Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?

2012-02-25 Thread Chris Brennan
to a new terminal and grep for that fetch process, when it's complete, kill the DUN link. - -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the text based consoles be made scrollable?

2012-01-30 Thread Chris Brennan
consider piping their output to more or less. ps auxf | more or ps auxf | less My personal preference is to use less, I find it to support my Vi/ViM habits more appropriately. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top

Re: [gentoo-user] The SIMPLEST web server to config (this time - just for serving video files) ?

2011-11-13 Thread Chris Brennan
... -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C)

Re: IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-platform -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C)

Re: [gentoo-user] mktemp dependency problems

2008-04-28 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've noticed that after my upgrade to bl2/openrc and upgrading coreutils (and unmerging mktemp) that wgetpaste complains about mktemp not being found. Uwe Thiem wrote: | On Saturday 26 April 2008, Ralf Stephan wrote: | Hello, | recently

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-setup package

2008-04-23 Thread Chris Brennan
The handbook tells you this as well. On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:39 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Net Warrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HI there guys. I've already installed gentoo, and wanting to setup the ethernet , trying to use net-setup seems not to be installed, which package do I

Re: [gentoo-user] What overwrites resolv.conf

2008-04-23 Thread Chris Brennan
add this to your /etc/conf.d/net dns_servers_ESSID=( 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 ) dns_domain_ESSID=some.domain dns_search_ESSID=search.this.domain search.that.domain you can also swap-out ESSID for eth0/wlan0 respectivly if they settings differ. This way, when you start the rspective device,

Re: [gentoo-user] root password on 2008.1-i686 minimal install

2008-04-23 Thread Chris Brennan
I haven't used 2008.1b1 yet so forgive me if I am a little off. By default, 200X.X would give you a prompt whereby you type passwd and set the root password to a known value. On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unable to log in as root on the installer OS for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: net-setup package

2008-04-23 Thread Chris Brennan
. 2008/4/23, Chris Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: did you symlink net.lo to net.YOUR_ETH_DEVICE ? did you add said new symlink to the boot/default runtime? C- On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Net Warrior [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I did it manually as stated in the handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

2008-04-19 Thread Chris Brennan
I've found, keeping a backup kernel from my last update and loading busybox instead of the system has recued my ass on more then one occassion. Ironicly, I encounted this problem on both my Gentoo Desktop *and* my Gentoo Laptop roughtly a month to two months ago. At this time, there was no

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Overclocked CPU killed motherboard and CD?

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Brennan
Overclocking when done properly, is very safe. There are TONS of sites out there to help with the research. And there are an equal ammount of hardware that can safely support Overclocking. So word from the wise (trial and error wise), take your time, do your research and always take baby steps.

Re: [gentoo-user] Unmerged coreutils + mktemp; can't emerge anymore

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Brennan
what did you unmerge? On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume I'll have to download some gentoo system binaries. Can someone point me to what I need? Here's what happened. I did a regular emerge --sync and then tried an update. There seemed to be a

Re: [gentoo-user] uvesafb and screen resolution

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 have you tried vga=ask ? Chuanwen Wu wrote: | On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Ricardo Saffi Marques | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | uvesafb works nice. | Can anyone help me

Re: [gentoo-user] Weirdness Here

2008-03-27 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 look in your /etc/fstab, is /boot set to noauto? If it is, then /boot isn't being mounted at boot, mount it by hand, then take a peek ... CJoeB wrote: | Hi Guys, | | Something weird is going on with my system. I have been trying to | upgrade the

Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage

2008-03-16 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *if* you move /usr/portage to something like reisterfs, you will get better performacem even on slower machines. my PIII/800 can update the cache in ~ 3 minutes now ext3 just doesn't cut it in a busy tree like portage ... the filesystem just

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount NTFS read-write

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ntfs-3g is better then the kernel ntfs drivers Stroller wrote: | Hi guys, | | It's kinda late by my erratic bodyclock, so I'm assuming I'm doing | something stupid. Can anyone slap me with a kipper, please? | | (Or should I be using the fuse NTFS

[gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How come I don't see my own posts to this list? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH28bX8hUIAnGfls4RAvPaAJ9iVi3RdAD798CYdMQJC0AsGuNjIQCgiRD/

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: | Chris Brennan wrote: | How come I don't see my own posts to this list? | | We got this one. I saw one other one too. | Dale | | :-) :-) Ya but you didn't answer my question :D -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norberto Bensa wrote: | Chris Brennan wrote: | How come I don't see my own posts to this list? | | You seem to be using google for mx... ;-) | | | Indeed I am, appeears to be the only reliable free mail service I have access to at the moment

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | Dale wrote: | | Chris Brennan wrote: | | How come I don't see my own posts to this list? | | | | We got this one. I saw one other one too. | | Dale | | | | :-) :-) | | Ya

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 well we could all just give up and communicate in binary You can read and right binary can't you? Gustavo Campos wrote: | Well, I must admit I'm not really in the position to negate that one. | Not a so travelled man, you know? | | The truth is

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Saturday 15 March 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: | On Saturday 15 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: | The list software doesn't send a copy of a mail back to the | same address as what sent it. This is pretty usual behaviour |

Re: [gentoo-user] Randomly dumb questions

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes well, I am using thunderbird and my mail is stored on a remote server on my lan, so I can check my mail from any machine in my house. So yes, I am using Google Apps to host my e-mail, it's convenient for me and meets me needs and requirements.

Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | Hmmm. There are many thousand ebuilds in the tree. Many more in 3rd | party overlays. Your idea fixes 1 problem in 1 ebuild. Just for the sake of amusment and to give a sense of perspective. By my count (ls -lshaR /usr/portage | grep ebuild | wc

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gustavo Campos wrote: | BCD is good, but time goes on, we must improve, we must evolve. | | We thrived, we evolved, not the time has come for us to step back | again, into the light. Every generation has a mythology. Every millennium has a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF TOPIC] PGP Messages Email clients

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I dunno if gmail can ... but I am sure thunderbird has some ext. that might be able to help. For me, I don't see it, GNUpg just tells TB that the message has been signed and that I can retrieve the pubkey if I wish to. Gustavo Campos wrote: | I know

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF TOPIC] PGP Messages Email clients

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hmm odd ... everyone that has a key I've gotten automaticly Matt Nordhoff wrote: | I think it's funny that Enigmail isn't happy with any of the messages in | this thread. Mostly Error - No valid armored OpenPGP data block found, | one can't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF TOPIC] PGP Messages Email clients

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Nordhoff wrote: | Chris Brennan wrote: | hmm odd ... everyone that has a key I've gotten automaticly | | Yeah, yours is the only one I'm having trouble with. :-P | | Can't find it on any of the key servers I've tried. | | (Note: Im kind

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
It was just an idea that came to me, completely untested. Let us know if it mostly works out. Does this Go with Mostly Harmless too? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | It was just an idea that came to me, completely untested. Let us | know if it mostly works out. | Does this Go with Mostly Harmless too? | | Not really. If it doesn't work

Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 reemerge x11-libs/qt with the qt3support *AND* opengl flags, qt-4.3 merged qt-3 into the qt-4 src-tree Leviathan ~ # emerge -vp qt ~ * Mounting 850M of memory to /var/tmp/portage ... ~ [ ok ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 just go 4x4 :D 16 CPU's and 128G of ram drool Dale wrote: | Neil Bothwick wrote: | On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:39:39 +0100, KH wrote: | | | only thing I found out until now is that flash is not working. Maybe | this is fixed by now. | | | Install

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | Alan McKinnon wrote: | | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | | It was just an idea that came to me, completely untested. Let us | | know if it mostly works out

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | Alan McKinnon wrote: | | I do think ... we have hijacked this thread ... was the original | question answered? | | Yes :-) At least until the OP can do some further tests

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | Alan McKinnon wrote: | | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | | Alan McKinnon wrote: | | | | I do think ... we have hijacked this thread ... was the original

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - New USB trackball; how to use?

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 just tell gpm/X to use /dev/input/mice (this is most typicly the default ~ device name/location for USB mice ... all 3 of my USB mice have used the same name/location ... and none were the same make. Michael Sullivan wrote: | I got a new USB

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox-bin can't see the web but firefox 64-bit and konqueror does.

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 msg recv'd ... loud and clear ... twice :D no worries Cocoy Dayao wrote: | i apologize if you get this twice now. i got an error message from the | list saying this message was undelivered by pigeon.gentoo.org, so i am | resending. | | On Mar 13,

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | | Alan McKinnon wrote: | | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | | Alan McKinnon wrote: | | | On Friday 14 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | | | Alan McKinnon wrote: | | | | | | I do think ... we have hijacked this thread

Re: [gentoo-user] Accept all versions but 9999

2008-03-14 Thread Chris Brennan
understand it). | | And about Marvin, I'm proud to say that I'm the 42 shirt of my | university soccer team, kinda nerdy for a computer science student | huh? | | On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:10 AM, Chris Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | | | Gustavo Campos wrote: | | Well, if anyone cares about it (emo

Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: | On Monday 10 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: | On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:55 -0400 | | Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Comcast? | I was on comcast for a long time (2.5 yrs) and never had a problem like | this. They might have

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Finding the port NFS runs on

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Brennan
install nmap and port map yourself ... or netstat -a | grep nfs(d) Michael Sullivan wrote: How can I find out what port NFS is running on so I can let it through my subrouter? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-06 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Iain Buchanan wrote: | On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 17:58 -0500, Rodrigo Lazo wrote: | Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Rodrigo Lazo wrote: | | Seems like

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here is the output of my cpuinfo, I'll point out where it will mean 64bit. For the sake of this demonstration, I have only pasted one (1) CPU. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stratos Psomadakis wrote: | O/H cypherstrong έγραψε: | another way to test is to run a livecd in amd64 mode on new intel chips | if it doesn't work, try the ia64 version | | if it doesn't work ... your intel is a 32 bits version :) | | no need

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
from what you pasted, you have a 32bit cpu. But you have a flag I do as well, and that is 'ht'. Hyper-Threading is a whole different beast I know very little about, it's more of an Intel thing for there first generation dual-core cpu's. Uwe Thiem wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Chris

Re: [gentoo-user] Detecting 64 bit Intel chips

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
well said ... Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 05 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: from what you pasted, you have a 32bit cpu. But you have a flag I do as well, and that is 'ht'. Hyper-Threading is a whole different beast I know very little about, it's more of an Intel thing for there first

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of Gentoo

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
The problem is that we don't believe in tales about witches and premonition, do we? ;) I do, does that count? Some people call it yellow press (though in my country it would be translated to pink press :P. This gets kind of boring, because every two or three days a similar thread arises in

Re: [gentoo-user] Make krusader default file manager

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Did you restart your WM? Danis Petkakis wrote: | hello there i'm trying to make krusader my default file manager...so | when i'm double-clicking on a directory it should be opened by | Krusader...i try to set it up correctly in kcontrol-kde |

Re: [gentoo-user] date and gentoo running under vmplayer

2008-03-05 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 you need to make sure ntp-client and ntpd (from openntpd) have been started, and you have a valid time server. Below I have included everything I hope will help you - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -vp openntpd These are the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b demands audio support

2008-03-04 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 because k3b does more then xCDRoast ... it's a fully fledged media encoder C- Philip Webb wrote: | Can anyone explain why K3b demands audio support, but Xcdroast doesn't ? | | root: root emerge -pv k3b | | These are the packages that would be

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

2008-02-28 Thread Chris Brennan
Are you sure the switch/hub/router is failing? With any remote connection such as smb/nfs/sshfs, if the target becomes unavailable for some reason such as lag or a bad route from Point A to Point B then that terminal window will hang till point B is reachable. ionut cucu wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: BT8x8

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Brennan
. # # Duncan wrote: Chris Brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 14:55:56 -0500: And I get a GREEN overlay. But he minute I change something else, it goes back to a black

[gentoo-user] Looking for someone

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Brennan
I received an e-mail from someone on this list named Jonathan Harrison. Mr Harrison, your e-mail is invalid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). If you can kindly adjust your mail client and e-mail me again off-list I'll reply to your inquiry :D Chris Brennan irc://irc.ircwire.net

[gentoo-user] Networking bridging

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Brennan
I am trying to set up a Bridge for Qemu to use. I followed the guide at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO:_Qemu#Using_TUN.2FTAP_interface_as_a_normal_user but when ever the bridge starts, I loose connectivity outside of my box :/ ... am I missing something I've includes the output of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing .config

2008-02-16 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Little FYI/Tip or you. When I build a kernel, I do something like the following: Leviathan boot # tree . |-- 2.6.23-r6 | |-- Config.Leviathan | |-- Leviathan | `-- System.map-Leviathan |-- 2.6.23-r8 | |-- Config.Leviathan | |-- Leviathan |

[gentoo-user] RE: BT8x8

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'm having a somewhat similar issue with the BT878 card I have in my gentoo box. Here are pastebin results of varius infomation, hope I give all the necessary info. dmesg - http://rafb.net/p/MVIiSg62.html xorg.conf - http://rafb.net/p/dXz4Ry49.html