Re: Questions regarding hardware for a Free Software (especially Debian)

2009-12-15 Thread John Allen
On 13/12/09 21:37, Rogério Brito wrote: Hi, All. I would like to purchase a new system to replace my current Desktop. Unfortunately, it seems that getting some new hardware is not as easy, due to a multitude of unavailable drivers for Free Operating systems or differences regarding the role of

Re: mkdosfs hangs while scanning for bad blocks

2009-11-11 Thread John Allen
whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:46 +, "John Allen" wrote: whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Anybody know what's going on or can help debug this at least? Running squeeze I am having trouble reformatting a * 64MB memory stick and a

Re: mkdosfs hangs while scanning for bad blocks

2009-11-08 Thread John Allen
whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: Anybody know what's going on or can help debug this at least? Running squeeze I am having trouble reformatting a * 64MB memory stick and a * 160GB 2.5" HD in a USB linked external enclosure using "mkdosfs -c /dev/sd{ag}1". I can report the sam

Re: Reading from a .tgz takes a long long time

2009-11-04 Thread John Allen
Merciadri Luca wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello folks, I use tar to make (not necessarily incremental) backups of my /etc/*, /home/*, and other important folders. I am encountering a problem: reading a file in a .tgz takes a really long time. I use the Archive Manager

Re: hi, all, help me with debian installation!!

2009-06-29 Thread John Allen
Yi Zhao wrote: hi, all: I have a disk which install windows(30G) and debian(30G), but sometimes ago, my debian is broken, so I want to resintall it on the exists partitions(I don't want to create other new partitions), but, when I run the installation program, I can't find the operation to fi

Re: working with svn copy on two machines

2008-11-02 Thread John Allen
H.S. wrote: Hello, I am working on a project which I have hosted as a repository on our university's network. The repository is in my home directory. Now, I either work in my lab at the univ. or from home. Till now I have been using my univ. computer only for svn commands (update, commit, etc.)

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-13 Thread John Allen
David wrote: Hi list. I already checked this problem with Google and with my LUG, and would like to ask on this mailing list before I fire off a bunch of feature requests in the Debian BTS. = FROM MAIL TO MY LUG = I've tried Googling for this but haven't found much info, so asking here

Re: Simple awk question

2008-05-30 Thread John Allen
Alfredo Finelli wrote: On Thursday 29 May 2008 19:44, kj wrote: [...] I'm trying to make three columns out of a postfix mail log. Queue ID, From address, and remote server response for certain situations (it's already grepped down to that). awk '{print $7" "$6" "$17}' $17 is the fir

Re: Simple awk question

2008-05-29 Thread John Allen
kj wrote: But I cannot find it in my awk book (O'Reilly's sed&awk). I'm trying to make three columns out of a postfix mail log. Queue ID, From address, and remote server response for certain situations (it's already grepped down to that). awk '{print $7" "$6" "$17}' $17 is the first word

Re: Icedove time categories

2008-05-16 Thread John Allen
dn't find it. Anyone knows how? Regards, Jan View->Sort By->Group By -- John Allen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CodeMountainhttp://www.codemountain.net Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-16-generic up 10 days, 3:01, 20 users, load average: 0.78,

Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

2008-05-16 Thread John Allen
om Sid seems to result in a less stable system... I concur. Had Ubuntu on a server for a friend of mine, and it was the most unstable server I manage. Have since switched to Etch, and I don't have to do a thing for him. -- John Allen mailto:[EMAIL PRO

Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

2008-05-15 Thread John Allen
ould I do? stop the login manager login at the console # X& # export DISPLAY=:0.0 # xterm now switch to the X display (Alt+F8 probably) move cursor to the xterm, and # /usr/bin/startxfce4 now see what happens. If X crashes, the XFCE is crashing X, if not you should see some nice XFCE pr