[gentoo-user] Re: How to disable gnome-keyring support in chromium?

2015-05-18 Thread Grant Edwards
LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU

[gentoo-user] Re: How to disable gnome-keyring support in chromium?

2015-05-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-05-18, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2015-05-18, Manuel Schönlaub wrote: >> >>> Hm, I can't really reproduce it here. >> >> I forgot to menion I'm using chromium stable 42.0.2311.135. &

[gentoo-user] Re: writing man pages (gentoo conventions)

2015-06-03 Thread Grant Edwards
you simple basic markup functionality and can output in > man page format (and other format). asciidoc, markdown, and reStructuredText can all generate man page format as well as HTML, PDF, and others. The main benefit of these is that they're also easy to read in their

[gentoo-user] Re: writing man pages (gentoo conventions)

2015-06-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-06-03, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 03 June 2015 14:24:18 Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-06-03, Martin Vaeth wrote: >> > James wrote: >> >> So instead of my spew of ascii information files, I'm now composing >> >> 'man pa

[gentoo-user] Re: writing man pages (gentoo conventions)

2015-06-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-06-03, James wrote: > Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes: > > >> asciidoc, markdown, and reStructuredText can all generate man page >> format as well as HTML, PDF, and others. The main benefit of these is >> that they're also easy to read in their "r

[gentoo-user] Re: msmtp vs. nullmailer

2015-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
sent out in the past few days has actually been sent. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! HUMAN REPLICAS are at inserted into VATS of gmail.comNUTRITIONAL YEAST ...

[gentoo-user] Re: Backgammon (GNU) anybody

2015-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
What is the Database' menu for? Go find a newer build if you still have the database. You don't see any messages about missing files (either bearoff databases or neural-net weightings)? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Are you the

[gentoo-user] Re: Backgammon (GNU) anybody

2015-06-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-06-11, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-06-11, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> has anybody any luck in running games-board/gnubg ? > > Not recently (within the past year or so), but I played it on and off > for a few years before that. I don't remember if I used an

[gentoo-user] [OT] How to add library to dynamically linked executable?

2015-06-22 Thread Grant Edwards
ELF executable file itself so as to add librt.so.0 to its list of shared libraries. I've found chrpath(1), but it only changes the search path used to look for libraires, not the list of libraries themselves. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Okay ... I'm go

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to add library to dynamically linked executable?

2015-06-22 Thread Grant Edwards
st couldn't come up with the Google keywords to find it. Thanks much. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm in direct contact at with many advanced fun gmail.comCONCEPTS.

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] How to add library to dynamically linked executable?

2015-06-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-06-22, walt wrote: > On 06/22/2015 10:16 AM, Matti Nykyri wrote: >> Also you can write a c program that modifies the elf executable, but >> i don't think you need to for this problem. > > There is dev-util/patchelf, which sounds relevant, but I've never used it. Yep. The 0.8 version with

[gentoo-user] Re: is purchasing a usb blu ray a good idea?

2015-06-29 Thread Grant Edwards
had do is: dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=64k [2] I still get plain old DVDs -- it turns out that blue ray doesn't improve the characters, plot, writing, direction, cinematography, editting, or anything that else matters about movies. A Michael Bay movie on blue ray

[gentoo-user] emerge libtdi w/ USE=python requires swig

2015-06-29 Thread Grant Edwards
y. Is the requirement to have swig installed when requesting python support for certain libraries something you're "just supposed to know", or should it be a dependency in the libftdi ebuild? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I like your SNOOPY

[gentoo-user] Google calendar notifications in XFCE?

2015-06-30 Thread Grant Edwards
ot; [AFAIK, I don't]. Does anybody know of any other options for getting Google calendar notifications on an XFCE desktop? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hey, waiter! I want at a NEW SHIRT and a PONY TAIL

[gentoo-user] Re: Google calendar notifications in XFCE?

2015-06-30 Thread Grant Edwards
nto that. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! When this load is at DONE I think I'll wash it gmail.comAGAIN ...

[gentoo-user] Re: google

2015-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
ld post if Google _were_ controlling you. Perhaps you're just not aware that they're controlling you? ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Yes, but will I at see the EASTER BUNNY in gmail.c

[gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-13 Thread Grant Edwards
ermite: http://hackaday.com/2008/09/16/how-to-thermite-based-hard-drive-anti-forensic-destruction/ And mechanical shredding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZdZGKyu9hc Others favor a high-powered rifle or an 8lb sledge. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Sometim

[gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-15 Thread Grant Edwards
ings you do during a coup in a small central/south american county is take over or disable the radio-telphone base stations. [Back then the base stations were much higher power and covered much larger areas than a cellular base station does these days.] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.ed

[gentoo-user] Re: booting from a usb flash drive

2015-07-16 Thread Grant Edwards
_Minimal-Install_Image_on_USB#Copying_the_ISO_Image_to_USB > Or you could wait for the resident expert (Neil) to supply the magic > incantation that lets dd do what you want :-) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I want my nose in

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Very recent change in behavior of gmail imap/smtp servers

2015-07-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-22, walt wrote: > Very soon after being invited to open a gmail account, I discovered > that google offers non-web-browser access to their free (as in beer) > email servers. Yep. Their IMAP implementation is pretty well done. Definitly better than courier and far better than MS exch

[gentoo-user] Re: The state of public relations?

2015-07-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-24, wrote: > I never missed an installer. And I'm neither a geek nor an IT > professional. If you don't miss an installer, I'm afraid you're definitely a geek. "Not that there's anything wrong with that..." :) -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Resizing a FAT partition?

2015-07-30 Thread Grant Edwards
the SDcard, reinitialize it, put 2 >> partitions on it and copy back the stuff.) > > Given that you should backup any important data before resizing any > filesystem, this may be the easiest method. I've had resize operations go pear-shaped on me. I have

[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Grant Edwards
between a couple days and a couple weeks. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is it 1974? What's at for SUPPER? Can I spend gmail.commy COLLEGE FUND in one wild afternoon??

[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-04, Felix Miata wrote: > Grant Edwards composed on 2015-08-04 17:20 (UTC): > >> My gut feeling is that a fresh install is going to be a _lot_ easier > > For some "degenerate" value of easier. :-) > >> and faster. A fresh install will take a

[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-04, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:20:40 + (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-08-04, Felix Miata wrote: >> >> > That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on an >> > old Athlon, which means no s

[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Grant Edwards
ation semantic" if that's what people want. I don't see any benefit in turning Gentoo into yet another "me too" one-click installation trying to compete with RedHat and Ubuntu. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Let's all show human at CONCERN for REVERAND MOON's gmail.comlegal difficulties!!

[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-05 Thread Grant Edwards
s now trying to shove systemd down everybody's throat. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I can't decide which at WRONG TURN to make first!! gmail.comI wonder if BOB GUCCIONE has these problems!

[gentoo-user] Re: want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-05 Thread Grant Edwards
arned most of what you're going to learn, and it's just a long hard slog the rest of the way. But do you give up and do a fresh install? No, you keep going "because it's there". -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! The SAME WAVE keeps

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT]: Optimal formatting a SDcard (64GB) with partions of diffent sizes and filesystems?

2015-08-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-07, James wrote: > gmail.com> writes: > > >> > If I'm monkeying around with my email config and I'm not sure if >> > everything is still okay, I usually use gmane [1,2]. > >> > [1] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user >> > [2] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user > > Y

[gentoo-user] Re: why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-08, Felix Miata wrote: > I don't get why any distro leaves this out, why anyone wouldn't like to > automatically notice while booting any announcement that something failed, > especially someone who has just gotten a new installation up for the first > times. Why isn't --noclear set by

[gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-18 Thread Grant Edwards
is built. One suggestion I saw for this problem (on a different distro) is to symlink libtinfo to libncurses. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Edwin Meese made me at wear CORDOVANS!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-19 Thread Grant Edwards
ssumptions made about what colors are actually legible is wrong if you use terminals with white backgrounds. I have to turn off colors just to make the default output legible. 2) It introduces dependencies like this which should be minimized in something as central to the system as e

[gentoo-user] Re: !!!!

2015-08-19 Thread Grant Edwards
n't keep track of what version was fetched, so once you've installed a "live" ebuild, it won't ever get updated no matter how many subsequent changes have been commited to the version control system. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards at gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Epic list of total FAIL.

2015-08-20 Thread Grant Edwards
issue? > > Ranting on the list might make you feel better, but is not likely to fix > your problem. Just saying. In fact, the more you rant and swear and insult people, the fewer people are going to pay attention and try to help. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow

[gentoo-user] Re: Epic list of total FAIL.

2015-08-21 Thread Grant Edwards
es, I could often run memtest for several passes and not see an error. But, _eventually_ ramtest would catch it. Run memtest for a few days. Really. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm having an at EMOTIONAL

[gentoo-user] Re: Epic list of total FAIL.

2015-08-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-21, Alan Grimes wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-08-21, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> Earlier I saw segfaults in gcc, and another poster pointed it out. >>> >>> When gcc segfaults, it is always suspicious mostly because the compiler

[gentoo-user] Re: 69.99 != 69.99

2015-08-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-22, Alan McKinnon wrote: [regarding floating point comparison.] > A good way to demonstrate just how problematic floats can be is to point > out that floats are banned in the linux kernel for exactly this reason. > Integers only. Really? The reason that I was given when I wanted to

[gentoo-user] Re: Filthy oscilloscope picture! =P

2015-08-24 Thread Grant Edwards
thstand a limited number erase/program cycles. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm pretending that at we're all watching PHIL gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-26 Thread Grant Edwards
with this, but what is the benefit of such profile selection:: > curiously I have no experience with the profile selection, despite > running quite a few amd64 system. What would the benefits be > running this profile on older amd64 hardware ? The main benefit of ARM64 w/o 32-bit libs is

[gentoo-user] Re: CD ripper that generates song titles?

2015-08-26 Thread Grant Edwards
but rarely. [1] cdparanoia, mp3lame, cddb, ffmpeg, mencoder, id3tag etc. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! does your DRESSING at ROOM have enough ASPARAGUS? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Grant Edwards
e. > > It's not a bug, and it won't be "fixed". Installing on a partition is > simply not supported. So, grub2 refuses to share power and cooperate with another bootloader. Bill Gates would be pround. For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that&#

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-27, James wrote: > Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes: >> For those of us with multiple Linux installations on a disk, that's a >> pretty big reason to stick with grub-legacy. > > So you are saying (trying to read the 'tea leaves' here) that >

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Grant Edwards
ow you to pick a partition for the bootloader during the install. > I have done it a couple of times so far, just as you describe above. > In my case I chainload GRUB2 with NTLDR or modern equivalent and this > is how I know that the MBR was not being overwritten by it.

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-27, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote: > I much prefer chainloading and giving each distro free reign over their > own boot loader. That way they can pretend they're the boss and work the > way they were intended to and I can supervise things from gentoo. Yup. I've got up to 12 Linux distros o

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub1: Cant ? Re: keeping grub 1

2015-08-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-08-28, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:34:30 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I know it has worked in the past, and I know that recent versions of >> some distros that use Grub2 still allow you to pick a partition for >> the bootloader dur

[gentoo-user] Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-15 Thread Grant Edwards
ddle-click in a terminal window it does nothing and 'xclip -o' just hangs. Selecting text elsewhere will deselect the text in the gtk-3 app, so gtk-3 isn't _completely_ ignoring X11 clipboards/buffers. Any ideas why gtk-3 copy/paste is broken and how to fix it? -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards wrote: > In most X11 apps I can select some text and then paste it somewhere > else with a middle-click, or dump it to stdout with the command 'xclip > -o'. That doesn't work for highligted text in gtk-3 apps (meld, > evince, audacious, e

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-16, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 06:57:36 PM Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-09-15, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > In most X11 apps I can select some text and then paste it somewhere >> > else with a middle-click, or dump it to stdout with

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-17 Thread Grant Edwards
around > for years. Agreed. Apps that use other libraries seem to work fine, and gtk-2 works fine. >> Are you really using multiple screens? Or a single screen spread >> across mutliple monitors? If you start an xterm on every monitor and >> do "echo $DI

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-17, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2015-09-17, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >>>> I use 2 screens extensively and never experienced any issues like you >>>> describe. >>> >>> And you can select/paste from one screen to another where the source >&

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Thu, September 17, 2015 16:33, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2015-09-17, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2015-09-17, J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> >>>>>> I use 2 screens extensively and never experienced any issues like

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
email and web-browser up on one screen while switching the other two back and forth between multiple tasks/projects. (I am rarely allowed to work uninterrupted for long periods on a single task.) Not being able to move windows between screens is an inconvenience, but for me it's well wort

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
arently written by MS-Windows programmers based on the assumption that a computer is always used by exactly one person to run exactly one program on exactly on screen. Most other X apps are properly written and support multiple screens just fine. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 18 September 2015 14:34:26 Grant Edwards wrote: >> I like having separate screens because the window manager I use >> (xfwm4) supports multiple virtual workspaces for each screen (4 per >> screen by default). I find it very

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't paste from selection in gtk-3 apps

2015-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-18, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I'll test without "xinerama" in the near future and let you know. > (requires a rebuild of a lot of stuff...) Don't bother on my account -- it's just idle curiosity, and I could do the test myself... -- Grant Edward

[gentoo-user] Re: process takes about 85% of the CPU

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
ll sorts of stupid animated 3D shite on the screen while it waits for somebody to log in? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Now I am depressed ... at gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=788076 It looks like I would have to downgrade gtk+ from 3.16 to 3.14 in order to use it. Has anybody tried it? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! On the road, ZIPPY at

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-29, Grant Edwards wrote: > I'm sick and tired of the Gnome "CSD" nonsense which appears to be a > concerted effort to break gtk+ apps on all desktops other than very > specific configurations of Gnome desktops. To the Gnome developer's > cred

[gentoo-user] Re: THE SCREAM.

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
s self-portraits. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Yes, but will I at see the EASTER BUNNY in gmail.comskintight leather at an IRON MAIDEN concert?

[gentoo-user] Re: THE SCREAM.

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-29, Lee wrote: > I saw 'Irises' in person at the Getty, and it took 5 min before I could > lift my jaw off the ground... Haven't seen that one in person yet, it's on loan to the MIA here in Minneaplis until this Saturday, so I'd better get i

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-30, walt wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2015 16:09:00 + (UTC) > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2015-09-29, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> > I'm sick and tired of the Gnome "CSD" nonsense which appears to be a >> > concerted eff

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-30, Chris Spackman wrote: > On 2015/09/30 at 04:27am, Grant Edwards wrote: > > >> [Actually, I don't recall ever using evince or atril for filling out >> PDF forms -- so that might be another reason I'd have to keep >> acroread around.] > >

[gentoo-user] Re: Experiences with gtk3-nocsd?

2015-09-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-09-30, Peter Weilbacher wrote: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> [Actually, I don't recall ever using evince or atril for filling out >> PDF forms -- so that might be another reason I'd have to keep acroread >> around.] > > In my e

[gentoo-user] Re: Using KDE apps in a non KDE environment

2015-10-02 Thread Grant Edwards
t have to use the KDE desktop. But, in my experience, whenever there's a major upgrade to KDE and you have KDE apps that require different versions of libraries, or backwards compatibility features built into libraries, it gets ugly fast. At that point, I ususally end up un

[gentoo-user] Re: Technical imap mail question

2015-10-16 Thread Grant Edwards
etical than real, but the theory > is what puzzles me.) Sounds like a normal low-level SNAFU to me... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Can you MAIL a BEAN at CAKE? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] All sorts of digest verification failures

2015-11-12 Thread Grant Edwards
the emerge timestamp, sync'ed again, and got the same result. Based on past experiences, I'm guessing that if I wait a day or two and sync again the problems will go away. But I am curious what causes these temporary breakages. Does anybody know how this happens

[gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

2015-11-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-11-12, wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> After an emerge --sync that appeared to work with no problems, my >> "emerge -auvND world" command is reporting that the Changelong files >> are broken for about 2/3 of the packages it wants to update: >

[gentoo-user] Re: All sorts of digest verification failures

2015-11-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-11-15, Dale wrote: > Wasn't there a emerge option to ignore the manifest? I seem to recall > there used to be one but it was a LONG time ago. Of course, if someone > has tinkered with something that would be a bad thing to do. If the digest failures are for packages you don't have inst

[gentoo-user] Re: Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-09 Thread Grant Edwards
valent to a reboot on my desktop. > If I shut down X11, my uptime still keeps accumulating. I think he meant that from a "desktop productivity" standpoint, the two are the same: you have to close every single program you are using and then start over. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

2016-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-12-10, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > On Fri, Dec 09, 2016 at 07:41:51PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I think he meant that from a "desktop productivity" standpoint, the >> two are the same: you have to close every single program you are using >> and then

[gentoo-user] Re: Trying to find which driver I can use with a ATI v9800 fireball

2016-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > step 1: google: radeon gentoo wiki > step 2: read > step 3: follow instructions You forgot: step 4: give up and buy an nvidia card. ;) I've always had consistently bad luck with radeon under Linux. The last time I tried, the open-source driver kep

[gentoo-user] Re: Brother Printer

2016-12-12 Thread Grant Edwards
e going from nomultilib to multilib is not officially supported. About a year ago, I did some reading on that topic and found an unofficial step-by-step guide on how to do it. After reading through the procedure it a couple times, I decided that backing up my /home partition and

[gentoo-user] Re: from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-12-17, Alan McKinnon wrote: > But the VMS I like most are the FreeBSD ones; they run good > old-fashioned rc. It's been a while since I ran VMS, but it had little very resemblance to FreeBSD[1] and the init system was nothing like it the BSD one. :) [1] Unless you installed DECShell, a

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading 1-year old system

2017-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
non-essential that's causing problems. It's often a _lot_ simpler/faster to uninstall a bunch of stuff, get the base system upgrade done, and then re-install things. [Keep a list of what you've uninstalled.] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! ONE LIFE TO LIVE

[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading 1-year old system

2017-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
0 ("sys-boot/grub:0" is blocking > sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta3-r1) You probably need to set the 'multislot' use flag for grub. > dev-lang/perl:0 > x11-base/xorg-server:0 > media-libs/giflib:0 > media-libs/libdvbpsi:0 > dev-libs/kpathsea:0 For

[gentoo-user] How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
power fails, or I type "reboot" into the wrong xterm, or whatever. Or maybe those things don't happen to other people... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! GOOD-NIGHT, everybody at ... Now I have to go

[gentoo-user] Re: How often do you reboot?

2017-01-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-01-30, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 30/01/2017 23:46, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I've got a couple Gentoo machines that normally run 24/7. I've >> learned over the years that it's a good idea to reboot them >> occasionally (when I have some spare time and

[gentoo-user] Re: SOT (Slightlt OffTopic): Scriptable Documentation system (HTML/PDF) ?

2017-02-07 Thread Grant Edwards
;s still nothing that beats (or even comes close to) TeX/LaTeX. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I feel better about at world problems now! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: SOT (Slightlt OffTopic): Scriptable Documentation system (HTML/PDF) ?

2017-02-07 Thread Grant Edwards
;t know > much more about it. That's texinfo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texinfo I've never really used it much. It doesn't seem to be widely used outside of the Gnu project itself. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! An air of FRENCH FRIES at permeates my nostrils!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] retext, PyQt, QtPrintSupport, and QObject

2017-02-08 Thread Grant Edwards
lot_ of things). [Perhaps this is more of a Python question than a Gentoo question?] -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I just went below the at poverty line! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: retext, PyQt, QtPrintSupport, and QObject

2017-02-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-02-08, Grant Edwards wrote: > I usually try to avoid Qt apps, but I needed a way to preview markdown > text. One option was pandoc, but it needed to install 100+ packages > as dependancies. Another option was retext, which only required a few > new packages. > > So

[gentoo-user] How to get Emacs key bindings in Firefox?

2017-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
I _used_ to have emacs key-bindings in Firefox, but for some reason that stopped working and now I have Windows key bindings. It _may_ have happened when I switched from XFCE to Openbox. After Googling a while, I've tried: $ dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/interface/gtk-key-theme "'Emacs'" $ g

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get Emacs key bindings in Firefox?

2017-02-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-02-19, Grant Edwards wrote: > I _used_ to have emacs key-bindings in Firefox, but for some reason > that stopped working and now I have Windows key bindings. It _may_ > have happened when I switched from XFCE to Openbox. > > After Googling a while, I've tried: >

[gentoo-user] Re: How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde

2017-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
systems is uninstall NetworkManager. > Yes! Madness. What's wrong with good ol' wpa_supplicant and its GUI? Which is spelled "emacs /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My haircut is totally

[gentoo-user] Is this a dependency bug?

2017-02-20 Thread Grant Edwards
http://cairosvg.org/ Description: A simple cairo based SVG converter with support for PDF, PostScript and PNG formats License: LGPL-3 Is this a dependency bug in the weasyprint ebuild? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! NANCY!! Why is

[gentoo-user] Re: Binary package server questions

2017-02-21 Thread Grant Edwards
a low memory 486 system in the same way. > > You'll need to run in 32bit mode when chrooting of course: Why? Is this some odd restriction in portage? All of the normal development tools are quite capable of buildign 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit host runni

[gentoo-user] Re: Binary package server questions

2017-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-02-21, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 03:50:41PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote >> On 2017-02-21, Mick wrote: > >> > You'll need to run in 32bit mode when chrooting of course: >> >> Why? >> >> Is this some odd restriction in p

[gentoo-user] Re: Binary package server questions

2017-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-02-22, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 03:39:36PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote > >> I wasn't proposing that you could easily build 32-bit packages in a >> 64-bit root (though in theory I think you could). What I was >> questioning was the assertion

[gentoo-user] CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-03 Thread Grant Edwards
/etc/fstab: \\winhost\projects /winhost/projects cifs netbiosname=,workgroup=,username=,password=,uid=,gid=users,noserverino,dir_mode=0777,file_mode=0777,noauto 0 0 is the username (same on Gentoo and Windows) is the Windows workgroup name is the Windows server password for Any ideas? -- Grant E

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-03, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On March 3, 2017 7:49:27 PM GMT+01:00, Grant Edwards > wrote: >>About a week ago, they started acting oddly. They all mount fine, and >>work as usual as long as you keep using them. AFAICT, if they sit >>idle for "a while&quo

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-04, Kai Krakow wrote: > Am Sat, 04 Mar 2017 08:02:11 + schrieb "J. Roeleveld" > : > >> >> >Normally, when things are working but idle, the TCP connection to 445 >> >shows an SMB echo request/rseponse transaction once per minute. When >> >it fails, the TCP connection evidently got

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
They never get answered, and it just causes problems when it is revealed that the client having problems is a Linux machine. > Maybe force Windows down to a lower SMB version or reduce/disable > SMB client side caching? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edw

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-06, J. Roeleveld wrote: > On March 6, 2017 5:14:39 PM GMT+01:00, Grant Edwards > wrote: >>On 2017-03-06, Kai Krakow wrote: >> >>>> I'm going to try to set up a Wireshark capture in ring-buffer mode >>and >>>> somehow detect the

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-03, Grant Edwards wrote: > For the past 10-15 [years], I've been mounting a handfull of > directories that reside on a Windows server, and it's always worked > find. > > About a week ago, they started acting oddly. They all mount fine, and > work as usu

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
rule I run stable gentoo-sources, and that's at 4.9.6-r1. However, I'm a bit confused about the table shown at https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources There are two rows for some versions (e.g. 4.9.6-r1), with different indicators. What does

[gentoo-user] Duplicate rows in "Availble Version" tables at packages.gentoo.org

2017-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
a64. The other is all yellow except for amd64. I don't remember seeing this sort of thing in the past, but I won't swear that it's a new thing either. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! ... I don't like FRANK at

[gentoo-user] Re: CIFS mounts started misbehaving

2017-03-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-07, Marc Joliet wrote: > On Dienstag, 7. M�rz 2017 15:19:33 CET Grant Edwards wrote: >> No, as a rule I run stable gentoo-sources, and that's at 4.9.6-r1. > > Ah, of course. I'm using ~arch kernels ATM. (As a btrfs user I was tracking > the most recent

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

2017-03-14 Thread Grant Edwards
the same preserved-libs warning. Portage seems upset tht binutils-2.25.1 is using binutils-libs-2.25.1 instead of binutils-libs-2.27, but re-emerging binutils-2.25.1 doesn't help. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is it 1974? What's

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

2017-03-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2017-03-14, 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 &g

[gentoo-user] Re: locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread Grant Edwards
x27;re running. That's true with the command.com and cmd.exe shells. It's not true with some others. When back when I ran DOS (and when I run Windows), the globbing is done by the shell: the way god intended. ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

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