William Kenworthy wrote:
I am having problems logging into a laptop (gdm) after its moved to a
new network. Its fine once its setup on the network in question, but if
I hibernate it then resume with it either not connected at all, or
connected to a new network (but not configured for it) it
Disk /dev/sdb: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
A small caveat -- if this is an advanced format drive be sure to use
fdisk in sector mode (fdisk
Am 18.11.2010 02:46, schrieb Grant Edwards:
On 2010-11-18, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
Looks like the *actual* problem is non-application of OYFEAL[1],not what the
devs do.
Google doesn't seem to know what OYFEAL means. Do we get any hints?
Google says this: OYFEAL:
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 02:38 -0600, Dale wrote:
William Kenworthy wrote:
I am having problems logging into a laptop (gdm) after its moved to a
new network. Its fine once its setup on the network in question, but if
I hibernate it then resume with it either not connected at all, or
William Kenworthy wrote:
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 02:38 -0600, Dale wrote:
William Kenworthy wrote:
I am having problems logging into a laptop (gdm) after its moved to a
new network. Its fine once its setup on the network in question, but if
I hibernate it then resume with it either
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwa...@gmail.comwrote:
Can anybody point me to a hint on how to configure synaptics touchapad
sensitivity?
The touchpad on my Thinkpad T500 is so sensitive you don't even have
to touch it. Merely bringing a thumb or finger within 1/8 -
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:20:25 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
Because I don't want a repeat of the ipv6 fiasco where I had an almost
non-functional browser, mediaplayer (for internet files), etc, etc.
Hardly non-functional - desperately slow maybe but far from
non-functional. Blaming the devs for
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:46:16 +, Stroller wrote:
If you're not using a GUI terminal emulator with a scrollbar, then may
I respectfully suggest you install `tmux` (a replacement for GNU
`screen`) and use it. It takes a little while to get familiar with it,
and with its keybindings and
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:42:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
c. our devs are assumed to only pretend to be pedantic geeky gits who
nit-pick about words, and not to actually *be* like that their entire
life 24/7/365/75.
Indeed. After all, if they were really pedantic, they would point out that
tar c /path/to/old/ | tar xvp /path/to/new
Whoops... That should be
tar c -C /path/to/old/ . | tar xvp -C /path/to/new/
Sorry,
andrea
On Thursday 18 November 2010 12:37:16 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:42:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
c. our devs are assumed to only pretend to be pedantic geeky gits who
nit-pick about words, and not to actually *be* like that their entire
life 24/7/365/75.
Indeed. After
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:43:40 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Indeed. After all, if they were really pedantic, they would point out
that you should have written either 24/7/52/75 or 24/365/75 :P
pedantic mode
Or that you both seem to forget the actual reason for the use of
leap-years.. :P
On Thursday 18 November 2010 12:52:40 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:43:40 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
Indeed. After all, if they were really pedantic, they would point out
that you should have written either 24/7/52/75 or 24/365/75 :P
pedantic mode
Or that you both seem
Apparently, though unproven, at 13:37 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Neil
Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:42:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
c. our devs are assumed to only pretend to be pedantic geeky gits who
nit-pick about words, and not to actually *be* like that their
Apparently, though unproven, at 05:47 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Stroller
did opine thusly:
On 18/11/2010, at 1:46am, Grant Edwards wrote:
...
Looks like the *actual* problem is non-application of OYFEAL[1],not what
the devs do.
Google doesn't seem to know what OYFEAL means. Do
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:42:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Indeed. After all, if they were really pedantic, they would point out
that you should have written either 24/7/52/75 or 24/365/75 :P
y'know, you have this very annoying habit of catching me out every time
I talk shit in public
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Sebastian
Beßler did opine thusly:
Am 18.11.2010 02:46, schrieb Grant Edwards:
On 2010-11-18, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
Looks like the *actual* problem is non-application of OYFEAL[1],not what
the devs
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:42 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
I thought the real reason for leap years was to boot the turnover of
the wedding industry.
s/boot/boost/
Oh? How does that work?
There's a tradition here that women propose to men on the leap day, which
is why most men go into
On 2010/11/18 06:25AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
How does it differ from screen? Is it sufficiently better to relearn
keystrokes etc?
The major difference is that you can split the screen into panes,
showing multiple ptys at the same time (similar to vim's :[v]sp, layout
wise). Besides that, I think
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:18 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Neil
Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:42 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
I thought the real reason for leap years was to boot the turnover of
the wedding industry.
s/boot/boost/
Oh? How does that
On Thursday 18 November 2010 14:18:55 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:32:42 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
I thought the real reason for leap years was to boot the turnover of
the wedding industry.
s/boot/boost/
Oh? How does that work?
There's a tradition here that women
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:33:45 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote:
There's a tradition here that women propose to men on the leap day,
which is why most men go into hiding on that day thereby boosting the
profits of pubs and other hiding places.
One could actually argue that the profits of pubs
Am 18.11.2010 13:47, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Sebastian
Beßler did opine thusly:
Am 18.11.2010 02:46, schrieb Grant Edwards:
On 2010-11-18, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
Looks like the *actual* problem is
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:12 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Sebastian
Beßler did opine thusly:
Am 18.11.2010 13:47, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Thursday 18 November 2010,
Sebastian
Beßler did opine thusly:
Am 18.11.2010 02:46, schrieb Grant
Am 18.11.2010 15:21, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:12 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Sebastian
Beßler did opine thusly:
Am 18.11.2010 13:47, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
Apparently, though unproven, at 11:31 on Thursday 18 November 2010,
Sebastian
Beßler did opine
On 18/11/2010, at 11:25am, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 04:46:16 +, Stroller wrote:
If you're not using a GUI terminal emulator with a scrollbar, then may
I respectfully suggest you install `tmux` (a replacement for GNU
`screen`) and use it. It takes a little while to get
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:21:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
What were we talking about again?
OYFEAL
--
Neil Bothwick
Top Oxymorons Number 1: Microsoft Works
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On 2010-11-18, Fernando Antunes fs.antu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwa...@gmail.comwrote:
Can anybody point me to a hint on how to configure synaptics touchapad
sensitivity?
All the docs I can find seem to assume two things:
1) an
Is there something special about the file name
/etc/portage/package.use/java ? For some reason, if I create this file
to hold USE flags for my java packages, bash tries to source it when I
log in. As far as I can tell this is the only filename that gets this
wierd treatment:
platypus kutulu #
I was having trouble with my standard update world emerge on one of my
machines.
I can't download because I don't have libssl.so.0.9.8. The exact error
msg is
wget: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
I seem to
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes:
LABEL=boot/bootext2noatime1 2
LABEL=root /reiserfsdefaults0 1
LABEL=swapnoneswapsw0 0
LABEL=portage/usr/portageext3defaults0 1
LABEL=home
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:29:21 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
3. Other files proved missing as well
I went to another machine which is multilib and copied the libssl from
the lib32 directory. Then it asked for libcrypto so I copied that
now it asks for libkrb5.so.3. After a few more
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:41:25PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 17.11.2010 23:26, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:08 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Florian
Philipp did opine thusly:
Hi list!
Today, KDE nearly killed a presentation I held and now I want
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
I was having trouble with my standard update world emerge on one of my
machines.
I can't download because I don't have libssl.so.0.9.8. The exact error
msg is
wget: error while loading shared libraries:
- Original Message
From: YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Thu, November 18, 2010 12:41:03 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4 multi-monitor + fullscreen applications
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:41:25PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 17.11.2010
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike
Edenfield did opine thusly:
Is there something special about the file name
/etc/portage/package.use/java ? For some reason, if I create this file
to hold USE flags for my java packages, bash tries to source it when I
Hi,
I got some headaches from trying to use jack (the audio-connector).
Following this:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/JACK
I finally tried this:
jackd -d alsa
and got this:
solfire:/home/mccramersudo jackd -d alsa
jackd 0.118.0
Copyright 2001-2009 Paul Davis, Stephane
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:29:21 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
3. Other files proved missing as well
I went to another machine which is multilib and copied the libssl from
the lib32 directory. Then it asked for libcrypto so I copied that
now it asks
On 11/18/2010 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike
Edenfield did opine thusly:
Is there something special about the file name
/etc/portage/package.use/java ? For some reason, if I create this file
to hold USE flags for my
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
I was having trouble with my standard update world emerge on one of my
machines.
I can't download because I don't have libssl.so.0.9.8. The exact error
msg is
[[ big
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly, is that tmux has a
status bar configured by default. I'm pretty sure you can do that with screen,
too, but I've never bothered, because it seemed too much
I have installed E17 using layman and the efl overlay, but today I just ran
dispatch-conf and these changes showed up:
=
--- /etc/portage/package.use2010-11-15 12:50:46.0 +
+++ /etc/portage/._cfg_package.use 2010-11-18
James wrote:
Dalerdalek1967at gmail.com writes:
LABEL=boot/bootext2noatime1 2
LABEL=root /reiserfsdefaults0 1
LABEL=swapnoneswapsw0 0
LABEL=portage/usr/portageext3defaults0 1
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:36 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike
Edenfield did opine thusly:
On 11/18/2010 1:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mike
Edenfield did opine thusly:
Is there something special about the
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:10 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mick did
opine thusly:
I have installed E17 using layman and the efl overlay, but today I just ran
dispatch-conf and these changes showed up:
=
--- /etc/portage/package.use
On 11/18/2010 3:20 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Maybe you had the bad luck to install an awesomely dodgy ebuild. Here's what
it should be:
# ls -al /etc/bash_completion.d/java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Oct 27 03:08 /etc/bash_completion.d/java -
/usr/share/bash-completion/java
Thanks, all
On Thursday 18 November 2010 20:26:36 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:10 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mick
did
opine thusly:
I have installed E17 using layman and the efl overlay, but today I just
ran dispatch-conf and these changes showed up:
On Thursday 18 November 2010 19:20:51 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:29:21 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
3. Other files proved missing as well
I went to another machine which is multilib and copied the libssl from
the lib32
On Thursday 18 November 2010 15:48:23 Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-11-18, Fernando Antunes fs.antu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwa...@gmail.comwrote:
Can anybody point me to a hint on how to configure synaptics touchapad
sensitivity?
On 18 nov. 2010, at 20:52, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly, is that tmux has
a
status bar configured by default. I'm pretty sure you can do that with
screen,
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:04 on Friday 19 November 2010, Mick did
opine thusly:
On Thursday 18 November 2010 20:26:36 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:10 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Mick
did
opine thusly:
I have installed E17 using layman and the
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:25 on Friday 19 November 2010, Florian
CROUZAT did opine thusly:
On 18 nov. 2010, at 20:52, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
I think what really won my heart, and did so quite quickly,
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:14:05 -0600, Dale wrote:
We all
know what happens when things ain't getting fixed. They break. ;-)
I'd say the opposite is true, no maintenance can be better than
provocative maintenance.
--
Neil Bothwick
WinErr 011: Window open - Do not look outside
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 17:27:28 Jacques Montier wrote:
Le 17/11/2010 18:07, walt a écrit :
On 11/17/2010 07:17 AM, Jacques Montier wrote:
Hi all,
I use an astronomical open source imaging software
(http://www.audela.org/)
which works fine except when launching a tcl photometry
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 12:16:48 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I have two problems with rsync
1st) if I give both commandline options -u and -c
it looks as if a file which is more recent but different
on the destination is not updated, i.e. -u overrules -c
Is that
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:14:05 -0600, Dale wrote:
We all
know what happens when things ain't getting fixed. They break. ;-)
I'd say the opposite is true, no maintenance can be better than
provocative maintenance.
My thoughts were that is something breaks
Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:25 on Friday 19 November 2010, Florian
CROUZAT did opine thusly:
On 18 nov. 2010, at 20:52, Paul Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Stroller
strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
I think what really won
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:36 on Friday 19 November 2010, Daniel D
Jones did opine thusly:
Has anyone running Gentoo tried this? If so, what were your results?
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/alternative-to-200-lines-kernel-patch.html
The instructions include adding the following
On Wednesday 17 November 2010 22:24:23 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, James
did opine thusly:
Hello,
I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to migrate to a 2T
Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have a few caveats.
[snip ...]
Ok
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes:
On Thursday 18 November 2010 19:20:51 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron
from running an emerge --sync during the night.
I used to do the same with reiserfs, but since I borked badly a reiser4
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:20:52PM -0600, Dale wrote
This is mine and it worked when I rebooted a bit ago.
LABEL=boot/bootext2noatime1 2
LABEL=root /reiserfsdefaults0 1
LABEL=swapnoneswapsw0 0
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:21:23PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
I must be getting old and forgetful. Forgot about that post.
What were we talking about again?
They say that memory is the second thing to go; I forget what the
first is.
--
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
2.6.38 should contain a ~200 line patch that makes a huge difference to
desktop responsiveness under load;
Tests done by Mike show the maximum latency dropping by over ten times and
the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times
Ref:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 02:59:32AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote
How would your method of handling USE have assisted in preventing
that breakage? Please note that the breakage in jpeg is much *much*
more common than changes to default USE.
This is not about ipv6 or hal or dbus in particular.
On 19/11/2010, at 12:57am, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes:
Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron
from running an emerge --sync during the night.
I used to do the same with reiserfs, but since I borked badly a reiser4 fs I
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:52:39AM +, Stroller wrote
You claim to be a control freak but you seem to be doing this to
avoid the chore of properly inspecting USE flags each time you
emerge. If you `emerge --pretend` before every update you make,
you would see what's changed! What's the
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes:
On 19/11/2010, at 12:57am, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes:
Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron
from running an emerge --sync during the night.
I used to do the same with
On 2010-11-18, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 18 November 2010 15:48:23 Grant Edwards wrote:
You can adjust synaptics changing the configuration on the
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi file. man 4 synaptic can
give you a lot of extra options.
That only works if
Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu writes:
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes:
On 19/11/2010, at 12:57am, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes:
Should I now run emerge -e world? If so, I suppose I should stop cron
from running an emerge --sync during the
Am 19.11.2010 03:37, schrieb Adam Carter:
2.6.38 should contain a ~200 line patch that makes a huge difference to
desktop responsiveness under load;
Tests done by Mike show the maximum latency dropping by over ten times
and the average latency of the desktop by about 60 times
Ref:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:21:33AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote
Blaming the devs for your broken modem/router is rather unfair. If
you'd known it was unable to handle IPv6 correctly, why didn't you
set the flag accordingly?
My ISP didn't support ipv6 at that time. They're now running a beta
Walter Dnes wrote:
So you see, I did learn from my experience. I do check for stuff
like this now. As an additional safety measure, I also begin the USE
variable with -*.
I'm starting to like the way Walter thinks. LOL
Dale
:-) :-)
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