Re: [gentoo-user] nomachine <--> nxserver-freenx

2015-02-11 Thread Matthew Marlowe
> Client-side rendering works just fine with NX (including x2go). You > just have to watch your screen paint every time you scroll an > application like chrome that uses it. Instead of sending the text > your X client sends NX an image, just like VNC. > I thought the NX 4.0 packages (free and co

Re: [gentoo-user] which machine to buy for perfect gentoo machine?!

2013-04-19 Thread Matthew Marlowe
General thoughts when building a home gentoo workstation that you want to last a _long_ time: - Quality, durability, and flexibility of the motherboard, power supply, and chassis are the most important items to focus on. You want a motherboard that is capable of lasting for 10yrs w/o problem, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-06 Thread Matthew Marlowe
Read the news entry - add the designated option to your grub kernel line - reboot. That will be the simplest solution for now. Long term, avoid udev upgrades like the plague and test them on non-critical systems first. Strange that the reason I think us server people were OK with udev being add

Re: [gentoo-user] Any UPS recommendations?

2013-01-08 Thread Matthew Marlowe
I'd recommend sticking with APCI've explored other UPS vendors/brand in the past, and most of them work fine especially optiupsbut I've also had some cases of cheaper ups's becoming fire hazards, having short useful lifetimes, or not producing a good enough sine wave. When power is subtly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: new printer suggestions?

2012-09-24 Thread Matthew Marlowe
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 24 September 2012 18:45:29 James wrote: > >> So now I'll have to think about all of this some more >> HP printers have worked for me for over 14 years with linux, >> unix and bsd systems.. >> Both Xerox and HP have had goo

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the current state of Arduino on Gentoo?

2012-08-19 Thread Matthew Marlowe
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > I know (through simple discovery) that I can't simply "emerge arduino" > and expect things to work. I know, because they don't I built an arduino dev environment on gentoo not too long ago, and the only real complication was finding a the righ

Re: [gentoo-user] mounting samsung galaxy S III (android ics)

2012-07-18 Thread Matthew Marlowe
> I did some googling and there are a number of comments but no clear > recommendations. Has anyone here performed file transfer > gentoo <--> samsung S3. > You have two choices: a) if you just need to transfer video/pictures, there is a compatibility mode you can toggle inside android settings t

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare Hypervisor - SD vs CF card?

2012-06-21 Thread Matthew Marlowe
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:47 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > I could get 2 of these for each server, each with a mirrored pair of CF (or > SD) cards (mirror mode is defined by a jumper or switch on the adapter), > then mirror those (in the BIOS), which would result in a total of FOUR CF > (or SD) redundant

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo segfaults on virtualbox-4.1.14 when running on AMD bulldozer

2012-04-27 Thread Matthew Marlowe
assing to the guest. In vmware, one could limit the cpu flags to maintain compatibility with various cpu releases which was especially helpful in clusters Yes, your gentoo vms should have been fine ..but at least until you track down the issue, see if virtualbox has a similar feature? --

Re: [gentoo-user] adobe-flash-11.2.202.228 + nvidia crashing

2012-04-27 Thread Matthew Marlowe
be and switch to a different flash engine like lightspark/gnash for everything else. -- Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com https://www.twitter.com/deploylinux 1-805-857-9144

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS terribly slow on writes

2012-04-20 Thread Matthew Marlowe
dle server by a >> network >> of 1Gb/sec. >> >> Does anybody have some hints on how to speed up such an NFS3 setup? > > There's all kinds of NFS tuning options. I'm not an expert, so I can't > really make any strong suggestions, but my first stop would p

Re: [gentoo-user] About ready to move /usr, /var and /home to LVM.

2012-04-12 Thread Matthew Marlowe
the init thingy so > that it knows /usr is on a separate partition and will mount it or will > it know that when it reboots? > > Thanks again for all the help.  Already headed off a couple problems. > > Dale > > :-)  :-) > > -- > I am only responsible for what I said ...

Re: [gentoo-user] How to record memory usage & bandwidth usage?

2011-10-11 Thread Matthew Marlowe
don't >> need any fancy schmancy presentation. Just raw data, taken every N >> seconds. > > I have used mrtg and nagios to capture and monitor both, but you'll have to > install and configure them. > > If you're good with perl or python, then some simpl

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Computers and mental/emotional health

2011-10-03 Thread Matthew Marlowe
egular activities with your family/friends that involve outdoor recreation (build a home pool/take up swimming laps/etc) Nothing will completely remove the fact that modern life is increasingly unhealthy, but the above is at least a good start. Matt -- Matthew Marlowe m...@professionalsysadmin.com

Re: [gentoo-user] terrible performance with btrfs on LVM2 using a WD 2TB green drive

2011-03-14 Thread Matthew Marlowe
the drive. The 4 Disk SW RAID10 array gives me 255MB/s reads, 135MB/s block writes, and 98MB/s rewrites (old test, may need to rerun for latest changes/etc). LVM 2 Disk RAID0 gives 303MB/s reads, 190MB/s block writes, and 102MB/s rewrites (test ran last week). Regards, Matt -- Matthew

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT. Building a rig. Want to get opinions before spending $$$

2010-11-26 Thread Matthew Marlowe
incing. I must have bought into the marketing there. Thanks for the correction. However, 650W would seem to be optimal. For less stressful systems, 450 seems OK short term, but I'm not sure whether it would be limiting for a chassis expected to last 8+ yrs w/ whatever upgrades come down t

Re: [gentoo-user] Somewhat OT. Building a rig. Want to get opinions before spending $$$

2010-11-26 Thread Matthew Marlowe
last me several years since I can't afford to > rebuild every few years. Also, one reason for the HUGE CPU cooler, I > run folding in the winter. Helps heat the place up a bit. lol My > current rig with a Volcano 12 runs at about 90F at full load. I would > like to run pretty close t