Re: [gentoo-user] How to avoid NetworkManager logs in terminals

2008-02-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 18:08 -0200, Alejandro Bednarik wrote: > > > 2008/2/16, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > try adding > >/dev/null 2>&1 > to the end of it. > Hi! > about sudo /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart >/dev/null

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 17:29 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote: > Neil Bothwick writes: > > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:14:22 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > The cruelty is actually worse: the machines that will benefit most > > > > from an OOo compile from source,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to avoid NetworkManager logs in terminals

2008-02-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 13:13 -0200, Alejandro Bednarik wrote: > 2008/2/14, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > > > The start-stop daemon have the parameter --quiet > > > I double check /etc/rc and the VERBOSE option for this kind of > > > services is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] text editor with multiline block replacement

2008-02-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:41 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Hi! > > Please, recommend a text editor with a capability to find/replace > *multiline* blocks. you mean search and replace with newlines in the middle? um. emacs? -- Iain Buchanan Every time I think that perha

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] kernel-2.6.24 + ndiswrapper

2008-02-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
y > quickly. how did you get ndiswrapper to work? It worked for me for 2.6.23, but not for 2.6.24. I have a BCM4306 and I'm having some trouble getting the kernel driver to work, so I'd like to use ndiswrapper in the mean time. When I load ndiswrapper (yes I've rebuilt it :) I ge

[gentoo-user] ooffice draw can't export to eps anymore

2008-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
15 2006. According to genlop that puts the OOo version at openoffice-bin-2.0.2. I'm now using openoffice-bin-2.3.1 Google seems to think I can still do it. Any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss. --

Re: [gentoo-user] slightly OT, laptop for gentoo

2008-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
ebay.com.au/Dell-D-View-Laptop-Stand-NEW_W0QQitemZ200199102199QQihZ010QQcategoryZ3708QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem sorry about the ebay links, but dell of course doesn't list these things in their "products" page... -- Iain Buchanan The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but "That's funny ..." -- Isaac Asimov -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
sorry to hijack the thread even further... On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 23:04 +, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to avoid NetworkManager logs in terminals

2008-02-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
/null and it got rid of all the output. To be sure, you could add 2>&1 sudo /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart >/dev/null 2>&1 > Any clues? > > Cheers! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Advertising Rule: In writing a patent-medicine advertisement, first convince the

[gentoo-user] kernel BUG when unplugging usb?

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
pressed (translated set 2, code 0x86 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e006 ' to make it known. atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x86 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e006 ' to make it known. Strange as it sounds, I haven't had

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 01:20 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? > > -- > > Iain Buchanan > > > > i have 4gb for /tmp > > What do you do with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: load too high

2008-02-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
how about cron jobs like updatedb? Is there any disk activity? -- Iain Buchanan i have 4gb for /tmp What do you do with 4G /tmp? Compile X? yes -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome overlay?

2008-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
x27;t ask me why. Maybe someone else can comment? -- Iain Buchanan Everyone's heard of Erwin Schrodinger's famous thought experiment. You put a cat in a box with a bottle of poison, which many people would suggest is about as far as you need to go. -- (Terry Pratchett, The U

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo "Install CD" 2008.Feb.08. minimal i686

2008-02-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 19:21 +0100, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > 2008. 02. 9, szombat keltezéssel 22.01-kor Iain Buchanan ezt írta: > > On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 21:22 +0100, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > > > Ladies and Gentleman, > > [snip] > > > Please, do not kill my

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome overlay?

2008-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
nd finally, my overlay instructions above won't help you when the overlay is updated, as you copied the ebuilds into your own overlay. You could instead symlink them. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan philosophy: The ability to bear with calmness the misfortunes of our friends. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo "Install CD" 2008.Feb.08. minimal i686

2008-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 21:22 +0100, Pongracz Istvan wrote: > Ladies and Gentleman, [snip] > Please, do not kill my server with overload :) > If somebody has a mirror, drop me a private mail. how about a torrent? Then everyone's a mirror ;) -- Iain Buchanan Art is a lie which ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Power Drain during Suspend to Disk

2008-02-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
modules and call init stop scripts. Perhaps unload the network module or stop a few scripts before suspending and see what happends. So, what can drain power while turned off? There's WOL, WOM, and ? Did you check that these wake up features are turned off in the BIOS? HTH, -- Iain Buchan

Re: [gentoo-user] Power Drain during Suspend to Disk

2008-02-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
ure you don't have the same drain when powering off? in my experience, WOL is always a bios setting - did you look there? What happens if you suspend to disk, then take the battery out for a few minutes or more - can you resume? (put it back in of course) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Consensus Ter

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mixer filesystem

2008-02-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
n > completely platform agnostic and network transparent way: > > http://j.metux.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=50 > > Maybe some of you's interested in it ? interesting, yes, but what's the point? (not saying it's useless, just that I missed someth

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4 again

2008-02-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
inhibited by the virtual lack of other > bugs there, where I'd expected to see hundreds. did you try 4.0.0 or 4.0.1? I think the newer is hardmasked by now, or at least it should be soon (but I don't use it, so I don't know for sure. It's not in my tree yet anyway) -- Iain Bu

Re: [gentoo-user] QT: How to Networkmanager init looks like other servcies?

2008-02-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
for a start, what package is it from? I don't have it. Secondly, you could find all the offending commands and add >/dev/null >2&1 to the end of them. > > Any help is much appreciated. Cheers! HTH, -- Iain Buchanan If God had intended Man to Watch TV, He would have g

Re: [gentoo-user] [query] How to avoid installing a particular package(like gcc) in each update

2008-02-05 Thread Iain Buchanan
above is > what I tend to do another few things I'd add: You probably want to use the stable keyword (eg ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" not ~x86 in /etc/make.conf) - that way you'll get a few less upgrades (and downgrades). Also, perhaps you only want to upgrade in case of security releas

[gentoo-user] constantly restarting esd

2008-02-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
s happy. Until it happens again... This seems to be more prevalent if I skip forward through a few songs. I'm using the latest unstable everything (~x86). Maybe the "un" before stable is a clue :) However this behaviour has been going for a while. Any hints? thanks, -- Ia

Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
be tiny packages. I just completed -uD > world which took 351 packages totalling ~800M read again :) He has approximately 1Gb of downloads... -- Iain Buchanan The Golden Rule of Arts and Sciences: He who has the gold makes the rules. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle FIXED

2008-02-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
plete! 7 days? Time to emerge --sync, and update world again! -- Iain Buchanan Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. -- W. C. Fields -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers slowly working through issues

2008-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
thanks everyone for the tips, -- Iain Buchanan You will engage in a profitable business activity. -- Iain Buchanan If the very old will remember, the very young will listen. -- Chief Dan George -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers slowly working through issues

2008-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:34 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: [snip] > However, I still can't find any solution for my GL issues. As per a > previous thread, glxgears, fgl_glxgears, and screensavers segfault when > I run them. and so does open office. All these run as root. any

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD world: another obstacle

2008-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
ds" is nowhere to be found. $ equery u qt | grep -i thread I assume therefore that qt doesn't have a threads use flag. Also, a better way to specify a use flag than on the command line is in /etc/portage/package.use. If you say `emerge -va blah` you will see the use flags availa

Re: [gentoo-user] (no subject)

2008-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 11:02 +1100, Peter Eliades wrote: > unsubscribe just remember: You can check out, but you can never leave. -- Iain Buchanan The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubt

Re: [gentoo-user] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 18:48 +, Qian Qiao wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Must... resist... posting... the... kit... man, I love reading the replies to stray unsubscribe messages :) -- Iain Buchanan [upon learning that Meg is dating a nudist]

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers slowly working through issues

2008-01-30 Thread Iain Buchanan
. what else? Please help! thanks ;) -- Iain Buchanan Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. -- Winston Churchill -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] glxgears segfaults as user, works as root

2008-01-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 08:16 +, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 27 January 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > on with my ati-drivers 8.452.1 woes! > > > > This time, glxgears & fgl_glxgears will segfault as root. FPS is bad > > for GL st

Re: [gentoo-user] glxgears segfaults as user, works as root

2008-01-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
keyword ... perhaps > this version sucks ? yes, I'm sure this version sucks! It is the latest version to date. thanks, any more ideas? -- Iain Buchanan BOFH Excuse #319: Your computer hasn't been returning all the bits it gets from the Internet. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] glxgears segfaults as user, works as root

2008-01-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
le is not much help either. any hints? thanks! -- Iain Buchanan The buffalo isn't as dangerous as everyone makes him out to be. Statistics prove that in the United States more Americans are killed in automobile accidents than are killed by buffalo. -- Art Buchwald -

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers 8.452.1

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 16:54 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > or 8-01 as the package is called... Has anyone tried them yet? I know I should have tried this before I posted, but I just rebooted, and now glxgears, fgl_glxgears, and GL screensavers just segfault. at least all fglrx errors have g

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers 8.452.1

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
tring. so I'm having a few issues. Of course, 3D performance is horrible. I've tried searching various forums, but I can't find anything that fixes the dri error. I've checked xorg.conf has "Load dri" and Section "DRI" Group"video"

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
e c file, it says #ifdef LINUX #include #define DSP "/dev/dsp" #else #include #define DSP "/dev/dspW" #endif so you have to define LINUX. There are a few other things too, something like this should do it: gcc -D LINUX -include string.h -lm -o tonegen tonegen.c --

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
king at the file, it doesn't make much sense to compile it alone. -- Iain Buchanan Machine Always Crashes, If Not, The Operating System Hangs (MACINTOSH) -- Topic on #Linux -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 10:28 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > all I can find is a vague xmms reference to "Tonegen". You might try > looking for a tonegen.c file in audacious... If I find more, I'll let > you know. all I can find is the file src/tonegen/tonegen.c in aud

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
s borrowed from beep, which was in turn borrowed from xmms, so the documentation no doubt got lost in the many transitions... all I can find is a vague xmms reference to "Tonegen". You might try looking for a tonegen.c file in audacious... If I find more, I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] tone generator

2008-01-24 Thread Iain Buchanan
in xmms and play! However, I'm sure there was some plugin I needed... It was called "tone generator" or something... sorry for being vague, but it's been a while since I used this method :) If you want me to do some more digging, then let me know! HTH, -- Iain Bu

Re: [gentoo-user] [way OT] Firefox qt download file names

2008-01-23 Thread Iain Buchanan
this is the case here. You probably don't want to give away the site, but if you get stuck post some of the source that you think might be relevant, and we can go from there. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Better tried by twelve than carried by six. -- Jeff Cooper -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Release Engineering meeting tomorrow

2008-01-22 Thread Iain Buchanan
will be > posting logs of the meeting on the http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng > project space after the meeting, in case any of you miss it. > -- Iain Buchanan Where does it go when you flush? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] stuff accumulating in /tmp

2008-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
There is currently a looong discussion (flame?) going on about this on gentoo-dev: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/54402 which quotes the appropriate "standards". HTH, -- Iain Buchanan Emperor Palpatine: Soon the Rebellion will be crushed and young Skywalker will be one of us! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 09:09 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:00:35 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > not quite the same :) "emerge -u world" would download one package, and > > compile it, download the next, compile it. So the total time is t

Re: [gentoo-user] Headlines on packages RSS feed gone?

2008-01-21 Thread Iain Buchanan
I searched b.g.o for > a bug but didn't find anything. I think there are some infra upgrades going on atm: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/54374 didn't see p.g.o there but maybe related. cya, -- Iain Buchanan Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor: Peopl

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 23:03 -0600, Dale wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 06:48 -0600, Dale wrote: > > > > > >> Heck, if the price is right, I'd order them. I try to order a new > >> Gentoo install CD when it comes out, been a

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
205,439 kB > > Made some progress so far. LOL We just upgraded to 8Mbit at work... Makes an emerge --sync nice :) Nicer than 1.5Mbit anyway. I know there are faster speeds out there, but for now "8Mbit is enough for anyone"! > Dale > > :-) :-) cya, -- Iain Buchanan I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. -- Aneurin Bevan -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
dark I should have that ONE completed. > ;-) > > Dang, 14Mbs both ways. < Dale drools and slobbers everywhere > > > Dale didn't you say aDSL was on the way? May it speed to your line! -- Iain Buchanan The meek shall inherit the Earth. (But they're gonna have to fight for it.) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.0.0

2008-01-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 19:50 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > Read Neil's reply. He hit the nail on the finger. That's worthy of sending to Scott Adams! I hope he hit the nail on the (it's) head, not on his finger :) -- Iain Buchanan "ER...HO. HO. HO."

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing via GRML

2008-01-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 13:15 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 16. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Iain Buchanan: > > what about making a nice flash splash?! I think you need an initrd for > > that too. > > Nobody really needs this, it's just eyecandy. Doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing via GRML

2008-01-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
I think you need an initrd for that too. cya, -- Iain Buchanan "I used to think that *I* was stupid, and then I met philosophers." -- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
omeone to compile a > > kernel without having in-depth knowledge of one's hardware and kernel > > options ? how about just providing a .config file then? -- Iain Buchanan Windows 2000 will be released as soon as Windows 98 finishes loading. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing via GRML

2008-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
. I still wonder why they all invent their own, special > > way of compiling a kernel. > > Nice thing about genkernel (and other such tools in other distributions) > is, that they also create an initrd. what about mkinitrd? > I suppose the initrd is the driving factor for developing

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Sudden XP death

2008-01-15 Thread Iain Buchanan
install it on the first drive and then use partimage to > create an image of it, which thereafter can be unloaded in whichever > partition/drive you desire. Use Grub to chainload it accordingly. sorry to jump in late, but can't you avoid all this hassle, and tell VMware to use a virtual dis

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
hose copyrights and logos to be in. I thought it was only the legal document that allowed "Gentoo Technologies" to be a not-for-profit organisation? The logo's, domain name, etc. were transferred to Gentoo Technologies before they applied for 501(c)(6) Not-For-Profit status, wh

[gentoo-user] what's going on at Gentoo

2008-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
ntoo dying tomorrow. If it is going to die, it won't be for a while. cya, -- Iain Buchanan "How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars." -- Steve Martin -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-14 Thread Iain Buchanan
y packages. In fact, given the "love" that the collective devs have for DRobbins, I can see them either say "no", or nothing at all. Which means either DRobbins, or someone else, will take Gentoo and fork it. The two distributions will probably grow to hate each other, althou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
then either b. will happen, or he'll just return to the background... -- Iain Buchanan Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?

2008-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
gt; > Interesting post - this eludes me tho, what is an EE? > > Electronic Engineer or Electrical Eng. Similar, but different. -- Iain Buchanan There are probably better ways to do that, but it would make the parser more complex. I do, occasionally, struggle feebly against complexity...

Re: [gentoo-user] Is GWN dead?

2008-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
n still use the latest install CD, and do an update. However, the install CD is only one indication of Gentoo's problems. The out of date website, the newsletter releases, the sad responses to the "how are we doing" question on gentoo-dev... Anyway I digress... -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Forums Crashed

2008-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
/linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/01/12/0152208.shtml > > So, I recon we were slashdotted... Haha, that's funny, in a way. But sad when I think why. Gentoo used to make Slashdot headlines for good reasons... I've been subscribed to the -dev list for a little while, and it's not al

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-drm fails to emerge

2008-01-13 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 20:28 +, Mick wrote: > Can anyone perhaps suggest a fix to allow me to emerge did you look in bugzilla? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165553 what -sources are you using? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156518 HTH! -- Iain Buchanan Of course

Re: [gentoo-user] How to update portage offline with minimal impact?

2008-01-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
haven't updated in a while Hopefully someone will fix any holes I left, otherwise this should work! -- Iain Buchanan There's a lot to be said for not saying a lot. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xdm login problems after recent emerge

2008-01-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
dm/Xorg related I guess. As this is the laptop that I take to work > and my holidays end today all suggestions are welcomed! :) This happens to me when one of my services has errors, or fails to start. Look for any [ !! ] or other messages on vt1. btw, this assumes you can switch back to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo & GRUB help

2008-01-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
ove that when you run ls -la /gentoo/bzImage > you can see the kernel image you are trying to boot, right? not quite! root is (hd1,1) which is hdb2. This is grub's root device, ie your boot partition (if you have one). The kernel line specifies the linux root as hdb1. so `ls -la /bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo & GRUB help

2007-12-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
ible that your bios / grub have swapped the drive assignment around during boot. Try all your (hdx,y) combinations with grub completion until you find one that has /gentoo on it. > Note: I am using LVM2 under this Gentoo install - but not for /boot or > /. it shouldn't interfere with

Re: [gentoo-user] rsync for backup, can anybody help

2007-12-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
ple FSs to rsync and -x as well. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

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

2007-12-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
till is the amazing thing it was a couple of > decades ago when Weizenbaum wrote it. ;-) WOW! how amazing and yet how obvious! I _have_ to try this out - this is something to show off... -- Iain Buchanan By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
nue regardless of what deps are met? Ideally if a lib fails, you only want to continue with packages that don't require that lib. Otherwise you have to fix it, and rebuild other packages anyway... -- Iain Buchanan Comedy, like Medicine, was never meant to be practiced by the gener

Re: [gentoo-user] Excellent Paludis interview

2007-12-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
s of the process, why not spawn 2 or 3 emerges automatically? Each one could do it's own "tree" of packages and dependencies that don't affect the other... would be nice IMHO. cya, -- Iain Buchanan People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense. -- Ken Kesey -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to get rid of the annoying speech bubble in Evolution?

2007-12-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 07:35 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 13:47 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:59 -0600, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > My wife and I run evolution 2.12.1 . We love the blinking letter in the > > > not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Safe to post my MAC address?

2007-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 04:17 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-12-19, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 10:45 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: > > [stuff] > >> Damn if this isn't one of the most off-topic posts ever...

[gentoo-user] x looses ctrl, alt and shift keys

2007-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
uestion mark- however closing both vnc and vmware don't fix it... well, i sure would appreciate any hints... thanks -smile- -- Iain Buchanan Our sires' age was worse that our grandsires'. We their sons are more worthless than they: so in our turn we shall give the world a pr

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to get rid of the annoying speech bubble in Evolution?

2007-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
notification. mail-notification? right click on the blinking sod (!) and select properties. If it says "mail notification properties" then your using mail notification ;) Anyway, under "message popups" you'll see "enable message popups". HTH, -- Iain Bucha

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Safe to post my MAC address?

2007-12-18 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 10:45 -0500, Mark Shields wrote: [stuff] > Damn if this isn't one of the most off-topic posts ever... Oh, I don't know... I think I win that contest[1] [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/153681 -- Iain Buchanan Rule of the Great:

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX) -- SOLVED

2007-12-17 Thread Iain Buchanan
I was doubting them. I was, and I > shouldn't have. > > I am flabbergasted. but you also know a little more than you did yesterday. That's the main thing! -- Iain Buchanan It's as BAD as you think, and they ARE out to get you. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX)

2007-12-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
f course, backups aren't foolproof, but > I have other backups too. don't ask me, I only work here... but I have a "multimedia unit" that has 4 card reader slots, a HD, an LCD and USB2. Only /dev/sda shows up if I don't set the multiple luns option, and /dev/sda isn&

Re: [gentoo-user] hibernate: press SPACE to continue?

2007-12-16 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 18:42 +, Mick wrote: > On Monday 10 December 2007, Rumen Yotov wrote: > > On (10/12/07 10:37) Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I just upgraded from hibernate-script-1.97-r3 to > > > hibernate-script-1.97-r4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: DTV on Laptop

2007-12-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
g encoding, does the linux driver support signal strength etc. The quality of the UI is a question for windows users, as you usually use what they provide, but with linux you use what you want :) cya, -- Iain Buchanan I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. -- Jack Benny -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Picasa 2.7 Beta

2007-12-12 Thread Iain Buchanan
d are slow generally) including the latest one. But some work fine. If I use the X nv driver I can't run it either. Perhaps picasa uses some similar accel features? just a stab in the dark :) I might try it though, now that you mention it's here. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan I WI

[gentoo-user] hibernate: press SPACE to continue?

2007-12-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
find any reference in the docs, readme, google, or even the source! (well, there is a bit on google, but no help really). Any ideas? thanks! -- Iain Buchanan He married that Palliard girl, remember? The one with the air-cooled teeth? -- (Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies) -- [

[gentoo-user] The generated cache was invalid...

2007-11-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
d b.g.o doesn't have anything either. I haven't noticed any adverse effects... any ideas? thanks, -- Iain Buchanan In order to understand recursion, you must first understand recursion. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
-gentoo.html these links might be interesting to you... cya, -- Iain Buchanan The price of greatness is responsibility. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-08 Thread Iain Buchanan
e only downside was that the data was in "high res" - varying sampling up to 100ms. rrdtool only handles 1s data, so I had to do some "playing" to get it to look right. Since the output was for daily / weekly / monthly overviews, the loss of precision didn't matter. HTH

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
the (installation) process is *UGLY*. to use your analogy, I'd rather gentoo didn't get laid (or ravaged as the case may be) by the masses, but rather kept her nice personality, even if she is a bit ugly sometimes :) AU$0.02 -- Iain Buchanan One of the signs of Napoleon's great

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting system stats

2007-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
iOldIdle = iIdle; iOldTotal = iTotal; // end of loop Of course, I was looking at idle time as a % - you would be interested in User time perhaps. > - NIC I/O > - Hard Drive I/O I'll leave these up to you! And of course this could be complete wrong! I would welcome any comments

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} method for graphing server stuff?

2007-11-07 Thread Iain Buchanan
ool to graph 100's of graphs per day on all sorts of data from different sources. It's very customisable, if you want to spend the time on it. I also found the creator and forum very supportive. -- Iain Buchanan Oh my God, someone's trying to kill me! Oh wait, it's for Bart. -- Homer Simpson Cape Feare -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] evolution can't delete some contacts

2007-10-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
ut the contacts are still there!! Where are the contacts stored?! Any ideas why I can't delete them? Some of these contacts have come from imports / syncs with PDA's. using evolution 2.12.1 thanks! -- Iain Buchanan If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 fallback configuration is ignored

2007-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
ou have installed dhcpcd with zeroconf support. This means that it will always obtain an IP address even if no DHCP server can be contacted, which will break any existing failover support you may have configured in your net configuration. This behaviour can be controlled with the -L flag. See the dhcp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Online photo album software in Portage?

2007-10-27 Thread Iain Buchanan
, and on my ISP's hosted site. > Has anyone tried renaming the latest ebuild > in that bug for 7.3.1? sorry, 2/3 ain't bad ;) -- Iain Buchanan "We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor, just like you like to be liked yourself." George W. Bush Jan

Re: [gentoo-user] Online photo album software in Portage?

2007-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
ou try it - I use it and it produces some fantastic looking albums! cya, -- Iain Buchanan Punning is the worst vice, and there's no vice versa. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cross-compiling

2007-10-25 Thread Iain Buchanan
s don't let you use distcc because it seems to break them. So don't expect it to work for everything. cya, -- Iain Buchanan The complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one. Hence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity often abstract away its essence. - Fred Brooks, Jr. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Introduction (new member) and first ask-for-help... :-)

2007-10-09 Thread Iain Buchanan
your use flags. Maybe something there is causing the "every letter is a command" issue... > I'm really sorry for the inconvenience. If it was an inconvenience, then I wouldn't reply :) HTH, -- Iain Buchanan C-3PO: We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday on Saturday!

2007-10-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
whoops sorry, didn't mean to send that to the list :) -- Iain Buchanan Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty. -- Napoleon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Bugday on Saturday!

2007-10-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
gs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157868 since there are lots of updates happening at the moment in svn, these would be much nicer than the 0.10 release :) thanks, -- Iain Buchanan "Why don't you just come move in with me?" -Bender "Really? That would be great! You sure I w

Re: [gentoo-user] To Neil Bothwick: Question re ntfs-3g

2007-10-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
d it works OK so far. hey, stop answering, this was to Neil! -- Iain Buchanan I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted. -- (Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] per-ebuild compil options

2007-10-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 22:33 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Hello Bo Ørsted Andresen, > > > It should have been in /etc/portage/env/ (no .d). cool, that did it - thanks! > Doh! Sorry about that :( no worries :) -- Iain Buchanan The man who runs may fight again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading the kernel

2007-10-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
joy learning, but I guess it makes sense to keep the upgrade guide as it is... -- Iain Buchanan > Alan Cox wrote: [..] No I didnt. Someone else wrote that. Please keep attributions straight. -- From linux-kernel -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] per-ebuild compil options

2007-10-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 09:56 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:04:10 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: [snip] > > eg. I would always want to build glib and glibc with nostrip in the > > FEATURES, and -ggdb in the compile options, but all other ebuilds would &

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