[gentoo-user] U.V.C. Webcam Disconnects shortly after Registration

2020-12-24 Thread Ashley Dixon
uvc/#devices -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-28 Thread Ashley Dixon
nding ten pulses in a tenth of a second. LOL. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] MESA-LOADER: failed to open vboxvideo (search paths /usr/lib64/dri)

2020-10-22 Thread Ashley Dixon
solution of blacklisting vboxvideo to avoid conflicts with the kernel frame buffer? [1] $ echo 'blacklist vboxvideo' >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-user/message/7632c76e306cc3ce8f615253c419f63a -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A

Re: [gentoo-user] llvm fails to emerge

2020-10-19 Thread Ashley Dixon
modern, albeit virtualised, system [2]. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide#Using_quickpkg [2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/1512947/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with my USE= statement in /etc/portage/make.conf?

2020-10-18 Thread Ashley Dixon
ortage/package.use $ echo "sys-auth/polkit elogind" > sys-auth/polkit -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with my USE= statement in /etc/portage/make.conf?

2020-10-18 Thread Ashley Dixon
Manual to find the meaning of obscure notations. [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-auth/polkit/polkit-0.118.ebuild#n18 [2] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/#required_use -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Kernel build failing on new install

2020-10-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
onfig` on your old .config in a new kernel sources directory will ask all the same questions regarding new features. Some defaults are sensible, some are not. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] app-shells/gentoo-zsh-completions no longer working

2020-10-12 Thread Ashley Dixon
pos [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/zsh-completion.git/tree/src/_gentoo_repos_conf [3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/app-shells/zsh/zsh-5.8.ebuild#n197 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-11 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 09:35:07PM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > `pkg_pretend` issues that error only if the architecture is x86 and SSE2 is > enabled in the USE-flags: > > (use x86 && ! use cpu_flags_x86_sse2) && \ > die "Your C

Re: [gentoo-user] What happened to my emerge -u?

2020-10-11 Thread Ashley Dixon
x86` is returning true; surely `amd64` would be the appropriate flag? Strange... https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-libs/nodejs/nodejs-14.4.0.ebuild#n50 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/xdg-desktop-portal wants USE=screencast

2020-10-11 Thread Ashley Dixon
ncast` requirement, disable `wayland` on `krfb`. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo handbook

2020-10-11 Thread Ashley Dixon
rovides is detailing the location of the `CONFIG_` option, in relation to the graphical menus one must navigate. Sometimes it's just easier to edit your `.config` manually; menuconfig can be terribly slow and cumbersome when you're only searching the option titles. [1] https://wik

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-5.4.69

2020-10-10 Thread Ashley Dixon
unmask` and `--autounmask-continue` options, which will automatically add the requested version to your `package.accept_keywords` directory/file and emerge from there. $ emerge -1 --autounmask --autounmask-continue \ =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-5.4.69 -- Ashley

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-10-10 Thread Ashley Dixon
/gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/app-accessibility/espeak/espeak-1.48.04-r1.ebuild#n93 [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/eclass/kernel-2.eclass#n1603 [3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/eclass/kernel-2.eclass#n1005 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 D

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-10 Thread Ashley Dixon
petent front-line support teams. A lack of hand-holding and presumed- ability is not a need for concern, but more of an opportunity to grow. P.S. Do you know you're sending most messages twice, one signed, and one not? -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF

Re: [gentoo-user] about to install kernel source package

2020-10-10 Thread Ashley Dixon
x.html [2] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sda=stroke boot parameter

2020-10-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
; I've had surprising successes with it on some very peculiar/arcane/archaic systems. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#Default:_GRUB2 [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GRUB2 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
s#customizing-cmake-options [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/747163#c15 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for make menuconfig

2020-10-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
quot;, stamp=stamp@entry=0x55570b90) at /usr/src/debug/sys-apps/kmod-27-r2/kmod-27/libkmod/libkmod-index.c :744 Cheers for pointing this out. I'm still not completely accustomed to using Linux with a _good_ package manager. ;-) [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/w

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for make menuconfig

2020-10-08 Thread Ashley Dixon
s/pciutils.git/tree/ls-kernel.c#n42 [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/tree/libkmod/libkmod.c#n842 [3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/tree/libkmod/libkmod-index.c#n742 [4] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/pciutils/pciutils.git [5] git://git.ker

[gentoo-user] Re: Multilib ABI specific CPU use flags?

2020-10-08 Thread Ashley Dixon
7a010153d3acab8111ebb87d909cdcf -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for make menuconfig

2020-10-08 Thread Ashley Dixon
these files intact on your system? What happens when you run `lsmod`? [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git/tree/libkmod/libkmod.c#n53 [2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/25644147/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA s

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for make menuconfig

2020-10-08 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 07:30:45AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > This is just a total guess, but I can suppose that lspci uses it to convey > which kernel modules are being used by each PCI device. Clarification: kmod is used specifically with the `-k` switch of lspci: $ ash-eu

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for make menuconfig

2020-10-08 Thread Ashley Dixon
2] https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/20683 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre install failure

2020-10-06 Thread Ashley Dixon
ith "-j N". LOL. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] re: pcre install failure

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
ies... done! [ebuild R] dev-libs/libpcre-8.44:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx jit readline recursion-limit (split-usr) (unicode) zlib -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 -static-libs" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
il, as some mail clients will hide any further text, and some (such as Mutt) may show it in a different colour, causing confusion. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
# bash syntax livecd / # exit In future, if you just want to capture the output of a (possibly interactive) command, `tee` is better than `script`. It usually strips escape sequences and such. However, it does not capture standard error to the output file, so you'll want to redirect i

Re: [gentoo-user] pcre build failure

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
tatic-libs` flag. Can anyone else replicate this error? -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

2020-10-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
here. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] what test gets done in pcre makefile to find gcc won't work?

2020-10-04 Thread Ashley Dixon
#Timezone P.S. You can examine the contents of `/etc/localtime`, and thus the supported timezones, with the `zdump` utility from the `timezone-data` package: $ zdump /etc/locatime /etc/localtime Sun Oct 4 07:41:45 2020 BST -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is there any Gentoo User webinar ?

2020-09-30 Thread Ashley Dixon
ld would prevent any sort of meet-up anyway, although some sort of physical conference could be pleasant in a few years when the entire world has reverted to some description of normality.) -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth and KDE Connect

2020-09-21 Thread Ashley Dixon
s://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330536 [5] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/6ggb36/ [6] https://phabricator.kde.org/T7447 [7] https://nicolasfella.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/kde-connect-new-stuff-ii/ [8] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/kde-connect-bluetooth-backend-development [9] https://bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Bluetooth and KDE Connect

2020-09-21 Thread Ashley Dixon
toothctl` [4]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBject_EXchange [2] https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman [3] https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/wiki/Integrations#obex-file-transfer [4] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Device_pairing -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg does not start after a recent system update.

2020-09-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
e [1]: depend() { after coldplug need dbus localmount hostname } Anyway, glad to see it fixed. [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-wireless/bluez/files/bluetooth-init.d-r4 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg does not start after a recent system update.

2020-09-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
suid install-setuid)" ) fi [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/554 [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/x11-base/xorg-server/xorg-server-1.20.9.ebuild#n179 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Xorg does not start after a recent system update.

2020-09-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
go) of the D-Bus socket file not being recreated until rebooting. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] [gentoo-user] Python3 emerge problem with pycairo and wxpython

2020-09-16 Thread Ashley Dixon
for me. My e-mail server only has 12TB of disk space, and 90% of that has been taken up by G-Mail users posting HTML and plain text versions of the same message to the list... -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] pdftk stopped working

2020-09-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 01:00:53AM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > $ pdftk > Done. Input errors, so no output created. Have you tried running with increased verbosity? Perhaps these "input errors" will be described in a little more detail. https://linux.die.net/man/1/pdftk -

Re: [gentoo-user] exim4u

2020-09-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
in a few hours when I have some free-time. [1] https://gpo.zugaina.org/Search?search=exim4u [2] https://overlays.gentoo.org/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] problems running emerge @module-rebuild on new kernel

2020-09-12 Thread Ashley Dixon
here [1], as it effectively fixes any permission or timestamp issues. With that said, the problem should probably be reported in a more comprehensible manner than "Do not try to update included dependency files". [1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4039551.html -- Ashley

Re: [gentoo-user] problems running emerge @module-rebuild on new kernel

2020-09-11 Thread Ashley Dixon
erge sys-zfs/zfs-kmod it hangs on checking on whether > modules can be rebuilt. Please attach the script of emerge, from the invocation (include the command) to when it starts to hang. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc D

Re: [gentoo-user] tuning desktop appearance for legibility

2020-09-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
for cherry-picking, such as [2]. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-TW/firefox/addon/print-edit-we/ [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-TW/firefox/addon/print-friendly-pdf/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gnokii emerge failed

2020-09-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
class-reference/autotools.eclass/index.html [3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/eclass/autotools.eclass#n174 [4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/685832 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gnokii emerge failed

2020-09-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
g/cgit/gettext.git/plain/gettext-runtime/m4/codeset.m4?id=ba23f92889187ec33dd02fcaceed9503d1b65167 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gnokii emerge failed

2020-09-05 Thread Ashley Dixon
utoreconf --install` in the 'work' directory [1]. What does that output? [1] /var/tmp/portage/app-mobilephone/gnokii-0.6.31-r1/work/gnokii-0.6.31 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-30 Thread Ashley Dixon
y Mutt configuration file (the first line forces STARTTLS, hence the omission of `s` in `smtp://`): set ssl_force_tls = yes set smtp_url = "smtp://a...@mail.suugaku.co.uk:587" set folder = "imaps://mail.suugaku.co.uk:993/" -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Council vs Umbrella Corp ?

2020-08-28 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 10:15:32PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Ashley Dixon wrote: > > > > Especially considering most Americans do not understand the system (the > > readability of the I.R.S. tax code has been under scrutiny for a long time), > > I wouldn't want to pla

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Council vs Umbrella Corp ?

2020-08-28 Thread Ashley Dixon
but in actuality, I remain gravely dubious that managing a U.S.-bound organisation from an "English-centric" perspective would serve any advantage whatsoever. Especially considering most Americans do not understand the system (the readability of the I.R.S. tax code has been unde

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-27 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 06:02:43PM -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 8/27/20 11:55 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > Nevertheless, as xkcd so brilliantly explains, TeX inspires a level of blind > > trust in the content of a document [2]. As long as you avoid proposing > >

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-27 Thread Ashley Dixon
nd your conduct to be remarkably audacious (and frankly rude) considering all the time people are spending to help you. ... And if you don't want this sort of on-line discourse, why did you post on the list at all? -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-27 Thread Ashley Dixon
ncourage such behaviour. Ashley. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenzizenzizenzic (My favourite thing about this mad notation is the words used to describe it in the original manuscript: "represent the square of squares squaredly".) [2] https://xkcd.com/1301/ -- Ashley

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 08:33:58PM +, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > On Wednesday, August 26, 2020 9:57 PM, Ashley Dixon > wrote: > > > Why the name "HillaryMail", and why does the logo contain a picture of > > Margaret Thatcher? ;-) > > very tru

Re: [gentoo-user] new mail protocol rfc (was Re: tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?)

2020-08-26 Thread Ashley Dixon
ou mean "easy" for the people implementing the protocol, or the people making use of said implementations? "Traditional" SMTP mail clients have always been pretty straight-forward for me, although the difficulty involved in _implementing_ an M.T.A. is another story. I find this point r

Re: [gentoo-user] USE="-libglvnd" ignored

2020-08-23 Thread Ashley Dixon
ps, Ashley. [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/250286 [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/profiles/package.mask#n349 [3] https://bugs.gentoo.org/728286 [4] https://github.com/NVIDIA/libglvnd/blob/master/README.md [5] https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=app-eselect%2Fese

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-22 Thread Ashley Dixon
(POSIX) call. At that point, it is, in theory, the kernel's choice if and when it is _actually_ written to disk, but if one of the aforementioned functions return a success code, the M.T.A. has done its bit, and can consider the message "safely stored". -- Ashley Dixon suugak

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/systemd is blocking app-emulation/docker-19.03.12

2020-08-22 Thread Ashley Dixon
ust re-emerge systemd with USE="cgroup-hybrid" and see if that helps. Ashley. [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/#use-dependency-defaults -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-19 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 09:25:11AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > reliable method of reliably transferring Apologies for my unintended verbosity. My subconscious _really_ wanted to point out that SMTP is (generally) RELIABLE. ;-) -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-19 Thread Ashley Dixon
that said, if you'd like to propose a standard and write a reference implementation, that is how most new ideas in computing arise. I don't think anyone would attempt to stop you from doing that; we're merely suggesting that your current idea of the HTTP-for-mail protocol is flawed. -- As

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-18 Thread Ashley Dixon
d solution doesn't really provide greater ease for you, or the people e-mailing you! -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-08-17 Thread Ashley Dixon
e more entertaining ones: Passwords; Hackers; Secure Internet Connections; Firewalls; SSL; Police; High Security; basement; ID; Bob; gorilla; Global ... and my personal favourite, "WANK". -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA

Re: [gentoo-user] tips on running a mail server in a cheap vps provider run but not-so-trusty admins?

2020-08-17 Thread Ashley Dixon
ough I wouldn't recommend Courier; Dovecot is far superior). What do you think? -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-26 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 02:21:06PM +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM Ashley Dixon wrote: > > Do you mean that you want to monitor the host system from the guest? Can you > > not just SSH into the host from the guest? You can also infer CPU usage from >

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Can a linux vmware guest tell if its host is CPU constrained?

2020-07-26 Thread Ashley Dixon
file-sharing means. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange output when restarting network. Long term issue.

2020-07-23 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 02:59:10AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > I've just run it again, and it seems like the culprit is in the _show_address > function, which calls einfo [1], passing the result of _get_inet_address. > I'll > have a look at this more now, as it's something I als

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange output when restarting network. Long term issue.

2020-07-23 Thread Ashley Dixon
re now, as it's something I also would like to be resolved. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-23 Thread Ashley Dixon
hat you would expect, try something like `emerge -cv dev-python/sphinx` to see the explicit reverse-dependencies blocking the removal. [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html#build-dependencies -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange output when restarting network. Long term issue.

2020-07-22 Thread Ashley Dixon
.eno1 restart <... TRIM OUTPUT ...> [super] root@ad-gentoo-main / # * Starting openvpn ... [ ok ] * WARNING: openvpn has started, but is inactive * Mounting network filesystems ... [ ok ] echo Hello Hello [super] root@

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-21 Thread Ashley Dixon
ystemd'` to check the USE-flags with which you're asking Portage to build pambase. [1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-auth/pambase/pambase-20200618.ebuild#n19 [2] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/variables/index.html#eapi-5 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 41

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-21 Thread Ashley Dixon
, Portage should provide good, non-anti-pattern, secure defaults for _new_ users, however much of an inconvenience it may be for existing users who run X with `startx`. I generally agree with them on this point; "suid" is horribly outdated, however ubiquitous (especially for minimal

Re: [gentoo-user] FFmpeg and AVI1'd M-JPEGs

2020-07-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 10:22:49PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:10:17 +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > > Unfortunately, as per [3], Logitech C-series cameras (among others) > > utilise a proprietary extension to the Motion-JPEG format, in which > >

Re: [gentoo-user] FFmpeg and AVI1'd M-JPEGs

2020-07-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
ux/mjpeg.c#l49 [2] https://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/mjpeg/#Demux -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] FFmpeg and AVI1'd M-JPEGs

2020-07-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
[5] https://exiftool.org/TagNames/JPEG.html#AVI1 [6] https://code.videolan.org/libav/libav/commit/ba83c4bfb55d5c3fc6b3959edb0d3cda07a70241 [7] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/profiles/base/use.mask#n15 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25

Re: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
bind-9.16.4/bin/tests/system/addzone/ns1/redirect.db.1 bind-9.16.4/bin/tests/system/addzone/ns1/redirect.db.2 bind-9.16.4/bin/tests/system/addzone/ns3/redirect.db.1 bind-9.16.4/bin/tests/system/addzone/ns3/redirect.db.2 [1] https://downloads.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.14.12/bind-9.14.12.tar.gz -- Ashley D

Re: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-20 Thread Ashley Dixon
[1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/#build-dependencies [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.16.4.ebuild#n39 [3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/dev-python/sphinx/sphinx-3.1.2.ebuild#n23 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.c

Re: OT: Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-19 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 11:08:43AM -0400, Jack wrote: > On 7/19/20 10:57 AM, Ashley Dixon wrote: > > [I have stripped all mention of capitalisation, as it is off-topic here. > > However, a seeming lack of competence in English will lead people to believe > > that the in

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-19 Thread Ashley Dixon
k > around. but once you find the correct view, you > don't leave it for the sake of adopting a > different view. Perhaps... I'm not too sure how to respond to such a statement. If you are going to accuse me of being closed-minded because I (try to) use correct English and (try to) write c

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-18 Thread Ashley Dixon
vernmental organisation, I am not trying to detain you for your views, and your right to freedom of speech does not protect you from all critique. Hope this helps, Ashley. P.S. I have not yet watched that Oxford Union video, but I will do when I get some time. Cheers for the link; those speeches are generally interesting. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-17 Thread Ashley Dixon
than one higher being (e.g., many parts of India). Are they all equally likely to bring change ? > be blessed, I'm a Satanist. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] nsapass - alternative to keepassxc (and others)

2020-07-17 Thread Ashley Dixon
s helps, Ashley. [1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/search?l=c [2] https://github.com/github/linguist#using-gitattributes [3] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/fa864fb2169d4c80075a7c97604a747d -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF2

Re: [gentoo-user] zip file encrypt from file manager context menu

2020-07-16 Thread Ashley Dixon
arn more about becoming a power-user of p7zip (I am not one; I just installed it now to investigate your issue). Hope this helps, Ashley. -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

2020-07-15 Thread Ashley Dixon
g/wiki/PeaZip#Third-party_technologies -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

2020-07-15 Thread Ashley Dixon
s at `$(q -Ce PORTDIR)/licenses/unRAR`, for your viewing displeasure. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing:Unrar -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

2020-07-14 Thread Ashley Dixon
Hope this helps, Ashley. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Binary_package_guide -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Ashley Dixon
pu/polaris10_vce.bin" It's tedious, but there's no reason that the kernel shouldn't find firmware in subdirectories. Perhaps you needed to add a trailing oblique ('/') to your CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR, such that the concatenated path is correct ? -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 41

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-14 Thread Ashley Dixon
stuff installed/enabled, to support all (or, as much as possible) common hardware in a live environment, as this generally runs before the point at which the user can configure their own kernel. > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 05:59:37AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote > > It doesn't look like

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
rtage/savedconfig/sys-kernel/linux-firmware to include the appropriate entries (listing at [1]), and emerge `linux-firmware` with the `savedconfig` USE-flag. [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] No wifi

2020-07-13 Thread Ashley Dixon
mware (linux-firmware.git), or directly from kernel.org ? Which kernel version are you running ? `uname -r` -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Two new-install questions

2020-07-11 Thread Ashley Dixon
0319f295f643ae89946d49e0156e [2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/b44d49d7a92e01ce97338e9087ec9323 [3] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/6ce49ea52cbb9a1452e30d4b91f7b27c [4] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/30b71b916288d028f0557c7c44891f82 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Two new-install questions

2020-07-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 06:39:54AM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Summarised, this dependency is triggered by CONFIG_IKHEADERS, which has > been > configured too obscure to pull in cpio for everyone (hence the WONTFIX > status > for the latter bug report). My apologies f

Re: [gentoo-user] Two new-install questions

2020-07-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
ttps://bugs.gentoo.org/696840 Summarised, this dependency is triggered by CONFIG_IKHEADERS, which has been configured too obscure to pull in cpio for everyone (hence the WONTFIX status for the latter bug report). -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] what does this equery display show me?

2020-07-08 Thread Ashley Dixon
ry command for something with lots of optional dependencies, such as Firefox, and you'll see the same behaviour. [1] https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/multilib-build.eclass/index.html#lbAF [2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.2-r1.ebuild#n26

Re: [gentoo-user] logcheck fallback detection message

2020-07-07 Thread Ashley Dixon
et rid of it? With which PYTHON_TARGETS was `python-magic` built ? Please post the output of `emerge --info python-magic` (place it as an attachment to the e-mail, not a link to an external hosting service). -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA

Re: [gentoo-user] color fonts?

2020-07-04 Thread Ashley Dixon
On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 04:42:27PM +0100, Ashley Dixon wrote: > Apple were amongst the first to deal in multicolour fonts, in which they used > a proprietary extension to OpenType that allowed them to store raster > images (PNGs) in blocks within the TTF file, which they used to create th

Re: [gentoo-user] color fonts?

2020-07-04 Thread Ashley Dixon
the fonts transparent on another layer and then use the gradient tool. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/q/9534902 [2] https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/q/64917 [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119490#c120 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290

Re: [gentoo-user] Kind of sample player?

2020-06-15 Thread Ashley Dixon
compile. https://www.linuxsampler.org/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] splitting audio file at points of silence ?

2020-06-14 Thread Ashley Dixon
mp3splt primarily works with mp3s, but can also support ogg, which can be a container format for flac. I've never used it myself, but it looks promising, providing you are OK with placing your flacs inside an ogg. Hope this helps. [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/27574 -- Ashley

Re: [gentoo-user] Hangs at "Run /init as init process"

2020-06-12 Thread Ashley Dixon
nging). It's a terribly generic error; can you provide the full boot log before it starts to hang ? Some potential solutions to try in the mean time: https://stackoverflow.com/q/10955609/ https://mtekk.us/archives/guides/fix-linux-boot-halting-on-run-init-as-init-process/ -- Ashley Dixon suugaku

Re: [gentoo-user] AMDGPU: computer won't shut down

2020-06-09 Thread Ashley Dixon
ectly into the kernel, or as kernel modules ? Which GPU series/firmware do you have installed [3] ? [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU-PRO [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/AMDGPU#Incorporating_firmware (see the table) -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9

Re: [gentoo-user] clone root from HDD to SSD causes no video with NVIDIA driver

2020-06-08 Thread Ashley Dixon
less painful. [1] https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132 -- Ashley Dixon suugaku.co.uk 2A9A 4117 DA96 D18A 8A7B B0D2 A30E BF25 F290 A8AA signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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