Re: [gentoo-user] Re: best circuit drawing software

2008-03-01 Thread Petric Frank
Hello Maxim, On Samstag, 1. März 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-03-01, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working on to an electronics group. Nothing too elaborate, just sketches really, but with the proper symbology.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 29 February 2008, Jonathan Haws wrote: Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system without reinstalling from scratch? Don't know about ghost, but take a look at partimage (http://partimage.org). -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-01 Thread b.n.
maxim wexler ha scritto: Hi group, If you're looking for PC power supply on ebay and you come across a Dynex, big quiet fan, PCI-E, SATA, 24 pin for cheap from 2213Joseph. New in Box! Don't buy it. You'll get the Dynex box alright and a new PS but it's just a run of the mill, noisy,

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 12:27 -0700, Jonathan Haws wrote: I am having a major problem right now with my laptop. I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD. However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made and it restores just find but

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 1. März 2008, b.n. wrote: maxim wexler ha scritto: Hi group, If you're looking for PC power supply on ebay and you come across a Dynex, big quiet fan, PCI-E, SATA, 24 pin for cheap from 2213Joseph. New in Box! Don't buy it. You'll get the Dynex box alright and a new PS but

[gentoo-user] Set a property on a file and have it remove when the file is modified?

2008-03-01 Thread Erik
Is it possible to set a property on a file and have it remove automatically when the file is modified? Suppose that we have a style checker that checks a lot of source code files. Once it examined a file and found it to be clean, it should set a property on the file (style-clean). Whenever

[gentoo-user] [OT] Calendar application

2008-03-01 Thread Dan Johansson
I'm looking for a Calendar application with the following features: * Server based (multiple clients, Linux M$) * Must work with KDE-KOrganizer and Thunderbird-Lightning * Support for Private and Shared Calendars * WEB-access is a plus but not a must * OpenSource * Preferably in portage Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Set a property on a file and have it remove when the file is modified?

2008-03-01 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 13:40 +0100, Erik wrote: Is it possible to set a property on a file and have it remove automatically when the file is modified? Suppose that we have a style checker that checks a lot of source code files. Once it examined a file and found it to be clean, it should

Re: [gentoo-user] Set a property on a file and have it remove when the file is modified?

2008-03-01 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 1 March 2008, Erik wrote: Is it possible to set a property on a file and have it remove automatically when the file is modified? Suppose that we have a style checker that checks a lot of source code files. Once it examined a file and found it to be clean, it should set a property

[gentoo-user] Can't boot Compaq Proliant 1600

2008-03-01 Thread Daniel da Veiga
Hello list, I am struggling with an old Compaq Proliant 1600 for a while. It boots perfectly using the Minimal Install CD, and all the install process goes well. When its time to boot its own kernel, GRUB loads the files, goes to the message OK, booting the kernel. and just hangs there. I used

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-03-01 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2008, Mike Mazur wrote: Hi, On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Situation: There's a LAN with a Netgear ADSL router... heterogenous OS, including Gentoo, are installed on various PCs on the LAN. I'd like to know

Re: [gentoo-user] Set a property on a file and have it remove when the file is modified?

2008-03-01 Thread Matthias Guede
2008/3/1, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible to set a property on a file and have it remove automatically when the file is modified? Suppose that we have a style checker that checks a lot of source code files. Once it examined a file and found it to be clean, it should set a property

Re: [gentoo-user] Set a property on a file and have it remove when the file is modified?

2008-03-01 Thread Erik
Matthias Guede skrev: 2008/3/1, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is it possible to set a property on a file and have it remove automatically when the file is modified? Suppose that we have a style checker that checks a lot of source code files. Once it examined a file and found it to be clean, it

[gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, Can anyone tell me what packages you know of that will break your system if you choose to put ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 in your make.conf file? I have had my system break, twice now, from a package upgrade - I think that one of the culprits

Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software

2008-03-01 Thread don
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:17:27AM +0900, Mike Mazur wrote: Your sketches can be saved as .png or .jpg so anyone should be able to view them. The best format for line drawings is a vector format like svg. With a vector format the image can be scaled to any size and still stay sharp. A bitmap

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, Can anyone tell me what packages you know of that will break your system if you choose to put ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 in your make.conf file? I have had my

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-03-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 01 March 2008, Drew Tomlinson wrote: Sometimes the router has an accounting feature. Otherwise you need to make a Linux box the gateway for the entire LAN and hang the ADSL router off one of it's interfaces. Then do accounting via any one of numerous tools   I concur with

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot Compaq Proliant 1600

2008-03-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 01 March 2008, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Hello list, I am struggling with an old Compaq Proliant 1600 for a while. It boots perfectly using the Minimal Install CD, and all the install process goes well. When its time to boot its own kernel, GRUB loads the files, goes to the message

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-01 Thread Mick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 1. März 2008, b.n. wrote: maxim wexler ha scritto: This is such an obvious fraud it makes me wonder at his 100% positive feedback. I've started a dispute with Paypal against him. That's why, I

[gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread davecode
What supports what is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device backup if you like. This is your basic choice in backup - device or fs. Me personally,

[gentoo-user] mlmmj get-Nth message

2008-03-01 Thread davecode
How does this work? I am on nomail option so I need to pull the message ID from a web archive. What does such an ID look like? What does the corresponding mlmmj query message look like? I tried a couple of experiments but nothing worked for me. This is the only way for my replies to fit into

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone tell me?

2008-03-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 12:16:36 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Chris Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, Can anyone tell me what packages you know of that will break your system if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:04:31 -0500 Ritesh Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:23 PM, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system without reinstalling from scratch? I've had success with #dd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-03-01 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:21:48 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 1. März 2008, b.n. wrote: maxim wexler ha scritto: This is such an obvious fraud it makes me wonder at his 100% positive

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't boot Compaq Proliant 1600

2008-03-01 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 01 March 2008, Daniel da Veiga wrote: Hello list, I am struggling with an old Compaq Proliant 1600 for a while. It boots perfectly using the Minimal Install CD, and all the install process goes well. When its time to boot its own kernel, GRUB loads the

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dan Farrell wrote: On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 02:04:31 -0500 Ritesh Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:23 PM, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system without reinstalling from scratch? I've had

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I wrote: If you want to back the system up while it is running (in particular /), then you need to use a tool that understands how to create a backup image that is valid (i.e will boot) - something like xfsdump, *dumpe2fs* etc or smart tar/dump based tools like Amanda. Hmm - dunno what I

[gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-01 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Notice in the following portage has nothing to say about blockers following a warning from revdep-rebuild. And the -u switch calls forth an earlier version of python but without the -u switch is content to re-emerge the newer package which I already have on my system. This was all

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:51:06PM +1300, Mark Kirkwood wrote: I wrote: If you want to back the system up while it is running (in particular /), then you need to use a tool that understands how to create a backup image that is valid (i.e will boot) - something like xfsdump, *dumpe2fs* etc