[gentoo-user] should /dev/dv1394 be a device or a directory?

I have just managed to force cinelerra-cvs-20051005 to start up. However I am not managing to import any DV from my camcorder. When I open the capture window I get the following message in the console: Device1394Input::open /dev/dv1394: Is a directory followed by Device1394In

Re: [gentoo-user] updates

John Dangler wrote: Roy~ Thanks for the reply. I actually used genkernel to make the kernel. I used 'genkernel all'. That's why I'm a little confused as to why this didn't take effect. The previous kernel was also built with genkernel and didn't have any problems. Regards, JD I'm about

[gentoo-user] Trouble after recompiling the kernel

I don't remeber exactly what I did to the kernel, but I remember that I have compiled modules unloading, modules forced unloading and orinoco drivers. Now I have this while booting and I only can pass that hitting Ctrl+c, otherwise system won't boot. When I try to reboot the system, I also get stuc

Re: [gentoo-user] Hylafax & e-mail

Mark wrote: Has anyone set up a Hylafax server along with a mail system on the same server? I'm trying to get a recommendation on a not-too-difficult to set up mail package that works well with Hylafax. Sendmail vs. Postfix vs. ??? I've done this Hylafax+Postfix, pretty good. Googled for the i

Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord trouble

Alexey Asprov wrote: >Thanks very much for your replies. It seems that cdrecord has a tough time >to coexist with 2.6 kernel series. I have ended up with fireing Kanotix >LiveCD, mounting my Gentoo partition and burning new Knoppix 4.0.2 with >k3b with some sort of hacked Ubuntu drivers ( cdrecord

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:57, Glenn Enright wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:33, Mike Williams wrote: > > On Sunday 30 October 2005 09:08, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > With the right hardware, forensics are *far* beyond this. > > > > The NSA *crush* old hardware. > > You ever seen a car crushed? Complete car

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:33, Mike Williams wrote: > On Sunday 30 October 2005 09:08, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > With the right hardware, forensics are *far* beyond this. > > The NSA *crush* old hardware. > You ever seen a car crushed? Complete car, engine, drive train, interior, > wheels, everything, crush

[gentoo-user] grub "...succeeded" -- Wrong!

Hello everybody, This is too weird. Just did a re-emerge of grub onto a tiny(80M) hd as /dev/hda for /dev/hdb, my main drive. Grub seems to boot OK. When I alternately hit pause and enter in the boot console everything seems to go fine. Everything it looks for is found and loaded; there are no err

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:48:08 +0800 Qiangning Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > | My CPU temperatur (reported > | by /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature, I have no luck with > | lmsensor setup) says 57C when idle, and can boost up to around 68C > | when emerging big p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Qian Qiao wrote: On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dale schrieb: Me too. Badly translated joke. It should read: There are 10 kinds of people. Then it is funny. It takes a bit of time to get the joke, :) It has nothing to do with binary system. :P -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dale schrieb: > Me too. Badly translated joke. It should read: There are 10 > kinds of people. Then it is funny. It takes a bit of time to get the joke, :) It has nothing to do with binary system. :P -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people

[gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

* On 30.10.2005 Alexander Skwar wrote: > Me too. Badly translated joke. It should read: There are 10 > kinds of people. Then it is funny Oh, it is funny. The joke you mean is slightly different and has something to do with the binary system ;-) So long, tkr -- Stewie: [bathing in blood] This

[gentoo-user] [OT] This list with a newsclient (was: giflib vs. libungif)

* On 29.10.2005 Peter Kelly wrote: > On another note, is there a way to both view and post to this list through > Knode? You still have to be subscribed to the list to post So long, tkr -- untold wealth, n.: What you left out on April 15th. signature.asc Desc

[gentoo-user] Re: (masked by: missing keyword)

* On 29.10.2005 sean wrote: > What is the proper way to over ride a package that is (masked by: > missing keyword)? The only way I know of is to change the ebuild. But don't do this on the ebuild in your normal portage dir (it will be overridden after the next sync). Copy the ebuild to '${PORTD

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

On 10/31/05, C. Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qian Qiao wrote: > > > >So the mysqldump you did on the 4.0 didn't dump the databases other > >than test, hmmm. > > > > > > That's correct. And as stated in my original post, I think it might > have something to do with the way I got the database

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

Qian Qiao wrote: >On 10/30/05, C. Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Qian Qiao wrote: >> >> >>>What was the error message, if it was about the key length exceeding >>>1000, then you hit a known bug. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>No, I didn't get any error messages on restoring the database th

[gentoo-user] nvu, mozilla designer: why such behaviour ?

Hi, I'd like to develop an entire web site. It'll use LAMP (Apache+MySQL +PHP). Well, the tool that I'd like to use is nvu for example, I consider it a powerful application for designing web sites. Before, I had used NVU for designing *.html web pages, and I see now that when I sa

Re: [gentoo-user] updates

On 10/30/05, John Dangler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roy~ > Thanks for the reply. I actually used genkernel to make the kernel. I used > 'genkernel all'. That's why I'm a little confused as to why this didn't > take effect. The previous kernel was also built with genkernel and didn't > have a

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

On 10/30/05, C. Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qian Qiao wrote: > >What was the error message, if it was about the key length exceeding > >1000, then you hit a known bug. > > > > > No, I didn't get any error messages on restoring the database that was > created by the backup process that was i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

John Jolet wrote: On Sunday 30 October 2005 16:30, Richard Fish wrote: But since top-posters are too lazy to scroll to the end of a message, or trim the original before replying, I'm guessing they will be too lazy to follow the link and read the RFC. So I'll quote the relevant section here:

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

Roy~ Thanks for the reply. I actually used genkernel to make the kernel. I used 'genkernel all'. That's why I'm a little confused as to why this didn't take effect. The previous kernel was also built with genkernel and didn't have any problems. Regards, JD -Original Message- From: Ro

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

It was a true story. It really hapened. Maybe you have just not watched the show before? Most of the shows I watch are real. I don't care much for fake stuff like Star Wars. They did it whether you believe it or not. Dale -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

Qian Qiao wrote: >>The instructions on the Gentoo website for upgrading gave a step by step >>to create a backup of my database. However, when I went to restore the >>database after the upgrade, the restore didn't work. I'm thinking that >>it was because of the way I got my database files into M

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Holly Bostick wrote: >Dale schreef: > > > Speaking of settings, mail can be set to be sent as plain text by > >default in Thunderbird/Mozilla Mail as follows (the settings given are >for Thunderbird, but the Mozmail settings are very nearby in terms of >finding them, if not exactly the same): >

Re: [gentoo-user] BUG in glibc???? [WAY OT]

capsel wrote: Hi all, is it a bug in glibc or in my code? This is so far off topic, it isn't even funny. But, I see a couple bugs in your code. I will cover them inline: if( ( config_content == NULL ) || ( config_content==0 ) ) Not really a bug here, but since NULL and 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

On Sunday 30 October 2005 16:30, Richard Fish wrote: > But since top-posters are too lazy to scroll to the end of a message, or > trim the original before replying, I'm guessing they will be too lazy to > follow the link and read the RFC. So I'll quote the relevant section here: Personally, I pref

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

On 10/30/05, C. Beamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just upgraded MySQL using the instructions on the Gentoo website. For > the most part, everything went fine and now everything works, but I had > to make a couple of adjustments. My question now is if there is a > proper way to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

On 10/30/05, Anthony Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the prompt advice guys. > > I'll be taking it slowly - I aim to get the main installation and > changeover done over Christmas when I have a little more time, and the > preparation done prior to that so that I have the partitions read

[gentoo-user] Serious pcmcia network issues

Hola, I've got this old laptop that I'm bringing back from the dead (attic) for a special project. It needs sound and network capability. As it's a 300MHz PII, and I'm running gentoo on the 3GHz home server, I thought the optimizations of gentoo might pay off. First, I did a stage 3 instal

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

Stroller wrote: > I've just tried `shred` on a file in a ResierFS partition and it > certainly appears to work. $ man shred >file $ ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 3685 Oct 31 00:11 file $ shred file $ ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 ben users 131072 Oct 31 00:11 file Hmm, would that mean that the "b

[gentoo-user] MySQL Upgrade

Hi all, I just upgraded MySQL using the instructions on the Gentoo website. For the most part, everything went fine and now everything works, but I had to make a couple of adjustments. My question now is if there is a proper way to do what I did as a workaround. In September, when I wiped Fedor

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel error messages: gentoo-sources 2.6.13-r5

Kevin O'Gorman wrote: 2) The init scripts complain that the system doesn't support DEVFS or UDEV, but a) I thought I *did* have UDEV; I remember a big deal about converting to it. b) at the moment, I can't remember how I got it, and don't see an option for it in the kernel con

[gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Alexander Skwar wrote: Yep. That's why bullshit like this shouldn't be done. Quotes should be done in the way I do it. Not because I do it (that's no reason), but because that's the way it's been done for a long time and (more) importantly, because it's been proven to be good. And the proof i

Re: [gentoo-user] updates

John Dangler wrote: hrmm... I recompile the new kernel, before rebooting, I run module-rebuild list... and get one entry - "=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4" So, I reboot the new kernel, and get no Ethernet, no wireless, no sound, nonvidia, and the vga mode is wrong. (the grub entry is a

[gentoo-user] BUG in glibc????

Hi all, I am writing some program... simple program and I've got some code: j=strcmp( "log", *(lines+i) ); printf( "ble\n" ); if( strcmp( "log", *(lines+i) ) == 0 ) { printf( "ble2\n" ); it is in for loop. "b

[gentoo-user] Kernel error messages: gentoo-sources 2.6.13-r5

When I boot I get several kinds of error messages.  My system runs okay, but I'd like confirmation or information that I do/don't need to fix something. 1) My 2-channel SCSI card (39160): should I worry about "unable to reserve" or "already in use"? PCI: Enabling device :03:01.0 (0116 -> 0117

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

hrmm... I recompile the new kernel, before rebooting, I run module-rebuild list... and get one entry - "=media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6629-r4" So, I reboot the new kernel, and get no Ethernet, no wireless, no sound, nonvidia, and the vga mode is wrong. (the grub entry is an exact copy of the pre

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

Another source of random freezes can be the power supply. It happened with my Gentoo box about two months ago. It started to randomly freeze, then to suddenly shut down without notice every 3-6 hours. memtest86 was fine. A new power supply solved all issues. Check it if all other alternatives have

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

Thanks for the prompt advice guys. I'll be taking it slowly - I aim to get the main installation and changeover done over Christmas when I have a little more time, and the preparation done prior to that so that I have the partitions ready to go. I'll let you know how it all went (probably be askin

Re: [gentoo-user] updates

John Dangler wrote: Holly~ Thanks for the reply. It seems fairly straightforward. From reading this, I would think that running module-rebuild populate would be the first task. Add/Del package would be for building discriminate versions of a kernel (presumably for locating problems or just te

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

Qian Qiao schrieb: > On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, but how does it work in a DBMS? Does a transaction >> log there save you from a 'DELETE FROM table; COMMIT;'? >> I mean, I suppose you could see - thanks to the transaction >> log - that a 'DELETE FROM table;' wa

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

Holly~ Thanks for the reply. It seems fairly straightforward. From reading this, I would think that running module-rebuild populate would be the first task. Add/Del package would be for building discriminate versions of a kernel (presumably for locating problems or just testing out a kernel revi

Re: [gentoo-user] updates

John Dangler schreef: > >> John Dangler schreef: > Holly Bostick schreef: > >> I'm trying to get a definitive answer to this - when I want to >> install a new kernel, I know that there are certain packages that >> will not come back, Is there a way to setup a list of these based >> on what I have

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

Holly~ Thanks for the reply. I found the package on portage, but couldn't locate any docs for how to use it... I'm googling for it atm, but if you can point me towards any docs on this I'd really appreciate it. I've been waiting for something like this for a while. Regards, JD -Original M

Re: [gentoo-user] updates

John Dangler schreef: > I'm trying to get a definitive answer to this - when I want to install a new > kernel, I know that there are certain packages that will not come back, and > need to be re-emerged on the new kernel. Is there a way to setup a list of > these based on what I have installed on

[gentoo-user] updates

I'm trying to get a definitive answer to this - when I want to install a new kernel, I know that there are certain packages that will not come back, and need to be re-emerged on the new kernel. Is there a way to setup a list of these based on what I have installed on my current Gentoo kernel to ma

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

On Sunday 30 October 2005 17:26, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Oh, no doubt that they can recover from burned platters. > But have you ever seen, that they can recover overwritten > data? not seen, but read about it. They can recover overwritten data. > > I've only heard the opposite - that they CANN

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qian Qiao schrieb: > > > Ah, I see. I was thinking that the journal is working in a similar > > fashion as the transaction logs in DBMS, seems I'm quite wrong. :) > > Well, but how does it work in a DBMS? Does a transaction > log there save

Re: [gentoo-user] The Root Block Device is unspecified or not detected - PCMCIA card CD Boot on Sony Vaio

On Oct 30, 2005, at 11:18 am, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: I'm running Gentoo on my picturebook happily since about 2 or 3 years now. Just ask if there are more problems. I can give you a kernel patch for the neomagic frame buffer driver to have it support the 480px display height... I really lov

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Support in 2.6.13-r5 Kernel?

On 10/30/2005 9:33 AM Holly Bostick wrote: Drew Tomlinson schreef: I am trying to upgrade from a 2.6.11 genkernel to 2.6.13-r5 genkernel. However when booting, I get a message about root not being a valid root device and then a prompt to enter the correct one. it appears likely t

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

I've just tried `shred` on a file in a ResierFS partition and it certainly appears to work. `shred` is part of sys-apps/coreutils so there should already be a manpage on your system if you're interested in this utility. Stroller. On Oct 30, 2005, at 4:17 am, Dale wrote: It may also be of n

Re: [gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Support in 2.6.13-r5 Kernel?

Drew Tomlinson schreef: > I am trying to upgrade from a 2.6.11 genkernel to 2.6.13-r5 > genkernel. However when booting, I get a message about root not being > a valid root device and then a prompt to enter the correct one. > > it appears likely that my problem is that > Advansys SCSI support i

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

Qian Qiao schrieb: > Ah, I see. I was thinking that the journal is working in a similar > fashion as the transaction logs in DBMS, seems I'm quite wrong. :) Well, but how does it work in a DBMS? Does a transaction log there save you from a 'DELETE FROM table; COMMIT;'? I mean, I suppose you could

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qian Qiao schrieb: > > On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> dd if=/dev/zero of=file && rm file > > > > I'm a noob on journaling file systems, won't the file be recovered if > > the journal is re-played? When we eras

[gentoo-user] Advansys SCSI Support in 2.6.13-r5 Kernel?

I am trying to upgrade from a 2.6.11 genkernel to 2.6.13-r5 genkernel. However when booting, I get a message about root not being a valid root device and then a prompt to enter the correct one. I'm a noob at this so don't assume I've done the obvious. :) I've searched Google and it appears

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

On 10/30/05, Anthony Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can boot from the suse, repartition the hdb, then chroot, and do > > your gentoo installation. > > Excellent - so really I won't even need to have server downtime while > installing? I'll definitely look into this approach. You shouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Holly Bostick schrieb: > Alexander Skwar schreef: >> Dale schrieb: >>> Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla. >> >> Change "what" in Mozilla? There's nothing that you can change. > > Oh for Pete's sake, Alexander. You can so change stuff in Mozilla-- it's > a *software suite

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

Qian Qiao schrieb: > On 10/30/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> dd if=/dev/zero of=file && rm file > > I'm a noob on journaling file systems, won't the file be recovered if > the journal is re-played? When we erase a file like that, don't we > have to figure out a way to erase the

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses apps garbled in text console

On October 29, 2005 06:31 pm Rodney Gordon II was like: > > For some reason my /etc/env.d/02locale was missing.  Creating a new one > > solved the problem. > > Out of curiosity, how did you create one? > I have the same issue, mine is missing for some reason.. Nothing fancy, Im afraid. I just did

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

I'm going to take a bath and soak a while. I have a skin disease and cool/cold weather makes it mad. :( Come and live in Bordeaux then! It was 24°C today... I knew there was a reason we moved here :-) Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

> You can boot from the suse, repartition the hdb, then chroot, and do > your gentoo installation. Excellent - so really I won't even need to have server downtime while installing? I'll definitely look into this approach. Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Alexander Skwar schreef: > Dale schrieb: > > >> Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla. > > > Change "what" in Mozilla? There's nothing that you can change. Oh for Pete's sake, Alexander. You can so change stuff in Mozilla-- it's a *software suite*, containing a web browser

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

Mike Williams schrieb: > On Sunday 30 October 2005 04:17, Dale wrote: >> Those forensics folks sure are good though. I have heard they can get >> it back even after you have wrote alternating 1's and 0's to the drive a >> dozen times. I wonder how they do that? > > Magnetic remnants. Any RECENT

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

Dale schrieb: > Qian Qiao wrote: >>Progress, :) Trimming will make it even clearer, and reader friendly. >> >> > > What is trimming? Get out a word book. You'll find the definition there. > Now I am middle posting. Bad as well. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

Nicholas Hockey schrieb: > LOOK I'M TOP POSTING IN ALL CAPS, OMG YOU MIGHT DIE > > I don't know why ppl just want to bitch about top posting and HTML? Sure > back when we were all on an old external hays 9600 it was irritating to > download all that extra crap. So it is nowadays. Where's the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Dale schrieb: > Qian Qiao wrote: >>Well done, :) >> >>Trimming could be extremely useful, when you see a thread with over 30 >>replies. > Honestly, I like it all together in one place. Me too. It's all in a folder containing all the mails. Further, there are archives on the web. > That way yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Dale schrieb: > I found it. Found "what"? > Is this better? Better than what? Your previous way of top posting? No, it's not better. It's as bad. > I'm a bottom feeder, um poster. Bad. > LOL I > even took out some of the clutter above. THIS is good. But you should take out even more.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Dale schrieb: > Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla. Change "what" in Mozilla? There's nothing that you can change. You just read and insert your comments where appropriate and delete what's no longer relevant. Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 16:06 +, Anthony Roy wrote: > Hi all, > > I am new to Gentoo, but having made a test install on one of my > machines, so far I am impressed. > > The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my > server, since it looked promising in the control I have

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

Dale schrieb: > Scroll down, I'm bottom feeding now. LOL What's so funny about you being unable to properly quote? Is it funny, because you make it hard to read what you wrote on purpose? > I saw that on one of those forensic shows. Those on TV? Those commercials turned into a report? > They

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

On 10/30/05, Anthony Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Repartition hdb to add root, swap and boot partition of about 10GB > for root (what tools can I use in order to keep the data intact on hdb > whilst partitioning?) Some softwares like partition magic can do that, but they run under doze. I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Dale schreef: > >> Alexander Skwar wrote: >> >> Don't send out HTML, please. Especially, if you don't make use of >> HTML features, as it then only wastes bandwidth with nothing useful >> being added. > > Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla. Speaking of settings, mail c

[gentoo-user] Replacing Suse on my server.

Hi all, I am new to Gentoo, but having made a test install on one of my machines, so far I am impressed. The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my server, since it looked promising in the control I have over the installation. My question is this: I want to replace Suse

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 12:48:08 +0800 Qiangning Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | My CPU temperatur (reported | by /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature, I have no luck with | lmsensor setup) says 57C when idle, and can boost up to around 68C | when emerging big packages. Is it normal? There shou

Re: [gentoo-user] arts crasheing: FIXED!

Schleimer, Ben schreef: > Hi again, I figured out that artsd was crashing because I was trying > to play a .ogg without having emerged kdemultimedia with the vorbis > USE flag set. Well, that makes sense. Congratulations! > > I added the USE flag, reemerged kdemultimedia (which wasn't > autoe

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

Well, I'm on 26K dial-up which ain't a whole lot better.  You should see me downloading Open Office.  It takes three nights to get it all.  Oh, we don't have anything else where I live.  There is no cable modem or DSL here and likely won't be for a long time either I'm sorry to say. I top po

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

Owned, lmao. On 10/30/05, Nicholas Hockey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > LOOK I'M TOP POSTING IN ALL CAPS, OMG YOU MIGHT DIE > > I don't know why ppl just want to bitch about top posting and HTML? Sure > back when we were all on an old external hays 9600 it was irritating to > download all t

RE: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

LOOK I'M TOP POSTING IN ALL CAPS, OMG YOU MIGHT DIE I don't know why ppl just want to bitch about top posting and HTML? Sure back when we were all on an old external hays 9600 it was irritating to download all that extra crap. But adding a few extra kb doesn’t mean much now, get over y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

On 10/30/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qian Qiao wrote: > It can? Oh. I didn't know that. www.gmane.org > Are you accusing me of having a sense of humor? LOL Maybe I'm the third > kind. < scratches head > Here's the answer: cos I can't count, :P -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of peop

[gentoo-user] ERROR: app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 failed.

OK.  I run into this a lot.  I have had it.  I'm about to try unmergeing this puppy and seeing what breaks.  This is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # emerge xmlto Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) app-text/xmlto-0.0.18 to / >>> md5 files   ;-) xmlto-0.0.17.ebuild >>> md5 f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Qian Qiao wrote: On 10/30/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You don't have to keep the messages, archive of this list can be found on the net. It can?  Oh.  I didn't know that. The setting is under mail and server settings by the way. Your sig confuses me. Three kin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel updates

On 10/30/05, Tim Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't need the less-than here. grep can work directly on the > file. > > % grep sys-kernel /var/lib/portage/world doh, :) > > So long, > tkr > > -- > You know you're using the computer too much when: > You try and use wget to pick up that

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel updates

* On 30.10.2005 Qian Qiao wrote: >>> # cat /var/lib/portage/world> grep sys-kernel I have corrupted your command, but realized it too late, sorry. You originally have written: >>> # cat /var/lib/portage/world | grep sys-kernel >> UUOC > > I stand corrected. grep sys-kernel < /var/lib/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem emerging realplayer-10.0.6

        Hi,     Download the file directly with the browser and put it in /usr/portage/distfiles Catalin Schleimer, Ben wrote: Hi, I'm trying to emerge realplayer-10.0.6 and it's not behaving properly: Emerge media-video/realplayer-10.0.6 started... Started emerge on: Oct 29, 2005 22:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

On 10/30/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Qian Qiao wrote: > Honestly, I like it all together in one place. That way you don't have > to dig for it. I delete emails that are more than a week or so old. I > do save the ones that have passwords to sites I have joined or something > but the re

[gentoo-user] about c mail-list

i want to get some good mail-list about c ,who can tell me, thx

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Qian Qiao wrote: > >Well done, :) > >Trimming could be extremely useful, when you see a thread with over 30 replies. > >-- Joe > > > Honestly, I like it all together in one place. That way you don't have to dig for it. I delete emails that are more than a week or so old. I do save the ones t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

On 10/30/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dale wrote: > > I found it. Is this better? I'm a bottom feeder, um poster. LOL I > even took out some of the clutter above. > Well done, :) Trimming could be extremely useful, when you see a thread with over 30 replies. -- Joe -- There are 3 k

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel updates

On 10/30/05, Tim Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * On 27.10.2005 Qian Qiao wrote: > > # cat /var/lib/portage/world> grep sys-kernel > > UUOC I stand corrected. grep sys-kernel < /var/lib/portage/world is a neater way. -- Joe -- There are 3 kinds of people in the world: Those who can count, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Dale wrote: > > Well, I'm trying to find out where to change it in Mozilla. I'm not > having any luck either. I know I saw it once but I left it like it > was. I don't change to many settings unless they are just something I > see here, desktop settings or something. > > I just joined this thin

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

On 10/30/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Qian Qiao wrote: > On 10/30/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is trimming? Now I am middle posting. Deleting the bits that are out of context, to keep the message relatively smaller in size. Dial-up users benefit from trimming and not u

[gentoo-user] Re: Quoting styles

Alexander Skwar wrote: Dale schrieb: I agree with your reasons I don't. Totally wrong. In every aspect. but some of the others have reasons too. I do like my reason better though. LOL I put LOL for those who read text only and not HTML. LOL, again.

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel updates

* On 27.10.2005 Qian Qiao wrote: >> P.S. is there an easy way to confirm which kernel source (gentoo/vanilla) >> was originally installed? > > # cat /var/lib/portage/world> grep sys-kernel UUOC > The above command should give you the kernel(s) you've emerged. Normally the above command should

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

On Sunday 30 October 2005 09:08, Uwe Thiem wrote: > With the right hardware, forensics are *far* beyond this. The NSA *crush* old hardware. You ever seen a car crushed? Complete car, engine, drive train, interior, wheels, everything, crushed into a cube less than a meter cubed. I'd use one of th

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

On Sunday 30 October 2005 04:17, Dale wrote: > Those forensics folks sure are good though.  I have heard they can get > it back even after you have wrote alternating 1's and 0's to the drive a > dozen times.  I wonder how they do that? Magnetic remnants. I don't imagine there would be a whole lot

Re: [gentoo-user] "wiping" unused space and/or secure erasing of files

Scroll down, I'm bottom feeding now.  LOL Alexander Skwar wrote: Dale schrieb: Those forensics folks sure are good though. I have heard they can get it back even after you have wrote alternating 1's and 0's to the drive a dozen times. Where have you heard that? I don'

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

Qian Qiao wrote: On 10/30/05, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did see a forum once that lets you put the posts in reverse order, most recent at the top. I would sort of like that. I'm on a very slow dial-up and I can likely read the new post before the rest of the page can ev

Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

Scroll to the bottom OK.  LOL Qian Qiao wrote: On 10/30/05, Ryan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/30/05, Qian Qiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can post how you like. Please dont change your ways on my accord. I was replying Dale's message, :) Um di

Quoting styles (was: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging)

Dale schrieb: > I agree with your reasons I don't. Totally wrong. In every aspect. > but some of the others have reasons too. I do > like my reason better though. LOL I put LOL for those who read text > only and not HTML. LOL, again. Don't send out HTML, please. Especially, if you don't mak

Quoting styles (was: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging)

Ted Kaczmarek schrieb: > Than why did you top post? More importantly: Why do you full quote? Alexander Skwar -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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