Re: [gentoo-user] Flashing the BIOS

2006-09-26 Thread Matteo Pillon
Hi, On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:03:38AM +0100, Mick wrote: Thanks Iain, you're right. I redownloaded and tried again - but it's not a zipped archive: = # unzip SP27128.exe Archive: SP27128.exe End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either

Re: [gentoo-user] How-to AMD Sempron 3300+

2006-09-21 Thread Matteo Pillon
Hi, On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:08:30PM +0200, Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: I can't tell you if this is normal, but sse3 isn't shown in my /proc/cpuinfo either (neither is it in Gentoo nor was it in Debian before I switched to Gentoo) (I have a Sempron 2800+). In some Benchmark program under

Re: [gentoo-user] permissions for a common folder

2006-09-19 Thread Matteo Pillon
Hi, On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 01:53:13PM +0200, Stefán István wrote: We have a file server, and there are a common directory for a group of a users. I set this common folder's permission to 2775 and that results that a newly created file or directory will have the same goup owner as the

[gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Matteo Pillon
Hi all, I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as many other unix implementations do. For example, in Linux, you can't do 'cat .' while on FreeBSD you can. Why? There is a practical reason? Forgive me this OT, I wasn't able to find a suitable list. Thanks for replies.

Re: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?

2006-09-18 Thread Matteo Pillon
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:09:03AM +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: I've seen somewhere a '*' in the password field of non-human users. I think this is supposed to mean that user can't login. However, I didn't find anything like that in gentoo's /etc/passwd (e.g., for user cron or user sshd). Can

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Matteo Pillon
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:42:29AM +0200, Roman Zilka wrote: I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as many other unix implementations do. For example, in Linux, you can't do 'cat .' while on FreeBSD you can. Why? There is a practical reason? I'd say it's not a

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Matteo Pillon
Hi, On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Noack, Sebastian wrote: But independent from this aspect, a file refers in its inode to a chunk of storage on the hard disk (or other storage medias), which contains its data. But some files like directories don't contain data. A directory IS like

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Why directories aren't files?

2006-09-18 Thread Matteo Pillon
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:30:52PM +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 11:10:57 +0200 Matteo Pillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering why Linux doesn't treat directories like files, as many other unix implementations do. Pragmatic answer: because nobody

Re: [gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-17 Thread Matteo Pillon
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:44:26PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Where is that beast? I did a find . -name *beamer* -print in /usr/doc but nothing came up. Try this: /usr/share/doc/tetex-*/latex/beamer/beameruserguide.pdf. There are also some examples. I suggest to read also the pgfuserguide in