[gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux

2006-01-01 Thread Kris Kerwin
that are needed to support USB flash drives? Where might I find a USB flash drive under /dev? Is there anything extra that might be needed to support a digital voice recorder? Please CC my address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in your response. Thanks in advance for your help! Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux

2006-01-02 Thread Kris Kerwin
Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 21:03:26 -0600, Kris Kerwin wrote: I recently purchased an Olympus VN-480PC Digital Voice Recorder to record my college lectures to help with note-taking. It connects to the PC via a USB cord. Googling indicates that it won't work with Linux http

[gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

2006-01-02 Thread Kris Kerwin
, but still nothing. I'm using: bash-3.0-r12 Is this a bug, or something that I'm doing wrong? Thanks in advance for your help. Kris Kerwin pgpHs75c4Bfs5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Environment variables don't export from within scripts

2006-01-02 Thread Kris Kerwin
test_script # source ./test_script # echo $VARIABLE Thanks again. Kris Kerwin On Monday 02 January 2006 15:53, Alexander Veit wrote: Kris Kerwin wrote: I'm having difficulties exporting environment variables from within scripts. The problem doesn't seem to occur when exporting

[gentoo-user] cron help

2006-01-03 Thread Kris Kerwin
line, but will not work when called from a cron job. Here's what I entered in my crontab: --- file: /etc/crontab --- # Sync GMail */5 * * * * krisbash /home/kris/bin/gmail_export/gmail_export.sh - Thanks in advance! Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED

[gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-08 Thread Kris Kerwin
behind a router, using something like DynDNS to provide a static contact despite the dynamic IP won't work either. So, I guess what I'm wondering is if there's any way to make this work, or if I'm SOL? Thank you much for your help. Kris Kerwin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Kris Kerwin
March 2006 20:43, Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 3/8/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks! I have a quick question. I'm a college student. I share my printer with my roommate. We have separate computers; he uses Windows XP, and I Gentoo. Together, we're behind our school's router

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-19 Thread Kris Kerwin
Dave, Yup. Had a feeling that you might be right about that one. It seems that the computer will still crash, but certainly not as often. My guess: there is a bigger problem that is aggravated when the computer is under more stress; ie: tracking excessive amounts of kernel complaints, etc.

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Kris Kerwin
All, Samba proved to be a very simple and effective fix. Plus, as was said earlier, it doesn't break any of the rules that my school has in place. Thanks again, all, for your help. Kris On Thursday 09 March 2006 13:33, Michael Crute wrote: On 3/9/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[gentoo-user] Questions about TightVNC

2006-04-19 Thread Kris Kerwin
on the client-side. I simply can't fit the entire desktop onto the screen. Playing with the -geometry option fixes this problem, but leaves me with massive windows that don't fit on the screen. Any ideas here? Thanks, Kris Kerwin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about TightVNC

2006-04-19 Thread Kris Kerwin
Richard, Thanks. x11vnc did the trick just like I needed. Kris On Wednesday 19 April 2006 12:24, Richard Fish wrote: On 4/19/06, Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm using TightVNC v 1.2.9-r1 from the Gentoo Portage tree. I have two questions about running it. 1) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Waaaaaay [OT] Windoze back-up. Sorry to ask. :-(

2006-05-03 Thread Kris Kerwin
Dale, I believe that the kernels have been able to write to NTFS safely for some time, now. In fact, as I recall from the last time that I built that functionality into my own kernel, menuconfig said that there were never any reported problems with the same code that has been in place since

[gentoo-user] Unpacking an ISO Image

2006-05-16 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi folks, Quick question. Is there any way that one can unpack an ISO image: extracting the data that is contained within it like a tarball, without having to burn it to a CD? I'm sure there's an option somewhere within either the mkisofs or cdrecord man pages, but I feel like I'm searching

[gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-07 Thread Kris Kerwin
on the next boot? Thanks in advance. Kris Kerwin PS: Please CC me in your response. pgprhWzavLQxv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Kris Kerwin
to CC me in your response. Kris Kerwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Original Email - Hey all, I've been experiencing some random kernel crashes, and need a way of finding out what happened. I can't find any information in /var/log/lastlog or in /var/log/messages.*.bz2. Is there any way

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Kris Kerwin
Thanks Dave. 1) The problem appears to be independant of the kernel version, as I've had it occur on a 2.6.10 and 2.6.12 kernel. 2) How might I check for flakey hardware? 3) I have had my BIOS respond after 3 crashes that the computer crashed due to excessive heat. I think that this maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Kris Kerwin
Thanks Jonathan. Anyone have any thoughts on this? I'm not a bash or any other programmer, and was wondering if this would work. And how might I code that while loop? Thanks again, all, for your help. Kris On Saturday 17 September 2005 14:10, Jonathan Wright wrote: Kris Kerwin wrote: I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Random Kernel Crashes ... Need more info

2005-09-17 Thread Kris Kerwin
Alright! Thanks to Jonathan Wright and his program, I think that I may have found something. See what you guys think: Before the crash, the following three lines appeared (in this order) nearly 53,000 times for a total of 16MB of text: Sep 17 13:45:51 kerwin [4314362.567000] ip_local_deliver:

[gentoo-user] pam-login and shadow-4.0.15-r2

2006-07-19 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi all, I haven't emerged my system in a while because of this problem, and now it is getting back to me. pam-login reports that it is being blocked by =sys-apps/shadow-4.0.15-r2. The problem here is that there are no versions of shadow less than that that are still in the portage tree.

[gentoo-user] Authentication Issues

2006-08-02 Thread Kris Kerwin
configuration). The big problem, however, came when I could not unlock the screensaver with my password. Also, kris' attempts to change his passwd are met with the error: `Authentication token manipulation error'. Thanks in advance for all of your help. System information is appended below. Kris

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Authentication Issues

2006-08-03 Thread Kris Kerwin
again for your help. Kris Kerwin On Wednesday 02 August 2006 01:10, Kris Kerwin wrote: Hi all, I just performed a new Gentoo install, and am having a couple of issues regarding authentication. I think that the problem is something to do with PAM/Shadow. (No ... it's not the blocking issue

[gentoo-user] Akregator Crashing

2006-08-25 Thread Kris Kerwin
Hi, I've been attempting to start akregator-3.5.2 (as part of the kde-base/kde-meta package) for some time, and have been consistently getting crashes. The only piece of diagnostic material that I can provide is the following backtrace. Thanks in advance, Kris Kerwin - Backtrace