Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
Please do NOT top-post. On Sunday, September 14, 2014 05:27:22 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: It remembers the setting but even when it is turned on it only sends HTML if you use Rich Text formatting on the email, so you enable it by actually using rich text. At least that's how it works for me

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, September 15, 2014 07:21:18 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/09/2014 00:21, James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: You are a C man. Working with bash must be excruciatingly painful Ah yes, State machine design; not much fittering around with

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/09/2014 08:17, J. Roeleveld wrote: Ah yes, State machine design; not much fittering around with escaping silly little symbols. python fixes all of that (see below) I like state machines. Oops, I wasn't 100% clear; It's silly escaping rules that python fixes, not state

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/15/14 02:21, James wrote: Howz your Fortan 90? I did not even know there was such an ugly beast [4]. I thought Fortran was outlawed decades ago. Outlawed. I love how this word is used in the same sentence with fortran. I guess nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 15 September 2014 07:21:18 Alan McKinnon wrote: I believe Fortran is still very much alive and well in engineering and physics - 40 years of number crunching code doesn't just go away by itself Confirmed. (Remember Blake's Seven?) It's the main application language in a

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 15.09.2014 um 10:31 schrieb the: On 09/15/14 02:21, James wrote: Howz your Fortan 90? I did not even know there was such an ugly beast [4]. I thought Fortran was outlawed decades ago. Outlawed. I love how this word is used in the same sentence with fortran. what is wrong with fortran?

Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-09-15 Thread Stroller
On Sun, 14 September 2014, at 9:53 pm, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: ... Google has 1,000,000+ drives, I'll trust what they say after statistical analysis. Rack Space has a goodly number of drives too so I'll trust them as well. I'll even trust my previous employer (an ISP

Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/09/2014 13:10, Stroller wrote: On Sun, 14 September 2014, at 9:53 pm, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: ... Google has 1,000,000+ drives, I'll trust what they say after statistical analysis. Rack Space has a goodly number of drives too so I'll trust them as well. I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/09/2014 13:02, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 15.09.2014 um 10:31 schrieb the: On 09/15/14 02:21, James wrote: Howz your Fortan 90? I did not even know there was such an ugly beast [4]. I thought Fortran was outlawed decades ago. Outlawed. I love how this word is used in the same

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/09/2014 11:00, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 15 September 2014 07:21:18 Alan McKinnon wrote: I believe Fortran is still very much alive and well in engineering and physics - 40 years of number crunching code doesn't just go away by itself Confirmed. (Remember Blake's Seven?) It's

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 15 September 2014 13:02:01 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 15.09.2014 um 10:31 schrieb the: Outlawed. I love how this word is used in the same sentence with fortran. what is wrong with fortran? Nothing. Especially if you still have an 80-hole card punch and reader lying around

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09/15/14 15:02, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: what is wrong with fortran? I don't know. Perhaps you can tell us. OT(childhood psychological trauma){ I find it unreadable and had unpleasant experience with fortran code. I actually had to **pick a

Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-09-15 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 15/09/2014 13:10, Stroller wrote: On Sun, 14 September 2014, at 9:53 pm, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: ... Google has 1,000,000+ drives, I'll trust what they say after statistical analysis. Rack Space has a goodly number of drives too so I'll trust

Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-09-15 Thread Stroller
On Mon, 15 September 2014, at 1:23 pm, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: ... But asking a random bunch of dudes on a mailing list what is a good drive right now is a useless question. Dear Gentoo-User, which hard-drive manufacturer has the best marketing at the moment?

Re: [gentoo-user] 1TB 2.5in drive recommendation

2014-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/09/2014 16:35, Stroller wrote: On Mon, 15 September 2014, at 1:23 pm, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: ... But asking a random bunch of dudes on a mailing list what is a good drive right now is a useless question. Dear Gentoo-User, which hard-drive manufacturer has

[gentoo-user] ERROR: postgresql - exceeded maxAllocatedDescs /usr/share/zoneinfo

2014-09-15 Thread Joseph
After upgrade when I try to start postgresql-9.1 I get an error: * Starting PostgreSQL ... * start-stop-daemon: did not create a valid pid in `/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data/postmaster.pid' * Check the log for a possible explanation of the above error. *

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: postgresql - exceeded maxAllocatedDescs /usr/share/zoneinfo

2014-09-15 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday, September 15, 2014 08:48:16 AM Joseph wrote: After upgrade when I try to start postgresql-9.1 I get an error: * Starting PostgreSQL ... * start-stop-daemon: did not create a valid pid in `/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data/postmaster.pid' * Check the log for a possible explanation of

Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: postgresql - exceeded maxAllocatedDescs /usr/share/zoneinfo

2014-09-15 Thread Joseph
On 09/15/14 08:48, Joseph wrote: After upgrade when I try to start postgresql-9.1 I get an error: * Starting PostgreSQL ... * start-stop-daemon: did not create a valid pid in `/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data/postmaster.pid' * Check the log for a possible explanation of the above error. *

[gentoo-user] FhGFS or BeeGFS on Gentoo?

2014-09-15 Thread James
Howdy, Any brave souls put FhGFS on a gentoo system? [1] It's a distributed File System and some run it on top of ZFS or EXT4 or BTRFS, with very positive results. It is in the process of going open source from what I've read about. It is suppose to be wonderful when compared to Gluster, HDFS

[gentoo-user] Re: FhGFS or BeeGFS on Gentoo?

2014-09-15 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: Any brave souls put FhGFS on a gentoo system? Oops, I forgot the most interesting link of all. [1] James [1] http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/fhgfs_vs_gluster.html

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, Sep 15 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: My favourite Fortran story: One of the Mariner spacecraft yonks ago was sent a routine regular course correction. It flew off at some wild angle and was never seen again, and because the antenna was pointing in the wrong direction comms could not be

Re: [gentoo-user] Forcing kmail to always default to NON-html email

2014-09-15 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Monday 15 September 2014 8:03:50 AM J. Roeleveld wrote: Please do NOT top-post. On Sunday, September 14, 2014 05:27:22 PM Fernando Rodriguez wrote: It remembers the setting but even when it is turned on it only sends HTML if you use Rich Text formatting on the email, so you enable it

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: old farts slum_code enforcement

2014-09-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/09/2014 20:59, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Mon, Sep 15 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: My favourite Fortran story: One of the Mariner spacecraft yonks ago was sent a routine regular course correction. It flew off at some wild angle and was never seen again, and because the antenna was

[gentoo-user] gentoo based live usb key

2014-09-15 Thread Bill Kenworthy
What is a good gentoo based live usb key to use as a seed for custom use? - start from the install one? I've always created one from one of my running systems but they are currently too targeted to hardware to make that easy. A combination of office apps (libreoffice) and networking tools will

[gentoo-user] [OT] installing sabayon from stage3 gentoo

2014-09-15 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
I'm trying to install sabayon from gentoo amd64 stage3 as per https://wiki.sabayon.org/index.php?title=HOWTO:_Install_from_an_existing_Linux_system but for some reason equo rescue generate hangs on futex(0x88e650, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 0, NULL Why does this happen? Some search directed me toward

[gentoo-user] gentoo

2014-09-15 Thread Joseph
to build!; * * If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=dev-perl/glib-perl-1.301.0::gentoo'`, * the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=dev-perl/glib-perl-1.301.0::gentoo'`. * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/dev-perl:glib-perl-1.301.0:20140915

Re: [gentoo-user] removing preserve rebuild.

2014-09-15 Thread Joseph
On 09/15/14 22:29, Joseph wrote: emerge @preserved-rebuild * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy dev-lang/python:3.1. How to remove old