Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Aaron Clark
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 schrieb ext Strong Cypher: For exemple , with reiser4 the portage directory don't take a lot of space, and so read it it's really fast... The same is true for reiser3. I want a alternative Well, there are plenty: xfs, jfs, ... Of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Aaron Clark
Dale wrote: Little addition to XFS, I tried it once a while ago. Every time the power failed, it would never boot again. I can say from personal experience and from what I have read from others, if you plan to use XFS, have a good UPS hooked up. It does not like power failures at all.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-06 Thread Aaron Clark
Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Ale wrote: | Is a nice idea to start something useful for us (Gentoo | users/developers) but because the way it is in Ubuntu i don't find | interesting something like Total Speed Up or Focus on 64-bit desktop |

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

2008-05-07 Thread Aaron Clark
On 7-May-08, at 5:39 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I checked gentoo.org and even a quick search on the forums but didn't see anything about a massive boo boo. Just trying to see what is up here. Pardon the noise but could someone reply to let me know it's still working? Last message I

Re: [gentoo-user] Oddity installing 2007.0 amd64 onto shuttle w/ athlon64

2008-05-28 Thread Aaron Clark
Steven Lembark wrote: Steven Lembark wrote: Using install-amd64-minimal-2007.0.iso the thing boots and tells me the kernel is linux livecd 2.6.24-gentoo-r5 smp, i686 amd athlon 64 x2 dual core processor authentic AMD. Extracting the stage3 tarball from Partial answer: Installing from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Java Runtime is best?

2008-06-07 Thread Aaron Clark
Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 10:24:57AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote I only need a runtime. I don't know the programming language, so there's no need for a full-blown development environment. OK, so I *WAS* going to try the Sun JRE. It seems that there's no such animal. You

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-11 Thread Aaron Clark
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 11 June 2008, Hal Martin wrote: Using Thunderbird it appeared to be a new thread, the same applies to the GMail web interface. Interesting. I wonder what mechanism those clients use to determine threads then (I use neither myself)? Actually, in threaded

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Harmony ebuild?

2008-06-14 Thread Aaron Clark
On 14-Jun-08, at 9:17 AM, Davi Vidal wrote: Hi all. Is there any Apache Harmony ebuild in somewhere? I searched for tutorials in Gentoo-Wiki and I'm googling for Apache Harmony ebuild gentoo without success. You might have your best luck getting a good answer on

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation for a wireless G Broadband Router

2008-06-27 Thread Aaron Clark
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have a linksys (Cisco) WRT54G, which works fine except for one point. I have been unable to find in the documentation how to tell its dhcp server that mac address X should get IP addr Y. I am prepared to accept the deserved shame if someone tells me how to do this.

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

2008-07-02 Thread Aaron Clark
For those still searching for background on this topic to try and understand the effects and discussions of the GPL vs CDDL licensing in other distros and how this may affect your use on Gentoo, you may find the respective articles on wikipedia instructive. Don't just read the brief

Re: [gentoo-user] Solution?: flaky ethernet driver

2007-08-16 Thread Aaron Clark
On 16-Aug-07, at 1:43 PM, James wrote: James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: I have this ethernet on a Sony laptop: 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 16) Hello, I know I should not answer my own posts, but, I'm in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Solution?: flaky ethernet driver

2007-08-16 Thread Aaron Clark
On 16-Aug-07, at 9:55 PM, James wrote: Aaron Clark ophidian at ophidian.homeip.net writes: I have this ethernet on a Sony laptop: 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 16) You could try the sky2 driver (listed

Re: [gentoo-user] building a box for Gentoo (update)

2007-08-26 Thread Aaron Clark
On 20-Aug-07, at 3:06 PM, Philip Webb wrote: (1bd) The mobo listed is described on the ASUS site under 'VGA' as Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 integrated High-definition video processing with maximum resolution 2048 x 1536 bpp @ 75 Hz ; maximum shared memory 256 MB ; supports

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]advice for a wireless router

2007-10-28 Thread Aaron Clark
On 28-Oct-07, at 5:26 PM, b.n. wrote: Hi, Sorry for the slight OT. On Monday I'll have a new shiny MacBook Pro at home :) (where I will install Gentoo, of course). For this reason, I'd like to have wireless at home. So I'm planning to buy a wireless router to share my current DSL*

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]advice for a wireless router

2007-10-28 Thread Aaron Clark
On 28-Oct-07, at 6:15 PM, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:59:05 -0400 Aaron Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds like what you really want to get is a Linksys WRT54GL[1] that you can then flash with something like dd-wrt[2] or OpenWRT[3]. Aaron Sure, you could do

[gentoo-user] Return of packages.gentoo.org?

2007-11-14 Thread Aaron Clark
I started getting results on the RSS feed again this morning after months of being dark. It appears to be back up, although a visit to the web address gives a layout that definitely looks like a work in progress. Still, it's nice to see it back. Aaron -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install a 64bit system from a 32bit minimal CD

2007-11-26 Thread Aaron Clark
Yoav Luft wrote: Hi all, Got myself a new machine, AMD Athlon x2 4000 based, all up and running, but I have no functional CD writer! Can I use the previously burnt 2006 minimal x86 cd to install on my x86_64 system? Or can you think of any other way to install without a burning a new CD? It

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer plugin

2009-01-14 Thread Aaron Clark
Michael P. Soulier wrote: So, I interpret this as the mplayer plugin not being available for firefox 3.0, which is why it's pulling in the 2.0 stream. So, my best solution is probably just to uninstall the mplayer plugin, is that right? It seems to work fine in firefox 3.0. If I want to run

Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-09 Thread Aaron Clark
Drew Tomlinson wrote: I'm looking for an vncviewer for Linux that has the same features as the Tight VNC viewer on Windows. I really like how the Windows viewer will scale the desktop and remember connections. Also, it's very easy to choose between low and high bandwidth connections with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse and EclipseME on gentoo?

2009-03-13 Thread Aaron Clark
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, I have installed Eclipse from the ebuild. Now I tried to install the plugin to do Mobile Development available from eclipseme.org. However it does not show up in the Eclipse Properties where some things need to be configured. Anybody got this to work? I have

Re: [gentoo-user] New xorg.conf with x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r5

2009-05-15 Thread Aaron Clark
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag 15 Mai 2009, pk wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: DeviceKit isn't even in portage yet and not many packages support it. I don't even know if the devs will change and improve the configs much, if at all. The problem with hal is that it's code base is a mess, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why still postgres 8.2?

2009-05-19 Thread Aaron Clark
James wrote: However, now that Oracle owns mysql, maybe, just maybe, postgresql will get a little bit more attention, across the net and here at Gentoo My prediction is that Oracle is going to do every thing it can to cause Mysql to lanquish.. That probably doesn't matter

Re: [gentoo-user] Good Library Management software

2008-07-14 Thread Aaron Clark
Joshua D Doll wrote: Eric Martin wrote: Before I recreated the wheel, does anybody know of any good library management software (preferably in portage)? My wife and I are having a hard time keeping track of what books we have, and what books we are lending out to people so I figured this

Re: [gentoo-user] an efficient network file system on slow connection, which one to choose?

2008-09-17 Thread Aaron Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am trying to find out what's the best network file system (in general, like afs, coda, nfs, cifs) fits. We have our two offices connected to each other through a connection average at 15 to 20 KB/s with ping-delay less than 100ms and sharing files on the server

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot compile eclipse-ecj using gcj

2008-10-03 Thread Aaron Clark
Andrey Vul wrote: Gcj can't compile eclipse(-ecj) due to encoding issues. Any solutions? Emerge log attached. Ask on gentoo-java? Aaron

Re: [gentoo-user] Bad mirror in portage?

2009-06-17 Thread Aaron Clark
Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Kevin O'Gormankogor...@gmail.com wrote: My latest sync was busted, and not being aware of picking my own mirrors, I wonder what to do about it. I use the meta-mirrors, as listed in and suggested by the commented parts of make.conf: SYNC is

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