On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:48:17 +0100, Mick wrote:
Thanks Naga, I should have said that a --update world did not pick
these up.
Did you use --deep?
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gracetime=2 dev=2,0,0 speed=48 -dao
~
You are trying to use the old SCSI-emulated method of specifying drives,
which is deprecated in wodim, and has been unnecessary with cdrecord for
years. Use standard /dev/hdN or /dev/cdrom path(s) to your drive(s).
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downloading a snapshot is better, it's much faster.
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of the gentoo-sources directory
from the networked box as this includes the Manifest.
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everything in the
directory matches the manifest, portage will refuse to install from it.
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Hello Philip Webb,
I've also noticed that it seems to take noticeably longer to copy files,
the more data is already on the stick: can anyone explain ?
Fragmentation?
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, forcing an
automatic rebuild of it.
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Imagine my disappointment when you came along.
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trouble can be in kernel config so i meant to ask which kernel options
need to be enabled to take adventage of cdrom and usb automounting?
Can you mount the devices manually?
Do you have pmount installed?
What does tail -f /var/log/messages show when you plug in the device?
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is trying to mix 3.5.6 and 3.5.7 packages, run emerge with
the --tree option to see what is causing this.
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:58:29 + (UTC), Thufir wrote:
[ebuild N] dev-lang/php-5.2.2-r1 USE=... -apache2 ...
There's the answer, if you want PHP to work with apache, you have to set
the apache USE flag for it.
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:59:22 +0200, purple wrote:
you are right, it is basic question and yes, i am in plugdev :)
OK, another basic question: are hal and dbus running?
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Bohr
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On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:05:24 +0200, b.n. wrote:
The onboard Intels were a good lifesaver. I'm considering an Intel Core
Duo... what's wrong with them that AMD does right? :)
Nothing AFAICT. I have a Core2Duo E6600, having always used AMD in the
past, and I'm very happy with it.
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Hello purple,
and another basic answer, yes both are added to default rulevel thus
working all the time..
They may be in the runlevel, but are they actually running?
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- Mark Twain
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Hello purple,
i using gentoo for a year and i know when daemons are working and whent
they 're not..
Maybe you do - but if you haven't told us that, how do we know?
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A longer term fix is to emerge kino 1.1.0, which is currently in testing,
with
echo '~media-video/kino-1.1.0' /etc/portage/package.keywords
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should be enough to convince you.
Incidentally this problem is caused by changes in the ffmpeg API, making
Kino, and other programs, break each time the API changes. Kino 1.1.0 is
fixed to work with the updated API.
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for the workaround.
Yes, the reason is that policy is that ebuilds should remain in testing
for around thirty days. This doesn't mean the software is unstable or
unfit for use, only that the ebuild had not received sufficient testing
to meet the criteria for inclusion i the stable tree.
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mount it with the notail option. GRUB cannot
read files from a tail-packed Reiser filesystem.
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files with notail in the first place.
That's what I was trying to say, but thanks for clarifying it.
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Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer -- Adolf Hitler
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is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
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And all the Borg left was this copy of OS/2...
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Incidentally, if you use make install to install your kernels, and set
up grub to use kernel /vmlinuz you don't need to update GRUB each time
you update your kernel, because vmlinuz will always be a symlink to the
latest.
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The Japanese call us lazy, but at least we cook our fish
--quiet /boot /etc/fstab mount /boot -o remount,ro
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Hello Paul Gibbons,
emerge -uDNav XML-Parser
which indicated that XML-Parser was up to date
Up to date, but probably built against the wrong expat. Rebuild it, and
fontconfig, then run revdep-rebuild.
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Hello Paul Gibbons,
So the thing I hadn't tried before starting this thread was to rebuild
fontconfig as Neil suggested.
Thanks Neil. How did you know that that was the solution?
Because that's what fixed it for me some months ago when expat 2.0 first
went into the tree.
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such as
yourself. How did you come to that conclusion on your own case - is
there some clue that I could of followed.
AFAIR I got the solution from someone else on bugs.gentoo.org.
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should contact Antimatter in any
other packages need to be
bumped, and it only applies to those using a stable arch. Bumping
packages also forces recompilation on those that don't need it.
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and repeat the depclean step.
Repeat this until you are happy that nothing important will be removed,
then run depclean without -p, followed by emerge -uavDN world again and
revdep-rebuild -p -i. Review the output then run without -p -i.
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WinErr 020: Error recording error codes
Hello Danis Petkakis,http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/
(see the recent Rolling upgrades thread) ...excuse me but where can
i find
this thread to read about such automated procedures??
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/
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Wow! That lightning sounds clo..it
Hello b.n.,
By the way, eix tells me that expat 2.0.1 is stable, but emerge -pv
world doesn't ask me to update expat. Is it ok (does it mean no package
actually needs 2.0.1 ?) ?
Probably, adding --deep should cause the upgrade.
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If you shoot a mime, should you use
of that yet.
As it turned out, you did respond to my mail, but you didn't answer it -
I didn't ask whether mounting by hand worked.
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there is a SATA port on the JMicron controller, I
haven't used it as there are six other SATA ports on this board, on the
Intel controller.
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with modern hardware.
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the kernel stored within that area of the disk. That's
why the Gentoo handbooks only recommend a separate /boot for certain
architectures, basically x86-based ones. For other architectures, like
PPC, the handbook does not suggest using /boot, at least it didn't when I
installed on this iBook.
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. and shove everything else onto LVM.
Either way, you still need one non-LVM partition, but making it root
removes the need for an initrd.
There are always at least two ways of doing things, and the other way is
generally considered inferior :)
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This virus requires Microsoft Windows
for its data
but didn't slow the system down like Beagle.
I then end I went back to using the tried and tested system of
find/locate/grep combined with giving files sensible names.
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Hello Marc Joliet,
Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't
needed with modern hardware.
I use lvm, so that wouldn't yield good results :-/.
I too use LVM and it yields excellent results.
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matter?
You always have to use one non-LVM partition, I just use / instead
of /boot. This has the advantage of not needing an initrd. /usr, /var et
al are still on LVM partitions.
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Multitasking?? But I only have one PC!
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and no initrd.
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, 300MB
would be plenty.
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:45:45 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Any idea about why the hetzner system shows dm-1? And what
needs to be done to change that?
This appears to be due to a change in 64-device-mapper.rules with
udev-115.
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Two is not equal to three, even for large
in the right direction? I've included the emerge
output below:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188081
rm -fr ${DISTDIR}/svn-src/myth*
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 22:50:26 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
This appears to be due to a change in 64-device-mapper.rules with
udev-115.
My mistake, that file comes from device-mapper, rolling back to
sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.19-r1 restores the old behaviour.
The files in /dev/mapper are now
to be the
most secure. Which only goes to show how meaningless such polls are.
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archives
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.
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working
properly because /var is also full.
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on the second
disk?
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There's more to life than sex, beer and computers.
Not a lot more admittedly...
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on your system.
* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.
localhost ~ # grep python /var/lib/portage/world ###(--Still no result)
localhost ~ #
Python is part of the system profile, so it doesn't need to be added to
world. Portage knows this.
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Life is a sexually transmitted
/show_bug.cgi?id=188929
I thought that one had been fixed, it certainly works here, or has the fix
not made it to stable yet?
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[..]
CLOCK=local
TIMEZONE=Europe/Berlin
[..]
This setting is only used when emerging timezone-data, to copy the
correct file to /etc/localtime. Either re-emerge timesone-data or
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin /etc/localtime.
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To iterate is human; to recurse, divine
.
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for important stuff.
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On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 12:14:12 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
OTOH, if you put /usr, /home, /var, /tmp and all the others on LVM, you
could just leave the root partition unencrypted, as it wouldn't contain
anything sensitive.
Apart from some contents of /etc.
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DANGER! DANGER
On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:54:44 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
Anything special if I put the LVM over a software raid?
No, that's what I do. / is on a RAID-1 partition, then I have an LVM
physical volume on a RAID-5 partition for /usr, /home et al.
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I wonder how much deeper would
in LVM and your initramfs worries
go away.
s/LVM/a partition using the rest of the hard drive/
As I asked before, what happens when you need more space and want to add
another drive? With LVM, adding the space to your existing pool of space,
for use by any filesystem, is trivial.
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with an 8233 to an 8237 and it worked as before, with no
changes needed.
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This project is so important, we can't let things that are more
important interfere with it.
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?
i thought there was a command but i can't remember nor find one :(
newgro vboxusers, but it only applies to the current shell (and anything
launched from it). To have all applications see the change, you need to
log into your desktop again.
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Top Oxymorons Number 48: freewill
Hello Dan Farrell,
is there any way to tell whether any messages are being passed through
DSPAM at all?
Dspam adds a signature, either to the end of the mail or the headers,
showing that it has been processed. Your mail had
X-DSPAM-Signature: 1000,46e0235a229912502612845
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Hello forgottenwizard,
Does anyone know of a way to do this, and maybe supply a good source of
procmail docs that cover this kind of thing?
formail -a or formail -A does this, formail is part of procmail.
As for docs, how about man formail :)
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If your VCR still flashes 12
, the original
discs, but things like work, accounts and emails need to be backed up
regularly. Excluding replaceable data from /home makes the backup process
much easier.
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Artificial Intelligence usually beats real stupidity.
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-config man page, or
http://dev.gentoo.org/~rl03/webapp-config.html if you don't have
webapp-config installed, for an explanation.
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Politically Incorrect -- and damn proud of it!
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this, that is meant
to be used when two packages install the same file(s). This is in
incompatibility between versions, but portage doesn't have a way of
saying don't try to install foo-1.4 if bar-2.7 is installed.
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Windows will never cease.
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-server
(unless you have buildpkg in FEATURES) so that you can switch back
quickly if you do have a problem.
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:56:49 +0200, Jesús Guerrero wrote:
Yep, that's what I do in these cases. It saves a lot of pain. Not that
xorg is vital for me anyway. I am mostly a GNU Screen user ;)
Me too, but screen is at its best when run in Konsole :)
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Q: Why is top-posting
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:27:53 +0200, econti wrote:
A little question: how long does it take to complete the upgrade?
emerge genlop
emerge -upDN world | genlop -p
and see for yourself :)
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I just bought a microwave fireplace... You can spend an evening in
front of it in only
Hello Thanasis,
Why does emerge --update suddenly want to remove sys-power/acpid?
emerge --update doesn't remove anything. Post your emerge command and
the output of it with --pretend added so that we may understand what you
mean. Adding --tree too is a good idea.
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Death
. Although adding acpid is
probably not the solution here. If nothing installs it as a dependency,
there is no need to install it.
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:36:27 +0300, Daniel Iliev wrote:
I was actually expecting some kind of a simple bash script. Anyway I'll
give it a try // even though I'm so afraid of snakes :) //
Python has nothing to do with snakes, although it does share a common
history with spam :)
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Hello forgottenwizard,
Alright, I've got it. It doesn't mount via sda anymore, but by uba.
Either way, it works. Thanks for the help.
You don't normally want that, for one thing it is slower. Set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB=n in your kernel config.
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Everything takes longer than
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:57:35 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
Another 4 million ebuild.log files to parse and act
upon after every update.
Those of us wishing to spend their time more usefully have portage email
the important bits instead of trying to read the files manually :-/
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:46:29 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Those of us wishing to spend their time more usefully have portage
email the important bits instead of trying to read the files
manually :-/
elogv/elogviewer
claws-mail does it for me :)
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And what else
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:05:57 -0500, Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote:
Really?...Portage can do that? because I would like to get portage on my
system to do that.
Step 1: Stop top posting
Step 2: Read /etc/make.conf.example, the part about PORTAGE_ELOG
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times. You need to set both to Europe/London.
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/conf.d/clock has two relevant variables, CLOCK and TIMEZONE. Here
are mine:
CLOCK=UTC
TIMEZONE=Europe/Berlin
Don't know wether setting CLOCK to GMT will also do.
It's the TIMEZONE setting that matters here, CLOCK should be either UTC
or local.
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Micro-: (prefix) anything both
with setting your
timezone.
TIMEZONE should be America/New_York
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?
Exactly what it says. genlop couldn't find any previous emerges of the
packages in /var/log/emerge.log, so it was unable to estimate the time
for those packages.
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Hello Mick,
TIMEZONE=GB
or if you look into /usr/share/zoneinfo/ a bit deeper:
TIMEZONE=Europe/London
They are the same.
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] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking
kde-base/klipper-3.5.7)
Shouldn't klipper 3.5.* work with kdebase 3.5.*?
klipper is part of kdebase, which is one of the monolithic packages.
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does grep ELOG /etc/make.conf
show on each of the computers?
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against an older version of flac, you probably need
to re-emerge playsound.
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KPLA Klingon Radio : All glory, all the time!
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is objecting to addresses without a
domain. Set PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=recipient server.
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Q. How many mathematicians does it take to change a light bulb?
A. Only one - who gives it to six Californians, thereby reducing the
problem to an earlier joke.
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you change ISPs when moving? Does your new ISP block rsync traffic?
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=save mail
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI=baby.espersunited.com
This is wrong, you have no recipient address, only the server.
Read /etc/make.conf.example for the full syntax.
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If Microsoft made cars:
The airbag system would ask are you sure? before
suggest trying a different DVD player, so see whether the problem is
isolated to xine or affects the rest (which would suggest a library
problem). Try mplayer or mythdvd and see what happens.
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Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
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. It appears that this supports the 8169
from 2.6.19.
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-- random quotes
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that is no longer installed.
Rebuilding media-libs/sdl-sound-1.0.1-r1 would have fixed the problem too.
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If a program is useful, it must be changed.
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# difference.
. /etc/bash/bashrc
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Oh, no. Not another one!
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files have changed.
Also, emerge and run app-forensics/rkhunter
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Top Oxymorons Number 37: Sanitary landfill
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withing the graphic session, but i am afraid
to be banned temporarily for abusing portage syncs.
You won't be banned for the odd extra sync. Syncing every hour is another
matter.
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Bumper Sticker: If you can read this, you are in phaser range.
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--resume --skipfirst; do : done
But be aware that you have have a significant number of packages fail to
compile as they depend on previous failures.
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Sex is better than logic. You can't prove it, but it is.
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, and usually turns out to be the
quickest too. Backup /etc and your world file first, use your old
make.conf as a starting point and recreate your old environment on the
new hardware with
emerge -1av $(cat oldworld)
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Electric chairs are period furniture: they end a sentence
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:21:25 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote:
No other problems w/ the drive.
Drive is Maxtor 120G IDE. Very low hours on it.
emerge smartmontools and run smartctl on the drive.
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reload /dev/null 21 || true
endscript
}
And my logs are:
# ls -lsah blog_log_access_common
20M -rw-r--r-- 1 root root20M sep 25 12:04 blog_log_access_common
blog_log_access_common does not match the *log pattern in the config file.
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... ebius tagline
on all profiles.
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If at first you don't succeed, you'll get a lot of free advice from
folks who didn't succeed either.
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part of my system) and
maintenance free. I check the coolant level once in a blue moon, but it
never needs attention. You're more likely to have problems caused by an
air cooled system overheating than a water-cooling component failing.
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Have you lived in this village all your
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:56:28 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote:
MAxtor sucks in my opinion. Seagate will replace a warrantied drive
And who owns Maxtor?...
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Where do forest rangers go to get away from it all?
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with lower quality materials/technology than the
Seagate factory.
The comment was about customer service and attitude too. Even if they keep
both manufacturing lines, you would expect them to now have similar
levels of service.
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Bother, said Pooh, realising that Tiggers really
Hello Dan Farrell,
Seagate's customer service I've never dealt with. I just send in the
drive, and a working one comes back in 60 days or so.
That is customer service, albeit rather slow service. IBM replaced a
faulty Deathstar drive in less than two weeks.
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Veni, vermini
set of options and features, not the maximum. As
long as the standards aren't broken, nothing is wrong, and adding new,
useful and compatible features is one way that standards get improved.
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, where's the harm in improvement? I know car
analogies are tired, but it's like arguing that all cars should be
designed to meet the minimum standards required by law, and if the law
doesn't stipulate air conditioning, we don't need it - that example is
usually true here in the UK :(
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