Re: [gentoo-user] Users hi!

2012-11-15 Thread BRM
From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Joshua Murphy wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: BRM wrote: snip spam Hey, Check this out: List-Unsubscribe: mailto:gentoo-desktop+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org Bye.   Dale :-)  :-) P.S.  I wonder if he will get the hint

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread BRM
From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:04 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [snip] In theory that's how key signing systems are suppose to work. In practice, they rarely implement the blacklists as they are (i) hard to maintain

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread BRM
From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:33 AM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:04 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [snip] In theory that's how key signing systems

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-02 Thread BRM
From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 03.06.2012 01:36, schrieb Michael Mol: On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: On 2012-06-02 22:10, Michael Mol wrote: [snip] [...] The

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-25 Thread BRM
From: BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 8:49 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up From: BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Sent

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-25 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com Does it work satisfactorily with kernel 3.0.6? I found the 3.1.6 breaking suspend on my machine so have gone back to 3.0.6, but my hardware and video driver is different to yours. Haven't tried 3.0.6 with the kernel change

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-22 Thread BRM
From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:31 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: As the system starts to boot-up, it switches like it is going to start X - changing a video mode somehow. I don't have xdm in the runlevels yet, so it can't be starting XDM at all.This seems to happen

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-22 Thread BRM
From: BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:50 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:31 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote

[gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-20 Thread BRM
I am working on trying to get my AMD64 system back online. I recently rebuilt it (from scratch) after a very bad case of being out of date and build issues as a result (for numerous reasons). However, after I started trying to get X configured (Xorg) with the nouveau driver (I think I ran the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo counter?

2011-09-12 Thread BRM
Well...to get back on topic... - Original Message - From: David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:52:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote about [gentoo-user] Gentoo counter?: I've just read about the 'new' Linux Counter from a slashdot article, and I wonder: is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-09 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration... OK, so if you restore the two lines and this error goes away, can you then initialise the device without any other errors? So far as I am aware. Assuming that rfkill

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-08 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Thursday 08 Sep 2011 04:52:44 BRM wrote: - Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com Hmm ... what is the error/warning that comes up? pneumo-martyr wpa_supplicant # /etc/init.d/net.wlan0

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Tuesday 06 Sep 2011 15:24:33 BRM wrote: - Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Saturday 03 Sep 2011 15:14:27 BRM wrote:   - Original Message - I think the above should

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration... On Tuesday 06 Sep 2011 15:24:33 BRM wrote: - Original Message - From: Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com On Saturday 03 Sep 2011 15:14:27 BRM wrote: - Original Message - Assuming that you have built in your kernel or loaded the driver module for your NIC and any firmware blobs have also been loaded, please show

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-03 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 11:29 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration... On Friday 02 Sep 2011 14:38:56 BRM wrote: - Original Message - From: Canek

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:52 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: I still haven't decided what to get for my system to replace the NIC with, but the card I have should be working with my existing 802.11g network

[gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-01 Thread BRM
I still haven't decided what to get for my system to replace the NIC with, but the card I have should be working with my existing 802.11g network already; however, it doesn't - I have had to connect my laptop via Ethernet cable to my wireless bridge to get network access. /etc/init.d/net.wlan0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-08-01 Thread BRM
- Original Message - From: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced? On 2011-07-29, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread BRM
From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I noticed this today: The following mask changes are

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless N PCMCIA/CardBus Recommendations...

2011-07-18 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Fri, July 15, 2011 5:24:48 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless N PCMCIA/CardBus Recommendations... On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: I have

[gentoo-user] Wireless N PCMCIA/CardBus Recommendations...

2011-07-14 Thread BRM
After several years, I am not getting around to upgrading my wireless router - from a Linksys WRT54G to a Cisco Linksys E4200. While I am at it, I am also considering getting a new wireless card for my D600 laptop to at least augment the internal b43-legacy supported Broadcom 43xx card that

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless N PCMCIA/CardBus Recommendations...

2011-07-14 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:42:49 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: While I am at it, I am also considering getting a new wireless card for my D600 laptop to at least augment the internal b43-legacy supported Broadcom 43xx card

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread BRM
From: Mark Shields laebsh...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thu, May 26, 2011 9:57:26 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk Okay - that's not entirely KDE's problem; though it would have helped a long way with the KDE4 transition if they kept a few people working on those issues. How would you feel if you were a KDE dev told we're all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-13 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Thu, 12 May 2011 16:44:21 -0500, Dale wrote: Your questions don't disprove what me and others have posted. As I have said on the KDE mailing list, KDE made a serious mistake dropping KDE3 before KDE4 was ready. How

Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-13 Thread BRM
From: Daniel da Veiga danieldave...@gmail.com On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 18:55, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I was curious, what's the results of the openrc update for people that have done theirs? Is it pretty simple and just works or are there issues? I'm mostly interested in x86 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com I still don't understand why the kde folks went from something that worked extremely well to their current state. Baffling. KDE3 and KDE4 are not the same thing. KDE4 is not the next version of KDE3. You must

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread BRM
Well, I saw a lot of advice on this but no real solution - just some debugging help. At least from my own experience with Bash Scripting, I find that you can never use enough braces when referencing variables. So, the script should read: url=http://mypage; curl_opts=-x curl ${url} -d \mydata\

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk. If you know it's going to run, then you can do one of two things: 1) I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 3:29:35 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted? Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:22:41 -0500, Dale wrote: I want to do it this way because I don't trust LVM enough to put my OS on. Just my personal opinion on LVM. This doesn't make sense. Your OS can be reinstalled in an hour

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:20:55 BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:22:41 -0500, Dale wrote: I want to do it this way because I don't trust LVM

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:52:26 BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:20:55 BRM wrote: - Original Message From

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org On Thu, April 7, 2011 7:31 pm, BRM wrote: The attraction to LVM for me was that from what I could tell it supported and implemented a software-RAID so that I could help protect from disk-failure. I never got around

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that Just Works?

2011-03-31 Thread BRM
At work, we've had a lot of success with Lenovo's. My T61p (3 years old) is fully supported by Linux - wireless included - according the documentations; I can't quite verify as I haven't been able to transition it (yet) to Linux. Colleagues haven't had issues with another model, but I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] web redirection

2011-02-07 Thread BRM
Well, testing from work on a Windows system it seems to work ok. Don't have a Linux system with a web-browser quite accessible to use at the moment; so may be it's a difference in platforms? $0.02, Ben - Original Message From: James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com To:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-02 Thread BRM
From: Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:43:43 BRM wrote: And you're doing a typically manual process for updating all the systems - update your server first, then any rsync clients. Fine dandy if that is your process - but it's not mine. I may update my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Nils Holland wrote: On 21:35 Mon 31 Jan , Francesco Talamona wrote: On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all of the parameters are correct

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 12:20:56 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems... Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: If the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Nils Holland n...@tisys.org On 20:12 Sat 29 Jan , BRM wrote: A little while back my server ran out of hard disk space (due to a failed hard drive) and as a result my local portage mirror got destroyed. Well, I fixed there server - initially

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Francesco Talamona francesco.talam...@know.eu On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all of the parameters are correct Why not something proven and reliable like emerge --sync

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Problems...

2011-01-30 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Sun, January 30, 2011 7:03:27 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Problems... On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:12:26 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Well, I fixed there server - initially by just

[gentoo-user] Emerge Problems...

2011-01-29 Thread BRM
A little while back my server ran out of hard disk space (due to a failed hard drive) and as a result my local portage mirror got destroyed. Well, I fixed there server - initially by just grabbing a new copy of portage like a new install since it was just completely hosed, and the server is back

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-01-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message I have two questions: 1) Do I have to enable microcode updates in the BIOS of my Crosshair IV Formula to activate microcodes push in the CPU by the module microcode ? (AMD Phenom X6 1090T) Not sure about BIOS, but the Linux Kernel you are running

[gentoo-user] Zenoss on Gentoo?

2011-01-05 Thread BRM
Is there a Gentoo Package for Zenoss Community edition (http://community.zenoss.org/community/download)? It's available via sf.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/zenoss/). If not, oh well. I saw it recommend on another list for something I thought may be interested in trying out at home.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Windows 'Remote Assistance'

2010-11-22 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 1:26:30 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Windows 'Remote Assistance' On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I know this is

Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk indexing, what triggers it?

2010-11-19 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Fri, November 19, 2010 11:31:39 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk indexing, what triggers it? On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4 multi-monitor + fullscreen applications

2010-11-18 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thu, November 18, 2010 12:41:03 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4 multi-monitor + fullscreen applications On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:41:25PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 17.11.2010

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4 multi-monitor + fullscreen applications

2010-11-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net To: Gentoo User List gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 5:08:33 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] KDE-4 multi-monitor + fullscreen applications Hi list! Today, KDE nearly killed a presentation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com Apparently, though unproven, at 17:34 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: On 2010-11-16, J. Roeleveld

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com I have a niece that brought me her puter. It's a HP with windoze XP on it. I want to defrag the hard drive but the one that comes with windoze won't work. Is there a free defrag tool that is safe on windoze? I ask because I

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org On 11/15/2010 11:05 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: It's LGPL licensed. The GUI is a bit ugly but it has a lot of functionality and can handle cases in which the Windows defragger doesn't work. That mostly happens when the

Re: [gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com On 12 November 2010 10:36, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 November 2010 09:57, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: It needs to be a Bash function, so in ~/.bashrc I tried 'function

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-02 Thread BRM
The cvs2svn project also has a cvs2git tool. http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ HTH, Ben - Original Message From: fe...@crowfix.com fe...@crowfix.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 12:02:58 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git I have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: fe...@crowfix.com fe...@crowfix.com On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:41:27AM -0700, BRM wrote: The cvs2svn project also has a cvs2git tool. http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ Interesting ... downloaded and tried it, but no time for a full reading of the docs

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-25 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:29:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Although, perhaps I'm missing something but doesn't alpha come *before* release candidate? :) Yes, but: 2.2.0_alpha1 comes *after* 2.2_rc99 It should

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice

2010-10-15 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com b) 'libreoffice' - which is competing for the title 'most idiotic name ever' - is based on go-openoffice. Gentoo already uses the go-openoffice patches. Based on what I read on the Document Foundation's

Re: [gentoo-user] IP aliasing problem

2010-10-07 Thread BRM
ServerName differently for each VirtualHost. Strangely though, I still don't get stats for RX/TX from ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr [removed] inet addr:1.2.3.1 Bcast:[removed] Mask:255.255.255.248 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thu, October 7, 2010 6:21:15 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe Momesso Andrea momesso.and...@gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Android SDK

2010-10-07 Thread BRM
I noticed there have been a few Android SDK's in portage now for a while - originally android-sdk, now android-sdk-update-manager (http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-util/android-sdk-update-manager). I know there is a bug on it - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320407 - but that's

Re: [gentoo-user] IP aliasing problem

2010-10-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message Thank you for taking the time to write Stroller. This has really got my head spinning. First of all, you're right about the netmask. It is 255.255.255.248. I didn't have a good understanding of what a netmask is so I thought it would be smart to change it

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/autotoolset

2010-10-05 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: dhk dhk...@optonline.net Sent: Tue, October 5, 2010 7:34:02 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/autotoolset Apparently, though unproven, at 12:33 on Tuesday 05 October 2010, dhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Al oss.el...@googlemail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org 2010/9/7 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al wrote: because he hopes that you finally shut up? Why do you read this thread and answer to it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-25 Thread BRM
- Original Message Joshua Murphy wrote: Well, glancing at the GET request it's making there, as well as the API google points me to when I look it up... http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger/guide/ch03s02.html#d4e4628 You're right that it's after an image from their

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Adam Carter wrote: Is this easy to do? I have no idea where to start except that wireshark is installed. Yep, start the capture with Capture - Interfaces and click on the start button next to the correct interface,

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com Mick wrote: On Tuesday 17 August 2010 21:15:51 Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On 17 August 2010 15:29, BRMbm_witn...@yahoo.comwrote: - Original Message From: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com Adam Carter wrote: Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-15 Thread BRM
- Original Message On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with Yahoo at these addresses: cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com I thought it was

[gentoo-user] b43-legacy and newer linux kernels?

2010-08-13 Thread BRM
I have a laptop that has been running Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Gentoo-R8 (gentoo sources, don't remember which version) for a while. It has a Broadcom 4306 Rev 2 wireless card that has been working well with that kernel. I extracted the firmware from the broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5 blob a while ago

Re: [gentoo-user] b43-legacy and newer linux kernels?

2010-08-13 Thread BRM
- Original Message On 13 August 2010 09:08, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:02 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: but even so - they are saying this has to be done on every reboot, and that's not much of a solution. Put the commands in /etc/conf.d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-28 Thread BRM
are superior in windows, all my systems have ATI), but I miss the times that I had one. So much more stuff worked without problems and with better performance. On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:42 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: That's great so long as nVidia supports your card. The problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-27 Thread BRM
That's great so long as nVidia supports your card. The problem with the binary drivers is that they typically only support a percentage of all the cards the video maker makes. For example, I can't use the ATI binary driver on my laptop since it no longer supports the R250 chipset, only their

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.

2010-04-10 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Sat, April 10, 2010 9:14:56 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7. After that you kann kill X without disturbing the kernel (and risk your data) with ALT-Backspace. You will

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-27 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: walt w41...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote: From: Mark Knecht On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: Is there really any need for the cylinder these days? Who cares what cylinder it's on, and who

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world because the critical packages aren't in there? indeed I did. At least I am

[gentoo-user] Backups...

2010-02-27 Thread BRM
Well, now that I've got my systems cleaned up, and KDE3 removed, I'm tackling another project I've been meaning to do - backups. Here's my basic plan: - I've got a directory on my server that I want to synchronize several systems with (some linux, and one Windows). - I want clients to push the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE 3.5.10 installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org BRM writes: If you keep your world file (/var/lib/portage/world) tidy, simply deleting all lines with KDE3 packages and running emerge -a -- depclean will take care of it. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Some topics I'm thinking about (comments welcome): - be aware of cylinder boundaries when partitioning (thanks to the recent thread) - utilizing device labels and/or volume labels

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run emerge --depclean, but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't install things

Re: [gentoo-user] Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: Is there really any need for the cylinder these days? No, not as I understand it. There may be some bits of software that suggest they can use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com - Original Message From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run emerge --depclean, but I also rarely

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: From: Neil BothwickTo: (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run emerge --depclean, but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't install things left or right

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-25 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com On Thursday 25 February 2010 05:14:06 ubiquitous1980 wrote: BRM wrote: I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having

[gentoo-user] Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-25 Thread BRM
I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE 3.5.10 installed, and am wondering how much longer I need to keep it around...I probably use all KDE4 apps, though there might be a few here or there that I use on a rare occasion that are still KDE3 based...may be...and

[gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-24 Thread BRM
I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in the emerge update process - something a GUI _ought_ to be able to resolve. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com I also happen to own a couple of old PCs which I try to keep lean and I don't mind the odd double declutching to change gears. Now, I understand the development philosophy of KDE4 since this was very well explained, but that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Zeerak Waseem zeera...@gmail.com On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: But I do find it silly, that the various applications that aren't dependent of the DE, to require a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Zeerak Waseem zeera...@gmail.com But then the question isn't whether there are a number of soft dependencies, but in the case of semantic-desktop whether -it- is a soft dependency. Like previously stated, I don't use kmail, nor do I intend to (I at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 12:18:59 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)??? ALSO: from the qt-4.5.3 ebuild: KEYWORDS=~alpha

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-21 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: pk pete...@coolmail.se BRM wrote: The point of the UI is that you ought not care what goes where, unless you are debugging the UI or the program itself. While a UI is important; a good UI is key. And a plain text editor is, imo, a good UI; everybody

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-20 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:36:45 BRM wrote: Or a pretty GUI with clicky boxes to change the settings while never letting the user see the contents of the XML. Once the user interface is in place it doesn't matter

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:09:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: XML is a machine-readable file format that just happens to use ASCII characters, it is not meant to be modified by a text editor, so if your program uses XML

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...

2010-01-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com From: Mike Edenfield On 12/2/2009 9:17 PM, BRM wrote: I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: essid_wlan0=myWLAN key_MYWLAN

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-17 Thread BRM
From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:49:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Let's look at the obvious solution then: remove the hard drive containing sensitive data, replace it with a new one, sell laptop. Ka-Ching! Problem solved. Unfortunately, the hard drive

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: I heard romours of problems with the current FAT implementation due to M$. I went back to 2.6.30 for the moment. So what???s your proposal? Usually I don???t have the

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...

2009-12-03 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org On 12/2/2009 9:17 PM, BRM wrote: I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: essid_wlan0=myWLAN key_MYWLAN=somekey

[gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might be a processor issue - linux reports it as a Pentium M which is what I have selected during 'make menuconfig',

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection...

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com 2009/12/2 BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com: I'm still working to get my laptop back up; I have one more thing to try. Presently, I am having a problem with the compiling a 2.6.30-gentoo-r8 kernel that actually works. It might

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