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{OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna
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I travel with a USB wifi dongle and one of these directional antennas: [link] Lately I've noticed there are some APs that my laptop's internal wifi connects to perfectly, but the external antenna can't find whatsoever, even after a lot of directional experimentation. I've tried 2... more »
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Understanding sets
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On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:41:35 +0100, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: ...Ah well, having the sets in the wrong place would give me an error. And regarding portage version, weren't sets included in v. 2.x.x? My portage version is 2.1.7.16, anything above seems to be hardmasked...
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emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked
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Hi, emerge @preserved-rebuild fails to do any updating since a single (needed) package has been masked. But I do need to keep kdelibs:3.5 which pulls in kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi:3.5 which has been masked. Is it possible to tell emerge to do the other updates which don't need this? Dropping kde:3.5 too early is one of the biggest disappointsment of... more »
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USB mass storage device slow in Gentoo, fast in Windows...? [SOLVED]
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On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Paul Hartman ...Solved. The problem was CFQ I/O scheduler. It was several times slower than the others, for whatever reason. Here is the scoreboard: single-file: 1m25s multi-file (same total size): cfq: 6m51.439s noop: 3m0.733s anticipatory: 1m44.348s deadline: 1m36.804s... more »
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IDE/ATAPI ZIP drive - howto
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Hi, I've upgraded the kernel on an old machine to 2.6.32. Now, I cannot get the ZIP drive (ATAPI) working. There is a /dev/hdd device and dmesg is telling me about an IOMEGA ZIP drive, but trying to fdisk /dev/hdd or even mount it, seems to make the kernel hang (at least these commands never finish)... more »
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Kopete isn't storing my contact list changes
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Hi! I'm using kde-base/kopete-4.3.3 (which is Kopete 0.80.2) and it's not storing anything I do to the next time I run the program. For example, I merge some contacts into meta-contacts, associate some of them to a KAddressBook entry, change my nickname (ok, that may be unrelated), but when I restart Kopete it forgets about everything and I have to do it all over... more »
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aria2 cannot d/l torrent file
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hi, i emerged aria2-1.6.3, and according to the man page, i can use it to d/l bittorrent file. but when i use " aria2c myfile.torrent " it says unrecognized protocol. i have the bittorrent use flag set for it. do i miss any thing?
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USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)
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Recently, I have had to reboot in order to recover the function of automatic mounting of USB Flash drives, after some activity, such as mounting and umounting. This is happening on two AMD64 systems. I am often able to unmount manually (# umount /media/KINGSTON , for example). All of my flash drives have labels, and usually they mount on... more »
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xfce: unable to perform shutdown
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...Yes. Something similar is happening on amd64 Debian systems (see [1][2]). The only workaround that I'm aware of sofar is to make sure no root programs are running when hitting the shutdown/restart button. Liviu [1] [link] [2] [link]... more »
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What standalone GTK2 Engines are available?
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Hello, I used to use xfce-mcs-manager as a lightweight standalone gtk2 engine for my enlightenment desktop (for using GTK2 themes to render). I've just reinstalled Gentoo on my machine, and now xfce-mcs-manager is no more (seems it's been merged deeper in xfce now, so no longer standalone). An alternative that has been proposed to me is gnome-settings-daemon,... more »
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