Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kdirstat fails

2009-07-29 Thread Nicolai Beuermann
Am Montag, 27. Juli 2009 16:08:35 schrieb Arttu V.: > On 7/27/09, Nicolai Beuermann wrote: > > Hello, > > emerging kde-misc/kdirstat-2.5.3-r1 doesn't compile due to this error: > > This bug has someone fighting with this package with moderate success > (uninstalling : > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/sh

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:20:53 -0700, Grant wrote: > Anyway, the point of all this is to prevent an HD failure from > stopping the system. An SSD is much safer, right? SSDs are still relatively new technology, so predicting failure rates is less reliable. What's wrong with using RAID-1? It's prove

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-29 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: >>> Is cost-savings the advantage of using CF instead of SSD? It sounds >>> like it might be wiser to spend a little more (low capacity SSD drives >>> are pretty cheap now) and have a real storage device that doesn't need >>> an adapter and is much faster, can swap, etc. >> I assume

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2009-07-29 Thread Jochen Becker

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-29 Thread Grant
>> Is cost-savings the advantage of using CF instead of SSD?  It sounds >> like it might be wiser to spend a little more (low capacity SSD drives >> are pretty cheap now) and have a real storage device that doesn't need >> an adapter and is much faster, can swap, etc. > > I assumed that you're look

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing xorg.conf at runtime (nVidia cards)

2009-07-29 Thread bn
Mike Mazur ha scritto: > I'd like to run a single command, passing it one of my xorg.conf files > (for instance), and have my screens configured on-the-fly. I looked at > the command-line options for nvidia-settings and nvidia-xconfig but > they don't seem to do what I want. I also looked at XRandR

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-29 Thread Nevynxxx
Grant schrieb: >> Aren't CF cards much slower than SSD drives and HD drives? >> >> How about using SD cards, like Dell/HP do in VMWare ESXi servers? I'm just in th middle of speccig a server that will have zero local storage, except the SD card that holds ESXi, all storage needs are handled b