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

2014-06-27 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:36:00 -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby18] have been masked. You still have packages on your system that have been installed with the ruby18 RUBY_TARGET. It's not immediately clear which package that is

Re: [gentoo-user] Tuneing ext4 for reliability (not necessaryly speed)

2014-06-27 Thread thegeezer
On 06/26/2014 05:13 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, for backup storage (see previous thread) I decided to use ext4. After craling the net the reports I found about brtfs seemed to mixed to me. If there are alternatives I overlooked... I searched the net for answeres to the following

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-27 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 07:50:10PM -0300, João Matos wrote I've updated the kernel (3.7.4 to 3.14.4), and the USB problem was solved, I don't know why. :) Now I'm having some other issues, but I've decide recompile the whole system before solving them. At least I'm already using my gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-27 Thread thegeezer
On 06/26/2014 11:07 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: It is worth noting that my approach has the tendency of generating random characters in sequence. sorry but had to share this http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/

[gentoo-user] Help! - I cannot emerge anything any more

2014-06-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I am in a very strange situation where I cannot emerge anything any more. Since it occurs on two different machines it won't be a hardware problem. When I try to emerge a package, say portage, it builds it just fine and starts to install it (for portage, the last file shown is

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

2014-06-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 27 June 2014 08:16:08 Hans de Graaff wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:36:00 -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby18] have been masked. You still have packages on your system that have been installed with the ruby18

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on Hardware Update

2014-06-27 Thread João Matos
2014-06-27 5:54 GMT-03:00 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org: On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 07:50:10PM -0300, João Matos wrote I've updated the kernel (3.7.4 to 3.14.4), and the USB problem was solved, I don't know why. :) Now I'm having some other issues, but I've decide recompile the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-27 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 Jun 2014 16:08:52 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:14:39 -0500, Dale wrote: Holy sheep. It worked. I lost my jaw yesterday I think it was. I'm not sure what I am going to be missing now. :-D Neil and Allan will so impressed. LOL OK. So, what will send

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

2014-06-27 Thread Ajai Khattri
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014, Hans de Graaff wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:36:00 -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby18] have been masked. You still have packages on your system that have been installed with the ruby18 RUBY_TARGET. It's not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-27 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Jun 27, 2014, at 11:55, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote: On 06/26/2014 11:07 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: It is worth noting that my approach has the tendency of generating random characters in sequence. sorry but had to share this http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/

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

2014-06-27 Thread covici
Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Friday 27 June 2014 08:16:08 Hans de Graaff wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:36:00 -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby18] have been masked. You still have packages on your

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-27 Thread Kai Krakow
thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net schrieb: On 06/26/2014 11:07 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: It is worth noting that my approach has the tendency of generating random characters in sequence. sorry but had to share this http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/ :-) I'm no mathematician, but

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:22:09 +0100, Mick wrote: You tell cron where to mail reports by setting MAILTO=you@wherever at the top of /etc/crontab. It will then mail you every time a cronjob produces output. Or complete the /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf and revaliases with the info I have sent you

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] Re: Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:50:15 +0200, Kai Krakow wrote: You can actually learn from Dilbert comics. ;-) Unless you're a PHB, they never learn. -- Neil Bothwick You know how dumb the average person is? Well, statistically, half of them are even dumber than that - Lewton, P.I. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Mapping random numbers (PRNG)

2014-06-27 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Jun 27, 2014, at 0:00, Kai Krakow hurikha...@gmail.com wrote: Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi schrieb: If you are looking a mathematically perfect solution there is a simple one even if your list is not in the power of 2! Take 6 bits at a time of the random data. If the result is 62

[gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-06-27, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 14:22:09 +0100, Mick wrote: You tell cron where to mail reports by setting MAILTO=you@wherever at the top of /etc/crontab. It will then mail you every time a cronjob produces output. Or complete the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-27 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: They _might_ block port 25 and require you to use SMTP/SSL on port 465. More likely, they would still allow an initial plaintext connection to port 25 and require use of the starttls command. Check with your ISP.