Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread the
On 07/06/13 02:21, Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On 06/07/13 04:12, Dale wrote: I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the tec

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Joseph
On 07/05/13 23:36, David Relson wrote: On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:49:20 -0600 Joseph wrote: I installed "xscavenger" and it installed without any problems but I can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in "games" group. >From the command line: /usr/games/bin/scavenger -bash: /usr/games/bin/sc

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Joseph
On 07/05/13 22:37, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Joseph wrote: Maybe /usr/games/bin/ is not on the path? How do I check it, I forgot :-/ echo $PATH Path looks OK. /usr/games/bin is there $ echo $PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Joseph wrote: > Maybe /usr/games/bin/ is not on the path? > How do I check it, I forgot :-/ echo $PATH

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 18:49:20 -0600 Joseph wrote: > I installed "xscavenger" and it installed without any problems but I > can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in "games" group. > > >From the command line: > /usr/games/bin/scavenger > -bash: /usr/games/bin/scavenger: Permission denied >

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Joseph
On 07/05/13 21:45, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Joseph wrote: I installed "xscavenger" and it installed without any problems but I can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in "games" group. From the command line: /usr/games/bin/scavenger -bash: /usr/games/bin/scave

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Joseph wrote: > I installed "xscavenger" and it installed without any problems but I can > seems to find this game anywhere. > Yes, I'm in "games" group. > > From the command line: > /usr/games/bin/scavenger > -bash: /usr/games/bin/scavenger: Permission denied > > /

[gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-05 Thread Joseph
I installed "xscavenger" and it installed without any problems but I can seems to find this game anywhere. Yes, I'm in "games" group. From the command line: /usr/games/bin/scavenger -bash: /usr/games/bin/scavenger: Permission denied /usr/games/bin/scavenger -rwxr-x--- 1 root games 70496 Jul

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-07-05, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son >> is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to >> find a used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: > On 06/07/13 04:12, Dale wrote: >> I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is >> getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a >> used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie >> guy there had a i

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread William Kenworthy
On 06/07/13 04:12, Dale wrote: > > I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is > getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a > used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie > guy there had a interesting statement that ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Dale wrote: > > I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is > getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a > used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie > guy there had a interesting stat

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread Davide De Prisco
Ahahahah... Il giorno 05/lug/2013 22:13, "Dale" ha scritto: > > I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is > getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a > used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie > guy there had a

[gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-05 Thread Dale
I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the techie guy there had a interesting statement that makes me think I'm not recommending them fo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

2013-07-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Perhaps I shouldn't mention Konsole, of which I have four instances on > one desktop. In two of them, turning the mouse wheel scrolls the output as > expected, but in the other two it scrolls the command-line buffer! I assume > this is just o

[gentoo-user] DisplayLink

2013-07-05 Thread Michael Mol
Anyone ever have any luck using a DisplayLink USB adapter in a multiheaded scenario? I'm having a difficult time getting anything connected to the adapter to show up via xrandr. I'm told I need: (via Matthew Thode on Google+) * >=x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting-0.7.0 * >=x11-apps/xrandr-1.4.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

2013-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 05 Jul 2013 13:43:39 Yohan Pereira wrote: > On 05/07/13 at 10:28am, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > [1]Perhaps I shouldn't mention Konsole, of which I have four > > instances on > > one desktop. In two of them, turning the mouse wheel scrolls the output > > as expected, but in the othe

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

2013-07-05 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 05/07/13 at 10:28am, Peter Humphrey wrote: [1]Perhaps I shouldn't mention Konsole, of which I have four instances on > one desktop. In two of them, turning the mouse wheel scrolls the output as > expected, but in the other two it scrolls the command-line buffer! I assume > this is just o

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo installation, network adapter not supported

2013-07-05 Thread Stroller
On 5 July 2013, at 07:48, Thomas Mueller wrote: > >> My experience has been the opposite, that even the cheapest USB network >> adaptors have worked. > ... >> Maybe I've just been lucky and this is not the norm, but from what I've seen >> "USB network adapters don't work with Linux" is the sort

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

2013-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 05 Jul 2013 03:40:23 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Peter Humphrey > > wrote: > > Sorry to be a nuisance but I can't think of where else to ask. > > > > On the website I run I have a link to our Twitter profile (or whatever > > it's called). This is the link: >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] What's up with Firefox?

2013-07-05 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 04 Jul 2013 18:43:26 Kevin Thompson wrote: > What architecture are you running this on? What USE flags are enabled > with Firefox? This is amd64 stable. $ emerge -pv firefox These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies .. .. done! [ebuild