Re: [gentoo-user] Re: advice about Gentoo (Oracle, Java, VMWare...)
On 01/27/2012 10:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Installing Oracle's Java is not so easy: http://goo.gl/tbBFW This isn't Java. Yes, sorry, this is not Java, it's Oracle DB, but I'll have to setup an Oracle database too. Is it really that complicated for that particular software? Dude, It's Oracle. Yes, everything they have works that complicatedly. Well,... If you think installing it is complex, wait till you actually try to *use* it. You scared me... At least, I've been warned ;-) I also had a look at that Oracle DB install on CentOS (http://goo.gl/v5lFF), not better... Thank you all. -- RMA.
[gentoo-user] which packages requires a given package with a specific use flag
I, again, I have a question on reverse dependency search: How can I find out which (installed) package requires a given package (sci-libs/hdf5 in my case) with a specific use flag (cxx in my case)? I can't see how specifiy the use flag when using qdepends. Many thanks for a hint, Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:38:15 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: To turn this on its head ... rather than hiding, is there a way to create identical browsers that pollute their (google et al.) databases? Considering the huge number a people using the likes of Google (and no one has stated that they actually use something like this), such pollution wouldn't even amount to one speck of dust. -- Neil Bothwick What is a free gift ? Aren't all gifts free? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Clicking on URLs in kmail-1.13.7 launches libreoffice
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 20:06:41 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, 14:51:45 schrieb Michael Mol: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 26. Januar 2012, 09:18:03 schrieb Mick: Over the last couple of weeks I noticed that when I click on a URL in an email I get libreoffice launching a few seconds after Konqueror has opened up the URL. I think this started happening after the recent update of KDE to 4.7.4 and after the initial what the ... it is now becoming annoying. Have you noticed anything similar? Any ideas how I could fix this? No idea, but this happens here also. Not annoying yet, but also not restricted to kmail afaict. I click somewhere and loffice starts. I remember having this happen under StarOffice way back on Win95. Sounds like you've got to re-select your preferred application handlers. I don't know the process for this in KDE. Already checked those. Nothing suspicious in there. Sometimes loffice even starts when I click on my (empty) desktop, in the url bar of firefox or in some empty area of an application, where no preferred application would be started. Happens about once a week and I click a lot, so I don't care too much :) I'm not running KDE on the desktop, so as far as I have noticed here it only happens when I click on a URL in an email in Kmail. This happens every time without failure. Other apps seem to operate normally. I assume it is a KDE problem. However, in the KDE File Associations, libreoffice is not showing anywhere in html or text as a relevant application to open such files with. So, I'm assuming some other setting is pulling it in. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] AMD Bulldozer cflags ?
Hello list anyone running above mentioned CPU? I have couple KVM based virtual servers that run Bulldozer in host machines and I would like to run Gentoo on it. Couple months ago I tried this http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/AMD#AMD_FX-8xxx.2F6xxx.2F4xxx_.28Bulldozer.29 and compiling failed ( I cant remember what it was actual error..) so I am guessing I need something else. ty. -- Amar Ćosić amar.co...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Lightweight commandline flatfile database
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:23:32AM -0500, Penguin Lover Walter Dnes squawked: Rather than keep music on my hard drive, I'm going the cloud route by keeping a list of my favourite Youtube clips. Ideally, I'd like something that I can activate from the command line, and even launch Firefox. sqlite is overkill in terms of features/size. Is there something smaller. It does *NOT* have to be SQL. I'd prefer a text mode program. I'd prefer not to keep a list in a spreadsheet. Then why not just a flat text file, one youtube link per line, each line comma separated with URL,artist,title search with grep, once narrowed down to one item you can just firefox `grep terms textfile | cut -d ',' -f 1` or even make that a bash function if you'd like? adding to the list is as simple as echo url,artist,title textfile a mixture of grep, cut, sort can even be used to make a full listing of all entries. Or do you have a more specific set of features that you'd like? (like, for exampe, an actual user interface?) Cheers, W -- Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Friday 27 Jan 2012 00:48:14 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2012 21:29:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: I've been contacted, and interviewed by phone, by Google TWICE. Both times the person said straight up they read gentoo-users shrug I was contacted too, but I think they were swayed by my sig. Anyway, no further contact once I told them a bit about myself. Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate candidates with networking and security knowledge, who would be keen to work for Google at a (relatively) low salary. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Corrupted font in gtk apps.
Hi, after recent update I encountered a problem with fonts. They looks ugly and somehow corrupted. I see that in gtk apps I use, but maybe it is also in other apps. I encountered it on two computers, both amd64. Before a week it was fine. I use gentoo stable. I have fixed it partly by using Terminus font in all places where I can. But this is only workaround. All other fonts (bitstream 75bpp, dejavu) are corrupted. I also logged a bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=400909 I hope I'm not the only one who has this behavior. Regards, Robert
Re: [gentoo-user] which packages requires a given package with a specific use flag
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 09:37:44AM +0100, Penguin Lover Helmut Jarausch squawked: How can I find out which (installed) package requires a given package (sci-libs/hdf5 in my case) with a specific use flag (cxx in my case)? I can't see how specifiy the use flag when using qdepends. equery depends sci-libs/hdf5 will show dependency including any specified use flag equery depends -D sci-libs/hdf5 will also show indirect dependencies, but you probably don't need that, I guess. Cheers, W -- Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:16 +, Mick wrote: Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate candidates with networking and security knowledge, who would be keen to work for Google at a (relatively) low salary. I don't think anyone could think Alan or I was young. From Alan's posts on here, I would employ him in anything but a department of one! My contact was interested in someone with experience in high performance clusters. Can anyone point to a post of mine, here or anywhere else, that implies that my knowledge of clustering extends beyond being able to spell it? -- Neil Bothwick Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Bulldozer cflags ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27.01.2012 13:08, Amar Cosic wrote: Hello list anyone running above mentioned CPU? I have couple KVM based virtual servers that run Bulldozer in host machines and I would like to run Gentoo on it. Couple months ago I tried this http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/AMD#AMD_FX-8xxx.2F6xxx.2F4xxx_.28Bulldozer.29 and compiling failed ( I cant remember what it was actual error..) so I am guessing I need something else. ty. Afaik you just have to use -march=native and it uses all flags supported by your gcc-version and cpu, that are safe and default. You can simply add the CFLAGS for e.g. graphite to that. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJPIpnaAAoJEJwwOFaNFkYc36QH/ApeKDlZ3D4JTzPpFg4wS29L 9q3wBxxnOcNDLg67qMmSU15l49fU3bcxfKnVFyLEROEtHg6u1zAqlwh7d+xofYnl jxesegIU/S1AyhNoG0VLfR1jyZ37tivjtx8OWBw5UOyNgB3fV6Aw4g8DLzPpFU4u H7vxB7aw4Wblcii+w+kwE2Er8hhKhPbVbqUJRB/aDYt4zINzPcobYR67RYO2bvD3 IC9ej32cMqx3sSKx9eclAcgIFfrok6smfKOxFTQZzXCxTMPd5eXMbceirWYf0OZN onOA1BgAmy06c5RWPXVYBW3yIzzacyubwE18ZH6ZyJ1B3evovpArKoIMfoCDFJM= =/RwR -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Friday 27 Jan 2012 12:31:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:16 +, Mick wrote: Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate candidates with networking and security knowledge, who would be keen to work for Google at a (relatively) low salary. I don't think anyone could think Alan or I was young. From Alan's posts on here, I would employ him in anything but a department of one! My contact was interested in someone with experience in high performance clusters. Can anyone point to a post of mine, here or anywhere else, that implies that my knowledge of clustering extends beyond being able to spell it? You're attributing intelligence and thoroughness in researching for suitable candidates, which I have not as yet found in recruitment agents, or even many high level head hunters. They just cast a wide net and see what sticks to it. Ask them an off script question and they are lost at sea. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:59:34 +, Mick wrote: My contact was interested in someone with experience in high performance clusters. Can anyone point to a post of mine, here or anywhere else, that implies that my knowledge of clustering extends beyond being able to spell it? You're attributing intelligence and thoroughness in researching for suitable candidates, which I have not as yet found in recruitment agents, or even many high level head hunters. Oh yes, I used to work with recruitment agents and they did send me some dross... but only once! However, this was a Google employee. The irony of this is that a thread about how much Google want to know about us has descended into a demonstration of how little they know, even from publicly available information. -- Neil Bothwick I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:31:50 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:16 +, Mick wrote: Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate candidates with networking and security knowledge, who would be keen to work for Google at a (relatively) low salary. I don't think anyone could think Alan or I was young. From Alan's posts on here, I would employ him in anything but a department of one! I take Groucho Marx's lead in this and refuse to take a position with any company that is prepared to have me on the premises! Yup, that is a paradox. My contact was interested in someone with experience in high performance clusters. Can anyone point to a post of mine, here or anywhere else, that implies that my knowledge of clustering extends beyond being able to spell it? -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
[gentoo-user] Video Out on laptop
I have an HP Pavilion Entertainment Laptop which has a video out port. I want to hook up a projector or monitor to it, but when I do there isn't a signal. There is a function key that is suppose to turn it on and off, but it doesn't seem to work. Is this a kernel setting?It's an AMD Athlon 64 Neo X2 Dual Core Processor L335 running a current updated Gentoo system with kernel 3.1.6.Thanks,dhk
Re: [gentoo-user] Video Out on laptop
Hi, what does xrandr say?? Connect the external monitor and type xrandr on console. Than something like: xrandr --output LVDS1 --off --output VGA1 --auto Robert. V Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:47:03 + (GMT) dhk...@optonline.net napsáno: I have an HP Pavilion Entertainment Laptop which has a video out port. I want to hook up a projector or monitor to it, but when I do there isn't a signal. There is a function key that is suppose to turn it on and off, but it doesn't seem to work. Is this a kernel setting?It's an AMD Athlon 64 Neo X2 Dual Core Processor L335 running a current updated Gentoo system with kernel 3.1.6.Thanks,dhk
Re: [gentoo-user] Video Out on laptop
- Original Message -From: Robert David Date: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:00 amSubject: Re: [gentoo-user] Video Out on laptopTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orgCc: dhk...@optonline.net Hi, what does xrandr say?? Connect the external monitor and type xrandr on console. Than something like: xrandr --output LVDS1 --off --output VGA1 --auto Robert. V Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:47:03 + (GMT) dhk...@optonline.net napsáno: I have an HP Pavilion Entertainment Laptop which has a video out port. I want to hook up a projector or monitor to it, but when I do there isn't a signal. There is a function key that is suppose to turn it on and off, but it doesn't seem to work. Is this a kernel setting?It's an AMD Athlon 64 Neo X2 Dual Core Processor L335 running a current updated Gentoo system with kernel 3.1.6.Thanks,dhk Without the monitor xrandr says:Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 1366 x 1366LVDS connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 293mm x 164mm 1366x768 60.0*+ 1280x720 59.9 1152x768 59.8 1024x768 59.9 800x600 59.9 640x480 59.4VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)With the monitor xrandr says:Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 1366 x 1366LVDS connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 293mm x 164mm 1366x768 60.0*+ 1280x720 59.9 1152x768 59.8 1024x768 59.9 800x600 59.9 640x480 59.4VGA-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1280x1024 60.0 + 75.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.0 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 59.9 720x400 70.1HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Re: [gentoo-user] Video Out on laptop
So to enable external output you can do this: xrandr --output VGA-0 --auto --output LVDS --off to switch back xrandr --output VGA-0 --off --output LVDS --auto you can assign this to some shortcuts. Or do a acpi script for the hotkey. I have done similar for docking and undocking on my thinkpad. Also you can use the tools for your DE, for example krandrtray for KDE or gnome it has in Settings I think. Robert. V Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:13:10 + (GMT) dhk...@optonline.net napsáno: - Original Message -From: Robert David Date: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:00 amSubject: Re: [gentoo-user] Video Out on laptopTo: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orgCc: dhk...@optonline.net Hi, what does xrandr say?? Connect the external monitor and type xrandr on console. Than something like: xrandr --output LVDS1 --off --output VGA1 --auto Robert. V Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:47:03 + (GMT) dhk...@optonline.net napsáno: I have an HP Pavilion Entertainment Laptop which has a video out port. I want to hook up a projector or monitor to it, but when I do there isn't a signal. There is a function key that is suppose to turn it on and off, but it doesn't seem to work. Is this a kernel setting?It's an AMD Athlon 64 Neo X2 Dual Core Processor L335 running a current updated Gentoo system with kernel 3.1.6.Thanks,dhk Without the monitor xrandr says:Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 1366 x 1366LVDS connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 293mm x 164mm 1366x768 60.0*+ 1280x720 59.9 1152x768 59.8 1024x768 59.9 800x600 59.9 640x480 59.4VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)With the monitor xrandr says:Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 1366 x 1366LVDS connected 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 293mm x 164mm 1366x768 60.0*+ 1280x720 59.9 1152x768 59.8 1024x768 59.9 800x600 59.9 640x480 59.4VGA-0 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 1280x1024 60.0 + 75.0 1152x864 75.0 1024x768 75.0 70.1 60.0 832x624 74.6 800x600 72.2 75.0 60.3 56.2 640x480 75.0 72.8 66.7 59.9 720x400 70.1HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
Hello! On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:16:01 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have a better search tool? I don't like Yahoo either. I do like froogle so that would be a bonus. You know, shopping tool. Thoughts? Suggestions? What about Yandex? It provides a search tool and a mail box with POP3 and IMAP protocols support free of charge. And by the way, they say that the mailbox size is also indefinite (well, at least theoretically :) ). Regards, Vladimir - v...@ukr.net
Re: [gentoo-user] AMD Bulldozer cflags ?
AC == Amar Cosic amar.co...@gmail.com writes: AC Couple months ago I tried this AC http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/AMD#AMD_FX-8xxx.2F6xxx.2F4xxx_.28Bulldozer.29 Those flags are silly. Specifying -march=bderv1 already enables all of the rest of those -m flags. You will need to use gcc-4.6 or later to have -march=bderv1, otherwise try -march=native and/or -march=amdfam10. Iff you enable the graphite USE flag, you can add: -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block to enable the graphite optimizations. If you do install gcc-4.6.2, try these to confirm what native offers: :; echo | gcc -dM -E - -march=bdver1 | sort gcc-info-bdver1 :; echo | gcc -dM -E - -march=native | sort gcc-info-native A diff(1) of those two files should be empty. -JimC -- James Cloos cl...@jhcloos.com OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com writes: I wouldn't find it at all surprising if gentoo systems came out pretty unique; no standard set of fonts, for example. So maybe if you change your fonts regularly it might not be able to track you - thinking that you are actually multiple different people. Honestly, I think anyone who wants to go to that extent is living their own personal fantasy. But, if you want to do something like that, modify your browser to add random salts to your font list, plugin list and User-Agent string, and access the Internet using a Tor proxy. Be sure to disable any extensions, plugins or builtins that allow the browser to access your wifi or gps data. Xulrunner, for example, has wifi awareness specifically for geo-targeting purposes. Google's interest is in tightly-defined demographics to aid in advertising and low-level details like is he more likely to click on an acaiberry ad or an ad selling SATA port multipliers with statistical monitoring? The whole thing about having a 'real name' is about forcing people to be up-front with their identities when interacting with other people online, which they think makes people more civil. (Which I don't believe it does, but I only note that so people don't mistake me for a flat-out Google apologist.) -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Video Out on laptop
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Lightweight commandline flatfile database
On 01/27/2012 06:23:32 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: Rather than keep music on my hard drive, I'm going the cloud route by keeping a list of my favourite Youtube clips. Ideally, I'd like something that I can activate from the command line, and even launch Firefox. sqlite is overkill in terms of features/size. Is there something smaller. It does *NOT* have to be SQL. I'd prefer a text mode program. I'd prefer not to keep a list in a spreadsheet. -- You might check if dev-python/buzhug is suffucient for your needs. Helmut.
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:48 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote: Hello! On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:16:01 -0600 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have a better search tool? I don't like Yahoo either. I do like froogle so that would be a bonus. You know, shopping tool. Thoughts? Suggestions? What about Yandex? It provides a search tool and a mail box with POP3 and IMAP protocols support free of charge. And by the way, they say that the mailbox size is also indefinite (well, at least theoretically :) ). I'll add a vote of support for Yandex. It usually has good results, though it really depends on what you are searching for. I did some test queries asking random linux questions and the link containing the solution was usually higher in the list on Yandex when compared to Google. Comparing local shopping prices in the US, use Google instead... Based on my web server logs, the bots which check the most often are: 1. Baidu 2. MJ12 3. Gootkit auto-rooter 4. Bing 5. Yandex 6. Yobao 7. Google 8. ZmEu 3 and 8 are bots trying exploits, 2 is not a search engine, 1 and 6 are not available in English, 4 is Microsoft, and 7 is excluded for the present conversation. So, Yandex seems a good choice. In fact, the only remaining choice. :) BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined...
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: advice about Gentoo (Oracle, Java, VMWare...)
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:48 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:19:38 +0300 Mihamina Rakotomandimby miham...@rktmb.org wrote: On 01/26/2012 03:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Installing Oracle's Java is not so easy: http://goo.gl/tbBFW This isn't Java. Yes, sorry, this is not Java, it's Oracle DB, but I'll have to setup an Oracle database too. Is it really that complicated for that particular software? Dude, It's Oracle. Yes, everything they have works that complicatedly. If you think installing it is complex, wait till you actually try to *use* it. I've never had the pleasure of using Oracle database, but everyone I've ever talked to who has used it professionally tells me how bad it is, how bad the tools are, how it's all overly complicated just for the sake of being complicated so you're forced to hire Oracle support to help.
Re: [gentoo-user] Google privacy changes
Am 27.01.2012 07:57, schrieb Dale: Dale wrote: Hi list, I ran across this news item about Google: http://alturl.com/s7xi5 The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next they will want a camera on my rig so they can watch me surf. I found a search engine that may work. It is here: www.ixquick.com Does anyone have a better search tool? I don't like Yahoo either. I do like froogle so that would be a bonus. You know, shopping tool. [...] OK. This has gotten a LOT of replies with lots of interesting info. I have another question along the same lines. What about using a VPN? I been messing with tor and Firefox but if I try to watch a video or something that has any length to it, it gets rather iffy. I found this: www.vpn4all.com I don't think it works with Linux but it was interesting to read about just for the information. From my understanding, people can't read your traffic and they can't tell anything about you as far as location. I know google can do this because when I type in certain things, it all comes up for local stuff. If I do the same in Firefox with tor turned on, it gets rather weird. Stuff from Africa was showing up one time and later on it looked like German stuff. When I checked my IP and did a whois, it was in other countries. What are thoughts on this sort of thing? Anything better than tor out there? Am I getting paranoid or do people really watch us and collect data on us? :/ Dale :-) :-) Well, to summarize it: It solves the following problems: - Your ISP cannot snoop or manipulate your traffic (useful for mobile connections which normally compress images, for example) - Your IP no longer maps directly to you - IP geolocation no longer works reliably It does not solve this problem: - Your browser+cookies still identify you It creates this new problem: - The VPN provider sees all your traffic and your IP (in this regard it is worse than Tor because with Tor, the endpoint sees your traffic and the start point your IP but neither sees both) Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf
120127 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: # Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org (27 Jan 2012) # Has developed into an unmaintainable mess, and everyone who # knows about it is either retired or missing in action. # Several minor bugs and one ugly security issues (#386271). # Masked for removal because of lack of maintainer. I use Xpdf frequently have no problem with it. The security bug you cite says there is a newer version 3.03 which fixes at least some of the security problems. If you limit yourself sensibly to PDFs from known reliable sites, you won't run into the problem in Bug 386271 AFAIK. The bug I submitted is minor has a workaround, which I use. Is there an alternative which doesn't require eg 'kdelibs' or similar ? In my netbook, Xpdf is the only method I have of reading PDFs, as I use Fluxbox don't have KDE installed at all. There is a fork of some kind at https://github.com/rbrito/xpdf-poppler , which is given as the contact by 'eix'. I very much hope there is at least an alternative or otherwise some reconsideration of removing Xpdf from Gentoo. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: app-text/xpdf
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120127 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: # Andreas K. Hüttel dilfri...@gentoo.org (27 Jan 2012) # Has developed into an unmaintainable mess, and everyone who # knows about it is either retired or missing in action. # Several minor bugs and one ugly security issues (#386271). # Masked for removal because of lack of maintainer. I use Xpdf frequently have no problem with it. The security bug you cite says there is a newer version 3.03 which fixes at least some of the security problems. If you limit yourself sensibly to PDFs from known reliable sites, you won't run into the problem in Bug 386271 AFAIK. The bug I submitted is minor has a workaround, which I use. Is there an alternative which doesn't require eg 'kdelibs' or similar ? In my netbook, Xpdf is the only method I have of reading PDFs, as I use Fluxbox don't have KDE installed at all. There is a fork of some kind at https://github.com/rbrito/xpdf-poppler , which is given as the contact by 'eix'. I very much hope there is at least an alternative or otherwise some reconsideration of removing Xpdf from Gentoo. I use evince, myself. -- :wq
[gentoo-user] OT: urlview+Firefox 9 not co-operating
After the upgrade to Firefox 9, urlview no longer works. I get a dialog box with... Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restrt your system. The 2 uncommented lines in ~/.urlview are... REGEXP ((https?|ftp|gopher)[.:][^ \t]*|www[0-9]?\.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^ .,;\t\):] COMMAND /usr/bin/firefox -P default -new-window %s What am I doing wrong? -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Lightweight commandline flatfile database
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 04:56:34PM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote You might check if dev-python/buzhug is suffucient for your needs. Thanks. I installed it and am doing RTFM now. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
