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??

2007-07-19 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] 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] 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] 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.
-- 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] moving mountpoint to folder

2005-12-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the line that mounts /usr/lib */ After you reboot the offending partition should no longer be mounted, but this is really not much better than umount -l. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] test lab Quicktime streaming server

2005-12-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
you want: http_request=#Whatever you need to request your stream socat_remote_address=#Something like TCP:your_server:80 stress_level=10 i=0 while [ $i -lt $stress_level ]; do socat $socat_remote_address ENDREQUEST /dev/null $http_request ENDREQUEST done -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] links w/o benefit of X

2005-12-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
'Beginning of Line' in emacs (and bash's emacs mode) since I've been using them. I don't remember Ctrl-A being 'Select All' until Aug '95. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] test lab Quicktime streaming server

2005-12-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 14 December 2005 11:44 am, James wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. bss03 at volumehost.com writes: On Wednesday 14 December 2005 07:59 am, Uwe Thiem wrote: does someone know of a piece of software that runs under linux and swallows a stream from a Quicktime Streaming Server

dd isos (was: Re: [gentoo-user] readcd -clone and iso9660 ?)

2005-12-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
problems reading from cdroms and isos produced with something like dd if=/dev/cdrom of=my.iso conv=noerror would be invalid. Can anyone confirm / deny, preferably with some sort of reference or test. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] unencrypted network tools

2005-12-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the links between you and the server, unless there's some hub between you can them. You may be able to anonymize normal http by using tor. I think freenet also provides some level of anonymity and encryption for http, but I've never used it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] cups and virtual/X11

2005-12-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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[gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420

2005-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
me troubleshoot this? This has been stymieing me for a week, and I'd really like to get it fixed ASAP (I have having to go to kinkos to print). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Make changes to routing table permanent

2005-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
comes up. If you have using dhcp, your client daemon might be changing your routes. Check its documentation for how to stop this behavior. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox

2005-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 18 December 2005 23:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user] Re: Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since you are using kde, I suggest emerging x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt. It will give you a kcontrol

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420

2005-12-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
of the provided brother drivers. While I'm not sure if it has full functionality now, I did the test page to print by using the 'Brother MFC-9600 / hl1250' driver. Can anyone help me with the scanner now? It would be really nice to have that work. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420

2005-12-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 18 December 2005 23:05, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Cups/Sane and The Brother MFC-7420': Can anyone help me with the scanner now? It would be really nice to have that work. I'm running amd64, do I have 64-bit sane. The libraries

Re: [gentoo-user] data base program

2005-12-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
OpenOffice.org 2? If not, I suggest trying it out. I never have but I've heard it supposed to replace Access. In any case, you might try mysql + DBDesigner. I think DBDesigner is supposed to have support for other DBs, but I didn't figure that much out about it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Shouldn't grub setup overwrite lilo in MBR

2005-12-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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Re: [gentoo-user] More on mbr

2005-12-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
and start executing it. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags, command line and packages.use

2005-12-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
FAKE_USE=$(equery u $pkg) USE= for use in $FAKE_USE; do USE=$USE ${use##+} done echo $pkg$USE; done /etc/portage/package.use Or something like that. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags, command line and packages.use

2005-12-21 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 14:50, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags, command line and packages.use': for pkg in $(cat /var/lib/portage/world); do FAKE_USE=$(equery u $pkg) USE= for use in $FAKE_USE; do USE

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Merry Christmas!

2005-12-23 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 23 December 2005 10:05 pm, Glenn Enright wrote: Hope you all enjoy your day tomorrow. Merry Christmas! Thanks! Blessed Solstice to All! (A bit late...) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[OT] Dual-Opteron (was: Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages))

2006-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
usable (full-screen video + 5.1 audio does not stutter). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron

2006-01-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 02 January 2006 21:49, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron': On Monday 02 January 2006 20:08, Dale wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: As the owner of a dual-Opteron 275 system, I can say they they are very nice. An emerge -e

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox quickstart

2006-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
|| emerge -s oooqs -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox quickstart

2006-01-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
of OpenOffice.org. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-01-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
bit being swapped in the superblock can do that. 2) Software. In particular misbehaving software that accesses the HD via LUKS. In this case the read data will be exactly what is written; LUKS can't magically fix errors, but it's not going (supposed) to introduce them either. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: [gentoo-user] LUKS

2006-01-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
and the CPU you have available. Also, I /think/ aes-loop was supposed to be faster than dm-crypt, but I believe the kernel's implementation of aes (and maybe other ciphers) has gotten faster since the last benchmarks I saw. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] A New Linux Way

2006-01-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
is the profit sharing model? What makes this different than other distro? It it totally bug-free! For the sarcasm impaired, this is a joke. Since they haven't produces any code (that any of us can see) it is inherently bug-free. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM

[gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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[gentoo-user] More BOINC

2006-01-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
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Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working [SOLVED]

2006-01-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
to be /in addition to/ supplimentary groups passed to the -G flag, as Walter tried the first time. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo with SATA DVD/CD drive?

2006-02-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
parameter.] -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-02-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
for this video server with the best, stable performance. If you are going to have a UPS and cleanly shutdown in the case of power failures, go with XFS. I'm a big reiser (3 and 4) fan, but I'm starting to see some of it's ragged edges, and I think XFS will probably serve you better. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: So O.K.

2006-02-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
that for my media center box. Gentoo is about choice: it has no problems letting choose to shoot yourself in the foot (or face); it even gives you the metal ore, powder chemicals, metal-working and chemistry tools. ;) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 and KAudiocreator

2006-02-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, but I traced it down to some issue with my SATA CD-ROM not being read correctly by some of the kde ioslaves. Multiple kernel upgrades and an upgrade to KDE 3.5.1 later and everything works fine. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] eix problem after portage upgrade

2006-02-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
it up and fix it. eix is awesome again. Now, to write a custom output format. :) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1, nvidia-driver and fbsplash, splashutils

2006-02-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
-kernel. Check out sys-kernel/module-rebuild; I've got it installed and rebuilding all the kernel modules I have that aren't provided by the kernel is as easy as fixing my /usr/src/linux symlink and running module-rebuild -X rebuild (generally done /before/ rebooting). -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr

Re: [gentoo-user] dwg2dxf

2006-02-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
it on the software you are trying to install, possibly in combination with a/some missing libraries. You might be able to see what is wrong with an ldd/strace against the application. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question

2006-02-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
cp and mv.] I know you can fix this with the -n flag to ln, but I can't really remember what -n stands for. (It is in the man page, of course.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question

2006-02-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the -n flag (see my other post), Neil. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to keep nvidia-settings?

2006-02-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
know that you can find the documentation that will clarify both points under /usr/share/doc/nvidia-settings-version/ if those didn't/don't work as written and you have nvidia-settings installed. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG depends on gentoo-sources?

2006-02-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
will manually satisfy virtual/os-sources. The first is more labor-intensive right now, but will keep allowing portage to track the virtual, in case your switch to using one of the provided *-sources in the future. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] 3ware SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, which is fairly nice. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
or profuse yet? This is a well-documented change in portage. The use.defaults file is no longer used. Previously, this file would turn on use flags that were neither enabled nor disabled based on packages you had installed. This was a bad idea to begin with, IMHO; RIP use.defaults. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG depends on gentoo-sources?

2006-02-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
is needed, at least the way I read the ebuild. You can also use an overlay with the extra dependency factored out in the meantime. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 and KAudiocreator

2006-02-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 11 February 2006 02:48, Stewart Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5 and KAudiocreator': Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Are you sure you are talking about KAudioCreator; that just rips and encodes cdda CDs? If you are please tell me where this play

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird USE flag behaviour

2006-02-11 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
healthy, rational behaviour and an help for the end user. Why has it been dropped? You'd have to ask a gentoo developer for a real answer to that question. (I suggest Cirian M. [sorry if I misspelled your name] for this, just don't ask his for a filesystem recommendation ;).) -- Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions

2006-02-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
of the whole drive (no need to partition), extend your volume group, and start growing your logical volumes across the new drive -- with no downtime if the drave can be hot plugged. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
that satisfied the majority of users and (more importantly) developers. It does help to tweak your CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Max Number of Partitions

2006-02-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
cases. Generally LV fragmentation is much less of a problem because LVs change size less often than the files on the filesystems they host change size. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] is iptables needed on a Bridge

2006-02-13 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
the two GB eithernet ports on my MB) does indeed get an IP address and neither eth0/1 gets one. Might check this out: http://www.headnut.org/files/linux-gentoo_bridge_guide.txt -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] is iptables needed on a Bridge

2006-02-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 03:31, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] is iptables needed on a Bridge': On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:38 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 12 February 2006 20:58, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about '[gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question

2006-02-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 15:14, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Dumb symlink question': On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 01:43:21 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: ln doesn't overwrite symlinks to directories, although this is not mentioned in the man page. Either

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 07:26, Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying KDE (again)': On Tuesday 14 February 2006 04:41, a tiny voice compelled Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. to write: In konsole you'll want to modify the scheme in use to have a transparent

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic

2006-02-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Panic

2006-02-18 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
tell, you might try building mroe of the IDE controller drivers into [*] or * the kernel (not as modules M). Also, if you append init=/bin/bash to your kernel command-line, can you get a prompt? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user

Re: [gentoo-user] raid/partition question

2006-02-20 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
use the old-style software raid (no superblock; by default mdadm does create a superblock), you can use raid 1 for boot, but each component partition should satisfy all the conditions for a bootable partition. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo

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