Re: Console resolution

2011-02-17 Thread Tim Clewlow
I am not new to the linux way of things but I am new to the debain way of things and I have some questions that need to be answered. To start, I need to ket rid of nouveau as it's screwing with uvesafb (produces an 'Error -22'). I added it to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf but it's still

Re: Spam Rules, per argument (Re: Any package for surveys?)

2011-01-29 Thread Tim Clewlow
On 01/29/2011 12:01 AM, elbbit wrote: On 28/01/11 19:16, Chris Brennan wrote: Off-list, BCC to postmaster@freebsd and debian lists Unfortunately, I think it is best if people see what you are saying. Read on for further understanding. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 12:56 PM,

Re: (OT) Re: Unidentified subject!

2010-09-23 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:28:35 + (UTC) Camaleón noela...@gmail.com wrote: The Matrix, coming for us :-) Greetings, Quick, check for dead pixels! -- . I checked, and all the red pixies have disappeared -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: need native app to listen to internet radios

2010-08-01 Thread Tim Clewlow
2010/7/30 Madhurya Kakati pa...@sliced.co.cc Is there any good native linux app for streaming online radio? I prefer shoutcast. Thanks vlc is good for both listening to streams and sending streams. Listening is incredibly easy, the following command will do it vlc -I dummy $url where

Re: ALAC: decompressing to .wav.

2010-07-14 Thread Tim Clewlow
can also do mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -ao pcm:waveheader:file=output.wav input.m4a Cheers, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:24 AM, ABS Doug absd...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Mark mamar...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly. I'm hoping his dvd download via Iceweasel fails, since that would point directly to a driver issue. If it succeeds, that means the problemo

Re: Torrents killing my conection

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Tim Clewlow t...@clewlow.org wrote: I would still like to know the answer to one simple question. Does restarting the modem/router bring the network back up? If the answer is yes, then the problem is on the modem/router. How can this be true when

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-19 Thread Tim Clewlow
at some point, minutes, hours, I'll loose my internet connection. . What do you have to do to get the connection back? Restart networking on the torrent client computer, or, restart the modem/router, or perhaps you have a separate firewall that requires a (networking) restart. The answer to

Re: Torrents killing my connection

2010-06-19 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Andrew Reid rei...@bellatlantic.net wrote:  Is this only true of torrents, or is it also true of large downloads?  What happens if you try to pull a few megs of something? Usenet seems to work fine. But there I'm downloading in pieces of course. Is the

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-05-01 Thread Tim Clewlow
On 4/30/2010 6:39 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/26/2010 09:29 AM, Tim Clewlow wrote: Hi there, I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, Since two of the drives (yes, I know the parity is striped across all the drives, but two drives is still the effect) are used

Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-26 Thread Tim Clewlow
Hi there, I'm getting ready to build a RAID 6 with 4 x 2TB drives to start, but the intention is to add more drives as storage requirements increase. My research/googling suggests ext3 supports 16TB volumes if block size is 4096 bytes, but some sites suggest the 32 bit arch means it is

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-26 Thread Tim Clewlow
Ok, I found the answer to my second question - it fails the entire disk. So the first question remains. Does ext3 (and relevent utilities, particularly resize2fs and e2fsck) on 32 bit i386 arch support 16TB volumes? Regards, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-26 Thread Tim Clewlow
I'm afraid that opinions of RAID vary widely on this list (no surprise) but you may be interested to note that we agree (a consensus) that software-RAID 6 is an unfortunate choice. . Is this for performance reasons or potential data loss. I can live with slow writes, reads should not be all

Re: Questions about RAID 6

2010-04-26 Thread Tim Clewlow
I don't know what your requirements / levels of paranoia are, but RAID 5 is probably better than RAID 6 until you are up to 6 or 7 drives; the chance of a double failure in a 5 (or less) drive array is minuscule. . I currently have 3 TB of data with another 1TB on its way fairly soon, so 4

Re: debian on a raid5 (4TB) issues

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
Hi, maybe OT but, I\m trying to install debian lenny on a raid5 with 4TB. OS sees one big sda with 4TB, I can particion /boot, / and swap but it only recognize 78GB instead the 4TB available. Is this because the partition in booteable? Can I install debian OS on this hdd with these 3

Re: Which Simple Video Design Application?

2010-03-15 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:30 -0700, Hugo Wau wrote: --- On Mon, 3/15/10, John A. Sullivan III jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com wrote: From: John A. Sullivan III jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com Subject: Re: Which Simple Video Design Application? To: Hugo Wau

Re: this table in html how

2010-03-07 Thread Tim Clewlow
I just had to - its probably a disorder :-D !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd; html head style body { margin:0px; } .left_column_50 { width:50%; float:left; text-align:center; margin:0px; } .right_column_50 {

RE: netstat ?

2010-02-23 Thread Tim Clewlow
In snt125-w503ad2f570f2c86ce7a4afdb...@phx.gbl, Hadi Motamedi wrote: My Debian server is at @172.16.128.1 and the remote network element is at @172.16.4.1 , Thank you for your reply . Sorry , you mean the tcpdump can be used to monitor the exchanged packets toward an spesific ip address

RE: netstat ?

2010-02-23 Thread Tim Clewlow
tcpdump host 172.16.4.1 -XX if you want to save the data in a file for later analysis tcpdump host 172.16.4.1 -XX somefile ** if you want to know why you are doing this man tcpdump Regards, Tim. Thank you for your reply . Sorry , Is this equal to the following ? #tcpdump

RE: Decompiler?

2010-02-22 Thread Tim Clewlow
Dear All I have disassembled the object file on my Debian server , by the following : #objdump wmain In the output , I have recognized the intended subroutine that I need to find the exact command syntax that it sends out. To this end, I asked you guys on how

Re: how to convince that debian is one the three major choices for a stable server environment?

2010-02-22 Thread Tim Clewlow
On 22/02/2010 13:01, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: (it is, isn't it? :-) ) So, yes, we are moving on from our 10year experience with gentoo, and are searching for our new environment. From my personal experience I would say debian stable - any hard evidence to support the claim?

RE: Decompiler?

2010-02-21 Thread Tim Clewlow
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:28:01 -0500 From: zlinux...@wowway.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Decompiler? On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:06:21 -0500 (EST), Hadi Motamedi wrote: Dear All I have disassembled the object file on my Debian server , by the following :

Re: Any Linux CAD tools?

2010-01-17 Thread Tim Clewlow
Hi All, I am looking for a CAD tool to draw among other things contours. I have tried to use the spline feature of QCAD. The issue is that I don't seem to find any way of joining two splines together or extending an open spline. I have also looked at PythonCAD but it does not seem to

Re: Video conversion

2010-01-05 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 05:32:10PM +, Tim Frink wrote: I would like to convert an old video file using the Intel indeo codec into a video format that is supported by nowadays video players. What software could I use for the conversion under Debian Lenny? There's a handy GUI called

Re: Connecting a video camera

2009-11-12 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 09:52:01AM -0500, Michael Peek wrote: Hi debian gurus, I'm trying to figure out if I can download the video from a video camera onto my linux box. It's a Sony DCR-H52, tape-based, and firewire only. When I plug it in, I see the following in the log files:

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Friday 16 October 2009 01:33:17 Tim Clewlow wrote: It sounds like your system is not using the xsession method of managing an X session, which means it is using the native xinit method. That's ok, and just as easy to work with. First check if you have a file called .xinitrc in your home

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Friday 16 October 2009 11:10:04 Tim Clewlow wrote: lol - that error makes quite a difference. It means pretty much what it says, ie X is already running, or, the combination of config files means the system ends up trying to start X twice. Yes, I am very sorry. I know that it is essential

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
Ok, I found out that there is an error in the .xsession file, the correct version is below, note the line 'icewm ' has now become 'icewm-session ' - this should bring back the correct background and hopefully the mouse will behave noremally again :-) #!/bin/sh xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Friday 16 October 2009 13:42:25 Tim Clewlow wrote: Ok, I found out that there is an error in the .xsession file, the correct version is below, note the line 'icewm ' has now become 'icewm-session ' - this should bring back the correct background and hopefully the mouse will behave

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-16 Thread Tim Clewlow
Is it? Let's look at /etc/X11/Xsession $ grep HOME /etc/X11/Xsession USRRESOURCES=$HOME/.Xresources USERXSESSION=$HOME/.xsession USERXSESSIONRC=$HOME/.xsessionrc ALTUSERXSESSION=$HOME/.Xsession ERRFILE=$HOME/.xsession-errors $ grep USERXSESSION /etc/X11/Xsession /etc/X11/Xsession.d/*

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-15 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 00:34:57 Tim Clewlow wrote: On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:43:21 Tim Clewlow wrote: You can rearrange the order in which things are started in your .xsession file, ie you dont have to start the window manager last. [snip] Basically, when the script finishes

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-13 Thread Tim Clewlow
I don't run the xserver by entering startx in the console. I have it starting and running automatically via an entry in ~/.bash_profile. All entries in your .Xsession or similar must end with , so they'll run in the background, except the last one. This last one should be your window

Re: starting Idesk automatically in IceWM on Lenny

2009-10-13 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 10:43:21 Tim Clewlow wrote: You can rearrange the order in which things are started in your .xsession file, ie you dont have to start the window manager last. [snip] Basically, when the script finishes, X will close - so dont let the script finish - thats what

Re: How much RAM can debian support?

2009-10-10 Thread Tim Clewlow
On Saturday 10 October 2009 05:23:45 Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: 2009/10/10 Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com My first computer (a TRS-80 Model III) had 16K (that kilobites) of RAM and 16k of ROM, then I quickly upgraded to its maximum of 48K. The times, they are a-changin'. 80's,