Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 4

2012-02-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 06:40, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: 8 snip 3) In the bootloader append line, include init=/sbin/linuxrc where   the file /sbin/linuxrc consists of *AT LEAST*... #!/bin/busybox ash mount -t proc proc /proc mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys exec /sbin/init

[gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with .O instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
I knew I've read about this somewhere, but I couldn't find it again... I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and it boots successfully... but the login screen indicates the machine's name as NAME.O Where does the .O part comes from? How to replace that with my actual domain? TIA Rgds, -- FdS Pandu

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with .O instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:58:48 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I knew I've read about this somewhere, but I couldn't find it again... I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and it boots successfully... but the login screen indicates the machine's name as NAME.O Where does the .O part

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is dhcpcd starting by itself?

2012-02-27 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 07:00:52PM -0600, Penguin Lover Dale squawked: You should read the thread rfc: only the loopback interface should provide net on -dev. They were discussing the changes in this. Maybe those changes had something to do with what happened here. Dale Thanks Dale!

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-27 Thread Willie WY Wong
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 07:09:26PM +0100, Penguin Lover Willie WY Wong squawked: I wonder if it would be advisable to file a bug to have wicd provide net? (Is there any reason why this would be a bad idea?) Ah, in fact it seems that having wicd provide net is already in the works:

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-27 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
I'm not here to discourage you of using Gentoo, but I'd take a look at ArchLinux.

[gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation

2012-02-27 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
I'm reading Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire, and at the end of the book there is an about the author section that mentions two contact addresses: one is an email, the other is microsoft!storm!stevem. The book is from 1993, so that should be an old address, for an old protocol. So what? That's

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation

2012-02-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.02.2012 15:04, schrieb Claudio Roberto França Pereira: I'm reading Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire, and at the end of the book there is an about the author section that mentions two contact addresses: one is an email, the other is microsoft!storm!stevem. The book is from 1993, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-27 Thread Mick
On 26 February 2012 15:12, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: On Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Mick wrote: if your run: # sdptool browse your_device_MAC_address it will list a number of services that the device supports after you connect it to your PC. Although I could not browse any

[gentoo-user] Re: Safe way to test a new kernel?

2012-02-27 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: I need to test a kernel config change on a remote system. Is there a safe way to do this? The fallback thing in grub has never worked for me. When does that ever work? Grant, If you have more than one system there, you can set the system to use the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation

2012-02-27 Thread James Broadhead
On 27 February 2012 14:27, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 27.02.2012 15:04, schrieb Claudio Roberto França Pereira: I'm reading Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire, and at the end of the book there is an about the author section that mentions two contact addresses: one is an

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with .O instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 27, 2012 9:15 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:58:48 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I knew I've read about this somewhere, but I couldn't find it again... I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and it boots successfully... but the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] USB = SCSII adaptor ?

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 11:04 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, is there any USB to SCSII adaptor known, which works with Linux ? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Best regards, mcc Adaptec USB2Xchange supposedly has a linux driver, or at least it used to (no idea if it's kept

Re: [gentoo-user] Midori and Flash

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Paul Hartman writes: In Firefox you can create multiple profiles. Each profile will have its own set of cookies, bookmarks, history, saved passwords, etc. To open 2 firefox windows with 2 different profiles at once,

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-27 Thread James Broadhead
On 26 February 2012 17:00, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2012 13.43:13 Dan Johansson wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2012 10.52:58 Willie WY Wong wrote: You guys are almost certainly running into the same problem as the one I mentioned in the thread I just

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with .O instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 27.02.2012 16:16, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 27, 2012 9:15 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:58:48 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info mailto:pa...@poluan.info wrote: I knew I've read about this somewhere, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation

2012-02-27 Thread Todd Goodman
* Claudio Roberto Fran?a Pereira spide...@gmail.com [120227 08:35]: I'm reading Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire, and at the end of the book there is an about the author section that mentions two contact addresses: one is an email, the other is microsoft!storm!stevem. The book is from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: accented characters in KDE apps

2012-02-27 Thread Philip Webb
I have submitted Gentoo bug 406047 . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation

2012-02-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Claudio Roberto Fran?a Pereira spide...@gmail.com [120227 08:35]: I'm reading Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire, and at the end of the book there is an about the author section that mentions two contact addresses:

[gentoo-user] Lustre filesystem

2012-02-27 Thread Ruppert, Glenn G.
Does anyone know if Gentoo supports a Lustre filesystem?

[gentoo-user] Re: [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation

2012-02-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-02-27, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: As others have said it's a bang path for UUCP routing. It was used for mail routing even when not strictly using UUCP as well. Interesting. That's something I wasn't aware of. This was before such thing as DNS and you got to pass around

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF] string1!string2!string3 notation

2012-02-27 Thread Todd Goodman
* Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [120227 11:49]: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Claudio Roberto Fran?a Pereira spide...@gmail.com [120227 08:35]: I'm reading Writing Solid Code, by Steve Maguire, and at the end of the book there is an about the

Re: [gentoo-user] Lustre filesystem

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Ruppert, Glenn G. glenn.rupp...@gd-ais.com wrote: Does anyone know if Gentoo supports a Lustre filesystem? No support listed in any overlay for anything called 'lustre'. c2stable ~ # eix-remote -q update SNIP c2stable ~ # eix handbrake [I] media-video/handbrake

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with .O instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 28, 2012 1:07 AM, Daniel Troeder dan...@admin-box.com wrote: On 27.02.2012 16:16, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 27, 2012 9:15 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:58:48 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 24.02.2012 18:33, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 02/24/12 02:45, Florian Philipp wrote: Let's not forget that whenever you are presented with that warning, it could also be a man-in-the-middle attack. Therefore just

Re: [gentoo-user] Lustre filesystem

2012-02-27 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 27.02.2012 19:12, schrieb Mark Knecht: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Ruppert, Glenn G. glenn.rupp...@gd-ais.com wrote: Does anyone know if Gentoo supports a Lustre filesystem? No support listed in any overlay for anything called 'lustre'. [...] That's not to say you can't run it.

Re: [gentoo-user] wicd will not connect to wireless network

2012-02-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:58:59 + James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 February 2012 17:00, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2012 13.43:13 Dan Johansson wrote: On Sunday 26 February 2012 10.52:58 Willie WY Wong wrote: You guys are almost

Re: [gentoo-user] This Connection is Untrusted: WAS: Firefox-10.0.1 fails to compile on x86

2012-02-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/27/12 13:43, Florian Philipp wrote: Just a small follow-up: A neat server-sided trick I didn't know until now is HTTP Strict Transport Security [1]. It prevents users from clicking away SSL warnings and prevents mixed content. [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-27 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 6:16 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Historically, when an update to portage came available, portage would put it at the head of the list, build it first, then re-run emerge world command. I've seen lately that this no longer happens, portage updates

[gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Willie Matthews
Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something else out there that can handle multiple audio streams? -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something else out there that can handle multiple audio streams? -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com Jack handles multiple streams very

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Juan Diego Tascón
You should check airfoil [1]. It's a multiplatform sound system but it's not open source. Haven't actually tried it myself as pulseaudio fits my needs. ** refs: [1] http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Juan Diego Tascón
no, I missunderstood what it is for, airfoil can only play streams from windows or mac, the output could be linux though, but anyways it isn't what you are looking for. 2012/2/27 Juan Diego Tascón juantas...@gmail.com: You should check airfoil [1]. It's a multiplatform sound system but it's not

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something else out there that can handle multiple audio streams? alsa dmix

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 27/02/12 23:50, Willie Matthews wrote: Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something else out there that can handle multiple audio streams? Plain ALSA? Or OSSv4? Both handle multiple audio streams just fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something else out there that can handle multiple audio streams?

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is

[gentoo-user] tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
Are there any tools that will: 1) Ensure that for every installed packages there is a corresponding tbz2 file in /usr/portage/packages? 2) Remove any older versions in /usr/portage/packages prior to me running a backup? Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews

[gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/02/12 00:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Are there any tools that will: 1) Ensure that for every installed packages there is a corresponding tbz2 file in /usr/portage/packages? 2) Remove any older versions in /usr/portage/packages prior to me running a backup? I think app-portage/gentoolkit can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 28/02/12 00:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Are there any tools that will: 1) Ensure that for every installed packages there is a corresponding tbz2 file in /usr/portage/packages? 2) Remove any older versions in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 28/02/12 00:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Are there any tools that will: 1) Ensure that for every installed packages there is a corresponding tbz2 file in /usr/portage/packages? 2) Remove any older versions in

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-27 Thread Robin Atwood
On Monday 27 Feb 2012, Mick wrote: On 26 February 2012 15:12, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: On Sunday 26 Feb 2012, Mick wrote: if your run: # sdptool browse your_device_MAC_address it will list a number of services that the device supports after you connect it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 28/02/12 00:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Are there any tools that will: 1) Ensure that for every installed packages there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:15:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Also, this is raising an additional question for me. What's the difference between buildpkg and buildsyspkg. man emerge doesn't talk about the latter as best I can tell. buildpkg builds packages for all installs, buildsyspkg only for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:15:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Also, this is raising an additional question for me. What's the difference between buildpkg and buildsyspkg. man emerge doesn't talk about the latter as best I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 28/02/12 00:41, Mark Knecht wrote: Are there any tools that

Re: [gentoo-user] portage updates

2012-02-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 27 February 2012 21:05:24 Mike Gilbert wrote: Relevent commits: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=d3f7 04a425a50b5cfa997a25866929b30f1b7d0f http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=458

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-02-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 27 February 2012 23:29:35 Robin Atwood wrote: Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling Please check the spelling of the third word in that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools to clean up /usr/portage/packages?

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Nikos Chantziaras

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with .O instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 28, 2012 4:11 AM, Peter Ruskin peter.rus...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: On Monday 27 February 2012 18:37:05 Pandu Poluan wrote: I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and it boots successfully... but the login screen indicates the machine's name as NAME.O Where does the .O

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/02/12 04:07, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27,

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:07:21PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default. Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so. Yeah, when you wrote dmix the light

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/02/12 04:30, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:07:21PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default. Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so.

[gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 28/02/12 04:30, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:07:21PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default. Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so.

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:07:21PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default. Yep, I think it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 28/02/12 04:30, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:07:21PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's how KDE supports multiple audio

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with .O instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:36:34 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Feb 28, 2012 4:11 AM, Peter Ruskin peter.rus...@dsl.pipex.com wrote: On Monday 27 February 2012 18:37:05 Pandu Poluan wrote: I'm installing a new Gentoo box, and it boots successfully... but the login

Re: [gentoo-user] On login, hostname ends with .O instead of my domain

2012-02-27 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 13:53, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:36:34 +0700 8 snip You probably have a typo in /etc/issue (a missing backslash). Default looks like so:  $ cat /etc/issue This is \n.\O (\s \m \r) \t == # cat /etc/hosts |