Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-07 Thread meino . cramer
Paul Hartman [09-08-03 23:09]: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 3:22 PM, Grant wrote: > > I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've > > also read that it can happen eventually. I'm on ext3. I've read that > > ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet. > >

[gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-08, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/08/2009 05:29 AM, Dale wrote: > >> I had thought about picking up a Linksys router and putting it >> between my desktop and the modem. > > Your modem is probably a router anyway. Almost certainly (at least in the US). DSL modems with Ethernet inter

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/08/2009 06:19 AM, Dale wrote: >> I just synced and ran emerge -uvDNa world. I think I am going to wait. >> 142,529 kB over a 24K connection would take about 15 hours. I think DSL >> would be faster. Heck, may be faster to wait anyway. LOL > > Well, as for over h

[gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/08/2009 06:19 AM, Dale wrote: I just synced and ran emerge -uvDNa world. I think I am going to wait. 142,529 kB over a 24K connection would take about 15 hours. I think DSL would be faster. Heck, may be faster to wait anyway. LOL Well, as for over here, my ADSL line gives me about 2.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/08/2009 05:29 AM, Dale wrote: >> I had thought about picking up a Linksys router and putting it between >> my desktop and the modem. > > Your modem is probably a router anyway. > > >> I also plan to change my root password. Of course, my password >> isn't as bad as

[gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/08/2009 05:29 AM, Dale wrote: I had thought about picking up a Linksys router and putting it between my desktop and the modem. Your modem is probably a router anyway. I also plan to change my root password. Of course, my password isn't as bad as some I have seen. May need to disable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-08-08, David wrote: > > >> Been using Bellsouth which is now AT&T for the last 6 years. >> You should get a modem from them, I have a Westell 6100; >> http://www.amazon.com/Westell-6100-ADSL2-Modem-Router/dp/B000QPPY0A >> It has two ways to use it Ethernet or usb,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread David
Grant Edwards wrote: Do not connect your desktop machine directly to a bridge. No, everything goes through the WRT54GL, it is runnung DD-WRT v23 SP2. It's possible to harden a desktop such that it can be more-or-less safely connected to a bridge, but if the OP had that sort of expertise, he

[gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-08, David wrote: > Been using Bellsouth which is now AT&T for the last 6 years. > You should get a modem from them, I have a Westell 6100; > http://www.amazon.com/Westell-6100-ADSL2-Modem-Router/dp/B000QPPY0A > It has two ways to use it Ethernet or usb, use Ethernet and > disable the u

[gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/08/2009 04:09 AM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/08/2009 02:45 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, Anyone here have AT&T DSL? Is there anything special software wise that I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and set it up that way? If your "modem" is c

[gentoo-user] Problem with AFP sharing and NTFS drives

2009-08-07 Thread Jamie Dobbs
Hi I am having as issue with 2 x NTFS drives that are in my Gentoo box that I am trying to share by AFP. EXT2/EXT3 shared drives work fine but not NTFS, it just returns and error when trying to mount on the Mac that the volume could not be mounted. Here are the relevant sections of the config fi

Re: [gentoo-user] DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread David
Dale wrote: Hi folks, Anyone here have AT&T DSL? Is there anything special software wise that I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and set it up that way? As some may know, I have been promised DSL for the past 5 years or so. It is supposed to be here next week

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/08/2009 02:45 AM, Dale wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> Anyone here have AT&T DSL? Is there anything special software wise that >> I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and >> set it up that way? > > If your "modem" is connect by Ethernet, th

[gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/08/2009 02:45 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, Anyone here have AT&T DSL? Is there anything special software wise that I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and set it up that way? If your "modem" is connect by Ethernet, then it's probably a router/modem/switch c

[gentoo-user] DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Dale
Hi folks, Anyone here have AT&T DSL? Is there anything special software wise that I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and set it up that way? As some may know, I have been promised DSL for the past 5 years or so. It is supposed to be here next week. They put th

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance "accelerator")

2009-08-07 Thread Grant
Here is some info on zflashpoint: http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 It is supposed to be an SSD performance "accelerator". "Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of Windows writes are small, so that introduces over

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-07 Thread Grant
>> >>  It never >> >> made a sound before, but now there's a rhythmic grinding sound when >> >> miro is running, maybe because the HD is more full now. >> > >> > In my experience, the rate of change of hard drive access volume is >> > inversely proportional with the drive's lifetime.  The faster it

Re: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg

2009-08-07 Thread Dale
Skippy wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to use emerge -D on my system, but it is pretty > consistently blocked. You can see an example of this below. > > I think the reason for this is because I have masked Xorg. I'm still > running 1.3.0.0-r6. My last attempt to upgrade Xorg resulted in a >

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-07 Thread pk
Alex Schuster wrote: > I had tried vanilla-sources, with the same results. As expected, there > should not be much of a difference. I am not using tuxonice suspend > features, but I intend to do so in the future. Hm, ok. > I added your stuff, that did not make much of a difference. I had an em

Re: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg

2009-08-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 07 August 2009 18:39:27 Skippy wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to use emerge -D on my system, but it is pretty > consistently blocked. You can see an example of this below. > > I think the reason for this is because I have masked Xorg. I'm still > running 1.3.0.0-r6. My last attemp

[gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg

2009-08-07 Thread Skippy
Hi all, I would like to use emerge -D on my system, but it is pretty consistently blocked. You can see an example of this below. I think the reason for this is because I have masked Xorg. I'm still running 1.3.0.0-r6. My last attempt to upgrade Xorg resulted in a totally hosed system which

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread pk
Stroller wrote: > I'd be grateful if those of you who have been able to reproduce this > would confirm so on b.g.o. so that the devs are aware that the problem > isn't isolated to me: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280620 Done. Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Website disabling right click

2009-08-07 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 15:26, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Paul Hartman wrote: >>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have this website that I purchase products off of and this is getti

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance "accelerator")

2009-08-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: >>> Here is some info on zflashpoint: >>> >>> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 >>> >>> It is supposed to be an SSD performance "accelerator". >>> >>> "Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of >>> Windows writes are small, so that introduc

Re: [gentoo-user] Website disabling right click

2009-08-07 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Dale wrote: > >> Paul Hartman wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> Hi folks, I have this website that I purchase products off of and this is getting on my nerves. I'm accustomed t

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-07 Thread meino . cramer
Grant [09-08-07 17:40]: > >> > I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've > >> > also read that it can happen eventually.  I'm on ext3.  I've read that > >> > ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet. > >> > >> It's not that they aren't supposed to be

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance "accelerator")

2009-08-07 Thread Grant
>> Here is some info on zflashpoint: >> >> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 >> >> It is supposed to be an SSD performance "accelerator". >> >> "Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of >> Windows writes are small, so that introduces overall system lag.

Re: [gentoo-user] Website disabling right click

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Dale wrote: > Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Dale wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> I have this website that I purchase products off of and this is getting >>> on my nerves. I'm accustomed to right clicking and opening in new tabs >>> and such

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-07 Thread Grant
>> > I know Linux systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, but I've >> > also read that it can happen eventually.  I'm on ext3.  I've read that >> > ext4 will have a defragmenter but that it doesn't have one yet. >> >> It's not that they aren't supposed to become fragmented, it is that >> they

Re: [gentoo-user] Website disabling right click

2009-08-07 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Dale wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I have this website that I purchase products off of and this is getting >> on my nerves. I'm accustomed to right clicking and opening in new tabs >> and such, especially when searching for products. Is their

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Stroller > wrote: >> On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:42, Stroller wrote: >>> >>> I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly whereby >>> locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same direc

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Stroller wrote: > On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:42, Stroller wrote: >> >> I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly whereby >> locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same directory, but not >> the DVD right next to it, and both files seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-07 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > I have a Radeon HD 3200 and I am using ati-drivers-8.552-r2. Higher > > versions did not compile. My kernel is 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3, and with > > newer kernels I was not able to build any ati-drivers at all. That was > > a while ago. I tried ati-drivers-9.6 a mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Stroller
On 7 Aug 2009, at 09:04, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... What are the contents of your /etc/updatedb.conf? I'm pretty sure it's stock standard, see attached. My systems are both 32-bit - early model Pentium 4s, the kind with 100mhz FSBs. I had already opened bug #280620 for this when I posted ye

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Alex Schuster
pk writes: > So why does it prune files with bigger size than about 4Gb? The only > thing I can think of is that my machine is 32bit... But why would > slocate use file size as a factor? I can confirm the problem on my 32bit machine with default updatedb.conf. I had to emerge slocate first for t

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread pk
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > just calculate the result of 2^32 I know this but why would file size matter to slocate? Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 07 August 2009, pk wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > My box is 64 bit. Strolelr and Peter, are yours 32 or 64 bit? > > Mine is 32bit. It's quite puzzling why that would matter in this case... > > Best regards > > Peter K just calculate the result of 2^32

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread pk
Alan McKinnon wrote: > My box is 64 bit. Strolelr and Peter, are yours 32 or 64 bit? Mine is 32bit. It's quite puzzling why that would matter in this case... Best regards Peter K

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 07 August 2009 11:31:22 pk wrote: > Stroller wrote: > > I'm seeing on a SECOND machine exactly the same thing - files larger > > than about 4gb are not showing up in the locate search results: > > > > $ ls -lh File.big > > -rw-r--r-- 1 stroller users 5.4G 2009-02-27 10:31 File.big > > $ s

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 07 März 2009, Stroller wrote: ls -lh /testfile -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5,8G 7. Aug 11:33 /testfile slocate testfile /testfile /usr/bin/create_dirac_testfile.pl AMD64, slocate 3.1-r2, reiser4

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread pk
Stroller wrote: > I'm seeing on a SECOND machine exactly the same thing - files larger > than about 4gb are not showing up in the locate search results: > > $ ls -lh File.big > -rw-r--r-- 1 stroller users 5.4G 2009-02-27 10:31 File.big > $ sudo updatedb -v > foo > Password: > $ grep File.big foo >

[gentoo-user] Gentoo AMD64 and Keyboard

2009-08-07 Thread Alexander Pilipovsky
Hello! Later, I worked in the Gentoo 2008 i686 and all was fine. Now I tried to use original Gentoo for my Athlon64 and have downloaded minimal cd. But neither 2008 not last weekly build don't see my keyboard (Microsoft Natural Egronomic Keyboard 4000 v1.0) after choosing kernel. I typed "gentoo"

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird slocate behaviour - file ignored?

2009-08-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 07 August 2009 05:25:28 Stroller wrote: > On 7 Mar 2009, at 12:42, Stroller wrote: > > I was looking for a Knoppix DVD today, and came across any anomaly > > whereby locate doesn't show it. It lists the CD iso in the same > > directory, but not the DVD right next to it, and both files see

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge mythtv fails

2009-08-07 Thread Shawn Haggett
On Tuesday 04 August 2009 09:41:58 Stroller wrote: > On 4 Aug 2009, at 00:07, Shawn Haggett wrote: > > ... > > This has been broken for over a week now (normally I just wait, > > resync and > > these things go away if they're an ebuild problem) but I'm starting > > to think > > it's a problem on my