Re: [gentoo-user] Single user mode without keyboard ?

2012-08-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 06:56:31 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Now, I can enter the grub and add an S to the commandline and boot the kernel by pressing B. When the kernel asks for the root password, the keyboard is no longer recognized. No chance other than to press the power button. Are

Re: [gentoo-user] Single user mode without keyboard ?

2012-08-07 Thread meino . cramer
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [12-08-07 10:29]: On Tue, 7 Aug 2012 06:56:31 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Now, I can enter the grub and add an S to the commandline and boot the kernel by pressing B. When the kernel asks for the root password, the keyboard is no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Single user mode without keyboard ?

2012-08-07 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Neil, yes they are... It works before (same kernel) so something different must have changed. Is there any order of scripts under /etc, which may have resorted while updateing Gentoo? Best regards, mcc Someone else ran into this a few weeks or so ago. Did

Re: [gentoo-user] Single user mode without keyboard ?

2012-08-07 Thread meino . cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [12-08-07 11:44]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Neil, yes they are... It works before (same kernel) so something different must have changed. Is there any order of scripts under /etc, which may have resorted while updateing Gentoo? Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Single user mode without keyboard ?

2012-08-07 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Dale, TADA! CONFIG_HIDRAW was missing in my .config. Now it works again! Thank yoy very much for your help! :)) Best regards, mcc This is something new. You are not the first to miss it and I almost did myself. Just shear luck on my part. I just wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] crosscompiling...the point of view

2012-08-07 Thread YoYo Siska
On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 06:37:07PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com [12-08-06 17:36]: On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 8:01 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am asking, because I found not only one description of somehow complicated setups to

[gentoo-user] Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-07 Thread James
Hello, I'm looking into setting up a stock market monitoring and trading workstation on Gentoo. Any suggestions or experiences are welcome. James

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 8:51 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, I'm looking into setting up a stock market monitoring and trading workstation on Gentoo. Any suggestions or experiences are welcome. James Good luck. I don't envy you and I (attempt to) do this for a living at

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-07 Thread James
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: I'm looking into setting up a stock market monitoring and trading workstation on Gentoo. Any suggestions or experiences are welcome. Good luck. I don't envy you and I (attempt to) do this for a living at home... Exactly what I (feared)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: SNIP Hello Mark, I think I'll put the R stuff as research interest on a separate machine to evaluate... I'm Looking for some guidance on this (VM) subject, related to online stock trading. Should I set up a machine on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-07 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 07 Aug 2012 19:46:24 Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:17 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: SNIP Hello Mark, I think I'll put the R stuff as research interest on a separate machine to evaluate... I'm Looking for some guidance on this (VM) subject,

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Well, I don't want to force it to fail just for the heck of it. Of course... I just want to make sure it is not going to fail in the first few months of use. But what you don't know about those failed drives is whether

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-07 Thread walt
On 08/07/2012 11:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Each Windows VM has it's own Windows license as well as it's own virus protection license. I run different trading apps in different VMs. All trading VMs are Virtualbox. Just curious if you've given wine a try in recent months. I use a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Well, I don't want to force it to fail just for the heck of it. Of course... I just want to make sure it is not going to fail in the first few months of use. But what you don't know about those failed

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 07 August 2012 23:39:05 Mark Knecht wrote: Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl output ... I wonder. Does anyone here know what most often causes HD failure after a couple of months? I imagine it's some

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't know you could do low level formats anymore. Really? What package provides that? Hmmm, I'm thinking about those HOURS spent formatting a 100Mb drive and then thinking about how long it will take to do a 3Tb drive.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:54 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/07/2012 11:46 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: Each Windows VM has it's own Windows license as well as it's own virus protection license. I run different trading apps in different VMs. All trading VMs are Virtualbox. Just curious if

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: In the meantime, it is what it is. I completely understand Dale, and I'm not picking on you. Just get that second drive as soon as you can. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 07 August 2012 23:39:05 Mark Knecht wrote: Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple of months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl output ... I wonder. Does anyone here know

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't know you could do low level formats anymore. Really? What package provides that? Hmmm, I'm thinking about those HOURS spent formatting a 100Mb drive and then thinking about how long it will take

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 21:19 -0500, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't know you could do low level formats anymore. Really? What package provides that? Hmmm, I'm thinking about those HOURS spent formatting a 100Mb

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Adam Carter
I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I read somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all 0's then back again that it is very hard to get any data back off the drive. I think if you do it like over a dozen times, it is deemed impossible to get anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 14:02 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: I have seen where people use dd to do this sort of thing to. I read somewhere that if you do a dd and put in all 1's, then all 0's then back again that it is very hard to get any data back off the drive. I think if you do it like over

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Dale
William Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 21:19 -0500, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't know you could do low level formats anymore. Really? What package provides that? Hmmm, I'm thinking about those HOURS spent

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread Adam Carter
To wipe a drive use dban. - live CD which uses (US) gov approved standards of wipe methods/patterns. Or shred, which comes with coreutils. dd is only going to show sectors on a failed drive - too late! To explain, modern drives have a store of locations they can use to transparently

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 23:18 -0500, Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 21:19 -0500, Dale wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: ... Goggle have a well known document