Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-02-02 12:04 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Pretty much what I've got going for my grandmother. I had her working with Evolution and Firefox on XP Interesting... the last time (admittedly a *long

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox-9.0 won't compile

2012-02-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any ideas on this?  I just completed an emerge -e world so I don't think anything needs to be re-emerged.  Everything compiles fine except for gcc-4.5.3-r1 (I'm on gcc-4.3.4) and firefox-9.0:

Re: [gentoo-user] Build librsvg-2.34.2 Error

2012-02-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:51 AM, 高金培 gjp1...@gmail.com wrote:   CC     librsvg_2_la-librsvg-enum-types.lo /bin/sh ./libtool --silent --tag=CC   --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I. -I. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\librsvg\ -DLIBRSVG_DATADIR=\/usr/share\   -pthread

Re: [gentoo-user] Build librsvg-2.34.2 Error

2012-02-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:51 AM, 高金培 gjp1...@gmail.com wrote:   CC     librsvg_2_la-librsvg-enum-types.lo /bin/sh ./libtool --silent --tag=CC   --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I. -I. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN

Re: [gentoo-user] Verify WPA2?

2012-02-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to verify that my wireless client connections are encrypted via WPA2? - Grant iwlist $interface scan Will give you enough information to tell if the wireless network supports WPA (instead of being WPA2-only).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multiseat -- LTSP?

2012-02-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to have multiple users working from separate monitors, keyboards, and mice, but all connected to a single Gentoo computer. The main purpose is to minimize sys admin duties but hardware and power requirements would

Re: [gentoo-user] Verify WPA2?

2012-02-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to verify that my wireless client connections are encrypted via WPA2? - Grant iwlist $interface scan Will give you enough information to tell if the wireless network supports WPA (instead of being

Re: [gentoo-user] Verify WPA2?

2012-02-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to verify that my wireless client connections are encrypted via WPA2? - Grant iwlist $interface scan Will give you enough information to tell if the wireless network supports WPA (instead of being

Re: [gentoo-user] Verify WPA2?

2012-02-03 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to verify that my wireless client connections are encrypted via WPA2? - Grant iwlist $interface scan Will give you enough information to tell if the wireless network supports WPA (instead of being

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 09:31:13PM -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: From: Dale [mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2012 8:06 PM Your reply made me think of something.  I had a XP reinstall once

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT as it gets. Sorry] Windoze 7 and reinstalling error.

2012-02-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James Broadhead wrote: On 2 February 2012 15:34, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Your reply made me think of something.  I had a XP reinstall

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-02-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tue, January 31, 2012 6:30 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:05:12PM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote Sweet. I had 15 minutes in the office how long before someone makes a pointless,

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-02-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 07:41:29AM -0600, Dale wrote [...major snippage...] So basically, WINDOZE SUCKS  LOL  Actually, some Windows *DEVELOPERS* suck.  It's equivalant to some linux developers assuming that /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I have a linksys wrt54G that is acting a little funny. Since my new laptop supports 1Gig wired ethernet and the wrt is 100Meg, I should upgrade even if the funny turns out to be just a config error on my laptop. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a router/WAP

2012-02-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I have a linksys wrt54G that is acting a little funny. Since my new laptop supports 1Gig wired ethernet and the wrt is 100Meg, I should upgrade even

Re: OT: [gentoo-user] About this graphite stuff

2012-01-30 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:38 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote:  Hello!  I was reading this thread and felt that the graphite USE flag seems familiar to me, but I just couldn't remember where I had seen it. So I checked and discovered that there are 2 packages with such USE flag on my system: $

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120129 Dale wrote: I got a friend that wants me to put Linux on his rig. It has a floppy drive and he does use it for files he has on floppies. How good is support nowadays? I haven't used diskettes for a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Sun, January 29, 2012 2:16 pm, Dale wrote: snipped  The little green light stayed on all the time so I unplugged it.  I'm hoping someone here may still have one of these and can shed some light on this.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 5:08 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/29/2012 12:04 PM, Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: A single USB thumb drive for $20 would likely hold every floppy he ever made, and maybe 10-20 times more. Why waste time making sorting through CDs, etc? H, super

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:41 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/29/2012 02:41 PM, Michael Mol wrote: an MFM controller Michael, I think you must be older than you look :p 28. Just got started earlier than most. Also studied history. :) -- :wq

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:46:58 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 6:41 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/29/2012 02:41 PM, Michael Mol wrote: an MFM controller Michael, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Floppy support question for old farts. lol

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 30, 2012 7:19 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:46:58 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Your earliest ooh, shiny (was: [gentoo-user] Floppy support question)

2012-01-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 30, 2012 10:48 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 30, 2012 10:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: My earliest

Re: [gentoo-user] lost wireless network

2012-01-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 3:31 PM, pat p...@xvalheru.org wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:08:17 +, Mick wrote On Saturday 28 Jan 2012 17:00:35 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 6:52 AM, pat p...@xvalheru.org wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:46:37 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com writes: I wouldn't find it at all surprising if gentoo systems came out pretty unique; no standard set of fonts, for example. So maybe if you change your fonts regularly it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf

2012-01-27 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120127 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: # Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org (27 Jan 2012) # Has developed into an unmaintainable mess, and everyone who # knows about it is either retired or missing in action. # Several

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how much it could glean from even an anonymous session, but I can't remember

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] IPv6 usage patterns (static, DHCPv6, RA, mDNS, ?)

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: As you may have gathered from my posts yesterday, I'm working on adding IPv6 to an embedded device (actually a family of serial device servers). I've got the device working fine with link-local addressing, but I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:05:25 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote: There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how much it could

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/ My results from work: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested so far

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/ My results from work: Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102

Re: [gentoo-user] Clicking on URLs in kmail-1.13.7 launches libreoffice

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, 09:18:03 schrieb Mick: Over the last couple of weeks I noticed that when I click on a URL in an email I get libreoffice launching a few seconds after Konqueror has opened up the URL.

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote: This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for different services? Like using Chrome only for GMail, Youtube and G+, Opera for Facebook and

Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes

2012-01-26 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:38 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: I guess you mean https

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?

2012-01-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:  An answer from a different Walter G... I also don't use pulse - plain ALSA is good enough for me - but looking over the design goals for pulseaudio I see a decent attempt to deal with audio properly for the future.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-01-21, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Thinking about it, in your device's case, I suspect you won't want link-local scope to be your only IPv6 address; You're right.  We don't plan on supporting only

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:54 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen reports for years about folks having problems with some KVMs under Linux. I've never personally had one myself. However I've been helping a Windows friend break his Redmond addiction over the last few months

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 22 January 2012, at 15:54, Mark Knecht wrote: ... Basically, I looked around in Google for anyone that had real info about why this problem occurs, couldn't find any that made sense, and am wondering how to

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/22/2012 12:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I played a bit with get-edid | parse-edid. Logically that stuff even working says the VGA monitor cable is bidirectional. I started wondering if the KVM messes up the data

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: `watch` isn't going to help too much unless you're looking at it. Append the output to some log file instead. I chose netstat because its output looked easier to parse with a stupid regexp.  while true; do    netstat

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM problems - anyone know _why_ it happens?

2012-01-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury redwo...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/22/2012 12:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: I played a bit with get-edid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

2012-01-21 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-01-19, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Do you really want that much broadcast and wide multicast (think DNS-SD and NTP in multicast mode) traffic on the same Ethernet segment? That bit I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Good 'layman' tutorial on IPv4 IPv6?

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-19 5:32 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 19 Jan 2012 15:48:32 Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org  wrote: I have a reasonable

Re: [gentoo-user] Good 'layman' tutorial on IPv4 IPv6?

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-19 5:32 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 19 Jan 2012 15:48:32 Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org  wrote: I have a reasonable

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: My firewall is blocking periodic outbound connections to port 3680 on a Rackspace IP.  How can I find out more about what's going on?  Maybe which program is generating the connection requests? Uh, a packet sniffer? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange outbound requests

2012-01-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: My firewall is blocking periodic outbound connections to port 3680 on a Rackspace IP.  How can I find out more about what's going on?  Maybe which program is generating the connection requests? Uh, a packet sniffer? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Mol
Grant Edwards wrote: How do you specify a link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? For example, I can ping/telnet/ssh to fe80::02c0:4eff:fe07:0005%eth1, but I can't figure out how to put that address in /etc/hosts so I can access it by name. Tried several different approaches, can't get any

Re: [gentoo-user] Good 'layman' tutorial on IPv4 IPv6?

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I have a reasonable grasp of how to use IP addresses etc with IPv4, but every time I start rading about IPv6 I get a headache... Does anyone know of a decent tutorial written specifically to those who have an ok (but

Re: [gentoo-user] Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: How do you specify a link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? For example, I can ping/telnet/ssh to fe80::02c0:4eff:fe07:0005%eth1,

Re: [gentoo-user] Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Mol
to spend most of our time in a text terminal.) I used to try out site-local addresses first btw, despite they were already obsoleted some time ago. Regards, Felix Am 19.01.2012 16:25, schrieb Michael Mol: Grant Edwards wrote: How do you specify a link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts

Re: [gentoo-user] Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Grant Edwards

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Link-local ipv6 address in /etc/hosts? in browsers?

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-01-19, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. Other reasons to avoid using LL addresses unless necessary: What if the MAC address on the server changes? It won't.  It's an embedded device

Re: [gentoo-user] Good 'layman' tutorial on IPv4 IPv6?

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 19 Jan 2012 15:48:32 Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I have a reasonable grasp of how to use IP addresses etc with IPv4, but every time I start

Re: [gentoo-user] Good 'layman' tutorial on IPv4 IPv6?

2012-01-19 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 19 Jan 2012 15:48:32 Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disable IPv6 on an interface?

2012-01-17 Thread Michael Mol
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-01-17, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:48 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: How does one disable IPv6 for a particular interface? I want eth2 up but with no IP address. ?Just doing an ifconfig eth2 up

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-17 Thread Michael Mol
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 1/17/2012 1:55 AM, Chris Walters wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Mol
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: I couldn't live without Passwordmaker (Firefox Addon), with it, I can have as strong and random passwords as I want on every site, it auto fills the username/password

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Mol
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 11:36 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Most of my passwords are some hash[1] of a common passcode[2] and some site-specific or service-specific mnemonic. I imagine this would work similarly, using the absolute URL in place of a mnemonic. The downside

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-11 Thread Michael Mol
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:41 -0500 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-11 3:56 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:04:01 -0500 Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: http://passwordmaker.org/ I haven't read

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Mol
Jeff Cranmer wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 13:56 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: Define crashing? This looks more like problems with yout TZ variables than ntpd. try ntpq -p to check if its actually running/locked. If ntpd is freewheeling, it is prpbably because your time is too far from lock so

Re: [gentoo-user] ntpd crashing

2012-01-10 Thread Michael Mol
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:02:38 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: Besides, ntpd does not correct such large differences. It is not designed to do this, especially on a running system. Activate /etc/init.d/ntp-client. It will set the clock so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xpdf - missing fonts

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:23 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/09/2012 09:50 AM, Joseph wrote: What is the easiest way to re-emerge all the fonts on the system or list the one that are installed? Listing them is easy: #eix -I | grep media-fonts I'll bet there is some other tool that

Re: [gentoo-user] removal of esound

2012-01-08 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Hartmut Figge h.fi...@gmx.de wrote: Greetings, 'emerge -pv -uDN world' just showed me this: !!! The following installed packages are masked: - media-sound/esound-0.2.41::gentoo (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask: # Nirbheek Chauhan

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources and xen blktap driver?

2012-01-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 7, 2012 8:44 PM, victor romanchuk r...@persimplex.net wrote: Konstantinos Agouros wrote, at 01/07/2012 03:51 PM: since xen got into the mainstream kernel the way to go is to use gentoo-sources for dom0 and the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources and xen blktap driver?

2012-01-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 7:36 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 8, 2012 12:43 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Jan 7, 2012 8:44 PM, victor romanchuk r...@persimplex.net wrote: Konstantinos

Re: [gentoo-user] ipv6 problem with ping6

2012-01-06 Thread Michael Mol
Grant Edwards wrote: I've enabled ipv6 support in my kernel and it appears to be working on the lo interface: # ip -6 addr show lo 1: lo: LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP mtu 16436 inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever # ping6

Re: [gentoo-user] ipv6 problem with ping6

2012-01-06 Thread Michael Mol
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: I've enabled ipv6 support in my kernel and it appears to be working on the lo interface: # ip -6 addr show lo 1: lo: LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP mtu 16436 inet6 ::1/128

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:50:45 +0100 pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2012-01-05 13:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: If /usr is local, what really is the point of having it separate from /? Have you ever found a Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] No display w/ kernel 3.2.0

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 05.01.2012 19:06, schrieb Mark Knecht: OK, no obvious problems here. 3.2.0 is up as well as my KDE desktop. What a surprise ;-) It's my very own little problem, not yours ;-) If you want my kernel config or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: The 05/01/12, Pandu Poluan wrote: And mdev might be a 'toy' to you, but embedded Linux developers will vehemently disagree with you. And based on the responses in this thread, server guys will also disagree with you.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 02:20:21PM -0500, Michael Mol wrote: FWIW, I had a /dev/cdrom symlink long before *devfs* even existed, let alone udev. We are not looking for device paths that existed berfore udev

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an: emerge -NuD world There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia driver and also evdev drivers and then

Re: [gentoo-user] requirements for a gentoo wlan accesspoint

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! I want to make my linux machine being a wlan access point for my other components like Notebook, Cell phone etc... Now the big question, what do I need to accomplish this?! like a wlan router where I would get a WPA2 key, I want the linux machine to act

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
Jason Weisberger wrote: Here's the rig: AMD Phenom II X3 720 (unlocked to 4 cores and OC'd to 3 Ghz, however taking it back to stock doesn't affect the problem) 4 Gigs DDR3-1600 at 7-7-7-16 ASUS ASUS M4A78T-E AM3 Mobo MSI N9800GT GeForce 9800 GT 512MB other less important things would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:35 AM, Pandu Poluanpa...@poluan.info  wrote: On Jan 4, 2012 6:19 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 15:31:20 +0100, Nicolas

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
This is why I figured you'd want to go without X for the purpose of testing. No X, no framebuffer, the card should have acted like a plane-jane VGA or VESA adapter. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote: Well after a couple hours of trying to get the Radeon

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Hardware Problems causing kernel panics during large compiles

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:57 AM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote: Well like i said earlier, it did work that way.  The final test is doing it in X with full drivers loaded again.  Then i get to kick my 9800gt off a cliff. Well, keep in mind you're switching from a PCIe card to an

(Was) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-03 Thread Michael Mol
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote: Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable through the @world hierarchy needs the package. No need to uninstall anything to do that level of investigation.

Re: (Was) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-03 Thread Michael Mol
Michael Mol wrote: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote: Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable through the @world hierarchy needs the package. No need to uninstall anything to do that level

Re: (Was) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-03 Thread Michael Mol
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 14:55:38 Michael Mol wrote: Michael Mol wrote: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote: Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable through the @world hierarchy

Re: (Was) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-03 Thread Michael Mol
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 14:55:38 Michael Mol wrote: Michael Mol wrote: Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 02.01.2012 18:58, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 01/02/12 12:47, Mark Knecht wrote: Again, 'equery depends' will tell you if any package locatable through the @world hierarchy

Re: (Was) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-03 Thread Michael Mol
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 16:18:20 Michael Mol wrote: Mick, yours gives me the same error: gpg command line and output: C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe gpg: Signature made 01/03/12 11:01:03 using DSA key ID 792968B6 gpg: Can't check signature: public key not found

Re: (Was) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-03 Thread Michael Mol
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 17:52:19 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: On 03.01.2012 18:39, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 16:18:20 Michael Mol wrote: Mick, yours gives me the same error: gpg command line and output: C:\Program Files

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:50:36 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: * Nobody would use --update to install a new package Actually, that's a good reason to use --update on a single package, as it installs a new package, but does not reinstall an existing package, so you can

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Using m-audio Fast Track Pro on linux help

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
Harry Putnam wrote: Running Wheezy Can anyone suggest pointers, urls, or coaching toward getting an m-audio USB Fast Track Pro (external sound card) working? When I run `alsamixer' it lists the Fast Track as one of the sound cards available. When I choose it, alsamixer reports there are no

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-01 5:13 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/01/2012 05:06 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Michael Orlitzkymich...@orlitzky.com wrote: Using emerge --update foo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-01 6:22 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: 2) I forget the -1 sometimes when I do an individual package update. However I generally remember to go back and hand edit the world file once a quarter

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/02/2012 11:01 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I tell by knowing which files I want in @world. Everything in world should be a package __I__ specifically want to use. Everything in world (on my machines anyway) is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/02/2012 11:01 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: I tell by knowing which files I want in @world. Everything in world should be a package __I__

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/02/2012 11:16 AM, Michael Mol wrote: Fine for your home PC, doesn't cut it on servers. I have the following in one of my world files:  dev-php/PEAR-Mail  dev-php/PEAR-Mail_Mime  dev-php/PEAR-PEAR  dev-php

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/02/12 12:06, Michael Mol wrote: That's the purpose of the emerge -p step. Presumably, you would see that there's a package in the list that you're not comfortable with removing, you'd decide you didn't want

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/02/12 12:06, Michael Mol wrote: That's the purpose of the emerge -p step. Presumably, you would see that there's a package in the list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/02/12 12:45, Michael Mol wrote: I hope you don't take this as a kind of disrespect, but this really feels more like administrator error than tool error. As someone else remarked, it's portage's job to do what

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/02/12 12:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 06:44:19 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: snip Reading back through this

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/02/12 04:57, Mick wrote: On Monday 02 Jan 2012 02:25:45 Colleen Beamer wrote: On 01/01/12 20:29, Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/01/12

Re: [gentoo-user] Konsole issue

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/02/12 14:27, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Colleen Beamer colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/02/12 12

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/02/2012 04:11 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: cocktail Neil's suggestion of sets sounds like what you want here. Unfortunately it only works smoothly on first emerge (later on you have to dig through dep graphs to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/02/2012 04:34 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Michael Orlitzkymich...@orlitzky.com  wrote: On 01/02/2012 04:11 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: cocktail Neil's suggestion of sets sounds like

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update behavior

2012-01-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 01/02/2012 04:58 PM, Michael Mol wrote: Ah. I must have gotten confused at So which ones can I remove? Solutions involving time travel and/or losing customers will be disqualified. Sorry, this thread has

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