Re: [gentoo-user] HD device becomes SD device

2009-07-01 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:04 PM, David Shen wrote: > I install gentoo 2008 amd64 in a virtual box virtual machine. I > configured the controller to us IDE controller, and if I boot from > livecd, it DID get a hda device under /dev. But after I finished > setting up the system, I cannot find the HD

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-05 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > IBM system M keyboard ... best keyboard ever made. > Truer words are rarely spoken. And you can pick them up on eBay for about USD $20 (or rummage sales for next to nothing). The only uncertainty in my mind is whether I prefer my Model M o

Re: Tweaks for SSDs [Was: [gentoo-user] [ot] no more inodes]

2009-06-03 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 30 May 2009 22:25:29 +0300, Eray Aslan wrote: > > > > Or I could try btrfs, which has an ssd mount option. > > > > Ugh. Even on-disk format is not finalized yet. > > That's OK, I'm not using it on my backup server : Sorry to send

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-28 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:35 -0400, Wyatt Epp wrote: > > > You know, I wonder if that's not a bug? There is no eselect module for > > setting your python version, > > U > > % eselect python help >

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-27 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:04:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already. > > There's also Windows. For just in case Ubuntu doesn't hold enough of your > hand. Oh right, what was I thinki

Re: [gentoo-user] ARGH I uninstalled python

2009-05-27 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Jorge Morais wrote: > I should mention that you should be careful about deleting any files - > and qfile is not a 100% guarantee that the file does not come from a > Portage-installed package. For example, in my system Python was > installed by Portage, and > $ fi

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="mmx mmxext sse sse2 ssse3 3dnow 3dnowext"

2009-05-27 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 8:14 AM, Stroller wrote: > > Of course, the amount of time I've spent on this thread, I could perhaps > have learned *exactly* what all these extended instruction sets do, who > designed them, whether they're cross-licensed between manufacturers and what > their prospects a

Re: [gentoo-user] X-forwarding fails with "Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key"

2009-04-24 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Grant wrote: > X-forwarding used to work for me but I haven't used it in a while and now I > get: > > Warning: untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed: xauth key data not > generated > Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. > Xli

Re: [gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem

2009-04-24 Thread Wyatt Epp
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Florian Philipp < li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote: > Try to increase the timeout. Add the following line to /etc/make.conf > > PORTAGE_RSYNC_INITIAL_TIMEOUT=60 > > Oh come on, seriously? I'm rolling over here; it never occurred to me that the whacked-out QoS w

[gentoo-user] Confusing persistent sync problem

2009-04-23 Thread Wyatt Epp
Evening, Lately, for at least a few months, actually, I've been completely unable to sync normally. I'll get the following sort of thing three times from three different servers. >>> Starting retry 2 of 3 with rsync://134.68.220.74/gentoo-portage >>> Checking server timestamp ... Welcome to cran

Re: [gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Wyatt Epp
2009/4/3 Sebastian Günther : > Well honestly: nothing lately. depclean had never removed something what > a -avtDuN and a revdep-rebuild couldn't repair. See, though, that's exactly the problem I'm talking about. :) Right now it seems a good chunk of the population uses it as a list command with

[gentoo-user] What annoys you?

2009-04-03 Thread Wyatt Epp
Greets, So while gearing up for the Summer of Code, I noted a lot of things that I had come to accept as normal that I feel should not be so. Things like the danger of depclean or the way portage will only show one mask at a time. So I was curious...what have people that are *not* myself and my