Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-03-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 02:09:04 +0100 Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: Disk manufacturers measure kilos of data as 1000 Everyone else measures it in 1024 Well, to nitpick, they say it correctly, as for their kilo, 10^3 bytes is correct. We, the binary folk, assert kilo to be 2^10

Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!

2012-03-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 01:59:41 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: It just means that before the drive gets physically full (which means that files will fragment more), it will get logically full earlier. This is why there can be expected less fragmentation under extreme circumstances (i.e. an

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-03-01 Thread Stroller
On 29 February 2012, at 21:08, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2012 15:57:36 James Broadhead wrote: Please don't send html emails to the list … I have never set an option to write in HTML so I shut kmail down and checked its config file. It said html- markup=true for some

[gentoo-user] Awesome WM, io.popen() attempt to index io nil value

2012-03-01 Thread trevor donahue
Hi folks, is anyone of you using awesome wm? I've been struggling with a little bit of a problem lately, wanted to create a widget that retrieves gmail data using curl. The problem encountered is the function io.popen() that returns nil [attempt to index io nil value] (as having an error in lua)

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-03-01 Thread Mick
On 1 March 2012 15:07, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 29 February 2012, at 21:08, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Tuesday 28 February 2012 15:57:36 James Broadhead wrote: Please don't send html emails to the list … I have never set an option to write in HTML so I shut kmail

[gentoo-user] Re: Awesome WM, io.popen() attempt to index io nil value

2012-03-01 Thread trevor donahue
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.7 the doc also found on other resources scripts using IO not io, that still aint working... On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:14 PM, trevor donahue donahue.tre...@gmail.comwrote: Hi folks, is anyone of you using awesome wm? I've been struggling with a little

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 01 March 2012 15:28:16 Mick wrote: We could blame the 4.7.4 version for this, but just in case - did you restart kmail and does the config file still read markup=false? I have restarted the whole machine and I now find markup=true again. Solution: stop kmail, move the entire

[gentoo-user] bind-9.8.1_p1 recompilation failed...

2012-03-01 Thread Jarry
Hi, I just updated portage tree and as a result of that bind wanted to be recompilled (the only difference is -static-libs%): [ebuild R] net-dns/bind-9.8.1_p1 USE=berkdb dlz idn ipv6 ssl urandom -caps -doc -geoip -gost -gssapi -ldap -mysql -odbc -pkcs11 -postgres -rpz -sdb-ldap

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-03-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:03:57 + Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2012 15:28:16 Mick wrote: We could blame the 4.7.4 version for this, but just in case - did you restart kmail and does the config file still read markup=false? I have restarted the

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 01 March 2012 18:01:43 Alan McKinnon wrote: You might have a clean system but fifty quid says you have a clean system with a whole lot less mail than you used to have That would be rash. My gentoo-user mail still numbers 15160 and dates back to a year ago. I don't notice any

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-03-01 Thread Mick
On Thursday 01 Mar 2012 18:54:30 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2012 18:01:43 Alan McKinnon wrote: You might have a clean system but fifty quid says you have a clean system with a whole lot less mail than you used to have That would be rash. My gentoo-user mail still numbers

Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.8.1_p1 recompilation failed...

2012-03-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just updated portage tree and as a result of that bind wanted to be recompilled (the only difference is -static-libs%): [ebuild   R    ] net-dns/bind-9.8.1_p1  USE=berkdb dlz idn ipv6 ssl urandom -caps -doc -geoip -gost

Re: [gentoo-user] bind-9.8.1_p1 recompilation failed...

2012-03-01 Thread Jarry
On 01-Mar-12 20:17, Michael Mol wrote: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Jarrymr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just updated portage tree and as a result of that bind wanted to be recompilled (the only difference is -static-libs%): [ebuild R] net-dns/bind-9.8.1_p1 USE=berkdb dlz idn ipv6

[gentoo-user] Re: bind-9.8.1_p1 recompilation failed...

2012-03-01 Thread walt
On 03/01/2012 09:55 AM, Jarry wrote: What could be the problem? I remember just yesterday I updated bind from 9.7.4_p1 to 9.8.1_p1, but today recompilation simply failed... I'm getting exactly the same error, so I'd say the ebuild is broken.

[gentoo-user] MySQL MariaDB - is it time?

2012-03-01 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about the poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it inherited when it bought Sun):

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] Anybody have kdebluetooth working?

2012-03-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 01 March 2012 19:17:05 Mick wrote: Well, I had duplicates being created in gmail (POP3) which magically regenerated themselves in multiples when I tried to delete them I experienced that jollity when trying to upgrade to the latest, fatally broken version, but no such problem with

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

2012-03-01 Thread Grant
I just received the new Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook and I'm trying to install Gentoo but I can't get install-amd64-minimal-20120223.iso to boot via a USB key. I installed it to two different USB keys via unetbootin but I get this right after it asks for the keymap: Looking for the cdrom Attempting to

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL MariaDB - is it time?

2012-03-01 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about the poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it

[gentoo-user] Autoloading modules..,

2012-03-01 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I want to load snd-seq since the /dev/snd/seq device comes up with the wrong permission, if this modules is not loaded. The result is a defunct qjackctrl. I entered snd-seq into /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-3.2 and it does *not* autoload. I am running Linux 3.2.9

Re: [gentoo-user] Autoloading modules..,

2012-03-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:22 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to load snd-seq since the /dev/snd/seq device comes up with the wrong permission, if this modules is not loaded. The result is a defunct qjackctrl. I entered    snd-seq into    /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-3.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Autoloading modules..,

2012-03-01 Thread meino . cramer
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com [12-03-02 05:32]: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:22 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to load snd-seq since the /dev/snd/seq device comes up with the wrong permission, if this modules is not loaded. The result is a defunct qjackctrl. I

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL MariaDB - is it time?

2012-03-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 2, 2012 3:50 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi all, I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about the poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it inherited

Re: [gentoo-user] Autoloading modules..,

2012-03-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:36 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com [12-03-02 05:32]: On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:22 PM,  meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to load snd-seq since the /dev/snd/seq device comes up with the wrong permission, if this modules is

Re: [gentoo-user] Autoloading modules..,

2012-03-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 2, 2012 11:25 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I want to load snd-seq since the /dev/snd/seq device comes up with the wrong permission, if this modules is not loaded. The result is a defunct qjackctrl. I entered snd-seq into /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-3.2 and it

[gentoo-user] Re: Autoloading modules..,

2012-03-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/03/12 06:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I heard -- not only in this list -- that loading modules, that supports hardware, is better than integration the according modules into the kernel. Nope. It's exactly the same. The only instance where it's better, is when you need to unload it