Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about hacked sites and passwords

2012-01-16 Thread Dale
Florian Philipp wrote: Am 17.01.2012 03:22, schrieb Dale: Howdy, It was on the news that some company got hacked into that was related to Amazon. They said Amazon users should change their password just as a precaution. I have a questions tho. I use some pretty good passwords for the things

Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-16 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.01.2012 03:56, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, everybody. > > I've finally become zic and tired of messages like > > Tue Jan 17 02:48:28 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual > page 2012 on tty14 > > . Trying to read man zic, my eyes just g

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about hacked sites and passwords

2012-01-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.01.2012 03:22, schrieb Dale: > Howdy, > > It was on the news that some company got hacked into that was related to > Amazon. They said Amazon users should change their password just as a > precaution. I have a questions tho. I use some pretty good passwords > for the things that matter, s

[gentoo-user] Cross Compiling in Gentoo

2012-01-16 Thread Chris Walters
Hi, I have a question about cross compiling in Gentoo - specifically cross compiling for W32/W64. I tried their preferred method and didn't like it, so I downloaded the appropriate Mingw64 build files, set up a cross compile account, with the appropriate paths, variables, etc. Most packages comp

Re: [gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-16 Thread Chris Walters
On 1/16/2012 09:56 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, everybody. > > I've finally become zic and tired of messages like > > Tue Jan 17 02:48:28 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2012 > on tty14 > > . Trying to read man zic, my eyes just glaze over. I "just" want my > time to be G

OT: Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about hacked sites and passwords

2012-01-16 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 1/16/2012 09:22 PM, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > It was on the news that some company got hacked into that was > related to Amazon. They said Amazon users should change their > password just as a precaution. I have a questions tho. I use some > pret

[gentoo-user] want sound (alsa) muted on boot

2012-01-16 Thread »Q«
I want sound muted on boot, but it always starts unmuted. I don't know when this problem started; I only noticed it because I recently went through a stretch of being unable to hibernate, so I booted a lot. grep -i =\" /etc/conf.d/alsasound ENABLE_OSS_EMUL="yes" RESTORE_ON_START="no" SAVE_ON_STO

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: using unstable gentoo-sources

2012-01-16 Thread Dale
»Q« wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:59:16 -0600 Dale wrote: »Q« wrote: I've never used any unstable build for the kernel, and once a>=3.2.1 kernel goes stable, I'll stick with stable again. But in the meantime, is there anything I should watch out for or keep in mind? I have used unstable ker

[gentoo-user] Re: using unstable gentoo-sources

2012-01-16 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:59:16 -0600 Dale wrote: > »Q« wrote: > > I've never used any unstable build for the kernel, and once a>=3.2.1 > > kernel goes stable, I'll stick with stable again. But in the > > meantime, is there anything I should watch out for or keep in mind? > > I have used unstable

[gentoo-user] ZIC, aka setting the time zone.

2012-01-16 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, everybody. I've finally become zic and tired of messages like Tue Jan 17 02:48:28 Local time zone must be set--see zic manual page 2012 on tty14 . Trying to read man zic, my eyes just glaze over. I "just" want my time to be GMT (or UTC or UCT, or whatever it's called these days). Sure

[gentoo-user] Questions about hacked sites and passwords

2012-01-16 Thread Dale
Howdy, It was on the news that some company got hacked into that was related to Amazon. They said Amazon users should change their password just as a precaution. I have a questions tho. I use some pretty good passwords for the things that matter, sites such as my bank, credit card, ebay, p

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Jan 17, 2012 6:11 AM, "Mick" wrote: > > On Monday 16 Jan 2012 01:35:04 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Jan 16, 2012 12:58 AM, "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 06:30:03AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote > > > > > > > This is nothing like changing the port for SSH - a port scanner can > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-16 Thread Mick
On Monday 16 Jan 2012 01:35:04 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Jan 16, 2012 12:58 AM, "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 06:30:03AM -0500, Tanstaafl wrote > > > > > This is nothing like changing the port for SSH - a port scanner can > > > figure that one out in seconds... > > > > A real

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel-3.2.1-gentoo + Broadcom-STA = Could not get rssi (-22)

2012-01-16 Thread Mick
On Sunday 15 Jan 2012 23:55:41 Carlos Sura wrote: > On 15 January 2012 04:01, Mick wrote: > Now, about this: > According to the URL I mention above the BCM4313 chipset uses unsupported > LCN > PHY, and the kernel developers are working on it. May be worth talking to > them on #bcm-users in irc.f

[gentoo-user] GLSA «201110-01 / openssl» and acroread-9.4.2

2012-01-16 Thread Urs Schutz
Today I see the following: I uninstalled dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8s-r1 because there is a GLSA (201110-01 / openssl) against it. But acroread-9.4.2 wants the installation of openssl-0.9.8s-r1: > # emerge -uDpvtN world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating depe

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
James Broadhead: [libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1] >It's actually looking for java-1.7 ; but seems to work fine with 1.6 Tcha. Not here. icedtea-bin-1.10.4 isn't found by libreoffice either. Hartmut -- Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ Von Usern fuer User :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread James Broadhead
On 16 January 2012 19:51, Hartmut Figge wrote: > walt: > >>Oh, I forgot shotgun v.2 :)  When faced with something as complex >>as libreoffice I usually create a brand new user account and try >>running it from there, to rule out breakage in my home directory. > > Fine to know about this. :) But...

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
walt: >Oh, I forgot shotgun v.2 :) When faced with something as complex >as libreoffice I usually create a brand new user account and try >running it from there, to rule out breakage in my home directory. Fine to know about this. :) But... ;) I could try the unstable sun-jdk. I could try an old

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread walt
On 01/16/2012 10:15 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote: >> The shotgun approach may work :) > Would have been nice if it worked. But unfortunately... *g* Oh, I forgot shotgun v.2 :) When faced with something as complex as libreoffice I usually create a brand new user account and try running it from there,

Re: [gentoo-user] Resetting the root passwd

2012-01-16 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 08:23:33AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote > That depends on who are authorized to access the boxen via SSH. In my case, > only the IT Division is authorized to access them via SSH, so the "real > sysadmin" in me (g) decides it is much easier to shift the port rather than > imple

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
walt: >I never had user-vm set until just now. It made no difference AFAICT. I am not seeing a difference also. >It seems that your java environment is somehow broken, but I don't know >why. Some part of libreoffice thinks that javaldx is available when it's >not. What does java -version say?

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread walt
On 01/16/2012 04:12 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote: > There is a difference to my x86_64 Gentoo that *may* be important > > x86:64: > Available Java Virtual Machines: > [1] sun-jdk-1.6 system-vm > > i686: > Available Java Virtual Machines: > [1] sun-jdk-1.6 system-vm user-vm > > On i686 there

Re: [gentoo-user] Libre Office failing to build

2012-01-16 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 01/15/12 03:21, Carlos Sura wrote: On 14 January 2012 12:09, Paul Hartman mailto:paul.hartman%2bgen...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Andrew Lowe mailto:a...@wht.com.au>> wrote: > Hi all, >Are people currently building Libre Office successfully? I

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread Hartmut Figge
walt: >On 01/15/2012 07:05 PM, Hartmut Figge wrote: >> on my x86_64 libreoffice fails to detect Java. I am getting this when >> starting lowriter: >> >> hafi@i5_64 ~ $ lowriter >> Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not fuction correctly >> >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> [ebuil

[gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-bin-3.4.3.2-r1 & sun-jdk-1.6.0.29 on x86_64

2012-01-16 Thread walt
On 01/15/2012 07:05 PM, Hartmut Figge wrote: > Greetings, > > on my x86_64 libreoffice fails to detect Java. I am getting this when > starting lowriter: > > hafi@i5_64 ~ $ lowriter > Warning: failed to launch javaldx - java may not fuction correctly > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuil

[gentoo-user] Re: RUBYOPT="-rauto_gem"

2012-01-16 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:21:30 -0800, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 15 January 2012 18:21, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 01/15/2012 05:24 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> The dev-ruby/rubygems ebuild adds "-rauto_gem" to the global RUBYOPT. >>> This breaks my own scripts so I have rem

[gentoo-user] Re: RUBYOPT="-rauto_gem"

2012-01-16 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:24:30 -0800, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > If there is a requirement for this to be in the global environment, what > is the consequence of unsetting RUBYOPT in my own .bashrc (or similar)? > Is that "safe"? Or does that break something that I simply haven't > noticed yet? We don