On Friday 04 July 2008, Dale wrote:
> Sebastian Günther wrote:
> > * Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [04.07.08 05:25]:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> After getting the mailing list working I did some techy
> >> shopping. I got me a new DVD burner and k3b does not like large
> >> files. I used Kbackup to creat
On Friday 27 June 2008, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to deploy a (gentoo) server, on an isolated, remote network,
> with just a few custom applications. However, to periodically
> update the gentoo distro, I want to build a second (congruent)
> system, that can be physically swapped for update,
On Thursday 26 June 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > This looks like the two-wire cable between the CD ROM and your
> > soundcard is missing or loose.
>
> you don't need that cable. Really. You don't.
Sure. Some sof
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Yoav Luft wrote:
> Hi,
> I posted a similar e-mail a couple of weeks ago and got no
> response. I wish not to spam the mailing list, only for maybe a
> better luck this time. My CD ROM drive had stopped playing audio
> CD's. It still works fine, data CD's work alright and
On Saturday 21 June 2008, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm adding primary and secondary name servers to my small (5
> static) ip network.
>
>
> Are there any security reasons that I should not run the secondary
> (Bind) name server on the firewall (iptables) directly?
Well, security holes have been d
On Sunday 08 June 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >> "105 minutes were closed and 57 were open" - what is "57"?
> >
> > Minutes : what else ?!
>
> You mean the new meeting continued 105 minutes and then 57 minutes
>
On Thursday 29 May 2008, Claudinei Matos wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm having a weird problem here. I do have an amd64 install of
> gentoo with KDE 4.
> Well my problem is that sometimes (once or more per day) when
> using Firefox I do
> click in some link or try to scroll down/up the scrollbar my
>
On Thursday 29 May 2008, Pawel K wrote:
> I compiled the kernel with all modules:
>
> make allmodconfig
> make
> make modules_install
>
> I have udev running on my machine since more than a year.
> I created the following section in grub.conf:
>
> title vanilla-all-modules
> root (hd0,0)
> kern
On Wednesday 21 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:26:58AM +0100, Mick wrote:
> > Mine has been set to LINGUAS="en_GB el" for many years now, but
> > mplayer still shows up with scrambled characters on the terminal
> > (aterm/rxvt). However, when rebuilt like:
> >
> >
On Thursday 15 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > On Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > > Hi folks,
> > > >
> > >
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it
> > fail during link stage. Is it a known issue?
>
> there is no 'libm
Hi folks,
libmad-0.2.1 doens't install libmad.la. Programs linking to it fail
during link stage. Is it a known issue?
Uwe
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On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Andrey Falko wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote:
> > > Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level
> > > for X11? (this make
On Tuesday 13 May 2008, Abraham Gyorgy wrote:
> Hello guys, in which configuration file can I set a nice level for
> X11? (this makes all graphical software run much faster, at least
> when I used Debian).
Nice factor for X makes graphical software run fater? I don't thinl
so. Not at all.
Uwe
-
Hi folks,
I use emerge-delta-webrsync. I get an md5 error for
snapshot-20080501-20080502.patch.bz2 for a couple of days now.
Anybody in the know what is going on?
Uwe
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On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Alan McKinnon
> > Piffle, that's nothing. At least your Windows installer would
> > have given you a prompt.
>
> I don't follow Alan.
>
> The HP recovery disk boots and asks somethng like 'Do you want to
> restore the
On Monday 05 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> OOo has just got to be the most fscked-up ebuild I've ever seen.
I think you are being unfair towards the gentoo developers. It isn't
the ebuild but OOo's build system (and source). The gentoo devs just
try to work around its extreme fragility.
Sti
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> === On Saturday 03 May 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: ===
>
> > Even just after boot (before login) HDD led shows that somebody
> > polls hdd (or dvd) drive(s) every ~1-2 sec. Who is it? Where/what
> > to config?
>
> Sorry, in spite of multipl
On Saturday 03 May 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Seems like hal is getting like it's namesake from *that* movie:
> >
> > Too bloody smart for it's own good
>
> yeah.
>
> i can't burn dvd/cd anymore thanks to hal. Every couple of seconds
> ano
On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2008 14:17:39 +0100
>
> Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400
> > > David Relson wrote:
> > >
> > > ...[snip]...
&g
On Saturday 03 May 2008, David Relson wrote:
> On Fri, 2 May 2008 07:10:02 -0400
> David Relson wrote:
>
> ...[snip]...
>
> > As part of identifying the capabilities and files of your
> > operating system (distro) ./configure creates a lot of small
> > programs and compiles them. I can see how cac
On Friday 02 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Before I waste a lot of time I just noticed that I'm using a
> > 2007.0 install CD but downloading and setting up a 2008.0 beta2
> > system. Is there any problem building the 2008.0 system files
> > using wh
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008 15:13:27 -0400, Brandon Mintern wrote:
> > I was mostly responding to Neil Bothwick's implication (even if
> > it was sarcastic) that using vim indicates bad things.
>
> Implication? I obviously wasn't clear enough ;-)
You were ver
On Thursday 01 May 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to
> > current 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff.
> >
> > Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so
> > far m
On Thursday 01 May 2008, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On an amd64, If I want to add -fomit-frame-pointer to a system's
> CFLAGS setting, I can just add it and eventually all of the
> executables will be recompile (willing to wait)
> or do I have to rebuild system (all packages) or such to switch?
No
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > /me lumbers off in search of mind-altering substances with
> > > depressant side-effects
> >
> > Just watch TV for a while.
>
> Yeah right :-)
>
>
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > USE="doc" adds extra documentation, usually API information
> > for programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The
> > doc flag increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes
On Monday 28 April 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 12:03 -0500, Chris Frederick wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to set up the portage directory to be hosted over nfs.
> > Everything is working great but I would like to increase the
> > security a
> > little. I was wonderi
On Saturday 26 April 2008, Ralf Stephan wrote:
> Hello,
> recently sys-apps/mktemp is blocking coreutils even in x86.
> mktemp is needed by baselayout, debianutils and a2ps.
> As a2ps is optional and newer baselayout (~x86) version
> no longer require mktemp, that leaves debianutils requiring
> mkt
On Friday 25 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Thanks Alan,
> >Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have
> > only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace
> > the drives and then do new installs from scrat
On Thursday 24 April 2008, Net Warrior wrote:
> Well, after all I'm confused after reading the thread.
>
> Should I use this or not ? *USE="-ipv6 -ftp" emerge -av mplayer*
No. Rather put it in /etc/portage/package.use.
Uwe
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On Wednesday 23 April 2008, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I just found this page:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/kolab/
>
> Groupware is the general category. My questions are:
>
> Has anyone installed this and if so how do you like it?
>
Lng time ago. ;-)
>
> Would one run a traditionally s
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote:
> Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences?
> Always ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!!
You know, shit happens. It shouldn't but it does. Like you aren't
really paying attention being sidetracked, and the shit
Hi folks,
according to the mesa web site, mesa-7.0.2 contains a 3d driver for
openchrome. Unfortunately, the ebuild knows only about a very limited
number of video cards, openchrome not amoung them. How can I convince
it to compile the openchrome 3d driver?
Uwe
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On Wednesday 16 April 2008, Eric Martin wrote:
> Original Message
> Subject: Returned mail: User unknown
> Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:13 -0700 (PDT)
> Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:39:13 -0700 (PDT)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Eric Martin
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Grant wrote:
> When I try to start Xorg, the exa module unloads with "undefined
> symbol: fbGlyph8" and then i810 unloads with "undefined symbol:
> exaDriverFini". Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
>
> (II) LoadModule: "exa"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules//libexa
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote:
Multiple parse errors. :-(
Didn't get at all what you were trying to say.
Please don't get me wrong. I know your mother tongue isn't English,
neither is mine. You have got one thing to keep in mind: If your
command of the language you ar
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> This morning my server box died (power supply problem
> I think).
You didn't mean it, did you? Sending an email just short of 1MB to a
mailing list. Please tell me you made a silly mistake.
Uwe
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On Thursday 10 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Thursday 10 April 2008, 14:08, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > In any event, when portage says "A blocks B" your options and
> > always only:
> >
> > - unmerge B and optionally remerge or upgrade it later
> > - do not use A
>
> I have always resolved "A
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> gtk-doc-am _does_ block gtk-doc. Since you already have gtk-doc
> installed, gtk-doc-am couldn't go ahead.
>
> Often with a blocker, you don't have the blockee already installed.
> ie. blocker-pkg blocks blockee-pkg, and both are required by othe
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> I think it just means gtk-doc-am wants a newer gtk-doc, so it's
> blocking the one you have installed. You need to uninstall
> gtk-doc, and then you can install a newer gtk-doc and gtk-doc-am.
It works. Thanks! But I don't understand why. Emerge
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Dale wrote:
> Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > emerge --update world tells me:
> > [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
> > dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
> >
> > emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me:
> > --
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
> Ralf Stephan wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm fed up with waiting for ever the same name requests from my
> > browser (and open servers don't cut it either): which DNS cache
> > or caching DNS for simple local installation would you recommend?
>
> cons
Hi folks,
emerge --update world tells me:
[blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me:
--- Couldn't find 'gtk-doc-am' to unmerge.
So let's be more specific:
emerge --unmerge =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10 tells me:
--- Couldn't find
On Saturday 05 April 2008, ionut cucu wrote:
> I had a buddy in my lan with whom I shared files and such. But
> recently our campus network management decided to give our my dorm
> building another external ip, and put a firewall( I think) between
> us. So now instead of both of us having the same
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 03 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:33:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On your machine that still works, can you looksee what is in
> > > ~/kde3.5/share/apps/konqueor/konquerorrc under the section for
> > >
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 03 April 2008, Peter Ruskin wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On your machine that still works, can you looksee what is in
> > > ~/kde3.5/share/apps/konqueor/konquerorrc under the section for
> > > the Go m
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 13:33:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On your machine that still works, can you looksee what is in
> > ~/kde3.5/share/apps/konqueor/konquerorrc under the section for
> > the Go menu? Mine looks like such:
> >
> >
> >&Go
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 11:52:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Are we talking about the same thing? I mean the top half, it
> > contains Back, Forward and Up items, as well as System:/,
> > Trash:/, various removable media and fish/ssh/smb sessions
>
>
On Thursday 03 April 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Subject line explains the issue
No, it does not. It does explain that sshd cannot start because your
network isn't up. Now you have to find out why the network doesn't
get started.
Uwe
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On Thursday 03 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 03 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > Basically, it is the history of your browsing. *You* populate it
> > by browsing different sites.
>
> Are we talking about the same thing? I mean the top half, it
> contains Ba
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Crayon Shin Chan wrote:
> > 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 t
On Monday 31 March 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote:
> Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 30 Mar 2008, at 06:47, Michael Schmarck wrote:
> >> ...
> >> In your world, an aggressor is doing nothing wrong? Do I
> >> understand that right?
> >> ...
> >> Get real.
> >
> > When you're describing some
On Sunday 30 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 30 March 2008, Dale wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > I suppose I'm not the only one here who has it proven to him at
> > > least once a day just how little he actually knows? ... :-)
> >
> > Nope you are not. ;-) Sometimes this happe
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> This is getting OT but I still want to ask:
> Is it really necessary to run an anti-virus on linux? I just want
> to hear some opinions on that topic because I thought security
> fixes for your software are the way to go for fighting virae on
> l
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 17:55 +0200, Elyahou ITTAH wrote:
> > If your proxy don't let ftp pass, use
> >
> > torify
>
> Please try to avoid doing this with large packages. Tor is a
> distributed net built by volunteers. Flooding it with large
> downl
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Mario Ignacio Rodríguez Cortés wrote:
> Hi list:
>
> The situation is the next, i'm trying to install mod_perl as a
> static module with apache2,
What is a "static module"?Something like a female stallion?
Uwe
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On Thursday 27 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
> Hello,
> I have inst. gtoo on a workstation at work. But portage complains
> '-14:24:52--
> ftp://cudlug.cudenver.edu/pub/mirrors/distributions/gentoo/distfile
>s/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.bz2 =>
> `/usr/portage/distfiles/gcc-3.3.6-patches-1.4.tar.b
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Marc Blumentritt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just read on this list, that the x11 driver openchrome for via
> chipsets hit the tree. Does anyone know, if mplayer in portage tree
> is patched to work with openchrome and xvmc?
It doesn't need to be patched. Just emerge it with "xv
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Fei Liu wrote:
> Hello Group, I spend a whole day trying to get this to work. Here
> is my setup
>
> /dev/sda1 / ext3 noatime
> 0 1 /dev/sda2 swap
>
> grub is installed using the 'root (hd0,0)' and 'setup (hd0)', no
On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 25. März 2008 schrieb ext Uwe Thiem:
> > Yes, and it isn't necessary. You lock your servers away so that
> > nobody has physical access to them.
>
> What if you sell them or give them back (leased mach
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Grant wrote:
> > > > On a notebook, there isn't an OS in existence that is immune
> > > > to a LiveCD.
> > >
> > > Linux is. In the sense that you can't get at the data if the
> > > disc is encrypted, even not with a LiveCD. You can only
> > > destroy/overwrite it.
>
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > > Why on earth is it excluding openchrome?
> > >
> > > Because the xorg-server ebuild does not support openchrome.
> > > yet. Just add openchrome to world un
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > xf86-video-openchrome is now in portage. So there is no need to
> > keep the overlay. I deleted it and removed the "source" line
> > in /
Hi folks,
xf86-video-openchrome is now in portage. So there is no need to keep
the overlay. I deleted it and removed the "source" line
in /etc/make.conf. I have the following line in make.conf:
VIDEO_CARDS="openchrome via"
Now I get this:
uwix ~ # emerge --pretend --verbose xorg-server
These a
On Monday 24 March 2008, Grant wrote:
> I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root
> password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log
> in there fine. Can I recover the root password?
If you could passwords were useless. ;-)
But you can boot from a LiveCD,
On Monday 24 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Peter Humphrey
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > On Monday 24 March 2008 10:19:25 Collin Starkweather wrote:
> > > ... you left a '>' out of your rsync call. It's fixed below.
> >
> > His version is exactly the sa
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> hi
>
> can i have a list of Gentoo Linux basic commands to start with
Basic commands for what? If Linux in general, google for "bash". Read
any of the introductions. If Gentoo-specific stuff, read the manual.
Uwe
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On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
> HI DOES ANYONE KNOW OF GOOD TRAINABLE NN SOFTWARE ON PORTAGE?
First of all, don't shout at us!
AFAIK, snns is a very good OSS implementation - and it's in portage.
Uwe
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ht
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote:
> It's certainly an aid, at least the bottom part (like i'd said, I;d
> foound several different Gentoo docs giving me descriptions of what
> slots are, so I knew that, just that there seem to be no docs
> anywhere I can locate IN Gentoo that tell you
On Thursday 13 March 2008, cypherstrong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> KDE change dcop for dbus
>
> The problem is that dcop it's really easy to use, but dbus ...
Go to:
http://techbase.kde.org/
and search for "DBUS".
Uwe
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On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:07:06 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > > I tried 0.2.2 from portage and an svn checkout from
> > > > openchrome.org.
> > >
> > > I can't see openchrome in
> >
> &g
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 18:15:45 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > Which version of the driver are you using? I have an IGP
> > > chipset and use x11-drivers/xf86-video-openchrome-0.2.901 from
> > > the Sabayon overlay.
>
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > My video subsystem is a VIA UniChrome Pro IGP.
>
> Aaahh. Say no more.
>
> I can get you good deals on Dell kit. Interested?
What do you mean by "Dell kit"?
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:51:42 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > I guess my problem is this: My video subsystem is a VIA UniChrome
> > Pro IGP. I got an X driver for it from www.openchrome.org which
> > doesn't seem to work prop
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > Short version:
> > > kdelibs
> > > krunner
> > > kwin
> > > libtaskmanager
> > &
On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > I have 3.5 as monolithic and 4.0 meta. What concerns me is that
> > adding "xcomposite" will not re-emerge anything from 4.0 - and
> > there is where I need/want it.
&
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
> Hello
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:47:51PM +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > set xcomposi
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite in my xorg. Meanwhile I
> > have found out how to enable composite (and 2D and 3D
> > acceleration) with my graph
Hi folks,
I emerged KDE 4.0.2 without composite in my xorg. Meanwhile I have
found out how to enable composite (and 2D and 3D acceleration) with
my graphics chipset.
Now I'd like to re-compile KDE with composite enabled. Anybody in the
know *what* parts of KDE I have to re-emerge? (Wouldn't li
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:29:59 +0100 (CET), Kristian Poul Herkild
wrote:
> > Make it 2 TB - 1 TB is not enough. But what a machine to compile
> > OO.o with... not bad, ehh? *drooling*
>
> Forget compiling OOo, that machine would be fast enough to run
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote:
> Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > BTW, you can reduce the downloads by a large margin using deltup.
> >
> >
> > Uwe
>
> Dial-up user reporting in here. What is this "feature" you speak
> of here? How does this work?
Ins
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> KDE 3 is known for its long build times. Thanks to the new build
> system, KDE 4 builds orders of magnitude faster (kdelibs 4 build
> takes way less than an hour on my Core 2 Duo laptop, while kdelibs
> 3 takes more than 3 hours).
Oh, oh, oh. 1 ho
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I also see that kde-4.0.2 just hit portage, complete with 345M of
> sources to be downloaded.
It's compiling here right now. On two boxes using distcc.
BTW, you can reduce the downloads by a large margin using deltup.
> The other lads in the of
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dale wrote:
> I would love to build a rig with two dual core CPUs, 4 cores in
> all. Compile times would be pretty short. ;-) Woo Ooo.
You and everybody else.
Plus tons of ram, 1TB storage and a good graphics subsystem. Yeah!
Uwe
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On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote:
> Here is the output of my cpuinfo, I'll point out where it will mean
> 64bit. For the sake of this demonstration, I have only pasted one
> (1) CPU.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
> cpu
On Monday 03 March 2008, Grant Edwards wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out how to do port-based routing. I found
> a HOWTO that does pretty much exactly what I'm trying to do:
>
> http://www.linuxhorizon.ro/iproute2.html
>
> However, it's using iptables, which I thought was deprecated,
Not to my kn
On Monday 03 March 2008, Stroller wrote:
> On 3 Mar 2008, at 09:57, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> > On Monday 3 March 2008, Jan Seeger wrote:
> >> NOTE: I don't speak spanish. But somehow, I read it thusly:
> >> On Mon, 03. Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] spammed my inbox with
> >>
> >>> todos los temas relacionad
On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote:
> > Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the
> > problem with that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end
> > all that data would still have to move from the server to your
> > local machine anyway.
>
> But I can save the time
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> /me thinks it's time to remember that only livestock are supposed
> to get Foot and Mouth disease, not geeks
People (including geeks) can get it as well. It's hard but possible to
get infected. Sieve the spores out of your soil. Then inhale
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Since nobody seems to have an idea, maybe someone can tell me how I
> allow processes with real-time priority (nice -n -20) to be started
> by an ordinary user? Of course I'm aware of sudo but I don't want a
> simple media encoder to have super-
On Sunday 24 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I noticed a very annoying behavior. I've got a headless server
> (Athlon 64 X2) which primarily acts as a personal video recorder
> using mencoder and at-daemon. In its idle-time it's supposed to run
> a dnet-client.
>
> Then I've got a l
On Thursday 21 February 2008, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> Current CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
>
>
> I want to add "-fomit-frame-pointer" to my
> CFLAGS on an existing system that has been running
> for months.
>
>
> Is this safe or do I have to rebuild everything with
> somelike "emerge -e" ?
On Saturday 16 February 2008, Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:22:19 -0800, Brian Marshall wrote:
> >>> I have a lot of dir. and files in my home directory. I want to
> >>> chown all of it to my user. How to do this by one comand ?
> >>> Thanks
> >>
> >> With recursion:
On Friday 15 February 2008, Aaron Clark wrote:
> xfs: high performance, especially when dealing with many large or
> small files; Gets along very well with raid arrays. Noticeably
> higher cpu usage than ext3/jfs. IIRC, it aggressively caches its
> writes so there is a slight possibility of data
On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> > Neil, you are a master of understatement :-)
> >
> > pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted
> > ro immediately and IF not much writing to the disk happened in
> > the mea
On Friday 15 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > >> That aside, how would gaps *between* files ever translate into
> > >> fragment
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote:
> I also attached a copy of the program I used. I think I got it off
> the forums. Maybe some guru can improve it a little. ;-)
Not me. Perl has been invented to generate reports from log files or
such. It is not a general purpose language, though ma
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > Yes, everything will be defragmented. In addition, it will leave
> > gaps between files. So if a file lateron grows it will not
> > immediately fragment.
>
> Which wi
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Dale wrote:
> Now I remember why I stopped using prelink:
>
> "The only maintenance required is re-running prelink every time a
> library is upgraded for a pre-linked executable."
I only prelink after major updates. Never had any problems in between.
>
> I knew ther
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