Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 18:24:13 +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I love claws but perhaps you should ask on the claws mailing list I > thought it was too mouse heavy too but when I actually look it's very > few tabs, arrows, enter and ctrl-R to reply etc. and the > configurability of claws may help too,

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-07 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: WHAT?! No tagline? J.A.

Re: [gentoo-user] Install from USB stick; here's how

2013-01-07 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 10:05:08PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > For those of you who don't want to do the tap-dance listed at... > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml > > * My netbook's harddrive is normally /dev/sda, except when I boot from a > USB stick. The stick will become /dev/sda a

[gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-01-07, Dale wrote: > I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a > good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it > was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*. It's been something like 6-8 years hasn't it? > I don't have, and have > no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:18 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-01-07, Dale wrote: > >> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a >> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it >> was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*. > > It's been som

[gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] and I thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my own private stuff, too. Solving the problem is easy enough: - Record checksums and timestamps for each file - Check and update records via cronjob - If c

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-07 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] and I > thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my own > private stuff, too. > > Solving the problem is easy enough: > - Record checksums and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] and I > thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my own > private stuff, too. > > Solving the problem is easy enough: > - Record checksums and

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 07.01.2013 22:07, schrieb Paul Hartman: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Hi list! >> >> I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] and I >> thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my own >> private stuff, too. >> >> Solving t

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 07.01.2013 22:33, schrieb Michael Mol: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Hi list! >> >> I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] and I >> thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my own >> private stuff, too. >>[...] >> The o

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:33:18 +, Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Neil Bothwick > wrote: > > > WHAT?! No tagline? > I was experimenting with Enlightenment... clearly it isn't :) -- Neil Bothwick Unsupported service (adj): Broken (see Demon) signature.asc Desc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-07 Thread Mick
On Monday 07 Jan 2013 07:35:32 Dale wrote: > I think you misunderstand or I didn't make myself clear. I'm not saying > it was udev that did this. I am pretty sure it was the kernel. All > this happened when people with older IDE drives, myself included on my > old machine, had to switch to the

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:11:35 +0100 Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] > and I thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my > own private stuff, too. > > Solving the problem is easy enough: > - Record checksum

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0800 Mark Knecht wrote: > Now, my point is that change to /dev/srX was the root cause is FUD. It > isn't the root cause of this change because it didn't change on my > systems. All I know is that ID_PATH (from the old file) used to work > and no longer does. Whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-07 Thread William Kenworthy
On 08/01/13 04:11, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] and I > thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my own > private stuff, too. > > Solving the problem is easy enough: > - Record checksums and timestamps f

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:23:29 + Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 11:33:18 +, Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Neil Bothwick > > wrote: > > > > > > WHAT?! No tagline? > > > > I was experimenting with Enlightenment... clearly it isn't :) > > Ras

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone succeeded with kmail2?

2013-01-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 01:32:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I was experimenting with Enlightenment... clearly it isn't :) > Raster is screwing with your head. He does that :-) > > E17 is all about choice. Like these: [snippage] > See? E17 is all about choice. All the choices all the time. Even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-07 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0800 > Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Now, my point is that change to /dev/srX was the root cause is FUD. It >> isn't the root cause of this change because it didn't change on my >> systems. All I know is that ID_PATH (f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-07 Thread Michael Mol
On Jan 7, 2013 8:08 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 09:37:05 -0800 > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >> Now, my point is that change to /dev/srX was the root cause is FUD. It > >> isn't the root cause of this change because it d

Re: [gentoo-user] Processes hang - system dies

2013-01-07 Thread Adam Carter
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > ** > > I have a very severe problem after a recent disk replacement. After a few > days running, all new processes just hang. The kernel reports: > > My guess is disk failing or kernel bug. Install smartmontools and see if smartctl -H returns

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet Machination

2013-01-07 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:45 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Kerin Millar wrote: >> james wrote: >>> >>> After deleting the 70-persistent-net.rule file >>> >>> udev does not re-create it. All is now fine with rc-status >>> only showing net.eth0 which is set up how I like

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-07 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 08 Jan 2013 01:15:10 Michael Mol wrote: > On Jan 7, 2013 8:08 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > >Sorry for wasting bandwidth. I suspect it's time for me to > > > > unsubscribe and just read gentoo-user in a list somewhere. Sad, but > > flotsam & jetsam I suppose... > > > > Over an out,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-07 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:53:19 + Mick wrote: > On Monday 07 Jan 2013 07:35:32 Dale wrote: > > BTW, pressing the touch sensitive button on the laptop to eject the > CD won't work, neither will typing eject in a terminal: > > $ eject > eject: tried to use `/mnt/cdrom' as device name but it is no

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-07 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 08.01.2013 00:20, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:11:35 +0100 > Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Hi list! >> >> I have a use case where I am seriously concerned about bit rot [1] >> and I thought it might be a good idea to start looking for it in my >> own private stuff, too. [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:27:51 +0100 Florian Philipp wrote: > > This is a filesystem task, not a cronjab task. Use a filesystem that > > does proper checksumming. ZFS does it, but that is of course > > somewhat problematic on Linux. Check out the others, it will be > > something modern you need, li