Re: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory

2005-10-08 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 21:08 -0400, bruce harding wrote: > I've got 2 sticks of Kingston HyperX 3200 DDR Registered & ECC. Is it > possible that this if I ran memtest86+ for 2 days straight and found no > error that the memory could still be defective? > > I ask because I can't get a complete comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-10 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Sun, 2005-10-09 at 19:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >I don't have a single book on Linux. (Amazing...) Can someone > recommend a simple book on command line stuff, or better yet a good > web site on this topic? > >For instance, I wanted to run a specific command on every file in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-11 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 00:25 -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > > Oh, and another thought. The "find" command can do this for you as > well, IIRC. find . -type f -iname '*.wav' -exec command "{}" "{}".foo \; is the syntax, IIRC. Note the \ that exists to escape the semicolon, therefore tell

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 16:50 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: > On Tuesday 18 October 2005 04:34 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: > > > For Holly's case, I'm wondering if she's syncing against a system > > > that doesn't mirror that file from upstream? Just a guess. > > > > I sync against the Netherlands rsync

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables

2005-11-23 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 22:49 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I think I've somehow managed to screw gcc up. Whenever I try to emerge > anything I get this message: > > checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler > cannot create executables > > It also says "See config.l

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 04:42 -0600, Dale wrote: > LOL It helped a little bit, but not much. > > > swifty / # df > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda6 3564108 3505584 58524 99% / > > udev1273888012730

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg yes fdisk no - new HDD

2005-12-07 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 17:34 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm installing a new HDD on an older (in P4 terms) P4 2.0 GB. > > On bootup I see it noticed in dmesg or but doesn't get an IRQ. (See > snippet from dmesg) And once booted up, fdisk doesn't know about it. > > I pulled out the ribbon to two

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-09 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 18:21 +0100, Jesús García Crespo wrote: > Hi! I thought that GCC could means a risk if all of the users of my > system are able to run it! I talked this with a friend and he propossed > to create a new group, "compiler", for example, where all the users > who will be able to r

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:55 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: > > I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of > kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB > ram. Is there an alternative to this? I