Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-16 Thread Matan Peled
On 16/12/2007, Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Relson wrote: IMHO, python is a very nice object oriented language and C++ is no better (unless you need particular features of the language). I suspect C++ runs somewhat faster, but that's not the issue here. As I understand,

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

2007-12-16 Thread Matan Peled
On 16/12/2007, Antonio Quartulli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip And with c++ comes another one: abi changes. Just think about this horror: gcc/libstdc++ update and your package manager stops working Why don't a python upgrade break your package manager?? Also possible, but less

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge of glibc and gcc fails

2007-10-27 Thread Matan Peled
]: *** [insn-emit.o] 1 הלקת snip I'm clueless about it, but do feel that not being able to updaate gcc or glibc is bad, and will probably mean that I will not be able to update other things as well. בהצלחה! =) - Matan Peled z���(��j)b� b�

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

2005-12-14 Thread Matan Peled
Matthias Langer wrote: Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet connection suffers greatly, allthogh i've 384 kbit/s up and 3072 kbit/s down. I know that there are some approaches to solve this kind of problem by categorizing packets and assign different

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

2005-12-10 Thread Matan Peled
michael higgins wrote: Hello, all. Need a clue, here. I don't like BIND that much. djbdns does the caching here. -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed

Re: [gentoo-user] dns+mail server is good or bad?

2005-12-04 Thread Matan Peled
It's also a good idea to have more than one DNS server, IMO. First of all, HTML mail! Yuck. Back to the point, like DJB said somewhere, having more DNS servers than servers actually serving content is kinda useless. If your DNS server dies, you lose DNS and therefore mail... But if your

Re: [gentoo-user] World File

2005-11-26 Thread Matan Peled
Jeff Grossman wrote: I was reading a different thread about the world file does not necessarily contain all of the programs installed, if they are installed from a dependency. Is there a way to see what programs are installed on the machine which are not in the world file? Thanks, Jeff

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables [SOLVED]

2005-11-25 Thread Matan Peled
Michael Sullivan wrote: I downloaded the stage 3 tarball and found the files I need and copied them over. It worked. I'm in the process of emergine --emptytree binutils and gcc atm... That works, but I would have attempted playing with binutils-config first. -- [Name ] :: [Matan I.

Re: [gentoo-user] a bit confused by emerge blockers

2005-11-04 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 4. November 2005 07:21 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't understand. Where do I add the =? What do I put before or after the =? Sorry didn't read that you tried to use -e to remove pine. There was a

Re: [gentoo-user] PANIC !!!!

2005-10-22 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: One more info, udev had crashed and I have to downgrade from 7.0 to 6.8-r1 to get the system to boot A. You're top posting B. yeah, udev-070 is bad. Use udev-070-r1... - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled]

Re: [gentoo-user] how to obtain a GPG Key

2005-10-20 Thread Matan Peled
Widyachacra Rajapaksha wrote: how to obtain a GPG Key like ( GPG Key: 0x864C9B9E )? Like so: gpg --recv-keys fingerprint --keyserver keyserver As an example, to get my key, you should run: gpg --recv-keys 0xD6F42CA5 --keyserver keyserver.kjsl.com Unless what you want is to create a new key

Re: [gentoo-user] Ejecting an IPod

2005-10-19 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Viljoen wrote: The eject doenst work unfortunately, the IPod is detected as /dev/uba. First of all, top posting is bad. Even if you use gmail. Secondly, if you got /dev/uba, your kernel isn't configured properly. Namely, you have enabled the

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-13 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Almeida wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: Afaik, they are set by /etc/make/profile/make.defaults, and overridden/added to globally by /etc/make.conf, and individually by /etc/portage/package.use. The handbook

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config problems

2005-10-13 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob wrote: I am sorry. There was no error in my configuration. Instead the error was in how I tested the setup. I gave the command cat /dev/random /dev/dsp, haha. It should have been /dev/urandom. I just missed the u'. Still, I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

2005-10-12 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: Hi! After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to create them automatically by udev. According to

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

2005-10-12 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a new system I built I had to recreate the /dev/nv* items. First of all, top posting sucks. Secondly, you want the keyworded nvidia-kernel. - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

2005-10-12 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Almeida wrote: Wouldn't that entail some error messages at boot time? Nope. Well, it might complain if you do 'rc-update add alsasound default'... So don't do that. Just emerge alsa-headers and alsa-lib. - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

2005-10-03 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Wright wrote: But a WM and/or GTK/QT can have an effect on system load overall as well as working with the graphics card, which in the end can slow the gears. Perhaps, but glxgears is a really, REALLY bad benchmark. - -- [Name ] ::

Re: [gentoo-user] my subscribe not work

2005-09-30 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jangar wrote: i send message and i it's visible into webmail mailing list system as news.gmane.org http://news.gmane.org, but in my mailbox any message not arrived Its because gmail notices it already has a copy of the message. - -- [Name ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Macromedia Flash on AMD64

2005-09-06 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Sorry - I just discovered the gentoo-amd64-users list. Probably much better to ask these questions there. I'll answer your question anyway - you need a 32bit Firefox to run the 32bit flash plugin. emerge -vp mozilla-firefox-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

2005-08-31 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Jolet wrote: good point. Isn't /var/log/emerge.log there anyway, and PORT_LOGDIR= only controls /var/log/portage/* ? - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5]

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-24 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Schafer wrote: I think SDL has an API, don't you think too? ;) Well, of course. But it wasn't used before, rather PureBasic's one was used. Now we need to use that API (Thats what I meant by Talking to SDL...) - -- [Name ] :: [Matan

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-24 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Markus Döbele wrote: The code I think is not the problem. But I think it is still a lot of work. By the way I don't like C too much (we had a C Version once and only encountered problems all the time :-( Buffer overflows and all this nice stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Crute wrote: On 8/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You know bud, read some rules, be polite. There are many who consider top posting to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Clement wrote: try PowerBasic Seems right. And how do I compile it? - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com]

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martins Steinbergs wrote: i extracted tar.gz version under user and run ~/laby/laby graphics, sound, everything works nice. no problem quiting. game disables Alt+Tab, so to get to other windowed task should quit game. Martins Yeah, it works.

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Gysin wrote: To get a chance of getting it included in the portage tree, you'll need to provide a package with everything needed to build the game from source. Some sort of build instruction would also be nice. But we can't... It

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging GCC

2005-08-22 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Six wrote: Hi, I just installed Gentoo. I decided I wanted GCJ and Objective C support in the GCC, so I recompiled it. Hmmm... I would try toying around with gcc-config and see if that solves your problem. Also, try 'source /etc/profile'.

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Markus Döbele wrote: I created a tar.gz Version of this game too. I'm sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version of the compiler. What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages? Like Acrobat Reader? Is this a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge glibc

2005-08-21 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, First thing IMHO QA-notices are for devs, rarely for users so ignore it if no error so far. The CFLAGS you *may* put on the command-line are added to those in /etc/make.conf, so no need to repeat all. Think the using -03

Re: [gentoo-user] sysctl.conf settings

2005-08-21 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Kintzios wrote: Also, when one logs spoofed packets, etc. using 'net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians=1' where will these get logged? Will I need to create a new entry in syslog-ng? A new file in /var/log? Regards, It will go out with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Media players

2005-08-07 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: Since when does Windows Media Player have DVD support? Last time I looked at it, it couldn't play DVDs by itself. Yeah, didn't know WiMP could do DVDs... Anyway, WiMP can play most everything... You just need to install the

Re: [gentoo-user] another emerge mozilla-firefox error

2005-08-01 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maxim wexler wrote: Hello everyone, #emerge mozilla-firefox barfs at intltool. Here's the appropriate part of the log: checking for perl configure:1676: found /usr/bin/perl configure:1688: result: /usr/bin/perl configure:1705: checking for

Re: [gentoo-user] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs

2005-07-30 Thread Matan Peled
Michael Haan wrote: Has anyone else seen this and have an idea for a fix? Are you sure its not your DVD drive that can't handle them? -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] ::

Re: [gentoo-user] Error while emerging gdm

2005-07-29 Thread Matan Peled
Tomas Linhart wrote: LOG FILE = /var/log/sandbox/sandbox-gnome-base_-_gdm-2.8.0.1-1869.log So, why not include this file? It probably includes oodles of useful information. -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recompiling vim linked to libncursesw

2005-07-27 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fernando Canizo wrote: Yes! In the next line a LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE: � This doesn't seem to be UTF-8 (I get a box in UTF-8 mode,) but it looks OK in latin-1. But you should see that ok, now if i reply to that message, when it reaches

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with esound

2005-07-27 Thread Matan Peled
Martin Larsson wrote: I'm running an emerge -avDu world, and portage wants to upgrade my esound to 0.2.36-r1 (from 0.2.34). However, this creates an error: jw -f docbook -b html -o html ./esound.sgml Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat Using stylesheet:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with esound

2005-07-27 Thread Matan Peled
Martin Larsson wrote: I'm running an emerge -avDu world, and portage wants to upgrade my esound to 0.2.36-r1 (from 0.2.34). However, this creates an error: jw -f docbook -b html -o html ./esound.sgml Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat Using stylesheet:

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] GPG keys, servers and signing (was, ATI Composte DRI)

2005-06-24 Thread Matan Peled
Holly Bostick wrote: OK, since this is getting to be kind of a whole thing, I've split it off. This message is (or should be) signed. Hopefully using PGP/MIME, which, if I understand Neil correctly, is what I'm supposed to do. You all have undoubtedly realized by now that I have little

Re: [gentoo-user] bootstrapping or Linux from the scratch with Intel C++ compiler?!

2005-05-27 Thread Matan Peled
Tamer Higazi wrote: Hi people! Has anybody of you ever bootstrapped / built Liunux from the scratch with the Intel C++ compiler?! I would love to know the process itself, if it was a difficulty step building linux from the scratch with a different compiler (implemetnation to get it run).

Re: [gentoo-user] Panasonic Toughbook

2005-05-25 Thread Matan Peled
Ian K wrote: Hi there, I have recently set up Gentoo on my friend's laptop, a Panasonic toughbook cf-37. I am currently having difficulty with sound use, but more importantly, his PCMCIA slot(?). When I put his wireless card (which he needs working) into the laptop, and do a dmesg, the

Re: [gentoo-user] package.* mess!

2005-05-25 Thread Matan Peled
Mrugesh Karnik wrote: Hello all, My Gentoo system is up and running beautifully. Along the way, I've installed many software. But, now, I want to make it all systematic, ie, use the files like package.use, package.keywords etc to list out the options i've used for the different software.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.10

2005-05-24 Thread Matan Peled
Ow Mun Heng wrote: There's a post here for a code for easy unmasking.. search for it. It's a perl script. Alternatively I can post it to you Perl script ... ? Why would you need a perl script ... ? Theres a oneliner in that page I sent him to.. This oneliner, to be exact: sed -n

Re: [gentoo-user] magic shifting sdX associations

2005-05-24 Thread Matan Peled
Eric S. Johansson wrote: in playing with USB flash drives on systems with SCSI disks, every time I boot with the flagstick installed, it gets assigned to /dev/sda and the SCSI drives are assigned to subsequent /dev/sdX device names. But when I remove the USB drive, all assignments shift down

Re: [gentoo-user] Install from Hell, now it's bash-2.05b

2005-05-23 Thread Matan Peled
Steven Susbauer wrote: Walter Dnes wrote: I'm trying to do a stage 1 install on an old 400 mhz PII with 128 megs of RAM for use as an experimental server. Compile options are sane... -O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -pipe I'm having extreme problems getting past... emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] My PHP support is gone! [SOLVED]

2005-05-23 Thread Matan Peled
Scott Becker wrote: http://www.provantage.com/buy-7trpl1cm-smartpro-750va-usb-int-ups-120v-6-outlet-tel-10bt-200k-ins-tripp-lite-smart750usb-shopping.htm Damn, thats a long file name... -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] ::

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-20 Thread Matan Peled
Michael Haan wrote: Nope. As near as I can tell, everything nVidia goes to crap when you install a new kernel. The list of things nVidia - previously working - which no longer work: 1) Ethernet - forcedeth stops working, nvnet won't build 2) X - 7174 gives some rm_init error 3) sata_nv -

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Keyboard

2005-05-20 Thread Matan Peled
Hendr Claassen wrote: *Disclaimer and confidentiality note* *All contents within the e-mail including any attachments relating to the official business of Fruitways (Pty) Ltd is proprietary to the Company. It is confidential, legally privileged and protected by law. Fruitways (Pty) Ltd

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

2005-05-19 Thread Matan Peled
Michael Haan wrote: I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do I fix it? Maybe you put in support for IPv6, which you didn't before? Why not take it out of the kernel? If you don't need it (very

Re: [gentoo-user] Files listed in the manifest do not exist! (GentooX becoming Gentoo I hope)

2005-05-16 Thread Matan Peled
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, This is mostly an experiment but the experiment is going well to this point. This machine began life as an XBox yesterday. I installed GentooX (not gentoo-xbox for reasons beyond the rhelm of this thread) and then went about emerging portage and seeing if I could

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

2005-05-16 Thread Matan Peled
Grant wrote: Has anyone switched to NPTL and noticed a speed difference? If so, what seems faster? Has anyone run across any packages that don't work well with NPTL? What about the practical difference between + and - nptlonly? - Grant Java apps benefit a lot from ntpl. Loki's Sim

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full

2005-05-14 Thread Matan Peled
Peter Ruskin wrote: $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 1036512 990012 46500 0 112992 559844 -/+ buffers/cache: 317176 719336 Swap: 2104432 1388281965604 You guys are using HIGHMEM,

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm HDIO_SET_DMA failed

2005-05-14 Thread Matan Peled
Peter Karlsson wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2005, Grant wrote: Thanks Peter. Is your -u1 a typo? No. That option works fine, afaict, with my drive/chipset combination (maxtor/ich5). Best regards Peter K Nice... Any idea how to pull this off with S/ATA? -- [Name ] :: [Matan I.

Re: [gentoo-user] Are there ANY working wireless cards?

2005-05-10 Thread Matan Peled
Josh Hunholz wrote: Most prism2/GT boards work great with in-kernel drivers, but they can be hard to find. Atheros based cards are plentiful and are supported through the madwifi drivers. Some others can be made to work with the windows driver via the NDIS wrapper, but I have never tried this.

Re: [gentoo-user] Are there ANY working wireless cards?

2005-05-10 Thread Matan Peled
Colin wrote: Just got around to trying to boot Gentoo 2005.0 on my desktop. My hard drive controller is now natively supported (Highpoint HPT372N), so the LiveCD booted without a problem. But now my wireless adapter (D-Link DWL-120+) isn't supported, since I don't have any network devices

Re: [gentoo-user] pushd and popd are usable on all gentoo platforms ?

2005-05-10 Thread Matan Peled
Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: the subject say it all ;-) this two command are always existent ? Their shell commands - they come with bash. So, yes. -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] ::

Re: [gentoo-user] Are there ANY working wireless cards?

2005-05-10 Thread Matan Peled
Colin wrote: Just got around to trying to boot Gentoo 2005.0 on my desktop. My hard drive controller is now natively supported (Highpoint HPT372N), so the LiveCD booted without a problem. But now my wireless adapter (D-Link DWL-120+) isn't supported, since I don't have any network devices

Re: [gentoo-user] fix a system suddenly un-networked and needing dhcpcd

2005-05-03 Thread Matan Peled
michael higgins wrote: Hey, all. I've just moved my work location for a couple of weeks while I house-sit for a relation. At _my_ home, I configure my IP addy and all manually, while sitting behind a router. Here, it seemed like I needed dhcpcd to make my connections, either directy

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd security question

2005-04-24 Thread Matan Peled
Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: As long as they dont know your password, username and it isnt an easy dictonary password. (which you said it isnt), you should be quite secure enuf :) I see these all the time on my companys servers and we are yet to get anyone even get the right username. I

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I use distcc to compile a kernel?

2005-04-24 Thread Matan Peled
Qian Qiao wrote: AFAIK, kernel is one of those packages that cannot be compiled with distcc. Correct me if I'm wrong. -- Joe Well, you're wrong :) Check out Nick's reply to his own question, 10 minutes after the fact. Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set monitor refresh rate in xorg

2005-04-23 Thread Matan Peled
Robert S wrote: I've just installed a new Dell monitor. I've set the vert/horiz refresh rates using the manufacturers' specs (congrats to Dell for making these easily available). When I get into X I get a refresh rate of 60Hz by default, but I'm able to increase this to 87 using the KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] download dynamic generated file using wget or curl

2005-04-21 Thread Matan Peled
Qiangning Hong wrote: I want to download some jpg's whose URL is as http://some.site/show.php?id=100. In firefox, the downloaded filename is correctly as somefile.jpg, but if I download it using wget or curl, the downloaded file name is show.php?id=100, which is not acceptable. Can anyone

[gentoo-user] UTF8, BiDi, urxvt, and irssi, oh my!

2005-04-14 Thread Matan Peled
So I'm trying to get irssi to play along with BiDi Hebrew. I got hebrew working by setting an UTF8 locale and moving to urxvt - but now irssi doesn't have BiDi support :? There is this picture: http://www.penguin.org.il/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=screenshotsid=irssi_bidi_fb And this