Re: [gentoo-user] non-Twinview dual screen setup?

2011-04-05 Thread Jacob Todd
I've uswd xinerama and dwm on my thinkpad w510 and 42" tv without problems. I have no idea if kde supports xinerama still.

Re: [gentoo-user] Any bought a laptop that "Just Works"?

2011-03-30 Thread Jacob Todd
My thinkpad w510 'just works.'

Re: [gentoo-user] the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?)

2011-03-21 Thread Jacob Todd
I've been using xfs on a 1tb WD MyBook for storage for about a year now, and even with multiple power failures, it's been fine. It doesn't get written to as much as read to, though, and iirc i have a cron job run sync every half an hour.

Re: [gentoo-user] IDE recommendations for writing C?

2011-02-05 Thread Jacob Todd
Acme from plan9port. On Feb 5, 2011 5:11 PM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > Can someone recommend a good IDE to write C code in? > > 1) Something that can display multiple files in a project. > > 2) Something that have some sort of version control built into it? > > 3) If possible, I can compile right in

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config for wifi on AMD_64?

2011-01-26 Thread Jacob Todd
Did you enable wireless extensions in your kernel? It's called CONFIG_WEXT or something to that effect in the .config.

Re: [gentoo-user] Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-01-26 Thread Jacob Todd
Then ^c and add/remove what you need. On Jan 26, 2011 1:30 PM, "PK" wrote: >> >> Don't use multiple instances of emerge, they'll probably all try to merge >> the same dependencies. Do it the way the portage developers intended, use >> the --jobs option with a single emerge instance. >> >> > Sure,

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash versions

2011-01-25 Thread Jacob Todd
Manually install flash.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-12 Thread Jacob Todd
Get off your high horse. If I wouldn't of said 'that makes perfect fucking sense, ' what I was trying to convey wouldn't have had the emotion it needed. 'That makes perfect sense' seems to 'off-hand,' without any real feeling to the statement. What it really says is 'that doesn't make any sense, bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-12 Thread Jacob Todd
That makes perfect fucking sense. On Jan 12, 2011 6:18 PM, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 00:42 on Thursday 13 January 2011, Grant > Edwards did opine thusly: > >> On 2011-01-12, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> > On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:33:02 +, Stroller wrote: >> >> > No lon

Re: [gentoo-user] ivtv on 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 kernel.

2011-01-12 Thread Jacob Todd
Did you try downloading and building a newer version from the ivtv website? If there's a version there that works with the new kernels, file a bug report on f.g.o for a version bump, and either wait for that or use hand built drivers that won't be tracked by portage. If your card doesn't have drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A tiny titillating taste of grub2

2011-01-09 Thread Jacob Todd
On Jan 9, 2011 8:11 PM, "Peter Humphrey" wrote: > > On Sunday 09 January 2011 22:54:14 walt wrote: > > The result was a brain-dead booting scheme which has been holding > > back the Intel/x86 world to this very day. (But they all made a > > huge bundle of cash along the way.) > > Capitalism? Gree

Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything

2011-01-07 Thread Jacob Todd
What do you have MAKEOPTS set to?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Latest unstable ntp not generating ntp.drift file.

2011-01-06 Thread Jacob Todd
The only thing I have changed with openntp is in /etc/ntpd.conf, I added `listen on *`, maybe a few servers and in /etc/conf.d/ntpd or whatever it's called, I added `-s` to OPTIONS. I've been using that on a server for a year and my laptops for over two. I've had no problems with syncing.

Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

2010-12-31 Thread Jacob Todd
On Dec 31, 2010 8:18 PM, "Dale" wrote: > I'm not subscribed to one and didn't know it had one. I just get conflicting comments. Some say it is active, some say it is not. I'm sure Hans, or whatever his first name is, isn't doing much work on it although he has a lot of time on his hands to do i

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc and crossdev, anyone?

2010-12-17 Thread Jacob Todd
Could you post your distcc config files?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to build a static application binary?

2010-12-03 Thread Jacob Todd
quot;Grant Edwards" wrote: > On 2010-12-03, Jacob Todd wrote: > >> Gotta love gcc! > > It's not gcc's fault. > > I use gcc on other platforms to create static binaries and don't see > any noticable overhead. > >> If you want real static binaries

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread Jacob Todd
Sounds like something is wrong with te drive, and spinrite.can probably fix it. On Nov 15, 2010 9:16 AM, "Mick" wrote: > On 15 November 2010 13:13, Jacob Todd wrote: >> You might want to run spinrite on the drive if you have/can find a copy of >> it. > > Why? > > -- > Regards, > Mick >

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-15 Thread Jacob Todd
You might want to run spinrite on the drive if you have/can find a copy of it. On Nov 15, 2010 4:33 AM, "Dale" wrote: > Stroller wrote: >> On 15/11/2010, at 3:56am, Dale wrote: >> >>> ... >>> I have a niece that brought me her puter. It's a HP with windoze XP on it. I want to defrag the hard drive

Re: [gentoo-user] [Waaay OT] Defrag tool for windoze

2010-11-14 Thread Jacob Todd
Defraggler. Ccleaner by the same company is also nice.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-11-09 Thread Jacob Todd
Only expose the teams to what they need, give them prototypes and discriptions to the other parts. Like a man page. On Nov 9, 2010 12:16 PM, "Grant" wrote: >> Read the OP again. He wants to obsfuscate the code to make it >> unreadable for the people he's hiring to work on it. >> >> It would be si

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-09 Thread Jacob Todd
Crosstools On Nov 9, 2010 12:39 PM, wrote: > Jarry [10-11-09 18:36]: >> On 9. 11. 2010 18:25, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> >> >But: Is it possible to compile source code on a 64-bit system and get >> >an 32-bit executable a the result ??? And if 'yes'...how??? >> >> I think that is what "cross-c

Re: [gentoo-user] Winter clock change did not happen

2010-10-31 Thread Jacob Todd
Why don't you just use openntpd ( or whatever it's called)?

Re: [gentoo-user] usb stick autodiscovery

2010-10-23 Thread Jacob Todd
Diff your make.conf and package.use files. Somethong is probably missing. On Oct 23, 2010 3:46 PM, "James" wrote: > Hello, > > On most of my kde workstations when I plug in a > usb(memory)stick and popup screen appears > "Devices recently plugged in:" > > On one kde system, this does not occur and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Jacob Todd
Just the default android fonts. They're small, but readable. Thank google for pinch zoom. :p

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Jacob Todd
Not if I rotate the screen. On Sep 30, 2010 7:17 PM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: > On 2010-09-30, Jacob Todd wrote: > >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/?part=1&chap=2 >>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1 &g

Re: [gentoo-user] ridiculously wide handbook pages

2010-09-30 Thread Jacob Todd
They're readable even on my droid x. On Sep 30, 2010 1:15 PM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: > I've noticed recently that the Gentoo handbook web pages are > ridiculously wide. (It seems to me that they didn't used to be, but I > wouldn't swear to that). > > For example, look at this page: > > http://www

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to compile for less bits :)

2010-09-29 Thread Jacob Todd
There's already great cross compilers on plan 9. No need to write a new one. On Sep 29, 2010 8:15 PM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: > On 2010-09-29, Jacob Todd wrote: > >> Cross compiling on unix is confusing because the compiler sucks. > > We're all looking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to compile for less bits :)

2010-09-29 Thread Jacob Todd
Cross compiling on unix is confusing because the compiler sucks. On Sep 29, 2010 3:50 PM, "Grant Edwards" wrote: On 2010-09-29, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >> > (And in this context: The aud... > Thank you very much for your offered help! > > Sorry, sorry I think my English confused a lot of i

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting up gpg-agent (and ssh-agent?)

2010-05-25 Thread Jacob Todd
You should look at net-misc/keychain. pgp8E2jyldl87.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: valgrind showing glibc warnings

2010-03-25 Thread Jacob Todd
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:31:19PM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: > either valgrind is doing something wrong or there's really some errors on > glibc. I wouldn't doubt it. -- I am a man who does not exist for others. pgpfRllZuHu01.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] f-spot depends on mono?

2010-03-25 Thread Jacob Todd
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:31:52PM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > hi, > > when i try to emerge f-spot, i found that it pull in dev-lang/mon, and > all its dependencies. why f-spot needs mono? since when mono becomes > stable, and is used in real linux application? F-spot is written in mono. > -- > Best

Re: [gentoo-user] valgrind showing glibc warnings

2010-03-25 Thread Jacob Todd
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:09:36AM -0300, Crístian Viana wrote: > hi, > > when I use valgrind, it shows hundreds of warnings related to glibc. here's > one example, from "valgrind ls": > > ==10023== Use of uninitialised value of size 8 > ==10023==at 0x55605A4: (within /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so) >

Re: [gentoo-user] pdf viewing suggestions?

2010-02-24 Thread Jacob Todd
There's app-text/gv, which is very small. There's also page from plan9port. If you want to try out page, don't install plan9port from portage, it's horribly out of date. You should download a recent tarball from http://swtch.com/plan9port. -- I am a man who does not exist for others. pgpbL4e2O3

Re: [gentoo-user] Icon loading problem after updating for GNOME based application

2009-10-22 Thread Jacob Todd
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:48:57PM -0600, Hung Dang wrote: > Hi all, > After updating my system I find out that some gnome based applications > have problem with png images. For example, I got this message when > trying to open stadict > "Can not load image. Couldn't recognize the image file format

Re: [gentoo-user] slim-themes : gentoo 10 years of compiling

2009-10-22 Thread Jacob Todd
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:29:18PM +0200, KH wrote: > Hi, > > I created three slim themes based on the beautifully wallpapers created > by Ben Stedman. You can find the wallpapers here. [1] > > The themes I created can be found here: > > gentoo_10_purple: > screen shot: > http://www.konstantinh

Re: [gentoo-user] Is login on forums.gentoo.org broken?

2009-09-28 Thread Jacob Todd
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 06:40:58PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Montag 28 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I can't login to forums.gentoo.org. If I try, nothing happens; I'm just > > taken back to the index as if I had logged in, but I'm still logged out. > > There's no erro

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager

2009-09-15 Thread Jacob Todd
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, ... > -- NOT tiling May I ask why not tiling? unless you're doing office work (spreadsheats, powerpointers, money laundering and the like), the WIMP paradigm isn't efficient. -- Jake Todd // If it isn't broke, tweak

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] In search of a "good" windowmanager

2009-09-12 Thread Jacob Todd
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 09:30:49AM +1000, John H. Moe wrote: > > > > > > > > Lars Gustäbel wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 03:40:56PM +0200, class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" > href="mailto:meino.cra...@gmx.de";>meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > I would like to hear from

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error emergin mkinitrd

2009-09-11 Thread Jacob Todd
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:23:23PM -0700, walt wrote: > On 09/11/2009 08:58 AM, Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I've a problem trying to emerge mkinitrd. > > > > Everytime I try, I get: > > > > * ERROR: sys-apps/mkinitrd-3.5.7-r3 failed. > > * Call stack: > > *

Re: [gentoo-user] my gentoo cannot find my HD

2009-09-10 Thread Jacob Todd
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:57:51AM +0800, Xi Shen wrote: > Hi, > > i installed my gentoo x64 on my usb HD, because i have to use windows > for my work. but the problem is that if i boot from the usb HD, it > cannot find the HD on my laptop. the gentoo 2008 installation cd works > very well, so i t

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I find new packages?

2009-08-04 Thread Jacob Todd
On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:46:43AM -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > There used to be a package which ran after a sync to report new and > updated packages. At some point a year ago or so, it disappeared. I > have long since forgotten its name. > > Is there some way to do this now? I could prob

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove stranded gcc-config's?

2009-08-01 Thread Jacob Todd
On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 04:41:51PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > I was updating my wife's machine today and noticed that there are a > number of older/stranded gcc-config's left on the machine. I still > have gcc-4.1.2 but the other 3.3/3.4 versions should not remain. > > How would I remove these? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Email Virus Scanner

2009-07-20 Thread Jacob Todd
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 08:15:41PM +0100, John wrote: > Please can you recommend a email virus scanner. > > I am a little unsure about all the combinations available. I wish to > scan incoming email on my home desktop. I currently use Claws Mail and > was looking for the simplest option. > > Ma

Re: [gentoo-user] installing git with masked packages

2009-07-12 Thread Jacob Todd
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 11:56:45PM -0400, Dave wrote: > Hello, > I'm trying to install git on gentoo. I'm getting a dependency that > is masked, it's a perl lib and am wondering a workaround? > Thanks. > Dave. > > _What_ perl lib is it? There's over nine thousand of them. -- Jake Todd //

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Jacob Todd
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 06:23:23PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Jacob Todd wrote: > > > > This isn't RedHat. > > > > > > But it applies to Gentoo as well. From my xorg.conf.example on Gentoo. > > # Uncomment this to disable the server abort sequence >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

2009-07-06 Thread Jacob Todd
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 06 July 2009 22:49:38 Alexander wrote: > > On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > > > > I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be

Re: [gentoo-user] fluxbox without xorg-server? How do you start X?

2009-06-26 Thread Jacob Todd
You need to emerge xorg-server. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 03:33:54PM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Just curious. The fluxbox ebuild doesn't emerge xorg-server which > means I now have a machine with fluxbox emerged but I don't know how > to start it as there is no xstart on the machine. > > What woul

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Mutt + GPG

2009-06-18 Thread Jacob Todd
No, :p. I do now, and everything works fine. Thanks, Uwe. On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:13:34AM +0200, Uwe wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, Jacob Todd wrote: > > > I'm trying to setup mutt with gpg and I found this nice tutorial > > (http://codecorcery.net/old/mutt/mutt-gnup

[gentoo-user] Mutt + GPG

2009-06-18 Thread Jacob Todd
I'm trying to setup mutt with gpg and I found this nice tutorial (http://codecorcery.net/old/mutt/mutt-gnupg-howto) but I'm having trouble getting mutt to fetch keys and add them to my keyring. Right now my .muttrc looks like this (just the pgp part): unset pgp_autoencrypt unset pgp_autosign set c

Re: [gentoo-user] irssi autosendcmd

2009-06-01 Thread Jacob Todd
Turns out autosendcmd for irc.freenode.net wasn't spelled correctly. >.< On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 05:11:35AM +, Matt Nordhoff wrote: > Jacob Todd wrote: > > I'm having some trouble getting irssi to set my nick on two irc servers > > and then identify them. My

Re: [gentoo-user] "Icon" Editor???

2009-06-01 Thread Jacob Todd
What format are the icons? What's 'Indexed mode'? What are 'Button Screens'? On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 04:58:52PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to create "button screens" and such stuff for a touch > enabbles LCD of 160x80 pixels (pure black and white). > > Unfortun

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: buying a keyboard

2009-06-01 Thread Jacob Todd
Did you check craigslist? On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 02:14:04PM -0600, Adrian wrote: > > > > Greetings; > > Many moons ago I purchased a Linux Cool Keyboard. The great thing > about this keyboard is that a. it has great tactile response and b. it > has a cover which folds down to protect the key

[gentoo-user] irssi autosendcmd

2009-05-31 Thread Jacob Todd
I'm having some trouble getting irssi to set my nick on two irc servers and then identify them. My current irssi config (just the important part) looks like this: servers = ( { address = "irc.oftc.net"; chatnet = "oftc"; port = "6667"; use_ssl = "no"; autoconnect = "yes";

[gentoo-user] Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf

2009-05-27 Thread Jacob Todd
I'm getting the following warnings when I boot/come back from hibernation: WARNING: Deprecated config file /etc/modprobe.conf, all config files belong into /etc/modprobe.d/. WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release. WARNING: All config

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fake USE flag change

2009-05-24 Thread Jacob Todd
You're right, it shouldn't. Things like that happen to me all the time, I'll already have a use flag disabled, and it will get turned off by default, and portage will want to rebuild it. You could make a local overlay with that LINGUAS flag not set, but it seems a bit much. I'd like to know a solu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fake USE flag change

2009-05-24 Thread Jacob Todd
The following installed packages are masked: > - app-office/openoffice-3.1.0 (masked by: package.mask) > For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge > man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. > > Jacob Todd wrote: > > Mask it. > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to fake USE flag change

2009-05-24 Thread Jacob Todd
Mask it. On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:36:48AM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > emerge -auDN world > [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-3.1.0 LINGUAS="-sv%" > > This is ridiculous. I'm in no mood emerging Open Office just because a > LINGUAS changed which I don't even use. Something I can do

Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-19 Thread Jacob Todd
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:59:06PM +0200, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > is there some software for "live" partition backup/copying/cloning > with raw/smart copying capabilities, like Acronis TrueImage, Norton > Ghost or O&O DiskImage in windows-world? > > Some of them should have linux version (e.g. clo