Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi there, > > I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using > k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error > (I/O error). I checked the logs (see attached file), but could not find a > hint. > I compared e

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 21:20:12 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > > su username - > > I think that sould be: > > su - username You're right. su is incredibly picky about the location of - on the command line, which is why I prefer to use -l. -- Neil Bothwick Someone who thinks logically is a nice con

[gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error (I/O error). I checked the logs (see attached file), but could not find a hint. I compared each and every file on the disk with its or

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-06 Thread Thanasis
on 07/06/2013 12:03 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > su username - I think that sould be: su - username

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Displaylink adapter and setting up X

2013-07-06 Thread Michael Mol
On 07/06/2013 01:31 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On 03/14/2012 08:11 AM, Robert David wrote: >> V Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:24:47 -0500 >> Michael Sullivan napsáno: >> >>> I feel really stupid asking this, but I want to use an HDMI component >>> to output one of my PCs to the TV set. I've followed all of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Displaylink adapter and setting up X

2013-07-06 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/14/2012 08:11 AM, Robert David wrote: > V Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:24:47 -0500 > Michael Sullivan napsáno: > >> I feel really stupid asking this, but I want to use an HDMI component >> to output one of my PCs to the TV set. I've followed all of the wiki >> entry at http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Di

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 10:12:27AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 05 Jul 2013 22:46:10 Paul Hartman wrote: > > > ... but the person sitting at the keyboard is usually capable of screwing > > it up more than any virus. :) > > Hah! Tell me about it. :-( Ack -- Happy Penguin Computers

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 10:50:40AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Technically, he's not wrong - any OS is just as susceptible to viruses > as any other, you just have to get over the first hurdle which is > getting code to run. The overall design of Windows has historically made > this somewhat e

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread shawn wilson
I was present for a discussion about which is the most secure OS. I don't remember the forum but the consensus was that the most secure OS is the one you know. Anyone can wreck a system but not everyone has the ability to maintain a system. I'm not arguing that you can run Windows as tight as Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 06 Jul 2013 07:57:38 the wrote: > On 07/06/13 02:21, Dale wrote: > > William Kenworthy wrote: > >> On 06/07/13 04:12, Dale wrote: > >>> While we was > >>> chatting, he said that Linux is just as prone to getting a virus as > >>> windoze and so is a Mac. I think my laughing let him kno

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread Randolph Maaßen
On Jul 6, 2013 11:13 AM, "Peter Humphrey" wrote: > > On Friday 05 Jul 2013 22:46:10 Paul Hartman wrote: > > > ... but the person sitting at the keyboard is usually capable of screwing > > it up more than any virus. :) > > Hah! Tell me about it. :-( > > -- > Peter > > What I did recently: format an

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 05 Jul 2013 22:46:10 Paul Hartman wrote: > ... but the person sitting at the keyboard is usually capable of screwing > it up more than any virus. :) Hah! Tell me about it. :-( -- Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 21:55:36 -0600, Joseph wrote: > What was confusing to me is the fact that I logged into the system via > ssh to my account and "su" to use who was in group "games" but for some > reason or another the games would not execute. su gives you the rights of the user but it not the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/07/2013 00:21, Dale wrote: > I'm still trying to figure out what he thought he would accomplish tho. > I can't get my head wrapped around that yet. That's easy to answer. The fellow probably doesn't know much. If you want a brilliant example, just go read a wide bunch of threads on the G