Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-10 Thread pk
Grant Edwards wrote: It was a very sobering experience... I'm sure it was. I hope I never experience anything like that. Well, I guess I could be already without knowing... :-/ Thanks for the info! Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 10 August 2009 05:36:00 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-08-08, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: That's what I thought back when I was using dialup on a Linux box that didn't have any servers running. Then one day I got root-kitted. This may be off-topic but

[gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-10, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 10 August 2009 05:36:00 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-08-08, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: That's what I thought back when I was using dialup on a Linux box that didn't have any servers running. Then

[gentoo-user] {OT} Printer recommendation

2009-08-10 Thread Marco
Hi, I intend to buy a new printer and would like to get some recommendations/experiences from you (to be sure to get it working with Linux). Here is what I'd like: - B/W and Color printing - Network attached (LAN) - Mostly used for office documents / rare graphics printing - Reasonably priced

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:40 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [09-08-03 23:09]: On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grantemailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've also read that it can happen

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance accelerator)

2009-08-10 Thread Paul Hartman
Josh Saddler had a couple blog posts recently about his adventures with SSD and Gentoo: http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2009/08/02/ssds-and-filesystems http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2009/08/09/ssds-and-filesystems-part-2

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printer recommendation

2009-08-10 Thread Dale
Marco wrote: Hi, I intend to buy a new printer and would like to get some recommendations/experiences from you (to be sure to get it working with Linux). Here is what I'd like: - B/W and Color printing - Network attached (LAN) - Mostly used for office documents / rare graphics printing -

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-10 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: No. :) There's no documentation really. The source cide is funny, everything is named after law, investigations, accused, trials and judgments. :) There best I can do is reproduce the part of the source that shows this info and hope you can infer from the names what they

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printer recommendation

2009-08-10 Thread Alejandro
HP have good supports. Take a look here http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html Cheers 2009/8/10 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Marco wrote: Hi, I intend to buy a new printer and would like to get some recommendations/experiences from you (to be sure to get it working with

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printer recommendation

2009-08-10 Thread Joseph
On 08/10/09 16:57, Marco wrote: Have a look at brother-HL-5250DN - duplex printing, network, usb and below 100.00 and quiet. HP is getting more of an evil with incorporating all these chip technology into their cartridges. I bought HP2550N and it very noisy and those toners with chip are more

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printer recommendation

2009-08-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Marcolistwo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I intend to buy a new printer and would like to get some recommendations/experiences from you (to be sure to get it working with Linux). Here is what I'd like: - B/W and Color printing - Network attached (LAN) - Mostly

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Printer recommendation

2009-08-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Marco schrieb: Hi, I intend to buy a new printer and would like to get some recommendations/experiences from you (to be sure to get it working with Linux). Here is what I'd like: - B/W and Color printing - Network attached (LAN) - Mostly used for office documents / rare graphics printing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 10 August 2009 16:10:53 Grant Edwards wrote: Red Hat were quite clear at the time that the release was not actually for real use, more for testing. I think the switch to glibc-2 was the underlying reason. Anyway, lots of folks got bitten because they installed and used it anyway.

Re: [gentoo-user] vdpau-able ?

2009-08-10 Thread Nich
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:40, Manuel Fiorelli manuel.fiore...@gmail.comwrote snip: Assuming that you want to playback a H.264 video, then right command should be mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau file to force the selection of the HW accelerated codec from FFMPEG. Can anyone confirm that?

Re: [gentoo-user] vdpau-able ?

2009-08-10 Thread Manuel Fiorelli
2009/8/10 Nich narthol...@gmail.com: To use VDPAU hardware acceleration you need to specify a hardware codec also - As I use VDPAU all the time i have this configured in my mplayer config (~/.mplayer/config) as so: vo=vdpau vc=ffmpeg12vdpau,ffwmv3vdpau,ffvc1vdpau,ffh264vdpau, Which lists

[gentoo-user] portpeek and relative vs absolute path

2009-08-10 Thread Gene Hannan
I'm seeing a quirk in portpeek on one of two machines with similar installations. Portpeek responds with, for example, package.keywords: Could not find file etc/portage/package.keywords Note the absence of an initial slash. The program executes correctly from / as a working directory. The

[gentoo-user] Re: portpeek and relative vs absolute path

2009-08-10 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gene Hannan wrote: I'm seeing a quirk in portpeek on one of two machines with similar installations. Portpeek responds with, for example, package.keywords: Could not find file etc/portage/package.keywords Note the absence of an initial

Re: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg

2009-08-10 Thread Skippy
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 21:40:44 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote the words: Did I mention that you should rather just work at getting X to work on your kit? Yea - that's what I was expecting, and afraid of, but I had to ask. Thanks! Skippy -- On The Fly Photography -:-

Re: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg

2009-08-10 Thread Skippy
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:00:43 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote the words: Well, I had trouble with the new xorg-server too. I added x11-base/xorg-server -hal to /etc/portage/package.use and everything worked fine here. That disables hal which is what causes all the problems. My KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg

2009-08-10 Thread Dale
Skippy wrote: On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:00:43 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote the words: Well, I had trouble with the new xorg-server too. I added x11-base/xorg-server -hal to /etc/portage/package.use and everything worked fine here. That disables hal which is what causes all the

Re: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg

2009-08-10 Thread Skippy
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:21:48 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote the words: If you go with -hal, it shouldn't be a problem. It just works the old way. I am afraid that we will both face the music one day tho. I think there is a new thing in the pipe line but not sure when it will be

Re: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg

2009-08-10 Thread Dale
Skippy wrote: On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:21:48 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote the words: If you go with -hal, it shouldn't be a problem. It just works the old way. I am afraid that we will both face the music one day tho. I think there is a new thing in the pipe line but not sure

[gentoo-user] Cloning movie DVDs with dd - only works after accessing disk with another command?

2009-08-10 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Now I've got this new machine with all this space on it (or rather: now I seem to be more interested in doing stuff with this machine I built a while ago), I'm starting on the process of ripping all my DVDs. In the past I tried media-video/undvd for DVD ripping, but its .mp4

Re: [gentoo-user] Cloning movie DVDs with dd - only works after accessing disk with another command?

2009-08-10 Thread Stroller
On 11 Aug 2009, at 05:43, Stroller wrote: ... So I tried with a different disk - take a look at the attached cloning.txt - and dd fails repeatedly at 770kB. Then I run scandvd on the disk and after that dd works perfectly, 8027521024 bytes (8.0 GB) copied. scandvd is a tool which is