[gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and AT&T. About time.)

2009-08-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-08, pk wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> That's what I thought back when I was using dialup on a Linux >> box that didn't have any servers running. Then one day I got >> root-kitted. > > This may be off-topic but I'm curious about the details. Can you please > elaborate? Well, it was

Re: [gentoo-user] DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-09 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> Anyone here have AT&T DSL? Is there anything special software wise that >> I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and >> set it up that way? >> >> As some may know, I have been pr

Re: [gentoo-user] DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Dale wrote: > Hi folks, > > Anyone here have AT&T DSL? Is there anything special software wise that > I need to get it to work or do I just point to the URL of the modem and > set it up that way? > > As some may know, I have been promised DSL for the past 5 years or

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} smartctl: read failure

2009-08-09 Thread walt
On 08/09/2009 03:15 PM, Grant wrote: I get this on my laptop's internal HDD: # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 60% 12400 149547192 after

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 09 August 2009, Mick wrote: > > Is there another solution to this? I need mp3 because the file will be > > ultimately played on a vanilla WinXP PC. > > I have started using flacs - because they can easily be trancoded into mp3 > o

[gentoo-user] {OT} smartctl: read failure

2009-08-09 Thread Grant
I get this on my laptop's internal HDD: # smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offlineCompleted: read failure 60% 12400 149547192 after some Googling, it sounds like it's bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 09 August 2009, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 09 August 2009, Stroller wrote: > > On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:00, Mick wrote: > > > On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > >> Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: > > >>> I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konquer

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Stroller wrote: > On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:00, Mick wrote: > > On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > >> Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: > >>> I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when > >>> looking > >>> at the contents of an

[gentoo-user] Re: maintaining clones

2009-08-09 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 09:07:14AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > I have 4 identical machines, they only differ in the 2 files > /etc/conf.d/hostname > /etc/conf.d/net > > I'd like to maintain only one of them (updating > GenToo upto several times a week) > and 'rsync' the other ones.

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Aug 2009, at 21:00, Mick wrote: On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I cannot

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 09 August 2009, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: > > > I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when > > > looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav > > > fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: > > I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking > > at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files > > fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konque

Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 21:23:27 schrieb Mick: > I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at > the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I > cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a hiss no matter > which player I us

[gentoo-user] Konqueror and mp3

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am looking at saving the mp3 files presented in Konqueror when looking at the contents of an audio CD. Although I can play/copy .wav files fine, I cannot play .mp3 files shown in Konqueror. All I get is a hiss no matter which player I use. What do I need to do to be able to copy mp

Re: [gentoo-user] vdpau-able ?

2009-08-09 Thread Manuel Fiorelli
2009/8/9 Manuel Fiorelli : > 2009/8/9  : >>  First tests on my Linux-box with >> >>    mplayer -vo vdpau >> >>  results in a movie "display" with best audio, no video at all >>  and concerns from mplayer: > > Your command didn't work for me, too. First, I checked that my video > card was capable o

Re: [gentoo-user] vdpau-able ?

2009-08-09 Thread Manuel Fiorelli
2009/8/9 : >  as far as I think to know ;) (quite unsure about this), NVidia >  has introduced a new protocol (?something like this), which is >  useful for less-CPU-consumpting display of video streams. > >  MPlayer (and may be other video-related applikations) does >  support vdpau. Thanks for

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance "accelerator")

2009-08-09 Thread Eray Aslan
On 09.08.2009 16:13, Florian Philipp wrote: [..] > When you think about the situation, laptop-mode might actually make the > situation worse. You see, it was originally developed to help HDDs > staying in standby for longer periods by delaying writes until a read > action causes the drive to spin u

Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-09 Thread Grant
>> >> > Oh, and you're utilizing SMART, right? >> >> >> >> Should I be doing more than running this test: >> >> >> >> smartctl -t long /dev/sda > [...] >> Does this indicate everything is OK as far as SMART can tell? >> >> Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining >> LifeTime(hours

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance "accelerator")

2009-08-09 Thread Grant
>> Here is some info on zflashpoint: >> >> http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 >> >> It is supposed to be an SSD performance "accelerator". >> >> "Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of >> Windows writes are small, so that

Re: [gentoo-user] static ip

2009-08-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Aug 2009, at 08:01, Andrey Vul wrote: I somehow killed the dhcp in my openwrt router and failsafe mode requires a static IP address. Stopping net.eth0 and then running '#ifconfig eth0 up; ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2' resulted with a 'No route to host' error when telnetting to 192.168.1.1 .

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Control Centre - what package provides fonts module?

2009-08-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Aug 2009, at 10:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Did you just install knode, or more than that? knode gives you knode, not the other 50 packages that make up a basic KDE session :-) I just emerge'd knode & added xauth when X11 over ssh gave an error. I suspect you might not have the contr

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} zflashpoint for Linux? (SSD performance "accelerator")

2009-08-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: > Here is some info on zflashpoint: > > http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5163549 > > It is supposed to be an SSD performance "accelerator". > > "Gen1 SSDs suffer with small file writes and I read that 90% of > Windows writes are small,

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding VIDEO_CARDS and unrelated question regarding USE flags

2009-08-09 Thread pk
Alex Schuster wrote: > direct rendering: Yes > Great! > I thought OpenGL support were better? And there is power saving. Although I > have an onboard card, so I would not have a loud spinnin

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE Control Centre - what package provides fonts module?

2009-08-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 09 August 2009 05:40:07 Stroller wrote: > Hi there, > > I use a Mac running OS X as my main desktop, but I really like knode > on the rare occasions I use Usenet. So I have installed knode on a > headless server and can ssh -X into it and knode works fine. > > Unfortunately, the fonts are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DSL and AT&T. About time.

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Saturday 08 August 2009, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-08-08, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 08/08/2009 05:29 AM, Dale wrote: > >> I had thought about picking up a Linksys router and putting it > >> between my desktop and the modem. > > > > Your modem is probably a router anyway. +1 I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] vdpau-able ?

2009-08-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 09 August 2009 09:25:08 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > as far as I think to know ;) (quite unsure about this), NVidia > has introduced a new protocol (?something like this), which is > useful for less-CPU-consumpting display of video streams. > > MPlayer (and may be other video-

Re: [gentoo-user] static ip

2009-08-09 Thread Mick
On Sunday 09 August 2009, Andrey Vul wrote: > I somehow killed the dhcp in my openwrt router and failsafe mode > requires a static IP address. Stopping net.eth0 and then running > '#ifconfig eth0 up; ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2' resulted with a 'No > route to host' error when telnetting to 192.168.1.

[gentoo-user] vdpau-able ?

2009-08-09 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, as far as I think to know ;) (quite unsure about this), NVidia has introduced a new protocol (?something like this), which is useful for less-CPU-consumpting display of video streams. MPlayer (and may be other video-related applikations) does support vdpau. First tests on my Linux-bo

[gentoo-user] static ip

2009-08-09 Thread Andrey Vul
I somehow killed the dhcp in my openwrt router and failsafe mode requires a static IP address. Stopping net.eth0 and then running '#ifconfig eth0 up; ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2' resulted with a 'No route to host' error when telnetting to 192.168.1.1 . -- Andrey Vul andrey dot vul at gmail dot com