[gentoo-user] Re: ffmpeg command not found

2015-04-13 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2015-04-12, Alan Grimes alonz...@verizon.net wrote: gevisz wrote: I used to convert dav to avi files with the following command yet a year ago: $ ffmpeg -i input.dav -vcodec libx264 -crf 24 output.avi but now, while trying to use it, I get bash: ffmpeg: command not found What happened?

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf viewer

2015-01-04 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2015-01-03, the the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: On 03/01/15 08:15, lee wrote: Hi, what do you as PDF viewer? Most of the time, I use zathura with libmupdf; sometimes I will use evince when I need to view documents with libpoppler, but evince is not my main document viewer ever since GNOME

[gentoo-user] Re: Making DVD high resolution

2014-12-20 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2014-12-18, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 12/18/14 19:10, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 18 December 2014 18:50:09 CET, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've used Imagination to make VOB and set in preferences resolution 1920 x 1080 HD made VOB. How do I check the VOB frame size settings?

[gentoo-user] Re: resolving blocked packages [media-video/ffmpeg-1.2:0]

2013-11-04 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-11-05, Bruce Hill da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 10:43:07PM +, Mick wrote: On Monday 04 Nov 2013 19:51:32 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 11/03/2013 02:27 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: For starters, you should probably merge package.keywords into

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Flash+nspluginwrapper versus Gnash comparisons?

2013-11-03 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-11-02, Daniel Campbell li...@sporkbox.us wrote: On 10/31/2013 10:15 PM, Walter Dnes wrote: I'm getting rather annoyed with Firefox. I don't want to get into that flamewar right now. I'm trying to migrate to UZBL. The latest git version is a lot better than the stale stable

[gentoo-user] Cinepaint

2013-11-03 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
I have been looking for different image manipulation tools for linux, and I wanted to try cinepaint, but as there is no version in the tree, I wonder if anyone has had success with either the - ebuild in bugzilla or the -1.0 from sabayon. The latter seems to depend on an old version of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bus error during compilation of gcc

2013-04-22 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-04-22, David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:44:46 +0400 the guard wrote: Суббота, 20 апреля 2013, 19:56 UTC от Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com: On 2013-04-20, the guard the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: The package i decided to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bus error during compilation of gcc

2013-04-21 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-04-20, the guard the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: Суббота, 20 апреля 2013, 19:56 UTC от Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com: On 2013-04-20, the guard the.gu...@mail.ru wrote: The package i decided to install required a gcc rebuild so I started rebuilding it and got a bus error.

[gentoo-user] Re: [Bulk] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-21 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-04-18, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: ... (i) It's a sound server, a description I don't understand. What does it _do_? Why do I want it? It seems to be an unnecessary layer of fat between sound applications and the kernel. If you don't understand the term

[gentoo-user] Re: evince - Error printing to PDF

2013-04-21 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-04-17, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/17/13 17:00, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Joseph. On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:32:23AM -0600, Joseph wrote: On 04/17/13 17:05, tastytea wrote: Am Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:57:02 -0600 schrieb Joseph syscon...@gmail.com: When I try to print from

[gentoo-user] Re: [Bulk] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-21 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-04-21, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Just throwing out there that users can or atleast could use alsa plugs to have multiple applications. I did that before pulseaudio came along to play nfs carbon under cedega and listen to music. It should be noted that ALSA

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-04 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-04-01, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/01/2013 03:26 PM, William Hubbs wrote: You know that both udev and eudev have exactly the same issue with separate /usr right? The problem there isn't in the udev code, but it has to do with what is happening in rules that other

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-04 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-04-02, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/04/2013 21:13, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: The most important para to me in the news item was: The feature can also be completely disabled using

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-31, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/03/13 17:15, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok, just read the new news item and the linked udev-guide wiki page You should probably also read: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2013/03/predictably-non-persistent-names and:

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-31, Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: On 2013-03-31, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/03/13 17:15, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok, just read the new news item and the linked udev-guide wiki page You should probably also read: http://blog.flameeyes.eu

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-31, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Since it's obvious that upsteam has this my way or the highway mentality, I'm curious about whether eudev (and mdev) exhibits the same behavior... I synced yesterday and I didn't see the news alert. Last eudev update

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-31, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: On 2013-03-31, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Since it's obvious that upsteam has this my way or the highway mentality, I'm curious about whether eudev (and mdev) exhibits the same

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-31, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:44:18 -0500, Dale wrote: I'm just hoping people will be able to find a solution to this that works well for them. I especially wish that for those managing a remote system with little or no physical access.=20

[gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-03-30 Thread Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
On 2013-03-30, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Ok, just read the new news item and the linked udev-guide wiki page, and the only thing left that I'm unsure/concerned about now is the persistent net rules changes... The very last line on the wiki page says: 4. Known problems

[gentoo-user] Re: java vs icedtea6

2013-01-16 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Afair icedtea, openjdk, jdk share a Lot of Code. Isn't IcedTea OpenJDK, or at least the name of the bundle OpenJDK + build system? Am 16.01.2013 15:18 schrieb Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Daniel Campbell

[gentoo-user] Re: pgo not selected for firefox 18

2013-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-12, Alecks Gates wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 11.01.2013 13:00, schrieb Adam Carter: I had noticed it a while ago, it appears to be hardmasked: # Jory A. Pratt anar...@gentoo.org mailto:anar...@gentoo.org (15

[gentoo-user] Re: Testing new kernels - saving dumps / strip down kernel options

2013-01-10 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-08, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: [...] * I remember a thread here where this was discussed already: How do you guys get to your .config for a recent kernel? make oldconfig doesn't always work out best, I recall? My kernel config is maintained along for years now and has survived

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo netheck

2013-01-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-02, Philip Webb wrote: 130102 Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2013-01-01, Bryan Gardiner wrote: Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: If you're the only user of your computer, you could also just unmask the version in Portage. The bug is that any user in the games

[gentoo-user] Re: Some fonts missing?

2013-01-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-02, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, I am not able to see the characters in certain emoji like flip table, etc. It used to be visible earlier before I did a completely fresh install. Does anyone know which font to install? These are the fonts presently installed on my machine -

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-02 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-02, Stroller wrote: On 1 January 2013, at 15:22, Francisco Ares wrote: ... I've heard (or read) that before, to me it seems quite strange that one of the main products from MS to be so outdated in this area. AVI has been around a long time. It is inevitably prone to bitrot,

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-31, Francisco Ares wrote: 2012/12/30 Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt On 2012-12-30, Francisco Ares wrote: [...] Keep in mind that the support for videos in powerpoint presentations will vary greatly across different powerpoint versions, windows versions and even across

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2013-01-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-01, Stroller wrote: On 30 December 2012, at 11:39, Nuno J. Silva wrote: ... The AVI container has been used by windows for a long time, so I'd say chances are that it will work on more systems, but I can't say for sure. But h264 in an AVI is invalid. AVI is dated and just plain

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo netheck

2013-01-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2013-01-01, Bryan Gardiner wrote: On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 02:01:52 +0800 Analuin Abyssbeholder cntq...@gmail.com wrote: Today I wanted to install nethack and found it is masked: The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: #required by nethack (argument) #

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] codec for video embedded in presentation

2012-12-30 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-30, Francisco Ares wrote: Hello All, I know this is WAY off- topic, but I have seen topics in many different areas, probably some gentooers will be glad to share experiences. I am trying to create some videos for a M$ Office presentation. Some are from recordmydesktop, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-27, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2012, 19:44:43 schrieb Nuno J. Silva: On 2012-12-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-24, Bruce Hill wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 05:06:41PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Now, also, from my understanding, this was already the case for some time (maybe even years?). And that's why I've asked for more details. So, if the udev you use is OK with no initrd, what

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-25, Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 02:10:28PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: No, actually it doesn't. It just has the same kind of very generic claim that has been repeated several times in this thread (which is why? because it won't work) and links to an article

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet? - what was wron with SysVInit?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-25, Michael Mol wrote: Now, question: could I not create a /usr service and make things dependent on /usr come after it's been mounted? That seems the single, core missing piece. This suffices for /usr on regular partitions. The problem is with more complex stuff which, I assume

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-25, Dale wrote: Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2012-12-25, Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 02:10:28PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: No, actually it doesn't. It just has the same kind of very generic claim that has been repeated several times in this thread (which is why

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-25 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-25, Dale wrote: Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2012-12-25, Dale wrote: [...] I might add, I have ALWAYS had a separate /usr. Darn near a decade now. It has never failed to boot because /usr was on a separate partition. NOT ONCE. Now I am told it is going to fail. Go figure. Go try

[gentoo-user] Re: Questions about optimal mplayer settings

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-19, Dale wrote: Bruce Hill wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 07:05:14PM -0600, Dale wrote: [...] Here is two links if you want to try my weird way of doing this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XITHbsUUlYI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Innx3puNI I use downloadhelper to grab

[gentoo-user] Re: Questions about optimal mplayer settings

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-19, Florian Philipp wrote: Am 19.12.2012 00:20, schrieb Walter Dnes: 1) In the past couple of days I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with hardware acceleration (causing lack thereof) with an onboard Intel GPU in my HTPC machine. I've applied the same fix to my desktop.

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-24, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:03:25 +0200 nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200 nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: [...] What about just mounting /usr as soon

[gentoo-user] Re: ALSA mixer as a capture device with Intel HDA cards

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-23, »Q« wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:59:50 +0200 nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: Hello, Today, I got a bit curious, and wanted to get some sound from a computer which does not have any speakers at the moment. Mostly for fun, I thought about using arecord

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-24, Dale wrote: Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2012-12-24, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:03:25 +0200 nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200 nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva

[gentoo-user] Re: Ram Problem!

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-24, Teodor Spæren wrote: Hello! I am trying to install gentoo on an old armada m700. The specs that I think is relevant for this problem is the clocking speed of the cpu and the ram. It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have added 512mb of swap since I knew the ram

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-24 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-24, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: On 2012-12-24, Dale wrote: [...] From my understanding, if I upgrade my system to the later version of udev and bypass the init system, my system will not boot. I have not tested

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-18, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:08:53 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: This sentence summarizes my understanding of your post nicely: Now, why is /usr special? It's because it contains executable code the system might require while launching. Now

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-20, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2012, 11:45:34 schrieb Mark David Dumlao: 3) Most software packagers write their binaries to a PREFIX defaulting to /usr/local, or /usr, as opposed to /. Determining which ones belong in / or /usr can sometimes be

[gentoo-user] Re: slideshow on USB stick

2012-12-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-19, Joseph wrote: Is it possible to create slide show (pictures) on USB stick and play on a TV? In the past I've used dvd-slideshow but that is a bit of work. I had to re-size the pictures add background music etc. DVD only holds 4GB USB sticks have larger capacity. It depends

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200 nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: On 2012-12-18, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:08:53 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: This sentence summarizes my understanding of your post

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200 nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) wrote: On 2012-12-18, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:08:53

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-23 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-23, Michael Mol wrote: On Dec 23, 2012 12:46 PM, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: On 2012-12-23, Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 07:03:25PM +0200, Nuno J. Silva wrote: On 2012-12-23, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 12:22:24 +0200 nunojsi

[gentoo-user] ALSA mixer as a capture device with Intel HDA cards

2012-12-22 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Hello, Today, I got a bit curious, and wanted to get some sound from a computer which does not have any speakers at the moment. Mostly for fun, I thought about using arecord and then listening to the file. I decided to have a look around the mixer, with no luck. I remember alsamixer showing an

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-16 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-16, Bruce Hill wrote: On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 05:10:43PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: That was the original reason for having / and /usr separate, and it dates back to the early 70s. The other reason that stems from that time period is the size of disks we had back then - they

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-16 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 15/12/12 12:18, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am Freitag, 14. Dezember 2012, 21:34:54 schrieb Kevin Chadwick: On OpenBSD which has the benefit of userland being part of it. All the critical single user binaries are in root and built statically as much

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example not found

2012-12-15 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-15, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, The file /etc/conf.d/net reports that I can seen an example format at this location: /usr/share/doc/openrc/net.example As dale found, it's under a compression suffix. In fact, most (all?) of the stuff that goes under /usr/share/doc is

[gentoo-user] Re: Anyone switched to eudev yet?

2012-12-15 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-14, Mark Knecht wrote: I guess the other question that's lurking here for me is why do you have /usr on a separate partition? What's the usage model that drives a person to do that? The most I've ever done is move /usr/portage and /usr/src to other places. My /usr never has all

[gentoo-user] Re: broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel

2012-12-11 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-07, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 04 Dec 2012 15:30:04 Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 12/4/2012 06:11, Florian Philipp wrote: Do you actually need broadcom-sta anymore? With the recent kernel updates more chips work with the in-kernel driver (brcmsmac). But the config option is well hidden

[gentoo-user] Re: External monitor is stretched 4:3

2012-12-01 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-12-01, Grant wrote: I've connected my laptop to a lot of HDTV's and whenever I switch the output to display on both screens, black bars appear on the left and right of my laptop screen so it displays at 4:3, and the HDTV output is 16:9 but looks horizontally stretched.

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-09 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-10-09, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-10-09, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: I think you were hit by some incompatibility between additional emacs packages and the emacs version. Do you have any external elisp files? If not, did you run emacs-updater? The only significant

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-08 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-10-08, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 08.10.2012 18:39, schrieb Grant Edwards: How do I prevent emerge from demanding that emacs 24 be installed? I uninstalled it a few days ago and re-installed 23 because 24 was just too buggy to be usable. Well, I am sure there's a emacs command for

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-08 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-10-08, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:49:33 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote: But seriously, like the other suggested, I would mask that specific version of emacs. Emacs is slotted, so you can mask the entire 24 range if you want with app-editors/emacs:24

[gentoo-user] Re: How to prevent emacs from installing v24?

2012-10-08 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2012-10-08, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2012-10-08, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: On 2012-10-08, Michael Hampicke wrote: Am 08.10.2012 18:39, schrieb Grant Edwards: How do I prevent emerge from demanding that emacs 24 be installed? I uninstalled it a few days ago and re

[gentoo-user] Re: Updating world

2011-03-29 Thread Nuno J. Silva
-printable message, meaning either your newsreader cannot handle quoted-printable or the mail-to-news gateway is screwing it up. I'd say something is screwing it up. Unless someone typoed here, the =20 is shown as ==20. -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: tmux first impression

2011-03-06 Thread Nuno J. Silva
that uses readline (if in Emacs mode; it seems readline also has a vi mode) and Emacs itself. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
(Sorry for the late replies) Matthew Summers quantumsumm...@gentoo.org writes: paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript

[gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients

[gentoo-user] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org writes: Grant Edwards writes: On 2011-02-08, Nuno J. Silva nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert

[gentoo-user] [OT] Re: PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-27 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com writes: On 02/08/11 08:50, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? A laserjet? =) That makes me wonder... in a color printer, I expect it not to print any color

[gentoo-user] PDF: convert to grayscale

2011-02-08 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Does anyone know a tool (other than ghostscript) that is able to convert a PDF (or postscript) to grayscale? Ghostscript does this, but is unable to convert gradients and fills (they're replaced by bitmaps) which results in a too big file unless I drastically reduce quality. -- Nuno J. Silva

[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de writes: On 01/21/2011 12:08 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de writes: On 01/20/2011 11:14 AM, hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_h...@lavabit.com I am against hard limits on username

[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno J. Silva
think it goes too far for a description about the font, nothing specific against philosophy. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I turn off xterm console restore?

2011-01-22 Thread Nuno J. Silva
. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Rail Model font for coders

2011-01-20 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Movement the permanent person, not the estate, state, representative/s or representative organisation/s etc. Wait, what... huh? I think the expression you're looking for is non sequitur. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-18 Thread Nuno J. Silva
process). Although there's not a specific value, even with 512 MiB of ram it's still an issue - but it doesn't go that far (3GB), it's only more critical because GCC is a key part of the toolchain. This just to say, well, it happens :-) -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Near freezes during large emerges

2011-01-18 Thread Nuno J. Silva
to see it as BillK describes - not a way to extend your memory, but a way to store not-that-frequently-used pages when you need to load something else. It saves money, but it's still expensive - on time. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Microcode update AMD

2011-01-18 Thread Nuno J. Silva
thing in e-mail? -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Boost Openoffice

2011-01-16 Thread Nuno J. Silva
openoffice' reinstall it? -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Nuno J. Silva
, that means they probably are CDs. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange problem with audio CDs

2011-01-14 Thread Nuno J. Silva
). I think it's (fortunately) possible to have wm-independent (and X-independent) automounters. But the last time I used one was several years ago. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get /dev/cdrom

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
? Is the rule above not correct? I've tried to read tutorials about writing udev rules, but the example rules in the tutorials look nothing like the above rules, and I didn't write those. I think they were created when udev was installed... -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get /dev/cdrom

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org writes: On 1/12/2011 11:31 AM, Nuno J. Silva wrote: Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com writes: OK, for several years I have not had a /dev/cdrom. My workstation has an internal cd-rom drive, which gets mapped to /dev/hda, and an external If you're

[gentoo-user] Re: grub installation problem

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
link `//boot/boot` : Read-only file system. What's going on ??? I would check if there is any error or warning in the kernel log when that happens. just do dmesg | tail after the error, to check the last lines in the log. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: grub installation problem

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr writes: Le 12/01/2011 20:07, Nuno J. Silva a écrit : Jacques Montier jacques.mont...@numericable.fr writes: Hi all, I am installing Gentoo on a new pc and following the Gentoo manual. I create primary partition sda3 for boot with ext3 file

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

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
in as new things come out. I still wonder where computers will be in say 10 or 20 years. Stuff can be finished, given the /current/ requirements. But requirements change. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

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

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
, 8GiB is so big, no disk will ever be that large barrier was hit, people may need some fix to access a kernel which is 129 PiB away from the first block. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

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

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
? I can think of a LOT of things that have changed in just the past ten years. Well, I think it's still possible to use INT13 for disk access :-) -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

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

2011-01-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 02:13 on Thursday 13 January 2011, Nuno J. Silva did opine thusly: Well, I think it's still possible to use INT13 for disk access :-) You horrible person. I just went 13 years without hearing that thing's name

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

2011-01-09 Thread Nuno J. Silva
framebuffer in the console, I don't think it's actually needed in the bootloader. Also, I suppose it'll be a PITA to configure that (or slow to run it) on some older computers. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

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

2011-01-09 Thread Nuno J. Silva
system, not in the bootloader (although that may be in the GRUB roadmap). Someday we will need a bootloader to load grub. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

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

2011-01-09 Thread Nuno J. Silva
it. ,[C-h f viper-mode] | viper-mode is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `viper.el'. | | (viper-mode) | | Turn on Viper emulation of Vi in Emacs. See Info node `(viper)Top'. ` -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: pdf - txt

2011-01-08 Thread Nuno J. Silva
? Thank you very much in advance for any help! pdftotext might help. Comes with app-text/poppler. If the output looks messed up, don't give up, first see the manpage, there are some switches that may result in a better output. I think using -layout will help you with the tables. -- Nuno J

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva
mistaken? -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: migrating disks (from mounts to disklabels

2010-11-19 Thread Nuno J. Silva
nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) writes: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:59 on Wednesday 17 November 2010, James did opine thusly: Hello, I have a ~250 gig sata disk I want to migrate to a 2T Sata disk. This is simple, but, I have

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

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
. Unless windows now supports UTC clocks, you have to live either with this or with an always on winter clock on windows. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

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

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
with Windows on the same computer. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

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

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Sunday 31 October 2010 10:05:15 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 31 October 2010 09:34:25 Alan McKinnon wrote: All my calendars (electronic and dead

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

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt (Nuno J. Silva) writes: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: Does this mean that twice a year when the clock changes I need to boot into MSWindows first to allow the time change to take place, or is there a Linux side fix for my dual boot set up? You can write

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

2010-10-31 Thread Nuno J. Silva
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: On Sunday 31 October 2010 13:29:20 Nuno J. Silva wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com writes: I've noticed this problem on two different boxen, both of them dual boot with MSWindows. A Gentoo only box of mine switched over to winter time correctly

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I unmask package and mask just its one version?

2010-10-30 Thread Nuno J. Silva
with existing atoms (there are atoms using asterisks and package versions have lots of stops) -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: LibreOffice

2010-10-15 Thread Nuno J. Silva
if there will be enough differences to justify an ebuild. As it's now a different project, it's pretty possible differences will arise. It also depends on whether Oracle and go-oo will want to incorporate changes from LibreOffice. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: Old IDE drives and the newer PATA kernel drivers

2010-08-28 Thread Nuno J. Silva
allows you to edit commandlines, you can do this by trial and error (but a good initial guess is still worth it). -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

[gentoo-user] Re: xorg.conf and ATI 4350 card

2010-07-21 Thread Nuno J. Silva
(even if the mode isn't listed, read the output: it says what the maximum resolution is --- if it is below 1920x1280, you're out of luck (unless the value is bogus, of course)). (But i don't know if ati binary drivers are compatible with xrandr...) -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users

[gentoo-user] Re: emerge is not switching mirror when one is down

2010-07-15 Thread Nuno J. Silva
. If it is not, there is no difference. Do you, by any chance, have a custom FETCHCOMMAND? My /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example shows a default of 5 tries (-t 5), using wget. -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg

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