Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-24 Thread Mike Myers
Thanks a million for the info everybody. You've all given me a great place to start, so I'll try out some of these ideas and see what happens. Mike On 2/23/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/23/06, Mike Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Iain, Thanks for the info! I kinda

Re: [gentoo-user] TARPIT iptables target

2006-02-24 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Dave Jones: TARPIT Just a caveat: Keep in mind that if a bad guy figures out you are using TARPIT, the very nature of it (ie: persistant connections) opens your box to a severe DOS vulnerability, especially if said bad guy has a bot-net at his disposal. If you know what you are

[gentoo-user] looking for a good c++ IDE for demons...

2006-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, I'm developing a C++ application which runs as a UNIX demon or windows service. Until now I'm used mainly xemacs, but since I learned about better IDEs (for example the JAVA developers have IDEA), I'm looking for something like this for c++. I tried snavigator, but this tool seems to get

[gentoo-user] ISO DB wrapper libs for unix/windows and c++

2006-02-24 Thread Wolfgang Liebich
Hi, I'll have to give a c++ application (running both on unix and windows) the ability to do SQL queries on DBs (for now only ORACLE 9). I do know JDBC - what is the equivalent for C++? ODBC? Has anyone here experience in comparing iODBC vs. unixODBC vs Oracle Template Library on OCI? (Btw, is

[gentoo-user] missing languages - gdm - amd64

2006-02-24 Thread Pongracz Istvan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I installed an AMD64 system and I expected that, in the GDM login manager I only have a few languages, what I can choose, but my local language is missing (Hungarian). Comparing it to my laptop (x86) I have tons of languages. I was digging in

Re: [gentoo-user] missing languages - gdm - amd64

2006-02-24 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/2/24, Pongracz Istvan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I installed an AMD64 system and I expected that, in the GDM login manager I only have a few languages, what I can choose, but my local language is missing (Hungarian). Comparing it to my

[gentoo-user] Re: looking for a good c++ IDE for demons...

2006-02-24 Thread Catalin Trifu
kdevelop and anjuta are some I know of. Catalin Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, I'm developing a C++ application which runs as a UNIX demon or windows service. Until now I'm used mainly xemacs, but since I learned about better IDEs (for example the JAVA developers have IDEA), I'm looking

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a good c++ IDE for demons...

2006-02-24 Thread Robert Leibl
Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, I'm developing a C++ application which runs as a UNIX demon or windows service. Until now I'm used mainly xemacs, but since I learned about better IDEs (for example the JAVA developers have IDEA), I'm looking for something like this for c++. I tried snavigator, but

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a good c++ IDE for demons...

2006-02-24 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 February 2006 10:10, Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, I'm developing a C++ application which runs as a UNIX demon or windows service. Until now I'm used mainly xemacs, but since I learned about better IDEs (for example the JAVA developers have IDEA), I'm looking for something like this for

Re: [gentoo-user] missing languages - gdm - amd64

2006-02-24 Thread Pongracz Istvan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Thank you for your response, it seems, this cause my problem. On my laptop has a different USE settings (-userlocales), but on the amd64 the userlocales presents. I leave to home now and I correct it, many thanks :) István Boris Fersing

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge timezone-data fails?

2006-02-24 Thread Frédéric Grosshans
Le jeudi 23 février 2006 à 16:14 -0500, Ernie Schroder a écrit : !!! ERROR: sys-libs/timezone-data-2006b failed. I had the same problem yesterday, but it seems solved today after an emerge sync. Fred -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: odd /dev/null beharvior

2006-02-24 Thread Christopher Cowart
According to: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123249 The problem has been resolved. You should try # emerge sync # emerge -C udev # rm -f /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions # rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules # emerge -av udev If you still experience digest problems, reopen

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to mount IXUS 40?

2006-02-24 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: 'digikam' works fine with this digital Canon camera. Also I can insert an SD-card into a card-reader and mount it as ordinary flash-card. But sometimes it is more handy to mount SD-card directly via camera's USB-port. '/var/log/meassages' fragment is below. Please,

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a good c++ IDE for demons...

2006-02-24 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
Robert Leibl wrote: ps: you said you wanted a class browser, so i will not do the use vim sermon. vim can also have a class browser plugin :P pgpIEYMkHLLt6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to mount IXUS 40?

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
This camera uses PTP protocol. As I have found, the protocol is widely used by many giant firms. And it's theoretically possible to represent some part of this protocol as a mounted file system (and some [OT] OS does it). === On Friday 24 February 2006 16:45, Rafael Bugajewski wrote: ===

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 24 February 2006 07:00, Alexander Skwar wrote: Alexander Kirillov wrote: If I got it right here's the link for those interested: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb Does this work with recent portage releases? it stopped some weeks ago - but in the gentoo forums

[gentoo-user] Encrypting removable media

2006-02-24 Thread Matthias Bethke
I have a bit of chicken-and-egg problem trying to get encrypted removable devices to work as normal as possible. Using Loop-AES and a GPG-encrypted key I had no problems encrypting my external FW drive, but to pass all the options to losetup without entering them by hand every time, I need an

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] how to mount IXUS 40?

2006-02-24 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: This camera uses PTP protocol. As I have found, the protocol is widely used by many giant firms. And it's theoretically possible to represent some part of this protocol as a mounted file system (and some [OT] OS does it). Yeah, I didn't say it's impossible to do such

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting removable media

2006-02-24 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 24 February 2006 15:18, Matthias Bethke wrote: I have a bit of chicken-and-egg problem trying to get encrypted removable devices to work as normal as possible. Using Loop-AES and a GPG-encrypted key I had no problems encrypting my external FW drive, but to pass all the options to

[gentoo-user] [OT] Video streaming solution

2006-02-24 Thread Rafael Bugajewski
Hi all, I search for a open source solution for video streams. What I want to do is to have a server with a simple GUI on which I can control several video streams that get distributed. The streams have to be distributed to thin clients or video projectors. In the case I would use video

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 07:00, Alexander Skwar wrote: Alexander Kirillov wrote: If I got it right here's the link for those interested: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb Does this work with recent portage releases? it stopped some weeks

Re: [gentoo-user] looking for a good c++ IDE for demons...

2006-02-24 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
if you are a gnome person, Anjuta is cool, no dependencies and no adds to project ! On 2/24/06, Rafael Bugajewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Leibl wrote: ps: you said you wanted a class browser, so i will not do the use vim sermon. vim can also have a class browser plugin :P --

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread CR Little
Worked! Thanks! -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 5:57 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question On Thursday 23 February 2006 17:29, CR Little [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] emerge error

2006-02-24 Thread John Fawcett
I'm new to gentoo and I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction to resovle the following kind of problem. I have run emerge mysql and get the following output: Calculating dependencies /!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error

2006-02-24 Thread Michael Smith
Hmm, I can't find any open bugs on this in bugs.gentoo.org, so I guess it's new. You should register a new account at bugs.gentoo.org and report it. Before you do, make sure you run emerge --sync and see if the problem goes away. John Fawcett wrote: I'm new to gentoo and I wonder if someone

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error

2006-02-24 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 24 February 2006 23:56, John Fawcett wrote: Calculating dependencies /!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/perl-Storable-2.13) Update portage. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] S/P diff question

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there! I'm wondering why dts and aac sound coming from DVD is perfectly transmitted over the spdif port (the A/V receiver recognizes the format ans switches to dts/dolby mode, and -- much important -- I can hear the movie's sound); But if I try the same with a normal divx-file or try to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error

2006-02-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Smith schreef: John Fawcett wrote: I'm new to gentoo and I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction to resovle the following kind of problem. I have run emerge mysql and get the following output: Calculating dependencies /!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error

2006-02-24 Thread John Fawcett
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 23:56, John Fawcett wrote: Calculating dependencies /!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/perl-Storable-2.13) Update portage. -- Jason Stubbs I had already done an emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 24 February 2006 15:37, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 07:00, Alexander Skwar wrote: Alexander Kirillov wrote: If I got it right here's the link for those interested: http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb Does

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions

2006-02-24 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:53 -0800, darren kirby wrote: quoth the Michael Sullivan: I upgraded dovecot the other day to 1.0.beta3 and I was altering the configuration file trying to get it to work when I discovered something disturbing: our passwords were being trasmitted unencrypted across

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions

2006-02-24 Thread kashani
Michael Sullivan wrote: Based on what I read at the link you sent me, I think what I want is the following: CRAM-MD5: Protects the password in transit against eavesdroppers. Somewhat good support in clients. The problem is that the web site doesn't tell me how to create a CRAM-MD5 password

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - 2 Questions

2006-02-24 Thread Mike Williams
On Friday 24 February 2006 15:58, Michael Sullivan wrote: Based on what I read at the link you sent me, I think what I want is the following: CRAM-MD5: Protects the password in transit against eavesdroppers. Somewhat good support in clients. The problem is that the web site doesn't tell me

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:12:33 -0600 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | From what I understand this is incorrect. package.mask, -*, and the | ~ARCH (and occasionally, -ARCH) keywords are supposed to indicate | the /ebuild/'s stability, not the upstream stability. Not exactly. Top

Re: [gentoo-user] What does the use flag gtk for gcc?

2006-02-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:24:39 +0100 Wolfgang Liebich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I did a query for packages using the gtk use flag. I found gcc | (3.4.4-r1) among these. Why? It's for the Java gtk frontend. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm

[gentoo-user] [OT] cdrtools and dvdrtools - which one to prefer?

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
If I understand well, these packages are interchangeable. Which one to prefer? I use k3b for CD-R/CD-RW audio and data burning, and DVD+R/DVD-RW (for data). -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting removable media

2006-02-24 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Etaoin, on Friday, 2006-02-24 at 15:42:39, you wrote: With udev you can create hardware-specific devices (meaning you can have a device in /dev that corresponds exactly to some particular hard disk), based on various hardware-specific information (eg, manufacturer name or device id and

[gentoo-user] Help with ALSA bug report

2006-02-24 Thread Holly Bostick
Hi all-- For some days now, I've been having a problem with almost all media players and one emulator. Xine 1.1.1-r4 opened, but crashed when closing the splash screen. Totem 1.3.91 (bmg, gstreamer backend) opened, and then crashed immediately. mplayer was OK (but I prefer xine, and naturally

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 00:04, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Maybe try again, taking extra care to avoid typos in VIDEO_CARDS=ati? I did do that. And as stated before it won't compile without the VIDEO_CARDS variable in it's environment. Tried several times with both ati

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] cdrtools and dvdrtools - which one to prefer?

2006-02-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Friday 24 February 2006 18:35, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: If I understand well, these packages are interchangeable. Which one to prefer? I use k3b for CD-R/CD-RW audio and data burning, and DVD+R/DVD-RW (for data). cdrdao for cdrom and dvd+rw-tools for dvd? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Emerging Beagle

2006-02-24 Thread Christoph Eckert
Hi, just wanted to install a recent version on Beagle. So I filled my /etc/portage/package.keywords as required: app-misc/beagle -pv ~x86 dev-dotnet/gecko-sharp ~x86 dev-dotnet/gtk-sharp~x86 dev-lang/mono ~x86 dev-dotnet/libgdiplus ~x86 dev-libs/gmime ~x86 dev-dotnet/gnome-sharp

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Video streaming solution

2006-02-24 Thread James
Rafael Bugajewski rb at bugajewski.de writes: Hi all, I search for a open source solution for video streams. What I want to do is to have a server with a simple GUI on which I can control several video streams that get distributed. The streams have to be distributed to thin clients or

[gentoo-user] RE: Switched to UDEV and now I have lost wlan0 and hostapd won't work...

2006-02-24 Thread Daevid Vincent
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 8:14 PM To: Daevid Vincent Daevid Vincent wrote: After the essentially forced upgrade, I'm now running kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 (udev) from 2.6.9 (devfs). I have a Senao

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
First of all, thanks for the reply and clarification. It's always good to hear from an actual developer when I start ranting. [I know I could always go pick a fight on gentoo-dev, but I'll reserve that for when I've got a justifiable beef, and not just a half-baked rant. ;)] On Friday 24

[gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-24 Thread Nick Smith
i have setup a mailserver running qmail with clamav and spamassassin, and it uses queue-scanner. im still learning alot about administering mail servers, and i was wondering, how can i track a message going through the system? i know i can stumble through the log files, but how do i know the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: apache and php

2006-02-24 Thread Nick Smith
On 2/24/06, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think if you first emerge dev-lang/php and apache, you will not get the blockers anymore. dev-lang/php will update the virtuals available on the system and horde depends on virtual/php and not dev-php/php. Catalin ill give it a

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error [SOLVED]

2006-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 24 February 2006 06:56, Bo Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error [SOLVED]': Actually I guess I could just download the the amd64 livecd, mount it, copy its kernel to the harddrive (already did emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-24 Thread Dave Nebinger
Nick Smith wrote: i have setup a mailserver running qmail with clamav and spamassassin, and it uses queue-scanner. im still learning alot about administering mail servers, and i was wondering, how can i track a message going through the system? i know i can stumble through the log files, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: apache and php

2006-02-24 Thread kashani
Nick Smith wrote: On 2/24/06, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think if you first emerge dev-lang/php and apache, you will not get the blockers anymore. dev-lang/php will update the virtuals available on the system and horde depends on virtual/php and not dev-php/php. Catalin

[gentoo-user] wierd messages in syslog

2006-02-24 Thread Nick Smith
i keep getting these errors in my syslog, has been happening ever since the install (couple days ago) what does it mean, and how can i fix it? init: Id s0 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes what is s0? this is a sparc system if that makes a difference. TIA Nick --

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-24 Thread Nick Smith
Most of these components will issue messages to syslog using the 'mail' facility. If you configure your syslog daemon to route messages from this facility to, say, /var/log/mail.log, you'll have all of the info you need. If you're using syslog-ng, the following addition will do this for

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen settings

2006-02-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:14:54AM +, Rajat Gujral wrote Hi richard and jerry thanx for ur suggestions but i guess my problem remains the same ... My xserver still starts with screen resolution of 640 x 480 ... Before the improper shutdown it was working fine in 1024 x 768 resolution ,

Re: [gentoo-user] tracking the life of an email.

2006-02-24 Thread kashani
Nick Smith wrote: for some reason qmail spreads things out into 3 or 4 or 5 different log files, one for sent, smtp, pop, imap etc, its a real pain to go through those files, i dont know if its qmail or syslog-ng thats doing it, but ive been wanting to find a way to combine all those logs into

Re: [gentoo-user] ways to update portage

2006-02-24 Thread Rick van Hattem
On Monday 13 February 2006 19:40, Daniel da Veiga wrote: I have this server at work, it has been running ok for a long time, but I'd like to install some new apps to it, but I have a strongly configured firewall (no rsync) and emerge-webrsync seems to fail every time. Is there another way to

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Bo Andresen
On Friday 24 February 2006 20:14, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bo Andresen wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 00:04, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Maybe try again, taking extra care to avoid typos in VIDEO_CARDS=ati? I did do that. And as stated before it won't compile without the VIDEO_CARDS

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging Beagle

2006-02-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:59:44PM +0100, Penguin Lover Christoph Eckert squawked: Now it wants to pull in www-client/mozilla-1.7.12-r2. I'd like to avoid that. Anyone a hint if or even how this is possible? You might consider filing a bug at b.g.o I took a look at Beagle-project.org, and

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Bo Andresen wrote: I was very sure that I had tested this twice with VIDEO_CARDS=ati. Both times the ati flag didn't get enabled That's why I said to take extra care to avoid typos. :) i.e. emerge -vp x11-drm showed: [ebuild R ] x11-base/x11-drm-20051223 VIDEO_CARDS=-ati -i810 -mga

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-24 Thread b.n.
Grant wrote: How do you get firefox to open a PDF file instead of trying to download it? The only plugins listed in about:plugins are s-shockwave-flash and futuresplash. I do have acroread and gpdf installed. There is also a thing called mozplugger that allows to embed XPDF in a firefox

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Bo Andresen
On Saturday 25 February 2006 00:36, Benno Schulenberg wrote: But it's working now. So tell us how many frames glxgears is doing now, with and without radeon. :) Is there a way to disable dri for this test without restarting X? -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox PDF integration

2006-02-24 Thread david
Do you have /usr/local/Adobe/Acrobat7.0/Browser/Browser_Plugin_HowTo.txt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Video streaming solution

2006-02-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 15:37 +0100, Rafael Bugajewski wrote: The clients (or projectors) should work this way that I turn them on and it just works, no configuration, no clicking, _nothing_. I know, that I can realize it with scripts, but I completely dunno what software to use. The whole

[gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-24 Thread John J. Foster
Good evening, I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both Firefox OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden folders and/or files. Also, in Firefox the only columns available in the File dialog boxes are Name and Modified. I know size was there in

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-24 Thread gentuxx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Jolet wrote: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent On 2/17/06 11:30 PM, Ghislain Bourgeois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At my job, I designed a system we call Pullstart that we use to install Gentoo servers. I'm basically

[gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations. I used to use ASUS but their support is non-existent and totally stupid. Unfortunately this will be for a Windows system but I'd like feedback on what is good and bad. Thanks. -- Brett I. Holcomb --

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Motherboards

2006-02-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 24 February 2006 19:27, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Motherboards': I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations. I used to use ASUS but their support is non-existent and totally stupid. Unfortunately this

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-24 Thread Holly Bostick
John J. Foster schreef: Good evening, I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both Firefox OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden folders and/or files. For firefox, if a Save dialog, select Browse for other folders, then right-click inside the

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-24 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 25 February 2006 02:27, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations. I used to use ASUS but their support is non-existent and totally stupid. Unfortunately this will be for a Windows system but I'd like feedback

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Motherboards

2006-02-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
I have a Tyan Tiger and love it. However, it may be out of my price range at this time but they are first on my list, too! On Friday February 24 2006 20:50, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 19:27, Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user]

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-24 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to my list. On Friday February 24 2006 21:02, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 02:27, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-24 Thread Joseph
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 02:59 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both Firefox OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden folders and/or files. For firefox, if a Save dialog, select Browse for other folders, then

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox OOo oddness

2006-02-24 Thread John J. Foster
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:59:19AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: John J. Foster schreef: Good evening, I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both Firefox OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden folders and/or files. For firefox, if a

Re: [gentoo-user] S/P diff question

2006-02-24 Thread Zac Slade
On Friday 24 February 2006 09:12, Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi there! I'm wondering why dts and aac sound coming from DVD is perfectly transmitted over the spdif port (the A/V receiver recognizes the format ans switches to dts/dolby mode, and -- much important -- I can hear the movie's

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Zac Slade
On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote: John Jolet wrote: Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} with certain patches IIRC. WRONG!!! (or partially anyway) Here's the rundown: reiser3, resizable

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 24, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Zac Slade wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote: John Jolet wrote: Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} with certain patches IIRC. WRONG!!! (or partially

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Zac Slade
On Friday 24 February 2006 22:13, John Jolet wrote: okay, i'll rephrase being an old aix hand... with the (possible) exeption of reiser I, personally, would not trust any filesystem to resize without being unmounted. but then, compared to the aix lvm, which can be resized with oracle

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread John Jolet
What an unenlighten troll. I have plenty of experience with AIX's volume manager. LVM2 can stand up to it any day. As a matter of fact Linux's LVM is about to completely surpass what is available in AIX. LVM2 can do cluster locking and management. You can use LVM2 with Multipathing

Re: [gentoo-user] ISO DB wrapper libs for unix/windows and c++

2006-02-24 Thread Andrew Lowe
Wolfgang Liebich wrote: Hi, I'll have to give a c++ application (running both on unix and windows) the ability to do SQL queries on DBs (for now only ORACLE 9). I do know JDBC - what is the equivalent for C++? ODBC? Has anyone here experience in comparing iODBC vs. unixODBC vs Oracle Template

Re: [gentoo-user] ways to update portage

2006-02-24 Thread Dan Sheffner
emerge-webrsync should work fine over port 80. Can't you configure the firewall to accept this port. You could also write a script that opens the port calls emerge-webrsync and then locks it back down if you don't want that port open. Another safe way to do it is to run it through a proxy server.

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-24 Thread Bruce Burden
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 05:02:30PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Bruce Burden wrote: Is it in the portage system? I did a sync a few weeks ago, and I still get the 20050502 version, Do an 'eix x11-drm' and see it lists a 20051223 version, keyword masked. (If you don't have

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: that is the only change I remember at the moment (and which did not went into the wiki). Not true anymore :) I just added your changes to the wiki. Thanks a lot, Alexander Skwar -- Yow! I'm having a quadrophonic sensation of two winos alone in a steel mill! --

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging Beagle

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Christoph Eckert wrote: Now it wants to pull in www-client/mozilla-1.7.12-r2. I'd like to avoid that. Anyone a hint if or even how this is possible? It's not possible. Upstream says to use it. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98839 Alexander Skwar -- In Corning, Iowa, it's a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Zac Slade wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote: John Jolet wrote: Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} with certain patches IIRC. WRONG!!! (or partially anyway) Here's the rundown:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
John Jolet wrote: What an unenlighten troll. I have plenty of experience with AIX's volume manager. LVM2 can stand up to it any day. As a matter of fact Linux's LVM is about to completely surpass what is available in AIX. LVM2 can do cluster locking and management. You can use

Re: [gentoo-user] Motherboards

2006-02-24 Thread Jarry
Brett I. Holcomb wrote: Thanks. I believe Tom's Hardware liked ASRock, too. I'll add them to my list. I need to purchase a motherboard that supports SATA and am looking for recommendations. I used to use ASUS but their support is non-existent AFAIK, ASRock is nothing else, then just

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread Jarry
Zac Slade wrote: reiser3, resizable online in two ways 1)resize_reiserfs /path/to/dev 2)mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev XFS, MUST be mounted to resize use xfs_grow /mount/point JFS, resizable online with a mount -o remount,resize /path/to/dev ext2/3, resizable offline