Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: >> >> I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. S

[gentoo-user] How to see Windows graphics chars

2006-12-23 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I would not ordinarily care about Windows pseudo-graphics characters, but for one brief moment on one project I need to manipulate them a bit. This is a bit hard on KDE and gentoo as things stand because the terminals don't know about that encoding/font/codepage/whatever. I see there's a way to

[gentoo-user] Re: Almost Completely OT - Hacking the Telephone Adapter

2006-12-23 Thread James
Michael Sullivan espersunited.com> writes: > allow us to use our analog phones with Vonage. Since it's plugged in to > our router, I found its IP address and scanned it with nmap. The thing > allows http and ssh access. nmap said the adapter runs Linux with a > 2.4.x kernel. I played around

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
Ed Santiago wrote: > >I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can > >span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will > >require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but > >it is not required. > > I've been in the same boat the l

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: > > >>> I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to >>> use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can >>> span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have w

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
David Relson wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:56:12 +0100 > Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > >> On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to >>> use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD a

Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2006-12-23 Thread Daniel Iliev
Alan E. Davis wrote: > Thank you, Neil: > > Neither of these worked: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 > dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error > 1+0 records in > 0+0 records out > 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s > > gparted shows the whole disk as unallocated. W

Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2006-12-23 Thread Alan E. Davis
Thank you, Neil: Neither of these worked: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 dd: writing `/dev/hda': Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes (0 B) copied, 3.96744 seconds, 0.0 kB/s gparted shows the whole disk as unallocated. When I try to install a new partition, i

[gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, since jakub (as always) closes all my bugs, I'll report the issue to this list before completely giving up and never ever waste a single second on reporting bugs ... Lots of packages have an wrong/unnecessary dependency to postgresql. Three cases: a) probably traditionally depended

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Ed Santiago
>I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can >span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will >require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but >it is not required. I've been in the same boat the last week, and have investigate

Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 16:37 -0600, Joe Menola wrote: > On Saturday 23 December 2006 4:08 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I > > want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to your servers if > > you're not paying them the ra

Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short

2006-12-23 Thread Joe Menola
On Saturday 23 December 2006 4:08 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I > want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to your servers if > you're not paying them the rate for a static IP... Yes and yes. Unless you setup your se

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:52:15 -0330, Roger Mason wrote: > > I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to > > use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can > > span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will > > require several CDs.

[gentoo-user] OT, but short

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to your servers if you're not paying them the rate for a static IP... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Dale, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to > use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can > span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will > require several CDs. It would be nice if

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:56:12 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to > > use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can > > span them over more than one

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 23 December 2006 19:45, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to > use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can > span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will > require several CDs. It wou

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and /etc/portage/package.*

2006-12-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 22 December 2006 12:30, Arnau Bria wrote: > It's the first time that etc-update changes something in > my /etc/portage dir. > > It has changed x11-themes/emerald-themes cause it has changed its > category and removed ksudoku... > > I undestand first change, but not second one, so could so

[gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
Hi, I would like to backup some stuff and can't quite find a program to use. I'm looking for something that can backup to CD or DVD and can span them over more than one CD if needed. Some of what I have will require several CDs. It would be nice if it would tar it or zip it but it is not requir

Re: [gentoo-user] hal startup messages [solved]

2006-12-23 Thread Roger Mason
Hello all, Roger Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I upgraded to the ~x86 versions then reverted to those given in my > original post. I ran revdep-rebuild afterwards and verified that > nothing further needed rebuilding by running revdep-rebuild -p, which > reported everything as being consis

Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo

2006-12-23 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi again. Maybe you can also have a look for example at the xorg.lst file in the rules directory for X and then adjust your xorg.conf properly... B On Saturday 23 December 2006 18:27, Benjamin Sobotta wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2006 19:31, A. Khattri wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson,

Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo

2006-12-23 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
On Friday 22 December 2006 19:31, A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, Nelson, David \(ED, PAR&D\) wrote: > > I may be preaching to the converted, but have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Fx keys > > to try and get a console? Does the keyboard have any odd switches to > > turn the F keys on? My logitech key

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:22:36 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: > make config | menuconfig | xconfig ... | gconfig -- Neil Bothwick System halted - Press all keys at once to continue. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Almost Completely OT - Hacking the Telephone Adapter

2006-12-23 Thread Michael Sullivan
My wife and I signed up with Vonage VoIP service last week. They sent us a telephone adapter to plug into our DSL modem/router that would allow us to use our analog phones with Vonage. Since it's plugged in to our router, I found its IP address and scanned it with nmap. The thing allows http and

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-23 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially > > > for those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an > > > older, working version

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 23 December 2006 08:44, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?': > On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially > > > for those of us running ~arch sy

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager

2006-12-23 Thread Dale
Daniel Iliev wrote: > > Yet another approach: > > cd /usr/src/linux/ > zcat /proc/config.gz > .config > make oldconfig > make config | menuconfig | xconfig > > > > If he has that enabled in the kernel. That can be a good thing to have around though. Especially if you accidentally erase your ol

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager

2006-12-23 Thread Daniel Iliev
Trenton Adams wrote: > Hi guys, > > Does anyone know of a kernel config manager that manages the kernel > configuration settings that I want? For instance, I want this network > driver, and that driver, and the other driver. > > Want this to be managed outside the standard menu config because it >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 12:47:04 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > Maybe, but they do provide an extremely useful fallback, especially > > for those of us running ~arch systems. Being able to roll back to an > > older, working version in seconds rather than minutes or hours is a > > definite benefi

Re: [gentoo-user] Vmware player startup error message

2006-12-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 21 December 2006 20:53, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > When I start vmware player, I always get this message: > /opt/vmware/player/lib/bin/vmplayer: > /opt/vmware/player/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version > information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) > > Vmware seem

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 22 December 2006 10:06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > A bin package is equally cumbersome. You will very quickly consume huge > > amounts of disk space - at least equal to all the current packages on > > the system plus old ones that were updated. > > Maybe, but they do provide an extremely us

[gentoo-user] OT: Follow-up on the HDD problems...

2006-12-23 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Some of you may remember the problem I was having with my SATA II HDD in Windows XP (but not in Linux). To recap: My drive got switched from UDMA mode to PIO mode in Windows (only). I ended up having to reinstall Windows. After some careful inves

[gentoo-user] leafnode

2006-12-23 Thread Oliver Večernik
Hi, I emerged leafnode and started xinetd but: $ telnet localhost 119 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to zipo.vecernik.at. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. # tail -n 3 /var/log/messages Dec 23 09:30:48 zipo xinetd[26585]: FAIL: nntp address from=127.0.0.1 Dec 23 09:30:4

Re: [gentoo-user] desperation question: disklabel, unable to write to disk, etc.

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:23:13 +, Alan E. Davis wrote: > Can anyone point me to the right literature on line or other help? It > could be a hardware problem, but one suspects the partition table and > boot record. Gpart was unable to determine the sector size. Try running cfdisk with the -z o

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager

2006-12-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:07:42 -0700, Trenton Adams wrote: > Want this to be managed outside the standard menu config because it > will make it easier to switch to a new kernel, such as xen-sources, or > vanilla-sources. I can then keep the default settings of that > particular kernel, and enable a