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by rewt
Wed May 26, 2004 2:59 pm
Forum: Portage & Programming
Topic: Are the VIM devs on crack?
Replies: 22
Views: 7630

H, J, K and L are found on the same place on all qwerty-keyboards I have found. ";" moves around a bit. On swedish keyboards that key is used to type "Ö".
I think Anior hit the nail on the head here. Infact I was thinking of posting the same until I read his comment
The fact is that keyboard ...
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by rewt
Wed May 26, 2004 2:05 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: Reset IP and DNS
Replies: 4
Views: 1143

Edit the file

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resolv.conf
in

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/etc
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by rewt
Mon May 24, 2004 8:11 am
Forum: Kernel & Hardware
Topic: Unable to execute files from second hard drive
Replies: 8
Views: 1985

man mount is your friend :)

user
Allow an ordinary user to mount the file system. The name of the mounting user is written to mtab so that he can unmount the file system again. This option implies the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden by subsequent options, as in the option ...
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by rewt
Tue May 18, 2004 9:30 am
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: Cant get from Stage 2 to Stage 3! Pls help
Replies: 11
Views: 1297

You can do a stage 3 with only the live CD. If you want to not have to download and compile KDE, X, etc then you need the packages CD but just to get a basic kernel and portage so you can emerge sync and emerge you don't need the packages CD
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by rewt
Wed May 12, 2004 8:05 am
Forum: Other Things Gentoo
Topic: Why is my hdd going berserk?
Replies: 7
Views: 1088

Check your logs? What services are you running? Could be lots of messages being generated by something... checking email? Could be some processes spawning stuff... could be swapping to disc for some reason... Who knows, try to be more specific about what is happening at the time
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by rewt
Wed May 12, 2004 8:01 am
Forum: Other Things Gentoo
Topic: Decompose a range of IP addresses
Replies: 14
Views: 1285

The number indicates where the network identifying part of the IP address stops and the host identifying part begins which is what he means. It's just a shorthand form of the netmask indicating how many 1's are in it in the binary form which I think is what you mean by bits borrowed?

As to a ...
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by rewt
Tue May 11, 2004 2:13 pm
Forum: Other Things Gentoo
Topic: Gentoo is SLOW, or just feels like it is slow.
Replies: 8
Views: 1051

You can use the command

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top
to see what is using CPU and how much
As to where your problem is, could be anything... maybe memory leaks in some software slowly eating it all away... how long has your machine been up?
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by rewt
Thu Apr 29, 2004 4:22 pm
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: anyone sporting a pocket pc?
Replies: 13
Views: 2503

This looks more like you flash it but keep a backup incase you want to go back
I was hoping for something a little more knoppix :)
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by rewt
Thu Apr 29, 2004 12:58 pm
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: anyone sporting a pocket pc?
Replies: 13
Views: 2503

I recently got a Pocket PC (Ipaq) and haven't yet had chance to un-Windows it
Is it straightforward? Can you boot from a CF card to try it without blowing away Windows... hey it's unlikely I'd want to go back but I don't know how mature the tools and stuff are - I'm just starting to investigate ...
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by rewt
Thu Apr 29, 2004 8:38 am
Forum: Desktop Environments
Topic: *simply* locking the screen under Xfree
Replies: 4
Views: 1172

xautolock is pretty straight forward and should do what you want
I use it myself
What window manager do you use. KDE has a menu option to lock the keyboard. Probably GNOME too?
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by rewt
Wed Apr 28, 2004 2:32 pm
Forum: Kernel & Hardware
Topic: can't access floppy except as root, how to give user access?
Replies: 14
Views: 2861

Gandalf is absolutely right. The numbers are to do with fscking the drive
0 means don't do it, other numbers specify the order in which the fsck should occur

As for unmounting. Data is held in buffers by the kernel and is only written to disk when they are flushed (either because the memory is ...
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by rewt
Fri Apr 23, 2004 11:53 am
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: Anyway to bypass a hanging mirror during an emerge?
Replies: 11
Views: 2211

Why

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ctrl + c
when you can

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ctrl + z
Make the change then

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fg
and carry on :)
This way you don't suffer any compile loss & recompile
Or change console like tln said
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by rewt
Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:22 am
Forum: Duplicate Threads
Topic: How many forum members does it takes to change a light bulb?
Replies: 4
Views: 2483

Re: How many forum members does it takes to change a light b

How many forum members does it takes to change a light bulb?


1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed
14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently
7 to caution about the dangers of changing ...
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by rewt
Fri Apr 23, 2004 9:18 am
Forum: Gentoo Chat
Topic: Will you do the switch to reiser4
Replies: 81
Views: 29038

Since I don't feel there is any point in journaling a filesystem that is very rarely written to I'll probably always use ext2 for boot
For all others I'm happy with ext3 since performance doesn't worry me as much as data integrity and the tools are probably most mature for ext2 / 3
My firewall is ...
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by rewt
Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:32 am
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: Ping wont work
Replies: 22
Views: 1694


izabelle zacay # traceroute google.com
traceroute: Warning: google.com has multiple addresses; using 216.239.57.99
traceroute to 216.239.57.99 (216.239.57.99), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 1.575 ms 2.017 ms 1.475 ms
2 * * *
3 * * *
4 * * *
5 * * *
6 * * *
7 ...
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by rewt
Thu Apr 22, 2004 2:17 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: ext3 for /boot ?
Replies: 13
Views: 2180

While you could use ext3 or resier my question would be why
The reason the docs suggest ext2 is that you don't really need to journal a file system that is barely ever written to and you'll waste disk space and performance in order to do it
However what everyone else has said is true, you can use ...
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by rewt
Fri Apr 16, 2004 3:38 pm
Forum: Duplicate Threads
Topic: Free space misreported on ext3 hdd
Replies: 5
Views: 3168

A percentage of the disc is 'hidden' to anyone but root to allow maintenance to be performed in the event things get a bit full
You can influence it with

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tunefs
man tunefs is your friend ;)
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by rewt
Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:36 am
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: Create fstab
Replies: 11
Views: 1283

Run fdisk and find out? If you boot knoppix (or Windows if you must ;) ) and run the fdisk program then choose 4 to view partition info it should give you everything partitionwise about the disk... You'll still need to know what the filesystem is though (ext2, ext3, reiser, etc)
Hope that helps
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by rewt
Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:43 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: Do i have to mount the swap partition ?
Replies: 14
Views: 3272

Yes, other OSes do use swap too. Ever noticed Virtual Memory in Windows? Same thing, different name
However it's implemented as a file rather than a dedicated partition. If you want to you can do it this way in Linux and avoid wasting lots of disc unnecessarily (but it's slower to use)
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by rewt
Mon Mar 29, 2004 3:17 pm
Forum: Portage & Programming
Topic: Newbie C++ question/problem
Replies: 7
Views: 1014

also, isn't

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exit == false
a bit redundant? Testing a boolean for equality to true/false seems like a waste of time ;)
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by rewt
Fri Mar 19, 2004 9:55 am
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: hdd problem while booting 2004.0
Replies: 9
Views: 2103

2 things strike me about your config:

your WinXP should be:

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title=Windows XP 
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
and
/dev/SWAP
should be

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/dev/hdc8
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by rewt
Thu Mar 18, 2004 1:02 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: My dmesg runneth over
Replies: 1
Views: 728

Have you checked if they're in a log file in /var?
/var/messages and /var/warn would seem to be pretty standard across linux - at least that's true for SuSE
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by rewt
Thu Mar 18, 2004 12:58 pm
Forum: Installing Gentoo
Topic: Last questions before installing Gentoo
Replies: 6
Views: 866

Hi,
can't help with the kernel question

For question 2. At what point do you want to read the variable and is it exported? (I guess so?) Something as simple as
echo $IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS could do the trick?
If you have a cd writer it should appear in Linux, there is no installing as such. You have to ...
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by rewt
Wed Mar 17, 2004 12:43 pm
Forum: Networking & Security
Topic: Samba error?
Replies: 9
Views: 1557

As adaptr already said 10.x.x.x is an unroutable address so it seems the attack is coming from inside your ISP somewhere
The fact you're running Samba let alone the other services that are likely running on your box means you should serious learn to set up a firewall... FAST! There is no way in this ...
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by rewt
Mon Mar 15, 2004 1:06 pm
Forum: Other Things Gentoo
Topic: Permission Denied.. but why?
Replies: 5
Views: 1496

Is calc executable? What does

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ls-l calc
say?
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