080628 William Kenworthy top-posted (ugh!):
> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:41 -0700, Grant wrote:
>> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day
>> and every time I try to do something new it doesn't work.
>> Anybody else experiencing that lately?
> My Gentoo systems get this way for one of tw
On Friday 27 June 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:09:16 -0700, Grant wrote:
> > I think you're right Brian. Of course, this is nobody's fault but
> > mine for using ~amd64 packages, but I only pull those in if I feel
> > I "have to". Quite a few of them now though. Does it se
On Friday 27 June 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:01:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every
> > > time I try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else
> > > experiencing that lately?
> >
> > No.
>
> How can yo
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > |> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use
> pure
> > |> ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had
> recently
> > |> turned out to be a corrupt root filesystem.
> > |
> > | yeah, m
Grant gmail.com> writes:
>
Gentoo is rock solid for me, but, I have endured much pain
since early 2004. I use many system and only stray from stable
when warranted.
> > | yeah, mixing isn't good. Pure systems are way more stable.
Well, I do not agree here, with this blanket statement. I mix
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:20:50 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
> Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The question is valid and interesting, moreover it is asked very
> > kindly. I can't see what possibly might be preventing you to answer
> > the same way.
>
> I did answe
My Gentoo systems get this way for one of two reasons:
Some config files get overwritten (make.conf was one time ) by accident
and a few packages get installed with the wrong build settings causing
random grief
system inconsistency, mainly with libraries. revdep-rebuild may or may
not help - if
On Friday 27 June 2008, Grant wrote:
> > |> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use
> > |> pure ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had
> > |> recently turned out to be a corrupt root filesystem.
> > |
> > | yeah, mixing isn't good. Pure systems are
Joerg Schilling ha scritto:
The URLs mentioned did point to disinformation from lwn.net that should be
easily identifyable as incorrect claims. If such URLs are published without
comment, I asume that the questionair believes the incorrect claims from
lwn.net. Would you answer people if they ma
> |> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use pure
> |> ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had recently
> |> turned out to be a corrupt root filesystem.
> |
> | yeah, mixing isn't good. Pure systems are way more stable.
Now that's an interesting id
Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The question is valid and interesting, moreover it is asked very kindly.
> I can't see what possibly might be preventing you to answer the same
> way.
I did answer these questions many times before and in many cases I have
later been attacked.
The URLs
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Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
| On Freitag, 27. Juni 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
|> I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use pure
|> ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had recently
|> turned out to be a
On Freitag, 27. Juni 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:09:16 -0700, Grant wrote:
> > I think you're right Brian. Of course, this is nobody's fault but
> > mine for using ~amd64 packages, but I only pull those in if I feel I
> > "have to". Quite a few of them now though. Does it
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
| On Friday 27 June 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
|> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:44:00 +0100, Stroller wrote:
|>>> I'm sure the NSA would be happy to forego the prize and keep
|>>> quiet about
|>>> being able to break a secure cipher.
|
At Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:01:17 -0300 Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Gordon Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Another option is the excellent Tomato Firmware
>> (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato), which does exactly what you need
>> out of the box.
>>
b.n. wrote:
Grant ha scritto:
Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
that lately?
- Grant
Yes. Looks like my Gentoo box is rotting these days, but most probably
it's me not having time at all t
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
> try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
> that lately?
>
After almost 8 months withtou an upgrade, I finally decided to go on
with
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:01:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
> > try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
> > that lately?
>
> No.
How can you be so certain that not one of the thousands of Gentoo
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:09:16 -0700, Grant wrote:
> I think you're right Brian. Of course, this is nobody's fault but
> mine for using ~amd64 packages, but I only pull those in if I feel I
> "have to". Quite a few of them now though. Does it seem like ~arch
> packages have been more difficult la
Grant ha scritto:
Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
that lately?
- Grant
Yes. Looks like my Gentoo box is rotting these days, but most probably
it's me not having time at all to iron out ev
> Grant,
>
> I've had a lot of problems lately upgrading ~arch and masked packages. This
> is expected (obviously) but 99% of the time I am able to fix them myself
> without going through support resources.
>
> If you're using any that are ~arch and in packages.mask perhaps that is why
> you're hav
Grant,
I've had a lot of problems lately upgrading ~arch and masked packages. This
is expected (obviously) but 99% of the time I am able to fix them myself
without going through support resources.
If you're using any that are ~arch and in packages.mask perhaps that is why
you're having problems t
On Freitag, 27. Juni 2008, Grant wrote:
> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
> try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
> that lately?
>
> - Grant
a botched gcc-upgrade/clean cycle damaged gcc beyond repair - but that was
easily solved
Am Freitag, 27. Juni 2008 schrieb 7v5w7go9ub0o:
> So IIUC the question becomes, can one configure LUKS to NOT keep a copy
> of the passphrase-protected encryption key on the HD (or is keeping it
> there part of the LUKS "standard")?
Well, LUKS means "Linux Unified Key Setup", that's what LUKS is
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:08:04 +0100
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:44:00 +0100, Stroller wrote:
>
> > > I'm sure the NSA would be happy to forego the prize and keep
> > > quiet about
> > > being able to break a secure cipher.
> >
> > I can't help wondering if
Grant wrote:
Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
that lately?
- Grant
Rock solid.
--Joshua Doll
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gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
On Friday 27 June 2008, Grant wrote:
> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
> try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
> that lately?
No.
--
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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On Friday 27 June 2008, Zhang Le wrote:
> On 13:18 Thu 26 Jun , Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > That info is still a bit skimpy though. Is there anything more
> > somewhere? And what about FEATURES=preserve-libs, is that
> > documented somewhere?
>
> All you need to do is to run 'emerge @preserved-reb
Hello
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:41:00PM -0700, Grant wrote:
> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
> try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
> that lately?
On the contrary. But it may be because I finally got little time to look
at all
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
> try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
> that lately?
>
> - Grant
Not at all for me Grant.
- Mark
--
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.
Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I
try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing
that lately?
- Grant
--
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
On 13:18 Thu 26 Jun , Alan McKinnon wrote:
> That info is still a bit skimpy though. Is there anything more
> somewhere? And what about FEATURES=preserve-libs, is that documented
> somewhere?
All you need to do is to run 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' when you are reminded
to.
If you want to kn
On Friday 27 June 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> > > Is the new (minimal) system a strict sub-set of the old (bloated
> > > one)? As in, could you add to the minimal config a bunch of USE
> > > flags (that would not change t
On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote:
> Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> > Is the new (minimal) system a strict sub-set of the old (bloated
> > one)? As in, could you add to the minimal config a bunch of USE
> > flags (that would not change the overall behaviour of what is
> > already there), eme
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Gordon Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Another option is the excellent Tomato Firmware
> (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato), which does exactly what you need
> out of the box.
>
Another vote for Tomato, as its the best firmware I've used so far.
But, if you hav
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:57:43 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joerg Schilling) wrote:
> Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Since you now appear to be answering license questions, could I
> > trouble you, please, to address this query?
> >
> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/2000
Uwe Thiem iway.na> writes:
> Pruning a fat system can be very time consuming. I'd rather clone the
> I'd rather tar the whole small system up and install this tarball on
> the other one (after adjusting partitioning, creating filesystems and
> such).
Yes, that's what occurred to me, as I w
Another option is the excellent Tomato Firmware
(http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato), which does exactly what you need
out of the box.
Greetings,
gordon.
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a linksys (Cisco) WRT54G, which works fine except for one
>
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> Is the new (minimal) system a strict sub-set of the old (bloated one)?
> As in, could you add to the minimal config a bunch of USE flags (that
> would not change the overall behaviour of what is already there),
> emerge a lot of new packages, and basically a
On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to deploy a (gentoo) server, on an isolated, remote network,
> with just a few custom applications. However, to periodically
> update the gentoo distro, I want to build a second (congruent)
> system, that can be physically swapped for update,
On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to deploy a (gentoo) server, on an isolated, remote network,
> with just a few custom applications. However, to periodically
> update the gentoo distro, I want to build a second (congruent)
> system, that can be physically swapped for update,
Allan Gottlieb wrote:
I have a linksys (Cisco) WRT54G, which works fine except for one
point.
I have been unable to find in the documentation how to tell its dhcp
server that mac address X should get IP addr Y. I am prepared to
accept the deserved shame if someone tells me how to do this.
Fail
I have a linksys (Cisco) WRT54G, which works fine except for one
point.
I have been unable to find in the documentation how to tell its dhcp
server that mac address X should get IP addr Y. I am prepared to
accept the deserved shame if someone tells me how to do this.
Failing the above, I am seri
Sebastian Wiesner wrote:
7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Friday 27 June 2008, 05:41:15
Chris Walters wrote:
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Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was
wondering
which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered t
Hello,
I need to deploy a (gentoo) server, on an isolated, remote network, with
just a few custom applications. However, to periodically
update the gentoo distro, I want to build a second (congruent)
system, that can be physically swapped for update, or in the
event of failure (brain-dead, I know
On 27 Jun 2008, at 17:08, Brian Johnson wrote:
...
This doesn't mean that ffmpeg is slotted. It means that the version
of VLC you're trying to merge depends on an OLDER version of
ffmpeg. VLC has some major issues with later versions of ffmpeg
that are being handled rather poorly upstream.
Stroller,
This doesn't mean that ffmpeg is slotted. It means that the version of VLC
you're trying to merge depends on an OLDER version of ffmpeg. VLC has some
major issues with later versions of ffmpeg that are being handled rather
poorly upstream. So unfortunately, if you want to use a stable VL
I have 2 Internet connections, 1 fast ADSL and 1 slow wireless as a
backup. My router doesn't do automatic failover or even have support for
multiple WAN connections so I thought I'd set up PPP connections on my
Gentoo server that do PPPoE to the 2 modems which I connected directly
to my switch
Norman,
First understand one thing: The terminal is always a good friend :-)
Second, let's explain the fstab: Fstab (filesystem table) is a table
with all the specification for you filesystem. Check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab. To check the content of fstab just
type this on you t
On Friday 27 June 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:44:00 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> > > I'm sure the NSA would be happy to forego the prize and keep
> > > quiet about
> > > being able to break a secure cipher.
> >
> > I can't help wondering if - since P=NP is such a big problem - t
On Friday 27 June 2008, David Harel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> vmplayer broke again. I guess my last update had to do with gtk but
> still when running vmplayer I get:
> process 5474: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb58653a0 user data
> 0x8678f18,but no such filter has been added
> D-Bus not built
kashani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Friday 27 June 2008, 02:28:21
> Here's a reference to the interesting meet-in-the-middle attack which
> reduced 3DES key space down to 112 bits from 192.
3DES always had an effective key size of 112 bits, because it uses the
original DES algorithm applied in the fol
7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Friday 27 June 2008, 05:41:15
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> > Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was
> > wondering
> > which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the b
Steven Lembark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Thursday 26 June 2008, 23:52:17
> > I submit that brute forcing an AES key of reasonably length is
> > currently impossible in an amount of time that would matter to the
> > human race.
>
> On average yes.
>
> As already pointed out, however, there is nothi
Hi all,
vmplayer broke again. I guess my last update had to do with gtk but
still when running vmplayer I get:
process 5474: Attempt to remove filter function 0xb58653a0 user data
0x8678f18,but no such filter has been added
D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace.
Already
Hi there,
With an `emerge -pv world` today I've noticed an anomaly with vlv &
ffmpeg. It initially came up with a portage message which reported
AFAIR a package would be slotted for the first time. I uninstalled
vlc just for the moment, and upgraded ffmpeg to the latest version.
Still I s
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:44:00 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> > I'm sure the NSA would be happy to forego the prize and keep quiet
> > about
> > being able to break a secure cipher.
>
> I can't help wondering if - since P=NP is such a big problem - the
> advantages of having this knowledge in the p
On 27 Jun 2008, at 10:57, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 27 Jun 2008, at 10:25, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
A more general problem is the license incompatibility with
libcdio.
Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 27 Jun 2008, at 10:25, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thursday 26 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >>> A more general problem is the license incompatibility with libcdio.
> >>> Sun dropped libcdio alre
On Friday 27 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> If we ignore this, we come to the problem identified by the Sun
> lawyers:
>
> If you run sound-juicer, then gstreamer (being LGPL) loads and calls
> libcdio which is GPL. This is not allowed by the GPL. GPL and LGPL
> are incompatible.
Thanks for t
On 27 Jun 2008, at 10:25, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
A more general problem is the license incompatibility with libcdio.
Sun dropped libcdio already a year ago after Sun lawyers detected
the
problem and
On 27 Jun 2008, at 00:37, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:47:34 +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote:
If the NSA had a sufficient algorithm, that is capable of
reducing the time that much, they should also be able to prove P=NP.
This is worth 1.000.000$ iirc and somehow you should get a
"Yoav Luft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, it works!
> this what I did:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/music $ cdda2wav -e -N -B
> cdda2wav: No such file or directory. Cannot open '-1'. Cannot open SCSI
> driver.
> cdda2wav: For possible targets try 'wodim -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
> Use the scr
Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 26 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > A more general problem is the license incompatibility with libcdio.
> > Sun dropped libcdio already a year ago after Sun lawyers detected the
> > problem and I expect that Linux distros will do the same
OK, it works!
this what I did:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/music $ cdda2wav -e -N -B
cdda2wav: No such file or directory. Cannot open '-1'. Cannot open SCSI
driver.
cdda2wav: For possible targets try 'wodim -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
Use the script scan_scsi.linux to find out more.
Probably you did
Hello,
I keep running into errors while using an external eSATA drive. I have
searched for information regarding this issue, and there just is not
much out there. The best information I've seen mentions that a user was
having this issue, but it went away as long as the disk was connected to
t
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> A more general problem is the license incompatibility with libcdio.
> Sun dropped libcdio already a year ago after Sun lawyers detected the
> problem and I expect that Linux distros will do the same soon.
Could you elaborate a little on what the l
On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:51:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Neil
> mentioned GCHQ developing public key several years before RSA, but do
> note that RSA still had the same bright idea that GCHQ had, only a few
> short years later.
The important point was that they kept quiet about it. Even afte
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:00:03 -0400, Chris Walters wrote:
> Actually, if a theory I read about in theoretical physics is true -
> that is that all events that have occurred, are occurring, and will
> occur coexist together, and that we only perceive them as being linear
> because our brains are not
On Friday 27 June 2008, kashani wrote:
> > The thing about this keys is, that there is no better way than to
> > brute force such keys. The algorithm uses a function which inverse
> > is a known hard problem which resides in NP, which is a class of
> > functions equal to just guessing.
>
> I don't
On Friday 27 June 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > Numbers don't lie.
>
> and this is why nobody uses brute force.
>
> There a better ways to crack keys. NSA has tons of experts in
> mathematics and cryptoanalysis. Plus very sophisticated hardware. I
> am sure for most ciphers they use somethi
Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> - An enhanced cd with data tracks etc is not actually a cd according the
> >> Phillip spec...
> >>
> >
> > Well, it is on the Philips specs and is called CD+ or CDex
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