[gentoo-user] MacBook: How many hours on battery with Gentoo?

2008-02-15 Thread Lowe Schmidt
Hi. I'm planning on buying myself a MacBook and I'm just wondering if anyone knows how many hours I will get out of it if I run Gentoo. I mainly use a bunch of terminals, gvim and some lightweigth gtk app so nothing heavy going on. All input appreciated /Lowe -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to start cross-compiling.

[gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread pat
Hello, One of my coligues used this rm -rf / command on his ext3 partition as root ... of course :-( He removes about 50% of data. And my question is: is there a utility to undelete the files and directories or at least some files? I know that this shouldn't be possible but data are worth to ask

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:09:37 +0100, pat wrote: One of my coligues used this rm -rf / command on his ext3 partition as root ... of course :-( He removes about 50% of data. And my question is: is there a utility to undelete the files and directories or at least some files? I know that this

[gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Strong Cypher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Well, I'm currently testing last version of reiser4 and it seems to be fast and reliable. namesys website seems to be off now ... I wondering where this fs will go now ? It's in curse of import in kernel or totally abandonned ? Any idea ?

[gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! Please, recommend a text editor with a capability to find/replace *multiline* blocks. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 15 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: That aside, how would gaps *between* files ever translate into fragmentation unless the author of that particular piece of

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:09:37 +0100, pat wrote: One of my coligues used this rm -rf / command on his ext3 partition as root ... of course :-( He removes about 50% of data. And my question is: is there a utility to undelete the files and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! Please, recommend a text editor with a capability to find/replace *multiline* blocks. MS Word running in CrossOver? /me ducks -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread pat
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote On Friday 15 February 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:09:37 +0100, pat wrote: One of my coligues used this rm -rf / command on his ext3 partition as root ... of course :-( He removes about 50% of data. And my

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-15 Thread Dale
Uwe Thiem wrote: Back in the days when I still used DOS, one certainly wanted to defragment periodically. The system became significantly more performant for a while. On Linux/Unix, I never bothered. Uwe Yea, I remember those days too. Put the disk and get it started then wait

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 schrieb ext Strong Cypher: Well, I'm currently testing last version of reiser4 and it seems to be fast and reliable. namesys website seems to be off now That's no wonder, Namesys is currently out of business due to Mr. Reiser's ongoing court trial. ... I

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux, reiserfs and file fragmentation

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote: Uwe Thiem wrote: Back in the days when I still used DOS, one certainly wanted to defragment periodically. The system became significantly more performant for a while. On Linux/Unix, I never bothered. Uwe Yea, I remember those days too. Put the

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: However, by the time you are done it is usually not worth the effort it took. It's easier to reinstall and restore backups. But if there are some irreplaceable files on that disk, you have no choice. good luck to him. There's a home directory ... .

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted ro immediately and IF not much writing to the disk happened in the meantime.

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: ... I wondering where this fs will   go now ? It's in the -mm tree since a long time now and AFAIK one or two former namesys employees are still working on it. It's in curse of import in kernel or totally abandonned ? Don't know.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement

2008-02-15 Thread Philip Webb
080215 Andrew Gaydenko inquired re a text editor with a capability to find/replace *multiline* blocks. It sb possible using regular expressions in (G)Vim, also with macros via commands 'q' '@'. -- ,, SUPPORT

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Philip Webb
080215 pat wrote: One of my coligues used this rm -rf / command on his ext3 partition as root: He removes about 50% of data. is there a utility to undelete the files and directories or at least some files? One of the Linux news sites relayed an article yesterday, which mentioned several

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:12 -0600, Dale wrote: Neil Walker wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I can find a lot of cards that are almost what I want. But I have an external drive, and a PCI-X motherboard. Not internal, and not PCI-E. Anybody know of such a beast A quick Google led to

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Uwe Thiem writes: On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he remounted ro immediately and IF not much writing to the disk

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:09 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 20:21 -0500, David Relson wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:29:58 + Mike Williams wrote: On Thursday 14 February 2008 22:58:13 David Relson wrote: Have you thought about a PS/2 to USB adapter? I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement

2008-02-15 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Philip Webb wrote: It sb possible using regular expressions in (G)Vim, It somebody...? It soundboard...? It antimony...? Ah, it should be... Why not type the few extra characters and save multiple readers a search through their abbreviations list? Benno -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Walker
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Please, recommend a text editor with a capability to find/replace *multiline* blocks. My favourite editor - app-editors/le :) Be lucky, Neil -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailman trouble [SEMI-SOLVED]

2008-02-15 Thread Johannes Skov Frandsen
kashani wrote: Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: Anybody had the same problem and found a solution? Worst case scenario, how do I move my existing lists to a fresh installation of mailman? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-641573-highlight-.html There are a couple twists. You'll need to

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Erik
Alan McKinnon skrev: On Friday 15 February 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: ... I wondering where this fs will go now ? It's in the -mm tree since a long time now and AFAIK one or two former namesys employees are still working on it. It's in curse of import in kernel or

Re: [gentoo-user] undelete files and dirs on ext3 partition

2008-02-15 Thread pat
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:01:25 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote Uwe Thiem writes: On Friday 15 February 2008, pat wrote: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:41:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote Neil, you are a master of understatement :-) pat, it might be possible to get some stuff back, IF he

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Erik wrote: Alan McKinnon skrev: On Friday 15 February 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: ... I wondering where this fs will go now ? It's in the -mm tree since a long time now and AFAIK one or two former namesys employees are still working on it. It's in

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:57 +0100, Erik wrote: Alan McKinnon skrev: On Friday 15 February 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: ... I wondering where this fs will go now ? It's in the -mm tree since a long time now and AFAIK one or two former namesys employees are still working

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Erik
Florian Philipp skrev: On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:57 +0100, Erik wrote: Alan McKinnon skrev: On Friday 15 February 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: ... I wondering where this fs will go now ? It's in the -mm tree since a long time now and AFAIK one or two

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:47:25 +0100, Erik wrote: And I use his filesystem (reiser3.6), which has worked perfectly for over 3 years on my laptop. How likely is it that he would have committed such a crime? What motive would he have? Isn't that something for the courts to decide, rather than

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Erik wrote: What do you mean by Hans is a weird person.? Do you know him personally or did you just read it somewhere? I only saw a video lecture with him talking about namespaces and filesystems (he seemed perfectly normal there at least). And I use his filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Rumen Yotov
Alan McKinnon написа: On Friday 15 February 2008, Erik wrote: What do you mean by Hans is a weird person.? Do you know him personally or did you just read it somewhere? I only saw a video lecture with him talking about namespaces and filesystems (he seemed perfectly normal there at least). And

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Strong Cypher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Whoo ... Ok I see It's a strange story ... Now I understand why this project seems to be off now ... It's a bad think, this fs seems to be really good, but ... the way it's write is not the same as other kernel module ... so I will ask now in other

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 13:47 +0100, Erik wrote: What do you mean by Hans is a weird person.? Do you know him personally or did you just read it somewhere? I only saw a video lecture with him talking about namespaces and filesystems (he seemed perfectly normal there at least). And I use his

[gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Strong Cypher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm looking for an alternative to ext2/3. I have put reiser3/4 out because of project seems to be off now ... or not really active I really want an active project. Is they a good fs that is extremly adapted to gentoo system (portage ...) Is

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 15:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second priority. As I said before, I did not have any problem (unfortunately, I

OT: Cheap PS2/USB keyboard/mouse adaptors. WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo

2008-02-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Feb 2008, at 01:21, David Relson wrote: ... Here in Michigan they seem a bit pricey, as well. A single PS/2 to USB adapter is a few dollars but the dual PS/2 to USB Y adapter is $16.00 (or worse). I had hoped to use one with my PS/2 only KVM but the combo doesn't work. I suspect

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 14:36 +0100, Strong Cypher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm looking for an alternative to ext2/3. I have put reiser3/4 out because of project seems to be off now ... or not really active I really want an active project. Is they a

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:36:25 +0100, Strong Cypher wrote: For exemple , with reiser4 the portage directory don't take a lot of space, and so read it it's really fast... You could use a file, like this, then put ext2 on it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 schrieb ext Strong Cypher: Is they a good fs that is extremly adapted to gentoo system (portage ...) Huh. Why should somebody write a filesystem with Gentoo portage in mind? Is they fs that support gzip like reiser4 do ? See

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Feb 2008, at 05:12, Dale wrote: Dale makes a note of this. Questions: If I buy this card and a SATA hard drive, will I notice faster transfer speed on the drive or will the PCI bus limit it somehow? I currently get 40 to 50 MBs/ sec on my IDE drives. Would this setup be any

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Aaron Clark
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 schrieb ext Strong Cypher: For exemple , with reiser4 the portage directory don't take a lot of space, and so read it it's really fast... The same is true for reiser3. I want a alternative Well, there are plenty: xfs, jfs, ... Of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Dale
Aaron Clark wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 15. Februar 2008 schrieb ext Strong Cypher: For exemple , with reiser4 the portage directory don't take a lot of space, and so read it it's really fast... The same is true for reiser3. I want a alternative Well, there are plenty: xfs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Aaron Clark
Dale wrote: Little addition to XFS, I tried it once a while ago. Every time the power failed, it would never boot again. I can say from personal experience and from what I have read from others, if you plan to use XFS, have a good UPS hooked up. It does not like power failures at all.

[gentoo-user] mozilla-firefox not finding plugins in /opt/netscape

2008-02-15 Thread Michael George
I just updated my mozilla-firefox-bin package to the latest and I noticed that it wasn't finding the plugins installed in /opt/netscape/plugins. It was only finding the plugins in /opt/firefox/plugins. I made symlinks to the plugins in /opt/firefox, but I don't remember doing that before to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 15 Feb 2008, at 05:12, Dale wrote: Dale makes a note of this. Questions: If I buy this card and a SATA hard drive, will I notice faster transfer speed on the drive or will the PCI bus limit it somehow? I currently get 40 to 50 MBs/sec on my IDE drives. Would this

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Strong Cypher
Ok guy thanks for answer ... For my use, mix of ext2/ext3 in partition (lvm) and sparse file could speed up my system ... I think it could not at the same point of reiser4 but support in case of crash could really be better ... Thanks for answer It's not easy to create filesystem that's is

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Dale
Aaron Clark wrote: Dale wrote: Little addition to XFS, I tried it once a while ago. Every time the power failed, it would never boot again. I can say from personal experience and from what I have read from others, if you plan to use XFS, have a good UPS hooked up. It does not like power

Re: [gentoo-user] How to avoid NetworkManager logs info in terminals

2008-02-15 Thread Alejandro Bednarik
2008/2/14, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 10:02 -0300, Ale wrote: I get many info lines in the tty1 every time i start NM, the same happend if i add NM service at boot time. I don't like all that output, with a simple Network manager starting [OK] is enough, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 15 February 2008, Aaron Clark wrote: xfs: high performance, especially when dealing with many large or small files; Gets along very well with raid arrays. Noticeably higher cpu usage than ext3/jfs. IIRC, it aggressively caches its writes so there is a slight possibility of data

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Dale wrote: Little addition to XFS, I tried it once a while ago. Every time the power failed, it would never boot again. I can say from personal experience and from what I have read from others, if you plan to use XFS, have a good UPS hooked up. It does not like

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Stroller wrote: PCI-express has _signifcantly_ more capacity than regular old PCI - I read recently that regular old PCI may be unable to keep up with a gigabit network card that onboard gigbit network ports are faster. PCI = 133mb/sec theoretical. 100mb with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Strong Cypher wrote: Ok guy thanks for answer ... For my use, mix of ext2/ext3 in partition (lvm) and sparse file could speed up my system ... I think it could not at the same point of reiser4 but support in case of crash could really be better ... Assuming you

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Reiser4 will probably die a quiet death now. Without Hans' vision driving it, it will probably do what it's been doing for 18 months - going nowhere. that is bullshit. If you have ever followed the ml you would now it. And it's highly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-15 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most from an OOo compile from source, are those old, low memory, asthmatic boxen, that take two days to complete the emerge! I am tempted to

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Dale wrote: If I recall correctly, he is accused of killing his wife. Since he was the one that was leading the project and he is well, busy, then things have sort of slowed if not stopped all together. Hans was never one of the programmers. He had the vision

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Reiser4 will probably die a quiet death now. Without Hans' vision driving it, it will probably do what it's been doing for 18 months - going nowhere. that is bullshit. If you have

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Stefano Negro wrote: Hi,is it possible to convert reiser in ext3? No. Instead create an ext3 filesystem somewhere, mount it, copy the files on the ReiserFS over to the ext3 filesystem. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com --

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-15 Thread dell core2duo
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 15:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am more interested to get things working. Quality would be my second

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Stefano Negro
Hi,is it possible to convert reiser in ext3? Stefano 2008/2/15, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hans is accused of murdering his Russian bride wife. Without a body ever found. His son supporting his story (before he was brought

[gentoo-user] Odd problem with OpenSSH

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! For some time now, there's a very odd situation: There are two computers, DAU and NOTE. I can use ssh to login from DAU to NOTE but not vice versa. I've played around with several settings before this happened but I'm sure it worked after my last change. Well, ultimately I've unmerged

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends [avoided]

2008-02-15 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:34:16 -0600 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to build sane-backends. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-sane-epson2.la', needed by `all'. Stop. any thoughts? Well, removing all settings for SANE_BACKENDS in my make.conf seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends [bump]

2008-02-15 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 15 February 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:34:16 -0600 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to build sane-backends. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-sane-epson2.la', needed by `all'. Stop. any thoughts? Curses! My

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fetchmail to procmail (or something) to arbitrary dir?

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: Hello, OT post here, but: I (the office, actually) have this lousy ISP that sells mailboxes limited to 50MB. Whatever, I can't change that just now. I have need to keep all mail in one place... for safekeeping, mostly. 50MB is not enough

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with OpenSSH

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! For some time now, there's a very odd situation: There are two computers, DAU and NOTE. I can use ssh to login from DAU to NOTE but not vice versa. I've played around with several settings before this happened but I'm sure it

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hans is accused of murdering his Russian bride wife. Without a body ever found. His son supporting his story (before he was brought to Russia by is grand mother - against court rulings). Oh, and Nina's lover is a serial killer. --

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-embedded] multilib support for cross compiler toolchain

2008-02-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Suma Sharma wrote: Hi, oh, and never cross-post to mailing lists. this is an embedded question, so gentoo-user is not the forum for such e-mails. -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Vaeth
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: Second, no journalled filesystem in the whole wide world can prevent occurences of inconsisteny in case of a power cut. None, try as they might. This is correct. If the journal change still resides in the harddrive cache while your power cut occurs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Alois Hammer
Suggestion: put your Portage and database trees on flash storage. I'd go with one of two routes: a fast USB stick or a quality CompactFlash card. At the moment, the one place I know of to get a quality CF card is NewEgg: they're selling a couple of 266x CF4-compliant cards, Transcend-branded.

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with OpenSSH

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 20:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! For some time now, there's a very odd situation: There are two computers, DAU and NOTE. I can use ssh to login from DAU to NOTE but not vice versa. I've played around

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 21:05 +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: Currently I have 2 partitions, a root and home partition, fortunately on LVM array, I was thinking of splitting them to /, /usr, /var, /home, /usr/portage, /mnt/storage the latter is to be used for Mp3z (around 12000) and movies...

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fetchmail to procmail (or something) to arbitrary dir?

2008-02-15 Thread forgottenwizard
On 21:01 Fri 15 Feb , Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008, Michael Higgins wrote: Hello, OT post here, but: I (the office, actually) have this lousy ISP that sells mailboxes limited to 50MB. Whatever, I can't change that just now. I have need to keep all mail in one

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 15 February 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hans is accused of murdering his Russian bride wife. sigh a bride is someone a man marries. She then becomes his wife. Without a body ever found. His son supporting his story (before

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 15 February 2008 03:05:13 pm Wael Nasreddine wrote: Hey guys, Currently I have 2 partitions, a root and home partition, fortunately on LVM array, I was thinking of splitting them to /, /usr, /var, /home, /usr/portage, /mnt/storage the latter is to be used for Mp3z (around 12000)

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-embedded] multilib support for cross compiler toolchain

2008-02-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 14 February 2008, Suma Sharma wrote: I am trying to build a glibc based cross compiler toolchain with multilib support. it really isnt supported at the moment. you'll most likely need to manually tweak the build files. -mike signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-user] Failing to build sane-backends [bump]

2008-02-15 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:34:16 -0600 Dan Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to build sane-backends. make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libsane-sane-epson2.la', needed by `all'. Stop. any thoughts? Curses! My scanner won't scan a thing. Has anyone else been able

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 09:17:11AM -0600: Aaron Clark wrote: Dale wrote: Little addition to XFS, I tried it once a while ago. Every time the power failed, it would never boot again. I can say from personal experience and from

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 15 February 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Reiser4 will probably die a quiet death now. Without Hans' vision driving it, it will probably do what it's been doing for 18

[gentoo-user] [OT] fetchmail to procmail (or something) to arbitrary dir?

2008-02-15 Thread Michael Higgins
Hello, OT post here, but: I (the office, actually) have this lousy ISP that sells mailboxes limited to 50MB. Whatever, I can't change that just now. I have need to keep all mail in one place... for safekeeping, mostly. 50MB is not enough and I get a quota warning. So, knowing this situation is

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Walker
Alois Hammer wrote: Suggestion: put your Portage and database trees on flash storage. There is no way I would do that or recommend it to anyone. Those devices have a very, very short life if written to frequently. Portage isn't a big problem because an emerge --sync will restore it - but

Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 status

2008-02-15 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag, 15. Februar 2008, Dale wrote: If I recall correctly, he is accused of killing his wife. Since he was the one that was leading the project and he is well, busy, then things have sort of slowed if not stopped all together. Hans was never one of

[gentoo-user] ghostscript alternatives

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
There are three packages: app-text/ghostscript-esp app-text/ghostscript-gnu app-text/ghostscript-gpl Up yesterday I was forced to use app-text/ghostscript-esp as the only having gdi printer driver. Now, with ps-capable printer I can use any of packages. Which and why to use? Andrew --

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:24:55PM +0100: On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 21:05 +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: Currently I have 2 partitions, a root and home partition, fortunately on LVM array, I was thinking of splitting them to /,

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: PCI = 133mb/sec theoretical. 100mb with a good chipset (ie not nforce). PCIE = 250mb/sec theoretical I think 64-bit 66Mhz PCI will actually do 526Mb/s theoretical maximum ... I can achieve 220Mb/s real I/O bandwidth (4 disk array) on my gear here. (old

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Feb 2008, at 15:57, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: ... I tend to think of PCI-X just as long PCI or only-a-bit-faster-than PCI. you think wrong. ... PCI-X is A LOT faster than PCI, faster than PCIE 1x, 2x Ooops. Hi Volker, My apologies for posting misleadingly my thanks to you for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] fetchmail to procmail (or something) to arbitrary dir?

2008-02-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Feb 2008, at 18:21, Michael Higgins wrote: ... Anyway, I puzzled a bit and decided 'fetchmail' sounds pretty good, pretty much what I want to do here. But, it needs sendmail...?? I don't want a MTA on this box. So, I see 'procmail' is an alternative target. Hmm. I use maildrop here,

[gentoo-user][Query] Netowork Manager

2008-02-15 Thread dell core2duo
Hi, I have a query about network manager. Network manager is rewriting (actually putting blank there) my resolv.conf everytime it reconnected to some network by eth0. I want to avoid rewriting my resolv.conf. Can i do so ? if yes then how ? thanks and regards, flukebox

Re: OT: Cheap PS2/USB keyboard/mouse adaptors. WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo

2008-02-15 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:45:58 + Stroller wrote: On 15 Feb 2008, at 01:21, David Relson wrote: ... Here in Michigan they seem a bit pricey, as well. A single PS/2 to USB adapter is a few dollars but the dual PS/2 to USB Y adapter is $16.00 (or worse). I had hoped to use one

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 00:32 +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: To your filesystem scheme: Why do you use xfs for usr? AFAIK XFS is good at write speed but not worth the trouble when reading data and data in usr is usually written once, updated every few months and read many times a week (on

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Alois Hammer
Wear leveling. Second UFD for occasional backup. Am I missing something, or does Portage only *write* to the database when you're [em,un]merging? If so, I don't see that there's much to worry about, even if you *are* running pure ~x86, and using overlays, like I am. The only real drawback I

Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for PCI-X external SATA controller

2008-02-15 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I wrote: I think 64-bit 66Mhz PCI will actually do 526Mb/s theoretical maximum ... I can achieve 220Mb/s real I/O bandwidth (4 disk array) on my gear here. (old Supermicro P4TDER). Actually, doing the calculation properly gets 508 MB/s (532 MB/s is often quoted, but that is using 1000

[gentoo-user] Re: autounmask fails

2008-02-15 Thread Thufir
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:25:12 +0100, Thomas Kahle wrote: [...] Is your Portage recent ? If not, try to upgrade to at least 2.1 The Message is misleading, should be: Package canno be installed instead of Package is masked It did finally install. Thank you, though. -Thufir --

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Don Jerman
I personally prefer JFS to XFS and have used it for years on my servers and laptop with no problem other than hardware errors (and if the hardware fails the fs will not help you). I had system board problems in the laptop and a bad RAID controller in the server this last year :(. Other than that

[gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems versus emerge

2008-02-15 Thread Thufir
On Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:50:28 +0100, Thomas Pani wrote: Are gems supposed to be installed via emerge? Yes. There's a gems eclass that handles installing gems, making gems-ebuils fairly easy. Have a look at, for example, the dev-ruby/camping ebuild. Oh, and there's an ebuild request (bug

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge ruby fails

2008-02-15 Thread Thufir
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:42:24 +0100, Lowe Schmidt wrote: It's not the topmost build error, above that. After mucking about with revdep-rebuild, I did get ruby installed, but get: Emerging (7 of 7) dev-ruby/rails-2.0.2 to / [...] Install rails-2.0.2 into

[gentoo-user] RE: BT8x8

2008-02-15 Thread Chris Brennan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 'm having a somewhat similar issue with the BT878 card I have in my gentoo box. Here are pastebin results of varius infomation, hope I give all the necessary info. dmesg - http://rafb.net/p/MVIiSg62.html xorg.conf - http://rafb.net/p/dXz4Ry49.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 status - Alternative to ext2/3 for gentoo portage and more

2008-02-15 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 01:50:04AM +0100: On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 00:32 +0100, Wael Nasreddine wrote: To your filesystem scheme: Why do you use xfs for usr? AFAIK XFS is good at write speed but not worth the trouble when

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd problem with OpenSSH

2008-02-15 Thread Tim Garton
Try adding a: LogLevel VERBOSE or LogLevel DEBUG to /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restarting the ssh server, and see if it gives you any more info.

[gentoo-user] Error compiling sys-power/powersave

2008-02-15 Thread Wael Nasreddine
Hello, I'm trying to compile powersave but I'm getting an error related to some conflicts in files, the files belongs to sys-libs/glibc-2.7-r1 it seems that soneone else[1] has the same issue as I have, too bad it's just a pastebin I got from google, I couldn't find the source. build log and