Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

2005-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 23:30:23 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: It does, but since you have no reference to cups in make.conf, the default is used. Many USE flags are enabled by default in the profile, add -cups to make.conf to override this. It was garbage like this that finally convinced me

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-25 Thread Stuart Howard
heheh ice and scotch lovers normally leads to a minor riot, plus to those Gentooists who do not live in the UK would not realise that it is normally cold enough here to not need ice :] An addition to your script Darren ### cd /local/pub more beer /dev/mouth ### ^^ shamelessly stolen from a

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Stuart Howard
I do not have a solution to your question, but in general there has been some discussion in the press [UK] of late that covered this very issue. The link has some further links that may lead you to your answer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20051124.shtml stu On

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-25 Thread Klaus Fabritius
* Alexander Skwar schrieb: [traditional vi] Beats me why somebody would want to use it, though. Experimental archaeology, historical reenactment. It's one of the most successful applications ever. Thirty years after Bill Joy started coding it, people are typing $ vi ~/.emacsrc ;-) I just

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Ian Hastie
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 19:33:26 -0500 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 060101 00 . Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast adjust over a few hours

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 24 December 2005 18:20, Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 24 December 2005 09:59, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Thiem to write: On 24 December 2005 15:49, Dale wrote: Holly Bostick wrote: Dale schreef: Who is this schreef guy? I'm just Dale. That's Dutch for wrote. ;-) Ahh

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-25 Thread Robin
Great picture. I am always on the lookout for some nice tux wallpaper :-) On 12/25/05, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: heheh ice and scotch lovers normally leads to a minor riot, plus to those Gentooists who do not live in the UK would not realise that it is normally cold enough here

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2005 12:36, Stuart Howard wrote: heheh ice and scotch lovers normally leads to a minor riot, plus to those Gentooists who do not live in the UK would not realise that it is normally cold enough here to not need ice :] Hey, I can assure you that it isn't cold around, but we,

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
051225 Ian Hastie wrote: 24 Dec 2005 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There will be a leap second between 051231 235959 060101 00 . Does anyone know how the time servers used by NTP handle this ? Is it just left to the local machine to realise it's 1 sec fast adjust over a few

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-25 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Sunday 25 December 2005 02:45, a tiny voice compelled Uwe Thiem to write: On 24 December 2005 18:20, Ernie Schroder wrote: Ahh but what would that read in Namibian? There is no language Namibian. We speak over 10 languages here, among them: Oshiwambo, Otjiherero, English, Afrikaans (-

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-25 Thread Dan Meltzer
On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:34, George Ellison wrote: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Novick schrieb: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just clones. But if you don't like the

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-25 Thread Martin S
2005/12/25, Dan Meltzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Saturday 24 December 2005 12:34, George Ellison wrote: Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ivan Novick schrieb: Does anyone know if there is a gentoo package for normal VI, ie not vim?? No, as there's no normal VI for Linux. There are just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Merry Christmas!/Hanukkah

2005-12-25 Thread Dimitar Toshev
On Sunday 25 December 2005 03:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: More than one Jew, I'm sure. And many other religions, I expect. Is Diwali considered a winter festival? Ramadan has passed already, no? Others? Anyway, happy winter whatevers to all of you. M On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Peter wrote:

[gentoo-user] firefox window sizing

2005-12-25 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, I can no longer see the status bar in my firefox browser. I can't seem to alter the vertical size by dragging the upper right corner of the window down. Horizontal re-sizing works but not vertical. The 'resize' function(rt. mouse click) doesn't do it. X was installed w/o a

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2005 15:42, Ernie Schroder wrote: well then Otatu ku halele okili iwa nodula ipe iwa! The same to you! I am more familiar with the Oshidonga dialect of Oshiwambo. This must be Oshikwanyama. ;-) Uwe -- Unix is sexy: who | grep -i blonde | date cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for dev-java/sun-j2sdk?

2005-12-25 Thread Mike Markowski
Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: 2005/12/24, Mike Markowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] I tried an emerge -uD world but get: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies | emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy dev-java/sun-j2sdk. (dependency required by

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Ian Hastie
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 06:59:20 -0500 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The details are in Appx E : it seems a warning bit is set manually by the operator of the primary time server during the previous day Seems like I should have looked more carefully. one supposes -- hopes (smile) -- that

[gentoo-user] Errors when emerge is unpacking the source.

2005-12-25 Thread David Harel
When I emerge things I get errors similar to: /usr/share/aclocal/sigc++.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_SIGC run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending%20aclocal /usr/share/aclocal/pth.m4:43: warning:

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/24/05, Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not talking about wars all over the place. I'm doing my monthly update on my emergency backup machine. Here's what I've run into. Has pmidi been deprecated? More than deprecated...removed from portage:

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox window sizing

2005-12-25 Thread Edwin Kapauni
maxim wexler wrote: lrwxrwxrwx 1 heathen users 14 Dec 25 08:37 .mozilla/firefox/k6z1oz36.default/lock - 127.0.0.1:7029 This is Firefox's lock file. It will be deleted automagically when Firefox is shut down. But sometimes, after a crash you will have to remove it manually. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Errors when emerge is unpacking the source.

2005-12-25 Thread Holly Bostick
David Harel schreef: When I emerge things I get errors similar to: /usr/share/aclocal/sigc++.m4:8: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_SIGC run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see http://sources.redhat.com/automake/automake.html#Extending%20aclocal

[gentoo-user] is this samsung i-pod-like thing kaput?

2005-12-25 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, Have a Samsung YH-820, 5-gig USB iPod-like music player. It shows up in lsusb and dmesg. sfdisk lists four empty partitions. Each one starts at cylinder 0 but the last cylinder line just has three dashes '---'. The c,h,s part indicates 0 cyls, 64 sects, 32 secs/track. O cyls?

Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

2005-12-25 Thread maxim wexler
It was garbage like this that finally convinced me to put -* at the front of my USE variable, I've got CONFIG_PROTECT -* in my make.conf on a seperate line IIRC to spare me the tedium of accepting manually long lists of default settings when something is emerged. Does this have the same

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-25 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:19:27 +0100 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not much use telling a native Dutch speaker to choose Edit=Preferences=Composition=Send Options if their desktop is not in English, they don't speak English, Really? My (limited) experiences with native dutch

[gentoo-user] can't resize firefox window vertically

2005-12-25 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, My apologies if you've already seen this. I don't think I hit 'send' the first time. I can't see the status bar in my firefox window, it's out of sight below the bottom margin of the screen. Clicking the right upper corner and dragging the mouse only can alter the horizontal

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-25 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0100 Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at | http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net. No you can't. It's either broken or will become broken in the future with

[gentoo-user] kernel audio config issue

2005-12-25 Thread James
Hello, I have been trying get the right combination of kernel modules selected for building a kernel that allows me to select the output and input hardware via kmix. The machine laptop has an onboard frame grabber: lspci: 02:04.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio

Re: [gentoo-user] world problems

2005-12-25 Thread Bob Sanders
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:08:04 -0500 Walter Dnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not talking about wars all over the place. I'm doing my monthly update on my emergency backup machine. Here's what I've run into. Has pmidi been deprecated? Don't think so. And don't run - emaint -f world.

Re: [gentoo-user] This is weird. upgrade and downgrade at the same time. ???

2005-12-25 Thread Holly Bostick
Allan Gottlieb schreef: At Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:19:27 +0100 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not much use telling a native Dutch speaker to choose Edit=Preferences=Composition=Send Options if their desktop is not in English, they don't speak English, Really? My

Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

2005-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 10:38:11 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: I've got CONFIG_PROTECT -* in my make.conf on a seperate line IIRC to spare me the tedium of accepting manually long lists of default settings when something is emerged. Does this have the same effect as in the USE variable list?

Re: [gentoo-user] ogg-vorbis tools and cups

2005-12-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 10:38:11AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote I've got CONFIG_PROTECT -* in my make.conf on a seperate line IIRC to spare me the tedium of accepting manually long lists of default settings when something is emerged. Does this have the same effect as in the USE variable list?

[gentoo-user] PPPoA with AVM DSL Cards?

2005-12-25 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, afaik, these AVM Fritz!Card DSL-cards support PPPoA/PPPoATM, and afaik it is supported by some DSL-Providers. Does somebody know, how to make pppd/capi use PPPoA instead of PPPoE? Thank you Sven signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] uninstall orphaned packages?

2005-12-25 Thread Roy Wright
Richard Fish wrote: On 12/22/05, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'dev-db/mysqltool' has no ebuilds available 'dev-java/htmlparser' has no ebuilds available 'media-libs/divx4linux' has no ebuilds available snip What I'm not sure about is how to check dependents and unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] uninstall orphaned packages?

2005-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:35:06 -0600, Roy Wright wrote: What had me confused was that there were no ebuilds, and I was thinking an ebuild was required to unmerge. It is, but unmerging uses the ebuild stored in /var/db/pkg, not the one in /usr/portage. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How many radical

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:33:04 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0100 Harald Arnesen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at | |

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo installer Flags

2005-12-25 Thread Stroller
On 26 Dec 2005, at 1:16, Dan Meltzer wrote: On Sunday 25 December 2005 17:47, Ken Robbins wrote: in the gentoo live cd installer there alot of flags that can be check off how do you know what are the right one to check and what not this is for a older system fic AZ11E board Duron 800... The

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox window sizing

2005-12-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 08:09:13AM -0800, maxim wexler wrote Hello everybody, I can no longer see the status bar in my firefox browser. I can't seem to alter the vertical size by dragging the upper right corner of the window down. Horizontal re-sizing works but not vertical. The 'resize'

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 05:56:24PM +, Ivan Novick wrote OK. Thanks for all the replies. I will just use vim. Run it as vim -C. From the vim manpage... -C Compatible. Set the 'compatible' option. This will make Vim behave mostly like Vi, even

Re: [gentoo-user] ADSL confusion after update

2005-12-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:28:40PM +0100, Christoph Eckert wrote My machine automatically connects during boot, and this works great. When I shutdown the machine, I get an error that adsl doesn't seem to run. I have a combined ADSL modem/router that logs on and coverts ADSL into ethernet.

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:12:13PM -0600, John Jolet wrote and your pick for client-side portable code is??? Client-side code is inherently risky. The website is executing a program on your machine. It's not that much different from allowing people to telnet on to your machine anonymously

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs. javascript - what's the difference?

2005-12-25 Thread John Jolet
On Dec 25, 2005, at 9:37 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 08:12:13PM -0600, John Jolet wrote and your pick for client-side portable code is??? Client-side code is inherently risky. The website is executing a program on your machine. It's not that much different from

[gentoo-user] Strange traffic says I am using windoze and have a bug.

2005-12-25 Thread Dale
Hi guys, and Holly, :D I'm on dial-up and try to watch my traffic and every once in a while I see a little blip on gkrellm. I fired up ethreal and started to sniff around. Parden the pun there. LOL This is what it says though which is strange. It's really the last two lines that matter

Re: [gentoo-user] leap second

2005-12-25 Thread Philip Webb
There is a good article on current thinking in Washington Post : http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/25/AR2005122500496_pf.html It doesn't mention NTP, but that's implicit in the anti-leap position. --

[gentoo-user] ivtv 5.1 From Portage?

2005-12-25 Thread Drew Tomlinson
It was suggested to me on the MythTV list to upgrade from 0.4 to 0.5.0 or 0.5.1. However after running 'emerge --sync', portage still show 0.4.0-r2 as the latest version. I have it unmasked with the '~x86' in package.keywords so I assume this is the latest version in the normal portage tree.

Re: [gentoo-user] ivtv 5.1 From Portage?

2005-12-25 Thread Lares Moreau
On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 21:33 -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote: It was suggested to me on the MythTV list to upgrade from 0.4 to 0.5.0 or 0.5.1. However after running 'emerge --sync', portage still show 0.4.0-r2 as the latest version. I have it unmasked with the '~x86' in package.keywords so I