[gentoo-user] intermittent ALSA error

2010-11-12 Thread Coert Waagmeester
Hello all, Managed to set my self up with an awesome KDE desktop. there is only one problem that only happens occasionally. When I queue a few music videos in vlc and it goes from one to next, only sometimes it comes with an ALSA error: ALSA version problem: VLC failed to re-initialize

Re: [gentoo-user] intermittent ALSA error

2010-11-12 Thread Eprom
Am 12.11.2010 09:09, schrieb Coert Waagmeester: Hello all, Managed to set my self up with an awesome KDE desktop. there is only one problem that only happens occasionally. When I queue a few music videos in vlc and it goes from one to next, only sometimes it comes with an ALSA error:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 11 November 2010 17:33:25 Grant wrote: Have you ever managed a programming team before? I haven't. Any pointers? Good grief! The literature is full of weighty tomes on the subject, and copious advice is available in multiple news groups - and no doubt e- mail lists too by now.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Swing !

2010-11-12 Thread Crístian Viana
are you sure this Swing is Java's? I don't see any reference to Java on SuperCollider's website. and Swing is always installed in any JRE since version 1.2. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:59 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de [10-11-12 04:40]: On 11/12/2010 05:05 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Swing !

2010-11-12 Thread Arttu V.
On 11/12/10, Crístian Viana cristiandei...@gmail.com wrote: are you sure this Swing is Java's? I don't see any reference to Java on SuperCollider's website. and Swing is always installed in any JRE since version 1.2. It has mostly cpp files so I'd wager its written in c++. But there seems to

[gentoo-user] genkernel, all modules

2010-11-12 Thread fajfusio
Hi I found that genkernel does not build all available modules. 2 devices have not been detected by a kernel while they were detected with manually configured kernel. How can I force genkernel to build all available modules ? thanks for help

[gentoo-user] import site fails - why

2010-11-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have cloned the root fs and /usr onto a new machine (as I have done many times before) I boot SystemRescueCD and mount the new root on, say, /nroot Then my standard procedure is as follows mount -o bind /proc /nroot/proc mount -o bind /dev /nroot/proc chroot /nroot /bin/bash cp

[gentoo-user] Re: DNSSEC

2010-11-12 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: My first spot of advice would be to use unbound as your caching servers - Did you experiment iwth ldns-utils (Set of utilities to simplify various dns(sec) tasks) ??? James

Re: [gentoo-user] import site fails - why

2010-11-12 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:56, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: mount -o bind /proc /nroot/proc mount -o bind /dev /nroot/proc That looks a bit strange to me, doesnt it to you? :) I would retype that as follow: mount -t proc none /nroot/proc mount -o bind /dev/ /nroot/dev

Re: [gentoo-user] import site fails - why

2010-11-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/12/10 15:24:44, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:56, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: mount -o bind /proc /nroot/proc mount -o bind /dev /nroot/proc That looks a bit strange to me, doesnt it to you? :) I would retype that as follow: mount -t proc

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-11, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Should I only hire coders I can sit in the same room with? That will probably work best, but it will cost more. Have you ever managed a programming team before? I haven't. Any pointers? Not really. Just be prepared for the programmers to

Re: [gentoo-user] import site fails - why

2010-11-12 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:32, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 11/12/10 15:24:44, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:56, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: mount -o bind /proc /nroot/proc mount -o bind /dev /nroot/proc That looks a bit

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-12 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/09/2010 06:52 AM, Grant wrote: This is OT, but you guys have proven extremely insightful over the years and I would love to hear what you think. I've been working on a particular software project for a long time. I'd like to hire a team of developers to take over the project, but I

Re: [gentoo-user] import site fails - why

2010-11-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/12/10 15:58:27, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:32, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 11/12/10 15:24:44, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:56, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: mount -o bind /proc /nroot/proc

[gentoo-user] Re: DNSSEC

2010-11-12 Thread James
PowerDNS is a fine auth server. If it suits your needs I'd recommend you try it first. I don't know about it's DNSSEC abilities or feature roadmap - it's been a long time since I looked closely at it. Lack of ACLs is what killed PowerDNS for us, I still feel sad about that Using ACL

[gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Maybe stupid question: How to find out which physical NIC is for example eth0 ? If I have 2 NICs in the box, for example one e1000 and one from 3com, how to find out which one is eth0 ? I looked up /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules where the MAC is determining the devicefile ... Is

Re: [gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Colt Jones
I usually do one of two things. Depending on the situation. If both NICs are from the same vendor I install mii-tool and only plug in one port. mii-tool will show link state. This when it negotiates it will show output like: eth0: negotiated 1000baseT-FD flow-control, link ok eth1: no link If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DNSSEC

2010-11-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:18 on Friday 12 November 2010, James did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: My first spot of advice would be to use unbound as your caching servers - Did you experiment iwth ldns-utils (Set of utilities to simplify various

Re: [gentoo-user] import site fails - why

2010-11-12 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 17:44, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Meanwhile, I have run python-updater on the master machine and I have re-install portage. Then I resync'ed the new machine against this master. Still, env-update fails after chroot Here is the output Python

Re: [gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: How to find out which physical NIC is for example eth0 ? If I have 2 NICs in the box, for example one e1000 and one from 3com, how to find out which one is eth0 ? I looked up

[gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread Philip Webb
There are quick'n'easy commands to goto the previous dir -- 'cd -' , which cb aliased as 'p' -- goto the next-higher dir -- 'cd ..' , which cb aliased as 's' -- , but is there a way to set up a qne command to goto a parallel dir, eg if you're in ~/tmp goto ~/hold ( 2 of my commonly-used

Re: [gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.11.2010 17:41, schrieb Tom H: Is there another way? on non-udev-systems? dmesg | grep ethX I looked that up, there was nothing! Could be that I someday back then did a dmesg -c (I have an issue on that server that triggered quite many lines in dmesg). Thanks, S

Re: [gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.11.2010 16:57, schrieb Colt Jones: I usually do one of two things. Depending on the situation. If both NICs are from the same vendor I install mii-tool and only plug in one port. mii-tool will show link state. This when it negotiates it will show output like: eth0: negotiated

Re: [gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:51:58 +0100 Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Maybe stupid question: How to find out which physical NIC is for example eth0 ? If I have 2 NICs in the box, for example one e1000 and one from 3com, how to find out which one is eth0 ? I looked up

Re: [gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread Bill Longman
On 11/12/2010 09:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote: There are quick'n'easy commands to goto the previous dir -- 'cd -' , which cb aliased as 'p' -- goto the next-higher dir -- 'cd ..' , which cb aliased as 's' -- , but is there a way to set up a qne command to goto a parallel dir, eg if you're in

Re: [gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread Philip Webb
101112 Bill Longman wrote: On 11/12/2010 09:57 AM, Philip Webb wrote: but is there a way to set up a command to goto a parallel dir, eg if you're in ~/tmp goto ~/hold ( 2 of my commonly-used dirs) ? The elegant way is 'function cd2() { cd .. ; cd $$1 ; }'. cd ${PWD/old/new} works when

Re: [gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 12 November 2010 09:57, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: It needs to be a Bash function, so in  ~/.bashrc I tried 'function cd2() { cd .. ; cd $1 ; }', Doesn't function cd2() { cd ../$1 } work? (I haven't tried it.)

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Tuesday 09 November 2010, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, it is possible to run a 32-bit binary executable on a 64-bit system (AMD64). yes, if you use the multilib profile. But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And

Re: [gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.11.2010 18:51, schrieb Etaoin Shrdlu: mii-tool -w eth0 Also look at ethtool -p (details in the man page). Yep, thanks. Maybe I haven't explained exactly what I mean: I want to somehow find out the relation between loaded kernel-module and ethernet-devicefile. Without physical access

Re: [gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 12 November 2010 10:36, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 November 2010 09:57, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: It needs to be a Bash function, so in  ~/.bashrc I tried 'function cd2() { cd .. ; cd $1 ; }', Doesn't function cd2() { cd ../$1 } work? (I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com On 12 November 2010 10:36, Hilco Wijbenga hilco.wijbe...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 November 2010 09:57, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: It needs to be a Bash function, so in ~/.bashrc I tried 'function

Re: [gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 21:14, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: I want to somehow find out the relation between loaded kernel-module and ethernet-devicefile. Without physical access ... In another way: Which kernel-module is in use for /dev/ethX ? # ethtool -i eth1 driver:

Re: [gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread Philip Webb
101112 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On 12 November 2010 09:57, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: I tried 'function cd2() { cd .. ; cd $1 ; }', Doesn't 'function cd2() { cd ../$1 ; }' work ? -- Yes Yes, you're correct (slightly red face) ! I'm not sure why I didn't try that variation originally.

Re: [gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 22:31:09 +0200 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 21:14, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: I want to somehow find out the relation between loaded kernel-module and ethernet-devicefile. Without physical access ... In another

Re: [gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:01:50 + Etaoin Shrdlu shr...@unlimitedmail.org wrote: Also modprobe -k I obviously meant lspci -k, though probably rereading the question, it's not what he wanted.

Re: [gentoo-user] which NIC is which?

2010-11-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 12.11.2010 22:12, schrieb Etaoin Shrdlu: On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 21:01:50 + Etaoin Shrdlu shr...@unlimitedmail.org wrote: Also modprobe -k I obviously meant lspci -k, though probably rereading the question, it's not what he wanted. Thanks to all of you, I think I got it now!

[gentoo-user] samba no connect from windows

2010-11-12 Thread Harry Putnam
This samba problem (windows machines cannot connect to gentoo server) seems to have followed a recent update including samba. qlop shows: Mon Nov 1 05:10:33 2010 net-fs/samba-3.5.6 Usually I've found I might need to redo passwords with smbpasswd. This time, that is not sufficient. Looking at

Re: [gentoo-user] samba no connect from windows

2010-11-12 Thread Stroller
On 13/11/2010, at 12:04am, Harry Putnam wrote: This samba problem (windows machines cannot connect to gentoo server) seems to have followed a recent update including samba. qlop shows: Mon Nov 1 05:10:33 2010 net-fs/samba-3.5.6 Usually I've found I might need to redo passwords with