Re: [gentoo-user] Which cd player plays copy-controlled cd's?

2006-07-17 Thread Harald Arnesen
Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sunday 16 July 2006 09:46, Harald Arnesen wrote: Does someone know which of the dozens of cd-players for gentoo is able to play copy-controlled cd's (the cd's that install a player first under Windows). My discman can play them, my home audioset

Re: [gentoo-user] Which cd player plays copy-controlled cd's?

2006-07-16 Thread Harald Arnesen
Hans de Hartog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does someone know which of the dozens of cd-players for gentoo is able to play copy-controlled cd's (the cd's that install a player first under Windows). My discman can play them, my home audioset can play them so i guess there must be a cdplayer for

Re: [gentoo-user] graphical ssh-enabled file system browser?

2006-06-25 Thread Harald Arnesen
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you install FUSE and SSHFS, you can use any file browser - or even the command line, using the normal commands (ls, cp,...) -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [SPAM] - [gentoo-user] Getting BC not to truncate at the decimal point? - Bayesian Filter detected spam

2006-05-24 Thread Harald Arnesen
Mike Huber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm just trying to do some quick calculations using bc, but the version installed through portage truncates on multiplication/division. It didn't used to do this 2 years ago when I was taking number theory, and there are no USE flags available for

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-09 Thread Harald Arnesen
Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You don't need the audio-cable to hear music from a cd - just the right application ;) Oh yeah, you really don`t need the cable, it just makes things easier, because it will work with all applications, won`t send data using the system bus neither

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - which X terminal do you use?

2006-05-09 Thread Harald Arnesen
Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Neil Bothwick wrote: I am writing a comparative review of a number of X terminals, so I thought I'd draw on the collective wisdom of this list. which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why? Let's hope this generates some interesting

Re: [SPAM] - Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD? - Bayesian Filter detected spam

2006-05-08 Thread Harald Arnesen
Mattias Merilai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel da Veiga wrote: Stéfan is right, you need an analog audio cable connecting your CD drive to your soundcard (or, if your soundcard support it, a digital one). Else the drive can't send audio to your speakers. The other o/s can send audio to

Re: [gentoo-user] App/plugin to play CD?

2006-05-08 Thread Harald Arnesen
Stefán István [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hétfő 08 május 2006 11.32 dátummal Walter Dnes ezt írta: I've been so used to playing mp3 files that I'm lost with real live audio CDs (not a data CD with mp3 files). The XMMS docs aren't really helpful. Do I need an additional plug-in? mplayer is

Re: [gentoo-user] Best Modem for Gentoo

2006-04-26 Thread Harald Arnesen
Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to setup a fax server using Gentoo, I tried using an Intel 536ep chipset card with little success. After looking around the general consensus seems to be go with US Robotics. Can anyone provide the model and manufacture of a fax modem that

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso

2006-03-15 Thread Harald Arnesen
Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 23:14 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:00:08 -0700, Joseph wrote: If I use: dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso I only get about 2Gb file and it stops or freezes, the disk is bout 4.3Gb Is it the same size every

Re: [gentoo-user] confused about suid

2006-01-28 Thread Harald Arnesen
Robert Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to create a script so users can execute a certain command as root without entering a password. I thought suid was the way to do this, but I am not having any success. The command I want to execute as root is echo -n mem /sys/power/status.

Re: [gentoo-user] Building Kernel Modules with custom kernel trees

2006-01-25 Thread Harald Arnesen
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 00:00:01 +, Alex Bennee wrote: There really is no need to force people to build as root under /usr/src so is it possible to educate portage to use the uname method to determine the root of the kernel tree for building kernel

Re: [SPAM] - [gentoo-user] Re: A New Linux Way (This is a Joke, laff will ya?) - Bayesian Filter detected spam

2006-01-12 Thread Harald Arnesen
Devon Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: *Dear Gentoo-User,* This can't be the real thing. You don't write the whole post in capital letters. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] world file cheating

2006-01-06 Thread Harald Arnesen
Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just boot with a gentoo CD, tar up my entire system, and untar it on the new system. If your new system boots with the gentoo CD as well, then you can pipe this over ssh. Something like the following... cd /mnt/gentoo tar -cz ./ | ssh [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Corel Draw for Gentoo linux

2005-12-24 Thread Harald Arnesen
Adrian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In theory I suppose it does. Has anyone gotten past the fact that when you try to install it returns: root $ ./install Log file name:/tmp/corel/Setup.log which: no dpkg in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin) which: no rpm in (/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin)

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-24 Thread Harald Arnesen
Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Novick schrieb: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones. Sure there is. http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-24 Thread Harald Arnesen
Ivan Novick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: dd isos

2005-12-15 Thread Harald Arnesen
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:36:50 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I've read that dd actually has problems reading from cdroms and isos produced with something like dd if=/dev/cdrom of=my.iso conv=noerror would be invalid. Can anyone confirm / deny,

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-09 Thread Harald Arnesen
Jesús García Crespo (aka Sevein) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed to create a new group, compiler, for example, where all the users who will be able to run gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-09 Thread Harald Arnesen
Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jesús García Crespo (aka Sevein) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed to create a new group, compiler, for example, where

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC error

2005-11-03 Thread Harald Arnesen
赵光 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2005/11/3, Hareesh Nagarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Last night, I emerged some ATI drivers, emerged a new kernel (didn't compile it though) and emerged eselect. Today when I compile a C++ program I get the following error: /usr/include/asm/errno.h:4:31:

Re: [gentoo-user] ext3: 10% non-contiguous

2005-11-01 Thread Harald Arnesen
Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For a more sustainable situation, switch to XFS [It involved a backup/format/restore by whatever means you want] And if you do, make sure you have a good UPS. -- Hilsen Harald. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] man ksh appears not to be about the korn shell

2005-10-04 Thread Harald Arnesen
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone else noticed that man ksh displays a page that at least appears not to be about ksh93 or the newer korn shell? The first three items: NAME sh, rsh, pfsh - shell, the standard/restricted command and programming

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: man ksh appears not to be about the korn shell

2005-10-04 Thread Harald Arnesen
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not here: $ man ksh KSH(1) KSH(1) NAME ksh, rksh, pfksh - KornShell, a standard/restricted command and pro- gramming

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 and hibernate problem.

2005-09-10 Thread Harald Arnesen
Paweł Madej [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hibernating and resuming works flawlessly but one thing. When i do: # hibernate i got everything stopped but there is no power off on my laptop. Thing is a bit weird because when i do: # halt it turns off power i also got emerged hibernate-script and

Re: [gentoo-user] Out of order install - grub first

2005-09-07 Thread Harald Arnesen
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:15:56 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, From experience I don't see this as a problem but I thought I'd ask. 1) I just installed Win XP 2) I'm going to install Gentoo 3) I plan to use grub to dual-boot Any reason I cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying between hard drives potential newbie question

2005-09-02 Thread Harald Arnesen
Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben Blount schreef: MBR is probably damaged, hence why it won't boot. I would run grub-install just to be sure. You could also mount your old disk and the new disk, then use cp -R /mnt/olddisk/* /mnt/newdisk/ (putting in the appriopriate mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem wars - ReiserFS 3.6 vs. JFS

2005-06-21 Thread Harald Arnesen
Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I might go with ReiserFS again, because no filesystem is perfect, but Reiser comes very close to it despite this latest problem. I'm also considering JFS, but I can't find any comments about it. Has anyone on this list had any experience with JFS as a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage keywords

2005-06-18 Thread Harald Arnesen
Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harald Arnesen schreef: Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But the 2.6.12 final release is now in Portage How can 2.6.12 be in portage when the latest versions on kernel.org are 2.6.11.12 and 2.6.12-rc6 ? Sorry, my mistake --misread both

Re: [gentoo-user] portage keywords

2005-06-17 Thread Harald Arnesen
Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martins Steinbergs schreef: ATI has a policy of not supporting -rc or unreleased/unstable kernels. i tried with vanilla 2.6.12-rc6 - no luck. fglrx wont compile. Yes, that's what I said-- ATI does not support -rc kernels. But the 2.6.12 final

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Harald Arnesen
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:17:33 +0200 Jarry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Up to now I always used ext2, but now I want to try some | journaling fs for my 2x160GB ata-disks, fully in raid1 | (partitions: / /boot /var /tmp /usr /opt /home and swap). If you