Re: [gentoo-user] SSD recmmendation / input

2014-08-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 28, 2014 10:54:25 PM Joseph wrote: > No, I wouldn't get 1TB SSD too expensive but something like 300GB I might > consider it. Are they worth the investment? What brand do you have and how > long? Please do NOT top-post. Currently, from what I found out, good brands are: Intel

Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-08-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 28, 2014 02:45:10 PM Joseph wrote: > I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation > (reliability) of the brand. My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. I agree with the rest, 2 does not make a pattern. I use WDs extensively and only had a few failures.

Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-08-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 Aug 2014 23:56:57 Joseph wrote: > So there seems to be a pattern :-/ Well, a sample of two can hardly be called a pattern! :p > How about SSD they are not that much more? Will it withstand Gentoo > compilations :-) ? I have no experience with SSDs yet, but I see myself buying a

Re: [gentoo-user] SSD recmmendation / input

2014-08-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/08/2014 06:54, Joseph wrote: > No, I wouldn't get 1TB SSD too expensive but something like 300GB I > might consider it. > Are they worth the investment? What brand do you have and how long? Only you can decide that. They work, they work well, they are fast, very fast Are you willing to sp

[gentoo-user] SSD recmmendation / input

2014-08-28 Thread Joseph
No, I wouldn't get 1TB SSD too expensive but something like 300GB I might consider it. Are they worth the investment? What brand do you have and how long? -- Joseph On 08/29/14 06:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 29/08/2014 00:56, Joseph wrote: So there seems to be a pattern :-/ How about SSD the

Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-08-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/08/2014 00:56, Joseph wrote: > So there seems to be a pattern :-/ > How about SSD they are not that much more? Will it withstand Gentoo > compilations :-) ? No. There is not a pattern. Two guys used drives for 5 years and then they failed. 5 years? Wow. That's double what you can reasonabl

Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-08-28 Thread Joseph
So there seems to be a pattern :-/ How about SSD they are not that much more? Will it withstand Gentoo compilations :-) ? -- Joseph On 08/28/14 22:46, Mick wrote: On Thursday 28 Aug 2014 21:45:10 Joseph wrote: I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation (reliabilit

Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-08-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 Aug 2014 21:45:10 Joseph wrote: > I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation > (reliability) of the brand. My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. Interesting ... mine also failed catastrophically a couple of months ago after around 5 years of continuous

[gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-08-28 Thread Joseph
I need to select 500GB or 1TB infernal 2.5in drive, any recommendation (reliability) of the brand. My current WD 320GB fail after 5-years. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Problems

2014-08-28 Thread siefke_lis...@web.de
Hello, status update. UMTS is running. It was ppp, installed version 2.4.7 has not work with networkmanager. I make downgrade to version 2.4.5. Now is all ok. Cups want not work. The link which shared here to gentoo forum has no result yet. Nice Day & Thank you Silvio

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble overriding a command name

2014-08-28 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Aug 28 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:42 AM, wrote: >> I know this is trivial and apologize in advance for what must be a simple >> (non-gentoo) error on my part. >> >> In /home/gottlieb/bin/dia I have the following >> #!/bin/bash >> /usr/bin/dia --

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble overriding a command name

2014-08-28 Thread gottlieb
On Thu, Aug 28 2014, Kerin Millar wrote: > On 28/08/2014 16:42, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> I know this is trivial and apologize in advance for what must be a simple >> (non-gentoo) error on my part. >> >> In /home/gottlieb/bin/dia I have the following >> #!/bin/bash >> /usr/bin/dia --int

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble overriding a command name

2014-08-28 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 10:42 AM, wrote: > I know this is trivial and apologize in advance for what must be a simple > (non-gentoo) error on my part. > > In /home/gottlieb/bin/dia I have the following > #!/bin/bash > /usr/bin/dia --integrated > > ls -l /home/gottlieb/bin/dia gives > -

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble overriding a command name

2014-08-28 Thread Kerin Millar
On 28/08/2014 16:42, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I know this is trivial and apologize in advance for what must be a simple (non-gentoo) error on my part. In /home/gottlieb/bin/dia I have the following #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/dia --integrated ls -l /home/gottlieb/bin/dia gives -rwxr-xr-x

[gentoo-user] trouble overriding a command name

2014-08-28 Thread gottlieb
I know this is trivial and apologize in advance for what must be a simple (non-gentoo) error on my part. In /home/gottlieb/bin/dia I have the following #!/bin/bash /usr/bin/dia --integrated ls -l /home/gottlieb/bin/dia gives -rwxr-xr-x 1 gottlieb gottlieb 38 Aug 28 11:28 /home/gottlie

Re: [gentoo-user] re: trouble with USB mouse on laptop

2014-08-28 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:49 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, August 23, 2014 03:51:40 PM Alexander Kapshuk wrote: >> On 08/08/2014 10:46 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > >> > Alternatively, disable USB powersaving: >> > >> > # for i in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/autosuspend; >> > >> > d

Re: [gentoo-user] re: trouble with USB mouse on laptop

2014-08-28 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Saturday, August 23, 2014 03:51:40 PM Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On 08/08/2014 10:46 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Alternatively, disable USB powersaving: > > > > # for i in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/autosuspend; > > > > do echo 2 > $i; > > done > > > > # for foo in /sys/bus/usb/d