Re: [gentoo-user] kernels swap usage

2012-08-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 07.08.2012 07:02, schrieb Philip Webb: Just an observation : when I updated Libre Office Firefox this week, neither compile used swap (I have 4 GB RAM); OTOH when I did them the previous time, both did use swap; the total time the HDD usage remained almost the same. In between, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 23:18 -0500, Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 21:19 -0500, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: ... Goggle have a well known document

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 08 August 2012 01:32:55 Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2012 23:39:05 Mark Knecht wrote: Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of months _might_ have showed up in

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels swap usage

2012-08-08 Thread Philip Webb
120808 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 07.08.2012 07:02, schrieb Philip Webb: Just an observation : when I updated Libre Office Firefox this week, neither compile used swap (I have 4 GB RAM); OTOH when I did them the previous time, both did use swap; the total time the HDD usage remained almost

[gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem building binutils. I thought to asked about that on an gentoo-arm mailing list, but found, that this list ist listed as closed. So is there an apropriate list or ressource dedicated

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 Aug 2012 05:21:31 Adam Carter wrote: To wipe a drive use dban. - live CD which uses (US) gov approved standards of wipe methods/patterns. Or shred, which comes with coreutils. dd is only going to show sectors on a failed drive - too late! To explain, modern drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 08/08/2012 02:03 PM, Norman Rieß wrote: i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem building binutils. What problem? I have no experience on Gentoo/ARM but some on buildroot/ARM. raf

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Wednesday 08 Aug 2012 05:21:31 Adam Carter wrote: To wipe a drive use dban. - live CD which uses (US) gov approved standards of wipe methods/patterns. Or shred, which comes with coreutils. dd is only going to show sectors on a failed drive - too late! To explain, modern

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 08.08.2012 14:03, schrieb Norman Rieß: Hello, i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem building binutils. I thought to asked about that on an gentoo-arm mailing list, but found, that this list ist listed as closed. So is there an apropriate list or ressource dedicated

[gentoo-user] recovering pam.d directory

2012-08-08 Thread Marcello Varisco
Hi all, By incident I removed the pam.d directory containing all pam modules from command line. Is there a way to recover the removed directory? any help is appreciated since I can't login to my computer without live cd anymore. Marcello

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels swap usage

2012-08-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 08.08.2012 11:33, schrieb Philip Webb: 120808 Florian Philipp wrote: Am 07.08.2012 07:02, schrieb Philip Webb: Just an observation : when I updated Libre Office Firefox this week, neither compile used swap (I have 4 GB RAM); OTOH when I did them the previous time, both did use swap;

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering pam.d directory

2012-08-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:24:17 + Marcello Varisco marcelo.vares...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, By incident I removed the pam.d directory containing all pam modules from command line. Is there a way to recover the removed directory? any help is appreciated since I can't login to my

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-08 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: Each Windows VM has it's own Windows license as well as it's own virus protection license. I run different trading apps in different VMs. All trading VMs are Virtualbox. You have given me much to research, think about, and purchase some new

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Sent from my Android device. On Aug 6, 2012 4:22 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I have seen some reviews where it would not

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 4 or 5 hours huh. I guess drives are a lot faster now. Back in the late 80's or early 90's, it took that long for those whimpy little 100Mb drives. Ooops, my ages is showing again. lol I recently found a box of hard drives in

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread James
Norman Rieß norman at smash-net.org writes: i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem building binutils. I thought to asked about that on an gentoo-arm mailing list, but found, that this list ist listed as closed. So is there an apropriate list or ressource dedicated to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:42 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: SNIP Any suggestions are most welcome, even if private. I suggest anything not specifically Gentoo oriented be addressed offline. If someone wants to get in touch privately please

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: 4 or 5 hours huh. I guess drives are a lot faster now. Back in the late 80's or early 90's, it took that long for those whimpy little 100Mb drives. Ooops, my ages is showing again. lol I recently found a

[gentoo-user] Packages

2012-08-08 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, when i understand correctly so give it Gentoo Packages with can installed. Where can find this packages? Because i has clean my Netbook now from Sabayon and have installed Gentoo directly. But build Libreoffice need much time, so where better to find a package? Is there a chance or must

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Silvio Siefke siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: Hello, when i understand correctly so give it Gentoo Packages with can installed. Where can find this packages? Because i has clean my Netbook now from Sabayon and have installed Gentoo directly. But build Libreoffice

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels swap usage

2012-08-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 7. August 2012, 01:02:29 schrieb Philip Webb: Just an observation : when I updated Libre Office Firefox this week, neither compile used swap (I have 4 GB RAM); OTOH when I did them the previous time, both did use swap; the total time the HDD usage remained almost the same. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages

2012-08-08 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:32:55 -0700 Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Silvio, I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you asking where you can get a pre-built 'package'? I.e. - Gentoo builds from source code but you don't want to build libreoffice from source so you

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Howdy, I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that large. Anyway, I want to test this thing real good to really make

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages

2012-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 19:53:46 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote: Yes thats was the question. Sorry for my english. Yes so i accept to build all from source, but Libreoffice from source on a Atom need not hours, need days. Only hours, but quite a lot of them. About 16 IIRC. -- Neil Bothwick You

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Dale wrote: Howdy, I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 19:53:46 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote: Yes thats was the question. Sorry for my english. Yes so i accept to build all from source, but Libreoffice from source on a Atom need not hours, need days. Only

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: Now, don't you wear it out, you hear?!?!? ;-) If your machine runs all the time you can add smartctl runs as chron jobs that run at midnight and have the results emailed to you. Look at them once a week and other than an unpredictable catastrophic failure you'll likely know

[gentoo-user] Getting apvlv running (My excellent adventure)

2012-08-08 Thread Walter Dnes
Earlier this year, my ISP changed their billing notification emails from application/pdf to application/octet-stream. Trying to view it from mutt showed binary gobbledygook. After some flailing around, I found out that I had to put an entry into .mailcap, namely... application/octet-stream;

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Not going to wear it out but going to make sure it survived the trip across the country while bouncing around in the box. :/ Check this out: Aug 8 12:46:47 localhost smartd[2083]: Device: /dev/sdd, type changed from 'scsi' to 'sat' Aug 8 12:46:47 localhost smartd[2083]: Device:

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 08.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Raffaele BELARDI: On 08/08/2012 02:03 PM, Norman Rieß wrote: i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem building binutils. What problem? I have no experience on Gentoo/ARM but some on