Re: [gentoo-user] Webcam recommendation

2008-01-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 21:52 -0700, Mike Diehl wrote: On Saturday 26 January 2008 09:28:23 pm forgottenwizard wrote: On 16:13 Sat 26 Jan , Mike Diehl wrote: I'm looking for an inexpensive USB webcam that works with both Linux and Windoze. Something that I can pick up at Walmart or

[gentoo-user] A Thank you to the Developers for the Free Software

2007-07-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I was feeling a bit un-appreciated as a Developer and I thought of all the other developers of Open Source (Free) Software who relentlessly contribute to/make Open Source (free) software. I just wanted to take some time to officially say *Thank You* for all the good things which you guys/gals

[gentoo-user] A Thank you to the Developers for the Free Software

2007-07-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
First off, let me apologise for cross-posting this email to multiple Mailing Lists. I was feeling a bit un-appreciated as a Developer and I thought of all the other developers of Open Source (Free) Software who relentlessly contribute to/make Open Source (free) software. I just wanted to take

[gentoo-user] wpa_supplicant and preferred_aps (not associating)

2007-08-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I'm not sure what happened and my effort to find out what happened is still largely surmised by don't know yet Anyway, using ipw2100 and wpa_supplicant I followed the gentoo guide and put in the network={ key_mgmt=NONE priority=-999 } such that it will pick up any

[gentoo-user] [OT] Help with Perl Datetime + Epoch

2007-08-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Been struggling with a new script I'm porting over from bash because perl's DBI is much more elegant than my previous usage of sqsh. I'm having trouble converting from a datetime into a unix epoch timestamp. under bash, this is done. date = -MM-DD HH:MM:SS epoch_date = date -d $date +%s

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Help with Perl Datetime + Epoch

2007-08-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 00:25 -0700, Alan wrote: On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 02:43:04PM +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Been struggling with a new script I'm porting over from bash because perl's DBI is much more elegant than my previous usage of sqsh. I'm having trouble converting from a datetime

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab question

2007-08-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Colleen Beamer wrote: The wrinkle is that my son bought me a usbstick. I can mount it just fine. However, if my usb external hard drive is not powered on on boot, the stick is recognized at sdc1. If the usb drive is powered on then, the stick is recognized as sdd1. So, this means that

[gentoo-user] freenx / nxclient / nxserver etc.. [experiences]

2007-09-27 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I just tried to installed freenx(0.7) nx(3.0) and it's a bit frustrating because it doesn't seem to be working well. eg: Sometimes I can connect, sometimes I can't. (timeout) then when I can connect, sometimes I get my gnome-desktop, sometimes not. When I log-out, (suspend) and I try to log in

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend questions

2007-10-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 21:33 -0400, James Colby wrote: currently running a 2.6.19-gentoo-r5 kernel. I emerged the suspend2 sources, copied the .config from the 2.6.19 directory and ran make which suspend2 kernel ver? /etc/fstab. The reason for that is because the suspend kernel is

Re: [gentoo-user] To Neil Bothwick: Question re ntfs-3g

2007-10-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 22:05 -0500, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Neil, back on 15 July, you stated that you used ntfs-3g with only the in-kernel fuse modules. When I try that, I get the following error: error while loading shared libraries: libfuse.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such

Re: [gentoo-user] postgresql problem

2007-10-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 08:07 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag, 9. Oktober 2007 schrieb ext Rafael Barrera Oro: Hello, i'd like to ask you people if anyone has succeded in installing a postgresql version greater than 8.0.13 because i tried (unmasking by adding ~x86 to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS)

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: how do I kick a MAC address off my hostapd WiFi network?

2007-10-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote: Anyways, sometimes I have stupid neighbors who don't quite get it and will just blindly let their computers connect to my WAP. UGH! They sit on it for hours and days and generally

[gentoo-user] OT : Anyone here experimented with Freecast?

2005-12-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
(fast): 0x08059008 *** Any ideas? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 12:27:15 up 21:04, 6 users, load average: 0.99, 0.71, 0.76 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Istanbul - missing theoraenc

2005-12-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Where can I get theoraenc? I've already emerged gst-plugins-theora but no dice. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:21:54 up 1 day, 2:58, 5 users, load average: 0.95, 0.44, 0.33 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Istanbul - missing theoraenc

2005-12-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:57 +, James wrote: Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com writes: Where can I get theoraenc? I've already emerged gst-plugins-theora but no dice. libtheora may contain the theora encoder you are looking for: Already tried that. No dice either otherwise

[OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
system can be fixed because the DVDs are bootable. how can one create bootable CDs/DVDs? Is there a simple way to transfer GRUB into the DVD/CDs? Or would dd of the /boot partition transfer the whole thing?? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free

Re: [OT] how to make Bootable DVD/CDs [Was] Re: [gentoo-user] Backups

2005-12-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 23:02 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 12/15/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table Thanks. Wonderful info. /me just bought a DVD writer. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz

Re: [gentoo-user] Make changes to routing table permanent

2005-12-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 19:49 -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote: Every time I reboot my system, it comes up with the wrong default route. I use the route command to delete the old default route and add the new one. When I reboot, it comes back up with the wrong default route again. How do I

Re: [gentoo-user] Remore control of current desktop

2005-12-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
under Linux? Or some other way to do it? If it all possible, it needs to be OS independent (take control of a Linux server frrom a client running on Windows and vice versa.) In Gnome, it's called Vino. This option is also available in VNC 4.0 IIRC. (but Vino surely does it) -- Ow Mun

[gentoo-user] Socks5 use Flag and wget

2005-12-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi, Seems like wget is pulling in Dante if I use the socks5 flag. .I don't actually use dante, and wget seems to be able to handle going through a proxy on its on (once the proxy env is exported) So.. tell me again, (please) what the socks5 use flag is for. Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng

[gentoo-user] Lots of New Java Packages.. Why?

2005-12-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
[ebuild N] dev-java/jsr173 [ebuild N] dev-java/dom4j [ebuild N] dev-java/jaxen [ebuild N] dev-java/xml-xmlbeans [ebuild NS ] dev-java/rhino -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:28:06 up 2:13, 4 users, load

[gentoo-user] Network Monitoring Packages eg:ntop

2005-12-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
particular point. Appreciate some comments. Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:33:29 up 18:19, 2 users, load average: 0.29, 0.61, 1.15 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ssh and tar combined?

2005-12-27 Thread Ow Mun Heng
- /directory/to/copy | ssh systemB tar -xzvf - -C /tmp How's that?? Bear in mind that SSH will use some overhead due to encryption. (you can change the cipher to blowfish if you want/is not that paranoid :-) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Can't emerge audacity

2005-12-27 Thread Ow Mun Heng
-unicode -gtk2 wxgtk1 =media-sound/audacity-1.2.3-r1 -gtk2 Yeah.. I was stumped there for a while as well until I ran etcat versions wxgtk and found out. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:30:15 up 1 day, 1:12, 5 users, load average

[gentoo-user] [OT] Selecting left/Right audio channel in Mplayer/Xine/Totem etc

2006-01-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
doesn't yield any results. (I guess my use of keywords isn't perfect) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:22:56 up 49 min, 3 users, load average: 0.45, 0.44, 0.41 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Accurate way of Detecting # of times a file is opened

2006-01-02 Thread Ow Mun Heng
will permit the connection. Is lsof a suitable/accurate tool? I mean, based on linux's architechture, one can still access/stop playing the file( but didn't close the orig app that played/used it) Comments please? (Preferably a command line app / solution) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL

[gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
that gentoo does not use it at all. So, I can't even reject the DHCP server. Help. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:16:09 up 3:19, 4 users, load average: 3.23, 2.99, 2.11 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Selecting left/Right audio channel in Mplayer/Xine/Totem etc

2006-01-16 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Just following up on myself. Does anyone have a clue? can I buy a clue here? On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 14:40 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, I have some karaoke discs which I would like to play under linux. Is there any way to control the Left/Right and have it output as mono? Right

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:11 +, Mattias Merilai wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: Googling with gentoo + dhclient.conf and dhcp + reject ip addreses doesn't give me any good leads. I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss pings, long delays etc..) I have

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 07:53 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/16/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Googling with gentoo + dhclient.conf and dhcp + reject ip addreses doesn't give me any good leads. I have a problem in which the DHCP server assigns a Bad IP address to me. (miss

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 12:01 +0100, Matthias Bethke wrote: 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..) Short of waiting close 24 hours (and hoping that that address is

Re: [gentoo-user] DHCP and Problematic IP addreses

2006-01-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 19:01 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/17/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the problems you describe sound like some other device on the network has the same address as your PC. I think it's more like too much broadcast or problematic Switch/hub etc

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Ow Mun Heng
CPU is slow/precious and you have a 16 way node on a backup server (HAHA!!) tar cf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com gzip -c filename.tar.gz But you transfer the stream uncompressed, so more bits get transferred. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 21:19 -0600, John Jolet wrote: On Jan 24, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: There's another way. This assumes your originating server's CPU is slow/precious and you have a 16 way node on a backup server (HAHA!!) tar cf - /var/backup | ssh backup.homelan.com gzip

[gentoo-user] Console + setfont - Need larger fonts for Console (TV-Out)

2006-02-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
? Searching google didn't find anything positive. when I tried to look at it using gnome-font-browser, it says it can't load it. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:47:13 up 1 day, 5:47, 6 users, load average: 0.72, 1.12, 1.50

[gentoo-user] [OT] DIY Small Footprint NAS (low Power)

2006-02-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
on/off as needed and connect it to the network. (something like for MythTV Recording storage which does not need to be on all the time but only when needed to prolong the life of the Hard Disks. Much like this project - http://www.freenas.org/ -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] DIY Small Footprint NAS (low Power)

2006-02-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 20:26 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 16:04 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi all, IS there anyone here who has made/hacked together a little NAS Box? Something like the buffulo Terrastation would be nice. I don't want to use a full fledged PC

Re: [gentoo-user] Console + setfont - Need larger fonts for Console (TV-Out)

2006-02-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 22:01 +0100, Mariusz Pękala wrote: On 2006-02-07 14:49:41 +0800 (Tue, Feb), Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, I'm trying to locate a nice and _BIG_ font to use on the console for when I use TV-Out. [SNIP] A very quick one: cd /usr/share/consolefonts for x

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-volume-manager

2006-02-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
get this warning at all. $grep -i utf /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT=utf8 CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y $egrep -i '(437|8859)' /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437 CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET=iso8859-1 CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=y -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Low TCP RWIN value

2006-02-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Bandwidth Management) which states that Linux TCP window isn't implemented. $cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_adv_win_scale 2 How can I see the Rwin size for each connection? or track it for that matter? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11

[gentoo-user] is iptables needed on a Bridge

2006-02-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi all, Just got a bridge setup to put in to monitor network traffic. I wonder if there's a need to put in iptables/ebtables into it. the bridge(br0) does not have an ip address. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:55:46 up

Re: [gentoo-user] is iptables needed on a Bridge

2006-02-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:38 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 12 February 2006 20:58, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] is iptables needed on a Bridge': Just got a bridge setup to put in to monitor network traffic. I wonder if there's a need to put

[gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
to CVSup will require some non-trivial steps to ensure that we have proper Modula 3 support on all architectures. * CVSup also has the added psychological benefit of making FreeBSD users feel more at home. [/snip] Anyone wants to comment?? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL

Re: [gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 05:24 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 04:07, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] CVSup vs Gentoo's Rsync': Anyone wants to comment?? I already think Gentoo base system requirements are a bit heavy just having

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend2 issues

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 23:14 -0600, Mike Myers wrote: Hi everybody! I'm having problems with a laptop and the suspend2 patched kernel. It seems like whenever I suspend to ram, and then resume, the video doesn't come back. suspend2-sources? what video card? did you try the vbetool hack?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] traffic shaping

2006-02-23 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 22:55 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: Hm, and you _did_ set up the qdiscs and classes first? OTOH, and I don't know for sure if that's needed before configuring the filters. I do believe that the q-classes are needed. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SUID mounts ( cross platform encryption program/container)

2006-02-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 03:20 -0600, Zac Slade wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2006 00:56, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi All, I'm having some issues with enabling programs to be suid root. Stuffs like /bin/mount /usr/bin/mount.cifs is already in mode 47xx and I still get errors that I have

[gentoo-user] python2.4-python2.5-import gtk error

2008-08-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Just upgraded from 2.4 to 2.5 of python and I'm finding that I have issues with importing gtk. I have no idea what is happening and I've tried various methods of upgrading/re-compiling/downgrading pygobject pygtk and python and glib and pycairo and cairo and a whole host of other packages and

Re: [gentoo-user] python2.4-python2.5-import gtk error

2008-08-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
(by giving 2.5 the boot as i'm lost as to what to do) On Aug 12, 2008, at 10:43 AM, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Just upgraded from 2.4 to 2.5 of python and I'm finding that I have issues with importing gtk. I have no idea what is happening and I've tried various methods of upgrading/re-compiling

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] python2.4-python2.5-import gtk error

2008-08-12 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Turns out I was pulling my hair out because of USE flags between 2.4 and 2.5 in 2.4, threads are enabled by default. 2.5, it is a USE flag setting On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 17:31 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 16:52 +0800, Jan Schneiders wrote: After updating python you always

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with Asterisk PABX

2005-04-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 16:08 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:45 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: looks like you are not the only one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85655 Hey Nick. Yeah. I think I saw that bug and unfortunately this is on 1.0.7 and it stil happens. I

[gentoo-user] profile 2005.0 and missing make.defaults

2005-04-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
`readlink --help' for more information. /usr/bin/euse: line 199: /make.defaults: No such file or directory readlink: too many arguments Try `readlink --help' for more information. readlink: too many arguments Try `readlink --help' for more information. ERROR: /make.defaults is not readable -- Ow Mun

Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted

2005-04-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 18:24 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: 2. move to reiserfs to minimise it happening again (I got sick of losing data to ext3) - YMMV Woah. My experience has been the opposite. Ext3 has never given me problems since My sentiments exactly. -- Ow Mun

Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)]

2005-04-10 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I still haven't gotten to play nicely with any journalling FS). I mostly run BSD on my servers, so I don't have a choice other than slow, reliable FFS. Dude.. you should take a look at laptop_mode. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13

Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)]

2005-04-11 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 19:59 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: On Monday 11 April 2005 01:05 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 23:11 -0400, S. Bergeron wrote: On my MythTV machine, I run XFS, because I'm dealing with large files (2.2gb/hr of video). On my desktop it's ext3. On my

Re: [gentoo-user] Killing two birds....

2005-04-13 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 23:52 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: I now have the entire conversion process committed to a bash script... I'll start some simple bench marks tomorrow if I can. That would be great. Please post when you have the time -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 09:29 +0200, Chris Prior wrote: On 2005.04.14 13:47:42 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Has any seen/tried to implement some sort of mail-responder to grab webpages via email?? eg? set up a procmail recipe that waits on a predefined set of message body Take a look

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a Mail Auto-Responder for Web via Email

2005-04-14 Thread Ow Mun Heng
. but as of now, not being thought of. Plus some authentication!! Yes, some VERY GOOD form of authentication would have to be employed... -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:46:09 up 12:46, 5 users, load average: 1.04, 0.70, 0.55

[gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag

2005-04-15 Thread Ow Mun Heng
://mag.my-opensource.org Comments are appreciated. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:46:11 up 17:46, 4 users, load average: 0.44, 0.71, 0.49 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
/ -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 09:49:55 up 20:06, 6 users, load average: 6.08, 2.95, 2.08 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag

2005-04-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
publish it. One of the biggest problems in sustaining the Mag is in looking for contributing writers. Please do consider it. Visit the Site -- http://mag.my-opensource.org Comments are appreciated. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:14:11

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 07:28 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: Is there a way to do it under VMware? I got a little confused reading your email. Are you running VMWare on Linux or on Windows? If on Linux, you can resize virtual disks with vmware-vdiskmanager. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 08:50 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: start up the whole free imacs flamewar again, mkay? You Watch too much southpark. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 17:54:35 up 2:30, 4 users, load average: 0.15, 0.29, 0.34

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 23:34 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: Can you validate that in real-life?? Since I see my CPU usage is 80% all the time. Need to know if it's RAM or CPU dependent. Well, that sounds more like a software configuration problem. For me

Re: [gentoo-user] Shrinking Disks under Vmware

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 14:21:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I read about vdiskmanager, but it does not offer that capability. And Vmware _does_ have this capability if you're running Windows as the Guest OS in Vmware. Have you

Re: [gentoo-user] route problem when reboot from eth1 to eth1

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
PROTECTED] -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:56:57 up 20:32, 4 users, load average: 0.37, 0.64, 0.57 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't create new menu item in gnome

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
logout/login or kill) the user will be able to see the changes they have made to their menu. If anyone HAS found a way, and I am mistaken in my assumptions here, please share the info -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:58:18 up 20:33, 4 users

Re: [gentoo-user] route problem when reboot from eth1 to eth1

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
and see if that fixes it. ERROR: net.eth1 has not yet been started. I didn't start net.eth0, neither my rc.local or runlevel /etc/init.d/net.eth0 zap -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 13:24:54 up 22:00, 4 users, load average: 0.09

Re: [gentoo-user] route problem when reboot from eth1 to eth1

2005-04-18 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 04:28 +, Lingyun Yang wrote: On 4/19/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 15:33 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: although you say you are using only eth0 OR eth1, it looks like you are using both, even when the LAN connection is not plugged

Re: [gentoo-user] Who vets the gentoo front page ads?

2005-04-19 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 08:17 -0500, Keith Gable wrote: On 4/19/05, Christoph Gysin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: Sorry.. I don't get why he's 20,000 in debt due to Gentoo. Daniel Robbins was Chief Architect and founder of gentoo linux

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get Dual Head working? - SOLVED

2005-04-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
and Monitor 1 at 1024x768 but I've looked at how-to's, searched Google and still can't get it working - can anyone give me any hel[ here? I'm sure it's just something simple in my config. If you need any further information let me know and I can find it. Cheers Jamie -- Ow Mun

Re: [gentoo-user] NIC Swapping Fun Continued

2005-04-21 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 22:12:20 up 33 min, 1 user, load average: 0.38, 0.60, 0.52 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice sought on M9000 epia myth-box setup

2005-04-24 Thread Ow Mun Heng
usage DVD playback ~50% CPU Usage Internet Radio Works (use xmms if possible) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:02:17 up 14:09, 6 users, load average: 0.16, 0.18, 0.17 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Glsa-Check -f Was [What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?]

2005-04-24 Thread Ow Mun Heng
-l|grep \[N glsa-check -f AnyPackagesReportedAbove glsa-check seems to want to patch up Evo for me. 200501-35 [N] Evolution: Integer overflow in camel-lock-helper ( mail-client/evolution ) but I have Evo 2.0.3-r2 installed what gives?? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98

Re: [gentoo-user] rdesktop

2005-04-24 Thread Ow Mun Heng
to log in without previously being logged in if it's possible. WIndows-Linux? Hmm... That Im not sure. Not much use for windows -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:31:35 up 14:38, 8 users, load average: 0.87, 0.48, 0.34 -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] OT prefixing Line numbers in codes for printing

2005-04-25 Thread Ow Mun Heng
?]:g' -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 14:12:49 up 17:19, 8 users, load average: 0.04, 0.18, 0.14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-Check -f Was [What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?]

2005-04-25 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 11:56 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Are etcat -v evolution [ I] 1.4.6 (0) [ I] 2.0.3-r2 (2.0) Hmm.. seems like that may be the case.. Thanks. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:41:02 up 18:47, 7

Re: [gentoo-user] OT prefixing Line numbers in codes for printing

2005-04-25 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 03:52 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: The command nl It is part of coreutils `man nl' to see usage. Hmm.. this is even simple than using grep or using sed. haha.. Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:59:41 up

Re: [gentoo-user] Pentium M and kernel module processor.o

2005-04-25 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 22:46 +0200, Erik wrote: Do any of you run kfani8k or teh i8k module? You've to load it with force=1 parameter -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:42:23 up 2:22, 8 users, load average: 2.61, 2.54, 2.71

Re: [gentoo-user] OT prefixing Line numbers in codes for printing

2005-04-25 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 12:08 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Monday 25 April 2005 10:00, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 03:52 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: The command nl It is part of coreutils `man nl' to see usage. Hmm.. this is even simple than using grep or using sed

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
- 1GB That's just me. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:08:38 up 6:48, 5 users, load average: 0.56, 0.59, 0.59 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-04-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
rarvmware OpenOffice.org bin blackdown-jre-1.4.2.01 doom3-demo netscape share is what I have -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 21:57:40 up 12:38, 6 users, load average: 0.40, 0.53, 0.68 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to find every package with a USE flag

2005-04-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject says it all, is there a way other than grep USEFLAG /usr/portage/* -r ?? -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 12:00:11 up 1 day, 2:40

[gentoo-user] Swappiness and Virtual Memory Management

2005-04-27 Thread Ow Mun Heng
and even switching between virtual Desktops can be a real pain. Does anyone has more insight to this? I know the solution is to add more RAM but is that really a solution? I mean, it's like storage, is there really such a thing as I've got enough storage? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600

[gentoo-user] Freevo + FrameBuffer + Splash

2005-04-27 Thread Ow Mun Heng
??? Appreciate a reply. Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 03:47:15 up 1 day, 18:27, 7 users, load average: 0.83, 0.52, 0.37 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Emerge -C package doesn't clean up /etc/ config files

2005-04-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Is this a feature or a bug? It seems that emerge -C will not remove any altered files from /etc/ once it has been changed. This really leaves some cruft in my /etc/ Is this due to config-protect or is it something else?? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free

[gentoo-user] What happened to nautilus Scripts??

2005-04-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Is There such a thing left?? it used to be that we can select a file, right click on it and then select which script we want to execute it with. (shred comes to mind, rather than go to the cli) -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 16:33:47 up 2

Re: [gentoo-user] FrameBuffer + Splash Startx

2005-04-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 03:52 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: It seems that on 2005.0 install, I can't have the 3 of these together like I did when I was running on 2004.3. The difference is the usage of devpts vs udev. Since 2005.0 is udev, to get gen/fbsplash to work, I need to pass vga=7xx

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -C package doesn't clean up /etc/ config files

2005-04-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:41 +0100, Edward Catmur wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 16:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Is this a feature or a bug? It seems that emerge -C will not remove any altered files from /etc/ once it has been changed. This really leaves some cruft in my /etc/ Is this due

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to nautilus Scripts??

2005-04-28 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 11:18 +0100, Edward Catmur wrote: On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 16:35 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Is There such a thing left?? it used to be that we can select a file, right click on it and then select which script we want to execute it with. The location is ~/.gnome2

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell 8100 Buttons???

2005-05-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
and finally presents me with a mixer. (it used not to) As of yesterday, when it pulled in the new bunch of gst-plugins etc, it started working again. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:14:05 up 4:43, 7 users, load average: 1.66, 1.72, 1.89

Re: [gentoo-user] resolution from command line

2005-05-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
: command not found: fbresolution I don't have fbresolution .. only fbres.. etcat belongs /sbin/fbres Searching for /sbin/fbres in * ... media-gfx/splashutils-0.9.1 -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 15:22:55 up 4:52, 8 users, load average: 1.72

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 13:32 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 15:29 +0200, YoYo Siska wrote: when we did some backups of partitions from one computer to another (and then clone the partition to few other computers), we did it rougly in this way: first make the free

Re: [gentoo-user] Backing up remote partitions

2005-05-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
tar zcfp - .)' backup.tar.gz Does the backup.tar.gz happen at the local side or the remote side? If I read the command correctly, 1. Connect to remote machine 2. Tar up the /src directory 3. Dump to the LOCAL machine as backup.tar.gz correct? Does it work? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux

[gentoo-user] laptop-Modular Bay HotPLug possible?

2005-05-04 Thread Ow Mun Heng
powering/shutting down and rebooting with the new drive. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 10:46:03 up 58 min, 7 users, load average: 1.69, 1.31, 0.84 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Sotware Suspend v2 + gentoo-sources

2005-05-07 Thread Ow Mun Heng
applied patches [Yn]? Y Reversing patches... Done.[/quote] Is it possible to get it working with this kernel? You can always try the portage overlay. See this article for the complete HOWTO http://mag.my-opensource.org Cheers Rav -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98

[gentoo-user] Ximian Evolution Connector - Evolution Development Libraries not found

2005-05-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
bugs/forums and found nothing. Can anyone tell me what is the development libraries? -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 23:53:42 up 3:03, 4 users, load average: 1.46, 2.05, 2.03 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] devfs to udev upgrade issues

2005-05-08 Thread Ow Mun Heng
udev anyway??) 2. Help me get devfs running again. Right now.. I see it's only those few errors above and everything seems to be working. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:31:20 up 25 min, 5 users, load average: 1.48, 1.39, 0.87

[gentoo-user] HAL + Gnome-POwer

2005-05-09 Thread Ow Mun Heng
and keyboards to work. This is due to bugs only fixed recently in HAL. APM and PMU batteries only work at coldplug and their values do not auto-update. Functionality in HAL will be added soon. WARNING *** [DIE] gpm.c:coldplug_devices():664 : Couldn't obtain list of batteries -- Ow Mun Heng

Re: [gentoo-user] mmx error with compiling ffmpeg on epia m9000 box

2005-05-09 Thread Ow Mun Heng
else) Oh and I need to build an infra-red receiver and get lirc going too. That's one of the thing which Is missing on this M10K too. Can't find the IR. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:16:09 up 18:51, 8 users, load average: 1.39, 0.93

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