Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 08:48:40 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > I would think that your ISP providers in the US will be blocking > > > outgoing port 25 to stop compromised MSWindows machines spamming the > > > rest of us. If you use my suggestion there shouldn't be a > > > problem. > > > > It makes no d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system

2014-06-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 27 June 2014 21:58:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:39:29 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Some months ago I found myself wondering why I had ruby on this box > > > at all. A little poking around revealed that the only thing that > > > needed it was thin- provisio

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Mick
On Friday 27 Jun 2014 21:54:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:22:09 +0100, Mick wrote: > > I would think that your ISP providers in the US will be blocking > > outgoing port 25 to stop compromised MSWindows machines spamming the > > rest of us. If you use my suggestion there should

[gentoo-user] Cross system dependencies

2014-06-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi all, This is something I have been looking for for a while now, but not found anything easily usable yet. I need a way to add dependencies to services which are provided by different servers. For instance, my mail server uses DNS to locate my LDAP server which contains the mail aliases. All

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Friday 27 Jun 2014 21:54:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:22:09 +0100, Mick wrote: >>> I would think that your ISP providers in the US will be blocking >>> outgoing port 25 to stop compromised MSWindows machines spamming the >>> rest of us. If you use my suggestio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-06-25, Dale wrote: > >> I have to say, I dread setting up a mail server about as bad as I dread >> going to the Doctor. It's just something I really don't want to add to >> my system unless I have to. It's sort of like the init thingy. I don't >> want to add somet

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross system dependencies

2014-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:36:11 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I need a way to add dependencies to services which are provided by > different servers. For instance, my mail server uses DNS to locate my > LDAP server which contains the mail aliases. All these are running on > different machines. Current

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:55:28 -0500, Dale wrote: > It was more Murphy's law I was worried about. ;-) Hasn't that been deprecated in favour of Dale's Law? -- Neil Bothwick I thought the 10 commandments were multiple choice. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:55:28 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> It was more Murphy's law I was worried about. ;-) > Hasn't that been deprecated in favour of Dale's Law? > > If it hasn't, maybe it should. It's strange tho, I have good luck with a lot of things, even computer hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-28 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Jun 28, 2014, at 0:13, Matti Nykyri wrote: >> On Jun 27, 2014, at 0:00, Kai Krakow wrote: >> >> Matti Nykyri schrieb: >> >>> If you are looking a mathematically perfect solution there is a simple >>> one even if your list is not in the power of 2! Take 6 bits at a time of >>> the random da

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/06/2014 15:05, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:55:28 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >>> It was more Murphy's law I was worried about. ;-) >> Hasn't that been deprecated in favour of Dale's Law? >> >> > > If it hasn't, maybe it should. It's strange tho, I have good luck

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 28/06/2014 15:05, Dale wrote: >> On this old drive. I got my data copied over and tested the stuffin out >> of the new drive and then tested it a few more times. Looks good for >> the new drive. I'm doing a dd on the old drive now and I plan to let it >> at least get to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 28/06/2014 15:05, Dale wrote: >>> On this old drive. I got my data copied over and tested the stuffin out >>> of the new drive and then tested it a few more times. Looks good for >>> the new drive. I'm doing a dd on the old drive now and I plan to let it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 28 June 2014 09:15:47 Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: --->8 > >> But that's not your main problem. You got those filenames because the > >> source disk somehow has a problem and the names couldn't be read > >> properly. So junk was used instead. I thought it was more like: the fil

[gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a Spitfire. Yoo-hoo! I think I can just about remember the sound of those magnificent beasts from the 40s Apologies to those of a more serious dispositio

[gentoo-user] Udev confusion: Rules for a mp3 player

2014-06-28 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, For my mp3-player I want to write udev rules to give better names to the according entries under /dev Problem is: Th eplayer has an internal flash, which only holds the firmware (in my case) and a sd-card slot, in which you can insert a flash card with music files. The internal memory has a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system

2014-06-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:39 PM, wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: >> >> Some months ago I found myself wondering why I had ruby on this box at all. A >> little poking around revealed that the only thing that needed it was thin- >> provisioning. Once I'd added -thin to my USE flags and recompiled

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 28 June 2014 16:54:52 CEST, Peter Humphrey wrote: >It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane >from >the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a >Spitfire. > >Yoo-hoo! > >I think I can just about remember the sound of those magnificent beasts

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Mick
On Saturday 28 Jun 2014 15:50:23 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 28 June 2014 09:15:47 Dale wrote: > > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > --->8 > > > >> But that's not your main problem. You got those filenames because the > > >> source disk somehow has a problem and the names couldn't be read > > >> pr

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 28 June 2014 16:54:52 CEST, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane > >from >> the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a >> Spitfire. >> >> Yoo-hoo! >> >> I think I can just about remember th

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 28.06.2014 16:54, schrieb Peter Humphrey: > It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from > the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a Spitfire. > > Yoo-hoo! > > I think I can just about remember the sound of those magnificent beasts from >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Saturday 28 Jun 2014 15:50:23 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> It may not be true that it couldn't read the files; it just couldn't >> translate their names into text characters. The names are not held in >> the files whose names they are but somewhere in the inode structure. >> Someone wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev confusion: Rules for a mp3 player

2014-06-28 Thread Jc García
2014-06-28 8:57 GMT-06:00 : > Hi, > > For my mp3-player I want to write udev rules to give better names > to the according entries under /dev > > Problem is: Th eplayer has an internal flash, which only holds the firmware > (in my case) and a sd-card slot, in which you can insert a flash card > wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev confusion: Rules for a mp3 player

2014-06-28 Thread meino . cramer
Jc García [14-06-28 19:48]: > 2014-06-28 8:57 GMT-06:00 : > > Hi, > > > > For my mp3-player I want to write udev rules to give better names > > to the according entries under /dev > > > > Problem is: Th eplayer has an internal flash, which only holds the firmware > > (in my case) and a sd-card sl

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross system dependencies

2014-06-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, June 28, 2014 01:39:41 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:36:11 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I need a way to add dependencies to services which are provided by > > different servers. For instance, my mail server uses DNS to locate my > > LDAP server which contains the m

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross system dependencies

2014-06-28 Thread thegeezer
On 06/28/2014 07:06 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, June 28, 2014 01:39:41 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:36:11 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> I need a way to add dependencies to services which are provided by >>> different servers. For instance, my mail server uses DNS to

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/06/2014 16:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: > It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from > the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a Spitfire. You have an actual flying Spitfire nearby? Wow! I thought Evelyn was the last airworthy model lef

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:33:05 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 28/06/2014 16:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane > > from > > the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a > > Spitfire. > You have an actual flyi

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-28 Thread Kai Krakow
Matti Nykyri schrieb: >> On Jun 27, 2014, at 0:00, Kai Krakow wrote: >> >> Matti Nykyri schrieb: >> >>> If you are looking a mathematically perfect solution there is a simple >>> one even if your list is not in the power of 2! Take 6 bits at a time of >>> the random data. If the result is 62

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-28 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: [ ... ] > I cannot follow your reasoning here - but I'd like to learn. Actually, I ran > this multiple times and never saw long sets of the same character, even no > short sets of the same character. The 0 or 1 is always rolled over into the > nex

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 28/06/2014 22:44, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:33:05 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 28/06/2014 16:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane >>> from >>> the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it w

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, June 29, 2014 12:18:06 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 28/06/2014 22:44, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Saturday, June 28, 2014 10:33:05 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 28/06/2014 16:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: > >>> It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane > >>> fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-28 Thread gottlieb
On Sat, Jun 28 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > That doesn't matter. Take a non-negative integer N; if you flip a coin > an infinite number of times, then the probability of the coin landing > on the same face N times in a row is 1. This is certainly true. > This means that it is *guaranteed*

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-28 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:37 PM, wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> That doesn't matter. Take a non-negative integer N; if you flip a coin >> an infinite number of times, then the probability of the coin landing >> on the same face N times in a row is 1. > > This is cer

[gentoo-user] Re: Help! - I cannot emerge anything any more

2014-06-28 Thread walt
On 06/27/2014 01:59 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I am in a very strange situation where I cannot emerge anything any more. > Since it occurs on two different machines it won't be a hardware problem. > > When I try to emerge a package, say portage, it builds it just fine and > starts to in

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-28 Thread »Q«
On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 19:53:08 -0500 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:37 PM, wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 28 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > > >> That doesn't matter. Take a non-negative integer N; if you flip a > >> coin an infinite number of times, then the probability of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-28 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 8:46 PM, »Q« wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 19:53:08 -0500 > Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > >> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:37 PM, wrote: >> > On Sat, Jun 28 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> > >> >> That doesn't matter. Take a non-negative integer N; if you flip a >> >> coin

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I run this test every once in a while. How bad is this: > > root@fireball / # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc > smartctl 6.1 2013-03-16 r3800 [x86_64-linux-3.14.0-gentoo] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org > > === STAR

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Dale wrote: > > So, thoughts? Did it mark that part as bad and all is well or is this > going to be trouble down the line? Should I just fill the thing up with > data and test the stuffin out of it to make sure? > That is pretty typical. You wrote to every sec

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-28 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 11:27 PM, Dale wrote: >> So, thoughts? Did it mark that part as bad and all is well or is this >> going to be trouble down the line? Should I just fill the thing up with >> data and test the stuffin out of it to make sure? >> > That is pretty typical

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-28 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Jun 29, 2014, at 0:28, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Matti Nykyri schrieb: > >>> On Jun 27, 2014, at 0:00, Kai Krakow wrote: >>> >>> Matti Nykyri schrieb: >>> If you are looking a mathematically perfect solution there is a simple one even if your list is not in the power of 2! Take 6 b

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross system dependencies

2014-06-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, June 28, 2014 09:23:17 PM thegeezer wrote: > On 06/28/2014 07:06 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Saturday, June 28, 2014 01:39:41 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:36:11 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> I need a way to add dependencies to services which are provided by