Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-24 Thread Spider (DmD Lj)
vi implementation. However, the -classic- vi source is a headache and its use of terminfo so horrendous that it causes brain-hemorrhaging if you try to update it. //Spider ex vi maintainer. Now suffering from hemorrhaging brainzombies. -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there and Alternative to compiling kde?

2005-12-10 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 15:55 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly: I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC only for priviliged users?

2005-12-09 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
want it ;) //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] dmesg yes fdisk no - new HDD

2005-12-07 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
, (it seems, guess I'll know more later;) Though there may be some obscure config option in the IDE/ATA part of the kernel config to avoid this kind of situation. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end

Re: [gentoo-user] Need drive space, what to delete?

2005-12-04 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
+ compression. KDE: perhaps using split builds and only installing the pieces you need/want? //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
in xterm [EMAIL PROTECTED] head -n 4 use.local.desc |tail -n 2 # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/profiles/use.local.desc,v 1.1505 2005/10/18 20:18:45 agriffis Exp $ //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-11 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
to end processing. find . -type f -iname '*.wav' |while read LIST; do command ${LIST} ${LIST/old/new} ; done is another possibility.Adding limiters to find can prevent it from recursing too deeply. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple command line stuff

2005-10-10 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
For bash / zsh and other advanced(?-) shells: for f in *.wav; do command $f ${f/.wav/-convert.wav};done The are there to prevent files with spaces in them (evil!) from becoming too annoying and appearing as multiple commandline arguments. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing

Re: [gentoo-user] possible defective memory

2005-10-08 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
of glibc. I have to restart the process at lease 3 times before the compile will complete. Let me know what you think. Well, here's a good list to go through.: http://people.redhat.com/davej/hardware-problems.txt //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-10-06 Thread DmD (Spider) LJungmark
am selecting 3.4. That is the only choice. I've tried the obvious stuff, trust me. Try this then : Add a brand new sparkling user. Log in to X and KDE. Is the problem persisting then, or not? //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230

Re: [gentoo-user] What's happened to gnome ... I'm very frustrated

2005-10-05 Thread Spider
depclean However, be aware that depclean is dangerous and has been known to be wrong. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [gentoo-user] scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Spider
scripts. its the classical one to do. otherwise you can use /usr/sbin/sendmail directly. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

(OT) Re: [gentoo-user] emerge gnome looking for automake-1.7

2005-05-02 Thread Spider
On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 14:37 -0400, Robert G. Hays wrote: BOFH? Please? Probably need to knoe this one, too, methinks Thanks, rgh. -- Scott Taylor - [EMAIL PROTECTED] BOFH Excuse #253: We've run out of licenses *tappeti tap* *click clicketi click* there is some documentation

Re: [gentoo-user] Nothing but trouble with Gnome-light

2005-04-27 Thread Spider
+ crashdump? There is no diference between Gnome-light and Gnome exept that there are less packages ? Exactly. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [gentoo-user] vi is mising from the portage

2005-04-24 Thread Spider
it dropped out of the tree. //Spider -- begin .signature Tortured users / Laughing in pain See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part