Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.7.3 -- 4.8.3

2014-11-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 07.11.2014 um 19:19 schrieb Mark Pariente: Going to 4.9 though is another thing. Apparently they broke the ABI for the standard C++ library, so once you start compiling C++ stuff with 4.9 you better go all in (I did @system @world with 4.9 and had very few things that failed to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] KDE desktop vanishing

2014-11-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 05.11.2014 um 11:31 schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello list, Does anyone know why, sometimes, when I log in to KDE via KDM, all my applications have disappeared? Sometimes they're visible in the task bar but clicking on one doesn't bring it up, and sometimes the task bar is blank. Sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-11-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 01.11.2014 um 23:28 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On 1 November 2014 17:19:18 WET, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2014 15:38:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: One useful feature for me is that grub2 will boot from an ISO image, I always keep system

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-10-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 31.10.2014 um 17:16 schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Friday 31 October 2014 15:09:26 J. Roeleveld wrote: I've got a few systems where grub1 doesn't work. This is more likely caused by some changes in used filesystems instead of any other cause. If I really wanted to, I might get it to work, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
26 Oct 2014 23:25:50 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: as others have written already: ssd. With a caveat: if an ssd dies, it will die suddenly. Without a warning. Usually 5 minutes before the start of your weekly or monthly backup run. And that is first hand experience. I haven't yet started using

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
, but continue with something Volker raised. On Sunday 26 Oct 2014 23:25:50 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: as others have written already: ssd. With a caveat: if an ssd dies, it will die suddenly. Without a warning. Usually 5 minutes before the start of your weekly or monthly backup run. And that is first

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 27.10.2014 um 16:36 schrieb Rich Freeman: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Rich, I have been reading your posts about btrfs with interest, but have not yet used it on my systems. Is btrfs agreeable with SSDs, or should I be using f2fs:

Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss

2014-10-27 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 27.10.2014 um 17:52 schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Oct 27, 2014 10:40 PM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org mailto:ri...@gentoo.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Rich, I have been reading your posts

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-10-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now. I remember reading on this list about some users using alternative kernels on their gentoo systems. My understanding is that amongst some of the other alternatives, besides the genkernel, which

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-10-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.10.2014 um 21:16 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: I've been using gentoo-sources for a while now. I

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-10-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.10.2014 um 22:16 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 26.10.2014 um 21:16 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: On 10/26/2014 03:47

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-10-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.10.2014 um 22:10 schrieb Alec Ten Harmsel: On 10/26/2014 04:16 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: On 10/26/2014 03:47 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 26.10.2014 um 20:09 schrieb Alexander Kapshuk: I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.17.0

2014-10-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.10.2014 um 07:06 schrieb Tomas Mozes: On 2014-10-18 23:16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 18.10.2014 um 06:17 schrieb Philip Webb: I just installed Kernel 3.17.0 (gentoo-sources) noticed there are specific options for Gentoo right at the beginning. Are we really privileged to have our

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.10.2014 um 01:34 schrieb Rich Freeman: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 19.10.2014 um 20:56 schrieb Rich Freeman: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:41 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: As far as docs go - what specifically

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 19.10.2014 um 20:56 schrieb Rich Freeman: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:41 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: As far as docs go - what specifically is unclear? Systemd is rapidly evolving so things do get out of date, but for the most part stuff like this can be found in man

Re: [gentoo-user] gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.10.2014 um 17:49 schrieb James: Hello, OK, so I run a minimalist DE (LXDE) and htop to monitor system performance. The mobo has an fx8350 with 8 cores (currently set at 4GHz (unclocked). The system rarily uses over 8/32 gig of it's ram. So the resources are not even close to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gigabyte mobo latency

2014-10-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.10.2014 um 21:27 schrieb Philip Webb: 141018 James wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: Some websites load run MB of javascript which bogs down everything. Nothing you can do about that except turning of js. Well, that was it on the performance (typing

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.17.0

2014-10-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.10.2014 um 06:17 schrieb Philip Webb: I just installed Kernel 3.17.0 (gentoo-sources) noticed there are specific options for Gentoo right at the beginning. Are we really privileged to have our own place in kernel-land or have these been added by the Gentoo devs ? and that is why I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 09.10.2014 um 09:56 schrieb Michael Palimaka: On 10/09/2014 04:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 08.10.2014 um 11:56 schrieb Michael Palimaka: On 10/08/2014 07:31 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so after spending hours fighting to upgrade boost, I finally got to the point were portage

Re: [gentoo-user] has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 09.10.2014 um 21:38 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 09/10/2014 19:44, Francisco Ares wrote: 2014-10-07 12:20 GMT-03:00 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com: On Tuesday 07 Oct 2014 15:48:33 Philip Webb wrote: 141007 Pavel Volkov wrote: On Sunday,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 08.10.2014 um 11:56 schrieb Michael Palimaka: On 10/08/2014 07:31 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: so after spending hours fighting to upgrade boost, I finally got to the point were portage let me emerge kde-framework. I went to bed. I woke up 2h later... only 9 packages were installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-07 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.10.2014 um 11:57 schrieb Michael Palimaka: On 10/06/2014 05:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 04.10.2014 um 19:37 schrieb Michael Palimaka: On 10/04/2014 11:26 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote: Hello everyone. I was wondering if anyone has tried KDE5? Do you know when it's going

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.10.2014 um 11:57 schrieb Michael Palimaka: On 10/06/2014 05:34 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 04.10.2014 um 19:37 schrieb Michael Palimaka: On 10/04/2014 11:26 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote: Hello everyone. I was wondering if anyone has tried KDE5? Do you know when it's going

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 05.10.2014 um 18:27 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 05/10/2014 17:50, Michael Palimaka wrote: On 10/06/2014 02:35 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/5/2014 11:01 AM, Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote: I'd be interested to know what KDE negatives you've experienced/heard in the past though.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 05.10.2014 um 19:10 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 05/10/2014 18:59, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: My real beef is with akonadi and kdepim. I could never get the damn thing to actually work or to tell me what it was doing in a manner I could understand. The last straw was around KDE-4.4 when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: has anyone tried KDE5?

2014-10-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 04.10.2014 um 19:37 schrieb Michael Palimaka: On 10/04/2014 11:26 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote: Hello everyone. I was wondering if anyone has tried KDE5? Do you know when it's going to be placed in the main tree? thanks Hi, The KDE release structure has evolved[1], decoupling the release

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with update of smplayer (needs mplayer2?)

2014-10-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 04.10.2014 um 04:55 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, While updateing my world ;) an update of smplayer was announced. The update failed with: ... ... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -MD -MP -Wundef -Wall -Wno-switch -Wno-parentheses -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with update of smplayer (needs mplayer2?)

2014-10-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 04.10.2014 um 19:50 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Why is mplayer2 (not mplayer) pulled in by smplayer on a system where mplayer2 is not installed and mplayer is installed? Best regards, mcc . total shot in the dark: smplayer can depend on mplayer or mplayer2. mplayer2 has the higher version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd

2014-09-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.09.2014 um 01:24 schrieb Mark David Dumlao: On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:11 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com mailto:wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark David Dumlao madumlao at gmail.com http://gmail.com writes: You're the only one in this thread that's imposing on everyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd

2014-09-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.09.2014 um 16:08 schrieb Mark David Dumlao: On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel a...@alectenharmsel.com mailto:a...@alectenharmsel.com wrote: On 09/17/2014 10:40 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote: Fact is if it's _you_ that seems to give a tweet about systemd

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd

2014-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.09.2014 um 18:06 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: This is highly off-topic, and systemd-related, so if you don't want your breakfast with a healthy amount of flames, skip it. iTWire posted an interview with Linus Torvalds[1], where the Big Penguin himself gave a succinct and pretty fair

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd

2014-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.09.2014 um 21:02 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: [snip] Now you use this to advertise for systemd? Systemd fanbois are becoming more and more desperate. So, systemd is used (or it has been announced

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd

2014-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.09.2014 um 21:52 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 17.09.2014 um 21:02 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: [snip] Now

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd

2014-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.09.2014 um 23:03 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:43 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 17.09.2014 um 21:52 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd

2014-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.09.2014 um 22:58 schrieb Mark David Dumlao: On Sep 18, 2014 2:37 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 17.09.2014 um 18:06 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: This is highly off-topic, and systemd-related, so if you don't want

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Linus Torvalds on systemd

2014-09-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.09.2014 um 23:42 schrieb Mark David Dumlao: On Sep 18, 2014 5:36 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com mailto:wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Mark David Dumlao madumlao at gmail.com http://gmail.com writes: Publish perfomanced metrics; Choice; Unreasonable? The classic open

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 15.09.2014 um 10:31 schrieb the: On 09/15/14 02:21, James wrote: Howz your Fortan 90? I did not even know there was such an ugly beast [4]. I thought Fortran was outlawed decades ago. Outlawed. I love how this word is used in the same sentence with fortran. what is wrong with fortran?

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittent USB device failures

2014-08-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 22.08.2014 um 02:05 schrieb Mike Edenfield: From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com] Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:41 PM you said you used 6 different kernel versions - which one? Did you use vanilla or gentoo sources? And... maybe config? I've used all gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] accidentally deleted the /usr (I'm gonna kill myself!)

2014-08-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 24.08.2014 um 21:28 schrieb behrouz khosravi: Hi. I just accidentally removed the /usr folder! And I am sure the /usr/bin and several other folders are gone! Should I go for a complete re-install or there is any other solution? Thanks and I hope that I wont find that blade that I am

Re: [gentoo-user] accidentally deleted the /usr (I'm gonna kill myself!)

2014-08-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 25.08.2014 um 01:57 schrieb Jc García: 2014-08-24 17:27 GMT-06:00 Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com: Am 24.08.2014 um 21:28 schrieb behrouz khosravi: Hi. I just accidentally removed the /usr folder! And I am sure the /usr/bin and several other folders are gone! Should I go

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittent USB device failures

2014-08-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.08.2014 um 23:02 schrieb Mike Edenfield: (BTW: I'm terribly sorry for the horrid formatting and duplicate mails; I'm stuck using Outlook until I get this resolved) From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 12:55 PM Am 20.08.2014

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittent USB device failures

2014-08-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 20.08.2014 um 02:28 schrieb Mike Edenfield: From: Volker Armin Hemmann [mailto:volkerar...@googlemail.com] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 8:01 PM Am 17.08.2014 um 12:33 schrieb Mick: On Sunday 17 Aug 2014 02:56:58 Mike Edenfield wrote: When I `modprobe -r ochi_pci` while the system

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.08.2014 um 17:50 schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2014-08-17, Henrique Lengler henriquel...@openmailbox.org wrote: Whats the problem to use things that already exists? Why don't include software that is famous and liked by people insted of insist in their Kthings? NIH syndrome? that almost

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittent USB device failures

2014-08-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.08.2014 um 12:33 schrieb Mick: On Sunday 17 Aug 2014 02:56:58 Mike Edenfield wrote: When I `modprobe -r ochi_pci` while the system is operating normally, I see all four modules (ohci-pci, ohci-hcd, ehci-pci, and ehci-hcd) unloading properly: [25603.37] ohci-pci :00:0b.0:

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.08.2014 um 20:47 schrieb Henrique Lengler: I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again. koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux world are being recreated by KDE. Whats the problem to use things that already exists? Why don't include software

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.08.2014 um 20:57 schrieb thegeezer: Howdy, on Enlightenment here, love the customisability mostly and it's slickness - i.e. can load tiling module that switches behaviour (have never used it myself though, can't say how it compares to awm or i3) krunner equivalent is start everything

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.08.2014 um 23:09 schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 17/08/2014 20:47, Henrique Lengler wrote: I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again. koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux world are being recreated by KDE. Whats the problem to use things that

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 16.08.2014 um 18:13 schrieb behrouz khosravi: Hi. I have been using the gnome for some time(in other distro's) and I had no complaint. However after switching to gentoo I installed i3 and it is very great. I really love it, but I was considering to install a DE too. Before jumping to gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittent USB device failures

2014-08-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 14.08.2014 um 03:52 schrieb Mike Edenfield: I've recently taken an old Windows XP system and rebuilt it to run Gentoo. Since then, I've been having issues using any type of USB input device (which is particularly bad, since it has no PS/2 input ports). After some indeterminate period of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: distfiles contains extra files?

2014-08-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 13.08.2014 um 18:46 schrieb James: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: I previously thought that /usr/portage/distfiles only contains tar files. I have not clean up the system, as I'm moving (dupicating some files for my /usr/local/ needs. It contains everything downloaded by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: distfiles contains extra files?

2014-08-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 13.08.2014 um 18:55 schrieb James: Peter Humphrey peter at prh.myzen.co.uk writes: On Wednesday 13 August 2014 15:07:19 James wrote: maybe I need to return to cleaning up distfiles/ by hand? Yes, I see I have other things than .tar.bz2 too, now you mention it. One of my boxes runs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge of sys-devel/llvm-3.3-r3 fails....

2014-08-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 12.08.2014 um 12:52 schrieb Jouni Kosonen: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 10.08.2014 um 08:33 schrieb Christopher Kurtis Koeber: *emerge --info =sys-devel/llvm-3.3-r3::gentoo*: Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/qF92DXSY I am not a fan of that. gcc-4.7.3, Intel-R-_Atom-TM *End Section

Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?

2014-08-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 12.08.2014 um 16:10 schrieb J. Roeleveld: On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 03:38:15 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: On 12/08/2014 15:28, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 12 August 2014 14:06:07 CEST, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/08/2014 11:10, Mick wrote: I recall the devs explicitly

Re: [gentoo-user] akonadi ... don't you just love it?

2014-08-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 09.08.2014 um 22:00 schrieb Mick: First some general observations that relate to kmail2: I thought of giving the latest kmail-4.12.5 a spin. So installed it on a machine and set up a couple of IMAP4 servers to get messages from. An account with a messages in the low hundreds works

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge of sys-devel/llvm-3.3-r3 fails....

2014-08-11 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 10.08.2014 um 08:33 schrieb Christopher Kurtis Koeber: Hello, I am attempting to emerge xorg-server and sys-devel/llvm-3.3-r3 is pulled in as a dependency. So, when I emerge llvm it fails. Here is some relevant output: *emerge --info =sys-devel/llvm-3.3-r3::gentoo*: Pastebin:

Re: [gentoo-user] a question about emerge --sync

2014-08-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.08.2014 09:17, schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 01.08.2014 16:30, schrieb behrouz khosravi: Hello everybody. I have a little bandwidth problem. I don't want to update my packages very frequently. Is it save to sync my portage not very often, say every month or two, so when

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-08-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 01.08.2014 05:16, schrieb Walter Dnes: On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 10:47:29AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote how much do you have to install if you deactivate all use flags for okular? well, you still have all of qt... and kdelibs and phonon... but you would loose a lot of the other stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] a question about emerge --sync

2014-08-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 01.08.2014 16:30, schrieb behrouz khosravi: Hello everybody. I have a little bandwidth problem. I don't want to update my packages very frequently. Is it save to sync my portage not very often, say every month or two, so when I install something I wont be warned that some of my packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 31.07.2014 05:50, schrieb Alec Ten Harmsel: okular is not a 'stinking pdf reader'. Nice try. But just like konqueror it is just a wrapper around kparts and is able to deal with a lot more files than just pdf and postscript. That is what 'modular' and 'code reuse' really means. And the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.

2014-07-31 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 31.07.2014 12:37, schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:50:54AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Is ECC memory a drop-in replacement for ordinary RAM, or does it need a special motherboard? [...] I would have liked the aspect of a system that tells me when something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.

2014-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.07.2014 11:14, schrieb Edward M: On 07/29/14 11:18, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:00:26PM -0700, Edward MN wrote: On 07/26/14 15:55, walt wrote: On 07/26/2014 10:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [894019.770058] [Hardware Error]: MC4 Error (node 0): DRAM ECC

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.

2014-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.07.2014 11:14, schrieb Edward M: I just went to Alternate, clicked on their cheapest ASUS Am3 board: ECC yes. See? Easy.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.

2014-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.07.2014 13:25, schrieb Rich Freeman: On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:14 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: pretty easy actually. When I looked for ECC support, ALL Asus boards supported it officially - and a whole bunch of Gigabyte boards according to their forums

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.07.2014 19:04, schrieb behrouz khosravi: Hello everyone. I just concurred my fear and jumped to installing gentoo! So far so good! Before installing on my laptop and desktop, I am trying on virtual box and the system is running Fluxbox very good.(default profile) Now I am thinking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.07.2014 17:02, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 14:07:30 + (UTC), James wrote: YOU have chosen a somewhat minimalist path with your desktop, wisely avoiding bloat_ware_city Personally, I prefer USE=-hyperbole :) But, to avoid pain do keep some minimal collection of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.07.2014 22:18, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: So now you know why ricers swear blind that -pipe in CFLAGS *doubles* the running speed, dude! It does! I enabled -pipe in my CFLAGS and all the software was running a lot faster on my new machine compared to my old one ;) aaah a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.07.2014 21:48, schrieb Dale: Neil Bothwick wrote: Small software can be bloated, large software can be bloat-free. It's all about what is useful. functional != bloated, but all too often lightweight, bloat free software can also be described as limited or functionally challenged.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 30.07.2014 22:43, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On 30/07/2014 22:22, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 30.07.2014 22:18, schrieb Joost Roeleveld: So now you know why ricers swear blind that -pipe in CFLAGS *doubles* the running speed, dude! It does! I enabled -pipe in my CFLAGS and all the software

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 31.07.2014 02:26, schrieb Dale: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:54:07 -0500, Dale wrote: The biggest thing for me, is just stuff I don't use or ever see me needing. At one point, can't recall version, KDE4 was a bit of a memory hog. It seems they have cleaned that up a lot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flags handling

2014-07-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 31.07.2014 03:55, schrieb Walter Dnes: On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 10:31:50PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote Am 30.07.2014 21:48, schrieb Dale: While to me KDE is bloated, I just try to disable what I can and carry on. If my system was limited on resources, then I may use something else

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.

2014-07-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 29.07.2014 20:18, schrieb Frank Steinmetzger: On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 11:00:26PM -0700, Edward MN wrote: On 07/26/14 15:55, walt wrote: On 07/26/2014 10:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [894019.770058] [Hardware Error]: MC4 Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error detected on the NB

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Badblocks on my harddisk

2014-07-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.07.2014 03:49, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: How severe is the problem? first bad block? Not at all. Your drive's firmware knows about it, so all read/write access should either generate an error your system can deal with or will be mapped tranparently to a working reserve block. Since it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Badblocks on my harddisk

2014-07-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.07.2014 12:26, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [14-07-26 11:28]: On Saturday 26 Jul 2014 02:49:15 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, After running smartctl for an extended offline test I got a badblock (information extracted from the report): SMART Self-test

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Badblocks on my harddisk

2014-07-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.07.2014 14:16, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [14-07-26 14:08]: Am 26.07.2014 12:26, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com [14-07-26 11:28]: On Saturday 26 Jul 2014 02:49:15 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, After

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Badblocks on my harddisk

2014-07-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.07.2014 18:09, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [14-07-26 18:00]: Am 26.07.2014 14:16, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com [14-07-26 14:08]: Am 26.07.2014 12:26, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Mick

[gentoo-user] ECC-ram, it is worth it.

2014-07-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
[894019.770058] [Hardware Error]: MC4 Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error detected on the NB. [894019.770084] EDAC MC0: 1 CE on mc#0csrow#2channel#0 (csrow:2 channel:0 page:0x2aa6ce offset:0xc60 grain:0 syndrome:0x63e1) [894019.770090] [Hardware Error]: Error Status: Corrected error, no action

Re: [gentoo-user] Something went wrong with DNS, plz help!

2014-07-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.07.2014 18:47, schrieb Grand Duet: 2014-07-26 19:27 GMT+03:00 Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com: 2014-07-26 10:22 GMT-06:00 Grand Duet grand.d...@gmail.com: etc/resolv.conf ? I guess, no. if not, append some known dns to that file this way: nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 8.8.4.4 This

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.

2014-07-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.07.2014 19:58, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: On 26/07/14 20:39, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [...] and this, my children, is why I am using ECC ram. I don't really care if the porn I'm watching has one frame with corrupted pixels on it. but you will care when your kernel writes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.

2014-07-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 27.07.2014 00:55, schrieb walt: On 07/26/2014 10:39 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: [894019.770058] [Hardware Error]: MC4 Error (node 0): DRAM ECC error detected on the NB. [894019.770084] EDAC MC0: 1 CE on mc#0csrow#2channel#0 (csrow:2 channel:0 page:0x2aa6ce offset:0xc60 grain:0 syndrome

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ECC-ram, it is worth it.

2014-07-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 27.07.2014 01:07, schrieb Rich Freeman: On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 6:55 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: Is ECC memory a drop-in replacement for ordinary RAM, or does it need a special motherboard? It requires both CPU and motherboard support I believe. The RAM itself isn't much more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: wayland

2014-07-21 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 21.07.2014 23:40, schrieb James: Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: Anyone playing with wayland already? Not yet. Closely related, is the QT5 approach to start experimenting. This might help [1] [1] http://qt-project.org/wiki/QtWayland hmm, thanks ... I am not sure how

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasma pager layout indicator

2014-07-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 16.07.2014 09:07, schrieb Dale: Alan McKinnon wrote: I use KDE's plasma pager. It gives a nice MacOS-like grid layout that pops up when switching virtual desktops. Trouble is, the thing doesn't enable itself when starting KDE, I have to do that manually: right click pager in panel - pager

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] Tally ho!

2014-06-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 28.06.2014 16:54, schrieb Peter Humphrey: It's Wakes Week here and we've just had a triple fly-by by a Hurricane from the Battle of Britain Commemorative Flight. Last Saturday it was a Spitfire. Yoo-hoo! I think I can just about remember the sound of those magnificent beasts from the

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 25.06.2014 09:49, schrieb Dale: thegeezer wrote: this is pretty bad. enough to really go and get a replacement asap, and turn that disk off if you can. the self test stops at the first error it comes to and in this case it is LBA#2905482560 for calculation of where the error is check out

Re: [gentoo-user] smartctrl drive error @60%

2014-06-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 25.06.2014 19:06, schrieb Rich Freeman: On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: so without looking that drive up - you are using a desktop part for non-stop setup? Honestly, I think it makes far more sense to build a fault-tolerant setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.06.2014 10:22, schrieb Dale: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 01.06.2014 14:31, schrieb Tanstaafl: Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all time favorite apps, is no more. Some links

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.06.2014 12:22, schrieb Tanstaafl: On 6/1/2014 1:45 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 01.06.2014 14:31, schrieb Tanstaafl: Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.06.2014 12:56, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 05:27:44 -0500, Dale wrote: The second option does sound what I am looking for. Basically, if I log out but leave my computer on, leave home, some crook/NSA type breaks in and tries to access something or steals my whole puter,

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.06.2014 13:28, schrieb Rich Freeman: On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 02 Jun 2014 05:27:44 -0500, Dale wrote: The second option does sound what I am looking for. Basically, if I log out but leave my computer on, leave home, some crook/NSA

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 02.06.2014 16:52, schrieb J. Roeleveld: On Monday, June 02, 2014 03:23:03 PM Matti Nykyri wrote: On Jun 2, 2014, at 16:40, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Monday, June 02, 2014 07:28:53 AM Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Demise of Truecrypt - surprised I haven't seen t his discussed here yet?

2014-06-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 01.06.2014 14:31, schrieb Tanstaafl: Wow, I've been mostly offline for a few days, and this morning when playing catch up on the news, learned that Truecrypt, one of my all time favorite apps, is no more. Some links of interest:

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency problem - how to decipher this one

2014-06-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 15.05.2014 00:39, schrieb Walter Dnes: On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 07:29:11PM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote Hi, trying to emerge x11-libs/gtk+:2 (2.24.23-r1) together with dev-libs/atk (2.12.0-r1) I get the following messages emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy

Re: [gentoo-user] dependency problem - how to decipher this one

2014-06-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 14.05.2014 19:29, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, trying to emerge x11-libs/gtk+:2 (2.24.23-r1) together with dev-libs/atk (2.12.0-r1) I get the following messages emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =dev-libs/atk-1.29.2[introspection?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about CPU settings in kernel and USE

2014-04-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 18.04.2014 22:12, schrieb Andrew Savchenko: On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:11:05 -0400 Walter Dnes wrote: I'm (re)installing Gentoo on an older AMD notebook. The output from less /proc/cpuinfo includes... processor : 1 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family : 16 model

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling errors while updateing

2014-04-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 13.04.2014 05:42, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, since some time seven package wont compile anymore: * * The following 7 packages have failed to build or install: * * (media-libs/mesa-10.0.4::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge), Log file: *

Re: [gentoo-user]

2014-04-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 12.04.2014 22:49, schrieb Dutch Ingraham: well maybe. I do see your point, but you should elaborate it a bit more so others can join in. ...

Re: [gentoo-user] Change EFI to BIOS Boot

2014-04-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 12.04.2014 12:45, schrieb Facu Curti: Partition Table: gpt : This

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtek R8168

2014-04-12 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 12.04.2014 17:53, schrieb Peter Humphrey: Hello list, Has anyone got =net-misc/r8168-8.028.00::gentoo to compile? I get a fatal error: In function ‘rtl8168_rx_vlan_skb’: error: too few arguments to function ‘__vlan_hwaccel_put_tag’ My kernel is 3.12.13, and I see that portage has

Re: [gentoo-user] What MTA to use to receiving mail for local users?

2014-04-10 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 10.04.2014 17:32, schrieb Grant Edwards: I use msmtp for outgoing mail, and plan to continue to do so. However, I need to temporarily set up an SMTP server to accept incoming mail from the Internet for local users. It is not going to handle sending of email, and I need it _not_ to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Honeypot distro?

2014-04-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 03.04.2014 11:25, schrieb Pandu Poluan: My company ended up with several 'ancient' HP ProLiant G4 servers. We're thinking of setting up honeypots there. Although I know Gentoo is perfectly capable of becoming a honeypot, we currently prefer something... less involving in deployment :-D

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