Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice 6

2018-09-04 Thread james
On 9/4/18 4:25 PM, Arve Barsnes wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 21:08, james wrote: >> So where do I set the default file type (.doc) for save? > > Possibly in > Tools -> Options -> Load/Save -> General Yea it's there; but I have not yet found how to make it permanen

[gentoo-user] libreoffice 6

2018-09-04 Thread james
et automatically. ? TIA, James

Re: [gentoo-user] chrony-3.3 hangs at boot

2018-09-03 Thread James Stevenson
I have also experienced this since upgrading chrony. James

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Cellphone VFAT datestamps versus linux datestamps

2018-08-31 Thread james
h) and it works fine. I have the directories > sorted by date, and the generated datestamps match the day. Also, the > hour:minute stamps monotonitcally rise with the image sequence numbers, > which is a good sign. > Here is a useful parallel thread that give syntax options too: https://discuss.pixls.us/t/date-stamp-exiftool-and-google-photos/8803 hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Cellphone VFAT datestamps versus linux datestamps

2018-08-28 Thread james
On 8/28/18 10:39 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 11:31:33PM -0400, james wrote > >> Exif is the data particulars form man image(photo) file formats >> >> >> media-libs/exiftool >> Read and write meta information in image, audio and video fil

Re: [gentoo-user] Cellphone VFAT datestamps versus linux datestamps

2018-08-27 Thread james
See attached listing... > more direct answer... https://www.howtogeek.com/302672/HOW-TO-VIEW-AND-EDIT-PHOTO-EXIF-DATA-ON-ANDROID/ Sure the $2.00 does not hurt, but if you search around there'll be free tools to that read and manipulate EXIF data fields more direct answer... James

Re: [gentoo-user] Cellphone VFAT datestamps versus linux datestamps

2018-08-27 Thread james
ne where you'll surely find very knowledgeable folks http://www.regard3d.org/ good_hunting James

Re: [gentoo-user] Cellphone VFAT datestamps versus linux datestamps

2018-08-27 Thread james
ription. https://opencv.org Exif is the best keyword to use in searching for tools and codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExifTool hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] python targets problem

2018-08-25 Thread james
ntations hth, James On 8/25/18 4:33 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > For a long time, several pkgs have been refusing to install, > apparently due to a conflict re python targets : > > root:595 ~> emerge -pv certifi file pyblake2 meson setuptools > Calculating dependencies... done! >

Re: [gentoo-user] No mouse on Lenovo T400

2018-08-23 Thread james
I just ordered a galaxynote9 and may consider it for a (gui) terminal interface to the (gentoo) HPC clusters, depending on the interfaces it comes with. Any and all suggestions for a pathway forward for a stable and minimal windows manager is greatly appreciated. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LXDE https://lxqt.org/ curiously, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

2018-08-21 Thread james
e applicable? https://flatpak.org/setup/Gentoo/ I too am interested in a direct answer to your question. Surely options for gentoo, for things not in the portage tree or overlays, needs to be be robustly developed, imho. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: latest longterm kernel.org patches are unsigned

2018-08-20 Thread james
r problem but it's an interesting read about (intel) microcodes and current blocks being enforced by Gentoo, clandestinely? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=906158 https://bugs.gentoo.org/664134 Apologies if I research is fragmented or flawed... hth, James

[gentoo-user] Re: Replacement for gcruft: gcrud

2018-08-16 Thread james
or your convenience http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ http://gittup.org/tup/ ("It will automatically clean-up old files.") hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] flag icu

2018-08-15 Thread james
On 08/13/18 13:14, Corentin �Nado� Pazdera wrote: > August 13, 2018 6:58 PM, "james" wrote: > >> Here's what I got running your script:: >> >> /etc # /root/profile-explorer.sh >> --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/explored-packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flag icu

2018-08-13 Thread james
On 08/13/18 13:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 13/08/18 17:31, james wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Q1} In my attempts to minimize flag settings, why do I need the flag >> "icu" ? >> >> + - icu�� Enable ICU (Internationalization Components for Uni

Re: [gentoo-user] flag icu

2018-08-13 Thread james
On 08/13/18 13:14, Corentin �Nado� Pazdera wrote: > August 13, 2018 6:58 PM, "james" wrote: > >> Here's what I got running your script:: >> >> /etc # /root/profile-explorer.sh >> --- Invalid atom in /etc/portage/package.use/explored-packages

Re: [gentoo-user] flag icu

2018-08-13 Thread james
On 08/13/18 11:47, james wrote: > On 08/13/18 11:36, Corentin �Nado� Pazdera wrote: >> August 13, 2018 4:31 PM, "james" wrote: >> >>> Any hints on a systematic by system parsing this sort of minimized-flag >>> data : >>> >>> [12

Re: [gentoo-user] flag icu

2018-08-13 Thread james
On 08/13/18 11:36, Corentin �Nado� Pazdera wrote: > August 13, 2018 4:31 PM, "james" wrote: > >> Any hints on a systematic by system parsing this sort of minimized-flag >> data : >> >> [12] default/linux/amd64/17.0 (stable) * >> >> would be

[gentoo-user] flag icu

2018-08-13 Thread james
f the systems I need to experiment on. How are those flag_sets discovered in some sort of systematic approach? James

Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird 60

2018-08-09 Thread james
On 08/09/18 07:37, Adam Carter wrote: > Anyone early tested Thunderbird-60? > > > Yes, the mozilla overlay has it. Works. Is this the access you refer to? https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/mozilla.git

[gentoo-user] Thunderbird 60

2018-08-06 Thread james
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.0/releasenotes/ Should be of interest to gentoo folks using Thunderbird. I also use it on a windoz_7 travelling lappy. Anyone early tested Thunderbird-60? curiously, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread James Stevenson
setup. James media-libs/mesa abi_x86_32 >=dev-libs/expat-2.2.5 abi_x86_32 >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.11-r1 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libX11-1.6.5-r1 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libxshmfence-1.3-r1 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libXdamage-1.1.4-r2 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libXext-1.3.3-r1 abi_x86_32 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: oracle-jdk-bin-11

2018-07-25 Thread james
On 07/24/18 19:07, J�rg Schaible wrote: > Hi James, > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:13:14 -0400 james wrote: > >> On 07/21/18 11:10, J�rg Schaible wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> is someone aware of the existence of an ebuild for Java 11 e.g. >>> som

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: oracle-jdk-bin-11

2018-07-25 Thread james
On 07/24/18 19:10, J�rg Schaible wrote: > Hi James, > > On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 17:13:14 -0400 james wrote: > >> On 07/21/18 11:10, J�rg Schaible wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> is someone aware of the existence of an ebuild for Java 11 e.g. >>> som

Re: [gentoo-user] oracle-jdk-bin-11

2018-07-23 Thread james
otcha and devining Oracle's future intentions is often not clear to me. Hence, feedback is greatly appreciated, on this list, privately or to a forum is all ok. Just help me navigate the java landscape. I'd really like to work with java on both gentoo and windows 7/10. I'm starting fresh with Java-11. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Multilib help

2018-07-04 Thread James Stevenson
The easiest way to fix this issue is to figure out which libraries you need and then stipulate that you want the x86_32 version of that package in your accept_keywords file. Check the Gentoo wiki for the software you are trying to run for hints on what libraries you need. James On Wed, Jul 4

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminus-Fonts

2018-06-30 Thread James Stevenson
not sure if it applies to each of my fonts or my terminal emulator. James On Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 10:24 AM Klaus Ethgen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Am Sa den 30. Jun 2018 um 9:51 schrieb James Stevenson: > > Have you set the `xft` USE flag? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Terminus-Fonts

2018-06-30 Thread James Stevenson
Have you set the `xft` USE flag? James On Sat, Jun 30, 2018, 9:44 AM Klaus Ethgen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi, > > I usually use terminus fonts inside my xterm. Now I tried to archive the > goal in Gentoo to but without success. xfon

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to do anything if a package masked by my profile?

2018-06-11 Thread James Stevenson
Thank you for the advice, you've both been very helpful! I'll take a look at it this evening. James On Mon, Jun 11, 2018, 10:37 AM Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:06:36 +0100, James Stevenson wrote: > > > I received a notification that one of my packages had been

[gentoo-user] Do I need to do anything if a package masked by my profile?

2018-06-11 Thread James Stevenson
(masked by: package.mask) For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. All the best, James

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge colors and light background

2018-04-19 Thread James Cloos
= Black ! background = White I'm sure most terminals have some way of doing that sort of configuration. -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

[gentoo-user] Re: LuaKit Browser and HTML5 video playback

2018-03-21 Thread James Stevenson
I've solved this problem. In case anyone ever runs into anything similar both qutebrowser and luakit require specific gstreamer plugins for each html5 video type. The media-libs/gst-plugins-meta package was not sufficient as it only contained a collection of audio plugins. Best, James

[gentoo-user] LuaKit Browser and HTML5 video playback

2018-03-21 Thread James Stevenson
ation gstreamer introspection jit libnotify opengl spell webgl (-aqua) -coverage -doc -gles2 -gnome-keyring -nsplugin {-test} -wayland" --- Best wishes, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does app-text/xmlto require a CLI web client?

2018-03-11 Thread James Stevenson
Thank you very much Mike, I'll check the documentation out.

[gentoo-user] Why does app-text/xmlto require a CLI web client?

2018-03-11 Thread James Stevenson
running a `change-use` command. xmlto began to merge www-client/lynx. I cannot find anything in the man pages about xmlto requiring a CLI web client but it apparently does. Does anyone have any idea what is going on? I do not have xmlto in my package.accept_keywords or package.use. Best wishes, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Intel IPTS

2017-07-15 Thread james
e pages some time ago:: https://github.com/danielquinn/Gentoo-Surface-Pro-3 http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/userguides hth, James

[gentoo-user] Unikernels from Gentoo

2017-07-10 Thread james
is dominating this space for now, but it's a natural pathway for gentooers to follow, imho. So if you run into github, webpages or other relevant resources, please drop me a line, or post to this thread. TIA, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo vs Raspbian on Raspberry Pi 3?

2017-07-07 Thread james
ur (cross compiling) issues addressed, albeit for the Banana Rasp. Pi:: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Banana_Pi_the_Gentoo_Way hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation.

2017-07-07 Thread james
(systemd ? sys-auth/polkit) gnome-base/gconf-3.2.6-r4 (policykit ? sys-auth/polkit) gnome-base/gvfs-1.30.4 (policykit ? sys-auth/polkit) lxde-base/lxsession-0.5.2 (sys-auth/polkit) net-firewall/ufw-frontends-0.3.2-r5 (policykit ? sys-auth/polkit) net-print/hplip-3.16.3 (policykit ? sys-auth/polkit

Re: [gentoo-user] About using only precompiled pkgs

2017-07-05 Thread james
part of a distro. Are checksums enough to ensure the integrity of internet available binaries? I'd suspect that is a common attack vector for today's interlopers CoreOS may be good for you, if you can stomach systemd. caveat emptor... hth, James [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distributions_based_on_Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation.

2017-07-05 Thread james
On 07/04/17 23:16, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 01:37:38PM -0400, james wrote > >> W. Dnes is the king of minimalist here, so when he gives advise >> realize it has decades of experimentation to get to where he is on >> minimization. > > Not exact

Re: [gentoo-user] Choosing between system profiles: hardened and desktop for desktop installation.

2017-07-04 Thread james
workstation pathway forward.... If you cannot block them, join them? ;-) hth, James And more links for your convenience:: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/27/grsecurity https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/grsecurity-patches-going-private.393068/ https://lwn.net/Articles/662

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: palemoon-27.3.0 anyone?

2017-07-02 Thread james
On 06/30/17 22:57, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-06-30 21:33, james wrote: > >> ~/.config/qupzilla/profiles/default/bookmarks.json >> >> is the operable file for qupzilla (I think). I do not know the history >> or many details of qupzilla, I emerged it and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: palemoon-27.3.0 anyone?

2017-06-30 Thread james
On 06/30/17 20:45, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 07:35:21PM -0400, james wrote > >> This issue is close by not exactly the same. What I want is when you >> save/modify/delete a bookmark in Palemoon, it would be instantly >> effective in Qupzilla and vice ver

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: palemoon-27.3.0 anyone?

2017-06-30 Thread james
On 06/30/17 15:11, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2017-06-30 12:01, james wrote: > >> [2] "octopus" layman/octopus >> >> Anyone running this version or Palemoon-27.3.0 from another ebuild? >> I'm not much interested in building Palemoon from sources. > &g

[gentoo-user] palemoon-27.3.0 anyone?

2017-06-30 Thread james
rs and see the same bookmarks in sync? An automatize (script-able) solution that would periodically auto-save bookmarks in sort of a semantic? Manually syncing these is hap_hazardous for an old timer.... James

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo vs Raspbian on Raspberry Pi 3?

2017-06-26 Thread james
//forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1058886.html https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1058886.html Note 'distcc' purports to run on arm:: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-devel/distcc hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Memory/CPU usage in recent versions of Firefox

2017-06-14 Thread james
ards by categories of GPU/resource utilization, if certain apps are killing your video/system. Not sure what new features are in the newer versions. I do have a plethora of older radeon cards to test, if somebody wanted to proxy maintain radeontop, as I'm not sure when I'll get to it. https://github.com/clbr/radeontop Bad year for this old fart, in several domains hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] pkcs#11

2017-06-14 Thread james
On 06/13/17 23:07, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 1:26 PM, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: >> Hello one and all, >> >> I was looking at planet.gentoo.org and saw several (ultrabug) posts >> that involve pkcs#11; particularly related to the

Re: [gentoo-user] pkcs#11

2017-06-14 Thread james
On 06/13/17 23:07, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 1:26 PM, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: >> Hello one and all, >> >> I was looking at planet.gentoo.org and saw several (ultrabug) posts >> that involve pkcs#11; particularly related to the

Re: [gentoo-user] pkcs#11

2017-06-13 Thread james
On 06/13/17 14:31, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 13 June 2017 at 21:26, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > >> I guess what I'm really looking for is a master list of ebuilds >> (overlays) that one has or possible could use to implement any form of >> PKC

Re: [gentoo-user] pkcs#11

2017-06-13 Thread james
On 06/13/17 14:40, Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > On 13 June 2017 at 21:26, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > >> I guess what I'm really looking for is a master list of ebuilds >> (overlays) that one has or possible could use to implement any form of >> PKC

[gentoo-user] pkcs#11

2017-06-13 Thread james
of gentoo, would be keen. Work on another, like Debian or Arch would be of interest, too. Discussion or suggestions are most welcome, as this is not my normal area of interest. Any PCKS#11 (or as embodied in newer standards) usage on a gentoo cloud would be most exciting, for me. curiously, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Helvetica fonts

2017-03-08 Thread James Cloos
e fonts. And then running: :; fc-match helvetica will show you which font fontconfig will use when asked for helvetica. Also, try this: :; XFT_DEBUG=1 flpsed If fltk uses xft, then that will show you which fonts it selected. If nothing prints than fltk is compiled to use server-side fonts. Which you probably prefer to avoid. -JimC -- James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> OpenPGP: 0x997A9F17ED7DAEA6

[gentoo-user] Permanent job in Tokyo, Japan

2016-11-20 Thread James Tobin
using "JamesBTobin (at) Gmail (dot) Com". Kind regards, James

Re: [gentoo-user] XOrg / XRanR segfault starting X

2016-08-18 Thread james
nel, but some have success with setting up those codes, via a loadable modules. other tools:: 'lshw' hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't create valid btrfs on NVMe

2016-08-18 Thread james
Me SSD as a boot Drive (etc etc etc) You might have to go digging around the kernel modules to find drivers, specs and such... good_hunting::hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] llvm / clang compile error

2016-08-17 Thread james
On 08/17/2016 10:24 AM, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:36:12 -0400 james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: On 08/16/2016 04:43 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: Please submit a full bug report https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591514 Silvio Reading the bug, here is a r

Re: [gentoo-user] llvm / clang compile error

2016-08-17 Thread james
set and just use one processor to compile, as a routine, baseline test-compile run. Also on my system, I have this:: Installed versions: 3.7.1-r3(03:48:50 PM 07/13/2016)(clang libffi ncurses python static-analyzer ABI_X86="32 64 -x32" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Sweet Sweet Portage

2016-08-16 Thread james
On 08/16/2016 02:49 PM, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: On 08/15/2016 06:02 PM, james wrote: Well, I brought this up before. No need for argument, just test it out for yourself. Multiple times (over the last few weeks) I have run 'emerge -uDNvp @world' and there are issues to deal with manually

Re: [gentoo-user] Sweet Sweet Portage

2016-08-16 Thread james
On 08/15/2016 09:43 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 06:02:27PM -0400, james wrote What response do you get with... emerge --backtrack=30 -pvuDt @world Note that I've included "pv" to turn it into a "dummy run" with verbose output. "

Re: [gentoo-user] Sweet Sweet Portage

2016-08-15 Thread james
Please post the output of layman -l alunduil java pentoo science sunrise torbrower ultrabug xmw It works on the portage tree James

[gentoo-user] Sweet Sweet Portage

2016-08-15 Thread james
Sure I can dive in, manually, and I have done this to fix things, but, 'emerge -uDt @world' fixes things, automagically; dozens of times as I update 3 or 4 times a week. YMMV. --livin the dream, brah, livin the dream. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about genkernel's default kernel config

2016-08-15 Thread james
On 08/15/2016 03:27 AM, Azamat Hackimov wrote: I suggest to read https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Genkernel for final enlightenment. From Siberia with Love! As well as:: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Initramfs/Guide hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread james
-gentoo-installations/ http://dev.gentoo.org/~swift/snapshots/ https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_Gentoo#Upgrading_from_older_systems Yet another approach. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread james
On 08/13/2016 10:22 AM, hw wrote: james schrieb: On 08/12/2016 07:26 AM, hw wrote: Michael Orlitzky schrieb: On 08/10/2016 06:54 AM, hw wrote: Hi, I´m trying to upgrade portage because I´m getting a message that it needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5. I´m

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-12 Thread james
systems have been around a long time. Documentation varies and most have their own 'home spun' approach to stage-4 replicant systems, backups etc etc. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Vs MySQL @Uber

2016-08-12 Thread james
On 08/12/2016 09:15 AM, R0b0t1 wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:13 AM, R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:00 AM, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: Mathematics ==>Electro-Mechanical Engineering ==>Electronics Engineering ==>DataBase Weenies

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Vs MySQL @Uber

2016-08-12 Thread james
On 08/11/2016 07:48 AM, Douglas J Hunley wrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:51 AM, james <gar...@verizon.net <mailto:gar...@verizon.net>> wrote: Douglas did manage to pull his own bacon from the fire, in the end of his article, but it wreaks of vendor hyperbole, i

Re: [gentoo-user] openntp failed?

2016-08-10 Thread james
On 08/10/2016 10:48 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Wednesday 10 Aug 2016 08:27:53 james wrote: Any hints on using this net-misc/openntpd ? No, but have you thought of using chrony instead? It's served me well for many years and I don't get any impression of bloat. That's just an informal

Re: [gentoo-user] openntp failed?

2016-08-10 Thread james
On 08/10/2016 09:41 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 08/10/2016 09:27 AM, james wrote: Googling produces little on this package, but the man pages. I even tried to stop and restart the daemon, but that makes no difference but to verifyh that openntp is actually the daemon running:: Starting

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-apps/kde-l10n-16.04.3:5/5::gentoo conflicting with kde-apps/kdepim-l10n-15.12.3:5/5::gentoo

2016-08-10 Thread james
On 08/10/2016 10:20 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On Wednesday, August 10, 2016 10:13:29 AM james wrote: On 08/10/2016 07:45 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On Tuesday, August 09, 2016 05:22:22 PM james wrote: I did a quick test with games-arcade/xgalaga. It's an old, quirky game with sporadic lag

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-apps/kde-l10n-16.04.3:5/5::gentoo conflicting with kde-apps/kdepim-l10n-15.12.3:5/5::gentoo

2016-08-10 Thread james
On 08/10/2016 07:45 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On Tuesday, August 09, 2016 05:22:22 PM james wrote: On 08/09/2016 01:41 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Tuesday, August 09, 2016 01:23:57 PM james wrote: The exception is my storage cluster, which has dirty_bytes much higher, as it's very solidly

[gentoo-user] openntp failed?

2016-08-10 Thread james
: command not found Googling produces little on this package, but the man pages. I even tried to stop and restart the daemon, but that makes no difference but to verifyh that openntp is actually the daemon running:: Starting OpenNTPD ... Any hints on using this net-misc/openntpd ? James

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-apps/kde-l10n-16.04.3:5/5::gentoo conflicting with kde-apps/kdepim-l10n-15.12.3:5/5::gentoo

2016-08-09 Thread james
On 08/09/2016 01:41 PM, Michael Mol wrote: On Tuesday, August 09, 2016 01:23:57 PM james wrote: On 08/09/2016 09:17 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On Tuesday, August 09, 2016 09:13:31 AM james wrote: On 08/09/2016 07:42 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On Monday, August 08, 2016 10:45:09 PM Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-apps/kde-l10n-16.04.3:5/5::gentoo conflicting with kde-apps/kdepim-l10n-15.12.3:5/5::gentoo

2016-08-09 Thread james
On 08/09/2016 09:17 AM, Michael Mol wrote: On Tuesday, August 09, 2016 09:13:31 AM james wrote: On 08/09/2016 07:42 AM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Monday, August 08, 2016 10:45:09 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 08/08/2016 19:20, Michael Mol wrote: >>> On Monday, August

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-apps/kde-l10n-16.04.3:5/5::gentoo conflicting with kde-apps/kdepim-l10n-15.12.3:5/5::gentoo

2016-08-09 Thread james
On 08/09/2016 09:06 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On August 9, 2016 4:13:31 PM GMT+02:00, james <gar...@verizon.net> wrote: AS a side note, I put 32G of ram on my system and still at times it is laggy with little processor load and htop shows little <30% ram usage. What tools do you use

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-apps/kde-l10n-16.04.3:5/5::gentoo conflicting with kde-apps/kdepim-l10n-15.12.3:5/5::gentoo

2016-08-09 Thread james
cific kernel tweaks? hth, James hth, James

[gentoo-user] Clusters and chips Intermarriage

2016-08-08 Thread james
! James

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected

2016-08-06 Thread james
. Supposidly the newer tools do this automation, but it's not 100%; ymmv. [1] https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-on-4kb-sector-disks/ Many disk are hybrids of the 512/4906 sector size. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Vs MySQL @Uber

2016-08-04 Thread james
On 08/04/2016 05:09 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Tuesday, August 02, 2016 12:16:32 AM james wrote: On 08/01/2016 11:49 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Monday, August 01, 2016 08:43:49 AM james wrote: Way back, when the earth was cooling and we all had dinosaurs for pets, some of us hacked

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Vs MySQL @Uber

2016-08-01 Thread james
On 08/01/2016 01:03 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 12:49 PM, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: On Monday, August 01, 2016 08:43:49 AM james wrote: Sure this part is only related to transaction processing as there was much more to the "five 9s"

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Vs MySQL @Uber

2016-08-01 Thread james
On 08/01/2016 11:49 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Monday, August 01, 2016 08:43:49 AM james wrote: On 08/01/2016 02:16 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Saturday, July 30, 2016 06:38:01 AM Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 6:24 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] PostgreSQL Vs MySQL @Uber

2016-08-01 Thread james
rmalized and used to solve decisions often where other forms of advanced logic failed (not that I'm taking a cheap shot at modern programming languages) (wink wink nudge nudge); or at least that's how we did it as young whipper_snappers bask in the day... --an_old_farts_logic curiously, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected

2016-08-01 Thread james
i/Input–output_memory_management_unit http://developer.amd.com/community/blog/2008/09/01/iommu/ http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~basu/isca_iommu_tutorial/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardware (more posted if you ask)... hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] cross-compile attempt

2016-07-31 Thread james
ng are mostly found on the gentoo-embedded channel, just so you know. Mostly a collection of brilliant pricks and posers, but some kind kind-hearted folks therein too. Cross compiling on clusters is a very hot area of interest right now, but that is not for the faint-at-heart, atm. I'd stick with the fastest multi-core single system you have access to and avoid distcc atm. ymmv. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected

2016-07-31 Thread james
arn time sync, just so you know). [1] http://www.cleanroom.byu.edu/particlecount.phtml hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Partition of 3TB USB drive not detected

2016-07-31 Thread james
system that is supported by the boot image. hth, James

[gentoo-user] Gentoo Cluster:: dirt simple

2016-07-30 Thread james
1] [1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-433435-start-0.html enjoy, James

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia drivers and vanilla kernel Linux 4.7.0 anyone?

2016-07-30 Thread james
even further, as last time I looked, this is a subject that the devManual has not fully documented, or anyone compiled a few examples for user to look at. It's a moving target depending on the EAPI-level of the ebuild. hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MBR & GPT dual compliant format

2016-07-29 Thread james
m somewhere. Sorry >> 1 1049kB 211MB 210MB primary ext2boot > Instead of ext2 follow the guide for creating a FAT fs partition with > an EF00 partition type. > James should set the boot flag in the partition table for /dev/sda1 > and mount it under /boot (or /b

[gentoo-user] Re: Holy Quran in all languages Available

2016-07-26 Thread James
uniq-star.com> writes: > Quran in 55 languages > http://www.truemuslims.net tl;dr Here is a quick reference:: http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/quran/violence.aspx James

[gentoo-user] Re: MBR & GPT dual compliant format

2016-07-26 Thread James
l comments and examples are most welcome. I do need some 'thinking out of the box' on this effort. Request for automating of tools, ipxe to ansible will be subjects of future needs. TIA, James

[gentoo-user] Re: MBR & GPT dual compliant format

2016-07-22 Thread James
uses the majority of partitioning tools. I wrote some code to make parted do it at one point, but I don't believe it was ever merged. It's very difficult to make it work well. " They discuss also some of the MAC family of issues and explain why macs still suffer from this malaise. I hope that code is still around Thanks for all the advice and help. James

[gentoo-user] MBR & GPT dual compliant format

2016-07-22 Thread James
edit this table and show me an example (no worries on boundaries or sizes) and include a few sentences to explain and guide me on this effort? curiously, James

[gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-21 Thread James
ed. Hopefully this makes sense, as the basis of a collection of systems to test a variety of cluster architectures, DFS and clusters codes, on identical hardware to validate performance comparison James

[gentoo-user] Re: GPT newbee needs some help

2016-07-21 Thread James
t distros will you ultimately be booting off that disk. Then with that data, decide which formatting tool to use. (Others will disagree with this logical progression, which is good as long as they refine there reasons, explicitly.) hth, James

[gentoo-user] Re: "X11 forwarding" so to say ... but for audio

2016-07-19 Thread James
gmx.de> writes: > Hi, > PS: James: Do you know the NodeMCU Lua v3 board? ;) Ju talkin to me? Ju talkin to me? If so, sorry, had a major hardware issues where I lost a few days No not specifically, but that does not matter, embedded is embedded and it's always broken,

[gentoo-user] Re: Your own Processor running Gentoo

2016-07-18 Thread James
) get some real world, bitchen toys! hth, James

[gentoo-user] Re: Your own Processor running Gentoo

2016-07-18 Thread James
gentoo channel or ML on these patent-free cores, gentoo-emebedded the default channel? Is there a default fpga board the gentoo community is using on these superH/riscv/openrisc projects? SH4 does sound very interesting (with mmu). > deven Thanks very much for your response, James > > http://j-core.org/?HN_20160716

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