Re: [gentoo-user] Install Advice

2007-02-19 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
Mike Adolf wrote: > I have been using Linux for several years, but am new to gentoo. I just > got a new dell xps 410 system with a intel duo E6400 processor. I have > tried all the distros I've used in the past, kubuntu, suse, mandriva. > All had problems serious enough to not use them. The pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
Andrew MacKenzie wrote: >> Hi. I'm looking for a portable (Linux, *BSD, Mac, Win) way to carry >> around encrypted files on a USB drive. I would like for the >> encryption/decryption to be transparent to me, so something that I can >> mount would be great. I know pretty much how to do encrypted

[gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive

2007-02-05 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi. I'm looking for a portable (Linux, *BSD, Mac, Win) way to carry around encrypted files on a USB drive. I would like for the encryption/decryption to be transparent to me, so something that I can mount would be great. I know pretty much how to d

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help

2007-01-25 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Grant wrote: > Hello, I woke up this morning and turned on my laptop to find that it > no longer boots. It initially hung on starting hald, and once I > prevented hald from starting it hung on gdm, and once I prevented gdm > from starting I could lo

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot

2007-01-20 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good morning! > I am looking to back up my dvd collection and have dvdrip but i have a > lot of dvd's which are encrypted which poses a problem is there any way to > get around this. (i know all this could be slig

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router

2007-01-14 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Honestly for making a router ShoreWall really helps out. Shorewall is basically a set of scripts that read configuration files that you set up and then interacts with iptables for you. http://www.shorewall.net/ http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_qu

Re: [gentoo-user] Need help networking two machines.

2007-01-12 Thread Thomas Lingefelt
Dale wrote: > Daniel Iliev wrote: >> Dale wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I have done this before. Maybe something has changed because I can not >>> get it to work now. My main rig is called smoker. The second rig is >>> currently booted off the CD. I plan to use my main rig to sync and get >>> d