I'm looking at getting wine going for a Windows-only app. Some
questions...
1) The latest ebuild wine-1.6_rc4 (unstable) apparently should have the
prelink USE flag. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml
talks about a cron job to run prelink every so often, which seems like
the wrong
On 2013-07-20 01:23, luis jure wrote:
hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that just
piles up...
No, 1Tb = 125GB (note the difference between Tb = Tbit and TB=TByte)...
Best regards
Peter K
On 20/07/2013 01:03, Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 11:43:39 -0500, Dale wrote:
My /home is over 1Tb, that is Tb too. I'm not buying
one big enough for all that.
1Tb is only 125GB, well within the capacity of current SSDs :P
Switching to an SSD, particularly on a
on 2013-07-20 at 09:42 pk wrote:
On 2013-07-20 01:23, luis jure wrote:
hehe... i guess neil meant that in average for each Tb you have in your
disk, only 125Mb is really important or useful. the rest is crap that
just piles up...
No, 1Tb = 125GB (note the difference between Tb =
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:03:36 -0400
Randy Barlow ra...@electronsweatshop.com wrote:
Alexey Mishustin wrote:
So, restarting syslog-ng should be all that's required to fix it -
reboot is
overkill.
As for me, first I updated syslog-ng, then I issued
'/etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload' (by
On Saturday 20 Jul 2013 12:26:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Neil is jerking your chain :-)
Remember, he's an Englishman and they don't do slapstick humour, they do
clever and subtle humour.
I'm another, and I've been tempted to make the same observation as Neil did,
but I wouldn't have been so
On 2013-07-19 3:02 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you are. Unless you are moving massive terabytes of data
across your drive on a constant basis I would not worry about regular
everyday write activity being a problem.
I have a question regarding the use of SSDs
On 2013-07-20 13:59, luis jure wrote:
the average home user has lots of useless crap. i know
*i* do...
Yes, I do too... So the answer is smaller disks in order not to
accumulate so much crap! ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
On Jul 20, 2013 9:27 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 2013-07-19 3:02 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you are. Unless you are moving massive terabytes of data
across your drive on a constant basis I would not worry about regular
everyday write
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Saturday 20 Jul 2013 12:26:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Neil is jerking your chain :-)
Remember, he's an Englishman and they don't do slapstick humour, they do
clever and subtle humour.
I'm another, and I've been tempted to make the same observation as Neil did,
but I
pk wrote:
On 2013-07-20 13:59, luis jure wrote:
the average home user has lots of useless crap. i know
*i* do...
Yes, I do too... So the answer is smaller disks in order not to
accumulate so much crap! ;-)
Best regards
Peter K
I have to say, most of mine is useful stuff. I have smaller
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 15:02:48 -0500, Dale wrote:
I
also keep the last two versions of sysrescue for my USB stick.
How do you copy one to a stick when you need to rescue an unbootable
system? I prefer to keep the ISO in /boot, no need for a USB stick then.
--
Neil Bothwick
By the time you
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 19:50:47 -0500, Dale wrote:
Changing the case of the b around is not going to change what space my
data consumes or what a drive can hold.
No, but it does change the meaning of what you are saying it uses, and
invalidates your sig in the process :)
Remember *nix is
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:26:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Remember, he's an Englishman and they don't do slapstick humour, they do
clever and subtle humour.
Have you never seen Monty Python or The Goodies?
PS, let me know when you think this is getting off-topic...
--
Neil Bothwick
If at
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 20:27:51 +0800, kwk...@hkbn.net wrote:
Same behaviour here. In my case with an lsof | grep libsyslog-ng I
see in the physical host hp-systray from hplip was still
using the old libsyslog-ng.so, so killing that and a restart of
syslog-ng service stops the segfault lines.
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 14:50:29 -0500, Dale wrote:
Neil, you know how payback is right? ROFL
That's the one with Mel Gibson?
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Neil Bothwick
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On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:43:39PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
How do you copy one to a stick when you need to rescue an unbootable
system? I prefer to keep the ISO in /boot, no need for a USB stick then.
Would you mind a short HOW-TO for that, including {lilo,grub}.conf?
And would this only
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:00:21 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote:
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:43:39PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
How do you copy one to a stick when you need to rescue an unbootable
system? I prefer to keep the ISO in /boot, no need for a USB stick
then.
Would you mind a short
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 11:20:30PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
Would you mind a short HOW-TO for that, including {lilo,grub}.conf?
http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_Easy_install_SystemRescueCd_on_harddisk#Boot_the_ISO_image_from_the_disk_using_Grub2
And would this only be
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:38:59 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote:
A known, good kernel is not much help if your root filesystem is
damaged, although I do make sure I always have at least one such
kernel in /boot.
Thanks. I assume you must have a separate /boot partition in case your
root filesystem
On 21/07/13 06:42, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:38:59 -0500, Bruce Hill wrote:
A known, good kernel is not much help if your root filesystem is
damaged, although I do make sure I always have at least one such
kernel in /boot.
Thanks. I assume you must have a separate /boot
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 07:02:35 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
Yes, and it's mounted ro to minimise the risk of such damage.
I used to do this (keeping a rescue partitio) ... but found it was
useful only some of the time. Nowadays I just leave a sysrescuecd USB
key on top of the case :)
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