Re: [gentoo-user] managing 802.11a/b/g

2007-01-12 Thread Cliff Wells
James wrote: Also, does any gui manage/control the dhcp handshaking that occurs at various location, which is the same gui that monitors/manages the wireless connect and firewall(iptables)? possibility would be a wireless (static) ip at site where access occurs frequently in lieu of dhcp. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: managing 802.11a/b/g

2007-01-12 Thread Cliff Wells
james wrote: Cliff Wells cliff at develix.com writes: If you can use NetworkManager you'll find it rocks. I use it on Fedora and I'm no longer jealous of Mac and Windows users and their ability to use a random AP on a moment's notice. http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager

Re: [gentoo-user] pants

2007-01-09 Thread Cliff Wells
Korthrun wrote: Does anyone have any clue what put: PANTS=ON into my environment? I'd be more concerned if it was ZIPPER=DOWN Cliff -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?

2007-01-05 Thread Cliff Wells
James wrote: qfpvajdy qfpvajdy at trashmail.net writes: Does somebody know a model of a laptop on which all works fine with Linux? Before I purchased my HP pavilion (amd64) I took a liveCD to the store and just booted it up and got everything working, right in the store. If you cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system?

2006-07-20 Thread Cliff Wells
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 18:32 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Cliff Wells wrote: I'd be curious who this is well-know to. The only XFS filesystem I've ever lost (having used XFS exclusively since SGI started offering it on RH 7.?) was due to bad RAM. There *have* been a couple of issues

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system?

2006-07-20 Thread Cliff Wells
As a more useful bit of info than anecdotes and scaremongering, here's a decent article that covers XFS in fair detail and compares a few of its major differences from the other journaled filesystems: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs9.html The section on Journaling is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: amd64 installation: which file system?

2006-07-18 Thread Cliff Wells
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 17:33 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote: Dale wrote: Howdy, I did a install of Mandriva recently and found out this bit of info. If you have frequent power failures and no UPS, do NOT use XFS. It was a nightmare to get back up because of things not getting started

Re: [gentoo-user] Ethics of vmware use

2006-05-21 Thread Cliff Wells
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 11:52 -0600, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I have not used it though I plan on getting the OS X version once my Mac Mini arrives... I have doubts about the performance of a VM on that hardware. I've got a mini and it's not fast (at least running Linux). Usable for

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-09 Thread Cliff Wells
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 23:11 -0800, Cliff Wells wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 22:43 -0500, Shawn Singh wrote: Hello all, Over the course of the past 2 weeks I've come home to a zombie machine two times. Here are the symptoms: It does sound like hardware. I'd check three things

Re: [gentoo-user] System Locking Up

2005-11-08 Thread Cliff Wells
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 22:43 -0500, Shawn Singh wrote: Hello all, Over the course of the past 2 weeks I've come home to a zombie machine two times. Here are the symptoms: It does sound like hardware. I'd check three things first: 1) Are all the fans in the system working? 2) Check for