Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal

2007-09-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
that affect gettext and POSIX message catalogs? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal

2007-09-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols on a terminal': On Wednesday 19 September 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 19 September 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Strange mplayer symbols

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH won't restart

2007-09-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
what's going to be used for KDE 4.0, and I really haven't heard many complaints about it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
as I can turn it off, I think providing a feature many users want (3 of the 4 Linux users in my house) is a good use of developer resources. Heck, I might even like it once I try it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
of hype for the next month (or more). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] linux desktop search engines are ugly!

2007-08-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
will be a feature many users will like and probably even become dependent on. It's NOT the next generation wheel, it's not even something I'll use, but it has it's place. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984

Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?

2007-08-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 27 August 2007, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] possible MBR corruption?': Alternatively, ditch a separate /boot altogether, it really isn't needed with modern hardware. Unless you want to use LVM. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestion re: expat problems

2007-08-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
and displayed to the user (with `less' or another configured viewer). The eselect news module is supposed to handle this. IIRC, notices / news were part of GLEP 42. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] torrent issue

2007-08-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
.) Assuming it's not your memory it is most likely the network card. You might want to check your memory with something other than memtest -- I know there have been some scripts posted to this list that claim to catch timing issues much better than memtest. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] torrent issue

2007-08-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 20 August 2007, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] torrent issue': sync-log ? Set it up to be logged synchronously (without buffering). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM

Re: [gentoo-user] no standalone jre?

2007-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] No title bars in gnome!

2007-08-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Gnome desktop. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-user] how to enable hard masked USE flags like (-altivec)?

2007-08-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
that file, and may need to create some of the directory structure. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
into my current kernel, atleast that's what the .config states Okay, but there a over a dozen modules for specific character sets that all depend on the main nls support option. You don't seem to have the cp437 driver. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet bridge

2007-08-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
ports you can use port forwarding with NAT on your firewall. Bridging is not for this kind of thing. Yeah, port forwarding is probably what you want. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] GHC and documentation

2007-08-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
information into separate packages. Instead, documentation is controlled by a USE flag, header files are always installed, and debug information is controlled by FEATURES. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Receiving your own emails

2007-08-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
not sure how to change that. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade

2007-08-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 13 August 2007, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] CXXABI error after gcc upgrade': # emerge -C -p -v gcc Wrong-ish command line. Try emerge -aP gcc -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o

Re: [gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres

2007-08-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
'drupal'; CREATE database drupal; (unchanged) USE drupal; \c drupal GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO drupal@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'passwd'; Probably easiest to just make the drupal user the owner of the drupal database. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres

2007-08-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 09 August 2007, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Set up drupal with postgres': On Thursday 09 August 2007 20:29, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 09 August 2007, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON drupal.* TO drupal@'%' IDENTIFIED

Re: [gentoo-user] Unknown Tool hd

2007-08-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
a sym or hardlink after installing that package. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy           `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/                      \_/     pgpQpQ1UVB2Kg.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] rescrict command to certain dirs

2007-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
on being root inside the chroot, or exploiting other service running outside the chroot. (E.g. if connections from localhost are trusted.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc with other distro (Debian)

2007-08-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, so it uses your local header files. Linking is also done locally, so it will use your local libraries. [1] That said, if you have incompatible compilers (e.g. gcc-3.3 vs. gcc-3.4) you may have issues, and they may or may not be caught at link time. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

2007-07-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 30 July 2007 12:25:47 am Iain Buchanan wrote: On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 23:43 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 29 July 2007 11:06:44 pm Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:13 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: But seriously, shouldn't we be waiting until November

Re: [gentoo-user] insert text onto a PDF

2007-07-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to run emerge in the future. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy           `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/                      \_/     pgpfGZR9q7Hq6.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] program autostart from another user

2007-07-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
system-autostart-foo -X at cmd-bar# bar # In a named window in that session, run baz screen -S system-autostart-foo -X at cmd-baz# baz But, I've never tried to use screen in this way, no this is just a guess. I'm sure it's possible to use screen the way you want. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs

2007-07-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 30 July 2007, Kent Fredric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs': On 7/30/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5) If (2) indicates corruptions that can only be corrected by --rebuild-tree b) Begin praying. This guy knows his stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: reiserfsprogs

2007-07-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
in X, since the kernel is trying to write to the text-mode console but things are happening unless your kernel has crashed. All other keystrokes travel to user-space to be processed, so if your kernel is busy, they won't do anything. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Thanks to the user community

2007-07-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 29 July 2007 11:06:44 pm Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 08:13 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: But seriously, shouldn't we be waiting until November to say this? ;-) why, what happens in November? In the U.S., Thanksgiving. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-28 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
no default target. I guess GNU make takes that to the logical conclusion and lets you run entirely without a Makefile as long as you specify a target. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
dependencies to be brought in, and all that downgraded to x86 when they do their next emerge world. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] A Thank you to the Developers for the Free Software

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 27 July 2007, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] A Thank you to the Developers for the Free Software': I just wanted to take some time to officially say *Thank You* for all the good things which you guys/gals have made to my(/our) benefit. +1 -- Boyd Stephen

Re: [gentoo-user] Running Scripts

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge masked pidgin with flagedit

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
man 5 ebuild and read the section on 'DEPEND Atoms', they have a simple but precise syntax. BTW, if the wiki is broken, just fix it. I'm not sure it's an official source of documentation anyway. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] The Future of the Gentoo Foundation

2007-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
run like that again until the foundation could be reformed under management that knows how to file paperwork. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: [gentoo-user] Notebook/laptop recommendations?

2007-07-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
with my dellbuntu system. System 76 also goes out of the way to make sure their hardware is linux friendly. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.2 and Core 2 Duo

2007-07-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 20 July 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] gcc 4.2 and Core 2 Duo': If they have the same value, or -march is listed after -mtune, yes. -march implies -mtune, but you might do something like -march=686 -mtune=native -- Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 19 July 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'RE: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??': -Original Message- From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't like the GPLv3, you probably didn't *really* like the GPLv2 and might be more interested in licensing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub chainloader

2007-07-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
pages an reformats them if there not info page for that node and there exists a man page with that name. I'm fairly sure most info-viewers (including kio_info) do so. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 18 July 2007, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??': On Tuesday 17 July 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The TiVo thing was completely within the word and spirit of the GPL. It was *barely* within the word, and definitely not within

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
a pen to the LGPLv3 in the future and turn it into something along the lines of GPLv3 or, if your larger work is licenced under any version of the GPL, LGPLv3, but that's for the future and I'll want to run the license by the FSF first before using it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
no problem with them deciding what can run on it and taking steps to prevent tampering. I'm not sure Stallman would agree with me -- users may or may not own the device their software runs on, and Stallman is all about users. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
that don't care if the code is locked up. GPLv3 is available for those that want the maximum level of protection against their code (or derivatives) from being locked up. There are a quite a few other Free Software licenses between those two extremes, including GPLv2. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
$129 lets you rent the device for 99 years) the devices, I would probably be on the other side of this discussion. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy           `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
or RMS himself. They wrote the thing. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
or the spirit of the GPL. That *requires* the code to remain in the community. The GPLv3 strengthens this requirement. If you want other to be able to lock away your code (or derivative works of your code) you should use the BSD license. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] 2 to 3??

2007-07-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. However, that is a decision that the project will have to make as a group and it would require reimplementing or relicensing all the code licensed to the under the GPLv2. That's a tough sell. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o

Re: [gentoo-user] 3D Acceleration With Laptop - Radeon Xpress 1100 IGP

2007-07-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
level information about the kernel. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] FEATURES=test -- Should this work?

2007-06-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
priority, ignored until the next release, then closed with a refile if it affects the current release message. Then again, perhaps I'm just feeling a bit jaded toward the Gentoo developers this morning. grumpy/ -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Where is wxWidgets/wxPython 2.8?

2007-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
problem with wxWidgets/wxPython 2.8? Is there anything we users can do to help? Hrm, your message seems directed at the developers. If that's the case, you sent it to the wrong mailing list. (You want -devel, next door). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] (sin asunto)

2007-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
messages indicate you are able to see your drives and partition them, you simply can't perform the chroot -- which should only be an issue if (a) you are using a 64-bit stage from as 32-bit liveCD or (b) the stage tarball is corrupt or broken. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] usb device mp3 playlist maker

2007-06-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Set a network quota per eth device?

2007-06-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
tc for my own little home network that *might* be useful as examples. Also, foringer: A: Because it reverses the order of the conversation. Q: Why is top-posting so annoying? A: Top-posting. Q: What's the most annoying thing on mailing list and newsgroups? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] /boot without space.

2007-06-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. metadata, and that takes up a number of MB. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] where is libnetsnmp-devel? (needed for hplip)

2007-06-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. bsnmp says it's a library (whereas net-snmp doesn't) so that would probably be a good second choice. snmpmon (a tool) and snmptt could also ship that library, but that's probably a stretch. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
of those check out, I think you'll have to use the source, luke. Permissions of '/': drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 2007-06-17 16:21 // That looks a little weird, but only because of the extra '/'. On my system: $ ls -ld / drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 664 2007-06-11 20:27 / -- Boyd Stephen

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login with a normal user

2007-06-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. Then, report the fault as a bug. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
a cron job? Not these two, they shouldn't depend significantly on your environment variables. Just make sure you are in the right group to run cron jobs. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] Sync and glsa-check from cron

2007-06-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. However, I'm still wondering -- neither of my keyboards has a keytop labelled sysreq. What is it? My laptop has a specific key for it. IIRC, (my desktop is not in front of me), it shares a key with 'Print Screen'. On both (again, IIRC) it's usually shortend to just 'SysRq'. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
/kdeartwork-meta -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 18 June 2007 16:36:38 Peter Ruskin wrote: On Monday 18 June 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: /var/db/pkg/world I think your system may need updating - the world file has lived in /var/lib/portage for some time now. Paludis prefers it @ /var/db/pkg/world. I have both on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 16 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': · Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Right, because kde*-meta is supposed to replace, and act as much as possible like the monolithic kde* package

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm without initrd

2007-06-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. Anything 'cept / (and /boot of course) can live on LVM without the need for an initrd. Of course, /lib and /etc can't be on separate block devices from /. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

Re: [gentoo-user] Make portage assume, that a package is installed

2007-06-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-base/korganizer kde-base/kpager kde-base/kpdf kde-base/kscreensaver kde-base/kstars kde-base/ksysguard kde-base/kwalletmanager kde-base/kwin kde-base/superkaramba kde-misc/kdiff3 kde-misc/filelight -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages (was: Make portage assume, that a package is installed)

2007-06-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Finer grained kde*-meta packages (was: Make portage assume, that a package is installed)': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I suggest that a cleaner method would be to not install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 15 June 2007, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] The ppp flag is already known to portage. --($:~/tmp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finer grained kde*-meta packages

2007-06-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. In your case it will probably be 30 packages you need to install, not 300. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't login on Courier-imap server

2007-06-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
prefixes.) So, you'll probably want your first line to be something like: login your_username -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] M$ Excel document converter

2007-06-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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Re: [gentoo-user] M$ Excel document converter

2007-06-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 13 June 2007, Aleksey Kunitskiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] M$ Excel document converter': On Wednesday 13 June 2007 15:04, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I am. Here's a script that will dump a worksheet as a csv: #! /usr/bin/ruby This script doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Double network cards

2007-06-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
dsl -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD 2.4 to DVD5

2007-06-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the A/V off the mini-dvd. For that task, I can provide no aid. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc

Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-06-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, but I'm still having problem with RoR misbehaving in this way. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-06-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, I'd prefer black-on-white for everything but I haven't found a good KDE theme for that yet. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-06-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 10 June 2007, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FeatureRequest Was: Re: Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?': Acually, I'd prefer black-on-white I meant white-on-black. Dark backgrounds are just easier on my eyes

[OT] Ubuntu isn't the devil (was: Re: [gentoo-user] Again: Critical bugs considered invalid)

2007-06-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
between userfriendly and made for idiots. Ubuntu being neither. ;) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing primary monitor on dual-monitor X.org setup

2007-06-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Modes 1280x1024 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Just switch the Monitor lines here, and switch the plugs. Or, just switch the Device lines. Each device is a single DVI port (at least on my NVidia setup). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 07:20:45 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 05:39:01 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: However, paludis does have some missing features that may be critical for your environment: a revdep-rebuild equivalent (although this can be hacked around

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:20:52 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:09:10 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I found check_linkage.rb, but it's not installed (or linked) to any of the standard $PATH directories.  Instead, it's in a demo directory.  Is it fully functional

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
because there's little backward or forward compatibility. (Well, that and m4.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
will not use/update. It also runs the ebuild test phase by default which results in more merge failures and thus more required interaction; you can turn that off if you desire. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-29 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the time to fix X, but needing it to work/play and having to broken. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] multilib vs. no-multilib in 64-bit environment

2007-05-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
proprietary binaries, multilib is the only way to go. Are any of you here running on a no-multilib 64-bit profile? Not I. I'm still leaning on my wine/cedega crutch for some things. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ

Re: [gentoo-user] Unusal emerge error concerning x11-misc/xnview

2007-05-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-hidden) file in the current directory, unless there aren't any. Apparently something is being passed to emerge somewhere I can't see. It's easy to catch if you actually understand how the POSIX shell works. (Hint: /very/ different from MS Windows's cmd.exe) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-bit kernel. Do you have 3G or more RAM or need to run 64-bit programs? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
that box doesn't make your kernel 64-bit though, anymore than supporting 64-bit file offsets makes a kernel 64-bit. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: [gentoo-user] Semi OT: 64 bit processors, the Linux Kernel, and x86 Gentoo.

2007-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the Cell processor 128-bit? BTW, if the term register doesn't mean anything to you it's the fastest memory in your computer, closer to the ALU (etc.) than L1 cache, very small and expensive that are addressed differently than all other memory. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing libaries

2007-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
believe kdeinit drops this behavior if KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1 or KDE_IS_PRELINKED=true is in the environment when kdeinit starts. You can NOT simply kill the kdeinit process unless you want KDE applications started by it to start mysteriously dying. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
containing this file ASAP even if you don't see anything. I'd seen the same behavior (albeit on a different file) on some of my reiserfs filesystems -- files that no one, including root, could access due to Permission denied. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Copy/Paste Functionality in Konsole

2007-05-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, but I set up KDE so long ago that I don't remember it. /me reads message again. Oh, you want right-click to paste the selection? Hrm, try using middle-click and you'll get what you want albeit on another button. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't start apache [solved]

2007-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
/apache2/modules/libphp5.so is garbled - perhaps this is not an Apache module DSO? Did you install php before or after apache? It probably needs to be recompiled against your current version. I'm stuck with a mod_ruby that gives the same error and won't recompile right now. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-17 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
would be better stated a 'the Debian way' or the highway, but I digress.] So, yeah he's a troll, but at least it's a good troll. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] Managing my kernel

2007-05-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
can take hold. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Real time video streaming (was: Help playing simultaneously splitted videos (sort of))

2007-05-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
or similar. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] I copied a Gentoo VM and now networking doesn't work.

2007-05-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
by the kernel on each boot.) This new behavior is odd to me, but in the long run I think it'll improve usability of Linux in general. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: cdrtools incomplete?

2007-05-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. That doesn't make cdrkit less real, but it does mean that you'll probably have fewer issues using cdrtools. (I use cdrkit and have never had any problems with it; YMMV.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM

Re: [gentoo-user] Wesnoth version

2007-05-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
. Reporting/complaining here is less likely to produce results. Remember to wait 2-3 days after the official release date before filing a bug; give the maintainer a little time to do the bump him/herself. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED

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