Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-14 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 15 May 2012 01:27:25 Stroller wrote: > On 14 May 2012, at 20:12, James wrote: > > … > > I inserted a 12.0 lived DVD. It put for > > small gentoo symbols across the top, then went > > blank after 3 minutes. The DVD drive was very active > > for about 5 minutes then silence? > > > > Any

Re: [gentoo-user] merging or fitting images together

2012-05-14 Thread Philip Webb
I tried Hugin, but got nowhere. I set 6 points on each picture, which are 2 overlapping parts of a single original negative, but all it offered was a black screen; I did follow the on-line help. Then I tried Imagemagick & got a good result after a bit of fussing. The commands I used were c

Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-14 Thread ny6p01
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:27:25AM +0100, Stroller wrote: > > On 14 May 2012, at 20:12, James wrote: > > ? > > I inserted a 12.0 lived DVD. It put for > > small gentoo symbols across the top, then went > > blank after 3 minutes. The DVD drive was very active > > for about 5 minutes then silence?

Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 May 2012, at 20:12, James wrote: > … > I inserted a 12.0 lived DVD. It put for > small gentoo symbols across the top, then went > blank after 3 minutes. The DVD drive was very active > for about 5 minutes then silence? > > Any suggestions or install guides are most welcome. I boot from a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500 > Dale wrote: > >> For example: Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top posters >> on this list. > > Yo Dale, > > You might want to re-calibrate your stats engine :-) > > I've been quiet for a while (getting old...)[1] and fif

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 15, 2012 7:11 AM, "Alecks Gates" wrote: > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > On May 15, 2012 2:27 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: > >> > > >> > Personally, gmail has given me a bad habit. It defaults to

Re: [gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-14 Thread ny6p01
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 07:12:34PM +, James wrote: > Well, > > I just got this new HP A8 laptop. > > After setting up the default windows, I modified > the bios boot order to use the internal DVD. Then > I inserted a 12.0 lived DVD. It put for > small gentoo symbols across the top, then went

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Alecks Gates
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On May 15, 2012 2:27 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: >> >> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: >> > >> > Personally, gmail has given me a bad habit.  It defaults to >> > top-posting in the web client, which I don't see how to cha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 15, 2012 2:27 AM, "Michael Mol" wrote: > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: > > > > Personally, gmail has given me a bad habit. It defaults to > > top-posting in the web client, which I don't see how to change. But > > at least on the desktop I can easily move formatt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 15, 2012 2:16 AM, "Alecks Gates" wrote: > > Personally, gmail has given me a bad habit. It defaults to > top-posting in the web client, which I don't see how to change. But > at least on the desktop I can easily move formatting around. On the > Android client it seems rather archaic. Do

Re: [gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only

2012-05-14 Thread felix
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 06:00:11PM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:47 AM, wrote: > > > > It's a reiserfs, and df -i shows zeroes; I had never given any thought > > to reiserfs and inodes. ?Interesting. > > I thought reiserfs allocated new inodes as needed, with no practica

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2012 22:53:40 +0100 > Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Mon, 14 May 2012 23:24:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> > I still think Neil has the best sigs in the entire universe. >> > It's spooky the way his fortunes work. >> >> Th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2012 23:24:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I still think Neil has the best sigs in the entire universe. >> It's spooky the way his fortunes work. > > They're totally random and chosen by software, I have no influence over >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 14 May 2012 22:53:40 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 14 May 2012 23:24:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > I still think Neil has the best sigs in the entire universe. > > It's spooky the way his fortunes work. > > They're totally random and chosen by software, I have no influence

Re: [gentoo-user] perl versioning problem, how to get beyond for @world

2012-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 14 May 2012 18:58:29 -0400 Harry Putnam wrote: > I have a light minimalish system (noX) and not a lot installed but > for a the last few weeks, when I try to update with emerge -vuD world > > It caves about a perl versioning problem, and specifically about: > perl-core/Module-Build-0.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only

2012-05-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 9:47 AM, wrote: > > It's a reiserfs, and df -i shows zeroes; I had never given any thought > to reiserfs and inodes.  Interesting. I thought reiserfs allocated new inodes as needed, with no practical limit.

[gentoo-user] perl versioning problem, how to get beyond for @world

2012-05-14 Thread Harry Putnam
I have a light minimalish system (noX) and not a lot installed but for a the last few weeks, when I try to update with emerge -vuD world It caves about a perl versioning problem, and specifically about: perl-core/Module-Build-0.400.0 Abbreviated output: , | >>> Emerging (1 of 12) perl-core/

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs [SOLVED, sort of]

2012-05-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Finally, I found something. It's Dolphin! > > I've done some longer testing, always playing the same video parallel > with a dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/10G bs=1M count=1, in mplayer, for a > minute, several times. When I do this by opening t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 May 2012 17:26:44 +0200, Michael Scherer wrote: > obviously this is an ingrained habit on gentoo-users, but from Not a habit, a preference grown from years of experience and the practicalities of lists like this. > now on I'm going follow my habits and damn the flames. Do you act lik

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 May 2012 23:24:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I still think Neil has the best sigs in the entire universe. > It's spooky the way his fortunes work. They're totally random and chosen by software, I have no influence over them. -- Neil Bothwick A: Because it messes up the order in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 14 May 2012 17:01:59 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > [snip] > > > We generally tolerate gmail webapp users (trying to inline post on > > that is hard to do but possible) and reluctantly accept the > > smartphone users often have no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: [snip] > We generally tolerate gmail webapp users (trying to inline post on that > is hard to do but possible) and reluctantly accept the smartphone users > often have no choice as it's impossible to do anything other than top > post on many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:13:18 -0500 Dale wrote: > For example: Alan, Mike, Pandu, Mark, Neil and me are the top posters > on this list. Yo Dale, You might want to re-calibrate your stats engine :-) I've been quiet for a while (getting old...)[1] and fifty bucks says Michael, Canek, Pandu and a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 14 May 2012 14:11:25 -0500 Alecks Gates wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Tanstaafl > wrote: > > This is only the case if the person who replies doesn't trim their > > quoted text - which is often the case when brain-dead top-posters > > try bottom (aka inline) posting... > > > >

[gentoo-user] Re: HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-14 Thread walt
On 05/14/2012 12:12 PM, James wrote: > Well, > > I just got this new HP A8 laptop. > > After setting up the default windows, I modified > the bios boot order to use the internal DVD. Then > I inserted a 12.0 lived DVD. It put for > small gentoo symbols across the top, then went > blank after 3 m

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Alecks Gates wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> This is only the case if the person who replies doesn't trim their quoted >> text - which is often the case when brain-dead top-posters try bottom (aka >> inline) posting... >> >> >> You sh

[gentoo-user] HP A8 laptop install

2012-05-14 Thread James
Well, I just got this new HP A8 laptop. After setting up the default windows, I modified the bios boot order to use the internal DVD. Then I inserted a 12.0 lived DVD. It put for small gentoo symbols across the top, then went blank after 3 minutes. The DVD drive was very active for about 5 minut

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Alecks Gates
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: > This is only the case if the person who replies doesn't trim their quoted > text - which is often the case when brain-dead top-posters try bottom (aka > inline) posting... > > > You should always strive to adjust you habits to the rules of the fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-05-14 11:26 AM, Michael Scherer wrote: in my opinion it isn't. with top posting I see the newest message immediately, while otherwise I need page through sometimes huge amounts of mostly obsolete comments. This is only the case if the person who replies doesn't trim their quoted text

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Mon, May 14 2012, Michael Scherer wrote: > >> in my opinion it isn't. with top posting I see the newest message >> immidiately, while otherwise I need page through sometimes >> huge amounts of mostly obsolete comments. >> where it's possible, I put my messages on top, an

Re: [gentoo-user] libicui18n.so.49 troubles

2012-05-14 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:56 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 05/13/2012 06:05 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Sun, 13 May 2012 20:58:51 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> >>> I had to mask icu-49 because some packages failed to compile >>> dur

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Mon, May 14 2012, Michael Scherer wrote: > in my opinion it isn't. with top posting I see the newest message > immidiately, while otherwise I need page through sometimes > huge amounts of mostly obsolete comments. > where it's possible, I put my messages on top, and I've found > more than once

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread ny6p01
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:26:44PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote: > in my opinion it isn't. with top posting I see the newest message > immidiately, while otherwise I need page through sometimes > huge amounts of mostly obsolete comments. > where it's possible, I put my messages on top, and I've fou

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 14 May 2012 17:26:44 +0200 "Michael Scherer" wrote: > in my opinion it isn't. with top posting I see the newest message > immidiately, while otherwise I need page through sometimes > huge amounts of mostly obsolete comments. > where it's possible, I put my messages on top, and I've found

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: solving curl dependency issues

2012-05-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 14 May 2012 16:02:15 +0200 Space Cake wrote: > Removing keywords from curl produces this > > brutal keywords # emerge --keep-going -upND world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with U

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: make of gentoo-sources-3.2.12 fails

2012-05-14 Thread Michael Scherer
in my opinion it isn't. with top posting I see the newest message immidiately, while otherwise I need page through sometimes huge amounts of mostly obsolete comments. where it's possible, I put my messages on top, and I've found more than once forum-rules that require or at least recommend top pos

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Curious hdparm results

2012-05-14 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:52 AM, walt wrote: > On 05/13/2012 02:00 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:28 PM, walt wrote: >>> > I have a usb3 docking station which is showing some behavior I don't >>> > understand: >>> > >>> >  #hdparm -t /dev/sdc >>> > >>> > /dev/sdc: >>> >  Tim

[gentoo-user] Re: solving curl dependency issues

2012-05-14 Thread walt
On 05/14/2012 06:08 AM, walt wrote: > On 05/14/2012 03:49 AM, Space Cake wrote: >> Hi, >> >> For several weeks I'm trying to solve dependency issues with curl, but I'm >> lost.. any idea? > > That problem drove me nuts for months. I finally discovered by desperate > trial and error that un-setti

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Curious hdparm results

2012-05-14 Thread walt
On 05/13/2012 02:00 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 4:28 PM, walt wrote: >> > I have a usb3 docking station which is showing some behavior I don't >> > understand: >> > >> > #hdparm -t /dev/sdc >> > >> > /dev/sdc: >> > Timing buffered disk reads: 266 MB in 3.01 seconds = 88.43

Re: [gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only

2012-05-14 Thread felix
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 04:11:20PM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: > If I remember correctly, EncFS is not a file system on it's own, it's > more like an addon to any other file system. > So maybe the problem is not with EncFS, but the underlaying file system. > > A wild guess would be that the un

Re: [gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only

2012-05-14 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 14.05.2012 14:33, schrieb fe...@crowfix.com: > I have been using encfs to store most of my home dir for ages. I rebooted > Sunday morning (it's a ~amd64 system) to change kernel to 3.3.5 from 3.3.4, > and sometime overnight, after the nightly backups and mail archives had run, > the encfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: solving curl dependency issues

2012-05-14 Thread Space Cake
Removing keywords from curl produces this brutal keywords # emerge --keep-going -upND world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "net-misc/curl[ssl,curl_ssl_nss]". !!! One of the

[gentoo-user] Re: solving curl dependency issues

2012-05-14 Thread walt
On 05/14/2012 03:49 AM, Space Cake wrote: > Hi, > > For several weeks I'm trying to solve dependency issues with curl, but I'm > lost.. any idea? That problem drove me nuts for months. I finally discovered by desperate trial and error that un-setting the 'curl' useflag fixes it. Finally!

[gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only

2012-05-14 Thread felix
I have been using encfs to store most of my home dir for ages. I rebooted Sunday morning (it's a ~amd64 system) to change kernel to 3.3.5 from 3.3.4, and sometime overnight, after the nightly backups and mail archives had run, the encfs mounted partition became read-only. I know the timing onl

Re: [gentoo-user] solving curl dependency issues

2012-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 14 May 2012 12:49:59 +0200, Space Cake wrote: > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy > "net-misc/curl[ssl,curl_ssl_nss]". > !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: > - net-misc/curl-7.25.0-r1::gentoo (Change USE: +curl_ssl_nss, this

[gentoo-user] solving curl dependency issues

2012-05-14 Thread Space Cake
Hi, For several weeks I'm trying to solve dependency issues with curl, but I'm lost.. any idea? emerge --keep-going -upND world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "net-misc/cu