thread Bob Cox
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 15:08:18 -0400, tyler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck > looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the > keyboard and mouse stopped responding completely. The screen appeared > fixed

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Nye writes: > How do you prevent both Linux and Windows from attempting to correct the > time for DST, and ending up an hour out? Linux doesn't do that. > Do you just tell one of them not to change the clock, and live with it > being wrong until you boot into the other one? No. Since Windows is

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:45:43PM -0600, lee wrote: > Don't switch continuously between X and console ... X is useful: I find > it easier to have 4x4 virtual desktops between which I can seemlessly > switch by just moving the mouse pointer over, and because I can run > console programs as well as

Re: change loading order of modules in apache

2008-11-12 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I am experiencing something with Apache that hasn't been a problem on three > previous Etch builds. We use Ajaxterm as a proxy to reach another server as > part of our web application. On all previous builds Apache has loaded all > related proxy mo

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Allums
Henning Follmann wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:53:46AM -0500, Jeff Soules wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:44 AM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you mean it is more likely that any one drive in the array fails when you have more drives, or do you mean that it is more likely for a drive i

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> BTW, what do you mean by "disable UTF"? >> Other than setting LANG=C what else have you done to tune the system? > remove all the locales-related packages (remove anything I didn't > specifically need: disk space is limited too). > Sure, a 200 MHz box would give faster (twice?) bash response tha

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Allums
Jeff Soules wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:44 AM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you mean it is more likely that any one drive in the array fails when you have more drives, or do you mean that it is more likely for a drive in the array to fail when you have more drives? If drives fail more

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Allums
Owen Townend wrote: lee: You are saying that the age of the drives doesn't matter at all? Then if you lose one drive out of 24 every month, that would mean that about 4% of all drives sold are junk. The new ones you get could fail within the first few minutes ... or not work at all. Or does this

crash recovery

2008-11-12 Thread tyler
Hi, I just experienced a complete freeze of my laptop - amarok was stuck looping through the same second of music from an online stream, and the keyboard and mouse stopped responding completely. The screen appeared fixed, viewing an xpdf window. I couldn't even switch to a terminal to poke around

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Allums
lee wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:54:11 -0600 Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: that three drives is 50% more likely to fail than two. More than fifty percent, if I remember my statistics at all correctly. Do you mean it is more likely that any one drive in the array fails when you have

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:43:18AM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > Are you trying to use truetype fonts, or are you using fixed fonts? I tried _every_ font I could find. When one is hopelessly tired, the meaningless symbol fonts in a terminal have a refresching effect. > I am using konsole with fixe

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:24:16 +0100 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have only very limited experience with the output of graphic cards > of the last 7 years (ah, the power of remote unix administration), > but I have never seen substantial change in the font displayed at > linux

Re: Phone App

2008-11-12 Thread David Baron
> need a little app that will let me dial out and answer the phone using a >voice/speakerphone modem to a normal (Luddite) telephone line. What I have >found seems to be either dialers (minicom works) and voicemail/answering- >machine programs (vgetty, tkvoice, ivm). I voicemail with have that wi

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:59:09 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So what is the optimal number of disks in a raid 5 and a raid 1? > > If by optimal, you mean, least chance of failure: Not exactly; I was wondering if there is a breaking point, as in "adding more drives on

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-12 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:40:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Last night, I (foolishly) added a couple of items (hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe) to the "append" line of lilo.conf without testing them first, and now the boot

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:22:07AM -0600, lee wrote: > Hm, the console font has changed over the years. I was thinking it has > to do with which graphics card you are using, but I don't know. I have only very limited experience with the output of graphic cards of the last 7 years (ah, the power of

Re: postfix can't send and receive mails (SOLVED) - resend

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:15:07 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have the database maildb created Do you really need to use a database? It would be much easier if you could use a text file to list domains and users. Once it's works, you can still switch to using a database. >

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:28:37 +, Russell Gadd wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> >> The first thing we need to know is if the device node(s) for the USB >> stick are created reliably. When you have a "first boot" and the icon >> does not show up, please run >> >> ls -l /dev/disk/by-path/ |

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread Carl Johnson
NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The huge problem is that all combination of therminals, fonts, color > depths, screen resolutions, and refresh rates which I could try were > always "infinitely" less tolerable for my eyes than linux or *BSD vt > consoles. Are you trying to use tr

Need suggestions for internet messenger app

2008-11-12 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except they don't support microphone/speaker or webcam. Does anyone know of messenger/chat programs that do? Also need to work on Yahoo network. I'm running lenny/gnome. Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-12 Thread H.S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > But winscp has an option to skip over duplicate files. If you start > the transfer again with this option set winscp will hop over the > files that have already been transferred and pick up where it left > off. Admittedly this does cause some time penalty while wins

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread H.S.
Aneurin Price wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:33 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> lee wrote: >>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 >>> Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead of localtime? It is simpl

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Mike Bird
In practice, RAID 5 is risky because about half the time that a drive fails a second drive fails before the rebuild is complete. The simple mathematical models don't reflect problems which tend to affect more than one drive including problems with operating system, controller, motherboard, cables,

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread Aneurin Price
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:33 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > lee wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 >> Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead >>> of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I hav

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-12 Thread S.D.Allen
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:07:29 -0500 (EST), Doug Mitton in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > Yes, I agree BUT by update you keep updated in your current version > "stream". That I did. I don't always jump to be the first to use a > new release "beta" as I'm not always interested in working through

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:44:47AM -0500, Henning Follmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:53:46AM -0500, Jeff Soules wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:44 AM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Do you mean it is more likely that any one drive in the array fa

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:13:08 +0100 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first evident part of the problem is that almost all existing > fonts (even the ones which I have seen on Microsoft or Apple > machines) are quite horrible for my eyes, and at any rate none of > them is suffici

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: What is the point of RAID? >Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:44:46 -0600 > >>On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:54:11 -0600 >>Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> that three drives is 50% more likely to

Re: Cannot upgrade kernel

2008-11-12 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
--- On Wed, 11/12/08, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Cannot upgrade kernel > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 9:59 AM > On 2008-11-12 15:17 +0100, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > > > I have been g

Re: postfix can't send and receive mails (SOLVED) - resend

2008-11-12 Thread Stephen Liu
--- lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:25:24 +0800 (CST) > Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > building postfix virtual which is my goal. > > Hm, if you want to make it "virtual only", I guess you would have to > have an empty mydestinations and add all the domains

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-12 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet >Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:59:10 -0500 > >>Paul Cartwright wrote: >>> On Tue November 11 2008, H.S. wrote: For now what I have in mind

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 12 November 2008, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: What is the point of RAID?': >On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:44:47 -0500 > >Henning Follmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jeff, >> you math is off - way off. > >Well, the problem is that the more drives you have, the more can fail. >

Re: GConf-CRITICAL problem etc. while upgrading Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Nick Syrotiuk
Hi, apt and aptitude are stuck again: "Building dependency tree... 50%" It just hangs. - I really wish I had Super Cow powers to solve these problems but I don't. :) What's a good way to proceed? My system remains a complete mess. It was so perfect just yesterday...

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:44:47 -0500 Henning Follmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff, > you math is off - way off. Well, the problem is that the more drives you have, the more can fail. So what is the optimal number of disks in a raid 5 and a raid 1? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

change loading order of modules in apache

2008-11-12 Thread Freddy Freeloader
I am experiencing something with Apache that hasn't been a problem on three previous Etch builds. We use Ajaxterm as a proxy to reach another server as part of our web application. On all previous builds Apache has loaded all related proxy modules in the correct order by default. In this lat

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread H.S.
lee wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 > Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead >> of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I have wake on RTC >> alarm enabled. > > It's supposed to make it easier to

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:36:15PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Did you try terminus? It's available as console and X11 font and last > time I tried it looked equally well in both modes. yes, since their first apparence in debian stable. I agree that they look very similar in X and in console (th

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-12 Thread ron.l.johnson
Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:40:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Last night, I (foolishly) added a couple of items (hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe) > > to the "append" line of lilo.conf without testing them first, and now the > > boot proces

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:53:46AM -0500, Jeff Soules wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:44 AM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do you mean it is more likely that any one drive in the array fails when > > you have more drives, or do you mean that it is more likely for a drive > > in the array to

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
lee wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I have wake on RTC alarm enabled. It's supposed to make it easier to deal with dayl

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
NN_il_Confusionario: > > The huge problem is that all combination of therminals, fonts, color > depths, screen resolutions, and refresh rates which I could try were > always "infinitely" less tolerable for my eyes than linux or *BSD vt > consoles. Did you try terminus? It's available as console a

Re: GConf-CRITICAL problem etc. while upgrading Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:49:29 +0100 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-11-12 13:58 +0100, lee wrote: > > > You could try to download libempathy from unstable, install it and > > then proceed with the update. That might be easier than trying to > > fix a broken package while your sys

Re: Cannot upgrade kernel

2008-11-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-12 15:17 +0100, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > I have been going around in circles on this. I am trying to upgrade > my kernel from 2.2.20 to the current stable kernel 2.6.18. When I run > aptitude I get a glibc error because it needs at least a 2.4.1 kernel > to install but the new ke

Re: Cannot upgrade kernel

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:42:39 -0800 (PST) Brian Kimsey-Hickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was afraid that I was going to have to reinstall the system. > > You are right. This is an old system that has not been upgraded in > quite some time. Well, you can try to upgrade, but as said, you ca

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-12 Thread elijah rutschman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 6:08 PM, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am in a situation where a friend of mine wants to send tons of photos > to me. Internet connection being what it is regarding stability, I am > aiming to a method where the photos' transfer can be resumed if the > conne

Re: GConf-CRITICAL problem etc. while upgrading Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-12 13:58 +0100, lee wrote: > You could try to download libempathy from unstable, install it and then > proceed with the update. That might be easier than trying to fix a > broken package while your system is messed up. The version of libempathy in unstable is the same as in testing. S

Re: Cannot upgrade kernel

2008-11-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 06:17:23AM -0800, Brian Kimsey-Hickman wrote: > I have been going around in circles on this. I am trying to upgrade my > kernel from 2.2.20 to the current stable kernel 2.6.18. When I run aptitude > I get a glibc error because it needs at least a 2.4.1 kernel to install

Re: GConf-CRITICAL problem etc. while upgrading Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-12 13:14 +0100, Nick Syrotiuk wrote: > re: problem 1 > What command(s) do I need to execute after I correct the typo in the file? Try "aptitude -f install" or "apt-get -f install". Or maybe "aptitude safe-upgrade". > re: problem 2 > Where/how can I find the error messages of the fai

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:40:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Last night, I (foolishly) added a couple of items (hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe) > to the "append" line of lilo.conf without testing them first, and now the > boot process panics with: > > Cannot open root device "hda2" or

Re: Cannot upgrade kernel

2008-11-12 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
I was afraid that I was going to have to reinstall the system. You are right. This is an old system that has not been upgraded in quite some time. Thanks, Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Windows to Debian secure data transfer over internet

2008-11-12 Thread H.S.
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > You could have him burn the photos in a DVD, then you drive over to his > place, grab the DVD, and copy them to your machine. > > Depending on how far he lives, this might even be faster than > transferring via Internet. > > That would have been the obvious cho

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-12 Thread tyler
"Sam Kuper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > A number of comments missed my main point, which was: > > When 'stable' packages don't work, or are inadequately documented, > it's a pain because the upstream developers (who are otherwise often > the first port of call for help and documentation) may no

Re: postfix can't send and receive mails (SOLVED) - resend

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:25:24 +0800 (CST) Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > building postfix virtual which is my goal. Hm, if you want to make it "virtual only", I guess you would have to have an empty mydestinations and add all the domains for which mail is to be delivered locally (that is

Cannot upgrade kernel

2008-11-12 Thread Brian Kimsey-Hickman
I have been going around in circles on this. I am trying to upgrade my kernel from 2.2.20 to the current stable kernel 2.6.18. When I run aptitude I get a glibc error because it needs at least a 2.4.1 kernel to install but the new kernel won't install without the new glibc. Here is what is ha

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-12 Thread Doug Mitton
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:10:07 +0100, you wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:28:10AM -0500, Doug Mitton wrote: On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:31:16 +0100, you wrote: >Hi All; > >I'm looking to see if anyone can confirm a change on the Walmart Photo we

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 07:12:52AM -0600, lee wrote: > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:23:27 +0100 > NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My *HUGE* problem with X has always been, and very possibly will > > always be, the readability of terminals. > > > > The huge problem is that all combi

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread Jeff Soules
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:44 AM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you mean it is more likely that any one drive in the array fails when > you have more drives, or do you mean that it is more likely for a drive > in the array to fail when you have more drives? If drives fail more > often when bei

Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-12 Thread ron.l.johnson
Hi, Last night, I (foolishly) added a couple of items (hda=noprobe hdb=noprobe) to the "append" line of lilo.conf without testing them first, and now the boot process panics with: Cannot open root device "hda2" or unknown-block(0,0) Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on un

Re: postfix can't send and receive mails (SOLVED) - resend

2008-11-12 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi lee, Your advice solves my pending problem. Thanks. I'm following this howto; http://flurdy.com/docs/postfix/edition5.html building postfix virtual which is my goal. This is my 5th round. All previous tests failed (following other howto NOT relating to this howto). > On Wed, 12 Nov 20

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:31:07 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead > of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I have wake on RTC > alarm enabled. It's supposed to make it easier to deal with daylight savi

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:23:27 +0100 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My *HUGE* problem with X has always been, and very possibly will > always be, the readability of terminals. > > The huge problem is that all combination of therminals, fonts, color > depths, screen resolutions, an

Re: OT about Asus, was Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:32:14 -0600 Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody sleep around here? Yes, I'm asleep ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to change date of system

2008-11-12 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
lee wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:16:03 +0100 "abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I want to change the time for my system, ( the time displayed doesn't correspond to my country which is gmt+1) I use date -s, but I have to do it at each reboot, how to do it permanently Set th

Re: GConf-CRITICAL problem etc. while upgrading Lenny

2008-11-12 Thread lee
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:14:18 + Nick Syrotiuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My system is very badly messed up: > - tty 1-6 broken; i.e., cannot login > - gnome broken: application windows crash; "clearlooks" theme has > vanished; fonts messed up > - apt and aptitude were both stuck after the up

Re: postfix can't send and receive mails (SOLVED)

2008-11-12 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi lee, > On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:57:54 +0800 (CST) > Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > # grep relayhost /etc/postfix/main.cf > > relayhost = > > Ok, I guess that would mean that there are no hosts specified for > which > xen05 is allowed to relay mail. > > > comment out that lin

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-12 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/11/12 Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:29:10AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: >> In addition to all the advice you have so far received, I would suggest >> you to try damnsmalllinux. It is a live cd based on debian. > > A live CD wastes memory for usage as a ramdisk.

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