Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/20/2009 09:59 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras >> wrote: >>> >>> I see that mplayer does not have a dep on ffmpeg. Am I right in assuming

Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Yoav Luft wrote: > Hi, > I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build > a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since > the specs > (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1520/en/SM/specs.htm) > say it c

Re: [gentoo-user] Determining hardware on Dell Vostro 1520

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Dale wrote: > Yoav Luft wrote: >> Hi, >> I got a Dell Vostro 1520 laptop as a present, and I am trying to build >> a kernel for it. I can't determine what hardware I've got on it, since >> the specs >> (http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/vos1520/en/SM/sp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > I've disabled desktop effects, in case there was some clash with the 3D layer, > but apparently it's (also) something else. Though now Konsole seems to > cooperate, right-clicking on the context menu of the KPowersave tray icon > leads to

Re: [gentoo-user] Aluminum iMac framebuffer?

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Simon Hunt wrote: > I can't get a 1680x1050 framebuffer (my native resolution) or any widescreen > framebuffer on this intel iMac and the console looks pretty bad because of > it. The best I can use is 1024x768. I have a Radeon HD 2400 XT video card. > The Radeon fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does mplayer use it's own internal ffmpeg on Gentoo?

2009-08-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/20/2009 10:51 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> And I suppose there's no way to change that? I was trying to create an >>> ebuild for ffmpeg-mt (a version that supports multi-cor

Re: [gentoo-user] May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?

2009-08-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, James Homuth wrote: > I just got Gnome set up completely on a 5-year-old laptop with 512 MB of RAM > running on a P4, and am sort of halfway in the middle of playing with it. In > the process, I'm discovering I still need to install a few things. Just one > problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?

2009-08-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:58 PM, wrote: > > Hi, > where can I set PORTAGE_NICENESS and PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND ? > > Kind regards, > mcc In /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] impolite emerge

2009-08-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:11 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > It seems that emerge can be rather impolite at times. > > [ebuild I FU ] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-6.5.3.185404 > > ;-) Given the hours and hours of headaches I have suffered trying to install VMWare Workstation, "FU" seems about right :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?

2009-08-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:06 PM, James Homuth wrote: > CONFIG_IOSCHED_CFQ=y > CONFIG_DEFAULT_CFQ=y > > > It does not. I was thinking about upgrading to 2.6.30 anyway, so which > switch would I throw to enable it? In menuconfig: Enable the block layer - IO Schedulers -- CFQ I/O Scheduler -- D

Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Keith Dart wrote: > > The new 10.0 profile recently bumped libxcb, and other X libraries, to > new versions that break the vmware workstation. Since that is a binary > only package it can't be re-compiled by the user. So workstation users > are advised to stick with

Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Keith Dart wrote: >> >> The new 10.0 profile recently bumped libxcb, and other X libraries, to >> new versions that break the vmware workstation. Since that is a binary >> only pack

Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Keith Dart wrote: > === On Mon, 08/24, Paul Hartman wrote: === >> Using the latest vmware-workstation and vmware-modules from the vmware >> overlay (which were added in the past day, it looks like), everything >> seems to be working fine h

Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > male.conf I meant make.conf, of course. :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Decreasing volume of an mp3 audio

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 12:32 PM, wrote: > Hi, > > is there an application, which is able to physically decrease > the volume level of an mp3 with as less as possible loss of > sound quality. > (Background: I am merging video parts done with my webcam > with sound trailers. Volume of the webc

Re: [gentoo-user] warning: vmware workstation users should not use new 10.0 profile

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Keith Dart wrote: > === On Mon, 08/24, Paul Hartman wrote: === >> After switching to the 10.0 >> profile, Xcb and other X-related things were emerged/upgraded, though, >> and I ran xcb-rebuilder.sh and revdep-rebuild both of which

Re: [gentoo-user] I am not getting any emails...

2009-08-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:41 PM, David Juhl wrote: > I am not getting any emails I thought this one might make it this > time. Your message came through here.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

2009-08-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Were firefox 3.5.2 and xulrunner 1.9.1.2 marked as stable last > week and then changed back to unstable this week? I think so, yes. If you read the Changelog file, it shows this: 21 Aug 2009; Christian Faulhammer mozilla-firefox-3.5.2-r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

2009-08-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-08-25, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: > >>> Were firefox 3.5.2 and xulrunner 1.9.1.2 marked as stable last >>> week and then changed back to unsta

Re: [gentoo-user][awesome] where can i find a default rc.lua

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:35 AM, Xi Shen wrote: > Hi, > > i am new to awesome, after i have successfully emerged > awesome-3.2.1-r3, and started the X, i cannot find the default rc.lua. > i tried right-clicking on the blank area and choose 'awesome'->'edit > config', but it gives me a file with not

[gentoo-user] pidgin 2.6.1 and video

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Hartman
FYI if anyone wants to try audio and video chat on the new pidgin 2.6.1 release, it didn't work for me (UVC webcam) until I emerged these packages: pidgin-2.6.1 (with "gstreamer" USE flag enabled) gst-plugins-v4l2 gst-plugins-farsight gnome-media The last item was need to get gstreamer-properties

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:37:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > while trying to update my gentoo I got t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: pidgin 2.6.1 and video

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:18 AM, 7v5w7go9ub0o<7v5w7go9u...@gmail.com> wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> FYI if anyone wants to try audio and video chat on the new pidgin >> 2.6.1 release, it didn't work for me (UVC webcam) until I emerged >> these packages: >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Yasm?

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:57 AM, wrote: > Hi, > > does anything configure-spezific changed according to > the usage of nasm? > Blender 2.49+ svn source as well as blender2.5 svn source do > not find nasm.inc anymore. > I thought it would be a temporary bug in the svn check in > but this seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox

2009-08-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm having a heck of a time getting firefox setup so it can handle > quicktime videos. > > I understand I need mplayer to be installed but haven't been able to > emerge it. > I'm hoping someone will recognize what this problem is... I certainly

Re: [gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote: > > Hello, > > When I mount a SD memory card on my laptop, the format is NTFS and I am > not able to write. Is there a way to write to it and still be compatible > with Windows OS? Yes, you can emerge sys-fs/ntfs3g and mount using the "ntfs

Re: [gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Stroller wrote: > Reformat the USB memory stick NTFS. I format mine as ext3 and use ext3 drivers on Windows :) One not about reformatting anything other than FAT: if he wants to use non-PC devices, they are almost always FAT-only (example, a car radio, TV, Xbox 36

Re: [gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Stroller > wrote: >> Reformat the USB memory stick NTFS. > > I format mine as ext3 and use ext3 drivers on Windows :) Oops, I meant to say ext2

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible bug with ~arch libgphoto2 and libexif?

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Arttu V. wrote: > Hello, > > Gentoo Humour Section strikes again, hitting me with a headshot, which > almost dropped me from my chair. This time it came with something > probably right out of Monty Python: > > checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... (cached)

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible bug with ~arch libgphoto2 and libexif?

2009-09-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Arttu V. wrote: > On 9/1/09, Paul Hartman wrote: >> Works for me using libgphoto2-2.4.7 and libexif-0.6.17 on ~amd64 >> >> checking for libexif to use... autodetect > > Wow, you get that autodetect thing, which I saw used within the &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Dale wrote: > I may have pasted the wrong thing. I do have both KDE 3 and KDE 4 > installed but I use KDE 3. This is the message I get for the record: > > (01:17:17) Yahoo! Admin: You are using an older version of Yahoo! > Messenger that is no longer supported. P

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and Yahoo upgrade message

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> I may have pasted the wrong thing. I do have both KDE 3 and KDE 4 >>> installed but I use KDE 3. This is the message I get for the record:

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet providers' IP range (xinetd.conf)

2009-09-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to allow remote access (via ssh only) to a given machine. > Unfortunately, my remote IP is dynamic and reverse lookup > (e.g. specifying only_from = .skynet.be in /etc/xinetd.conf) doesn't work. > So, I have to find out which

Re: [gentoo-user] unknown filesystem type 'ext2'

2009-09-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: > Exactly! > In console everything is find. but when I issue startx my keybaord and mouse > are non functional. I did remerge xf86 mouse and keyboard and still nothing. > I looking into xorg.conf. Newer Xorg uses a different method of configuring

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo list stats?

2009-09-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm wondering whether these stats are correct? They are captured > from this page: > > http://archives.gentoo.org/ > > If these stats are both correct and complete then I find them > interesting, and maybe a bit disappointing. If they

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Grant wrote: > When I try to send an email to a ucla.edu email address from my hosted > server, the message bounces and I'm directed to this page: > > http://info.smtp.ucla.edu/faq.php > > which says: > > "The gateway disallows direct connections from residential bro

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags confusing on emerge gimp

2009-09-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > After some resent discussion here of USE in thread: > Subject: How to play quicktime (*.mov) videos with firefox > > I'm a little confused by what I see when investigating the emerge of > gimp (wrapped for mail). > > Calculating dependencies.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Nick Khamis wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I really apperciate your help but as it sits I am unable to compile > vmware-server 1.x or XEN. I have attached the build log. Basically I know I > can larman the new version of vmware-server2 but I heard it is a clunker. I > really

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Dale wrote: > Arttu V. wrote: >> On 9/7/09, Dale wrote: >> >>> OK. It finished recompiling boost and Scribus. Both hearts and >>> mp3splt-gtk still fail with the same error as before. >>> >>> Any ideas? >>> >> >> Ok, let's first take back the "hearts compiles on a

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3splt-gtk, hearts and hwinfo fails to emerge

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Dale wrote: > --depclean wanted to remove KDE 3. :-( You don't have it in world?

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with emerge -uD world

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:28 AM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:04:27 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> I do not, have never, and likely will never, trust this beast. vi + eyeballs is my preferred tool :-) >> >> You're not supposed to trust it. It gives a st

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus.

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > You actually compile OO? Wow! OO-bin for me. Couple of minutes and > it's installed. Same here. I compiled it for a long time (double meaning!), but when I realized the amount of time spent compiling it was greater than the amount of time spen

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus.

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> You actually compile OO? Wow! OO-bin for me. Couple of minutes and >>> it's installed. >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and python needed by scribus.

2009-09-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:40:05 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> Same here. I compiled it for a long time (double meaning!), but when I >> realized the amount of time spent compiling it was greater than the >> amount of

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Mike Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, my ff-3.0.4 works correctly, so you at least have a working install to >> compare to. Mine was a case of 'emerge mozilla-firefox", oh l

Re: [gentoo-user] Display all global Use flags in force

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a command that will display all global USE flags? > > I can see whats in /etc/make.conf and my 2008.0 profile at make.defaults and > the > profiles package.use. Are there more? emerge --info

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Paul Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Mike Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Well, my

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Florian Philipp wrote: > >> ..and the additional featuresd which the binary distro doesn't offer: >> http://go-oo.org/discover/ > > oooh - Go-OO! indeed! I'm scrapping my oo-bin straight away! This only applies to OOo 2.x

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 automatic spell check broken

2008-11-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Mike Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Paul Hartman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I may have already missed it in this thread -- but I must ask the obvious: >> >> If you ri

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice emerge failing

2008-11-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:52 AM, Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/21 Paul Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> This only applies to OOo 2.x ebuilds... there is no Go-oo of 3.x and I >> don't think Gentoo uses it from what I could tel

Re: [gentoo-user] OT (a bit) finding overlay

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Tony Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to find the paludis-extras overlay. > Playman -l does not show it.. http://paludis-extras.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:01 PM, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > In the past I've used htpdate to synchronize my computer's clock. But > I would like to know what daemon would you recommend me. I'm searching > for a lightweight option. I use net-misc/ntp and it seems to work fine. Pau

Re: [gentoo-user] dual booting 2 gentoo installations

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just having second doubts about how to dual boot 2 gentoo > installations. > > Can I just edit grub from the original install and add the appropriate > kernal line like: > > title=kernel-2.6.27-r3-0x31a-1280x1024 > ro

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale: >> >> >>> I wouldn't use XFS unless >>> it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out it >>> does not like power failures at all.

Re: [gentoo-user] Fragmentation of my drives. Curious mostly

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Joshua Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:46 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Friday 28 November 2008 13:14:42 Dale wrote: >>> If this is a little high, what would be the best way to defrag it? >> >> By not defragging it

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently discovered a curious pattern emerging in my system log > with failed login attempts via ssh. > > Previously, I noticed dictionary attacks launched - which were easy to > detect... and I've a process to block the IP add

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve wrote: >> >> [...] >> Sure, I could use IPtables to block all these bad ports... or... I could >> disable password authentication entirely... but I keep thinking that >> there has to be something better I can do...

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3/ogg editing

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 9:07 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am looking for a ogg/mp3 editing softwarei (gui), which is able to > cut/append such streams without loss due to reencoding. > > What software is worth trying ? Hi, I don't think there is an ebuild, but you can try Mpcut:

Re: [gentoo-user] Curious pattern in log files from ssh...

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: >> P.S. I actually don't do any of the above. It was just a surge of creative >> paranoia >> in response to initial request :) > All good ideas - except selling the blacklist... I'd be happiest to > share m

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a good way of figuring out what printers that you can > actually buy in the retail market place actually have support in > Linux? I sure don't. > > Over the past 10 years I've gone the route of looking at the

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

2008-12-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 02.12.2008 04:31: >> I have solved my little problem with a tool called "fatsort". > > Just another update. Today fatsoft entered the portage tree [1]. > > [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcv

Re: [gentoo-user] checksumming files

2008-12-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Almost every time I split a large file >1G into say 200k chunks, then ftp it > to a server and then: > > cat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > completefile ; md5sum -c completefile > > if fails. Checking the split files in turn I often find 1 or two

Re: [gentoo-user] modules in use

2008-12-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I tell which modules of those listed by `lsmod' are actually > being used? cat /proc/modules and look for the third column. If there is a 0, it means that module is not currently in use.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modules in use

2008-12-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 22:32:23 +0100, Sebastian Günther wrote: >> >>> The third column of lsmod is headed with Used by and consists of a number >>> and a list of modules which use it. >>> >>> Ever

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: modules in use

2008-12-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:09 PM, »Q« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:51:02 +0200 > Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 22:32:23 +0100, Sebastian Günther wrote: >> > >> >> The third column of lsmod is headed with Used by a

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting Putty window title to currently executing command

2008-12-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:11 PM, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to remember ssh'ing into an old Gentoo box and having the window > title change to the currently executing command. For instance, when > emerging something that had 10 packages, the title would show something > like

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting Putty window title to currently executing command

2008-12-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:04 PM, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:58:36PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 3:11 PM, John J. Foster >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I seem to remember ssh'ing int

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I recently switched to gmail. I did some searches to see how to disable > or just make it so gmail's spam filter does not move anything to the > spam folder. They don't work. Does someone here know of a way to get > rid of

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I recently switched to gmail. I did some searches to see how to disab

Re: [gentoo-user] Gmail and that stupid spam filter. :-@

2008-12-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> It's on the second page of the filter setup. Mine gives me these options: >> >> Skip the Inbox (Archive it) >> Mark as read >> Star it >> Apply the l

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:59 AM, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a couple of problems only with proprietary software: real movie > videos and flash. > >> The applications are: >> - Flash > Sometimed the nspluginviewer eats the 100% of the CPU. Most of the > time it works great,

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:50 AM, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> They recently released a 64-bit version of Flash plugin for Linux. I >> unmerged the nspluginwrapper and unmasked the latest flash plugin and >> it's working beautifully since. It hasn't crashed/frozen once. >> > Thanks for the t

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I capture this video?

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a way to capture a flash video like the one shown in this link? > > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/05/60minutes/main4650223.shtml > > or this? > > http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4653109n > > Unlik

Re: [gentoo-user] mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Weird problem this one. I updated to sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201 (from > 2.8_p20080602) and everything appears to be just fine. With one exception: > viewing files in Midnight Commander's built-in viewer doesn't work

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I capture this video?

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems to be that the SWF file design is such that unlike flv files (e.g. as > served by youtube) which can be captured/save directly from browser/tmp > cache, the SWF stream has to be unpacked first. This is necessary to > discov

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I capture this video?

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Is there a way to capture a flash video like the one shown in this link? > > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/05/60minutes/main4650223.shtml > > or this? > > http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4653109n > > Unlik

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've rebuild everything mc uses to no avail. I made a "quickpgk glibc" > before upgrading in hope to revert back if something like this happens, but > I was not aware of this: > > > emerge --usepkgonly glibc > Calcula

Re: [gentoo-user] mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Weird problem this one. I updated to sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201 (from > 2.8_p20080602) and everything appears to be just fine. With one exception: > viewing files in Midnight Commander's built-in viewer doesn't work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mcview (mc -v) stopped working after glib update

2008-12-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> Weird problem this one. I updated to sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201 (from >> 2.8_p20080602) and everything appears to be just fine. With one exception: >> viewing files in Midnight Commande

[gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Hartman
I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I apologize if it is a duplicate). Hi, I've got an external USB hard drive adapter that apparently have been going bad, or maybe the drive is going bad, I don't k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > >> I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, >> not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I >> apologize if it is

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I've been looking for an ATI graphics card > with a water cooling system built in. I'm very > tired of listen to the roar of a video card fan. > > Any suggestions? It does not need to be the latest > smokin card, just reasonable at video

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Donnerstag 11 Dezember 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:10 AM, James wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I've been looking for an ATI graphics card >> > with a wat

[gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Hi, > > I've got an external USB hard drive adapter that apparently have been > going bad, or maybe the drive is going bad, I don't know... It has > died a few times in the last week. During that time I've bee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Freitag 12 Dezember 2008, James wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann tu-clausthal.de> writes: >> > > Any techniques, available in Gentoo, to monitor the temperature >> > > of and of the new video cards? >> > >> > with ati: aticonfig --o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:50 AM, James wrote: > Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > > >> It's not ATI or water cooled, but I got a GeForce 9600 with a giant >> aftermarket heat sink preinstalled >> (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168141340

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI video card with water cooler

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:59 AM, James wrote: > Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > > >> I've never tried the HDMI, so I can't say how it behaves, but yeah it >> came with a DVI to HDMI dongle thing. As far as I know the video >> signal in HDMI and DVI a

Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox

2008-12-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2008 17:17:15 CJoeB wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I >> go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even >> though I have the Flash Play

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how > to set up Samba on my CUPS server to allow me to print from Windows. I'm also interested in this; I tried it a while back (from both directions; printer hosted on lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I'm looking around for up to date instructions/wikis/howtos on how >>> t

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi Willie, > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Willie Wong wrote: >> (Sorry if this one is a dupe... my SSH connection went kaplui and I >> wasn't quite sure whether the mail got sent) >> >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 01:04:25PM -0800, Mark Knec

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > I've now tested my Vista machine. It works fine and Vista actually had > an HP driver for this printer so I used that driver since the Adobe > postscript driver doesn't install on Vista. From Vista I can print in > color on the cups printer. On

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Grant wrote: > I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm > planning on going through the normal installation process except for > copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the > corresponding partition on my new drive. Is th

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 19:24:12 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: >> On Freitag 19 Dezember 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> > Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 14:03:04 schrieb Shaochun Wang: >> > > Your kernel must not be 64bits, I think. >>

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 19. Dezember 2008 21:53:47 schrieb Paul Hartman: >> Yes, in English "must" can also mean that you infer or presume >> something. > > Ah, yes. I remember :-) > >> So, instead of "your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thanks and bye for now

2008-12-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: set PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 in /etc/make.conf >>> >>> I'll just hay "ah, ah, ah" at that one :P OK, I'll also say that it >>> doesn't work. Everything lags even with 19. >> >> Is that measurable? > > On my Gentoo at home, yes. The mous

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to compile vmware-server-1.0.8.126538 with > vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1 but compiling vmmon failed. Those are old, if you want to use a newer kernel use a newer vmware ebuilds. Add the vmware overlay with layman and then yo

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > 2008. 12. 30, kedd keltezéssel 21.19-kor Pongracz Istvan ezt írta: > >> This happened, because something wrong with the plugin. When I try to >> start the console, I got this error: >> >> /home/pongi/.mozilla/firefox/mv9y1pdy.default/extens

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware-server + gentoo kernel 2.6.28 - compiling problem

2008-12-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > 2008. 12. 30, kedd keltezéssel 15.05-kor Paul Hartman ezt írta: > >> > Dude, I am tired.. :) >> >> Congratulations and enjoy your VMware until the next kernel release >> breaks everything again.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] High-pitched sound from inside the PC when opening menus

2008-12-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > This is a question that is off topic of course, but I'm not sure *where* it > would be on-topic. Considering that Gentoo users are also often so-called > "enthusiasts", I'll drop the question here ;) > > In KDE (3), when enabling the "fa

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