[gentoo-user] resizing multiple images with adding a frame as needed

2015-06-23 Thread hw
Hi, suppose I have a number of images that need to be displayed side by side in a nice layout. The images are of different sizes and have different aspect ratios. To fit the images into the layout, I can scale the images either by height or width or by percantage, and they will look messy

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:45:58 +0200, David Haller wrote: You can also start USE with -* in make.conf to turn everything off then set your own choices. This is the ideal setup for those who prefer to spend more time fixing their computer than using it. Hah! Hey, I got no printer, had

Re: [gentoo-user] resizing multiple images with adding a frame as needed

2015-06-23 Thread wabenbau
hw h...@gartencenter-vaehning.de wrote: Hi, suppose I have a number of images that need to be displayed side by side in a nice layout. The images are of different sizes and have different aspect ratios. To fit the images into the layout, I can scale the images either by height or width

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:35:10 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: I really like to have control over my machine as much as possible. In this way I will learn a lot, so I am trying to remove all the default use flags and control them manually. [..] You

Re: [gentoo-user] One Time Passwords

2015-06-23 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Am Dienstag, 23. Juni 2015, 14:49:41 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, I'd like to log into my Gentoo system from my smartphone. But I don't trust Google (Android's parents). Therefore I need a OTP solution for loggin into my Gentoo system. Can anybody recommend a solution? I set up a

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

2015-06-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 23/06/2015 09:27, Ran Shalit wrote: I am a beginner with Gentoo. I have followed the instruction for the installation, and tried to see that I really understand all of them. There is the command: mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev Which

Re: [gentoo-user] One Time Passwords

2015-06-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 06/23/2015 02:55:35 PM, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote: Am Dienstag, 23. Juni 2015, 14:49:41 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, I'd like to log into my Gentoo system from my smartphone. But I don't trust Google (Android's parents). Therefore I need a OTP solution for loggin into my Gentoo

[gentoo-user] One Time Passwords

2015-06-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to log into my Gentoo system from my smartphone. But I don't trust Google (Android's parents). Therefore I need a OTP solution for loggin into my Gentoo system. Can anybody recommend a solution? Many thanks, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnu Common Lisp / cl-ppcre and ... sbcl???

2015-06-23 Thread David Mattli
meino.cra...@gmx.de writes: It would be THAT nice to get sbcl running, since it is very activilky supported and maintained and it is what I run on my Beaglebone Black (another somehow bigger embedded system) and my PC. Any Way out of this ? Best regards, Meino Sorry! It seems you're

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 17:35:10 +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: I really like to have control over my machine as much as possible. In this way I will learn a lot, so I am trying to remove all the default use flags and control them manually. I just don't know which global use flags are

[gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread behrouz khosravi
Hello everyone. I really like to have control over my machine as much as possible. In this way I will learn a lot, so I am trying to remove all the default use flags and control them manually. I just don't know which global use flags are absolutely necessary to the system to make it snappier or

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-23 Thread Christopher Jones
Sent from my iPhone On Jun 21, 2015, at 3:16 PM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am seriously thinking of updating my dell 6430s laptop purchased 3 years ago. NYU has an arrangement with dell so that is the only maker I am considering. This machine will be essentially gentoo only (I

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:35:32 +0200, David Haller wrote: You do know that only the desktop profiles include cups as a default USE flag? The one I recommended does not. Try compiling icedtea, libreoffice, scribus and whatnot without pulling in cups, no matter the use-flags. And sabotaging the

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

2015-06-23 Thread Christopher Jones
Sent from my iPhone On Jun 23, 2015, at 10:31 AM, David Haller gen...@dhaller.de wrote: Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 23/06/2015 09:27, Ran Shalit wrote: I am a beginner with Gentoo. I have followed the instruction for the installation, and tried to see that I

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT} Intel D2700 processor + NM10 chipset - how to kernel config?

2015-06-23 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi again. I've found something, it looks like Intel had outsourced the video graphics part of this family of processors to Imagination Technologies, using their PowerVR technology. Besides this, there are recent posts in a few forums that talks about an open source driver, on the way. In

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-23 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Jun 21 2015, James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Allan Gottlieb writes: The hardest decision is size vs performance, but I know you can't help Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps I was unclear. I simply meant that clearly higher performance is better and so is a

[gentoo-user] Re: necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread James
David Haller gentoo at dhaller.de writes: You can also start USE with -* in make.conf to turn everything off then set your own choices. This is the ideal setup for those who prefer to spend more time fixing their computer than using it. Huh? There is an entire universe of embedded

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:45:58 +0200, David Haller wrote: You can also start USE with -* in make.conf to turn everything off then set your own choices. This is the ideal setup for those who prefer to spend more time fixing their computer than

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-23 Thread gottlieb
On Sun, Jun 21 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 21/06/2015 21:16, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am seriously thinking of updating my dell 6430s laptop purchased 3 years ago. NYU has an arrangement with dell so that is the only maker I am considering. This machine will be essentially gentoo only (I

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-23 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Jun 23 2015, Christopher Jones wrote: Sent from my iPhone Regarding the touch screens/tablets, Gentoo has drivers for them. I've been using Gentoo on my tablet PC for years now. However there's no swipe capability. I've read someone who did it but that was just one person and

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

2015-06-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Christopher Jones wrote: Sent from my iPhone That figures. On Jun 23, 2015, at 10:31 AM, David Haller gen...@dhaller.de wrote: [..] /root/bin/chrooter [..] ### convenient way to mount further stuff outside the chroot (with the ### appropriate fstab

Re: [gentoo-user] necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:35:32 +0200, David Haller wrote: You do know that only the desktop profiles include cups as a default USE flag? The one I recommended does not. Try compiling icedtea, libreoffice, scribus and whatnot without pulling in

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture

2015-06-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 05:26:31 -0500, Dale wrote: Take from that what you will. Note, the issues are for chromium and not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what you want to know though. Thanks. That was what I was looking for. I guess they did do this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: necessary use flgas

2015-06-23 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, James wrote: David Haller gentoo at dhaller.de writes: [..] Try compiling icedtea, libreoffice, scribus and whatnot without pulling in cups, no matter the use-flags. And sabotaging the ebuild and buildsystem to not use cups leads to failed builds, BT,TriedThat :((

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-23 Thread Daniel Frey
On 06/23/2015 10:50 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Tue, Jun 23 2015, Christopher Jones wrote: Sent from my iPhone Regarding the touch screens/tablets, Gentoo has drivers for them. I've been using Gentoo on my tablet PC for years now. However there's no swipe capability. I've read someone

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

2015-06-23 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/06/2015 09:27, Ran Shalit wrote: Hello, I am a beginner with Gentoo. I have followed the instruction for the installation, and tried to see that I really understand all of them. There is the command: mount

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

2015-06-23 Thread Paul Tobias
test -e ${root}/dev/zero || mount --bind /dev/ ${root}/dev test -e ${root}/dev/shm/dh || mount --bind /dev/shm ${root}/dev/shm test -e ${root}/dev/pts/0 || mount --bind /dev/pts/ ${root}/dev/pts no need to separately mount shm and pts, just use --rbind, as the install doc recommends

Re: [gentoo-user] purchasing a dell laptop

2015-06-23 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Jun 23 2015, Daniel Frey wrote: On 06/23/2015 10:50 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Tue, Jun 23 2015, Christopher Jones wrote: Sent from my iPhone Regarding the touch screens/tablets, Gentoo has drivers for them. I've been using Gentoo on my tablet PC for years now. However there's

[gentoo-user] repos.conf

2015-06-23 Thread James
Hello, So I nuked the /var/lib/layman/make.conf file. I have a list of sites (repos) I want to keep. Noodling around I figured out that I cannot use laymen to add git repos. bummer. So is there a tool/interface where I type something like 'layman -a java' and it writes out the file to

Re: [gentoo-user] resizing multiple images with adding a frame as needed

2015-06-23 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 24 Jun 2015 01:02:35 waben...@gmail.com wrote: hw h...@gartencenter-vaehning.de wrote: Hi, suppose I have a number of images that need to be displayed side by side in a nice layout. The images are of different sizes and have different aspect ratios. To fit the images

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

2015-06-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/06/2015 09:27, Ran Shalit wrote: Hello, I am a beginner with Gentoo. I have followed the instruction for the installation, and tried to see that I really understand all of them. There is the command: mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev Which I'm not sure I really understand. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture

2015-06-23 Thread Simon Thelen
On 15-06-23 at 03:06, Dale wrote: Howdy, Is this for real? I question the source and figure with all the Linux geeks we have here, someone here would know about this story and if it is real or not.

Re: [gentoo-user] PPPoE ADSL modem choice

2015-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:08:03 +0100, Mick wrote: That's one of the benefits of using OpenWRT/DD-WRT. You can ask on the forums or search the Wiki to see what features are available - or even RTF(online)M. As long as you pick a fully supported device, all the features of either OS should be

[gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

2015-06-23 Thread Ran Shalit
Hello, I am a beginner with Gentoo. I have followed the instruction for the installation, and tried to see that I really understand all of them. There is the command: mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev Which I'm not sure I really understand. 1. What is the difference between doing thses mount to

[gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture

2015-06-23 Thread Dale
Howdy, Is this for real? I question the source and figure with all the Linux geeks we have here, someone here would know about this story and if it is real or not. http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2015/06/got-chrome-google-just-silently-downloaded-this-onto-your-computer-3173880.html

Re: [gentoo-user] PPPoE ADSL modem choice

2015-06-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 23 Jun 2015 07:30:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2015 23:08:03 +0100, Mick wrote: That's one of the benefits of using OpenWRT/DD-WRT. You can ask on the forums or search the Wiki to see what features are available - or even RTF(online)M. As long as you pick a fully

[gentoo-user] [OT} Intel D2700 processor + NM10 chipset - how to kernel config?

2015-06-23 Thread Francisco Ares
Hi, I have bought a cheap mini ITX board with an embedded Intel D2700 processor and NM10 chipset, and the kernel I have built a few months ago doesn't even allow text mode console - meanwhile, among other things, I'm trying to find and strip out any frame buffer entries in the kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture

2015-06-23 Thread Dale
Simon Thelen wrote: On 15-06-23 at 03:06, Dale wrote: Howdy, Is this for real? I question the source and figure with all the Linux geeks we have here, someone here would know about this story and if it is real or not.

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Chrome and audio capture

2015-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 05:26:31 -0500, Dale wrote: Take from that what you will. Note, the issues are for chromium and not for Google Chrome, shouldn't make a difference for what you want to know though. Thanks. That was what I was looking for. I guess they did do this then. This

[gentoo-user] Re: Google Chrome and audio capture

2015-06-23 Thread walt
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 03:06:10 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, Is this for real? I question the source and figure with all the Linux geeks we have here, someone here would know about this story and if it is real or not.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Google Chrome and audio capture

2015-06-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 15:26:06 -0700, walt wrote: But, I never thought about what I say when I have the tablet stuck in my pocket, supposedly in power-saving sleep mode. No doubt in my mind that the mic could still be listening if google wants it to be. I have my phone on a stand by the bed at

Re: [gentoo-user] One Time Passwords

2015-06-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@skynet.be wrote: Hi, I'd like to log into my Gentoo system from my smartphone. But I don't trust Google (Android's parents). Therefore I need a OTP solution for loggin into my Gentoo system. Can anybody recommend a solution? You'll

Re: [gentoo-user] mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

2015-06-23 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:31 AM, David Haller gen...@dhaller.de wrote: ACK. There's more actually. Currently, I run Gentoo mostly in a chroot from my old system[1], and also updated it that way[2]. Currently, I use this script to chroot into gentoo: You might consider running Gentoo Prefix

Re: [gentoo-user] resizing multiple images with adding a frame as needed

2015-06-23 Thread wabenbau
hw h...@gartencenter-vaehning.de wrote: Hi, suppose I have a number of images that need to be displayed side by side in a nice layout. The images are of different sizes and have different aspect ratios. To fit the images into the layout, I can scale the images either by height or width