Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread KS
On 21/09/14 07:41 PM, KS wrote: > > The hdparm shows much normal buffered disk reads (although only 75% of > the Intel) but would this setting stick during reboots? > Update: moved the SATA cable from SATA5 to SATA2. and now hdparm shows udma6 as active mode and buffered disk read

Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread KS
On 21/09/14 07:08 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi KS, > > Over time, SSD's get, for want of a better word, fragmented. Especially > if they endure a lot of writes. > > Many times, this "fragmentation" can be corrected. See this: > > https:

Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread KS
On 21/09/14 06:23 PM, KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently reinstalled my system on two SDD that I got (Intel 530 240GB > -f/w updated and a Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB - f/w 520ABFF0 > (latest 525ABFF0)). I have the main system running on the Intel SSD > (LVM) and a partiti

SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread KS
e for the Kingston yet. Is there anything else that I can change to get it to work normally. Thanks, KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.or

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread KS
On 08/07/14 09:43 PM, KS wrote: > On 08/07/14 09:37 PM, KS wrote: >> >> Over the last couple of days I have tried to run the trim command a few >> times and it seems to trim lots of bytes. 1) is that normal? 2) does >> that matter if I forget it, and 3) is it better to

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread KS
On 08/07/14 09:37 PM, KS wrote: > > Over the last couple of days I have tried to run the trim command a few > times and it seems to trim lots of bytes. 1) is that normal? 2) does > that matter if I forget it, and 3) is it better to run a cron > daily/hourly to do that for me *if n

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-08 Thread KS
On 08/07/14 05:18 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > KS wrote on 07/06/2014 17:29: > >> What I want to know at this point is: >> Is there anything else that is recommended? >> The section on RAMDISK options on tmpfs, does that help? > > > If you are going w

SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-06 Thread KS
Hi all, I wanted to upgrade my system to amd64 and used that opportunity to install 2 240GB (1GB = 1000MB etc. unfortunately) SSDs on my rig. The partition map is below: NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:00 223.6G 0 disk ├─sda1

Re: New Icedove feature?

2014-04-29 Thread KS
d-new-emails-indication-colour among others. KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/536073b2.1010...@fastmail.fm

Re: SMART data, should I change my HDD?

2014-04-28 Thread KS
t;> Good catch. I had noticed that SMART monitoring was not enabled when I was upgrading the BIOS on this box - so it was enabled just today. > > Looks to me like the first thing you have to do is actually RUN some tests. > > Try: > - smartctl -s on -A /dev/ > > > Mile

Re: SMART data, should I change my HDD?

2014-04-28 Thread KS
On 28/04/14 08:47 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 18:43:17 -0400 > KS wrote: > > You mention in another email concern about a drive temperature of 42C. > We'd all like our components to be 32C all the time, but that's more > of a hope than a reality.

Re: SMART data, should I change my HDD?

2014-04-28 Thread KS
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 80C. >

SMART data, should I change my HDD?

2014-04-28 Thread KS
Hi, I was checking one of my systems and the SMART data for /dev/sda came out as below. Should I change it to avoid loosing data? If not, which information in SMART data indicates that it is time to do it? Thanks, KS --- smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [x86_64-linux-3.2.34-std312

Re: [SOLVED LESS]Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-04-21 Thread KS
On 21/04/14 03:01 PM, KS wrote: > On 04/04/14 01:02 AM, André Nunes Batista wrote: >> On Tue, 2014-04-01 at 20:39 +0100, Joe wrote: >>>> >>> >>> Grub2 2.02~beta2-8 packages now available in sid, booting OK for me. >> >> Less is more, Joe!

Re: [SOLVED LESS]Grub does not recognize lvm physical volume by uuid after restart

2014-04-21 Thread KS
rade/clean install on it (not decided yet). KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53556aee.9020...@fastmail.fm

Re: Boot issue - machine ends up in Busybox

2014-03-16 Thread KS
On 16/03/14 07:12 PM, KS wrote: > On 16/03/14 04:26 PM, Joe wrote: >> >> It appears to be an issue with the new grub-pc-bin 2.02~beta2-7. I >> downgraded to 2.00-22 along with grub-common, and it booted again. I >> then downgraded two other 2.02 packages marked as broken

Re: Boot issue - machine ends up in Busybox

2014-03-16 Thread KS
On 16/03/14 04:26 PM, Joe wrote: > > It appears to be an issue with the new grub-pc-bin 2.02~beta2-7. I > downgraded to 2.00-22 along with grub-common, and it booted again. I > then downgraded two other 2.02 packages marked as broken, and all was > well again. > Pinned packages and reinstalled 2

Re: Boot issue - machine ends up in Busybox

2014-03-16 Thread KS
On 16/03/14 02:40 PM, X wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, I upgraded my debian box (unstable) using aptitude and then shut > it down. On booting, it gave me an alert about a disk it couldn't find > and brought up the Busybox prompt. I have /boot as a normal partition > and other partitions (/, /home, /tmp,

[ALT SOLVED ]Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-18 Thread KS
On 15/06/12 12:42 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 04:36 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:51:03PM -0400, KS wrote: >>> I might actually end up giving the machine to the owner with Linux >>> slapped on it :p >>>

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-18 Thread KS
ed dd_rescue in the past to get data from dying HDDs (won't boot/stop after booting) and CF cards. This is the only time it stopped reading for extended time and the logs in syslog. But having two packages so similarly named is definitely confusing when the package is not something like a lib

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread KS
On 14/06/12 08:28 PM, KS wrote: > On 14/06/12 07:34 PM, KS wrote: >> On 14/06/12 03:25 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> I will second keith's suggestion to use gddrescue which has somewhat >>> improved behavior and might work better. I pretty much have switc

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread KS
On 14/06/12 07:34 PM, KS wrote: > On 14/06/12 03:25 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> I will second keith's suggestion to use gddrescue which has somewhat >> improved behavior and might work better. I pretty much have switched >> to using it whenever I need to do this.

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread KS
# writes /dev/sda partition table > ... > http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk/ > > Bob Hmmm... Thanks Bob, never heard of supergrubdisk. Looks like a good tool. Waiting for gddrescue to finish. /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread KS
opied the first two partitions, one of which had the installation partition. However, I don't know how to exactly replicate the partition table in the new hard drive. Any suggestions? KS > On 14/06/12 07:42 AM, KS wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to recover data

dd_rescue No additional sense

2012-06-14 Thread KS
7;t continue reading from the device. Does anyone know what is happening here? Thanks, KS Linux gurh 3.2.0-2-686-pae #1 SMP Fri Jun 1 18:56:14 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux $> dd_rescue -h dd_rescue Version 1.23, garl...@suse.de, GNU GPL ($Id: dd_rescue.c,v 1.112 2010/10/11 09:50:32 garloff Exp

Re: Screen unresponsive

2012-03-04 Thread KS
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012, at 12:51 AM, KS wrote: > Hi all, > > The last few days I ahve noticed that when I return to my machine > (always ON), the screen doesn't respond. Keyboard (caps lock, num lock) > works. I can also ssh to the machine and have noticed that Xorg takes > 10

Screen unresponsive

2012-03-04 Thread KS
ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (Connection refused) [ 583.227] (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) Can someone shed some light on what is going on? Is my graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS) dying? Its fan does make a lot of noise though. -- KS list...@f

Re: Hardware - Boot issues: No post

2011-08-10 Thread KS
d letting the eraser knock parts off > the board and such. And make sure you hold the board so that the > eraser dust doesn't fall into or under parts. > > Joel Rees > Had done that and it didn't help. Probably because I just got the motherboard in January and hence is qui

Re: Hardware - Boot issues: No post

2011-08-10 Thread KS
da and I believe the problem didn't happen due to the electrical supply. As per my earlier message the mobo (at least) seems to be toasted at this point. I agree with your suggestion on memory. I thought that I would underclock it to match my older DDR3 RAM which is 1333 with the new one (1600

Re: Hardware - Boot issues: No post

2011-08-10 Thread KS
:( that means another couple of weeks of wait time. Will test motherboard after memtest. Tahnks again. -- KS list...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A no graphics, no pop-ups email service -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Hardware - Boot issues: No post

2011-08-09 Thread KS
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:47 -0500, "Stan Hoeppner" wrote: > On 8/8/2011 6:59 PM, KS wrote: > > > I shut down the machine and tried to boot it with just the Mushkin RAM. > > Same beep sequence followed. > > If you put the Mushkin back in the original sockets, the

Hardware - Boot issues: No post

2011-08-08 Thread KS
advance. -- KS list...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Printer Settings

2011-07-05 Thread KS
HL-2070N (and temporarily the HL-2070W). For some drivers which I could choose from, it wouldn't even print. So right now I'm using: Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e (recommended) Try different drivers to see which suits best. KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread KS
7;t bother about soldering, ask on the list and I'm sure you will get a bunch of offer to send you wired mice with "dirty" balls ;) Toodloo KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4deee00d.7080...@fastmail.fm

Re: PS/2 mouse vs USB mouse

2011-06-07 Thread KS
telliMouse 1.3A) O:-) > > Greetings, > Off topic but I picked up a Logitech M515 last weekend to give it a whirl. USB wireless* mouse with sealed bottom and moves cursor if you hold it properly. I do have a roller ball Logitech mouse on another machine. It wouldn't take a secon

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-08 Thread KS
On 07/05/11 09:36 PM, KS wrote: > > However, I did an update just around the time I saw the reply and apt is > not able to find the 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem (for for that matter 2.6.38-2) > either! It exists on packages.debian.org though. > Must have been an issue with the mirrors as

Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-07 Thread KS
On 07/05/11 08:11 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > KS: >> >> Surprisingly, dpkg does not show 2.6.38 whereas apt says that it exists! > > Dpkg doesn't know packages that were never installed. Apt does. > > J. Ah, didn't realize that. However, I did an update jus

Re: Re: Does "apt-get dist-upgrade" upgrade the kernel?

2011-05-07 Thread KS
> On 07/05/11 17:18, Camaleón wrote: > > Do you have the linux-image-686 package installed? (I see you're > using the 686 version) This package is a dummy package that depends > on the latest kernel, currently linux-image-2.6.38-2-686. If you do, > then apt-get dist-upgrade will install the new ke

[aptitude] - resolving dependencies takes a long time

2011-02-16 Thread KS
2: Resolving dependencies... open: 18787; closed: 20365; defer: 100; conflict: 54 Thanks, and congratulations to all who helped Squeeze squeeze through after 2yrs of Lenny. -- KS list...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your message

Re: Chromium Xperience

2010-05-19 Thread KS
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Good question. I now use Google Chrome 5.0.375.38 beta exclusively. > I loaded it down from their site. Is there a debian package? > chromium-browser -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Chromium Xperience

2010-05-18 Thread KS
ehind the browser window! The Adblock+ advantage with Iceweasel is the one factor which might keep me away from Chromium unless better adblocking is implemented. What is the experience of other users who have tested out Chromium in Debian? KS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Debian+KDE 4.4.3

2010-05-02 Thread KS
Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Here we go, currently I have only done the safe upgrade, still 176 > packages to upgrade, I can remove yawp (yet another weather plasma) and > get a full upgrade or keep yawp, do the upgrade and break kde, I will > stick with the safe upgrade for awhile, cause I don't want to

Re: Multiple Graphics cards and HDMI: How to?

2010-05-02 Thread KS
deloptes wrote: > KS wrote: > > could you also post the xorg log file? > > regards > > Here it is: http://pastebin.com/ihVCH4Ek I have been able to login to KDE after the upgrade. Somehow plasma-desktop was uninstalled during the process :( I was able to set the TV on th

Re: Basic install - which DVDs?

2010-05-02 Thread KS
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/02/2010 08:47 PM, Marco Shaw wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm just looking to do a basic install of the latest version. I just >> need a basic version (no GUI/X required), with networking and an SSH >> client basically... >> >> I've downloaded DVD #1. Since it took almost 10 hou

Re: Multiple Graphics cards and HDMI: How to?

2010-05-02 Thread KS
deloptes wrote: > KS wrote: > > could you also post the xorg log file? > > regards > > Oops, I should have included that earlier. But I have logged out after a safe-upgrade and am unable to get anything but a black screen after login (KDE session). The upgrade installed K

Re: Multiple Graphics cards and HDMI: How to?

2010-05-02 Thread KS
Victor Padro wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:53 PM, KS wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have setup a system with Gigabyte MA-790GPT-UD3H motherboard and use a >> Nvidia GeForce 8600GTS PCI-E video card. It also has an onboard ATI >> Radeon HD 3300 graphics chipset. Th

Multiple Graphics cards and HDMI: How to?

2010-04-29 Thread KS
different manufacturers? I also noticed that the onboard chipset does not come up with lspci. Any suggestions on how to proceed with this? /KS $> lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge 00:02.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-08 Thread KS
Jochen Schulz wrote: > KS: >> >> I have already started testdisk and it is analysing the disk since the >> last hour or so. Should be finished soon. > > Good luck! > >> It might give me an hint as to what is the status of the disk. No, it coudn't fi

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread KS
. > > -Rob > > I have already started testdisk and it is analysing the disk since the last hour or so. Should be finished soon. It might give me an hint as to what is the status of the disk. Thanks, KS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread KS
Jochen Schulz wrote: > KS: >> r...@sysresccd /root % mount -o loop -t iso9660 > > Why do you mount the dump file from ddrescue as ISO image? Doesn't the > subject say it should actually contain an NTFS filesystem? I am > surprised that this actually works. I tried

Re: Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread KS
John Hasler wrote: > KS writes: >> I connected it in my machine (internal SATA) and just did a ddrescue >> of the disk to a 1.5TB hard disk using a Sysrescue CD. The process >> tells me that there were 37 errors totalling 151kB. > > Ok... > >> The ISO image

Recovering data from NTFS disk

2010-01-07 Thread KS
tmpfs 491M 13M 478M 3% /lib/firmware /dev/sda1 1.4T 466G 932G 34% /mnt/windows /mnt/windows/rescueData.iso 121M 121M 0 100% /mnt/cdrom Any advice on how to proceed from here? Or can someone suggest a better method? Thanks .KS. -- To

Re: OT: SecurDisc Technology on DVD Drives

2008-09-01 Thread KS
Sven Joachim wrote: > > If you use the securdisc feature, the discs will not be readable under > non-Windows operating systems. It is probably not dangerous to use such > a drive as long as you don't use Nero for burning your data. But I > suppose that these drives will come with an OEM version

OT: SecurDisc Technology on DVD Drives

2008-09-01 Thread KS
ture if it hinders anything in Linux. Does anyone know about this technology? Thanks in advance, KS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: where does iceweasel store the setting for controlling site passwords

2008-07-29 Thread KS
KS wrote: > Mitchell Laks wrote: >> On 18:14 Mon 28 Jul , Florian Kulzer wrote: >>> Go to: Edit -> Preferences -> Security -> Remember Passwords for Sites >>> then remove the public library from the "Exceptions..." list >>> >>>

Re: where does iceweasel store the setting for controlling site passwords

2008-07-29 Thread KS
m field, it normally shows the values which you had filled up earlier. I had helped someone long time ago with similar problem. I had installed an javascript bookmarklet to disable to feature from the page. Will see if I can find it again. HTH, /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Iceweasel's UserAgent

2008-05-07 Thread KS
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > This is interesting. I've changed the UserAgent to say Firefox instead > of Iceweasel and that triangle is present (which I had never noticed, to > say the truth, but is very nice), and other sites which did not > recognize Iceweasel now work. > > Which leads to th

Re: how to upgrade to a 64-bit mobo?

2008-04-06 Thread KS
N-SLI has only 1 IDE port and 6 SATA ports. All you would need to do is make sure the hard disks are detected in the same order by the new motherboard. If not you will need to change menu.lst and possibly /etc/fstab too. > Many must have faced this question. Pointers? > > Hugo > &g

Re: Errant ld-linux.so.2

2008-03-29 Thread KS
eral times in the last few weeks. If it happened before that too, I think I didn't notice! This happens when I open an pdf document with Adobe Reader 8 inside Konqueror (file browsing). Killing it doesn't hurt anything else but reduces the CPU usage to the normal few %. /KS -- To UN

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-14 Thread KS
KS wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:04:37PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: >>> The system is Lenny on an i386 with >>> a 1700 MHz Celeron and 1 Gb RAM, ASUS P4PE motherboard. >>> >>> The slow performance (nearly full pr

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-14 Thread KS
. I wanted to suggest Epiphany yesterday, but still runs on Gecko. Is there any information on when unstable might get a webkit based epiphany? /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread KS
recommended for a > Window$ installation which displays the same symptom -- reinstall the > entire system? I haven't found a reason to reinstall. My current one (unstable!) has been going well even after a hard disk change and full hardware change. /KS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: amd 690g chipset

2008-03-13 Thread KS
t; version of iceweasel. > There is not need to create a new user just for testing Iceweasel for config problems. Start Iceweasel from a terminal with the option -ProfileManager. It starts Iceweasel's profile manager where you can create/delete profiles. Create a new one and do the tests. When d

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-11 Thread KS
jeffry s wrote: > i think you can try photorec > it comes with the package testdisk > > the name suggest it is photo recovery program. but actually it is not. > when u run the program. you can choose the file types from the options > for what type of files you want to recover. > > the bad side i

Re: Recovering deleted files from FAT32

2008-03-10 Thread KS
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 04:51:10PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I have a SD card in my Nokia 6288, formatted as FAT32. Every month or >> ..snip > > aptitude search ~Gadmin::recovery > > Some of them seem useful: > > foremost, scalpel, magicrescue > > Never tried any.

Re: convert video to audio

2008-03-08 Thread KS
laura eznarriaga wrote: > > * > *convert video to adio* > > how do you convert a dvd or mp4 to adio > is their a program for this ?_ > * > Try searching for ffmpeg. It can demux the audio and video for you. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: replace cpu on debian etch

2008-02-29 Thread KS
Rich Healey wrote: > > I've moved a debian install between a pentium 3 and a amd athlon. just > whack the new core in. I moved my HDD from a PIV 2.0GHz machine(given away) to a new AMD64 Athlon X2 5600 based box, and all I had to do was take care of the MBR and edit menu.lst -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: [OT] things to look for in a flatpanel monitor

2008-02-17 Thread KS
Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 17/02/2008, KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My Sony monitor has "shut down" too. By shut down I mean that it isn't >> showing anything, and that I haven't opened it up to see if it can be >> repaired another time. So I wen

Re: [OT] things to look for in a flatpanel monitor

2008-02-16 Thread KS
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I haven't googled this, but in looking around for a flatpanel LCD > monitor, what are the positive things to look for and the negative > things to avoid? Since the world is moving to flatpanels... > > Hugo > > My Sony monitor has "shut down" too. By shut down I

Re: time messed up since last kernel update

2008-02-12 Thread KS
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > follow-up, see below > On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:21:26AM -0500, dtutty wrote: >> I'm running Etch-amd64 and updated the kernel yesterday. I shutdown the >> computer nightly. >> >> Today, when I booted up and read the daily report from anacron, I get >> lots of message fr

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread KS
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 06:45:31PM -0500, KS wrote: >> I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of >> the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not >> onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I

Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread KS
oduct.aspx?Item=N82E16814150228 Thanks, KS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: request for addition in debian-user

2008-01-28 Thread KS
ttp://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#subunsub Reading the introduction to Debian mailing lists is quite helpful too http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ And welcome to Debian. Enjoy the Xperience. /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation of hard drive

2008-01-25 Thread KS
Pantor wrote: > KS wrote: >> Pantor wrote: >>> Lads, >>> >>> would you be able to advice please, how to install a second hard drive >>> which have preinstalled Windows. PC booting Windows after hard drive has >>> been plugged in. Windo

Re: How to install second CD-RW?

2008-01-25 Thread KS
Pantor wrote: > Lads, > > would you be able to advice please, how to install a second CD-RW? > > Thank you, > > Andrius > > Similar to what you do with the hard disk. Connect the drive and boot the computer. Your CD-RW should be detected as /dev/hdX ( where X = a/b/c/d/ ). The system wil

Re: Installation of hard drive

2008-01-25 Thread KS
Pantor wrote: > Lads, > > would you be able to advice please, how to install a second hard drive > which have preinstalled Windows. PC booting Windows after hard drive has > been plugged in. Windows should be cleared, but how thee partition works? > > Thank you, > > Andrius > > I would just c

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-14 Thread KS
ng worse. > > HTH > The .img image(38GB) that ddrescue is creating, do I use fsck.hfsplus on it or just fsck? Thanks KS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: capacitor plague; was Re: Debian on IBM NetVista Type 6578-RAU

2008-01-13 Thread KS
ps themselves from http://www.badcaps.net/ They package took about 10-12 days to arrive though. HTH, KS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: capacitor plague; was Re: Debian on IBM NetVista Type 6578-RAU

2008-01-13 Thread KS
> Yes, I got an IBM NetVista (2257-B4U) for using parts (it was just rebooting like crazy). On closer examination, I found lots of capacitors had bulged. To try my luck I ordered equivalents for all electrolytic caps on the motherboard. Its been working nicely ever since. /KS PS: you need to hav

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread KS
Gerard Robin wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 04:02:18AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: >> From: "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Burn CD >> X-Spam-Virus: No >> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on >> liszt.debian.org >> X-Spam-Lev

Re: [OT] Re: Burn CD

2008-01-13 Thread KS
link, he was quick to accuse you of editing and lying! Then he gives a so called list without even a link to the page he refers to. [OT} What he going on with the email client "nail"? I think it just needs a *nail* in its coffin or my client does not understand threading when nail messages

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-11 Thread KS
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:21:37 -0500, "Brian McKee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 11-Jan-08, at 3:43 PM, KS wrote: > > I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and > > compiled

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-11 Thread KS
t; I connected the old hard disk via firewire to the powerbook and compiled ddrescue to run on the G4 (new HDD and 10.4.11). It is just giving I/O error in the syslog. I can't even be mounted. ddrescue has read 3MB in the last half an hour and rescue zero bytes :( Any other suggestions?

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-09 Thread KS
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:19:54PM -0500, KS wrote: >> I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run >> the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The >> machine just halts sometimes, with the dis

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-08 Thread KS
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/08/08 16:42, KS wrote: >> >> I agree 6GB will take time to transfer, but there was no change in the >> size of the directory where I was dumping. Plus the activity monitor on >> the G4 was not showing any network transfer. I did wait for a

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-08 Thread KS
o proceed in this case? Any live CD(PPC) which >> will be more helpful than the systemrescueCD (0.2.0 PPC)? > > What happens when you fsck it? > I have a feeling that Apple Hardware Diagnostic check utility CD might have done that. But I will try it tomorrow before anything else.

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-08 Thread KS
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/08/08 16:19, KS wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run > > Linux or OSX? OS X Tiger on the G4(PPC) >> the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The >

Re: [debian-user] Debian Repository Usage

2008-01-08 Thread KS
all a package on your Ubuntu install from a Debian repository, there is no guarantee that it won't break with the next upgrade. Samba installation on Ubuntu should be as easy as on Debian. Just find the samba and samba-common packages and install them. After that you will have to change yo

OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-08 Thread KS
emost, and Sleuthkit. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to proceed in this case? Any live CD(PPC) which will be more helpful than the systemrescueCD (0.2.0 PPC)? Thanks, /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Adobe Reader 8

2007-11-26 Thread KS
Hi, With Adobe Reader 8 I have noticed that when I click on a document to open it in Adobe Reader, initially the reader window shows me my desktop (icons and all) for a small instant ~ 0.5 sec. Has anyone noticed that? Is it normal? thanks, /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

tmprules-xx.dat files in /tmp

2007-11-21 Thread KS
everal hundred files (now I have 550) containing the exact same text? Thanks, KS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiz-fusion trouble

2007-10-20 Thread KS
tall compiz-kde if you don't have it already. 2. If you already have 4 desktop workspaces, they were getting multiplied when compiz started. I think I made a change in the number of desktops in the compizconfig-settings-manager ... which isn't starting for me right now :( HTH /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: open-ssl certificate authority

2007-10-10 Thread KS
nt to do this if we can find a way w/ open-ssl. > > Maybe try CACert http://www.cacert.org/ to get a free certificate. They are on the list to be added to Firefox as trusted CA but Mozilla's CA additions take a long time to be added. Don't know about other browsers if they have

Re: urgent help needed to config USB mouse in sarge

2007-10-06 Thread KS
.conf has the following (USB mouse connected to PS/2 port): Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Configured Mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device"&quo

Re: seeking advice on free dns

2007-10-06 Thread KS
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/06/07 00:15, Serena Cantor wrote: >> I have asked many questions on the list, many are not debian >> specific, not even Linux specific, but I get a lot of help. >> Thanks > >> I have just registered a domain name. The registrar provides DNS >> service, but asks me to go

Re: webmail for low-end VPS

2007-09-30 Thread KS
. One can't define filters yet. It doesn't have a pretty editor for composing email. I only use text email but some of your users might want rich text. /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-09-29 Thread KS
cts everything noisilty back to the posters. > > You're not the only one to get them. This evening (around 30-Sep > 00:02 UTC), I received 19 of them, with original email dates > stretching back to Wednesday 26-Sep. > Got some in my inbox too. /KS Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: news for debian

2007-09-28 Thread KS
Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello, > > debian news are rare event. > > Jerome > DWN used to be regular but the last one was 3 July'07 :( http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ > roberto wrote: >> hello >> is the mailing list of debian-news still active ? >> >> thank you ... > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-24 Thread KS
cribus (or scribus-ng). You can compose the whole document using the png images and then create one pdf (or per page pdf too?). There is also an option of the type of compression to use for images while making the pdf. But the first thing you need to make sure is that the images itself are of o

Re: Linux printer sharing

2007-09-23 Thread KS
I go Add Printer > Printer attached to local computer (do not detect automatically) > Add new port (Add IP printing or Jet direct port) > give IP of printer. /KS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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