Re: [gentoo-user] stuffit does not recognise .sitx

Stroller ha scritto: I cannot conceive that anyone could > seriously be still using OS 9 or earlier in earnest. I know people that do, and even for pretty serious work. *Why* they do that, is beyond my comprehension. m.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing an internet connection

Grant ha scritto: >>> I travel with a strong external antenna for picking up faint wireless >>> signals. It works great, >> May I ask which antenna? It's a long time I'm looking for something like >> that but I keep being told that external antennas are often useless (I'm >> thinking of the over-t

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing an internet connection

Grant ha scritto: > I travel with a strong external antenna for picking up faint wireless > signals. It works great, May I ask which antenna? It's a long time I'm looking for something like that but I keep being told that external antennas are often useless (I'm thinking of the over-the-counter u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading from 2005 S1 to 2008.0?

Grant Edwards ha scritto: > On 2009-03-10, Dale wrote: >> Douglas J Hunley wrote: >>> Is it possible to upgrade an existing 2005 S1 install to 2008.0? I gave it >>> a >>> quick try and ran into multiple issues. Before I expend hrs trying to make >>> it >>> work, does anyone know if it's an exe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installation questions

James ha scritto: > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > >>> Yes, you heard me right - I recommend one uses Ubuntu to install >>> Gentoo > >> I took that a stage further with my Eee. >> Knowing how long it would take to build everything, I installed >> Ubuntu, then used that while Gentoo w

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions of /etc/sudoers

Michael Hentsch ha scritto: > The file /etc/sudoers should always be edited with visudo. visudo uses > file locking, provides basic sanity checks and checks for parse errors. This always made me crazy. Why, why, why should I use a specialized editor to edit a system file? It's not like we have vi

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting LANG/LC_ALL to html

Frank Schwidom ha scritto: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:25:11PM +, AllenJB wrote: >> Frank Schwidom wrote: >>> Hi, >>> im searching for a suitable package which provides locales for html. Is >>> there any existing known package? When not, is it possible to create >>> such a package, and how? >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

Jesús Guerrero ha scritto: > On Mon, January 26, 2009 17:48, Mike Kazantsev wrote: >> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:41:52 -0800 >> Grant wrote: >> >>> What do you guys think of this? Do you know of a good cruft removal >>> script? >> Yep, there's quite good one in gentoo itself. >> >> Basically, you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Anxiousness? [was:Tips/Tricks for Gentoo on low-spec computer?]

Mark Knecht ha scritto: >The one thing I would respectfully suggest is that you carefully > build your own portage overlay. My experience with Gentoo over the > last few years is that there is a _anxiousness_ in the portage > maintainer area to move newer revisions of software into portage > q

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 'emerge -e world' question

Paul Hartman ha scritto: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I normally do "emerge -uDvN @world" (or in other words "emerge >> --update --deep --verbose --newuse @world"). Right now, it tells me >> this: >> >> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB >> >> I als

Re: [gentoo-user] after installing and running Xorg, my LCD colors in text mode are all wrong

Willie Wong ha scritto: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:42:22PM -0500, Denis wrote: >> I just installed Xorg on the older Dell machine, for which I have a >> 17-inch Sony LCD screen. Before I did anything with X, my screen >> colors were just like I'm used to. Now, I fired up X, got it to work >> fi

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia warning comes a tad late

Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: > On Donnerstag 01 Januar 2009, Michael P. Soulier wrote: >> On 01/01/09 Volker Armin Hemmann said: >>> after the emerge you read the messages with elogv and downgrade. No harm >>> done. >> I'll be sure to try that, thank you. However, would not avoiding a bad >> up

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

Stroller ha scritto: > > On 22 Dec 2008, at 12:59, b.n. wrote: >> ... >>> I don't know what you mean by using the adjective "cold" in relation to >>> the communication error that your mailer posts HTML by default. You >>> should file an upstre

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: > On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, b.n. wrote: > >> The user is complaining of a *damn serious* problem. His emails were >> ignored for an undocumented formatting community rule, and it made >> impossible for him to use the mailing list, w

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

Stroller ha scritto: > > On 21 Dec 2008, at 09:46, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> ... On perhaps my third or fourth repost, I found a >> shocking answer: >> >> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht >>> ... >>> You may try by sending a mail using the text format instead of the HTML >>> one

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

Stroller ha scritto: > I intended to stay silent, however I feel obliged to balance the posts > from brullonu...@gmail.com You could answer to my emails, argumenting in detail. I hope we're not here to "score points", but to understand what to do to solve the situation. In my humble opinion, just

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Bold, italics, underscore convention (Was: Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug.)

Willie Wong ha scritto: > Starting a new thread because this is getting way off topic (both > re: gentoo or re: the topic under discussion in the other thread) > > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:25:12PM -0600, Penguin Lover ??Q?? squawked: >> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:05:58 -0600 >> Steven Susbauer wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

John J. Foster ha scritto: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:32:26AM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: >> I think you're missing the point. I never asked the community to >> change its rules. I'm only saying that these particular rules were >> invisible, and there's no way to find out about it, and that's

Re: [gentoo-user] Which one...blender goes nuts...

meino.cra...@gmx.de ha scritto: > Hi, > > This is slightly off topic, but I hope there is someone > here, who know the trick... > > I use to compile blender myself from the freshest svn checkout > I could get ... :) > > This morning my sync with the outer world presents an update > of openal fro

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

Stroller ha scritto: > It's not merely aesthetic, because a URL as long as the one above may > not be clickable in the mail client. TinyURL should alleviate this > problem, as long as the sender's client doesn't break lines in some > stupid place. Right. > I'll use direct links inline when I'm ta

Re: [gentoo-user][ot] mail links as footnotes

Daniel Pielmeier ha scritto: > Unfortunately there is no ebuild for fatsort [1] only a maintainer > wanted bug [2]. > There is even a python gui [3], but I don't know if there is really a > need for a gui though. > > I think I will update the ebuild (which does not look that complicated > and need

Re: [gentoo-user] FAT/VFAT fs analyser ???

Daniel Pielmeier ha scritto: > And you are right the order is controlled by the order they are saved to > the filesystem. It seems this is only true for the usb driver and not > the mtp driver which is afaik only usable on windows. I know almost nothing about the iRiver, but the MTP protocol is s

Re: [gentoo-user] qtiplot

Arttu V. ha scritto: > On 11/26/08, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> b.n. ha scritto: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have an x86 gentoo system, and I would like to install qtiplot. >>> Unfortunately: >>> - qtiplot 0.8.x requires qwt-4. I have b

Re: [gentoo-user] qtiplot

b.n. ha scritto: > Hi, > > I have an x86 gentoo system, and I would like to install qtiplot. > Unfortunately: > - qtiplot 0.8.x requires qwt-4. I have both qwt-4 and qwt-5 installed, > and when compilng qtiplot seems to pick invariably the qwt-5. How do I > force qtiplo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OSS4: no sound with 4GB RAM

Nikos Chantziaras ha scritto: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> I'm on AMD64. I'm using OSS4 and sound doesn't work with 4GB RAM >> (silence or noise). Works fine with 2GB. Anyone encountered >> something like this before? >> >> OSS 4.1_rc2. Kernel 2.6.27.7 (2.6.27-gentoo-r4). > > Never mind, fixed

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ?

GMail ha scritto: > I ran into this same thing this morning and felt like mailing Zac a piece of > my mind. Sanity prevailed though. > > I still feeling quite deeply offended though that a package maintainer has > forced me to jump through a hoop simply because he would like an earlier > versio

[gentoo-user] qtiplot

Hi, I have an x86 gentoo system, and I would like to install qtiplot. Unfortunately: - qtiplot 0.8.x requires qwt-4. I have both qwt-4 and qwt-5 installed, and when compilng qtiplot seems to pick invariably the qwt-5. How do I force qtiplot to build with qwt-4 ? - qtiplot 0.9.x requires to unmask

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto compile Xgl on Gentoo (to have dual seat box)

noro kamen ha scritto: > Hi, > > I have dual head nvidia card and like to make dual seat gentoo box. > (i.e. two people can work simultaneously, using their own monitor+mouse+kbd) > > I met these problems: > 1. one X window server can work only with one mouse, kbd and VGA card > 2. nvidia driver

Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process

Zhang Weiwu ha scritto: > So: is ulimit the solution? If so, what option should I set? My current > ulimit is: > > $ ulimit -a > core file size (blocks, -c) 0 > data seg size (kbytes, -d) 30 > scheduling priority (-e) 0 > file size (blocks, -f) unl

[gentoo-user] overlay eclass overrides eclass from PORTDIR: what is it?

Hi, Syncing today gave me this message: * Overlay eclass overrides eclass from PORTDIR: * * '/usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects/eclass/bzr.eclass' * * It is best to avoid overridding eclasses from PORTDIR because it will * trigger invalidation of cached ebuild metadata that is distr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-wiki.com - Needs your help!

Mike Edenfield ha scritto: > Gentoo-portage should be up tommorrow, gentoo-wiki will be back > eventually, but all content on both sites is probably gone forever. Well, there are backups until March, and Google cache still holds something. I had a similar failure on a wiki I was managing some tim

Re: [gentoo-user] Reopen: OpenOffice dies on startup

Dirk Heinrichs ha scritto: > Am Mittwoch 08 Oktober 2008 04:23:35 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman: > >> I'm about to compile, but I hate that solution. > > Why did you choose Gentoo, then? Only by compiling OOo, you will get one that > fits into _your_ system. > I don't think Gentoo is about being

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

Alan McKinnon ha scritto: > On Wednesday 08 October 2008 19:40:25 b.n. wrote: >> Erik Hahn ha scritto: >>> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:13:33PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: >>>> I have found another KDE app which is important sufficiently to delay >>>>

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

Erik Hahn ha scritto: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:13:33PM +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: >> I have found another KDE app which is important sufficiently to delay >> switching to KDE4 - the app is k3b, which still isn't ported. If I >> understand well, there isn't any minimal apps list (and k3b, w

Re: [gentoo-user] kein Profile

Ralf Hinz ha scritto: > Hallo > > Wollte mein Profile updaten. Leider kein Glück!!! Can you write in English? The mailing list is international... Thanks, m.

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

Jerry McBride ha scritto: I have both kde-3.5.10 and kde-4.1.2 and there are a couple of small incompatibilities... and that's why they are still masked. If I recall right... I had to upgrade to the latest ~x86 portage and then I had to iron out kopete for both versions of kde... No show stopp

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

Roy Wright ha scritto: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:08:23 +0200, b.n. wrote: Could you share your relevant package.mask and package.keywords, for the laziest of us? :) emerge autounmask autounmask kde-meta On my ~x86, I had to add: ~app-misc/strigi-0.5.11 to etc/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1.2... a winner!

Jerry McBride ha scritto: Well, I took notice that kde 4.1.2 is in portage... I quickly removed kde-svn and layman and began the unmasking and keywording of 4.1.2. I let it all install over night and... This morning, with a little trepidation, I booted into KDE-4.1.2... no problems! This is

Re: [gentoo-user] Still kde problems with monolithic->split

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Arttu V. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [08-10-04 16:49]: On 10/4/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [blocks B ] I'm no expert on this, but to me this looks like you're running some unstable gnome/gtk packages? This particular line reminds me of this quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, �Q� wrote: You didn't need this. It's for third-party e-builds, but you aren't using a third party e-build. The zip file came from Sun, but the ebuild is in the Gentoo portage tree. Ebuilds are just scripts which portage uses to build the p

Re: [gentoo-user] "prelink" a dynamic library

Helmut Jarausch ha scritto: On 2 Oct, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:53:04 +0200 (CEST) Helmut Jarausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Hello Helmut, I want to create a shared library, say libULIB.so, which needs additional shared libraries, e.g. libmpfr.so and libgmp.so .

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How can I upgrade my python version?

Alan McKinnon ha scritto: That is very bad advice. Sounds like something a Windows user would say, and the OP did NOT say that his machine has not been updated for a year. He said it's a year old. haoniukun, there's no reason to reinstall the system. I've man times updated gentoo machines afte

Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS free space disappeared

Alan McKinnon ha scritto: That's true enough, but I would still be mighty suspicious of those numbers. He has a 31G filesystem, df says he has used 29G worth of blocks and du says the total amount of data in those blocks is 19G. The difference is always file allocation slack, but a full third

Re: [gentoo-user] NTFS free space disappeared

ert256 ha scritto: Hello I have some weird problem width NTFS partition in linux environment. I have Knoppix LiveCD on some machine, which i want to clean out. There was some virus and windows is unusable, so I'm copying data over network to other machine, but what is the point /media/sda5 is ntf

Re: [gentoo-user] I am a "f*****g retard". Can you help me?

Vaeth ha scritto: On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Stroller wrote: The risk is that you want to install X that depends upon Y. The ebuild for X states that version >1.2.3 of Y must be used because there's a bug in 1.2.2. The new version of Y fails to compile, so when X is compiled it only has the old vers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A plea for calm

David Leverton ha scritto: On Wednesday 17 September 2008 00:27:54 b.n. wrote: If he *knew* it was idiotic, he *would not* have done it, isn't it? That's his problem. No, that's *your* problem now, because you and your accolites now look like a bunch of arrogant a**ho

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A plea for calm

David Leverton ha scritto: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 23:53:20 b.n. wrote: David Leverton ha scritto: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 23:18:42 b.n. wrote: I am not going to do it because of the treatment I'd be reserved by people like ciaranm, or you, if I only needed help or disagreed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A plea for calm

David Leverton ha scritto: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 23:18:42 b.n. wrote: I am not going to do it because of the treatment I'd be reserved by people like ciaranm, or you, if I only needed help or disagreed with your opinions. What on Earth makes you think that? Your behaviour. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

Neil Bothwick ha scritto: On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 06:34:52 +0100, David Leverton wrote: That was the trigger, not the point. This thread long since ceased to have any point. All you are achieving is to discourage people from trying Paludis if this is the kind of hassle associated with it. My rep

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A plea for calm

David Leverton ha scritto: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 22:14:47 b.n. wrote: Frankly, the more you challenge him this mindless way, the more I believe him. If you think in such backwards logic then I don't care who you believe. It's not backwards logic. The important words

Re: [gentoo-user] Please be respectful on list

Alec Warner ha scritto: [Resending to list because I sent with the wrong address the first time] A brief warning to all. Userrel does monitor this list and it does react to complaints from users. This list exists for the community; to let users help each other and to voice questions and concer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A plea for calm

David Leverton ha scritto: On Tuesday 16 September 2008 00:11:30 b.n. wrote: If it's so, what's the point of bitching with him? You won't change his mind. So, you're again just wasting bytes. Because people might believe him if he is allowed to go unchallenged. F

[gentoo-user] Re: A plea for calm

Allan Gottlieb ha scritto: I am a delighted gentoo user who neither uses plaudis nor has any complaint with it or its developers. I also don't use kde, but have no complaint with it or its developers. I wonder if we could end this plaudis argument, as I don't see how the argument can actually h

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

Mariusz Przygodzki ha scritto: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:41 PM, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mariusz Przygodzki ha scritto: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Erik Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If only 4.1.1 was there... :') You know, there's an overlay... But unf

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...

Mariusz Przygodzki ha scritto: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Erik Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If only 4.1.1 was there... :') You know, there's an overlay... But unfortunately it requires plaudis ... At what point "stabilization" of KDE 4 is?

Re: [gentoo-user] landmark development !

Philip Webb ha scritto: ed-1.0 has become stable ! That will make everyone's weekend (grin) ! ed... THAT ed? the editor? m.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to publish a project?

James ha scritto: Chuanwen Wu gmail.com> writes: I have written a project, which is a distribution net file system, and I want to publish it under GPL. I have source code now of course, but I don't know how to make package and publish it as a project . Well you can just make the code avail

Re: [gentoo-user] Fixed bug

econti ha scritto: But reading the message it seemed to me to be possible to fix the bug and that the solution was in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214265. The interpretation of the message is "If you are able to help us fixing the bug, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/..."; Usually (unle

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: In short: all 8XXX chips are bad. Because of the thermal environment laptops are on a different place of the bell curve than desktops. Laptops with nvidia graphic are failing left and right. Whole series of HP, Dell, Asus, laptops are walking ghosts. Desktops mi

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Friday 15 August 2008 12:49:26 b.n. wrote: Alan McKinnon ha scritto: This is the second thread in a few days that reports problems with nVidia cards. Owning a 3rd generation Macbook Pro (nVidia Geforce 8600M GT) with Gentoo on, I'm a bit worried. I never no

Re: [gentoo-user] kwin-4.1 sometimes leaves konsole undecorated

Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Friday 15 August 2008 10:26:39 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, Maybe someone here has seen this before: amd64 2.6.26-gentoo KDE-4.1 nVidia 8600M GT nvidia-drivers-177.13 (latest unstable) nvidia OpenGL xorg-ser

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: But projects like Haiku and ReactOS created also most of userland from scratch, not only the kernels. reactos tries to copy windows - so it will be using the windows userland. haiku tries to be beos - it is will be able to run beos apps. Also some posix- app

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: there are many shells. sh, bash, bsh. korn, csh, zsh, dash, tcsh, why make a new one, if you can do incredible stuff with zsh? A shell is not so easy to create. I understand. I wondered if *conceptually new* shells were present.That's why I thought about

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto: On Sonntag, 10. August 2008, b.n. wrote: Hi, I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? linux + uclibc + busybox? yes. And maybe you even get X or KDE run on it - google and

Re: [gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

Chuck Robey ha scritto: You might possibly be missing one of the most basic (in organization) differences between any BSD and any Linux is that BSD's are all built and packaged with a set of userland programs. This doesn't include many user applications, just the kind of things that you think of

[gentoo-user] [extremly, wildly, obscenely OT] Is there a Linux system without GNU userlands?

Hi, I ask it here because I really don't know where to ask it. Is there a Linux system somewhere with a *non-GNU* userland? I wonder in particular if: - there are Linux systems using the BSD userlands - there are Linux systems using completely non-standard userlands... let's say, non-Unix tool

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

Sebastian Beßler ha scritto: b.n. schrieb: Oh, ok! I understand now. Why is it so? Will need to be done also when firefox 3 hits stable x86? This is so because a number of apps don't build against Firefox 3 at this time. :( Guess I'll wait for it to hit stable. m.

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

Graham Murray ha scritto: "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Justin ha scritto: I can't answer your last question but give you an advice how to handle the ff upgrade. Just remove all firefox useflags and add the xulrunner instead. Huh? What if I need java and moznopango

Re: [gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

Justin ha scritto: I can't answer your last question but give you an advice how to handle the ff upgrade. Just remove all firefox useflags and add the xulrunner instead. Huh? What if I need java and moznopango ? m.

[gentoo-user] incompatibility between OOo and firefox 3 ?

Hi, Not being quite an early adopter, I was nonetheless thinking about upgrading to firefox-3. I did a bit of googling and I found this bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228283 where the final comment says that OOo 2.4.x and firefox 3 are not compatible. The bug is signed as INVALID.

Re: [gentoo-user] Advice about setting up split home directory

Alan E. Davis ha scritto: Thanks to advice on this list I have a reasonably stable system now, and it's time to get hands dirty. I have more GB of collected files than I can fit into my ~/ home directory, so I am planning to link several partitions to ~/ in an effort to organize this mass.

[gentoo-user] [maybe ot]Accelerometer hacks for Lenovo and -possibly- Macbook laptops

Sorry if spamming, but this is too juicy not to share. I've just read on OSNews: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knockage.html?ca=dgr-lnxw07l-knockage&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GRsitelnxw07 It is a little hack to use the inbuilt accelerometer of Lenovo (and possibly Macbook... go

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

Etaoin Shrdlu ha scritto: > From what I know, "blocked" is the same as "sleeping", ie waiting for something to happen. Tasks that have completed their time slice and are forced by the scheduler to stop, are not "sleeping"; they are re-inserted in the queue of the runnable processes, and the sch

Re: [gentoo-user] ps command

Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Kaushal Shriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Hi # ps auxw | egrep "USER|rsync" root 5301 0.0 0.0 10036 1280 ?Ss 01:13 root 5306 0.2 0.1 56212 31912 pts/0S+ 01:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backdown from firefox 3 (not enough integration yet)

»Q« ha scritto: On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:16:22 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 14 July 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: What is my best option to back down to the last 2.X of firefox? It appears version 3 does not have compatibility with several addons that I like to use (sit

Re: [gentoo-user] proper subject lines

Dale ha scritto: Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I prefer as much info as possible myself. Sometimes the subject can be one thing but because there is little info in it, it turns out to be something else. Of course, a error message can be really nice too. It's good if you are searching for th

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 stability

This thread is getting depressing. I use Kubuntu at work and FF3 worked without a hitch since the beta. On Gentoo, FF2 works good, but I'm quite perplexed to see that FF3 is so many problems while a binary distro can flawlessly run a FF3 beta on its flagship release. What's wrong? m. -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

Joerg Schilling ha scritto: "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bloch could also well not give a f**k about your claims and maybe does not want to spend money etc. just to sue an upset programmer. I most probably wouldn't sue you, if I was him. You're tiptoeing arou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

Matt Harrison ha scritto: I think it would be in everyone's best interests if we let this thread die now, I've been reading this thread for the past 2 or 3 days and frankly, it doesn't seem to be bringing anything of use to the ML. I don't want to get involved or takes anyone's side, but maybe t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'll be as direct as possible. Please, do the same. I've read your site but I could not find the info I'm looking for. Please, quote the following two lines and provide the relevant text under each of them. =

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

Joerg Schilling ha scritto: "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joerg Schilling ha scritto: But that's irrelevant to our discussion, because I do not want a "web of pointers to copies". I want a single pointer to the (hopefully public) mailing list thread(s) whe

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 30 June 2008, brullo nulla wrote: The block will in many cases affect only a branch of the dependency tree. For example, in this case it is all blocked because glibmm wants a masked glib. Portage knows that glibmm wants the masked glib, so it knows that glibmm

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

Neil Bothwick ha scritto: And *why* does an overlay mask things from the *main* portage tree? Is this normal? Because masking is global, the sum of all the package.mask files is applied to the system as a whole. Yes, I know. What I wondered, is if this is normal policy. It seems that an overl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CD/DVD burning tools?

Daniel Iliev ha scritto: How about if you remake your site and explain everything there. What happened (chronologically and in detail) and provide evidence. Remake it to be clear with simple sentences and easy for finding the information. Then provide means (as web forum, mailing list etc) for th

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

Neil Bothwick ha scritto: On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:45:20 +0200, b.n. wrote: - dev-libs/glib-2.16.3 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects/profiles/package.mask: # # <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (9 February 2008) # glib-2.15 breaks some packages - dev-libs/glib-2.16.2 (

Re: [gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

Neil Bothwick ha scritto: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=dev-libs/glib-2.16" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/glib-2.16.3 (masked by: package.mask) /usr/portage/local/layman/desktop-effects/profiles/package.mask: #

[gentoo-user] unstable glib pulled down, but why?

Hi, It is probably a dumb blunder of mine, but it seems that there is something weird with glib on my world file. emerge -pv world fails with: --- !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=dev-libs/glib-2.16" have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

Joerg Schilling ha scritto: But that's irrelevant to our discussion, because I do not want a "web of pointers to copies". I want a single pointer to the (hopefully public) mailing list thread(s) where you discussed with Bloch and you were attacked by him. Where is this thread? Bloch did run

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

Joerg Schilling ha scritto: "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Again, it is entirely possible that Joerg, despite his somehow weird behaviour, could be right. But I fail to see the strong evidence that should backup his strong statements. So you like to tell us that if a fe

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

Mark Kirkwood ha scritto: b.n. wrote: (The other is your admittedly elusive attitude to release fully details on what happened, both on your webpages and this thread -for example, we still have *no* link about the supposed attacks you received *before* the relicensing, despite repeated

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

Joerg Schilling ha scritto: "b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why do you continue to attack me? Do you really believe that this helps? Repeat with me, Joerg. "No one is attacking me." Jus

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why do you continue to attack me? Do you really believe that this helps? Repeat with me, Joerg. "No one is attacking me." Take a deep breath and repeat. "No one is attacking me." Again and again and again. Joerg, really. You su

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

Joerg Schilling ha scritto: No, this is your assumption. Mine is the opposite - as I see it, the question is very real and the author admitted that he found those URLs using Google which implies he had nothing to do them. Could you explain me why he did not read the information on the cdrtools

Re: [gentoo-user] CD ROM does not play audio CD's

Joerg Schilling ha scritto: The URLs mentioned did point to disinformation from lwn.net that should be easily identifyable as incorrect claims. If such URLs are published without comment, I asume that the questionair believes the incorrect claims from lwn.net. Would you answer people if they ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone else's Gentoo unruly lately?

Grant ha scritto: Lately it seems like a new problem pops up every day and every time I try to do something new it doesn't work. Anybody else experiencing that lately? - Grant Yes. Looks like my Gentoo box is rotting these days, but most probably it's me not having time at all to iron out ev

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jörg, you appear to be making a fundamental error of assumption. It looks like you consider that simply because you think this matter important (and in your life it probably IS important), that therefore it must be important

Re: [gentoo-user] CD/DVD burning tools?

Joerg Schilling ha scritto: Do you like to support software like cdrkit that is published by people who attack other OSS projects? If you like to get rid of the license debates, you need to help to prevent the license attacks done by the people behind cdrkit. I am just a victim of these attack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Second dvd/cd device confused with K3B

James ha scritto: Oooops, If forgot to include this information: l /dev/cdr* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 3 07:43 /dev/cdrom1 -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 3 07:43 /dev/cdrom3 -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 3 07:43 /dev/cdrw1 -> sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 3 07:43 /dev/cdrw

Re: [gentoo-user] K3b complains about my locale (SOLVED)

Kevin O'Gorman ha scritto: TOP POSTED SUMMARY: operator error. An incorrect setting of LANG and LC_ALL were in /etc/profile. They had been suggested by the guide, but were incorrectly done and override the results of all the 02locale and locale.gen things. Now one X restart later, k3b and per

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [wildly OT]advice for a wireless antenna?

Grant ha scritto: Sorry, I don't see how firmware can affect sensitivity. I've been involved in writing firmware for RF data communications stuff for a long time, and I've certainly never been able to affect sensitivity. I can say that I was really struggling to get a reliable wireless conn

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