Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Seamonkey and LastPass

2009-11-30 Thread Dale
), the password will be generated. You can also use the current website as a salt, so using the same settings will yield a different password for different sites. Sounds like I'm advocating this very heavily, in fact I don't have much experience with it. It sounds reasonable to me, but I'll let you guys

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Dale
the problem with any compromise worth its salt, all logs will be tampered to clear traces of interfering with your system. Monitoring network traffic from a healthy machine is a good way to establish suspicious activity on the compromised box and it also helps checking for open ports (nmap

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Philipp
flash is so much slower on GNU/Linux than on Windows. If my assumption is true, you are better off buying a faster CPU. You could also test how gnash performs. Since it uses ffmpeg (AFAIK) it might be worth a try. Please take my advices with a big dose of salt. While I still run an old desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Knecht
to save money on RAM? - Grant OK, please keep in mind that I'm not a programmer or a sys admin so take all of this with less than a grain of salt. First, leaving out the hibernation issue that uses swap as non-volatile memory, even then no, I don't think it's exactly the same. The kernel knows when

Re: [gentoo-user] Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-17 Thread Dale
that can be used at times when needed or as a failsafe to a system running out of ram and crashing or something nasty. It's not something I want my system to use all the time and becomes a performance issue. That's my thinking. I'm sure it is worth a grain of salt to someone. ;-) Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-28 Thread Mark David Dumlao
with auth attempts and whatnot. 2) the make some changes part you mentioned has little, if anything, to do with the init script that started it. Any Enterprise SysAdmin worth his salt, to use your term, knows it's 99% something he overlooked in the config settings that are independent of the startup system

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-16 Thread Chris Walters
this, never mind. Dale I have not really searched for such benchmarks for a while. I would take any such things with a grain of salt, if I did. Unless I want to devote the time to set up a series of application specific tests, and test them on multiple platforms on MY hardware, such results would

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/15/2013 02:54 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-15 2:02 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Were this one of my systems (none of which is in a prod scenario, so take it with a grain of salt), I'd emerge -e --keep-going @system, and then emerge --resume a few times. You're stuck

Re: SOLVED - was Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-16 Thread Michael Mol
On 04/16/2013 11:23 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-15 2:02 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: Were this one of my systems (none of which is in a prod scenario, so take it with a grain of salt), I'd emerge -e --keep-going @system, and then emerge --resume a few times. You're stuck

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-09-30 Thread thegeezer
I'm thinking I shouldn't push packages themselves, but portage config files and then let each laptop emerge unattended based on those portage configs. I'm going to bring this to the 'salt' mailing list to see if it might be a good fit. It seems like a much lighter weight application. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-20 Thread Michael Higgins
to take my notes with the grains of salt required. For me, I don't really have a need for what it offers, nor a real world need to worry about possible implications of its design or rate of adoption. Cheers, Cheers, - mykhyggz

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Lenovo X1 Carbon (3rd gen)

2015-08-25 Thread Ralf
of salt. Yeah, everything is set, even THINKPAD_ACPI. Still does not wake up :-( If you want to search various kernel options, you can run `make menuconfig` in the source directory and use '/' (forward slash) to search just like you're in `less'. Alec

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Lenovo X1 Carbon (3rd gen)

2015-08-25 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
SUSPEND=y (just checking)? Other things that I can see related to suspend are SUSPEND_FREEZER, ACPI_SLEEP, APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND, and a bunch of Thinkpad/Lenovo related options. I do not have suspend enabled on my laptop, so take this with a grain of salt. If you want to search various kernel options

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of graphics card

2016-03-02 Thread Rich Freeman
t; So, I can't speak to computation in particular, so take all of this with a grain of salt. In general the sentiment I've seen expressed is that at least presently the quality of drivers goes (best to worst): NVidia proprietary AMD open source NVidia open source So, right now if you want the bes

[gentoo-user] Solved: KDE 5: Broken file protocol for KDE 4 apps caused by kwallet

2016-10-16 Thread Jörg Schaible
roblem with a new/unused account on the same machine. After some hours of investigation (deleting and restoring files based on their modification time in the local configuration), I found out that the file protocol works if I remove the salt file of the KDE4 wallet. Well, unfortunat

Re: [gentoo-user] Something eats my memory - please help

2017-04-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
un top and sort on the memory columns (just take the left-most memory-related column with a big bag of salt, it doesn't show what people usually think). Then correlate that with packages you recently updated. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Why portage demands to unmask an unstable version of the package?

2017-03-04 Thread Marc Joliet
commit messages reference the relevant bug. Also, security bugs are often also stabilisation bugs, which can help in these specific cases. But yeah, that's just the reality of searching bug databases, I guess :-/ . > OK, everybody makes mistakes. But reading "use emacs" is bound to

Re: [gentoo-user] how best to encrypt a file

2018-07-03 Thread Mick
pt for backup. > > encfs --reverse ~/dir /tmp/dir > > It will encrypt original files on fly as you read /tmp/dir. > > I used this before (now I backup with duplicity). > > S > > PS: link to arch page with some more info > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind

Re: [gentoo-user] Coming up with a password that is very strong.

2019-02-04 Thread Mick
n one which uses only lower case dictionary words. Anyway, these days many attacks are focused on OS or hardware vulnerabilities which have been baked in by design, rather than brute force attacks. Any financial company worth their salt are employing 2-factor authentication and account lockups to st

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for NAS appliance?

2021-11-12 Thread Mark Knecht
; Rich > No disagreements at all. I was only providing 1) something for the OP to look at, and 2) info on your point/question/observation about RP4 having or not having PCIe. As for YouTube 'influencers' I take them with a grain of salt. This guy was given preproduction product which almost certainly was free and given so as to produce positive press. Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-20 Thread Grant Taylor
~ # If that is an Odroid XU4, then I strongly suspect that /dev/sda is passing through a USB interface. So ... I'd take those numbers with a grain of salt. -- If the system is working for you, then by all means more power to you. I found that my Odroid XU4 was /almost/ fast enough to be my daily

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage load control

2023-05-11 Thread Michael Cook
On 5/11/23 23:23, Eldon wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2023 at 11:07:04PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Once again, --load-average is being ignored. Why is it there? Surely, it must be to mitigate the worst effects of that N*K, but it isn't doing so. Take all of the following with a grain of salt

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to hardened

2008-02-11 Thread Alex Schuster
(kde4 requires qt4). I've never gone from a non-hardened system - hardened though so take my comments with a grain of salt. This could also work on other tricky upgrades. Nice idea. Maybe next time... I already had started the migration. And screwed up. I forgot about distcc being active, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, not working yet.

2009-01-03 Thread Willie Wong
with any links, treat it with as many grains of salt as you wish. Lastly, two of the better places to ask about such questions are: ModMyMoto: www.modmymoto.com Howard Forums: www.howardforums.com (It is currently down for maintenance, but should be back up soon.) Best of luck, W

Re: [gentoo-user] Motorola Razr V3i and moto4lin, not working yet.

2009-01-03 Thread Dale
. But since I can't back this claim up with any links, treat it with as many grains of salt as you wish. Lastly, two of the better places to ask about such questions are: ModMyMoto: www.modmymoto.com Howard Forums: www.howardforums.com (It is currently down for maintenance

Re: [gentoo-user] people who don't understand binary (was: Re: Quoting styles)

2005-10-31 Thread Stroller
kinds of people uses NATURAL numbers: there are one kind of people that understand, a second that don't. Any computer programmer worth his salt knows that using two bits to represent whether people understand binary or not is a waste of a bit - in a database of a million people you've just wasted

Re: [gentoo-user] Eez a byootiful dai todai

2007-03-30 Thread Richard Cox
to Tyrants! Long live open source! Long live Linux! Long live to whatever works! Sincerely, Dan Farrell. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list :) Take me with a grain of salt, sometimes I babble. Richard Cox -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Farhan Ahmed
forms yes, but everything in the forums should be taken with a grain of salt - a lot of ricers are there. It is safer to look into bugs.gentoo.org ;) It's true but after doing a bit of research I think they are stable enough to use.. I don't use all the fancy stuff they post in forums

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
be taken with a grain of salt if you don't have a large number of history of emerges for it to base its guesses on. W -- Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. - Some wisdom from The Book. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 13 days, 18

Re: [gentoo-user] Proper way of updating mysql from 5.0.90-r2 to 5.1.50?

2010-09-01 Thread Dale
a lynch mob arrives, but has anyone else run into this problem? PS. I'm running www-servers/apache-2.2.16 I'm no expert on this package so take this with a grain of salt. Mine just updated and portage said to run emerge @preserved-rebuild which I did. Thing is, one of the packages failed

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Dale
flash is so much slower on GNU/Linux than on Windows. If my assumption is true, you are better off buying a faster CPU. You could also test how gnash performs. Since it uses ffmpeg (AFAIK) it might be worth a try. Please take my advices with a big dose of salt. While I still run an old desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

2011-07-22 Thread Mark Knecht
://counter.li.org Hi Colleen, I'm not sure I understand the warranty issue so take this with a grain of salt but most of the pre-configured Windows machines I've received in the last couple of years had some disk space left over outside of the Windows C drive. I'm sure you could install Gentoo on one of those

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, new computer, still a bit confused

2011-07-23 Thread CJoeB
processing), amd64 and ia64. Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Hi Colleen, I'm not sure I understand the warranty issue so take this with a grain of salt but most of the pre-configured Windows machines I've received in the last

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT rant] udev + /usr

2011-09-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
/about-contiki.html ... running this: http://www.c64web.com/ Best regards Peter k well, I haven't run in that dbus-uses-100%-cpu bug. But I also take every and all ubuntu bug reports with a huge amount of salt because of all the patches they include. But: 106 2740 0.0 0.0 20296

Re: [gentoo-user] Limit number of cores used by emerge?

2011-09-30 Thread Mark Knecht
. If you want it to use only 3 specific cores, you would need to set the processor affinity (usually done using the taskset command from sys-apps/util-linux). For the disk I/O you can set an ionice in your make.conf like: PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND=ionice -c 3 -p \${PID} Salt to taste. :) Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] xz memory hungry?

2012-08-23 Thread Bill Kenworthy
:# ULIMIT Default ulimit value. /etc/login.defs:# (now it works with setrlimit too; ulimit is in 512-byte units) /etc/login.defs:# It supports passwords of unlimited length and longer salt strings. /etc/login.defs:# with the same group ID, to avoid limitation of the line length

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Authenticating in a wireless home network

2013-02-24 Thread Mick
eth XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX The WPA2 keys can be (air)cracked with dictionary files and the like, but if you have some ridiculously long key, and a changed SSID from the router's default (it is used as salt in calculating the key and many a rainbow table are built with default SSIDs) it can

Re: [gentoo-user] Serious problem with linode vm

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Mol
it with a grain of salt), I'd emerge -e --keep-going @system, and then emerge --resume a few times. You're stuck in something not unlike a bootstrap scenario. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-09-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
. At this point I'm thinking I shouldn't push packages themselves, but portage config files and then let each laptop emerge unattended based on those portage configs. I'm going to bring this to the 'salt' mailing list to see if it might be a good fit. It seems like a much lighter weight application. Two

[gentoo-user] Re: scripted iptables-restore

2013-10-14 Thread Martin Vaeth
important. Even more if it needs human intervention. Hiding the salt would just be security through obscurity. And yet it is stupid if you do not do it and give away a huge constant factor for no advantage. Similarly, putting port knocking in front of OpenVPN is like putting a padlock on the bank

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel and Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits)

2014-05-28 Thread Time Lucky
. Take what I say here with a pinch of salt (building the right drivers with the right settings to work right on the right hardware is, IMNSHO, a huge amount of black magic :-) anyway, I seem to recall that USE=i915 or i965 was the old way of doing things and you needed to know what

[gentoo-user] Re: CI Continuous Integration

2014-12-17 Thread James
to be firmly in either camp; but more in the conventional distro camp. What I did find interesting is lots of corporations are running on hundreds of gentoo systems and using (chef, puppet, ansible or salt) to ease the management of large gentoo deployments. It's just nice to know that despite what

[gentoo-user] Managing a Build Server (as chroot per server or single dedicated)

2015-01-27 Thread Matthias Dahl
Hello @all... I am currently in the process of revamping my server infrastructure and two things on my list are to finally use Salt (CM system) and to reduce the update time for each server and have a small staging area before I emerge packages/updates to the live system. So, I wanted to ask

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup questions

2018-08-10 Thread Dale
ith those temps, I should be fine here.  When I put the drives in the outbuilding, they won't be powered up or anything.  They can handle more when powered off than they can when powered up and in use.  While I still want to avoid heat, that real world info does help a lot.  If I recall correctly,

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory cards and deleting files.

2020-06-22 Thread Dale
ge.  I got 8GB cards to save walking.  I go out in the woods, swap cards and come back to take pics off the cards.  Next time, I swap out again.  It saves me one trip most days.  Of course, I feed the deer to so sometimes I end up with a second trip.  Usually I put water in the water bucket.  They dri

Re: [gentoo-user] SD memory card not erasing, even with dd.

2021-12-29 Thread Dale
do a complete reset a few days ago.  It was acting a little weird. Reset seems to have fixed it.  It runs off a 12 volt SLA battery and has been powered up for well over a year.  It likely needed a reset anyway.  lol  I have six cameras out there.  I also put out food stuff for the deer too.  Range

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-05 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
in Gentoo forms yes, but everything in the forums should be taken with a grain of salt - a lot of ricers are there. It is safer to look into bugs.gentoo.org ;) so you want to break douzends of packages for him? Why? -dri? Maybe he needs it? fbcon? Why? who needs it? You are telling him

Re: [gentoo-user] genlop times was: migrating to gcc-3.4.4

2005-08-25 Thread Fernando Meira
( i.e. is it worth it just sitting herereading a book or should I just go to bed), the numbers it give shouldbe taken with a grain of salt if you don't have a large number ofhistory of emerges for it to base its guesses on. W Ok.. so I'll get better estimations the more times I update my system

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-05 Thread Mick
defaults of some routers. I do not know if your Motorola is one of those of course, so take these and others like them with a pinch of salt, because I do not want to alarm you unnecessarily: http://www.jibble.org/o2-broadband-fail/ http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/showArticle.jhtml

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Willie Wong
sizes are a multiple of 8 in the former, or an integer in the latter. Again, take what I wrote with a grain of salt: this information came from the research I did a little while back after reading the slashdot article on this 4K switch. So being my own understanding, it may not completely

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Florian Philipp
my advices with a big dose of salt. While I still run an old desktop with nearly identical specs, I almost never use Youtube and therefore have no experience with that. Hope this helps, Florian Philipp This particular card I think uses the latest 260.* drivers. That's according

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading from FX-5200 to a GeForce 6200 512MB

2010-10-19 Thread Dale
. Please take my advices with a big dose of salt. While I still run an old desktop with nearly identical specs, I almost never use Youtube and therefore have no experience with that. Hope this helps, Florian Philipp This particular card I think uses the latest 260.* drivers. That's according

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv problems

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
from /var/log/portage-logs for files dated from October 12 till 24. It was an epic fail. I couldn't even emerge -e world because of those stupid masked package versions... OK, I haven't used Myth now in over a year so take this with a grain of salt. From the log file it appears that your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
lpr. Why do you find it so good? No idea.  I only posted this because the OP didn't say what's bad about systemd :-)  I really don't know I should care whether my system runs OpenRC or systemd. Take this with a grain (or a kilo) of salt, since I'm obviously biased, but IMHO this are systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
. Take this with a grain (or a kilo) of salt, since I'm obviously biased, but IMHO this are systemd advantages over OpenRC: * Really fast boot. OpenRC takes at least double the time that systemd does when booting, easily verifiable. In my laptop systemd is twice as fast as OpenRC; in my desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-25 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
months ago; I think nothing much has changed since then (I added a couple of comments): Take this with a grain (or a kilo) of salt, since I'm obviously biased, but IMHO this are systemd advantages over OpenRC: * Really fast boot. OpenRC takes at least double the time that systemd does when booting

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing multiple systems with identical hardware

2013-10-01 Thread joost
differences and user accounts. At this point I'm thinking I shouldn't push packages themselves, but portage config files and then let each laptop emerge unattended based on those portage configs. I'm going to bring this to the 'salt' mailing list to see if it might be a good fit. It seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Picking out a printer. Questions.

2019-04-21 Thread Mick
distro and consequently some things stopped working in Gentoo without manual editing of config files. There are ebuild fixes kindly submitted by other users: https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay/pull/53 Nevertheless, the above indicates the statement of "works perfectly&

Re: [gentoo-user] Password questions, looking for opinions. cryptsetup question too.

2023-09-23 Thread Dale
7257e5-ccc8-48ab-8f46-c6b05dc3bf37 Label:  (no label) Subsystem:  (no subsystem) Flags:  (no flags) Data segments:   0: crypt     offset: 16777216 [bytes]     length: (whole device)     cipher: aes-xts-plain64     sector: 4096 [bytes] <<<< SNIP >>>> D

Re: [gentoo-user] PCIe x1 or PCIe x4 SATA controller card

2023-03-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
tle. I’m not very good at explaining the math or providing hard numbers from memory, because all I know about this matter is from reading the occasional review. So please have a read yourself (see below). Another reason to take my word with a grain of salt: I am biased towards environmentally f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-05 Thread Dale
that you will find a lot of stories about the poor defaults of some routers. I do not know if your Motorola is one of those of course, so take these and others like them with a pinch of salt, because I do not want to alarm you unnecessarily: http://www.jibble.org/o2-broadband-fail/ http

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
use the command u to change the units used in the partitioning to either sectors or megabytes, and make sure your partition sizes are a multiple of 8 in the former, or an integer in the latter. Again, take what I wrote with a grain of salt: this information came from the research I did a little

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-07 Thread Mark Knecht
use the command u to change the units used in the partitioning to either sectors or megabytes, and make sure your partition sizes are a multiple of 8 in the former, or an integer in the latter. Again, take what I wrote with a grain of salt: this information came from the research I did a little

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-27 Thread Mark Knecht
as shown above. Thanks for the info. I've done the python-updater steps too many times now and from now on will basically do it just once and after that take what it says with a grain of salt. Cheers, Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-27 Thread Jacques Montier
the first build. I suspect a bug has already been reported. Fair enough. I'm also seeing Virtualbox as shown above. Thanks for the info. I've done the python-updater steps too many times now and from now on will basically do it just once and after that take what it says with a grain of salt

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv problems

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
the package list that I added to package.mask from /var/log/portage-logs for files dated from October 12 till 24. It was an epic fail. I couldn't even emerge -e world because of those stupid masked package versions... OK, I haven't used Myth now in over a year so take this with a grain of salt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd? [ Was: The End Is Near ... ]

2012-03-17 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
:-)  I really don't know I should care whether my system runs OpenRC or systemd. Take this with a grain (or a kilo) of salt, since I'm obviously biased, but IMHO this are systemd advantages over OpenRC: * Really fast boot. OpenRC takes at least double the time that systemd does when booting

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-25 Thread Michael Mol
successors like OpenRC. Someone enlighten me please? I wrote the following some months ago; I think nothing much has changed since then (I added a couple of comments): Take this with a grain (or a kilo) of salt, since I'm obviously biased, but IMHO this are systemd advantages over OpenRC: * Really

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-25 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
what advantages it really offers over the SysV scheme and its successors like OpenRC. Someone enlighten me please? I wrote the following some months ago; I think nothing much has changed since then (I added a couple of comments): Take this with a grain (or a kilo) of salt, since I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-26 Thread Kevin Chadwick
it really offers over the SysV scheme and its successors like OpenRC. Someone enlighten me please? I wrote the following some months ago; I think nothing much has changed since then (I added a couple of comments): Take this with a grain (or a kilo) of salt, since I'm obviously biased

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
of comments): Take this with a grain (or a kilo) of salt, since I'm obviously biased, but IMHO this are systemd advantages over OpenRC: * Really fast boot. OpenRC takes at least double the time that systemd does when booting, easily verifiable. In my laptop systemd is twice as fast as OpenRC; in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel and Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 256 bits)

2014-05-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
what I say here with a pinch of salt (building the right drivers with the right settings to work right on the right hardware is, IMNSHO, a huge amount of black magic :-) anyway, I seem to recall that USE=i915 or i965 was the old way of doing things and you needed to know what chipset to build

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CI Continuous Integration

2014-12-17 Thread Sam Bishop
some of the other more common distros. Folks seem to be firmly in either camp; but more in the conventional distro camp. What I did find interesting is lots of corporations are running on hundreds of gentoo systems and using (chef, puppet, ansible or salt) to ease the management of large gentoo

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings

2015-08-31 Thread thelma
is /var/tmp mounted on? > > Other info like the output of `emerge --info', what kernel you're > running, and what profile you're on would be helpful. > > I personally do not run Hardened, so take this with a grain of salt. > > Alec No, I'm not running Gentoo Hardened Here

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to set XATTR_PAX markings

2015-08-31 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
oo.org/wiki/Hardened/PaX_Quickstart) > > that your filesystem may not support extended attributes. What type of > > filesystem is /var/tmp mounted on? > > > > Other info like the output of `emerge --info', what kernel you're > > running, and what profile you're on woul

Re: [gentoo-user] Something eats my memory - please help

2017-04-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
t is really using memory. A very quick easy first step is to run top and sort on the memory columns (just take the left-most memory-related column with a big bag of salt, it doesn't show what people usually think). Then correlate that with packages you recently updated. Thanks Alan. I thin

Re: [gentoo-user] IPsec

2021-04-06 Thread Grant Taylor
Pre-Script: I'm probably in a bad mental state to reply, but I want to answer some valid questions before others reply. Please take what I say and how I say it with a grain of salt. I don't mean anything personally. I /do/ appreciate the constructive and thought provoking responses

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv problems

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
in over a year so take this with a grain of salt. From the log file it appears that your client isn't connecting to the server which likely explains why you don't see the programs. I wonder if you've tested connecting to mythconverg manually via a terminal? Maybe something like /etc/my.cnf or one

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv problems

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
versions... OK, I haven't used Myth now in over a year so take this with a grain of salt. From the log file it appears that your client isn't connecting to the server which likely explains why you don't see the programs. I wonder if you've tested connecting to mythconverg manually via

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv problems

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
Myth now in over a year so take this with a grain of salt. From the log file it appears that your client isn't connecting to the server which likely explains why you don't see the programs. I wonder if you've tested connecting to mythconverg manually via a terminal? Maybe something like /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv problems

2011-10-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
versions... OK, I haven't used Myth now in over a year so take this with a grain of salt. From the log file it appears that your client isn't connecting to the server which likely explains why you don't see the programs. I wonder if you've tested connecting to mythconverg manually via

Re: [gentoo-user] Mythtv problems

2011-10-27 Thread Matt Harrison
because of those stupid masked package versions... OK, I haven't used Myth now in over a year so take this with a grain of salt. From the log file it appears that your client isn't connecting to the server which likely explains why you don't see the programs. I wonder if you've tested connecting

[gentoo-user] Open Letter (Plea for Medical Help/Assistance) to World Leaders

2010-08-27 Thread Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming) of Singapore
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