Re: [gentoo-user] SATA Hardware vs Software RAID

2006-01-19 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 19, 2006, at 3:02 PM, Jarry wrote: John Jolet wrote: I personally prefer hardware raid, because if you go software raid, I don't believe your /boot partition can exist on the raid. so each drive would have to have a /boot partitionor has that need been alleviated? Not true

Re: [gentoo-user] How to come back to Mac OS X?

2006-01-18 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 18, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Alessandro Di Rubbo wrote: Hello to everyone, I've got an Apple iBook (Dual USB) with a Gentoo installation on it, but now I'm going to sell it and I would restore the original situation, installing Mac OS 9 and/or Mac OS X. When I installed Gentoo, I deleted

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: bullet mail # ps ax | grep 'sendmail' 9939 ?Ss 0:00 sendmail:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 11:20 -0600, John Jolet wrote: On Jan 17, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail

Re: [gentoo-user] email within a LAN?

2006-01-17 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 17, 2006, at 2:37 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a relatively easy way to send email within a private LAN (192.168.x.x), and at the same time know when to send the mail to an external router? I have three gentoo boxes and one OpenBSD box in my home LAN; I'd like to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 15, 2006, at 7:59 AM, Stroller wrote: On 15 Jan 2006, at 10:15, Ryan Viljoen wrote: What I landed up doing is defining a set of my own rules that detected if penis, viagra, slut and such words occured it added a +10.0 to the spam assassin rating so if is clearly identified as

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam

2006-01-14 Thread John Jolet
. rsyncing /etc/passwd and /etc/ shadow is probably going to be sufficient for a very small network. beyond 5 or so computers, the other methods start to earn their way. no matter what, though, pam stays in the soluution stack. On 1/13/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] How to compile 64bit Gentoo on a 32bit system?

2006-01-13 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 13, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Abhay Kedia wrote: On Friday 13 January 2006 02:04, Zac Medico wrote: You can boot off of the cd and build a kernel immediately or you can copy the cd's kernel. When booted from the cd, the kernel is found at /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/gentoo-em64t and

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam

2006-01-13 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi, I don´t know if this is a valid question, or I am making a big mess, but I was wondering witch autentication method is better, ldap or pam. I would like to know too if is possible to use bouth. ldap is one of the methods that can

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam

2006-01-13 Thread John Jolet
of last resort. so pam is a framework into which multiple authentication methods can snap. On 1/13/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi, I don´t know if this is a valid question, or I am making a big mess, but I was wondering witch

Re: [gentoo-user] ldap vs. pam

2006-01-13 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 13, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote:2006/1/13, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:45 AM, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: thanks. I believe I am starting to understand this. I was seeing that ldap can authenticate in a lot of types, like , databases, files, and PAM

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-13 Thread John Myers
On Friday 13 January 2006 07:45, Francesco Riosa wrote: Tom Smith wrote: Well, if they're /not/ mutually exclusive, another question that comes up is... If a program is compiled with sse or sse2 support on a Pentium II, will the program run slower than it otherwise would? (Some of the

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-13 Thread John Myers
On Friday 13 January 2006 14:24, Trenton Adams wrote: On 1/12/06, John Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 12 January 2006 18:45, Tom Smith wrote: Well, if they're /not/ mutually exclusive, another question that comes up is... If a program is compiled with sse or sse2 support

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-13 Thread John Myers
On Friday 13 January 2006 19:00, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/13/06, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [pid 3564] open(/usr/lib/mozilla/chrome/comm.jar, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE snip This is making me think there is some kind of java or plugin problem, since .jar files are essentially java

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-12 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 12 January 2006 13:54, Dale Kirkley wrote: An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 whatever email address I am trying to send to Relaying denied. Please verify that your email address is correct in your Mail preferences and try again. Sounds like you

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-12 Thread John Jolet
On Thursday 12 January 2006 16:21, Dale wrote: John Myers wrote: On Thursday 12 January 2006 13:54, Dale Kirkley wrote: An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 whatever email address I am trying to send to Relaying denied. Please verify that your email address

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags: mmx sse sse2

2006-01-12 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 12 January 2006 18:45, Tom Smith wrote: Well, if they're /not/ mutually exclusive, another question that comes up is... If a program is compiled with sse or sse2 support on a Pentium II, will the program run slower than it otherwise would? (Some of the programs I have are

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
-trivial depending on your experience level. maybe there's a way to do it with sama as well? Thanks! Matt -- Matt Garman email at: http://raw-sewage.net/index.php?file=email -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] How to do account management across multiple Unix boxes?

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
the security issues, because if you make ALL of your machines nis slaves, and have them authenticate to themselves, if you nis master goes down, you can still get on the other boxes. Or you could just use rdist to fan out your /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd files ;) On 1/11/06, John Jolet [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64. boots, but then says it can't find ROOT. 2005.0 works fine, as does x86 2005.1. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 14:35, Lares Moreau wrote: On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:15 -0600, John Jolet wrote: I've encountered very weird behavior with ALL flavors of 2005.1 and 2005.1-r1 install media for amd64. boots, but then says it can't find ROOT. 2005.0 works fine, as does x86

Re: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 installs on dual-core amd64

2006-01-11 Thread John Jolet
do you have a SATA cdrom drive? Cynyr. no. it's ide. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working

2006-01-09 Thread John Jolet
what are the permissions on the su binary? On Jan 9, 2006, at 8:18 AM, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my normal users. I get the su: Permission denied, Sorry. message. I have tried: 1) changed the root password; no joy 2) created a new user

Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:03, darren kirby wrote: Hello all, I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as Xorg, and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an xterm anymore. I seem to recall this happening to me years ago, but I do not remember the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need MythTV setup help (resend)

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 13:18, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 13:04 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 08:50:31 -0800 Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One other thing - if you're using a 64-bit machine, you'll need to run - mplayer-bin test.mpg to see

Re: [gentoo-user] No xterms after kernel upgrade.

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 14:05, Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2006-01-08 13:03 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded the kernel on my laptop to 2.6.14-r5, as well as Xorg, and many other packages. Since this change I cannot run an xterm anymore. I seem to recall this happening

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 17:49, Iain Buchanan wrote: can eix do the following (taken from esearch --help) snip Yep! -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia # pgp0Vwl6JMMo0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-08 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 January 2006 18:50, Benjamin Fritzsche wrote: While were on the subject: is there something like esync for eix? (show me the differences after a emerge sync/eix-update?) eix-sync -- # # electronerd, the electronerdian from electronerdia # pgpSfs72pn0qp.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Irritating problem #2-- colordiff

2006-01-07 Thread John Myers
On Saturday 07 January 2006 10:37, Holly Bostick wrote: No. I don't actually use colordiff standalone, so no reason. I did, however, have an (unnecessary) alias around etc-update, which I have now removed, allowing it to rely solely on its sudo entry. But since I don't have any updates to diff

Re: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 4, 2006, at 7:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to set yourself up to be able do shutdown and reboot if desired. Do this in the sudoers file. I don't have my setup where I can reach it at this moment but if you need I can post it later tonight. what you wanted was

Re: SOLVED: [gentoo-user] System shutdown from within Xfce

2006-01-04 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 4, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Michael Kjorling wrote: On 2006-01-04 08:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what you put was let wheel group run the shutdown command as vukyou want to replace vuk with root. There we go, thank you! For the benefit of the archives, this is what I got in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get Vi

2006-01-03 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 3, 2006, at 2:02 PM, Shawn Singh wrote: Hey all, When trying to emerge vi, emerge fails on step 1 of 3 because it cannot find vim-6.3.068-netrw.tar.bz2. Here is a snippet from the last bit of the run of emerge: 09:55:37 ERROR 404: Not Found. !!! Couldn't download

Re: [gentoo-user] cron help

2006-01-03 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 3, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi all, Let's play everyone's favorite game, What did Kris do wrong? ;-) I've been working on a set of scripts to utilize Mark Lyon's gml (Google Mail Loader), a tool to upload email to GMail for easy storage and searching. So far, the scripts

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 : Kicker other ebuilds fail

2006-01-01 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 1, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Philip Webb wrote: Before I submit a bug report, has anyone had a similar experience ? Does anyone have anything to suggest to try first ? I did an emerge kdebase-startkde and didn't see any errors, but the kicker doesn't seem to exist...so maybe it failed and I

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-31 Thread John Jolet
The file /etc/default/tar contains a list of tape devices. So on Solaris 2.8 if -f is not specified and $TAPE is not set, which it isn't by default, then tar will use a tape device *not* stdin/stdout Steve -- Thanks, Steve. This is the point I was trying to make, but I'm at home with

[gentoo-user] [OT] mrtg and mrtg_total.pl

2005-12-31 Thread John J. Foster
Good evening all, I've been running mrtg for the last few months or so collecting data on different network ports around the house. I also use Wildblue satellite service as my ISP (out in the boonies, but works pretty darn well). They just changed their FAP to a rolling 30 days, and I started

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-30 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 30, 2005, at 9:21 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:22:26 -0600, John Jolet wrote: or ssh sourcebox tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed/up | dd of=target.tar.gz tar outputs to stdout be default, so -f - is redundant, as is the use of dd. All you need is ssh hostname tar

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and USB Stick

2005-12-30 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 03:40:57PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS,_HAL,_KDE_media:/ Neil, have you tried that link, even after removing the trailing :/ festus -- I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer gods than you do. When you

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE and USB Stick

2005-12-30 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:19:33PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 11:08:58 -0500, John J. Foster wrote: See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_D-BUS,_HAL,_KDE_media:/ Neil, have you tried that link, even after removing the trailing :/ I pasted it from Konqueror, so yes

[gentoo-user] xorg config

2005-12-30 Thread John Jolet
Okay, so i'm experimenting with the split kde ebuilds, having done a kde-meta the last time. However, when I did that, I got all my hardware configured and set up automatically somehow. when I just did emerge kdebase-startkde, It won't allow me to go beyond 640x480. So I ran xorgconfig,

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg config

2005-12-30 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 30, 2005, at 11:40 AM, C. Beamer wrote: John Jolet wrote: Okay, so i'm experimenting with the split kde ebuilds, having done a kde-meta the last time. However, when I did that, I got all my hardware configured and set up automatically somehow. when I just did emerge kdebase-startkde

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 29, 2005, at 9:14 AM, gentoo user mail list wrote: okay... we're good, but we need a BIT more information than that. :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)

2005-12-29 Thread John Jolet
You cannot really stay current on binaries but you can gradually convert your binary installation to a self-compiled one. You said above that your *main* machine was a laptop with insufficient harddisk space and CPU power. That implies you do have at least one other box. You could keep the

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 10:58:11AM -0700, Lares Moreau wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 23:14 +0800, gentoo user mail list wrote: I need somebody, HELP, not just anybody, Help. When I was younger so much younger then today... I never needed anybody's help in any way... pgp1k89Olw7ex.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-user Console Viewing

2005-12-29 Thread John Jolet
one called poke and peekworks on all unixes i've found so far. pretty inexpensive, but not free. peek allows you to watch, and the poke part lets you take over. or you can use vnc with a particular argument to share the :0 display. On Dec 29, 2005, at 2:57 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-user Console Viewing

2005-12-29 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 03:20:48PM -0600, John Jolet wrote: one called poke and peekworks on all unixes I've found so far. pretty inexpensive, but not free. peek allows you to watch, and the poke part lets you take over. or you can use vnc with a particular argument to share

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:04 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Mick schrieb: Ideally I would like to connect and tar | scp the directories/ files from one box to another in a single motion. Use ssh instead: tar | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat foo.tar or ssh sourcebox tar -czvf - /path/to/be/backed/up

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: Re: ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-28 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 28, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:31:48PM +, Penguin Lover Mick squawked: On 2005-12-28 07:29:31 + (Wed, Dec), Mick wrote: What does not a regular file mean? :=@ Do an 'ls -l /mnt/sda14/sda5_var.tmp and the first character on the left will

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-25 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 25, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:12:13PM -0600, John Jolet wrote and your pick for client-side portable code is??? Client-side code is inherently risky. The website is executing a program on your machine. It's not that much different from

Re: [gentoo-user] Courier-imap won't start after system world rebuild

2005-12-24 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 09:43:12PM -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 19:38, John J. Foster wrote: What is the correct syntax for starting manually? What should I be looking for? I've never used courier/imap, but if you look in the init file (in /etc/init.d

Re: [gentoo-user] Courier-imap won't start after system world rebuild

2005-12-24 Thread John J. Foster
\ /usr/sbin/couriertls -server -tcpd /usr/sbin/imaplogin \ /usr/sbin/courier-imapd Maildir/ root 1164 0.0 0.0 1452 456 ?S09:17 0:00 \ /usr/lib/courier-imap/courierlogger imapd-ssl John pgpSLxJmFeLcq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-24 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 24, 2005, at 6:26 AM, Peter wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:35:37 -0700, Tom Smith wrote: snip... With respect, officially Pro and Server are separate products--that is, Pro will run Win2k and WinXP while the current Server product (WTS 3.0) will only run Win9x. I thought you

SOLVED - Re: [gentoo-user] Courier-imap won't start after system world rebuild

2005-12-24 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:22:23PM -0500, John J. Foster wrote: Good evening all, 3 days ago I rebuilt my system to use gcc-3.4.4-r1. I first used gcc-config to change to the new compiler, and then ran emerge -aev system, followed by emerge -aev world. All went extremely well, I thought

[gentoo-user] Courier-imap won't start after system world rebuild

2005-12-23 Thread John J. Foster
the upgrade, or one of these have caused my problems. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks, John pgpee3oHu3V2c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Courier-imap won't start after system world rebuild

2005-12-23 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 06:43:40PM -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: On Friday 23 December 2005 18:22, John J. Foster wrote: Good evening all, 3 days ago I rebuilt my system to use gcc-3.4.4-r1. I first used gcc-config to change to the new compiler, and then ran emerge -aev system, followed

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin Pro install errors

2005-12-22 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 22, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Dale wrote: Peter Ruskin wrote: On Thursday 22 December 2005 23:47, Tom Smith wrote: Here's the error that rpm -ivh Win4Lin... generates: error: Failed dependencies: /bin/sh is needed by Win4LinPro-6.2.5-01 ... Well, of course! This is Gentoo - no rpm

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-22 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 22, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Lares Moreau wrote: office (2 floors) Can you drill through walls? yes! Are they all in the same room? no, several rooms(7) + 2 floors Why are you networking them? sharing Internet + other normal data sharing stuff What sort of traffic do you expect

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A confession

2005-12-21 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 21, 2005, at 2:55 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: A mixed system is not stable. I doubt many people run all stable save for one package, not that there's anything wrong with that. But when you have a lot of packages in package.keywords, you're best of switching to a full testing system,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting

2005-12-21 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 21, 2005, at 8:30 AM, Ryan Viljoen wrote: I have been setting up a server with SuSe on it (dont ask why SuSe... the developers of one of the apps required will only support SuSe). Anyway I noticed that when SuSe boots, after its gone through the boot runlevel it switches to runlevel 5

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-19 Thread John Blinka
. I'm one of the people who reported success. I followed your instructions above, and the image loads just fine. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem

2005-12-19 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Paul wrote: On Monday 19 Dec 2005 15:38, Jonathan Wright wrote: Paul wrote: :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error That suggests a bad disk - OPC is Optimum Power Calibration and is a test done on all discs to find out how must

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] private files

2005-12-19 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:41:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What options are out there? My personal favorite is app-crypt/gnupg John pgp20czflhBuS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -More DNS problems - firewall?

2005-12-19 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:31 PM, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I've gotten my named server working like I want it to, except that computers outside my network can't see it. I've opened up port 53 on my router so that extra-network hosts could use it, but they still can't. I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-19 Thread John Blinka
/ From edit-preferences-Web Features, I have Enable Javascript checked and under the Advanced option, I have Disable or replace conte... and Change Images checked. I'm running mozilla-firefox-1.0.7-r4. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -More DNS problems - firewall?

2005-12-19 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 19, 2005, at 5:46 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-19 at 17:23 -0600, John Jolet wrote: On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:31 PM, kashani wrote: Michael Sullivan wrote: I've gotten my named server working like I want it to, except that computers outside my network can't see it. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-19 Thread John Jolet
Sure, it's somebody's fault! We can start with blaming the Microsoft's Jscript development team, and follow up with the ECMA standards body for trying to compromise between the two existing versions of J[ava] script. After that, we should go after Netscape and IE both for creating two

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread John Blinka
larger pictures for me. I've enabled javascript java in firefox's edit-preferences-web features menu. For what it's worth, I'm using blackdown java. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 11:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, There is a web site that my wife wanted to use. The web address is here: http://www.smithandnoble.com/sn/photoGalleryDetail.jsp?catID=-14150 On this page, on the right, there are pictures that you are supposed to click to see a larger

Re: [gentoo-user] Java install question

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 8:58 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On 12/18/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht schreef: Do anyone know what was meant by the final comment? I've copied it here for ease of discussion. How do I set the Java VM to the JDK? Why is this recommended? 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Plowing thru the piles of documentation on gentoo.org looking for something that tells me where initrd's come from and how they are built. Amid the litterally thousands of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? hmm, that may be. I prefer not to bother with that mess

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: initrd where is the docu

2005-12-18 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 18, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:36:11 -0600 reader wrote: John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mkinitrd :) you shouldn't need that with a 2.6 kernel, though. Is it not required for the trademark gentoo boot up with nifty graphics? who cares

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread John J. Foster
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:53:27AM -0700, Richard Fish wrote: My personal favorite for my desktop and laptop is using 'dar' with big USB hard drivesbut that's what works well for me. ditto - very easy, very efficient John pgpdB8qaDSaQE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Notification of Limited Account Access (Routing Code: C840-L1111-Q110-1113)

2005-12-13 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 13, 2005, at 8:48 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 13:26 +0100, PayPal Security Service wrote: Dear valued PayPal member: It has come to our attention that your PayPal account information needs to be updated as part of our continuing commitment to protect your

Re: [gentoo-user] teamspeak

2005-12-11 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 9, 2005, at 7:36 PM, Qv6 wrote: Folks; Just came across teamspeak, and wanted to find out how it rates alongside other similar software. What are its good and bad points, both from the server and client side I've not used others, but i've been using teamspeak with a co-worker

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop part 2

2005-12-09 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 9, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: ok -- we didn't get the snow day I was hoping for, but, I decided to go ahead and work on the new install anyway. -- Call me crazy -- I am in the process of the build now, and am beginning to think about software, and I am

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.14-hardened-r1 kernel causing problems

2005-12-09 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 9, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Grant wrote: I just updated my laptop from 2.6.11-hardened-r14 to 2.6.14-hardened-r1 and I'm having a couple of strange problems. During bootup, I get a message saying that my system doesn't seem to support devfs or udev. Once it is booted, I can't use a terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo Laptop

2005-12-08 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 8, 2005, at 12:12 PM, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Hi folks: I think I have become a total Gentoo addict in just under a week: I am planning to begin a project to convert my laptop to a gentoo linux laptop. It's a gateway model M1675 laptop It has fairly standard hardware, all of

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue

2005-12-08 Thread John Jolet
that no longer exists.at least that's what I was told when I was trying to install...they said use vanilla sources and patch.On Dec 8, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote:I'm running Win4Lin Terminal Server 3... They may have fixed the problem in your version.   How do I go about getting a

Re: [gentoo-user] 64 bit or not

2005-12-07 Thread John Jolet
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Re: [gentoo-user] error building pdflib during gcc-3.4 upgrade

2005-12-06 Thread John Blinka
Bob Sanders wrote: emerge --resume --skipfirst etc-update/dispatch-conf reboot emerge pdflib Thanks, Bob. I was uanaware of those emerge options; this is an answer that is worth keeping. But what does etc-update/dispatch-conf do? John -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] error building pdflib during gcc-3.4 upgrade

2005-12-06 Thread John Blinka
John Blinka wrote: does etc-update/dispatch-conf do? Never mind. Sheesh... I didn't know about dispatch-conf and initially thought the / had something to do with a file system path. Brain cells aren't firing properly in this cold weather. Thanks for enlightening me about dispatch-conf

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread John J. Foster
-to-date system. Thanks, John pgpzmYvHzC1nB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] problems in world file?

2005-12-06 Thread John J. Foster
other portage check-and-fix tools and provide a single interface to system health checks. Willie, thanks for the post. I really look forward to the part about better integration among all the tools available. John pgpmFHvruGQN9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [Not specifically Gentoo] Forcing a new IP address with DHCP

2005-12-05 Thread John J. Foster
udhcpc, is that if my satellite modem goes down or changes IP, the router should recognize this fact and automagically reconfigure wan via ipdown and ipup. I'm really confused here. Thanks, John pgpYeouQtA8BX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) Im running 2.6.12 right now. On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hi all, I've got an MDK

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
this to work?John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you have to use the vanilla sources and patch with the kernel patch on the win4lin site. they have a patch for 2.6.12, and 2.6.14, though the latest vanilla kernel I saw was 2.6.13... :) I"m running 2.6.12 right now.On Dec 5, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin TS support?

2005-12-05 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:38 PM, Tom Smith wrote: Hm... I guess all I can say is that the log file indicated that everything patched correctly--that is, it listed the file names it was patching and there were no errors. When I tried to reapply the patch, it recognized that it had already

[gentoo-user] error building pdflib during gcc-3.4 upgrade

2005-12-05 Thread John Blinka
-Lite-5.0.4p1-Unix-src/progs/pdflib' Any suggestions about what to do now? Thanks, John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Add subject to mails CLI Postfix

2005-12-03 Thread John Jolet
mail -s On Dec 3, 2005, at 4:59 AM, Tamas Sarga wrote: Hi, I'm using Postfix on my PC. Some of my programs send mails to me. For example Cron and Smartd. Cron mails have subject, but smartd try to use sendmail -s but sendmail says it is invalid argument. How can I send mails with subject

[gentoo-user] [Not specifically Gentoo] Forcing a new IP address with DHCP

2005-12-02 Thread John J. Foster
IP address? If not, is anyone here familiar with openWRT, udhcpc, ez-ipupdate and dyddns.org configurations? I'd be glad to take this offline if it's too un-Gentoo specific. Thanks, John -- How can anyone realistically expect the increasingly superfluous masses to lay down their weapons

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2005-12-02 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:14:43PM -0500, Jeff wrote: Hey all. Just a quick one - where can I find the USE flag compendium? For convenience, try emerging profuse. John pgpHjge4sSrv5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Home Network Printing

2005-12-01 Thread John Jolet
silly question, but...any firewalling on the host? or client for that matter? On Dec 1, 2005, at 8:34 AM, Michael Kintzios wrote: Thank you Holly, -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 December 2005 13:33 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Home Network Printing

2005-11-30 Thread John Jolet
On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:31 PM, Mick wrote: Guys, this is ridiculous! Every time I want to print something from my main Linux machine I have to physically disconnect the printer from the second box and connect it to this one. The way this is going I will soon need to buy another parallel

Re: [gentoo-user] usb key question

2005-11-29 Thread John Jolet
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out? + question

2005-11-28 Thread John Jolet
lookup on connection, to see who is trying to connect. It should be managed on your lan with /etc/hosts if you have it sorted properly. can you ping via name to other machines on your lan? Yes I can. -- John Jolet Your On-Demand IT Department 512-762-0729 www.jolet.net [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] wvdial: dialup for users

2005-11-27 Thread John J. Foster
. Anybody have a clue on that one? I just like to have options in case it pours instead of just a little shower. Hi Dale - I had the same problem until I set Stupid Mode=yes in /etc/wvdial.conf. All was fine then. John pgpecgNDnLri5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

2005-11-21 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:20:12PM -0600, kashani wrote: The last top posting/html thread was 3 weeks ago... so yes it's time for another Keep Gentoo leet thread. Gentoo isn't about pain, it's about getting work done. Anything, and I mean *anything*, that allows me to spend less

Re: [gentoo-user] how to save ps file from OpenOffice writer?

2005-11-20 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 20 November 2005 19:18, 張韡武 wrote: Hello. So far openoffice is the only application that I know that could not directly export PS format, or print to a 'generic PS printer'. I am having a lot of troubles trying to generate PS file for my documents. Usually I have to go to a Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] root password gremlin

2005-11-19 Thread John Jolet
On Nov 19, 2005, at 12:39 AM, Alexander Skwar wrote: Patrick McLean schrieb: Running a system withoug pam is a rather strange thing to do on a modern Linux system, and I can think of very few reasons to do it. What do you need PAM for, when there's basically just one (human) user on the

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