Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice) [SOLVED]

2014-10-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, October 06, 2014 11:06:03 PM Mick wrote: > On Monday 06 Oct 2014 11:53:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 03 Oct 2014 21:21:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > nm has come a long way of late it seems. Perhaps I should revise my > > > stance on it :-) > > > > The main reason wicd dev

Re: [gentoo-user] VB - login from one Windows XP to another XP

2014-10-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, October 06, 2014 11:17:49 PM Joseph wrote: > On 10/06/14 21:22, Jc García wrote: > >2014-10-06 19:52 GMT-06:00 Joseph : > >> I'm running Windows XP in VirtualBox. > >> I can NX to the running VB - Windows XP as (shadow or new) session. > >> But that doesn't help me. > >> Via "Shadow ses

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 6 October 2014 23:47:51 CEST, Mick wrote: >On Monday 06 Oct 2014 16:44:57 Jens Reinemuth wrote: >> Am Sonntag, 5. Oktober 2014, 18:59:31 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: >> > Am 05.10.2014 um 18:27 schrieb Alan McKinnon: >> > > On 05/10/2014 17:50, Michael Palimaka wrote:ystem all that much. >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, October 02, 2014 07:05:51 PM walt wrote: > My ISP just forced me to upgrade to a new fiberoptic plan with very > little advance notice. > > I can't complain too much because my download speed is three times > faster than yesterday, but now I need to use a USB WiFi adapter if > I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Noob WiFi question (yes-or-no answer will suffice)

2014-10-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:24:51 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On 10/02/2014 10:05 PM, walt wrote: > > I did some googling and enabled the "appropriate" kernel drivers, then > > rebooted and now the output from ifconfig includes this interface: > > > > wlan0: flags=4099 mtu 1500 > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed.

2014-09-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 30 September 2014 16:12:31 CEST, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >On 09/30/2014 10:05 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> Suppose the GPS would already be attached >> to the board and works... >> >> Is there any free available software and data for >> strict offline useage (which does NOT calls >> to

Re: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin - upgrading

2014-09-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, September 27, 2014 11:03:48 AM Joseph wrote: > After upgrade of phpmyadmin, I think it was installed correctly: > > This is an upgrade > phpmyadmin-4.1.7 is already installed - upgrading > Running /usr/sbin/webapp-config -U -h localhost -u root -d /phpmyadmin > phpmyadmin 4.1.14.3 IN

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bloated by gcc

2014-09-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, September 29, 2014 12:37:37 AM Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 10:56 PM, walt wrote: > > On 09/28/2014 01:44 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote: > >> I'm having a somewhat disgusting issue on my Gentoo: binaries are > >> unaccountably large. > > > > Are you cross-compiling for dif

Re: [gentoo-user] "stack-protector-strong" option results in gcc error

2014-09-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, September 23, 2014 08:47:31 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 7:52 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen > > wrote: > > '-fstack-protector-strong' is supported as of gcc-4.9.x - unless you > > upgrade, you'll forced to use the regular one. > > > >... > > > > I think it's not even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is kde really buggy or it is me?!

2014-09-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, September 20, 2014 09:47:51 PM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 18/09/14 16:15, behrouz khosravi wrote: > > Hi. > > I have just installed the kde desktop. I like the overall experience but > > its kind of buggy. For example the last problem that I had, system > > setting was not respondi

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL date look funny: "2014-0"

2014-09-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 21 September 2014 07:33:43 CEST, Joseph wrote: >After recent upgrade my Orders in OsCommerce program date look funny: >"2014-0" > >I downgraded mysql to 5.1.70 but this is caused by it. > >I've two PHP installed: 5.3 and 5.5 >I tried switching to 5.3 it still the same date display "2014-0" W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, September 19, 2014 10:56:59 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:41 AM, James wrote: > > I think btrfs has tremendous potential. I tried ZFS a few times, > > but the installs are not part of gentoo, so they got borked > > uEFI, grubs to uuids, etc etc also were in the mix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, September 19, 2014 01:41:26 PM James wrote: > J. Roeleveld antarean.org> writes: > > Out of curiosity, what do you want to simulate? > > subsurface flows in porous medium. AKA carbon sequestration > by injection wells. You know, provide proof that those > that

Re: [gentoo-user] Reverse Tethering - How to?

2014-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 18, 2014 12:41:52 PM Stroller wrote: > On Wed, 17 September 2014, at 12:31 pm, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> ... > >> In this case the USB is being used as an ethernet connection - you're > >> simply asking for the routing to occur in the opp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 18, 2014 05:48:58 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > The HTML...it hurts my eyes... :) Apologies. > > My current understanding is: > > > > - ZFS is production ready, but due to licensing issues, not included in > > the > > kernel > > > > - BTRFS is included, but not yet productio

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 08:56:28 PM James wrote: > Alec Ten Harmsel alectenharmsel.com> writes: > > As far as HDFS goes, I would only set that up if you will use it for > > Hadoop or related tools. It's highly specific, and the performance is > > not good unless you're doing a massively

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 04:20:24 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > As far as HDFS goes, I would only set that up if you will use it for > Hadoop or related tools. It's highly specific, and the performance is > not good unless you're doing a massively parallel read (what it was > designed for).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 09:05:09 PM James wrote: > J. Roeleveld antarean.org> writes: > > AFS has caching and can survive temporary disappearance of the server. > > Excellent for low bandwidth connections. Most DFS have mechanisms to > deal with transient

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: File system testing

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 03:55:56 PM James wrote: > J. Roeleveld antarean.org> writes: > > > Distributed File Systems (DFS): > > > > > Local (Device) File Systems LFS: > > Is my understanding correct that the top list all require one of > > the

Re: [gentoo-user] File system testing

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 17 September 2014 20:10:57 CEST, "Hervé Guillemet" wrote: >Le 16/09/2014 21:07, James a écrit : >> >> By now many are familiar with my keen interest in clustering gentoo >> systems. So, what most cluster technologies use is a distributed file >> system on top of the local (HD/SDD) file system

Re: [gentoo-user] Reverse Tethering - How to?

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:05:37 PM Stroller wrote: > On Wed, 17 September 2014, at 10:53 am, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > … > > > >>> My mobile should be able to use the (wired) network connection of my > >>> Gentoo box.> > > My GenToo box doesn't have a wireless card. > > I'd like to c

Re: [gentoo-user] Reverse Tethering - How to?

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:53:52 AM Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 09/17/2014 11:50:58 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:46:12 AM Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > On 09/17/2014 11:43:28 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > > On Wednesday,

Re: [gentoo-user] Reverse Tethering - How to?

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:46:12 AM Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 09/17/2014 11:43:28 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:24:36 AM Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > how do I need to configure my Gentoo box to

Re: [gentoo-user] Reverse Tethering - How to?

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:24:36 AM Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > how do I need to configure my Gentoo box to allow for reverse tethering > from my (rooted) Android phone? > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut What do you mean with "reverse tethering"? That your mobile uses the netwo

Re: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:19:37 PM Eray Aslan wrote: > On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 10:43:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Puppet seems to me a good product for a large site with 1000 hosts. > > Not so much for ~20 or so. > > I find that for a few machines, puppet is overkill. For a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:12:52 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/09/2014 09:34, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:43:18 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Anyone here used ansible and at least one of puppet/chef? > >> > >> What are

Re: [gentoo-user] FhGFS or BeeGFS on Gentoo?

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, September 15, 2014 06:12:15 PM James wrote: > Howdy, > > > Any "brave souls" put FhGFS on a gentoo system? [1] It's a distributed File > System and some run it on top of ZFS or EXT4 or BTRFS, with > very positive results. It is in the process of going "open source" > from what I've r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FhGFS or BeeGFS on Gentoo?

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, September 15, 2014 06:31:26 PM James wrote: > James tampabay.rr.com> writes: > > Any "brave souls" put FhGFS on a gentoo system? > > Oops, I forgot the most interesting link of all. [1] > > > James > > [1] http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/fhgfs_vs_gluster.html I got a 404-error on this

Re: [gentoo-user] File system testing

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 07:07:38 PM James wrote: > Hello, > > By now many are familiar with my keen interest in clustering gentoo > systems. So, what most cluster technologies use is a distributed file > system on top of the local (HD/SDD) file system. Naturally not > all file systems, par

Re: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef

2014-09-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:43:18 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > Anyone here used ansible and at least one of puppet/chef? > > What are your thoughts? > > I've made several attempts over the years to get puppet going but never > really got it off the ground. Chef I stay away from (likely due to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo

2014-09-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 16 September 2014 17:02:43 CEST, Joseph wrote: >On 09/16/14 14:18, James wrote: >>Joseph gmail.com> writes: >> >>> >>> After recent emerge I get few blockers, that I don't know what to do >>> with it My box has not been updated for 3-months :-/ >> >>Joseph, >> >>The problems with perl updates

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: postgresql - exceeded maxAllocatedDescs "/usr/share/zoneinfo"

2014-09-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, September 15, 2014 08:48:16 AM Joseph wrote: > After upgrade when I try to start postgresql-9.1 I get an error: > > * Starting PostgreSQL ... > * start-stop-daemon: did not create a valid pid in > `/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data/postmaster.pid' * Check the log for a > possible explanati

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, September 15, 2014 07:21:18 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/09/2014 00:21, James wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > >> > >> You are a C man. > >> Working with bash must be excruciatingly painful > > > > Ah yes, State machine design; not much fittering around with > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
would see an HTML email. -- Joost > > -Original Message- > From: J. Roeleveld > Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 3:29 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email > On Saturday, September 13, 2014 05:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-09-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, September 13, 2014 09:45:28 PM Hans wrote: > On 28/08/14 21:45, Joseph wrote: > > I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation > > (reliability) of the brand. > > My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. > > Go Samsung actually made by Samsung in Korea or if

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, September 13, 2014 05:19:17 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Saturday 13 September 2014 9:54:34 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 13 September 2014 09:49:19 CEST, Mick wrote: > > >On Saturday 13 Sep 2014 07:56:50 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > >> Hi all, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 13 September 2014 09:49:19 CEST, Mick wrote: >On Saturday 13 Sep 2014 07:56:50 J. Roeleveld wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have not been able to find a setting anywhere in KMail to force it >to >> always default to plain-text emails when creating a new email or >

[gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi all, I have not been able to find a setting anywhere in KMail to force it to always default to plain-text emails when creating a new email or replying. The few times I actually need html functionality, I prefer to just enable it for that single email. Unfortunately, kmail tends to remember t

Re: [gentoo-user] duplicate HD drives

2014-09-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, September 12, 2014 09:17:41 PM Joseph wrote: > On 09/12/14 23:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:53:19 -0600, Joseph wrote: > >> I have two identical HD in a box and want to duplicate sda to sdb > >> I want sdb to be bootable just in case something happens to sda so I >

Re: [gentoo-user] copy hylafax "faxes" from one server to another

2014-09-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 11, 2014 11:56:43 PM Joseph wrote: > I just install hylafaxplus on a new box and would like to copy old faxes > from old server to a new one. > > I just "rsync" directories from: /var/spool/fax: > docq > doneq > recvq > sendq > > I'm using YajHFC to display faxes and after

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] can not compile / emerge

2014-09-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 11 September 2014 14:28:16 CEST, Joseph wrote: >On 09/11/14 12:07, James wrote: >>Joseph gmail.com> writes: >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-909052-highlight- >>> brother.html?sid=1ba0b92db499262c6a74919d86c6af43 >> >>> I just extracted the files with "tar..." >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] clone XP-Virtual to a file

2014-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 11 September 2014 04:47:31 CEST, "Poison BL." wrote: >On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Joseph wrote: >> How to close virtualbox machine (windows xp) to a file? >> I need to transfer it to another box. >> >> I made some notes but they are old so I'm not sure if they are >applicable or >> there

Re: [gentoo-user] BACKUPS

2014-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 02:47:26 AM Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 10/09/2014 07:32, Joseph wrote: > >> Thank you again. On a different subject. Do you have a good pointer on > >> how to backup a system. > > > > Did it even occur to you at all to type that exact question int

Re: [gentoo-user] NdoUtils Wont Load module in nagios

2014-09-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, September 08, 2014 05:19:24 PM Jeff Smelser wrote: > On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Alan McKinnon > > wrote: > > Looks like your problem is not the same. I'm just starting myself to > > come to grips with this part of nagios, so I don't know how much further > > hhelp I can be. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2014-09-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, September 07, 2014 05:54:23 PM siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 09:42:44 +0200 "J. Roeleveld" > > wrote: > > > http://picpaste.com/11-PzitLROe.png > > > > Please do not use this. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] NdoUtils Wont Load module in nagios

2014-09-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 8 September 2014 16:52:58 CEST, Jeff Smelser wrote: >On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 7:02 AM, J. Roeleveld >wrote: > >> What is the result of the following: >> >> # ls -lsah /usr/bin/ndomod.o >> >> ? >> > >--()-[0s)# ls -lsah /usr/bin/ndomod.o >76

Re: [gentoo-user] NdoUtils Wont Load module in nagios

2014-09-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, September 07, 2014 07:32:52 PM Jeff Smelser wrote: > I have been racking my head trying to figure out why this module wont load. > All the privs are correct as far as I can see. > > Sep 7 19:22:32 kyle nagios: Nagios 3.5.1 starting... (PID=32513) > Sep 7 19:22:32 kyle nagios: Local t

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2014-09-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, September 07, 2014 01:11:34 AM siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 06 Sep 2014 20:35:39 +0200 "J. Roeleveld" > > wrote: > > Did you read the rest of the email? > > Yes i have and has say that the printer ever has work with kernel us

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: In search of a hint/ides: Loop recording of a webcam

2014-09-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 6 September 2014 14:59:34 CEST, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >Hi, > >may be the software I am looking for already exists of >can easily created by plugging together already existing pieces: > >With a Logitech c920 webcam (Full HD) I plan to record birds on >my roof. >I need to record "everything":

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2014-09-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 6 September 2014 18:52:54 CEST, "siefke_lis...@web.de" wrote: >Hello, > >On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 06:58:54 +0200 "J. Roeleveld" >wrote: > >> >siefke ~ $ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep CONFIG_USB_PRINTER >> >CONFIG_USB_PRINTER=m >>

Re: [gentoo-user] MBR partition

2014-09-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 6 September 2014 05:10:59 CEST, Joseph wrote: >On 09/05/14 21:02, Joseph wrote: >>I'm configuring MBR partition for older disk and need to know what >code to enter for boot partition. >>My BIOS is not EFI type. > >My current configuration: >fdisk -l /dev/sda > >Disk /dev/sda: 447.1 GiB, 4801039

Re: [gentoo-user] installed Gentoo on SSD - no bootable device

2014-09-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 5 September 2014 19:55:49 CEST, Joseph wrote: >On 09/05/14 14:11, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>On Fri, 5 Sep 2014 07:06:27 -0600, Joseph wrote: >> >>> I made a typo my Bios is from around 2008 so it can not be EFI. >>> So I need a "BIOS boot partition" which in my case is "/dev/sda1" >but I >>> don't

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 4 September 2014 15:54:17 CEST, Joseph wrote: >On 09/04/14 14:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 07:05:28 -0600, Joseph wrote: >> >>> >Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, 3000592982016 bytes, 5860533168 sectors >>> >Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes >>> >Sector size (logical/physical): 512 b

Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions

2014-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, September 04, 2014 09:01:41 AM Christian Kruse wrote: > Hi, > > At Wed, 3 Sep 2014 22:30:32 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > But they omitted the Boot partition. > > > > Device Start End Size Type > > /dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition > >

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2014-09-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 4 September 2014 01:25:42 CEST, "siefke_lis...@web.de" wrote: >Hello, > >so now printer not find in cups. Only networkprinters, local printers >not list in cups. > >siefke ~ $ dmesg | tail >[25616.684126] usb 3-1: new full-speed USB device number 4 using >uhci_hcd >[25616.836138] usb 3-1: Ne

Re: [gentoo-user] oracle-jdk-bin 1.8.0.20 ebuild

2014-09-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 3 September 2014 06:07:46 CEST, Saifi Khan wrote: >Hi: > >portage has ebuild for oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.11 whereas oracle >website has update 20 ie. oracle-jdk-bin-1.8.0.20 > >i am interested in tweaking the ebuild in order to install 1.8.0.20 > >Can somebody explain > >. how 'inherits eutils ja

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-09-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 2 September 2014 18:50:02 CEST, Joseph wrote: >On 09/02/14 16:46, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>On 02/09/2014 15:10, Joseph wrote: >>> On 09/02/14 10:56, Mick wrote: On 2 September 2014 09:00, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 01:23:45 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-09-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, September 01, 2014 10:00:43 AM Joseph wrote: > On 09/01/14 11:32, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >On Sunday, August 31, 2014 08:06:46 PM Joseph wrote: > >> On 08/31/14 20:55, Will Tomlinson wrote: > >> >On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:06:49 -0600 > >> > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-09-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, August 31, 2014 08:06:46 PM Joseph wrote: > On 08/31/14 20:55, Will Tomlinson wrote: > >On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:06:49 -0600 > > > >Joseph wrote: > >> I've re-run the setup but it still doesn't work. > >> > >> df -h > >> /dev/sda1 3.8G 190M 3.6G 5% /run/media/joseph/4GB_ysa > >

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 30 August 2014 08:32:10 CEST, Joseph wrote: >I think I've missed: >dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sda1 > >On 08/30/14 08:15, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>On Friday, August 29, 2014 11:37:37 PM Joseph wrote: >>> I'm trying to make my 4GB USB bootable

Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB

2014-08-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, August 29, 2014 11:37:37 PM Joseph wrote: > I'm trying to make my 4GB USB bootable and it is not working. > > df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > ... > /dev/sda1 3.8G 190M 3.6G 5% /run/media/joseph/B885-F1ED > > fdisk -l > ... > DeviceBoot Start

Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-08-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, August 29, 2014 06:37:03 AM Joseph wrote: > The box is a small server/backup unit Poly-ITX 945GC3 an ATOM-330. > The unit run 7/24 > So I was thinking of putting a new disk in it but can not decide if to go > with SSD or another Western Digital drive. It was my first disk failure so > I'

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD recmmendation / input

2014-08-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:54:25 PM Joseph wrote: > No, I wouldn't get 1TB SSD too expensive but something like 300GB I might > consider it. Are they worth the investment? What brand do you have and how > long? Please do NOT top-post. Currently, from what I found out, good brands are: Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-08-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 28, 2014 02:45:10 PM Joseph wrote: > I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation > (reliability) of the brand. My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. I agree with the rest, 2 does not make a pattern. I use WDs extensively and only had a few failures.

Re: [gentoo-user] re: trouble with USB mouse on laptop

2014-08-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, August 23, 2014 03:51:40 PM Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On 08/08/2014 10:46 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Alternatively, disable USB powersaving: > > > > # for i in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/autosuspend; > > > > do echo 2 > $i; > >

Re: [gentoo-user] accidentally deleted the /usr (I'm gonna kill myself!)

2014-08-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 25 August 2014 12:19:02 CEST, Bill Kenworthy wrote: >On 25/08/14 17:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 25/08/2014 11:11, Dale wrote: >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: On 25/08/2014 08:17, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:58:36PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: >> Hi. I

Re: [gentoo-user] blocker between openrc and procps

2014-08-24 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 24 August 2014 11:23:34 CEST, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >Alan McKinnon [14-08-24 10:32]: >> On 24/08/2014 04:30, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> > hi, >> > >> > How can I resolve this blocker: >> > >> > (sys-process/procps-3.3.9::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >> > sys-process/procps re

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: pthreads condition variable/mutex question

2014-08-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 08:19:19 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2014-08-13, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >> I may have to stick with sockets when I want to block until some event > >> happens. > > > > To be clear, do you want to block or sleep/yield until an event > > happens? > > I don't see t

Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, August 19, 2014 06:33:29 AM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 5:34 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On Monday, August 18, 2014 10:53:51 AM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > >> On Mon 18 Aug 2014 10:50:23 AM EDT, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > Hadoop is a v

Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, August 18, 2014 10:53:51 AM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Mon 18 Aug 2014 10:50:23 AM EDT, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Hadoop is a very specialized tool. It does what it does very well, > > but if you want to use it for something other than map/reduce then > > consider carefully whether it i

Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, August 18, 2014 08:09:00 PM thegeezer wrote: > On 18/08/14 15:31, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > > valid points, and interesting to see the corrections of my > understanding, always welcome :) You're welcome :) > > Looks nice, but is not going to help with p

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, August 18, 2014 03:12:15 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 2:21 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > In cases like that I would do either of the following: > > > > 1) Run it inside a VM > > 2) run it inside a chroot > > > > That way you ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing glibc

2014-08-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 18 August 2014 20:06:51 CEST, Timur Aydin wrote: >Hi, > >I am using a closed source software package on my 64 bit gentoo linux >system. The software package is "beyond compare" by scooter soft. >Because of the way this package is built, it needs a specially patched >version of glibc. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, August 17, 2014 08:46:58 PM thegeezer wrote: > there are many way to do clustering and one thing that i would consider > a "holy grail" would be something like pvm [1] > because nothing else seems to have similar horizontal scaling of cpu at > the kernel level PVM, from the webpage, loo

Re: [gentoo-user] Advantages in privoxy instead of mannualy edit /etc/hosts

2014-08-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 18 August 2014 03:08:48 CEST, Henrique Lengler wrote: >Is there any advantage in use privoxy instead of mannualy set a >/etc/hosts file? >Wich one is faster? > >Does both method slow down page load, or speed it up? How many entries do you want to put in your /etc/hosts file? -- Joost -- Sen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel 3.14.14 build failure at DEPMOD stage

2014-08-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 14, 2014 08:36:09 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 14 Aug 2014 12:29:13 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > depmod -a 3.x.y > > > > [thimk][root][/usr/src/linux] depmod -a 3.14.14 > > depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented > > > > Now what? Anyhow, I tried "lilo -R Exper

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I really need kernel support for ppp?

2014-08-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 08:42:57 AM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > (I use gnome, hence systemd. I have no modem, except the cable modem.) > > network-manager requires ppp and the latest version of ppp (just > installed by today's update world) wants me to add ppp support to my > kernel. > > I c

Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?

2014-08-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 09:20:59 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/08/2014 21:00, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 12 August 2014 20:21:03 CEST, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> Am 12.08.2014 um 16:10 schrieb J. Roeleveld: > >>> On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 03:38:15 PM

Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?

2014-08-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 12 August 2014 20:21:03 CEST, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >Am 12.08.2014 um 16:10 schrieb J. Roeleveld: >> On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 03:38:15 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 12/08/2014 15:28, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>>> On 12 August 2014 14:06:07 CEST, Alan McKinn

Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?

2014-08-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 03:38:15 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/08/2014 15:28, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 12 August 2014 14:06:07 CEST, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 12/08/2014 11:10, Mick wrote: > >>> I recall the devs explicitly stating early enough in the KD

Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?

2014-08-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 12 August 2014 14:06:07 CEST, Alan McKinnon wrote: >On 12/08/2014 11:10, Mick wrote: >> I recall the devs explicitly stating early enough in the KDE4 >development that >> sqlite is not man enough for the job and advising everyone to move >over to >> mysql. >> >> Someone was looking at postgr

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge of sys-devel/llvm-3.3-r3 fails....

2014-08-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday, August 10, 2014 02:33:40 AM Christopher Kurtis Koeber wrote: > Hello, > > I am attempting to emerge xorg-server and sys-devel/llvm-3.3-r3 is pulled in > as a dependency. > > So, when I emerge llvm it fails. > > Here is some relevant output: > > emerge --info =sys-devel/llvm-3.3-r3::g

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 08:37:52 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/08/2014 07:43, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Plus, I refuse under any circumstances to run Gentoo on production > >> > >> > unless it's backed by a huge build farm or I have a large cluster that

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, August 09, 2014 11:19:39 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 09/08/2014 10:20, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 9 August 2014 09:53:01 CEST, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 09/08/2014 08:35, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>>> Test vms get updated when I

Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?

2014-08-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, August 11, 2014 10:45:07 PM Mick wrote: > On Monday 11 Aug 2014 20:01:16 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > isn't it great? back in the days when kmail stored emails in files, > > everything worked great and even folders with 100k mails were not a > > problem. > > > > But, no, they had to

Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?

2014-08-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, August 09, 2014 09:00:48 PM Mick wrote: > First some general observations that relate to kmail2: > > I thought of giving the latest kmail-4.12.5 a spin. So installed it on a > machine and set up a couple of IMAP4 servers to get messages from. An > account with a messages in the low

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 9 August 2014 09:53:01 CEST, Alan McKinnon wrote: >On 09/08/2014 08:35, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> Test vms get updated when I feel like it. Some of them never :-) >> Hope they are behind a firewall then, wouldn't want to know how quick >a 2 year >> old VM get

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, August 08, 2014 10:41:51 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 08/08/2014 21:18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 8 August 2014 20:13:15 CEST, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 08/08/2014 19:46, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>> Hehe, would be nice if a developer would actually li

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 8 August 2014 20:13:15 CEST, Alan McKinnon wrote: >On 08/08/2014 19:46, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On 8 August 2014 19:30:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey > wrote: >>> On Friday 08 August 2014 18:50:28 J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >>>> I always run perlcleaner and pyt

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 8 August 2014 19:30:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Friday 08 August 2014 18:50:28 J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> I always run perlcleaner and python updater after each update. > >Hmm. I run them when perl or python has been updated. Have you found >them to >be needed

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 8 August 2014 18:21:08 CEST, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >On Fri, Aug 08 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:23 AM, J. Roeleveld >wrote: >>> I notice a few perl blockers. >>> You could try the following: >>> >>> # emerge -vu

Re: [gentoo-user] re: trouble with USB mouse on laptop

2014-08-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, August 08, 2014 10:30:55 AM Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > Howdy, > > I've been having trouble with USB mice on my laptop, with the mouse > pointer and the scroll wheel not responding all the time. It's not until > I click either button that the mouse starts responding again. > > The outpu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 07, 2014 10:36:35 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > Which operating systems does you Hadoop systems run on top of? > > We use RedHat, although we make a fair amount of custom RPMs. It's just > too much having to deal with Gentoo while maintaining high performance > filesystems and

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:33:34 PM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > I was away for two weeks and now one of my systems cannot be updated due > to conflicts. The entire (long) emerge output is at the end of > this msg. > > > -- The first conflict is --- I notic

Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 06, 2014 04:50:22 PM James wrote: > Hopefully, we can all share ideas and brainstorm about how Gentoo users > can lead the pack of linux distros into this brave_new world. [Overlays?] A good place to start would also be: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxClustersAndFileS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-06 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday, August 06, 2014 09:29:53 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 05 August 2014 22:43:42 J. Roeleveld wrote: > > I still remember running seti@home and similar programs in the past. Those > > were large clusters, but with a very badly designed network. > > Was th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 5 August 2014 21:57:56 CEST, James wrote: >Joost Roeleveld antarean.org> writes: > > >> > Mesos looks promising for a variety of (Apache) reasons. Some key >> > technologies folks may want google about that are related: >> > >> > Quincy (fair schedular) >> > Chronos (scheduler) >> > Hadoop (s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, August 04, 2014 10:38:57 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 04/08/2014 21:46, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 4 August 2014 15:35:41 CEST, Alan McKinnon > >> Either make the ETL tool pick up where it stopped and continue as it is > >> the only that knows what it was d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-05 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday, August 05, 2014 06:33:59 AM Martin Vaeth wrote: > J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>No, it wouldn't, since jobs just finishing and wanting to report their > >>status cannot do this when there is no server. You would need a rather > >>involved protocol to de

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 4 August 2014 15:31:40 CEST, Martin Vaeth wrote: >J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >>> So you have a command which might break due to hardware error >>> and cannot be rerun. I cannot see how any general-purpose scheduler >>> might help you here: You either

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