Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki.com down?

2009-07-26 Thread Xavier Parizet
Xianwen Chen a écrit : Hello all, I've been unable to access gentoo-wiki.com for days. Does anyone know what the problem is? The same from here, i had access to the localized sites until yesterday ([1],[2]), but theses seems to be down too this morning... Sincerely, Wen [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki.com down?

2009-07-26 Thread meino . cramer
Xavier Parizet x...@gentooist.com [09-07-26 09:36]: Xianwen Chen a écrit : Hello all, I've been unable to access gentoo-wiki.com for days. Does anyone know what the problem is? The same from here, i had access to the localized sites until yesterday ([1],[2]), but theses seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where to start with this kind of X problem

2009-07-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 25 July 2009 21:31:22 Harry Putnam wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: How can I have all these module problems but have no trouble booting as my regular user? It must be something else causing the error? I'm not understanding why one user can startx but not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File synchronisation utility (searching for/about to program it)

2009-07-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 25 July 2009 16:56:57 walt wrote: On 07/24/2009 07:43 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote: ...I am using a flash drive as a cache, so to speak... I recently learned that flash drives wear out after about 10,000 write operations, which came as an unpleasant surprise. That's a gross

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] File merge tool

2009-07-26 Thread Stroller
On 25 Jul 2009, at 16:00, Harry Putnam wrote: Roy Wright r...@wright.org writes: kdiff3 is my favorite graphical merge tool (hey, even have it running on my macbook). Thanks.. I'm pretty sure that would involve installing some part of kde which I'm not interested in doing. Just too much

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: WebCam? Second Edition

2009-07-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Jul 2009, at 05:35, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Current status: WebCam... I cannot get above 10...15fps with reasonable resolutions like 640x480 or 800x600. Even 320x240 gives me only 10...15fps. And the stream get really jurky when recorded. Before I buy again a camera, which is _/said/_

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: WebCam? Second Edition

2009-07-26 Thread meino . cramer
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [09-07-26 10:46]: On 26 Jul 2009, at 05:35, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Current status: WebCam... I cannot get above 10...15fps with reasonable resolutions like 640x480 or 800x600. Even 320x240 gives me only 10...15fps. And the stream get really jurky

[gentoo-user] {OT} SSD instead of RAID1?

2009-07-26 Thread Grant
I have two local systems that need to be reliable and also have a large storage capacity. The thing is, the data storage doesn't need to be reliable, I just need the systems to keep running. The data on the systems is backed up and losing it wouldn't be the end of the world because of the

[gentoo-user] Firefox 3.0.12 emerge dies

2009-07-26 Thread Walter Dnes
! * * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. * A complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/www-client:mozilla-firefox-3.0.12:20090726-200847.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located

[gentoo-user] ebuild to fix bug in XFCE window manager xfwm4 4.6.1

2009-07-26 Thread Grant Edwards
xfwm 4.6 introduced a rather nasty feature for users of certain window manager configurations: new windows are created at the bottom of the stack (underneath existing windows). This is pretty annoying for several reasons: * Everytime you start a new app, you have to go digging through the

[gentoo-user] [nfs] nfs mount settings

2009-07-26 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm not that familiar with nfs usage ... only used lightly a few times. I have an opensolaris nfs server serving a share to my gentoo box. The mount point is set as owner:group of my user (reader). Also has the set-gid bit set. ls -ld /projects drwxr-sr-x 2 reader wheel 48 Jun 24 07:08

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki.com down?

2009-07-26 Thread Xianwen Chen
Hi friends, It ([1]) is now up again, at least for now. Cheers, Wen [1] http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/ -- Xianwen Chen Mobile: +86 13774 228909 Email: cxi...@post.uit.no; xianwen.c...@gmail.com