Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

On 16/12/2007, Antonio Quartulli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And with c++ comes another one: abi changes. > > > > Just think about this horror: gcc/libstdc++ update and your package manager > > stops working > > Why don't a python upgrade break your package manager?? Also possible, but les

Re: [gentoo-user] Python vs C++ [was: Gentoo Rules]

On 16/12/2007, Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Relson wrote: > > IMHO, python is a very nice object oriented language and C++ is no > > better (unless you need particular features of the language). I > > suspect C++ runs somewhat faster, but that's not the issue here. As I > > und

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge of glibc and gcc fails

bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem. > make[2]: *** [insn-emit.o] 1 הלקת > I'm clueless about it, but do feel that not being able to updaate gcc or > glibc is bad, and will probably mean that I will not be able to update > other things as well. > בהצלחה! =) - Matan Peled ï¿½ï¿½í¢‹ï¿½z���(��&j)b� b�

Re: [gentoo-user] traffic shaping and p2p

Matthias Langer wrote: Now, when i start a p2p app on my workstation the latency of my internet connection suffers greatly, allthogh i've 384 kbit/s up and 3072 kbit/s down. I know that there are some approaches to solve this kind of problem by categorizing packets and assign different priorit

Re: [gentoo-user] caching DNS the Gentoo way?

michael higgins wrote: Hello, all. Need a clue, here. I don't like BIND that much. djbdns does the caching here. -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed

Re: [gentoo-user] dns+mail server is good or bad?

It's also a good idea to have more than one DNS server, IMO. First of all, HTML mail! Yuck. Back to the point, like DJB said somewhere, having more DNS servers than servers actually serving content is kinda useless. If your DNS server dies, you lose DNS and therefore mail... But if your mai

Re: [gentoo-user] World File

Jeff Grossman wrote: I was reading a different thread about the world file does not necessarily contain all of the programs installed, if they are installed from a dependency. Is there a way to see what programs are installed on the machine which are not in the world file? Thanks, Jeff Sure,

Re: [gentoo-user] C compiler cannot create executables [SOLVED]

Michael Sullivan wrote: I downloaded the stage 3 tarball and found the files I need and copied them over. It worked. I'm in the process of emergine --emptytree binutils and gcc atm... That works, but I would have attempted playing with binutils-config first. -- [Name ] :: [Matan I.

Re: [gentoo-user] a bit confused by emerge blockers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 4. November 2005 07:21 schrieb ext > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >>I don't understand. Where do I add the "="? What do I put before or after >>the "="? > > > Sorry didn't read that you tried to use "-e" to remove pine.

Re: [gentoo-user] PANIC !!!!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > One more info, udev had crashed and I have to downgrade from 7.0 to > 6.8-r1 to get the system to boot A. You're top posting B. yeah, udev-070 is bad. Use udev-070-r1... - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Loca

Re: [gentoo-user] how to obtain a GPG Key

Widyachacra Rajapaksha wrote: > how to obtain a GPG Key like ( GPG Key: 0x864C9B9E )? Like so: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver As an example, to get my key, you should run: gpg --recv-keys 0xD6F42CA5 --keyserver keyserver.kjsl.com Unless what you want is to create a new key from scratch (and get

Re: [gentoo-user] Ejecting an IPod

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Viljoen wrote: > The eject doenst work unfortunately, the IPod is detected as /dev/uba. First of all, top posting is bad. Even if you use gmail. Secondly, if you got /dev/uba, your kernel isn't configured properly. Namely, you have enabled the "

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob wrote: > I am sorry. There was no error in my configuration. Instead the error > was in how I tested the setup. I gave the command cat /dev/random > > /dev/dsp, haha. It should have been /dev/urandom. I just missed the "u'. > > Still, I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Almeida wrote: > On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Afaik, they are set by /etc/make/profile/make.defaults, and >>overridden/added to >>globally by /etc/make.conf, and individually by /etc/portage/package.use. >> > > The handbook > h

Re: [gentoo-user] java nightmare

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jorge Almeida wrote: > Wouldn't that entail some error messages at boot time? Nope. Well, it might complain if you do 'rc-update add alsasound default'... So don't do that. Just emerge alsa-headers and alsa-lib. - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Pel

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On a new system I built I had to recreate the /dev/nv* items. First of all, top posting sucks. Secondly, you want the keyworded nvidia-kernel. - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel

Re: [gentoo-user] udev and nvidia

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Puchmayr wrote: > Hi! > > After upgrading the system and hence switching to kernel 2.6.13 and udev, my > nvidia device nodes are no longer available and I did not find any way to > create them automatically by udev. > > According to http:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT worth upgrading hardware ?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Wright wrote: > But a WM and/or GTK/QT can have an effect on system load overall as well > as working with the graphics card, which in the end can slow the gears. Perhaps, but glxgears is a really, REALLY bad benchmark. - -- [Name ] :

Re: [gentoo-user] my subscribe not work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jangar wrote: > i send message and i it's visible into webmail mailing list system as > news.gmane.org , but in my mailbox any message > not arrived Its because gmail notices it already has a copy of the message. - -- [Name

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Macromedia Flash on AMD64

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: > Sorry - I just discovered the gentoo-amd64-users list. Probably much > better to ask these questions there. I'll answer your question anyway - you need a 32bit Firefox to run the 32bit flash plugin. emerge -vp mozilla-firefox-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is the emerge history

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Jolet wrote: > good point. Isn't /var/log/emerge.log there anyway, and PORT_LOGDIR= only controls /var/log/portage/* ? - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5]

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Crute wrote: >> On 8/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> >> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: >>> You know bud, read some rules, be polite. >> There are many who consider to

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Markus Döbele wrote: > The code I think is not the problem. But I think it is still a lot of work. > By the way I don't like C too much (we had a C Version once and only > encountered problems all the time :-( Buffer overflows and all this nice > stu

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Schafer wrote: > I think SDL has an API, don't you think too? > ;) Well, of course. But it wasn't used before, rather PureBasic's one was used. Now we need to use that API (Thats what I meant by "Talking to SDL"...) - -- [Name ] :: [Ma

Re: [gentoo-user] gforce4 and gensplash

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Kirillov wrote: > Hi all, > Can I make gensplash to work with gforce4? > Thanks in advance, > Sasha > yes - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserv

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Frank Schafer wrote: > Hmmm, a game IS an application (for gaming purposes) ;-)) > > Fast scrolling and all of this stuff isn't made by PB but by library > routines (SDL on Linux). So every (I mean EVERY) language should handle > this if the system do

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Crute wrote: > Or you could use http://packages.gentoo.org/ or > http://gentoo-portage.com both of which tend to provide decent > information about the packages in portage. > > -Mike Well, first of all, top-posting sucks, especially in a thre

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Markus Döbele wrote: > I created a tar.gz Version of this game too. > I'm sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version of the > compiler. > > What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages? > Like Acrobat Reader? > > Is th

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems after reemerging GCC

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Six wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed Gentoo. I decided I wanted GCJ and > Objective C support in the GCC, so I recompiled it. Hmmm... I would try toying around with gcc-config and see if that solves your problem. Also, try 'source /etc/profil

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Gysin wrote: > This is bad. Opensource software shouldn't depend on commercial stuff. Agreed, I'm not really willing to spend my time on a 'semi-opensource' app either. Writing an ebuild for a binary app isn't all that hard, and it might b

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christoph Gysin wrote: > To get a chance of getting it included in the portage tree, you'll need > to provide a package with everything needed to build the game from > source. Some sort of build instruction would also be nice. But we can't... It requi

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martins Steinbergs wrote: > i extracted tar.gz version under user and run ~/laby/laby > graphics, sound, everything works nice. no problem quiting. game disables > Alt+Tab, so to get to other windowed task should quit game. > > Martins Yeah, it work

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Clement wrote: > I don't know. Power basic is windows/dos only. I was looking at the ".pb". > I did a google and found PureBasic and it has a linux version and apears to > have some visualbasic compatibility. > > www.purebasic.com > > I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wayne Clement wrote: > try PowerBasic Seems right. And how do I compile it? - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin Marcher wrote: > looks like some (visual) basic stuff. > > hmm maybe I'll download the source and translate the comments to english. so > if this game has such a big userbase at least the source is > internationalized :) > It does look ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick Rout wrote: > what language is it written in? Good question. I downloaded the source in attempt to figure it out... The files all have the extension of ".pb", all comments start with ";", and a block of code looks something like this: ; Aktive Z

Re: [gentoo-user] sysctl.conf settings

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Kintzios wrote: > Also, when one logs spoofed packets, etc. using > 'net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians=1' where will these get logged? Will I > need to create a new entry in syslog-ng? A new file in /var/log? > > Regards, It will go out with

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge glibc

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > First thing IMHO QA-notices are for devs, rarely for users so ignore it > if no error so far. > The CFLAGS you *may* put on the command-line are added to those in > /etc/make.conf, so no need to repeat all. > Think the using

Re: [gentoo-user] Media players

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: > Since when does Windows Media Player have DVD support? Last time I > looked at it, it couldn't play DVDs by itself. Yeah, didn't know WiMP could do DVDs... Anyway, WiMP can play most everything... You just need to install the

Re: [gentoo-user] another emerge mozilla-firefox error

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 maxim wexler wrote: > Hello everyone, > > #emerge mozilla-firefox barfs at intltool. Here's the > appropriate part of the log: > > checking for perl > configure:1676: found /usr/bin/perl > configure:1688: result: /usr/bin/perl > configure:1705: check

Re: [gentoo-user] Xine / libdvdcss can't handle dual-sided discs

Michael Haan wrote: > Has anyone else seen this and have an idea for a fix? > Are you sure its not your DVD drive that can't handle them? -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.

Re: [gentoo-user] Error while emerging gdm

Tomas Linhart wrote: > LOG FILE = "/var/log/sandbox/sandbox-gnome-base_-_gdm-2.8.0.1-1869.log" So, why not include this file? It probably includes oodles of useful information. -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with esound

Martin Larsson wrote: > I'm running an emerge -avDu world, and portage wants to upgrade > my esound to 0.2.36-r1 (from 0.2.34). However, this creates an error: > > jw -f docbook -b html -o html ./esound.sgml > Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat > Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbo

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with esound

Martin Larsson wrote: > I'm running an emerge -avDu world, and portage wants to upgrade > my esound to 0.2.36-r1 (from 0.2.34). However, this creates an error: > > jw -f docbook -b html -o html ./esound.sgml > Using catalogs: /etc/sgml/sgml-docbook-3.1.cat > Using stylesheet: /usr/share/sgml/docbo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recompiling vim linked to libncursesw

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fernando Canizo wrote: > Yes! > In the next line a LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE: > � This doesn't seem to be UTF-8 (I get a box in UTF-8 mode,) but it looks OK in latin-1. > But you should see that ok, now if i reply to that message, when it > reach

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] GPG keys, servers and signing (was, ATI Composte & DRI)

Holly Bostick wrote: > OK, since this is getting to be kind of a whole "thing", I've split it off. > > This message is (or should be) signed. Hopefully using PGP/MIME, which, > if I understand Neil correctly, is what I'm supposed to do. > > You all have undoubtedly realized by now that I have lit

Re: [gentoo-user] python-ldap on amd64

Meinholz, Lloyd wrote: > The python-ldap ebuild doesn't seem to have amd64 as an option. Is there > a reason for this? Thanks, > > Lloyd > No reason. It appears to compile fine. File a bug at bugs.gentoo.org. (see here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes/index.xml?part=1&chap=3#d

Re: [gentoo-user] bootstrapping or Linux from the scratch with Intel C++ compiler?!

Tamer Higazi wrote: > Hi people! > Has anybody of you ever bootstrapped / built Liunux from the scratch > with the Intel C++ compiler?! I would love to know the process itself, > if it was a difficulty step building linux from the scratch with a > different compiler (implemetnation to get it run).

Re: [gentoo-user] package.* mess!

Mrugesh Karnik wrote: > Hello all, > > My Gentoo system is up and running beautifully. Along the way, I've > installed many software. But, now, I want to make it all systematic, ie, > use the files like package.use, package.keywords etc to list out the > options i've used for the different softwar

Re: [gentoo-user] Panasonic Toughbook

Ian K wrote: > Hi there, > I have recently set up Gentoo on my friend's laptop, > a Panasonic toughbook cf-37. I am currently having difficulty > with sound use, but more importantly, his PCMCIA slot(?). > When I put his wireless card (which he needs working) into > the laptop, and do a dmesg, the

Re: [gentoo-user] magic shifting sdX associations

Eric S. Johansson wrote: > in playing with USB flash drives on systems with SCSI disks, every time > I boot with the flagstick installed, it gets assigned to /dev/sda and > the SCSI drives are assigned to subsequent /dev/sdX device names. But > when I remove the USB drive, all assignments shift do

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge x.org

Hendré Claassen wrote: > Hello, > > While emerging x.org I get an 'Illegal instruction' in the directory > xc/fonts/scaled/Type1, seems like fc-cache is throwing this exception. I get > this 'illegal instruction' also when I just execute /usr/bin/fc-cache ... I > did a stage 3 installation usi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.10

Ow Mun Heng wrote: > There's a post here for a code for easy unmasking.. > > search for it. It's a perl script. Alternatively I can post it to you Perl script ... ? Why would you need a perl script ... ? Theres a oneliner in that page I sent him to.. This oneliner, to be exact: sed -n '/Gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 2.10

Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: > I was wondering if there is a way to unmask all packages of gnome > 2.10.X or higher without doing it package by package ? > > Does someone knows ? > > Thanks, Allan > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_to_GNOME_2.10 Look specifically for the "Easy way ;)". --

Re: [gentoo-user] My PHP support is gone! [SOLVED]

Scott Becker wrote: > http://www.provantage.com/buy-7trpl1cm-smartpro-750va-usb-int-ups-120v-6-outlet-tel-10bt-200k-ins-tripp-lite-smart750usb-shopping.htm Damn, thats a long file name... -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F

Re: [gentoo-user] Install from Hell, now it's bash-2.05b

Steven Susbauer wrote: > Walter Dnes wrote: > >> I'm trying to do a stage 1 install on an old 400 mhz PII with 128 megs >> of RAM for use as an experimental server. Compile options are sane... >> -O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -pipe >> I'm having extreme problems getting past... "e

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Keyboard

Hendrà Claassen wrote: > *Disclaimer and confidentiality note* > > *All contents within the e-mail including any attachments relating to > the official business of Fruitways (Pty) Ltd is proprietary to the > Company. It is confidential, legally privileged and protected by law. > Fruitways (Pty)

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

Michael Haan wrote: > Nope. As near as I can tell, everything nVidia goes to crap when you > install a new kernel. The list of things nVidia - previously working > - which no longer work: > > 1) Ethernet - forcedeth stops working, nvnet won't build > 2) X - 7174 gives some rm_init error > 3) sat

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone Know Why a New Kernel Would Kill Networking?

Michael Haan wrote: > I didn't change any networking options, but it looks like networking > it trying to use IPv6 after installing a new kernel. Why, and how do > I fix it? > Maybe you put in support for IPv6, which you didn't before? Why not take it out of the kernel? If you don't need it (ve

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

Grant wrote: > Has anyone switched to NPTL and noticed a speed difference? If so, > what seems faster? Has anyone run across any packages that don't work > well with NPTL? What about the practical difference between + and - > nptlonly? > > - Grant > Java apps benefit a lot from ntpl. Loki's

Re: [gentoo-user] Files listed in the manifest do not exist! (GentooX becoming Gentoo I hope)

Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >This is mostly an experiment but the experiment is going well to > this point. This machine began life as an XBox yesterday. I installed > GentooX (not gentoo-xbox for reasons beyond the rhelm of this thread) > and then went about emerging portage and seeing if I could

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64: "vanilla-sources" and the risk of using them

Michael Haan wrote: > On 5/14/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've always used gentoo-dev-sources (now gentoo-sources, correct?) > because I was under the impression that they were optimized for my > hardware (specifically, amd64). If that's true, then I guess the > "risk" I was ref

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm "HDIO_SET_DMA failed"

Peter Karlsson wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005, Grant wrote: > >> Thanks Peter. Is your "-u1" a typo? > > > No. That option works fine, afaict, with my drive/chipset combination > (maxtor/ich5). > > Best regards > > Peter K Nice... Any idea how to pull this off with S/ATA? -- [Name ]

Re: [gentoo-user] links in Thunderbird

Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > You might also check cfdisk - it presents, to me anyway, a better layout > of what I have and what I'm doing and I can work in megs, kb, etc. > > On Fri, 13 May 2005, david wrote: > >> Go to /home/name/.thunderbird/9qflya66.default(yours may be >> different)prefs.js and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: / is full

Peter Ruskin wrote: > $ free > total used free sharedbuffers > cached > Mem: 1036512 990012 46500 0 112992 > 559844 > -/+ buffers/cache: 317176 719336 > Swap: 2104432 1388281965604 > You guys are using HIG

Re: [gentoo-user] / is full

James wrote: > I had not emerged a gentoo system for a while now / is filled up. > > Looking for large files to remove, I found in /proc: > > -r 1 root root 1073672192 May 13 22:31 kcore > > > I guess this is not a good file to remove? > > Kernel images are only this big: > -rw-

Re: [gentoo-user] Are there ANY working wireless cards?

Colin wrote: > Just got around to trying to boot Gentoo 2005.0 on my desktop. My hard > drive controller is now natively supported (Highpoint HPT372N), so the > LiveCD booted without a problem. But now my wireless adapter (D-Link > DWL-120+) isn't supported, since I don't have any network devices

Re: [gentoo-user] "pushd" and "popd" are usable on all gentoo platforms ?

Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > the subject say it all ;-) this two command are always existent ? > Their shell commands - they come with bash. So, yes. -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] ::

Re: [gentoo-user] Are there ANY working wireless cards?

Colin wrote: > Just got around to trying to boot Gentoo 2005.0 on my desktop. My hard > drive controller is now natively supported (Highpoint HPT372N), so the > LiveCD booted without a problem. But now my wireless adapter (D-Link > DWL-120+) isn't supported, since I don't have any network devices

Re: [gentoo-user] Are there ANY working wireless cards?

Josh Hunholz wrote: >>Most "prism2/GT" boards work great with in-kernel drivers, but they can >>be hard to find. "Atheros" based cards are plentiful and are supported >>through the "madwifi" drivers. Some others can be made to work with the >>windows driver via the NDIS wrapper, but I have never

Re: [gentoo-user] auto revdep-rebuild

N. Owen Gunden wrote: > Why can't portage do this automatically? (the revdep-rebuild plus > removing the older library) Because it takes a really long time, and involves remerging packages you have not mentioned on the command line (which you might not want remerged automatically). -- [Name

Re: [gentoo-user] Silly CFLAGS - -O9 doesn't make your wang grow longer

Elfyn McBratney wrote: > MAKEOPTS=-j321 in your /etc/make.conf, and your box only has _one_ processor. Stupid question - how would that effect ... Anything? I mean, it shouldn't actually effect the generated code (Maybe it could break compilation with bad Makefiles, but thats usually filtered...)

Re: [gentoo-user] fix a system suddenly un-networked and needing dhcpcd

michael higgins wrote: > Hey, all. > > I've just moved my work location for a couple of weeks while I house-sit for > a relation. > > At _my_ home, I configure my IP addy and all manually, while sitting behind a > router. > > Here, it seemed like I needed "dhcpcd" to make my connections, eith

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I use distcc to compile a kernel?

Qian Qiao wrote: > AFAIK, kernel is one of those packages that cannot be compiled with > distcc. Correct me if I'm wrong. > > -- Joe Well, you're wrong :) Check out Nick's reply to his own question, 10 minutes after the fact. Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Pele

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd security question

Alex A. Smith MCP wrote: > As long as they dont know your password, username and it isnt an easy > dictonary password. > (which you said it isnt), you should be quite secure enuf :) I see these all > the time on my > companys servers and we are yet to get anyone even get the right username. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set monitor refresh rate in xorg

Robert S wrote: > I've just installed a new Dell monitor. I've set the vert/horiz > refresh rates using the manufacturers' specs (congrats to Dell for > making these easily available). > > When I get into X I get a refresh rate of 60Hz by default, but I'm > able to increase this to 87 using the K

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Network adapetors?

Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > I am looking to switch to wireless networking and am unsure of which > cards are well supported under Linux? I am looking for PCI styled cards > and preferably ones that can do 54Mbps. > > Any experiences, suggestions? > > Thanks in advance. Well... I only know of the

Re: [gentoo-user] how to read dvd (encrypted) with mplayer

Al Bayrouni wrote: > Hello all > > I have one movie dvd that I had get at dvdtheque. > I can't read it. > > which libraries I need? > > Thank you > Bayrouni. > Add dvd and dvdread to you useflags, and re-emerge mplayer. Done. -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Is

Re: [gentoo-user] download dynamic generated file using wget or curl

Qiangning Hong wrote: > I want to download some jpg's whose URL is as > http://some.site/show.php?id=100. In firefox, the downloaded filename > is correctly as "somefile.jpg", but if I download it using wget or curl, > the downloaded file name is "show.php?id=100", which is not acceptable. > Can

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo security guide question

A. Khattri wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Antonio Coralles wrote: >>Is there a pendant > A pendant? penÂdant also penÂdent n. 1. Something suspended from something else, especially an ornament or piece of jewelry attached to a necklace or bracelet. 2. A hanging lamp

[gentoo-user] UTF8, BiDi, urxvt, and irssi, oh my!

So I'm trying to get irssi to play along with BiDi Hebrew. I got hebrew working by setting an UTF8 locale and moving to urxvt - but now irssi doesn't have BiDi support :? There is this picture: And this

Re: [gentoo-user] Java eats my memory [was: Performance problem (slow hard drive?)]

Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > So it seems I have finally found the reason why my machine slows > down... should I be worried of this? : > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SWAP SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND > 17023 jgonzale 15 0 1522m 80m 1.4g 87m S 28.0 16.3 0:03.81 java > 17022 jgon