Re: [gentoo-user] Hungry firefox

2015-04-01 Thread wabenbau
Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Has anyone else here noticed firefox consuming 15% or so of CPU time, > even while it's not supposed to be doing anything? This is version > 31.5.3, with just AdBlock Plus and YesScript added. I have remerged > it and saw no difference. > > [ebuild R

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Strange behaviour of google certificates.

2015-04-01 Thread wabenbau
Gevisz wrote: > This question does specifically relates to Gentoo distribution > but, as far as I have not subscribed to any other mailing list, > I dare to ask it here. > > So, I am using Claws Mail that downloads e-mails from several > google mail accounts (all are mine :) and about once or tw

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Purchase and setup of monitor calibration device

2015-04-02 Thread wabenbau
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > A wide gamut monitor is a great thing even if you don't need it for > > softproofing. I shot a lot of colorful photos (e.g. from bugs, > > blossoms and live concerts with colored limelights). They look > > great on an AdobeRGB monitor but much more "boring" on a stan

Re: [gentoo-user] Question of quantum computer

2015-04-02 Thread wabenbau
Boricua Siempre wrote: > Hello > > I have reading of quantum computing and I want know what operating > systems are use in quantum computers. And I read quantum computers I don't think that (yet) there exists computers that are completely based on quantum components. Maybe they have a quantum

Re: [gentoo-user] Question of quantum computer

2015-04-02 Thread wabenbau
wrote: > with the movement of particles. It is a phenomenon that results from > the quantum entanglement of e.g. two electrons and has to do with the > nonlocality of such phenomenons. When you measure the quantum > attributes of one of these two electrons you instantaneous influence > the quantu

Re: [gentoo-user] Question of quantum computer

2015-04-03 Thread wabenbau
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Friday, April 03, 2015 5:05:35 AM waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Boricua Siempre wrote: > > > > > Hello > > > > > > I have reading of quantum computing and I want know what operating > > > systems are use in quantum computers. And I read quantum computers > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Question of quantum computer

2015-04-03 Thread wabenbau
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 03/04/2015 23:11, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > That's the problem with science in general. The one thing it may > > never be able to answer is "why?". Take gravity as an example. We > > got really good models for it, we can predict how it influences > > even light with

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Purchase and setup of monitor calibration device

2015-04-03 Thread wabenbau
Mick wrote: [...] > > > This is also why I put a lot of time and energy into research > > > before I purchase something pricey. For instance, I read in > > > hardware forums and through reviews for many weeks before I > > > finally decided on all components of my PC that I assembled last > > > ye

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Question of quantum computer

2015-04-03 Thread wabenbau
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Peter Humphrey > wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2015 17:11:11 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > >> That's the problem with science in general. The one thing it may > >> never be able to answer is "why?". > > > > I think that's the crux of the pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Question of quantum computer

2015-04-03 Thread wabenbau
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Friday, April 03, 2015 5:05:35 AM waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Boricua Siempre wrote: > > > > > Hello > > > > > > I have reading of quantum computing and I want know what operating > > > systems are use in quantum computers. And I read quantum computers > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Question of quantum computer

2015-04-03 Thread wabenbau
wrote: > We should not forget that the lasers that can be found in CD drives, > the magnetic heads in modern hard disks, and also every FET are > working with technology that is based on quantum effects. I never Correction: I meant TFET and not FET. -- Regards wabe

[gentoo-user] Recommendations for WLAN-AP?

2015-04-28 Thread wabenbau
I'm searching for a new WLAN-AP that is fast, powerful and reliable. I can remember that there were some recommendations in this list some weeks/months ago, but I can't find them. Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendations for WLAN-AP?

2015-05-02 Thread wabenbau
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 27.04.2015 um 20:37 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: > > I'm searching for a new WLAN-AP that is fast, powerful and > > reliable. I can remember that there were some recommendations in > > this list some weeks/months ago, but I can't find them. > > > > Regards > > wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendations for WLAN-AP?

2015-05-18 Thread wabenbau
Paul Tobias wrote: > On 2 May 2015 at 17:17, wrote: > > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > > Am 27.04.2015 um 20:37 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: > > > > I'm searching for a new WLAN-AP that is fast, powerful and > > > > reliable. I can remember that there were some recommendations in > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] (OT) Recommendations for WLAN-AP?

2015-05-19 Thread wabenbau
Paul Tobias wrote: > On 2 May 2015 at 17:17, wrote: > > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > > > Am 27.04.2015 um 20:37 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: > > > > I'm searching for a new WLAN-AP that is fast, powerful and > > > > reliable. I can remember that there were some recommendations in > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] [~and64] Headsup for google-chrome users

2015-05-21 Thread wabenbau
walt wrote: [...] > Then, after I figured out that CONFIG_USER_NS is a kernel config item, > requiring reinstallation of my kernel, I wasted more time figuring out > (for the n'th time) that you shouldn't just change a single kernel > config item and do "make" because that shortcut can break impo

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with "mailto" (fcrontab)

2015-05-23 Thread wabenbau
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > In my fcrontab file I added: > &b(1),mailto(root) * * */14 * * /home/mccramer/bin/check.sh > > I would exspect to get mail each time the command is run. > > > &b(1),mailto(root) */2 * * * * /home/mccramer/bin/check.sh > > "check.sh"'s last line is 'date' s

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread wabenbau
behrouz khosravi wrote: > Hello everyone. After spending about a year in the world of linux (and > mostly beloved gentoo!) I have realized that the key to a stable and > fast machine is to keep the system as small as possible. > So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also replace

Re: [gentoo-user] recommended applications

2015-05-24 Thread wabenbau
Heiko Baums wrote: > Am 24.05.2015 um 16:14 schrieb waben...@gmail.com: > > behrouz khosravi wrote: > > > >> So I am going to use console based tools mostly. I will also > >> replace KDE with i3wm. > >> > >> What do you recommend as a replacement for kmail? (is mutt a good > >> choise?) > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking certain sites the easy way ?

2015-05-28 Thread wabenbau
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > With wireshark I found, that firefox accesses sites on startup, from > which I dont know, for what reason this access is needed or whether > the NSA, CIA, FBI, BDN, MOSSAD (fill in what organisation you ever > suspect to do such things) has invaded my PC. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm / mutlisect

2015-06-03 Thread wabenbau
Adam Carter wrote: > I have 1 ssd and 2 spinners in a system. hdparm reports that > multcount=0, and hdparm -i reports MultSect=off on the ssd (only). > > Are mulitcount and MultiSect the same thing? It seems to be the same (see below). > Why would it be disabled by default on the ssd? From

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual OS clock issues

2015-06-04 Thread wabenbau
Derek Ellison wrote: > I have two HDD in a UEFI system. Windows 8 on one and Gentoo on the > other. Currently I have to update the clock everytime I boot to the > other OS and I'm wondering if there is a way I can avoid this? It's > just starting to get to be a pain to have to update it everytime

Re: [gentoo-user] resizing multiple images with adding a frame as needed

2015-06-23 Thread wabenbau
hw wrote: > Hi, > > suppose I have a number of images that need to be displayed side by > side in a nice layout. The images are of different sizes and have > different aspect ratios. > > To fit the images into the layout, I can scale the images either by > height or width or by percantage, and

Re: [gentoo-user] resizing multiple images with adding a frame as needed

2015-06-23 Thread wabenbau
hw wrote: > Hi, > > suppose I have a number of images that need to be displayed side by > side in a nice layout. The images are of different sizes and have > different aspect ratios. > > To fit the images into the layout, I can scale the images either by > height or width or by percantage, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Best way for good video performance in virtual machines

2015-06-24 Thread wabenbau
Ralf wrote: > Hi out there, > > assume the following situation: > > I do have a minimalistic hypervisor running a minimalistic virtual > machine (qemu with kvm, qxl and spice). > Both systems, hypervisor and VM are able to run X servers and > apllications. The graphics card of the hypervisor is

Re: [gentoo-user] Catastrophic bug in the firefox 'ProfileManager' function

2015-07-20 Thread wabenbau
walt wrote: > I suspect most people don't even know firefox has a ProfileManager, > but I'm here to warn you not to use it. It just cost me years of > bookmarks and saved passwords. > > For testing purposes I invoked firefox-bin with the -ProfileManager > flag (don't do this, it's broken!) and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: The state of public relations?

2015-07-24 Thread wabenbau
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 24.07.2015 um 14:56 schrieb James: > > Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > > > >> Just be practical. From my experience showing up at a LUG and > >> telling 20 people how something worked well for you gets you a lot > >> further than handing out free T-shirts and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Project:Installer

2015-07-26 Thread wabenbau
Hans wrote: > On 18/07/15 03:25, James wrote: > > > > From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very > > interesting. However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I > > think I'd leverage ansible and the persistence mode (usb stick) > > code that LikeWhoa put together, as a basi

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Android and the problem of space

2015-07-31 Thread wabenbau
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Mick [15-08-01 04:28]: > > On Friday 31 Jul 2015 19:19:06 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > on my tablet PC I used an Android App called "Linux deploy" > > > to install an chroot-environment for - guess - Gentoo. :) > > > > > > The tablet has a SDcard

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab/mount riddle...how?

2015-08-02 Thread wabenbau
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > ...still fiddling with Linux on my ASUS MeMO Pad 7... ;) > > Current status: > SDCard: > Back from extFAT (too slllooww) to FAT32 > On this SDCard two file, each 4GB in sizse and formatted ext4 > One conatins currently the complete Linux (used as chro

Re: [gentoo-user] fstab/mount riddle...how?

2015-08-02 Thread wabenbau
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > ...still fiddling with Linux on my ASUS MeMO Pad 7... ;) > > Current status: > SDCard: > Back from extFAT (too slllooww) to FAT32 > On this SDCard two file, each 4GB in sizse and formatted ext4 > One conatins currently the complete Linux (used as chro

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-06 Thread wabenbau
Mick wrote: > I was wondering similar questions regarding a 32G flash card I have. > Using fdisk to partition it the starting sector was automatically > aligned with 2048 as it fdisk has been improved to deal with 4KB > sector drives. > > However, formatting it with mkfs.vfat I was none the wise

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-06 Thread wabenbau
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 22:08:16 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > > % cat /etc/portage/env/ccache.conf > > > FEATURES="ccache" > > > > > > % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice > > > app-office/libreoffice ccache.conf disk-tmpdir.conf > > > > > > And don't forget to emerge ccach

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-06 Thread wabenbau
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 06/08/2015 20:32, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 19:17:56 +0100, Mick wrote: > > > >>> Which clearly says ccache not found. That implies you have added > >>> ccache to FEATURES but not installed the ccache package. I know, I > >>> did the same thing last we

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread wabenbau
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > I wrote a long reply to this and it appears to have been swallowed by > /dev/null. I have read it, so it wasn't swallowed. I also have written some posts in the last 2 or 3 days, but it seems that everyone ignored them. I think the reason is that I'm not very popula

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread wabenbau
Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 06:25:11PM +0200, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > > I wrote a long reply to this and it appears to have been > > > swallowed by /dev/null. > > > > I have read it, so it wasn't swallowed. I also have written some

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread wabenbau
Mick wrote: > On Friday 07 Aug 2015 00:23:35 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Mick wrote: > > > I was wondering similar questions regarding a 32G flash card I > > > have. Using fdisk to partition it the starting sector was > > > automatically aligned with 2048 as it fdisk has been improved to > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-21 Thread wabenbau
walt wrote: > I'm seeing horrible performance from the xfce window manager (xfwm4) > on my main, everyday machine, but not on an older backup machine or > on any of the linux virtual machines I run on virtualbox. > > The symptoms: moving a window with the mouse is so slow as to be > painful, an

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-25 Thread wabenbau
Mick wrote: > On Saturday 22 Aug 2015 03:08:41 waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > walt wrote: > > > I'm seeing horrible performance from the xfce window manager > > > (xfwm4) on my main, everyday machine, but not on an older backup > > > machine or on any of the linux virtual machines I run on > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Lenovo X1 Carbon (3rd gen)

2015-08-25 Thread wabenbau
Ralf wrote: > Hi folks, > > i just got my brand new Lenovo X1 Carbon and trying to get Gentoo > running on it. > > Beside some really big issues (HiDPI display, 2048x1152 resolution on > a 14" display really sucks on linux, xrandr scaling is horrible, no > scaling is damn too small to read, mis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-25 Thread wabenbau
walt wrote: > On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 21:10:28 +0200 > wrote: > > Kernel driver in use: radeon > > > > Hi wabe. This whole radeon thing is so confusing I thought I'd > mention one more very confusing detail that I had to fix before I got > the open- source ati/radeon driver to work correc

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread wabenbau
"Walter Dnes" wrote: > I went to the CNE (Canadian National Exhibition) yesterday and > indulged in a buying spree of 18 CD sets of my fave music (basically > anything pop/rock/country pre-Beatles). I now have over 20 CDs that I > want to rip to flac eventually. I dread the gruntwork in renam

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-27 Thread wabenbau
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Heiko Baums wrote: > > > All of them have freedb support and use cdparanoia as back-end. > > Cdparanoia is not a good choice, it has many flaws: > > > - It is based on a 1997 cdda2wav and was never updated > > - It does not create the track based files at th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone using xfce4 with compositing turned off?

2015-08-27 Thread wabenbau
Mick wrote: > I do not use a xorg.conf file with the Kaveri APU. It just works > with the following: I deleted my xorg.conf and X is still working without any problems. > In /etc/portage/make.conf: > > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonsi" ditto. > FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware" I don't hav

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed

2015-09-01 Thread wabenbau
lee wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting a black screen during booting, with the last message I can > see being that udevevents are being processed. > > This happens with an NVIDIA GTX770 connected to a 4k display via a > display port cable, and only when the monitor is configured to use > display port

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed

2015-09-01 Thread wabenbau
lee wrote: > writes: > > > lee wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm getting a black screen during booting, with the last message I > >> can see being that udevevents are being processed. > >> > >> This happens with an NVIDIA GTX770 connected to a 4k display via a > >> display port cable, and on

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is proposing an ncurses update and I don't understand what it means

2015-09-01 Thread wabenbau
walt wrote: > This is on my one amd64 (stable) machine, so the following proposed > update should be safe and Just Work(TM), right? > > Maybe it will, but there is no way I'm going to let this upgrade > happen tonight when I'm tired from fighting all day with the > so-called 'stable' computers a

Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict - xfce-base/libxfce4util

2015-09-05 Thread wabenbau
Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hmmm. libxfcegui4 is old compat code for legacy shit from 3 versions > back. I doubt you need it, and if you do, I suggest getting rid of the That's right. libxfcegui4 is not needed by XFCE any longer. -- Regards wabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a hardened profile?

2015-09-07 Thread wabenbau
Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 09/06/2015 04:15 PM, walt wrote: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo > > > > That wiki page is very seductive. It makes me want to drop > > everything and select a hardened profile and re-emerge everything > > from scratch. > > > > But I have a feeling

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a hardened profile?

2015-09-07 Thread wabenbau
Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Sunday, September 06, 2015 1:15:17 PM walt wrote: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo > > > > That wiki page is very seductive. It makes me want to drop > > everything and select a hardened profile and re-emerge everything > > from scratch. > > > > B

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a hardened profile?

2015-09-07 Thread wabenbau
walt wrote: > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Hardened_Gentoo > > That wiki page is very seductive. It makes me want to drop everything > and select a hardened profile and re-emerge everything from scratch. > > But I have a feeling I'd soon be in big trouble if I did. Is this > something that on

Re: [gentoo-user] CMYK comparison to sRGB between platforms

2015-09-10 Thread wabenbau
Mick wrote: > On the same hardware I noticed that a CMYK photograph converted to > sRGB looked mostly the same (indistinguishable) on Linux, but the > sRGB colours were brighter on MSWindows. > > I tried this by dual booting between MSWindows and Linux. > > Then I tried it by running MSWindows

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

2015-09-13 Thread wabenbau
Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following: > > > The following installed packages are not in the database: > > sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev > -- > > Equery gives me this: > > root@fireball / # equery list *static-dev* > * Searching for *static-de

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

2015-09-13 Thread wabenbau
wrote: > Dale wrote: > > > Howdy, > > > > I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following: > > > > > > The following installed packages are not in the database: > > > > sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev > > -- > > > > Equery gives me this: > > > > root@fireball / # equery list *st

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

2015-09-13 Thread wabenbau
wraeth wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > On 14/09/15 13:46, Dale wrote: > > So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it. What the heck > > is this about? Anyone else ever run into this? Is there a way to > > "find" it?? Can I remove it somehow?? > > I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-15 Thread wabenbau
Grant Edwards wrote: > In most X11 apps I can select some text and then paste it somewhere > else with a middle-click, or dump it to stdout with the command 'xclip > -o'. That doesn't work for highligted text in gtk-3 apps (meld, > evince, audacious, etc.). After selecting text in a gtk-3 app,

Re: [gentoo-user] portage directory ownerships?

2015-09-15 Thread wabenbau
james wrote: > Hello, > > So looking at /etc/portage/repos.conf, it seems root.root owns these > files; shouldn't it be portage.portage? and /usr/portage On my system /etc/portage/repos.conf is also owned by root:root > That got me thinking. Everywhere that portage operates or owns > things,

Re: [gentoo-user] Quick check on net-print/hplip-3.14.10

2015-09-16 Thread wabenbau
Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I just noticed that the driver for my old printer no longer shows up > in cups, on one of my PCs. Comparison with other PCs shows that this > one does *not* have the hpijs USE set. > > Could someone who also does not have hpijs set in their hplip tell me > if the HP D

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread wabenbau
Daniel Frey wrote: > I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to > fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up > having to use UUIDs (which I've never had to use before.) Because I'm a lazy guy, I'm using labels instead of UUIDs. They have the advantage

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread wabenbau
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Daniel Frey wrote: > > > > > I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to > > > fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up > > > having to use UUIDs (which I've nev

Re: [gentoo-user] mpv upgrade warning

2015-09-19 Thread wabenbau
Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > >> > >> Daniel Frey wrote: > >> > >> I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also > >> had to fight udev changing sda to

Re: [gentoo-user] THE SCREAM.

2015-09-29 Thread wabenbau
Alan Grimes wrote: > > You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you because > it's absolutely silent... "The Scream" is painted by Edvard Munch. Van Gogh (not Gough!) is well known for his paintings of sunflowers and cypresses. Yes I know, I'm a smart ass sometimes. :-) --

Re: [gentoo-user] black screen on boot when udevevents are processed

2015-09-29 Thread wabenbau
lee wrote: > writes: > > > lee wrote: > > > >> writes: > >> > >> > lee wrote: > >> > > >> >> Hi, > >> >> > >> >> I'm getting a black screen during booting, with the last > >> >> message I can see being that udevevents are being processed. > >> >> > >> >> This happens with an NVIDIA GTX770

Re: [gentoo-user] THE SCREAM.

2015-09-29 Thread wabenbau
Lee wrote: > On Sep 29, 2015 11:17 AM, wrote: > > > > Alan Grimes wrote: > > > > > > > > You know that famous Van Gough painting? That kinda haunts you > > > because it's absolutely silent... > > > > "The Scream" is painted by Edvard Munch. Van Gogh (not Gough!) is > > well known for his painti

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:: free pop3 mail box?

2015-10-07 Thread wabenbau
James wrote: > Folks, > > I do not want gmail or any other big (brother) organization email. > I just need a simple pop3 (small) email box, in case my > (underconstruction) email server is not happy. Low traffic. > Temporary is fine too. > > Suggestions most welcome. > > Tia, > James > Take

Re: [gentoo-user] OT:: free pop3 mail box?

2015-10-07 Thread wabenbau
wrote: > James wrote: > > > Folks, > > > > I do not want gmail or any other big (brother) organization email. > > I just need a simple pop3 (small) email box, in case my > > (underconstruction) email server is not happy. Low traffic. > > Temporary is fine too. > > > > Suggestions most welcome

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I suppress the bleep when shutting down?

2015-10-20 Thread wabenbau
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > Every time I shut down my gentoo system with "shutdown -h now", it > beeps at me. This is becoming steadily more irritating as the months > go by. Just what is this beep supposed to be telling me? I _know_ > I'm shutting the machine down. > > Can any

Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box

2015-11-06 Thread wabenbau
the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Regarding better motherboard my preference is one that use 100% > Jpanese capacitors, if I'm not mistaken Gigabit is one of them. Nearly six years ago I've bought four Gigabyte Ultra Durable mobos equipped with solid state capacitors. Two of these boards are runn

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning

2015-11-10 Thread wabenbau
Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 11/10/2015 11:13 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > > What would take longer? > > brute-forcing your root-password or a 4096 byte ssh key? > > > > My password, by a lot. The password needs to be brute-forced over the > network, first of all. > > And a 4096-bit public e

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning

2015-11-10 Thread wabenbau
Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 11/10/2015 03:52 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > That's right. If an attacker has the full control over your machine > > then it doesn't make any difference. > > > > But if he can only see what you are typing, for example by a > > keylogger or by detecting th

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenSSH upgrade warning

2015-11-10 Thread wabenbau
Dale wrote: > Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 11/10/2015 04:11 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > >> You can disable password login for that user on the server. Then > >> he can only login via ssh key. Only with the knowledge of the root > >> password it is not possible to gain root access to the ser

Re: [gentoo-user] All sorts of digest verification failures

2015-11-12 Thread wabenbau
Grant Edwards wrote: > After an emerge --sync that appeared to work with no problems, my > "emerge -auvND world" command is reporting that the Changelong files > are broken for about 2/3 of the packages it wants to update: > > !!! Digest verification failed: > !!! /usr/portage/dev-libs/libxml2/C

Re: [gentoo-user] LINGUAS issue

2015-11-12 Thread wabenbau
Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, all. > > My locale language is "pt_BR" (Brazilian Portuguese), and many > applications now support native translations. > > And there is the "pt" possible LINGUAS entry, and there is no "pt_PT" > (Portugal spoken Portuguese), for instance, neither any derivatives > f

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox profile uses 100% CPU

2015-11-12 Thread wabenbau
the...@sys-concept.com wrote: [...] > Though, I can not import the bookmarks, I'm on Firefox-bin-38.3.0 > There is no entry: Bookmarks ==> Manage Bookmarks > I have: Bookmarks ==> Show All Bookmarks > where I can restore and backup bookmars. I've tried to restore > bookmarks from file: bookmarks-2

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox profile uses 100% CPU

2015-11-12 Thread wabenbau
wrote: > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > [...] > > Though, I can not import the bookmarks, I'm on Firefox-bin-38.3.0 > > There is no entry: Bookmarks ==> Manage Bookmarks > > I have: Bookmarks ==> Show All Bookmarks > > where I can restore and backup bookmars. I've tried to restore > > bookmar

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox profile uses 100% CPU

2015-11-12 Thread wabenbau
the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > Thelma > > On 11/12/2015 05:30 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 01:56:28PM -0700, the...@sys-concept.com > > wrote > > > >> I do agree, but I'm looking for a way to fix it. What file should I > >> delete from Firefox profile. I just want t

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox profile uses 100% CPU

2015-11-12 Thread wabenbau
the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > Thelma > > On 11/12/2015 08:22 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > > > [...] > >> Though, I can not import the bookmarks, I'm on Firefox-bin-38.3.0 > >> There is no entry: Bookmarks ==> Manage Bookmarks > >> I have: Bookmarks

Re: [gentoo-user] Autostart of an application for a headless embedded system

2015-11-28 Thread wabenbau
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I have a Gentoo on my embedded system (Arietta G25, very tiny). > If this system is booted (no display, no monitor, only one LED) > an application (console only) should start, do its job and if done > shutdown the system. The application runs as root. > The

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-03 Thread wabenbau
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Peter. > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:53:23PM +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > Some time ago I was looking for a console font whose zero had no > > diagonal bar, because nowadays I find that makes it resemble an > > eight too closely. > > It's h

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread wabenbau
Peter Humphrey wrote: > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been working > on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. It's bad > enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, without going the > whole hog. That's right. I talked about X fonts. Didn't noti

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread wabenbau
waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 10:02:59AM +, Peter Humphrey wrote > > > A question for Wabe: are you talking about X fonts? I've been > > working on console fonts on a machine that has no X or other GUI. > > It's bad enough that terminus-font needs a few X libraries, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Console fonts revisited

2015-12-04 Thread wabenbau
waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 08:45:43PM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > > > Try consolefont="ter-124n". But as Peter said, the terminus-font > > needs some X libraries. I never noticed that, because on my system > > X was already installed before I installed > > media-

Re: [gentoo-user] libpcre && blender: Confusion?

2015-12-06 Thread wabenbau
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alan McKinnon [15-12-06 08:24]: > > On 06/12/2015 05:47, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > from builder.blender.org I regularily download the daily > > > developers build of blender. > > > > > > In the last few days the developers seem to include code

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

2015-12-18 Thread wabenbau
Dale wrote: > I think I'm leery of all drives now. I've had WDs fail, Seagate and > some other brand. I just keep buying bad stuff. :-( I'm glad I > don't have to buy pacemakers. :/ It seems that many many years ago HDs were more reliable then today. I have five 4GB IBM SCSI HDs and one

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive noise

2015-12-18 Thread wabenbau
Ian Bloss wrote: > I've had more Seagates die over time than any other brand, I would > recommend getting your money back asap and finding another brand. > > I work IT at a school and we no longer purchase seagate drives for > their failure rate. A friend of mine is using Seagate ES drives sinc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Routing Problems

2014-10-18 Thread wabenbau
Am Samstag, 18.10.2014 um 11:38 schrieb Alec Ten Harmsel : > > On 10/18/2014 04:06 AM, Mick wrote: > > Can you give some additional information on the network topology? > > > > Are we talking about LAN/WAN? Same subnet? VLAN? DMZ? > > It's a LAN. Just a simple TP-Link router setup to do DHCP.

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-10-26 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 26.10.2014 um 17:41 schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés : > I don't care what do you say, how do you think I'm acting or how do > you "treat" me. As others have said in others threads (with less kind > words), you are kind of a joke for many of us in this list. I really like to read Volkers p

Re: [gentoo-user] alternative kernels

2014-10-26 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 26.10.2014 um 21:35 schrieb Alec Ten Harmsel : > > On 10/26/2014 07:41 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > Keep it up, my dear Volker. You are really good for a few laughs. > > No. Neither of you should keep it up. > > You made a small comment about systemd being so fast that reboot

Re: [gentoo-user] i965 (Valley View) video acceleration

2014-10-28 Thread wabenbau
Am Montag, 27.10.2014 um 23:00 schrieb Marc Joliet : [...] > > [...] Are > > all the smart people switching from mplayer to mplayer2? [...] > > FWIW, I switched to mpv after using mplayer2 for a while. See > https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/blob/master/DOCS/man/changes.rst > for a comparison b

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT32 USB not showing/mounting

2014-12-15 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 14.12.2014 um 22:37 schrieb Joseph : > I have a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but when I insert the disk > it is not mounting on my desktop. No icon is showing up, why? Here comes the the magic formula, IIRC ;) Your user has to be in group plugdev. udisks USE flag for xfce-base/

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT32 USB not showing/mounting

2014-12-15 Thread wabenbau
Am Montag, 15.12.2014 um 20:02 schrieb Joseph : > On 12/16/14 01:37, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > >Am Sonntag, 14.12.2014 um 22:37 > >schrieb Joseph : > > > >> I have a USB stick with FAT32 file system, but when I insert the > >> disk it is not mounting on my desktop. No icon is showing up, why? >

Re: [gentoo-user] bruning pictures (jpeg) to DVD

2014-12-15 Thread wabenbau
Am Montag, 15.12.2014 um 21:48 schrieb Joseph : > I have bunch of picture in different directories. What is the best > way to burn them to DVD-R so I can play them in DVD? I've tried to If you wanna play them as a slideshow on a normal DVD-Video player you can use media-video/dvd-slideshow. If y

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

2014-12-19 Thread wabenbau
Am Samstag, 20.12.2014 um 03:57 schrieb German : > Just a follow up to my original question. I've installed grub > on /dev/SDA literally following the quide. And I just realized why I I think the MBR of your first drive (/dev/sda) is usually the right place for grub if you only have one OS (gento

Re: [gentoo-user] webcam on Gentoo Logitech C270

2014-12-21 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 21.12.2014 um 10:00 schrieb Joseph : > On 12/21/14 09:51, Joseph wrote: > >I have a Logitech C270 webcam but I can not make it to work with > >linux/skype > > > >USB sound in kernel is ON: > >CONFIG_SND_USB_AUDIO=y I guess you should also take a look at Device Drivers > Multimedia su

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewer

2015-01-02 Thread wabenbau
Am Samstag, 03.01.2015 um 06:15 schrieb lee : > Hi, > > what do you as PDF viewer? > > Most of the time, I was using xpdf, and that doesn't seem to be > available in Gentoo. I compiled it from source and found out that it > cannot display PDFs so well and gives error messages about not being >

Re: [gentoo-user] Slow startx - Why does hostname -f hang?

2015-01-04 Thread wabenbau
Am Sonntag, 04.01.2015 um 14:06 schrieb Urs Schütz : > Hi list > > While hunting down slow startx times (12-16s instead the usual 2-5s) > I found that "hostname -f" tries to resolve the hostname. This is a > slow process (timeout?): Normally this is a fast process. See my results below. > urs@c

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox bookmarks

2015-01-09 Thread wabenbau
Am Samstag, 10.01.2015 um 00:10 schrieb Philip Webb : > Can anyone tell me where Firefox stores its bookmarks ? > I want to copy the bookmarks from my Gentoo system to another system ; > I've tried copying .cache/mozilla & .mozilla , > but it has no effect on the bookmarks shown by Firefox in t

Re: [gentoo-user] wacom tablet does not work

2015-01-14 Thread wabenbau
Am Mittwoch, 14.01.2015 um 15:40 schrieb Helmut Jarausch : > Hi, > > after upgrading from an old version of xorg-server (due to an old > Radeon card) to xorg-server-1.16.3-r1 my Wacom tablet seems dead. I'm using the stable xorg-server-1.15.2-r1 and my wacom tablet is working well with it. Ma

[gentoo-user] Digital Cinema 4k (4096x2160@60Hz) SST mode display and xf86-video-ati

2015-01-28 Thread wabenbau
Hi folks, has anybody experiences with 4k monitors and the open source ATI video driver? I wanna buy a LG 31MU97-B monitor. My GPUs will be a Sapphire Radeon R7 250E and in a second machine a Sapphire Vapor-X R9 280X. Does anybody know if the xf86-video-ati driver is capable to handle such high

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-server complains about xf86-video-fbdev

2015-01-29 Thread wabenbau
Am Donnerstag, 29.01.2015 um 12:54 schrieb Joseph : > Is there a replacement for xf86-video-fbdev? I guess, that you don't need this driver at all, as long as you don't have a video adapter that isn't supported by any other device driver. Regards wabe

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