Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Alan Milnes
On 28/03/2008, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Your note is excellent but I disagree with this bit:- > > If the PC is still slow then check disk-space, pagefile settings > ("allow the system to manage pagefile size for me", click "set") > unless as a temporary workaround you should always ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: rhythmbox plays silently

2008-03-28 Thread Hal Martin
Michael Schmarck wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Now, onto your actual problem. It is exceptionally hard to even attempt >> to provide a solution unless someone else fixed the exact same problem >> before, as you have not provided any configuration at all and very >> lit

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Francesco Talamona
On Friday 28 March 2008, Stroller wrote: > I deal with h0sed Windows installations for my customers all the   > time. I regularly boot a Knoppix CD and copy the whole C: drive to a >   portable disk so that I have a complete backup. I find it > reassuring to use Linux for this purpose because I fee

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 28 March 2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > IMHO, Linux and MAC are the next frontier for malware, and -SADLY- > AntiMalware signature and heuristic techniques are one thing we can > learn about from Windows :-( True, but with one *huge* difference: If something like ActiveX were to be unleash

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-28 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 19:02 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > > > > For custom scrips, you can add a preup, failup or postup-function > to /etc/conf.d/net, there should be examples in the file. > > Something like > > pastup() { > if [[ ${IFACE} = "wlan0" ]]; then > iwconfig

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless: Limit rate to strengthen connection?

2008-03-28 Thread Florian Philipp
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 20:42 -0400, Richard Marzan wrote: > On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 19:52 -0700, Grant wrote: > > > > > > > I'm trying to strengthen a wireless connection that spans about > > > > 150 > > > > > > > feet and has to go through about 5 walls. I bought two of > > > these: > > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Stroller wrote: Be aware that sometimes Windows isn't cleanly fixable. Although I try to avoid it until I've exhausted avenues for a clean repair, sometimes the best thing to do is simply to back-up & reinstall. Think this is a great write up. The last paragraph seems most important - gi

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Stéphane ANCELOT: > I have tried to find it , but by the way how to enable gnome 2.22 in > gentoo ?? http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/remi/2008/03/28/the_road_to_gnome_2_22_part_2 -d -- darren kirby :: Part of the problem since 1976 :: http://badcomputer.org "...the number of UN

[gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Mick wrote: On 28/03/2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anti-Virus on Linux. No. (presuming that you don't run as root, and have lots of unprivileged users for individual applications.) Anti-Malware on Linux. Yes. (Malware gets to the box via spoofed or hacked software distr

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-28 Thread Grant
> > I think it is no longer needed and udev should take care of all this. At > > last, I do not have hotplug nor coldplug and inserting/removing all usb > > devices, laptop modules, PCMCIAs works on runtime. > > That's fine with most devices, but causes a problem with network > adaptors. No ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Mick
On 28/03/2008, 7v5w7go9ub0o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Florian Philipp wrote: > > > >> FWIW, AntiVir, Bitdefender, and F-Prot run quite well on Linux, and each > >> has BOTH Linux and Windows Trojan and virus signatures. So you can > >> install these and scan your windows box, and then scan y

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-28 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 11:42:18AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:09:08 +0100, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > > > I think it is no longer needed and udev should take care of all this. At > > last, I do not have hotplug nor coldplug and inserting/removing all usb > > de

Re: [gentoo-user] OOo 2.4 and Java

2008-03-28 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Friday 28 March 2008, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: === > Hi! > > Have installed OOo 2.4 on ~amd64/x86_64 with these flags: > > cups dbus eds firefox java kde ldap pam -binfilter -debug ... > > At starting any OOo programm konsole shows: > > javaldx failed! > > Tool-Options-Java dialog find

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread Christophe Lermytte
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Wael Nasreddine wrote: This One Time, at Band Camp, St?phane ANCELOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:12:38AM +0100: I have tried to find it , but by the way how to enable gnome 2.22 in gentoo ?? You should unmask the Gnome2.22 packages, they are

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:09:08 +0100, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: > I think it is no longer needed and udev should take care of all this. At > last, I do not have hotplug nor coldplug and inserting/removing all usb > devices, laptop modules, PCMCIAs works on runtime. That's fine with most devices,

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with 2 partition installation from gentoo minimal system

2008-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 16:19:58 Alex Schuster wrote: > Does it also have the right IDE drivers? This /dev/sda drive is SATA I > assume, is this configured correctly in the kernel, and is the SCSI stuff > also compiled directly into the kerne? On my laptop I sometimes have to switch AHCI on or

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:51:20 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). Alt-SysRq E I S U B is better as it kills running processes first. If you hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 09:11:53AM +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Anybody ever do it and can tell me how long > > a shutdown takes? > > As long as you need to strike the keys. Not really true. I have set my dirty cache timeout to 10 minutes, so it can hold some few hundred megabytes of

Re: [gentoo-user] Unplugging USB wireless adapter

2008-03-28 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:43:58PM -0500, Dale wrote: > I haven't kept up with this but isn't there a hotplug/coldplug monitor that > detects things like this? I'm thinking hotplug is the correct one since > the machine is powered up. I think it is no longer needed and udev should take c

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread Wael Nasreddine
This One Time, at Band Camp, St?phane ANCELOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said, On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:12:38AM +0100: > I have tried to find it , but by the way how to enable gnome 2.22 in > gentoo ?? You should unmask the Gnome2.22 packages, they are unmasked in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/3/28, Stéphane ANCELOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have tried to find it , but by the way how to enable gnome 2.22 in > gentoo ?? Gnome 2.22 is about to be added to the portage tree, be patient! Most components are already there! The meta ebuilds for gnome and gnome-light are still missing!

Re: [gentoo-user] portage/firewall

2008-03-28 Thread Mick
On Thursday 27 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:33:53 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > I'd say, try http. > > > > Jeez. You didn't read the original posting, did you? It's FTP, period. > > It's FTP, which is blocked by the firewall, so use only HTTP mirrors > in /etc/make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] touchpad can't scroll

2008-03-28 Thread Mick
On Friday 28 March 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: > Hi, > > > You should change your server-layout to something like > > > > Section "ServerLayout" > > Identifier "Layout0" > > Screen "Screen1" > > InputDevice"Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard" > > InputDevice

[gentoo-user] gnome 2.22

2008-03-28 Thread Stéphane ANCELOT
I have tried to find it , but by the way how to enable gnome 2.22 in gentoo ?? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo to clean windows

2008-03-28 Thread Stroller
On 26 Mar 2008, at 15:19, Mikie wrote: Does anyone know of a product (hopefully free) that can clean a Windows PC while booted on Gentoo? I guess I need a good malware tool that runs on Linux and cleans NTFS volumes. Hi there, Some of the replies to your message are now a little off-topic

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 08:51:20 +0100, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > By the way the safest and recommended command, although a bit longish > should be ALT+SysRq(or print)+S(ync)+U(mount)+B(Reboot). Alt-SysRq E I S U B is better as it kills running processes first. If you have time, pause between the key

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 schrieb ext Dale: > I have never done this before so what if any > are the gotcha's with this? None. > Anybody ever do it and can tell me how long > a shutdown takes? As long as you need to strike the keys. > Also, will this work if > I am logged into KDE and in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2008/3/28, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 schrieb ext Daniel Pielmeier: You can try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Wow, good to know that Wikipedia has it, just in case I don't have kernel sources in

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/3/28, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 schrieb ext Daniel Pielmeier: > > > You can try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key > > Wow, good to know that Wikipedia has it, just in case I don't have kernel > sources installed on my Gentoo systems ;-

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 schrieb ext Daniel Pielmeier: > You can try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key Wow, good to know that Wikipedia has it, just in case I don't have kernel sources installed on my Gentoo systems ;-) Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Te

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 28. März 2008 schrieb ext Dale: > Is there a faster way to shutdown so that at least the file > system is clean? Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt. HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068

Re: [gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/3/28, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I had a problem the other day where I needed to shutdown, like in a real > hurry. My power supply was packed up and checking out without paying > the bill. I was in KDE and just selected logout then shutdown from the > menu. Is there a faster way to

[gentoo-user] Emergency shutdown, how to?

2008-03-28 Thread Dale
Hi, I had a problem the other day where I needed to shutdown, like in a real hurry. My power supply was packed up and checking out without paying the bill. I was in KDE and just selected logout then shutdown from the menu. Is there a faster way to shutdown so that at least the file system

Re: [gentoo-user] OOo 2.4 and Java

2008-03-28 Thread Pongracz Istvan
2008. 03. 28, péntek keltezéssel 05.47-kor Andrew Gaydenko ezt írta: > Hi! > > Have installed OOo 2.4 on ~amd64/x86_64 with these flags: > > cups dbus eds firefox java kde ldap pam -binfilter -debug ... > > At starting any OOo programm konsole shows: > > javaldx failed! > > Tool-Options-Java