Mark David Dumlao wrote:
(snippage) Half the fun of Gentoo is
knowing that you're kinda on your own.
Hmm - I think the point of this community is that you are anything but
on your own. The (many) other posters have been trying to help you
realize that you are much more likely to discover
On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Dale wrote:
> Robert Bridge wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:34:26 -0600
> >
> > Dale wrote:
> >> Mick wrote:
> >>> Hi All,
> >>>
> >>> I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with
> >>> the way it opens certain types of files. How can I create
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Dude, I'm getting a Dell!
>
> It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work.
> But I want to
> put a Linux partition on there. So I need to repartition.
>
> Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering if there is a good open-source
> way
> to back up
Am Dienstag, 23. Dezember 2008 07:39:17 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman:
> Dude, I'm getting a Dell!
>
> It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work.
> But I want to
> put a Linux partition on there. So I need to repartition.
>
> Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering if there
Dude, I'm getting a Dell!
It's gonna come with Vista, and I have to use it that way for work.
But I want to
put a Linux partition on there. So I need to repartition.
Having learned to be cautious, I'm wondering if there is a good open-source way
to back up about 300GB of NTFS such that I can res
Robert Bridge wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:34:26 -0600
> Dale wrote:
>
>
>> Mick wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with
>>> the way it opens certain types of files. How can I create an
>>> association to e.g. use xpdf to open pd
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:34:26 -0600
Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with
> > the way it opens certain types of files. How can I create an
> > association to e.g. use xpdf to open pdf files and OOo (oowriter)
> > to open .
On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with the
> > way it opens certain types of files. How can I create an association to
> > e.g. use xpdf to open pdf files and OOo (oowriter) to open .odt and .do
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:47 PM, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Stroller
> wrote:
>> You are not stupid. I think your use of English is excellent, you just have
>> to decide upon how you wish to present yourself.
>
> Stroller, all I can say is that you are reading too
James wrote:
>
> But, that is the best/only method?
>
>
> James
>
>
>
There is a way to do this. I used it once but I can't remember the
command and I can't find anything in the old emails. I have emails
going back a lng time but maybe not far enough and not sure if my
search terms are wo
Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with the way it
> opens certain types of files. How can I create an association to e.g. use
> xpdf to open pdf files and OOo (oowriter) to open .odt and .doc files? All I
> get now is a plain text editor fi
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> grepping a log file is the most natural way for an experienced unix admin to
> do it. It's a useful skill, all newbies should be encouraged (but not
> required) to learn it. Sometimes we experienced admin types lose sight of the
> fact that regardless of all
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> In cases where a quick command to display something doesn't exist, it's
> usually because it never occurred to the developer that there could be
> another way I find in my own experience that I usually know what driver
> is being used - I set the machines u
On 23 Dec 2008, at 00:47, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
...
Stroller, all I can say is that you are reading too much into my posts
and trying to second-guess my intentions.
...
If you're that emotionally invested in getting offended by my style,
then have a nice day.
That's right. Because it couldn
Oh and just to make it clear once and for all,
I was perfectly fine with the idea that my problems might go ignored,
and in fact my running assumption all this time was that nobody knew
or was interested in my particular problems. That's how mailing lists
work. Sometimes you win, sometimes you los
On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Arttu V. wrote:
> > since the 2.0 disaster. Since then I am a happy KDE-only user.
> > Not using gnome makes me skip gnome threads automatically - the few
> > things I remember back from the 1.4 days won't help anyway.
>
> I run KDE as well (so maybe I'm biased to com
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:18 AM, Stroller
wrote:
> You are not stupid. I think your use of English is excellent, you just have
> to decide upon how you wish to present yourself.
Stroller, all I can say is that you are reading too much into my posts
and trying to second-guess my intentions. Yes I
On 12/23/08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, Arttu V. wrote:
>
>>
>> *If you're so sure it's the html in his emails, then why don't you
>> answer his questions about Gnome?*
>
> well, I saw his mails - and I did not react to them, because I don't use
> gnome
Sorry, that
On Dienstag 23 Dezember 2008, Stroller wrote:
>
> One reason your post generated so many responses is that *everyone*
> has posted once in HTML and been asked not to.
not me. And others did not too. Because 'no html' is a common thing for user
related mailing lists.
On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, Arttu V. wrote:
>
> *If you're so sure it's the html in his emails, then why don't you
> answer his questions about Gnome?*
well, I saw his mails - and I did not react to them, because I don't use gnome
since the 2.0 disaster. Since then I am a happy KDE-only user.
N
On 22 Dec 2008, at 23:18, Stroller wrote:
...
I am currently searching my subscription info, the gentoo site, or
the
mailing list welcome for any hints that html messages are rude or
unwanted. I am having some difficulty finding it, that alone is a
warning sign that the amount of pre-speciali
On 22 Dec 2008, at 14:51, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
...
Go look at the OP and the replies and take an objective look at the
words. Whatever the venomous, naggy, pompous, self-righteous - or even
injured - attitude it is you might be projecting just isn't present at
all.
You're mistaken.
On 21
On 12/22/08, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> no. His mails were ignored because nobody had an answer. Shown by the fact
> that nobody complained about his triple posting or html mails.
This is my favourite conspiracy theory as well, not the
no-html-theories. We've all been through situations where
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 00:09:19 Robert Bridge wrote:
> > Sure, I'm a little frustrated with the fact that discovering
> > the actual video driver file is such a nightmare. It should
> > be a simple little command of a script one can alias to
> > a simple command string. I'm not meaning to bas
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 00:07:40 Stroller wrote:
> On 22 Dec 2008, at 17:51, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> ...
> >> I would prefer it if Portage handled this without USE flag masking
> >> being necessary. If the required package is masked, or needs some
> >> other keyword, then IMO `emerge -p mplay
On 12/22/08, Willie Wong wrote:
> HAHA! Arttu, you also have a typo! ;)
>
> The file should be in
>
> /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask
>
> Note that 'profile' is singular, not plural.
Sorry, must've been the fever and cold I've been having for the last
couple of days. But true, fever or no f
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:42:20 + (UTC)
James wrote:
> Robert Bridge robbieab.com> writes:
>
>
> > My bad, by typoing /etc where I mean /var
>
> > Now when you've quite finished kicking me when I'm down... :P
>
>
> Sorry you took it that way
I'm not offended. If I was offended I would
On 22 Dec 2008, at 17:51, Alan McKinnon wrote:
...
I would prefer it if Portage handled this without USE flag masking
being necessary. If the required package is masked, or needs some
other keyword, then IMO `emerge -p mplayer` should simply give an
"unable to fulfil this USE - packages may be m
On 22 Dec 2008, at 18:23, Steven Susbauer wrote:
Stroller wrote:
... Mailers should default to plain text
unless the user explicitly chooses otherwise.
...
Mailers should also default to useful column sizes, which seem to have
failed in the case of your last message.
Keith Moore's [1] "Reci
Robert Bridge robbieab.com> writes:
> My bad, by typoing /etc where I mean /var
> Now when you've quite finished kicking me when I'm down... :P
Sorry you took it that way
Anyway, the previous post did say I found /var/log and the X log
files.
Sure, I'm a little frustrated with the
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 19:46:31 + (UTC)
James wrote:
> Robert Bridge robbieab.com> writes:
>
>
> > > How can I verify which driver(version) it is using?
>
> > Read /etc/log/Xorg.0/log
> > It will tell you which driver it loaded.
>
>
> Funny, I have not /etc/log dir on any gentoo system?
>
Robert Bridge robbieab.com> writes:
> > Its probably right in front of me, but I'm not seeing it, or not
> > recognizing what I see as being very useful I guess.
> (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
> (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporat
Robert Bridge robbieab.com> writes:
> > How can I verify which driver(version) it is using?
> Read /etc/log/Xorg.0/log
> It will tell you which driver it loaded.
Funny, I have not /etc/log dir on any gentoo system?
I do not have an /etc/X11/log dir either
How do you set up your systems
Stroller wrote:
> It's a bug because it annoys people. It only tends to annoy me when the
> sender has set the text to a size which is unreadable or intrusive on my
> monitor (a size which is undoubtedly perfect on the sender's 800x600
> monitor), but it appears to annoy other people more. That the
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:05:46 +
Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with
> the way it opens certain types of files. How can I create an
> association to e.g. use xpdf to open pdf files and OOo (oowriter) to
> open .odt and .doc files? All
On Monday 22 December 2008, Erik Hahn wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:05:46PM +, Mick wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with the
> > way it opens certain types of files. How can I create an association to
> > e.g. use xpdf to open pdf
I haven't been able to follow all of this, though some of it has been of
interest to me since I have a Vista 64 system I am trying to working with my
server's HP DeskJet 950C.
>From what you describe below, it sounds like the HP USB printer is on the
>Network Server and you are trying to attach
On Monday 22 December 2008 15:43:24 Stroller wrote:
> On 22 Dec 2008, at 11:33, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> > ...
> > The problem was that the dvdnav USE-flag was masked and you unmasked
> > the mplayer and dvdnav packages in the first place. This did not
> > affect the mplayer package that was built
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:23:14 -0600
Harry Putnam wrote:
> Robert Bridge writes:
>
> > On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:35:35 + (UTC)
> > James wrote:
> >> How can I verify which driver(version) it is using?
> >
> > Read /etc/log/Xorg.0/log
> > It will tell you which driver it loaded.
>
> Sorry to bu
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 05:05:46PM +, Mick wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with the way it
> opens certain types of files. How can I create an association to e.g. use
> xpdf to open pdf files and OOo (oowriter) to open .odt and .doc files?
Hi All,
I am trying out the Gentoo File Manager, but have run aground with the way it
opens certain types of files. How can I create an association to e.g. use
xpdf to open pdf files and OOo (oowriter) to open .odt and .doc files? All I
get now is a plain text editor firing up and opening suc
b.n. wrote:
>
> We -the plain text fans- are the weird ones.
>
> m.
>
>
>
I do a lot of text only to but I do like that one.
Dale
:-) :-)
Robert Bridge writes:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:35:35 + (UTC)
> James wrote:
>> How can I verify which driver(version) it is using?
>
> Read /etc/log/Xorg.0/log
> It will tell you which driver it loaded.
Sorry to butt in here.. but Robert can you show a line from your log
that IDs the driver
Hi,
Man Shankar wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to try out the tiling window managers. I would want to know the
> experiences of the users about awesome and xmonad. Primarily i would
> like to know which of those two tiling WMs has worked for you guys. The
> hurdles you encountered and the gains you g
On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, b.n. wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto:
>
> >> And what's even worse, instead of people concerning about that and how
> >> to solve the situation in the future, there is a lot of people giggling
> >> and behaving like "OMG H4X0RZ" against the "lame n00b" , ignorin
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
wrote:
>> Please. He's completely right in demanding apologies and a swift
>> reaction to the problem -because if users cannot access the list due to
>> undocumented stuff, it's a problem.
>
> no, he is absolutly wrong in demanding everything.
Stroller ha scritto:
>
> On 22 Dec 2008, at 12:59, b.n. wrote:
>> ...
>>> I don't know what you mean by using the adjective "cold" in relation to
>>> the communication error that your mailer posts HTML by default. You
>>> should file an upstream bug about that with whomever supplies it.
>>
>> Why
Volker Armin Hemmann ha scritto:
> On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, b.n. wrote:
>
>> The user is complaining of a *damn serious* problem. His emails were
>> ignored for an undocumented formatting community rule, and it made
>> impossible for him to use the mailing list, without anything alarming
>> him
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:37:08 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Because /usr/bin will always be in your PATH, so even if you are
running a KDE 3 session, KDE4 programs will be loaded.
Why would they? /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and
last in KDE 4 sessions
On Montag 22 Dezember 2008, b.n. wrote:
>
> The user is complaining of a *damn serious* problem. His emails were
> ignored for an undocumented formatting community rule, and it made
> impossible for him to use the mailing list, without anything alarming
> him of the problem until late.
no. His ma
Dale wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
And how is putting KDE4 in /usr/kde going to help in this? What
difference does it make if the wrong path is chosen? Surely, it
doesn't matter a bit how that path looks lik
On 22 Dec 2008, at 11:33, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
...
The problem was that the dvdnav USE-flag was masked and you unmasked
the mplayer and dvdnav packages in the first place. This did not
affect the mplayer package that was built without dvdnav support as
the flag was still deactivated. Here [1]
On 22 Dec 2008, at 12:59, b.n. wrote:
...
I don't know what you mean by using the adjective "cold" in
relation to
the communication error that your mailer posts HTML by default. You
should file an upstream bug about that with whomever supplies it.
Why is posting HTML mail a bug? I don't lik
On 22 Dec 2008, at 11:33, b.n. wrote:
Stroller ha scritto:
I intended to stay silent, however I feel obliged to balance the
posts
from brullonu...@gmail.com
You could answer to my emails, argumenting in detail. I hope we're not
here to "score points", but to understand what to do to solve t
Stroller ha scritto:
>
> On 21 Dec 2008, at 09:46, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
>> ... On perhaps my third or fourth repost, I found a
>> shocking answer:
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht
>>> ...
>>> You may try by sending a mail using the text format instead of the HTML
>>> one
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:35:38 +, Jean-Marc Paulin wrote:
> Neil: I did google for it, but I guess not in the right place. Will
> try harder next time.
Googling for "setarch site:archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user" found it, but
the Gentoo mailing list archives are not exactly well signposted :(
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:37:08 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > Because /usr/bin will always be in your PATH, so even if you are
> > running a KDE 3 session, KDE4 programs will be loaded.
>
> Why would they? /usr/kde/3.5/bin comes first in KDE 3 sessions and
> last in KDE 4 sessions. There's
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>
>>> And how is putting KDE4 in /usr/kde going to help in this? What
>>> difference does it make if the wrong path is chosen? Surely, it
>>> doesn't matter a bit how that path looks l
Hello,
This follows from the printing-from-windows thread; it's not confined to
Windows.
Thanks to Mark K for his help so far. To recap:
My network server box has two USB printers attached: a Kyocera FS1020D
laser, which works just fine, and an HP Deskjet D4260, which doesn't: I can
print to
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
And how is putting KDE4 in /usr/kde going to help in this? What
difference does it make if the wrong path is chosen? Surely, it
doesn't matter a bit how that path looks like if it's wrong. If a KDE4
path would
Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
And how is putting KDE4 in /usr/kde going to help in this? What
difference does it make if the wrong path is chosen? Surely, it
doesn't matter a bit how that path looks like if it's wrong. If a
>
> This is probably because setarch got included in newer util-linux
> versions.
>
Thanks to all of you. I did unmerge setarch, and the emerge is now on
its way. I just did not know that setarch was included in the newer
util-linux, hence was scared to remove it just like that...
Neil: I did goo
2008/12/22 Stroller :
>
> On 22 Dec 2008, at 05:36, Willie Wong wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 04:52:54AM +, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked:
>>>
>>> On 20 Dec 2008, at 04:34, Arttu V. wrote:
>>>
On 12/20/08, Willie Wong wrote:
>
> I think you can try use unmasking the flag:
On 21 Dec 2008, at 09:46, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
... On perhaps my third or fourth repost, I found a
shocking answer:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Nicolas Sebrecht
...
You may try by sending a mail using the text format instead of the
HTML
one. I don't read more than one line when it'
Stroller ha scritto:
> I intended to stay silent, however I feel obliged to balance the posts
> from brullonu...@gmail.com
You could answer to my emails, argumenting in detail. I hope we're not
here to "score points", but to understand what to do to solve the
situation.
In my humble opinion, just
On 22 Dec 2008, at 01:06, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote:
Am I the only one here that sees this is a stupid and completely
irrelevant
thread? HTML mail is like farting when you meet the Queen - you
just don't do
it. There isn't a rule about it
I intended to stay silent, however I feel obliged to balance the posts
from brullonu...@gmail.com
On 22 Dec 2008, at 02:46, Willie Wong wrote:
...
You are still under one assumption: that if you had sent your e-mail
in plain text, you won't be ignored. Granted that you will be ignored
less if
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>
>> And how is putting KDE4 in /usr/kde going to help in this? What
>> difference does it make if the wrong path is chosen? Surely, it
>> doesn't matter a bit how that path looks like if it's wrong. If a K
I intended to stay silent, however I feel obliged to balance the posts
from brullonu...@gmail.com
On 22 Dec 2008, at 05:31, Willie Wong wrote:
...
But as the thread drags on, your stubborn defense against other
posters
who request that you drop the subject already because
...
*) your voci
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:46:55 +
"Jean-Marc Paulin" wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Neil Bothwick
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:13:01 +, Jean-Marc Paulin wrote:
> >
> >> [blocks B ] >> sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r2)
> >
> > You need to upgrade to a more recent version of
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:57:22 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> And how is putting KDE4 in /usr/kde going to help in this? What
> difference does it make if the wrong path is chosen? Surely, it
> doesn't matter a bit how that path looks like if it's wrong. If a KDE4
> path would come before a K
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:18:27 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> OK, now I'm really curious; turns out they are NOT dependencies :P I
> just checked with equery and nothing depends on them. Is that normal?
> I mean, startkde for example is crucial to even start KDE 3 and it's
> not a dependency?
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:46:55 +, Jean-Marc Paulin wrote:
> > emerge --oneshot util-linux
> >
> Blocked as well:
>
> # emerge --oneshot util-linux
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.14.1 [2.12i-r1] USE="-loop-aes%
> -old-linux% -slang% (-uclibc) -unico
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:53:07 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> As I said there aren't even any terms to search for when you're
> getting ignored. If I had known that the problem was html mails from
> the start, then i would have already corrected the issue before
> searching the archive.
You're m
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:06:07 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> It doesn't matter that there isn't a formal rule. What matters is
> there is no way to find out about the de-facto rule in one of the
> standard use-cases of a mailing list - which is to just ask a few
> quick questions and filter out
b.n. wrote:
> Willie Wong ha scritto:
>
>> Starting a new thread because this is getting way off topic (both
>> re: gentoo or re: the topic under discussion in the other thread)
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:25:12PM -0600, Penguin Lover ??Q?? squawked:
>>
>>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:05:58
Willie Wong ha scritto:
> Starting a new thread because this is getting way off topic (both
> re: gentoo or re: the topic under discussion in the other thread)
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:25:12PM -0600, Penguin Lover ??Q?? squawked:
>> On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 23:05:58 -0600
>> Steven Susbauer wrot
John J. Foster ha scritto:
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:32:26AM +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote:
>> I think you're missing the point. I never asked the community to
>> change its rules. I'm only saying that these particular rules were
>> invisible, and there's no way to find out about it, and that's
Le Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:22:03 +0300,
Andrew Gaydenko a écrit :
> Building ends with the error shown below. Have not found an
> appropriate bug. As the app is very spreaded, I can assume something
> wrong on my system. Are all happy with building the app? I'm on
> ~amd64.
Seems to be a wrong patch
Building ends with the error shown below. Have not found an appropriate bug. As
the app is very
spreaded, I can assume something wrong on my system. Are all happy with
building the app? I'm
on ~amd64.
...
file=`echo b...@latin | sed 's,.*/,,'`.g
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