I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I
can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary, it
doesn't run, then I found www-apps/nanoblogger and www-apps/polarblog,
but are both in the needloving [1], don't know if it worth trying.
I need something
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 01:17:16 Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:51:31 + (UTC), James wrote:
I'm mostly running stable with exceptions being enabled
via the /etc/portage file structure. Usually it's small,
but now with kde4, BLOAT is my modus operandi,
not by
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:18:25 +0200
Francesco Talamona francesco.talam...@know.eu wrote:
I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I
can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary, it
doesn't run, then I found www-apps/nanoblogger and
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 01:17:16 Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:51:31 + (UTC), James wrote:
I'm mostly running stable with exceptions being enabled
via the /etc/portage file structure. Usually it's small,
but now with kde4,
I am exploring a few things about terminal programs, and am finding
their man pages hard going. Just as an example, the xterm page
coverage of -geometry points to the man page for X(7), but no such
page exists on my system, and I can find no obvious package that might
supply it.
This raises the
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:18:25 +0200
Francesco Talamona francesco.talam...@know.eu wrote:
I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I
can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary,
it doesn't run,
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:12:01 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
Ok, I did it! No more LVM! Wiped the SSD and made one partition out of
it. Mounted it on /mnt/gentoo and unpacked the stage3 tarball. Silly
question: now what? Where do I mount the SD card prior to unpacking
portage? Do I make separate
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:51:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
This sounds cool. I don't unmask a lot or anything but something like
KDE 4 comes to mind for this. That requires a lot of work. I'm going
to have to check to see if autounmask supports this too.
It does, it creates a file called
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:51:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
This sounds cool. I don't unmask a lot or anything but something like
KDE 4 comes to mind for this. That requires a lot of work. I'm going
to have to check to see if autounmask supports this too.
It does, it
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:59:14 -0700
Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote:
I am exploring a few things about terminal programs, and am finding
their man pages hard going. Just as an example, the xterm page
coverage of -geometry points to the man page for X(7), but no such
page exists on my
Hi,
I was quite surprised when I tried to emerge media-libs/tiff (3.8.2-r6)
today. I got the error messages
!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-devel/gcc-4.4.0 (Change USE: +objc)
(dependency required by media-libs/tiff-3.8.2-r6 [ebuild])
(dependency
Thank you all for your beautiful help and your patience (my thread is 33
mails long!!).
This has been one of the best support I have ever got (much better than many
paid support services).
Thank you!
Massimiliano
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 09:38:32 Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:51:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
This sounds cool. I don't unmask a lot or anything but something like
KDE 4 comes to mind for this. That requires a lot of work. I'm going
to have to check to see if
Alan McKinnon wrote:
There's also gdm. But I don't talk about gdm. It's personal, and painful.
Don't ask :-)
Well, tell us why you don't like gdm. :-)
;-p
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 09:38:32 Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:51:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
This sounds cool. I don't unmask a lot or anything but something like
KDE 4 comes to mind for this. That requires a lot of work. I'm
Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
Thank you all for your beautiful help and your patience (my thread is
33 mails long!!).
This has been one of the best support I have ever got (much better
than many paid support services).
Thank you!
Massimiliano
That's the beauty of Gentoo. If the folks
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:27:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Well that's easy, just don't use kdm :-)
If you want pretty, there's entrance
If you want light, there's slim
If you want hard-core, there's xdm
If you want lazy, use kdm with auto-login.
--
Neil Bothwick
.sig? we don't need no
On 6/22/09, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Arttu V. arttuv69 at gmail.com writes:
More reading: ebuild(5)
Ah, ok so there is not restriction on using any of the
the boolean operators in any config file underneath
/etc/portage? as section 5 does not mention
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:15:02 +0200 (CEST)
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
Hi,
I was quite surprised when I tried to emerge media-libs/tiff
(3.8.2-r6) today. I got the error messages
!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your
request:
-
On 06/23/2009 11:15 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I was quite surprised when I tried to emerge media-libs/tiff (3.8.2-r6)
today. I got the error messages
!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-devel/gcc-4.4.0 (Change USE: +objc)
[...]
So, why the
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
This is my (mis)conception, although, as you have suggest,
there are (gentoo) cultural norms that do suggest
certain boolean operations should not be used,
in say for example, package.keywords?
That's more just a safeguard against
On 06/23/2009 05:40 PM, James wrote:
[...]
So entries in package.keywords should just have the ~ in front of them?
No point in using other boolean operations in the package.keywords file?
There's a point to everything. You need to use whatever suits what you
want to do.
~: This version
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:40:51 + (UTC), James wrote:
app-arch/xz-utils
Nothing I tried in either package.keywords or package.unmask
make the app-arch/xz-utils- (SVN) version available.
This ebuild doesn't have a valid KEYWORDS line, try something less broken.
--
Neil Bothwick
Head:
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 16:40:51 James wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
This is my (mis)conception, although, as you have suggest,
there are (gentoo) cultural norms that do suggest
certain boolean operations should not be used,
in say for example,
Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes:
There's a point to everything. You need to use whatever suits what you
want to do.
snip
Ok got it.
Now how do I unmask the version of:
app-arch/xz-utils
Available versions: **
James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes:
make the app-arch/xz-utils- (SVN) version available.
This ebuild doesn't have a valid KEYWORDS line, try something less broken.
OK, I tried is because there does not seem to be other dependancies.
Pick an example for me, cause nothing I ever
On 06/23/2009 06:28 PM, James wrote:
Nikos Chantziarasrealncat arcor.de writes:
There's a point to everything. You need to use whatever suits what you
want to do.
snip
Ok got it.
Now how do I unmask the version of:
app-arch/xz-utils
Available versions: **
By
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
I cheat and just do this:
x11-wm/enlightenment * ~* **
Does not work for xz-utils. Neil's post may be the reason,
but there is definately nothing I've read (in man pages)
to distinguish these anomalous cases?
But enlightenment is a
Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes:
app-arch/xz-utils **
in package.keywords. I used that because is the only version
available. If you wish narrow it down nonetheless, use:
~app-arch/xz-utils- **
Both work!
got it now. Sorry but reading the man pages on
Does anyone know about the following warning I got after upgrading to
php5-5.2.10?
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: mm_create(0, /session_mm_cli500) failed,
err mm:core: failed to open semaphore file (Permission denied) in
Unknown on line 0
Downgrading gets rid of the warning and a google search
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 17:49:40 James wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes:
* removes masking keywords if the package is stable on your arch
~* removes masking keywords if the package is stable on any arch
** removes masking keywords for the package unconditionally
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 18:09:39 James wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras realnc at arcor.de writes:
app-arch/xz-utils **
in package.keywords. I used that because is the only version
available. If you wish narrow it down nonetheless, use:
~app-arch/xz-utils- **
Both work!
I'd put /home and /var on the SD card to start with, you may need to
put /usr/src on there too or your SSD may fill up when installing or
compiling a second or third kernel.
I'd also move the portage tree there, but you can do that
post-installation by moving /usr/portage to /var/portage and
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 21:15:13 Maxim Wexler wrote:
I'd put /home and /var on the SD card to start with, you may need to
put /usr/src on there too or your SSD may fill up when installing or
compiling a second or third kernel.
I'd also move the portage tree there, but you can do that
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:15:13 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
OK, been staring at this terminal for about an hour. I'm at
r...@sysresccd /mnt/gentoo where sda1 is mounted. Do I just mount sdb1
on /mnt/gentoo too? Do I delete home and var then mkdirs on sdb2?
Won't they just be re-made on the same
Create two partitions on sdb
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/gentoo/var
mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/gentoo/home
It's really not that hard, but you seem to be trying to find clever
Walking's hard -- until you learn.
solutions when the simple one will do.
Well, of course the simple things have a way of
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:59:02 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
It's really not that hard, but you seem to be trying to find clever
Walking's hard -- until you learn.
But you've been using Gentoo for some time now, so you would be expected
to have a grasp of the fundamentals. After all, you
Hi all,
Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select
the fglrx driver with xorg-server-1.5?
I have a big emerge running on one of my MythTV frontends that uses
an old 2.6.19 kernel with an old 8.28 ati-driver package. The machine
does not use a keyboard or mouse. I
On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi all,
Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select
the fglrx driver with xorg-server-1.5?
I have a big emerge running on one of my MythTV frontends that uses
an old 2.6.19 kernel with an old 8.28 ati-driver package. The
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi all,
Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select
the fglrx driver with xorg-server-1.5?
I have a big emerge running on one of my MythTV frontends
Hello list,
I'm reduced to asking a newcomer's question: how can I make sed recurse down
a directory tree? And while I'm at it, how do I change the field separator
from / to enable me to search on that character?
I used to have a SED and AWK book, but it seems to have walked; and I
can't see
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi all,
Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select
the fglrx driver with
On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
I'm reduced to asking a newcomer's question: how can I make sed
recurse down
a directory tree? And while I'm at it, how do I change the field
separator
from / to enable me to search on that character?
maybe something like:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Mark Knechtmarkkne...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi all,
Main question is
On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
Am I hosed again? Did updating portage break my machine by removing
what I was just using:
[...]
Is xorg-server-1.1.1 completely gone and I'm hosed? I'm not finding it
on my my machine. The only variations on that theme seem to be in
/var/db/pkg.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
Am I hosed again? Did updating portage break my machine by removing
what I was just using:
[...]
Is xorg-server-1.1.1 completely gone and I'm hosed? I'm not finding it
On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
Family gets no MythTV for a few days, or maybe forever?
I'm trying to mask things to check this and emerge is really mad at me.
As a last attempt at damage control, try the full update anyway. Remove
fglrx from VIDEO_CARDS and replace it with
On 06/24/2009 03:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Gentoo is for me. Gentoo is the only distro I run and the only one
I've run for at least 6 years. Gentoo has run on THIS VERY MACHINE for
over 4 years and it is the ONLY distro that has EVER run on this
machine. Today I run eix-sync and emerge xorg-x11
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
Family gets no MythTV for a few days, or maybe forever?
I'm trying to mask things to check this and emerge is really mad at me.
As a last attempt at damage control, try
On an x86 machine with kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r4, I did eix-sync and
emerge -NauvD system and received a response including the following line:
[blocks B ] =sys-fs/udev-126 (=sys-fs/udev-126 is blocking
sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5-r1)
Doing emerge -p -C udev elicited the following lines:
!!!
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 06/24/2009 03:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Gentoo is for me. Gentoo is the only distro I run and the only one
I've run for at least 6 years. Gentoo has run on THIS VERY MACHINE for
over 4 years and it is the ONLY distro
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:42 -0700
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
Am I hosed again? Did updating portage break my machine by removing
what I was just using:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. ;-)
Portage does drop many old packages over time, to keep the package
database to a
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:44, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 22 June 2009 15:56:47 Mike Mazur wrote:
SNIP
I noticed some issues with the power management setup I had when I
upgraded kernels over the last few months. This past weekend I decided
to crack down on
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
I absolutely HATE this about portage. Update your machine just
thinking about trying a new piece of software and then find you cannot
immediately go back. Gentoo was supposed to be about choice. Seems
it's not about my choice anymore.
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:42:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
I have NEVER asked portage to keep a copy of EVERYTHING online.
Yet it does.
I
think it's a sinthat portage decides to remove files from MY machine,
files that I'm currently using, files that I require.
It doesn't. It may remove files
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:48:07 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I'm reduced to asking a newcomer's question: how can I make sed recurse
down a directory tree?
You don't, that's not sed's job, which is to edit the text you give it.
Use find to generate a list of files for sed to work on.
And while
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
I absolutely HATE this about portage. Update your machine just
thinking about trying a new piece of software and then find you cannot
immediately go back. Gentoo was
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
Family gets no MythTV for a few days, or maybe forever?
I'm trying to mask things to check this and emerge is really mad at me.
As a
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:42:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
I have NEVER asked portage to keep a copy of EVERYTHING online.
Yet it does.
I
think it's a sinthat portage decides to remove files from MY machine,
files that
Its so seldom that I have to work on samba config I forget between
times whatever steps are needed.
This time I just copied an old config over to a new[ish] gentoo
install.
Now attempting to set smbpasswds. First I tried to give a windows
client user name (but no such user on gentoo OS). Failed
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
So next tried an actual Gentoo user name:
smbpasswd reader
root # smbpasswd reader
Gackkk I left out the all important -a
Sorry for the line noise
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:42:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
I have NEVER asked portage to keep a copy of EVERYTHING online.
Yet it does.
I
think it's a sinthat portage decides to
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