Re: [gentoo-user] USB permission/owner - change not allowed as root

2014-01-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:14:36 -0700, Joseph wrote: If I remove the mounting line from fstab they mount with correct permission joseph:users but the mount point is reference as UUID and it makes it hard to reference it in bash scripts. MOUNTPOINT=$(mount | awk '/^\/dev\/sdb1/ {print $3}')

[gentoo-user] VMware Workstation environment on Gentoo

2014-01-01 Thread Adam Carter
Is there some special configuration to make VMware Workstation on gentoo support virtual machines with more than one NIC? No, it just works. I have some windows vms with multiple nics

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge subtitleeditor

2014-01-01 Thread Pavel Kazakov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/01/2014 08:02 AM, Gevisz wrote: The subtitleeditor failed to emerge with the message provided below. The required additional information is attached as text files. Any thoughts? Based on 'checking for XML::Parser... configure: error:

Re: [gentoo-user] Failed to emerge subtitleeditor

2014-01-01 Thread Gevisz
On Wed, 01 Jan 2014 08:32:00 -0800 Pavel Kazakov nullishz...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/01/2014 08:02 AM, Gevisz wrote: The subtitleeditor failed to emerge with the message provided below. The required additional information is attached as

[gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread gottlieb
My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. The system gets only modest usage. It is powered on about 1/2 the time and the disk often goes significant periods without activity so it spins down. I was considering

[gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread walt
On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail gradually/gracefully. They all just stop working,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard drive fail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread Dale
gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. Maybe I'm weird or something but I've never once had a hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 01 2014, Dale wrote: gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Jan 01 2014, walt wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk for a number of years and the disk is starting to fail. Maybe I'm weird or

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was considering what seagate calls an expansion hard drive. They are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2. The desktop is gentoo-only and I don't need any backup software from seagate. The models are STBVx000100 for x=1,2,3,4 TB. I

Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk

2014-01-01 Thread gottlieb
On Wed, Jan 01 2014, Daniel Frey wrote: On 01/01/2014 02:07 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was considering what seagate calls an expansion hard drive. They are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2. The desktop is gentoo-only and I don't need any backup software from seagate. The models