Re: [gentoo-user] OT: For anyone having a bad day with thier servers....

2004-02-26 Thread Mental Patient
gabriel wrote: k, i guess i'm still very much in the dark on the topic of audio in linux, but can someone explain to me what i'm missing in the following logic? i have a soundblaster live value card which (as far as i know) is very much capable of mixing multiple channels of audio. does this me

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: For anyone having a bad day with thier servers....

2004-02-26 Thread Mental Patient
gabriel wrote: i'm interested to know what browser/gui you all are using for this cartoon as flash performance on my box (kde with konquror or mozilla) has always been absolutely miserable: audio out of sync, slow performance, chunky redraw etc. I've found it to be less a gui issue, and more a h

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license

2004-02-26 Thread Mental Patient
Daevid Vincent wrote: Okay, as a brand new hopeful user of Gentoo since yesterday, I feel qualified to at least voice a "newb" opinion. I've used Linux for several years. I was a pretty die-hard RedHat user until I heard all the positive hype about Gentoo. I *knew* going into it that it would be a

[gentoo-user] 2.6 and gphoto2

2004-02-11 Thread Mental Patient
Hey there. I have a Canon Powershot G3 that I'm trying to get working with 2.6. Everything is fine in 2.4, hotplug does what its supposed to do, gtkam works. In 2.6, hotplug appears to work, but I get errors communicating with the camera. For instance: gphoto2 --auto-detect -L Model

Re: [gentoo-user] Possibly copy protected CDs?

2004-02-03 Thread Mental Patient
Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I've got a number of games for which I like to keep a backup copy of the CDs at the office. This saves me having to drag around the CDs and forgetting then in one place or another when the fancy strikes me to play. So far so good. This has always worked. If you're talk

Re: [gentoo-user] Your GPG signatures...

2004-01-30 Thread Mental Patient
lukas wrote: Hi folks, Someone told me, that he can't verify my key. You can read this mail and my answer below. Does anybody know if it is ok, that my key on pgp.mit.edu differs from my localy stored public key? It depends on your key. pgp.mit.edu has been known to do the wrong thing under certa

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging mutt with support for threading?

2004-01-28 Thread Mental Patient
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: It seems the default compile for mutt is to not have support for threading. Is there a mutt specific USE flag for this wonderful feature? Really? Are you sure? I've emerged mutt and its threaded... the default sort order is by date, but you can change that from within mu

Re: [gentoo-user] Some details on PGP and bandwith

2004-01-28 Thread Mental Patient
lukas wrote: Hi folks, maybe it's OT but I think it's important. The difference of size between an pgp-signed (2048bit-key) and an unsigned mail is about 4800 bit. Even with a slow 14400 b/s modem connect this will cause an download delay of < 0.35 s per mail. Let's say you receive 100 mails per

Re: [gentoo-user] command line tool for burning a music cd

2004-01-09 Thread Mental Patient
Norbert Kamenicky wrote: Mike Williams wrote: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=abitforbitcopy.iso this can hardly work with audio CD :-( For making backups/copying audio cd's, I use cdrdao. It will copy/preserve stuff like pregaps (great for live cd's where there's no gap between tracks). You may be

Re: [gentoo-user] mass-replacing text

2003-12-30 Thread Mental Patient
Andrew Gaffney wrote: I need to strip out the string ' width="51" height="20"' from about 50 HTML documents. Is there a simple way to do this with a bash/sed or perl one-liner? perl -i -pe 's/ width="51" height="20"//;' files or you could use find | xargs and pipe the output to that command. -

Re: [gentoo-user] thunderbird and gtk-theme

2003-12-24 Thread Mental Patient
Eric Marchionni wrote: hi, after emerging the latest mozilla-thunderbird ebuild (v0.4) the appearance of my email client is totally different: it shows up in a aqua gtk-theme. So how'd you emerge it? When I try to emerge it, it fails as a masked package. I'm running a current, stable system.