Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-03 Thread Thanasis
on 01/01/2010 03:38 PM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: Depends on the split used. With 2 GB : 2 GB you can have all-lowmem 1.5 GB RAM, without CONFIG_HIGHMEM*. 2 GB of per-process address space is usually not a problem. How do you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:12:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I have an encfs encrpted partition on my home machine.. However I want a back up offsite. The encrypted partition would be mounted, the contents tarred/gzipped, mcrypt'ed on home machine then scp'ed to the remote for offsite

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and kde-base/kdelibs:3.5

2010-01-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 2 Jan, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: yes, get rid of the app that needs kde3 and move on. Very good idea, indeed. Then, please, tell me a replacement for app-office/kexi. Thanks! -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Firefox call Google?

2010-01-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 03 January 2010 06:51:05 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: your browser will contact Google's servers when you visit a potentially risky site. It will also periodically contact Google's servers to download the most recent list of known phishing and malware sites

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2010-01-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 3 Jan, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. Perhaps you could try venti+fossil or git.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sky2 , kernel 2.6.31, macbook pro and connection hiccups

2010-01-03 Thread bn
Neil Walker ha scritto: bn wrote: Ehm, no, it disconnects randomly every about ~5 minutes, and then comes back. Most network problems can be traced to the cable or connectors. Have you tried a different cable? No, but before the kernel upgrade it seemed to work OK. However I will

[gentoo-user] What standalone GTK2 Engines are available?

2010-01-03 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hello, I used to use xfce-mcs-manager as a lightweight standalone gtk2 engine for my enlightenment desktop (for using GTK2 themes to render). I've just reinstalled Gentoo on my machine, and now xfce-mcs-manager is no more (seems it's been merged deeper in xfce now, so no longer standalone).

Re: [gentoo-user] What standalone GTK2 Engines are available?

2010-01-03 Thread YoYo siska
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:51:55PM +, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hello, I used to use xfce-mcs-manager as a lightweight standalone gtk2 engine for my enlightenment desktop (for using GTK2 themes to render). I've just reinstalled Gentoo on my machine, and now xfce-mcs-manager is no more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-03 Thread felix
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:30:03AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:12:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I have an encfs encrpted partition on my home machine.. However I want a back up offsite. The encrypted partition would be mounted, the contents tarred/gzipped,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sky2 , kernel 2.6.31, macbook pro and connection hiccups

2010-01-03 Thread Aaron Clark
On 01/03/2010 08:14 AM, bn wrote: Neil Walker ha scritto: I have a similar chipset in this desktop: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14) Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 00ba It's worked perfectly

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-03 Thread Thanasis
on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org writes: Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? This EMBEDDED just means don't touch these unless you really know what you're doing. BTW I remember using