Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:13:41 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: They got it right for being open to OSS, but they got it wrong with the word cloud... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman Aren't they talking about a private cloud rather than a public one

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-29 Thread Stroller
On 29 Jan 2010, at 05:43, Iain Buchanan wrote: They got it right for being open to OSS, but they got it wrong with the word cloud... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman Seems like Stallman's objections don't apply because the proposal is

[gentoo-user] krita - missing install target (STRANGE)

2010-01-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've just emerged app-office/krita on an AMD64 machine without problems. But on an older i686 machine it fails strangely Install krita-2.1.0 into /var/tmp/portage/app-office/krita-2.1.0/image/ category app-office Working in BUILD_DIR:

Re: [gentoo-user] dlna Gentoo

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 28 January 2010 16:34:49 James wrote: What I do not want to do is purchase the device to discover that it only works with windows. Can't you specify as a condition of the contract that it must not require the use of any particular brand of software to operate? -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:00 +, Stroller wrote: On 29 Jan 2010, at 05:43, Iain Buchanan wrote: They got it right for being open to OSS, but they got it wrong with the word cloud... http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/sep/29/cloud.computing.richard.stallman Seems like

Re: [gentoo-user] dlna Gentoo

2010-01-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 13:35 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 28 January 2010 16:34:49 James wrote: What I do not want to do is purchase the device to discover that it only works with windows. Can't you specify as a condition of the contract that it must not require the use of

[gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-01-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi. So NetworkManager was giving me lots of debugging output. Having a look on Google shows it doesn't have log levels, so my only option (apart from turning it off) was to redirect its log output to a separate file. It's growing quickly (remind me to set up logrotate!) After I've removed

[gentoo-user] Re: dlna amp; Gentoo

2010-01-29 Thread James
Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: what contract? Sorry buddy, that's just how they make 'em. Take it up with the manufacturer is what I'd expect to hear. Either that or You want to do what? What's Linux? Exactly what I'm afraid. If I have to roll my own, I guess I'll just

Re: [gentoo-user] dlna Gentoo

2010-01-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 29 January 2010 14:12:10 Iain Buchanan wrote: what contract? I don't know how it is where you are, but in the UK, as I understand it, every sale is deemed to embody an implied contract* between buyer and seller. Either party is always free to specify whatever conditions he likes

Re: [gentoo-user] mysterious syslog message .

2010-01-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 29 January 2010 16:26:42 Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi. So NetworkManager was giving me lots of debugging output. Having a look on Google shows it doesn't have log levels, so my only option (apart from turning it off) was to redirect its log output to a separate file. It's growing

Re: [gentoo-user] krita - missing install target (STRANGE)

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I've just emerged app-office/krita on an AMD64 machine without problems. But on an older i686 machine it fails strangely Install krita-2.1.0 into /var/tmp/portage/app-office/krita-2.1.0/image/ category

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dlna amp; Gentoo

2010-01-29 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 9:14 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: I was hoping to avoid this, with an integrated, Gentoo controllable amp/receiver unit. Nobody has found such hardware ? Surely there is an integrated product that feature embedded linux on a uP and user friendly with

[gentoo-user] gnome keychain

2010-01-29 Thread Roger Mason
Hello, I have previously used keychain as per the gentoo docs. Once I supplied the SSH passphrase at the console I was able to access other machines without providing a password. I have just started using gnome and am logging in using gdm. When I log in I am not asked for a passphrase. If I

Re: [gentoo-user] krita - missing install target (STRANGE)

2010-01-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 29 Jan, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, I've just emerged app-office/krita on an AMD64 machine without problems. But on an older i686 machine it fails strangely Install krita-2.1.0 into

[gentoo-user] Re: dlna amp; Gentoo

2010-01-29 Thread James
Peter Humphrey peter at humphrey.ukfsn.org writes: what contract? It was just a suggestion, anyway. Take it or leave it. Here in the US, it's 'buyer beware'. I could return it, but since I was going to purchase the unit mail-order that's problematic. I guess I'll just take a laptop and

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot print pdf documents from KDE4

2010-01-29 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 January 2010 05:28:25 you wrote: On Thursday 28 January 2010 22:33:52 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:55:02 +, Mick wrote: As the title says. I can print text files and html, but I cannot print pdf. BTW I can print an html page from Konqueror to a pdf file,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-29 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 January 2010 14:09:37 Iain Buchanan wrote: On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:00 +, Stroller wrote: On 29 Jan 2010, at 05:43, Iain Buchanan wrote: They got it right for being open to OSS, but they got it wrong with the word cloud...

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:39:37 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I don't think his objections are just related to public vs private. As Neil said, there's the security problem to begin with, where one large government data centre has more data to compromise that a small one... On the other hand,

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot print pdf documents from KDE4

2010-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:19:46 +, Mick wrote: I checked another machine (of a similar build) which does not seem to have app-text/poppler emerged (only app-text/poppler-data, app-text/poppler-utils, dev-libs/poppler, dev-libs/poppler-qt4, virtual/poppler, virtual/poppler-qt4,

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 29 January 2010 23:59:36 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:39:37 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: I don't think his objections are just related to public vs private. As Neil said, there's the security problem to begin with, where one large government data centre has more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dlna amp; Gentoo

2010-01-29 Thread Stroller
On 29 Jan 2010, at 15:14, James wrote: ... Surely there is an integrated product that feature embedded linux on a uP and user friendly with browser other than IExploder? The office of CTO posted this to Dell's Linux mailing list today: ... (yes, source code is available, minus any

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: I want to get excited, but I just *know* they're going to mess it up...

2010-01-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:21:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On the other hand, centralised storage means you shouldn't get idiots posting out CDs with millions of people's bank account details. There again, if the admins are lax enough to allow people to do this, and people are daft enough

[gentoo-user] kcontrol empty

2010-01-29 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I'm using KDE4, but there are still some kde3.5 apps. I noticed that kmymoney2 does not use the comma as decimal point like we do this in Germany. I was about to file a bug report, but now I think it is correct, because I did my localization settings in KDE4 only. I still have lots

Re: [gentoo-user] kcontrol empty

2010-01-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Samstag, 30. Januar 2010 schrieb Alex Schuster: Hi there! I'm using KDE4, but there are still some kde3.5 apps. I noticed that kmymoney2 does not use the comma as decimal point like we do this in Germany. I was about to file a bug report, but now I think it is correct, because I did my

[gentoo-user] Question about RDEPEND

2010-01-29 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Hi there, a while ago, I emerged virtual/jdk, and prior to it sun-jdk in order to direct manually what the virtual shall pull in. But now, virtual/jdk wants to install dev-java/icedtea as well: ,--[ emerge -tpuvD world ] | Calculating dependencies... done! | [nomerge ]