Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Centrino 2 -- Have to wait?

2008-09-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Jan Seeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey list, > > I have just received my new notebook, a Dell Latitude E6400. Of course, I > now want to install linux on it. The problem is that the Gentoo minimal > install cd recognizes neither the ethernet nor the wireless car

Re: [gentoo-user] Exim, Outlook 2007, and Thunderbird

2008-09-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is with dovecot. (port 110 is the IMAP port, isn't it? I > can't telnet to it.) 110 is POP3

Re: [gentoo-user] opensource arcade game alike ?

2008-09-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:41 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. Is there an opensource arcade game that plays very similar to > old-school CPS1/CPS2 games, like "Captain Commando", "Cadillacs and > Dinosaurs", "Warriors of Fate", ""Final Fight" and ""Streets of Rage"? > > This category of arc

Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmerge kde 4.1?

2008-09-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:46 AM, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, > > Trying to switch from kde-portage to kde-testing overlays did not > progress well. What I'd like to do to recover is unmerge all the kde > 4.1 stuff and start over. Does anyone know a simple way (maybe a > script)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about difference between emerge --update world and emerge vigra

2008-09-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:15 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:51:58 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: >> > Do you have any further advice, more detail or some more formalized >> > methodology to 'clean' the world file, in addition to what you have >> > stated ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a tool similar to `top` that will tell me what's using my hard > drive? My hard drive clicks a lot when I don't think it should, and I'd > really like to know what program is using it. Sometimes it's so bad >

Re: [gentoo-user] "prelink" a dynamic library

2008-10-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I want to create a shared library, say libULIB.so, > which needs additional shared libraries, e.g. libmpfr.so and > libgmp.so . > > My users only use the functions provided by libULIB.so. > > Is there a means to "

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

2008-10-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have found another KDE app which is important sufficiently to delay > switching to KDE4 - the app is k3b, which still isn't ported. If I > understand well, there isn't any minimal apps list (and k3b, would be in > the li

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC compilation disk space

2008-10-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 3:34 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 08 October 2008 09:35:25 Heiko Wundram wrote: >> Am Wednesday 08 October 2008 06:50:47 schrieb Willie Wong: >> > I don't remember gcc-3 being such a resource hog when building. So I >> > wonder: is this the

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling for an unbooted kernel

2008-10-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 12:48 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using a nvidia card for linux. Therefore I have to compile the > nvidia driver interface for each new vanilla kernel I want to > use. > After compiling/installing the new kernel, the "old" kernel is > still running. > Is it

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling for an unbooted kernel

2008-10-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 1:32 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sorry, I missed to say, that I am using the vanilla kernel from > ftp.kernel.org. I am not using the gentoo kernel sources... Hi Meino, I think it should be the same. I don't use genkernel or anything, but I do use gentoo-sources. I ma

[gentoo-user] Alt-O behavior in midnight commander (mc) has changed

2008-10-14 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, At some point not very recently, the behavior of Alt-O in Midnight Commander (mc) has changed. It used to switch the opposite panel to the same directory as the current panel. Now, it switches the opposite panel to the parent directory of the current panel. I kept waiting for it to switch back

Re: [gentoo-user] Does vmware work with 2.6.27?

2008-10-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Adam Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Or even 2.6.26? I use gentoo-sources. > > Presumably I'll have to use ~x86 for vwmare-modules and vwmare-server. vmware-workstation 6.0.5 from the vmware overlay works for me in 2.6.26 (gentoo-sources) Typically every new

Re: [gentoo-user] Is an Intel motherboard RAID better or worse than software RAID?

2008-10-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Wolfgang Liebich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm in the process of setting up a new private computer. I've bought one > with two drives b/c I wanted to setup a RAID system - RAID1 for > important partitions, RAID0 for scratch files maybe. > Additionally I wou

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Benjamin Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:29:31 +0200 > Erik Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:14:08PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > The login manager slim, which is started in daemo

Re: [gentoo-user] Continue ftp upload without clobbering

2008-10-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a way to continue uploading a large file after the ftp link fails, > only from the point where it failed onwards? I noticed tnftp (which I use) > has the append command, but this appends the complete file from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: progress everywhere !

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 081019 Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2008-10-19, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Sunday 19 October 2008 07:25:28 Philip Webb wrote: OO 3.0.0 compiled successfully in 2 h 29 m on this Core2 Duo machine, >

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp transfer dies

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Any idea why this happens: > > 150 Ok to send data. > 100% |***| 224 MiB 46.74 KiB/s00:00 > ETA > 226 File receive OK. > 235279855 bytes s

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved lib question

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:08 PM, Roy Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy, > > I have some preserved libs that just don't want to go away. I've ran > emerge @preserved-rebuild several times to no avail. I think the > problem is with portage not recognizing that one of the libraries is > sym

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

2008-10-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] gimp doc

2008-10-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > There are two packages related to gimp doc: > > app-doc/gimp-user-manual-2.0 > app-doc/gimp-help-2.4.2 > > What is the difference between them, and which one to install for absolute > beginner? (I'm interested in

Re: [gentoo-user] lazy mouse

2008-10-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Changing a mouse (to Genius Traveler 315 Laser) resulted in the problem: > almost always after booting the mouse is not active (say, at level 3 wheel > rolling shows a mouse cursor, but movement doesn't work, as w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-updater broken

2008-10-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:38 PM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Albert Hopkins letterboxes.org> writes: > > >> Perhaps you can run strace (or bash -x) on it to see where it's hanging. > > Oh, I would not know the syntax. No man page for strace. more info? > syntax suggestions? The machine hose

[gentoo-user] Re: Alt-O behavior in midnight commander (mc) has changed

2008-10-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Paul Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > At some point not very recently, the behavior of Alt-O in Midnight > Commander (mc) has changed. It used to switch the opposite panel to > the same directory as the current panel. Now, it

Re: [gentoo-user] lsof-4.81 working for anybody?

2008-10-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Holger Hoffstaette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just tried the latest lsof-4.81 in ~x86 an dit doesn't seem to do > anything - no output, it just silently returns. 4.80-r1 works just fine > and always has. Does anybody else see this behaviour? > Just making sur

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet program

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:40 PM, kcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I want to install telnet client but couldn't find the emerge search > > how can I get it > > Thank you net-misc/telnet-bsd Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10: Visual glitch in taskbar

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:14 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone else getting this strange colored bar at the bottom of the taskbar > when using an image as taskbar background? This is with KDE 3.5.10. 3.5.9 > didn't have this problem. > > http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/

[gentoo-user] A question about emerge --info

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Hartman
I've always been curious about something in emerge --info's output: $ emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r1 x86_64) = System uname: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ti

Re: [gentoo-user] A question about emerge --info

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Andrey Falko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Paul Hartman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I've always been curious about something in emerge --info's output: >> >> $ eme

Re: [gentoo-user] A question about emerge --info

2008-10-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Good digging around :). So this is a python bug then? Or does portage need >> to be update for some change that went into python? Actually, is this really >> even a bug...its just a minor cosmetic problem really. >> > One'

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Donnerstag 30 Oktober 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> On 30 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have the same 'problem'. Which portage version are you using? >> >> I'm using portage-2.2_rc12 on a

Re: [gentoo-user] packages/All - how to create ?

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Paul Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Donnerstag 30 Oktober 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >>> On 30 Oct, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] blocks to fix

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:44:53 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> Unless you have a kernel panic, and the system is just halted. Does >> anyone know if there is something one could do about that? > > Isn't there a kernel option

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:07 AM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, > > I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. > > After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I > got in a hurry, did not think and ran: > > emerge --unmerge sys-libs/ss sys-libs/com_err > sys-fs/e2fsprogs sys-li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: unmerge boo_boo

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 12:38 AM, »Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well, >> >> I've done it now, being in too big of a hurry. >> >> After an emerge --sync, and the blocking packages, I >> got in a hurry, did not think and ran: >> >> em

Re: [gentoo-user] How to prevent documentation in /usr/share/doc from being bzip2'ed ?

2008-10-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 7:38 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:39:10PM -0400, Eric Martin wrote: >> Why not go even easier and use bzcat,bzless,zcat,and zless > > Because bzgrep and many others haven't been written. http://www.bzip.org/bzip2-howto/with-grep.html

Re: [gentoo-user] did anyone just get 400+ emails from this list?

2008-10-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > yes, I did... or at least I think. I'm using thunderbird (shredder) 3.0a2 > (yes, aware of the risks, see the release name). > > all the emails are from before 10/09/2008 (that's september for you US > folks). > >

Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

2008-11-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 2008/11/4 Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Hi, >> > I'm wondering if anyone has a good way to convert a large hierarcy >> > of directories populated with FLAC files to a new set of directories >> > using mp3 inste

Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

2008-11-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 7:55 AM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:12:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>>Thanks. I'll give it a try and report back any results. I guess I'm >>> only moderate

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! >> >> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: >> >>> - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use >>> anything other than grub these days?) >>

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2 + collision protect

2008-11-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Markos Chandras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I ve upgraded to portage-2.2 . From that time i am having a problem. When > portage finds a collision between two files during the merge time , it > complains > and doesnt merge the new package. The weird thin

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2 + collision protect

2008-11-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Markos Chandras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2008 01:07:33 Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Markos Chandras >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] download gentoo

2008-11-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:12 AM, chloe K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > how and where I can dowload > > 64 bit gentoo (intel and amd) > > thanks Click "Get Gentoo!" on the top menu at http://www.gentoo.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] problems, with, 'hibernate, to, disk', two, nvidia, cards, installed

2012-01-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Mick wrote: > I'm not sure if this is related, but here it goes: > > Unllike you, I'm running a (single) ATI card in a laptop and have just > compiled and installed the 3.1.6-gentoo kernel. > > Like you, when I tried to hibernate the screen but dark, but it never >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On 01/03/2012 08:57 PM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > device-mapper: table: 253:0: raid45: unknown target type Maybe a dumb question, but is the raid45 module enabled in your kernel config?

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic picking up the patches from /etc/portage/patches

2012-01-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On 01/04/2012 07:47 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: > Hello! > I have noticed that with portage version changes its behaviour > regarding the automatic patch catching (from /etc/portage/patches, for > example) also changes. Some previous versions of portage did apply the > patches from that directory w

Re: [gentoo-user] ipv6 problem with ping6

2012-01-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> I've enabled ipv6 support in my kernel and it appears to be working on >> the "lo" interface: >> >>    # ip -6 addr show lo >> >>    1: lo: mtu 16436 >>        inet6 ::1/128 scope host >>           valid_lft forever pref

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get raid

2012-01-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On 01/07/2012 11:20 AM, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 10:11 -0500, Jeff Cranmer wrote: > > What am I missing? have you set the type to linux raid autodetect? have you tried mdadm --assemble? >>> mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 didn't make any difference. >>

[gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

2012-01-11 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, I have a remote Gentoo virtual server and want to implement a better backup/restore plan. There is no physical access to the server, so any backup must be done over the Internet. Right now I just create the occasional tarball and download it, and have used tar+ssh to restore, but that's not co

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opendns.org

2012-01-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 6:06 PM, walt wrote: > I just heard about opendns.org for the first time today, but their > website makes it seem that I'm the only person in the solar system > who's not already on the bandwagon. > > Anyone know if they are as wonderful as they sound? If you are using ISP

Re: [gentoo-user] Libre Office failing to build

2012-01-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, >        Are people currently building Libre Office successfully? I'm > attempting to do so and getting it failing with an error 65280 and it > failing within tail_build. Going into the appropriate dir and running make > results in som

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable IPv6 on an interface?

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > How does one disable IPv6 for a particular interface? > > I want eth2 "up" but with no IP address.  Just doing an "ifconfig eth2 > up" worked fine until I enabled IPv6 support in the kernel.  Now I get > a link-local IPv6 address just by brin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disable IPv6 on an interface?

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > After putting the above line in sysctl.conf (and removing my preup() > function), everything worked as expected except that I had to manually > start the interface with the command "/etc/init.d/net.eth2 start". > > Google told me to fix that

Re: [gentoo-user] Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

2012-01-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > How do you specify a link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? > > For example, I can ping/telnet/ssh to fe80::02c0:4eff:fe07:0005%eth1, > but I can't figure out how to put that address in /etc/hosts so I can > access it by name. Just put the a

Re: [gentoo-user] Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

2012-01-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: >>> How do you specify a link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? >>> >>> For

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On 1/19/2012 11:32 AM, Chris Walters wrote: > On 1/19/2012 11:57 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:53:07AM -0600, Dale wrote: >> >>> While on this subject, sort of. Who on here as their email set up to >>> encrypt and decrypt emails? I want to test some things OFF LIST.

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-19 Thread Paul Hartman
gt;>>> encrypt and decrypt emails?  I want to test some things OFF LIST. >>> >>> Well, if you had signed your mail, then I could write you encrypted. :) >> >> This is a test.  Enigmail has been trying to use a revoked and expired key to >> sign my m

Re: [gentoo-user] Good 'layman' tutorial on IPv4 > IPv6?

2012-01-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 19 Jan 2012 15:48:32 Michael Mol wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Tanstaafl >> wrote: >> > I have a reasonable grasp of how to use IP addresses etc with IPv4, but >> > every time I start rading about IPv6 I get a headache... >

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thursday, January 19, 2012, Dale wrote: > I don't have mine set up to sign them all. I did a couple to see if it > worked or not. Whenever I sign a message, it asks for the password. It > is quite a long password and I don't want to type it in every time I > send something. If you use gpg-a

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > If the machine is running linux, then 'watch "lsof -n|grep TCP|grep > 3680"' as root is a sloppy but effective way to find it. There's > probably some way to set up a firewall rule on the host in question > that logs out the user and (possibly)

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF export/import in LibreOffice

2012-01-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > During my usual Saturday system update, I noticed LibreOffice 3.5.0.1 > is now "testing", while there's an upgrade of LO 3.4 in "stable". > I tried 3.5.0.0 when it was briefly released a few weeks ago, > but PDF export was not working.  Has any

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Michael Mol wrote: I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/ >>> >>> My results from work: >>> >>> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested so >>> far. >>> >>> Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprin

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Dale wrote: > The long URL is below.  I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google > since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with.  Next > they will want a camera on my rig so they can watch me surf. To be honest, I already assumed they were

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Lorenzo Bandieri wrote: > Maybe slightly OT, but what do gentoo-users think about Tor? As an anonymising proxy, in my opinion, I consider it to be the most hostile network one could ever use. I would only use Tor from within a virtual machine that contains no oth

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mick wrote: >> On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote: >> >>> This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for >>> different services? Like using Chrome only for GMail, Yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:48 AM, wrote: >  Hello! > > On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:16:01 -0600 > Dale wrote: > >> Does anyone have a better search tool?  I don't like Yahoo either.  I >> do like froogle so that would be a bonus.  You know, shopping tool. >> >> Thoughts?  Suggestions? >> >  What about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: advice about Gentoo (Oracle, Java, VMWare...)

2012-01-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:19:38 +0300 > Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > >> On 01/26/2012 03:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> Installing Oracle's Java is not so easy: http://goo.gl/tbBFW >> > This isn't Java. >> >> Yes, sorry, this is not

Re: Your earliest "ooh, shiny" (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I used to play > Gorilla and Nibbles with my Pa in this Microsoft Basic thing.  Ha!  We entered > angle and force to throw a banana at the opponent You may be interested in this Python remake of Gorilla: http://inventwithpython.com/bl

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I got a neighbour that has a computer issue.  First, the hard drive went > out.  We ordered a new one and installed it.  Then he realized he didn't > have the restore discs.  We ordered those from Gateway.  I went up today > and tried to ins

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Dale wrote: > Your reply made me think of something.  I had a XP reinstall once that > required a number from MS because of the new mobo and hard drive.  They > said it recognized the change in the serial numbers.  When I ran into > that before tho, it installed fin

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 1:54 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > You should've tried installing MS Office back then... > 45 (Or there-abouts) floppies and the installer asking for them in a > random order. With some of those being asked several times... > > The guy asking for it paid a lot for it, so it wasn

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:35:03 +1100, Gregory Shearman wrote: > >> I can second the Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH. I run it with Openwrt rather >> than ddwrt and I find it runs flawlessly, though I only run it with a >> few wireless laptops and a wired

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 14:34:01 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I also have WZR-HP-G300NH and wifi suffered constant disconnects and >> poor performance. > > I have a WZR-HP-G300NH with firmware DD-WRT v24SP2-EU-US (08/19

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 16:31:58 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> > I have a WZR-HP-G300NH with firmware DD-WRT v24SP2-EU-US (08/19/10) >> > std - build 14998 and can't recall the last time I lost a wireless >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: List of recently installed/updated packages in chronological order?

2012-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 3 February 2012 17:21, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> So I don't know where you get HTML from. > > Interesting. It's just with your emails, so I'm guessing it's > something on your end. I see two versions: text and HTML. I take it > that's not

Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > beware of installing postfix-2.9.0 > When started it tries to access /usr/lib/postfix but files have been > installed into /usr/libexec/postfix Maybe a side-effect of bug 401911 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401911 BTW po

Re: [gentoo-user] HEADS UP - postfix-2.9.0 is broken

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Out of memory during GCC compile

2012-02-06 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Syntax for set files

2012-02-07 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-02-08 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linux Live CD to perform hardware audit?

2012-02-09 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Amazon Streaming broken, need hal-0.5.14-gentoo-patches-5.tar.bz2

2012-02-11 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-14 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-14 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent networking problems

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Restrict site access by SSL Client Cert?

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I deamonize every service?

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
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 >  

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SIP service?

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] "Invalid boot diskette" what do I do?

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
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

[gentoo-user] Marvell 9128 controller and SSD in Gentoo

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] gptfdisk on livedvd-12.0 ?

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync from ext3 to vfat?

2012-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] mixing x86 and amd64 distcc?

2012-02-18 Thread Paul Hartman
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

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Still trying to compile hydrogen

2012-02-18 Thread Paul Hartman
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

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