Re: [gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 January 2006 09:20, Norberto Bensa wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: You didn't read the rest of my reply. ;-) Uwe I must be missing something. This is all I got: Uwe Thiem wrote: Squid does that. Do you go with the default configuration of squid? That creates a rather small cache. Go

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 January 2006 19:35, Abhay Kedia wrote: The will probably be dropping aRts in KDE 4 Make that certainly. Arts is dead. Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 January 2006 05:26, Norberto Bensa wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: On 19 January 2006 03:01, Ryan Viljoen wrote: Hi all I have a slight problem, my squid cache is full and hence I cant browse any websites through the proxy. How does one get squid to clean out old items? Go

Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 January 2006 07:08, Chris White wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 18:10, Linux Java wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. That's the most blatant start of a flamewar I've seen... Oh, there are other ways to start flamewars as good as this one: What is better,

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 January 2006 16:50, Holly Bostick wrote: That's not the point, which is where we have a failure to communicate. Openbox and FVWM-crystal (and ICEwm, for that matter) are lighter, faster desktops than KDE partially because they do not contain the code to put icons on the desktop (whether

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 January 2006 16:50, Holly Bostick wrote: So for all of me, they could have done something else with that time (like make the code modular, so if I didn't want it, I could disable it with a USE flag or something, Forgot this in my other mail: When I looked last time, konqueror contained

Re: Completely and totally OT - Re: [gentoo-user] Have you seen my flamesuit? (Was: How many people use KDE?)

2006-01-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 January 2006 20:07, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/21/06, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A flamewar about flamewars. Well the most popular flamewar on this list is obiously about filesystems, so that must be the best! :P I forgot that one. Shame on me! Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i

Re: [gentoo-user] cruel unusual?

2006-01-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 January 2006 20:36, James wrote: Well, hopefully, we're all familiar with the status line of an 'emerge sync' Updating Portage cache: 50% Right before that, every time I sync I get this message: speedup is 8.20 After months/years of 'speedup' it should run very fast in

Re: [gentoo-user] Full Squid Cache

2006-01-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 January 2006 03:01, Ryan Viljoen wrote: Hi all I have a slight problem, my squid cache is full and hence I cant browse any websites through the proxy. How does one get squid to clean out old items? I would of thought squid would of removed older items. I would prefer not to just delete

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 January 2006 14:48, Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 10:53:50, you wrote: I had missed that! Are you saying that if poppler has been emerged there's no need to re-emerge xpdf? I didn't know that and I re-emerged xpdf. I think you do, poppler is just

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 January 2006 16:47, Michael A. Smith wrote: Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants both of

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 January 2006 17:12, Michael A. Smith wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: *** begin snippet *** RDEPEND==net-zope/cmf-1.4.7 app-text/htmltidy app-text/wv dev-libs/libxslt app-text/xlhtml app-text/unrtf dev-python/docutils www

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling Kde-Graphics 3.4.3-r3

2006-01-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 January 2006 19:40, Thiago Lüttig wrote: folks i´ve tried all those things and the damn error still there... strange.. very strange... emerge --oneshot giflib emerge --oneshot imlib2 emerge --oneshot kdegraphics or emerge kdegraphics if you want it in your world file. emerge --update

Re: [gentoo-user] Routing I think

2006-01-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 January 2006 21:19, Ryan Viljoen wrote: Hi all I am currently redoing a server for my old high school. The old server had to network cards: eth0 - 192.168.1.2 eth1 - 192.168.4.1 The 192.168.4. network is the admin network for all the teachers. The server connects to another mail and

Re: [gentoo-user] Improving SpamAssassin's accuracy...

2006-01-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 January 2006 21:33, Ryan Viljoen wrote: What I landed up doing is defining a set of my own rules that detected if penis, viagra, slut and such words occured it added a +10.0 to the spam assassin rating so if is clearly identified as spam. I'm somewhat cautious about this. I know

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2006 01:35, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:27:56 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Uwe (who is good for throwing these Chinese solid state thin clients, I have got yesterday, out of the [wW]indows) I hope you are referring to computer hardware and not undernourished

Re: [gentoo-user] ppp-2.4.3-r10.ebuild

2006-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2006 13:39, Charles Trois wrote: It's not easy to install things in Gentoo without Internet access, especially when it's about installing the Internet connexion itself. My ISP uses PPPoA, and I have a Speedtouch USB modem, the installation of which requires ppp-2.4.3. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] after update, eth0 won't work

2006-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2006 15:44, Alan E. Davis wrote: I did a# emerge -uDv world on a ~x86 box. Seems like something has happened to networking. lo is not configuring properly eth0 is not configuring properly. I sense there are problems with dbus and maybe hal. The following is received

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way (This is a Joke, laff will ya?)

2006-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2006 19:21, Devon Miller wrote: *Dear Gentoo-User,* [ snip ] *Yours sincerely, * * Simon kabila.* Hilarious. The From: field, though, should contain an address in Congo, Nigeria, Kenya or, at least, France. Hotmail or yahoo would be acceptable as well. ;-) -- Unix is sexy:

Re: [gentoo-user] Strangeness with KDE 3.4

2006-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2006 19:28, Shawn Singh wrote: Thanks Holly. The user can login from the console. The user's icon doesn't show in the list of users. Come to think of it, neither does my user show in the list. I can key in my username and password to authenticate, so I suspect (that since the

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 January 2006 18:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:55:19 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Ooh, Neil, you're such a pedant! You're too kind :) Shivers are good for the soul. ;-) ... and pedants are good for software development. Uwe (who is good for throwing these Chinese

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 10 January 2006 18:17, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 16:03 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:31:57 -0500, Darryl Wagoner wrote: It looks interesting concept similar to something I can up with but haven't had the time to do anything with. What is the

Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)

2005-12-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 December 2005 17:24, Richard Neill wrote: 1)My main machine is a laptop, so it doesn't really have either the disk space for sources or CPU power to compile everything kernel,X,kde,openoffice ...). Is there a way to do a binary install that will get me a fully working system within a

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 December 2005 17:15, John Jolet wrote: On Dec 29, 2005, at 9:14 AM, gentoo user mail list wrote: okay... we're good, but we need a BIT more information than that. :) Reminds me on something Matthias Ettrich once said when kwm was still KDE's window manager: Alright, folks, next I will

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 December 2005 22:27, El Nino wrote: is it possible to use an one(1) Wireless Access Point(54Mbps) for the whole two floors(the building)? whats all your advice? Depends. How much iron is in the walls and ceilings? Are there any significant bodies of water in between? Plants as well as

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 December 2005 18:20, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 09:59, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Thiem to write: On 24 December 2005 15:49, Dale wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: Dale schreef: Who is this schreef guy? I'm just Dale. That's Dutch for wrote. ;-) Ahh

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2005 12:36, Stuart Howard wrote: heheh ice and scotch lovers normally leads to a minor riot, plus to those Gentooists who do not live in the UK would not realise that it is normally cold enough here to not need ice :] Hey, I can assure you that it isn't cold around, but we,

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2005 15:42, Ernie Schroder wrote: well then Otatu ku halele okili iwa nodula ipe iwa! The same to you! I am more familiar with the Oshidonga dialect of Oshiwambo. This must be Oshikwanyama. ;-) Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 December 2005 12:48, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:59:11 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: And a Merry Non-Demoninational Solstice Holiday With Gift Giving to you also! A happy Festival of Capitalism to you all :) Buying nothing than a bottle of scotch for myself. ;-) hehehe

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 December 2005 15:49, Dale wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: Dale schreef: Who is this schreef guy? I'm just Dale. That's Dutch for wrote. ;-) Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A confession

2005-12-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 December 2005 20:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for the good comments as usual Richard. But I can't resist this: I guess this depends on your reasons for going ~x86. If it is to avoid compiling, well, that is a bad reason, I'd rather

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Runlevels while booting

2005-12-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 December 2005 16:30, Ryan Viljoen wrote: I have been setting up a server with SuSe on it (dont ask why SuSe... the developers of one of the apps required will only support SuSe). Anyway I noticed that when SuSe boots, after its gone through the boot runlevel it switches to runlevel 5

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

2005-12-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 19 December 2005 20:46, Jonathan Wright wrote: I have found the DVDs are very difficult to get working reliably. In fact, I've found alot write fine in the drive, but the drive has trouble reading them again, but no problems in reading normal DVDs. I haven't had problems with writing or

Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 December 2005 08:11, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:02 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table Thanks. Wonderful info. The grub info pages contain a

[gentoo-user] iptables / ipp2p

2005-12-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, uwix ~ # iptables -m ipp2p -help iptables v1.3.4: Couldn't load match `ipp2p':/lib/iptables/libipt_ipp2p.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory uwix ~ # emerge --pretend --verbose iptables These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: converting any video to mpeg-1, mpeg-4 or DivX-5

2005-12-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 December 2005 17:02, James wrote: [ snip - lots of good stuff ] All things video are a work in progress. I can run (2) color video streams over a 56 kbps frame relay link, with acceptable quality for a utility. For their needs, nothing is close to H.264, at this time, as we have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dd isos

2005-12-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 15 December 2005 23:56, Hani Duwaik wrote: On 12/15/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:29:55 +0100, Harald Arnesen wrote: I don't use it any more because it is slow, cp and cat give the same result and are faster. dd is not slower than cp/cat if

[gentoo-user] [OT] test lab Quicktime streaming server

2005-12-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, does someone know of a piece of software that runs under linux and swallows a stream from a Quicktime Streaming Server but just throws the data away (no decoding, no displaying)? This is for torturing the server hardware to determine how many individual, concurrent streams it can

Re: [gentoo-user] bad interpreter

2005-12-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 December 2005 15:45, cucu ionut cristian wrote: tryng to install various aplications that wore not in portage found the folowing error: bad interpreter: Permission denied As I remeber i got this error tring to install luminocity and now e17 modules; concrete: trying moon from e17 tar

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP server requirements

2005-12-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 December 2005 14:41, Martins Steinbergs wrote: hi, I'm considering to setup LTSP server with one terminal (old IBM Pentium 200Mh RAM32) attached. If i get from windows box one specific dos application and all data run under dosbox I'll go for LTSP unless there should be expensive

Re: [gentoo-user] bad interpreter

2005-12-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 11 December 2005 15:14, Rafael Fernández López wrote: Have you read Building steps ?? [ snip ] There are some issues with DAMAGE in the xserver module. You need to apply a small patch that hacks around some issues, and rebuild the xserver module. You can get the patch from

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge history

2005-12-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 December 2005 09:29, Joseph wrote: Is there a way to tell which packages got upgraded in the past week? I have /etc/config-archive/ but if the configuration did not change it will not help me. find /usr/portage/distfiles -mtime -7 -print Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde |

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 December 2005 16:07, Joseph wrote: Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is sent to printer via command : lpr -P printer_name and this is the time it ask me for A4 paper size. Have you tried lpr -l -P printer_name? -l tells lpr not to reformat the file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: straggling with paper size

2005-12-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 December 2005 18:31, Joseph wrote: On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 17:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 05 December 2005 16:07, Joseph wrote: Anyhow, the after conversion the printer to ps (postscript) the file is sent to printer via command : lpr -P printer_name and this is the time it ask me

[gentoo-user] exim / authentication

2005-12-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody in the know how to make exim authenticate itself when connecting to another MTA? The authenticator section of the default configuration file is completely empty, my exim book is too old, and I couldn't find useful info. :-( Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date

Re: [gentoo-user] mouse won't scroll anymore

2005-11-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 November 2005 21:35, Christoph Eckert wrote: I've just moved from XFree86 to xorg and updated my KDE and now my wheel mouse doesn't scroll anymore. I'm using the same mouse lines in xorg.conf that I used in Xfree86.conf, but I can't get it to work. It must be something I just don't

[gentoo-user] complaints about world file and ooodi

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, portage says something is wrong with my world file. emaint --check world produces this output: 'app-office/ooodi' has no ebuilds available What am I to do? Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep --

Re: [gentoo-user] complaints about world file and ooodi

2005-11-22 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 22 November 2005 17:37, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: On Tuesday 22 November 200 portage says something is wrong with my world file. emaint --check world produces this output: 'app-office/ooodi' has no ebuilds available What am I to do? My first reaction would be to go to the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev: lost dvd

2005-11-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 November 2005 02:00, James wrote: Richard Fish bigfish at asmallpond.org writes: Ok, I would also suggest filing a bug report against udev on bugs.gentoo.org, with the model of your DVD drive, and the output of the cdrom_id Ok I'll file the bug report. Any recommendations on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Local dictionary in KDE?

2005-11-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 November 2005 15:57, Holly Bostick wrote: abhay schreef: On Wednesday 16 Nov 2005 4:25 am, Willie Wong wrote: An option to skip installing dictd is to install the commandline version of StarDict, http://sdcv.sourceforge.net/ Last I checked it is not in portage. It doesn't really

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS trouble

2005-11-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 November 2005 17:46, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Hi All, I am having a little problem with my DNS server; I using a DNS server at 210.200.1.230; when I do nslookup dnsserver.com.br it returns 210.200.1.230 when I try nslookup 192.168.0.2 it return ** server can't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo box w/ 2 pci slots?

2005-11-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 November 2005 15:56, James wrote: Hello, I need a x86 'thin client' or small form factor computer: (1) hard drive. (front-removable would be a bonus). (2) empty pci slots. (1 or more) RS232 9pin serial port. (1) ethernet 10 or 100 mbps. (1-2) ntsc inputs would eliminate the need for

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 October 2005 00:58, Ryan Viljoen wrote: Thank you both Bob and Uwe that gives me something to think about. Uve I am from South Africa. Summer is going to be a scortcher I am fearing December January. It's already bloody hot here. Back on topic, I am helping out my old High School and

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] giflib vs. libungif

2005-10-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 October 2005 00:53, Peter Ruskin wrote: Correct, it was dirty. I've since found out that libungif can coexist with giflib if you have -gif in your USE flags. I finally settled with gif USE flag and: But that's dirty, too. Now you are telling all packages that might use gif not to.

Re: [gentoo-user] wiping unused space and/or secure erasing of files

2005-10-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 October 2005 06:05, Glenn Enright wrote: On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 14:42, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: app-misc/secure-delete Description: Secure file/disk/swap/memory erasure utilities Just out of interest, I understand ext3 is pretty good at eliminating old data during delete,

[gentoo-user] giflib vs. libungif

2005-10-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I've got a weird conflict between giflib and libungif. emerge --update world told me that libungif blocked giflib. So I unmerged libungif and compiling kuickshow of kdegraphics failed because it needs libungif. test ~ # equery depends libungif [ Searching for packages depending on

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] giflib vs. libungif

2005-10-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 October 2005 17:53, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Saturday 29 October 2005 16:03, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I've got a weird conflict between giflib and libungif. emerge --update world told me that libungif blocked giflib. So I unmerged libungif and compiling kuickshow of kdegraphics

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 October 2005 20:14, Bob Sanders wrote: Since I'm rambling now, guess I should do the rest of the memory download... Let me join you in rumbling. ;-) Before I start just a little background: I do quite some consulting for SchoolNet Namibia (http://www.schoolnet.na) which has hooked up

[gentoo-user] codec h264

2005-10-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi all, anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an *encoder*) for linux? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus Torvalds http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] codec h264

2005-10-18 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 October 2005 13:12, Christoph Gysin wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: anybody in the know whether there is a h264 codec (especially an *encoder*) for linux? http://developers.videolan.org/x264.html x264 is still in early development, but you might give it a try. You can use mencoder (from

Re: [gentoo-user] squid-cache for an internet-cafe

2005-10-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 October 2005 19:30, Gentoo Shadow wrote: dear friends, i have a small Internet cafe in my home town. so it powered by a 128Kbps leased line. but its speed is vary from time to time. so i decide to deploy a squid-cache server. i already have a spare p3 800Mhz,256MB SD-RAM,40GB 7200rpm

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg and transparency

2005-10-06 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 06 October 2005 10:29, Tamas Sarga wrote: Without transparency I can change across virtual desktops from a second to another, That slow? It's instantaneous here. With a shitty SiS card. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus

Re: [gentoo-user] Network collisions

2005-10-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 October 2005 07:28, Dave Oxley wrote: Hi all, I have two Gentoo machines (specified as Server and Client for ease). The server networking is working fine, but the client cannot receive without lots of collisions. The speeds I get are: Server - Client (i.e. receive) 170.3Kb/sec Client

[gentoo-user] [completely OT] streaming video

2005-10-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, anybody here with experience in QuickTime Streaming Server (either on OSX or on linux)? If so, what hardware would it need to keep up 500 individual video streams? I am not talking about the network. That I can easily calculate myself. It's more about how QTSS scales. What kind of

[gentoo-user] deltup server

2005-10-02 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, the deltup server ddeltup.rthwlr.net always gives the error: 404 Not found. Isn't it supposed to create the dtu in that case? Anybody in the know what is going on with that box? Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software developers. - Linus

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

2005-10-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 September 2005 22:50, Remy Blank wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: Sold my laptop on Ebay. It was dual boot Gentoo/XP Pro and had financial data on it. I'd like to pretty securely wipe the drive before shipping. I've already deleted all 10 partitions and written new partitions on which

Re: [gentoo-user] download first and compile later?

2005-09-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 September 2005 06:57, vikram ranade wrote: Quick question I looked in the emerge man pages but i cant seem to figure out how to download all the packages using emerge and then compile them is there some parameter that i can use? emerge download first parameter package ? or do i

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-services box

2005-09-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 29 September 2005 19:05, Mark wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of setting up a Gentoo server to host a few different services, primarily a small web site on Apache, an Exim mail server, a Halafax fax server and a Squid proxy server. I intend to put the machine in a DMZ to protect the internal

Re: [gentoo-user] DSPAM + How to train?

2005-09-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 September 2005 03:03, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 12:27 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Ow Mun Heng schreef: I've got a bunch of ham and spam in my mailbox (mbox format) and I just want to use it to train it. How do I go about doing that? I've tried dspam_sa_trainer but

Re: [gentoo-user] root (/) read-only?

2005-09-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 September 2005 14:00, James Hiscock wrote: On 9/27/05, glumtail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This happens offen in my system. My root filesystem is reiserfs and /home is ext3, when i extract tar packages it says it is a readonly filesystem. Fix your /etc/fstab - it thinks your root

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with Xsetup

2005-09-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 September 2005 13:45, Rajat Gujral wrote: hi i am a newbie in gentoo and for the first time i tried to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.12-r6 to 2.6.12-r10 , but the kernel was not upgraded .. Now when i boot my system with the older kernel i am not able to start KDE .. Whenever i write

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord-prodvd extrange behaivor

2005-09-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 September 2005 17:18, Holly Bostick wrote: Jason Stubbs schreef: As I said, it doesn't seem like it's misinterpreting from the output Actually, it seems to me that it is, from the output: Track 01: of MB written (fifo 100%). Track 01: Total bytes read/written:

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord-prodvd extrange behaivor

2005-09-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 September 2005 17:25, Mauro Sauco wrote: On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:18:41 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote Jason Stubbs schreef: As I said, it doesn't seem like it's misinterpreting from the output Actually, it seems to me that it is, from the output: Track 01: of MB written

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord-prodvd extrange behaivor

2005-09-27 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 27 September 2005 17:59, Mauro Sauco wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:25:46 +0900, Mauro Sauco wrote On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:18:41 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote Jason Stubbs schreef: As I said, it doesn't seem like it's misinterpreting from the output Actually, it seems to me that

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubts about how to create a free software project

2005-09-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 September 2005 19:40, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: You mean something like this? /** * * Copyright (C) 2005 by Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales * * [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubts about how to create a free software project

2005-09-16 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 September 2005 04:31, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote: Hi everyone, I work with biotech and for about an 1 year I've been working on a web interface for genome/proteome data analysis. And I'd like to make it free software. But I still have doubts about legal problems I

Re: [gentoo-user] glib with nptl

2005-09-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 September 2005 13:59, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Montag, 12. September 2005 12:48 schrieb Jorge Almeida: I added nptl to my USE variables and tried to emerge glib. you must re-emerge glibc, when adding nptl to your USE. glib does not use the nptl USE-variable ;) Did you see

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] VPN question

2005-09-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 September 2005 09:15, Heinz Sporn wrote: Am Dienstag, den 06.09.2005, 08:32 -0700 schrieb gentuxx: [snip] Well, as long as you're not trying to establish the VPN tunnel over IPX, you can tunnel whatever you want. So, once you've established a VPN connection with another box, or a

Re: [gentoo-user] authorization faliure when sending email

2005-09-05 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 05 September 2005 17:37, Matthew Lee wrote: I've looked everywhere for a solution to this problem. When I try to send an email from kmail I get the following message: Sending failed: Authentication failed. Most likely the password is wrong. The server responded: authorization failed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-04 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 04 September 2005 11:41, Holly Bostick wrote: I've tried to stay away from this thread but can't resist any more. ;-) [ snip a lot of Holly's rant I mostly agree with ] This is why I can't deal with all the people I encounter who suggest that 'it' should 'JustWork' without need for

Re: [gentoo-user] localization

2005-09-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 03 September 2005 16:48, Francisco J. A. Ares wrote: Hi, I would like to know which is the right locale setting for compiling e.g. KDE and Mozilla in my own language. Mozilla is a good example, because in an earlier version all labels and everything else was in my home language. KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo extras cd

2005-09-03 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 02 September 2005 23:44, Fernando Canizo wrote: El 01/sep/2005 a las 22:51 -0300, Justin me decía: Hi All, Ive been using Gentoo PPC for a while, and as a dial-up user find to difficult to download all the packages i want(just takes to long), is there anything like the Packages CD

Re: OT [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-09-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 01 September 2005 09:30, Philip Webb wrote: NB this will build up rapidly, so be careful if your disk space is limited. I like that: ... if your disk space is limited. Where can I purchase unlimited disk space? Sorry - couldn't resist. ;-) Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 August 2005 16:31, bshlists wrote: On August 30, 2005 10:51 am, Holly Bostick wrote: Afaik, it's not a change to a config file, it's a change in the way you generate the initramfs. If you compile it into the kernel (instructions on the Wiki; see How-to fbsplash), it will start up

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Finding other machines on the network

2005-08-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 August 2005 15:51, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, I have the situation where I've been loaned an old Sun SPARC box for some work. It has a static IP somewhere in the 192.168.0.* range, which my home network also is in. My question is, how can I find out the IP address of the machine?

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 30 August 2005 15:17, Stuart Howard wrote: thanks for the response So far as I can tell I have not had ntp on my system, I have not put it on myself the only way it could have been on is if it were a default during original install of Gentoo in which case --depclean ought not to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 August 2005 17:04, John Dangler wrote: Grant~ I had the same thing happen to me on one of our dedi servers. I called the isp and they had a way of recovering the password, although it cost me $75 to get it done. Basically, they told me that it's a sophisticated 'hack' into the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 August 2005 20:14, Holly Bostick wrote: Matthias Krebs schreef: And as someone else mentioned before, vesafb-tng is not a valid kernel parameter, so everything after it is ignored. In what world is this? If you're using vesafb-tng (added to the kernel options by the fbsplash patch

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 August 2005 20:14, Holly Bostick wrote: Sorry, forgot this in my other posting. Oh, and btw, Nagatoro... it's silly, but just open up your grub.conf with nano and make sure that some word-wrap somewhere didn't mess up your kernel line. That happened to me a couple of times, and in that

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 August 2005 18:34, A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Markus [utf-8] Döbele wrote: The code I think is not the problem. But I think it is still a lot of work. By the way I don't like C too much (we had a C Version once and only encountered problems all the time :-( Buffer

Re: [gentoo-user] More splash problems

2005-08-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 August 2005 09:25, Nagatoro wrote: Hi, I've got another interesting problem with the splash. It seems like no matter what I specify the computer always wants to use a 800x600 resolution. At startup I get this (not word for word since showconsole won't play nicely): --- can't open

Re: [gentoo-user] ntp problem

2005-08-23 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 23 August 2005 13:36, Bruno Lustosa wrote: Hello. I'm running ntpd as server on one of my machines, and it keeps itself in sync with 6 time servers around the globe. The synchronization works very well. The problem is when I try to get the other machines on the network to sync themselves

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-19 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 18 August 2005 22:21, Holly Bostick wrote: Now I just get the same message that I got previously with the verbose splash: no 8bb picture selected in config file (twice) could not find silent image. Haven't tried verbose yet as I've compiled this kernel 5 times today and I'd really

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 16 August 2005 20:28, Holly Bostick wrote: Chris Cox schreef: I've never had any problems getting either livecd2005.0 or 2005.1 Would you share your grub.conf line, the listing of files in the /etc/splash/livecd-2005.1/images directory, and the text of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: C++ code on Gentoo

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 August 2005 15:18, James wrote: Bryce Verdier btv at cs.pdx.edu writes: Does the code compile and work on any other machine (that doesn't have nvwa compiled?)? It compiles and runs but it does not display video to the local gentoo linux system. The author claims it works on SUSE.

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together Will do. Give me a day or two since I have to go through all the steps again my self to make sure there won't be typos or such. Uwe -- 95% of all programmers rate themselves

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-17 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 17 August 2005 18:22, John Dangler wrote: Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together Alright, it took me less time than I thought. ;-) Here it goes: 1. Cd to /etc/splash. Create a subdirectory with the name of your theme. That's sysex in my case because

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-13 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 13 August 2005 12:29, Fernando Meira wrote: Hi, I been moving my gentoo system to other partition (ran out of space). My old partition ran reiserfs 3.6 and due to this discussion, I've decided to run ext3 in the new partition. Still to find out if it was a wise decision... Anyway, the

Re: [gentoo-user] weird 1000baseT problem

2005-08-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 August 2005 02:40, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 20:40 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: Case 5: I log into B and sftp into A. It sits there for about 10 seconds before presenting me with a password prompt. After, I get transfer rates close to case 2 and case 3, just the other

Re: [gentoo-user] weird 1000baseT problem

2005-08-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 August 2005 04:13, Bob Sanders wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:40:12 +0100 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am puzzled. First I thought that the Gb NIC on box A is somehow kaput but case 1 surely shows it is performing. What the heck is going on here? I would be deeply indebted

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