Re: [gentoo-user] extracting text, numbers from screencasts

2016-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 07/05/2016 16:31, hw wrote: > Helmut Jarausch schrieb: >> On 04/08/2016 03:26:53 PM, hw wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> what would be the best approach to extract data >>> from a screencast? >>> >>> The task is to acquire some data from the display of >>> a GUI program used interactively by a user.

Re: how to share a directory tree with files in it with multiple users (Re: [gentoo-user] local shared directory)

2016-05-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 07/05/2016 17:12, hw wrote: > Michael Orlitzky schrieb: >> On 04/23/2016 10:42 AM, hw wrote: >>> >>> Has it become entirely impossible to share a directory tree and the >>> files in it with multiple users when Linux is involved? This should be >>> a very simple thing to accomplish. >>> >> >>

Re: how to share a directory tree with files in it with multiple users (Re: [gentoo-user] local shared directory)

2016-05-07 Thread hw
Michael Orlitzky schrieb: On 04/23/2016 10:42 AM, hw wrote: Has it become entirely impossible to share a directory tree and the files in it with multiple users when Linux is involved? This should be a very simple thing to accomplish. It was never possible. It's ridiculous, but there it is.

Re: [gentoo-user] extracting text, numbers from screencasts

2016-05-07 Thread hw
Urs Schütz schrieb: On 04/08/16 11:30, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 04/08/2016 03:26:53 PM, hw wrote: Hi, what would be the best approach to extract data from a screencast? The task is to acquire some data from the display of a GUI program used interactively by a user. There are a couple

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-06, James wrote: > Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes: > >> I'd like to to install winusb, and it appears to depend on grub-2: >> $ sudo emerge -av winusb > > Ok, so I've never used winusb, so excuse me for asking a few dumb > questions here. Even after

[gentoo-user] Re: Will installing grub-2.02 break my grub-0.97 setup?

2016-05-07 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2016-05-06, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2016 16:21:28 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> >> Thanks. That's good to know -- I'll definitely set things up so I'm >> >> not running winusb as root. >> > >> > Well, you could always reinstall grub-0 before

Re: [gentoo-user] extracting text, numbers from screencasts

2016-05-07 Thread hw
Helmut Jarausch schrieb: On 04/08/2016 03:26:53 PM, hw wrote: Hi, what would be the best approach to extract data from a screencast? The task is to acquire some data from the display of a GUI program used interactively by a user. There are a couple 'fields' (as in "designated areas of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Calm

2016-05-07 Thread Matthew Marchese
On 4/18/2016 3:32 PM, Marc Joliet wrote: On Saturday 16 April 2016 14:48:51 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hello, Gentoo. I'm just saying hello to confirm I'm still here. For many months now, Gentoo has simply worked for me, without problems. I sync my system several times a week, and emerge just