Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES

2009-05-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 10 May 2009 05:35:32 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: loop-aes and aespipe are part of the gentoo-portage. Is ciphers, which is also offered via loop-aes.sourceforge.net also part of portage? I dont find it... Or any other way to choose different cipher-algorithms to be used with

Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)

2009-05-10 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 09 May 2009, Dale wrote: I was talking about with just a plain file system.  I read in a install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having /boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good security practice.  That way no one could alter the kernel

Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)

2009-05-10 Thread Dale
Francesco Talamona wrote: On Saturday 09 May 2009, Dale wrote: I was talking about with just a plain file system. I read in a install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having /boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good security practice. That way

Re: [gentoo-user] Loop-AES

2009-05-10 Thread meino . cramer
Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net [09-05-10 08:30]: On Sun, 10 May 2009 05:35:32 +0200 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: loop-aes and aespipe are part of the gentoo-portage. Is ciphers, which is also offered via loop-aes.sourceforge.net also part of portage? I dont find it... Or any

[gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

2009-05-10 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline (useable from a script). I have a/LOT/ of datasheets of electronics and want to make something like a pdf gallery to find pdfs faster... Thanks a lot for any help in advance!

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

2009-05-10 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline (useable from a script). I have a/LOT/ of datasheets of electronics and want to make something like a pdf gallery to find pdfs faster...

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

2009-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
meino.cra...@gmx.de schrieb: Hi, does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline (useable from a script). I have a/LOT/ of datasheets of electronics and want to make something like a pdf gallery to find pdfs faster...

Re: [gentoo-user] Nokia PC Suite on VMware

2009-05-10 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Paul Hartman schrieb: Does anybody have Nokia PC Suite working on VMware or I need setup Win on my laptop? - I'd want avoid this if possible... I think vmware server cannot by default access USB devices plugged into the host, but you can possibly edit the vmx file to enable it. I think it

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

2009-05-10 Thread meino . cramer
Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net [09-05-10 12:35]: meino.cra...@gmx.de schrieb: Hi, does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline (useable from a script). I have a/LOT/ of datasheets of electronics

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

2009-05-10 Thread Cédric Cabessa
Le dimanche 10 mai 2009 11:26:55, cramer a écrit : Hi, does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline (useable from a script). imagemagick ? $ convert myfile.pdf prefix.jpg will create prefix-1.jpg, prefix-2.jpg,

Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 May 2009, at 01:58, Alexey Luchko wrote: ... But then I've got the following collision. Obviously, a portage update is required. But it is confused by dependencies: colinux ~ # emerge portage --pretend --tree These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Nokia PC Suite on VMware

2009-05-10 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
Saturday, May 9, 2009, 10:12:37 PM, Robert wrote: Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: I have laptop running Gentoo and VMware Server on it. I need Nokia PC Suite to manage my Nokia mobile phone. Does anybody have Nokia PC Suite working on VMware or I need setup Win on my laptop? - I'd want avoid this

[gentoo-user] gnome-terminal, failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.

2009-05-10 Thread Adrian
Hi all - There is a bug report on this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268846 and that report points to some other links: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-April/msg00451.html http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=570588 one of which contains a patch to fix

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Nokia PC Suite on VMware

2009-05-10 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
Sunday, May 10, 2009, 4:30:20 AM, Paul wrote: 2009/5/9 Sergey A. Kobzar sergey.kob...@mail.ru: Hello. I have laptop running Gentoo and VMware Server on it. I need Nokia PC Suite to manage my Nokia mobile phone. Does anybody have Nokia PC Suite working on VMware or I need setup Win on my

Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)

2009-05-10 Thread Stroller
On 9 May 2009, at 16:23, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 09 May 2009 15:13:35 Stroller wrote: On 9 May 2009, at 13:41, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller: This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_, it definitely _is_ a rule.

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Nokia PC Suite on VMware

2009-05-10 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
Sunday, May 10, 2009, 1:35:41 PM, Stefan wrote: Paul Hartman schrieb: Does anybody have Nokia PC Suite working on VMware or I need setup Win on my laptop? - I'd want avoid this if possible... I think vmware server cannot by default access USB devices plugged into the host, but you can

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal, failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.

2009-05-10 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 10 May 2009 06:23:03 -0600 Adrian linux...@204eastsouth.com wrote: There is a bug report on this: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=268846 and that report points to some other links: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2009-April/msg00451.html

[gentoo-user] Exim's log files

2009-05-10 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
By default Exim puts its main log to /var/log/exim/exim_main.log, but many software like logwatch, munin expect log in /var/log/exim/main.log. Also in many distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, Fedore Core, FreeBSD /var/log/exim/main.log path is used. Developer of Exim does not recommend change main

Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping audio from a video DVD

2009-05-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 09 May 2009 21:04:31 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Saturday 09 May 2009 18:48:32 Florian Philipp wrote: The way I do it usually: mplayer dvd://1 -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound.ac3 [wait] a52dec -o wav sound.ac3 sound.wav oggenc sound.wav e voila: sound.ogg is a rather small

[gentoo-user] Re: WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

2009-05-10 Thread walt
Jorge Morais wrote: When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this: ** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name... You don't appear to be running an actual gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping audio from a video DVD

2009-05-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 May 2009, at 14:42, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... Well, using undvd stripped out an 86MB .avi file, which I've uploaded to the Web site. FWIW I don't believe undvd's AVI files to be very specification compliant. The author implemented .mp4 support after I pointed this out to him, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping audio from a video DVD

2009-05-10 Thread Stroller
On 10 May 2009, at 16:38, Stroller wrote: ... .flv, then it looks like you upload it - and a player - to your server along with a little HTML. This http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/ appears to be (based on?) the same player YouTube uses. PS: I found this via:

Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 10 May 2009 02:58:41 Alexey Luchko wrote: Hi! I have a gentoo installed, but I wasn't updating it since late 2007, I suppose. Today I've run emerge --sync. It worked! It's great ;) But then I've got the following collision. Obviously, a portage update is required. But it is

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

2009-05-10 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Cédric Cabessa c...@ryick.net wrote: Le dimanche 10 mai 2009 11:26:55, cramer a écrit : Hi, does anyone know a trick/package, which allows my to convert the pages of a pdf file to images via the commandline (useable from a script). imagemagick ? $

[gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
I know this has probably all been covered by I've looked around and failed to find a succinct source of information. I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current i686-2008 minimal cd.

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Matt Harrison schrieb: I know this has probably all been covered by I've looked around and failed to find a succinct source of information. I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current

[gentoo-user] MythWeb on Gentoo?

2009-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm wondering if there is a wiki for getting MythWeb running on Gentoo. I've emerge the package, started apache2, and if I browse the Myth backend server I see an 'It works' message which is simply the contents of the index.htnl file in /var/www/localhost/htdocs directory. When I try

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon': no such name

2009-05-10 Thread Jorge Morais
On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:50:47 -0700 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Jorge Morais wrote: When starting evince from a terminal, I get a message like this: ** (evince:3597): WARNING **: Failed to create dbus proxy for org.gnome.SettingsDaemon: Could not get owner of name

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Florian Philipp wrote: How about a good old sneakernet? [1] Grab a memory stick and use it to transfer data between your eee and a decent machine. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneaker_net Hey thanks for the reply, Ok so assuming I can get the stage3 and portage snapshot plus some

[gentoo-user] Re: MythWeb on Gentoo?

2009-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   I'm wondering if there is a wiki for getting MythWeb running on Gentoo. I've emerge the package, started apache2, and if I browse the Myth backend server I see an 'It works' message which is simply the contents of

[gentoo-user] Re: how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-10 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Sunday 10 May 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Once you sort that out, there's a whole host of other stuff to fix as well - expat, latest xorg and many more - all stuff that everyone else fixed a while ago and since forgot. Yes, beware of mktemp/coreutils too. I don't remember of other dangers,

[gentoo-user] Re: MythWeb on Gentoo?

2009-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,   I'm wondering if there is a wiki for getting MythWeb running on Gentoo. I've emerge the package, started apache2, and if I browse the Myth

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:57:28 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unfortunately this doesn't work with the wired or wireless

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MythWeb on Gentoo?

2009-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 10 May 2009 13:02:26 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Error at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/modules/status/handler.php, line 29: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration You need allow_url_fopen = On in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MythWeb on Gentoo?

2009-05-10 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 13:02:26 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Error at /var/www/localhost/htdocs/mythweb/modules/status/handler.php, line 29: file_get_contents() [function.file-get-contents]: URL file-access is disabled in the

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...

2009-05-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 10 May 2009 12:30:43 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: You can use pdftopnm (app-text/poppler) to generate bitmap images from your pdfs. Then you can use pnmtopng (media-libs/netpbm) to create pngs from them. I suppose there are also tools for creating jpegs and such alike but I haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:57:28 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: I'm wanting to try gentoo on my eeepc 900, but I'm failing at some very basic level. I've got an external CD drive attached and booted from the current i686-2008 minimal cd. Unfortunately this doesn't work with the

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have read here and there

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have read here and there

Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time

2009-05-10 Thread Nick Fortino
Alexey Luchko wrote: Hi! I have a gentoo installed, but I wasn't updating it since late 2007, I suppose. Today I've run emerge --sync. It worked! It's great ;) But then I've got the following collision. Obviously, a portage update is required. But it is confused by dependencies: colinux ~

Re: [gentoo-user] yet another eeepc story

2009-05-10 Thread Matt Harrison
Matt Harrison wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 10 May 2009 21:42:46 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: The only other thing I was thinking about is: If the appropriate drivers for this eee900 are indeed in the 2.6.28 series, can you provide pointers to the locations of necessary options? I have

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-terminal, failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.

2009-05-10 Thread Adrian
On Sun, 10 May 2009 18:34:23 +0600 Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net wrote the words: Try this sequence: Darn if I didn't manage to do that without messing up. Thanks so very much. Problem fixed. Adrian -- On The Fly Photography -:- Creation From Chaos On The Fly

[gentoo-user] ssh-agent RSA

2009-05-10 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Hi all, I'm running ssh-agent so I only have to type my passphrase once. At least that was the plan. I'm trying to use an RSA key instead of DSA. This does not seem to please ssh-agent. It seems to just look for id_dsa and ignore the id_rsa. (a) If I create a DSA key then it finds that and

[gentoo-user] Window borders in gnome desktop when maximized hide behind panels

2009-05-10 Thread Thanasis
After some recent update (~x86), windows in gnome desktop when maximized hide their borders/bars behind the desktop panels, which is really annoying. In the case of terminals, the prompt gets almost hidden, in the case of other applications, the file menu gets hidden, scrollbars etc... Has