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

2008-08-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 08:06:38 Robert Bridge wrote: > > I have done this a couple times and it has always worked well for > > me. Hope that helps. > > Or just run your own email server... It makes life so much easier. :) Or just get a gmail address for mailing lists, then there's no maintenanc

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

2008-08-25 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

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

2008-08-25 Thread Dale
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 e-mails to lists, as it caused problems in the past). Has anyone had other

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

2008-08-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-08-25, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've decided to change my ISP from Sympatico to Uniserve > & need to check a couple of things re which others may have advice. > > (1) the best option seems to be to buy a DSL modem: Uniserve offers > >Zoom x4 ADSL : <= 8 Mbit/s (up 1 Mbit

Re: [gentoo-user] Two apps can't find Java VM

2008-08-25 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Dave Jones: > Hi Darren > > As illogical as this may sound, you probably need to run python-updater > to fix this problem. > > Cheers, Dave Not illogical at all after you clued me into the fact it is Python barfing up the traceback. Anyways, after rebuilding 34 packages, my java-vm is

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

2008-08-25 Thread Philip Webb
I've decided to change my ISP from Sympatico to Uniserve & need to check a couple of things re which others may have advice. (1) the best option seems to be to buy a DSL modem: Uniserve offers Zoom x4 ADSL : <= 8 Mbit/s (up 1 Mbit/s ) www.zoom.com/products/adsl_overview.html#5651 : "works w

Re: [gentoo-user] Two apps can't find Java VM

2008-08-25 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Darren darren kirby wrote on 25/08/08 23:29: Hello all, Checked bugzy but I cannot find anything relevant. I have two apps here, icu4j-3.8.1-r1 and xpp3-1.1.4c-r1 which are both failing upon world updates with similar messages: * checking icu4j-3_8_1-src.jar ;-) ...

[gentoo-user] Two apps can't find Java VM

2008-08-25 Thread darren kirby
Hello all, Checked bugzy but I cannot find anything relevant. I have two apps here, icu4j-3.8.1-r1 and xpp3-1.1.4c-r1 which are both failing upon world updates with similar messages: * checking icu4j-3_8_1-src.jar ;-) ...

Re: [gentoo-user] adsl, pptp, iptables

2008-08-25 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Stroller wrote: === ... > > The main question is what to do with eth0 wrt filtering. > > Best guess: ignore it. Presumably the point of having both is that > only ppp0 can be seen by the outside world. Presumably eth0 has a > private address and is inaccessibl

Re: [gentoo-user] adsl, pptp, iptables

2008-08-25 Thread Stroller
On 25 Aug 2008, at 11:53, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === On Monday 25 August 2008, Stroller wrote: === On 23 Aug 2008, at 21:09, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: ... 1. eth0 IP address, 2. adsl modem IP address eth0 is connected with, 3. dedicated IP address for ppp0 interface after connecting to...

[gentoo-user] Re: hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Oh, I forgot to post the errors X generates at startup: The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Warning: Multiple names for keycode 211 > Using , ignoring expected keysym, got XF86AudioEject: line 2232 of inet Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

[gentoo-user] hal-0.5.11-r1 and keyboard layout and input issues

2008-08-25 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear Gentoo users, I have installed the latest stable hal-0.5.11-r1 and hal-info-20080508 yesterday, and I give up: i cannot configure the keyboard layout as it was previously in xorg.conf, and i cannot use the left-hand shift (the latter is the annoying part). Here's what i have: /etc/X11/xorg.c

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to run firefox

2008-08-25 Thread Jil Larner
Yo, Did you attempt a revdep-rebuild ? Sincerely, Jil Chuck Robey a écrit : I just did a emerge --update of firefox, and while that seemed to emerge with no errors, when I tried to run it, it tells me it can't load the XRE functions. This doesn't mean anything to me; does anyone know what that

Re: [gentoo-user] adsl, pptp, iptables

2008-08-25 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Monday 25 August 2008, Stroller wrote: === > On 23 Aug 2008, at 21:09, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > ... > > 1. eth0 IP address, > > 2. adsl modem IP address eth0 is connected with, > > 3. dedicated IP address for ppp0 interface after connecting to... > > 4. ... provider's pptp server w

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo x86 to AMD64

2008-08-25 Thread Anthony Metcalf
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > why downtime? just create a directory, install the 64bit gentoo in that > directory. Tar everything up, boot from livecd, untar the tar into the old > system. Done. Downtime depends on the speed of your harddisks. Something > between 5 and 30minutes. Top. > So eff