Re: [gentoo-user] office (or at least excel)
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:29:41 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 07:20:00PM +0100, Meka[ni] wrote: > > Is there some kind of office that is not so huge like Open > > Office? I actually need Excel, > > but if there is an office that is small enough (source not above > > 20mb) I would like to test it. Please anyone. I need it for some > > test on the university. Thanx. :o) app-office/siag Latest version available: 3.5.7 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 1,615 kB Homepage:http://siag.nu/ Description: A free Office package for Linux -- Leslie C. Miller, Ph.D. LHH 447 Dept. of Languages, Literature, and Communications Mesa State College 1100 North Ave. Grand Junction, CO 81506 (970) 248-1894 GnuPG KeyID F5F77F94 Key fingerprint = EA66 E27F 1A8D 0316 B4D0 E437 3AE5 61AF F5F7 7F94 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F5F77F94 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] best way to backup
On 01/24/04 08:57:25, Aaron Walker wrote: - Once I get everything back up and running, I want to start making it a habit to back things up on a regular basis. I was wondering what others on this list did for their backups. any recommendations? The last system I bought came with onboard RAID (HPT 370), so I looked into using RAID as a backup system. From what I recall, my options required me to trade off performance for security--or use 4 drives. Being poor, my system is already too slow and 4 drives was too expensive. Simply backing up to another partition on the main HD doesn't help when drives fail (I always seem to blow out the controller on the drive). So what I opted for was 2 physical drives in the machine: hda and hdb. Then I just set up an rsync script to run every day through cron. I believe the script I initially used was syncro.pl from an IBM DeveloperWorks article. At any rate, I modified the script for my setup and then used it to mirror exactly hda to hdb. Now, when hda dies, all I have to do is to reach in and move the cable on hdb from secondary to primary IDE, and move the jumper to master. Then when I fire up the system, it is like nothing happened. Of course my fileseystem is only as current as 4am that day when the drive was mirrored; you could always just mount the drive and save files to it too, if you need more current backups. I can even do pretty big mistakes with file deletion, mount my mirrored disk, copy the deleted files back to my main drive, and I am good to go---as long as I don't delete files needed to reboot or copy. Otherwise, I just switch the cables and the jumper on hdb and reboot. Since implementing this backup system, I have never lost more than a few hours of work on anything. I don't have to worry about how to restore after a drive or fs problem, no rescue disks are needed, and best of all, with rsync, once the drive has been copied the first time, all that needs to be copied subsequently is the files that have changed that day (and rsync doesn't even have to copy the whole file!) But there are two problems with this system. First, the two drives are in the same machine, in the same room of the same house. Theft, fire, meteorites, etc. can totally wipe out my files. Second, this system does require two drives. At first it was hard to shell out cash for a drive that wasn't available for extra storage, but after the first time I needed it, that ceased to be a problem! -- Leslie C. Miller, Ph.D. LHH 447 Dept. of Languages, Literature, and Communications Mesa State College 1100 North Ave. Grand Junction, CO 81506 (970) 248-1894 GnuPG KeyID F5F77F94 Key fingerprint = EA66 E27F 1A8D 0316 B4D0 E437 3AE5 61AF F5F7 7F94 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F5F77F94 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] nss-3.8 compile fails (crt1.o error)
I have looked all over the web, the list archives, the forums. I only found a few references to this problem, and no solutions. When compiling things like mozilla, evolution, etc. that need nss, I get the following error: gcc -o Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/nsinstall -O2 -fPIC -DLINUX1_2 -Di386 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -DLINUX2_1 -ansi -Wall -pipe -DLINUX -Dlinux -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -DHAVE_STRERROR -DXP_UNIX -UDEBUG -DNDEBUG -D_REENTRANT -I../../dist/Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/include -I../../dist/public/coreconf -I../../dist/private/coreconf -I/usr/include/nspr -I../../dist/Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/include/dbm Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/nsinstall.o Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/pathsub.o-L/lib -lpthread -ldl -lc /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/../../../crt1.o(.text+0xc): In function `_start': : undefined reference to `__libc_csu_fini' /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.3/../../../crt1.o(.text+0x11): In function `_start': : undefined reference to `__libc_csu_init' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [Linux2.6_x86_glibc_PTH_OPT.OBJ/nsinstall] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/misc/tmp/portage/nss-3.8/work/nss-3.8/mozilla/security/coreconf/nsinstall' make: *** [libs] Error 2 The problem seems to be undefned references in crt1.o. Currently I am running: kernel 2.6.0-test7-mm1 gcc 3.2.3-r2 glibc 2.3.2-r1 binutils 2.14.90.0.6-r2 I have tried going up and down with the versions of all of these packages, recompiling glibc with the new versions each time. Nothing helps. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Les -- Leslie C. Miller LHH 447 Dept. of Languages, Literature, and Communications Mesa State College 1100 North Ave. Grand Junction, CO 81506 (970) 248-1894 GnuPG KeyID F5F77F94 Key fingerprint = EA66 E27F 1A8D 0316 B4D0 E437 3AE5 61AF F5F7 7F94 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F5F77F94 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout?
Stephen Turner wrote: what is in the baselayout package? Phreek replies: Well, you could always unmerge it and then look to see what is missing from your system *8^) But if you want your system to remain functioning, a better way would be to emerge gentoolkit to get qpkg (and a a few other useful tools): # emerge gentoolkit And then use qpkg: # qpkg --list baselayout That will give you a list of the files in baselayout. Hope that helps. -- Leslie C. Miller LHH 447 Dept. of Languages, Literature, and Communication Mesa State College Grand Junction, CO 81506 GnuPG KeyID F5F77F94 Key fingerprint = EA66 E27F 1A8D 0316 B4D0 E437 3AE5 61AF F5F7 7F94 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F5F77F94 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gnuCash 1.8.x
* latin hypercube ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 08 June 2003 12:15, raptor wrote: > > I see there is ebuild for the gnucash 1.8.x (the current unmaesked version > > is 1.6.x) Can I safely emerge the newest version, does someone tried it ? > > Works fine here. > Works fine for me too. You can always try it and roll back to 1.6.x if you need to, can't you? -- Leslie C. Miller LHH 447 Dept. of Philosophy Mesa State College Grand Junction, CO 81506 GnuPG KeyID F5F77F94 Key fingerprint = EA66 E27F 1A8D 0316 B4D0 E437 3AE5 61AF F5F7 7F94 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F5F77F94 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm -Tt says: Hmm.. suspicious results
* Hemmann, Volker Armin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Sunday 08 June 2003 05:38, Stroller wrote:
> > On 8/6/03 3:05 am, "Dhruba Bandopadhyay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 20:06, Stroller wrote:
> snip <==
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $ sudo /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/hda
> >
> > /dev/hda:
> >
> >Model=IBM-DARA-212000, FwRev=AR4OA53A, SerialNo=AH0AHJ80443
> >Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> >RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4
> >BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=418kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> >CurCHS=17475/15/63, CurSects=16513875, LBA=yes, LBAsects=23579136
> >IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> >PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> >DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
> >UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4
> >AdvancedPM=yes: mode=0x80 (128) WriteCache=enabled
> >Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-4 T13 1153D revision 17: 1 2 3 4
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] stroller $
> >
> > Maybe this hard-drive is just a particularly slow one, as Volker
> > suggests..? But is seems SO considerably much slower than all the other
> > hdparm results I've seen posted. 8-[
How about this for slow:
iris root # hdparm -Tt /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.25 seconds =102.40 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.75 seconds = 36.47 MB/sec
iris root # hdparm -Tt /dev/hdf
/dev/hdf:
Timing buffer-cache reads: -3008 MB in 0.00 seconds = -inf kB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: -1504 MB in 0.00 seconds = -inf kB/sec
Hmm.. suspicious results: probably not enough free memory for a proper test.
Both drives are hooked to an HT370 RAID controller (onboard). RAID is
not used, just the UDMA/100 interface. hde is 2 years old, and hdf is
two weeks old. Something odd is going on here; I have 512M RAM and only
about 256M of that in use. Both drives have identical settings:
multcount= 16 (on)
IO_support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq= 1 (on)
using_dma= 1 (on)
keepsettings = 1 (on)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead= 8 (on)
In fact, the drives are idential WD drives, except that hde the 40G version,
and hdf is the 80G version.
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LHH 447
Dept. of Philosophy
Mesa State College
Grand Junction, CO 81506
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Re: [gentoo-user] prelinking
* Bryce Verdier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: ==< snip > > How does one pre-link programs? I don't think its done naturally for us, and i > would love to speaze as much power from my box as i can. Well, you could always read the howto yourself: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml -- Leslie C. Miller LHH 447 Dept. of Philosophy Mesa State College Grand Junction, CO 81506 GnuPG KeyID F5F77F94 Key fingerprint = EA66 E27F 1A8D 0316 B4D0 E437 3AE5 61AF F5F7 7F94 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F5F77F94 msg01820/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Courier-imap won't respond.
Hi all, There is a thread in the forums about this, but none of the solutions there work for me. I am having trouble setting up courier-imap. I have followed the instructions in the desktop-howto and the mail-howto. I have installed, configured, made sure my firewall is holding the ports open. Here is the deal. When testing by telneting to port 143 or 993 for ssl, according to the howtos, I should get something like: Escape character is '^]'. * OK Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2001 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. However, I just get: Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to iris. Escape character is '^]'. And that's it. Nothing else. This holds for all users, including root. "ps ax" tells me that everything is running as it should be. What am I missing? Ports open, demons running, everything configured as per the howtos. I am at a loss as to what to check next. Any suggestions? Thanks, Les -- Leslie C. Miller LHH 447 Dept. of Philosophy Mesa State College Grand Junction, CO 81506 GnuPG KeyID F5F77F94 Key fingerprint = EA66 E27F 1A8D 0316 B4D0 E437 3AE5 61AF F5F7 7F94 gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys F5F77F94 msg01356/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
