On Friday 09 October 2009, Stroller wrote:
> On 8 Oct 2009, at 22:10, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > ...
> > With SD cards, often times there are no partitions. So if you create
> > proper partitions sometimes it won't read in other devices/computers.
> > (in linux terms that means you would format /dev/s
Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dale writes:
>
>
>> Alex Schuster wrote:
>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
>>>
>
>
>> That's the one. I think its either the second or third key that makes
>> it go back to a console. It is nice to know about. I have it taped to
>> my wa
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:22:05 -0400, Jonathan Callen
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> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> Note you can also nest commands when using $(), which you can't do with
>> backticks.
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> You can nest commands with ``, it's just less intuitive; each of the
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Note you can also nest commands when using $(), which you can't do with
> backticks.
You can nest commands with ``, it's just less intuitive; each of the
following are equivalent:
echo $(echo $(echo $(echo $(echo foo
ec
>
> I'm emergin system and world after a little while, maybe 4 months, I got
> directory does not exist /usr/lib/ccache/bin
>
> I search a bit, and it seems that ccache accelerate compiling.
> So it's seems to emerge anyway in a good way.
> What should I do to kinda make it better ? Just create tha
>> Nope, you're just doing it wrong. You're forgetting to do the bit where
>> you pop the key lids off to wash them then forget where to put them
>> back
>
> That explains it, I just put the whole keyboard in the dishwasher.
>
> That may sound stupid, but it's not as bad as using Cc: on mailing lis
> Not really specific to gentoo, except that I want to do this with a Gentoo
> PC: Is it possible to attach my Gentoo PC 'G' to another PC 'W' (running
> Windows) via USB, so that G appears to be a removable media to W? I think
> you need special USB cables with some electronics in the middlle for
G'day,
Grant wrote:
I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro 1320 laptop. It
has a 2.2Ghz Core Duo CPU, 3GB RAM, and a 7200RPM hard drive.
Navigating within firefox is pretty slow. It's the response time of
the application, not the network. It's much slower than my previous
laptop w
On 8 Oct 2009, at 22:10, Paul Hartman wrote:
...
With SD cards, often times there are no partitions. So if you create
proper partitions sometimes it won't read in other devices/computers.
(in linux terms that means you would format /dev/sda not /dev/sda1)
Uh, unless SD cards are seriously goof
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:33:01 +0100, Neil Bothwick
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> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
>
> But nowhere near as clear.
>
>> Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually the key
Hi,
I'm emergin system and world after a little while, maybe 4 months, I got
directory does not exist /usr/lib/ccache/bin
I search a bit, and it seems that ccache accelerate compiling.
So it's seems to emerge anyway in a good way.
What should I do to kinda make it better ? Just create that fol
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
> On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>> > Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick:
>> >> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows th
On Thursday 08 October 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > > Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick:
> > >> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows thi
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Doug Hunley wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 23:15, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> >> Is there a sane way through this update?
> >
> > Just remove eselect-news. From looking at eselect's ebuild I deduce that
> its
> > functionality is taken over by eselect itself.
>
>
On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick:
> >> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in
> >
> > I remember from SD cards that formatting them with L
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:17:14 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I've had this keyboard a few years and it's always stayed in exactly
> > the same place. Maybe the other keys stop it moving :)
> Nope, you're just doing it wrong. You're forgetting to do the bit where
> you pop the key lids off to wash
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:34:37 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
> >
> > But nowhere near as clear.
> >
> >> Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually the key
> >> above TAB and to the left of 1.
> >
> > I r
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick:
>> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in
>
> I remember from SD cards that formatting them with Linux often was to no
> avail - Windows wouldn't recognise the
Am Donnerstag, 8. Oktober 2009 schrieb Mick:
> What's the best way to reformat a USB stick? It currently shows this in
I remember from SD cards that formatting them with Linux often was to no
avail - Windows wouldn't recognise them, neither with the fs on the device
itself, nor with a partition
On 10/08/2009 11:02 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 08 October 2009 21:27:57 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 10/08/2009 10:19 PM, James Ausmus wrote:
I've used it before - I can't remember what is was for, but I do
remember using nested $() commands...
Isn't ` being deprecated (by BASH at lea
On Thursday 08 October 2009 21:27:57 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 10/08/2009 10:19 PM, James Ausmus wrote:
> > I've used it before - I can't remember what is was for, but I do
> > remember using nested $() commands...
> >
> > Isn't ` being deprecated (by BASH at least) anyway?
>
> Hopefully not!
On 10/08/2009 09:33 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
But nowhere near as clear.
Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually the key
above TAB and to the lef
On 10/08/2009 10:19 PM, James Ausmus wrote:
I've used it before - I can't remember what is was for, but I do
remember using nested $() commands...
Isn't ` being deprecated (by BASH at least) anyway?
Hopefully not! It's just two key presses to type "``". "$()" takes 4
(shift+4+9, command, shi
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thursday 08 October 2009 20:33:01 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > > And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
> >
> > But nowhere near as clear.
>
> And it's q
On Thursday 08 October 2009 20:30:30 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:47:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > The System Request key. Generally located somewhere in the upper
> > right.
>
> Also marked PrtScn.
>
> > It moves around though.
>
> I've had this keyboard a few years and it's
On Thursday 08 October 2009 20:33:01 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
>
> But nowhere near as clear.
And it's quicker to type "$(" - muscle memory - than to do the whole hunt-
pe
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:47:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> The System Request key. Generally located somewhere in the upper
>> right.
>
> Also marked PrtScn.
>
>> It moves around though.
>
> I've had this keyboard a few years and it's always
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:54:26 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> And it's usually quicker to type with backticks instead of $():
But nowhere near as clear.
> Note: not single-quotes ('), but backticks (`). It's usually the key
> above TAB and to the left of 1.
I rest my case :)
Note you can al
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 10:47:03 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> The System Request key. Generally located somewhere in the upper
> right.
Also marked PrtScn.
> It moves around though.
I've had this keyboard a few years and it's always stayed in exactly the
same place. Maybe the other keys stop it movin
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alex Schuster writes:
>
>>> I'm curious about the actual key strokes. Is it
>>>
>>> Alt-SysRq and then REISUB
>
> And what is `SysRq' a reference to on a keyboard?
On US keyboards SysRq is usually on the Print Screen key. (like Break
is on t
William Hubbs schrieb:
That is correct, in the latest version this is how it works. You
shouldn't have to remove the flag file though.
Yes, you're right. I overlooked the rm command in the init script.
Bye...
Dirk
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alex Schuster writes:
>
>>> I'm curious about the actual key strokes. Is it
>>>
>>> Alt-SysRq and then REISUB
>
> And what is `SysRq' a reference to on a keyboard?
>
>
>
The System Request key. Generally located somewhere in the upper
right.
Alex Schuster writes:
>> I'm curious about the actual key strokes. Is it
>>
>> Alt-SysRq and then REISUB
And what is `SysRq' a reference to on a keyboard?
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:33 PM, James wrote:
> kashani badapple.net> writes:
>
>
>> >>> I just finished installing Gentoo on a Dell Vostro
>
>
>> Now that it's working how do you like the screen, size, etc? That's one
>> of the laptops I've been considering.
>
>
> You just have to admire and hon
At Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:41:14 -0400 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I had a failure while building/installing gnome and I am not sure what
> the failure is. Here is the first mention of trouble
Just for the heck I redid the emerge --newuse --update --with-bdeps=y world
It started with gnome-user-docs,
On 10/08/2009 06:28 PM, James wrote:
One final question. When I run this command:
emerge -1 $(qlist -I x11-drivers)
I get this error:
'x11-drivers/ati-drivers' is not a valid package atom
Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
Try: emerge -1 $(qlist -I x11-drivers)
And it's usually quicker
Jesús Guerrero terra.es> writes:
> Probably the colors screwing everything, as always. Try searching the
> qlist man page for something like --nocolor or --color=never.
Yep:
emerge -1 $(qlist -IC x11-drivers)
works just fine
thx
James
Thanks a lot Volker. I can emerge nvidia-drivers after resync.
Hung
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Hung Dang wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I updated my system yesterday today and find out that the latest
>> nvidia-drivers requires old glbc version 2.5. I have goggled
I had a failure while building/installing gnome and I am not sure what
the failure is. Here is the first mention of trouble
/bin/sh
/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/gnome-user-docs-2.26.2/work/gnome-user-docs-2.26.2/install-sh
-d
/var/tmp/portage/gnome-extra/gnome-user-docs-2.26.2/image//usr/share
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:28:12 + (UTC), James
wrote:
> Jesús Guerrero terra.es> writes:
>
>
>> You can't since you want to use ati-driver/fglrx. The fglrx is not part
>> of
>> the kernel, it's only shipped in the form of a binary-only closed
source
>> kernel module. fglrx doesn't need (and mos
Jesús Guerrero terra.es> writes:
> You can't since you want to use ati-driver/fglrx. The fglrx is not part of
> the kernel, it's only shipped in the form of a binary-only closed source
> kernel module. fglrx doesn't need (and most likely will fail as you see)
> the in-kernel radeon drm driver. S
On 8 Oct 2009, at 12:22, KH wrote:
...
as a matter of fact, you *can't*. I once formated a USB stick as
swap (is it 82 or 83?) and used it in Linux as swap. (very little
ram on the old vaio I used.)
There was a second partition as raiser(?) and also 82 or 83.
Anyway later I wanted to use it
On Thursday 08 October 2009 15:56:57 James Ausmus wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Dale wrote:
> > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote:
> > >> James Ausmus wrote:
> > >>> Still further back. :) The warning message about the label parameter
> > >>> is
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Dale wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote:
> >
> >> James Ausmus wrote:
> >>
> >>> Still further back. :) The warning message about the label parameter
> >>> is harmless...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> -James
> >>>
> >> OK. Attac
Daniel Quinn schrieb:
Then when you're back at the prompt, run:
# mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
...if sda is in fact your key. You can even add "-L LabelName" to attach a
label to the stick:
# mkfs.vfat -L "USB Stick" /dev/sda1
Hi,
from man mkfs.vfat:
-n volume-name: Sets the volume name (lab
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote:
>
>> James Ausmus wrote:
>>
>>> Still further back. :) The warning message about the label parameter
>>> is harmless...
>>>
>>>
>>> -James
>>>
>> OK. Attached is the WHOLE file. At least it is not really reall
Neil Bothwick schrieb:
It may not be standards-compliant, but at least is is consistently broken.
In some way this is funny and makes me smile.
kh
daid kahl schrieb:
The stick will be used in MSWindows mainly.
In that case, I'd play safe and format it in Windows.
Ah booo! You're formatting it anyway, so there's no data to lose, and
I can't imagine you'd break it by trying to format it.
Try it in Linux first and let us know how it goe
On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:19:44 +0200, alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
> I have the weird habit to trust portage, as it works great 99.9% of the
> time (is that a bug ?). I usually don't read elogs as I usually don't
> need it.
If you trust portage you should read and follow the the advice it gives
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:34:39 +0900, daid kahl wrote:
> > > The stick will be used in MSWindows mainly.
> >
> > In that case, I'd play safe and format it in Windows.
> Ah booo! You're formatting it anyway, so there's no data to lose, and
> I can't imagine you'd break it by trying to format it.
On Thursday 08 October 2009 11:19:44 alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
> Selon Alan McKinnon :
> > On Wednesday 07 October 2009 06:34:06 alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
> > > Thanks all for the help. Finally the problem was solved by re-compiling
> > > all X11 drivers used, and most notably xf86-inpu
> > The stick will be used in MSWindows mainly.
>
> In that case, I'd play safe and format it in Windows.
>
>
Ah booo! You're formatting it anyway, so there's no data to lose, and
I can't imagine you'd break it by trying to format it.
Try it in Linux first and let us know how it goes. I never f
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote:
>
>> James Ausmus wrote:
>>
>>> Still further back. :) The warning message about the label parameter
>>> is harmless...
>>>
>>>
>>> -James
>>>
>> OK. Attached is the WHOLE file. At least it is not really reall
Selon Alan McKinnon :
> On Wednesday 07 October 2009 06:34:06 alain.didierj...@free.fr wrote:
> > Thanks all for the help. Finally the problem was solved by re-compiling all
> > X11 drivers used, and most notably xf86-input-keyboard & xf86-input-mouse.
> > I still think that any package update t
On Donnerstag 08 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote:
> James Ausmus wrote:
> > Still further back. :) The warning message about the label parameter
> > is harmless...
> >
> >
> > -James
>
> OK. Attached is the WHOLE file. At least it is not really really huge
> or anything. I tried to rebuild a few thing
James Ausmus wrote:
>
>
> Still further back. :) The warning message about the label parameter
> is harmless...
>
>
> -James
OK. Attached is the WHOLE file. At least it is not really really huge
or anything. I tried to rebuild a few things but it still fails. The
log is the latest failure so i
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 07:31:50 +0100, Mick wrote:
> The stick will be used in MSWindows mainly.
In that case, I'd play safe and format it in Windows.
--
Neil Bothwick
Sisko:"I won't be condescending to you this episode, Dr. Bashir."
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On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 23:08:08 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
> It says there is no driver or software installation necessary. When
> connected, a data transfer program will open automatically. Does this
> mean there is some program that is executed automatically when
> connecting, or is this just the
Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
> Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> thanks for the list ... after checking my backups I now added your list,
>> edited a bit and started emerging.
And now this:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-2.26-upgrade.xml
;-)
I will check
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