James Wall wrote:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Grant wrote:
No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large
number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
That's hilarious. :)
- Grant
Thanks. A friend shared that with me.
I post some of
I'm planning to get one of these to act as a wireless bridge between
my modem and Gentoo router:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=33-127-256
I'll need an 802.11n PCI-E card that does 300Mbps and works in AP mode
for the router. Does anyone know of such a card? I've read that
thes
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:39 PM, Grant wrote:
>>
>> Have you considered using PXE to network boot your systems? you can
>> have various configurations set up based on mac addresses to address
>> different hardware issues. I recommend trying out SystemRescueCD to
>> experiment with PXE booting for
On Monday 11 July 2011 23:43:06 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 11 July 2011 17:26:36 Sebastian Beßler wrote:
> > Am Mo 11 Jul 2011 17:18:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey schrieb:
> > > I doubt I shall ever accept 'reoccur', any more than I accept
> > > 'transportation'.
> >
> > It's way OT but what is w
On 07/11/2011 07:40 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:43:06 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>> It isn't wrong, it's just silly. Americans love to add '-ation' to
>> everything. Just consider 'motivation', for example. It nearly always
>> means 'motive'. Ditto 'medication', which is
On 01/-10/37 11:59, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 11 July 2011 10:09:38 Daniel Frey did opine thusly:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've been trying to get genkernel to use a newer version of dmraid.
>> For some reason, genkernel is using a build from 2006 (!)
>>
>> I've tried an ubuntu livecd which uses a b
On 07/11/2011 04:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> A few years ago our Queen uttered a solecism (well, it had to happen sooner
> or later, and as far as I know it's the only one).
A famous American politician, recently retired, has never uttered a
non-solecism.
Or would that be un-solecism? Anti-
On 07/11/2011 02:30 PM, Dale wrote:
>> =x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-173.99.99 or something to that effect.
>> I just can't recall how to do it at the moment but each time I do a
>> emerge -uvDNa world, it wants to upgrade the nvidia drivers to the
>> 275 series or something.
I've had the same probl
>> When I was using an Nvidia video card, I noticed a strange sort of
>> fuzzy edge effect if I used nvidia-drivers. xf86-video-nouveau didn't
>> have the same problem. Now I've switched to an ATI video card and
>> unfortunately I have the same problem with xf86-video-ati. I tried to
>> enable t
>> After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to
>> stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the number of Gentoo
>> systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. What
>> can be done to make the management of multiple Gentoo systems easier?
>> I think id
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:43:06 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> It isn't wrong, it's just silly. Americans love to add '-ation' to
> everything. Just consider 'motivation', for example. It nearly always
> means 'motive'. Ditto 'medication', which is nearly always 'medicine'.
> I could go on all night
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:09:42 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > But an admitted pedantic response deserves a reply from the OED :P
>
> ...which is no more than an observer of trends. It offers precious
> little help in what one ought to do.
Isn't that how language develops, through trends? My po
>>> And now that I look more closely at KVM switches, it looks like they
>>> provide a method of controlling multiple computers via a single
>>> keyboard, monitor, and mouse. I need sort of the inverse. I'd like
>>> to control a single Gentoo computer via multiple sets of keyboards,
>>> monitors,
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:30:40 -0500, Dale wrote:
> WOW !!! I'm not the only one that leaves out the word NOT. Funny how
> that three letter word can change the meaning of a sentence so much.
> It seems to turn things on its head so to speak. ;-)
That is more or less the idea of the word :P
-
On Monday 11 July 2011 23:30:40 Dale wrote:
> WOW !!! I'm not the only one that leaves out the word NOT. Funny how
> that three letter word can change the meaning of a sentence so much. It
> seems to turn things on its head so to speak. ;-)
Is that why I seem only to see the word 'not' in cap
On Monday 11 July 2011 22:01:02 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> But an admitted pedantic response deserves a reply from the OED :P
...which is no more than an observer of trends. It offers precious little
help in what one ought to do.
A few years ago our Queen uttered a solecism (well, it had to happen
On Monday 11 July 2011 17:26:36 Sebastian Beßler wrote:
> Am Mo 11 Jul 2011 17:18:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey schrieb:
> > I doubt I shall ever accept 'reoccur', any more than I accept
> > 'transportation'.
>
> It's way OT but what is wrong with 'transportation'.
> If it is wrong, how would it be righ
walt wrote:
On 07/11/2011 09:42 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
Although Neil may have a point when he says that an unclean shutdown could
have corrupted things. I was under the impression that with a journaling
file system this should be safe, but I do not know much bout this.
I agree with
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The
link I sent you clearly (!?) stated that you need to be running the
latest 'Certified' driver revision 275.09.07 to get this fix. Just
becaus
On 07/11/2011 09:42 AM, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Although Neil may have a point when he says that an unclean shutdown could
> have corrupted things. I was under the impression that with a journaling
> file system this should be safe, but I do not know much bout this.
I agree with Neil so (if I'm
Alex Schuster wrote:
Dale asks:
While I am at it, what is the syntax to mask a package higher than a
certain version in package.mask? I tired =>package.name.version and
tried>= package.name.version but the former doesn't work and seems to
ignore it and the later makes emerge print a boo bo
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>> > No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The
>> > link I sent you clearly (!?) stated that you need to be running the
>> > latest 'Certified' driver revision 275.09.07 to get this fix. Just
>> > because the Gent
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:27:32 -0500, Dale wrote:
WAG - have you tried the nv drivers?
I did but I couldn't get X to even start. I guess something is not set
right somewhere. I have nv in make.conf and been there since I built
this thing so sort of clueless
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Dale wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
DAle,
PLEASE look at bullet item #3 in this NVidia release:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html
Fixed a bug that caused freezes and crashes when resizing win
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:18:16 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > From the OED:
> >
> > reoccur: occur again or habitually
>
> I don't regard myself bound by others' ability to find earlier examples
> of the same mistake. We have 'occur', 'incur', 'concur' and 'recur'. It
> is rarely a good idea t
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:17:28 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> > Gentoo devs don't mark software as stable, they mark ebuilds as
> > stable. This has no direct link to the usability of the software
> > itself.
> >
> >
>
> Nuh uh. From http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html,
>
> arc
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:42:06 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Although Neil may have a point when he says that an unclean shutdown
> could have corrupted things. I was under the impression that with a
> journaling file system this should be safe, but I do not know much bout
> this.
Journalling norma
Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote:
2011/7/11 Dale:
Dale wrote:
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 00:03 -0500, Dale wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
DAle,
Hi Dale, not quite the same but something else to check - after my
6monthly update
On Monday 11 July 2011 10:09:38 Daniel Frey did opine thusly:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been trying to get genkernel to use a newer version of dmraid.
> For some reason, genkernel is using a build from 2006 (!)
>
> I've tried an ubuntu livecd which uses a build that's available in
> portage that works w
Dale asks:
> While I am at it, what is the syntax to mask a package higher than a
> certain version in package.mask? I tired =>package.name.version and
> tried >= package.name.version but the former doesn't work and seems to
> ignore it and the later makes emerge print a boo boo message. On my o
Hi all,
I've been trying to get genkernel to use a newer version of dmraid.
For some reason, genkernel is using a build from 2006 (!)
I've tried an ubuntu livecd which uses a build that's available in
portage that works with my fakeraid. All this to try to dual-boot
using a raid 1+0.
I've discov
On 07/11/2011 09:26 AM, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
> Am Mo 11 Jul 2011 17:18:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey schrieb:
>
>> I doubt I shall ever accept 'reoccur', any more than I accept
>> 'transportation'.
>
> It's way OT but what is wrong with 'transportation'.
> If it is wrong, how would it be right?
> I
walt writes:
[interrupted emerges]
> That's when I use ebuild instead of starting the emerge from scratch.
> Let's say I'm emerging libreoffice and the machine goes down (shudder).
>
> After fixing the problem I would try the following:
> #cd /usr/portage/app-office/libreoffice/
> #ebuild ./libr
On Monday, July 11 at 18:28 (+0300), Kfir Lavi said:
> Hi,
> I'm looking for xen like manager to manage my virtual machines when
> computer
> boots.
> Is there any such project?
libvirt (can also manage Xen):
http://libvirt.org/
Am Mo 11 Jul 2011 17:18:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey schrieb:
> I doubt I shall ever accept 'reoccur', any more than I accept
> 'transportation'.
It's way OT but what is wrong with 'transportation'.
If it is wrong, how would it be right?
I'm not a native speaker so I might be blind to see the error.
Hi,
I'm looking for xen like manager to manage my virtual machines when computer
boots.
Is there any such project?
Regards,
Kfir
Grant gmail.com> writes:
> After a frustrating experience with a Linksys WRT54GL, I've decided to
> stick with Gentoo routers. This increases the number of Gentoo
> systems I'm responsible for and they're nearing double-digits. What
> can be done to make the management of multiple Gentoo syste
Hi, Alan.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:33:46PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 11 July 2011 10:16:33 Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly:
> > Hi, Gentoo.
> > Just done an "emerge -puND world". One of the packages updated was
> > sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1. Its warning message was:
> > CONFIG
On Monday 11 July 2011 10:10:41 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> From the OED:
>
> reoccur: occur again or habitually
I don't regard myself bound by others' ability to find earlier examples of
the same mistake. We have 'occur', 'incur', 'concur' and 'recur'. It is
rarely a good idea to compound prefixes
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:17 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 07/11/11 09:45, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>> Gentoo devs don't mark software as stable, they mark ebuilds as stable.
>> This has no direct link to the usability of the software itself.
>>
>>
>
> Nuh uh. From http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ke
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:47:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> > That is the latest for my card that is in the tree.
>>
>> No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The
>> link I sent you clearly (!?) stated that you need
On 07/11/11 09:45, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> Gentoo devs don't mark software as stable, they mark ebuilds as stable.
> This has no direct link to the usability of the software itself.
>
>
Nuh uh. From http://devmanual.gentoo.org/keywording/index.html,
arch (x86, ppc-macos)
Both the package
On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 05:47:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > That is the latest for my card that is in the tree.
>
> No! It is not the latest. It's just what portage is offering you. The
> link I sent you clearly (!?) stated that you need to be running the
> latest 'Certified' driver revision 275
On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 10:03 PM, Dale wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> DAle,
>> PLEASE look at bullet item #3 in this NVidia release:
>>
>> http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Fixed a bug that caused freezes and crashes when resizing windows in
On Monday, July 11 at 10:16 (+), Alan Mackenzie said:
> Hi, Gentoo.
>
> Just done an "emerge -puND world". One of the packages updated was
> sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1. Its warning message was:
>
> CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be.
> * Please check to make s
On Monday 11 Jul 2011 11:16:33 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, Gentoo.
>
> Just done an "emerge -puND world". One of the packages updated was
> sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1. Its warning message was:
>
> CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be.
> * Please check to make sure thes
Am Montag, 11. Juli 2011, 12:16:33 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> Hi, Gentoo.
>
> Just done an "emerge -puND world". One of the packages updated was
> sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1. Its warning message was:
>
> CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be.
> * Please check to make sur
There real name is thripids. And are a darn nuissance. They seemingly have
stopped moving after being fried by watching youtube clips of the real
Thunderbugs.
Flashplayer actually has got some use after all.
--Original Message--
From: Pandu Poluan
Sender: Pandu Poluan
To: Gentoo
ReplyTo
Alan Mackenzie (Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:16:33 +):
> Hi, Gentoo.
>
> Just done an "emerge -puND world". One of the packages updated was
> sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1. Its warning message was:
>
> CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be.
> * Please check to make sure these o
Le 11/07/11 à 10:16, Alan a tapoté :
> Would somebody please help me to resolve my confusion. Thanks in
> advance.
>
You must enable the following option first, and then you will find it
into the USB section.
Symbol: PM_RUNTIME [=n]
│ Prompt: Run-time PM core functionality
│ -> Power man
On Monday 11 July 2011 10:16:33 Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly:
> Hi, Gentoo.
>
> Just done an "emerge -puND world". One of the packages updated was
> sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1. Its warning message was:
>
> CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be.
> * Please check to ma
Hi, Gentoo.
Just done an "emerge -puND world". One of the packages updated was
sys-fs/udisks-1.0.3-r1. Its warning message was:
CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND: is not set when it should be.
* Please check to make sure these options are set correctly.
* Failure to do so may cause une
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 02:21 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
> > Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 00:03 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >>> Mark Knecht wrote:
> DAle,
> >> Hi Dale, not quite the same but something else to check - after my
> >> 6monthly update round, I had two systems wher
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:27:32 -0500, Dale wrote:
> > WAG - have you tried the nv drivers?
> I did but I couldn't get X to even start. I guess something is not set
> right somewhere. I have nv in make.conf and been there since I built
> this thing so sort of clueless on why it don't work.
Did
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:10:15 -0700, walt wrote:
> > My deal was the lost compile time. If I had started it about 3 hours
> > earlier or the lights would have blinked a few hours later then not
> > so much would have been lost.
>
> That's when I use ebuild instead of starting the emerge from sc
On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:26:37 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > it my get rid of the problem temporarily but you still have no idea of
> > what the problem was or what to do should it reoccur.
>
> s/reoccur/recur/
>
> Speaking as one old pedant to another...
From the OED:
reoccur: occur again
2011/7/11 Dale :
> Dale wrote:
>>
>> Bill Kenworthy wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 00:03 -0500, Dale wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> DAle,
>>>
>>> Hi Dale, not quite the same but something else to check - after my
>>> 6monthly update round, I had two systems where FF refused t
Dale wrote:
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 00:03 -0500, Dale wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
DAle,
Hi Dale, not quite the same but something else to check - after my
6monthly update round, I had two systems where FF refused to run - just
flashed up died. Erase .mozilla allowed one res
Bill Kenworthy wrote:
On Mon, 2011-07-11 at 00:03 -0500, Dale wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
DAle,
Hi Dale, not quite the same but something else to check - after my
6monthly update round, I had two systems where FF refused to run - just
flashed up died. Erase .mozilla allowed on
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