On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo!
>
> Just this past hour, I've noticed that in Gnome 2, any depression of
> wants to create a .png image of my current desktop. This is
> regardless of which application is currently active. This is
> particularly irritating in
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Hilco Wijbenga
wrote:
> On 15 May 2012 19:37, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying out grub2 for the first time on my old laptop. I'm
>> following the guide at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2_Quick_Start
>&
curious to
know if grub2 knows how to handle this on its own somehow.
Thanks,
Paul
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:47 AM, wrote:
>
> It's a reiserfs, and df -i shows zeroes; I had never given any thought
> to reiserfs and inodes. Interesting.
I thought reiserfs allocated new inodes as needed, with no practical limit.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin!
>
> I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel
> with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a
> minute, several times. When I do this by opening t
EN="|lesspipe %s"
Run 'less --help' or 'man less' for more info
#
I would interpret the "don't do anything fancy" caveat on LESSIGNORE to mean
that wildcards may not work. Some experimenting on my system shows
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:55 AM, wrote:
>
> hum hum!
> I know that Windows does this by default (it annoys me so I disable it)
> but does linux disable or stop running the disks if they're inactive?
> I'm assuming there's an option somewhere - maybe just `unmount`!
Some drives cannot have this s
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Neil Bothwick writes:
>
>> On Wed, 9 May 2012 21:44:19 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
>>
>> > I guess I could remove anything running on my KDE desktop one by one,
>> > including plasmoids, and see if playback gets better. But not now, I
>> > fin
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Dale wrote:
> It doesn't matter what brand you go with
Especially true since there are only 2 companies actually making
consumer hard drives anymore: WD and Seagate. Both of them seem to
know what they are doing, for the most part...
Some hard drives fail at the
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> The best answer at the time was some piece of low level software from
> WD called something like wdtwiddle or something
WDTLER :)
On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> Is anyone else getting a large amount of gentoo-user-related
> backscatter from a set of mailservers including nikko.homeunix.net?
> I've gotten eight in the last five minutes or so.
Yes. One for everything I've posted to the list recently...
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:50 PM, walt wrote:
> On 05/02/2012 01:58 PM, Simon wrote:
>
>
>
>> Except for issue pointed out by Paul about hibernation
>
> That's an interesting point, and the reason for the problem is definitely
> not obvious to me. Anyone know th
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:53 PM, walt wrote:
>> I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use
>> swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and
>> substitute a m
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 1:53 PM, walt wrote:
> I have two machines with 4GB of ram and I've never seen either one use
> swapspace (yet) so I'm thinking I could delete my swap partitions and
> substitute a much smaller swapfile -- if it's safe.
>
> Any downside to using a swap file instead of a swap
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>> On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>>> Notice the (-win3
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> Notice the (-win32codecs) flag. Seems to me (on this system anyway)
>> they are hard masked off? I tried adding the flag to package.use but
>> emerge won't enable the darn thing...
>
>
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 8:19 PM, wrote:
> And why adobe stops the linux-support?
They are backing away from Flash in general across all platforms.
Android and Linux are first announced. Most of the thousands of
workers recently laid-off at Adobe are from the Flash area, from what
I've been told.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:34 PM, wrote:
> Paul Hartman [12-04-28 00:20]:
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> > I don't remember reading about anyone else with this problem.
>> > Hopefully I haven't missed the right thread.
>>
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>> I don't remember reading about anyone else with this problem.
>>> Hopefully I haven'
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I don't remember reading about anyone else with this problem.
> Hopefully I haven't missed the right thread.
>
> I run stable Gentoo + a few ~amd64 packages. My video adapter is an
> NVidia 463 GTX. Since the update to adobe-flash-11.2.202.228
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> Checking to see if it's a distcc problem, now. If it is, it'll only be
> the third time I've ever had issues from distcc, and the first time a
> distcc issue resulted in a successful build of a package that broke
> things.
Just to cover all po
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Doug Hunley wrote:
> The subject line pretty much says it all. I've been happily using lilo
> to boot from my internal 4-disk sata array (md, raid 1) for a while
> now and I recently bought an external sata enclosure. I cabled it up
> to my machine, added 4 disks I
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Stroller
wrote:
> There must be 10,000 items per day listed on eBay, maybe 100,000
[OT] I believe it to be over a million per day. The site has sold
something like 750,000 items per day since its beginning on average,
and many more items are listed than sold.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 17/04/12 18:01, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>> emerge --depclean seems to have bugged out for me:
>>
>> * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
>> * the following required packages not being installed:
>> *
>> * =dev-lib
VM goes bad, you lose everything, not just the data on that single disk.
Actually, that is not necessarily true. When you create the logical volume
you can specify that it is mirrored onto multiple physical drives, assuming
you have enough space on more than one drive.
See the "-m, --mirrors Mirr
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Helmut Jarausch
wrote:
> What's the difference (in performance) between fglrx and xf86-video-ati ?
My experience with my first and only ATI video card (a Mobility Radeon
9700), is that the opensource drivers for my chipset are basically
useless for anything 3D. Sl
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote:
>> I was once contacted from strato because of the high load I put on the
>> server but then I changed /var/tmp/portage to tmpfs and added
>>
>> PORTAGE_NICENESS="19"
>> PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND="ionice -c 3 -p \${PID}"
>
> Ok its great idea, can
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 1:11 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> I've posted a snapshot of the Dell's internals on my ISP's personal
> webspace at http://clients.teksavvy.com/~walterdnes/misc/dell2.jpg Is
> the long black slot PCIe? What's the short black slot?
If you look closely, they are labeled on th
"Samba versions 3.6.3 and all versions previous to this are affected
by a vulnerability that allows remote code execution as the "root"
user from an anonymous connection."
"As this does not require an authenticated connection it is the most
serious vulnerability possible in a program, and users an
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 2:07 PM, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I use enigmail with thunderbird for linux to
> linux email encryption. Is there any free
> or easy to install email encryption package
> I should recommend to a Windows, (XP-system7)
> to exchange email with a gentoo system?
>
>
> I do not
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
> I've just upgraded to 2.4 and am using mod_access_compat, so I can use
> the existing auth config in the short term. I've fixed a few things
> and now the daemon loads cleanly, however, when i try to get the
> anonymously available front page, i
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Markus Trippelsdorf
wrote:
> On 2012.03.20 at 12:09 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf
>> wrote:
>> > On 2012.03.20 at 10:14 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Markus Trippelsdorf
wrote:
> On 2012.03.20 at 10:14 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Following a recent eix version update, after running eix-sync it
>> leaves the session name on my screen status bar like:
>>
>> $ei
ith this problem fixed. :)
Now I'm rebooting, watching ping replied, fingers crossed... it's
alive! Success. :)
Thanks,
Paul
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Helmut Jarausch
wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 03:54:35 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> suddenly might Gentoo system doesn't boot anymore, not normally, at least.
>>
>> I get 'root' needs non existing service 'fsck' but I've no idea why.
>>
>> rc-update -u
udev-181 merge is blocked because :
[blocks B ] sys-apps/module-init-tools
("sys-apps/module-init-tools" is blocking sys-apps/kmod-7)
[blocks B ] sys-apps/kmod ("sys-apps/kmod" is blocking
sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.16-r1)
* Error: The above package list contains packages which canno
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Grant wrote:
> Does anyone know which kernel option would be responsible for
> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight? I've disabled some backlight
> stuff in the kernel but the directory still appears. I get screen
> backlight control on my laptop if I do:
Probab
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira
wrote:
> Just to be sure, r e i s u b may be input in low case, without shift, right?
>
> Like hold Alt + SysRq and type r e i s u b then release Alt + SysRq?
>
correct! :)
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Mick wrote:
>> On Thursday 15 Mar 2012 17:02:15 Michael Mol wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Jarry wrote:
>>> > On 14-Mar-12 19:41, ZHANG, Le wrote:
>>> >> > So my question is: Can I somehow del
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
wrote:
> These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in #gentoo
> are worse.
>
> What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it?
Virtual packages are kind of an abstraction layer for compatible
alternative packages.
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Grant wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a photo browser/viewer other than gthumb which is
> in portage or an overlay?
Assuming you are including viewers which require X :) I use geeqie for
browsing whole directories of images, pqiv for viewing single images
(typically
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Bryan Gardiner wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:56:18 +0200
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> I discovered this nifty little tool recently that tells you if any
>> deleted files are currently being kept open by running processes:
>> "app-admin/checkrestart". I usual
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Hello list
Hi :)
> It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports
> considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge (everything
> except /home sits on the root partition). I was wondering how this
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 5:04 PM, walt wrote:
> On 03/05/2012 04:52 PM, Mick wrote:
>
>> Also, in a full KDE desktop I select the hplip tooltray applet (or whatever
>> its called) and also change in there the settings to print landscape.
>
> I discovered (the very hard way) to delete and re-create t
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:02 PM, 4k3nd0 <4k3...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> I just upgrade to the last version of the libvirt on my Gentoo System.
> (From 0.9.6 to 0.9.10-r3) But i have a problem with starting my NAT:
>
> Error starting network 'NAT': Cannot open network interface control
> socket: A
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Michael Mol wrote:
> What's the current state of color space awareness and color profiles
> on Linux? I'm at the point where I'd be willing to spring for a
> calibration kit to calibrate my monitors, which did not themselves
> come with color profiles...except all
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> So I take a lot of pictures. A *lot* of pictures. Sometimes around
> 500/month, sometimes twice that if I manage to get out more. I've got
> a large number of 'DCIM' directories from different cameras, different
> camera models, etc, going back
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 8:06 AM, José Romildo Malaquias
wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On my ~amd64 systems some web browsers (Mozilla Firefox 10.0.1, Midori
> 0.4.3, Opera 11.61 Build 1250) just crash when loading any
> sourceforge.net project page. Konquerer does not crash, though.
>
> I have already run re
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2012-03-02 3:50 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Tanstaafl
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 2012-03-02 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
&
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2012-03-02 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
>>
>> And you can use the --sort options for ps to sort by cpu or anything
>> you like (see the manpage)
>
>
> Even better, thanks Paul...
>
> watch -n1 "ps
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2012-03-02 1:12 PM, Jason wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 01:03:55PM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:
>>>
>>> Also - would there be a way to get a running output (kind of like
>>> tailing a log)?
>>
>>
>> watch -n1 "ps aux | gawk '{ if ( \$3> 1.
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> On Mar 3, 2012 1:07 AM, "Paul Hartman"
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Tanstaafl
>> wrote:
>> > Does anyone know if there is a way to filter the output of ps aux to
>>
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a way to filter the output of ps aux to show
> only lines that have a value in the %CPU column higher than x - ie, 1.0, or
> 2.0, or something like that?
ps aux | gawk '{ if ( $3 > 1.0 ) { print } }'
I'm very interested in NILFS2 and considering using it as rootfs. I
read some good reviews and seems to perform okay in benchmarks. The
automatic checkpoints/snapshots sounds like it could be useful. (I'm
thinking especially to see prior versions of files in /etc for
example.)
Have any of you used
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> On 28/02/12 00:41, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Are there any tools
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 28/02/12 00:41, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> Are there any tools that will:
>>
>> 1) Ensure that for every installed packages there is a corresponding
>> tbz2 file in /usr/portage/packages?
>>
>> 2) Remove any older versions in /usr/portag
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews
>> wrote:
>>> Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something
>>> els
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews
wrote:
> Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something
> else out there that can handle multiple audio streams?
alsa dmix
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Paul Hartman writes:
>
>> In Firefox you can create multiple profiles. Each profile will have
>> its own set of cookies, bookmarks, history, saved passwords, etc. To
>> open 2 firefox windows with 2 different pro
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:04 PM, wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there any USB to SCSII adaptor known, which works with Linux ?
>
> Thank you very much for any help in advance!
> Best regards,
> mcc
Adaptec USB2Xchange supposedly has a linux driver, or at least it used
to (no idea if it's kept current with
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:38 PM, wrote:
>> You might try posting to the usb-storage mailing list, people working
>> on the USB3 drivers are there and might know more about that specific
>> chipset and what those messages really mean.
>>
>> https://lists.one-eyed-alien.net/mailman/listinfo/usb-sto
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 8:32 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Now I'd also like to use Midori, as a lightweight browser for using
> Google+. The reason is that when I open Google+ in Firefox, I am
> also logged in at Google when I using other tabs with Youtube or other
> Google sites. If there's a way a
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:34 AM, wrote:
> Hi. I have a Supermicro c7P67-o motherboard and I have another system
> using windows with no problems. However, when I am trying to use the
> board with gentoo -- various kernels -- including 3.2.6-gentoo -- I am
> having lots of problems with USB. T
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 02/24/12 02:45, Florian Philipp wrote:
>>
>> Let's not forget that whenever you are presented with that warning, it
>> could also be a man-in-the-middle attack. Therefore just clicking on
>> "Accept" on every site is about the stupides
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> First my setup:
>
> Fairly basic (newish) install (noX) in a Virtual Box vm on windows7 host
>
> I'd like to hear some of the ways you all keep up with syncing and
> update world.
I personally run it all manually and never schedule it to run
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Kevin Monceaux writes:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 08:42:00PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>>
>>> (a) using less, and have it take just 10 screen lines; (b) using cat etc.,
>>> and have the interesting part scroll away.
>>
>> (c) use less -F
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> What is it about my systems wherein every one of these https links
> case my systems to barf with a "This Connection is Untrusted" message.
> If I remove the 's' then things work fine.
https encompasses two basic functions: encryption and trus
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> (32-bit will work for
> everyone, 64-bit won't)
And of course by "everyone" I'm talking about Windows or Ubuntu users
who download binaries from mozilla.org in the first place, not
sophisticated pure-64-bit Gentoo users. ;)
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Willie WY Wong wrote:
> Actually, why is it that upstream does not provide 64bit binaries? (It
> always bothers me to see my wife's Windows 7 machines running a copy
> of firefox marked, in parenthesis, 32 bit.)
They're working on it... They actually have started
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> I've finally been pushed over the edge. I simply can't stand it any
>> longer. The "it" in this case is viewing a file or process output and
>
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I've finally been pushed over the edge. I simply can't stand it any
> longer. The "it" in this case is viewing a file or process output and
> either: (a) using less, and have it take just 10 screen lines; (b) using
> cat etc., and have the
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Grant wrote:
> Can I mask all packages from a layman overlay except for one?
Check out Mark Knecht's thread from 5 hours ago asking the same question. :)
Short answer was don't let portage see the overlay, instead symlink
the packages you want to your local overl
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Michael Mol wrote:
> Hey, my family ran a 53-line MajorBBS/Worldgroup setup back in the
> day, with between 30-50 consumer hardware modems. (Those v.Everythings
> were sweet...
Courier HST Dual Standard was my favorite modem, 16800 baud seemed so fast. :)
I still
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 3:08 PM, walt wrote:
> On 02/18/2012 05:18 AM, Dale wrote:
>
>> Sounds like the internet could be switched off. So, next question, how
>> easy would it be to get it going again? Hours? Days? Weeks?
>
> My guess is that the old farts that read this list could have their
g like this:
>
> c2stable ~ # eselect python list
> Available Python interpreters:
> [1] python2.7 *
> [2] python3.2
> c2stable ~ # eselect python list --python2
> Available Python 2 interpreters:
> [1] python2.7 *
> c2stable ~ # eselect python list --python3
&g
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:56 AM, wrote:
> As mentioned in my previous post, the problem is not the kernel
> version and after getting over this bug there are others ahead.
Sorry, I didn't see the other thread.
It's strange that it emerges normally for me, and the program works,
too. If there's
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Coert Waagmeester
wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Can amd64 distcc compile for a gentoo x86 setup?
> Or do I need a 32bit chroot?
chroot is not needed, at worst you would need to use crossdev, but if
you use multilib and both hosts are using the same version of GCC,
lucky
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:37 AM, wrote:
> I want to compile hydrogen cleanly.
>
> Since the ebuild of hydrogen fails to compile because
> the system "linux3" is not known (which happens even
> when compiled on a linux-2.6*-booted machine)...
You may want to try the ebuild again. I'm using kerne
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> NOTE: To others discussing the various positives and negatives of
> Windows file systems please note that I had no choice in the matter.
> The only thing this piece of equipment accepts on it's USB port is
> VFAT.
If you run into any unreadabl
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:53 PM, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My download of livedvd-12 is running really slow,
> despite trying dozens of mirrors (mirrorselect produced
> poor suggestions) currently.
I suggest using bittorrent, it always achieves the best results for me
for downloading linux IS
Hi,
I obtained a Samsung 830 128GB SSD, it supports SATA3 interface, but
haven't installed it yet. My motherboard has the Marvell 9128 SATA3
chipset. I read a lot of FUD about this chipset, but it is always
exclusively from the perspective of Windows users complaining about
Marvell drivers, lack o
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Grant wrote:
> LOL. Except not really. Am I totally screwed or is there some
> little-known method for kick-starting an apparently dead HD?
> Everything was fine until it was rebooted. Multiple reboots always
> come back to:
>
> Invalid Boot diskette- Enter BOOT
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Grant wrote:
> Is anyone using a SIP service they like that works with generic SIP
> clients like linphone?
I use Callcentric, have for a few years now as my "home phone". It
works with Linphone or any generic SIP client or hardware. You can
sign up for a free acc
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Paul Hartman writes:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster
>> wrote:
>
>> > Then my hardware broke, and I got new one, except for the system hard
>> > drive and the PSU. It's an
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> I've written here in the past about my performance problems. My dual-core
> had trouble playing movies without stuttering when there was I/O. It was
> mainly swapping that caused this, and 8 G were not enough for me running
> KDE4.
>
> Then m
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 15 2012, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Paul
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira
wrote:
> mike, I'd DEFINITELY LOVE to read grub's history, even if it's a short
> summary or something.
>
> TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, but anyone could recommend me a open
> source/linux/unix/free software history book? Something that mentio
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> Nvidia-drivers fails with package collisions
>
> * Detected file collision(s):
> *
> * /usr/lib32/libnvidia-compiler.so
> * /usr/lib32/libcuda.so
> * /usr/lib32/libcuda.so.1
> * /usr/lib64/libnvidia-compiler.so
>
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, LK wrote:
> On 2012, Feb 14, Tuesday, 13:30, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> -b, --background
>> Background immediately. This is useful for startup
>> scripts which don't disable link messages for carrier
>> status.
>>
>> So to us
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I know that you can restrict access to a certain site using either Basic
> HTTP Auth or Digest Auth, but I was wondering - can you do the same with an
> SSL Client Certificate?
Yes, you can. The specifics of how depend on what w
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Peter Weilbacher
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since about two weeks I have been fighting with networking problems on a
> laptop. It all started with a big sync & world update that gave me new
> udev-171-r5, wicd-1.7.1_pre20120127, tuxonice-sources-3.0.17,
> openrc-0.9.8.2,
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 12:52 PM, m...@trausch.us wrote:
> It also supports partition schemes other than MBR, which is useful
> since I use GPT on my systems.
FYI Gentoo's GRUB 0.9x in portage has supported GPT for at least 2 or
3 years now. I'm using it with GPT partitions and my systems all boo
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Grant wrote:
> Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in
> portage? Something minimal preferably but with flash support?
Chromium/Chrome, Opera, Konqueror... flash works in all of those and
are all fast and minimalistic compared to Firefox
On 02/11/2012 01:09 AM, Grant wrote:
> Amazon Streaming is broken and installing hal fixes it according to
> the following thread:
>
> http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20video%20on%20demand?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx3EQAX98ED5WQ3&cdPage=1&cdSort=newest&cdThread=TxFTGOK5LRL3JM
>
> I added the lay
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote:
>> But do any of you guys/gals know of a Live CD distro that can perform
>> hardware audit? i.e., detect installed processor model, RAM parameters &
>> layout, etc.
>
> Some days ago I was using the parted magic live cd [1]. It had a tool
> t
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
> On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, "Paul Hartman"
> wrote:
>>
>
> >8 snippage
>
>>
>> BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined...
>>
>
> Somewhat anecd
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Anyone know a link to documentation on what the syntax is in portage's
> set files? I once had a skimpy doc (since lost) that described
> operators like + - / that let you add, remove and replace named atoms
> in a set file.
Portage document
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Grant wrote:
> I'm trying to compile GCC on a remote system with 192MB RAM. It's
> completed successfully before but now it uses up all RAM. The compile
> doesn't stop but it must be thrashing. I have MAKEOPTS="-j1" in
> /etc/make.conf. Am I jeopardizing my HD b
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
> Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 12:47:45 schrieb Michael Mol:
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger
> wrote:
>> > Am 06.02.2012 18:08, schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
>> >> Am Montag, 6. Februar 2012, 12:06:41 schrieb Hel
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