Re: [gentoo-user] Fonts and bad eyes

2014-05-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 May 2014, Dale wrote: I'm curious. I'm sure there are some older folks on here that have eyes that are not in the best of shape. Mine are not real good even with glasses. My question is, what font is the easiest to read for folks with bad eyes? In other words, for you folks

Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

2014-03-22 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 22 Mar 2014, null_ptr wrote: modprobe pcspkr doesn't change anything. It is still silent. I also tried building it in the kernel. On the other hand from what I understand the snd_hda_intel should be doing the beeps when the mainboard does not have a physical speaker on the

Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

2014-03-22 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 23 Mar 2014, null_ptr wrote: On 22/03/14 23:40, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 22.03.2014 02:08, schrieb null_ptr: modprobe pcspkr doesn't change anything. It is still silent. I also tried building it in the kernel. On the other hand from what I understand the snd_hda_intel should

Re: [gentoo-user] ata6: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x4000000 action 0xe frozen

2013-08-01 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 31 Jul 2013, Paul Hartman wrote: http://serverfault.com/questions/244944/linux-ata-errors-translating-to-a-device-name All flawed IMHO. My version (works with PATA too), possibly flawed too: ~/bin/ataid_to_drive.sh #!/bin/bash oIFS=$IFS IFS=$'\n' CTRLS=( $(/sbin/lspci |

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and is the upgrade a tooth puller.

2012-06-29 Thread David Haller
! I knew all along that if I waited long enough, David Haller would post a link to this info: *whut* I've posted a mere 25 msgs here over quite a bit of time, and you expect me to mail ...??? Do you know me from somewhere else? ;) Anyway: you're welcome. -dnh, who has his first 3T GPT partitioned

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is wrong 4k sector alignment still an issue?

2012-06-28 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 29 Jun 2012, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: OK, I now have the new disk. Unfortunately, it turns out that GPT is not an option, since Grub can't dual boot an UEFI/GPT installed Windows 7 (you can't install Windows on a GPT disk if you don't perform a UEFI install of Windows.) You need

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Anybody really understand the gnu autotools?

2012-06-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 06/19/2012 04:40 PM, walt wrote: I'm trying to build an xfce4 applet that's not in portage. For reasons I don't understand there are some standard gnome headers that don't get pulled in during the configure process, like orbit, libbonobo

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash and constant errors.

2012-06-14 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Dale wrote: `/usr/portage/distfiles/adobe-flash-11.2.202.235.i386.tar.gz' saved 11.2.202.235 crashes all the time anyway (at least on x86_64), there's a new version 11.2.202.236 out since yesterday or so that works again. HTH, -dnh -- The speed at which a mistyped

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 12 May 2012, Mick wrote: Is this 193 Load_Cycle_Count an issue only on the green drives? AFAIK it was a firmware bug on some models. I have a very old Compaq laptop here that shows: # smartctl -A /dev/sda | egrep Power_On|Load_Cycle 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 055 055

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 12 May 2012, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:20:57PM -0400, Norman Invasion wrote: On 9 May 2012 04:47, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my videos on, eventually.  The prices are

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Thu, 10 May 2012, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Norman Invasion invasivenor...@gmail.com wrote: They have an ugly tendency to nod off at 6 second intervals. This runs up 193 Load_Cycle_Count unacceptably: as many as a few hundred thousand in a year a million

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 09 May 2012, Dale wrote: As some know, I'm planning to buy me a LARGE hard drive to put all my videos on, eventually. The prices are coming down now. I keep seeing these green drives that are made by just about every company nowadays. When comparing them to a non green drive, do

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 09 May 2012, Alan McKinnon wrote: One thing we have noticed is that Samsung's recent model are not very green, they spin up slowly, use lots of power and make a racket when spinning. But they do work. Which ones? I've got one of all Models of the last years, and to none applies

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 09 May 2012, Dale wrote: While on the thread. Has anyone had any sort of luck with the recertified drives? Avoid them. -dnh -- Well I wish you'd just tell me rather than try to engage my enthusiasm. -- Marvin

Re: [gentoo-user] Are those green drives any good?

2012-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 11 May 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2012 17:53:27 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On my HDDs, I cannot disable APM but I can disable spindown by changing the power-saving level to 254. I have a script in /etc/local.d/ which calls: You don't need a script, add the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Video editing advice on formats and size of file

2012-05-03 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 01 Jan 2012, Mick wrote: Anyhow, have a look again at the mencoder man page. There's a few settings in there for video called extreme and insane. You may want to try them. I use -ovc x264 -x264encopts \ crf=22:trellis=1:qcomp=0.8:weight_b:8x8dct:subq=6:threads=1:nr=750 or the

Re: [gentoo-user] Video editing advice on formats and size of file

2012-05-03 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, Michael Mol wrote: I'd suggest you give the other tools a try, too. The other tools brought up will do essentially the same thing as avidemux; they're just ripping the audio and video streams out of the source container files and placing them into a new container file.

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Maxim Wexler wrote: root@gnubu:~# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 00 ppp0 161.184.0.199 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255

Re: [gentoo-user] Video editing advice on formats and size of file

2011-12-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, Dale wrote: Is there some secret spice that I am missing or something? Why can't I take two videos and splice them together and it be something close to the two file sizes added together? If resolutions and codec match, simply use mkvmerge: mkvmerge -o out.mkv

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD Movie backups

2011-12-18 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 20:13:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Yep. I'm not aware of any Linux software that can create an encrypted DVD -- but I've never had a desire to do that, so my lack of knowlege of such a thing shouldn't be used as an

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: No; you'll have to decrypt, or do without the encrypted bits. dvdbackup is probably the closest to what you want. [..] Interesting. So even something that just copies blocks of

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Joerg Schilling wrote: This is interestingas some mkisofs users report that there are DVDs that look as if there is a need to introduce negative padding between some files. There's DVDs that look (to e.g. lsdvd) as if there were ~60 Tracks of various sizes used, with

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD Movie backups

2011-12-16 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 16 Dec 2011, Stroller wrote: On 16 December 2011, at 17:25, Mark Knecht wrote: ... I have no interest in tearing apart the DVD in any way. It was more about the idea of a fire causing the loss of maybe $15K-$20K investment over the years. I can rip all the CDs, keep the ripped

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lynx, Links, or Elinks?

2011-12-09 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Fri, 09 Dec 2011, Hartmut Figge wrote: Philip Webb: Lynx : I've been using it daily since 1996 . I have used it during my new installation on x86_64 to read the handbook of Gentoo. Problem was, that the lines there were too long to fit into the 80x24 window on console. The lines were

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: is there a software, a tool, a something which with it is possible to print the frame numbers of those frames in a video file, which are at positions, where the aspect-ratio changes? Try mplayer -nosound -benchmark -vo null FILE the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: David Haller gen...@dhaller.de [11-07-02 07:12]: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: is there a software, a tool, a something which with it is possible to print the frame numbers of those frames in a video file, which

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, Stroller wrote: On 2 July 2011, at 08:31, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: ... Initially I wanted to know the frame numbers to navigate - guess what program ? :) - avidemux directly to the advertising parts of the video to cut that stuff out of my (visual) way :))) I

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice place :-D

2011-05-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 17 May 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: grep GET /Tmp/Linux/G | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v myip | \ awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc useless use of ... awk '/GET \/Tmp\/Linux\/G/{ips[$1]++;}END{print length(ips);}' \ /var/log/apache2/access_log I add each access to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 09 May 2011, Kevin McCarthy wrote: On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 01:44:58PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: It is not specific to Gentoo. But do not know where to search or post it :) My script looks like: url=http://mypage; curl_opts=-x '' curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts If I execute

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 09 May 2011, JDM wrote: Do as you tried first, but add an eval: eval curl $url -d \mydata\ $curl_opts eval is evil ... -dnh -- Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry an-gry! huff, huff

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