Re: [gentoo-user] How can I power disk off?

2011-10-06 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Android 2.2 USB tethering?

2011-10-05 Thread David Abbott
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-843255.html HTH, David

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange GCC behavior

2011-09-29 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Missing kernel config parameter

2011-09-21 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup?

2011-09-19 Thread David W Noon
ined why we should take messages about running "revdep-rebuild --library libXXX" seriously. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

Re: [gentoo-user] grub and what happens exactly when booting.

2011-09-19 Thread David W Noon
plexity of having the RAID software installed. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ====== dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) == signature.asc Description: PGP signature

OT: Merchant bankers (Was: [gentoo-user] Any big gotcha's when update from several (5) mnths

2011-09-16 Thread David W Noon
instruments. Now they've been shafted by one of their traders. Of course, all of the directors are business geniuses, as all senior City folk are. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn

IDE for C/C++ (Was: Really OT now (Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr)

2011-09-15 Thread David W Noon
require a graphical desktop. [Both vim and Emacs can run in a text console.] You might also start reading comp.os.linux.development.apps on Usenet, if you don't already do so. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-player problem

2011-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:11:35 -0400 David Relson wrote: > On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:32:59 +0300 > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > On 09/15/2011 01:28 AM, David Relson wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:45:58 +0300 > > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-player problem

2011-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:32:59 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/15/2011 01:28 AM, David Relson wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:45:58 +0300 > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > > >> On 09/14/2011 03:00 PM, David Relson wrote: > >>> Using files pointed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vmware-player problem

2011-09-14 Thread David Relson
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:45:58 +0300 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/14/2011 03:00 PM, David Relson wrote: > > Using files pointed to from BGO, I have successfully installed > > vmware-player and vmware-modules-238-r1 on my 64-bit gentoo system > > running kernel 2.6.39-gent

[gentoo-user] vmware-player problem

2011-09-14 Thread David Relson
d not open /opt/vmware/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware.so/libvmware.so The message is correct, libvmware.so does not exist at the path above (or anywhere else). The complete logfile (appLoader-15378.log) is attached. Any suggestions on how to make vmware happy? Thanks. David Sep 14 07:47:4

Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-13 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] udev + /usr

2011-09-12 Thread David W Noon
given that many of the people coding these scripts don't bother checking return codes, this could be "asking for the moon on a stick". -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:44:20 -0500, James Wall wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David W Noon > wrote: [snip] > > I have some scripts that generate LVM rebuild scripts.  These scan > > the current logical volumes and

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-11 Thread David W Noon
that, back up the contents using tar, dar, cpio or whatever your favourite archiving tool happens to be. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo counter?

2011-09-11 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:35:40 -0400, Michael Mol wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo counter?: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:30 AM, David W Noon > wrote: > > [BTW, can you ditch the HTML please?  This is an Internet mailing > > list, and it has long been considered poor Neti

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo counter?

2011-09-11 Thread David W Noon
has long been considered poor Netiquette to use HTML messages. Plain text is perfectly adequate to convey information, and is much lighter to transport and render.] -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ====

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-09 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:41:07 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > David W Noon writes: > > > The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think > > the idea is. As I wrote in an earlier message on this list, the >

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualbox 4.1.2 problem

2011-09-08 Thread David Relson
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 11:58:21 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 19:08:21 -0400 > David Relson wrote: > > > G'day, > > > > I'm having a problem with VirtualBox and am looking for ideas. > > > > As background, I'm running virtu

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:45:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 21:25:31 +0100 > David W Noon wrote: > > > > Well, then you already know what to do. > > > > Indeed I do. > > If your d

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:42:04 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:25 PM, David W Noon > wrote: [snip] > > They work currently. > > So you want all the new functionality, but without needing to do > a

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 15:13:55 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:05 PM, David W Noon > wrote: [snip] > > I don't know if the kernel offers any particular blessing to any > > hotplug handler. > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:56:44 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 12:44 PM, David W Noon > wrote: [snip] > > I expect to switch my simpler systems away from udev to mdev.  This > > loses some functionality

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-08 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 23:33:35 -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot: > On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:37 PM, David W Noon > wrote: [snip] > > The more I think about this merge of / and /usr, the dumber I think > > the idea is.  As I w

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-07 Thread David W Noon
and then I think is better to go all > > the way and mount / read-only. > > Putting /etc on a read-only filesystem seems a really bad idea. To say the least. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is up with the libreoffice ebuild?

2011-09-06 Thread David W Noon
orrible? > > It's definitely huge. Compared to LibreOffice?? ROFLMAO! -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I re-read the "error" messages during boot?

2011-09-05 Thread David Abbott
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > I rebooted a Gentoo system, and as I watched the boot-up messages, > some "error"s appeared when it's starting the services. However, the > screen scrolled too damn fast for me to read them. > > Where can I find the logs on the services? Or is

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome 3 upgrade

2011-09-03 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:05 AM, akio.tam...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to upgrade from gnome 2 to gnome 3. > However I could not find any procedure on google. At least a smooth one. > I have already add the gnome overlay but still getting version 2.32 as the > gnome package to be eme

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-08-20 Thread David W Noon
han the kernel itself. [On my systems, the vmlinuz file is only about 1.8 megs, and glibc alone makes that look really puny.] Welcome to progress. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ======

Re: [gentoo-user] fighting over keyboard layouts

2011-08-11 Thread David W Noon
"pointer" Driver "evdev" MatchIsPointer "on" EndSection The bit about "XkbLayout" "gb" should do the trick. [Just be aware that there is a national lang

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make oldconfig necessary?

2011-08-01 Thread David W Noon
hierarchy will reflect the options that were in your old .config file, with newer features [i.e. not in the earlier kernel] set to defaults. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.co

Re: [gentoo-user] make oldconfig necessary?

2011-08-01 Thread David W Noon
s confident that the change to make menuconfig was working. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I select a GTK 3 theme?

2011-07-31 Thread David Abbott
using the Adwaita theme and placing a symlink which > appears to be required to get GTK3 to honour your theme selection. > > I'm just surprised no-one else more knowledgable than I has answered yet. > > > Hi Sebastian I ran across this but did not try it yet; https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116652 I bet nirbheek would know :) All the best, David

Re: [gentoo-user] Need for revdep-rebuild

2011-07-25 Thread David W Noon
until they all disappear. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) == -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Li

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel panics and more info

2011-07-21 Thread David W Noon
country, as we aren't allowed to own guns. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"?

2011-07-19 Thread David W Noon
sub-shells has been deprecated since about 1993. See: http://compute.cnr.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?ksh+1 and scroll down to the bottom of page 11. You are better off using the more modern $(command ...) notation. -- Regards, Dave [RLU

Re: [gentoo-user] Any way around "Argument list too long"?

2011-07-17 Thread David W Noon
; > /bin/rm: Argument list too long > > What would you do about this? Use find with the -delete option. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM filter question

2011-07-02 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:19:08 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] LVM filter question": >David W Noon writes: [snip] >> So, your r.e. should read: >> >>r|/dev/sdd.*| >> >> which dec

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-02 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, Stroller wrote: >On 2 July 2011, at 08:31, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> ... >> Initially I wanted to know the frame numbers to navigate - guess what >> program ? :) - avidemux directly to the advertising parts of the video >> to cut that stuff out of my (visual) way :

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-01 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >David Haller [11-07-02 07:12]: >> On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> >is there a software, a tool, a "something" which with it is possible >> >to print the frame numbers of those fra

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT]: Detecting frames at aspect-ratio-changes in a video file?

2011-07-01 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 02 Jul 2011, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >is there a software, a tool, a "something" which with it is possible >to print the frame numbers of those frames in a video file, which are >at positions, where the aspect-ratio changes? Try mplayer -nosound -benchmark -vo null FILE t

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM filter question

2011-07-01 Thread David W Noon
supply the partition details. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] using ffmpeg for screen cast

2011-06-26 Thread David Abbott
to pause control alt s to stop Adjust to taste that is on a dual screen. HTH David

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't start a new thread by changing the subject

2011-06-25 Thread David W Noon
, and software developers *should* know better. Worse still, the people who make these gaffes don't see anything wrong and refuse to accept that traditional netiquette should apply to them. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

Re: [gentoo-user] Don't start a new thread by changing the subject

2011-06-24 Thread David W Noon
m from that rogue server. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-24 Thread David W Noon
it's only one > programming language more installed on your system. Indeed, the ability to compile as many languages as possible is almost a necessity for users of a source-based system like Gentoo. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-19 Thread David W Noon
13 find "$HOME/.config/gnome-session/saved-session/" -mindepth 1 -name \*.desktop -delete # Clean out the cache subdirectories under $HOME. %daily 28 06 cache_clean.zsh # Check Portage for orphans. #%daily 32 06 portage_orphans.zsh -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-18 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Fri, Jun 17 2011, David Abbott wrote: > >> I am currently connected with a Google Nexus One. I am going to attach >> two files, my current lsmod and /usr/src/linux/.config >> Also I use wicd to connect. I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-12 Thread David W Noon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:06:00 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design": >On Saturday 04 June 2011 23:22:00 David W Noon wrote: >> On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:10:02 +0200,

Re: [gentoo-user]

2011-06-07 Thread David Abbott
o repository in > our institution. > > -- > Abhishek > 3rd Year, CSE, IIT Delhi > http://abhishekgupta92.info > Hi Abhishek, This should help; http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml#doc_chap2 David

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks for all the fish!

2011-06-06 Thread David Relson
Long live emacs ! emacs is an essential part of my personal toolkit. I've been using it since 1996. For 11 yrs before that I used epsilon - an editor with much the same keymappings. I started using epsilon ( On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 18:32:11 + Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > Just t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing

2011-06-05 Thread David W Noon
with the newer message id's as at origin, so this follow-up should thread correctly. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-05 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-05 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:30:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design: >On Sunday 05 Jun 2011 19:59:59 David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> Are we all confused enough for this weekend? ... :-) > >Ha, ha! I'm more than others it seems!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-05 Thread David W Noon
me baffled. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing

2011-06-05 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:10:02 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design: >David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> I hope all is clear now. > >Oh, so when it gets broken, I need to find the message before that to >see where it got messed up.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-05 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:00:01 +0200, Mick wrote about [gentoo-user] Re: Threads changing Was: OT: website design: >David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> I hope all is clear now. > >... as mud! > >This reply of yours (unlike your previous) is shown as a new thread in >Knode, no

Re: [gentoo-user] converting to gnome3--a trip report

2011-06-05 Thread David Abbott
" doesn't seem to contain > the right packages. > > Thanks, Stefan > > This is it here; http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/gnome.git;a=tree;f=status;h=ae166be0beb9b279b8afda08e19ae97b7c724272;hb=HEAD HTH, David

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-04 Thread David W Noon
clear now. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design

2011-06-04 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 05:40:01 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Threads changing Was: OT: website design: >The thread "Cleaning redundant configuration files" is the worst. I >just went back and looked. David W Noon is usually where it starts. >David, what you go

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-03 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:20:02 +0200, Bill Longman wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: >On 06/03/2011 07:52 AM, David W Noon wrote: >> On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:00:02 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote about >> Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-03 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-02 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:00:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: >On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:26:44 +0100, David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> Now, nearly everybody modifies /etc/updatedb.conf. This does not >> remove that name from mlo

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-02 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 01:10:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: >Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Wednesday 01 June 2011, David >W Noon did opine thusly: >> On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:20:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-01 Thread David W Noon
. See my follow-up to Volker Armin Hemmann on this. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-01 Thread David W Noon
e, which would be equally mnemonic. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-01 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:20:02 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: >On Wednesday 01 June 2011 15:57:58 David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> I called it an "annoyance". Having to clean up obsolete >> configuration files

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-01 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:20:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: >On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:57:58 +0100, David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> Remember: we are discussing the COMPLETE DELETION of a >> package, not an upgrade or reb

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-01 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-01 Thread David W Noon
u are deleting? Moreover, we are considering it as an on/off option. You can set yours to "off" if you want. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-01 Thread David W Noon
On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 01:20:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: >On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:26:43 +0100, David W Noon wrote: I'll trim my earlier quote down to the salient statement. >> >> It >> >> removes

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-05-31 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 31 May 2011 22:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: >On Tuesday 31 May 2011 17:26:43 David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> To repeat myself: I do not see a customized configuration file as >> being any more important than a van

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-05-31 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 31 May 2011 10:10:01 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: >On Mon, 30 May 2011 23:08:08 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > >> You have just touched on an annoyance of unmerge, in that it does not >> clean up configurati

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-31 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 30 May 2011 22:34:46 +0200 Nils Larsson wrote: > Eh... Right, so ... > > The echo example might have been a bit blunt. I've found myself using > echo examples as a general "you need to add this setting here" > device, like you learn to do when you start using Gentoo, might have > been a b

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-05-30 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 30 May 2011 21:20:01 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: >On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:05:10 +0100, David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> The only algorithmic approach with which I would feel comfortable >> would be if the file were

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-05-30 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:10:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: >On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:48:15 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > >> How does the tool of choice determine if a file is redundant or not? >> >> Just because

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:00:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale: >On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:43:19 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > >> Moreover, I never use file redirection from echo when a text editor >> is a more appropriate tool. What you have sug

[gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-05-30 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-30 Thread David W Noon
ith an that invalid one, without any checks at all on the existing contents of the file. So, it's best to use vim, nano or even emacs for such a job. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [HEADSUP] [FIXED] libreoffice versus bison-2.5

2011-05-22 Thread David Abbott
Its been fixed; http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-office/libreoffice/ChangeLog?view=markup

Re: [gentoo-user] configure flags for net-proxy/squid

2011-05-22 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] Speech-synthesizer ?

2011-05-21 Thread David Abbott
>> > This may help; > http://espeak.sourceforge.net/voices.html > This works for a woman's voice in English; espeak -v en+f4 "hello"

Re: [gentoo-user] Speech-synthesizer ?

2011-05-21 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 7:39 PM, wrote: > William Hubbs [11-05-22 01:29]: >> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 07:47:47PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > can someone recommend a speech synthesizer, which parameters like >> > voice (child/adult/male/female...and other) are configurable

Re: [gentoo-user] RFC: Implementing a spamfiltering frontend

2011-05-21 Thread David W Noon
d I use port 25 for the initial insertion of an email into Postfix and port 10025 for amavisd to re-insert the message after spam and virus scans have been completed. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntl

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

2011-05-17 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 17 May 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: >grep "GET /Tmp/Linux/G" | /var/log/apache2/access_log | grep-v | \ >awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq | wc useless use of ... awk '/GET \/Tmp\/Linux\/G/{ips[$1]++;}END{print length(ips);}' \ /var/log/apache2/access_log I add each access to ips

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 09 May 2011, JDM wrote: >Do as you tried first, but add an eval: >eval curl "$url" -d \"mydata\" $curl_opts eval is evil ... -dnh -- "Being disintegrated makes me ve-ry an-gry!"

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] bash script error

2011-05-10 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Mon, 09 May 2011, Kevin McCarthy wrote: >On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 01:44:58PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: >> It is not specific to Gentoo. But do not know where to search or post it :) >> >> My script looks like: >> >> url="http://mypage"; >> curl_opts="-x ''" >> curl $url -d \"mydata\" $curl_

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Tether a Google Nexus One?

2011-05-04 Thread David Abbott
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Grant wrote: > Any ideas?  I'm on Android 2.3.3. > > - Grant > Works fine here, this should help; http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-843255.html

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread David W Noon
s USE='-doc' to bypass. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread David W Noon
y specifying the package(s) in /etc/portage/package.use. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: consolekit won't start

2011-04-16 Thread David W Noon
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:00:02 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: consolekit won't start: >On Saturday 16 April 2011 17:27:14 David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> Consolekit does not like starting when there are already several >> daemon processes running. So, you should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: consolekit won't start

2011-04-16 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] LVM for data drives but not the OS

2011-04-08 Thread David W Noon
an create a logical volume that is bigger than any of the physical volumes involved. But before you do any of that fancy stuff, get used to using LVM2 as a smarter partition manager. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveDVD-11.0 questions

2011-03-20 Thread David Abbott
Hartmut > -- > Usenet-ABC-Wiki http://www.usenet-abc.de/wiki/ > Von Usern fuer User  :-) > > > -- David Abbott (dabbott) Gentoo http://dev.gentoo.org/~dabbott/

Re: [gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn

2011-03-06 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn

2011-03-06 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 06 Mar 2011 02:00:02 +0100, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn: >David W Noon [11-03-05 15:43]: [snip] >> I need to specify the full path to the executable, /usr/bin/sa-learn, >> when I use sudo to run it as amavis. [

Re: [gentoo-user] spamd and user nobody, sa-learn

2011-03-05 Thread David W Noon
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Re: [gentoo-user] XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and XDG_DATA_DIRS env variables with E17

2011-02-27 Thread David W Noon
hat affected Evolution. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266018 - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] == dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) == -BEGIN

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