Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Thanasis
on 07/07/2013 11:58 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: > On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > >> I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search >> locally *all* layman overlays. >> What commands and settings should I use? > > LOCAL_LAYMAN=/path/to/lay

Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/07/2013 09:56, Thanasis wrote: > on 07/07/2013 11:58 PM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: >> On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote: >> >>> I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search >>> locally *all* layman overlays. >>> What commands and settings s

Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2013/7/7 Neil Bothwick : > On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote: > >> I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search >> locally *all* layman overlays. >> What commands and settings should I use? > > LOCAL_LAYMAN=/path/to/layman/storage eix-remote -q update >

Re: [gentoo-user] eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Thanasis
on 07/08/2013 11:12 AM Daniel Pielmeier wrote the following: > 2013/7/7 Neil Bothwick : >> On Sun, 07 Jul 2013 19:52:31 +0300, Thanasis wrote: >> >>> I would like to use eix and (updating it via cron job) be able to search >>> locally *all* layman overlays. >>> What commands and settings should I u

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-08 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
On Sonntag, 7. Juli 2013, 17:19:30 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Alexander Puchmayr > > wrote: > > I just burned all my pictures from my last vacation on a blueray-disk > > using > > k3b, and for no apparent reason it stoped at 99.8% and complained an error > > (I/O error

Re: [gentoo-user] k3b burning BD-Disk pretends to fail at 99.99%

2013-07-08 Thread Joerg Schilling
Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > > I don't use k3b but I know when I burn a 25GB disc image using > > growisofs, I have to disable the spare sectors otherwise it won't fit > > on the disc, and it burns all the way until the end where it fails, > > rather than "knowing" ahead of time that it won't fit.

[gentoo-user] Disable Screen Blanking

2013-07-08 Thread Norman Rieß
Hi, i am trying to disable Screen Blanking but have been unsuccessful so far. I used various methods: * installed gnome-power-manager and disabled screen power saving * setterm -blank 0 * echoing "setterm -blank 0" to the dev/ttyXs * xset s off * Kernel parameter in Grub consoleblank=0 A kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable Screen Blanking

2013-07-08 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2013/7/8 Norman Rieß > Hi, > > i am trying to disable Screen Blanking but have been unsuccessful so far. > > I used various methods: > > * installed gnome-power-manager and disabled screen power saving > * setterm -blank 0 > * echoing "setterm -blank 0" to the dev/ttyXs > * xset s off > * Kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-08 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Dale wrote > >> Well, no Wine here. So that won't happen. Actually, I don't have a >> copy of windoze here at all. Neither of my two rigs have ever had >> windoze installed on them at all. >> >> BTW, I have been known to open those

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux viruses

2013-07-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-07-08, Dale wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: > > Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through > java/javascript/flash? Possibly. It would require use of a privledge-escalation exploit (which have been found in the past for Linux). > Or would the infection at the least

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Dale wrote: > Questions. Can a virus infect the OS when running on Linux through > java/javascript/flash? Or would the infection at the least be limited > to that user? I think how they typically work, on any OS, is they exploit a bug in the browser (or a browser

Re: [gentoo-user] Linux viruses

2013-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/07/2013 15:24, Dale wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Dale wrote >> >>> Well, no Wine here. So that won't happen. Actually, I don't have a >>> copy of windoze here at all. Neither of my two rigs have ever had >>> windoze installed on them at all. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Disable Screen Blanking

2013-07-08 Thread Norman Rieß
Am 08.07.2013 14:43, schrieb Randolph Maaßen: > 2013/7/8 Norman Rieß mailto:nor...@smash-net.org>> > > Hi, > > i am trying to disable Screen Blanking but have been unsuccessful so > far. > > I used various methods: > > * installed gnome-power-manager and disabled screen powe

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-08 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > ST4000DM000 As a side-note these two Seagate 4TB "Desktop" edition drives I bought already, after about than 100 hours of power-on usage, both drives have each encountered dozens of unreadable sectors so far. I was able to correct them (force

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/07/2013 17:39, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> ST4000DM000 > > As a side-note these two Seagate 4TB "Desktop" edition drives I bought > already, after about than 100 hours of power-on usage, both drives > have each encountered dozens of unreada

Re: [gentoo-user] hp H222 SAS controller

2013-07-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.07.2013 17:58, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On 08/07/2013 17:39, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> ST4000DM000 >> >> As a side-note these two Seagate 4TB "Desktop" edition drives I bought >> already, after about than 100 hours of power-on usage, bo

[gentoo-user] Re: eix settings for searching all layman overlays

2013-07-08 Thread Martin Vaeth
Thanasis wrote: > > So in /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc I have set > KEEP_VIRTUALS=true > REMOTE_DEFAULT=1 With the current default setting of separate databases for the local eix cache (normally /var/cache/eix/portage.eix) and for the remote eix cache (/var/cache/eix/remote.eix), KEEP_VIRTUALS=true makes