=== On Sat, 01/08, James wrote: ===
> Can you please send me the relevant snippet of your configuration?
===
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Driver "synaptics"
#Option "SHMConfig" "on"
Option "VertTwoFingerScroll" "on"
End
=== On Sat, 01/08, Daniel D Jones wrote: ===
> Is there any reason python shouldn't be set to version 3? Are there
> backwards compatibility issues that will break things?
===
Yes, many. It will be years more before the Python world is fully
migrated to version 3.
-- Keith Dart
--
-- ~
Hi,
I am using vlc (beside other things) to watch dvb-t using
this hardware (according lspci)
01:06.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
Capture (rev 11)
01:06.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
(rev 11)
. I call vlc like
v
On Sunday 09 January 2011 00:34:33 Dale wrote:
> I read the man pages and even used google but the part about what to
> log didn't register with me. Basically, I need to tell it where to
> put the log file, which I did, then what I want it to log as well,
> which I missed. Sort of like the way p
On 9 January 2011 01:18, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> On Saturday, January 08, 2011 17:36:48 Mick wrote:
>> However, I can't emerge some packages from it like gcc or subversion ...
>
> Looks to me like this is your issue:
>
> In file included from /usr/include/stdio.h:28,
> from confte
On Sunday 09 January 2011 11:28:01 you wrote:
> On 9 January 2011 01:18, Daniel D Jones wrote:
> > On Saturday, January 08, 2011 17:36:48 Mick wrote:
> >> However, I can't emerge some packages from it like gcc or subversion ...
> >
> > Looks to me like this is your issue:
> >
> > In file include
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:36 on Sunday 09 January 2011, walt did
opine thusly:
> About three years ago I spent a lot of time on the grub2 mailing list,
> building grub2 from their svn repo, even submitting a patch or two to
> get it working for the *BSD family.
>
> Then I got old and ti
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:44 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did
opine thusly:
> I have not tried grub2 yet but I did fine these:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
>
> That has a lot of info on the grub2 conf file. It is called grub.cfg if
> I read that correctly. There is
Alan McKinnon wrote:
I don't quite agree with Volker's viewpoint but don't totally disagree with
him either. grub2 has a whole whack of bloat all of it's own. Here's what
Ubuntu has on 10.10:
$ ls -al /boot/
total 17656
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2011-01-08 21:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root
On 01/09/2011 04:10 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:44 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did
opine thusly:
I have not tried grub2 yet but I did fine these:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2
http://grub.enbug.org/grub.cfg
Th
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:48 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did
opine thusly:
> It seems grub2 is a whopper. Check this out:
>
> r...@fireball / # du -shc boot
> 13M boot
> 13M total
> r...@fireball / # ls -al /boot/bzImage-2.6.36-r*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4201472 Dec 15 00:
On Sunday 09 January 2011 22:04:44 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 19:48 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did
>
> opine thusly:
> > It seems grub2 is a whopper. Check this out:
> >
> > r...@fireball / # du -shc boot
> > 13M boot
> > 13M total
> > r...@fireball / # l
On 01/09/2011 12:04 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
grub2 now looks like GNU/grub (sarcasm intended). It's not a bootloader, it's
a puny OS with one extra feature - it can bootload!
You remember the vi versus emacs wars?
Alan McKinnon wrote:
It's trying to be an OS that's a bootloader as it's primary function.
Think back to the days of lilo. It obviously isn't an OS and doesn't
understand OS concepts - it loads an OS. When that step is done, then and only
then do OS concepts come into play. lilo doesn't even und
Mick writes:
> I used:
>
> tar -X file.list -lcvSf - . | (cd /new_gentoo_partition; tar -xpvf - )
>
> to clone a gentoo / partition to another partition on the same disk (I
> want to run some tests from it).
>
> The file.list has this is in it:
>
> tmp/*
> proc/*
> sys/*
> dev/*
> etc/mtab
>
walt wrote:
On 01/09/2011 04:10 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 02:44 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale
did
opine thusly:
I have not tried grub2 yet but I did fine these:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2
http://grub.enbug.org
Alan McKinnon writes:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 19:48 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did
> opine thusly:
>
> It has support for jpeg, every fs under the sun, and the grub2 ebuild even
> has
> a truetype USE flag.
Does it support mp3 or ogg vorbis? Don't tell me I can't make it play
t
walt writes:
> On 01/09/2011 12:04 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> grub2 now looks like GNU/grub (sarcasm intended). It's not a bootloader, it's
>> a puny OS with one extra feature - it can bootload!
>
> You remember the vi versus emacs wars?
But at least emacs is running in the operating system,
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did
opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > It's trying to be an OS that's a bootloader as it's primary function.
> >
> > Think back to the days of lilo. It obviously isn't an OS and doesn't
> > understand OS concepts - it lo
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:50 on Sunday 09 January 2011, walt did
opine thusly:
> On 01/09/2011 12:04 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > grub2 now looks like GNU/grub (sarcasm intended). It's not a bootloader,
> > it's a puny OS with one extra feature - it can bootload!
>
> You remember the vi
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did
opine thusly:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
It's trying to be an OS that's a bootloader as it's primary function.
Think back to the days of lilo. It obviously isn't an OS and doesn't
understand OS
On Sunday 09 January 2011 21:11:02 Alex Schuster wrote:
> Mick writes:
> > I used:
> > tar -X file.list -lcvSf - . | (cd /new_gentoo_partition; tar -xpvf - )
> >
> > to clone a gentoo / partition to another partition on the same disk (I
> > want to run some tests from it).
> >
> > The file.list
On 01/09/2011 01:19 PM, Nuno J. Silva wrote:
Alan McKinnon writes:
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:48 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did
opine thusly:
It has support for jpeg, every fs under the sun, and the grub2 ebuild even has
a truetype USE flag.
Does it support mp3 or ogg vorbis? D
On Sunday 09 January 2011 21:26:38 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:50 on Sunday 09 January 2011, walt did
>
> opine thusly:
> > On 01/09/2011 12:04 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > grub2 now looks like GNU/grub (sarcasm intended). It's not a
> > > bootloader, it's a puny OS
On Sunday 09 January 2011 21:42:22 Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:51 on Sunday 09 January 2011, Dale did
> >
> > opine thusly:
> >> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >>> It's trying to be an OS that's a bootloader as it's primary function.
> >>>
> >>> Think back to
On Sunday 09 January 2011 23:26:38 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:50 on Sunday 09 January 2011, walt did
>
> opine thusly:
> > On 01/09/2011 12:04 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > grub2 now looks like GNU/grub (sarcasm intended). It's not a
> > > bootloader, it's a puny OS
Mick writes:
> On Sunday 09 January 2011 21:26:38 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> Apparently, though unproven, at 22:50 on Sunday 09 January 2011, walt did
>>
>> opine thusly:
>> > On 01/09/2011 12:04 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> > > grub2 now looks like GNU/grub (sarcasm intended). It's not a
>> > > boo
On 01/09/2011 01:11 PM, Dale wrote:
walt wrote:
This sounds about as complicated as lilo.
Much more complicated, but also more nifty :)
Is this going to end up like hal?
I certainly hope so!
> You know, so complicated that no one can use the thing and they have to start
over again?
On 01/09/2011 11:07 AM, walt wrote:
One problem I encountered on my old amd32 machine is that I had to remove
the USB-related grub2 modules or grub2 would crash while probing for disks.
The newer amd64 machine works fine with the USB stuff included. Dunno why.
By trial-and-error I found that u
gmx.de> writes:
> I explored the manual of that tool (pdftk) but didnt find any
> hint of converting pdf ot txt.
> Please, give me one little, a keyword, only an option
> which I can search for in the documentation to find
> out how to convert pdf to txt with pdftk.
Maybe this page can help?
On Sunday 09 January 2011 22:54:14 walt wrote:
> This mess goes back to IBM's decision to use the Intel 8086 CPU in
> their shiny new PC
What? Little-endian hardware? Crackers: backwards thinking, which
Americans seem to me to be prone to. And yes, I did spend two years
working in Minneapolis 2
James [11-01-10 01:41]:
> gmx.de> writes:
>
>
> > I explored the manual of that tool (pdftk) but didnt find any
> > hint of converting pdf ot txt.
> > Please, give me one little, a keyword, only an option
> > which I can search for in the documentation to find
> > out how to convert pdf to txt
On Jan 9, 2011 8:11 PM, "Peter Humphrey" wrote:
>
> On Sunday 09 January 2011 22:54:14 walt wrote:
> > The result was a brain-dead booting scheme which has been holding
> > back the Intel/x86 world to this very day. (But they all made a
> > huge bundle of cash along the way.)
>
> Capitalism? Gree
Mick writes:
> On Sunday 09 January 2011 21:11:02 Alex Schuster wrote:
>> Mick writes:
>>> I used:
>>> tar -X file.list -lcvSf - . | (cd /new_gentoo_partition; tar -xpvf - )
>>>
>>> to clone a gentoo / partition to another partition on the same disk (I
>>> want to run some tests from it).
>>>
>>>
Hi,
since some time I got the same mysql update displayed after doing
eix-sync && emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world
. How can I stop mysql from this ?
Best regards,
mcc
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
since some time I got the same mysql update displayed after doing
eix-sync&& emerge --color=n -p -v --newuse --update --deep world
. How can I stop mysql from this ?
Best regards,
mcc
I don't use the package but this may help. Have you ran revd
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