Re: [gentoo-user] HandBrakeCLI & undvd. was: Cloning movie DVDs with dd

2009-08-14 Thread Stroller
On 12 Aug 2009, at 21:43, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... If you just want the movies to play back on a Linux laptop whilst on a holiday trip then this probably won't bother you at all, but if you want an "archive" of your movie collection which you'll keep for playback into the future then undvd is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:47:24 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > I am looking for a faster way to do a > > cp -a r > > locally on one machine with one harddisk inside. rsync can parallel some of the tasks, like creating paths while files are being copied, so I guess it wouldn't hurt to t

Re: [gentoo-user] Knock on wood

2009-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:41:55 +0600, Mike Kazantsev wrote: > > I did, it is passed the install directory as an argument, so I looked > > at the kernel makefile and found it uses INSTALL_PATH to determine > > this. I originally thought about modifying installkernel, but it's > > good that that isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 August 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/14/2009 05:47 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a faster way to do a > > > > cp -a r > > > > locally on one machine with one harddisk inside. > > > > Is there a neat trick to accomplish this faste

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/14/2009 05:47 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for a faster way to do a > > > > cp -a r > > > > locally on one machine with one harddisk inside. > > > > Is there a neat trick to accomplish this faster than > > good old cp?

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 13 August 2009 21:55:44 Paul Hartman wrote: > I believe gentoo.org uses Neustar UltraDNS, whose business exists for > the purpose of providing high-availability DNS Well I certainly hope that their actual technical infrastructure is better than their marketing FUD. I'm being directly

[gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
I am trying increase a large reiserfs partition - from ~680GB to ~1.6TB - the lvm part has worked as has resize_reiserfs, when trying to do a final reiserfsck it hangs - always on a different file but in a simlar directory. The kernel doesnt have large file support, but I thinks thats for over 2T

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 13 August 2009 22:29:52 Joseph wrote: > Having Gentoo.org forum or wiki down when most of us rely heavily on them > is not acceptable. If the current sever is not reliable (and it is NOT; > regardless if it is free or not) move it somewhere else. You are completely missing the point a

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 August 2009 13:36:31 William Kenworthy wrote: > I am trying increase a large reiserfs partition - from ~680GB to ~1.6TB > - the lvm part has worked as has resize_reiserfs, when trying to do a > final reiserfsck it hangs - always on a different file but in a simlar > directory. The ke

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2009 13:36:31 William Kenworthy wrote: > > I am trying increase a large reiserfs partition - from ~680GB to ~1.6TB > > - the lvm part has worked as has resize_reiserfs, when trying to do a > > final reiserfsck it hangs -

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:29:52 -0600, Joseph wrote: > Having Gentoo.org forum or wiki down when most of us rely heavily on > them is not acceptable. If something so important to you fails to provide the service you need, you should demand your money back! -- Neil Bothwick c:>Press Enter to Exit

[gentoo-user] What Gives - Anyone know?

2009-08-14 Thread CJoeB
Hi, For the last little while (not sure when it started), Firefox will not load .pdf files (also files with a .aspx extention) - it downloads them and won't even display them if I try opening the pdf after download. I have nppdf.so as a plugin. Opera displays these files just fine - I have Oper

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:02:53 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Nothing critical stored there - mythtv recordings, Don't the MythTV folks advise against using ReiserFS for recordings? They recommend XFS. -- Neil Bothwick Several errant electrons jumped when they shouldn't have at a place they

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:10 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:02:53 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > > > Nothing critical stored there - mythtv recordings, > > Don't the MythTV folks advise against using ReiserFS for recordings? They > recommend XFS. > They do - as I discove

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-14 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 13:09 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:29:52 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > > Having Gentoo.org forum or wiki down when most of us rely heavily on > > them is not acceptable. > > If something so important to you fails to provide the service you need, > you shou

Re: [gentoo-user] What Gives - Anyone know?

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 August 2009 14:09:51 CJoeB wrote: > Hi, > > For the last little while (not sure when it started), Firefox will not > load .pdf files (also files with a .aspx extention) - it downloads them > and won't even display them if I try opening the pdf after download. I > have nppdf.so as a p

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 August 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:29:52 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > Having Gentoo.org forum or wiki down when most of us rely heavily on > > them is not acceptable. > > If something so important to you fails to provide the service you need, > you should demand yo

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 August 2009 14:27:09 William Kenworthy wrote: > That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and backups > though one large partition makes for easier management. And there is > the fact that some maintenance patches to reiserfs mean I cant use > kernels 2.6.29-30 (oop

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 14:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2009 14:27:09 William Kenworthy wrote: > > That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and backups > > though one large partition makes for easier management. And there is > > the fact that some maintena

Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfsck failing.

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 August 2009 14:47:26 William Kenworthy wrote: > On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 14:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Friday 14 August 2009 14:27:09 William Kenworthy wrote: > > > That being said, it would be nice to separate the recordings and > > > backups though one large partition makes f

[gentoo-user] Firefox PDF problem (was something vague)

2009-08-14 Thread Philip Webb
090814 CJoeB wrote: > For the last little while (not sure when it started), > Firefox will not load .pdf files (also files with a .aspx extention) - > it downloads them and won't even display them > if I try opening the pdf after download. I have nppdf.so as a plugin. Which version of Firefox ?

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-14 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:38, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 14 August 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:29:52 -0600, Joseph wrote: >> > Having Gentoo.org forum or wiki down when most of us rely heavily on >> > them is not acceptable. >> >> If something so important to

[gentoo-user] prelink Gentoo docs confusing

2009-08-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml is says: You do not need to set FEATURES="prelink" in your make.conf file; Portage will automatically support prelink if it can find the prelink binary. Does that mean there's a way portage will call prelink on its own when it finds it? W

Re: [gentoo-user] What Gives - Anyone know?

2009-08-14 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
2009/8/14 CJoeB : > For the last little while (not sure when it started), Firefox will not > load .pdf files (also files with a .aspx extension) - it downloads them > and won't even display them if I try  opening the pdf after download.  I > have nppdf.so as a plugin.  Opera displays these files ju

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-14 Thread forgottenwizard
On 12:28 Fri 14 Aug, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:38, Volker Armin > Hemmann wrote: > > On Freitag 14 August 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:29:52 -0600, Joseph wrote: > >> > Having Gentoo.org forum or wiki down when most of us rely heavily on > >> > th

Re: [gentoo-user] What Gives - Anyone know?

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:09 AM, CJoeB wrote: > Hi, > > For the last little while (not sure when it started), Firefox will not > load .pdf files (also files with a .aspx extention) - it downloads them > and won't even display them if I try opening the pdf after download. I > have nppdf.so as a pl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > The fastest method for copying directory trees (typicalls 30% faster than > any other known method) is to use star: > > star -copy -p -xdot -acl -sparse -C . That's a really nice one. However, does it also handle the "update " case

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > > > The fastest method for copying directory trees (typicalls 30% faster than > > any other known method) is to use star: > > > > star -copy -p -xdot -acl -sparse -C . > > That's a really nice one. However, do

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-14 Thread kashani
Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:05:07 +0200 pk wrote: gentoo.org works for me (both this afternoon, around 15.00 and right now, 20.03). f.g.o. also works right now. g-w.com also works. Your're all right; the gentoo.org thing must have been a transient hiccough somewhere between me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 14 August 2009 18:11:34 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > star by default only overwrites a file if it is older than the file that is > going to be extracted. Thanks. Will definitely try it out on next occasion. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > Note that on Linux you may need to add "-no-fsync" because file I/O is slow > on Linux. On Solaris, not using -no-fsync slows things down by aprox. 10% > but allows star to grant that everything was really copied to stable > storage. On

[gentoo-user] print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm trying to find some sort of side-by-side diff that will highlight the differences and produce pritable output (e.g. html or postscript). I've found tools to "colorize" diff output, but not for side-by-side. I've found tools to display side-by-side differences with hightlights, but they can't

[gentoo-user] Re: print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-14, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to find some sort of side-by-side diff that will > highlight the differences and produce pritable output (e.g. > html or postscript). > > I've found tools to "colorize" diff output, but not for > side-by-side. To be a bit more specific, I've found

Re: [gentoo-user] print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to find some sort of side-by-side diff that will > highlight the differences and produce pritable output (e.g. > html or postscript). > > I've found tools to "colorize" diff output, but not for > side-by-side. I've found tools to

[gentoo-user] Re: print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/14/2009 08:58 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-08-14, Grant Edwards wrote: I'm trying to find some sort of side-by-side diff that will highlight the differences and produce pritable output (e.g. html or postscript). I've found tools to "colorize" diff output, but not for side-by-side.

[gentoo-user] Re: print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-14, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> I'm trying to find some sort of side-by-side diff that will >> highlight the differences and produce pritable output (e.g. >> html or postscript). >> >> I've found tools to "colorize" diff output, but

[gentoo-user] Re: print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-14, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/14/2009 08:58 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2009-08-14, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> I'm trying to find some sort of side-by-side diff that will >>> highlight the differences and produce pritable output (e.g. >>> html or postscript). >>> >>> I've found

[gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

2009-08-14 Thread Dale
Hi, I been looking for a way to "disable" this so called "feature" but I can't find anything to disable this Google thing Seamonkey does. I bookmark a lot of websites and use keywords to go to them. The local weather forecast for example is "fore". It works but Google gets in the way. Now to e

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I been looking for a way to "disable" this so called "feature" but I > can't find anything to disable this Google thing Seamonkey does. I > bookmark a lot of websites and use keywords to go to them. The local > weather forecast for example is

[gentoo-user] Problem emerging alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4

2009-08-14 Thread Mick
7;/var/log/portage/media-sound:alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4:20090814-200133.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/media-sound/alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4/temp/die.env'. Have you had such a problem? What's the fix?

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

2009-08-14 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I been looking for a way to "disable" this so called "feature" but I >> can't find anything to disable this Google thing Seamonkey does. I >> bookmark a lot of websites and use keywords to go to them. The local >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4

2009-08-14 Thread DPX-Infinity
lsa.conf. > * > * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if > relevant. > * A complete build log is located > at '/var/log/portage/media-sound:alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4:20090814-200133.log'. > * The ebuild environment file is located > at

[gentoo-user] Re: print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-14, Grant Edwards wrote: > How do I print side-by-side diff with changes hightlighted > (e.g. bold or colored)? FWIW, I couldn't find anything, so I wrote my own utility. It's not very general purpose since it assumes that there've been only changed lines and no lines inserted/deleted

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4

2009-08-14 Thread Mick
ic snippet of code: > > * die "Move /etc/modules.d/alsa to > > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf." > > * The die message: > > * Move /etc/modules.d/alsa to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf. > > * > > * If you need support, post the topmost build

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4

2009-08-14 Thread Roy Wright
On Aug 14, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Mick wrote: * The specific snippet of code: * die "Move /etc/modules.d/alsa to /etc/modprobe.d/ alsa.conf." * The die message: * Move /etc/modules.d/alsa to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf. Have you had such a problem? What's the fix? I have both file

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4

2009-08-14 Thread DPX-Infinity
build, line 34: Called die > > > * The specific snippet of code: > > > * die "Move /etc/modules.d/alsa to > > > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf." > > > * The die message: > > > * Move /etc/modules.d/alsa to /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf. > >

[gentoo-user] Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-14 Thread Moshe Kamensky
There was a thread with this subject a few months ago, which I have deleted. The observable situation is that a key is ignored or (more annoyingly) repeated indefinitely. This happens in X but not on the console. I was wondering if this was resolved. Thanks, Moshe pgpuOAzacSG4A.pgp Descripti

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I been looking for a way to "disable" this so called "feature" but I >>> can't find anything to disable this Google thing Seamonkey does. I >>> bookmark a lot of we

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging alsa-utils-1.0.20-r4

2009-08-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 14 August 2009 22:23:14 Mick wrote: > > Obviously, the existence of /etc/modules.d/alsa does not allow emerge to > > continue. I think you must merge alsa file to alsa.conf and then delete > > alsa. > > Perhaps I'm too tired to understand the message ... is it telling to move > file /etc/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] fast recursive local copy

2009-08-14 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag 14 August 2009 10:50:45 schrieb Joerg Schilling: > > > Note that on Linux you may need to add "-no-fsync" because file I/O is slow > > on Linux. On Solaris, not using -no-fsync slows things down by aprox. 10% > > but allows star to grant that everything was real

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

2009-08-14 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> Hi, I been looking for a way to "disable" this so called "feature" but I can't find anything to disable this Goo

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

2009-08-14 Thread pk
Dale wrote: > Now to explain a little. When I mouse click in the address location and > enter "fore", this little thing pops up and wants to do a Google search > for the word "fore". Naturally this does NOT get me to the local > weather forecast since it bypasses looking for the keyword. I like

Re: [gentoo-user] print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread felix
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 05:56:03PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to find some sort of side-by-side diff that will > highlight the differences and produce pritable output (e.g. > html or postscript). > > I've found tools to "colorize" diff output, but not for > side-by-side. I've found

[gentoo-user] Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-14 Thread felix
Are any special steps needed to handle this upgrade, other than using gcc-config to change the current selection? Do I need to follow the upgrade docs, such as remergeing system and world? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairm

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

2009-08-14 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Dale schrieb: > Hi, > I have looked in preferences, even looked at the USE flags but I can't > figure out how to get rid of this. It is annoying as heck. I like > Google but I know how to get there myself, even have a shortcut to get > there. How do I get rid of this? type about:config as URL

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-14 Thread walt
On 08/14/2009 04:17 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Are any special steps needed to handle this upgrade, other than using gcc-config to change the current selection? Do I need to follow the upgrade docs, such as remergeing system and world? I'm no expert, but I just did the same upgrade this mor

Re: [gentoo-user] print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 August 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm trying to find some sort of side-by-side diff that will > highlight the differences and produce pritable output (e.g. > html or postscript). > > I've found tools to "colorize" diff output, but not for > side-by-side. I've found tools to display

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

2009-08-14 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Dale schrieb: > Now that seems to have worked. Will test this more later tho. Supper > time here. > > THANKS MUCH !! !! !! > > Dale > > :-) :-) > No thx. Its nice to help a fellow seamonkey-user Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-14 Thread felix
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 04:29:17PM -0700, walt wrote: > On 08/14/2009 04:17 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > Are any special steps needed to handle this upgrade, other than using > > gcc-config to change the current selection? Do I need to follow the > > upgrade docs, such as remergeing system an

[gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-14 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/15/2009 03:33 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: [...] This being 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 looks like a major version change according to the upgrade guide. It doesn't mention what a switch manual takes, but it does list a whole series of steps such as remerging system and world without saying exactly whe

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg dropping keyboard events

2009-08-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Aug 2009, at 21:26, Moshe Kamensky wrote: There was a thread with this subject a few months ago, which I have deleted LMGTHFY: http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf8&oe=utf8&q=Xorg%20dropping%20keyboard%20events Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey and google

2009-08-14 Thread Dale
pk wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Now to explain a little. When I mouse click in the address location and >> enter "fore", this little thing pops up and wants to do a Google search >> for the word "fore". Naturally this does NOT get me to the local >> weather forecast since it bypasses looking for