Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:11:58 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > equery --quiet --nocolor list --duplicates gentoo-sources | awk > > '{print $1}' | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty emerge --unmerge > > &>/dev/null > > Out of interest: > > 1) Why --duplicates (i.e. am I missing something ;

Re: [gentoo-user] floppy flops: mtools vs file managers

2007-04-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:11:32 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos noauto,user,sync 0 0 > > ...in /etc/fstab. I don't know if the "sync" options works with MSDOS > filesys, but it's worth a try. It does, it's useful for killing flash memory devices :( It will be very slow thoug

Re: [gentoo-user] Diary tool?

2007-04-13 Thread Andrea Bona
Take a look at Zim. Zim - a desktop wiki and outliner http://pardus-larus.student.utwente.nl/%7Epardus/projects/zim/index.shtml -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Masked packages

2007-04-13 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I posted a question yesterday about masked packages and got a lot of answers on how to use it, but didn't really needed it for the task I was trying to accomplish. Now however i fear there is no way around it. After reading trough the different po

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

2007-04-13 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 13 April 2007 11:47, Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: > My problem is that emerge still ain't to happy... it prints out: > > Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.keywords: dev-php5/phpunit-3.0.5 Just put the name of the package without the version number: echo "dev-php5/phpunit ~x86" >> /

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

2007-04-13 Thread Boris Fersing
2007/4/13, Johannes Skov Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Hi, I posted a question yesterday about masked packages and got a lot of answers on how to use it, but didn't really needed it for the task I was trying to accomplish. Now however i fear

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

2007-04-13 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Etaoin Shrdlu said the following on 2007-04-13 12:28: > Just put the name of the package without the version number: > > echo "dev-php5/phpunit ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords ...or put = before the specific version, as in echo "=dev-php5/php

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

2007-04-13 Thread Will Briggs
Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: > Hi > > I posted a question yesterday about masked packages and got a lot of > answers on how to use it, but didn't really needed it for the task I was > trying to accomplish. Now however i fear there is no way around it. > > After reading trough the different posts

Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

2007-04-13 Thread W. Barnhoorn
Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: > echo "dev-php5/phpunit-3.0.5 ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords > emerge -av dev-php5/phpunit > .. > Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.keywords: dev-php5/phpunit-3.0.5 You used the version number of the package, and that why portage complains. The right lin

[gentoo-user] re: Masked packages

2007-04-13 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
Hi Removing the version number did the trick. Thanks everybody. -- Regards / Venlig hilsen Johannes Skov Frandsen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Hi, I have a Fujitsu Amilo laptop, which has a "nice" audio subsystem, called 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) I have some problems with it: no master volume, skype cannot use its microphone, even I can adjust the volume of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 13 April 2007, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > I have a Fujitsu Amilo laptop, which has a "nice" audio subsystem, > called > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High > Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) fwiw, my laptop has an 82801(FB (ICH6) chipset, and I suffer the

Re: [gentoo-user] more on the mysterious console blanking

2007-04-13 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 maxim wexler wrote: > Does it have to do with this dummy console? Am I the > dummy? I went through the config pages with a fine > tooth comb and couldn't find it. No idea how it got > into the .config file. Stupid questions but... have you tried boo

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2007. 04. 13, péntek keltezéssel 13.03-kor Alan McKinnon ezt írta: > However, it all works just fine with a lower kernel version. I might be > wrong but I think 2.6.19 worked fine, either that or 2.6.18. > > What results do you get by using a lower kernel version, or by using out > of tree alsa

[gentoo-user] dr.dk

2007-04-13 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi I feel like I'm spamming this mailing list with questions but I'm much impressed by the speed and quality of the answers so here I go again with another one. I can't seem to play streaming radio from http://www.dr.dk. I followed one of the links f

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Friday 13 April 2007 06:52, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Fujitsu Amilo laptop, which has a "nice" audio subsystem, > called > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High > Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) > > I have some problems with it: > no master volume

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Tony Stohne
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pongracz Istvan said the following on 2007-04-13 12:52: | ... | localhost etc # arecord -l | | List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices | ... | card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem] | Subdevices: 1/1 | Subdevice #0: su

Re: [gentoo-user] Diary tool?

2007-04-13 Thread Buffalo Dickens
Very nice tool! 2007/4/13, Andrea Bona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Take a look at Zim. Zim - a desktop wiki and outliner http://pardus-larus.student.utwente.nl/%7Epardus/projects/zim/index.shtml -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- You will when you BELIEVE. Buffalo Dickens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 13 April 2007 12:52:01 Pongracz Istvan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Fujitsu Amilo laptop, which has a "nice" audio subsystem, > called > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High > Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) > > I have some problems with it: > no master volu

[gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Kellystewart00
What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone

Re: [gentoo-user] dr.dk

2007-04-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:35:16 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can't seem to play streaming radio from http://www.dr.dk. I followed > one of the links from http://www.dr.dk/netradio/afspillere.asp, but > totem just bitches about 'no uri handler implemented for mms:'.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Michael Sullivan
I'm 27 (I think). On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 12:07 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸&j)bžb -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:07:35 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Well, the automatically determined average age (measured by typing speed, length of sentences and number of spelling errors as well as number of started flamewars) is 12,78 years. But

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm 27 (I think). 25 here, and using GNU/Linux since I was twelve. (late 1994). - -- Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica Foros GNU/Buanzo: Respeto, Soluciones y Buena Onda: http://f

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Aargh! This seems to be the new excuse for writing ridiculously > short mails w/o much information and background now. IMHO, a stupid > excuse. BUT you provided a great, and funny but yet insightful answer. :P - -- Ar

RE: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Wayne Oliver
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 April 2007 02:08 > To: Gentoo List > Subject: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious > > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? I'll bite, 27 -> 28 using Linux since 1997 and Gentoo since 2002 I t

[gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?

2007-04-13 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am getting these errors in /root/dead.letter: === /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: /bin/nice: No such file or directory /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: exec: /bin/nice: cannot execute: No such file or directory ===

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 12:07 Fri 13 Apr , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone youngest among all the previous mailors, 23 --> 24 this may :) -- Does a good farmer neglect a crop he has planted? Does a good teacher overlook even the m

Re: [gentoo-user] dr.dk

2007-04-13 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:35:16 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I can't seem to play streaming radio from http://www.dr.dk. I followed >> one of the links from http://www.dr.dk/netradio/a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread mereandor
Am Freitag 13 April 2007 15:24 schrieb Vikas Kumar: > On 12:07 Fri 13 Apr , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone > > youngest among all the previous mailors, 23 --> 24 this may :) not anymore: 20 -- [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 mereandor wrote: > not anymore: 20 I still remember me answering "I'm 15!" and everybody would just laugh :) - -- Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica Foros GNU/Buanzo: Respeto, Soluciones y Buena Onda: http:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Fabrício L. Ribeiro
On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? I'm 24 recently completed. -- Fabrício L. Ribeiro http://opalavrorio.blogspot.com == V. Regina cæli, lætare, alleluia. R. Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia. V. Resurrexit, sicut dixi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Roman Zimmermann
Am Freitag 13 April 2007 15:42 schrieb Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman: > mereandor wrote: > > not anymore: 20 > > I still remember me answering "I'm 15!" and everybody would just laugh :) > In not using gentoo that long. Just started previous summer but learning fast. ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Roman Zimmermann wrote: > In not using gentoo that long. Just started previous summer but learning > fast. ;) Well, gentoo didn't exist 10 years ago, but yggdrasil and slackware did. - -- Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Segu

RE: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Wayne Oliver
> -Original Message- > From: Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 13 April 2007 03:58 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Roman Zimmermann wrote: > > In not using gent

Re: [gentoo-user] floppy flops: mtools vs file managers

2007-04-13 Thread David W Noon
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philip Webb wrote: > 070411 David W Noon wrote: >> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Philip Webb wrote: [snip] >>> I've added a line to /etc/fstab : >>> '/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,user 0 0' >> I would have thought filesystem 'msdos' would make more sense, >>

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Wayne Oliver wrote: > Redhat 4 I believe it was? Redhat! Damn... that's good memories... it used to be the distro I used to show vulnerable systems when I was a professor of IT Security at a local institute. Pretty funny. > A bit of 13th Friday,

Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?

2007-04-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:07 +0100, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I am getting these errors in /root/dead.letter: > === > /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: /bin/nice: No such file or > directory > /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: exec: /bin/nice: cannot ex

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Francisco Rivas
Hi all... I have 23! :D On 4/13/07, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Wayne Oliver wrote: > Redhat 4 I believe it was? Redhat! Damn... that's good memories... it used to be the distro I used to show vulnerable systems when I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Rodrigo Forlin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸&j)bž bst== 26, using linux since 1996 begin:vcard fn:Rodrigo Forlin n:Forlin;Rodrigo email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;cell:+551194952922 note;quoted-printa

[gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-04-13, Wayne Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> In not using gentoo that long. Just started previous summer >>> but learning fast. ;) >> >> Well, gentoo didn't exist 10 years ago, but yggdrasil and slackware >> did. > > And Redhat, the first distro I managed to get my hangs on! > > Re

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Davi
Em Sexta 13 Abril 2007 11:36, Rodrigo Forlin escreveu: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote this: > > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? 20, using Linux since 2000 -- Davi Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Agora com fortune: "Mal: "I've seen you without your clothes on before. Nev

Re: [gentoo-user] console blanks permanantly

2007-04-13 Thread maxim wexler
> 1) What exactly is error message at bootup? No bootup errors. The error was a result of a missing sym-link in /etc/runlevels. That's been fixed but it did not solve the blanking problem. -mw __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the b

Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?

2007-04-13 Thread Mick
On Friday 13 April 2007 15:30, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:07 +0100, Mick wrote: > > I am getting these errors in /root/dead.letter: > > === > > /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line 5: /bin/nice: No such file or > > directory > > /etc/cron.

[gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread anhnmncb
hello, I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk, so I don't have a try --sync quite often(maybe once a month), but how can I know whether I really need a sync and upgrade my system if a new kernel or glibc is realised? Is there a simple and quick method? Thank

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
> I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk, > so I don't have a try --sync quite often(maybe once a month), but how can > I know whether I really need a sync and upgrade my system if a new kernel > or glibc is realised? Is there a simple and quick method? You could

Re: [gentoo-user] more on the mysterious console blanking

2007-04-13 Thread maxim wexler
> Stupid questions but... have you tried booting a > Gentoo livecd and see if you still have issues? No issues w/ livecd. > You sure the FB modules don't get loaded > automagically? What about passing vga=normal (or > other > options) to the kernel command line? Wow! A whole whack of them got lo

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Fabio
Well, when I started with Gentoo Linux almost a year ago, I emerged --sync more than twice per week. I never experimented any damage or error. However, I do not advise people to do it so frequently just because they will not find updated versions of their favorite packages as often as I thought in

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Francisco Rivas
I was started with ESware 1.0, RedHat 5.1, Mandrake, then SuSE 6.3/7.x//9.x/10.x, Debian (Woody and Sagre) and finally and so so so happy Gentoo... I feel tempted to touch Arch Linux. Please let me know who is happy with your distributions?... :D it's an obvious question :D I am :D On 4/13/07,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Francisco Rivas wrote: > Please let me know who is happy with your distributions?... :D it's an > obvious question :D Well, I love Gentoo very much. I also like SourceMage, Ubuntu (yeah, I can';t believe it) and I even used ot love SuSE. Damn, I e

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Ryan Sims
On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello, I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk. This sounds like juju. Did your source provide numbers in support of this conclusion, or is it just concern about hard drive thrashing? If there is a documen

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Pongracz Istvan
Thank you for you all guys! I try to find out, how to separate modem and sound card. Googling :) IStván -- IT szolgáltatások, alkalmazásszolgáltatás http://www.osbusiness.hu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 4/13/07, Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/13/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello, > I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk. This sounds like juju. Did your source provide numbers in support of this conclusion, or is it just concer

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread kashani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Looks like I'm coming in at the older end at 33. Some SunOS on sparc5 in college and the IBM mainframe for the Fortran classes I took in '93. Installed BSD off floppies and a 28.8 modem in '96. Discovered Linux in '97

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 13 April 2007 17:46:42 Fabio wrote: > Now I advise people to keep their systems synced at least once a > month, not because their machine necessarily needs to, but because > after much time with no emerging --sync, you'd see your computers > spending one or two days downloading and compil

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Friday 13 April 2007 10:18, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > Thank you for you all guys! > > I try to find out, how to separate modem and sound card. > Googling :) > > IStván If you find anything new post it to the list. I think there are plenty of people with similar problems Matt -- %

Re: [gentoo-user] more on the mysterious console blanking FIXED

2007-04-13 Thread maxim wexler
> OK. Reconfigure your kernel. Make sure the one you > config is the one you install and tell grub/lilo > to boot. Ah! C'est ca! Thanks Arturo! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Elias Probst
On Friday 13 April 2007 14:06:55 Elias Probst wrote: > I have an HP/Compaq nx9420 with an Intel HDA Chipset and Skype/Mic. is > working fine here. > I remember some troubles concerning KMix switching the capture LED of the > Capture-Channel to off after 1-5 seconds, but IIRC it was working finally

Re: [gentoo-user] more on the mysterious console blanking FIXED

2007-04-13 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 maxim wexler wrote: > Ah! C'est ca! great :) > > Thanks Arturo! Merci. - -- Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica Foros GNU/Buanzo: Respeto, Soluciones y Buena Onda: http://foros.buanzo.com.ar Consulting an

[gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Sven Braun
Hi, i'm 15 years old, using Linux since 2004/2005, started with Suse, Debian and now i'm on Gentoo - and very happy :) On 4/13/07, kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Looks like I'm coming in at the older end at 33. So

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:46:42 -0500, Fabio wrote: > Well, when I started with Gentoo Linux almost a year ago, I emerged > --sync more than twice per week. I never experimented any damage or > error. I have a system here that rsyncs with three other computers every hour and the disk is still good a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Friday 13 April 2007 10:06, Wayne Oliver wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 13 April 2007 02:08 > > To: Gentoo List > > Subject: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious > > > > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:45:04 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:46:42 -0500, Fabio wrote: > > > Well, when I started with Gentoo Linux almost a year ago, I emerged > > --sync more than twice per week. I never experimented any damage or > > error. > > I h

[gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-13 Thread Grant
Hello, I have packet shaping set up on my Gentoo router with iptables, shorewall, and "The Wonder Shaper" which is a /etc/shorewall/tcstart file. It seems to be working since internet radio is now full of hiccups. :) I'd like to configure it to prioritize voip, ssh, web browsing, bittorrent dow

Re: [gentoo-user] Packet Shaping

2007-04-13 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:24:03 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I have packet shaping set up on my Gentoo router with iptables, > shorewall, and "The Wonder Shaper" which is a /etc/shorewall/tcstart > file. It seems to be working since internet radio is now full of > hiccups. :

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Nistor Andrei
On Friday 13 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone I'm 17 :D First tasted linux back in the days of RedHat 7.3 (I think) Then dual-booted with windows until 4 years ago when linux became the only OS living ins

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:05:55 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hello, > I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my > hard-disk, so I don't have a try --sync quite often(maybe once a > month), but how can I know whether I really need a sync and upgrade > my system if a new kernel o

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Neil Walker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heard of that using emerge --sync frequently may hert my hard-disk My network server has been doing a daily "emerge --sync" for 4 years now. Hasn't died yet. FWIW, simply running Windows puts far more strain on the HD than doing a daily sync in Gentoo ever will. J

Re: [gentoo-user] dr.dk

2007-04-13 Thread Jan-Hendrik Zab
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:33:07 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed mplayer and I can now play the stream without problems. > Still wonder why I have no frontend for vlc and why it will not play the > streams thought. VLC was most likely not compiled with the wxwindo

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2007. 04. 13, péntek keltezéssel 13.13-kor Matthew R. Lee ezt írta: > If you find anything new post it to the list. I think there are plenty of > people with similar problems > > Matt Yes, I will. I found lot of problems with this kind of sound card, even with windows xp. An other interesting

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Dale
I'm 39. I'm not the oldest but I feel like I am. I started with Mandrake. After trying to upgrade, I switched to Gentoo. I have never had windoze on any of my machines. Not once. Never had a need to either. Dale P. S. If you are paying by the byte, good luck on the phone bill. :/ --

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Francisco Rivas
I am so glad of found people who is happy with their SO. On 4/13/07, Mauro Faccenda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 13 April 2007 10:06, Wayne Oliver wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 13 April 2007 02:08 > > To: Gentoo Lis

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

2007-04-13 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Friday 13 April 2007 07:52, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Fujitsu Amilo laptop, which has a "nice" audio subsystem, > called > 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High > Definition Audio Controller (rev 02) mine is a 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 8

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Larry Lines
I'm 37. Started with Redhat in 1999, then Debian and then Gentoo in 2002. Larry -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread b.n.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸&j)bž bst== I'm 26. (By the way, it seems that Gentoo is a really young distro! I thought the average was in the 30's, but I find myself to be on the average)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread david
I'm 51, I have been using Gentoo since 2002. -- Powered by Gentoo/Linux -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Graham Murray
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm 39. I'm not the oldest but I feel like I am. Do not feel the oldest any more, I am 49. I started Linux with SuSE and prior to that used OS/2. The last version of Windows I used personally (as opposed to at work, though now even at work I almost exclusively

Re: [gentoo-user] dr.dk

2007-04-13 Thread Kristian Poul Herkild
Johannes Skov Frandsen skrev: > Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: >> Hi, > >> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:35:16 +0200 Johannes Skov Frandsen >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I can't seem to play streaming radio from http://www.dr.dk. I followed >>> one of the links from http://www.dr.dk/netradio/afspillere.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸&j)bž bst== I'm 64. Gentoo since 1999. I started with CP/M on a processor Technology SOL-20 in 1979 or 1980. Tony -- Those who would give up essential Liberty,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Pongracz Istvan wrote: > Unfortunatelly, our government needs some documents made by their stupid > program, which only runs on windows. :( Let's reverse engineer the format :) - -- Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad I

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-13 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2007. 04. 13, péntek keltezéssel 23.16-kor b.n. ezt írta: > Hi, > > I have looked a bit for this but I've found nothing. > However I'd like to see some tutorial/advice/whatever about it. > > m. Hi, Try out catalyst, which is part of portage. It is easy to create a custom own livecd. >From liv

[gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-04-13, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> What is the average age of the gentoo user here? >> Sent via BlackBerry? from Vodafone ??z???(??&j)b? bst== > > I'm 64. > > Gentoo since 1999. I started with CP/M on a processor > Technology SOL-20

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-13 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:33:43 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't be doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel, you only need "emerge -P gentoo-sources" to remove the rest.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Colleen Beamer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸&j)bž bst== Don't know what the average age is, but I'm 58. I've been using Linux since 1999. I first used Redhat/Fedora, have tried Mandrake (now Mandriva), Ubun

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Vernon A. Fort
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸&j)bž bst== I'm 42, linux user since 1988 (slackware) then redhat 4.2 through 9.0 then fedora core. Got burned out doing constant upgrades and discovered Gentoo in s

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Vernon A. Fort
Vernon A. Fort wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the average age of the gentoo user here? Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone �éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸&j)bžbst== I'm 42, linux user since 1988 (slackware) then redhat 4.2 through 9.0 then fedora core. Got burned out doing constant upgrades and

[gentoo-user] WLAN daemon?

2007-04-13 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into them, if he finds one, that i prefer? Thanks, Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN daemon?

2007-04-13 Thread Elias Probst
Am Samstag, 14. April 2007 02:10:42 schrieb Sven Köhler: > Hi, > > is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into > them, if he finds one, that i prefer? > > > Thanks, > Sven emerge wpa_supplicant signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] WLAN daemon?

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Sven Köhler schrieb: > Hi, > > is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into > them, if he finds one, that i prefer? > > > Thanks, > Sven > Maybe wifi-radar fits your needs! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:14:32 -0500 "Vernon A. Fort" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vernon A. Fort wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > >> Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone _éí¢‹¬z¸žÚ(¢¸&j)bžbst== > > I'm 42, linux user since 1988 (slackwa

[gentoo-user] Re: WLAN daemon?

2007-04-13 Thread Sven Köhler
>> is there any "WLAN daemon" that scans for wireless LANs and loggs into >> them, if he finds one, that i prefer? > > Maybe wifi-radar fits your needs! I think, it's "just" an application - a frontend. What i would prefer, is really a daemon running as root in background, scanning for networks,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 13 April 2007 23:36:29 Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > Gentoo since 1999. Really? I was under the impression the first release went out in 2002. Of course it could be installed before that but '99? (and yeah, I'm 24). -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

[gentoo-user] lib w/o a package?

2007-04-13 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, list! It appears I have a lib ("gdbm.so") left behind by some removed package. Could somebody, please, tell me which package does this file belong to? revdep-rebuild -X -i -pv Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild Checking reverse dependencies... Packages conta

Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed with nice?

2007-04-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 15:59 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2007 15:30, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 14:07 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > I am getting these errors in /root/dead.letter: > > > === > > > /etc/cron.weekly/makewhatis: line

Re: [gentoo-user] lib w/o a package?

2007-04-13 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 05:02 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote: > It appears I have a lib ("gdbm.so") left behind by some removed > package. > Could somebody, please, tell me which package does this file belong > to? A slightly educated guess would be the "gdbm" package, though you'd think it would be name

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread dsewnr
Nistor Andrei wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> What is the average age of the gentoo user here? >> Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone >> > > I'm 17 :D First tasted linux back in the days of RedHat 7.3 (I think) Then > dual-booted with windows until 4 years ag

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Statux
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 11:06 +0800, dsewnr wrote: > HI, > I'm 22 years old, I've used Linux about half year since 2006, > Windows XP >> Ubuntu >> Fedora Core >> Debian >> and now I'm using Gentoo. > What a good operation system Gentoo is :P > I very very like it ! As for me, I'm 26. I first used an

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2007/4/14, dsewnr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Nistor Andrei wrote: > On Friday 13 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> What is the average age of the gentoo user here? >> Sent via BlackBerry(r) from Vodafone >> > > I'm 17 :D First tasted linux back in the days of RedHat 7.3 (I think) Then > dual-b

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: problem :eht0 not getting detected

2007-04-13 Thread agam gupta
as suggested i tried ifconfig -a but that didint work... On 4/11/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 14:26:51 -0700 "Joshua Doll" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/11/07, Richard Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Well specifically what kind of realtek etherne

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: problem :eht0 not getting detected

2007-04-13 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:34:05 -0700 "agam gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > as suggested > i tried ifconfig -a but that didint work... have you tried other realtek drivers from the kernel yet? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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