Re: [gentoo-user] [uOT] Thunderbird, Mozilla and HELO

2006-11-03 Thread Jonathan Wright
mail either. -- Jonathan Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://djnauk.co.uk cat /dev/random (you never know, you may see something you like!) 2.6.17-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b1 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 57 days, 17:24, 1 user

Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem

2005-12-19 Thread Jonathan Wright
. Have you tried with another disk? -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.14-gentoo-r2-djnauk-b1 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 15 days, 5:01, 2 users, load average: 0.99, 1.02, 0.97 -- cat /dev/random (because u never know, u may see something u like) -- About a year

Re: [gentoo-user] Urgent please - DVD Copy problem

2005-12-19 Thread Jonathan Wright
John Jolet wrote: On Dec 19, 2005, at 10:09 AM, Paul wrote: On Monday 19 Dec 2005 15:38, Jonathan Wright wrote: Paul wrote: :-[ PERFORM OPC failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error That suggests a bad disk - OPC is Optimum Power Calibration and is a test done on all discs

Re: [gentoo-user] Annoying email from dcron

2005-12-18 Thread Jonathan Wright
can't delete the file because it doesn't actually exist. How do I get rid of this annoying error? Out of interest - have you tried creating the file, possibly with dcron permissions? Sound's like a badly written error message. -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for wireless technology

2005-11-13 Thread Jonathan Wright
miles (~200km) using an un-amplified signal: http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000970052590/ http://wireless.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000407052562/ http://www.wifiworldrecord.com/ -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bash scripting

2005-11-11 Thread Jonathan Wright
output: $blah=$(./blah) or $blah=$($(pwd)/blah)) or are you looking for directory listings?: $blah=$(ls $(pwd)/blah)) ?? -- Jonathan Wright ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 4 days, 14:09, 1 user, load average: 0.80, 0.72

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
on the host/server. So, the odd outage shouldn't be a problem - at least it's not with me here :) Also, it's worth double-checking to see if your ISP will allow port 25 inwards. Some don't, and you wouldn't want to do all that work only to find nothing happening! :/ -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] inhouse email

2005-10-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
SSL encryption over IMAP and SMTP, plus I have the advantage of all my mail being handled from one location. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100

Re: [gentoo-user] Um...Who can fix this?

2005-10-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
be there that shouldn't. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 10:06, 0 users, load average: 3.50, 1.73, 0.83 -- It always seemed to me a bit pointless

Re: [gentoo-user] USB problem(maybe related to udev)

2005-10-22 Thread Jonathan Wright
Tamas Sarga wrote: I'm affraid, that my system was somehow hybrid udev-devfs system until I removed devfsd for gentoo-sources-2.6.13. IIRC, the new udev systems require you to remove the /etc/udev/rules.d before upgrading - have you given that a go? -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet

2005-10-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
server across the Internet, SSH works great and has added security built in. If you want to access more than VPN, i.e. SMB, or need the remote computer to 'appear' on the local network for some reason, VPN is fine - go ahead and use it. KISS - keep it short and simple. -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure two bridges in /etc/conf.d/net

2005-10-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
) (and so on...) From the looks of it, you haven't told the system which two network ports need to be bridged together. Also, do you have net-misc/bridge-utils installed? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure two bridges in /etc/conf.d/net

2005-10-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
everything per hand, but not with the start/stop script. So the bridges already exist on the system and they just needs configuring, or are you trying to create the bridges aswell from scratch? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure two bridges in /etc/conf.d/net

2005-10-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
the bridge then and it should work on reboot. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.13-gentoo-r3-djnauk-b1 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 2 days, 2:06, 0 users, load average: 0.75

Re: [gentoo-user] Configure two bridges in /etc/conf.d/net

2005-10-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
Denny Schierz wrote: Rather than having 'need net.eth0 net.eth1', stick in the code/functions that create the interfaces. You can create the bridge then and it should work on reboot. It works, i made a simply script, that creates the devices, before net starts. :-) np. -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reaching my network over the internet

2005-10-16 Thread Jonathan Wright
. for vnc, I'd use openvpn. Why do though all the hassle of setting up a VPN when you can use SSH to provide a secure tunnel into the network and use that instead? Works fine for me. # ssh -L5900:hostname:5900 [EMAIL PROTECTED] # vncviewer localhost:0 -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] Network collisions

2005-10-04 Thread Jonathan Wright
capacitance effect). Do you get the same effect when you swap the cables over? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 4 days, 3:12, 3 users, load

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-03 Thread Jonathan Wright
makes any sense. But a WM and/or GTK/QT can have an effect on system load overall as well as working with the graphics card, which in the end can slow the gears. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash and new GTK

2005-10-03 Thread Jonathan Wright
- but you knew that already! ;) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 3 days, 5:52, 6 users, load average: 0.56, 0.85, 0.96 -- My cousin

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnucash and new GTK

2005-10-03 Thread Jonathan Wright
/libpixmap.so [ Searching for file /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libpixmap.so in * ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.4-r1 (/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libpixmap.so) So, form that I deduce that you're running an older version of GTK - btw which one are you using? You may have to rebuild GTK+. -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Good command for wiping a hard drive?

2005-10-01 Thread Jonathan Wright
standards, it needs 37 passes using RANDOM data! -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 23:38, 11 users, load average: 0.01, 0.16, 0.41 -- Memo

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Web mail suggestions...

2005-09-27 Thread Jonathan Wright
not that responsive) as Horde, I'd recommend something else. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b3 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 42 min, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.03

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Web mail suggestions...

2005-09-27 Thread Jonathan Wright
Heinz Sporn wrote: 2. must be using a mod_php of no later than 4.3.11 Can't confirm that. I am running both Horde 2 and 3 with 4.4.0-r3. I have run it with 4.4.0 here, although now running with 4.3.11 as Zend Debugger doesn't like the 4.4.x series atm. -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
-HD, and they all work without a problem). Try disconnecting one system and restarting the switch to see if one node is causing a problem. Also, if you can, try a crossover cable to see if it's the switch causing the problem and not the computers. -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them? - SOLVED

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
, allowing you to connect extra items (such as the switch and wireless router) and keep the network running! :) Thanks for the invaluable help with mii-tool. Very, very helpful. NP. Glad to help :) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx use flag on Pentium 4

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
the process as (like gaim) it is notoriously flaky with anything other than the basic settings. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b2 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 2

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx use flag on Pentium 4

2005-09-24 Thread Jonathan Wright
. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 1 day, 11:54, 1 user, load average: 0.57, 0.89, 2.04 -- Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?

2005-09-23 Thread Jonathan Wright
it into that (and you can run 'mii-tool -r' to re-negotiate), it may be the switch and/or the cable. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 11:04, 4 users, load

Re: [gentoo-user] auto-email on reboot?

2005-09-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
the hangcheck timer? -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 3 days, 1:08, 7 users, load average: 1.80, 1.71, 1.57 -- President Bush said he

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
better Javascript support than Firefox (useful for IE-centric sites), and Opera is propiritary and has an over-enthuisatic interface (not as simple as firefox). Long live firefox! :) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
). -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 1 day, 6:03, 3 users, load average: 1.89, 2.34, 2.52 -- When we say the Pledge of Allegiance, we say

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
to send it to the background). If needs be, change sleep(5) to as low as you need to get the dmesg information. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
! -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ up 1 day, 12:08, 4 users, load average: 4.58, 2.76, 2.62 -- Labels can also be misleading. I saw a news report

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-16 Thread Jonathan Wright
firefox. However, I'm not sure if this has been fixed yet though. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r10-djnauk-b1 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 1:39, 1 user, load

Re: [gentoo-user] Plesk...

2005-09-15 Thread Jonathan Wright
the time to try. Good luck though. (BTW, I use CentOS 4.1 - although ur better with 3.4, as it's a bitch to get the dependencies correct on 4.1 and upgrades are difficult.) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-27 Thread Jonathan Wright
seeing some references to the Thunderbird mail system, so I think it should be OK. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r9-djnauk-b1 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.80GHz up 2:58, 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to increase the number of external (all imap) accounts in evolution?

2005-08-26 Thread Jonathan Wright
if the configuration files have been moved, but on there they're in /usr/lib/courier-imap/etc. If you have gentoolkit, run # equery files courier-imap | grep (imap|pop3)\.dist to see where they're located. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Windows Media Player

2005-08-26 Thread Jonathan Wright
the main functions to the keys on the Media Pad, meaning I don't have to have the full keyboard with me when I'm using mplayer :) -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b7 Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-26 Thread Jonathan Wright
, they've always been of the mass mailing sort (usually from eBay, Amazon, etc.). In terms of personally-addresses e-mails, that's never been a problem. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
time use passwords. You can use them if you need to provide passwords where someone may be monitoring your keystrokes. S/keys are generated randomly, usually around 100 are generated at one time, with a passphrase as a key. (This passphrase is independent of your main system password.) -- Jonathan

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
the feature of having single-use keys available on the computer/server. If that's of no use to you, there's no point in setting the skey flag and just leaving it alone. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] SpamAssassin is letting everything through

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
the checksum of all know spam mails. Once I enabled that, my level of false spam went down massively. I very rarely get any spam in my Inbox any more (although I do get the occasional genuine mail there, usually mass-mail like from eBay, but a white-list solves that one). -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
every time. Personally, I prefer to skip the GTK interface and just use the standard mplayer version, not gmplayer. I've mapped all the keys to my liking, so I need nothing more :) It's a great program, just looking forward to the day it gains a good stable codebase :) -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathan Wright
want to add that feature, there's nothing stopping you adding the flag and re-compiling the code with skey support. -- Jonathan Wright ~ mail at djnauk.co.uk ~ www.djnauk.co.uk -- 2.6.12-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b7 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with madwifi

2005-08-18 Thread Jonathan Wright
Pupeno wrote: On Wednesday 17 August 2005 17:07, Jonathan Wright wrote: In the end I had to remove all the modules (rm -Rf /lib/modules) and reinstall all the modules before rebuilding wireless-tools, madwifi-driver, madwifi-tools in that order. Thanks, that worked! (I haven't rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic Network Stuff

2005-08-18 Thread Jonathan Wright
discovers) the wireless cart it automatically runs net.ath0 and establishes the network connection. I'm not sure where or how it's one (haven't looked into it), but it's quite nice :) -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync mirroring

2005-08-18 Thread Jonathan Wright
my rsync daemon to /usr/portage should be fine, shouldn't it? cheers! Matthias I've been syncing a few machines via /usr/portage without a problem. At least with that method you only need to perform one sync on the main machine and then let the others sync off it. -- Jonathan Wright

Re: [gentoo-user] plain-vanilla ethernet; do brands matter?

2005-06-08 Thread Jonathan Wright
to nothing - usually a few quid a card on BuyItNow options - you'll probably have it within a day or two, brand new. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Core 64/Intel

2005-05-28 Thread Jonathan Wright
, double-processor system, it's effectively a quad system (no dual), so SMP should be build for at least 4 processors. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual Core 64/Intel

2005-05-28 Thread Jonathan Wright
of the licensing fees Micro$oft could charge for that if the mood caught them right! :-/ -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11-gentoo-r6-djnauk-b2 i686 AMD Athlon XP 2100+ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Need help setting up Gentoo to access digital camera

2005-05-28 Thread Jonathan Wright
gphoto2 with the camera. It's not the most well build for feature complete programs (only really meant as a proof-of-concept), but it's fine for browsing though the photos and downloading them onto my system. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix problem w/o network

2005-05-12 Thread Jonathan Wright
the problem that I can't have postfix running and queueing messages I send while offline so they can be delivered once I plug in somewhere. regards Matthias -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk.co.uk // life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given // running gentoo ~ 2.6.11

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Jonathan Wright
Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, it's interesting although it felt a bit strange typing emerge -pv pv I prefer emerge -av pv ;) That way you don't have to re-run the search and everything if it's all OK! :D -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
? If you compile them as modules for the server, you should be able to use modules.conf to set the alias between the device name and the ethx bit. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running on Gentoo Linux (2.6.10

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
then. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running on Gentoo Linux (2.6.10-gentoo-r7-djnauk-b03 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ GNU/Linux) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
, would think this was a trivial thing to pull off. I've found this link http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-2.html which uses ether= instead of netdev= Worth a try? -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Jonathan Wright
= before the irq number. -- Jonathan Wright mail at djnauk dot co dot uk Life has no meaning unless we can enjoy what we've been given -- Running on Gentoo Linux (2.6.10-gentoo-r7-djnauk-b03 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+ GNU/Linux) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list