Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 06:18, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 01:01 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick > did opine thusly: > >> On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic >> > Alan, but

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Indi
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:40:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 09:16 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick > did opine thusly: > > > While we are nitpicking: > > > > Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, > > > That should be "greatest writer

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:21 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:35:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 10:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost > > Roeleveld > > > > did opine thusly: > > > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:1

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:19:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011 10:22:35 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > > telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) > > > > [nipick] "even form me"? :P [/nitpick] > > I think we should both be more careful with our typing when nit-

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:35:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 10:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost > Roeleveld > > did opine thusly: > > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer > > > > Who do you clas

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2011 10:22:35 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) > > [nipick] "even form me"? :P [/nitpick] I think we should both be more careful with our typing when nit-picking :( -- Neil Bothwick COMMAND: A suggestion made to

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2011 09:29:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, > That should be "greatest writer", the other fellow was not the greatest > - he merely wrote soap operas. I don't know what you mean, unless you mistakenly assumed I was referr

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 10:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: > On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer > > Who do you class as the greatest English writer then? Paula Nancy Millstone Jennin

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: > Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer Who do you class as the greatest English writer then? > , so that should be > telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) [nipick] "even form me"? :P [/nitpick] -- Joos

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:16 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: While we are nitpicking: > Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, That should be "greatest writer", the other fellow was not the greatest - he merely wrote soap operas. -- alan do

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:49:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: should be > referred to using the neuter form of pronouns, i.e. "it", as befitting > their overall contribution to humanity. > > You see what I did there? You see how I recovered with a witty reposte > without even blinking an eye? It take

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:10:02AM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic > > > Alan, b

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:10:02AM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic > > Alan, but something held me back. Lucky it went that way, he later > > posted he read 1667MHZ as 16

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/16 19:01 (GMT-0400) Neil Bothwick composed: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: he read 1667MHZ as 167MHz. Amazing what a difference a "1" can make :-) Not nearly as much as a "6" :P Sure it can! In 101000b, any of those "1"s represents more than

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:01 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic > > Alan, but something held me back. Lucky it went that way, he later >

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic > Alan, but something held me back. Lucky it went that way, he later > posted he read 1667MHZ as 167MHz. > > Amazing what a difference a "1" can make :-) Not nearly as mu

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:10:02PM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2011 10:57:14 -0400, Indi wrote: > > > > Read the settings for PORTAGE_ELOG in man make.conf. > > > Or as that man page says, > > "Please see /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example > > for elog documentation." >

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:15 on Monday 16 May 2011, Dale did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Indi did > > opine > > > > thusly: > >> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: > >>> Actually after th

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my plan. After so much time passed (days, not just

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread JDM
Thnx, have followed advice. I am impressed. JDM -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 20:57:26 To: Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!) On Mon, 16 May 2011 10:57:14 -0400,

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 10:57:14 -0400, Indi wrote: > > Read the settings for PORTAGE_ELOG in man make.conf. > Or as that man page says, > "Please see /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example > for elog documentation." I know that's what the man page currently says, but I expect it will be updat

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: > > Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my > > plan. After so much time passed (days, not just hours) and I had good >

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:18:49PM -0400, Indi wrote: > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: > > > > > > Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my > > > plan. > > > After so much time passed (days, not just hours) and I had good kernel, >

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: > > Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my plan. > After so much time passed (days, not just hours) and I had good kernel, NFS, > and MC that I didn't see much point delaying KDE. After the errors > dis

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/16 11:26 (GMT-0400) Indi composed: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:00:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: > I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, > another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading t

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:00:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: > On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: > > > I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, > > another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading the kernel works, but chainload > > gives error 13 i

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 03:10:03PM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 16 May 2011 12:43:05 +, JDM wrote: > > > That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? > > Read the settings for PORTAGE_ELOG in man make.conf. > > Or as that man page says, "Please see /usr/share/portag

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 16/5/2011, at 1:43pm, JDM wrote: >> Most people set things up so they get emails of the post install >> messages when emerging things, but it is up to you to actually read them >> and, when necessary, follow the instructions. > That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? $ grep

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 12:43:05 +, JDM wrote: > That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? Read the settings for PORTAGE_ELOG in man make.conf. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 001: Windows loaded - System in danger signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread JDM
That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? JDM -Original Message- From: Tanstaafl Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 07:58:34 To: Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!) On 2011-05-15 10:54 PM, Fe

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-15 10:54 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Why setup didn't get this right via emerge I have no idea, unless it > didn't actually do anything toward actually setting Grub up. If so, it > could be there was already some mismatched Grub code there already from > a previous use of the sectors there

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 May 2011 22:54:14 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Why setup didn't get this right via emerge I have no idea, unless it > didn't actually do anything toward actually setting Grub up. Emerging GRUB installs it, that's all. The post installation message would have told you to set i up, but it

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-15 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading the kernel works, but chainload gives error 13 invalid executable format. I named the bzImage copied to /boot "kernel-2.6.3