Hi,
> sitting in my chair that swivels, and guess what...my big toe is at
> __exactly__ the height of the main power button on my APC UPS, and
> darn if I don't hit it and power is gone!
Back in the old days I had a trusty desktop 286 which sat on a piece of
furniture at approximately knee level,
Hi,
I have a very great stuff at home called WDTV Live Media server. This is a
linux based machine offering some media services to the local network. Also
offering external drives as shares unfortunately only with anonymous access
I think because os security reasons this is disabled in linux (gre
On 08/17/10 18:59, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
>
> Is a SSD capable of supporting gentoo ? That's a good idea !
> You may be a pionneer ! Let's try...
Not really. Gentoo is running fine on SSD and why wouldn't it. A data
storage device does not care what data it stores.
Gentoo is even running fine on
2010/8/17 Maximilian Bräutigam
> You should backup all in / except
> /tmp/*
> /sys/*
> /proc/*
> /lost+found/*
> /dev/*
>
> Distfiles are saved outside the root and I can afford to rebuild world.
My
main concern was losing (gentoo) config files, speaking of which, I
remembered to back up /usr/sr
On 17 August 2010 22:34, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> For things I'd like to keep an history (eg. /etc) I'm using git, and
> pushing the repo to a remote server (denying non-fastfoward updates
> there, so an theorectical highjacker cannot destroy my history)
>
Using git for /etc is a great idea.
Than
On 17 August 2010 23:42, Andy Wilkinson wrote:
> I have tried 490, and it has the same problem: html5test.com reports no
> h264 support, and non-webm, html5 youtube videos don't work.
>
> I'll continue trying successive builds as they're posted... maybe 490
> doesn't have that commit yet?
>
Mayb
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:14:27 +0200, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote:
> You should backup all in / except
> /tmp/*
> /sys/*
> /proc/*
> /lost+found/*
> /dev/*
That backs up a lot of stuff that isn't needed. As long as you have /etc
and /var/lib you can recreate the system. Depending on space vs. time,
On 18 August 2010 14:34, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:14:27 +0200, Maximilian Bräutigam wrote:
>
> > You should backup all in / except
> > /tmp/*
> > /sys/*
> > /proc/*
> > /lost+found/*
> > /dev/*
>
> That backs up a lot of stuff that isn't needed. As long as you have /etc
> and
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 14:09 +0300, Nganon wrote:
>
>
> On 17 August 2010 22:34, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> For things I'd like to keep an history (eg. /etc) I'm using
> git, and
> pushing the repo to a remote server (denying non-fastfoward
> updates
> there,
On 8/17/2010 3:49 PM, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>> USE only affects optional dependencies. euse -I hal will list packages
>> that have a hal USE flag while emerge --depclean -pv sys-apps/hal will
>> show those that depend o it.
>
> I've just experimented a bit with that a
On 2010-08-18, Dale wrote:
> I think I got a old IBM AT/XT keyboard out in my shop. It has the wrong
> connector tho. Those things are pretty loud. You are right, they are
> heavy tho. Hmmm, could buy a adapter I guess.
I still use an IBM AT keyboard every day. Everything else from that A
On Wednesday 18 August 2010 01:32:32 William Kenworthy wrote:
> Hi Alan, a suggestion - for "mission critical" clone one of your systems
> into a vm (dd), get it working, upgrade and test.
>
> Or clone to a chroot and do the same.
>
> Not quite 100% - but allows some peace of mind!
Hi Bill,
G
Am 18.08.2010 01:44, schrieb Albert Hopkins:
> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:41 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>> Here is my edit of his Python script.
>
> ... which I actually forgot to attach :|
funny stuff.
Unfortunately I get
# ./keypress.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./keypress
On 08/17/2010 04:38 PM, walt wrote:
> Well, not quite true. I did change my /etc/fstab, but I'm now using disk
> labels in fstab instead of device names. If you still use device names
> you'll need to change /dev/hd* to /dev/sd* in fstab when using the new
> disk drivers.
I'm an old-timer with *
Le Tuesday 17 August 2010 21:24:59, Bill Longman a écrit :
> On 08/17/2010 06:43 AM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
> > On 8/16/2010 2:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
> >> I have read several things about this, but never really solved !
> >>
> >> Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multi
On 08/18/2010 04:53 AM, Nganon wrote:
> I did not know that. I was thinking of, in couple of months, buying a
> notebook
> with two HDDs with RAID1 installed and using the usb drive as a backup
> destination. So if RAID got corruped, the backups, made since then,
> would be
> useless? How would
Paul Hartman [10-08-18 17:12]:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 5:47 PM, wrote:
> > By the way (the same way! ;))
> > I am in search of such an "model m" IBM-keyboard. A colleque
> > yesterday calls me and said, that he found one for me in the
> > PC-junk at the basement of the building he is working
Paul Hartman [10-08-18 00:20]:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:20 PM, wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > on YouTube there was a Blender-2.5 tutorial with audio.
> > There was an interesting detail: While there were spoken
> > instructions one can hear one typing on its keyboard.
> > Each hit on one of the
Albert Hopkins [10-08-18 04:16]:
> On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 19:41 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> > Here is my edit of his Python script.
>
> ... which I actually forgot to attach :|
>
> -a
>
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> ## A tiny, nifty script for playing musical notes on each keypress.
> ##
> ##
On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 18:20 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> I checked the script -- it works :)
> But it is to slow (my computer is to slow, I am too fast?)
> I can press twice the number of keys which got "sounded" by
> the script.
> Or is something wrong with the setup of my sound interf
Am 18.08.2010 17:10, schrieb Peter Ruskin:
> python-xlib
thank you, works now, it's fun (for a while ... ;-) )
S
On 18 Aug 2010, at 11:18, SpaceCake wrote:
...
how can I instruct these programs to use "anonymous" login first or
at least try to use it if authentication is not succeed
Have you tried:
smbmount {service} {mount-point} -o username=guest
?
Stroller
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Dale wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> OK, this is too funny. I'm sitting here in the dark browsing around on
>> my home machine while I'm doing an eix-sync. I have my legs crossed,
>> sitting in my chair that swivels, and guess what...my big toe is at
>> __exactly
On 18 August 2010 14:59, William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 14:09 +0300, Nganon wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 17 August 2010 22:34, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> > For things I'd like to keep an history (eg. /etc) I'm using
> > git, and
> > pushing the repo to a remote se
On 18 August 2010 17:53, Bill Longman wrote:
> On 08/18/2010 04:53 AM, Nganon wrote:
> > I did not know that. I was thinking of, in couple of months, buying a
> > notebook
> > with two HDDs with RAID1 installed and using the usb drive as a backup
> > destination. So if RAID got corruped, the back
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Dale wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
OK, this is too funny. I'm sitting here in the dark browsing around on
my home machine while I'm doing an eix-sync. I have my legs crossed,
sitting in my chair that swivels, and guess what...my big toe
On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote:
> Clear now, thanks.
>
>
> If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
>
>
> AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong?
Not really. ZFS is only available on Solaris right now. I seem to
remember it was running on one of
Bill Longman wrote:
> On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote:
> > Clear now, thanks.
> >
> >
> > If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
> >
> >
> > AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong?
Why do you believe ZFS is unmaintained?
> Not really. ZFS is
This is a full protocol of all steps I need to do to get wlan0 running
with wpa_supplicant:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Asus_PRO52H#Network
Al
On 18 August 2010 21:37, Bill Longman wrote:
> On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote:
> > Clear now, thanks.
> >
> >
> > If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
> >
> >
> > AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong?
>
> Not really. ZFS is only available on Sol
Am Dienstag, 17. August 2010 schrieb Mick:
> > > > I am puzzled by this problem. One box of mine seems to be unable to
> > > > show the GBP sign in OpenOffice. In any OOo application it shows a
> > > > capital A with umlauts and then shows the £ sign.
> > > >
> > > > In the OOo Language Setting
On 18 August 2010 21:49, Joerg Schilling <
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Bill Longman wrote:
>
> > On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote:
> > > Clear now, thanks.
> > >
> > >
> > > If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
> > >
> > >
> > > AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained
On 08/18/2010 11:49 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Bill Longman wrote:
>
>> On 08/18/2010 11:03 AM, Nganon wrote:
>>> Clear now, thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>> If you want a robust filesystem, look into ZFS/BTRFS.
>>>
>>>
>>> AFAIK ZFS is unmaintained and BTRFS is not stable, am I wrong?
>
> Why do yo
Nganon wrote:
> > Not really. ZFS is only available on Solaris right now. I seem to
> > > remember it was running on one of the BSD's, too, since it's a matter of
> > > licensing that is the hurdle of greatest height. I've only played with
> > > BTRFS on my dev box and the simple workout I gave
1.) Is there a Map: modules to configration parameters?
"lspci -k" lists me all modules of the running genkernel.
Unfortunately the configuration parameters of the kernel have
different names.
2.) Which approach would you recommend?
To customize the kernel I can either strip down the configurat
Apparently, though unproven, at 20:49 on Wednesday 18 August 2010, Joerg
Schilling did opine thusly:
> > remember it was running on one of the BSD's, too, since it's a matter of
> > licensing that is the hurdle of greatest height. I've only played with
> > BTRFS on my dev box and the simple worko
On 18 August 2010 22:30, Elmar Hinz wrote:
> 1.) Is there a Map: modules to configration parameters?
>
> "lspci -k" lists me all modules of the running genkernel.
> Unfortunately the configuration parameters of the kernel have
> different names.
>
>
Submit your lspci -n output here and get amused
Hello,
> 1.) Is there a Map: modules to configration parameters?
I don't think so.
The help text for most modules has a reference to the actual module name
(something like "the module will be called "). If you're looking for
something specific you could try grepping for that in the
/usr/src/l
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > ZFS has a very free license. This was the reason, why it could be ported to
> > the BSDs. So why do you believe there is a "license hurdle"?
>
> You appear to not fully understand the licenses.
Well, I of course fully understand the licenses. It may however be that you
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Andrea Conti wrote:
> Most settings in that submenu depend on specifig things being enabled
> elsewhere (e.g. an ACPI driver). If you have actually selected
> X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES=Y, and you get an empty submenu, chances are the
> rest of your configuration is such
The gentoo wiki suggests in different places to set the LINGUAS
environment variable in make.conf.
What has LINGUAS todo with make? I would expect it in rc.conf near the
UNICODE setting.
Al
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:25 on Wednesday 18 August 2010, Elmar Hinz
did opine thusly:
> The gentoo wiki suggests in different places to set the LINGUAS
> environment variable in make.conf.
>
> What has LINGUAS todo with make? I would expect it in rc.conf near the
> UNICODE setting.
I
On Wednesday 18 August 2010 19:58:14 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Just adding to this, the £ sign works fine on the console. It is the X
> > applications (including terminals) that seem to have the problem with the
> > '£' sign.
>
> I assume you use KDE because you mention KMail. What have you
On 18/08/10 12:56, CJoeB wrote:
> On 08/18/10 01:12, Jake Moe wrote:
>> On 18/08/10 09:04, CJoeB wrote:
>>> On 08/17/10 10:55, Jake Moe wrote:
On 08/17/10 11:55, Adam Carter wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm biting the bullet here and asking for help. Yes! I've posted
>> before. A
On Tuesday 17 August 2010 23:10:31 Peter Ruskin wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 August 2010 20:23:08 Mick wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 August 2010 08:28:11 you wrote:
> > > On Friday 06 August 2010 21:13:06 Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Mick
>
> wrote:
> > > > > I am puzzled by t
On 08/16/2010 09:13 PM, Stéphane Guedon wrote:
I have read several things about this, but never really solved !
Can I emerge a 32bits software on 64bits platform with a multilib profile ?
All my web browsers (konqueror, opera, chromium, firefox) are 64bits, whereas
flash player exist currently
On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 09:49:22PM +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote
> I've just experimented a bit with that and it turned out that
> --depclean doesn't clean up the buildtime-only deps. But if I
> remove one of them (eg. cabextract), they don't get pulled in again
> (that's indicating the depending e
Am Mittwoch, 18. August 2010 schrieb Mick:
> On Wednesday 18 August 2010 19:58:14 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > > Just adding to this, the £ sign works fine on the console. It is the X
> > > applications (including terminals) that seem to have the problem with
> > > the '£' sign.
> >
> > I assume
On Thursday 19 August 2010 05:01:45 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 18. August 2010 schrieb Mick:
> > On Wednesday 18 August 2010 19:58:14 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > > > Just adding to this, the £ sign works fine on the console. It is the
> > > > X applications (including terminals) th
Hi, all
after I upgraded net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.1-r3, I cannot connect to
my wireless ap. here is some debug infomation.
How can I fix it?
tux ~ # /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
NetworkManager[6653]: NetworkManager (version 0.8.1) is starting...
NetworkManager[6653]: Read config fi
I faced the same problem, thank you.
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Gregory Shearman wrote:
> In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
>> I have xchat installed. An update is failing to install with error:
>>
>> libtool: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libpng12.la' or unhandled
>> argument `/
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