[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] VMware legal question

2006-11-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is it legal to do the following: > > 1) "emerge vmware-workstation" > 2) build some images (within the 30 day trial period) > 3) "emerge -C vmware-workstation" (within the 30 day trial period) > 4) "emerge vmware-player" and use it to play the images created

[gentoo-user] Re: Anybody got OS/2 working under linux?

2006-11-11 Thread Alexander Skwar
· Thierry de Coulon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, VMWare does not support OS/2 (a beta version did, but they stopped the > development long ago). However, Parallels does, and it's a lot less > expensive. A lot less expensive than free? They pay you to use the software? Or how is that supposed to

[gentoo-user] mounttool

2006-11-11 Thread Uwe Thiem
Hi folks, some distros come with a little utility called "mounttool". I can loop mount images of encrypted filesystems (cryptsetup but for loop mounting). I can't seem to find it in gentoo. Does it hide somewhere? Or can someone recommend a similar tool in portage? Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rathe

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got OS/2 working under linux?

2006-11-11 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 09:00:09AM +0100, Petric Frank wrote > I made a test install on a VMware Server installation (Host: AMD64 + Gentoo > 2006.1). I created a VM (OS type other). Then i exit the console, changed in > the *.vmx file the key "guestOS" to guestOS="os2experimental" and start the

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

2006-11-11 Thread Ryan Tandy
Peter Kelly wrote: I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. is ipw3945d running? /etc/init.d/ipw3945d start -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] phx.gbl

2006-11-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
Mick wrote: > On Saturday 11 November 2006 21:28, Daniel Iliev wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> There are several threads which start with replies ("RE:...") from my >> point of view. When I searched for the reason I found that there is >> something common between them. They have values like this regex: >>

[gentoo-user] ipw3945 and 128 bit WEP encryption

2006-11-11 Thread Peter Kelly
Holas! I recently bought a Dell Inspiron e1505 laptop. I purposely got an Intel 3945 wireless card installed, because I read that it was more linux friendly than the dell wireless card. I emerge'd ipw3945, but can't get it to work. I get an error error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B

Re: [gentoo-user] SCSI/libata based PATA support

2006-11-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sunday 12 November 2006 00:44, Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had > libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now. > Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too! > > Why are they doing it? Does this m

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] phx.gbl

2006-11-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 11 November 2006 21:28, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, > > There are several threads which start with replies ("RE:...") from my > point of view. When I searched for the reason I found that there is > something common between them. They have values like this regex: > "BAY[1-9]{1,2}-[0-9,A-F]

[gentoo-user] SCSI/libata based PATA support

2006-11-11 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, do you know, what's going on at present in kernel development? We had libata based SATA drivers for a few kernel-versions now. Since 2.6.19, we seem to be offered libata based PATA drivers too! Why are they doing it? Does this make any sense to you? The new drivers don't replace the old ones,

[gentoo-user] [OT] phx.gbl

2006-11-11 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, There are several threads which start with replies ("RE:...") from my point of view. When I searched for the reason I found that there is something common between them. They have values like this regex: "BAY[1-9]{1,2}-[0-9,A-F]{27,[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the "References" header. The last exampl

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a file containing confidential info

2006-11-11 Thread Andrey
On Saturday 11 November 2006 19:46, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 11 November 2006 13:35, Fabrice Delliaux wrote: > > Le Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:35:24 +, > > > > Mick wrote : > > > What would you suggest I should use bearing in mind that simplicity > > > and use of default linux tools would be most pre

[gentoo-user] Re: vnc just hates me

2006-11-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 11 November 2006 19:20, Sinclair Macleod wrote: > I have tried everything but I can't get VNC viewer to conect to the server. > Is there a manual available or does anyone have finite answers thet would > be willing to help me. I'm a bit new to VNC but I have reasonable > networking know

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a file containing confidential info

2006-11-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 11 November 2006 13:35, Fabrice Delliaux wrote: > Le Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:35:24 +, > > Mick wrote : > > What would you suggest I should use bearing in mind that simplicity > > and use of default linux tools would be most preferable, commensurate > > with as high a degree of security

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a file containing confidential info

2006-11-11 Thread Mick
On Saturday 11 November 2006 13:08, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > Mick wrote: > > As the hardware is approaching the end of its useful life I wanted to > > move away from my dependence on Psion, or use another method in parallel. > > I have of course gpg on my laptop, but I am concerned that

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the deal with Bittorrent v5?

2006-11-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/11/06, Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I noticed the other day that Bittorrent version 5 is out and has been for a while Not sure *10* days warrants "a while", but okay. Anyway, there is an existing version-bump bug already [1]. Feel free to add yourself to the CC. , (http://down

Re: [gentoo-user] Basic Vmware setup

2006-11-11 Thread Richard Fish
On 11/11/06, Hans de Hartog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I guess that vmware can do the job. In windows I need internet access with IE and I must be able to print some webpages to a printserver (gentoo+cups). What to use? Vmware server, workstation or player? The descriptions are not clear about th

[gentoo-user] [OT] pdf wierdness

2006-11-11 Thread Matthew R. Lee
For reasons unknown my .pdf files will not open with kpdf or kghostview. Fore example I get the following error message with kghostview: Could not open /home/matt/Work/Pdfs/Not_processed/New/Armsby2006.pdf which has type application/x-kdeuser1. KGhostview can only load PostScript (.ps, .eps) and

Re: [gentoo-user] My Snort server -- I Don't know whats wrong -- It seems to go to sleep

2006-11-11 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:32:10 -0500 "Timothy A. Holmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The short summary is the box > keeps "going to sleep" on me. It wont respond to ssh or webpage > requests till I ping it about 10 times after that it works normally. First: I assume you've checked all cables

[gentoo-user] Re: Basic Vmware setup

2006-11-11 Thread FuziOK
Try VMware Server. It's free now. 2006/11/11, Hans de Hartog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi, Due to circumstances beyond my control I have to run (once a month) Windows (98 or 2000) :-( I guess that vmware can do the job. In windows I need internet access with IE and I must be able to print some webp

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a file containing confidential info

2006-11-11 Thread Fabrice Delliaux
Le Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:35:24 +, Mick wrote : > What would you suggest I should use bearing in mind that simplicity > and use of default linux tools would be most preferable, commensurate > with as high a degree of security as possible. I'm using this : http://dev.gentoo.org/~agriffis/

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a file containing confidential info

2006-11-11 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mick wrote: > As the hardware is approaching the end of its useful life I wanted to move > away from my dependence on Psion, or use another method in parallel. I have > of course gpg on my laptop, but I am concerned that I will be keeping both my >

[gentoo-user] Basic Vmware setup

2006-11-11 Thread Hans de Hartog
Hi, Due to circumstances beyond my control I have to run (once a month) Windows (98 or 2000) :-( I guess that vmware can do the job. In windows I need internet access with IE and I must be able to print some webpages to a printserver (gentoo+cups). What to use? Vmware server, workstation or play

[gentoo-user] Encrypting a file containing confidential info

2006-11-11 Thread Mick
Hi All, For some years now I have saved my passwords and other rather critical login data and information as database file on a Psion pda. The file is encrypted and decrypted using a Psion application called FreeCrypt. FreeCrypt uses an RC4 algorithm to encrypt the data. As the hardware is a

[gentoo-user] What's the deal with Bittorrent v5?

2006-11-11 Thread Daniel
So I noticed the other day that Bittorrent version 5 is out and has been for a while, (http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/?M=D) though there isn't even an ~arch version in portage yet. Is it running under a different name or is the ebuild not being maintained? Anyone know? -- Those who were s

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody got OS/2 working under linux?

2006-11-11 Thread Petric Frank
Hello, On Saturday 11 November 2006 01:26, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Thursday 09 November 2006 21:25, Alan wrote: > > I'm not sure I tried to install OS/2 under VMWare a while back and > > at the time VMWare didn't support OS/2 (something about the memory > > management or something). Not