Hi Volker,
on Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:15:22PM +0100, you wrote:
http://iht.com/articles/2008/02/22/technology/chip.php
don't panic. Just because something works in a lab, does not mean that it
works outside of it too. So they were able to freeze some ram and get some
information of it. So
Hi Mark,
on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 05:39:12PM +1300, you wrote:
{Ghost functionality]
I actually think that 'dump' will do what you want... provided you can
choose a time when the machine is not busy (should be easy if it's your
desktop!). You have to do 1 dump per filesystem, but many
Hi Stroller,
on Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 12:51:04PM +, you wrote:
Since I'm not real sure what this package does, I am unsure if I
should just unmerge and re-emerge it (perhaps at one time I ran the
~x86 version and so I have a mixture?)
I'm not sure what this does, either. Someone may come
Hi Iain,
on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:53:40PM +0930, you wrote:
brag I just installed Gentoo on a quad-core dual-cpu Xeon E5420
(2.50GHz). 8Gb RAM, 800Gb raid. It's not mine - I've only convinced
the sysadmin to let me play until it needs to be used for something real
(what a waste to have
Hi 7v5w7go9ub0o,
on Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:09:15PM -0400, you wrote:
Help, please! I'm thinking of building a new box: asus p5e/intel core2
quad. I had thought of getting an NV. Would ATI be the better choice?
As far as I've heard, all proprietary graphics drivers on Linux suck but
NVidia's
Hi andrea,
on Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 08:53:53AM +0100, you wrote:
I've had big stability problems as well
with 169.09-r1 on an el-cheapo GeForce 7300 but 169.12 has been rock
solid for about a week now. At the speed any modern chip runs at, I
don't feel the need for any framebuffer tricksi
Hi Thanasis,
on Friday, 2007-09-28 at 22:41:52, you wrote:
How can we set the xdm/gdm not to start before the agetty processes
(during the boot phase)?
Have a look at the depend() function in /etc/init.d/xdm. It specifies
what should be started before xdm, so adding agetty to an after line
in
Hi Grant,
on Saturday, 2007-09-29 at 16:28:36, you wrote:
Do you back up hidden files and directories in the home directory?
There seems to be a lot of junk in there. Does something like
'--exclude /home/user/.*' work with tar?
It certainly does, but I'm quite sure it's not what you want. For
Hi Dan,
on Sunday, 2007-10-28 at 18:30:17, you wrote:
Of course you can build a low-power system and probably get by without
any fans at all if you're clever, and if you outsource the hard drive
to another computer you get a fairly low power design that's silent.
But not nearly as low power
Hi michael,
on Sunday, 2005-12-11 at 23:44:22, you wrote:
Any suggestions welcome. If you want to tell me why you like it or don't
like it even better.
www-servers/fnord is probably the smallest that doesn't do ugly things
like tux's processing HTTP at kernel level. I haven't used it but from
Hi Devon,
on Monday, 2005-12-19 at 23:13:52, you wrote:
I'm going to reboot again and experiment a bit to see if I can nail down
what triggers the abberation.
Just an idea, haven't followed the thread: could it have to do with the
new timer frequency setting under Processor Type and Features?
Hi Mark,
on Tuesday, 2005-12-20 at 07:40:42, you wrote:
[thin client]
I'm sure that's possible. I could even use her current Win ME box in
some sort of dual boot config I suppose. However the reason I didn't
start with that idea is that I am not there to hand hold her. If she's
running Gnome
After finishing my latest sync, portage moaned about problems with my
world file. emaint found out it was due to some package updates that
deleted the versions I have installed and left only unstable ones.
In particular, it was dev-tex/latex-beamer and its dependencies, pgf and
xcolor. Nice to see
Hi Anthony,
on Wednesday, 2005-12-28 at 10:38:12, you wrote:
1) I currently have a few pop email accounts with my ISP and others
(eg gmail), and wish to retain these accounts, as I use them for
different purposes and people already have these addresses.
As Alexander has pointed out, fetchmail
Hi David,
on Thursday, 2005-12-29 at 13:53:17, you wrote:
$(ls *.jpg)
ick!
(incidentally, http://www.ruhr.de/home/smallo/award.html#ls)
Well, it's bad in two ways, and even the example on the above webpage is
wrong. For one thing, ls is useless here. For another, it will break
on spaces
Hi Ow,
on Tuesday, 2006-01-03 at 15:37:55, you wrote:
I have a few files which I would like to share to some housemates, but I
don't want these files to be opened by everyone at the same time. (limit
stress on my PC etc)
So, what I would like to do is some sort of library checkout mechanism.
It started on Wednesday: after syncing, I had about 150 ebuilds marked
as remerge. I thought, WTH, let portage have its way and remerge
everything while I sleep. So I did---and today it's the same! 151
ebuilds and all of them for remerging the same version. Here's some of
them:
[ebuild R ]
Hi Tom,
on Saturday, 2006-01-07 at 01:07:18, you wrote:
Could you please paste the command line you used to generate this list?
emerge -DNuta world
right after emerge --sync
regards
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Hi Rumen,
on Saturday, 2006-01-07 at 06:31:56, you wrote:
Have you changed any USE-flags in /etc/make.conf?
Add the 'v' option to see USE-flags too.
Sometimes this could happen with slotted packages when there's an upgrade
for some minor slot-number version (requires =...), but only for
I used xorg-x11-6.8.99 on my laptop so far because its i915 chipset
wasn't properly supported in 6.8.2. Now the last update, -r4, broke the
support again (or so I read on some forum when I investigated why X
wouldn't start any more), so I decided to give 7.0 a try. The usual
great Gentoo HOWTOs
Hi Andrew,
on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 16:27:41, you wrote:
try adding
'Section DRI
mode 0660
Group video
endsection'
to your xorg.conf
Oh, that rings a bell, I think I did that to another config a long time
ago...thanks, I'll try tomorrow @work!
and no those are
Hi Lord,
on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 18:25:32, you wrote:
(it's an Iomega ditto QIC-80 parallel port floppy-protocol tape drive). I
also bought a very low quality DVD+RW drive (MagicSpin non-MMC, non-Ricoh -
Beh. A faster solution with similar security to either one would be a
tar
Hi Richard,
on Wednesday, 2006-01-11 at 18:22:37, you wrote:
I think it is important to note that these names were not invented by
the Gentoo devs working the ebuildsthey are straight from the
x.org project's distribution [1].
Ah, OK, thanks for clarifying that! After reading their
Hi Eric,
on Thursday, 2006-01-12 at 14:35:52, you wrote:
Yup, it's Kmail. What setup do you use for sending mail? Some ISPs have
configs that block port 25 from being used for third party servers. Could be
they put in a port blocker recently, and you're just one of the few people
who are
Hi Neil,
on Friday, 2006-01-13 at 12:51:32, you wrote:
By default, su does not allow access to X. You can mess around
setting and exporting $DISPLAY, or you can use sux instead of su. sux is
a shell wrapper for su that takes care of this.
I wonder why that should be necessary in the first
Hi Dale,
on Friday, 2006-01-13 at 13:40:00, you wrote:
I think something is wrong with xorg or something myself. I can read. LOL
If anyone else wants to see this thing, let me know. I'll send it to you.
I noticed similar things can happen when for some reason (DHCP, some
dialup script,
Hi Dale,
on Friday, 2006-01-13 at 16:42:33, you wrote:
Any ideas? Anybody want to host this large strace file so others can see it?
I don't have anyway to host it here.
No problem, just send it and I'll put it online.
regards
Matthias
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Hi Dale,
on Friday, 2006-01-13 at 17:06:58, you wrote:
Here is the file if it helps. If you would post a link to in the list.
Maybe
someone will make sense of it. I'm clueless.
OK, the file is online at
http://www.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/~msbethke/strace-dale.txt
It doesn't look like
Hi Rafael,
on Sunday, 2006-01-15 at 16:45:29, you wrote:
Sorry I did a dmesg and that message shows for me too... but less times
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ dmesg | grep ipw2200
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.0.10
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2005 Intel Corporation
Hi Rafael,
on Sunday, 2006-01-15 at 21:58:06, you wrote:
The server I've tried to upload returned always error 500. Now it is
uploaded. Sorry I absolutely have forgotten to re-upload.
Looks better now :) I've been getting these 500 errors as well in the
last weeks, from several servers. The web
Hi Ow,
on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 13:22:06, you wrote:
I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to
me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have tried various means to get a
new IP but it's not giving it to me since the DHCP has bonded it self to
my PCMCIA NIC's MAC
Hi Chris,
on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 17:50:01, you wrote:
Say, I have a DHCP server is distributing 172.30.10.0/24 IP range,
but a joker simply plug in another DHCP server and distributing
192.168.12.0/24 IP. Is there anyway I can stop the unwanted DHCP broadcast?
That's a network
Hi Michael,
on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 10:53:50, you wrote:
I had missed that! Are you saying that if poppler has been emerged
there's no need to re-emerge xpdf? I didn't know that and I re-emerged
xpdf.
I think you do, poppler is just the library.
I have another problem with poppler now
Hi Uwe,
on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote:
If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either
pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx?
No, it wants both of them. I do have lynx but that's probably for
HTML-text and the other, as the name
Hi Michael,
on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 09:47:44, you wrote:
Matthias Bethke wrote:
Hi Uwe,
on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote:
If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either
pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx?
No, it wants
Hi Michael,
on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 20:18:16, you wrote:
Plone in portage hasn't changed in a very long time. I recommend you
get the new ebuilds from
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105187 and install them, then
put your comments in that bug to let the devs know that it's working.
Hi Ow,
on Wednesday, 2006-01-18 at 09:22:06, you wrote:
you have a DHCP server you don't control (@work?)
Yes.
and it's not giving
you the IP you want but something else---abd in what way?
it's giving me an IP, just not a good One. (upstream connection is bad)
Well, what exactly is
Hi Cláudio,
on Wednesday, 2006-01-25 at 13:47:21, you wrote:
I thought it could solve it killing the module. I have tried modprobe
-rf visor but visor do not want to die.
any ideas?
Do you have forced module unloading enabled in your kernel? If you do,
it's probably a problem in the module
I have a bit of chicken-and-egg problem trying to get encrypted
removable devices to work as normal as possible.
Using Loop-AES and a GPG-encrypted key I had no problems encrypting my
external FW drive, but to pass all the options to losetup without
entering them by hand every time, I need an
Hi Etaoin,
on Friday, 2006-02-24 at 15:42:39, you wrote:
With udev you can create hardware-specific devices (meaning you can have
a device in /dev that corresponds exactly to some particular hard disk),
based on various hardware-specific information (eg, manufacturer name or
device id and
Hi Dale,
on Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:44:54PM -0500, you wrote:
How do you run out of inodes anyway? I use reiserfs for most partitions
except /boot and portage. My /data partition has 75,000 files and 3,600
directories. No problems so far but not near as many files as you have.
You can
Hi Anthony,
on Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:01:42PM +0100, you wrote:
I have two theories about how to go about this.no1, install esx 3i
on a spare drive, make a 32bit Linux guest and point it's drives at the raw
partitions I have now :) no2, alter make.conf to 64bit flags, and emerge -e
Hi Florian,
on Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:29:07PM +0200, you wrote:
Note1: NEVER EVER build some kind of RAID other than Linear (also called
JBOD) over two IDE disks on the same cable. Performance will suffer greatly
as will security because most simple onboard controllers can't handle a
dying
Hi Mick,
on Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 01:51:18AM +0100, you wrote:
Did you see this today?
# etc-update
[...]
File: /etc/portage/._cfg_package.use
[...]
What is it about?
No, I didn't see it, but it looks like some package moved to another
category
Hi Florian,
on Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 11:55:14AM +0200, you wrote:
Hmm, you might be right. Maybe someone should do a field test.
I think we have a candidate here on the list... ;)
cheers,
Matthias
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Hi Alan,
on Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 08:57:42AM +0200, you wrote:
These days the entire concept of a cylinder is a mere abstraction to make
tools like fdisk work in a sane manner.
Of course not. The disk is physically organized in cylinders, that's the
structure dictated by the mechanical design.
Hi Alan,
on Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 02:17:07PM +0200, you wrote:
However, it does make the most sense to keep fdisk's cylinders in some sort
of
sequential order, so low numbered cylinders will in all probability end up
near one edge and high numbered cylinders at the other edge.
I strongly
Hi b.n.,
on Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:26:56PM +0200, you wrote:
Seriously: can someone more skilled than me explain why using
--resume-skipfirst and then trying to solve the unmerged packages is/can be
a bad idea? How can this break the system?
Frankly I have no idea. I've heard that argument
Hi Vaeth,
on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:34:31AM +0200, you wrote:
The problem is that after failing of a package, portage does
not recalculate the dependencies, i.e. it will attempt to install also
those packages which depend on the failed package.
OIC, so that was what I missed :) Somehow the
Hi Neil,
on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 04:59:39PM +0100, you wrote:
Except that this is not completely true: See some of the many articles
in the net which explain why NAT is not a security feature. A quick
google search gave e.g.
http://www.nexusuk.org/articles/2005/03/12/nat_security/
So
Hi Vaeth,
on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:14:48PM +0200, you wrote:
In addition, the default rsyncd configuration with Gentoo uses a chroot
jail.
Also a chroot jail is not a security feature: There are several ways known
how to break out.
Huh? In the case of NAT it's reasonable to say it's not
Hi Vaeth,
on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 07:54:43PM +0200, you wrote:
I don't even see why you'd strictly need connection tracking to avoid
attacks made possible by grossly misconfigured ISP routers. Your router
knows that packets with a destination address of 10/8, 192.168/16 and
the like have
Hi Vaeth,
on Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 08:36:28PM +0200, you wrote:
Also a chroot jail is not a security feature: There are several
ways known how to break out.
[...] But there's only one reason I can see why you'd use a
chroot environment *except* for security and that's to have more than
Hi Vaeth,
on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 09:49:08AM +0200, you wrote:
[...] that in any halfway sane router these NAT problems are not an
issue. And with many routers running Linux today so you can even get a
shell and check iptables... :)
We are obviously talking about a different price
Hi Vaeth,
on Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 10:40:47AM +0200, you wrote:
Alan Cox: chroot is not and never has been a security tool, see e.g.
http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Abusing_chroot
No disrespect to Mr. Cox but a silly argument stays a silly argument
even if brought forward by Alan. Programs
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 06:40:58PM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
It seems that you missunderstand things. The people behind cdrkit are on a
crusade against free software.
Good evening!
Tonight on It's The Mind we'll examine the phenomenon of déjà-vu.
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Hi Erik,
on Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 05:34:11PM +0200, you wrote:
Chances are Epiphany is more stable *because* you don't have Flash in
it - it often causes Firefix to crash.
Likely. Pretty much the only reason of FF3 crashes here.
I recommend to either try one of the open source alternatives or
Hi Albert,
on Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 03:11:04PM -0400, you wrote:
... but Jorge is right. This is easily picked up by a lint tool... and
good python programmers use them ;-). Some python-aware editors even
have this functionality built in.
Whow...I've been out of Python long enough to totally
Hi Zhang,
on Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 06:24:00PM +0800, you wrote:
I hope I can configure the system so that any process uses more than 50%
of memory are automatically killed. first I was recommend to use ulimit
by googling around. However this seems doesn't work even if I set both
-d and -m (here
Hi Zhang,
on Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:30:55PM +0800, you wrote:
I interpret the above as use a maximum of 300,000 KiB of memory, of
which 300 may be resident (i.e. in physical memory) and 299,700 swapped
out. That doesn't sound good, although I'm not sure I'm reading it
correctly.
Sorry,
Hi James,
on Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:30:57PM +, you wrote:
ANA-6944A/TX
[...]
Not very useful.
Why not just ask Google for ANA-6944A and Linux? It turns up stuff like
this: http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/hardware/quartet.html
which suggests it might work with the Tulip driver.
For
Hi Peter,
on Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:50:32AM +, you wrote:
I'm still having a bit of bother with crossdev. If I emerge -upDvtN world I
get this warning (omitting the N makes no difference):
!!! The following installed packages are masked:
-
Hi Michael,
on Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:39:59AM -0500, you wrote:
Now I run gpg-agent in my .xsession, with the GPG_AGENT_INFO variable being
inherited by Mutt, but signing email doesn't work, as gpg says there's no
secret key available.
Do you have set pgp_use_gpg_agent=yes in your muttrc?
I have a feeling I'm missing something very obvious here, but I'm still
at a loss:
I have my laptop's ethernet set to use DHCP. Obviously, on the road this
will fail. But then the net service that postfix (and a bunch of other
stuff like sshd) depends on is not there. Of course I could edit the
Hi Neil,
on Thursday, 2005-05-12 at 22:18:23, you wrote:
I'm running ~amd64 and ~ppc. I don't know if it's in the older
baselayout, but there are a lot of differences between testing and stable
baselayouts.
My RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING had been set to no already, and I don't have support
for the
Hi Gabriel,
on Saturday, 2005-05-14 at 23:07:25, you wrote:
I'm assuming you are using 255.255.255.0 as your subnet mask. If this is
the case, I don't know how to make it work -- but it's unnecessarily
difficult. Try to set up this:
(INTERNET)
|
[ ?.?.?.? ]
[ DSL MODEM ]
Hi A.,
on Thursday, 2005-05-19 at 13:59:38, you wrote:
I know I can use quickswitch for that but I want something really
automatic, [...]
iface_eth0=dhcp
ifconfig_eth0=( dhcp 194.199.136.151 )
[...]
# esearch quickswitch
Yeah, I guess he knew that ;-)
I'm just wondering: where can I
There's some SuSE-based workstations around me here I have to take care
of. I guess they won't have to bear SuSE for much longer though.
The alternatives I can imagine now are Debian and Gentoo. Personally I'd
prefer Gentoo, but I don't feel like reinventing the weel by writing my
own deployment
Hi Antonino,
on Friday, 2005-06-03 at 20:55:43, you wrote:
So you're actually trying to reuse even the compilation work performed on
the 'first' (let's call it 'master') machine and avoid compiling on all
the others when you do an emerge --update world for instance?
That was my idea, or rather
Hi Neil,
on Monday, 2005-06-06 at 09:08:53, you wrote:
Have you looked at buildpkg Matthias? I've used it before on similar
machines. Seems to work ok. Granted, you can't just `emerge -upD
world` on the copies, but you may get away with minimal effort.
You can if you use a shared
Hi Grant,
on Friday, 2005-06-17 at 09:07:48, you wrote:
I was writing an email using vim in mutt and I accidentally hit
ctrl+alt+backspace which exited X. Is there any way to recover that
email?
Vim saves backups in *.sw?-files. Mutt's tempfiles are named
/tmp/mutt-$HOSTNAME..., with ...
Hi Dave,
on Thursday, 2005-10-13 at 13:50:53, you wrote:
The root partition is your key to accessing your box. You basically want to
have only static files on the root partition, not files that are in a general
state of flux.
ACK. This will also keep fragmentation down and thus performance
Hi maxim,
on Wednesday, 2005-10-19 at 09:44:58, you wrote:
it started a little flakey but soon progressed to all
out dandruff!
Lowlevelling seems the way to go indeed, if there's anything that can be
done. Just back up the drive with
dd if=/dev/hdX conv=noerror bs=4096 | gzip
Hi Daniel,
on Monday, 2005-10-24 at 11:33:47, you wrote:
Take a look at this... PDF is the proprietary modification of ps,
added some tags and some compression (that can easily be repeated with
lots of advantages in any compressor). And, well, read for yourself.
This is obviously a few years
Hi Anthony,
on Sunday, 2005-10-30 at 16:06:47, you wrote:
The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my
server, since it looked promising in the control I have over the
installation.
My question is this: I want to replace Suse on the server with the
minimal amount of
I just noticed the new Gentoo kernel 2.6.14-r2 includes support for both
the generic 802.11 stack and the Intel IPW2200 driver. I've been using
the separate ebuilds for these two so far, now I was wondering if
there's still any advantage to that. Any opinions?
regards
Matthias
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Hi Hemmann,,
on Wednesday, 2005-11-16 at 16:14:18, you wrote:
but xine does it right without the need of editing the conf, so in my humble
opinion, xine is better - I am lazy ;)
Depends on your keyboard. On a US keyboard, {}/[] are just fine, of
course on a German one it will be as unintuitive
Hi Daniel,
on Saturday, 2007-02-10 at 12:49:14, you wrote:
I will give short overview what i have tried so far.
1. Trying different I/O Scheduler ( cfq anticipatory and deadline)
2. Enabling Low latency kernel and Preemptible kernel
3. Setting 1000 HZ for timer frequency
4. Tried the new
Hi Ow,
on Tuesday, 2007-02-27 at 18:09:13, you wrote:
Does anyone here knows if beagle really sucks up resources?? I just
emerged it a week ago and I'm getting very pissed off at it as it's
using a lot of resources. The laptop doesn't get much idle time.
I was under the impression that this
I've been fiddling with this for some days and can't but assume it's a
bug in one of the Gentoo patches to either the kernel or NFS tools:
Basically, NFS locking breaks as soon as I enable jumbo frames on both
server and client.
touch foobar
flock foobar ls
works fine in my NFS-mounted home
Hi kashani,
on Monday, 2007-04-23 at 11:11:40, you wrote:
It sounds like Gigabit Ethernet to me.
Yes, that's it.
Keep in mind that not all fastE or gigE switches support jumbo frames.
Additionally not all cards support jumbo frames either though you can
certainly set them to an MTU of 9000
Hi Francesco,
on Monday, 2007-04-23 at 21:58:18, you wrote:
Based on my experience I would add to verify also the upper MTU value
really supported.
According to Documentation/networking/e1000.txt, the adapters should all
support 16K frames. The limiting factor would be the switch's 9K limit,
Hi Boyd,
on Friday, 2007-04-27 at 02:09:18, you wrote:
Adjust your LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, and/or LANG environment variables. (At
least,
Nautilus /should/ respect those.) You might have to do something like:
LC_ALL=POSIX nautilus
from a xterm-like application.
Usually the collation order
On Tuesday, 2007-04-24 at 15:38:12, I wrote:
I have googled for quite a while but can't find a thing.
Anyone here using NFS and GigE+jumbo frames with Gentoo?
Just to follow up for the archives' sake: this seems to be an old and
frustrating problem, I've run into a few messages dating back to
Hi Ghaith,
on Thursday, 2006-03-09 at 06:52:38, you wrote:
help, it seems the gentoo installer deleted my home partition
fdisk don't show it what can i do?
is there a way to restore it
gpart is the tool for that. If nothing works any more, you can use
Knoppix or something. Then just start
Hi Joseph,
on Wednesday, 2006-03-15 at 15:55:17, you wrote:
could be the reader then? Do you have another computer with a dvd drive
and 4.7g available space?
Yes, I've tired on two different systems, one is x86 and the other amd64
with similar result on both of them; the copying stops at
Hi Paul,
on Thursday, 2006-03-16 at 12:44:15, you wrote:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 (but if there isn't any
data on that drive, then go and try this...)
Thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion but it didn't make any
difference.
If there's nothing on it yet, you can
Hi Pongracz,
on Wednesday, 2006-03-22 at 20:29:36, you wrote:
Question is, why other guys do not start a real open source project to
make a phone application?
Another one that has been in portage for a few weeks: net-im/wengophone
My experience is that the sound quality isn't quite as good as
Hi Joseph,
on Friday, 2006-03-24 at 18:51:17, you wrote:
I was under impression that ieee1394 cards would work the same as
USB-ports; regardless which port I plug my device into it will just
work, not so with ieee1394 cards.
I'm not an expert on ieee1394 but from what I've seen they actually
Hi Hans-Werner,
on Monday, 2006-03-27 at 13:36:38, you wrote:
Most likely it wouldn't work because of the wlan link layer. Most WiFi
cards don't go well with bridging... So routing is the option which is
left.
The 802.11 link layer is almost exactly the same as in Ethernet so that
should be a
Hi Boyd,
on Monday, 2006-03-27 at 16:51:00, you wrote:
The stock firmware does not show up as a USB block device under either
Windows or Linux. There is an official USB firmware that you can download
and install that makes it act like a standard USB block device under both
operating
I was wondering about those multiple hits I get every time I use
whatis(1) or apropos(1) these days. Everything is listed three times,
which is kind of annoying. It's not too hard to find the culprit if you
look at whatis: /etc/man.conf lists /usr/man and /usr/X11R6/man as
separate entries for
Hi Lord,
on Wednesday, 2006-03-29 at 17:41:49, you wrote:
However, at the same time, you really shouldn't expect games out of
any but the most expensive laptops.
You know, games includes stuff released before January 2006 =^
The 486/100 laptop I bought for EUR 150 some 8 years ago runs Zork
Portage is acting strage today. Poppler has been acting up for a while
now, but today it seems more like portage is confused about what to
emerge:
| # emerge -DNuta world
|
| These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
|
| Calculating world dependencies ...done!
| [nomerge
Hi Justin,
on Tuesday, 2006-04-04 at 00:27:18, you wrote:
I'm trying to compile some network code... but gcc is telling me
cannot find -lsocket
That's right, the socket API is part of libc. That's some pretty old
code, isn't it? Just leave out the -lsocket and you should be fine.
cheers!
Hi Benno,
on Wednesday, 2006-04-05 at 14:50:29, you wrote:
Just put LINGUAS=fr en. I'm unsure whether en-us is recognized.
The Localization Guide isn't very clear about the syntax of these, nor
how to get a list of available codes. I guess the basic ones are the
two-letter ISO codes as for
Hi Mick,
on Sunday, 2006-04-16 at 19:48:00, you wrote:
1. What is the relationship between gpg-agent and ssh-agent? Do I need both?
One is for SSH, the other for GPG :) Yes, I don't think either can be made to
work for the other program.
2. How can I get the gpg-agent to start if I do not
Hi Ognjen,
on Monday, 2006-05-01 at 11:22:23, you wrote:
I have spent most of the day getting per user web serving to work
(/home/$user/public_html = http://server/~$user) but was constantly
getting 401 Forbidden errors with apache2.
After lots of hunting I found that you have to set the
Hi Ptitjack,
on Tuesday, 2006-05-02 at 12:24:01, you wrote:
I just emerged Wengophone.
When I run Wengophone as user, I have to get my first Wengo account.
A new window is opening with : You don't have a Wengo account ? Click here.
Problem, the link does not work ! When I click on it, nothing
Hi Hani,
on Thursday, 2006-05-04 at 11:19:33, you wrote:
Have you looked through the '/etc/conf.d/net.example' file? I'm not too
familiar with DHCP, but the net.example file has this entry:
As Uwe said, that's not the issue. It's a server box, the one
responsible for dealing out the others'
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