Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

2007-01-25 Thread Kent Fredric
n 1/26/07, Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! I've been trying to get the standby of my harddisk work for hours. I am actually really frustrated :-) . My problem is that whenever I but my hdd to standby, it stays there for a few seconds and then comes back to work again. So I

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-25 Thread Kent Fredric
dd if=/dev/hda3 bs=some_large_value | bzip2 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /suitable/path/to/hda3.img.bz2 Or, if you can mount the partition, you can use tar: tar -cjvf - /mount/point/ | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /some/path ; tar -xjvf - you could also use netcat to transfer the files instead

Re: [gentoo-user] My harddisk doesn't want to spin down permanently

2007-01-25 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/26/07, Jakob Buchgraber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The drive is mounted (contains the / partition). If no program access the harddisk, this actually shouldn't matter as otherwise the whole concept of laptop-mode etc. is nuts (or I completely misunderstood it :-) ). So does it only work if no

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Hotplug SATA drive?

2007-01-24 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/22/07, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently bought a third SATA drive and a carrier and am trying to determine if it can be un/plugged while hot. I have googled and there seems to be different answers depending on the controller, the drive, the kernel version (I'm using

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Kent Fredric
Bottom posting here. :D Also has some of the best docs there is. I know because most of the time when I have a problem, someone points me to them. ;-) Dale I concur, gentoo IMO provides more to the OSS with the ability to compile the whole system wit h debug options, yet with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Good arguments to use Gentoo Linux?

2007-01-19 Thread Kent Fredric
I concur, gentoo IMO provides more to the OSS with the ability to compile the whole system wit h debug options, yet with a splitdebug feature to prevent the usefulness of full stack traces all the way to glibc degrading run time performance :) Also, documentation in gentoo and amongst her users

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recommend clean monospaced condensed TTF

2007-01-17 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/17/07, Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, recommend me clean free monospaced _condensed_ TTF. The thing is, I was using the font as, for example, is shown here: http://gaydenko.com/qloud/screenshots/shot01.png Few years ago I have condensed some font (don't remember which)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] recommend clean monospaced condensed TTF

2007-01-17 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/17/07, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v466/digitaljackal/4-1.jpg Just giving links to where i scored the awesome WP from: http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/31379355/ http://aeiko.net/desktopography/ -- Kent -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging dev-perl/html-tree

2007-01-16 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/17/07, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am having difficulty emerging this package which is needed for spamassassin and others. Here is what I get: Emerging (1 of 15) dev-perl/HTML-Tree-3.19.01 to / Downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging dev-perl/html-tree

2007-01-16 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/17/07, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cd /usr/portage/distfiles sudo wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/HTML-Tree-3.1901.tar.gz then try :) I find that repository is more reliable than any other in time of need. Just self correcting, no need to type exit afters , i

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging dev-perl/html-tree

2007-01-16 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/17/07, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, that did it -- I put it in my gentoo mirrors as well. I sometimes find things totally skip your conventional mirror list for whatever reason, and thus dont check gentoo distfiles. On such occasions, I often find gentoo distfiles still works

Re: [gentoo-user] problems emerging lftp

2007-01-16 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/17/07, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to emerge lftp I get Connecting to lftp.yar.ru|193.233.48.66|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! == SYST ... done.== PWD ... done. == TYPE I ... done. == CWD /lftp/old ... done. == PASV ... done.== RETR

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a minimalist image viewer / organizer

2007-01-15 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/16/07, Vlad Dogaru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Browsing getoo-wiki.com for an image viewer, I only found Gthumb, which depends on GNOME. I use Fluxbox because I have an older computer and would like to keep dependencies at a minimum. Any suggestions? I only need a viewer; organising my

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a minimalist image viewer / organizer

2007-01-15 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/16/07, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent Fredric wrote: * cacaview : for days you want to demostrate how much free time geeks have and nothing else feels like working cos your stuck on a windows box with PUTTY. Those

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for a minimalist image viewer / organizer

2007-01-15 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/16/07, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why not use imagemagick's display command? I believe that has an ugly menu which seems to think you want to edit the photo -- Kent -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] seamonkey opens dozens of really empty windows and blocks

2007-01-13 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/14/07, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my seamonkey suddenly opened dozens of really empty windows (no content, no title) w/ a fiew px size only and now blocks. Does anyone have an idea where this problem might come from ? FIrefox did it a while back for me too, had the current

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

2007-01-13 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/12/07, Roberto Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I've done research and found nothing, except that it happens only on gentoo ... It appears that any mozilla product segfaults on my gentoo box both binary and from source. Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey. At first i thought it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 2.0 and gentoo

2007-01-13 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/12/07, Roberto Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I--] [ ~] www-client/mozilla-launcher-1.52-r1 (0) See how you get on with 1.56, 1.52 is at least 3 months old now, and ive not seen any issues myself with 1.56. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages from overlays

2007-01-12 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/13/07, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You may want to reconsider this. I have googleearth installed here and it doesn't get along well with portage and it's digest checking. Of course, it doesn't like my dial-up either. LOL It would appear google has updated their package without

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Is this normal?

2007-01-11 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/12/07, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this normal?: 2899 root 17 0 131m 35m 224 R 0.3 59.2 11:03.55 cc1 I took this from a `top` listing. I'm trying to emerge sys-devel/gcc-4.1.1-r3 on my server box. The merge hasn't moved much in You may find

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting

2007-01-10 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/10/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2007 08:55 schrieb ext Nelson, David (ED, PARD): I would say that most replies only reply to maybe a few lines of the preceeding message and so should usually fit on a reasonably sized window. Then one should delete

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Top/Bottom Posting

2007-01-10 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/10/07, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2007 09:42 schrieb ext Kent Fredric: Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] moving to ADSL

2007-01-10 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/11/07, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Well, I knew you'd need a ADSL modem. Some of these (IIRC ours even) can be configured to handle all the pppoe-ness and simply provide an ethernet connection. Depending on your service

Re: [gentoo-user] struggles with SATA

2007-01-10 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/11/07, Alan E. Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using an AsRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 motherboard and a Western Digital sata drive, I have been having alot of trouble. I found AHCI driver to work, at least detect the drive/partitions. I have had no end of problems. I had moved this drive from

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get php4

2007-01-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/10/07, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:09:46 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 ~x86 is excessive. =dev-lang/php-4.4.4-r8 is all that is needed for the package.keywords file. You are assuming that make.conf contains ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x86, this

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/9/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 08 January 2007 00:25, Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 10:17:59PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked: Not really all kind of completion, but I noticed that it froze on trivial completions (the kind that should work even

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and Minefield?

2007-01-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/10/07, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, list. I'm running Gentoo on my box, and got (almost) everything on ~x86, with the exception of gcc, glibc and binutils, as these have rendered my box completely b0rked in the past. (un?)fortunately, this machine has an nvidia graphics

Re: [gentoo-user] Core 2 duo: Building threaded program versions

2007-01-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/9/07, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/8/07, Nico Schümann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thread-using way? It's not that nice to see the machine in idle at all^^ Maybe there's any hidden use flag I haven't heard of or so :) Just turn on disk encryption with dm-crypt. That will take

Re: [gentoo-user] bash_completion

2007-01-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/10/07, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Kent Fredric wrote: Interesting to note, with Bash-3.2 2006-03-01 Bash-Completion, you'll find if you check your latest /etc/skel/.bashrc which is provided to new users now completely lacks the bash completion line

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo cannot boot (Help!!!)

2007-01-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/10/07, rami jiossy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; i am booting gentoo on my Napa machine but it freezes on copying read-write contents to tmpfs. any help? i am using gentoo i686 livecd. with minimal-x86 i am booting fine, but it keeps failing in installer and sometimes decides to shutdown

Re: [gentoo-user] pants

2007-01-09 Thread Kent Fredric
On 1/10/07, Korthrun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any clue what put: PANTS=ON into my environment? google is failing me here =/ Thanks -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list no clue, i

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge confused about gnome-icon-theme version?

2006-12-31 Thread Kent Fredric
On 12/31/06, Mark M [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/31/06, Daniel D Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 29 December 2006 09:25, Daniel D Jones wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # emerge -s gnome-icon-theme Searching... [ Results for search key : gnome-icon-theme ] [ Applications found

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy dialup for unprivileged user

2006-12-31 Thread Kent Fredric
Passwordless SUDO on an app, or add some sgid/suid bits and do some group twiddling on the apps that do all your magic as root. That should at least be a good starting point :) On 1/1/07, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Mark Kirkwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now it pretty much does

Re: [gentoo-user] Kopete and high CPU usage

2006-12-30 Thread Kent Fredric
I had a similar issue a while back, but it 'fixed itself', but Im unsure if the bug was fixed or it was something I did. My analyisis pointed to it doing a lot of work scanning/registering hotkeys or something. On 12/31/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Since Yahoo went out of portage, I

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