On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 22:47:21 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
Fully agree that's a bad idea. My system uses sudoers. I.e. in
/etc/sudoers.d/001 I have the lines...
user2 d531 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/ux *
waltdnes d531 = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/local/bin/ux *
...where
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:33:05 -0700
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Like Paul and many others I've never looked back. I'm no power user,
and contrary to a lot of the press out there I don't think you need to
be to use this distro.
That's actually quite perceptive and correct.
You
Alan McKinnon writes:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 17:33:05 -0700
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Like Paul and many others I've never looked back. I'm no power user,
and contrary to a lot of the press out there I don't think you need to
be to use this distro.
That's actually quite
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:43:09 -0400
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
When I wanted to install Linux on my new netbook 2008,
I quickly found that the simplest way to get everything to work
was to install Gentoo, using my notes from previous desktop installs.
In Gentoo, problems are
Hi List
Every once in a while, my mplayer can't play a video from the intertubes. It
just crashes on load, it really drives me mad sometimes. I then need to
x-kill the window, and if I started from the console, I can't even get back
its prompt with Ctrl+C.
It happens with videos from
On 09/12/2012 12:41:20 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
Hi List
Every once in a while, my mplayer can't play a video from the
intertubes. It
just crashes on load, it really drives me mad sometimes. I then need
to
x-kill the window, and if I started from the console, I can't even
get back
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:41:20 +0200
Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi List
Every once in a while, my mplayer can't play a video from the
intertubes. It just crashes on load, it really drives me mad
sometimes. I then need to x-kill the window, and if I started from
the console, I
120911 Neil Bothwick was worried at the idea
of leaving a root console open for all to access:
My machine is not accessible to anyone else, so it's not a problem here.
Yes, it's not a good idea if you're in a data centre or open-plan office.
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120911 Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 04:21:29PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote
/etc/make.conf has the line INPUT_DEVICES=evdev , like this machine.
I don't have evdev at all. My /etc/portage/make.conf has...
INPUT_DEVICES=keyboard mouse
I've checked the Kernel settings they seem
Hi,
you are right, this is handelt by ACPI
You´ll first need to check your BIOS settings. Look for something like Power
button with 2 possible settings - instant power off and wait 4s.
If you set that option to wait, a short press on the power button triggers an
event and a default install of
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:03:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The popular forum answer of my granny's dog's owner once ran this
command and it seemed to fix her green screen so give it a try and see
if it repairs your password just does not ever get proposed here :-)
Instead we get, try USE=-* :P
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:03:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The popular forum answer of my granny's dog's owner once ran this
command and it seemed to fix her green screen so give it a try and see
if it repairs your
120912 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:03:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The popular forum answer of my granny's dog's owner once ran this
command and it seemed to fix her green screen so give it a try and see
if it repairs your password just does not ever get proposed here :-)
Michael Mol writes:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
Instead we get, try USE=-* :P
Try MAKEOPTS='-j1'
Which in fact often helps... especially for me, I am using MAKEOPTS=-j
--load=4, and I often experience build
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Michael Mol writes:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
Instead we get, try USE=-* :P
Try MAKEOPTS='-j1'
Which in fact often helps...
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:00:34 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
And emerge -e world perl-cleaner --all python-updater
lafilefixer --justfixit.
You forgot sync again.
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:33:14 +0100
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:03:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The popular forum answer of my granny's dog's owner once ran this
command and it seemed to fix her green screen so give it a try and
see if it repairs your
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:00:34 +0200
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Michael Mol writes:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
Instead we get, try USE=-* :P
Try MAKEOPTS='-j1'
Which in fact often helps...
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:00:34 +0200
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Michael Mol writes:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On 2012-09-12, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
It takes some more time though to maintain it, compared to the other
distros.
My experience is the opposite. Before Gentoo, I used mainly RPM-based
distros (first RedHat, then later Mandrake).
I find Gentoo requires much less
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:00:34 +0200
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Michael Mol writes:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2012-09-12, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
It takes some more time though to maintain it, compared to the other
distros.
My experience is the opposite. Before Gentoo, I used mainly RPM-based
distros (first RedHat, then later Mandrake).
I find Gentoo
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Joshua Murphy poiso...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:00:34 +0200
Alex Schuster
Am 12.09.2012 15:47, schrieb Michael Mol:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:03:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The popular forum answer of my granny's dog's owner once ran this
command and it seemed to fix her green screen so give
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.bizwrote:
Am 12.09.2012 15:47, schrieb Michael Mol:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:03:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The popular forum answer of my
Am Mittwoch, 12. September 2012, 12:03:04 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 05:43:09 -0400
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
When I wanted to install Linux on my new netbook 2008,
I quickly found that the simplest way to get everything to work
was to install Gentoo, using
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
SNIP
There have been good forums in the past. Even now. But forums have a massive
problem, even the great ones: if they go down everything is lost.
+1
NVidia had some really good forums. They got hacked,
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:15:25 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:00:34 +0200
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
Michael Mol writes:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:33
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:15:25 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Alan McKinnon
alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:00:34 +0200
Alex Schuster
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:15:25 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Alan McKinnon
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
SNIP
There have been good forums in the past. Even now. But forums have a massive
problem, even the great ones: if they go down everything is lost.
+1
NVidia had some really good
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:15:25 -0400
Michael Mol
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Alan McKinnon
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:51:02PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:41:20 +0200
Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi List
Every once in a while, my mplayer can't play a video from the
intertubes. It just crashes on load, it really drives me mad
sometimes. I
So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x
series. My old 2.6.x kernel was working fine, but of course I decided
to try to update it anyway, knowing there were problems with suspend
and a few other things.
I've always used gentoo-sources. So I tried 3.3.8.
Hrm. Suspend
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote:
So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x
series. My old 2.6.x kernel was working fine, but of course I decided
to try to update it anyway, knowing there were problems with suspend
and a few other
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Daniel Frey djqf...@gmail.com wrote:
So about a month ago I decided to update my kernel to the dreaded 3.x
series. My old 2.6.x kernel ...
FYI Linus Torvalds says there was no change between 2.6 and 3.0. A quote:
So what are the big changes? NOTHING.
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