Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread the
On 07/06/13 02:21, Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On 06/07/13 04:12, Dale wrote: I had a interesting adventure the other day. A friend of mine's son is getting ready to go to college. Budget is tight so we went to find a used laptop for him. I went into the local puter shop and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/07/2013 00:21, Dale wrote: I'm still trying to figure out what he thought he would accomplish tho. I can't get my head wrapped around that yet. That's easy to answer. The fellow probably doesn't know much. If you want a brilliant example, just go read a wide bunch of threads on the

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 21:55:36 -0600, Joseph wrote: What was confusing to me is the fact that I logged into the system via ssh to my account and su to use who was in group games but for some reason or another the games would not execute. su gives you the rights of the user but it not the same as

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 05 Jul 2013 22:46:10 Paul Hartman wrote: ... but the person sitting at the keyboard is usually capable of screwing it up more than any virus. :) Hah! Tell me about it. :-( -- Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread Mick
On Saturday 06 Jul 2013 07:57:38 the wrote: On 07/06/13 02:21, Dale wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: On 06/07/13 04:12, Dale wrote: While we was chatting, he said that Linux is just as prone to getting a virus as windoze and so is a Mac. I think my laughing let him know I wasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread Randolph Maaßen
On Jul 6, 2013 11:13 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Friday 05 Jul 2013 22:46:10 Paul Hartman wrote: ... but the person sitting at the keyboard is usually capable of screwing it up more than any virus. :) Hah! Tell me about it. :-( -- Peter What I did recently:

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread shawn wilson
I was present for a discussion about which is the most secure OS. I don't remember the forum but the consensus was that the most secure OS is the one you know. Anyone can wreck a system but not everyone has the ability to maintain a system. I'm not arguing that you can run Windows as tight as

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 10:50:40AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Technically, he's not wrong - any OS is just as susceptible to viruses as any other, you just have to get over the first hurdle which is getting code to run. The overall design of Windows has historically made this somewhat easy,

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-06 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 10:12:27AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 05 Jul 2013 22:46:10 Paul Hartman wrote: ... but the person sitting at the keyboard is usually capable of screwing it up more than any virus. :) Hah! Tell me about it. :-( Ack -- Happy Penguin Computers

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Displaylink adapter and setting up X

2013-07-06 Thread Michael Mol
On 03/14/2012 08:11 AM, Robert David wrote: V Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:24:47 -0500 Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com napsáno: I feel really stupid asking this, but I want to use an HDMI component to output one of my PCs to the TV set. I've followed all of the wiki entry at

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - Displaylink adapter and setting up X

2013-07-06 Thread Michael Mol
On 07/06/2013 01:31 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On 03/14/2012 08:11 AM, Robert David wrote: V Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:24:47 -0500 Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com napsáno: I feel really stupid asking this, but I want to use an HDMI component to output one of my PCs to the TV set. I've followed

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-06 Thread Thanasis
on 07/06/2013 12:03 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: su username - I think that sould be: su - username

[gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-06 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error (I/O error). I checked the logs (see attached file), but could not find a hint. I compared each and every file on the disk with its

Re: [gentoo-user] xscavenger - game

2013-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 06 Jul 2013 21:20:12 +0300, Thanasis wrote: su username - I think that sould be: su - username You're right. su is incredibly picky about the location of - on the command line, which is why I prefer to use -l. -- Neil Bothwick Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-06 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: Hi there, I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error (I/O error). I checked the logs (see attached file), but could not find a