[gentoo-user] starting X causes system lock

2005-07-01 Thread Eric Bliss
the default graphic background, and Tux shows up at the top as the kernel is loading, so I know that the basics on the graphic drivers are working. It came with a stock RedHat 2.4 distro booting into gnome, so I know that it's capable of running the X windows environment properly. But righ

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Eric Bliss
goose-stepping SS thug!!! :-) There. NOW you can invoke Godwin's Law. Although, to actually give this post SOME relevance to the original thread, will using Saviour Linux on your computer assure it of going to Electronic Heaven when it finally dies??? 0:-) -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-11 Thread Eric Bliss
On Wednesday 11 January 2006 03:49 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 15:29 -0800, Eric Bliss wrote: > > Although, to actually give this post > > SOME relevance to the original thread, will using Saviour Linux on your > > computer assure it of going to Elec

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't send email anymore. O_O

2006-01-12 Thread Eric Bliss
from being used for third party servers. Could be they put in a port blocker recently, and you're just one of the few people who are having problems with it. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tar over ssh

2006-01-24 Thread Eric Bliss
on serverin the middle of month-end > > -- Yes... But it's that -R option that really kills you... OO!! Ctrl-C! Ctrl-C! Ctrl-C! -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-26 Thread Eric Bliss
simply exits with an error code of 0, 1, or 2. It also said something about using an unmatched square bracket when trying to use the --help and --version options. In general, it just looks kind of weird. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Stupid Postfix alias question...

2006-02-01 Thread Eric Bliss
e to in in the documentation, although I know it's gotta be in there somewhere. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid Postfix alias question...

2006-02-02 Thread Eric Bliss
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 06:34 pm, Patrick Börjesson wrote: > On 06/02/01 16:32, Eric Bliss wrote: > > I've got a user who wants his mail both kept locally and forked off to another > > server. Will the following work in the aliases file, or will it create a

Re: [gentoo-user] Connecting to a WEP Airport router

2006-02-07 Thread Eric Bliss
eis" iwconfig eth1 key --xx ifconfig eth1 up dchpcd eth1 That's the script I hacked out to connect to our local WEP encrypted Airport. Your milage may vary. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr as noexec? (was GB for / partition flamewar)

2006-02-17 Thread Eric Bliss
be so concerned with space, and it might make some sense for me to set up a few extra partitions. But I don't, and this works for my situation. As I said at the start, I'm simply curious how you would manage to mount the main executable storage area of your system as "noexec&quo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Wireless works with Knoppix CD but not Gentoo

2006-02-21 Thread Eric Bliss
iwconfig lines BEFORE the ifconfig up. That's the order I've got them in in my script to connect to an Airport, and it could be that the iwconfig commands aren't actually changing the config while the interface is "up". Just a guess, based on a similar script that

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Eric Bliss
ak any of your college's rules regarding the network. Also, it won't require any additional configuration headaches. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Eric Bliss
g fixed. > > Thanks to all for the help. I'm sure it was something stupid on my > part and not anyone's instructions. > > Cheers, > Mark > Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to /etc/fstab? Just a thought, since we are talking a

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread Eric Bliss
On Friday 10 March 2006 03:17, Josh Helmer wrote: > On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote: > > Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to > > /etc/fstab? > > > > Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to mount. &g

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Where is perlfunc?

2006-03-14 Thread Eric Bliss
Perl. You can browse it with "man perlfunc". Maybe that's what they mean. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso

2006-03-15 Thread Eric Bliss
r a disk that you purchased? I ask because I heard a while back that some DVD manufacturers would create their disks with intensionally bad sectors as a kind of copy protection. You could be running into a problem with that, if it's a manufactured disk rather than a burned disk. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mainactor - which build is likely to work best?

2005-11-11 Thread Eric Bliss
vid, Apple's Final Cut, and others) that gets good coverage at Creative Cow (http://forums.creativecow.net). You might want to take a look there before making any purchasing decisions. (return to lurk mode) -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fixing fstab

2005-11-15 Thread Eric Bliss
ing you to actually make it through an install to the point where you can get something better working. Just my .02c on the matter. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 80211/IPW2200 vs. Kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-22 Thread Eric Bliss
n-hamradio) Wireless LAN drivers (non-hamradio) & Wireless Extensions Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Connection Enable promiscuous mode My guess is Yes. ;-) -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 80211/IPW2200 vs. Kernel 2.6.14

2005-11-22 Thread Eric Bliss
On Tuesday 22 November 2005 01:55 pm, Eric Bliss wrote: > > > > > > I tried the 2.6.14 kernel with the ipw2200 driver, and it didn't work. > > > Maybe it was fixed in release 2. > > > > Can anyone tell me if the in-kernel driver supports

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL server hardware recommendation

2005-11-23 Thread Eric Bliss
Wikipedia has an article purely devoted to an examination of what Google may be running on... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_platform -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] test lab Quicktime streaming server

2005-12-14 Thread Eric Bliss
based interface to watch your network interfaces. The traffic monitor will show traffic flow for each different connection, and the interface statistics will show how much total traffic is going in and out on each interface, including real-time kb/sec data. As long as you keep track of what I

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-19 Thread Eric Bliss
Google. Note the 3 million results. :-) Basically, if it isn't working right now, don't hold your breath for it to be fixed, either by the Firefox team, or the website developers. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-19 Thread Eric Bliss
On Monday 19 December 2005 05:48 pm, Willie Wong wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 02:30:18PM -0800, Penguin Lover Eric Bliss squawked: > > Basically, if it isn't working right now, don't hold your breath for it to be > > fixed, either by the Firefox team, or the website

Re: [gentoo-user] More on mbr

2005-12-20 Thread Eric Bliss
cks" has a section just on saving, fixing and restoring the MBR. Rather than using bs=512, you'll want to use bs=446 when overwriting the MBR (if you had a backup, and want to do it by hand), or use a tool like grub-install (the Gentoo Handbook has a chapter on configuring the bootload

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-26 Thread Eric Bliss
; view it with but since the upgrade I can't find it. Maybe lde-meta > missed something??? > I think "KDE Menu Button -> Utilities -> More Applications -> Binary Editor (KHexEdit)" is what you're looking for. Ironically enough, I was just using it. -- Eric B

Re: [gentoo-user] Asian fonts in X/Mozilla

2006-03-24 Thread Eric Bliss
though, since I can't actually READ Kanji - but I suppose it looks cool.) -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list