On 14 Oct 2009, at 21:34, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:21:38 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a
couple of
years ago.
I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
I have 3 of those monsters in my decommissioned stores tha
On 14 Oct 2009, at 17:50, Denis wrote:
... While some folks
here probably think this attempt foolish, I still think it was worth a
try, and I learned some new things, which is always good.
I don't think this attempt foolish - but I guess you're getting
desperate.
Having performed `emerge -
Denis wrote:
>> Have you tried "strace'ing" mathematica to see why it dies?
>>
>> BillK
>>
>
> I ran an strace, but I can't make sense out of it. There's a bunch of
> polling and trying to access unavailable resources, from what I can
> see... The file is huge, but here is the tail end of it
> Have you tried "strace'ing" mathematica to see why it dies?
>
> BillK
I ran an strace, but I can't make sense out of it. There's a bunch of
polling and trying to access unavailable resources, from what I can
see... The file is huge, but here is the tail end of it:
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 12:50 -0400, Denis wrote:
> > Let us know what blows up. ;-)
> >
> > Dale
>
> Nothing blew up ;-) I was successful removing X, downgrading, and
> getting X working again with xorg-server-1.5.3 and libxcb-1.1
>
Have you tried "strace'ing" mathematica to see why it dies?
B
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:48:56 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:34:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Bring a 1 ton truck. Those beasts are big and heavy. Very heavy. It
> > takes four of our big lads to pick them up.
>
> Why not put one behind that SUV the next time he parks i
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:40:58 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Alan McKinnon schrieb:
> > Bring a 1 ton truck. Those beasts are big and heavy. Very heavy. It takes
> > four of our big lads to pick them up.
>
> It was a mixture of fascination and disappointment seeing those 2 "big"
> servers a
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:34:24 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Bring a 1 ton truck. Those beasts are big and heavy. Very heavy. It
> takes four of our big lads to pick them up.
Why not put one behind that SUV the next time he parks in the disabled
bay? ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
Diarrhoea is hereditary
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
>> What for? Just to get back to the initial topic of the thread ;-)
>
> /var/tmp/portage
> /tmp
>
> oh:
> free
> total used free sharedbuffers cached
> Mem: 81858368108312 77524 0 06067212
>
Alan McKinnon schrieb:
> Bring a 1 ton truck. Those beasts are big and heavy. Very heavy. It takes
> four
> of our big lads to pick them up.
It was a mixture of fascination and disappointment seeing those 2 "big"
servers and the (entry-level ... ok)-SAN with just 4U in sum ...
times are a-chan
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:21:38 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of
> > years ago.
> > I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
>
> I have 3 of those monsters in my decommissione
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
> > I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of
> > years ago.
> > I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
>
> Yes. I remember as well.
>
> "Why 128 MB RAM in that workstation? Are you
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 22:21:38 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of
> years ago.
> I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
I have 3 of those monsters in my decommissioned stores that you are more than
welcome to come and fetch t
Alan McKinnon schrieb:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2009 18:55:34 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> At least there I know how to make use of it ...
>
> At least this OT thread isn't as insanely OT as the checksum one :-)
uuuh, I am OT ?? ;-)
Haven't checked the checksum-thread, does it use RAM ?? ;-)
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb:
> I remember standing in front of two Sun servers with 4gb each a couple of
> years ago.
> I was stuck in awe. So much ram.
Yes. I remember as well.
"Why 128 MB RAM in that workstation? Are you sure we need that much? It
costs!"
> Today my desktop has 8gb - and I
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Dale schrieb:
> > Does a Vic 20 count? It had 4K of ram. I bet KDE 4 would run fast on
> > that. LOL
> >
> > At least it wasn't running winders.
>
> I remember upgrading my 8088 from 128 kB to 640 kB, it was about 50 EUR
> (back then th
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 18:55:34 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Dale schrieb:
> > Does a Vic 20 count? It had 4K of ram. I bet KDE 4 would run fast on
> > that. LOL
> >
> > At least it wasn't running winders.
>
> I remember upgrading my 8088 from 128 kB to 640 kB, it was about 50 EUR
> (bac
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:42:17 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>
>>> Tomorrow morning most of us will go back to trying to figure
>>> out how to get x.org to work everywhere, either with or
>>> without hal.
>>>
>> Which we also seem to do about once a month. ;)
No, they are entirely same.
2009/10/14 walt :
> On 10/14/2009 12:17 PM, DPX-Infinity wrote:
>> Here are mine: Installed versions: 4.28(23:40:35 09.10.2009)(X pcf
>> psf ru-dv ru-g ru-i -a-like-o -bolddiag -quote -raw-font-data -ru-k
>> -width)
>>
>> But I think USE-flags aren't connected with thi
On 10/14/2009 12:17 PM, DPX-Infinity wrote:
> Here are mine: Installed versions: 4.28(23:40:35 09.10.2009)(X pcf
> psf ru-dv ru-g ru-i -a-like-o -bolddiag -quote -raw-font-data -ru-k
> -width)
>
> But I think USE-flags aren't connected with this strange behaviour. I
> already said, that russian l
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:42:17 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > Tomorrow morning most of us will go back to trying to figure
> > out how to get x.org to work everywhere, either with or
> > without hal.
>
> Which we also seem to do about once a month. ;)
With less success :(
--
Neil Bothw
Here are mine: Installed versions: 4.28(23:40:35 09.10.2009)(X pcf
psf ru-dv ru-g ru-i -a-like-o -bolddiag -quote -raw-font-data -ru-k
-width)
But I think USE-flags aren't connected with this strange behaviour. I
already said, that russian letters are not displayed in every font,
including misc-f
On 10/14/2009 07:00 AM, DPX-Infinity wrote:
> Hi.
> I have some strange problem with X fonts (not freetype). I installed
> xmonad, dzen2 and dmenu and configured the last two to use font
> -xos4-terminus-medium...
If that font is part of the terminus-font package, there are quite a
few USE flags t
Denis wrote:
>> Let us know what blows up. ;-)
>>
>> Dale
>>
>
> Nothing blew up ;-) I was successful removing X, downgrading, and
> getting X working again with xorg-server-1.5.3 and libxcb-1.1
>
> FYI, the working package.mask file for this operation is:
>
>
>> =x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5
>
Frank Steinmetzger a écrit :
Am Freitag, 9. Oktober 2009 schrieb laurent:
Hi,
Now I've setup vsftpd with local user.
For exemple I log with the user laurent, I create a folder via ftp.
This folder is own by laurent, so it's not exessible via apache.
How could I make that, like put laurent i
Yes, of course. There are unicode and utf8 in make.conf and
UNICODE="yes" in rc.conf.
2009/10/14 walt :
> On 10/14/2009 07:00 AM, DPX-Infinity wrote:
>> Hi.
>> I have some strange problem with X fonts (not freetype). I installed
>> xmonad, dzen2 and dmenu and configured the last two to use font
>>
Dale schrieb:
> Does a Vic 20 count? It had 4K of ram. I bet KDE 4 would run fast on
> that. LOL
>
> At least it wasn't running winders.
I remember upgrading my 8088 from 128 kB to 640 kB, it was about 50 EUR
(back then there was no EUR, sure) ..
I feel kinda old thinking of this ;-)
And t
> Let us know what blows up. ;-)
>
> Dale
Nothing blew up ;-) I was successful removing X, downgrading, and
getting X working again with xorg-server-1.5.3 and libxcb-1.1
FYI, the working package.mask file for this operation is:
>=x11-libs/libXext-1.0.5
>=x11-libs/libX11-1.2
>=x11-libs/libxcb-1
On 10/14/2009 07:00 AM, DPX-Infinity wrote:
> Hi.
> I have some strange problem with X fonts (not freetype). I installed
> xmonad, dzen2 and dmenu and configured the last two to use font
> -xos4-terminus-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 (but I have this
> problem in other fonts too) because I n
KH wrote:
> pk schrieb:
>> Dale wrote:
>>
>>> I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
>>> well for me.
>>
>> I think someone (in?)famous said: "640K is more memory than anyone will
>> ever need..." ;-)
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Peter K
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> my first Mac had 2
At Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:13:59 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> At Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:02:25 +0200 Alan McKinnon
> wrote:
>
>> qt*-4.5.1 blocks qt*-4.5.2. It's not a simple single package that you
>> upgrade,
>> it's multiple packages and throughout the build you will have incompatible
>> package
pk schrieb:
Dale wrote:
I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
well for me.
I think someone (in?)famous said: "640K is more memory than anyone will
ever need..." ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
Hi,
my first Mac had 256kb. I upgraded it to 1mb because kit had one
On Monday 12 October 2009 21:13:26 I wrote:
> Even allowing for the smiley, this isn't true. English makes perfect sense
> to me.
Since then my ISP's been playing silly beggars and cocked up my mail delivery
so that I received nothing at all. It's fixed now but anything sent to the
list meanwhi
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 13:38:53 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> grep ^kde-base /var/lib/portage/world | sed s/$/:4/
> >/etc/portage/package.mask/kde4
That's neat. Thanks - though it misses anything pulled in by world entries.
Meanwhile I've captured the file that Jonathan mentioned - and I've alrea
Hi.
I have some strange problem with X fonts (not freetype). I installed
xmonad, dzen2 and dmenu and configured the last two to use font
-xos4-terminus-medium-*-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 (but I have this
problem in other fonts too) because I need the unicode for correct
display of russian letters
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:30:06 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> In the last few days some parts of KDE v4 seem to have been moved into
> the stable tree, but on some of my boxes I want to exclude kde:4 (but
> not qt:4).
>
> What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the
> whole
>
> Hi,
>
> for this weekend I planned to migrate to baselayout 2
> finally.
>
> On gentoo web I found this: 2.
> Migration to OpenRC
> Migration to OpenRC is fairly straightforward; it will be pulled in
> as part of your regular upgrade process by your package manager.
>
> I tried to check
> What is the syntax for a single entry in package.mask to exclude the whole of
> kde:4? I did start masking each package separately, but that's far too much
> work - I'd finish up with an entry for every kde package that has a version
> 4. Also, "kde:4", which seems like the right thing to specify
>> > It must be a year or so now with all different kernels. On boot up kdm
>> > fires
>> > up, but within 5 seconds or so and while the use is busy entering their
>> > passwd on the kdm screen, it suddenly returns to the console. Alt+F7
>> > brings them back to their kdm, but this behaviour is c
> Who mentioned data loss? Formatting in Windows reduces the risk of
> Windows complaining about the format. It may not be standards-compliant,
> but at least is is consistently broken.
Sorry I'm a bit late on this, but just a note, in fstab, you should
use the option iocharset=utf8, otherwise it'
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 13:31:09 pk wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
> > well for me.
>
> I think someone (in?)famous said: "640K is more memory than anyone will
> ever need..." ;-)
Well, it wasn't Bill Gates (just in case that'
Dale wrote:
> I think mine has a 3Gb limit too. I have two installed tho. It works
> well for me.
I think someone (in?)famous said: "640K is more memory than anyone will
ever need..." ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
On Mittwoch 14 Oktober 2009, dhk wrote:
> Can someone explain the procedure for the installing software that has a
> fetch restriction?
>
> Whenever I get the "F" for fetch restricted (must be manually
> downloaded) I can't get the build right. Usually I have to go to a
> web-site and then after
dhk wrote:
> Can someone explain the procedure for the installing software that has a
> fetch restriction?
>
> Whenever I get the "F" for fetch restricted (must be manually
> downloaded) I can't get the build right. Usually I have to go to a
> web-site and then after downloading what is needed I g
Can someone explain the procedure for the installing software that has a
fetch restriction?
Whenever I get the "F" for fetch restricted (must be manually
downloaded) I can't get the build right. Usually I have to go to a
web-site and then after downloading what is needed I get stuck.
Basically I
KH wrote:
> Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
> [snip]
>>
>> As I see I am not even able to use much RAM with several (vmware-)VMs
>> running, so the 8 gigs will maybe stay some number to impress *some*
>> people with (until everyone gets 8 gigs into their supermarket-PCs).
>>
>> Anyway.
>> Stefan
>>
>
KH schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> my motherboard cannot go above 3gigs so I am very impressed ;-)
Wow, at last one ;-)
S
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
[snip]
As I see I am not even able to use much RAM with several (vmware-)VMs
running, so the 8 gigs will maybe stay some number to impress *some*
people with (until everyone gets 8 gigs into their supermarket-PCs).
Anyway.
Stefan
Hi,
my motherboard cannot go ab
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:04:54 Denis wrote:
>
>> Perhaps I should try this procedure on my home gentoo box first.
>>
>> Here are my USE flags:
>>
>> X aac aim alsa ao bash-completion bdf branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb
>> cdparanoia cdr cpudetection djvu emac
Lie Ryan wrote:
> [1] for some reason, after setting HOSTNAME to localhost I can't start
> new GUI program/create new window after NetworkManager/nm-applet is
> running. I suspect there is some NetworkManager settings lying around
> somewhere that resets the name to lieryan and the change confused
On 14 Oct, Denis wrote:
.
> proprietary software I am currently running. I would much rather
> upgrade Mathematica, but that is not an option for me at this time.
> Thankfully, I was able to remove X and reinstall it based on the
> previous versions of the libraries I don't yet know wheth
Joshua Murphy schrieb:
> Yep! sys-apps/preload goes a long way to automate what I did with
> busybox's readahead tool, and I'm about 99% certain they both make the
> same system call to do the work anyways... it's all a matter of how &
> where they get their list of *what* to fetch... I, as I said
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