Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2011 01:49:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: should be referred to using the neuter form of pronouns, i.e. it, as befitting their overall contribution to humanity. You see what I did there? You see how I recovered with a witty reposte without even blinking an eye? It takes

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:16 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: While we are nitpicking: Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, That should be greatest writer, the other fellow was not the greatest - he merely wrote soap operas. -- alan dot

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer Who do you class as the greatest English writer then? , so that should be telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) [nipick] even form me? :P [/nitpick] -- Joost

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 10:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer Who do you class as the greatest English writer then? Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2011 09:29:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, That should be greatest writer, the other fellow was not the greatest - he merely wrote soap operas. I don't know what you mean, unless you mistakenly assumed I was referring

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 17 May 2011 10:22:35 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) [nipick] even form me? :P [/nitpick] I think we should both be more careful with our typing when nit-picking :( -- Neil Bothwick COMMAND: A suggestion made to a

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:35:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 10:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer Who do you class as the

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:19:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2011 10:22:35 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: telephone sanitiser - but that's nit-picking, even form me :) [nipick] even form me? :P [/nitpick] I think we should both be more careful with our typing when nit-picking :(

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:21 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 10:35:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 10:22 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly: On Tuesday 17 May 2011 08:16:20 Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Indi
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:40:01AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 09:16 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: While we are nitpicking: Douglas Adams was English, our second greatest writer, That should be greatest writer, the other

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-17 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 06:18, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 01:01 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 May 2011 22:54:14 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: Why setup didn't get this right via emerge I have no idea, unless it didn't actually do anything toward actually setting Grub up. Emerging GRUB installs it, that's all. The post installation message would have told you to set i up, but

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-05-15 10:54 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Why setup didn't get this right via emerge I have no idea, unless it didn't actually do anything toward actually setting Grub up. If so, it could be there was already some mismatched Grub code there already from a previous use of the sectors there

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread JDM
That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? JDM -Original Message- From: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 07:58:34 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 12:43:05 +, JDM wrote: That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? Read the settings for PORTAGE_ELOG in man make.conf. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 001: Windows loaded - System in danger signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Stroller
On 16/5/2011, at 1:43pm, JDM wrote: Most people set things up so they get emails of the post install messages when emerging things, but it is up to you to actually read them and, when necessary, follow the instructions. That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? $ grep -i

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 03:10:03PM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 12:43:05 +, JDM wrote: That's a clever trick. How do you get emails from emerge? Read the settings for PORTAGE_ELOG in man make.conf. Or as that man page says, Please see

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:00:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading the kernel works, but chainload gives error 13 invalid

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/16 11:26 (GMT-0400) Indi composed: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:00:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my plan. After so much time passed (days, not just hours) and I had good kernel, NFS, and MC that I didn't see much point delaying KDE. After the errors

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:18:49PM -0400, Indi wrote: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my plan. After so much time passed (days, not just hours) and I had good kernel, NFS, and

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my plan. After so much time passed (days, not just hours) and I had good

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 10:57:14 -0400, Indi wrote: Read the settings for PORTAGE_ELOG in man make.conf. Or as that man page says, Please see /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for elog documentation. I know that's what the man page currently says, but I expect it will be updated to

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread JDM
Thnx, have followed advice. I am impressed. JDM -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 20:57:26 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!) On Mon

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: Actually after the first or 2nd or some subsequent attempt that was my plan. After so much time passed (days, not

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:15 on Monday 16 May 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:18 on Monday 16 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:10:02PM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: Actually after the first or 2nd

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:10:02PM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 10:57:14 -0400, Indi wrote: Read the settings for PORTAGE_ELOG in man make.conf. Or as that man page says, Please see /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for elog documentation. I know

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic Alan, but something held me back. Lucky it went that way, he later posted he read 1667MHZ as 167MHz. Amazing what a difference a 1 can make :-) Not nearly as much as

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:01 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic Alan, but something held me back. Lucky it went that way, he later

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/16 19:01 (GMT-0400) Neil Bothwick composed: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: he read 1667MHZ as 167MHz. Amazing what a difference a 1 can make :-) Not nearly as much as a 6 :P Sure it can! In 101000b, any of those 1s represents more than 6.

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Indi
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:10:02AM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic Alan, but something held me back. Lucky it went that way, he later posted he read 1667MHZ as 167MHz.

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:28 on Tuesday 17 May 2011, Indi did opine thusly: On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 01:10:02AM +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 16 May 2011 23:40:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I had many posts typed out, most of them rude, all of them classic Alan, but

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-15 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading the kernel works, but chainload gives error 13 invalid executable format. I named the bzImage copied to /boot