Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre SSH connection reset

2008-03-10 Thread Brian Marshall
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:51:42 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote: On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:55 -0400 Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Comcast? I was on comcast for a long time (2.5 yrs) and never had a problem like this. They

Re: [gentoo-user] [nb] How to change permission on this

2008-02-16 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:03:28 +0100 Amar Cosic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a lot of dir. and files in my home directory. I want to chown all of it to my user. How to do this by one comand ? Thanks With recursion: chown -R user:group * Brian signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it sefe to unmerge?

2008-02-13 Thread Brian Marshall
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:34:21 +0200 Sergey Kobzar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan, thanks again :) Last question. How can I update selected packages correctly? Before I used 'emerge -uDN package_name' command, but it adds package to the world class, which is IMHO is not fully correct. Use

Re: [gentoo-user] VIM Issue

2008-02-04 Thread Brian Marshall
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:35:42 -0600 keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: okay heres my use flags [ebuild R ] app-editors/vim-7.1.213 USE=acl bash-completion gpm nls perl python vim-pager vim-with-x -cscope -minimal -ruby 8,876 kB ls -lah 'which vim' returned no such file or directory ' is

Re: [gentoo-user] Belated switchover to pidgin from gaim, fails silently

2008-02-03 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:08:34 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just got around to noticing that my gaim IM client is deprecated. I emerged pidgin and it shows up in the menus, but all attempts to start it silently fail. I tried looking in /var/log/*, for instance, and get

Re: [gentoo-user] paludis vs emerge

2008-01-25 Thread Brian Marshall
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:30:55 -0500 David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been experimenting with paludis for the last month or two to compare it with emerge. For my periodic update world runs the two programs seem functionally comparable. Paludis is, however, more verbose and I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

2008-01-23 Thread Brian Marshall
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:36:04 +0930 Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 18:58 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My sister has posted some video of my nieces wedding online for the family to view. When I hit the site (on WindowsXP) my browser (firefox) displays it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] quicktime from linux

2008-01-23 Thread Brian Marshall
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:19:14 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wanting to be able to see online videos that want quicktime to be installed, what applications do I need to emerge? Googling like: site:gentoo.org display quicktime in firefox Turns up dozens of hits but it appears very many

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 first impressions

2008-01-22 Thread Brian Marshall
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:42:17 +0200 Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still undecided about the default menu, it looks a little in the style of XP which I can't stand. I know it''s not the same and maybe just a knee-jerk so I'm holding off before coming to an opinion. Um, it

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 Blocked packages

2008-01-22 Thread Brian Marshall
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:22:57 -0500 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to emerge KDE 4 and have the following packages blocked. [...snip...] I feel like I am missing something obvious. Is anyone able to shed some light? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo on the Sales block?

2008-01-16 Thread Brian Marshall
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 23:47:04 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I only ask because Sun just paid a billion dollars for MySQL http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/16/sun-mysql_1.html How is it that Open Source is for sale? MySQL is a company. Is gentoo next? Gentoo no

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox update results in Yahoo request for newer version

2008-01-03 Thread Brian Marshall
? Thanks, Mark I just checked for you, and I got the same page using the Firefox 3 trunk. This is why discriminating based on user-agent is a Bad Thing, Yahoo. -- Brian Marshall signature.asc Description: PGP signature