On Friday 12 February 2010 09:44:01 Graham Murray wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser
or mail app that they are offline?
Why does the app need to know? Browsers normally have an
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging
the xfce window manager. I solved this by emerging Openbox instead.
Then I got another compiler segfault whilst emerging firefox (yes, I
know there's a binary for
On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging
the xfce window manager. I solved this by emerging Openbox instead.
Then I got another compiler
I am (was) getting this as well on a new amd64 install (zotac ION n330)
- it appears there is a problem with certain glibc 32bit libraries -
there is a bug about it. Upgraded glibc and most things are now happy -
but I still cant build gcc.
BillK
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 10:50 +0200, Alan
Hi,
does anybody know how to check if a package is installed using a script/
shell.
Unfortunately eix -I -q CAT/PACK
produces a return code of 0 irrespectively if CAT/PACK
is install or not.
I'd like to say
for P in ...; do
if CHECK_IF_INSTALLED $P; then echo $P; fi
done
What to
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging
the xfce window manager. I solved
On Friday 12 February 2010 11:16:22 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
does anybody know how to check if a package is installed using a script/
shell.
Unfortunately eix -I -q CAT/PACK
produces a return code of 0 irrespectively if CAT/PACK
is install or not.
I'd like to say
for P in
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
On Friday 12 February 2010 09:44:01 Graham Murray wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser
or mail app that they are offline?
Why does the app need
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:21:22 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Could you (or anyone else here) give us a really dumbed-down summary
of why a dev would want/need to use a socket, versus a pipe, versus
a signal, versus dbus, versus, well, whatever else is out there?
Alan's answered all of this
On 12 Feb, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
But I do find it silly, that the various applications that aren't
dependent of the DE, to require a dependency of the DE. It just seems
a bit backwards to me :-) I simply don't understand.
That just shows that they are still partially
snip
I hope you're not right here. ;-) The hardware is spanking brand new;
so new, in fact, that it's still gleaming.
Are there any handy utility programs around to test RAM exhaustively?
Most live CD's these days will come with memtest86 as a boot option,
that would give your RAM a good
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:46:33 +
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
The first sign was when the
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:38:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Unfortunately eix -I -q CAT/PACK
produces a return code of 0 irrespectively if CAT/PACK
is install or not.
I'd like to say
for P in ...; do
if CHECK_IF_INSTALLED $P; then echo $P; fi
done
What to replace
On Feb 12, 2010, at 3:46 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I hope you're not right here. ;-) The hardware is spanking brand new;
so new, in fact, that it's still gleaming.
Are there any handy utility programs around to test RAM
Another thing to try, change compile flag to -J1 (MAKEOPTS=-J1 emerge ...)
Last time I built up a system there were a couple of packages that couldn't
handle parallel compiles.
HTH,
Roy
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 16:31:15 Mark Knecht wrote:
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
There's a few small downsides I've run into with all of this so far:
1) Since we don't use sector 63 it seems that fdisk will still tell
you that you can
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
But I do find it silly, that the various applications that aren't
dependent of the DE, to require a dependency of the DE. It just seems
a bit backwards to me
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:42:26 +, Graham Murray wrote:
Why does the app need to know? Browsers normally have an
online/offline menu selection and if you try to browse to a site
when your network is offline then the browser will generate the
appropriate error message.
You're on a train,
On Friday 12 February 2010 12:15:13 Zeerak Waseem wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
But I do find it silly, that the various applications that aren't
dependent of the DE, to require
On Friday 12 February 2010 11:46:33 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
The first sign was when the compiler
On Friday 12 February 2010 11:42:26 Graham Murray wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
On Friday 12 February 2010 09:44:01 Graham Murray wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com writes:
so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
On Friday 12 February 2010 01:51:40 Dale wrote:
By the way, just installed KDE 4.4 and I still can't open a file with
Dolphin as root.
You are not supposed to do that. Dolphin runs as you.
Nope, I got it set to
Hi, Alan,
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging
the xfce window manager.
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 16:31:15 Mark Knecht wrote:
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
There's a few small downsides I've run into with all of this so far:
1) Since we
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:54 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging
the xfce window manager. I solved this by emerging Openbox instead.
Then I got another
On 12 Feb, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
Just one more reason.
Have you got more than 4 Gb RAM installed?
If yes, you might have to reduce memory speed.
Some CPUs (among them AMD Phenom) have difficulties
at the specified RAM speed if
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
The first sign was when the compiler
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Alan,
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
The first sign was when the
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
But I do find it silly, that the various applications that aren't
dependent of the DE, to require a
On Friday 12 February 2010 14:43:30 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
failures in b11 of 32 bit words.
I'll try unplugging and replugging these.
No help. :-(
No matter how I plug in the RAM (4 combinations of 2 sticks into 2 pairs
of slots) it is always b11 which fails and always at an address
Hi, Dale,
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 06:43:46AM -0600, Dale wrote:
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
When I run memtest86 from the gentoo boot disk, it signals millions
of failures in b11 of 32 bit
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
Hi, Dale,
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 06:43:46AM -0600, Dale wrote:
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:22:21AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
When I
- Original Message
From: Zeerak Waseem zeera...@gmail.com
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
But I do find it silly, that the various applications that aren't
dependent of the DE, to require a
Hello,
I am getting a
SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument [ok]
message when re/starting eth0. I am wondering about that. The router's
MTU is set at 1500. Looking at the /etc/init.d/net.eth0 it seems the
inteface metrics should be calculated automatically.
Any ideas about where to look for the reason
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:01:22 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
But I do find it
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Helmut Jarausch
jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
On 12 Feb, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
Just one more reason.
Have you got more than 4 Gb RAM installed?
If yes, you might have to reduce memory
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:46:57 +0100, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote:
- Original Message
From: Zeerak Waseem zeera...@gmail.com
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:19:43 +0100, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
But I do find it silly, that the various
- Original Message
From: Zeerak Waseem zeera...@gmail.com
But then the question isn't whether there are a number of soft dependencies,
but
in the case of semantic-desktop whether -it- is a soft dependency. Like
previously stated, I don't use kmail, nor do I intend to (I at least
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
On 12 Feb, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo,
My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
Just one more reason.
Have you got more than 4 Gb RAM installed?
If yes, you might have to reduce memory speed.
Some CPUs (among them
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:01:22 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:53:04 +0100, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk
wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb
On 2/12/2010 10:14 AM, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
But then the question isn't whether there are a number of soft
dependencies, but in the case of semantic-desktop whether -it- is a soft
dependency. Like previously stated, I don't use kmail, nor do I intend
to (I at least think I mentioned it). This
On 02/11/2010 12:27 PM, Hung Dang wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking for an open source in-memory database for data mining
purpose. I have tried to look into /usr/portage/dev-db/ and have not
found any in-memory package. Any suggestion?
Thanks in advance
Hung
mysql has a `memory' table engine.
Hi, Volker,
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 01:56:48PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
you can try upping the voltage of the ram by 0.05V. I had a stick that
threw errors unless I gave it a bit more. After that the system was
stable and none of the memtesting apps found any errors.
Tried that
Hi, Dale,
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:27:01AM -0600, Dale wrote:
Where the error is could depend on a single transistor that is maybe
not as sensitive as the others. It's sort of like a chain. It's only
as strong as its weakest link. It could be that whatever is going
wrong could be right
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser or
mail app that they are offline?
I don't have a network connection manager and I don't need that function
in a browser, mail client or any other app.
And don't start with sockets. That
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, pk wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser
or mail app that they are offline?
I don't have a network connection manager and I don't need that function
in a browser, mail client or any other
Alan McKinnon wrote:
1. Say stuff it and build a print server into your app. We stopped doing that
when DOS fell out of fashion.
2. Support all possible print systems. lpr anyone?
3. Or just use IPC and let dedicated print middleware deal with it.
What's wrong with lpr?
Multimedia
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, pk wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
1. Say stuff it and build a print server into your app. We stopped doing
that when DOS fell out of fashion.
2. Support all possible print systems. lpr anyone?
3. Or just use IPC and let dedicated print middleware deal with it.
Hi, Gentoo!
As reported in other threads, my new PC had a broken RAM stick in it.
As a result, an unknown proportion of installed binaries are flaky. One
non-functioning binary is probably GCC.
What I'd like to do is reinstall every binary, yet without erasing any
configuration info, whose
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo!
As reported in other threads, my new PC had a broken RAM stick in it.
As a result, an unknown proportion of installed binaries are flaky. One
non-functioning binary is probably GCC.
What I'd like to do is reinstall every
On 02/12/2010 09:25 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Dale,
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:27:01AM -0600, Dale wrote:
Where the error is could depend on a single transistor that is maybe
not as sensitive as the others. It's sort of like a chain. It's only
as strong as its weakest link. It could be
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
You obviously don't know what you are talking about.
And you obviously do?
If you start konqueror - for example, it is dbus telling konqueror to start
as browser - or file manager. And to load the right kpart. Oh - and that
loading of kparts? The messages are
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
besides being not really usefull anymore? Are you sure you have lpr? Which
ones do you have? And do you have it configured for the right printers? What
if
you don't have lpr but cups?
Of course I use cups, don't be silly. Of course built without D-Bus support.
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, pk wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
You obviously don't know what you are talking about.
And you obviously do?
If you start konqueror - for example, it is dbus telling konqueror to
start
as browser - or file manager. And to load the right kpart. Oh
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, pk wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
besides being not really usefull anymore? Are you sure you have lpr?
Which ones do you have? And do you have it configured for the right
printers? What if you don't have lpr but cups?
Of course I use cups, don't be silly.
Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation?
tar up /etc.
Make sure the tar can extract on another system. Backups that haven't
been tested are not backups! :D
--
Kyle
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
well, just look at all those ubuntu users. Just for starters.
Hm. And those ubuntu users have a choice? For the record, most people
using wireless anywhere are using OS's from Redmond or Cupertino
(Apple). They don't care about D-Bus either...
yes, it has. There is
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
source /etc/profile at the top of the script often works.
@Neil:
Well, that does the trick!
But I don't understand why. In my initial post I withheld information in
order to be sure the focus wouldn't be on the
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, pk wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
well, just look at all those ubuntu users. Just for starters.
Hm. And those ubuntu users have a choice? For the record, most people
using wireless anywhere are using OS's from Redmond or Cupertino
(Apple). They don't care
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:21:18 -0800, Kyle Bader wrote:
Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation?
tar up /etc.
Make sure the tar can extract on another system. Backups that haven't
been tested are not backups! :D
/etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:57:09 -0500, Walt Rarus wrote:
BTW, I love the quotations following your sig. Speaking of source,
are you willing to reveal the source of these beauties?
Yes, it's a place called the Internet ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
CPU: (n.) acronym for Central Purging Unit. A device
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:23:41 +0100, pk wrote:
To me D-Bus is a bit like this:
Programmer1: (waves hands in the air) Oh, oh I know, let's invent a new
protocol that lets applications talk to each other. Way cool!
Note that they are inventing a new protocol, not a new idea.
Programmer2: Oh
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:51:01 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:01:22 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Zeerak Waseem wrote:
On Fri,
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
Hi, Dale,
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:27:01AM -0600, Dale wrote:
Where the error is could depend on a single transistor that is maybe
not as sensitive as the others. It's sort of like a chain. It's only
as strong as its
equery check package compares current with the as installed checksum
(or something like that!) for the packages files.
emerge -ep world a
edit a to add equery check before each package name
run sh a b and got hrough the list in b to see whats broke - lots of
debris - config files etc will show
Hi list:
What exactly is xdg-open and how to I configure it to do what I want?
The question came up because I am using jabref, a Java based bibtex
management system. On my home machine, when I tried to open a PDF
file, java throws a file-not-found error on xdg-open. But I have
xdg-utils
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:15:59PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
as browser - or file manager. And to load the right kpart. Oh - and that
loading of kparts? The messages are sent by dbus.
I don't have konqueror nor do I use KDE/Gnome. And never will.
then why do you even care
Zeerak Waseem wrote:
I just started a degree, to accomplish -something akin to- that ;-)
Ah, good. Let me give you some free advice, well in advance. When
it comes time to pick people for your thesis committee -- pick ones
who love to argue. I think it may save you some pain later.
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Maybe increasing voltages a bit (0.05 to 0.1V) will help you. It did for me
with one certain Asrock board.
This is the first I've heard of adjustable voltages. Where/how do you make
the adjustment?
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Maybe increasing voltages a bit (0.05 to 0.1V) will help you. It did for me
with one certain Asrock board.
This is the first I've heard of adjustable voltages. Where/how do you make
the
On Samstag 13 Februar 2010, walt wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Maybe increasing voltages a bit (0.05 to 0.1V) will help you. It did for
me with one certain Asrock board.
This is the first I've heard of adjustable voltages. Where/how do you make
the adjustment?
Bios
Hi all,
Thank a lot for your advices. I will try both mysql and sqlite to see
which one is better for our purpose.
Have a nice weekend,
Hung
On 02/12/10 10:56, Doug O'Neal wrote:
On 02/11/2010 12:27 PM, Hung Dang wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking for an open source in-memory database for data
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 19:23 -0500, Willie Wong wrote:
Hi list:
What exactly is xdg-open and how to I configure it to do what I want?
The question came up because I am using jabref, a Java based bibtex
management system. On my home machine, when I tried to open a PDF
file, java throws a
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:37:53PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
You have been corrected on this point so many times I now think you
are just a stupid ass.
It is not slow.
You are the only one saying that. People who do use Nepomuk say that
it is not slow and does not hog resources (initial
Sorry about the delay replying. I'm having major problems upgrading
to kernel 2.6.31-r6.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 04:53:08PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:31:21 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
XMMS followed
the original Unix philosophy... it did one thing did it right,
On Friday 12 February 2010 21:55:29 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Gentoo!
As reported in other threads, my new PC had a broken RAM stick in it.
As a result, an unknown proportion of installed binaries are flaky. One
non-functioning binary is probably GCC.
What I'd like to do is reinstall
On Saturday 13 February 2010 00:52:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:21:18 -0800, Kyle Bader wrote:
Has anybody any other tips to offer me for this operation?
tar up /etc.
Make sure the tar can extract on another system. Backups that haven't
been tested are not
On Friday 12 February 2010 21:23:41 pk wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser
or mail app that they are offline?
I don't have a network connection manager and I don't need that function
in a browser, mail client or any
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 02:37:53PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
You have been corrected on this point so many times I now think you
are just a stupid ass.
It is not slow.
You are the only one saying that. People who do use
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes:
- I run Firefox
- I go to live365.com and log in
- I click on an icon, and Firefox starts up an audio player, and passes
it the appropriate URL.
- I start reading/writing emails, whilst enjoying music in my headphones
The audio player needs to
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