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

2011-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-18, Neil Bothwick 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 '

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

2011-01-21 Thread Grant Edwards
SATA CDROM 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.edwards

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

2011-01-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-01-21, Grant Edwards 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. > > Ar

[gentoo-user] Re: Doubt about Python.

2011-01-27 Thread Grant Edwards
using 2.6 insteadof 2.7, 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 wrote: > * Dale 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. IIRC, they use the SysV shar

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

2011-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2011-02-06, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Alex Schuster 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 sort of version contro

[gentoo-user] Amazon mp3 downloader?

2011-02-07 Thread Grant Edwards
h has a masked 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 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 O

[gentoo-user] Re: GRUB2 migration

2012-07-05 Thread Grant Edwards
ss of whether there's a Gentoo package for it or not. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I want EARS! I want at two ROUND BLACK EARS gmail.comto make me feel warm 'n secure!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Linux and the Higgs

2012-07-05 Thread Grant Edwards
exact type of stuff that they do at CERN. Maybe an argument could be made for moving SL from a RHEL base to a Gentoo base, but trying to get them to abandon SL probably isn't going to be easy. The target market for Ubuntu just doesn't seem to be very compatible with the Gentoo, s

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: How to make mutt open files by *EXTENSION*?

2012-07-24 Thread Grant Edwards
ting breakage for Outlook+Exchange since bits were invented. I've been getting PDF files typed as application/octet-stream from Outlook users for 15 years. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I guess it was all a at DREAM ... or an episode of gmail.comHAWAII FIVE-O ...

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.5.4 automatically removes 4.5.3???? Wtf???

2012-09-07 Thread Grant Edwards
go, and I don't *ever* recall a GCC upgrade removing my prior > version. > >> And please write proper subject on emails. "WTF" is not really >> appropriate for a mailing list. > > Don't be stupid. I see that all the time... if you don't like it j

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo is the best linux distro

2012-09-12 Thread Grant Edwards
on if you click enough buttons, then it claims to have done it, but it just doesn't work... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I threw up on my at window! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I determine the processor type?

2012-09-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-09-15, Dale wrote: > From my understanding, someone correct me if I am off here, AMD sort of > beat Intel to the 64 bit thing. Not really. Intel came out with the IA64 architecture in 2001 in the Itanium processor. The IA64 architecture was much more RISC-like than the IA32 (x86) archit

[gentoo-user] Re: How do I determine the processor type?

2012-09-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-09-15, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2012-09-15, Dale wrote: > >> From my understanding, someone correct me if I am off here, AMD sort of >> beat Intel to the 64 bit thing. > After years and years of miserable sales, Intel finally gave up > flogging the Ita

[gentoo-user] Re: virtualbox - serial port

2012-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
rt open, use lsof. But, that's not what's causing your error. Linux allows serial ports to be open by multiple processes. Do you have permissions set correctly to access the serial port normally (without virtualbox)? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.ed

[gentoo-user] Re: virtualbox - serial port

2012-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-09-18, Joseph wrote: > On 09/18/12 15:06, Grant Edwards wrote: >>>>>I'm trying to configure virutalbox serial port, but I'm getting an >>>>>error: >>>>> >>>>>NamedPipe#0 failed to connect to local socket /dev/ttyS0

[gentoo-user] Re: virtualbox - serial port

2012-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
o with a permission error. If you had proper permissions, you won't get a permission error even if something else is using ttyS0. > so I'm puzzled why virtualbox is giving me permission error What happens when you do "cat /dev/ttyS0"? -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: MTP auto-mount? (Kindle Fire HD)

2012-09-18 Thread Grant Edwards
s Galaxy (which uses MTP), and Google has found reports of flakey behavior with mtpfs. I've heard good things about go-mtpfs (but you have to set up the Go compiler). And there's also gmtp... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Gee,

[gentoo-user] Re: virtualbox - serial port

2012-09-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-09-21, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 18 Sep 2012 18:49:33 Joseph wrote: >> On 09/18/12 15:59, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> >> I'm in group "tty", so I can not figure it out why virtualbox is >> >> complaining

[gentoo-user] Re: new machine: incremental back-ups

2012-10-05 Thread Grant Edwards
& I would have to re-install all the system + Portage stuff. > > What do people who do incremental back-ups use ? rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Rsnapshot http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Backup#rsnapshot http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/A_s

[gentoo-user] How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-08 Thread Grant Edwards
ge/package.mask: =app-editors/emacs-24.2 NOTE: The --autounmask-keep-masks option will prevent emerge from creating package.unmask or ** keyword changes. Use --autounmask-write to write changes to config files (honoring CONFIG_PROTECT). How do I tell emerge that I

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-10-08, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Grant Edwards >> I put this in /etc/portage/package.mask to keep 24 from getting >> installed: >> >>>=app-editors/emacs-24.0 >> >> But emerge -u keeps insisting

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-08 Thread Grant Edwards
I know, but I try to keep the extraneously installed packages to a minimum -- it reduces update time/hassle. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Hand me a pair of at leather pants and a CASIO gmail.c

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-10-08, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > On 2012-10-08, Michael Hampicke wrote: > >> Am 08.10.2012 18:39, schrieb Grant Edwards: >>> How do I prevent emerge from demanding that emacs 24 be installed? I >>> uninstalled it a few days ago and re-installed 23 because 2

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-09 Thread Grant Edwards
nge. > > (If you end up trying emacs-updater to fix emacs 24, you will need to > run it again after eselecting emacs 23, if you want to go back to > emacs 23.) I don't remember running emacs-updater, so I probably didn't. But shouldn't built-in c-mode

[gentoo-user] Re: Want to start open source development

2012-10-10 Thread Grant Edwards
* Translating documentation into a new language. * Fixing formatting, grammar, and spelling errors. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! If our behavior is at strict, we do not need fun! gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Heads-up: Several kernel versions have severe EXT4 data corruption bug

2012-10-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-10-25, Kerin Millar wrote: > The comment you linked to was fairly bereft of technical content, That "comment" was from _Ted_Ts'o_ for pete's sake. When Ted T'so blows his nose, it's full of technical content. -- Grant Edwards grant.b

[gentoo-user] Re: dual monitors and dual desktops

2012-10-25 Thread Grant Edwards
ction -- There are three Device sections (one for one video card, and one for each of the DVI outputs on a second video card). There are then three corresponding Screen sections (named Samsung0, Samsung1, and Ace

[gentoo-user] Re: dual monitors and dual desktops

2012-10-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-10-25, Kfir Lavi wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: > >> On 2012-10-25, Kfir Lavi wrote: >> >> > I have a laptop and an external monitor. >> >

[gentoo-user] Re: dual monitors and dual desktops

2012-10-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-10-25, mindrunner wrote: > On 10/25/2012 07:40 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> So I actually have a total of 12 virtual desktops (3 sets of 4). > > Searching the terminal window opened 6 hours ago on one of the 12 > virutal desktops sounds like fun :D It's not as bad

[gentoo-user] Re: access Linux "X" from android tablet

2012-11-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-11-04, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It will work if you have an X-server on your Android tablet. > > But I doubt you have an X-Server on your Android tablet. > > Are you understanding what I am saying? Do you know what an X-server is? > > It is not VNC, RDP, nx, newmachine or anything else; it

[gentoo-user] Re: OT triple display

2012-11-05 Thread Grant Edwards
puts and then all you need is a single-output video card. It's probably simplest if you stick with a single brand for both video controllers. I _think_ it should work even if they're not, but I've never tried it... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.e

[gentoo-user] Re: (double)click

2012-11-06 Thread Grant Edwards
_ the waste-of-space numeric keypad. I'm an engineer, not a checkout clerk at a grocery store... I _really_ wanted to like my happy hacker keyboard, but the key action was just too stiff and vague. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I'm DESPONDENT ... I

[gentoo-user] Re: (double)click

2012-11-06 Thread Grant Edwards
d built-in pointer of the IBM spacesaver II. Once upon a time, there was a Minnesota company called Omnikey that made excellent keyboards -- almost as good as the model M (and they had a dipswitch and extra keycaps that let you have a proper Control key). I think got bought by Northgate, and then

[gentoo-user] Re: (double)click

2012-11-06 Thread Grant Edwards
ontains the string 'omnikey'). But, nobody sells the avant keyboards, and CVT seems to be gone. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Am I SHOPLIFTING? at gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-11-11, Pandu Poluan wrote: > And, IIRC, Seymour Cray likes to use some inert fluoride-based coolant to > dunk the components of his supercomputer machines. And he would even go to > lengths to design a "coolant fountain" that's not only functional, but also > decorative. Back in the 80's

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-11-11, Dale wrote: >>> I'm not saying that every single transformer out there has mineral >>> oil in it but according to that, it is still in common use. Also, >>> according to that it also does the job of removing the heat from the >>> transformer too. If you want, watch this video. Y

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: new system hardware

2012-11-13 Thread Grant Edwards
interesting - what other substances are used instead these days? >> In my day we had nothing but mineral oil. > > ethers? silicone fluorocarbons (dunno which ones) -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Jesuit priests are

[gentoo-user] Re: swap on ssd?

2012-11-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-11-25, Neil Bothwick wrote: > A storage device that broke if you tried to store stuff on it would > break trading laws in any civilised country. That wouldn't stop most large companies from selling them anyway... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I

[gentoo-user] kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-01 Thread Grant Edwards
o 3.2, everything is fine again. There must have been a new kernel setting that I missed when I did a "make oldconfig" which defaults to an unusable settings. I haven't been able to come up with a Google search that provides anything remotely relevent. Does anybody recognize

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-02, Yohan Pereira wrote: > On Sunday 02 Dec 2012 3:05:21 Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm trying to upgrade from a 3.2 kernel to 3.5.7, but the 3.5.7 kernel >> is unusable because it always puts the keyboard into a mode where it >> maps the numeric keypad to the r

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-02, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Mick wrote: >>> Is this a laptop? with no num pad? On my laptop the numpad is mapped to the >>> keys like you described, so when Num Lock is toggled those keys function as >>> the num pad. >> >> You can check if rc-update -s -v | grep numlock (or rc

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-02, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > I think numlock is on by default in newer kernels -- just turn it off > with the key -- I am pretty sure even your laptop has such a simulated > key. I booted back into 3.5, and the "NumLk" doesn't toggle num-lock like it does in 3.2. In 3.5, the "N

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
create an "unnumlock" rc script and enable that for all runlevels. But I'd much rather the keyboard's default state was usable... I've grep'ed the 3.5.7 kernel .config file for numlock, numeric, keypad, and a half-dozen other similar strings, and have found nothi

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-02, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2012-12-02, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > >>> I think numlock is on by default in newer kernels >> >> That pretty much sucks. Is that configurable sowewhere? &

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel 3.2->3.5 upgrade unusable: keyboard borked

2012-12-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-03, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2012 21:08:23 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> You can also just use the setleds utility directly, but either is >> hard to do [when the] keyboard doesn't allow you to enter the letters >> u,i,o,p,j,k

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
ernels) so that they'd run on a variety of CPU architectures! -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! TONY RANDALL! Is YOUR at life a PATIO of FUN?? gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-10, Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2012-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012, 19:25:55 schrieb Grant: >>> >>>> It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 bef

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-10, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 19:06:36 + (UTC) > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2012-12-10, Volker Armin Hemmann >> wrote: >> > Am Samstag, 8. Dezember 2012, 19:25:55 schrieb Grant: >> > >> >> It seems l

[gentoo-user] Re: ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-14, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:34:49PM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: > >> Boot with SystemRescueCd and you can't get to a prompt? > > Currently can't even boot -- it hangs wit a blank screen at the point > grub or the rescue DVD would take over. > >> Yes, your sout

[gentoo-user] Re: android and mtp

2012-12-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:19:10 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I think you can use mtpfs and then browse it like any other disk. > I found that to be rather fragile, jmtpfs works far better for me, with a > Galaxy S3 and a Nexus 7. I couldn't get mtpfs to wor

[gentoo-user] Re: android and mtp

2012-12-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-23, luis jure wrote: > on 2012-12-22 at 17:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>Now, imagine you are the guy at Samsung deciding what features the S2 >>will support. Which option you gonna pick? > > yeah, you're right, i guess. but for once i'd like the guys at the > corporations to think like m

[gentoo-user] Re: android and mtp

2012-12-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2012-12-24, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Monday 24 December 2012 09:24:16 AM IST, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2012-12-23, luis jure wrote: >>> on 2012-12-22 at 17:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>>> Now, imagine you are the guy at Samsung deciding what f

[gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

2013-01-07 Thread Grant Edwards
subsystem some time before IDE hard drives did -- but it's been a while... > Since it was changed on purpose, I don't believe this is a bug. Yes, it was an intentional change. I haven't seen a /dev/hd* device for years and years. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-08 Thread Grant Edwards
_software I've heard the term "bit rot" for decades, but I've never heard the "decay of storage media" usage. It's always referred to unmaintained code that no longer words because of changes to tools or the surrounding environment. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Is something VIOLENT at going to happen to a gmail.comGARBAGE CAN?

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-08 Thread Grant Edwards
t all. IIRC, the same is true for attempts to read a failing CD. However, if you've got failing RAM that doesn't have hardware ECC, that often appears as corrupted data in files. If a bit gets erroneously flippped in a RAM page that's being used to cache file data, and that pag

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-08 Thread Grant Edwards
rrying about it is worthwhile. IMO, having backup data _is_ very valuable, but regularly reading files and comparing them to backup copies isn't a useful way to detect failing media. You're much more likely to detect failing RAM (which is useful, but there are better ways to do it).

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-01-08, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2013 22:15:15 + (UTC) > Grant Edwards wrote: > >> IMO, having backup data _is_ very valuable, but regularly reading >> files and comparing them to backup copies isn't a useful way to detect >> failing m

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-09 Thread Grant Edwards
> - read failure. You did not see anything that happened prior as it > was silent. If a read successfully returns correct data, how is it "silent"? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Someone in DAYTON,

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Fighting bit rot

2013-01-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-01-09, Holger Hoffstaette wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 14:48:33 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2013-01-09, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 02:47:07 + (UTC) >> >>> The data on a medium can corrupt, and it can corrupt silently

[gentoo-user] System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Grant Edwards
mally. Is there any way to disable this "feature"? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! ... I don't like FRANK at SINATRA or his CHILDREN. gmail.com

[gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-16 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-01-16, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 04:43:16PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: >> I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard >> clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is >> set from the mot

[gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-01-17, Stroller wrote: > > On 16 January 2013, at 16:43, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> I'm having problems with one of my Gentoo systems who's motherboard >> clock is a little slow. When the system comes up, the system time is >> set from the motherboard

[gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-01-17, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 22:47:17 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> By default, ntpd doesn't seem to want to do >> a step correction to fix large clock errors on startup (there's >> probably an option for that). > > Tha

[gentoo-user] Re: System won't boot if CMOS clock is slow

2013-01-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-01-18, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:08:50 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> >> By default, ntpd doesn't seem to want to do >> >> a step correction to fix large clock errors on startup (there's >> >> probably an op

[gentoo-user] Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

2013-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
ext rendered by acroread (left) and emacs (right): http://www.panix.com/~grante/acroread-vs-emacs.png Acroread _used_ to render this document correctly. I've asked Google but all the hits are about asian font support. Any ideas what I'm missing? -- Grant Edwards grant.

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

2013-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards wrote: > I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 months or so, > font support in acroread got broken. Most of the PDF documents > generated by MS Office don't render correctly. I think the most common > font that doesn'

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

2013-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-06, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 months or so, >>> font support in acroread got broken. Most

[gentoo-user] Re: Fonts (Ariel?) broken in acroread

2013-02-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-02-06, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Grant Edwards >> wrote: >>> On 2013-02-06, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> >>>> I don't know when exactly, but sometime in the past 6 mont

[gentoo-user] How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-11 Thread Grant Edwards
heir pariticular package is the greatest thing ever and should be installed on everything since the TI SR-54 calculator, but this seems a bit silly... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Here we are in America

[gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-11, Dale wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> I tried doing an "emerge -auvND world" today. It's been three days >> since the previous update, and today portage wants to update 1 package >> and install _35_new_ones_. >> >> Seriou

[gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-11 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 11/02/2013 23:55, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >> I tried doing an "emerge -auvND world" today. It's been three days >> since the previous update, and today portage wants to update 1 package >> and install _35_new

[gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-12, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/02/2013 01:24, Grant Edwards wrote: >> It didn't occur to me until afterwards, but yes, the "new" USE flags >> did correspond with the change to a 13.0 desktop profile. I'm now >> wondering if my 10.0 profile

[gentoo-user] Re: How to stem the flood of new packages?

2013-02-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-02-12, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 03:16:55PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote >> On 2013-02-12, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > >> > You are a minimalist kind of guy, right? Basic wm, no frills, no >> > semantic-desktop and other integrat

[gentoo-user] Re: Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?

2006-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
d a lot of trouble burning DVDs using a USB connected drive. I moved the drive internal and connected it directly to the IDE controller and since have had no problems burning either single or double layer. [IIRC, it's an vanilla OEM Samsung drive.] -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Transcoding movie DVD to MPEG4?

2006-12-03 Thread Grant Edwards
to copy DVD movies one must first > make a copy of the DVD's files - with the region-encoding > removed - onto hard-disk, then burn this as a new DVD > "compilation". The result is an R0 disk which should play fine > in any standard player. Exactly. The dvdbackup/growisofs me

[gentoo-user] How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Grant Edwards
File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 5067, in xmatch mydep = dep_expand(origdep, mydb=self, settings=self.mysettings) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3415, in dep_expand if mydep[-1]=="*": IndexError: string index out of range -

[gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-05, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # equery list xorg | while read pkg; do equery size ="${pkg}"; done That's nasty. Why do some equery commands accept regexes and others dont? -- Grant Edwards grante Yo

[gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-05, Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --nextPart5713396.8Ph2VuCcD6 > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 21:16,

[gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-05 Thread Grant Edwards
to realize it immediately :-) Well, it seems pretty non-intuitive and non-orthogonal to me. I guess that's a result of many years of shell usage where commands like "rm" and "ls" work equally well on a single file or multiple files. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-06 Thread Grant Edwards
of many years of shell usage where >> commands like "rm" and "ls" work equally well on a single file >> or multiple files. > > There's only one way you are going to get equery to behave > like you want - become the maintainer and code it lik

[gentoo-user] emerge cinelerra-cvs fails with itnernal compiler error

2006-12-14 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm trying to emerge cinelerra-cvs, but the compile fails with an internal compiler error. Anybody have any idea what the fix might be? -- i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../quicktime -D_LARGEFILE_S

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge cinelerra-cvs fails with itnernal compiler error

2006-12-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-14, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to emerge cinelerra-cvs, but the compile fails with > an internal compiler error. Anybody have any idea what the fix > might be? It seems to build OK with gcc-4.1.1, but not with gcc-3.4.6 (which gener

[gentoo-user] Re: Dual Layer burn program

2006-12-19 Thread Grant Edwards
at was in an external PATA/USB box, but once I moved the drive into the computer and attached it to an IDE controller, it's worked fine. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! It's hard being at

[gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-18, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've caught a whiff or two lately that Gentoo is declining in > popularity amongst users and developers. Is it all in my head? I > personally still love Gentoo. AFAICT, it's still a favorite of Grants everywhe

[gentoo-user] Default locale/charset changed after update?

2006-12-22 Thread Grant Edwards
oblem, but I'm curious how/when the default changed. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! QUIET!! I'm being at CREATIVE!! Is it GREAT visi.comyet? It'

[gentoo-user] Re: Default locale/charset changed after update?

2006-12-22 Thread Grant Edwards
which ebuilds own any files that appear. Neither was present in env.d nor the environment until I created /etc/env.d/02locale. Running 'locale' showed both of them unset, and everything else it showed was POSIX. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! "

[gentoo-user] Re: Batch resizing of photos

2006-12-25 Thread Grant Edwards
lse suggested, use mogrify. Or just tell convert to write to the same filename, and it'll do the right thing: for i in *.jpeg; do convert resize WxH ${i} ${i} done -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Mr and Mrs PED, can I at

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-26 Thread Grant Edwards
r and installed it by applying one of the patches that are floating around (from Fedora and/or SuSe, IIRC), but an ebuild that works would be better. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! BARBARA STANWYCK at m

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-27, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards HA||UCA: >> Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon >> 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18? The most recent ATI >> driver that works with the 9200 series is 8.28.8, but it (a

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-27, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-12-27, Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Grant Edwards HA||UCA: >>> Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon >>> 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18? The most re

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
y larger resident size is the X server. Audacious takes three times as much memory as Apache. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Do you have exactly at what I want in a plaid visi.com

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
player -- I don't think I've got a GUI for it installed. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hey, I LIKE that at POINT!! visi.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
.0. > > I'm missing xmms too. I hope xmms2 will eventually be > developed enough to use as a stable package, but without the > bloatware that winamp has become. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Should I get at

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
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[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-30 Thread Grant Edwards
u have the section at the end of xorg.conf that looks like this? Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection If you google for "libGL error: failed to open DRM: Operation not permitted" That's the suggestion solution -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ wants to install xorg-server

2006-12-30 Thread Grant Edwards
; Of course it requires the client libraries, but that's not > the point . Sure seems wrong to me... -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hey, LOOK!! A pair of at SIZE 9 CAPRI PANTS!! They

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ wants to install xorg-server

2006-12-30 Thread Grant Edwards
but that's not >> the point . > > No, there is no misunderstanding here. Just disable the X flag > for gtk+ and it won't pull in xorg-server. I thought the -X flag meant not to build features that depend on X11 client support? What's that got to do with whether a server i

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Grant Edwards
rogram is 32M? Virtual memory _is_ a resource, though not an expensive one. > and does not know how the Linux virtual memory system works. > It is complex and almost impossible to know what is going on > at any instant in time, but that's no excuse for people being > wrong by a

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