Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice: don't know how to handle video
On 23/09/12 at 09:20pm, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Has anyone been able to insert and play movies in libreoffice? Hi, I have libreoffice-bin installed and I can insert video files into presentations. I tried a few random files that were lying arround (mp4, flv etc) and they all work. Do you have the appropriate gstreamer plugins installed ? have a look at the media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta package. -- - Yohan Pereira The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal. -- Mark Twain
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new printer suggestions?
On 09/24/12 00:34, James wrote: Hello, I've mostly had HP printers over the years. I have a HP officejet 8500 that is just cannot not do everything I need. I have googled for hours and only found what I like, in a Brother printer (Brother MFC-J6710DW Inkjet All-in-One Printer) I have never owned a brother printersso 1. Does it work well with CUPS/linux? 2. Are they reliable for a small workgroup? 3. Are the color cartridges reasonable priced? Here is what my needs are: dual trays (letter size and 11x 17) prints envelops easily (#10 mostly) dual sided printing color less than 500.00 and reliable for small quantity. Any suggestions? It must work well with Cups over ethernet as well as with winblows (7 and 8). thoughts? James I'm using brother B/W laser printers and all I can say is that Brother have CRAPPY printer drivers. Here is one of my experiences: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-909052-highlight-brother.html No, duplex does not work correctly with Brother printer divers on Linux. -- Joseph
[gentoo-user] Disable change owner or permissions after emerge
Hello! How disable change owner or permissions of a file after emerge atom? For example: before upgrade pnp4nagios: getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: etc/pnp/config.php # owner: nagios # group: apache user::rw- group::r-- other::--- after getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: etc/pnp/config.php # owner: nagios # group: nagios user::rw- group::r-- other::---
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new printer suggestions?
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/24/12 00:34, James wrote: Hello, I've mostly had HP printers over the years. I have a HP officejet 8500 that is just cannot not do everything I need. I have googled for hours and only found what I like, in a Brother printer (Brother MFC-J6710DW Inkjet All-in-One Printer) I have never owned a brother printersso 1. Does it work well with CUPS/linux? 2. Are they reliable for a small workgroup? 3. Are the color cartridges reasonable priced? Here is what my needs are: dual trays (letter size and 11x 17) prints envelops easily (#10 mostly) dual sided printing color less than 500.00 and reliable for small quantity. Any suggestions? It must work well with Cups over ethernet as well as with winblows (7 and 8). thoughts? James I'm using brother B/W laser printers and all I can say is that Brother have CRAPPY printer drivers. Here is one of my experiences: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-909052-highlight-brother.html No, duplex does not work correctly with Brother printer divers on Linux. I'm using a Brother HL-2050 and a Brother HL-2150, and I love them both. I haven't done anything with duplex, though (I don't have a duplexer unit). My last job had a SAMSUNG color laser printer that worked beautifully with Linux. CLP-215 or CLP-315, I think. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Disable change owner or permissions after emerge
On 09/24/2012 10:16 AM, Alexander Y. Tiurin wrote: Hello! How disable change owner or permissions of a file after emerge atom? For example: before upgrade pnp4nagios: If it's under /etc (or any directory under $CONFIG_PROTECT), you can add a comment to the file. Then portage will create its ._cfg* version and prompt you to etc-update.
Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice: don't know how to handle video
On 9/24/12 3:17 AM, Yohan Pereira wrote: On 23/09/12 at 09:20pm, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Has anyone been able to insert and play movies in libreoffice? Hi, I have libreoffice-bin installed and I can insert video files into presentations. I tried a few random files that were lying arround (mp4, flv etc) and they all work. Do you have the appropriate gstreamer plugins installed ? have a look at the media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta package. No I don't have that installed. I thought that the gstreamer USE flag in libreoffice would take care of all gstreamer dependencies. Also I don't use libreoffice-bin. I have been emerging libreoffice. Will emerge the plugins. Do you think I need to reemerge libreoffice after emerging gst-plugins-meta? Thanks, -- Valmor
[gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user
On 13/09/12 14:37, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! Doing, e.g., sshfs -o transform_symlinks -o Cipher=blowfish numa-sv:/Save /numa-sv works just fine. [...] BUT trying to do (which has been working for a long time) fusermount -u /numa-sv now gives fusermount: entry for /numa-sv not found in /etc/mtab OK, the culprit was util-linux-2.22. If you want a fix right now, the upstream patch that fixed the issue is: http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux/util-linux.git;a=patch;h=4be900c51d371a7a41495e4eca2d29fc77c20c7c
[gentoo-user] nfs server sometimes not available - timeo and retrans
Hi all, Just want to check something with those much more knowledgeable that I am. I have a media computer which exports the media as nfs4 shares. My workstation in turn mounts these - it's the only device that does this. If the media device is not on, and exporting these shares, the workstation gets caught up in the boot process, timing out and retrying, trying to find the nonexistant nfs shares, which takes ages. Is the correct things to fiddle to try and tune this the timeo and retrans variables in fstab? I want it to time out after 10 seconds and no retries. I'm thinking the mount entries become: ... ... ... 192.168.14.1:/movies /mnt/movies nfs4 rw,timeo=100,retrans=0 0 0 ... ... ... Does that look right? Am I fiddling the correct stuff? Any thoughts, greatly appreciated, Andrew
[gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?
Michael Mol mikemol at gmail.com writes: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-909052-highlight-brother.html No, duplex does not work correctly with Brother printer divers on Linux. darn I'm using a Brother HL-2050 and a Brother HL-2150, and I love them both. I haven't done anything with duplex, though (I don't have a duplexer unit). good 2 kno My last job had a SAMSUNG color laser printer that worked beautifully with Linux. CLP-215 or CLP-315, I think. I'm not looking for a project (got too many of those). So now I'll have to think about all of this some more HP printers have worked for me for over 14 years with linux, unix and bsd systems.. I just cannot find an HP printer that fits my previously described needs... I may just get 2 for less than 500.00 as the HP 7000 officejet does handle the large 11x17 (A3 ledger) paper.. thanks to all for the input; other can still make some suggestions. James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sshfs - cannot unmount as normal user
On 09/24/2012 05:34:51 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 13/09/12 14:37, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Since a short time I have a critical problem with sshfs. I cannot unmount it ! Doing, e.g., sshfs -o transform_symlinks -o Cipher=blowfish numa-sv:/Save /numa-sv works just fine. [...] BUT trying to do (which has been working for a long time) fusermount -u /numa-sv now gives fusermount: entry for /numa-sv not found in /etc/mtab OK, the culprit was util-linux-2.22. If you want a fix right now, the upstream patch that fixed the issue is: http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux/util-linux.git;a=patch;h=4be900c51d371a7a41495e4eca2d29fc77c20c7c Yes, many thanks for your effort. I'm breathing a sigh of relief! Now, my daily backups work again, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice: don't know how to handle video
On 24/09/12 at 11:24am, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Do you think I need to reemerge libreoffice after emerging gst-plugins-meta? Nope. Gstreamer detects plug-ins on the fly. You can run revdep-rebuild to make sure. -- - Yohan Pereira The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal. -- Mark Twain
Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice: don't know how to handle video
On 9/24/12 3:40 PM, Yohan Pereira wrote: On 24/09/12 at 11:24am, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Do you think I need to reemerge libreoffice after emerging gst-plugins-meta? Nope. Gstreamer detects plug-ins on the fly. You can run revdep-rebuild to make sure. I emerged gst-plugins-meta with various USE flags and movie insertion in libreoffice works now. Thank you. -- Valmor
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?
On Monday 24 September 2012 18:45:29 James wrote: So now I'll have to think about all of this some more HP printers have worked for me for over 14 years with linux, unix and bsd systems.. I just cannot find an HP printer that fits my previously described needs... I may just get 2 for less than 500.00 as the HP 7000 officejet does handle the large 11x17 (A3 ledger) paper.. thanks to all for the input; other can still make some suggestions. I don't remember what you said you wanted, but I have a Kyocera FS1020-D mono laser which has performed faultlessly these last five years or so. It has a duplexer which also is driven properly. I also have a next-to useless HP D4260 inkjet. It purports to work properly but it's used so seldom that I can't get an even ink deposition. HTH. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new printer suggestions?
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:32:56 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: No, duplex does not work correctly with Brother printer divers on Linux. I'm using a Brother HL-2050 and a Brother HL-2150, and I love them both. I haven't done anything with duplex, though (I don't have a duplexer unit). I have a Brother MFC-7460DN network laser AIO. Both printing and scanning work fine, using modified ebuilds from b.g.o. Duplex printing also works as expected. -- Neil Bothwick If you shoot a mime, should you use a silencer? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Re: nfs server sometimes not available - timeo and retrans
On 09/24/2012 10:18 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Just want to check something with those much more knowledgeable that I am. I have a media computer which exports the media as nfs4 shares. My workstation in turn mounts these - it's the only device that does this. If the media device is not on, and exporting these shares, the workstation gets caught up in the boot process, timing out and retrying, trying to find the nonexistant nfs shares, which takes ages. Is the correct things to fiddle to try and tune this the timeo and retrans variables in fstab? I want it to time out after 10 seconds and no retries. I'm thinking the mount entries become: ... ... ... 192.168.14.1:/movies /mnt/movies nfs4 rw,timeo=100,retrans=0 0 0 ... ... ... I find that I had to use actimeo=n instead of just timeo because (apparently) there are several different timers involved in nfs mounting. (man 5 nfs)
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 24 September 2012 18:45:29 James wrote: So now I'll have to think about all of this some more HP printers have worked for me for over 14 years with linux, unix and bsd systems.. Both Xerox and HP have had good cross platform support and make some sturdy reliable printers that can last decades. The problem of course is that they both have their good/bad years and can be relatively expensive for the laser MFP's and associated supplies. I used to buy HP laserjets only, but then their costs went sky high while reliability and features went down. I switched to using Xerox Workcentersbut Xerox has a tendency to end-of-life troublesome models early and requires active support contracts for any real support after the initial purchase support period. On the other hand, the color laser MFP purchased in 2006 for the home office is still going strong. To my knowledge, Brother had a better reputation decades ago but recently is known more as a low-budget competitor. I'd definitely second that you focus any evaluation on the printer implementation of postscript...postscript is the true universal language in this industry. If you don't have any major feature needs, than also pay attention to the standby power usage, time to warm up for prints, power needs during startup, and cost per page for color and b/w prints. My MFP draws a huge amount of power briefly when it begins the day, uses solid ink that normally lasts me 9-12 months and then about every 2 years I have to spend ~$150 for an updated maintenance kit(toner?). I can live with all that, but I'll probably be paying more attention to power util on the next purchase 5-10 years or so from now. Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?
On Sep 25, 2012 5:55 AM, Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 24 September 2012 18:45:29 James wrote: So now I'll have to think about all of this some more HP printers have worked for me for over 14 years with linux, unix and bsd systems.. Both Xerox and HP have had good cross platform support and make some sturdy reliable printers that can last decades. The problem of course is that they both have their good/bad years and can be relatively expensive for the laser MFP's and associated supplies. I used to buy HP laserjets only, but then their costs went sky high while reliability and features went down. I switched to using Xerox Workcentersbut Xerox has a tendency to end-of-life troublesome models early and requires active support contracts for any real support after the initial purchase support period. On the other hand, the color laser MFP purchased in 2006 for the home office is still going strong. To my knowledge, Brother had a better reputation decades ago but recently is known more as a low-budget competitor. I'd definitely second that you focus any evaluation on the printer implementation of postscript...postscript is the true universal language in this industry. If you don't have any major feature needs, than also pay attention to the standby power usage, time to warm up for prints, power needs during startup, and cost per page for color and b/w prints. My MFP draws a huge amount of power briefly when it begins the day, uses solid ink that normally lasts me 9-12 months and then about every 2 years I have to spend ~$150 for an updated maintenance kit(toner?). I can live with all that, but I'll probably be paying more attention to power util on the next purchase 5-10 years or so from now. Matt Just to add my experience re: Brother... In my previous employment, we had a Brother MFP Color LED printer, its operating cost was far lower than HP Laserjet Color (toner cartridge is 100 USD, about 40% as expensive as HP's, but each cartridge lasts significantly longer, like, about twice the life of the latter). Support is great, probably because we bought one of the premium models. Unfortunately, it was a Windows-only environ, so I can't tell if it has good Linux support. Rgds, --
