e gentoo help pages online with more detailed
examples, scripts and tools to better organize heat, current and other
relative performance parameters.
hth,
James
s technology human
rights deserves as much legacy, and the legal centric rights, started
back in the late Seventeen hundreds. WE now have the same oligarchs
running the US,
as they have in Europe for thousands of years.
Uniqueness, via gentoo, is the best we have, atm. Start with a simple
list of codes and a secure, minimized kernel. Sub $500 laptops, amd
centric, could be the focal point, for this list of gentoo users.
hth,
James Horton, pe
li-linux or Pentoo is close to the 'single-system' (?) but what
about the 'small-net' itemized list?
curiously,
James
stgres
and
app-office/libreoffice-l10n
Installed versions: 6.3.4.2... en
I'm interested in more advanced viewing of any and all sorts of
electrical/electronic file viewing.
curiously,
James
If I were you, I'd figure out a second, graphical Gentoo system, on the
cheap; as it can be used to fix most 'borked gentoo' systems,
particularly if the best tools are setup and ready, just for gentoo_repair.
hth,
James
On 3/3/20 5:00 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 11:16:21AM -0500, james wrote
team-gentoo-user,
Palemoon, Installed versions: 28.8.4, is great!
But, no matter what I try, I cannot view 'pdf' files in
palemoon. Is there a page that explains how to get pdf
viewing work
popping up another app so I can read the pdf, which
are common, from whatever source?
ANY hack would be OK
All comments and guidance is warmly received.
James
insist of giving Gentoo the credit, but realize, when startup and
large corps get involved, sure they have to create many jobs, and
eventually make a profit.
5G everywhere, FAST, with all unlocked cell phones, would make me very,
very happy. ymmv.
hth
James
"Greed" is a stupi
On 2/29/20 8:49 PM, antlists wrote:
On 29/02/2020 17:40, james wrote:
is if the US government returns to the fundamental christian value
system, that made our country great. Greed, un-bridled, is changing
the quality of our lives, regardless of your personal belief systems.
Our country? I
On 2/29/20 4:44 AM, Wols Lists wrote:
On 26/02/20 03:10, james wrote:
I'm just not convinced that our USA government continuing to "sell
bandwidth rights", is constitutional?
Problem is, if bandwidth is "opened to all" the reality in the past
would have been a free-f
On 2/27/20 9:53 PM, Dale wrote:
james wrote:
5G + gentoo + embedded toys, is going to be FUN FUN FUN.
Then I'll be off to other states, via a hacked out Redneck
camper.. and too many microProcessors
Thanks Rich, your insights and comments are always most welcome.
James
On 2/27/20 4:49 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 4:25 PM james wrote:
Yea, I was not clear. I'd run the mail-server, on a 'cluster' (4 or
more), not an individual pi-board unless it was beef up, processor and
ram wise. Gig E would also be on my list.
Unles
ra of hardware available, that one can get for embedded
projects and the matching (sensitive) price points. No need to go there
(its a morass).
thanks,
James
ace Pro4 so expanding the storage is not practical -
though I could shrink the windows partition a little more.
Maybe a usb-splitter would help? (no usb ports?)
BillK
hth,
James
e services and cluster multi-homed?
Would all of this work with just IP6 and a fancy cell phone, running
gentoo? We shall see.
James
On 2/18/20 11:00 PM, r...@nmare.net wrote:
On Feb 18, 2020 22:33, james wrote:
On 2/18/20 9:29 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
>
More comments? encouragement, folks interested?
James
I am very interested, although my testing capabilities would be
restricted to a non-sams
On 2/24/20 5:22 PM, james wrote:
On 2/24/20 4:30 PM, n952162 wrote:
What do you mean with this?
On 2020-02-21 00:38, james wrote:
Now, I'm a 5G activist, so that telcos become merely non-exclusive
bandwidth providers and only the less informed use them for mobile
software stacks
On 2/24/20 5:10 PM, n952162 wrote:
On 2020-02-24 23:00, james wrote:
On 2/24/20 4:33 PM, n952162 wrote:
On 2020-02-24 22:18, james wrote:
On 2/24/20 3:55 PM, n952162 wrote:
what do you see 5G providing that 4G couldn't deliver?
On 2020-02-21 00:38, james wrote:
5G CAN change every
On 2/24/20 4:30 PM, n952162 wrote:
What do you mean with this?
On 2020-02-21 00:38, james wrote:
Now, I'm a 5G activist, so that telcos become merely non-exclusive
bandwidth providers and only the less informed use them for mobile
software stacks.
I, like everybody else, am
On 2/24/20 3:55 PM, n952162 wrote:
what do you see 5G providing that 4G couldn't deliver?
On 2020-02-21 00:38, james wrote:
5G CAN change everything! Gentoo should blaze the open source pathway
of contributions and WE all should dream, build and get control of our
country back!
5G may b
On 2/20/20 7:28 PM, Dale wrote:
james wrote:
On 2/20/20 5:23 PM, Dale wrote:
james wrote:
Reading that Samsung is interested in this makes me glad I bought a
Samsung cell phone.� :-D� While nervous about this sort of thing,
scared
I might brick the thing, it is interesting and something
On 2/20/20 5:23 PM, Dale wrote:
james wrote:
On 2/18/20 11:00 PM, r...@nmare.net wrote:
On Feb 18, 2020 22:33, james wrote:
��� On 2/18/20 9:29 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
���� >
���� > On 19/2/20 4:16 am, james wrote:
���� >> So,
���
On 2/18/20 11:00 PM, r...@nmare.net wrote:
On Feb 18, 2020 22:33, james wrote:
On 2/18/20 9:29 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
>
> On 19/2/20 4:16 am, james wrote:
>> So,
>>
>> After contacting several US carriers, the cover story is you ca
On 2/19/20 7:57 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
On 19/2/20 10:29 am, William Kenworthy wrote:
On 19/2/20 4:16 am, james wrote:
So,
[snip]
James
[snip]
Easier and more practical would be to install LibreOS. You can build ii
yourself and build/include your own software as needed - I did it
On 2/18/20 9:29 PM, William Kenworthy wrote:
On 19/2/20 4:16 am, james wrote:
So,
After contacting several US carriers, the cover story is you can get a
cell phone, root it with linux, and it 'should work'. Supposedly, you
are encourage, but they
will not offer any help. So r
he phone. I have heard this is quite popular in Europe and
the Rf circuits have their own firmware, so it's really next to
impossible to hack the Rf side
of communications.?
Any and all responses, public or private, are most welcome. Links only
are fine too!
James
other
lists are problematic::
https://gentoobrowse.randomdan.homeip.net/#2020-02-17
I have to manually refresh it dailey, and as you scroll down, it lists
up the the (3) most recent days of releases.
hth,
James
On 2/13/20 7:48 PM, james wrote:
On 2/13/20 5:04 AM, Gerion Entrup wrote:
Hi,
I have a strange emerge/update problem:
```
# emerge -a1 "=meson-0.52.1::gentoo" "=setuptools-42.0.2::gentoo" -v
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependenci
I misconfigured something?
Best,
Gerion
Strange.
I have
Installed versions: 0.52.1^t(05:58:03 PM 01/15/2020)(-test
PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_6 -python3_7 -python3_8")
with python3_6 highlighted
and setuptools:
Installed versions: 44.0.0^t(06:17:31 PM 02/10/2020)
perhaps it's confusion concerning python versioning?
hth,
James
On 2/9/20 7:26 PM, Michael Jones wrote:
On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 5:55 PM james <mailto:gar...@verizon.net>> wrote:
Sure the many of the wonderful folks that visit gentoo-user would
participate, just a little bit?
I would be willing to help.
However, if left to my own d
e the many of the wonderful folks that visit gentoo-user would
participate, just a little bit?
Perhaps a concerted effort/document/examples on how to bring eapi-5/6
packages up to eapi-7? A document with a few examples?
Perhaps all of this exist and I just missed it?
curiously,
James
I cannot seem to find any ebuilds for 'zuul'; the zuul that works with
python
https://pypi.org/project/zuul/#files
I'm not sure I have the skills to put an ebuild (eapi7) for zuul.
Any pointers to folks ahead of me on this, would be keen.
James
s that are
based/depend on python2_7? Or just a parsed listing of such ebuilds.
Any other ideas/suggestions are most welcome.
James
the deceptions and folks with nefarious
intentions, has just exploded. My suggestion is that WE all discuss and
figure out a gentoo centric solution, that is installed, managed and
enhanced by options, all on a Gentoo centric framework. I'm almost ready
to get static IPs and roll my own
On 1/27/20 11:40 PM, Franz Fellner wrote:
Quoting james (2020-01-27 06:57:24)
It runs on 64/145 packages just fine, then, as always, fails on
"Emerging (65 of 145)dev-perl/Authen-SASL-2.160.0-r1::argent-main"
Any other ideas? Maybe I need to download that package again, as it
s
On 1/27/20 3:18 AM, Mick wrote:
On Monday, 27 January 2020 07:26:38 GMT Arve Barsnes wrote:
On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 05:57, james wrote:
Can't locate inc/Module/Install.pm in @INC (you may need to install the
inc::Module::Install module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl
/usr/local/lib64/perl5/5
On 1/26/20 7:06 PM, Mick wrote:
On Sunday, 26 January 2020 23:45:14 GMT james wrote:
On 1/26/20 3:58 AM, Mick wrote:
On Sunday, 26 January 2020 08:36:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday, 26 January 2020 05:35:04 GMT Dale wrote:
james wrote:
just a test via another mail-route. curious if
On 1/26/20 3:58 AM, Mick wrote:
On Sunday, 26 January 2020 08:36:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Sunday, 26 January 2020 05:35:04 GMT Dale wrote:
james wrote:
just a test via another mail-route. curious if it works
FYI, it came through but the threading was broken. It appeared here as
a
On 1/25/20 10:00 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:20 PM james wrote:
I have removed all syntax/expressions from
/etc/portage/make.conf
related to python; hoping python-2 would just die a natural, slow and
painless (for me) death, on this ancient gentoo install.
Any and all
On 1/25/20 9:59 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:20 PM james wrote:
I have removed all syntax/expressions from
/etc/portage/make.conf
related to python; hoping python-2 would just die a natural, slow and
painless (for me) death, on this ancient gentoo install.
Any and all
related to python; hoping python-2 would just die a natural, slow and
painless (for me) death, on this ancient gentoo install.
Any and all comments related to what to check/do are most welcome,
related to removing python-2*
James
On 1/13/20 3:24 AM, n952162 wrote:
On 2020-01-12 16:48, james wrote:
I also install and re-install, as many of the gentoo systems get
"attacked" before I can� complete a secure install, or the hackers
just read much more than I do.
I guess I'm still popular, in very negative
On 1/13/20 3:24 AM, n952162 wrote:
On 2020-01-12 16:48, james wrote:
I also install and re-install, as many of the gentoo systems get
"attacked" before I can� complete a secure install, or the hackers
just read much more than I do.
I guess I'm still popular, in very negative
On 1/13/20 5:24 PM, (Nuno Silva) wrote:
On 2020-01-13, james wrote:
On 1/13/20 11:32 AM, gentoo-user+ow...@lists.gentoo.org wrote:
Some messages to you could not be delivered. If you're seeing this
message it means things are back to normal, and it's merely for your
information.
H
he-mesos
Some very old docs::
https://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/building/
I included some redundant docs, trying to get others involved in testing
and ideas for docs, that are gentoo centric.
--noob(old&&forgetful) ebuild hack,
James
ting these?
James
ng can be complete therein and moved to a target, just
like most embedded systems installs are these days.
hth,
James
know it's on my short list, once I get my new/expanded lab cleaned up
a bit more The coolest thing is 36" x 18" open-wire racks on
wheels.. just for such projects.
hth,
James
On 9/1/20 3:34 pm, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
No experience on this, but looks like it can b
use it in a
multi-homed (half-baked) config..
Can you set a static IP on the device ?
James
nnection(s)
There are many search/sniff tools available, for the outside looking
inward at your connection(s), if you look deeply.
hth,
James
7219154&sr=8-8
Don't be shy, there are many online tutorials and places to learn/get-help.
hth,
James
. However, there is little
encouragement, if you are near expert level, with embedded systems, as
they are quite different than a desktop or server running gentoo.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Embedded
Here is a starting point. Good Luck!
James
o further refine how your system works.
It's a wide open area so read up a bit and find your comfort level.
hth,
James
ment laptops and multi-monitor systems.
TIA for any feedback, suggestions gotchas or any information.
James
On 11/7/19 1:55 PM, Laurence Perkins wrote:
On Thu, 2019-10-03 at 20:13 -0400, james wrote:
Gentoo community,
Robotic vacuum cleaners are all the rage nowadays.
I'd like to buy/build one, that also has remote camera (so I can see
what troubles it is having by reviewing stored video) fi
Hello, we are looking to hire a PHP developer for a project in
Windsor, UK. Should have experience of building and querying MySQL
databases. Should any members wish to discuss further do reach me
using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James
ng home/small-office
flooring.
Anyone know of such a robotic vacuum that is basically very open, if not
completely open source?
Gentoo friendly vaccuum?
Lawnmower is next on the list.
All suggestions and comments are most welcome.
James
On 9/24/19 12:28 PM, Jack wrote:
On 2019.09.23 20:24, james wrote:
Hello,
So, I've been running Thunderbird-60,9.0 with the only 2 flags set::
dbus jack.
Only (broken) issue is the spellchecker (do not even remember which
one I use to use) does not work. Any spellchecker that automagi
0. Is there a
better/newer version to run?
Thanks in Advance,
James
scuss further off-list using
"JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James
On 9/17/19 2:23 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 01:20:40AM -0400, james wrote
So I want a newer verision of Palemoon, but do not find any sort of
discussion on why we (gentoo) are back at 28.3.0? Is there an overlay
with more recent palemoon releases for gentoo, that I'm mi
ses for gentoo, that I'm missing?
Any info you can provide, or anyone else, would be keenly appreciated,
including a 'homebrew' updated version/settings/hacks of palemoon on
gentoo
curiously,
James
rent right to
security and hardware and software, is the right of the citizen, and
must supercede corporate profit schemes, criminal activities and
maligned actions of the collective governments.
Time for FREEDOM to reign! (spell checker on thunderbird temporarily
broken...).
Be at peace,
Ja
On 9/5/19 11:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 04/09/2019 07:42, james wrote:
I have these versions of python installed 2.7.15, 3.5.5 and 3.6.5
and these settings in make.conf::
??PYTHON_TARGETS=" python2_7 python3_6"
??PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6"
Sometimes it
Has anyone tried adding 3.7 to the python targets yet? I got some strange
errors when I tried last week.
James
On Thu, 5 Sep 2019, 16:13 Nikos Chantziaras, wrote:
> On 04/09/2019 07:42, james wrote:
> > I have these versions of python installed 2.7.15, 3.5.5 and 3.6.5
> > and th
s
Perhaps I've missed a straightforward guide, or a way to mitigate when a
package still want python2_7 ?
Info and guidance is most welcome.
James
ot;grep [f]irefox" and the
>> regex can't match that line (without escaping the [] again).
>
> Or just use pgrep, I usually use pgrep - fa.
>
Ah, that is what I was looking for
thx,
James
ome.
Just a note: I've been in poor health, over the last 2 years, so excuse
my lack of keeping my gentoo system(s) robustly updated.
James
with linux (Gentoo, RHEL, *buntu) But it sure looks promising.
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-3USB3-0-Multiport-MacBook-Samsung/dp/B07DHQ2X8Z
hth,
James
Thank you for the solution, will give it a try this evening!
James
On Tue, 23 Jul 2019, 00:06 David Haller, wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, James Stevenson wrote:
> >I'm struggling to get emacs to incorporate imagemagick to allow for
> >rudimental imag
think I can probably add imagemagick to the environment path but I am
unsure which directory to add. Most of the binaries live in /usr/bin
which is already on the PATH by default. Would appreciate any
suggestions the mailing list could offer.
All the best,
James
Any Gentoo folks going to Defcon 2019?
Best hotel suggestion? (I like a lazy river).
Gentoo meetup?
Pentoo presentation?
James
for /usr/local and /projects.
I'm just thinking out loud and ideas or discussions are welcome. I'm not
the sharpest tack, when in comes to windows pro 10. or complex file
system setups.
All my systems are AMD64, the new laptop is Rizen 5 2500-U
James
f you installed it via portage then doing:
> qfile `which statserial`
> should tell you what package it came from.
>
> If that finds nothing then it got installed by some other means and
> probably isn't packaged for Gentoo.
>
>
> LMP
>
>
This man page list the author(s). Might not be too difficult to roll an
ebuild for it. It's under a gnu license.
https://linux.die.net/man/1/statserial
Vintage 1994::
https://boutell.com/lsm/lsmbyid.cgi/001600
https://linux.die.net/man/1/statserial
hth,
James
Holy cow! Didn't realise I was subscribed to the OpenBSD mailing list.
On Mon, Dec 24, 2018, 3:18 PM Debian is not ruled by the men who actually write the software, but
> instead women.
> Just like in all the anglo-american conquered world.
>
> We, the men who actually do work, are treated as the
;
if you have a few/limited scope of codes to run, it might just be
what you are looking for..
good_hunting,
James
On 12/2/18 6:32 PM, Dale wrote:
> james wrote:
>> It has and Icore 5, 4 GB and 124GB SSD. If I can I like to nuke the
>> windows 7 home edition or shrink it way way down, in case I need access
>> on the windows side. It's really nice, sturdy metal case and very, very
&
It has and Icore 5, 4 GB and 124GB SSD. If I can I like to nuke the
windows 7 home edition or shrink it way way down, in case I need access
on the windows side. It's really nice, sturdy metal case and very, very
thin. It has a 13.5 inch screen. Perhaps I need to discover all the
hardware particular
Well so my lappy post has morphed into a (native) compile beast for
Arm64. For now ignoring the differences in SoC (arm64 chips). So
Hikey-960 has this ddr4 SBC:
https://www.amazon.com/hikey-960/s?page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ahikey 960
But I found a hikey-970 with 6gig of LPDDR4 on amazon::
https://w
On 11/18/18 12:19 PM, james wrote:
> On 11/17/18 9:59 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2018-11-18, james wrote:
>>> On 11/17/18 6:51 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>> On 2018-11-17, Mick wrote:
>>>>> On Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:00:22 GMT Grant Edwa
On 11/17/18 9:59 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-11-18, james wrote:
>> On 11/17/18 6:51 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2018-11-17, Mick wrote:
>>>> On Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:00:22 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>>> On 2018-11-17, james wr
On 11/17/18 6:51 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-11-17, Mick wrote:
>> On Saturday, 17 November 2018 23:00:22 GMT Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2018-11-17, james wrote:
>>>
>>>> Actually and AMD Arm (64bit) Ryzen or newer.
>>>
>>> No, R
On 11/17/18 4:03 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-11-17, james wrote:
>> On 11/17/18 12:17 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2018-11-17, james wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's time for the old man to get a new portable.
>>>
>>>> Arm processor,
On 11/17/18 12:17 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-11-17, james wrote:
>
>> It's time for the old man to get a new portable.
>
>> Arm processor,
>
> That's going to be tough. The only ones I've ever heard of are
> Chromebooks.
>
Dell is on
olutely no Nvidia or Intel!
Any idea when all of this is going to be on 7nm?
Anxiously awaiting ideas,
James
Bad news::
https://tcsltesting.blogspot.com/2018/09/stuff-just-got-real.html
Here the purported tool::
http://rweverything.com/
Any tester (on your own or authorize systems)
feedback would be keen information?
enjoy,
James
On 9/26/18 10:48 AM, Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>> james wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I was looking for some old code, "rootstrap",
>>> and ran across this::
>>>
>>>
>>> https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cg
ociated "files"? And the home of the 10 year old sourcecode?
It has been refactored to death, but I want the old original code,
by debian devs originally.
curiously,
James
even with -j2.
>
> Regards
>Klaus
>
>
Memory may be your issue. A wide variety of places to look at::
ebuild
kernel
userland
I'd suggest you start with reading up on 'jemalloc' as a place to start.
Hopefully other will 'chime in' on debugging/controlling memory
constrained systems and large memory requirements on older/limited
resources.
hth,
James
this subject too::
https://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2016/09/gentoo-portage-cpu_flags_x86-introduction-2015-01-28/5332
I'd be interested in blogs, irc, docs, etc, where distcc is being used
as part of a (gentoo-centric) CI/CD and/or cross-compiling for
smaller/older target systems, of any architecture (arm or mips or x86 or ?).
James
09/gentoo-portage-cpu_flags_x86-introduction-2015-01-28/5332
or in the gentoo wiki::
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/CPU_FLAGS_X86
Note, some years ago, distcc was excellent as I used it daily. Like
most codes it changes/stresses over the years. So follow distcc
details closely if you intend for it's dependable results. Perhaps
someone (gentoo) is using it in a CI/CD configuration, which would
be of keen interest to many.
hth,
James
r a CPU, than what cpuinfo reveals.
Also some might not be a good idea to set; you have to ferret
out those details per your cpu(s).
hth,
James
On 9/17/18 10:53 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2018-09-14, james wrote:
>> On 9/13/18 7:52 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, we now know what linux it runs and people are starting to
>>> break it, at least as far as finding bugs.
for war. 8 billion strong,
and jobs for less than a billion? War cometh
Get small and hide
Now about you getting some better hardware. Drop me some private mail.
James
> 13. Sep 2018 14:55 by taii...@gmx.com <mailto:taii...@gmx.com>:
>
> Impossible - ME can't
like that.
>
> The only owner controlled CPU arch now is OpenPOWER.
Not even any of the ARM64 dev boards with 4G of DDR4 ?
Arm64 would be my preferred pathway forward.
Any details are most appreicated.
James
ch is now opensource.
https://code.fb.com/core-data/logdevice-a-distributed-data-store-for-logs/
hth,
James
nce a year annual
cost. Complementary web access (like protonmail or similar is a great
additional feature, but not necessary.
If anyone is familiar with https://protonmail. com maybe I just need
to upgrade that encrypted email service? Very secure is warranted.
Comments? Recommendations?
TIA,
James
On 9/5/18 8:44 AM, Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> On 05/09/18 20:15, james wrote:
>> So, I need to be able setup and tear down a 4-component network.
>> Sometimes all (4) systems will be in the same location, probably about
>> 50% of the time.
>>
>> My (3) personal system
le, but ignored for now or until
those phones are available.
Discussion, ideas and suggestions are most welcome.
curiously,
James
Just ran across this:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Sakaki's_EFI_Install_Guide/Disabling_the_Intel_Management_Engine
Anyone try something like this before?
Any discussion or sharing would be appreciated.
James
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