[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

2016-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-06-11, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Right now I'm experimenting with mlt's "melt" command line editor. >> It seems to produce small, high-quality output files. I've figured >> out how to do video fade-in, fade-out, but can

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

2016-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-06-11, James wrote: > Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes: > >> Right now I'm experimenting with mlt's "melt" command line editor. >> It seems to produces small, high-quality output files. I've >> figured out how to do video fade-in, fade

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommend a simple video editor?

2016-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-06-11, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> I've got a handful of mp4 video clips (a minute or two each). All I >> want to do is >> >> 1) Concatenate them with fade-in at beginning of each clip and fade-out >> at the end of each clip

[gentoo-user] Recommend a simple video editor?

2016-06-10 Thread Grant Edwards
I've got a handful of mp4 video clips (a minute or two each). All I want to do is 1) Concatenate them with fade-in at beginning of each clip and fade-out at the end of each clip. 2) Superimpose a title at the beginning for a few seconds. Can anybody recomment a simple video editor? So

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't install cairosvg

2016-06-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-06-01, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2016 22:05:24 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy >> "dev-python/cairocffi[python_targets_python2_7(-)?,python_targets_python3_3(-)?,python_targets_python3_4(-)?,p

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't install cairosvg

2016-05-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-31, Willie M wrote: > On 05/31/2016 03:05 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I can't install cairosvg. After an hour of googling and beating my >> head against the wall, I still have absolutely no idea why: >> >> # eselect python list >> Available Pyth

[gentoo-user] Can't install cairosvg

2016-05-31 Thread Grant Edwards
red by "cairosvg" [argument]) I've tried dozens of settings for PYTHON_TARGETS and PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET and have gotten exactly nowhere. Is there an English translation of the emerge error message available? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hand

[gentoo-user] Re: How to be a penguin.

2016-05-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-28, Alan Grimes wrote: [plonk] -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-13, Grant Edwards wrote: > Well, I had never tried 4.9.3, and I'd been using 4.6 without problems > for some time, so keeping 4.6 seemed like the safe way to go. I still > don't understand what broke 4.6. I must have been using 4.9 for a while and then switched

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
ain eclass) so there is no need for users to call this themselves anymore. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! If our behavior is at strict, we do not need fun! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
g to respond. Was > that part of the re-organization of the gentoo.org website? Tinderbox's owner pulled the plug on it a couple years ago. AFAIR, it didn't have anything to do with the website reort. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is a tattoo real, like

[gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
news warning about this? Is this true for all packages that were previously installed in slots, or have gcc and a select few been chosen specially for this breakage? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I feel like I'm at

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-13, Willie M wrote: >>>> So, I uninstalled gcc 4.9 and all older versions except 4.6. > 4.9 most likely works if it is installed. Just have to tell gentoo to > use it. > > gcc-config -l $ gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.6.4 * -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-13, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 08:25:14PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> So, I uninstalled gcc 4.9 and all older versions except 4.6. >> >> I then removed 4.6 from the world file (but left it installed). >> >> emerge

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-13, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2016 19:34:18 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> Is one no longer allowed to have multiple gcc versions insalled? It >> seemd to be allowed earlier today... > > That's right, see the "A Glitch in t

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
uly borked. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I want to kill at everyone here with a cute gmail.comcolorful Hydrogen Bomb!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
ple gcc versions insalled? It seemd to be allowed earlier today... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'd like MY data-base at JULIENNED and stir-fried! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-13, Willie M wrote: > On 05/13/2016 12:16 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I have no idea but I seen that star and thought about that it might be > that reason. It also wants to reinstall gcc-4.5 so make sure you > uninstall that. A couple hours ago, my system was perfectly

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
t seemed to be for installing multiple versions within a slot. Why would one need "multislot" set? > So make sure you have that use flag enabled still for > all of your gcc versions. > > sys-devel/gcc multislot -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwar

[gentoo-user] Can't figure out gcc-4.9 blocker

2016-05-13 Thread Grant Edwards
lease refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm ZIPPY the PINHEAD

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-06, James wrote: > Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes: > >> I'd like to to install winusb, and it appears to depend on grub-2: >> $ sudo emerge -av winusb > > Ok, so I've never used winusb, so excuse me for asking a few dumb > questions here

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2016 16:21:28 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> >> Thanks. That's good to know -- I'll definitely set things up so I'm >> >> not running winusb as root. >> > >> > We

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
could always reinstall grub-0 before rebooting, to make sure. I just created a systemsrescuecd bootable USB flash drive that can be be used to re-install grub-0 in the MBR if something does go wrong. But, running winusb as a non-privlidged user should prevent any collateral damage to the MBR.

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-06, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 9:40 AM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: [...] >>> Yes, I know not to run grub2-install (and I trust that winusb will not >>> do so either). Just to be

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-06, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2016 at 5:04 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Thursday 05 May 2016 19:45:53 Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Grant Edwards >>> wrote: [...] >>>> Since grub-2.02 is being insta

[gentoo-user] Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
Since grub-2.02 is being installed in a new slot, one would assume it won't interfere with continue use of grub-0.97... Right? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Why is everything made at of Lycra Spandex? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Webcamviewer (or such) ?

2016-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
;t know what you do other than curse at Adobe and the web page developer... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'd like some JUNK at FOOD ... and then I want to gmail.combe ALONE --

[gentoo-user] Re: Calm

2016-04-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-04-16, John Blinka wrote: > I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now. Thanks for > prompting me to add my 2 cents. Same here. I switched all my "daily drivers" from Mandrake/Mandriva almost 15 years ago, and have no regrets. No more of the RPM dependancy merry-go-round

[gentoo-user] Re: why emerge sucks nuts:

2016-04-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-04-16, Alan Grimes wrote: > I'm like I'M ALREADY UPDATING C TOO, YOU STOOPID STACK OF SHIT!!! > > Now I'm uninstalling packages like a madman hoping to clear through this... Doing things like a madman may, in fact, be the problem. -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

2016-03-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-03-23, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-03-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Most users in this day and age would probably reply "why do I need to >> start with different resolutions and colour depth?" > > When using different display hardware: LCD projector,

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

2016-03-23 Thread Grant Edwards
ed with any of that, all my > displays are now LCD where only one resolution makes any sense - native If you've got multiple displays, "native" isn't really enough info. Do you want to mirror a single screen, do you want multiple screens, do you want a single screen spread ac

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

2016-03-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-03-23, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2016-03-22, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:42:26 +, Ian Bloss wrote: >> >> Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can always us

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

2016-03-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-03-22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:42:26 +, Ian Bloss wrote: > >> Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can always use the >> magic sysrsc key to get control of input back from X > > Yes, I mentioned Alt-SysReq-R several posts ago. You're probably right, th

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

2016-03-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-03-21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 10:52:26 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > >> Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a safe >> console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head examined. > After all, it's not as though it falls back to a console

[gentoo-user] Re: Keyboard is dead after emerge-update

2016-03-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-03-21, Alan Grimes wrote: > Anyone who boots directly to X'doze without first going through a safe > console login is a raging mad lunatic who needs his head examined. [...] A bit hyperbolic perhaps, but I've always been a firm believer in the "boot to console and start X from the comman

[gentoo-user] Re: The war continues.

2016-03-19 Thread Grant Edwards
nd was thrown back into > useflag hell: Have you considered just re-installing from scratch? I know it's tough to admit defeat, but when a base install takes less than an hour[1]... [1] Plus the overnight "emerge" command that builds all the fancy stuff... -- Grant E

[gentoo-user] Re: I don't understand version numbers in Gentoo security advisories

2016-03-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-03-04, Jonathan Callen wrote: > On 03/03/2016 04:00 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I'm sure I'm just being stupid, but I don't understand the lists of >> affected and unaffected version numbers in Gentoo security >> advisories. >> >> F

[gentoo-user] I don't understand version numbers in Gentoo security advisories

2016-03-03 Thread Grant Edwards
evision >= 0.9.8z_p13, revision >= 0.9.8z_p14, revision >= 0.9.8z_p15 If it's true that versions >= 0.9.8z_p8 are unaffected, why is there a need to list that versions >= 0.9.8z_p[9-15] are unaffected? Are <> relationships betwen version numbers within the 0.9.8z_pNNN s

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of graphics card

2016-03-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-03-02, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Budget seems unlikely to influence choice of graphics card maker. If budget is not an issue, then buy a couple different models from each brand and test them to see which one performs the best in your application. -- Grant Edwa

[gentoo-user] Re: Java 8 and remote access

2016-01-31 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-01-31, Grant wrote: > Sorry, I should have been more specific. I want to run a desktop Java > 8 app remotely. So you're asking how to set up some sort of remote desktop access? Wasn't there just a huge thread on this with a subject something like "allowing work from home"? -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-19 Thread Grant Edwards
y/mouse/keyboard part of it works pretty much the same. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I hope something GOOD at came in the mail today so gmail.comI have a REASON to live!!

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

2016-01-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-01-16, Daniel Frey wrote: > I would use VPN + an X server that can spawn sessions on demand. This > way it all stays internal on the work network. One caveat: the way X11 was intended to work in this situation is that you run the X11 clients on the secure machine in the office, and run t

[gentoo-user] Re: How to disable gnome-keyring support in chromium?

2016-01-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-01-07, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-05-18, Mick wrote: >> On Monday 18 May 2015 22:17:43 Manuel Schönlaub wrote: >>> Just upgrade to the - unstable - chrome 43. As Mike stated in an email >>> before, the unconditional dependency in libsecret was removed

[gentoo-user] Re: How to disable gnome-keyring support in chromium?

2016-01-07 Thread Grant Edwards
the same bug that was supposedly fixed in version 43. Even when built with -gnome-keyring, it insists on trying to use a gnome keyring. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Do you guys know we at just passed thru a BLACK

[gentoo-user] Re: Splitting large audio files into tracks

2016-01-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-01-02, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I have quite a few large audio rip files that need to be split up > into their respective tracks. [...] > I very seldom work with audio files directly, so I'm mostly clueless > in this area and it's easier to ask folks who do this often what > packages out th

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads up for those who use grub2

2015-12-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-12-19, Mick wrote: > http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html If somebody can touch your computer while it's booting, the game's over anyway... -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

2015-11-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-11-15, Dale wrote: > Wasn't there a emerge option to ignore the manifest? I seem to recall > there used to be one but it was a LONG time ago. Of course, if someone > has tinkered with something that would be a bad thing to do. If the digest failures are for packages you don't have inst

[gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

2015-11-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-11-12, wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> After an emerge --sync that appeared to work with no problems, my >> "emerge -auvND world" command is reporting that the Changelong files >> are broken for about 2/3 of the packages it wants to update: >

[gentoo-user] All sorts of digest verification failures

2015-11-12 Thread Grant Edwards
the emerge timestamp, sync'ed again, and got the same result. Based on past experiences, I'm guessing that if I wait a day or two and sync again the problems will go away. But I am curious what causes these temporary breakages. Does anybody know how this happens

[gentoo-user] Re: Technical imap mail question

2015-10-16 Thread Grant Edwards
etical than real, but the theory > is what puzzles me.) Sounds like a normal low-level SNAFU to me... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Can you MAIL a BEAN at CAKE? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment

2015-10-02 Thread Grant Edwards
t have to use the KDE desktop. But, in my experience, whenever there's a major upgrade to KDE and you have KDE apps that require different versions of libraries, or backwards compatibility features built into libraries, it gets ugly fast. At that point, I ususally end up un

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-30, Peter Weilbacher wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> [Actually, I don't recall ever using evince or atril for filling out >> PDF forms -- so that might be another reason I'd have to keep acroread >> around.] > > In my e

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-30, Chris Spackman wrote: > On 2015/09/30 at 04:27am, Grant Edwards wrote: > > >> [Actually, I don't recall ever using evince or atril for filling out >> PDF forms -- so that might be another reason I'd have to keep >> acroread around.] > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-30, walt wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:09:00 + (UTC) > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2015-09-29, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> > I'm sick and tired of the Gnome "CSD" nonsense which appears to be a >> > concerted eff

[gentoo-user] Re: THE SCREAM.

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-29, Lee wrote: > I saw 'Irises' in person at the Getty, and it took 5 min before I could > lift my jaw off the ground... Haven't seen that one in person yet, it's on loan to the MIA here in Minneaplis until this Saturday, so I'd better get i

[gentoo-user] Re: THE SCREAM.

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
s self-portraits. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Yes, but will I at see the EASTER BUNNY in gmail.comskintight leather at an IRON MAIDEN concert?

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-29, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm sick and tired of the Gnome "CSD" nonsense which appears to be a > concerted effort to break gtk+ apps on all desktops other than very > specific configurations of Gnome desktops. To the Gnome developer's > cred

[gentoo-user] Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788076 It looks like I would have to downgrade gtk+ from 3.16 to 3.14 in order to use it. Has anybody tried it? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! On the road, ZIPPY at

[gentoo-user] Re: process takes about 85% of the CPU

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
ll sorts of stupid animated 3D shite on the screen while it waits for somebody to log in? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Now I am depressed ... at gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I'll test without "xinerama" in the near future and let you know. > (requires a rebuild of a lot of stuff...) Don't bother on my account -- it's just idle curiosity, and I could do the test myself... -- Grant Edward

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 18 September 2015 14:34:26 Grant Edwards wrote: >> I like having separate screens because the window manager I use >> (xfwm4) supports multiple virtual workspaces for each screen (4 per >> screen by default). I find it very

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
arently written by MS-Windows programmers based on the assumption that a computer is always used by exactly one person to run exactly one program on exactly on screen. Most other X apps are properly written and support multiple screens just fine. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
email and web-browser up on one screen while switching the other two back and forth between multiple tasks/projects. (I am rarely allowed to work uninterrupted for long periods on a single task.) Not being able to move windows between screens is an inconvenience, but for me it's well wort

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thu, September 17, 2015 16:33, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-09-17, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2015-09-17, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >>>>>> I use 2 screens extensively and never experienced any issues like

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-17, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-09-17, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>>> I use 2 screens extensively and never experienced any issues like you >>>> describe. >>> >>> And you can select/paste from one screen to another where the source >&

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-17 Thread Grant Edwards
around > for years. Agreed. Apps that use other libraries seem to work fine, and gtk-2 works fine. >> Are you really using multiple screens? Or a single screen spread >> across mutliple monitors? If you start an xterm on every monitor and >> do "echo $DI

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-16, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 06:57:36 PM Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > In most X11 apps I can select some text and then paste it somewhere >> > else with a middle-click, or dump it to stdout with

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards wrote: > In most X11 apps I can select some text and then paste it somewhere > else with a middle-click, or dump it to stdout with the command 'xclip > -o'. That doesn't work for highligted text in gtk-3 apps (meld, > evince, audacious, e

[gentoo-user] Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-15 Thread Grant Edwards
ddle-click in a terminal window it does nothing and 'xclip -o' just hangs. Selecting text elsewhere will deselect the text in the gtk-3 app, so gtk-3 isn't _completely_ ignoring X11 clipboards/buffers. Any ideas why gtk-3 copy/paste is broken and how to fix it? -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-28, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:34:30 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I know it has worked in the past, and I know that recent versions of >> some distros that use Grub2 still allow you to pick a partition for >> the bootloader dur

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-27, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > I much prefer chainloading and giving each distro free reign over their > own boot loader. That way they can pretend they're the boss and work the > way they were intended to and I can supervise things from gentoo. Yup. I've got up to 12 Linux distros o

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Grant Edwards
ow you to pick a partition for the bootloader during the install. > I have done it a couple of times so far, just as you describe above. > In my case I chainload GRUB2 with NTLDR or modern equivalent and this > is how I know that the MBR was not being overwritten by it.

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-27, James wrote: > Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes: >> For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that's a >> pretty big reason to stick with grub-legacy. > > So you are saying (trying to read the 'tea leaves' here) that >

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Grant Edwards
e. > > It's not a bug, and it won't be "fixed". Installing on a partition is > simply not supported. So, grub2 refuses to share power and cooperate with another bootloader. Bill Gates would be pround. For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that&#

[gentoo-user] Re: CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Grant Edwards
but rarely. [1] cdparanoia, mp3lame, cddb, ffmpeg, mencoder, id3tag etc. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! does your DRESSING at ROOM have enough ASPARAGUS? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-26 Thread Grant Edwards
with this, but what is the benefit of such profile selection:: > curiously I have no experience with the profile selection, despite > running quite a few amd64 system. What would the benefits be > running this profile on older amd64 hardware ? The main benefit of ARM64 w/o 32-bit libs is

[gentoo-user] Re: Filthy oscilloscope picture! =P

2015-08-24 Thread Grant Edwards
thstand a limited number erase/program cycles. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm pretending that at we're all watching PHIL gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: 69.99 != 69.99

2015-08-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-22, Alan McKinnon wrote: [regarding floating point comparison.] > A good way to demonstrate just how problematic floats can be is to point > out that floats are banned in the linux kernel for exactly this reason. > Integers only. Really? The reason that I was given when I wanted to

[gentoo-user] Re: Epic list of total FAIL.

2015-08-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-21, Alan Grimes wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-08-21, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> Earlier I saw segfaults in gcc, and another poster pointed it out. >>> >>> When gcc segfaults, it is always suspicious mostly because the compiler

[gentoo-user] Re: Epic list of total FAIL.

2015-08-21 Thread Grant Edwards
es, I could often run memtest for several passes and not see an error. But, _eventually_ ramtest would catch it. Run memtest for a few days. Really. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm having an at EMOTIONAL

[gentoo-user] Re: Epic list of total FAIL.

2015-08-20 Thread Grant Edwards
issue? > > Ranting on the list might make you feel better, but is not likely to fix > your problem. Just saying. In fact, the more you rant and swear and insult people, the fewer people are going to pay attention and try to help. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow

[gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-19 Thread Grant Edwards
n't keep track of what version was fetched, so once you've installed a "live" ebuild, it won't ever get updated no matter how many subsequent changes have been commited to the version control system. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-19 Thread Grant Edwards
ssumptions made about what colors are actually legible is wrong if you use terminals with white backgrounds. I have to turn off colors just to make the default output legible. 2) It introduces dependencies like this which should be minimized in something as central to the system as e

[gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-18 Thread Grant Edwards
is built. One suggestion I saw for this problem (on a different distro) is to symlink libtinfo to libncurses. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Edwin Meese made me at wear CORDOVANS!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-08, Felix Miata wrote: > I don't get why any distro leaves this out, why anyone wouldn't like to > automatically notice while booting any announcement that something failed, > especially someone who has just gotten a new installation up for the first > times. Why isn't --noclear set by

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-07, James wrote: > gmail.com> writes: > > >> > If I'm monkeying around with my email config and I'm not sure if >> > everything is still okay, I usually use gmane [1,2]. > >> > [1] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user >> > [2] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user > > Y

[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-05 Thread Grant Edwards
arned most of what you're going to learn, and it's just a long hard slog the rest of the way. But do you give up and do a fresh install? No, you keep going "because it's there". -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! The SAME WAVE keeps

[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-05 Thread Grant Edwards
s now trying to shove systemd down everybody's throat. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I can't decide which at WRONG TURN to make first!! gmail.comI wonder if BOB GUCCIONE has these problems!

[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Grant Edwards
ation semantic" if that's what people want. I don't see any benefit in turning Gentoo into yet another "me too" one-click installation trying to compete with RedHat and Ubuntu. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Let's all show human at CONCERN for REVERAND MOON's gmail.comlegal difficulties!!

[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-04, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:20:40 + (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-08-04, Felix Miata wrote: >> >> > That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on an >> > old Athlon, which means no s

[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-04, Felix Miata wrote: > Grant Edwards composed on 2015-08-04 17:20 (UTC): > >> My gut feeling is that a fresh install is going to be a _lot_ easier > > For some "degenerate" value of easier. :-) > >> and faster. A fresh install will take a

[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Grant Edwards
between a couple days and a couple weeks. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is it 1974? What's at for SUPPER? Can I spend gmail.commy COLLEGE FUND in one wild afternoon??

[gentoo-user] Re: Resizing a FAT partition?

2015-07-30 Thread Grant Edwards
the SDcard, reinitialize it, put 2 >> partitions on it and copy back the stuff.) > > Given that you should backup any important data before resizing any > filesystem, this may be the easiest method. I've had resize operations go pear-shaped on me. I have

[gentoo-user] Re: The state of public relations?

2015-07-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-24, wrote: > I never missed an installer. And I'm neither a geek nor an IT > professional. If you don't miss an installer, I'm afraid you're definitely a geek. "Not that there's anything wrong with that..." :) -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Very recent change in behavior of gmail imap/smtp servers

2015-07-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-22, walt wrote: > Very soon after being invited to open a gmail account, I discovered > that google offers non-web-browser access to their free (as in beer) > email servers. Yep. Their IMAP implementation is pretty well done. Definitly better than courier and far better than MS exch

[gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread Grant Edwards
_Minimal-Install_Image_on_USB#Copying_the_ISO_Image_to_USB > Or you could wait for the resident expert (Neil) to supply the magic > incantation that lets dd do what you want :-) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I want my nose in

[gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-15 Thread Grant Edwards
ings you do during a coup in a small central/south american county is take over or disable the radio-telphone base stations. [Back then the base stations were much higher power and covered much larger areas than a cellular base station does these days.] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.ed

[gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
ermite: http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/how-to-thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/ And mechanical shredding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZdZGKyu9hc Others favor a high-powered rifle or an 8lb sledge. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Sometim

[gentoo-user] Re: google

2015-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
ld post if Google _were_ controlling you. Perhaps you're just not aware that they're controlling you? ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Yes, but will I at see the EASTER BUNNY in gmail.c

[gentoo-user] Re: Google calendar notifications in XFCE?

2015-06-30 Thread Grant Edwards
nto that. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! When this load is at DONE I think I'll wash it gmail.comAGAIN ...

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