Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/05/14 05:01 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: Sent to list, where it ought to have gone in the first place. Sorry, Gary. On Thursday 15 May 2014 20:59:22 Gary Dale wrote: If only one browser supports DRM, I'll think twice before doing it. And having though twice you'll go ahead and use it. BBC

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/05/14 12:51 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/05/14 14:27, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/05/14 11:23 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/05/14 13:09, Gary Dale wrote: The FSF has just let everyone know that Mozilla and Adobe have signed a deal to support DRM in Firefox. So did Mozilla - in fact

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/05/14 04:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 15 mai 14, 00:27:08, Gary Dale wrote: I disagree. Browser support for DRM makes it easier for people to provide content that uses DRM. After all, if every browser supports it, why not use it? Debian is based on freedom. Iceweasel exists

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/05/14 01:33 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 16/05/14 02:13, Gary Dale wrote: On 15/05/14 12:51 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/05/14 14:27, Gary Dale wrote: On 14/05/14 11:23 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/05/14 13:09, Gary Dale wrote: The FSF has just let everyone know that Mozilla

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/05/14 01:33 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/15/2014 12:16 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 15/05/14 04:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 15 mai 14, 00:27:08, Gary Dale wrote: I disagree. Browser support for DRM makes it easier for people to provide content that uses DRM. After all, if every

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/05/14 01:51 PM, Eelis wrote: I read[1] that Firefox will start shipping parts for which they won't provide the source code (something to do with DRM..). Can I trust that Iceweasel will remain open source, or will I have to switch to Lynx if I want to use an open source browser? :)

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/05/14 02:31 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/15/2014 1:53 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 15/05/14 01:33 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 5/15/2014 12:16 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 15/05/14 04:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 15 mai 14, 00:27:08, Gary Dale wrote: I disagree. Browser support for DRM

Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-14 Thread Gary Dale
The FSF has just let everyone know that Mozilla and Adobe have signed a deal to support DRM in Firefox. I trust that it will be removed in Iceweasel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/05/14 11:23 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 15/05/14 13:09, Gary Dale wrote: The FSF has just let everyone know that Mozilla and Adobe have signed a deal to support DRM in Firefox. So did Mozilla - in fact they've been letting everyone know for the last year. Hardly a secret. I trust

Re: `ls` shows file, `bash` says No such file ???

2014-05-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/05/14 10:25 PM, Tom Roche wrote: For background on my problem (and why I very much need to solve it), see http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190t=166506p=855700#p855700 But the essence of the problem appears to be me@it ~ $ /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin bash:

Re: SMART data, should I change my HDD?

2014-04-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/04/14 07:20 PM, KS wrote: On 28/04/14 06:58 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 4/28/2014 5:43 PM, KS wrote: This drive is fine. 42C is quite warm for a drive but within acceptable range for the Caviar Black series. Max sustained operating temp is IIRC 65C, with a max short term peak temp of

Re: UEFI install

2014-04-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/04/14 12:33 AM, Corey Blair wrote: I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off a USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just wipe and use strictly Debian. I get all the way to the point of installing GRUB and it fails. I've read that

programs become unresponsive intermittently

2014-04-17 Thread Gary Dale
I believe this is likely a network issue but I'm having difficulty tracking it down. I had a very similar problem a while back that seemed to be from having too many NFS shares. I'd reduced the number to 4 and it cleared up. I had another similar problem later that I tracked down to a failing

Re: AMD Graphics and Gnome on testing (Jessie)

2014-04-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/04/14 02:20 PM, Bruno Schneider wrote: I'm having trouble with the fglrx module on a notebook with Debian testing (Jessie). It was working well, then after a system upgrade on April 10, Gnome no longer works. The upgrade included gnome, linux-kernel, xorg and fglrx. By no long works, I

Re: AMD Graphics on Debian 7.4

2014-04-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/04/14 11:04 PM, ray wrote: The netinstall did not recognize the HD 7770 card. The AMD Catalyst notes page states the supported distros to be: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Suite 6.3 and 6.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 SP3 OpenSUSE 11.4 and 12.1 Ubuntu 12.04.2 and 13.04 So I looked for what needs

Re: Running amd64 but 8GB memory shows as 3349972 kB

2014-04-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/04/14 08:20 PM, Martin Braun wrote: I am running Debian testing and 'uname -a' shows: 3.13-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.13.7-1 (2014-03-25) x86_64 GNU/Linux And 'dpkg --print-architecture' shows: amd64 I have 4X2GB of ram installed and BIOS confirms this at 8192. However, Linux sees

Re: Software RAID10 - which two disks can fail?

2014-04-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/04/14 08:54 AM, Valerio Vanni wrote: Gary Dale garyd...@velcom.ca ha scritto nel messaggio news:53437300.8020...@velcom.ca IMHO this is a bad setup. Because you are reading and writing to multiple disks at at time, you may have some speed-up, but you only get half the total space

Re: Software RAID10 - which two disks can fail?

2014-04-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/04/14 03:48 PM, Rafał Radecki wrote: Hi All. I have a server which uses RAID10 made of 4 partitions for / and boots from it. It looks like so: mdadm -D /dev/md1 /dev/md1: Version : 00.90 Creation Time : Mon Apr 27 09:25:05 2009 Raid Level : raid10 Array Size : 973827968 (928.71 GiB

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 16/03/14 05:54 PM, Mr Queue wrote: Anyone doing anything interesting to backup data to DVD's? https://packages.debian.org/sid/dkopp ^^ Looks interesting and overall it's a pretty simple task. Suppose I could even use tar and split but just curious what others may be doing currently. FWIW,

[solved] Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 02/03/14 12:31 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 01/03/14 06:26 PM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:11:42PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: BTW: there is something more than just KDE since I didn't get a slowdown when I tried it with a new user without having the raid array /home

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/02/14 04:15 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 27 feb 14, 18:54:22, Gary Dale wrote: I have a system with an FX6100 processor, 16G of DDR3 RAM, a 128G SSD for / and a 5-drive RAID-5 array (for /home) with lots of free space. [snip system slowdowns] Is that soft RAID? Try booting without

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/03/14 11:30 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 28/02/14 04:15 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 27 feb 14, 18:54:22, Gary Dale wrote: I have a system with an FX6100 processor, 16G of DDR3 RAM, a 128G SSD for / and a 5-drive RAID-5 array (for /home) with lots of free space. [snip system slowdowns

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/03/14 12:36 PM, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:11:35 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 01/03/14 11:30 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I shut down iceweasel and things seemed noticeably faster. I was still getting the solid disk light intermittently

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/03/14 12:36 PM, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:11:35 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 01/03/14 11:30 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I shut down iceweasel and things seemed noticeably faster. I was still getting the solid disk light intermittently

Re: Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-03-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 01/03/14 06:26 PM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:11:42PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: BTW: there is something more than just KDE since I didn't get a slowdown when I tried it with a new user without having the raid array /home. The differences besides the raid array are: - new user

Jessie almost freezes every several minutes

2014-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
I have a system with an FX6100 processor, 16G of DDR3 RAM, a 128G SSD for / and a 5-drive RAID-5 array (for /home) with lots of free space. I have 2x8G swap files that are barely used (currently 34M in each) on the SSD (I used to have them on the RAID array but got the same problem). Every

[SOLVED] Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/02/14 12:54 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: On 12/02/2014 11:26, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/02/14 07:40 AM, Roberto Scattini wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net mailto:garyd...@torfree.net wrote: Sorry everyone, but the memory sticks all work fine. Memtest

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/02/14 07:40 AM, Roberto Scattini wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net mailto:garyd...@torfree.net wrote: Sorry everyone, but the memory sticks all work fine. Memtest+ shows 8G working when I run it against the 2x4G and the 1x8G. My system

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: [...] Your suggestion that it is the 8G + 1x4G which is being recognized Not quite what I was trying to suggest

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/02/14 12:09 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 02/11/2014 06:45 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/11/2014 08:46 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/02/14 03:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Gary Dale garyd

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: I'm

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/02/14 10:00 PM, Joel Rees wrote: On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: [...] Have you run memtest yet? Yes. After the other comments, I gave it a try. It also only sees 12G. I find this confusing

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/02/14 11:40 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/10/2014 4:28 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 03:48 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/10/2014 2:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 10/02/14 11:24 AM, Dave Woyciesjes wrote: On 02/09/2014 10:14 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 2/9/2014 8:27 AM, Gary Dale wrote

Re: more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/02/14 06:50 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 2/9/2014 3:32 AM, Efraim Flashner wrote: On Sat, 08 Feb 2014 10:20:49 -0500 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but some

more than 12G of RAM

2014-02-08 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Jessie on an AMD64 Gigabyte 970A-D3P board with an FX6100 processor. I had 2x4G DDR3 sticks in it but some of the programs I use were causing excessive thrashing. I added a 1x8G DDR3 stick (got a good price on it, much cheaper than adding 2x4G) which resolved the thrashing problem.

Re: realtek r8189 driver problem on 64 bit kernel

2013-10-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/10/13 11:03 AM, Wackojacko wrote: On 12/10/13 15:32, Gary Dale wrote: I had a similar problem but fixed it by enabling IOEMU in the BIOS of my Gigabyte 970A-D3P. I assume you mean IOMMU, I had already enabled this a few minutes before you suggested it but it didn't appear to work

Re: realtek r8189 driver problem on 64 bit kernel

2013-10-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/10/13 10:25 AM, Wackojacko wrote: I have recently updated my motherboard which has resulted in me having an updated realtek r8168 chip (rev 6 instead of rev 3), unfortunately the new chip fails to get a connection via dhcp, and setting a static address results in 100% packet loss. I am

Re: VLC freezes system

2013-10-03 Thread Gary Dale
On 03/10/13 03:50 AM, Anubhav wrote: But the freeze happens only when I use vlc, to be more specific it happens when I click on a video file, after watching two-three videos But have you tested your memory? Have you looked at the log files? Note also that Memtest doesn't always show all

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/08/13 01:50 AM, Phi Debian wrote: Hi All, I use debian and gnome since well the begining... I have it on many nodes, but specially on some server, where many guests run. I was on squeeze sine the begining of squeeze, and decided to try wheezy. All the upgrade went smooth, and all worked

Re: Migrating 32-64

2013-08-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/08/13 10:28 AM, Doug wrote: On 08/11/2013 09:12 AM, David Baron wrote: Results like not worth the effort, though it can be done now as a crossgrade much more easily. I had tried the dbootstrap method. Almost got there but ... had to restore. The main question is whether 32 bit packages

[SOLVED] Re: replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

2013-08-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/08/13 05:39 AM, Gary Dale wrote: The various ide modules (ide-generic, ide-cdrom, etc.) seem to be missing in the Wheezy kernel. However they still compile a 486 kernel so I'm assuming there is some intent to continue to support older hardware. In my case, I have an old laptop that I

Re: Partitions

2013-08-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/08/13 09:58 AM, Klaus Jantzen wrote: Hello, by some magic the partitions on a HDD receive a block-id or UUID (for fstab). Does the ID of a partition change when the partition is moved or when a new partition is created in the unallocated space between two partitions? Thanks for any

replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

2013-08-08 Thread Gary Dale
The various ide modules (ide-generic, ide-cdrom, etc.) seem to be missing in the Wheezy kernel. However they still compile a 486 kernel so I'm assuming there is some intent to continue to support older hardware. In my case, I have an old laptop that I could run Squeeze on by including

Re: replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

2013-08-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/08/13 06:28 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Gary, On 08/08/13 11:39, Gary Dale wrote: The various ide modules (ide-generic, ide-cdrom, etc.) seem to be missing in the Wheezy kernel. However they still compile a 486 kernel so I'm assuming there is some intent to continue to support older

Re: replacement for ide-generic in Wheezy?

2013-08-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/08/13 12:20 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 12:06:23PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 08/08/13 06:28 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello Gary, On 08/08/13 11:39, Gary Dale wrote: The various ide modules (ide-generic, ide-cdrom, etc.) seem to be missing in the Wheezy kernel

Re: Upgrade a Single Package

2013-08-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/08/13 12:50 PM, Fred White wrote: Is it save to upgrade a package from sid? I would like to upgrade my opendkim from 2.6.8 to 2.8.2 Also, if I do aptitude update and then aptitude -t sid install opendkim should any other areas get up dated to accommodate the opendkim upgrade. I ask

Re: Hardware support

2013-07-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/07/13 12:31 PM, sean Griffiths wrote: Hello and Good Day, Please can you tell me if Debian squeeze 64 bit accepts more than 4GB ram, ie 8GB? I have a Dell Latitude D6200 and am in the process of upgrading to a D6300 which will accept 8GB maximum RAM and Dell actually sell these 8gb Memory

Re: any utility to change ip

2013-07-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/07/13 12:26 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: is there any utility to change IP via command line, actually i am looking for a utility same as the one which we using during installation of debian. it actually find and display all the brand names of Ethernet controllers and Ethernet port

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/07/13 01:53 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 09:06 +1000, Charlie wrote: I think it's a lot about where you store them that affects their lifespan? Correct but even some that were in the sunlight for around 10 years here still are ok, OTOH some that were protected are

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-13 Thread Gary Dale
On 13/07/13 04:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-07-13 at 04:04 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: However it's a lot easier to make multiple copies of a disc than it is to make multiple copies of a tape or hard disk drive. Duplicating by e.g. cp -pr hard_disk_1 hard_disk_2 IMO is easier

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/07/13 12:03 AM, David Guntner wrote: Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Bacula. It backs up whatever you want it to however you want it to. It's not as simple as some, but if you want a comprehensive backup solution, it's hard to beat. Bacula has some pretty good job definitions

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/07/13 12:27 AM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - Thanks for your suggestions. I followed them, and it solved some errors, but some remain... root@meow:/etc/apt# apt-get update snip Get:4 http://repo.mate-desktop.org wheezy Release.gpg [836 B] Hit http://repo.mate-desktop.org

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/07/13 09:43 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 14:26 +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: Am 12.07.2013 um 11:50 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: OT: DVDs aren't safe medias for backups. Hmm ... How safe is safe for backup? At home I rsync to an external SATA disk with 1 TB. And for

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/07/13 06:11 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 11:59 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 00:27 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.deban.org_debian_dists_wheezy-updates_contrib_i18n_Translation-en ^^ Somebody

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/07/13 12:18 PM, David Guntner wrote: Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote: You'd only need one new drive, and that's just because your two current drives are apparently of different sizes. However, you can also create a RAID 1 array using the smaller drive and part of the larger one

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/07/13 12:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 11:34 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: On 12/07/13 09:43 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 14:26 +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: Am 12.07.2013 um 11:50 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: OT: DVDs aren't safe medias for backups. Hmm

Re: *Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/07/13 12:29 PM, Rob Owens wrote: - Original Message - From: Intense Redintns...@golgotha.net Okay, here's a different backup software question. The scenario: Call me weird, but I buy plastic CDs and refuse to buy electronic music. I tediously rip my CDs to Ogg files and

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/07/13 01:09 PM, David Guntner wrote: Gary Dale grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On 12/07/13 12:18 PM, David Guntner wrote: My particular issue is that while I have a second drive for backups already installed in the Windows machine, I don't for the Linux machine. So when I'm ready to start

Re: Installing Mate

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/13 06:17 PM, Ethan Rosenberg, PhD wrote: Dear List - With the new Gnome desktop, I am up against a brick wall. For some reason I cannot get apt-get to work. I have also tried the irc channel, with no results. I have read the Wiki, followed it with no luck. This is the output from

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/13 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote: I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my system to a second hard drive in the computer, and will do a weekly full backup and daily incremental backups,

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/13 11:29 PM, Glenn English wrote: On Jul 11, 2013, at 9:10 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/13 08:42 PM, David Guntner wrote: I've been religiously backing up my Windows machine for years with a program called Acronis True Image. It works well, lets me backup my system to a second

Re: what happened to the task bar??

2013-06-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/06/13 01:49 PM, To Ro wrote: From my own limited experience with Gnome 3, I don't see what the big fuss is about. I thought it generally operated pretty much like Gnome 2 except it was missing some pieces that will probably show up eventually, as they did when KDE went

Re: Switching to 64 bit

2013-06-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/06/13 07:00 PM, Doug wrote: On 06/29/2013 06:38 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 06/29/2013 02:05 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 6/28/2013 2:49 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: For now I will run regular 32-bit Sid..realizing I am wasting the opportunity to utilize more memory and perhaps faster

Re: Switching to 64 bit

2013-06-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/06/13 01:30 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running 32 bit Sid and am thinking about a new computer which has a 64 bit Intel CPU. How much of a hassle will it be switching my installation over ? I know there are some problems with Flash but what

Re: what happened to the task bar??

2013-06-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/06/13 01:06 PM, Jeff Shearer wrote: I am trying to move to the KDE desktop. Seemed like the install went ok. KDM launches fine but not KDE. So far no one has responded to my pleas for help to get KDE up and running. Hijacking a thread and top-posting! How did you install KDE? There are

Re: what happened to the task bar??

2013-06-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/06/13 01:22 PM, Jeff Shearer wrote: Yeah, I tired to switch to KDE but as I have said, when I reboot I get KDM but then up comes gnome rather than KDE. You need to select KDE before logging in. Normally KDM, GDM, and the like give you the last desktop you used. You need to choose a

Re: what happened to the task bar??

2013-06-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/06/13 01:35 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 19:02 +0200, Erwan David wrote: I will not do another upgrade. New install of a new dist for me. Upstream a long time ago does switch from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3. Many users were annoyed, but upstream wasn't interested. Not only that

Re: Switching to 64 bit

2013-06-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/06/13 03:49 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 06/27/2013 10:56 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 6/27/2013 7:11 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running 32 bit Sid and am thinking about a new computer which has a 64 bit Intel CPU. How much of a hassle will it be switching my installation over ? I

Re: Switching to 64 bit

2013-06-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/06/13 10:56 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote: On 6/27/2013 7:11 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running 32 bit Sid and am thinking about a new computer which has a 64 bit Intel CPU. How much of a hassle will it be switching my installation over ? I know there are some problems with Flash but what

Re: Graphic card advice

2013-06-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/06/13 11:21 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 06/25/13 00:12, a...@alphanet.ch wrote: 1. Your budget. = ~$150 2. What applications you plan to run. Some office applications, no games, max HD video. I actually have problems with fast forward (up to a frozen picture...) 3. How many

Re: Graphic card advice

2013-06-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/06/13 03:23 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:37 AM,a...@alphanet.ch wrote: Hi, I am a debian user and I am looking to buy a new computer (I will build it). I simply wonder if it is better to take a graphic card with an ATI or a NVIDIA chipset. Can someone please give me

Re: Graphic card advice

2013-06-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/06/13 03:54 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-06-24 at 12:23 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: If you do need more power, I personally would go with AMD a generation back (OSS drivers). I am not willing to use closed drivers, both for ideology and for the hassle the create with kernel

Re: cannot print

2013-06-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/06/13 05:49 AM, Jeff Shearer wrote: Good morning, I just installed Debian 7 and I cannot print. All other computers in the house can pring and my Debian 6 box worked fine, until I upgraded. I don't know much about trouble shooting the matter but here is one thing I tried:

Re: Unidentified subject!

2013-06-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/06/13 04:38 PM, Lagun Adeshina wrote: Hi Guys, I need your help. 1. I set out to install Debian from Windows 7 2. I downloaded the win 32 Debian Installer and went through the procedures 3. On reaching the partitioning option I got a little confused I had used the RAID5 Partition then

Re: Unidentified subject!

2013-06-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/06/13 08:32 PM, Lagun Adeshina wrote: *From:* Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com *To:* debian-user@lists.debian.org *Cc:* debian-user@lists.debian.org *Sent:* Saturday, 22 June 2013, 21:47 *Subject:* Re: Unidentified subject! On 22/06/13 04:38 PM, Lagun Adeshina wrote: Hi Guys, I

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 18/06/13 10:35 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 06/18/2013 05:03 PM, Dirk wrote: you are clearly talking out of your ass... a boot loader doesn't need features other than loading the kernel... what crucial work do you do with the features of grub? spreadsheets? presentations? project managing? or

Re: Lenovo T430 Video Graphics - second screen -

2013-06-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/06/13 07:34 PM, Pietro Paolini wrote: Hello all, I bought a Lenovo laptop T430 wich work perfectely with wheezy if I don't mind about my video card, the second monitor is not detected and I can just see Unknow and got a ridicolus resolution. The video card is 00:02.0 VGA compatible

Re: Ctrl-alt-del to restart window manager with xfce in wheezy?

2013-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/13 02:28 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013 schrieb Brian: On Wed 12 Jun 2013 at 01:46:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jun 09, 2013 at 07:27:35PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: I've got xfce window manager installed on pretty-much as it comes

Re: Cut an paste from icedove email messages

2013-06-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/06/13 03:39 PM, Gary Roach wrote: ver get to the point that I can use the clipboard. There doesn't seem to be any way to mark a section of text. Without that there is no way to copy. Gary You should always be able to mark a section of text. Sounds like something is messed up in your

Re: Cut an paste from icedove email messages

2013-06-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/06/13 03:39 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 06/08/2013 12:50 AM, Kailash wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 02:17:23PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I keep having the situation where I want to cut and paste a section from an email to another document. Is there any way to cut and paste from iceweasel to

Re: 2013 -- KDE or GNOME?

2013-06-09 Thread Gary Dale
From: Evuraan evur...@gmail.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 2:47:10 PM Subject: 2013 -- KDE or GNOME? I've been on Gnome for years. (vdpau, GT430, 1080p - the typical nvidia setup) Looking at http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/i386/bt-hybrid/,

Re: 2013 -- KDE or GNOME?

2013-06-09 Thread Gary Dale
From: Paul Lane kc9...@gmail.com To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2013 9:18:36 PM Subject: Re: 2013 -- KDE or GNOME? On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Evuraan evur...@gmail.com Subject: 2013 -- KDE or GNOME? To:

Re: how can I set the from address in mutt?

2013-05-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/05/13 01:15 AM, Paul Condon wrote: On 05/27/2013 07:20 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I want to send e-mail with an attachment via a script. The attachment requirement prevents me from using mail but mutt can handle it. Normally when I send using mail, I can simply use the -r option to set

Re: how can I set the from address in mutt?

2013-05-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/05/13 11:51 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 28/05/13 01:15 AM, Paul Condon wrote: On 05/27/2013 07:20 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I want to send e-mail with an attachment via a script. The attachment requirement prevents me from using mail but mutt can handle it. Normally when I send using mail, I

how can I set the from address in mutt?

2013-05-27 Thread Gary Dale
I want to send e-mail with an attachment via a script. The attachment requirement prevents me from using mail but mutt can handle it. Normally when I send using mail, I can simply use the -r option to set the mail user account specified in /etc/exim4/passwd.client. This is probably clumsy and

Re: how can I set the from address in mutt?

2013-05-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/05/13 09:55 PM, staticsafe wrote: set from =t...@example.com set realname = John Doe Thanks. I tried it but e-mail is still not getting through. Again, if I replace mutt with mail and use -r with the from address I use in set from, mail works. In the queue query below, the it looks

Re: how can I set the from address in mutt?

2013-05-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/05/13 11:38 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 27/05/13 09:55 PM, staticsafe wrote: set from =t...@example.com set realname = John Doe Thanks. I tried it but e-mail is still not getting through. Again, if I replace mutt with mail and use -r with the from address I use in set from, mail works

Re: cheap hw raid or raid software?

2013-05-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/05/13 05:08 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi folks! I've an old pc with Sil3114 hardware raid card. How is reliable this cheap hardware? What is better: use a raid software or a raid hardware with this card? No need speed... only reliable of datas thanks! Pol I think most of us prefer

Re: When is best to go on using Testing from Wheezy

2013-05-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/05/13 11:11 AM, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: Hi, I have been looking forward to the Debian Wheezy Release and, at last, we had it! I am informed that it might be safer to stay in Stable for *a while* after release, since there could be many new softwares going into the Testing branch,

Re: installing from iso on partition to another partition, avoiding all access to usb

2013-05-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 07/05/13 11:11 PM, Dan Hitt wrote: The question has recently come up about how to install debian from an iso file but not burn a disc. So far, there have been a couple of suggestions to burn to a usb stick. Just for reference, this is certainly possible (and on ubuntu, you can make a

Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased

2013-05-05 Thread Gary Dale
If your apt-sources use Wheezy and not Testing, there is no need to do anything different. If they use Testing, I'd advise switching to Stable or Wheezy for a few months until the new Testing becomes stable enough to use reliably. If your current system uses Stable, you might want to switch

Re: Growing md0 by larger disk - which is best method.

2013-04-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/04/13 12:20 AM, R. Ramesh wrote: On 21/04/13 01:11 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: I have a mdadm implemented raid5 with 3 disks (2x 3TiB and 1x 2TiB). Each disk has one partition only for the full size of that disk and the partitions are then combined in to md0. I like to swap

Re: Growing md0 by larger disk - which is best method.

2013-04-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 22/04/13 09:33 AM, R. Ramesh wrote: On 21/04/13 01:11 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: I have a mdadm implemented raid5 with 3 disks (2x 3TiB and 1x 2TiB). Each disk has one partition only for the full size of that disk and the partitions are then combined in to md0. I like to swap

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Gary Dale
I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do the same thing. However, I prefer to stay in the habit of using dist-upgrade (or full-upgrade for

Re: Debian + UEFI + Install w/ USB Key

2013-04-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/04/13 01:50 PM, Fran R. Guerrero wrote: Hi list, I'm building my new system and I'm wishing to install Debian on it. It's reasonably new and the motherboard has this UEFI thing that pisses lots of people around. I'm no exception. I tried to install Debian Wheezy with a USB key, using

Re: Growing md0 by larger disk - which is best method.

2013-04-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/04/13 01:11 PM, R. Ramesh wrote: I have a mdadm implemented raid5 with 3 disks (2x 3TiB and 1x 2TiB). Each disk has one partition only for the full size of that disk and the partitions are then combined in to md0. I like to swap out the 2TiB with a new 3TiB. While I do not expect issue

Re: Booting Wheezy Install on Software Raid 6

2013-04-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/04/13 07:25 AM, deb...@paulscrap.com wrote: Hi Folks, I'm in the process of assembling a storage system, and am running into an issue while testing the setup in a VM. The setup has 6 three terabyte harddrives that I'd like to put in RAID 6 (Eventually more will be added,

Re: root password

2013-04-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 27/03/13 12:44 PM, Robert B McKittrick wrote: my system 6.0.7 does not recognize the root password I gave it when installing. is there any way to reset root without reinstalling? bob Boot from a rescue CD (such as your install CD, or system rescue CD). mkdir /mnt (if it doesn't exist) mount

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

2013-04-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/04/13 10:15 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: i was watch a person's video regarding RAID 6 with mdadm his configuration was very low, some old system probably 2GB RAM, 3x8TB Hard Drives, 4port Ethernet card for channeling. and the guy was giving review of his home server. he says he will

Re: RAID 6 mdadm

2013-04-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 10/04/13 12:05 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 17:57 +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: Am Wednesday 10 April 2013 17:21:35 schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan: exactly, i am using RAID 1 with mdadm and not more then 230 or 300MB throughput. and the people are harnessing 4GB so this is the

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