Re: [gentoo-user] A confession

2005-12-20 Thread Alec Shaner
Philip Webb wrote: Yes, a short turn with another distro soon reminds how good Gentoo is. A couple of weeks ago, I wanted to update the OS in my back-up machine, which had Mandrake 10.0 (early 2004) working adequately when needed is too slow infrequently used to install Gentoo. [snip] How

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Concerns (possible security threat?)

2006-01-17 Thread Alec Shaner
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm concerned. When I got out of the shower just now and came to check my email, I didn't have any. Concerned that sendmail might not be running, I ps'd for it: [snip] Is there a way to make sure that unauthorized people are not sending mail through my domain? I

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg 7.0 emerge question

2006-02-21 Thread Alec Shaner
krgn wrote: hi I have a question concerning my modular X installation. I did this according to the gentoo guide here http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml. now, I have synced again, and a lot of blocks are coming up and I am not sure really how to solve this. These are

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-08 Thread Alec Shaner
Mark Knecht wrote: The typical reason for low performance AND high CPU is that the controller (in this case probably the USB interface chip) isn't enabled for DMA. It looked like you have the right drivers loaded so possibly the USB chip is not a major brand name? Sorry I didn't read earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-09 Thread Alec Shaner
Richard Fish wrote: Alec Shaner wrote: I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support). The server only has 1.1 USB support, but the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bad performance with external USB disk

2005-06-10 Thread Alec Shaner
Richard Fish wrote: Alec Shaner wrote: Once the buffer fills up would you expect it to work fine at 1.2MB/s? I wish I had kept the logs, but it was extremely slow (much slower than 1.2). I was copying a series of ~70MB files over and it would work fine on about the first 5 or so files before

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Alec Shaner
Nick Rout wrote: I know I should upload this to bugs.gentoo.org, but as we are in the middle of a thread i thought I'd load it here for anyone interested to try (and to criticise) Please be gentle with me, this is my first ebuild. The ebuild is attached, as is the small startup script. The way

Re: [gentoo-user] /home becoming readonly every night

2005-08-25 Thread Alec Shaner
A. Khattri wrote: I had a Maxtor drive die just after the one-year warranty expired. We had one server with Maxtors that died twice in one year. Because of this, we now have a Seagate-only policy for hard-drives - they may cost a bit more but they're reliable and many come with a three year

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Alec Shaner
Markus Döbele wrote: Can't the rest be automated too? I mean creating the directories and to check first if portage is installed? Would be easier for the users. Then a link should be created in PATH thet you can type laby everywhere. Once the ebuild is officially in the portage tree, it is

Re: [gentoo-user] sub-net 0.0.0.0

2005-08-26 Thread Alec Shaner
Joseph wrote: On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:38 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:02:08AM -0600, Joseph wrote: I have a device with an IP 192.168.0.1 which I need to access via browser. My PC gets an IP via DHCP from the router. What should I use for gateway? I've tired

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Alec Shaner
Nick Rout wrote: OK once again the ebuild is attached, it now creates a desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ and pops the .xpm icon file into /usr/share/pixmaps/. This is where gentoo likes these things to be. Those of you who have expressed an interest in this game please try it out. If it

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-29 Thread Alec Shaner
Holly Bostick wrote: This was a simple emerge, so I hope I didn't bork it myself; I did forget to create a 'files' directory in the overlay folder, but since there were no files, I can't think that that would be the problem. I could be wrong, though, especially since it works under KDE. Why