[gentoo-user] New System setup: (Not) using KDE -- do I miss something?

2010-05-30 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, Currently I am setting up a new system on a new harddisc. I dont want the full blown KDE/GNOME as session manager -- I prefer a smaller solution: Openbox as windowmanager and using a handfull kde/gnome application where it is handy. Up to now I emerged this apllications -- namely k3b and ka

Re: [gentoo-user] Slim hassle...to login or not to login

2010-05-30 Thread Mick
On Saturday 29 May 2010 17:20:48 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Dru Kargin [10-05-29 18:08]: > > > Hi, > > > > > > while installing a new system from ground up on my new harddisc > > > I came accross a silly problem: > > > > > > I have setup X and slim as login manager. I installed openbox > > > (no

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for pdftk

2010-05-30 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Dan Johansson wrote: > Any suggestions for a good command line tool to manage PDFs like pdftk (split > (burst) a PDF, combine two or more PDFs, Rotate PDFs and so on)? > http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/26/pdf-linux Liviu

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync to a USB stick

2010-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 May 2010 07:59:31 -0400, David Relson wrote: > Indeed flash drives _do_ have a lifetime. My recollection is that it's > in the thousands of writes if not the hundreds of thousands of writes. > Assuming a life of 1,000 writes and you backup once daily, that's 3 > years of backups. 10,0

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync to a USB stick

2010-05-30 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:48:21 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 29 May 2010 07:59:31 -0400, David Relson wrote: > > > Indeed flash drives _do_ have a lifetime. My recollection is that > > it's in the thousands of writes if not the hundreds of thousands of > > writes. Assuming a life of 1,000 w

Re: [gentoo-user] New System setup: (Not) using KDE -- do I miss something?

2010-05-30 Thread Mick
On Sunday 30 May 2010 08:48:45 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > Currently I am setting up a new system on a new harddisc. > > I dont want the full blown KDE/GNOME as session manager -- I prefer > a smaller solution: Openbox as windowmanager and using > a handfull kde/gnome application where i

[gentoo-user] Re: rsync to a USB stick

2010-05-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-05-30, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 29 May 2010 07:59:31 -0400, David Relson wrote: > >> Indeed flash drives _do_ have a lifetime. My recollection is that it's >> in the thousands of writes if not the hundreds of thousands of writes. >> Assuming a life of 1,000 writes and you backup onc

Re: [gentoo-user] New System setup: (Not) using KDE -- do I miss something?

2010-05-30 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag, 30. Mai 2010 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > But something seems to be wrong: kaffeine does not find my dvb-t > device (which vlc finds and plays TV without problems) and k3b > does not find any burner/reader-device, but they do exist > (/dev/sr[01]). > > My userid are assigned the gro

[gentoo-user] zfs-fuse

2010-05-30 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Anyone using this ebuild? I'd love to hear some feedback as the development on zfs-fuse.net goes on. I think they could need some more testers as they have a new beta out these days. Have a look ;-) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291540 Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rsync to a USB stick

2010-05-30 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 30 May 2010 14:20:36 + (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2010-05-30, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sat, 29 May 2010 07:59:31 -0400, David Relson wrote: > > > >> Indeed flash drives _do_ have a lifetime. My recollection is that > >> it's in the thousands of writes if not the hundreds of t