[gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list yesterday, and it has never shown up. I had two sources that suggested that said bug is far more severe than most people think. So this message is a test.

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
On 4/14/2014 11:58 AM, Chris Walters wrote: I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list yesterday, and it has never shown up. I had two sources that suggested that said bug is far more severe than most people think. So this message is a test. So, is there a keyword block

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
On 4/14/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:00:43 -0400 Chris Walters cjw20...@comcast.net wrote: On 4/14/2014 11:58 AM, Chris Walters wrote: I tried to post a message on that certain bug to this list .snip. Is it this message? http://gentoo.2317880.n4.nabble.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
On 4/14/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:00:43 -0400 Chris Walters cjw20...@comcast.net wrote: .snip. Is it this message? http://gentoo.2317880.n4.nabble.com/Heartbleed-bug-td278708.html#a278743 Or is it another one? http://search.gmane.org/?query=author=Chris

Actually, pay no mind... Re: [gentoo-user] Am I being blocked from posting?

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Walters
On 4/14/2014 3:05 PM, Chris Walters wrote: On 4/14/2014 12:17 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: .snip. Feel free to put the entire mail including headers on a pastebin / gist. Pastebin / gist? How would I do that? It is not really that important to me to post something that, by definition, is off

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 'Heartbleed' bug

2014-04-10 Thread Chris Walters
some information on it that is a good beginning for researching this bug, the the lists I mentioned above are probably the best source of information, after you understand the basics from the web page. Chris Walters

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc4.7.2-r1 to 4.7.3 upgrade - hosed system?

2013-05-17 Thread Chris Walters
On 5/16/2013 7:49 AM, Adam Carter wrote: My system no longer had a /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 which made it quite unhappy. I eventually copied one over from a fedora live iso i had and things are operational again. Is there some way i can confirm if it was the gcc upgrade? This looks damning; #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-16 Thread Chris Walters
On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:52:41 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't miss anything. I get what some are saying. The reason for my question is this. Gentoo allows a person to customize the OS to the specific hardware it is being run on. Redhat and other binary distros don't allow

[gentoo-user] A question concerning graphics...

2013-03-10 Thread Chris Walters
Hello Everyone, I have a couple of questions concerning what graphic drivers you use. Does anyone use the proprietary ATI drivers, or have used them? Would you recommend them? I just recently started using the ati-drivers package, but I don't really notice a difference - yes it does say

Re: [gentoo-user] kde splash screen won't show up when loading kde

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Walters
On 11/11/2012 07:31 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 17:29:11 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: John Walters wrote: On Sat, 10 Nov 2012 13:58:42 +0100 Pau Peris sibok1...@gmail.com wrote: i've just upgraded kde through a custom @set, the same i used over the last years,

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive change

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Walters
On 11/9/2012 10:14 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 9. November 2012, 01:38:41 schrieb mindrunner: volker, what is your intention to say i am dumb and stupid. actually you do not know me. everybody does something dumb and/or stupid once in a while. I average that one to 1/day.

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-29 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 1/29/2012 02:47 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 19:12:17 Dale wrote: As far as I can tell all that is changing with Google is they are going to join up in terms of user authentication, hitherto separate portals or apps they had. I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Resurrecting a Gentoo install

2012-01-21 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/21/2012 01:56 PM, Daniel da Veiga wrote: If its not being used and outage is not a problem, I would recommend reinstalling. I'm against doying it, but 2 years is a lot, if you have any servers (MySQL, PHP) it would be an issue, you'll have MAJOR changes to X, OpenRC and I'm not even

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-20 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 1/20/2012 02:57 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 01:22:50PM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: On 1/19/2012 11:32 AM, Chris Walters wrote: This is a test. Enigmail has been trying to use a revoked and expired key to sign my

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/19/2012 01:44 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: Hello! From what I know for sure, many people in different countries supported the opposition to these bills because they understand that this is not just a US problem. If it happens there, it can easily be repeated anywhere. And the point of

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/19/2012 01:27 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Humanity starts things and continues things. This is good. Governments stop things. This is only sometimes good. Agreed. Chris --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 120118-1, 01/18/2012 Tested on: 1/19/2012 5:30:31

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/19/2012 05:41 AM, Yohan Pereira wrote: im fairly certain it was humanity that started this whole goverment thing. True. Once started, though, governments tend to evolve on their own - I am pretty certain that most government officials are from another planet. Besides, isn't it up to

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout. Fixing.

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/19/2012 06:58 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: If by fix you mean wage war on and shoot, then yes :-) It seems like that is the only method humanity uses to fix it's governments that go toxic - witness the last year's events in that part of the world that has lots of desert By fix I mean

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/19/2012 05:29 AM, Chris Walters wrote: On 1/19/2012 01:44 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: Hello! From what I know for sure, many people in different countries supported the opposition to these bills because they understand that this is not just a US problem. If it happens there, it can

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/19/2012 11:57 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 12:53:07AM -0600, Dale wrote: While on this subject, sort of. Who on here as their email set up to encrypt and decrypt emails? I want to test some things OFF LIST. Well, if you had signed your mail, then I could

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/19/2012 05:04 PM, Dale wrote: Chris Walters wrote: This is a test. Enigmail has been trying to use a revoked and expired key to sign my messages, lately. Chris I have a question now. I got a message from Paul Hartman and replied to it, off list, and it was encrypted and I hope

Re: [gentoo-user] Public key cryptography... (Used to be: Something about SOPA and PIPA)

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/19/2012 06:00 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:42:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: There's no known way to decrypt a mail like that without the single private key needed (this works exactly like https traffic to your bank). I feel very confident saying no known way as

Re: [gentoo-user] Please change this subject line.

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 1/19/2012 06:55 PM, Dale wrote: Matthew Finkel wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mud is clearing up a bit. Excellent! Lookin good! When he quoted your message, he

Re: [gentoo-user] Public key cryptography... (Used to be: Something about SOPA and PIPA)

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 1/19/2012 07:27 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:28:04 -0500, Chris Walters wrote: Possible, but not too likely*. RSA keys are based on two very large prime numbers and their composite. The two primes are hundreds of digits

Re: [gentoo-user] Please change this subject line.

2012-01-19 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 1/19/2012 08:26 PM, Dale wrote: Ohhh, great, something is to make sure to fix when quoting. O_O You live in the USA? If yes, mind a off list question? Dale :-) :-) Yes I do live in the USA, and no I don't mind an off-list question.

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE - Was: Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-18 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/18/2012 03:59 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 01/18/2012 01:18:03 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: While I program a lot on my Linux machines, I haven't actually found an IDE that doesn't make me wish VS ran on Linux. Did you have a look at CodeLite (www.codelite.org) ? If you like, I can

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE - Was: Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-18 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/18/2012 04:27 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: snip Did you have a look at CodeLite (www.codelite.org) ? If you like, I can send you an ebuild for it (but you can install it under /usr/local, as well). snip That looks like a very good IDE, and best of all - open source. I will take a look

[gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-18 Thread Chris Walters
I am truly surprised that Gentoo, and more GNU/Linux and *BSD sites did not join in the 'blackout'. The only one I saw that did was opensuse.org . These laws, as I understand them, and I am no lawyer, could be used against open source kernels, operating system tools, and other open source

Re: [gentoo-user] S.O.P.A and P.I.P.A and the blackout.

2012-01-18 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/18/2012 08:21 PM, Dale wrote: I don't like the law and honestly I don't like 99% of the laws they even think about much less pass. Trust me, I let my Rep know several times that I oppose both of them and even got a phone call today from one of them. I also pointed out that no law we

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/17/2012 06:41 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: I am not sure what you really like. Cross compiling is a general problem and not related to a specific distro. For your specific problem: it is most unlikely that you will get a MS cross compiler that runs on other platforms than WIN-DOS.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/17/2012 08:39 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 1/17/2012 1:55 AM, Chris Walters wrote: that have make files for MS Visual Studio. I have no interest in purchasing Visual Studio. Just a point of interest: Visual Studio doesn't use Makefiles; Visual C++ can import Makefile projects if you

OT: Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about hacked sites and passwords

2012-01-16 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 1/16/2012 09:22 PM, Dale wrote: Howdy, It was on the news that some company got hacked into that was related to Amazon. They said Amazon users should change their password just as a precaution. I have a questions tho. I use some pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-16 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/16/2012 09:56 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, everybody. I've finally become zic and tired of messages like Tue Jan 17 02:48:28 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2012 on tty14 . Trying to read man zic, my eyes just glaze over. I just want my time to be GMT (or UTC

[gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-16 Thread Chris Walters
Hi, I have a question about cross compiling in Gentoo - specifically cross compiling for W32/W64. I tried their preferred method and didn't like it, so I downloaded the appropriate Mingw64 build files, set up a cross compile account, with the appropriate paths, variables, etc. Most packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing [TEMP SOLN]

2010-05-16 Thread Chris Walters
On 5/15/2010 11:06 AM, Roy Wright wrote: Argh. Just have to vent a little. Bring up a new install on a system whose system disk died and was replaced with an SSD. OS installed no problems. Recovered my RAID5 and LVM JBOD volume (a GIANT THANK YOU to the mdadm and lvm2 folks!). Then

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Kde 4.1.X

2009-01-17 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Nicola wrote: Hi, I have searched on google and bugtrack for weeks for people with a similar problem with the new kde 4.1.X but I didn't find anything. I have some problem even to describe the problem beacause I don't know how to figure out

[gentoo-user] A circular dependency problem with notification-daemon and libnotify...

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, I was wondering if anyone else was having this problem. I am running an AMD64 arch, and when I try to emerge notification-daemon, it will not compile because libnotify is not present. If I try to emerge libnotify, it tries to merge

Re: [gentoo-user] A circular dependency problem with notification-daemon and libnotify...

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Neil Bothwick wrote: The only amd64 ebuild of notification-daemon, 0.3.7, does not have a gstreamer USE flag. That's only present in the 0.4.0 ebuild, which is ~amd64. Are you trying to mix stable and testing packages? No, at this point, I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Allan Gottlieb wrote: snip I have obtained the sources to e2fsprogs, e2fsprogs-libs, ss, com_error via emerge --fetchonly. Am I correct in believing that emerge --unmerge will NOT remove the sources. thanks, allan You are correct that

Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking

2008-08-17 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! After last syncing 'emerge -pvDuN world' ends with messages shown below. How to resolve this conflict *safely*? I don't want to experiment with fs-related packages :-) Andrew =

Re: [gentoo-user] Uwe Thiem

2008-07-15 Thread Chris Walters
Daniel Iliev wrote: On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:53:35 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's a sad day for me today. Uwe Thiem, who has been on this list longer than I have, passed away on Friday. My friend Alastair put up a little tribute here: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2574 What

[gentoo-user] Re: K

2008-07-13 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Mick wrote: | On Sunday 13 July 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:40:08AM -0700, maxim wexler wrote: | I would like to raise my voice against the use of overly long subject | lines that run out of space on the line

Re: [gentoo-user] h

2008-06-27 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Friday 27 June 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:44:00 +0100, Stroller wrote: | I'm sure the NSA would be happy to forego the prize and keep | quiet about | being able to break a secure cipher. | I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-27 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: | On Freitag, 27. Juni 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: | I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use pure | ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had recently | turned out to be a

[gentoo-user] util-linux-2.14

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 For those who may be interested, I had submitted a request to the upstream for a new patch for util-linux-2.14, and it is now available from: http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net/updates/ Just thought some people here might be interested in knowing

Re: [gentoo-user] util-linux-2.14

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:29:31 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: | | P.S. I wish people would stop discussing the subject of cryptology | into the ground. I ended my discussion. | | Mailing list threads are like children, you

Re: [gentoo-user] stage3-i686-2008.0_beta2 builds kernel in x86 directory

2008-06-26 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is this a problem, or simply a name change? The filename says i686 | and I have 'CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu' in /etc/make.conf, but the kernel | ends up as /usr/src/linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage | | I noticed this when I

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Daniel Iliev wrote: | On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:20:20 -0400 | Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] | Perhaps they appear as kernel modules? I'm just guessing. I think that is how they are supposed to appear, but I can't seem to get them

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sebastian Wiesner wrote: | Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 17:14:20 | | | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], | | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they use | themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the key of the | GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's assumptions, would keep 15 |

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: | Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they | | use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the | | key

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
Alan McKinnon wrote: Or perhaps you doubt that they can crack any keys at all... Don't get smart with me, jackass. Fuck off, shitehead. Call me a jackass, when I simply state facts you admitted to? You're a fucking idiot. Welcome to my ignore list. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] My last words on cryptology and cryptography.

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sebastian Wiesner wrote: | Jason Rivard [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 23:53:23 [snip] | A OTP cannot be broken using brute force, so the term perfectly secure | fits here, imho, at least a bit ;) A OTP cipher would be

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Daniel Iliev wrote: | On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:08 -0400 | Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | My original question was: Does anyone know how to compile the | extra-ciphers package that you can find on the loop-aes SourceForge | site

[gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-24 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Thanks to all who replied to my previous question. This question is related. Has anyone gotten the 'extra-ciphers' (you can get them from the loop-aes site) to compile with the loop-aes kernel patch in place? If so, could you give me a hint on

[gentoo-user] Loop-AES versus DM-Crypt versus ???

2008-06-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sorry if this subject has been hashed and rehashed again, but I was wondering which Gentoo partition encryption scheme is considered the best, in terms of: 1. Security 2. Ease of setup and use 3. Number and type of ciphers available This question

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 PaulNM wrote: | Chris Walters wrote: | | | Everyone makes mistakes, and it is can be good to point them out, | though I do | think this thread is a bit of overkill - a private message to the | person who | made the mistake is usually enough. | | I

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Stroller wrote: | | On 12 Jun 2008, at 02:41, Chris Walters wrote: [snip my mumbo jumbo] | | The problem with pointing it out privately is that that doesn't educate | anyone else - thus it's more work to point it out privately to the next | person

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hal Martin wrote: | Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Hal Martin wrote: [snip] | No, he did not start a new thread. Other wise why does his mail have | this header; | | In-Reply-To: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] | Quite right, my

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Florian Philipp wrote: | On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:54 +0200, Jan Seeger wrote: | As per the subject: | | I use luks-crypt to encrypt my home directory. Of course I would like | to make backups. These must, of course, also be encrypted. I have |

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted backups under Gentoo

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Jan Seeger wrote: | At Thu, 17 Apr 2008 14:37:52 -0400, | Chris Walters wrote: snip | This sounds like a feasible solution, I will try it out. Thanks for | the idea, Florian and Chris. | | I'm just wondering what the dar64 and dar32 useflags do

[gentoo-user] I have a problem I would like some help with...

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, I have a problem going on with my 'sendmail' client. This happens to be sSMTP - - actually I don't know if the problem is with sSMTP or with some logger or daemon trying to use it. It seems to be with sSMTP, though. I will explain the

Re: [gentoo-user] I have a problem - sSMTP problem?

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 03:29:08 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: | | I just noticed in the logs | that periodically, something tries to send something through | '(myhost).adelphia.net'. This is a problem, since

Re: [gentoo-user] I have a problem - sSMTP problem?

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:38:07 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: | | mailhub=mail | | This looks like the default, you need to set to the the machine that | handles your mail, either a local mail server or your ISP's. Could you give

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD vs. Intel on Gentoo?

2008-03-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Grant wrote: | I had become an AMD guy, but I think I'm hearing that Intel is beating | AMD in performance tests. Plus my AMD64 X2 desktop should be much | faster than my Intel laptop but is actually slower. What do you guys | think? | | - Grant

[gentoo-user] My recent problems have been strange...

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 My recent problems upgrading packages to the testing versions have been more than a little odd. It would always end the same way - there would be files missing that had been there before I merged a package, and the loss of these files would

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-02 Thread Chris Walters
on a package just means that it hasn't been adequately tested on that architecture. That's how people like me help move things along - by testing those packages on our systems, and reporting any problems we find. Regards, Chris Mark Knecht wrote: | On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Chris Walters [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-02 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:09:45 -0500, Chris Walters wrote: | I run two completely ~amd64 systems here and have very few problems. I've run testing on Gentoo and other distributions. With Gentoo, for over a year, with few

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-02 Thread Chris Walters
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: doesn't sound like a broken package to me. perhaps something else got borked? Or maybe some unusual compiler settings? OP, please post your /etc/make.conf I don't think it is the compiler settings - they are fairly standard

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-02 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Sunday 02 March 2008, Chris Walters wrote: | Alan McKinnon wrote: | I don't -O3 can ever be considered standard. Also you say you don't | think that's it, then admit -O3 changes the code substantially. I'm | having

[gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, Can anyone tell me what packages you know of that will break your system if you choose to put ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 in your make.conf file? I have had my system break, twice now, from a package upgrade - I think that one of the culprits

[gentoo-user] Firefox won't show up in either Gnome or KDE.

2007-02-04 Thread Chris Walters
haven't tried Thunderbird yet. I was just hoping that someone here has had this problem and knows how to fix it. Regards, Chris Walters -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQFFxkZdUx1jS/ORyCsRCPnJAJ0Y9LcSqXzBMwySWK25tX7WDiRCwACfUt7m EJLeccmr8rPdh6UPsRxgZSA= =wllx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo

[gentoo-user] OT: Follow-up on the HDD problems...

2006-12-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Some of you may remember the problem I was having with my SATA II HDD in Windows XP (but not in Linux). To recap: My drive got switched from UDMA mode to PIO mode in Windows (only). I ended up having to reinstall Windows. After some careful

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited... (Solved)

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mick wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:45, Chris Walters wrote: Go to My Computer, right-click and select Properties from the drop down menu. Then select the Hardware tab and click on the Device Manager (alternative get to the same

Re: [gentoo-user] amd Athlon 64 x2 install cpu?

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 James wrote: Hello, Im using the livecd amd64 to install a new AMD ATholon 64 x2 Dual-Core based system. I'm at the processor selection and stumped by the lack of choices. My amd64 turion laptop uses this option: CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2

Re: [gentoo-user] amd Athlon 64 x2 install cpu?

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote: On Saturday, 2 December 2006 14:59, Chris Walters wrote: James wrote: Hello, Im using the livecd amd64 to install a new AMD ATholon 64 x2 Dual-Core based system. I'm at the processor selection and stumped

[gentoo-user] [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited...

2006-11-29 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Everyone, I thought I'd give an update on my hard drive situation. By using hdparm -I, rather than hdparm -i, I was able to find out that my hard drive is operating in UDMA6 mode in Gentoo. It is operating in PIO mode in windows, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited...

2006-11-29 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 James wrote: Chris Walters cjw2004d at comcast.net writes: I thought I'd give an update on my hard drive situation. By using hdparm -I, rather than hdparm -i, I was able to find out that my hard drive is operating in UDMA6 mode in Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now...

2006-11-27 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Richard Fish wrote: On 11/27/06, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: showed a write speed as quoted above, and a read speed of about 280 MB per second... This seems more like the SATA-II interface speed of ~300MB/s... Though the same one

[gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now...

2006-11-26 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Everyone, My secondary computer recently got fried, so I had to either rebuild my first computer from scratch (almost), or just buy an off the shelf model. Since I've been ill lately, I decided on option #2. I bought a Gateway system with

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Disk going a lot slower now...

2006-11-26 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Richard Fish wrote: On 11/26/06, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect that what I did in Linux turned off DMA for this drive, though it could be something else. Any ideas or suggestions would be welcome. DMA is always enabled

[gentoo-user] AMD64 Problem (Solved)

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 First, to those who offered help, I thank you for your efforts. I never was able to find a way to get the hard drives connected through the USB to boot. What I ended up doing was to resize and move my Windows partitions on my internal hard drive

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem. (Partly SOLVED)

2006-11-19 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Richard Fish wrote: On 11/18/06, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device 813 or unknown-block(8,19) This means the kernel found your root drive/partition, but couldn't mount it. Most likely you forgot to compile

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 problem. (Partly SOLVED)

2006-11-18 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Erik wrote: I had this problem for a while as well. Adding 'noapic' to my boot options fixed it for me. I think it's a problem with certain motherboards, like the Asus M2NPV-VM. Thank you Erik. That worked and allowed me to boot with the

[gentoo-user] AMD64 problem...

2006-11-13 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I recently got a system with an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Processor 4200+ (dual core). The problem I keep having with both of the Gentoo AMD 64 CDs (Minimal and Full) is that: 1. Unless I disable the frame buffer, it will sit there (forever, I think). 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-29 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Joe Menola wrote: On Saturday 28 October 2006 2:02 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. Unless you're using a laptop. Solar UPS? Nuclear Reactor UPS The good side, you can go a LONG time on UPS, and you can

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-29 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Joshua Schmidlkofer wrote: That's not true. Up to 2.6.17.5 it /may/ eat your data. I ran 2.6.17, in the buggy state, for 2 weeks before I upgraded. It did _not_ eat my data. Don't get me wrong - it was lucky, and yes - it's a heinous bug.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Chris Walters
that from my own tests (e.g. benchmarks) and personal experience with JFS, it is quite fast. Chris Walters -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQFFQ9FcUx1jS/ORyCsRCOAxAJ9G7FZF89EJOiYsUqhVeKcr6o13ngCgjlFo sWTOuK4F4BQakNuW9IsMnlA= =CpJs -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xmms alternative

2006-10-27 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Harm Geerts wrote: On Friday 27 October 2006 06:00, Walter Dnes wrote: f) it has no good alternative :-( it has. amarok, alsaplayer, xine [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask alsaplayer These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] Blockage problem

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: I tried to install Crossover-Office-Pro-Bin and i got the following blockage message: Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXau-1.0.2,

Re: [gentoo-user] Possible new gentoo user

2006-10-01 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Terry, Well, the way I learned it, when I switched from Debian to Gentoo, was that I used the Minimal Install CD. I also used the Gentoo Handbook (not the Installation Docs for the current version. The CD will detect ethernet links to the

[gentoo-user] Please Help: Major problems with Modular X

2006-09-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, I realize that I just posted on this subject, but since all versions of Xorg, except for modular X have been hard masked, I need some help or advice - preferably from someone who has had this problem and solved it. My configuration:

Re: [gentoo-user] Please Help: Major problems with Modular X

2006-09-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jure Varlec wrote: On Saturday 23 September 2006 09:58, Chris Walters wrote: I realize that I just posted on this subject, but since all versions of Xorg, except for modular X have been hard masked, I need some help or advice - preferably from

Re: [gentoo-user] Please Help: Major problems with Modular X

2006-09-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Piotr G?siorowski wrote: Did you try: #emerge x11-drm ? I had some similar problems, as my Gentoo didn't installed the keyboard and mouse drivers (check if your did) :) Next try to install the drivers from ATi homepage. After installing try:

[gentoo-user] Major problem with Xorg 7+

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Walters
be appreciated. Regards, Chris Walters -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iD8DBQFFERcbvAEeEHp061sRAp0WAJ9ZaPMeXqeYYbLri74srVpMTmeVtwCeM1f5 oPz25JF+b2hqq+Zar8oUhfc= =L/p7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list