[gentoo-user] sane cant find my scanner

2011-10-30 Thread Adam Carter
I have an HP PSC 950, hplip installed and printing works. hplip online docs show that scanning is supported and that Scan supported means that PC initiated scan using a SANE compatible software application is supported over parallel, USB, or network (depending on I/O connection).

[gentoo-user] Re: Unable to install the ffi gem.

2011-10-30 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:36:31 +0530, Vishnupradeep wrote: Gem files will remain installed in /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ffi-1.0.9 for inspection. Results logged to /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ffi-1.0.9/ext/ffi_c/gem_make.out The gem is broken. Install dev-ruby/ffi instead. Hans

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD-mp4 - handbrake vs something else

2011-10-30 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 16:09, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a Kindle Fire in a few days. While I didn't get it specifically to watch movies looking at the specs it does apparently handle mp4 as a video format and they state online that you can watch streaming movies TV

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-30 Thread Mick
On Saturday 22 Oct 2011 21:31:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:03:44 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ClamVM has poor detection rates. You might want to look into AVG Free for Linux. Do you have any documentation for this? I'm not saying you're wrong, rather that I'd like

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-30 Thread Mick
On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 19:40:49 Mick wrote: On Saturday 29 Oct 2011 19:25:00 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Oct 30, 2011 1:15 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: pagefile.sys of a WinXP OS and it thinks it is a Win32:Patched-HO. If pagefile.sys is detected as a malware, most likely the

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-30 Thread James Broadhead
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned rkhunter yet - loads of lib exploits allow system access, and there's a pretty solid argument that says that compromising a user account on the average *nix system allows enough resourses to do a lot of malicious activity without even needing privilege

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't play music?

2011-10-30 Thread James Broadhead
2011/10/23 Lavender lavender_mat...@163.com: First use modules. This post [1] from the forum is about the mic but it walks you through the process of setting up sound pretty well. HTH David My reading of those errors implies that you might have an alsa config file left over which is confusing

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD-mp4 - handbrake vs something else

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 16:09, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a Kindle Fire in a few days. While I didn't get it specifically to watch movies looking at the specs it does apparently handle mp4 as

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-30 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 Oct 2011 13:32:26 James Broadhead wrote: I'm surprised that no one has mentioned rkhunter yet - loads of lib exploits allow system access, and there's a pretty solid argument that says that compromising a user account on the average *nix system allows enough resourses to do a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD-mp4 - handbrake vs something else

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Handbrake goes directly from DVD to a reasonably sized (1.3GB) m4v file. That file plays fine in xine and looks very good. Being that the Kindle Fire only has about 6GB available for user content that gives me 4

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD-mp4 - handbrake vs something else

2011-10-30 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Handbrake goes directly from DVD to a reasonably sized (1.3GB) m4v file. That file plays fine in xine and looks very good. Being that the

[gentoo-user] Re: DVD-mp4 - handbrake vs something else

2011-10-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-10-30, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: 3) I tried handbrake which requires using an overlay. No, it doesn't. You can just grab the ebuild file and use it locally. Handbrake goes directly from DVD to a reasonably sized (1.3GB) m4v file. That file plays fine in xine and looks

Re: [gentoo-user] Which desktop antivirus?

2011-10-30 Thread James Broadhead
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned rkhunter yet - loads of lib exploits allow system access, and there's a pretty solid argument that says that compromising a user account on the average *nix system allows enough resourses to do a lot of malicious activity without even needing privilege

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD-mp4 - handbrake vs something else

2011-10-30 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 11:28, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:39 AM, Andrey Moshbear andrey@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 16:09, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting a Kindle Fire in a few days. While I didn't get it specifically