Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-21 Thread Al
I've got a Droid X with Verizon, here's what works for me: With phone connected to computer via USB cable... 1. Open the 3G Mobile Hotspot app. 2. Click on Mobile Wi-Fi hotspot.. should say turning on mobile hotspot for a bit, displaying a green checked box when done. 3. Hit the back

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-21 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 21 Jun 2011 00:40:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: Before, I beginning, I need dox, not solutions :-) I'm having the devil's own time with kdepim after upgrading to 4.6.0. Apart from the calendar (more on this later), everything seemed fine. Several kontact restarts and several reboots

[gentoo-user] Re: Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Monday 20 June 2011, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB files to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble? I

Re: [gentoo-user] rc runlevel act strangely

2011-06-21 Thread Thanasis
on 06/21/2011 02:09 AM Dale wrote the following: This may be pointless since the OP seems to have disappeared. Might he be just a chinese spammer?

Re: [gentoo-user] Phrases

2011-06-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:36:24 -0500, Dale wrote: I like the irony of the sig sometimes. I know a couple times your sig seemed to be foreseeing the future on a problem being discussed. Others have even mentioned it before too. Makes one wonder. The spooky way that the tagline sometimes seems

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update-modules obsolete?

2011-06-21 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Monday 20 June 2011 18:02:54 Dale wrote: Yea, I have a 3 lb mini sledge hammer. I sometimes put it right beside my puter and give it a evil look with the one good eye I got. If that don't work, I ask on here. o_O If that don't work, I put the hammer to work. So far, the hammer has

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-21 Thread Indi
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 05:28:05PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 08:25:57AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi,    Is split an appropriate program to use to break a single 10GB file into 100 100MB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update-modules obsolete?

2011-06-21 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Monday 20 June 2011 18:02:54 Dale wrote: Yea, I have a 3 lb mini sledge hammer. I sometimes put it right beside my puter and give it a evil look with the one good eye I got. If that don't work, I ask on here. o_O If that don't work, I put the hammer to work.

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 21 June 2011 01:28:05 Mark Knecht wrote: I get about 8MB/S download but only about 250KB/S upload. Should those B's be b's? In other words, bits instead of bytes? Or are you on something much faster than DSL? In either case the S's ought to be s's. On ADSL I get about 900KB/s down

Re: [gentoo-user] rc runlevel act strangely

2011-06-21 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 21 June 2011 00:09:25 Dale wrote: Maybe it is stable and should work. It isn't, and it doesn't. It only displays one run-level per service. That may be why it is not documented yet then. I hope that the OP now knows to use the old way.

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-21 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 21 June 2011 01:28:05 Mark Knecht wrote: I get about 8MB/S download but only about 250KB/S upload. Should those B's be b's? In other words, bits instead of bytes? Or are you on something much faster than DSL? In either case the S's ought to be s's.

[gentoo-user] Kernel Bug acpi-cpufreq?

2011-06-21 Thread 4k3nd0
Hi guys, since some time, my Laptop switch the CPU-Freq very strange. It turns down under high load. I detected this error under 3 different Linux Distribution. I'm not sure about it, so i asking: Has someone else with a Intel Core2 CPU T5600 that kind of problem? Greeting's Akendo

Re: [gentoo-user] ethtool on vlan interfaces

2011-06-21 Thread 4k3nd0
On 04/21/2011 01:55 AM, Adam Carter wrote: If i run ethtool on a vlan interface, does it show layer 1 or layer 2 link? IIRC ciscos will report line proto down if layer 1 is up but layer 2/vlan is down. How is the status of layer 2 determined? FastEthernet0/0 is administratively down, line

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 21 June 2011 01:28:05 Mark Knecht wrote: I get about 8MB/S download but only about 250KB/S upload. Should those B's be b's? In other words, bits instead of bytes? Or are you on something much faster

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 21 June 2011 16:36:32 Mark Knecht wrote: Point taken about s/S. I didn't know there was an accepted standard to use 's'. Come to think of it, it may not apply to you (in which case apologies): it's an SI unit. -- Rgds Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Alan McKinnon writes: I'm having the devil's own time with kdepim after upgrading to 4.6.0. Me too. But I still did not have any time to investigate this, so I live without kmail for the moment. Thunderbird also sucks big time, but I just live with it. I thought about downgrading the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-21 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011, 01:40:47 schrieb Alan McKinnon: Today, kmail hung while accessing my Exchange account over IMAP. The folder list showed 100+ unread mails, but none of them were in the view pane. Deleting that account and recreating it brought everything back. I was hitten by this

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-21 Thread Michael Schreckenbauer
Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011, 07:12:30 schrieb Mick: I'm running KDE4.6.3 stable and Kmail 1.12.7 kdepim-4.6.0 includes kmail 2.1.0. Try this one, if you're brave. But you have been warned :) Michael

[gentoo-user] hal?

2011-06-21 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, this morning I got a block while updateing: upower and hal cannot be installed at the same time: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4, installed) pulled in by sys-apps/hal required

Re: [gentoo-user] hal?

2011-06-21 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 06/21/11 22:03, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: With quse hal I get ALL packages in portage, which has the hal use flag. That is too much ...hrmmm... info... If possible I want to remove hal from my system... Any better way to do this? Thank you very much for any help! Best regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] hal?

2011-06-21 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this morning I got a block while updateing: upower and hal cannot be installed at the same time: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4, installed) pulled

[gentoo-user] Re: hal?

2011-06-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/22/2011 05:03 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: My question is: How can I identify _installed_ packages, which needs hal? I find that the most reliable way is: emerge -pv --depclean sys-apps/hal

[gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-21 Thread Dale
I just did my updates and ran into this: * Maintainer: s...@gentoo.org * USE:amd64 consolekit elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib policykit userland_GNU * FEATURES: preserve-libs sandbox * Please install currently selected gcc version with USE=fortran. * If you intend to use a

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-21 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 06/21/11 23:55, Dale wrote: I just did my updates and ran into this: * Maintainer: s...@gentoo.org * USE:amd64 consolekit elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib policykit userland_GNU * FEATURES: preserve-libs sandbox * Please install currently selected gcc version with

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-21 Thread justin
On 22/06/11 06:31, Matthew Finkel wrote: On 06/21/11 23:55, Dale wrote: I just did my updates and ran into this: * Maintainer: s...@gentoo.org * USE:amd64 consolekit elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib policykit userland_GNU * FEATURES: preserve-libs sandbox * Please install

Re: [gentoo-user] hal?

2011-06-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 03:03:34 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this morning I got a block while updateing: upower and hal cannot be installed at the same time: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-21 Thread justin
On 22/06/11 07:25, justin wrote: On 22/06/11 06:31, Matthew Finkel wrote: On 06/21/11 23:55, Dale wrote: I just did my updates and ran into this: * Maintainer: s...@gentoo.org * USE:amd64 consolekit elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib policykit userland_GNU * FEATURES: