[gentoo-user] Where has vmware-config.pl gone?

2009-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
mnet1, probing for unused subnet ... Configuring NAT network vmnet8, probing for unused subnet ... Configured default networks - Bridged, Hostonly, NAT But vmware still complains about vmware-config.pl Any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan What makes us so bitter against people who out

Re: [gentoo-user] Where has vmware-config.pl gone?

2009-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
ems right. > I'm running the server, not the workstation. For me the path is > > /opt/vmware/server/bin/vmware-config.pl not so when I swap server for workstation... thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool when dropped, will roll int

Re: [gentoo-user] Where has vmware-config.pl gone?

2009-02-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 18:15 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > The emerge log mentioned `emerge > > --config vmware-workstation` which output this: [snip] > > But vmware still complains about vmware-config.p

[gentoo-user] Why does VMWare 6.5 ask for vmware-config.pl?

2009-02-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
all directories for temporary files.. When I press OK, the VM returns to the overview screen. Strangely, I can't edit any of the VM settings. I have rw permission on the entire directory and files containing the VM, and I'm in the vmware group. Any other suggestions? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan An empty cab drove up and Sarah Bernhardt got out. -Arthur Baer, American comic and columnist

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/: ntpd or ntp-client?

2009-02-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
_OPTS="-g" in /etc/conf.d/ntpd ? > > Stroller. yep: -g, --panicgate Allow the first adjustment to be Big. -- Iain Buchanan God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it. -- Austin O'Malley

SOLVED: Re: [gentoo-user] Why does VMWare 6.5 ask for vmware-config.pl?

2009-02-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 08:44 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > OK, so the question is why does VMWare not "work", ie. it still asks for > vmware-config.pl and doesn't run. after playing with vmware-netcfg, searching more on google and chmoding various things, all to no effect, I

[gentoo-user] testing a corrupt SD card

2009-02-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
my memory card is good to go, or should I use some other method of bad sector detection? It's a Lexar Media 512Mb SD card, a couple of years old. Yes I know I can get a cheap 2Gb for <$20 but I'm more interested in the principle of the test :) thanks for any tips! -- Iain B

[gentoo-user] media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?

2009-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
d with their logo and comes with no technical notes. I've tried loading each gspca_spca5xx module one by one, but none of them creates a video device (that I can tell). Any hints for what module to use? thanks! -- Iain Buchanan The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action.

Re: [gentoo-user] testing a corrupt SD card

2009-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 07:11 +, Stroller wrote: > On 6 Feb 2009, at 05:28, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > It's a Lexar Media 512Mb SD card, a couple of years old. Yes I know I > > can get a cheap 2Gb for <$20 but I'm more interested in the > > principle of > &

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: testing a corrupt SD card

2009-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 16:47 +, James wrote: > Iain Buchanan netspace.net.au> writes: > > > > Does that mean my memory card is good to go, or should I use some other > > method of bad sector detection? > > Hello Iain, Hi James! [snip] > Here are a

Re: [gentoo-user] testing a corrupt SD card

2009-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 22:21 +, Stroller wrote: > On 6 Feb 2009, at 05:28, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > ... > > so I created a file: > > dd if=/dev/urandom of=Desktop/random.img bs=1024 count=500960 > > It has just occurred to me: > > In the UK you can be imp

Re: [gentoo-user] testing a corrupt SD card

2009-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 19:36 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:28 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > recently my SD card just went bonkers. Unfortunately I lost a lot of > > photos on it (backups are useless until the data actually get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash Drive Install

2009-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
and am thinking of > > trying it out. Just be mindful of James' comment about lots of writes! -- Iain Buchanan There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Re: [gentoo-user] vncviewer Recommendation

2009-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
et-misc/tightvnc-1.3.9-r2. As I am using Gnome, I've > installed Vinagre and it appears to be what I need. I just wish there > was some way to scroll in fullscreen mode. I've never bothered using VNC in full screen mode as my laptop has a resolution higher than anything I vnc to, so can't help you there... -- Iain Buchanan Is there life before breakfast?

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA config problem

2009-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
> In the 2.6.28 kernel alsa is broken for hda-intel. Either use 2.6.27 series > kernel or use a live alsa ebuild. Works for me. In fact, I've never alsa, mixers, and sound working better than in 2.6.28... I have this card: 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family)

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA config problem

2009-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
few goes to figure out I needed the IDT/Sigmatel sub-type for the Dell/Intel chipset. cya, -- Iain Buchanan I wasn't recommending that we make the links for them, only provide them with the tools to do so if they want to take the gamble (or the gambol). -- Larry Wall in <199709292259.paa10...@wall.org>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?

2009-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 11:14 +0100, Francesco Talamona wrote: > On Sunday 08 February 2009, Iain Buchanan wrote: > [...] > > I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28. My el-cheapo webcam > > (lsusb: 0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the > > media-video/

Re: [gentoo-user] media-video/gspcav1 or kernel module?

2009-02-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2009-02-08 at 19:43 +0900, Mike Mazur wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > I recently upgraded from 2.6.26 to 2.6.28. My el-cheapo webcam (lsusb: > > 0c45:602c Microdia Clas Ohlson TWC-30XOP WebCam) used the > > media-vid

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
;) Just to name a few benefits. So yes, I agree if you're only interested in the machine once it's running, then don't waste the money, but if you need the other features they are still very useful. cya, -- Iain Buchanan Evil is that which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. -- H.L. Mencken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade kernel

2007-07-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
y "make oldconfig" first, to get quizzed about any new features. It might take a bit of time to get through, but at least you'll know what's changed! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan BOFH Excuse #358: struck by the Good Times virus -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: memtest fails, but is it the RAM?

2007-07-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
hear a bios beep, and that's it. Maybe it's a MBoard issue? Maybe a video card issue? Hmmm, I don't want to replace the whole lot! > Often power supplies will run ok can then glitch causing a > reboot. It cannot hurt to swap the power supply to see if that > fixes the ran

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

2007-07-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
hout a license / activation. Only the one you have a license for can run for more than 30 days (or some number) though. -- Iain Buchanan Better tried by twelve than carried by six. -- Jeff Cooper -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

2007-07-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 15:09 +0100, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 11 July 2007 07:14, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > hm, don't know about the distribution side, but you can sure install any > > version of Vista you like, from the one Vista DVD without a license / > > ac

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are some packages in portage's output bold?

2007-07-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
ist archives... someone called Ryan asked the question and someone called Alexander asked if it was documented... > Thx, you probably won't thank me anymore after answer like this :) -- Iain Buchanan Q: What's the difference between USL and the Titanic? A: The Titanic

Re: [gentoo-user] debugging init scripts

2007-07-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
is probably considered binary.) it's a funny workaround, but sometimes you have to type cat file | less to stop less being "intelligent". Or you could disable it's input preprocessor: LESSOPEN="" less /usr/bin/echo-client-2 cya, -- Iain Buchanan All hei

Re: [gentoo-user] debugging init scripts

2007-07-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 02:13 +0100, Ian Hastie wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:37:26 +0930 > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > it's a funny workaround, but sometimes you have to type > > > > cat file | less > > > > to stop less bei

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting cruisecontrol -> initscript

2007-07-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
on from the shell. > This is my first attempt on writing a initscript so bare with me if I > have missed something obvious. you may want to look at the --make-pidfile and --pidfile options to start-stop-daemon when you've got it working. This helps you stop the daemon later. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan BOFH Excuse #206: Police are examining all internet packets in the search for a narco-net-trafficker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] fglrx and posix shared mem

2007-07-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
ed this issue? I don't know where to go next, google only showed 1 match! I am running ati-drivers-8.37.6-r1 [1] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1691647 [2] http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/linux_8.16.20.html#176878 thanks for the help, -- Iain Buchanan Good day for overcomin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fglrx and posix shared mem

2007-07-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 08:22 +0200, Xav' wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote : > > Hi, > > > > for a while I've been seeing errors like this: > > > > fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!! [snip] > > Essentially it led me to `moun

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fglrx and posix shared mem

2007-07-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 14:33 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 7/17/07, Xav' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Iain Buchanan wrote : > > > Hi, > > > > > > for a while I've been seeing errors like this: > > > > > > fglX11Allo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
7;s partition, which is where the > other bootloader should be embedded. > > As long as you're booting Linux kernels, you can just point grub at > them without using another bootloader. you mean as long as grub understands the kernel and filesystem, you can tell grub to load the kern

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
. Instead, is should say either nothing but "refer to info pages"; or it should be the same as the info pages... would anyone agree? -- Iain Buchanan The trouble was that he was talking in philosophy, but they were listening in gibberish. -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
software!! ;) -- Iain Buchanan revolutionary, adj.: Repackaged. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 13:36 +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:55:58 +0930 Iain Buchanan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm happy to leave the info vs man flamewar for someone else, but > > what I _don't_ like is

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

2007-07-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:13 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > While we're on the subject... [snip] > But seriously, shouldn't we be waiting until November to say this? ;-) why, what happens in November? Vista SP1? -- Iain Buchanan You know you're using the computer too

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

2007-07-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 23:43 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 29 July 2007 11:06:44 pm Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:13 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > But seriously, shouldn't we be waiting until November to say this? ;-) > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
target is to record video at > > football and basketball practice where my kids play. Hope this helps - not exactly a complete remote control option, but maybe it will do? cya, -- Iain Buchanan If you push the "extra ice" button on the soft drink vending machine, you won't get any ice. If you push the "no ice" button, you'll get ice, but no cup. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
_still_ belongs to gcc 3.4.x. Is this a problem? I've kind of run out of steps to follow now! I'm sure I came across this in my last gcc upgrade, but I can't remember how I fixed it... Any hints? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Nowlan's Theory: He who hesitates is not on

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 03:00 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag, 13. August 2007, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > src/eix: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version > > `CXXABI_1.3.1' not found (required by src/eix) > > emerge -e world af

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
t. It sounds > like I'm going to have to test these cameras in the store before > making the final purchase. maybe. At least you know it'll work the way you want. Or just do what I did: convince your brother-in-law to buy it, then take it straight off him to play with :) > T

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
d most of it was trial and error to get the best picture - the help I found about various options was very minimal. cya, -- Iain Buchanan "If you weren't my teacher, I'd think you just deleted all my files." -- an anonymous UCB CS student, to an instructor who had typed &q

Re: [gentoo-user] OT :video cameras and gentoo

2007-08-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
, in sync, video and audio, at the correct aspect ration and resolution. That's what I think anyway :) It is of course my opinion to prefer USB filesystem over firewire, and others may differ. I do predict though, that with the ease and speed of USB filesystem transfers vs firewire, that any hard

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 08:02 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote: > Hi, > > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > so I ran `revdep-rebuild --library=libstdc++.so.6` but that got stuck on > > eix: > > > > src/eix: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6/libstdc++.so.6: version > >

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 13:23 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 08:02 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote: > [...] > >> My own little workaround: > >> echo 'LDPATH="/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib"' >> /e

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:41 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > why not just rm -r /usr/lib/gcc/x86-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6 > ? because I want to keep gcc 3.4.6! -- Iain Buchanan * JHM wonders what Joey did to earn "I'd just like to say, for the record, that Joey rules.&quo

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
ral days fighting with it already. you could download a portage snapshot like you were doing a new install, then copy it over /usr/portage. Hopefully when you say you've corrupted portage you're referring to /usr/portage, and not /var etc... Don't know if there are any dangers with thi

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 16:34 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 13:23 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote: > >> Iain Buchanan wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 08:02 +0200, Andreas Niederl wrote: > > > >> [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Synaptics mousepad

2007-08-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
l scroll "too quickly" I get the "forward / back" behaviour in firefox. I used to think it was the touchpad doing this, but it actually happens with real mice wheels, but a real wheel doesn't scroll as fast as my touchpad, therefore I didn't see it as often. In any case, I wo

[gentoo-user] [OT] illegal instruction ... in modf?

2007-08-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
use a bit? I recompiled the binary with g++-3.4.6 and LDPATH="/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6", but that didn't make any difference. Could it be because I've rebuilt libstdc++-v3 and gcc-3.4.6 with gcc-4.1.2? google hasn't helped me much here, so I turn to this

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering corrupted portage

2007-08-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
ed on the "new" revdep-rebuild, so you may want to try without -X, see if you get an error. And to get the previous behaviour with the new revdep-rebuild I think you'd use -e. -- Iain Buchanan It is often the case that the man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:51 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 17 August 2007 06:50:25 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > /etc/env.d $ grep LDPATH * | grep gcc > > 05compiler:LDPATH="/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.6" > > 05gcc:LDPATH="/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] advices about motherboard+cpu+fan(+soundcard) combo?

2007-08-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
silent system, it might be good enough. If you switch to > > Intel, buy a good cooler from the beginning. my intel cooler sounds like a jet starting! -- Iain Buchanan In the days of Old Terra there were experts in poisons, deviously clever persons who dealt in what were known as "th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] illegal instruction ... in modf?

2007-08-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2007-08-18 at 02:16 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Graham Murray writes: > > > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm compiling a program blah.cpp with g++ 4.1.2. I've rebuilt lots > > > of my system with 4.1.2. I'm copyin

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
I have a floppy if that helps. > > Can you copy over the binaries from another machine and see if they work? no need, just download the slax modules. Slax is great like this - especially if you install it on a cdrw, you can keep appending modules at later times until the cd fills u

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install Gentoo on Dell Inspiron 530

2007-08-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 11:27 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > no need, just download the slax modules. Slax is great like this - > especially if you install it on a cdrw, you can keep appending modules > at later times until the cd fills up, no need to re-burn the whole lot! sorry, scru

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD burner recomendation

2007-08-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
ll have to join your mpg's together, but trial and error will prove that right or wrong! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan I had the rare misfortune of being one of the first people to try and implement a PL/1 compiler. -- T. Cheatham -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] migrating to emacs 22.1

2007-08-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
#x27;t help either. thanks for the help! -- Iain Buchanan A hammer sometimes misses its mark - a bouquet never. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] suggestion for recombining audio with video

2007-09-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
fects, I have other programs to do that! Any suggestions? I have been looking on google, but there are so many bad shareware programs that my results get flooded with rubbish! TIA, -- Iain Buchanan "Can you program?" "Well, I'm literate, if that's what you mean!" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] keeping ati-drivers 8.34.8 in portage

2007-09-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
an ebuild around? I noticed there are quite a few versions in /usr/portage/x11-drivers/ati-drivers, but maybe not for long?! thanks, [1] see previous post "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fglrx and posix shared mem" [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185825 -- Iain Buchanan Homer:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: keeping ati-drivers 8.34.8 in portage

2007-09-11 Thread Iain Buchanan
e problem: 8.36.5 8.37.6 8.39.4 8.40.4 and each of them had the fglX11AllocateManagedSurface: __FGLTexMgrAllocMem failed!! error that I talked about before :( I even posted on the ati forums and no one could help... -- Iain Buchanan Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game - i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggestion for recombining audio with video

2007-09-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-09-11 at 23:58 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > On 9/10/07, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > 5. mix two (or more?) audio sources into one audio+video > file, with > some simple crossfade [snip] >

Re: [gentoo-user] Immensely disappointed in emerge -DuN world these days

2007-09-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
rebuild, this behaviour is default, but most likely with your revdep-rebuild, you can specify -X to get the latest version of the packages. Otherwise it will try and use the currently installed version, which isn't what you want when in the middle of a large upgrade! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan O

Re: [gentoo-user] getting GMT to use DST

2007-09-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
especially for the Southern Hemisphere, or places like where I live, that don't use DST. You need to set /etc/conf.d/clock to GMT (if your bios keeps time in GMT - up to you) and set /etc/localtime to London, or whatever. I think... I get confused sometimes :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Standby

2007-09-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
E2="swap:/dev/hda10" or on the boot line: resume=swap:/dev/hda10 If that still doesn't help, post back with the output of `dmesg | grep -i suspend` after you've tried to resume. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Bender: Hey, that's my last beer, you bastard. I'll kill you! Fry: I'll kill you too, buddy, I'll kill you too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] rsync daemon with transmit timeout

2007-09-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
ber of files is quite small... Any tips would be appreciated, thanks! cya, -- Iain Buchanan Anything is good if it's made of chocolate. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rsync daemon with transmit timeout

2007-09-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
oops :) just found the timeout option for the configuration file... don't know why I didn't see that before... thanks :) -- Iain Buchanan "There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction." -- John Cage, composer

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this drive toast--addendum

2007-09-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
le, drive, and bios combination. I _always_ use master / slave jumpers, and don't even bother with cable select. Even if I have only one drive, cable select has still failed for me, resulting in no drives being detected. but maybe that's just me...! -- Iain Buchanan printk(KERN_

Re: [gentoo-user] Help finding a tv tuner card's chipset

2007-09-26 Thread Iain Buchanan
cal stores, ... um, post to this list!! HTH! -- Iain Buchanan I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot. -- George Bernard Shaw -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH: No X11 forwarding any longer

2007-09-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 20:13 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > > For a little while now I have a problem on one of my hosts, X11 forwarding > stopped working. how are you ssh-ing in? -X? -Y? What is the actual error from the client? -- Iain Buchanan BOFH Excuse #148:

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
ng kernel installed somewhere so you can boot it. Then it doesn't matter if you leave out modules (like the PATA as someone mentioned). HTH, -- Iain Buchanan A princess should not be afraid -- not with a brave knight to protect her. -- McCoy, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.3 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] per-ebuild compil options

2007-10-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
, but all other ebuilds would be as normal. Any way I can do this without putting the ebuilds in my overlay? I know I can do it on the command line: FEATURES="blah nostrip" CFLAGS="blah -ggdb" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" sudo emerge -va1 glibc but that kind-of gets defeated durin

Re: [gentoo-user] per-ebuild compil options

2007-10-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 09:56 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:04:10 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: [snip] > > eg. I would always want to build glib and glibc with nostrip in the > > FEATURES, and -ggdb in the compile options, but all other ebuilds would &

Re: [gentoo-user] per-ebuild compil options

2007-10-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 22:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Bo Ørsted Andresen, > > > It should have been in /etc/portage/env/ (no .d). cool, that did it - thanks! > Doh! Sorry about that :( no worries :) -- Iain Buchanan The man who runs may fight again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
joy learning, but I guess it makes sense to keep the upgrade guide as it is... -- Iain Buchanan > Alan Cox wrote: [..] No I didnt. Someone else wrote that. Please keep attributions straight. -- From linux-kernel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] To Neil Bothwick: Question re ntfs-3g

2007-10-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
d it works OK so far. hey, stop answering, this was to Neil! -- Iain Buchanan I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday on Saturday!

2007-10-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
gs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157868 since there are lots of updates happening at the moment in svn, these would be much nicer than the 0.10 release :) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan "Why don't you just come move in with me?" -Bender "Really? That would be great! You sure I w

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday on Saturday!

2007-10-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
whoops sorry, didn't mean to send that to the list :) -- Iain Buchanan Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty. -- Napoleon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction (new member) and first ask-for-help... :-)

2007-10-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
your use flags. Maybe something there is causing the "every letter is a command" issue... > I'm really sorry for the inconvenience. If it was an inconvenience, then I wouldn't reply :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan C-3PO: We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross-compiling

2007-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
s don't let you use distcc because it seems to break them. So don't expect it to work for everything. cya, -- Iain Buchanan The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstract away its essence. - Fred Brooks, Jr. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Online photo album software in Portage?

2007-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
ou try it - I use it and it produces some fantastic looking albums! cya, -- Iain Buchanan Punning is the worst vice, and there's no vice versa. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Online photo album software in Portage?

2007-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
, and on my ISP's hosted site. > Has anyone tried renaming the latest ebuild > in that bug for 7.3.1? sorry, 2/3 ain't bad ;) -- Iain Buchanan "We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor, just like you like to be liked yourself." George W. Bush Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
ou have installed dhcpcd with zeroconf support. This means that it will always obtain an IP address even if no DHCP server can be contacted, which will break any existing failover support you may have configured in your net configuration. This behaviour can be controlled with the -L flag. See the dhcp

[gentoo-user] evolution can't delete some contacts

2007-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
ut the contacts are still there!! Where are the contacts stored?! Any ideas why I can't delete them? Some of these contacts have come from imports / syncs with PDA's. using evolution 2.12.1 thanks! -- Iain Buchanan If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
ool to graph 100's of graphs per day on all sorts of data from different sources. It's very customisable, if you want to spend the time on it. I also found the creator and forum very supportive. -- Iain Buchanan Oh my God, someone's trying to kill me! Oh wait, it's for Bart. -- Homer Simpson Cape Feare -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting system stats

2007-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
iOldIdle = iIdle; iOldTotal = iTotal; // end of loop Of course, I was looking at idle time as a % - you would be interested in User time perhaps. > - NIC I/O > - Hard Drive I/O I'll leave these up to you! And of course this could be complete wrong! I would welcome any comments

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
the (installation) process is *UGLY*. to use your analogy, I'd rather gentoo didn't get laid (or ravaged as the case may be) by the masses, but rather kept her nice personality, even if she is a bit ugly sometimes :) AU$0.02 -- Iain Buchanan One of the signs of Napoleon's great

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
e only downside was that the data was in "high res" - varying sampling up to 100ms. rrdtool only handles 1s data, so I had to do some "playing" to get it to look right. Since the output was for daily / weekly / monthly overviews, the loss of precision didn't matter. HTH

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
-gentoo.html these links might be interesting to you... cya, -- Iain Buchanan The price of greatness is responsibility. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] The generated cache was invalid...

2007-11-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
d b.g.o doesn't have anything either. I haven't noticed any adverse effects... any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan In order to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] hibernate: press SPACE to continue?

2007-12-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
find any reference in the docs, readme, google, or even the source! (well, there is a bit on google, but no help really). Any ideas? thanks! -- Iain Buchanan He married that Palliard girl, remember? The one with the air-cooled teeth? -- (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies) -- [

Re: [gentoo-user] Picasa 2.7 Beta

2007-12-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
d are slow generally) including the latest one. But some work fine. If I use the X nv driver I can't run it either. Perhaps picasa uses some similar accel features? just a stab in the dark :) I might try it though, now that you mention it's here. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan I WI

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DTV on Laptop

2007-12-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
g encoding, does the linux driver support signal strength etc. The quality of the UI is a question for windows users, as you usually use what they provide, but with linux you use what you want :) cya, -- Iain Buchanan I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. -- Jack Benny -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] hibernate: press SPACE to continue?

2007-12-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 18:42 +, Mick wrote: > On Monday 10 December 2007, Rumen Yotov wrote: > > On (10/12/07 10:37) Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I just upgraded from hibernate-script-1.97-r3 to > > > hibernate-script-1.97-r4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX)

2007-12-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
f course, backups aren't foolproof, but > I have other backups too. don't ask me, I only work here... but I have a "multimedia unit" that has 4 card reader slots, a HD, an LCD and USB2. Only /dev/sda shows up if I don't set the multiple luns option, and /dev/sda isn&

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX) -- SOLVED

2007-12-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
I was doubting them. I was, and I > shouldn't have. > > I am flabbergasted. but you also know a little more than you did yesterday. That's the main thing! -- Iain Buchanan It's as BAD as you think, and they ARE out to get you. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Safe to post my MAC address?

2007-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 10:45 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: [stuff] > Damn if this isn't one of the most off-topic posts ever... Oh, I don't know... I think I win that contest[1] [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/153681 -- Iain Buchanan Rule of the Great:

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to get rid of the annoying speech bubble in Evolution?

2007-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
notification. mail-notification? right click on the blinking sod (!) and select properties. If it says "mail notification properties" then your using mail notification ;) Anyway, under "message popups" you'll see "enable message popups". HTH, -- Iain Bucha

[gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
uestion mark- however closing both vnc and vmware don't fix it... well, i sure would appreciate any hints... thanks -smile- -- Iain Buchanan Our sires' age was worse that our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Safe to post my MAC address?

2007-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 04:17 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-12-19, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 10:45 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: > > [stuff] > >> Damn if this isn't one of the most off-topic posts ever...

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to get rid of the annoying speech bubble in Evolution?

2007-12-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 07:35 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 13:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:59 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > My wife and I run evolution 2.12.1 . We love the blinking letter in the > > > not

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