Re: [gentoo-user] OCR for music (OMR)

2019-10-21 Thread Wols Lists
On 20/10/19 13:39, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm on the lookout for an application which can convert musical notation from > scanned bitmap copies/pdf files to midi files. Apparently there are some > apps > in the Apple store, but I have not yet found anything in portage. > > Do you have expe

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 18:01:01 +0100, Mick wrote: > Now, in a gentoo scenario, say a mammoth compile like Chromium, with a > large count of jobs specified for it, you could end up swapping part or > all of one or more jobs into memory, only to swap it out again in order > to process it. The compile

Re: [gentoo-user] OCR for music (OMR)

2019-10-21 Thread Mick
On Monday, 21 October 2019 12:39:03 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 20/10/19 13:39, Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm on the lookout for an application which can convert musical notation > > from scanned bitmap copies/pdf files to midi files. Apparently there are > > some apps in the Apple store, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] OCR for music (OMR)

2019-10-21 Thread daniel
I vaguely remember using some windows based program when archiving old music. The community in question had maps full of paper scores and making them digital would have made it much more compact and versatile. However even back then I remember manually writing lilypond files. I did use Linux at

Re: [gentoo-user] can genkernel install files with different names?

2019-10-21 Thread Wols Lists
On 18/10/19 10:26, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > specifically, i want to install kernel + initramfs without version > numbers. this way, i will not need to update my boot loader every time > i update the kernel. > You just want a nasty recovery job if the update screws up ... Seriously, I always

[gentoo-user] Re: New monitor & wine ==> crash

2019-10-21 Thread Hartmut Figge
Hartmut Figge: >I have visited WineHQ and subscribed to a forum there, Wine Help. Of >course it is moderated and of course the first three postings need >approval from a moderator. Takes time. > >In old times there was a news group with the name wine-user. It was >abandoned years ago in favor of a

Re: [gentoo-user] OCR for music (OMR)

2019-10-21 Thread Mick
Thanks Daniel, On Monday, 21 October 2019 15:27:18 BST dan...@sonck.nl wrote: > I vaguely remember using some windows based program when archiving old > music. The community in question had maps full of paper scores and making > them digital would have made it much more compact and versatile. Howe

Re: [gentoo-user] can genkernel install files with different names?

2019-10-21 Thread Caveman Al Toraboran
you are just wrongly assuming that they are mutually exclusive... seriously, one could have kernels named, without versions, as: vmlinuz vmlinuz-older vmlinuz-older2 . . . vmlinuz-olderN this way, new kernel installation, and rotation, will be decoupled from the boot loader's configs, effectivel

Re: [gentoo-user] can genkernel install files with different names?

2019-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 22:54:26 +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > you are just wrongly assuming that they are mutually > exclusive... > > seriously, one could have kernels named, > without versions, as: > > vmlinuz > vmlinuz-older > vmlinuz-older2 > . > . > . > vmlinuz-olderN > > this way, new

Re: [gentoo-user] can genkernel install files with different names?

2019-10-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 00:42:25 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > make install will create symlinks for vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old to the > latest and previous kernel, doing much of what you need. You need /boot > to be on a filesystem that supports symlinks and ISTR that it only > updates the symlinks if a