Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 overlay

2008-01-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb Alan McKinnon: Anyone know where this overlay disappeared to? http://genkdesvn.mailstation.de HTH... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds for additional campaigns for games-strategy/wesnoth

2008-01-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Freitag, 11. Januar 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Before I open a bug for this, are ther any such ebuilds? I know they don't exist in portage, but maybe in some overlay I'm not aware of. you can't do that because the user

[gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread alain . didierjean
Daniel Robbins offers to take back Gentoo leadership. What about it ? Read http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/01/here-my-offer.html -- ~adj~ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML vs. Text messages (WAS: Is GWN dead?)

2008-01-12 Thread Mick
On Saturday 12 January 2008, Hal Martin wrote: I'll keep that in mind when I am sending email to the list from Thunderbird. I'm also aware that many corporations block HTML mail to lower the risk of a staff member opening up an infected/laced email (generally on a Windows computer) so text

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 12 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Robbins offers to take back Gentoo leadership. What about it ? Read http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/01/here-my-offer.html I've kept very quiet about Gentoo politics for a long time, but Daniel's blog has promoted me to finally open my

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 overlay

2008-01-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 12 January 2008, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 11 January 2008 22:26:34 Alan McKinnon wrote: Anyone know where this overlay disappeared to? It moved to git. Assuming dev-util/git is installed: Yes, that was it, thanks. I assumed I had git installed. I was wrong. # layman

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 overlay

2008-01-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 12 January 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb Alan McKinnon: Anyone know where this overlay disappeared to? http://genkdesvn.mailstation.de Thanks Dirk -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML vs. Text messages (WAS: Is GWN dead?)

2008-01-12 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: Hmm, he may be waiting for you to do it, while you're explaining to all these moms out there why you may think that top-posting in this ML would be considered good netiquette? BTW, I'm not condoning thread hi-jacking either . . . To Dale: have you tried setting up new

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML vs. Text messages (WAS: Is GWN dead?)

2008-01-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:33:24 -0600, Dale wrote: Thanks. I didn't know you could change that in the address book. Can you tell me how this one comes through? It should be plain text, hopefully only plain text. It is :) -- Neil Bothwick Trekkers work out in the `He's Dead Gym'.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 03:29:34 +0100, b.n. wrote: Moreover, I'd go on to say that the fact Gentoo is installable from almost every reasonable Linux-based live cd is a defining Gentoo feature. It doesn't even need a live CD. I installed Ubuntu when I first got this laptop, because I needed a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LiveUSB

2008-01-12 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 15:27 -0500, Ritesh Kumar wrote: On Jan 11, 2008 3:00 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 January 2008, Anthony E. Caudel wrote: 2nd question: I must be dense on this one so someone help me out. Since a USB stick is

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML vs. Text messages (WAS: Is GWN dead?)

2008-01-12 Thread Mick
On Saturday 12 January 2008, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: Hmm, he may be waiting for you to do it, while you're explaining to all these moms out there why you may think that top-posting in this ML would be considered good netiquette? BTW, I'm not condoning thread hi-jacking either . . .

Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuilds for additional campaigns for games-strategy/wesnoth

2008-01-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 12. Januar 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 11. Januar 2008 schrieb Hemmann, Volker Armin: On Freitag, 11. Januar 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Before I open a bug for this, are ther any such ebuilds? I know they don't exist in portage, but maybe in some overlay I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Jil Larner
Well, it's like if I am opening my eyes. I never looked at what the foundation was supposed to do. For a couple of years I've been using gentoo, I never get any political announcement, maybe because I didn't look at the right place, or maybe there was no. I mean that except the Gentoo's Philosophy

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Mick
On Saturday 12 January 2008, Jil Larner wrote: Well, it's like if I am opening my eyes. I never looked at what the foundation was supposed to do. For a couple of years I've been using gentoo, I never get any political announcement, maybe because I didn't look at the right place, or maybe there

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML vs. Text messages (WAS: Is GWN dead?)

2008-01-12 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008, Dale wrote: Thanks. I didn't know you could change that in the address book. Can you tell me how this one comes through? It should be plain text, hopefully only plain text. Neat trick. ;-) OK, this is plain text as I can see in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008, Jil Larner wrote: Well, it's like if I am opening my eyes. I never looked at what the foundation was supposed to do. For a couple of years I've been using gentoo, I never get any political announcement, maybe because I didn't look at the right

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML vs. Text messages (WAS: Is GWN dead?)

2008-01-12 Thread Mick
On Saturday 12 January 2008, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: . . . but you responded to a plain text message from the list, which as I recall you could always do. The problem I believe is when you start a new message. Email me off list with a new message and I will confirm if it is also plain

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Marzan
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 07:34 -0600, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008, Jil Larner wrote: Well, it's like if I am opening my eyes. I never looked at what the foundation was supposed to do. For a couple of years I've been using gentoo, I never get any political

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Δημήτριος Ροπόκης
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:34:47 +0200, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008, Jil Larner wrote: Well, it's like if I am opening my eyes. I never looked at what the foundation was supposed to do. For a couple of years I've been using gentoo, I never get any

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Renat Golubchyk
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:07:39 -0500 Richard Marzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although he works for Microsoft, Daniel is the one who created this project. He doesn't work for Microsoft any longer. Check Wikipedia or Google for relevant news. Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Hal Martin
He states on his blog that he currently works for E*Trade, a company specializing in electronic ticker tape services for individuals and corporations. -Hal Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:07:39 -0500 Richard Marzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although he works for Microsoft,

[gentoo-user] TTF Fonts

2008-01-12 Thread Naiani Rosa de Barros
Hi everyone. I'd like to know if these instructions here http://www.madeinclay.net/?p=8 are still valid for adding ttf fonts to Gentoo. I don't remember what I did last time (more than 1 yr ago), but I don't think it was the same procedure. The article on Gentoo-Wiki seems outdated to me, so I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Marzan
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 18:22 +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:07:39 -0500 Richard Marzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although he works for Microsoft, Daniel is the one who created this project. He doesn't work for Microsoft any longer. Check Wikipedia or Google for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:25:55 -0600 Eddie Mihalow Jr wrote: ...[snip]... You are missing the point of Gentoo then. We are NOT a binary distro (to repeat ad nauseum). If you want that kind of install, please change distros. I do find these other methods of install to be interesting though. Has

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread fire-eyes
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Robbins offers to take back Gentoo leadership. What about it ? Read http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/01/here-my-offer.html I've kept very quiet about Gentoo politics for a long time, but Daniel's blog has promoted

Re: [gentoo-user] TTF Fonts

2008-01-12 Thread zou
I think you could do this right by adding the fonts to fonts:/// (or something like this) Naiani Rosa de Barros wrote: Hi everyone. I'd like to know if these instructions here http://www.madeinclay.net/?p=8 are still valid for adding ttf fonts to Gentoo. I don't remember what I did last time

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread James
Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielmeier at googlemail.com writes: Again i recommend join gentoo-dev and you will see what is going on! Excellent idea. Is there a place where we can conveniently read this list, and not have posting privileges? An archive list server or such? James --

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Richard Marzan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Although he works for Microsoft, Check your facts, please. http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,100121,39252292,00.htm. Michael Schmarck -- printk (scsi%d : Oh no Mr. Bill!\n, host-host_no); linux-2.6.6/drivers/scsi/53c7xx.c --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Kenneth Prugh
On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:59:52 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielmeier at googlemail.com writes: Again i recommend join gentoo-dev and you will see what is going on! Excellent idea. Is there a place where we can conveniently read this list, and not

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Galevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jan 11, 2008 8:08 PM, Michael Schmarck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GRML ? Knoppix ? other LiveCD ? What for, man ? Oh, quite easy - to install Gentoo. That way, the knowledge of experts in creating live CDs is leveraged. NIH is not a good point of view, if

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
· Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michael Schmarck schrieb: · Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Right, basicly telling people You have to depend on / use other distros to install our OS, cause we are not able to / don´t have time to provide this sounds a little fishy. It makes Gentoo look

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Michael Schmarck
· James [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielmeier at googlemail.com writes: Again i recommend join gentoo-dev and you will see what is going on! Excellent idea. Is there a place where we can conveniently read this list, and not have posting privileges? An archive list

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread James
Michael Schmarck michael.schmarck at habmalnefrage.de writes: Well, actually, I never used a Gentoo install CD to install Gentoo. I also don't quite understand, why anyone would need such a beast. Folks new to gentoo, would find it suspicious, for a distro not to have it's own install.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 12. Januar 2008, James wrote: Daniel Pielmeier daniel.pielmeier at googlemail.com writes: Again i recommend join gentoo-dev and you will see what is going on! Excellent idea. Is there a place where we can conveniently read this list, and not have posting privileges? An

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Qian Qiao
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Relson wrote: Is it gentoo's goal to make the installation difficult so only a select group can do the install? Or is the goal to make gentoo a great distro? In the latter case, why not make the installation easy? The installation isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 12. Januar 2008, Richard Marzan wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 07:34 -0600, Dale wrote: Mick wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008, Jil Larner wrote: Well, it's like if I am opening my eyes. I never looked at what the foundation was supposed to do. For a couple of years I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Samstag, 12. Januar 2008, Richard Marzan wrote: On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 18:22 +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:07:39 -0500 Richard Marzan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although he works for Microsoft, Daniel is the one who created this project. He doesn't work for

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 overlay

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Shields
On Jan 11, 2008 6:37 PM, Bo Ørsted Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 11 January 2008 22:26:34 Alan McKinnon wrote: Anyone know where this overlay disappeared to? It moved to git. Assuming dev-util/git is installed: # layman -f layman -d kde layman -a kde Having said that KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Jan 12, 2008 12:52 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Schmarck michael.schmarck at habmalnefrage.de writes: Well, actually, I never used a Gentoo install CD to install Gentoo. I also don't quite understand, why anyone would need such a beast. Folks new to gentoo, would find it

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread James
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: The problem is, and is not, legal papers. Because, IMO, legal papers are the visible part of an Iceberg. Could someone tell me what *really* is the crisis ? If people did not do what they were supposed to do : what should they have done ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-12 Thread b.n.
Michael Schmarck ha scritto: · Norman Rieß [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Depends. You're saying, that Gentoo might look to be incomplete, if it were to rely on other distributions (Live CDs). I'm saying, that it currently already looks to be incomplete, despite there being a install CD - a CD, which is

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Cox
Anybody else get a DB error when trying to access the forums? Seems like it may have been overwhelmed with the Robbins debate going on. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Dale
James wrote: Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: The problem is, and is not, legal papers. Because, IMO, legal papers are the visible part of an Iceberg. Could someone tell me what *really* is the crisis ? If people did not do what they were supposed to do : what should they have

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 January 2008, Richard Cox wrote: Anybody else get a DB error when trying to access the forums? Seems like it may have been overwhelmed with the Robbins debate going on. Nope, it seems to work fine from here (UK). There's around 8 pages so far, with some entertaining flaming

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Dale
Richard Cox wrote: Anybody else get a DB error when trying to access the forums? Seems like it may have been overwhelmed with the Robbins debate going on. Works fine here. Even found the thread. Oh, I'm in Mississippi USA if it matters.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Everything smooth from here too: Campinas, SP, Brazil :-) On 1/13/08, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Cox wrote: Anybody else get a DB error when trying to access the forums? Seems like it may have been overwhelmed with the Robbins debate going on. Works fine here. Even found

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Cox
On Saturday 12 January 2008 19:55:23 Dale wrote: Richard Cox wrote: Anybody else get a DB error when trying to access the forums? Seems like it may have been overwhelmed with the Robbins debate going on. Works fine here. Even found the thread. Oh, I'm in Mississippi USA if it matters.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Dale
Richard Cox wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008 19:55:23 Dale wrote: Richard Cox wrote: Anybody else get a DB error when trying to access the forums? Seems like it may have been overwhelmed with the Robbins debate going on. Works fine here. Even found the thread. Oh, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
On 1/13/08, Richard Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, it's the View posts from last 24 hours link that is causing the problem for me. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Even though, it's fine here. -- bRicardo Saffi Marques/b Laboratório de Administração e Segurança de

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: http://blog.funtoo.org/2008/01/here-my-offer.html I've kept very quiet about Gentoo politics for a long time, but Daniel's blog has promoted me to finally open my mouth and express my views. Daniel is in a tricky position - he is the legal

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Cox
On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:05:50 Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: On 1/13/08, Richard Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, it's the View posts from last 24 hours link that is causing the problem for me. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list Even though, it's fine here. Ok,

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Weird, but... have you tried cleaning your browser cache? CTRL SHIFT DEL on firefox. On 1/13/08, Richard Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:05:50 Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: On 1/13/08, Richard Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, it's the View posts from last 24

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Richard Cox
On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:17:59 Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: Weird, but... have you tried cleaning your browser cache? CTRL SHIFT DEL on firefox. On 1/13/08, Richard Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:05:50 Ricardo Saffi Marques wrote: On 1/13/08, Richard Cox

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Richard Cox wrote: | Yeah, still have the problem. Very strange. This is because Gentoo is now on Slashdot frntpage: http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/01/12/0152208.shtml So, I recon we were slashdotted... - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman BUSCO

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-12 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Sonntag, 13. Januar 2008, Richard Cox wrote: Anybody else get a DB error when trying to access the forums? Seems like it may have been overwhelmed with the Robbins debate going on. what do you mean with crashed? The 'too many connections' error? That happens sometimes and is not a crash.

[gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread James
Dale dalek1967 at bellsouth.net writes: The problem is, and is not, legal papers. Gentoo needs leadership that is accountable to the user community but also bound to a set of bylaws that we agree with. Keeping the distro free is paramount, but, creating avenues for financial success

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-12 Thread Mark Kirkwood
James wrote: In my mind I'm an accomplished person. In her mind I'm just another stupid EE, Hey James - Interesting post - this eludes me tho, what is an EE? Cheers Mark P.s: a beer should cure all women problems -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list