[gentoo-user] Random-access cross-platform FS_backup tool suggestions

2009-04-29 Thread Mike Kazantsev
Hello, It seems that tar/gzip/bzip2 are almost universal solutions for unix-like system backups and we're using tar/gz combo to create backups from the dawn of times. But as the time goes by I stumble upon two misfits of such a combination more and more: 1. It's quite inpractical to keep tens o

[gentoo-user] [OT sort of] S-video support on NVidia-based cards

2009-04-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, This is sort of off-topic except it isn't if recent xorg-server updates hadn't totally killed video operation on one of my Intel GPU-based machines. I've not been able to fix it after two weeks and cannot spend more time so I'm investigating spending $40 to buy some cheap video card to just

[gentoo-user] Mysql and utf8: Can't initialize character set utf-8

2009-04-29 Thread Galevsky
Hi, I have a problem with mysql 5.0.71-r1 and utf8 charset. I have a lighttpd v1.4.20 web server using php v5.2.9-r2 that provides several websites. I set up the DB server default charset to utf-8 into file /etc/my.cnf [mysqld] character-set-server= utf8 default-character-set

[gentoo-user] S/MIME errors when importing certificate

2009-04-29 Thread Mick
For some reason I am getting these errors when I am trying to import a SSL Certificate into Kleopatra: 6 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpg-agent[7117.14] DBG: -> [Confidential data not shown] 5 - 2009-04-29 22:57:02 gpgsm[9505]: gpg-protect-tool: 1224 bytes

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daniel, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:17:04PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: > I don't know about mutt, but there's a flag in alpine to color quoted > text. It might be possible to get your screen reader to use different > voices for different colors

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:39:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > That's an interesting point, and the first real justification for > > top-posting I've seen. Although I would have thought it should be > > possible to have your mailer hide quotes and th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread Daniel Barkalow
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, thomas blomme wrote: > Is there a way in gmail to put top-posting off? I think Gmail (and alpine) pretty much do the right thing (except for sticking in some blank lines at the beginning). It's best to put the cursor at the top so that you can trim what you're quoting down

Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-29 Thread Alejandro
2009/4/29 Allan Gottlieb > At Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:59:50 +0200 Morten Holt wrote: > > > Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb > wrote: > >> > >>> For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. > >>> When I ^P or file-->print and select a printer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette

2009-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 21:05:13 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Hmm. Most mirrors I sync against don't have such policy, and some even > explicitly state in their MOTD that there's no limit to how often you > can sync. I'm using rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage. > > I guess they all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette

2009-04-29 Thread Xavier Parizet
Nikos Chantziaras a écrit : > Xavier Parizet wrote: >> Nikos Chantziaras a écrit : >>> Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new

[gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette

2009-04-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Xavier Parizet wrote: Nikos Chantziaras a écrit : Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is some time la

Re: [gentoo-user] how I violate gentoo-netiquette

2009-04-29 Thread Justin
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Say, I see here > > http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 > > some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start > eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... > > I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see rea

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette

2009-04-29 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Mittwoch 29 April 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 29 April 2009 20:18:56 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > > Say, I see here > > > > > > http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 > > > > > > some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette

2009-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 20:18:56 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > Say, I see here > > > > http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 > > > > some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start > > eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later..

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette

2009-04-29 Thread Xavier Parizet
Nikos Chantziaras a écrit : > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: >> Say, I see here >> >> http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 >> >> some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start >> eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... >> >> I see, there is some time lag s

Re: [gentoo-user] can't print from firefox, but CUPS says OK, also poppler

2009-04-29 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:59:50 +0200 Morten Holt wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> At Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:18:58 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >>> For some reason printing from firefox has stopped working. >>> When I ^P or file-->print and select a printer (there are two), >>> the "print" button

[gentoo-user] Re: how I violate gentoo-netiquette

2009-04-29 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see really available

[gentoo-user] how I violate gentoo-netiquette

2009-04-29 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Say, I see here http://packages.gentoo.org/feed/arch/amd64 some packages I'm interested in were updated. I think - OK, let's start eix-sync! But - nothing new there... I try an hour later... I see, there is some time lag somewhere. Is there a way to see really available portage updates?

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]UPS battery dead?

2009-04-29 Thread James
maxim wexler yahoo.com> writes: group, > Only 2.8mins left? The UPS unit, fairly common I suspect, is a Back-UPS ES 350 and less than a year old. It only > saw service once last year during an electric storm when the house power failed for a few minutes. Why isn't > it charging. Or is it? 13.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 28. April 2009 22:45:53 schrieb Dale: > I was also hoping you could see the humor in my reply as well. Well, I did :) Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread Eray Aslan
On 29.04.2009 14:30, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> In fact, all that's needed is already there (just the other way round, >> though): every list I'm subscribed to adds a "Precedence" header field >> (with values of "bulk" or "list") to the messages. A sane auto-responder >> will not send replies to messa

Re: [gentoo-user] GPRS connection through usb

2009-04-29 Thread Simon
> You do NOT need PPP, but you do need a fairly recent kernel (>= 2.6.27 at > least, not sure of the details). You need at least CONFIG_USB_RNDIS_WLAN as > m or y. With udev and 'm' things work mostly automatically on the linux > side. On the phone you enable advanced networking (or else you will s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:05:22AM -0400, Penguin Lover Willie Wong squawked: > To be pedantic, the command that better matches Neil's description is > skip-quote, which is mapped to S by default. Thought I agree that > toggle-quote may be (really depends on the OP) suited for the intended > purpos

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:15:30 +0200, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > > I suppose what we really need is a standard header to be inserted by > > auto-responders. Then mailing list software can simply ignore any such > > mails. > > In theory a good solution. In practice I doubt it helps. > Whoever is "

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Neil Bothwick: > I suppose what we really need is a standard header to be inserted by > auto-responders. Then mailing list software can simply ignore any such > mails. In theory a good solution. In practice I doubt it helps. Whoever is "able" to configure an auto-responder in such a completely br

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:08:39PM -0400, Penguin Lover Moshe Kamensky squawked: > * William Hubbs [28/04/09 17:06]: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:39:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > That's an interesting point, and the first real justification for > > > top-posting I've seen. Although I wo

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread KH
> >> To answer you question: It depends. > > I was responding to a statement that any kind of auto-responder is wrong, > so "it depends" is not allowed :) so the correct answer is: NO. :-) > > > Another use it to let people know that their mail has been received. I > company I do work for has

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:42:59 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Unsubscribing the user will have reduced the traffic he is causing by a > significant margin. And give the list admins breathing space in which to add a rule to silently drop messages from that address. I suppose what we really need is

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:34:11 +0200, KH wrote: > >> IMHO, setting up any kind of auto-responder is a *huge* mistake. > > > > Any kind? Even a well functioning one that send no more than one mail > > to any address in a day? I use a procmail rule to take care of this, > > it appears after list filt

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 11:25:41 KH wrote: > fe...@crowfix.com schrieb: > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:31:06PM +0200, Xavier Parizet wrote: > >> As his autoresponder respond to all mail received to his mail address, i > >> sent at 12h15 a mail "faking" hist email address to > >> gentoo-user+unsu

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread KH
Neil Bothwick schrieb: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:12:02 +0200, Jarry wrote: > >>> That's a little harsh. He may not even know his company's >>> auto-responder is so hideously broken. >> IMHO, setting up any kind of auto-responder is a *huge* mistake. > > Any kind? Even a well functioning one that

Re: [gentoo-user] autorespond

2009-04-29 Thread KH
fe...@crowfix.com schrieb: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 05:31:06PM +0200, Xavier Parizet wrote: > >> As his autoresponder respond to all mail received to his mail address, i >> sent at 12h15 a mail "faking" hist email address to >> gentoo-user+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org and it did the trick... >> N

[gentoo-user] Adaptec 2820SA - Slowwwwwwwwww?

2009-04-29 Thread Paul Sobey
Dear All, I have a server running Gentoo X64 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 with an Adaptec 2820SA configured with a simple mirror. This card is a PCI-X card but due to an oversight on my part is plugged into a standard PCI slot on a PCI-E motherboard. Still, I'm getting some absolutely atrocious disk per