Re: [gentoo-user] X11 and HP2475w: First steps?

2010-04-12 Thread stosss
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 3:21 AM,   wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>  before damaging "delicate electronic equipment" I want >>  to ask, what the best way is to switch from a 1600x1200 >>  pixel analogous Iiyama monitor to an Flat panel HP2475w (LCD) >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables - do I need the nat table?

2010-04-12 Thread stosss
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2010-04-11 9:20 AM, Graham Murray wrote: >> Tanstaafl writes: >>> I'm a bit clueless when it comes to firewalls, and have no idea what >>> these numbers mean/do: >>> >>> *raw >>> :PREROUTING ACCEPT [4911:886011] >>> :OUTPUT ACCEPT [4546:28187

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:Choosing a filesystem

2010-04-02 Thread stosss
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM, wrote: > > Hi, > > I googled down some - often fairly outdated - texts about "the > best filesystem" fpr a Linux box. Other texts focussed on > uses, which do not aplly to me: Fileservers, webservers, database > machines  etc. > > Wnat I want is a fast and stable (

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread stosss
> Bad enough you mentioned HAL in a conversation with Dale.  Now there's > XML involved.  This thread is officially never going to end. This list really lightens up a day. LOL -- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-04-02 Thread stosss
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:12:30 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> >>> Then again, when I put a CD/DVD in, it doesn't mount it >>> automatically anymore.  I think that is a KDE4 thing.  I may not have >>> turned something on.  I just

Re: [gentoo-user] ping / connect to another subnet

2010-03-30 Thread stosss
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Joseph wrote: > I'm running Windows XP on VirtualBox, it has a network "NAT" so the IP > address it gets: > IP: 10.0.2.15 > Gateway: 10.0.2.2 > DNS: 10.10.0.1  (Linux router) > > I've tried to access the Windows IP by creating another subnet: > ifconfig eth0:1 10.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get a DVD to burn.

2010-03-30 Thread stosss
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 20:19:02 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I also tried to burn this with tkdvd but it failed too.  I don't think >> the media is bad.  It doesn't appear to be k3b since the other program >> fails too.  I also updated to the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wednesday, March 17, 2010, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Mittwoch 17 März 2010 schrieb Dale: > >> I only want plain text to the mailing lists and html for everyone else.  I >> send pics and other things to other folks. > > Ya don’t need HTML for that. ;-) > > I have even seen mails that were m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Dale wrote: > stosss wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Dale  wrote: >> >>> >>> I think I have it set up on the gmail server to do whatever Seamonkey >>> says. >>>  Then I have to set up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:28 AM, Dale wrote: > stosss wrote: >> >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Dale  wrote: >> >>> >>> Hartmut Figge wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Dale: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about Seamonkey and a test.

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Dale wrote: > Hartmut Figge wrote: >> >> Dale: >> >> >>> >>> I just gave Seamonkey a fresh start.  Now I have a question.  I had the >>> old set up so that when I opened Seamonkey, it would start both the >>> browser and email.  Now it only starts the browser.  I r

Re: [gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread stosss
> Wasn't Agrajag the toothless wonder that kept getting accidentally killed by > Arthur Dent? Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE? Get me out of here!

2010-03-03 Thread stosss
> I wonder if amarok would not be better off using the strigi/nepomuk indexing > function, instead of trying to be real clever and doing it itself. I think Amarok uses MySQL.

Re: [gentoo-user] Pending layman directory "relocation"

2010-03-03 Thread stosss
I am new to Gentoo and just watching this discussion. So why does stage three put portage in /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-file search & replace of text

2010-02-28 Thread stosss
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Stroller wrote: > > On 28 Feb 2010, at 19:06, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: >> >> On Sunday 28 February 2010, Stroller wrote: >>> >>> ... >>>  $ sed 's/Project Gutenberg/Wordsworth Classics/' foo > bar >>>  $ mv bar foo >>>  $ >> >> Have a look at sed's "-i" option. >> >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-28 Thread stosss
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:28 AM, pk wrote: > ubiquitous1980 wrote: > >>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/07/msg00059.html > >> With "sudo su - " the man pages do not have ESC throughout.  I have >> learned sudo su from my ubuntu days and I am only guessing that this is >> bad practice

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get KMS to set the screen resolution to that of the external monitor attached to the laptop.

2010-02-28 Thread stosss
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:05 AM, ubiquitous1980 wrote: > Is there a way to get KMS to set the resolution to 1680 x 1050 so that I > have more real estate on my external monitor.  At present, the external > monitor is not getting full use with parts of it blacked out to make the > resolution of the