[gentoo-user] Home page slowness

2008-05-09 Thread davecode
Hi, We plan to eval Gentoo. We await 2008 final. The comment is, Gentoo home page gives no clue about status. Convincing people that Gentoo is "alive" becomes tricky because the final is months late and little motion on the home page. That's about all most people inspect. So bottom line, impr

[gentoo-user] mlmmj get-Nth message

2008-03-01 Thread davecode
How does this work? I am on nomail option so I need to pull the message ID from a web archive. What does such an ID look like? What does the corresponding mlmmj query message look like? I tried a couple of experiments but nothing worked for me. This is the only way for my replies to fit into t

[gentoo-user] Re: Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-03-01 Thread davecode
"What supports what" is a good reason for non-filesystem backups. For example partimage has trouble with XFS (still...after all these years...). A program like dd doesn't care the fs. Call it a device backup if you like. This is your basic choice in backup - device or fs. Me personally, dd_res