Re: [gentoo-user] gnucash pulls in firefox (when I already have firefox-bin)

2008-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
. That's what requires the HTML engine. -- Neil Bothwick I just took an IQ test. The results were negative. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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

2008-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
with it. Does it work if you run it as root? -- Neil Bothwick Walk softly and carry a fully charged phazer. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What cpu type in make.conf for E4600

2008-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:09:48 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4600 @ 2.40GHz core2 if you use GCC 4.3, nocona for earlier, or set it to native if you don't use distcc. -- Neil Bothwick * * * - Tribbles    - teenage mutant ninja tribbles

Re: [gentoo-user] h

2008-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
be happy to forego the prize and keep quiet about being able to break a secure cipher. Just like our GCHQ came up with public key cryptography several years before Rivest, Shamir and Adleman published RSA but kept it secret for over 30 years. -- Neil Bothwick If I save time, when do I get

Re: [gentoo-user] util-linux-2.14

2008-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:29:31 -0400, Chris Walters wrote: P.S. I wish people would stop discussing the subject of cryptology into the ground. I ended my discussion. Mailing list threads are like children, you create them but soon lose control of them :) -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh

Re: [gentoo-user] What cpu type in make.conf for E4600

2008-06-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
will tell you. I'd guess it was 4.1.2 though, that's the most recent stable version. I'll be staying with 32-bit for now, That's why I ordered only 3 gigs of ram on this machine. In which case, the distinction is moot, use prescott. -- Neil Bothwick This is the day for firm decisions

Re: [gentoo-user] util-linux-2.14

2008-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
are not capable of experiencing reality any other way, then I already lost control of my children long before the first humans walked the Earth... I know the feeling :( I read something similar about quantum cryptography a few years ago... it gave me a headache. -- Neil Bothwick Don't put all your

Re: [gentoo-user] h

2008-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
RSA entered the public domain, they let everyone think it was news to them. Mind you, the UK government kept quiet about breaking Enigma after WWII was over, so they could sell these secure systems to their Commonwealth friends. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 2: Exact estimate

Re: [gentoo-user] h

2008-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
domain might override the advantages of mere spying. I'm sure the holy grail for the NSA is a cipher that everyone thinks is totally secure but they can break. These agencies aren't interested in the greater good, only furthering their own goals. -- Neil Bothwick Tagline file empty. Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
? I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use pure ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had recently turned out to be a corrupt root filesystem. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 24: New classic signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
is having such problems ;-) -- Neil Bothwick Not tonight dear, I have a Modem!!! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 08:50:07 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you think I might have swung from being waay too verbose to being waay too brief? Do you want the long answer or the short answer? ;-) -- Neil Bothwick When puns are outlawed only outlaws will have puns. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

2008-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
will have to rectify. This goes doubly so for the system and world sets, which can update a large number of packages if the portage tree has been particularly active. -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, you'll get a lot of free advice from folks who didn't succeed either

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is /tmp/jack busy?

2008-06-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
. -- Neil Bothwick Brain fried -- core dumped. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does gnome-python-desktop have so many dependencies?

2008-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
no need to install everything just for one module. Its just a shame this isn't implemented in portage somehow. You could file a bug requesting this behaviour, controlled by the minimal USE flag. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, as the small child choked on his eyes signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. (dependency required by dev-cpp/glibmm-2.16.1 [ebuild]) Sync again, glib-2.16.3 is not masked in the profile here. -- Neil Bothwick And God said, I'll buy a vowel. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
look carefully at the full path. This is masked in a profile from the desktop-effects overlay. It's nothing to do with the official portage tree, but a third-party overlay breaking things for you. -- Neil Bothwick Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

2008-06-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
question. And *why* does an overlay mask things from the *main* portage tree? Is this normal? Because masking is global, the sum of all the package.mask files is applied to the system as a whole. -- Neil Bothwick Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs. signature.asc Description

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

2008-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:15:58 +0200, b.n. wrote: I didn't know that showing a mail *you* received is illegal. It may not be illegal, but it is definitely wrong. Private mail is just that. -- Neil Bothwick Programming Language: (n.) a shorthand way of describing a series of bugs

[gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
. Is there a way to force portage to do this? If not, I think I should file a bug on this as it is a significant blocker. After all, if I didn't have a wired connection, the server would always be unavailable until I remerged the package. -- Neil Bothwick Stop metricationists! They are demanding

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
! -- Neil Bothwick This tagline is baroque; please call Bach. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
-to-date check? That's all handled by the subversion eclass, and I don't want to mess with that. -- Neil Bothwick This is a test of the emergency tagline stealing system. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
-empty to skip the updates. I'd hoped portage was intelligent enough to have a way to use existing svn sources. It is, it's just a user not intelligent enough to find it :( Thanks again! -- Neil Bothwick Why is it that when you transport something by car it's called shipment, but when you transport

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerging SVN build when server is down

2008-07-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
suggestion arrived, which worked. However, this is just the sort of kludgy approach that appeals to me :) -- Neil Bothwick What do you have when you have six lawyers buried up to their necks in sand? Not enough sand. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] 4 GB and Intel Core 2 Duo

2008-07-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
system. -- Neil Bothwick For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
. -- Neil Bothwick [ Printed on recycled electrons ] signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
. You need to split the tarball to put it on a DVD. I use dar for backing up to DVDs, it handles these details for you. -- Neil Bothwick PROSTITUTE: Receiver of swollen goods. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
that mkisofs now has this capability. -- Neil Bothwick Windows isn't a virus -- viruses do something! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
to cdrtools: grep virtual/cdrtools /usr/portage/profiles/**/virtuals -- Neil Bothwick We are Pentium of Borg. You will be approximated. Resistance may or may not be futile, except on every other Tuesday when it is a definite maybe. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
In GRUB, all paths are relative to the root. -- Neil Bothwick Not tonight dear, I have a Modem!!! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
it if needed. I was thinking tar could handle huge files which is what confuses me. Kdar makes dar archives, not tar archives. -- Neil Bothwick The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays adialog box and lets you press OK first. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
were using kdar. No, it's not dead. It was reported as such, but it is still in development. -- Neil Bothwick Don't just do something, sit there! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
was given last rites and pronounced dead at 3/5/08. But in the process of being wheeled down to the morgue for cremation it sat bolt upright in the gurney and coughed. Scared the sh*t out of the poor nurse. -- Neil Bothwick A woman walked into a bar and asked the barman for a large double

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and large files

2008-07-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
that from say a Gentoo boot CD? It's not exactly a tar file. Seems you have to have dar/kdar to unpack the thing which would be useless for a system back-up. It may not be on a Gentoo live CD, but it is on others, like SystemRescueCD and (I think) Knoppix. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons

Re: [gentoo-user] another grub problem

2008-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
goes into the MBR, along with a pointer to the partition that contains everything else. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How do you identify a blind man in a nudist colony? A. It's not hard. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
and reporting. Reporting the opinions of others is legal in most Western countries, with certain, usually reasonable, constraints. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 2: Exact estimate signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
what Bloch et al believe to be true before stating that it is not true. What you are not allowed to do, at least in the UK, is use this to spread defamatory material under the guise of decrying said material, but that has not been done on this list. -- Neil Bothwick Mmmm, trouble with grammer

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
receive, instead of perceiving attacks from those who are actually trying to support you. -- Neil Bothwick ... I just forgot to increment the counter, Tom said, nonplussed. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
have to be your first recourse. -- Neil Bothwick I am NOT a NUMBER! I am a DEMOGRAPHIC! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
set the root() parameter accordingly for each distro. -- Neil Bothwick I am NOT Paranoid! And why are you always watching me?? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installation problems

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
! It is if you have CONFIG_IEEE1394_ETH1394 set in your kernel. If you want your standard ethernet to be eth0, swap over NAME settings in the definitions in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. -- Neil Bothwick TEXAS VIRUS: Makes sure that it's bigger than any other file. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
it :-/ -- Neil Bothwick What Aussies lack in Humour they make up for in Beer! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:37:34 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: instead of two emerge --emptytree it would be faster to just nuke the installation Except you can continue to use the machine this way. -- Neil Bothwick Do not underestimate the power of the Force. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardware upgrade and Gentoo

2007-07-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
emerge -e world. -- Neil Bothwick Nymphomania-- an illness you hear about but never encounter. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
cables instead of removing drives? -- Neil Bothwick Exercise daily. Eat wisely. Die anyway. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] enable hal in kde

2007-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:28:11 +0200, Stefán István wrote: I've made the mistake that I compiled kde without the hal use flag. How can I find out which kde packages should be recompiled in order to be able to use hal in kde? Add hal to your USE flags and do emerge -uavDN world -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] enable hal in kde

2007-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
. I used the emerge -uavDN world command, but it upgraded only one kde package: kdebase-kioslaves. According to equery hasuse, that's the only KDE package affected. Did you restart KDE? Is hald running? -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, well...darn. signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.2 and Core 2 Duo

2007-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Andrew Gaydenko, The question is: must I replace '-march=nocona' with '-mtune=native and -march=native'? You CAN change them but there's no MUST about it. I've been running GCC 4.2 with -march=nocona for about ten days and it's working well. -- Neil Bothwick Linux like wigwam

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd

2007-07-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
in as little as a couple of months (voice of experience here), and it probably the reason the option was removed. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, as the Death Star exploded around him. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ufed and USE flags

2007-07-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
together. -- Neil Bothwick Fire at will... NO WORF! Not Commander Riker! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:43:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: make.profile is for devs to make default system changes make.conf is for users to make customised system changes /etc/portage/* is for users to make customized local changes In increasing order of priority. -- Neil Bothwick Top

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd

2007-07-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
a GB stick in a couple of months by writing 700MB files to it. -- Neil Bothwick I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] boot error

2007-07-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
the driver for your disk controller into the kernel (not as a module). -- Neil Bothwick I am a computer -- dumber than any human and smarter than an administrator. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] recipe for managing multiple network/system settings

2007-07-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
you would have setup # 'work' and 'home' runlevels, with /etc/conf.d/*.runlevel as needed. If you need the same services to start in each config, but with different configurations, you can make the various runlevel directories symlinks to /etc/runlevels/default. -- Neil Bothwick Voting Democrat

Re: [gentoo-user] boot error

2007-07-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
, Google shows somewhat less than a billion previous instances of this question. Results 1 - 11 of 11 from archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user for not a valid root device. -- Neil Bothwick From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: -Os = Nono?

2007-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
size, -O2 usually seems to be the best choice. I've just tried it on a few PPC packages and, on balance, there was a small space saving, although it was hardly enough to get excited about. -- Neil Bothwick There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] the nsplugin use flag

2007-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
/. -- Neil Bothwick Things are more like they are now than they ever were before. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot error

2007-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
defeats the object of using a customisable distro). Stage 3 only skips the bootstrap and emerge system steps that take so much time with a Stage 1 install. I always do Stage 3 installs now, you can emerge -e system once the system is running to apply your USE and CFLAGS customisations. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] recipe for managing multiple network/system settings

2007-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
. /etc/hosts 2. /etc/host.conf    3. /etc/resolv.conf    4. /etc/ntp.conf Some of these can be configured in /etc/conf.d/net and other files in here. -- Neil Bothwick BBS: (n.) a system for connecting computers and exchanging gossip, facts, and uninformed speculation under false names

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and usb stick/hdd

2007-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
it, which confirmed that the FAT area was borked. -- Neil Bothwick TERROR: A female Klingon with PMS. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: boot error

2007-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
that like to spend hours watching GCC output. -- Neil Bothwick Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
is not a requirement to run KDE, although KDE does depend on several X11 libraries. emerge kde-meta Yes, assuming you want to include all of KDE, including the kitchensync, otherwise emerge the individual packages you need. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 00C: Memory hog error - More Ram needed. More

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
for the stage 3 install. Do an emerge -uavDN world to sort things out. You don't need -N when emerging a package for the first time, there are no existing USE flags to change. -- Neil Bothwick Windows 98 took us to the edge of the cliff. With Windows XP we took a big

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:01:15 + (UTC), James wrote: Where do I read about what all is in xorg-x11 versus xorg-server(which is all that kde-meta needs?)? What exactly does kde-meta needs and such emerge kde-meta -pv should show you all that KDE needs. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: post handbook install guide?

2007-07-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
into one giant emerge command. emerge -av $(cat /path/to/oldworld) -- Neil Bothwick OK Scotty, NOW! Detonate and energize! I mean... signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqeror 64 bit + flash

2007-07-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:15:55 +0300, Stratos Psomadakis wrote: is there a way to enable flash for 64bit konqueror?... i have flash with firefox via the nspluginwrapper... emerge kde-base/nsplugins, that lets Konqueror use the mozilla plugins, which run through nspluginwrapper. -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs

2007-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 20:32:29 + (UTC), James wrote: I set xdm to auto start upon reboot (rc-update), and I'm not sure what file I can edit ( or what else I can do from a minimalCD boot) to stop this process set to autostart during the boot process? rc-update del xdm -- Neil Bothwick Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs

2007-07-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
(reasonably) cleanly. Pausing a couple of seconds between each key is probably a good idea. -- Neil Bothwick And God said Let there be light and there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it better. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs

2007-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
is echoed to the screen, the system is latched up tight. Magic SysReq works at the kernel level, so it usually works even when the system appears completely locked up. -- Neil Bothwick Zmodem has bigger bits, softer blocks, and tighter ASCII signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic package updates

2007-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
. You should be able to do this by including the necessary commands in a pkg_postinst() function in /etc/portage/env/mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird. -- Neil Bothwick EASY TO INSTALL = Difficult to install, but instruction manual has pictures. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

2007-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
importantly, it is not sourced when X starts up. -- Neil Bothwick *Libra*: /(Sept 23--Oct 23)/ An unfortunate typo on your application results in your being accepted into the Legion Of Superherpes. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

2007-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
/ -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 24: New classic signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] where to place command to be executed on X.org start

2007-07-31 Thread Neil Bothwick
setup, not the way it is intended to be used. -- Neil Bothwick Macro: (n.) a series of keystrokes used to simulate a missing but essential command. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from Genkernel to manual build

2007-08-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
the need for adding new entries to an ever-growing menu.lst, all you need are two entries for current kernel and previous kernel (vmlinu[zx] and vmlinu[zx].old). -- Neil Bothwick Jimmy Hoffa is buried here -- X signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] ufed and make.conf when emerging phpMyAdmin

2007-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
protection, so any update will overwrite your configuration files. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, as he connected at 300 bps. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] which DVB-T USB tuner?

2007-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
these, but I had good results with a Freecom USB stick, bought from Amazon. -- Neil Bothwick Bother, said Pooh, as his Harley's backend stepped out. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Stop net.eth0 from starting?

2007-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
. -- Neil Bothwick Code: (n.) a means of concealing bugs favored by programmers. (v.) the process of concealing bugs by programming. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] broken dependencies?¿

2007-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
the directories before unmerging. -- Neil Bothwick ATTENTION: Despite any other listing of product content found in this manual, you are advised that, in actuality, your computer consists of 99.9% empty space. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] broken dependencies?¿

2007-08-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
the files it installed, not any that were created or modified by you, like when you compiled the kernel. -- Neil Bothwick One-seventh of your life is spent on Monday. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency?

2007-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
applications depend on the same dynamic library, which is a common case, and only one of them is updated, but still it's an improvement. Unless you use SLOTs. -- Neil Bothwick A. Top posters. Q. What is the most annoying thing on Usenet? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?

2007-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
are inevitable on a source based system using dynamic libraries. Fortunately, being a source based system makes the fix simple. Try dealing with the same problems on a binary distro. -- Neil Bothwick If at first you don't succeed, call it Windows NT. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
already been rootkitted, the rootkit may be able to conceal itself. -- Neil Bothwick Excuse for the day: daemons did it signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessive processor usage

2007-08-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
is considering a rootkit infection, they should at least be aware of the facts when looking for it. -- Neil Bothwick You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something you can ill afford... signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World Issue

2007-08-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
hitting the upstream server. I too get a 404 when trying to download direct, but the first mirror in my list, ftp.heanet.ie, has the file. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 012: Window closed - Do not look inside signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World Issue

2007-08-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
, it appears that riverbank have released sip 4.7 and removed the previous version from their server already, so you need to get it from a mirror. -- Neil Bothwick Don't let the computer bugs bite! signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] tools to detect hardware

2007-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 20:11:55 +0800, Chuanwen Wu wrote: I need tools to detect the details of my hardware. There's sys-apps/lshw and hardinfo. The latter is not in portage, but there's an ebuild at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147547 -- Neil Bothwick I am Barry Norman of the Borg

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
, this is A Good Thing, you can install and compile a kernel update then emerge nvidia-drivers to have the drivers available when you boot into your new kernel. -- Neil Bothwick This project is so important, we can't let things that are more important interfere with it. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mathematica 6 Gentoo amd64

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
no results. I don't think that's the right package. % qfile libstdc++.so.5 sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 (/usr/lib64/libstdc++-v3/libstdc++.so.5) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-compat (/usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.5) -- Neil Bothwick Windows Error #09: Game Over. Exiting Windows. signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Update World situation (again)

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
config, mounts /boot rw, runs make all modules_install install, emerges nvidia-drivers and remounts /boot ro; making kernel upgrades a one command operation. -- Neil Bothwick Use the Force, Luke, Don't give in to the DOS side.- ObiWan Kenobi signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] which DVB-T USB tuner?

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:09:45 -0400, Eric Martin wrote: I haven't tried any of those, but I love my Hauppauge Win-PVR 350. it makes a Cel600 w/312MB of ram an amazing mythbox One DVB card? How do you manage? I have one dual-tuner card and one single tuner card in my mythbox! -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello James, If I wanted to use CF or SD cards in these old system, is there an inexpenive interface converter (say CF to ide) that is redily available? Yes, I bought one from http://linitx.com and use it in my MythTV frontend. -- Neil Bothwick I'm warning you! One step closer and I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dying? was: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:45:21 -0600, Joseph wrote: The last time that web-page was updated was last Monday. Does emerge --sync pulls new/updated packages? Why don't you try it before spreading speculation about the death of a distro? -- Neil Bothwick A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
came riding in! Some people really do need to get a little perspective. -- Neil Bothwick What if there were no hypothetical situations? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: packages.gentoo.org down?

2007-08-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:55:39 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: What I DO find bad, is that there was no communication about that. [...] Maybe that means you should get your money back. Oh, wait... Don't forget that some people DO give money to Gentoo :) -- Neil Bothwick All right

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Minimum HD space for a firewall

2007-08-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
/cifs mounted drive or use logrotate to mail them out every day. -- Neil Bothwick The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tools to detect hardware

2007-08-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Gaurish Sharma, how to check Hdd for bad sectors? badblocks, which is part of e2fsprogs. -- Neil Bothwick The trouble with life is that you are halfway through it before you realize it's a do it yourself thing. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage annoyances

2007-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
can reinstall them in seconds. -- Neil Bothwick You have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] access violation summary

2007-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
= /var/log/sandbox/sandbox-sys-auth_-_bioapi-1.2.2-11953.log Is this your problem? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154776 -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 01D: System crash - We are unable to figure out our own code. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage annoyances

2007-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
to think it is installed at all: Probably because it isn't, because you don't need it. -- Neil Bothwick EASY TO INSTALL = Difficult to install, but instruction manual has pictures. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with root on reiserfs

2007-08-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
way to do this is mount root on another mount point, with mount --bind / /mnt/root then tar up /mnt/root. Alternatively, mknod /dev/console and /dev/null on the new filesystem. -- Neil Bothwick Thesaurus: ancient reptile with an excellent vocabulary signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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