[gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-03 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-03, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: The computer gods allow me two cock-ups a day. I'm already way over limit and using up half of next week's quota in advance That's what happens when you try to work, answer list mail and watch the World Cup in your back yard all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
, answer list mail and watch the World Cup in your back yard all at the same time! Holy crap! They're playing world cup games in your back yard? The vuvuzelas must be driving you to distraction... Oi, you! That's the national musical instrument you're talking about! :-) You get used to it though

Re: [gentoo-user] How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-17 Thread Jonathan
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:59:07 +0200 KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Sounds a little like putting someone in prison and than telling him walking through the prison yard is increasing his freedom. As Linux is a prison for programs then I guess your right.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 15:05 on Thursday 02 June 2011, Indi did opine thusly: scrap metal in the back yard that it's perfectly OK for marauding gangs of thugs to have at my car in the parking lots with baseball bats. Comapring a simple rsync command with hard physical labor

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5 MTP failure

2017-06-14 Thread Daniel Frey
> working well with kwalletd:4, but not kwalletd:5. > I'll try that later on, too busy digging in my yard. Stopped for a break. I should mention I don't use kwallet, I turn that crap off. The device doing all the prompting was the phone itself. The phone usually would ask once for permission b

[gentoo-user] Re: [TOT: Total offtopic]

2018-04-01 Thread Ian Zimmerman
ade after a certain time, I think about 7 years ago, are _nothing like_ the real thing. And I can tell the difference because I'm typing on the real thing now, having found one in a yard sale for free :-) -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to

[gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

2013-02-01 Thread Dale
Howdy, I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

2013-02-03 Thread Walter Dnes
I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always

Re: [gentoo-user] perl's Chatbot::Eliza

2007-12-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
to try this out - this is something to show off... -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many ways are there for a user to increase their permissions?

2010-04-17 Thread KH
and than telling him walking through the prison yard is increasing his freedom. kh

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-03 Thread Alan McKinnon
happens when you try to work, answer list mail and watch the World Cup in your back yard all at the same time! -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
. The computer gods allow me two cock-ups a day. I'm already way over limit and using up half of next week's quota in advance A day? I thought it was per hour! That's what happens when you try to work, answer list mail and watch the World Cup in your back yard all at the same time! I

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
immemorial deserve rsync too? [cue rsync jingle] :) That's like saying that just because I have panel-beating skills and lots of scrap metal in the back yard that it's perfectly OK for marauding gangs of thugs to have at my car in the parking lots with baseball bats. -- alan dot mckinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-01 Thread Mike Edenfield
your carefully crafted work from time immemorial deserve rsync too? [cue rsync jingle] :) That's like saying that just because I have panel-beating skills and lots of scrap metal in the back yard that it's perfectly OK for marauding gangs of thugs to have at my car in the parking lots

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-02 Thread Indi
known good configuration. Doesn't your carefully crafted work from time immemorial deserve rsync too? [cue rsync jingle] :) That's like saying that just because I have panel-beating skills and lots of scrap metal in the back yard that it's perfectly OK for marauding gangs of thugs

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-02 Thread Indi
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 05:00:03PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 15:05 on Thursday 02 June 2011, Indi did opine thusly: scrap metal in the back yard that it's perfectly OK for marauding gangs of thugs to have at my car in the parking lots with baseball

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 5 MTP failure

2017-06-14 Thread J. Roeleveld
g for >> permission goes away. It may just be that the KDE application in >question was >> working well with kwalletd:4, but not kwalletd:5. >> > >I'll try that later on, too busy digging in my yard. Stopped for a >break. > >I should mention I don't use kw

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo RPi boot to ram or read-only FS?

2020-05-26 Thread Michael Jones
ideo windows at a time in > zoom. However, it's portable: you can flip to the back camera and walk > around the house/yard to show something to people. It's also nice in > that you can just tap on a Zoom invite url in the email app, and it > "just works". > > I have

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo RPi boot to ram or read-only FS?

2020-05-26 Thread Grant Edwards
r Kodi. But... For skype and zoom, I'd probably just buy them a 10" Kindle Fire. There are Zoom and Skype apps available for it. Main drawback: smallish screen and limited to 4 video windows at a time in zoom. However, it's portable: you can flip to the back camera and walk around the house/yard to sho

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

2013-02-02 Thread Mick
/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. Is there a config file you can have a look at and see if it is hard coded in there as the default saving path? This used to work fine when I had

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

2013-02-04 Thread Dale
/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. This used to work fine when I had this sort of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something like this: /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ That would work fine. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

2013-02-02 Thread Bruce Hill
/home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. This used to work fine when I had this sort of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something like this: /data/Camera

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

2013-02-02 Thread Dale
a picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. This used to work fine when I had this sort of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something like

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} New CPU for my motherboard

2006-09-08 Thread Mick
what's working and suitable for your needs. The alternative can be false economy. On the other hand there are IT fairs and back yard sales (depending where you live) where you could pick up a bargain - a mate won't let me forget that he picked up a 2.8GHz P4 from the streets of London two years

Re: [gentoo-user] aterm into kterm?

2009-09-28 Thread Willie Wong
also use other terms occasionally and the VT. If my worries are unfounded, can you tell me why? W -- The fronting for the eighty-yard long marble-topped bar had been made by stitching together nearly twenty thousand Antarean Mosaic Lizard skins, despite the fact that the twenty thousand

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-02 Thread Indi
there are always a couple of copies of my last known good configuration. Doesn't your carefully crafted work from time immemorial deserve rsync too? [cue rsync jingle] :) That's like saying that just because I have panel-beating skills and lots of scrap metal in the back yard that it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
like saying that just because I have panel-beating skills and lots of scrap metal in the back yard that it's perfectly OK for marauding gangs of thugs to have at my car in the parking lots with baseball bats. Best analogy ever. Hardly, though it does have a lot of drama which is what

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

2011-06-02 Thread Indi
time immemorial deserve rsync too? [cue rsync jingle] :) That's like saying that just because I have panel-beating skills and lots of scrap metal in the back yard that it's perfectly OK for marauding gangs of thugs to have at my car in the parking lots with baseball

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Slightly OT but interesting nonetheless...

2011-09-29 Thread Dale
killed three this year in my yard or garden. My cat isn't dead a year and they are moving in on me. Technical boundaries, I'd like to push the Fedora dev doing the /usr and /var on / thing off my roof, holding a snake. lol My Dad used to always tell me that a snake is more scared of us than we

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Dale
having something for some other distro wouldn't be a huge issue. See this mountain peak you think you see in front of you? The one you call Everest? You got it wrong about that mountain Dale. It's a little mole hill in the back yard. Make / big enough to contain /usr as well. Move stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby 22

2017-08-22 Thread Raffaele Belardi
quires dev- > lang/ruby:2.1 > dev-ruby/rubygems-2.6.12 requires > dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > dev-ruby/test-unit-3.2.5 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 >dev-ruby/yard-0.9.8 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > virtual/rubygems-13

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [TOT: Total offtopic]

2018-04-01 Thread tuxic
nal tooling) > > I have owned Unicomp keyboards, and those made after a certain time, I > think about 7 years ago, are _nothing like_ the real thing. And I can > tell the difference because I'm typing on the real thing now, having > found one in a yard sale for free :-) Lucky you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo RPi boot to ram or read-only FS?

2020-05-26 Thread Frank Tarczynski
conference apps for Kodi. >> >> But... >> >> For skype and zoom, I'd probably just buy them a 10" Kindle Fire. >> >> There are Zoom and Skype apps available for it. Main drawback: >> smallish screen and limited to 4 video windows at a time in >> z

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

2013-02-02 Thread Dale
/home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have asked it to save them too. Is there a config file you can have a look at and see if it is hard coded in there as the default saving path? This used to work fine when

Re: [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought

2012-03-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
so having something for some other distro wouldn't be a huge issue. See this mountain peak you think you see in front of you? The one you call Everest? You got it wrong about that mountain Dale. It's a little mole hill in the back yard. Make / big enough to contain /usr as well. Move stuff over

[gentoo-user] Re: 4th ::+ 5th

2015-07-05 Thread James
, world wide, than all other species (minus humanoids) combined We're now having gator hunts year round cause the population of *BIG GATORS* is out of control. Put a gator in your back yard in DE. ? You'd be a hit with the neighbours... There mouths are twice the width and 4 times stronger than

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage spokes again...

2016-12-20 Thread Dale
-t option. When it spits out the list then, it shows what is pulling in what. For some reason I can't quite put a finger on, it looks like a USE flag is starting this. If it is saying why that is, I'm not consciously seeing it. At the moment, I do sort of have PVC pipe on the brain. W

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby 22

2017-08-21 Thread John Covici
dev-ruby/rake-12.0.0 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 dev-ruby/rdoc-5.1.0 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 dev-ruby/rubygems-2.6.12 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 dev-ruby/test-unit-3.2.5 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 dev-ruby/yard-0.9.8

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby 22

2017-08-22 Thread John Covici
dev-ruby/racc-1.4.14 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > > dev-ruby/rake-12.0.0 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > >dev-ruby/rdoc-5.1.0 requires dev- > > lang/ruby:2.1 > > dev-ruby/rubygems-2.6.12 requires > > dev-lang

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby 22

2017-08-22 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
ssert-1.0.2 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > > dev-ruby/racc-1.4.14 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > > dev-ruby/rake-12.0.0 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > > dev-ruby/rdoc-5.1.0 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > > dev-ruby/rubygems-2.6.12 requires > > dev-lang/r

Re: [gentoo-user] ipw2200 dmesg error

2006-01-15 Thread Willie Wong
for the eighty-yard long marble-topped bar had been made by stitching together nearly twenty thousand Antarean Mosaic Lizard skins, despite the fact that the twenty thousand lizards concerned had needed them to keep their insides in. - The Book decribing Milliways' politically incorrect decor. Sortir

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-21 Thread Dale
sometimes. Heck, I got a big ole stump in my front yard that I been bumping with the tractor. I think the ants are doing better than the tractor. o_O They just take a little longer. lol Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby 22

2017-08-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
/power_assert-1.0.2 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > dev-ruby/racc-1.4.14 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > dev-ruby/rake-12.0.0 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > dev-ruby/rdoc-5.1.0 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby 22

2017-08-22 Thread John Covici
1 > dev-ruby/rake-12.0.0 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > dev-ruby/rdoc-5.1.0 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > dev-ruby/rubygems-2.6.12 requires > dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > dev-ruby/test-unit-3.2.5 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 > dev-ruby/yard-0.9.8 req

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby 22

2017-08-22 Thread Dale
t;> dev-lang/ruby:2.1 >> dev-ruby/net-telnet-0.1.1-r1 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 >> dev-ruby/power_assert-1.0.2 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 >> dev-ruby/racc-1.4.14 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1 >> dev-ruby/rake-12.0.0 requires dev-lang/ruby:2.1

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory manager

2019-10-20 Thread Dale
tems. What you describe in your first scenario, that is when it is so slow and virtually unresponsive.  I don't generally run out of memory when compiling since I close other stuff, like Firefox, to free up memory, even in the 16GB days.  What I run into is a tab, or tabs, in Firefox that ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-05-07 Thread james
ime. So I cannot help but feel sorry, for the kids, that the universities do not teach C/Unix/BSD/Linux with any dose of credibility. New is sexy, but statistically, 99% of new fades, often rapidly. Just look at the bone-yard of linux distros and fancy programming languages. The (IBM) stench

[gentoo-user] Me, and how to troll LIKE A BOSS.

2016-06-25 Thread Alan Grimes
d to find what will make them squeal. It's like playing darts or archery, the better your aim, the higher your score. If you land one in their back yard, they will flame you, which will trigger a cascade, which means you can get out your lawn chair and an iced tea. Once you do this successfully o