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

2007-02-15 Thread Michael Crute
On 2/15/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 14 February 2007, brullo nulla wrote: > > Most likely you only looked at user cpu % and neglected to list the > > system and niced times as well. > > > > p.s. golden rule: ps lies. top lies. free lies. > > Don't believe the reading

[gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen

2006-09-30 Thread Michael Crute
Hi Everybody, I recently had a tragedy on my system (long story). In any case now when I try to play any Flash file in a browser (Firefox or Opera) all I get is a grey block where the presentation should be. Right clicking results in the usual flash menu, the cursor will even change to a hand whe

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen

2006-10-01 Thread Michael Crute
On 9/30/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only problem is that all I see is a big > grey block where the Flash presentation should be. Any ideas? > > Have you already tried "emerge -C net-www/netscape-flash ; emerge net-www/netscape-flash"? Yeah, several times, it doesn't seem t

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Plugin Grey Screen

2006-10-01 Thread Michael Crute
On 10/1/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Crute wrote: > On 9/30/06, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > The only problem is that all I see is a big >> > grey block where the Flash presentation should be. Any ideas? 1) Have tried to st

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday reminder

2006-10-06 Thread Michael Crute
On 10/6/06, Liviu Andronic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello list, I have a slight problem with defining a en_US.UTF-8 locale. I tried the Gentoo Official Documentation on Localization and Syste-wide UTF-8, but I cannot make actually having en_US.UTF-8. Here are some commands I ran: The locales

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SNMP Security

2006-10-30 Thread Michael Crute
On 10/30/06, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Crute gmail.com> writes: > I am using Cacti on a firewalled production server to do all manner of > system monitoring and metrics. I would also like to setup SNMP on my > development servers that sits behind a firewall a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Newbie stuck at starting gate

2006-11-06 Thread Michael Crute
On 11/6/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This may be because you have not configured the firewall of your VNC server machine and, or you have not set up port forwarding on your router (if you connect to the Internet via a router). This is covered in the FAQs. If you are going to allow connec

Re: [gentoo-user] Mail system recommendations

2006-11-08 Thread Michael Crute
On 11/8/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a small network, consisting of three PCs. Each of these PCs has a public WAN address, and each runs Apache, vsftpd and sendmail (as well as ipkungfu for firewall protection). One of them runs mailman. I would like to replace sendma

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox + macromedia flash plugin -> I can't hear the sound

2006-11-10 Thread Michael Crute
On 11/10/06, Leandro Melo de Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have firefox 1.5 and macromedia flash plugin, but flash animation with sound, the sound is not played, any clue? IIRC sound in Flash will only play if you have the alsa libs installed. You may also want to try Flash player 9 fro

[gentoo-user] Can Neon be slotted?

2006-12-03 Thread Michael Crute
I am trying to run both davfs2 and subversion which depend on different and incompatible versions of neon. Can neon be slotted so I can run both at the same time? -Mike -- Michael E. Crute http://mike.crute.org God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain nu

Re: [gentoo-user] Can Neon be slotted?

2006-12-03 Thread Michael Crute
On 12/4/06, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What versions of these are you trying to run? davfs2-1.1.3-r1 and subversion-1.4.2 both depend on just "net-misc/neon", without any version deps, so I presume they both work with the current neon-0.26.1-r1. I'm running the latest stable versi

Re: [gentoo-user] hibernation and various programs.

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Crute
On 12/6/06, Xamindar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have hibernation set up on my laptop and am just wondering if there are any programs that are unsafe to have running when hibernating. One of the main ones im wondering about would be vmware. Can I hibernate while I have windows xp running in vm

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Webmail in portage without PHP?

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Crute
On 12/6/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am using perl and I'd rather not install and maintain PHP just so I can use Squirrelmail. It sounds like I may need to though. Does anyone prefer another webmail client to Squirrelmail? We run RoundCube on Gentoo at work and it works very well, t

[gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-15 Thread Michael Crute
I seem to be having issues with the netscape-flash plugin. The plugin works for animation but no sound plays. You can get sound if flash is the first thing to get to the ESD daemon but if something else gets there first (amarok or totem) flash will not play sound. I have dmix running on the box and

Re: [gentoo-user] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-16 Thread Michael Crute
On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 16 January 2006 09:04, Michael Crute wrote: > > > > So my question would be, is there a way to make flash mix its sounds > > in with the other programs on the computer? I know its possible as I > >

Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] netscape-flash and sound predicament

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Crute
On 1/16/06, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 16 January 2006 19:17, Michael Crute wrote: > > > > Thanks Abhay I will give that a try when I get home today. I assume > > aoss is part of alsa-utils? (I don't have portage handy to check this >

Re: [gentoo-user] is there any oracle GUI client in portage tree?

2006-02-06 Thread Michael Crute
On 2/6/06, 조승현 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can anybody recommend some good tools for me? ;) http://gentoo-portage.com/s?search=oracle -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation Linux takes junk and turns it into something useful. Wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache ?!?

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Crute
On 2/28/06, William Meertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a question. Has anyone experienced the fact that Apache is eating up all > the > server resources and filling all swap space? Where do I find the reason why? > Or in > what log-file do I look for what reason? The server

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/8/06, Kris Kerwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks! > > I have a quick question. > > I'm a college student. I share my printer with my roommate. We have > separate computers; he uses Windows XP, and I Gentoo. Together, we're > behind our school's router which dynamically assigns us both I

Re: [gentoo-user] [Maybe OT] Recommendations for getting started in Web design

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/9/06, John J. Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good afternoon, > > I'm looking to get started in Web design, with the long term goal of > bringing a business (mine) online. I know nothing about design, what > to look for in choosing a hosting service, editing tools, or good > reference mate

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to Gentoo

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/9/06, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey group, > > I am a long time Linux user, however I am new to Gentoo. I used Red > Hat/Fedora for many years, then my own Linux based on LFS and the last > year I have been using Ubuntu. > > I really like Ubuntu because of apt, however I have had frust

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/9/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, in fact, I think it does. I forgot that the main problem was in > fact just PRINTING... Yeah, cups and samba will take care of that. > Samba will broadcast netbios stuff over the net so you can see your > shared printer (and folders). >

Re: [gentoo-user] Fairwell for now

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/10/06, A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like I said some day Gentoo will get there, but right now it's not stable. Holy crap... good thing you are here to tell me this... guess I will have to pull Gentoo off of all my 1/2 dozen or so production servers and go back to F

Re: [gentoo-user] Drive Failing?

2006-03-10 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/10/06, Ash Varma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hi. > > I get the following error in my logs.. Should I be looking at replacing this > drive.. This is on a machine that has been up for well in excess of 2 years > at this stage.. > > Thanks > > WARNING: Kernel Errors Present >

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/20/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you need the ability to just have separate files? When I recorded > the worship/sermon for my church I would plug in an old Archos MP3 > player/recorder to the mixer. The Archos had the ability to record to > MP3 and it let me just push the pause b

Re: [gentoo-user] Using Gentoo for Sound Recording

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/20/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sadly, it turns out that ardour does not have the one specific functionality > that I > needed, but it may be useful anyway, and I would like to play with it. Tim... I'm not sure that you really need the track mark feature for what you ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-20 Thread Michael Crute
On 3/20/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I installed Gentoo on my four systems a while ago and I've just > acquired a couple of new-to-me P3-500's. I'd like to install Gentoo > on these new systems but I'm a little confused by the changes made to > the installation process recently.

Re: [gentoo-user] mount ntfs partition crashes system

2005-07-31 Thread Michael Crute
Did you upgrade your kernel and forget to make modules_install? What kind of errors are you getting, kernel panic? -MikeOn 7/31/05, Kurt Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This has been working forever, but I just did it today and it crashesthe system.   I just do this:# mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/ntfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Trouble compiling gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r4

2005-08-01 Thread Michael Crute
Sounds like the sources could be corrupted did you try to unemerge and reemerge them? -MikeOn 8/1/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After make all:I am getting this message - a hundred or so (lots of variations on theoffending character (ie the \xxx bit) :net/ipv4/netfilter/iptable_filter.c

[gentoo-user] Stage 1 install with GCC4

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Is it possible to use GCC 4 to do a stage 1 compile? I kknow its still not stable but I am experimenting with a very old box and would like the extra optimizations that GCC 4 has. Anybody have a clue? -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development C

[gentoo-user] PHP5 Quick Question

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Is there a way to build the php 5 extensions (I.E. GD, mysql, etc) as external libraries instead of compiling it all into the core? I assume this is the sharedext flag but I want to make sure before I go try it and muck things up. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware De

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP5 Quick Question

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
ldap snmp imap memlimit mhash mysqli posix simplexml sharedmem soap sockets threads tidy wddx xmlrpc xsl exif cpdflib mime session Am I missing something? -MikeOn 8/2/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Michael Crute wrote:> Is there a way to build the php 5 e

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP5 Quick Question

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Well grepping that file is a nice trick that I didnt know. Thanks! Thats what I needed to know. -MikeOn 8/2/05, Hans-Werner Hilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 10:32:21 -0400Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Is there a way to build the php 5 extensions (I.E. GD, mysql, e

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip & MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
When you emerge nfs use the tcpd use flag to get TCP support. -MikeOn 8/2/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,   I have set up a large NFS mount for use as remote storage for ourMythTV server. It works, but since setting it up the mythbackendprogram has twice shut down in the middle of t

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip & MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
I would use 'sudo netstat -lp | grep nfs' to see what nfs is listening on. -MikeOn 8/2/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew, Michael and Richard,   Thanks for the responses. They seem to outline the options pretty clearly.   One question - once I get it converted and I think I'm runn

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo icons

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
There isn't any other way that I know of. If you do build a gentoo theme with the icons though it would be nice if you would share with us on gnome-look or something. -MikeOn 8/2/05, phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i dont suppose there is an easy way of using the gentoo icons other thandoing each

Re: [gentoo-user] can't unload modules

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Try using 'modprobe -rnv ' and see what errors you get. -MikeOn 8/2/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everyone,The ATI FAQ recommends compiling module unloading intothe kernel, which I did.Then I tried modprobing the various requisite modulesto see what would work, fglrx, radeon,

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip & MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Using the tcp flag when you mount should override the default behavior for nfs to use udp. I'm not sure if its strictly necessary but what the heck, it can't hurt. -MikeOn 8/2/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/2/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip & MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Mark, Here is my suggestion to get the best of both worlds (note my limited knowledge of mythtv). Setup a shell script to copy all your video files from the myth capture directory over to the nfs share and delete the files thus clearing your local space and also allowing you to capture 135 hours.

Re: [gentoo-user] can't unload modules

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Maxim: Try this command `cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD`. On my machine (which has module unloading compiled into the kernel) I see CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y -MikeOn 8/2/05, David Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 12:36 Tue 02 Aug , maxim wexler wrote:> dayglo root # m

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip & MythTV)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
l do some research to see if there's a practical solution. Possibly some sort of logical disk drive? That'sa bit beyond my meager skill set.Thanks,MarkOn 8/2/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:> Mark,>>  Here is my suggestion to get the best of both worlds (note m

Re: [gentoo-user] can't unload modules

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
It would appear that it is not. Double check with my cat grep command and perhaps recompile your kernel. -MikeOn 8/2/05, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Module unloading support is optional.  You want to> enable it in your kernel config.>See the start of this thread. It *is* enabled> Za

Re: [gentoo-user] Its not fair! (PCMCIA issue)

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Being lazy I would start with the dead simple route. Boot the ubuntu livecd check out what driver it loads and if the card works, if all is peachy under ubuntu reboot gentoo and modprobe the driver that ubuntu loaded. If all that fails then you need to dig deeper into your kernel config. I could ma

Re: [gentoo-user] can't unload modules

2005-08-02 Thread Michael Crute
Run a make clean on the kernel source tree and then a make && make modules_install and see what happens. Perhaps that will solve it. -MikeOn 8/2/05, James Hiscock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sounds like a forgotten "make mrproper" or "make> > clean" before a full> > build?>> Aren't they for 2.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Network Monitoring (graphical web app)

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
I use Nagios and Cacti with much success. http://www.nagios.org/ http://www.cacti.net/ -MikeOn 8/3/05, Chris Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all,I've been looking for a monitoring app that I can run on myserver/gateway.  The more graphical the better, I really like the looksof the graphs

Re: [gentoo-user] Differences: halt, shutdown, init 0?

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
Init 0 does a shutdown just without the -r now (which you could add). Here is the line from my stock /etc/inittab "l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown" -MikeOn 8/3/05, Minn M Soe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,Is it harmless if we shut down with the command init 0? Are there bigdifferences between halt,

Re: [gentoo-user] updating mostly identical systems

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wiki? http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host -MikeOn 8/3/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:40:49 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:> what would be the best way for the four other machines to access the> binary pa

Re: [gentoo-user] updating mostly identical systems

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
TED]> wrote: Eric S. Johansson wrote:> Michael Crute wrote:>>> Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wiki?>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host >>>> -Mike>>>> no I had not.  look like just what I need.  also looks like putting it> in

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
Colleen, Glad to see another Fedora user see the light! Here's the scoop... you haven't botched anything you just need to configure your X server. In theory it is very easy to configure your X server all you need to do is run "Xorg --configure" as root then copy the xorg config file from /root/xorg

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge monodevelop -> dependency with mozilla

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
Nope its required to run monodevelop (if you unemerge it you break monodevelop, just tried it). -Mike On 8/3/05, Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I want to emerge monodevelop but it wants to emerge mozilla too;I don't use mozilla at all; I use firefox.Has anyone managed

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
Bob, I2C is not a prerequisite of running X he just needs to configure the X server and it should work. I have run into this before and solved it without building I2C into the kernel (or as a module). All I forgot to do was configure X. -MikeOn 8/3/05, Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On We

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge monodevelop -> dependency with mozilla

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
You could hack the ebuild which is a good idea or you can just emerge mozilla and ignore it. I emerged with moznomail moznoirc and moznocompose to leave off some of the excess and I just leave it be. -MikeOn 8/3/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Catalin Trifu wrote:> Hi,>>>I want t

Re: [gentoo-user] Botched Gentoo Install

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Michael et al,Michael Crute wrote:> Colleen,> Glad to see another Fedora user see the light! Here's the scoop... you> haven't botched anything you just need to configure your X server. In > theory it is very easy to configure your X server all you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Michael Crute
At the expense of sounding like an "Elitist Chowderhead" I kind of agree with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off far less than any RedHat distro. But that said I would never recommend Gent

Re: bad howto warning: Re: [gentoo-user] updating mostly identical systems

2005-08-04 Thread Michael Crute
Bingo... edit it please... share your experiences and put down the right way to do it. -MikeOn 8/4/05, Justin Patrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/4/05, Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Michael Crute wrote:> > Have you seen the build host tutorial on the wi

[gentoo-user] X Server Memory Leak?

2005-08-05 Thread Michael Crute
Does xorg-x11 have a memory leak? I start my box up (runlevel 3) then startx and it all goes good for about a day the X server runs about 100MB of physical memory but after about a day it has balooned up to about 700MB which pushes me danged near to swap space. I am using xorg-x11-6.8.99.15. I run

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dvd playing up

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Crute
My guess is that you have a permissions problem with your DVD device (/dev/hdc). Check the permissions there. Mine looks like this: brw-rw  1 root disk 22, 0 Mar 10 12:47 hdc If that is your case  just `gpasswd -a disk` and you should be good to go. Don't bother trying to change the permissio

Re: [gentoo-user] Media players

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Crute
Personally I like mplayer just make sure you compile in the support for mpeg and dvd. Here are my use flags for mplayer: (and it plays pretty much everything I have) "3dfx 3dnow X aalib alsa arts avi dga divx4linux dts dvb dvd dvdread encode esd gif gtk ipv6 jack jpeg mad mmx mpeg mythtv nls nvidi

Re: [gentoo-user] Keyboard Question

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Crute
You have to add them into your X config file. But I'm not sure of the specifics here. -MikeOn 8/6/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey all,Well, I went out and got a nice Logitech media keyboard, with some specialbuttons on the top and all. Its a plain Logitech Multimedia Keyboard.What Im wond

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby's rdoc

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Crute
Only with the doc use flag. Make sure you had that in there when you emerged ruby or re-emerge ruby with it. -MikeOn 8/7/05, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is Ruby's rdoc documentation installed with the ruby ebuild?  ri18 doesn'tseem to be able to find it.David--gentoo-user@gentoo.org ma

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Apache Virtual Host

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Crute
Try this...    ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]    DocumentRoot /usr/local/koha/opac/htdocs    ServerName Gentoo-drak    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/koha/ /usr/local/koha/opac/cgi-bin/    Redirect permanent index.html http://Gentoo-drak:85/cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl    ErrorLog /usr/local/koha/log/opac-er

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby's rdoc

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Crute
Indeed it should.On 8/7/05, David Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 07 August 2005 02:11 pm, David Corbin wrote:> Is Ruby's rdoc documentation installed with the ruby ebuild?  ri18 doesn't> seem to be able to find it.>I noticed that USE flags were "-doc".  I assume correcting this will ma

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Apache Virtual Host

2005-08-07 Thread Michael Crute
Just a note for the future. Whenever you create a virual host that points to a directory you must create a directory container inside of the virual host container that sets up the permissions for the directory otherwise your will always get a 403 error. -MikeOn 8/7/05, q-parser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip & MythTV)

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Crute
Quick... knock on wood!On 8/8/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right, sorry. I should have responded back. The system was rebuiltwith V3 and V4 support. I'm running version 3. It's now been up forabout 4 days without going offline again so I suppose it's fixed.Thanks to all for the help.

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS configuration (tcp/ip & MythTV)

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Crute
Oh oops... sorry... thats the way Windoze works (or rather doesn't work). Glad everything finally worked out for you. -MikeOn 8/9/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Quick... knock on wood!On 8/8/05, Mark Knecht < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Right, sorry. I should ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Which filesystem for a notebook?

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Crute
Personally I would use ext3 and then hdparm to adjust the drive settings so that it spins down faster when there is no activity. That should give you the best of power saving and data reliability. -MikeOn 8/8/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:>Hi,>On Monday 08

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mozilla & Google behind the scenes payola

2005-08-10 Thread Michael Crute
Hey guys just to put this all in perspective the guy who wrote that silly little article is a nutcase that is waging some weird holy war against google. His other sites are: http://www.google-watch.org/ http://www.gmail-is-too-creepy.com/ So check those out first and that will squash what little

Re: [gentoo-user] New Install with 2005.1

2005-08-12 Thread Michael Crute
If you are a current Gentoo user you really need not re-install. Just do an `emerge -Davu world` and keep up to date. The releases are mainly for installation images and stages and not applicable to current Gentoo users. -MikeOn 8/12/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, J

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Michael Crute
Why dont we just change it so that unsubscribe in the subject line unsubscribes you (like every other mailing list on the internet)? -MikeOn 8/17/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 12:18:02PM +, Gyuri wrote:> Bayrouni wrote:>> >Hello all,> >How to unsuscribe fro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Must all software be installed with Ebuilds?

2005-08-17 Thread Michael Crute
Everything you install on Gentoo is generally done with an ebuild because that lets portage track the dependencies and also keeps track of the versions so they are easily upgraded in the future. This is the best way to do things for most software. With something like Communigate however, you aren't

Re: [gentoo-user] Injecting files into a gentoo installation ISO?

2005-08-18 Thread Michael Crute
Just a thought... extract the iso to your local hard drive, hack it up however you like, repack it and ship it off to your datacenter. As far as I know that should do the trick. -MikeOn 8/18/05, Greg Shikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Unfortunately, I have all space taken up. I would need to ask

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-20 Thread Michael Crute
I personally run it the "right way" if there is such a thing. Gentoo with VMware 5 installed on the computer and XP Pro installed inside of VMware. For what little I need Windoze VMware works wonders. It runs most Windows apps (including the OS) almost faster than it runs naively. I haven't tried i

Re: [gentoo-user] VMWare?

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Crute
Well you can still run Photoshop. :-D -MikeOn 8/21/05, Greg Shikhman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The only issue with running WinXP inside a virtual environment is it becomes useless for gaming (making windows COMPLETELY useless) because VMWare doesn't have support for DirectX. On 8/21/05, Sandy McG

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerge emacs

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Crute
In the future, if you have gentoolkit emerge you can run an `equery d ` to see what depends upon the package. I find that the easiest way to do things. -MikeOn 8/21/05, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Holly Bostick wrote:>Anthony E. Caudel schreef:Ah, the "profile" threw me. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE

2005-08-21 Thread Michael Crute
When you boot the livecd at the kernel prompt (where you normally type gentoo) you should type memtest86 to start memtest. I'm pretty sure thats how I did it last time I needed it but I'm not gonna reboot to find out :) -MikeOn 8/21/05, Rajat Gujral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi,   i am not able t

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP and files over 2 Gb

2005-08-22 Thread Michael Crute
According to the top line of that PHP document you should be able to add `-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64` to your cflags and recompile PHP to make everything work! -Mike On 8/22/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Jim Hatfield wrote:> I just bought a Pinnacle

Re: [gentoo-user] finding IP address of device on the network

2005-08-23 Thread Michael Crute
Well since you need to know it's IP address I will assume that you are not using static IP addresses and thus you are using DHCP. It should be as easy as checking the DHCP server logs or the table of active leases and searching for you MAC address. -Mike On 8/23/05, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

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

2005-08-23 Thread Michael Crute
Or you could use http://packages.gentoo.org/ or http://gentoo-portage.com both of which tend to provide decent information about the packages in portage. -MikeOn 8/23/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:26:54 -0300 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:| - why gentoo has decide

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash MX 2004

2005-08-23 Thread Michael Crute
Nobody has yet to get any of Studio MX 2004 working under Wine. The issue (so I have been told) is the activation system doesn't play real nice with Wine. Perhaps if you are skilled in the black art of cracking you could hack out the activation routines and make it work? (Note: for personal use onl

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash MX 2004

2005-08-23 Thread Michael Crute
issues. -MikeOn 8/23/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Crute wrote:> Nobody has yet to get any of Studio MX 2004 working under Wine. The> issue (so I have been told) is the activation system doesn't play real> nice with Wine. Perhaps if you are skilled in the black a

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

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Crute
First of all, sorry about top posting that's the way Gmail does it and you cant change the settings. Also if you are looking for a lazy man's way of getting a package description try `emerge -s packagename` and it prints out a lot of information as well as a short description of the package. I ha

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

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Crute
Hey buddy go troll on somebody else's thread. -MikeOn 8/24/05, David Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/24/05, Michael Crute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> First of all, sorry about top posting that's the way Gmail does it and you> cant change the settings.> S**t

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

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 posting to be just about the rudest thing you could possibly do on a mailing list. HTML email

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

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/24/05, Matan Peled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1Michael Crute wrote:>> On 8/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga>> < [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:>>> You know bud, read some rules, be pol

Re: [gentoo-user] stage files

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/24/05, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can someone point me to a reference that explains how to make yourown stage files?  It seemed to me that the stage3 stage file waspretty much a bzipped tar file of an installed system.  Is thiscorrect, or is there more to it?  I've got a working sys

Re: [gentoo-user] stage files

2005-08-24 Thread Michael Crute
rward would be perfect, but is there a simpler short-termsolution?  I'll go down the partimage path as well right now, though.On Wednesday 24 August 2005 13:57, Michael Crute wrote:> On 8/24/05, John Jolet < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> > Can someone point me to a reference that e

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK it is not possible short of brute force hacking it. If it were,it sort of defeats the point of security on the box...Your best bet is to get someone your trust to boot into single for youand reset the password there. W--ARTHUR  It's not a que

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for a real solution.  They will attach a KVM unit to themachine and I can log into the KVM.  Would that help?- Grant--gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Sure that would work but if you have a sudo user your can do it without rebooting. -Mike-- _

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

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No you're not - there's no excuse for not being polite and considerate ofothers when posting. And that includes not top-posting and trimming yourquoted part to only what is necessary for context. Unfortunately most people are too lazy to bother trim

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the OP has sudo set up, would he really be sending a mail to thelist? And if he didn't, setting up sudo would be a catch 22 now,wouldn't it?Though, granted, the OP did only say he lost root passwd, and not superuser access...Indeed and most ofte

Re: [gentoo-user] activex support

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello,Has anyone successfully used ActiveX with firefox or mozilla?http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htmI just took a look and it seems like this is a Windoze only thing. Linux doesn't implement ActiveX anyhow. -Mike-- __

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows Media Player

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Ian K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there,I was wondering if anyone here has gotten Windows Media Player 9 or 10to work with Wine. On the Wine website, it has Media Player 9 listed.Althoughthere are threee discouraging comments. Any one here getting it working? Thanks!Ian I tired 9 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-25 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/25/05, Ian Hastie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is a bad idea as it creates two effective root passwords.  One ofthem even has the ability to log in through the network.  Just find thepriveleged user's password and then change the real root one. You have a point here but I find it easier to

Re: [gentoo-user] Forgotten root password on remote system

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/26/05, Fernando Meira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You're lacking optimism... Of course the brute-force attack was not supposed to be done remotely! You can pull passwd to your local machine and the let your computer handle it without interruptions. If some proprieties of the password are known

[gentoo-user] [OT] Dock Application

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Crute
This is kind of off topic but could someone please look at this screenshot (http://pstudios.ath.cx/screenshots/kody-nov-4-04.png) and tell me what dock (or icon set) this guy is using. Thanks -- Michael E. Crute Software Developer SoftGroup Development Corporation

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dock Application

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/27/05, Glenn Enright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If we could access it then maybee we would...Ha ha... I was hoping perhaps sombody else had the same app or icons or had seen them someplace. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftware DeveloperSoftGroup Development Corpora

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dock Application

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/26/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the point Glenn is trying to make is that we cannot access yourlink (permission is refused), so we can't see the image.I certainly can't.HollyDOH... ok here is an alternate link ( http://users.softgroupcorp.net/cruteme/screen.png). Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN?

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/27/05, David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been having alot of luck with openvpn it's ssl based rather thanipsec.  I have found it to be easier to setup and less confusing andit has clients for various platforms including windows...which is notalways the easiest platform to use IPSEC

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev read,write problem

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/26/05, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 05:06:13PM +0200, Jonas Geiregat wrote> When I startup my system I need to loing as root and run chmod a+rw> /dev/* else I have problems login in or starting multiple shells I'm> using udev anyone got any idea what could cau

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Dock Application

2005-08-26 Thread Michael Crute
On 8/27/05, A. Khattri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Shouldn't you be asking that on a Mac OS X mailing list???Hmm... indeed it does appear to be a Mac, at first glance I thought it was Gnome with a Mac skin on top. That explains a lot. -Mike-- Michael E. CruteSoftwar

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