On Monday 15 February 2010 20:20:53 Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> J. Roeleveld wrote:
> >> And *IF* some application is interested in the such information,
> >> why not just using the filesystem ?
> >
> > Because on flash-drives (Which are used in small devices and netbooks)
> > you don't want every sing
I'm thinking of re-installing Gentoo on an Intel 40 Megs SSD -- excluding the
most often writen dirs like /var, /tmp, /home --. What do you think ? I'll be
glad to hear about previous experiences. What about swap ? Is it safe to have it
on the SSD ?
Am 02/16/10 10:28, schrieb alain.didierj...@free.fr:
I'm thinking of re-installing Gentoo on an Intel 40 Megs SSD -- excluding the
most often writen dirs like /var, /tmp, /home --. What do you think ? I'll be
glad to hear about previous experiences. What about swap ? Is it safe to have it
on the
On Dienstag 16 Februar 2010, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
> I'm thinking of re-installing Gentoo on an Intel 40 Megs SSD -- excluding
> the most often writen dirs like /var, /tmp, /home --. What do you think ?
> I'll be glad to hear about previous experiences. What about swap ? Is it
> safe to h
On 2/16/2010 3:23 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Netbook: 1GB of ram, with Linux, I can easily run all the software I want ,
without need of any swap.
Can I do the same with 9P? Eg. will I be able to run all the software I use on
my netbook without having to spent time on porting it all?
Is also all th
Hi, gentoo,
I'm trying to get sound to sound on my new Gentoo box, following the
"Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide". Everything seems to be working fine, except
no sound is coming out of my loudspeakers.
I've checked the obvious things: the speakers are plugged in, switched
on and connected to the approp
Alan Mackenzie ha scritto:
> Hi, gentoo,
>
> I'm trying to get sound to sound on my new Gentoo box, following the
> "Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide". Everything seems to be working fine, except
> no sound is coming out of my loudspeakers.
>
> I've checked the obvious things: the speakers are plugged in
On Tuesday 16 February 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, gentoo,
>
> I'm trying to get sound to sound on my new Gentoo box, following the
> "Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide". Everything seems to be working fine, except
> no sound is coming out of my loudspeakers.
>
> I've checked the obvious things: the
Am Dienstag, 16. Februar 2010 schrieb Alex Schuster:
> No need for either, just look up the drive on Samsung's homepage [*]. It's
> 512 bytes/sector, you should be fine.
Gee thanks. Though that still keeps me baffled about my results, I can start
looking for other reasons for it. :) Consider the
Mike Edenfield wrote:
> Just for reference, 9p is not Plan 9, it's only the Plan 9 network
> protocol/distributed file system, which you can use on Linux with the
> appropriate file system modules.
Right. Either you use the kernel module (which now is in mainline
for quite a long time), or 9pfuse
free.fr> writes:
> I'm thinking of re-installing Gentoo on an Intel 40 Megs
SSD -- excluding the
> most often writen dirs like /var, /tmp, /home --. What do
you think ? I'll be
> glad to hear about previous experiences. What about swap ?
Is it safe to have it
> on the SSD ?
I run minimal s
Mike Edenfield wrote:
> I'm kinda stunned that your arguments against D-Bus seems to boil down
> to "just use 9p instead"
No, we're talking about very different concepts. D-Bus is essentially
an generic RPC mechanism (with an asychronous signalling facility).
So it allows calling procedures on r
Am 16.02.2010 11:42, schrieb Norman Rieß:
> Am 02/16/10 10:28, schrieb alain.didierj...@free.fr:
>> I'm thinking of re-installing Gentoo on an Intel 40 Megs SSD --
>> excluding the
>> most often writen dirs like /var, /tmp, /home --. What do you think ?
>> I'll be
>> glad to hear about previous exp
I have updated to the latest stable (G)vim 7.2.303
& suddenly can no longer copy+paste from Vim into Open Office:
it doesn't work at all with Gvim & unpredictably with Vim in a Konsole.
I can copy+paste from Most in a Konsole to Open Office as usual.
This is on the Fluxbox desktop with Unicode & a
> I'm thinking of re-installing Gentoo on an Intel 40 Megs SSD -- excluding the
> most often writen dirs like /var, /tmp, /home --. What do you think ? I'll be
> glad to hear about previous experiences. What about swap ? Is it safe to have
> it
> on the SSD ?
Why exclude the most written dirs? I
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 22:04, Grant wrote:
> I thought SSDs were projected to
> last longer than HDs? Also, from what I've read, SLC should last much
> longer than MLC.
It's the other way round: HD's last longer dan SSD's. [1]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Disadvantages
>> Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with
>> depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but
>> apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging
>> them.
>>
>> - Grant
>
>
> app-portage/genlop
Thank you, but I need to specify a packa
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 16:10, Grant wrote:
>>> Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with
>>> depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but
>>> apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging
>>> them.
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>
>>
>> app-po
>> I thought SSDs were projected to
>> last longer than HDs? Also, from what I've read, SLC should last much
>> longer than MLC.
>
> It's the other way round: HD's last longer dan SSD's. [1]
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive#Disadvantages
Thanks for the link. I did some Goo
On Dienstag 16 Februar 2010, Grant wrote:
> >> I thought SSDs were projected to
> >> last longer than HDs? Also, from what I've read, SLC should last much
> >> longer than MLC.
> >
> > It's the other way round: HD's last longer dan SSD's. [1]
> >
> > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state
On Tuesday 16 February 2010 23:10:57 Grant wrote:
> >> Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with
> >> depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but
> >> apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging
> >> them.
> >>
> >> - Grant
> >
Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with
depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but
apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging
them.
- Grant
>>>
>>>
>>> app-portage/genlop
>>
>> Thank you, but I
Am 16.02.2010 22:27, schrieb Grant:
> It sounds like SSDs don't have the
> projected longevity they did when I researched this a year or so ago.
> I'm troubled by the ever-lurking possibility of an HD failure and I
> thought SSDs would be my way out. Is an HD the best choice for
> reliability?
I
On Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:27:22 -0800, Grant wrote:
> I'm troubled by the ever-lurking possibility of an HD failure and I
> thought SSDs would be my way out. Is an HD the best choice for
> reliability?
A single drive, be it HD or SSD, is always at risk of failure. If this is
a significant concern,
Hundreds, maybe thousands of lines like this (wrapped for mail):
Feb 16 09:38:47 reader kernel: [162289.090685] usb 4-2.1:1.1: uevent
Feb 16 09:38:48 reader kernel: [162289.467065] hdc: status error:
status=0x00 { }
Feb 16 09:38:48 reader kernel: [162289.467071] hdc: possibly failed
op
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 03:45:30PM -0500, Philip Webb wrote:
> I have updated to the latest stable (G)vim 7.2.303
> & suddenly can no longer copy+paste from Vim into Open Office:
> it doesn't work at all with Gvim & unpredictably with Vim in a Konsole.
> I can copy+paste from Most in a Konsole to O
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 00:36:42 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Hundreds, maybe thousands of lines like this (wrapped for mail):
>
> Feb 16 09:38:47 reader kernel: [162289.090685] usb 4-2.1:1.1: uevent
>
> Feb 16 09:38:48 reader kernel: [162289.467065] hdc: status error:
> status=0x00 { }
>
>
On Sunday 14 February 2010 12:40:59 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 14 February 2010 13:02:48 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > I highly recommend drivers to gain the skill of driving a vehicle
> > > crash-style without a clutch. Comes in useful sometimes.
> > >
> > > :-)
> >
> > the point was not
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:21:22 Mick wrote:
> However, the point has been well made by many. KDE4 is not KDE3.x and
> with KDE4 you get the full enchilada because that's what the developers
> have produced. Since I do not have the ability (or time) to fork KDE4
> into my own flavour I wil
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hi, gentoo,
>
> I'm trying to get sound to sound on my new Gentoo box, following the
> "Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide". Everything seems to be working fine, except
> no sound is coming out of my loudspeakers.
>
> I've checked the obvious things:
On Monday 15 February 2010 23:45:23 Mick wrote:
> If I were to [tell] GRUB to chainload W7 [which} should I point it
> to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or the main W7 OS
> partition 3?
The one with W7 on it, I should have thought, as that's the one you want
to start. Why not just
On Monday 15 February 2010 08:58:03 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> When told the reason for Daylight [Savings Time] the old Indian
> said..."Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off
> the top of a blanket And sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a
> longer blanket."
He was wrong
On Mittwoch 17 Februar 2010, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 14 February 2010 12:40:59 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Sunday 14 February 2010 13:02:48 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > > I highly recommend drivers to gain the skill of driving a vehicle
> > > > crash-style without a clutch. Comes in useful som
Alan McKinnon writes:
> On Wednesday 17 February 2010 00:36:42 Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Hundreds, maybe thousands of lines like this (wrapped for mail):
>>
>> Feb 16 09:38:47 reader kernel: [162289.090685] usb 4-2.1:1.1: uevent
>>
>> Feb 16 09:38:48 reader kernel: [162289.467065] hdc: status
On Wednesday 17 February 2010 01:12:08 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 15 February 2010 23:45:23 Mick wrote:
> > If I were to [tell] GRUB to chainload W7 [which} should I point it
> > to? Dell's partition 2 which has the boot flag, or the main W7 OS
> > partition 3?
>
> The one with W7 on it, I
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