Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:51:42 + Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 10 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:55 -0400 > > > > Mike Edenfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Comcast? > > > > I was on comcast for a long time (2.5 yrs) and never had a problem > > like this. They might have blocked port 25 and squelched my > > bittorrenting at times, but never anything like this. Of course, > > ymmv. > > IIRC they also block port 80 for sure on their retail accounts. They > don't want the average punter to run a webserver at home. httpd has been on port 80 behind Comcast since forever with no problems. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:03:28 +0100 "Amar Cosic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a lot of dir. and files in my home directory. I want to chown > all of it to my user. How to do this by one comand ? Thanks > > > With recursion: chown -R user:group * Brian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:34:21 +0200 Sergey Kobzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan, thanks again :) > > Last question. How can I update selected packages correctly? Before I > used 'emerge -uDN ' command, but it adds package to the > world class, which is IMHO is not fully correct. > Use --oneshot > To update whole system, I must use 'emerge -uDN world', right? > > > Thursday, February 14, 2008, 1:17:35 AM, you wrote: > > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Sergey Kobzar wrote: > >> Hi Willie, > >> > >> So, I can unmerge hashalot and attr safely. > >> > >> How can I add pwdb to the system (or maybe world is more correct) > >> class? > > > emerge -n pwdb > > > It won't recompile pwdb in your case as you already have it, so it > > will just add it to world > > > -- > > Alan McKinnon > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > > > Brian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] VIM Issue
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:35:42 -0600 keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > okay heres my use flags > > [ebuild R ] app-editors/vim-7.1.213 USE="acl bash-completion gpm > nls perl python vim-pager vim-with-x -cscope -minimal -ruby" 8,876 kB > > ls -lah 'which vim' returned no such file or directory > ' is not the same as ` Brian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:08:34 -0800 "Kevin O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just got around to noticing that my "gaim" IM client is deprecated. > I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to > start it silently fail. > I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get nothing. > Grepping there for 'pidgin' and still nothing. > Does anybody want to help me guess? > > You aren't going to get any /var/logs for a failed program like Pidgin. Try starting it from a terminal, where you should get output. Brian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] paludis vs emerge
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:30:55 -0500 David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been experimenting with paludis for the last month or two to > compare it with emerge. For my periodic "update world" runs the two > programs seem functionally comparable. Paludis is, however, more > verbose and I'm not liking that aspect. > > My typical emerge command is "emerge -auDtqv world" and produces: > > [ebuild UD] kde-base/kde-3.5.7 [3.5.8] USE="..." > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha9 [0.26.0_alpha7] > USE="..." [noomerge ] kde-base/kde-3.5.7 [3.5.8] USE="..." > [nomerge] sys-apps/paludis-0.26.0_alpha9 [0.26.0_alpha7] ... > [ebuild U ] dev-libs/boost-1.34.1-r2 [1.34.1-r1] ... > [ebuild UD] app-misc/mime-types-5 [7] .. > > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no > > Quitting. > > I like the one brevity as I can see a lot of information and then > decide whether to go ahead or not. > > "paludis --show-use-descriptions none -p -i world" lets me see > what's going to happen. On the down side, I need to run it a > second time (without the "-p") to install the packages. Also, > paludis first prints a bunch of informational messages and then > prints 4 info lines per package. > > Have I overlooked an option comparable to "--ask" ? > No, Paludis is non-interactive. > Have I overlooked an option to suppress the initial messages. > Use --compact to compress the package output and --log-level to control the amount of informational messages. > Thanks. > > David Brian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] quicktime from linux
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:19:14 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Wanting to be able to see online videos that want quicktime to be > installed, what applications do I need to emerge? > > Googling like: > > site:gentoo.org display quicktime in firefox > > Turns up dozens of hits but it appears very many of them are really > just showing the USE flag quicktime and not about the search string at > all. > > Any tips? > net-www/mplayerplug-in is great, with the quicktime USE flag. Brian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:36:04 +0930 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:58 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My sister has posted some video of my nieces wedding online for the > > family to view. > > > > When I hit the site (on WindowsXP) my browser (firefox) displays it > > in quicktime. I don't see any opportunity to download the file and > > I hate to have to just record it from the screen. I'm pretty sure > > firefox is downloading the video somewhere so I thought I might be > > able to get that file somehow. > > > > Can anyone coach me at all as to how to go about that? > > depending on how it's done, you could just view the source and see if > there are any links in there to the real video. Then you can download > that with wget or something. > An easier way would be to find it in the media section of page info (right click -> page info). Brian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any one using www-apps/online-bookmarks
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:03:06 -0600
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> > And I guess... not surprisingly the bookmark page now works too?
>
> One lingering mysql command that is printed when the bookmarks page
> configuration steps is gone through:
>
> From bookmarks page:
> [...]
> After completing the configuration, create useraccounts with the
> following MySQL command:
>
> (wrapped for mail)
> mysql> INSERT INTO user (username, password) VALUES
> ('johndoe', MD5('johndoes_password'));
>
> If I use that command (filling in the johndoe and johndoes_password
> part it fails with this error:
>
>ERROR 1046 (3D000): No database selected
>
> Apparently the syntax is not complete?
>
You need to select a database first with "use dbname;"
Brian
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 Blocked packages
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:22:57 -0500 sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to emerge KDE 4 and have the following packages blocked. > [...snip...] > > I feel like I am missing something obvious. > Is anyone able to shed some light? > > Thanks > Sean You have both monolithic and split packages installed (kdebase is monolithic, whereas phonon and such are split). You can either install kdebase-meta instead or uninstall the split blockers (installing kdebase will replace them). Brian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:42:17 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm still undecided about the default menu, it looks a little in the > style of XP which I can't stand. I know it''s not the same and maybe > just a knee-jerk so I'm holding off before coming to an opinion. > > Um, it looks nothing like XP's -- Vista would be an apter comparison. (The KMenu in KDE 3 definitely resembled XP though.) KDE has always taken after Windows in a lot of design choices anyway. Brian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo on the Sales block?
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:47:04 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I only ask because Sun just paid > a billion dollars for MySQL > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/16/sun-mysql_1.html > > How is it that Open Source is for sale? MySQL is a company. > > Is gentoo next? Gentoo no longer exists legally, so I wouldn't worry. ;) Brian signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 03:32:47 -0800 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >On my wife's 32-bit Gentoo machine we did a large Gnome update > today which ended up doing Firefox-2.0.0.11 at the same time. On her > machine I happen to use Yahoo as my home page and now I see a very > boring home page with Yahoo giving me this message: > > Why miss out? > To see all the new Yahoo! home page has to offer, please upgrade to a > more recent browser. > > Supported browsers include: > Internet Explorer 7 optimized by Yahoo! > Firefox 2.0 > Safari 2.0 > Opera 9 > >Are others seeing the same thing? > > Thanks, > Mark I just checked for you, and I got the same page using the Firefox 3 trunk. This is why discriminating based on user-agent is a Bad Thing, Yahoo. -- Brian Marshall signature.asc Description: PGP signature
