[gentoo-user] adsl-usb-modem question

2005-12-26 Thread nacho nacho
Hi, I am installing an adsl-usb-modem (conexant chipset). I have some questions about: (1) what is the interface nas0 and does it have anithing to do with gentoo or with the modem? (2) item (1) with sit0 (3) An installation script ask me to enter the ethernet inerface connected to the adsl modem,

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Dale schreef: Hi guys, and Holly, :D I'm on dial-up and try to watch my traffic and every once in a while I see a little blip on gkrellm. I fired up ethreal and started to sniff around. Parden the pun there. LOL This is what it says though which is strange. It's really the last two

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Peper
You see that little f there next to the ebuild? It has a fetch restriction. If you look a little ways up it will give you the URL to go to to accept the license and download it. After you download the java thing, move it to /usr/portage/distfiles/ then emerge it. I do this all the time

[gentoo-user] Re: (Newbie)Emerge Problem

2005-12-26 Thread Peper
As Mike pointed out, there is a Fetching files section in /etc/make.conf (/etc/make.conf.example) I think that adding this to /etc/make.conf will do the trick: FETCHCOMMAND=/usr/bin/wget -t 5 --proxy-user=spsingh --proxy-passwd=passwd --passive-ftp \${URI} -P \${DISTDIR}

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
Peper wrote: You see that little f there next to the ebuild? It has a fetch restriction. If you look a little ways up it will give you the URL to go to to accept the license and download it. After you download the java thing, move it to /usr/portage/distfiles/ then emerge it. I do this all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 05:41:10 -0600, Dale wrote: It's all about reading software license, which noone reads anyway :] I didn't read it on their site either. I don't see what difference it makes really. The difference is that you acknowledged that you had read it, even if you didn't. That's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Holly Bostick
Peper schreef: And there are also some packages like cedega, which you must even dowload by torrent :P After you have subscribed (which is the real reason for the fetch restriction)? It's only a 10MB rpm/deb/tgz, why would you have to download it by torrent? In that particular case, Cedega is

[gentoo-user] Xscreensaver issue

2005-12-26 Thread sHadoW MaN
Hi I have Xscreensaver 4.22 installed and the thing I find strange is that when a regular user locked the screen and then I tried to unlock the screen with root password, it does not work, with the previous versions this worked. is There a way to fix this please? Thanks a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Dec 2005, at 11:17, Dale wrote: Well, I did go to the site but it was *after* I got the traffic. How did they find me to begin with? I assume it was just a random hit. Sort of like a shot in the dark. They just automate sending of these messenger service spams. Send them to

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread W.Kenworthy
The majority of *crap* hitting my firewall (in Oz) comes from China. Use geoip iptables to block China for a more peaceful life. Its not as though there's any valuable sites there unless you have relatives or a reason to access something there! Taiwan and Hong Kong have also been suggested as

[gentoo-user] Passwords and Skype

2005-12-26 Thread Martin S
hi,Just two quickies. a/ When my firewall is about to start (Firestarter) is pops up a password dialog for the root password. If I check the remember password box, it still doesn't and thows up the same dialog again at next start. (KDE 3.5). Any ideas on how to tame the password dialog? (I've

[gentoo-user] PHP module loading on apache trouble after reboot

2005-12-26 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi all, I am having a big trouble, I reboot my box after an update of the kernel, then I see apache2 do not come up. try to startit by hand and got Syntax error on line 275 of /etc/apache2/httpd.conf: Cannot load /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp4.so into server:

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Peper
And there are also some packages like cedega, which you must even dowload by torrent :P After you have subscribed (which is the real reason for the fetch restriction)? It's only a 10MB rpm/deb/tgz, why would you have to download it by torrent? In that particular case, Cedega is a

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:40:51 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | fwiw, the termcap internals of vim and screen are just as ugly as | vi's - and they're much larger - and I don't see any complaints about | those programs on this list. Yes, but both of those can be told to use pure

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Bob Sanders
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 15:48:25 +0100 Peper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While writing this i thought about smth: cannot displaying licenses be implemented in emerge? If you want to progress(fetch the file) you must accept displayed license. Maybe sun will be happy with that... Licenses are

[gentoo-user] openmotif behavior

2005-12-26 Thread ÿffffc1lvaro Castro
Hello! :-) I have to say that I managed to switch completely to Linux! I'm very happy with that, although I'm still using a couple of closed-source programs (I cannot replace them at these moments) The problem I'm having with them (both) is that they use openmotif (I believe, looking inside

Re: [gentoo-user] openmotif behavior

2005-12-26 Thread Matias Grana
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:08:25PM +0100, ÿc1lvaro Castro wrote: Hello! :-) I have to say that I managed to switch completely to Linux! I'm very happy with that, although I'm still using a couple of closed-source programs (I cannot replace them at these moments) The problem I'm

Re: (fwd) Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:40:51 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | fwiw, the termcap internals of vim and screen are just as ugly as | vi's - and they're much larger - and I don't see any complaints about | those programs on this list.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Antoine
I have a Yahoo account. I wish I could check it in Mozilla-mail though. Why not? I get about one spam from them per month but that means they let me access via pop. You can certainly activate pop in yahoo. Maybe you can't access via pop with hotmail but yahoo, gmail and probably most

[gentoo-user] PHP trouble

2005-12-26 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi all; I had upgraded my system and I can not make my php4 to work with apache2. it initializes mod_php but it can not open .php files. in /etc/conf/apache2 the option -D PHP4 is setted what more should I do ? thanks, Allan -- An application asked: Requeires Windows 9x, NT4 or better,

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:40:51 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | fwiw, the termcap internals of vim and screen are just as ugly as | vi's - and they're much larger - and I don't see any complaints about | those programs on this list. Yes, but both of those can be told to use

Re: [gentoo-user] openmotif behavior

2005-12-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:08:25PM +0100, Penguin Lover ?c1lvaro Castro squawked: Hello! :-) I have to say that I managed to switch completely to Linux! I'm very happy with that, although I'm still using a couple of closed-source programs (I cannot replace them at these moments)

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Steven Susbauer
FYI, the messenger service is disabled by default as of Windows XP SP2On 12/26/05, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Yahoo account.I wish I could check it in Mozilla-mail though.Why not? I get about one spam from them per month but that means theylet me access via pop. You can

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 07:40:51 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | fwiw, the termcap internals of vim and screen are just as ugly as | vi's - and they're much larger - and I don't see any complaints about | those programs on this list. Yes, but both of those can be told to use

Re: [gentoo-user] openmotif behavior

2005-12-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 01:25:41PM -0300, Penguin Lover Matias Grana squawked: On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:08:25PM +0100, ??c1lvaro Castro wrote: One of them is, for example, Maya7.0, which uses the left button+ALT as combination for camera rotation. The point is that the same input

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP trouble

2005-12-26 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
browser tries to download .php file. On 12/26/05, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check this out. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Apache_Modules_mod_php It may help you.. As well exactly what error are you getting ? On 12/26/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all; I had

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP trouble

2005-12-26 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
All that was on the link I had try to do. still same error. On 12/26/05, Allan Spagnol Comar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: browser tries to download .php file. On 12/26/05, Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check this out. http://gentoo-wiki.com/Apache_Modules_mod_php It may help you..

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
W.Kenworthy wrote: The majority of *crap* hitting my firewall (in Oz) comes from China. Use geoip iptables to block China for a more peaceful life. Its not as though there's any valuable sites there unless you have relatives or a reason to access something there! Taiwan and Hong Kong have

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
Steven Susbauer wrote: FYI, the messenger service is disabled by default as of Windows XP SP2 On 12/26/05, *Antoine* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Yahoo account. I wish I could check it in Mozilla-mail though. Why not? I get about one

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox window sizing

2005-12-26 Thread maxim wexler
--- Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 08:09:13AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote Hello everybody, I can no longer see the status bar in my firefox browser. I can't seem to alter the vertical size by dragging the upper right corner of the window down.

[gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Peper
Click on the SDK and it takes you to a separate page with a long legal license with an accept or decline. Then it triggers the download. Sun's website handles all that, not the target system. Yes, I do know that and that's why i proposed a new solution for this - emerge would handle showing

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Dec 2005, at 4:51, Antoine wrote: I have a Yahoo account. I wish I could check it in Mozilla-mail though. Why not? I get about one spam from them per month but that means they let me access via pop. You can certainly activate pop in yahoo. Maybe you can't access via pop with

Re: [gentoo-user] openmotif behavior

2005-12-26 Thread Matias Grana
On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 12:04:16PM -0500, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 05:08:25PM +0100, Penguin Lover ?c1lvaro Castro squawked: Hello! [snip] Do you know any way to supress this behavior for enlightenment (or however), and, if possible, only for the problematic

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Dale: I did download the file listed on their site but it is a .exe file. I have no idea what it does though. It's not like I can install it. LOL You can run strings on it, or have a peek in a hex editor... Where's my rope again?? I have a lot of trees. ;-) Dale :-) -d

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing an image on multiple pages

2005-12-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 17:36:43 -0200, Bruno Lustosa wrote: I have tried gimp (with gimp-print) and gqview, but couldn't find a way to print the image across lots of pages. What do you use to do this? Sure someone here needs something like that, right? kprinter will do this. I'm not sure of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:46:55 +0100, Peper wrote: Yes, I do know that and that's why i proposed a new solution for this - emerge would handle showing license and user will accept or decline it. If user accepts fetching starts... Which would almost certainly break Sun's licence, they want to

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-26 Thread El Nino
is it possible to use an one(1) Wireless Access Point(54Mbps) for the whole two floors(the building)? whats all your advice? ps: all advices are wellcome. On 12/23/05, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 22, 2005, at 7:12 PM, Lares Moreau wrote: office (2 floors) Can you drill

[gentoo-user] Stable versions vanished!?

2005-12-26 Thread Matthias Bethke
After finishing my latest sync, portage moaned about problems with my world file. emaint found out it was due to some package updates that deleted the versions I have installed and left only unstable ones. In particular, it was dev-tex/latex-beamer and its dependencies, pgf and xcolor. Nice to see

Re: [gentoo-user] VT Navigation

2005-12-26 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Monday 26 December 2005 14:13, a tiny voice compelled Peter Ruskin to write: I used to be able to change to the prior|next VT by pressing Alt-left|right arrow. I don't know what stopped this from working. Does anyone know how to enable this behaviour? -- Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable versions vanished!?

2005-12-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:36:44 +0100 Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | After finishing my latest sync, portage moaned about problems with my | world file. emaint found out it was due to some package updates that | deleted the versions I have installed and left only unstable ones. | In

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable versions vanished!?

2005-12-26 Thread Lares Moreau
Bug 116811 :) [insecure] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116811 [secure] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116811 Getting fixed. On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 21:41 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 21:36:44 +0100 Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | After

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 12:02:37 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm certain we're talking about something different, since neither | vim nor screen uses any other interface in that area than termcap. | | I was just in screen yesterday, and am looking at vim right now, just | in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Dec 2005, at 20:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:46:55 +0100, Peper wrote: Yes, I do know that and that's why i proposed a new solution for this - emerge would handle showing license and user will accept or decline it. If user accepts fetching starts... Which would

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Mon, 26 Dec 2005 12:02:37 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm certain we're talking about something different, since neither | vim nor screen uses any other interface in that area than termcap. | | I was just in screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
darren kirby wrote: You can run strings on it, or have a peek in a hex editor... How I do that? What would I learn from it? hex editor? I think I saw that somewhere. O_O I thought KDE used to have something that I could view it with but since the upgrade I can't find it. Maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Eric Bliss
On Monday 26 December 2005 05:20 pm, Dale wrote: You can run strings on it, or have a peek in a hex editor... How I do that? What would I learn from it? hex editor? I think I saw that somewhere. O_O I thought KDE used to have something that I could view it with but since the upgrade I

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing an image on multiple pages

2005-12-26 Thread Alan E. Davis
A useful postscript utility is called poster. It can do this for many postscript files. Perhaps you can convert to postscript and do this? Don't know exactly what you have in mind. I have printed a tide graph on 12 sheets, and cut and pasted (meatspace) them together on the wall of my

Re: [gentoo-user] Printing an image on multiple pages

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
Alan E. Davis wrote: A useful postscript utility is called poster. It can do this for many postscript files. Perhaps you can convert to postscript and do this? Don't know exactly what you have in mind. I have printed a tide graph on 12 sheets, and cut and pasted (meatspace) them together

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
Eric Bliss wrote: On Monday 26 December 2005 05:20 pm, Dale wrote: You can run strings on it, or have a peek in a hex editor... How I do that? What would I learn from it? hex editor? I think I saw that somewhere. O_O I thought KDE used to have something that I could view it

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:10:15PM -0600, Dale wrote Source: 215.146.157.191 (215.146.157.191) Destination: 205.208.159.31 (205.208.159.31) User Datagram Protocol, Src Port: 44356 (44356), Dst Port: 1026 (1026) Source port: 44356 (44356) Destination port: 1026 (1026)

[gentoo-user] emerge update fails; The tale of the battling dependancies

2005-12-26 Thread Walter Dnes
I need to use ufraw, because it can read some *.raw files that dcraw can't read. I had to unmask ufraw because it's ~x86. ufraw also needs a ~x86 version of libexif. Things work OK, but emerge wants to return to the latest stable version, which is *NOT* what I want, as it'll probably break

[gentoo-user] Upgrade was a downgrade and things went south from there.

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
Hi everybody, I did my emerge sync and emerge -uv world a bit ago. This was not a good idea. It downgraded dbus, hal and gnome-vfs. I saw the downgrade was going on and figured there must be a problem so I let it downgrade. Well after that was done I was going to restart the services so

Re: [gentoo-user] wireless network advantages

2005-12-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 26 December 2005 22:27, El Nino wrote: is it possible to use an one(1) Wireless Access Point(54Mbps) for the whole two floors(the building)? whats all your advice? Depends. How much iron is in the walls and ceilings? Are there any significant bodies of water in between? Plants as well as

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update fails; The tale of the battling dependancies

2005-12-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:22:33AM -0500, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: I need to use ufraw, because it can read some *.raw files that dcraw can't read. I had to unmask ufraw because it's ~x86. ufraw also needs a ~x86 version of libexif. Things work OK, but emerge wants to return to

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade was a downgrade and things went south from there.

2005-12-26 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: I'm not a genius, as y'all well know, but isn't that a awful lot to fix? I ran this the other day and it gave me a clean bill of health. I think I unmerged that [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnome-vfs thing a while back too. Where is that coming from? I use KDE. Before I do anything

Re: [gentoo-user] Passwords and Skype

2005-12-26 Thread Mariusz Pękala
On 2005-12-26 14:17:21 +0100 (Mon, Dec), Martin S wrote: a/ When my firewall is about to start (Firestarter) is pops up a password dialog for the root password. If I check the remember password box, it still doesn't and thows up the same dialog again at next start. (KDE 3.5). Any ideas on how