Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread David Dalrymple
There you don't have to ask for permission and a simple diff can reveal the changes whenever I want. A simple diff is all that's done right now (well, basically at least; basically etc-update can be seen as a sort of front-end to diff). To throw my two cents in here, I'd like etc-update to

Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved

2006-07-09 Thread David Dalrymple
You can see here that you *CAN* use vimdiff, I personally use colordiff which you can see above. HTH Ah, very nice. So then the alleged problems in etc-update lie not with the frontend to diff itself, but with the idea of using a frontend to diff (as opposed to a more complex system)? --David

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006 livecd (x86)

2006-06-30 Thread David Dalrymple
You can do sudo passwd and set the root password, if you have sudo. I don't think you should need to do that but it works. --David On 6/30/06, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I just booted one up and I cannot su to root. It wants a passwd and I tried the usual suspects... The default

[gentoo-user] Null pointer in spin_lock_irqsave

2006-06-28 Thread David Dalrymple
I'm running kernel 2.6.16 (Gentoo, of course) on an Abit AN8 Ultra with an Athlon 64 4400+ X2. I get kernel panics at an average frequency of once per day, but sometimes more to the point of system unusability. I captured a few in console mode; they were all null pointer dereferences in

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday announcement

2006-06-28 Thread David Dalrymple
I think the idea is just that as long as it's Saturday somewhere, it's Saturday on the Internet. --David On 6/28/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 19:12:38 +, Bryan Ãstergaard wrote: which 00:00? there are several ;) First one. When did Gentoo start