Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-07 Thread Julian Simioni
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > Hello list > > It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports > considerably less space available on my / than before the emerge (everything > except /home sits on the root partition). I was wondering how this com

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage during emerge

2012-03-07 Thread Julian Simioni
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:53 PM, Julian Simioni wrote: > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> >> Hello list >> >> It came to my attention that during (after) an emerge run, df reports >> considerably less space available on my / t

[gentoo-user] Grub2 can't find any commands

2012-03-21 Thread Julian Simioni
Hi all, I'm working on the exciting and challenging task of installing Gentoo on a new Macbook Pro with grub2 and EFI. I've got things booting, but every time grub complains of many missing commands including search, echo, and most surprisingly '['. It also can't find any modules, and in order to

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 can't find any commands

2012-03-23 Thread Julian Simioni
for troubleshooting purposes, though I have never needed it, sof far. > When you boot all your OSes are there in the menu ready to be > selected. In my case Ubuntu, Gentoo and Sabayon. . > > On 3/21/12, Julian Simioni wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm working on the excitin

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-03-21 Thread Julian Simioni
I don't currently use Mutt with Gmail, but one common suggestion is to use an external program like offlineimap for handling syncing. I remember hearing that Mutt's IMAP support is not the best. The guide I followed to get set up initially is Steve Losh's The Homely Mutt, it's really quite good.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt emerge USE flags for novice

2015-03-22 Thread Julian Simioni
care about are on my local machine. I'd love to see your config to see if I can improve things. Julian On 03/21, Lee wrote: >When I have a moment I'll send my Gmail enabled muttrc for u to ponder. >Imap with Gmail on mutt is seamless ime. > > On Mar 21, 2015 3:42

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-09 Thread Julian Simioni
On 7/9/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Someone mentioned a quad-core: are they presently supported by Gentoo ? I can't see why they wouldn't be. Just make sure you enable SMP and up to 4 processors in your kernel. As for other parts... I have an 8500GT video card in my machine rig

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-09 Thread Julian Simioni
On 7/9/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Agreed, of course, but one nice thing about extra ram that it might be pertinent to mention is that it can be used to cache and significantly reduce hard drive I/O once the cache is primed. I just upgraded my system from 1GB to 2GB of DDR2 so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Linux becomes expensive ;)

2007-07-18 Thread Julian Simioni
On 7/18/07, Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/18/07, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:49:21 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: > > > it takes just as much power to > > spin up the drive as to keep it spinning for a few extra minutes. > > So ... spin it down after a

Re: [gentoo-user] Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Julian Simioni
On 7/19/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I seem to have an adventure every time I set up a dual boot laptop with Windows and Gentoo. The last time I found out that HP will ship you an OEM install CD so after formatting the hard drive (deleting the windows hidden partition) you can p

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice 2.3.0 compile error - Firefox

2007-12-05 Thread Julian Simioni
On Nov 28, 2007 11:56 AM, Pongracz Istvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I decided to compile openoffice 2.3.0 but I run into an error. > > The compilation error is this: > > checking whether to enable build of Mozilla/Mozilla NSS-using > components... yes > checking whether to build Mozilla