Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-03-06 Thread Wols Lists
On 06/03/19 17:39, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Up to now, I've never had a HDD or SDD fail on me. :-) I hope that > when this does eventually happen, I'll be prepared. I don't think I've had one of mine fail. I have, however, done recovery jobs on two drives that did fail that I managed to revive

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-03-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Rich. I'd like to say hello again to everybody, just to mark that I'm still here and still using Gentoo, and thank people for (a lot of) help rendered in the past. My system, used mainly for SW development, has been stable and well behaved, with very occasional exceptions, for some while

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-03-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 11:31 AM Laurence Perkins wrote: > > If it's just that the SSD is failing, then get a new one before > something important gets damaged and you have to redo the whole thing. IMO any kind of storage device should be treated as if it could fail at any time without warning.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

2019-03-06 Thread Laurence Perkins
On Fri, 2019-03-01 at 10:12 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday, 28 February 2019 15:47:41 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > > > In general it is usually simplest to just remove /usr/portage > > anytime > > you change the sync settings. At least until portage gets smarter > > about it. > >

[gentoo-user] The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source | WIRED

2019-03-06 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Good evening from Singapore, I am sharing some information technology news on open source cybersecurity tools developed by the NSA. Article: The NSA Makes Ghidra, a Powerful Cybersecurity Tool, Open Source Author: Lily Hay Newman News Media: WIRED.com Date Published: 5 Mar 2019 Time Published:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasma upgrade heads up for possible problem

2019-03-06 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 6 March 2019 03:15:14 GMT Michael Cook wrote: > On 3/5/19 8:34 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > > 190305 Michael Cook wrote: > >> On 3/5/19 7:47 PM, Dale wrote: > >>> I just did a KDE plasma upgrade to 5.15. I ran into a slight problem > >>> that may or may not affect others so I wanted to

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about bird init script

2019-03-06 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mar. 5 mars 14:45:46 2019, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Oh, sorry, I was reading the wrong part of the man page. > > It looks like you *can* specify which config file to check, but in a > different way: > > configure check ["config file"] > > Read and parse given config file, but do not