Re: [gentoo-user] linux symlink?

2007-02-04 Thread Jerry McBride
a totally different animal than most distributions. For us, the link is required in order to emerge anything that touches the kernel sources. -- -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] knotes: cannot move around notes

2007-02-04 Thread Jerry McBride
similar to what you're looking > for. Since knotes and xpad are being kicked around... Does anyone know of a light weight knotes style app that multiple users can access via a single server backend? I'm looking for such a solution. Cheers. -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] knotes: cannot move around notes

2007-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
> For this aim I use a web-based notes service: > http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/ > > but sure it's less handy that a knotes-style thing. > > m. Hmmm... Thanks for the link. I never would have found it and... this looks perfect. -- -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-10 Thread Jerry McBride
some merit and run chkrootkit or simiar tool. 5 - did/are you running any internet services? Look at their log files with a magnifying glass for "any" discrepancy... -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame?

2007-02-14 Thread Jerry McBride
they give, rather interpret them in context. > > sob. it's not the first time I hear this. What should I believe to > really know my system state? > > m. I tracked my 100% cpu usage to FAMD... Killing it instantly freed the cpu... -- -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 100% CPU usage with no processes to blame?

2007-02-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 02:48:18 pm Pongrácz István wrote: > 2007. 02. 14, szerda keltezéssel 13.28-kor Jerry McBride ezt írta: > > I tracked my 100% cpu usage to FAMD... Killing it instantly freed the > > cpu... > > Change to gamin. > The same function in much be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc 3.4.6 vs. 4.1.1

2007-02-14 Thread Jerry McBride
hat last May. And not just main but only C compiler (No I don't > > use qemu). ;) > > I do use Qemu, which was one reason I didn't switch earlier. > If it helps you, we compile the current sources using gcc-3.4.6-r2, then make a quickpkg of it and distribute as needed... Works well and you only need one machine with the older gcc. Cheers. -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Firefox problems...

2007-02-17 Thread Jerry McBride
mozilla/firefox/nan3prqz.default/lock") and then segfaults... Anyone else? At this moment I'm compiling firefox from sources to see if it's any better. -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] off topic : Dolphin massacre in Japan

2007-02-21 Thread Jerry McBride
> about. Kudos to the OP for bringing this important issue to our > attention! > Mmmm roasted penguin... Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Unsubcribe

2007-03-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 18 March 2007 10:32:46 pm Fiifi Markin wrote: > unsubscribe NO! -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Install Stage feature request and bug report.

2007-04-08 Thread Jerry McBride
ave Gentoo 2006.1 running as a 5 node distcc compile cluster... Awesome... -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-16 Thread Jerry McBride
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry� from Vodafone z���(��&j)b�bst== 51... and feeling a lot like 40. :.) well... maybe 42. Cheers... -- Jerry McBride

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo rewrites "/etc/resolv.conf" automatically

2007-04-16 Thread Jerry McBride
ns info into the file ate /etc/conf.d/net... Like this... #/etc/conf.d/net modules=("ifconfig") config_eth0=("192.168.0.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255") routes_eth0=("default via 192.168.0.1") dns_domain_eth0=("my.domain") dns_search_eth0=(&q

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-16 Thread Jerry McBride
have now. > I have a 26K connection right now. Let's not discuss OOo. O_O > Hi Dale... Umm... where do you live? I'm in New Jersey... If you are state side, I'm willing to burn a few Gentoo cd's or dvd's for you if you wish. Won't cost you a dime. Just email me if you are interested. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get nvidia serial ATA with DMA running

2007-04-17 Thread Jerry McBride
ted tome, but I benefited from it greatly. Thanks for the info... -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-19 Thread Jerry McBride
d 2 out > for a 8 port card (Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8). > Hey Chris Would you take the time and post what motherboard the Supermicro is plugged into and whether you are running 32bit or 64bit Gentoo? Thank you, in advance. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ivtv support for gentoo-sources 2.6.19-r7 and higher?

2007-04-19 Thread Jerry McBride
.20.6 and to get ivtv to compile correctly, you MUST unmask it in /etc/portage/package.keywords to get the correct version ivtv sources. Each version increment, requires a specific version of ivtv... If you need more details, feel free to email me direct. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo rewrites "/etc/resolv.conf" automatically

2007-04-20 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 19 April 2007 11:32:19 pm Danyelle Gragsone wrote: > Hi, > > I tried rewritting my conf.d/net file the way you explained. I still > can not get networking to work unless I edit my resolv.conf. Any > Suggestions? > Sorry, no. > On 4/16/07, Jerry McBride <

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-16 Thread Jerry McBride
note). > I think maybe you should look your gentoo over again... you've done something really STUPID. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] encfs/fuse fails after update world

2007-06-02 Thread Jerry McBride
n it's place. The best part about ecryptfs is that the filesystem deriver is in recent kernel sources. Cheers. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: encfs/fuse fails after update world

2007-06-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 02 June 2007 05:25:33 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Saturday 02 June 2007 06:47:10 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Following recent update world, encfs encrypted partition refuses to > >> mount

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Python IDE

2007-06-10 Thread Jerry McBride
for a good, general Python IDE on Linux. Most > people advice Eclipse+PyDev. I tried it and it looks good, but it's damn > too memory intensive (I need to use it on an office machine with 512 K > ram, and it eats almost half of it). > > Any other suggestion? > > m. Anyone mention SPE? Nice, small foot print, completion, etc... -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Double network cards

2007-06-11 Thread Jerry McBride
solutely... the only limit is how many slots you have to work with. -- Jerry McBride -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: > On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: > > On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS485 [Radeon > >> Xpress 1100 IGP] > >> > >> (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 i

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 03 July 2007 08:58:39 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: > On 7/3/2007 5:19 PM Jerry McBride said the following: > >On Tuesday 03 July 2007 07:55:40 pm Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >>On 7/3/2007 9:36 AM James Ausmus said the following: > >>>On 7/3/07, Drew Tomlinson <[

Re: [gentoo-user] Index to /usr/share/doc/...html... a reinvented wheel?

2007-07-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 12:39:48 pm Willie Wong wrote: > I doubt that his script (which he mentions is to be run in cron) is > meant to actually be placed in the cgi-bin directory for apache. > > It would certainly be annoying to need to have an apache server > running just to read documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:13:59 pm Philip Webb wrote: > 070704 Colleen Beamer wrote: > > Danyelle Gragsone wrote: > >> If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would > >> stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am > >> looking for.. I am looking for

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV 0.20 ebuild

2006-09-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 28 September 2006 00:09, Bryce Verdier wrote: > I've had it up for a couple of days. Nothing seriously wrong yet. > Although, watching live TV on my box is a little choppier now... for > some reason. The "chmod +s mythfrontend" did help, but its still not > fluid on the live tv playback

Re: [gentoo-user] OT- tv tuner cards

2006-10-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 02 October 2006 21:04, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Do these things work very well? What's a good one? Is > it gentoo-friendly. > > I'll be using it with a Viewsonic 17" LCD with a > digital connector and a ATI Radeon 256M vid card. > > I saw one work back in 2000 and thought the p

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - NFS and port numbers

2006-10-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 15:14, Michael Sullivan wrote: > How do I discover (or define) which port numbers NFS uses, and whether > they are TCP or UDP so that I can let them through my firewall? You can manually assign nfs port numbers. First stop is: /etc/conf.d/nfs. I set THE fol

Re: [gentoo-user] ath0 turbo mode (108Mbps)

2006-10-08 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 08 October 2006 14:26, Grant wrote: > Has anyone gotten turbo mode to work with their madwifi/ath0 cards? > It is supported according to this (search for "turbo"): > > http://madwifi.org/wiki/FAQ/HowDoI > > I'm using the latest madwifi-ng on my router and client, and the > client uses wpa

Re: [gentoo-user] ath0 turbo mode (108Mbps)

2006-10-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 08 October 2006 20:14, Grant wrote: > > > Has anyone gotten turbo mode to work with their madwifi/ath0 cards? > > > It is supported according to this (search for "turbo"): > > > > > > http://madwifi.org/wiki/FAQ/HowDoI > > > > > > I'm using the latest madwifi-ng on my router and client, a

[gentoo-user] linux-headers-2.6.18

2006-10-12 Thread Jerry McBride
I anyone else having problems compiling anything after emerging linux-headers-2.6.18? Over here, a number of old favorites, like sysklogd, fail to compile... I am seeing a slew of missing includes and a few "syntax errors" with various packages. I thought I'd ask before posting a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] Quake3 Can't load libGL.so.1 from /etc/ld.so.conf

2006-10-15 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 14 October 2006 22:27, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 13 October 2006 19:18, Fred Kastl wrote: > > Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > > > On Tuesday 10 October 2006 16:41, Fred Kastl wrote: > > >> when i try to start quke3 i always get this error message: Quake3 > > >> Can't load libGL.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: BIG reiserfs problem

2006-10-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 28 October 2006 17:47, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [ JFS ] > > > And it is very slow. > > Based on what evidence/test? > > According to http://linuxgazette.net/122/TWDT.html#piszcz it's quite > fast. > Nice graphs... looking them over make

[gentoo-user] Best method for automounting...

2006-11-30 Thread Jerry McBride
ant. Has anyone figured out a reasonable approach for auto mount/unmount for removeable media that's as "hands off" as possible? Thanks, in advance. What I find with autofs, hal constantly polls any cf card that I plugin and subsequently does not auto-unmout -- -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Best method for automounting...

2006-12-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 30 November 2006 23:54, Richard Fish wrote: > On 11/30/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyway, I've looked into using hal,dbus and "media:/" in konqueror... It > > works to a degree, but the hal daemon has a nasty habit of poll

Re: [gentoo-user] lirc emerging: ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY

2006-12-02 Thread Jerry McBride
(2)"; else echo "$(3)"; fi; \ - rm -f astest.out) + rm -f \ + $(if $(KBUILD_EXTMOD),$(firstword $(KBUILD_EXTMOD))/)astest.out) # cc-option # Usage: cflags-y += $(call cc-option, -march=winchip-c6, -march=i586) Basicly what it does is prevents emerge process from writing into /usr/src/linux... Cheers... -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Daylight Savings Time patch ...

2006-12-02 Thread Jerry McBride
; Cell (704) 877-1621 > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> AIM:EnnisMac > > I think a better solution would be to get rid of the DST and be done > with it. What exactly is that for anyway? > > Dale > > :-) :-) :-) Where have you been?? It saves energy... More daylight hours during the most productive time of day. -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Best method for automounting...

2006-12-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 02 December 2006 03:45, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:00:50 -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Yes, very sure. You can't use autofs on a system that is using hald... > > You can modify hal actions via config files to play nice with cdroms > > and s

[gentoo-user] EXt4

2006-12-03 Thread Jerry McBride
>From the little testing I've done, I'm quite impressed with the first public exposure to a developing filesystem. I can't imagine how things will progress with ext4, but based on these early developments... it's going to be good. Cheers all... hmmm... I'm finally sleepy enough to get some sleep. :'O -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] EXt4

2006-12-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 04 December 2006 15:11, Dale wrote: > Randy Barlow wrote: > > Jerry McBride wrote: > >> The ext2 fs was formatted with "mke2fs" and mounted with "-t ext2 -o > >> sync" > >> The ext3 fs was formatted with "mke2fs -j" and

Re: [gentoo-user] EXt4

2006-12-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 04 December 2006 12:29, Randy Barlow wrote: > Jerry McBride wrote: > > The ext2 fs was formatted with "mke2fs" and mounted with "-t ext2 -o > > sync" The ext3 fs was formatted with "mke2fs -j" and mounted with "-t > > ext3 -o sync

[gentoo-user] The KDE splitbuilds

2006-12-05 Thread Jerry McBride
I've just done a couple of kde updates on computers that had KDE via the split builds. Wow, does that save a lot of time! Who ever is responsible for supporting them, A BIG THANK YOU. Merry Christmas, everyone. -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] rekall-2.4.4 ebuild anywhere?

2006-12-07 Thread Jerry McBride
Jarausch > > Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik > RWTH - Aachen University > D 52056 Aachen, Germany Goggle is YOUR friend... Results 1 - 20 of about 90 English pages for rekall-2.4.4. (0.33 seconds) It's free for download... at http://www.rekallrevealed.org/packages --

Re: [gentoo-user] rekall-2.4.4 ebuild anywhere?

2006-12-07 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 07 December 2006 19:32, Jerry McBride wrote: > On Thursday 07 December 2006 07:14, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am in need for an ebuild for rekall-2.4.4 since only > > this version works with Python-2.5 (and my GenToo > > system is solely

Re: [gentoo-user] ifconfig -> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address

2006-12-11 Thread Jerry McBride
aded the wrong one... The lspci tool is your friend, if you need help figuring out which nic driver you need. -- -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Static ip address

2006-12-12 Thread Jerry McBride
quot;) dns_search_eth0=("search hs.ma.comcast.net.") dns_servers_eth0=("68.87.75.255 68.87.64.255") Cheers... -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Static ip address

2006-12-13 Thread Jerry McBride
d slightly. Have a look at /etc/conf.d/net.example. > Yes, it has changed, but I don't see any init complaints... so I decided to let it run as-is. Thank you. -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Static ip address

2006-12-13 Thread Jerry McBride
address as the > network part and the remaining 8 bits as the host part. Simply a shorter > notation than the netmask 255.255.255.0. > It 's just as good as specifying the complete mask. For some of us, it's iminately more readable > > routes_eth0=("default via 192.168.254.254") > > dns_servers_eth0=("192.168.254.254") > > Uwe > -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Mysql vs Mysql-community...

2006-12-15 Thread Jerry McBride
Can someone tell me the major differences between mysql and mysql-community? Thank you, in advance... P.S. before you beat me up too badly, I've googled this one to death and not found anything that satisfies my curiousity. -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Has Linux "jumped the Shark"?

2006-12-22 Thread Jerry McBride
of the session, he did take me up on my recommendation of using FireFox for general browsing and IE7 for those sites that absolutely have to have it. He also took me up on my offer of a free copy of a Live Linux DVD. There's a gold mine of new linux users/converts out there. They just have to be told that there really is CHOICE amongst OS's, browsers, etc... -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-30 Thread Jerry McBride
Once found, I grab matching portage names and build a master html index for use with apache... Nice to know that someone else has the desire for handy document indexes... -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2006-12-31 Thread Jerry McBride
nfoText)==0: infoText="PNA/PNA" words=string.split(infoText,"/") steps=len(words) groupName=words[0] packageName=words[1] output.writelines('--'+packageName+'-- documentation found at '+line+''+chr(10)) output.writelines(""+chr(10)) output.writelines("The end..."+chr(10)) output.writelines(""+chr(10)) output.writelines(""+chr(10)) output.writelines(""+chr(10)) print "New index2.html written to ",ni,"." print "" print "Program successfully shutdown." print "" input.close() output.close() os.system("rm "+al+" 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null") os.system("rm "+il+" 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null") os.system("rm info.dat 2>/dev/null 1>/dev/null") sys.exit(0) As for manning a project... time hasn't allowed me the pleasure of a decent day off from work. I would, however, contribute as I can. Cheers all and enjoy -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Documentation Index

2007-01-01 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 31 December 2006 20:28, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On 12/31/06, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 31 December 2006 00:00, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > Hey, Jerry, wanna make a project team? I woulda done Python if I had > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE does not auto-mount my USB devices anymore

2007-01-27 Thread Jerry McBride
E and have gone over to using automount... Cheers. -- Jerry McBride -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ndiswrapper, broadcom 4320 and 802.11b

2005-12-29 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone here an ndiswrapper expert? I would most welcome some setup help... I'm working with a COMPAQ R3320US which sports an internal wifi setup using the broadcom BCM4306 chipset. Installing the ndiswrapper and the correct windows drivers, the setup process seems to go without a hitch. Howev

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 29 December 2005 08:24, Marco Calviani wrote: > Hi list, >maybe this question is a little bit related since it regards non > Gentoo-specific topics. > I would like to add a specific suffix to a list of files. For example > i have files of the type: > > duck1.jpg > duck2.jpg > duck3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron

2006-01-02 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 02 January 2006 20:08, Dale wrote: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >As the owner of a dual-Opteron 275 system, I can say they they are very > >nice. An emerge -e world (700+ packages) only takes 24 hours, during > >which the system is totally usable (full-screen video + 5.1 audio does

[gentoo-user] mythtv backend problem...

2006-01-14 Thread Jerry McBride
I'm having a real odd problem running the backend server for MYTHTV... The short story is, I can't startup the backend server via the startup script at /etc/init.d/mythbackend... start does not work. It claims it starts but it doesn't, no errors, nothing at all in dmesg or messages and worse th

Re: [gentoo-user] permissions problem

2006-02-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 04 February 2006 19:39, John Jolet wrote: > Okay, I give up. I've been struggling with a couple of very, very > strange permissions problems for months. I just finished an emerge - > e system and emerge -e world hoping it would fix it. first problem: > trying to use sudo, but it keep

Re: [gentoo-user]

2006-02-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 05 February 2006 13:59, Uwe Thormann wrote: > unsubscribe NO! -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 2:31pm up 140 days, 5:56, 4 users, load average: 1.93, 2.00, 2.03 -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove

2006-02-06 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 06 February 2006 13:46, Peter H. wrote: > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com NO!! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 3d rendering with dri radeon

2006-02-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 17 February 2006 06:03, Bo Andresen wrote: > I have a laptop with a ATI Radeon 9000 Mobility graphics card. I wanted to > get 3d rendering working with the free dri drivers so I followed this > howto: http://www.gentoolinux.org/doc/en/dri-howto.xml > I got my 9100 IGP to do 3d via the h

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, John Blinka wrote: > Hi, all, > > I have a strange-to-me cups printing problem on one of my gentoo machines. > When I point firefox at http://localhost:631, I don't see the > familiar cups admin web page, but just the raw html, i.e., > CUPS problems... surprise

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens to samba?

2006-02-26 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 26 February 2006 16:53, Rafael Fernández López wrote: > In every bootup I've to press Ctrl+C to kill samba startup. It won't start. > I don't know what happens to it. Is this happening to someone else? > > Bye, > Rafael Fernández López. Nope. What do the samba log files tell you?? Jerr

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobo/proc combination

2006-03-13 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 13 March 2006 07:37, Denis wrote: > Iain, > > So are you saying that a P4 is actually faster with HT disabled, or > simply that you don't have much to gain by using HT? I have a laptop and a desktop the sport p4's with HT. I don't see any difference whether HT is turned on or turned of

Re: [gentoo-user] xmms segmentation fault

2005-04-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:28 pm, Robert Persson wrote: > Something strange. Xmms used to work and now it doesn't. I get a > segmentation fault when I try to start it. I'm using xmms-1.2.10-r13. > I've no idea how long ago I emerged this version. Is this a problem with > this particular ebuild

Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)]

2005-04-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 April 2005 01:05 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 23:11 -0400, S. Bergeron wrote: > > On my MythTV machine, I run XFS, because I'm dealing with large files > > (2.2gb/hr of video). On my desktop it's ext3. On my notebook, I'm still > > using ext2 for power management rea

Re: Laptop_Mode was[Re: [OT] Ext3 Speed Issues? (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] file system corrupted)]

2005-04-11 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 11 April 2005 11:00 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 19:59 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > > On Monday 11 April 2005 01:05 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 23:11 -0400, S. Bergeron wrote: > > > > On my MythTV machine, I run

[gentoo-user] Killing two birds....

2005-04-12 Thread Jerry McBride
I found an way to speed up portage and save some drive space at the same time The first thing I tried... I happened to have some spare room on a scsi harddrive and simply moved /usr/portage and /var/db to the scsi drive. Then created links from the scsi pointing back to the original locati

Re: [gentoo-user] Killing two birds....

2005-04-13 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 12 April 2005 11:51 pm, W.Kenworthy wrote: > One possibly severe disadvantage I can see is losing the whole tree due > to corruption of the loop file (it happens). Then again, it will be > smaller and easier to backup! > I've been working with encrypted loops for a year or two now and

Re: [gentoo-user] Killing two birds....

2005-04-14 Thread Jerry McBride
I said I'd come back with some results Here we go... Test bed was an old Compaq 700us, my personal war machine. It sports an amd Athlon 4, 1600 with 512meg and a 20gig hard drive. No scsi on this machine, just plain old eide... I mad a number of runs with portage, only had time to work on

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 17 April 2005 12:21 pm, A. Khattri wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Richard Fish wrote: > > I also recommend reiserfs. > > > > I'm a laptop user, and just converted my filesystems from xfs to > > reiserfs for performance reasons. With xfs, backing up my root > > filesystem (325000-35 fi

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 17 April 2005 09:06 pm, W.Kenworthy wrote: > A case of YMMV I'm afraid > > I will not touch ext2/3 again except for /boot (because its simple and > does not seem to have problems - as long as you leave it unmounted that > is - live and learn!) as it is the only file system I regularly los

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 18 April 2005 01:34 pm, A. R. wrote: > Huh? > > I have never ever had any power failures with my laptops, if the thing > is connected to the power outlet and this one fails, well, the battery at > > least gives me a chance to "gracefully" shut down the computer. > One of the methods I u

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: which FS (ext3,reiserfs,xfs,jfs)?

2005-04-18 Thread Jerry McBride
problems (googleit) and be prepared > for them. That is the best you can do. > > 2005/4/19, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Monday 18 April 2005 01:34 pm, A. R. wrote: > > > Huh? > > > > > > I have never ever had any power failures with

Re: [gentoo-user] Dependency Question

2005-04-19 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 11:57 am, James Colby wrote: > Hello everyone - > > I apologize if this has been covered before, but I have not been able > to find an answer through searching. > > My question, when I do an emerge -p --deep --update world emerge tells > me that it wants to install kde-base

[gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-23 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone done anything "big" with the new compiler yet? Like an "emerge -e world"? -- ** Registered Linux User Number 185956 FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 24 April 2005 01:50 am, Willie Wong wrote: > last I checked, the gcc4 ebuild isn't even hard-masked yet... it > exists, but that's about it. Don't know if the "gentoo-user" list is > the best place to ask this question at this moment. > Thanks to you and Bastian, I'm coming up to speed o

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-4.0.0?

2005-04-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 24 April 2005 12:52 pm, Willie Wong wrote: > On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 11:30:45AM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Is gcc-3.4.3-20050110-r2 the favored release of 3.4.3? > > Don't know about "favored". It's the one I use =) > > So far it hasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-04 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 06:28 pm, rob3 wrote: > Hi all, > Hi Rob, > If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions > for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since all > personal information is contained wholly in the home directory in *nix, > it is ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-05 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 05 May 2005 09:29 am, marcin wrote: > Hello, > > I think that interesting alternative to CFS can be EncFs which is > faster then CFS. > Comparison between other encrypted filesystems and EncFs you can find here: > http://arg0.net/users/vgough/encfs.html Absolutely FANTASTIC... has aes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem

2005-05-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 07:11 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > Brett, >Thanks. Now both machines are mounting. Actually the FC2 machines > mount immediately. The Gentoo laptop takes about 90 seconds before it > mounts. I don't see any messages about what's taking so long, but at > least it mounts. > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] jpeg-mmx [Build Error]

2005-07-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 28 July 2005 02:30 am, simply change wrote: > hi! > > i just try to emerge jpeg-mmx new version. de following error came > This is already covered at bugs.gentoo.org... There's a typo in the jpeg-mmx ebuild. Where it lists the configure options, change include-d

[gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-12 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? In the September issue there's a neat article titled tha same as the subject line of this message. The skinny is, there's some really nice file compressors out there and I never heard of two of them... Anyone else know about LZMA or 7ZA? The tw

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-13 Thread Jerry McBride
On Saturday 13 August 2005 01:32 am, Nick Rout wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 00:58 -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Anyone else here subscribe to the LINUX JOURNAL? > > > > In the September issue there's a neat article titled tha same as the > > subject line of thi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 14 August 2005 03:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote: > Hi all, > > This email isn't intended to troll, but to explore Linux variants > that share certain characteristics. > Nice way to introduce yourself on a distribution support maillist :') > I really like Gentoo and I like that fact that it

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-14 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 14 August 2005 06:06 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sunday 21 August 2005 22:05, Jerry McBride wrote: > > What and where EXACTLY is gentoo behind any other release? > > gcc4 > > since fedora switched to gcc4, all the version-number-junkies got itchy. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Compression tools Compared

2005-08-17 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:55 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Friday 12 August 2005 23:58, Jerry McBride wrote: > > What you're seeing are the results of compressing /lib on my gentoo > > powered laptop. > > For comparison purposes, what compression levels did yo

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread Jerry McBride
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:14 pm, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: > Jonathan Nichols wrote: > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga > >> > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> | You know bud, read some rules, be polite. > >> > >> There are many who consider top

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:40 pm, Jonathan Wright wrote: > Michael Crute wrote: > > I tired 9 and one point in time and it was a disaster. Didn't work at > > all then I saw the light and now use mplayer with win32 codecs. > > Agreed. MPlayer will even support RealPlayer along with the standard >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: iptables example on Gentoo

2005-09-08 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 08 September 2005 01:23 am, James wrote: > gentuxx gmail.com> writes: > > Why not just sit down and read the source? > > I'm sure that's going to happen too. But having a > working machine with iptables/netfilter is like > having a lab-class to go with the > (theory) lecture part of th

Re: [gentoo-user] subscribe

2005-09-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 11 September 2005 12:56 am, Paul Hoy wrote: > On Sep 10, 2005, at 8:27 PM, Dave Nebinger wrote: > >> Josh M. Anders, MVP, MCSE+ > >> Senior System Administrator > >> UNIX Expert > > > > For all of that you'd think the guy would know how to subscribe to > > a mailing list ;-) > > -- > > L

[gentoo-user] c-sources, 2.6.13-ck5 corrupt.

2005-09-20 Thread Jerry McBride
Anyone else notice that the ck5 version of the ck-sources is flawed? Each atempt to emerge it results in a failure at during modules build at: drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.c: In function `yenta_probe': drivers/pcmcia/yenta_socket.c:986: error: `KERN_ERROR' undeclared (first use in this function)

Re: [gentoo-user] transfer large files via samba cause system freeze

2005-09-23 Thread Jerry McBride
On Thursday 22 September 2005 03:03 am, Qiangning Hong wrote: > I tried to transfer a large file (~300MB) to a windows machine from my > gentoo laptop: > > # mount -t cifs //winbox/movies /mnt/samba -o iocharset=utf8,umask= > # exit > $ cp largefile.avi /mnt/samba > > The transfer starts and ea

[gentoo-user] emerge improvements... again

2005-10-09 Thread Jerry McBride
I'm getting ready to make a post on bugs.gentoo.org to ask for a couple of feature enhancements for portage's emerge routine. I thought I'd ask here first, to see how everyone feels about them and if there's too much negative response I'll just drop the idea. Two new features I'd like to see a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge improvements... again

2005-10-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 09 October 2005 18:57, Rumen Yotov wrote: > Hi, > On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 18:19:50 +0000 > > Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm getting ready to make a post on bugs.gentoo.org to ask for a > > couple of feature enhancements for portage'

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge improvements... again

2005-10-09 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 09 October 2005 19:40, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 18:19:50 +0000, Jerry McBride wrote: > > 3- Make a list of hooks available to hackers, like myself. I know I can > > implement the above features, but the emerge source is huge and teasing > > out t

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge improvements... again

2005-10-10 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 10 October 2005 04:00, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Monday 10 October 2005 03:19, Jerry McBride wrote: > > I'm getting ready to make a post on bugs.gentoo.org to ask for a couple > > of feature enhancements for portage's emerge routine. > > Feature enhance

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