Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off

2015-05-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 May 2015 10:50:53 Neil Bothwick wrote: I found that peeling off the self adhesive label in the middle and applying a single drop of thin oil on the bearing restores them to rude health. I have one here which is still running quietly for five years since my intervention with

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread behrouz khosravi
Thanks Meino. What do you mean by: session-management = windowmanagement I dont know i3wm Its a tiling window manager. I have used it and I recommend it to anyone interested in tiling window managers. Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Ramdziana Feri Y
On 05/24/2015 05:32 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote: Torrent client? Hi behrouz, for simple torrent client I just use aria2. I never use the others.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off

2015-05-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 May 2015 02:12:34 Joseph wrote: On 05/23/15 20:52, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: On 05/23/2015 06:53 PM, Joseph wrote: On 05/23/15 18:08, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: On 05/23/2015 05:24 PM, Joseph wrote: I have a box in a remote location (8-core CPU) and it turn itself off during compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off

2015-05-24 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 24 May 2015 02:12:34 Joseph wrote: On 05/23/15 20:52, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: On 05/23/2015 06:53 PM, Joseph wrote: I tried to read the lm-sensors again and the compupter turn crash with the readings: fan1: 0 RPM (min = 10 RPM) ALARM fan2: 0 RPM

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off

2015-05-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 May 2015 10:09:58 +0100, Mick wrote: I went to pickup the remote box and look at it; the CPU fan stop working. The CPU heat sink is big so in idle mode it could keep up with cooling it but under heavy load compiling anything the CPU was overheating. Ha! So the fan speeds

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Sun, 24 May 2015 15:02:13 +0430 behrouz khosravi wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Sebastián Pedersen
On 24-05-2015 07:32 AM, behrouz khosravi wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off

2015-05-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:11:34 Mick wrote: What I'm saying is that in today's world of mass marketing and el-cheapo manufacturing, where shaving a penny is a strategy applied not only on the workers' wages but also on the materials and manufacturing process, we are left doing QA ourselves or

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off

2015-05-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 24 May 2015 12:32:40 Mick wrote: On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:45:50 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:11:34 Mick wrote: What I'm saying is that in today's world of mass marketing and el-cheapo manufacturing, where shaving a penny is a strategy applied not only on the

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread rhannek
On 24/05/15 15:01, Andrew Savchenko wrote: I depends on personal preferences. I'm not sure why, but I always had problems with intensive mail traffic and mutt. Also many mails are html-base and mutt is not the best way to deal with them. (I know that html mails are disgusting, but too many

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Lee
On May 24, 2015 3:33 AM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread wabenbau
Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Am 24.05.2015 um 16:14 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with mailto (fcrontab)

2015-05-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 May 2015 05:46:37 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org [15-05-24 05:52]: On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 03:34:09AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote What reasons disable fcron to send mail to me or root? By convention, it seems that all MTAs have

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off

2015-05-24 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 24 May 2015 10:50:53 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015 10:09:58 +0100, Mick wrote: I found that peeling off the self adhesive label in the middle and applying a single drop of thin oil on the bearing restores them to rude health. I have one here which is still running

[gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread behrouz khosravi
Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Heiko Baums
Am 24.05.2015 um 16:14 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace KDE with i3wm. What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) Many years ago I also looked

[gentoo-user] Re: recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread »Q«
On Sun, 24 May 2015 15:02:13 +0430 behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good choise?) If I wanted a TUI, I'd use mutt. I use Claws Mail, mostly because it has good filtering/processing capabilities, has a plugin

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 12:07 PM, behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: I dont know i3wm Its a tiling window manager. I have used it and I recommend it to anyone interested in tiling window managers. What's your take on xmonad? +1 for irssi midnight commander anyone?

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread wabenbau
behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Meino . Cramer
behrouz khosravi bz.khosr...@gmail.com [15-05-24 12:39]: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off

2015-05-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:45:50 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 24 May 2015 11:11:34 Mick wrote: What I'm saying is that in today's world of mass marketing and el-cheapo manufacturing, where shaving a penny is a strategy applied not only on the workers' wages but also on the materials and

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Heiko Baums
Am 24.05.2015 um 12:32 schrieb behrouz khosravi: Torrent client? rtorrent is quite good.

[gentoo-user] HF Propagation for conky ???

2015-05-24 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, Looking at http://www.hamqsl.com/solar.html#addwebsite (left side) one could find a real nice HF propagation*) display, which looks like (style-wise) be inspired by conky... :) Unfortunately all the offered ways to include this forecast is for webpages and Windows. I am a Linux-only rebel.

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Alan Grimes
My pattern: 1. Use FVWM for 5 years. 2. Get sick of it. 3. Try every wm out there and find they all suck nuts. 4. Go to step 1. -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off

2015-05-24 Thread Ed Martinez
On Sat, 23 May 2015 19:12:34 -0600 Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I went to pickup the remote box and look at it; the CPU fan stop working. The CPU heat sink is big so in idle mode it could keep up with cooling it but under heavy load compiling anything the CPU was overheating. I

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 03:02:13PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread behrouz khosravi
Thanks everyone. +1 for mc too! On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Alan Grimes alonz...@verizon.net wrote: My pattern: 1. Use FVWM for 5 years. 2. Get sick of it. 3. Try every wm out there and find they all suck nuts. 4. Go to step 1. -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No sound in dosbox

2015-05-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 May 2015 23:15:40 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 02:59:26PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote This is not the particular game itself, it's dosbox. I.e. when I start up dosbox, it says... [d531][waltdnes][~] dosbox DOSBox version 0.74 Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 05/24/15 06:32, behrouz khosravi wrote: Torrent client? Another +1 for transmission - the transmission-remote CLI is good, and the client-server model is great. rtorrent has always seemed a little off for me, and seems to do a lot of computation in its GUI thread because it's not really

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Emanuele Rusconi
On 24 May 2015 at 23:30, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: (x)emacs. But he said keep the system small! ^__^ -- Emanuele Rusconi

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No sound in dosbox

2015-05-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 02:59:26PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote This is not the particular game itself, it's dosbox. I.e. when I start up dosbox, it says... [d531][waltdnes][~] dosbox DOSBox version 0.74 Copyright 2002-2010 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL. --- CONFIG:Loading primary

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] No sound in dosbox

2015-05-24 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 12:10:56AM +0100, Mick wrote On Sunday 24 May 2015 23:15:40 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 02:59:26PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote This is not the particular game itself, it's dosbox. I.e. when I start up dosbox, it says...

[gentoo-user] Re: [SOLVED] Computer turn itself off

2015-05-24 Thread James
Joseph syscon780 at gmail.com writes: I went to pickup the remote box and look at it; the CPU fan stop working. The CPU heat sink is big so in idle mode it could keep up with cooling it but under heavy load compiling anything the CPU was overheating. Dust is often the culprit on

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 24.05.2015 um 12:32 schrieb behrouz khosravi: Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. So I am going to use console based tools mostly.

[gentoo-user] net-analyzer/portsentry

2015-05-24 Thread James
Well, we have this gentoo guide for portsentry:[1]This seem a bit dated. I'd be curious for any information folks use including config file snippets or deployment strategies, particularly in a multi-layered scheme. There is only basic configuration/deployment ideas in

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 24.05.2015 um 23:53 schrieb Emanuele Rusconi: On 24 May 2015 at 23:30, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: (x)emacs. But he said keep the system small! ^__^ -- Emanuele Rusconi init=/usr/bin/emacs doesn't get smaller than that...

Re: [gentoo-user] Tips for fresh install with GRUB2+RAID1+LVM2

2015-05-24 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:20:29PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: No no no! LiLo, on a six year old machine actually works well. It does exactly what it says on the packet, i.e. it boots up the machine, and nothing more. I use LiLo, mainly to avoid the complexities of Grub. -- Alan