Re: [gentoo-user] weather forecast plasmoid refuses to find Perth in Australia as a location

2010-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 18 February 2010 08:47:47 ubiquitous1980 wrote: I am having issues using the weather forecast plasmoid in KDE 4.3. It will not allow me to show the weather for Perth in Australia using the BBC or other sources. As someone else posted yesterday, upgrade to 4.4 -- alan dot

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I push JAlbum. You can create some pretty good looking albums and run them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the fact that you don't need a webserver). It

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 03:17:09 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer for. When are they going to start considering the environment? What frakk'in greenhouse gases ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running xsane

2010-02-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 18 February 2010 00:41:32 Peter Humphrey wrote: What does a condenser (on a carburettor) condense? s/carburettor/distributor/ of course. Silly slip. -- Rgds Peter.

[gentoo-user] [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

2010-02-18 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi all! I'm looking for a solution to the following problem. My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and time consuming. I

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving

2010-02-18 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Enrico Weigelt writes: Neil Bothwick wrote: What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer for. When are they going to start

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

2010-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 18 February 2010 15:15:52 Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi all! I'm looking for a solution to the following problem. My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a regular basis, because

[gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo on lenovo ideapad s10-3t tablet

2010-02-18 Thread Xi Shen
hi, this might be a little bit OT. i want to know if anyone here have tried to install gentoo on ideapad s10-3t tablet (http://shop.lenovo.com/us/notebooks/ideapad/s-series/s10-3t). will the touch-screen, webcam and auto screen rotate work? -- Best Regards, David Shen

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with installation kde-meta, gnome

2010-02-18 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/17/10, Andrzej Styczeń styczen_andr...@o2.pl wrote: Thank you for your help. I tried this, what you pointed USE=-qt4 emerge --oneshot cmake but still there are other not resolved dependicies, I will wait to tomorrow. I also try to install 'octave' and got similar problems with

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3 Weather Forecast Applet does not find Perth (Looking for a Fix)

2010-02-18 Thread ubiquitous1980
Matthias Krebs wrote: Am Dienstag 16 Februar 2010 22:26:11 schrieb ubiquitous1980: Using KDE 4.3 Weather Forecast Applet for amd64. I know BBC broke this. Anyone got a fix? update to kde 4.4 bbc works again (at least for berlin) You can use cwp (customisable weather

[gentoo-user] hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?

2010-02-18 Thread James
Hello, hdparm -i /dev/hda Model=IBM-DJNA-371350, FwRev=J76OA30K, SerialNo=GM0GMGB6505 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=34 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1966kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

2010-02-18 Thread James
Renat Golubchyk ragermany at gmx.net writes: too. For easy writing I would probably buy graphics tablets since writing math formulas or drawing isn't particularly fast or easy with keyboard and mouse. If my old (weak) memory serves me correctly, some time back several folks where discussing

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

2010-02-18 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:15:52PM +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and time consuming. I

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Iain Buchanan iai...@netspace.net.au writes: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and gallery generating tools available on linux. I have photos on smugmug.com and wondered if there is do it yourself tools that

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?

2010-02-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 18 Februar 2010, James wrote: Hello, hdparm -i /dev/hda Model=IBM-DJNA-371350, FwRev=J76OA30K, SerialNo=GM0GMGB6505 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=34 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=1966kB,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Thursday 18 February 2010 01:35:12 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and gallery generating tools available on linux. I have photos on smugmug.com

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?

2010-02-18 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:33:38 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: ... UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 ... Should I put the drive into udma4 mode? If so, wouldn't I use: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 /dev/hda Sincerely, I haven't seen the need of manually tuning this with

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

2010-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Renat Golubchyk writes: My relatives live 200 km away. They have a daughter, and I need to help her out with school homework etc. At the moment we cannot do it on a regular basis, because doing it over the phone is really difficult and time consuming. I thought some screen sharing software

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I push JAlbum. You can create some pretty good looking albums and run them from CD / HD / webserver (I especially like the

[gentoo-user] Re: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?

2010-02-18 Thread James
Jesús Guerrero i92guboj at terra.es writes: Looking at the specs and age of that model, there's nothing else you can get from this drive. OK thanks to all that answered. I' just going to leave it alone. James

[gentoo-user] strange one with gentoo guest in vmware

2010-02-18 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm trying to get a gentoo guest running in vmware app on windowsxp. I just installed a prebuilt appliance (gentoo 2008) and am now updating it. I got the kernel rebuilt and updated to 2.6.32-r5 and rebooted into that. I now have all uppercase at the cmdline. The actual keyboard is not in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday 18 February 2010 15:53:15 Harry Putnam wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:12 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: never tried smugmug and don't know what your requirements are, but I push JAlbum. You can create some pretty good looking albums and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:53:15 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: If you want to host it yourself, there's Gallery. It too has plenty of options and can take a little tweaking to get it just as you want. Neil, do you know off hand if gallery offers user/viewer the ability to download original

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3 Weather Forecast Applet does not find Perth (Looking for a Fix)

2010-02-18 Thread Mick
On 18 February 2010 14:21, ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com wrote: Matthias Krebs wrote: Am Dienstag 16 Februar 2010 22:26:11 schrieb ubiquitous1980: Using KDE 4.3 Weather Forecast Applet for amd64.  I know BBC broke this.  Anyone got a fix? update to kde 4.4 bbc works again (at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running xsane

2010-02-18 Thread Arttu V.
On 2/18/10, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: No, you miss the point. The name implies saving daylight, not time. Show me anyone who can do that. (And I won't ask why Saving has to be plural.) Riddle me this as well: what good does Daylight Savings do in, e.g., Scandinavian region

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 18 February 2010 14:54:37 Harry Putnam wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Thursday 18 February 2010 01:35:12 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I wondered if anyone here can speak on the various photo and gallery

Re: [gentoo-user] hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?

2010-02-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 18 February 2010 14:33:38 James wrote: Hello, hdparm -i /dev/hda Model=IBM-DJNA-371350, FwRev=J76OA30K, SerialNo=GM0GMGB6505 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw15uSec Fixed DTR10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=34 BuffType=DualPortCache,

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 Feb 2010, at 02:17, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: What with their greenhouse gas emissions and insistence on their farmers working at unearthly hours, those cows have a lot to answer for. When are they going to start considering the environment? What frakk'in

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.3 Weather Forecast Applet does not find Perth (Looking for a Fix)

2010-02-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 18 February 2010 16:51:00 you wrote: On 18 February 2010 14:21, ubiquitous1980 nixuser1...@gmail.com wrote: Matthias Krebs wrote: Am Dienstag 16 Februar 2010 22:26:11 schrieb ubiquitous1980: Using KDE 4.3 Weather Forecast Applet for amd64. I know BBC broke this. Anyone got a

Re: [gentoo-user] strange one with gentoo guest in vmware

2010-02-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 Feb 2010, at 15:27, Harry Putnam wrote: ... I now have all uppercase at the cmdline. The actual keyboard is not in uppercase mode... and oddly the gentoo install apparently is not seeing uppercase at the cmdline since cmds that are supposed to be in lower case all work. typing what I

[gentoo-user] Re: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?

2010-02-18 Thread walt
On 02/18/2010 01:57 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 18 February 2010 14:33:38 James wrote: Should I put the drive into udma4 mode? If so, wouldn't I use: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 /dev/hda According to the hitachi manual (who made this drive for IBM) the DJNA-3X series has a Ultra ATA Mode 2

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread Harry Putnam
[ Note for fellow searchers: The topic here is the image/photo Gallery software available on portage as: www-apps/gallery ] J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org writes: I use Gallery myself for my picture collection and this can be configured easily. As in, you can allow users access to all

[gentoo-user] Re: strange one with gentoo guest in vmware

2010-02-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: I'm trying to get a gentoo guest running in vmware app on windowsxp. I just installed a prebuilt appliance (gentoo 2008) and am now updating it. I got the kernel rebuilt and updated to 2.6.32-r5 and rebooted into that. I now have all uppercase at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?

2010-02-18 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag 18 Februar 2010, walt wrote: On 02/18/2010 01:57 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 18 February 2010 14:33:38 James wrote: Should I put the drive into udma4 mode? If so, wouldn't I use: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 /dev/hda According to the hitachi manual (who made this drive for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 ?

2010-02-18 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 02/18/2010 01:57 PM, Mick wrote: On Thursday 18 February 2010 14:33:38 James wrote: Should I put the drive into udma4 mode? If so, wouldn't I use: hdparm -d 1 -X 68 /dev/hda According to the hitachi manual (who made

[gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+

2010-02-18 Thread sean
Hello All, My son just purchased a Sansa Clip+ and from what I read it is supposed to be accessible in Linux, it would look like a USB drive for drag and drop. Anyway, I updated the firmware to the latest, and set the USB mode on the Clip+ to MSC. I am wondering if I need to setup

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+

2010-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 19 February 2010 01:34:36 sean wrote: Hello All, My son just purchased a Sansa Clip+ and from what I read it is supposed to be accessible in Linux, it would look like a USB drive for drag and drop. Anyway, I updated the firmware to the latest, and set the USB mode on the

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Screen sharing software or similar

2010-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 14:15 +0100, Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi all! I'm looking for a solution to the following problem. A lot of people have answered already, but you may be interested to know the current linux release of skype 2.1.0.81 lets you share part or all of your desktop. It's view

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of Photo gallery tools

2010-02-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 08:50 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I'll look into JAlbum One main requirement is that user/viewer be able to download full resolution original photos. No commercial (shopping cart) type stuff is required just a family operation. from memory I did 3 sizes - the

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+

2010-02-18 Thread sean
Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you do yet the obvious first step, which is to plug in it and see what happens? If so, what happened? If not, do so, then post what happened. That I had tried. The device is not seen.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+

2010-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 19 February 2010 02:15:49 sean wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: Do you do yet the obvious first step, which is to plug in it and see what happens? If so, what happened? If not, do so, then post what happened. That I had tried. The device is not seen. what is the output from

[gentoo-user] Re: weather forecast plasmoid refuses to find Perth in Australia as a location

2010-02-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/18/2010 10:09 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 18 February 2010 08:47:47 ubiquitous1980 wrote: I am having issues using the weather forecast plasmoid in KDE 4.3. It will not allow me to show the weather for Perth in Australia using the BBC or other sources. As someone else posted

[gentoo-user] Re: Sansa Clip+

2010-02-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2010 01:34 AM, sean wrote: Hello All, My son just purchased a Sansa Clip+ and from what I read it is supposed to be accessible in Linux, it would look like a USB drive for drag and drop. Anyway, I updated the firmware to the latest, and set the USB mode on the Clip+ to MSC. I

[gentoo-user] zsh and sudo

2010-02-18 Thread daid kahl
Hello, I just installed zsh recently and was working on making the switch over from bash for my daily user, provided I can get a few things worked out. The biggest problem that I can't find useful results googling is zsh interaction with sudo. I'm noticing some strange behavior with the PATH

[gentoo-user] trouble with virtual/jdk

2010-02-18 Thread Allan Gottlieb
When I run emerge --ignore-default-opts --pretend --deep --tree --verbose --update --with-bdeps=y world I get (after a DeprecationWarning about portage.dep.dep_getkey() that I believe I can ignore) Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB !!! The following update has been skipped due to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: weather forecast plasmoid refuses to find Perth in Australia as a location

2010-02-18 Thread ubiquitous1980
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/18/2010 10:09 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 18 February 2010 08:47:47 ubiquitous1980 wrote: I am having issues using the weather forecast plasmoid in KDE 4.3. It will not allow me to show the weather for Perth in Australia using the BBC or other sources.

[gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-18 Thread James Homuth
I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist. But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic purposes, it sees them just fine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-18 Thread Hung Dang
On 02/18/10 22:49, James Homuth wrote: I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist. But, booting to an install CD I burned for

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-18 Thread daid kahl
On 19 February 2010 14:49, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic purposes, it sees them just fine. Kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with virtual/jdk

2010-02-18 Thread daid kahl
On 19 February 2010 10:44, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: When I run  emerge --ignore-default-opts --pretend --deep --tree --verbose --update --with-bdeps=y world I get (after a DeprecationWarning about portage.dep.dep_getkey() that I believe I can ignore) Total: 0 packages, Size

[gentoo-user] binary amd64 multilib build of gcc 4.3.4 wanted

2010-02-18 Thread William Kenworthy
Can someone point me to a binary amd64 multilib build of gcc 4.3.4 (same as the amd64 install CD)? Or create one with quickpkg for me. I am finding it impossible to get gcc to build on a diskless system with an nfs root. All other packages build ok - just not gcc (4.2, 4.3, 4.4) - Ive replaced

Re: [gentoo-user] binary amd64 multilib build of gcc 4.3.4 wanted

2010-02-18 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 03:37:04PM +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: Can someone point me to a binary amd64 multilib build of gcc 4.3.4 (same as the amd64 install CD)? Or create one with quickpkg for me. I am finding it impossible to get gcc to build on a diskless system with an nfs root.

RE: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-18 Thread James Homuth
-Original Message- From: daid kahl [mailto:daid...@gmail.com] Sent: February 19, 2010 2:02 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... On 19 February 2010 14:49, James Homuth ja...@the-jdh.com wrote: I performed a