On Tue, 06 May 2008 09:17:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
googling with `site:gentoo.org elog' only turned up forum
conversations. And bug reports...
Google with site:www.gentoo.org or site:www/gentoo.org/doc for a better
signal-to-noise ratio.
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disadvantages, notably the lack of
compression and the reliance on the destination filesystem to preserve
permissions. Dar is a good compromise, being tar-like but intended for
disk use. Restoration of individual files, while not as simple as with
rsync, is far more straightforward than with tar.
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On Wed, 7 May 2008 08:53:55 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
LOL! That went unnoticed, sorry. It should have been As Neil awk, of
course :-)
I never awk, although I am often accused of gawking :)
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with compression, like squashfs.
Don't get me wrong, I like rsync and use it a lot, but, like anything
else, it has its limitations.
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On Tue, 6 May 2008 20:24:34 -0400 (EDT), Ian Hilt wrote:
7. GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB ...
Did anyone else find themselves singing this to the tune of the Monty
Python spam song ;-)
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interesting, thanks.
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Top Oxymorons Number 39: Almost exactly
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On Wed, 07 May 2008 04:39:15 -0500, Dale wrote:
Pardon the noise but could someone reply to let me know it's still
working? Last message I got was on the 22 of last month.
We're all at the party, didn't you get your invitation?
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On Wed, 7 May 2008 13:30:40 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
or you can try reiser4 with either gzip or lzo.
Advantage: it does not try to compress incompressible files...
Disadvantage: An experimental filesystem is not the best place to keep
important backups :(
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Failure
On Wed, 7 May 2008 15:39:03 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Disadvantage: An experimental filesystem is not the best place to keep
important backups :(
and the fuse-stuff is not experimental?
Yes it is, which is why I decided not to use it after reading the web
sites.
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need to access it from Windows too? Installing the Windows
ext2/3 drivers isn't always an option.
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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. *
Wright
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On Wed, 07 May 2008 17:16:01 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote:
Why not put ext* or reiserfs or whatever on such a drive?
Because you need to access it from Windows too?
To a backup device? Why?
Don't Windows users need to backup?
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Why is the alphabet in that order
, ATT bought Bell South a year or
so ago.
Have you tried subscribing with the new address? There's no real need to
unsubscribe the old address if it is dumping the mail anyway, although it
would be polite to notify the list admin of this so he can remove it.
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Never get
/dev/yyy has less free space than you think or portage is trying
to save to /usr/portage. Instead of trying to kludge
/usr/portage/distfiles to somewhere else, set $DISTDIR in make.conf.
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WinErr 002: No Error - Yet
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machines. My partner has to use Windows for
work, are you saying we are not allowed to share a backup device?
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I am Ken Dodd of the Borg... What a fine day to be assimilated missus!!
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.
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Pepperami. Its a bit of an animal.
What animal what bit?
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emerge -fp packagename, download the file(s) manually and put them in
$DISTDIR.
Course I can make separate shares for distfiles and portage tree, but
I don't wanna to do it for several reasons.
There are good reasons for separating $PORTDIR and $DISTDIR.
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Tact is for people
On Thu, 8 May 2008 16:00:49 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On the other hand, sharing storage space makes a lot of sense.
until someone accidentally deletes an important backup from the other
one ;)
You don't think I'd trust anyone else with the backups, do you? ;-)
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takes
priority). GRUB isn't particularly friendly when things go wrong, I've
had it ignore a menu.lst it didn't like.
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WinErr 002: No Error - Yet
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libclamav is GPL 2 only and Claws is
GPL 3, although you can still use actions to pass mails through clamd.
there is a GPL3 compatible plugin that uses clamd rather than linking to
libclamav but it's not in the official distribution.
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The truth shall make you free, but first
this nowadays.
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WinErr 00A: Promotional literature overflow - Mailbox full
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on the installation process.
It's called a beta for a reason, you may need to check these things for
yourself. It shouldn't require many false starts though, just boot the CD
and check that everything works. If it doesn't, file a bug report.
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The truth shall make you free, but first
On Fri, 9 May 2008 10:09:50 -0400, Mark Shields wrote:
he wasn't whipping out his dick like some elitist asshole
That's got to be one of the most eye-watering mixed metaphors ever.
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Data to Picard: 'No, Captain, I do NOT run WINDOWS!'
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too?
A backup device is just a storage appliance, if should not be parochial
about the origin of the data it stores.
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Grow your own dope, plant a politician!
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On Sat, 10 May 2008 21:02:21 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
if you tar 'em up you don't even need to worry about the file
permission capabilities of the underlying fs.
Isn't that exactly what I said three wrong turns and four red herrings
ago? ;-)
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Ubuntu is an ancient
should be shared? Different
archive formats in different directories do not constitute a shared
endpoint.
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Top Oxymorons Number 12: Plastic glasses
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and become a loop :(
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Any given program will expand to fill available memory.
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to be a problem at their end.
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Quantum Physics: The dreams that stuff is made of
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://www.spamcop.net/
http://www.spamhaus.org/
Good point, but I'd checked these two and I'm not listed.
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Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing
as division.
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is a symlink to the actual block device, with no obvious
culprit in the udev rules.
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We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
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On Mon, 12 May 2008 15:07:06 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote:
And last, but not least: Why should backup directories be shared in
the first place?
They shouldn't, and I never stated that they should.
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I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce
On Mon, 12 May 2008 16:51:08 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote:
ยท Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
And last, but not least: Why should backup directories be shared in
the first place?
They shouldn't, and I never stated that they should.
You stated that there might be such a need
Another possibility is that ypou merged them with the --oneshot option,
or that they were pulled in as a dependency of a package you no longer
have (or has been updated to a version that is no longer dependent on
them). What does emerge --depclean -p show?
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Phasers don't kill
computer, feel free to keep the
pieces :)
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ASSISTANT MANAGER: Feminine form of the word manager (q.v.).
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On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:18:42 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I somehow doubt that firefox will cease to work if I unmerge
libgnomeui.
So what if it does? It not like it will stop your computer booting and is
nothing a revdep-rebuild couldn't fix.
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668 - The neighbour
have cleaned out everything you want to.
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Documentation: (n.) a novel sold with software, designed to entertain the
operator during episodes of bugs or glitches.
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, or by not
running --depclean during a kernel upgrade.
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Top Oxymorons Number 45: Resident alien
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clearly cannot have two devices
plugged into the same post, so one of them must be ttyS1 or higher.
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WinErr 002: No Error - Yet
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will only affect the overlay
version.
However, /etc/portage/package.use is the correct place to set
package-specific USE variables fro all packages, no matter whether they
come from an overlay or the portage tree.
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HTTP: Helps Transfer The Porn
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or the
program's own settings.
LINGUAS is a system-wide setting, it does not make choices for individual
users, but it does control their range of choice.
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If your VCR still flashes 12:00 - then Linux is not for you.
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translations
are also available.
and it certainly does not use the first one in the list.
Either you already have a different setting in your local or global
mplayer configuration (emerging previously with a different LINGUAS could
cause this) or you have found a bug.
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Shotgun
update.
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DANGER! DANGER! Computer store ahead...hide wallet.
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On Mon, 19 May 2008 20:51:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
If you mean the former, then anything that's supported by
BitPIM or gnokii is Linux/OSS friendly:
As is any phone running PalmOS.
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A bug in the hand is better than one as yet undetected.
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cause problems such as an unbootable system.
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Everything's back to normal. Damn.
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to risk and
breakage this may incur, but unless you do anything silly, you should be
able to fix any damage by undoing the change and syncing again.
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If your VCR still flashes 12:00 - then Linux is not for you.
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the latest available from CVS at the time you
run it.
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Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom.
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On Wed, 21 May 2008 11:00:50 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
ajglap ~ # dd if=/dev/sda2 ibs=512 count=1 | od -c --address-radix=d
dd if=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1 2/dev/null | strings | grep GRUB
Is clearer, add a partition number to check a partition.
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The trouble with the world
. If you want to sanity check your grub
installation then run this command to ensure grub is located where you
think it's located...
You could check for all instances with
for i in /dev/[hs]d*
dd if=$i bs=446 count=1 2/dev/null | strings | grep -q GRUB \
echo GRUB found in $i
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, but a profile isn't much more than a collection of USE flags,
so installing with 2007.0 and switching later is simple. A more important
question is whether you want to run a stable or testing arch. From your
question, I'd say you should run stable; ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=x96 or amd64.
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really no big deal whether
you use an 07 or 08 profile.
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B?#$^f, said Pooh, as line noise garbled his transmission.
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press y
else
press n
change profile back
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A consultant is a person who borrows your watch, tells you what time it
is, pockets the watch, and sends you a bill for it.
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more.
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Fasten your seatbelt ... I wanna try something.
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interface.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221751
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Got kleptomania? Be sure to take something for it.
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to choose en_UK. What
control what languages can be added there?
emerge kde-i18n
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A wok is what you throw at a wabbit.
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On Sat, 24 May 2008 07:17:35 +0100, Mick wrote:
emerge kde-i18n
Just as was ready to reply I already have I found out that I have
not . . . Ha!
I wonder if it should be a dependency of kdelibs if $LINGUAS is set to
anything but en_US.
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We've all heard that a million
, not overlays. emerge --search is not
worth using anyway, it is far too slow. Use eix instead.
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The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
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, that clarifies the documentation. Is your ebuild in a recognised
category directory within your overlay?
I'd still recommend using eix, you can grow old waiting for emerge
--search :(
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Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?
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it.
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Life's a cache, and then you flush...
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On Fri, 30 May 2008 16:25:33 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
I have a feeling about 02locale being so specific. Why 02.
So that the locale environment variables are set before most of the
others.
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If Yoda so strong in force is, why words in right order he cannot put
.
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Top Oxymorons Number 5: Twelve-ounce pound cake
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On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:51:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
* Is there a way to find out what USE flags a package has been compiled
with when it's not the current system but a rescue system mounted
temporarily in it? Anyone?
Look in var/db/pkg/cate-gory/pkgname-version/USE
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for file(s) env-update in *... ]
sys-apps/portage-2.1.5.2 (/usr/sbin/env-update
- ../lib64/portage/bin/env-update)
sys-apps/portage-2.1.5.2 (/usr/lib64/portage/bin/env-update)
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Used Iraqi rifles for sale: Dropped once, never fired...
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2008 02:12:39 -0700 (PDT), Pawel K wrote:
What kernel configuration should I set up for my controller.
I cannot see the PIIX_IDE in my kernel.
Try ATA_PIIX. Type /piix while in make menuconfig to see the
possibilities.
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Everybody needs a little love sometime
all and then remove a few at a time
until it stops working. You can then boot from a working kernel by using
vmlinuz.old, provided you install kernels with make install.
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Computer apathy error: don't bother striking any key.
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this may be because you have -mailwrapper in USE.
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Religious error: (A)tone, (R)epent, (I)mmolate?
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On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:16:01 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry to include so much of the last of emerge output on an update of
mysql but not so easy to see what the real problem is.
emerge with USE=-berkdb. There's a bugzilla report on this.
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What is about L'waxana Troi
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 16:10:57 +0100, Mick wrote:
* Preparing ath_hal module
../scripts/get_arch.mk:44: *** ARCH mismatch: supplied x86,
determined i386. Stop.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224543
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My friends went to alt.california, and all they brought
me
their
versioning breaks the Gentoo rules. For example, dovecot-1.1.rc8 becomes
dovecot-1.1_rc8.
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Every morning is the dawn of a new error...
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?
The used option will be foo or bar ?
It should be bar, but the most certain way to tell is emerge the ebuild
with your settings, hit Ctrl-C when ./configure has finished and check
the contents of config.log in portage's temp directory.
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WinErr 003: Dynamic linking error - Your
problem with non-Xandros distros, and
suspend, which I haven't even looked at yet.
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New Klingon hair salon: Today is a good day to dye
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someone of the
correct approach at the first opportunity?
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getting performance from Windows is like getting blood from a stone -
after banging my head against the stone several times I got some blood
Author of Lightwave 3D
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option is to mount an external hard drive at /var/tmp/portage
when building large packages.
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There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to
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are for. It's a compromise, but a pretty good one,
especially as you get used to the smaller keyboard.
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Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites?
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abuse of its function :)
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DANGER! DANGER! Computer store ahead...hide wallet.
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:16:11 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Who has a shorter way? ;-)
In Claws Mail, hit New while in the ML folder :)
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Press any key to continue or any other key to quit
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On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:12:53 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
In Claws Mail, hit New while in the ML folder :)
That would be as short, but not shorter, right?
It would if you wrote a shorter email :P
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Random access is the optimum of the mass storages.
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folders, in which case you would not use this feature.
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Bother, said Pooh as his Mercedes smashed into the tunnel support.
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with baselayout 1.
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The geek shall inherit the earth.
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, the UUID is the one
of the filesystem, which may change over time.
I'd go with udev rules, but if you can't be bothered, filesystem labels
are a lot more intuitive than UUIDs.
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The program is absolutely right; therefore, the computer must be wrong.
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, because
distros split up packages differently.
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Gravity isn't MY fault! I voted for VELCRO!
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.
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Open the disk drive door, Hal.
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:38:34 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
Let me get this striaght: Claws will change your from account
depending on what mail folder you're in when you hit new? If so, I
switching to claws!
From: and To: if you want, signatures too.
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Madness takes its
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:42:49 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
Who uses KDE nowadays anyway ;)
Linus :P
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Feminism: the radical notion that women are people.
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looks fine. Does running the iwconfig manually
after connection work?
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NOTICE:
-- THE ELEVATORS WILL BE OUT OF ORDER TODAY --
(The nearest working elevators are in the building
across the street.)
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?
I can't test the computer that's having the issue right now, but it
outputs some strange stuff like:
/a/t/h/0/
Try it without the set line, this is not running in a bash shell. If you
need information as the script runs, echo it to a file and tail that
file.
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Bother
more than justify Oscar Wilde's view of statistics.
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Did you hear about the blind prostitute? You have to hand it to her.
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: 0.21_p17435(17:45:37 03/06/08)(aac alsa dvb dvd
ieee1394 lirc mmx opengl
python video_cards_nvidia x264 xvid xvmc -altivec
-autostart -debug
-directv -fftw -jack -lcd -perl)
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God: What one human uses to persecute another
with the --tree option will show you what wants it installed.
How do I clear these blockages so I can emerge -ev world?
Firefox 2 is probably required by some package using the firefox USE
flag. Switch this package(s) to use xulrunner instead and they should be
happy with Firefox 3.
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is at fault, I had some options disappear
when I switched to 0.21 while using a theme that was only for 0.20.
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*/ \* - Tribbles having a swordfight
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if both are present.
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Windows will never cease.
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without ripping them? If so maybe I'm
missing some other module? mythvideo possibly?
You need mythvideo to play the files ripped from DVDs, but not to play
direct AFAIK.
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I am Speedy Gonzales of Borg: Prepare to be accelerated!
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with LVM must be used when running BL2,
they should not be used with BL1. If you are seeing the warning messages
it is because you have added the lvm init script to your runlevel when it
should not be there.
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is short on resources, I'd say install K3b, kdelibs may use
a little drive space but it won't kill any kittens. If resources are that
short, use virtual/cdrecord and dvd+rw-tools.
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C:\DOS\SYSTEM\OS2\UTILITIES\DOCS\HELP\WHERE\THE\F$#%\AM\I???
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as an AP) which measures about 10cm x 5cm x 2cm.
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Among economists, the real world is often a special case. * Horngren
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the header files for either
firefox or xulrunner. The current recommendation is to use xulrunner
instead of firefox in this situation, and in your USE flags.
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If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
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partitions marked accordingly in (c)fdisk?
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There's no such thing as a free lunch
___Steve Ballmer, choking on a linuxburger
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testing kernel ebuilds, even when 2.6.25
becomes stable. Better to add ~sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.25 to
package.keywords.
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Hors d'oeuvres: 3 sandwiches cut into 40 pieces.
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a broken version, even
if you managed to break portage.
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Custer was fitted for an Arrow shirt.
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The sooner you fall behind the more time you'll have to catch up.
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, xulrunner in some way
improves gnucash, I might well want to try it.
It is to avoid the need for Firefox 2 installed from source, which is a
problem if you use Firefox 3 or firefox-bin. the xulrunner flag make
GnuCash, and other apps, build against xunrunner instead of the firefox 2
headers.
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this
method. But this isn't the problem anyway,because the OP also stated that
he cannot rip audio CDs, so it is a problem with reading the CDDA data
from the drive, not playing it.
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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some
people have mediocrity
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