[gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-14 Thread zhangweiwu
I always wonder if I can run firefox multi-process instead of multi-threads. I hate to see the browser hang trying to open a huge webpage (10MB) and that's frequent case in China. Usually at such case I have to lanuch a different browser (e.g. epiphany) in order to keep browsing during loading

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-14 Thread zhangweiwu
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: konqueror it is better than ff anyway. Are you sure it runs multi-process?

Re: [gentoo-user] a multi-process browser?

2009-02-14 Thread zhangweiwu
Philip Webb schrieb: 090215 zhangwe...@realss.com wrote: Can I run firefox multi-process instead of multi-threads. I hate to see the browser hang trying to open a huge webpage ( 10 MB ) A work-around is to download the file with Wget or Lynx, then open the result with Firefox after it has

[gentoo-user] share control rights to a daemon by both root and another user

2009-02-08 Thread zhangweiwu
Me as root user of a server wish to share the control privilege (to start and stop) a daemon with another non-root user and find it difficult. The requirement: 1) either me or him can start the daemon then stop it; 2) he can stop the daemon started by me; 3) I can stop the daemon started by him.

Re: [gentoo-user] share control rights to a daemon by both root and another user

2009-02-08 Thread zhangweiwu
Daniel Troeder schrieb: Hello :) You can use app-admin/sudo to achieve your goal. It can be configured to allow certain users to execute certain commands as other users (possibly root). You can even restrict the allowed arguments to a command. Hi. Thanks for that suggestion. I am thinking I

[gentoo-user] mit kerberos running on Gentoo Linux

2009-02-08 Thread zhangweiwu
Dear all. I've installed mit version of kerberos V on my Gentoo Linux through the package repository (called portage in Gentoo). krlogin works but krsh strangely quit with a message I don't understand: zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ krlogin emerson.realss.com Last login: Fri Feb 6 14:09:47 from

[gentoo-user] how to start thunderbird/firefox in a different language?

2009-01-20 Thread zhangweiwu
Hello. I have zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ grep --invert-match ^# /etc/locale.gen zh_CN.UTF-8 UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 For most applications, I can start it in any language I wish to use. e.g. if I want to start abiword in en_US, I can do this: zhangwe...@esmeralda:~$ LANG=en_US

Re: [gentoo-user] how to word-wrap using a pipe?

2008-10-22 Thread zhangweiwu
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:19:31 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, 'fold' looks promising... I've been using this one for years and it does exactly what it says. Great thanks for all the answers. fmt and fold both enlightened me. -- Real Softservice Huateng

[gentoo-user] what can I do besides waiting or complaining about missing kompozer?

2008-10-22 Thread zhangweiwu
Dear all Life without Kompozer is a pain to me. Nvu has some historical bug that was killed in kompozer. My daily work require wysiwyg HTML editor a lot because my work involve working with web pages with a lot of tables of tabular data (you can hardly work efficiently with HTML tables with raw

[gentoo-user] how to word-wrap using a pipe?

2008-10-19 Thread zhangweiwu
Hello. How can I line-wrap a text file that was not wrapped before (e.g. like text file created on Microsoft Windows's notepad, the software does softwrap by default, thus the file created using it often have very long text lines) by using command pipe? I could use vim, activate some formatting

[gentoo-user] opensource arcade game alike ?

2008-09-10 Thread zhangweiwu
Hello. Is there an opensource arcade game that plays very similar to old-school CPS1/CPS2 games, like Captain Commando, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Warriors of Fate, Final Fight and Streets of Rage? This category of arcade game different from typical arcade Super Mario that it features sideway

Re: [gentoo-user] opensource arcade game alike ?

2008-09-10 Thread zhangweiwu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Is there an opensource arcade game that plays very similar to old-school CPS1/CPS2 games, like Captain Commando, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Warriors of Fate, Final Fight and Streets of Rage? After I learned this category of game is usually referred as Beat 'em up,

Re: [gentoo-user] opensource arcade game alike ?

2008-09-10 Thread zhangweiwu
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Maybe not what you're looking for, but don't those games run under MAME? Yes, but I want to read its source to see how it get made up:) And the mame games are without source code.

[gentoo-user] ftp server software which supports a control connection?

2008-09-06 Thread zhangweiwu
Hello. I am looking for an FTP server software that let me monitor the ftp activities on my notebook. Both server and the notebook runs Gentoo Linux except the server doesn't have any X11 related stuff. The reason I want to do this is because I offer my users file to download and I often need to

Re: [gentoo-user] ftp server software which supports a control connection?

2008-09-06 Thread zhangweiwu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am looking for an FTP server software that let me monitor the ftp activities of the FTP server on my notebook (ftp server and notebook are different hosts) After homework on google it seems this feature is called remote administration. In Linux world only one

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge doesn't work after emerge-webrsync

2008-07-31 Thread zhangweiwu
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 8:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** Completed websync, please now perform a normal rsync if possible. Update is current as of the of MMDD: 20080728 Did you also do this last step? emerson etc #

[gentoo-user] emerge doesn't work after emerge-webrsync

2008-07-29 Thread zhangweiwu
Hello. Today I did an emerge-webrsync successfully, and followed the instruction to have upgraded profile to default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop. Then all portage related command stopped working. Example: emerson ~ # emerge -av hsqldb Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line