[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 3.6 ... and related thoughts

2012-12-29 Thread walt
On 12/27/2012 01:46 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: greets ... today (at least in my timezone ;-) ) I saw gnome-3.6-related ebuilds coming up on my ~amd64 box ... I ran a backup (yes, experience ...) and emerged stuff ... so far it runs OK. There are changes and new features and I am still ex

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2012-12-29 Thread Michael Mol
On Dec 29, 2012 9:08 PM, "Francisco Ares" wrote: > > Hello All, > > I know this is WAY off- topic, but I have seen topics in many different areas, probably some gentooers will be glad to share experiences. > > I am trying to create some videos for a M$ Office presentation. Some are from "recordmyd

[gentoo-user] net-snmp 5.7.2_rc1 on xen

2012-12-29 Thread Matt Harrison
Hi list, I've been away from Gentoo for quite a while but recently a friend asked me to help update an aged linode vps running on Xen. All has gone well except the new version of net-snmp (5.7.2_rc1) refuses to start as Xen doesn't provide access to PCI info: * Starting snmpd ... pcilib: Cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-29 Thread Jarry
On 29-Dec-12 19:32, Walter Dnes wrote: 1) I run a desktop, and use passive ftp. Is there any need for me to accept RELATED packets? No, but you must take care of related connections. Even passive ftp opens command (>1023 -> 21) and data (>1023 -> >1023) channel. BTW, icmp-error (i.e. host unr

Re: [gentoo-user] IPTABLES syntax change?

2012-12-29 Thread Walter Dnes
Two questions I'm not sure about. 1) I run a desktop, and use passive ftp. Is there any need for me to accept RELATED packets? 2) Does a "-j LOG" return to the chain it was called from, or does it do an implicit DROP? -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applicati

Re: Should /usr be merged with /? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?)

2012-12-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> The latest FHS dates from 2004, the same year as the *earliest* FUSE release > I > can see on the FUSE web site. I'd say a good working hypothesis is that FHS > was simply written *before* any user-space file systems were more than an > experimental oddity. > > > > IF the system's /home di