Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010 21:57:42 -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I don't even know where to start on this. I'd start by looking at the logs, I think Postfix logs to syslog by default. The first question is is it even starting? -- Neil Bothwick ...and that is how we know the Earth to be

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-14 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Saturday 13 November 2010, Grant wrote: I don't need encouragement, I need advice. :) In the end it isn't a technical problem, it is a question of trust. The questions are: 1) The relative sizes of the problems? No problems really. It's just kind of a never-ending project that

Re: [gentoo-user] How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-14 Thread Mick
On Sunday 14 November 2010 02:37:57 Dale wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: Can anybody point me to a hint on how to configure synaptics touchapad sensitivity? The touchpad on my Thinkpad T500 is so sensitive you don't even have to touch it. Merely bringing a thumb or finger within 1/8 - 1/4

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-14 Thread Mick
On Sunday 14 November 2010 05:57:42 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no longer able to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it gets routed). It used to work fine, and if there was an elog that I needed to follow, I missed it.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-14 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 14.11.2010 03:37, schrieb Dale: Before you go to great pains to get this working, you do know that hal is checking out right? Even the person who wrote it realized the mess it was and it is dying pretty soon. Even KDE4 can be used without HAL pretty soon, I use the live-ebuilds and mostly

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-14 Thread Stroller
On 14/11/2010, at 5:57am, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no longer able to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it gets routed). ... I don't even know where to start on this. Can anyone give me a shove in the right

[gentoo-user] Gnome related questions

2010-11-14 Thread Benyamin Dvoskin
Hi Everyone , I'm not sure if this is the right list , so , if its not I apologize , but please refer me to the correct one. anyway , I've just installed gentoo on my asus eeepc 1005ha and i'm trying to make it look like something I actually want to work with ( i've installed gnome ) so I've got

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome related questions

2010-11-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:43:36 +0200, Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: 1 - what should i use for a gui manager for the network ? ( especially for wireless ? ) Wicd - no question. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 42: Airline Food signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome related questions

2010-11-14 Thread walt
On 11/14/2010 02:43 AM, Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: ... 2 - is there a way to configure the panels in a way that the upper pane of any window ( the one with the quit and minimize , etc ) would actually be a part of the panel of gnome ? and not waste additional line of space ? Does this look like

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:57:42PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no longer able to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it gets routed). Do you actually need a full blown mail server? If you just relay your mail to your

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-14, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Before you go to great pains to get this working, you do know that hal is checking out right? Yes, I knew that. Maybe I'll just live without the touchpad until HAL goes away for good. My question is why did the Gentoo maintainers decide to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome related questions

2010-11-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:13 on Sunday 14 November 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 12:43:36 +0200, Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: 1 - what should i use for a gui manager for the network ? ( especially for wireless ? ) Wicd - no question. Seconded. wicd

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 14/11/2010, at 5:57am, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no longer able to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it gets routed). ... I don't even know where to start on this.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-14 Thread Mick
On Sunday 14 November 2010 15:36:43 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-11-14, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Before you go to great pains to get this working, you do know that hal is checking out right? Yes, I knew that. Maybe I'll just live without the touchpad until HAL goes away for

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix broken

2010-11-14 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.eduwrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 09:57:42PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Some time ago, it appears, postfix stopped working for me. I am no longer able to use it to send mail (usually to my ISP, where it gets routed).

[gentoo-user] How to exclude a directory from rsync

2010-11-14 Thread Mick
I am not sure how to exclude a directory on an ntfs partition from being accessed during rsync. The attributes do not seem to be right and it comes up with this error: === 'rsync -a -l -v --exclude /mnt/User_WinXP/System Volume Information -e ssh -c blowfish -l root

Re: [gentoo-user] How to exclude a directory from rsync

2010-11-14 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 14.11.2010 22:03, schrieb Mick: I am not sure how to exclude a directory on an ntfs partition from being accessed during rsync. The attributes do not seem to be right and it comes up with this error: === 'rsync -a -l -v --exclude /mnt/User_WinXP/System Volume

[gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-14 Thread Dale
Hi, I have a niece that brought me her puter. It's a HP with windoze XP on it. I want to defrag the hard drive but the one that comes with windoze won't work. Is there a free defrag tool that is safe on windoze? I ask because I don't want to install something and not know what I am

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-14 Thread Jacob Todd
Defraggler. Ccleaner by the same company is also nice.

Re: [gentoo-user] swap usage creeping up

2010-11-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 23:24 +0200, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 08:45, Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au wrote: OK so vm.swappiness seemed to help a bit but today I notice that swap usage is up again. It's firefox: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM

[gentoo-user] Hibernation doesn't work

2010-11-14 Thread Benyamin Dvoskin
Hi , I've been trying to configure hibernation to work on my netbook , and for some reason it doesnt work when I go to hibernate , and then power up again , it starts as if from scratch what can i check ? what is the right way to configure it ? Thanks Benny

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-14 Thread Dale
Jacob Todd wrote: Defraggler. Ccleaner by the same company is also nice. That is one I ran across with google. It appears it can run from the OS itself. Is it capable of running from within the OS it is defragging? Way back when, defraggers had to be run from either another drive or