Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: I just did a killall kopete and it did stop. Is there a way to see what it is sending/receiving? I'm talking like is it a jpeg, some other file or something else? rix portage # nmap -p 5050 -sV cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com http://cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread Adam Carter
Is this easy to do? I have no idea where to start except that wireshark is installed. Yep, start the capture with Capture - Interfaces and click on the start button next to the correct interface, then right click on one of the packets that is to the yahoo box and choose Decode As set the port

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-17 Thread Florian CROUZAT
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17 août 2010, at 02:58, Adam Carter wrote: Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempting to get

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-17 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
2010/8/16 Stéphane Guedon steph...@22decembre.eu: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:24:42 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/8/16 Stéphane Guedon steph...@22decembre.eu: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers

[gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi, Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet? I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, and downgrading that package is decidedly non-trivial. Only comment I can find at this early stage is flameeye's blog, and this makes me quadruple nervous: And if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-17 Thread David Abbott
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote:  Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. I would suggest using Wicd [0] and disable all !net.* rc scripts depending on the version of baselayout /openrc you have the file to edit [1] will change. [0]

[gentoo-user] regarding Participation in Gentoo Linux

2010-08-17 Thread arjun.sharma
Hi, I would like to participate in the Gentoo Linux.Please help and suggest how can I become a member for Gentoo Linux.I have gone through the website of gentoo following the link :http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contact.xml#intro .Please help and reply with some suggestions.I am really

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-17 Thread Graham Murray
I have glibc-2.12.1 running on two ~x86 systems with no problems so far. Hi, Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet? I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, and downgrading that package is decidedly non-trivial. Only comment I can find at this early

[gentoo-user] [OT] MonoDevelop + Moonlight

2010-08-17 Thread Jake Moe
Hello all Can anyone help me with this combo? I've unmasked MonoDevelop from Portage and installed it, and it runs, but when I tell it to make a test Moonlight app and try to build/run it, it errors with Framework 'Moonlight / Silverlight 2.0' not installed, and if I expand all the References

Re: [gentoo-user] regarding Participation in Gentoo Linux

2010-08-17 Thread Jake Moe
On 08/17/10 19:27, arjun.sha...@wipro.com wrote: Hi, I would like to participate in the Gentoo Linux.Please help and suggest how can I become a member for Gentoo Linux.I have gone through the website of gentoo following the link :http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contact.xml#intro .Please

RE: [gentoo-user] regarding Participation in Gentoo Linux

2010-08-17 Thread arjun.sharma
Hi, I have already followed below link,but now I need to know how can I proceed further.How can i have a mentor and start the further process. Thanks, Arjun. From: Jake Moe [mailto:jakesaddr...@gmail.com] Sent: Tue 17/08/2010 3:40 PM To:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with revdep-rebuild

2010-08-17 Thread Jake Moe
On 08/16/10 19:47, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: Some new people think it knows where things come from even if it is not installed. It can't do that so I posted that in case the person didn't know. Well, I'm not very expert about gentoo... I though it would query some kind of database to

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread Dale
Adam Carter wrote: Is this easy to do? I have no idea where to start except that wireshark is installed. Yep, start the capture with Capture - Interfaces and click on the start button next to the correct interface, then right click on one of the packets that is to the yahoo box and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-17 Thread Elmar Hinz
2010/8/17 Hal Martin hal.mar...@gmail.com: A friend recently gave me a SimpleTech Zeus 8GB SSD. I'd like to replace my hard drive with this SSD for the lower latency and faster access times it will provide. Currently my / partition is 24GB, 20GB of which is in use. Using xdiskusage I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-17 Thread Jake Moe
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote: Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and the wikis - ad nauseum. I'm still having

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-17 Thread Elmar Hinz
I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome. Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB =  7,1 GB Sorry: Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB = 5,1 GB

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-17 Thread dhk
On 08/17/2010 02:45 AM, Florian CROUZAT wrote: On 17 août 2010, at 02:58, Adam Carter wrote: Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: -- transfer complete Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Bulk command transfer result=0 Aug 16 20:22:59 host kernel: usb-storage: Attempting to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-17 Thread Elmar Hinz
I would suggest using Wicd [0] and disable all !net.* rc scripts AFAIK Wicd is just a graphical frontend to wpa_supplicant. So I would recommend to try wpa_supplicant on the command line to get full feedback. And once the card is running you maybe don't really need a graphical frontend at

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-17 Thread Elmar Hinz
@ CJoeB It can be really hard. I needed days. There is more than one difficulty. For example I needed to set my laptop type in the kernel (asus_laptop). Without that, the card is not turned on at all, even if the card driver itself is loaded. Then you need to compile the password for

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread Jake Moe
On 08/17/10 20:23, Dale wrote: Adam Carter wrote: Is this easy to do? I have no idea where to start except that wireshark is installed. Yep, start the capture with Capture - Interfaces and click on the start button next to the correct interface, then right click on one of the

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
dhk writes: I don't understand why it just started to be a problem. I've had this kernel for almost four months. Shouldn't the log's be rotated and purged? Depends on your system logger. Metalog does this automatically, but for others you probably have to install logrotate. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-17 Thread Elmar Hinz
When I got this to work, I thought I was home free despite the kludgy way of getting wireless working.  However, I rebooted and now, when I type iwlist wlan0 scan I get told that scanning is not supported.  Yes, I have iwl3945-ucode installed and yes, it was recompiled after the kernel was

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread Dale
Jake Moe wrote: On 08/17/10 20:23, Dale wrote: Adam Carter wrote: Is this easy to do? I have no idea where to start except that wireshark is installed. Yep, start the capture with Capture - Interfaces and click on the start button next to the correct interface, then

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-17 Thread Nganon
On 17 August 2010 00:37, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 16 August 2010 11:30:36 Nganon wrote: On 16 August 2010 11:36, Marco listwo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.com nganon%2bgen...@gmail.com nganon%2bgen...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-17 Thread Nganon
On 17 August 2010 02:53, Thomas Yao t.yao...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure if it's in an overlay, but I don't think it's in portage. Run eix -l backup and see how many back up tools and scripts pop up. I have been using

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-17 Thread dhk
On 08/17/2010 07:17 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: dhk writes: I don't understand why it just started to be a problem. I've had this kernel for almost four months. Shouldn't the log's be rotated and purged? Depends on your system logger. Metalog does this automatically, but for others you

Re: [gentoo-user] =www-client/chromium-6.0.472.33 and h264

2010-08-17 Thread Nganon
On 17 August 2010 04:26, Andy Wilkinson drukar...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that ebuilds of chromium at and later than 6.0.472.33 no longer use the system-provided ffmpeg, and seem to lose support for h264 videos (test any non-webm, html5 video at youtube; it will never load). I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-17 Thread Adam Carter
Then you need to compile the password for wpa_supplicant with wpa_password. It doesn´t take the plain passphrase. It does for me; For pre-shared keys psk=plainpassphrase For .1x/EAP password=plainpassphrase

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-17 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Hi Am 16.08.2010 01:11, schrieb Nganon: Hello all, My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something that I started to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two main questions in mind: what to and how to back up on gentoo most efficiently. 1.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-17 Thread Alex Schuster
Maximilian Bräutigam writes: You should backup all in / except /tmp/* /sys/* /proc/* /lost+found/* /dev/* Attention here, you need at least the null and console entries in /dev, or the system will not come up. I also have tty and tty1 in there, I think those were neede for tuxonice.

Re: [gentoo-user] regarding Participation in Gentoo Linux

2010-08-17 Thread Arttu V.
On 8/17/10, arjun.sha...@wipro.com arjun.sha...@wipro.com wrote: Hi, I have already followed below link,but now I need to know how can I proceed further.How can i have a mentor and start the further process. Try the irc channels. AFAIK it is in practice near-impossible to become a Gentoo

[gentoo-user] the host system hangs when create openvz CT

2010-08-17 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system gentoo amd64, and i am trying to start another gentoo instance in openvz. after i started the vz, i ran vzctl create 101 --ostemplate gentoo-amd64-20100617 and got below error: Creating container private area (gentoo-amd64-20100617) /usr/lib64/vzctl/scripts/vps-create: line 31:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-17 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 8/16/2010 2:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas flash player exist

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions, is that my camera broke, and I had to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Adam Carter wrote: Is this easy to do? I have no idea where to start except that wireshark is installed. Yep, start the capture with Capture - Interfaces and click on the start button next to the correct interface,

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Aug 2010, at 15:08, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ... The clips do not play in any reasonable form. I get moments of sound, and a few pixels changing on screen; nothing coherent. I'd been told that H264 needs a lot of CPU and I guess an old 4-core 32- bit XEON (effectively 800 MHz each) on 2

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 15:21:35 Peter Ruskin wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:33:09 Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet? I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, and downgrading that package is decidedly

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: My underling thing, if anyone can make other suggestions,

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-17 Thread Elmar Hinz
Then you need to compile the password for wpa_supplicant with wpa_password. It doesn´t take the plain passphrase. It does for me; For pre-shared keys psk=plainpassphrase For .1x/EAP password=plainpassphrase Interesting. I'll give it a try. By the way, what I really wanted to say is:

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread Mick
On 17 August 2010 15:29, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Adam Carter wrote:     Is this easy to do?  I  have no idea where to start except that     wireshark is  installed. Yep, start the capture with Capture -  Interfaces and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/17/2010 03:57 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote: I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome. Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB = 7,1 GB Sorry: Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB = 5,1 GB I guess to best answer this question you need to ask what you want to do. What are you trying to speed up? Booting?

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-17 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
Em 17-08-2010 12:34, Alan McKinnon escreveu: On Tuesday 17 August 2010 15:21:35 Peter Ruskin wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2010 09:33:09 Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi, Anyone successfully built and using glibc-2.12.1 yet? I see the tree just pushed an update down from 2.11.2 to 2.12.1, and

Re: [gentoo-user] =www-client/chromium-6.0.472.33 and h264

2010-08-17 Thread Andy Wilkinson
On 08/17/2010 04:54 AM, Nganon wrote: On 17 August 2010 04:26, Andy Wilkinson drukar...@gmail.com mailto:drukar...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that ebuilds of chromium at and later than 6.0.472.33 no longer use the system-provided ffmpeg, and seem to lose support for h264

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on 8GB SSD

2010-08-17 Thread Stéphane Guedon
Le Tuesday 17 August 2010 18:31:16, Bill Longman a écrit : On 08/17/2010 03:57 AM, Elmar Hinz wrote: I am new in Gentoo. I installed Gnome. Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 5,5 GB = 7,1 GB Sorry: Portage: 1,6 GB + Rest: 3,5 GB = 5,1 GB I guess to best answer this question you need to

[gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio. There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard. Each hit on one of the keys made the sound of an old typewriter (no, it was not the sound of the legendary IBM Model M

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio. There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard. Each hit on one of the keys made the sound of an old

Re: [gentoo-user] =www-client/chromium-6.0.472.33 and h264

2010-08-17 Thread Nganon
On 17 August 2010 19:49, Andy Wilkinson drukar...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the info. That doesn't entirely answer my question, though... shouldn't chromium's bundled ffmpeg have h264 support? Google's youtube.com/html5 page suggests that Chrome (and thus chromium?) supports h264. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio. There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard. Each

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] £ sign in OpenOffice

2010-08-17 Thread Mick
On Friday 06 August 2010 21:13:06 Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I am puzzled by this problem. One box of mine seems to be unable to show the GBP sign in OpenOffice. In any OOo application it shows a capital A with umlauts and

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbrake: Is it is or is it ain't in portage

2010-08-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.compaul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread meino . cramer
Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com [10-08-17 20:16]: On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio. There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] £ sign in OpenOffice

2010-08-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 08:28:11 you wrote: On Friday 06 August 2010 21:13:06 Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I am puzzled by this problem. One box of mine seems to be unable to show the GBP sign in OpenOffice. In any OOo

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/17/2010 06:43 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote: On 8/16/2010 2:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I have read several things about this, but never really solved ! Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ? All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox)

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com [10-08-17 20:16]: On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Nganon nganon+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My first post on the list. I thought I would start with something that I started to think of as 'essential' after losing 90GB of data. Now I have two main questions in mind: what to and how to back up on gentoo most efficiently. I'm using a little

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: USE only affects optional dependencies. euse -I hal will list packages that have a hal USE flag while emerge --depclean -pv sys-apps/hal will show those that depend o it. I've just experimented a bit with that and it turned out that --depclean

[gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ? thx -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages

2010-08-17 Thread Florian CROUZAT
On 17 août 2010, at 21:53, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ? thx What is that you want to backup ? Your distfiles directory should have the tarballs, if you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Florian CROUZAT gen...@floriancrouzat.net wrote: What is that you want to backup ? The (binary) package content files. In something critical got removed or broken by accident (eg. toolchain or portage itself). And this should be done automatically. cu --

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages

2010-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 21:53:32 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ? Not that I know of. What you could do is always make a backup of all packages when they are

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages

2010-08-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: Hi folks, is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ? If you mean binary backup, you can enable buildpkg in FEATURES and wait for next+1

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages

2010-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 22:15:43 Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Florian CROUZAT gen...@floriancrouzat.net wrote: What is that you want to backup ? The (binary) package content files. In something critical got removed or broken by accident (eg. toolchain or portage itself). And this should be

Re: [gentoo-user] =www-client/chromium-6.0.472.33 and h264

2010-08-17 Thread Andy Wilkinson
On 08/17/2010 10:58 AM, Nganon wrote: On 17 August 2010 19:49, Andy Wilkinson drukar...@gmail.com mailto:drukar...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the info. That doesn't entirely answer my question, though... shouldn't chromium's bundled ffmpeg have h264 support? Google's

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On 17 August 2010 15:29, BRMbm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com Adam Carter wrote: Is this easy to do? I have no idea where to start except that wireshark is installed. Yep, start the capture with

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 21:15:51 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On 17 August 2010 15:29, BRMbm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com Adam Carter wrote: Is this easy to do? I have no idea where to start except that wireshark

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2010 21:15:51 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On 17 August 2010 15:29, BRMbm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com Adam Carter wrote: Is this easy to do? I have no idea

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:34:05 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com [10-08-17 20:16]: On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:20 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi,  on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio.  There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken  instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard.  Each hit on one of the keys made the sound of an old  

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [10-08-18 00:20]: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:20 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi,  on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio.  There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken  instructions one can hear one typing on its

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-17 Thread CJoeB
On 08/17/10 08:36, David Abbott wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:45 PM, CJoeB colleen.bea...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. I would suggest using Wicd [0] and disable all !net.* rc scripts depending on the version of baselayout /openrc you have the

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-17 Thread CJoeB
On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote: On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote: Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my previous posts which helped little. I have read the documentation and the wikis

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Bill Longman
On 08/17/2010 02:44 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:34:05 Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 20:43 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com [10-08-17 20:16]: On 08/17/2010 10:56 AM, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:20 +0200,

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 17:14 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: I have not tried it, but a Google search showed me this: http://github.com/colszowka/linux-typewriter BTW - I have Unicomp keyboards (modern version of IBM Model M) and they are loud and awesome ;) This is a weird script. It's a ruby

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.12.1

2010-08-17 Thread William Kenworthy
Hi Alan, a suggestion - for mission critical clone one of your systems into a vm (dd), get it working, upgrade and test. Or clone to a chroot and do the same. Not quite 100% - but allows some peace of mind! BillK On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 17:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 17 August

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed

2010-08-17 Thread walt
On 08/16/2010 05:13 PM, James wrote: Kaffeine croaks with ///dev/hda error Looks like you are still using the deprecated disk drivers, and you'd probably be better off getting rid of those drivers completely and using the newer replacements. e.g. in 'make menuconfig' select the Device

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/log/messages is huge

2010-08-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 11:57:13 dhk wrote: I don't understand why it just started to be a problem. I've had this kernel for almost four months. That's how long it's taken to fill your disk up. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:17 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: This is a weird script. It's a ruby script that creates a web server, but the web server listens for... It runs a python script that uses python-xlib to listen for key presses, and when a key is pressed it uses curl to open the

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:41 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: Here is my edit of his Python script. ... which I actually forgot to attach :| -a #!/usr/bin/env python ## A tiny, nifty script for playing musical notes on each keypress. ## ## Copyright Sayan Riju Chakrabarti (sayanriju) 2009 ##

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages

2010-08-17 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:53 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Hi folks, is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ? I always build binary packages when I emerge them (i.e. FEATURES=buildpkg). That way if I uninstall

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-17 Thread Jake Moe
On 18/08/10 09:04, CJoeB wrote: On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote: On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote: Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my previous posts which helped little. I have read

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Mick wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2010 21:15:51 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On 17 August 2010 15:29, BRMbm_witn...@yahoo.comwrote: - Original Message From: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com Adam Carter wrote: Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread Dale
BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com I'm thinking it is Yahoo wanting to upgrade something but not realizing that I'm not using their client but using kopete. Yahoo isn't the sharpest tool in the shed you know? I doubt that's the case. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread Dale
BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com I'm thinking it is Yahoo wanting to upgrade something but not realizing that I'm not using their client but using kopete. Yahoo isn't the sharpest tool in the shed you know? I doubt that's the case. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Still Struggling With Wireless

2010-08-17 Thread CJoeB
On 08/18/10 01:12, Jake Moe wrote: On 18/08/10 09:04, CJoeB wrote: On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote: On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote: Hi, I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted before. And before anyone asks, I have read the responses to my previous

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 1.65

2010-08-17 Thread dan blum
Bill, The xorg version is 1.7.6 (no r# to the best of my knowledge). When I do emerge it will re-emerge the 1.7.6 version and not the newer 1.8.2 version. The video card is VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01). I

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:47 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: By the way (the same way! ;)) I am in search of such an model m IBM-keyboard. A colleque yesterday calls me and said, that he found one for me in the PC-junk at the basement of the building he is working in. Hopefully it is one

Re: [gentoo-user] Typewriter sound

2010-08-17 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:47 PM,meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: By the way (the same way! ;)) I am in search of such an model m IBM-keyboard. A colleque yesterday calls me and said, that he found one for me in the PC-junk at the basement of the building he is working in.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg 1.65

2010-08-17 Thread W.Kenworthy
Its worth unmasking the required packages for intel cards - there have been some quite useful improvements in speed and stability - its one case where you are definitely better off on the bleeding edge for the intel driver, xorg-server and the kernel:) Anything less at the moment will leave you

[gentoo-user] Regenerate portage cache from scratch following a big toe crash?

2010-08-17 Thread Mark Knecht
OK, this is too funny. I'm sitting here in the dark browsing around on my home machine while I'm doing an eix-sync. I have my legs crossed, sitting in my chair that swivels, and guess what...my big toe is at __exactly__ the height of the main power button on my APC UPS, and darn if I don't hit it

Re: [gentoo-user] Regenerate portage cache from scratch following a big toe crash?

2010-08-17 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: OK, this is too funny. I'm sitting here in the dark browsing around on my home machine while I'm doing an eix-sync. I have my legs crossed, sitting in my chair that swivels, and guess what...my big toe is at __exactly__ the height of the main power button on my APC UPS, and