William Kenworthy wrote:
I am having problems logging into a laptop (gdm) after its moved to a
new network. Its fine once its setup on the network in question, but if
I hibernate it then resume with it either not connected at all, or
connected to a new network (but not configured for it) it take
> Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
A small caveat -- if this is an "advanced format" drive be sure to use
fdisk in sector mode (fd
Am 18.11.2010 02:46, schrieb Grant Edwards:
On 2010-11-18, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
Looks like the *actual* problem is non-application of OYFEAL[1],not what the
devs do.
Google doesn't seem to know what OYFEAL means. Do we get any hints?
Google says this: >>"OYFEAL": Open your fscking eyes
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 02:38 -0600, Dale wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > I am having problems logging into a laptop (gdm) after its moved to a
> > new network. Its fine once its setup on the network in question, but if
> > I hibernate it then resume with it either not connected at all, or
> >
William Kenworthy wrote:
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 02:38 -0600, Dale wrote:
William Kenworthy wrote:
I am having problems logging into a laptop (gdm) after its moved to a
new network. Its fine once its setup on the network in question, but if
I hibernate it then resume with it either not
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Grant Edwards
wrote:
> Can anybody point me to a hint on how to configure synaptics touchapad
> sensitivity?
>
> The touchpad on my Thinkpad T500 is so sensitive you don't even have
> to touch it. Merely bringing a thumb or finger within 1/8 - 1/4 inch
> will caus
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:20:25 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> Because I don't want a repeat of the ipv6 fiasco where I had an almost
> non-functional browser, mediaplayer (for internet files), etc, etc.
Hardly non-functional - desperately slow maybe but far from
non-functional. Blaming the devs for
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:46:16 +, Stroller wrote:
> If you're not using a GUI terminal emulator with a scrollbar, then may
> I respectfully suggest you install `tmux` (a replacement for GNU
> `screen`) and use it. It takes a little while to get familiar with it,
> and with its keybindings and st
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:42:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> c. our devs are assumed to only pretend to be pedantic geeky gits who
> nit-pick about words, and not to actually *be* like that their entire
> life 24/7/365/75.
Indeed. After all, if they were really pedantic, they would point out that
> tar c /path/to/old/ | tar xvp /path/to/new
Whoops... That should be
tar c -C /path/to/old/ . | tar xvp -C /path/to/new/
Sorry,
andrea
On Thursday 18 November 2010 12:37:16 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:42:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > c. our devs are assumed to only pretend to be pedantic geeky gits who
> > nit-pick about words, and not to actually *be* like that their entire
> > life 24/7/365/75.
>
> Indeed
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:43:40 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > Indeed. After all, if they were really pedantic, they would point out
> > that you should have written either 24/7/52/75 or 24/365/75 :P
>
>
> Or that you both seem to forget the actual reason for the use of
> leap-years.. :P
>
I th
On Thursday 18 November 2010 12:52:40 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:43:40 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > > Indeed. After all, if they were really pedantic, they would point out
> > > that you should have written either 24/7/52/75 or 24/365/75 :P
> >
> >
> > Or that you both seem t
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:37 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Neil
Bothwick did opine thusly:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:42:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > c. our devs are assumed to only pretend to be pedantic geeky gits who
> > nit-pick about words, and not to actually *be* like that the
Apparently, though unproven, at 05:47 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Stroller
did opine thusly:
> On 18/11/2010, at 1:46am, Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> ...
> >> Looks like the *actual* problem is non-application of OYFEAL[1],not what
> >> the devs do.
> >
> > Google doesn't seem to know what OYFEAL
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:42:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Indeed. After all, if they were really pedantic, they would point out
> > that you should have written either 24/7/52/75 or 24/365/75 :P
>
> y'know, you have this very annoying habit of catching me out every time
> I talk shit in publ
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Sebastian
Beßler did opine thusly:
> Am 18.11.2010 02:46, schrieb Grant Edwards:
> > On 2010-11-18, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> Looks like the *actual* problem is non-application of OYFEAL[1],not what
> >> the devs do.
> >
> > Go
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:42 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > I thought the real reason for leap years was to boot the turnover of
> > the wedding industry.
s/boot/boost/
> Oh? How does that work?
There's a tradition here that women propose to men on the leap day, which
is why most men go into
On 2010/11/18 06:25AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> How does it differ from screen? Is it sufficiently better to relearn
> keystrokes etc?
The major difference is that you can split the screen into panes,
showing multiple ptys at the same time (similar to vim's :[v]sp, layout
wise). Besides that, I thin
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Neil
Bothwick did opine thusly:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:42 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > > I thought the real reason for leap years was to boot the turnover of
> > > the wedding industry.
>
> s/boot/boost/
>
> > Oh? How do
On Thursday 18 November 2010 14:18:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:42 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > > I thought the real reason for leap years was to boot the turnover of
> > > the wedding industry.
>
> s/boot/boost/
>
> > Oh? How does that work?
>
> There's a tradition here
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:33:45 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > There's a tradition here that women propose to men on the leap day,
> > which is why most men go into hiding on that day thereby boosting the
> > profits of pubs and other hiding places.
>
> One could actually argue that the profits of
Am 18.11.2010 13:47, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Sebastian
Beßler did opine thusly:
Am 18.11.2010 02:46, schrieb Grant Edwards:
On 2010-11-18, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Looks like the *actual* problem is non-application of OYFEAL[1],
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:12 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Sebastian
Beßler did opine thusly:
> Am 18.11.2010 13:47, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Thursday 18 November 2010,
> > Sebastian
> >
> > Beßler did opine thusly:
> >> Am 18.11.2010 02:46, sc
Am 18.11.2010 15:21, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:12 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Sebastian
Beßler did opine thusly:
Am 18.11.2010 13:47, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Thursday 18 November 2010,
Sebastian
Beßler did opine thusly:
On 18/11/2010, at 11:25am, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:46:16 +, Stroller wrote:
>
>> If you're not using a GUI terminal emulator with a scrollbar, then may
>> I respectfully suggest you install `tmux` (a replacement for GNU
>> `screen`) and use it. It takes a little while to
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:21:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> What were we talking about again?
OYFEAL
--
Neil Bothwick
Top Oxymorons Number 1: Microsoft Works
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On 2010-11-18, Fernando Antunes wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Grant Edwards
>wrote:
>
>> Can anybody point me to a hint on how to configure synaptics touchapad
>> sensitivity?
>> All the docs I can find seem to assume two things:
>>
>> 1) an xorg.conf file
>>
>> 2) the xf86-input-s
Is there something special about the file name
/etc/portage/package.use/java ? For some reason, if I create this file
to hold USE flags for my java packages, bash tries to source it when I
log in. As far as I can tell this is the only filename that gets this
wierd treatment:
platypus kutulu # ca
I was having trouble with my standard update world emerge on one of my
machines.
I can't download because I don't have libssl.so.0.9.8. The exact error
msg is
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
I seem to have
Dale gmail.com> writes:
> LABEL=boot/bootext2noatime1 2
> LABEL=root /reiserfsdefaults0 1
> LABEL=swapnoneswapsw0 0
> LABEL=portage/usr/portageext3defaults0 1
> LABEL=home/home
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:29:21 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> 3. Other files proved missing as well
>
> I went to another machine which is multilib and copied the libssl from
> the lib32 directory. Then it asked for libcrypto so I copied that
> now it asks for libkrb5.so.3. After a few more it
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:41:25PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 17.11.2010 23:26, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 00:08 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Florian
> > Philipp did opine thusly:
> >
> >> Hi list!
> >>
> >> Today, KDE nearly killed a presentation I held a
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I was having trouble with my standard update world emerge on one of my
> machines.
>
> I can't download because I don't have libssl.so.0.9.8. The exact error
> msg is
> wget: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot
>
- Original Message
> From: YoYo Siska
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Sent: Thu, November 18, 2010 12:41:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4 multi-monitor + fullscreen applications
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:41:25PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> > Am 17.11.2010 23:26, s
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike
Edenfield did opine thusly:
> Is there something special about the file name
> /etc/portage/package.use/java ? For some reason, if I create this file
> to hold USE flags for my java packages, bash tries to source it when I
Hi,
I got some headaches from trying to use jack (the audio-connector).
Following this:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/JACK
I finally tried this:
jackd -d alsa
and got this:
solfire:/home/mccramer>sudo jackd -d alsa
jackd 0.118.0
Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane L
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:29:21 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
>> 3. Other files proved missing as well
>>
>> I went to another machine which is multilib and copied the libssl from
>> the lib32 directory. Then it asked for libcrypto so I copied that
>> now it asks for li
On 11/18/2010 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike
> Edenfield did opine thusly:
>
>> Is there something special about the file name
>> /etc/portage/package.use/java ? For some reason, if I create this file
>> to hold USE flags
Mark Knecht writes:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> I was having trouble with my standard update world emerge on one of my
>> machines.
>>
>> I can't download because I don't have libssl.so.0.9.8. The exact error
>> msg is
>>[[ big snip ]]
>> But clearly some
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller
wrote:
> I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly, is that tmux has a
>status bar configured by default. I'm pretty sure you can do that with screen,
>too, but I've never bothered, because it seemed too much effort to learn and it
>just s
I have installed E17 using layman and the efl overlay, but today I just ran
dispatch-conf and these changes showed up:
=
--- /etc/portage/package.use2010-11-15 12:50:46.0 +
+++ /etc/portage/._cfg_package.use 2010-11-18 19:35:35.0
James wrote:
Dale gmail.com> writes:
LABEL=boot/bootext2noatime1 2
LABEL=root /reiserfsdefaults0 1
LABEL=swapnoneswapsw0 0
LABEL=portage/usr/portageext3defaults0 1
LABEL=home
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:36 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike
Edenfield did opine thusly:
> On 11/18/2010 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike
> >
> > Edenfield did opine thusly:
> >> Is there something special abou
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:10 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mick did
opine thusly:
> I have installed E17 using layman and the efl overlay, but today I just ran
> dispatch-conf and these changes showed up:
> =
> --- /etc/portage/package.use2010-
On 11/18/2010 3:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Maybe you had the bad luck to install an awesomely dodgy ebuild. Here's what
> it should be:
>
> # ls -al /etc/bash_completion.d/java
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 27 03:08 /etc/bash_completion.d/java ->
> /usr/share/bash-completion/java
Thanks,
On Thursday 18 November 2010 20:26:36 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:10 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mick
> did
>
> opine thusly:
> > I have installed E17 using layman and the efl overlay, but today I just
> > ran dispatch-conf and these changes showed up:
> > =
On Thursday 18 November 2010 19:20:51 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> Neil Bothwick writes:
> > On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:29:21 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> >> 3. Other files proved missing as well
> >>
> >> I went to another machine which is multilib and copied the libssl from
> >> the lib32 directory
On Thursday 18 November 2010 15:48:23 Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-11-18, Fernando Antunes wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Grant Edwards
> >
> >wrote:
> >> Can anybody point me to a hint on how to configure synaptics touchapad
> >> sensitivity?
> >>
> >> All the docs I can find see
On 18 nov. 2010, at 20:52, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller
> wrote:
>> I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly, is that tmux has
>> a
>> status bar configured by default. I'm pretty sure you can do that with
>> screen,
>> too, but I've never b
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:04 on Friday 19 November 2010, Mick did
opine thusly:
> On Thursday 18 November 2010 20:26:36 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:10 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mick
> > did
> >
> > opine thusly:
> > > I have installed E17 using layman
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:25 on Friday 19 November 2010, Florian
CROUZAT did opine thusly:
> On 18 nov. 2010, at 20:52, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller
> >
> > wrote:
> >> I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly, is that tmux
> >> ha
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:14:05 -0600, Dale wrote:
> We all
> know what happens when things ain't getting fixed. They break. ;-)
I'd say the opposite is true, no maintenance can be better than
provocative maintenance.
--
Neil Bothwick
WinErr 011: Window open - Do not look outside
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On Wednesday 17 November 2010 17:27:28 Jacques Montier wrote:
> Le 17/11/2010 18:07, walt a écrit :
> > On 11/17/2010 07:17 AM, Jacques Montier wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I use an astronomical open source imaging software
> >> (http://www.audela.org/)
> >> which works fine except when launching
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 12:16:48 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two problems with rsync
>
> 1st) if I give both commandline options -u and -c
> it looks as if a file which is more recent but different
> on the destination is not updated, i.e. -u overrules -c
> Is th
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:14:05 -0600, Dale wrote:
We all
know what happens when things ain't getting fixed. They break. ;-)
I'd say the opposite is true, no maintenance can be better than
provocative maintenance.
My thoughts were that is something breaks t
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:25 on Friday 19 November 2010, Florian
CROUZAT did opine thusly:
On 18 nov. 2010, at 20:52, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller
wrote:
I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quic
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:36 on Friday 19 November 2010, Daniel D
Jones did opine thusly:
> Has anyone running Gentoo tried this? If so, what were your results?
>
> http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html
>
> The instructions include adding the follow
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 22:24:23 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, James
> did opine thusly:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to migrate to a 2T
> > Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have a few caveats.
[snip ...]
Mick writes:
> On Thursday 18 November 2010 19:20:51 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>>
>> Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron
>> from running an emerge --sync during the night.
>
> I used to do the same with reiserfs, but since I borked badly a reiser4 fs I
> decided i
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:20:52PM -0600, Dale wrote
> This is mine and it worked when I rebooted a bit ago.
>
> LABEL=boot/bootext2noatime1 2
> LABEL=root /reiserfsdefaults0 1
> LABEL=swapnoneswapsw0 0
> LABE
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:21:23PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> I must be getting old and forgetful. Forgot about that post.
>
> What were we talking about again?
They say that memory is the second thing to go; I forget what the
first is.
--
Walter Dnes
2.6.38 should contain a ~200 line patch that makes a huge difference to
desktop responsiveness under load;
"Tests done by Mike show the maximum latency dropping by over ten times and
the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times"
Ref:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:59:32AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
> How would your method of handling USE have assisted in preventing
> that breakage? Please note that the breakage in jpeg is much *much*
> more common than changes to default USE.
This is not about ipv6 or hal or dbus in particular.
On 19/11/2010, at 12:57am, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> Mick writes:
>>>
>>> Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron
>>> from running an emerge --sync during the night.
>>
>> I used to do the same with reiserfs, but since I borked badly a reiser4 fs I
>> decided it is
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:52:39AM +, Stroller wrote
> You claim to be "a control freak" but you seem to be doing this to
> avoid the "chore" of properly inspecting USE flags each time you
> emerge. If you `emerge --pretend` before every update you make,
> you would see what's changed! What's
Stroller writes:
> On 19/11/2010, at 12:57am, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> Mick writes:
Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron
from running an emerge --sync during the night.
>>>
>>> I used to do the same with reiserfs, but since I borked badly a reis
On 2010-11-18, Mick wrote:
> On Thursday 18 November 2010 15:48:23 Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> You can adjust synaptics changing the configuration on the
>>> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi file. man 4 synaptic can
>>> give you a lot of extra options.
>>
>> That only works if you're usin
Allan Gottlieb writes:
> Stroller writes:
>
>> On 19/11/2010, at 12:57am, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>>> Mick writes:
>
> Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron
> from running an emerge --sync during the night.
I used to do the same with reiser
Am 19.11.2010 03:37, schrieb Adam Carter:
> 2.6.38 should contain a ~200 line patch that makes a huge difference to
> desktop responsiveness under load;
> "Tests done by Mike show the maximum latency dropping by over ten times
> and the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times"
> Ref:
> htt
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:21:33AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
> Blaming the devs for your broken modem/router is rather unfair. If
> you'd known it was unable to handle IPv6 correctly, why didn't you
> set the flag accordingly?
My ISP didn't support ipv6 at that time. They're now running a bet
Walter Dnes wrote:
So you see, I did learn from my "experience". I do check for stuff
like this now. As an additional safety measure, I also begin the USE
variable with "-*".
I'm starting to like the way Walter thinks. LOL
Dale
:-) :-)
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