From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R2S4e-0000UO-HP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:14:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2340621C145; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:14:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.105]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DDBC21C0BD for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:13:03 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Al0IANena058lPmS/2dsb2JhbABAhFWUb4gXhj54gVIBAQUjSgEbCw0LAgImAgJXiBSjHJEYgSyEMYERBIdrkGcfi3U X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,361,1312128000"; d="scan'208";a="292329369" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([124.148.249.146]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out5.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 11 Sep 2011 02:13:01 +0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56A5B54B9A for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:13:01 +0800 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.lan.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ZUjzdD94Yn-p for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:12:56 +0800 (WST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id B68FA45DF9 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:12:56 +0800 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1315675997.7072.2.camel@moriah> References: <201108191109.34984.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <11342928.W3O2ONNTLv@tux> <4E69D406.9000909@gmail.com> <20110909111559.46bf85b5@rohan> <4E6ABC82.3020900@gmail.com> <4E6AC43F.4070307@gmail.com> <20110910093044.4aaa8262@rohan> <4E6B17D2.6010608@gmail.com> <1315675997.7072.2.camel@moriah> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:12:56 +0800 Message-ID: <1315678376.7072.5.camel@moriah> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 99c29956cb9e707d9098d06af0a5ab7c On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 01:33 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 02:54 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > You give me too much credit :-) > > > > > > There's also Neil, Wonko, Volker, Stroller, Grant, meino.cramer, Mick, > > > Paul, Harry, Albert, Alex, Walter, Alan Mackenzie (awesome name!), > > > James, kashani, Pandu and about a 1000 more whose names I can't exactly > > > recall right now. > > > > > > This here mailing-list has got the most varied and highest skills of > > > any technical list I've ever subscribed to. We have regular desktop > > > users, folks who work in server rooms, devs, owners of software > > > companies, regular sysadmins, fellows who ship embedded devices, and at > > > least one of everything in between. > > > > > > I don't mean to go all fuzzy feel-good here, but it's an honour to be > > > able to communicate and interact with so many skilled people for so many > > > years. > > > > > > > > > > That is true. There are lots who post a lot here. I just recall seeing > > some stats somewhere and me and you were the top two. That was about a > > year ago so it may have changed. Just had to go find that link again. > > Here it is: > > > > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml > > > > We have a new comer. lol > > > > I think the mailing lists, and forums, are one of the key features of > > Gentoo. The docs seemed to have slumped some but I think it was down to > > one or two people for a while. I think someone jumped in the fire a few > > weeks ago tho. Maybe they will catch up. I'm sure it is hard to keep > > up with all the changes that are going on tho. Gentoo has a LOT of > > stuff to document. > > > > If we are so skilled, why is the Fedora dev not listening you reckon? > > > > Dale > > > > :-) :-) > > > > Ha, I got on the list in 2005! Unfortunately it doesnt go back into the > 90's when I started with Gentoo and the learning curve was REALLY > steep :) > > BillK > Actually, thats a bit optimistic - 2002 moriah ~ # ls -alth /var/backups/rattus/20110710/tree/etc/ .... drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 104 Sep 6 2003 hsf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 May 13 2003 sysconfig drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 72 Jan 7 2003 devfs.d drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Nov 5 2002 svga drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jul 10 2002 sasl -rw------- 1 root root 12K Jul 7 2002 .procmailrc.swp drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 Jul 4 2002 oaf drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 Jul 3 2002 sound -rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 3 2002 .pwd.lock drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 112 Jul 3 2002 ssmtp Decommissioned a couple of weeks ago! BillK