Re: [gentoo-user] LVM, crypto, and backup

2007-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:34:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alternatively, you could do the same with the in-kernel ecryptfs. These two solutions work in much the same way, allowing you to mount individual directories with their own passwords, so you could have a single /home with each

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g?

2007-12-17 Thread Eduardo Otubo
Hello Marzan, I have the same wifi card and tryed the same methods to get it working and nothing. I'am using ndiswrapper right now, just until I can find a way to make it work. Any news gonna mail our list. []'s On Dec 13, 2007 6:53 PM, Marzan, Richard non Unisys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[gentoo-user] Re: Python vs C++

2007-12-17 Thread Alexander Skwar
David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect C++ runs somewhat faster, but that's not the issue here. Is that actually true (especially for the Portage case)? I'd suspect that portage sometimes tends to be slow, because of the myriad of files it has to deal with. So it's I/O which is slow.

Re: [gentoo-user] growisofs: media is not recognized as recordable DVD

2007-12-17 Thread Ralf Stephan
You wrote I had some .avi's that I wanted to burn, so I went out and bought a 10pack of Fujifilm DVD-R media (4.7GB) and fired up K3b. However, it kept asking me to insert a writable disk even though I put fresh disk after fresh disk in the drive. So I resorted to growisofs. I had an

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-17 Thread Ralf Stephan
What does everyone else think about this. Is portage a major blocker of progress or not so much? As said above, details are major blockers of progress. On the other hand, when I switched to paludis, 100 MB of unnecessary packages suddenly were available to delete. So, paludis must do

Re: [gentoo-user] growisofs: media is not recognized as recordable DVD

2007-12-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Daniel wrote: $ eix cdrtools Installed versions: 2.01.01_alpha34(19:08:15 16/12/07) Uninstall this. Install cdrkit instead. Then try K3b again. Benno -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-17 Thread Rumen Yotov
On (17/12/07 11:29) Ralf Stephan wrote: What does everyone else think about this. Is portage a major blocker of progress or not so much? As said above, details are major blockers of progress. On the other hand, when I switched to paludis, 100 MB of unnecessary packages suddenly were

Re: [gentoo-user] scan for network devices by IP and time?

2007-12-17 Thread Stuart Howard
A nice program for generating hosts list [amongst many other features] is nast, try nast -m for a host list. You could also look at Nessus which while being a vuln scanner it will probably provide simpler information that you are after. As for having it monitor and report times at which something

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-17 Thread Raphael
Hi everyone, I don't think the programming language is the problem here. The problem is that some of Portage architectural decisions have a negative impact on performance. Probably because the developers were focused on minimizing dependencies (i.e. file system based persistence) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
*removedlotsofideas* your ideas sound nice on paper. But one strenght of portage and its structures: no matter how hosed your 'data', you can repair it with cp, mv, an emerge sync and a text editor. Which is all not true, if you start using some database crap. Go, look at /var/db/pkg - you

Re: [gentoo-user] growisofs: media is not recognized as recordable DVD

2007-12-17 Thread Aline de Freitas
Em Sunday 16 December 2007 22:43:08 Daniel escreveu: I had some .avi's that I wanted to burn, so I went out and bought a 10pack of Fujifilm DVD-R media (4.7GB) and fired up K3b. However, it kept asking me to insert a writable disk even though I put fresh disk after fresh disk in the drive.

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 17 December 2007 14:38:30 Raphael wrote: So, even if Portage was recoded in C++, performance improvements would be marginal and the cost in man-hours would be too high. It would take months before reaching the maturity level Portage has now and all this time could be better spent

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Rules

2007-12-17 Thread Christopher Dale
Grant wrote: Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to be the closest relation, but even that won't do. I don't think there

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-17 Thread Raphael
On Dec 17, 2007 11:55 AM, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *removedlotsofideas* ?? your ideas sound nice on paper. But one strenght of portage and its structures: no matter how hosed your 'data', you can repair it with cp, mv, an emerge sync and a text editor. Which is all

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Montag, 17. Dezember 2007, Raphael wrote: On Dec 17, 2007 11:55 AM, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *removedlotsofideas* ?? your ideas sound nice on paper. But one strenght of portage and its structures: no matter how hosed your 'data', you can repair it with cp,

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX) -- SOLVED

2007-12-17 Thread felix
I'll be the son of a monkey's uncle. Tie me ankles and put me knickers in a twist. It WAS the CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN kernel flag. Apologies to all those who thought I was doubting them. I was, and I shouldn't have. I am flabbergasted. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. .

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-17 Thread Raphael
On Dec 17, 2007 12:20 PM, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 December 2007 14:38:30 Raphael wrote: So, even if Portage was recoded in C++, performance improvements would be marginal and the cost in man-hours would be too high. It would take months before reaching

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 17 December 2007 16:14:24 Raphael wrote: Hey, I made someone laugh today. Good deed of the day: check! :P :) I was unaware of Paludis. Re-reading the thread now, I saw that someone mentioned it. After googling for it, seems a lot of people are fond of it. Why is it not the default

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g?

2007-12-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 17 December 2007 04:30:16 am Eduardo Otubo wrote: Hello Marzan, I have the same wifi card and tryed the same methods to get it working and nothing. I'am using ndiswrapper right now, just until I can find a way to make it work. Any news gonna mail our list. []'s On Dec 13, 2007

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel 2.6.23 and bcm4311 802.11b/g?

2007-12-17 Thread Jerry McBride
Sorry for the second post on this, but if it helps... My /var/log/messages contains the following after loading the bcm43xx driver. Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx driver Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3 Dec 17 10:20:38 spyro kernel: bcm43xx: Number of

[gentoo-user] Re: Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-17 Thread reader
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml That help any? It's not like you are the first to do something like this. LOL Ok Whew.. now recovered portage and re-emerged portage-2.1.4_rc1 using the hand installed portage most

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-17 Thread Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml That help any? It's not like you are the first to do something like this. LOL Ok Whew.. now recovered portage and re-emerged portage-2.1.4_rc1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-17 Thread Randy Barlow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY --- LOG FILE = /var/log/sandbox/sandbox-26803.log open_rd: /root/.bash_history open_rd: /root/.bash_history

[gentoo-user] Re: Got myself in a bind unmerging portage

2007-12-17 Thread reader
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is this about? The log cited contains only the lines shown and no other logs are present there http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-625682-highlight-violation+summary+sandbox.html

[gentoo-user] Re: scan for network devices by IP and time?

2007-12-17 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: What tools would I want to look into so that I could scan my network to determine all the devices currently on it, either by IP or name? Something simple emerge fping fping -g 192.168.37.0/24 or fping -g 10.168.1.0 10.168.1.255 I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-17 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On Dec 15, 2007 8:37 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you seem to have checked that the problem is not related to cables/NICs/modem/router - does the machine work fine otherwise? If you had bad memory/fs corruption during your download when the NIC failed it may be that you need to

[gentoo-user] emerge failed

2007-12-17 Thread Justin
Hi all. I tried to emerge coot-0.3.3 with new-interface which failed (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202599). Now I recognised that at my office computer, which is basically of the same software setup, coot emerged with the 1.99 version of gtkglarea. My question now is, how can I easily

Re: [gentoo-user] growisofs: media is not recognized as recordable DVD

2007-12-17 Thread Joerg Schilling
Daniel wrote: $ eix cdrtools Installed versions: 2.01.01_alpha34(19:08:15 16/12/07) Uninstall this. Install cdrkit instead. Then try K3b again. If you like to replace a working program by something that does not work go ahead and replace cdrecord by wodim. If you like

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Network Trouble

2007-12-17 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Mmmh, so you think it could be software after all? No, if the light on the firewall and on the NIC itself don't come on when you plug in the ethernet cable, the card isn't working. When a different slot doesn't work either, it seems something on your PCI bus is dead.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-17 Thread Mick
On Sunday 16 December 2007, forgottenwizard wrote: On 18:36 Sun 16 Dec , Mick wrote: On Saturday 15 December 2007, forgottenwizard wrote: On 15:27 Thu 13 Dec , Jason Carson wrote: Greetings, Where in the kernel config (make menuconfig) do I find the choice for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Python vs C++

2007-12-17 Thread Ritesh Kumar
On Dec 17, 2007 5:53 AM, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect C++ runs somewhat faster, but that's not the issue here. Is that actually true (especially for the Portage case)? I'd suspect that portage sometimes tends to be slow,

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel schedulers

2007-12-17 Thread forgottenwizard
On 22:11 Mon 17 Dec , Mick wrote: On Sunday 16 December 2007, forgottenwizard wrote: OK then, I have been using CFQ for the last few days and it 'feels' slower (when e.g. I fire up Kmail, Opera and aterm in quick succession) relative to anticipatory which I was using before. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX) -- SOLVED

2007-12-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 07:10 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll be the son of a monkey's uncle. Tie me ankles and put me knickers in a twist. *lol* no thanks, wrong list! It WAS the CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN kernel flag. Apologies to all those who thought I was doubting them. I was, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX) -- SOLVED

2007-12-17 Thread felix
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:27:58AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: but you also know a little more than you did yesterday. That's the main thing! I know how I misthought things. I had thought USB was a dumb protocol and that the simplest way to present two drives on one connection was to have an

[gentoo-user] Re: Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-17 Thread Thufir
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:38:30 -0200, Raphael wrote: I believe that a good solution would be evolving Portage to use different forms of storage, like databases or even LDAP. In a home desktop, you could use SQLite, which is light weight. In a Office enviroment, you could use a larger

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX) -- SOLVED

2007-12-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:27:58AM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: but you also know a little more than you did yesterday. That's the main thing! I know how I misthought things. I had thought USB was a dumb protocol and that the

[gentoo-user] brlcad users here?

2007-12-17 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, From sourceforge.net I downloaded brlcad_7.10.4_ia32.tar.bz2 and untarred it. In INSTALL it says to run ./configure and if there is no configure script to run autogen.sh. I found neither but back at sourceforge found autogen.sh Which lead to this: A configure.ac or configure.in file

[gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-17 Thread Walter Dnes
I've figured out how to force a hard lockup on my system, by trying to log on to my ADSL service when the modem is switched off. Yeah, I know... Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do that. Doctor: In that case... *DON'T DO THAT*. During one such lockup, I discovered that Magic SysRq doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] How cam I get system to recognize MagicSysReq while in X gui?

2007-12-17 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2007, Walter Dnes wrote: I've figured out how to force a hard lockup on my system, by trying to log on to my ADSL service when the modem is switched off. Yeah, I know... Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do that. Doctor: In that case... *DON'T DO THAT*. During