Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
>> [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip] > > Hi, > > does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds on > the homepage? Good question, I will test for that. Does anyone know if Firefox downloads its website lists from Google? - Grant
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ot General Textmode q]
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 08:56:20PM -0500, Penguin Lover Harry Putnam squawked: > No one responded about the possibility of using the keyboard to do the > paste ... and man gpm is silent about it as well, does that mean its > not really possible to copy with mouse and paste with keyboard? I am not sure if it is even possible. This will require a server that catches all keystrokes from the keyboard, decide whether the keystrokes are to be sent to the application or to gpm, and act accordingly. If you are in a position to select text with your mouse, I think you are usually in a pretty good position to paste text with your mouse. (Even for one button mice, if you read 'info gpm', which has more details, I think it shows you how to rebind a Metakey+mouseclick combo.) You can of course do some sort of cut-and-paste on the console using readline. With the history buffer, if you have typed one long command before, you shouldn't need to do it again :) Else I'd just use Vim's built-in yank and pop with splitwindows. Maybe it is possible to integrate readline with gpm? Never thought of that, and google doesn't show anything useful either. W -- The longest word in the English language is the one that follows "And now a word from out sponsor." ~Jack Benny Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1020 days, 6:54
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:41:52PM -0400, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: > debug1: Remote protocol version 1.5, remote software version 1.2.17 > debug1: no match: 1.2.17 > Protocol major versions differ: 2 vs. 1 > Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer > > It looks as if the U server has an earlier version of the software. > Egads, this is U Toronto? Still using ssh-1? SSH-1 does not have the concept of subsystems, so while your version of ssh and scp can communicate with the ssh server at the other end, you cannot 'pass to subsystem sftp'... Whay you need to do, assuming that you university is using a version of ssh that bundles with an sftp-server, but NOT ssh-2, is to first 1. ssh into the server in question. 2. track down the path to the sftp server binary. In gentoo with openssh it is /usr/lib/misc/sftp-server. 3. Try running sftp with the flag '-s path-to-sftp-server-binary' the path should be the absolute path on the remote machine. Alternatively, ask your IT people about sftp. They should be able to tell you if it is possible to be used. And if not, tell them to upgrade to ssh-2 already. :) W -- (04:01:59) W: yep (04:02:02) W: I love linux (04:02:15) NJYWT: I love penguins Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1020 days, 7:15
[gentoo-user] Re: Hints on setting up mythweb?
On 2009-09-23, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2009-09-23, Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> >>> And it failed. ??Mythbackend doesn't seem to know where to put >>> the recorded files... >> >> Bitten again by permissions. ??I forgot to set the ownership of >> the /myth directory to be the mythtv user. ??I'm happily >> recording after making sure that mythbackend could write to the >> directory where I told it to store recordings. >> >> I still need to hook up the second tuner in my HDHomerun. ??I >> swear there must be at least a half-dozen 2-way RF splitters in >> the house, but can I _find_ one when I need one > > I have my permissions on the video storage directory set to > mythtv:video IIRC. That's what I decided on. > That was straight out of the Gentoo Wiki stuff somewhere. Yup -- except that it says to use mythtv:mythtv, instead of mythtv:video. I missed that step somehow. > I got burned by it this week when my USB storage drive failed > and I had to replace it with an old 1394 drive. The error message you see in the backend log is truely cryptic. Instead of saying it didn't have permission to create file /myth/tv/.mpg, you get some bizarre message about a very long, apparently unrelated URL not being local or not be found or something like that. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Are we THERE yet? at My MIND is a SUBMARINE!! visi.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 6:40 PM, walt wrote: > On 09/21/2009 09:13 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: >> >> Opens an identical xterm. In the original terminal it says >> >> Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct >> >> before spawning the new terminal. >> >> Search results inconclusive. BTW if you google "Warning: Cannot >> convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct" + xfterm4 you get precisely >> one hit, which I believe is known as a "googlewhack". >> >> This is the terminal I want, the one I used to have: >> >> http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/terminal >> >> This is the terminal I have now: >> >> http://www.xfce.org/projects/terminal... > > Is this still a problem for you? I just emerged x11-terms/terminal > (both versions) and both are like the one you want. Neither package > has anything to do with xfterm4, so maybe that's an obsolete file. I don't have xfce installed at the moment but a bit a googling shows xfterm4 is a launcher script for the panel that opens a terminal (not necessarily Terminal, depending on what you've configured). Maybe you can look at it and see what it's trying to do.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hints on setting up mythweb?
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2009-09-23, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: >>> On 2009-09-23, Grant Edwards wrote: >> And it failed. ??Mythbackend doesn't seem to know where to put the recorded files... >>> >>> Bitten again by permissions. ??I forgot to set the ownership of >>> the /myth directory to be the mythtv user. ??I'm happily >>> recording after making sure that mythbackend could write to the >>> directory where I told it to store recordings. >>> >>> I still need to hook up the second tuner in my HDHomerun. ??I >>> swear there must be at least a half-dozen 2-way RF splitters in >>> the house, but can I _find_ one when I need one >> >> I have my permissions on the video storage directory set to >> mythtv:video IIRC. > > That's what I decided on. > >> That was straight out of the Gentoo Wiki stuff somewhere. > > Yup -- except that it says to use mythtv:mythtv, instead of > mythtv:video. I missed that step somehow. I suspect this might have been on the MythTV site but I don't really remember now. > >> I got burned by it this week when my USB storage drive failed >> and I had to replace it with an old 1394 drive. > > The error message you see in the backend log is truely cryptic. > Instead of saying it didn't have permission to create file > /myth/tv/.mpg, you get some bizarre message about a > very long, apparently unrelated URL not being local or not be > found or something like that. Sounds familiar. Glad you got it all running. cheers, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:45 AM, Grant wrote: > > Does anyone know if Firefox downloads its website lists from Google? I think in FF1 and FF2 it would periodically download a list of "bad" URLs (FF1) or a list of hashes of bad domain names (FF1 and FF2) and check the local list for hits. In FF3 I believe the phishing filter submits every site to google as you browse, in real time. It may download the list, too. I'm not entirely sure. Disable "Block reported web forgeries" and "Block reported attack sites" in Firefo if you'd rather not (potentially) tell Google about every URL you ever visit. The host sb.google.com contains the lists.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [ot General Textmode q]
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > No one responded about the possibility of using the keyboard to do the > paste ... and man gpm is silent about it as well, does that mean its > not really possible to copy with mouse and paste with keyboard? The only way I can think is to use "screen", which has keyboard-based text selection, copy and paste functionality (including selecting from the scrollback buffer).
Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb KH: > Grant schrieb: > > [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip] > > Hi, > > does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds > on the homepage? I'm blocking all requests to google analytics with NoScript. Google doesn’t have to know everything. The same goes for googlesyndication. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' Hard drives have two known states: new and full. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb KH:
>> Grant schrieb:
>> > [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip]
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds
>> on the homepage?
>
> I'm blocking all requests to google analytics with NoScript.
> Google doesn’t have to know everything.
> The same goes for googlesyndication.
It's a double-edged sword. If I block google-analytics, web site
owners won't know that I've visited their site. It will be one less
Linux user in their stats. ("But everyone uses Windows, look at the
stats! Let's use ActiveX!")
Re: [gentoo-user] Does Firefox call Google?
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>> Am Mittwoch, 23. September 2009 schrieb KH:
>>> Grant schrieb:
>>> > [snip] and the home page is not set to go there.[snip]
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> does this also include stuff like google analytics? Like are there adds
>>> on the homepage?
>>
>> I'm blocking all requests to google analytics with NoScript.
>> Google doesn’t have to know everything.
>> The same goes for googlesyndication.
>
> It's a double-edged sword. If I block google-analytics, web site
> owners won't know that I've visited their site. It will be one less
> Linux user in their stats. ("But everyone uses Windows, look at the
> stats! Let's use ActiveX!")
* I will add that of course they can read their server logs, but you'd
be surprised how many people rely solely on GA and don't even know how
to read their server logs. Or on high-traffic sites the logs can be
many gigabytes per day and they simply can't download them and store
them.
[gentoo-user] libjpeg, 6 vs 7, and emacs
Gentoo updates refuse to install both versions 6 and 7 of jpeg, and I have found that certain applications, like emacs, refuse to remerge with -7 so I have been refusing the -7 update for a month or two now. Every once in a while, one slips by me, usually because I forget to remove thunderbird from the list of updates, and I find out when emacs won't run. If I try to build emacs with -7, it complains, so I remerge jpeg-6 and then emacs is happy again. I do not understand the compat lib; it also blocks, and since I can just refuse the -7 update and keep on working, I have not looked into it much, figuring that sooner or later emacs and other packages will be upgraded to handle jpeg-7. Recently another jpeg-7 upgrade slipped past me, only this time it got weird. I remerged jpeg-6 and found that emacs now complained that jpeg-7 was missing. Here is "ldd /usr/emacs/bin|grep jpeg": libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x7f0cbd19f000) libjpeg.so.7 => not found Now I am puzzled. If jpeg-6 and -7 block each other, how did emacs end up expecting both? If I try to emerge emacs with -6 installed and -7 missing, it complains that gtk is not installed properly. Obviously I am doing something wrong. Gentoo documentation on the jpeg compatibility lib is so minimal as to be useless, unless I have just not found the right documentation. If that is the right solution to my mess, I'd like to get it working, but I can't figure out how to emerge the compatibility library when it blocks. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies .... done! [ebuild N] media-libs/jpeg-compat-6b-r1 0 kB [blocks B ]
Re: [gentoo-user] libjpeg, 6 vs 7, and emacs
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:14 PM, wrote: > Gentoo updates refuse to install both versions 6 and 7 of jpeg, > and I have found that certain applications, like emacs, refuse > to remerge with -7 so I have been refusing the -7 update for a > month or two now. Every once in a while, one slips by me, > usually because I forget to remove thunderbird from the list of > updates, and I find out when emacs won't run. If I try to build > emacs with -7, it complains, so I remerge jpeg-6 and then emacs > is happy again. I do not understand the compat lib; it also blocks, > and since I can just refuse the -7 update and keep on working, I > have not looked into it much, figuring that sooner or later emacs > and other packages will be upgraded to handle jpeg-7. jpegcompat-6b replaces jpeg-6b IF you have jpeg-7 also installed. Any packages that depend on jpeg-6b should compile with jpegcompat-6b also.
[gentoo-user] Re: Does Firefox call Google?
On 09/23/2009 05:16 AM, Grant wrote: Does Firefox periodically make Google requests for some reason? The person logging in says they aren't attempting to access Google, and the home page is not set to go there. Does anyone know why this might be happening? If you haven’t disabled it, Firefox periodically downloads a current list of malware addresses for its phising filter. Thank you. Is this the checkbox: "Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected attack site." Two options, in the "Security" tab: "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web forgeries." BTW, Firefox asks Google for the lists right? Yes. This is what Google says: http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/firefox3_privacy.html "your browser will contact Google's servers when you visit a potentially risky site. It will also periodically contact Google's servers to download the most recent list of known phishing and malware sites"
[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers to radeon
Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes: <*> ATI Radeon display support │ │ │ │[*] DDC/I2C for ATI Radeon support (NEW) │ │ │ │[*] Support for backlight control (NEW) Thanks. James
[gentoo-user] Re: libjpeg, 6 vs 7, and emacs
On 09/23/2009 10:14 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: Gentoo updates refuse to install both versions 6 and 7 of jpeg, and I have found that certain applications, like emacs, refuse to remerge with -7 so I have been refusing the -7 update for a month or two now. Every once in a while, one slips by me, usually because I forget to remove thunderbird from the list of updates, and I find out when emacs won't run. If I try to build emacs with -7, it complains, so I remerge jpeg-6 and then emacs is happy again. I do not understand the compat lib; it also blocks, and since I can just refuse the -7 update and keep on working, I have not looked into it much, figuring that sooner or later emacs and other packages will be upgraded to handle jpeg-7. Recently another jpeg-7 upgrade slipped past me, only this time it got weird. I remerged jpeg-6 and found that emacs now complained that jpeg-7 was missing. Here is "ldd /usr/emacs/bin|grep jpeg": libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x7f0cbd19f000) libjpeg.so.7 => not found Now I am puzzled. If jpeg-6 and -7 block each other, how did emacs end up expecting both?... ldd is actually recursive and lists not only the libs linked to emacs directly but also they libs *they* are linked to. There was a bug recently where the same library was both 'found' and 'not found' at the same time. If you do an ldd on each of the libs separately you should find out which one is expecting which libjpeg. BTW, I have jpeg-7 on my ~amd64 machine and I didn't even know it, and emacs works okay. I can see why it wouldn't work for you as long as emacs has conflicting dependencies like the above, though.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrade of xfce4 degrades terminal[FIXED - almost]
> root:566 ~> emerge -pv x11-terms/terminal > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N ] dev-util/xfce4-dev-tools-4.6.0 61 kB > [ebuild R ] x11-terms/terminal-0.4.0 USE="dbus -debug -doc (-nls%)" Ok, that restored my terminal. Now I have to keep xfce from opening the old one automatically every time I startx. Thanks mw
[gentoo-user] opening port 8000
Hi group, Shoutcast doesn't connect. nmap reveals all my ports are closed. How to open port 8000? netstat -a doesn't mention it. Maxim Wexler ps sorry if another similar post made it to the list; I was typing away and it just disappeared, honest
Re: [gentoo-user] opening port 8000
Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Shoutcast doesn't connect. nmap reveals all my ports are closed. How > to open port 8000? > netstat -a doesn't mention it. > > Maxim Wexler > > ps sorry if another similar post made it to the list; I was typing > away and it just disappeared, honest > Assuming you are using an iptables based fw: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8000 -j ACCEPT signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] opening port 8000
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Shoutcast doesn't connect. nmap reveals all my ports are closed. How > to open port 8000? > netstat -a doesn't mention it. > > Maxim Wexler > > ps sorry if another similar post made it to the list; I was typing > away and it just disappeared, honest Well, two questions: 1) "sudo netstat -lpn" - do you see it listening on port 8000? if so, 2) open it on your firewall/router
[gentoo-user] Re: opening port 8000
On 09/23/2009 11:38 PM, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi group, Shoutcast doesn't connect. nmap reveals all my ports are closed. How to open port 8000? netstat -a doesn't mention it. You mean you have a shoutcast server running on your machine? Are you behind a NAT? To see if you're behind a NAT, type: /sbin/ifconfig and note the "inet addr" of your ethernet device (usually "eth0"). Then, go here: http://www.myipaddress.com/show-my-ip-address and check if the IP address reported there is the same as the "inet addr" reported by ifconfig. If they are not the same, you are behind a NAT. That means you will have to "forward" port 8000 in the device your PC is connected to (a DSL modem/router/gateway, for example).
Re: [gentoo-user] opening port 8000
Maxim Wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Shoutcast doesn't connect. nmap reveals all my ports are closed. How > to open port 8000? > netstat -a doesn't mention it. > > Maxim Wexler > > ps sorry if another similar post made it to the list; I was typing > away and it just disappeared, honest > > > Couple of quick questions though: 1.) Nmap from outside your network, or just the box with shoutcast? 2.) Direct connection to the internet or not. a.) If not directly connected to internet, open port on router b.) If directly connected iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8000 -j ACCEPT Cheers Kad
[gentoo-user] OT: iptables w/ 2 web servers
Hello, I have one static IP with DNS (primary and secondary) performed by my isp. I'm setting up a second web server with a different domain name. It is setup already by the ISP for DNS. Could someone post some simple iptable examples of how to route 2 different web server traffic streams to 2 different machines? Both are inside the same DMZ2 different machines with different (NAT) IP addresses. Right now, all port 80 traffic is auto forwarded to a single NAT address on the firewall. Simple. Now I have to figure out how to forward different web traffic streams to 2 different NAT ip addresses, each on a different ip address and a different machine. I do not want to put the sites on the same machine, for a variety of reasons, beside one machine moves in a few months to a different physical location (and network numbers). Suggestions or a good book for example would be keen. I use raw IPtables/netfilter on the firewall. All servers are gentoo. James
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: iptables w/ 2 web servers
James wrote: Hello, I have one static IP with DNS (primary and secondary) performed by my isp. I'm setting up a second web server with a different domain name. It is setup already by the ISP for DNS. Could someone post some simple iptable examples of how to route 2 different web server traffic streams to 2 different machines? Both are inside the same DMZ2 different machines with different (NAT) IP addresses. Right now, all port 80 traffic is auto forwarded to a single NAT address on the firewall. Simple. Now I have to figure out how to forward different web traffic streams to 2 different NAT ip addresses, each on a different ip address and a different machine. I do not want to put the sites on the same machine, for a variety of reasons, beside one machine moves in a few months to a different physical location (and network numbers). Suggestions or a good book for example would be keen. I use raw IPtables/netfilter on the firewall. All servers are gentoo. I'm not sure it's possible via firewall rules because they are operating at the IP level and you'd really need to be doing deep looks into the packets to read the http request headers in order to figure out which server should be getting the connection. The simplest solution is to run a reverse proxy on your firewall that actually accepts the http connection, reads the http request, and then forwards it on to the correct web server. You can do this in apache via proxypass, Squid which is your most powerful and flexible option, ngnix, lighttpd, or Varnish. There are some security concerns with this type of setup, ie running daemons open to the public on your firewall, reverse proxies need to be locked down, hard to do IP based restrictions on the webserver, etc. kashani
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libjpeg, 6 vs 7, and emacs
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:22:00PM -0700, walt wrote: > ldd is actually recursive and lists not only the libs linked to > emacs directly but also they libs *they* are linked to. I should have thought of that. Alrighty, I'll go dig 'em up. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
[gentoo-user] Login prompt customization
Hi, Is the text used for the login prompt at the boot console hardwired or is there someplace - preferably a text file - where that could be customized? Thanks, Mark
Re: [gentoo-user] Login prompt customization
On Donnerstag 24 September 2009, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Is the text used for the login prompt at the boot console hardwired > or is there someplace - preferably a text file - where that could be > customized? > > Thanks, > Mark > it can be customzied and it is explained on www.gentoo.org. Click on 'docs'
Re: [gentoo-user] Login prompt customization
Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Is the text used for the login prompt at the boot console hardwired > or is there someplace - preferably a text file - where that could be > customized? > > Thanks, > Mark > > > Check into /etc/issue and see if that helps. There may be a man page for the options. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.
Hi, I recently got DSL and youtube is growing on me. LOL I been trying to find a really good hard drive that is around 400 to 500Gb and pretty fast. It has to be a IDE drive, you know, the big wide cables. I don't have SATA on this rig. I have a Maxtor that I like and is pretty fast but it appears they are a little hard to find nowadays. In matter of importance: size, price, speed. Newegg is great but will consider others as well. Thanks for any pointers. Open to ideas. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] kvm and intel E5450 processor
today i installed two quad core Intel Xeon E5450's (Harpertown). i notice in /proc/cpuinfo i no longer have a vmx flag as i had with my previous Intel E5405's. i have also noticed that my /dev/kvm device is no longer created. VT is enabled in the bios. the data for the E5450's states that they have Intel Virtualization Technology. so why dont i have a /dev/kvm? have i spent all that money on processors that can't use kvm? can anyone shed some light on this issue for me? i am confused. James Erickson _ Microsoft brings you a new way to search the web. Try Bing™ now http://www.bing.com?form=MFEHPG&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MFEHPG_Core_tagline_try bing_1x1
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems
On 23 Sep 2009, at 09:33, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:41:52PM -0400, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: ... It looks as if the U server has an earlier version of the software. Egads, this is U Toronto? Still using ssh-1? I read it as only indicating that the /home/purslow/.ssh/id_[dr]sa files in the user's home directory were type 1. I'm not clear whether these are in the home directory on the client or on the server, but I wonder if deleting them (`mv ~/.ssh ~/.ssh.old`) might allow one to make a ssh2 connection (using a password initially). Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: iptables w/ 2 web servers
On 23 Sep 2009, at 22:35, James wrote: ... I have one static IP ... Could someone post some simple iptable examples of how to route 2 different web server traffic streams to 2 different machines? Both are inside the same DMZ2 different machines with different (NAT) IP addresses. Can't be done. Inherently, a client requesting a webpage looks up the IP address for bigbreastedmommas.com, finds its 24.73.161.102 (or whatever) and send an http request to port 80 of that IP. There is no way for IPtables to distinguish between an http request to bigbreastedmommas.com at 24.73.161.102 and an http request to bouncyboobs.com at 24.73.161.102, assuming both are on port 80. I would LOVE to be proved wrong on this, because it would be immensely useful for NATted geeks. However an iptables module to do this certainly did not exist in the past, and I'm guessing there are protocol-specific reasons why it can't be done. What you can do is forward port 80 to one machine and have that proxy to the other when necessary. Or have it redirect to the other, which listens on port 81. Stroller.
[gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : further queries
Thanks for the advice so far. Here are some more obstacles encountered. Kworldview : no longer an independent app (as in 3.5.10), but seems to have been incorporated into Marble (no problem with that). I have a file '/usr/share/kde4/services/plasma-applet-kworldclock.desktop', which belongs to Marble, but I can't find a way to use it in Marble. Gwenview : can one view hidden files ? -- it's under 'view' in 3.5.10 & also assigned to Control-H , but nowhere to be seen in 4.3.1 . Kcontrol : might this help with configuring KDE 4.3.1 apps ? -- eg I really don't like the wider toolbars in 4.3.1 & would like to have smaller icons & no accompanying descriptions. The version for 3.5.10 doesn't work on the Fluxbox desktop: it opens but lacks the list of options on the left side. Would I have more success with 4.3.1 (there are 8 dependencies) ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3.1 : Gwenview & Krusader problems
090923 Willie Wong wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 11:41:52PM -0400, Penguin Lover Philip Webb squawked: >> It looks as if the U server has an earlier version of the software. > Egads, this is U Toronto? Still using ssh-1? It's IRIX 5.3 & seems to be left with minimal maintenance (it works). > SSH-1 does not have the concept of subsystems, > so while your version of ssh and scp can communicate with the ssh server > at the other end, you cannot 'pass to subsystem sftp'... > Assuming it is using a version of ssh that bundles with an sftp-server, > but NOT ssh-2, you need to 1. ssh into the server in question; > 2. track down the path to the sftp server binary: > in Gentoo with openssh it is /usr/lib/misc/sftp-server; There's no dir 'misc' in /usr/lib on the remote machine nor a 'ssh'. > 3. Try running sftp with the flag '-s path-to-sftp-server-binary' > ie the absolute path on the remote machine. In reply to Stroller, all I have in ~/.ssh is 'known_hosts', which does allow successful connection to the remote machine. That's just to respond to both your kind helps (big smiles). I checked the CHASS WWW site & it contained an Ssh access link; when I logged in, the system was IRIX64 6.5 & the hostname different. Armed with that knowledge, I tried again with the new hostname & succeeded with Sftp from CLI & from Krusader & with Fish from Krusader ! So something did change from Krusader 1.80.0 -> 2.0.0 -- perhaps no longer guessing a hostname if it's not found at once -- , but if I enter the (now known) correct hostname everything works as of old. Thanks again for your advice. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Dale wrote: > Hi, > > I recently got DSL and youtube is growing on me. LOL I been trying to > find a really good hard drive that is around 400 to 500Gb and pretty > fast. It has to be a IDE drive, you know, the big wide cables. I don't > have SATA on this rig. > > I have a Maxtor that I like and is pretty fast but it appears they are a > little hard to find nowadays. In matter of importance: size, price, > speed. Newegg is great but will consider others as well. > > Thanks for any pointers. Open to ideas. You can get a SATA-to-IDE adapter for a few dollars. That should significantly open up your buying options, since nearly everything is SATA now.
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.
Dale wrote: Hi, I recently got DSL and youtube is growing on me. LOL I been trying to find a really good hard drive that is around 400 to 500Gb and pretty fast. It has to be a IDE drive, you know, the big wide cables. I don't have SATA on this rig. I have a Maxtor that I like and is pretty fast but it appears they are a little hard to find nowadays. In matter of importance: size, price, speed. Newegg is great but will consider others as well. Thanks for any pointers. Open to ideas. SATA PCI card should be < $20. I'd then go with a SATA II drive. kashani
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Dale wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I recently got DSL and youtube is growing on me. LOL I been trying to >> find a really good hard drive that is around 400 to 500Gb and pretty >> fast. It has to be a IDE drive, you know, the big wide cables. I don't >> have SATA on this rig. >> >> I have a Maxtor that I like and is pretty fast but it appears they are a >> little hard to find nowadays. In matter of importance: size, price, >> speed. Newegg is great but will consider others as well. >> >> Thanks for any pointers. Open to ideas. >> > > You can get a SATA-to-IDE adapter for a few dollars. That should > significantly open up your buying options, since nearly everything is > SATA now. > > > There's a idea. Last time I looked they were pretty pricey. I could then use the new drive in the new rig I am saving up to build. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.
kashani wrote: > Dale wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I recently got DSL and youtube is growing on me. LOL I been trying to >> find a really good hard drive that is around 400 to 500Gb and pretty >> fast. It has to be a IDE drive, you know, the big wide cables. I don't >> have SATA on this rig. >> >> I have a Maxtor that I like and is pretty fast but it appears they are a >> little hard to find nowadays. In matter of importance: size, price, >> speed. Newegg is great but will consider others as well. >> >> Thanks for any pointers. Open to ideas. > > SATA PCI card should be < $20. I'd then go with a SATA II drive. > > kashani > > Good idea. Back to newegg. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
