Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Grant wrote: > > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > > on my network in wireshark? > > ifconfig eth1 promisc > > But at least tcpdum

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Grant wrote: >>> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >>> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >>> > on my network in wireshark? >>> >>> ifconfig eth1 promisc >>> >>> But

Re: [gentoo-user] Patching of ebuilds

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 3:26 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, >I've had a look on the web but can't seem to find any instructions on > how to do the patching of ebuilds. I have the situation where I've tried to > install the media centre app MMSV2. I've done the emerge, a lot of dependent

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Grant wrote: > My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't > DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets > hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? > > Does WPA2 require hardware support? I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Grant wrote: >> My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't >> DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets >> hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain M

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Grant wrote: >>> >> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into >>> >> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley >>> >> > on my network in wireshark? >>> >> >>> >> ifconfig eth1 promisc >>> >> >>> >> But at leas

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Grant wrote: >>> My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't >>> DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets >>> hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? >>> >>> Does WPA2 require hardware supp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wlan0 promiscuous mode

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:05 PM, Grant wrote: > >> > Does anyone know how to put my USB wireless network adapter into > >> > promiscuous mode so I can see everything that's happening wirelessley > >> > on my network in wireshark? > >> > >> ifconfig eth1 promisc > >> > >

Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, smallnow wrote: > http://www.openmobilefree.net/index.php?entry=entry090125-211840 > > This page works fine on default fonts of other distros. For me, its got blocks > for all the asian characters. > > I've been through the gentoo documentation utf guide. I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] utf fonts not working right

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > 090129 Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 4:03 PM, smallnow wrote: >>> http://www.openmobilefree.net/index.php?entry=entry090125-211840 >>> This page works fine on default fonts of other distros. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 wrote: > > Hi all, > > i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy > (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add > an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that new partition. My /boot is > o

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 blocked packages

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Hung Dang wrote: > Hi all, > I am trying to emerge KDE 4.2 and receive the following message: > > . > [ebuild U ] kde-base/kmail-4.2.0-r1 [4.2.0] USE="kdeprefix kontact > semantic-desktop -debug -htmlhandbook" 0 kB > [ebuild NS ] kde-base/step-4.1.4 [4.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Rodolphe Rocca wrote: > reQuiem23 wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy >> (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, add >> an entry to the grub.conf and booting into that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:57 AM, reQuiem23 wrote: > > > > Rodolphe Rocca-2 wrote: >> >> reQuiem23 wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs.ext4) and copy >>> (cp) my whole root-dir into that new partition, change the /etc/fstab, >>> add >>> an entry to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:04 AM, reQuiem23 wrote: > > > > Paul Hartman-3 wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:48 AM, reQuiem23 >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> i just had the idea to make a new ext4 partition (via mkfs

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 blocked packages

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Hung Dang wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Hung Dang wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> I am trying to emerge KDE 4.2 and receive the following message: >>> >>> . >>> [e

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo from ext3 to ext4

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:53 PM, reQuiem23 wrote: > > > > Saphirus Sage wrote: >> >> >> >> On Jan 30, 2009, at 1:23 PM, reQuiem23 >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> >>> Albert Hopkins-4 wrote: On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 08:48 -0800, reQuiem23 wrote: > Hi all, > > i just had the idea to ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 another thread

2009-01-30 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I didn't want to derail the existing thread discussing ext4 with this > angle ... I'm guessing there may be comments that will not be helpful > to that OP. > > I'm wondering what people running ext4 are seeing in practice that > makes it bett

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > This list may be too good for its own good... hehe. > > Sorry to bring this up here but in fact the behavior I'll describe in > a moment is something I've learned to love from yrs of linux us with > this enabled. Including the last few yrs on

Re: [gentoo-user] meta-packages and buildpkgonly

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Roy Wright wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:14:34 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> >>> nice -19 emerge -j4 --buildpgkonly kde-base/kde-meta >>> >>> but it takes next to no time instead of hours and >>> hasn't build the binary package

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Panning desktop on windows

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2009, at 21:10, Stroller wrote: >>> >>> ... Bigger than my >>> monitor a fair bit so I'm able to pan around this monster by mousing >>> to the screen edges which pans the rest into view. ... >> >> This is definitely available on Windo

Re: [gentoo-user] Instaling KDE 4.2, second attempt...

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Robin Atwood wrote: > My first attempt at installing KDE 4.2 so trashed my desktop I had to perform > a general restore to remove all traces of it. I have a completely current > 3.5.10 system running, so I thought I would get a situation where I could > choose which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: games-fps without blood

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:34 PM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > On Tuesday 03 February 2009 07:15:29 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > Ups.. He-he... :-) I have thought it is "frame per second" - is related >> > to "3D reality reconstruction", where GL, *fps* and such are needed, >> > used, told about. Fine

Re: [gentoo-user] ENTER doesn't work in google.com?

2009-02-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Am I going crazy? In google.com, when I enter a search query and press > ENTER, nothing happens. Note: only on the *English* google.com. You get > there by clicking the "Google.com in English" link. It's this: > > http://www.google.co

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD RW (recommendations

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 1:04 PM, James wrote: > Hello > > SATA or Eide on DVD rw choices (internal unit). > > Any cheap DVD rw that have success writing to > the many forms of rw DVDS, that one > would recommend? > > Any bands (plextor?) to avoid on gentoo? I think they should mostly be the same t

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:29:01 -0800, Grant wrote: > >> Is portage supposed to pick up on this with 'emerge -avDuN world'? > > Not if these are build-time dependencies, in which case they'll only be > picked up when you use --with-bdeps y. > > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:29:01 -0800, Grant wrote: >> >>> Is portage supposed to pick up on this with 'emerge -avDuN world'? >> >> Not if these are build-time dependencies, in which case the

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Grant wrote: >>> When this was asked a few weeks ago someone then asked why >>> --with-bdeps Y isn't the default? This seems to burn nearly everyone >>> once in awhile. >> >> Because using --with-bdeps y causes unnecessary compilation of packages >> that don't need

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:39 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Whenever I see a write-up of Gentoo, it's describe as a system > similar to BSD "ports" where you build packages from source. > The main benefit claimed for this approach is that you get > better performance because all executables are optimiz

Re: [gentoo-user] Locking down a wireless network

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Grant wrote: > My Gentoo router's wireless network is encrypted via WPA and doesn't > DHCP. I'd like to take this a step further in case my WPA key gets > hacked. Can I issue only certain IPs to certain MAC addresses? > > Does WPA2 require ha

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM, Dale wrote: > Grant wrote: When this was asked a few weeks ago someone then asked why --with-bdeps Y isn't the default? This seems to burn nearly everyone once in awhile. >>> Because using --with-bdeps y causes unnecessary compilation of packages

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Grant wrote: >>> When this was asked a few weeks ago someone then asked why >>> --with-bdeps Y isn't the default? This seems to burn nearly everyone >>> once in awhile. >>> >> Because using --with-bdeps y causes unnecessary compilation of package

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-02-04, James wrote: >> Grant Edwards visi.com> writes: >> >>> Whenever I see a write-up of Gentoo, it's described as a system >>> similar to BSD "ports" where you build packages from source. >>> The main benefit claimed for this app

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: "optimized for your system" -- huh?

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:07 AM, James wrote: > Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > > > >> >> One *BIG* difference is when the GPUs on video cards are used >> >> as co-processors on systems. ATI and Nv are working on making >> >> general p

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing shared libraries

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Damian wrote: > Hi, > > After I ran reconcilio (I guess revdep-rebuild will yield a similar > output) I got the following message: >The following broken files are not owned by any installed package: >/usr/lib64/kde4/plasma_applet_sysmoni_nvidia.so (requires

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Sebastián Magrí wrote: > El mié, 04-02-2009 a las 22:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon escribió: >> On Wednesday 04 February 2009 19:48:27 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > > Gentoo forces you to use linux in the sense that you need to >> > > do all the work by yourself to instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Norberto Bensa wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:44 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> The benefit for me is that I plug my USB flash stick in my PC and it pops up >> in my desktop without me needing to enter voodoo console commands to mount >> it. > > +1 > > That and

Re: [gentoo-user] 'emerge -avDuN world' doesn't find everything

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Grant wrote: > When this was asked a few weeks ago someone then asked why > --with-bdeps Y isn't the default? This seems to burn nearly everyone > once in awhile. > Because using --with-bdeps y causes unnecessary compilation

Re: [gentoo-user] Where has vmware-config.pl gone?

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, > > I just upgraded from vmware-workstation vmware-workstation-6.0.5.109488 > to vmware-workstation-6.5.1.126130 as I'm upgrading kernels, modules, > etc, and the old faithful 6.0.5 version has been hard masked... > > I get the usual:

Re: [gentoo-user] hal - what's the benefit of using it

2009-02-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 04/02/09 Alan McKinnon said: > >> Meanwhile, trying to run KDE or Gnome on a box without hal is becoming more >> and more painful with each update. Even xorg is getting in on the hal game >> and using hal to auto-configure input device

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll wrote: > >> I think the Handbook and other Official gentoo docs are well and written. I >> feel they are so well written and informative that a new user could read and >> follow what the doc is try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

2009-02-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:38 PM, Joshua D Doll wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> >>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Joshua D Doll >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] testing a corrupt SD card

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, > > recently my SD card just went bonkers. Unfortunately I lost a lot of > photos on it (backups are useless until the data actually gets to the > backup...) but fortunately I was able to use a program to recover about > 170 photos.

Re: [gentoo-user] testing a corrupt SD card

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > Good luck! In case you can't get it working reliably, Newegg has an > 8gb CF card for $19.99 & free shipping :) Oops, never mind that part, I see you're in AU not US. My mistake! I am an American after all, sometimes we fo

Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > David Negreira wrote: >> Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> >>> I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the >>> Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will >>> scale the desktop and "remember" c

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 9:31 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > I use to listen to my voice mail, via mplayer and seamonkey. > I setup mplayer to play voice-message.wav and it (use to) > worked beautifully. > > Now I cannot get it to work. Any suggestion as to a simple app. > I can set up as a helper ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:34 AM, James wrote: > Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > > >> I also have Vonage and use Seamonkey and everything is working okay >> for me. I'm using the gecko-mediaplayer plugin, but opening with >> gmplayer or something wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: seamonkey helper apps

2009-02-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:34 AM, James wrote: >> Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: >> >> >>> I also have Vonage and use Seamonkey and everything is working okay >>> for me. I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] testing a corrupt SD card

2009-02-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 19:36 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Iain Buchanan >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > recently my SD card just went bonkers. Unfortunately I lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-meta 4.2 upgrade

2009-02-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:29 PM, James wrote: > Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > Volker and Alan, > >> Finally, try to use sets if possible. The split -meta ebuilds were an ugly >> hack until sets made it into portage. They were orders of magnitude better >> than monolithic, but sets are just

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers

2009-02-11 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:52 PM, b.n. wrote: > Michael Hentsch ha scritto: >> The file /etc/sudoers should always be edited with visudo. visudo uses >> file locking, provides basic sanity checks and checks for parse errors. > > This always made me crazy. > > Why, why, why should I use a specialize

Re: [gentoo-user] screen, mc, htop

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:35 PM, András, Csányi - Sayusi Ando wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm here again. > > So, the problem points is I can't decide what is the real problem. But > I can describe the symptomes. > > I use screen lot of and I like it veery much. Few weeks ago - when I > reinstall gentoo,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} convert all .png to 0 compression

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Grant wrote: > My music folder is filled with images like this: > > artist/album/cover.png > artist/album/CD/front.png > artist/album/CD/back.png > > I think gmpc is struggling with all of the decompression so I'd like > to change all of their compression to 0. Do

[gentoo-user] Mask package from specific overlay?

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, In some cases, the same version of the same package exists in more than one overlay (or the main portage tree + overlay). Is there a way to mask a package from a specific overlay only? Thanks, Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] perfect IDE

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Andrei Hanganu wrote: > > you are perfectly right, but as a wise man said: don't reinvent the > wheel,that's why i'm asking this group 1st. I'm positive i'm not the > first person to meet these issues and if it just happened that i missed > a great editor out th

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals that work with "compose" key?

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I noticed that the terminal program I've used for years (aterm) > recently stopped working with the "compose" key (for generating > accented or "foreign" characters, for example). > > The compose key still works fine in xjed, emacs, rxvt, mrx

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminals that work with "compose" key?

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Dienstag 17 Februar 2009, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > I noticed that the terminal program I've used for years (aterm) >> > recently stopped wor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Terminals that work with "compose" key?

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> The compose key still works fine in xjed, emacs, rxvt, mrxvt, >>> xterm, and dozens of GTK and Qt based

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Terminals that work with "compose" key?

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > What a compose key does is temporarily make the _next_ key > struck act like a dead key. > > To enter ô, you strike compose, ^, o. Hitting compose makes > the ^ key temporarily into a dead key. It seems like a sensible way of doing things.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Terminals that work with "compose" key?

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-02-17, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> So how do you enter accented or non-latin characters or >>> ligatures or the like? >> >> I don

Re: [gentoo-user] Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson wrote: > G'day, > > I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing my new > Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in use. Right after > boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not seeing anything ou

Re: [gentoo-user] Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:13 AM, Shawn Haggett wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 16:24:45 Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson > wrote: >> > G'day, >> > >> > I was wondering if anyone might have any idea'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Beau Henderson wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 1:18 AM, James wrote: >> >> podgeweb.com> writes: >> >> >> > > I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing >> > > my >> > > new Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not

Re: [gentoo-user] Constant Load 1.00+ on new Toshiba laptop

2009-02-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Beau Henderson wrote: > G'day, > > I was wondering if anyone might have any idea's as to what is causing my new > Toshiba A300 Satelite to idle at a load of 1.00 when not in use. Right after > boot up it settles at 1.00 when I do nothing. I'm not seeing anything ou

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge R

2009-02-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > Here's one for the zen masters of portage. There is a statistical > programming language called 'R'. > > http://www.r-project.org/ > > Is it in portage? If so how do I find it without all the problems of > weeding through 1000's of lines of us

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge R

2009-02-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Here's one for the zen masters of portage. There is a statistical >> programming language called 'R'. >> >> http://www.r-project.org/ >

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualBox and Gcc

2009-02-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Can anyone tell me if there is some way to tell emerge to use a > specific compiler during an emerge? > > I get this output during emerge of virutalbox-ose. Note that it says > to use a version of gcc earlier than 4.3. Is there some way to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] - command line read *.csv & create new file

2009-02-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > The down side is the output file is 10x larger than the input file - > roughly - and my current input files are 40-60MB so the output files > will be 600MB. Not huge but if they grew too much more I might get > beyond what a single file can be

Re: [gentoo-user] MonetBD on portage?

2009-02-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:36 AM, laurent wrote: > Hi, > > I'm interested in trying monetDB, and it's not clear that it never has been > on the portage. > It's not there right now but when looking on google it's seems to have in > the past. > > I should just download the source from monetDB on thei

[gentoo-user] Can emerge @live-rebuild only rebuild changed pkgs?

2009-02-23 Thread Paul Hartman
emerge @live-rebuild is great to rebuild the live cvs/svn/git/etc packages, but often times there may have been no changes in that pcackage (already at revision 1234). Is there a way to make it skip rebuild of those? Since there's no point... If you're using KDE-live or something large like that,

Re: [gentoo-user] MonetBD on portage?

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Dirk Uys wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:36 AM, laurent wrote: >> >> Apparently monetdb maintainer requested it to be removed from Portage. >> You can still access th

Re: [gentoo-user] OT -- superuser file manager access to remote via ssh with no root login?

2009-02-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Michael Higgins wrote: > I can't figure this one out. > > Have disallowed root login, public key auth. > > Have a bunch of random renaming to do on that machine though, so would like > to point and click for a change. > > Is this possible? No GUI libs on the remo

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen and Window Titles in screen

2009-02-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Chris Lieb wrote: > I am trying to get screen set up and am running into some issues getting > it to display titles like I want. When I'm not running screen, commands > like emerge change the title of the console I'm currently in (like > Konsole or PuTTY (win)).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Screen and Window Titles in screen

2009-02-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Chris Lieb wrote: > Can you give me a pointer to where a definition of that syntax is? All > I find is for defining capabilities of terminals. I've never personally used it (I don't speak termcap :) ) but the screen manual has a whole section about termcap stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Screen and Window Titles in screen

2009-02-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Chris Lieb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Chris Lieb wrote: >>> Can you give me a pointer to where a definition of that syntax is? All >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a ftp client script

2009-02-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Weifeng Liu wrote: > Hi guys, > > I need to exchange some files between a AIX developer server and my gentoo > desktop, actually it is not a gentoo request :-). There is no ftp client > tool or file server setup on that AIX server, and I don't have enough power > t

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a ftp client script

2009-02-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Weifeng Liu wrote: >> Hi guys, >> >> I need to exchange some files between a AIX developer server and my gentoo >> desktop, actually it is not a gentoo request :-). There is no

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and PyQt4 blocking

2009-03-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Dale wrote: > emerge --update > --newuse --deep @system @world Did you do that command? AFAIK depclean should only be done after world has been fully updated. I don't know what profile/arch you're running... On my system it was recently upgraded to Qt-4.5, so if t

Re: [gentoo-user] how to switch laptop to usb keyboard

2009-03-02 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Michael Higgins wrote: > Hey, all -- > > I picked up a logitech usb keyboard to use with my laptop. Plugged it in and > it works... almost. No number keys. > > How to I tell X to use this different device when I plug it in? > > Cheers, Using HAL and .fdi files yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-03-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Stroller wrote: > I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly whereby > locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same directory, but not > the DVD right next to it, and both files seem to be read by the database > when I run updatedb

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless broadband modems - Working?

2009-03-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Grant wrote: >>> Thanks Neil, I'd like to get as close as possible to being ready to >>> plug-and-play with one of those modems. Do you remember the names of >>> the kernel modules? I've never used PPP software before. Can you >>> recommend a package? >> >> You

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from 2005 S1 to 2008.0?

2009-03-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Douglas J Hunley wrote: > Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it a > quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make it > work, does anyone know if it's an exercise in futility or not? Thx It may be po

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Justin wrote: > Grant schrieb: I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's possible)

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Grant wrote: I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's possible) and/or swap out th

Re: [gentoo-user] simple A/V recording software to grab Internet seminar?

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:59 AM, Jake Todd wrote: >> On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:51:28 -0700 >> Mark Knecht wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>>I administer my dad's Gentoo machine from a distance. He's going to >>> take some sort of seminar over the net an

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ext3 file permissions on a USB drive

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Dan Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:16:05 -0500 > »Q« wrote: > >> The problem is that if user A on machine X creates a file on the >> drive, it has access permissions 644, which makes it impossible for >> user B on machine Y to modify the file. (User A an

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 16 March 2009 21:30:19 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> On Montag 16 März 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > A quick heads-up if you upgrade to the latest udev in portage. >> > >> > Don't do what I did and postpone the etc-update step ti

Re: [gentoo-user] udev-140

2009-03-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 16 March 2009 22:20:37 Paul Hartman wrote: >> > I wouldn't really have minded the inconvenience, except that while all >> > this was going on, the largest data centre in the Southern Hemisphere was >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gamepad is attached... and what?

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > On Tuesday 17 March 2009 17:37:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> Andrew Gaydenko wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> > Have bought a gamepad for my son - he plays supertuxkart (USB, "Black >> > Warrior Patriot Vibration Gamepad"), attached, added >> > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gamepad is attached... and what?

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: > Am Dienstag 17 März 2009 15:51:15 schrieb Andrew Gaydenko: >> On Tuesday 17 March 2009 17:37:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: >> > > Hi! >> > > >> > > Have bought a gamepad for my son - he plays supertuxkart (USB, "Bla

Re: [gentoo-user] stuffit does not recognise .sitx

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > An applemac friend sent me a file with a .sitx extension. I installed > stuffit, but I get this error: > > $ unstuff Limited1.sitx > Unsupported format exception: archive format is not supported > > What are my options with Gentoo before

Re: [gentoo-user] error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > Hi all! > When I tried to install googlearth (or any other application now), I got > next message: re-emerge wget (and/or do revdep-revbuild)

Re: [gentoo-user] error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky wrote: > Paul Hartman написав(ла): > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky > wrote: > > > Hi all! > When I tried to install googlearth (or any other application now), I got > next message: >

Re: [gentoo-user] error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Hartman
2009/3/17 Alexander Pilipovsky : > Paul Hartman написав(ла): > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky > wrote: > > > Paul Hartman написав(ла): > > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Alexander Pilipovsky > wrote: > > > Hi all! > When I

Re: [gentoo-user] error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.0.9.8

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Hartman
Hi, Gmail won't allow the attachment (it says it contains executable files...) The direct URL to download the files you need are here: http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/wget-1.10.2.tar.gz http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/wget-1.10.2-gentoo-0.2.tar.bz2 Put them in your /usr/portage/dist

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc update

2009-03-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 18/03/09 Alan McKinnon said: > >> Seriously, you are running a stable arch. All known issues should be resolved >> by the time glibc hits stable. You can always askhere, or look at b.g.o for >> any outstanding issues > > Bulgarian Gay

Re: [gentoo-user] nxserver-freenx - user nx not allowed because account is locked

2009-03-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Joseph wrote: > Is anybody using nxserver-freenx? > It compile fine but when I run a setup: > nxsetup --install --setup-nomachine-key --clean --purge > I get: > > Testing your nxserver connection ... > Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive). > Fata

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound doesn't work on Asus-P5B-Deluxe

2009-03-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:10 AM, rdkrsr wrote: > Hello, > > I don't know if I'm right here, but I try. > > I try now for a few days to get sound working. At boot I see a message > that alsa is loaded and I can hear a slight sound (as if I switch on > my speakers) at that moment. I also hear that s

[gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks

2009-03-19 Thread Paul Hartman
In my ssh logs this morning I noticed a couple login attempts with usenames on them... I've never seen that before. It is usually just an IP address. Mar 18 20:19:48 [sshd] refused connect from postmas...@dns.cablecentro.net.co Mar 18 23:42:44 [sshd] refused connect from 211.116.136.107 Mar 18 23:

Re: [gentoo-user] Usernames in ssh attacks

2009-03-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Johan Blåbäck wrote: > I've always had usernames when it comes to sshd's log entries in > auth.log, like the following: > > sshd[5926]: error: PAM: Authentication failure for > from Well, I don't use PAM, just key-based authentication only, so I always see on

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