[gentoo-user] repair damaged pdf?

2011-04-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all What is your experience with corrupted PDF files? Do you know any tool that can attempt to repair damaged PDF files? Does it make any sense to edit a PDF file in hex mode? I have a damaged PDF that cannot be opened with any of the about 10 tools that I've just tried. liv@liv-laptop:/tmp$

Re: [gentoo-user] repair damaged pdf?

2011-04-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: You can also try pdfclean in case it reads it, from the package pap-text/mupdf It does seem to input it, since it outputed a non-null file, but it also seems corrupted: /usr/local/build/mupdf-0.8.15-linux-amd64/pdfclean

[gentoo-user] which file is currently being written to disk?

2011-03-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all Is there some utility (console or otherwise) that could indicate me NOT the output/input read/write and miscellanea, but simply which files are currently being written to the disk. Sometimes my browser (Opera) downloads some big temporary files, and usually I have a difficult time

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for pdftk

2010-05-30 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: Any suggestions for a good command line tool to manage PDFs like pdftk (split (burst) a PDF, combine two or more PDFs, Rotate PDFs and so on)? http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/26/pdf-linux Liviu

[gentoo-user] Re: xfce: unable to perform shutdown

2010-01-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 1/4/10, José Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: When shutting down my ~amd64 gentoo system running XFCE, the system does not shut down and I receive the following error message, and then the XFCE session is closed. Unable to perform shutdown error:

[gentoo-user] generic command monitor

2009-06-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, I'm looking for a command-line alternative to xfce4-genmon [1]. The latter takes a command (executable), executes it every specified period and displays the output in Xfce's panel. I'm looking for a small utility (script) that can do this in the console: take a command, re-run it

Re: [gentoo-user] generic command monitor

2009-06-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 6/8/09, Mike Kazantsev mk.frag...@gmail.com wrote: watch(1) (part of sys-process/procps) Perfect. Thank you Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: [gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

2009-04-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: This is almost certainly disk corruption. Boot from a CD and do an fsck on all disk volumes And maybe do a backup first, in case fsck messes up things worse than before. Luckily this wasn't needed. I did the checks

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 7:38 AM, Vasya Volkov my.pipes.b...@gmail.com wrote: Here: 01.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, MPEG Layer 3, stereo 48000 Hz An idea: try to convert it with soundcoverter (or sox, or whatever) to .wav, and try to load the new .wav in audacity. Liviu -- Do

[gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, Today I stumbled on several posts [1] [2] concerning start-up speed of Linux. Compared with the 5-17 secs posted in the posts, my (slightly old) Gentoo needs around two minutes from power button to DE idle. Are there any developments in Gentoo concerning this? Thanks, Liviu [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] boot gentoo in 5 seconds?

2009-04-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
2009/4/20 Sebastián Magrí sebasma...@gmail.com: There are a few tweaks one can do to speed up things... Such as.. -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

2009-04-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: You can use convert from imagemagick to resize to thumbnail size and save as a different file format. I knew about convert, but I was looking for smth batch, and it's imagemagick's mogrify [1]. For personal use,

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Vasya Volkov my.pipes.b...@gmail.com wrote: Audacity doesn't support .wav file format. I mean it doesn't convert .wav to mp3, ogg, etc... Soundconverter strange programm. I tried to convert my wav files to mp3 with it and size of files that I get was 20 Mb and

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 10:52 PM, Vasya Volkov my.pipes.b...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. But audacity writes to me that it doesn't recognize my wav format. Maybe I have really different form of this format? How can I get informatin about format of my files? `file music.wav' -- Do you know how

[gentoo-user] corrupted start-up services (and file-system)

2009-04-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello all, I have a (nasty) issue with the system start-up, and probably with corrupted file-system. On start-up, I get several error messages (see below). I suspect I started having these messages after Gentoo crashed once, but I couldn't recall the actual circumstances. The problem is that, for

[gentoo-user] pdf thumbnailer

2009-04-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
Guys, Does anyone know a .pdf thumbnailer? I work in R, and I save my graphs in PDF format (quality, compatibility, etc.). However one culprit is that it is cumbersome to navigate .pdf files; it ain't similar to opening all images in an image viewer (say, mirage), and switching from one image to

Re: [gentoo-user] audio convert splitter etc...

2009-04-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Vasya Volkov my.pipes.b...@gmail.com wrote: Hello. Can you suggest some simple program which can make these functions: 1).ape,.cue splitting 2)converting flac/ape/wav to ogg mp3 etc. 3)cutting parts of audio files? Please with overlay if one there is. There

[gentoo-user] SLiM fails to load Fluxbox

2009-04-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, I'm using x11-misc/slim as a login manager, and I have troubles with loading any DE other than Xfce. I've followed the wiki entry [1], but I must still be doing something wrong: it fails to load Fluxbox whether I select Fluxbox or Xfce with F1. It's actually quite funny: selecting

Re: [gentoo-user] SLiM fails to load Fluxbox

2009-04-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: li...@localhost ~ $ cat .xinitrc #SLiM session call DEFAULT_SESSION=dbus-launch startxfce4                  ^^ This sets DEFAULT_SESSION to dbus-launch and then executes startxfce4. That would explain why

[gentoo-user] on-line info on masked packages

2009-04-10 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, Where can I find on-line information about masked packages, basically the current /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask? It seems no such info is either here [1], here [2] or here [3]. I'd like to know why the package is masked prior to syncing Portage. Thanks, Liviu [1]

Re: [gentoo-user] on-line info on masked packages

2009-04-10 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote: No need to look online, the comments in the file seem to contain the information you want: I am asking for the case where my tree is *not* yet synced with the most current available official tree. How can one find this

Re: [gentoo-user] simple firewall

2009-04-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 12:24 AM, gigli gi...@swipnet.se wrote: kmyfirewall and others, didn't really like them. Something like ufw would be nice. The other day I filed a bug report for gufw [1], but there's no ebuild sofar. Liviu [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=264912 -- Do you

Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?

2009-03-13 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use Kbackup and then k3b to burn them.  Works well so far.  Just On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: DAR - http://dar.linux.free.fr/. There is also a gui, kdar. Are there GUIs not

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge R

2009-02-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: draws charts, graphs, applies coloration, interesting stuff. I may end up using RapidMiner - also Open Source but I think it's not in portage - as it's more of a GUI environment vs R which is sort of command line driven.

Re: [gentoo-user] perfect IDE

2009-02-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:51 AM, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: ide for c/c++ code writing. I've been through vim/vim + plugins/emacs + different modes/anjuta/kdevelop/codeblocks/eclipse/netbeans ... I've heard some good things about komodo, though it's not open source and I've

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} xfce4 network management?

2009-02-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf editing while traveling. Does There's also wpa_gui. Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write?

Re: [gentoo-user] mp3/ogg editing

2008-12-03 Thread Liviu Andronic
There is media-sound/mp3splt-gtk [1], but it's for splitting only: a GTK+ based utility to split mp3 and ogg files without decoding. Never managed to get it working, though. I would suggest that you raise the question on a more specialised ML, for example the Audacity ML. Perhaps they'd suggest

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives

2008-12-03 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the gnome-volume-manager? (If you use Gnome)... Or thunar-volman? (If you use Xfce)... -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write?

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Busted

2008-11-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Beau Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As of late ( past couple of weeks ), I've been having trouble with flash. Nothing seems to work. Youtube, google video, lastfm doesn't have the little What version of flash are you using? Here

[gentoo-user] howto downgrade to opera 9.52 ?

2008-11-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, I'm currently experiencing problems with Opera 9.6x. Although per all the builds are blistering fasts, they consistently cause temporary lock-ups on sites like Gmail or Reuters (probably flash related, but i'm not sure of this). I would like to downgrade to 9.52, but I no longer have

Re: [gentoo-user] howto downgrade to opera 9.52 ?

2008-11-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/www-client/opera/?hideattic=0 Thanks. Liviu -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write?

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel-2.5.0 emerge error

2008-11-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try upgrade xorg-server too . If this doesnt fix your problem, i would suggest filling a bug on gentoo bugzilla :) Even better would be to opt for emerge -DNu package (unless you already did so). Liviu --

Re: [gentoo-user] gimp-9999 failed to compile

2008-10-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 6:21 AM, Nickolay Hodyunya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, but it seems 0.0.21 is not even released, because there is no files to fetch from ftp.gimp.org for this version. Dunno, perhaps they rely on SVN version. I would try to compile the code manually, and see if the

Re: [gentoo-user] gimp-9999 failed to compile

2008-10-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Nickolay Hodyunya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to compile latest gimp from svn, but it fail because gegl version in ports is 0.0.20 but gimp- requires =0.0.21. Have I any chance to see this version in ports tree? Did you try renaming the gegl

Re: [gentoo-user] New intel xorg-server USE flag

2008-10-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see there is a new intel USE flag for xorg-server. I also see (-i810%*) which may be due to my hardened profile? Should I change VIDEO_CARDS=i810 to intel? I have this in the laptop's lspci: Intel Corporation 82801H. Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com - Needs your help!

2008-10-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/24/08, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please read the latest news @ www.gentoo-wiki.com We can't. It's down. Here it opens. Perhaps try this: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ Liviu

Re: [gentoo-user] What heppined with intel driver in xorg?

2008-10-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:56 AM, Alexander Kuprijanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi After my last emerge --sync I see -intel% (-i810%) in VIDEO_CARDS What happined if I'll reinstall mesa and xorg-server? Does my onboard intel vodeocard will work after this update? The i810 driver was

Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure

2008-10-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Fabrice Delliaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please try again with the following new patch (replace the older one with it) : Worked like a charm. Please see the relevant bug report [1]. Liviu [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243448

Re: [gentoo-user] Another Abiword build failure

2008-10-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Erik, First two questions that come to me: - did you already emerge -DNu abiword and - did you try with the -gnome USE flag? Liviu On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unsuccesfully trying to compile app-office/abiword-2.6.4. The error is a different

Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure

2008-10-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Fabrice Delliaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you please upload this Makefile somewhere and give us a link for download ? Something in your build environment is probably interfering with some variables defined in this Makefile. And also : somewhere

Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure

2008-10-22 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Fabrice, Thanks for taking a look, and for the patch. On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Fabrice Delliaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Makefile: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=02299843822915416335 You probably upload the wrong file. This can't be this one. I also have a

Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure

2008-10-21 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j1 I tried both MAKEOPTS=-j1 and #MAKEOPTS=-j1, with +gnome and -gnome, to no avail; it errors at the same spot: GNUmakefile:964: *** mixed implicit and normal rules. Stop. I will post below the configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure

2008-10-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Arttu V. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/08, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/portage PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage I don't really know an answer, but I'm curious about what has been attempted with these two lines. Would

Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure

2008-10-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/19/08, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where is your portage tree stored? In /usr/portage I guess, so remove this PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/portage or replace it with PORTDIR=/usr/portage but this is not needed as it is default. Regarding PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage if you

Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure

2008-10-19 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/19/08, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. ^^^ You did not do this. You posted the bottommost error. Well, the error message essentially didn't change from

[gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure

2008-10-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Gentoo users, The latest Portage-stable AbiWord refuses to compile on my system, with either + or -gnome. (Currently I have the old 2.4.6 fully functional.) I am in the process of an emerge world, so all the dependencies of AbiWord are already up-to-date, plus several were rebuilt recently

Re: [gentoo-user] AbiWord 2.6.4 build failure

2008-10-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Fabrice Delliaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the content of your make.conf please ? # These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage # Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example CFLAGS=-O2

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The login manager slim, which is started in daemon mode, get killed when X is left by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (zapping X) -- there is a fallback to the login of the root console instead of getting a new login screen of

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim: After zapping X fallback to console

2008-10-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/15/08, Erik Hahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this actually a bug or intended behaviour? If it's a bug, is there a version that works properly? The bug would relate more to /etc/init.d/xdm than to SLiM. Liviu

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-user] Продажа квартир.Скидки становятся меньше...

2008-10-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/9/08, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:31:32 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: How do you say wtf? in Russian? As in WTF are you reposting this entire spam to the list? Well, one way to express the wtf feeling would be: С какой херовой стати?. (There might,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play audio cds!

2008-10-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything. I couldn't mount my CD (in the past this wasn't necessary for audio CDs, but I thought I'd As far as I know, the Linux kernel cannot mount Audio CDs. The one programme

[gentoo-user] Password strength checker

2008-10-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear everyone, I'm looking for a Linux password strength checker, and so far I found this GPLed Java-Script-based solution [1]. Could you please suggest other utilities to test the strength of passwords? Regards, Liviu PS I'm curious whether such a JS password strength checker can be ebuilt and

Re: [gentoo-user] Tool for monitoring what's using the hard drive

2008-09-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tool similar to `top` that will tell me what's using my hard drive? My hard drive clicks a lot when I don't think it should, and I'd really like to know what program is using it. Sometimes it's so bad that

[gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810 [SOLVED]

2008-09-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, === Short version: If you upgrade to xorg-x11-7.4, xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810-2.4.2-r1, and X does not start, change Section Device Driver i810 to intel in your xorg.conf. Would have been nice if Portage had informed us of this. If nothing else works, revert to vesa (or

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810 [SOLVED]

2008-09-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 9/14/08, Sascha Hlusiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the driver was renamed from i810 to intel in upstream, I vote for Gentoo to rename the package as well, from xf86-video-i810 to xf86-video-intel. Second this. Liviu

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server-1.5 and xf86-video-i810 [SOLVED]

2008-09-14 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 9/14/08, Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: glxgears won't start for me any longer (Error: couldn't get an RGB, Double-buffered visual). Not that I would really need that one, nor any [..] Have you seen this error too? Not this particular one, but I still get an error with

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for FPM

2008-08-31 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all, On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 10:02 AM, Xavier-Francois Roblot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone point me to a viable replacement for it? I need something that can: 1) store passwords (obviously); 2) generate passwords; 3) have launchers as FPM does. The possibility to import FPM

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
Thank you a lot, Sascha. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Sascha Hlusiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put the following line in Section ServerFlags in the xorg.conf: Option AutoAddDevices false This worked like a charm. Would another solution be to re-compile xorg-server with -hal? Liviu

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-26 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Sascha Hlusiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This worked like a charm. Would another solution be to re-compile xorg-server with -hal? It would, but I find runtime-tuning much easier and transparent. input-hotplugging really is a fine thing, if you get a little time

[gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Gentoo users, I have installed the latest stable hal-0.5.11-r1 and hal-info-20080508 yesterday, and I give up: i cannot configure the keyboard layout as it was previously in xorg.conf, and i cannot use the left-hand shift (the latter is the annoying part). Here's what i have:

[gentoo-user] Re: hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
server Liviu On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Gentoo users, I have installed the latest stable hal-0.5.11-r1 and hal-info-20080508 yesterday, and I give up: i cannot configure the keyboard layout as it was previously in xorg.conf, and i cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-06-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 5/8/08, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nope, Opera-9.50_beta2 seems to have problems playing flash (e.g. on bbc iplayer). I haven't tried yet 9.50_beta2_p1951. -- It should work OK if you set the paths correctly. Here I have this, in Plugin options:

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] to which package scrbook.cls belongs?

2008-05-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 5/7/08, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ian Hilt wrote: On Tue, 6 May 2008, Zhang Weiwu wrote: I need to install a package containing this file. to which package this file belongs to? I googled around without luck equery b scrbook.cls returns

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

2008-05-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 5/5/08, Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to remember that something got broken wrt konqueror and my

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo-wiki.com

2008-04-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 4/26/08, Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it only me or does someone else have problems with gentoo-wiki.com today? On 4/15/08, ionut cucu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a fine page to bookmark: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch audio converter?

2008-04-27 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 4/27/08, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got about 200GB of OGG and FLAC files on my local machine. My son bought an iPod and wants me to do a batch conversion to mp3. Can anyone recommend something in portage that can do this in more or less a single step? Directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

2008-04-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Johan, On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Johan Blåbäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what I suggest could be the problem is that I got my kernel wrong, since it seem to emulate Logitech instead of synaptics. But I don't know if that is the problem, or how I fix it. (I have all the kernel

[gentoo-user] OT Best font selection?

2008-04-17 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello everyone, Although perfectly aware that this is a much subjective business, I am looking for best fonts, and would much appreciate your sharing of personal choices. This Wiki article [1] has some insight, but not sufficient to satisfy my quest. For best printed output I have settled for

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend a program for line art and text

2008-04-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 1:26 AM, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should I use something else to author my diagrams? You might try Dia or grace. Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X (i810) won't start with undefined symbol

2008-04-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to bother everybody again but this is really crucial for me. Does anyone have any ideas whatsoever? Do I have a permanently Xorgless installation? Might be worth to try the following: emerge -tva -D

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). Since I wanted to shutdown instead of reboot, it would be ALT + SysRq + S + U + O then correct?

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've revived an old Gentoo laptop, but I've forgotten the root password. I remember the password to my user account and I can log in there fine. Can I recover the root password? If you could passwords were useless.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering root password

2008-03-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or disable booting from the optical drive (or remove it completely) and set a password in the BIOS. This is one of the few areas in which a laptop has an advantage, you can't just pope the side off the case and flip a

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim DM and shutdown

2008-03-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Gal', On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running the display manager slim and I would like to know if it is possible to get a reboot/shutdown button instead of typing 'halt' as the login and the root password. Perhaps with a custom theme ? I

Re: [gentoo-user] HELP! partition table is corrupted

2008-03-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 1:18 PM, pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - I'm going to buy ne disk and to make dd of the corrupted one Maybe sys-fs/ddrescue is suited for this job (?). Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim DM and shutdown

2008-03-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for you reply Liviu. I am going to ask to the dev team :) I myself much hope that they react. :) Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

2008-03-12 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Iain and Johan, On 3/12/08, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok. Are you sure it's a synaptics touchpad? Otherwise I'm out of ideas, sorry... I didn't want to hijack the thread, so I waited till this moment. I can report a similar problem on my laptop. The symptoms are pretty

[gentoo-user] (OT) Freezing: does encryption become useless?

2008-02-23 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Gentoo users, http://iht.com/articles/2008/02/22/technology/chip.php I'm curious if anyone has any ideas/comments on this (e.g. is this data recovery method realistic, can it be worked around, etc). Regards, Liviu PS And this is for the curious (way OT):

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/8/08, Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I sometimes forget that some people actually use XP as an alternate OS (for me it's just there in case I forget how bored with games I am) Well, other than games, Windows can at times prove a useful companion. What's good about it is that after a

Re: [gentoo-user] [Slightly OT] ext3 for Windows XP/Vista?

2008-02-03 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 2/3/08, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With an eye toward sharing some directories on my Gentoo machines with either Windows machines across my network or just making ext3 partitions available when I'm forced to dual boot and find I want something for my trip to the dark side I'm

[gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Gentoo Community, I was wondering if anyone knew how (whether) it is possible to set temporary options to grub. I am on a dual-boot setup with Gentoo Linux being the first choice in grub's config file. When I perform a restart, most of the times it is in order to subsequently boot Windows.

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Reboot to Windows (using grub)

2008-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
Thanks all for their respective input. From the information provided, I've assembled a short Gentoo Wiki Tip [1]. Regards, Liviu [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Reboot_to_Windows_(using_grub) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Liviu Andronic
You might be interseted in rezound; it is graphical, however. Liviu On 1/24/08, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, Anybody know of a gentoo/linux tone generator that will output test tones, sine waves, triangle waves and the like. Prefer command line/ncurses. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox mplayerplug-in problem

2007-12-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 12/7/07, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions? You could always try emerge gecko-mediaplayer gnome-mplayer Apparently, the gnome-mplayer and mplayerplug-in share the same author, and he works actively on the former. Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting system stats

2007-11-09 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/7/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thoughts? I'm no expert in the field, but since dmstat was mentioned, this might be useful: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Detecting_your_Hardware#dstat_.2F_vmstat_.2F_free Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Video encoder

2007-11-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/4/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a article that may help you make video's quickly: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9005 On the articles note, check this Wiki entry [1]. [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_DVD_to_Matroska Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Video encoder

2007-11-03 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 11/3/07, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for an easy way to encode the video files I acquire into a single format and level of quality. It would also be nice to be able to easily burn a DVD of the resultant file that will play on a home DVD player. I'm sure there are at least

Re: [gentoo-user] A week of struggle

2007-10-31 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/30/07, econti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2 (this is really incredible) fonts disappeared on the Realplayer window! Instead of chars . . . boxes. i.e. file = 4 boxes, settings = 7 boxes, etc ?? Realplayer works fine but it is the only one app with this problem. This may not be

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding fonts in LaTeX (app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r4)

2007-10-30 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/30/07, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll get on the case with this this evening, but in the meantime, any idea how to add fonts to TeXLive, in case I need to? I could only suggest to look at the installation instructions found in cm-super, or some other well maintained font. Liviu

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding fonts in LaTeX (app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r4)

2007-10-29 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On 10/29/07, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone tell me the correct place to add fonts to TeTeX so that they'll be accessible for all users, please? I think that the way I have done this in the past may be unofficial - I think I've added my local fonts to the master list of

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?

2007-10-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello and thanks for answering, On 10/18/07, Wayn0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would imagine that this is IP based :-( Is there a way to make my computer identify on the net with a different, tweaked IP address? Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?

2007-10-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On 10/18/07, Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt anything about their verification happens from the browser, it would all be IP based. So bounce through a proxy in the UK. I am already required to connect to the Internet through a transparent proxy (educational

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?

2007-10-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Renat, On 10/18/07, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's determined based on your IP address. You can try it yourself at http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip I used the service, and the service determines my location with the utmost precision. I tried the following trick: an

Re: [gentoo-user] Depclean question

2007-10-16 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/16/07, Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just used depclean for the first time (I was afraid of it) after several years of Gentoo. It has cleaned up my system a good bit but now it wants to remove some packages that I'm concerned about: gcc-3.4.6-r2 (I'm using 4.1.2)

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-15 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/9/07, Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: according to the speaker, most of the RAM may even survives for as long as 30 seconds after powering off! At least on a ThinkPad T30 notebook (stated [..] Another thing is Firewire, or hot-pluggable PCI cards (and everything else which

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this normal?

2007-10-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/11/07, Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * man page to learn how to update config files. The http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Maintain_Gentoo_-_%22Best_Practices%22#dispatch-conf suggests the use of dispatch-conf over etc-update. Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio/Mpeg

2007-10-11 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/11/07, sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firefox is complaining that a plugin is not available for audio/mpeg support. Any recommendations on getting support? Not sure if it helps: emerge mplayerplug-in and recently (by the same author(s)) emerge gnome-mplayer gecko-mediaplayer Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] XFCE automounting pendrive

2007-10-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/8/07, Alfredo Perez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I have another question, when I plug the pendrive does not XFCE should make an icon on my desktop? Desktop settings Behaviour Desktop Icons Choose File/launcher icons -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
On 10/5/07, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my eternal question, is it realistic for the lost RAM data to be recovered? That is, after system shutdown, does the data still physically reside on the RAM and can someone with a decent technology and know-how recover it? In other

Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?

2007-10-05 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello, On 10/5/07, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is an option in baselayout's rc file to erase the swap at shutdown. Take a look at /etc/conf.d/rc under RC_SWAP_ERASE. As far as I understand, this is far from secure. You want at least some degree of security, you need

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