Use flags in red, with no - sign before them are being used. Use flags in blue, with - signs before them are not being used.

i.e.
python will be compiled with berkdb, gdbm, ipv6, ncurses, readline, ssl, and threads support. It will not support bootstrap, build, doc, examples, sqlite, tk, ucs2, or ...

Nope, it's either an update, or a new package.

i.e.
python being updated from 2.5.2-r6 to 2.5.2-r7
xtrans is being updated from 1.0.3 to 1.2.1
xf86driproto is a new package
dri2proto is a new package

Each line is an individual package that you've asked portage to install or is a dependency of one ...

Update, New.

There is no OS-level support for inserting into or deleting from a file. You'll need to use a temp file.

Keep it on the same filesystem, and you can just move the file over the old one; don't do the unlink or any checking of your ability to do it, that's a race condition. Just do the move and check ...

Oh. My. God.

If you had any idea how long I've fought with this...

Thank you thank you thank you.

Strange thing is, the quotes work with no complaint with nss_ldap. Anyway, thanks!

OK, this has driven me crazy forever, through multiple versions of sudo and openldap, and I'm at the end of my rope.

I have a sudo configured to pull entries from LDAP, and it's doing the search, from what I can tell the correct search, but I get nothing. But let's see the results:

/etc/ldap.conf ...

Hmm, I was always under the impression that it was simply random. I've heard it is, and it sure seems so from the few times I've run into it. Either way though, it gives you a chance to recover your way instead of whatever way the system figures out for you. I know I've started some process and ...

Disk is cheap. Use swap.
The problem isn't a lack of disk space, almost ever. It's usually a matter of not wanting the power drain/slowdown on a laptop if anything hits swap. This can be mitigated with the vm.swappiness (not sure if I spelt that correct) sysctl parameter, but it's still a rather ...

It's actually not one IP per MAC, but one IP per DHCP identifier, which just happens to be the MAC most of the time. Most Linux DHCP clients have an option to specify the DHCP ID (I may not be calling it the right thing, this was like 5 years ago but I know it worked) so just do that. If you have to ...

Don't take the brown acid, man. That's for the drummer.

I'll lend a hand, and I've set it up a few times, but I'm not promising anything.

First thing you want to do is follow this guide: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_WebDav

Actually, if all goes well that's all you need to do for a basic setup. Get it working according to the guide first, customize ...

Implicit SSL is where you just wrap the whole FTP conversation in SSL. Your FTP server is, or could potentially be, unaware that SSL is even involved. With explicit SSL, the AUTH TLS command is sent at the beginning, and any part of the conversation after authentication could or could not be ...

Yeah, that's your issue. Because the FTP communication is encrypted, the FTP proxy that's (almost certainly) built into your firewall can't interpret the traffic. IPTables uses ftp_conntrack; you can turn that off but then your regular FTP won't work. If you're in active mode, when you open a data ...

There's NAT or a firewall between you and the FTP server, correct?

Everything dies.

I just noticed, it's also a panel applet, called "Shut Down" instead of "Log Out".

You don't have it in your menu?

http://www.lepertheory.net/~davec/image ... 20Down.png

The legacy MegaRAID driver in 2.6.16 up until r12 was messed up. Not sure how, never had the energy to find out why so I stuck with 2.6.15, but it started working for me again with the r12 update.

Try taking out the "-d plug:dmix".

Try a blank asound.conf. dmix should be on by default now, your config file is overriding that.

Ok--how about this?

I type my password in a span of like twenty minutes.

Type a letter, go edit a document, go back, add another...

Is that safe?
No God damn it! It's an incredibly trivial thing to also log which window and even which control on a given window a character is typed into.

Stop ...

Don't even try to get around them. Don't ssh to home at work, don't log into your e-mail, don't pay your bills, nothing. You'll forget and type your password in, or you'll think you're getting around it but you won't be.

Not to mention, it'd be trivially easy to capture any data from a USB drive ...

I really think you need to approach this from a different angle. Those templates are some serious spaghetti. I can't even imagine what you're actually trying to do, and I've seen and written some pretty convoluted template code. I think you need to walk up your program's structure until you have ...

Part of the point of an implementation is that it doesn't matter which implementation you use, so you shouldn't be in the situation of having to care that your class is_a(PrivateBase). If you find yourself in that situation, unfortunately, you're probably doing something wrong. If you have functions ...