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

2013-07-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Sorry for breaking the mail thread. I have no message id of the original mail by Alex, because i was not subscribed to this list when that mail was posted. alexander.puchmayr wrote: I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk using k3b, and for no apparent reason

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

2013-07-08 Thread Paul Colquhoun
On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 14:06:36 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: On Samstag, 6. Juli 2013, 23:55:52 Joerg Schilling wrote: [...] Any ideas what could have gone wrong? It is interesting that there is no error message in the output from your attachment. k3b should usew cdrecord instead of

Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Thanasis
on 07/07/2013 11:58 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote: I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search locally *all* layman overlays. What commands and settings should I use?

Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/07/2013 09:56, Thanasis wrote: on 07/07/2013 11:58 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote: I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search locally *all* layman overlays. What commands and settings should I use?

Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2013/7/7 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote: I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search locally *all* layman overlays. What commands and settings should I use? LOCAL_LAYMAN=/path/to/layman/storage eix-remote -q

Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Thanasis
on 07/08/2013 11:12 AM Daniel Pielmeier wrote the following: 2013/7/7 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote: I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search locally *all* layman overlays. What commands and settings

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

2013-07-08 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Sonntag, 7. Juli 2013, 17:19:30 Paul Hartman wrote: On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: 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

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

2013-07-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Puchmayr alexander.puchm...@linznet.at wrote: I don't use k3b but I know when I burn a 25GB disc image using growisofs, I have to disable the spare sectors otherwise it won't fit on the disc, and it burns all the way until the end where it fails, rather than knowing ahead of

[gentoo-user] Disable Screen Blanking

2013-07-08 Thread Norman Rieß
Hi, i am trying to disable Screen Blanking but have been unsuccessful so far. I used various methods: * installed gnome-power-manager and disabled screen power saving * setterm -blank 0 * echoing setterm -blank 0 to the dev/ttyXs * xset s off * Kernel parameter in Grub consoleblank=0 A

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable Screen Blanking

2013-07-08 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2013/7/8 Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org Hi, i am trying to disable Screen Blanking but have been unsuccessful so far. I used various methods: * installed gnome-power-manager and disabled screen power saving * setterm -blank 0 * echoing setterm -blank 0 to the dev/ttyXs * xset s off *

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-08 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Dale wrote Well, no Wine here. So that won't happen. Actually, I don't have a copy of windoze here at all. Neither of my two rigs have ever had windoze installed on them at all. BTW, I have been known to open those attachments

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux viruses

2013-07-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-07-08, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through java/javascript/flash? Possibly. It would require use of a privledge-escalation exploit (which have been found in the past for Linux). Or would the

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through java/javascript/flash? Or would the infection at the least be limited to that user? I think how they typically work, on any OS, is they exploit a bug in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/07/2013 15:24, Dale wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Dale wrote Well, no Wine here. So that won't happen. Actually, I don't have a copy of windoze here at all. Neither of my two rigs have ever had windoze installed on them at all. BTW, I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable Screen Blanking

2013-07-08 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08.07.2013 14:43, schrieb Randolph Maaßen: 2013/7/8 Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org mailto:nor...@smash-net.org Hi, i am trying to disable Screen Blanking but have been unsuccessful so far. I used various methods: * installed gnome-power-manager and disabled

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: ST4000DM000 As a side-note these two Seagate 4TB Desktop edition drives I bought already, after about than 100 hours of power-on usage, both drives have each encountered dozens of unreadable sectors so far. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/07/2013 17:39, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: ST4000DM000 As a side-note these two Seagate 4TB Desktop edition drives I bought already, after about than 100 hours of power-on usage, both drives have each

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.07.2013 17:58, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 08/07/2013 17:39, Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: ST4000DM000 As a side-note these two Seagate 4TB Desktop edition drives I bought already, after about than 100 hours of

[gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Martin Vaeth
Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: So in /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc I have set KEEP_VIRTUALS=true REMOTE_DEFAULT=1 With the current default setting of separate databases for the local eix cache (normally /var/cache/eix/portage.eix) and for the remote eix cache (/var/cache/eix/remote.eix),