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

2012-05-20 Thread Philip Webb
120519 Michael Mol wrote: According to Wikipedia, the Zeiss Ikon is 35mm SLR, but that's about all you're going to get from it. No ! -- as Stroller pointed out, zoom lenses were invented only c 1950. My stepfather's model was made in Germany c 1939 had been mentioned to him as a good buy by a

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

2012-05-20 Thread Philip Webb
120520 Stroller wrote: Zoom lenses were much less common even 2 or 3 decades ago. For a long time, a 50mm prime was the common kit lens, rather than the 18-105mm zoom which is sold today. This was because on a camera using 35mm film, a 50mm focal length gives a field of view very close to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

2012-05-20 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
Just for sake of correctness, what the op wants is called normalization, in the world of sound edition. It can be done once, as you rip the file or it can be done on the fly when playing it. replaygain is (as the name itself says) an implementation of this that automatically adjusts the gain of

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing the files of an un-/installed package...?

2012-05-20 Thread Jesús J . Guerrero Botella
There's no way to know the files for a non-installed package. Ebuilds are NOT packages. The files are generated at build time, and vary dependind on the package, version, config options, arch, deps, and a large etc, including missalignment of the planets and othes essoteric variables. --- Jesús

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

2012-05-20 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: Anything in there show network through-put per process? I've been looking for a way to monitor what's going to each of my VMs? net-analyzer/nethogs does that. Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

2012-05-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 May 2012, at 10:41, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: ... Specially for bands like led zeppelin, I would just use the second method (adjust while playing, rather than while ripping). Someday you will want to hear the whole disk as it was intended, … I agree that adjust-whilst-playing

Re: [gentoo-user] Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in background

2012-05-20 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Wednesday, May 16, 2012 02:15:19 PM Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2012 09:40:26 +0100, Ignas Anikevicius wrote: I want to do this, so that I do not have to wait while non-crucial services are being started (e.g. fcron, bitlbee, ntpd to name a few). Maybe it is possible to somehow

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

2012-05-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 20/05/12 12:41, Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: Just for sake of correctness, what the op wants is called normalization, in the world of sound edition. Actually, no. That's not what he wants. Normalization simply adjusts to 0db. How loud something sounds however is not a simple matter

Re: [gentoo-user] Running programs compiled with a different gcc version

2012-05-20 Thread Norman Invasion
On 19 May 2012 16:23, Urs Schutz u.sch...@bluewin.ch wrote: Yesterday I manually compiled photivo, a camera raw file converter and image editor. One of the requirements for installing is gcc 4.6. So I manually unmasked gcc 4.6.3 and installed it with portage. After switching gcc with

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

2012-05-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 20 May 2012 06:15:42 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 19 May 2012 07:45:56 +0530 Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: Hi, Which is the best caching dns

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

2012-05-20 Thread Mick
On Saturday 19 May 2012 13:09:45 Pandu Poluan wrote: On May 19, 2012 6:46 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Willie Matthews wrote: [le snip] You should really try changing you DNS server to some faster ones. I was having this same problem with my ISP or DSL modem with built in

Re: [gentoo-user] Runlevels, ordering initscripts and running them in background

2012-05-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 20 May 2012 19:59:40 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote: To have bitlbee start after xdm either add rc_after=xdm to /etc/conf.d/bitlbee or put rc_bitlbee_after=xdm in /etc/rc.conf. Both have the same effect, it depends on whether you want to put all these settings

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

2012-05-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 10:01 PM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 19 May 2012, at 20:28, Michael Mol wrote: … Worse, if the photographer was not using a prime lens[1], and was instead using a lens with variable zoom, you can't easily know what the real focal length was, as

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

2012-05-20 Thread Philip Webb
120520 Michael Mol wrote: as Philip later remarked, it turns out the lens was likely a 75mm prime The picture of the camera looks exactly what I remember, tho' there might have been different models with different lenses. It was a very good camera for its time. The leftmost portion will never

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

2012-05-20 Thread Pandu Poluan
On May 21, 2012 3:19 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 19 May 2012 13:09:45 Pandu Poluan wrote: On May 19, 2012 6:46 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Willie Matthews wrote: [le snip] You should really try changing you DNS server to some faster ones. * I*

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

2012-05-20 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Slow connection. See my previous reply to the list. I'm using pdnsd, which can persist records and has every damn feature I wanted. Fair enough, but consider this: If your connection is slow, the only thing you

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

2012-05-20 Thread ny6p01
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 06:01:27PM +0100, Stroller wrote: On 20 May 2012, at 10:41, Jes?s J. Guerrero Botella wrote: ... Specially for bands like led zeppelin, I would just use the second method (adjust while playing, rather than while ripping). Someday you will want to hear the whole

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

2012-05-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 120520 Michael Mol wrote: as Philip later remarked, it turns out the lens was likely a 75mm prime The picture of the camera looks exactly what I remember, tho' there might have been different models with different

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] ogg/mp3 volume

2012-05-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:44 PM, ny6...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 06:01:27PM +0100, Stroller wrote: On 20 May 2012, at 10:41, Jes?s J. Guerrero Botella wrote: ... Specially for bands like led zeppelin, I would just use the second method (adjust while playing, rather than

Re: [gentoo-user] Best caching dns server?

2012-05-20 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan cont...@nileshgr.com wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Slow connection. See my previous reply to the list. I'm using pdnsd, which can persist records and has every damn feature I wanted.

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

2012-05-20 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.05.2012 22:13, Michael Scherer wrote: 1) make output: CHK     include/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h CALL