On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 07:11 +, Stroller wrote:
On 6 Feb 2009, at 05:28, Iain Buchanan wrote:
It's a Lexar Media 512Mb SD card, a couple of years old. Yes I know I
can get a cheap 2Gb for $20 but I'm more interested in the
principle of
the test :)
I thought you could get then for
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 16:47 +, James wrote:
Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes:
Does that mean my memory card is good to go, or should I use some other
method of bad sector detection?
Hello Iain,
Hi James!
[snip]
Here are a couple of links for your perusal:
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 22:21 +, Stroller wrote:
On 6 Feb 2009, at 05:28, Iain Buchanan wrote:
...
so I created a file:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=Desktop/random.img bs=1024 count=500960
It has just occurred to me:
In the UK you can be imprisoned for failing to provide an encryption
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 19:36 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote:
Hi all,
recently my SD card just went bonkers. Unfortunately I lost a lot of
photos on it (backups are useless until the data actually gets to the
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 17:01 +, James wrote:
sean tech.junk at myfairpoint.net writes:
Once you go through the steps instructed here,
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
cool
Also see my blog
http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/gentoo-linux-live-usb-key.html
which has an
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 14:21 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:
Aaron Clark wrote:
Drew Tomlinson wrote:
I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the
Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will
scale the desktop and remember connections.
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 19:34 +0100, Naga wrote:
On Monday 09 February 2009 19:13:32 James wrote:
[...]
The mobo has an Nvidia chip, the video card has a ATI video chip,
both only work under the Intel HDA driver. These are compiled
into the kernel, not loadable modules. I'm going bald
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:38 +0100, Naga wrote:
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 07:02:16 Sebastian Günther wrote:
* Naga (nagat...@gmail.com) [09.02.09 19:35]:
In the 2.6.28 kernel alsa is broken for hda-intel. Either use 2.6.27
series kernel or use a live alsa ebuild.
Why can I listen to
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 11:14 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote:
On Sunday 08 February 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote:
[...]
I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28. My el-cheapo webcam
(lsusb: 0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the
media-video/gspcav1 driver, but that no
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 19:43 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote:
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote:
I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28. My el-cheapo webcam (lsusb:
0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the
media-video/gspcav1
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:20:50PM +, Stroller wrote:
On 4 Feb 2009, at 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 13:38:11 +, Stroller wrote:
So when I found the clock to be a week out of date I checked that ntpd
appeared to be running (it was) and restarted it. The date
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 08:41:39AM +, Mick wrote:
This video brought up an interesting question by my friend (an ubuntu
user). How would one go about getting Canonical or the ubuntu community
to change their practice of not contributing fixes back upstream?
It's all about dev
On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 09:51:26PM -0800, Joshua D Doll wrote:
This video brought up an interesting question by my friend (an ubuntu
user). How would one go about getting Canonical or the ubuntu community to
change their practice of not contributing fixes back upstream? Without
having to
On 11 Feb 2009, at 00:54, Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 22:21 +, Stroller wrote:
On 6 Feb 2009, at 05:28, Iain Buchanan wrote:
...
so I created a file:
dd if=/dev/urandom of=Desktop/random.img bs=1024 count=500960
It has just occurred to me:
In the UK you can be imprisoned
Iain Buchanan wrote:
Just be mindful of James' comment about lots of writes!
It is more of a curiosity project.
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote:
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 19:36 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au
wrote:
Hi all,
recently my SD card just went bonkers. Unfortunately I lost a lot of
Hello,
OK, I have read back into January the suggestions on this
list about going to Kde-meta 4.2. I have dozens of workstations
running gentoo, so now I'm going to upgrade one (test) laptop
to get a feel for kde-4.2 and hopefully flesh out an
upgrade strategy for all of these laptops and
On Mittwoch 11 Februar 2009, James wrote:
Hello,
OK, I have read back into January the suggestions on this
list about going to Kde-meta 4.2. I have dozens of workstations
running gentoo, so now I'm going to upgrade one (test) laptop
to get a feel for kde-4.2 and hopefully flesh out an
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes:
6. emerge -DNv kde-meta
Look plausible? Verbose comments are most welcome.
just emerge the kde-4.2 set instead of that meta stuff.
Is there a problem with kde-meta-4.2.0 ? I have many different
users asking for many different
On Mittwoch 11 Februar 2009, james wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes:
6. emerge -DNv kde-meta
Look plausible? Verbose comments are most welcome.
just emerge the kde-4.2 set instead of that meta stuff.
Is there a problem with kde-meta-4.2.0 ? I have
On Wednesday 11 February 2009 20:25:13 James wrote:
Hello,
OK, I have read back into January the suggestions on this
list about going to Kde-meta 4.2. I have dozens of workstations
running gentoo, so now I'm going to upgrade one (test) laptop
to get a feel for kde-4.2 and hopefully flesh out
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
Volker and Alan,
Finally, try to use sets if possible. The split -meta ebuilds were an ugly
hack until sets made it into portage. They were orders of magnitude better
than monolithic, but sets are just so much cleaner than -meta. Plus you get
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 3:29 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
Volker and Alan,
Finally, try to use sets if possible. The split -meta ebuilds were an ugly
hack until sets made it into portage. They were orders of magnitude better
than
Michael Hentsch ha scritto:
The file /etc/sudoers should always be edited with visudo. visudo uses
file locking, provides basic sanity checks and checks for parse errors.
This always made me crazy.
Why, why, why should I use a specialized editor to edit a system file?
It's not like we have
b.n. wrote:
Michael Hentsch ha scritto:
The file /etc/sudoers should always be edited with visudo. visudo uses
file locking, provides basic sanity checks and checks for parse errors.
This always made me crazy.
Why, why, why should I use a specialized editor to edit a system file?
It's not
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:52:22 +0100, b.n. wrote:
The file /etc/sudoers should always be edited with visudo. visudo uses
file locking, provides basic sanity checks and checks for parse
errors.
This always made me crazy.
Why, why, why should I use a specialized editor to edit a system
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:52 PM, b.n. brullonu...@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Hentsch ha scritto:
The file /etc/sudoers should always be edited with visudo. visudo uses
file locking, provides basic sanity checks and checks for parse errors.
This always made me crazy.
Why, why, why should I use
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:01:36 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
I guess an error in sudoers could allow the whole world to use sudo,
and someone decided to give this special cushion to this program and
none of the others that can also ruin your system in various other
ways. :)
You could also lock
Hi,
I had two machine that for some reason wouldn't build the 2.5 slot
for python. I've waited weeks for the possibility that something would
get cleaned up in portage or on a server somewhere but as of yet it
hasn't happened. For kicks today I cleaned out distfiles and did an
emerge -e @system
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I had two machine that for some reason wouldn't build the 2.5 slot
for python. I've waited weeks for the possibility that something would
get cleaned up in portage or on a server somewhere but as of yet it
hasn't happened. For kicks today I cleaned out distfiles and did
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I had two machine that for some reason wouldn't build the 2.5 slot
for python. I've waited weeks for the possibility that something would
get cleaned up in portage or on a server somewhere
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I had two machine that for some reason wouldn't build the 2.5 slot
for python. I've waited weeks for the possibility that something would
get cleaned up in portage or
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes:
Basically, sets start with @ and you would just emerge like a meta,
emerge @kde-4.2 (or whatever). You can do emerge --list-sets to see
which are available to you. Rather than being meta listed in
/var/lib/portage/world the sets will be
On 12 Feb 2009, at 00:01, Neil Bothwick wrote:
... there's nothing to stop
you using any editor you like, directly, and it's the best choice if
you
want to be free to screw up the file.
It's the Unix way!
Stroller.
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com
wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I had two machine that for some reason wouldn't build the 2.5 slot
for python. I've waited
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
I might be mistaken, but I don't think that is make error message. You might
want to check further up in the build.log for more information.
--Joshua Doll
CFLAGS? The machine that fails:
CFLAGS=-O3
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Joshua D Doll joshua.d...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
I might be mistaken, but I don't think that is make error message. You might
want to check further up in the build.log for more
Hi,
My gentoo worked very well in the past two years. But today I found
that I can't login it from the terminal, but ssh login is OK.
I have written down the login message:
/*/
This is Gentoo-Server.unknown_domain (Linux i686 2.6.26-gentoo-r1) 12:22:39
james wrote:
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes:
Basically, sets start with @ and you would just emerge like a meta,
emerge @kde-4.2 (or whatever). You can do emerge --list-sets to see
which are available to you. Rather than being meta listed in
/var/lib/portage/world
On Thursday 12 February 2009 07:01:36 Dale wrote:
Sorry to butt in here. I !think! I get what sets does, you add a group
of packages to a file and then when you do the @sets thing, it
emerges/upgrades that group of packages. I get that part. I guess from
what I am reading that we the user
* Chuanwen Wu (wcw8...@gmail.com) [12.02.09 05:41]:
Hi,
My gentoo worked very well in the past two years. But today I found
that I can't login it from the terminal, but ssh login is OK.
Have anybody ever encountered this problem?
Any help will be appreciate!
man securetty
HTH
Sebastian
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
gotten out of the starting blocks, never mind actually there yet) and you may
run into trouble building system-settings (I didn't but others have).
If you are using an older compiler (like gcc-4.1.1-r3) you may get
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote:
After some more struggling I managed to get kde-base/systemsettings
compiled: If I unmerge x11-libs/libxkbfile and then emerge
systemsettings, it compiles fine (without support for the xkb
settings). After that I did an emerge
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 12 February 2009 07:01:36 Dale wrote:
Sorry to butt in here. I !think! I get what sets does, you add a group
of packages to a file and then when you do the @sets thing, it
emerges/upgrades that group of packages. I get that part. I guess from
what I am
Hi, thanks!
man securetty
/*/
# cat /etc/securetty
# /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login.
# See securetty(5) and login(1).
console
vc/0
vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6
vc/7
vc/8
vc/9
vc/10
vc/11
vc/12
tty0
tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
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