Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem

2018-07-17 Thread Steven Lembark
> Since then, I've updated my kernel & some other pkgs. You build your own kernel or rely on modules to handle it all? Any idea what modules you've rebuilt since the last use of the scanner? As a sanity check you might want to take a look at VueScan. Hamerick does a nice to of just making thin

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem

2018-07-17 Thread Jack
On 2018.07.17 02:38, Philip Webb wrote: My scanner -- Epson Perfection V550 Photo -- is suddenly not detected : when I enter 'xsane' (via the menu or Alt-F2), it says "no devices available". I last used it without any problem 180626. Since then, I've updated my kernel & some other pkgs. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] scanner problem

2018-07-17 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 17 July 2018 15:23:06 BST Jack wrote: > On 2018.07.17 02:38, Philip Webb wrote: > > My scanner -- Epson Perfection V550 Photo -- is suddenly not detected > > > > when I enter 'xsane' (via the menu or Alt-F2), it says "no devices > > available". > > > > I last used it without any probl

[gentoo-user] OT: webmail choices, ARGH!

2018-07-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Is _every_ fscking webmail package written in php? Why? -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: webmail choices, ARGH!

2018-07-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 2018-07-17 11:47 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Is _every_ fscking webmail package written in php? Why? Most likely because every web hosting package has php/mysql installed? Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: webmail choices, ARGH!

2018-07-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:47 PM Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Is _every_ fscking webmail package written in php? Why? > Not at all. There is Zimbra which doesn't seem to use PHP at all. Just Java, Ruby, and Perl from the look of it... -- Rich

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: webmail choices, ARGH!

2018-07-17 Thread R0b0t1
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Is _every_ fscking webmail package written in php? Why? > The packages were written likely written a long time ago. Modern PHP isn't as bad as it used to be, but I'd still avoid it in favor of newer languages. I have this problem with Ruby

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: webmail choices, ARGH!

2018-07-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2018-07-17 16:04, R0b0t1 wrote: > Do you have any problems with roundcube? Yes: ahiker!90 exim$ apt-cache show roundcube-core | grep '^Depends' Depends: dbconfig-common, debconf, libapache2-mod-php | php, libmagic1, php-pear (>= 1:1.10.1), php-cli, php-intl, php-json, php-mcrypt, roundcube-m