Re: [gentoo-user] Intermittent USB device failures

2014-08-17 Thread Mick
On Sunday 17 Aug 2014 02:56:58 Mike Edenfield wrote: > When I `modprobe -r ochi_pci` while the system is operating normally, I see > all four modules (ohci-pci, ohci-hcd, ehci-pci, and ehci-hcd) unloading > properly: > > [25603.37] ohci-pci :00:0b.0: remove, state 1 > [25603.370395] usb u

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Philip Webb
140816 Henrique Lengler wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:31:10PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> I do use Evince as a quick alternative to Okular for PDFs . > Have you ever tried mupdf or xpdf ? Thanks for the reminder ! -- I do indeed have Mupdf installed, but had forgotten all about it : yes, it

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Wolfgang Mueller
> Thanks for the reminder ! -- I do indeed have Mupdf installed, > but had forgotten all about it : yes, it's quick & easy for simple browsing. > Evince has extra features, eg a side menu, but mb Mupdf is sufficient. If you're looking for a more feature-complete solution, check out llpp[1], which i

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, behrouz khosravi wrote: > So can you please tell me why you have chosen a specific DE and not > the other options ? So, this is more why I'm using KDE and not so much why I'm not using something else. Things I like about KDE: 1. Handles USB drive insertions/etc

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2014 15:28, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:13 PM, behrouz khosravi > wrote: >> So can you please tell me why you have chosen a specific DE and not >> the other options ? > > So, this is more why I'm using KDE and not so much why I'm not using > something else. > > Thin

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Philip Webb
On 17/08/2014 15:28, Rich Freeman wrote: > why I'm using KDE and not so much why I'm not using something else. > ... > 6. Dolphin mode that gives you a shell that follows the pwd. Have you tried Krusader ? -- it's been my heavy-load FM for a long time. -- ,,=

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Mick
On Sunday 17 Aug 2014 15:56:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 17/08/2014 15:28, Rich Freeman wrote: > > 6. That dolphin mode that gives you a shell that follows the pwd. > > That is just nifty. > > #6 - it does? How do I activate that? Might be useful, I didn't even > know there was such a fature I

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo mirror list - where?

2014-08-17 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/12/2014 04:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > if an ebuild file has, e.g., mirror://github/... > > where do I find the list of mirrors Gentoo is using for that? > > Many thanks for a hint, Helmut > > The default list of all mirrors f

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 17 Aug 2014 15:56:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 17/08/2014 15:28, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > 6. That dolphin mode that gives you a shell that follows the pwd. >> > That is just nifty. >> >> #6 - it does? How do I activate that? Might be us

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Philip Webb
140817 Wolfgang Mueller wrote: >> Thanks for the reminder ! -- I do indeed have Mupdf installed, >> but had forgotten all about it : yes, it's quick & easy for simple browsing. >> Evince has extra features, eg a side menu, but mb Mupdf is sufficient. > If you're looking for a more feature-complete

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Henrique Lengler
I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again. koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux world are being recreated by KDE. Whats the problem to use things that already exists? Why don't include software that is famous and liked by people insted of insist in

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.08.2014 um 20:47 schrieb Henrique Lengler: > I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again. > koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux > world are being recreated by KDE. > > Whats the problem to use things that already exists? > Why don't include soft

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
Howdy, on Enlightenment here, love the customisability mostly and it's slickness - i.e. can load tiling module that switches behaviour (have never used it myself though, can't say how it compares to awm or i3) krunner equivalent is "start everything module" and resembles gnome-do i prefer to use pc

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Henrique Lengler
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 08:57:36PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > hm, tell me, what was there when Konqueror was created? > > Please do. > > Maybe also try to spend some times on 'Konqueror is just a shell around > different kparts', if you like. > > And while you are at it, you do know th

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.08.2014 um 20:57 schrieb thegeezer: > Howdy, > on Enlightenment here, love the customisability mostly and it's > slickness - i.e. can load tiling module that switches behaviour (have > never used it myself though, can't say how it compares to awm or i3) > krunner equivalent is "start everythi

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
> > udisks +1 > > Google knows enough about it to lead you to the nirvana state of > increased understanding. > +1 very loosely: udisks needs polkit to check the current user is authorised to mount internal drives or usb drives (this threw me at first as there are two rules you need to assign) u

Re: [gentoo-user] Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
there are many way to do clustering and one thing that i would consider a "holy grail" would be something like pvm [1] because nothing else seems to have similar horizontal scaling of cpu at the kernel level i would love to know the mechanism behind dell's equallogic san as it really is clustered

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
On 17/08/14 20:16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 17.08.2014 um 20:57 schrieb thegeezer: >> from my own experience a DE gives you >> 1. easy hotplug devices i.e. usb disks (or you can emerge dbus,polkit >> and udisks and add policy rules manually) >> 2. "session" management, i.e. you can switch u

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
On 17/08/14 20:54, thegeezer wrote: > On 17/08/14 20:16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> apps that actually work with each other. >> > honestly i've never had issues cross app -- copy/paste of text or files > from dolphin to konqueror have never been an issue. *ahem* of course i meant a wider ra

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2014 20:57, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 17.08.2014 um 20:47 schrieb Henrique Lengler: >> I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again. >> koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux >> world are being recreated by KDE. >> >> Whats the problem to

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2014 20:47, Henrique Lengler wrote: > I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again. > koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux > world are being recreated by KDE. > > Whats the problem to use things that already exists? > Why don't include softwar

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Henrique Lengler
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:09:24PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > You can't be serious right? > > Go back and find the original post from the founder of KDE as to why KDE > was started at all. It's all about incoherent, mis-matched, > ugly-when-bundled together apps that do not work in sympathy. Th

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-17 Thread thegeezer
On 29/07/14 18:04, behrouz khosravi wrote: > Hello everyone. > I just concurred my fear and jumped to installing gentoo! > So far so good! > Before installing on my laptop and desktop, I am trying on virtual box > and the system is running Fluxbox very good.(default profile) > Now I am thinking abo

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2014 18:19, Mick wrote: > For me this plus the shift from KDEPIM 3 to 4 was criminal destruction of > value. I live in hope that one day KDE will take a hard long look at itself > and go back to KDE 3 architecture; or that nepomuk, akonadi, redland, mysql > and what-ever-else they hav

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 17/08/2014 19:21, Rich Freeman wrote: 6. That dolphin mode that gives you a shell that follows the pwd. >> > That is just nifty. >>> >> >>> >> #6 - it does? How do I activate that? Might be useful, I didn't even >>> >> know there was such a fature >> > >> > I use Konqueror (with the d

[gentoo-user] Advantages in privoxy instead of mannualy edit /etc/hosts

2014-08-17 Thread Henrique Lengler
Is there any advantage in use privoxy instead of mannualy set a /etc/hosts file? Wich one is faster? Does both method slow down page load, or speed it up? -- Henrique Lengler https://gitorious.org/~henriqueleng

Re: [gentoo-user] Advantages in privoxy instead of mannualy edit /etc/hosts

2014-08-17 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 18 August 2014 03:08:48 CEST, Henrique Lengler wrote: >Is there any advantage in use privoxy instead of mannualy set a >/etc/hosts file? >Wich one is faster? > >Does both method slow down page load, or speed it up? How many entries do you want to put in your /etc/hosts file? -- Joost -- Sen

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags handling

2014-08-17 Thread behrouz khosravi
On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 1:51 AM, thegeezer wrote: > late to the conversation but no one else has mentioned, ... Sounds neat, Thanks for the advise.

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 17.08.2014 um 23:09 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On 17/08/2014 20:47, Henrique Lengler wrote: >> I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again. >> koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux >> world are being recreated by KDE. >> >> Whats the problem to use thi

Re: [gentoo-user] why you've chosen your desktop environment? (no war !)

2014-08-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/08/2014 07:27, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Am 17.08.2014 um 23:09 schrieb Alan McKinnon: >> On 17/08/2014 20:47, Henrique Lengler wrote: >>> I don't know why KDE people are creating everything again. >>> koffice, konqueror, a lot of things, that already exists in the linux >>> world are bei