[gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-09-30, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1chap=2 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 They're readable even on my droid x. Really? You don't have to scroll back-and-forth to see an entire line

[gentoo-user] Re: oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread Grant Edwards
/systemtap/ -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! And then we could sit at on the hoods of cars at gmail.comstop lights!

[gentoo-user] Re: oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread Grant Edwards
/ ? ? Description: ? ? ? ? A useful diagnostic, instructional, and debugging tool Hope that helps. Arrrgh, configure: error: operating system cygwin is not supported by strace Any windows alternative? Perhaps you'd be better off asking in a Cygwin/Windows forum than a Linux one? -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread Grant Edwards
on the kernel architecture. The posix layer is there. The Posix layer doesn't provide an API for what you're asking. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! And then we could sit at on the hoods of cars

[gentoo-user] Re: oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-10-01, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Al wrote: You're running Gentoo Windows? Yes I do. Someone is confused. I'm not sure who tho. :/ I certainly feel a bit confused. I was aware of Gentoo/BSD... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Those

[gentoo-user] Re: oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread Grant Edwards
is probably easier (though of course not quite the same thing). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My pants just went to at high school in the Carlsbad gmail.comCaverns!!!

[gentoo-user] Re: oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread Grant Edwards
effective means to that end. It makes you seem like a troll. Gentoo/Windows is more stimulant than Gentoo/BSD I guess, because it sounds like the opposite side of the planet. Well, that's a kind way to put it. ;) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm having a RELIGIOUS

[gentoo-user] Re: oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread Grant Edwards
to learn that when you didn't tell us you weren't running Linux/Unix? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Was my SOY LOAF left at out in th'RAIN? It tastes gmail.comREAL GOOD!!

[gentoo-user] Re: oder of files opened by a process

2010-10-01 Thread Grant Edwards
telling us they are windows questions is going to be counter-productive: it's not going to produce useful answers, and it's going to annoy people (some of whom might actually have known the answer to the question been clearly stated). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hmmm

[gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-10-01, Renat Golubchyk ragerm...@gmx.net wrote: Hi! On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:13:24 + (UTC) Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I wouldn't

[gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-10-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-10-04, Fatih T?men fthtmn+gen...@gmail.com wrote: When I inspect the element and check the page source I understand where td.content and p comes from but could you explain what 'em' suffix to 40 means please? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em_%28typography%29 -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: text in xterm

2010-10-07 Thread Grant Edwards
driver, and haven't had any issues since. Actually, the last time I tried the fglrx driver, I think the problem had gone away. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! ... I want to perform at cranial activities

[gentoo-user] Re: Winter clock change did not happen

2010-11-01 Thread Grant Edwards
completely. On the occasions I need to do stuff like income tax, I think I'm going to run MacOS. Don't tell Steve Jobs. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm not an Iranian!! at I voted for Dianne

[gentoo-user] Re: Search for a file that is not installed in the system?

2010-11-02 Thread Grant Edwards
a slightly different set of files to be installed (IOW you may already have the package installed, but you don't have the required USE flag). -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! The Osmonds! You are at all Osmonds!! Throwing

[gentoo-user] Re: eMerge gone commercial?

2010-11-03 Thread Grant Edwards
of them are Gentoo's emerge. Are they using Gentoo linux? No. They're running RedHat. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! PEGGY FLEMMING is at stealing BASKET BALLS to gmail.comfeed

[gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-05 Thread Grant Edwards
up, the `ls' problem had disappeared as well as sendmail problems discussed in a different thread. It sounds to me like you've got hardware problems. I'd at least run memtest86 overnight if I were you. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I feel partially

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Grant Edwards
will be introduced. 1/2 :) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I think my career at is ruined! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-09, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: So is your question really how do I modularize my code? I'm most interested in the part about developers not knowing about the system as a whole. I'd like developers to work on my code, but prevent them from selling the code or using it

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-09, Florian Philipp li...@f_philipp.fastmail.net wrote: Well, there are two ways to go here: 1. Modularize what you have. Give every developer only the source he is supposed to work on and binary interfaces (libs + header files for C/C++) and documentation for everything

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-09, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: I don't mind system administration but I don't want to be a programmer any more. ??I'd like to hire programmers to work in the manner described above. ??They would each work on modules and not know about the system as a whole. ??How can

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-11 Thread Grant Edwards
in the same room with? That will probably work best, but it will cost more. Have you ever managed a programming team before? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Am I in Milwaukee? at gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-12 Thread Grant Edwards
runnable and testable at all times. Otherwise, you can get too far down the wrong road before you finally figure out that either a) what you specified isn't going to work, or b) they didn't understand the specification at all. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Actually, what

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-13, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Have you ever managed a programming team before? I haven't. ?Any pointers? Not really. ?Just be prepared for the programmers to misunderstand the specification at every turn. ?And once they've understood the spec, be prepared for them to

[gentoo-user] How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-13 Thread Grant Edwards
Can anybody point me to a hint on how to configure synaptics touchapad sensitivity? The touchpad on my Thinkpad T500 is so sensitive you don't even have to touch it. Merely bringing a thumb or finger within 1/8 - 1/4 inch will cause the cursor to twitch spasmodically for a second and then jump to

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-14, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Before you go to great pains to get this working, you do know that hal is checking out right? Yes, I knew that. Maybe I'll just live without the touchpad until HAL goes away for good. My question is why did the Gentoo maintainers decide to

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-15 Thread Grant Edwards
). That's why I don't understand why the Gentoo developers decided to use HAL by default when it seems to be widely acknowledged to be such a disaster. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Half a mind is a at terrible thing

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-15, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:31 on Monday 15 November 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: On 2010-11-14, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Finally, if xorg-server-1.8 is around the corner to be stabilised I suggest

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-15 Thread Grant Edwards
pretty much moot at this point. :) Looking forward to a HAL-free system... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Okay ... I'm going at home to write the I HATE gmail.comRUBIK's CUBE

[gentoo-user] Re: [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread Grant Edwards
, they run under DOS, and that they can only use drives that are recogized by the mothoerboard BIOS. AFAICT, they're just using the normal IDE/ATA API and are doing nothing extraordinary. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hey, wait

[gentoo-user] Re: [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-16, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:34 on Tuesday 16 November 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: On 2010-11-16, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: spinrite claims to make the head do other things than what the drive

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-16, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:10:02 +0100, Grant Edwards wrote about [gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?: On 2010-11-15, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Whether Xorg uses HAL or not is controlled

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
/disable features is a box that contains the default configuration. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm not an Iranian!! at I voted for Dianne gmail.comFeinstein!!

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
the default configuration for a package comes from. Is there a written policy somewhere that tells devs how to set the default USE flags? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm having a MID-WEEK at CRISIS

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-18, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 02:43 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Walter Dnes did opine thusly: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:00:48AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote If you then mentioned that their defaults broke Dale's setup, they'd

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-18, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 18/11/2010, at 1:46am, Grant Edwards wrote: ... Looks like the *actual* problem is non-application of OYFEAL[1],not what the devs do. Google doesn't seem to know what OYFEAL means. Do we get any hints? Yes, if you're

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-18, Fernando Antunes fs.antu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.comwrote: Can anybody point me to a hint on how to configure synaptics touchapad sensitivity? All the docs I can find seem to assume two things: 1

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-11-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-18, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 18 November 2010 15:48:23 Grant Edwards wrote: You can adjust synaptics changing the configuration on the /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi file. man 4 synaptic can give you a lot of extra options. That only works

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding old files

2010-11-19 Thread Grant Edwards
list of the files. Do you want a chronologically ordered list, or do you want to find files older than a certain age? If the former, try this: find . -iname '*.jpg' | xargs ls -lt If the latter, read the 'find' man page and look for the -mtime test. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding old files

2010-11-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-19, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 19:18 on Friday 19 November 2010, Peter Humphrey did opine thusly: On Friday 19 November 2010 16:40:37 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-11-19, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Hello list

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding old files

2010-11-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-19, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Friday 19 November 2010 16:40:37 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-11-19, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: Just to expose my ignorance again, would someone lift my blinkers please? I'm recovering from an infection

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding old files

2010-11-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-19, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 19/11/2010, at 5:53pm, Grant Edwards wrote: ... OK, but I still don't see how that finds old image files, but whatever. I assume he's finding *all* image files, then searching himself for old ones. This seems obvious to me

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Finding old files

2010-11-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-20, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Friday 19 November 2010 17:53:31 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-11-19, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: What different behavior? As I said, from the command line ls shows the year for any file more than 12

[gentoo-user] On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-24 Thread Grant Edwards
with a custom kernel module? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm having a at quadrophonic sensation gmail.comof two winos alone in a steel

[gentoo-user] Re: On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-24, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:02 on Thursday 25 November 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: I need to build a liveCD that boots on as wide a variety of hardware as is practical. It needs to load one custom kernel module

[gentoo-user] Re: On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-25, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:02:10 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I thought about using a customized systemrescuecd, but that takes ages to boot (almost 5 minutes). This CD is intended as something a customer can run to do a quick hardware

[gentoo-user] Re: On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-25, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: I'd suggest SystemRescueCD. That was my first thought, but it's not going to It's upgraded quite often (currently using kernel 2.6.35-x) has a ready to go X11 environment and most useful, it's an up-to-date Gentoo system,

[gentoo-user] Re: On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-25, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010-11-25, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:02:10 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I thought about using a customized systemrescuecd, but that takes ages to boot (almost 5 minutes). This CD

[gentoo-user] Re: How to build a static application binary?

2010-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
a static binary on Linux. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My Aunt MAUREEN was a at military advisor to IKE gmail.comTINA TURNER!!

[gentoo-user] Re: How to build a static application binary?

2010-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-12-03, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 3, 2010 11:14 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010-12-03, Jacob Todd jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote: Gotta love gcc! It's not gcc's fault. Iirc there a bug in glibc that makes it almost impossible to create

[gentoo-user] Re: How to build a static application binary?

2010-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
or a different libc. In practice, I'm sure nobody but me will ever even notice (or care even if they did notice) the wasted 2MB on a 25MB liveCD. But it will still bug me. :/ -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! S!! I hear SIX

[gentoo-user] Re: How to build a static application binary?

2010-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-12-03, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 00:37 on Saturday 04 December 2010, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: On 2010-12-03, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: What you are seeing is a lot of glibc routines being included

[gentoo-user] Minimal kernel tree for building out-of-tree modules?

2010-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
After I've built and installed a kernel and the in-tree-modules, is there a way to clean the kernel source/build tree down to the minimal set of files needed to build out-of-tree modules? I think you would end up with the same files that you would have after doing make modules_prepare in a clean

[gentoo-user] Re: Minimal kernel tree for building out-of-tree modules?

2010-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-12-10, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: After I've built and installed a kernel and the in-tree-modules, is there a way to clean the kernel source/build tree down to the minimal set of files needed to build out-of-tree modules? I think you would end up with the same

[gentoo-user] Re: How to configure thochpad sensitivity (using hal)?

2010-12-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-11-19, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: That only works if you're using the synaptics driver -- which I'm not. I haven't figured out how to do that yet. It was built, since I included it in INPUT_DEVICES, but HAL decided not to use it. What does your Xorg.0.log say about

[gentoo-user] Re: Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-15 Thread Grant Edwards
of the two specs, so I can't say I'm 100%, but I believe the Wikipedia page. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm a fuschia bowling at ball somewhere in Brittany gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Questions about SATA and hot plugging.

2010-12-16 Thread Grant Edwards
on a good connector wasn't a big deal. These days when you have to build a Motherboard for $20, you just can't put $5 worth of connectors on it. They aren't made to be messed with very much. Very true. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Boys, you have ALL

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Combining two MoBos...

2011-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
a graphics card? That depends on the board. 2: Can I combine both (how?) to use the power of both for rendering purposes? Yes. Use any of the available parallel-programming libaries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_programming_model -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
finished == complete. If you look in the Merriam-Webster dictionaly under finished both completed and complete are listed as synonyms. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Are the STEWED PRUNES at still in the HAIR DRYER

[gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-12, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards did opine thusly: On 2011-01-12, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:33:02 +, Stroller wrote: No longer updated can mean broken, but it can also mean finished. Boot to BTFS

[gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-12 Thread Grant Edwards
impacted grub's requirements? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! But was he mature at enough last night at the gmail.comlesbian masquerade?

[gentoo-user] Re: why always display this when kernel start

2011-01-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-14, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 January 2011 13:41, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: doherty pete wrote: when?kernel?start?,display?this Your system seems to be missing critical device files in /dev ! ?Although you may be running udev or devfs, the root partition

[gentoo-user] Re: why always display this when kernel start

2011-01-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-15, doherty pete nishizaw...@gmail.com wrote: i tried,but it no effect. What, exactly, did you try? The step you didn't do (or didn't do correclty) was during the install. Did you re-do the install from the beginning and make sure that step was done properly? -- Grant

[gentoo-user] How to mask xfce 4.8?

2011-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
. Do I have to individually mask all 20+ components of XFCE? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Jesus is my POSTMASTER at GENERAL ... gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: How to mask xfce 4.8?

2011-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-18, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: My last update bumped XFCE to 4.8, and I quickly learned that it's got some serious bugs. So, I need to roll back to whatever the prevous version was. How do I tell portage to not use 4.8? I tried adding this line in /etc

[gentoo-user] Re: How to mask xfce 4.8?

2011-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-18, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:22:20 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: But that does nothing. Do I have to individually mask all 20+ components of XFCE? Yes, but it's not difficult: qlist -ICv xfce-base/ | sed 's/^/~/' /etc/portage

[gentoo-user] Non-deprecated Kernel support for ATA CDROM?

2011-01-21 Thread Grant Edwards
drives? I get the impression that Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers section is supposed to support ATAPI CDROM drives, but I've never been ble to get that to work. What am I missing? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm wet! I'm wild

[gentoo-user] Re: Non-deprecated Kernel support for ATA CDROM?

2011-01-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-21, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I've noticed that for quite some time now that ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support been shown as deprecated when configuring a kernel. Unfortunately, that support is the only way I've never been able to get ATAPI CDROMs to work. Are we all

[gentoo-user] Re: Doubt about Python.

2011-01-27 Thread Grant Edwards
, there's probably a reason... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! It's a lot of fun at being alive ... I wonder if gmail.commy bed is made?!?

[gentoo-user] Re: nvidia card problems

2011-02-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-04, Enrico Weigelt weig...@metux.de wrote: * Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: You may want to check and make sure this is compiled into your kernel. CONFIG_SYSVIPC Are they really still using that old cruft ? ;-o Dunno if they're using it, but the drive won't run without it.

[gentoo-user] Re: IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-06, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mark Knecht writes: Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. 2) Something that have some

[gentoo-user] Amazon mp3 downloader?

2011-02-07 Thread Grant Edwards
ebuild: http://code.google.com/p/clamz/ Any recommendations? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Please come home with at me ... I have Tylenol!! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Amazon mp3 downloader?

2011-02-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-07, justin jus...@j-schmitz.net wrote: On 07/02/11 18:54, Grant Edwards wrote: What are people using to download MP3's from Amazon.com? I see they provide their close-source downloader in .deb and .rpm formats for Debian 5, Ubuntu 9.04, Fedora 11, and OpenSUSE 11.1: http

[gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-11 Thread Grant Edwards
file unless I drastically reduce quality. I don't understand what you're asking for. What sort of output format do you want (raster, vector, ???)? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Send your questions to at ``ASK ZIPPY

[gentoo-user] Re: How to send mail with attachment from a cron job?

2011-02-17 Thread Grant Edwards
a script. I'd use mutt: echo Here's an attachment | mutt -s cron sending a pdf -a whatever.pdf -- someb...@invalid.com -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I just heard the at SEVENTIES were over

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] etho app rating 10/100 etc in megabytes

2011-02-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-22, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC typical speeds on 100Mbps LANs are 4 or 5 MBps. There's many factors that can affect speed tho. If you're using full-duplex switches, you should easily be able to get 11-12MBps on a 100MBps LAN. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Grant Edwards
it'll take a couple days). I've seen situations where it was OK on the initial pass, and then failed later. The other likely suspect is probably the power supply. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I have a TINY BOWL in at my

[gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-26, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Before you start tweaking voltages and replacing PSUs you better test your *new* memory modules thoroughly, even if that means that you will be using your old machine for a day or so. Personally I usually remove all memory modules

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-28 Thread Grant Edwards
into a 1-dimensional space, there will be sets of values that differ in the 3-dimensional space which map to identical values in the 1-dimensional space. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm in direct contact at with many

[gentoo-user] Re: ripping my hair out with audio over hdmi

2011-03-09 Thread Grant Edwards
. The people that know the most about audio over HDMI are probably the roll-your-own DVR crowd. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm a fuschia bowling at ball somewhere in Brittany gmail.com

[gentoo-user] How to install viewvc w/o apache and related cruft?

2011-04-01 Thread Grant Edwards
fine, but every time I do an update, emerge wants to install apache and webapp-config. How do I convince portage that viewvc does not require an external web server and I don't want apache or webappconifg installed? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm dressing up

[gentoo-user] Re: How to install viewvc w/o apache and related cruft?

2011-04-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-04-01, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 20:40:33 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: How do I convince portage that viewvc does not require an external web server and I don't want apache or webappconifg installed? It's a web app, Yes, it can be a web app

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I inactivate the anachronism called CAPSLOCK on X?

2011-04-05 Thread Grant Edwards
and enables ctrl-alt-backspace as the termination sequence for the X server. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! WHOA!! Ken and Barbie at are having TOO MUCH FUN!! gmail.comIt must

[gentoo-user] Where are Libreoffice templates?

2011-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
than ooo because libreoffice comes with all sorts of professional quality templates. Where did they go? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm having a RELIGIOUS at EXPERIENCE ... and I don't

[gentoo-user] Re: Where are Libreoffice templates?

2011-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-05, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I emerged libreoffice yesterday with the templates USE flag enabled, but I can't figure out where the templates are installed. The only ones

[gentoo-user] Re: Where are Libreoffice templates?

2011-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-05, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-05-05, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote

[gentoo-user] Re: Where are Libreoffice templates?

2011-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
Maybe I'll trying emerging it again overnight tonight... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! How do I get HOME? at gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Where are Libreoffice templates?

2011-05-05 Thread Grant Edwards
templates. When I couldn't find those (I'm guessing they require Java), I started looking for the old Sun ones, and couldn't find them either. Maybe I should order a new ribbon for my typewriter... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I am deeply CONCERNED

[gentoo-user] Re: Where are Libreoffice templates?

2011-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-05, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-05-05, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: It finished emerging, and everything works exactly as expected. The new templates (and old ones) all show up inside the program automatically, no problems at all

[gentoo-user] Re: checking whether the C compiler works... no Oooops !!

2011-05-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-06, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: P. S. One would think a Gentoo system could sit idle for a couple months without this sort of mess. It depends on which couple of months you happen to pick. ;) Most of the time a couple months is OK. Once in a while there will be several

[gentoo-user] Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-10 Thread Grant Edwards
. In order to avoid the same circus on my other machines, how do I prevent emerge --depclean from removing Python 2.6? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! ANN JILLIAN'S HAIR at makes LONI ANDERSON'S

[gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-10, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:40 on Tuesday 10 May 2011, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: I ran emerge --depclean the other day on one of my machines and it removed Python 2.6. I was using Python 2.6 as my default python

[gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-10, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:13 on Tuesday 10 May 2011, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: I think the issue happens because portage does not take eselect choices into account when building it's dep graph, it only uses

[gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-10, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently so. It seems like it ought to pay attention to eselect. If I've explicitly configured my system to use 2.6 instead of 2.7, removing 2.6 doesn't seem like a good thing... I am not sure I understand: If you eselect python 2.7

[gentoo-user] Re: Prevent depclean from removing Python-2.6?

2011-05-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-05-11, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-05-10, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently so. It seems like it ought to pay attention to eselect. If I've explicitly configured my system to use 2.6 instead of 2.7, removing 2.6 doesn't seem like a good thing

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] network discovery tools

2011-05-25 Thread Grant Edwards
, I assign static IP addresses to a number of devices, but I do it via the DHCP server's configuration, not by configuring each individual device. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Did an Italian CRANE at OPERATOR just

[gentoo-user] sshd no longer starting when it should.

2011-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
on starting net.eth0, but I want sshd started anyway. If I'd meant start if you happen to feel like it I would have typed /etc/init.d/sshd start-if-you-happen-to-feel-like-it How do I get sshd to start? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Will this never-ending

[gentoo-user] Re: sshd no longer starting when it should.

2011-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-06-08, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:18 on Wednesday 08 June 2011, Grant Edwards did opine thusly: A recent update seems to have broken sshd. It no longer starts when it should. It seems to refuse to start up unless eth0 is up

[gentoo-user] Re: sshd no longer starting when it should.

2011-06-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-06-08, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:43 on Wednesday 08 June 2011, Grant Edwards # Do we allow any started service in the runlevel to satisfy the dependency # or do we want all of them regardless of state? For example, if net.eth0

[gentoo-user] Re: evdev broken?

2011-07-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-07-20, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, All Recently, after blindingly emerging world, X11/Xorg stopped to accept mouse and keyboard events. After some ways to figure out what was going on, I found that it seems related to evdev. Anybody noticed something like that? The

[gentoo-user] Re: evdev broken?

2011-07-20 Thread Grant Edwards
wondered why, if portage knows that has to be done, can't portage just go ahead and do it? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Let's send the at Russians defective gmail.comlifestyle

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