Re: [gentoo-user] alsa in-kernel vs. alsa-lib

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
Markos Chandras wrote: From my experience i would recommend to use alsa-in-kernel + alsa-libs + FYI that's alsa-lib not alsa-libs :) might confuse someone reading later. alsa-headers + alsa-utils + alsa-tools This combination works perfect on my 3 gentoo machines -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-10-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
to swapon, it's not... [d530][root][~] swapon -a swapon: /dev/sda6: Invalid argument What did I did? And how do I straighten it out? mkswap /dev/sda6 swapon /dev/sda6 ? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au They had to edit the first ending of 'Lone Wolf McQuade' after

Re: [gentoo-user] Web based ftp alternative

2008-10-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
the convulted mess created by the authors of that browser. I can't help you further with that one - IE is way outside my area of expertise. Good luck. you can't use winblows extorter to drop files onto an ftp server? I would have thought that was, er, basic functionality... -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] overlay eclass overrides eclass from PORTDIR: what is it?

2008-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
go away for this instance. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au BOFH Excuse #23: improperly oriented keyboard

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd uses fake MAC address

2008-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
not to mess with the MAC address it reports to DHCP servers? what happens when you ping from the erroneous box to the dhcp server, and sniff the actual traffic on the dhcp server to see what it sees. Then ping a different box and see what that sees, etc. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
displays. * Displays can have different resolutions, sizes, depths. So can xinerama / twinview :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au When things go well, expect something to explode, erode, collapse or just disappear.

Re: [gentoo-user] Xinerama vs TwinView for dual monitor setup

2008-10-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
-on-dell-m6300.html HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Chuck Norris once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
much unpack any gentoo bootable live cd to a usb drive, then run grub over it, and it's bootable (on newer systems). shamelessplug I hear this guy wrote a howto: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/gentoo-linux-live-usb-key.html /shamelessplug -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
). In between each emerge -C see if openoffice-bin still works. If you find it stops working at some point, please file a missing dependency bug! If you unmerge all 8 packages, and openoffice-bin still works, then it was probably disk space related. Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
apply all bt and post the output This might not show much, if you use openoffice-bin, we'll see. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au [Peter gets fired] Peter Griffin: Hey, Lois, the lost my job smells great. Hey, Meg, could you pass me the fired my ass for negligence? Lois

Re: [gentoo-user]

2008-09-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
Ronnie Collinson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] nor writing, it appears. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy. -- Hans Liepmann

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Suspend/Resume Problems

2008-09-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au carpaski I'm greatly disturbed by my process list saying that a process started 3 minutes from now. spyderous carpaski: it's the latest in kernel scheduling. it can actually plan ahead to see where resources should go.

Re: [gentoo-user] Loading iwl3945 erratic

2008-09-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
option is reseating the mpci card, or even trying a different one. Otherwise try and match your kernel and ucode versions with someone who has it working... But I'm sure you've thought of that :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The idea is to die young as late as possible

Re: [gentoo-user] libqt-mt.so.3:

2008-09-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
gentoo, they're probably leading you up the wrong path. I think you've upgraded qt, hence whatever program you're trying to run hasn't been compiled with the new lib versions. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Life and death are seldom logical

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo video camera security system

2008-09-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
motherboards have multiple usb nowadays. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Barth's Distinction: There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't.

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
as you might like sudo, sometimes it just ain't suitable. eg: sudo echo performance /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor won't work because the redirection is done as the user :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I have a friend whose a billionaire. He invented

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH fixed; now su doesn't work

2008-09-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
Norberto Bensa wrote: Quoting Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: sudo echo performance /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor won't work because the redirection is done as the user :) echo performace | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq scaling_governor now it does

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage mirrors difference???

2008-09-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
pk wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: pk wrote: Hello, [snip] Right now I have a GLSA warning on the european configured one: 200808-12 [N] Postfix: local... On the other one there is no GLSA warning, although both wants to upgrade to postfix 2.5.5 how did you run glsa-check? With 'affected

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage mirrors difference???

2008-09-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
just synced while they were different. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash carry, Carry Me Back To Old Virginia, I'll even Hara Kari if you show me how, but I will *not* carry

Re: [gentoo-user] SSHd: Permission denied (publickey,keyboard-interactive).

2008-09-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
actually said what is / isn't working! What's the output from the client when you try and ssh in with the command ssh -p 2202 boxname? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Don't go easy on each other just because you're brother and sister. I want to see you both fighting for your

Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice : suspend/resume via button on keyboard?

2008-08-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222113 to give it some weight. You can put the ebuild in your local overlay (as I have) to get hibernate-script-1.99 HTH, -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life, particularly if he has income and she

Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice : suspend/resume via button on keyboard?

2008-08-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:31:52 +0200 Stefan G. Weichinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iain Buchanan schrieb: Otherwise, go to system preferences keyboard shortcuts. From there you may be able to map the button to the suspend action. This all requires gnome. Don't know the kde way

Re: [gentoo-user] tuxonice : suspend/resume via button on keyboard?

2008-08-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
it a launcher on your panel / desktop. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Re: [gentoo-user] very wierd gnome-panel behaviour

2008-08-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 10:53 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi all, don't quite know how to describe this one, but it's really annoying! My gnome panels are somehow remembering two sets of settings (by settings I mean applet placement, etc). [snip] I do have two displays, using separate X

[gentoo-user] very wierd gnome-panel behaviour

2008-08-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
with the default layout, but the problem is still there! I do have two displays, using separate X screens, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it. I haven't found anything on google about this either... thanks for any help! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Time

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1554 (82878-82927)

2008-08-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 02:10 -0500, toefraz wrote: unsubscribe NO! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Interestingly enough, since subroutine declarations can come anywhere, you wouldn't have to put BEGIN {} at the beginning, nor END {} at the end. Interesting, no? I wonder

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

2008-08-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
, which only hands over run time to windows when it decides it can. I was reading about it a while back... If you want I could dig up some more? cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word. - Al Capone

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
appreciate any suggestions and improvements to the steps, if you end up trying it. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The truth will set you free. Unless Chuck Norris has you, in which case, forget it buddy!

Re: [gentoo-user] Installation: help me set up my keyboard, please.

2008-07-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 23:39 +0200, Sebastian Günther wrote: Maybe you have just what the Germans call Ein Brett vorm Kopf Brett is a worm head? What have you got against Brett? ;) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding

Re: [gentoo-user] Evolution Doesn't Filter Incoming Mail

2008-07-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
the general idea :) cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them. -- Alfred Adler

[gentoo-user] no spel cheking

2008-07-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
@ spleeling... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Power, n.: The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] weird gnome vol control behaviour

2008-06-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
). I've played with various options in /etc/conf.d/alsasound and other misc things, but I can't seem to make a difference. I never had this problem with my last ~x86 laptop, but it had different hw. thanks for any tips! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Einstein argued

Re: [gentoo-user] digital camera - Longshot!

2008-06-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
might want to try the media-video/gspcav1 ebuild and the spca driver and see. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose). -- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Ati or Nvida (emacs or vi (gnome or kde) ...))

2008-06-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
for them. Distribution doesn't matter, so long as it's linux. Then check kernel and Xorg versions. HTH! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one. -- Marcus Procius Cato -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net postup help

2008-06-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
with this? looks fine to me. What's happening, (or not)? Any error messages, or any output at all? Maybe you're using iwconfig too soon (before association), but I'm only geussing. Full paths could also help. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Real programmers don't comment their code

[gentoo-user] claws mail question

2008-06-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
do 3, 4, or 5 (only works on maildir, not imap). I can't find anything else... TIA, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. -- S. C. Johnson -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
before this is fine, and the threading should be continued even if the subject changes. Some people like to add (was: HIJACKING THREADS) to the end of the subject if they change it this way. R, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 08:16 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 13. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Iain Buchanan: 1. find email from list 2. click email address in to field (new email to that recipient is created) 3. write subject 4. write email 5. send or (in KMail, given that one

Re: [gentoo-user] htaccess file

2008-06-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
probably safe to leave or delete as you see fit. don't know about the rest of your questions :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Nothing can be done in one trip. -- Snider -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Claws-mail (was: Re: HIJACKING THREADS)

2008-06-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 19:13 -0500, »Q« wrote: On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:38:34 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me get this striaght: Claws will change your from account depending on what mail folder you're in when you hit new? Yep. If so, I switching to claws

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
clock cycles for all this compiling :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The state law of Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HIJACKING THREADS

2008-06-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
. click email address in to field (new email to that recipient is created) 3. write subject 4. write email 5. send woohoo! one step shorter and closer to: 6. ??? 7. Profit! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 21:16 -0400, David Relson wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:23:51 +0930 Iain Buchanan wrote: David - at this point I'd try a couple of things. Since you've upgraded your linux-headers, it's a good idea to recompile your system libc, as per the elog message. Also

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Asus Eee

2008-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
sized. If you need that for touch-typing, then maybe the MSI Wind is better: http://www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk/20080529536/hands-on-with-the-msi-wind-ultra-portable.html Anyway, there are plenty of reviews around: http://www.slashgear.com/asus-eee-pc-looks-even-more-tempting-295983.php -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] vmware problem

2008-06-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
be some useful messages in dmesg, or syslog (can't remember where they go) about why the module isn't loading - perhaps there's a deprecated kernel option you have to compile in? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus

Re: [gentoo-user] for mobile GPRS cards Nozomi module works

2008-06-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
://quozl.linux.org.au/bp3-usb/ I've been touring the country with it for a while now, and it works great! (well... as good as our beloved Telco makes it ;) cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Reliable source, n.: The guy you just met. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
missed something by the way, can you guys enlight me? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The difference between a good haircut and a bad one is seven days. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
of some classes (like [:punct:] or [\d]). egrep may need some extra escaping so as not to confuse your shell. The best way to test is to use the real program, so see if you can get info out of your logs to help. hth, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I tripped over a hole

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless problem

2008-06-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
. Any other suggestion? Thanks, Luigi how about iwconfig eth2 power all ? Perhaps you could write a postup script that pings slowly: ping -i 30 your.isp.com hth, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Vulcans worship peace above all. -- McCoy, Return to Tomorrow

Re: [gentoo-user] hardware autodetection at boot

2008-06-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
solution, then giving up! Just try the couple of options suggested - you'll probably get it working soon. hth, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. -- Augustus Caesar -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernate / Suspend Problems on a Desktop

2008-05-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
the power button and the system will shut down cleanly. I have an nvidia card, but I've stopped X and unloaded all modules. Did you get anywhere? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au A wise person makes his own decisions, a weak one obeys public opinion. -- Chinese

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto mask release candidates?

2008-05-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
does NOT have a ~ Then you may get release candidates and betas but only when they're proven to work, or work better. hth, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Success covers a multitude of blunders. -- George Bernard Shaw -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] using a HD with bad sectors

2008-05-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
the bad sectors and just keep using it? Is there a way to monitor it's health in the external enclosure until I get my new laptop? Is counting the bad sectors enough? thanks heaps! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Better late than never. -- Titus Livius (Livy

Re: [gentoo-user] [off-topic] Hello all!

2008-05-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 18:34 +0300, Akselii wrote: Hello all, this is my first time trying these lists, and i found them quite handy already. welcome! Any tips or tricks for me? yes, don't be put off by answers that you don't expect, or that seem stupid! Sorry for off-topic! -- Iain

Re: [gentoo-user] screen locks too frequently

2008-04-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
. To disable it, you can use gnome-screensaver-preferences and play with the options. To get rid of it, use gnome-session-properties. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au History repeats itself -- the first time as a tragi-comedy, the second time as bedroom farce. -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: postup() syntax help

2008-04-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 12:36 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I'd put a set -xv before the if statement, this way you see which statements, if any, get executed. fantastic! I never knew about that... All the debugging it could have saved me! thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Strange crash while setting up new box

2008-04-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
the standby power to PCI devices, so that they can do the wake on blah thing. S.M.A.R.T is disabled by default but I enabled it. HTH a bit! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Cheit's Lament: If you help a friend in need, he is sure to remember you-- the next

[gentoo-user] growisofs fails as user, sometimes works as root!

2008-04-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
suggestions - changing dma, kernels, etc. but I don't think these apply as it works as root on the same machine. I tried what I could anyway - no luck. I also chmod'd growisofs to suid root just in case, but this didn't help at all. I would appreciate any help! Thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-wiki Down?

2008-04-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 08:33 +0300, ionut cucu wrote: Here's a fine page to bookmark: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ lol. Put in downforeveryoneorjustme.com and see what they say :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au There is madmen in the world, and there are terror

Re: [gentoo-user] nautilus keeps reloading

2008-04-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 15:56 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi list :) I've been running gnome 2.22 since it made unstable, and today I just upgraded to the 2.22.1 minor release. However, since that (or some other) upgrade, every time I right left or middle click on a file on my desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem

2008-04-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
my disks as sda, but the kernel shows the as hda, or vice versa. You might want to try all (h|s)da3 combinations... HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au FIVE DAYS IS NOT TOO LONG TO WAIT FOR A GUN Bart Simpson on chalkboard in episode 1F20 -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] nautilus keeps reloading

2008-04-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
-extension.so is owned by nautilus-cd-burner. Recompiling that doesn't help. Nor does recompiling nautilus. Of course revdep-rebuild doesn't help either! Where to look next? TIA, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au A crow perched himself on a telephone wire. He was going

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

2008-04-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 09:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: I think it just means gtk-doc-am wants a newer gtk-doc, so it's blocking the one you have installed. You need to uninstall gtk-doc, and then you can install a newer gtk-doc and gtk-doc-am

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

2008-04-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
means gtk-doc-am wants a newer gtk-doc, so it's blocking the one you have installed. You need to uninstall gtk-doc, and then you can install a newer gtk-doc and gtk-doc-am. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Quid me anxius sum? [ What? Me, worry? ] -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo AMD64, games freeze!

2008-04-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
. Warsow, Wesnoth, Barrage runs without errors, but Openmortal, Chromium, Liquid Wars just don't start. Here is the outputs. It's a long shot, but are you in the games group? HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 13:28 -0400, Steven Lembark wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: watchdogs are nice, and linux makes them ultra-easy to program, but of course if your watchdog task dies, then the machine effectively hits the reset button for you - no nice shutdown whatsoever! (Which is what

Re: [gentoo-user] IMAP authentication not secure?

2008-04-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
. to be sure, just packet sniff it :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au That feeling just came over me. -- Albert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
whatsoever! (Which is what you want in a hard lock-up, but not if your programming skills are the cause of the problem :) cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Evil is that which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake

Re: [gentoo-user]

2008-04-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 13:53 +0800, Quentin So wrote: yes. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
that this is an emergency, and if you do nothing, you will probably have greater problems (file system corruption, etc). -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. -- Aneurin Bevan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-04-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 12:10 -0400, Steven Lembark wrote: In most cases you'll find that 'shutdown -h now' takes only a few seconds. you must have nice hardware :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au flannister, n.: The plastic yoke that holds a six-pack of beer

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] iTunes with Gentoo?

2008-03-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
very well :-(. --Joshua Doll But you have no way to burn an audio-cd from it and thus get rid of drm, right? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/11/22/dvd_jon_unlocks_itunes_locked/ -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Pecor's Health-Food Principle: Never eat

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

2008-03-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
://www.duxcw.com/faq/ps/ps4.htm for the ideas. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of trash. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo displays last login time

2008-03-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
, if you comment them out then you also don't get the lastlog message when you ssh or console log in. How do you get the old behaviour where sudo doesn't show your last login, but other login's do? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Waiter: Tea or coffee, gentlemen? 1st

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 22:48 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: On 11:18 Thu 13 Mar , Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 23:10 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: define unneeded. This is highly system dependant, as everyone puts important files all over the place. Things I

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

2008-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 21:16 +0100, Johan Blåbäck wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Johan Blåbäck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think your /proc/bus/input/devices looks quite right - are you sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
circle. lol. So long as I don't have to eat the cookie. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au You can't have everything. Where would you put it? -- Steven Wright -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of Gentoo

2008-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
- I've only convinced the sysadmin to let me play until it needs to be used for something real (what a waste to have those cpu's doing nothing, I thought, so let's install Gentoo :) MAKEOPTS=-j9 ... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The trouble with doing something right the first

Re: [gentoo-user] what isn't required to boot a system/what can be trimmed from a backup

2008-03-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
from the last command will be everything you _need_ to boot. Ideally, when backing up /proc /dev and /sys, do so from a cleanly shut-down system. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au My brother sent me a postcard the other day with this big sattelite photo of the entire earth

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

2008-03-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
right - are you sure this isn't a pointer stick or something? What's the complete file look like? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I told my kids, Someday, you'll have kids of your own. One of them said, So will you. -- Rodney Dangerfield -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?

2008-03-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
with the now correct entries. Funnily, xlatex does! So, as workaround I've converted to UTF-8 and use xelatex now. Any other ideas? I found this which might be interesting: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=newlang -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Pascal is not a high

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1422 (76278-76327)

2008-03-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au If I love you, what business is it of yours? -- Johann van Goethe -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptics touchpad mistaken(?) for Logitech Wheel Mouse

2008-03-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
quadruple-rot13'd, but I think you should be able to decrypt them without too much hassle. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development. (By [EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Brainstorm?

2008-03-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
. There will be lots of silent watchers. Done right I think it could be very useful. I especially like how a lot of brainstorm ideas about brainstorm itself have already been implemented, making the tool better by using the tool! http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/category/11 cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1424 (76378-76427)

2008-03-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
a bug report. I sent a message to gentoo-user+owner but nothing happened yet. Maybe Gentoo isn't ISO9001 certified, so they didn't get it. *sigh* -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Windows NT Performance, on the next In Search Of -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] TeXlive with non-English hyphenation?

2008-03-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
\selectlanguage{german} I don't use texlive, but have you set linguas_de? sorry I can't be more help! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Only someone with nothing to be sorry for smiles back at the rear of an elephant. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1424 (76378-76427)

2008-03-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
molestías. Automáticamente este email será reenvio a [EMAIL PROTECTED] NO! -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Intel Inside, Idiot Outside. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1422 (76278-76327)

2008-03-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
Just in case anyone else was thinking of doing so, I contacted the two email addresses concerned off list and asked nicely for them to do something :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au It was one of those perfect summer days -- the sun was shining, a breeze was blowing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1422 (76278-76327)

2008-03-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
. Automáticamente este email será reenvio a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is this spam or what? I seem to be getting the same message over and over to this list... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Life is like an analogy. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SSH brute force attacks and blacklist.py

2008-02-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
x to port 22, I haven't seen one since. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Linux - because software problems should not cost money. -- Shlomi Fish -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:02 +, Stroller wrote: On 26 Feb 2008, at 04:18, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:15 -0800, Michael Higgins wrote: (And I don't want to trash my .gnome* folders in a WAG at a fix. I have customization that will disappear. Again.) Make

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000

2008-02-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
! If you ultimately get nowhere, then the suspend2 users list has excellent help from some of the devs. cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au I'll say it again for the logic impaired. -- Larry Wall -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000

2008-02-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
/HOWTO_Software_Suspend_v2 (your card is known to work) http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL/Troubleshooting http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Video_Card_Support_Under_XGL Thanks for any pointers. np, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au He who despises himself nevertheless esteems

Re: [gentoo-user] killing gnome light - pathetic cry for help.

2008-02-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
not finding GDM... when was that required? I've never used it, nor wanted it. I want the warnings to go away! ] who's it? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Horses are forbidden to eat fire hydrants in Marshalltown, Iowa. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] vesa-tng not working with kernel 2.6.24

2008-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
text messages go by first. cya, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Fortune's Office Door Sign of the Week: Incorrigible punster -- Do not incorrige. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to avoid NetworkManager logs info in terminals

2008-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:03 -0300, Ale wrote: 2008/2/18, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sounds like NetworkManager is using syslog() to write to the log file, and you have syslog set up to notify you. This usually happens by printing messages to console 1! NetworkManager seems

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 23:31 +0530, dell core2duo wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 15:47 -0600, Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:28:39 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 18:37 +0530, dell core2duo wrote: On Feb 18, 2008 5:59 PM, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 23:31 +0530, dell core2duo wrote: On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] How to avoid NetworkManager logs info in terminals

2008-02-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 18:08 -0200, Alejandro Bednarik wrote: 2008/2/16, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: try adding /dev/null 21 to the end of it. Hi! about sudo /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart /dev/null 21 I tried this before send this email

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement

2008-02-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:41 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! Please, recommend a text editor with a capability to find/replace *multiline* blocks. you mean search and replace with newlines in the middle? um. emacs? -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Every time I think

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