Re: [gentoo-user] used computer

2005-03-31 Thread Antoine
working on it. It takes time and perseverance but is well worth it ;-). Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [VERY OT] A Windows shell Im creating

2005-03-29 Thread Antoine
on their forthcoming pieces of vomit OSes? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What an average gentoo user does over 6mnth period

2005-03-28 Thread Antoine
OO and kde to compile (well OO anyway) but with disk space as cheap as it is... I now sync only every month or so and spend very little time on system maintenance. I still run a 2.6.8 for pete's sake! ;-). Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Two Distros, One Drive

2005-03-01 Thread Antoine
back things. Have a bootable (knoppix or the Gentoo livedisk) handy in case you install over the bootloader. I have never really been interested in Grub cos it is more complicated than lilo, and lilo has never given me any probs at all (I always install to mbr as well). Cheers Antoine -- gentoo

[gentoo-user] eclipse and memory

2005-03-01 Thread Antoine
Hi, I am wondering whether it is worth trying to install eclipse with 256meg of RAM. I have tried netbeans and it was a complete dog. Has anyone got any experience with this? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse and memory

2005-03-01 Thread Antoine
In short, you'll probably notice some slowdown, but Eclipse is the best IDE I've ever used and it's worth it :) [*] The intention of my post is to tell Antoine to get the most out of his system. I agree, physical limits are limits. :) Thanks for that - it is the garbage collector I am supposed

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Oracle 9iR2

2005-02-28 Thread Antoine
2.95. I think I had it completely installed but seeing as I know extremely little about oracle couldn't import the database I wanted to, so couldn't really test it. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF document 1.4 created with Acrobat Distiller 6.0

2005-02-26 Thread Antoine
I just emerge it. Makes no difference. Sounds like a great opportunity to get down and dirty... 8.5 is available as source from: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/get850.htm Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF document 1.4 created with Acrobat Distiller 6.0

2005-02-25 Thread Antoine
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 17:01:14 -0700, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem printing document created with Acrobat Distiller 6.0 PDF document, version 1.4 Are there any solution besides emerging Acrobat Reader? You could also try the beta of Acroread 7 for Linux. Cheers Antoine

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF document 1.4 created with Acrobat Distiller 6.0

2005-02-25 Thread Antoine
can't understand why no one else is interested... If my c was any good... Cheers Antoine ps. there are *heaps* of project that base their code on xpdf - why don't they pull their heads in and have a go at making the core work better? -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF document 1.4 created with Acrobat Distiller 6.0

2005-02-25 Thread Antoine
)? It is many versions ahead... Cheers Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy?

2005-02-19 Thread Antoine
- they have already done almost all of the hard work. Give it a proper go (i.e., 10 copies or so) before knocking it. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy?

2005-02-19 Thread Antoine
Spider wrote: On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 11:31 +0100, Antoine wrote: Aleksandar Radovic wrote: This is anything but proper Linux solution: DVD shrink under wine works perfectly for me. On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 09:34 +0100, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, I want to make a backup copy of my DVDs

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD copy?

2005-02-19 Thread Antoine
Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Antoine -- I can't understand why people don't take dvd::rip more seriously. It is really great (though doesn't do menus but none of the other solutions seem to either). People think that you only do cds with it - silly. You just specify

Re: [gentoo-user] Best java in Gentoo

2005-02-19 Thread Antoine
1.5 for Gentoo? Just download from Sun. I wouldn't bother waiting for a stable ebuild. Java doesn't seem to be as integrated as c/c++ so it shouldn't pose any problems at all. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Best java in Gentoo

2005-02-19 Thread Antoine
The sun-jdk ebuild is as stable as Sun's since it just downloads (asks you to) the file from Sun's site. From your second sentence I assume you're not a proffesional Java programmer. Evidently. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread Antoine
results you can either do it from CL or understand what the ide is doing Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CVS gentoo tutorial

2005-02-18 Thread Antoine
SVN. Your SVN knowledge will apply to CVS, though, because the two systems are similar - SVN is intended as a CVS replacement. Plus, when SVN one day takes over the world, you'll be in a better spot. All we have to do now is convince my boss! ;-) Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] OT - making thick tiffs in GS from vectorial pdfs

2005-02-17 Thread Antoine
-smoothing, seeing as the client isn't as image-savvy as we are!). I am assuming that this is possible just by passing a parameter... If not, any other tools do this? I assume I can do this with imagemagick. Cheers Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] ntfs vs *nix fs

2005-02-17 Thread Antoine
Hi, I had a google but didn't find anything. Anyone know of any investigations trying to measure ntfs vs other *nix fss? I know that it is a bit like comparing apples with oranges but might be nice. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gmail question

2005-02-12 Thread Antoine
is mark your message as new (cos it's not), so you won't get it with the other new pop messages in your (for example) thunderbird inbox. I might be wrong about it showing up in the web interface but the rest is good. Cheers Antoine ps. This is still quite annoying! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

[gentoo-user] libppm

2005-02-12 Thread Antoine
Hi, anyone know where I can get this library? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: libppm

2005-02-12 Thread Antoine
On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:11:12 +0100, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, anyone know where I can get this library? Cheers Antoine I found a copy in netpbm 9.14 don't know why it isn't in the latest - factored into other libs maybe? In any case, anyone know why subtitle2pbm can't find it? I

Re: [gentoo-user] Filesystem Choice

2005-02-11 Thread Antoine
the replies to this before getting to the only really good one! The benchmarks are not going to be much use if you don't have this info... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] deltaV servers

2005-02-11 Thread Antoine
that we have for our three sites currently. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT ghostscript

2005-02-09 Thread Antoine
Peter Eis wrote: Antoine wrote: Hi, Does anyone know why converting a standard a4 pdf to tiffg4 with postscript would give me tiffs of about a1 size? [EMAIL PROTECTED] doc $ gs -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -sOutputFile=wow.tif -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -dFIXEDMEDIA -sPAPERSIZE=a4 general.pdf quit.ps [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer is broken

2005-02-08 Thread Antoine
and transcode, so I reemerged a bunch of things -libdv and the above and a couple of others. Quite annoying. Anyone know what it actually was, cos I don't think any of the first ones were emerged with my emerge world... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT ghostscript

2005-02-08 Thread Antoine
set the DPI to 72 (normal size) but I need 300. I guess I need to do some kind of resampling - or do I? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating installation from one disk to another

2005-02-05 Thread Antoine
fstab and boot, and you can do everything no probs. I did it with a gentoo live disk I think but it is probably even better with a knoppix. In any case, I lost nothing, and am not an admin, so if you have a backup just give it a crack Nigel. Cheers Antoine ps. remember we are linux and not doze here

Re: [gentoo-user] Java IDE's, (problems with) executing java .classes and you

2005-01-31 Thread Antoine
aware of the IBM vs Sun rivalry over Java, and with all the publicity eclipse has been getting Sun finally decided they would throw some money at packaging (website et al) and a few more programmers. They are basically the same principle though... Cheers Antoine ps. Netbeans has moved more

Re: [gentoo-user] way OT - libtiff c help

2005-01-31 Thread Antoine
Jason Cooper wrote: Antoine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: Hi, I can't seem to get any bites on the more appropriate lists I am on... Have you tried linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org ? I am almost finished hacking libtiff into something we can use to make tiff ATA2100 compliant files and am

[gentoo-user] way OT - libtiff c help

2005-01-30 Thread Antoine
)((tif)-tif_clientdata,(toff_t)(off),whence)) is. It doesn't look to me much like a function call... but then again, I only started really looking at c a week ago :-). Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] RE: little crusade for Gentoo to compile with InnoDB

2005-01-28 Thread Antoine
Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OO vs OO-Ximian

2005-01-28 Thread Antoine
). It is even sexy - something you can not accuse the vanilla OO of! Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to specify languages ?

2005-01-24 Thread Antoine
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:12:15 +, Pupeno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Je Vendredo Januaro 21 2005 20:58, Antoine skribis: Pupeno wrote: I'm currently defining the language to use in my gentoo installation by adding LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL

Re: [gentoo-user] hey

2005-01-23 Thread Antoine
Eric Thompson wrote: Ditto that about true english ... However, I think he's wanting a graphical installer, which, if I remember correctly from a few GWN's ago, is in the works for gentoo. It won't be ready for 2005.1, which will be in July (i think), but it may be ready for 2006.0 .. That's

[gentoo-user] distfile locations

2005-01-23 Thread Antoine
suggests. Can I tell portage to ignore ebuild locations and always get files from mirrors? The bug reviewer suggested my config was broken, is that so? Howso? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] distfile locations

2005-01-23 Thread Antoine
is not on the imagemagick site. Any other ideas? Cheers Antoine On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 11:01 +0100, Antoine wrote: Hi, I recently posted a bug which was closed as a non-issue. I have not played with make.conf or portage settings very much, so am confused. When I attempted to emerge the latest stable imagemagick

Re: [gentoo-user] distfile locations

2005-01-23 Thread Antoine
://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo; Antoine wrote: Hi, I recently posted a bug which was closed as a non-issue. I have not played with make.conf or portage settings very much, so am confused. When I attempted to emerge the latest stable imagemagick it attempted to get it from

[gentoo-user] maxdb not in portage?

2005-01-23 Thread Antoine
Hi, It seems to be available under the gpl, but not in portage. Is there something wrong with it? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to specify languages ?

2005-01-22 Thread Antoine
to do it ? If you want anything but US English then you should also put it in make.conf - put the line LINGUAS=fb (where fb is the language you want, in your case en) in somewhere. You shouldn't need to though, as this is, bien evidemment, the default. Cheers Antoine ps. this will compile

Re: [gentoo-user] gaim and msn

2005-01-22 Thread Antoine
prefer the all in one aspect of gaim. Did I make a mistake, or is gaim simply broken ? it works fine here. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] ignore update of one package in world

2005-01-22 Thread Antoine
Hi, There is currently a bug (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79046) that is stopping me from emerging world, is there any way to specify when emerging world not to update one of the packages, so the rest will attempt to pass? If not, what should I do? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] tiff tag editor?

2005-01-20 Thread Antoine
Hi, Anyone know of a programme that will let me edit tiff file tags? Adding and deleting is necessary also. Cheers Antoine -- G System, The Evolving GUniverse - http://www.g-system.at -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] fonts and thunderbird look weird since upgrade to xorg

2005-01-20 Thread Antoine
feedback on these? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] turning the number pad on in kde automatically

2005-01-17 Thread Antoine
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:47:26 +, Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 18:06, Antoine wrote: Hi, Can anyone tell me how to do this? It used to happen automatically under mandrake (I think) and I haven't been bother to check how to do it... I wouldn't know

[gentoo-user] more kde sound...

2005-01-16 Thread Antoine
on the speakers (from the mic). However, neither krec nor skype will record (forward) the input from my mic. In the control centre it is duplex and all... Any ideas? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] more kde sound...

2005-01-16 Thread Antoine
the speakers), has the word capture at the top of the mic level bar, and mic is at 90%. Nothing has changed. I tried the other capture options, not knowing what they might do - still nothing. I have also tried with audacity, and get nothing there either. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] more kde sound...solved

2005-01-16 Thread Antoine
it off stops it from working. At least it is working! Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Gentoo course on paper

2005-01-15 Thread Antoine
for French people. I can speak French but don't write it, its going to be translated at work. I will post both versions after the translation. Or do you mean three? After all for some real feedback you will want to post in English also... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] where is the best university to study security and networks w/ gentoo like system?

2005-01-13 Thread Antoine
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-11 Thread Antoine
people really *do* want/need penis enlargers), I would not be too worried... Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: GMAIL accounts

2005-01-10 Thread Antoine
Martoni wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 16:46:48 +0100, Beber [Gentoo] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 15 invite if some want too Another 10 ... 6 here. I think they must be getting to saturation point by now... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] turning the number pad on in kde automatically

2005-01-05 Thread Antoine
Hi, Can anyone tell me how to do this? It used to happen automatically under mandrake (I think) and I haven't been bother to check how to do it... I wouldn't know where to start. Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list