Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MAC addresses

2009-04-30 Thread James Stull
You can actually change your MAC address using ifconfig for many types of NIC's. --James 2009/4/30 Eric Martin freak4u...@gmail.com Anthony Metcalf wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: James, thank you for the useful tip. The output of macchanger: # macchanger eth1 Current MAC:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Gentoo/GMail/download to Evolution

2009-04-17 Thread James Stull
This is actually pretty easy since gmail accepts both IMAP and POP3 access. Just set up an account for him, go into the settings and enable pop or imap then configure evolution. For more information just google gmail imap/pop. You can also use ssmtp to send email through your or his gmail

Re: [gentoo-user] simple firewall

2009-04-05 Thread James Stull
Have you tried Firewall Builder? You can use Firewall Builder to make all the rules for iptables. On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:47 AM, gigli gi...@swipnet.se wrote: Peter Humphrey skrev: On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:41:55 gigli wrote: i will give shorewall a new try and hope i'll make better

[gentoo-user] How to check a terminal session remotely

2009-02-10 Thread James Stull
Here's my problem, lets say last night I start a rather long emerge in an xterm window or in a separate session like Ctrl+Alt+F2 or whatever. The next day I'm at work or a friends house and I ssh into my desktop so I can check on the status of that emerge. Is their a way for me to take over a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge problems

2009-01-05 Thread James Stull
Will do, thanks for your assistance! On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: /etc/portage/packages.use: dev-java/sun-jdk -doc Typo. It's /etc/portage/package.use. You need to emerge -N world after that.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problems

2009-01-04 Thread James Stull
What is the best way to block this package? On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:35 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: James Stull wrote: I switched my eselect profile from a generic gentoo system to desktop. Unfortunately I keep getting this error when I run emerge -uDNav world I tried

[gentoo-user] emerge problems

2009-01-03 Thread James Stull
I switched my eselect profile from a generic gentoo system to desktop. Unfortunately I keep getting this error when I run emerge -uDNav world I tried it with the --skipfirst flag but I continue to have this problem. * One or more packages are either masked or have missing dependencies: * *

Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking advice about backup and partitioning; preparing to dual-boot Linux onto Vista drive

2008-12-23 Thread James Stull
Actually you shouldn't need any open source or 3rd party software for repartitioning Vista. From what I heard vista disk manager allows you to resize it's partitions. You may want to try that first, if it doesn't work then try one of the other suggestions. For backing up your data, I would

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing profiles

2008-12-23 Thread James Stull
Grant, I've had a similar problem when I installed 2008.0 hardened instead of the desktop. Here is a link to the post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713346.html I would suggest that after you select your desktop 2008.0 profile to run the following: emerge --sync emerge -uDNav world --Riv