[gentoo-user] CD and DVD indexing tool
Hey all, I'm looking for a utility that could be used for indexing the contents of the dozens and hundreds of CDRs and DVDRs that I've amassed over the years. I was kind of thinking just a heap of text files with the contents of 'tree' or 'ls -R' or something, but it would be nicer if there was some kind of metadata gathering, such as ID3 tags / JFIF / MPEG info etc. etc. Are there tools available that are any good at this? Any suggestions? Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?
I have a two-screen setup with X. Also, in addition to my usual keyboard and mouse, I have a cordless keyboard and mouse combo thingee. At the moment both keyboards work fine, and both mouses control the same pointer. It occurred to me that it would be very cool to be able to have one keyboard and mouse controlling a pointer on one of the monitors, and the other keyboard and mouse controlling the *other* monitor. Is this crazy talk? How can we make this happen? Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: two keyboards, two mouses, two monitors, one computer?
vikram ranade wrote: it is definately do-ablei remember reading about this guy who did this so that his g/f could use the comp at the same time.. have to dig out the article. Vikram Ranade Funny you should mention that that's the exact use-case on my mind :-) Let me know if you can find the article, or point me in a direction where I can hunt for it. I'm going to have a play around tomorrow and see if I can get something to work. Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What you've described and what others have posted sounds more compiicated and time consuming than doing what you CAN'T be bothered with. Also allows the opportunity to redo any partitioning scheme and swap setup that may have aged or not fill the bill any more. *almost*. Reformatting, repartitioning, and re-bootstrapping is exactly the step I want to avoid. I'm pretty much happy with my setup in that regard. :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] A Gentoo Enema
Hey all, Sorry about any imagery conjured up by the subject line... I've been running the same gentoo system on my computer for several years now... keeping it relativey updated, but over time there's always cruft that builds up, stuff that gets left behind during upgrades, or re-installs. Packages that don't change version for a long time, and don't get recompiled with the latest compiler, etc etc and so on and so forth. So what I want to do is give my computer a complete clean-out. What I really CAN'T be bothered doing is a complete format and re-install! One idea I've had is to delete almost every entry in my 'world' file, and then do an 'emerge depclean'. That would be pretty cool, empty out a huge amount of stuff, and then start re-installing at my leisure. But what that *wouldn't* do is delete all the files in random places that aren't owned by any particular package. This would be a good thing to do when spring cleaning, as it were. Is there a tool that will allow me to find *all* files that aren't owned by any package, so that I can then decide what to do with them? Obviously skipping directories such as /home/. Then I can delete everything that doesn't look critical, hopefully without losing my stuff in places like /boot or /etc either :-) Then I think I would do an emerge -e system, and then start re-adding applications I wanted. What do you think? Does anyone have any ideas about good ways of 'refreshing' my gentoo system? All suggestions appreciated :-) Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema
Also on the subject of cleaning things out and keeping things somewhat up-to-date... what do you suppose would be a good way of seeing how old some packages are on your system? It would be cool if you could list every package based on when it was installed... so the stuff that is *reall* old can be freshened by a re-installation (with whatever my current compiler is) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
Hey guys, I know there must be a bunch of these out there, but there's always a problem with signal-to-noise for this kind of question. I have a laptop, from which I would like to be able to send mail whenever I feel like it. This laptop is only occasionally connected to the internet, and has very low resources (so memory resident daemons are less favourable). So what I'm looking for is a program that acts like 'sendmail' (so that I can send email from mutt), and when it gets mail to send it stores it in a queue. When I'm connected to a network, I can then manually dump the queue onto the smtp server *of my choice*, since the server would very depending on where I'm plugged into. Some kind of command like: $ sudo dump_all_mail_to smtp.wherever.i.am.net Does such a program exist? Really I'm just looking for something like ssmtp, but with a queue. Any ideas? Thanks! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
Stroller wrote: Set relayhost on the laptop to be your home mail server, then. You'll need to setup Postfix on the laptop to authenticate do SSL but it's easily done. Stroller. Hmm some interesting ideas, thanks! I also found something called 'nullmailer' which sounds like it works in a way similar to Stroller's description of the apple mailer. But I think it's a daemon, which wants to be running. I *do* have a home server which is running SMTP, it accepts email from my LAN, but not the outside world. Running postfix but haven't looked into learning how to set up SMTP authentication. Unfortunately, that wouldn't help anyway since at work, where I tend to plug my laptop in, I'm firewalled off from my home server. Ah, well, I'll keep digging :-) Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Simple SMTP queue for a laptop
James wrote: YES it exist, but, some of the 'old timers' on the list are likely to fall into deep laughter The original *Mail* tool. Note not mail but 'Mail' for example: Mail -s subject $USER body-file body-file to all usernames in the file user-list-file Not sure... do you just mean 'mail' from the mailx package? I like 'mail' for quickly throwing off emails from programs and such, but I don't think it fills this particular niche. - something that emulates 'sendmail', so that mutt, pine, or any other email client that doesn't do SMTP can use it. - dumps the email into a queue to be flushed next time I'm online. - I can flush the email to whatever SMTP is appropriate when I plug in. In fact, looking at the man page, it would appear that 'mail' *uses* 'sendmail' to deliver. So I don't think it can replace it. Or are you speaking of a different program? Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: /dev read,write problem
Jonas Geiregat wrote: When I startup my system I need to loing as root and run chmod a+rw /dev/* else I have problems login in or starting multiple shells I'm using udev anyone got any idea what could cause the problem ? I found myself having a similar problem. It started happening after updating udev (I think) and failing to update all the files using etc-update. after replacing all the old files with the new ones, the problem fixed itself. Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive
Hey guys, this is a non-gentoo question but I figure someone on here will
have the answer I seek :-)
My father's laptop (running Windows XP) managed to detonate itself a few
days back and I'm trying to recover information from it. Before we wiped
the hard drive I loaded a LiveCD and imaged the entire hard drive using
'dd':
dd if=/dev/hda of=/some/location/on/nfs
So I have a 4.3GB file on my desktop which is the complete hard drive of his
laptop.
So here's my question, if I had just gone 'dd if=/dev/hda1' it would have
been easy to mount the file as a loopback filesystem and get the files off
of it, but since I dd'ed the *entire* disk I have all the extra crud as
well like boot sectors and partition tables and such.
How can I take this image of ('hda') and mount the filesystem ('hda1')
that's inside it?
Thanks!
Tom
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[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Recovering partitions from an imaged drive
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Tom Eastman wrote: I'm not sure, but mounting the whole hda as loopback could work (seem to remember a thread about this some time ago on the list, search the archives). In case it does not, try this. Since the real partitions usually start at the second sector (the first being the MBR that holds the bootloader and the partition table), I guess (iff the hard disk had only one partition taking all the space) you can extract only the hda1 partition by dd'ing the file onto another one but this time skipping the first sector, ie something like dd if=hda.img of=hda1.img bs=512 skip=1 or so. Hope this works. Thanks, I managed to solve it a different way in the end :-) I loaded up my own physical NTFS partition in a hex viewer, and looked at what byte sequence was right at the start of the partition, then I opened the disk image and searched for that same byte sequence in the file :-) Having found it (at the 32,256th byte) I was able to use 'losetup -o 32256' to offset the loopback device, and the partition loaded up without a hitch! Thanks for your help! Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Suggestions for a TV Box
Hey Guys, I've got a reasonably stripped down gentoo box (P3-733) with a good video card running in my living room, with the TV as its monitor and a wireless keyboard and mouse. Sounds great so far, doesn't it? But what shall I do with it? It has good TV out capability but no TV in. I have freevo running at the moment, but not MythTV, I'm not really brave enough yet, it seems pretty complicated to set up (I have exactly zero MySQL experience). So, how would you go about getting a good computing experience out of an older computer with a TV output? What do people think would make a nice window manager? It would be kind of cool to get things like web-browsing or email up and running. I'm kind of thinking some kind of non-window based interface would be cool, like what you see on palm devices and such. As well as locking it down to nice big fonts that can be easily read on a TV screen. So what do people think? At the moment its primary function is to grab movies and stuff off of my NFS and play them throught the TV, but I'm sure there is potential for it to be so much more! Inspire me! ;-) Tom -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
