Re: VirtualBox (VB) and Windows on Debian

2024-07-16 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Le 16/07/2024 à 16:31, jeremy ardley a écrit : VirtualBox is not supported on Debian 12. why ? I use it daily and it works well on my debian 12... There are alternatives that include: - KVM/QEMU - VMWare Workstation Pro (which is now free for private use) cool ! will try it too :)

Re: CD/DVD is obsolete or deprecate at 2025?

2024-06-18 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello ^^) Le 18/06/2024 à 03:00, Stefan Monnier a écrit : Is there a chance to change in next versions i.e. Debain 13 or other versions an assembly specifically for a USB flash drive as primary download? Do you think the time has come? When do you think this moment will happen? AFAIK, all the

Re: Debian 12, Pyzor, Razor, DCC?

2024-04-08 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello :) Le 08/04/2024 à 14:40, Michael Grant a écrit : I have built dcc myself from their most recent source.  I guess I could send that to whoever wants it, or the debian dir. cool :) that would be kind and usefull to see :) thanks Michael Grant -- Original Message -- From "Marc

Re: Bookworm Fasttrack and Virtualbox

2024-03-14 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello :) Le 15/03/2024 à 00:26, Miguel A. Vallejo a écrit : Hello! This evening I tried to install virtualbox into a fresh Bookworm install. I followed the steps in Virtualbox's Debian Wiki entry. After set up fasttrack repository successfully and issue a apt install virtualbox command I get

DoS protection solutions for Debian Servers ?

2024-03-13 Thread Jean-François Bachelet
Hello folks :) Looking for advice for protecting debian servers from DoS attacks as there are more and more of these ones to fight against :/ needless to say that fail2ban isn't enough for this task... scripts for firewall too... and tiring to make as hackers responses are damn' fast to this

Re: Debian support on newer 4K Advanced format drives (rather than 512 bytes)

2010-07-08 Thread Jean-François
I have a WD20EARS here. As these drives still report their sector size to be 512B instead of 4KB (for compatibility purposes, apparently), you have to manually align the partition when creating it. (otherwise you'll get very slow performance, ~3.5 MB/s instead of the ~90MB/s this drive can do)

Re: Motherboards

2010-05-25 Thread Jean-François
Le 25/05/10 18:44, Jordan Metzmeier a écrit : I run Debian Lenny on a DFI Lanparty DK p45-t2rs. I really like the board but it did throw a curveball at me. Since it had an Intel ICH10R southbridge, I expected it to have an Intel ICH storage controller and use the ata_piix driver. This was not t

Re: The future of "nv" driver (was: Linux compatible mainboards -another thought)

2010-04-24 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> The VESA driver is not adequate > for many users. If I recall correctly, the VESA driver only makes > use of video graphics modes supported by the video BIOS. These video > modes often cannot exploit the maximum video resolution available on > many modern LCD displays. This was the main reason

Re: torrents for testing

2009-12-22 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> I'm curious... are there any torrents out there for testing/squeeze? Hello. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/ for weekly builds. http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/ for daily builds. Choose your arch. Iso-cd contains ISOs, bt-cd contains torrents,

Re: screenshots.debian.net contains image with ubuntu screenshot, is it fine ?

2009-11-25 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> The problem is that not there are a checkbox-gtk package in debian, so > why a screenshot of this ? Because Debian is not the only one to use that repository, Ubuntu also uses it, hence that screenshot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: Using ICH10R or ICH9R created volumes

2009-11-17 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> Is using volumes created in chipset RAID utilities supported? > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SataRaid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

2009-11-12 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> Strangely the system seems to be referring to "squeeze" instead of sid > (?). Well, if you have used the testing-netinst, that's pretty normal (unless you have configured your sources.list to Sid). Squeeze is the current Testing distro. Sid is the Unstable distro. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Intel D945GSEJT LAN and Debian not working

2009-11-11 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> realtek has just joined ati as something I will never spend money on > again. Intel is about to join that list too. Huh, if you blacklist Realtek (Realtek chips are found almost everywhere...), Intel and Ati, given that Ati belongs to AMD, it's likely you won't spend much money on computers i

Re: No "Shut Down..." option in "System" menu

2009-11-02 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> I receive ``the administrator is not allowed to log in from this > screen.'' I am thus unable to log graphically in as root. If you're trying to log in as root from gdm, this behaviour is normal. You should log in as root from another console (tty1, for example), kill GDM and then startx. For

Re: using lame

2009-10-28 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> This is only partly correct. The real answer is you can convert from > any lossless format to lossy to acheive the desired results. WAV is > uncompressed lossless audio data, whereas FLAC, Wavpack, etc. are > lossless compression file formats that also have the ability to store > ID3 tag info

Re: debian-installer (squeeze-ia64) fails on new machine

2009-10-24 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
Le vendredi 23 octobre 2009 à 14:55 -0700, Frank Miles a écrit : > Has anyone tried installing 'squeeze' recently on a i7/860 machine? > Trying the small-CD method - the line "Loading Operating System ..." > comes up... and never goes away. No error messages, beeps, or any > other complaints. The

Re: How to make Debian/GNome manage network automatically

2009-10-19 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
Comment out the "auto eth1" and "iface eth1 inet dhcp" lines. Edit your /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf to "managed=true". E.g. from : "[main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile [ifupdown] managed=false" to: "[main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile [ifupdown] managed=true" Reboot (or restart NM), an

Re: Fonts looking bad on qt apps

2009-10-13 Thread Jean-François Pirlet
> Any one else has noticed this problem and found a fix for that? I would > appreciate any pointers to fix this problem. Same problem here, Debian Squeeze/Testing amd64, Gnome, using e.g. LyX or Kile. There seems to be something wrong with the way qtconfig loads its settings when you're a normal

Re: is it save to clean /var/tmp?

2004-06-27 Thread Jean-François Lemaire
Hello, On Sunday 27 June 2004 10:27, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 09:48:02AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: > > You can of course delete the files from time to time, but probably > > some apps expect their files to still be there after reboot. > > It seems pretty obvious that