2010/1/15 Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com:
Hi, I'm facing this problem:
I want to exchange hard-drive in my computer for other, bigger
one. I do not want to add new hard-drive somewhere on mount-point
permanently, I just want to copy everything from the old drive
to the new one and then get rid of
Alan McKinnon wrote:
The only way to be sure of that is to write your own replacement for HAL.
;)
That might not be a bad idea
I never agreed with the implementation of hal. An abstract layer sounds good,
but why must it abstract ALL hardware? Most software already knows what
Am Sonntag, 17. Januar 2010 schrieb Neil Bothwick:
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:40:44 +0100, YoYo siska wrote:
. If you are doing it this way (on a running system with mounted
dev/proc/sys...), you can just bind-mount your current / to another
directory. That copy will not contain any sub-mounts
Hi,
because of that KDE3/4 mess I have to keep kde-base/kdelibs:3.5
(I still need kexi which is not available for koffice, yet.)
But now,
emerge @preserved-rebuild
doesn't work anymore since it terminates after telling me
there are no ebuilds to satisfy kde-base/kdelibs:3.5
That's true but I
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
because of that KDE3/4 mess I have to keep kde-base/kdelibs:3.5
(I still need kexi which is not available for koffice, yet.)
But now,
emerge @preserved-rebuild
doesn't work anymore since it terminates after telling me
there are no ebuilds to satisfy
Am Montag, 18. Januar 2010 schrieb Helmut Jarausch:
Hi,
because of that KDE3/4 mess I have to keep kde-base/kdelibs:3.5
(I still need kexi which is not available for koffice, yet.)
But now,
emerge @preserved-rebuild
doesn't work anymore since it terminates after telling me
there are no
Neil Walker wrote:
It seems xml is the fashion with certain programmers. Totally
unnecessary. :(
Be lucky,
Neil
http://www.neiljw.com
+1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not
just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed?
Dale
:-) :-)
On Monday 18 January 2010 12:10:59 Dale wrote:
Neil Walker wrote:
It seems xml is the fashion with certain programmers. Totally
unnecessary. :(
Be lucky,
Neil
http://www.neiljw.com
+1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not
just keep it simple? Is
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 18 January 2010 12:10:59 Dale wrote:
Neil Walker wrote:
It seems xml is the fashion with certain programmers. Totally
unnecessary. :(
Be lucky,
Neil
http://www.neiljw.com
+1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:59:07 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Most devices fall into one of two groups: storage and I/O.
Auto-mounters do not care about your keyboard, whereas X needs to know
about your monitor, card, keyboard, mouse. Why does hal try and
abstract both? Seems silly to me.
On the
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:46:23 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
because of that KDE3/4 mess I have to keep kde-base/kdelibs:3.5
(I still need kexi which is not available for koffice, yet.)
But now,
emerge @preserved-rebuild
doesn't work anymore since it terminates after telling me
there
Hi there!
It's done! I'm at ~x86 now. The upgrade went quite smooth - had to resolve
some blockers, and mask the new x.org 1.7 because it does not work at all
with ati-drivers.
**BUT:** After rebooting, I ran into a very nasty KDE4 bug. All
authentication dialogs did not work. So I had no KDE
Hi there,
Yesterday I reseated the network cable between my server cupboard and
my desk, and it now lights up on the switch by my desk as gigabit. But
a file-transfer today is slower than I might have hoped.
I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the
switch *is*
On Monday 18 January 2010 13:50:55 Stroller wrote:
Any estimates over what kind of speed I should be seeing for large
file-transfers over Samba? Wildly ball-park is fine - I wouldn't
expect a 10x speed increase, but maybe 2x or 3x - 4x would be great!
Somewhere on the order of 400-600
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:50, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the switch
*is* lighting up as 1000), but how do I determine, please, that the Linux
server at the other end is recognising the NIC and negotiating as
On 01/18/2010 01:50 PM, Stroller wrote:
Hi there,
Yesterday I reseated the network cable between my server cupboard and my
desk, and it now lights up on the switch by my desk as gigabit. But a
file-transfer today is slower than I might have hoped.
I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's
On 18 Jan 2010, at 12:14, Ward Poelmans wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:50, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
wrote:
I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the
switch
*is* lighting up as 1000), but how do I determine, please, that the
Linux
server at the
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:50:55AM +, Stroller wrote:
Hi there,
Yesterday I reseated the network cable between my server cupboard and my
desk, and it now lights up on the switch by my desk as gigabit. But a
file-transfer today is slower than I might have hoped.
I'm not ruling out the
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Hi there,
Yesterday I reseated the network cable between my server cupboard and my
desk, and it now lights up on the switch by my desk as gigabit. But a
file-transfer today is slower than I might have hoped.
I'm
I recently got my old TV tuner card out of the closed and decided to set
it up. The kernel's v4l2 drivers support my card and it works just fine
with tvtime. However, tvtime's overscan setting doesn't center the
image correctly; when increasing the overscan value (to get rid of some
random
Hi,
sorry for late reply. I was on a business trip.
Mick's link got me to the solution of the problem. Related information
can also be found under
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/openrc-migration.xml
echo 'XSESSION=fluxbox' /etc/env.d/90xsession
solved my problem.
(Now I've got to find out what
All,
I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or
answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :)
I'm trying to find a file or database that keeps track of everything
I've emerged since I set my system up, preferably in chronological
order.
Where / how can I obtain this
I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session. I think it
was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this
nearly 4-year-old bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909
The solution is presented as:
qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf - -F%F#s | xargs
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes:
I'm running kde-meta 4.3.3
It's the kde screen where you put your login and passwd.
It flashes for a second or 2, like the passwd is accepted, but
kde cannot start.
If I do not auto start kdm via rc-update, then I can log in as a user
and X
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:55:46 +
Mick Mick wrote:
Hi Mick,
Thank your for bringing it to our attention! I've been on a
lookout for an amarok replacement.
I just installed it so I'm not up to speed with it to answer your
question, but I am having a similar problem. When I click on
I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session. I think it
was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this
nearly 4-year-old bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909
The solution is presented as:
qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf - -F%F#s | xargs
James writes:
All,
I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or
answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :)
On 2009-06-28, the answer was this:
for f in `ls -rt \`find /var/db/pkg -name *.ebuild\``; do basename $f
.ebuild; done
I'm trying to find a file or
walt w41...@gmail.com writes:
On 01/16/2010 01:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
I hadn't done a full reinstall for a good while, long enough that I
missed out on whateve was said about the change over from using
/etc/X11/xorg.conf to control the X display to whatever does it now.
So my first
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
My 5-year old gentoo-AMD64 machine when up in smoke this week so I'm
building a new machine. Most parts are on order but one big change
these days is the motherboards I want to purchase no longer support
EIDE/ATAPI
pk pete...@coolmail.se writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are
custom settings regarding the X session done?
Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old
xorg.conf since that will override what's in ...xorg.conf.d/
Hi.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:03:26 -0500, James wrote:
I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or
answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :)
I'm trying to find a file or database that keeps track of everything
I've emerged since I set my system up,
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:14 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:
Btw, devicekit has been renamed to udisks.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=Nzc2NA
The whole of DeviceKit was not renamed, just the DeviceKit-disks
program was renamed to udisks.
And yes I think it all uses XML
I guess I had deleted that email -- shame...many thanks for pulling up
the answer. I greatly appreciate it!
-j
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
James writes:
All,
I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or
answer for the
Thanks Anton...much appreciated!
-j
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Anton Bobov an...@bobov.name wrote:
Hi.
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:03:26 -0500, James wrote:
I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or
answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :)
I'm
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 04:10:59AM -0600, Dale wrote:
+1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not
just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed?
XML is handy for nested configuration, where various options apply to
specific subsets of other configuration items. I could
On 01/18/2010 05:03 PM, James wrote:
All,
I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or
answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :)
I'm trying to find a file or database that keeps track of everything
I've emerged since I set my system up, preferably in
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 10:03 -0500, James wrote:
All,
I posted this question about a year ago and can't find the email or
answer for the life of me...so I'll try again. :)
I'm trying to find a file or database that keeps track of everything
I've emerged since I set my system up, preferably
Dale wrote:
Stop lurking and just join me. lol
... Darth Vader: Luke, join me and I will complete your training...
;-)
Best regards
Peter K
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:14 PM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:
Btw, devicekit has been renamed to udisks.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=Nzc2NA
The whole of DeviceKit was not renamed, just the DeviceKit-disks
program was renamed to udisks.
And
On 1/18/2010 5:10 AM, Dale wrote:
+1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not
just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed?
XML allows you to generate complex, structured, hierarchical data that
can be read, changed, and stored by well-tested third party libraries
that
Harry Putnam wrote:
pk pete...@coolmail.se writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are
custom settings regarding the X session done?
Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to use the old
xorg.conf since that will
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
My 5-year old gentoo-AMD64 machine when up in smoke this week so I'm
building a new machine. Most parts are on order but one big
Harry Putnam wrote:
Using only the current setup, that is, one with hal and dbus installed
and one that does not use xorg.conf... and apparently does not use
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d either... since that directory is not present.
But yet an X display happens when I type `startx', apparently
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
My 5-year old gentoo-AMD64 machine when up in smoke this
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
pk pete...@coolmail.se writes:
Harry Putnam wrote:
For now, with hal, with dbus, assuming no xorg.conf... where are
custom settings regarding the X session done?
Under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/... or you could continue to
On Monday 18 January 2010 18:26:21 Mike Edenfield wrote:
+1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not
just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed?
XML allows you to generate complex, structured, hierarchical data that
can be read, changed, and stored by well-tested
One more thing. The file transfer speed is
min(max(HDD),max(NIC),max(others)) so it will depend on your HDD, your
network and other reasons. I find out that using sftp command seem to be
faster than NFS or Samba. Could you try sftp and check if it is faster
or not? Then check the dmesg as well as
On Monday 18 January 2010 17:12:41 Grant wrote:
# qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf - -F%F#s | xargs qfile
Usage: qfile opts filename : list all pkgs owning files
Options: -[ef:m:oRx:vqChV]
-e, --exact * Exact match
-f, --from arg * Read arguments from
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Mark Knecht
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 18 January 2010 18:26:21 Mike Edenfield wrote:
+1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not
just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed?
XML allows you to generate complex, structured, hierarchical data that
can be read, changed,
On 1/18/10, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote:
I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session. I think it
was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this
nearly 4-year-old bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909
The solution is presented as:
qlist -o $(qlist
I've hit a bug that won't let me start an xfce4 session. I think it
was caused by upgrading glibc, and it is pretty well described in this
nearly 4-year-old bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/125909
The solution is presented as:
qlist -o $(qlist -ICv) | scanelf -Bs__guard -qf - -F%F#s | xargs
Mike Edenfield wrote:
XML allows you to generate complex, structured, hierarchical data that
can be read, changed, and stored by well-tested third party libraries
that don't need to know anything about the contents or meaning of your
configuration data beforehand. This means I, as a
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 18 January 2010 18:26:21 Mike Edenfield wrote:
+1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not
just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed?
XML allows you to generate
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 18 January 2010 18:26:21 Mike Edenfield wrote:
+1 I do OK with plain text but no clue on the new xml stuff. Why not
just keep it simple? Is xml REALLY needed?
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
That was my problem, no keyboard or mouse. Sort of hard to do much in that
situation.
Dale
Pshaw... ;)
ctrl-alt-F1, or, if that doesn't work:
alt-SysRq-R
alt-F1
Of course, method 2 only works if you have the Magic
Hello fellows,
Now, it has support to search at database with eix, to install and unistall
packages.
Here two more shots of the new interface:
http://yfrog.com/5gkportagetray06p, http://yfrog.com/5gkportagetray07p
You just need to rebuild the package using the ebuild I sent before.
Hope you
James Ausmus wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com
mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
That was my problem, no keyboard or mouse. Sort of hard to do
much in that situation.
Dale
Pshaw... ;)
ctrl-alt-F1, or, if that doesn't work:
alt-SysRq-R
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
James Ausmus wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com mailto:
rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
That was my problem, no keyboard or mouse. Sort of hard to do
much in that situation.
It has happened that when emerging packages, the following message is listed
at the end of the emerge process:
Wrong number of fields in NEEDED.ELF.2
May I ask for advice?
Alan
On Monday 18 January 2010 22:47:05 Dale wrote:
In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand
that most people don't even know how to use SysRq keys. I didn't and
had to do a hard shutdown. I had to actually pull the plug to do any
good. Luckily I knew how to get it
On Monday 18 January 2010 23:04:56 James Ausmus wrote:
And this is why it is a Very Good Thing to spread the word about the Magic
SysRq keys. Did ctrl-alt-del not do anything, or a single press of
the power button (which should send an ACPI shutdown signal, causing the
system to
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote:
On Monday 18 January 2010 23:04:56 James Ausmus wrote:
And this is why it is a Very Good Thing to spread the word about the
Magic
SysRq keys. Did ctrl-alt-del not do anything, or a single press of
the power
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com wrote:
It has happened that when emerging packages, the following message is
listed at the end of the emerge process:
Wrong number of fields in NEEDED.ELF.2
May I ask for advice?
Never seen that issue before, but maybe try
James Ausmus wrote:
I'll try to stop being a smart-ass, but it's just one of those kind of
days... grin
-James
I have those days too. They tend to come in bunches tho. ;-)
Dale
:-) :-)
Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
results?
As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
What do you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here, so please bear
with me ;)
Thanks
At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:21 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
results?
As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
What do you see?
2010/1/18 walt w41...@gmail.com:
Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
results?
As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
What do you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here,
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:13:55 +0100, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu
wrote:
At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:21 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
results?
As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
would
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:38:16 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
I have a cheap Sony Optiarc (formerly NEC?) and it has worked fine for
me for ripping and burning audio CDs, DVD+/-R (single and dual layer).
It cost around $25 USD. I don't know if it is better or worse than any
other brand but it seems
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 00:07:21 walt wrote:
Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
results?
As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
What do you see? (I'm ruling out
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:50:36 -0800, James Ausmus wrote:
Very recent buyers of Lenovo laptops don't even *have* a SysRq key
anymore. I
reckon it won't be long before other makers follow suit. I can see
Lenovo's point: there's probably less than 10,000 people in the whole
world that ever
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:04:56 -0800, James Ausmus wrote:
Another option (I know - too late for you, but might be useful for
someone that runs across this on Google), is to press I during the
initscript processes - enters Interactive Boot mode, so you can Y/N
individual startup scripts,
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:53:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Your post makes sense until you realise that the use of XML in a
configuration designed to be changed by the user renders the package
virtually unusable. Given a choice between me as a developer struggling
with a config parser versus
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 18 January 2010 22:47:05 Dale wrote:
In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand
that most people don't even know how to use SysRq keys. I didn't and
had to do a hard shutdown. I had to actually pull the plug to do any
good.
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:38:16 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
I have a cheap Sony Optiarc (formerly NEC?) and it has worked fine for
me for ripping and burning audio CDs, DVD+/-R (single and dual layer).
It cost around $25 USD. I don't know if it is
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 00:29:18 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:53:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Your post makes sense until you realise that the use of XML in a
configuration designed to be changed by the user renders the package
virtually unusable. Given a choice between
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 18 January 2010 22:47:05 Dale wrote:
In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand
that most people don't even know how to use SysRq keys. I didn't and
had to do a hard shutdown. I had to actually
Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
2010/1/18 walt w41...@gmail.com:
Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
results?
As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
What do you see? (I'm
On Monday 18 January 2010 15:09:39 James wrote:
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes:
I suspect that you probably have fallen victim to the great conspiracy of
baselayout doing away with rc.conf and not screaming it LOUD ENOUGH to
make sure that we set up the XSESSION variable so that
Hi,
can anyone find a mailing list for the iwl 4965 project? From here
http://intellinuxwireless.org/ it seems the ipw3945 and iwlwifi mailing
list are the same, and I think the 4965 is in the iwlwifi project... I
can only find a 3945 devel list at sourceforge:
walt wrote:
Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
results?
As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
What do you see? (I'm ruling out evil spirits here, so please bear
with me
Zeerak Waseem wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:13:55 +0100, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu
wrote:
At Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:21 -0800 walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
results?
As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:04:56 -0800, James Ausmus wrote:
Another option (I know - too late for you, but might be useful for
someone that runs across this on Google), is to press I during the
initscript processes - enters Interactive Boot mode, so you can Y/N
individual
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:43:58 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
Using only the current setup, that is, one with hal and dbus installed
and one that does not use xorg.conf... and apparently does not use
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d either... since that directory is not present.
But yet an X display happens
Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 18 January 2010 22:47:05 Dale wrote:
In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand
that most people don't even know how to use SysRq keys. I didn't and
had to do a hard
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:18:16 -0600, Dale wrote:
Being my sometimes helpful self. lol
Password:
su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
That normal I guess?
Then I'm not! I get
$ su
Password: su: Authentication failure
--
Neil Bothwick
Someone who thinks logically is a
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:09:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
XML is a machine-readable file format that just happens to use ASCII
characters, it is not meant to be modified by a text editor, so if
your program uses XML configuration files, it should include a means
of editing those files that
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:34:04 +0200, Arttu V. wrote:
Solar's one-liner is likely working perfectly here. The one-liner just
doesn't find any binaries with the ancient SSP symbol, and thus args
for qfile are empty -- leading into qfile printing its usage.
Does this mean using the
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 00:29:18 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:53:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Your post makes sense until you realise that the use of XML in a
configuration designed to be changed by the user renders the package
virtually
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 00:29:18 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:53:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Your post makes sense until you realise that the use of XML in a
configuration
On 01/18/2010 02:14 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
2010/1/18 waltw41...@gmail.com:
Can I trouble you folks to do this ten-second test and report your
results?
As an ordinary user, type 'su' at a bash prompt. Now, where you
would normally type your root password, just type Ctrl-d instead.
What do
I wondered if anyone here knows of a linux tool that is similar to
webresearch:
http://www.macropool.de/en/products/webresearch/index.html
Its one of those clip and save from the internet (or whole pages) kind
of things that allows you to make a hierarchy of folders and has some
useful search
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 18:23 -0600, Dale wrote:
Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 23:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 18 January 2010 22:47:05 Dale wrote:
In that case, ctrl alt F1 does nothing. You also need to understand
that most people don't even know how
On 18 Jan 2010, at 22:13, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
...
gottl...@allan ~ $ su
Password:
su: Authentication information cannot be recovered
gottl...@allan ~ $
On my Linux boxes I get the same as everyone else.
My Mac apologises to me. :/
Stroller.
On 01/18/2010 09:53 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Just as code is read many more times than it is written, so is a package
configured by the end user many more times than the config parser studied by
the developer.
Your post makes sense until you realise that the use of XML in a configuration
=== On Mon, 01/18, Stroller wrote: ===
I'm not ruling out the cable, because it's pretty beat up (but the
switch *is* lighting up as 1000), but how do I determine, please,
that the Linux server at the other end is recognising the NIC and
negotiating as gigabit speeds?
===
ethtool eth0
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Joerg Schilling
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:38:16 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:
I have a cheap Sony Optiarc (formerly NEC?) and it has worked fine for
me for ripping and burning
On 18 Jan 2010, at 21:50, James Ausmus wrote:
Very recent buyers of Lenovo laptops don't even *have* a SysRq key
anymore. I
reckon it won't be long before other makers follow suit. I can see
Lenovo's
point: there's probably less than 10,000 people in the whole world
that ever
used that key
On 18 Jan 2010, at 17:53, Alan McKinnon wrote:
...
XML allows you to generate complex, structured, hierarchical data
that
can be read, changed, and stored by well-tested third party libraries
that don't need to know anything about the contents or meaning of
your
configuration data
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