Hi. I wanted to know how was my HD set, and I was issuing
information-querying commands like hdparm /dev/hda,
hdparm -i /dev/hda when I accidentally issued hdparm -X /dev/hda (idiot me).
The hdparm man page does not tell what happens when the -X option is used
without an argument.
I suspect it is e
>> Or would I be better off using ext3 and converting it to ext4 in a month
>> or two? Are there any downsides to converting a fs from ext3 to ext4 in this
>> way?
>
> The downsides are that you'll end up with missing ext4 features that will
> only apply to newly created files after the conversion.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Dave Oxley wrote:
> I upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.6.27-r4 to -r5 a couple of days ago and got
> the below error messages in /var/log/messages. Also dovecot was using 100%
> CPU and could not be killed. This resulted in me having to hard reset the
> server.
Coul
2008/12/8 Kacper Kopczyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>
>> How about you replace the <= symbols by '~', such that revision
>> updates are also alwowed?
>>
>
> I'll try as soon as I fix my l
> I should give e17 another try when it gets a little more stable, or
> when at least Vapier finds the time to update the snapshot ebuilds
> (which, last time I checked, were horribly outdated).
>
> Regards,
>Jorge Peixoto
Oh, great, it seems vapier updated the snapshots!
Alan, would you recom
> e17 doesn't like transparency and compiz-style effects. You can get it to work
> with the bling module or by using a compositing manager like xcompmgr or a
> derivative, but I found it wasn't exactly stable on nVidia. You may have
> better luck with ATI.
Going offtopic, I for myself don't care a
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 4:21 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I cannot solve your problem because I know little of X and nothing
>> about compiz (which I consider futile), but for this kind of problem,
>> you may want to know about the magic SysRq key. It allows you to at
>> least reboot your sys
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stroller wrote:
>>
>> I've been wondering for a while why no alternative has been proposed.
>> HTML was originally considered poor because it wasted bandwidth, HTML
>> messages being *at least* twice the size of the plain text, but o
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:38 AM, Shawn Haggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:21:44 pm Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>> Speaking of md5sum/shasum, do you know some tool that adds data
>> redundancy? I heard dvddistaster does this, but I guess it is l
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Florian Philipp
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and
>> to a second one, since I keep hearing that DVD-Rs are unreliable), and
>> since I don't take new photos every week, this solution is fine.
>>
>
> A
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Daniel Troeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 26.11.2008, 15:26 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp:
>> > As for my photos, I can back all the collection to a single DVD (and
>> > to a second one, since I keep hearing that DVD-Rs are unreliable), and
>> >
>>> [...] what would be the best way to defrag it?
>>
>> By not defragging it.
>>
>> It's not Windows. Windows boxes needs defragging not because fragmentation
>> is a huge problem in itself, but because windows filesystems are a steaming
>> mess of [EMAIL PROTECTED] that do little right and most t
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Thanasis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Regarding kernel maintenance, mostly from the point of view of security,
> which is the best way to go:
> 1) Having gentoo-sources in /var/lib/portage/world, which would mean the
> sources would be upgraded whenever portage mark
2008/11/24 Kacper Kopczyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have a MSI Wind U100 netbook. I'm using xfce with compiz-fusion.
>
> When I try to start mplayer -fs file.avi the Xserver freezes. It also
> freezes when the logout window of xfce, that gray "transparent" background,
> tries to show 3 buttons (l
> I think my real reason for posting this is I'm unhappy with my IO
> performance. I've got a 320GB Seagate SATAII drive. How much better
> can I do with conventional hard disks? Is there a test I can run to
> make sure my Seagate is performing as it should?
How about you go to single user mode
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Dirk Heinrichs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 27 November 2008 03:54:25 schrieb ext Jorge Peixoto de Morais
> Neto:
>
>> By the way, I found it weird that git has a lot of git-* binaries in
>> /usr/bin that are all 777 KB.
&g
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I take it you've already observed that you can also share portage and
>> distfiles directories? Easiest is if they are on their own partitions but
>> there are tricks that c
> I take it you've already observed that you can also share portage and
> distfiles directories? Easiest is if they are on their own partitions but
> there are tricks that can get the same effect if not. How to do this is left
> as an exercise for the reader :-) with one tip for those who don't kno
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:53 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>>>>>> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --nospinner"
>>>>>>
>> I don't see the reason tough. Mine is just
>> $ fgrep DE
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y --nospinner"
I don't see the reason tough. Mine is just
$ fgrep DEFAULT /etc/make.conf
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--nospinner
The portage's default around bdeps is fine with me. It makes sense.
And please think before changing the defaults. Do not change it just
be
>>> app-admin/findcruft2
>> Which overlay?
> $ eix findcruft
> * app-admin/findcruft2 [3]
> Available versions: 20080831
> Homepage:http://benedikt.boehm.name
> Description: findcruft2 is a tool to find orphaned files
> for unmerged packages
>
> * app-portage/findcr
> You could start with
>
> qfile -o $(find /etc -type f)
I guess that would have many more false positives than findcruft, as
it doesn't have the database feature of findcruft.
So no, qfile -o does not seem a better option than findcruft.
> Maybe you should search the forums for "cruft". I remember Ed (?) Catmur once
> posted a script or something there.
I use a script named findcruft regularly (I think it is an improved
version of Ed Catmur's product; I'll check when I get home). It works
by finding all files on the filesystem (avo
> I ran ext3 on a dirvish backup server - lasted two days, resierfs is
> still going after a couple of years. dirvish REALLY hammers a file
> system.
>
> Participating in a few of these discussions over the years has brought
> home to me that YMMV really does apply to filesystems. Your usage, data
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Joerg Schilling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Backups.
>>
>> get a usb stick and manually copy your stuff to it, periodically.
>
>
> Where do you get these 1 TB USB sticks?
>
You are seeing from the perspective of a sysadmin.
He
>> [...] I have no expertise to decide on that matter,
>> but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by
>> default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop
>> usage), no?
>
> fedora turns on 4k stack - well knowing that it kills xfs. Do you want to
> re
> reiserfs has barriers turned on by default - which makes it a bit slower but a
> lot safer for data. ext3 has them turned off by default - ext3 devs don't care
> about data - only speed. You turn on barriers, performance goes down by 30%.
I read an article about that, and if I recall correctly th
> Now, since I usually compile software in a tmpfs, I guess the
> filesystem makes nearly zero difference. Video encoding is obviously
> bound by CPU, cache and RAM speed, not filesystem. Web rendering is
> also hardly affected by filesystem . And launching programs means
> mostly reading files, an
I wouldn't use XFS unless
it was all that was left. I tried it once a while back and found out it
does not like power failures at all. Each time I had a power failure, I
had to reinstall from scratch.
>>> Hmm, I use it because of its resistance to power failures. When was it t
> My only input devices are a PS2 keyboard with standard Brazilian
> layout (with no foolish extra "multimedia" keys) and a PS2 mouse with
> two buttons and one scroll wheel that also works as a third button. Do
> I need/want evdev?
I should put this in a more specific manner: would it be safe/wis
> Probably the new evdev-driver overrides synaptics. If you do not need evdev
> and can live with the normal drivers like kbd for keyboard and synaptics,
> you can try to disable it.
I hope you don't consider this to be thread hijacking, but can you
point me to a simple and high-level (but not exag
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 1:02 PM, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> Thank you all for your responses. After I sent my first email I
> modified the rc config to boot in parallel. The boot process was
> faster after that: just for the record, it takes 20 secs in a core 2
> duo laptop t
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:20 AM, damian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I boot my computer I don't want to wait for the dhcp client (in
> my case dhclient) to acquire a lease to continue the booting process.
> Instead, I would like that the client could be run in the background
> (as
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:17 PM, Michael P. Soulier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 20/11/08 Michael P. Soulier said:
>> On 20/11/08 Redouane Boumghar said:
>> > SO please check how much available memory you have
>>
>> I have 1Gig in this system, and I'm planning to add more.
>
> So, I killed fire
> Did you try the usual; e.g. revdep-rebuild -p -v -i and perl-cleaner?
I didn't know of perl-cleaner. I have never used it, and I don't
remember any emerge message telling me to use it (like a python update
does).
I have just ran per-cleaner all ask. First I run as a normal user (as
a test; I was
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:56:38 -0800
"Andrey Falko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/20/08, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Is it safe/wise to move 20java and 05gcc-i686-pc-linux-gnu to a backup
> > directo
Hi. Some of my environment variables are screwed up
/etc/env.d $ echo ${MANPATH}
/home/jorge/.gentoo/java-config-2/current-user-vm/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.18/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/man:${MANPATH}:/opt/sun-jre-bi
> I can live witout attr, but how can I force it *not* be built? I've set USE
> to -acl and -xattr but it still wants to build attr!?!?!
> Thanks,
> HK
> --
> Hinko Kočevar, OSS developer
Issue the command
emerge -pv --depclean attr
to see what is depending on attr
--
Software is like sex: it i
>>> Give this a shot:
>>>
>>> VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
>>>
>> No, "nvidia" is for the proprietary binary nvida driver. The free
>> driver for nvidia cards is called NV. I have a GeForce4 MX 440 and I
>> have this in my make.conf:
>> VIDEO_CARDS="nv vesa"
>
> What you say may be true, pretty sure it is,
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dale wrote:
>> Mick wrote:
>> > Without gentoo-wiki my knowledge level is rather poor (just like my
>> > memory!)
>> >
>> > What would you use to back up a running server without taking it off
>> > lin
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Dirk Heinrichs
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 16. November 2008 16:12:58 schrieb Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto:
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
>>
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> &g
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world
>> (Subject: How to fix a heft
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:24 PM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I posted some output in anther thread concerning update world
> (Subject: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem)
>
> Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I
> set the /etc/make.conf VIDE
> No, "nvidia" is for the proprietary binary nvida driver. The free
> driver for nvidia cards is called NV.
By "NV" I meant "nv". I always see it uncapitalized, so I think this
("nv") is its name, not "NV".
Sorry for the typo.
>> Someone noticed I had too many x11 drivers installed and suggested I
>> set the /etc/make.conf VIDEO_CARDS variable (which I never have set
>> before)
>>
>> I figured out I have an nvidia card so set VIDEO_CARDS="nv"
>>
>> Now with my emerge -vuDN @system @world complete I'm unable to start
>> X
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Avahi keeps failing with what looks like a Python gtk module error that I
> can't seem to figure out. I've done the obvious by re-emerging python (with
> running python-updater) and pygtk but it still fails. I atta
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 November 2008, 21:55, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>
>> So I want a way to tell the kernel or X11 to ignore mouse motion.
>> Either to shut down mouse motion completel
> if it is a usb mouse, disconnect it. Or unload the driver.
It is PS/2. And if I compile the driver as a module (presently it is
built-in) and unload it while X is running, wouldn't the module refuse
to unload (as it is being used)?
--
Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus T
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 18:55 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>> Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that
>> the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while th
Hi. I have a crappy mouse made in China. One of its problems is that
the mouse pointer sometimes moves even while the mouse is not moving.
Usually this manifests by the pointer "shaking", moving back and
forward one or two pixels very fast (it looks like some 5 times per
second). The worst problem
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> as root: lspci
>
> Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own
> user as when I run it as root. Or have I got my system set up
> differ
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in
> general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable?
I use it fairly often still, but d
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:58 AM, Michael P. Soulier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I hope that will work. emerge -e world is a bit extreme for this.
>
> It worked fine. For the record, I am using the default profile at the
> moment,
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Peter Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recent versions of portage have suggested an emerge -e world, so I thought
> I'd try it. It got as far as sandbox, which failed with the once-common "C
> compiler cannot create executables" error. Of course I
> t
On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Florian Philipp
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto schrieb:
>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Nickolay Hodyunya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> How to extract lzma archives?
>>
>> by lzma archiv
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mittwoch 05 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch, 5. November 2008 19:08:23 schrieb Denis:
>> > This probably was already discussed at length... But I keep waiting
>> > for an automatic portage tree
> The result: a clean compile, as near as I can tell, but useless. Now it
> quits
> silently a second or so into any startup, with or without a filename on the
> command line. No message on the terminal where
> I start it, and no clue I can see about what's wrong.
>
> I'm back to MSOffice. I h
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:12:44 -0200, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't trust something GUI-based; it would probably call the mp3
>> encoder with suboptimal default settings.
>
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:56 PM, David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Dirk,
>
> Thanks for taking the time to reply. The combination of gentoo-sources
> and genkernel has been working quite well for the 2 yrs I've been
> running Gentoo. It's convenient to have grub.conf auto-magically
>
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm wondering if anyone has a good way to convert a large hierarcy
> of directories populated with FLAC files to a new set of directories
> using mp3 instead? The FLAC directory contains something like 2
> files so
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Nickolay Hodyunya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How to extract lzma archives?
by lzma archive, you probably mean a lzma-compressed tar archive.
You can extract them with
lzma -dc compressedarchive.tar.lzma | tar -xv -f -
or, if your version of tar supports it,
tar --
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:49 AM, Dirk Uys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I Used the Live CD ... It does contain few packages like X11,xfce4, gdm
>> , some network utils,vim . But I need to get other packages whi
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Dirk Uys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system
>> successfully. I only downloaded the Live CD, But the l
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 05:23:58PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon
> squawked:
>> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:16:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>> > collision-protect seems nice,
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 19:56:41 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>> By the way, certain parts of Portage are very scarcely document, are
>> they not? For examples, the FEATURES only have
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:16:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
>> collision-protect seems nice, but I don't know about its drawbacks (if
>> any), and since it seems not to be def
> Mike Frysinger - he's a busy man :-) He heads up the gentoo toolchain team, is
> a lead kernel dev on the blackfin architecture, recently was (maybe still is)
> on the gentoo council. And maintains an e17 overlay.
Oh boy. I would donate money to him if I wasn't a poor student and if
the dollar wa
> The current kernel that I am running is 2.6.26.5-rt9-gentoo2.
> Sporadically this freezes, usually happening during the end of
> emerging an ebuild or when stopping gpm. Usually, the fb only freezes
> for a few seconds, but sometimes I have to O the machine
> (it's unresponsive to {R,S,E,I,K,U}).
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My first install of Gentoo, and I'm pleased by how far I've progressed on my
> own, not being a programmer or computer person, but I'm a bit wary of
> proceeding further without advice.
>
> I was trying to emerge some s
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On 8 Oct 2008, at 04:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> ...
>> every fcron is starting updatedb. I dont need this service on a
>> daily basis. I am starting updatedb by hand if I need a fresh db.
>> But I n
>> I generally try to update the docs with recent packages every six
>> months or so though I am guilty of letting them sit a bit longer.
>> However Gentoo has no official Bind documentation. The official Gentoo
>> Virtual Mail how-to offers about half the functionality, explanation,
>> and t
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Michael Sullivan
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything. I couldn't mount my
>> CD (in the past this wasn't necessary for audio CDs, but I thought I'd
>>
> As far as I know, the Linux kernel cannot mount Audio CDs. The o
> I have a little problem with gnome.
> I wanted to install gnome, but I got this error message:
>
> [blocks B ]
> I thought isn't a problem because I'm using Gentoo for 3 years. I
> uninstall gail and gtk+ and emerge is working fine... But after this
> the blockign situation is same.
> Okay,
>> I've found that the recent EINA library release for e17 has broken just
>> about everything.
>>
>> Gentoo's overlay system should be simple enough to modify however after
>> reading the fine manual I am no closer to understanding the appropriate
>> course of action to create eina as a dependency
>>
>> For about a week, my workstation has been crashing every day or so.
>> Typically it happens late at night while BackupPC is backing up a hard
>> drive. With "tail -F /var/log/messages" running I saw EXT3 mentioned a
>> few days ago and started suspecting a hard drive problem.
>>
>> Last night
> Why the hell do these packages depend on corefonts?:
>
> app-emulation/wine-1.1.6
> net-www/netscape-flash-10_rc20080915
> x11-misc/slim-1.3.1
>
> It somehow makes sense with wine, maybe even - remotely - with flash.
> But why, why should *slim* need Windows fonts to work?
Not only that, but why
>> The real problem is when you type
>> float real_number = 4e10;
>> int integer = real_number;
>> If your integer can only hold values up to 2^31 - 1 , the behavior of
>> the above code is undefined.
>> In a language like Python, everything either behaves as you intended,
>> of throws an exception
> To back myself up:
>
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import random
>
> for i in range(1,1):
>if random.random() < 0.001:
>print "rare"
>if malformed < beast:
>print "kick me in the ..."
>else:
>print "whatever"
>> >> I mean to really know C,
>> >> that is, read a rigorous book such as "C: A Reference Manual" and be
>> >> able to write portable programs with well-defined behavior. Speaking
>> >> of well-defined behavior, do you know what happens when you cast a
>> >> float to an int, and the float is too b
>> I mean to really know C,
>> that is, read a rigorous book such as "C: A Reference Manual" and be
>> able to write portable programs with well-defined behavior. Speaking
>> of well-defined behavior, do you know what happens when you cast a
>> float to an int, and the float is too big to fit into
>> awk? I assumed it was an obsolete language included for compatibility.
>> People should use Python, Perl, or sed's "s" command. Am I wrong?
>
> Yes. You are indeed wrong.
>
> Python and Perl are humungous interpreters that rival Java for size. Perl is
> in a class of it's own for syntax bloat.
>
> Run autounmask, it creates a new file in /etc/portage/package.unmask/
>
> Run a quick awk on it to get it into shape
>
> Move file to /etc/portage/package.mask/
>
> Problem solved in a neat elegant insightful way.
awk? I assumed it was an obsolete language included for compatibility.
People shou
> On Tuesday 28 October 2008 21:11:05 Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> How to "downgrade" to old fetching indicator (single-line instead of
>> multiple lines)?
>
> This has been bugging me for a long time as well, I'd really liek to know
> what's going on.
>
> 'ps ax' while emerge is downloading
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 12:21 +0700, Nickolay Hodyunya wrote:
>> Yes, but it seems 0.0.21 is not even released, because there is no
>> files to fetch
>> from ftp.gimp.org for this version.
>
> Well, sometimes that happens when you build from trunk (and why it's
> usually discouraged).
That is not
> I open mplayer, mpg321, vlc, or flash (youtube) and I have no sound.
> ALSA is working.
> Hardware is working.
> Already did alsaconf + alsamixer.
>
> Any suggestions?
To be really sure ALSA is working, I suggest you try aplay. Notice
that aplay is minimalistic, and does not support formats like
>
> Of course it's safe, just turn everything off, take the card out and
> clean it with the alcohol.
>
> Another thing...What do you mean by instability?
Abnormalities in the video, and computer crashes when viewing tv.
Without the card, no crashes.
I have cleaned the contacts of the card (with
Hi. I have instability in my PC and I highly suspect it is caused by
hardware problems in my TV card. I would like to clean its contacts and see
if it, by a miracle, solves the problem. But I don't want to make it worse.
So: is it safe to clean the contacts of a PCI card with isopropyl alcohol
and
> Do you think that there is any plausible chance that using the partition
> > might cause further damage?
>
> if there isn't a hardware problem - very probably not. I have had very
> good
> experiences with reiserfsck (for 3.6) and fsck.reiser4 (with reiser4). If
> the
> fs got fixed, it is fixed
On 9/8/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> On Samstag, 8. September 2007, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote:
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4225196.html#4225196
> >
> > Hi. The forums being down, can you give me help by mail on the topi
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4225196.html#4225196
Hi. The forums being down, can you give me help by mail on the topic
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4225196.html#4225196, since I can't use
my Gentoo installation until the problem is solved?
The most important thing to me is to know
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