Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CF and Gentoo

2008-09-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 28 September 2008 00:18:35 Stroller wrote: Since they are not frequently updated and have minimal installed   software (iptables on firewalls and DNS on DNS servers) accompanied by the fact that most devices have internal wear leveling; it should take many years to reach the

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto use user CSS with Firefox?

2008-09-28 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 28 Sep 2008, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:09, Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many web sites are badly designed in that that they hard-code text input fields with a black font but inherit the background colour from your desktop, so if you have a suitably

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto use user CSS with Firefox?

2008-09-28 Thread Robin Atwood
On Sunday 28 Sep 2008, »Q« wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:09:00 +0700 Robin Atwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have solved this with KDE Konqueror by supplying a user css page but, for those occasions when you have to use it, I want to do the same thing with Firefox. You can use

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting python-2.3 back

2008-09-28 Thread David Relson
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:58:40 -0400 Kirk Lowery wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:59:35 -0400, Kirk Lowery wrote: During upgrading today, I inadvertently allowed 2.3 to be deleted. I looked in portage, but it is

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting python-2.3 back

2008-09-28 Thread Kirk Lowery
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 8:38 AM, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:58:40 -0400 Kirk Lowery wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:47 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:59:35 -0400, Kirk Lowery wrote: During upgrading today, I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-09-28 Thread Grant
I patched cdrdao to recognize certain CD-TEXT types for its toc file creation with the info here: http://www.lackhead.org/2007/05/patch-for-cdrdao-122-cd-text-causing-crash/ but toc2cue fails to execute on such a toc file with a series of these: ERROR: CD/cdda.toc:36: Invalid CD-TEXT item

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-09-28 Thread Grant
I patched cdrdao to recognize certain CD-TEXT types for its toc file creation with the info here: http://www.lackhead.org/2007/05/patch-for-cdrdao-122-cd-text-causing-crash/ but toc2cue fails to execute on such a toc file with a series of these: ERROR: CD/cdda.toc:36: Invalid CD-TEXT item

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-09-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try cdda2wav and cdrecord? The CUE format interpreter in cdrdao is known to be incomplete. I'm using a script I wrote to rip a CD twice (each rip creating a binary file and toc file), compare the two rips with cmp, convert the toc to cue with

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-09-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you try cdda2wav and cdrecord? The CUE format interpreter in cdrdao is known to be incomplete. How would you go about figuring out which file to patch to update toc2cue? I wrote the parser for cdrecord and it works for all cases I know. Make sure to use

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-09-28 Thread Grant
Did you try cdda2wav and cdrecord? The CUE format interpreter in cdrdao is known to be incomplete. How would you go about figuring out which file to patch to update toc2cue? I wrote the parser for cdrecord and it works for all cases I know. Make sure to use the offocial cdrtools

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-09-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you like to create a cue file anyway? Cdda2wav splits the data at the right location and it icludes the paranoia code. I read a comparison where somebody ripped a CD with cdrdao and a couple other tools and then burned the images back to CDs and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-09-28 Thread Grant
Why do you like to create a cue file anyway? Cdda2wav splits the data at the right location and it icludes the paranoia code. I read a comparison where somebody ripped a CD with cdrdao and a couple other tools and then burned the images back to CDs and compared the CDs, and cdrdao was

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-09-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do you like to create a cue file anyway? Cdda2wav splits the data at the right location and it icludes the paranoia code. I read a comparison where somebody ripped a CD with cdrdao and a couple other tools and then burned the images back to

Re: [gentoo-user] CF and Gentoo

2008-09-28 Thread Simon
4A. Best method to duplicate the CF card live while the system is running. Best method I now which is near effort-less, but requires preparation is to setup your drive initially as a RAID-1 mirror but force it to have only one drive (if you don't want it mirrored all the time). Then, add a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-09-28 Thread Grant
Why do you like to create a cue file anyway? Cdda2wav splits the data at the right location and it icludes the paranoia code. I read a comparison where somebody ripped a CD with cdrdao and a couple other tools and then burned the images back to CDs and compared the CDs, and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-09-28 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cdda2wav writes a single file per track. Why do you like additional splits? I like to end up with a raw/toc pair of files to act as a raw backup of the CD, and a series of individual FLAC files for each track. For the individual files, would you do that like

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-09-28 Thread Grant
cdda2wav writes a single file per track. Why do you like additional splits? I like to end up with a raw/toc pair of files to act as a raw backup of the CD, and a series of individual FLAC files for each track. For the individual files, would you do that like this: # cdda2wav -B -Oraw #

[gentoo-user] State of ATi drivers in Linux

2008-09-28 Thread Hal Martin
Hello all, I am contemplating building a new computer with an AMD/ATi graphics card. I've been following the subject of ATi driver quality in linux for a while, but I realize that the experiences I read on Google search results are, shall we say, biased, as many people who have perfectly

Re: [gentoo-user] State of ATi drivers in Linux

2008-09-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sunday 28 September 2008, Hal Martin wrote: Hello all, I am contemplating building a new computer with an AMD/ATi graphics card. I've been following the subject of ATi driver quality in linux for a while, but I realize that the experiences I read on Google search results are, shall we

Re: [gentoo-user] State of ATi drivers in Linux

2008-09-28 Thread Emil Jensen
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Hal Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, do any of you have newer (HD series) AMD/ATi graphics cards? What drivers (AMD closed source, or open source) are you using? Are they stable? How is the performance? Any noise issues with your card when it's idle? Under

[gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/apache2 fails, but apache will run

2008-09-28 Thread Adam Carter
rix adam # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs [ ok ] rix adam # The socket is not in

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: Openoffice dies on startup

2008-09-28 Thread Iain Buchanan
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: BOTTOM LINE (even though it's at the top) It appears openoffice-bin depends on some things that are not marked in the ebuild. please try and remove (one by one) the extra packages that you installed for openoffice source. (It's only 8, so it shouldn't take too long).

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/apache2 fails, but apache will run

2008-09-28 Thread Jerry McBride
On Sunday 28 September 2008 09:26:06 pm Adam Carter wrote: rix adam # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs

RE: [gentoo-user] /etc/init.d/apache2 fails, but apache will run

2008-09-28 Thread Adam Carter
On Sunday 28 September 2008 09:26:06 pm Adam Carter wrote: rix adam # /etc/init.d/apache2 start * Starting apache2 ... (98)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80 no listening sockets available, shutting down Unable to open logs [ ok ]

Re: [gentoo-user] [Resolved] Absolutely no sound whatsoever after latest emerge update

2008-09-28 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 08:05:06PM -0500, Dale wrote This may be waaay off here, do you have that parallel start up thing turned on? You know, where multiple services can be started at the same time without waiting for the startup to complete. I read somewhere a while back where some were

[gentoo-user] Meta-Offtopic: Dualcore lost

2008-09-28 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have a meta-offtopic question: Usually I get sources for Blender from the SVN, recompile it and VOILA!: The newest Blender. Then, from one day to another, my blender built lost the abillity to use both cores of my CPU. I posted this on a blender forum and others dont have the same