Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

2009-09-05 Thread John Fry
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com writes: As for speeding up the bootprocess: # aptitude install dash # dpkg-reconfigure dash # let it take over the /bin/sh link That saved me 1s. # aptitude install insserv # dpkg-reconfigure insserv That *cost* me 2s (i.e., 2s longer to boot). #

Re: virtual private server? advice requested

2008-10-15 Thread John Fry
Reid Priedhorsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 5. Cheap, ideally in the $10-15/mo range. Gandi in France (http://www.gandi.net) offers Debian Xen hosting starting at $14/mo. I tried them for a while but the server was S-L-O-W. Slicehost is more expensive but they rock. Cheers, John Fry http

Re: Waveform display

2007-04-10 Thread John Fry
David Liontooth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to display the waveform of files in X11 -- is there a utility for doing this? I looked at extace, but it seems to only work with the esound daemon. I'm looking for a command-line tool. Wavesurfer is more sophisticated than a command-line

Re: Totally lost with Debian unstable/Apache 2.2.3/PHP [45]

2006-10-16 Thread John Fry
Lukas Ruf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: without success I have been trying to get php4 or php5 working with Debian unstable's Apache 2.2.3 server. Hi Lukas, Have you tried looking over the recent bug reports at

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread John Fry
Jan Schledermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal again. In order to get the resolution right though, I had to (re)move /etc/X11/xorg.conf and do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg to get a fresh configuration

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread John Fry
John Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jan Schledermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 16/04/06, 12:30 CET: I just did an uptdate / distupgrade AND everything is back to normal again. In order to get the resolution right though, I had to (re)move /etc/X11/xorg.conf and do a dpkg-reconfigure xserver

xpdf -fullscreen doesn't fill entire screen in Gnome

2006-04-11 Thread John Fry
Hi, After a recent upgrade of Sid I notice that xpdf -fullscreen no longer fills the entire screen like it used to. Instead, it fills my desktop, but my top and bottom Gnome panels stay visible. Acroread and gpdf behave the same way. Any suggestions for how to make my pdf documents fill the

Re: superblock last write time is in the future on boot

2006-01-03 Thread John Fry
Brandon Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After upgrading my system to 'testing', on bootup I am getting the error above after checking root filesystem...; it then forces a reboot and fsck on the next boot. FWIW I found the error went away once I ran 'fsck -y' (more specifically, when I set

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-18 Thread John Fry
Michael Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 12/17/05, [KS] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well the trademark issues reason is understandable as there has been lots (yes lots) of discussion on that topic. So if firefox is available as 1.4.99+1.5rc3, why is it that an apt-get dist-upgrade does

Re: Festival Speakers

2005-11-03 Thread John Fry
Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello there, im looking for additional speakers for the Festival speech synthesizing engine. Im especially interrested in german speakers. Maybe a female american speaker would be nice to try out, too. There's an excellent female american voice called 'as'

solved: Thinkpad T22 freezing

2004-12-05 Thread John Fry
I wrote to the list a couple months ago about my ThinkPad T22 freezing up from time to time. It seeems to be solved now. The solution was to add the line Option ShadowStatus to Screen section of my XF86Config-4; apparently this fixes a bug in the S3 driver that causes freezing during scrolling.

OT: anyone offer web hosting AND nntp server?

2004-11-04 Thread John Fry
Hi, Sorry for the OT post but I didn't know where else to turn. I'm looking for inexpensive web hosting to host my personal web site. I would also like access to an nntp server to read a few newsgroups in the comp and sci hierarchies. Does anyone know of a company that offers both services

Re: Usb mouse frozen randomly [solved]

2004-09-02 Thread John Fry
Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.dyndns.org writes: Hasan linux at degismez.com writes: I was using 2.4.27-1-k7 now upgrade to 2.6.8-1-k7 kernel . And all the things perfect and faster now . If anybody have a problem with usb optical mouse change your kernel to 2.6 . I'm running 2.6.8

2.6.5 kernel locks up T22

2004-05-07 Thread John Fry
Hi, I'm running Sid on a Thinkpad T22 with Herbert Xu's 2.6.5-1-686 kernel (more info below). I have an external monitor, usb keyboard, and ps2 mouse attached to the Thinkpad. About once a day, the system locks up and I have to reboot. Doesn't seem to matter what I'm doing at the time:

free alternative to setiathome and distributed.net?

2004-04-13 Thread John Fry
Hi, Lately I've been weaning myself away from all software in contrib and non-free. One contrib package I used to run was setiathome. I'm wondering if there's a distributed computing project out there that's worthy of my spare cycles and 100% free? I know about distributed-net but it's in