Re: [gentoo-user] Strange errors when posting to gentoo-user

2005-03-29 Thread Steven Susbauer
Yes. The mail server at gaznet.co.uk is obviously not delivering messages to ndc38841 for some reason. Because of this, it's sending a message to the original sender of the message (AKA, anyone that posts to the list). Very annoying. I hope it is fixed by now. fire-eyes wrote: I'm getting this

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo sources

2005-03-28 Thread Steven Susbauer
The archived sources (afaik) for installed (and probably downloaded sources as well) programs are stored in /usr/portage/distfiles. This includes all patches to the application as well. Digby Tarvin wrote: This is a question from somebody who is just testing the water with the gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Naive question

2005-03-03 Thread Steven Susbauer
I believe that they are the default settings even after customization, /etc/make.conf just overrides them. If you didn't have USE flags in there, than nothing would be declared, but there are default USE flags put into use, and you can do your customization based on them (disabling what Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is (and how do I read) root's mail?

2005-03-02 Thread Steven Susbauer
report? -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org ...the number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected... - Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, June 1972 -- Steven Susbauer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Location of sources for bootstraping

2005-03-01 Thread Steven Susbauer
Check out /var/tmp/portage, I believe it's where the sources are unpacked and where the original compiled image is stored. Zbynek Houska wrote: Dirk Raeder pe v t 01. 03. 2005 v 09:10 +0100: IIRC, they should be in /usr/portage/distfiles - like all sources. Not im my case, directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Steven Susbauer
Sites such as http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/ or wikipedia are usually pretty good at showing acronym definitions. FYI, It's Mail User Agent. Dennis Taylor wrote: Do we have an acronym list so that those of us who have been out of circulation for a few years could find out what things

Re: [gentoo-user] Reply-To: header seems broken-- OT question stimulated by this thread

2005-02-23 Thread Steven Susbauer
http://www.acronymfinder.com/ - Has quite a few Dennis Taylor wrote: Do we have an acronym list so that those of us who have been out of circulation for a few years could find out what things like MUA mean? Many of them I can guess, and some I remember from years ago, but I have recently seen

Re: [gentoo-user] Unsubscribe

2005-02-23 Thread Steven Susbauer
For your information, this is NOT how to Unsubscribe. Sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] is likely to get more of a response. Alex Howells wrote: -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- This site uses frames And yet your browser does not. One of these will change. smime.p7s Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing GENTOO from CD

2005-02-15 Thread Steven Susbauer
Would Vanilla steps require Gentoo making some decisions for the user? Which kernel to use, how to build it, which boot loader and cron daemon, which logger, etc wouldn't that ruin the whole Gentoo is all about choices routine? A1ex wrote: A1ex wrote: I'm trying to install Gentoo from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: big problems on boot

2005-02-14 Thread Steven Susbauer
There is I known issue with gawk compiled with xml support (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=gentoo-userm=110839477209075w=2 ). Try booting from LiveCD, chrooting, and doing `USE=-xml emerge gawk` - It may be your problem. Luke Albers wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 23:19 -0500, Luke Albers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: big problems on boot

2005-02-14 Thread Steven Susbauer
FYI, linking wouldn't make a difference because the problem happens before /usr/lib (and thus the link) is usable. Copying the library to /lib would fix it. Luke Albers wrote: On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 23:19 -0500, Luke Albers wrote: ok, the first problem seems to be after it says it will remount

Re: [gentoo-user] intermitent hang at shutdown

2005-02-12 Thread Steven Susbauer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Try adding [*] Use real mode APM BIOS call to power off, i've had instances where this being disabled would not turn off the machine... rodrigo ahumada wrote: El vie, 11-02-2005 a las 14:17 -0800, Steven Susbauer escribió: Make sure you enable Use

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing GENTOO from CD

2005-02-12 Thread Steven Susbauer
and non-network installs Regards, Bèr -- [ Bèr Kessels | Drupal services www.webschuur.com ] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Steven Susbauer -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] intermitent hang at shutdown

2005-02-11 Thread Steven Susbauer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Make sure you enable Use APM to turn off power (or something close to it) in the APM settings, and also make sure Enable APM at boot is selected. I've had it just sit there after a reboot if they aren't on. rodrigo ahumada wrote: hi, this one is for a

[gentoo-user] [OT] Symantic Norton Antivirus Exploit

2005-02-10 Thread Steven Susbauer
For all you that still run Windows on the side, this is an interesting artical. Original post on ZDnet: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/0,261744,39180674,00.htm Symantic's Follow-up: http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2005.02.08.html Seems NAV can execute viruses

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem Emerging World: kdelibs/kdebindings depend problem

2005-02-10 Thread Steven Susbauer
Just did a sync, the oldest version of kdelibs in portage is kdelibs-3.3.1-r2.ebuild - and the oldest version of kdebindings in there is 3.2.0 (the one you're upgrading to) - I'd suggest totally upgrading KDE to the newest stable version (probably emerge kde would do this), then try again. (I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Centrino Pentium M CFLAGS

2005-02-08 Thread Steven Susbauer
I've heard that the M is closer to the P3, but with some P4 features. Thus it'd be smart if there were an M class. Since there is not, P3 is recommended. Heinz Sporn wrote: Hi! I'm running my HP nx7000 Pentium M 1.5 GHz with CFLAGS=-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer

Re: [gentoo-user] what is i686-pc-linunx-gnu?

2005-02-07 Thread Steven Susbauer
No. That is telling GCC what type of box it is compiling for. It's best to leave that where it's set unless it's not an i686. Vitaly Ivanov wrote: Hello all What is meaning i686-pc-linux-gnu? Can I replase pc with server or home_router? Thanks. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- This

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compiling *everything* as a kernel module: a compromise?

2005-02-03 Thread Steven Susbauer
Tom Eastman wrote: Next question though... I wonder how I can work out which pieces of my kernel aren't actually being used by my hardware? That would also make me happy, removing everything that isn't actually applicable to the hardware I have. Having things as a modules means you KNOW it's not

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/WordPress Problem

2005-02-03 Thread Steven Susbauer
Jim wrote: I'm a user from blogsome.com(A web hosting site for blogs which is based on WordPress), after I activated the WYSIWYG plug-in, the textarea works with some problems under my firefox, when I paste some text, images or anything else on the textarea, the following msg from firefox poped

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't UNSUBSCRIBE!!!

2005-02-03 Thread Steven Susbauer
I'm assuming then that you sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from this dial up account? I do believe they send you a confirmation email, could you have possibly deleted it? Robert Crawford wrote: On Thursday 03 February 2005 01:24 pm, Douglas James Dunn wrote: if you have cable and your using

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: console only web browsing

2005-02-03 Thread Steven Susbauer
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Suggested Video Cards

2005-01-27 Thread Steven Susbauer
You don't have to get that old of a card. I'm using an nvidia 5700 and it works well, and I kno people using even newer cards that work well. ATI is, for most people, painful and time consuming to set up. nVidia is, generally, much easier to install and use. Free and open video card? So are they

Re: [gentoo-user] re-emerge A Whole New System + World on an exsiting system?

2005-01-26 Thread Steven Susbauer
Just wondering if this is the method to use when you change CFLAGS or USE variables and want everything (system too?) recompiled with the new settings? Andreas Claesson wrote: The easy (and correct) way for doing what you want to do is: emerge --emptytree world This makes emerge forget what

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: How many posts do you have saved for this mailing list?

2005-01-25 Thread Steven Susbauer
Same, they tend to fill up my trash can though. The list archives can be found at http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/ or (for gentoo-user) http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40gentoo.org/ -Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: None; I can view them all in the archives if I need. On Tue, 25 Jan 2005,

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA + Audigy 2 = Botched mixer settings?

2005-01-20 Thread Steven Susbauer
this as an input but that's ok, TV card now works and has sound to boot. Heinz Sporn wrote: Yeah, that is annoying. I emerged good old alsamixergui for that reason. Am Mittwoch, den 19.01.2005, 00:48 -0800 schrieb Steven Susbauer: Hello, I am running kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r5, compiled with Alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux copy and paste

2005-01-20 Thread Steven Susbauer
I've always just used GPM. If you drag over something it is copies, and right clicking pastes (even across multiple consoles). That is, of course, only in the console. Phil Sexton wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 10:43, Philip Nilsson wrote: On 16-01-05 17:48 -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: To copy from

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux friendly PDAs

2005-01-14 Thread Steven Susbauer
Don't go with a Pocket PC period. They CAN talk to Linux, but it's not very easy. Andy Herrman wrote: I'm currently looking to buy a PDA and was wondering if anyone had suggestions. We use Windows with Outlook at work, so I'll need it to sync to that, but I'm also hoping it will be Linux

[gentoo-user] Do not use Delivery Confirmation!

2005-01-12 Thread Steven Susbauer
Please for the love of Linux, do not ask for confirmation for emails on this mailing list. This has not really been an issue and I would like to keep it from becoming one. It's nice to be able to hit Delete... Delete on threads we know nothing about rather than having to click No, do not

Re: [gentoo-user] Do not use Delivery Confirmation!

2005-01-12 Thread Steven Susbauer
I do have gmail, I do not use gmail for more than temporary storage, and prefer to take advantage of their nice, free, secure pop. I could theoretically save the messages and read through them in the future (if need be), but it has been my experience that (with little exceptions), need hasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Steven Susbauer
Please, this is indeed VERY off topic and has nothing to do with Gentoo in any sense (other than maybe I can open gmail in my ebuild of firefox). If you have gmail invites, that's great, send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - If you want gmail invites, put in your email addy at