Re: [gentoo-user] next step X

2005-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 13 May 2005 11:06 am, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My world file is 235 lines long. How screwed up is that really? How > long it yours? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # wc -l /var/lib/portage/world 67 /var/lib/portage/world -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] IC

Re: [gentoo-user] No HTML in posts?

2005-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
on and personal preference.] I don't even read HTML replies to my own questions. I figure anyone that won't turn off HTML for mailing list posts couldn't possibly provide me with any useful information. ;) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice now works for me

2005-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Ciaran or Neil? ;) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
remount, I haven't taken my chances with xfs but it can also be resized while active.] If you are going to use the keepwork feature, I'd suggest moving /var/tmp/portage to a separate lvm volume and reserving 5GiB or more for it. Dave's suggestion of /usr/portage on a separate volume might also be a good idea. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Help with partitioning

2005-05-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t twice. > No, he wouldn't, because he uses LVM. He can simply grow the swap > volume. That is a nice advantage (imagine if he upgrades his ram in the future) but will software-suspend work with swap on a logical volume? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] Init script and input file

2005-05-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s to bash's read command; I'm not really sure. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] HTML is a security risk? (was: Re: No HTML in posts?)

2005-05-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
L is a big risk. But, the risk does add to the reasons I have for not reading HTML mails. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] resume emerge after reboot

2005-05-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
bedroom for those 3 days. ;) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ill broken on some architectures. x86 should support it fine, but -O3 is in that group of compiler flags that has produced broken executables. (That said, I run with -O3 on a pentinum2 and am quite happy.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] package.* mess!

2005-05-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
dev guys), I just run it properly (without > the "pretend"). If you use -a (--ask) instead of -p (--pretend) [i.e.: emerge -uDNvta world] you'll save at least one round of calculating dependencies. BTW, portage-devs, thanks for adding a short version of --newuse. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: [gentoo-user] portage skipfailed ebuild

2005-05-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-resume --skipfirst; do /bin/true done fi EOF ln -s ../scripts/emerge-without-yeilding-to-oncoming-traffic.sh /usr/local/bin/emerge-without-yeilding-to-oncoming-traffic Of course, you can change the name of the script to something less verbose, funny, and "political", if you

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e the "correct" place (and the one I use) for these mount points is /media/floppy and /media/cdrom. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up with no root

2005-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
I never use rsync myself, but why not just use --rsh="ssh 'su -'" instead of --rsh="ssh"? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
use a package that was affected by the change. Is there relevant documentation on this? I know 'man portage' and 'man emerge' fairly well, but they are a bit vague when it comes to binary packages. I'll gladly RTFM if I knew a good one. I just don't want to have to R

Re: [gentoo-user] Back up with no root

2005-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 29 May 2005 04:42 pm, Pupeno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 29 May 2005 16:53, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I never use rsync myself, but why not just use --rsh="ssh 'su -'" > > instead of --rsh="ssh"? > > It'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 29 May 2005 04:38 pm, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> top-posted, and I had to fix it: > On 5/29/05, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since I'm on a slowish system, I'm thinking of building and using > > binary packges throu

[gentoo-user] Minor bug filed (patch included)

2005-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
If a developer is listening and has time, look at my bug #94467 for games-simulation/openttd. [I was catching up on my /., found it linked from a discussion about freeciv, and had to try to emerge it.] -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Does a stage 2 or 3 install eventually catch up with stage 1?

2005-06-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ect a package, and the ones that use are listed in the ebuild's IUSE variable), not CFLAGS (which affect all C-language packages) or CXXFLAGS (which affect all C++-language packages). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke--update

2005-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
nd touch every file in it. This will cause boot to take up more space. As already mentioned, using reiserfs on boot is a complete waste. [snip: Richard's analysis of the problem, with which I find no fault] -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
o have 'DISTCCD_OPTS="${DISTCCD_OPTS} --allow 10.0.0.101" on .103, right? Does distcc work outside of emerge? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] segmentation violations with Live CD

2005-06-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Rob wrote: CFLAGS are only -o -pipe If you are using a lowercase -o, that's definitely a problem. Since -o is "output" not "Optimize" (-O). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Joseph wrote: On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 00:05 -0400, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Joseph wrote: I'm reading all the posts regarding distcc and it seems to me everything is simple but for some reason or another I don't see any activity with distccmon-gnome across my network. It'

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
o hello.o -c hello.c Or, you might find some useful source in the portage temporary directory. The above will compile *extremely* quickly. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] [OT] Portable Music Player

2005-06-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
add/remove/view the contents of the player from Linux it'll be fine. A GPL/BSD firmware and/or Linux interface is a plus. I'm not set on hard drive or flash based so feel free to recommend on either or both. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc not working

2005-06-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
u need to repost for more help, include the output of that command in your mail. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 1210SA / 1205SA opinions

2005-06-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
one channel with a 200GB. I can't say anything about the 1210SA, though. I could tell the difference over my old IDE drive immediately. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Portable Music Player

2005-06-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Benjamin Fritzsche wrote: On Monday 27 June 2005 21:22, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Ogg/Vorbis support is a *requirement*, as is a Linux interface to the device. I´ve got a Creative Zen Touch 20GB. negative: NO SUPPORT FOR OGG!!! Well, doesn't help me (see above) but hopefully so

Re: [gentoo-user] compile probs in general (tightvnc in particular)

2005-06-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
;s/i386-/i686-/g' all the auto* generated files (particularly the Makefile) [Heck, you might be able to safely do this to ALL the files.], then move through the ebuild manually (see 'man ebuild'). This should cause the system to look for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc, which you sh

Re: [gentoo-user] No Sound!!!

2005-06-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
fig ] || gunzip -c /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11.config.gz > /usr/src/linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r11/.config and then retry the ALSA emerge. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sudo echo cannot write to /etc/ files ?

2005-07-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
o be called with the single parameter media-video/xine-ui ~x86 and have it's output appended to the file /etc/portage/package.keywords I'm really lost. Where am I going wrong? You simply aren't being careful enough with you quotes and misunderstanding the intricacies of shell expansion and nesting. Oh, btw, just remembered-- this is bash 3. Does that make a difference? No. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] jade, libosp.so.3 not found, can't compile docbook-sgml-utils

2005-07-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Claudinei Matos wrote: "jade: error while loading shared libraries: libosp.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" Did anyone someone get a problem like that? What am I supposed to do? Have you tried revdep-rebuild? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
l-dual-core system (so 4 processors in /proc/cpuinfo). IMO, it should run quite well on quad-core hardware. Linux has had support for medium-large SMP systems (up to 255 CPUs, IIRC) for quite a while. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e to be able to be "locked up". *I* think the GPLv3 is better, and that it would be good to move KDE toward GPLv3/LGPLv3 licensing. However, that is a decision that the project will have to make as a group and it would require reimplementing or relicensing all the code licensed to t

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
of the GPL. It was *barely* within the word, and definitely not within the spirit of the GPL. Don't beleive me? Ask anyone at the FSF or RMS himself. They wrote the thing. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
m of code, cash, or even morale support, then that is them > playing the game by our rules. Not if you follow the GPLv2 or the spirit of the GPL. That *requires* the code to remain in the community. The GPLv3 strengthens this requirement. If you want other to be able to lock away your

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??': > On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > The TiVo thing was completely within the word and spirit of the > > > GPL. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
tually, I'm probably going to take a pen to the LGPLv3 in the future and turn it into something along the lines of "GPLv3 or, if your larger work is licenced under any version of the GPL, LGPLv3", but that's for the future and I'll want to run the license by the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ot just in name) I'd have no problem with them deciding what can run on it and taking steps to prevent tampering. I'm not sure Stallman would agree with me -- users may or may not own the device their software runs on, and Stallman is all about users. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
es to allowing tivoization. The question really remains -- do you want your code to be able to be locked up or not? BSD is available for those that don't care if the code is locked up. GPLv3 is available for those that want the maximum level of protection against their code (or derivatives

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
pendent of the software distribution requirements (not hardware requirements) that the GPLv3 specifies. If TiVo was renting (really renting, not just "in name" like "$129 lets you rent the device for 99 years") the devices, I would probably be on the other side of t

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 19 July 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??': > > -Original Message- > > From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > If you don't like the GPLv3, you probably didn't > > *really* like t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
matically pulls man pages an reformats them if there not info page for that node and there exists a man page with that name. I'm fairly sure most info-viewers (including kio_info) do so. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.2 and Core 2 Duo

2007-07-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 20 July 2007, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.2 and Core 2 Duo': > If they have the same value, or -march is listed after -mtune, yes. > -march implies -mtune, but you might do something like -march=686

Re: [gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?

2007-07-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
make installing Gentoo as > painless as possible? I've had very good luck with my dellbuntu system. System 76 also goes out of the way to make sure their hardware is linux friendly. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit

2007-07-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
isions. > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge pidgin Um, no. Not unless the OP wants ~x86 dependencies to be brought in, and all that downgraded to x86 when they do their next emerge world. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] A Thank you to the Developers for the Free Software

2007-07-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
benefit. +1 -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
nv ls -l /usr/bin/env ls -l /usr/bin/python -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
e it is expecting an ebuild atom. Do man 5 ebuild and read the section on 'DEPEND Atoms', they have a simple but precise syntax. BTW, if the wiki is broken, just fix it. I'm not sure it's an official source of documentation anyway. -- Boyd Stephen Smith J

Re: [gentoo-user] The Future of the Gentoo Foundation

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ch is why the foundation was created, but Gentoo could certainly run like that again until the foundation could be reformed under management that knows how to file paperwork. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ:

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
77 2007-07-29 00:24 testrun.c > > $make testrun > cc testrun.c -o testrun That cool, but don't count on it to work on all makes. I'm fairly sure an empty Makefile is valid, since there already suffix rules required by the standard -- there's just no defa

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

2007-07-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 29 July 2007 11:06:44 pm Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:13 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > But seriously, shouldn't we be waiting until November to say this? ;-) > > why, what happens in November? In the U.S., Thanksgiving. -- B

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

2007-07-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 30 July 2007 12:25:47 am Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 23:43 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Sunday 29 July 2007 11:06:44 pm Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:13 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > > > But seriously,

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
a sane way to run emerge in the future. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy           `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/                      \_/     pgpfGZR9q7Hq6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] program autostart from another user

2007-07-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
amed window in that session, run bar screen -S system-autostart-foo -X at cmd-bar# bar # In a named window in that session, run baz screen -S system-autostart-foo -X at cmd-baz# baz But, I've never tried to use screen in this way, no this is just a guess. I'm sure it's possible to u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs

2007-07-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 30 July 2007, "Kent Fredric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs': > On 7/30/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 5) If (2) indicates corruptions that can only be corrected by > > --reb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs

2007-07-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ncluding C+A+Del, and had Alt+SysRq save my filesystems. It is possible that you might not see anything happen after E, I, S, and U, especially if you were previously in X, since the kernel is trying to write to the text-mode console but things are happening unless your kerne

Re: [gentoo-user] rescrict command to certain dirs

2007-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
root, but I *think* they all depend on being root inside the chroot, or exploiting other service running outside the chroot. (E.g. if connections from localhost are "trusted".) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc with other distro (Debian)

2007-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Pre-processing is done locally, so it uses your local header files. Linking is also done locally, so it will use your local libraries. [1] That said, if you have incompatible compilers (e.g. gcc-3.3 vs. gcc-3.4) you may have issues, and they may or may not be caught at link time. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown Tool "hd"

2007-08-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
but you can make a sym or hardlink after installing that package. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy           `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/                      

Re: [gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres

2007-08-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
PASSWORD('passwd'), 'Y', > 'Y', 'Y'); CREATE USER 'drupal'; > CREATE database drupal; (unchanged) > USE drupal; \c drupal > GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO drupal@'%' IDENTIFIED BY &

Re: [gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres

2007-08-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 August 2007, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres': > On Thursday 09 August 2007 20:29, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Thursday 09 August 2007, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > GR

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 August 2007, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade': > # emerge -C -p -v gcc Wrong-ish command line. Try emerge -aP gcc -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet bridge

2007-08-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
IK, this will never work. If you really need incoming connections on > certain ports you can use port forwarding with NAT on your firewall. > Bridging is not for this kind of thing. Yeah, port forwarding is probably what you want. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =.

Re: [gentoo-user] GHC and documentation

2007-08-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ion, header files, or debug information into separate packages. Instead, documentation is controlled by a USE flag, header files are always installed, and debug information is controlled by FEATURES. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Receiving your own emails

2007-08-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
mails to you by default. I'm not sure how to change that. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
el,reboot and enjoy mounting your key ;) > > As I stated in earlier posts, the NIS support is compiled into my > current kernel, atleast that's what the .config states Okay, but there a over a dozen modules for specific character sets that all depend on th

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable hard masked USE flags like (-altivec)?

2007-08-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
use.unmask, IIRC. You'll probably have to create that file, and may need to create some of the directory structure. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] no standalone jre?

2007-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
That said java in the browser only requires a jre, even on Gentoo. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome!

2007-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
place on the same display to get a more functional Gnome desktop. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/

Re: [gentoo-user] torrent issue

2007-08-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
n better if you sync-log it so you'll have it after the system crashes.) Assuming it's not your memory it is most likely the network card. You might want to check your memory with something other than memtest -- I know there have been some scripts posted to this list that claim to

Re: [gentoo-user] torrent issue

2007-08-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 20 August 2007, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] torrent issue': > "sync-log" ? Set it up to be logged synchronously (without buffering). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion re: expat problems

2007-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the updated packages are cat'ed together >and displayed to the user (with `less' or another configured viewer). The eselect news module is supposed to handle this. IIRC, notices / news were part of GLEP 42. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?': >Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed >with modern hardware. Unless you want to use LVM.

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ed an application based of the Strigi indexer? That's what's going to be used for KDE 4.0, and I really haven't heard many complaints about it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM:

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
f system resources. KDE4 will hopefully get it right. As long as I can turn it off, I think providing a feature many users want (3 of the 4 Linux users in my house) is a good use of developer resources. Heck, I might even like it once I try it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
esktop. LOL Wow, I've got my dose of hype for the next month (or more). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
s, and quite a few non-office workers use files and folders to mange their paperwork every day. I'm sure DSE will be a feature many users will like and probably even become dependent on. It's NOT the "next generation wheel", it's not even something I'll use, but it h

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
get root access on the guest machines. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal

2007-09-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
output of: env | grep -E '^L(C_|ANG)' so I can see the environment variables that affect gettext and POSIX message catalogs? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ:

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal

2007-09-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal': >On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Wednesday 19 September 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ourself in a position where tmpfs is hitting the HD often; it's not tuned for such craziness and probably performs worse than other filesystems in that case. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDad

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging php with mysql and recode support

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ikely your patch will have to be applied to the tarball from upstream to fix either the code or the build system to accept both options. It's also likely that the two flags conflict because of a previous bug (it was a non-trivial amount of work to identify conflicting flags at one point) so tha

Re: [gentoo-user] System reporting information

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
on't think it's currently in a usable state. There's also http://www.linux-stats.org/ (and it's matching package: list) which generates some Gentoo-specific statistics. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
some forward progress, which is good. It languished for over two years without progress at one point. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgp3E4wXuur9c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles

2007-01-31 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
nce, but is always a factor to consider. (Among CPUs that are otherwise identical, higher Hz wins.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ pgpSNP3nVPY4k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/

2007-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 02 February 2007 09:42, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/': > Any insider tidbits > on liveCD 2007.0 ??? I've not been hearing anything about it good or bad, so I still expect it sometime in February.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Email from Mac to PC/Win

2007-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to fix > this? Cold where you are? Double check your fluid levels. If they are all fine, what weight oil are you using? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'

[gentoo-user] Mails getting lost?

2007-02-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t kde-meta and kate earlier today and I still haven't seen it yet. Same with a comment I sent to gentoo-desktop around the same time. Before anyone asks, no, I am not using gmail. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o

Re: [gentoo-user] Kwrite and CPU usage and locking up when scrolling

2007-02-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
x27;s direct dependencies (one of which should be kate). You may actually find some packages that you don't care about, feel free to not 'emerge -n' them. They will then not be updated by an 'emerge -u world' and my be removed be 'emerge --depclean&

Re: [gentoo-user] _syscallX isn't in linux-headers-2.6.20 ??

2007-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
g like randomized per-process at some point in the 2.6.1x line. That may have changed how you need to be calling things. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(.

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 3.4.6 vs. 4.1.1

2007-02-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
fore 4.1.0 came out. I believe there's still at least one package that doesn't build with gcc 4.x (kqemu), so there's some reason to still stay on 3.4 if you are cautious. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage world update fails because of masked beryl-plugins

2007-02-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
CH}, where ${ARCH} is your current architecture. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ New GPG Ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage world update fails because of masked beryl-plugins

2007-02-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
d add one of those keywords to your package.keywords. Of course, if you do anything other than ~${ARCH}, where ${ARCH} is your current architecture and it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
t's in the wrong place. If so, please file a bug, that behavior is broken. By the way, the format of your question was excellent, IMHO. It had the right information about how your Gentoo system is set up and the exact, initial error message. -- Boyd Stephen Smit

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage world update fails because of masked beryl-plugins

2007-02-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 19 February 2007, Jan Stępień <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Portage world update fails because of masked beryl-plugins': > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. napisał(a): > > So, you can simply find the KEYWORDS variable in the ebuild you are > &g

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question

2007-02-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
27;d want to do another revdep-rebuild every so often to ensure that > things remained consistent. Yep. revdep-rebuild used to be part of my daily system maintenance script (and will be put back once I figure out a good way to use paludis instead of emerge for the remerge part). -- Boyd Stephe

Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo

2007-02-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Hans-Stefan Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] HP Cluster on Gentoo': > Hallo, > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. schrieb: > > On Monday 19 February 2007 02:47, Hans-Stefan Bauer wrote: > >> storm1 hsbauer # /e

Re: [gentoo-user] why does not startx or xinit start gnome?

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
des a 'startkde' script that will start X and bring up the "standard" KDE stuff like kicker, kwin, and kdesktop. Maybe Gnome has something similar, or at least a xsession that you can edit and use? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
my other mailing lists, but there are a number of informal rules that are NOT laid out in any FAQ or welcome message. It would be helpful for at least some people if we would let them know about our 5 pillars: "Plain-Text Only", "No Top-Posting", "N

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
good specific, questions early and often. Use all the Gentoo support options (IRC/email/forums) and read the wiki. Have another, working system available (dual-boot maybe) until you trust your Gentoo system. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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