Debian

fp10.amd64.pgp.asc.INSECURE?
Le Sat 19/06/2010, Jozsi Avadkan disait # apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree ... wget failed to download http://people.debian.org/~bartm/flashplugin-nonfree/fp10.amd64.pgp.asc Try again later with "update-flashplugin-nonfree --install". Under Debian Lenny. Why? are you s... 19 Jun 2010 14:34

Rfkill not fully working on Dell Mini 1012
Hello List, I had a morning of terror with my Debian Sid on my new Dell Mini (v. 1012). The laptop has a broadcom 4312 Wifi card that works with the module b43. I had to find the right combination of firmware and fwcutter to make it work reliably, but that's another story. I am running 2.6.34 from experiment... 19 Jun 2010 13:27

Torrents killing my conection
> Torrents are trouble. Avoid them, if practical. Your ISP may be throttling them, although I can't see what difference the version of Ubuntu would make. However, if a Windows client works, then ask yourself if you need Linux for other things, or whether Windows will suit your needs. (I have two m... 22 Jun 2010 02:51

How to tune display position on external VGA display
I'm using a laptop which I connect to a plasma TV through a VGA connection. I can get the display on the plasma to work at the correct resolution (1360x768) but the image is shifted on the left so that part of it is hidden and I have a black bar on the right. My card is a Radeon Mobility 3430. With the ATI propr... 19 Jun 2010 13:27

Pre-Install Question
Please tell me what the differences are between all the DVD downloads at the following link. What is contained on each disk/iso? http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/i386/iso-dvd/ Thanks! Tim ... 19 Jun 2010 11:16

logrotate
Hi, I have set ionice -c3 for logrotate application,what happens when the other program which has asked for disk IO during this period ? Thanks Kaushal ... 20 Jun 2010 02:28

Torrents killing my connection
I can't believe I'm still totally unable to figure out what is going on here. Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 was unable to handle downloading torrents. The connection would drop. I tried every torrent client. I tried lowering the connections. Nothing I tried worked. I ended up downgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 (then called ... 27 Jun 2010 13:54

cp: backup version control
Hi, From 'man cp': ,----- | The backup suffix is `~', unless set with --suffix or SIM- | PLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX. The version control method may be | selected via the --backup option or through the | VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. `----- However, I found that the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable do... 18 Jun 2010 23:26

First computer
ABS Doug writes: I had a Vic-20, but that was 1980 I think. Tape cassette, hooked to TV... I'm feeling old. I had a homebrew system built around a Zilog Z80-MCB in the late seventies. Tape storage (I never did get the head-per-track 1MB drives from Newman Computer working right), a surplus OCLC terminal, an... 20 Jun 2010 12:21

Rebuilding RAID 1 Array in Linux with a new hard disk after a disk fault - Howto with screen shots
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 09:08:41PM +0800, Huang, Tao wrote: On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Michal <michal(a)ionic.co.uk> wrote: This is a better way then disconnecting the drive and checking which drive was disconnected like I did, but I would still put a very easy to read label on the drive to say /d... 18 Jun 2010 15:44