[gentoo-user] requested to report: emerge bug

2006-03-28 Thread Robert G. Hays
Got this at ~11:25 PM EST/USA 3/28/06 from an emerge --sync... Updating Portage cache: 89%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/libintl-0). Also, updating the Portage cache gets --real-- slow around 50% through

Re: [gentoo-user] What's with all the config file updates???

2005-06-18 Thread Robert G. Hays
[digest-mode reply] ON Sat, 18 Jun 2005 13:26:37 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 13:18 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: I don't know about there being a manual but one way is to have etc-update show you the differences - that shows what's being taken out and what's

[Fwd: Re: [gentoo-user] esd or arts, sound daemon howto]

2005-06-18 Thread Robert G. Hays
work play, leave it alone! (in computers for last ~~22 years). Thank you for your time reading this! Thank you in advance for any reply! Robert G. Hays. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (main eddress) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (permanent eddress) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tips on my 1st try at iptables?

2005-06-05 Thread Robert G. Hays
[digest-mode reply] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] tips on my 1st try at iptables? From: A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 23:06:36 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Mon, 30 May 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Frankly, I've stopped trying to grok iptables but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-06-05 Thread Robert G. Hays
[digest-mode reply] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question. From: Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 15:08:30 -0300 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sorry for taking this long to answer. I suggest any unprivileged port that

[gentoo-user] RE: Random emerge failures

2005-05-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
[digest mode reply] Grant, This is known and well-discissed, and I applied the 'fix' and it works. Gentoo compiles beat the tarnation out of some cpu's -- slow your computer down by 25--33% when compiling, and maybe speed it back up when done. If you do not have a computer that permits

[gentoo-user] RE: ebuild.sh chown/chmod segmentation fault

2005-05-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
[digest mode reply] Glen This is known and well-discussed, and I applied the 'fix' and it works. Gentoo compiles beat the tarnation out of some cpu's -- slow your computer down by 25--33% when compiling, and maybe speed it back up when done. If you do not have a computer that permits on-the-fly

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition THUFIR HAWAT

2005-05-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
[digest-mode reply] Thufir, For good or ill, or maybe both good *and* ill!, Gentoo is basically an experts-only distro. (And STOP RIGHT THERE, flame-writers -- read the rest first.) Gentoo gives absolutely *awesome* power, but *This* *Thing* *Is* *Dangerous* -- it is a loaded *and* *cocked*

Re: [gentoo-user] rlogin ebuild

2005-05-10 Thread Robert G. Hays
Shaw Vrana wrote: On Friday 06 May 2005 03:31 pm, Robert G. Hays wrote: A. Khattri wrote: Security. BELIEVE THIS !! -- sorry for shouting, but I for one wonder whyinhell Gentoo of all distros would even bother with rlogin... (About Choice, of course. This is called 'the dark side

Re: [gentoo-user] E-mail quote protocol -- WAS: Re: No HTML in posts?

2005-05-10 Thread Robert G. Hays
Holly Bostick wrote: Calvin Spealman schreef: On 5/9/05, Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're looking at years worth of standards that have been built up and saying after all of that time they need to be changed. Yeah, things change. Two words: the wheel. Holly Holly,

Re: [gentoo-user]

2005-05-10 Thread Robert G. Hays
N. Owen Gunden wrote: On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 11:07:13AM +0300, Matan Peled wrote: Because it takes a really long time, and involves remerging packages you have not mentioned on the command line (which you might not want remerged automatically). It doesn't take that long, especially with

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-06 Thread Robert G. Hays
be especially useful for very large messages and replying to multiple messages at once. Always there is room to move forward, so find the door that need's unlocked and break it down. On 5/5/05, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calvin Spealman wrote: snip it isn't like the bandwidth

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-05 Thread Robert G. Hays
Kris wrote: Exactly ... but it's still has some amusement value Kristopher W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Cliff Rowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2005 10:37 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts? Trey

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-05 Thread Robert G. Hays
Travis Rousseau wrote: On 5/3/05, Calvin Spealman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/3/05, Travis Rousseau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipWhy not the sender's for now? Why not the recipient's for now? If the sender disables HTML, no one gets it. If the recipient disables HTML, then

Re: (OT) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-05 Thread Robert G. Hays
Spider wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: BOFH? Please? Probably need to knoe this one, too, methinks Thanks, rgh. - Scott Taylor - [EMAIL PROTECTED] BOFH Excuse #253: We've run out of licenses *tappeti tap* *click clicketi click* there is some documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-05-05 Thread Robert G. Hays
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 01 May 2005 18:30:40 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: nd most of the 'rest of the w-w-world' are usually in the bottom ten percent by funniest (is that a word? // It is now!), and I asked that same question recently, and Neil said that he has been using some kind

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
BOFH? Please? Probably need to knoe this one, too, methinks Thanks, rgh. Scott Taylor wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 01:15 +1000, Richard Watson wrote: emerge sys-dev/automake-1.7 Calculating dependencies !!! Problem in sys-dev/automake-1.7 dependencies. !!! Specific key requires an operator

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Power

2005-05-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
Ognjen Bezanov wrote: Hi all I have gentoo install and a USB 2.0 Hard disk that required 500mA of power Now under Windows XP the drive worked perfectly, but under gentoo it wouldnt work (it have symptoms of not enough power). Now from what i remember about the USB specification 250mA is the max

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-02 Thread Robert G. Hays
Because a lot of Linux users use a text-only mail package, and the html stuff makes it *hard* to read. (I use graphical...) --Because this is what thy're used to /or they have limited memory -AND/OR- becase this is the Safe! way to do email. -- -- (Just look at all those *loverly* security

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-05-01 Thread Robert G. Hays
#netmask_eth0=255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0 # For setting the default gateway # #gateway=eth0/192.168.0.1 gateway=eth0/192.168.1.254 Mark Knecht wrote: On 4/29/05, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, Sorry long delay -- slighly busy lately! Since I was only kinda-halfway watching this thread

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-05-01 Thread Robert G. Hays
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 02:56:36 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: ah, glsa's makes a pretty good reason -- what I was referring to was the part about the portage stuff getting whanged; wasn't *even* referring to compile-time! Fair point. But if no one runs the bleeding edge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: equery which gives wrong version?

2005-05-01 Thread Robert G. Hays
Python :: (noun) :: A computer programing language that has adopted (swallowed!) every programming construct from every other known programming language. (And I have red a list somewhere listing the multiplicity of languages from which python got things -- it is literally about half of the

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-30 Thread Robert G. Hays
Knecht wrote: On 4/20/05, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought: what about setting the address, gateway, etc, to be the same as when the box runs FC? Not hard, and should guarantee connection since the nic the router managed before. I'm sure some of us out hee could step you through

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Mass Storage Device with Gentoo Kernel 2.6.11

2005-04-30 Thread Robert G. Hays
I have a similar problem. Somewhee in the next few weeks I intend to make a ew small changes in the usb-storge modules to do things like periodic-by-volume SYNCs, and maybe rail the throughput in other ways, probably with some way to specify for what devices, especially after connects; this

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I get IPV6 working?

2005-04-30 Thread Robert G. Hays
PS: sender may also be [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! Walter Dnes wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 11:57:34AM +0200, Nicolas Litchinko wrote [1]: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/ipv6.xml [2]: https://tb.ipv6.btexact.com/ Thanks. RTFM is easy. It seems that the hardest part of linux is FTFM, i.e. Find

Re: [gentoo-user] USB mouse stalls under X after some time of inactivity

2005-04-30 Thread Robert G. Hays
Thomas Drueke wrote: Argghhh ! And the winner is of course Jerry (don't ask about Tom, though). Here comes the solution: When ever doing kernel configuration read the help. Sometimes it really helps GRRR :-) Snapshot from the help of USB Human Interface Device (full HID) support

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-30 Thread Robert G. Hays
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 01:20:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: 'll put it on the laptop when OOo finally finishes compiling, although r20 will probably be put by then... I'll say it again, *this* is why I only update when there is a *good* reason to. Are two GLSAs

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: /etc removed from CONFIG_PROTECT portage-2.0.51.20

2005-04-29 Thread Robert G. Hays
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 13:24:40 -0400, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: snip s -r5 ok? Seems so. I've put it on three computers and no gotchas so far. I'll put it on the laptop when OOo finally finishes compiling, although r20 will probably be put by then... I'll say it again,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo realtime-preempt kernel?

2005-04-22 Thread Robert G. Hays
James, I don't have the answers that you are looking for myself, but I have a couple of thoughts about 'proceedurals' that you *might* not have thought of; please forgive my presumption if you *have* already thought of 'em... Have you put together a good precis of all the info from these

Re: [gentoo-user] memory used

2005-04-22 Thread Robert G. Hays
Maybe someone else knows, but my guess, from the numbers I see at the top of the screen when running :: top suggest that this is cached stuff, maybe from cron et al, or files or screensaver. Somebody please enlighten us both! rgh. George Roberts wrote: I started using Linux again a couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
'One Last Word (!)' I forgot to mention, and nobody else has either -- certain writers ( readers!) work best with media-brand-X poorly or not at all with media-brand-Y; AFAIK, this applies to all brands, although it is not *quite* as bad as it was a few years ago, so that fact probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Karnik wrote: Robert G. Hays wrote: At Bottom. Andreas Fredriksson wrote: On 4/20/05, Mrugesh Karnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otherwise, another solution (I personally have never used it, but is possible) is to use WinRAR to extract all the contents of the ISO file to a folder and burn

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Mark, been busy, I'm in WhinedoZZZe again right now, but I'll check what I got when I next get into Linux post it back to you. rgh. Mark Knecht wrote: On 4/20/05, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thought: what about setting the address, gateway, etc, to be the same as when the box

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Thanks for the extra info! rgh. Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Friday 22 April 2005 01:53, Robert G. Hays wrote: 'One Last Word (!)' I forgot to mention, and nobody else has either -- certain writers ( readers!) work best with media-brand-X poorly or not at all with media-brand-Y; AFAIK

Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0?

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Knecht wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Apr 21, 2005 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] rc-update net.wlan0? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mark, been busy, I'm in WhinedoZZZe again right now, but I'll check what I got when I next get

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% disk full again

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:40:46 -0500 Kirk Schneider wrote: orrected script, suggest using with portage-2.0.51. Here's a script I have to handle running the updates. If the portage hasn't been synced that day, it will clean out the ccache files why do you clean ccache, doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] error emerging vlc

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
Please do not hijack threads -- bad manners bad luck getting answers. Also, we need a *LOT* more data to be able to help, most likely. rgh. Qv6 wrote: Folks: Please! Need help emerging vlc. Get this error when I try: *configure: error: Cannot fine libxvidcore library...* Any clues will be

[gentoo-user] Grub versus WD120GB, rounds 1,2,3,4,5

2005-04-21 Thread Robert G. Hays
-- and yes I have done that many so far.. grrr... And *still* cannot boot Gentoo Linux on my real, *working*, drive. I have a 30GB Maxtor that I used as a test/victim drive to install Gentoo to, including dual-monitor ATI and Win4Lin5_for_win9x. *Finally* got it all together with a little help

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Don't read the boot CD

2005-04-20 Thread Robert G. Hays
Re one of your rotating sigs : Neil Bothwick, on Gentoo.Org: Ethernet (n): something used to catch the etherbunny You bait the ethernet with ethereggs... (From my friend David) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-laptop list still working?

2005-04-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
Hi There! -- It got here. ( ;) ) rgh. Rob wrote: I haven't gotten any posts in a long time. Trying to post myself doesn't seem to work either. But I get no error messages. Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) unmerging kde-3.3

2005-04-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
Neil Bothwick Does someone know the cheats for WindowsXP? ( Yes, but they don't work, it has too many bugs! ;) ) rgh. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] file permission setting problem

2005-04-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
Genius. rgh. YoYo Siska wrote: Qiangning Hong wrote: I have a file with special permission requirement. I want user1 and user2 can read/write this file, user3 can read only and others can not access it. How to set the permission bits? No ACL support. undoable with standard acces rights

Re: [gentoo-user] netselect

2005-04-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
What I had to do was :: mirrorselect -i -o somedir/somefilename (the '-i' in there makes an interactive screen where you get to select servers yourself) choose the servers I wanted, and then find all the IPv6 stuff and remove it, mostly by seeing something about ipv6 somewhere in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Fax answerphone/voicemail server...

2005-04-19 Thread Robert G. Hays
Stroller wrote: snipI'm migrating to Asterisk Real Soon Now (tm), but it certainly won't support any of your current hardware - it's more appropriate if you want to do VoIP, probably involving routing all your telephone calls through it. If you have to ask, you probably don't want to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-15 Thread Robert G. Hays
à 15:17 -0400, Trey Gruel a écrit : On 4/14/05, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, is: kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r4 the same as: kernel-2.6.11.4 plus/minus the Gentoo-specific patches? possibly not. the gentoo-sources package has its own revision numbers (the -r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-15 Thread Robert G. Hays
throughput this way. YMMV! SO: to answer your question about moving things, I doubt it; I *could* be wrong, but I doubt the move is worth-while. Without the interface-specs on the dvd, that's really the best anyone can say. Best, rgh. On 4/14/05, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: He has

Re: [gentoo-user] Personal Video Recorders

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Yuo know, I just *LOVE* the idea of Xboxs running Linux -- remember who they came from? Payback's a [deleted]. *very* evil grin! rgh. still grinning! Mark Knecht wrote: snip 2) In parallel look at whether to do a dedicated recorder (vs. using an existing machine) and look at how to do

Re: Pentium M is actually quite good. (Was: Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)])

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Travis Rousseau wrote: snip Ha I was told it would cost extra to get a computer without windows. (somethin like $80) Yes, *WHY* does it cost more without WindoZZZe? (Answer: Because MonopolSoft threatens vendors into doing this.) I suggest NOT buying from vendors that do this. If Linux ever

Re: (OT) [gentoo-user] LVM2 during installation

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
'noseguy,' by any chance? Where-the-futz do you get all these anyway? I love 'em!... Thanks! (and keep 'em coming!), robert g hays. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: (OT) [gentoo-user] LVM2 during installation

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:01:02 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: *LIKE* you rolling-sig -- are these from 'noseguy,' by any chance? Where-the-futz do you get all these anyway? No one source. I have collected them over the last twelve years. Some are very out of date now, I

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo security guide question

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
James Hiscock wrote: You might also say equivalent or counterpart ... ...hmmm... Dictionary.com says something else entirely: snip pen·dant1 also pen·dent( P ) Pronunciation Key (pndnt) n. 1. Something suspended from something else, especially an ornament or piece of jewelry attached

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly complex Hard Drive Qeustion

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Tom Moyer wrote: I may just not be seeing an easy way to do this, so I figured I would ask if any one had any ideas. I currently have 3 hard drives in my computer: hda - Windows XP - 40 Gig hdb - Gentoo - 120 Gig hdc - nothing (I think it might be dead) - 30 Gig I got Windows running in qemu and

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about kernel-equivalence

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
ok, now that i've rebooted windoze again and email is -maybe- working again, i'll finish that email. doe anybody know where i might find the kernel-derivations and maybe patches? thanks, rgh. Robert G. Hays wrote: Trey Thank You. That didn't make things easier, but at least I know so I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] boot with serial console

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
If the computer has a USB port, maybe you can find enable 'legacy' (keyboard mouse) on USB; obviousy this needs a usb-capable keyboard begged, borrowed, or bought if you don't already have one Just a thought. rgh. Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: Eric S. Johansson wrote: I have a system

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
Tom Moyer wrote: I would like to swap hda and hdb. I don't want to swap any data across the drives I just want to have Gentoo be the only OS installed. Linux, including Gentoo, can run from any drive in the system. If Gentoo is not already your default boot from Grub, you can easily make it so;

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly Complex Hard Drive Question

2005-04-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
two recent messages about the two channels and optical drives). Swapping won't make the channel/drives any faster, you're correct. (1/20th of one percent faster -- I doubt it, those days should be long gone.) rgh. On 4/14/05, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Moyer wrote: I

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail-3.4.0 dependencies

2005-04-13 Thread Robert G. Hays
below... Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Tuesday 12 April 2005 17:58, Robert G. Hays wrote: Quick guess -- kcontact keeps the eddreses for kmail. rgh. Guilheme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know why kmail-3.4.0 depends on kontact-3.4.0? TIA, I believe kaddressbook holds the addresses

Re: [gentoo-user] 3Com 3C996B-T: Software shows 1000Mbps, get 100Mbps or less speeds

2005-04-13 Thread Robert G. Hays
bottom... fire-eyes wrote: Sorry if this is a repost, it seems to have disappeared into the bit bucket. I put a 3Com 3C996B-T 1000Mbps NIC in my system. It uses the tg3 (broadcom) driver, which I have compiled in. The kernel messages show the link at 1000. The light on the NIC shows this. The

Re: Pentium M is actually quite good. (Was: Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)])

2005-04-12 Thread Robert G. Hays
Richard Fish wrote: Ok, since nobody is actually bothering to _read_ article that I linked to, let me quote a small piece: Hey!! -- I Resent That! -- *I* read the article, and I use AMD's! And I read the whole thing, too, *examined* the charts! (Just so you know it wasn't wasted ;) -- Have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread Robert G. Hays
Right all the way, Trey, as best as I recall, my local brother has a Mac, which I hadda help him with a couple of times, after drooling for a few minutes at his wonderful 87-inch -- !! -- I mean 27-inch -- -- no, I mean **23**-inch Apple monitor ;) . rgh. Trey Gruel wrote: I've heard

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI drivers

2005-04-12 Thread Robert G. Hays
Inlining what little I know here... James wrote: Hello all, BACKGROUND: On my portable I have this chipset: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 Lf [FireGL 9000], on a portable. emerge -s ati-drivers shows: media-video/ati-drivers Latest version available: 8.12.10 Latest version installed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread Robert G. Hays
Below... Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 13:24 -0600, Scott Taylor wrote: The base is pretty much a linux but as has been mentioned before, they have plenty of hardware-specific code and their cocoa which realistically only works on their gear What rubbish, Mac does NOT run linux.

Re: [gentoo-user] Misconceptions about Mac\Apple?

2005-04-12 Thread Robert G. Hays
Right! rgh. Mark Knecht wrote: On Apr 12, 2005 1:44 PM, Robert G. Hays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Repeating what has already been said here, the OS X kernel is (based on?) BSD, which, technically, is not Linux'. That said, yes, *some* linux-aps will run there... rgh. Like the joke says, only

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Things like this are why I only update when there is something I **really** need... smug smile Might be time to think SLOTs? Or maybe a re-emerge of Xmms. luck, rgh Peter Karlsson wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Robert Persson wrote: Something strange. Xmms used to work and now it doesn't. I get a

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Richard Fish wrote: Snip! # time dd if=/dev/hda bs=64k count=16000 (time the reading of 1G of data from hda). Feel free to adjust count to your liking...although it should be at least twice memory. At 20M/sec you are looking at about 1G/min for reading. -Richard (And how many -- or rather how

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
I've saved your listing, when I next boot to linux, I'll dif that against what I have (before W4L) let you know *IF* I notice something meaningful -- kinda new to this part, too, me, but I'll try. Might be 24+ hours before I get back from linux -- only do mail in Netscape 7.1, which I only

Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Eric S. Johansson wrote: Snip! seriously, what does it protects you against when a compromise can probably also mount it then unmount it again as a courtesy What Mark said :: Just the random rm / ... Also some *strange* internal errors I've seen over the years, and... if the computer is

Browsers and emailers [Was Re: [gentoo-user] Knoppix twice as fast as Gentoo?]

2005-04-11 Thread Robert G. Hays
Continued at Bottom... Nick Rout wrote: Robert G. Hays wrote: Might be 24+ hours before I get back from linux -- only do mail in Netscape 7.1, which I only have in Win at the moment; working to get linux full for my needs, which will include Netscape. IMHO move on to mozilla, unless