Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Dan Farrell, > Hey tony, maybe this is beyond your control, or maybe you don't care, > and if not i respect your autonomy in such matters, but your reply > block punctuation character '|' defeats the very helpful colorization > of my and many other browsers that use the usual '>' character

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Dan Farrell, > Why this is the case, I don't think I'll ever understand. White > terminal backgrounds, aside from the invisible color problem, also are > hella ugly. Many people find black on white far easier to read than white on black, for the same fonts and sizes. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting /dev from udev ... [oops]

2007-04-08 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 April 2007 23:07, Dale wrote: > maxim wexler wrote: > > Also, upgrades are difficult here in the boonies. > > Modem speed is approx 28k. > > Same speed here. :-( I feel your pain. Two things if you have a newer > box somewhere, http-replicator and rsync. I have three boxes and us

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-08 Thread Nistor Andrei
I have no idea what might have happened yesterday... I got home from a party @5AM and I turned on my computer to listen to some music untill I fall asleep. 5 minutes ago, GAIM logged in, all by itself... I am sure I haven't modified any setting (unless I was sleeptyping). What happened? How can

Re: [gentoo-user] a weird problem regarding internet connection...

2007-04-08 Thread Martin Hudec
Nistor Andrei wrote: I have no idea what might have happened yesterday... I got home from a party @5AM and I turned on my computer to listen to some music untill I fall asleep. 5 minutes ago, GAIM logged in, all by itself... I am sure I haven't modified any setting (unless I was sleeptyping). W

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and WindowMaker

2007-04-08 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 22:55:53 -0600 Brad Camroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been trying to get WindowMaker working on my Gentoo box, so far > without success. It's very difficult to find anything on Google > et. al., too about getting things working. Today I managed to find

[gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-08 Thread Alexander Skwar
ยท Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Or why when run in a console the output stays on the screen when you > exit less, thus allowing you to refer to it when typing the next > command, but in an X terminal it 'collapses' to just the command > prompt on exit. That's because of certain features t

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and WindowMaker

2007-04-08 Thread Brad Camroux
On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:24:12PM +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote: > On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 22:55:53 -0600 Brad Camroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does anyone have any ideas about configuring WindowMaker to work on > > Gentoo? I know lots of people have done it, but nobody seems to > > write a d

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 09:36:20 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Dan Farrell, > > > Hey tony, maybe this is beyond your control, or maybe you don't > > care, and if not i respect your autonomy in such matters, but your > > reply block punctuation character '|' defeats the very

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and WindowMaker

2007-04-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007 22:55:53 -0600 Brad Camroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I've been trying to get WindowMaker working on my Gentoo box, so far > without success. It's very difficult to find anything on Google et. > al., too about getting things working. Today I managed to find t

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Dan Farrell, > Unfortunately, everything above syl.claws 2.4 is masked testing on > x86_64, and I don't want to get my hands dirty on this one. Perhaps > one day... The problem here is that Claws development is proceeding so quickly that no ebuild gets to spend the normal 30 days in testi

[gentoo-user] Install Stage feature request and bug report.

2007-04-08 Thread Jerry McBride
Just a small request of the gentoo stage developers... Would it be at all possible to include rsync in the next round of development? Also, has ANYONE on this list been able to serve nfs shares from any of the 2006.1 stage3 iso's? I've recently cloned a 2006.1 install to a small cluster of Del

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-08 Thread Mike Edenfield
Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Dan Farrell, Why this is the case, I don't think I'll ever understand. White terminal backgrounds, aside from the invisible color problem, also are hella ugly. Many people find black on white far easier to read than white on black, for the same fonts and sizes.

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID-0 with LVM - is there any point?

2007-04-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Daniel Iliev, > Here we go. I think the results can't be interpreted unambiguously. > Perhaps I'll use a benchmarking program in the weekend to get clearer > results. I've found time to move things off the RAID to I can compare with freshly formatted filesystems. LVM on top of RAID-0 is sub

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo and WindowMaker

2007-04-08 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 08:29:43 -0600 Brad Camroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 03:24:12PM +0200, Robert Cernansky wrote: > > > > No extra configuring is needed to run WindowMaker. Just to choose > > 'GNUStep WindowMaker' session in your display manager (kdm, gdm) > > and logi

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Stage feature request and bug report.

2007-04-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 08 April 2007, Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Install Stage feature request and bug report.': > Just a small request of the gentoo stage developers... Wrong list man. You either want gentoo-dev or (not a mailing-list) bugs.gentoo.org. -- Boyd Stephen Sm

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-08 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 17:56:21 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Dan Farrell, > > > Unfortunately, everything above syl.claws 2.4 is masked testing on > > x86_64, and I don't want to get my hands dirty on this one. Perhaps > > one day... > > The problem here is that Claws development is proceedi

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-08 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I note two schools of thought on the best CFLAGS for the Pentium III processor. One suggests using -O3 -pipe, the other, -O2 without the pipe. How much difference does this make? Is the extra level of optimization with pipe the equivalent of the lower level without? -mw __

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-08 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
> One suggests using -O3 -pipe, the other, -O2 without > the pipe. > > How much difference does this make? Is the extra level > of optimization with pipe the equivalent of the lower > level without? From the gcc manpage: -pipe Use pipes rather than temporary files for communication between the var

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS "...-O3 -pipe" vs "...O2 "

2007-04-08 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:48:07 +0400, maxim wexler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi group, I note two schools of thought on the best CFLAGS for the Pentium III processor. One suggests using -O3 -pipe, the other, -O2 without the pipe. How much difference does this make? Is the extra level of opti