On Mon, August 15, 2011 11:52 am, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello List,
I'm sure I saw a thread recently describing progress in understanding and
using grub-2, but now I can't find it. I have six months of articles here
too, and I've searched gmane and the gentoo archive. Perhaps I'm being
On Mon, August 15, 2011 3:06 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 15 August 2011 11:07:31 J. Roeleveld wrote:
There also was a thread called [gentoo-user] [cookbook] grub2 for
idiots
like me by walt (24 January 2011) which is, I believe, what you're
looking for.
That looks like the one
On Fri, April 8, 2011 11:01 pm, Dale wrote:
Dale wrote:
root@fireball / # pvcreate /dev/sdb
Physical volume /dev/sdb successfully created
root@fireball / #
Step one done. It didn't puke on my keyboard. lol
Now to see what else I can get into. Not going to put anything
important on
On Thu, April 7, 2011 7:31 pm, BRM wrote:
- Original Message
From: Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org
On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:52:26 BRM wrote:
- Original Message
From: Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org
On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:20:55 BRM wrote:
On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
snipped previous attempts
More update on my odyssey.
I went back to HVM and reboot using the Install
On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Wednesday 23 March 2011 14:04:23 Mr. Jarry wrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
And if you don't care about barriers, jfs might be a good choice.
Knowing nothing about
On Thu, March 24, 2011 9:20 am, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 14:47, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
On Thu, March 24, 2011 7:37 am, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:30, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:03, Pandu Poluan pa
On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
Hmmm... currently I set xencons=hvc0 (also in /etc/inittab,
s/tty0/hvc0/)
I'll see what happens if I return them to tty0.
Good luck there :)
No joy. Changing xencons
On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 15:32, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
-- snip --
Hmm... I don't use kernel-modules
On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:57 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote:
-- snip --
Can't hurt to try, now that I've gotten a bootable kernel. Can always
fallback to the previous one.
Let me know how that goes.
Compiling all the M into * still results
On Thu, March 24, 2011 2:10 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 19:57, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
On Thu, March 24, 2011 1:19 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 18:21, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
On Thu, March 24, 2011 10:36 am, Pandu Poluan
On Thu, March 24, 2011 12:30 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know about lvm. But lvm is such
a
can
of worms I am surprised people still
On Thursday 27 January 2011 15:05:25 YoYo Siska wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 03:33:21PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 01/27/2011 03:11 PM, Dale wrote:
[...]
I am using the -j option for the first time now. I'm updating KDE. It
seems to work fine. It doesn't scroll all the stuff
On Thursday 27 January 2011 19:56:23 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:09:27 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
So on a 20 package world update, only 19 are faster while the 20th
runs at the same speed? Where's the loss there? Even if the
On Thursday 27 January 2011 21:25:02 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 01/27/2011 09:41 PM, Dale wrote:
YoYo Siska wrote:
Yes.
It might not be perfect, but mostly it works pretty well.
Once make started 10 or so process,
On Thursday 27 January 2011 22:06:30 YoYo Siska wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:18:34PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Thursday 27 January 2011 19:56:23 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:09:27 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
So
On Thursday 27 January 2011 22:06:30 YoYo Siska wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 08:18:34PM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Thursday 27 January 2011 19:56:23 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:09:27 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
So
On Thursday 27 January 2011 23:05:22 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:46 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
On Thursday 27 January 2011 21:25:02 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de
wrote:
On 01/27/2011 09:41 PM, Dale
On Thursday 27 January 2011 23:59:24 Mick wrote:
I'm running i7 Q 720 (4 cores, hyperthreaded) and have MAKEOPTS=-j9
without any slowdown. One or two packages (like OpenOffice) will fail and
need -j=1 to emerge. Otherwise no noticeable drop in desktop
responsiveness.
I have not set up
On Thursday 27 January 2011 23:53:04 Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 01/27/2011 09:41 PM, Dale wrote:
I noticed the same thing with mine. It used a LOT of ram. I have 4Gbs
and it was up to about 3Gbs at one point and using some swap as well.
I'm hoping to max out to 16Gbs as soon
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 13:55:51 Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
With these vga card
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025
/ nForce 630a] (rev a2)
after compiling x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.36 with these flags
(acpi gtk multilib) i'm receiving this
On Monday 24 January 2011 19:47:43 Jarry wrote:
Hi,
I have to change rather complex iptables rules on server
and I do not want to lock me out as this server is about
50 miles away. So how should I do it?
I can back up the old rules by running:
/etc/init.d/iptables save
and it will be
On Sunday 23 January 2011 06:08:12 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
is there any tool/mechanism to locate a given URL or IP-address on the
globe automatically?
I mean: I feed the tool with an IP-address or an URL and it will
respond: France, Paris
I dont mean a tool, whose output I have
On Sunday 23 January 2011 10:22:52 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org [11-01-23 10:16]:
On Sunday 23 January 2011 06:08:12 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
is there any tool/mechanism to locate a given URL or IP-address on the
globe automatically?
I mean: I
On Thursday 20 January 2011 18:07:14 Matt Harrison wrote:
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 03:46:56PM +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
Am 20.01.2011 15:23, schrieb Matt Harrison:
I'm hoping someone here has an idea for something that will let me make
a copy of all his mail, in the current folder
On Thursday 20 January 2011 15:23:08 Matt Harrison wrote:
Hi guys,
I know this isnt really a gentoo question but you always seem to come with
an amazing answer in the end ;)
I've got a friend who uses dreamhost for mail, and he's trying to move away
from it to something a little more
On Thursday 20 January 2011 16:19:40 Nils Andresen wrote:
Am 20.01.2011 15:31, schrieb J. Roeleveld:
- Use a Mail-client (thunderbird, kmail,) to copy them across (copy
folder should work)
That has always been my choice, too. Never failed me. Never had more
than 1 GB, though
On Thursday 13 January 2011 01:40:09 Dale wrote:
You got a crystal ball or something?
Not yet, my supplier is still awaiting new stock from the manufacturer...
--
Joost
On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote:
If you're talking about proper Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no
mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure. And I have over 500
CDs; I can't test them all. :-P But yeah, a selection of CDs have all
had the same result. And
On Thursday 13 January 2011 11:33:09 Jake Moe wrote:
On 01/13/11 18:12, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Thursday 13 January 2011 07:12:48 Jake Moe wrote:
If you're talking about proper Audio-CD as one that's audio-only, no
mixed data in there as well, then yes, I'm sure. And I have over 500
CDs
On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:07:02 Joerg Schilling wrote:
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of
garbage?
As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly
then other tools. Eg. it approaches
On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:07:02 Joerg Schilling wrote:
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
Can you actually play that wav-file? Or is it just a collection of
garbage?
As far as I know, CD-Paranoia access the cd-drive a bit more directly
then other tools. Eg. it approaches
On Thursday 13 January 2011 12:17:24 Dale wrote:
Jacques Montier wrote:
I re-emerged grub in Gentoo with my separated (sda3) boot partition
mounted and now it works !
I don't understand...
Jacques
I wonder if it is a bug or something in the CD you booted? I recently
booted
On Thursday 13 January 2011 13:37:04 Joerg Schilling wrote:
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
From the FAQ on cdparanoia's website (http://xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html)
it looks like that it's not based on cdda2wav, but actually uses a
re-write of cdda2wav since January 1998
On Thursday 13 January 2011 19:12:05 pk wrote:
On 2011-01-13 17:54, Joerg Schilling wrote:
cdda2wav nows aabout vendor unique SCSI commands that give better results
and it knows about various defects and deviations from the Red book
standard. With this knowledge, it is able to extract
On Monday 10 January 2011 10:48:56 Jake Moe wrote:
I can't seem to get audio CDs to work with my drive. Data CDs work
fine, I can mount the filesystem and read them. Data and Video DVDs
seem to work fine as well. But when I try to listen to an audio CD, I
get the attached errors in log.bz2.
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 09:27:00 kashani wrote:
On 1/12/2011 12:04 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
System uname:
linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r12-x86_64-intel-r-_core-tm-_i7_cpu_l_6...@_2.13ghz-w
ith-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:45:01 +
That chip looks okay.
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 16:17:09 Valmor de Almeida wrote:
On 01/12/2011 05:39 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 09:27:00 kashani wrote:
On 1/12/2011 12:04 AM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
System uname:
linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r12-x86_64-intel-r-_core-tm-_i7_cpu_l_6
On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote:
Hi Dale,
Dale wrote:
Jörg Schaible wrote:
that approves my tests ... :-/
Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched
arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the
wrong one. It
On Wednesday 05 January 2011 13:35:28 Dale wrote:
Jörg Schaible wrote:
that approves my tests ... :-/
Had to boot this morning 5 times, since the root device switched
arbitrarily between sde3 and sdg3 and I've chosen by bad luck always the
wrong one. It seems there is also some timing
On Friday 07 January 2011 15:01:48 pk wrote:
On 2011-01-07 10:34, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Friday 07 January 2011 09:47:28 Jörg Schaible wrote:
Another option would be to patch the kernel to either support Labels
natively or to have it include a scan harddisks in following
order
On Monday 03 January 2011 18:43:28 Jörg Schaible wrote:
Hi,
starting with the 2.6.36-r5 kernel of the Gentoo sources my boot device
changes. With 2.6.35 and below it is alway /dev/sda3, with the new kernel
it seems that anything that is internally connected with USB is assigned a
device
On Sunday 19 December 2010 21:35:57 Dale wrote:
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday 19 December 2010 13:17:51 Dale wrote:
I found a how to. I read it. This is what I got out of it. It
sounds like I need to let the modem use DHCP with the phone company.
Correct.
Then I need to set
On Monday 20 December 2010 11:44:11 Peter Humphrey wrote:
(What follows has grown rather long. I hope it doesn't come over too
much as a lecture.)
It's fairly straightforward once you get the hang of it. The address of
a device is a 64-bit number, expressed as four 16-bit numbers joined
On Monday 20 December 2010 13:24:11 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 20 December 2010 12:04:27 J. Roeleveld wrote:
For the sake of the archives, I do need to correct you here.
With the current IP-numbers (IPv4) it's a 32-bit number, expressed as
four 8- bit numbers (A byte is 8 bit
On Monday 20 December 2010 15:55:40 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
Vincent-Xavier JUMEL endymion+gen...@thetys-retz.net writes:
Le 20 décembre à 15:12 Allan Gottlieb a écrit
Something seems wrong.
Yesterday depclean removed hal and then xdm wouldn't run.
Re-merging hal (with -1) fixed this, but
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 09:55:37 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote:
Hi again,
For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220
card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253,
and
it worked one time. I had to reboot
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote:
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote:
Hi again,
For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220
card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253,
and
it worked one time. I
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:26:16 Dale wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:03:58 Dale wrote:
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote:
Hi again,
For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220
card in it. I bought
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:54:14 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:17:01 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
1.) Add hal to the USE flags of /etc/make.conf.
This is going to be fun ;-)
Yes, I remember that episode on his last machine :)
--
Joost
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:10:03 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 12/15/10 10:56:21, Adam Carter wrote:
I confirmed with lsmod and even rmmod and modprobed it back in a
few
times.
Still no joy. I really think it is either the card or the
xorg.conf file.
Thing is, when
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:20:20 Dale wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
Dale,
Rather then rebooting, did you shut down the whole machine, eg. power off
and unplug power and then start it again?
I have, in the past, had issues where a card wasn't being reset
properly during a reboot
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:30:46 Adam Carter wrote:
I don't think that's true.
In my Xorg.0.log I do have
(EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0)
(EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist, 0)
and still, X11 is running just fine. I
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:45:34 Adam Carter wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:32 PM, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote:
I hope you are right. If it is missing modules, what do I need to do to
fix it? I did a emerge -e nvidia-drivers and everything built fine.
fwiw xorg
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:08:30 Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote:
[ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist, 0)
[ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri2 (module does not exist,
0) [ 2082.101] (EE)
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote:
Pintér Tibor wrote:
how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone
wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log)
That's where the errors came from that I posted in my first post. Here
is the results of the latest test. I shut
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote:
Pintér Tibor wrote:
how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have gone
wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log)
That's where the errors came from that I posted in my first post. Here
is the results of the latest test. I shut
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:44:59 Dale wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 10:08:30 Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:40:48 -0600, Dale wrote:
[ 2081.057] (EE) Failed to load module dri (module does not exist,
0) [ 2081.057] (EE) Failed
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 12:39:27 Dale wrote:
Pintér Tibor wrote:
how about just checking the bloody Xorg logs to see what could have
gone wrong? (/var/log/Xorg.0.log)
That's where the errors came from that I
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 08:26:11 Dale wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:37:33 Dale wrote:
J. Roeleveld wrote:
snipped
Am glad you got it working. Enjoy the new machine :)
--
Joost
I went back and looked at the nvidia driver guide on gentoo.org
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-12-15 15:40]:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
And this happens to any mountpoint I mount that device on regardless
of its perm settings before the mount
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 16:20:32 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org [10-12-15 16:00]:
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:41:25 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [10-12-15 15:40]:
On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:13:31 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 20:35:15 Dale wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Peter Humphrey
pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote:
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 13:33:03 J. Roeleveld wrote:
Not sure how much memory you have, but a 6Gig ramdisk mounted at
/var/tmp
On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote:
on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki/SamsungF4EGBadBlocks
just because some of you might have missed it...
Apart from Samsung F4 EcoGreen, it also refers
On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:53:21 Thanasis wrote:
on 11/30/2010 11:17 AM J. Roeleveld wrote the following:
On Tuesday 30 November 2010 10:02:01 Thanasis wrote:
on 11/29/2010 10:10 PM Volker Armin Hemmann wrote the following:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/smartmontools/wiki
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 11:23:48 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:53:02 +, David W Noon wrote:
Apparently it's not quite a full i686. The research I did at the time
indicated that using anything higher than i486 was asking for
problems.
I am a little surprised by
On Thursday 18 November 2010 12:37:16 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:42:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
c. our devs are assumed to only pretend to be pedantic geeky gits who
nit-pick about words, and not to actually *be* like that their entire
life 24/7/365/75.
Indeed. After
On Thursday 18 November 2010 12:52:40 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:43:40 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Indeed. After all, if they were really pedantic, they would point out
that you should have written either 24/7/52/75 or 24/365/75 :P
pedantic mode
Or that you both seem
On Thursday 18 November 2010 14:18:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:42 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
I thought the real reason for leap years was to boot the turnover of
the wedding industry.
s/boot/boost/
Oh? How does that work?
There's a tradition here that women
On Monday 15 November 2010 18:07:27 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:10 on Monday 15 November 2010, J.
Roeleveld
did opine thusly:
snipped
How is this different from:
1) take a backup
2) check for bad sectors (badblocks)
3) restore backup
This is also
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote:
Adam Carter wrote:
One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE.
Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would
1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully
security
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 10:33:34 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I have an up-to-date ~amd64 GenToo installation with has been
built on a current AMD64 (Phenom II) machine where I used
-mtune=native in etc/make.conf since I didn't think of the case
that I would need to port this system to a
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 10:53:28 Alex Schuster wrote:
J. Roeleveld writes:
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote:
That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces
puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is
just visiting. It does
On Monday 15 November 2010 07:11:14 Benyamin Dvoskin wrote:
Hi ,
I've been trying to configure hibernation to work on my netbook , and
for some reason it doesnt work
when I go to hibernate , and then power up again , it starts as if from
scratch
what can i check ?
what is the right way
On Monday 15 November 2010 09:27:09 J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Monday 15 November 2010 07:11:14 Benyamin Dvoskin wrote:
Hi ,
I've been trying to configure hibernation to work on my netbook , and
for some reason it doesnt work
when I go to hibernate , and then power up again , it starts
On Monday 15 November 2010 10:32:00 Dale wrote:
Stroller wrote:
On 15/11/2010, at 3:56am, Dale wrote:
...
snipped
I am thinking like you on the reason it is not working. It was brought
to me because it was not running as fast as it used to. First thing I
noticed was that AVG hasn't
On Monday 15 November 2010 12:01:49 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 15 November 2010 09:46:38 J. Roeleveld wrote:
I ... only use MS Windows when I have no choice (eg. using MS Windows
only software/applications for work).
The one use I have for it nowadays is to run IE to check how
On Monday 15 November 2010 15:50:37 Jacob Todd wrote:
Sounds like something is wrong with te drive, and spinrite.can probably fix
it.
I don't see what Spinrite can do to help with defragging a harddrive for MS
Windows?
I like the bit where it explains how it prevents a disk crash:
It first
On Thursday 11 November 2010 18:07:35 Paul Hartman wrote:
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:05 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
If the soldering isn't done correctly, the battery-pack can literally
explode when put under load.
Yeah, I don't think the savings would be big enough
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 18:05:40 Paul Hartman wrote:
2010/11/10 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com:
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:52, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
snipped
Last night I took it to full charge, put in memtest86+ boot CD and the
system
On Monday 08 November 2010 18:16:00 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:59 on Monday 08 November 2010, James did
opine thusly:
Hello,
OK, I want a 10 or so, netbook that'll
run windows and gentoo on dual boot.
I'd like to stay under $200, but in
no way over
On Monday 08 November 2010 22:08:53 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:11 on Monday 08 November 2010, J.
Roeleveld
did opine thusly:
2. Those SSDs are shite. Get a mechanical drive. 8G is also not enough
and the write performance is pathetic.
You must have
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote:
snipped
Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that
I can't seem to get the disk label working right. In GRUB's menu.lst,
if I use root=LABEL=UsbRoot, it doesn't work (kernel panic, label not
found, but sda1
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 11:13:01 Jake Moe wrote:
On 09/22/10 17:16, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote:
snipped
Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that
I can't seem to get the disk label working right
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 07:35:13 Jake Moe wrote:
On 16/09/10 21:30, J. Roeleveld wrote:
snipped old stuff
Please bear in mind, I have not actually used nor needed a ramdisk to
boot from ever since I started using Gentoo.
Not even when I played with booting from USB-sticks myself
On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote:
On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote:
Jake Moe wrote:
Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support.
As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in
question). It just doesn't exist for some
On Thursday 16 September 2010 12:01:43 Jake Moe wrote:
On 09/16/10 16:22, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote:
On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote:
Jake Moe wrote:
Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support.
As to the second
On Monday 13 September 2010 20:15:24 Stéphane Guedon wrote:
On Monday 13 September 2010 21:06:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/13/2010 09:15 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
Since few days ( two or three ?), every time I launch emerge, it's
saying me it needs an update of portage itself.
In
On Monday 13 September 2010 20:37:13 Stéphane Guedon wrote:
On Monday 13 September 2010 20:28:07 J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Monday 13 September 2010 20:15:24 Stéphane Guedon wrote:
On Monday 13 September 2010 21:06:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/13/2010 09:15 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote
On Monday 13 September 2010 21:00:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/13/2010 09:45 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
[...]
I wouldn't expect people to run a Gentoo system with all packages on
unstable. I tend to only select specific packages as unstable when I
really need that version.
Usually
On Sunday 12 September 2010 16:26:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
currently I am on the way to install a AMD64 root system.
I use the AMD64 gentoo iso to boot into a 64bit system.
There was a net-connection without any problems (using DSL and dhcp).
After several steps I chrooted into
On Sunday 12 September 2010 19:27:10 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
Do I shoot into my own feet when copying the /var/lib/world-file
from my 32bit system to my 64bit system and doing a emerge -e world
then, when logged into my 64bit system to install the same stuff ???
best regards,
mcc
On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote:
On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote:
2010/9/10 Jake Moejakesaddr...@gmail.com:
Hello all,
I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and
rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've
On Friday 10 September 2010 18:53:52 Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
Hi all,
This morning I got
centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
snip/
[ebuild UD] kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 [4.5.1-r1] USE=semantic-desktop
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 23:27:52 Daniel Troeder wrote:
On 09/08/2010 05:27 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
We go in circles here. NNTP
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 02:27:16 Gregory Shearman wrote:
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
I'm reading your message via a usenet server. linux.gentoo.user is the
newsgroup. Replies of course go via the mailing list address.
Is that seamless? Can you directly reply to a posting?
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 10:43:13 Al wrote:
emails too. But you still get the 'new mails' indicator.
Good, that you finally start to understand that mails have their
disadvantages in producing noise.
Actually, no...
With NNTP and Email can both be configured to display in threaded or
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
We go in circles here. NNTP is be default organzed in threads. You
don't open a topic that you are not interested in, even if the thread
has
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 10:47:49 Al wrote:
I'd be interested in how many people still have access to a news
server these days. I don't and I'm not particularly interested in having
to pay for access when email works well enough.
You don't have to pay for access. Everybody can
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 11:56:12 Al wrote:
It would be as simple as this:
1.) enter news.gentoo.org as news server to thunderbird
2.) select the groups you want to read
2 steps not more. That is far more simple than subscribing to a mailing
list.
Al
Except that then I need to do
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