I'm a little reluctant to say this, but it's been a couple of months now
since I switched back to Gentoo, and I want to shout out my pleasure that
this system has been performing admirably well this time around, in
comparison with earlier installations. None of the earlier installations
were unacc
Hi Paul,
Many thanks for the details synopsis. Some of this was known to me,
some not. Comments below.
On 11 Aug 2009, at 23:49, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Stroller> wrote:
I'm just looking for a better answer than ones prefaced with
"presumably"
and which treat D
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Stroller wrote:
> I'm just looking for a better answer than ones prefaced with "presumably"
> and which treat DeCSS encryption like it's black magic.
I can't give you a definitive answer to your original question but I
can hopefully shed some light on how CSS works
On 11 Aug 2009, at 16:14, Grant wrote:
Josh Saddler had a couple blog posts recently about his adventures
with SSD and Gentoo:
http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2009/08/02/ssds-and-filesystems
http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2009/08/09/ssds-and-filesystems-part-2
I've been following those
On 11 Aug 2009, at 21:02, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Stroller> wrote:
On 11 Aug 2009, at 20:31, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Stroller>
wrote:
However right now I don't want to burn to disk - only to grab an
image of
the disk for ripping to
On 11 Aug 2009, at 20:31, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2009-08-11, Stroller wrote:
I'm just really curious why `dd` works perfectly fine the last time,
but not the first.
Hasn't this been answered several times already?
No, it hasn't.
Presumably it works the second time but not the first ti
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Stroller wrote:
>
> On 11 Aug 2009, at 20:31, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Stroller
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> However right now I don't want to burn to disk - only to grab an image of
>>> the disk for ripping to file.mp4 type movie files.
>>
>>
On 11 Aug 2009, at 20:31, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Stroller> wrote:
However right now I don't want to burn to disk - only to grab an
image of
the disk for ripping to file.mp4 type movie files.
For this purpose I highly recommend dvd::rip. There are many things
in
Mark Knecht wrote:
emerge -1 file cracklib
Alex Schuster wrote:
> Leave out the -u - you already have the current version installed,
> so an update does nothing.
Thanks, this worked. After re-emerging file and cracklib
"emerge --depclean" removed the old version of python (2.5.4-r3)
and left o
On 2009-08-11, Stroller wrote:
> I'm just really curious why `dd` works perfectly fine the last time,
> but not the first.
Hasn't this been answered several times already?
Presumably it works the second time but not the first time
because between the two attempts you've run a program that has
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 2:16 PM, Stroller wrote:
> However right now I don't want to burn to disk - only to grab an image of
> the disk for ripping to file.mp4 type movie files.
For this purpose I highly recommend dvd::rip. There are many things
involved beyond simply copying the files from the di
On 11 Aug 2009, at 16:28, James wrote:
Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
Now I've got this new machine with all this space on it (or rather:
now I seem to be more interested in doing stuff with this machine I
built a while ago), I'm starting on the process of ripping all my
DVDs.
QD
On 11 Aug 2009, at 08:50, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Stroller wrote:
Now I've got this new machine with all this space on it (or rather:
now I seem to be more interested in doing stuff with this machine I
built a while ago), I'm starting on the process of ripping all my
DVDs.
In the past I tr
On 11 Aug 2009, at 11:24, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:47:58 +0100, Stroller wrote:
Probably because the CSS stuff is stored in a separate area of the
drive,
which is not copied by dd.
I think I may not have phrased the question clearly. Initially dd
doesn't work, then it magi
Jarry writes:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> >> * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more
> >> * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the
> >> * packages that pulled them in.
> >> *
> >> * dev-lang/python-2.5.4-r3 pulled in by:
> >> * sys-a
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jarry wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> __
>>>
>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>
>> Checking for lib consumers...
>> Assigning files to packages...
>>>
>>> * In order to avoid breakage of link leve
Mark Knecht wrote:
__
Calculating dependencies... done!
Checking for lib consumers...
Assigning files to packages...
* In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more
* packages will not be removed. This can be solved by
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Jarry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> today I did "emerge --full --update --deep --newuse world"
> and after that "emerge --depclean". I got these messages:
>
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
Checking for lib cons
Hi,
today I did "emerge --full --update --deep --newuse world"
and after that "emerge --depclean". I got these messages:
Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Checking for lib consumers...
>>> Assigning files to packages...
* In order to
> wrote :
>>
>> Assuming that you want to playback a H.264 video, then right command
>> should be
>>
>> mplayer -vo vdpau -vc ffh264vdpau
>>
>> to force the selection of the HW accelerated codec from FFMPEG. Can
>> anyone confirm that?
>
> This is correct.
>
> To use VDPAU hardware acceleration yo
Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes:
> Now I've got this new machine with all this space on it (or rather:
> now I seem to be more interested in doing stuff with this machine I
> built a while ago), I'm starting on the process of ripping all my DVDs.
QDVDauthor is very cool. Version 2.0
> Josh Saddler had a couple blog posts recently about his adventures
> with SSD and Gentoo:
>
> http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2009/08/02/ssds-and-filesystems
> http://blogs.gentoo.org/nightmorph/2009/08/09/ssds-and-filesystems-part-2
I've been following those (actually posted the first link i
Dear list,
By taking a look into the sendmail README, it has come up to my mind
if I can relay only one specific mail address and REJECT all other mails
from {any_us...@whatever.domain.
Here is my test environment:
+-++---+
+---+
+ MU
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 11:17:12 Richard Marza wrote:
> > For the moment, the script just prints out the lines where all the columns
> > don't have the same value.
> >
> > awk 'NR==1{print;next}{for(i=3;i<=NF;i++){if($i!=$2){print;break}}}'
> > file.txt
>
> This is great. But it is important tha
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:47:58 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> > Probably because the CSS stuff is stored in a separate area of the
> > drive,
> > which is not copied by dd.
>
> I think I may not have phrased the question clearly. Initially dd
> doesn't work, then it magically starts working. See th
- Original Message -
From: "Etaoin Shrdlu"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bash script inquiry
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 10:27:26 Richard Marza wrote:
Think of the file I'm using as a spreadsheet. The headers(column names)
are
on top and the
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 10:27:26 Richard Marza wrote:
> Think of the file I'm using as a spreadsheet. The headers(column names) are
> on top and the values are below them. Each line has an item with multiple
> values under different systems.
>
>
> Item System1 System3 System4 ...
>
> nio
- Original Message -
From: "Alex Schuster"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bash script inquiry
> Richard Marza writes:
>
>> FILE=`cat filename.txt`
>> TICK=`cat filename.txt | wc -l'
>> TOCK="0"
>>
>> while [ $TICK != $TOCK ] ; do
>> le
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 09:07:31 Richard Marza wrote:
> I'm trying to run a command in a loop. I have a counter device set...the
> number that the counter generates is supposed to go inside the command in
> the loop after every successive iteration of the loop.
In what sense is this a reply to N
- Original Message -
From: "Alex Schuster"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Bash script inquiry
Richard Marza writes:
FILE=`cat filename.txt`
TICK=`cat filename.txt | wc -l'
TOCK="0"
while [ $TICK != $TOCK ] ; do
let $TOCK=$TOCK+1
Richard Marza writes:
> FILE=`cat filename.txt`
> TICK=`cat filename.txt | wc -l'
> TOCK="0"
>
> while [ $TICK != $TOCK ] ; do
> let $TOCK=$TOCK+1
Or, simpler, as we are using bash: (( TOCK++ ))
> Var1= `cat FirstWordOfFirstColumnOfFirstLine` (This I
> actually achieved w
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 09:07:31 Richard Marza wrote:
> I'm trying to run a command in a loop. I have a counter device set...the
> number that the counter generates is supposed to go inside the command in
> the loop after every successive iteration of the loop. This is all really
> to get a gene
I'm trying to run a command in a loop. I have a counter device set...the
number that the counter generates is supposed to go inside the command in
the loop after every successive iteration of the loop. This is all really to
get a general idea I've attached a snippet below.
FILE=`cat filename.t
Stroller wrote:
> Now I've got this new machine with all this space on it (or rather:
> now I seem to be more interested in doing stuff with this machine I
> built a while ago), I'm starting on the process of ripping all my DVDs.
>
> In the past I tried media-video/undvd for DVD ripping, but
On 11 Aug 2009, at 08:33, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:43:17 +0100, Stroller wrote:
I'm guessing it has something to do with DeCSS encryption, but
firstly
I don't understand how that applies to dd, because I'd have assumed
that treats the drive as a block device.
Probably be
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 05:43:17 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> I'm guessing it has something to do with DeCSS encryption, but firstly
> I don't understand how that applies to dd, because I'd have assumed
> that treats the drive as a block device.
Probably because the CSS stuff is stored in a separate
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