[gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig

2008-08-09 Thread »Q«
On Sat, 9 Aug 2008 20:35:43 + (UTC) james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Pielmeier googlemail.com> writes: > > > > In the case you run menuconfig oldconfig is not needed. I did so > > myself in the past. Now i simply run just oldconfig, because you > > have a better control of what has

[gentoo-user] Re: Discover IP address of random Windows boxes on network?

2008-08-09 Thread James
Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > Is there a simple way for me to discover the IP address of any random > Windows machine that dropped by and hooked up to my network? emerge fping man fping I use this for a /24 net scan: fping -g 10.10.2.0/24 > Extra points if there's a way to discover if a

[gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig

2008-08-09 Thread james
Daniel Pielmeier googlemail.com> writes: > In the case you run menuconfig oldconfig is not needed. I did so > myself in the past. Now i simply run just oldconfig, because you have > a better control of what has changed between the versions. After > oldconfig menuconfig is not needed one of them

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Filipe Sousa
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Filipe Sousa wrote: from the threads I posted it should be clear that kde4/qt4 are not the only ones affected. gtk is slow too. So is firefox. On Intel integrated graphics, qt4/kde4 is fast and fluid. That should give someone food for tho

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 09 August 2008 21:03:37 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > see the links above. In short, you are screwed. There is no real remedy > > > until Nvidia fixes their broken drivers. Some stuff might help a bit - > > > but most of the time on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Also the 7300 is a bad example - it is a very slow card. > > Not really. It's at least 5 times as powerful as my old Matrox Mystique > from the year 1995 (I think). But the Matrox is faster with 2D. > > It's no

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > see the links above. In short, you are screwed. There is no real remedy > > until Nvidia fixes their broken drivers. Some stuff might help a bit - > > but most of the time one thing gets slightly better and another one a lot > > worse. The onl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 09 August 2008 20:40:20 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > Also the 7300 is a bad example - it is a very slow card. > > Not really. It's at least 5 times as powerful as my old Matrox Mystique > from the year 1995 (I think). But the Matrox is faster with 2D. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 9. August 2008 17:41:39 schrieb Grant: > >> I could set up NAS storage at a friend's place. We both have > >> Suddenlink cable connections so the throughput should be alright. I > >> don't like running a non-Gentoo system though, even if it is just NAS. > >> Plus he uses a Netgear r

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Also the 7300 is a bad example - it is a very slow card. Not really. It's at least 5 times as powerful as my old Matrox Mystique from the year 1995 (I think). But the Matrox is faster with 2D. It's not the hardware that is slow. Quire the contrary. It's the d

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Matt Harrison wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > | what about a nice little tapelib - used from ebay? DLT and LTO drivers > > are > > | extremly robust. The tape cardridges can endure a lot of punishment > > and are > > | made to lay around for years, waiting for the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 09 August 2008 10:54:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This post might be a bit vague, sorry about that, I'm not sure where to > > start or how to explain it. > > > > New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, em

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Matt Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: | what about a nice little tapelib - used from ebay? DLT and LTO drivers are | extremly robust. The tape cardridges can endure a lot of punishment and are | made to lay around for years, waiting for the emergency. You even

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Graham Murray wrote: > "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Justin ha scritto: > >> I can't answer your last question but give you an advice how to > >> handle the ff upgrade. Just remove all firefox useflags and add the > >> xulrunner instead. > > > > Huh? What if I n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Filipe Sousa wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > Volker already mentioned the driver problem. If you wonder *why* the > > drivers are broken: > > > > GeForce 8xxx and 9xxx series almost completely lack 2D acceleration > > hardware. The 3D

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
what about a nice little tapelib - used from ebay? DLT and LTO drivers are extremly robust. The tape cardridges can endure a lot of punishment and are made to lay around for years, waiting for the emergency. You even can write to it over a network/the internet (mbuffer+tar).

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Filipe Sousa
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Volker already mentioned the driver problem. If you wonder *why* the drivers are broken: GeForce 8xxx and 9xxx series almost completely lack 2D acceleration hardware. The 3D engine of the hardware must be used to render 2D stuff (including vid

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dealing with scrapers - Help!

2008-08-09 Thread Grant
>> > My apache web server has been very slow lately and webalizer charts >> > show page accesses at 5x normal with other stats normal. I'm thinking >> > scrapers? How do you guys deal with this? Do you identify the IP >> > (how?) and ban it (how?)? >> > >> > - Grant >> >> I used netstat to ident

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread Philip Webb
080809 b.n. wrote: > I was thinking about upgrading to firefox-3. > I did a bit of googling and I found this bug: > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228283 > where the final comment is that OOo 2.4.x & Firefox 3 are not compatible. > The bug is signed as INVALID. Aren't they really compatibl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Dealing with scrapers - Help!

2008-08-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 August 2008, Grant wrote: > > My apache web server has been very slow lately and webalizer charts > > show page accesses at 5x normal with other stats normal. I'm thinking > > scrapers? How do you guys deal with this? Do you identify the IP > > (how?) and ban it (how?)? > > > > -

[gentoo-user] Re: Dealing with scrapers - Help!

2008-08-09 Thread Grant
> My apache web server has been very slow lately and webalizer charts > show page accesses at 5x normal with other stats normal. I'm thinking > scrapers? How do you guys deal with this? Do you identify the IP > (how?) and ban it (how?)? > > - Grant I used netstat to identify the IP and I see th

[gentoo-user] Dealing with scrapers - Help!

2008-08-09 Thread Grant
My apache web server has been very slow lately and webalizer charts show page accesses at 5x normal with other stats normal. I'm thinking scrapers? How do you guys deal with this? Do you identify the IP (how?) and ban it (how?)? - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Logrotate status error

2008-08-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 09 August 2008, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I have noticed that the log files on a box of mine are getting larger than > expected. I ran logrotate by hand to see if I get any errors and this came > up: > > # logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf > error: line too long in state file /var/lib/

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Grant
>> I'm struggling to come up with a plan for making backups that is both >> effective and economical. I have 4 Gentoo systems: >> >> 1. strong local desktop >> 2. weak local desktop >> 3. laptop >> 4. hosted remote server >> >> I'd like to backup the important system and data files from each of >>

[gentoo-user] Logrotate status error

2008-08-09 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have noticed that the log files on a box of mine are getting larger than expected. I ran logrotate by hand to see if I get any errors and this came up: # logrotate -f /etc/logrotate.conf error: line too long in state file /var/lib/logrotate.status # ls -la /var/lib/logrotate.status

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior [SOLVED]

2008-08-09 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote: On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 as my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think it's a huge probl

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Linux 2.6.25-r7 with gentoo patches fail to boot

2008-08-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Yoav Luft wrote: mount /boot copied the kernel, reconfigurated grub, and rebooted. You can also emerge debianutils (I think it's installed by default, but check first) which will enable you to do a "make install" instead of copying the files by hand to /boot. It will name the files correctly

[gentoo-user] Re: incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread »Q«
On Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:25:02 +0200 "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Graham Murray ha scritto: > > "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> Justin ha scritto: > >>> I can't answer your last question but give you an advice how to > >>> handle the ff upgrade. Just remove all firefox usefla

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel Linux 2.6.25-r7 with gentoo patches fail to boot

2008-08-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Yoav Luft wrote: Good afternoon, I have used my weekend to compile a new kernel, but to my dismay the new kernel does not boot. All I get is a black screen, and nothing happens. I compiled the kernel like this: eselect kernel set (the new sources) cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig (answering var

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread b.n.
Sebastian Beßler ha scritto: b.n. schrieb: Oh, ok! I understand now. Why is it so? Will need to be done also when firefox 3 hits stable x86? This is so because a number of apps don't build against Firefox 3 at this time. :( Guess I'll wait for it to hit stable. m.

[gentoo-user] Kernel Linux 2.6.25-r7 with gentoo patches fail to boot

2008-08-09 Thread Yoav Luft
Good afternoon, I have used my weekend to compile a new kernel, but to my dismay the new kernel does not boot. All I get is a black screen, and nothing happens. I compiled the kernel like this: eselect kernel set (the new sources) cd /usr/src/linux make oldconfig (answering various options about ne

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread Sebastian Beßler
b.n. schrieb: Oh, ok! I understand now. Why is it so? Will need to be done also when firefox 3 hits stable x86? This is so because a number of apps don't build against Firefox 3 at this time.

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-09 Thread Yoav Luft
> > In an ideal world users should use their domain username & password to log > on when they sit down at the Linux box. And they should be mounting the > directories they need off the file server by (double-clicking on a drive > icon on their KDE desktop if necessary and) using their same unique >

Re: [gentoo-user] kerberos gurus? (SOLVED)

2008-08-09 Thread Norberto Bensa
Quoting Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2008 02:01:30 schrieb Norberto Bensa: After copying the mentioned file, I get delegation in every box and it works. Is that the way it should be or am I missing something? Not quite. From the Kerberos V documentation: Th

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread b.n.
Graham Murray ha scritto: "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Justin ha scritto: I can't answer your last question but give you an advice how to handle the ff upgrade. Just remove all firefox useflags and add the xulrunner instead. Huh? What if I need java and moznopango ? What you have to d

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior

2008-08-09 Thread Eric Martin
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote: On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 as my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think it's a huge probl

Re: [gentoo-user] Adding a gentoo workstation to Active Directory network

2008-08-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Aug 2008, at 01:05, Yoav Luft wrote: ... that was actually interesting, but it didn't help me much... I do not manage the network, neither do I have any knowledge of it's working. I asked the help desk guys to help out, but all they managed is to get me someone that knew, after a 2 ho

Re: [gentoo-user] kerberos gurus?

2008-08-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 7. August 2008 02:01:30 schrieb Norberto Bensa: > I'm doing my first steps into Kerberos V and I got it working but not > the way I dreamed. > > My network: > > zeddmore (kdc) > venkman (client) > melnitz (client) > > Login on into zeddmore, ssh to venkman (or melnitz) doesn't show

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, emerged kde-meta-4.1, but it renders exceptionally slowly on the screen when scrolling. The effect is as if something is keeping the system very busy while input actions occur Volker already mentioned the driver problem. I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} High capacity backup plan needed

2008-08-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: I'm struggling to come up with a plan for making backups that is both effective and economical. I have 4 Gentoo systems: 1. strong local desktop 2. weak local desktop 3. laptop 4. hosted remote server I'd like to backup the important system and data files from each of these syst

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread Graham Murray
"b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Justin ha scritto: >> I can't answer your last question but give you an advice how to >> handle the ff upgrade. Just remove all firefox useflags and add the >> xulrunner instead. > > Huh? What if I need java and moznopango ? What you have to do is to remove th

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread Justin
b.n. schrieb: Justin ha scritto: I can't answer your last question but give you an advice how to handle the ff upgrade. Just remove all firefox useflags and add the xulrunner instead. Huh? What if I need java and moznopango ? m. I included java, but never tried moznopango. Java is workin

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread b.n.
Justin ha scritto: I can't answer your last question but give you an advice how to handle the ff upgrade. Just remove all firefox useflags and add the xulrunner instead. Huh? What if I need java and moznopango ? m.

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread Justin
b.n. schrieb: Hi, Not being quite an early adopter, I was nonetheless thinking about upgrading to firefox-3. I did a bit of googling and I found this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228283 where the final comment says that OOo 2.4.x and firefox 3 are not compatible. The bug is sig

[gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

2008-08-09 Thread b.n.
Hi, Not being quite an early adopter, I was nonetheless thinking about upgrading to firefox-3. I did a bit of googling and I found this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228283 where the final comment says that OOo 2.4.x and firefox 3 are not compatible. The bug is signed as INVALID.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag, 9. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > This post might be a bit vague, sorry about that, I'm not sure where to > start or how to explain it. > > New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, emerged kde-meta-4.1, but > it renders exceptionally slowly on the screen when s

[gentoo-user] KDE-4.1 apps render slowly

2008-08-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
Hi all, This post might be a bit vague, sorry about that, I'm not sure where to start or how to explain it. New laptop with nVidia GeForce 8600. Arch ~amd64, emerged kde-meta-4.1, but it renders exceptionally slowly on the screen when scrolling. The effect is as if something is keeping the sys

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage / eix behavior

2008-08-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 08 August 2008 19:58:46 Eric Martin wrote: > On one of my boxes, eix shows every package as (*) which is testing for > my current arch but stable on some other. emerge --info reports x86 as > my arch, so I don't know what the problem is. I don't think it's a huge > problem as it's just