Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Windows 'Remote Assistance'

2010-11-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:29 on Sunday 21 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly: > I know this is somewhat off-topic but I am losing friends here by telling > them all the time that they should install Linux or at least install and > configure VNC if they need my help ... plus some of th

[gentoo-user] amarok 1.4.10_p20090130-r4 crashes

2010-11-21 Thread Skippy
Greetings all - I'm having a problem with amarok from the kde-sunset overlay. I also tried version 1.4.10_p20090130-r3 and get the same result. I can compile amarok without error. I also tried compiling with different use flags. I removed amazon, musicbrainz, mysql, opengl and python to see if

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Windows 'Remote Assistance'

2010-11-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Mick wrote: > I know this is somewhat off-topic but I am losing friends here by telling them > all the time that they should install Linux or at least install and configure > VNC if they need my help ...  plus some of them I don't mind helping anyway. > > Lesser MS

[gentoo-user] [OT] Windows 'Remote Assistance'

2010-11-21 Thread Mick
I know this is somewhat off-topic but I am losing friends here by telling them all the time that they should install Linux or at least install and configure VNC if they need my help ... plus some of them I don't mind helping anyway. Lesser MSWindows versions do not seem to allow connections via

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-21 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:10:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Boot partitions (WAS: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels: >On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:53:25 +, David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> Your extended partition begins at sector 124. Any idea what is >> occupying sectors

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: E17 and package.use

2010-11-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:24 on Sunday 21 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly: > On Sunday 21 November 2010 15:05:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:35 on Sunday 21 November 2010, Mick > > did > > > > opine thusly: > > > On Sunday 21 November 2010 13:03:48 A

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: E17 and package.use

2010-11-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 21 November 2010 15:05:52 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 16:35 on Sunday 21 November 2010, Mick did > > opine thusly: > > On Sunday 21 November 2010 13:03:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I think you are trying to use the ebuilds too soon. Maybe stick with > > > efl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: E17 and package.use

2010-11-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:35 on Sunday 21 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly: > On Sunday 21 November 2010 13:03:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I think you are trying to use the ebuilds too soon. Maybe stick with efl > > a bit longer. > > Thank you Alan, much appreciated. I'll stay with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: E17 and package.use

2010-11-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 21 November 2010 13:03:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > I think you are trying to use the ebuilds too soon. Maybe stick with efl a > bit longer. Thank you Alan, much appreciated. I'll stay with efl for now. It was just that the statement of the dev in the link you posted, which suggested we

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: E17 and package.use

2010-11-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 14:40 on Sunday 21 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly: > On Sunday 21 November 2010 09:34:00 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I think it's just different maintainers. The newest stuff was committed > > to the tree after the work was done on the efl overlay, and the > > m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: E17 and package.use

2010-11-21 Thread Mick
On Sunday 21 November 2010 09:34:00 Alan McKinnon wrote: > I think it's just different maintainers. The newest stuff was committed to > the tree after the work was done on the efl overlay, and the maintainer of > the enlightenment overlay just hasn't got round to it yet I see, thanks. Last confu

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] quad vga - dual or single card?

2010-11-21 Thread ich bins
Am 21.11.2010 13:14, schrieb Iain Buchanan: > Hi all, > > I'm appealing to your collective knowledge for something not really > gentoo :) > > I'm looking at 4 independent VGA outputs for a church media / stage > environment (dvds, videos, presentations, maybe some live camera > backgrounds under

[gentoo-user] [OT] quad vga - dual or single card?

2010-11-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I'm appealing to your collective knowledge for something not really gentoo :) I'm looking at 4 independent VGA outputs for a church media / stage environment (dvds, videos, presentations, maybe some live camera backgrounds under text & such). Do you think it would be better to get either

Re: [gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-21 Thread Pau Peris
Running the command you posted above gies the same result. Links on the new location are pointing to the absolute path old location. $ ls -la /mnt/rsync/vista lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 56 mar 24 2009 Archivos de programa -> /mnt/vista/Program Files 2010/11/21 Andrea Conti : >> rsync -aERPv --p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: E17 and package.use

2010-11-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:13 on Sunday 21 November 2010, Mick did opine thusly: > I've added 'enlightenment' overlay, sync'ed and now I get this: > === > $ eix -l eina > [I] dev-libs/eina > Available versions: > ~ 1.0.0_bet

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: E17 and package.use

2010-11-21 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 November 2010 21:01:51 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 20:12 on Saturday 20 November 2010, walt > did > > opine thusly: > > On 11/19/2010 03:46 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Been using e17 for years :-) > > > > But you use kde too, right? How do you choose

Re: [gentoo-user] migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-21 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 November 2010 20:46:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:59 on Saturday 20 November 2010, Mick > did > > opine thusly: > > On Saturday 20 November 2010 00:22:49 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:21 on Saturday 20 November 2010, > >

Re: [gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-21 Thread Mick
On Saturday 20 November 2010 23:54:36 Pau Peris wrote: > Hi, i'm doing a backup of a windows installation using rsync. > Everything is working fine except for symlinks, the problem is that > symlinks are taking absolute path so they're going to be broken as > soon a paths get changed. look at the e

Re: [gentoo-user] symlinks + rsync backup

2010-11-21 Thread Andrea Conti
> rsync -aERPv --progress rsync://localhost/Windows-Vista-backup > /mnt/rsync/vista/ Is there a specific reason you are using rsync in daemon mode on the sending side for a local tranfer? If the symlinks look right on the mounted windows fs, I guess that rsync -aEPv /mnt/vista/. /mnt/rsync/vista