Re: [gentoo-user] Lightwheight Gentoo System

2006-10-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 October 2006 12:21, Karl Huysmans wrote: Hi All, A friend asked me to install some operating system on an old Dell laptop he got for free. The laptop has a pentium 2 400 MHz, 6 GB HD and 256 MB RAM, and will be used by his young children. I have tried to install Edubuntu on it,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dvdrip permissions error, alternative?

2006-10-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 October 2006 18:56, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 17:36:10 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: That won't work on CSS scrambled discs. You'll copy the scrambled data but not the key. That's not true. The CSS key is in the standard filesystem data, not in some

Re: [gentoo-user] * WARNING: sshd is scheduled to start when net.eth0 has started

2006-09-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 September 2006 09:57, Daniel Iliev wrote: Shaochun Wang wrote: Does anyone tell me what this mean and how to correct it? Is your sshd in boot level and net.eth0 in default level? sshd depends/requires net.eth0 to be started and running. Except for net.lo no network-related service

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-09-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 September 2006 22:16, b.n. wrote: Mauro Faccenda wrote: On Tuesday 26 September 2006 12:39, sean wrote: Hello All, Can anyone recommend an application to edit a pdf file, and I am running 64 bit Gentoo, so it needs to be compatible? kword can import from .pdf files.

Re: [gentoo-user] Should we NEVER do an ``emerge -u world''?

2006-09-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 September 2006 16:21, sdoma wrote: Hi, there is it again ... I've upgraded my system and things stop working. :((( After the upgrade there is no device coming up if I plug in an USB device. I'm on a stable (x86) system and I would need my USB disks just now. Any way to fix this

Re: [gentoo-user] kwallet [SOLVED]

2006-09-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 September 2006 15:50, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:40:04 +0300, Martins Steinbergs wrote: I don't use KMail myself, so it's my partner's problem, but it really should be possible to disable this behaviour. Maybe you should file a KDE bug if you can't find a way to

Re: [gentoo-user] About .html and .pdf viewer

2006-09-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 September 2006 17:50, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Gentoo_amd64 gnome-light After reading All Packages By Name on; http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/list.php I can't resolve which packages I have to install to read .html and .pdf files, html-viewer and pdf-viewer. Please advise. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend an HTML/CSS editor?

2006-09-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 September 2006 04:38, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I've been writing a modest amount of HTML/XHTML by hand with vim for some time because a) MSWord results are just too ugly to countenance b) OOffice output, while better is still ugly and behaves badly around style sheets. c) I can. I'm

[gentoo-user] Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-09-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, can someone with enough karma delete the person below from the list? I get that notification for each message I send. Funny enough, we are in the same country. Do others get it as well? Thanks! Uwe -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Delivery Status Notification

Re: [gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 September 2006 08:08, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag, 17. September 2006 12:36 schrieb ext Uwe Thiem: Alright, if that is the case I have it installed already. The questions is, why doesn't a related document class show up in LyX? A friend of mine told me there should be a beamer

[gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I have just heard about a TeX/LaTeX extension by the name beamer that can produce stunning slide shows. I have been told that it beats PowerPoint, Impress, KPresenter and any other presentation software hands down due to TeX's built-in knowledge of true typesetting. Another advantage

Re: [gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 September 2006 09:59, Greg Bur wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix beamer * dev-tex/latex-beamer Available versions: 3.00-r1 ~3.01-r1 ~3.06 ~3.06-r1 Installed: none Homepage:http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/ Description: LaTeX class

Re: [gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 September 2006 11:26, Vikas Kumar wrote: On 14:16 Sun 17 Sep , Vikas Kumar wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] =app-text/tetex-3.0 (is blocking dev-tex/xcolor-2.00-r1) [blocks B ] =app-text/tetex-3.0 (is blocking dev-tex/pgf-0.64-r1) [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 September 2006 13:10, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 17 septembre à 12:36:55 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | Alright, if that is the case I have it installed already. The questions | is, why doesn't a related document class show up in LyX? A friend of mine | told me

Re: [gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 September 2006 15:20, Vikas Kumar wrote: On 13:44 Sun 17 Sep , Uwe Thiem wrote: On 17 September 2006 13:10, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: I don't know much about LyX, but there are many references to it in the 'beameruserguide', which in many respects is a very valuable

[gentoo-user] Iwy 1.0 release

2006-09-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I have release Iwy 1.0, a generator of fractals for KDE. You can get it here: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Sorry, no ebuild yet, but it is easy to compile yourself. Type in the toplevel directory of Iwy (after untarring it): ./configure make su make install exit (from

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about arts.

2006-09-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 September 2006 08:22, Dale wrote: Hi, As some may already know, I'm doing a new install on another hard drive. I have a question about arts. I have this for a sound card: 01:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a) Do I need to compile KDE with

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD playback slow

2006-09-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 September 2006 18:28, Grant wrote: My DVD playback is pretty bad. I'm using mplayer and if I use -framedrop it's watchable but the dropped frames are very noticable. If I don't use -framedrop the audio and video is way out of sync and the playback actually stops after a short time. I

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-09-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 August 2006 11:55, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:16 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: === begin script === #! /bin/sh BITRATE=730 INFILE=dvd:// [snip] that seems to capture from dvd though? I may [not] have mentioned that I'm capturing from video camera through kino

Re: [gentoo-user] Annulation of modified USE flag settings

2006-09-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 September 2006 16:03, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to say to emerge/ebuild:Please use the original USE flags from make.conf and the ebuild-stuff. Ignore whatever I gave you on the commandline some time ago. How can I achieve this ? emerge whatever ;-) Well, if you

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer: Encrypted VOB file (but it's not!)

2006-09-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 September 2006 14:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/cd-dvd.html. Encrypted VOB file! Read DOCS/HTML/en/cd-dvd.html. and it continues like this until I kill it. Again, these aren't ripped from DVD's or anything like that - they're captured with kino from

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Decoding / encoding mp3 files

2006-09-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 September 2006 16:47, sdoma wrote: Hi, I got some MP3 files which seem not to be properly coded. The Interpret/Title information is missing for some, other show very ugly time information in XMMS ( -234567:21, 893767:13 i.e.) but the frame/duration in the MP3 info is correct. Are

Re: [gentoo-user] tweaking mencoder

2006-08-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 August 2006 13:55, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 22:09 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 08:21 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 10 August 2006 23:06, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I'm trying out mencoder to try a few different codecs and formats

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 August 2006 11:55, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 14:16 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: Maybe, the scale is wrong for you. How many frame lines do your originals have? ummm blue :P ie. I wouldn't have a clue... how do I tell (not an expert here). If you start mplayer from

Re: [gentoo-user] hunspell, myspell, aspell, etc in OOo

2006-08-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 August 2006 15:42, Mick wrote: Hi All, I think I've asked this before but didn't get anywhere. My OOo used to work fine with Aspell. Now I understand that OOo only works with the myspell/hunspell by default. Two questions: What's the difference between hunspell and myspell? Can I

Re: [gentoo-user] problem re ebuilds

2006-08-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 August 2006 08:36, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi folks, Installing Gentoo amd64 Guide:- Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml On running; # emerge --sync --quiet following warning popup: * An update to portage is available. It is highly

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Mplayer can't play DVDs

2006-08-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 August 2006 21:22, Grant wrote: It's a Dell laptop that's a couple years old. I don't like gmplayer either. Is there any other way to use mplayer separate from the command line to play DVDs? No idea about the GNOME world but there is kmplayer for KDE. For DVDs, I use kmplayer,

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 August 2006 14:35, Calvin Walton wrote: Note that this is for a PAL DVD - if you want NTSC you need to change to -vf scale=720:480 and set the -ofps to 24/10001 or 30/10001 (the first for movies, second for tv shows) NTSC has different frame rates for different *content*? How strange

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-08-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 August 2006 17:46, John J. Foster wrote: Anybody know whatever happened to Holly? She hasn't been around for about a year and a half, and I miss her rambling dissertations. That is not right. Her last posting on my harddrive is dated 29th of March this year. Still, I was wondering as

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] former regular contributor here

2006-08-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 August 2006 19:29, John J. Foster wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 06:29:27PM +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: That is not right. Her last posting on my harddrive is dated 29th of March this year. You're right, my eyes are obviously deceiving me! Hehehe. ... and I always felt tempted to call

Re: [gentoo-user] Celeron is i686?

2006-08-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 August 2006 10:31, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: Is a Celeron D Process 310, 2.13 GHz, 533 MHz FSB, 256 KB L2 Cache considered an x86, i586 or i686 in terms of the stage 3 tarballs. Which is best for that type of chip? That's P4-based, so it's a i686. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two

Re: Stefans posts (was: [gentoo-user] Re: looking for a terminal w/ url activation capability)

2006-08-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 August 2006 09:11, Alexander Skwar wrote: Uwe Thiem schrieb: On 17 August 2006 20:04, Stefan Wimmer wrote: How do you always avoid my filter that stores emails coming from this list into my folder gentoo-user. You are the only one. On my system, he's avoiding the filters, as his

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound after kernel upgrade

2006-08-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 August 2006 09:43, Richard Watson wrote: I used to have sound running with no problems but since I've updated my kernel and re emerging Alsa I'm getting the following errors in dmesg. Can anyone tell me what it means ... Thanks, Richard ndler snd_vx222: Unknown

[gentoo-user] kdelibs / API doc

2006-08-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I emerge kdedelibs with the doc USEFLAG but can't find the documentation anywhere. It did work with qt. What am I missing? Of course, I could unpack the kdelibs tarball in my home directory and create the documentation manually, but isnt there an automatic way of doing it? Uwe --

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs / API doc

2006-08-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 August 2006 15:30, Alan Mckinnon wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:32 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I emerge kdedelibs with the doc USEFLAG but can't find the documentation anywhere. It did work with qt. What am I missing? Of course, I could unpack the kdelibs tarball in my

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg server and monitor power management

2006-08-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 August 2006 10:24, Dale wrote: I got mine from xorg.conf.example. It had this in it: # Set the DPMS timeouts. These are set here because they are global # rather than screen-specific. These settings alone don't enable DPMS. # It is enabled per-screen (or per-monitor), and even

Re: [gentoo-user] UDP traffic?

2006-08-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 August 2006 21:26, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I was setting up a game for my son using Cedega. The game installed, and successfully went to the net to download and install the updates. However, when we tried to get the Linux game to join a LAN session with the same game running on some

[gentoo-user] kdevelop

2006-08-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I am trying to use kdevelop under gentoo. KDE 3.5.3 compiled fine. Kdevelop 3.3.3 and 3.3.4 conpiled fine. When I try to create a KDE app inside kdevelop and build it it says: *** YOU'RE USING autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.60. *** KDE requires autoconf 2.53 or newer Portage seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder did nothing all night at 100% CPU!

2006-08-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 August 2006 23:06, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, I'm trying out mencoder to try a few different codecs and formats for 1. dvd authoring and 2. just compressing to keep on my HD. For DVDs, try this: mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd \ -vf scale=720:576,harddup

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 August 2006 18:15, Boris Sobolev wrote: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activoity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? If you use KDE anyway try ksysguard. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VHS-digital: Best application ?

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 August 2006 11:26, Marco Costa wrote: Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, I want to digitize my old VHS tapes. I have a DVB-T card with analogous TV input (Bt878 based). What application is best to capture the video to my HD (200GB free)? Try: mencoder tv:// -tv

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing

2006-08-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 August 2006 16:23, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Good Morning All: I have installed Cups and gotten it all set up, and I can print test pages from the web interface, but I cannot seem to print from applications -- like firefox. I am not sure what to do to make it work right -- the

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo linux in hp proliant DL 360

2006-08-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 August 2006 08:16, Shain Lee wrote: hi , I have a hp proliant DL 360 server. actually i tried to install RedHat linux 9 and fedora core 5 . Those Os's are giving me major problems . But RedHat linux 9 , some extend it's good . I could manage to install . Actually , i would like to

Re: [gentoo-user] Test for X from cli

2006-08-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 August 2006 20:20, John J. Foster wrote: Good afternoon, In a bash script, how can I test whether the script itself is being run from a virtual terminal, or from an emulator like konsole within X? See this script by the name strangename: #! /bin/sh ps ax | grep strangename If run in

[gentoo-user] projectx and JDK

2006-07-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, since several people recommended projectx, it must be emergeable I guess. ;-) When I emerge it, it complains that it can't find any JDK but I have this under /opt: blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 blackdown-jdk-1.4.2 blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01 blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03 What am I doing wrong? Uwe --

Re: [gentoo-user] Restart network interfaces over SSH

2006-07-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 July 2006 10:20, Todor Pirov wrote: Hello, I have the following script which exchanges the IPs of two network adapters: [code] #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/cp /etc/conf.d/net-2 /etc/conf.d/net; /etc/init.d/net.eth1 stop; /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart; /etc/init.d/net.eth1 start [/code]

Re: [gentoo-user] avidemux

2006-07-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 July 2006 22:02, Willie Wong wrote: On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:47:09PM +0100, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked: Hi folks, while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. I can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it stores them

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: avidemux

2006-07-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 July 2006 22:46, Harm Geerts wrote: On Thursday 27 July 2006 22:47, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. I can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it stores them? It definitely isn't under /tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] editing MPEG2

2006-07-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 July 2006 09:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:03:01 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: is there a light-weight MPEG2 editor (preferable in portage)? I don't need anything fancy, just something to cut off a bit at the begin and the end of a file.And no, kino doesn't like MPEG2

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of missing gentoo-user mail

2006-07-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 July 2006 13:42, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I am not missing any mails. How did you verify? Since he isn't seeing them, he doesn't miss them. ;-) Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na --

[gentoo-user] avidemux

2006-07-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. I can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it stores them? It definitely isn't under /tmp or /var/tmp. It's under /home and presumebly under my home directory but find . -size +1G -print

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd [solved]

2006-07-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 July 2006 00:54, Nick Rout wrote: There is a current scratchy noise problem with PVR-150 drivers. AFTER you have started playing/recording the stream execute ivtvctl -qX where X is the audio input you are using. This fixes it for me and a number of other mythtv users. Some have even

[gentoo-user] editing MPEG2

2006-07-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, is there a light-weight MPEG2 editor (preferable in portage)? I don't need anything fancy, just something to cut off a bit at the begin and the end of a file.And no, kino doesn't like MPEG2. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd [solved]

2006-07-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 July 2006 01:37, Nick Rout wrote: Audio is now working with PVR-150. Thanks, Nick, for all your input. Problem is, I don't know why and I hate it when magic is part of IT. ;-) The whole difference between yesterday and today is that I tried to compile the new kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r4 (as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd

2006-07-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 July 2006 00:52, Nick Rout wrote: ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.4.4 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.15-chw-2 SMP preempt 586 gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd

2006-07-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 July 2006 12:30, Nick Rout wrote: The guy on the mythtv list thought his was OK too until someone else spotted the error - I'm not saying you cannot read a log file, but y'know it happens to the best of us :-( Alright, here is my log: ivtv: START INIT IVTV

Re: [gentoo-user] interconnecting speeds

2006-07-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 July 2006 19:46, Daniel Huckstep wrote: Are you sure it's actually slow or are you just looking at the number thinking it's slow... If you are getting fast speeds in the 100's of MBs from the internet then I want your internet connection. it's probably more like 100's of KB...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd

2006-07-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 July 2006 02:38, Nick Rout wrote: On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 10:18:48 +0100 I find that tv:// doesn't work at all when using composite in, but /dev/video0 does. So far, I have to agree. My device also has one physical line in (two plugs, red=right, white=left), but ivtvctl -A shows four

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd

2006-07-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 July 2006 09:58, Nick Rout wrote: well I just learned something new: Yeah, the documentation is awful. One has to dig deep to find all the knobs. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log$ ivtvctl -Y ioctl: VIDIOC_QUERYCTRL Brightness = 383 Contrast = 63 Saturation = 63 Hue = 0 Volume = 58880

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd

2006-07-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 July 2006 03:45, Nick Rout wrote: When using composite in the sound should be coming in the line in However your driver may need to be switched to the right device, use ivtvctl ivtvctl -A - lists the audio inputs ivtvctl -Q - tells which one it is switched to now ivtvctl -qn -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd

2006-07-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 July 2006 03:45, Nick Rout wrote: The PVR-150 muxes the audio and video into an mpeg stream. When using composite in the sound should be coming in the line in However your driver may need to be switched to the right device, use ivtvctl ivtvctl -A - lists the audio inputs ivtvctl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: audio with TV crd

2006-07-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 July 2006 16:09, Marco Costa wrote: Hi, Actually, that is what I _have_ to do with my old TV card. It doesn't have a input for audio and no internal mixer, so I have to record the sound directly from the soundcard. I use menconder to do just that: mencoder tv:// -tv

Re: [gentoo-user] video capture

2006-07-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 July 2006 18:25, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/15/06, rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: emerged most of the stuff in media-tv but I can't get anyone of thease to show TV most say device not configured. Evan the ones that I know point to /dev/video0 I think I did everything right. pleas

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache / libexpat.so.0 not found / After emerge mod_security

2006-07-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 July 2006 14:07, Michael Decker wrote: Hi! I followed the desciption http://gentoo-wiki.com/Apache_Modules_mod_security And after running emerge -vauD mod_security I get this error (w/o -D SECURITY): --- SNIP --- # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Apache2 has detected a syntax

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: get process name in c++

2006-07-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 July 2006 18:14, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/6/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but I don't have just one main.c, I have 20+ different apps, each with their own main.c, which I don't maintain, for which I'd have to issue Ah, ok, sorry, I missed that part. So, can I ask /why/

Re: [gentoo-user] march in /etc/make.conf

2006-07-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 July 2006 10:27, Alexander Skwar wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Yes. Open files are not overwritten, Uh? Open files *ARE* overwritten! That's Linux, not Windows or HP-UX! No, open files are not overwritten. The new file with the same name (and path of course) is written to disk, true,

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs again: 'moc' USE flags ?

2006-07-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 03 July 2006 17:20, Richard Fish wrote: On 7/3/06, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have suggestions or enlightenment, before I file a bug ? Do you have MAKEOPTS=-jN, with N1? If so, have you tried MAKEOPTS=-j1 emerge --oneshot kdelibs? It should not be necessary, I

Re: [gentoo-user] big problem, small solution

2006-06-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 June 2006 12:15, Sean wrote: You want more air being pulled out of your box then going in. So you invented a fan that produces air. Great. Get a patent! Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - No cards in kpat

2006-06-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 June 2006 14:22, Michael Sullivan wrote: I use primarily Gnome, but I enjoy some of the KDE apps, so I emerge both of them. This time though, after emerging KDE I run kpat and no cards show up. In fact, nothing but the window, the menubar and the background show up. Has anyone dealt

Re: [gentoo-user] How to add route at boot time ?

2006-06-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 June 2006 19:00, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: I am having a problem with my internet gateway, if I need to reboot it it loses the route add commands that I did. What I want to know is if there is any way to do this at boot, like route add route add -net 10.8.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.3 Media Manager DCOP Error

2006-06-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 June 2006 09:24, Teresa and Dale wrote: Teresa and Dale wrote: Teresa and Dale wrote: Oops, it's looking for a 3.* version of qt. Hm. I'll be back, if I can't get it fixed. Dale :-) OK. emerged this: emerge =x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r1 -v then retried dbus with the same

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.3 Media Manager DCOP Error

2006-06-28 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 28 June 2006 15:54, Teresa and Dale wrote: Well, I had qt3 in there but I also stuck qt4 in my USE line as well. I guess I only need one instead of both. Live and learn. Since qt4 is newer, should I use it instead of qt3?? Qt4 won't be used for KDE before KDE4 - and that won't be

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Mail question

2006-06-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 June 2006 17:04, Michael Sullivan wrote: What do you make of this? I found it in /var/log/messages: Jun 22 10:59:15 bullet sm-mta[2558]: k5L4mNFw021664: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=1+11:10:52, xdelay=00:03:09, mailer=esmtp, pri=6425885, relay=mail.midamerica.com. [65.243.220.163],

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Mail question

2006-06-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 June 2006 18:37, Michael Sullivan wrote: I found something that suggests that MAILER-DAEMON is trying to email [EMAIL PROTECTED] to tell them that their spam has been rejected. Probably sent by Mailman. If I can find the original email, can I delet it and make sendmail stop trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] mencoder: error encoding, following howto

2006-06-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 June 2006 15:01, fire-eyes wrote: Ah, so this is working _real_ well... Any ideas out there? Because I can't get past this point. Try the script provided on my company's web site (http://www.SysEx.com.na) under Linux tips and tricks. It's tip #5. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage size

2006-06-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 June 2006 11:34, David Corbin wrote: While updating today, I ran out of space on /usr. Looking closer at what was being used, /usr/portage is taking about 50% of /usr. Can this be pruned somehow? Sure. Remove all old tarballs under /usr/portage/distfiles. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather

Re: [gentoo-user] Typesetting systems

2006-06-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 June 2006 05:25, Justin R Findlay wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:14:57AM +, b.n. wrote: JimD wrote: I was hoping there were tools/editors for PDF/PS. What the heck do book writers use? I hope not a word processor. I am only working with small books and it is a pain to

Re: [gentoo-user] how does a pipe work? Which process wait for which one, or they don't actually wait each other?

2006-06-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 June 2006 14:12, 张韡武 wrote: Hello. This might be OT but I am pretty interested in this and being unlucky not able to find a real in-depth explanation of pipe on the Internet. How does pipe actually work? I mean, when there is a pipe like this: $ appA | appB What happen if appA

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction - new list user

2006-06-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 June 2006 08:58, Alan McKinnon wrote: My question is, what are the local rules around here for how to behave on list? I'm very much old school, and prefer lists over forums - in my world top posting, no snipping, HTML mail and hi-jacking threads are a huge no-no, pretty much strict

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware clock, software clock and ntpd

2006-06-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 June 2006 15:32, John J. Foster wrote: Good morning all, About 10 days ago we had a lightning strike very nearby that fried our electric utilities transformer and my APC RS800 UPS. This in turn caused my system to crash. When I brought it back up, all CMOS settings had been lost. After

Re: [gentoo-user] An alternative to http-replicator

2006-06-10 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 June 2006 10:02, Michael Weyershäuser wrote: Jeremy Olexa wrote: Much simplier: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Using_a_shared_portage_via_NFS I have used that setup for some time and must say that sharing portage over NFS is slow like hell... Not here. 100baseT network is quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fwd: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

2006-06-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 June 2006 16:01, Anno v. Heimburg wrote: Shawn Haggett wrote: Mohammed Hagag wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]... User unknown gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Spot the difference? Yeah, but the Listserv does set Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org You spotted only one difference.

Re: [gentoo-user] FTP Server

2006-06-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 June 2006 16:38, JimD wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions/preferences to a secure FTP server for Gentoo? My 55+ year old father-in-law wants to start learning building websites. I am having him install Nvu and want to setup ftp to my web server and give him his own directory to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem installing amarok

2006-06-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 June 2006 19:11, Paul Stear wrote: On Tuesday 06 June 2006 16:10, Uwe Thiem wrote: /usr/kde/3.5/lib/libkhtml.so: undefined reference to [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Hm... If it isn't an issue with gcc-4.1.1 (I am not using that one yet), a revdep-rebuild may help. Uwe Hi, thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH authentication attempts - serious issue

2006-06-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 June 2006 16:06, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Hi, today when I was checking the server log I got many external attempts to connect to my sshd service: ... Jun 5 05:09:45 embedded sshd[4740]: Invalid user barbara from x.y.w.z Jun 5 05:09:46 embedded sshd[4742]: Invalid user barb

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge kdepim-3.5.2-r2 fails

2006-06-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 June 2006 16:21, Cláudio Henrique wrote: Hi, there, I am having trouble installing kdepim. kde-base/kdepim-3.5.2-r2 +arts +crypt -debug -gnokii +kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility +pda -xinerama Can anyone help me? Try without kdeenablefinal. Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline

[gentoo-user] prelink

2006-05-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, when prelinking, what are undefined non-weak symbols? And how can I avoid them? ;-) Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild failure

2006-05-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, if revdep-rebuild complains that some of the stuff is no longer in portage, how to find out which one? Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethernetkarte, Geschwindigkeit verstellen

2006-05-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 May 2006 20:59, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hallo, um die Funktionstüchtigkeit eines (selbstgecrimpten) Netzwerkkabels zu untersuchen, möchte ich die Geschwingigkeit der Ethernetkarten herunterstellen. Leider stellt die sich sofort wieder zurück: This is an English speaking lst. #

[gentoo-user] libexpat / qt / kde

2006-05-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, after an emerge ---sync and during an emerge --update world, qt-3.3.6 doesn't compile anymore because it can't find libexpat.so.0. So I did an emerge --oneshot expat which tells me at the end that I should do a revdep-rebuild --library libexpat.so.0. That gives me a *huge* list of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libexpat / qt / kde

2006-05-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 May 2006 14:00, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Saturday 27 May 2006 14:47, Uwe Thiem wrote: That gives me a *huge* list of packages which would be rebuilt. Most of them are kde-3.5 stuff. Since I am upgrading from kde-3.5.1 to kde-3.5.2 in the same process, I am not interested

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1: emerge -e world required?

2006-05-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 May 2006 15:01, Alexander Skwar wrote: Christian Limberg wrote: just to clarify. Uprading GCC means in this case - emerging gcc-4.1 und *removing* gcc-3.4? That's not what I meant - I would have gcc-4.1 and gcc-3.4 installed in parallel and switch to gcc-4.1 using gcc-config. So,

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 May 2006 20:26, John Blinka wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Right. Somewhat besides your question: Are you really using hubs? I also seem to remember from your original post that the terminals are connected by 10Mb/s which makes sense if you are using hubs. From my experience with server

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for help with Shorewall

2006-05-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 May 2006 17:38, Jerry wrote: Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter capabilities: NAT: Not available Packet Mangling: Available Multi-port Match: Not available Connection Tracking Match: Not available Packet Type Match: Not available Policy Match:

[gentoo-user] Network UPS Tools (NUT)

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody using them? If so I have got a question. Except one thing, everything is handled fine by gentoo's start-up scripts. The exception is this: If NUT shuts the box down, a flag /etc/killpower is created. At the end of the shutdown process this flag determines whether the UPS

Re: [gentoo-user] mail to this list from home fails, but from home relayed through ISP works

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 May 2006 15:40, glen martin wrote: This isn't the case of subscribing through work and sending from home or whatever. In both cases I sent from home, indeed from the same account in the same mail client. Only the path the message took to list.gentoo.org changed. I hadn't posted to this

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes - problem solved

2006-05-09 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 09 May 2006 19:15, John Blinka wrote: The /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf file needed another line: next-server ip-address-of-server; with the upgrade to dhcp-3.0.3 (and maybe a version or two earlier). With that addition, all is now well. Thanks for hitting this before me! ;-) Uwe -- Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 May 2006 16:34, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Monday 08 May 2006 16:04, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital one). Else the drive can't send audio to your

Re: [gentoo-user] ltsp woes

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 May 2006 19:12, John Blinka wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Try to correct the broadcast above. Maybe that will solve the problem already, although it's hard to understand how you fat clients can work with it. I corrected the broadcast address, but it didn't help. If the broadcast doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] PXE boot to linux

2006-05-08 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 08 May 2006 20:32, K. Mike Bradley wrote: I am a little green with Linux but here is a poser for the list . I am trying to set up a PXE boot to Linux for diskless workstations. I have PXELinux up and running no problem. Why don't you just try LTSP? Uwe -- Why do consumers keep buying

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