[gentoo-user] Re: Batch resizing of photos

2006-12-25 Thread Grant Edwards
convert resize WxH ${i} ${i} done -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Mr and Mrs PED, can I at borrow 26.7% of the RAYON visi.comTEXTILE production

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-26 Thread Grant Edwards
it by applying one of the patches that are floating around (from Fedora and/or SuSe, IIRC), but an ebuild that works would be better. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! BARBARA STANWYCK at makes me nervous

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-27, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards HA||UCA: Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18? The most recent ATI driver that works with the 9200 series is 8.28.8, but it (and older versions) won't compile out

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-27 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-27, Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-12-27, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Edwards HA||UCA: Is there an ati-drivers ebuild that will install a Radeon 9200/9250 compatible driver under 2.6.18? The most recent ATI driver that works with the 9200 series

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
is the X server. Audacious takes three times as much memory as Apache. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Do you have exactly at what I want in a plaid visi.compoindexter bar bat

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
I've got a GUI for it installed. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hey, I LIKE that at POINT!! visi.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2006-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
to re-calibrate my weight-meter. and that's when it's not playing anything! When streaming the %CPU goes up to 8.5-9.0. I'm missing xmms too. I hope xmms2 will eventually be developed enough to use as a stable package, but without the bloatware that winamp has become. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers ebuild for 9200 and 2.6.18?

2006-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
-- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Why is everything at made of Lycra Spandex? visi.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ wants to install xorg-server

2006-12-30 Thread Grant Edwards
not the point . Sure seems wrong to me... -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hey, LOOK!! A pair of at SIZE 9 CAPRI PANTS!! They visi.comprobably belong to SAMMY

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ wants to install xorg-server

2006-12-30 Thread Grant Edwards
disable the X flag for gtk+ and it won't pull in xorg-server. I thought the -X flag meant not to build features that depend on X11 client support? What's that got to do with whether a server is installed or not? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! When you get your

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2007-01-03 Thread Grant Edwards
_is_ a resource, though not an expensive one. and does not know how the Linux virtual memory system works. It is complex and almost impossible to know what is going on at any instant in time, but that's no excuse for people being wrong by a factor of 500% -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2007-01-04 Thread Grant Edwards
, but there is little alternative to X and Firefox. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! RELAX!!... This at is gonna be a HEALING visi.comEXPERIENCE!! Besides

[gentoo-user] Re: I want my xmms

2007-01-04 Thread Grant Edwards
-running programs (compiles, LaTeX runs, etc.). I've always sort of kept an eye out for something like that for Linux, but have never stumbled acrosss anything... -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! .. I see TOILET at SEATS

[gentoo-user] Re: Which Laptop is recommended for Gentoo GNU/Linux?

2007-01-05 Thread Grant Edwards
hardware constructor which supports 100% Linux on laptop? http://www.emperorlinux.com/ http://system76.com/index.php/cPath/1 http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Yow! Are we wet yet

[gentoo-user] Re: gcc slots

2007-01-09 Thread Grant Edwards
4-5 times in the past year, and 4.1 has been updated at least a couple times. Yet I still only have two versions installed: 3.4.6 and 4.1.1 -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Yow! I threw up on at my window

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-09 Thread Grant Edwards
, but Gentoo doesn't. I've got a fixed ati-drivers-8.28 ebuild that will work with kernels up through 2.6.18. How does one make an e-build available to the world? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! .. If I had heart

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ wants to install xorg-server

2007-01-10 Thread Grant Edwards
with the X server on a different machine than the client. X is net-work transparent. X applications can be run with the X server and X client on different machines. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Did we bring enough at BEEF

[gentoo-user] Re: gtk+ wants to install xorg-server

2007-01-10 Thread Grant Edwards
on. Correct. The X server (Xorg server) and X client (gtk app) may be on different machines. And thats why it need the X Window System (Xorg) in order to compile succesfully. Nope. It only needs it for the tests after successfull compilation. Which seems rather bogus to me. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI Radeon 9550

2007-01-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2007-01-10, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --Sig_Z=zjI8hJVAePlOai=Cqo4ho Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:56:42 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: How does one make an e-build available to the world

[gentoo-user] wpa-supplicant download?

2007-01-16 Thread Grant Edwards
downloading from multiple machines on various networks using several different applications, but it always fails. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I think I'll do BOTH at if I can get RESIDUALS

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Use of sed

2009-06-24 Thread Grant Edwards
by a \' character. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! BARBARA STANWYCK makes at me nervous!! visi.com

[gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-28, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Exactly. My use of fluxbox on this machine was to test that X is even working over S-Video. (It is.) My goal after that was to emerge MythTV again and try running that. Anybody running MythTV can't be too concerned about bloat. Myth

[gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-28, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:28:32 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: Anybody running MythTV can't be too concerned about bloat. Myth requires X11 and Qt even for a headless backend server. You only need the X libs, not the server. True

[gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-28, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:03:35 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: But anyone running a MythTV backend will have plenty of disk space anyway, so an extra few MB of libs that are unused after initial setup is hardly the end of the world

[gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-29, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: You can't do stuff like channel scanning with the first two, so running mythtv-setup over SSH is the only option, which means you need qt3 and X libs on a headless server :( I know. Making channel-scanning a separate text-mode

[gentoo-user] Re: fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-29, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I should try out Freevo some day. It's written in Python, so it should be more stable than MythTv. But, it doesn't support my tuner yet, and it doesn't appear to support a separate backend with multiple frontends. I take

[gentoo-user] Xorg dropping keyboard events?

2009-06-29 Thread Grant Edwards
in bugzilla. Has anybody else seen this problem pop up recently? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'd like some JUNK at FOOD ... and then I want to visi.combe ALONE --

[gentoo-user] Re: Xorg dropping keyboard events?

2009-06-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-06-30, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 29 Jun, Grant Edwards wrote: After recent updates Xorg on several of my machines have started dropping keyboard events. Sometimes it's a keydown event -- in which case the keystroke is ignored. Sometimes it's a keyup

[gentoo-user] Re: Is grep broken?

2009-07-01 Thread Grant Edwards
of this directory hard work. Again, you gave grep an explicit list of files to search, so the -r option doesn't do anything. In this case, it's not obvious what you intend, so I'll refrain from guessing. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want to kill

[gentoo-user] Re: mp3/stream player?

2009-07-20 Thread Grant Edwards
through all possible IP addresses, port numbers and stream types until you find something? Is there anything aout there, which is still be developped, non-bloated and stable, which I could give a try? mplayer is certainly non-bloated and stable. -- Grant Edwards grante

[gentoo-user] ebuild to fix bug in XFCE window manager xfwm4 4.6.1

2009-07-26 Thread Grant Edwards
xfwm 4.6 introduced a rather nasty feature for users of certain window manager configurations: new windows are created at the bottom of the stack (underneath existing windows). This is pretty annoying for several reasons: * Everytime you start a new app, you have to go digging through the

[gentoo-user] Re: Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-03 Thread Grant Edwards
systems aren't supposed to become fragmented, Not true. They become fragmented. However, it's not supposed to matter. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! The FALAFEL SANDWICH at lands on my HEAD and I

[gentoo-user] Re: Anybody tried shake defragmenter?

2009-08-03 Thread Grant Edwards
pointers. meaning that nothing has changed. Lucky for us, I do not believe that such a driver has been written yet. Unlucky for us, I believe that such a driver is entirely possible. And actually quite simple once the content-addressable-disk-drive is invented. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: DSL and ATT. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-08, David da...@pythontoo.com wrote: Been using Bellsouth which is now ATT for the last 6 years. You should get a modem from them, I have a Westell 6100; http://www.amazon.com/Westell-6100-ADSL2-Modem-Router/dp/B000QPPY0A It has two ways to use it Ethernet or usb, use Ethernet and

[gentoo-user] Re: DSL and ATT. About time.

2009-08-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-08, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/08/2009 05:29 AM, Dale wrote: I had thought about picking up a Linksys router and putting it between my desktop and the modem. Your modem is probably a router anyway. Almost certainly (at least in the US). DSL modems with

[gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-08, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: That's what I thought back when I was using dialup on a Linux box that didn't have any servers running. Then one day I got root-kitted. This may be off-topic but I'm curious about the details. Can you please elaborate

[gentoo-user] Re: Root-kitted (was: DSL and ATT. About time.)

2009-08-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-10, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 10 August 2009 05:36:00 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-08-08, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: That's what I thought back when I was using dialup on a Linux box that didn't have any servers running

[gentoo-user] Re: Cloning movie DVDs with dd - only works after accessing disk with another command?

2009-08-11 Thread Grant Edwards
you've run a program that has written the decryption keys to the optical drive. If you disagree with that answer, please esplain why rather than just re-asking the question again and again. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I want a WESSON OIL

[gentoo-user] print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Grant Edwards
print. How do I print side-by-side diff with changes hightlighted (e.g. bold or colored)? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! My polyvinyl cowboy at wallet was made in Hong visi.com

[gentoo-user] Re: print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-14, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to find some sort of side-by-side diff that will highlight the differences and produce pritable output (e.g. html or postscript). I've found tools to colorize diff output, but not for side-by-side. To be a bit more

[gentoo-user] Re: print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Grant Edwards
highlighted. All diff -y does is mark which lines have changed. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Quick, sing me the at BUDAPEST NATIONAL ANTHEM!! visi.com

[gentoo-user] Re: print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-14, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 08/14/2009 08:58 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-08-14, Grant Edwardsgrant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to find some sort of side-by-side diff that will highlight the differences and produce pritable output (e.g. html

[gentoo-user] Re: print side-by-side diff w/ highlighting?

2009-08-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-08-14, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: How do I print side-by-side diff with changes hightlighted (e.g. bold or colored)? FWIW, I couldn't find anything, so I wrote my own utility. It's not very general purpose since it assumes that there've been only changed lines

[gentoo-user] Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

2009-08-25 Thread Grant Edwards
this week? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Jesus is my POSTMASTER at GENERAL ... visi.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

2009-08-25 Thread Grant Edwards
is noticably snappier, and downgrading them will take all evening. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! You were s'posed at to laugh! visi.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does emerge want to downgrade firefox/xul-runner?

2009-08-25 Thread Grant Edwards
when Firefox started up faster than Mozilla Suite. :) I haven't really paid much attention to start-up times, but page loads in 3.5 feel a fair bit faster. I've also noticed that 3.5 doesn't pause repeatedly while I'm typing a URL like 3.0 used to. -- Grant Edwards grante

[gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
firewall box. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Everywhere I look I at see NEGATIVITY and ASPHALT visi.com...

[gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-05, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-09-05, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: As some may know already, I recently got DSL. [...] The DSL modem I am using is the Motorola 2210. It seems to be a gateway thing. I have no router

[gentoo-user] Re: Making sure I am a good netizen and secure.

2009-09-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-05, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: The cheapest solution by far to networking a second PC in the LAN is to use your first PC as a router and forward packets through it. Buying an Ethernet switch is probably a lot easier. The second option is to buy another router. In this

[gentoo-user] Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

2009-09-08 Thread Grant Edwards
this have something to do with the fact that apps-misc/gnuit used to be called apps-misc/git? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm reporting for duty at as a modern person. I want visi.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

2009-09-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-08, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Dienstag 08 September 2009 21:32:42 schrieb Grant Edwards: Both packages install (unrelated) executables named gitview. Yeah, just seen it in the ebuild: # dev-util/git[gtk] installs the gitview tool which collides

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

2009-09-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-08, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: alpha grante # emerge -av gnuit These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] app-misc/gnuit-4.9.5 874 kB [blocks B ] dev-util/git[gtk] (dev

[gentoo-user] Re: How often -uD world?

2009-09-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-10, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some sort of rule-of-thumb when it comes to timing or spacing their updates that members use to keep gentoo happy? I find every week or two to be sufficient. I've found that if you wait too long (e.g. no updates for months at

[gentoo-user] Re: How often -uD world?

2009-09-10 Thread Grant Edwards
use binary packages for packages like those. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! NANCY!! Why is at everything RED?! visi.com

[gentoo-user] Re: How often -uD world?

2009-09-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-10, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:37:40 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: One cringes at the thought of updating xulrunner or OOo on a netbook. Presumably one would use binary packages for packages like those. Or just leave the emerge running

[gentoo-user] Re: Duplicate Flash drive

2009-09-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-13, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: Alternatively, set everything up as you need to start with, then dd the entire device, including partitioning and bootloader, with dd if=/dev/sda of=firewall.img That's how we used to do it when we were shipping CF-based products. The

[gentoo-user] Re: [ot General Textmode q]

2009-09-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-22, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Harry Putnam writes: Can any one tell me how to copy with mouse (really the left mouse button provided on the touchpad) but paste from keyboard while in text (console) mode? Or using the touch pad thing somehow. I've tried pressing

[gentoo-user] Hints on setting up mythweb?

2009-09-22 Thread Grant Edwards
Does anybody know of any up-to-date instructions on how to set up mythweb on Gentoo? I've tried following the instructions at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/MythWeb but they appear to be obsolete. Mythweb doesn't install in the location mentioned in the instructions and commands it says to add

[gentoo-user] Re: Hints on setting up mythweb?

2009-09-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-23, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody know of any up-to-date instructions on how to set up mythweb on Gentoo? I've tried following the instructions at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki

[gentoo-user] Re: Hints on setting up mythweb?

2009-09-22 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-23, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: It's working now. :) Now all that's left to do is set up my Mac Mini diskless frontend [It's actually got a hard drive in it, but it's not used and will be spun down] and pulling some network cables. To get the frontend

[gentoo-user] Re: Hints on setting up mythweb?

2009-09-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-23, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2009-09-23, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP And it failed. ??Mythbackend doesn't seem to know where to put the recorded files

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Good fast IDE hard drive but cheap and BIG.

2009-09-24 Thread Grant Edwards
, but we'll take your word for it that you can make them mate. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Will the third world at war keep Bosom Buddies visi.comoff the air?

[gentoo-user] glibmm 2.20.1 emerge fails to compile

2009-09-27 Thread Grant Edwards
I tried doing an upgrade (the usual emerge -auvND world), and it choked on glibmm 2.20.1. The compile failed the basic error seems to be this: generate_defs_glib.o: In function `main': generate_defs_glib.cc:(.text+0x6b): undefined reference to `std::basic_ostreamchar, std::char_traitschar

[gentoo-user] Re: glibmm 2.20.1 emerge fails to compile

2009-09-28 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-28, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/27/2009 09:38 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: I tried doing an upgrade (the usual emerge -auvND world), and it choked on glibmm 2.20.1. The compile failed the basic error seems to be this: generate_defs_glib.o: In function `main

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} External video card with RCA output?

2009-09-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-30, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:59:06 -0700, Grant wrote: Does anyone know of a self-powered external video card (USB, Firewire, ExpressCard) that has composite/RCA output and works in Gentoo? I'd like to use it to connect my laptop (VGA output

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} External video card with RCA output?

2009-10-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-09-30, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: That particular device also does S-Video, but you're never going to get wonderful quality when using a TV without a VGA or HDMI connection. S-Video should be a little better (not much). Hotels should provide VGA/DVI/HDMI inputs on TVs

[gentoo-user] Re: Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Grant Edwards
(probably several times a month) for decades, and my brain just doesn't work the way vi does. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Is my fallout shelter at termite proof? visi.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Am I wrong?..

2009-10-02 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-02, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes: Grant Edwards wrote: SNIP and my brain just doesn't work the way vi does. I'm with you Grant. Mine doesn't work that way either. You guys do know that Bill Joy was lopsided drunk when he wrote

[gentoo-user] Re: preferred editor

2009-10-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-03, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote: ... I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but at least it seems to be safe. It doesn't trash my file every 30 seconds when I start typing content while in command

[gentoo-user] Re: URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-06 Thread Grant Edwards
). That seems to happen to me regularly. One might think that the xorg-server ebuild should know that xf86-input-* needs to be rebuilt as well, but it doesn't seem to work that way. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! TONY RANDALL! Is YOUR

[gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong?

2009-10-11 Thread Grant Edwards
or eveince have a print current view feature? Thats one thing in acroread that xpdf never had, and I can't live without it. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ! Up ahead! It's a at DONUT HUT

[gentoo-user] Re: What is a packet? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
to read Mark Twin's essay on Germain articles. IIRC, plotting out all of the combinations for the takes something like a 3x9 grid -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! What I want to find at out is -- do parrots know

[gentoo-user] Re: What is a packet? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
of the variable relative to the operator tells you want's going on. While a + b is equal to b + a, that's a property of the particular operator. OK, this is waaay off topic now... -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hello. I know

[gentoo-user] Re: What is a packet? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-12, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I fully understand where you're coming from, English is my native tongue too, and I deal with positionality (is that a word?) fluently. But I also see it's flaws, some of them are quite gross. You have no way to denote emphasis other

[gentoo-user] Re: What is a packet? Was: Checksum error

2009-10-12 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-13, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Nope, just a bunch of bored geeks showing off with clever facts and silly (but true) observations. We do this about once a month. Tomorrow morning most of us will go back to trying to figure out how to get x.org to work everywhere,

[gentoo-user] Re: New laptop won't remote print

2009-10-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-10-18, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I can't get my new laptop to print to a remote printer. My old laptop still does it just fine. They both have identical /etc/cups/client.conf: ServerName 192.168.0.1 Each laptop is tested as 192.168.0.2. Neither laptop has a firewall

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel build - back in the soup.

2009-11-04 Thread Grant Edwards
source tree? I'd like to check some of that. Good idea. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! ... I'm IMAGINING a at sensuous GIRAFFE, CAVORTING visi.comin the BACK ROOM

[gentoo-user] mythfilldatabase not running

2009-11-09 Thread Grant Edwards
I've got a MythTv backend set up that's working great except for one thing: mythfilldatabase isn't getting run every day. If I run it manually, it works fine. The schedule database gets filled, and the system status page on MythWeb shows that it was run and that it's scheduled to run again the

[gentoo-user] Re: mythfilldatabase not running

2009-11-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-11-10, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a MythTv backend set up that's working great except for one thing: mythfilldatabase isn't getting run every day. There's a field in the settings table I neglected to set. It's called MythFillEnabled, and it defaulted to 0

[gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
? Is there anything I can do to get an image identical to the original one? Since you still seem to have a copy of the original ISO, just use it. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm also pre-POURED at pre-MEDITATED

[gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-17 Thread Grant Edwards
of the image, it's probably smaller than the image file. If you only compare the bytes within the ISO image itself, I bet the two will match. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Oh, I get it!! at The BEACH goes on, huh

[gentoo-user] Re: Reading a DVD as an ISO image

2009-11-18 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-11-18, Jos? Romildo Malaquias j.romi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 04:54:20PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-11-17, Marcus Wanner marc...@cox.net wrote: My guess is that he has a slow internet connection, he downloaded a large iso, burned it, deleted it, and now

[gentoo-user] mesa's libGL.so looking in wrong place for r300_dri.so

2009-11-24 Thread Grant Edwards
:55 swrast_dri.so Why is libGL.so looking in the wrong place for the dri modules? I suppose I could symlink /usr/X11R6/dri - /usr/lib/dri, but shouldn't the mesa ebuild have done that if it's required? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Loni Anderson's hair

[gentoo-user] Re: mesa's libGL.so looking in wrong place for r300_dri.so

2009-11-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-11-24, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched to the radeon driver from the fglrx driver Fglrx was a pretty old version and DRI had stopped working. Oddly, emerge has forgotten it's installed. It obviously is installed: it works (mostly), all its files

[gentoo-user] Re: mesa's libGL.so looking in wrong place for r300_dri.so

2009-11-24 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-11-24, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: I just switched to the radeon driver from the fglrx driver Fglrx was a pretty old version and DRI had stopped working. Oddly, emerge has forgotten

[gentoo-user] Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-04 Thread Grant Edwards
been happy with the stable version of Perl (5.8) for the past four months. Why all of a sudden today does it now require Perl 5.10? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm continually AMAZED at at th'breathtaking effects

[gentoo-user] Re: Baffled by Perl dependancies

2009-12-04 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-12-04, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: After syncing today, emerge now tells me that the 2.020 stable version of virtual/perl-IO-Compress that I've had installed since August requires the testing version of Perl (5.10.1) !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ~dev-lang

[gentoo-user] Why exactly am I supposed to install Python 3?

2009-12-07 Thread Grant Edwards
with Python 3. So why is installing it highly recommended? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'm having fun at HITCHHIKING to CINCINNATI visi.comor FAR ROCKAWAY!!

[gentoo-user] Re: Why exactly am I supposed to install Python 3?

2009-12-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-12-07, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 07 December 2009 22:24:14 Grant Edwards wrote: My most recent update displayed the following messages from Python 2.6.4 and Python 2.4.6: It is highly recommended to additionally install Python 3, Why is it highly

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Laptop wifi find more than external antenna

2010-01-08 Thread Grant Edwards
-- and hence probably is rather vulnerable to both electrical noise or physical abuse. It probably wouldn't take much of a pinch or kink to cause problems. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Here I am in 53 at B.C. and all I want

[gentoo-user] Re: is ddrescue this slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-01-09, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 9 Jan 2010 07:20:18 +, Valmor de Almeida wrote: Sometimes the current rate reads 0 B/s for a long time... and time from last successful read can be 8m. Would any one know whether this is normal? Doesn't ddrescue retry on

[gentoo-user] Re: Running xsane

2010-02-17 Thread Grant Edwards
developing, testing, committing, and pushing out a patch for a commercial Unix whose name I won't mention. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Is it NOUVELLE at CUISINE when 3 olives are visi.com

[gentoo-user] Re: Running xsane

2010-02-17 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-02-18, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: More examples: what is the one thing that shock-absorbers don't do? What does a condenser (on a carburettor) condense? Never heard of a condenser on a carbuetor. Google doesn't seem to know about it either. Are you referring to

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
be a pain. However, this convenience uses more bandwidth, so if that is worth more to you than your time, using Usenet for selective reading does make sense. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Hello... IRON at CURTAIN? Send

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
want all those e-mailes coming through my in-box where _I've_ got to filter, sort, and archive them. I'd much rather let gmane handle that. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! BARBARA STANWYCK makes at me nervous

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-02-23, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:48:35 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: I get the impression you always read the mailing lists on a single machine? I read Gmane's lists from 4-5 different machines and locations. Duplicating all that mail locally

[gentoo-user] Re: Graphical usenet client - alternative to Knode

2010-02-23 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-02-23, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:33:56 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: No, I read them from a number of machines but using a single server that handles all the filtering too. Same here -- the only difference between the two approaches

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Grant Edwards
tree but in those two overlays. I just built mupdf 0.5 from sources (after emerging ftjam), and mupdf segfaulted a few pages into the first document I opened. That and the inability to search are going to make it a non-starter for me. It is small and fast, though. -- Grant Edwards

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-25 Thread Grant Edwards
that I could find). Eventually I went back to the web site... -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Can I have an IMPULSE at ITEM instead? visi.com

[gentoo-user] No more mythtv for Gentoo users?

2010-03-03 Thread Grant Edwards
, and mythv 0.22 is unstable on everything except the amd64 platform, what's an X86 user to do? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! My face is new, my at license is expired, and I'm gmail.com

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