Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel setting for frame buffer (2.6.23-r5)

[Tony Stohne]

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev:
> ...
> By the way about the vga= setting.  I grabbed a chart from some where
> long ago showing the notation I was using:
> 
>  ##640x480   800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
>  ##   256 0x301   0x303   0x3050x307
>  ##   32k 0x310   0x313   0x3160x319
>  ##   64k 0x311   0x314   0x3170x31A
>  ##   16M 0x312   0x315   0x3180x31B
> 
> do you know of a chart that shows the decimal notation like you
> posted? (Its not in `man vga')
> 
> And I don't recall where I got that from... where ever it was, it
> probably also has the decimal equivalents.
> 

less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
should do it, i think.

Regards
//Tony
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel setting for frame buffer (2.6.23-r5)

[Tony Stohne]

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Tony Stohne skrev:
>  ...
> less /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
> should do it, i think.
> 

No, that was not it. Sorry for wasting bandwidth...

> Regards
> //Tony
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Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to block third party ip address with iptables...

[Tony Stohne]

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> On Saturday 13 September 2008 23:36:13 pk wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using shorewall on my local computer (the same I'm surfing the web
> ...
> original site) shows up. While trying to block the additional ip address
> with both "iptables -A INPUT -s  -j DROP" and "iptables -A OUTPUT -d
>  -j DROP" it still sends a SYN request to this site. This makes
> firefox just sit there waiting for a time-out. How can I prevent firefox
> from accessing the other site, while still accessing the original one?
>

HTTP requests are sent over TCP, so try a REJECT with TCP reset instead.
Something like this should do the trick, since the connection would be reset
more or less instantly avoiding the timeout:

 iptables -A INPUT -s  -p tcp -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset
 iptables -A OUTPUT -s  -p tcp -j REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset

Regards

//Tony
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Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to block third party ip address with iptables... [SOLVED]

[Tony Stohne]

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pk said the following on 2008-09-14 13:25:
> Ok, good to know. I tried something simpler; putting the domain in 
> /etc/hosts pointing to 127.0.0.1 (as suggested by Neil Bothwick). But 
> I'll keep this in mind for the future. Thanks for the input!
> 

Yes, putting the domain/IP address in the host file works, but has the
negative side effect of being slower (at least if your host file is big.
Parsing a big hosts file slows down networking overall because of the parsing
process. If the file is small/short it's not a big problem). With TCP reset,
it's a lot quicker. If You want to block lots of ads/banner domains and/or
malware/porn sites it's usually more efficient to use TCP reset, within reason
of course... huge iptables blocks tend to slow things down as well unless You
use IPset (an extension of iptables). Shorewall actually supports IPset, if
You have those extensions compiled in Your kernel...

IPset is a means of creating hashes for one or more address blocks or
addresses, which speeds things up quite a lot.

See http://ipset.netfilter.org/ and

http://www.shorewall.net/ipsets.html

BTW, Gentoo supports IPsets - in Portage it's under net-firewall/ipset but
You have to recompile Your kernel, which may be too much work for You since
we're discussing one domain/IP address in this case.

Have a nice Sunday :)
I surely will as I'm watching F1 at Monza right now :)

//Tony
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Tony Stohne]

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Grant Edwards said the following on 2007-04-05 16:45:
| ...
| My point was why default to something that isn't useful for the
| standard terminal emulators like xterm, aterm, rxvt, etc.  Are
| there common terminal emulators that default to a black
| background?
|
You always have the options of changing the colors in xterm/rxvt/aterm
etc to your preferred colors, background color included.

The first one is changing the /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt file. The problem
with changing it is that it usually gets overwritten with every xorg-x11
update.

I prefer changing the .Xdefaults file in my user & root directories.
That way any updates don't screw up my preferences.

To see my current .Xdefaults, please look at the attached file - I have
dropped Eterm & aterm. Rxvt is very resource efficient :)
I use xterm as a fallback.


~ For further info & examples see:

http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php/Howto_setup_Xdefaults

http://dev.gentoo.org/~taviso/xdefaults.html

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Linux_Colors_in_Aterm/rxvt

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=68555

http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:TIP_Linux_Colors_in_Aterm/rxvt

http://cvs.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/doc/rxvt.7.html#i_don_t_like_the_screen_colors__how_do_i_change_them

http://www.fleiner.com/vim/xdefaults.linux

http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html#my_xdefaults

For a nice xterm color palette, see

http://mkaz.com/ref/xterm_colors.html

...and don't forget the man pages :)


This should provide you with enough info on setting your preferred
colors. Getting a black (or any other color) background is not that
difficult, once you know how, and it's certainly helpful. You can
set transparency, background image and more according to your taste and
depending on what your preferred terminal supports.

(For the moment I don't use Gentoo at all, due to a diskcrash :(
Right now i'm stuck with Windoze xp (yuck). The only partitions working
are the boot and the NTFS... disks are cheap but i'm between jobs right
now :/)

/Regards Tony
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Home:  scroll-back(100,page)
End:   scroll-forw(100,page) 
Prior: scroll-back(1,page)
Next:  scroll-forw(1,page)

XTerm*highlightSelection: true
XTerm*VT100.colorBDMode:  on
XTerm*VT100.colorBD:  blue
XTerm*VT100.colorULMode:  on
XTerm*VT100.colorUL:  magenta
XTerm*VT100.titeInhibit:  true
XTerm*VT100.colorMode:on
XTerm*VT100.dynamicColors:on
XTerm*VT100.underLine:off
XTerm*internalBorder: 10
XTerm*externalBorder: 10
XTerm*eightBitInput:  True
XTerm*eightBitOutput: True
XTerm*geometry:   132x30
XTerm*background:  #00
XTerm*foreground:  #7f7f7f
XTerm*color0:  #00
XTerm*color1:  #9e1828
XTerm*color2:  #aece92
XTerm*color3:  #968a38
XTerm*color4:  #414171
XTerm*color5:  #963c59
XTerm*color6:  #418179
XTerm*color7:  #bebebe
XTerm*color8:  #66
XTerm*color9:  #cf6171
XTerm*color10: #c5f779
XTerm*color11: #fff796
XTerm*color12: #4186be
XTerm*color13: #cf9ebe
XTerm*color14: #71bebe
XTerm*color15: #ff

urxvt.depth: 32
urxvt.urlLauncher:   firefox
urxvt*termName:  rxvt-unicode
urxvt*keysym.Home:   \\e[1~
urxvt*keysym.End:\\e[4~
urxvt*colorBD:   #FF
urxvt*colorIT:   #FF
urxvt*font:  xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:size=7:antialias=true
urxvt*boldFont:  xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:bold:size=7:antialias=true
urxvt*italicFont:xft:DejaVu Sans 
Mono:italic:size=7:antialias=true:autohint=true
urxvt*boldItalicFont:xft:DejaVu Sans 
Mono:bold:italic:size=7:antialias=true:autohint=true
urxvt*secondaryScroll:   true
urxvt.cursorUnderline:   1
!urxvt.cursorBlink:   1
urxvt*inheritPixmap: True
urxvt*scrollBar: False
urxvt*scrollBar_right:   False
!urxvt*transpscroll:  True
urxvt*transparent:   True
urxvt*savelines: 32000
urxvt*visualBell:True
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urxvt*shading:   64
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urxvt*tinting:   True
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urxvt*borderLess:True
urxvt*utmpInhibit:   True
urxvt*scrollTtyOutput:   False
urxvt*scrollWithBuffer:  True
urxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: True
urxvt*cursorColor:   #8a8a8a
urxvt*background:#00
urxvt*foreground:#FF
! #7f7f7f
urxvt*color0:#00
urxvt*color1:#9e1828
urxvt*color2:#aece92
urxvt*color3:#968a38
ur

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Tony Stohne]

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Grant Edwards said the following on 2007-04-05 19:51:

|> Grant Edwards said the following on 2007-04-05 16:45:
|> | ...
| That will change the colors that are used by 'ls' without
| breaking other programs that use color?
|
The colors of any other program should be unaffected unless they are
dependending on the console colors AFAIK. And yes, ls colors will
change, as long as You use the xterminal which colors you have changed,
eg xterm, rxvt and so on .

I think there is a third alternative to rgb.txt and ~/.Xdefaults.
bash DIRCOLORS is an option and it will affect ls.

| I used rxvt for many years until cut/paste stopped working for
| me a couple years back.
|
Hmmm... I never had that problem so I can't help you with that one :/
Maybe someone else has more knowledge/experience than me regarding this
issue.

|> This should provide you with enough info on setting your preferred
|> colors. Getting a black (or any other color) background is not that
|> difficult,
|
| But I don't _want_ a black background.  I want a white
| background and a black foreground.
|
As  my previous posting stated, you can set whatever color (your
preferred xterminal app supports) for background and foreground , ie you
can choose white foreground on black background or any other combination
you prefer:

For instance

XTerm*background:  #ff
XTerm*foreground:  #00

in your ¨/.Xdefaults

should set black on white as default values for any xterm you open
(although portage could override it (?) since it's a python app(?) if my
memory doesn't fail me. Right now i can't verify if it works or not
because of my / disk crapping out on me.) I'm stuck Windoze again :(

I'm surprised that turning off colors for portage/emerge doesn't work.
It sounds like a very odd behaviour - it has always worked for me
whenever I tried it (although I prefer using colors - a matter of
personal taste - or lack thereof :)

//Cheers Tony
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Tony Stohne]

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Tony Stohne said the following on 2007-04-05 20:26:
...
| I think there is a third alternative to rgb.txt and ~/.Xdefaults.
| bash DIRCOLORS is an option and it will affect ls.
|
For clarification - dircolors ar not dependent of bash.
It is supported in other shells as well, eg csh or bourne.

The command

dircolors -p

should print out the default, ie compiled-in, colors and provides quite
a bit of info on the possibilities. The output is actually a valid
configuration.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Tony Stohne]

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Francesco Talamona said the following on 2007-04-05 20:33:
|
| Me too!!
| I was in love with rxvt... So I switched to (urxvt)
| x11-terms/rxvt-unicode, it is basically the same but fully functional.
|
Yes, urxvt is my choice too :) Amen to that!

//Ciao ragazzo :)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Tony Stohne]

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Mick said the following on 2007-04-05 19:07:
| ...
| Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output.  Passing --color=y to
either
| tells me things like:
| ==
| There is no color=y option ("less --help" for help)
| ==
|
| I also tried --color but it's all still shown in black & white.  How
do you
| pipe a file and get it to show in color?  Am I missing something in
| my .bashrc or elsewhere?

To make less interpret color escape sequences, you need the -R option.
export LESS=-R in your shell startup script and you-ll have it as
default. Generally, you don't want to use less -r, which allows
arbitrary control characters through to affect the terminal (which tend
to create major garbage).

Color is added via ANSI escape sequences, which don't work in all
displays/terminals/consoles, but as an example: grep is smart enough to
detect this and won't use color (even when specified) if you're sending
the output via a pipeline. Otherwise, if you piped the output, eg to
less, the ANSI escape sequences would send garbage to the screen.

~ If, on the other hand, that's really what you want to do (without the
garbage), there's a workaround:

use the --color=always to force it through and call less with the -R
flag (which prints ALL RAW control characters). That way, the color
codes will escape correctly and you'll page through screens of text with
your matched patterns in full color:

grep --color=always "regexp" the_file_you_want_to_wade_through | less -R

That should do the trick :)

//Regards Tony

PS. Have a nice Easter everyone!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Tony Stohne]

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Tony Stohne said the following on 2007-04-05 21:07:
| ...
| To make less interpret color escape sequences, you need the -R option.
| export LESS=-R in your shell startup script and you-ll have it as
| default.

or simply put "alias less=less -R", without the quotes, in your
~/.bashrc or in the systemwide bashrc in /etc.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Tony Stohne]

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Tony Stohne said the following on 2007-04-05 21:14:
| ...
| or simply put "alias less=less -R", without the quotes, in your
| ~/.bashrc or in the systemwide bashrc in /etc.
|
Ooops - sorry for the redundant info. I'm a bit tired...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Tony Stohne]

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Mick said the following on 2007-04-06 17:44:
| ...
| That's good.  It shows the regexp in colour and makes it easy to find
amidst
| the text.  However, what I had in mind was many different colours,
like I can
| see e.g. in vim?  Is such a thing possible with cat or less?
|

Not as far as I know, but maybe someone with more xpertise can enlighten
us on this.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Tony Stohne]

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Mick said the following on 2007-04-06 18:18:
|
| It seems to print out the contents of /etc/DIR_COLORS.
It does, ie it shows the DIR_COLORS config.
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Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

[Tony Stohne]

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Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 12:29:
| ...
|
| DHCP - working fine, i've got the same settings as ever (it's a static
| configuration through DHCP)
| Pinging the gateway/dns server - works fine.
| Pinging google.com : it can't resolve google.com

It sounds DNS isn't working properly. Just because the DNS server is
pingable (using ICMP) doesn't mean DNS resolution is working!
DNS requests run over UDP port 53 (zone transfers over TCP 53, but
that's realy only useful for DNS admins).

It could be a problem with your /etc/resolv.conf file.
Does it have an entry for the name server?
If not that's probably your problem. You may have to check your
config files regarding net and dhcp, ie /etc/conf.d/net.eth0 etc.


Does the dig command work, or host/nslookup?

Try, for instance,

~ dig www.cisco.com +short

This gives the most basic info, ie just the servers IP address,
if DNS is working correctly.

For more elaborate info (good for troubleshooting) try:

dig www.cisco.com +nocmd +nostats +noquestion

This gives more info, skipping som less useful garbage).

BTW, putting "+nocmd +nostats +noquestion" without the quotes in your
~/.digrc file is pretty useful:)

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Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

[Tony Stohne]

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Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 13:12:
| @ Dale: ping 216.239.37.99  works fine, however if
| I try to open a http connection it times out...
|
| /etc/resolv.conf is the same as ever: "nameserver 89.34.124.1
| "
|
| I will reboot in a few minutes to try the dig command...

One other thing, although maybe a bit farfetched, since it really
shouldn't have changed at all.

Does DNS name resolution work for root?

Then it might be that the file permissions for /etc/resolv.conf are
wrong! If so, chmod it (as root, of course) as follows:

chmod 0644 /etc/resolv.conf

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Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

[Tony Stohne]

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Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 14:46:
| resolv.conf is -rw-r--r-- so that's not the issue..
|
| I noticed that ping works for about every ip i've tried, but TCP
| connexions don't. why could that happen? I can browse my local webserver
| however...
|
I'm not entirely clear on this, so just for clarification:
Have You just pinged IP addresses or IPs AND domain names as well?

You pinged the address 216.239.37.99, but does it work when you ping the
corresponding domain name, ie va-in-f99.google.com, or any other domain
name?

If not it is clearly a problem with DNS not resolving properly, so check
your network configuration (/etc/conf.d/net.eth0 or whatever your file
is called)! Also read the example file in the same directory - it's full
of valuable info on how to set up your network config.

(If DNS resolution does work, it could also be a mockup with your
firewall rules. Maybe outgoing TCP is rejected or dropped, for some
reason. In all fairness, this shouldn't be happening unless you have
changed any rules. It's a more of an extreme possibility.)


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Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

[Tony Stohne]

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Joe Menola said the following on 2007-04-07 16:07:
|...
| Those were the days my friend...:)
|
I agree :D

//T
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Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

[Tony Stohne]

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Coder TuX said the following on 2007-04-07 16:30:
|
|> Pinging the IP address works, pinging the corresponding domain name
|> doesn't.
|
| If not it is clearly a problem with DNS not resolving properly, so check
| your network configuration (/etc/conf.d/net.eth0 or whatever your file
| is called)! Also read the example file in the same directory - it's
| full
| of valuable info on how to set up your network config.
|
|
|> Those configs are ok. It's all managed by dhcp.
|
IMHO - it sounds like DHCP doesn't set DNS lookup properly, since domain
name lookup obviously doesn't work. I would check again, just to be sure...

...
|> I'll check the firewall rules, maybe there's something wrong there, but
|> I think I tried with iptables disabled and got the same result
|
Then it's definitely a misconfig regarding DNS lookup. Do You use DHCP
to set up /etc/resolv.conf for You or is it static (manually set up)?

Right now I can't think of anything else. If I come up with something
I'll let You know.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

[Tony Stohne]

Dan Farrell said the following on 2007-04-07 19:26:

> Hey tony,  maybe this is beyond your control, or maybe you don't care,
and if not i respect your autonomy in such matters, but your reply
block punctuation character '|' defeats the very helpful colorization
of my and many other browsers that use the usual '>' character to
identify reply text.  It makes your letters nearly unreadable.  
respects, - dan


I'm sorry about that. I think it has to do with the GnuPG/Enigmail 
installation on this box. I'll try to fix it in some way.


Thus, this mail is unsigned, while I'm trying to find the reason.

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[gentoo-user] Just testing...

[Tony Stohne]

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..for block characters...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Just testing...

[Tony Stohne]

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Tony Stohne said the following on 2007-04-07 21:46:
| ..for block characters...
|
| //T
...and answering to it to see if it works...
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

[Tony Stohne]

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Francisco Rivas said the following on 2007-04-10 17:29:
| ...
| Certainly some package have a maximun optimisation. I really believe,
| the optimisation level is a very interesting thing bucause all depend of
| what you need and you have all power of your system, only gentoo can
| give you that.
|
That's not entirely true. Take SuSE for instance. Using SRPMs and
setting your preferred compiler and linker flags, You can pretty much do
the same as in Gentoo, the difference being that Gentoo makes it a lot
easier :) since it - as opposed to the majority of Linux dists - is a
true source code distribution. (Phew! That was a long sentence).

| ...
|
| All is your decision based in what you need...
|
Agreed :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Masked packages

[Tony Stohne]

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Etaoin Shrdlu said the following on 2007-04-13 12:28:

> Just put the name of the package without the version number:
> 
> echo "dev-php5/phpunit ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
...or put = before the specific version, as in

echo "=dev-php5/phpunit-3.0.5 ~x86"

Either way shouild work, allthough Etoains tip is more general, ie
non-specific with regards to version.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Intel High Definition Audio and its problems

[Tony Stohne]

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Pongracz Istvan said the following on 2007-04-13 12:52:
| ...
| localhost etc # arecord -l
|
|  List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices 
| ...
| card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
|   Subdevices: 1/1
|   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
|
| localhost etc # aplay -l
|
|  List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices 
| ...
| card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
|   Subdevices: 1/1
|   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
| localhost etc #
|
I have no personal experience with HDA Intel, but from the output above
it looks like what's happening is that the mixer is being set up for the
modem, and not the soundcard... although I might be wrong. Just a thought.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

[Tony Stohne]

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Grant Edwards said the following on 2007-04-13 23:57:
> ...
> That brings back memories. A SOL-20 was the first microcomputer
> computer I used.  I believe it was 1980.  48K of RAM and two 8"
> Pertec floppy drives.  Before you could boot CP/M from a
> floppy, you had to load a bootloader from cassette tape.
> 
hehe, there are some experienced guys (& gals?) on the list.
I'm 44. I remember Imsai 8080, Apple II/III and others. In Sweden
we had those little boxes known as ABC80 (and later ABC800 with
16 colors and somewhat better graphical resolution). Other boxes
are PDP11/70, various PET/Commodore, Ataris et al. I'm felling a huge
wave of nostalghia here :)

Of course, there were the Mcaintoshes, IBM PC/XT etc.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

[Tony Stohne]

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Novensiles divi Flamen said the following on 2007-04-14 14:43:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 20:52:40 Tony Stohne wrote:
>> ... Other boxes
>> are PDP11/70, various PET/Commodore, Ataris et al. I'm felling a huge
>> wave of nostalghia here :)
>>
> We learned about some of them in history class. An archaelogical dig in a 
> clients warehouse turned up ancient Apple II's - one of which we turned into 
> a sharehouse phone message notepad. 
> 
At KTH (The Royal Institue of Technologym Stockholm) there's an interest
group known as "Stacken" ie "The stack" where they have a bunch of old
stuff running, including a fully functional PDP11/70 :) Now, that's real
nostalghia.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge -pv vs emerge -DuNpv

[Tony Stohne]

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maxim wexler said the following on 2007-04-19 20:30:
>> Try using quotation/citation marks ie "--with-bdeps"
>> when googling.
>> That should help. You could add emerge in the search
> 
> It did. I know about adding quotes to a phrase but to
> a  single string? New one on me.
> 
Well, a minus sign in front of a search pattern usually means don't
include any pages with that search pattern...

> But Bo is right, my portage is out-of-date. emerge
> --help is supposed to include --with-bdeps under
> "0ptions:", but not on my box(portage-2.1.1-r2).
> 
True :) I was a little too lazy to notice ;)
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Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

[Tony Stohne]

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Uwe Thiem said the following on 2007-04-23 17:53:
> Just curious: What kind of network (layer 2) is this that allows an MTU of 
> 9000?
> 
> Uwe
> 
It sounds like Gigabit Ethernet to me.
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Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. jumbo frames

[Tony Stohne]

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kashani said the following on 2007-04-23 20:11:
> Keep in mind that not all fastE or gigE switches support jumbo frames. 
> Additionally not all cards support jumbo frames either though you can 
> certainly set them to an MTU of 9000 and watch things break.
> 
> To the original poster, I'd do some googling and verify that all the 
> network cards and switches involved can do jumbo frames and that it is 
> enabled on each device as needed.
> 
Good point, on both comments!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Adjusting the cursor speed in the terminal

[Tony Stohne]

On Saturday 16 December 2006 18:00, Roman Naumann wrote:
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 17:51, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> > Just for your information.
> > There are languages with more cases for example the Czech language
> > with 7, and the Finnsih language even uses 15 cases.
>
Try Hungarian - A language that has a lot to it...
The URL below describes 23 cases used in that language alone... ouch ;)

http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-grammatical-cases


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