[gentoo-user] Re: removal of esound

2012-01-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: Hartmut Figge: I may take it upstream to mozilla.org. No need for that. I just heard the notification sound with the new build of SM. :) Perhaps i should have mentioned, in case someone is wondering what has happened, it was most likely this: - build-log.txt - [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

2012-01-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
I'm curious what you, collective Gentoo-users, may be using to solve this problem. rsync, rdiff-backup, rsnapshot, dirvish, bacula, tar+ssh...? rsync -av --delete --delete-excluded \ --exclude=/dev/ \ --exclude=/proc/ \ --exclude=/sys/ \ --exclude=/tmp/ \

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: removal of esound

2012-01-12 Thread Dale
Hartmut Figge wrote: Hartmut Figge: Hartmut Figge: I may take it upstream to mozilla.org. No need for that. I just heard the notification sound with the new build of SM. :) Perhaps i should have mentioned, in case someone is wondering what has happened, it was most likely this: -

[gentoo-user] Re: removal of esound

2012-01-12 Thread Hartmut Figge
Dale: Hartmut Figge wrote: Perhaps i should have mentioned, in case someone is wondering what has happened, it was most likely this: - build-log.txt - [...] pulling from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ [...] getting widget/gtk2/nsSound.cpp [...] --- I wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 5:51 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Change the character set used (I always do this) I like this one:-) yes, I know it's really just security by obscurity in disguise but I still like it. Actually, I disagree vehemently that it is 'security through

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 6:48 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: That's why I like Lastpass. It fills them in for me so that I can have a really nice strong password but I don't have to type it in each time. Like I said, I like Lastpass too, but I simply do not like *storing* the passwords somewhere,

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-11 7:31 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Personally, I advocate using smart password generators like apg. The password truly is a random distribution of junk, but one that can be pronounced (a key factor in remembering it). But that is the whole point... once you get

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-12 6:39 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: That, again, is why I like pwm... I only have to remember my 3 or 4 Master Passwords (and which category an account is in, but I have a system and that is not a problem). Oh... I have about 100 accounts in my passwordmaker

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:30:03 -0500 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-01-11 5:51 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Change the character set used (I always do this) I like this one:-) yes, I know it's really just security by obscurity in disguise but I

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-01-12 8:03 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:30:03 -0500 Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-01-11 5:51 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: yes, I know it's really just security by obscurity in disguise but I still like it. Actually, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:58:02 -0500 Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: So it's just a description, not an insult. Don't read it as such Oh, I didn't, I did catch the 'but I still like it', sorry if my reply made it sound like I was insulted ;) But I still disagree. Would you

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

2012-01-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 09:47:57AM +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote: I'm curious what you, collective Gentoo-users, may be using to solve this problem. rsync, rdiff-backup, rsnapshot, dirvish, bacula, tar+ssh...? rsync -av --delete --delete-excluded \ --exclude=/dev/ \

RE: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-12 Thread Mike Edenfield
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 7:31 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd On Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:09:40 -0500 Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote: I agree. Longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: removal of esound

2012-01-12 Thread Dale
Hartmut Figge wrote: Dale: Hartmut Figge wrote: Perhaps i should have mentioned, in case someone is wondering what has happened, it was most likely this: - build-log.txt - [...] pulling from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ [...] getting widget/gtk2/nsSound.cpp [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] No display w/ kernel 3.2.0

2012-01-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 10.01.2012 23:57, schrieb Mark Knecht: My suggestion would be to try the IntelGfx list. They helped me quite a lot when I first brought up the machine I tested for you. http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx I subscribed and it didn't even take a day and another

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

2012-01-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
I did the very same recently when reformatting my system partition for a new FS. Beware though that after this command you still need to create some device files in /dev for udev to work properly, because they were excluded. I think it was null and console, but I'm not sure. You are correct:

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

2012-01-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:26:52 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: rsync -av --delete --delete-excluded \ --exclude=/dev/ \ --exclude=/proc/ \ --exclude=/sys/ \ --exclude=/tmp/ \ --exclude=/usr/portage/ \ --exclude=/var/portage/ \ --exclude=/var/run/ \

Re: [gentoo-user] No display w/ kernel 3.2.0

2012-01-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-01-12 20:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 10.01.2012 23:57, schrieb Mark Knecht: My suggestion would be to try the IntelGfx list. They helped me quite a lot when I first brought up the machine I tested for you. http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/intel-gfx I

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup of remote virtual server

2012-01-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
I did the very same recently when reformatting my system partition for a new FS. Beware though that after this command you still need to create some device files in /dev for udev to work properly, because they were excluded. I think it was null and console, but I'm not sure. mount --bind /

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-12 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:41:28AM -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote: Actually, it's just the words purple RAIN with e/a/I replaced with 3/4/1; I chose l33t-sp33k since I figured it was so over-used for password generation that everyone would recognize it immediately :) But yes, I think Randall's

Re: [gentoo-user] No display w/ kernel 3.2.0

2012-01-12 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2012-01-12 23:50, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 2012-01-12 20:07, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: Am 10.01.2012 23:57, schrieb Mark Knecht: My suggestion would be to try the IntelGfx list. They helped me quite a lot when I first brought up the machine I tested for you.