LVM - is thin provisioning used? - WAS Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-12-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-15 5:18 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/2013 23:58, Tanstaafl wrote: Now, the question is, what the heck is thin-provisioning in lvm2, am I using it, and if not, do I need it? I'm pretty sure I'm not using it, but how to be sure? If you use thin

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-15 3:01 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Follow these steps: 0. undo whatever you did Already did... 1. emerge --sync 2. echo =sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 ~amd64 /etc/portage/package.keywords 3. update your system Or, I could just echo sys

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2013/11/15 Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com Not an answer to your question, but yesterday ruby got pulled in by an update to thin-provisioning-tools, which was required by lvm2. It looks like ruby is only required for the tests of sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools [1]. The new ebuild thin

[gentoo-user] OT: amd64 turion Thin client

2006-10-21 Thread james
Hello, Has anybody found an amd64 (turion) mobo that they are happy with? I have one in a a portable and it's performance is outstanding and it consumes a mere 35 watts. I'm looking for a thin client or atx form factor mobo. Suggestions are most welcome. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
> noticed a thingy called "thin-provisioning-tools". I don't have > > anything thin and I don't provision anything so why I ask? > > > > From what I've been able to understand, it's something to do > > with Device Mapper, snapshots and "many virtual de

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-15 5:56 AM, Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: 2013/11/15 Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com mailto:adamcart...@gmail.com Not an answer to your question, but yesterday ruby got pulled in by an update to thin-provisioning-tools, which was required by lvm2. It looks like

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/11/2013 23:58, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-11-15 3:01 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Follow these steps: 0. undo whatever you did Already did... 1. emerge --sync 2. echo =sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 ~amd64 /etc/portage/package.keywords 3

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 15 September 2017 23:30:07 BST Daniel Campbell wrote: > If you have app-portage/gentoolkit (I highly recommend it) you can run > `equery d sys-block/thin-provisioning-tools` to find what's pulling it > in. It's probably lvm2, which is expected if you use LVM for anything.

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 01:56:54 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: > I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three > versions of Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I > noticed a thingy called "thin-provisioning-tools". I don't have > any

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system

2014-06-28 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:39 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Some months ago I found myself wondering why I had ruby on this box at all. A little poking around revealed that the only thing that needed it was thin- provisioning. Once I'd added

Re: [gentoo-user] (no subject)

2015-07-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 16:11:32 +0200, misteryel...@vmail.me wrote: Whenever I continue and reach the point to install genkernel with cryptsetup flags to generate the ramdisk with LUKS modules in it, it prompts me to install thin-provisioning-tools , but the compile fails for some reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system

2014-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:39:29 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Some months ago I found myself wondering why I had ruby on this box at all. A little poking around revealed that the only thing that needed it was thin- provisioning. Once I'd added -thin to my USE flags and recompiled lvm2

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? > > OK, let's try emerge -s thin-provisioning-tools. We get back only > patronising garbage, namely "A suite of tools for thin provisioning o

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Ok, so... is there or is there not a way to prevent ruby from being installed? Yes I've tried adding -ruby and -test to package.mask for thin-provisioning-tools, and even tried adding them to USE= in make.conf

[gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

2015-11-15 Thread Martin Vaeth
Simon Thelen <gentoo-u...@c-14.de> wrote: > I sync from git and none of my Manifests track the ebuilds, so this > could be a thing. No. git has (probably, I didn't check) thin-manifests = true in its metadata/layout.conf, but for rsync this should not be the case for security reaso

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-14 Thread Mick
the network. Start simple. Just get a handful of similar NICs and you should be set. There's also the option of pre-made hardware thin clients that typically boot from internal flash and simply provide a remote interface to a central server (though most are geared towards RDP or Citrix), and some

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-15 5:18 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/2013 23:58, Tanstaafl wrote: Now, the question is, what the heck is thin-provisioning in lvm2, am I using it, and if not, do I need it? I'm pretty sure I'm not using it, but how to be sure? Google for thin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Managing multiple Gentoo systems

2011-07-13 Thread Bill Longman
be set. There's also the option of pre-made hardware thin clients that typically boot from internal flash and simply provide a remote interface to a central server (though most are geared towards RDP or Citrix), and some are even WiFi capable. A pre-made thin client could be the way to go

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system

2014-06-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 27 June 2014 21:58:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:39:29 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Some months ago I found myself wondering why I had ruby on this box at all. A little poking around revealed that the only thing that needed it was thin- provisioning

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/09/2017 23:43, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 23:38:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: >> Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: >>> Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? > >>> OK, let's t

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Marc Joliet
> > > > > OK, let's try emerge -s thin-provisioning-tools. We get back only > > > patronising garbage, namely "A suite of tools for thin provisioning on > > > Linux" - well, duh! Who write's this stuff? > > > > > > So, WTF is thin prov

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
and they are wanting to setup thin clients in all the class rooms for the teachers. There is an existing thin client setup there now but the clients tend to hang on a regular basis. I suspect it is due to NFS because at times you get the connection error message until it resumes the connection

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
You could say that: $ grep -ir -C1 ruby /etc/portage /etc/portage/package.use/package.use- # I see no need for lvm thin volumes. And it needs thin-provisioning-tools /etc/portage/package.use/package.use: # which needs ruby. I do not want ruby. /etc/portage/package.use/package.use- sys-fs/lvm2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Bruce Hill
/package.use- # I see no need for lvm thin volumes. And it needs thin-provisioning-tools /etc/portage/package.use/package.use: # which needs ruby. I do not want ruby. /etc/portage/package.use/package.use- sys-fs/lvm2 -thin But the real reason I don't have ruby is I don't have a use for it I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
/etc/portage/package.use/package.use- # I see no need for lvm thin volumes. And it needs thin-provisioning-tools /etc/portage/package.use/package.use: # which needs ruby. I do not want ruby. /etc/portage/package.use/package.use- sys-fs/lvm2 -thin But the real reason I don't have ruby is I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system

2014-06-27 Thread covici
on this box at all. A little poking around revealed that the only thing that needed it was thin- provisioning. Once I'd added -thin to my USE flags and recompiled lvm2 I could get rid of ruby altogether. This won't suit everybody, I know, but maybe it's worth considering. What exactly does this do

[gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three versions of Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I noticed a thingy called "thin-provisioning-tools". I don't have anything thin and I don't provision anything so why I ask? From what

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-12 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 12 January 2006 01:35, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:27:56 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Uwe (who is good for throwing these Chinese solid state thin clients, I have got yesterday, out of the [wW]indows) I hope you are referring to computer hardware and not undernourished

[gentoo-user] Creating my own Thin Client

2006-08-27 Thread Christian
Hi there, it´s my first time writing to a mailinglist, so excuse me if this email doesn´t have the correct format ... I´d like to create my own thin client - like Gentoo. After booting, it should just have a few processes running, like logging, Xserver, getty, ... Well, it´s not the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Chris Stankevitz schrieb am 15.11.2013 16:29: On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: The new ebuild thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 reflects this. So if you update to this version and don't use FEATURES=test it should not pull in ruby anymore. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

2015-11-15 Thread covici
Martin Vaeth <mar...@mvath.de> wrote: > Simon Thelen <gentoo-u...@c-14.de> wrote: > > I sync from git and none of my Manifests track the ebuilds, so this > > could be a thing. > > No. git has (probably, I didn't check) > thin-manifests = true > in

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 09/15/2017 02:43 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 23:38:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: >> Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: >>> Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? > >>> OK, let's t

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-12 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Thursday 12 January 2006 05:14, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Thiem to write: It's hardware, alright. And I could just confirm with the manufacturers that there, indeed, were two bugs in those thin clients. some penicillin should take care of that -- Regards, Ernie -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-31 Thread Ryan Viljoen
What would you guys suggest in terms of specs for a server, serving say 50 odd thin clients? -- When you say I wrote a program that crashed Windows, people just stare at you blankly and say Hey, I got those with the system, for free. - Linus Torvalds, 1995 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo box w/ 2 pci slots?

2005-11-14 Thread James
Uwe Thiem uwix at iway.na writes: That isn't really a thin client but a small computer. TCs usually are diskless. I gather you want to use it for streaming video? Yep, and router (frame relay) as well). James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM on VM or not? - WAS Re: Best filesystem for virtualized gentoo mail server - WAS: vmWare HowTo / best practices

2013-04-21 Thread Pandu Poluan
... So, in this case, is it still recommended/fully supported/safe? Thanks Honestly, I don't see how LVM can interact with VMware's VMDK... unless one use VMware's thin provisioning over a SAN Storage Thin Provisioning, in which case all hell will break loose once the actual disk size

Re: [gentoo-user] Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
with tk and threads). I've never had Ruby installed before, and after some digging around, I finally tracked it down to two things: gnome-terminal-nautilus-webkit-ruby multipath-tools-thin-provisioning-tools-ruby These both seem to be new dependancies. After uninstalling gnome-terminal

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 23:38:21 +0200, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: > > Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? > > OK, let's try emerge -s thin-provisioning-tools. We get back only > >

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
200, Marc Joliet wrote: >> Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 23:15:05 CEST schrieb Alan Mackenzie: >> > Yes, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? > >> > OK, let's try emerge -s thin-provisioning-tools. We get back only >> > patronising garbage, n

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiseat -- LTSP?

2012-01-30 Thread Grant
[snip] If I throw out installing a separate OS on a separate machine for each workstation and all of the proprietary thin-client protocols, I think I have 3 options: 1. Connect monitors, USB keyboards, and USB mice directly to a server with multiple video cards.  I found a motherboard with 6

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-16 Thread Alan Mackenzie
s, but do I want it to go away? What is it, what does it do? > >>> OK, let's try emerge -s thin-provisioning-tools. We get back only > >>> patronising garbage, namely "A suite of tools for thin provisioning on > >>> Linux" - well, duh! Who write

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiseat -- LTSP?

2012-01-29 Thread Grant
be, but as with all thin client models you would need a terminal computer for each user. If you only have one machine and monitors, keyboards and mice for each user then you'll need multiple video cards (and a strong power supply) for your only PC.  In this case something like http://automseat.sourceforge.net

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-02-21 Thread lee
software, >>> control the security... >> >> I mean instead of rdp. It's a simple solution which works really well >> on a LAN with Windoze. What's the equivalent that works with Linux? > > Well, I've never been in a company that runs Linux on the desktop, or > wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Generic 2 monitor/2 keyboard question

2005-12-20 Thread Phil Sexton
machine and not the thin client. I fear that this whole path, while certainly possible, might cause me too much work. Please remember this is a 75 year old lady who has never used Linux. ;-) I haven't actually set anything up like this, but I was talking to the local person at the computer lab

[gentoo-user] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, I am trying to connect solid state thin clients (*not* LTSP ones) to a gentoo server. There is one big problem: kdm on the gentoo box does not connect to the X server on the thin client. I tweaked /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc any way I could think of - to no avail. I even

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 17:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to connect solid state thin clients (*not* LTSP ones) to a gentoo server. There is one big problem: kdm on the gentoo box does not connect to the X server on the thin client. I tweaked /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 February 2006 19:26, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 07 February 2006 17:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to connect solid state thin clients (*not* LTSP ones) to a gentoo server. There is one big problem: kdm on the gentoo box does not connect to the X server

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
Thank you both Bob and Uwe that gives me something to think about. Uve I am from South Africa. Summer is going to be a scortcher I am fearing December January. Back on topic, I am helping out my old High School and they are wanting to setup thin clients in all the class rooms for the teachers

Re: [gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-11-02 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
What would you guys suggest in terms of specs for a server, serving say 50 odd thin clients? Probably 2P Opteron with 2 GB to 8 GB main memory. Cpus around 2 GHz. You'll have to calculate the memory needs of each client plus the server's running overhead, and get enough memory to avoid

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo box w/ 2 pci slots?

2005-11-14 Thread Heinz Sporn
Am Montag, den 14.11.2005, 13:56 + schrieb James: Hello, I need a x86 'thin client' or small form factor computer: (1) hard drive. (front-removable would be a bonus). (2) empty pci slots. (1 or more) RS232 9pin serial port. (1) ethernet 10 or 100 mbps. (1-2) ntsc inputs would

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo box w/ 2 pci slots?

2005-11-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 November 2005 15:56, James wrote: Hello, I need a x86 'thin client' or small form factor computer: (1) hard drive. (front-removable would be a bonus). (2) empty pci slots. (1 or more) RS232 9pin serial port. (1) ethernet 10 or 100 mbps. (1-2) ntsc inputs would eliminate the need

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
and in the thin client markets? I don't think that Redmond will have much of a problem packaging a ROM embedded version of a thin client system and pushing it to all the Joe-public out there, who currently (mostly) blindly buy their products. Inertia may of course lead to their demise

Re: [gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?

2013-02-11 Thread Tanstaafl
to that build, USE shows the flags that were used. Ah, thanks for that... Ok, so the current one was installed with:: amd64 elibc_glibc kernel_linux lvm1 multilib readline static static-libs userland_GNU And the update wants to install with: USE=lvm1 readline thin%* udev%* (-clvm) (-cman) (-selinux

Re: [gentoo-user] Best whois client?

2013-03-28 Thread Stroller
identical. The whois protocol is stupid simple The search I made before posting led me the wikipedia article which mentioned, for example, using thick and thin client models. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois#Thin_and_thick_lookups One might assume, for example, that a thin client might tend

Re: [gentoo-user] Repository 'x-portage' is missing masters attribute in '/usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf'

2013-08-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
is required for overlays (even personal local ones). Use layout.conf from $PORTDIR as a guide. The file looks something like this: masters = gentoo # Use new hashes manifest-hashes = SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL # Do not update changelogs update-changelog = false # Use thin manifests thin-manifests = true

[gentoo-user] Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-09 Thread Grant Edwards
, and after some digging around, I finally tracked it down to two things: gnome-terminal-nautilus-webkit-ruby multipath-tools-thin-provisioning-tools-ruby These both seem to be new dependancies. After uninstalling gnome-terminal, multipath-tools, and thin-provisioning-tools all is good (the update

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system

2014-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
thing that needed it was thin- provisioning. Once I'd added -thin to my USE flags and recompiled lvm2 I could get rid of ruby altogether. This won't suit everybody, I know, but maybe it's worth considering. -- Regards Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-16 Thread Stroller
> On 16 Sep 2017, at 17:16, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > On Saturday, 16 September 2017 15:35:44 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> What really got up my nose, as mentioned above, was doing an emerge -s on >> thing-provisioning-tools and getting

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday, 16 September 2017 15:35:44 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > What really got up my nose, as mentioned above, was doing an emerge -s on > thing-provisioning-tools and getting told it was "tools for thin > provisioning". I raised a bug report about that onc

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:27:56 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: Uwe (who is good for throwing these Chinese solid state thin clients, I have got yesterday, out of the [wW]indows) I hope you are referring to computer hardware and not undernourished oriental customers :) -- Neil Bothwick LaForge

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 07 February 2006 22:32, Uwe Thiem wrote: I must have been completely brain-dead over the last couple of days. Completely forgot that the thin client IP addresses had to be reverse resolveable for xdmcp. =8-O Uwe (wondering when the other brain cell will die) I would never

[gentoo-user] LTSP vs. Diskless Nodes

2005-10-29 Thread Ryan Viljoen
I am wondering what the difference is between using LTSP and Diskless Nodes is for creating a thin client network. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ltsp.xml http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/diskless-howto.xml#doc_chap3 What would be the advantage of using LTSP. From what I have read (bearing

[gentoo-user] Gentoo box w/ 2 pci slots?

2005-11-14 Thread James
Hello, I need a x86 'thin client' or small form factor computer: (1) hard drive. (front-removable would be a bonus). (2) empty pci slots. (1 or more) RS232 9pin serial port. (1) ethernet 10 or 100 mbps. (1-2) ntsc inputs would eliminate the need for one of the pci slots. OK. Hopefully a box

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo box w/ 2 pci slots?

2005-11-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 15:52:33 + (UTC) James wrote: Uwe Thiem uwix at iway.na writes: That isn't really a thin client but a small computer. TCs usually are diskless. I gather you want to use it for streaming video? Yep, and router (frame relay) as well). James

Re: [gentoo-user] NTP or chrony?

2006-09-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:26:20 +0100, Mick wrote: For a laptop . . . What do/would you use and why? ntp assumes a permanent connection, so chrony is probably a better solution. I thin it was originally intended for dialup use, but is well suited to a laptop with an intermittent Internet

[gentoo-user] New USE flags for lvm2?

2013-02-10 Thread Tanstaafl
I'm prepping for updating some things I've been putting off, and I noticed that lvm2 has some new use flags set, and I'm wondering why... [ebuild U ] sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.97-r1 [2.02.88] USE=lvm1 readline thin%* udev%* (-clvm) (-cman) (-selinux) -static* -static-libs* 1,166 kB The two

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-11-15 5:56 AM, Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org wrote: The new ebuild thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 reflects this. So if you update to this version and don't use FEATURES=test it should not pull in ruby anymore. I don't have FEATURES=test and it still wants to pull all the ruby

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
one or the thin one It's the same with me. :-) I'd have thought it was easy enough: the zero is the same width as the other numerals. The O is bigger. -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Making a new frame-buffer console font

2015-02-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 08 Feb 2015 22:50:57 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I actively seek out and use fonts with a stroked zero (or at least with a dot in the middle of the zero. I can never remember if the digit is the fat one or the thin one It's the same with me. :-) I'd have thought

[gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is infesting my machine

2015-07-03 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Fri, 03 Jul 2015 13:53:39 +0800, Andrew Lowe wrote: Does anyone know how I can prevent this infestation from happening? It may not be possible since some packages require ruby to be present unconditionally, e.g. webkit-gtk has a built-time dependency on ruby, and the thin

Re: [gentoo-user] booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:53:01 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I need to double check memory of ancient hardware: A CD-R, that's that thin round shiny thing about 5 across? What used to be used for music before Napster came along? Just checking I have it right That's right, it's like a Blu-Ray

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Getting stuff off a Mac machine

2015-09-05 Thread James
Andrew Lowe wht.com.au> writes: > A friend has a, I thin a few years old - Yosemite, Mac that I need to > get some large files off. I do not use MACos, so I might be off base here:: why can you not just use 'rsync' to transfer the files [1] ? https://developer.apple.com/li

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird 45.0 unreadable fonts

2016-04-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I upgraded thunderbird-bin from 38.7.0 to 45.0 and all window fonts became extremely washed-out, thin and generally unreadable. I then wiped the configuration files (mv ~/.thunderbird ~/tb_backup), but got the same issue. I then wiped it again and emerged normal thunderbird (sans "

[gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird 45.0 unreadable fonts

2016-04-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 23/04/16 03:33, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 02:38:00 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I upgraded thunderbird-bin from 38.7.0 to 45.0 and all window fonts became extremely washed-out, thin and generally unreadable. I then wiped the configuration files (mv ~/.thunderbird

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-19 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 16/09/17 06:57, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 19:56:54 CEST schrieb Andrew Lowe: >> Hi all, >> I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three versions of >> Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I noticed a &

Re: [gentoo-user] Generic 2 monitor/2 keyboard question

2005-12-23 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Mark, on Tuesday, 2005-12-20 at 07:40:42, you wrote: [thin client] I'm sure that's possible. I could even use her current Win ME box in some sort of dual boot config I suppose. However the reason I didn't start with that idea is that I am not there to hand hold her. If she's running Gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] [solved] kdm crippled?

2006-02-07 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 07 February 2006 19:26, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Tuesday 07 February 2006 17:15, Uwe Thiem wrote: Hi folks, I am trying to connect solid state thin clients (*not* LTSP ones) to a gentoo server. There is one big problem: kdm on the gentoo box does not connect to the X server

Re: [gentoo-user] Best whois client?

2013-03-28 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 03/28/2013 03:11 PM, Stroller wrote: The search I made before posting led me the wikipedia article which mentioned, for example, using thick and thin client models. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whois#Thin_and_thick_lookups One might assume, for example, that a thin client might tend

Re: [gentoo-user] USE ruby_targets_ruby20

2013-11-15 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: The new ebuild thin-provisioning-tools-0.2.8-r1 reflects this. So if you update to this version and don't use FEATURES=test it should not pull in ruby anymore. I don't have FEATURES=test and it still wants to pull all

[gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Hans de Graaff
before, and after some digging around, I finally tracked it down to two things: gnome-terminal-nautilus-webkit-ruby multipath-tools-thin-provisioning-tools-ruby At least for thin-provisioning-tools you could use the unstable revision that makes ruby an test-only dependency. I understand

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Norman Invasion
/make.conf RUBY_TARGETS=ruby20 Can't imagine you didn't know that. Ruby hater? :D You could say that: $ grep -ir -C1 ruby /etc/portage /etc/portage/package.use/package.use- # I see no need for lvm thin volumes. And it needs thin-provisioning-tools /etc/portage/package.use/package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
~ $ grep ruby /etc/portage/make.conf RUBY_TARGETS=ruby20 Can't imagine you didn't know that. Ruby hater? :D You could say that: $ grep -ir -C1 ruby /etc/portage /etc/portage/package.use/package.use- # I see no need for lvm thin volumes. And it needs thin-provisioning-tools /etc/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] thin-provisioning-tools - but I don't provision anything!!!!!

2017-09-15 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Freitag, 15. September 2017, 19:56:54 CEST schrieb Andrew Lowe: > Hi all, > I posted about a nasty infection my machine had with three versions of > Ruby a few days ago. In the process of trying to fix that I noticed a > thingy called "thin-provisioning-tools". I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiseat -- LTSP?

2012-01-30 Thread Mick
a lot of proprietary options. Is LTSP the way to go? It may be, but as with all thin client models you would need a terminal computer for each user. If you only have one machine and monitors, keyboards and mice for each user then you'll need multiple video cards (and a strong power supply

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiseat -- LTSP?

2012-01-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
read about LTSP and a few others: http://www.ltsp.org http://www.thinstation.org http://automseat.sourceforge.net http://www.openthinclient.org There are also a lot of proprietary options.  Is LTSP the way to go? It may be, but as with all thin client models you would need

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiseat -- LTSP?

2012-01-30 Thread Grant
be, but as with all thin client models you would need a terminal computer for each user. If you only have one machine and monitors, keyboards and mice for each user then you'll need multiple video cards (and a strong power supply) for your only PC.  In this case something like http

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-31 Thread Mick
a predominant system of choice both in the server and in the thin client markets? I don't think that Redmond will have much of a problem packaging a ROM embedded version of a thin client system and pushing it to all the Joe-public out there, who currently (mostly) blindly buy their products

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing digest for *** Tree looks messed up.

2015-08-10 Thread Mickaël Bucas
the answer was in Git history, in the first commit : https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/log/kde-base/knotes/Manifest?showmsg=1 3. Transform all Manifests to thin https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Repository_format/package/Manifest A Thin Manifest is a Manifest file in which checksums are stored only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

2008-05-09 Thread brullo nulla
I've had very good luck with home-made biquad reflectors: http://martybugs.net/wireless/biquad/ http://www.trevormarshall.com/biquad.htm I've build both a single and a double biquad using methods similar to the first page. I use thin-walled brass tubing instead of copper. Thanks, I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-17 Thread Grant
with the username too which is a (thin) extra layer. Is that done with 'AllowUsers user'? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable remote login for certain user

2009-01-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
to memorize. Even if the 2 passwords are the same, I suppose they would have to come up with the username too which is a (thin) extra layer. just use pubkey for ssh. It is much saver anyway.

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
solid state thin clients, I have got yesterday, out of the [wW]indows) -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount sleep -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
stage. Too thick to navigate and too thin to cultivate. -- Doug Sneyd

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo box w/ 2 pci slots?

2005-11-14 Thread James
Nick Rout nick at rout.co.nz writes: That isn't really a thin client but a small computer. TCs usually are The question is, what's it all got to do with gentoo? Well, I understand your point, but, hardware issues centric to gentoo, on frequent issues on this list. I often put OT in front

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo box w/ 2 pci slots?

2005-11-15 Thread Travis Osterman
On 11/14/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,I need a x86 'thin client' or small form factor computer:(1) hard drive. (front-removable would be a bonus).(2) empty pci slots.(1 or more) RS232 9pin serial port.(1) ethernet 10 or 100 mbps. (1-2) ntsc inputs would eliminate the need for one

Re: [gentoo-user] lsmod and startx don't agreeRESOLVED

2006-10-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
that apps can depend on a virtual x11 package, rather than being tied to say Xorg specifically. Don't worry about it, if you typed the name right and portage didn't find it, it's not a problem and the right thin will happen when you emerge modular X alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Secure remote backup

2006-11-06 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
is with BoxBackup - which seems far more robust... and promises the benefits of a 'continuous' backup - which I now consider significant. The BoxBackup distribution instills a greater sense of confidence - but documentation remains thin... and I'm wrestling with configuring the backup daemon on a remote server

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Should KDE programs be shown in Ubuntu Gnome menu?

2006-06-30 Thread James Ausmus
On 6/30/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipe I wish I had one when I open my mouth. I have kept it closed for the past few days. My foot doesn't fit well. My wedding is coming up and my nerves are a bit thin. Yea, a guy being nervous. We do need that cancel button. I thought someone

Re: [gentoo-user] NTP or chrony?

2006-09-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:26:20 +0100, Mick wrote: For a laptop . . . What do/would you use and why? ntp assumes a permanent connection, so chrony is probably a better solution. I thin it was originally intended for dialup use, but is well suited to a laptop

Re: [gentoo-user] Running out of space on /var partition

2011-07-27 Thread Michael Mol
sense because the ramdisk is using memory that would otherwise be used for compilation and filesystem caches. tmpfs isn't implemented as a ramdisk, it's implemented as a thin layer on top of the filesystem cache. -- :wq

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