Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables - do I need the nat table?

2010-04-12 Thread stosss
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2010-04-11 9:20 AM, Graham Murray wrote: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org writes: I'm a bit clueless when it comes to firewalls, and have no idea what these numbers mean/do: *raw :PREROUTING ACCEPT

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 and HP2475w: First steps?

2010-04-12 Thread stosss
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:21 AM,  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi,  before damaging delicate electronic equipment I want  to ask, what the best way is to switch from a 1600x1200  pixel analogous Iiyama monitor

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread stosss
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:12:30 -0500, Dale wrote: Then again, when I put a CD/DVD in, it doesn't mount it automatically anymore.  I think that is a KDE4 thing.  I may not have turned something on.  I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread stosss
Bad enough you mentioned HAL in a conversation with Dale.  Now there's XML involved.  This thread is officially never going to end. This list really lightens up a day. LOL -- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread stosss
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about the best filesystem fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database machines  etc. Wnat I want is a fast and

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-03-30 Thread stosss
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:19:02 -0500, Dale wrote: I also tried to burn this with tkdvd but it failed too.  I don't think the media is bad.  It doesn't appear to be k3b since the other program fails too.  I also updated to

Re: [gentoo-user] ping / connect to another subnet

2010-03-30 Thread stosss
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running Windows XP on VirtualBox, it has a network NAT so the IP address it gets: IP: 10.0.2.15 Gateway: 10.0.2.2 DNS: 10.10.0.1  (Linux router) I've tried to access the Windows IP by creating another subnet: ifconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: I just gave Seamonkey a fresh start.  Now I have a question.  I had the old set up so that when I opened Seamonkey, it would start both the browser and email.  Now it only starts the browser.  I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: I just gave Seamonkey a fresh start.  Now I have a question.  I had the old set up so that when I opened

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: I think I have it set up on the gmail server to do whatever Seamonkey says.  Then I have to set up Seamonkey to send text only to gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: Am Mittwoch 17 März 2010 schrieb Dale: I only want plain text to the mailing lists and html for everyone else.  I send pics and other things to other folks. Ya don’t need HTML for that. ;-) I have even seen mails that

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory relocation

2010-03-03 Thread stosss
I am new to Gentoo and just watching this discussion. So why does stage three put portage in /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-03 Thread stosss
I wonder if amarok would not be better off using the strigi/nepomuk indexing function, instead of trying to be real clever and doing it itself. I think Amarok uses MySQL.

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread stosss
Wasn't Agrajag the toothless wonder that kept getting accidentally killed by Arthur Dent? Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get KMS to set the screen resolution to that of the external monitor attached to the laptop.

2010-02-28 Thread stosss
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:05 AM, ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to get KMS to set the resolution to 1680 x 1050 so that I have more real estate on my external monitor.  At present, the external monitor is not getting full use with parts of it blacked out to make the

Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-28 Thread stosss
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:28 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: ubiquitous1980 wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/07/msg00059.html With sudo su - the man pages do not have ESC throughout.  I have learned sudo su from my ubuntu days and I am only guessing that this is bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-file search replace of text

2010-02-28 Thread stosss
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 28 Feb 2010, at 19:06, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Sunday 28 February 2010, Stroller wrote: ...  $ sed 's/Project Gutenberg/Wordsworth Classics/' foo bar  $ mv bar foo  $ Have a look at sed's -i option.