Re: [gentoo-user] Mainboard Suggestion Intel Core 2 Duo

2006-08-15 Thread Thomas Harold
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've never used MSI. I'm shopping for a board, too but for AMD processor and my choices are 1. Gigabyte first 2. Asus next - I used Asus some years ago and still have one dual PIII 933 in service. However, their quality on new and exchange went bad so I stopped using

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} External hard-drive choice

2006-08-15 Thread Thomas Harold
Willie Wong wrote: Hi all, I am looking to purchase an external hard-drive for backing up data. I am looking for something that has >250G capacity (preferably around 300G so I have room to grow). My desktop does not have a firewire port, so it is essential that I can use a USB2 connecti

Re: [gentoo-user] How to see network activity?

2006-08-10 Thread Thomas Harold
Boris Sobolev wrote: Hi folks, I would like to see the network activity going in an out of my box. Any command to use for that? I haven't seen "nettop" mentioned yet. It's more of a traffic flow tool showing the bits/sec and packets/sec in a tree format. Works in a terminal window (all te

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] private files

2005-12-20 Thread Thomas Harold
John J. Foster wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:41:51PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What options are out there? My personal favorite is app-crypt/gnupg Aye, I keep website user info and passwords in text files with the contents encrypted with GNUPG. Each website gets its own text fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing LVM2 drive after upgrade/reboot

2005-12-10 Thread Thomas Harold
Peter Kelly wrote: Holas, After a week or so of upgrading gcc, emerge -e world/system, watching hal/dbus toggle between +/- 0.5 versions, and having gentoo upgrade udev while I'm doing all this, I've finally got a clean, rebuilt system. revdep-rebuild gives comes up clean. emerge -autvDN wor

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Thomas Harold
Jarry wrote: One more thing I'm interested in: what impact does lvm2 have on disk i/o, compared to "common" partitions? Probably lvm2 will make disk operations a little slower, but how much? Or does it cause higher cpu-load too? While I don't know of any benchmarks... the ability to resize par

Re: [gentoo-user] raid1 + lvm2

2005-12-10 Thread Thomas Harold
Jarry wrote: Hi, I'm going to re-install gentoo on a small hobby-server and because I need both redundancy and flexibility, I thought in addition to raid1 (2x 160GB ata-disk) this time I would also use lvm2: /dev/md0 /boot (~50MB) /dev/md1 / (2GB) /dev/md2 (2GB) /dev/md3 lvm2(res

Re: [gentoo-user] teamspeak

2005-12-10 Thread Thomas Harold
Qv6 wrote: Thanks. I just looked at the ventrilo site and I agree with you on the licensing issue; not very comfortable with it. Aside from Teamspeak and Ventrilo, I also came across Asernal -> http://arsenalproject.org/ It's open source Good, I'll look at that too. SpeakEasy had a "reflect

Re: [gentoo-user] teamspeak

2005-12-09 Thread Thomas Harold
Qv6 wrote: Folks; Just came across teamspeak, and wanted to find out how it rates alongside other similar software. What are its good and bad points, both from the server and client side AFAIK, the only choices for group-based voice-chat are either Ventrillo or TeamSpeak. Currentl

Re: [gentoo-user] best filesystem for Gentoo

2005-11-26 Thread Thomas Harold
Colin Copley wrote: Hi List, Any comment on the best filesystem to use for Gentoo running a webserver, I prefer more speed and less journaling, is there a standard? Probably can't go wrong with ext2 (personally, I'd still go with ext3 because you get faster fscks during bootup, right?). E

Re: [gentoo-user] Highpoint Rocket HPT302 PATA EIDE controller

2005-11-22 Thread Thomas Harold
Stroller wrote: Hi there, Has anyone had any joy getting one of these to work under Gentoo, please? I bought it on the recommendations of users on uk.comp.os.linux, as I was looking for a Linux-compatible card available in the UK, but apparently no-one on that group is using the card under G