[gentoo-user] Best website backup practice

2008-12-17 Thread Momesso Andrea
I run on an old laptop a website (Joomla + MediaWiki + Moodle + a couple of other things). The site now is offline and I'm ok with my automated backups of all the hard drive, but it's going to go online in a few weeks and I'd like to add some more security. What I'd like to have is periodic snap

[gentoo-user] {OT} Offline reading of online (flash) magazines

2008-12-11 Thread Momesso Andrea
Does anyone know an easy way to download for offline usage such a magazine? http://viewer.zmags.com/showmag.php?mid=wrprss The ideal would be to be able to convert it in something more portable (and user friendly) such as PS or PDF. === Momesso Andrea http

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problems on AMD64 box

2008-11-28 Thread Andrea Momesso
can be almost sure this is an hardware problem. If you don't get any failure, than this does NOT mean gentoo is not for your hardware, but only that the livecd configured kernel may have issues with your hardware. Of course be careful compiling your own :P -- Momesso (TopperH) Andrea http://topperh.blogspot.com Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 224179391

Re: [gentoo-user] Turn off usb power on demand

2008-11-26 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mittwoch 26 November 2008, Andrea Momesso wrote: > > I have an usb external disk attached to a machine running > > gentoo. > > > > > > I only need this disk once

Re: [gentoo-user] Turn off usb power on demand

2008-11-26 Thread Andrea Momesso
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:11:00 +0100, Andrea Momesso wrote: > > > I only need this disk once a day, when a cron job mounts it, makes > > some backups, and then umounts it. > > > I'd

[gentoo-user] Turn off usb power on demand

2008-11-26 Thread Andrea Momesso
m the usb port. Is that possbile? -- Momesso (TopperH) Andrea http://topperh.blogspot.com Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 224179391

Re: [gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

2008-11-14 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:24:07PM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Momesso Andrea > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I need to install gentoo on an headless server. > > The problem is that I cannot attach a video on it at all, neither for > &g

[gentoo-user] Headless gentoo install

2008-11-14 Thread Momesso Andrea
I need to install gentoo on an headless server. The problem is that I cannot attach a video on it at all, neither for the installation. I asked the seller to setup the bios for cd boot as main option, so that I can use a live distro for the gentoo installation. I know for sure that both the gento

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with kernel upgrade - Intel i810 won't start

2008-11-07 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:25:21PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > O

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:13:09PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 04 November 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > > I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others > > amd64. All are gentoo. > > > > The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version fo

[gentoo-user] Update svn ebuilds only when necessary

2008-11-03 Thread Momesso Andrea
Is there a way to to update svn packages only when there are updates in the svn source? Actually I use a script to grep "" from eix -I output and put all those packages in a package set, then I have a cron job to rebuild this set weekly. What I'd like to do is to only fetch the svn sources, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-31 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:23:23AM +, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > Have you considered the use of webdav, or webdavs? I believe it works fine > with either MSIE and/or MSWE. Of course it works a treat with Konqueror. > The only challenge would be to

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-29 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 08:49:13PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:00:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Thanks all. I do need to be careful about this as the machine is 400 > > miles away and the user is completely unable to be of any help if it > > stops working meaning I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:40:43AM +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2008, 09:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > you can't use winblows extorter to drop files onto an ftp server? I > > > would have thought that was, er, basic functionality... > > > > Yeah, that's what I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-28 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 11:15:39PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 22:10:37 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > Why not just have them view the ftp site in the browser? > > > > > > User's aren't stupid and can cope with stuff - they will se

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-28 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 08:38:33PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 October 2008 19:38:09 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > I'm looking for a webapp to be installed in a lighttpd + mysql + php > > server that allows users to upload theyr own files and download shared > &g

[gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-28 Thread Momesso Andrea
I'm looking for a webapp to be installed in a lighttpd + mysql + php server that allows users to upload theyr own files and download shared files. Possibly I need something that allows different levels of authorizations over directories, for example a root that is world readable, a folder readable

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

2008-10-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 04:27:35PM +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: > > If you are round a university, I would actually suggest asking around > and seeing if there are old P3 workstations being thrown out. With a > little TLC, gentoo runs nicely on such hardware, especially as a > headless server in a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

2008-10-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:18:32AM -0600, darren kirby wrote: > > > - Is it possible to use the other server (x86) to build packages for the > > ppc? > > Yes, see the cross-compile gentoo docs. > I alredy have a problem with that, and alredy filled a bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id

[gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

2008-10-23 Thread Momesso Andrea
I alredy have a gentoo home server up and running with decent hardware (a FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo M3438 laptop, Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5Gb ram) that I use for general purpose (backup, portage-rsync, bittorrent, groupware) and also for my wife's work (a joomla site, a ftp server, and a mailing list mana

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Email client for a SLOW connection

2008-10-21 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:15:05AM -0700, Grant wrote: > I'm on an excruciatingly slow internet connection right now. The > email client seems to be the major productivity blocker. Thunderbird > spends a lot of time loading or whatever and squirrelmail is just > slow. Would something like mutt b

Re: [gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-15 Thread Andrea Momesso
; > Which is pretty limited for daily use... AFAICR it does not support odf documents, or it does now? -- Momesso (TopperH) Andrea http://topperh.blogspot.com Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 224179391

Re: [gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-15 Thread Andrea Momesso
morning it will accede to your > wishes > and start to shut up. > > "emerge --reinstall changed-use" also looks worth investigating > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > I cheated :P I manually edited /var/db/pkg/app-office/openoffice-3.0.0/IUSE adding

[gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-14 Thread momesso . andrea
-ja -km -ko -ku -lt -lv -mk -ml_IN -mr_IN -nb -ne -nl -nn -nr -ns -or_IN -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -rw -sh -sk -sl -sr -ss -st -sv -sw_TZ -ta_IN -te_IN -tg -th -ti_ER -tn -tr -ts -uk -ur_IN -ve -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu" 0 k (I see "-templates%" in yellow) --Momesso (TopperH) An

[gentoo-user] Same package, same version, different USE flags, how to avoid rebuild?

2008-10-14 Thread Andrea Momesso
-ku -lt -lv -mk -ml_IN -mr_IN -nb -ne -nl -nn -nr -ns -or_IN -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -ru -rw -sh -sk -sl -sr -ss -st -sv -sw_TZ -ta_IN -te_IN -tg -th -ti_ER -tn -tr -ts -uk -ur_IN -ve -vi -xh -zh_CN -zh_TW -zu" 0 k (I see "-templates%" in yellow) -- Momesso (TopperH) Andrea http://topperh.blogspot.com Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 224179391

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching [SOLVED]

2008-09-22 Thread Momesso Andrea
/root/scripts/hosts.home elif [[ ${IFACE} == "ppp2" ]] ; then /root/scripts/hosts.world fi return 0 } It works like a charm :) -- MOMESSO ANDREA jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] app-crypt/qca blocker

2008-09-22 Thread momesso . andrea
app-crypt/qca:2 won't install if app-crypt/qca:1 is inferior of app-crypt/qca-1.0-r3 that is ~ keyworded Momesso Andrea -Original Message- From: Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:04:11 To: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] app-crypt/qca blocker

2008-09-22 Thread momesso . andrea
Simply unmask app-crypt/qca-1.0-r4 Momesso Andrea -Original Message- From: Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:48:57 To: Subject: [gentoo-user] app-crypt/qca blocker Initially portage informed me about: [blocks B]

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Sunday 21 September 2008 18:47:24 Robert Bridge wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:08:18 +0200 > > Momesso Andrea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the > > machine is "fandango", and the the /etc/h

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Sunday 21 September 2008 18:28:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 21 September 2008 15:08:18 Momesso Andrea wrote: > > My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the machine > > is "fandango", and the the /etc/hosts in my laptop looks like this: >

[gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Momesso Andrea
e, to resolve it this way, otherwise to resolve it as "fandango.dyndns.org". This way I will avoid double configurations, double password stored in firefox, ecc... Any ideas? MOMESSO ANDREA Jabber [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending RSS feeds via email

2008-09-19 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Friday 19 September 2008 12:03:47 Justin wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier schrieb: > > 2008/9/19 Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Looks like what I am looking for.. Thank you! > >> > >> I just saw that the latest version is 2.63. Perhaps you need to bump the > >> ebuild. > > > > Just bumping the ebuil

Re: [gentoo-user] Sending RSS feeds via email

2008-09-19 Thread Momesso Andrea
t; articles to a > >>> given email address? > >>> Momesso Andrea > >>> > >> > >> What's wrong with cron, wget, diff and mail? Nothing worng, if only I had a clue on how to set it up... :) > > > > See <h

[gentoo-user] Sending RSS feeds via email

2008-09-18 Thread momesso . andrea
Does anyone know a tool that fetches RSS feeds and sends new articles to a given email address? Momesso Andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox networking

2008-09-17 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Wednesday 17 September 2008 02:07:49 Hal Martin wrote: > Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:25:02 +0200 > > > > schrieb pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hello, [.] > > I currently have all my virtual machines configured to use the > PCnet-FAST III (Am79C973) virtual network adapter.

Re: [gentoo-user] What *-sources for laptop

2008-07-19 Thread Andrea Momesso
pu-specific USE flags > (things like mmx, sse) > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > If you need advanced hibernate and suspend functions tuxonice-sources are fine too. -- Momesso Andrea

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Windows terminal to allow ssh into my Gentoo machine?

2008-04-01 Thread andrea
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 10:31 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I'm forced to work on some windows machines for the next couple of > days and want to find a simple app that would allow me command line > access to my Gentoo server. Does anyone here know of one? I don't need > anything more than a t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-18 Thread andrea
On mar, 2008-03-18 at 10:11 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: > iTunes works pretty well, running on a VM of windows. I run windows XP > with VMWare Workstation and have iTunes installed to sync my iPod, > because no OSS solutions handle m4a very well :-(. Same here with VirtualBox. ITunes works fin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers ==> Cannot switch to ttys or close X

2008-03-14 Thread andrea
On gio, 2008-03-13 at 21:38 +0100, Matthias Bethke wrote: > As far as I've heard, all proprietary graphics drivers on Linux suck but > NVidia's suck a little less. > I've had big stability problems as well > with 169.09-r1 on an el-cheapo GeForce 7300 but 169.12 has been rock > solid for about a w

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers ==> Cannot switch to ttys or close X

2008-03-13 Thread andrea
On gio, 2008-03-13 at 10:32 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > You're talking about the NV's secret-code driver ? > It makes heavy trouble with fbdev. Both together monst likely > won't work. > That's because they refuse to use the well approved DRI interface > and do something completely own and o

[gentoo-user] Nvidia GeForce Go 6800 and nvidia-drivers ==> Cannot switch to ttys or close X

2008-03-07 Thread andrea
I'm using a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D laptop with nvidia GeForse Go 6800: | 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV41.8 [GeForce | Go 6800] (rev a2) Latest available version of nvidia-drivers | [I] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/02/2008): NVIDIA X11 driver | and GL

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-29 Thread andrea
On ven, 2008-02-29 at 13:00 -0500, Don Jerman wrote: > When the usb disk is attached after boot the BIOS doesn't give it a HD > number in the series 0x80,0x81, etc, where 0x80 = (hd0) in grub or > /dev/sda. The OS handles all the controller events and connects the > USB device up through udev. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread andrea
On gio, 2008-02-28 at 19:23 +0100, KH wrote: > Hi, > > never tried that and might only be a temporary workaround. You could > install grub in the mbr of both disk and then point them only to your > internal disk. That way you should always be able to boot, shouldn't you? > > kh ┌─([EMAIL PROT

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread andrea
On gio, 2008-02-28 at 12:54 -0500, Don Jerman wrote: > I've had problems with disk presentation order changing (fairly > randomly) when USB disks are attached during boot. Apparently there's > a race between the SCSI controller and the USB controller(s). If you > attach the USB disk later the SC

[gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread Andrea Momesso
unplugged grub loads perfectly. Thanks in advance. -- Momesso Andrea -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHxsyXTusdC+HYtiIRAgM/AKC/hksdT1s0FVrrQP8erkKvS3WvwACgw+jV BqnY2+QyuVUfHM55I5iuvIk= =Owxp -END PGP SIGNATURE-

[gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-28 Thread andrea
I had no problem booting since last time I partitoned my USB external disk. == Disk /dev/sdc: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x Device Boot

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome overlay?

2008-02-08 Thread andrea
It looks available on layman: (7:08:#)── layman -L | grep gnome * gnome [Git ] (source: git://git.overlays.gentoo) On ven, 2008-02-08 at 13:50 -0800, Grant wrote: > This bug: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198712 > > says the latest rhythmbox ebuild is

Re: [gentoo-user] eix question

2007-06-14 Thread Andrea Bona
I think that [I] means that the package is already installed. Maybe here you will find something related: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Use_Portage_Correctly#Understanding_Portage.27s_Formatted_and_Colored_Output Bye Andrea On 6/15/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 070614 Arna

Re: [gentoo-user] Diary tool?

2007-04-13 Thread Andrea Bona
Take a look at Zim. Zim - a desktop wiki and outliner http://pardus-larus.student.utwente.nl/%7Epardus/projects/zim/index.shtml -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms-status-plugin-1.0 emerge failed

2006-09-04 Thread Andrea Bona
Hoping it helps: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-494577-highlight-xmmsstatusplugin.html Bye Andrea -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] libstdc++-v3 and gcc-4.1

2006-09-04 Thread Andrea Moro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 yes, it should be safe. a.m. Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > Is the libstdc++-v3 old compatibility package obsolete in a gcc-4.1-only > system? > > I've checked with ldd and all the apps which need libstdc++ ling against > the one provided by gcc-4.1.1, an

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Andrea Barisani
It disables pango library usage, there's a known bug about it that makes firefox scrolling and stuff very slow. Google for it and you'll find lots of reports about it. Cheers -- Andrea Barisani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.*. Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-04-30 Thread Andrea Barisani
roblem? > > Try a blank Firefox profile. To create one, run "firefox -ProfileManager". > > Alexander Skwar > -- > Would you people stop playing these stupid games?!?!? > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > Try using this: $ MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I unsubscribe?

2006-01-16 Thread Andrea Barisani
k up http://www.gentoo.org and the lists page (it's there, easy to find). So there's plenty of ways to get the info you need without bothering the lists itself (including your friendly [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Andrea Barisani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [gentoo-user] Please Use Subjects

2005-05-08 Thread Andrea Barisani
afraid. Things should be back to normal now. Sorry for the mess. Bye -- Andrea Barisani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.*. Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Developer V ( ) GPG-Key 0x864C9B9E ht

Re: [gentoo-user] how to subscribe but get no mail

2005-04-14 Thread Andrea Barisani
IL PROTECTED] always shows list usage information. Anyway regarding your issue you should use: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers -- Andrea Barisani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.*. Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Developer V

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