Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-03 Thread Thanasis
on 01/04/2010 01:10 AM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: > Thanasis writes: > > >> Hmm..., but are EMBEDDED options suitable for a netbook like the A110L ? >> > This "EMBEDDED" just means "don't touch these unless you really know > what you're doing". > > BTW I remember using VMSPLIT 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sky2 , kernel 2.6.31, macbook pro and connection hiccups

2010-01-03 Thread Aaron Clark
On 01/03/2010 08:14 AM, bn wrote: Neil Walker ha scritto: I have a similar chipset in this desktop: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 14) Subsystem: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 00ba It's worked perfectly with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-03 Thread felix
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 10:30:03AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:12:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > > I have an encfs encrpted partition on my home machine.. However I want > > a back up offsite. > > > > The encrypted partition would be mounted, the contents tarred/gzi

Re: [gentoo-user] What standalone GTK2 Engines are available?

2010-01-03 Thread Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila
Ognjen Bezanov writes: > Hello, > > I used to use xfce-mcs-manager as a lightweight standalone gtk2 engine > for my enlightenment desktop (for using GTK2 themes to render). I've > just reinstalled Gentoo on my machine, and now xfce-mcs-manager is no > more (seems it's been merged deeper in xfce n

Re: [gentoo-user] What standalone GTK2 Engines are available?

2010-01-03 Thread YoYo siska
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 01:51:55PM +, Ognjen Bezanov wrote: > Hello, > > I used to use xfce-mcs-manager as a lightweight standalone gtk2 engine > for my enlightenment desktop (for using GTK2 themes to render). I've > just reinstalled Gentoo on my machine, and now xfce-mcs-manager is no >

[gentoo-user] What standalone GTK2 Engines are available?

2010-01-03 Thread Ognjen Bezanov
Hello, I used to use xfce-mcs-manager as a lightweight standalone gtk2 engine for my enlightenment desktop (for using GTK2 themes to render). I've just reinstalled Gentoo on my machine, and now xfce-mcs-manager is no more (seems it's been merged deeper in xfce now, so no longer standalone).

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2010-01-03 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:53:07 +0100 (CET) Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 3 Jan, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > > Perhaps you could try venti+fossil or git. > > > Thanks, but I haven't found venti or fossil in Gentoo's tree. > Are there any ebuilds around? You'd need plan9 for these ;) -- Mike Kaz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sky2 , kernel 2.6.31, macbook pro and connection hiccups

2010-01-03 Thread bn
Neil Walker ha scritto: > bn wrote: >> Ehm, no, it disconnects randomly every about ~5 minutes, and then comes >> back. >> > > Most network problems can be traced to the cable or connectors. Have you > tried > a different cable? No, but before the kernel upgrade it seemed to work OK. However I

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2010-01-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 3 Jan, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. >> I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, >> so that I can use rsync to keep it up-to-date. > > Perhaps you could try venti+fossil or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Firefox call Google?

2010-01-03 Thread Mick
On Sunday 03 January 2010 06:51:05 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > "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 site

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and kde-base/kdelibs:3.5

2010-01-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 2 Jan, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > yes, get rid of the app that needs kde3 and move on. > Very good idea, indeed. Then, please, tell me a replacement for app-office/kexi. Thanks! -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root?

2010-01-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:12:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I have an encfs encrpted partition on my home machine.. However I want > a back up offsite. > > The encrypted partition would be mounted, the contents tarred/gzipped, > mcrypt'ed on home machine then scp'ed to the remote for offsite > s

Re: [gentoo-user] RAM installed vs reported

2010-01-03 Thread Thanasis
on 01/01/2010 03:38 PM Krzysztof Halasa wrote the following: > Thanasis writes: > > >>> Depends on the "split" used. With 2 GB : 2 GB you can have all-lowmem >>> 1.5 GB RAM, without CONFIG_HIGHMEM*. 2 GB of per-process address space >>> is usually not a problem. >>> >> How do you impleme