Re: [gentoo-user] Mysql vs Mysql-community...

2007-01-02 Thread Ryan Crisman
(Enterprise Edition), Paid Support MySQL Community - Free (Personal Edition), Community Support While the above is true it fails to answer the question, As DBA/sysadmin what is the actual difference between the two so I can pick the right one for my workload. At least that's the question I

Re: [gentoo-user] Through the looking glass: Reflections on Gentoo

2007-01-07 Thread Justin Findlay
claim that everybody should contribute the same effort or work or any work at all, but rather that you ought to at least care. Go ahead and pick up a copy of the next distro when gentoo crumbles to the ground but at least reflect then that each distro out there is made great by the work of lots

Re: [gentoo-user] how do I keep package from being updated?

2007-01-11 Thread John covici
If I have two versions on the systems, how would apache and the cli pick what version they are going to use? on Thursday 01/11/2007 Hans-Werner Hilse([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote Hi, On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:38:38 -0500 John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I did put my php version

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Backup From One Machine To Another

2005-06-29 Thread Bill Roberts
. (I presume this is if you do a backup every 12 hours?) You can do the backup as often or as frequently as you like. it will pick the version before the time to specify. When Does it do a Full backup? The first time you run it. But then each subsequent backup you do becomes the full

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Colin
to tinker with too many drivers. Any good ideas? Thanks! I've always had good luck with cards that use the Orinoco chipset and the only time I've had to tinder with drivers was when I wanted to get Kismet working with the card. You should be able to pick one up for under $50. Check out http

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Ian K
, and would really not like to tinker with too many drivers. Any good ideas? Thanks! I've always had good luck with cards that use the Orinoco chipset and the only time I've had to tinder with drivers was when I wanted to get Kismet working with the card. You should be able to pick one up for under

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Stroller
to goto futureshop and pick one up.. :) Thank you for understanding my dumbness. :) Ian http://tinyurl.com/9l9wl AIRSTATION 11MBPS WIRELESS PCMCIA LAPTOP CARD PC/MAC That should work well for you ;) I noticed on a previous page that they offer an 802.11g card for $30 but I'm not sure about

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Stephan Grein
could give me a model name and brand? I really just want to be able to goto futureshop and pick one up.. :) Thank you for understanding my dumbness. :) Ian http://tinyurl.com/9l9wl AIRSTATION 11MBPS WIRELESS PCMCIA LAPTOP CARD PC/MAC That should work well for you ;) I noticed on a previous

Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone

2005-07-26 Thread George Roberts
According to the man xorg.conf the search paths are different depending who is starting X. If X is started by a user the search paths are not as extensive as if X is started by root. If root was the one to start X then it could be able to pick up the xorg.conf I had stashed in the / folder

Re: Re: [gentoo-user] I thought /etc/X11/xorg.conf was set in stone

2005-07-27 Thread brettholcomb
xorg.conf the search paths are different depending who is starting X. If X is started by a user the search paths are not as extensive as if X is started by root. If root was the one to start X then it could be able to pick up the xorg.conf I had stashed in the / folder. The sudden switch from my

[gentoo-user] [OT] opinions know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread daniel
together via a RoundRobin DNS. Their sole purpose would be to check mail being sent to them against a list of known users @ourdomain.com and possibly filter spam as well. Messages that satisfy the filter would then be forwarded to the main mail server where we would all pick up our mail

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread daniel
several hundred users, who receive lots of email. That being said, surely you must be using LDAP. As to the MTA, well pick your poison. I'm a Sendmail guy, but that's just me. My first thought is that your first line of defense should be a bank of smtp servers that know nothing of your

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
a new testing ebuild seemed to come out almost as soon as the previous one finished building. Great for those who want the latest and greatest, not so good for those who want a stable system. Gentoo gives you the choice, and even lets you pick and mix, so don't complain because you make an unsuitable

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-15 Thread Paul Hoy
, and even lets you pick and mix, so don't complain because you make an unsuitable choice. If you want the latest now, you need to use the testing packages, because the QA rules demand they remain in testing for a while. Thanks, Neil. Already have begun testing my luck with the testing packages

Re: [gentoo-user] fan noise in recent kernels

2005-08-25 Thread Mark Knecht
. to configure right click on gkrelm and look for sensors under plugins. If everything is working, there should be a big list of checkboxes there you may enable. if you modprobe these modules *after* starting gkrellm it wont pick them up tho. OK, my bad for not seeing sensors in the list of things I

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-09-01 Thread Bob Sanders
on either. One runs a 4 disk software raid 5 setup (local Gentoo mirror). Both boot off the SCSI controller. fwiw- I never use make oldconfig Somewhere in the 2.6.x series I discovered that if I mount /boot, then run make config, it would pick up my running config. Perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-09-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Somewhere in the 2.6.x series I discovered that if I mount /boot, then run make config, it would pick up my running config. Perhaps it was the System.map setting in /boot. Regardless, I just do - make menuconfig make make modules_install make install vim /boot

Re: [gentoo-user] Resolved - Adaptec AIC7xxx kernel problems?

2005-09-03 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
/boot, then run make config, it would pick up my running config. Perhaps it was the System.map setting in /boot. Regardless, I just do - make menuconfig make make modules_install make install vim /boot/grub/grub.conf Is it just me G. Sounds like something else in your config

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-06 Thread Dave Nebinger
be difficult. That plus if you start shorewall it basically clears all existing chains to load it's own info, so all firewall rules must be kept in the shorewall files. So you really have to pick one or the other but not both. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
it pick up where it left off. So which distribution would you suggest me to install during less than 4 days? I'm wondering about Slackware. You can still stick with gentoo ;-) If you don't have the time to watch over the stage 1 build process, you can jump straight to a stage 3

Re: [gentoo-user] Nasty bugs in portage?

2005-09-10 Thread Frank Schafer
the fix_libtool_files.sh run, you do the emerge --resume to have it pick up where it left off. OK, I'll try this if I need it. For now I'm at a point where THIS probably doesn't help. (Building automake requires an autoconf which isn't installed.) So which distribution would you suggest me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Google Earth: Masked?

2006-06-20 Thread Mick
On 19/06/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It uses the BROWSER environment variable if it exists to pick a browser to which it sends a mailto: link containing all the info to compose a mail in the composer that the browser uses to handle mailto. Hope that makes sense. :) Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] Exercising a bit of caution with prune

2006-07-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
them back in. If not, remove some more. Or you could quickpkg them all and unmerge the lot in one go This doesn't pick up all the different versions of kernels. I still need to check the prune one I guess. For that at least. kernels are slotted, so you'd need prune to remove the older ones

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is available besides samba

2006-08-11 Thread Paulo Roberto Candido dos Santos
: Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 8/11/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For easy fast comunication between winxp and linux machines, is there anything other than samba the works reliably. HTTP FTP DAV Samba SSH/SCP (probably others too) Take your pick. Though

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is available besides samba

2006-08-11 Thread Greg Bengeult
x machines, is there anything other than samba the works reliably. HTTP FTP DAV Samba SSH/SCP (probably others too) Take your pick. Though as far as I know the only one Windows can actually mount (as a drive) is Samba. Thanks, yes, of course their are those. I should ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing boot up messages

2006-08-14 Thread gentuxx
, just to check, but it doesn't pick up anything. So, how do I find out which config file hosed me? If you didn't accept updates to the default config files, emerging baselayout again should pull them back in. If you know which services were affected but didn't catch the exact messages, try

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} New CPU for my motherboard

2006-09-08 Thread Mick
what's working and suitable for your needs. The alternative can be false economy. On the other hand there are IT fairs and back yard sales (depending where you live) where you could pick up a bargain - a mate won't let me forget that he picked up a 2.8GHz P4 from the streets of London two years

Re: [gentoo-user] Can the new baselayout handle multiple networks seamlessly?

2006-09-21 Thread James Ausmus
, so you could have a different runlevel for each situation, but make the actual runlevel directories symlinks to default. Selecting the runlevel on rebooting would certainly pick up the appropriate config, you'd have to try it to see what happens when switching runlevels while running. Have

[gentoo-user] Re: finding qt plugins?

2009-06-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
depend upon any Qt 4 package with: for p in `qlist -IC x11-libs/qt:4`; do equery -q depends $p; done | sort | uniq This command can take several minutes to complete. Of course not every one of those packages needs to be rebuilt, but it makes it easier to pick some by hand. Usually though

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-11 Thread Mick
. This is what the xml file contains: database !-- 2009-07-02 07:41:00 EDT / 1246534860 -- rowv 7.339500e+01 /vv 4.799000e+01 /v/row The CSV file only shows the first value and then it does not pick up the fact that it is exponential: 2009-07-02,07:41:00,7.339500

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rrd to CSV

2009-07-12 Thread Willie Wong
and then it does not pick up the fact that it is exponential: 2009-07-02,07:41:00,7.339500 How could it be tweaked to a)account for e+01, b)include additional value fields? Try: cat test.xml | grep -v NaN | grep 'row' | awk {'print Q$2qcq$3qcq$9qcq$11Q'} | tr Q '' | tr c ',' | tr q

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: WebCam? Second Edition

2009-07-26 Thread Stroller
not suffer from quite the same bandwidth issues. You can pick up these Playstation Eye cameras for about £20 or £25, although you may find the angle of view a little wide for birdwatching. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] DSL and ATT. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread David
. They put the cards in the DSL box today. YEPPIE If I don't get DSL this time, my next post may be from jail. I'm going to drive my uninsured 3/4 ton pick up right over their shiney new DSL box. :-@ Thanks. Dale :-) :-) Hi Dale, Been using Bellsouth which is now ATT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kon Colivas is working again on a new scheduler for Desktop/Multimedia/Gaming PCs

2009-09-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
sacrifice some latency efficiency. Latency and throughput cannot both be optimal as they conflict. One must pick the point of the line on the graph that best suits one's needs and move forward from there. I have no idea what hardware you run but your replies indicate a high possibility of one

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} reverse DNS problem?

2009-09-05 Thread Stroller
): icmp_seq=1 ttl=49 time=1267 ms Does anyone know how to fix this? Have the company from whom you get your static IP set up the reverse DNS to be your domain rather than the generic myhost.com address. So if I have multiple websites on the same server, I will have to pick a domain which

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution problem

2009-09-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
-7.2 x11-drivers/ati-drivers-8.552-r2 x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.12.1-r1 Recent Xorg interrogates the hardware to find what resolutions it supports and can pick one of those to use. The user can also specify their preference, so I reckon you likely didn't specify a preference; and what

Re: [gentoo-user] Frame-buffer modes on an eee-pc

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 22 September 2009 18:33:30 Daniel da Veiga wrote: As an owner (701 and 900), I researched a lot, and found this: http://code.toofishes.net/cgit/dan/eee.git/tree/kernel-eee/kernelconfig An interesting link - thanks. His hardware differs from mine and it's not easy to pick out

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't block pop3 attack

2009-10-24 Thread Robin Atwood
The second! I had forgotten about that. The trouble I set it up that way so I could pick up email from arbitrary locations while travelling. It seems the price of that is allowing idiots to spam your logs. Thanks for the pointer. -Robin

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't block pop3 attack

2009-10-24 Thread kashani
had forgotten about that. The trouble I set it up that way so I could pick up email from arbitrary locations while travelling. It seems the price of that is allowing idiots to spam your logs. Thanks for the pointer. -Robin You might think about moving to pop3-ssl or imap-ssl and dropping

Re: [gentoo-user] kde4 upgrading

2009-10-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
and all different. Simplification and consolidation on kde 4 that is stable is my goal. Trying to upgrade causes a painful one step at a time editing of the /etc/portage files. I need to get away from that! Pick the primary workstation and get that one right, either using sets you like

[gentoo-user] Re: fsck date problem during boot

2009-11-04 Thread Harry Putnam
if you reboot and immediately enter BIOS? That was a pretty good help but apparently not all the story. When I checked bios, the clock was exactly 1 hr fast (didn't pick up the end of daylight saving time I guess). Reset the clock and tested with 2 more reboots, each time mounting /boot and fiddling

[gentoo-user] Re: fsck date problem during boot

2009-11-04 Thread walt
is the motherboard battery. Is the time correct if you reboot and immediately enter BIOS? That was a pretty good help but apparently not all the story. When I checked bios, the clock was exactly 1 hr fast (didn't pick up the end of daylight saving time I guess). Reset the clock and tested with 2

[gentoo-user] Phonon and non-ascii character with non-UTF8 locales

2009-11-30 Thread Ronan Arraes Jardim Chagas
Hi fellows, I'm writing this e-mail to ask for a test. Everyone who are using KDE 4 and a non-UTF8 locale please do the following steps: - Pick a .mp3 file and put in a place which the path (or the name of the file) contains an non-ascii character, like an accent. - Try to open it with Juk

[gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-13 Thread Mick
/* are not used anymore and the solution is to set up a local ~/.xinitrc file for launching the desired WM? I am muddled up because I have forever it seems used /etc/rc.conf to manage the XSESSION which xdm would pick from /etc/X11/Sessions/* to start different WMs. Right now I have copied

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-13 Thread Dale
/X11/Sessions/* are not used anymore and the solution is to set up a local ~/.xinitrc file for launching the desired WM? I am muddled up because I have forever it seems used /etc/rc.conf to manage the XSESSION which xdm would pick from /etc/X11/Sessions/* to start different WMs. Right now I

Re: [gentoo-user] Is rc.conf no longer used by Gentoo (baselayout-1.12.13)?

2009-12-13 Thread Mike Mazur
? The scripts in /etc/X11/Sessions/ can still be used. I am muddled up because I have forever it seems used /etc/rc.conf to manage the XSESSION which xdm would pick from /etc/X11/Sessions/* to start different WMs. At some point /etc/rc.conf was no longer being sourced. Instead, setting

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild - how to force it to run?

2010-01-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
there are no ebuilds to satisfy kde-base/kdelibs:3.5 That's true but I want to upgrade other packages Either copy the ebuild to a local overlay or install the kde3 overlay using layman. The former way: ebuilds of all installed packages are located under /var/db/pkg/. Pick out the needed ones and mirror them

[gentoo-user] Re: A quick test of su

2010-01-18 Thread walt
you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here, so please bear with me ;) su: Authentication information cannot be recovered Thanks for your help. What did I win? :-) Congratulations, you just won my evil spirits. Please come pick them up ASAP, as they're getting hungry. The evil spirits in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
: The GUI module for the Qt toolkit You do not need to emerge qt. Just emerge the stuff that uses qt and let portage pick the bits needed. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
-nis - raster) Homepage:http://qt.nokia.com/ Description: The GUI module for the Qt toolkit You do not need to emerge qt. Just emerge the stuff that uses qt and let portage pick the bits needed. I wasn't aware that x11-libs/qt-gui was the new name

Re: [gentoo-user] about the vga clause on kernel line of grub.conf

2010-03-02 Thread Paul Hartman
mode prompt, pick the mode you want to use, ** remember its mode ID (the four-digit hexadecimal number) and then ** set the vga parameter to this number (converted to decimal first). HTH :)

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 printer config question

2010-03-08 Thread Mick
if it can do it. Currently the answer is either no or I haven't found a required configuration change. I would set it up using CUPS as Damien suggested and then KDE should pick up the settings without any additional effort on your behalf - i.e. I would think that the server settings would no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-25 Thread Dale
isle in a grocery store. We stand there trying to pick which one we want and 80% of them are made from corn. Basically the same thing but different and we can't choose the one we want. Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-26 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
to pick which one we want and 80% of them are made from corn. Basically the same thing but different and we can't choose the one we want. That’s easy - I take the big value pack. It’s cheaper per kilogram than the really good stuff, but still tastes better than the cheap stuff. But back

Re: [gentoo-user] Image viewer with brightness/contrast adjustments

2010-03-26 Thread Dale
store. We stand there trying to pick which one we want and 80% of them are made from corn. Basically the same thing but different and we can't choose the one we want. That’s easy - I take the big value pack. It’s cheaper per kilogram than the really good stuff, but still tastes better than

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage + checksums

2010-04-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
, portage will complain bitterly because the hash in the manifest will fail. Then you will know something is wrong. If I trojan the ebuild and the portage tree to match my trojaned sources, you will probably not pick it up. This would be very risky indeed for me to do as I can't be sure you

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread Tanstaafl
to gcc (its on package # 181 of 355 now, hasn't hit either of the gcc's or glibc yet), hit ctrl-c, then: emerge --resume --skipfirst ? Do I need to add the -ev world in there? Or does emerge just know where to pick up all by itself? This is good info to have. Also - is it ok to do this during

Re: [gentoo-user] Recompile system but omit package?

2010-04-18 Thread YoYo siska
running emerge (that did not specify --keep-going)? So, when it gets to gcc (its on package # 181 of 355 now, hasn't hit either of the gcc's or glibc yet), hit ctrl-c, then: emerge --resume --skipfirst ? Do I need to add the -ev world in there? Or does emerge just know where to pick up

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition on-board sound controller - optical out working?

2010-04-27 Thread Paul Hartman
receiver, so I could play internet radio on my home audio system. I got everything plugged in, but the receiver didn't pick up any signal (I made sure all the right settings are selected on the receiver). So my question... Is optical output supported in ALSA and the driver for Intel High

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -e system - output info/errors to log

2010-04-28 Thread Dale
there. Usually, you will get more than one way and have to pick your poison. I agree with what Alan said tho. The guides have to be a work every time for every one that reads it. Dale :-) :-)

[gentoo-user] Re: Compiling 32 bit library on x86_64

2010-04-30 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
? This is what I have at the moment: CFLAGS=-O2 -m32 -march=native -msse3 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-O2 -m32 -march=native -msse3 -pipe The -march=native will shoot you in the foot. Pick a 32-bit architecture and use that instead; e.g. -march=i686 Then, -msse3 could also be problematic, unless the target is a very

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem

2010-05-20 Thread Jonathan
then you may as well use PulseAudio. As the load is still on the CPU. At the end of the day I want to pick a sound system and use it. I do not want one forced on me.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge all but...

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Knecht
? Best regards, mcc ??? emerge -DuN application ??? What am I missing in the question? Test it on a clean app with no dependencies missing. It should emerge nothing. Then emerge -C one dependency and try it again. It should pick up that dependency but not emerge the app itself. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-06-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
libpng and let portage pick the version to merge emerge -avuND world revdep-rebuild repeat till no problems reported and lafilefixer --justfixit somewhere in the mix as well just for good measure. This is called the throw shit at the wall and hope some of it sticks method

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-04 Thread Philip Webb
100630 Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: unmerge libpng delete everything left with libpng in it's name emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted same with revdep-rebuild re-emerge libpng and let portage pick the version to merge

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-17 Thread Dale
, or python or anything else really. If you don't get the joke, you can ignore everything that happened after the first person mentioned Dale Yea, everybody likes to pick on me. LOL People seem to forget tho that I have told people to try to use hal, even with xorg. Sometimes it just works. When

Re: [gentoo-user] kdm french keyboard

2010-07-18 Thread Stéphane Guedon
. Sometimes, just for fun, we'll turn the hal joke into something against perl, or python or anything else really. If you don't get the joke, you can ignore everything that happened after the first person mentioned Dale Yea, everybody likes to pick on me. LOL People seem to forget tho that I

Re: [gentoo-user] Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Al
have to give up. I already reached more than expected and I did learn a lot. It's not in vain. I have documented the results of my research detailed in the wiki. Anybody can pick it up at that point and doesn't need to go the way from the very beginning. I am not the first one, who tried and sure I am

[gentoo-user] How does autotools/emerge/revdep-rebuild pick libraries when dependency-checking/compiling? (libpng12/14)

2010-09-27 Thread Mark David Dumlao
I'm installing a 3rd party binary on my system (odesk team) from here: http://www.odesk.com/community/linux I remember last time I just picked the latest 64bit fedora version, extracted their stuff, and placed it somewhere in opt. Recently though, the app has been giving me some trouble, so I

Re: [gentoo-user] How does autotools/emerge/revdep-rebuild pick libraries when dependency-checking/compiling? (libpng12/14)

2010-09-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Mark David Dumlao madum...@gmail.com wrote: I'm installing a 3rd party binary on my system (odesk team) from here: http://www.odesk.com/community/linux I remember last time I just picked the latest 64bit fedora version, extracted their stuff, and placed it

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox-bin optimizations?

2010-10-09 Thread Peter Weilbacher
On 05.10.2010 17:16, walt wrote: --enable-default-toolkit=cairo-gtk2 will Firefox run without this? Yes, it will. cairo-gtk2 is the default (last I looked). You need to pick either that one or cairo-qt if you are building on linux. --enable-oji will Firefox run without this? And what

[gentoo-user] Auto-detecting network I'm connected to

2010-10-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, One gentoo notebook running wicd, three general classes of network logon used frequently (dhpc always): work - mostly wired, occasionally wireless. There's a plethora of APs to pick from, some official, some rogue. And not all end up being served by the same dhcp server

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-detecting network I'm connected to

2010-10-21 Thread Maciej Grela
2010/10/21 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: Hi all, One gentoo notebook running wicd, three general classes of network logon used frequently (dhpc always): work - mostly wired, occasionally wireless. There's a plethora of APs to pick       from, some official, some rogue. And not all

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
on it or I can put Linux on it for free. Let them decide. One post mentioned that this needs to be reinstalled, I AGREE. Same here. I find this approach workable: Tell them the machine needs an OS re-install. They can pick Windows - which they will pay for Linux - it's free Either way

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
-tree do-this-now-do-that fashion because: a. our devs are not idiots. b. our devs are assumed to have smarts upstairs. c. our devs are assumed to only pretend to be pedantic geeky gits who nit-pick about words, and not to actually *be* like that their entire life 24/7/365/75. In other words

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
. Perhaps distros will pick up on this and offer other criteria, maybe something like a profile selectable at boot-time or maybe even runtime. What *I* would like to see is flash goes into it's own group and gets throttled. Everything else running under KDE is in a different group and left

[gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
but requires root. Perhaps distros will pick up on this and offer other criteria, maybe something like a profile selectable at boot-time or maybe even runtime. What *I* would like to see is flash goes into it's own group and gets throttled. Everything else running under KDE is in a different group

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI - 2.6.38 desktop responsiveness patch + how to do it now

2010-11-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:03 on Friday 19 November 2010, Nikos Chantziaras did opine thusly: Perhaps distros will pick up on this and offer other criteria, maybe something like a profile selectable at boot-time or maybe even runtime. What I would like to see is flash goes

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice for System monitor + Intrusion Detection tools?

2010-11-19 Thread Stroller
controller, and I'm not sure that I'm a high-risk for intrusion, but I do want to know about it *immediately* if a drive fails, so that ideally I can pop into the store on the way home and pick up a new disk to replace the one that failed. ... I also checked logsurfer which comes with a init script

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice for System monitor + Intrusion Detection tools?

2010-11-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
* if a drive fails, so that ideally I can pop into the store on the way home and pick up a new disk to replace the one that failed. Seems to me like a use case for nagios This makes it appear waaay overkill for my purposes: http://www.nagios.org/about/screenshots All I want

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird (?) permission problem...

2010-12-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
, but as it seems not fast enough ;) Times are changing, so are people, but there are too many changes occuring for people to pick the right changes :) Thanks a lot... thats fix it! You're welcome :) -- Joost

[gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread Jarry
to 6x dimm (that might be a valid point, he is going to need a lot of memory). So what should I pick for him? i7-950, or phenom-1100t? Or yet some cheap 4/6-core opteron 4xxx/6xxx? Jarry -- ___ This mailbox accepts e-mails only from

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to remove hal, which kills xdm

2010-12-20 Thread J. Roeleveld
Add --newuse to the flags and it should pick it up: emerge -vauD --newuse world I can easily add hal to world, but should xdm depend on it? I still wonder why xdm, which claims to need hal doesn't depend on it and why suddenly depclean wants to remove it. See above, hal isn't added

Re: [gentoo-user] Non-deprecated Kernel support for ATA CDROM?

2011-01-21 Thread Mike Edenfield
specifically for legacy IDE devices; it's listed as ATA SFF Support. From there you just need to pick the correct DMA interface; most likely yours will be somewhere in the Bus-Master DMA list, ATA BMDMA Support, with whatever IDE chipset you have. You'll also need to enable SCSI CD-ROM support even

[gentoo-user] Re: The CHOST variable

2011-02-04 Thread James
of the best coding guidance and pick up an ontourage of wanna_bee_follows (grin) on your quest to build out for smaller x86 arches. This aspect of gentoo's lineages is rich, but at the moment, is in need of a champion.. Drop me some private email as I have lots of links and resources, related

[gentoo-user] i586 stage3 tarball

2011-02-08 Thread Nils Holland
and march=i586 (CFLAGS). If you have an i586 class machine (Pentium, Pentium MMX, AMD K6, K6-II, etc.) you might want to pick up this stage3 tarball and use it for your installation in case you don't want to stick with the i486 CHOST of the official Gentoo tarball and / or manually change the CHOST

Re: [gentoo-user] i586 stage3 tarball

2011-02-08 Thread Mark Shields
that contains a Gentoo stage3 tarball built with CHOST = i586-pc-linux-gnu and march=i586 (CFLAGS). If you have an i586 class machine (Pentium, Pentium MMX, AMD K6, K6-II, etc.) you might want to pick up this stage3 tarball and use it for your installation in case you don't want to stick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm up, at long last!

2011-04-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
should be okay. The beauty of Arch is that its installation is very granular; I can truly pick components I want to have, and leave out those I won't ever use. But if I *do* have the time, I'll always take the Gentoo-route :) -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/

[gentoo-user] Re: checking whether the C compiler works... no Oooops !!

2011-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-06, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: P. S. One would think a Gentoo system could sit idle for a couple months without this sort of mess. It depends on which couple of months you happen to pick. ;) Most of the time a couple months is OK. Once in a while there will be several

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video)

2011-05-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
in green and the status indicators inside [ebuild ] at the start of lines are in yellow. It's a huge gain being able to pick out the few new things that really stand out that way. It also helps if you don't use -v, as then the only USE flags shown are changes. I got out of that habit as I found

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video)

2011-05-15 Thread Mick
. Is your emerge output colorized? USE flag changes show up in green and the status indicators inside [ebuild ] at the start of lines are in yellow. It's a huge gain being able to pick out the few new things that really stand out that way. It also helps if you don't use -v

Re: [gentoo-user] Recently reduced video/render performance

2011-05-18 Thread Mick
to make some settings since updating KDE? Have you implemented KMS for intel as described here? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml The driver should pick up the necessary refresh rates from EDID and you should not need to set anything up manually. Xorg configuration is only necessary

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: thunderbird fixed folders? [SOLVED]

2011-06-06 Thread Indi
and expected to find Junk or Deleted Items it could use what is there. There are only so many common synonyms for a trash folder, it's not hard for code to look for them all and pick one. It's not a minor gripe, it's a hugely stupid default. It forces one to log into the IMAP server manually

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.2.0_alpha38 --depclean

2011-06-07 Thread Dale
a editor but let the user pick which one and it be part of the system set. Maybe I am missing something here. It wouldn't be the first time. ;-) Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
that even if the transfer fails, a retry would pick up where it left off (assuming rsync keeps the failed copy). Also check out net-misc/unison. It seems to be designed for just this sort of thing. I'll check them out Paul. Thanks for the extra ideas. I just tried it as an experiment between

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
the differences, right?. So I'd think that even if the transfer fails, a retry would pick up where it left off (assuming rsync keeps the failed copy). I believe that is the --partial option. allan Yes, that looks like what I want. Is there an option to have rsync keep trying if the other end goes

[gentoo-user] Re: Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-21 Thread Francesco Talamona
fails, a retry would pick up where it left off (assuming rsync keeps the failed copy). Also check out net-misc/unison. It seems to be designed for just this sort of thing. Unison is wonderful for more complex tasks but is very inefficient with large files. As a matter of fact it uses rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
and unmask. In ways it is easier but in ways, it is a nightmare. If something is unmasked, I have to go find the file that unmasked it. I have several since I use autounmask for most of it. Then add in that the new autounmask part of emerge seems to pick a random file to add too

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

2011-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 25 June 2011 13:39:33 Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: This will never change, because you can't pick up a turd by the clean end. ROFLMBO That is so true. I have to add. I subscribe to some service that emails security problems, usually when they are fixed

Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of questions about updating gentoo

2011-07-03 Thread covici
the updates in the wrong order for that. Fix it like so: - eix gst-plugins- - pick everything out of that long list that will upgraded to 0.10.35 - emerge them manually - proceed with emerge world There's probably a shorter way, one critical plugins package that when upgraded manually

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