Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

2009-02-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 06:53:22 Dirk Uys wrote: Hi I'm trying to emerge kde-4.2, but the kde-base/systemsettings-4.2.0 ebuild fails: snipped I have the latest version of libXi (1.2.0). I tried searching the net, but the only answer I got was that some guy on the kde forums had the

Re: [gentoo-user] games-fps without blood

2009-02-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 03 February 2009 00:26:19 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Has ~amd64 portage such games for my 7 years old son? Have a look at worldofpadman, not seen any blood in there :) You fight with paintguns and such like and it all looks cartoony. http://worldofpadman.com/ -- Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] [obscenely OT] A good SMTP server?

2009-07-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 19:49:46 brullo nulla wrote: On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 15:56:33 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: Since when I live in UK, I have troubles with my SMTP servers. It seems that everyone has the nice habit of

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows-only wireless AP?

2009-07-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 10:37:36 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 07 July 2009 10:34:07 Grant wrote: I'm trying to connect to a WPA2 wireless router via wicd, but I can't get past the authentication. The owner insists the password is correct. I've spoken to the administrator and I was told

Re: [gentoo-user] CUPS and old java (commercial software)

2009-07-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 08 July 2009 16:47:57 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'm in need to use some commercial software (Matlab and Maple) which come with their own (probably old) version of Java. Now, both of those software packages cannot print, they don't see any CUPS printer UNLESS I remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] Need advice in selecting a mail server

2009-07-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 06 July 2009 23:01:13 Michael Sullivan wrote: I have three boxes (baby, camille, and catherine) in my LAN, and for some reason (this was years ago) I set up an exim server on each of them. camille and catherine were supposed to forward their mail to baby, which has a working dovecot

Re: [gentoo-user] [obscenely OT] A good SMTP server?

2009-07-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 08 July 2009 17:26:04 brullo nulla wrote: Hmmm, I run my own postfix, but I use the virgin SMTP server as a relay host. I don't get my email addresses mangled I don't think this is a solution. I am using a laptop, and how can I reach my postfix server (assuming that I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption

2009-08-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 17 August 2009 16:53:43 Xianwen Chen wrote: Hi Dale, On 8/17/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: According to the USE flags, it appears that Kopete supports encryption. I have no clue how good it is or if this is exactly what you are looking for but you may want to look into

[gentoo-user] How to have init-scripts 'wait' for other servers

2009-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi all, Does anyone know if an existing method to have init-scripts on server A wait for a service on server B to be started? Reason for this: I have one server containing all the databases, one that operates as a NAS and the DNS is running on server 3. In order for the different machines to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to have init-scripts 'wait' for other servers

2009-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 04 September 2009 11:23:09 Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:51:14AM +0200, Penguin Lover J. Roeleveld squawked: Does anyone know if an existing method to have init-scripts on server A wait for a service on server B to be started? I have no idea if this would work

Re: [gentoo-user] How to have init-scripts 'wait' for other servers

2009-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 04 September 2009 12:44:33 Carlos wrote: J. Roeleveld a écrit : Hi all, Does anyone know if an existing method to have init-scripts on server A wait for a service on server B to be started? Reason for this: I have one server containing all the databases, one that operates

Re: [gentoo-user]

2009-09-04 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 04 September 2009 13:47:51 Cinder Cinder wrote: Wow! I made it! I'm in! Just installed my first Gentoo (Phew!). Its cool! I'm up to part 2 of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook Working With Gentoo and I've managed to install a few things, namely vim, links, and xorg-server (As per the

[gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

2009-09-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi All, I know this is probably off-topic, but I'm hopefull someone on this list knows how to do this. My current situation: Postfix gets an email delivered for user X Postfix passes this to cyrus (lmtp-transport) if user X does not exist within cyrus, the email gets bounced. I would like this

Re: [gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

2009-09-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:26:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:54:33 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: if user X does not exist within cyrus, the email gets bounced. I would like this bounced email to be delivered to a seperate cyrus email folder. Set luser_relay in /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

2009-09-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:19:45 Xavier Parizet wrote: J. Roeleveld a écrit : Hi All, I know this is probably off-topic, but I'm hopefull someone on this list knows how to do this. My current situation: Postfix gets an email delivered for user X Postfix passes this to cyrus

Re: [gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

2009-09-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:49:37 Xavier Parizet wrote: J. Roeleveld a écrit : On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:19:45 Xavier Parizet wrote: J. Roeleveld a écrit : Hi All, I know this is probably off-topic, but I'm hopefull someone on this list knows how to do this. My

Re: [gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

2009-09-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 16:56:28 Xavier Parizet wrote: J. Roeleveld a écrit : On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:49:37 Xavier Parizet wrote: J. Roeleveld a écrit : On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:19:45 Xavier Parizet wrote: J. Roeleveld a écrit : Hi All, I know

Re: [gentoo-user] Catch all mailbox

2009-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 22:02:25 Xavier Parizet wrote: Stroller a écrit : On 9 Sep 2009, at 19:06, Xavier Parizet wrote: ... Does anyone know how I can force postfix to add the domain to the search query? Is mydomain parameter set in /etc/postfix/main.cf ? Yes, I believe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:35:41 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 08 September 2009 18:56:50 walt wrote: Are you seeing something very different at your end? Yes. I've created just one VM (this is on my KDE-4 test system). On the Details tab I get a list of configuration variables

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo Virtualization

2009-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 10 September 2009 12:04:52 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 10 September 2009 09:45:46 J. Roeleveld wrote: In addition to the screenshot, using Linux it's very easy to create an ISO-file from an existing CD/DVD. I always do it with: # cp /dev/cdrom path-to/bladiebla.iso

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dell XPS16 for Christmas?

2009-11-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 15 November 2009 19:39:40 Mick wrote: I have been thinking of buying this laptop and was looking at the Gentoo Wiki which shows relatively good hardware compatibility, except for the radeon card which is now an older offering: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Dell_Studio_XPS_16

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dell XPS16 for Christmas?

2009-11-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 20 November 2009 17:43:20 Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:16 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/20 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org: On Sunday 15 November 2009 19:39:40 Mick wrote: I have been thinking of buying this laptop and was looking

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Need advice from people who use non-ascii all day long

2009-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 03 December 2009 20:20:03 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I have a project which requires normalizing names, and by that, I mean converting to lower case etc, whatever eliminates redundancies. I know Unicode has a different normalize meaning, but for my purposes, that has already been

[gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat /proc/mdstat ) Is there a way that will speed this up? The drives are new, but contain random data left

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker?

2010-02-01 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 14:20:28 Stroller wrote: On 1 Feb 2010, at 11:58, J. Roeleveld wrote: ... I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat

Re: [gentoo-user] Raid 5 creation is slow - Can this be done quicker? [SOLVED]

2010-02-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 01 February 2010 12:58:49 J. Roeleveld wrote: Hi All, I am currently installing a new server and am using Linux software raid to merge 6 * 1.5TB drives in a RAID5 configuration. Creating the RAID5 takes over 20 hours (according to cat /proc/mdstat ) Is there a way

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 08 February 2010 21:34:01 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Valmor de Almeida val.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: [snip] This has been helpful for me. I'm glad Valmor is getting better results also. [snip] These 4k-sector drives can be

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 13:46:40 Stroller wrote: On 9 Feb 2010, at 00:27, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 2010 14:34:01 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: Thanks for the info everyone, but do you understand the agony I am now suffering at the fact that all disk in my system (including all

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 16:11:14 Stroller wrote: On 9 Feb 2010, at 13:57, J. Roeleveld wrote: ... With Raid (NOT striping) you can remove one disk, leaving the Raid- array in a reduced state. Then repartition the disk you removed, repartition and then re- add the disk to the array

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 19:25:00 Mark Knecht wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: SNIP IMO this is a fdisk bug. A feature should be added so that it tries to align optimally in most circumstances. RAID controllers should not be trying

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 19:03:39 Neil Walker wrote: Hey guys, There seems to be a lot of confusion over this RAID thing. Hardware RAID does not use partitions. The entire drive is used (or, actually, the amount defined in setting up the array) and all I/O is handled by the BIOS on the

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 22:13:39 Frank Steinmetzger wrote: snipped When I use parted on the drives, it says (both the old external and my 2 months old internal): Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B So no speedup for me then. :-/ That doesn't mean a thing, I'm afraid. I have the

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 00:22:31 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 08:47 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: I now only need to figure out the best way to configure LVM over this to get the best performance from it. Does anyone know of a decent way of figuring this out? I got 6

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 08:08:44 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 10 February 2010 01:22:31 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 08:47 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: I now only need to figure out the best way to configure LVM over this to get the best performance from it. Does

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 02:28:59 Stroller wrote: On 9 Feb 2010, at 19:37, J. Roeleveld wrote: ... Don't get me started on those ;) The reason I use Linux Software Raid is because: 1) I can't afford hardware raid adapters 2) It's generally faster then hardware fakeraid I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 12:03:51 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, J. Roeleveld wrote: As for recovery, I always use sysrescuecd (http://www.sysresccd.org) and this has Raid and LVM support in it. (Same with the Gentoo-livecds) sysrescuecd failed me hard two

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel (kcore)?

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:51:26 James wrote: Hello, I booted up an old system off our a minimal 2006.1 cd I'm looking for the kernel to copy it. Is it this kcore file? proc # file kcore kcore: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style,

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 23:58:10 Dale wrote: So, hal may be progress to you but it is a step backward for me. It's the opposite of progress. You mean HAL = Congress? Sorry, couldn't resist ;) And now, back on topic :)

Re: [gentoo-user] 1-Terabyte drives - 4K sector sizes? - bar performance so far

2010-02-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 17:37:47 Stroller wrote: On 10 Feb 2010, at 11:14, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 10 February 2010 02:28:59 Stroller wrote: On 9 Feb 2010, at 19:37, J. Roeleveld wrote: ... Don't get me started on those ;) The reason I use Linux Software Raid is because

Re: [gentoo-user] Running xsane

2010-02-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 February 2010 00:34:42 CJoeB wrote: Hi everyone, I have purchased an HP C4795 Photosmart All-in-One printer, scanner and copier. I have gotten the printer to work fine after installing the unstable version of hplip. The copy mechanism works also. However, I am having trouble

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 14 February 2010 15:27:45 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: snipped And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, why not just using the filesystem ? Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you don't want every single

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 February 2010 20:20:53 Enrico Weigelt wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: And *IF* some application is interested in the such information, why not just using the filesystem ? Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks) you don't want every single status

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 18 February 2010 15:53:15 Harry Putnam wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I push JAlbum. You can create some pretty good looking albums and

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 19 February 2010 09:07:59 James Homuth wrote: _ From: Hung Dang [mailto:hungp...@gmail.com] Sent: February 19, 2010 1:55 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... On 02/18/10 22:49, James Homuth

Re: [gentoo-user] openvpn static ip

2010-02-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 26 February 2010 01:39:55 Joseph wrote: On 02/25/10 22:17, Xavier Parizet wrote: From what i can see, please try to add full path to the ccd directory in client-config-dir directive on the server path. Also check permissions on that directory. On which user are you running openvpn on

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 26 February 2010 15:39:52 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 26 February 2010 12:17:11 Neil Bothwick wrote: With KDE 4 you can split a single console window do display the content of multiple tabs at once. Really? I can't see how to do that. It could be useful. In the menu: View

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 16 March 2010 21:13:29 Stroller wrote: On 16 Mar 2010, at 20:04, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:57:49 +, Stroller wrote: How does your system boot if your RAID1 system volume fails? You put GRUB on both disks, then you can boot from either on its own. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] no javac on gentoo amd64?

2010-04-03 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday 03 April 2010 09:17:47 Xi Shen wrote: hi, my system is gentoo amd 64. java-config -L show i have two VMs on my system: The following VMs are available for generation-2: 1) IcedTea6-bin 1.7.1 [icedtea6-bin] *) Sun JRE 1.6.0.18 [sun-jre-bin-1.6] but when i ran

Re: [gentoo-user] i cannot browser if the system is up too long

2010-04-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 16 April 2010 04:06:37 Xi Shen wrote: On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:55 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: How are you connecting to the net? yes, i connect to the net through a router. and i share the router with my roommates. Are you sure this isn't the router?

Re: [gentoo-user] Layman, Git, ... and Http-Proxies

2010-05-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 20 May 2010 23:24:24 Petric Frank wrote: Hello, i tried to use layman (current stable version). The problem ist that i sit behind a proxy server which covers the http(s) protocol only. All other ports are closed. In the config file of layman (/etc/layman/...) i entered the

Re: [gentoo-user] Maximizing memory with 32bit

2010-06-02 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 16:00:02 Alex Schuster wrote: Johannes Kimmel writes: On 06/02/2010 03:27 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: But: free -m shows only 2787 MB of total memory. I know I cannot use all the 4G, but shouldn't there be at least 3GB or even a little more available? What is

Re: [gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems

2010-06-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 08 June 2010 02:14:55 Jake Moe wrote: I've got two Gentoo boxes, and would like to run X apps from both on one display. From reading up on it, it appears that while this is possible, it's also not recommended from a security standpoint, and the few HOWTOs I've found for it seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems

2010-06-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 02:04:28 Jake Moe wrote: On 09/06/10 09:58, Alex Schuster wrote: Jake Moe writes: j...@aus10224 ~ $ ssh -Y jhb5970 Password: Last login: Wed Jun 9 08:05:09 EST 2010 from 192.168.0.114 on pts/0 j...@jhb5970 ~ $ firefox Error: no display specified

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.btrfs check for bad blocks - howto

2010-06-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:15:17 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, when creating a file system on a partition on a brand new hard disk, I have always used the '-c' twice to check for bad blocks. This works for ext3 and ext4. Now, I'd like to use a btrfs file system on some partitions but the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2010-08-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 13 August 2010 14:15:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 13 August 2010 16:04:53 Frank Schwidom wrote: Hi i get the error: { !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

2010-08-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 13 August 2010 15:36:23 Daniel Wagener wrote: On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:17:50 +0200 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Friday 13 August 2010 14:15:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 13 August 2010 16:04:53 Frank Schwidom wrote: Hi i get the error

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuilds and overlay

2010-08-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 26 August 2010 20:48:17 Al wrote: Have you thought to join IRC ? You've sent more than 70 mails both to gentoo-{user,alt} in less than a week. Most of them could be discussed and answered directly on IRC and doesn't require to CC the world. Hi Florian, yes, I am hard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Hi folks, I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7 2.0 motherboard with the older IDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 11:00:58 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going to push me to changing this real soon. I have a older system, Abit NF7

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 11:49:00 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 11:00:58 Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: 2010/8/27 Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: I been putting this off but it looks like the newer kernels are going

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 17:57:01 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 01:10 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Anyway, make sure you have a bootable Linux CD/DVD handy. That way, you won't be able to blow anything up and can boot from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 27 August 2010 18:03:51 Bill Longman wrote: On 08/27/2010 01:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: Snipped Yet another way to use labels: When you make the filesystem, apply the name then i.e.: mke2fs -j -L SpeedySSD /dev/sde1 then in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-29 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 29 August 2010 03:24:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 08/28/2010 10:42 PM, Dale wrote: Alex Schuster wrote: Dale writes: It would be nice if something like *fdisk could edit the labels tho. It would be so much easier. I didn't see anything in the man pages tho. I'd like

Re: [gentoo-user] request_module: runaway loop

2010-08-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 30 August 2010 07:06:05 Mike Diehl wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to build a new duel quad-core server and I'm having some problems. Just after it loads the keymap, I get this error: request_module: runaway loop modprobe binfmt-464c A few minutes later, it panics. I'm loading

Re: [gentoo-user] help with Persistent hard disk device names with udev

2010-08-30 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 30 August 2010 15:00:28 Pau Peris wrote: Hi, i would like to give persistent device names to the system hard drives (just renaming its original device name to the one i want using its serial number as identifier). I've created the following rules which are not currently working. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 10:47:49 Al wrote: I'd be interested in how many people still have access to a news server these days. I don't and I'm not particularly interested in having to pay for access when email works well enough. You don't have to pay for access. Everybody can

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 11:56:12 Al wrote: It would be as simple as this: 1.) enter news.gentoo.org as news server to thunderbird 2.) select the groups you want to read 2 steps not more. That is far more simple than subscribing to a mailing list. Al Except that then I need to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 12:51:36 Al wrote: 2010/9/7 J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org: Except that then I need to do these 2 steps all the time and for every mailing list that I use. Only once for the news groups of gentoo. Only one click to subscribe to a second group. Per project

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 18:57:12 Al wrote: 2010/9/7 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al wrote: because he hopes that you finally shut up? Why do you read this thread and answer to it? Ignore it. I would, if you wouldn't put out a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 02:27:16 Gregory Shearman wrote: In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: I'm reading your message via a usenet server. linux.gentoo.user is the newsgroup. Replies of course go via the mailing list address. Is that seamless? Can you directly reply to a posting?

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 10:43:13 Al wrote: emails too. But you still get the 'new mails' indicator. Good, that you finally start to understand that mails have their disadvantages in producing noise. Actually, no... With NNTP and Email can both be configured to display in threaded or

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: We go in circles here. NNTP is be default organzed in threads. You don't open a topic that you are not interested in, even if the thread has

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 23:27:52 Daniel Troeder wrote: On 09/08/2010 05:27 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 08 September 2010 17:14:13 Jonathan wrote: On Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:49:37 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: We go in circles here. NNTP

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 10 September 2010 10:43:30 Jake Moe wrote: On 10/09/2010 5:27 PM, Maciej Grela wrote: 2010/9/10 Jake Moejakesaddr...@gmail.com: Hello all, I've been thinking about creating a Gentoo USB stick for install and rescue purposes (and, of course, just to see if I could). I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Overlays package.mask

2010-09-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 10 September 2010 18:53:52 Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, This morning I got centaur ~ # emerge -vDuNp world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! snip/ [ebuild UD] kde-base/pykde4-4.5.1 [4.5.1-r1] USE=semantic-desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpd missing in stage3 of AMD64...?

2010-09-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 12 September 2010 16:26:23 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, currently I am on the way to install a AMD64 root system. I use the AMD64 gentoo iso to boot into a 64bit system. There was a net-connection without any problems (using DSL and dhcp). After several steps I chrooted into

Re: [gentoo-user] copying /varlib/world(32bitroot) - 64bitroot ???

2010-09-12 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Sunday 12 September 2010 19:27:10 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Do I shoot into my own feet when copying the /var/lib/world-file from my 32bit system to my 64bit system and doing a emerge -e world then, when logged into my 64bit system to install the same stuff ??? best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what's going on with updates ?

2010-09-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 13 September 2010 20:15:24 Stéphane Guedon wrote: On Monday 13 September 2010 21:06:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/13/2010 09:15 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Since few days ( two or three ?), every time I launch emerge, it's saying me it needs an update of portage itself. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what's going on with updates ?

2010-09-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 13 September 2010 20:37:13 Stéphane Guedon wrote: On Monday 13 September 2010 20:28:07 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Monday 13 September 2010 20:15:24 Stéphane Guedon wrote: On Monday 13 September 2010 21:06:48 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/13/2010 09:15 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what's going on with updates ?

2010-09-13 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 13 September 2010 21:00:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 09/13/2010 09:45 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: [...] I wouldn't expect people to run a Gentoo system with all packages on unstable. I tend to only select specific packages as unstable when I really need that version. Usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote: On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: Jake Moe wrote: Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support. As to the second suggestion, there is *no* /dev/sda1 (the partition in question). It just doesn't exist for some

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 16 September 2010 12:01:43 Jake Moe wrote: On 09/16/10 16:22, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 16 September 2010 00:34:39 Jake Moe wrote: On 16/09/10 08:26, Dale wrote: Jake Moe wrote: Thanks for that, I'll rebuild the genkernel with blkid support. As to the second

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 21 September 2010 07:35:13 Jake Moe wrote: On 16/09/10 21:30, J. Roeleveld wrote: snipped old stuff Please bear in mind, I have not actually used nor needed a ramdisk to boot from ever since I started using Gentoo. Not even when I played with booting from USB-sticks myself

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: snipped Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that I can't seem to get the disk label working right. In GRUB's menu.lst, if I use root=LABEL=UsbRoot, it doesn't work (kernel panic, label not found, but sda1

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from USB stick

2010-09-22 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 11:13:01 Jake Moe wrote: On 09/22/10 17:16, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2010 06:36:50 Jake Moe wrote: snipped Well, now that I've managed to get it booting, the only problem is that I can't seem to get the disk label working right

Re: [gentoo-user] netbook

2010-11-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 08 November 2010 18:16:00 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:59 on Monday 08 November 2010, James did opine thusly: Hello, OK, I want a 10 or so, netbook that'll run windows and gentoo on dual boot. I'd like to stay under $200, but in no way over

Re: [gentoo-user] netbook

2010-11-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 08 November 2010 22:08:53 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:11 on Monday 08 November 2010, J. Roeleveld did opine thusly: 2. Those SSDs are shite. Get a mechanical drive. 8G is also not enough and the write performance is pathetic. You must have

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

2010-11-10 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 18:05:40 Paul Hartman wrote: 2010/11/10 Fatih Tümen fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:52, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, snipped Last night I took it to full charge, put in memtest86+ boot CD and the system

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

2010-11-11 Thread J. Roeleveld
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 soldering isn't done correctly, the battery-pack can literally explode when put under load. Yeah, I don't think the savings would be big enough

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernation doesn't work

2010-11-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 November 2010 07:11:14 Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: Hi , I've been trying to configure hibernation to work on my netbook , and for some reason it doesnt work when I go to hibernate , and then power up again , it starts as if from scratch what can i check ? what is the right way

Re: [gentoo-user] Hibernation doesn't work

2010-11-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 November 2010 09:27:09 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Monday 15 November 2010 07:11:14 Benyamin Dvoskin wrote: Hi , I've been trying to configure hibernation to work on my netbook , and for some reason it doesnt work when I go to hibernate , and then power up again , it starts

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 November 2010 10:32:00 Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: On 15/11/2010, at 3:56am, Dale wrote: ... snipped I am thinking like you on the reason it is not working. It was brought to me because it was not running as fast as it used to. First thing I noticed was that AVG hasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 November 2010 12:01:49 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 15 November 2010 09:46:38 J. Roeleveld wrote: I ... only use MS Windows when I have no choice (eg. using MS Windows only software/applications for work). The one use I have for it nowadays is to run IE to check how

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 November 2010 15:50:37 Jacob Todd wrote: Sounds like something is wrong with te drive, and spinrite.can probably fix it. I don't see what Spinrite can do to help with defragging a harddrive for MS Windows? I like the bit where it explains how it prevents a disk crash: It first

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 15 November 2010 18:07:27 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:10 on Monday 15 November 2010, J. Roeleveld did opine thusly: snipped How is this different from: 1) take a backup 2) check for bad sectors (badblocks) 3) restore backup This is also

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: Adam Carter wrote: One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE. Re installation may be *correct*, but sometimes its impractical. I would 1. Pull the drive, and connect it to another fully patched, fully security

Re: [gentoo-user] how to rebuild gentoo on a somewhat different hardware

2010-11-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 10:33:34 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have an up-to-date ~amd64 GenToo installation with has been built on a current AMD64 (Phenom II) machine where I used -mtune=native in etc/make.conf since I didn't think of the case that I would need to port this system to a

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 10:53:28 Alex Schuster wrote: J. Roeleveld writes: On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is just visiting. It does

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 18 November 2010 12:37:16 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:42:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: c. our devs are assumed to only pretend to be pedantic geeky gits who nit-pick about words, and not to actually *be* like that their entire life 24/7/365/75. Indeed. After

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 18 November 2010 12:52:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:43:40 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: Indeed. After all, if they were really pedantic, they would point out that you should have written either 24/7/52/75 or 24/365/75 :P pedantic mode Or that you both seem

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