Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-15 Thread wireless
On 07/13/2015 10:10 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: With regards to the other replies: I think physical destruction is unnecessary, and I don't really want to go through the trouble. If it's trouble rather than fun, then you're doing it wrong. :) Brilliant statement:: Others favor a high-powered

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eix

2015-06-29 Thread wireless
On 06/29/2015 03:50 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote: use to match the arg string against all three: (1) gentoo tree /usr/portage (2) the /var/lib/layman/ overlays I had installed and manage with layman (3) my /usr/local/portage local ebuild placed in /usr/local/portage/ Now, only option (1) shows the

Re: [gentoo-user] System date/time goes to GMT when PC wakes from hibernate

2015-04-06 Thread wireless
On 04/06/2015 04:10 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a bunch of spreadsheets, browser tabs, etc, open all the time, scattered over various work areas. Rather than re-open them every day, I simply hibernate, using suspend-to-disk. This way, things are where I left them. The past couple of

Re: [gentoo-user] mesa-10.3.7-r1 S3TC option

2015-02-23 Thread wireless
On 02/20/2015 07:10 PM, Mick wrote: Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: media-libs/mesa-10.3.7-r1: I have this installed too; with this video card : radeon VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV710 [Radeon HD 4350/4550] I mostly followed this guide,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-22 Thread wireless
On 11/22/14 01:20, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:13 PM, wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: On 11/21/14 17:10, Rich Freeman wrote: If you want to work on them, you might consider becoming a dev, or working on them in an overlay (which is a good way to become a dev, actually).

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-22 Thread wireless
On 11/22/14 13:00, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 1:12 PM, wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: The first 100 or so I looked at, are deprecated. They just need somebody to 'remove them' the BGO java backlog is being artificially used to prevent java work on gentoo. Somebody of

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-21 Thread wireless
On 11/20/14 14:40, David Abbott wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 2:21 PM, thegeezer thegee...@thegeezer.net wrote: On 19/11/14 22:15, James wrote: Hello, Ok the latest release of livedvd is here: https://www.gentoo.org/news/20140826-livedvd.xml So my understanding is you can put this on a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: new thinkpad with Gentoo

2014-11-21 Thread wireless
On 11/20/14 15:20, Daniel Frey wrote: On 11/20/2014 11:16 AM, thegeezer wrote: yeah at first it's odd, but then when you start getting used to navigating without removing hands from keyboard it does become almost a prerequisite. does anyone know if you can get usb keyboards that have the

Re: [gentoo-user] The future of linux, and Gentoo specifically now

2014-11-21 Thread wireless
On 11/21/14 07:00, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:32 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: It's actually a great thing for a lot of use cases. But it doesn't seem that Gentoo will change defaults soon, although systemd works great with it. My (personal) sense is that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-21 Thread wireless
On 11/21/14 14:00, Paige Thompson wrote: On 11/21/14 18:14, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:34 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Here's one, very, very interesting proposals, under serious consideration: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distributed_Gentoo I'd be curious

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo's future directtion ?

2014-11-21 Thread wireless
On 11/21/14 17:10, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 5:40 PM, wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Interesting perspective that I had not considered... still, I think there is more at play here. It sounds as if a few chosen old guard are going to kick out more of the progressive and newer

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-20 Thread wireless
On 11/19/14 19:20, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 22:15:38 + (UTC), James wrote: Are these the best instructions to follow to createa usb bootable live gentoo image? It has to be able to install new packages and save those to the usb stick. I remember some time back (Neil)

Re: [gentoo-user] Iron penguin on usb?

2014-11-20 Thread wireless
On 11/19/14 19:30, David Abbott wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 5:15 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, Ok the latest release of livedvd is here: https://www.gentoo.org/news/20140826-livedvd.xml So my understanding is you can put this on a usb stick. Run gentoo live, download

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Which SMART stats to watch (link)

2014-11-13 Thread wireless
On 11/13/14 15:50, J. Roeleveld wrote: James, Backblaze is not selling harddrives. They sell storage on their servers. The data they collect is based on different drives from different manufacturers. They are quite open on what they use, check out their website and blogposts. You should find

Re: [gentoo-user] NNTP access

2014-07-14 Thread wireless
On 07/14/14 12:20, João Jerónimo wrote: But I cannot use the newsreader to post to the list, can I? Is it possible to post to this mailing list using the NNTP gateway? The Gentoo mailing list are available from most Usenet servers using NNTP. Just be aware that one Usenet server, bofh.it,

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to Qt 5?

2014-05-27 Thread wireless
On 05/27/14 00:40, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Wasn't it supposed to hit portage a long time ago? Any news? There's zero information on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/qt site. I run lxde on one desktop; and my experimental results are nothing short of fabulous. A while back they

[gentoo-user] OT: idea

2014-05-26 Thread wireless
I have been looking for a project to learn (figure out) how to build a secure portal on a gentoo-hardened server. I posting here so folks can look at the general approach I'm going to take, and make some better, corrective suggestions on this endeavor (learning excursion)? So here is the plane.

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 boots only older kernel

2014-05-21 Thread wireless
On 05/21/14 08:00, Todd Goodman wrote: * wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wirel...@tampabay.rr.com [140519 21:25]: [SNIP] It never tries to boot. Grub just sits there withe phrase (did not copy it down) where it says what version it will boot on the screen and it does nothing (locked up?) I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 boots only older kernel

2014-05-19 Thread wireless
On 05/19/14 19:00, wraeth wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 20/05/14 05:26, James wrote: Hello, Greetings :-) I even copied of the .config file from 3.13.6 to 3.14.4, answered the questions and issued: By answered the questions can I assume this to mean `make

[gentoo-user] Re: kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

2009-03-24 Thread wireless
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: Where I'm confused is can I have 2 versions of kdelibs installed at the same time? My gut tells me NO? your guts tell you wrong a) kde3 is installed into /usr/kde/3.5 b) kde4 is either in /usr or /usr/kde/4.X (kdeprefix