Re: [gentoo-user] Work!

2008-12-09 Thread Karl Huysmans
2008/12/9 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > It's not against any rules per se, so I suppose if you did post and it was > for > a genuine position and it was you who were hiring (i.e. not an agent of > some > kind), then no-one would really complain. > Genuine of course! > > We don't get such

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread Dale
Andrey Vul wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 17:39, Joerg Schilling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:18, Joerg Schilling >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> So you installed it suid to an unprivileged

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread Andrey Vul
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 19:46, Allan Gottlieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:44:21 -0500 Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 17:39, Joerg Schilling >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 9, 200

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:44:21 -0500 Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 17:39, Joerg Schilling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:18, Joerg Schilling >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> > >>> > So yo

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread Andrey Vul
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 17:39, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:18, Joerg Schilling >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > >> > So you installed it suid to an unprivileged user. >> > >> Should I do 'chown root:cdrom' f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Alex Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > >> I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, >> not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I >> apologize if it is a duplicate). > > I don't think so.

Re: [gentoo-user] usb to ethernet

2008-12-09 Thread Chris Thomas
I have one similar to yours. IIRC, mine is a Realtek 8139 chipset which works fine with the driver in the kernel. -Chris On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:38 PM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > Check it out, using a realtek chip. > > http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=17669+CP > > My

Re: [gentoo-user] usb to ethernet

2008-12-09 Thread Chema Alonso
James escribió: > Hello, > > > Check it out, using a realtek chip. > > http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=17669+CP > > My question is has anyone every got one of these working on gentoo, > or a similar product from another vendor? > > > James > > > I've used linksys USB 100m adapter

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:18, Joerg Schilling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > So you installed it suid to an unprivileged user. > > > Should I do 'chown root:cdrom' for /dev/hd* or 'chown root:disk' for /dev/sg*? > Which is preferred? If you like t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: > I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, > not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I > apologize if it is a duplicate). I don't think so. > If anyone has any ideas at all about how to go about fixing/mounting > this, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Understanding slotting of KTorrent

2008-12-09 Thread AllenJB
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I don't "get" the slotting scheme of KTorrent: [I] net-p2p/ktorrent Available versions: (0) 2.2.7 2.2.8 (4.1) ~3.1.5 (3) ~3.1.5-r1 [M]~3.2_beta1 OK, 0 seems to be actually 3.5. 4.1 is KDE 4.1. But so is 3 too... I filed an issu

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread Andrey Vul
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 14:18, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So you installed it suid to an unprivileged user. > Should I do 'chown root:cdrom' for /dev/hd* or 'chown root:disk' for /dev/sg*? Which is preferred? And what is group bin supposed to be for? Apparently /usr/bin/cdrecor

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Dec 2008, at 17:49, Paul Hartman wrote: ... xfs_repair exists, but the man page says it can only be used against clealy unmounted drives... which seems kind of funny. I ran it anyway, in read-only mode, and it was unable to find the primary superblock and started scanning the disk for the s

Re: [gentoo-user] usb to ethernet

2008-12-09 Thread Stroller
On 9 Dec 2008, at 19:38, James wrote: ... Check it out, using a realtek chip. http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=17669+CP My question is has anyone every got one of these working on gentoo, or a similar product from another vendor? I've had a similar one (AX-something chipset) recognise

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] top posting

2008-12-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Indeed :) (Sorry, couldn't resist :P) Dale wrote: Justin wrote: Nicolas Sebrecht schrieb: On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:45:16PM +, Stroller wrote: I find a flow of quoting that is interrupted FAR less legible than the 3 short message se

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] top posting

2008-12-09 Thread Dale
Justin wrote: > Nicolas Sebrecht schrieb: > >> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:45:16PM +, Stroller wrote: >> >> >> >>>I find a flow of quoting that is >>> interrupted FAR less legible than the 3 short message sections, all >>> concise, clear a

[gentoo-user] Understanding slotting of KTorrent

2008-12-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I don't "get" the slotting scheme of KTorrent: [I] net-p2p/ktorrent Available versions: (0) 2.2.7 2.2.8 (4.1) ~3.1.5 (3) ~3.1.5-r1 [M]~3.2_beta1 OK, 0 seems to be actually 3.5. 4.1 is KDE 4.1. But so is 3 too...

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] top posting

2008-12-09 Thread Justin
Nicolas Sebrecht schrieb: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:45:16PM +, Stroller wrote: > > >>I find a flow of quoting that is >> interrupted FAR less legible than the 3 short message sections, all >> concise, clear and top-posted, that you replied to.

[gentoo-user] [OT] top posting

2008-12-09 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:45:16PM +, Stroller wrote: >I find a flow of quoting that is > interrupted FAR less legible than the 3 short message sections, all > concise, clear and top-posted, that you replied to. Top-posting just sucks. Whole quot

Re: [gentoo-user] usb to ethernet

2008-12-09 Thread Neil Walker
James wrote: http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=17669+CP My question is has anyone every got one of these working on gentoo, or a similar product from another vendor? Errm ... quite honestly, why would you want to? Be lucky, Neil

[gentoo-user] usb to ethernet

2008-12-09 Thread James
Hello, Check it out, using a realtek chip. http://www.mpja.com/prodinfo.asp?number=17669+CP My question is has anyone every got one of these working on gentoo, or a similar product from another vendor? James

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives

2008-12-09 Thread sean
AJ Spagnoletti wrote: Anyone ever reply to this? If you're using Gnome, then HAL + Gnome will take care of it. I am using HAL + ivman in my servers. It works well for fixing mount points. Thanks, I got several replies but all pointed to just using hal + gnome, as most desktop environments

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 03:47, Joerg Schilling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I get the following error: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 vmware/Windows\ XP\ > >> Professional/shared/vLite.

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives

2008-12-09 Thread AJ Spagnoletti
> > Anyone ever reply to this? If you're using Gnome, then HAL + Gnome will > take care of it. I am using HAL + ivman in my servers. It works well for > fixing mount points. > > Thanks, I got several replies but all pointed to just using hal + gnome, as most desktop environments take care of a

Re: [gentoo-user] locale issue to clean up

2008-12-09 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mick wrote: > >> Now I am getting confused - at least one box of mine does not have >> /etc/env.d/02locale at all. Am I supposed to create it manually? > > The file isn't automatically created by anything, since strictly

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread KH
Andrey Vul schrieb: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 03:47, Joerg Schilling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> I get the following error: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 vmware/Windows\ XP\ >>> Professional/shared/vLite.iso >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 11:49:03 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > When I run "less -f /dev/sdf1" i can see amongst the bits all of the > names of my directories and files etc... so I am pretty sure the data > is there and readable, but I can't figure out how to get XFS to go > ahead and mount it so I can c

[gentoo-user] Re: Desperately need advice on fixing a corrupt XFS partition

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Hartman
I accidentally sent this from the wrong email address the first time, not sure if it went through to the list so I'm sending it again (I apologize if it is a duplicate). Hi, I've got an external USB hard drive adapter that apparently have been going bad, or maybe the drive is going bad, I don't k

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread Andrey Vul
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 03:47, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I get the following error: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 vmware/Windows\ XP\ >> Professional/shared/vLite.iso [snip] >> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cann

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits

2008-12-09 Thread Michael Holmes
2008/12/8 Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > win32codecs will not work unless it's used by a 32-bit exe (You can run > 32-bit apps on x64). By exe I assume you actually mean native binary. And yes, this is correct, but I'm pretty sure there is a win64codecs ebuild too, if I rembember correctly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Work!

2008-12-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 09 December 2008 10:48:40 Karl Huysmans wrote: > Hi All, > > Don't know if it's appropriate to post this on this list, sorry if it's > not. Anyway, this is serious: we are currently looking for a junior IT with > some Gentoo experience and with a special interest in media encoding and >

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits (Thanks)

2008-12-09 Thread Eric Martin
firefox 64bit is unstable for me, and I also think I have a problem w/thunderbird / enigmail. Other than that I'm happily running 2 64bit machines On 12/9/08, pat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:59:00 +0100, pat wrote >> Hello, >> >> I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo proc

Re: [gentoo-user] if I unmerge XYZ...

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Andrew Gaydenko writes: > Is there a way to predict which dependecies will be unsatisfied at case > of unmerging some package without real unmerging? emerge --depclean -pv XYZ Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] VIM Undo Command - don't do top posting

2008-12-09 Thread Stroller
On 8 Dec 2008, at 13:21, KH wrote: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? Could I possibly ask you to refrain from making replies to the list with this as the

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Speaking of md5sum/shasum, do you know some tool that adds data > redundancy? I heard dvddistaster does this, but I guess it is limited > to DVDs. No, it is not. > It would be great fo find a general data redundancy tool. emerge dvdisaster and see if it sui

Re: [gentoo-user] if I unmerge XYZ...

2008-12-09 Thread Arttu V.
On 12/9/08, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a way to predict which dependecies will be unsatisfied at case of > unmerging some package without real unmerging? Not being quite sure what "without real unmerging" here means, I'd recommend checking out the man page of equ

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits (Thanks)

2008-12-09 Thread TimeBreach
pat a écrit : On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:59:00 +0100, pat wrote Hello, I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor which is 64 bit. My question is if applications (see below) compiled and running over 64 bits are stable enough or if I should compile for 32 bits. The applications are: -

Re: [gentoo-user] [bit OT] 32 vs. 64 bits (Thanks)

2008-12-09 Thread pat
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:59:00 +0100, pat wrote > Hello, > > I've bought a new laptop with Core 2 Duo processor which is 64 bit. > My question is if applications (see below) compiled and running over > 64 bits are stable enough or if I should compile for 32 bits. > > The applications are: > - Seam

[gentoo-user] if I unmerge XYZ...

2008-12-09 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! Is there a way to predict which dependecies will be unsatisfied at case of unmerging some package without real unmerging?

[gentoo-user] Work!

2008-12-09 Thread Karl Huysmans
Hi All, Don't know if it's appropriate to post this on this list, sorry if it's not. Anyway, this is serious: we are currently looking for a junior IT with some Gentoo experience and with a special interest in media encoding and graphics for a job in a video post house in Brussels, Belgium. Most o

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Andrey Vul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get the following error: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 vmware/Windows\ XP\ > Professional/shared/vLite.iso > cdrecord: No write mode specified. > cdrecord: Asuming -sao mode. > cdrecord: If your drive does not accept -sao, try -tao. > cd

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot burn cd: permissions error

2008-12-09 Thread Shawn Haggett
Andrey Vul wrote: I get the following error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cdrecord dev=ATA:1,0,0 vmware/Windows\ XP\ Professional/shared/vLite.iso ... cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. I'm not familiar with cdrecord, but have you tried this?