Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 08 August 2012 01:32:55 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Tuesday 07 August 2012 23:39:05 Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Dead out of the box is dead. However a drive failing in a couple > >> of months _might_ have showed up in the smartctl out

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-08 Thread Philip Webb
120808 Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 07.08.2012 07:02, schrieb Philip Webb: >> Just an observation : when I updated Libre Office & Firefox this week, >> neither compile used swap (I have 4 GB RAM); >> OTOH when I did them the previous time, both did use swap; >> the total time & the HDD usage remai

[gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem building binutils. I thought to asked about that on an gentoo-arm mailing list, but found, that this list ist listed as closed. So is there an apropriate list or ressource dedicated to

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 08 Aug 2012 05:21:31 Adam Carter wrote: > > To wipe a drive use dban. - live CD which uses (US) gov approved > > standards of wipe methods/patterns. > > Or shred, which comes with coreutils. > > > dd is only going to show sectors on a failed drive - too late! > > > > To explain, mod

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 08/08/2012 02:03 PM, Norman Rieß wrote: > i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem > building binutils. What problem? I have no experience on Gentoo/ARM but some on buildroot/ARM. raf

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 08 Aug 2012 05:21:31 Adam Carter wrote: >>> To wipe a drive use dban. - live CD which uses (US) gov approved >>> standards of wipe methods/patterns. >> Or shred, which comes with coreutils. >> >>> dd is only going to show sectors on a failed drive - too late! >>> >>> To e

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 08.08.2012 14:03, schrieb Norman Rieß: > Hello, > > i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem building > binutils. > I thought to asked about that on an gentoo-arm mailing list, but > found, that this list ist listed as closed. > So is there an apropriate list or ressource ded

[gentoo-user] recovering pam.d directory

2012-08-08 Thread Marcello Varisco
Hi all, By incident I removed the pam.d directory containing all pam modules from command line. Is there a way to recover the removed directory? any help is appreciated since I can't login to my computer without live cd anymore. Marcello

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-08 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 08.08.2012 11:33, schrieb Philip Webb: > 120808 Florian Philipp wrote: >> Am 07.08.2012 07:02, schrieb Philip Webb: >>> Just an observation : when I updated Libre Office & Firefox this week, >>> neither compile used swap (I have 4 GB RAM); >>> OTOH when I did them the previous time, both did u

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering pam.d directory

2012-08-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 13:24:17 + Marcello Varisco wrote: > > Hi all, > > By incident I removed the pam.d directory containing all pam modules > from command line. Is there a way to recover the removed directory? > any help is appreciated since I can't login to my computer without > live cd any

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-08 Thread James
Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > >> Each Windows VM has it's own Windows > >> license as well as it's own virus protection license. I run different > >> trading apps in different VMs. All trading VMs are Virtualbox. You have given me much to research, think about, and purchase some new hardware

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Sent from my Android device. On Aug 6, 2012 4:22 PM, "Paul Hartman" wrote: > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Dale wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I > > have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of > > it may

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Dale wrote: > 4 or 5 hours huh. I guess drives are a lot faster now. Back in the > late 80's or early 90's, it took that long for those whimpy little 100Mb > drives. Ooops, my ages is showing again. lol I recently found a box of hard drives in my house and have

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread James
Norman Rieß smash-net.org> writes: > i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem building > binutils. I thought to asked about that on an gentoo-arm mailing list, > but found, that this list ist listed as closed. So is there an > apropriate list or ressource dedicated to that or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo: stock trading tools ?

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:42 AM, James wrote: > Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > Any suggestions are most welcome, > even if private. > I suggest anything not specifically Gentoo oriented be addressed offline. If someone wants to get in touch privately please identify yourself clear as a Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Dale wrote: >> 4 or 5 hours huh. I guess drives are a lot faster now. Back in the >> late 80's or early 90's, it took that long for those whimpy little 100Mb >> drives. Ooops, my ages is showing again. lol > I recently found a box of hard d

[gentoo-user] Packages

2012-08-08 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, when i understand correctly so give it Gentoo Packages with can installed. Where can find this packages? Because i has clean my Netbook now from Sabayon and have installed Gentoo directly. But build Libreoffice need much time, so where better to find a package? Is there a chance or must b

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Silvio Siefke wrote: > Hello, > > when i understand correctly so give it Gentoo Packages with can installed. > Where can find this packages? Because i has clean my Netbook now from Sabayon > and have installed Gentoo directly. But build Libreoffice need much time, s

Re: [gentoo-user] kernels & swap usage

2012-08-08 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 7. August 2012, 01:02:29 schrieb Philip Webb: > Just an observation : when I updated Libre Office & Firefox this week, > neither compile used swap (I have 4 GB RAM); > OTOH when I did them the previous time, both did use swap; > the total time & the HDD usage remained almost the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages

2012-08-08 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:32:55 -0700 Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi Silvio, >I'm not sure I understand your question. Are you asking where you > can get a pre-built 'package'? I.e. - Gentoo builds from source code > but you don't want to build libreoffice from source so you want a > pre-built

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I > have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of > it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that large. > Anyway, I want to test this thing real good to really

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages

2012-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 19:53:46 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote: > Yes thats was the question. Sorry for my english. Yes so i accept to > build all from source, but Libreoffice from source on a Atom need not > hours, need days. Only hours, but quite a lot of them. About 16 IIRC. -- Neil Bothwick You

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Dale wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I finally got me a 3Tb drive on the way. Should be here Wednesday. I >> have seen some reviews where it would not work right. I think some of >> it may be BIOS related since some BIOS's don't like drives that large. >> A

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 19:53:46 +0200, Silvio Siefke wrote: > >> Yes thats was the question. Sorry for my english. Yes so i accept to >> build all from source, but Libreoffice from source on a Atom need not >> hours, need days. > > Only hours, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: > Now, don't you wear it out, you hear?!?!? ;-) If your machine runs all > the time you can add smartctl runs as chron jobs that run at midnight > and have the results emailed to you. Look at them once a week and > other than an unpredictable catastrophic failure you'll likely kn

[gentoo-user] Getting apvlv running (My "excellent adventure")

2012-08-08 Thread Walter Dnes
Earlier this year, my ISP changed their billing notification emails from application/pdf to application/octet-stream. Trying to view it from mutt showed binary gobbledygook. After some flailing around, I found out that I had to put an entry into .mailcap, namely... application/octet-stream; mi

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > Not going to wear it out but going to make sure it survived the trip > across the country while bouncing around in the box. :/ Check this > out: Aug 8 12:46:47 localhost smartd[2083]: Device: /dev/sdd, type > changed from 'scsi' to 'sat' Aug 8 12:46:47 localhost smartd[2083]: > Device

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to discuss ARM stuff.

2012-08-08 Thread Norman Rieß
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 08.08.2012 14:14, schrieb Raffaele BELARDI: > On 08/08/2012 02:03 PM, Norman Rieß wrote: >> i am running Gentoo on an ARM device and ran into a problem >> building binutils. > > What problem? I have no experience on Gentoo/ARM but some on > build

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Yohan Pereira
On 08/08/12 at 10:22pm, Dale wrote: > I used something called Gparted to partition this monster. This is > temporary tho. What should I be using to partition this thing? What is > the best, and easiest, tool for me to use? I have been using cfdisk in > the past but it doesn't seem to work on th

Re: [gentoo-user] Want to seriously test a NEW hard drive

2012-08-08 Thread Dale
Yohan Pereira wrote: > On 08/08/12 at 10:22pm, Dale wrote: >> I used something called Gparted to partition this monster. This is >> temporary tho. What should I be using to partition this thing? What is >> the best, and easiest, tool for me to use? I have been using cfdisk in >> the past but it