Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for System monitor + Intrusion Detection tools?

2010-11-20 Thread Fatih Tümen
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 00:06, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 19/11/2010, at 8:45pm, Fatih Tümen wrote: I just want to beware of anything unusual instantly, preferably by email. This is a single or two user laptop. I've been meaning for some time to look for something like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding old files

2010-11-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 November 2010 05:31:15 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-11-20, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Friday 19 November 2010 17:53:31 Grant Edwards wrote: What different behavior? As I said, from the command line ls shows the year for any file more than 12

[gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread fei huang
hi: I upgraded rxvt-unicode within just one or two days, right after a upgrade to version 9.09, it does not support transparency any more, but my Xresources had been always working for me. post a snippet of my config file here, thanks. URxvt.transparent:true URxvt.shading:20

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-20 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:10:02 +0100, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels: On Friday 19 November 2010 19:19:34 David W Noon wrote: On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:00:04 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:58:01PM +0800, fei huang wrote: I upgraded rxvt-unicode within just one or two days, right after a upgrade to version 9.09, it does not support transparency any more, but my Xresources had been always working for me. post a snippet of my config file here,

Re: [gentoo-user] One machine sends emerge text output to stderr, not stdout

2010-11-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:32:28 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: But harmless. The severe delays you noticed were the result of a broken modem/router failing to recognise that IPv6 was not available and trying to use it anyway. The usual fix for such a problem is a firmware update. It's more

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:26:03 +, David W Noon wrote: Unless you have the mother of all initrd's or initramfs's, you cannot have /boot on a logical partition -- only a primary partition, as BIOS interrupts will only access raw drives and primary partitions. % fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 November 2010 00:22:49 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 01:21 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:13:50 +, Mick wrote: Short of measuring the latency with some system (which I wouldn't know how) I

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread fei huang
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.eduwrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 07:58:01PM +0800, fei huang wrote: I upgraded rxvt-unicode within just one or two days, right after a upgrade to version 9.09, it does not support transparency any more, but my

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread fei huang
ok, everything is back to normal again, I downgraded my rxvt-unicode to 9.07-r2 and it worked as before. shall I report a bug or maybe I still missed something? On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:11 AM, fei huang daniel.huang...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Willie Wong

[gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-20 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:10:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels: On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:26:03 +, David W Noon wrote: Unless you have the mother of all initrd's or initramfs's, you cannot have /boot on a logical partition -- only a

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-20 Thread Arttu V.
On 11/20/10, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Really? Please don't tell this computer, it's been booting from a logical partition for more than six years. GRUB user, meet a LILO user? :) -- Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 November 2010 13:26:03 David W Noon wrote: On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:10:02 +0100, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Short of measuring the latency with some system (which I wouldn't know how) I have experimented with setting the /boot partition on primary and logical partitions

[gentoo-user] Re: E17 and package.use

2010-11-20 Thread walt
On 11/19/2010 03:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Been using e17 for years :-) But you use kde too, right? How do you choose which one to use today?

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:36:01AM +0800, fei huang wrote: ok, everything is back to normal again, I downgraded my rxvt-unicode to 9.07-r2 and it worked as before. shall I report a bug or maybe I still missed something? Go ahead and file a bug, but as pseudotransparency was never officially

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 10:04:10AM -0800, Keith Dart wrote: I had previously used method 3, with an entry in my ~/.Xdefaults for it, that worked fine. It stopped for some reason with this new version. I suspect they may have removed the hacks they talked about and now depend on a properly

[gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/19/2010 11:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: Perhaps distros will pick up on this and offer other criteria, maybe something like a profile selectable at boot-time or maybe even runtime. What

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 19.11.2010 16:36, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:18 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: On 11/19/2010 04:37 AM, Adam Carter wrote: 2.6.38 should contain a ~200 line patch that makes a huge difference to desktop responsiveness under

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:59 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly: On Saturday 20 November 2010 00:22:49 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 01:21 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:13:50 +,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: About two months ago I did reboot into a gentoo kernel and things did feel a little different but not in a way I could put my fingers on. I put it down to running a huge compile in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: E17 and package.use

2010-11-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:12 on Saturday 20 November 2010, walt did opine thusly: On 11/19/2010 03:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Been using e17 for years :-) But you use kde too, right? How do you choose which one to use today? Until about a year ago I primarily used e17 but also

[gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 11/20/2010 10:55 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: About two months ago I did reboot into a gentoo kernel and things did feel a little different but not in a way I could put my fingers on. I put

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:09 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: I'm running 2.6.36-ck-r2 and mplayer is smooth as a baby's backside - KDE animations have no effect on that. 2.6.36-ck-r2 has BFS as scheduler. I thought your were not using BFS :-P

Re: [gentoo-user] Impossible question... Swithcing from no multilib to multilib

2010-11-20 Thread Valmor de Almeida
On 07/22/2010 03:14 PM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:56:50 +0200 Andrea Momesso momesso.and...@gmail.com wrote: That's impossible, isn't it? Swithcing profile and reemerging everithing isn't gonna work? Even from a chroot? Should I reinstall a new stage from scratch?

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Sat, 11/20, Willie Wong wrote: === If that were indeed the case (that they are forcing migration away from pseudotransparency and into real transparency), then it'd have been nice if the +/-tr tags throw some error text rather than just being silently ignored. === I did some

[gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-20 Thread Pau Peris
Hi, i'm doing a backup of a windows installation using rsync. Everything is working fine except for symlinks, the problem is that symlinks are taking absolute path so they're going to be broken as soon a paths get changed. look at the example: $ ls -la /mnt/rsync/vista/ wxrwxrwx 1 root root

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:53:25 +, David W Noon wrote: Really? Please don't tell this computer, it's been booting from a logical partition for more than six years. You must have a newer BIOS than I have on my 2004-vintage box, offering non-standard BIOS facilities. The ISA-standard BIOS

Re: [gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:54:36 +0100, Pau Peris wrote: Hi, i'm doing a backup of a windows installation using rsync. Everything is working fine except for symlinks, the problem is that symlinks are taking absolute path so they're going to be broken as soon a paths get changed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Some possibly useful info on HAL

2010-11-20 Thread Dale
walt wrote: I've copy/pasted below a new post to the devicekit-devel mail list. I can't vouch for the accuracy of any of it, but it did catch my attention: === There seems to be a lack of information in a central place about

Re: [gentoo-user] rxvt-unicode has no transparency right after upgrade

2010-11-20 Thread fei huang
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Sat, 11/20, Willie Wong wrote: === If that were indeed the case (that they are forcing migration away from pseudotransparency and into real transparency), then it'd have been nice if the +/-tr tags throw some

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Laptop battery not showing up in KDE, Smart Battery calibration

2010-11-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:11 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday 11 November 2010 18:07:35 Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:05 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: If the