Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Constant hammering from Chinese IPs on prt 102[67]

2008-05-15 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
racy was rampant. I think it was priced as low as USD 2-3, but the actual price was based on what the local market could "afford" (ie it had to be competitive with pirate copies). This crippled version of Windows only allowed the simultaneous "running" of 2 or 3 ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-11 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
should stick to making spaghetti :) -- Crayon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Reading, editing and then burning a new ISO image using Gentoo

2008-05-09 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
mage 5) in isomaster browse to where your files were saved in (2) and add them back into the image 6) save image and burn -- Crayon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-03 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > That's for the K-menu, I'm looking to populate Go on Konqueror's menu > bar, which is something else entirely. Silly me, I mis-read your question :-/ -- Crayon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror Go menu - missing items

2008-04-02 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Short question: What determines how the Go menu in Konqueror is > populated? have you fiddled with: right-click (on the taskbar menu button) -> [Panel Menu] -> [Configure Panel] -> [Menus] -- Crayon -- gentoo-user@lists.gen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-05 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
g up a 20GB partition of which only 1GB is in use, then using partimage it will be very quick and the resulting image very small. -- Crayon -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
pening a dialog *should not* change the contents of the clipboard (unless the sole purpose of the dialog *was* to change the clipboard but let's not be pedantic). Another (gtk) program that exhibits this stupid behaviour is iso master (Image > Properties). -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-16 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
ly (IMO), whereas some gtk based programs like realplayer are just so clumsy (to put it charitably). -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with clipboard separation

2007-11-15 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
eason why I hate gtk and gnome :) -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: howto setup vsftpd and virtual hosts by NAME not by IP

2007-09-27 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
not useful. IOW it is not comparable to how http does virtual hosting. BTW vsftpd (which is what I believe the OP is using) has similar user/group configuration. -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: howto setup vsftpd and virtual hosts by NAME not by IP

2007-09-26 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Thursday 27 September 2007, Jarry wrote: > Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > > You can't do virtual hosting using domain names in ftp > > I think wu-ftpd does support virtual ftp-hosting using domain-names. I would love to know how it does the impossible - since the ftp protocol d

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: howto setup vsftpd and virtual hosts by NAME not by IP

2007-09-26 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
ve different configs, users, directories? You can't do virtual hosting using domain names in ftp - unlike http, ftp doesn't support it. The best you can do is when different users login they see a different section of the directory tree. -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting USB stick

2007-08-17 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
ed it under): > this seems a new distinction, as either have worked with other devices. Unmounting either the device or the mountpoint should be the same. Maybe you have unwittingly mounted the device twice? > I'm amazed how small the stick is: a spy could easily swallow it > (grin

Re: [gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?

2007-07-25 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
a number of livecds and all the major components are supported (wifi, cardreader, usb, lan, video, pc card, modem, sound, bluetooth). The only thing I'm not sure about is the IEEE1394, I don't have any devices to test it, but dmesg reports it's "working". -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd

2007-07-24 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 04:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I broke a GB stick in a couple of months by writing 700MB > files to it. For reference, when it broke, what happened? Does it die outright, or do you get intermittent failures? -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?

2007-07-22 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
ioned, as I'm not based in the US, only internationally available manufacturers/models would be useful :) -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?

2007-07-22 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
to "just work" with the minimum of fuss are the wlan and the hibernation. So anything I should look out for or avoid, to make installing Gentoo as painless as possible? tia -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd

2007-07-22 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
unnecessary extra writes to the flash which reduces its lifespan. -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-07-21 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Thursday 19 July 2007 01:28, Anno v. Heimburg wrote: > I remember a rather old (mid-90s) study done by WD which concluded that > a start-up poses wear on the HD equivalent to 30h of idling. I can't > find it any more, and it's been ten years, so things might be different > these days, but the p

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean pwdb?

2007-07-15 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Sunday 15 July 2007 12:48, Thufir wrote: > Why does depclean "want" to remove the pwdb package? Maybe because it's no longer needed? FWIW I've removed it from two of my systems with no ill effects - so far. -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ScrollLock and KDE Konsole

2007-06-25 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
es "nothing". That'll stop konsole from grabbing it. -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact

2007-06-23 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
gmail one had that behaviour. -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems accessing gmail with pop3 using kmail/kontact

2007-06-22 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
now kmail is behaving properly. -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Force app to use specific outgoing ip address?

2007-05-14 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
apache. thanks -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-11 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
Whilst bind and sendmail have made substantial efforts to be more secure, they are still built on legacy and bloated monolithic code. -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} web/mail server as nameserver

2007-05-10 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
ver was elsewhere, then since dns lookup succeeds the sending mailserver will requeue the mail until your mailserver is up again. > Would you use djbdns for this? It would be a more secure choice than bind :) -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-05-02 Thread Crayon
en tell me how it > looks in konq? > > mkdir test-sort; cd test-sort; for ((i=1; i<=30; i++)); do touch > `printf "MOV%03X.MOV\n" $i`; done; cd ..; ls -l test-sort Looks good to me, same as shell output. -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] file sorting in nautilus

2007-05-02 Thread Crayon
> (There's always `emerge -C gnome; emerge kde` but I don't know if that > will fix everything ;) Yeah, good old konq just does the right thing :) -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Crayon
On Monday 16 April 2007 16:05, Dale wrote: > But if your system has only one CD and not enough memory to load in > cache, you're in a pickle. I'm not sure why that would be a problem? My system only had one cdrom and I managed fine :) -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Crayon
ata controller. I had to do this to an Asus motherboard a little while back - yes it was frustrating at the time because initially I had no idea why my controller wasn't recognised. -- Crayon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] headphones don't work since upgrade to kernel 2.6.19???

2007-04-02 Thread Crayon
d up and a couple of weeks ago I just bought a cheapo sound card to replace the onboard one, and haven't had a problem since. -- Crayon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: Mailing Lists [Was: [gentoo-user] wrong subscription]

2007-01-04 Thread Crayon
erytime I see a "unsubscribe"-Message on > the lists. Those are from dozos who thinks they're on a majordomo managed list :) -- Crayon -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list