Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse plugin installation

2008-10-29 Thread Stuart Howard
I cant remember where in preferences it was but there is an option to change to classic update style, this works a treat and should solve your problem without having to go to overlay's and the like. stu 2008/10/29 Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 29 October 2008 13:37:15 Helmut

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] ibook g3 wpa woes

2008-01-28 Thread stuart
Always a pleasure working with friendly, intelligent people. Keep well Kind regards, Stuart On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:13:04 +0100, Lars Weiler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey stuart, * stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08/01/28 14:40 -0500]: I got the DWL-G122 USb stick working under the new 2.6.24

Re: [gentoo-user] Prevent user from shutting off while other sessions open?

2007-12-25 Thread Stuart Howard
Bug seems a little harsh in the xmas season ;) Quick google brings this webpage http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/KDE-GUI-Login-Configuration-HOWTO.html#s5 and on my Gentoo install this file looks likely though I have not customised personally /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc

Re: [gentoo-user] scan for network devices by IP and time?

2007-12-17 Thread Stuart Howard
A nice program for generating hosts list [amongst many other features] is nast, try nast -m for a host list. You could also look at Nessus which while being a vuln scanner it will probably provide simpler information that you are after. As for having it monitor and report times at which something

[gentoo-user] gcc-4.2.2 compile failure

2007-10-15 Thread Stuart Howard
As part of regular updates I have come across an error with gcc, the system is ~x86. The error has been occurring for a week or so and my usual wait till it goes away approach does not seem to be working. Originally the error was called against a file with reference to fortran so I changed the use

[gentoo-user] Dspam/sql problem

2007-09-06 Thread Stuart Howard
| | dspam_signature_data | | dspam_stats | | dspam_token_data | +--+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql select * from dspam_signature_data; Empty set (0.00 sec) also genstu stuart # dspam_stats -H mail: TP True Positives: 0 TN True Negatives

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-09 Thread Stuart Howard
: Stuart Howard stuart.g.howard at gmail.com writes: This link to the forum though I realise it is nvidia based it may give some further information the posts refer to a bug which further refers to another bug which is the ATI issue but the general point is there. http://forums.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg-server blocked by ati-drivers

2007-05-07 Thread Stuart Howard
This link to the forum though I realise it is nvidia based it may give some further information the posts refer to a bug which further refers to another bug which is the ATI issue but the general point is there. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-556528-highlight-nvidia+block.html On

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable the mouse for the console

2007-05-06 Thread Stuart Howard
This is what you are looking for I would say http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gpm.xml On 06/05/07, Richard Broersma Jr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone point me to a howto link so that I can enable my mouse for the console? Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk partition query

2007-04-30 Thread Stuart Howard
on primary partitions next time. Thanks all for trying. stu On 30/04/07, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 April 2007, Stuart Howard wrote: I have made an annoying error when setting up my new computer. I installed Gentoo then winXP and made it dual boot, all of which has gone

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild gcc-3.4.6-r2 error

2007-03-10 Thread Stuart Howard
On 10/03/07, Bjarke Bondo Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. When I try to update the world emerge tells me to rebuild gcc due to the -d% flag. When I try to do so, it fails. Try to take a look at the output here: # emerge -uDNav world These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild gcc-3.4.6-r2 error

2007-03-10 Thread Stuart Howard
On 10/03/07, Andrew Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Howard wrote: On 10/03/07, Bjarke Bondo Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. When I try to update the world emerge tells me to rebuild gcc due to the -d% flag. When I try to do so, it fails. Try to take a look at the output here

[gentoo-user] gvim emerge problems

2007-02-26 Thread Stuart Howard
, if I am slotted or have multiple installs it is not by design so I would prefer to revert to a simple install. Any help gratefully accepted Cheers stu genstu stuart # emerge -aDuvN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies | !!! Multiple

Re: [gentoo-user] gvim emerge problems

2007-02-26 Thread Stuart Howard
vim from work and a gvim at home I am happy, thanks for the responses. stu On 26/02/07, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stuart Howard wrote: My issue is more though why is portage trying and failing to install two versions of vim at all as so far

Re: [gentoo-user] Extracting hashes from MSWindows SAM files

2007-01-09 Thread Stuart Howard
You could try either the gentoo security list or irc channel. Failing that try the securityfocus lists. Once you have linux program source you can then install either with the source or make an ebuild. Failing the above you could perhaps run pwdump under wine. Not tried any of the above but seems

Re: [gentoo-user] pruning distfiles

2007-01-04 Thread Stuart Howard
On 04/01/07, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, just went through /usr/portage/distfiles and deleted what I though was outdated - a major PITA. There must be a better way! Slight complication: My portage tree is used by different boxes with different world files. Uwe -- A fast and

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-24 Thread Stuart Howard
On 24/12/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, guys! #emerge --resume gives me: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: !!! Error: The resume list contains packages that are no longer !!!available to be emerged. Please restart/continue !!!the merge

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --resume

2006-12-24 Thread Stuart Howard
On 24/12/06, Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all - where did my manners go!? ;-( MARRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE! I wish you health, happiness and even more fun with our favorite Gentoo! ;- On the subject: Yes, yesterday I woke up with a broken root FS after a power failure. I

[gentoo-user] Amarok xine engine error

2006-11-17 Thread Stuart Howard
Hey folks I have found today that I cannot use the xine engine with amarok anymore, I have recently updated kde and gcc [stable] while may/may not be related however because I rarely reboot it could have been a while since the offending package was merged. The error message I recieve when trying

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok xine engine error

2006-11-17 Thread Stuart Howard
all traces left like *.la files reemerge amarok 2006/11/17, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey folks I have found today that I cannot use the xine engine with amarok anymore, I have recently updated kde and gcc [stable] while may/may not be related however because I rarely reboot it could have

Re: [gentoo-user] Amarok xine engine error

2006-11-17 Thread Stuart Howard
I have followed the same procedure as suggested by Ilya Hegai and my result was the same as Gian. It works fine now, many thanks for the help. stu On 17/11/06, Gian Domeni Calgeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Freitag, 17. November 2006 22:35 schrieb Stuart Howard: Its nice to hear somone else

Re: [gentoo-user] Digest verification failed: qt-x11-opensource-src-4.1.4.tar.gz

2006-10-25 Thread Stuart Howard
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149809 Have a look at this, should help On 25/10/06, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:08:42 +0200, Régis Décamps wrote: So I'd say there is a problem in the ebuild. Maybe you should copy the ebuild in an overlay directory

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib

2006-10-19 Thread Stuart Howard
Thanks for the advice folks. As it turned out I had enough of the lib left to keep some of the system running and I managed to copy over sufficient to get a working connection going then after much more thrashing of the head on desk it turned out that my backup was sufficient to get portage

[gentoo-user] rebuild /usr/lib

2006-10-18 Thread Stuart Howard
Hey folks, In advance I admit I have done a dumb! thing [by accident] I have managed to delete most of /usr/lib/ and my backup does not seem to be wholesome . Could someone suggest a method for rebuilding the libraries? I was thinking about a liveCD plus chroot but I would like some advice

[gentoo-user] mozilla-thunderbird and local mail [maildir]

2006-09-25 Thread Stuart Howard
Stuart -- There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] irc bouncer(s) problem(s)

2006-09-02 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi This may be unrelated here but when I used to run miau it would only work when I compiled it with the USE flag -ipv6 hope it helps stu On 02/09/06, José Pedro Saraiva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all! I've had a working version of psybnc running for mounths with no problems. But

Re: [gentoo-user] terminal access through web-browser...

2006-08-21 Thread Stuart Howard
The clients above are java based clients and as such I dont believe will solve your issue. Is it that you dont want to open 22 on your server or is it that work or whereever is locking you out? if its home then many people leave 22 open quite safely and you can even move the port to something non

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing font in Opera

2006-08-04 Thread Stuart Howard
anywhere of the standard fonts that are used with linux distros? [ones that the opera people would be using] running from a term gives no clue as opera does not feedback errors to it. stu On 30/07/06, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I have re-emerged Opera and run revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing font in Opera : Solved

2006-08-04 Thread Stuart Howard
ps. Firefox has come on a long way since last I used it. On 04/08/06, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have discovered that if I emerge the previous package opera-8.54 then the fault goes away ie. all text is displayed normally but when I return to opera 9 then the fault returns. I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing font in Opera

2006-07-30 Thread Stuart Howard
Yes I have re-emerged Opera and run revdep-rebuild. the USE flags are : Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] www-client/opera-9.00 USE=spell -debug -gnome -qt-static 0 kB thanks for the reply stu On 28/07/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 July 2006 23:48, Stuart

[gentoo-user] Missing font in Opera

2006-07-27 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi folks I have misplaced some fonts or at least I think I have, I use Opera for a browser but since the xorg migration the transfers page has no text and the progress bar shows boxes instead of text. This I presume is a font issue and probably happended during the upgrade does anyone know which

[gentoo-user] glibc fail on rebuild

2006-05-28 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I have just changed some USE flag settings, and the resulting emerge -N asks to rebuild glibc however when I run it, it simply stops and drops back to the command line with no actual complaint. The output is as below much is snipped for clarity, if anyone has a suggestion or something I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: php + apache

2006-04-01 Thread Stuart Herbert
in #gentoo-php or #gentoo-apache on IRC. Best regards, Stu -- Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ http://blog.stuartherbert.com/ GnuGP key id

RE: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Stuart Herbert
While I agree that it is certainly easier to keep the packages as UPSTREAM bundles them, I'm not convinced that this is always a good idea. If the effort is small, I'd rather patch the package to use the standard libraries and send the patch upstream. Not only because it's simply bad

RE: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Stuart Herbert
But it is not very hard to avoid to hardwire these libs in your webapp :) This is the only thing I dislike. Mmm ... you'd be surprised, I think, about just how hard it actually is for PHP apps (and how expensive it is too). Another problem to consider is versioning of any shared libraries of

RE: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Stuart Herbert
Thanks for making me aware of the issue. So let's hope for PHP5... No problem. I wish it was an idea we could implement. Alas, it's something that none of the scripting languages handle well. Even Ruby hasn't learned from the past mistakes in this area. Best regards, Stu --

RE: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries

2006-02-23 Thread Stuart Herbert
:41 To: gentoo-web-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-web-user] Java Script Libraries Stuart Herbert wrote: Thanks for making me aware of the issue. So let's hope for PHP5... No problem. I wish it was an idea we could implement. Alas, it's something that none of the scripting

Re: [gentoo-user] Using java-config with manually installed JDKs

2006-02-05 Thread Stuart Howard
Have a look at this page it gives a method for having multiple versions of JDK installed. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tiger-faq.xml stu On 05/02/06, Rafael Fernández López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've manually instaled the sun-jdk, but i wish i could add it to the

[gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I have a home LAN with a mix of dual boot, XP and Gentoo[-- mine]. Now the basic problem is this :- Transfer of file [eg. 200Mb] Dual boot on XP-- XP speed approx 50Mbps Dual boot on linux-- XP speed = 1Mbps Now this applies regardless of transport ie. I have tried smb FTP NFS, I

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread Stuart Howard
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 13:06 +0100, Stuart Howard wrote: Hi I have a home LAN with a mix of dual boot, XP and Gentoo[-- mine]. Now the basic problem is this :- Transfer of file [eg. 200Mb] Dual boot on XP-- XP speed approx 50Mbps Dual boot on linux-- XP speed = 1Mbps

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-30 Thread Stuart Howard
, it was valid untill this last post. It ends here On 30/01/06, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree in that I am using whichever tool is available to measure the speed eg. konqueror file transfer dialog or bmon to monitor rate however I am not talking optmisations here where the same

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Stuart Howard
Couldnt resist adding my 2p I prefer to spend my configuring time ie. admin on the Big picture eg. setting up mail, apache, firewall, ... For the little things eg. desktop background one click icons to start daily apps and so on I am happy to let others give me a pleasent default. So what

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT probably] Firefox not painting

2006-01-18 Thread Stuart Howard
. stu On 17/01/06, Joshua Schmidlkofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is almost _always_ theme related. Please change your gnome theme, and see what happens. Thanks, Joshua On 1/16/06, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Has anyone either experienced or solved this issue

[gentoo-user] perl update

2006-01-16 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi Is it possible to increase the verbosity of the emerge.log, specifically I am intersted in capturing any messages that occour during an emerge world, for example if 10 packages get updated and one of them was python then I would need to run python-updater But if that occurred during a long

[gentoo-user] [OT probably] Firefox not painting

2006-01-16 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi Has anyone either experienced or solved this issue, essentially it means that the find bar and then all toolbars stop painting ie. go grey and invisible. Detail https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=274823#add_comment I have been watching that one for 6 months and tbh happily moved

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-25 Thread Stuart Howard
: if [[ ${Merry_xmas} != 0 ]]; then do /pub/glenlivet --short --double --rocks ; done Heathen! A decent whisky should never be polluted with ice. USE=noice emerge glenlivet Well, I was just trying to help out Stuart, I don't drink scotch myself, and didn't realize ice is a faux pas. My own script

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Stuart Howard
I do not have a solution to your question, but in general there has been some discussion in the press [UK] of late that covered this very issue. The link has some further links that may lead you to your answer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20051124.shtml stu On

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-24 Thread Stuart Howard
#!/bin/pub ${Merry_xmas} . bah humbug was going to go for an appropriate bash script with pub and Glenlivet involved, realised I cant wrote them so .. Have a merry christmas all :] stu ps. New year resolution = bash, need a geekier greeting for next year On 24/12/05, Tony Davison

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] private files

2005-12-20 Thread Stuart Howard
I use kgpg which [I presume] is part of the kwallet system. So on desktop you have handy gui access and remotely because it is based on gnupg you can use text only access over shh for example :- gpg --decrypt -o ./securepass.tar.gz.gpg ./foo.tar.gz hope this helps stu ps. In extracting the

Re: [gentoo-user] system clock keeps getting reset to weird times

2005-11-25 Thread stuart
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:48:23PM +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Charles Trois wrote: ~ # ls -l /etc/localtime lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Nov 22 20:39 /etc/localtime - /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Paris and in /etc/conf.d/clock: CLOCK=local Did you maybe change this last one

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache configuration files

2005-11-08 Thread Stuart Herbert
, Stu -- Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ http://stu.gnqs.org/diary/ GnuGP key id# F9AFC57C available from http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint

Re: [gentoo-user] Developmnet Environment for PHP and PERL

2005-11-08 Thread Stuart Herbert
in any of these areas or not. Can't comment on a good environment for perl. Last time I used perl seriously was in '96. Things have changed a lot since then. Hope that helps, Stu -- Stuart Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Developer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bandwidth monitor on per service/program basis

2005-11-05 Thread Stuart Howard
Ideal nethogs seems just right, thanks for the reply. stu On Friday 04 November 2005 23:41, Marc Christiansen wrote: Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking to find a tool that will allow me to monitor which applications or services are utilising my network and hence

[gentoo-user] mutt listmail test, if you can see this it made it so please delete thx

2005-11-05 Thread stuart
Hi Well since you are reading this it means that this mail actually made it to the list. I have had problems with getting mutt to send to mailinglist's, which I believe are down to 2 unset commands set from=...; set use_from=yes Now since it arrived the problem is sorted :] sorry for spam stu

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt listmail test, if you can see this it made it so please delete thx

2005-11-05 Thread stuart
just checking the list reply function. stu On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:17:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Well since you are reading this it means that this mail actually made it to the list. I have had problems with getting mutt to send to mailinglist's, which I believe are down

Re: [gentoo-user] mutt listmail test, if you can see this it made it so please delete thx

2005-11-05 Thread stuart
wont be long before I annoy someone, hope it is sorted now. stu On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:26:28PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just checking the list reply function. stu On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 01:17:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Well since you are reading this it

[gentoo-user] Bandwidth monitor on per service/program basis

2005-11-04 Thread Stuart Howard
. If anyone has a suggestion of a ready built application it will be welcome, prefer it to be console based for ssh [with a nice gui at home, if I am being greedy ]. stuart -- There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't --Unknown -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] Firefox search/toolbar washout

2005-10-24 Thread Stuart Howard
. stuart -- There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [blocks B ] mail-mta/qmail-1.03-r16 (is blocking net-mail/cmd5checkpw-0.30)

2005-10-24 Thread Stuart Howard
I had same block yesterday, below is what I did worked a treat for me -snip- 555 emerge -aDuv world {block showed up here} 556 emerge -aCv qmail 557 emerge -av qmail -snip- stu On 23/10/05, Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 23 October 2005 00:18, [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-6.8.2-r3: rdesktop badness after xorg upgrade

2005-09-17 Thread Stuart Howard
dont have an answer but there was a long argument on the security list entitled [gentoo-security] org-x11 GLSA 200509-07. Is bug #96053 fixed in -r3? (black icons) Sounds up your street, the long and short of it was that reverting back to r1 may fix it but the people involved did not have much

Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions?

2005-09-14 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I cannot speak for the app you mentioned or for these but. Kuroo - is marked testing kentoo - } Both marked as stable guitoo - All are KDE frontends. Now that said I personally prefer using http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/ or http://gentoo-portage.com/ to find the

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-13 Thread Stuart Howard
with a 3.7Gb file and transfered without fault Many thanks for the help people stu On 9/13/05, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI Will try this CIFS later on stu -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sep 13, 2005 4:57 AM

[gentoo-user] reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi people This question follows on from a post I made regarding a hard drive death and backup problems, I made a little script that tar and gzip's each of the root directories in order. At the point of /usr which is a very large one I get the following error /root/fullsysbackup.sh: line 30:

[gentoo-user] Fwd: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Howard
in a field for 5 days and hurl a small leather ball at 3 sticks in the ground with the aim of disturbing 2 smaller pieces of wood from the top of the aforesaid 3 sticks :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sep 12, 2005 9:09 PM Subject: reiserfs file

[gentoo-user] Re: reiserfs file size issue

2005-09-12 Thread Stuart Howard
on architectures with 32 bit int ie. biG or at least I think so, I am afraid that this is somewhat out of my league. stu On 9/12/05, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Further reading further problem, I have been through the reiserfs FAQ and discovered that with 2.4 - 2.6 kernels that the file size

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

2005-09-10 Thread Stuart Howard
In case you missed it On 9/7/05, Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi waltdnes, on Tuesday, 2005-09-06 at 21:08:20, you wrote: Most UPSs below about US$400 are junk. You'd be served just as well with a decent surge suppressor power strip. Don't waste your money on a UPS.

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

2005-09-01 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi Long story short - power outage damages hard drive - under liveCD data can still be read [phew] - comp will not boot from damaged hdd - man runs to shop and buys new hdd plus UPS - installed new hdd | /dev/hda - old damaged hdd is /dev/hdb [3 partitions, hdb1 = /boot ext3, hdb2 = /swap, hdb3

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

2005-09-01 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi people MANY thanks people for the advice, after some painful time I have got my system back or at least everything seems fine so far [typing from opera in X]. As a record for myself and or others who may ever need this I performed the following steps 1. Beat head on wall for not thinking to

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-31 Thread Stuart Howard
for the last few months. Thanks for help on time issue, some reading to be done I think stu On 8/30/05, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30 August 2005 15:17, Stuart Howard wrote: thanks for the response So far as I can tell I have not had ntp on my system, I have not put it on myself

[gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I am losing up to 10 minites a day on my system clock ie. if it is correct at boot then the following day, date will reply with a time that has lost up to 10 minites. Points that may be relavent, - The system has worked correctly for many months prior to next point. - This problem has

Re: [gentoo-user] Losing time somewhere

2005-08-30 Thread Stuart Howard
, Stuart Howard wrote: - I tried to install chrony to adjust the time, though it seems to be working ie. from logs, though it does not update the sytstem time, could there be a permissions issue somewhere or have I lost something that checks or sync's the system time? - As I wrote last

Re: [gentoo-user] Yet another geforce4 problem

2005-08-28 Thread Stuart Howard
Do you have any other gfx board you can put in ? Just to identify the source of the problem, ie. gfx board or mobo Alternatively do you get the problem when booting under a liveCD of some description stu On 8/28/05, Alexander Kirillov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've recently installed GeForce4

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Stuart Howard
the rest. On 7/18/05, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I think I know why I have this error but I woul like another view before I -aCv the package, the error from this mornings emerge -aDuv world was :- checking for built-in ALSA... yes configure: error: You have built

[gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I think I know why I have this error but I woul like another view before I -aCv the package, the error from this mornings emerge -aDuv world was :- checking for built-in ALSA... yes configure: error: You have built-in ALSA in your kernel. !!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error

2005-07-18 Thread Stuart Howard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Howard schreef: thx for the response I think we missed each other with the point though, currently my sound works just fine and I am happy with it as it is [ie. built in] I am not sure where the alsa driver in world came from unless it is a hangover from my

Re: [gentoo-user] best download manager in gentoo

2005-07-06 Thread Stuart Howard
I use one called aria [in portage] which works just fine for me, more features than most would need for day to day uses. On 7/6/05, Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: simply change wrote: hi! dear all, i need emerge a download manager appz. so can any one help me to find a good 1? (with a

[gentoo-user] Samba fails to connect to share

2005-06-24 Thread Stuart Howard
no config files on either machines and IP's are same and so on, Some output :- genstu stuart # smbtree Password: STUNET \\NEWSTUnewstucomp failed tcon_X with NT_STATUS_DUPLICATE_NAME \\GENSTUgenstu \\GENSTU\ADMIN

[gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Stuart Howard
but in the world of manufacturing there is little honour. Stuart -- There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Stuart Howard
, the problem is that we do not trust our own suppliers. stuart ps. Apolgies for the off-topic. On 6/14/05, Heinz Sporn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Viewing / reading implies that the information has already been transferred (downloaded and rendered) to a client browser. So I don't think that you

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Stuart Howard
can argue that it is an uncontrolled document and therefore not acceptable as a source of information. stuart ps. non-disclosure agreements are great but I suspect keep lawyers in business longer than we will :) On 6/14/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heinz Sporn wrote: Hi! Viewing

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow data transfer over network

2005-05-29 Thread Stuart Howard
stopped, Receive stopped. The Rx process state is 'Stopped'. The Tx process state is 'Stopped'. The transmit unit is set to store-and-forward. No MII transceivers found! On 5/29/05, A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2005, Stuart Howard wrote: lsmod returns tulip

[gentoo-user] Slow data transfer over network

2005-05-28 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I have a small LAN at home with 2 winXP and 1 Gentoo [genstu] machines connected through a combined ADSLrouter etc. I have a problem whereby, I seem to have very slow data transfer speeds between my Gentoo machine and my XP machines as a guide here are some figures Transfer of a 66Mb file :-

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow data transfer over network

2005-05-28 Thread Stuart Howard
lsmod returns tulip The switch is :- Supports 4 10/100 Auto MDI-X Ethernet switch ports and 1 Line port and using modinfo tulip I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] stuart # modinfo tulip author: The Linux Kernel Team description:Digital 21*4* Tulip ethernet driver license:GPL version

Re: [gentoo-user] No icons in window list

2005-05-18 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi I cannot answer your question directly but you could consider using root-tail instead of using Eterms http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=root-tail http://www.goof.com/pcg/marc/root-tail.html stu On 5/18/05, Nagatoro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a small but annoying issue

[gentoo-user] NTFS data recovery wit liveCD?

2005-04-30 Thread Stuart Howard
new user to linux so dont be afraid to patronise me with simple instructions ;) many thanks Stuart -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list