For the first time in years portage is driving me crazy. I'm trying to
update my desktop after half a year in storage and coping with the Gnome
3.10 upgrade that I want to avoid because of systemd. And this is where
it always gets stuck:
| aldous ~ # emerge --keep-going --jobs=5 -DNuvta @world
|
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
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:
> - cross-i686-pc-linux-gnu/linux-headers-2.6.
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 grepp
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.
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 (h
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 totall
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 o
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 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 A
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 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 hav
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
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
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/
>
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 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 argumen
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 stro
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 desig
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 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
cat
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
>
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 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 a
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 tr
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 Iain,
on Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 04:53:40PM +0930, you wrote:
> 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 thos
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 ma
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
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 i
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 po
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.
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
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 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 or
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 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
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 wit
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
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 n
Hi Grant,
on Saturday, 2007-01-27 at 09:34:47, you wrote:
> The thing I'm confused about is how I can get anything back to the
> laptop when it won't even have an OS on it. I could boot a LiveCD but
> I don't think I'll be able to connect to the wireless network.
Hum...that's pretty much a show s
Hi Jan,
on Saturday, 2007-01-27 at 15:06:32, you wrote:
> I've begun this thread because of my difficulties with running some
> OpenGL applications, e.g. Americas Army, on my Xgl.
I reckon most in America's army would love to have your problems.
SCNR! =^>
Matthias
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Hi Grant,
on Friday, 2007-01-26 at 09:47:51, you wrote:
> My laptop is currently still copying everything to my desktop system
> via tar and ssh.
That's good. dd would be easier on the HD in case it's breaking but if you have
a filesystem
error you'd still have to fix that after copying back. If
Hi Grant,
on Thursday, 2007-01-25 at 08:20:37, you wrote:
> I successfully wrote an iso of some important files after booting up
> normally (minus hald, X, and vi) so that's good. Is there a utility I
> can run on the disk to see if there is permanent damage? Should I try
> re-emerging packages t
Hi Alan,
on Wednesday, 2007-01-17 at 11:11:29, you wrote:
> I prefer Bitstream Vera Mono for this (or DejaVu which is a fork of the
> same font). It looks good at small sizes down to 7 and I can easily
> tell the difference between i,I,1,l and 0,O. It has an actual bold font
> variant so there's
Hi Bo,
on Saturday, 2006-12-02 at 06:48:51, you wrote:
> > I switched a few systems to all-UTF-8 a while ago, and while it's
> > generally a big improvement, a few apps are playing up.
>
> There's a nice guide [1] in case you haven't noticed.
Yup, I largely folloed it in my transition.
> > Prett
I switched a few systems to all-UTF-8 a while ago, and while it's
generally a big improvement, a few apps are playing up. Pretty common
apps that is, most notably tin and centericq, so I think it's probably
my problem.
Thing is, tin seems to decode messages correctly and tries to show
umlauts. Howe
Hi Jorge,
on Wednesday, 2006-11-29 at 21:00:06, you wrote:
> I'm about to dump Firefox, because I can't google in English. The thing
> doesn't let me choose the language, and I'm tired of getting useless
> Brazilian links. Yes, I know about the settings, I already deleted the
> google.pt cookie, bu
syntax error near unexpected token `('
> ./recoverpics: line 3: ` * Copyright (C) 2004 Matthias Bethke
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>'
>
>
> Is that the expected output?
No, not really. Looks like you're starting the source or
Hi Mick,
on Monday, 2006-09-11 at 22:50:01, you wrote:
> Thanks Matthias,
>
> How do I install it manually? install tells me:
>
> # install
> install: missing file operand
Ow, sorry, I missed your reply before!
Well, simple, you don't :) This is a very primitive program and the
Makefile is just
Hi Mick,
on Monday, 2006-09-11 at 19:50:05, you wrote:
> Is there a Linux (or even M$Windoze?) way of me recovering the last photo,
> that doesn't involve reconstructing raw data with a hexeditor?
I had the honor of being tasked by my wife with recovering photos from
the amorphous blob of data le
Hi michael,
on Friday, 2006-09-08 at 08:44:05, you wrote:
> I hope my experience is better than yours. I'm in the middle of this process
> on a live system, been building since Monday (it's an old 600MHz box)
I just upgraded one Pentium-M laptop; went fine save for a few hitches
like Richard menti
Hi Alexander,
on Thursday, 2006-07-27 at 15:10:00, you wrote:
> If not, then you won't use those advantages either. Somebody correct
> me, but if you want to WORK with this machine (ie. not fiddle), I'd
> suggest to stay 32bit. Or what advantages would 64bit provide?
Depends a lot on the code[tm].
Hi reader,
on Tuesday, 2006-07-25 at 00:03:45, you wrote:
> Three or more windows XP boxes that are devoted primarily to editing
> video or graphics in one way or another. The stuff needing backup can
> be in really big files but also lots of normal sized still images etc.
>
> I'm planning to use
Hi Paul,
on Tuesday, 2006-07-25 at 10:45:31, you wrote:
> My gentoo box is set ok using ethtool. How do I check the setting on the
> windows xp box?
If the connection has a tray icon, double-clicking that should bring up
an info dialog that has the link speed somewhere. Otherwise you'll have
to c
Hi oskar,
on Saturday, 2006-07-22 at 13:45:01, you wrote:
> chroot: cannot run command `/bin/bash': No such file or directory
>
> of course file is present, executable, and I'm doing it as su...
You should be fine if ou follow William's instructions. The reason for
this is the error the linker re
Hi Grzegorz,
on Saturday, 2006-07-08 at 07:57:07, you wrote:
> I decided to set up GenToo linux on Sun SparcStation 5. Since this
> computer is quite old (32 bit architecture, 170MHz CPU) I need a bit
> older version of Getoo (I do not think that this old hardware is
> supported by new versions).
I just posted this on linuxprinting.foomatic.devel, but I guess some
here might have the same problem, namely that the HPLIP printer
drivers fail when combined with CUPS' Backend Error Handler:
To fully utilize the capabilities of our HP LaserJets I recently
installed HPLIP and was quite pissed o
Hi Daniel,
on Friday, 2006-05-26 at 19:54:11, you wrote:
> http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~fejf/pfs/
Oh, that's two streets away from here :) Looks like a project I'd want
to participate in...
cheers!
Matthias
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Hi Neil,
on Wednesday, 2006-05-24 at 13:48:32, you wrote:
> $PORTDIR/profile/package.mask. Every masked package should have a
> comment giving the reason.
Oh, nice...never though I had to look in there unless I wanted to tweak
things I'm supposed to be twaeking elsewhere (like package.unmask)
anyw
Here's what I've been getting on the last few emerges:
| huxley ~ # emerge -DNvuta world
|
| These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:
|
| Calculating world dependencies
| !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all
| !!! masked or don't exist:
| app-crypt/gpg-agent med
Hi Kurt,
on Wednesday, 2006-05-17 at 11:33:30, you wrote:
> > Hmm, maybe cause it is NOT an X server, its a Window Manager.
>
> Right, right. I probably deserve to get spanked for not using the
> proper terminology.
You both do :)
Gnome is a desktop environment that comes with a window manager
Hi Richard,
on Saturday, 2006-05-13 at 10:29:53, you wrote:
> Well the building of static libraries is on a per package basis, so I
> guess your fastest option here is to copy the qt ebuild to your
> overlay directory and modify it to make a static library. You could
> also file a bug report on bu
I have a QT program that's supposed to run on a server. I never liked
the idea of putting all this QT runtime crap on the server just for this
single program, so when it still ran SuSE, I just compiled it statically
and all was fine. Now under Gentoo, the program complains it couldn't
open the disp
Hi El,
on Wednesday, 2006-05-10 at 14:29:39, you wrote:
> dear all,
>
> how to stop skype IM? using squid or iptables.
It's fairly difficult as most of their content is encrypted. But I seem
to remember you can block session initiation (not sure if it can be done
slectively for IM but not phone f
Hi Neil,
on Tuesday, 2006-05-09 at 19:33:51, you wrote:
> which are your most/least favourite X terminals, and why?
Almost exclusively Gnome-Terminal. Although I usually prefer console
tools I never really got into screen usage, so tabs are essential. I
don't have anything to complain about its co
Hi Walter,
on Tuesday, 2006-05-09 at 20:34:29, you wrote:
> My idea of "the right application" doesn't install 75% of KDE or GNOME...
Good point! :) What about media-sound/cdplay? Doesn't seem to have any
dependencies at all.
cheers!
Matthias
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Hi Jeremy,
on Monday, 2006-05-08 at 09:38:34, you wrote:
> I don't think you need that silly cable. My understanding was that the
> audio cable connected to you sound card was for when you wanted to
> listen to the cd and your computer was in "low-power mode" Either way, I
> have stopped installing
Hi Vladimir,
on Thursday, 2006-05-04 at 17:56:58, you wrote:
> Anyway, I figured out what my problem was. I was starting eth0 twice,
> once through an rc script, and once with ifplugd. When I zapped the rc
> script (rc-update del net.eth0), things started work better.
Still sounds like an ifplugd
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' a
I just noticed a strange problem on our server that's just been switched
to Gentoo:
It's running dhcpd, which init starts right after bringing up the
network interface. But dhcpd quits, complaining it couldn't listen on
eth0 because it had address 0.0.0.0. So it seems the interface isn't
fully up y
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, nothi
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
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 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 lo
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!
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 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
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 MANP
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 sys
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
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 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 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,
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 stop
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 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 an
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 fst
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 m
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 e
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 worki
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. Ma
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 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 th
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 netwo
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 A
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 we
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 Corporatio
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 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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