Re: [gentoo-user] OT: customising nautilus desktop icon right-click menu

2005-06-02 Thread Greg Bur
On 6/2/05, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody know how to specify (if possible) what comes up in the > right-click menu for an object on the desktop? I'm not talking about > the existing ones like Trash or Computer, but say I create a new > launcher "foo" on my desktop, is there so

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-05 Thread Greg Bur
On 6/5/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you guys use to manage your digital photos? > > - Grant > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > I use Eye of Gnome most of the time but I also like gThumb and earlier tonight I found an interesting app called Pornview which seems v

Re: [gentoo-user] photo management

2005-06-05 Thread Greg Bur
On 6/6/05, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 01:17:22 -0400 > Greg Bur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I use Eye of Gnome most of the time but I also like gThumb and earlier > > tonight I found an interesting app called Pornvie

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-23 Thread Greg Bur
On 7/23/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there, > I have an older laptop that I want to add to my network, > (its a 802.11B one) and I was wondering what brands/models > would work the best under Linux. Im fairly flexible, and would > really not like to tinker with too many drivers. Any go

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Greg Bur
> > Just remember, if the laptop isn't going too far, a good length of Ye > Olde Cat5e is a much cheaper solution. That being said... Changes the possible security implications too... > > > Yeah, I picked up a great Orinoco (branded as Enterasys) at > Rokland.com last month for roughly $50.

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Greg Bur
On 7/23/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My other laptop has a nice atheros wireless card, very painless to set > up. I dont know what > chipsets are on what cards, so perhaps you could give me a model name > and brand? I really > just want to be able to goto futureshop and pick one up.. :) >

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Greg Bur
> Unfortunately, neither does anybody else on this list. This is because > manufacturers have a habit of changing chipsets without changing model > numbers. So lot #1234 can be atheros, while #1235 can be intersil, > #1236 can be, well you get the picture. > > The best is to buy from a store wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend me a good PCMCIA wireless network card

2005-07-24 Thread Greg Bur
On 7/24/05, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jul 24, 2005, at 8:44 am, Greg Bur wrote: > > The Macintosh-compatible 802.11g card uses the same Broadcom chipset as > Apple's "Airport Extreme" products - I know, because I sold three of > these car

Re: [gentoo-user] scp login but confine the user to his home directory?

2007-02-02 Thread Greg Bur
On 2/2/07, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm wondering if it is possible and/or advisable to set up an account where a user can scp files in and out of his home directory using scp but if he logs into the machine using ssh he cannot go anywhere outside of his home directory? H

Re: [gentoo-user] User no edit crontab

2007-02-04 Thread Greg Bur
On 2/4/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What else can cause this behavior? I've looked at permissions on /var/spool/cron, subdir, and files. They match my other installations where users can access cron. I use the tried and true vixie-cron. I had to add users that needed acces

Re: [gentoo-user] Can iptables recognize SSH traffic?

2006-10-22 Thread Greg Bur
On 10/22/06, Nico Schümann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello folks, I have a web server running on port 80 and a SSH daemon running on port 22. I don't want to change these ports because it just works this way. Can I configure iptables that it just accepts port 80 and if I try to connect with a s

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-29 Thread Greg Bur
On 10/29/06, William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 20:25 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:14:06 -0500, Joe Menola wrote: > > > > > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS. > > > > > > Unless you're using a laptop. > > > > Solar UPS? > > Batter

Re: [gentoo-user] Die, process! Die!

2006-10-30 Thread Greg Bur
On 10/30/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/30/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know my subject line is a little melodramatic, but this is really > frustrating. I frequently have processes that killall doesn't kill and > kill -9 doesn't touch. For instance, th

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Tutorial for configuring syslog-ng?

2006-11-02 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/2/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a tutorial or a guide or something for configuring syslog-ng, preferrably with examples? I want to alter my default syslog-ng.conf to filter mail logs to another file, but the man page doesn't make much sense to me, and I couldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does wordpress require xterm?

2006-02-22 Thread Greg Bur
On 2/22/06, Lance Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, I already haveUSE="-X -gtk -gnome -qt -kde -alsa -xpm -opengl userprofiles ..."in make.conf, so somehow this is ignoring that "-xpm".  Even addingwww-apps/wordpress -xpm in /etc/portage/package.use doesn't prevent the original eme

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/issue information

2006-02-27 Thread Greg Bur
On 2/27/06, Marco Calviani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Richard,> Those escape characters are recognized only by the getty program,> which is used for console logins.  You should still be able to use the> color setting escape sequences, since those are terminal escapes.  But > the substitution stu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any booby-traps with AMD64?

2005-08-27 Thread Greg Bur
On 8/27/05, Alvin A ONeal Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As regarding the partitioning, I would recommend using LVM2. Then no > matter how you might mess up your partitioning in the beginning you can > change it to suit your needs by resizing it on the fly - live - without > rebooting or even unmo

[gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-06 Thread Greg Bur
Greetings, I have been trying to fix a somewhat puzzling and annoying problem over the last couple of months that has me absolutely stumped.  I have been unable to isolate the cause of the problem and it appears to be intermittant at best.  The issue rears its ugly head as follows: This is on a d

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-07 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/7/05, brullo nulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > However, after about 10> minutes the system load on one processor sharply increases to 100% when> performing a simple task such as clicking on a button in Firefox, launching> a new gnome-terminal window or clicking on the "Applications" menu at

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-07 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/7/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote:> My apologies for not making this more clear. The system load spike begins> with the click and it hovers at or near 100% until the new task (opening a> program, displaying a menu, etc) has complet

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-10 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/8/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote:> Dual 3.0Ghz Xeon> 2GB RAM> 128MB GeForce 6600GT> Audigy 2 soundcard>> free -t -o -m output:>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ free -t -o -m > total used free shared buffers cached> Mem:

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-10 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/10/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Greg Bur wrote:> It definitely is not an issue with swapping to disk. For some reason X is> causing a high CPU load and it acts like its only using one processor. If I> switch back to the open source driver th

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-10 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/10/05, Greg Bur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Maybe the Nvidia drivers dont play well with threading and/or SMP? That's my guess that this point.  If I get the inspiration tonight I'll try disabling hyperthreading in the BIOS and also recompiling the kernel without SMP suppo

Re: [gentoo-user] 32 bit binaries: installing/running on amd64 system

2005-11-13 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/13/05, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Several 32 bit binaries beg to be installed on this gentoo box. Is there a > good HOWTO on how to do this? > > Alan Davis > > Something like this perhaps? http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=3 -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] 32 bit binaries: installing/running on amd64 system

2005-11-13 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/13/05, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, Greg: Glad to help > I think this is a step in the right direction. However, does this apply to > 32 bit binaries one might wish to install from an RPM, for example, or a DEB > file, from a 32 bit dist? Note the following: > S

Re: [gentoo-user] Abysmally slow 2D performance using proprietary Nvidia driver on dual Xeon system (EMT64)

2005-11-15 Thread Greg Bur
On 11/11/05, Greg Bur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I tried without hyperthreading and without SMP and the results only > got worse. Now I am beginning to look at how I compiled things such as > glibc and xorg-x11. I already ran the undo process for prelink and now I

Re: [gentoo-user] Stray dependency on virtual/x11-7.0-r2

2006-09-17 Thread Greg Bur
On 9/17/06, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just switched to modular X, and got to the point where the systemcomes up okay.I have a few remaining puzzles and problems.  Here's one:When I do emerge -aDvu world, it wants to emerge[ebuild  N] virtual/x11- 7.0-r2  USE="dri" 0 kBThe migr

Re: [gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-17 Thread Greg Bur
On 9/17/06, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I triedemerge --pretend --verbose beamerwhich returned nothing.Does anybody know whether it is in portage - and if so, under what name?Uwe[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix beamer* dev-tex/latex-beamer Available versions:  3.00-r1 ~3.01-r1 ~3.06 ~3.06-r1

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} 2.4Ghz interference

2006-09-18 Thread Greg Bur
On 9/18/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have an 802.11g network and I'm considering buying a wireless RF> > keyboard that uses the 2.4Ghz frequency.  Am I setting myself up for> > interference problems?>> Probably not.  I use a wireless mouse with my laptop all the time and > notice no p

Re: [gentoo-user] Wow, this is what I call stable! ;-)

2006-09-23 Thread Greg Bur
On 9/23/06, sdoma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Solved, seems there is a replacement for openal, or the package has a new name, ... or ... BTW, as I said, I run a stable version (x86 without the '~') and I'm updating 87 (!!!) packages after a month or so. Is this normal? In this case I'll return t