Re: why the hell do I get this gij crap when I do apt-get build essential?

On 2009-07-13 04:43 +0200, Patrick Pippen wrote: > debian:/home/bitweiler# apt-get install build-essential ncurses-dev gawk > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > build-essential is already the newest version. > Note, selecting libncurses5-

Re: Debian AMD64 and Intel CPUs

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, T o n g wrote: > Can someone tell me what kind of Intel CPUs have that EM64T? Any easy > rule of thumb? E.g., can I safely assume all those Intel 64 Duecore are One needs to be careful with Intel nomenclature. Some CoreDuos are 32 bit only, but most if not all cor

why the hell do I get this gij crap when I do apt-get build essential?

debian:/home/bitweiler# apt-get install build-essential ncurses-dev gawk Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done build-essential is already the newest version. Note, selecting libncurses5-dev instead of ncurses-dev libncurses5-dev is already the newe

Re: Debian AMD64 and Intel CPUs

T o n g wrote: Hi, I've recently realized that Debian AMD64 is not only suitable for my AMD64 but some Intel CPUs as well. http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ says all Intel CPUs with EM64T extension are supported. Can someone tell me what kind of Intel CPUs have that EM64T? Any easy rule

Re: grub won't but XP

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:42 AM, thveillon.debian < thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Bernard Fay wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Masood > > wrote: > > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Steve Reilly > > mailto:sfrei...@roadrunner

Re: sudo warning

On Sunday July 12 2009 2:34:24 pm T o n g wrote: > Hmm... I didn't find it... > > $ man sudoers | grep /var/run > > $ man sudo | grep /var/run > > Where did you find it? There should be a "sudo" directory in /var/run. In any case, it seems like adding "lecture never" to /etc/sudoers would fix t

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 16:24 -0700, SteveM wrote: > Fellow Debians, > > I have seven systems scattered around the house. I thought a NFS and a > shared /home would solve my file sharing problems but it doesn't help > with desktop app configs. > > What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Experience,

Re: Debian AMD64 and Intel CPUs

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:24:18PM +, T o n g wrote: > Can someone tell me what kind of Intel CPUs have that EM64T? Any easy > rule of thumb? E.g., can I safely assume all those Intel 64 Duecore are > able to run Debian AMD64? You should be able to find specifications of particular CPUs on

Debian AMD64 and Intel CPUs

Hi, I've recently realized that Debian AMD64 is not only suitable for my AMD64 but some Intel CPUs as well. http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ says all Intel CPUs with EM64T extension are supported. Can someone tell me what kind of Intel CPUs have that EM64T? Any easy rule of thumb? E.g., c

[Solved] The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:59:04 +, T o n g wrote: >>> . . . I have to do 'modprobe powernow-k8' and change the cpufreq >>> governor from performance to ondemand each time after I reboot. . . The simple solution is to install 'cpufrequtils', then *reboot* (cpufrequtils enables CPUFreq at boot ti

Re: Identifying the origin of packages [SOLVED]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Owens wrote: > You can install apt-show-versions and then run: > > apt-show-versions -i (honestly, I can't remember if this step is required > or not) > apt-show-versions | grep unstable Brilliant, I haven't used apt-show-versions for years and

Re: sudo warning

On 2009-07-12 22:34 +0200, T o n g wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:43:18 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > >> The manpage mentions that timestamp files are stored in /var/run/sudo, > > Hmm... I didn't find it... > > $ man sudoers | grep /var/run > > $ man sudo | grep /var/run It seems that the manp

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:39:54 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> . . . I have to do 'modprobe powernow-k8' and change the cpufreq >> governor from performance to ondemand each time after I reboot. . . >> > . . . my preferred package is 'powernowd'. . . IT > seems to do a good job of managing the dema

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:24:03 -0700 SteveM wrote: > Fellow Debians, > > I have seven systems scattered around the house. I thought a NFS and > a shared /home would solve my file sharing problems but it doesn't > help with desktop app configs. > > What I'd like is a Universal Desktop Experience,

Re: Identifying the origin of packages

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 05:44:57PM +0100, Tim Beauregard wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I want to remove > > deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian unstable main contrib > non-free restricted > > from my sources.list, however I want to be sure that source isn't

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 10:25:40AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 07:38 +, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:14:31PM -0600, lee wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > simple question: > > > > > > How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as > > >

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 12:34:54PM -0700, SteveM wrote: > On Saturday 11 July 2009, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > I see this come up on the LTSP list every once in a while where a > > school wants to have everybody in the lab log in as "student". The > > consensus on that list is that it isn't worth th

Re: sudo warning

On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:43:18 -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: > The manpage mentions that timestamp files are stored in /var/run/sudo, Hmm... I didn't find it... $ man sudoers | grep /var/run $ man sudo | grep /var/run Where did you find it? -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.

Re: No audio after recent upgrade

On Friday 10 July 2009, Kent West wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu,09.Jul.09, 14:31:13, Kent West wrote: > >> It's a third machine of mine, so I haven't worried about it; I've got > >> other things to worry about. But thought I'd mention it, just for the > >> record. > > > > This might be

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

T o n g wrote: > I took a look at it, but still don't know how not to 'modprobe powernow- > k8' manually. > > Any specific hints? > /etc/modules Just add the module name there. -- micro: Thinker toys. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:11:14 -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: >> You need to edit /etc/default/cpufrequtils and read the comments. I don't have such file as /etc/default/cpufrequtils*, so nowhere to read the comments from. > Actually /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils I took a look at it, but still don'

Re: connecting grub's uuids

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Paul Scott wrote: > Debian sid. > > Through some update grub is now using uuid's.  What else do I change so grub > will boot automatically?  fstab? > > Or where is this change documentated?  I haven't found the right Google > keywords yet. > This article on buildi

Re: dnsdomainname: Unknown host

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Zoet schrieb: > Hell to all, > > I have a simple problem: a newly installed Lenny system does not has a > DNS domainname: > > xenhost01:/etc# dnsdomainname > dnsdomainname: Unknown host > > xenhost01:~# hostname > xenhost01 > > My /etc/hosts: >

dnsdomainname: Unknown host

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hell to all, I have a simple problem: a newly installed Lenny system does not has a DNS domainname: xenhost01:/etc# dnsdomainname dnsdomainname: Unknown host xenhost01:~# hostname xenhost01 My /etc/hosts: ### Hetzner Online AG installimage # names

Re: Is a Universal Desktop Experience possible?

On Saturday 11 July 2009, Rob Owens wrote: > > > > Suggesting another DE is sort like suggesting I speak another > > language. I've got 5+ years invested in understanding the crap pile > > that is KDE. Better the devil I know. > > Well I wasn't really suggesting you switch, just explaining why I ca

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

AG wrote: Hi List Can anyone recommend any good* audio CD player please? * this is of course subjective. For me, this constitutes the following: + good playback + gui + displays cover art of album + looks up artist/ titles, etc on CDDB + works fine on SATA DVD/CD-RW drives I a

Re: Recommended Audio CD player?

On Sunday 12 July 2009 10:09:50 pm AG wrote: > Hi List > > Can anyone recommend any good* audio CD player please? > > * this is of course subjective. For me, this constitutes the following: > + good playback > + gui > + displays cover art of album > + looks up artist/ titles, etc o

Re: Identifying the origin of packages

On 2009-07-12 17:44 (+0100), Tim Beauregard wrote: > I want to remove > > deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > restricted > > from my sources.list, however I want to be sure that source isn't > currently providing any packages on my system. Is there a comma

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Wackojacko wrote: > You need to edit /etc/default/cpufrequtils and read the comments. Actually /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils The locatation of this file appears to be changed from an earlier version. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Recommended Audio CD player?

Hi List Can anyone recommend any good* audio CD player please? * this is of course subjective. For me, this constitutes the following: + good playback + gui + displays cover art of album + looks up artist/ titles, etc on CDDB + works fine on SATA DVD/CD-RW drives I am currently

Identifying the origin of packages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I want to remove deb http://ftp.debian-unofficial.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free restricted from my sources.list, however I want to be sure that source isn't currently providing any packages on my system. Is there a command that can list

Re: The Debian way for ondemand cpufreq governor

T o n g wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 08:21:38 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: What's the Debian way to enable ondemand cpufreq governor by default (installing as minimum packages as possible)? look at this package cpufrequtils and then look in here /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils If I don't 'modprobe powern

Re: Simple phpform outgoing mail (exim newbie)?

Hi, I have no expert on exim vhost. On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 02:24:25PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: ... > Can the exim vhosts be used for outgoing as well? If so, what should > the "exim domain" be anyway? If you wish to have funky vhost system, you do not rely on dpkg-reconfigure only. The dom

Re: grub won't but XP

Bernard Fay wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Masood > wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Steve Reilly > mailto:sfrei...@roadrunner.com>> wrote: > > Bernard Fay wrote: > > > title Windows XP > > rootnov

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

>> KDE gives users three options to compress folders: tar, zip, and >> rar.  What are the advantages or disadvantages of each? How do I >> know which one to use? > > http://linuxgazette.net/162/lindholm.html > Thanks! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il -- To UNSUBS

java-gcj installation bug

Setting up java-gcj-compat-headless (1.0.80-5.1) ... update-alternatives: error: alternative rmiregistry can't be master: it is a slave of java dpkg: error processing java-gcj-compat-headless (--

Re: grub won't but XP

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 1:01 AM, Masood wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Steve Reilly wrote: > >> Bernard Fay wrote: >> >> > title Windows XP >> > rootnoverify(hd2,0) >> > chainloader +1 >> > makeactive >> >> >> if im not mistaken the rootnoverify line should be (hd0.1)

Re: Simple phpform outgoing mail (exim newbie)?

As a partial answer to self: "If your host name is not configured in the world wide DNS, you need to set the "System mail name" to an existing domain name, or your messages will be rejected by most systes on the Internet due to sender verification." from [1] I was expecting this, guess i'll have

Simple phpform outgoing mail (exim newbie)?

Greetings. I have a few virtual hosts (websites), most have domains, others not yet. I don't need a full-fledged M?A, the very few hosts that actually need mail i handle through googleApps. What i do need is for some sites to send php form-data by mail. So it's just to send occasional mail. I've

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: KDE gives users three options to compress folders: tar, zip, and rar. What are the advantages or disadvantages of each? How do I know which one to use? http://linuxgazette.net/162/lindholm.html -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/giris

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

> This is an interesting point.  I see several redundancy tools like par2, > dvdisaster, ras, ... > >  http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html#_data_redundancy > > (par2 seems to support similar feature claimed by rar and has many GUI > tools.) > It seems that those tools a

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 07:38 +, Joel Roth wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:14:31PM -0600, lee wrote: > > Hi, > > > > simple question: > > > > How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as > > possible? > [snip] > > I only want that game I'm playing to run faster. > 0. I

Re: KDE compression options: tar, zip, or rar

Hi, On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 09:48:00AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Thank you Osamu but I stress that compression / decompression time is > >> not important for this application. That is why I asked on the list > >> what the other advantages and disadvantages of the different formats > >> are. >

Re: How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as possible?

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:14:31PM -0600, lee wrote: > Hi, > > simple question: > > How do I provide a particular process with as much CPU time as > possible? [snip] > I only want that game I'm playing to run faster. 1. Start the program using 'nice': nice -20 command 2. Don't run othe

Re: All things KDE loading slowly.........solved....

On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:25:55 +1000 Charlie shared this with us all: > >Hello Everyone, > >Since the last upgrade of Debian Squeeze - all things KDE: Kedit - >Kommander - KPDF etc., are taking ages to load? > >Was wondering if this can be fixed on my system? > >TIA >Charlie Apologies for replying

Re: Debian+LVM+RAID

also sprach lee [2009.07.12.0057 +0200]: > Well, I gave the RAID a name, but that name got lost ... and it still > has p designation, with kernel 2.6.30. If you're asking a question, you should include all relevant details. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Deb