Re: [gentoo-user] Question about items on the main menu

2008-05-01 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 15:25 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: I looked it up and found the file. The Exec line was gnome-cups-manager. Should gnome-cups-manager have some visible GUI, because it doesn't. When I run it at the terminal prompt, it just gives me a blinking cursor until I Cntrl+C

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re-appearance of `waiting for lock' bug?

2008-05-01 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 23:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I've seen similar messages a few times on my boxes recently, but each time the emerge got going again after a short while. So I never really bothered finding out exactly what is going on. I believe portage recently switched to using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Best anti-virus

2008-05-10 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, May 10, 2008 3:58 pm, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: forgottenwizard wrote: Realtime Linux Anti-Trojan signature scanning overhead is simply cheap (almost free) insurance IMHO, and may be most important when compiling and installing new or updated sourcecode. Or installing a new plugin to your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re enter chroot install

2008-05-14 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 15 May 2008 00:56:29 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a installation that did not complete successfully. I need to re enter the chroot environment, using a install cd. For argue purposes, let's assume the hard drive is formatted exactly as the example in the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Linux/Standards-friendly mobile phone

2008-05-19 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 19 May 2008 13:29:21 -0500 Albert Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well after acquiring my first very own mobile phone only three years ago I've come to destroying it last night. So now I'm in the market for a new phone. I'd prefer something Linux/OSS friendly, but I really have no

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-29 Thread Robert Bridge
On Fri, 30 May 2008 02:05:42 +0300 Daniel Iliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:38:27 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W. Canis wrote: OK, I can't bring myself a proof of concept. Allow me to help you with that part. Personally I still think signatures in

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.3.x and Core 2 Duo, safe way

2008-06-09 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:43:41 +0100 Graham Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gcc-4.3.1 is umasked now. I'm on ~amd64 with Core 2 Duo CPU. Is it sufficient just to set CFLAGS=-O2 -march=core2 -mtune=core2 -pipe instead of CFLAGS=-O2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ati or Nvida

2008-06-18 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:04:40 +0200 Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've made the big mistake of bying an notebook w/ geforce go 6100. There is your problem. A notebook card. Even the nVidia site admits that the notebook cards are weird. The drivers support the chipset, but there are no

Re: [gentoo-user] Microphone help

2008-06-30 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:24:44 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I bought a Creative NX Pro 2 webcam a few years back, and got it working with no problems in Gentoo using the gspcav1 drivers from Portage. Now, when I plug in the microphone (Which isn't a USB, but a regular

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Append string on Kernel builds

2009-01-17 Thread Robert Bridge
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:36:42 -0600 rea...@newsguy.com wrote: What I asked was if there is some tricky syntax I could use on that kernel setting that would do: linux-2.6.26-gentoo-$HOST-N Where N is an incremented number every time I build the kernel without running `mrproper'. Not quite what

Re: [gentoo-user] Crossover Office and Word 2007

2009-01-26 Thread Robert Bridge
Alan McKinnon wrote: Other than Office 2007 is there any software out there that can *write* .docx? Work requires me to use this format sometimes (it's not negotiable) and I can get around it 95% of the time, but the 5% causes me insane amounts of grief. Even though Office2007 runs perfectly

Re: [gentoo-user] Mpd doesn't play ogg files

2009-03-14 Thread Robert Bridge
Damian wrote: Hello, When I try to play an ogg file, mpd says it is playing it, but there is no sound. Mps has been built with the following use flags: Use flags: (aac) (alsa) (-ao) (-audiofile) (-avahi) (flac) (-icecast) (iconv) (ipv6) (-jack) (-libsamplerate)

Re: [gentoo-user] What do I mask to go back to xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6

2009-04-14 Thread Robert Bridge
Michael Sullivan wrote: I'm trying to roll back xorg-server, and I keep getting stuck: camille log # emerge -pvuD world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =x11-base/xorg-server-1.5 have been masked. !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Robert Bridge
Michael Sullivan wrote: A few months ago my wife switched from gnome to xfce because gnome was just too slow. I performed the X upgrade on her computer last night, and now she can't get her usual screen resolution of 1024x768 because it's not on the list. Is there a way I can get it on the

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce and screen resolution

2009-04-18 Thread Robert Bridge
Jacques Montier wrote: I had a similar problem with XFCE until I realised that default was the setting I wanted. RobbieAB I think that the default setting in Xfce depends on the first Mode in the Subsection Display of xorg.conf. But i may be wrong... I didn't have any modes in xorg.conf,

Re: [gentoo-user] Nokia PC Suite on VMware

2009-05-09 Thread Robert Bridge
Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: I have laptop running Gentoo and VMware Server on it. I need Nokia PC Suite to manage my Nokia mobile phone. Does anybody have Nokia PC Suite working on VMware or I need setup Win on my laptop? - I'd want avoid this if possible... I don't, but I will suggest an

Re: [gentoo-user] more tripleE SSD fs controversy

2009-06-06 Thread Robert Bridge
Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, More and more I'm coming across references to cheap ssds in the EEEs. http://www.hohndel.org/communitymatters/eeepc/best-filesystem-choice-for-the-eeepc/ recommends ext2. Which I found surprising, but the guy seems knowlegeable. Here is Theodore T'so: # mke2fs

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: cannot open root device sda2 or unknown-block(2,0)

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:48:46 +0200 Miernik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing a new system with 2008.0 on an USB pendrive as the only disk in the machine, and at boot I get this error: VFS: cannot open root device sda2 or unknown-block(2,0) Please append a correct root= boot option;

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:32:34 +0200 Jan Seeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say this has gone on quite long enough. There *were* some nuggets of information among Jörgs lunatic ravings, but I think it would be best if we ended the thread. Also, who would I have to contact to get Jörg removed

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -avC cdrkit emerge -av cdrtools

2008-07-09 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 21:13:23 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:58:52 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Neil, Alan, Daniel, Sebastian, Stroller,... are all guilty of not just ignoring him. Mea culpa :( Yes, before anyone comments, I know that's not

Re: [gentoo-user] how does Gentoo's mke2fs determine how many inodes to create?

2008-07-11 Thread Robert Bridge
On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:45:58 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 July 2008, Miernik wrote: I installed Gentoo using the handbook, and the root partition has 4094951424 bytes (a 4 GB USB pendrive), and mke2fs -j /dev/sda2 as on

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-12 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:43:11 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need a Gentoo system to install Gentoo, all you need is something that can deal with the filesystem you want to use, tar and zip/bzip. Theoretically, even Windows could do it. Argh... Now I feel this urge to

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?

2008-07-14 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:31:03 -0700 Michael Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can this be done without physical access to the machine which is currently running windows XP? I am administrator and get 'there' via RDP. Yes. If there is nothing easier, a coLinux set-up would let you do the first

Re: [gentoo-user] OT : DSL modems changing ISP

2008-08-26 Thread Robert Bridge
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:51:51 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Philip Webb wrote: (2) IIRC I'm signed up for Gentoo lists as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', so it looks as if I will need to resubscribe under the new ISP (I have a reply-to header pointing to my UoT address, but I delete it from

Re: [gentoo-user] [Way OT] dial-up, switching isp's and other thoughts.

2008-09-12 Thread Robert Bridge
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:42:09 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 12 September 2008 02:51:21 Dale wrote: Get a Yahoo email account and pay for POP access, about $20.00 a year I think.  I think this will make it so that I never have to change email addresses when I switch

Re: [gentoo-user] Enforcing passphrase protected ssh keys

2008-09-17 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:21:41 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2008 13:16:57 Jil Larner wrote: Hello, You cannot. The reason for this is simple : you can copy as many times as you wish it your private key in any place. Even if you were able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:08:18 +0200 Momesso Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the machine is fandango, and the the /etc/hosts in my laptop looks like this: [...] 192.168.1.5 fandango Sometimes I need to connect to

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatic host switching

2008-09-21 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:19:46 +0200 Momesso Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2008 18:47:24 Robert Bridge wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:08:18 +0200 Momesso Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My home server is 192.168.1.5 in my home wan, the hostname of the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with exim and mail destinations

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:41:43 -0500 Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three boxes: camille.espersunited.com, catherine.espersunited.com, and baby.espersunited.com . Traditionally, baby has been our server, but the power supply went bad last April and I wasn't able to get it

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't show up

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 08:05:11 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this: # lspci 05:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 34) 05:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) but from ifconfig I only have eth0.

Re: [gentoo-user] eth1 won't show up

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:16:27 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this: # lspci 05:0a.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 34) 05:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) but from ifconfig I only have

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:01:51 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm very familiar with installing Gentoo via LiveCD, but I'm not sure how to go about it without a CD drive. I'm sure there are many exotic options to choose from, but I'd rather not have to learn too much new stuff to get this

Re: [gentoo-user] get rid of xf86-video-* drivers

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Bridge
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:52:17 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 09 October 2008 23:42:00 Mike wrote: Willie Wong wrote: Besides: if one is already using the bandwidth to send mail in HTML, why not make it MIME-multipart with a plain text version included too?

Re: [gentoo-user] strange block issue

2008-10-09 Thread Robert Bridge
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:14:10 +0800 Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was told virtual/jre-1.6, a package that I do /not/ have installed, is blocking another package. How do I manage to install dev-java/jdictrayapi? Thanks for hints in advance! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo emerge -av

Re: [gentoo-user] expat... once again

2008-10-11 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:19:48 +0200 Alex Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! Yes, there are still gentoo machines out there running libexpat-1, and I am upgrading one now. I survived several of those upgrades yet, but those were PCs I had better access to, and where a huge

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp transfer dies

2008-10-21 Thread Robert Bridge
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:21:49 +0100 Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2008, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Any idea why this happens: 150 Ok to send data.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} An old iBook G3 as server

2008-10-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:49:27 +0200 Momesso Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I alredy have a gentoo home server up and running with decent hardware (a FUJITSU SIEMENS Amilo M3438 laptop, Pentium M 1.86GHz, 1.5Gb ram) that I use for general purpose (backup, portage-rsync, bittorrent, groupware)

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Bridge
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:08:32 -0400 James Homuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During an update attempt this afternoon, these little surprises were waiting for me. I took a look at the archives, and naturally, google, but all I found were lots of the same error, and no information on it/what's

Re: [gentoo-user] package.keywords syntax?

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Bridge
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:34:31 -0200 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Run autounmask, it creates a new file in /etc/portage/package.unmask/ Run a quick awk on it to get it into shape Move file to /etc/portage/package.mask/ Problem solved in a neat elegant

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

2008-10-28 Thread Robert Bridge
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:21:28 -0700 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Bridge schrieb am 28.10.2008 18:21: On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:08:32 -0400 James Homuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During an update

Re: [gentoo-user] Touchscreen does not react

2008-11-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:55:58 + (GMT) JC D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (http://210.64.17.162/web20/TouchKitDriver/linuxDriver.htm) Please provide URLs by domain name, I will NEVER click on an IP based URL, unless I explicitly trust the provider. RobbieAB signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Using projector as my monitor

2008-11-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:15:38 -0800 (PST) Norman Hakim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, Do i have to configure anything so that i can connect my pc using projector as my monitor?or do i just directly connect without any configuration? Depends on the graphics card, the drivers, and how you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Touchscreen does not react

2008-11-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:16:52 -0600 »Q« [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:29:39 + Robert Bridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:55:58 + (GMT) JC D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (http://210.64.17.162/web20/TouchKitDriver/linuxDriver.htm) Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers-8.501 does not compile with kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.26-r3

2008-11-24 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:14:40 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arttu V. wrote: On 11/24/08, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag 24 November 2008, Christian wrote: Hi all, I wanted to update my kernel to 2.6.26-r3 today. But the ati-drivers version

Re: [gentoo-user] gparted - safe on NTFS hardware RAID?

2008-12-06 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 09:25:01 -0800 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone have any knowledge about this? Would it be mostly an issue of finding a Linux driver for the hardware card or does it work at all? If it is genuine hardware RAID linux should just see it as a single device, so that

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-13 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:49:50 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Is there a clever way to enter a string (rather than write a script file) so that md5sum will check a whole series of files in one go and report success or error; I was thinking along the lines of if $value

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-17 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:33:35 -0500 Willie Wong ww...@princeton.edu wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:48:52AM +, Mick wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:47:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: That's why I suggested them :-) I use them a lot,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-17 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:17:18 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008 22:42:34 Robert Bridge wrote: Or use a wildcard based match. namestat.text works, as would name*stat.text pedantic name0[01][0-9]{2}stat.text /pedantic would be better

Re: [gentoo-user] video driver discovery

2008-12-20 Thread Robert Bridge
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:35:35 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: How can I verify which driver(version) it is using? Read /etc/log/Xorg.0/log It will tell you which driver it loaded. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: video driver discovery

2008-12-22 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:23:14 -0600 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Robert Bridge rob...@robbieab.com writes: On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:35:35 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: How can I verify which driver(version) it is using? Read /etc/log/Xorg.0/log

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo File Manager

2008-12-22 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:05:46 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with the way it opens certain types of files. How can I create an association to e.g. use xpdf to open pdf files and OOo (oowriter) to open .odt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: video driver discovery

2008-12-22 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:46:31 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Robert Bridge robert at robbieab.com writes: How can I verify which driver(version) it is using? Read /etc/log/Xorg.0/log It will tell you which driver it loaded. Funny, I have not /etc/log dir

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: video driver discovery

2008-12-22 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:42:20 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Robert Bridge robert at robbieab.com writes: My bad, by typoing /etc where I mean /var Now when you've quite finished kicking me when I'm down... :P Sorry you took it that way I'm not offended

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo File Manager

2008-12-22 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:34:26 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Hi All, I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with the way it opens certain types of files. How can I create an association to e.g. use xpdf to open pdf files and OOo (oowriter)

Re: [gentoo-user] Seeking advice about backup and partitioning; preparing to dual-boot Linux onto Vista drive

2008-12-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:39:17 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Dude, I'm getting a Dell! It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work. But I want to put a Linux partition on there. So I need to repartition. Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to ram: correct behavior?

2008-12-31 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:42:54 +0100 damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: LiveCD). If they manage to switch off the power to your USB-ports, that can give us a hint. That I can try, I still keep the Ubuntu (shame on me! :P) which I used to install Gentoo. Nope. I've booted with Ubuntu (damn

Re: [gentoo-user] file collision media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28

2009-01-02 Thread Robert Bridge
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 19:02:15 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: I do not have collision-protect in my make.conf. Emerging media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28 gives me: = * This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to

Re: [gentoo-user] file collision media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28

2009-01-02 Thread Robert Bridge
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 20:15:20 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks RobbieAB. Actually, it showed that the file was owned by the installed package: # portageq owners / /usr/share/fonts/terminus/encodings.dir media-fonts/terminus-font-4.28

Re: [gentoo-user] Best and most gentoo-compatible PC

2009-01-08 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 08:33:27 +0100 iprmaster iprmas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, I am going to buy a new desktop PC and, because of some reasons I cannot explain here in details, I have to choose among these configurations (ordered by increasing price ;-) ): 1. FSC ESPRIMO P5625 E80+

Re: [gentoo-user] non-PHP webmail in portage?

2009-01-10 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 10:04:31 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know of a good (or OK) webmail client in portage that doesn't use PHP? I use squirrelmail now but I have PHP installed only for that and I think PHP slows apache2 down a bit. - Grant I don't think

Re: [gentoo-user] problem reading zip files

2009-06-25 Thread Robert Bridge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Doug ONeal wrote: I have had a problem dumped on me that I cannot resolve. A user archived some very large datasets using Info-zip (app-arch/zip-2.32-r1) and the original data has been deleted. The zip executable is a 64-bit binary and the user

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] GUI programming for Linux (and Windows possibly)

2009-06-28 Thread Robert Bridge
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I know this is WAY off topic for this list but there's a lot of smart, experienced people here so I figured I'd look for a little guidance and then possibly join another email list that's more appropriate. These

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-16 Thread Robert Bridge
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda (or what ever) On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I'm about to sell my old laptop and I'd like to wipe out the data and install any flavor of Linux via USB (the CD drive doesn't work any more).  I've got a bootable USB key that will

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-16 Thread Robert Bridge
dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the disk.

Re: [gentoo-user] gmonstart / jvregisterclasses in tons of binaries with commands,malware?

2009-12-16 Thread Robert Bridge
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-06/msg00112.html They are GCC related. Second result for _Jv_RegisterClasses on google :p

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-17 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 17 December 2009 02:37:54 Robert Bridge wrote: dd is pretty thorough... afterall, it writes to every single block on the  disk. And the resulting effect from doing that once is: Trivially easy

Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs

2009-12-18 Thread Robert Bridge
Try passing a rootdelay option to the kernel to allow the kernels USB probe to complete before it tries to mount the USB device. e.g. kernel /boot/kernel root=/dev/usbhdd rootdelay=30 in grub

Re: [gentoo-user] usb HD cannot boot without initramfs

2009-12-18 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Kyle Bader kyle.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Is it rootdelay or scandelay? rootdelay according to the stuff I found online. It's a delay to the mounting of the root file-system. And regarding 30s, I picked that on the basis of better too long than too short. I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist [SOLVED somehow]

2010-01-02 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I should have checked before I sent that last post because now /dev/sda is there.  Now, how do I make it be there when I first boot into Linux? If your / filesystem is on the USB drive, you need to insert a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Robert Bridge
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I travel with a USB wifi dongle and one of these directional antennas: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833164110 Lately I've noticed there are some APs that my laptop's internal wifi connects to

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-23 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: That's interesting ... which Xresources is xterm reading?  I have this in my ~/.Xresources: aterm*loginShell:true aterm*saveLines:32767 aterm*transparent:true aterm*transpscrollbar:true aterm*shading:40

Re: [gentoo-user] Gfx for Linux Gaming

2010-04-08 Thread Robert Bridge
nVidia at the moment is a bit of a risk, as there is a whole raft of issues going on with nVidia hardware. If their drivers work, they will likely give better performance and features than AMDs options, and so long as the hardware holds up. Read up on nVidia bumps issue for more information.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} dumb ethernet mover

2010-05-31 Thread Robert Bridge
You mean a long ethernet cable? On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: My cable internet outlet is across the room from my TV, and my Gentoo desktop attaches to my TV.  I'm using a small wireless router to send the signal from the cable modem to my Gentoo system

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Robert Bridge
Hi Dale, On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Here is that info.  I included all the IDE drives.  Sort of see if there is something different about them. smoker-new ~ # smartctl -A /dev/hda  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   253   253   063    Pre-fail  Always  

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-06-05 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: The powered on hours is most likely about right.  I rarely turn my machine off.  That drive is about that old too.  I don't always have it mounted but it is a pain to remove so I just left it in there in case I needed it. Is it a

Re: [gentoo-user] (II) NV(0): Setting screen physical size to 508 x 317

2010-07-16 Thread Robert Bridge
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Erik esi...@gmail.com wrote: (There are other issues with this video device; it shows only 25 × 80 characters in the virtual terminals (should be 75 × 240). This is the new Dell vostro|1720 from November, that replaced the old INSPIRON|8600 aquired 5 years

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems booting my server - ext2 - e2fsck

2010-07-24 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I think you might need to fsck without the journal. I know there's a way to do this but a cursory glance at the man page didn't reveal it. Maybe an ext user will chip in with the correct method e2fsck -f should run

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: There have been discussions on this list why sudo is a bad idea and sudo on *any* command is an even worse idea. You might as well be running everything as root, right? sudo normally logs the command executed, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

2010-08-22 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Alan Warren bluemoonsh...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a proper venu for debugging such matters, or should I just wait for this kernel to go prime-time? Can you reliably reproduce the problem? If so, and you have a kernel that works git-bisect should allow you to

Re: [gentoo-user] system lag with gentoo-sources-2.6.35-r2

2010-08-22 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Alan Warren bluemoonsh...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are correct though. It does seem to only happen while the system is under heavy I/O. I've never experienced anything like this in previous versions of the linux kernel, and resorting back to

Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

2010-08-25 Thread Robert Bridge
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, but that has several bits of misinformation. xdm is not a generic term, or at least I didn't mean it that way. It's the package x11-apps/xdm. Gentoo uses the term xdm in two ways, one is for the xdm display

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: advice sought on new laptop for Gentoo

2010-09-07 Thread Robert Bridge
I don't know how well it works with Linux, but if screen estate really matters, has anyone looked at the Lenovo ThinkPad W700ds? I know pretty much every CAD person I know drools over it as a mobile workstation... RobbieAB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: webrsync {SOLVED}

2020-02-29 Thread Robert Bridge
> On 29 Feb 2020, at 13:57, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Maybe something has changed in the last few years and swap is actually > useful, but I'm skeptical. I always tend to end up with GB of free > RAM and a churning hard drive when I enable it. On SSD I'm sure it > will perform better, but

Re: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage

2020-02-26 Thread Robert Bridge
> On 27 Feb 2020, at 00:08, William Kenworthy wrote: > > Hi, > > due to space considerations on my laptop I have moved portage onto a > network share (moosfs, mfsmounted) - slower but works fine. However, > being a laptop trying to update/install when out and about is both very > slow and

Re: [gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

2020-01-05 Thread Robert Bridge
I had this issue many moons ago, which lead to my discovery of the ansifilter package: > # emerge -pv ansifilter | ansifilter > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies . ... done! > [ebuild R] app-text/ansifilter-2.15::gentoo USE="qt5" 0 KiB >

Re: [gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

2020-01-05 Thread Robert Bridge
But it can easily strip the garbage from that file when you need to use the contents... > # ansifilter /var/log/portage/elog/summary.log-20200105 | less On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 12:45, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Robert, > > On Sunday, 2020-01-05 12:17:23 +, you wrote: > > > I had this issue

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Robert Bridge
On 6 Apr 2020, at 16:35, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 05:24:03PM +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> You'd need to install a SMTP server on the backup system and configure it to >> relay emails to your primary mailserver. >> >> In the DNS you can configure priorities in the MX

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternate Incoming Mail Server

2020-04-06 Thread Robert Bridge
On 6 Apr 2020, at 18:20, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > On 6 April 2020 19:14:35 CEST, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >>> On 4/6/20 1:02 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: >>> On 4/6/20 10:43 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: Well, I can't refute an anecdote without more information, but if you're worried about

Re: [gentoo-user] update remote system in background

2020-04-24 Thread Robert Bridge
> On 24 Apr 2020, at 09:22, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > >  > Wonderful, thanks! I’m going with screen, just because the first link is a > shorter read. > raffaele If you ever need to work with other platforms (specifically Macs) they use tmux, which is a minor plus for that. Otherwise for

Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [OBORONA-SPAM] Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-04-24 Thread Robert Bridge
On 24 Apr 2020, at 18:37, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > On Friday, April 24, 2020 8:30 PM, inasprecali > wrote: > >> There is no rational reason for the core of Portage to be written in >> C. > > curious.. are you also cool if busybox was written > in python? The argument for a