Re: [gentoo-user] blocking facebook

2015-12-11 Thread Willie M
If that is the only website you want to block use /etc/hosts. Point it towards your own computer. "127.0.0.1 facebook.com". On Fri, Dec 11, 2015, 7:04 PM wrote: > Does anybody have an idea how to block facebook? > > I'm using dd-wrt. The "access restriction" can block http but not https > and

Re: [gentoo-user] blocking facebook

2015-12-11 Thread Willie M
PM, Willie M wrote: > > If that is the only website you want to block use /etc/hosts. Point it > > towards your own computer. "127.0.0.1 facebook.com". > > That will work, but if they will use boot VirtualBox Windows it will > by-pass that setting. > > -- > T

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

2016-05-13 Thread Willie M
On 05/13/2016 11:53 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > I did my normal sync/update today, and emerge says it can't update because > > [blocks B ] sys-devel/gcc-4.9.3) > > Huh? > > gcc4.9.3 is already installed: > > $ equery list --duplicates gcc >* Searching for gcc ... > [IP-] [ ] sys-

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

2016-05-13 Thread Willie M
On 05/13/2016 12:16 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-05-13, Willie M wrote: > >> It looks like the multislot use flag has changed. I think that is what >> the star means. > > I had it enabled temporarily, but emerge then failed on the first > package it tried to

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

2016-05-13 Thread Willie M
On 05/13/2016 01:25 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > AFAICT, you are suddenly not allowed to have gcc 4.9 installed > alongside any older versions -- even though they're supposedly in > slots. > > This is odd, because my system has had 4.9.whatever along with 3-4 > older versions for some time and been

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

2016-05-13 Thread Willie M
On 05/13/2016 01:43 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 08:25:14PM +, 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 is now happy and willing to upgrade

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

2016-05-13 Thread Willie M
On 05/13/2016 02:24 PM, Willie M wrote: > On 05/13/2016 01:43 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 08:25:14PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>> So, I uninstalled gcc 4.9 and all older versions except 4.6. >>> >>> I then removed 4

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

2016-05-31 Thread Willie M
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 Python interpreters: >[1] python2.7 * >[2] python3.4 >[3] python

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

2016-05-31 Thread Willie M
On 05/31/2016 05:21 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] stop an emerge (compilation), halt the PC, boot and continue the emerge

2016-06-20 Thread Willie M
On 06/20/2016 07:58 AM, Hogren wrote: > > > > Hello !! > > I have a little question about portage. > > There are many big softwares like Firefox, LibreOffice. At a certain > moment, I need to stop the compilation to halt the PC. > > But, when I boot up again the PC and I «emerge --resume»,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

2016-07-01 Thread Willie M
On 07/01/2016 03:10 PM, Stroller wrote: > I've only recently started using my Android device for playing audio. > > About once a week I listen to a podcast, which is usually an MP3 I've > downloaded from NPR.org. > > On my laptop I copy these to Google Drive (big shout to net-misc/drive) and >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

2016-07-04 Thread Willie M
On 07/02/2016 05:30 AM, Stroller wrote: > >> On 2 Jul 2016, at 10:43, Mick wrote: >> >> Since the youtube-dl can only download the audio stream as suggested above, >> you don't need to transcode with ffmpeg - although it is not difficult to do >> so >> for streams you have already downloaded:

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: what audio file format / container to play on Android.

2016-07-04 Thread Willie M
On 07/02/2016 05:30 AM, Stroller wrote: > >> On 2 Jul 2016, at 10:43, Mick wrote: >> >> Since the youtube-dl can only download the audio stream as suggested above, >> you don't need to transcode with ffmpeg - although it is not difficult to do >> so >> for streams you have already downloaded:

Re: [gentoo-user] Sweet Sweet Portage

2016-08-16 Thread Willie M
On 08/16/2016 03:06 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 16/08/2016 02:24, james wrote: >> >>> Please post the output of layman -l >> alunduil >> java >> pentoo >> science >> sunrise >> torbrower >> ultrabug >> xmw > > > That's what I thought. I reckon I know what your problem is. > > > And the prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread Willie M
On 09/06/2016 11:20 AM, gevisz wrote: > 2016-09-06 21:16 GMT+03:00 gevisz : >> I had one IDE hard drive for / >> and one SATA hard drive for /home >> >> After adding another (yet non-formatted) SATA hard drive >> the system panics and complains that it cannot find kernel >> (if I understood it corr

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel does not boot after adding a new SATA drive

2016-09-06 Thread Willie M
On 09/06/2016 11:38 AM, gevisz wrote: > 2016-09-06 21:21 GMT+03:00 Neil Bothwick : >> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 21:16:12 +0300, gevisz wrote: >> >>> I had one IDE hard drive for / >>> and one SATA hard drive for /home >>> >>> After adding another (yet non-formatted) SATA hard drive >>> the system panics a

Re: [gentoo-user] windows jump to a different desktop on xfce

2016-10-26 Thread Willie M
On 10/25/2016 10:07 PM, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > I have two broadly similar web/mail desktops that behave differently - > one where the windows stay where I put them, the other does not. This is > with Palemoon and thunderbird on XFCE > > On one, opening a web page from thunderbird drags palemoon

Re: [gentoo-user] problem re installing media-sound/paprefs

2016-10-26 Thread Willie M
On 10/26/2016 11:48 AM, John Covici wrote: > Hi. I am doing an upgrade from gcc 4.9.2 to 5.3.0 and I am having > trouble emerging media-sound/paprefs. I get the following: > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/5.3.0/../../../../lib64/libgtkmm-2.4.so: > undefined reference to `Glib::ustring::ustring(

Re: [gentoo-user] Dynamic IP address services.

2016-11-06 Thread Willie M
On 11/06/2016 10:17 PM, Stroller wrote: > Can anyone recommend a free dynamic IP address service. > > I've used DynDNS in the past, but I think they discontinued their free > accounts. > > I've been using DTdns.com until recently, but have somehow managed to lock > myself out of my account, so

[gentoo-user] libgcrypt-1.7.3 build fail

2016-11-10 Thread Willie M
Hey everyone, I can not figure out why I cannot build libgcrypt-1.7.3. I had this same problem on my laptop but I can't remember what I did to fix the problem and have been searching on google for the last couple of days. I have attached the build log. If anyone had any input please reply. Thank

Re: [gentoo-user] libgcrypt-1.7.3 build fail

2016-11-19 Thread Willie M
?id=578302 > > On 10 November 2016 at 21:14, Willie M <mailto:matthews.willi...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I can not figure out why I cannot build libgcrypt-1.7.3. I had this same > problem on my laptop but I can't remember what I did to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] libgcrypt-1.7.3 build fail

2016-11-19 Thread Willie M
?id=578302 > > On 10 November 2016 at 21:14, Willie M <mailto:matthews.willi...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > I can not figure out why I cannot build libgcrypt-1.7.3. I had this same > problem on my laptop but I can't remember what I did to fix

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get rid of binutils 'preserved libs' warning

2017-03-14 Thread Willie M
On 03/14/2017 08:45 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > After I do an update, I get this message: > > !!! existing preserved libs: > >>> package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27 >* - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so >* used by > /usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.25.1/libopcodes-2.25.1.so

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get rid of binutils 'preserved libs' warning

2017-03-14 Thread Willie M
On 03/14/2017 09:52 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 14/03/2017 17:45, Grant Edwards wrote: >> After I do an update, I get this message: >> >> !!! existing preserved libs: >> >>> package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27 >>* - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so >>* used by >> /usr/lib64/binutil

Re: [gentoo-user] What gives with all these file collisions?

2017-06-01 Thread Willie M
On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 02:23:44 -0400 Alan Grimes wrote: > I'm trying to emptytree my system because GCC update because I need to > reboot because Nvidia-drivers segfaulted and broke a 2-month endurance > run on my new mobo of my number theory code, set to use 15 > hyperthreads and 25gb of ram... >

Re: [gentoo-user] What gives with all these file collisions?

2017-06-02 Thread Willie M
On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 19:05:25 +1200 Kent Fredric wrote: > On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 23:32:55 -0700 > Willie M wrote: > > > I am sure you can use the FEATURES to ignore collisions. It has been > > awhile but I am sure it is still there. > > Disabling collisions detection