Re: [gentoo-user] Users hi!

2012-11-15 Thread BRM
> From: Dale >Joshua Murphy wrote: >>On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Dale wrote: >>BRM wrote: >>> >>>Hey, >>>Check this out: >>>List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-desktop+unsubscr...@lists.gentoo.org> >>>Bye.   Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread BRM
> From: Michael Mol >On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:33 AM, BRM wrote: >>> From: Michael Mol >> >>>On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:04 PM, BRM wrote: >>>>> From: Michael Mol >>>[snip] >>>> In theory that's how key signing systems are

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread BRM
> From: Michael Mol >On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:04 PM, BRM wrote: >>> From: Michael Mol >[snip] >> In theory that's how key signing systems are suppose to work. >> In practice, they rarely implement the blacklists as they are (i) hard to >> maint

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-02 Thread BRM
> From: Michael Mol > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Florian Philipp > wrote: >> Am 03.06.2012 01:36, schrieb Michael Mol: >>> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, pk wrote: On 2012-06-02 22:10, Michael Mol wrote: >>> >>> [snip] >>> >> [...] >>> >>> The BIOS will only load a signed b

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-25 Thread BRM
- Original Message - > From: Mick > Does it work satisfactorily with kernel 3.0.6? > > I found the 3.1.6 breaking suspend on my machine so have gone back to 3.0.6, > but my hardware and video driver is different to yours. Haven't tried 3.0.6 with the kernel change for the ACPI_WMI and

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-25 Thread BRM
e. Thanks all! Ben >________ > From: BRM >To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" >Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 8:49 PM >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up > >> From: BRM >> To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" >> Cc: >> Sent: S

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-22 Thread BRM
> From: BRM > To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2012 11:50 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up > >> From: Neil Bothwick > >> On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:31 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-22 Thread BRM
> From: Neil Bothwick >On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:57:31 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: >> As the system starts to boot-up, it switches like it is going to start >> X - changing a video mode somehow. I don't have xdm in the runlevels >> yet, so it can't be starting XDM

[gentoo-user] System shuts off on boot-up

2012-01-20 Thread BRM
I am working on trying to get my AMD64 system back online. I recently rebuilt it (from scratch) after a very bad case of being out of date and build issues as a result (for numerous reasons). However, after I started trying to get X configured (Xorg) with the nouveau driver (I think I ran the pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo counter?

2011-09-12 Thread BRM
Well...to get back on topic... - Original Message - > From: David W Noon > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:52:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote about > "[gentoo-user] Gentoo counter?": > >> I've just read about the 'new' Linux Counter from a slashdot > article, >> and I wonder: is there a 'Gentoo C

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-09 Thread BRM
- Original Message - > From: Mick > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration... > OK, so if you restore the two lines and this error goes away, can you then > initialise the device without any other errors? So far as I am aware. > Assuming that rfkill shows all is unlocked and

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-08 Thread BRM
- Original Message - > From: Mick > On Thursday 08 Sep 2011 04:52:44 BRM wrote: >> - Original Message - >> >> > From: Mick > >> > Hmm ... what is the error/warning that comes up? >> >> pneumo-martyr wpa_supplican

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message - > From: Mick > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Cc: > Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 5:32 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration... > > On Tuesday 06 Sep 2011 15:24:33 BRM wrote: >> - Original Message

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message - > From: Mick > On Tuesday 06 Sep 2011 15:24:33 BRM wrote: >> - Original Message - >> > From: Mick >> > On Saturday 03 Sep 2011 15:14:27 BRM wrote: >> >>  - Original Message - >> > I think the ab

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message - > From: Mick > On Saturday 03 Sep 2011 15:14:27 BRM wrote: >> - Original Message - >> > Assuming that you have built in your kernel or loaded the driver > module >> > for your NIC and any firmware blobs have also been lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-03 Thread BRM
- Original Message - > From: Mick > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Cc: > Sent: Friday, September 2, 2011 11:29 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration... > > On Friday 02 Sep 2011 14:38:56 BRM wrote: >> - Original Message - &

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message - > From: Canek Peláez Valdés > On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:52 PM, BRM wrote: >> I still haven't decided what to get for my system to replace the NIC > with, but the card I have should be working with my existing 802.11g network > already;

[gentoo-user] Wireless Configuration...

2011-09-01 Thread BRM
I still haven't decided what to get for my system to replace the NIC with, but the card I have should be working with my existing 802.11g network already; however, it doesn't - I have had to connect my laptop via Ethernet cable to my wireless bridge to get network access. /etc/init.d/net.wlan0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

2011-08-01 Thread BRM
- Original Message - > From: Grant Edwards > Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced? > On 2011-07-29, BRM wrote: >>> From: Paul Hartman >>> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >>> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:41 AM >>> Subject

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced?

2011-07-29 Thread BRM
>From: Paul Hartman >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:41 AM >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice being replaced? > >On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Dale wrote: >> I noticed this today: >> >> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: >> #required by

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless N PCMCIA/CardBus Recommendations...

2011-07-18 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Paul Hartman > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Fri, July 15, 2011 5:24:48 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless N PCMCIA/CardBus Recommendations... > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:54 PM, wrote: > > I have always had good luck with Atheros-based ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless N PCMCIA/CardBus Recommendations...

2011-07-14 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:42:49 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: > > > While I am at it, I am also considering getting a new wireless card for > > my D600 laptop to at least augment the internal b43-legacy supported > &g

[gentoo-user] Wireless N PCMCIA/CardBus Recommendations...

2011-07-14 Thread BRM
After several years, I am not getting around to upgrading my wireless router - from a Linksys WRT54G to a Cisco Linksys E4200. While I am at it, I am also considering getting a new wireless card for my D600 laptop to at least augment the internal b43-legacy supported Broadcom 43xx card that gene

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo

2011-05-27 Thread BRM
From: Mark Shields > >To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >Sent: Thu, May 26, 2011 9:57:26 PM >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye, Gentoo > > >On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >It looks like it's time to take Gentoo off of my main machine. I feel a >little >sad about it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > > Okay - that's not entirely KDE's problem; though it would have helped a > > long way with the KDE4 transition if they kept a few people working on > > those issues. > > How would you feel if you were a KDE dev told "we're all going to play

Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-13 Thread BRM
> >From: Daniel da Veiga >On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 18:55, Dale wrote: >>I was curious, what's the results of the openrc update for people that have >>done >> >>theirs? Is it pretty simple and "just works" or are there issues? I'm >>mostly >>interested in x86 and amd64 since that is what I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-13 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > On Thu, 12 May 2011 16:44:21 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Your questions don't disprove what me and others have posted. As I > > have said on the KDE mailing list, KDE made a serious mistake dropping > > KDE3 before KDE4 was ready. > How exactly d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Alan McKinnon > > I still don't understand why the kde folks went from something that > > worked extremely well to their current state. Baffling. > > KDE3 and KDE4 are not the same thing. > KDE4 is not the next version of KDE3. > > You must consider KDE4

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-09 Thread BRM
Well, I saw a lot of advice on this but no real solution - just some debugging help. At least from my own experience with Bash Scripting, I find that you can never use enough braces when referencing variables. So, the script should read: url="http://mypage"; curl_opts="-x" curl ${url} -d \"myd

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Grant > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 3:29:35 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted? > > >> >> Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the > >>file > >> >> system re

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Grant > >> Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the >file > >> system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things >don't > >> get lost. > >> If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk. > > > > That

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk. If you know it's going to run, then you can do one of two things: 1) I believe th

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: J. Roeleveld > On Thu, April 7, 2011 7:31 pm, BRM wrote: > > The attraction to LVM for me was that from what I could tell it supported > > and > > implemented a software-RAID > > so that I could help protect from disk-

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Joost Roeleveld > On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:52:26 BRM wrote: > > - Original Message > > > > > From: Joost Roeleveld > > > > > > On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:20:55 BRM wrote: > > > > --

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Joost Roeleveld > On Thursday 07 April 2011 06:20:55 BRM wrote: > > - Original Message > > > From: Neil Bothwick > > > On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:22:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > > > > I want to do it this way b

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 05:22:41 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I want to do it this way because I don't trust LVM enough to put my OS > > on. Just my personal opinion on LVM. > This doesn't make sense. Your OS can be reinstalled in an hour or two, > y

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-31 Thread BRM
At work, we've had a lot of success with Lenovo's. My T61p (3 years old) is fully supported by Linux - wireless included - according the documentations; I can't quite verify as I haven't been able to transition it (yet) to Linux. Colleagues haven't had issues with another model, but I'm not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] web redirection

2011-02-07 Thread BRM
Well, testing from work on a Windows system it seems to work ok. Don't have a Linux system with a web-browser quite accessible to use at the moment; so may be it's a difference in platforms? $0.02, Ben - Original Message > From: James > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Mon,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-02 Thread BRM
>From: Peter Humphrey >On Tuesday 01 February 2011 20:43:43 BRM wrote: >> And you're doing a typically manual process for updating all the >> systems - update your server first, then any rsync clients. Fine & >> dandy if that is your process - but it's not mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Tue, February 1, 2011 12:20:56 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems... > > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Feb 2011 05:48:32 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-02-01 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > Nils Holland wrote: > > On 21:35 Mon 31 Jan , Francesco Talamona wrote: > >> On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: > >>> I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Francesco Talamona > On Monday 31 January 2011, BRM wrote: > > I just wrote a new script last night, but I'm still not sure that all > > of the parameters are correct > > Why not something proven and reliable like "e

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Nils Holland > On 20:12 Sat 29 Jan , BRM wrote: > > A little while back my server ran out of hard disk space (due to a failed >hard > > > drive) and as a result my local portage mirror got destroyed. > > Well, I fixed the

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Problems...

2011-01-30 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Sun, January 30, 2011 7:03:27 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Problems... > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2011 20:12:26 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: > > > Well, I fixed there server -

[gentoo-user] Emerge Problems...

2011-01-29 Thread BRM
A little while back my server ran out of hard disk space (due to a failed hard drive) and as a result my local portage mirror got destroyed. Well, I fixed there server - initially by just grabbing a new copy of portage like a new install since it was just completely hosed, and the server is back

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-01-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message > I have two questions: > > 1) Do I have to enable microcode updates in the BIOS of my Crosshair > IV Formula to activate microcodes push in the CPU by the module > "microcode" ? (AMD Phenom X6 1090T) Not sure about BIOS, but the Linux Kernel you are runni

[gentoo-user] Zenoss on Gentoo?

2011-01-05 Thread BRM
Is there a Gentoo Package for Zenoss Community edition (http://community.zenoss.org/community/download)? It's available via sf.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/zenoss/). If not, oh well. I saw it recommend on another list for something I thought may be interested in trying out at home. TIA,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Windows 'Remote Assistance'

2010-11-22 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Mark Knecht > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Sun, November 21, 2010 1:26:30 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Windows 'Remote Assistance' > > On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Mick wrote: > > I know this is somewhat off-topic but I am losing frie

Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk indexing, what triggers it?

2010-11-19 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Paul Hartman > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Fri, November 19, 2010 11:31:39 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nepomuk indexing, what triggers it? > > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Alan McKinnon >wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Haven't had much luck

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4 multi-monitor + fullscreen applications

2010-11-18 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: YoYo Siska > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Thu, November 18, 2010 12:41:03 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4 multi-monitor + fullscreen applications > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:41:25PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > > Am 17.11.2010 23:26, s

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4 multi-monitor + fullscreen applications

2010-11-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Florian Philipp > To: Gentoo User List > Sent: Wed, November 17, 2010 5:08:33 PM > Subject: [gentoo-user] KDE-4 multi-monitor + fullscreen applications > > Hi list! > > Today, KDE nearly killed a presentation I held and now I want to > understand what's goi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Alan McKinnon > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Cc: Grant Edwards > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:34 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Grant > Edwards did opine thusly: > > On 2010-11-16, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > >> spinrite claims to make the head do oth

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Mike Edenfield > On 11/15/2010 11:05 AM, Florian Philipp wrote: > > It's LGPL licensed. The GUI is a bit ugly but it has a lot of > > functionality and can handle cases in which the Windows defragger > > doesn't work. That mostly happens when the disk is nea

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > I have a niece that brought me her puter. It's a HP with windoze XP on it. > I >want to defrag the hard drive but the one that comes with windoze won't work. > >Is there a free defrag tool that is safe on windoze? I ask because I don't >want t

Re: [gentoo-user] bash scripting tip

2010-11-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Hilco Wijbenga > On 12 November 2010 10:36, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > > On 12 November 2010 09:57, Philip Webb wrote: > >> It needs to be a Bash function, so in ~/.bashrc > >> I tried 'function cd2() { cd .. ; cd $1 ; }', > > > > Doesn't > > > > function c

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: "fe...@crowfix.com" > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:41:27AM -0700, BRM wrote: > > The cvs2svn project also has a cvs2git tool. > > > > http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ > > Interesting ... downloaded and tried it, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-02 Thread BRM
The cvs2svn project also has a cvs2git tool. http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/ HTH, Ben - Original Message > From: "fe...@crowfix.com" > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Tue, November 2, 2010 12:02:58 AM > Subject: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git > > I have a small RCS re

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout --> openrc ?

2010-10-25 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 00:29:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Although, perhaps I'm missing something but doesn't alpha > > > come *before* release candidate? :) > > Yes, but: > > > > 2.2.0_alpha1 comes *after* 2.2_rc99 > > It should al

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice

2010-10-15 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Volker Armin Hemmann > b) 'libreoffice' - which is competing for the title 'most idiotic name ever' > - > > is based on go-openoffice. Gentoo already uses the go-openoffice patches. Based on what I read on the Document Foundation's website, I do not belie

[gentoo-user] Android SDK

2010-10-07 Thread BRM
I noticed there have been a few Android SDK's in portage now for a while - originally android-sdk, now android-sdk-update-manager (http://packages.gentoo.org/package/dev-util/android-sdk-update-manager). I know there is a bug on it - http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320407 - but that's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping the system safe

2010-10-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: "cov...@ccs.covici.com" > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Thu, October 7, 2010 6:21:15 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Copying a file via ssh with no password, keeping > the >system safe > > Momesso Andrea wrote: > > > > > Quoting Andrea Conti :

Re: [gentoo-user] IP aliasing problem

2010-10-07 Thread BRM
> ServerName differently for each VirtualHost. Strangely though, I > still don't get stats for RX/TX from ifconfig: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr [removed] > inet addr:1.2.3.1 Bcast:[removed] Mask:255.255.255.248 >UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500

Re: [gentoo-user] IP aliasing problem

2010-10-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message > Thank you for taking the time to write Stroller. This has really got > my head spinning. First of all, you're right about the netmask. It > is 255.255.255.248. I didn't have a good understanding of what a > netmask is so I thought it would be smart to change i

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/autotoolset

2010-10-05 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Alan McKinnon > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Cc: dhk > Sent: Tue, October 5, 2010 7:34:02 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dev-util/autotoolset > > Apparently, though unproven, at 12:33 on Tuesday 05 October 2010, dhk did > opine thusly: > > > On 10/05

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoos community communication rant

2010-09-07 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Al > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > 2010/9/7 Volker Armin Hemmann : > > On Tuesday 07 September 2010, Al wrote: > >> > because he hopes that you finally shut up? > >> Why do you read this thread and answer to it? Ignore it. > > I would, if you wouldn't p

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-25 Thread BRM
- Original Message > Joshua Murphy wrote: > > Well, glancing at the GET request it's making there, as well as the > > API google points me to when I look it up... > > > > http://developer.yahoo.com/messenger/guide/ch03s02.html#d4e4628 > > > > You're right that it's after an image from

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > Mick wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 21:15:51 Dale wrote: > >> Mick wrote: > >>> On 17 August 2010 15:29, BRMwrote: > >>>> - Original Message > >>>>> From: Dale > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > Adam Carter wrote: > > Is this easy to do? I have no idea where to start except that > > wireshark is installed. > > Yep, start the capture with Capture -> Interfaces and click on the start >button next to the correct interface, then right

Re: [gentoo-user] Yahoo and strange traffic.

2010-08-15 Thread BRM
- Original Message > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Dale wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I been noticing the past few weeks that something is communicating with > > Yahoo at these addresses: > > > > cs210p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com > > > > rdis.msg.vip.sp1.yahoo.com > > > > I thought it was Kopet

Re: [gentoo-user] b43-legacy and newer linux kernels?

2010-08-13 Thread BRM
- Original Message > On 13 August 2010 09:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:10:02 -0700 (PDT), BRM wrote: > >> but even so - they are saying this has to be done on every reboot, and > >> that's not much of a solution. > > Put th

[gentoo-user] b43-legacy and newer linux kernels?

2010-08-12 Thread BRM
I have a laptop that has been running Linux Kernel 2.6.30 Gentoo-R8 (gentoo sources, don't remember which version) for a while. It has a Broadcom 4306 Rev 2 wireless card that has been working well with that kernel. I extracted the firmware from the broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5 blob a while ago using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-28 Thread BRM
> >Don't get me wrong, I don't even have an nvidia card in my systems right now >(cause ATI are superior in windows, all my systems have ATI), but I miss the >times that I had one. So much more stuff worked without problems and with >better >performance. > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: State of Radeon drivers

2010-07-27 Thread BRM
That's great so long as nVidia supports your card. The problem with the binary drivers is that they typically only support a percentage of all the cards the video maker makes. For example, I can't use the ATI binary driver on my laptop since it no longer supports the R250 chipset, only their lat

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7.

2010-04-10 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Sat, April 10, 2010 9:14:56 AM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server 1.7. > > After that you kann kill X without disturbing the kernel (and risk your > > data) with ALT-Backspace. You will get back a

[gentoo-user] Backups...

2010-02-27 Thread BRM
Well, now that I've got my systems cleaned up, and KDE3 removed, I'm tackling another project I've been meaning to do - backups. Here's my basic plan: - I've got a directory on my server that I want to synchronize several systems with (some linux, and one Windows). - I want clients to push the b

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world > >> because the critical packages aren't in there? > > indeed I did. > >> At least I am not the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-27 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: walt > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > On 02/26/2010 06:23 PM, BRM wrote: > >> From: Mark Knecht > >> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: > >>> Is there really any need for the "cylinder" thes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > > On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: > >>> From: Neil BothwickTo: > >>> (PST), BRM wrote: > >>>> Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge > >>>> --depclean&quo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > > - Original Message > >> From: Neil Bothwick > >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > >> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: > >>> Aside from that, I'm not sure I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Who believes in cylinders?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Mark Knecht > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, walt wrote: > > Is there really any need for the "cylinder" these days? > No, not as I understand it. > There may be some bits of software that suggest they can use them, but > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: > > Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge > > --depclean", but I also rarely uninstall anything,

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice/best practices for a new Gentoo installation

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Paul Hartman > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Some topics I'm thinking about (comments welcome): > - be aware of cylinder boundaries when partitioning (thanks to the > recent thread) > - utilizing device labels and/or volume labels instead of hoping > /dev/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Alex Schuster > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > BRM writes: > > > > If you keep your world file (/var/lib/portage/world) tidy, simply > > > > deleting all lines with KDE3 packages and running emerge -a -- > > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Dale > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: > > On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: > >> I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE &g

[gentoo-user] Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-25 Thread BRM
I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE 3.5.10 installed, and am wondering how much longer I need to keep it around...I probably use all KDE4 apps, though there might be a few here or there that I use on a rare occasion that are still KDE3 based...may be...and no

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-25 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Alan McKinnon > On Thursday 25 February 2010 05:14:06 ubiquitous1980 wrote: > > BRM wrote: > > > I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, > > > preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little

[gentoo-user] Portage GUI interfaces...

2010-02-24 Thread BRM
I am interested in finding a GUI interface for working with portage, preferably for KDE4. Namely b/c I am getting a little tired of having konsole windows open and not being able to keep track of where I am in the emerge update process - something a GUI _ought_ to be able to resolve. In googlin

Re: [gentoo-user] Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-17 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Mick > I also happen to own a couple of old PCs which I try to keep lean and I don't > mind the odd double declutching to change gears. Now, I understand the > development philosophy of KDE4 since this was very well explained, but that > does not stop me wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Zeerak Waseem > But then the question isn't whether there are a number of soft dependencies, > but > in the case of semantic-desktop whether -it- is a soft dependency. Like > previously stated, I don't use kmail, nor do I intend to (I at least think I > men

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Zeerak Waseem > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote: > >> But I do find it silly, that the various applications that aren't > >> dependent of the DE, to require a dependency of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???

2010-02-10 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Volker Armin Hemmann > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Sent: Wed, February 10, 2010 12:18:59 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only > ~x86)??? > ALSO: > from the qt-4.5.3 ebuild: > > KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm hppa ~ia6

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-21 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: pk > BRM wrote: > > The point of the UI is that you ought not care what goes where, unless you > > are > debugging the UI or the program itself. > > While a UI is important; a good UI is key. > And a plain text editor is, imo,

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-20 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Alan McKinnon > On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:36:45 BRM wrote: > > > Or a pretty GUI with clicky boxes to change the settings while never > > > letting the user see the contents of the XML. > > Once the user interface is in plac

Re: [gentoo-user] Devicekit - especially just for Dale

2010-01-19 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: Neil Bothwick > On Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:09:16 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > XML is a machine-readable file format that just happens to use ASCII > > > characters, it is not meant to be modified by a text editor, so if > > > your program uses XML configuratio

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...

2010-01-06 Thread BRM
- Original Message > From: BRM > From: Mike Edenfield > > > On 12/2/2009 9:17 PM, BRM wrote: > > > I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) > through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: > > > e

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Preparing a laptop for sale

2009-12-17 Thread BRM
From: Neil Bothwick > On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:49:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Let's look at the obvious solution then: > > remove the hard drive containing sensitive data, replace it with a new > > one, sell laptop. > > Ka-Ching! Problem solved. > Unfortunately, the hard drive seller gets mo

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.31 vfat driver broken?

2009-12-10 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Frank Steinmetzger > Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Willie Wong: > > > I heard romours of problems with the current FAT implementation due to > > > M$. I went back to 2.6.30 for the moment. So what???s your proposal? > > > Usually I don???t have the nee

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless...

2009-12-03 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mike Edenfield > > On 12/2/2009 9:17 PM, BRM wrote: > > I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) > > through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: > > essid_wlan0="my

[gentoo-user] Wireless...

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
I have wireless working (b43legacy driver for the Dell Wireless Broadcom) through a static configuration in /etc/conf.d/net - basically: essid_wlan0="myWLAN" key_MYWLAN="somekey" config_MYWLAN=( "dhcp" ) preferred_APS= ( "myWLAN" ) I would like to use a tool like WPA Supplicant instead so I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop resurrection... (solved)

2009-12-02 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Mick > On Wednesday 02 December 2009 20:52:35 BRM wrote: > > - Original Message > > From: Mick > > > 2009/12/2 BRM : > > > - which makes me ask: > > > What is your exact error message? > > I'll p

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